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Bingo lovers will be happy to know that there's a new place in Northeast Miami where you can shake up those bingo balls. Eros, a gay lounge, has been open for about a year at 8201 Biscayne Boulevard and is, as of last week bringing in bingo nights.They are planning plenty of future surprises including food, fun and games. There is already a karaoke night that is open to the whole neighborhood.
Formerly, the space was a flower shop. Then Eros Lounge owner Carlos Rojas saw a need for a night time gay place in the area and set up shop at the busy intersection. A rainbow flag hangs outside the establishment along with the name, but apart from that, there are no indications as to what you'll encounter inside... if you don't know what the god of Eros signifies.
There is free parking in the back and free nighttime parking at the Bank of America lot directly across the street that can accommodate about 70 cars.
On the menu: meatballs, hummus, cheese with salsa, and gyros. Everything is heated on a panini press. The favorite bar dish, according to Lucas the bartender is their shrimp cocktail.
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Rojas said, "We wanted to do something a little different and we also wanted to welcome the straight community into our place, so we've started Tuesday night Bingo and Wednesday night Karaoke. It's of course, a gay lounge but really everyone is welcomed to come in, have a drink and a bite, play bingo, sing and enjoy the facility.
"Bingo started two weeks ago but it poured that night and it was rather empty. So far, we haven't started charging for bingo but in a couple of weeks we're going to charge everyone a small price to participate and pay for the cards. We'll have some really nice prizes to win. We're going to have a weekend for two in the penthouse at the Townhouse Hotel in South Beach as well as restaurant certificates and cash prizes. Boulevard Bingo starts at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and is hosted by Miss Twinkleton, who is quite a funny dish and well, if truth be known, doesn't shave either. Wednesday's everyone is welcomed to come sing their hearts out for out karaoke evening."
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- What you miss most about the Summer Research program: The collection of researchers- so many interesting people and cool projects in one place! I also miss running on the HF roads and trails.
- What you miss least about the program: The inherent drama of a large house full of college students.
- What about the program has stuck with you: I really learned how to do field-based research at Harvard Forest. In particular I began to appreciate how critical it is to think through logistics before heading out.
- Have you stayed in touch with other Summer students: Unfortunately, no... Hey 2002... where are you?
- Did your Summer Research experience support or change your school/career plans: My REU experience gave me confidence as a researcher. I later pursued more research-related jobs and earned a Master's in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont.
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Arts news, exhibitions, events, biennials and conferences, calls, resources and opportunities, technical information, exhibitions and reviews. London Edition.
25 April, 2011
Lena Schmidt
Lucid" at Primary Projects, 4141 N.E. 2nd Ave., suite 104, Design District; www.primaryflight.com.
Schmidt is one of two artists highlighted in the latest show at the new space opened by several artists from the graffiti collective Primary Flight (Typoe, Books IIII Bischof and Chris O) in the Design District, this one called "Lucid." She had in fact worked here in Miami with a Fountainhead residency, so some of her scenes are of Miami avenues, along with those of her native Hamburg.
Schmidt calls her artworks urbanscapes—they refer to places that generate themselves from nonplaces, she says, from the transit zones of the city, traffic interchanges, road systems, crossroads and deserted old industrial brick buildings.
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Rates of cancer mortality in Aboriginal populations are rising - at a time when the same rates in non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations are decreasing.
Diseases such as type 2 diabetes are being diagnosed at greater rates in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients experience greater complications associated with these diseases.
Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
The primary focus of our Aboriginal Health research theme is doing research directly relevant to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people in South Australia and across the country. This research team is dedicated to reducing inequalities in life expectancy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
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By Peter Koevari
Darkness Rising is the second book in the Legends Of Marithia series.
In the aftermath of the Battle of the Elven Woods, the two legends of Marithian prophecy are both dangerously close to the dark grip of death as Marithia suffers under the powers of the Blood Red Moon.
Vartan, prophesised to save Marithia, lays spellbound under the protection of the mythical dragons. The vampire sorceress Kassina, prophesised to bring about their Armageddon has been moved to the underworld by the demon lord himself, Shindar.
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OKLAHOMA CITY -- The president has signed a bill to lower interest rates for student loans. Rates on new subsidized loans doubled on July 1st after congress could not agree on a way to keep them at the 3.4 percent rate.
The new measure will allow millions of students to have lower interest rates, saving the average undergraduate roughly $1,500 on interest this year.
As students prepare to head back, college costs are on the minds of many families.
Amy Welch, the Communications Director of the Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants joins us in the KFOR TV studios.
She has information on how much do students, on the average, owe in student loans and the best practices for not allowing that debt to get too high.
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A note: as a courtesy, most of the esoteric terminology in this article will not be clarified with links. Google is your friend, but be aware that you're rolling the dice; some of these things will be disturbing or upsetting to you, others may end up pushing buttons you never knew you had. So, y'know, heads up.
One of the most important speeches I've seen in the last few years is Clay Shirky's famous "Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus", in which he lays out a theory stating that we are presently enjoying an unannounced renaissance in creativity made possible by the tools of technological empowerment.
Did you ever see that episode of Gilligan's Island where they almost get off the island and then Gilligan messes up and then they don't? I saw that one. I saw that one a lot when I was growing up. And every half-hour that I watched that was a half an hour I wasn't posting at my blog or editing Wikipedia or contributing to a mailing list. Now I had an ironclad excuse for not doing those things, which is none of those things existed then. I was forced into the channel of media the way it was because it was the only option. Now it's not, and that's the big surprise. However lousy it is to sit in your basement and pretend to be an elf, I can tell you from personal experience it's worse to sit in your basement and try to figure if Ginger or Mary Ann is cuter.
And I'm willing to raise that to a general principle. It's better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute captions, hold out an invitation to participation. When you see a lolcat, one of the things it says to the viewer is, "If you have some sans-serif fonts on your computer, you can play this game, too." And that message—I can do that, too—is a big change.
Now, I grew up around futurists, and one thing growing up around futurists teaches you is to have a hair-trigger bullshit detector whenever you're anywhere near a futurist. If I don't see immediately testable predictions that map to both the futurist's theory and my own experience, I just file it away with the Long Boom and VR helmets. Shirky's model of cognitive surplus passes that test with flying colors. People, young people especially, are getting home from work and school, sitting down, and making things. Making lolcats, fan tumblrs, stupid YouTube videos. Making indie games, webcomics, 3-D printable models. Making crazy Rube Goldberg machines because the internet gives them an audience for their silly project. Making a playable arcade out of cardboard because why the hell not?
Even watching TV is now a participatory act for many people. You vote for the winners, you jump in the online discussions, you help with the save-the-show write-in campaigns, you pick the best screencaps to put Texts From Last Night over. And the makers of TV know it. They plan for buzz, they build fan spaces, they put fan jokes into the show itself. Consumption is no longer passive; it has become a give-and-take between art and audience in which the audience is an active and necessary part of the process, shaping both the art itself and the outcome of the symbiosis between them. Tell your grandchildren that you lived in the generation when postmodernism came to life and ate the world.
Of course, technology being what it is, one of the major things people are using this incredible participation for is making porn. SO MUCH PORN.
There's a term in the fan fiction community, "drawerfic". It arises from the answer to "What was your first fanfic?" given by everyone who grew up pre-internet: "This thing I wrote in a notebook when I was 14 and kept in a drawer and never showed anyone." Every little girl making porn (and not all fic writers are girls and not all fanfic is porn, but they mostly are and an awful lot of it is) thought she was the only one. Her creativity came pre-stifled and then it was back to Gilligan's Island. Fan fiction only became a community, became huge, when these girls began meeting, began corresponding, began exchanging fictions as gifts and trades. First in homemade zines, then exploding beyond all measure on the internet. Now it's one of the largest gift economies on earth, with untold millions of words a day being exchanged, people (mostly women) making things in exchange for other things people made. There's your cognitive surplus right there.
Naturally, an awful lot of what's being made is weird porn. Yes, there are many fanfics that are silly jokes, or character studies, or casefic, or otherwise not porn. There's also universes of D/s, mpreg, knotting, and (for one-stop shopping) porn-oriented AUs like the Alpha/Omegaverse, in which the way MRAs perceive masculinity becomes literally true and a lot gayer. This is why, when Gail Dines argues that the internet has made men addicted to porn, and influenced men's sexual fetishes until they make perverse demands on women, who themselves never enjoy porn and thus are free of sexual fetishes, I laugh until I can't breathe.
Of course, I don't want to imply that the weird porn of the internet is only restricted to women. Oh goodness, no. All genders and all types are accommodated, bless the internet's cold black heart. And more and more, especially at the weird ends of the spectrum, people are becoming more than consumers of porn, they're becoming producers. They're using the tools technology has given them to engage with their kinks, and they're drawing and writing and Photoshopping and molding the lovable 3-D people of Poser into configurations that god never intended. But then, who asked god's opinion anyway?
I am not kidding when I say that I find incredibly esoteric and specialized porn to be one of the most life-affirming things in the world. Even… no, especially the stuff that doesn't do anything for me. Every giantess crush site, every furry vore gallery, every Shintaro Kago shit-and-dissection-fest, every body-inflation discussion group, every set of specialized apron-fetish films, every dendrophile fan club, every time I learn a new word like "boytaur" or "OT3" or "docking" or "unbirth"… all these things bring me a genuine and unironic joy.
These things, these kinks, these flights of imagination, are the impassioned obsessions of real people, everyday people. At least one of your coworkers, at least one of your family members. And that's not creepy, that's wonderful. Every one of those weird kinks is a shout of human individuality in a world that wants to reduce us down to buying patterns and demographic trends. "I am alive!" they cry. "I am not an emerging new style, I am not a market segment, I am not co-optable, I am not coming soon to a theater near you, I am not approved for all audiences, I am not available in stores, I am damn sure not fun for the whole family and I never will be."
Maybe you don't find that life-affirming, but I sure do.
This is why people become makers of porn, participants rather than consumers. If literally all you want is women with too much makeup and hairspray joylessly fucking men with statistically-improbable megadongs in a universe where pubic hair was banished by dark magics in 2001, then "mainstream" porn has you covered and you can safely be a passive consumer. For the non-mainstream other 95% of us, we must look elsewhere. If what you really want is something made by people who understand your desires because they share them, you're going to wander into a gift economy, and once there, you're going to be a lot more popular if you contribute.
This is, I am not joking, an improvement on the previous 10,000 years of human history. Before, people lived their entire lives feeling they could never be understood, either suppressing their weird kinks or, in a few rare cases, becoming Irving Klaw or Robert Heinlein. Now we have 21st-century technology, which smiles and says "There are people who will understand, if you find them and make yourself understood. Here are the tools to do it."
We use those tools to keep Community on the air, and we also use them to create animated GIFs of Jessica Rabbit with a huge dick. If either of those things strikes you as a strange use of time and technology, that's okay: it's not for you. And that's the point.


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Another sick beast locked up for grooming a girl 23 years younger than himself. Pervert Mansour Savari was married with children, had a good job and should of been making something of his life with his family. Instead he filled a 13 year olds head with rubbish about having babies and a future with her so he could get her in bed and satisfy his warped urges.
Married Sunderland dad abused 13-year-old schoolgirl
A MARRIED engineer sexually abused a trusting schoolgirl after convincing her they had a future together.
Mansour Savari told the 13-year-old he wanted them to get married and have twins during a series of secret text messages.
The 36-year-old dad took the teenager, from South Tyneside, to a pal's empty flat and engaged in sexual activity with her.
He was arrested at his home after a worried friend of the victim contacted the police about what she knew.
At Newcastle Crown Court yesterday Savari, of Somerset Cottages, Silksworth, Sunderland, was jailed for three years and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for life.
He had pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual activity with a child just before his trial before a jury was due to start last month.
Judge Roger Thorn QC told him: "You engaged in the most appalling and inappropriate sexual relationship with a young girl who you persuaded you were in love with and she was in love with you.
"Your victim was only just 13 years of age and by contrast you were 36.
"There had been here a significant period of grooming, promising, in effect a long-term relationship eventually which would be characterised by both marriage and children.
"That, of course, led ultimately to her seduction."
The court heard Savari had denied the offences outright when he was arrested, meaning the victim faced the prospect of giving evidence in court until he changed his plea to guilty.
Judge Thorn added: "You did, eventually save that young victim of yours having to give evidence."
Prosecutor Amanda Rippon read examples of the dozens of text messages exchanged between Savari and his victim.
She said: "They talk of having a baby together, the defendant and she have a conversation about what it would be called.
"The defendant says 'I would love us to have twins'."
Paul Currer, defending, said: "It is his sincere wish that this young girl and her family recover from the trauma and difficulties they have faced through his offending."


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Now that the Knights of the Fallen Empire has released for all subscribers and enough time has passed that I don't feel bad about talking spoilers, we're going to do exactly that! As I explained in yesterday's prologue, I'll be recounting the journey of Ravanor, my original character, in a somewhat dramatic, screenshot-heavy form.
Chapter I The Hunt
In response to Darth Marr's summons, Commander Ravanor, formerly of the Imperial Intelligence rendezvoused with the joint Imperial-Republic taskforce that Marr helmed. Upon docking with the flagship, a Terminus-class Destroyer, Ravanor was greeted by its Captain and an honour guard of troopers.
Elsewhere, a lone shuttle flew towards the high-orbit throne room of Zakuul, the capital of the mysterious force attacking the Empire and Republic. It delivered the scarred figure of Arcann, Emperor Valkorion's only remaining son, and together they orchestrated the beginning of the end for Marr's unsuspecting force.
Back aboard Marr's flagship, a small, nimble probe was spotted in the midst of the Coalition's formation, unbeknownst to them it was their only warning of the impending attack. Moments later a fleet of unfathomable size dropped out of hyperspace; hundreds if not thousands of strange looking hulls formed in an impossibly perfect formation. The unknown force immediately opened fire with lasers and boarding pods, leaving Ravanor in an all too familiar position.
But not totally familiar. As Ravanor's blaster bolts punched smoking holes in the gleaming and weighty forms of 'Skytrooper' boarders, I was struck by the close and oppressive nature of the corridors around him. Unlike almost every other environment in the game this area was appropriately sized, the cold angular imperialistic walls closed in around my camera and it all felt so perfect. Coalition troopers traded shots in ferocious fire fights against ranks of faceless white aggressors, in the confined corridors of a warship. The Episode IV: A New Hope parallels were not lost on me.
During Ravanor's sweep of the deck he encountered two corporals, one Imperial one Republic, holding a shielded doorway, beyond which soldiers were being quickly overwhelmed by Skytroopers. Ravanor could have aided them and led a counterattack, but time isn't in abundance, instead he ordered the blast doors sealed, and thus he made the first 'significant' choice of the expansion. And then came a second; seeing no way to reach his Phantom, (his personal ship) Ravanor ordered his crew to take off and carry news of the attack back to the Empire, little did he know that's the last he would be seeing them for a good long while.
Despite having cleared the invaders from the command deck, Marr's ship was virtually dead in the water. Ravanor descended to the engineering deck, upon arriving he was greeted by a display of Darth Marr strength, and the two rapidly cut a path through the Skytrooper invaders. With the engines safe and the ship mobile again, they took the only rational course of action and ordered the ship to ramming speed. (Click to enlarge).
The feeling was awesome. It's a good time to stress how different the presentation has been during this chapter. Cutscenes spark every few moments, dynamic cutscenes depicting actions like fleet battles and close quarters combat, more elaborate than pretty much any in the base game, oh and the music, it never stops. If Knights of the Fallen Empire didn't share the same graphics and combat as The Old Republic, I could have easily mistaken what was happening on screen for another game; it's all about the moment, the experience, not the MMO gameplay.
Ravanor awoke sometime later, cuffed but unharmed in a cell surrounded by dark robed, masked guards and watched by Arcann. The Prince questioned Ravanor but was met only with stoic silence – the agent was a professional after all – while Marr, also a prisoner, used every exchange as a means to goad Arcann into biting. The Prince revealed they were now in the Eternal Empire of Zakuul.
On their way to the throne room of Zakuul, walls lined with staff-wielding armoured guards, Arcann and his prisoners were waylaid by an older man named Heskal, referred to as a Scion. The animosity between the two men was palpable; there is rift between them, but the many questions within Ravanor's mind were swept aside as he was led into the throne room.
Almost immediately Marr identified the Eternal Emperor Valkorion as the missing Sith Emperor Vitiate; he may have been wearing a different skin but Marr could sense his true self through the Force. Valkorion neither confirmed nor denied Marr's conclusion, but merely extended his two prisoners an offer, to kneel before him.
Marr of course refused and seized the opportunity to attack; using the Force he snatched a light-staff from the hands of a nearby sentry and struck them down with it. But Valkorion ended his resistance with a burst of Force lightning, he swatted the dark lord aside like one might a bothersome fly.
At the sound of commotion Vaylin, a dark hooded woman entered and ordered the guards and onlookers to leave the throne room. Valkorian extended the offer again, just to Ravanor this time.
Who accepted.
The decision was not an easy one, I sat mulling it over for a quite a while, before concluding that Ravanor being the slick operative he is would accept, if only to increase his chances of survival and escape. He knelt and Valkorion poured the Force, his dark essence, into the agent. Until his chest was seared open by a lightsaber, in a fit of jealousy at what he viewed as an unearned gift, Arcann cut down his father. Ravanor was thrown aside by the force of the Emperor's passing, cast unconscious, and framed for the Immortal Emperor's murder. Thus began Arcann's reign.


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The American Colonial & Federal periods went from 1607 to the late 1700s. As might be expected, decoration was at a minimum, and design favored the hand-made The period is split into several main styles: Jacobean, French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Dutch Colonial and Georgian.
Josiah Dennis House + Modern Ontario Home
Early American Colonial homes featured a centered chimney, designed to act as central heating, reaching all areas in the home.
This modern home in Ontario also features a centered chimney that is open to the public rooms in the home. The chimney breaks through an angled roof and skylight for an creating an even more dramatic feature.
Colonial Saltbox + La Grange in Quebec
The saltbox building style has a long pitched roof that slopes down in the back. It was a unique feature of the Early Colonial home that was not derived from Europe but instead from a common Colonial container called a saltbox that was used for curing meats.
This modern version features a cut-out on the steeper slope side for a balcony. It also shares the centered chimney with its colonial counterpart.
The Windsor chair from the Federal Period often featured a rounded back and arms. Round poles fit into the back of the saddle seat and make up the backrest.
This modern version shares the the same round back and saddle seat, but is updated by the simple curve of the back into the arms.
The gateleg or drop-leaf table is made up of one fixed section and one or two sections hinged leaves. The main identifying feature of the gateleg style were the extra legs which would fold out to hold up the leaves when opened, allowing the table to be used for dining or as a console table.
This updated version from Crate and Barrel features the folding gatelegs but is much more simple in its design, with straight legs and a simple top as opposed to the William & Mary version with turned legs and a round top.
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The turned legs on this custom-table have a spiral effect going into a simple round top. This is reminiscent of the turned wood found throughout American Colonial period including these stairs from the Wentworth House from the end of the 17th C.


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The South Dade Bucs wrestling team, which is on a quest for its third consecutive state title and its 11th championship since 1995, is determined to continue its two-decades-plus stretch of domination.
But the Bucs are getting a severe challenge even before they get to state.
Through nine of the 14 weight classes on Friday, South Dade and Southwest were in a dead heat at 64.5 points. Southridge was third with 58.5 points.
When the first of a two-day Region 4-3A tournament had concluded at Everglades High, the Bucs had emerged with a hard-fought lead over Southwest, 83.5 to 74.5. Southridge (72.5) was third.
South Dade advanced 11 wrestlers to the Saturday's semifinals. Southwest advanced eight wrestlers. Southridge has seven semifinalists.
Last year, South Dade (first), Southwest (fourth), Southridge (sixth) and Braddock (ninth) gave the southern half of Miami-Dade County four of the top 10 teams at state in 3A.
Braddock does not appear to have that type of team this year and is 10th after the first day of regional competition.
Top 10 teams: 1. South Dade 83.5; 2: Southwest 74.5; 3: Southridge 72.5; 4: Columbus 56.0; 5: Miami Beach 43.5; 6: Cypress Bay 42.5; 7: Coral Gables 41; 8: North Miami 38.5; 9: Cooper City 37; 10: Braddock 36.5;
Semifinal pairings: 106: Pierre Nad (EVER) vs. Varona (SD); Silvestre (H.Hills) vs. Ryan (KIL); 113: Silvestre (H.Hills) vs. Victor (BR): Perez (SW) vs. Reyes (SD); 120: Gonzalez (SW) vs. Webb (SD); Martinez (COL) vs. McCray (SRidge); 126: Codinach (COL) vs. Valdes (SW) Vizcaino (CG) vs. Marshall (SRidge); 132: Abreu (CP) vs. Brown (BR); Urquiza (SW) vs. Balmaceda (SD); 138: Acedo (SW) vs. Kinsey (SRidge); Hueck (H.Hills) vs. Bentley (COL); 145: Jones (C.City) vs. Lugo (SD); Londono (MB) vs. Delcueto (SW); 152: Perry (SRidge) vs. Rendueles (HG); Lopez (BR) vs. Perry (SD); 160: Nogradi (EVER) vs. Flores (SD); Cruz (MB) vs. Rios (SRidge); 170: Periera (SW) vs. Kaercher (CReef); Chery (NM) vs. Malette (WBrow); 182: Eisman (CBay) vs. Harvey (SD); Sweet (KIL) vs. Williams (H.Hills); 195: Macugoski (C.City) vs. Sotolongo (SW); Barrocas (Reagan) vs. Hill (SD); 220: Mentor (KIL) vs. Jason (SD); Capote (Mater) vs. Hamilton (SRidge); 285: Stephens (CG) vs. JUedy (SRidge); Mann (COL) vs. Taylor (SD).
▪ Region 4-1A quarterfinals — Boasting Broward County's only undefeated wrestler, Cardinal Gibbons dominated in the Region 4-1A quarterfinals. The Chiefs advanced 10 wrestlers into Saturday's semifinals, including state runner-up Dominick Gibson.
"I lost last year with 17 seconds left," said Gibson, who wrestles in the 120-pound class. "I dream about it all the time. It's in my head, and I regret it. I'm really hungry."
Michael Iopouchanski extended his 48-0 record for the Chiefs and is paired with Keys Gate's Ron Evans in a 160-pound semifinal matchup.
"The guy didn't put up much of a fight and I just tried to get it done as quick as possible, to get off the mat and go cut weight," Opouchanski said. "Took him down and cradled him and pinned him."
Somerset Academy stood in second place behind Gibbons. Miami Jackson is fourth, behind Key West. Keys Gate was in fifth place at the end of quarterfinals.
"I did it pretty quick," Somerset's 113-pound wrestler Christopher Riley said. "I cradled the kid and that was pretty much it.
"We had some pretty surprising upsets. We weren't really expected as a team but we've had some really great matches."
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Top 10 teams: 1. Cardinal Gibbons 100; 2. Somerset Academy 72.5; 3. Key West 69.5; 4. Miami Jackson 65; 5. Keys Gate 58; 6. Mater Lakers 45.5; 7. American Heritage (DB) 45; 8. Coconut Creek 42; 9. Coral Springs Charter 40.5; 10. Coral Shores 36.
Semifinal pairings: 106: Mata (AHDB) vs. Palacios (KW), Huerkamp (CG) vs. Delgado (KG). 113: Barnes (JC) vs. Riley (SA), Smith (J) vs. Scirghio (CM). 120: Armengol (ML) vs. Gibson (CG), Singeltary (SA) vs. Piraino (KW). 126: Desola (AHDB) vs. Benton (SA), Daley (CC) vs. Lopez (BTW). 132: TalShahar (AHDB) vs. Estrada (J), Maynard (H) vs. Lambert (CC). 138: Mursuli (SC) vs. Ashe (KW), Lopez (CG) vs. Perez (MS). 145: Ley (CG) vs. Williams (J), Venturi (AHP) vs. Blasucci (SA). 152: Nunez (ML) vs. Nelson (CG), Vernaza (SA) vs. Taylor (CSC). 160: Rodriguez (CS) vs. Estevez (SA), Iopouchanski (CG) vs. Evans (KG). 170: Curry (CC) vs. Bonnin (CG), Georgescu (CG) vs. Petit (J). 182: Dorvil (CC) vs. Small (CG), Soltis (CSC) vs. Williams (J). 195: Thomas (AHDB) vs. Moltimer (CSC), Williams (CG) vs. Mesa (PP). 220: Charlton (WC) vs. Schwartzberg (ML), Clement (AHP) vs. Exilus (KW). 285: Moran (AHDB) vs. Ellis (AHP), Bodden (J) vs. Jiovenetta (CS).
▪ At the Region 3-3A wrestling tournament at Park Vista High in Lake Worth, St. Thomas Aquinas will enter Saturday's final day of the event in first place with 78.5 points. Wellington is a close second with 74.5 points.
Aquinas, which finished fourth at state in 2012, third in 2013 and second in 2014 before falling off last season, advanced nine wrestlers to Saturday's semifinal matchups. Aquinas dominated the lower weight classes on Friday, advancing all eight of its wrestlers from 106 to 152 pounds.
Blanche Ely guard Kanesha Battle and Miami Country Day coach Ochiel Swaby were each honored by the Florida Dairy Farmers Association.
Battle, a Bethune-Cookman University signee, was named Class 7A Player of the Year after leading her team to the regional semifinals by averaging 24.6 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals per game.
Swaby was named Class 3A Coach of the Year after leading the Spartans to their third consecutive state title — a first for a Miami-Dade County.
▪ Palmer Trinity 20, Miami Country Day 17: Lauren Keller (1-0). Lauren Keller 4-4, 5 R. Sophia Rivas 2-4, 2 RBI. Megan Keller 2-5, 2 RBI. PT 3-3
▪ Hialeah 27, Homestead 11: Kassandra Roig (4-4), 9 K's, 6 IP, 3-4, 3 R, 3 RBI, 2 2B. Christina Garcia 4-5, 4 2B, 5 R, 4 RBI. Jessica Gonzalez 3-3, 3 RBI, 4 R. HIA 4-4.
▪ Palmetto 18, American 0: Amanda Guglietta (2-0), 7 IP, H, 4 K's, 0 BB, GS. Isa Velazquez 3-3, 2 R, HR, GS, 6 RBI. Erin Love 3-3, 3 R, 3 RBI. Brittany Phillips 2-2, 2B, 2 R, RBI. PAL 8-0.
▪ Killian 20, Homestead 19: WP: Kathedra Cange. Jhanae Askew 3-5, 4 RBI. Rachel Cardenas 3-5, 3 RBI. Maya Elias 3-5, 2 RBI. KIL 2-5.
▪ Late Thursday — South Dade 9, Coral Reef 5: Tatum Rodriguez (5-1). Zaria Hall 2-4, 3 RBI, HR, 2 R. Mayumi Atkins 3-3, 2B, 3 R. Tammy Altamarano 2-3, 2 RBI. SD 6-1.
▪ Doral Academy 2, iMater 1: Jonathan Lopez (1-0) 2 IP, 3 K's. Luis Balbuena 2H, R. Brian Perez GW H. DA 6-3.
▪ Sunset 12, Coral Gables 2: WP: Christhian Alba. Albert Zamorano 3-3, 3 RBI, 2 R. Erick Orbeta 2-4, 3 RBI, R. Kenny Centeno 2-2, R, 2 BB.
▪ Westminster Christian 6, Palmer Trinity 1: Jake Zarrello (3-0). Luis Aviles 2-3, 2 RBI. Michael Riley 1-1, RBI.
▪ SLAM 11, Archbishop Carroll 6: Blake Brattain 5 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 5 K's. Jeter Downs 2-2, 1B, 2B, RBI, BB. Jose Garcia 3-4, 1B, 2B, 3B, 6 RBI. Chauncey Nunez 1-3, 1B, RBI. Alejandro Rodriguez 1-2, 1B. SA 6-0-1.
▪ University School 5, Community School Of Naples 1: Scott Gutstein (1-0) 5 IP, H, 4 K's, 0 R. Jake Pfundstein 2/2, 2B, R. US 7-1. CSN 4-3.
▪ Late Thursday — Palmetto 8, Southridge 4: Nick Labrada (1-0). Ryan Booth 4-4, 3 R. Alan Alonso 2-3, R. Keaton Zargham 2-5, 3 RBI. PAL 3-2.
▪ Miami Country Day 4, Sagemont 3: 3. Alex Cohan 8-1. 4. Evan Meiselman 8-2. 5. Harrison Breslow 8-2.
▪ Hialeah High 4, Miami High 3: 3. Shem Rivera 8-0. 4. Sterven Louis 8-0. 5. Danny Sanchez 8-0. Doubles: Sanchez/Louis 8-0. HIA 1-0.
▪ Coral Reef 7, Killian 0: 1. Thomas Barraque (CR) 8-0. 2. Daniel Martens (CR) 8-0. 3. Johann Rapp (CR) 8-1. 4. Lucas Nickolich (CR) 8-1. 5. Simon Galvis (CR) 8-0. CR 6-1.
▪ Coral Reef 7, Killian 0: 1. Laura Navia (CR) 8-4. 2. Alexandria Hitt (CR) 8-0. 3. Cathy Xin (CR) 8-0. 4. Bruna Decerega (CR) 8-0. 5. Claudia Jacobo (CR). CR 5-2.
▪ Cardinal Gibbons 17, Taravella 1: Luke Motta 6 goals. Cole OHallaron 3 goals. Whitman Hengtgen 2 goals. Reilly Diamond 2 goals. Whitman Hengtgen 17 FOW. CG 6-1.
▪ Belen 15, Coral Reef 2: Gabriel Garcia 3 goals. Johnny Powell 3 goals, assist. Brian Pascual 2 goals. Deiter Prussing 2 goals. Nico Smith 2 goals. Robert Fernandez goal. Patrick Arean goal. Adrian Rey goal. Mat Salas 8 saves. BEL 7-0.


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"A Winner. 4 Stars." 2008 Edinburgh Festival
TimeOut NY Critics Pick
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The Songwriter's Beat Festival presents 24 of NY's best songwriters in 6 nights, from July 20 - July 25, 2009.
Now in its 9th year, The Songwriter's Beat is New York's most popular acoustic songwriters series, curated / hosted by singer-songwriter Valerie Ghent. The Songwriter's Beat features four songwriters of varying musical styles who are encouraged to try out their newest material and arrangements.
The Songwriter's Beat is delighted to share in the 32nd birthday celebration of the Cornelia Street Cafe!
Proceeds of the Songwriter's Beat Festival benefit "Feel the Music!" , a NYC nonprofit which brings music and art to children and families impacted by trauma.
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Fils Unique / St�phane Audeguy, translated by John Cullen
Un Complot de saltimbanques / Albert Cossery, translated by Alyson Waters
Mari et Femme (cont. from last month) / R�gis de S� Moreira, translated by Jeff Rubinstein
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Miriam Stanley has performed at the D.U.M.B.O Arts Festival, The Knitting Factory, Dixon Place, The Bowery Poetry Club, and numerous other venues. She is senior editor of roguescholars.com
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Ruth Lepson is poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Low Road is Noah Preminger, one of the hottest young musicians in the country, on sax; Eric Lane, an eclectic keyboard player who does jazz, hip-hop, afro beat; and Ruth Lepson, words.
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A new twist on the ancient tradition of oral history.
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Torben Waldorff's music has emerged in international jazz through ArtistShare in recent years. The recent release of the CD "Afterburn" featuring Donny McCaslin and Sam Yahel has put this music in the top tier in the jazz market. It has had an amazing run in international jazz media this year. Its hovered around the 100 most played CD�s in US jazz radio stations, has made �best of 2008� lists in Denmark, Sweden, USA, Canada, Portugal, France (Jazzman "Choc du Mois") plus so much more critical acclaim, like in JazzPodium in Germany (..Waldorff ist weltklasse) JazzTimes, Downbeat, New York Times, All About Jazz, ArtsJournal and many many more. This night of music tests material to be recorded for the next ArtistShare CD to be released in November 2009.
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James Braly & Martin Dockery "Journeys"
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Al Lubel became a lawyer to please his mother and a comedian to please himself (which did not please his mother). After graduating from law school in Florida, Al moved to Los Angeles, passed the California Bar Exam on his first try and wouldn't you know it, immediately began the practice of stand-up comedy. He was one of the last comedians to appear on Johnny Carson, appears regularly on Letterman, and was the winner of the $100,000 Grand Prize for Comedy on Star Search. Drinks are on him tonight.
Gary Gulman is a former elementary school gym teacher and substitute teacher. He is 6'6" tall. He has performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Gulman appeared with Dane Cook, Jay Davis, and Robert Kelly on Dane Cook's Tourgasm, and starred in his own one-hour Comedy Central special entitled "Gary Gulman: Boyish Man". Gary is now the host of NESN's Comedy All-Stars. He may be too tall for this room
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Peter Aguero's BTK BAND plays with Sexy Women telling Sexy Stories: Darlene White, Tracy Rowland, Cyndi Freeman, Jennifer DeMeritt & Michele Carlo!
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For more than fifteen years, legendary jokesmiths Hecht, Josephson & Korman have been discussing, sometimes in the presence of the cafe's Minister of Culture, the notion of joke, not as an excuse for a punchline, but as the ever more refined telling of a story. Tonight we put this theory to the test.
Our text tonight is taken, not from Bergson, not from Freud, but from Groucho on his years of training in vaudeville:
"We learned the importance of delivery. One cannot pull phrases at random and sling them together in a sloppy manner with no consideration as to style. The suspenseful building of the structure toward the punchline will, hopefully, make the audience respond with laughter. These phrases must be carefully chosen and planned in order to gain the audience's response. It takes many years on the stage, in front of a live audience, to learn this art, to learn how to deliver those carefully chosen words in the most artless way. Finally, if you are dedicated enough, you learn, subconsciously, HOW TO TELL A STORY.
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Rear view of the Gadarmal Temple, Pathari, Bhopal State.
Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1893
Photograph of a rear view of the Gadarmal temple at Pathari taken by Joseph David Beglar c.1871-72 for the Archaeological Survey of India. Pathari is situated in the modern state of Madhya Pradesh. Occupation of the site dates back at least as far as the Gupta period and centuries of settlement have left large numbers of ruined buildings all around the modern city. Of these, the Gadarmal temple is the most substantial and according to Beglar, the earliest parts can be dated to an era prior to the eight century. It stands about two miles to the south east of the modern town. The temple is surrounded by a series of courtyards, with seven subordinate shrines symmetrically placed around a central cell. In this photograph we can view the tower in a ruinous condition that stands over the main shrine. This central area is oblong in shape and housed a brahmanical image, possibly a linga.


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Excerpt and stunning outtakes from Vogue magazine: Never one to shirk a challenge, Meryl Streep takes on the iconic British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in her latest screen incarnation. She talks to Vicki Woods about women, power, and the view from the top.
"Oooh, they have oysters," says Meryl Streep, perusing the menu with intent. "Would you like to get some oysters? Wouldn't oysters be great to eat right now?" It's 4:20 in the afternoon. We are the only people in the restaurant on the mezzanine at Union Station, Washington, D.C. I pass, but Streep says, "I think I'll have some oysters. And a glass of Chardonnay." The waitress, who is fizzing with efficiency and controlled celebrity-awareness, makes to whisk off, but Streep calls her back on a sudden thought: "Do you have fresh oysters?" Her face has the look of a woman who has spent the day Being Meryl Streep in order to publicize her upcoming movie, The Iron Lady, and now is yearning to slurp down oyster after leisurely oyster, raw and briny on the half-shell, mmm, maybe with lemon, maybe not. The waitress says firmly that all of their oysters are fresh. Streep says, "I know. But. Um…. Don't worry about it." And with a tiny sigh, she awaits them fried in bread crumbs. The complete article can be read on Vogue's website and in the magazines archive.
|What a fantastic treat to start 2012 – Meryl Streep will be cover girl for the January 2012 issue of Vogue Magazine. Featuring a stunning new photoshoot by Annie Leibovitz, this comes just in time for the theatrical release of "The Iron Lady" and the 2012 awards season. A preview of the cover can be found in the image library, scans from the magazine will be posted as they become available. Vogue will hit US newsstands on December 20, so make sure to grab your copy. Thanks to everybody for the heads-up!
In a recent interview with The Inquirer, which was conducted at the New York press conference of "The Iron Lady", Meryl Streep talks about the new film and how much portraying Margaret Thatcher has changed her opinion. She has also confirmed that "Mommy & Me" is indeed going to happen, as Tina Fey is currently writing the script. An excerpt of the interview can be read below, the full piece is here. "Margaret Thatcher was the head of the United Kingdom for 11 and a half years and she did not have a cook. I have a cook. The last movie that I stopped making dinner was "Sophie's Choice." That was a long ago. Now I'm back cooking because everybody's grown up. I imagine that Margaret Thatcher wanted to make dinner for Denis every night. Even when it was take-out from Marks & Spencer, they would sit down and have it together. She forgot to eat a lot. That's something I have never done. She had prodigious amounts of energy and worked late into the night. She required all the cabinet ministers to be up there in the apartment with her. She'd work and work and Denis would come in and say, "Woman, you got to feed these men." She'd go in and whip up some horrible rarebit or something and give it to them. All that surprised me".
When people say Meryl Streep is a great actress, they mean grand actress — one who calculates her moves, her makeup and her accent, and then turns up the thespic volume until her character risks becoming caricature. The tactic works when she plays Dragon Lady roles like the fashion doyenne in The Devil Wears Prada, less so in the more naturalistic settings of Mamma Mia! and Doubt. But given a famous woman to play, Streep eerily locates the voice, face and soul: of Julia Child in Julie & Julia and, with startling acuity, of Margaret Thatcher in this biopic. Smartly written by Abi Morgan (who co-wrote Shame) and directed by Mamma Mia!'s Phyllida Lloyd, the film spans nearly the complete life of Britain's first female Prime Minister, from her youth as a greengrocer's daughter through Oxford and her early years in the Conservative Party (when she is played by Alexandra Roach). Streep takes over in Maggie's middle age and escorts the PM into a restless retirement, both haunted and warmed by the specter of her late husband Dennis (a marvelous Jim Broadbent). Her performance is a miracle of inhabiting, not editorializing; it turns the boss of 10 Downing Street into a woman meriting our sympathy and sadness. This time, grand is great. Full list and more articles on the Time website.
Scans from the November 27 issue of the British Live Magazine have been added to the image library. Many many thanks to Alvaro for guiding the magazine to me. Enjoy! Additionally, you can find a transcript of the article in the magazines archive.
Here's a very interesting article by Variety on the reception of "The Iron Lady": Two decades after Margaret Thatcher was ousted by her own Conservative Party, Blighty's first woman prime minister remains an instantly recognizable global icon who still sparks sharply polarized passions, particularly in the U.K. That level of brand awareness should be a gift to the makers of "The Iron Lady." But given the strength of feeling she evokes, the question is whether anyone, fan or foe, can bear to watch a movie about her. Damien Jones, producer of the $20 million film, knows from his own family just what a divisive figure Thatcher was. "One of my grandmothers thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world. The other used to turn off the television whenever she came on," he recalls. The media frenzy over the first glimpses of "The Iron Lady" confirms that Britain is as fiercely conflicted as ever between those who regard Thatcher as the greatest leader since Churchill, and those who think she did more damage to the country than anyone since Hitler. When Jones returned to England after living in America, he couldn't understand why no one had made a film about such a towering personality. "Who else would you choose as one of the iconic figures of the 20th century?" he asks. "After Princess Diana and the Queen, there's Mrs. Thatcher." He wasn't motivated by a specific interest in her politics so much as by a belief that she fitted the template of a marketable British star. "When I saw 'The Queen' and how everyone was lauding it, I thought maybe it's time to try and bring this to fruition," he says. Pathe, which backed "The Queen," agreed, especially once the dream casting of Meryl Streep fell into place. The complete article can be read here.
Article courtesy the Washington Post: In the flesh, she does not have an aura. She's not lit from within. Heads do not snap in her direction when she walks through a hotel lobby in a baggy maxi-dress and brown calf-high boots, flanked by her dutiful makeup artist of 35 years and her imperious publicist — the few celebrity trappings of a woman who stubbornly considers herself a working actor, and nothing more. And yet for half of her 62 years she has been dubbed either the Greatest Film Actress of Her Generation or, now, the Greatest Living Film Actress. So how does Meryl Streep, working actor, advance her artistry when she has nothing left to prove, when everything she does seems beyond reproach? In a room off the lobby of the W hotel, she removes her glasses and hair clip and tosses both on a table. She is beautiful — as she has always been — in the remote, masky way a sculpture by Michelangelo is beautiful. Her presence in person feels like the absence of a character. And for this question, she must play the Greatest Living Film Actress. "I feel more worried because, you know, the expectations are so high," she says, brushing out her blond-white hair into a mane. "I do work very hard. I think I've always been that type of girl, from the very beginning. I'm the oldest, and I feel like I have to do a good job. I have to try really really really really hard. I mean that could be my epitaph: She tried really hard." The complete article can be read here.
Man thanks to Alvaro for sending in scans from the January issue of the UK Empire magazine, they're running a "Tory Story" on "The Iron Lady". The most interesting part of this article is that the film still isn't ready yet – the one shown to the press and at screenings for now was an unfinished version. I guess they're getting the final stitches just in time for its release. Scans can be found in the image library.
"There's a flicker board of events really in the '80s," says screenwriter Abi Morgan. "You have that decade where she did everything. She stood up against the miners, against the IRA, she led us to war, led us out of war, she kicked us in the nuts, then redeemed us… My memories were very much of the handbag and the beautiful blue suit and the sense of the contradiction of the time: that there was so much sexism around, yet the country was being led by a woman. That made her a very intriguing figur." It helps if you have an icon to play an icon, and here The Iron Lady has a golden girl to play a true blue: Meryl Streep. "You need a superstar to play Thatcher. You need someone of extraordinary magnetismn and charisma," insists Phyllida Lloyd, who also points to Streep's presence as an American in a very English story as an asset when shooting. "Meryl was an outsider, just as Thatcher was."
Live Magazine, a supplement of the Daily Mail has published a wonderful article on the making of "The Iron Lady" with many quotes from all of the filmmakers, giving insight on their views on Thatcher and the making of the film. All this is accompanied by stunning new pictures. An excerpt is below, the article can be read on their website and in the magazines archive.
"I worked on the voice. It's one of the hardest things I've done. The really tricky part was that she studied how to produce her voice di.fferently, and sustain a certain amount of public speaking, and deepen her voice, enrich it, support it with breath. So I had to get the two di.fferent voices – the one that she began with, which is quite light and sort of trips along, and then (imitates Thatcher's older voice) suddenly this sort of authority comes out. I listened to her speaking, mostly, rather than watching her on TV. Listening gives you the posture, everything. I would speak anything – poetry, other people's speeches – just to have it be second nature, to think in that voice, like another language."
"I saw Margaret Thatcher once, in 2001, when my daughter Mamie was at Northwestern University. She was on a lecture tour. We were up in the balcony in the cheap seats. She was beautiful, and that was a shock, because we all thought of her in America as sort of dowdy. But we are very snobby about our women in public o.ffice. She was going to lecture for an hour, and there would be 30 minutes, precisely, for a question-and-answer session. She spoke for the hour and then she took questions for an hour and a half. And as time went on, she became even more enlivened and focused, speaking in beautifully wrought paragraphs. She obviously loved the subject matter: statesmanship and America's role in the world and the special relationship with Reagan, the end of the Cold War. She was extraordinarily controlled and impressive. My view of her as a woman changed during this process. I admire her achievement. I stand in awe of it, even while not agreeing with a lot of the policies. The fact that she got things done, even though many people didn't like her, was extraordinary. She accepted the fire that came at her and took it. I hope she'll see the film as an empathetic attempt to understand the size of what her life was, her place in history, what she did, and the human cost we ask our leaders to pay."
|The January issue of Total Film, on newsstands now, features a stunning new image of Meryl as Thatcher and an article on her Oscar chances. You can find a scan in the gallery, alongside a single version of the new picture. Speaking of magazines, Empire Magazine's January issue (also on newsstands now) has a behind-the-scenes story on the making of the film: Leading off with Oscar's perennial Meryl Streep, an actress who probably has her own parking space at the Kodak Theater, we'd hesitate to call this bit a 'round-up' unless it's little gold statues we're rounding up. If anyone has scanned Empire, please let me know :-)


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Kids are innocent and silly! And at times, their innocence can turn out to be PRETTY humiliating, especially if you're out in public. They barrage you with questions which you never thought they would ask! And, right at that very instant, you wish you could make a great escape – but sadly, you can't.
Here's a list of some of the embarrassing questions kids ask:
1. Looking at your wedding pictures – "Jab aapki shaadi hui thi, mai kahan thi? Picture me kiun nahi hoon?"
2. When they observe you sleeping together- "Aap dono saath kiun sotay hain?"
3. When they hear someone swearing – "Log gaaliyan kiun dete hain agar gandi baat hoti hai?"
4. When you're at a wedding and your kid just blurts out – "Ammi, khana kab khayenge?"
5. Looking at a shirtless father – "Ammi, can't you roam around without a shirt?"
6. When you're expecting another child – "Ammi, aapne baby ko kiun khaya?"
7. Looking at a father with a big tondh – "Is daddy having a baby too? He has a big tummy!"
8. After witnessing grandfather's death – "When you grow old like dada, will you die too"?
9. Looking at your legs – "Ammi, kia larkay bhi legs wax karwaatay hain?"
10. At a girls sleepover – "Why can't bhaiyaa come and sleep with us too?"
Has your child ever asked you these embarrassing questions? That too in public? What answers did you come up with? 😉


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A dodo bird will not fly, they are considered "secondarily flightless".
Picture from Hunter Course
It takes a lot of energy to fly, which is why nature favors this adaptation only when it's absolutely necessary. Once the Dodo Bird's pigeon ancestors landed on their island paradise, they gradually lost their ability to fly, and at the same time evolved to turkey-like sizes.


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Takashi Miike Assistant to Helm Live-Action "Ghost Hunt" Adaptation
Light novels previously adaptation into anime, manga and audio drama
Twins Japan and Kadokawa Shoten have announced plans to move forward with a live-action movie adaptation of Kuyumi Oni's supernatural procedural Ghost Hunt light novels, which have previously been turned into manga, anime, and audio drama. Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, formerly assistant director to Miike Takashi live-action anime adaptation Yatterman, will direct the movie.
Atsuyuki Shimoda (Sadako 3D) and Shotaro Oikawa are scripting the project with current cast set to include Akiko Maya Egami (aka Maya Fukuzawa) as Mai Taniyama, a high school student who becomes available with the Shibuya Psychic Research after breaking one of their camera, Mizuki Yamamoto as young celebrity medium Masako Hara, and Yosuke Kawamura as 25 year old monk Houshou Takigawa.
This leaves character like male lead/paranormal investigator Kazuya Shibuya, his assistant Lin Kōujo, 23 year old shrine maiden Ayako Matsuzaki and Australian Catholic priest John Brown still to be cast, and producers are promising some "surprises."
Filming is planned to be completed by spring for a summer 2014 release.
Del Rey released the manga adaptation in North America and FUNimation released the anime version.
Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.


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Guitar shaped cake board is cut out of foam core and covered in MMF.
Grad cap cake is made from 1/2 of a ball pan and a MMF covered 8" square cake board. Tassel is MMF also.
Diploma is MMF wrapped around a RKT log.
Cupcake toppers are all handmade from modeling chocolate/fondant/gumpaste.
Tags: guitar graduation music diploma cap cross cupcake black yellow school
Sally ~ Occasional Cakes
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very nice


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Farther, Colder, Rougher
adventures in marathon swimming
Archive of posts tagged 'wetsuits'
2011 Sep 7:
On wetsuits in marathon swimming
- Thoughts on Scott Zornig's editorial criticizing the use of wetsuits on marathon swims and misleading claims in the media.
2011 Sep 9:
Follow-up on wetsuits
- More thoughts and a few clarifications on my position on the use of wetsuits in marathon swimming.
2011 Sep 12:
A final word on wetsuits (in marathon swimming)
- Final thoughts on wetsuits in marathon swimming, and a review of some other voices in the debate.
2012 Aug 24:
What is the speed advantage of a wetsuit?
- An investigation of swim times on the same open-water course, with and without a wetsuit.
2013 Mar 10:
Same Water, Different Worlds: A tale of two swims in San Francisco Bay
- Cathy Delneo swims from McCovey Cove to Kirby Cove - 8.7 miles in 51-degree San Francisco Bay.


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Gorizia's post-war watchtowers and cyclone fences remain but you can now meet Italy's north-eastern border on your own Eurozone terms: put your right foot in and shake it all about, or hop, amble or drive across without even the flash of a passport. The relatively brief period of Cold War absurdity aside, this small, stately city has long been a mutable, if cannily self-assured, place, its winding inner streets awash with multi-tongued ghosts and their parley of trade, faith, art and war.
Palazzo Lantieri is not a hotel but a private home; the guests that came before you a ripe assortment of popes, poets and playwrights, warriors, radicals and Hapsburg royals. It's as discreet as it is elegant – a sprawling noble house unassuming behind the high walls of a former 14th-century fortress.
Owners Carolina Lantieri and Niccolò Piccolomini are jovial and generous, sweeping you up into the bustle of their family life while simultaneously creating a sense of privacy and space. Despite the bedrooms' astonishingly beautiful antiques, towering stufas and echoing parquetry floors, they too are infused with an easy, enveloping warmth. Outside is a wonderful garden, its bowers and paths modelled in the Persian style, all leading to a darkly canopied apex. It's calm and intriguingly labyrinthine, mannered but with the reassuring markers of everyday life: a wendy house, ponds with a tiny becalmed boat and the frolicking family beagle (who recently made his film debut in a Werner Herzog film we are told).
Today's Lantieri faces are mirrored in several centuries of portraits that line the public reception rooms, but they are a family firmly of the times. Large site-specific installations by Jannis Kounellis, Jan Fabre and Michelangelo Pistoletto and works by Getulio Alviani, Giulio Paolini and Donatella Spaziani now form an integral part of the palazzo's art collection. These contemporary works are inspired by, and continue to interact with, the objects and architecture of other eras.In the former cellars, Clementina Lantieri, Carolina's sister, has a ceramics studio, holding classes as well as selling works known for their graceful form and jewel-like glazes.
Carolina can suggest places to eat in walking distance or the best dining rooms in the countryside, and will call ahead and make sure there's a table waiting. The local food is enthralling, even if some dishes, like the dustily sweet or astringently herbal filled raviolis, and a preponderance of slow-cooked game, can be a jolt for those still expecting a familiar Italian table. Dishes are often startlingly different even from the stalwartly Friulian cuisine of Udine, under an hour away, or the Venetian-influenced food of the nearby coast. My memory, perhaps clouded by the superb (and, when here, cheap) Collio Goriziano or Colli Orientali whites, recalls first the colours of the food: all red and white, then deep brown and green. Seemingly the landscape writ large on the plate. Its flavours too are of the earth, rich and comforting, but also conjures empires and trade routes distant in time if not place.
If you were to eat only one thing in Gorizia, though, it should be the gubana, a flaky, filled snail of a pastry. This nutty, fruity, boozy roll can be found elsewhere in eastern Friuli (and across the border too, the name coming from the Slovenian word 'gubat', which, loosely translated, means 'how we roll'), but Gorizians like to claim their own as exemplar.
The city itself is not without things to see, including a magnificently-sited 13th-century castle, a blingy Baroque cathedral with Gothic chapel attached, an 18th-century synagogue and ghetto streets, their former gates garlanded with serpents and flowers, not to mention a harrowing WWI museum and various memorials to this bitterly contested front. And, of course, the afore mentioned minute-to-midnight era mementos. But there would be nothing at all wrong with making a journey here to simply go to sleep in such storied surrounds, and to wake to the deep green silence of the Lantieri garden.Palazzo Lantieri B&B or book for guided tours of the collection Piazza Sant'Antonio 6, Gorizia +39 0481 533284 email@example.com
All images © Donna Wheeler


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Florida Senate-race drama exposes GOP jitters
Jeff Atwater's just-ended flirtation with a U.S. Senate bid speaks volumes about the nervousness of Florida Republicans these days.
The GOP's best hope, Congressman Connie Mack, hasn't been running the type of campaign many Republicans want to unseat a beatable Democratic incumbent, Bill Nelson. Some wanted Atwater, Florida's Chief Financial Officer, to run. Others approached House Speaker Dean Cannon, who declined as did a wealthy no-name.
But the drama is about more than just Mack or the Senate race.
It's about a Republican Party grappling with ebbing fortunes compared to the red-wave of an election year in 2010. It's about a movement nagged by a sense of perpetual disappointment that stretches to the top of the ticket.
And it's about the potentially colliding political agendas of Atwater, Gov. Rick Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.


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Green Boot Media expands support to 150 non-profit organizations: Walk for Nature Conservation gains ground.
Novato, CA,: Green Boot Media announced it has expanded its portfolio of some 150 non-profit organizations in 46 states and Canada to meet the needs of its growing audience.
Green Boot Media's goal is to create a healthier and greener future through mobile technologies targeted at environmentally conscious individuals. Through its ongoing walking events to support these non-profit organizations, Green Boot Media raises awareness for conservation, promotes health and fitness and offers donations to the company's featured non-profit organizations.
"Each month hundreds of people participate in our Walk for Nature Conservation event via our iPhone pedometer application," said John Kelly, President of Green Boot Media. "Our vision for large scale participation is why we chose a pedometer as our platform, since walking is something most of us do every day." The company's goal is to expand its database of registered organizations to help build awareness, provide support and increase participation. Participant registration is free and support includes free publicity, awareness and potential donations for active organizations.
Founded in August 2010, Green Boot Media provides a simple, convenient way to contribute to conservation efforts without having to alter daily lives, donate money or volunteer. For non-profit environmental organizations, visit: www.greenbootmedia.com and register. To download the Green Boot Pedometer app, go here.


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Today's Vlog we review The Power of Half* by Kevin and Hannah Salwen. This is a book I enjoyed immensely. It is more than just a book about giving; it's about how a family can decide to not live normal and start doing something and not just talk about it. To see other books that I recommend, please visit our recommended reading page
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Organics, carts, and landfills
The Campbell Mountain Landfill is the destination landfill for Penticton and most of Area F (rural Summerland uses the Summerland landfill). The landfill itself is owned by the City of Penticton but leased by the RDOS on behalf of a slightly larger service area that includes Penticton but also Naramata, West Bench, and so on. The RDOS, in turn, pays a contractor to manage the landfill.
(photo iNFOnews.ca)
There are two things I need to acknowledge about the landfill before talking about new initiatives:
- The Campbell Mountain Landfill is clearly located the worst place for a landfill that ever could have been imagined. Not only does it occupy prime view lots on non-agricultural land close to town, it makes adjacent prime properties much less desirable. You can see the landfill from Okanagan Beach. Unfortunately, there is not much we can do about it now. Some bad decisions are long-lived.
- The landfill's tight quarters make routine operations a challenge. You may have noticed that the weigh-in/weigh-out process is very congested and inefficient. Unfortunately, improving the flow with (for example) a second weigh scale or yard waste-only bypass is difficult. There just isn't much room for anything.
The cost of the facility huge--it is one of the most expensive services in the RDOS. However, the costs are recouped entirely through tipping fees. Since there is no tax requisition in the budget for the Campbell Mountain Landfill, we often forget about its massive cost. Of course, you are paying these costs. Tipping fees are embedded in your garbage and recycling bill and you pay tipping fees directly if you take a load up to the landfill yourself.
One of the goals of the RDOS is to extend the life of the Campbell Mountain Landfill as long as possible in order to delay significant closure costs and also delay the cost and difficulty of finding a new landfill. In addition, landfills can create a lot of methane gas when organic material decomposes without oxygen. Since methane is a potent greenhouse gas, the province has introduced new requirements for methane capture or abatement. Such measures have the potential to be very expensive, especially since the Campbell Mountain Landfill was not designed with methane capture in mind.
One way to extend the life of the landfill AND reduce methane is to keep organic materials out of the pile. We already do this with yard waste. We have specially yard waste collections and compost this material. We also promote on-site composting by residents whenever practical. The advantage of composting is that it involves oxygen. Thus the main output of decay is carbon dioxide rather than methane. Carbon dioxide is, of course, a greenhouse gas. But it is many times less effective of trapping heat than methane. Hence the preference for aerobic (with oxygen) composing over anaerobic (without oxygen) rotting in the middle of a landfill pile.
The next step is to divert other organic waste--specifically food waste--from the landfill. This is a bit more challenging because, let's face it, food waste--chicken bones, leftover pasta, that rotting cauliflower you found in the back of the fridge--can be pretty nasty. What we will be asking people to do is keep the organic nasty stuff separate from normal household trash. This allows us to collect and compost the food waste. Unfortunately, as noted above, Campbell Mountain is already a bit cramped, so we cannot operate a separate composting site there. Composting food waste will therefore require some changes:
- A new location for composting large amounts of food waste.
- New bins for keeping food waste separate from other non-compostable waste.
- Different routines for residents to make all this work. Note that most people in the province already do this. We are by no means leading the way.
As part of this process, the RDOS is hosting open houses. The Area F session is May 2nd, 2017, at the West Bench school. There is also a session on May 17th in Summerland. A full listing of the open houses and links to background information can be found on the main RDOS site.


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Samuel F.B. Morse
Inventor of the Telegraph and Morse Code
Like a lot of other American inventors, Samuel F.B. Morse was fairly eclectic in his interests. He was a well-known portrait painter and the first president of the National Academy of Design. He also ran for office several times, patented three new pumps and studied electricity. Ultimately, his interests would lead him to his most famous accomplishment: inventing the electric telegraph.
Inspired by a conversation he overheard about electromagnetism on a ship ride from Europe, inventor Samuel Morse conceived the idea for an electric telegraph (though, unbeknownst to him, the idea was not exactly new). The concept of his invention was that pulses of electricity could be used to communicate information over wires.
Though not part of the original design, the invention came to include a dot-and-dash code that used different numbers to represent the letters of the alphabet. In time, this newly invented code would become known as "Morse Code."
With the aid of some partners, Samuel F.B. Morse applied for a patent for his new invention and went to work building a prototype. Not long after, Morse was transmitting ten words per minute with the device at a New York exhibition.
In May 1844, Morse sent a message ("What Hath God Wrought!") from Washington to Baltimore using the first inter-city electromagnetic telegraph line in the world. Soon after, the telegraph invention would become commonplace across the United States and, eventually, throughout the world.
For more information on inventor Samuel F.B. Morse's telegraph and Morse Code inventions, please visit:
White River Valley Museum: Morse Code History
Locust Grove: The Samuel F.B. Morse Historic Site
Inventor Samuel Morse: Telegraphy & Morse Code


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[picapp align="left" wrap="true" link="term=paperboy&iid=75238″ src="0072/8b6b57a7-cc06-4e2d-b8ac-6459166865c6.jpg?adImageId=8110054&imageId=75238″ width="234″ height="351″ /]There exists a business segment that I'd like to hear and read about more – the tiny business sector. Businesses with 10 employees or less. Businesses with only one person – the solo-preneur. Just like the newsboy in the photo, there are millions of people working [or trying to] around the world to make their living out of their home office or garage or a corner of the kitchen. Or they have a small shop downtown with two or three employees. You don't read about federal government bailouts for owners of lemonade stands or taco lunch trucks do you?
I've been noticing some articles around the news that seem to be addressing small business, but most seem to be in the jobs creation department rather than the stimulating more consumer spending department which is what the tiny business sector needs. One interesting article is at The Huffington Post [dot com], written December 3 by Shahien Nasiripour and titled, "No Easy Jumpstart to Get Small Business Hiring Again." There was one spot in the article that caught my attention and I thought was right on the money [so-to-speak]:
- "…The two leading small-business advocacy organizations – the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the National Small Business Association (NSBA) – have differing views. The NSBA points to the lack of credit as one of its top priorities. But in a report released last month based on survey data, the NFIB noted that while its members were having difficulty getting loans, it was far from a top priority. 'Too many [business] owners have no reason to borrow,' the authors wrote. 'The biggest problem was a dearth of customers.'…" [note: I kept Mr. Nasiripour's links intact in this excerpt except one]
What I want to point out is the last statement of that excerpt: "…'The biggest problem was a dearth of customers.'…" – For the tiny business sector getting a business loan seems pointless…what for? What we need are customers, cash-in-hand paying consumers. I read a comment on an article somewhere yesterday [forgive my faulty memory as I'm fighting a cold and laryngitis this week] that suggested the U.S. federal government give all taxpayers a monthly ATM card pre-filled with $500 that has to be spent within the 30 days. The idea was given as a way to boost consumer spending. An interesting one.
Another article I found today at the Wall Street Journal online by Diana Ransom and titled, "The White House Works It," summarizes the most recent ideas to create jobs. Small business owners, about 130 of them, were among those who met at the White House with others representing differing business segments and sectors. But in looking at those top ideas, none seemed to benefit the tiny business sector – the one sector most probably not expected to be part of job creation. The top ideas from the article:
- Work Share Tax Credit – the one comment I found relevant was "…Micro-businesses (firms with fewer than 20 employees) would likely be left out, says Dean Baker, a co-director at the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. "Presumably, you would want to aid firms other than ones that employ close friends and family members," he says…."
- Jobs Tax Credit – solo-preneur businesses will not benefit from this as this type of business does not hire or job share.
- 'Cash for Caulkers' – "…Depending on how many property owners take up the initiative, the plan could not only provide jobs to the hard-hit construction sector, it would limit carbon emissions and reduce owners' energy costs…." My thought on this one was that if you had a fellow who was an independent contractor, this could be a help to him…and I know two personally; however, this idea does depend on property owners having the budget to hire the work done. [As an aside, it is one thing to offer home owners tax incentives to participate in this type of initiative, but the reality is that they still must have the budget to afford it in the first place.]
- Public Works Projects – This one might be valuable to solo-preneurs if there are people with their own business who have these skills and if the initiative would include the solo-preneur.
- Payroll Tax Holiday – again this idea is vested in job creation rather than increasing consumer spending.
- Capitalizing Community Banks – "…would give small businesses a greater chance of landing loans…" – this idea is grounded in the getting loans for expansion which would result in more hiring. Tiny businesses might need loans for improvement or supplies…what about that kind of loan?
As followers of this weblog may have noted, recently I changed my own solo-preneur business from that as an independent distributor of a direct selling company's product to being the direct seller of my own [art] product(s). Life is a journey and it has been interesting to me to watch my own understandings and 'light bulb' moments as my business has grown and changed. I have friends who remain in that other business and this past year their customers have been buying less or dropping as customers altogether. If any reader is familiar with the art market, for the home-based artist-preneur, the art market for the past two to three years has been like a desert. I participated in a huge Open Studios tour in 2008 that the previous year had been a financial success for many artists…last year sales were dismal and attendance was down 50%. People just weren't buying art. Even the artists at the event who normally can expect a portion of their annual income went home greatly disappointed and in the red.
So. In all the plans and discussions about economic recovery and helping small business, where are the ideas for the tiny business sector and for jump-starting consumer spending?
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LG on Monday has launched a new Windows tablet hybrid in South Korea, the Tab Book Duo. The device comes with a price tag of KRW 740,000 (Roughly $670 US Dollars) with the firm offering free Microsoft wireless mouse with every purchase till December 22. However, availability outside Korea is not yet known.
The LG Tab Book Duo weight just 530 grams without its bundled bluetooth keyboard and comes with a kickstand for positioning. The accompanied keyboard doesn't only works with the tablet but also works with other devices.
Not much of its specifications is revealed, but the Tab Book Duo do features a 10.1-inch IPS display and runs Windows 8.1 out-of-the-box. The tablet packs a quad-core Intel chipset along with USB 3.0 port and HDMI port. LG claims the device can deliver up to 11 hours of battery life on single charge though the capacity of the battery inside is not disclose. If there is more update we'll let you know.
See Also: LG Tab Book 11TA740 Features And Specifications


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I was not always a potato type of girl. In fact I strongly disliked potatoes for a good long time. But then I grew older and I had children {I require them to take no thank you bites of everything… so I guess I should do so too, huh?}. Needless to say my taste buds have changed and I have some to find that I like potatoes, most of them anyways. And since the weather is finally heating up I am looking forward to grilling out. One of my favorite summer dishes is BBQ and potato salad. So I pulled out some of my mother's recipes and got to work. This is my mother's Dill Potato Salad and it is delish!
What you need:
5 lbs potatoes {I like the smaller golden potatoes}
4 hard boiled eggs
1 ½ cup mayonnaise
1 ½ cup sour cream
2-3 teaspoons dill
6 slices f bacon cooked and crumbled.
Salt & pepper to taste
How to make it:
In a pot place some cold water and the potatoes {you only need enough water to cover the potatoes- no more}. Cook over medium-high heat. Once the water is boiling reduce the heat to a simmer and let cook uncovered. Check back on potatoes in 5 minute increments. They will be done once a fork can easily slide through the potato without resistance. {usually takes 10-20 minutes}.
Mix the mayonnaise, sour cream, dill, and bacon until well combined.
Once the potatoes have had a chance to cool cube them and add them to the sour cream mixture.
Next dice up the hard boiled eggs and add them to the mixture as well as the salt and pepper.
Once everything has been combine place in the refrigerator to chill for at least an hour before serving.
I love this recipe. I think I like it because of the bacon... because if you are ever in doubt of bacon in potato, don't be. Bacon in potato salad is awesome. I made this the other night for a family dinner with friends and I might have made funny noises while eating it {I am just like my mother!}… I also may have taken a second helping. I am just saying that it was ridiculously delicious.
This recipe is linked up at Delicious Dish Tuesday and Friday Food Frenzy
Do you make your own potato salad or do you buy it? I used to buy it premade from the grocery store, back when I didn't eat it. Now that I like potato salad and I have experienced how easy it is to whip together I don't think I will be buying premade any more. My mom also has a German potato salad recipe that I will be trying soon with a side of bratwurst. But that is a whole other meal to talk about on another day.