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Top seeds Vaishnavi, Hana sail into second round
Mumbai - The top two seeds Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy of India and Hana Mortagy of Egypt in the girl's category sailed into the second round of the ITF-CCI Junior Boys' & Girls' under-18 Tennis Championship.
Top-seeded Sri Vaishanavi strolled past unseeded Sruta Kirti Gunuganti, also from India, winning in a canter at 6-2, 6-3 while second seed Hana enjoyed a much relaxed time in getting past India's Serah Menezes 6-1, 6-2 at the Cricket Club of India courts Tuesday.
In the boy's competition, fifth seed Timur Khabibulin of Kazakhstan had an easy ride past India's Rishab Dev winning by a comfortable 6-1, 6-2 verdict.
Meanwhile in an all-India contest, Gnana Bhaskar staged a great recovery after losing the opening set without winning a point to script a 0-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory against Sharvil Nawghare.
Results – Girl's singles (First round): Vaishanavi Peddi Reddy (Ind) beat Sruta Kirti Gunuganti (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Yuchia Chen (Tpe) beat Riyaa B. Vardhaan (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Hana Mortagy (Egy) beat Serah Menezes (Ind) 6-1, 6-2; Zeel Desai (Ind) beat Bharthi Bylapudi (Ind) 6-0, 6-2; Snehal Mane (Ind) beat Aboli Goghari (Ind) 6-0, 6-3; Vasanti Shinde (Ind) beat Devanshi G. Bhimjiyani (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Treetha Iska (Ind) beat Aayshuree Narendra Bildhaiya (Ind) 6-0, 6-3; Mihika Yadav (Ind) beat Raveena Reddy Somannagari (Ind)6-3, 6-1; Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (Ind) beat Isha Budwal (Ind) 6-3, 6-4; Mahitha Dadi Reddy (Ind) beat Ramya Natrajan (Ind) 6-2, 6-4; Pranjala Yadalapalli (Ind) beat Aastha Dargude (Ind) 6-1, 6-2.
Results – Boy's singles (First round): Ansu Bhuyan (Ind) beat Jayesh Pungliya (Ind) 0-6, 6-3, 6-1; Timur Khabibulin (Kza) beat Rishab Dev (Ind) 6-1, 6-2; Aditya Deswal (Ind) beat Dhir Gala (Ind) 6-1, 7-5.


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UK Plans To Review Copyright Laws (Yet Again), With Eye Towards Fair Use
from the well,-it's-something dept
Of course, even with this comprehensive report, the government basically ignored it, because the lobbyists worked hard to marginalize it.
With that in mind, consider me somewhat skeptical upon finding out that current Prime Minister, David Cameron, has announced similar plans for a thorough government review of copyright laws, with an eye towards greater user rights and freedoms. This comes as a surprise, since it's so rare to see any government these days talk about fixing copyright law in this manner. Also notable is that Cameron's views on this were apparently influenced by Google's founders, who pointed out that they would not have been able to start the company in the UK, due to the lack of fair use there. While Cameron's statement sounds a bit like he's just heard of fair use for the first time, it's good that he seems to appreciate it:
He said: "The service they provide depends on taking a snapshot of all the content on the internet at any one time and they feel our copyright system is not as friendly to this sort of innovation as it is in the United States.This all sounds good, but let's see what comes out in practice -- especially after the lobbyists get done trashing the concept of fair use as being somehow anti-innovation.
"Over there, they have what are called 'fair-use' provisions, which some people believe gives companies more breathing space to create new products and services."

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Workers in the European Union get at least 20.
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Canadian and Japanese employees get at least 10.
Americans get zero.
A recent study released by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows the U.S. is the only advanced economy that doesn't legally guarantee paid vacation and holiday time for workers. Without the requirement, nearly one in four Americans has no paid time off.
Of course, many employers offer paid time off as part of benefit packages to lure top talent, with CEPR, a Washington-based nonprofit, reporting private-sector workers get an average of 10 paid vacation days and six paid holidays a year.
The U.S. has been dubbed the no-vacation nation because of the lack of government-mandated paid time off, but is it really such a bad label to have?
"Considering the economic health of many of the eurozone countries and their employment record, I am mystified that we should feel obligated to compete with their vacation-day track record," says Dan Mitchell, economist and senior fellow at the Cato Institute. "There are dozens of things that affect the economy, but vacation days aren't going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back."
Research is divided when it comes to correlating paid time off with productivity levels. Germany mandates six-weeks of paid time off, but is one of the most productive nations in the world. Other experts argue that if paid time off was crucial to workers they would have demanded it by now.
What a Paid-Vacation Mandate Would Look Like
If legislation were to mandate paid time off, it would have to be at the federal level to avoid companies relocating to avoid having to offer the benefit, said Gary Burtless, an economist at the Brookings Institution.
"You could pass this kind of thing at the state level, but a lot of states would then have to worry about footloose industries — they would just move across state lines," he said.
Democratic Florida Congressman Alan Grayson introduced a bill in May that would require employers to offer at least one week of paid leave vacation a year.
"This is a matter of justice and equality for all Americans," Grayson said in a statement. "Sure, some Americans receive paid vacation leave, but an increasing number receive nothing at all — and this comes at a time when middle-class Americans are working harder than ever."
Grayson claims mandating time off would be financially beneficial for companies since it would reduce job stress, absenteeism, lost productivity and health issues, factors that cost businesses $344 billion annually.
More Time Off Means Smaller Paycheck?
As the debate surrounding the government's health-care mandate continues to swirl despite the Supreme Court upholding its constitutionality last summer, experts say a vacation mandate could curtail hiring and impact small businesses the most.
"If you are going to make it more expensive to hire workers, or a certain segment of workers, you will see fewer people get hired," says Mitchell.
He adds that small businesses and companies that rely on younger and less-experienced workers will take the biggest financial hit because that segment tends to be the ones without paid vacation days.
According to the CEPR report, 69% of workers at small businesses have paid time off compared with 86% of those working at medium and large companies. Among lower-income earners, less than half, 49%, have paid vacation time.
Bryan Capaln, professor of economics at George Mason University, says a vacation mandate might result in lower wages to help employers offset the cost.
"Employers will cut pay to adjust for the extra benefits…in the long run, workers are worse off when they have more vacation time. They would rather have the cash. Employers don't do stuff just because they can afford to do it, they do it because it's required."
Mandating paid leave wouldn't hurt employers' hiring edge, says Capaln. "If you want to lure workers, there are so many tax loopholes that employers can take advantage of, like offering free food, day care, things like that are actually considered a perk."
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Labor laws in the U.S. haven't changed significantly over the last 30 years and he says instituting a mandate would be difficult in the current political and labor environment.
"Leading up to and into the 1970s we were the world innovator in terms of demanding paid-time off, pay, private welfare benefits and worker safety, but the traditional coalition that forced labor laws has gotten weaker and diffused over the years and other personal rights issues have become more important," Burtless said.
He likens mandating vacation days with raising the minimum wage, saying the cost impact on employers would be minimal. "If we raised the minimum wage across the country, the total compensation costs for employers is usually a very tiny amount because people making the lowest wage get such a smaller proportion of the total compensation in the economy."
Vacation policies seem to be in flux at companies with some tightening the reins on policies and some becoming more flexible. Tech giant Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is known for offering first-year employees up to 15 days of paid vacation while other companies are limiting carry-over policies in the face of tight budgets.
"Over time vacation time has become less generous where I work," says Burtless. "We can carry over smaller and smaller amounts of vacation days, but most of the time we are so busy that we just end up losing them."
He adds that in Japan, it is estimated workers lose half the vacation days they are contractually-obligated to have. "Worker demand is high enough there that they are too scared to take time off, so they are essentially working some days for free."


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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Homemade Steam Buns!
When I was in the thrift store, flipping through the pages, a mouth-watering photo of some Cashew-Mushroom Steam Buns caught my eye. I always buy the frozen cabbage, mushroom, or red bean-stuffed buns at the Asian market. But they're made with nasty white flour. This recipe called for whole wheat (I would have subbed it anyway!).
Though it took FOREVER to make these last night, I wound up with 12 cute little steamed buns:
Steaming gives the dough a light, airiness that really melts in your mouth. And the filling is better than any I've had in a storebought bun. It's made from raw cashews, mushrooms, ginger, bamboo shoots, soy sauce, onion, and white wine. Here's an inside shot, though I swear it tastes better than it looks:
I wanted to give out the recipe since it's such an old cookbook, but I did a quick search and found that Sunset Vegetarian Cooking is still available on Amazon. Basically though, you make a yeasted dough and let it rise for an hour. Then you divide it into 12 balls. Roll those balls into small rounds and stuff with cashew-mushroom filling. Fold up the sides, twist the tops, and let rise another 30 minutes. Then you just steam them in a steamer basket for 15 minutes. They re-steam from the fridge or freeze wonderfully!
On the side, I made the Savory Greens Stir-fry from the Whole Foods iPhone app:
I'm always looking for new ways to cook kale, and this didn't disappoint with water chesnuts, shitake mushrooms, onion, garlic, diced tomatoes, and splashes of shoyu and mirin.
This was my first time cooking a recipe from an iPhone app, and it was very convenient. The ingredients were easy to pull up while grocery shopping, and I was able to read through the recipe at the gym, so I knew what to do as soon as I got home to work on dinner.
19 comments:
- The Voracious Vegan said...
Those steam buns look soooo good! I love snacky food like that, you can dip them in a million sauces and just devour them! The filling sounds so great. And the side of kale would be delicious and fresh. Great post!
- September 4, 2009 at 2:32 AM
- Crystal said...
The steamed buns look amazing- I just HAVE to make them for my husband, he loves those things!! Sounds like it's pretty easy too, Thanks for the idea! On to the Kale- I have never eaten it until a few years ago and I would saute it with some olive oil, garlic, salt and crushed red pepper (I'm Italian and that how my dad made all of our greens back in the day- and it worked awesomely) But now I eat it raw mostly, and I think I like it just a bit better that way. I chop it up really small with some lemon juice and olive oil... mmm. But your kale looks so yummy- I have to try something new!
- September 4, 2009 at 5:23 AM
- jessy said...
oh man, i need to get an iPhone! that's awesome that the iPhone app recipe was tasty. very cool on being able to pull up what you needed for the recipe while you shopped. i love it!
i always forget about mirin & water chestnuts - i need to remember that they're tasty additions to asiam themed yummies. kale rocks! i'm the same way, always looking for another tasty use for it.
hooray for a great thift-score! w00t! i love the cover of the sunset vegetarian cooking, too.
i think the steamed buns look super stellar, and i love that they're filled with cashews 'n mushies. mmmmmmmmmm! i've never had a steamed bun before - i think i'm gonna give them a whirl sometime & make some gluten-free ones. they look light, indeed - and oh-so yummers!
have a fantasical weekend, Bianca!
- September 4, 2009 at 6:20 AM
The buns sound like they were a lot of work, but they look totally worth it. They look perfect! They sound delicious too with the cashew-mushroom filling.
That iPhone recipe app is pretty cool.
- September 4, 2009 at 6:55 AM
- VeggieGirl said...
AWESOME buns!! Love the water chestnuts and mushroom filling.
- September 4, 2009 at 8:02 AM
- miss v said...
i totally love the steam buns... that looks great! i love old cookbooks - i have a super old new farm cookbook and some of the recipes are so retro-vegetarian. i love it!
- September 4, 2009 at 8:13 AM
- Vegan Deluxe said...
You should do a southern version of steamed buns with southern flavors for your cookbook. Not sure what that would be, but just a thought :)
- September 4, 2009 at 9:25 AM
- Jen said...
you my dear have really been crunkin' it up! what a great retro find, i heart goodwill so much.
- September 4, 2009 at 10:32 AM
- Knit-Picky Veganista said...
OH!!! - I have that cookbook in my stash - A True Classic! Whenever I look at the cover, I get all sappy likes it's an old friend come back for another visit. What I like most about Vegetarian Cookbooks is that it's rare to NOT be able to veganize a recipe.
Steamed Buns - yum.
- September 4, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- Sal said...
they are so cute and sound delish.
- September 4, 2009 at 1:36 PM
- LK Sisters said...
Never had steam buns - looks delicious, something worth trying!
- September 4, 2009 at 9:52 PM
- Celine said...
nice buns you've got there, missie.
- September 5, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Awesome recipe! It's hard to find buns or dumplings with interesting fillings.
- September 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Hey, just found your blog! Those rolls look so amazing! Though I'd probably mess them up somehow, I'm definatly gonna try making these one day!
- September 6, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- nora said...
yum! i'm sure they were delish. i love how one of your recipes was from an iphone app! what's the world coming too!?
- September 6, 2009 at 3:25 PM
- Mihl said...
I have never had any steam buns, it sounds like a great thing to try.
- September 7, 2009 at 7:41 AM
- Tiffany said...
Look at your cute buns!
My mom's sent me a ton of old Sunset cookbooks. I kinda doubt that one's in there but I'll look. Great post!
- September 7, 2009 at 11:39 AM
- T said...
There used to be a restaurant in ATL that sold vegan BBQ steam buns, and they were, without a doubt, the absolute best thing ever. But they were probably made of something terrible for you, and they stopped carrying them. :(
But anyways, these look like pretty good (and healthier) replacements!
- September 8, 2009 at 8:18 AM
- aTxVegn said...
The buns are so pretty and the filling sounds delicious!
- September 8, 2009 at 9:43 PM


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Gross Prophets
These five men are responsible for the vast majority of movie hilarity over the past thirty years. Not that anyone told their avian friends
Now, more than ever, the world is full of funny boys: Amusing themselves, as they have since time immemorial, in the backs of the classrooms across the land, disrupting office meetings with far-fetched anecdotes, cracking wise in church or temple (okay, probably temple). They're on your TV, on your YouTube, in your podcasts—hell, there may be one _in your house right now. _
But even in this over-tickled universe, the top of the funny-boy pyramid, measured by either cultural or financial impact, still belongs to those giants who make funny movies. Earlier this year, in Los Angeles, GQ convened five of the biggest for a summit: The oldest, John Landis, was a 60-year-old icon with comedic Borscht Belt roots; the youngest, Edgar Wright, a 36-year-old Brit who grew up worshipping Landis's An American Werewolf in London. The other three—Judd Apatow, Todd Phillips and Adam McKay—are only responsible for more or less defining the comic sensibility of a generation. Oh, and some two billion dollars in box office sales.
No matter. However illustrious the participants, the ancient rules of funny-boy gatherings still apply: Things will be fast, competitive, illuminating, opinionated and irreverent. And the best thing you can do is to get them talking and get the hell out of the way.
**GQ: The theme of this issue is what's never not funny. Gentlemen, go. **
**Adam McKay: **Animals. We always have animals in our movies—bears in Anchorman, a cougar in Talladega Nights, a German shepherd in Step Brothers.
**Judd Apatow: **True. Narcoleptic dog videos on YouTube: Never not funny.
**Edgar Wright: **John, I've always meant to ask you what your obsession is with gorillas. You have a lot of gorillas in your films.
**John Landis: **I do? Well, sure, I mean I guess in King Kong, Mighty Joe Young, Gorillas in the Mist….
**Wright: **Alright. I can only think of one—Trading Places. But I'm sure there are more.
**Apatow: **You had a gorilla fuck a guy in there, didn't you?
**Landis: **Yeah. In the ass. I was very pleased with that. I had final cut on that film, thank God, because when Michael Eisner and Barry Diller saw it they went nuts. Especially Barry: 'You can't have a gorilla fuck a guy in the ass!!!' My favorite thing was being able to say, 'Why not, Barry?'
**GQ: So, that's the answer? Animals? **
**Todd Phillips: **What about talking animals?
**McKay: **Ooh. Todd just found the hole in the argument. Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals—always funny.
**Phillips: **I think mishandling things is always funny. Mishandling a baby, like we did in The Hangover. It always works because people can't believe you're going there.
**Landis: **And it has everything to do with context. Anything, depending on the context, can be funny. And anything can be not funny. You know what Mel Brooks said: 'Comedy is an old lady carrying groceries, tripping, and falling into a manhole. Tragedy is me cutting myself shaving.'
[Landis's cell phone rings.]
**Landis: **Excuse me, I've got to take this.
**All Others: **Hoh!
**Apatow: **No way.
Landis: [_to phone] _No, nothing's going on, I'm totally free.
**Phillips: **Wow. Power move from Landis! Early in the roundtable! ****
**Landis: [returning to table] **That was my agent. There's an old Hollywood joke: This actor comes home to his house in Malibu and finds his wife with her dress torn and bloody on the floor. He says, 'What happened?' She says, 'Murray, your agent, he came to the house. He beat me. He raped me.' The actor says, 'Murray came to the house?!?'
**McKay: **At least his phone is old. Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny. ****
**Landis: **Hey, I've been around so long that Milton Berle showed me his cock. It was at Don Rickles's 70th birthday party and they were all doing jokes about Berle's dick because he was one of Hollywood's great studs. He had to be in his late 70s, early 80s. He just dropped his pants and did like five minutes of material.
**Apatow: **That was a different era. I've only seen Dax Shepard's cock.
**Landis: **Well, Berle's was pretty impressive. ****
**Apatow: **At that age it's not even impressive. It's just elongating from age.
**GQ: John, I think the rest of us at this table grew up with your movies—especially Animal House. Did you have a sense then that comedy could be dangerous and subversive? **
**Landis: **Dangerous? I don't know. Subversive? I hoped so. I tried. The genius of _Animal House _was Doug Kenney, who was a very brilliant, very self-destructive guy. Kenney was one of the founders of the _National Lampoon _but at some point he wanted to cash out and retire, buy a place in the Hamptons. [Publisher] Matty Simmons knew he was the brightest guy there, so he said, 'You can't leave. We're going to make a movie!' So, Doug wrote the first draft of a movie called 'Laser Orgy Girls,' which was about high school girls fucking. Matty read it and was sort of shocked. He said, 'Why don't we bring in Harold Ramis?' Their first script was about Charles Manson in high school and, actually, it was really fucking good. There was a great opening gag in which you start out outside San Quentin. The camera goes in through the window, through the walls, through the chicken wire, down into the deepest bowels of the prison. There's Manson in a straitjacket, padded cell, swastika carved in his forehead, and he looks up and says, 'Is it hot in here, or am I crazy?'
**McKay: **For me the biggest thing about Animal House was it was one of the first times a comedy had the balls to play it straight. Yes it was subversive, but the score was straight. Same with The Blues Brothers: It's an action film where people do get hurt and cars crash. All that stuff's played real. And at the same time there's stuff like, 'D'you get my Cheez Whiz, boy?'
**Landis: **I do think the biggest things about Animal House were the score and the photography. I wanted it gritty and dark. You asked about danger. I'll tell you one more true story: When I showed the movie to Ned Tanen, the president of Universal, for the first time, he stopped the movie after the black bar scene, actually stopped the projector, and stormed out. A little bit later we get a memo that we have to cut the whole road trip to the bar. 'There'll be riots! There'll be riots!' So we showed the movie to Richard Pryor. And Richard sent a hand-written note, on blue stationery: 'Ned, Animal House is fucking funny and white people are crazy.—Richard.' And _that's _the only reason we were able to finish the film. ****
**GQ: Now, do you think that there's any comedy that's still that dangerous? Or is the audience too clued in now? **
**Phillips: We all work for corporations and they have a big say in what the culture is. If you watch the first season of _Saturday Night Live **_there are an enormous number of sketches that they would not allow you to do today. Or a movie like Blazing Saddles. Or _All in the Family—_that was stunning to watch. Every episode was like a hardcore issue.
**Landis: **They'd never allow any of it now. Never allow it!
**Apatow: **Maybe I just don't go in that direction, but it feels like audiences' tastes have changed, too. They want empty calories. If _All in the Family _worked better than American Idol, it would be on the air.
Landis: In the end, if you make money, you get to do what you want. I got to do _Blues Brothers _because _Animal House _and _The Kentucky Fried Movie _made so much money. I got to make An American Werewolf in London because _Blues Brothers _made so much money. Everything was great until I made my first failure, and then I was a war criminal.
**Wright: **_The Kentucky Fried Movie! _I knew there was another gorilla.
**GQ: It sounds like you're all saying you can't make the movies you want to make. **
**Phillips: **No! I have the same taste as the audience. I'm retarded too!
**GQ: But, Adam, your political columns for The Huffington Post have way sharper teeth than any of your movies—even the show you did with Will Ferrell,_ You're Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush,_ on Broadway. **
**McKay: **Well, if you look at the show, I think the actual points were all pretty teethy. The trick was that you can't really be mean to George Bush because he's not a villainous character—he's a schlub. Dick Cheney is the villain. George Bush is a 12-year-old. He's Borat; he just doesn't get it. As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom. You know UCB co-founder Ian Roberts once said that comedy is the only art form where you have to have a bodily response—other than porn. ****
**Landis: **Excuse me, speaking as a 'Master of Horror,' I have to disagree.
GQ: Good point. Sitting here with the directors of both An American Werewolf in London and Shaun of the Dead, I have to ask: Is there an organic link between horror and comedy?
**Wright: **Absolutely. In horror you even use the word 'gags' for shocks. If you look at a John Carpenter film, the shocks are composed and timed exactly the same as a gag in a Zucker Brothers film. They're pie-in-the-face moments. By the way, has anybody seen the film The Human Centipede? ****
**Landis: **I have. Weird film. Not funny.
**Phillips: **There _is _a different kind of danger that I think certain guys still embody. I think Sacha Baron Cohen embodies it. Will Ferrell is like that. Zach Galifianakis, who I've been working with, is a really dangerous guy. Maybe not literally dangerous, but the audience sits there and has no idea where they're going to go next.
**Landis: **What I loved about The Hangover is that Zach's character is obviously mentally ill. I loved that he roofied them and they sort of get over it. They're not mad at him. It reminded me of John Belushi in Animal House. All he does is destroy everything—but he's lovable! It's like Cookie Monster or Harpo Marx. I mean what the fuck's with Harpo Marx? He's the weirdest character ever. What's he going to do with those women when he catches them? ** **
**Apatow: **He's gonna gently make love to them. ****
McKay: That's the Third Lead, which is the best comic position you can have. Todd used Ferrell like that in _Old School. _We had it with Steve Carell in _Anchorman. _It's the guy who gets to break all the rules. He has no story responsibility. He just gets to fuck shit up.
**Phillips: **What's interesting about all of those guys—Belushi included—is that they have this face—a kind of sweetness to them. It's like they could say or do anything because their eyes are really innocent. Zach had this line in The Hangover where he says he's not allowed within 200 feet of a school. Zach and I talked about that line a lot and, you know, it's not because of what you think. It's because he wants to hang out and skateboard with the 12-year-olds. ****
**GQ: All of you have longtime collaborations with particular actors. What's that relationship like? **
**Apatow: **I've always thought that Seth Rogen was just a much more interesting variation of how I wanted to be when I was performing. I met him at 16, his first audition, and it was like he was built for comedy. The voice, the cadence, it was all there. Guys like him, or Paul Rudd, or Adam Sandler: They're what I wish I was like but am not.
**McKay: **When I was at SNL, I had done Second City and all this other performing. But, fuck, every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
**GQ: When your actors work with other directors, does it feel like they're cheating on you? **
Landis: I just did a movie with Simon Pegg. I asked how Edgar's move was going and he said, 'Oh. We don't talk. We're seeing other people.' ****
GQ: It doesn't bug you that they get all the laughs?
**McKay: **I always give myself a little part in every movie. Todd had a great cameo in the _The Hangover. _
**Phillips: **I'm going down on a girl in an elevator. Nobody does that. Everybody gets blow jobs in elevators but nobody…
**Landis: **Wait, everybody gets blow jobs in elevators!?! I didn't know that.
**Phillips: **Well, you're older than us. ****
**GQ: Are you always comfortable letting actors improvise? **
**McKay: **There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
**Landis: **It used to make me nuts, when I was younger, when I'd read stuff about improvisation. I'd go, 'I wrote that! I wrote every fucking word!' But I realized later that, no, it's a compliment to the actors. There was a lot in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, wasn't there?
**Apatow: **Yeah, well the movie was Carell's idea and he's just so ridiculously strong at improvising. He could literally go all day, making up fake sex stories from a virgin. It would be ridiculous not to have taken advantage of it. But when we made Superbad, Jonah [Hill] insisted it was very heavily improvised. Finally we said, 'Let's look at the script and highlight every improvised line in the movie.' It was so little that it was crazy.
**Phillips: **But that's a credit to how comfortable Jonah felt on the set. I can only speak to what Adam and Judd do, because we've talked before, but there's a looseness to the way we do this. It's never like, 'Stand here. Say this line.' I just finished working with Robert Downey Jr.. He just rips up the script at the beginning of each day and says, 'What are we really going to do? Wouldn't it be fun if we were over there instead of here?' And I go, 'Yeah! Let's fucking do that.'
**Landis: **But what if he's wrong? ****
**Phillips: **Well, then I would tell him. I'm just saying there's a looseness and a fluidity. It's not math, it's jazz. There is no formula. You prepare for total chaos.
**Wright: **When I started in television, it quickly became clear that I could control the actors through the transitions between scenes. Like, 'This has to be the last line because the first line of the next scene is this.' It's a way to give performers some kind of rope but the start is the start, the middle is the middle, and the end is the end. In a way, it's a kind of OCD thing I'd like to break out of. I think it's one of the reasons my films are less successful. ****
**Apatow: **No, they're just better. I watch Edgar's movies and I think, 'Shiiiit. He knows what he wants to do.' It's this precise visual style that I'm certainly not capable of and never will be.
**McKay: **Yeah, man, don't listen to us at all. Keep doing what you're doing.
**GQ: Who has the best actor horror story? **
**Landis: **My favorite is about Chevy Chase, on _Three Amigos! _He had terrible back problems then, so he was on Percodan, overweight, and you just can't compete with Marty [Short] and Steve [Martin]. We'd been shooting for a month in the Arizona desert and I had all of them on horses, held by Teamsters, in their ridiculous outfits. I say, 'Okay, let's run through this,' and Chevy suddenly says, 'Wait, wait. This line is so fucking stupid! My character would have to be an idiot, a moron, to say this!' I looked up at him, in that sombrero, and all I could think was, What movie has Chevy been making for the last month? I said, 'Chevy, your character is a moron.' And he just lost it.
**GQ: 'Lost it' as in laughing? **
**Landis: **Angry. Screaming. Furious. I said to Steve, 'You wrote this. Is Chevy's character a moron?' He looked at me and then turned to Chevy: 'Well. He's not a moron. But…he's…not…bright.' I said, 'Don't worry about it. Marty will say the line.' 'Why is Marty going to say it?' 'Because it's a laugh line, Chevy.' He says, 'I'll say the fucking line!' The crew absolutely cracked up. We couldn't get the shot for like six minutes. ****
**GQ: Any other terrible stories? **
**Phillips: **We usually work with our friends, so it's never that bad. We just go to work and try to make each other laugh. I wake up every morning and say, 'I want to make Zach laugh today.' And he does the same thing, and Ed Helms does the same thing. We just try to crack each other up.
**GQ: Have any of you ever seen a Tyler Perry movie? **
[beat of silence]
**Landis: **I've seen all of them. ****
**GQ: And are they funny? **
**Landis: **That's not fair. Tyler Perry makes movies for a niche market. There was a time when if you made a movie about gay men for a certain budget you could always make money. There was the blaxploitation period. People forget that Flip Wilson was a black man in drag—and massively funny.
**Wright: **In my defense, those films aren't released theatrically in the U.K.
**Apatow: **We'll make sure to send you the DVDs. ****
**GQ: All of you seem to make films that are about male friendship. Why is that always funny? **
**Phillips: **There's an awkwardness to the heterosexual male relationship that we all find funny. Girls can hug and kiss each other and be really warm, but there's nothing funnier than two guys trying to give each other a hug.
**McKay: **I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.
**Wright: It's interesting that they say Brno **turned people off because it had too much homosexual content, because you can get away with a lot of affection in a love story between two men. Somebody said that Shaun of the Dead was a romantic comedy between two guys and I was happy with that. And Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are like literally a married couple. They used to sleep in the same bed. ****
**Apatow: **Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg admitted that when they lived together they would time out their masturbation. They'd say, 'Let's go out in a half-hour,' and then walk like eight feet apart, with a wall between them, and whack off. That's really as close as you can get to romantic togetherness. All movies have that sexual tension. It's all _Midnight Cowboy. _
Landis: Seriously, there's nothing in movies that wasn't done by 1922.
**GQ: Edgar, I think we all grew up influenced by Monty Python and that generation of British comedy. What's the current state of the English/American exchange? **
**Wright: **When I first came to the States in 1998, the only things people would mention were Python and Benny Hill. I honestly got in a cab where the guy said, 'Do you know Benny Hill?' But there's lots of British comedy that wouldn't exist without Christopher Guest. Ricky Gervais has said _The Office _wouldn't exist without Spinal Tap. When Simon and I did Spaced, it was an attempt to do a live-action The Simpsons.
**GQ: Looking at the past ten years or so, it seems like we've come through the gross-out comedy phase, we've been living with the bromances; do you have any sense of what's coming next? **
**Wright: **The thing is, comedy is so cyclical. You want to do something new and break ground, but you're also thinking back to the thrill of the things you grew up on. Every five or ten years, a certain kind of comedy flatlines and somebody comes along to drop a big stone in the pond.
**GQ: Do you resent the pressure to do a sequel once anything becomes successful? **
**Landis: **There's nothing wrong with sequels and remakes. It's why they do them. It has to do with name recognition and marketing. I had breakfast with a Warner Bros. ecutive in London, to discuss a project, and he said, 'Well, it all depends on who's attached.' Because it's not about directors. It's not about scripts. It's just about actors. I said, 'Wait a minute. You just had a huge international hit with _The Hangover. _Where's the star in
that?' And he said, totally without irony, 'Yeah, isn't that great? Now we have three people we can hang movies on.'
**Phillips: **And that came, quite honestly, from Jack Black backing out of a movie I was doing. I thought, 'Fuck this fucker. I'm going to make a new Jack Black out of Zach Galifianakis.' I took nothing for that movie. Zero dollars. I just wanted to create a new Jack Black. ****
**GQ: Todd, it seemed like The Hangover had a chance to be nominated this year. **
**Phillips: **No, no.
GQ: Well, especially since they expanded to 10 nominees, supposedly to reward big box-office successes.
**Phillips: **They did: District 9…
**GQ: But that wasn't a comedy… **
**Apatow: **Um, have you seen his car? He was rewarded.
GQ: Judd, did you feel smacked around when you tried to step outside pure comedy with Funny People?
**Apatow: **No. I felt it was just a very intense subject, talking about how people deal with terminal illness.
**Landis: **I was very disappointed that he didn't die.
**Apatow: **A lot of people felt that way.
**Landis: **I thought the movie was terrific, but then I thought, you're cheating! A happy fucking ending!?! ** **
**Apatow: **The funny part is, lots of people didn't see it as a happy ending. A lot of people were disturbed that he didn't change at all.
**GQ: With so many ways to get seen—like Funny or Die, which you helped launch, Adam—have we reached the end of an era when live performance was a mandatory comedy rite of passage? **
**McKay: **I'd say it's the opposite, because TV has gotten so much more fractured and disparate. When we did that live show on Broadway, it felt like a real event. And there's great stuff like the Upright Citizens Brigade.
**Landis: **As an actor you still need it, to get your chops. That's what was so weird about Eddie Murphy, he came out fully formed. I mean, he did stand-up for maybe six months and then walked onto SNL at 18 and was dazzlingly funny.
**GQ: So, what happened? **
**McKay: **He started working with talking animals.


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Lives of Illustrious Men – Mark, the Evangelist
Mark the disciple and interpreter of Peter wrote a short gospel at the request of the brethren at Rome embodying what he had heard Peter tell. When Peter had heard this, he approved it and published it to the churches to be read by his authority as Clemens in the sixth book of his Hypotyposes and Papias, bishop of Hierapolis. Peter also mentions this Mark in his first epistle, figuratively indicating Rome under the name of Babylon "She who is in Babylon elect together with you saluteth you and so doth Mark my son." So, taking the gospel which he himself composed, he went to Egypt and first preaching Christ at Alexandria he formed a church so admirable in doctrine and continence of living that he constrained all followers of Christ to his example. Philo most learned of the Jews seeing the first church at Alexandria still Jewish in a degree, wrote a book on their manner of life as something creditable to his nation telling how, as Luke says, the believers had all things in common at Jerusalem, so he recorded that he saw was done at Alexandria, under the learned Mark. He died in the eighth year of Nero and was buried at Alexandria, Annianus succeeding him.


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It's frequently said that cybersecurity is an arms race, with defenders constantly adapting to attackers, and attackers finding ways to better evade their target's defenses.
For malware in 2012, the analogy is an apt one. Malicious programs continually evolved in 2012, whether using new technical approaches to infection, novel business models, or demonstrating the vulnerability of areas thought unrelated to cybersecurity. Flashback demonstrated that the Mac OS X had become a viable target for cybercriminals, while the Blackhole Exploit Kit refined the crime-as-a-service business model.
Malware also became a tool of nations in 2012, in many cases aimed at gathering intelligence in the Middle East. While previous years had hinted that nation-states would develop malware as one weapon in their arsenal, half of this year's list of malware was used for political aims. The Da Vinci Trojan illustrated that governments had taken to buying malware for surveillance, while Flame and Gauss hinted at what well-funded adversaries could accomplish. Many other malicious attacks had political aims, even if they were not carried out by governments, says Liam O Murchu, manager of operations for Symantec's security response group.
"We are seeing different motivations coming into play -- that is, revenge or hacktivism," Murchu says. "We don't see the attacks done for as much of a profit motivation, but for political reasons."
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Five days a week, the indefatigable restaurateur whose name customers often shorten to Sue, or Ms. Sue, comes downstairs.
Five days a week, she makes the usual preparations, the kitchen on the floor below where she lives clangs to life, a door is unlocked, and the Little Tea Shop waits for first-timers and hungry regulars to make their way inside, past a large sign out front that greets passers-by with a photo of owner Suhair Lauck.
In the photo she's smiling, and the sign reads, "I'm waiting for you."
It's another day in the life of a symbol of the country's entrepreneurial heartbeat; that symbol being the small-business owner. This particular proprietor is the heart and soul of a 95-year-old Downtown Memphis institution that her late husband bought 31 years ago.
The summer heat is a particular nuisance today. Inside, an oscillating fan whirs to the left of the front counter where Lauck greets entrants from her familiar spot, wearing her familiar uniform – a ball cap, an apron tied around her waist and a smile.
There's a predictable ebb and flow to life inside the eatery. At any given moment, Lauck is a force in motion even when standing still. She greets customers and directs them to tables. She disappears at times into the kitchen.
Lauck wipes tables, flits from diner to diner, pausing to add unseen sums in her head.
"You stay as long as you want. Why are you running off?" Lauck coos to one guest making their way up front to pay.
To another, she promotes her beloved Downtown: "You need to come back on Saturdays," she says, as they pay for their meal at the cash register. "We have a farmers market at the train station. It is absolutely, positively breathtaking. The flowers, the honey, the vegetables. Yes, I'll be there Saturday."
Today is payday. Employees with questions or something to say approach Lauck with a kind of tentative, respectful hesitancy.
All at once, it seems, the lunch rush is upon her and the staff. The Tea Shop is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., just for lunch, five days a week, a total of 15 hours a week.
The diners are here for what draws them every day – the old-fashioned cooking, with a side dish of Southern hospitality. Today's menu includes turnip greens, fried catfish filet and chicken smothered with gravy.
The basket of cornbread sticks is a staple that doesn't change, even though each day's menu does.
Eventually, nearly every seat in the house is taken. Regulars include judges, lawyers and bankers, plus tourists and members of the general public.
They push open a front door festooned with posters, including one from Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s previous political campaigns on which he's scrawled: "To Sue, thanks for believing in me. March 2002."
A customer from a table near the front register calls out to Lauck, appearing to have some degree of familiarity with her, and asks for change for a $10.
"I had someone a little while ago who asked, 'How old are you, Ms. Sue?'" Lauck recounts, in between what appear to be tasks on a mental list she's constantly whittling down.
She feigns exasperation, with a smile.
"I said, 'How dare you ask a woman that!' He said, 'Are you 60?' I said, 'I'll take it.'"
A portrait on one of the restaurant's walls depicts a group of businessmen seated in rows, staring at the viewer. They were part of a group that once met around the restaurant's so-called "cotton table" every day for lunch.
Cotton is a symbol of the restaurant's history that grounds it in both the here and now and in a bygone era. Patrons once were given cotton bolls as mementos.
Some of the restaurant's patrons, particularly of the power lunch crowd, have been rewarded for their patronage by having dishes named after them. Others have their images adorning the walls, which are covered with photos and images of guests and with messages from visitors.
A license plate reading "T SHOP" hangs on one wall. On another wall are old collections of Memphis Bar Association members. Near the front is a life-sized cutout of Elvis Presley, with a speech bubble attached to his face making him appear to say, "I just had the best lunch in town."
The Tea Shop is many things, including a kind of unofficial political hub. That includes the notable guests who eat there regularly, and Lauck's unofficial work behind the scenes.
There was the time, for example, she'd heard former Shelby County Mayor Jim Rout announce he would not seek re-election. Lauck said she urged Wharton, now the city mayor, to run for the job.
She put up a handmade sign in her restaurant behind the cash register in support of Wharton before he even entered the county race. She plugged him heavily until he won.
He later made a proclamation in honor of the restaurant's 22nd anniversary, noting that "some of the most important business negotiations and deals that affect the health and well-being of our county are conducted over the best food in the entire region."
The Little Tea Shop has a regular daily menu, with specific entrees offered on certain days of the week. Customers fill out their own menus at the table, checking off the items they want.
"How are you, hon'," Lauck greets one patron. To another, as they pay for their meal, "Thank you. God bless you."
"If I didn't love it, I wouldn't be here," Lauck said. "This is my therapy."
The reference to a kind of therapy and the quiver in her voice she tries to hide are in memory of her late husband James "Jimmy" Lauck. He's the one who bought the Tea Shop and then asked "Sue" to run it.
He died last summer.
Look close, and Lauck still gives the impression – despite her public face – that some piece of her is missing.
When asked about her weekend plans, she simply explains that weekends don't excite her anymore. Running the restaurant is "therapy."
"After …" her voice catches. "My husband, God rest his soul, I found a beautiful letter from him. It said, Sue, you have so many friends. … They'll want to help you. Let them help you.
"So many people were coming to me afterwards offering to help, to clean, to freshen up. I asked myself, what would Jimmy say? He'd say, let them. So I said yes. I can't describe how good it felt."
She let friends come into the restaurant and move pictures and clean them. They painted and gave the Tea Shop a bit of polishing.
"What can I say? I'm blessed. I love the restaurant," Lauck said. "I live above the restaurant, so it's an easy commute. No way to be late."
Another kind of "therapy" for her is going to sporting events like Memphis Grizzlies games. Events like that, where she can scream with the rest of the crowd, are where she "gets all the negative energy out."
Speaking of the Grizzlies and former coach Lionel Hollins, who was not brought back after his contract expired at the end of the season: "I miss Coach Hollins. He was a friend. But I'm optimistic about the new people they've brought in."
Lauck is a Downtown booster in both an official and unofficial capacity. Regarding the former, she's currently a member of the Center City Commission's Design Review Board.
When asked what she loves most about her job, she shoots back immediately – "The customers."
"I tell people, I'm traveling around the world. I meet people from all over," Lauck said.
She's had people come from as far away as Australia and New Zealand. Elvis Week is another example – "I've got regulars," she says, "who I can count on seeing once a year, that week."
Not long after closing time, the hum of activity and voices begins to ebb. One by one, employees approach her, say their goodbyes. Some exchange a hug with her. Others, a few friendly remarks, a smile and a wave.
Lauck makes her way outside. The restaurant's clock has said it's time to stop, but she never does.
She scans the street. She scoops up the odd piece of trash. She greets passersby.
The sight of a bench outside makes her pause. She and her late husband used to sit here and try to slow down, if for a little while. A plaque on it now reads: "Jimmy's bench."
She heads back inside. Come Monday, she'll do it all again.
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This guide is part two of two (due to a character limit). The first part of this guide is available here.Temple of Godcat
Once we enter the Temple of Godcat we can find a Spark Wraith block our access to a treasure chest. Let's clear him out. The first wave includes three Haunted Trees and a pair of Spark Wraiths. The Wraiths will use Electric and Dark attacks. Their melee deals about 1000 damage and their Electric attacks deal only a measly 1500. The second wave contains three more Spark Wraiths and two Mad Cacti. After the battle, we can collect More >


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Pinarello Dogma K8S
The Pinarello Dogma K8S certainly caught my eye while surfing my usual big wave internet breaks the other day; but it wasn't just the black & red carbon frame with Campy Record that drew me in. If you're like me, the first thing you noticed on this bike is the soft tail style suspension unit at the top of the seat stays.
When seeing this, I immediately thought of the Castellano Fango – one of the first hardtails I'd ever seen back in 2001 or 2002. The idea behind this is simple: dampening vibrations and isolating the rider from rough terrain will save energy. Energy saved means you can ride faster…at least in theory. Plus, this added suspension only increases the frames overall weight by 95 grams – not bad if you ask me.
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Urban commoners in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan, known as the Floating World, enjoyed a hedonistic lifestyle that included the pleasure of the companionship of pet animals. Many woodblock prints of fashionable beauties show them accompanied by elegant, pampered pets that symbolize luxury and sensuality. Formerly a prerogative of the nobility, pets were now available to newly affluent commoners as well.
Cats and small dogs were especially favored as indoor pets, but monkeys, mice, fish, birds, and even singing insects were also cherished. Meanwhile, on the streets and in the countryside, dogs were beloved pets of both children and adults. Traveling entertainers presented acts by trained monkeys in costumes, and artists sometimes drew humorous fantasy scenes of animals engaged in human activities.
Not just for animal lovers, "Cats to Crickets" will also appeal to those interested in early modern Japanese popular culture and fine printmaking.


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The storm roared through Fox Valley around 2 a.m. Saturday. I know this because my ambient white noise machine turned deadly silent as thunder baritoned overhead and rain bucketed the windows.
I tried shutting the deluge out with earplugs, but nothing could stop the sump pump battery's wail of distress, as impossible to ignore as our dog Chewball whining for his fourth dinner.
Grabbing a flickering flashlight left over from the '50s, I stumbled downstairs and opened the tiny closet door to find under a gauze of spiderwebs, the battery's control box lit up with more red lights than downtown St. Charles' intersections.
"EEEEEEEE…," it said.
I pushed "RESET," expecting the battery and I would go back to sleep.
"EEEEEEEE…," it continued.
Naturally, I pushed "RESET" again, like the battery might have thought I was just kidding the first time.
"EEEEEEEE…," it persisted.
At this point I wished I had an advanced degree in electrical engineering, or at least had taken the time to read the manual, which I'd put in a place for safekeeping so I'd have it in time of emergencies, meaning I had a zero chance of finding it now, in an emergency.
For the next half-hour, I tried everything short of hugging the crybaby to appease it. My wife, Tia, even called the fire department, translating their Dr. Phil reality check as, "You're at the mercy of the storm."
I finally gave up and patted our basement's four walls, now the sole dam protecting my 4,000 books from mold. When I finally got back to sleep, I dreamt our house went floating past Eagle Brook.
As I agonized over sump pump failure, the storm was squashing Don and Ellen Ljung's Geneva Arts Fair tent better than a Godzilla footprint. They received the news at 8 a.m. Saturday. Arriving on the Third Street scene, Don saw the crushed tent and was ready to pack it in and go home to Mill Creek.
That's when the rescuers stepped in.
"Everyone was wonderful," Ellen said later in front of their sparkling new white tent walls, an ideal backdrop for their stunning glass artwork. "Especially the potters."
"Anyone lucky enough not to have damage went around to others," mustachioed, tattooed potter Glenn Woods said. "It was the least we could do."
He and his business partner, Keith Herbrand, the "Pottery Boys" (PotteryBoys.com), helped them buy a tent nearby, allowing "DonEllen's" pieces (DonellenDesigns.com) to look good as a King Tut display by 11 a.m., only an hour after opening.
In other words, the Ljung's competitors made it happen for them. Why can't these personal miracles take root in Washington, D.C.? It makes a guy think that artists, not politicians, should be running the country.
I learned my lesson. Next time a storm takes out my sump pump battery, I'm calling the nearest neighbor with a pottery wheel.
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Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Derby Winner?
Jim Chairusmi joins Lunch Break to explain why the outcome of the Kentucky Derby is unusually hard to predict. Photo: Getty Images.
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Tuesday, Nov. 29
at Belleville West
Vandalia 38
Belleville 37
•106 – Ryne Lipsey lost by fall at 0:25
•113 – Belleville won by forfeit
•120 – Belleville won by forfeit
•126 – Tyler Dagen won by fall at 3:00
•132 – Ben Davis lost by fall at 3:40
•138 – C.J. Runkel won by fall at 1:59
•145 – Dalton Blankenship won by fall at 1:40
•152 – Blake Cripe lost, 11-0
•160 – Daniel Edwards won, 11-9
A ribbon-cutting and the first races will be held at the finish line of the new track at Vandalia Community High School on Friday, Dec. 9, at 4 p.m.
At the event, an unofficial 400-meter dash will be held for both boys and girls.
The top-seeded Brownstown Junior High seventh-grade girls basketball team last Tuesday won a regional championship by defeating No. 3 Altamont, 32-22, at the Class 7-2A regional in Beecher City. Brownstown played Oblong at the Albion sectional on Wednesday night.
South Central senior Emily Atwood will be a rival to a former teammate next season.
By signing a letter of intent to play volleyball for John A. Logan Community College last Tuesday, Atwood will be joining the Great Rivers Athletic Conference next fall, which also includes Lake Land Community College, the chosen school of fellow SCHS senior Kinzie Neilson.
The long-time friends won't let that get in the way of their friendship, however, and South Central coach Mary Brimberry said that Atwood should be successful at the college level.
FARINA – The seniors stepped up to get the lead, and the young buck made the plays to put the game away for St. Elmo in double-overtime on Tuesday.
Seniors Blaine Scholes and Ben Sperry combined to make 4-of-5 free throws in the first 30 seconds of the second overtime period, and sophomore Levi Maxey then recorded a 3-pointer, steal and layup in a span of 14 seconds to bump St. Elmo's lead to seven during a 53-50 season-opening win on Tuesday.
In years past, the Vanderbilt University bowling team has dominated the Hawk Classic held in Millsboro, Del.
This year was no different. Vandalia grad Jessica Earnest, a Vanderbilt bowler, bowled in four games of the tournament, including the final head-to-head matchup against Fairleigh- Dickinson University. Vanderbilt won convincingly, earning a 4-2 victory.
Brownstown had the best finish among area teams at the Ramsey/Mulberry Grove Super Turkey Tournament last week.
The Bombers finished 2-2 to place fourth at the tournament, earning wins against Mulberry Grove and Odin and losing to Sandoval in pool play and Christ Our Rock, 50-47, in the third-place game.
Sandoval was the eventual tournament champion, defeating Cowden-Herrick in overtime, 75-66.
Mulberry Grove defeated Patoka, 45-39, to place fifth, and Ramsey beat Odin, 63-52, in the seventh-place game.
Boys Basketball
Tuesday, Nov. 29
Sandoval 58
Brownstown 46
Points: Austin Hunter, 18; Colten Hunter, 18; Jacob Behrends, 4; Eric Gurtner, 4; Matt Sefton, 2.
Record: 2-3
Early on, both Ramsey and Patoka kept their games close on Monday, but neither team was able to pull out a win in the first two games of the inaugural Ramsey/Mulberry Grove Super Turkey Tourney.
Patoka lost to Christ Our Rock Lutheran in the first game, 63-44, and Ramsey lost to Cowden-Herrick, 59-31.
The Mulberry Grove bracket got under way on Tuesday, and the tournament finals will be held at MGHS on Saturday at 2 p.m.
Patoka vs. CORL
Award winners from team banquets are pictured.
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That's because Earhart offers full academic and enrichment programs in a caring environment designed to meet the needs of the whole child, with the goal that the exemplary education received at the school will prepare each child for success in High School and beyond.
Highly qualified teachers were specifically selected to enhance the culture of the school and the neighboring community, along with University, Business, Community, and Faith-Based partnerships to round out students' experiences. Many staff members and teachers are bilingual, including the principal.
Earhart has a fully functioning library run by volunteer retired teachers, and features The Acosta Center-which offers ESL classes for parents and the community. Embracing the rich heritage and diversity of Southwest Detroit, full ESL services are offered.
The school offers a full complement of student activities, such as Art, Vocal and Instrumental Music, Choir, Band, Senate Club, Science Club, Accelerated Math and Reading, sports and much more!
Housed in a new $22.2 million LEED Silver Certified building, Earhart is located on Clark Park in the vibrant Mexicantown area of Detroit. The school has separate elementary and middle school wings, and features classrooms designed for art, science, music, and physical education on the first floor, along with a brightly lit library. The second story contains classrooms and academic commons for Project-based education. Large windows for natural light complement state-of-the-art technology in each room.
Technology is infused throughout the curriculum including through the use of computers, Interactive White boards, and Smart boards.
Extra-Curricular Activities to Build the Whole Child
Earhart believes in providing a wealth of activities to ensure students have a well-rounded school experience that goes beyond academics!
Some of Earhart's offerings:
- Instrumental Music
- Vocal Music
- Award-winning Art activities, including Art Club and Guest Artists
- Computers
- French
- Physical Education
- Counseling and Social Work Services
- ELA, Math and Data Coaches and ESL Services
- Attendance Counselor,
- Accelerated Reading and Accelerated Math
- Sports: Boys and Girls Soccer, Boys and Girls Basketball, Football, Baseball, and Cheerleading
- Science activities: A World in Motion Primary, DAPCEP, U of M Future Scientists, Special Olympics, Science Fairs
- Award-winning Chorale
- Board Game Club
- Student Senate
- Field Trips
- School Garden
- Spelling Bee
- FREE tutoring
- Junior Honor Society
- Elementary and Middle School Career Days
Experienced, Dedicated, Caring Staff
Earhart's teaching staff, who were individually selected and hired to work at the school, are highly-qualified and dedicated to ensuring each child reaches his or her potential. Many are bilingual.
Individualized learning for every child
Earhart Elementary-Middle School uses a data-driven approach to ensure each child succeeds.
Every child has an Individualized Learning Plan tailored to his or her academic needs and teachers use a variety of assessments and measures to regularly assess students' progress.
Those include DIBELS, TRC, Teacher grades, attendance, and behavior, NEAP, MEAP, NWEA-MAP and informal and formal teacher designed assessments.
High-Quality Pre-Kindergarten
Earhart also offers a state-approved Pre-Kindergarten program to fully prepare students for kindergarten. The program incorporates child-directed learning to foster a love of learning but also uses structured lessons that include pre-writing and foundations in math, science and social studies.
Partnerships that Matter with Businesses and Universities
Earhart encourages business partnerships and creates many academic opportunities to help students constantly envision their academic path straight through to college and a career.
Partnerships include WCCCD Extension Classes, Wayne State University Science Partnership, Wayne Mediation, MGM Grand Partnership, GEAR Up, Cranbrook Horizons Upward Bound, El Arte, Neighborhood Legal Services, Friends of the Rouge, National Kidney Foundation, Volunteer Reading Corps, Volunteer Business Corps, Think Detroit PAL, Greening of Detroit, Summer in the City, Healthy Kidz, and much more.
Exposure to careers are a must at Earhart, including the Yes!Expo and Automotive Education Day for engineering, maritime field trips, experiences and various manufacturing areas, visits from musicians, businesspersons, military and government and more. Career Day brings speakers from the Medical/Dental field, aviation, business and other future jobs.
Technology of the 21st Century
Earhart offers students access to the latest technology in a new $22 million building that is fully wireless. Some of the technology used by teachers and students include Computers, Interactive Whiteboards, and Smartboards.
Outstanding Graduation Pathways
Earhart's staff believes that every child should be able to envision their path to high school, college and careers, with direct links to graduation through field trips and family nights at Western International High School, allowing them to experience the outstanding opportunities that await them in high school and solidify the vision of their path to graduation. Western High has received a $28.3 million renovation and includes upgrades to classrooms, a new swimming pool, black box theater and more!
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Earhart serves a healthy, FREE breakfast and lunch to every child.
Parent Engagement
At Earhart, parents are valued and encouraged to stay highly engaged in their child's learning. The school creates a welcoming atmosphere, including family events such as a Family Nights per content area and more, and has a vibrant, involved parent organization.
Regular communication to help parents stay involved in their child's learning include Parent/Teacher Conferences, progress reports, phone calls, newsletters, parent meetings, Parent Workshops, Parent classes, and a Parent/Teacher/School compact.
The school has a welcoming Parent Lounge that offers Adult Bilingual Education classes, called The Acosta Center.
About the Principal
Gerlma A. S. Johnson comes with a wide range of expertise, making her a school turnaround specialist. She was selected as part of the DPS Principal Leadership Cadre. Having demonstrated the ability to move schools forward academically, she was chosen for such tasks as reconstituting and dechartering schools, the first of each in Michigan.
Also, Ms. Johnson is well known for her caring about the whole child, and operating a Professional Learning Community. Ms. Gerlma Johnson has been recognized with awards for outstanding education, volunteerism and service including the Booker T. Washington Outstanding Educator Award, the Distinguished Service to Science Award, The Detroit City Council Award of Recognition, the Spirit of Detroit Award, and the AAA School House Award. A published author, Ms. Johnson is committed to the exemplary education of all she serves.
High Quality Pre-Kindergarten
We offer a high quality early learning experience for special needs and general education students 4 years of age by November 1. Detroit Public Schools' Pre-K classroom curriculum is aligned with the National Early Childhood Standards and Michigan State Board of Education's Early Childhood Standards of Quality. For more info, go to detroitk12.org/preK
Our Vision
The vision of Amelia Earhart Elementary/Middle School is to foster a collaborative environment of highly skilled and effective teachers who provide opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate academic, technological, artistic, athletic, and societal competencies.
Our Mission
The mission of Amelia Earhart Elementary/Middle School, a multicultural and technologically-advanced learning center, is to ensure that all students are afforded the opportunity to be educated in a safe and healthy environment that promotes their individual value and maximizes their potential. We shall produce socially responsible citizens who successfully fulfill curriculum requisites and who demonstrate a preparedness to excel in future educational, societal, and career challenges.
The Name We Honor
Amelia Earhart Elementary/Middle School is named in honor of the noted American aviatrix and author. Born on July 24, 1897, Ms. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross for becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She joined the faculty of Purdue University as a visiting faculty member, counseling women on careers. Ms. Earhart disappeared in 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world. The propeller in front of Earhart Elementary/Middle School is one that actually came from one of Ms. Earhart's original planes, and was purchased from the Earhart family by fundraising of spaghetti dinners.
To learn more about Amelia Earhart, visit her official website.
Uniform Requirements
Grades PK-5: white collared shirts, navy bottoms, solid shoes (white, black, brown preferred).
For the 2012/13 school year: Grade 6: pale blue-collared tops, khaki bottoms, solid shoes. Note: Uniform colors for Grade 7 in 2013, Grade 8 in 2014
Grade 7: Burgundy collared tops/Black bottoms, solid shoes. Note: Uniform colors for Grade 8 in 2013,
Grade 8: Pale yellow tops/Navy bottoms, solid shoes. Note: uniform for Grade 6 in 2013, Grade 7 in 2014.
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Managing fertilizer costs can be the difference in profit and loss in any crop. The high cost of all fertilizers, especially nitrogen, is a critical production expense for all farmers, but can be especially important to high value, high input vegetable crops.
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Only three percent of natural gas supplies is used to produce ammonia, so the fertilizer industry has virtually no impact on the price of natural gas, according to Roger Teal, public service assistant and horticulturist at the University of Georgia.
The price of anhydrous ammonia has increased from 12 cents to 31 cents per ton of nitrogen. Among the more popular forms of nitrogen, ammonium nitrate has increased from 26 to 45 cents per ton of nitrogen and urea from 22 to 39 cents per ton. Ammonia is a common component of these and other forms of nitrogen fertilizer.
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Several production practices can help vegetable growers incorporate good water management into good nitrogen management strategies. These include:
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• Scheduling nitrogen applications to coincide with crop need and avoiding large applications at any given time, part of which might be leached before being utilized by the crop.
• Avoiding the application of fertilizer or nitrogen-containing organic materials, such as sludge or manure, to farm roads, field alleys, row middles or other areas not planted to vegetables.
• Avoid over-use of nitrogen fertilizers to minimize the chances of large residues being left in the field at seasons end.
One application technique is pre-plant banding to improve efficiency. Though banding has been used for many years to apply phophorus and potash, Teal says recent studies indicate banding nitrogen on some crops may be the most efficient way to maximize plant utilization and reduce total usage.
In some crops foliar application has proven the most efficient. Teal says not enough information is available to recommend foliar application of nitrogen on vegetables, but it is one area of research he will be investigating. Regardless of the crop or the fertilizer used, surface broadcast is the least efficient, Teal adds.
In tests on bell peppers at two sites in south Georgia in 2006, Teals says there was little variation in yield from any of four sources (two ammonia and two nitrate) of nitrogen when used at comparable rates.
He points out that the cost of nitrogen by source is different. If the more expensive forms are used in pepper production, some growers are paying too much for nitrogen.
A critical factor for vegetable growers to consider is that nitrogen response fluctuates, and it fluctuates separately from yield. The soil gets nitrogen from rainfall and other natural sources, so a critical measure of how much nitrogen to use is based on what is available in the field before the crop is planted.
High tech equipment, like chlorophyll sensors, can be used to determine precise rates of nitrogen needed and used by a crop. Likewise, low tech practices, like planting test strips based on yield potential of a crop, can be used. Regardless of how a grower determines rate, form and application method, getting it right will save huge amounts of money in vegetable production.
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Another day, another historic achievement for Lindsey Vonn.
Vonn's win in Wednesday's downhill at the World Cup finals in Schladming, Austria, was her 12th of the season, breaking the U.S. record for single-season victories she had set in 2010.
With three races left - a Super-G, giant slalom and slalom - Vonn has an outside shot at the all-time record for men or women, 14, set by Switzerland's Vreni Schneider in 1989.
"Everything has gone so well this year, I can't help but smile every day," Vonn said after winning Wednesday's race by nearly a second over Marion Rolland of France.
Vonn has a much better chance at breaking the World Cup single-season points record, 2,000, set by Austria's Hermann Maier in 2,000.
"Today was a big step toward that," Vonn said. "Hopefully tomoprrow (in the Super-G), I can win again and reach a dream well I didn't think was possible."
A race victory is worth 100 points.
Wednesday's win was her fifth in this season's eight downhills. She was second, third and fourth in the other three, easily winning her fifth straight World Cup season title in the discipline.
Vonn needs only make the top 15 or have Austria's Anna Fenninger not win Thursday's Super-G to take that World Cup season title for the fourth straight year. (If That would give her 16 overall and discipline season titles, tying Austria's Annemarie Moser-Proell for most ever.
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