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Kristi Kuhn
MFA, UC Irvine; BFA, Towson State University
Kristi Kuhn, Co-Chair of Performing Arts and Co-Coordinator of the Dance Department at College of Marin, earned her MFA in dance from UC Irvine and her BFA in Dance Performance/Choreography from Towson State University. While in college, Kristi choreographed and taught in several Baltimore schools. Kristi's early training was at the Frederick School of Classical Ballet in Maryland. During these years of training and at age 16, she began teaching and choreographing. Kristi has been on the faculty at College of Marin since 1986, and has been coordinating the dance program since 2002. During her time at the college, Kristi has choreographed at least 40 dance works, has taught ballet, modern, improvisation, conditioning for the dancer, and choreography. Recently in her career Kristi studied Hawkins technique with company director Katherine Duke and other Hawkins dancers most notably Douglas Andresen. During these years, she was able to bring these teachers and several Hawkins dancers to the college for well attended modern dance intensives. She looks forward with excitement to many more successful years at the college.
David Alonzo Jones
MA, Mills College
David holds an MA in dance from MillsCollege. He began his studies at the University of Oregon where he performed with the Ballet Company. In the Bay Area, his mentors were Gwen Lewis and Ed Mock. He has been influenced by such noted jazz specialists as Gus Giordano and Joe Tremaine. He has worked with the Village People, Taj Mahal, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price, Talley Beatty and Harold Nicholas of the famed Nicholas Brothers. He also worked with the cast of the Las Vegas spectacular Jubilee, and performed with the San Francisco Opera productions of Lost in the Stars and Aida. He has been a guest instructor for both the Dance Masters of America and the National Association of Dance Artists, and is a professor of Dance at the College of Marin. He has been published nationally and internationally. His original musical Viva Cuba was performed in New York City in 2008. Visit David Alonzo Jones personal web site.
Alan Scofield
Alan Scofield is a nationally respected master teacher and choreographer in contemporary dance, modern jazz and ballet. His musicality and repertory residencies with Les Ballet jazz du Montreal, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Moving Company, Marin Ballet, Sacramento Ballet and Richmond Ballet of Virginia brought him acclaim and national attention. Currently, he is a very popular contemporary jazz teacher at ROCO Dance, Mill Valley with a passionate following. Alan co-founded Young Imaginations, Northern California's acclaimed arts-education agency that has kept music and dance alive in the public schools for twenty nine years. Through Young Imaginations, Alan has proven to be an innovator in the field of arts integration. Educators, businesses and youth groups have enthusiastically sought his creative approach to curriculum and training prizing his highly creative teaching. For college level students, his teaching and stage work at College of Marin has provided students a pathway to the professions of dance education and performing. His master classes, including his original studio course, Musicality for Dancers, are acclaimed for their ability to merge classical technique with performance expression.
Sandi V. Weldon
Sandi Weldon has four Bachelor of Arts degrees and two Masters degrees in Theatre and Dance and has been teaching in the Performing Arts Department since 1975. She has been actively performing in the Bay Area for many years with the Mountain Play, Ross Valley Players, Stapleton Theatre Company, Berkeley Playhouse, Contra Costa Civic Theatre, Presidio Playhouse, College of Marin, San Francisco State University and other Bay Area theatre groups. She has directed over two hundred plays and musicals, teaches Musical Theatre, Ballroom, Tap, Hip Hop, Dance History, Dancercise and Choreography at the College of Marin and also has directed and choreographed for the COM Dance Company. In addition, she has taught for the American Conservatory Theatre and many local colleges, high schools and elementary schools in Marin County. Sandi was the creative arts specialist for the Ross Valley School District for over ten years and began the arts program which is now called the "Yes Foundation." She also founded the Town Players, an award winning "multi-generational theatre company." Both of these local theatre groups continue to be successful. Sandi has won the San Francisco Council on Entertainment's "Cabaret Gold Award," the Community Spirit Award from the Town of San Anselmo, The Marin Arts Council "Outstanding Achievement in the Arts" award, the Ross Valley School District Outstanding Teacher Award and the Alpha Gamma Sigma teaching award at the College of Marin, and has performed with Yvonne DeCarlo, Tommy Tune, Sammy Davis Jr., Beth Behrs, Matt Doyle, Sharon McNight.


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Are airport lounges worth the price?I talk about airport lounges on the blog quite often, when many of my readers are not familiar with them or are not sure if they provide value.I am a big fan of airport lounges; sometimes. See before I even started the travel hobby in depth I didn't even know you can get an airport lounge and chill before your flight.For those not familiar … [Read more...]
FlixBus Vienna to Budapest Review -Easy & Cheap Way
The easiest way to travel from Vienna to Budapest is by train however you can also take a boat, coach or even car share. Being in central Europe it is so easy to get around.I really wanted to go by train since it is on my list to travel via train through Europe! Alas, one day in sha Allah when we find the time since on this trip I missed the good price tickets!Buying tickets from Vienna to … [Read more...]

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
When it rains it pours!
As most of you know, I only started digital scrapping a couple of months ago. I was so burnt-out on paper scrapping, but I missed the creative outlet. Digi scrapping was just the answer for me.
I jumped in with both feet and have been LOVING it since day 1. At this point, I really don't care if I ever paper scrap again. I strive to make my digi pages look like my paper layouts, and I just have so many more options on the computer.
One of the reasons I was burnt-out with paper scrapping was because of the whole "publication" business. I went for 3 years pretty much only doing layouts for contests, manufacturers, publication, etc. That's a lot of pressure! After the whole PKPT fiasco, I just walked away from all of it. At that point, I told myself that I didn't care if I was ever on another DT or published another page.
So, where am I going with all this?? After digi scrapping for just a couple of weeks, I knew I wanted to start looking for a way to earn some free kits (cause there are just TOO many good ones out there, but I can't justify spending a fortune on digi stuff when I have thousands of dollars of paper supplies in my room). So, joining a Creative Team seemed like a good answer. As I posted below, my sweet friend Kathy asked me to be on her team. I was PSYCHED because she is one of my very favorite designers, and she is the one who really introduced me to digi scrapping in the first place.
This weekend, I started looking for a new gallery, and some friends pointed me in the direction of DigiShopTalk. That seems to be the happening place in the digi world, so I'm really surprised that it took me this long to find it! I posted a few layouts in a gallery there and spent a little time posting on the boards. Well, imagine my SHOCK when I started receiving CT Invitations out of the blue! By the end of the weekend, I had received SIX invites. Totally crazy!!
Those who know me know how hard it is for me to say no to things. I tend to overcommit myself, so I'm really making an effort not to do that with digi. I don't want to take the fun out of it. Still, there were some AWESOME invites in there for designers with kits that absolutely make me drool. I ended up declining 3 of the offers, but I accepted 3 more. It was SUCH a hard decision, but I'm flattered to be put in that situation.
So, now, I'm happy to report that in addition to Kathy's team, I'm also creating layouts for Jeanelle Paige, Bella Gypsy Designs, and Elemental Scraps.com. I'm so excited, thrilled, and honored!
Here are the first 2 pages I did this weekend for Jeanelle. These use her new Gift Wrapped kit. I LOVE IT!
(And for those of you who are still reading... THANKS!!!)
Off to work now! Talk to you again this weekend!
5 comments:
- Kristi Mangan said...
awesome pages Libby! Congrats on the new design opportunities! That is so exciting!!! Maybe I should give digi-scrapping a shot... hmmm....
- Cheryl said...
I'm not surprised Libby! Your stuff is fabulous - you would never know how new you are to digital scrapbooking!
AWESOME!!! Way to go, Libby!!! You rocked the paper world and now the digi world better look out! :)
- Di said...
So excited for you!
Congrats on all of the new design work. Glad you are enjoying it so much!
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An Ellon couple recently organised a Scottish country music night and raised more than £4,000 for Cancer Research UK.
Caroline and John Doherty decided to hold the event because they lost Caroline's son and John's stepson, Neil Watt, to a rare cancer at the age of 39.
He loved life and I'm grateful that he got to live life to the fullCaroline Doherty Neil's Mother
Neil was living in the United States when he was was diagnosed with a carcinoma in the saliva gland. At that time there had only been six cases in the US, and all of them had been identified in men in their 80s.
Caroline said: "Neil's was a young life wasted. He led a healthy life and looked after himself. He loved life and I'm grateful that he got to live life to the full.
"When I'm fundraising for Cancer Research UK, I think about not only the young lives, like Neil's, that can be saved but all the lives that could be saved by research."
The fundraiser was held in the New Inn Hotel and more than 140 people attended.
Caroline and John were also well supported by the local community. They held a collection over two weekends outside JRDs in Ellon.
In addition, Caroline's cousin in Ayrshire raised £1,100 from a raffle and various collecting cans.
Fiona Harvey, Cancer Research UK's local fundraising manager, said: "Caroline and John are an absolute inspiration and we can't thank them enough for their commitment to helping Cancer Research UK beat cancer sooner. It was a fantastic evening.
"Cancer survival rates have doubled since the 1970s and Cancer Research UK's work has been at the heart of that progress. However, there is still work to be done."


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Working Out While on a Juice Fast
When most people start to juice fast they often wonder if it is all right to start exercising. The answer is very simple…yes. While you are just fasting it is important to listen to your body and what it wants. When you decide to exercise you should take into account your current weight and how long you have been on the juice fast. You should also take it a little easier if you are a juice fasting beginner and trying all of this for the first time.
When not to exercise:
You should not exercise within the first 5-6 days of the juice fast. Your body needs to adjust to the diet you started to do. When you juice fast, you have decided to take out all solid and processed foods and replace it with 100% fresh vegetables and fruits. Your body starts to work a little differently in the first few days. You will have some headaches and will need to use the bathroom a lot while your body adjusts to your new diet. You should take a break and not exercise while this is happening.
Starting to exercise:
After the fifth or sixth day when you are feeling better and your body has adjusted to the new fasting diet you can start to do some light exercises. You can do a light walk for 30 minutes or even a light jog for 1 or two miles. You can also start to swim for 30 minutes. This is a good way to test your body to see if it can be pushed a little further in the upcoming days. One of the main things you need to do is listen to your body while you are doing these first exercises. If at any point you feel a strain on your body stop your exercising and let yourself recover before trying again.
Stepping up your workouts:
After testing your body on the juice fast with some light workouts, you can decide to step it up if you want with longer jogs or more intense swimming routines. You can also incorporate some light weight lifting. If you do decide to go with weights, you should use free weights and keep the weight you are lifting low. Just do more reps with the less weight, as this will help you burn extra fat and start to tone the areas you are working on.
Also with weight training you should map out a plan for each day by splitting the workouts into three days worth of routines. Then start the routine over and rest on the seventh day. Once again if at any point your body is telling you that it can't do a certain routine, listen to it and find something else to replace it.
If you do exercise while on a juice fast don't forget to stay hydrated as well. This will help curb your hunger for food and keep you feeling full. You can also check out these 10 juice fasting recipes to help you detoxify your body or increase your endurance for running by juicing beets. Enjoy juice fasting and the healthy road it will take you down.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio-The Ohio State women's tennis team (18-4, 6-2 Big Ten) closes out the regular season this weekend. The No. 35-ranked Buckeyes will face off against No. 46 Illinois at 11 a.m. Saturday and then take on No. 14 Northwestern at 11 a.m. Sunday. Both matches are scheduled for outdoors at the Stickney Tennis Center but they may moved inside to Jesse Owens West if the weather is not cooperative. Note the Illinois match originally was set for noon, but was moved to accommodate Illinois' travel plans.
In The Rankings
The Buckeyes were ranked 35th in the most recent release of the Omni Hotels Collegiate Tennis Rankings administered by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (April 17). The Northwestern squad is ranked 14th in the nation by the ITA and Illinois is ranked 46th.
The Individuals
Two Buckeyes were ranked in the Omni Hotels Collegiate Tennis Rankings (April 17). Senior Monica Rincon is at No. 64, while Erica Fisk is ranked 80th. The doubles team of Rincon and Meaghan Colville is ranked 49th in the nation. The next individual rankings will be released April 24 and will be available on-line at www.itatennis.com.
The Finale
The matches this weekend mark the final home competition for Buckeye senior Monica Rincon and Claudia Castro. In their four years with the team, the squad has advanced to the NCAA tournament each season, including posting the program's first win in NCAA postseason play in 2000. After finishing sixth in the Big Ten as freshmen, Rincon and Castro have been part of the team that has finished third in the conference in each of the last two seasons and claimed the regular season title in 2000. Coach's Thoughts on the Seniors
"Monica Rincon and Claudia Castro certainly helped build the Buckeyes back into Big Ten Conference contenders and a nationally ranked program," Chuck Merzbacher, OSU head coach, said. "They have added to the OSU women's tennis program with outstanding leadership on and off the tennis court."
"Monica Rincon has made a name for herself here as one of the top players in the history of the program. She has made the most of her opportunity to compete at this level and represent the Buckeyes at the top of the OSU lineup and at the collegiate grand slam events. Currently, Monica is the second winningest singles player in program history and one of OSU's two women's tennis All-Americans."
"Claudia Castro contributed to the team's success in her four years although sometimes slowed down by a knee injury. Claudia has been ready to help the team when needed. She has played a key role in many exciting dual matches in singles and doubles play. In her four years the Buckeyes have made the NCAA team tournament three times and are looking to make it four appearances with an invitation to the NCAAs this year."
The Century
Senior Monica Rincon posted two wins last weekend to reach the 100-win mark for her Buckeye career. She is just the second Buckeye to do so, following her former doubles partner, Kristy Dascoli (1998-01).
In the Conference
The Buckeyes stand in second place in the Big Ten with a record of 6-2. Northwestern is in first with a perfect mark of 8-0. Wisconsin is third with a 6-3 record, followed by Illinois at 5-3. Three teams are tied for fifth with identical 4-4 records – Iowa, Indiana and Purdue. Rounding out the league are Michigan State and Michigan, both at 3-5, Penn State (1-7) and Minnesota (1-8).
Putting it on the Line
The Buckeyes will put their unblemished home record on the line this weekend. The squad is a perfect 13-0 at home this season, setting the program record for home wins and consecutive home wins.
A Trend to Follow
The Buckeye men's tennis team ended its regular season undefeated, going a perfect 15-0 at home. Combined the Buckeye men's and women's teams are 28-0 in Columbus this season.
Scouting the Illinois Fighting Illini
Illinois (10-10, 5-3) enters the weekend ranked 46th in the nation. Last Sunday the squad posted an important win, beating the Wisconsin Badgers, 4-3, in Big Ten play.
The Illini are led by Jennifer McGaffigan, a sophomore who is ranked 56th in the nation. She won the 2001 ITA Circuit Singles Championship. McGaffigan is 23-14 this season, including a mark of 5-3 in the Big Ten at No. 1 singles. Eldina Fazlic has the most Big Ten wins for the Illini, going 6-2 at No. 5.
Sujay Lama is the head coach of Illinois. He is in his fourth season at the helm and carries a career record of 54-42 into the match with the Buckeyes.
The Series
The Illini lead the all-time series with the Buckeyes, 19-8. The last meeting between the squads was last year, with Illinois winning the match in Champaign, Ill., 4-3. Ohio State won the last meeting in Columbus (2000), 5-2, its only win against the Illini in the last five meetings.
The Last Meeting
Ohio State and Illinois last met April 21, 2001, in Champaign, Ill. The Buckeyes claimed the doubles point to take the early lead in the match but could only secure two singles wins, falling to Illinois, 4-3.
Scouting the Northwestern Wildcats
No. 14 Northwestern plays Ohio State Sunday after facing Penn State Saturday in State College. The Wildcats enter the weekend 16-5 overall and stand in first place in the Big Ten with a perfect 8-0 mark.
Marine Piriou is the No. 1 singles player for Northwestern. Piriou was ranked ninth in the nation coming into the spring season and currently is No. 27 in the nation, while teammate Jessica Rush is No. 83. The Wildcats have two of the top doubles teams in the nation, with Lia Jackson and Simona Petrutiu holding down the No. 30 spot and Marine Piriou and Jessica Rush coming in at No. 35.
Claire Pollard is in her fourth season as head coach of the Wildcats. During her tenure, Northwestern is 67-15 and 27-3 in the Big Ten. Pollard was named 2001 Big Ten Coach of the Year and she has coached the squad to three consecutive Big Ten titles.
The Series
The Wildcats lead the all-time head to head matchup, 20-4. Last season Northwestern won both meetings, beating OSU in the regular season, 5-2, and then in the Big Ten tournament semifinals, 4-0.
The Last Meeting
The last time Ohio State and Northwestern met in Columbus in the regular season was April 8, 2000. In the match, Ohio State posted a 5-2 upset over then-No. 15 ranked Northwestern. OSU opened the match by winning the doubles point. Taryn Bowen won a three-set match at No. 6 singles to clinch the win for the Buckeyes.
The Last Meeting
Ohio State and Northwestern last met in the semifinal round of the 2001 big Ten Tournament in Columbus. The Wildcats won the doubles point and then recorded three matches in straight sets to beat Ohio State, 4-0.
Ohio State has not lost more than one match in a row this season, rebounding from every loss to win the next outing.
Almost There
Monica Rincon's 100 career wins place her second on OSU's all-time singles wins list. At the ITA Midwest Regional Tournament Oct. 28, Rincon picked up her 81st and 82nd career wins, catapulting her ahead of Maria Olazagatsti (1977-79, 81-20) into second place. OSU's all-time singles wins leader is Kristy Dascoli, who finished her career (1998-01) with 104 wins.
Moving UP
With 72 and 71 career singles wins each, respectively, Michelle Matko and Sadhaf Pervez now are in the Top 10 all-time in program history in singles wins. Matko is fifth, while Pervez holds down the No. 6 spot. Monica Rincon is second, just four wins behind all-time leader Kristy Dascoli.
All-Time Singles Wins at OSU 1. Kristy Dascoli 104 (1998-01) 2. Monica Rincon 100 (1999-present) 3. Maria Olazagatski 81 (1977-79) 4. Linda Magid 78 (1995-96) 5. Michelle Matko 72 (1999-present) 6. Sadhaf Pervez 71 (2000-present) 7. Leann Grimes 68 (1975-78) 8. Ann Wilson 67 (1974-77) 9. Abigail Villena 66 (1990-93) 10. Ann Beaudoin 65 (1971-82)
Moving Up In Doubles
Monica Rincon has posted 91 doubles wins in her career, tying her for fourth all-time (with former doubles partner Kristy Dascoli). Kelly Story (1989-92) is the program record holder with 118.
A Record to Break
The Buckeyes enter the weekend with 18 wins, tying the program record set in 1983 and 2000.
A Leader
Lindsay Williams is one of only two players in the Big Ten with a perfect 8-0 record in conference play. Williams is 8-0 at No. 5 singles, while Indiana's Inga Radel is 8-0 at No. 2. Wisconsin's Shana McElroy is 8-1 at No. 3.
The Club Grows Again
Lindsay Williams posted two wins and Sadhaf Pervez won once last weekend to become the fourth and fifth Buckeyes to reach the 20-win mark this season. They join Monica Rincon (24), Michelle Matko (22) and Erica Fisk (21) as Buckeyes with 20 or more wins this season.
Against the Conference
Lindsay Williams, who plays at No. 5 for the Buckeyes, leads the team with a perfect 8-0 record in Big Ten play this spring. Michelle Matko is second on the team with a 7- 1 mark in conference play while playing at No. 4. Matko's only loss came against Judy Wang of Penn State Jan. 27. Monica Rincon is third with a 6-2 record at No. 1 singles.
The Buckeyes posted 7-0 shutout wins over seven opponents so far this season. All of Ohio State's shutouts have happened at home. Their record for shutouts is 11, set in 1986 and 1984.
The Buckeyes won their matches against Purdue and Indiana last weekend by identical 4-3 scores. Against the Boilermakers, Michelle Matko won a three-set match to clinch the Ohio State win. The next day against the Hoosiers, Claudia Castro won in three sets to lift Ohio State to the Important conference victory.
What a Win!
Claudia Castro, playing in her first match since March 9, posting an impressive three-set victory against Indiana's Martina Grimm to clinch Ohio State's win. Castro won the first set before dropping the second. In the third and final set, Castro fought back from a 5-2 deficit, winning the last five points to clinch the match.
The Leaderboard
Three Buckeyes – Michelle Matko, Monica Rincon and Lindsay Williams – have posted 17 wins this spring.
Matko as of Late
Michelle Matko had her eight-match winning streak stopped against Kentucky before rebounding with wins against Purdue and Indiana. She has a mark of 17-5 this spring.
Working Overtime
Lindsay Williams has had seven of her last nine matches go to a third set or a match tiebreaker. In those matches, she has posted a record of 5-2. This season, Williams is 7-5 in three-set matches.
Among the Best
Monica Rincon is the third-highest rated Big Ten singles player in the nation at No. 64, behind only Marine Piriou of Northwestern (27) and Jenny McGafigan of Illinois (56). Erica Fisk, at No. 80, is fifth among conference players. In doubles, the OSU tandem of Rincon and Meaghan Colville is fourth at No. 49, behind two Northwestern teams and a duo from Indiana.
Rincon is Player of the Month
Monica Rincon recently was named Big Ten Women's Tennis Player of the Month March.
Rincon, the Buckeyes' No. 1 singles player, moved up to the No. 51 spot in the national rankings, the highest ranking of her career. During the month, she went 6-1 in singles, including a five-match winning streak. Rincon, with a career record of 100-44, is just four wins away from tying the all-time mark of 104. Rincon is 17-3 in the spring and 24-8 overall this season which leads the team in wins.
The Leaders
Monica Rincon leads the Buckeyes with 24 singles wins, followed by Michelle Matko with 22. In doubles, Meaghan Colville ranks first with 25 victories, with Pervez second at 24.
A Tough Group to Play With
Ten of the 11 teams in the Big Ten Conference are ranked by the ITA this season. The lone unranked team is Penn State. Northwestern is first at No. 14, followed by Ohio State (35), Wisconsin (38), Indiana (41), Illinois (46), Michigan (50), Purdue (54), Iowa (55), Michigan State (63) and Minnesota (71).
The Return
The Buckeyes return to Bloomington, Ind., next weekend for the 2002 Big Ten Championships. The tournament will be held April 25-28 at the Varsity Tennis Courts.


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Augusta Jones designer Charlotte Leung looked to two of the past century's most iconic decades for her Fall 2012 inspiration: from the 1920s, she drew on bias cuts, high necklines, looser shapes, and jewels; and from the '50s, she borrowed tailored classic cuts, boat necklines, and beautifully handcrafted floral details. This dress, called Rita, is a strapless, ruched organza and satin gown with a dramatic mermaid skirt featuring floral rosettes. It's the kind of wedding dress, Leung says, that "makes you feel like a movie star walking the red carpet." For more designs from Augusta Jones, browse our Wedding Dresses gallery. —Phillip B. Crook


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Winston and Zeke
Probably the cutest thing ever
Probably the cutest thing ever
I can't decide. This could be just a little kid that isn't afraid of a little squirrel that is dead, or she could be the next stalker ex-girlfriend that kills boys and stuffs them into old barrels and cooks them down to sludge.
I've had a few well trained dogs in my life, I never could get quite this far. This is a smart dog.
As always. Good people clean up after other people's mess.
Here is what happened to the dogs taken from Michael Vick
I hope he had to pay these good people a lot of money.
Heroes save hundreds of lives. These animals saved hundreds of lives in ways you would never expect.
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National World War II Museum features loyal animals of war
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The coolest dogs in the world. They love their family. This boy has a dog, this dog has a boy.
People should fear a dog when his boy is threatened. He is super safe.
This doesn't happen at our house, but it is pure entertainment!
The Dane is a Pup, and the Kitty is an older cat. Our Danes would just LICK the cat and it would walk away in disgust.
Since I was dumped (Dot Com Fired) on Election Day 2000 this hits close to home. I avoid politics here most of the time, but this one was funny, and also because BAILOUT made the #1 overused word this year (Merriam-Webster's 2008 Word of the Year).
2. vet
3. socialism
4. maverick
5. bipartisan
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I'm super excited to be part of the release-week blitz for Meg Leder's Letting Go of Gravity! This book sounds awesome, and I can't wait to read it. Add it to your TBRs, folks! Letting Go of Gravity Meg Leder Published by: Simon Pulse Publication date: July 17th 2018 Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult "The anticipation… Continue reading Release Blitz – Letting Go of Gravity by Meg Leder
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This is the third Mila Gray book I've read, the third in her Come Back to Me series, and I have to say… it wasn't my favorite. But! It was a fun read, and I did fly through it, and it comes out tomorrow! I was going to be part of the book blitz that… Continue reading ARC Review – Run Away with Me by Mila Gray
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Dear Sir
On behalf of Mission Jan Jagriti, we convey OUR DEEP GRATITUDE to you for inviting us to be a part of YOUR MAGNANIMOUS MAGNIFICANT VISION by holding a 19th MTNL MASSIVE HEALTH MELA w.e.f. 7th to 11th November 2012 in Constitution Club, Rafi marg, New Delhi. We witnessed thousands and thousands beneficiaries attending the same. The WORLD RECORD MAKING CPR training has been an eye opener. All arrangements have been SUPERFINE and deliberations were a FEAST TO MIND AND SOUL.
Such a UNIQUE HOLISTIC APPROACH to human miseries, ill health and diseases can ONLY OCCUR WITH A VISIONARY LIKE YOU SIR TAKING THE REINS of the Chariot of Health Care and Management. You are TRUELY MODERN KRISHNA....GURU of us all.
We pray for your continued well being and prosperity and ASSURE you of our COMMITTED DEVOTION TO ALL SUCH NOBLE CAUSES UNDERTAKEN BY YOU IN FUTURE.
We did more than 250 Blood Groupings and collected 92 units of blood from Voluntary Blood Donors. We place on record our sincere thanks and appreciation of your Esteemed Heart Care Foundation that gave us this golden opportuinity.
Warm personal regards
DR.N.K.BHATIA, President, Mission Jan Jagriti, (An Ngo For Empowerment Of Youth)
Congratulation Dr aggrawal. Sir.really the mela has become fully successful due to your wide imagination and magnetic personality.Perfect health mela has become such a big canvas that one can paint of all aspects of life on it.I tell you every one was impressed n talking about ur communicating skill at a time you can do many things no doubt u have compartmental mind which you are using very effectively.
I am publishing two pages in bachhon ki Dunia ,a national Dunyia supplement ,which comes on every Thursday. Though our N.Duniya team wl keep some copy on stall but I want to know the coordinators phone number to make them know about the coverage. today i have forgotten my cell so please reply by mail or do sms to mr Alok ji.
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Common core: Where are the assessments?
I wanted to continue posting on some of the implementation issues posed by the Common Core. My subject for today is assessment, or rather more accurately, lack thereof.
Returning to the Education Week article that I cited in my last post.
One of the biggest questions hanging over common-standards implementation is what will be on the tests designed for them. Some educators have reported reluctance to move ahead with curriculum because they don't yet know what the assessments, scheduled to be fully operational in 2014-15, will look like. Others feel confident enough to move ahead based on what they can glean from the standards themselves.
Educators' judgments about whether the tests truly reflect the standards will be crucial to sustaining the standards over the long term, said Mr. Jennings of the Center on Education Policy.
"The biggest potential obstacle is the tests," he said. "Because of their experience with NCLB, teachers want to know, what are the tests going to require? Will the tests back up what they are supposed to do with the new standards? If they don't, then the entire effort is lost."
Even though we haven't seen the assessments yet, they feature in some discussions of the common core as a kind of magic bullet. THESE assessments will test higher-order learning skills. THESE assessments won't provoke the same "teaching to the test" debate among teachers and parents.
Well, maybe. But I have considerable sympathy with teachers who worry about being held accountable for teaching to the standards without knowing just what form this accountability will take.
I also worry, as I've mentioned before, that states will back away from (the admittedly mostly inadequate and undemanding) tests they had adopted in response to NCLB, without replacing these tests with any other meaningful assessment.
But let's assume that these new tests beat the odds and genuinely capture how well students understand complex texts, or can apply mathematical concepts to a wide range of problems. My guess is that even then we won't be altogether happy with the results.
I was thinking about this as I read the Associated Press article on the Advanced Placement tests that ran in The Deseret News on Sunday.
As the article points out,
Last year, 18 percent of U.S. high school graduates passed at least one AP exam (by scoring 3 or higher on a scale of 1 to 5), up from 11 percent a decade ago.
But there are also many more students falling short — way short — on the exams.
The proportion of all tests taken last year earning the minimal score of 1 increased over that time, from 13 percent to 21 percent. At many schools, virtually no students pass.
For instance, in Indiana — among the states pushing AP most aggressively, and with results close to the national average — there were still 21 school districts last year where graduates took AP exams but none passed.
I'm actually an advocate of expanding the AP program to include more students, if only because AP classes, if taught rigorously (the only way they CAN be taught if students are going to succeed) opens students' eyes to how much they are expected to know, and how analytically they are expected to apply that knowledge, in a demanding college-level class.
But the disappointing AP test results do suggest that entering an AP class alone does not work magic on a student's brain. Meanwhile, of course, parents, students and schools are shelling out significant dollars for these tests. I've never minded asking my students and their parents to pay this fee (and yes, my school does offer assistance for students who cannot afford the test.) And I don't expect every student who takes one of these tests to pass. A 100% pass rate would probably mean that I'd been too restrictive in admitting students to the class.
Still, we need to be wary of setting up teachers and students for failure. Unfortunately, we also need to be wary that low test scores will serve as a weapon against the test, rather than a warning sign that we need to do better.
At any rate, I would feel a lot more comfortable about the common standards if we moved forward with full-fledged implementation AFTER we'd had a glimpse at these tests. From what I'm reading on the blog, many of you out there agree.
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Again, common core may have merits but its implementation has my concerns as well. It seems like it is happening way too fast and without giving the teachers the proper training and tools to make it successful nor giving parents and others who need to buy-in all the information they need to buy-in and contribute to its implementation.
Standards first.
Assessments second.
Curriculum third.
It's just that simple. Put them in any other order and you have a mess.
Regarding AP tests…
AP has established a strong reputation for itself. It carries some prestige, and with that comes a tendency for parents to push their students into it. With that, you have to question the motivation. Are they after the credential or the opportunity to learn? It's probably both, and I'm okay with that, but when push comes to shove, which motivation is going to prevail?
I am leery of efforts to increase the numbers associated with AP tests. I am a big fan of extending the opportunity to anyone who cares to take advantage of it, but skeptical of prescriptive efforts focused on improving a statistic. History is full of examples of people using education to lift themselves from difficult circumstances. I'm not aware of many instances where a program was enacted to achieve those same ends.
Do low scores mean we (teachers) need to do better or that we (parents) need to do better?
For some AP tests at some schools, there are no classes offered. Students can sign up for any AP test they want. But it's up to the student to do their own preparation.
A challenge in developing assessments for the Common Core is that many standards are written in a way that makes it difficult to assess student proficiency. For example, take this standard from 8th grade math:
8.EE.6 "Use similar triangles to explain why the slope m is the same between any two distinct points on a non-vertical line in the coordinate plane; derive the equation y = mx for a line through the origin and the equation y = mx + b for a line intercepting the vertical axis at b."
How would we assess student proficiency on this standard? If a student incorrectly answers the assessment question, is it due to a misunderstanding of similar triangles or of slope or of coordinate planes? How would we diagnose the student's learning deficiency?
Thank you for this thoughtful piece on the Common Core, Ms. McConnell. Sometimes I disagree with your positions. This time I think you are spot on. The state legislature recently passed Senator Osmond's law requiring teacher pay and job retention to be tied to an evaluation system that includes student test scores. How in the world can we be expected to have solid test scores if we do not know what exactly is being assessed on the test or how the assessment works?
Seriously, this is like testing a surgeon on a brain surgery exam without ever letting the surgeon see an actual brain surgery. How could one possibly expect the surgery to be successful?


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Happy Friday Readers!
Because it is end of the week, and the weekend is going to start I wanted to make an easy blog. Just one store to visit for bargains and gifts and you can find both at the #166 round of the Designer Circle till November 18th.
Today I am using 2 different Omega appliers for my Maitreya body and LAQ Nyx Bento head. The gorgeous skin appliers I am wearing with the first outfits are the lovely Vyra Omega skin appliers by 7 Deadly s[K]ins which you can find at A P P L I Q U E till November 7th.
The lovely Elle dress I am wearing below is by WellMade and it comes with a colour change HUD which gives you 10 colour options. This sexy dress fits Maitreya, Belleza, Slink, E-Body and it comes in Fitmesh sizes. For just 100 L$ you can look this sexy! You can find this dress at the Designer Circle.
The lovely Jane's Necklace is by Indulge Temptation and you will see me wearing it with several of the designs I am showing you today. It is simply very adaptable. There are 6 versions of this necklace available at the Designer Circle for 120 L$ each. Each of these sets has 10 metal and 8 pearl options.
The lovely Makena hair is the October group gift by Truth. The Truth VIP group is 350 L$ to join but you get a free fat pack of hair each month.
My next find are some gifts. You can find quite a few at the Designer Circle, like this lovely skirt which is a gift by Lun' Attic. This skirt fits Maitreya, Belleza, Slink and TMP.
The lovely Cotton top in Peach is a gift by 1 Hundred. This top fits Belleza, Maitreya and Slink and comes in Omega appliers.
The sexy heels are a gift by CNZ. They are called Blood White or Black My Wings heels and they fit Maitreya, Belleza and Slink.
Even the beautiful Turquoise bracelets are a gift! They are by Prism and you can find them at the Designer Circle.
The lovely Marley braids are by [NYNE]. They are on offer at the Designer Circle in no less than 7 hair tones, for 166 L$ each. You get a colour change HUD with several options in the chosen hair tone.
With the next outfits I am wearing the elegant Quince Omega appliers and you can find these gorgeous appliers in 5 skin tones and 4 skin variations at the Designer Circle for just 199 L$. A matching Quince shape is available too. They are by 7 Deadly s[K]ins.
I am wearing a beautiful lace dress called Dentelle, which is by Graffitiwear. This lovely dress comes with a colour change HUD with no less than 16 colour options and it is just 150 L$. It fits Maitreya, Belleza, Slink, TMP, E-Body and Tonic and comes in 5 mesh sizes and 5 fitmesh sizes. It is one you should not miss!
The lovely Frija Gem hair is by Firelight and you can find it in many hair tones at the for just 99 L$ each! A colour change HUD is included with this hair. You can find it at the Designer Circle till November 18th.
And my last find for today are the really gorgeous Bella outfits by Smesh. This great outfit fits Maitreya, Belleza and Slink and it comes with a colour change HUD with 8 options for the top and 8 for the leggings. This set is just 130 L$ and you can find it at the Designer Circle.
The beautiful shoes are a new release by MODA and they are called Heiress. They fit Belleza, Maitreya and Slink and they come with a huge colour change HUD which changes each part of the shoe separate. Just gorgeous shoes!


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Mouse embryonic stem cells treated in culture with a growth factor and then injected into the liver reverse a form of hemophilia in mice analogous to hemophilia B in humans, the new study shows. A report of the study appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today (Feb. 15).
The genetically altered mice lack the clotting substance factor IX, which in humans results in the hereditary bleeding disorder known as hemophilia B. This disease, much less common than hemophilia A, affects roughly one of every 35,000 people, primarily males.
Although embryonic stem, or ES, cells can differentiate into most cell types in the body, numerous problems have arisen in translating their potential into therapeutic strategies, the UNC School of Medicine study authors reported.
These problems include poor engraftment, limited function, rejection of engrafted cells by the immune system and teratomas, tumors involving a mixture of tissue not normally found at that site.
The new study used a line of mouse ES cells developed in the laboratory of senior co-author Dr. Oliver Smithies, Excellence professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at UNC.
A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Smithies has won many honors for gene targeting, a technique he pioneered. This technique allows for the development of mice with specific genetic mutations that mimic human illnesses such as hemophilia. In 2001, Smithies received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, often called "America's Nobel."
In the study, ES cells were treated with fibroblast growth factor for seven days prior to injection. As expected, this resulted in ES cells differentiating into early endoderm like precursors, which the researchers name
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Last of the Awards
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And the square punch sounds great--I don't believe Santa could have done better.
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Robyn, Jeane and Suki, I am square punch punchy! Such fun to try out a new tool!ReplyDelete


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My mother left this note on the kitchen bulletin board, and the rest of us are always struggling to explain to people whether or not she "really means" this.
"If I am taken hostage," the note says, "I do NOT want the family pleading with the US government to give in to the hostage-taker demands."
She even underlined the NOT.
"That would put other Americans at risk," she added. "I am taking the risk here."
She signed and dated the note, May 17, 2004, and then "re-affirmed" it in blue ink two years later, on April 2, 2006.
For more than four years now, it's been tacked there alongside childhood photos of my brother and me, postcards, and newspaper clippings from baseball games. We usually forget it's there, until someone comes over for the first time and notices it.
And, well, it's a long story. I can't remember if she wrote the note before she left for Afghanistan the first time, or maybe it was Tajikistan, or it could have been Kosovo. I was midway through college when my mother, an ambitious problem-solver with a fierce independent streak, announced that she was going to Kosovo for six months. Something about a pending election.
She had always held relatively normal jobs that I knew how to explain to my friends in a single word – lawyer, consultant, banker. Then, after 27 years of raising children, her youngest left home and she started this other career of hopping around to the world's messiest places. She helped register voters in Kosovo and supervised the construction of courthouses in Afghanistan. During the past year, she was in charge of aid money in Baghdad, where, inside her walled red-zone compound, she got a big kick out of weekly volleyball night.
Occasionally, she would e-mail home smiling photos of herself in a flak jacket.
We suddenly couldn't figure out what to get her for Christmas because she said she didn't really need anything, certainly not anything she would have to fit in her suitcase and lug back across the globe. She had to have extra pages put in her passport.
In one of the weirder developments, she began to ship back to the States carpets by the trunkload – Afghan rugs in deep cranberry reds, things you'd never find at Ikea, authentically irregular designs sometimes accompanied by photos of the 80-year-old mountain village woman who had woven them.
"Do you need more rugs?" she asks at the end of every Skype phone call or e-mail.
"Might as well stock up," she e-mailed me before we met for Christmas last year in Paris. "My theory on foreign shopping [like Afghan rugs] is if you like it, buy it. You never know when you will see it again, or be there again, or the street gets blown up."
She once sent me a jacket that I think was made out of chain mail, and she never seems to understand why I haven't worn it lately.
I was sitting at my desk at work several years ago when the security guard in the mailroom called up to ask if I was expecting a package from Afghanistan. They weren't going to open it unless I was. "Well, not really," I said, "but...." Inside was a sky-blue burqa that made me the most popular person in the newsroom that day.
My mother is proud that I've become like her – globetrotting and independent (or, maybe, somewhat reckless). But she recently encouraged me to do a brief tour in Baghdad, and when I decided against it, I realized that it is a unique situation to be less fearless than your 60-year-old mother. I am, oddly, proud of that, too.


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So, what you pushing right now?
Black Cradle. It's another of my drug-fuelled stories set around the bars and nightclubs of mid-eighties Birmingham. It's a book that people with a dose of Aspergers in them might understand. The coldness, the isolation. Seeing everyone moving around you but feeling no connection with any of them. You're only observing events. Black Cradle is how life feels to someone who cannot find love, cannot unearth the feelings buried deep inside them, and life becomes like staring at a blank television screen.
What's the hook?
Billy Zero walks out of hospital after trying to kill himself at the age of 23. The story backtracks the series of brutal events, fused with the grim omens of his childhood that led to his suicide attempt.
And why's that floating your boat?
It doesn't float my boat at all. Although there's fiction in it, the book, like all my stories so far, is a visceral and demented autobiographical document. I am an outsider. I was an outsider from the start. I write for 3 things: to be accepted, to be understood, to be loved. But when the oyster opens up the crab takes its meat. It's the same being a writer. You open yourself up and the world takes its pound of flesh and each time you open up you become weaker and weaker. But you can't do anything else; much like the oyster, you open up by nature.
When did you turn to crime?
Oh, I've been arrested a few times. I did see in the papers once a report damning the cells in Birmingham's Steelhouse Lane police station. I have to disagree. I mean, credit where it's due; I found them to be amongst the most comfortable police cells I've ever been in! Though I would describe Black Cradle as more of a Noir aesthetic. But there isn't much separation between my life and the book. There's no plot-line. I am essentially a memoirist, that's why all my stories are ugly at times. I've lived an ugly life and I'm not here to entertain people, I'm here to tell them the truth about the world I have seen and lived in. What I write is never going to be marketed by mainstream publishing houses -- it has to be slipped in via the back alley. u.v.ray is a brand name but it's not a brand that wants to teach the world to sing like Coca-Cola. My intention was always to write blistering, raw stories that are like 2 minute punk songs. I thought people might like them but I suppose no one likes looking at their own dirty laundry.
Hardboiled or Noir, classic or contemporary?
Contemporary Noir. Hard as it gets. Derek Raymond's Factory series of books are pretty hard-core.
And, what's blown you away lately?
Blown away is a high bar. But I really enjoyed Tyler Keevil's Fireball. And Arthur Nersesian's The Fuck-Up. Two very entertaining books. Such books provide me with a respite from my own work and neurosis.
See any books as movies waiting to happen?
I wish someone would make a good film of Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero. Great work of modern literature but no one has made a worthy film adaption yet. And Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor should be made into one.
Mainstream or indie - paper or digital?
Indie. Paper. Obviously.
Shout us a website worth visiting …
I don't know. Get yourself down the boozer, for Christ's sake.
Finally, tell us any old shit about yourself …
I started drinking at the age of 8. My parents sold me off to a travelling circus where I gained employment in a drinking booth. A little bit like the old circus boxing booths where anyone out the crowd can challenge you to a contest. I was billed as Ursulas Raymondo -- the Marvellous Drinking Child.
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Foot of the Mountains going to [Killmashogue]
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Date: 1795
View at the foot of the Dublin or Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. These mountains form the south westerly boundary of the county of Dublin. The landscape in the 18th century was generally wild and uninhabited, providing hundreds of square miles of open countryside. The tallest peak in the range, the Lugnaquilla, reaches over 3,000ft in height.


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What is von Willebrand Disease?
The most common bleeding disorder is von Willebrand disease (VWD) which affects 1% of the world's population. VWD is typically an inherited disease and caused by deficient or defective von Willebrand Factor (VWF). It occurs in both men and women and is diagnosed by measuring the level and activity of VWF and factor VIII.
There are three main types of von Willebrand disease. Type I is most common and the mildest, and type 3 the rarest and most severe form. Type 3 is usually inherited in an autosomal recessive manner in which the child receives defective gene from both parents. People with type 3 condition have very little or no VWF and experience spontaneous bleeding episodes often into joints and muscles. People with VWD experience prolonged bleeding after injury, surgery, dental work or childbirth. Women with VWD have heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding.
The treatment depends on the type and severity of VWD. Type 3 patients and patients at risk of severe bleeding in type I and type 2 are often treated with factor concentrates that contain FVIII and are rich in VWF.
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I'm intrigued by the infamous mystery and purported secretiveness surrounding Yves Saint Laurent, and am thus rather keen to see L' amour fou directed by Pierre Thoretton. This snippet from the film (below) shares a rare interview which captures Saint Laurent as I've never seen him before; he's jocular and cheeky, jubilantly joking, not at all the nervous, anxious interviewee he's been refereed to in the past. This particular interview with Yves' mix of honest, flippant, and elegant one-word answers highlights the simple and fascinating quality of translated subtitles accompanying a foreign spoken word. Even if most of Yves' clear-cut French answers are obvious: 'le Joie'; 'le charme'; I'm grateful for the English translation below. Yves's French accent and enunciation and the (somewhat) banal English word translation (words which somehow seem almost banal in comparison to their French equivalents) this somehow renders the interview to be quite charming to watch.
"L' amour fou" (2010), directed by Pierre Thoretton from sleek magazine on Vimeo.


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The name Nick Pope is synonymous with Prestige. Nick has been in the car business for over 25 years. Despite training as a chef, he pursued a career in the car industry and started in the automotive industry as a junior car salesman for Cecil and Larter. At this time he sold Volvos and quickly became one of their top salesman. Nick Pope then moved brands to Mazda and eventually ran the Mazda dealership in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk as dealer principal.
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My daily routine doesn't require me to wear or even own a pair of cufflinks, but I'm sure the day I do need a pair these mechanical versions from watchmaker Romain Gauthier will be well out of my price range. The cufflinks will be officially unveiled at this year's Baselworld Watch and Jewellery Show in Basel, Switzerland, and feature a mechanical pushpiece locking and unlocking system comprised of over 45 micro-components. Not only are they easy to put on, but apparently the mechanics also serve as a safety system ensuring the cufflinks won't accidentally fall off while worn. They'll eventually be available in 3 different finishes including a mix of gold and titanium and straight-up titanium, and that alone should give you a rough idea of what their price tag will be like.
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Defeating stage 6-9 where the child of light is the boss is rather difficult. I defeated them when I was at player level 57. pretty late right. I know. so I used a petite devil, lore weaver, big guy, prima donna ( of course who wouldn't ), and ethereal guide. now ethereal guide is a damage dealer so you can use any damage dealer you like but make sure it is ranged since damage dealers like demon slayer and shade just charge in and they die before you can cast a healing spell. so use tracker or ethereal guide or use a bombin goblin or black crow as your damage dealers. the incinerator is also very good. now use big guy or one tank so that once their ultimate recharges you can use it to distract all your enemies away from your other heroes. and time your petite devil stuns very carefully. use it only when one of your heroes is dying. I had all white grade heroes rank 7 except big guy ( grade blue ). thank you.
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Board-certified Las Vegas plastic surgeon Dr. Arthur Cambeiro understands that the choice to make an aesthetic change can sometimes feel overwhelming. But as a leading breast and body doctor in Las Vegas and Henderso, with far-reaching education and training in plastic and cosmetic surgery and patient care, Dr. Cambeiro is ideally suited to answer your questions, facilitate your individual treatment plan, and safely, effectively oversee the emergence of your new physique.
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Continuing their "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in-depth stories this week, EW's next feature article talks with filmmaker J.J. Abrams about Luke Skywalker's involvement in the story.
Mark Hamill's iconic character has remained under wraps so far, his face not appearing in any of the promotional material released. Abrams says how other characters perceive Luke in the narrative was one of the biggest draws for him to direct:
"It was the thing that struck me the hardest, which was the idea that doing a story that took place nearly forty years after Jedi meant that there would be a generation for whom Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia would be as good as myth.
They'd be as old and as mythic as the tale of King Arthur. They would be characters who they may have heard of, but maybe not. They'd be characters who they might believe existed, or just sounded like a fairy tale."
Abrams goes on to specifically cite Daisy Ridley's Rey, a young scavenger on a remote and desolate planet, who would probably be only barely aware of the man who helped shatter the Empire a lifetime ago:
"To someone who is living alone and struggling without a formal education or support system, who knows what that person in the literal middle of nowhere would have ever heard about any of these things, or would ever know, and how much that person would have to infer and piece together on their own.
So the idea that someone like that would begin to learn that the Jedi were real, and that the Force exists, and that there's a power in the universe that sounds fanciful but is actually possible, was an incredibly intriguing notion."
John Boyega's Finn on the other hand certainly knows who Luke Skywalker is thanks to his Stormtrooper training, but his journey is more about a changing of perceptions rather than discovering one:
"For Finn, he's been raised from the ashes of the Empire. He's been taught about Luke Skywalker, he knows about his history. For him it's like joining the army and then learning about one of the great enemies of your country. It has that effect on him. But in terms of the Force, and the magical stuff that happens, that is the point where Finn kind of questions what is what. What is the Force, what part does Luke Skywalker play in all of this?"
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" opens in cinemas on December 18th.
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Along the same lines as our recent post on Adobe Photoshop custom shapes, brushes are a useful tool for creating landscape renderings. Shapes allow you to apply realistic images without the hassle of cropping images out of other contexts.
Brushes are different from custom shapes because they lose clarity as they are stretched or scaled larger. In contrast, however, they are largely more versatile in terms of effects and massing.
For instance, if you have a situation where a tree is partially blocked by a building, with a custom shape the process would require somehow placing the shape layer behind a cropped layer of the building. With specialty brushes, you are able to select a space using the wand and only apply the brush to that area. I do recommend, however, keeping your brushes organized in their own layers rather than applying them directly to other images.
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With a stay at Che Lagarto Hostel São Paulo in Sao Paulo (Vila Mariana), you'll be close to Bible Square and Paulista Museum. This hostel is within close proximity of Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais and Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavillion.
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Present at the Food Revolution in Hawaii
20 years ago, a dozen chefs changed how Hawaii ate—and how the world viewed us.
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Josselin immediately began playing with lumpia wrappers, pickled ginger, green papaya.
The loudest gun in the cuisine revolution belonged to Yamaguchi.
Merriman is generally given credit for being the leading edge of the locavore movement. "But, yes, how we cooked also changed," says Merriman. "Arguably, Roy was the leading edge on that, with his East-meets-West cooking style."
Yamaguchi had been a resounding success in a Hawaii Kai eatery that conventional wisdom had doomed to failure. Lesson learned: Hawaii diners would be receptive to food that combined Asian and Hawaiian flavors with high-end, French-derived culinary technique, and would drive all the way to Hawaii Kai for it.
The other chefs were following the same path, in different directions. No two HRC chefs cooked the same.
"Of course, they all had different culinary DNA," says Sam Choy, "different training, different mentors. Allen had all that precision, Mavro his French way with fish. But they all educated themselves in Hawaii food, added their tweak and made magic."
The magic was simple. The chefs took the foods and flavors that everyone here ate anyway, and kicked them up a notch, making them worthy of a high-end restaurant table.
Yamaguchi put hoisin on his baby back ribs and sauced his shu mai with a deft shoyu beurre blanc. Wong took ochazuke with canned salmon and turned it into green tea risotto with fresh salmon. Mavro took local snapper, fresh local herbs and ogo, and cooked them in a salt crust Provençal style. Padovani turned the usual, awful sweet-sour duck sauce into a brilliant plum and pickled ginger reduction. Gannon made fried rice with foie gras and duck confit.
"There were mixed reviews at first," says Yamaguchi. "People would say they weren't used to those flavors."
But it was food that fit the Hawaii palate—and dazzled everyone on the Mainland who still thought that Hawaiian food was a ham slice with pineapple.
Much of the dazzle was supplied by Shep Gordon's promotional instincts.
Suddenly, Hawaii had a story to tell and a cuisine to sell. The chefs cooked together at dozens of food events. One of the peak moments was the 1993 Big Island Bounty at the Ritz Carlton Mauna Lani. That event drew celebrity foodies from Wolfgang Puck to Florence Fabricant of The New York Times. Mainland food writer Janice Wald Henderson was there to promote The New Cuisine of Hawaii, the cookbook that featured all 12 chefs.
Choy was in charge of doing a luncheon for the assembled Mainland travel press. He gave them a mixed plate. They loved it.
The stories started flowing out of New York and Los Angeles, with one message: "Hawaii now has interesting food." Never mind, it always had.
Related links:
HRC Profiles: Meet the chefs who created Hawaii Regional Cuisine.