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Plain Black has released Version 7.6 of WebGUI open-source content management system. Leading the list of new capabilities is an improved survey builder for building user surveys, and a new matrix application that helps site managers generate item/topic comparison charts that can be dynamically updated in real time.
Other improvements in WebGUI 7.6 include a new point-of-sale capability in the application's Shop area that provides cash register functions; a Web photo plug-in that allows users to directly upload photos to their Web site repository from an Apple iPhone; and a new Account Manager that supports the creation of customized social networking applications and Web sites. A number of fixes, usability enhancements and security upgrades have also been added.
- Dynamic Charts, Surveys. Users can easily create multiple choice, rating scale, and open response questions, with results quickly tabulated for analysis. To make surveying more enjoyable for respondents, the engine reports progress and time remaining. Comparison charts can be designed for competitive product or feature matrixes, service comparisons, issue evaluations and more. The chart generator supports AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) for faster dynamic loading of chart information, and includes improved search capabilities for quick harvesting of data. The Matrix comparison charts have become famous in the content management world, as they power CMSMatrix.org, the internet's leading research site for content management products. CMS Matrix will be upgraded with the new Matrix application shortly.
- On-Location Advantages. To make it possible to immediately upload photos to a WebGUI-powered site, Version 7.6 offers a plug-in for the Apple iPhone. Administrators no longer need to visit their Web site to add new photos; with a single click, photos can be placed into the Gallery for display on the Web. There is also a plug-in for Apple's ubiquitous iPhoto application for Mac, which allows uploading of entire albums of photos right from your computer. The new iPhoto capability also let users rotate photos, add captions, eliminate red eye, and otherwise manipulate the picture before uploading. Plain Black is currently preparing a plug-in for Google Picasa that will give Linux and Windows users the ability to directly upload to a WebGUI Gallery from their PCs.
- Social Networking. WebGUI 7.6 includes a new pluggable Account Manager framework for customizing the account system. Via the framework, developers can quickly build social networking applications and Web sites; the interface is tabbed so that users can update profile settings, send and receive messages, manage purchases, view contributions made to the site and more. Because the framework is pluggable, developers can add new functionality to support custom apps, or turn off components that aren't appropriate to their site.
WebGUI is freely available for download at www.webgui.org,.

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Get Involved in Student Life
Student organizations represent a vast array of academic and personal interests. Some student groups are more active than others at any given time. Notices about organizational meetings are posted around campus and are sent via email once a week. Many student organizations also maintain TWEN pages.
American Bar Association/Law Student Division - ABA/LSDMembership in the ABA/LSD affords law students the opportunity to receive material important to future careers as lawyers, and especially relevant to the law school experience. Other benefits of the ABA/LSD include: low-cost major medical health and life insurance; discounts on Hertz car rental; discounts on bar review courses. Opportunities to join the ABA/LSD are offered at orientation and throughout the year by the ABA/LSD representatives.
American Constitution Society
ACS is comprised of law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, policymakers and activists working to ensure that fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality and access to justice enjoy their rightful, central place in American law. ACS is working to: promote a progressive vision of the Constitution, public policy and the law and to build a diverse and dynamic national network of students, lawyers, academics, judges and policymakers to lead America today and over the long term. Faculty adviser: Gilda Daniels
Asian Pacific American Law Student Association - APALSA
The Asian Pacific American Law Student Association serves as an academic, social and political resource for Asian Pacific American (APA) students in the law school. The chapter offers an APA perspective on the law school experience and the legal profession. APALSA encourages participation, leadership and public service among APA law students at the University of Baltimore. It maintains communication with the National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, the Korean Bar Committee of the Maryland State Bar Association, Shandong University in China (UB's sister law school) and other APA organizations. Additionally, APALSA assists in recruiting APA students to the University of Baltimore, assists immigrants in understanding and working through the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) process, and brings awareness to APA issues through its bulletin board, website, guest speakers and other activities.
Black Law Students Association - BLSAThe Black Law Students Association is a national organization created and designed to articulate and promote the needs and goals of black law students. The chapter has developed a Law Student Assistance Program in which upper-class law students are assigned to incoming first-year students to help them adapt to the law school environment. BLSA also sponsors an exam-taking seminar; open to all first-year students, the seminar provides practice in taking final exams. BLSA has also assisted with recruiting in an effort to increase the enrollment of black students at the University of Baltimore. Faculty adviser: Odeana Neal
Business and Tax Law Association - BTLA
The Business and Tax Law Association is designed for students interested in the study and practice of business law and/or tax law. The organization holds events and facilitates activities related to these areas of law, which may include practitioner forums and projects with the Maryland State Bar Association. Faculty adviser: Fred Brown
Criminal Law Association - CLA
CLA seeks to facilitate discussion and lectures on issues and perspectives of criminal law, to encourage and provide information on employment within the criminal law field, to provide open forums for the exchange of ideas, and to promote the social community among those interested in pursuing a career in criminal law.
Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Association - EASL
The Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Association presents various recreational and entertainment activities. For a number of years, EASL sponsored a spring semester Sports Law Symposium. Faculty adviser: Dionne Koller
Environmental Law Society - ELSThe Environmental Law Society sponsors a speaker series featuring practicing attorneys from both the public and private sectors. Members discuss different career opportunities with these speakers, as well as trends in environmental law. Additionally, key environmental issues are addressed in symposia organized by the society that are open to the entire law school community. Faculty adviser: Don Jodrey
Family Law Association - FLA
The Family Law Association meets once a month and is open to students, faculty, alumni and members of the family law community. The FLA was established to further the education of students interested in Family Law, broadly defined. Faculty adviser: Barbara Babb
Health Law Association - HLA
The Health Law Association is a student-led organization that seeks to raise awareness of health-related legal issues; to generate student interest in health care law; to facilitate ongoing dialogue regarding health law and related health issues; to provide educational and professional resources for law students interested in health law; and to grow into a dynamic organization connecting students and professionals in the area of health law.
The organization's goal is to become a resource for law students interested in all aspects of health care law by, for example, developing a dynamic bank of career and internship opportunities and by compiling a course guide for students who wish to pursue health law at the University of Baltimore. The group also engages in dialogue with the university to promote the development of a health law curriculum. Throughout the semester, HLA hosts lectures, career panels and community events.
Honor Board
The Honor Board is charged with implementing the School of Law Honor Code. The board receives complaints and conducts investigations and hearings, where necessary. Students are selected for the Honor Board through an application process each fall. Adviser: Assistant Dean Paul Manrique
Intellectual Property Law Society - IPLS
The Intellectual Property Law Society provides an opportunity for students to meet practitioners and to learn about developments in this field. Several programs are held each semester and are announced on the society's bulletin board. Faculty adviser: Will Hubbard
International Law Society - ILSThe International Law Society facilitates greater awareness and continuing education in matters concerning international law. The ILS invites practitioners from the international field to meet and speak to students on matters of interest. The ILS also shows films that help provide a better understanding of this area of law. Additionally, the ILS provides information relating to job opportunities. Meetings also provide an outlet for members to express their mutual interest in the field of international law. Faculty adviser: Mortimer Sellers
Jewish Law Students Association - JLSA
The purpose of the Jewish Law Students Association is to educate both Jewish and non-Jewish students and faculty about the Jewish faith and to discuss and raise awareness of legal and professional issues facing Jews today. JLSA is a cultural, social, educational and religious organization that reflects the varied interests of the Jewish student community at University of Baltimore School of Law. JLSA has co-sponsored renowned speakers and an array of social activities. Check out the group's bulletin board for what's new. Faculty adviser: Kenneth Lasson
Latin American Law Student Association - LALSAThe purpose of the Latin American Law Student Association is to promote the integration of Latin American law students within the University of Baltimore community. LALSA seeks to host and organize law-related social, cultural and academic events that address issues pertinent to Latin American culture and to foster a more understanding and tolerant society. Faculty adviser: Nienke Grossman
Moot Court Board
The University of Baltimore School of Law Moot Court Board administers the Byron L. Warnken Annual Moot Court Competition at the University of Baltimore and facilitates advocacy and research-skills training for members of the school's many interscholastic moot court teams.
Military and Government Law Association
Faculty advisor: Hugh McClean
National Lawyers Guild Student Chapter
The National Lawyers Guild Student Chapter Chapter is dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers in America in an organization that shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.
Our aim is to bring together all those who regard adjustments to new conditions as more important than the veneration of precedent; who recognize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, farmers and minority groups upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends; who seek actively to eliminate racism; who work to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them; and who look upon the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression. Faculty adviser: Colin Starger
The University of Baltimore School of Law chapter of OUTLaw works to foster acceptance and promote education and awareness on the UB campus and the greater Baltimore community concerning the legal issues facing LGBTQIA+ people and allies. Faculty adviser: Colin Starger
Phi Alpha Delta
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International is a professional law fraternity advancing integrity, compassion and courage through service to the student, the school, the profession and the community.
Phi Delta Phi - PDP
Phi Delta Phi is an international legal fraternity established in 1869 with chapters all over the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe. PDP-Carroll Inn is the only legal honors fraternity at the University of Baltimore. It is our goal to continue to promote the organization's "higher standard of professional and personal ethics and performance." The Carroll Inn continues to bring networking opportunities to our members with alumni events throughout the year. Equally important is the Inn's desire to give back through community service projects. Some prominent members of PDP are Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Thurgood Marshall, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and President Theodore Roosevelt.
Real Estate Law Association - RELA
The mission of the UB Real Estate Law Association is to educate and encourage interest in the field of real estate law by providing a forum to discuss relevant topics at the forefront of this practice area such as current developments, legislation and career paths. In addition, RELA strives to prepare students for the practice of real estate and real estate law by providing networking and mentoring opportunities with seasoned professionals in the field.
Student Bar Association - SBA
The Student Bar Association is the student government and service organization of the law school. Every law student is automatically a member of the SBA. Each spring the student body at large elects the executive officers of the SBA and six class representatives. With the advice of the general council, appointments to student and faculty committees and the American Bar Association Law Student Division are made by the president of the SBA. At least one student member is appointed to most law school faculty committees. Incoming first-year students elect one representative from each Contracts class in an election held in September. The Constitution for the SBA governs its activities.
The SBA has or shares responsibility for the following activities, among others:
- a speakers series;
- a summer softball team;
- advocacy for student issues on a local and state level;
- locker registration;
- sponsoring events to benefit worthy causes such as hunger and homelessness; and
- numerous social activities, including a fall orientation reception and the Barristers Ball.
Officers of the SBA must be in good academic standing (GPA of 2.0 or higher) at the time of their election. The SBA, founded in 1970, is a member of the Student Government Association of the University of Baltimore, the National Association of Student Governments, the National Association of Student Bar Associations and the eleventh circuit of the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association. That division is comprised of law schools in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Adviser: Assistant Dean Paul Manrique
Students Supporting the Women's Law Center - UBSSWLC
The UB-SSWLC exists to provide a forum for education, advocacy and scholarship aimed at advancing the interests of women through the legal system and legislature. The UBSSWLC is dedicated to informing the university and surrounding community about issues that involve women and their rights.
The Federalist Society
The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities.
Furthering our mission statement entails reordering priorities within the legal system to place a premium on individual liberty, traditional values and the rule of law. It also requires restoring the recognition of the importance of these norms among lawyers, judges, law students and professors. In working to achieve these goals, the society has created a conservative and libertarian intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community. We host speeches and debates featuring members of this network.
University of Baltimore Students for Public Interest - UBSPI
The University of Baltimore Students for Public Interest Law (UBSPI) aims to inform UB law students about the breadth of public-interest law and to offer them the opportunity to experience this legal field firsthand. For more than a decade, UBSPI has inspired students to pursue careers dedicated to serving the less fortunate and underprivileged in an effort to obtain equal representation in the justice system.
Understanding the financial challenges that students committed to public-interest law face, UBSPI – in conjunction with the law school and the Maryland Legal Services Corporation – provides funding to UB law students to intern during the summer at public-interest organizations that otherwise could not afford to compensate them for their work. Each year, UBSPI hosts an auction to fund grants for UB law students interested in working at these organizations. Previous grants have allowed students to work at places such as Legal Aid, House of Ruth, Advancement Project, HERO, Public Justice Center and the Homeless Persons Representation Project.
In addition to the annual auction, UBSPI hosts public-interest career networking events such as the Annual Public Interest Wine and Cheese Night to connect law students with practicing public-interest attorneys as well as provide volunteer opportunities for UB students to get involved in the community throughout the school year.
Please join UBSPI if you are interested in public-interest law and would like to be connected to public-interest opportunities in and around Baltimore!
Women's Bar Association - WBA
The University of Baltimore student chapter of the Women's Bar Association of Maryland organizes and hosts a series of educational and informational programs addressing legal issues that have an impact on women in the profession and the community at large. Some events include a speakers series, an annual Tea and a variety of events to commemorate Women's History Month. The student chapter is also actively involved with the state organization in developing programs exploring opportunities for professional growth of women attorneys. Faculty adviser: Margaret Johnson
Campus-wide Academic clubs
Looking for something to do? Want to get involved? Then become active with a Student Organization.
Student organizations are an integral part of campus life at UB. We have a large variety of organizations to fit our students' diverse interests—everything from academic and social organizations to athletics and honor societies. Need another reason to get involved? Studies have shown that most students who participate in campus activities are more successful academically.
Check out the student organizations we currently have on campus; you can also learn more or get involved through CSI, the virtual hub for UB's student groups and events. If you don't find a good fit and want to start a new organization, you can do that, too, just stop by the Center for Student Involvement for details.
For more information, contact the Rosenberg Center for Student Involvement via email or by calling 410.837.5417, or stop by and see us in the UB Student Center, Room 303.
For a complete listing of all student groups on campus or for more information about starting a new group, please contact the Center for Student Involvement.


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Expatriates Magazine: The anatomy of a Free Publication for Expatriates in Paris
You've read articles about expat communities—large and small—and how they grew from obscurity to worldwide renown. A majority of these groups serve expats worldwide.
In this piece, we thought we'd share with you a little bit about an expat magazine that you've probably seen around town outside various shops, or even read online.
Its reason for existence is to serve expats who live in Paris.
Are you ready?
Issue N°16 of the Expatriates Magazine
Expatriates Magazine grew out of a need to serve immigrants living in Paris. It all began with a launch party in 2011 for the newly minted "Expatriates in Paris," which was attended by over 300 people. It was a huge success, with lots of interaction, networking and fun between attendees from all walks of life.
This gave the team the impetus to throw more parties, which grew into monthly events with a constantly burgeoning attendance as word spread. According to the site, "by the third quarter of 2011, Expatriates in Paris was privatizing venues (night clubs and boats), acquiring sponsors and organizing the largest international meetings in Paris."
As a result, Expatriates in Paris finally became Expatriate Party SAS, a French-registered company. This was celebrated with an expat event—naturally—and the launch of expatriate party, a social network for Parisian expats to talk online and exchange ideas.
The year 2012 saw the Expatriates in Paris group offering up to 4 events per week. "The total number of events organized reached 100 before the end of the year, bringing together in total, over 5,000 unique expatriates over a two-year period." That year also saw membership increase to 11,000, cementing the community as the largest and fastest growing in Paris.
Taking their legacy one step further in 2013, the group launched a magazine. It was dubbed "Expatriates in Paris Magazine," but is mostly known as simply "Expatriates Magazine." Over the years, it has become the definitive free printed guide for expats in Paris and Ile de France. The first edition had a print run of 5,000 copies, and was distributed to up to 100 international organizations. The magazine also has a presence on Facebook and Twitter.
Screenshot of a Tweet by @ExpatriatesMag
The Facebook page has over 10,700 likes and a lot of participation from Facebook users. You can even sign up for a newsletter and learn about upcoming events. As for Twitter, which the magazine joined in January 2013, there are over 1,000 followers, and the feed is just as active as Facebook, listing events, news bits, jobs, and so on. The Expatriates in Paris group that started it all has not disappeared. In fact, you can join on Facebook and keep up with the group and its exploits, as well as meet people like yourself who are in love with Paris. There are over 20,600 members to date.
The magazine is much sought after, and is now available online, too. You can contact the magazine for print copies, or go to one of the locations listed under "Collection and Distribution Points" to find your own hardcopy.
Articles cover a variety of topics including living, workplace, education, language and culture, family, going out, health, interview, business news, community news. You can read anything from information about upcoming events, tidbits on the language, more on "how the French do things," as well as posts addressing doing business in France. Many articles feature the experiences of expats, interviewed as to how they came to live in Paris and why. What were their reasons? Did they have family here? Want to start over? Get married?
Print version of Expatriates Magazine's collection points (screenshot)
And then, there is surviving in France once you've arrived, because face it, nothing's like back home, so you have to learn to adapt. There are articles about French phone numbers, dealing with apartments and all the other tricky things that are part of life in Paris. It can be relatively painless, really, once you understand how everything works. When in France…you know.
If you're interested in advertising with the magazine, there is a page on the site that you can fill out with the details of your ad. There's also an online store where an annual subscription can be bought and magazines shipped, whether or not you are in Paris. Those who live in Paris do get a discount, but you can have the printed copies delivered to your door worldwide. You can also become a sponsor for the magazine in this section.
The "Best of Paris" campaign is run by Expatriates Magazine. Every year, nominations are made in a variety of categories pertaining to all things Paris.
For Best in Paris 2017, the site says "The Best of Paris 2017 will open in Spring. Nominations can be made before the official opening of the campaign." There is a page where you can nominate a company, service or individual. It's a great way to get to know the best of the best. Each year's winners and notable mentions are featured in the Expatriates Magazine.
For Best in 2016, winners included: La Montreuilloise—best beer produced in Paris; Deliveroo—best food delivery service; Ari's Bagels—best bagel in Paris; The Great Canadian—best sports bar in Paris; Jean-Luc Rambure—best tailor in Paris; Sokidy—best babysitting agency in Paris; Fontainebleau—best day trip in Paris; Free—best mobile phone operator in Paris; Dressing Factory—best for vintage in Paris; Berkeley Books—best Anglo bookshop in Paris; and many, many more.
If you have a burning desire to share your thoughts about Paris with the world, it's easy enough to send in an article to the magazine. Simply click on "Submit Article" and you're on your way. The page says "We are continually looking for fresh content and writers. If you'd like to submit an article let us know below and we will contact you. The content is submitted by expats & experts on a voluntary basis."
Expatriates Magazine Facebook Page Photos
If you're looking for employment, the "Jobs" section of the site can be helpful. It showcases available positions, but you can also post the kind of job you're looking for: skydiver, rock climber, teacher, dentist... There are 23 pages of job listings as of last count.
Finding a place to live in a new country where you don't speak the language can be an uphill battle. Expatriates Magazine has a "Rentals" section with over 70 listings on the site. You can post an ad for what you need, or browse what is already there by categories, such as bedrooms, house, studio, loft, and so forth.
Expatriates Magazine is truly the hub of all things Paris. The articles are well-written and very informative. Whether you are a single student, or have a family of four, you can find articles that will apply to you. Want to learn French? How to cook a French meal? Find out where to take salsa classes? Which festival is the best in Paris? These questions and more can be answered by the magazine. Currently, you can win tickets to Oktoberfest Paris, or attend the 40th annual AAWE Bazaar.
Best of all? It's free! That's how dedicated the staff are for Expatriates Magazine. Bringing you the best at no cost to you.
Have you picked up a magazine as yet?
Or downloaded it? You really, really should.
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Please leave a comment below.
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It helps to begin with what Rachel Weisz isn't, which is the kind of movie star who talks about being "normal" and craving privacy while making sure to vacuum up every gaze in the room. She is heart-stoppingly beautiful—those eyes are so wide apart they seem to be in different hemispheres, so that you can't quite take in her face with one look—and prodigiously un-actressy.
Paul Rudd spent months with her onstage and then onscreen in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things and marvels at her "complete lack of irony," which he adds is "the most refreshing character in a person"—an interesting statement from a guy who works with so many smartasses. Ralph Fiennes, who starred with her in three films, including The Constant Gardener, tells me how moved he was by her Blanche DuBois onstage in London in 2009, by "the fragility, the vulnerability—whereas to meet Rachel as herself, she's very composed. There's something about her manner as a person that's quite … rational."
In an actor, rational generally equals dull, but it's likely the key to what's affecting in her greatest performances. Or, rather, it's the ability to transcend it that's affecting. To let go and summon chaos … to get naked, emotionally and physically … to go to the dark side …
Before I carry on this theme, you should know that she doesn't usually talk about acting. "It makes you sound like a wanker," she says. But she tries to oblige. It's better than having to fill in the public gaps about her breakup with director Darren Aronofsky—father of her 6-year-old son, Henry—or her marriage to Daniel Craig, solemnized without fanfare in upstate New York with Henry, Craig's 18-year-old daughter, and two friends as witnesses. "I have a very private life," she says. "I think the pandemonium is there when you go look for it."
A dual citizen of the U.S. and the U.K., she eschews pandemonium in the East Village, a few blocks from Aronofsky. She doesn't use the phrase "joint custody"—she says the two are raising their son "together," which sounds enviably cozy as such things go. We meet nearby for lunch at a nice little Moroccan restaurant where she draws no attention. "[People in] New York are very cool. They just say, you know, 'Can I shake your hand?' And that's about it. They don't really make a big fuss."
But she has had to come out for two big-fuss Hollywood would-be blockbusters, the first last summer, the middling The Bourne Legacy (she played a researcher targeted for killing and gave the film its most human dimension), and now Oz the Great and Powerful, the so-called prequel to The Wizard of Oz, in which she plays the beauteous Evanora—who turns out to be the hideous Wicked Witch of the East. It's not her typical sort of role, which is why director Sam Raimi says he cast her. He thought her realness would be a good foil for all the fairy-tale fabulousness. He needed someone who'd seem convincingly decent before revealing herself as a raging psychopath.
The movie is a peculiar hybrid of spectacle and subversion, frisky and eye-popping but with a misconceived turn by James Franco, who plays the noncommittal anti-hero—the future wizard is a love-'em-and-leave-'em charlatan—with a palpable lack of commitment. But Weisz carves out her own space—and even improvised a few of her best lines.
"Evanora is a pleasure seeker," she says. "It's all about fun. She has no superego, not an ounce of guilt. The only pain she feels is not winning." In the film's most delicious scene, Evanora chains up Michelle Williams as the good witch, Glinda, and takes her time zapping her with some kind of green ray before the citizenry of Oz.
Raimi thinks Weisz played it as if the character is turned on by inflicting pain on "Michelle's unscarred, beautiful little white face," and Weisz laughs and admits that—within the confines of a Disney movie—it does get a bit kinky. "I wanted to defile her because she's so good and because of her beauty and blondness. She's incorruptible, and that drives me crazy and I can do nothing but torture her."
Evanora is a return to the kind of bad-girl roles she used to play—notably in The Shape of Things—but in camp form, without the psychological underpinnings. "At this point it would be most interesting to me to play people who are unlikable," she says. "But I want a character that can
be understood. I think that can be one of
the greatest journeys as an audience member—if you can judge someone, learn to understand them, and forgive them. Or just understand them."
Weisz hasn't herself been a "bad girl" for years, but her young life was unruly. Her father is an inventor, originally from Hungary, and her mother, from Austria, is a psychoanalyst; both fled the Nazis as children. Her own psychodrama took the form of rebelling against authority before a thorough about-face that ended with her admission to Cambridge. Legend has it that so many boys were in love with her that she was known as the "Trinity Hall Heartbreaker," but Weisz maintains she only learned that from subsequent profiles: "I guess they're saying I broke a few hearts … [The boys] didn't mention it … I do remember once in the university newspaper someone wrote me an anonymous love poem, something biblical: 'You blind me like Paul …' Was it Paul?"
She steered clear of the male-dominated Cambridge theater scene and started her own female improv company called Talking Tongues. The most famous play was called Slight Possession and featured her, another actress, and a stepladder. "We were in little floral dresses and bare feet, and we were each other's lover," she says, "but we weren't lesbian; we were kind of universal lovers. But we were hot 18-year-old girls, so I don't know what the audience made of it. We called it 'taut naturalism'; it's very pretentious, but we'd get into a kind of very naturalistic conversation and I'd say, 'I can't believe I did that to you. How could I have done that to you?' … And then a gesture would get stuck, and it would get incredibly violent … I was, like, beating my head really hard … And the stepladder was the third character who got between us. It's very hard to explain." But it won an award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and transferred to London. Not long after, Weisz and three other actresses (one the late Katrin Cartlidge) spent six weeks improvising a play in which four courtesans take turns trying to seduce a Parisian Communard. He was played by a rising young actor called Daniel Craig. She'd have more success two decades on.
On TV, she first went by the strange name "Kenya Campbell" but was Rachel Weisz in the British mini-series Scarlet & Black, based on the Stendhal novel. When I bring it up, she says, "It was terrible, wasn't it? So stiff. Because I had modeled as a teenager—I did it my summer holidays from when I was 13—I was very aware of the camera. That completely screwed me up for acting."
What was her breakthrough? Not Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (her first big film role) but Michael Winterbottom's intense, arty 1998 psychodrama I Want You, in which she plays a young woman terrified by the emergence of an ex-boyfriend (Alessandro Nivola) from prison for a crime left unspecified until the brutal closing minutes. In rehearsals, Winterbottom miked the actors and sent them to interact in character with people in the working-class beach town. "The filming seemed an extension of that, and I felt very free and un-hemmed-in," says Weisz. "For me, that has always been the key. I kind of dropped the ball afterwards because I think I was pretty bad again."
At least she had a commercial breakthrough with the overblown The Mummy and its sequel, as well as high-profile parts in About a Boy (co-directed by her Cambridge classmate Chris Weitz) and Runaway Jury. But it was her role as the murdered anti–Big Pharma activist Tessa Quayle in The Constant Gardener that changed everything. Fiennes had not enjoyed their time on Sunshine (1999)—"I don't know that that was the happiest time for her, and we had some challenging scenes together," he says delicately—but six years later, "there was another, more confident and strong-willed person playing opposite me."
Director Fernando Meirelles let Weisz and Fiennes improvise their most emotional scenes and not worry about the camera—it was handheld and followed them—and Weisz felt "released." Fiennes remembers her putting "quite a lot of pressure" on Meirelles to reshoot a hospital scene, just after Tessa loses a baby. "I thought she was great the first time," he says, "but I understood why she wanted to uncover an extra layer of vulnerability and pain. It was not about the performance but about her determination to get to a place where she feels she's really inhabiting something."
The writer Tom Shone, who profiled Aronofsky in New York Magazine, believes that Black Swan was inspired by his time with Weisz, which gave Aronofsky insight into the difference between proficiency and "living the part." God knows, Black Swan didn't have much to do with ballet—it was more about a Method guru exhorting an emotionally immature artist to surrender completely to her sexuality (which in Aronofsky's universe means self-immolation).
Weisz insists Aronofsky never told her that directly, but she agrees that the parallels are hard to escape. Of the young dancer played by Natalie Portman, Weisz says, "She has technique, but what she doesn't have is abandon. If you have both, it equals something very special." She adds that in her case abandon doesn't mean self-destruction—she has learned to leave her roles on the set. But between the moments of action and cut, she feels no obligation to anything—to the point of having no idea where the camera is and missing her marks. "The only way to feel free is to get lost."
The biggest reward for getting lost in The Constant Gardener was the acting world's top prize: the Oscar, which she accepted while very pregnant in a dress she helped design to conceal her state—and that did the job so well she now thinks people just thought she'd gotten fat.
Since the Oscar, Weisz hasn't done many financially successful films, but her acting has been terrific—especially her dizzy screwball turn in Definitely, Maybe and riveting work as a U.N. peace worker in The Whistleblower. In The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Davies's lyric adaptation of a Terrence Rattigan play, she plays a woman who leaves her older, aristocratic husband for a wildly unstable ex-officer. In the most startling shots, the camera revolves above their entwined naked bodies, their sculpted limbs the same ivory-gray with a tinge of pink, so you can barely tell male from female, the consummation total. This time the camera didn't follow Weisz—just the opposite. "In the scene when I'm on the phone to my lover and [my husband] walks in and finds out I'm having an affair, I had imagined I'd be running around the room and crying. And Terence said, 'No, you are to sit on the bed and keep your back to him, and you don't even turn.' And it really worked, because I wanted to get up so badly."
Almost no one saw The Deep Blue Sea, but Weisz was stunned when the New York Film Critics Circle voted her Best Actress of 2012 with no awards-machine behind her. (Disclaimer: I'm a member and wanted this one so badly.) But she hasn't worked in a year—since Oz. She desperately wanted to bring Julia Hill's tree-hugging (literally) memoir The Legacy of Luna to the screen but couldn't raise the (modest) budget. A Jacqueline Onassis project fell through. But she has taken firm steps to start her own company, and in the fall she's scheduled to make her Broadway debut with Craig in Harold Pinter's backward romantic-triangle drama Betrayal, a project picked for them by Mike Nichols, who'll direct.
The pair fell in love (shortly after Weisz's relationship with Aronofsky ended) on the set of the horror flop Dream House—which is pretty good until the ludicrous climax. (Craig is remarkable.) She allows that she's very happy. She doesn't allow much more. It's hard for someone with a "complete lack of irony" to come up with lines about life as Mrs. James Bond that reveals absolutely nothing but sounds good in print.
Consider last summer's Us Weekly item with the headline "Rachel Weisz Opens Up About Marriage to Daniel Craig," which begins, "Rachel Weisz is famously tight-lipped about her yearlong marriage to Daniel Craig, but in the September issue of Marie Claire UK, the 42-year-old Bourne Legacy actress finally lets her guard down. When asked if it was love at first sight with Craig, 44, the Oscar winner responds, 'I'm going to change the subject … It wasn't really like that. We'd been friends for ages.' "
What an actressy exhibition. Does the woman have no secrets?
*This article originally appeared in the March 11, 2013 issue of New York Magazine.


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UNIVERSITY PARK9, Pa. – Five University faculty members have received the 2012 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement.
They are Michael Bérubé, Paterno Family Professor of American Literature in the College of the Liberal Arts, the arts and humanities medal; Venkatraman Gopalan, professor of materials science and engineering in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the engineering medal; John McCarthy, professor of sociology in the College of the Liberal Arts, the social and behavioral sciences medal; Eric Post, professor of biology in the Eberly College of Science, the life and health sciences medal; and Raymond Schaak, professor of chemistry in the Eberly College of Science, the physical sciences medal.
Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly or creative excellence represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions around a coherent theme. A committee of peers reviews nominations and selects candidates.
For the arts and humanities, Bérubé, who is considered "one of our generation's leading public intellectuals," is renowned for his political commentary, literary and cultural criticism and scholarship in disability studies. "He is a powerful intellectual who writes incisively from a humanistic perspective about literature, about the humanities and about our society," one nominator said.
He launched his career as a scholar of American literature with the 1992 book "Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon and the Politics of the Canon." His most recent book (and his third in the last five years), "The Left at War," is a humanities-based critique of the dogmatic left and its spokespeople.
His recent scholarship has focused on disability studies, examining the distortions brought about by the use of the disabled in literature as a metaphor for limits. The foundation for this area of work goes back to "Life As We Know It," his 1996 book about the first years in the life of his son Jamie, who has Down syndrome.
A member of the Penn State Faculty since 2001, Bérubé earned a bachelor of arts degree from Columbia University and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Virginia. He is director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Gopalan, the engineering recipient, is recognized for his contributions in the area of electro-optic materials and devices, focusing on three main aspects. He has discovered a new rotational-reversal symmetry that is present in all materials that are handed or have static rotations; including this symmetry significantly expands the classification of crystal structures within the traditional group theory. He has built a unique experimental nonlinear optical microscopy technique that has helped discover new local polar phases in well-known crystals. He has participated in an international collaboration with John Badding in the chemistry department at Penn State and Pier Sazio of the University of Southampton in inventing fiber-based metamaterials that incorporate crystalline semiconductors within an optic fiber and in demonstrating all-fiber devices that create, modulate and detect light within the fiber.
"Professor Gopalan has made a series of creative scholarly contributions to the fields of complex oxides and metamaterials during the last five years that will have longstanding impact in the field of materials," a nominator wrote. During that period alone, he has authored or co-authored close to 100 publications, including about 10 in such high-impact journals as Science, Nature and Nature Materials.
Associate director of Penn State's Center for Optical Technologies, Gopalan earned a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and master's and doctoral degrees from Cornell University.
Former head of the Department of Sociology, McCarthy was honored with the social and behavioral sciences medal both for his lifetime work and his achievements of the last five years in particular. With more than 40 years of work in his field, he is a preeminent scholar on social movements and collective action. His research involves the empirical study of groups that are not formal political parties but rather grassroots movements such as the Tea Party and Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
During the past five years, McCarthy has published 12 peer-reviewed journal articles, including six in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review and Social Forces, the discipline's top three journals. His work was funded during that period by 10 grants, including six from the National Science Foundation and one from the National Institutes of Health.
"Professor McCarthy's research continues to be published in the top general journals in sociology because his ideas are original, he collects high-quality data and his methods are appropriate and sound," one nominator said.
McCarthy earned a bachelor's degree from San Jose State University and a doctorate from the University of Oregon.
In the life and health sciences, Post is one of the world's leading authorities on the large-scale ecological effects of climate change. His work focuses on understanding and predicting the response of Arctic ecosystems to climate change; his models were the first to couple large-scale climate variation with population dynamics in herbivores.
"Because Arctic ecosystems are the 'canary in the coal mine' of global climate change," one nominator said, "Eric's long-term experimental field studies, which occur in extreme and logistically challenging locations, are on the forefront of our understanding of the impacts of climate change on the web of interactions that determine population, community and ecosystem dynamics."
Post's research currently is supported by four federal grants totaling more than $2.8 million. A Penn State faculty member since 2000, he is serving a three-year appointment to the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs Advisory Committee.
Post earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and doctoral degree from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
For the physical sciences, Schaak is recognized for his contributions to the field of inorganic materials chemistry. Over the past five years, he has made several major discoveries and advances, including a new approach to synthesizing inorganic nanostructures and colloidal hybrid nanoparticles.
"Professor Schaak is investigating a truly unique area of science, one he has developed completely independently," one nominator said. "This is remarkable work, and it allows for study of solid state mechanisms in ways that could never before be considered."
Although Schaak earned his doctorate in 2001, already he has received awards including a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the Research Corporation Scialog Award for Solar Energy Conversion and the National Fresenius Award.
A Penn State faculty member since 2007, Schaak earned a bachelor's degree from Lebanon Valley College and a doctorate from Penn State.


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Yates quells Minnesota's comeback attempt to earn first big league save
MINNEAPOLIS -- Kirby Yates did not allow history to repeat itself on Sunday by slamming the door on the Twins' hopes of a comeback in a 5-3 Rays win at Target Field.
The Rays have won five straight and 14 of their last 18. Since June 11 they are 23-11. On June 10 the Rays had lost 14 of 15 and were 15 games behind in the American League East. In addition, the Rays have won five of the last six series they've played as they head to St. Louis to begin a two-game set against the Cardinals.
Yates entered Sunday's game toting the baggage of a blown save in his first career save opportunity. That occurred on July 9 when he allowed a three-run homer to the Royals' Salvador Perez in a 5-4 loss.
Sunday afternoon had the trappings for another bad outcome if Yates could not put the memory behind him.
Clinging to a 5-3 lead in the eighth, Rays manager Joe Maddon opted to bring in Jake McGee to pitch to the heart of the Twins' order, rather than face the bottom of the order in the ninth.
"There's your choice," Maddon said. "You've got three-four-five-six coming up, whatever. And you have your best pitcher in the bullpen. Or do you choose to go the traditional way? So we went with Jake right there [rather than have him pitch the ninth]."
That led to struggling Grant Balfour starting the ninth for the Rays, who still held a 5-3 lead.
After Balfour retired Eduardo Escobar to start the inning, he walked pinch-hitter Kurt Suzuki and Sam Fuld. That prompted Maddon to bring in the rookie right-hander, Yates.
"[Balfour is] just not right yet," Maddon said. "The command is off. The walks are high."
Yates got Brian Dozier to hit into a fielder's choice to put runners at the corners with two outs for Eduardo Nunez. Yates got ahead 0-2 before Nunez popped into foul territory along the right-field line. Logan Forsythe made a sliding catch to end the game.
"Last time, I'd never been in that situation, ever [in the Major Leagues]," Yates said. "I had nerves, stuff I've never felt before. Today I knew how to control it a little better. Slow things down, and execute some pitches."
Based on Yates' recent history, Maddon gave him extra credit for his performance.
"We did this a couple of days ago and it backfired," Maddon said. "Not only did it backfire, he didn't make the pitches. Kirby came in and did a nice job. Dozier, he can definitely put the ball in the seats and the same thing with Nunez. So he was outstanding."
Yates, who had gone 16-for-16 in save opportunities at Triple-A Durham this season, came away with his first Major League save.
"We won," Yates said. "It's awesome to go for the sweep, we got that and that's all I can ask for. I'm glad I got a save and everything. But winning ballgames is the key."
The Rays got off to a quick start Sunday. Kevin Correia got into a jam when the Rays loaded the bases in the first with no outs. But the Twins' starter retired Evan Longoria on a flyout to right that wasn't deep enough for Desmond Jennings to try for home.
That brought up James Loney, and he looked off while missing a 79-mph curveball for strike two. Loney managed to work the count to 2-2, then lined a cutter into right field to drive home two. Ben Zobrist added a sacrifice fly in the second for a 3-0 Rays lead.
Rays starter Chris Archer proved to be his own worst enemy in the second inning when he threw away Oswaldo Arcia's shot back to the box with one out. Arcia reached second on the play, then scored when Josh Willingham singled to right.
Yunel Escobar doubled home a run in the third and Longoria added an RBI double in the sixth to put the Rays up, 5-1.
Archer escaped a jam in the fifth when the Twins had runners at second and third with one out. He retired Dozier on a pop to first and Nunez on a grounder to short. Archer wasn't so fortunate in the sixth.
Trevor Plouffe and Kendrys Morales started the sixth with singles, and they advanced to second and third when right fielder Kevin Kiermaier allowed Morales' single to roll past him. Archer recovered to strike out Arcia, and he had two strikes on Willingham when he uncorked a wild pitch that allowed Plouffe to score. Willingham then grounded out to score Morales to cut the Rays' lead to 5-3.
Archer allowed one earned run on six hits in 6 1/3 innings to earn his sixth win of the season.
"I think that today was an average day as far as I go," Archer said. "I didn't have my wipeout slider consistently. But I threw some changeups to kind of counteract my slider not quite being where I wanted it to be. And at times when I needed to make pitches with my fastball, I did."
The Twins scored just six runs in the series, and they left eight runners on base Sunday afternoon, prompting Twins manager Ron Gardenhire to lament about his team's missed opportunities. He then praised the Rays' staff.
"Throughout the series here, you're facing really good pitchers," Gardenhire said. "They've got good stuff."


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What's News: Pope Francis inaugural mass urges catholics to protect the environment. Senator Rand Paul endorses a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. New data shows U.S. workers and employers are saving too little. Photo: AP
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DailyDirt: The Human-Computer Interface
from the urls-we-dig-up deptKeyboards and mice have been the traditional input devices for a lot of computer users. Recently, though, touchscreens and other devices are gaining in popularity. Here are a few more interesting examples of ways to interact with computers.
- A Microsoft researcher has collected a historical gallery of devices such as pen inputs, trackballs, joysticks, etc. This isn't an exhaustive collection of input devices, but it includes some interesting artifacts -- like the OrbiTouch. [url]
- A bunch of "mixed reality" interfaces have been demonstrated where the user interacts with objects while a vision system (or some other collection of sensors) tries to interpret the actions as user input. Basically, just imagine combining Kinect with random common objects... [url]
- An artist has created a video game where the players use their tongues to control a virtual bowling ball. This "French kissing" interface probably has a bit of an "eww" factor for most gamers -- but maybe there are applications for quadriplegics. [url]
- To discover more interesting tech-related content, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Newspaper articles, the Catan World Championship, Catan on TV – here you can find all the other things you want to know about Catan.
April 9, 2010
March Newsletter Online
The new issue of the Catan Newswire is online! You can read about the most up-to-date and exciting Catan news by following the link in this story. Read March's Catan Newswire at the link below to find out more about: Connect with us! Settlers of America is Coming this Summer! Relaunch of Playcatan.com home site Catan Card Game Redesign Parts 2 & 3 Family Night Podcast WWCC 2010 Pre-Qualifiers Report Catan in the News Event Updates 2009/2008 Releases > …
March 24, 2010
English/French video interview with Klaus Teuber
Klaus Teuber has been interviewed by the French internet game magazine "Tric Trac" during the Festival International des Jeux in Cannes - while being synchronously translated from French to English and back by Sophie Gravel. Klaus speaks about the relaunch of the Catan board-game (3rd German Edition) and the Catan card-game, about being in love with his job, about other games he likes or which ones he would even liked to have invented by himself - and as well about the development of the German game market. [Please click here to watch the video on www.trictrac.tv.]> …
March 12, 2010
Klaus Teuber Honored in Cannes for His Lifetime Achievement
From March 3 - 7, 2010, the Festival International des Jeux was held in Cannes to celebrate the games world and its stars. The organizers welcomed world-famous game author Klaus Teuber as a guest of honor. During the As d'Or awards ceremony at the legendary Palais des Festivals, the inventor of Catan was honored with an hommage to his lifetime achievement. …
February 25, 2010
Relaunch of the PlayCatan website
On Monday, February 22, we launched our completely revised PlayCatan website, now separating the English pages at www.playcatan.com from the German ones at www.playcatan.de. Even though the visual apperance of the new website may not seem very different at first glance - the internal changes could not have been more drastic. …
February 17, 2010
Dominating the World Through a Board Game
An interesting article from Emory University's student newspaper, the Emory wheel: "Each week, the residents of my apartment and I partake in a thrilling evening of board games. But don't yawn yet. Settlers of Catan serves as our game of choice and — no offense to loyal Scrabble fanatics — it is certainly more riveting than your grandmother's Scrabble match." [> …
February 10, 2010
January Newsletter Online
The new issue of the Catan Newswire is online! You can read about the most up-to-date and exciting Catan news by following the link in this story. Read Janauary's Catan Newswire at the link below to find out more about: Catan: The First Island for Blackberry and PS3 PlayCatan.com US dollar subscription payments Catan Card Game redesign for fall 2010 US World Wide Catan Championship news > …
January 9, 2010
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I've been reading a lot of old posts, and many mention that everyone is innately born with some kind of latent "sensibility"-- to see paranormal activity, etc. I really hope this is true. I am so open-minded to this, and I always have been, and I really want to further my depth in this area.
While I have never seen a spirit, ghost, or any other type of paranormal "being," I feel that I should be able to. I feel like I have something that I need to draw out. I've had things happen where I believe I am already kind of sensitive to begin with. For example, my dreams usually have crossover meanings. This is also true of my mom (who has seen ghosts, and lots of other women in my family, just not me). Ever since I was little, every time I have a dream where someone I know dies, something big happens to them. These can be good or bad. These aren't things that we are expecting, like a sick family member dies, and I often don't dream about people I'm particularly close to. For example, when I was little, I had a dream my mom died in this really horrible, graphic way. The next week she told me she was pregnant. I had a dream my best friend's dad died, the next week he was rushed to the hospital with a unexpected pancreatic ailment. When I was away at college, I had a dream that this family friend had died, and my mom called a few days later and told me that he had a brain aneurysm. There are more examples of this.
Also, I'll have these weird moments of deja vu where I can almost "foresee" what's coming next, but it's never anything significant. One instant of this is when I was sitting in the back seat of my mother's car, and I had the weirdest sense of deja vu, like I felt I had been in the same situation before: same car, same surroundings, same conversation about someone's family, and I thought, "Next, she's going to say something about someone moving to Wyoming" and she did. I was amazed, and kind of freaked out. This had happened a couple times in class where I had this deja vu then I felt I was "given" this answer to an unknown question.
I also feel that, sometimes, I can sense things before they happen. This is very faint, but it happens undeniably. For instance, last year in January I felt this strong, strange compelling to find this picture of me and my biological father when I was an infant. I had not had ANY contact with him since I was a baby and we had NEVER talked. I always wondered about him, and was really hurt by his absence, but he wasn't really part of my day to day thoughts. One night, around 8ish, I was home alone and suddenly HAD to find this old picture I had of the two of us. I spent hours shoveling through old drawers, boxes, etc until I found it. I felt really emotional about it and even then I wondered why at this time I felt the need to look at it. I'd never even talked to him. The next morning, literally like 14 hours later, he contacted me through facebook. I had had NO contact with him in those prior 21 years. I think I could sense that.
Sorry that this is a little long, but I really want to broaden my mind and experience more than the material world. Can anyone help me with this?
Also, I recently learned something kind of weird about my childhood. I guess the apartment my mom and I lived in when I was an infant was haunted. She said she saw a man once, and that was the only time she saw a ghost. But she would often go to check on me in my crib and there would be weird things in there-- stuff from my drawers, toys, etc ( and you don't put things like that in an infant's crib! and she was the only one there). She said that would happen on and off, and that this ghost or spirit obviously felt some attachment to me. She said she never once felt threatened by it, and that it almost seemed helpful. The final straw was one night she woke up to me crying in my crib. She got up to go to my room to get me, and when she got out of bed, she realized that this "ghost" had already placed me in her bed. She said that's when she sternly but politely asked the ghost to not touch me anymore.
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My relatives that have passed on seem to have become aware of my interest in recent years as the coolest thing they ever did to let me know they were around was actually timed perfectly to an episode of ghost hunters I happened to be watching. However, to actually see a ghost, I had to get out in the field as an investigator. It was quite the rush, Id share the audio tape of that moment but it's not exaclty family friendly.
Anyway, I'm not sure being open minded and having a latent sensitivity is always enough. You might have to start actively seeking out the paranormal as I did. Then again, all I did to make that one ghost appear was politley ask her to show up.
Posted 28 October 2010 - 02:34 AM
And second I'd like to say, though I hope I dont sound sexist but in my experience it seems females are more I guess sensitive to paranormal and supernatural. As most of the women in my family are able to see and hear entities as well as myself and a few of my female friends. I am not discounting males as I've known a small handful who've either seen or heard entities as well.
So I guess my question would be why are females more sensitive then males and do some males just grow out of it?
As far as the second part of my question I ask because I have two younger brothers, one age 6 and the other age 3. At the age of 2 the youngest brother has seen the ghost of my late grandfather whom died when I was 12 (am 21 now) at one of the parks we frequent and knows nothing of him other than his name Papa Meno. And the 2nd youngest brother age 6 has seen the eyes of one of my mother's portraits following him while in the main living room we use as a play room for them. And my first youngest brother did have a few times where he would hear ghost children at one of our older houses calling to him but now he's older (age 19) he no longer experiences anything paranormal or supernatural.
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Posted 29 October 2010 - 03:11 AM
Children are more open to it because they are open minded, the older you get the more set in your ways you get and the more logical one becomes. I myself have been able to see and sense spirits since I was about 10 and now I'm 30. Everyone has the ability most just don't know how to use it or ignore it and say its a bug or something. Those of us that embrace it are able to keep it. Sometimes it takes lots of study to use it other times its natural.
I've been able to see and talk to them since I was about 4 or 5 and then somewhere around age 9 I wasn't able to hear them and it wasn't until age 13 that I was able to hear them again. And thank you for answering my question.
Posted 29 October 2010 - 09:28 AM
Posted 30 October 2010 - 11:48 PM
Some bad stuff that was happening to me finally stopped. Then I started my menstrual cycle, and then seeing shadow people after moving into a house and not living in a cramped apartment.
HHK, on a more scientific note I can see how you'd stop seeing things at around the age of 9, (a small gland in the forebrain-the pineal-begins to shrink and develops a shell) but what happened at 13 if you don't mind me asking?
Posted 31 October 2010 - 01:22 AM
Posted 05 November 2010 - 07:58 PM
Very interesting! I think I know what you mean, but sort of surprised that there wasn't an increase of activity while it was happening
Oh my I'm sorry for such a late reply. Midterm madness this past few weeks. Anyways back to the question. What happened was I developed a defensive mechanism if you will, as my boyfriend said I numbed myself of all emotions and feelings that I would assume dulled my sense to anything paranormal as well as feeling happy and such. And then once it said bad experience stopped it hit me full force and now I'm learning to control it and not be so startled by it as I was when I was younger.
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 04:20 AM
I would love to develop more sensitivity towards the paranormal, though I feel that something is 'blocking' me. It's not that I don't believe in the existence of spirits or ghosts--I believe that I'm quite open-minded about such things, so I don't think that's the issue. I think it's because that I'm filled with negative energy.
Or perhaps there is nothing paranormal there or anywhere in the first place?
I know it's an obvious simple answer but sometimes they are the best.
Posted 16 August 2011 - 08:23 AM
Visit my website, "The Paranormal DESTINATION"
Posted 16 August 2011 - 03:31 PM
Go to a very quiet, peaceful place. Outside would be great if you could find such a location but it doesn't have to be.
Close your eyes and breath out negativity with your mouth. You can imagine it as darkness, blackness.
Then breathe in golden light through your nose.
Do this several times.
Once you get the hang of it, you can do it anywhere you wish. I know it will work.
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Yost revels in piloting big games late in season: 'It's 'fun'
SEATTLE -- It's a refreshingly different managerial scene this season for the Royals' Ned Yost.
In his previous seasons with the Royals, at this time of year, at least when the opponent is not in the race, Yost would be using callups from the Minors with a view to the following season.
"You get to a point where, if you're not competing, you're still developing. And if you get to a point where you're competing, development is out. Now you're winning," he said.
And in the Wild Card chase, he's using his regulars and is prone to make quicker hooks of pitchers to maximize matchups and to strategically employ pinch-hitters or pinch-runners more often.
"We're managing for today, we'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow," Yost said. "It's absolutely a postseason approach. It's been like that since we started playing Detroit, Cleveland, the teams we can make ground up on. I told Pete [hitting coach Pedro Grifol]: 'It's time for us to turn into wartime consiglieres. It's time to go -- take no prisoners.' You gotta go, you gotta win every single night."
Earlier in the season, Yost took the precaution of resting his regulars or his bullpen pitchers at times so they would be fresh as possible down the stretch -- just in case. Now that's the case and the managerial juices are flowing.
"It's fun. The excitement and stress is fun," he said. "You wish it could be easier -- you always want life to be easier. I wish we could have a five-run lead every day, but I know that's not going to be the case."
In the Royals' 15 games prior to arriving here, they were playing teams still in the hunt for something -- Detroit, Cleveland and Texas. The last seven games, three at Seattle and four at Chicago, are against teams out of the running, but Yost expects no quarter.
"Everybody's got pretty much the same code of ethics. You play your best guys against teams that are still in it," Yost said before the series opener against the Mariners. "That's what they're doing -- we're seeing the same lineup we saw two weeks ago. They've got their best guys in there."


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Milk For Life
Milk is a super-drink for All! Packed with essential nutrients, milk is healthy for everyone from pregnant mums and seniors to kids and newborn babies. Plus its rich, creamy flavor is undeniably delicious. There is no doubt about it, milk is certainly a "super-drink"!
Understanding the importance of milk for good health is vital. In today's fast-paced lifestyle, working individuals are prone to neglect proper diet or regular meals. High reliance on fast foods often results in high consumption of saturated fats, cholesterol, simple sugars and sodium. Those who skip meals are also certain to miss out on vital nutrients for their bodies.
A complete and balanced nutritional formula can help achieve a balanced and appropriate intake of necessary nutrients, especially when a meal itself is inadequate. Milk and diary products are rich sources of calcium, phosphorous, magnesium and protein, which are all essential for healthy bone growth and development.
Adequate consumption of milk and diary from early childhood and throughout life can help to make the bones strong and protect them against diseases like osteoporosis – a debilitating brittle bone disorder, in later life. The high levels of calcium and phosphorous in milk and diary products are also beneficial for the development and maintenance of healthy teeth.
Consumption of milk and diary products are associated with numerous health benefits. With so many types and flavors available in the market, drinking milk can really be a delightful and delicious choice.
About Goat Milk
The difference between Goat Milk and Cow Milk?
In comparison. Goat milk is easier to digest and absorb as it has softer and finer protein curd than cow milk. Moreover, goat milk naturally contains bio-active factors such as Nucleotides, Polyamines and Taurine which benefit gut and immune functions.
Unpasteurized Fresh Goat Milk is not suitable for kids!
Unpasteurized Fresh goat milk contains high protein levels. It may place undue stress on the child's digestive system. Furthermore, unpasteurized fresh milk is deficient in Folic Acid and Iron which is required for the formation of red blood cells in the body.
Is goat milk Heaty?
No, it is not heaty! Goat milk contains good nutrients which helps to enhance growth, increase immune function and maintain bone density.
Is it suitable for kids who is lactose intolerant?
All milk from mammalian species contain lactose. However, sometimes cow milk protein intolerance (CMPI) is misdiagnosed as lactose intolerance. In cases of CMPI, Goat milk can be an effective alternative.
What is CMPA?
Cow's milk protein allergy (CMPA) is a reaction to cow's milk that results from a hypersensitive immune response to one or more milk proteins. CMPA is the most common food allergy that affects babies and kids. Most kids outgrow the allergy when they reach adolescence.
CMPA shows up in a variety of forms. The sign can come on suddenly or over a period of hours to days after ingesting the milk. Symptoms of CMPA includes Respiratory Complaints; coughing and wheezing, Skin Reactions; rashes, eczema and hives, and Digestive Problems; vomiting, diarrhea, and colic. Most kids with CMPA may have more than one symptom. However, all theses symptoms are not specific to CMPA only because they are also symptoms of other medical problems. Therefore, if you suspect that your kid is allergic to cow's milk protein, please do consult your physician immediately.
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The New Hamburg
It may seem an odd name for a full-fisted sandwich piled high with pulled pork and served in the company of our Martin's Apple Chips. But it's really just the new and handier version of the roasted pig with an apple in his mouth. What a great catch for the playoffs. Game on!


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The Anti-Empire Report
An updated summary of the charming record of US foreign policy. Since the end of the Second World War, the United States of America has …
- Attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most of which were democratically-elected.[1]
- Attempted to suppress a populist or nationalist movement in 20 countries.[2]
- Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.[3]
- Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.[4]
- Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.[5]
In total: Since 1945, the United States has carried out one or more of the above actions, on one or more occasions, in the following 69 countries (more than one-third of the countries of the world):
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3. See chapter 18 of Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower – add Palestine, 2006 to the list
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'The Walking Dead' "Inmates" Preview: Which Survivors Will Reunite Next?
AMC brought all our hopes and dreams to life with 'The Walking Dead' season 4's return this past Sunday, but what happens "After" Rick, Carl and Michonne were reunited? Check out what prison survivors we'll next catch up with when this coming Sunday's all-new installment "Inmates" shambles out, with a brand new clip and photos of the hour to preview!
As we saw in the previous clip, Beth and Daryl will next grab the spotlight in the aftermath of the Governor's assault on the prison, while AMC's preview of the episode also showcased Tyreese, Sasha, Maggie and Glenn. The second clip from Sunday's 'Talking Dead' also puts Daryl and Beth out on the search for other survivors, while AMC photos from the hour seem to show Maggie making a shocking discovery.
So reads AMC's always-descriptive synopsis of the next installment, "Inmates":
The group encounters many obstacles in their quest to find stability and safety, but sometimes all they have to guide them is hope
Lest we forget, Entertainment Weekly also released several season 4 photos of the back eight episodes, some of which belong to "Inmates," though few offer any insight into what we'll be seeing. For one, it seems as if Glenn remains in the bombed-out prison, but didn't we last see him aboard the bus that drove off? What other secrets might "Inmates" have in store for 'The Walking Dead?'
Preview this Sunday's latest episode in the clips and photos below, and give us your predictions for the back half of 'The Walking Dead' season 4 in the comments!


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NFL free agency: Emmanuel Sanders visits with Patriots
Steelers can match any offer restriced free agent may sign
Steelers wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders is visiting the New England Patriots on Friday, according to ESPN.com.
The Steelers placed an original-round tender of $1.323 million on Sanders, who is a restricted free agent. The team will be able to match any offer sheet he may sign or receive a third-round draft pick as compensation.
The cash-strapped Steelers are already thin at wide receiver and may not be able to match a higher offer for Sanders while remaining under the salary cap. Sanders, who turns 26 on Sunday, is expected to be the Steelers' No. 2 wide receiver this season after Mike Wallace signed a five-year deal worth $60 million with the Miami Dolphins.
On Thursday, the Steelers lost a pair of defensive backs to free agency.
Keenan Lewis, the team's No. 2 cornerback last season, signed a five-year deal to join his hometown New Orleans Saints.
"(I) am thankful for the time I spent with the Pittsburgh Steelers and wish them continued success," Lewis, 26, said in a statement released by the Saints.
Meanwhile, backup safety Ryan Mundy reached a deal with the New York Giants. Mundy, 28, started three games for the Steelers last season but played his way out of the starting lineup and was replaced by Will Allen.
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On Wednesday, the Steelers released offensive lineman Willie Colon and signed quarterback Bruce Gradkowski to a three-year deal.
A Dormont native and Seton-La Salle High School graduate, Gradkowski most recently played with the Cincinnati Bengals. He's also played for the Buccaneers, Browns and Raiders during his seven-year NFL career. His brother, Gino, is an offensive lineman with the Baltimore Ravens.
Gradkowski, 30, gives the Steelers a viable backup behind starter Ben Roethlisberger. Byron Leftwich, 33, and Charlie Batch, 38, are unrestricted free agents.
Colon's departure had been anticipated after the team signed offensive lineman Ramon Foster to a three-year deal on Monday. Colon, 29, was designated as a June 1 release, which allows him to become an unrestricted free agent and sign with another team. It also clears $5.5 million in salary cap space for the Steelers, but only after June 1.
Running back Rashard Mendenhall, 25, has also left the Steelers to reunite with Bruce Arians in Arizona.
The Steelers have already re-signed linebacker Larry Foote, 32, wide receiver Plaxico Burress, 35, tight end David Johnson, 25, and long snapper Greg Warren, 31. Foote agreed to three-year deal, while Burress, Johnson and Warren signed one-year contracts to remain with the Steelers.
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National Education Association makes Working Mother's 100 Best Companies List
WASHINGTON - September 16, 2011 -
Highlighting the top companies that are paving the way for new moms and families everywhere, Working Mother magazine today announced the National Education Association (NEA) as one of the 2011 Working Mother 100 Best Companies. This is the second consecutive year that NEA has made the list. Demonstrating the power of change and their unwavering commitment to parents nationwide, 100 percent of this year's winning companies offer flextime hours, telecommuting, paid maternity leave and employee assistance programs.
"With more than 169,000 women hired last year, this year's 100 Best Companies make up an impressive group of winners who offer family-driven programs and benefits that far outpace their competitors," said Carol Evans, President, Working Mother Media. "This year's winning companies are proof that success lies in the numbers—97 percent of companies are offering prenatal education, weight-loss, wellness, and stress-reduction programs to employees at every level."
NEA is based in Washington, DC, and more than 58 percent of its workforce is women. NEA offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes a variety of paid health and dental insurance options; paid maternity and parental leave for newborns and newly adopted children; up to five days each year for parents and grandparents to participate in a child's school activities; back-up childcare; telecommuting; and flexible work schedules.
"We are honored to be part of Working Mother's 100 Best Companies list for the second consecutive year," said NEA Executive Director John Stocks. "We take great pride in our employees and continue to be committed to offering them an array of diverse benefits and work/life balance options"
The Working Mother 100 Best Companies are judged on answers to 650 questions, including data on the access and usage of flexible work arrangements, parental leave, childcare, health and wellness support and the advancement of women to all levels of management.
NEA will be celebrated at this year's Working Mother 100 Best Companies WorkLife Congress October 18-20, 2011, in New York City.
The 100 Best Companies, as well as national comparisons, are profiled in the October issue of Working Mother and at workingmother.com/bestcompanies. Working Mother is a division of Bonnier Corporation.
Companies were selected for the 2011 Working Mother 100 Best Companies based on an extensive application with more than 650 questions that surveys the usage, availability and tracking of programs, as well as the accountability of managers who oversee them. Seven areas were measured and scored for the 2011 initiative: workforce profile, benefits, women's issues and advancement, child care, flexible work, parental leave and company culture. For this year's 100 Best, particular weight was given to benefits, flexibility and parental leave.
For more information on applying for the 2012 Working Mother 100 Best Companies, visit http://www.wmmsurveys.com/. The 2012 online application will be available in mid-December and due by early March 2012. All companies that apply, including those that don't make the Working Mother 100 Best Companies list, receive feedback showing how they compare with all other applicants.
About the National Education Association
The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization, representing 3.2 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers.
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Working Mother magazine reaches 2.2 million readers and is the only national magazine for career-committed mothers; WorkingMother.com (http://www.workingmother.com/) gives working mothers @home and @work advice, solutions, and ideas. This year marks the 26th anniversary of Working Mother's signature research initiative, Working Mother 100 Best Companies, and the ninth year of the Best Companies for Multicultural Women. Working Mother Media, a division of Bonnier Corporation (http://www.bonnier.com/), includes the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE, http://www.nafe.com/), Diversity Best Practices (http://www.diversitybestpractices.com/), and the Working Mother Research Institute. Working Mother Media's mission is to serve as a champion of culture change.
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