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A sad day for me today… Germany lost to Italy in the semi-finals of the Euro Cup 2012.
A good team, beat by a better one… I can't deny that Italy played the better game today. It seemed to me that after the great showing of the German team the past few games, they just fell apart.
After the game, there was much sadness in the house. Here is Middle, utterly devasted that Germany lost. Especially, since she dressed for the occasion in her team jersey.
Now, there will be quiet again for two years (I go a little crazy during these tournaments!) until we start rooting for our teams (USA/Germany) during the next World Cup. Which will be held in Brazil in 2014!
To cheer us up after the sad ending of the game, hubby took us out for a nice sushi dinner… we had live scallop again and enjoyed it just as much as we did the first time last week.
Little One surprised us all by ordering a yakitori skewer of alligator which happens to be very good. She ate the whole thing!!!
Now I'm looking forward to a fun day spent with some lovely ladies… lunch and then some man eye candy at the movies. We'll be checking out "Magic Mike", don't think the plot will be very important!!! 😉 I'll let you know…
Oh, and before I forget… hubby ordered me a new toy. A laptop dock for my Android phone. It's the coolest thing… I'll share pictures as soon as I get it. So excited.
Geez, listen to me, getting excited and drooling over a piece of technology. What has the world come too? A few years ago, I could have cared less. Now all these new, shiny toys and apps make me go gaga!!!
He sure scored major points today! See, it's the unexpected gifts that are the best!!!
So now, time for some fill in fun with Hilary of Feeling Beachie. She hosts the Follow Friday Four Fill in Fun hop where she gives us four statements with blanks to fill in on our own blogs. If you have any statements for her, please e-mail her and if she uses them you'll be made co-host!!!
Here are this weeks statements:
1. ____makes me laugh
2. Sometimes____makes me sad
3. My ___ looks ___ after ___
4. When I hear ___ I ___
My answers:
1. My boy makes me laugh. Lately, he's been able to make me laugh so much. I think, he's taking after his father in that department!
2. Sometimes watching soccer makes me sad. As it did today. Not a good game… 🙁
3. My cat looks out the window after all the little lizards that cling to the screen and tease her!
4. When I hear my children's laughter I feel good about myself and the world. It works wonders!!!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I'll see you on Sunday with all my favorite Instagrams of the week!!! I'd love it if you shared yours and linked up with me.


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Courtney Kerr, Star of New Courtney Loves Dallas, Talks Life on Camera, Hate Mail, and Finding Mr. Right
Her second go-round on "reality" TV premieres tonight.
Despite what critics say about Courtney Kerr, plenty of TV viewers, fashion blog lovers, and Instagram addicts agree: the girl is entertaining.
After her reality TV debut on Bravo's Most Eligible: Dallas in 2011, Kerr attracted a following. Her style blog, What Courtney Wore, boasts about 500,000 readers a month and her Instagram account has more than 52,000 followers. Plus she can still be found most mornings on KTXD's The Broadcast (a show with which D Magazine was previously affiliated.)
Bravo producers must have figured they had a captivating new TV personality in the making, so six months after ME:D ended, they offered Kerr her own show.
Mostly filmed last year, Courtney Loves Dallas, finally makes its premiere tonight, Dec. 5, at 9 p.m. Central time. To tide you over, I picked up the phone to chat with (full disclosure) my friend Courtney Kerr about dealing with haters, life on camera, and making her second debut on a TV series even though she doesn't own a television set.
Raya: It's funny that you don't have a TV, but you're going to be on it. Again.
Courtney: I haven't had one in seven years and, ironically, I haven't missed it. Anything you want to watch you can watch on the Internet.
How did you feel when you were approached with this second opportunity with Bravo?
It was funny, Raya, because that happened six months after Most Eligible ended, and I had gone back to work and started the blog. So I was staying busy going back to the normal shopgirl grind. I happened to get a random phone call out of the blue on a Wednesday afternoon—I will never forget it—from the production company, and they had the director of development from Bravo on the phone and said, "Here's what we want to do." I couldn't believe that a network found me interesting enough to carry a show.
Being on TV turns you from being a person into being a character. What kind of character do you think people thought you were on ME:D, and what kind of character do you think they will see you as now?
I can tell you 100 percent on ME:D, people saw me as this entitled, snarky, bitchy girl who was super-vain, super-obsessed with herself, super-obsessed with her best friend, who picks on other girls, and who is really honest. I think some of those things are true about myself [laughs] and you'll see an extension of some of those things, but on Courtney Loves Dallas, you'll see why I react to things the way I do. We didn't get into character development on ME:D.
I think in this show they're going to say, "Wow, Courtney has really strong work ethic." "Wow, Courtney's friendships are really, really important to her." "Wow, Courtney is someone, that yeah, is honest and speaks her mind and she's pretty blunt," but once they see the way I was raised and see my relationship with my mother and they understand that, they'll understand why I am the way I am.
Do you ever stop and feel blown away by the fact that people are kind of obsessed with you?
[Laughs.] There are days that it's weird, but I try not to get wrapped up in it. Trust me, for every 10 people that love you, there's one person that really, really hates you. But I like to think that haters are just admirers who are just confused or jealous.
But I'm going on TV to talk about things that are relatable. I'm going on TV and talking about the struggles I have with dating. I'm going on TV and talking about quitting my job at 30 and going on out on a limb and starting a blog. I'm going on TV and talking about the struggles that I have with my girlfriends–some of them are married, some of them have kids, and me still feeling very, you know, not having that place yet. I'm going on TV and talking about my mom's health scares. I'm going on TV talking about my father leaving my family at the age of 25.
Any part you're not looking forward to watching or reliving?
Sometimes that you forget that the cameras are there and then you just say cuss words and you say, "Darn it, my mom's going to have to hear that." I think probably getting bleeped and that face that my mom is going to give me when I get bleeped is probably my biggest fear. I can already see her looking at me, like, [in a Southern drawl] "Courtney Ann."
We've talked about this before, but tell me about the filming process. Do you have any personal space?
You wake up, they're there; you go to bed, they're there. You plan your days with a producer and a production team and a 17-person crew in mind. There's not a lot of free time, but you didn't sign up for free time. You signed up to live your life and let people document it. And that means having uncomfortable conversations with the camera rolling. You can't try to hide elements of your life on TV. You can't be fake when you have cameras on.
Did anyone in your life get weird or uncomfortable with the cameras rolling?
Not really. I tell people you get used to it quickly. In about 15 minutes, you'll be fine. When people say, "Oh I could never do that [live their lives on a reality show]," I'm like, you're really not doing anything. It's just that you're sitting at a dinner table that has four cameras surrounding you.
Let's talk Matt Nordgren. I know you, so I know the current status of that ordeal, but it's what viewers will remember the most.
Yeah. The last thing they remember is me and Matt crawling into the hot tub. On Courtney Loves Dallas we kind of pick up a year later, and I have to catch everyone up on how the relationship has not progressed. So I think people will be surprised to find out about our relationship that we don't have one now. We're going to tie a bow on that. I think everyone will be surprised on how that shakes down.
I have a feeling they're not going to be Team Matt after they watch.
If they are, then they're watching the wrong show. Matt has made the decisions that Matt has made, and he's standing by them and unfortunately, we had to have some really awkward conversations on camera. I can't necessarily say that he's going to be happy about the way that he's portrayed. Sometimes it takes a camera in your face for your real colors to come out.
Anything else that's going to shock people's pants off this season?
I think people will be surprised to see how emotional I can get. I'm not as tough as I come off as. I describe myself as a Georgia peach; I'm sweet on the outside, but I've got a really tough pit. But a lot of people see it vice versa. I'm actually like an egg; I have a really hard shell, but on the inside, I'm an ooey, gooey mess.
And I think people will be shocked to see what they think they know about me from Most Eligible, I think they're going to be surprised once they get to know me better.
I still get hate mail with people saying, "you're so full of yourself" and "you think you're prettier than you are." But I don't think any of that. I am who I am. I own up to every flaw that I have.
Have you ever sat down and just cried because someone was so mean?
Oh, completely. It happens a lot. But at the end of the day, there's no way to cope with it or deal with it. I just understand that that's part of the territory, and that's part of what you sign up for, and that's part of success or notoriety or whatever you want to call it. But does it hurt? Yeah, it hurts.
How do you think that being on Bravo has changed you?
I don't think I have changed. I think that my life has changed. My morals haven't changed, my values haven't changed, my character hasn't changed. My flaws have stayed the same and, actually, some magnified, but I don't think I, as a person, have changed.
What's next?
Oh my gosh. So much. I'm continuing to do The Broadcast here in Dallas. Dallas has been so supportive and really celebrated me, and I'm really grateful for that. I'm working on a book with a publisher. I'm probably going to do another collaboration with Bauble Bar and just continue blogging. But would I like to get married and have kids and settle down? I'd love for that to be next. I'd like to meet Mr. Right as soon as possible. Trust me, my mom is continuing to remind me that I'm not getting any younger.
Is that in the cards for you anytime soon?
I'm dating and I'm happy. So, we'll see. Who knows. Maybe the second season will be called Courtney Loves… and they'll insert some man's name there.


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Bruce Williams
You've written white papers and offered seminars about the opportunity to magnify the benefits of continuous process improvement initiatives such as Six Sigma and Lean with the aid of BPM. Can you start by describing where Six Sigma and Lean have come up short?
As a rule, the Six Sigma practitioner is an industrial engineer, a mechanical engineer or maybe a business person. They are not IT people, they may not understand IT, and furthermore, when they've looked for data and measurement around processes, they haven't had a lot of success getting it out of IT. The IT department has generally asked them to take a number and get in line because they have had other priorities.
As a result, Six Sigma and Lean practitioners typically collect information on their own and then they measure it, analyze it and design and implement improvements outside of enterprise IT, which means several things. Number one, there's a lot of redundant gathering of information and a lot of problems calibrating the data sources. As a result, they're spending way too much time in the measurement phase. Secondly, when these continuous process improvement efforts get back to the control phase, there's no closed loop. Six Sigma and Lean teams tell people what to do to optimize a process, but it's like herding cats [because there are no measures or control mechanisms in place].
Finally, Six Sigma and Lean initiatives have tended to affect human-centric systems, but not the system behind the iron curtain of IT. In the early years of a Six Sigma or Lean initiative you could make a lot of hay just fixing human-centric problems without ever touching IT, but the next-highest level of low-hanging fruit involves enterprise IT.
So what can BPM do to bridge those gaps?
BPM can take a lot of what the Six Sigma and Lean practitioners have been doing off in their corner and make it more enterprise capable, creating more synergy and getting a lot more reuse and leverage out of those efforts.
When a Six Sigma practitioner starts analyzing a process, he or she goes through a five-step approach to find, measure, analyze, improve and control that process process. You begin by defining the space that you want to affect and some significant outcome you want to improve, like throughput yield, bottom-line profit or facility utilization. Next, you start collecting data about that space, and typically that involves a lot of manually collected data that goes into Excel spreadsheets and that sort of thing. One of the biggest advantages BPM offers is an instrumented environment that lets you get at process data in a systematic and well-calibrated way so you can measure things more consistently.
You also point to the overlapping tools of BPM, Six Sigma and Lean environments — modeling, analysis and simulation among them — and you extol the opportunity to take advantage of BPM execution engines. Sounds great, but are Six Sigma and Lean practitioners aware of and prepared to embrace BPM?
I'd say that people on the corporate side — the implementation side — of the Six Sigma and Lean communities are showing quite a bit of interest. It's a little bit different on the practitioner side because those people are kind of in their little niche, but practitioners, trainers and consultants in the Lean and Six Sigma communities are just now beginning to talk about this. Some analysts have been talking about it for some time. Paul Harmon and Celia Wolf of BP Trends, for example, have been talking about this pretty extensively for more than a year. They recognize that the synergies are there and are coming. Inside the practitioner environments there's a lot of interest, but they want to see products and they want to see capabilities before they are willing to take that step.
You've described what's lacking in Lean and Six Sigma, but what about the gaps in BPM? Is it becoming too focused on technology without enough of the discipline and methodology of Six Sigma and Lean?
The risk with all technologies is that people treat them as a hammer and they just go around swinging it. There is no methodology necessarily implied inside a BPM suite; it's just a tool set, so you are really relying on the knowledge, expertise and capabilities of whoever is implementing it to do something groundbreaking and significant. However, if you combine the methodologies of a Six Sigma or Lean practice with a BPM tool set, you can leverage both environments.
For example, when you begin a BPM implementation, some will say, "The first thing we do is model the state of where we are going." Everyone in a Lean or Six Sigma environment would stop you from getting out a blank sheet of paper or a blank modeling tool because they recognize the value in first identifying the "as is" — where you are today. You can then look at the existing process to determine what steps and changes you want to make, and you can then instrument those areas properly and measure the delta so you know what kind of gains you've made.
Without some kind of methodology, who is to say what the KPIs are, what is measured, what the upper and lower spec limits are, and what constitutes a yellow condition or a red condition? A methodology like Six Sigma or Lean defines that, and you know exactly what to instrument because you understand cause and effect, and what limits should be around any causal element to affect the outcomes.
Is the combination of Six Sigma and BPM or Lean and BPM a bit too much for the average company to take on all at once? After all, a lot of companies have trouble just embracing any one of these elements on its own.
Close to 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies are already practicing Six Sigma at some level. When I sit with the IT people or the Six Sigma practitioners or the executives who oversee both and explain how Six Sigma and BPM can come together, it often leads to a kind of epiphany. They recognize the opportunity to use BPM technology to create so much more reach and leverage with what they are trying to do with these initiatives.
So how would you sum up your message to those who are practicing Six Sigma or Lean without the benefit of BPM or those who are exploring BPM without a methodology or framework like Six Sigma or Lean?
I'd say that BPM offers a toolset that is very similar to the Lean and Six Sigma toolsets they're used to [including modeling, analysis and simulation], but it can reach out across the enterprise and give them the leverage, the reusability and the extensibility that they have never had before.
I tell those who are embracing BPM that they can use the technology tactically, but if they want to use it strategically as a weapon — to really address productivity, innovation and other business issues — you can reach out to Six Sigma or Lean as an underpinning to know how to best apply the technology and the toolset.


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A tile with Shashi Kapoor's hand imprint will be unveiled by his son Kunal here on Saturday (November 9, 2013) as a mark to immortalize the veteran actor's contribution to the film industry.
The tile will later be installed at the UTV Stars' Walk of the Stars at the Bandra Bandstand here.
"This hand print will symbolize his (my father's) contribution to the Indian film industry. It's an honour for me to be able to launch my father's tile in his presence. He's been one of the most popular stars of his time and he will be remembered that way," Kunal said in a statement.
Shashi Kapoor has featured in memorable roles in films like Deewaar, Kabhie Kabhie, Namak Halaal and Kaala Patthar.
His hand imprints will join those of other members from his family - Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor, and with brass statues of his late brothers Raj and Shammi.


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Melanie Phillips is a rightwing columnist for the Daily Mail , a regular panellist on the radio and a polemical writer for conservative thinktanks.
She claims that Britain is suffering from societal disintegration, especially family breakdown, due to the influence of the liberal left and of feminists who have insisted that marriage is oppressive and unnecessary.
Unfortunately, Phillips does not make her contemporary standpoint explicit in The Ascent of Woman , yet it is evident in the narrow range of sources consulted and in the selection and interpretation of evidence. In particular, she makes little reference to that vast bulk of work by feminist historians who, over the past decade or so, have made a substantial contribution to the study of women's suffrage in Britain.
Phillips' main theme is that the women's suffrage movement was about more than the parliamentary vote, namely an attempt to curb male lust and to elevate humanity to a higher moral plane. This claim is explored through a discussion of the 19th-century ideas that lay behind the movement.
The early chapters discuss the challenges mounted against that influential 19th-century domestic ideology that upheld that women should become full-time wives and mothers. Phillips focuses in particular on the double standard whereby sexual licence was seen as an understandable lapse for men, who were at the mercy of their instincts, but regarded as unpardonable for women. Since wives were expected to be virgins on their wedding night and their husbands sexually experienced, prostitution was widespread, as were venereal diseases. Such issues were forced into the limelight when Josephine Butler successfully led a campaign to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts of the 1860s that provided for the compulsory medical examination of women believed to be prostitutes. As Butler pointed out, these acts singled out the woman for condemnation, while excusing and even protecting the man. The Butler crusade, insists Phillips, wrenched the whole agenda for social reform away from the problem of women, and reconceived it instead as the need to deal with the problem of men. Thus, moral purity became the real drive of the women's suffrage campaign in the 19th century, and especially in the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain.
It is in the chapters on the suffragettes that Phillips' fury is at full blast. In particular she aims her guns at Emmeline Pankhurst and her eldest daughter, Christabel. Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), on October 10 1903, as a single-sex organisation that would demand female enfranchisement on the same terms as the vote was granted to men. Tired of all the years of failure, she injected new life into the campaign with the slogan: "Deeds, not words."
Christabel, the organising secretary of the WSPU, was its brilliant strategist who made votes for women headline news. Contrary to Phillips'
assertion, both women wanted the vote for a wider range of reforms than just moral purity. Pankhurst passionately believed that the lack of the parliamentary franchise lay at the heart of women's secondary and subordinate status. The vote, she argued, would bring equal rights in law for her own sex as well as the abolition of the sexual and economic exploitation of women and children. Christabel wanted women to be assertive about their citizenship rights rather than accept the false dignity earned by being submissive. From 1912 in particular, she emphasised the moral crusade aspect of the women's cause with the slogans "votes for women" and "chastity for men", thus linking the political equality of women with a questioning of men's supposedly overpowering sexual drive. For Christabel, women were not to be reduced to a sexual function, as wives and mothers, but to be empowered with control over their own bodies.
Phillips will have none of this. Rather than seeing the suffragette movement as exploring a wider range of choices for women, she argues that it was based on an irrational hatred of men. Sexual separatism, she insists, was "man-hating", a "sex war" that celebrated "celibacy, chastity and lesbianism". She even goes so far as to suggest that references to "improving the race" made the suffragettes the precursors of Nazis actions during the Holocaust some 30 years later.
Phillips' hysterical tone is not helped by the fact that, as she admits, her book does not offer "ground-breaking scholarship" but draws on the work of others. But her text reveals that her heavy reliance on secondary sources is selective, frequently excluding reference to relevant feminist research. She thus repeats the errors of outdated accounts, stating that Christabel turned the WSPU "into an upper-class and bourgeois organisation" and that from 1907 the WSPU "finally severed its link with the Labour movement". The resignation of Pankhurst and Christabel from the Independent Labour Party in 1907 did not lead to a severance from socialism, especially at the branch level where a considerable degree of auton-omy was enjoyed.
Nor were suffragettes solidly middle class. The working-class Jessie Stephen, a domestic servant who joined the WSPU in Scotland, recollected that there was a "tremendous number" of working-class activists working alongside wealthy women. Many of these working-class suffragettes felt strongly enough about the women's cause to endure the hardships of prison, even from 1912 when the WSPU adopted more extreme forms of militancy, such as setting fire to empty buildings and pillar boxes.
In her diatribe against the WSPU leaders, Phillips relies heavily on David Mitchell's sexist and misogynist biography of Christabel, Queen Christabel , published in 1977 when second-wave feminism was making its impact. Mitchell writes ina masculinist tone, mocking and ridiculing the suffragettes. His book is notorious for its final chapter, "Bitch power", where he sees an affinity between Christabel's views and the "wilder rantings" of second-wave feminists, such as Kate Millet, Ti-Grace Atkinson and Germaine Greer.
Phillips cites Mitchell's book frequently and uncritically, accepting the spin he gave, even repeating the assertion that Pankhurst nagged and dominated her husband during their 19 years of marriage. She also reiterates a common myth, that WSPU members were puppets of a manipulative, autocratic leadership. Such an approach denies the suffragette agency for her own actions and ignores the fact that many WSPU tactics - disparagingly termed by Phillips as "upper-class histrionics" - were initiated by the rank and file. In particular, Phillips fails to ask and answer a key question - if Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst were the feminist tyrants that she portrays, why was it that thousands of women, eager for social and political change, joined a mass movement that has been unparalleled in British history?
Although The Ascent of Woman is a provocative book, the hostility expressed towards the suffragettes will offend many of its potential readers - the general public, A-level pupils and students in further and higher education. But more importantly, the lack of engagement with recent historiography on women's suffrage gives the book a smell of mothballs that makes it of limited value to the inquiring mind. Phillips does not do justice to her subject.
June Purvis is professor of women's and gender history, University of Portsmouth.
The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas behind It
Author - Melanie Phillips
Publisher - Little, Brown
Pages - 370
Price - £18.99
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Jim Fuller: Many questions face UConn football team moving forward
EAST HARTFORD >> There have been words coming out of Bob Diaco's mouth over the last three seasons that simply were not backed up by the play on the field by his UConn football team.
Just based on social media reaction, even some of the more loyal, enthusiastic members of the UConn fan base have tired of Diaco's empty promises, especially after a season-ending six-game losing streak featuring blowout losses to teams (other than Temple) that could be considered mediocre at best.
Diaco said he was so insulated that he hadn't heard of the increasing dissatisfaction of the direction of the program and performance of the coaching from the UConn fans. Seeing thousands of empty seats in the season finale might have gotten the point across to Diaco more than any tweet or email could have accomplished.
In his final post-game press conference of the forgettable 2016 season, Diaco uttered some words that even the most jaded of UConn fans could agree with.
"I am excited where we go from here as it relates to moving the ball and scoring points," Diaco said.
OK, "excited" is not the ideal choice of words. Curious, anxious might have been better fits.
UConn will finish last among 128 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in scoring offense. UConn's 178 points are the fewest since the 1985 season. With the Yale game wiped out due to Hurricane Gloria, the Huskies only played nine games that season. The Huskies will finish in the bottom 15 nationally in total offense for the sixth year in a row. Those final numbers pale in comparison to the final numbers in the month of November. UConn averaged 196.3 yards per game in three November games, the worst output for a Football Bowl Subdivision team in final full month of the regular season since Washington State's 180.3 yards during the 2009 season. Going back to the 2008 campaign, no FBS team averaged fewer points per game in November than the 4.3 put up by the Huskies.
It is enough for Husky Nation to long for the good ol' days. No, not the Donald Brown/Jordan Todman years, but the stretch at the beginning of the season when they cringed at the late-game mismanagement issues that likely cost the Huskies a couple of victories. There were no such concerns in the final five games simply because UConn was so far behind heading into the final few minutes.
Last year there was a sense of optimism as the Huskies qualified for a bowl game in Diaco's second season. It is a much darker mood going into these next few months.
Now the Huskies will be moving forward without senior receiver Noel Thomas, who had a program record 100 catches as a senior, depriving the team of one of its only offensive playmakers.
Many of the players who took the field alongside of Thomas in Saturday's season-ending 38-13 loss to Tulane should be back, including junior running back Arkeel Newsome, the team's leading rusher in each of the last two seasons and first player during the FBS era to lead the Huskies in all-purpose yardage in three straight seasons.
True freshman quarterback Donovan Williams was thrown into the mix likely before he or the team was ready, with somewhat predictable results.
A total of 11 players caught passes this season and nine are set to return. Hergy Mayala, second on the team with 296 receiving yards, could be the No. 1 guy moving forward. Fellow sophomores Tyraiq Beals and Aaron McLean, former walk-on Bryan Coney will be part of the rotation along with freshmen Keyion Dixon and Quayvon Skanes after redshirting this season. Newsome finished with 25 catches, 21 coming in the final seven games. Diaco repeated his refrain that tight ends Tommy Myers and Alec Bloom need to be more involved in the passing attack after combining for 24 catches this season, but that line has been uttered before.
Once again no position group will be under more scrutiny than the offensive line.
Right tackle Andreas Knappe and left guard Richard Levy will take with them 69 career starts, but the reality is that neither of them played at a level expected of a three-year starter.
Redshirt freshman left tackle Matthew Peart had his growing pains, but the offense is being built around Peart and Williams.
Guard Tommy Hopkins has been UConn's most consistent and effective offensive linemen in the last two seasons, and his absence for most of the season due to injury was rather noticeable.
Ryan Crozier was a first-time starter at center, and coming off a serious knee injury, so he figures to be better in the coming season. True freshmen Nino Leone and Cam DeGeorge were both red shirted but were seeing regular practice time with the second-team offensive line. It would not be a surprise if both of them made serious runs at starting positions as they will challenge Trey Rutherford and Brendan Vechery and reserve Steve Hashemi among others for those other two starting positions.
Of course the annual refrain of putting together a better offensive line will remain a story line heading into the 2017 season as it was in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Freshman running backs Nate Hopkins and Ja'Kevious Vickers looked impressive at times in practices as they redshirted.
Many of the names will be the same on offense, but it is highly unlikely the same can be said for the coaching staff. Indications are that Diaco will return. David Corley was the offensive coordinator for those three November games when UConn's offense was among the worst at the FBS level in recent memory. He could resume in his role as running backs coach, but it is realistic to assume that UConn athletic director David Benedict had, is having or will have conversations with Diaco regarding the hiring of an experienced play caller to be the offensive coordinator.
Diaco said his current staff didn't have the experience to adjust when they went to three wide receiver sets after beginning the season with a tight end dominated unit so finding a staff that can thrive in that system is of paramount importance.
The issues moving forward won't be limited to merely improving the offense. The Huskies lose Bobby Puyol and Justin Wain, among the most productive kicker and punter in program history. The defense took a major step back. It is troubling that after UConn ranked among the national leaders in allowing just 29 percent of passes on 3rd down and 10 or longer to be completed in 13 games a season ago, that number jumped to 50 percent with seven of the 15 completions resulting in first downs.
Now the Huskies need to replace leading tackler Obi Melifonwu and the reliable Jhavon Williams, a pair of defensive backs with 88 career starts between them. Vanderbilt transfer Tre' Bell will be eligible to play in 2017 so that will be a huge help but it will be interesting to see if Jamar Summers plays cornerback or safety since the Huskies will be extremely inexperienced at the safety position. Senior captains Mikal Myers and Matt Walsh were two of the Huskies most physical players, so their losses need to be addressed at all.
The schedule could aid the Huskies. Houston and Navy come off of UConn's conference schedule along with Tulane. However, playing Memphis, Tulsa and Southern Methodist won't be walks in the park. The non-conference opponents (Holy Cross, Boston College, Virginia and Missouri) combined for a 16-31 record this season.


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Plant the seeds of early science discovery Unique pieces, such as an observation jar and rooting tray, encourage little green thumbs. Pots are clear for observation, and trowel is sized for little hands. Set of 12 includes 1 watering can, 1 rooting tray, 1 observation jar, 2 solid and screened lids, 3 pots, 1 trowel, 3 plant markers and 10 activity cards. Watering Can measures approx. 5" x 7.35" x 3.125".


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Allergan Successfully Completes LifeCell Acquisition
- Acquisition Creates World-Class Aesthetic and Regenerative Medicine Business in Plastic Surgery -
- Adds Immediately Accretive Revenues from Leading Accelular Dermal Matrix and Fat Grafting Products -
- Allergan to Provide Full-Year 2017 Guidance, Including LifeCell, as part of Q4/ FY 2016 Earnings Results on February 8, 2017 -
Feb 01, 2017, 07:00 ET
DUBLIN, Feb. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN), a leading global biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of LifeCell Corporation, a leading regenerative medicine company. Allergan acquired LifeCell for approximately $2.9 billion in cash.
The Company plans to provide its 2017 guidance, including LifeCell, as part of its fourth quarter and full year 2016 earnings results on February 8, 2017.
"The completion of the LifeCell acquisition is an important milestone for Allergan, serving as our entry point into regenerative medicine as we continue to add to our world-class aesthetic and plastic surgery business," said Brent Saunders, Chairman and CEO of Allergan. "The combination of LifeCell's novel regenerative medicine products coupled with Allergan's innovative medical aesthetics and plastic surgery portfolio creates a more complete product offering for plastic surgeons globally."
The acquisition adds LifeCell's novel, regenerative medicines business, including its high-quality and durable portfolio of dermal matrix products to Allergan's leading portfolio of medical aesthetic products, breast implants and tissue expanders. Together, these product lines create a world-class aesthetic and regenerative medicine business providing significant opportunity to enhance the overall product offering for plastic and general surgery customers.
The LifeCell commercial portfolio features Acellular Dermal Matrices, commonly used in breast reconstruction procedures and complex hernia surgeries. Key products include ALLODERM®, a human allograft tissue matrix used in breast reconstruction post-masectomy; and REVOLVE™, a single use high-volume fat grafting device used in plastic and reconstructive procedures. Additionally, LifeCell markets STRATTICE™, a porcine based tissue matrix used in complex abdominal wall repair and for the surgical repair of damaged or ruptured soft tissue. In addition to commercial products, Allergan has also acquired LifeCell's innovative manufacturing capabilities and its R&D operations, based in New Jersey.
About Allergan plc
Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN), headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a bold, global pharmaceutical company and a leader in a new industry model – Growth Pharma. Allergan is focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing branded pharmaceuticals, devices and biologic products for patients around the world.
Allergan markets a portfolio of leading brands and best-in-class products for the central nervous system, eye care, medical aesthetics and dermatology, gastroenterology, women's health, urology and anti-infective therapeutic categories.
Allergan is an industry leader in Open Science, the Company's R&D model, which defines our approach to identifying and developing game-changing ideas and innovation for better patient care. This approach has led to Allergan building one of the broadest development pipelines in the pharmaceutical industry with 70+ mid-to-late stage pipeline programs in development.
Our Company's success is powered by our more than 16,000 global colleagues' commitment to being Bold for Life. Together, we build bridges, power ideas, act fast and drive results for our customers and patients around the world by always doing what is right.
With commercial operations in approximately 100 countries, Allergan is committed to working with physicians, healthcare providers and patients to deliver innovative and meaningful treatments that help people around the world live longer, healthier lives everyday.
For more information, visit Allergan's website at www.Allergan.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
Statements contained in this press release that refer to future events or other non-historical facts, including with respect to Allergan's acquisition of LifeCell are forward-looking statements that reflect Allergan's current perspective of existing trends and information as of the date of this release. Except as expressly required by law, Allergan disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from Allergan's current expectations depending upon a number of factors affecting Allergan's business. These factors include, among others, the difficulty of predicting future clinical results based on prior clinical results; the timing or outcome of FDA approvals or actions, if any; successful integration of the LifeCell acquisition and the ability to realize the anticipate synergies and benefits of the LifeCell acquisition; the impact of competitive products and pricing; market acceptance of and continued demand for Allergan's and LifeCell's products; difficulties or delays in manufacturing; the ability of Allergan to complete the acquisition of LifeCell; and other risks and uncertainties detailed in Allergan's periodic public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to Allergan's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2016 (certain of such periodic public filings having been filed under the "Actavis plc" name).
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Sauerkraut Cabbage Rolls are styled after the St. Augustine Church of Waynesville Ohio, served each year at the Ohio Sauerkraut festival.
Ever since we moved to Ohio from the sunny shores of Central Florida we have been captivated by the annual Ohio Sauerkraut Festival, held the second weekend of October on Main Street in Waynesville, Ohio. It is a wonderful blend of cool weather (usually), scores of arts and crafts and the aroma of sauerkraut fills the air. What a perfect way to spend a weekend taking in the local artists offerings while having a sauerkraut specialty! To be included as a food vendor in the fair, your food must have sauerkraut in it. And that might be a tough restriction for some, but the local organizations and foodies do have a few tricks up their sleeve. So the food offerings range from Sauerkraut and cabbage rolls offered by the St. Augustine's church, sauerkraut balls, the German Sundae, sauerkraut donuts, sauerkraut pizza, sauerkraut custard pie, and even sauerkraut fudge.
Over the course of twenty some-odd years, I have tried it all.
I've not been left disappointed, in case those of you whose eyebrows raised at the mention of some of those foods may have wondered.
There are tricks to making it work. Some of them may seem like highly guarded secrets, and while you may find recipes for some of these items cited to be from the Sauerkraut festival, if you look closely, you will see that the details change from recipe to recipe, or perhaps certain things that are in there just aren't mentioned. Such is the case with the sauerkraut rolls from St. Augustine's church, which has given a general description of their cabbage rolls to the press. I've looked at those. And they don't all seem right, or even the same. Some of them describe the amounts of ingredients used for the whole festival. And believe me, if you have ever seen the line for the cabbage rolls and the crowd in the street, you do not want to do that, unless you want to eat these cabbage rolls for the rest of your life!
Hmm…that might not be such a bad thing, but we do like other foods. Right?
But I am not new to making cabbage rolls. There is a little German in me. Just a tad. And having eaten these things year after year for twenty years, I do know exactly what they taste like. And I harbor no cooking secrets, so dear friends, I offer up my discoveries to you. And truth be told, if we actually saw the real recipe from the church and compared it to this, they are not likely to be the same.
Mine are going to be better. Ha!
But I bet you can't tell the difference. And so while the Sauerkraut festival will come and go over a weekend very soon, and your cravings for cabbage rolls might remain, don't fret.
I got your back. And your recipe. Enjoy!
Makes 10-12 cabbage rolls
Serves 5-6
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 8-10 hours (crockpot/low)
- 1 pound lean GROUND BEEF
- 1 cup cold cooked long-grain RICE
- 1 medium ONION, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup MILK
- 1/2 tsp. GARLIC POWDER
- 1/2 tsp. PAPRIKA
- 1 large head CABBAGE
- 29 ounces canned SAUERKRAUT (I use snow floss), juice reserved (do not drain)
- 2 cups TOMATO JUICE
NOTE: I used the largest cabbage I could find, which makes using the cabbage leaves quite a bit easier. Of course, this may mean you will end up with extra cabbage. Might I recommend making a slaw and having Reuben Sandwiches very soon?
Placing cabbage rolls in the crock pot, getting ready to cook.
- Mix together ground beef, cold cooked rice, onion, milk, salt and pepper to taste, garlic powder, egg and paprika; set aside.
- Cut out the core of a large green cabbage. Place cabbage core side down on a plate in the microwave and nuke for about 5 minutes.
- Gently peel off several leaves intact.
- Microwave again for another five minutes to soften the cabbage further and repeat with gently peeling off leaves intact until you have 12 leaves.
- Place a half cup mixture of beef on the inside lower/thick part of the cabbage leaf and roll the thick part over the meat. Fold over the side parts of the leaf and then roll up like a burrito.
- Place 6 of these seam-side-down in the bottom of the crockpot, then top those with about half of the sauerkraut with juice from the can.
- Make 6 more rolls and add to the crockpot.
- Top that with the remaining sauerkraut (with juice) and pour the tomato juice over all.
- Cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours or until the inside of a cabbage roll reaches 160F on an instant-read thermometer.
NOTE: I used a very large oval 6-quart cooker.
If you use a smaller one, divide the cabbage rolls among two regular crock pots or cut the recipe in half.
You Might Also Like:
Homestyle Pork Roast (Slow Cooker)
Chicken and Rice Soup (Slow Cooker)
Crockpot Coca-Cola Brisket
Slow-Cooker Fiesta Chicken Sandwiches
Slow Cooker Appalachian Soup Beans


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Macquarie University Centre For Media History presents The Archaeology of Film: Towards the construction of a historical framework for early Indigenous Australian films.
Whilst considerable scholarly work is currently being conducted on contemporary Indigenous cinema, the era prior to 1970 has been largely neglected. This symposium, centered on the work of Alec Morgan, will reveal and analyse some of the surprising archival discoveries uncovered during the process of researching and building a historical framework.
Friday 14 August 2015
2.00pm Screening of Lousy Little Sixpence (directed by Alec Morgan, 1983), a seminal documentary that first revealed the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families and communities.
3.00pm Alec Morgan Q&A moderated by Tom Murray.
3.30-4.00pm Alec Morgan will outline his current research fellowship project that aims to lay the foundations for the construction of a historical context for early Indigenous films and will explore a possible methodological approach that includes the complexities inherent in such a task. During his talk, he will screen some of his visual archaeology findings unearthed in the vaults of our national archives and elsewhere.
4.00pm Drinks.
Dr Alec Morgan is a Macquarie University Research Fellow in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, specialising in Australian Indigenous film history. He is also a multi-award winning documentary filmmaker.
Dr Tom Murray is a filmmaker, and an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies.
Room 189, Building Y3A
Free, but RSVPs by 10 August 2015 essential.


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Coming to Community: Jack Black and Cheerleader UniformsMatt Richenthal at .
Community returns with more than just a new episode next week.
The hilarious NBC sitcom airs its first installment of 2010 with a special guest star: Jack Black.
The movie star portrays a flaky classmate that's been stalking Jeff and the entire clique.
"There's this awesome way we go back and show you that he's been in all of our classes," says Joel McHale. "We just didn't realize it... This character was perfect for Jack. He makes so much out of every word that it was inevitable that he'd be terrific."
As if Black's appearance (along with the typical abundance of Community quotes) isn't enough to draw you in on January 14, consider this tease: Britta in a cheerleading outfit.
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Shelving Rock Falls is a beautiful 50 foot waterfall located on the eastern shore of Lake George in the Adirondacks. The area also has several wonderful cascades, especially along the "Big Bridges" trail.
A small falls below Shelving Rock Falls
Shelving Rock Brook above the falls (Big Bridges Trail)
Shelving Rock Falls in moderate water
There are several ways to get to Shelving Rock Falls. Several trails criss-cross the area, and it can be confusing to find the right one. The falls is just a few minutes from the road. If you have a boat in Lake George, the falls can also be reached from Shelving Rock Bay.
From exit 20 of the Northway (I-87), take NYS route 149 east to the intersection with NY 9L. Here, continue straight (east) on NY 149 for 1.6 miles to Buttermilk Falls road, on the left. Turn left onto this road. After about 3 miles, the road becomes Sly Pond Road and the pavement ends. It is somewhat slow at times, but easily passable by normal cars. At 8.7 miles from NY 149, Hogtown Road comes in on the right. Continue straight, now on Shelving Rock Road. At 9.4 miles from NY 149 is the Hogtown Trailhead and parking for the Lake George Trails System. Curve left, and continue for another 3 miles, approximately, on Shelving Rock Road. The last 3 miles are fairly steep and twisty, and the road is very narrow at times, so use extreme caution in this stretch especially.
At this point, about 3 miles from the Hogtown trailhead, several parking areas are found on the left side of Shelving Rock Road. Trails lead from most of these parking turnouts to Shelving Rock Falls, the surrounding area, and the eastern shore of Lake George. It is difficult to decide which of the several parking areas provides the easiest access to the falls. However, all of the trails are easy and short.
In my opinion, the approach which provides the best combination of scenery and ease of access starts at the furthest parking area on Shelving Rock Road. A trail leads from here, slightly downhill towards Lake George. Just before the Lake, after less than five minutes, a trail turns to the left. Follow this for another minute to a bridge over Shelving Rock Brook. Cross the bridge, and again turn left, following along the stream. Another five minutes or so will bring you over somewhat rough but flat terrain to the falls.
If you end up on a trail that brings you to the top of the falls, I would not recommend crossing Shelving Rock Brook, as there is no bridge, and people have been injured here when they slipped and fell part of the way over the falls. Instead, if you do choose to head down a trail that brings you to the top of the falls, turn back, continue in your car further down the road to another parking area on the left, and give it another shot.
It it sounds confusing, don't worry. Since the area is so inviting, it is never a bad thing if you do briefly head down the wrong trail.
Shelving Rock Falls is a very beautiful falls. Water falls over the wide crest of the falls for 50 feet. The look of the falls changes considerably depending on the water level. Most times of the year, the falls is separated into 2 distinct parts. The right side consists of water fanning out into a wider band of water, while the left side has less water flowing over it in a less organized manner. In high water, the whole cliff face is covered in water. In very low water, only a little bit of water on the right side is seen.
The brook below the falls also holds some nice cascades and little falls. Be sure to walk along it and enjoy these. On your way to the falls, you'll pass a little falls on Shelving Rock Brook that is on par with the beauty of the main falls.
"Big Bridges" Trail
Another trail in the vicinity, the Big Bridges trail, starts on the right side of the road, exactly 2.6 miles from the Hogtown trailhead. There is a V-shaped beginning to this wonderful walk. The trail leads along Shelving Rock Brook, upstream from the falls. It crosses over a couple of bridges and provides views of wonderful little cascades, although there are no waterfalls. It is a pleasant walk with no real destination. Turn around whenever you feel like it, or, after almost a mile, turn left at an intersection to continue back to Shelving Rock Road in antoher mile. A left turn at the road would bring you back to your starting point in 0.4 miles.
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What keeps you resistant to making time for sabbath?
Read Chapter 8, "My Sabbath Journey (What I've Learned So Far)," For Sabbath's Sake: Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community, pp. 117-122.
Identifying Resistance
What is the area in your life in which you are the most stubborn when it comes to sabbath practices of rest, worship, and community? Why do you think that is?
Making Different Choices
In solitude, write all the excuses you use to keep yourself from practicing sabbath. What can you do to overcome these excuses in order to glean more sabbath time? What can you say "No!" to order to say "YES!" to God, yourself, and quality time with loved ones?
Calling on the Spirit
Holy God, you know us inside and out. You know all my stubborn parts. By your Spirit, move in me to let go of my excuses and lean into sabbath. Embolden me to say, "YES!" to sabbath and "No!" to those temporary things which don't quench my thirst for connection to You. Amen.
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Create a Support System
With your family, faith community, or friends, collect rocks that are large enough to write on. Wash the rocks; once they are drive, use a permanent marker to write on one side of the rock write "YES!" On the other side, write "No!" Use the rocks to discuss and practice with one another what you must say "No!" to in order to say "YES!" to sabbath practices. Consider the sabbath buddy system. Enlist the help of friends and family to gently remind you to say "YES!" to holy time each week.
Create Your Plan
Now that you understand your resistance and have a support system, you are ready to make a plan to integrate sabbath into your week. Download this guide "Leaning into Sabbath: A Plan for Changing Your Sabbath Practice."


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It would be akin to guessing how many lollies in the lolly jar, guessing how many parts are in a Cessna front seat.
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The logistics giant have teamed up with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to eventually convert 66 percent of their New York City fleet to run off electric rather than diesel.
Carlton Rose, President of the global fleet maintenance and engineering at UPS, said: "Public-private partnerships help push innovation forward and transform industries. This program will help UPS develop and deploy electric delivery trucks faster and more affordably. Because they are cleaner and quieter, electric vehicles are ideal for dense urban environments like New York City and are a critical part of our strategy for the future."
Whilst Alicia Barton, President and CEO at NYSERDA added: "This project is a prime example of the State's investment in new and innovative technology that can help us meet Governor Cuomo's nation-leading clean energy goals. I applaud UPS and Unique Electric Solutions for their leadership in developing this system that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and has tremendous potential to be used by the entire delivery industry."
The project is in support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 by replacing diesel vehicles with cleaner technology such as electric.
NYSERDA will fund the $500,000 to develop and test this conversion system. It is expected that, if all goes to plan, these will be on the streets of New York City by Spring 2018.


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For 39 years as an educator, Robert Grandt has been promoting other people's books. So this year, when his daughter helped create a graphic novel of Macbeth of which he was mighty proud, Mr. Grandt could not resist bragging a little in the newsletter he distributes as librarian at Brooklyn Technical High School.
"Best New Book: Grandt, Eve, Shakespeare's Macbeth — The Manga Edition," he wrote under the heading Grandt's Picks.
He also placed a few copies of the book at a library display table, and posted a sign: "Best Book Ever Written." If someone was interested, they got a book free.
But one person's parental pride is another panel's ethical transgression.
On Monday, the city's Conflicts of Interest Board announced it had settled a case it had brought against Mr. Grandt for promoting his daughter's work. He agreed to pay a $500 fine and admit in a three-page stipulation [pdf] that he had violated the city ethics code.
Mr. Grandt, who says he was an unwitting villain, is disappointed the board did not see things his way.
"There are so many things going on they could investigate," he said in an interview, "and they had nothing better to do than allege that my daughter would have gotten 20 cents in royalties if someone bought the book. But nobody did. I gave out free copies. I was just so proud of my daughter for writing it."
The New York City Charter warns public servants about taking actions in their official roles that benefit them personally, and the conflicts board is empowered to interpret the code and bring cases when warranted. Last week, for example, the conflicts board ruled that City Council members would not violate the charter were they to vote to extend or abolish the term limits now scheduled to remove them from office.
Mr. Grandt, on the other hand. …
"It's unbelievable,'' the 61-year-old former social studies teacher said.
Officials of the conflicts board declined to comment on their reasoning.
Mr. Grandt, one of three librarians at Brooklyn Tech, said he had donated many books to the library, including a copy of the book by his 28-year-old daughter, her first as an illustrator. The book, published in February by Wiley Publishing, is a drawn version of the Shakespeare text, an approach that, among other things, might entice young reader interest in the classics. Adam Sexton is listed as author and Candice Chow as co-illustrator.
A reviewer on Amazon wrote that the book was "far superior to Cliff Notes or the old Classic Comics" as a primer on the play.
Mr. Grandt said his daughter was paid a few thousand dollars upfront for her drawings. "There are so many good ones," Mr. Grandt said, flipping through the illustrations, some rather gory. "I like these full-page ones. They have a Gothic air to them."
Mr. Grandt said he did not envision that putting a few copies of his daughter's book on a table or promoting it in the newsletter last spring would cross the line.
"I'm supposed to, as part of my job, display new books and encourage the kids to read new books," he said. "So here, I displayed my daughter's book and encouraged the kids to read it and am told that I had done something illegal."
Trouble first surfaced in June, he said, when he was summoned to the assistant principal's office. Representatives from the city's Department of Investigation were there to ask about the book.
In August, the conflicts board sent him a letter telling him he could lose his job and have his teaching license stripped. The board wanted to impose a $1,000 fine. Mr. Grandt could not find a lawyer to represent him for less than that amount, but he and his wife, a legal secretary, were ultimately able to negotiate a lower fine.
The biggest punishment, though, according to Mr. Grandt, was feeling he had no choice but to remove the book from the school's library altogether.
"I decided not only would I take the table down, but I'd better remove the book from the catalog and take it permanently off the shelves," he said, figuring "that would be the best course of action."
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This has become an increasingly popular, and cost efficient movement. There is a plethora of resources online on how-to build your own, and where to find the materials needed to "think inside the box".
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Interview with Film Editor - Anton Short
Anton Short is a professional Film Editor with over 15 years experience cutting Features and Documentaries. He has worked for a range of well known UK film production and TV companies including the BBC, UK Film Council and Channel 4.
In the following interview Anton shares - What attracted him to editing, how he got his first job in film and his advice for students interested in pursuing an editing career.
What attracted you to editing above all other industry jobs?
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking editing is just a technical job - I think of it more as writing with pictures.
You can't substitute great scripting and direction, but ultimately the edit is where the film really gets made. You can re-order the story, change the emphasis of characters, remove or even create new scenes.
I really enjoy the process of watching the film come to life - by cutting away what doesn't work you discover new connections that really bring the film to life.
Did you attend a film school or study film at University?
I did my 'A' levels thinking I was going to be a Psychologist - but I found the course had a lot of science and research in and not enough of the human emotional side in which I was interested in. I'd taken media studies as well and got my first taste of film making - and was hooked! It was here I got to explore human emotions a lot more without having to record them all on a boring spreadsheet.
'A lot of people make the mistake of thinking editing is just a technical job - I think of it more as writing with pictures'
So I did a Degree in Film, Theatre, Television and English at the University of Ripon and York St. John. The course was 100% practical so no exams - I just got to make film and theatre which was great. It was at Uni I got my first taste for editing - and the course gave me a broad view of the world of filmmaking.
To be honest, I learned a lot more technical skills and craft skills when I left college and got my first job - but without having that overview and creative space I was allowed at Uni, I don't know if would have realised as quickly that I wanted to be an editor.
What was your very first job in film and how did you get it?
I left Uni wanting to edit and direct and I started making a short film. At the same time a friend on my course had turned down a job at a post-production house in Leeds as she was moving to London - but she had told them about me because I'd cut her film at Uni, and they offered me an interview.
I set off to catch a train to Leeds, only to realise I'd forgotten my show reel. I decided to go back, get the reel and drive Instead. I got completely lost on the cities insane one-way system and turned up for the interview about an hour late - and to make matters worse I'd parked on a meter so I told them I only had 15 minutes to chat!
'People will be a lot more interested in you if you show passion and creativity with things like a show reel'
But they really liked my show reel and in the end I got the job. I don't recommend this approach as a strategy but I do think people will be a lot more interested in you if you show passion and creativity with things like a show reel.
It was a small Post house with 2 very good TV editors, and I was a runner/assistant. I made Tea and Coffee and did lunch runs, which was great as it gave me an excuse to talk to a load of producers and directors. I also ingested footage, edited long assemblies of material, copied tapes and even got to find selections of music for the editors to choose from. They also let me cut my short film at night in the facility, so I learned how to cut on Avid very quickly.
What was your first professional paid editing job and how did you get it?
The company I was assisting for was hitting financial trouble. After I'd been working there for a year the editors left and I was offered a job as editor (for very little money). The company now focused on corporate video, so I cut promos for companies like Sharp, McCain chips and others. It wasn't very glamorous but it taught me about working under pressure to deadlines. In downtime I also invited local directors to come and cut show reels and short dramas.
'Editing software is so cheap now (some is free) that you can keep cutting - even if its just home videos or whatever to start with, the more you practice the better you'll get'
One day I turned up at work to find nobody there. I went upstairs to the manager's office to be told the company had gone bust - and I wasn't going to get paid for the month either. I went outside for a breath of fresh air and the phone rang - it was one of the directors who had cut their reel with me - they offered me an editing job on a TV gardening series. That became my first freelance job - and I've been freelance ever since (15 years and counting!).
The first paid Drama role was editing short films for Screen Yorkshire, what was then the Yorkshire branch of the UK Film Council. I'd kept applying for stuff and they got me involved in some of their funded short films. It was a lot of fun and The contacts I made there helped me get my first feature film many years later.
What film projects are you working on right now?
Right now I'm about to edit a Drama/Documentary series for CNN called American Dynasties : The Bushes. Which follows the lives of George Bush & his Dad and how their family helped them get into power. Last Year I did the Kennedy's narrated by Martin Sheen. I really enjoy the mix of archive and drama making it fit seamlessly together. My last two feature film Docs The Banksy Job and Iron Men are out now on iTunes.
What tips would you give to those interesting in pursuing an editing career?
Firstly I'd say edit whatever and whenever you can. Editing software is so cheap now (some is free) that you can keep cutting - even if its just home videos or whatever to start with, the more you practice the better you'll get.
I think success comes from a combination of who you know AND what you know - so if you get a job running or assisting use it to get to know directors and editors in their downtime (remember if their busy don't be annoying them....) but also keep cutting stuff - you'll meet other young creatives who'll want to make films so keep honing your skills even if it means working in the evenings (It WILL mean working in the evenings).
And finally I'd say - and forgive me for being a bit cheesy - believe in yourself. I spent weeks of my life making so many short films only to hide them away because they weren't 'perfect'. I wish I'd had pushed them a lot harder than I did - they were much better than I gave them credit for.
You have to be able to take a lot of criticism in this job - you'll constantly have to adapt the film based on notes given by producers and executives - and it's important to listen to it and learn from it. But ultimately, people will hire you because they will value your creative input. so have faith in yourself and the rest will follow!
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Differentiation teaching
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Prepare a lesson framework for a content area of your choice. Include the background of the students, goals of the lesson, assessments you will use, and at least three (3) instructional strategies reflective of differentiated instruction that you will include in the lesson. You may present the information in a format of your choice. Describe in detail the strategies that you will use and appropriate links of reference.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 2, 2020, 12:27 am ad1c9bdddf
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Think of high school students in language arts.
This is a standard-level course, with students ranging from significantly below grade-level (5th, 6th grade reading) to average reading level (8th-9th grade) to a few advanced level students). This is a diverse group racially, with predominantly African American and Hispanic students, with a few White students as well.
Core: Language Arts/Reading
Content: Reading/Understanding Informational Texts (nonfiction).
My goals/objectives for students are:
1) SWBAT read an informational text and comprehend the main idea; prove via multiple-choice assessment, logical responses to class discussion, and written responses to detailed questions;
2) SWBAT identify and describe how details in the informational text support the main idea;
3) SWBAT generate an author's purpose as to why he/she wrote the text.
Assessments I will use include:
1) Formative markup of the texts (grading students on whether they use highlighting of key phrases/words/terms, and whether they chunk each paragraph into ...
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Differentiation teaching is explicated.