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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2013 Targeted Capacity Expansion: Substance Abuse Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Women at High Risk for HIV/AIDS (TCE-HIV: Minority Women) grants. The purpose of this program is to expand substance abuse treatment and HIV services for African American, Hispanic/Latina and other racial/ethnic minority women (ages 18 years and older), including heterosexual, lesbian, bisexual, previously incarcerated women, and their significant others, who have substance use or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders and are living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS.
The goals of this program are to: (1) reduce HIV infection and transmission rates among African American, Hispanic/Latina and other racial/ethnic minority women, including reducing alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and injecting drug use (IDU); (2) address the impact of violence and trauma on women's increased risk of substance abuse and HIV infection; (3) increase access to culturally appropriate, women and family centered, trauma-informed substance abuse/co-occurring mental health treatment and HIV/viral hepatitis services, including HIV and hepatitis B and C testing; (4) educate and empower African American, Hispanic/Latina and other racial/ethnic minority women to increase their awareness of safer sex practices (e.g., condom use) and make informed decisions about their behavioral health, including trauma-related HIV risk-behaviors; and (5) implement evidence-based interventions.
Although progress has been made with respect to addressing risk behaviors, it is clear that more progress is needed. Data from CSAT's HIV programs demonstrate positive outcomes on domains such as injection drug use, unprotected sexual contacts, and unprotected sexual contact with someone with HIV, someone who is using intravenous (IV) drugs, or someone who is under the influence of substance(s) such as alcohol and/or other drugs.
CDC Fast Facts: HIV Among Women (August 2011) shows that in 2009 there were an estimated 11,200 new HIV infections among women in the U.S. In that year, women comprised 51 percent of the U.S. population and 23 percent of those newly infected with HIV. Of the total number of new HIV infections among U.S. women in 2009, 57 percent occurred in Black females, 21 percent occurred in Whites, and 16 percent occurred in Hispanics/Latinas. In 2009, the rate of new HIV infections among Black women was 15 times that of White women, and over 3 times the rate among Hispanic/Latina women. See Appendix L of this RFA, Background Information, for additional information.
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SAMHSA believes that in order to achieve the goals of this program to enhance infrastructure and capacity to improve the community's response to HIV/AIDS by increasing access to care and services for African American, Hispanic/Latina and other racial/ethnic minority women at high risk for or living with HIV/AIDS, grant funds must go directly to community-based organizations, tribes and tribal organizations, and other eligible applicants listed above. Locally based organizations operating and providing services in areas traditionally underserved by governmental services have a proven track record of reaching minority populations and dealing with sensitive identity issues such as HIV status and perceived sexual orientation. Local organizations are also more likely to be managed by minorities living in the areas that have been targeted by this funding announcement. These organizations will be more predisposed to employ community residents and be staffed by peers of the clients seeking services. In addition, local organizations will have more representation on their Board of Directors and Community Advisory Councils of community leaders, both private and public. Governmental agencies would need excessive start up periods to physically locate service provisions in the affected communities. Therefore, state and local governments are not eligible to apply.
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When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-who, a merry note,
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And birds sit brooding in the snow
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The Beatles ' very first album, Please Please Me , was released 50 years ago today in the United Kingdom. The 14-track collection arrived as the Beatlemania craze was beginning to spread throughout the Fab Four's homeland. Packed with such classic John Lennon - Paul McCartney compositions as the title track, "I Saw Her Standing There," "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," plus several memorable cover tunes, Please Please Me only served to escalate the fans' fervor for the group.
The album was put together to capitalize on the band's popularity in the wake of the chart-topping success of the group's "Please Please Me." With a hectic touring schedule limiting their time, The Beatles decided to record the 10 songs they needed to complete the album in just one day, which they accomplished in a marathon 10-hour session at London's Abbey Road Studios on February 11, 1963.
Speaking with ABC News Radio, respected Beatles author and scholar Bruce Spizer says one of the reasons for the record's fresh and dynamic sound was that, with the exception of some minimal overdubbing, The Beatles were playing and singing live in the studio. He added that the crafty Abbey Road engineers aided the recording's sonic quality by placing "the microphones a little bit further away from the amplifiers, so they not only picked up what was coming out of the amplifier, but also the ambient sound of the studio itself."
One of the most memorable tracks on Please Please Me is the band's rendition of the rocking Isley Brothers tune "Twist and Shout." The song, which closes out the album, also was the final track laid down, and for good reason. The song called for some serious screaming from Lennon who, says Spizer, already had been suffering from a "horrible sore throat," so producer George Martin thought it best to hold off on recording it until the end of the day.
"By the time they did 'Twist and Shout,' [Lennon's] voice was just about shot," explains Spizer. "And when you listen to it, you can hear the strain in his voice. So, between the strain in John's vocal cords and the passion he gave it, it becomes what I would consider to be the greatest rock and roll vocal of all time."
Recounting a somewhat gruesome story involving "Twist and Shout," the author notes that after the recording, "John picked up a glass of milk and drank it, and when he put the glass of milk back down on the table, there was blood in the milk."
Spizer suggests that one of the most significant achievements of Please Please Me was that it helped the album overtake the single as the dominant music format.
"People were running out and buying the album itself because of the quality of all of the songs," notes Bruce. "[So] it taught the record companies in the U.K. and, later, the United States that a well-crafted album was something that teenagers would be willing to purchase."
Please Please Me eventually went on to hit #1 on the U.K. albums chart and remained on top of the tally until it was replaced by The Beatles' second long player, With the Beatles , later in 1963. A few months after that, The Beatles similarly would conquer the U.S.
In an interesting note, Please Please Me actually wasn't officially issued in the U.S. until February 1987, when The Beatles catalog was standardized for the debut release of the band's albums on CD.
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No. No, school is definitely out for the summer. What? No, that doesn't mean they have better things to do than check this website over and over again, day in and day out. There is enough time in the day; they can afford to go to the beach, and still have time to click Refresh ad nauseum until there's something new to look at. What?
What the f*ck is a JOB?
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Now it seems fat apps are making a comeback. Thanks to mobile devices, we're drifting back to the fat app model, or at least a hybrid of Web and native app. In many cases, it's not enough simply to reformat a website for mobile browsing. The user experience on mobile devices is just too different than on a PC -- you can't hover over links on a tablet or use pop-up windows, for instance. You can rearrange your website's CSS all you want, but the result is usually a poor representation of the original site, shoehorned to fit on a phone or tablet. The solution? A fat app.
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Take Reddit, for example. The Reddit site is confusing to many users of desktop browsers, but at least it's navigable, and browser extensions such as RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) improve the experience. But browsing the main Reddit site on a tablet or smartphone is so painful, it has spawned Reddit clients for the iPad like Alien Blue. These apps completely dispense with the layout of Reddit and instead make far better use of the tablet UI than anything that could be delivered solely via the Web. This means a far cleaner and more useful interface, as well as a lighter load on the servers, since the app is making API calls and rendering the data locally versus placing that task on the servers.
In an interesting twist, Alien Blue will soon be available in the Mac App store. What once was a browser-based application is becoming a fat app for the Mac.
Reddit is only one of many. News organizations were among the first to head in this direction, with the New York Times, USA Today, AP, Reuters, and the BBC all offering fat iOS apps, as well as Android app versions of their sites. Nearly all sites with an app version will not fail to mention that fact if you access them via a mobile browser.


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The Labor Day is coming soon. Most people in China will enjoy a three-day holiday, lasting from April 29 to May 1.
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Live Action Spotlight: Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl Released by FUNimation
As with most, if not all, of these extravagant, Japanese splatter movies, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl is best watched as a social experience in which you and your compatriots aren't applying a critical, clear thinking mindset. Always going far further than needed to make sure that the viewer can see and hear the transgressions being committed, it's not exactly a movie that needs be to engaged soberly anyways. Those arterial geysers aren't the same if you can't turn to a person next to you and snicker or roll your eyes. Aggressively looking for the reaction, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl stamps the too much is never enough MO early in with the vampire teen brawling with a trio of loli-goth attire clad Frankenstein girls in black uniform, adorned with red trim and black lace, dripping blood from their joints. The vampire bites the nearest, and with the slice of skin she takes off, she unwinds the rest of her foes dermal tissue. The still animated skull is catapulted, such that the mindless, chomping cranium of the first Frankenstein girl slowly, gruesomely sucks the skin off the next. The third is subjected to a particularly unpleasant stem to stem method of decapitation. Though some movies of Vampire Girl's type are jokingly angry or downcast, this one is not an angsty, morally conflicted vision of vampires, or any monster for that matter. Maybe you can read something nihilistic into the cast's deep sublimation of their issues (a notion captured brilliantly in horror black-comedy manga Octopus Girl; track it down), but, in practice, no one here of consequence minds being out of their mind. Announcing this, that early confrontation showcases one of a number scenes of the vampire girl dancing through showers of blood. Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl's lineage is more interesting than just "based on the manga." Personally, I'm fascinated by splattery manga by women, whether it's Q Hayashida's baroquely strange story of sorcerers getting their faces chewed off by a lizard man, Dorohedoro, or the undead excess of Rei Mikamoto's Reiko the Zombie Shop and Big Tits Zombie. Fans of transgressive Japanese movies might know this story's creator, Shungiku Uchida. She was the mother in Miike's Visitor Q. Beyond her acting stints, the novelist and essayist had her semi-autobiographical prose work Fatherfucker adapted into live action; and, she's produced manga that has hit subjects from porn to pregnancy. David Kalat's "J-Horror" argued that the "dead wet girls" movies had the characteristics of an artistic school and not just a chain of movies capitalizing on the commercial success of each other (though it was that too). If you accept that, you can see something similar with the creative collaborations and branching found in these shock driven gore fests. And here, the usual suspects gather with some friends to make a live monster out of Shungiku Uchida's work. Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, effects work in The Machine Girl, Suicide Club and Meatball Machine) and Naoyuki Tomomatsu (Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies, which featured Uchida, and Maid-Droid) team up to direct. Handling the fights, you get to see Tak Sakaguchi's (Versus, Azumi, Godzilla: Final Wars) again. Bikini and cowboy clad lead of the zombie fighting flick Oneechanbara: Chanbara Beauty Eri Otoguro is the titular Frankenstein girl. Kanji Tsuda (Jun-on, one of the movie's better geek moments is a language lecture from Takashi Shimizu that devolves into a guide to all the Jun-on/Grudge variations) turns up as the Doctor Frankenstein equivalent. Audition's notorious Asami Yamazaki, Eihi Shiina has a small role as the vampire girl's mother. The regular crew of this school of extreme movie turns out in number, along the lines of Yukihide Benny as St. Francis Xavier and Tokyo Gore Police writer Maki Mizui getting screen time as the head of a wrist cutter clique. X-Men by way of this school of horror, Mutant Girl Squad has a segment in which the protagonist pretty much kills an entire community after they try to stuff her and mount her in their mall. It goes on and on, hitting a sort of runner's high of shamelessness. The zenith for the domain reached there is a tricky reaction for these movies to chase. The break from the realm of what is generally considered acceptable into total insanity is most potent when it feels natural or spontaneous. Try too hard, make the audience aware of the effort, and the movie courts rejection. With knowing irreverence, Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl tries to be cool out its spiral into giddy goriness. Takumi Saito as the male lead (live action Yamato, Miike's Thirteen Assassins) serves as normalized control center, with the attractive actor as a well adjusted guy who isn't pleased about the death and dismemberment kicking up around him, but isn't pulling his hair out either. At the same time, it goes to the hilt as much as any of the field In the movie's frequent ventures into painting the town red, it gets into the spirit of presentation, often turning the bloodletting into a musical number with dance or kabuki (which I guess is dance too). Standards for plotting this sort of movie are not particularly high, and Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl's characters are supposed to be types more than realized individuals. That said, it did manage a turn that was good enough for another recent, well regarded vampire movie. And, a couple of hilarious bits of foreshadowing add to it's staying power as a movie that can be rewatched. It does however get into some trouble with its approach to being half smart. You want these movies to get carried away. Transgression is their raison d'être. But, an American audience will find one particular joke to be punching above its weight. Vampire Girl vs pokes a lot of fun at subcultures. Loligoth, cutters and ganguro in particular. The loligoth bits are largely aesthetic. The cutters go a bit further into the comically extreme, with a laughable club of self mutilators... it's an icky idea, but not the movie at its most excessive since the gag is that the girls have so much scar tissue, they can't really cut themselves anymore. Then, there's the ganguro, a sort of black face tanning that is further accentuated with bright makeup around the eyes and lips. Translated as the "Super Dark Club," the movie has jokes along the lines of what it applied to the cutters, with the group insisting on black coffee and that caffeinated black chewing gum. But, the "super dark" girls also, carry spears, with lip plates or other prosthetic make-up and bang on a drum chanting "Obama! Change! Yes we can!" For an American audience, the rest of the movie isn't quite so charged that it can get away with a minstrel act. Then again, seeing a movie like this do something it shouldn't is the reason to watch, especially if you can commiserate and share an eye roll with a group.
Manga Spotlight: Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 11 By Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki Released by Dark Horse Manga
During his appearance on the Anime World Order podcast, writer/translator/localizer Matt Alt briefly discussed the Oshii Ghost in the Shell movies. In the anime, conversing cyborg law enforcement officers quote and paraphrase philosophers. The way that Alt frames this is that what's going on is that the wired minds are pulling perspectives from the internet. It's an advanced form of what goes on today when people have their smart phones out to check Wikipedia and pull facts as they talk. That sort of framing of communication by way of technology came to mind reading Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. It's not that this manga has the same annotated structure. Instead, Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service reads like horror written as if it were a work of blogging. Writer Eiji Otsuka comes to this with knowledge and intelligence. His college degree is in degree in anthropology, with studies in women's folklore, human sacrifice and post-war. He's been a critic and a magazine editor. Early on, the appeal of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service looked a macabre proposition, in which the reader would be treated to a parade of realistically rendered cadavers in exotic circumstances. Yet, as the series got running, those shocking visuals were tagged as punctuation in a more interesting discussion. Otsuka's Scoobie Doo cast of proxies are intelligent and well educated, and ostensibly dealing with corpses because they're underemployed. The events around the deaths that they unprofitably investigate are often built on top of Law and Order "ripped from the headline" hot button issues. Otsuka then fits those issues together with other subjects that interest him: folklore, history, bits he might have read in recent science journals and geek esoteric fascinations. The proceedings are blog-like in that they're engaged; socially concerned; expert at connecting ideas and expert at provoking reaction. The track record for thoroughly developing the ideas is a bit more mixed than introducing them. The second of volume 11's two stories works the trick of smartly conflating ideas that like likely complementary thoughts. In this case, those super Speedo swim suit from the last Olympics, zombies, and a bit of urban wild life. It's not the celebrity branding grafted onto plastic surgery, the ear mouse, jinmenso (a supernatural tumor with a human face) and multiple revenge plots seen in volume seven, but still an impressively geeky approach to horror. The majority of volume 11 is concerned with one the manga's longer cases. The supernatural element that it works with relates to a manifestation of karma that is visible to individuals with the properly developed ESP. Though this feeds the core cast's slowly established background, and though the manifestation is effectively creepy, the main attraction is Otsuka manga-blogging. The person who has that karma seeing ESP and the foundation for the story is the "Class Cutter," a girl convicted of killer her family with a box cutter, now being reintegrated into society. This is an unsubtle reference to the Sasebo Slashing case that spawned the Nevada-tan. In 2004, an eleven year old girl killed her classmate with a box cutter. Though police initially followed the convention of referring to her as "Girl A," her name was leaked in the media, after which she became known by a class phone in which she wore a University of Nevada, Reno sweatshirt. An internet meme grew out of the abstracted image of a girl in a "Nevada" sweatshirt carrying a bloody blade. Meanwhile, more serious conversation debated the gender, linguistic and legal implications of the case and its handling. Otsuka looks to engage the subject and not just evoke it. He builds narrative tension out of the question of whether a child convicted of a heinous crime can return to a normal life, pulling on the readers empathy with the subject being bullied by peers and disregarded by adults. He further shifts the case to see what something like it might say about the broader society. His reoccurring cast offers him a useful tool for this. The composition of personalities involved are such that it does not sound unnatural for them to act as a mouth piece to question or commentate. They explicitly discuss why Japan has such a high conviction rate (widely reported to be over 99% in criminal cases). Last summer, my mother was doing some gardening when she slipped on a shed's wet ramp. When she went to have her bruises checked out, the nurses and doctors all wanted to heat the "narrative" of how it happened. They responded to her insistence that she slipped by looking for holes in her story, since they strongly suspected that there was another explanation for the injuries. Through Kurosagi's characters, Otsuka says that a person, especially child, can't compete with an accepted narrative. It is an idea that he's dealt with outside manga. In 1989, Tsutomu Miyazaki was arrested for the murder of four girls. Well over 5,000 anime and slasher movie tapes were found in Miyazaki's apartment, leading him to be labeled "The Otaku Murderer," and the reputation of geeks to be truly, darkly blackened for years. In Otsuka's book on the subject, he argued that the media doctored the dipictions of Miyazaki's connection to build up the notion of an "Otaku Murderer." He wasn't saying that Miyazaki was innocent and here, he's not weighing in on the facts of the real Sasebo Slashing case. It's that, when there's a story that can be latched onto to explain behavior, a troublesome echo chamber can be established between publish perception and media. This becomes even more dangerous when it's allowed to guide prosecution and conviction. This bloggy manga can be better at raising issues then developing them. Otsuka is not bad with characters. The titular Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service are certainly well drawn. He's not always great with characters either. Secondary, story specific ones can be simply functional. The millstone on this story is an antagonist who is simply a heavy old prev man who serves to narrow the focus on society at large to the specific story, with its cardboard villain. It drags the exercise, reminding the reader that it's fictional, but it doesn't stop it. Despite its flaws, for provocation, there's nothing like socially engaged horror, and there's little horror as socially engaged as Eiji Otsuka's.
Manga Spotlight: Hanako and the Terror of Allegory by Sakae Esuno Released by Tokyopop
Future Diary author Sakae Esuno's Hanako and the Terror of Allegory is an entertaining manga series, and though it does manage the occasional chilling tableaux, Esuno proves better at writing about horror than writing it. Hanako of the title is Toile no Hanako, a popular urban legend about a ghost girl who haunts school restrooms. In terms of American supernatural entities, I can think of the Headless Horseman as something that might have as much traction as Hanako, who appears in countless anime, manga, television and movies; sometimes as an entry in an anthology and sometimes she's the main attraction, as in Yukihiko Tsutsumi's 1995 Shinsei toire no Hanako-san or Akitaro Daichi's 1996 anime (she was especially big in the 90's). In terms of modern Japanese ghost stories, her rival for media appearances might be Kuchisake-onna, the Slith Mouthed Woman, and that one is in this manga's second story. Hanako's role is a key element of the manga's appeal, especially for horror geeks in that the manga aims to offer its own take on a supernatural landscape that isn't confined to or originating in its pages. The premise is that ghost stories grow in the public consciousness and eventually instances of those beings that people think haunt them flower into actual hauntings. A slit-mouthed woman or fish faced man become real. Maybe not the scariest idea, but an interesting one to work from . Teenage Kanae Hiranuma's fixation is that there's a man hiding under her bed with an axe who will kill her if she falls asleep. To solve this problem, she seeks the help of Daisuke Aso, a porn mag collecting young detective, who is himself haunted by two allegories. He hiccups when around the possessed, with the extra clause that, if he hiccups 100 times in a row, he dies. And, Toile no Hanako lives in the bathroom of his office. Volume 1 features the axe murderer under the bed, Kuchisake-onna, and Lovecraftian fish faced men. Elements like Hanako and Kuchisake-onna are improved by familiarity with the urban legends and their media incarnations. Surveying Japan's supernatural population in a book like Yokai Attack!, the trend that emerges is the things that go bump in the night are anthromorphized hang-ups. The yokai stories take the fright of a dark corner, obsession or worry, some wonder of a natural phenomenon, some metaphor or word play that sticks in the mind and gives it semi-human form. David Kalat's J-Horror notes how quirks of Japanese school architecture lead to Hanako stories (among other bathroom horror). Reading Hanako and the Terror of Allegory's attempt to built a story around the inspiration for the horror is improved by familiarity with the subjects that it is considering. It helps to know the game or at least be interested in it to appreciate watching the manga kick around these ideas. If you have some attachment to Hanako stories, the notion that sje enjoys technology because it's literal, and doesn't overload, hide or corrupt meaning the way that humans do, is amusingly novel. While this first outing gets some mileage out of reinterpreting the spooky stories, the manga only ran four volumes, so maybe there isn't too much legs to what the series is doing. While Sakae Esuno isn't about to take a place with the greats of horror manga, when it comes to large images, Hanako and the Terror of Allegory does manage some creepy spectacles. With room for scale and perspective, slit mouthed woman's maw stretching across a room in a double page spread or a page of bodies sinking towards darkness of a submerged point of view are about as good as you'll get from a manga/comic artist who isn't great at horror. As horror, and not just manga about horror stories, Hanako and the Terror of Allegory hits trouble. Ironic for a series that aims to think about horror from a new angle, applying thought to Hanako and the Terror of Allegory's stories crushes them. It opens badly with the notion of a man with an axe hiding under a bed. I was a credulous kid, inclined to over react to campfire stories and the like. The guy with the axe hiding under a bed, in a closet or in the back seat of a car was one of the few I remember not getting me. It's one thing to be chasing some one with an axe, as in the Shining. To lurk in a confined space with a large object that needs to be swung? That doesn't work logistically. Committing the axe wielding killer under the bed to the page early on, the story offers an unintended reminder that the idea is more silly than frightening. I don't get the impression that Sakae Esuno thought too much about how a reader might think about what it's presenting. The manga frequently suffers when the reader engages it. The other stories work off twists that are obvious or aggravating. The fish face man story is particularly problematic with its grasp at unearned gravity, trampling ground that will be very problematic for some audiences. Still, even if it is sometimes bothersome, and often not really scary, Hanako and the Terror of Allegory is Halloween candy horror; a fun snack, not enormously satisfying.
Manga Spotlight: March Story by Hyung Min Kim and Kyung Il Yang Released by VIZ Media
March Story is seinen (older, male audience) manga, running in Sunday GX (home of a couple known gun heated works, namely Black Lagoon and Jormungand) from Korean creators Kyung Min Kim and Kyung Il Yang (illustrator of Shin Angyo Onshi aka Blade of the Phantom Master, and Island, an anti-hero driven horror released by Tokyopop fairly early on). As is common for horror manga, at least for this early segment, March Story is structured as episodic stories of the supernaturally afflicted, joined by a character who witnesses the misfortune. Set in, 18th century Europe, as the title might suggest, that linking element is March. This individual uses an unusual, symbiotic relationship with a type of demon known as an Ill in the role of a Ciste Vihad, hunting other Ills. These supernatural tragedy-catalysts dwell in human made objects, waiting to be found. They then possess their finder, causing the victim to grow horns and raise havoc. As that havoc turns deadly, the horns turn crimson and the possession becomes irreversible. March Story's bloody proceedings are defined by a look that's gothic in the modern sense of the word. And they're defined by being bag of hammer stupid. And yet, the manga overachieves by owning both, neither explaining nor apologizing for its characteristics. In this volume, obvious scenarios with some thorny flair lead up to an amazingly demented back story. And there, March Story begins showcasing some attention commanding wildness. Where the manga had been unessential, the gory history is enough to make March Story prospectively interesting, with a second volume seemly set to cinch whether or not the relatively young series (its Japanese run began in 2008, but it's running in a monthly) is entirely worthwhile. After an violent, pre-credit roll sequence in which March dispatches of a beyond help Ill-fated, the manga's first adventure finds March with eyes on the street looking for a Ill-bound ear ring. March bumps into a girl who also has her eyes on the ground. Dejected Pircolett is the daughter of the ring master in a travelling circus and dreams of being an acrobat, but because she's ugly (giving the tradition of ghastly horror manga from Shigeru Mizuki to Hideshi Hino, the notion of this pixie-ish girl being "ugly" is laughable), is assigned to be juggling clown. Pircolett plucks a muffin off the pavement, and is about to eat it, when March snatches it out of her hands, ominously warning her never to touch something the providence of which she doesn't know, "it could contain dangers beyond human reckoning." March then undercuts the gravity of the warning by taking a squirrel's approach to quickly consuming the muffin. Of course, Pircolett finds the Ill earring. And, with little hesitation, she ignores March's warning. Of course, it grants her wish of becoming an acrobat in Monkey's Paw fashion. There's plenty of bloody bodies and tears, but, setting an odd precedence for the series, March is able to avert real tragedy. Plenty of iffy manga horror series, including ones for audiences younger than March Story's have attempted to grab the reader by remorselessly going to the jugular in their early outings. The expectation that March Story sets up here is that it travels a familiar path to a destination that is not as dark as it might first appear. Kyung Il Yang is an illustrator rather than a writer, but the introductory story notably contrasts how his other works began. Island opens with its anti-hero savagely beating back the ogres attacking female lead, only to have him cast as a misogynistic serial killer. Shin Angyo Onshi has its law enforcer of an old world order travelling across a crumbling society as a wondering gunslinger. He insists he is not a hero, either in role or demeanor. He sort of goes to rescue a child, and concludes the confrontation by directing a monster's attention towards its child hostage, then shooting the threat in the head when distracted. Despite some tragic endings, the sum of the other one off stories doesn't disabuse that notion that March Story is furiously swinging around a nerf padded horror bludgeon. There's Jake, an older woman with an oversized face approaching that of Spirited Away's Yubaba, who dresses like a loligoth teen. There's a spoiled rich kid who hyper-active Ill corrupted persona is like something out of a Warner Brothers cartoon. The manga version of Chevalier d'Eon is often ripped as silly with its guy interest re-aligned take on a loligoth look. Personally, I thought that there was something amusingly half-clever about the way it looked at the Versailles court and retrofit an extravagant, almost parody of loligoth fashion on the Roccoco aesthetic that contributed to its birth. March Story doesn't employ any such justification. It's a bit Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd shifted further out, with as much black thorns, carnival masks, striped stockings, fringes and stitches as can be packed into its panels. Though unlikely to alienate someone who would identify themselves with the aesthetic, it isn't really position for them. This might seem like it would set March Story up for an identity crisis, but even if the manga isn't presenting conventional lookers, it reads more for like it was for an audience inclined to gawk at loligoth girls than one composed of or sympathetic to them. The fourth and final chapter of the volumes, Black Dream is a back story. It's neither new nor surprising. It's basically an Elizabeth Bathory pastiche. Even if not heart wrenching either, in its favor, it's pitched and relentless. While its gritted teeth and tears are well earned, more than emotionally effecting, it's grabbing. The story offers quite the gesture with all its piling on. It's like going down a flight of stairs, and after a series of evenly spaced step, there's one that's double the height of the previous ones. You might not trip, but you're now looking out for what might be treacherous ahead. Spinning off familiar parables and spooky tales, March Story seems unlikely to develop into smart manga, stimulating its readers emotionally or intellectually. The angles it takes similarly make it unlikely that March Story is going to carve a niche into parameters that a horror purist would be happy to call "horror." Still, if it continues to mix extravagant goth illustrations with situations that put the reader's head on a swivel, it'll slice out an alternative, darkly enjoyable niche.
Manga Spotlight: Ghost Talker's Daydream volume 4 by Saki Okuse and Sankichi Meguro Released by Dark Horse Manga
Horror is one of a couple of genres of manga that I'm usually willing to give some leeway, especially if it is truly trying to tell horror stories and not just use horror trappings, as in all the generic stories with vampires. Yet, I was cold on Ghost Talker's Daydream. It ran in Shonen Ace, an anthology known for its many anime tie-ins, such as the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga. As the name applies, it's for a shonen audience, but it skews older than periodicals like Shonen Jump or Shonen Sunday, as it features darkly disturbing, and/or violent works, populated by older characters such as Goth, MPD Psycho, Welcome to the NHK, Kerberos Panzer Cop and Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. It's explicitly shonen, but borderline seinen (though those more mature titles have more recently more to seinen Young Ace.) And Ghost Talker's Day Dream follows suit, not adhering to firmly deliniated territory for what's appropriate. Manga that hops that the rails can be brilliant, but, Ghost Talker's Day Dream doesn't stick its landing. The concept was hatched by Okuse Saki, who has plenty of horror history, most notably Twilight of the Dark Master. Artist Meguro Sankichi has an effective hand for rendering darkly violent scenes. His fight work is actually pretty good too. As such, it's not a dearth of talent that set the manga off balance. The protagonist here is an medium, and in this difficult economic landscape, she has an extra job or two. She's a dominatrix, and a BDSM columnist. In terms of physical characteristics, she has albinism, and lacks pubic hair. The manga operates under the assumption that the missing hair and the dominatrix works are hilarious. Just evoke them and the audience should be tittering. Along with these frequent misstep attempts at comedy, factor in a meta-creepiness with its lurid fascination with sexual violence, and Ghost Talker's Daydream is a bit of a mess. That said, Saiki Misaki is largely missing from volume 4, and as such, jokes about her career and physical characteristics are absent. Without her holding the center, the super natural problem solving is supposed to be problematic, and the unwound proceeding are effective for telling horror stories. The volume features two cases in which mediums are pressed to investigate the ghostly echoes of suicides. One sees psychotic detective Gada strong-arm traumatized high school student Kunugi Ai into read into why a pair of girls hung themselves outside a temple. The second effort has Ghost Talker Daydream's more frequent organizers mounting the effort. Livelihood Preservation Group's liaison Kadotake Souichirou is fairly in over his head when it comes to the supernatural, but considering he's an unexceptional looking civil servant, thanks to a grasp of judo, he's fairly (and relatively realistically) able to handle the human element. With Misaki away, he brings in Kunakoshi, an Otomo-esque psychic whose abilities don't' impress, to ascertain why a spectral woman is haunting the bridge from which she threw herself. In both, neither the organizer or the medium are really up to task, and even by the standards of horror, neither investigation goes smoothly. Ghost Talker's Day Dream still has problems. There's its leery quality. It alternately aims to titillate and disturb, and doesn't offer much evidence to convince that there's an objective beyond stimulating the reader. If there's reason to be intrigued by the clues to a unifying influence behind the series suicides and other violence, it hasn't manifested yet. And, relevant to all of its flaws, the manga still misses the mark in its human dimension, lacking the regard or sensitivity for its character that it needs to be taken seriously in its dealings with traumatized characters. Still, the unhappiness in volume four is effecting. Humanity ends up looking terribly mistake prone and life cracked with opportunities for tragedy. As demented, ill equipped, or both people content with the ghostly remnants of suicides, the nasty mess makes for Ghost Talker Daydream's strongest entry.
Event News
Giant Robot's GR2 in LA will be presenting Visitors: New Art by Theo Ellsworth November 6th to December 8th, with a reception Saturday, November 6, 6:30-10pm
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Digital Distribution
FUNimation has begun simul-streaming charming looking Princess Jellyfish on FUNimation.com's video portal, YouTube and Hulu. The Brain's Base ("Spice and Wolf II", "Baccano!") and Takahiro Omori ("Baccano!," "Hell Girl," and "Durarara!!") series adapts Akiko Higashimura's award winning manga. It is currently running on Fuji Television's noitaminA, which airs anime for audiences who aren't traditional anime fans.
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Oct. 31, 2010, 12:55 p.m. CST
OK! let's try this again...........
by Grace_Panda
If a First falls in the woods and there's no one around dose it make a sound?
Oct. 31, 2010, 1:02 p.m. CST
Ι always wondered how exactly can someone get
by KilliK
horrified by reading comics/manga.I can understand how movies and novels and even videogames can cause the emotion of horror to the viewer but i always found that the comic medium because of its restraints,always lacked in that department regardless of how well written and illustrated the comics were.
Oct. 31, 2010, 2:37 p.m. CST
Looks like Deadpool is getting a director
by cgih8r
Apparently he's a new comer Swedish commercial director. If you see his most recent short film it looks like he has got a good eye for action. Since Rodriguez has dropped out this guy is next in line and they still haven't ruled out Reynolds. Fingers crossed.
Oct. 31, 2010, 2:51 p.m. CST
by PTSDPete
Obviously, you haven't read anything by Alan Moore. Properly.
Oct. 31, 2010, 5:09 p.m. CST
by Prof_Ender
...was an awesome horror anime.
Oct. 31, 2010, 7:18 p.m. CST
PTSDPete wrong.i have read everything from Alan and properly
by KilliK
i enjoyed them but i was not scared at all.sorry.
Nov. 1, 2010, 2:18 a.m. CST
Killik, here's one to try
by CrusherJen
Uzumaki, by Junji Ito. It's a three-part manga about a town cursed by spirals, which manifest in various odd and tragic ways. While some of the segments are laughable-- the one I'm thinking of is the tale of the newborns in volume 2, it's totally ridiculous-- other chapters have a sublime creepiness that got under my skin in a way few books of ANY kind have achieved. I will never, never, NEVER eat snails after reading the third volume... It might be hard to find now, last time I checked it was out of print, but I think Uzumaki's worth the effort.
Nov. 1, 2010, 8:52 a.m. CST
by prettydaisy
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Nov. 1, 2010, 1:34 p.m. CST
Yeah Uzumaki is genuinely creepy
by Johnno
There's a comic where horror works! And it does because the images and stuff happening work by playing upon your gut grossness... ewwww.... So disturbing and messed up! Never read anything like it...
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Natural gas pipeline explodes in southeastern Manitoba
OTTERBURNE — Police won't be launching a criminal investigation into a pipeline explosion that forced some residents from their homes early Saturday morning.
St-Pierre-Jolys RCMP has determined the explosion wasn't suspicious and that the burning gas was non-toxic. Police have now cleared the scene, according to an RCMP news release issued Saturday night.
Five houses close to the fire were evacuated earlier today by RCMP and St-Pierre-Jolys Fire Department and those residents have now been allowed to return home. RCMP cruisers blocked roads into town until officials could determine the area was safe, but police now advise drivers in the area to proceed with caution.
When Eveline Wiebe was jolted awake early Saturday morning by a natural gas explosion and giant fireball down the highway, she wondered if the apocalypse was upon her.
"Wow, is the end of the world or something?" she said from her farmhouse near Otterburne, located about 30 minutes south of Winnipeg.
The mother of four young children quickly roused her husband, Feterly, and while they were taking in the spectacle from their kitchen window, the power went out.
"I was half-asleep but I was in shock. When my husband looked out the window, he was in shock, too," she said, noting her kids -- Debby, 7, Anndy, 6, Tommy, 4, Larry 2 -- slept through the whole ordeal.
They tried calling 911 but got a busy signal and when they rang the police, nobody answered.
They wondered whether they should prepare to evacuate but once police cruisers were spotted on the highway, they decided to stay put until they got a knock on the door. They didn't.
While his wife grabbed her camera and started snapping a few pictures, Feterly Wiebe quickly ran out to his barn to start his generator so he could keep his 9,000 chickens warm.
"If the barn goes cold, we would have had mortality with the birds," he said.
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From Manitoba Hydro:
At approximately 1:00 a.m. on January 25 an explosion and fire occurred on a TransCanada Pipeline between Otterburne and Hwy 59. As a result of the explosion, natural gas supply may be affected in the RMs of Hanover, Ritchot and De Salaberry, including:
- New Bothwell
- Niverville
- Otterburne
- Kleefeld
- St-Pierre-Jolys
- Grunthal
- St. Malo
- Dufrost
- Ste. Agathe
TransCanada PipeLine is still assessing the damage and cannot provide an estimated restoration time. Please prepare for an extended outage.
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The 10-member team had lost 3.8 percent of its total body weight — 75.5 pounds — since the initial weigh-in Aug. 23.
Seven 10-member teams from around the West Side competed to see which could lose the most weight.
The contest was part of the West Side Healthcare Advisory Taskforce's healthy lifestyle education campaign.
The 4-year-old task force includes representatives of health care boards and medical offices whose mission is to improve health care offerings on the West Side and teach people about healthier ways to live.
The goal of the campaign is to encourage people to make better, more healthful choices about food and add exercise to their daily life.
Finishing second was a team based at Patterson Health and Fitness, with a 3.1 percent loss. A team from the city of Newman placed third with a 2.1 percent loss; the group from Step It Up health club lost 2.1 percent, placing fourth; and the Newman School District recorded a 1.67 percent loss for fifth place. Patterson Promotions finished sixth with a 0.41 percent loss, and the city of Gustine finished last with a 0.6 percent weight gain.


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May 2, 2014
The University of Minnesota's M.A.G.I.C. program (Maroon and Gold Impacting the Community) was busy on Friday, May 2, as the Gophers went to three community service events during the day.
Teshon Adderley (women's track & field) and Julia Courter (women's tennis) went to the Minnesota Transitions Charter Elementary School in Minneapolis where they interacted with fourth graders and helped with a class project. The classroom's teacher was former Gopher Sarah Krueger's (rowing) current fourth-grade class.
The M.A.G.I.C. bus and its athletes assisted Playworks with a visit to a local Minneapolis school. The Gophers were represented by Catherine Ahrens, Sonia Dunkelbarger and Maighdlin Shaughnessy from rowing, Bryan Bjerk and Nathan Roese from men's track & field, Owen Salzwedel from football, Chole Portela from women's swimming and Kelsey Cline from women's hockey, all were at the event. The student-athletes played games with elementary kids at recess.
The third and final event of the day came at the University of Minnesota Armory when some of the student-athletes went to the Flying Gophers event. Running all afternoon, it was a joint event between the Air Force ROTC and Kappa Sigma as they raised monetary donations towards military charities. Sports represented at the event were football (Alexander Mayes, Brian Smith, Nathaniel Wozniak), swimming and diving (Raymond Leiferman, Lexi Tenenbaum, Daryl Turner), track & field (Bjerk and Alexandra Heifort), women's hockey (Megan Wolfe), soccer (Tarah Hobbs), women's gymnastics (Justine Cherwink) and women's cross country (Andrea Zeman).
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The coroner said 36-year-old Charles Michael Johnson was driving north on Mitchell Road at 3:35 a.m. when he went off the right side of the road, over-corrected and then went off the left side of the road and hit a utility pole.
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If your medical expenses exceed 7.5% of your income, you can deduct what you pay for medical care, including eyeglasses and mileage for doctor visits.
This post is by Tom Murphy of The Associated Press.
Taxpayers swamped by big medical bills in 2011 can get some relief when they file their income tax forms this spring, thanks to an overlooked deduction that is hard to reach in a typical year.
The IRS lets people deduct medical and dental expenses that surpass a certain percentage of their adjusted gross income, which is the last number on the first page of Form 1040. Taking advantage of this break requires careful record keeping and a review of the 34-page IRS Publication 502 (.pdf file).
Here's how to get started thinking about the deduction.
Q. Who uses this break?
A. Deductions for medical expenses fall into a unique category compared with other tax breaks. They usually don't occur every year like write-offs for mortgages or property taxes. Taxpayers also don't want to raise them voluntarily to ease their tax bill, like they would a charitable contribution. Post continues below.
"You can't say, 'I think I'll get sicker this year and have higher medical expenses,'" said Jackie Perlman, a senior analyst with the Tax Institute at H&R Block. "It's not something you voluntarily want to increase."
People generally need a big medical expense to qualify. Taxpayers must spend 7.5% of their adjusted gross income just to reach the point where they can use this deduction. Then they need a decent expense total beyond that point for the deduction to have a meaningful impact.
For instance, someone with adjusted gross income of $50,000 would have to spend well over $3,750 in order to qualify for the deduction and use it.
Further, this deduction is usually limited to people who itemize their returns and pay taxes.
The 2011 standard deduction for single taxpayers or people married and filing separately is $5,800. Married couples filing jointly have a standard deduction of $11,600.
Q. What expenses would count toward this deduction?
A. Publication 502 lays out an alphabetized expense list, starting with abortions and acupuncture. Eligible expenses also include chiropractor visits, fertility treatments, guide dog fees, eyeglasses and insurance premiums if you don't have coverage through your employer.
The expense has to be something the patient paid out of pocket, not the portion of a bill the insurer covered. It also cannot be something the patient paid for with money set aside before taxes in a flexible spending account. The government doesn't want to give you a tax break twice.
You can't count gym membership fees as an expense just because your doctor tells you to exercise more, but you may be able to count it if it's part of a medically prescribed weight-loss program.
Q. What expenses are frequently overlooked?
A. Miles traveled and other incidental expenses related to medical care can be deducted. This includes the cost per mile that you drove, as well as airline, train or bus fees for travel to medical care. It also can cover expenses for meals and lodging if you go out of town for care.
"It's the incidental, out-of-pocket expenses that are often overlooked because they are hard to re-create after the fact," said Mark Steber, chief tax officer of Jackson Hewitt Tax Service.
Patients who travel for medical care should track their out-of-pocket expenses from the start, in case they wind up qualifying for the deduction.
With the potential deduction in mind, it makes good sense to track all medical expenses every year.
Q. How much of a difference can this deduction make?
It has less of an impact than a tax credit, which directly lowers a tax bill by the amount of the credit on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Deductibles lower the income amount on which the tax is based.
The taxpayer's benefit largely depends on income and medical bill size. Perlman offers a hypothetical example using a married couple with $100,000 in adjusted gross income in the 25% tax bracket. If they have $1,000 in deductible medical expenses after they reach 7.5% of their adjusted gross income, they will lower their taxes by $250.
If they have $2,000 they can claim, that will lower their taxes by $500.
A small percentage of taxpayers use this benefit every year. About 10 million returns listed medical and dental deductions in 2009, according to the most recent data available from the IRS. That amounted to only about 7% of total returns from that year.
The total may be relatively small, but it grew 70% compared with 1999, when about 5.9 million returns listed the deductions.
The deduction will become harder to reach starting in 2013, when taxpayers will have to hit 10% of their adjusted gross income to qualify.
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It's a shame they are based in Canada, that's a long drive from the UK. :)
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Why even post about it, you have models lining up to take her place, post about that, something positve
I agree 100 % and this is what im afraid of. Im thinking im just going to do this because i just see it coming back on me. thanks for the thoughtful post it helps more then you know
Welcome to the club!
Seems like every time I want to write something, Tony always beat me to it. Anyway, I couldn't agree more! No phone number and there ain't no shoot...period! I don't care so much about the name because I require their real name on the release, but they have to confirm before the shoot for me to show up. Oh, and speaking of which, no release, no shoot.
If I were considering working with you and read that, I couldn't run fast enough in the opposite direction to get away.
Every thing in that rant or blog would lead readers to believe you are the one with issues, not the model. It's whiny, unprofessional and incredibly self-serving.
I always find it odd when a photographer obviously finds enough value to reach out to a model and schedule a TF* shoot. But as soon as it doesn't turn out the way they want, they resort to degrading and insulting the model, as if they were doing them a favor by offering a shoot.
Sometimes when people are angry or hurt they say things they really don't mean. Yet once its written here we are can digest it and comment. My feeling is the OP is a decent guy. He deserved to know that his model wasn't coming and his rant is about his frustration. He didn't out her. I have no ideal who she is nor do I care. Is is he being whiny, maybe. Have many of us been there, damm straight. Recently a model asked me to shoot and canceled via email last minute. I was PISSED and while I usually just move on. I called her and put her on full blast. I had a designer who wanted to do something. This was paid work. Not a lot of money but money.
Several models over the last few months flaked. I didn't email or call them or start a thread. What would be the point but for some people this is cathartic. I get over my anger by kicking my cat. (just kidding)
No phone number, no booking. That's the way it works for me. If we have not spoken on the phone, we are not shooting. It's extremely rare that anyone flakes on me.
This would have been a first red flag for me. But again, if we don't exchange phone numbers and talk at least once, no shoot.
I would pose naked in a grave yard for 10.00
If this is true, prove it with your actions.
Posting about it here and considering posting on her FB page indicates that what I quoted isn't really the truth.
Also, consider this: All of the jabs you took at the model in your write up also make YOU look bad... You were the one that, before today, thought this was a model worth planning a shoot with.
Breaded flakes sounds yummy!
I made it through the first 10 or 20 shoots without a flaking. But then when it happened, it was, "Oh, so this is what it is." When it happened the second time, it was old hat.
Honestly, most of my flakes occur during the arrangements. They'll simply stop talking, and I move on. If we've got a connection going, time and place and concepts and arrangements set, it generally carries through.
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Growing up, a good portion of my summers were consumed attending basketball camps. From SEI to Damon Stoudamire to Cascade Camp and everything in between, playing basketball and meeting new people one week at a time is how I spent my summers.
In that respect, I have a lot in common with the Cotton brothers, Mason and Maxwell. We love our Trail Blazers, playing basketball and meeting new people through basketball. However, there's one small thing that separates the Cotton brothers from myself and the rest of their peers: they're Hollywood actors.
I'm not talking about being extras on Grimm or Leverage. I'm not even talking about starring on a reality TV show.
Mason Cotton, 10, plays Bobby Draper, the son of Don Draper, on AMC's critically acclaimed show Mad Men. He's also played MJ Delfino, the son of Susan and Mike Delfino, on ABC's Emmy Award winning show Desperate Housewives. And that's just a couple of name-drops; check out his IMDB profile for a complete filmography.
Maxwell Cotton, 12, is just as established an actor. He played Cooper Whedon for five seasons on ABC's Brothers & Sisters. He's acted alongside Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper's Penguins and was Dennis from A Dennis the Menace Christmas. In 2013, Maxwell will share the big screen with Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in Gangster Squad. For Maxwell's full filmography, click here.
Although they live in San Diego, the Cotton brothers have attended the Trail Blazers Nike Hoops Camp three of the past four summers. They have relatives they spend time with in the Portland-metro area and are a fixture at Trail Blazers Practice Facility for one week each summer.
Realizing how fortunate they are to be successful actors, the brothers' innate goodwill towards humanity recently perked up. They wanted other kids their age to share the same camp experience they have: the camaraderie, the team-building, the games, the prizes, the top-level coaching. So Mason and Maxwell decided to sponsor ten kids from the Trail Blazers Boys & Girls Club in northeast Portland. The ten kids, a combination of boys and girls ages 8-13, were selected by the club based on behavior, grades and attitude.
The Cottons were thrilled to spend a week in Portland and show their new friends the ropes as veterans of the Trail Blazers Nike Hoops Camp.
However, as their acting careers take off, what were once leisurely summers have now been consumed with work. Soon after they devised their philanthropic plan, they realized their acting schedule conflicted with the camp.
The boys were devastated. But instead of rescinding their big-hearted offer to the Boys & Girls Club, the Cotton brothers extended their generosity even further. They decided to sponsor two additional kids (who they had previously met) to attend camp in their place.
Twelve campers, paid for by two Hollywood kid actors, ten of which they thought they'd never meet.
At the last minute, the Cotton's manager realized their schedule allowed them to fly into Portland on the last day of camp. They arrived mid-morning on Friday and met the overwhelmingly appreciative Boys & Girls Club kids they'd sponsored. They exchanged brief pleasantries and then hit the court to do what kids do best: put their tireless enthusiasm to use going through drills, contests and scrimmages.
If only for a day, the Cotton boys plan had worked out. They were just like any other sports-loving kid growing up in the summer in Oregon: attending camp, playing basketball and making new friends. Twelve of their new friends will surely never forget the experience.
I love this story! When you're a kid you just want to have fun and share it with others. Thanks for sharing KK!
That looks like tons of fun for those kiddos:)
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42 U.S. Code § 2141 - Licensing by Nuclear Regulatory Commission of distribution of special nuclear material, source material, and byproduct material by Department of Energy
(a) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is authorized to license the distribution of special nuclear material, source material, and byproduct material by the Department of Energy pursuant to section 2074, 2094, and 2112 of this title, respectively, in accordance with the same procedures established by law for the export licensing of such material by any person: Provided, That nothing in this section shall require the licensing of the distribution of byproduct material by the Department of Energy under section 2112 of this title.
(b) The Department of Energy shall not distribute any special nuclear material or source material under section 2074 or 2094 of this title other than under an export license issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission until
(1) the Department has obtained the concurrence of the Department of State and has consulted with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Defense under mutually agreed procedures which shall be established within not more than ninety days after March 10, 1978, and
(2) the Department finds based on a reasonable judgment of the assurances provided and the information available to the United States Government, that the criteria in section 2156 of this title or their equivalent and any applicable criteria in section 2157 of this title are met, and that the proposed distribution would not be inimical to the common defense and security.
Source(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 111, as added Pub. L. 95–242, title III, § 301(c),Mar. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 125; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8),Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944; amended Pub. L. 105–277, div. G, title XII, § 1225(d)(3),Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–774.)
1998—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–277substituted "the Nuclear Regulatory Commission" for "the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,".
Effective Date of 1998 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 105–277effective on earlier of Apr. 1, 1999, or date of abolition of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency pursuant to reorganization plan described in section 6601 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse, see section 1201 ofPub. L. 105–277, set out as an Effective Date note under section 6511 of Title 22.
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Section effective Mar. 10, 1978, except as otherwise provided and regardless of any requirements for the promulgation of implementing regulations, see section 603(c) ofPub. L. 95–242, set out as a note under section 3201 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of certain functions from Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Chairman thereof, see Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1980, 45 F.R. 40561, 94 Stat. 3585, set out as a note under section 5841 of this title.
Performance of Functions Pending Development of Procedures
The performance of functions under this chapter, as amended by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95–242, Mar. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 120, not to be delayed pending development of procedures even though as many as 120 days [after Mar. 10, 1978] are allowed for establishing those procedures, see section 5(b) of Ex. Ord. No. 12058, May 11, 1978, 43 F.R. 20947, set out under section 3201 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
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