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Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s
In the early '80s, new wave's most successful acts -- groups like the Cars, the Police, the Talking Heads, and newcomers the Go-Go's -- had established themselves among the upper echelon of critically acclaimed and top-selling rock artists.
Excerpted with permission for PopMatters from Chapter 1 of Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s, by Theo Cateforis, © 2011 (footnotes omitted), published by the University of Michigan Press. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
New Wave in America, 1979 to 1981: The First Rise and Fall
While anyone looking at either Billboard's singles or album charts needed to squint to spot a new wave artist in 1979, for those who were paying attention to such things, the few that had made an impact offered signs that the genre's fortunes were on the rise. Elvis Costello's third album, Armed Forces, was in the Top 10, as was Blondie's third album, Parallel Lines. Two new British artists, the Police and Joe Jackson, had also cracked the Top 40 singles chart, and better yet had also each placed two separate releases in the Top 40 albums chart. Two albums in particular, the Cars' Candy-O and the multiplatinum debut from Los Angeles power pop quartet the Knack, had sold remarkably well and had swept Billboard's end-of-the-year "Reader's Rock Polls."
Author: Theo Cateforis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 2011-07
Length: 294 pages
Format: Paperback
Price: $28.95
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Image: http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/b/book-newwave-cvr.jpgIn many respects, the increase in new wave sales during 1979 was simply a case of a slow-building genre with deep roots that was beginning to gain more momentum. At the same time, new wave's heightened presence must also be understood within the more complicated context of a desperate American music industry that was facing its worst financial crisis in decades. To a large extent the troubles befalling the industry were symptomatic of a larger national recession, compounded by the oil crisis and skyrocketing gasoline prices. In such a climate CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff may have exaggerated only slightly when complaining, "Our customers literally ran out of money." An industry accustomed to yearly upward profits was sent reeling, and, faced with a sea of abnormally large overstock returns and sharply declining sales, the major record labels panicked. Companies began to lay off employees at an alarming rate. In August, BusinessWeek reported that the music industry had cut one thousand employees in a workforce of only fourteen thousand. Five months later Rolling Stone estimated that the number had increased to two thousand. The result was a bloodletting that had decimated a significant portion of the industry's workforce. The year ended in what R. Serge Denisoff has called "The Great Depression of '79."
Many in the industry were quick to point their fingers in blame, and inevitably they were directed at disco. The year 1978 had been a banner year, largely thanks to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack's unprecedented sales and the rise of disco dancing as a mainstream pop culture phenomenon. The industry had gotten drunk on the genre, however, as labels expanded their disco department staffing and pursued new artists with reckless abandon. Throughout the first half of 1979 disco continued to dominate the singles charts thanks to radio programming and the club scene, but a glance at the more highly prized album charts, where disco's profile was comparatively modest, told a different story. Disco, which was more a producer-oriented than artist-oriented style, and which thrived on extended remixes and twelve-inch singles rather than albums, was having difficulty prospering within the industry's standard rock-driven marketing model. Billboard bemoaned the relative anonymity of the music and the movement's "dearth of superstars." The problems, however, extended beyond just disco. Even the proven superstar rock acts that the labels rushed for a fall release, hoping that they would help offset disco's lost potential revenue, managed relatively disappointing returns. As Fleetwood Mac's Tusk and Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door fell far short of the bands' previous triumphant sales, it appeared that the recession was resistant to any convenient remedies.
In such an atmosphere, labels were understandably anxious to resuscitate their failing health. Even though members of the industry looked upon disco's failure with disillusioned eyes, they still held out hope that they could harness the music's selling power in some way. Most of all they were looking for some magical genre that could fuse disco's formula of "high rates of turnover and low production costs" with the consistently high sales that the top rock albums provided. New wave appeared to fit this bill in many different ways. For one, the music had already assimilated some of disco's familiar turf, specifically through the spectacular boom in urban clubs known as rock discos. The first of these, the former New York City discotheque Hurrah, switched over to playing predominantly rock music in May 1978 and flourished as a space where disc jockeys could spin new wave records for a dance audience, and where bands could also occasionally play live. The concept soon spread, and by the summer of 1979 New York alone boasted at least seven similar clubs. Undoubtedly the rock disco helped in breaking the year's first new wave / disco crossover hit, Blondie's chart-topping smash "Heart of Glass," and there would be many more such success stories to follow as rock discos began to spread to nearly every metropolitan center throughout North America. Even more importantly, the major labels noticed that new wave was incredibly cheap to produce. At a time when the average rock album cost anywhere between $70,000 and $100,000 of studio time and blockbuster productions like Fleetwood Mac's Tusk and the Eagles' The Long Run could run well over $500,000, a new wave group on an independent label could record an album for $2,000 to $4,000. The Police's 1977 debut single, "Fall Out," had only cost the band $300. Such numbers were hard for industry representatives to ignore.
The band that finally realized the major labels' wide-eyed dreams was the Knack, a Los Angeles guitar rock quartet decked out in British Invasion era Beatles suits, whose danceable debut Get the Knack would spend five weeks at the top of the album charts. I will look at the Knack in more detail in chapter 5, specifically at how their nostalgia for mid-1960s power pop played a significant role in defining a new wave musical style, but for now it is the narrative of their rise to success that is most relevant to the present discussion. The Knack's rapid ascent from Los Angeles club act to rock star sensations provided a model that many bands and record labels alike hoped to replicate. The group had first generated interest by playing to increasingly large crowds in Los Angeles, which essentially acted as showcase performances. With evidence of a proven audience, the Knack became the subject of an intense bidding war, one that saw Capitol Records pay the band what was at that time the largest signing sum in the label's history. Most importantly, the group took just eleven days to record their album, for a total of $18,000, which allowed the label to shift more of its budget and focus to promotion. Upon its release, the album met with immediate success, reaching gold status (500,000 sales) in just two weeks. Likewise, the leadsingle, "My Sharona," became the fastest U.S. debut single to achieve gold sales since the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" fifteen years earlier. Equally successful on AOR and Top 40 radio, the Knack seemed to be a model for the type of rock artists who could penetrate the pop market that the major labels hoped to cultivate.
It is impossible to understate the significance of Get the Knack. In many ways it proved to be as important to the new wave as Saturday Night Fever was to disco, inasmuch as its overwhelming success validated the genre in the industry's eyes and sent the major labels on a massive signing frenzy in search of comparable talent. Well aware of the post–Saturday Night Fever fate that had befallen disco, Ray Caviano, head of Warner Brothers' dance music division, noted with a tinge of ominous foreshadowing the labels' shift in attention and resources toward the new wave: "Anybody who walks in with a skinny tie seems to get a contract right now… a year ago it was anybody with a whistle and a tambourine." Word travels fast among musicians in such a climate, and a whole underclass of amateur and semiprofessional hopefuls had soon made the switch to new wave. As Will Birch of British power pop band the Records noted while on tour in the United States in support of the AOR single "Starry Eyes," the Knack's influence had permeated the Los Angeles scene with awkward results:
We had a few days off in LA and went clubbing 'round. Every bar we went into we saw bands with three guitars and drums, three minute songs, Beatle haircuts, the whole bit, doin' pop. Most of 'em were appalling. They were all good musicians—the drummers were always great—but it was almost as if they were all session musicians who couldn't get gigs, telling the bands, "I'll get the haircut but I keep my Octa-plus drumkit." So you get these older guys with dyed hair and huge drum kits doing these flashy licks, hoping some record company will discover 'em as "their" pop group. You can look good and have the hype, but it's down to the song. Most of 'em don't have 'em, and they'll fall by the wayside.
Birch's estimate of the situation would prove to be prophetic, but in late 1979 and 1980, the music industry was too enthralled with new wave's potential to notice. In the wake of the Knack's success, Billboard issued numerous optimistic announcements that signaled new wave's breakthrough into a larger marketplace. The most impressive of these was a cover feature announcing that "New Wave Rock [was] Catching Hold All Over [the] U.S.," which consisted primarily of quotes from a nationwide survey of AOR program and music directors who had begun adding a handful of new wave artists into their stations' rotations.
Unsurprisingly the most positive reactions to new wave programming resided on the coasts and in liberal college cities like Austin, Texas, while many midwestern and southern stations reported less enthusiastic responses. Most stations were easing (sometimes reluctantly) new wave artists into their rotations, but some, such as KROQ Los Angeles and WPIX New York, were now devoting roughly half their programming to the new genre. Other AOR stations relegated their new wave programming largely to late-night shows, with appropriate titles such as KSJO San Jose's Modern Humans or KZEW Dallas's Rock and Roll Alternative that indicated the genre's progressive status.
New wave's infiltration into AOR programming was complemented by its expanded coverage in the rock press, and not just in small-scale East Coast publications such as New York Rocker and Trouser Press that had been linked with the music ever since punk's emergence in 1976 and 1977. Nonpartisan rock gossip and pop culture magazines like Circus and Hit Parader began to place new wave artists on their covers, as did the more estimable Rolling Stone. Detroit-based Creem, which had been feeding readers with a steady diet of hometown heroes Bob Seger and Ted Nugent and other hard rockers for much of 1978, gradually devoted more and more of its space to the new wave, to the point where over half of the magazine's 1980 covers featured new wave artists. Creem readers responded to the magazine's mixed genre allegiances in kind, flooding their mailbox with both anti-new wave and pro-new wave letters that soon spiraled into a virulent debate over the merits of the Clash and its fans on one side and Led Zeppelin and its fans on the other. Even a publication like the solidly Deadhead-oriented Relix was not immune to the new wave's influence. Faced with plummeting sales, the magazine turned to a new editor, who placed Blondie's Debbie Harry on the cover and began to feature new wave articles with increasing regularity. The magazine's fortunes took a turn for the better.


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Although Northern Escape Heli skiing is slightly off the radar, it is well worth checking out. Tucked up under the Alaskan Panhandle, this corner of Northern British Columbia is blessed with some of the deepest snowfall in North America with a generally stable snowpack to boot.
NEH flies in the Skeena Range, and while it's a young operation, experienced operators and guides run it. The terrain is big, in both relief and vastness, ranging from glaciated runs and spines to treed slopes. Film crews are beginning to take notice of the vast and impressive offerings under NEH 's tenure: Standard Productions and MSP have been spotted there recently.
The snow consistency while we visited was hero-quality, and the descents can be never-ending: in a good way. NEH has an expanded cat-ski service back-up this year, so guests never get stuck in the lodge on down days. The staff is down to earth and friendly, yet professional. NEH is a great choice for someone looking for an Alaskan-style heli ski experience, with some northern Canadian culture.
Travel: The main NEH lodge is located 20 minutes from the Terrace, BC Regional airport, a two-hour flight north from Vancouver, BC.
Basic Package: The Classic package starts at three nights and three full days of heli-skiing, with airport transfers, lodging, meals, amenities, avalanche gear, airbag, and fat skis from $3,549 CDN.
Years in Biz: 9
Size of Tenure: 1.8 million acres
Snowfall: 1200 inches per year
Size of Group: Six heli skiers/boarders per group plus guide
Guarantee: NEH has a snow cat back up, guaranteeing no down days. If you do not meet your guaranteed vertical during the trip, unused vertical will be credited to a future trip with NEH.
How they Charge: NEH has a variety of packages, including an unlimited vertical option where starting from $835 more per package you can add unlimited vertical for the trip, and increase the vertical guarantee.

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28 March 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Abexome Biosciences and Bioneeds join hands to provide pre-clinical and core biology services
Bangalore: Abexome Biosciences, an analytical solution provider to the biopharmaceutical industry and Bioneeds, a leading OECD GLP certified pre-clinical service provider in India, will collaborate in providing pre-clinical and core biology services to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies in India using their complementary capabilities.
Under this agreement, Abexome and Bioneeds will provide end-to-end solutions including custom antibody and ELISA method development, pharmacokinetic studies, regulatory toxicity studies and in vivo and in vitro efficacy assays for drug screening.
Commenting on the collaboration, Dr Vinay Babu, MD, Bioneeds, said that, "In the past few years Bioneeds has emerged as a leading provider of pre-clinical services whereas Abexome has established its name in the area of ELISA assay method development and cell-based assay development."
Dr Babu added, "This collaboration will enable both organization to access each other's complementary capabilities and offer a wider spectrum of services to pharma and biotech companies particularly biopharmaceuticals."
Dr Sujan K Dhar, CEO, Abexome, said that, "The capabilities of Abexome and Bioneeds are very complementary and we are the ideal partners for each other to create a synergy in form of this collaboration. We are glad to partner with Bioneeds and we believe this partnership can bring more delight to the customers thereby increasing the business value for both organizations."


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Gene May Make Kids Crave Junk Food
Dec. 11 -- WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Some people may be genetically driven to seek out more calorie-dense foods, a new study suggests.
In the Dec. 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, British researchers report that children with a particular gene variant tend to eat more energy-dense foods, which means food with more calories per weight. However, the researchers didn't find any difference in metabolism between kids with the gene change and those without it.
"What [this study] effectively shows is that people with the relevant variants on the gene have a trait which may lead them to eat more unhealthy, fattening foods," study senior author Colin Palmer, chairman of pharmacogenomics in the Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Dundee, said in a news release. "I would stress that this is a trait, and not an absolute occurrence."
Dr. Goutham Rao, clinical director of the weight management and wellness center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said he thinks these findings are "hopeful" because the researchers didn't find a difference in metabolism.
"The way genes influence obesity is through behavior, rather than metabolism. That means this is something you can work on. And, the good news is that a lot of the kids who had the gene weren't overweight," he said.
More than 16 percent of U.S. children are currently obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As those children grow up, the statistics are even more grim -- 35 percent of adults are considered obese, according to the CDC.
The new study builds off past research that identified a variant in the FTO gene that is associated with obesity. The researchers measured the height and weight of 2,726 Scottish children between the ages of 4 and 10. They also performed genetic testing on saliva samples from the children to assess whether or not they had changes in their FTO gene.
The researchers found that having change in the FTO gene was associated with increased weight and body-mass index scores.
From the larger group, the researchers studied the eating habits of 97 children. They also measured how much energy these children expended, and found no difference in the resting energy expenditure rate for kids with the genetic change compared to those without it.
Where they did find a difference, however, was in the number of calories consumed. The children were given a variety of options to eat, such as ham, cheese, raisins, grapes, cucumber, carrots, chocolate, water, orange juice and bread rolls. The researchers measured what the children ate on three different occasions.
Children with the variant gene consumed about 100 calories more per meal, even though the weight of the food consumed was nearly the same. While 100 calories may not seem like much, that many extra calories per meal would translate to an extra pound of weight about every 12 days.
"These findings do not change the dietary and lifestyle advice to people, which would be to eat relatively healthily and take regular exercise," said Palmer. "But, these findings do also reinforce the hypothesis that the increase in obesity seen in children over recent years may be largely attributable to the widespread availability of inexpensive and highly energy-dense foods, which may be more attractive to the large proportion of the population who carry this genetic variant," he noted.
Rao said the important message from this study is that prevention is key. "If you have a child, whether they're overweight or not, if they have a predilection for seeking junk food, you need to intervene. The emphasis should be on portion control. If you restrict a food completely, the message children get is that there's something special about that food, and then they're going to overindulge when they do get it."
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tips on keeping your child at a healthy weight.
SOURCES: Goutham Rao, M.D., clinical director, weight management and wellness center, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Dec. 11, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine


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Each year the Department of Agricultural Communication, Education and Leadership at Ohio State University sends students to high schools around the state for 12 weeks to gain real-world experience in the classroom. Fayette graduate Kalley Martin, an OSU senior studying agriscience education, is serving as a student teacher with the Pettisville High School FFA program.
While student teaching at Pettisville, Martin will be under the guidance of cooperating teacher John Poulson.
The student teaching program will allow Martin to acquire hands-on practice in teaching high school agriculture students. The Pettisville FFA Chapter has about 60 members involved in a wide range of activities.
During her experience, Martin will teach classes on agriculture foods and natural resources, plant and horticulture science, agronomic systems, and business management. She will also lead FFA activities, assist with the supervised agricultural experiences of her students, and help FFA members prepare for contests.
Martin recently attended Ohio State's Farm Science Review in London, Ohio, and will travel with her students to FFA's 85th National Convention in Indianapolis.
Upon completion of her student teaching experience, Martin will return to Ohio State University in Columbus where she will earn a bachelor of science degree in agriscience education.


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RECALL: PetEdge Toothpaste Recall
Itchmo readers alerted us of a PetEdge toothpaste recall due to the potential of diethylene glycol. Emails were sent out to PetEdge customers notifying them of the recall.
Here is the recall information that was sent out to customers:
PetEdge is voluntarily recalling Top Performance brand ProDental Toothpaste with Toothbrush kit because the toothpaste could contain diethylene glycol. Only one product, which comes in two flavors, is affected:
Top Performance® ProDental Toothpaste with Toothbrush kit 1.4 oz.,
Item No. TP128
Beef flavor: UPC 721343128151
Mint flavor: UPC 721343128564
Diethylene glycol can cause headaches and illness, or in high doses, renal failure or death. Diethylene glycol is found in antifreeze and other solvents.The company has received no reports of any illnesses associated with this product and is recalling it out of an abundance of caution.
We ask that you immediately discard any ProDental 1.4 oz. Toothpaste (of either flavor) that you may have on hand and inform us of the quantity of discarded items by completing and returning the Product Destruction Log. We will provide a merchandise credit for the discarded product as soon as possible.
If you have questions or need further information, please contact us at 888-211-8706 or at mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com?subject=Product Recall.
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S. 3447 currently sits with an absent Senate. The bill would add significant improvements to the current education benefit legislation.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill has widely been hailed as landmark social legislation. But that doesn't mean it can't be improved upon. Legislators and lobbyists alike have expressed possible changes to the bill, many of which are found in S. 3447 – a measure that currently sits in limbo with Congress on its recess.
S. 3447, should it pass the Senate, would make Title 32-activated National Guardsmen eligible for benefits; give coverage to veterans attending non-traditional institutions, including job-site training, apprenticeships, flight school and correspondence courses; allow individuals who are no longer serving to transfer benefits to family members; and give a housing allowance – 50 percent of what is awarded to traditional students using the new GI Bill – to veterans who are taking only online courses.
"S. 3447 is kind of a catch-all measure that I think incorporates a lot of the things that are being discussed on the Hill," said Keith Wilson, VA's director of education service. "Structurally, we just have some technical concerns with the language, in terms of how it's put together to make sure it works. But, broadly speaking, we are in favor of a lot of these improvements."
Once dubbed the "GI Bill 2.0," S. 3447 would give veterans aid that is equal to a national average of the tuition cost of all private and public baccalaureate programs around the nation, instead of giving veterans a dollar amount equal to the cost of the public institution with the highest tuition in their state, as the GI Bill has done since it took effect in August 2009. This feature of the bill would streamline the often-confusing process of calculating benefits, which, in the past, has created difficulty on both sides of the process – for veterans and claims processors.
"I think there is pretty broad agreement that there are things that can be improved in it to allow veterans a better understanding of what their benefits are, to allow easier administration," Wilson said.
Another issue that has arisen is getting the bill funded. In its current form, S. 3447 would require extra funding because it includes new provisions for housing allowances, changes to the transferability requirements and allotted aid for individuals who weren't previously covered.
"I would anticipate it will pass, as long as there is not a money issue and there's no great policy differences between the two houses – I don't want to speak for my Democrat counterparts," said Mike Brink, Republican staff director on economic opportunity for the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. "I think most of the things in there are good things that have been identified by all four corners on the Hill as things we've want to address at some point."
The American Legion, as it has with all GI Bill legislation, has taken the lead on lobbying for S. 3447.
"We made (S. 3447) a priority for the 111th Congress," said Bob Madden, assistant director of the Legion's Economic Division. "Obviously, when the 'lame-duck Congress' comes back we'd want to see this get passed. If not, we'll continue to work with the 112th Congress to make sure this continues to be a high priority."


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Auditing Strategic Workforce Planning: A Case Study19 May, 2014 | (01 hr)
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Companies live and die by the capabilities and availability of their people. An audit of strategic workforce planning (SWP) at Statoil helped the company focus on the links between human resources (people and organisation) and its strategy. Human capital audits typically review standard HR practises but don't often delve into the real risk to the organisation — that is, will we have the right people at the right times in the right places? Whether or not a formal SWP programme is in force, attendees can learn about the value of a more strategic audit in human capital. We will hear how Statoil decided to audit this area, how it conducted the audit, and the actions taken after the audit.
Other questions to be addressed during the webcast include:
- What is the value in auditing SWP?
- How can a company undertake an audit of SWP?
- How does an audit of SWP help tie both human capital and internal audit to strategy?
- What kind of outcome should a company expect from the audit?
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How Breaking Your Budget is Bad for Your Health
Here is another reason to stay on your budget. Breaking it can actually be bad for your health. Agonizing about how you are going to afford a new purchase can stay with you, even after you solve the problem. Researchers now say that our brains don't like being in debt. Having fears about money affect our health long term. Whether we realize it or not, debt causes stress, and stress causes poor health. Stress and pain seem to register much more strongly than does pleasure. So, the next time you feel ready to break your budget, keep this in mind. … Continue reading


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As usual, when it comes to the rankings of OECD countries, on pre-school, the United States is down toward the bottom of the barrel, down there near Greece and Turkey. The average across the OECD countries in 2008 was to have 77 percent of three to five-year-olds enrolled in pre-school. The US figure looks to be about 58 percent. So it's just another one of those obvious good things that we're not going to be allowed to do in this country because of our ridiculous right wing.
But even so, it'll presumably happen someday or another, and there are going to be one hell of a lot of Barack H. Obama Pre-School facilities around this country when that day comes, believe you me. And Obama is going to put forth a specifical proposal. What will it look like?
Jon Cohn of TNR is on the spot with this one. Here's what he wrote just hours ago:
...the plan will probably resemble a recent proposal from the Center for American Progress.
That proposal actually has several components, including financial assistance to help parents pay for infant and toddler care as well as additional investment in the Early Head Start program. But the biggest component is a proposal to partner with states, matching their investments dollar-for-dollar, with a goal of subsidizing preschool based on income. For children in families with household income below twice the poverty line, or about $46,000 for a family of four, preschool would be free, just like public education. (In case you were wondering, by the way, participation in the program would be strictly voluntary. Nobody is mandating that anybody go to preschool.)
Price tag: $10.5 billion a year. Not nothing. But something that obviously pays big dividends over the course of a child's upbringing.
I'm one of the lucky ones. My two-and-a-half year old is in a Montessori school. The things she's getting out of that experience cannot be priced. Her brain is a sponge, and it's soaking up so much. I couldn't imagine her just sitting at home every day. Even if my wife and I worked really hard at it, she'd still be watching too many Wiggles videos, to say nothing of just being alone instead of learning socialization.
But this is one of those cultural divides. It's not only about how we pay for this to right-wingers. To this army of religious home-schoolers, it's about some absurd paranoia about indoctrination too. I'll never forget hearing some conservatives speak at a big winger conference about a decade ago. Several of the speakers really did seem to think that Hillary Clinton wanted to take people's children and force some of kind socialistic education on them. When you have people spouting and believing idiocy like that, it's kind of hard to make rational policy.


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NYC Food Events for the Weekend and Beyond
Meat Week is being celebrated across the country and there are plenty of New York City events to satisfy even the most committed carnivore. From a chili bonanza to one bombastic burger, discover all the ways to go carnal (as well as a few less animal attractions) below.
Friday (January 24)
10th Anniversary Dinner at Casa Mono
Friday, January 24th and Saturday, January 25th, 6 p.m and 9 p.m. Mario Batali's Gramercy tapas restaurant celebrates a decade of serving up Spanish delicacies. Their special ten course menu hits all the stops, offering up lardo Ibérico, chorizo, and cod cheek pil pil with sherries and wines to match. $250. 52 Irving Pl., New York, NY; details.
Burns Night at St. Andrews
Friday, January 24th, 7 p.m. Burns Night is a Scottish holiday dedicated to poet Robert Burns that is celebrated by consuming lots of haggis and Scotch whisky. St. Andrews offers up a prix fixe menu sure to please both observant and non-observant lovers of offal and single malts. $75. 140 W. 46th St., New York, NY; details.
Saturday (January 25)
Free Bronx Brewery Beer Tasting at Nolita Mart
Saturday, January 25th, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Nolita Mart's growler fill station is an excellent place to load up on local and seasonal brews (we would know—their Mott St. storefront is right around the corner from our offices). Take advantage of this opportunity to try free samples of Bronx Brewery's pale ales straight from the tap. Bites from Artisanal Premium Cheese and Rick's Picks Pickles will also be available to round things out. Free. 156 Mott St., New York, NY; event details.
Sunday (January 26)
Meat Week NYC kickoff at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
Sunday, January 26th, 3 p.m. The organizers of Meat Week NYC are holding a week-long tour of barbecue hotspots in the city, led by captains who will guide guests through all of the meaty debauchery. To get things started, they're stopping by Dinosaur Bar-B-Que's new Gowanus location. Check out the website for more information and a complete list of tour stops. Free to join, regular menu prices apply. 604 Union St., Brooklyn, NY; website.
Cochon 555 at the Ritz-Carlton
Sunday, January 26th, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The touring celebration of all things porcine returns, now in its sixth year. Five area chefs will compete against one another to see who can create the tastiest and most original nose to tail menu using heritage breed pigs. There will also be a butchering demonstration from The Meat Hook's Sara Bigelow and a selection of wines, beers, spirits, and ciders to sip on. $125. 2 West St., New York, NY; event details.
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Sunday, January 26th, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Chili is one of those soups for which there is no one way to make it—each bowl is as unique as its creator. At NYChiliFest 2014, you'll have the opportunity to sample distinctive recipes whipped up by chefs from more than two dozen NYC' restaurants. Beers from Samuel Adams will also be available to cool down any spice-scorched palates. $50 for unlimited chili, $55 for unlimited chili and beer. 75 9th Ave., New York, NY; event details.
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Art of Alabama Food Exhibit at Chelsea Market
Monday, January 27th until Sunday, February 2nd, 11 a.m to 7 p.m. Monday marks the start of this week-long exhibition featuring photographs of iconic Alabama dishes. Discover regional specialties and learn about the restaurants, chefs, and traditions that have shaped the state's food culture. Free. 75 9th Ave., New York, NY; website.
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The Voltaggio Monte Cristo at Umami Burger
Tuesday, January 28th, 11 a.m. until supplies run out. If your burger breaking point is practically nonexistent, you'll want to head over to Umami Burger on Tuesday to try the Monte Cristo inspired creation that Top Chef titan Michael Voltaggio has crafted for the chain. Its beef patty is topped with prosciutto and a gooey gruyere fondue, nestled in a custard-soaked, deep fried vanilla bun dusted with powdered sugar, and served with a side of maple syrup. Rest assured that any resultant bellyaches will be had in the name of a good cause—$1 from each burger goes toward the Los Angeles Mission, an organization that benefits the homeless. 432 Sixth Ave., New York, NY; details.
Thierry Marx at Restaurant Asiate
Tuesday, January 28th through Saturday, February 1st, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thierry Marx, one of France's most celebrated chefs, is taking over Restaurant Asiate at the Mandarin Oriental for five nights in what is a rare opportunity to experience his modern twists on traditional French cuisine on these shores. Three and five course prix fixe menus are available that highlight the most acclaimed offerings from his Paris restaurant Camélia. Dishes such as a scallop carpaccio with caviar and Bresse chicken terrine will showcase Marx's dedication to top-quality ingredients and simple yet highly refined techniques. $195 for three courses, $250 for five courses. 80 Columbus Circle, New York, NY; event details.
Thursday (January 30)
Meat Hooked! A Film Screening and Talkback at the Museum of the City of New York
Thursday, January 30th, 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The 2012 documentary film Meat Hooked!, which traces the rise, fall, and recent resurgence of butchers and butchering in New York, will be screened and followed by a conversation between director Suzanne Wasserman, New York Times reporter Julia Moskin, and Joshua Applestone of Fleisher's Grassfed and Organic Meats. The evening will not only provide a look into the fascinating history of the meat industry in the city, but also encourage attendees to reflect on the relationships and food traditions that are forged when supporting local food business. $16 general public. 1220 Fifth Ave., New York, NY; event details.
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It's time for the final installment of "Getting Lost," where John S takes you through all the questions, answers, themes, motifs, mysteries, ideas, propositions, and quandaries raised by last night's series finale of Lost:
"What if a demon crept after thee into thy loneliest loneliness some day or night, and said to thee: 'This life, as thou livest it at present, and hast lived it, thou must live it once more, and also innumerable times; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and every sigh, and all the unspeakably small and great in thy life must come to thee again, and all in the same series and sequence-and similarly this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and similarly this moment, and I myself. The eternal sand-glass of existence will ever be turned once more, and thou with it, thou speck of dust!'- Wouldst thou not throw thyself down and gnash thy teeth, and curse the demon that so spake? Or hast thou once experienced a tremendous moment in which thou wouldst answer him: 'Thou art a God, and never did I hear anything so divine!'… The question with regard to all and everything: 'Dost thou want this once more, and also for innumerable times?' would lie as the heaviest burden upon thy activity! Or, how wouldst thou have to become favorably inclined to thyself and to life, so as to long for nothing more ardently than for this last eternal sanctioning and sealing?" —Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
A lot will be and surely has already been said about the Lost finale, specifically the final scenes. People will say that the ending is a cop-out, that the ending is overtly religious, that ultimately the writers did provide a "the Island is the afterlife" or "the Sideways stories are purgatory" answer. They will say that there was not enough discussion of "the rules," and that countless questions about mythology were not answered sufficiently. Some will say it was too slow; some will say that not enough characters got closure; some will say it was too sappy; some will say that it ruined the whole series. And someone somewhere will probably say that there wasn't enough Libby.
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This false narrative has to stop. They had their scholarships. They could have remained at Cal as students for 4 years and gotten their education and become Cal alums.mbBear said:but here were two guys who thought being at Cal was a really good thing, wanted to be student athletes, and end up alums-you know, kind of like most of us.calfanz said:really immature... as they say never burn bridges....MoragaBear said:
They explored some of the options and eventually rejected additional opportunities put forward but they definitely didn't tell Cal how any of it went or of their ultimate intentions to enroll at CCSF.


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All this pain I wonder I'll ever find my way
I wonder if my life could really change at all.
All this earth – could all that is lost ever be found?
Could a garden come up from this ground at all?
You make beautiful things. You make beautiful things out of the dust.
You make beautiful things. You make beautiful things out of us.
I first heard this song at church shortly after I finished my never ending miscarriage. Okay *slight* exaggeration as it did in fact have an end, [thank God] but for the sake of being honest – that's how it felt. It was all still a jumble of confusion to me: why I miscarried my impossible pregnancy, why a miracle happened to me, and why it was taken away. I was confused and wondered if I'd ever get pregnant without fertility again. Hearing this song was just more confirmation of, despite all this confusion, what I knew to be true. Regardless of whether my body chose to work without medication again – something beautiful was going to come from it.
It wasn't easy… I'm not superwoman, so I must admit this shocking fact: not all things come easy to me. Did your mouth drop? No? Okay, well I'll just pretend it did . In all seriousness, it was hard to believe and pray for another miracle. It was hard to keep my heart thankful for that which I lost.
Still, I felt strongly that I needed to be reminded of the miracle that happened to me; to be reminded to keep my heart thankful. I also felt strongly that I needed a reminder to have hope for more kids. I've always wanted a big family and though a big part of me wanted to give up and use the excuse we'd earned of it all being too hard, I didn't want something painful to destroy that hope.
All around, hope is springing up from this old ground
out of chaos life is being found in this.
You make beautiful things. You make beautiful things out of the dust.
You make beautiful things. You make beautiful things out of us.
Several hard months of trying later, I got pregnant without fertility. It happened exactly when we chose to give up. Without signs during those months of my body being regular, we finally accepted that this next baby would mean more rounds of fertility; which for the record, is something that I still view as a miracle.
This blog is probably slightly random, and a bit different from my usual blogs but I'm writing it to announce my pregnancy. I'm 17 weeks and 5 days pregnant and, for me, getting pregnant on my own was and is a miracle. One that so many others believed in so much more than myself.
I'm also writing this blog to remind myself yet again that sometimes in the midst of something painful, it's hard to see the coming beauty. And though that is okay, it is always always worth it to hold on and believe for the coming miracle.
He makes beautiful things.
He makes beautiful things out of the dust.
Hang in there. Miracles happen.
Thanks baby for reminding me of that.
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By Darya Korsunskaya
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Russia is not "going after" gays, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, defending a ban on "propaganda" about homosexuality that has brought criticism from the West ahead of the Winter Olympics.
The Kremlin hopes the games, starting on February 7 in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea, will showcase Russia's modern face more than two decades after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Putin has identified himself closely with the $50-billion event and also pledged Russia will do everything to ensure safe Games in spite of security concerns.
But Russia last year upset the West and human rights activists by banning what it called the promotion of homosexuality among minors. Calls for a mass boycott of the games have failed, but the row has clouded the build-up to the event.
Critics say the law is discriminatory and part of a rolling back of human rights and democratic freedoms under Putin, who has taken a more conservative course on social issues since returning to the presidency in mid-2012.
"There is no ban on non-traditional forms of sexual interaction between people. We have a ban on propaganda of homosexuality," Putin told a meeting with young volunteers preparing for the games.
"We ban nothing, we aren't going after anyone, we have no responsibility for such contacts."
Putin said some U.S. states had laws envisaging criminal responsibility for gay sexual intercourse.
"We have no such thing, people can feel free and at ease but please leave the children in peace," he said.
Putin did not elaborate. In a victory for gay rights activists, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 invalidated any remaining anti-sodomy laws that prohibited sex between adults of the same gender.
In a clear message to Moscow, U.S. President Barack Obama included three openly gay athletes in his Olympic delegation and Britain said it would sent to Sochi a minister responsible for the country's same-sex marriage laws.
Moscow has said it expects more than 6,000 athletes from 85 countries and hundreds of thousands of sports fans in Sochi.
It has also introduced a security clampdown in the city, bringing in about 37,000 personnel to ensure safety after at least 34 people were killed last month in suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd, some 700 km (400 miles) northeast of Sochi.
"Our task as the organizers is to ensure security to the participants of the Olympics and guests of this sports fete and we will do everything to that end," Putin said in an interview with several TV channels, according to excerpts run by ITAR-TASS news agency on Friday evening.
Putin vowed to annihilate "terrorists" after the bombings in Volgograd added to security fears ahead of the games in Sochi, a few hundred kilometers from the North Caucasus where Islamist separatists are fighting to carve out their own state.
"If we allow ourselves to show weakness, show fear, then it means we will be aiding terrorists and the accomplishment of their goals," Putin also said in the interview quoted on Friday.
North Caucasus faces nearly daily violence and at least five people, including two policemen, were hospitalized after two blasts in the provincial capital of Makhachkala on Friday evening, security officials said.
But, visibly relaxed and making jokes throughout the meeting with Sochi volunteers, Putin appeared confident and said he would like to go to some ice hockey matches during the Games if time allows.
"Everybody in our country likes figure skating, I do too. I like cross-country skiing, biathlon, Alpine skiing. This is what I know and what I like," Putin also said.
(Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu in Washington; writing by Gabriela Baczynska; editing by Andrew Roche and Toby Chopra)


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OKLAHOMA (CBSDFW.COM) – Just after 3:00 p.m. (CST) officials with the National Weather Service upgraded the classification of the deadly tornado that struck in Moore, Oklahoma to an EF-5, the strongest storm rank on the enhanced Fujita scale.
According to Keli Pirtle, a spokesperson for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Norman, Oklahoma, the intensity of the storm was deemed even stronger after teams assessed damage on the ground. Initial estimates had the tornado strength at EF-4. The now EF-5 ranking means the Oklahoma tornado has winds in excess of 200 mph.
As of Tuesday afternoon the revised death toll from the state medical examiner's office stands at 24 people killed – nine of those children. Estimates had the number killed as high as 91 but apparently, in the heat of search and rescue, some victims were counted twice.
Tuesday morning President Obama addressed the country concerning the devastation the moved across the midsection of the Sooner state. "In an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed. Dozens of people lost their lives. Many more were injured. And among the victims were young children, trying to take shelter in the safest place they knew — their school," he said.
Homeowners in south Oklahoma City and in the city of Moore will continue to sift through what's left of their property. A tornado with winds of more than 200 miles per hour tore a path through the area that in parts is estimated to have been as much as 1.3 miles wide and 17 miles long.
The tornado that hit Moore, a city of some 56,000 people just 10 miles south of Oklahoma City, is believed to have been on the ground for some 40 minutes. Devastation from the storm left interstates and side streets blocked by downed power lines, dead livestock and debris that included cars, trees, and entire sections of homes and businesses.
One of the hardest hit buildings was the Moore Medical Center. There were reportedly some 30 patients inside when the twister hit — all survived. Dan Halyburton, with the American Red Cross, is in Moore near the hospital and said, "That building is made out of steel and concrete, and metal two-by-fours and it just looks like it was completely raked by a giant rake. In the middle of the parking lot there are about 25 cars. It looks like they boxed them together with a bulldozer and then dropped five or six on top of that pile." In addition to patients at the 46-bed acute care hospital, no medical staff or hospital workers were injured.
The search and rescue effort, which continued through the night, has first responders searching for survivors, both children and adults. The storm path sent the massive twister over two elementary schools.
Teachers and students at Briarwood Elementary took cover as the storm caused severe damage to the building. Part of the roof was tore off of the school and debris littered the area around it, but no one was killed at the location.
It was a far worse situation one-mile away at Plaza Towers Elementary. Officials in Oklahoma say fallen walls at Plaza Towers basically fell one on top on another and were "pancaked". Once rescuers arrived they formed a human chain and passed survivors from the school to a triage area in the parking lot. On Tuesday, a spokesperson with the Oklahoma City medical examiner's office said of the 24 confirmed dead seven of them were children found at the school.
Gas leaks are still a concern as teams search by hand and with heavy equipment. At daybreak new search-and-rescue teams arrived, taking over for the estimated 200 people who searched all night. Halyburton said the Red Cross is helping first responders as best they can. "When they're in there working they don't want to leave, so the Red Cross trucks come in, we stop by with water, Gatorade, [and] a sandwich. It's gratifying to be able to provide that kind of service."
Interestingly, Oklahoma residents with storm shelters are required to register them, so officials have exact GPS locations to search and hopefully find residents safe, but trapped inside by debris.
Monday evening President Obama issued a disaster declaration and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has made federal disaster aid available to the State of Oklahoma.
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Kevin Bacon was so tired of being famous and he wanted to see what it was really like to be a regular guy going about his day without being constantly recognized by strangers, so he put on his disguise mask and he went to the store. Here we go, he thought to himself, now I am going to have some real privacy and know what life is like for regular people. He had the limo drop him off a block away from the store so that no one at the store would see him getting out of a limo. Very clever. He walked into the store. It was getting a little sweaty and gross under his rubber mask out in the sun and stuff, but he didn't even take it off. He knew that if he took it off, people would recognize him, and then he wouldn't even know what it was like to be at this store without a mob of people asking you to sign their Hollow Man t-shirts. Sweat trickled down under the mask and was absorbed by his tuxedo. Kevin Bacon reminded himself to have this tuxedo burned when he got home. He wandered through the store, picking up items that he thought a person might buy. Champagne. A shovel. Flat screen TV. A toilet. Bullets. It was getting hard to hold all of the things in his arms. A man in a brightly-colored vest came towards him pushing a strange object. "Sir," the man said, "maybe this will help so you don't have to carry all of those things in your arms like that."
How odd! The man spoke to him without bowing and seemed to make no move to offer Kevin Bacon a flute of champagne or a water cracker topped with caviar and creme fraiche. Was this really what the world was like? "What is that thing?" Kevin Bacon asked, pointing at the terrifying contraption the man pushed in front of him.
"Uh, well, this is a shopping cart, sir." Kevin Bacon circled this so-called "shopping cart" suspiciously. The last thing he wanted was to get sued by this "shopping cart" for inappropriate contact. Everything had an agenda these days. The man in the vest watched Kevin Bacon for a moment, shook his head, and disappeared into a forest of sweatpants.
Kevin Bacon threw all of the things he was holding into the shopping cart and left it in the middle of the aisle. He walked for a moment and then realized the cart was still where he had left it. Really? This couldn't possibly be what it was like. Where was the person who pushed it around for you? Or did it push itself? Kevin Bacon hadn't seen any buttons on the thing. It seemed rather crude, actually, like a tool that a monkey had invented. He walked back to the cart and circled around it again. No buttons that he could see. Were you supposed to actually call for the man who pushed it yourself? That seemed barbaric. "WELL?" Kevin Bacon shouted, wondering if that would at least signal to the man who was supposed to push the cart that he had been found lacking in his duties. SIlence. Nothing happened. A woman nearby gave him a puzzled look and did not even try to give him a blowjob. Kevin Bacon was getting a very bad feeling about this.
He left the cart and continued wandering the store. He was starting to get very uncomfortable and thought it might be best to just cut the whole thing off, but he didn't want to leave without making a purchase, if only to prove something to himself. He made his way to the registers. He had overheard an assistant once talking about how they had decided at the very last minute to buy something at the store because it was right there in the checkout lane, so he figured maybe he could just do that. Surely there would be a pile of iPhones or maybe a helicopter that he could just buy, get out of this nightmare, and throw in the trash when he got home. Instead, he just found a bunch of candy. Shudders ran through Kevin Bacon's body. He grabbed frantically at a pack of gum, knowing that his white kid gloves would now also have to be burned. $17,000 worth of gloves, down the drain, and for what, to prove some silly notion to himself that he could walk into a store wearing a four million dollar rubber mask of his own face and what? What was even the point of all this? He just wanted to go back home, put the strippers in the jaccuzzi, and mainline some liquid Dilaudid into his eyeball before Wolfgang put dinner on the table.
"Did you find everything you were looking for today, sir?" the woman at the cash register asked. Again, no bowing or champagne. No key to the city. No commemorative plaque or honorary degree. She didn't offer to blow him or ask him to sign her tits. She just stood there and smiled as if somehow that was enough. He threw a hundred dollar bill at her, hoping it would be enough, and ran screaming out of the store. In the parking lot, he ripped the Kevin Bacon mask from his face and took in huge gulping gasps of air and then he threw up his lunch (ortolan, gold leaf blinis, fugu ice cream, 1956 Chateau Neuf du Pap). Not a single private physician approached to determine if he was OK, or if he needed emergency medical treatment. There wasn't even anyone to just say, "You're right, man, totally." Tears streaming down his cheeks, Kevin Bacon looked up, his lips pulled back in a rictus of horror, looking out over this nightmare suddenly overwhelmed that perhaps the only way to make it stop was to kill himself.
And it was in that moment, drenched in sweat, face caked in vomit, with his fist clenched tight around a $100 pack of gum, that Kevin Bacon was saved by a swarm of fans crowding around him asking to have their picture taken with the star and demanding to know what it was like working with Minnie Driver on the set of Sleepers. Kevin Bacon almost burst with gratitude. Somewhere, a champagne bottle popped.
[Originally posted on September 1st, 2011.]


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The Innu people from Nitassinan (Quebec and Labrador) have been making dolls for many years, with examples collected in the 1880s from Kujiuaq (Fort Chimo) in storage at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. Prior to the 1950s, the Innu were migratory and everyone in the family had to carry their share of the load while traveling on the land. The children carried their dolls which held a reserve of tea. The tea dolls are sewn of plain broadcloth, the faces and hands are often smoked-tanned caribou skin with embroidered features. The body is filled with approximately two pounds of loose tea. The dolls had black yarn hair under traditional hats of coloured stroud with beaded trim and wore aprons and dresses of brightly coloured broadcloth with hand sewn moccasins. When needed the tea was removed, the dolls were re-stuffed with grass, leaves or lichen.
Sheshatshiu, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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In 2007, Theresa Andrew was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the 3rd Annual Atlantic Aboriginal Awards in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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There's a lot of good family history information available on the Internet. Here are five places we've enjoyed visiting recently:
Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures. This site tries to reunite people with their lost cameras by using the photos that are found with them. It apparently has had some success, too. Check out the "Success Stories" section.
Food tells a family story. As this Philadelphia Inquirer story points out, there may be some family history lurking in your kitchen.
The Brothers' War. The Civil War left deep scars on this country, especially those families who were pulled in opposite directions by their loyalties. David Christy, columnist at the Enid News and Eagle, offers up some little-known tidbits from that tragic conflict. For example, did you know that four of President Abraham Lincoln's brothers-in-law wore Confederate uniforms?
A bucket list for family history. It's a fact of life that we will probably never live to see the end of our ongoing family history projects. With a little planning and organization, though, you can ensure that your efforts don't go to waste.
Earthcam. Whether you're searching for a web cam of your childhood home town, that of an ancestor or just want to check someplace out, this is the site for you. It has links to thousands of web cameras around the globe offering everything from a real-time view to time lapse photography.
Author Larry Lehmer's book about Dick Clark and American Bandstand -- Bandstandland: How Dancing Teenagers Took Over America and Dick Clark Took Over Rock & Roll --is available from Sunbury Press. His book about the last tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens -- The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens -- is available at Amazon.
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A short, slender man, Lord Petyr Baelish has had the byname of Littlefinger since he was a child, when he was fostered by Lord Tully in Riverrun and became acquainted with his son and daughters. At one time, Littlefinger developed a passion for Catelyn Tully, and even challenged her betrothed Brandon Stark for her hand in marriage. The duel ended badly, and Littlefinger nearly died. He was sent away from Riverrun in disgrace, and returned home to the Fingers in the Vale of Arryn, where his father was the smallest of small lords.
His cleverness and connection to Catelyn's sister, Lysa Tully, helped lead him up from such low beginnings. He proved exceptionally capable at collecting taxes and helping to finance Lord Arryn's desires, so much so that he was brought to King's Landing to do the same. Within three years, he had become master of coin—the king's treasurer—and joined the small council. He has held this office for some ten years.
Littlefinger is everyone's friend, quick with a witticism. A courtier through and through, he's always fashionable and never, ever caught out.
Aidan Gillen is certainly rather taller than Littlefinger is described to be,being 5'10" whereas Littlefinger was probably nearer 5'4" to 5'6". The actor is also approximately 10 years older than the character, part of the general aging up of not only the children but the adult characters as well.


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Reid Callanan is a photographer, educator, business owner, and father of two. He is founder and director of Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, currently in its 25th year offering photography workshops to the international imaging community. In addition to his role as director, Reid has taught a workshop named "Cameras Don't Take Pictures."
Reid started his photographic career in 1976 as a work/study student with the Maine Photographic Workshops. In his Maine tenure he served as lab manager, store manager, operations manager, and ultimately managing director for photography programs. He left the coast of Maine in 1989 and headed for the high desert of New Mexico to start Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. In 1994, Reid founded the non-profit Santa Fe Center for Photography, now known as Center, and is currently an officer on its Board of Directors.
Even though "cameras don't take pictures," Reid has been photographing with a Polaroid SX-70 camera and TimeZero film since 1976. His ongoing series of personal photographs is named Homescapes.


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The first guideline for serving sparkling wine is: Do it. Don't think you have to wait for a special occasion to open a bottle of bubbly. Too many people believe sparkling wine is only for birthdays, anniversaries, and other infrequent celebrations. What a shame to limit this guaranteed mood lifter to only a few outings a year.
Many sparkling wines-especially those from the U.S., Italy, and Spain-are affordable enough to enjoy more often. Why not toast the end of the work week with a glass of sparkling wine on Friday nights? Buy a champagne stopper, a metal clamp that keeps the fizz in an open bottle, and you can have another glass on Saturday night and maybe even a sip or two left over for Sunday.
In California's wine country, many dinner parties begin with a glass of sparkling wine all around. It sets a festive mood even if there's nothing to celebrate but the pleasures of friendship. Some people may avoid serving sparkling wine at home because they are fearful about opening the bottle. Here are some pointers:


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Furthering its efforts to see the creation of a one-stop national licensing system for brokers and insurance agents selling annuities, the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) announced Monday a new research initiative to identify regulatory burdens facing BDs that impede their ability—and their advisors' willingness—to sell lifetime income products.
Lee Covington, IRI's senior vice president and general counsel, announced IRI's research initiative during the first day of IRI's government, legal and regulatory conference in Washington. He told AdvisorOne in an interview after his remarks that IRI started its research project about three weeks ago by conducting in-depth interviews with 10 of IRI's broker-dealer member firms. The BDs' responses, he said, will inform a "quantitative" survey, which the trade group hopes to have completed by late summer.
The biggest regulatory hurdles BDs and their advisors face in setting up a multistate licensing process, Covington said, are complexity and cost. Indeed, Cathy Weatherford, president and CEO of IRI, added in her remarks that IRI's research will serve as the "backbone" to "identifying and removing regulatory red tape and other obstacles that are preventing the broker-dealer community from making insured retirement strategies more readily available."
The National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2011 (H.R. 1112), which was sponsored by Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, passed the House last April.
This April, Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Mike Johanns, R-Neb., introduced the Senate version of the bill (S. 2342), which calls for a one-stop, national licensing clearinghouse for financial professionals operating in multiple states.
IRI says the bill would enable financial professionals that have passed background checks in their home state to apply for NARAB membership, allowing them to sell lifetime income products in other states and bypass the burden of duplicative licensing requirements across multiple states.
Both pieces of legislation, Weatherford said, "promotes the efficient and cost-effective licensing of thousands of financial advisors across the country."
Covington told AdvisorOne that IRI is now working on getting co-sponsors to sign on to the Senate bill and is having "solid success." Noting the unlikelihood of getting legislation passed during this presidential election year, "hopefully we can move it next year," he said.


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Leaf Truck Program begins Monday, October 5, 2020 through Saturday, November 28, 2020 (weather permitting).
NuWay Leaf Pickup in the brown leaf only bags without a sticker on regular trash pickup days (Thursday & Friday). This service will begin with your pick-up date on October 22nd or 23rd and ends with your pick-up date either on November 27th or November 28th. In 2020 it will be on Friday or Saturday due to the holiday week.
All yardwaste must be contained in 33-gallon brown paper bags, specifically designed for yard debris. Each bag must have a NuWay Disposal yardwaste sticker affixed to it. Blue 95-gallon yard waste carts are also available to rent from NuWay Disposal. For pricing information, please call the (their) office at (708) 479-9555.
Branches may be cut into 3' or 4' lengths, no larger than 6" in diameter, and placed into the bags or tied into reasonable sized bundles. Each bag and or bundle must have a yardwaste sticker attached for the material to be collected.
No plastic bags or any household garbage or wrappings should be mixed in the yardwaste bags or carts. We will not be able to collect any yardwaste containers that have these contaminants in them.
Yardwaste will be collected one time per week on the same day as your household waste from April 1 through November 30.
When using the blue 95-gallon yardwaste containers for refuse during the months of December through March, you must attach 3 red garbage stickers to the cart or your garbage will not be picked up.
We would like to remind Village residents that the Village of New Lenox offers its residents an alternative to leaf burning. Each Fall during a 6-week period and each Spring during a 2-week period, leaves that are bagged in the brown paper yardwaste bags are collected free of charge to the residents.
As part of the Village's contract with our disposal service, Village residents who place their leaves in brown paper yardwaste bags do not have to affix yardwaste stickers on the bags during the 6-week during the Fall and 2-week period during the Spring. These yardwaste bags are collected by Nu-Way on the same day as your regular garbage collection.
The fall free leaf collection usually starts the middle week of October with the ending day typically the last Saturday in November, which coincides with the annual end-dates of landscape waste facilities' season. Our Spring free leaf collection period typically begins the first week of April and runs for two weeks.
Please note: Yardwaste bags filled with grass clippings, garden waste, and brush still require that yardwaste stickers be affixed to each bag or bundle.
In addition to the free leaf collection for bagged leaves, the Village offers ten free yardwaste bags per Fall for our Senior Citizen Households. Each fall, our senior residents are provided ten free yardwaste bags as part of our refuse contract with NuWay Disposal.
We would like to remind Village residents who are Senior Citizens (over the age of 65) to stop by Village Hall to get their packet of ten free yardwaste bags. Bags will be available from mid-September through the end of November.
Our refuse stickers are available for purchase at the following locations:
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Can anyone please kindly help me out with this?
Human Resources Manager,
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd.,
5/F, Photonics Centre, 2 Science Park East Avenue,
Hong Kong Science Park, Shatin,
New Territories, Hong Kong
Dear Sir/Madam,
Application for RF Engineer (Ref.:WA/RFE/05/1)
In December 2005, I will be graduating with honor from RMIT University with a Bachelor Degree in Electronic Engineering. I am writing to explore the possibility of employment as a RF Engineer at ASTRI.
While researching ASTRI, I was impressed with your commitment to people that R & D business is people business which makes organizational achievement and individual growth inseparable. I am excited by the prospect of helping ASTRI achieve that belief. More recently, however, I noted that you expect to initiate approximately 100 new R&D projects over the next five years. My degree in Electronics Engineering has given me strong skills in the design of Electronic/RF circuit as well as telecommunication system, and I worked for three semesters in designing, constructing, testing and troubleshooting a Wireless LAN Transceiver with industrial standard IEEE 802.11b. I was selected to serve as a team leader in this project and I had extensive experience in working on teams through participating in different extra-curricular activities. Most impressively, my project design team had the opportunity to display and present our 3-semester project to Engineering industry in Engenius Conference this year. In fact, Microwave and RF field is directly related to my interests and I believe that I am well qualified to begin working on your new projects.
Although I am a fresh graduate, my vacation employment as a Technical Assistant for Eastern Pacific Circuits (HK) Ltd provided opportunities for me to gain practical PCB industrial experience and to develop strength in analytical and problem-solving abilities. As a person who seeks a challenge, I am diligent, self-motivated, dependable, and energetic.
The enclosed resume details my educational background and experience. I will come back to Hong Kong after 17 December, 2005 and could be available for an interview, if convenient. In the meantime, if you need any further information, you may contact me at (+614) 22070124 or by email [...]. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Yours faithfully,
Michael Wu
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Can anyone please kindly help me out with this?
employment as a RF Engineer at ASTRI- an RF Engineer
I am excited - sounds a bit too strong to me-
More recently, however,- however sounds negative- how about moreover?
design of Electronic/RF circuit- circuits??
experience in working on teams- in teams
to Engineering industry- to the Engineering Industry
Microwave and RF field is- I'd use 'the' and is this one single field or two?
could be available for an interview, if convenient- am available for interview at your convenie
In the meantime, if- I'd delete 'in the meantime' and replace 'if' with 'should'
Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you soon.- Thanking you in advance for your time and co-operation, I look foward... (and start a new paragraph for this line)
Thanx tdol. Your suggestions are very useful to me.
Can u also help me out for my CV please? really thanx.
Name: Wu Hoi Fai Michael (Mr)
Telephone: +(613) 95722268
Mobile: +(614) 22070124
E-mail: [email protected]
To obtain a professional position as an Electronic Engineer as a basis for developing a R&D career.
Mar 2002Present RMIT University Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Electronic Engineering
Currently undertaking 4th year final semester of study (Current grade: First Class Honour)
Analogue, Digital and RF Circuit Design; Optical Electronic Technology; Digital Signal Processing; Data Communication System.
Final 3-Semester Project: Wireless LAN Transceiveri) designed schematic and constructed PCB layout for a 2.4GHz Wireless LAN Transceiver with industrial standard IEEE 802.11b comprising components of spread spectrum transceiver, power linear amplifier and Low Noise Amplifier/Mixer; ii) performed testing and troubleshooting using RF Lab Instruments iii) compared the functionalities with the evaluation board built from a professional company.
Other hands-on design projects:
4th year: 3dB branch line (quadrature) hybriddesigned a 1.8GHz quadrature hybrid using ADS and fabricated in microstrip on a Rogers 4003C substrate.
3rd year: Microstrip Array Antennai) designed a feed network, a 4 element array and a single element antenna using ADS; ii) performed measurement using Network Analyser.
2nd year: DC Power Supplydesigned and constructed a single sided linear DC power supply PCB using Pspice and Protel.
Feb 2001Nov 2001 Certificate in Foundation Studies (Applied Science/Engineering)
1996 2000 St Joan of Arc Secondary School
Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination
Nov 2004Feb 2005 Eastern Pacific Circuits (HK) Ltd Quality Assurance Engineering Department
Post: Technical Assistant (Vacation Employment)
Generated temperature profiles according to customers specifications.
Carried out Reliability Test and Statistical Process Control for monitoring manufacturing.
Handled customer return and failure analysis.
Assisted in setting up Document Control Centre in compliance with ISO9000:2000 and QS9000 requirements.
Hot Air Re-flow machine setup and maintenance.
Mar 2004 Sep 2004 Rinnai Australia Pty Ltd Marketing Team
Post: Data Entry Clerk (Part-time)
Clerical and administration related support to National Sales Manager.
Data entry associated with marketing promotional campaigns.
Programming: VHDL, C++, VBA, Assembly Language
Data Modelling: MATLAB
Circuit Design: ORCAD PSPICE, Protel, Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS), Integrated
Catchment Management System (ICMS)
Lab Instrument: Network Analyser, Digital Oscilloscope, RF/Optical Spectrum Analyser, Digital Function
Generator, Signal Generator (Low to High Frequencies).
Operating Systems: MS DOS, MS Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Unix
MS Office: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and FrontPage
Typing Speed: English (40wpm) and Chinese (25wpm)
Spoken: Fluent in Cantonese, English and Mandarin
Written: Proficient in English and Chinese
Date Activities Posts / Responsibilities
7th Sep 2005 Engenius Conference Project Displayrepresented RMIT to display and present our 3-Semester Project to Engineering industry.
14th Aug 2005 RMIT Open Day Information Desk Committee Memberprepared info booklet, posters, maps, guidance markers, and brochures; showed people around; answered enquiries.
Mar 2003 ~ Nov 2004 RMIT Music Club Chairmanbudgeting , event planning, promotion, management, and performing club activities
Mar 2002~
Oct 2002 RMIT Union Student
Leadership Program Student Leadership Programtrained with practical leadership experience, event management, hosting of new students, trip leading and web design.
Name of awards Awarded by Year
Leadership Week Participation RMIT Union Student Leadership Program (SLP) 2005
Excellence in Music and Chinese History St Joan of Arc Secondary School 1997
Grade 5 piano certificate Royal Schools of Music 1994
Merit in the Piano Solo Annual Hong Kong Schools Music & Speech Festival 1993
Dr. Campbell Gray, Senior Coordinator, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University.
+(613) 9925 2091 [email protected]
3-Semester Project Supervisor
Mr. Chris Burden, Final 3-Semester Project Supervisor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University.
+(613) 9925 3256 [email protected]