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| Yes, it's a good idea. Before showing off that new top, you might want to run it through the washer. Otherwise common additives may put you at risk for contact dermatitis, says Hilary Baldwin, a New York City dermatologist. A prewear wash also prevents excess dye from staining skin or other fabrics, like upholstery. It's particularly wise to clean intimates, like lingerie and swimsuits, before wearing them. "Although it's rare, you could catch scabies or crab lice from others who have tried the garments on," says Carolyn Jacob, a dermatologist in Chicago. Rinse these items in very hot water and hang them to dry (this won't damage the fabric) before putting them on for their big debut. Sarah Smith
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|Don't wash them (as much). If you primarily wear your black pants indoors?in an office, for example?you can get away with wearing them four or five times between washings. A purse-size bottle of OxiClean Spray-A-Way Instant Stain Remover ($5 for two at drugstores) will help you spot-treat stains (blot; don't rub) and avoid excessive washings. To eliminate chalky marks from makeup, deodorant, or powder, try a dry sponge like
|Miss Oops Rescue Sponge ($10, missoops.com).
When you are ready to do a load of laundry, turn the pants inside out to minimize color loss caused by the friction from rubbing against other clothes, then choose a short, delicate cycle. "The colder the temperature, the better, since warm water tends to break down fibers and fade clothes faster," says Steve Boorstein, author of "The Clothing Doctor's 99 Secrets to Cleaning and Clothing Care" ($5, amazon.com). A specialized detergent for cold-water loads, such as Tide Coldwater ($8 at drugstores), helps neutralize the color-sucking chlorine that can be found in tap water. Then hang or lay the pants flat to dry; don't throw them in the dryer. And the next time you're in the market for black trousers, look for a fabric that retains dark dyes, like a washable wool blend or nylon, as opposed to acetate or linen.
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|First, determine whether the stain is oil- or water-based. Water-based stains include most beverages, like juice and wine. These may seemingly disappear into your clothing, but a water-based stain will usually leave a slight ring around the stain as it absorbs into the fabric. Oil-based stains come from items like salad dressing and perfume and are more evenly absorbed into the fabric.
|Water-based stains should be washed within one to two days of the spill. If you don't notice it until the stain has turned yellow, Steve Boorstein, founder of clothingdoctor.com, recommends soaking the garment in four inches of warm water mixed with either OxiClean Versatile ($10,greatcleaners.com) or a color-safe bleach for about 30 minutes, or until the stain disappears.
Oil-based stains are trickier to remove, so leave them to a professional. The sooner you take in the clothing, the better. And be sure to confirm that the dry cleaner can remove oxidized oil stains (a process not all cleaners perform).
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|With a bit of preventive care and the right detergent, you can cure the stench?and even keep it from festering in the first place. After a workout, give clothes a quick rinse in a sink; wring them out to remove as much water as possible, and stow them in a large plastic bag before putting them in your gym tote. Since the confined compartment of a tote can breed smelly bacteria, take the dirty clothes out as soon as you get home and wash them
| according to the label directions. Steve Boorstein, president and founder of Clothingdoctor.com, recommends using the hottest water temperature that your gear can handle, along with an enzyme-formulated detergent, such as 2X UltraTide ($14, target.com for stores). "The active ingredients will effectively break down protein-based stains, like perspiration," says Boorstein. If you still detect an odor, then the problem could be the clothing itself. Try wearing more-natural fabrics, such as cotton blends, whose fibers release odors more easily than synthetics do.
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| Most down-alternative comforters are machine washable, but it's best to do this in a large commercial machine at the neighborhood Laundromat. A smaller household washer could compress and distort the filler, says Allen Rathey, president of housekeepingchannel.com.
Wash the comforter with the machine set on the gentle or delicate cycle, using cool or warm water. Since every comforter is a
| bit different, check the care tag or contact the manufacturer for detergent suggestions. Then dry the comforter on low heat with a few tennis balls to plump it up. Or consider using Down Fluffer rings ($15 for 2, thecompanystore.com), which help, you guessed it, fluff your comforter in the dryer.
Keep your comforter clean in between washings by protecting it with a duvet cover. When the cover needs a cleaning, it will easily fit, just like bed linens, into a household washing machine.
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| While a dip in the pool on a hot summer's day is refreshing, the chemical smell that's sometimes left behind isn't. To get rid of the odor and to help your suit last longer, follow these simple steps, courtesy of swimwear expert and Canyon Beachwear store manager Ilene Sofferman.
Always hand-wash your suit as soon as you can after swimming. This prevents smelly bacteria and chemicals from making themselves at home in the fibers. Use a lingerie cleaner that is
|formulated to gently yet thoroughly clean delicate pieces. But when the chlorine smell is overbearing, Sofferman recommends using a swimsuit cleaner like Canyon Beachwear Swimwear Cleanser ($7, canyonbeachwear.com ). These solutions are designed to remove chlorine while restoring the brilliance of a suit's color. Pour one capful of cleaner into a sink filled with cold water (never warm or hot), then add the swimsuit. Swish it around for about three minutes. Depending on the level of odor, you can leave the suit to soak in the solution for a few minutes more. After cleaning, rinse the suit and roll?don't wring?the excess water out with a towel. Lay the suit flat to air-dry.
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|If the care tag says "gentle cycle," use a mild detergent. "Regular-formula liquid detergents have chemical additives that can harm delicate fibers," says Linda Cobb, known as the Queen of Clean (queenofclean.com). Cobb likes Woolite ($6.50, at supermarkets), but if you're already using an all-natural detergent for regular loads, she recommends Mountain Green detergent ($10, at Whole Foods). "Green detergents are safe for any type of clothing because they are all natural,
| meaning they don't contain chemicals that will harm those gentler items."
For colorfast delicates that are stained, Cobb suggests treating them the natural way, using 3 percent hydrogen peroxide, which is just as effective as nonchlorine bleach. Pour ½ cup into a full load and your garments will sparkle.
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|Yak Attack Kayaks and flyfishing = ultimate stealth
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and WHEELS
I had already begun researching the attachable wheel option for long hauls over sand and the like.
|Jeff... I am considering that to wheel my Tribalance down from CAC to Ridgevale Beach instead of roofing it.
I think the idea of the storable wheels to aid in crossing flats is something I'm gonna work on this winter.
As far as getting in the yak in deeper water, I find my SOT real easy to just hop into (I guess itsonto ). I have never tried getting into a normal yak in deep water. I feel like it may be tricky. I know that it can be done, since people fall out over their heads and get in, yet I don't think I would want to have to go through that every time I got out. I still am looking for a way to have extending legs that drop out of my kayak, lift me up 4 feet, and provide a perfect spotting tower. :hehe:
It's interesting that there is such a range of usage for these human-powered craft modelled after the Inuit invention during modern times. I guess I'd be the Eskimo that needs to sling the thing over the shoulder and hoof it over the tundra to a primo patch of arctic char water. Instead of the long range hunter going across the pole for walrus.
Someone tell me if I am just imagining things here...
but I am envisioning a transport from one flats vantage point to another, with no issues portaging over long dry flats to find the right water and/or get home on time when the tides aren't cooperating. I am thinking about having no issues tethering the craft to the wading belt and stalking if I want to be mobile, and not really thinking about the fact that I have my ride tied to me. I am thinking based on the way I fish the flats that I will need to get into the thing with water that may have risen to waist level or more. I do not plan to fish from it at all. I want it to be anchored easily and reliably without carrying a big anchor. I can't wait to do the exchange program with Sean for my Buck's Bag river pontoon rig, which he can use in PNW rivers.
I know that everyone has different requirements but someone hit me with some opinions!
Interesting, since I'm "in the market". I was leaning toward the Pungo based upon price/performance in terms of getting from A to B. Then I read an article about cold water yaking and the dangers of Hypothermia. The message went something like ... " you're gona get dumped at some point, so you better be dressed apropriately! I've been looking at the WS Tarpon SOT - reports are very good other than weight.
I've also looked at dry suits but the good ones will more than double my budget. I'd be interested in any ideas.
Chris I have put close to 200 hrs in my Pungo and love it.It handles the rough stuff great.Its speed is very good for its length and stabilty.I paddle stroke for stroke with guys in longer supposedly faster yaks.As for fishing the salt thats where I spent 3/4 of my time.I have not done any surf launches yet.But if I were to fish in spots like that i would use a Sit On Top(SOT) any way.Santa is going to bring me one.The Pungo is very easy to get around in small water and performs as good in big water.Its just a great all around yak.But if ya want to spend most of your time in the surf zone buy a SOT and a dry suit.
One of things I considered when regarding Pungo's before I bought my Manteo:
1. Big cockpit is great for all sizes getting in & out. Regular cockpit isn't that tough.
2. Paddling through any kind of surf, you're going to get wet.
3. A wet exit wearing a spray skirt and all your other gear is not a big deal but, still a pain in the butt.
4. A huge spray skirt is going to be much harder to move around in the water with after a wet exit.
Conversely (sp?) look at JimW's experience pumping out his yak after slamming through the surf in Rhodey - no big deal for him but something I wouldn't want to deal with.
Of course, my intention in buying a yak was to get from point A to B as fast as possible in any surf condition. If you're intending to be out trolling and fishing from a yak, then the Pungo is most probably the best ride for you.
Just food for thought.
|Pete, expect me to be paying a visit in March '02. I dont think I can wait 'till May when all those open paddle days are on. I want to be paddling beforte the spring clave wich could happen in April - lets hope - or maybe even earlier - who knows. Then we can celebrate my birthday in style!!!!!
have cake and eat it too...
Chris...I've spent many happy hours in the Pungo...and in the Manteo...and quite a few others...'tough to have your cake and eat it too but...(especially when your hands are intimately filled with the lightest paddle you can afford...)
The Pungo cockpit is great for easier in/out.
The cockpit will let in water if you're in waves/surf.
There are "skirts" (full & partial) to help keep the wet stuff out.
The broad beam makes for a stable ride and minimizes the big dump...'also makes for a slower boat when compared with all the "sleek" beauties that are harder to enter/exit and much easier to invert.
As a rule, I launch/recover on the inside (bay, channel, etc)...the world quickly changes when you attempt to negotiate the surf with a pricey SWFF outfit secured in a deck "rod-holder"...the picture of de-masted sailboats comes to mind...I'll do surf, but not before I batten down the hatches and accept the fact the waves will dictate most of the game...a fine line between the thrill of victory and the agony of unintentional hydro-inversion.
The speed and "performance" is somewhat related to hull design and the engine.
You are the engine!
Life if full of trade offs and compromises...
You might consider the Spring YakAttack...and also the Spring dealer free-paddle-days to show off their stuff and launch the new season. A chance to be one with compromise and find your centre of gravity!
If you can get down to the Cape, I know a semi-secret place where you can sample from the buffet and become "educated" to the point of being financially jeopardized and/or launched into the Land of Yak! (from which there is no escape...and I wouldn't have it any other way!) (YakatyYak,don't talk back!)
Embrace the Yak...Be one with the Yak...Be the Yak!
Anyone one have a report on the overall salt water performance of the Pungos? I am a big and very inflexible-physicaly that is- guy and I like the cocpit size on them. How do they do in the surf and how manuverable are they. Also, can you make decent time in them? They seem as if they may be a little pokey judging from the width. Love 'em in fresh water though.
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by Jonathan Danilowitz
Pastoral. No other word so perfectly describes Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu. Not that all the orchards, vineyards and fields are in ruler-straight lines; not that the gardens don't have weeds, and not that carpets of fallen leaves should have been swept up. On the contrary: this all adds to the natural, unpretentious, down-to-earth perception of kibbutz lifestyle, as it once was.
Sde Eliyah, Established nearly 70 years ago, nestles in the heart of the Beit She'an valley, one of several kibbutzim just across Israel's border with Jordan.
One of the first things you may notice at Sde Eliyahu is that almost all the men wear head coverings – as do many of the women – in the orthodox tradition. This religious kibbutz is one of the dwindling number of kibbutzim that have not been privatized in any sense of the word. Kibbutz members still meet three times a day in the communal dining hall for hearty meals, serving themselves and never forgetting to take their used utensils back to the wash-up stand. Everyone does their share, according to their ability, and everyone is equal, in the old kibbutz style.
Yet in spite of all this conventionalism, tradition and institutionalization, a closer look at Sde Eliyahu reveals an enviable modernity. It was over 40 years ago (!) that the first green buds of ecological and environmentally friendly living appeared: kibbutz member Mario Levi, with great foresight, persuaded his fellow workers that by spraying the fields with insecticides, they were causing the earth, the environment and themselves long-term harm, not to mention poisoning the harvest as well. He began growing organic grapes, pomegranates and dates and his dogged determination bore fruit (no pun intended) for future generations.
It took a while before all the kibbutz members accepted the (then) eccentric idea that crops could be successfully grown without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, in perfect harmony with nature and the environment. Today, although certain crops are still not handled according to the very strictest organic principles, the core of the kibbutz is surrounded by a 500-meter wide swathe where no chemical products have been used for years. "We live and breathe here – why on earth would we use poisons in our own back yards?" says kibbutznik Sara Goldsmith (41) emphatically. "We want to produce the best for the markets and ourselves, so we do it right – organically".
"Bio-Tour Sde Eliyahu" offers visitors an insight into this agricultural wonderland that successfully balances mankind's interaction with nature; technology with tradition. The tours were born from need: So many people wanted to learn about the unique kibbutz systems and their attitude to the environment, that the flood of requests had to be channeled into a semblance of order. The result is that you, dear reader, can also spend a fascinating day in the kibbutz atmosphere, learning about their "secrets". ( www.bio-tour.com 054-5640971)
start in the vineyard, organic of course. Our guide explains that the
plastic bottles hanging at irregular intervals somehow frighten the
jackals away. (Why would jackals go to a vineyard? "Just because, and
they dig up the roots and cause damage.") But once the jackals stopped
coming, rabbits multiplied and they in turn ripped the mesh netting
around the pomegranate orchard right nearby. The netting keeps out pests
that ruin the pomegranates, so the kibbutz farmers set out wooden
"access tunnels" for the rabbits, so they wouldn't damage the netting.
There's more! Strategically placed in the fields are nesting boxes to
attract barn owls, buzzards and other predatory birds, to control the
field mice and other rodents that harm the crops – buzzards during the
day, owls at night. In the date orchards, herds of donkeys act as
"mowers", keeping the ground weed-free, thus saving precious water.
Nesting boxes to attract insect-eating bats are a new experiment in pest
control in the orchards. The entire system – integrated pest management
– relies only on nature to produce harm-free results.
they use only organic compost, produced on the kibbutz by recycling.
Nothing goes to waste. The pomegranates, for example, are sent to an
outside plant to produce pomegranate juice, with its supposedly
medicinal properties. The crushed seeds, together with the skins of the
fruit, are returned to the kibbutz. There they extract pomegranate oil
from the seeds and grind the skins into a powder, both much sought after
by the cosmetic industry.
by far the most interesting nature - science juxtaposition is the
kibbutz's SIT (sterile insect technique) plant, where millions of
sterile male Mediterranean fruit flies are raised. These are then
released into the wild, and the result is a pesticide-free reduction in
the fruit fly population. (The unfertilized females cannot produce the
eggs that rot the fruit.) Israel and Jordan cooperate closely to control
the Med fruit flies, and Sde Eliyahu sells sterile males across the
border for release there too.
runaway success is the Sde Eliyahu Bio-Bee system: Swarms of bumble
bees are bred in special nesting hives. These are then placed in
hothouses, where the bees do what bees do best – cross-pollinate
vegetable flowers to produce perfect peppers, marrows, cucumbers,
tomatoes and much more. A side benefit - farmers know that poison sprays
kill not only pests, but also the bees. Thus – no pesticides!
promoted the Kibbutz's third insecticidal industry: Bio-Bee Biological
Pest Control breeds a range of predatory mites, wasps, bugs and beetles
that simply live off the pests that destroy fruit and vegetables, but
themselves live in harmony with the produce. The predators are
introduced into the hothouses or released into the fields, where
survival of the fittest is the rule, and where Mother Nature's rules
maintain the ecological balance between the species.
Beit She'an Valley area has recently adopted a new name: "Valley of the
Springs", in recognition of the dozens of natural springs in the
environs. Beit Shean itself is a historical storybook, and the Gilboa
Mountains and the valley are rife with sites to discover, explore and
enjoy. Take time off from the "usual" and explore the area. Don't be
afraid – the wasps and bees don't sting.
© Copyright Jonathan Danilowitz 2008.


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First Trailer for "SLATERSVILLE: America's First Mill Village"
Released as the Production Receives Fifth Grant Award
NORTH SMITHFIELD, RI – The first trailer for the documentary Slatersville: America's First
Mill Village has been released online. This six-minute video represents a portion of the
interviews filmed for the documentary, which is almost halfway through its production. In one
week the trailer has been viewed over 2,500 times on YouTube and the film's director has
received enthaustic responses from the public. This trailer will air on Rhode Island PBS.
The release of the trailer coincides with a second grant award from the Rhode Island Council for
the Humanities for Slatersville through its Major Grants Program. The film has also received
grant awards through the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the John H. Chafee
Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.
"While we have a long way to go to bring the story of Slatersville to life, we continue to be
overwhelmed by the support and interest we've received." stated Christian DeRezendes, the
film's director.
The film's website provides a link to the trailer on YouTube as well as access to some of the rare
images and stories that have been unearthed through the journey of making this film.
The film's website is www.firstmillvillage.com.
Produced in cooperation with the Town of North Smithfield and Town Administrator Paulette
Hamilton, this film will tell the story of the Slatersville Mill and the design and settlement of
America's first pre-planned mill village in Slatersville, Rhode Island (a village in the Town of
North Smithfield) and its important role in the Industrial Revolution. "This film will provide an
accurate historic representation of the village that set the tone for the Industrial Revolution. I am
proud to be part of this partnership." stated Hamilton.
Slatersville is also being produced in light of legislation introduced in the United States Senate
and House of Representatives in October of 2011 to establish the John H. Chafee Blackstone
River Valley National Historical Park. The new proposed multi-site park would encompass land


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CHAPTER VII.page: 95
NOËL was quite tiresome for ever so long after we found the Princess. He would keep on wanting to go to the Park when the rest of us didn't, and though we went several times to please him, we never found that door open again, and all of us except him knew from the first that it would be no go.
So now we thought it was time to do something to rouse him from the stupor of despair, which is always done to heroes when anything baffling has occurred. Besides, we were getting very short of money again—the fortunes of your house cannot be restored (not so that they will last, that is), even by the one pound eight we got when we had the "good hunting." We spent a good deal of that on presents for Father's birthday. We got him a paper‐weight, like a glass bun, with page: 96 a picture of Lewisham Church at the bottom; and a blotting‐pad, and a box of preserved fruits, and an ivory penholder with a view of Greenwich Park in the little hole where you look through at the top. He was most awfully pleased and surprised, and when he heard how Noël and Oswald had earned the money to buy the things he was more surprised still. Nearly all the rest of our money went to get fireworks for the Fifth of November. We got six Catherine wheels and four rockets; two hand‐lights, one red and one green; a sixpenny maroon; two Roman‐candles—they cost a shilling; some Italian streamers, a fairy fountain, and a tourbillon that cost eighteenpence and was very nearly worth it.
But I think crackers and squibs are a mistake. It's true you get a lot of them for the money, and they are not bad fun for the first two or three dozen, but you get jolly sick of them before you've let off your sixpenn'orth. And the only amusing way is not allowed: it is putting them in the fire.
It always seems a long time till the evening when you have got fireworks in the house, and I think as it was a rather foggy day we should have decided to let them off directly after breakfast, only Father had said he would page: 97 help us to let them off at eight o'clock after he had had his dinner, and you ought never to disappoint your Father if you can help it.
You see we had three good reasons for trying H.O.'s idea of restoring the fallen fortunes of our house by becoming bandits on the Fifth of November. We had a fourth reason as well, and that was the best reason of the lot. You remember Dora thought it would be wrong to be bandits. And the Fifth of November came while Dora was away at Stroud staying with her godmother. Stroud is in Gloucestershire. We were determined to do it while she was out of the way, because we did not think it wrong, and besides we meant to do it anyhow.
We held a Council, of course, and laid our plans very carefully. We let H.O. be Captain, because it was his idea. Oswald was Lieutenant. Oswald was quite fair, because he let H.O. call himself Captain; but Oswald is the eldest next to Dora, after all.
Our plan was this. We were all to go up on to the Heath. Our house is in the Lewisham Road, but it's quite close to the Heath if you cut up the short way opposite the confectioner's, past the nursery gardens and the cottage hospital, and turn to the left again page: 98 and afterwards to the right. You come out then at the top of the hill, where the big guns are with the iron fence round them, and where the bands play on Thursday evenings in the summer.
We were to lurk in ambush there, and waylay an unwary traveller. We were to call upon him to surrender his arms, and then bring him home and put him in the deepest dungeon below the castle moat; then we were to load him with chains and send to his friends for ransom.
You may think we had no chains, but you are wrong, because we used to keep two other dogs once, besides Pincher, before the fall of the fortunes of the ancient House of Bastable. And they were quite big dogs.
It was latish in the afternoon before we started. We thought we could lurk better if it was nearly dark. It was rather foggy, and we waited a good while beside the railings, but all the belated travellers were either grown up or else they were Board School children. We weren't going to get into a row with grown‐up people—especially strangers—and no true bandit would ever stoop to ask a ransom from the relations of the poor and needy. So we thought it better to wait.page: 99
As I said, it was Guy Fawkes day, and if it had not been we should never have been able to be bandits at all, for the unwary traveller we did catch had been forbidden to go out because he had a cold in his head. But he would run out to follow a guy, without even putting on a coat or a comforter, and it was a very damp, foggy afternoon and nearly dark, so you see it was his own fault entirely, and served him jolly well right.
We saw him coming over the Heath just as we were deciding to go home to tea. He had followed that guy right across to the village (we call Blackheath the village; I don't know why), and he was coming back dragging his feet and sniffing.
"Hist, an unwary traveller approaches!" whispered Oswald.
"Muffle your horses" heads and see to the priming of your pistols," muttered Alice. She always will play boys' parts, and she makes Ellis cut her hair short on purpose. Ellis is a very obliging hairdresser.
"Steal softly upon him," said Noël; "for lo! "tis dusk, and no human eyes can mark our deeds."
So we ran out and surrounded the unwary traveller. It turned out to be Albert‐next‐ page: 100 door, and he was very frightened indeed until he saw who we were.
"Surrender!" hissed Oswald, in a desperate‐sounding voice, as he caught the arm of the Unwary. And Albert‐next‐door said, "All right! I'm surrendering as hard as I can. You needn't pull my arm off."
We explained to him that resistance was useless, and I think he saw that from the first. We held him tight by both arms, and we marched him home down the hill in a hollow square of five.
He wanted to tell us about the guy, but we made him see that it was not proper for prisoners to talk to the guard, especially about guys that the prisoner had been told not to go after because of his cold.
When we got to where we live he said, "All right, I don't want to tell you. You'll wish I had afterwards. You never saw such a guy."
"I can see you!" said H.O. It was very rude, and Oswald told him so at once, because it is his duty as an elder brother. But H.O. is very young and does not know better yet, and besides it wasn't bad for H.O.
Albert‐next‐door said, "You haven't any page: 101 manners, and I want to go in to my tea. Let go of me!"
But Alice told him, quite kindly, that he was not going in to his tea, but coming with us.
"I'm not," said Albert‐next‐door; "I'm going home. Leave go! I've got a bad cold. You're making it worse." Then he tried to cough, which was very silly, because we'd seen him in the morning, and he'd told us where the cold was that he wasn't to go out with. When he had tried to cough, he said, "Leave go of me! You see my cold's getting worse."
"You should have thought of that before," said Dicky; "you're coming in with us."
"Don't be a silly," said Noël; "you know we told you at the very beginning that resistance was useless. There is no disgrace in yielding. We are five to your one."
By this time Eliza had opened the door, and we thought it best to take him in without any more parleying. To parley with a prisoner is not done by bandits.
Directly we got him safe into the nursery, H.O. began to jump about and say, "Now you're a prisoner really and truly!"
And Albert‐next‐door began to cry. He page: 102 always does. I wonder he didn't begin long before—but Alice fetched him one of the dried fruits we gave Father for his birthday. It was a green walnut. I have noticed the walnuts and the plums always get left till the last in the box; the apricots go first, and then the figs and pears; and the cherries, if there are any.
So he ate it and shut up. Then we explained his position to him, so that there should be no mistake, and he couldn't say afterwards that he had not understood.
"There will be no violence," said Oswald—he was now Captain of the Bandits, because we all know H.O. likes to be Chaplain when we play prisoners—"no violence. But you will be confined in a dark, subterranean dungeon where toads and snakes crawl, and but little of the light of day filters through the heavily mullioned windows. You will be loaded with chains. Now don't begin again, Baby, there's nothing to cry about; straw will be your pallet; beside you the gaoler will set a ewer—a ewer is only a jug, stupid; it won't eat you—a ewer with water; and a mouldering crust will be your food."
But Albert‐next‐door never enters into the spirit of a thing. He mumbled something about tea‐time.page: 103
Now Oswald, though stern, is always just, and besides we were all rather hungry, and tea was ready. So we had it at once, Albert‐next‐door and all—and we gave him what was left of the four‐pound jar of apricot jam we got with the money Noël got for his poetry. And we saved our crusts for the prisoner.
Albert‐next‐door was very tiresome. Nobody could have had a nicer prison than he had. We fenced him into a corner with the old wire nursery fender and all the chairs, instead of putting him in the coal‐cellar as we had first intended. And when he said the dog‐chains were cold the girls were kind enough to warm his fetters thoroughly at the fire before we put them on him.
We got the straw cases of some bottles of wine some one sent Father one Christmas—it is some years ago, but the cases are quite good. We unpacked unpicked them very carefully and pulled them to pieces and scattered the straw about. It made a lovely straw pallet, and took ever so long to make—but Albert‐next‐door has yet to learn what gratitude really is. We got the bread trencher for the wooden platter where the prisoner's crusts were put—they were not mouldy, but we could not wait till they got so, and for the ewer we got the toilet page: 104 jug out of the spare‐room where nobody ever sleeps. And even then Albert‐next‐door couldn't be happy like the rest of us. He howled and cried and tried to get out, and he knocked the ewer over and stamped on the mouldering crusts. Luckily there was no water in the ewer because we had forgotten it, only dust and spiders. So we tied him up with the clothes line from the back kitchen, and we had to hurry up, which was a pity for him. We might have had him rescued by a devoted page if he hadn't been so tiresome. In fact Noël was actually dressing up for the page when Albert‐next‐door kicked over the prison ewer.
We got a sheet of paper out of an old exercise‐book, and we made H.O. prick his own thumb, because he is our little brother and it is our duty to teach him to be brave. We none of us mind pricking ourselves; we've done it heaps of times. H.O. didn't like it, but he agreed to do it, and I helped him a little because he was so slow, and when he saw the red bead of blood getting fatter and bigger as I squeezed his thumb he was very pleased, just as I had told him he would be.
This is what we wrote with H.O.'s blood, only the blood gave out when we got to page: 105 "Restored," and we had to write the rest with crimson lake, which is not the same colour, though I always use it, myself, for painting wounds.
While Oswald was writing it he heard Alice whispering to the prisoner that it would soon be over, and it was only play. The prisoner left off howling, so I pretended not to hear what she said. A Bandit Captain has to overlook things sometimes. This was the letter:—
"Albert Morrison is held a prisoner by Bandits. On payment of three thousand pounds he will be restored to his sorrowing relatives, and all will be forgotten and forgiven."
I was not sure about the last part, but Dicky was certain he had seen it in the paper, so I suppose it must have been all right.
We let H.O. take the letter; it was only fair, as it was his blood it was written with, and told him to leave it next door for Mrs. Morrison.
H.O. came back quite quickly, and Albert‐next‐door's uncle came with him.
"What is all this, Albert?" he cried. "Alas, alas, my nephew! Do I find you the prisoner of a desperate band of brigands?"page: 106
"Bandits," said H.O.; "you know it says bandits."
"I beg your pardon, gentlemen," said Albert‐next‐door's uncle, "bandits it is, of course. This, Albert, is the direct result of the pursuit of the guy on an occasion when your doting mother had expressly warned you to forgo the pleasures of the chase."
Albert said it wasn't his fault, and he hadn't wanted to play.
"So ho!" said his uncle, "impenitent too! Where's the dungeon?"
We explained the dungeon, and showed him the straw pallet and the ewer and the mouldering crusts and other things.
"Very pretty and complete," he said. "Albert, you are more highly privileged than ever I was. No one ever made me a nice dungeon when I was your age. I think I had better leave you where you are."
Albert began to cry again and said he was sorry, and he would be a good boy.
"And on this old familiar basis you expect me to ransom you, do you? Honestly, my nephew, I doubt whether you are worth it. Besides, the sum mentioned in this document strikes me as excessive: Albert really is not worth three thousand pounds. Also by a page: 107 strange and unfortunate chance I haven't the money about me. Couldn't you take less?"
We said perhaps we could.
"Say eightpence," suggested Albert‐next‐door's uncle, "which is all the small change I happen to have on my person."
"Thank you very much," said Alice as he held it out; "but are you sure you can spare it? Because really it was only play."
"Quite sure. Now, Albert, the game is over. You had better run home to your mother and tell her how much you've enjoyed yourself."
When Albert‐next‐door had gone his uncle sat in the Guy Fawkes armchair and took Alice on his knee, and we sat round the fire waiting till it would be time to let off our fireworks. We roasted the chestnuts he sent Dicky out for, and he told us stories till it was nearly seven. His stories are first‐rate—he does all the parts in different voices. At last he said—
"Look here, young uns. I like to see you play and enjoy yourselves, and I don't think it hurts Albert to enjoy himself too."
"I don't think he did much," said H.O. But I knew what Albert‐next‐door's uncle meant because I am much older than H.O. He went on—page: 108
"But what about Albert's Mother? Didn't you think how anxious she would be at his not coming home? As it happens I saw him come in with you, so we knew it was all right. But if I hadn't, eh?"
He only talks like that when he is very serious, or even angry. Other times he talks like people in books—to us, I mean.
We none of us said anything. But I was thinking. Then Alice spoke.
Girls seem not to mind saying things that we don't say. She put her arms round Albert‐next‐door's uncle's neck and said—
"We're very, very sorry. We didn't think about his Mother. You see we try very hard not to think about other people's Mothers because—"
Just then we heard Father's key in the door and Albert‐next‐door's uncle kissed Alice and put her down, and we all went down to meet Father. As we went I thought I heard Albert‐next‐door's uncle say something that sounded like "Poor little beggars!"
He couldn't have meant us, when we'd been having such a jolly time, and chestnuts, and fireworks to look forward to after dinner and everything!


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Book symposium focuses on war on terror
Posted October 9, 2008; 12:17 p.m.
Constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt's book "Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century" is the focus of an author-meets-critic symposium scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Bobbitt's book brings together historical, legal and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a "war on terror," and contends that the United States is the chief cause of global networked terrorism because of overwhelming American strategic dominance. Bobbitt argues that Americans need to change their ideas about terrorism, war and even victory itself.
The symposium will begin with a talk titled "What Is at Stake in the War on Terror?" by Aaron Friedberg, a Princeton professor of politics and international affairs. An authority on international security issues and U.S. foreign and defense policy, Friedberg served in the office of Vice President Cheney as deputy assistant for national security affairs and director of policy planning from 2003 to 2005.
Following Friedberg's lecture, Bobbitt will discuss the issues addressed in his book in a forum with Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and Kim Lane Scheppele, director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs.
One of the nation's leading constitutional theorists, Bobbitt is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School. His career spans four decades and includes public service in Democratic and Republican administrations.
The event is designated as the Cyril Black International Book Forum in honor of the late Princeton scholar Cyril Black. It is sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.


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JACKSON — The state Board of Education is moving forward with changes to how the state grades its schools and districts.
The board is likely to vote Friday to seek public comment on a new system to determine A-to-F grades for schools and districts. Board members may also vote on a temporary system to evaluate schools until the new formula takes effect.
Lawmakers pushed for a new grading system after the board removed high school graduation rates from the grading system. Senate Bill 2396, approved by lawmakers and sent to Gov. Phil Bryant, sets performance goals and directs the Department of Education to link state and federal standards.
At a Thursday meeting, board members said the new system's goal should be improving student achievement, not merely providing a measuring stick. Board members said that when emphasis is put on judging schools based on certain categories, schools respond accordingly.
In the proposal presented Thursday for future school years, a special emphasis in the new grading system will be on students in the lowest 25 percent of achievement.
"A lot of time they're ignored and they too need to be moved up," Chairman Wayne Gann told The Associated Press. "That's fertile ground. Theoretically they'd be the easiest ones to move up, because they're not all there because of a lack of ability. A lot of times it's a lack of motivation, and if you can get those folks motivated then you can change those scores in a hurry."
The proposal would reward schools for a variety of other markers of success, including graduation rates, student improvement and proficiency in core subjects.
The plan also includes the possibility of rewarding schools for enrolling students in college-level classes such as Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate.
Board members said they hoped to create scoring system that would be easier for the public to understand, like the A-to-F system adopted last year.


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The Vision of Yousuf Karsh
Photographer for 60 years to the famous, the powerful and the talented, Yousuf Karsh's own eminent position in society was acknowledged in 1999 when International Who's Who chose him as one of the hundred most influential figures of the 20th century — and the only photographer. Of the other 99 so honoured, Karsh had photographed over half.
The consummate professional, Karsh has been described as 'a final link to the vision and style of nineteenth-century studio photographers'. 2 The seminal influence on his development as a photographer was John H. Garo, in whose studio in Boston Karsh served an apprenticeship from 1928–30 before setting up his own establishment in Ottawa in 1932. Karsh particularly admired Garo's meticulous, hard-working and businesslike approach, and was in awe of his rapport with his clients, his ability to put them at ease.
From this empathetic position, Karsh believed that it was possible to capture something essential about the people he photographed, something that summed them up. What would be summed up though? He was acutely aware of the position in history of his famous subjects, and his own role: 'How can you possibly photograph an Einstein or a Helen Keller, or Eleanor Roosevelt, a Hemingway or a Churchill, and not realize they are already part of history'. 3
What Karsh creates are heroes for our time. His subjects become embodiments of archetypal abstract ideals of goodness and greatness. He sets them apart. They are conduits between the material world and the world of pure thought. A devout catholic, Karsh truly desired to record the soul of his subjects. What he wants to sum up are their achievements in the world of mankind, achievements gained through genius, but also through hard work and with a sense of moral responsibility.
Roland Barthes has commented that 'the great portrait photographers are great mythologists,' 4 and it is here that the secret of Karsh's success lies. Intuitively Karsh was a brilliant interpreter and author of the stories the public needed to hear. His photographs first became popular in a world torn apart by war, and he became famous in the climate of Cold War tensions and a world increasingly capable of self-destruction. In the face of this Karsh creates a world of certainty and hope. The guys running the show he assures his public are the good guys. His photograph of John F. Kennedy, for example, emphasises a spirituality that possibly few other people would have intuited. Even the guys on the other side are OK really. Nikita Krushchev is seen as some jolly Nanook of the North. Karsh says: 'here is the face of the eternal peasant, perhaps the collective portrait of a great people'. 5 Little to fear.
His photograph of the singer Joan Baez provides another interesting insight into the way in which Karsh chooses to see people and ultimately the world. How does he portray this feisty political activist? Essentially as a latter day saint, her gaze demurely averted, holding a cluster of lilac. Photographing members of the counter-establishment Karsh discovered that 'while they were young in years, there was about each a deep sense of responsibility and concern and response to the world'. 6 Little to fear here either.
Karsh's vision of the world is relentlessly optimistic. It has been convincingly argued that such an obsessive desire to see good in others stems from his childhood experiences. Born in Mardin, in Armenia-in-Turkey, at age seven he witnessed atrocities as the Turks systematically attempted to force out the Armenian people. Two of his uncles were killed, thrown down a well, and he finally had to flee with his family to Syria taking nothing with him. At fifteen he was sent alone to Canada to his uncle George Nakash, a successful photographer at Sherbrooke, Quebec. But instead of a pessimistic resignation or bitterness, Karsh chose to see good everywhere; and, after such a torrid time, he would take control of everything.
Karsh spent much of his life travelling, photographing famous people all over the world,7 and it should be no surprise that he was drawn to Japan at the end of the 1960s. As a country it embodied the ideals he consistently put forward — through hard work Japan had risen phoenix-like from the ashes of defeat; it revered its great men for their talent; it honoured tradition but was still able to take its place in the quest of mankind toward a better future. A country where the attainment of a refined and controlled aesthetic beauty matters. A country where form and appearances are of outmost importance. All this could not have been closer to Karsh's heart.
The world was forced to take notice of Japan as a new economic power on the world stage, and Expo '70 was held in Osaka (with Karsh as photographic adviser). Japanese achievers were given international recognition, being awarded a number of Nobel Prizes — though not for the first time. In 1949 the physicist Hideki Yukawa became the first Japanese to win a Nobel Prize; in 1968 the novelist Yasunari Kawabata was the first Japanese to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; and the physicist Shinichiro Tomonaga also received his Nobel Prize in the 1960s (in 1965).
Since 1950, however, the Japanese themselves had formalised the recognition of distinction by awarding those who were 'Bearers of Important Intangible Cultural Assets' (Juyo Mukei Bunkazai Hojisha) with the designation of 'Living National Treasures' (Ningen Kokuho).8 Karsh travelled around Japan in 1969 photographing these people 'treasured by the entire nation'9 in preparation for an exhibition of his photographs that toured Japan in 1970. He also photographed those responsible for leading Japan to economic success.
If Karsh was clearly enamoured of Japan, the feeling was mutual. His exhibition at Expo '67 in Montreal, Men Who Make Our World, was bought in its totality by the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, along with the National Gallery of Australia.
Although Karsh travelled around the world photographing his subjects in their own milieux, his working method allowed him to end up with an almost startlingly consistent result. Early in his career he had been influenced by the lighting employed in the theatre, and he worked always with portable studio lights and large format cameras — lugging 350 pounds of equipment wherever he went. He made the world as much his own domain, and as much under his control, as if he had stayed at home in his studio. While travel freed him from the studio, he was able to remain essentially a studio photographer.
The theatrical and dramatic lighting of his portrait of the liberal politician Yukio Ozaki is often employed by Karsh. Figures appear as if cast from stone, monumentalised and static. Light reveals; and, symbolic of divine light, is often haloed out behind the sitter's head — contemporary saints. The mood can be sombre, bordering the oppressive.
In his portrait of Ozaki, as well as that of Roppeita Kita, Karsh includes young aides who are there to assist their masters, introducing a mood of tenderness and gentleness. The young girl in the portrait of Ozaki (photographed on an earlier visit to Japan in 1950) leans forward to whisper something into his ear. During the sitting, the grandson of the great Roppeita Kita shouted directions (though in the most respectful way, as Karsh notes in his commentary) to the 95-year-old old Kita10 — one of the most eminent contemporary Noh actors whose unbroken lineage dates back to the late 16th century. All the roles in Noh are played by men. Kita's most famous role was that of the celestial being, or shite, in Hagoromo (The Feather Robe) who descends from heaven to dance for a fisherman who has found her lost robe.
Moments of such inspiration do free Karsh's work from cliché and formulaic repetitiveness which he falls into perhaps when the sitter buckles under the pressure of having to take their place in the Karsh pantheon. In his portraits of Japanese people this does not occur. In a world where to be almost deified for one's achievement seems natural, his sitters seem either indifferent to Karsh's vision or comfortable with it. There is an uncharacteristic lightness of touch and mood in his Japanese work and I sense a real feeling of empathy. His portrait of the physicist Hideki Yukawa is one of the few I have seen in which the sitter is laughing. Rarely do Karsh's subjects look like they are having such a good time. Earnestness rather than joie de vivre is Karsh's usual mode of expression.
Karsh uses the power and recognisable language of gesture to give his audience clues as to how to read his images. He frequently focuses in on the hands of the subject: 'hands give clues to the entire personality of the subject's moods, attitude, tension. They are, for me, almost a barometer of a person's being, a distillation of the whole.'11 It is to Kita's hands that my eyes return in the portrait; so affected by extreme age, there is a reminder of the transitory nature of time. There is restraint rather than the hyperbole of other portraits where the gesture of the hands may appear contrived and empty.
Hands are also prominent but subtle in the portrait of the Japanese writer, Yasunari Kawabata. The hands gently cradling his face, the eyes reflective, this is a fitting portrayal of a man who devoted the later part of his career to writing what he called elegies (fittingly he is shown with a piece from his extensive collection of Haniwa, early Japanese funerary pottery). Here is a person after Karsh's own heart — Karsh commenting that Kawabata's 'simple literary images linked together produce sudden, profound insight into his characters' souls'.12 Precisely matching of course what Karsh hoped to accomplish. As always, he looked at his subject and chose to see there the qualities he most admired.
Yousuf Karsh was able to find in Japan and the Japanese people a mirror of his own vision of humanity. The Japanese have a notion of the 'kami' or spirit of things; to know the kami of something is to understand its true nature,
Anne O'Hehir
All photographs are gelatin silver and in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. The quotes from Karsh were to accompany the photographs when they were exhibited. Reproduction courtesy of the Karsh Estate.1 Quoted in Colin Naylor (ed.), Contemporary Photographers, 2nd edn, Chicago and London: St James Press, 1988, p. 524.
2 Mary Pancer, 'What makes a photographer great?' in Dieter Vorsteher and Janet Yates (eds), Yousuf Karsh: Heroes of light and shadow, New York: Stoddart Publishing Co., 2000, p. 218.
3 James Danziger and Barnaby Conrad III, Interviews with Master Photographers, New York and London: Paddington Press, 1977, p. 105.
4 Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, Richard Howard (trans.), New York: Hill and Weng, 1981, p. 34.
5 Yousuf Karsh, Karsh Portraits, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976, p. 98.
6 Ibid., p. 26.
7 Even travelling around Canada filled Karsh with wonder. His wife, Solange, recounted that in 1952 during an assignment for Macleans to photograph the country 'both of us were as excited and starry-eyed as a couple of babes in the woods … and this attitude remained with us throughout our year long travel'. Jill Delaney, 'Karsh and the face of Canada' in Vorsteher and Yates (eds), Yousuf Karsh: Heroes of light and shadow (2000), p. 189.
8 Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983, p. 60.
9 Karsh, Karsh Portraits (1976), p. 86.
10 Ibid., p. 106.
11 Karsh, Karsh: A fifty-year retrospective, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983, p. 85.
12 Karsh, Karsh Portraits (1976), p. 86.
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We had a great time at SPIEL 2012, where MIBs from eight nations gathered to rock the show and the Steve Jackson Games booth. Now we have uploaded a ton of pictures from this year's SPIEL in Essen to our Flickr account: Munchkin Apocalypse, Castellan, the Ogre Designer's Edition, the Secret MIB party, the Duck of Doom Plushie, the Munchkin Mascot, and much more.
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A SINGLE woman has the same rights to property, to protection from the law, and has to pay the same taxes to the State, as a man.
Yet a woman of the age of twenty‐one, having the requisite property qualifications, cannot vote in elections for members of Parliament.
A woman duly qualified can vote upon parish questions, and for parish officers, overseers, surveyors, vestry clerks, &c.
If her father or mother die intestate ( i.e. id est , without a will) she takes an equal share with her brothers and sisters of the personal property i.e. id est , goods, chattels, moveables), but her eldest brother, if she have one, and his children, even daughters, will take the real property, ( i.e. id est , not personal property, but all other, as land, &c.), as the heir‐at‐law; males and their issue being preferred to females; if, however, she have sisters only, then all the sisters take the real property equally. If she be an only child, she is entitled to all the intestate real and personal property.
The church and nearly all offices under government are closed to women. The Post‐office affords some little employment to them; but there is no important office which they can hold, with the single exception of that of Sovereign.
The professions of law and medicine,* whether or not closed by law, are closed in fact. They may engage in trade, and may occupy inferior situations, such as matron of a charity, sextoness of a church, and a few parochial offices are open to them. Women are occasionally governors
Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., received her diploma in America before she walked St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London.
page: 4 of prisons for women, overseers of the poor, and parish clerks. A woman may be ranger of a park; a woman can take part in the government of a great empire by buying East India Stock.
A servant and a master or mistress are bound by a verbal or written agreement. If no special agreement is made, a servant is held by the common custom of the realm to be hired from year to year, and the engagement cannot be put an end to without a month's notice on either side.
If a woman is seduced, she has no remedy against the seducer; nor has her father, excepting as he is considered in law as being her master and she his servant, and the seducer as having deprived him of her services. Very slight service is deemed sufficient in law, but evidence of some service is absolutely necessary, whether the daughter be of full age or under age.
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MoveOn.org co-founder Joan Blades will give a talk on "Women and Work" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in 16 Robertson Hall.
In addition to her work with the popular political action website, Blades is co-founder and president of MomsRising.org, an effort to mobilize mothers who share a concern about the need to build a more family-friendly America. Started in May 2006, the group has more than 120,000 members.
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Kicking off the second annual Jazz Artists of Charleston (JAC) week are local saxophonist, Simon Harding, and pianist, Jordan Gravel who come together to revive classic jazz duets from Stan Getz and Kenny Barron. In honor of these musical greats, JAC offers a "pay-what-you-will" performance at their headquarters. Charleston Jazz House, 185 Saint Philip St. Monday, 6pm set 1; 8pm set 2. Pay what you will. (843)641-0011, www.charlestonjazz.com


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Reports to: Curtis Kukal
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Teach local fourth and fifth graders about natural resources for Natural Resource Week, an outdoor environmental education event. Each day students rotate through four stations where Natural Resource Week educators conduct learning activities on the subjects of forestry, wetlands and wildlife. The city is looking for interested environmental educators, interpreters and professionals to participate.
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Each Natural Resource Week Educator delivers the same 45-minute presentation to four different groups of students (groups of 12-16). The event runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., and all of the educators are invited to participate on any or all three days. The city will provide any supplies and assistance needed for a 45-minute activity (educators are encouraged to develop lesson plans specific to the goals of their organizations, but the city can provide lesson plans too). Refreshments will be provided for educators each day.
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This seem quite obvious and worn topic but I do not see any like that so I would like to ask about that obvious and worn question.
Which are the games which had the most influence/impact on your life?
Some games especially if playing them a lot can have quite a influence I think and this is in general a quite memorable experience/adventure... Whose games was like that for you?
My titles would be probably old Elite game (I was playing on c64 as a kid), adom I was playing a lot (I mean a lot, thousands hours (!) probably, in college years), and Gothic3 (I was playing a few years ago and who also enchanted me) [I did not play many games of each ages so big amount of good games do not met me in the course of my life but those would be the three most influential]
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Corn bread in a jiffy! Sour cream makes these golden corn rolls rich and tender.
Make these rolls up to 8 hours ahead of your meal! Cover and refrigerate the unbaked rolls on a cookie sheet. Bake at 375°F about 15 minutes or until golden brown.
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Deputy Secretary General launches No Hate Speech Movement in Rome
"Parole libere o parole d'odio ?" ("Free speech or hate speech ?"): Gabriella Battaini Dragoni sets in motion today the No Hate Speech Movement in Italy, during a parliamentary seminar organised by the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini.
"The Council of Europe has expressed its concern on hate speech as a political weapon almost twenty years ago; nowadays hate speech has not disappeared and has turned online, especially affecting our young people", emphasised the Deputy Secretary General, while addressing the prestigious audience at Palazzo Montecitorio.
In the framework of this initiative at Sala del Mappamondo, Josefa Idem, Italian Minister of Equal Opportunities, Youth and Sport, presented the national campaign against hate speech, already underway in 34 countries of the Council of Europe.
Hate speech online has become in recent years a major form of human rights abuse, with very serious consequences both online and offline. Hate speech as such is not a new human rights issue. However, its online dimension and the potential negative impact on democratic development give new reasons for concern.
Hate speech, as defined by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, covers all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or other forms of hatred based on intolerance, including: intolerance expressed by aggressive nationalism and ethnocentrism, discrimination and hostility against minorities, migrants and people of immigrant origin. For the purpose of the campaign, other forms of discrimination and prejudice, such as anti-gypsyism, christianphobia, islamophobia, misogyny, sexism and discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity fall clearly within the scope of hate speech.
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My dad showed up three hours later, and we set off to the eye doctor. I was now able to open my eyes for longer segments of time without wanting to die, but only while wearing my darkest pair of sunglasses.
Once we got there, I had to fill out two pages of paper work. Naturally.
Fortunately, it was no longer a breathless Baywatch type of scenario, but more of an I'm-on-the-top-of-Mount-Everest-and-its-constantly-much-harder-to-breathe type of situation. Honestly, it was much harder to endure listening to the people on The Chew talk about puddings as I waited for half an hour with my eyes closed.
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"It's a question of whether you'd rather have a jet engine or two propellers," Intel Corp. (
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I. Intel: We Have the Better Chips
Intel currently trails ARM Holdings Plc's (
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2013 Mobile World Congress
, Intel is trying different strategies to lure buyers away from ARM. It has scored some design wins with its new
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That aggressive pricing could help Intel. At a 2013 Consumer Electronics Show press event, an Intel executive told us that his company is finding itself in a foreign position in which it has faster hardware, but is being rejected by some OEMs because of (alleged) backdoor dealings with ARM.
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"To be successful in this industry, simply building chips is insufficient. We can write software that helps us get the most out of our hardware. We have a great relationship with Google. We can do as good a job optimizing our systems as anyone, and Google has never told us 'no' when we have said we'd like to improve performance somewhere," says Mr. Bell.
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Tyler Bray's arm talent is terrific, the problem is, that's about the extent of the positives with him as far as I'm concerned. His delivery is elongated and he constantly double clutches the ball. Telegraphs his throws with his lower body by opening his hips directly to the target in order to make up some of the timing lost by his slow, elongated release.
His ball placement and accuracy is sporadic. I see significant YAC opportunities for his receivers left on the field due to inaccuracy. His poor ball placement doesn't stand out as much against SEC competition because his receivers are covered much tighter.... where it stands out the most is against lesser competition because his receivers get so wide open against this level of talent. I watched Justin Hunter literally have to drop to the ground to catch Bray's passes against Georgia St. when there wasn't a defender within 15 yards of him.... leaving significant run-after-catch yards on the field.
He also gets rattled easily. His decision making goes down the drain under pressure.
However, the most critical flaw that Bray has is in the intangible department. A lack of leadership and maturity.
The coaching staff was hoping he would become a leader and dedicate himself to film study in the offseason, but it didn't happen. He was busy throwing beer bottles off balconies and breaking car windshields rather than working on his craft...
Not surprisingly, about two weeks later he was back in front of a judge for a jet skit incident....
Personally, I don't see much that he has to offer me on or off the field that would make me want to burn a draft pick on him.


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How fake is Catfish???
At this point, no one actually thinks they are watching reality when they're watching a reality show.
As an earlier post pointed out, Catfish: The TV Show, unlike Catfish: The Movie, appears to be just another reality show that obfuscates the truth during production. Because whatever airs does not representing the events that actually took place.
Hollywood.com got the victims of the online Catfish to break whatever confidentiality agreement is in place and reveal just how the show is produced and just what lies are told during the broadcast.
To begin, an overview for those unfamiliar with the show: it's about the pitfalls of online dating, taking credulous 20-somethings who know how to Skype but purportedly don't know how to Facebook stalk or reverse look-up believing the lies told by an unknown paramour who represents themselves one way online and another in person. The show claims the lovelorn person contacts the hosts about their love interest with the request to reveal the truth and facilitate a meeting.
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And according to Hollywood.com, that's literally exactly what happens. The show is lying about lovelorn people making the approach. This is how it actually works: The show IS reverse-engineered, with producers putting out casting calls for Catfish who reveal themselves to producers and agree to meet the "victim" before filming ever takes place. The victim has no idea, about the show or the Catfish's identity, and gets a call out of the blue asking if they've ever been deceived by online dating.
"You know how they said that [the catfishee] had reached out to them?" a cast member from the series (who spoke anonymously to protect their relationship with MTV) tells Hollywood.com. "I don't know why they put that in there because it's not even true. It was actually me that reached out to them." Another cast member (this time a catfishee), felt betrayed by an episode and put it plainly: "Really, I'm just frustrated that people don't know the whole story."
Speaking with local news outlet WHAM ABC, catfishee Joe Sumeriski of Warsaw, New York corroborated a story many cast members have claimed: that he does not know how MTV and Catfish became aware of his Internet relationship. "They just called me out of the blue," he explained. Sumeriski was right. Hollywood.com has confirmed his catfisher, Rose, was the one who contacted MTV.
In fact, after speaking with six of the stars of this season (covering six episodes of the series), we found that in every instance except one, the catfisher — not the catfishee, as the series claims — has been the one to contact MTV first. Either via a casting call, Craigslist post, or a mention on the MTV website itself, the catfisher has consistently been the one to initiate the process. One catfishee from the South says she and her catfisher hadn't had contact for "a couple months" — until Catfish's producers showed interest. "We dropped off [talking] for a couple months and then we got it started again … when someone reached out to MTV about me and [the catfisher's online identity] talking," she says. "[MTV producers] hit me up, but I didn't reach out to them because I didn't know anything about a new show."
There are, of course, truthful elements to the show. Every Catfish subject told us the series' hosts, Schulman and Joseph, are indeed kept in the dark about the true identities of the catfishers. Their Internet research into these people's lives are, apparently, all authentic. But the crux on which the show is balanced — the initial contact between Schulman and the catfisher — is in fact a fabrication. Everyone involved has already agreed to an in-person meet up before production begins.
Naturally, this complicates how viewers watch the show. If the two parties have long agreed to meet in person, Schulman's random selection of a catfishee by scrolling through his email no longer seems random. And his dramatic phone call to the catfisher suddenly isn't so dramatic. Is the catfisher genuinely surprised when Schulman requests a meet-up on-camera? "Not really," says one catfisher. "Because they told me they were going to do it before they actually did it."
But there are more discrepancies. Several cast members say the timing of their stories were off, with one claiming the show represented her relationship as lasting one month, when she was really communicating with her online love interest for three months at the time of filming. And two interview subjects denied their relationships were ever romantic at all.
"Manufacturing a storyline is a disappointing reality of where reality TV has headed, unfortunately," MTV alum, and Road Rules: Campus Crawl participant Sarah Greyson, says. That said, "story editors can only be as truthful to a story as the people they're attempting to represent. So many people watch reality shows now. They manufacture their personalities in ways that might deem them 'castable.'"
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College Sports on Trial: Full coverage of the O' Bannon vs. NCAA antitrust suitJune 17, 2014 5:58 PM
The Post-Gazette's J. Brady McCollough is in Oakland, Calif., for the duration of the class action lawsuit trial that could reaffirm — or fundamentally alter forever — college athletics as we know it.
Follow the testimony and developments from the genesis of the case to the verdict and its ramifications here.
Pretrial: One-man rebellion: Sonny Vaccaro takes on the NCAA
Sonny Vaccaro has been obsessed for decades with redistributing the wealth he helped to create for the NCAA and giving it back to the athletes who wore the shoes and uniforms made by the companies he once championed.
Pretrial: NCAA antitrust suit going courtside
Big-time college sports are on trial. Finally. The games and traditions that fans and alums have loved for decades with undying loyalty will now be boiled down to the essence of what they've morphed into -- a business, one with real issues that won't be ignored any longer.
from O' Bannon vs. NCAA
Day 1: Face of O'Bannon lawsuit opens trial
Ed O'Bannon took the stand as the first plaintiffs witness. His attorney, Michael Hausfeld, set out to show that O'Bannon was not a "student-athlete" but an athlete "masquerading" as a student.
Day 2: Stanford professor labels NCAA 'a cartel'
Roger Noll, the plaintiffs' expert witness, remained on the stand for the entire five hours Tuesday, finishing his direct testimony with Ed O'Bannon attorney Michael Hausfeld and going through two hours of cross-examination with NCAA attorney Rohit Singla.
Day 3: Cash stream rolls right by the athletes
Stanford economics professor emeritus Roger Noll, the plaintiffs' expert witness on antitrust theory, continued to be cross-examined by the NCAA for three hours. NCAA attorney Rohit Singla did not seem to make much progress in dispelling Noll's opinion that relevant markets exist for the licensing of players' names, images and likenesses.
Day 4: Former CBS boss backs up NCAA
Edwin Desser, the plaintiffs' expert witness on sports TV negotiations, testified that rights exist for names, images and likenesses in the licensing of games because there would be no contest without the players.
Day 5: If players are paid, balance is affected
The plaintiffs' expert witness for sports economics, Dr. Daniel Rascher, said football and basketball would remain as popular, if not more, if players were compensated for their names, images and likenesses; competitive balance does not exist, so the change would be minimal; and Division I universities would compete more vigorously if restraints were lifted.
Day 6: Former player testifies about eligibility requirements
Former Vanderbilt linebacker Chase Garnham questioned having to sign a consent form that gave the school, the Southeastern Conference and the NCAA the chance to profit from his name, image and likeness.
Day 7: Texas AD odd choice to testify
Plaintiffs' attorney Bill Isaacson used Texas women's athletic director Christine Plonsky's involvement with a NCAA presidential task force that studied the use of athletes' names, images and likenesses to show that the organization had conspired to keep the restrictions in place even though it knew potential issues could arise.
Day 8: NCAA president Emmert will tout 'reforms'
Witnesses speculated that athletes being paid would alter the integration of academics and athletics. But it was just that -- speculation.
Day 9: NCAA president defends amateurism
Mark Emmert was on the witness stand Thursday to make a case for the continued survival of the status quo.
Day 10: Testimony bolsters plaintiffs' position
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany took the stand as a witness for the NCAA, telling the plaintiffs' attorneys exactly what they wanted to hear even before they cross-examined him.
Day 11: How the other half lives
Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky took the stand, providing a difference perspective than that of college sports' upper class.
Day 12: NCAA's fear is unfettered booster access
Dennis Muir, the NCAA's witness, admitted that all anybody is doing is speculating in regard to the future.
Day 13: Trafford's Vaccaro will not testify, stays in background
The NCAA continued to question survey expert witness John Dennis about the survey he conducted about whether the demand for major college football and basketball would change if players could profit from their names, images and likenesses.
Day 14: Antitrust issues surface
The NCAA is a joint venture, not a classic cartel, Daniel Rubinfeld said.
Day 15: Testimony ends
After five years of lead up and 15 long days, the case now goes to Judge Claudia Ann Wilken to render verdict.