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The Korea Herald -- Figure skating star Kim Yu-na will skate to a film score and a compilation of tunes from a popular musical in the upcoming season, her agency said Monday.
Prob old news but thought I share regardless:
The Korea Herald -- Figure skating star Kim Yu-na will skate to a film score and a compilation of tunes from a popular musical in the upcoming season, her agency said Monday.
Thank you. So, Yu-Na's programs will be 'The Kiss of the Vampire' as SP and 'Les Miserables' as LP for the upcoming season!
Sounds cool.
Am really really looking forward to it!
Thanks for this link and info, I didn't notice or read this earlier - sounds like interesting choices. Do we know when her first comp will be? Is Oppergard still her coach?
Kiss of the Vampire promises to be a vampy and campy program. I love it. Instrumental versions of Les Mis songs, though, is an abominable idea.
I don't know; Les Mis might orchestrate very well, though I would prefer Chess. I am not familiar with Kiss of the Vampire. She looks so good in black that I'm sure her costume will be gorgeous.
So many have done Les Mis I'd like to see Yuna with something less used. I think it might be orchestrated well though I surely prefer it as a score with words. Has she skated to Phantom? That I can see. I have never heard Kiss of the Vampire either. Off to youtube....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5apE_J4WBtc here's the opening theme from kiss of the vampire!
And yeah, I'm with skateluvr on how overused Les Mis is, as well. This season, Jeremy Abbott will be using "Bring Him Home" for his FS. And I'm sure we'll be inundated with Les Mis programs once the movie comes out. We've seen Yuna skate to tragic musicals before. This is becoming formulaic.
That said, her SP choice more than makes up for it. If Wilson and Yuna come up with a good program for Kiss of the Vampire (and they probably will), I expect to see lots of other skaters use that music down the road.
Given there had been so many version of Les Mis as you claimed, can you name one definitive version that left an impression?
For all the greatest classics interpreted on ice, which is the definitive Romeo and Juliet? The definitive Carmen? The definitive Tango? The definitive Chopin? The definitive Phantom? The definitive Bolero? The definitive Gershwin? The definitive Swan lake etc. There're always room for more with great classics and especially as something as rich and broad as Les Mis which you can't categorize as one thing since it has almost 50 songs, runs over 3.5 hours. It covers a broad spectrum of characters, interweave their story, aspirations, explore different philosophical themes, outlines political and social change that are far rich and complex to be condensed into one single skating performance. There could be a whole skating show revolve around Les Mis with 20 skaters each doing their own thread, and it still won't be enough to convey the rich tapestry evolved around Victor Hugo's great novel.
It might be easier just to follow a particular theme in Les Mis, a song, a story, a chapter, but the epic scale certainly left alot of rooms to explore and interprete. I have seen the show at London west end 5 or 6 times and each time I came away with different feeling and appreciation of the musical and its epic ambition. I am curious to see how they get on and the creative decisions to come up with it.
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I think this will be great fun and one of the most talked about programs of the season.
I am almost surprised they didn't save it for Sochi ...... and can already hear some saying, "how will Yuna and Wilson ever top this."
Just for kicks here is the trailer:
Are we all assuming Yuna will play a vampire? She could also play the vampire's prey and end the program with a "transformation."
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Johnny Weir skated to the music after them, didn't he?
For Les Mis fans, this is pure gold worth revisiting.
Here's the full 25th Anniversary celebration of Les Mis at London O2 in Full HD. I have forwarded towards to the grand finale which was truly special in every sense of the word.
Although I prefer the 10th anniversary cast, but this grand finale truly tops them all. Just want to say Alfie (formal car mechanic) is a total superstar and Michael Ball remains the best Marius ever.
[QUOTE=os168;655781]For Les Mis fans, this is pure gold worth revisiting.
Here's the full 25th Anniversary celebration of Les Mis at London O2 in Full HD. I have forwarded towards to the grand finale which was truly special in every sense of the word.
ITA. the 25th was glorious, but I too prefer the 10th anniversary cast. Ruthie Henshall (I think this was her name) sings the best ever "I dreamed a dream" and there must be 100 artists on youtube doing their darndest. She was perfect, the voice, the face. No one is better in that role. And Lea Salonga was so incredible as Eponine. I agree Michael Ball remains the best Marius ever. There will never be a lead like Colm for me. He is the pivotal character off which every other in that production found the perfection he lead with. Amongst all the exquisite Jean Valjean's that have traversed the world with this musical I feel from the angels of music, he is just so moving. "Bring him home." never fails to have me clutching at my heart and tissue. I just love him.
And maybe you are right Os. It will be exciting to see what emotion Yuna brings to this peice. But having heard that clip from Kiss of the Vampire, I am genuinely excited to see Yuna return. David Wilson and a rejuvenated Yuna can knock this out of the park if she plays it for the horror and the vampiness as Sb says. Hearing the music makes me expect a great program. The problem will be (just mho) how much CoP point counting must be in it to get Yuna the scores she is used to getting. What will Yuna be like? This sp choice could be genius on Wilson's part. Sigh. Only August. Which is Yuna's first GP event?


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NEW YORK � With a Democrat in the White House, a wave of books is coming out this year lamenting the slow economy and calling for substantial change.
And those books are by liberals.
�It�s the story of the moment right now,� says Patricia Bostelman, vice president of marketing for Barnes & Noble Inc. �We have a real disparity-of-wealth issue, and that tends to be a subject for books from the left, especially after Occupy Wall Street.�
Call it the Occupy Bookstores movement. At least 20 current and upcoming works reflect the left�s varied reactions � fatalism, disappointment, anger � to the Obama administration�s handling of the economy and ongoing concerns about corporate power (too high) and government spending and investment (too low).
�I published a bunch of liberal books during the (George W.) Bush administration and the theme was basically, �I hate Bush,�� says Chris Jackson, executive editor of Spiegel & Grau, a Random House Inc. imprint. �This time, we�re dealing with the limitations of what a president can do and systematic things like the influence of the financial industry and the relationship between the 1 percent and the 99 percent.�
Timothy Noah�s The Great Divergence and Joseph Stiglitz�s The Price of Inequality are among several new books that focus on the growing gap between rich and poor. Prescriptions for the economy are featured in a pair of best-sellers: Paul Krugman�s End This Depression Now! and former Obama adviser Van Jones� Rebuild the Dream.
Some books are campaign-oriented, like James Carville�s It�s the Middle Class, Stupid, while others offer information, inspiration and guidance for activists. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, co-written by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco and published by Nation Books, provides close accounts of some of the country�s most devastated communities, �sacrifice zones.� It ends with a detailed history of the Occupy protests and a declaration that �the mighty can fall.�
�Nation Books has always issued books on inequality and class, but sometimes historic events enable some books to get a greater hearing than others,� says Carl Bromley, Nation Books� editorial director. �It�s like what happened during the first half of the last decade. All kinds of books about the Middle East were getting published so the public could better understand what was happening in the news.�
�I think a goal for some of the books is to shape the debate and the presidential campaign,� says Drake McFeely, president of W.W. Norton & Company, which publishes Krugman and Stiglitz, both Nobel Prize-winning economists. �I think the feeling for some writers is that it would be nice if these books gave Obama the room to move more to the left than he has.�
Many books were inspired directly by the protests: Noam Chomsky�s Occupy was among a series of pamphlets released by Zuccotti Park Press, named for the downtown Manhattan park where the Occupy protests emerged. Occupying Wall Street was published by Chicago-based Haymarket Books and credited to several authors collectively identified as �Writers for the 99 Percent.�
Other releases include The Occupy Handbook, with contributions from Krugman, Michael Lewis, Barbara Ehrenreich and others, and Richard Wolff�s Occupy the Economy, issued this month by the publishing arm of San Francisco�s City Lights Bookstore.
�We�ve really seen an upsurge for these kinds of books over the past,� says Paul Yamazaki, a buyer for City Lights. �And some of the older books have taken on a new life, like Saul Alinsky�s Rules for Radicals.�
One longtime activist and founding Occupy organizer, David Graeber, already has written a word-of-mouth hit and has a deal with Spiegel & Grau for a book about the Occupy movement and the democratic process.
Graeber, credited with coining the Occupy phrase �We are the 99 percent,� last year released Debt: the First Five Thousand Years through the independent Melville House Publishing. The book was widely discussed and, according to Melville House publisher Dennis Johnson, has sold around 60,000 copies. Chris Jackson of Spiegel & Grau was among those who read it.
�What I loved about his book was that it wasn�t just a polemic. It was also this rich history and it taught me things that I didn�t know,� Jackson says.
�So I already was a fan of his when the proposal for his new book came our way. It was originally going to be just about Occupy, but has evolved into a broader book. We�re going into an election where people are pessimistic about the political process and the inability of the government to respond. Occupy was a movement that galvanized some widely held ideas and made them visible. So he�s writing about how we can change our society, not just economically, but politically.�

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JOHNSTOWN - From the beginning of Thursday night's District 6 Class AA girls soccer semifinal match, it was clear what Bedford's strategy would be.
For the entire first half, Bedford sent only two players forward on attacks, while keeping eight players back on defense protect against the offensive power of Forest Hills.
The plan worked, holding the Lady Rangers to only one goal in the first half.
Unfortunately for the Lady Bisons, they never could get the offense going in the second half and their season ended with a 2-0 loss at Richland High School.
"In the first half, our goal was to get to halftime keeping the game close, and open it up in the second half," said Bedford coach Barrett Schrock. "I thought that way we aren't chasing them the whole 80 minutes. We executed and we played pretty well. It was 1-0 at halftime, and that was the plan, to be within one. The second half, we came out and had a couple of chances, but tonight Forest Hills was the better team."
The plan to be more defensive kept Forest Hills off the scoreboard for most of the first half, but it also kept the ball in the Lady Bison zone for most of the first 40 minutes. Forest Hills took advantage of the ball being in the Bedford zone just over six minutes into the game when Casey Gallaher launched a deep rising shot at the net. Lady Bison goaltender Erin Mueller made a jumping save on the kick to keep the game scoreless.
The Lady Rangers did not get another good opportunity to score until five minutes later, when the Briana Kostan took a feed from Ashley Lucas but put the kick over the crossbar. Other than those two chances, the Bedford defense did a good job of blocking up the passing lanes for the Lady Rangers.
The defensive plan of the Lady Bison worked until the midway point of the half. Gallaher took the ball and got past a Bedford defender in the left corner. She dribbled the ball a couple times along the goal line, then lofted it toward the net.
Instead of putting the ball out in front of the net to a teammate, Gallaher lifted the ball over the outstretched hands of Mueller and into the far side of the net for a 1-0 Forest Hills lead.
Forest Hills had a couple of other opportunities in the half, but could not add to the lead. Kim Boyd sent a kick at the Bedford net late in the half. The ball hit off the head of a Lady Bison defender and changed directions toward the net. Mueller made a key save to keep the Lady Rangers from adding to their lead.
While Mueller and the Bedford defense were constantly tested, the Forest Hills defense and goalie Megan Ross saw little action in the first half. Ross only had to play a couple of long balls, which never posed any threat to the net.
"It took me by surprise," Forest Hills coach Donna Gallaher said of Bedford's defensive strategy. "I looked at my assistant coach Nikki [Lee] and said they have eight people back. They played different the second half. They changed some things to work the ball back out. We got opportunities in the first half, they just plugged it up that every time we tried to get it to our forward or target player there were eight people around her. They didn't give us much space."
In the early play of the second half Forest Hills continued to get opportunities. Mueller made a save off of a header by Boyd from a corner kick with just under two minutes gone in the half. A few minutes later, Mueller had to make a save on the side of the net off of a nice passing play by the Lady Rangers.
Mueller made a key save about 10 minutes into the half off of a corner kick, diving to keep it out of the net. The ball squirted away from Mueller but went over the end line.
At about the midway mark of the second half, Kostan hit Gallaher on a pass, and Gallaher sent a shot at the net. Mueller made a rolling save to keep the score 1-0.
Unfortunately for Mueller and the Lady Bisons, Forest Hills added to the lead a few minutes later. Gallaher sent a corner kick toward the box, and Bedford was called for a handball in the box on the kick. Gallaher sent the penalty kick into the right side of the net to make the lead, 2-0.
Bedford's best opportunity came with just under 11 minutes left. The Lady Bisons had a corner kick. In the scramble to get the ball, a Bedford player was called for an infraction in the box in front of the Forest Hills goal, giving the ball to the Lady Rangers.
The Lady Bisons never came close again. They finished their season with a final record of 14-5-1.
"I thought our season as a whole was excellent," Schrock said. "For us to have 14 wins, that's the best season we've had since I have been coaching. The girls just stepped up this year, and they played real well. Better than I expected."
Bedford0 0-0
Forest Hills1 1-2
FIRST HALF: 1, FH-Cas. Gallaher (unassisted), 19:33.
SECOND HALF: 2, FH-Cas. Gallaher (unassisted), 62:46.
Records: Bedford (14-5-1); Forest Hills (18-0-1).


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Even though the Bugatti Veyron is now seven years old, it is a truly awe-inspiring piece of machinery. The engine is unlike anything else in the world, and it makes achieving record-setting speeds look easy. But you've no doubt seen thousands of pictures of different variations and one-off editions of the car by now, and you might even think that Bugatti has taken the car as far as it's going to go. Well, apparently they have, at least in its current form. So Bugatti is now working on a second generation of the car which will feature a lighter and more aerodynamic body as well as a more powerful engine.
As Auto Express reports, the engine for this new Veyron will once again be a quad-turbo W16, but the new version might bump displacement from 8.0 liters to 9.6 liters. Armed with this increased displacement, power will rise to 1,600 horsepower. This will allow for a 0-62mph time of 1.8 seconds and a top speed of 290mph. Those are fairly insane numbers, but Bugatti wants to be number one, and you don't stay in that position long if you don't keep working on something even better than what you did before.
The body will still be recognizable as a Veyron, but the design will be evolved to be more aerodynamic. Bugatti also says that they will have cut an impressive 250kg (550lbs) from the car's curb weight by the time it debuts. Helping to trim this weight there will theoretically be such features as wheels made entirely from carbon fiber. There might also be some help from a hybrid system in getting the car's output up to the desired 1,600 horsepower. Amazingly, this is said to be not too far off either, with the debut planned to take place at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September of 2013. That seems awfully soon, especially considering how long Bugatti have been dragging their feet on the Galibier super sedan. Just the same, we simply can't wait to see what Bugatti brings to Frankfurt come next year.


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2. to perplex; mystify.
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Getting silly, wasted, and in the process, epic pranks and shenanigans are guaranteed to occur.
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To be confused or in a state of not not knowing.
She was Bamboozled when she saw the test scores.
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Together with our partner Etihad Airways, Virgin Australia operates flights to London from Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
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Virgin Australia and Etihad Airways fly into Terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport. Heathrow Airport is located in Hillingdon, 30km and 30 minutes' drive from London city centre. The airport can be accessed by various transport options, including:
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London is one of the most exciting and happening cities in the world. A leading global centre at the forefront of arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, media and tourism, the millenniums-old metropolis is celebrated as the world's cultural capital. From the Thames to Tottenham, Buckingham Palace to Brick Lane, and Chelsea to Camden Square, London is jam-packed with things to do and see, home to sites like The Tower of London, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Greenwich Maritime, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, Downing Street and much more.
There's no better destination of earth to play tourist in than London. Tour the city from aboard a famous big red double decker buses. Take in the view from high above the River Thames, on the London Eye. Uncover the city's long and prominent history at the world-famous The British Museum. Witness the centuries-old tradition of the Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Marvel at the impressive medieval fortress that is The Tower of London. Catch a critically-acclaimed theatre show in the legendary West End. Take in a play by the Bard in the authentic surrounds of Shakespeare's Globe. Or revel at a gig at illustrious venues like O2 Academy Brixton, Wembley Arena or Royal Albert Hall – London is feted to have the world's best music scene.
London is a retail Mecca. Spanning one-and-a-half miles long, Oxford Street is reputedly the busiest shopping strip in the world, home to department stores like Marks & Spencer, Debehams, House of Fraser, John Lewis, and high street favourites H & M, Zara and Topshop. London's quintessential shopping experience resides on Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, in the form of the affluent and illustrious Harrods. Notting Hills' Portobello Road Market is one of the most famous street markets in the world, attracting thousands of visitors with antique, bric-a-brac, fresh food and retro fashion stalls. While London's centre of alternative culture, Camden Town features six famous open-air markets, which hawk everything from vintage to futuristic fashion and quirky antiques.
Boasting a population of over eight million people, made up of hundreds of ethnicities, London enjoys an inspired food culture. Walk the East End's Brick Lane for an authentic Indian or Bangladeshi curry. Visit Golborne Road in Notting Hill for Moroccan and Portuguese speciality dishes. Join the crowds along Portobello Road for a world-famous Hummingbird cupcake. Sample the country's best organic produce and homemade fare at Southwark's Borough Markets. Experience one of Richard Branson's favourite lunch settings, with a meal at Kensington Roof Gardens. Or visit the restaurants of celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver – both have eateries in suburbs all through the city.
The Brits love a tipple, and with gastro-pubs, wine bars, nightclubs, and cocktail lounges galore, visitors soon grow accustom to the UK custom. Relax with a very English Pimms on a rooftop bar, overlooking the very English River Thames. Paint the town red in Soho – London's most frequented and fashionable drinking hub, home to hip cellar bars, age-old London institutions and glitzy gay nightclubs. Enjoy a drink and a live gig in London's counter-culture hive, Camden. Head east to East London – in particular neighbourhoods like Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, Brick Lane and Whitechapel – to hang with hipsters at on-trend lounges, bars and nightclubs. For a total dissimilar experience, the other side of town West London beckons; speckled with archetypal old London pubs. While a taste of Australia can be enjoyed at Walkabout drinking holes, found all throughout the city, abuzz with expats cheering on live rugby and cricket telecasts.


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He's battled through four seasons of Survivor and competed twice with wife Amber on The Amazing Race, but 'Boston' Rob Mariano isn't done with reality TV yet.
Mariano and monster truck impresario Dennis Anderson will star in a new series for History this year, PEOPLE has learned.
In Around the World in 80 Ways, Mariano and Anderson will challenge each other to circumnavigate the globe using 80 different methods of transportation with the caveat that each cannot repeat any way twice.
"I think The Amazing Race gave me a foundation for traveling," Mariano tells PEOPLE. "However, the approach that we are taking in Around the World in 80 Ways is completely different from anything I've done before in that this show will be a celebration of transportation throughout history."
From boats to blimps to the backs of camels, is there a mode of travel Mariano fears the most? "I'm not too fond of anything that keeps me in a confined space," he says. "That is claustrophobia."
After the finale for Survivor: Redemption Island airs on May 14, Mariano will start production with Anderson, the creator and driver of the monster truck called Gravedigger.
Meanwhile, Amber, the winner of Survivor: All-Stars, will stay home with daughters Lucia Rose, 21 months, and Carina Rose, 4 months.
"Being away from my family is always the toughest part about doing these shows," Mariano says. "Luckily, I have a wonderful wife that understands my thirst for adventure and consistently supports me in my quests."
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Take a walk down Cario Middle School's seventh grade hallway, and you will be entering "The compassion zone." Cario's seventh grade is using compassion towards others as the overriding theme for the 2013-2014 school year.
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As part of the Banner Series of Lectures, The Virginia Historical Society will present Dr. Adrian Wheat's assessment of the practice of medicine on particularly on the Confederate side of the Civil War. The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, October 26th at 7 PM and will be repeated on Thursday, October 28th at noon. The lecture will be delivered at the Virginia Historical Society, 428 N Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Wheat will describe the medical practices of science in the 1860's including care on the battlefield, transporting patients to hospitals, and the role of sanitation. MASH, as depicted in the television series of the same name, actually took place 100 years later! Take medical science backward 100 years, eliminate what we learned in that 100 years, and what do we have left? Dr. Adrian Wheat's lecture will fill in the details!
Reservations are not normally required and an admission fee for non-members applies to the Banner Series. INFO. While you're at the Historical Society, don't miss the free exhibition "An American Turning Point: The Civil War in Virginia," the stories of everyday Virginians and their experiences during the Civil War.
Save time to drive east from the Historical Society to visit the National Park Service Chimborazo Visitor Center and Medical Museum, located at 3215 East Broad Street. The museum is housed in a 20th century building located on the site of the historic largest and most organized Civil War hospital. It took its name from Chimborazo Hill upon which it perched – at one time housing around 4000 patients and, during 3 and half years, almost 75,000 wounded and sick were treated at Chimborazo. The museum, operated by the National Park Service, is open daily from 9 to 5 and provides insight into the workings of the hospital, Dr. Samuel Moore, Dr. James McCaw who operated the hospital like a small city, other Richmond hospitals, and of course, the practice of medicine in the 1860's.
Planning a visit to Richmond, Virginia? These are the type of inn-sider tips, innkeepers at Richmond's premier bed and breakfast are ready to share. Make a reservation today – you'll be in the middle of it all and you'll be treated to a hearty gourmet breakfast to stick to your ribs while you embark on your sight-seeing adventures!


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A group of poker players who go all-in everytime they get dealt a hand. This is known as "Spearowing". Well known Spearows include Jweer, CDBluff, Jbizzle, and Rasputin.
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A (Very) Short History of Volunteering
26 December 1999
by Arthur Gillette
On 26 December 1999, a friend of mine who lives in a small village in Northern France lost part of the roof of his house to the cyclonic windstorm that devastated Western Europe that day. As soon as the wind abated, my friend ventured to his attic to survey the damage, soon joined there by a neighbour he hardly knew. The man had seen slates spewing skywards from my friend's house, and came spontaneously and uninvited. He struggled to carry a huge plastic sheet to cover provisionally the gaping roof hole through which torrential rain was pouring.
An exceptional, indeed isolated gesture of unselfish neighbourliness in an ever-more individualistic and me-me-me-centred world? Perhaps.
What is certain is that in all pre-industrial societies -- and still today in many, mainly third world nations -- mutual self-help was/is vital to the survivial of rural communities, e.g. to bring in harvests, to build homes for the aged and invalid, to maintain roads. Perhaps mainly in the 19th century, industrialization, the generalization of money as a means of exchange, and the "de-socialization" and anonymity that accompanied urbanization undermined such values as solidarity and mutual assistance.
They resurfaced in 1920 as an antidote to the hate and horror of World War I. That summer, a group of Austrian, English, French, German and Swiss volunteers -- some of them former soldiers and thus ex-enemies -- set to work to rebuild a village near Verdun (not far from my friend's partly roofless house) which had been destroyed in a battle that cost more than a million lives.
From that very first international voluntary workcamp sprang the first modern voluntary service movement, an organization (still active as I write) known by its French name and acronym, Service Civil International. S.C.I. soon had younger brothers and sisters as voluntary service spread in the 1920s and 1930s. At that time it was often seen as a means of building friendships among young people of different European countries. It was also used in countries as different as the U.S.A. and Bulgaria, during the severe economic crisis following 1929, as a means of giving unemployed young people something socially useful to do, as well as a bed and food. That it could be perverted and diverted from its internationalist and often pacifist ideals was, unfortunately, demonstrated by the Hitlerjugend Arbeitsdienst labour brigades in Germany, and similar schemes in other totalitarian countries.
In 1934, S.C.I. sent four European volunteers to work with the poorest of the poor in India -- a pioneer team that was the ancestor to the British Volunteer Programme, US Peace Corps, Deutsche Entwiklungsdienst and other such North-to-South long-term volunteering actions, which in turn preceded the UN Volunteers programme. World War II saw, in some democratic countries, volunteering take the place of military mobilization for conscientious objectors. In the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s young volunteers played an important part in the reconstruction of Europe, and the establishment of cross-border friendships, in projects that ranged from rebuilding central Warsaw and war-damaged villages in Western Europe to spanning Yugoslavia with the Bratsvo-Edinstvo (Brotherhood and Unity) highway.
But the Cold War threatened to freeze the heart and mind out of volunteering, and use it as a tool in superpower competition. Thanks in good part to UNESCO and its Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (created in 1948) volunteers from East and West were soon, albeit symbolically, jointly "rusting" the "Iron Curtain". In the early 1960s, I myself, an American, took part in international voluntary workcamps in the U.S.S.R., G.D.R and Hungary -- and I can testify that they were not sleazy propaganda exercises, and the genuine exchanges - sometimes arguments -- took place, while real friendships were formed. And, yes, voluteers from the East also travelled West.
Emancipation from colonial rule gave birth to national volunteer movements throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. Some were tiny and fragile: in Nigeria, the Lagos Voluntary Workcamps Organization was so poor it couldn't afford postage stamps and its members delivered invitations to potential student volunteers on foot. Other operations were huge : in 1960, 15- to 18-year-old secondary school students formed the backbone of the volunteer force that virtually eliminated illiteracy in Cuba.
Long-term volunteering to assist developing countries took off in the 1960s and with it soon came calls to depoliticize it. To ensure that volunteers not be used as « soldiers » in the Cold War, the creation of a U.N. corps of volunteers was advocated. Already in the 1950s, UNESCO had successfully used small teams of volunteers from the U.S.A. and Jordan at its regional adult education centres in the Arab States (Sirs el Layyan, Egypt) and Latin America (Patzcuaro, Mexico). The 1970s dawned with the creation of the UN Volunteers programme.
The last chapter of this (very) short history of volunteering concerns two end-of-the-century aspects. First is the resurgence of volunteering in the ex-Socialist countries. As mentioned above, there had been volunteering in the Soviet era, and it was not all obligatory and nasty: some people now middle-aged indeed recall their stints as young volunteers with fond nostalgia. But a new kind of volunteering has emerged from the ruins, and has taken root in several countries, particularly in North-Eastern Europe, where the UNESCO- and EU-supported EASTLINKS Network forms a common denominator. The UN Volunteers programme's Azerbaijan Project offers a hopeful avenue of innovation in the Caucasus.
The second aspect concerns age: with extending healthy longevity in industrialized countries, increasing numbers of qualified retired professionals are now finding satisfaction and enrichment by offering their services, abroad as well as at home. I think I have never seen a happier group of senior citizens than the team of 15 retired American school teachers I met a few years ago who were upgrading the quality of English teaching at Beijing University.
What do I think of volunteering?
First of all, I'm convinced that not all volunteering is good. When, for example, the neo-liberal State withdraws from its duties to the most disadvantaged members of a society, then the volunteers meant to take up the slack can be a shabby alibi for deregulated governmental irresponsibility. On the other hand, volunteering has played a crucial and positive role in my own life. From the time I participated, aged 20, in my first voluntary workcamp in a Black ghetto near Boston to today when, at 62 and now retired, I undertake volunteer assignments for various NGOs, volunteering has been a constant source of satisfaction, learning, revelation and -- often -- joy. There is a saying in English: "Get something for nothing", which generally implies "gaining selfish material advantage without any personal investment". Thanks to volunteering, I have often been able to "give something for nothing" i.e. to "invest personally for no material advantage". The benefits to me have been anything but $$$ !
Arthur Gillette is the former Director of UNESCO's Division of Youth and Sports Activities and the ex-Secretary General of the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service. He is also the author of "One Million Volunteers -- The Story of Youth Service" and "New Trends in Service by Youth".


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The singer and TV personality, 58, plans to marry her longtime business partner Jeffré Phillips, who popped the question while the pair vacationed in Hawaii last August.
Jackson was caught off guard by the proposal, so "it wasn't a fast yes," she tells PEOPLE.
She followed a path of white rose petals and gardenias out to their hotel balcony, where Phillips, 46, arranged a romantic dinner of her favorite foods, including chicken soup. Then, he surprised her with a 17.5-carat diamond ring, hidden under her dessert tray.
"I had no clue," Jackson says. "I couldn't understand why he was so nervous."
When Phillips dropped to his knee, "My heart just stopped," says Jackson, who stars in the reality show Life with La Toya.
"I was in total shock," she says. "We're best friends and we've been business partners forever. It was always professional – no one really crossed those boundaries."
As for wedding plans, Jackson is coy about when she'll head to the altar.
"You have to wait to see the show," she says.
Life with La Toya premieres June 7 on OWN.


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The sports calendar is finally heating up, and with the NFL back in action, the Dallas Cowboys have acted quickly, starting a fire sale, cutting numerous players and setting themselves up for an offseason spending spree.
Will the Cowboys make a huge splash, or will they opt for low-key moves in the open market? Something gives me the feeling that Jerry Jones won't go quietly into the night.
In other sports news, Manny Pacquiao is gearing up for his latest fight, but will his legacy take a hit if he never faces Floyd Mayweather Jr.? We will discuss the chances of the super fight happening and the impact it would have if we miss another shot at boxing's last big bout.
Finally, we'll discuss the latest Brett Favre rumors. Is Favre actually thinking about coming back, or are these talks a media creation just to talk about the legendary gunslinging quarterback?
We will discuss those stories and so much more as we hop around the wide world of sports. As always, if you have anything to say, make sure to leave it in the comments.


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The City of Altoona's finance director has begun applying to the state for three grants totaling $519,000, as called for in the city's Act 47 recovery plan.
"My understanding is that as long as we apply, we will get it," said Omar Strohm.
Grant opportunities are one of the benefits of Act 47 participation.
The single application to the Department of Community and Economic Development asks for $250,000 to devise a housing strategy and investment plan for downtown, $225,000 for information technology improvements and $44,000 for the Blair County Tax Collection Bureau.
Together, the projects will help the city "through improved efficiencies and effectiveness of services and investments that will foster tax base growth potential," the plan states.
The downtown project would include a "detailed housing and commercial market analysis, conceptual design and strategies for building reinvestment efforts," the plan states.
It would take as models for future reinvestment the Railroaders Memorial Museum and the Sheetz Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence, both of which could encourage growth, according to the plan.
The IT improvements would include a $50,000 information technology audit to make sure any changes are cost-effective; a $70,000 accounting/budgeting/procurement system; a $120,000 conversion to "broadband cards" to improve public safety communications and reduce IT operating costs; and a system that would consolidate revenue collection, at a cost not yet determined.
The Tax Collection Bureau project would defray the cost of programming changes that would enable the bureau to collect the additional earned income tax the city has levied as a result of Act 47 lifting the cap on that tax.


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Alexander Lex, Ph.D., research scientist of the visual computing group of Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said that visualization of large datasets of experimental data has allowed his group to identify changes in specific biological pathways when looking, for example, at cancer data.
"Our Caleydo project was designed to bring biomolecular data into a visual form that helps researchers in finding relationships within large sets of data. Our approach can tackle various types of data, ranging from mutation, methylation patterns, gene expression, and microRNAs, to clinical data and pathways.
"This enables, for example, looking at subtypes of glioblastoma. Distinguishing factors of cancer subtypes could be derived from experimental data, but integrating a wide variety of datasets enables researchers to characterize subtypes better, to find supporting evidence in the clinical data, or to reason about causes based on pathways." He further discussed that Caleydo has been applied to various datasets and has been successfully used to analyze data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA).
Dr. Lex has also focused on the modulation of behavior of genes for potential application in drug discovery. "It would be interesting not only to find out how a certain gene works, but also how a drug affects the gene and how this affects the rest of the pathway it is associated with," explained Dr. Lex.
"One of the challenges in our research involves the size of the network during analysis. Some think that using smaller pathways is good, but this may not be true at all times, since small pathways remove the complexity we observe in reality. One challenge therefore is to find a compromise between what to show and what to hide, so a researcher can make informed decisions without being drowned in information. Finding this balance also stresses the importance of collaborations with various researcher disciplines."
Pathway analysis has also been used in studies involving secondary metabolism. "We look for families of genes that are associated with the biosynthesis of chemical compounds," said Daniel Udwary, Ph.D., assistant professor, biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, University of Rhode Island.
"We are interested in identifying new drugs from natural products and looking at various bacterial species based on their metabolomes. One particular feature of working with microbial metabolomes is that their genes are often clustered within an area in the genome. It is thus simply a matter of looking around that gene and the rest of the cluster is there; this also occurs in fungi, but not in plants and other higher-order organisms."
Dr. Udwary's research has concentrated on identifying gene clusters that are associated with the synthesis of secondary metabolites. "We have currently identified 3,892 gene clusters with specific pathways, and it is interesting to know that each pathway is different. It is almost the same as snowflakes, in which each one is unique. Now our challenge after identifying specific pathways is to be able to predict the mechanism of a specific gene based on its DNA sequence."
Dr. Udwary plans to conduct comparative analyses of gene clusters among various microbial species to establish natural products-based drug discovery roadmaps.
"Unfortunately, drug discovery using natural products has diminished in the last few decades and a lot of potential mechanisms have been overlooked. It is critical for us to recognize that the horizontal transfer of genes plays an important role in the biosynthesis of new drugs, and thus revisiting these operons in microbial species can help in establishing trends in secondary metabolism."
Pathway analysis has also helped scientists in elucidating mechanisms of drug action. According to Joshua Apgar, Ph.D., principal scientist of systems biology, department of immunology and inflammation at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, their use of well-described pathway models has helped them understand drug selectivity and functionality.
"We are inspired by the fact that some compounds show functional selectivity in vivo but are not selective in vitro. We are interested in identifying on-target and off-target mechanisms of new drugs and how systems-level processes can affect these mechanisms," explained Dr. Apgar.
These processes are quite complicated and may be influenced by a variety of feedback processes that only exist in vivo. Reconstruction of all these processes in vitro may be impossible and thus the use of pathway models has assisted their investigations of drug target effects.
Ingenuity Systems says its IPA technology helped elucidate a network of genetic drivers for aging. The networks determined, among other things, that muscle age was not primarily related to the biology of physical activity.
Previously, research had hypothesized that resistance exercise contributed to a reverse of the aging process, yet work carried out by the laboratory of Professor James A. Timmons at Loughborough University in the U.K. demonstrated that response to exercise is highly variable in humans and that pre-existing gene expression levels can predict future response to exercise. The paper also identified biological molecules that may drive the response to physical activity.
The new work coupled analysis with Ingenuity's IPA software and microarray data generated both by Dr. Timmons' laboratory as well as datasets from published literature. The analysis determined that the genetic regulators of age-related genes were distinct and unrelated to the regulators of exercise-influenced genes.
"Several papers in the recent past have asserted that exercise 'reverses' the aging process, which is a very attractive proposition—if we could simply exercise more, we would slow the aging process and potentially have fewer chronic problems," notes Dr. Timmons. "In this study, we took a different approach, measuring the variation in the products being made from the genetic code using Ingenuity's IPA, and determined that it just isn't that simple."
The research was published in the journal PLOS Genetics in a paper titled "Molecular Networks of Human Muscle Adaptation to Exercise and Age". IPA (Ingenuity Pathway Analysis) is a web-based functional analysis tool for comprehensive omic data.
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Ofcom blesses Linux-powered, open source DIY radio 'revolution'
Small scale DAB radio was (quite literally) conceived in an Ofcom engineer's garden shed in Brighton, on a Raspberry Pi, running a full open source stack, in his spare time. Four years later, Ofcom has given the thumbs up to small scale DAB after concluding that trials in 10 UK cities were judged to be a hit. We gave you an exclusive glimpse into the trials last year, where you could compare the specialised proprietary encoders with the Raspberry Pi-powered encoders. "We believe that there is a significant level of demand from smaller radio stations for small scale DAB, and that a wider roll-out of additional small scale services into more geographic areas would be both technically possible and commercially sustainable," notes Ofcom.
Case in point: I've been using the Apache HTTP server for many years now. Indeed, you could say that I've been using Apache since before it was even called "Apache"—what started as the original NCSA HTTP server, and then the patched server that some enterprising open-source developers distributed, and finally the Apache Foundation-backed open-source colossus that everyone recognizes, and even relies on, today—doing much more than just producing HTTP servers. Apache's genius was its modularity. You could, with minimal effort, configure Apache to use a custom configuration of modules. If you wanted to have a full-featured server with tons of debugging and diagnostics, you could do that. If you wanted to have high-level languages, such as Perl and Tcl, embedded inside your server for high-speed Web applications, you could do that. If you needed the ability to match, analyze and rewrite every part of an HTTP transaction, you could do that, with mod_rewrite. And of course, there were third-party modules as well.
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Most of the new 21 open source software projects for IoT that we examined last week listed Linux hacker boards as their prime development platforms. This week, we'll look at open source and developer-friendly Linux hardware for building Internet of Things devices, from simple microcontroller-based technology to Linux-based boards. In recent years, it's become hard to find an embedded board that isn't marketing with the IoT label. Yet, the overused term is best suited for boards with low prices, small footprints, low power consumption, and support for wireless communications and industrial interfaces. Camera support is useful for some IoT applications, but high-end multimedia is usually counterproductive to attributes like low cost and power consumption.


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"Business analyst" is not a distinct role on Scrum or other agile teams. And yet, the goal for the team—to deliver high-valued product needs—requires strong business analysis skills. Ellen Gottesdiener and Mary Gorman describe the vital analysis work needed reach the goal, regardless of role.
In agile development, what happens to the traditional business analyst? Consider Scrum, currently the most popular agile method. In Scrum, there is no "business analyst" role. In fact, there is not an explicit role for tester, project manager, architect, developer, data administrator, user experience designer, customer support representative, or product trainer. Instead, Scrum has three roles: the product owner, the ScrumMaster, and the delivery team. Their collective goal is to deliver high-valued product needs continually. So, where and how can a business analyst contribute?
One possibility is the ScrumMaster role. Great ScrumMasters are facilitative leaders with a diverse set of analysis skills and strong communication and facilitation abilities. In addition, they have a sound understanding of the business domain. Business analysts and project managers with those strong skills are good candidates for the ScrumMaster role.
Another possibility is the delivery team. On some Scrum teams we've coached, the business analyst blends into the delivery team, participating and often leading the activities of planning, analyzing, testing, and demonstrating the product. Using Scrum terminology, that work is burned up and burned down, along with the work of design, development, and so on.
The Business Analyst Is Not the Product Owner, Unless ...
The product owner role requires deep domain and product knowledge to guide decisions about what to build and when to build it. The product owner, in collaboration with the delivery team, explores and evaluates product needs to make those decisions. That's business analysis work.
The product owner may choose to explicitly and transparently delegate decision-making authority. We've seen this responsibility delegated to a business analystwho reports within the business or product management organization and has the requisite domain and product background.
Strategic and Tactical Work of the Product Owner
The product owner role in Scrum is crucial for success. The product owner is responsible for the planning, analysis, communication, and decision making to ensure that the right product is delivered.
Strategic product owner responsibilities include:
- Lead customer and product-discovery activities.
- Create strategic product plans and define business value (product profitability).
- Communicate the product roadmap and plans to internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop and manage a lean, dynamic product backlog (also called "pruning" or "grooming" the backlog).
- Select and analyze product backlog requirements to prepare them for agile planning workshops.
- Identify themes for each planning cycle.
- Lead or participate in agile planning and retrospective workshops.
Tactical, day-to-day product owner responsibilities include:
- Participate in product backlog grooming (e.g., work ahead, make ready, planning, agile analysis, and pruning workshops) to prepare backlog items for estimating and planning.
- Specify acceptance criteria for each backlog item.
- Review and approve user stories.
- Attend daily stand-ups and the end-of-iteration and end-of-release demonstrations and retrospectives.
That's a lot of responsibility—and it's time-consuming, to boot. In addition, most product owners wear many other hats. In commercial software organizations, they may be product managers. Or, in organizations that develop software to support their internal IT operations, product owners may be mid- or senior-level business managers. No wonder the product owner needs help!


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For the third year in a row, the Derry Township School District is trying to get an exemption from the state to raise property taxes higher than the state cap.
District officials want a 3.4 percent tax hike, which is about $82 for the average homeowner.
School officials said the increase is necessary to keep up with rising pension costs, which they expect to increase by a million dollars next school year.
"It's very difficult to deal with in your budget when you have cut over the last two years," said Derry Township Superintendent Richard Faidley.
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The relationship between Vincent O'Neill and James Joyce is fabled. Their connection, set generations apart but within kilometers of each other, has cradled O'Neill, artistic director of the Irish Classical Theatre Company, in much of his creative flow.
If O'Neill is still calling the creative shots 23 years after co-founding the company, then Joyce is his co-founder emeritus, his posthumous artist-in-residence.
This means the restaging of Ulick O'Connor's "Joyicity," a one-man, one-act tribute to some landmarks of the writer's life and work, isn't just logical; it was inevitable.
The play also marked the debut of the theater company in 1990, at the former Pfeifer Theatre, in the same neighborhood of its subsequent space at the Calumet Arts Café on Chippewa, and its current home at the Andrews Theatre on Main.
It was also O'Neill's last performance in Ireland before his self-proclaimed "voluntary exile" a year earlier, making this both a homecoming and memorial.
The piece is rich with literary motifs, the thickest Irish brogue, and a foundation of spiritual and patriotic truisms that make the intended ode to Joyce intimately elegiac and universally inspiring.
The artistic soul's search for clarity amid complexity, naturally, assumedly, is the draw to O'Neill and it's his offering to us.
O'Connor contrasts passages from Joyce's canon – novels and poems, but only one published play; ironic given the theatrical license here – with landmarks of his own life. The synchronicity between his characters' lives and his own is enhanced by the understood connections between our performer and his subject.
There are times when those connections are difficult to grasp, though, the fault of some cloudy transitions in the script and an occasional one-note tone from O'Neill. Some sharper clarity between narrator and character voices would help.
That said, O'Neill lands his characterizations with classical craft. He graces those lyrical (read: sloppy) Irishmen with a mime's whimsy, surely a nod to muse Marcel Marceau. And his quick transition in stature, from middle-age Joyce to old-man Joyce, is just beautiful to watch.
Somewhere in O'Neill's body is an acrobat, waiting for his trapeze. When he decides to reach for it, he always lands the swing. It's when he just puts his hand out for it – the hesitation is visible – that we forget who's who and where's where.
The language is another barrier, but that's simply unavoidable. I imagine non-natives with a keen ear will delight in the linguistics of this text; that fun is the reward of paying attention. If you can grab a third of what's said, you're still OK.
There's a smart metaphor in O'Connor's framing, and in Ron Schwartz's subsequent set design, that takes care of any loose thematic ends.
It's the age-old circle of life, which despite Hallmark greetings and singing feline royalty, still works convincingly as a narrative device. It enters the text here subtly enough, with a setting in the River Liffey, which flows from the mountains to the city of Dublin, and into the Irish Sea. It talks of Joyce's evolution from youth to man, and O'Neill's journey from coast to coast.
In that it is also terminal – that with life comes death – it is about soul. The soul of a writer, a patriot, a local; all these things are wrapped up in Joyce's home.
The conversation in this play and also in its production, more than two decades after its last landmark, is about place. Which is a novel way of talking about a man.
And in the capable, necessary hands of O'Neill, who tells another man's story with his own mythology in mind, we can appreciate how all was met on this stage, right here, in this joyous city.


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We're in a funny time period in terms of sports right now. We're in the second half of Major League Baseball but not yet near the end of the season where we start talking about wildcard berths and division winners. We're in the off-season of almost every other major sport and so other than the occasional Major in golf and tennis, there isn't much in terms of major sports events until the Olympics (which only comes by during this time once ever four years). So our only daily sport is politics… fortunately we have some of that gladiatorial combat for us to enjoy with it being a Presidential election year.
So this week's latest battle involves Mitt Romney's involvement at Bain, some potentially improper SEC filings by Bain, the Obama campaign calling him out on it, and a revisiting of of Romney refusing to release more than two years of tax returns. It's all part of the vitriol that is politics in our 24/7 news cycle and mainstream media trying to get as many eyeballs as possible.
The part that I wanted to ask you guys about is the tax returns. Should Romney really have to release more than two years of personal income tax returns? It's become this thing that's grown bigger and bigger with each day. Romney made a ton of money, I say good for him, but should he have to lay bare his financial life? Is that fair?
I don't think it's fair but that's what we demand from the people who are seeking our nation's highest office. You don't have to release all of your tax returns. You also don't have to run for President. When you are going for such a high profile position, everyone wants to know everything about you. It's not fair but it's the standard.
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quote: All this bs about fuel just makes the diesel argument stronger.
quote: Or LPG. :)
quote: making it harder for automakers to meet EPA fuel economy requirements.
quote: True that automakers can (and should) be forced to producing new cars that can run on renewable source fuels, but you can't force the owners of the millions of cars out there that have already been designed to use it (i.e. E85 ready cars) to start using gas that would eat their engines
quote: Even though I have some very harsh criticisms for Obama's economic policies, remember that ethanol in our gasoline did not start under Obama.


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Two people were transported to the hospital after a two-vehicle accident Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of SR 587 and US 224.
State Highway Patrol Trooper Garry Odom said Timothy Walters, 51, of Alvada, and his son, Timothy M. Walters, 22, also of Alvada, were transported by Bascom EMS to Mercy Tiffin Hospital with minor injuries after their 1998 Pontiac Bonneville struck a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu driven by Mark Simpkins, 52, of Bowling Green.
Odom said Simpkins had been northbound on SR 587 when he failed to yield at the stop sign, causing Walters' vehicle on US 224 to collide with the Malibu.
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First responders work at the scene of an accident Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of SR 587 and US 224.
Simpkins was treated at the scene, Odom said, and Walters and his son were later released from the hospital.
Simpkins has been cited with failure to yield at a stop sign, Odom said.
According to reports from the Seneca County Sheriff's Office, Bascom fire, Bascom EMS and New Riegel EMS responded to the accident, which was reported at 3:10 p.m.


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Prep Time 10 minutes |
Cook Time 5 minutes
30 ounces Eden Black Soybeans, 2 cans, drained and rinsed
1/4 tea Eden Sea Salt
4 cloves garlic, finely minced
1 Tbsp fresh thyme, finely minced
1 Tbsp fresh rosemary, finely minced
1 Tbsp fresh parsley, finely minced
1/4 cup Eden Diced Tomatoes w/Green Chilies, well drained
1 large baguette, sliced into 1 inch thick slices, toasted
1/4 cup scallions, finely chopped for garnish
Heat the oil in a skillet and sauté the garlic, thyme, rosemary and parsley. Add the beans, tomatoes and sea salt. Mix and cook until warm. Remove from the heat.
Place a tablespoon of bean mixture on top of each slice of toasted baguette. Sprinkle scallions on top of each and place on a serving platter.
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BBC to air 'greatest moments' of new 'Who'
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The BBC has announced a new series of the "greatest moments" of Doctor Who since the programme was relaunched in 2005.
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Has anybody seen the show? and has anybody seen it floating around the interwebs?
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The bird trail stands courtesy of the Naturpark Diemtigtal – and presents a great attraction for nature lovers, schools, families and children around 10 years of age. The trail leads through numerous natural habitats of native birds, with a precise introduction to the different species presented on 12 information boards.
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Combining classes will hinder kids' education
March 9, 2013
Even with Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's focus on education this Legislative session, it still seems that the children of our state are not being put first....
Very true article. Liberals thinking that teachers can teach several different groups of classes at same time is ridiculous as they cannot teach the ones who need more help now. Any parent that really cares about their childs education should let them know that this is not acceptable and if they continue....we'll continue pulling children out of public education altogether; homeschool them.....they get a way better education that way. Every year the reports on public, private and homeschooled kids proves that homeschooled kids score higher in every area of learning. And private schools come in next. Any doubts as to how throwing more money at public education is wasteful and futile?????
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Term used to describe the act of riding a high performance motorcycle through a corner (or curve) of a closed race track or road course. An expert rider is able to corner his machine at high velocity by increasing the lean angle of the motorcycle while at the same time hanging off of the machine, a technique that is often accompanied by knee dragging.
Cornering is the most difficult skill to master in the sport of motorcycle roadracing.
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The ability to a smoke a bowl of sensi one segment at a time by holding the lighter at an oblique angle to each unburned "corner" in turn, thereby allowing multiple persons to receive a fresh hit.
Dude, this is my last nug. Don't forget to corner it so I can get a freshie.
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To light a bowl of marijuana with precision to only burn a small proportion and leave enough green for everyone else. Achieved by holding lighter at an angle alongside the bowl. Common among marijuana etiquette and respected with higher quality marijuana.
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"We should definitely be cornering this bowl well."
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Cornering (v): The act of lying down and wrapping one's body around a right angle. The person should fully extend their legs and arms in attempt to be "one" with the angle itself. Right angles can include but not limited to: walls, statues, buildings, furniture, curbs, or anything that could potentially be swaddled.
Man, Jordan was cornering so well we thought he was actually part of the wall.
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What an obses conservative female blogger does with a fellow obese male blogger's penis to celebrate an off year election win by a few conservative candidates.
I'm just trying to suck Jonah into election-night Cornering.
Jonah: I'd love to, but I've already cornered myself to pictues of Chris Christie's teddy bear splendor
Jonah: I'd love to, but I've already cornered myself to pictues of Chris Christie's teddy bear splendor
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Join the giving season magic by donating new or gently used warm clothing and children's books.
The North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation has participated in the Holiday Food and Clothing Project with other local congregations since 1989. Starting in 2001, the North Tahoe Hebrew Congregation took over directing and managing the event.
Each year, on the Saturday before Christmas Eve, the event provides food, winter clothing and books to local families in need. Last year, the project supplied more than 26,000 pounds of food to more than 1,100 people. Warm clothing, particularly for children, and children's books are the focus of the project.
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Traditionally, St. Nicholas visited secretly on Dec. 5, the eve of his birthday, and left an orange with nuts, candies, or toys in shoes placed on the stoop outside. This year, St. Nick's Episcopal Church is going to revive that tradition and give it a few modern twists for our patronal feast. On Dec. 16, beginning around 4 p.m., they will have Santa Claus, a photo elf, carols, and a table to decorate frames for the photos. Around 5 p.m., enjoy a potluck dinner, with St Nick's providing a roast turkey and a hearty vegetarian dish. At 6 p.m. (or whenever they wrap up), there will be a gift exchange in the style of St. Nicholas.
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Just months after his release from prison, a man faced a judge Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of an Orange County woman.
Authorities said 32-year-old Maurice Frye, a convicted felon, shot and killed 31-year-old Lashondra Collier inside the woman's Timberleaf Apartments home.
A judge decided Frye would continue to be held without bond while he faces charges in Collier's death.
Officers said the two knew each other and that there was another woman inside the home at the time of the shooting. They said an argument grew violent.
Frye faces a host of charges in Collier's death. Authorities caught up to him in Lake County.
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Stochastic Processes
Piche, Robert
Publication type: Opetusmoniste
Issue date: 2012
University: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto - Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Luonnontieteiden ja ympäristötekniikan tiedekunta – Faculty of Science and Environmental Engineering
Department: Matematiikan laitos – Department of Mathematics
Stochastic processes are probabilistic models of data streams such as speech, audio and video signals, stock market prices, and measurements of physical phenomena by digital sensors such as medical instruments, GPS receivers, or seismographs. A solid understanding of the mathematical basis of these models is essential for understanding phenomena and processing information in many branches of science and engineering including physics, communications, signal processing, automation, and structural dynamics. These course notes introduce the theory of discrete-time multivariate stochastic processes (i.e. sequences of random vectors) that is needed for estimation and prediction. Students are assumed to have knowledge of basic probability and of matrix algebra. The course starts with a succinct review of the theory of discrete and continuous random variables and random vectors. Bayesian estimation of linear functions of multivariate normal (Gaussian) random vectors is introduced. There follows a presentation of random sequences, including discussions of convergence, ergodicity, and power spectral density. State space models of linear discrete-time dynamic systems are introduced, and their response to transient and stationary random inputs is studied. The estimation problem for linear discretetime systems with normal (i.e. Gaussian) signals is introduced and the Kalman filter algorithm is derived. Additional course materials, including exercise problems and recorded lectures, are available at the author's home page http://www.tut.fi/~piche/stochastic
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One of the aims of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project
is to give the underprivileged new opportunities and experiences they otherwise
wouldn't have. Interestingly enough, some school children are using their
laptops to browse pornographic Internet sites.
According to a Reuters
report, a reporter at the official News
Agency of Nigeria discovered pornographic images on the donated laptops
from a U.S. aid organization. It is unclear whether or not school children were
actually caught in the act of browsing such websites.
"Efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary
school in Abuja have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with
explicit sexual materials," reported the News Agency of Nigeria.
Perhaps in response to the discovery of the OLPC's side
features, a representative for the laptop project said that the computers will
now be fitted with filtering software.
quote: Now your giving internet access to people who have desire to blow shit up
quote: I don't think there's been peace in that region of the world for the past several decades if not centuries.
quote: General Muhammed ripped off the Jews and crafted a religion perfectly suited for mass conquest
quote: But Mr. K's suggestion to teach agriculture and equipment repair... now that's an idea. These skills will build a community infrastructure, a much needed infrastructure to improve quality of life.
quote: Laptops in a third world country in classrooms will not have any success, its just a waste of time, money, and resources.
quote: Maybe there's millions unemployed in Iraq because Iraqi's are blowing the fucking country up. Nah that couldn't be it.
quote: And what do you mean no diplomacy?
quote: .. complete and total lack of anything close to competence in foreign policy over the past 5-10 years is really helping to grow the hatred that you describe.
quote: Now your giving internet access to people who have desire to blow shit up
quote: If you give laptops to kids without any educational infrastructure around it, guess how much it will help education - practically zero.
quote: Hundreds of millions of dollars that could otherwise be spent building more schools, hiring more teachers, buying more books, etc. - i.e., other things that are proven beneficial for education.
quote: Maybe there should be some studies first? No, they decided there was no time for that. Just field trials to test out the communication infrastructure. They'll do studies post-mortem to figure out if there was any educational effectiveness. But by that time, the money will be potentially wasted.
quote: The point is that money that is being spent on OLPCs could be better spent building more schools, hiring more teachers, buying books, etc. The money is being spent, why not spend it on something known to be worthwhile?
quote: First off i think you need to become a bit more informed,http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_mythsThey do not claim that this is the so called silver bullet as you have been calling it.
quote: HOW DO YOU KNOW! you don't, you are not in education, and you are not economist or you would have shoved it in my face already.
quote: The fact that they arent used widely anywhere else in the world seems a solid enough statement from the educational community that they're not valid instruments.
quote: Nigerian children who probably got the porn on their computer from popups or malware/spyware


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