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The deal
- 4 dance lessons for 1 person for $19.90 instead of $126
- 4 dance lessons for 2 people for $38 instead of $252
- 8 dance lessons for 1 person for $39 instead of $252
- 8 dance lessons for 2 people for $76 instead of $504
Class schedule
The Grandstand OR Delfi Orchard studio
- Tue: 11am / 1pm / 6pm / 7pm
- Wed: 11am / 1pm / 3pm / 6.30pm / 7.30pm
All classes to be held for 1 hour. Classes after 6pm and 7pm are for teens and adults. Class schedule subject to changes.
Magic Fiddler
Magic Fiddler was formed to help children realise their full potential through music, dance, and art, which is achieved through extensive research leading to the creation of the best teaching methods. By combining love and patience, experienced teachers offer students a platform for them to perform and show their abilities while finding inspiration among their peers and mentors. 10 core values form the foundation of Magic Fiddler, including positive affirmation, growing knowledge and skills continuously, and encouraging openness and curiosity.
Magic Fiddler
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Stem cells are basic human cells that have potential to give rise to many different cell types in the body. They are simple or undifferentiated cells.
When stem cells divide they create progenitor cells. Unlike stem cells, progenitor cells can become cells with more specialized functions, such as brain cells, red blood cells or - of particular interest to orthopaedic surgeons—components of specialized tissue such as bone or cartilage.
Orthopaedic surgeons have focused their attention on mesenchymal stem cells. Unlike embryonal stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells are obtained from living adult tissue.
Bone marrow stromal cells are mesenchymal stem cells that, in the proper environment, can differentiate into cells that are part of the musculoskeletal system. They can help to form trabecular bone, tendon, articular cartilage, ligaments and part of the bone marrow.
At this point, stem cell procedures in orthopaedics are still at an experimental stage. Most procedures are performed at research centers as part of controlled clinical trials.
Stem cell procedures are being used for treating bone fractures and nonunions, regenerating articular cartilage in arthritic joints, healing ligaments or tendons, and replacing degenerative vertebral disks.
It is expected, however, that as more knowledge of tissue engineering is obtained, stem cell procedures will become more common.
Click the following link to view answers to the questions below: Stem Cells: Frequently Asked QuestionsStem Cells: Frequently Asked Questions (topic.cfm?topic=A00509)
- What are stem cells?
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MIR-ROR - Incident Response Script
– Respond Objectively, Remediate) tool reported over at the ISC Storm Center as reviewed in June's ISSA journal (http://holisticinfosec.org/toolsmith/docs/june2009.pdf). It is a script which was created by a Microsoft IH guru and utilizes the SysInternal utilities.
The script automates and consolidates the output from a variety of Windows and SystInternals commands. net *, ipconfig, arp, netstat, nbtstat, systeminfo, tasklist, openfiles, driverquery, sc, at, set, ftype, assoc, and doskey from the %systemroot% and the remaining tools, autorunsc, handle, listdlls, logonsessions, now, psfile, psinfo, pslist, psloggedon, psloglist, psservice, seccheck, showacls, showpriv, sigcheck, srvinfo, and tcpvcon from the SysInternal utilities.
I am sure you could create a USB stick/CD and change the script to use known good Windows files, in case you do not trust the actual Windows executable (but then again, the output could lie).
If you are interested in more tool write-ups from ISSA, please visit http://holisticinfosec.org/content/view/12/26/.
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I found these images on the blog Torypages. Looks like taxi drivers have found a new place to wait for fares on Lower Simcoe… the bike lane.
More photos here.
UPDATE: Here's reaction from other sources in Toronto
Anger as cars clog new Simcoe St. bike lane (Toronto Star)
So, this is a cycling city? (Toronto Star)
UPDATE the 2nd: The Toronto Star is really digging in to this story!
Traffic cops powerless to enforce bike lanes
Keeping lanes clear may take higher fines and more ticketing power
… three main obstacles for parking enforcement officers trying to enforce bike lanes.
One, there's no specific bylaw. Smith can't track how many tickets are issued to cars sitting in a bike lane because such tickets are bundled with any others handed out for parking in a no-stopping zone.
Next, the fine is too low. Last November, Yvonne Bambrick of the Toronto Cyclists Union made a presentation to the Toronto Police Services Board, asking for tougher enforcement around bike lanes.
She wants the $60 fine for cars that cross a solid white line to enter a bike lane to be doubled to $120, which is closer to the $100-$150 fine charged for parking in a fire route or a handicapped space.
"We're told to stay as far right as possible, then we're forced to swerve into traffic," says Bambrick.
Her suggestions were passed on to the city manager. Councillor Adam Vaughan, a police board member whose ward includes the convention centre, says council should be discussing a bike lane bylaw by the spring.
"Ticketing is the only way to do it," said Vaughan, who said the discussion would include the possibility of raising the fine.
Smith also sees it as a major problem that parking enforcement officers are required to ask drivers to move before ticketing them. Most will just pull away if they see an officer approaching their illegally stopped car.
The constable, who is on the Cycling Advisory Committee, thinks parking officers should have the power to immediately issue a ticket to any car parked illegally, and to have the ticket stick even if the car leaves. That's a recommendation police have made several times to the province, which has said only that it will consider changing the "drive away" ticketing rules.
LINK (Toronto Star)


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Late Registration
8:40 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Harris L. Bonnette, Jr., Esq. Jacksonville, Program Co-Chair
8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
The Internal Revenue Manual - Friend or Foe: Collection Procedures and Alternatives, Including What, When Why, and How of OIC, I A, CNC, Bankruptcy, CDP, CAP, Tax Court and Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Bob Pope, Esq., Nashville, TN
Internal Revenue Service Office of Appeals
Fran Sheehy, Esq., Coconut Creek
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Appeals Judicial Approach and Culture - Revenue Procedure 2012-18 and Interim Guidance (AP-08-0713-03) Key Changes to Appeals Approach to Examination Cases and Collection Cases and How These Changes Affect Appeals, Practitioners and Help (or Not) Taxpayers.
Darren Guillot, IRS Director, Enterprise Collection Strategy, SBSE
Sheldon Kay, Esq., Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP
Bob Pope, Esq., Nashville, TN
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch (included in registration) Keynote Speaker
"Solving Tax Problems"
Lawrence B. Gibbs, Former IRS Commissioner, Miller & Chevalier, Washington D.C.
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The Power to Ruin Your Financial Life: Federal Tax Liens and Tax Judgments. All About Liens, Releases, Withdrawals, Discharge Property From Lien, Subordination, Expiration. Including estate tax liens and what happens when a lien is reduced to judgment and after bankruptcy. How liens affect your credit and what you can do about it.
Internal Revenue Lien Specialist
Paul A. Herman, Esq., Boca Raton
Michael A. Lampert, Esq., West Palm Beach
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
When the IRS is Sanctioned - Paying Attorney's Fees, Violating the Automatic Stay, Making Improper Disclosures, Direct Communication With Represented Taxpayers.
Harris L. Bonnette, Jr., Jacksonville
Fran Sheehy, Esq., Coconut Creek
3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
When Your License to Practice Before the IRS is on the Line - What Every CAF Number Holder Should Know. What Circular 230 Requires and How It is Enforced.
Michael A. Lampert, Esq., West Palm Beach
Bob Pope, Esq., Nashville, TN
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Networking Reception (Included in registration)
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Focus on Funds
Now This: ETFs for Floating-Rate Treasuries and Currency-Hedged Stocks
Next week brings a foursome of interesting exchange-traded fund launches.
On Tuesday comes WisdomTree Bloomberg Floating Rate Treasury Fund under the ticker USFR. This is, as far as I can see, the first ETF following Wednesday's first-ever auction of floating-rate Treasuries, some $15 billion of them. Barron's colleague Mike Aneiro previewed this one in an interview with Srikant Dash, head of Bloomberg Indexes:
Srikant Dash, head of Bloomberg Indexes, says the index will soon become the basis for an exchange-traded fund. Money-market funds are expected to be the biggest customers for the new notes, but Dash says they're also valuable for corporate treasurers managing cash and retail investors looking to manage their portfolios in a rising-rate environment.
"This is the first new fixed-income security issued in the post-ETF fixed-income world," Dash says. "Advisers, when managing client portfolios, might look at a Treasury floating-rate note ETF as a companion to a Treasury bill ETF in a rising-rate environment. As a cash-management vehicle for retail investors, or as the cash portion of an investor's portfolio, this could have interesting implications."
Also Tuesday, investors will get a whack at three BlackRock (BLK) iShares currency-hedged stock ETFs.
iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Japan ETF (HEWJ), iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Germany ETF (HEWG) and iShares Currency Hedged MSCI EAFE ETF (HEFA) enter a market where Deutsche Bank (DB) and WisdomTree Investments (WETF) are the incumbents.


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Everyone knows that in a few weeks' time George W. Bush will lose his closest international ally when Tony Blair steps down as Britain's prime minister. Less well known is that just behind Blair in the exit queue may be the foreign leader who is arguably a close second in the president's affections—Prime Minister John Howard of Australia.
Howard, who has been in office since 1996, is already Australia's second-longest-serving premier, having won four elections, the most recent in 2004. He has staged some remarkable come-from-behind wins in the past, but he will have to top them all if he is to prevail in this year's balloting, probably in the fall. A recent Newspoll shows Howard's Liberal party—the name, confusingly enough, of Australia's conservatives—running well behind Labor, 59 percent to 41 percent. In the past, Howard has managed to win largely on the basis of his personal appeal, but now voters say by a 49-percent to 37-percent margin that they prefer his younger rival, Kevin Rudd, who took over leadership of the opposition this past December.
What accounts for Howard's slide? And what are the implications for the America-Australia alliance? I asked those questions of a number of political observers and participants in Canberra and Sydney recently. The most widely cited answer to the former question is fatigue and complacency. After 11 years, and notwithstanding a strong economy and a popular new budget, voters are tired of Howard's government. In a way, his success is his downfall. The economy is growing so strongly that many Australians seem willing to risk a change of government, especially when the alternative does not seem especially threatening.
Rudd is conservative for a Laborite, a nerdy former diplomat and management consultant in boxy spectacles who speaks Chinese fluently and goes to church regularly (he was brought up Catholic but now attends Anglican services). He has few ties to the unions which have traditionally been a dominant force mooring his party to the left. He is seen as a safe pair of hands to continue steering Australia ahead—a Tony Blair to Howard's Margaret Thatcher.
For that reason few expect any change of government to much affect the close relationship between Australia and the United States. While Rudd has opposed the Iraq war, he has not made opposition to U.S. policy a theme of his campaign, the way previous Labor leader Mark Latham did in 2004. Latham promised to pull Aussie troops out of Iraq by Christmas if elected—a pledge he made without consulting Rudd, his shadow foreign minister.
That kind of tactic doesn't play well in Australia; Latham wound up getting thumped at the polls. Rudd isn't repeating that mistake. He is running as a pro-American (and pro-Israel) candidate. Although a Laborite, Rudd has arguably been less critical of the United States than the current Conservative leader in Britain, David Cameron.
Indeed, Rudd went out of his way to reassure Dick Cheney, during the vice president's February visit to Oz, that even though he does plan to pull Australia's 550 troops from southern Iraq, he will not necessarily do so immediately, and he will maintain another 1,000 Australian personnel in and around Iraq to support coalition operations. Rudd also has backed Howard's plan to more than double, to almost 1,000, the number of Australian troops in Afghanistan.
From the White House perspective, it will still be a blow if Howard loses office. Along with his foreign minister, Alexander Downer, Howard has been one of the world's most stalwart defenders of the global war on terror and most eloquent critics of trendy anti-Americanism. But Rudd's accession would not occasion a crisis with one of America's two closest Pacific allies (the other being Japan). Even with China now having become Australia's second largest trading partner (after Japan), most folks Down Under, Labor or Liberal, know that, in the final analysis, their survival and safety rest with their American mates. Just as America came to the rescue in 1942, with Douglas MacArthur taking charge when Japanese invasion seemed imminent, so Australians count on America to bail them out of any future crisis.
They, in turn, are willing to help the United States carry out mutual foreign policy objectives. Australia is the only country to have fought alongside the United States in all of its major wars of the past 100 years; the Aussies, unlike the Brits, didn't opt out of Vietnam.
The Australian military may be small—with 51,000 active-duty personnel, it is little more than one-fourth the size of the U.S. Marine Corps—but it is heavily deployed. The Australian Defense Forces talk of a punishing "operations tempo" just as do the American armed forces. And, like the U.S. military, the Australians are expanding to make up for post-Cold War downsizing—albeit on a much smaller scale. The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are adding more than 60,000 troops; the Australians 6,000.
The Australians were early supporters of the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, providing diplomatic cover against charges of unilateralism and sending their highly skilled SAS commandos to fight alongside American and British Special Forces. While the Aussies play only a small supporting role in the Middle East, they have taken the lead in managing crises closer to their shores. They led a United Nations force into East Timor in 1999 to stop attempts by pro-Indonesian militias to block that nation's march to independence, and they have stuck around long enough to midwife a new democracy. There were some setbacks last year with riots and fighting in Dili, the capital, but order was restored by troops from Australia and other nations. Earlier this month, East Timor experienced a peaceful transition from the previous president to the newly elected José Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Australia also has committed troops and police officers to a peacekeeping mission in the Solomon Islands. And Australian diplomats, aid workers, and soldiers remain engaged in maintaining order in other tiny island states around the South Pacific, where military coups d'état are common.
Australians are also working to prevent the growth of radical Islam in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and other nearby states with large Muslim populations. Because of its proximity, Australia has more experts on many of those countries than the United States does, making the Aussies a valuable source of guidance and intelligence.
Delivering a speech in Sydney, I jokingly commended the audience, which included many Australian officers, for their success in establishing an Australian Empire. This was met with nervous laughter—an acknowledgment that, however politically incorrect, the jest contained some truth.
Without the old-fashioned imperial trappings, Australia is indeed playing the kind of stabilizing role that the British Empire once played and that the United States has now inherited. But not even the United States, with its 300 million people and defense spending greater than the rest of the planet combined, can handle every crisis everywhere. We may be the global sheriff, but we need a posse to be effective, and Australia has been a stalwart member of that self-selected assemblage. Other liberal democratic powers, ranging from Brazil to India, could usefully emulate its example by taking a more active role in policing their regions in cooperation with the United States and other foreign partners.
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'The Princeton Highsteppers'
Posted January 6, 2014; 12:00 p.m.
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The Princeton Highsteppers is a student-run group that meets weekly to rehearse and perform step, a dance form that incorporates stomping, clapping and vocalization with an overall rhythmic element. Read more.
Video Closed Captions
HIGHSTEPPERS: We are
the Highsteppers.
We [INAUDIBLE]
SYDNEY MONTGOMERY: I've been a
member of Highsteppers since
my freshman fall, so about
two and a half years.
MATT HAAKE: I've been with the
group for two years now.
I joined my freshman fall.
MORGAN CELLSTAN: We both joined
our freshman fall.
TERI TILLMAN: Yeah.
We auditioned together, and
we made it together.
MORGAN CELLSTAN: We auditioned
next to each other, and I
stepped on her.
TERI TILLMAN: Yeah.
The memories.
Now we're here.
JOHN FAIRCHILD: I guess were a
very eclectic group of people.
We come from a lot of different
backgrounds and a
lot of different experiences
with dance background in
Almost none of us have stepped
before, which is something I
think is pretty interesting
and unique about our team,
because we're all new to this.
We just bring kind of
a new curiosity and
passion for the art.
INSTRUCTOR: You're going
to push to your left.
Your hand is going to be your
right hand, but you're pushing
your body to the left, OK?
So that means that this side
over here, you're going to
start with the clap.
IJEOMA MADUBATA: Rehearsals last
for about two hours, and
a lot of times we meet
twice a week.
They're a lot of hard work if
you just put in the time and
effort, but they really
pay off in the end.
MAGDALENA HENKE: I'm German, so
while I was in Germany, I
was trying to find it tap
dance group on campus.
So I googled tap Princeton, and
then I found Highsteppers,
and watched videos.
It's like, this is awesome.
So before I came, I was set
on definitely trying out.
MATT HAAKE: It's a very nice,
tight knit little family, and
I think it's still a relatively
new group, but each
year we keep getting
closer and closer.
And yeah, there's some
friendships that I'll
definitely have forever.
Hit 'em with the beat!
MATT HAAKE: Hit 'em
with the beats.
IJEOMA MADUBATA: Hit
'em with the beats.
JOHN FAIRCHILD: Our annual
step competition.
It's our third annual one, and
we've invited teams from
around the Northeast to come
to Princeton and showcase
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Two Hamilton schools demonstrated community spirit this week with substantial donations to the Hamilton Combined Christian Food bank.
Students from Southwell School and Waikato Diocesan School for Girls organised collections of non perishable food items - and an assortment of festive items - to boost dwindling stocks on the food bank shelves.
Downer NZ Ltd offered its support by seconding three volunteers, contracts supervisor Ed Beazley, Darryn Shadrock and Robbie Lilleyman, and vehicles to cart the donated items from the schools to the foodbank.
Hamilton and the Waikato, like other areas in the country, is seeing a growing need for food parcels from a wide range of clients - some employed some unemployed.
In the year October 2011 to October 2012the Hamiltron Combined Christian Foodbank has distributed 3455 parcels that catered for 6,821 adults and 5,343 children.


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Corneal injury describes an injury to the cornea. The cornea is the crystal clear (transparent) tissue covering the front of the eye. It works with the lens of the eye to focus images on the retina.
Injuries to the cornea are common.
Injuries to the outer surface of the cornea, called corneal abrasions, may be caused by:
Infections may also damage the cornea.
You are more likely to develop a corneal injury if you:
High-speed particles, such as chips from hammering metal on metal, may become embedded in the surface of the cornea. Rarely, they may pass through the cornea and go deeper into the eye.
A complete eye exam must be done. The health care provider may use a special drop called fluorescein dye that helps identify corneal injuries.
Tests that are used to examine the eye for damage to the cornea include:
First aid for eye emergencies:
Anyone with severe eye pain needs to be evaluated in an emergency care center or by an ophthalmologist immediately.
Treatment for corneal injuries may involve:
Injuries that affect only the surface of the cornea normally heal very quickly with treatment. The eye should be back to normal within 2 days.
Injuries that penetrate the cornea are much more serious. The outcome depends on the specific injury.
Call your health care provider if the injury has not significantly improved in 2 days with treatment.
Yanoff M, Cameron D. Diseases of the visual system. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 431.
Vinger PF. The eye and sports medicine. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology. On DVD-ROM. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkions;2009:chap 45.
Cameron JD. Surgical and nonsurgical trauma. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA, eds. Foundations of Clinical Ophthalmology. Vol. 3. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkions;2012:chap 6.
Sharma R, Brunette DD. Ophthalmology. In: Marx JA, ed. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap. 69.
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Williams Sonoma Crystal Wine Servers, Set of 4
- Summary
Serving wine with the grace and confidence of a professional sommelier is easy when you use these clever little tools. Each has a specially designed pouring surface that prevents drips, neatly channeling any excess wine back into the bottle. As attractive as they are functional, our sleek polycarbonate servers replicate the appearance of fine crystal, so they pair beautifully with any wineglasses and tableware.
- A simple, stylish way to prevent drips when you're pouring wine.
- Designed to fit most standard wine bottles.
- Rubber seal holds server securely inside bottle.
- Set of four.
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- 1 1/2" diam.
- 2 1/4" long.
- Made in Poland.
- Use & Care
- Dishwasher safe.
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Shipping Information
UPS can deliver most in-stock items within 4-5 business days. UPS is unable to deliver to P.O. boxes.
Shipping Rates
The shipping rate varies depending on your order total and shipping destination. View Shipping Options and Charges.
Next Day Delivery
For an additional charge of $17.50 per address, we can expedite delivery to most destinations. This service is not available for some oversize items, items shipped directly from the supplier (including perishable and custom-manufactured items), out-of-stock items and items to be shipped outside the contiguous 48 states.
Orders received by 9:00 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through Thursday will arrive the next business day; orders placed Friday through Sunday will arrive on the following Tuesday.
Return Policy
At Williams Sonoma, we take great pride in the quality and craftsmanship of our products. Attention to design, materials, safety and construction are our priority. Upon receipt, please inspect your purchase and notify us of any damage; we will arrange for a prompt replacement.
If within 30 days, you are dissatisfied for any reason, you may return your purchase for a refund of the merchandise value. An original receipt or gift receipt is required for all returns and exchanges. Returns with a gift receipt will be refunded in the form of a Merchandise Credit for the amount indicated on the gift receipt. Returns with original receipt will be refunded in the original form of payment, cash and check refunds over $100 will be issued as a company check (may take 14 business days from time of request).
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Made to Order and Final Sale Furniture items are non-returnable, and cannot be cancelled once the order is placed.
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This will be of no concern to an Al Frankin lover like Henry V, or a plutocrat type like Blackstone, their messiah is omniscient. His knowledge should never be questioned.
This a good beginning to Obama's 'change' all 'fools' in this country voted for.
Well, boys and girls, today the fox is guarding the hen house.The wolves will be herding the sheep!
Obama appointed two devout Muslims to homeland security posts.Feeln safer ??
Obama and Janet Napolitano appointed Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development.DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).
NOTE:Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant...?
Just wondering.
Devout Muslims being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions?
Doesn't this make you feel safer already??That should make our home land much safer, huh!?
Was it not "Devout Muslim men" that flew planes into U.S. buildings 9 years ago?
Was it not a Devout Muslim who killed 13 at Fort Hood ?


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Warning: The following post may contain material of a sensitive nature. But please read and discuss it anyway.
I haven't visited a Halloween costume shop in a while but my boys wanted to dress up like Star Wars characters for our church's Trunk or Treat this year, so we paid a visit to a local Halloween store.
I have to say I was surprised and appalled by the merchandise we found there and I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination.
At least three-fourths of the Halloween costumes they sold were for women, which seemed strange to me at first. But about 90% of those women's costumes were more appropriate for strip club attire than for public display. Every costume seemed designed to be
slutty sexy, from the more obvious ones like Nurse Knock-out or Sexy Lioness, to the absurd ones like Sexy Robin (who knew Batman's sidekick could be seductive?) and Sexy Chucky (yes, that is the murderous doll turned femme fatale–see image). These costumes were not only being purchased by adults, but by teenagers, young adults, and even pre-teens.
Whatever happened to the days when we dressed up like princesses, fairies, angels, or Little Bo Peep? When did dress-up become less about putting on a persona and more about taking off our clothes?
I have been thinking about it and researching it and I have come to the conclusion that these hyper-sexual Halloween costumes are one of many side effects of the culture of pornography that is surreptitiously invading our society.
The porn industry, which is a 15-billion dollar a year industry in America, obviously glorifies many evils–commercialized sex, lust, greed, exploitation, and self-gratification. But the subtle evils it propagates are far more dangerous than we realize.
Dr. Annette Lynch, professor of textiles and Apparel and author of Porn Chic, recognizes the insidious influence of pornography on fashion, especially costumes. She writes this about teen and tween attire:
"When a little girl shops for a Halloween costume, she is bombarded with choices and poses that flirt with and attract sexual attention, teaching her to self-objectify and court the male gaze in advance of the blossoming of her own sexuality… what is most damaging is the normalization of this patterned response, with girls taught to shop, dress and behave while imagining the response of a male audience… this patterned response to these messages become ingrained and natural to these girls, who then carry the patterns into adulthood."
So girls who have not even viewed pornography are "patterned" to dress for men, specifically men who are porn users, without even knowing it. The porn look is so ingrained in the media and culture of our country that it does not need to be overt to affect change in all segments of society.
Jessica Bennett, in "The Pornification of America," wakes us up to the overwhelming impact the porn industry is making on our everyday lives.
"In a market that sells high heels for babies and thongs for tweens, it doesn't take a genius to see that sex, if not porn, has invaded our lives. Whether we welcome it or not, television brings it into our living rooms and the Web brings it into our bedrooms."
When we weren't looking, the subculture of pornography, which claims to affect only workers and users in that industry, became part of our mainstream culture, affecting everyone from fashion designers to pop stars (do I even have to put a link to a Miley Cyrus' example?) to young girls shopping for Halloween costumes.
How did our society succumb so easily to such a destructive problem?
Robert Jenson, a professor of journalism who wrote a book on the porn industry in America, believes that the popularity of pornography in our country "is a reminder that, for all the progress of contemporary social movements, we still live in a world structured by patriarchy, white supremacy and a corporate capitalism that is predatory by nature. Pornography is consistently cruel and degrading to women, overtly racist and fueled by the ideology that money matters more than people." (from an online interview)
So, it is not that pornography has corrupted our moral, just, and equality-driven society (read with sarcasm) but vice versa—the deep-seated, and often downplayed, American obsession with power, sex, and money has produced our current porn culture.
We got ourselves in this mess, but how do we get out?
We could push for more legislation against the porn industry, for more oversight and higher levels of censorship, but many Americans would cry, "First Amendment Violation!" and anyway, the porn industry has well-paid lobbyists and spin doctors to halt change on that front.
We could sit around and complain about the problem on blogs and social media, blaming Hollywood or the fashion or music industry. Oh wait, we already do that and it is certainly not working.
Or, we as the body of Christ can stand up and attack the problem at its root.
Because the root of every evil associated with pornography, from greed to lust to infidelity to exploitation, is the same. The problem is the darkness that we humans carry around inside us. The only way to fight the darkness is with the light. And when we hide the deeds of darkness, and the dismiss the effects of that darkness, we will slowly become overwhelmed by darkness instead of the light.
And the Word, the Gospel of John tells us, was not overcome by darkness but overcame darkness with light.
So we need to bring the deeds of darkness into light.
We need to talk about this uncomfortable, shameful problem in our churches and in our homes and in our schools and on our blogs.
We need to love and support those who are in bondage to all kinds of addiction, especially sexual addiction and pornography.
We need to talk to our children openly–about the gift of sex within marriage, the perils of internet pornography, and the lies society spreads about freedom and the body.
We also must ensure girls and women that they are loved for who they are and who Christ is making them to be, not for what they wear or how they look. We need to teach them to live to please God and not the opposite sex.
We need to address the issues of self-worth and self-respect and self-control. Every day. In every venue. Until people start to listen.
"For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light— for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true. Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what such people do secretly; but everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, 'Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead,and Christ will shine on you.'" (Ephesians 5:8-13)


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- You take college-level courses in your high school. This gives you a taste of college within the safety of your high school walls. Check if your high school offers AP courses.
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The return of students to campus kicks off this year with the 16th annual University Fest, to be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, August 29. The event welcomes visitors and the campus community to the Binghamton University Peace Quad to celebrate the beginning of the new academic year.
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Pure Garcinia cambogia extract is the latest trend in natural weight loss supplements, thanks in no small part to Doctor Oz. He introduced dieters to this herbal remedy on his popular television show. Millions of people now flock to online stores and health food outlets to buy Garcinia supplements.
Derived from the fruit of Garcinia trees, the potent extract is notable for three major reasons: fat blockage, appetite suppression and mood enhancement. This makes it ideal for dieters who want to lose weight quickly and feel good at the same time.
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Garcinia extract consists of the powerful contents of Garcinia cambogia, a tropical fruit that grows in Indonesia and other Asian countries. The plant's green or yellow pumpkin-shaped fruit is sometimes called assam fruit, gambooge or tamarind. They range in size from that of an orange to a grapefruit.
After reading Alive, we learned that Garcinia has two major culinary uses: food preparation and curing. The extract and rind are popular curry condiments in Asia, particularly in India. In traditional medicine, holistic practitioners used Garcinia extract to improve bowel movements. Modern appetite suppressants, energy drinks and diet supplements now contain the extract.
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FERC would relax price caps—sending rates skyward—to encourage customers to curtail loads.
Bruce W. Radford is publisher of Public Utilities Fortnightly .
FERC would relax price caps—sending rates skyward—to encourage customers to curtail loads.
About four months ago, at a conference at Stanford University's Center for International Development, the economist and utility industry expert Frank Wolak turned heads with a not-so-new but very outrageous idea.
Wolak, who serves as chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator, suggested if regulators really want electric customers to curtail load during shortages or emergencies to aid reliability or boost system resources, they should simply remove all bid caps, price caps, and other similar market controls. Let the price float free—maybe even as high as $100,000/MWh in a single extreme peak hour, which translates at the retail level to $100/kWh.
Now there's the way to get some demand response.
Wolak suggests that allowing such inflated prices at the wholesale level, and then passing them along at retail to ratepayers, offers the best and perhaps only way to cure market abuses and curb market power exercised by monopoly power producers.
"Without the active demand-side participation enabled by charging final consumers prices that reflect hourly wholesale prices, electricity suppliers will face a final demand that is virtually inelastic … and implies significant opportunities for suppliers to exercise unilateral market power."
He much prefers such scarcity pricing (letting prices climb during shortages without controls) to the current regime, which first slaps on price controls to deny revenues to power producers, and then designs complex artificial incentive schemes (ICAP, LICAP, RPM, and FCM) to recapture the "missing money" to pay them back.
Wolak presumably was speaking for himself, and not the regulators at the Cal-ISO. His paper, "Managing Demand-Side Economic and Political Constraints on Electricity Industry Re-structuring Processes," is a compelling read.
And in offering up his paper for industry consumption, Wolak likely knew other regulators lately have been thinking along the same lines.
In particular, FERC in a recent case has now suggested nearly the same thing—relaxing price caps, offer caps, and similar market controls—to encourage greater demand response (See FERC Docket Nos. RM07-19, AD07-7, issued June 22, 2007).
In the case, FERC is exploring ideas for incremental improvements to organized wholesale power markets run by regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and grid system operators (ISOs). The case can be seen as the bookend or analog to Order 890, issued in February 2007, in which FERC ordered improvements to the Open Access Transmission Tariff (the OATT, first codified in 1996 in Order 888), which governs wholesale bilateral power transactions largely outside of RTO or ISO management.
In this companion case, FERC suggests ideas for incremental improvements to the regional power markets in four areas: demand response, long-term contracting, market monitoring, and stakeholder representation in the workings of RTOs and ISOs. Implicit in this package is the notion RTO/ISO regional markets are working pretty darn well and require only fine tuning. As FERC explained in its introductory comments: "The commission is not seeking to fundamentally redesign organized markets… Our goal is to make incremental improvements …


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SEATTLE -- De'Anthony Thomas and Kenjon Barner sandwiched touchdown runs around Avery Patterson's 34-yard interception return for a score, and No. 2 Oregon used a third-quarter scoring blitz to shake Washington State for a 51-26 win on Saturday night.
Playing for the first time outside the Eugene city limits, the Ducks (5-0, 2-0 Pac-12) looked shaky at times in the first half and led just 23-19 at the break, but put together a nearly flawless third quarter to run away from the Cougars.
Thomas capped an 18-play drive to start the half with a 4-yard TD, then Patterson stepped in front of Connor Halliday's pass for Oregon's third interception return for a TD in two games. After Washington State (2-3, 0-2) went three-and-out, Barner scored on a 10-yard run to cap the 21-point spurt in just over 4 minutes.
Barner finished with four total touchdowns, including scoring runs of 22 yards in the first quarter and an 80-yarder in the fourth to go along with a 30-yard touchdown reception in the first half. His 195 yards rushing was the second-best rushing game of his career behind the 201 yards he had against Fresno State earlier this season.
The Ducks started the second-half with their longest scoring drive -- by plays -- of the season, a methodical 18-play march that ate up more than 6 minutes. They ran nine times and threw nine times on the drive and only three times faced third down. The last came from the Cougars 4 when Barner went in motion and the middle opened for quarterback Marcus Mariota to hand off to Thomas, who plowed in for his fifth rushing TD of the season.
Before Washington State got a chance to answer, Patterson was stepping in front of a pass intended for Gabe Marks and racing untouched the other direction for a score. Patterson joined Ifo Ekpre-Olomu and Troy Hill with returning interceptions for touchdowns this season.
After another three-and-out by the Cougars and a short punt, Oregon needed just seven plays for Barner to find the end zone for the third time and a 44-19 lead.
Barner put a cap on his night and an explosive second half when he escaped a pileup near the Oregon sideline and skirted free to run 80 yards early in the fourth quarter. His four total TDs is second behind a five-touchdown performance in 2010 against New Mexico. Mariota finished 21 of 32 passing for 169 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions in the first road start of his career.
Thomas had just six touches in the first half for a total of 33 yards and no play longer than 15. He got four touches on the first drive of the second half alone including the capping TD run. He also got his first kickoff returns of the season after most teams had refused to kick toward the speedy sophomore, but his longest return was 19 yards.
Washington State continued its series of playing once a year at the home of the Seattle Seahawks and for the foreseeable future it will be either Oregon or Oregon State as the foe. While the crowd of 60,929 was mostly crimson, there was plenty of green and highlighter yellow that made the trip north to see the Ducks first road game of the season.
Connor Halliday threw for 348 yards and Marquess Wilson had 12 catches for 182 yards and a touchdown to become Washington State's all-time leader in yards receiving. But the Cougars had no ground game finishing with (minus)-8 net yards rushing. Halliday was sacked seven times.
Washington State has proved a somewhat problematic foe for the Ducks the past few years. In 2010 in Pullman, the Cougars hung around into the third quarter before losing 43-23 and last year in Eugene, Washington State trailed just 15-10 at halftime before getting overrun in the second half.
Saturday night was the same, with the Cougars falling behind 20-3 late in the first quarter. Washington State scored 16 of the next 19 points, getting a 2-yard TD run from Carl Winston following Teondary Caldwell's 92-yard kickoff return, and Brett Bartolone's 26-yard touchdown reception to pull within 23-19 at the half.
The Cougars had a chance to go to the break with the lead, driving to the Ducks 17 late in the half before three straight sacks of Halliday forced Washington State to punt. That proved to be the Cougars last chance to hang around.


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Theatre Intime will present "Stop Kiss," a play by Diana Son, at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 28-30, and Thursday through Saturday, April 4-6, in Murray Dodge Hall. A matinee performance will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 6.
The play, which is directed by Chris Wendell, tells the story of two young women trying to understand their attraction to each other after a chance meeting.
Tickets are $6 for students, $10 for faculty/staff/seniors and $12 for general admission. Students can use their Passport to the Performing Arts. For tickets in advance, call the Frist Campus Center Box Office at 258-1742.
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Mr. Berman has served as Co-Founder & Co-Director of the UCSB-MAT-CNSI Collaboratorium integrating the Media Arts and Technology graduate degree program with the $100 million California Nanosystems Institute, CNSI, (one of four UC Institutes for Science and Innovation to expand California's role as a leader in technical innovation); Director, Strategic Business Alliances & Convergence Technologies Development for the University of California System-wide (ten campuses and three national laboratories) Digital Media Innovation Program (a $30 million dollar industry-university-state matching grants program); Director, Business Development for Business Research Partnerships at UCLA (now an $800 million dollar research and $10 million dollar licensing organization); faculty in the Media, Arts & Technology Graduate Program (MAT) at UCSB; General Counsel, TVS Entertainment (former International Entertainment Conglomerate) and international speaker and lecturer.Mr. Berman earned his B.S. degree, magna cum laude, in Materials Science/Ceramic Engineering from Rutgers College of Engineering and his J.D. degree from Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is member of the State Bar of California, various Federal Courts including the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.


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The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) system is a group of genes that makes up the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This super locus contains a large number of genes related to immune system function in humans. HLA typing is used to determine whether a tissue or organ donor is a suitable match for a patient. Typically, DNA is extracted from blood or buffy coat and the DNA is analyzed by Sequence Specific Oligonucleotides (SSO) typing or Sequence Specific Priming (SSP) typing. The use of buccal or cheek swabs is an advantageous alternative to a blood draw because of its non-invasiveness and the lack of reliance on the donors white blood cell count. Here we describe an application of the Maxwell®16 LEV Blood DNA Kit (Cat. #AS1290) for the automated extraction of DNA from buccal swab samples for use with SSO and SSP analysis for HLA typing. We also describe this application for compatibility for qPCR assays.
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A user of the nsopenssl module was having problems getting the module to listen on the right port. He was sure it was nsopenssl's problem. I sent him an 'instrumented' copy of the module so he could see what ports the module was binding to etc.
He came back saying he felt rather foolish because it was a problem in his configuration. It was something rather obvious, to which I responded:
If I could count the number of times my blind assumptions about where a problem lay have bit me in the butt, I'd have been without a butt for a long time now.
What I have learned is that the simplest thing is (almost) always the answer. When I start repeating to myself, "But it has to work this way" then I know I'm in trouble and do some backtracking. The Universe, it appears, is logical. But we aren't.
The amount of time he spent on this problem speaks to our ability to force ourselves onto a particular path even though it was clear to him that the problem was obvious, but he simply couldn't change his context to see it.
Most things are pretty obvious, but we have problems with them, I think, because we make them more complex in our minds than they really are.


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NCSE is delighted to congratulate Naomi Oreskes on receiving the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication for 2016.
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More thoughts about MCS and GMCS
Martin got GMCS to work on Windows, with a small caveat — there's no API to change the MethodAttributes of a MethodBuilder. I have a couple of observations:
- the caveat isn't really a big deal. You only need to set NewSlot when there is a new keyword used in the declaration. Otherwise, it's useful but not necessary (See bug 74852 for the gory details)
- these changes, coupled with my older changes should allow us to have more code similarity between MCS and GMCS. Specifically, I think we can put in a couple of stubs: DropGenericTypeArguments and DropGenericMethodArguments into MCS and eliminate a big part of the textual differences between MCS and GMCS in non-generics related code. We already started on this in doc.cs


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"I have a very bad feeling about this.": - me, 10 seconds ago when I saw this in the news.
Disney sounds like they're going overboard. Why don't you wait to see if you can even crack the code to making good Star Wars films before you overexpose it into oblivion? I could see getting behind animated character movies, but live-action seems like a mistake, too many variables to get right.
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|Art of Casting Analysis, refinement of the cast
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|actually I should call my double hauls the "two hauls", that´s how many times I get it right after an hour casting in the park. You don´t even wanna know how I´m doing when I´m actually fishing: something "magical" happens, suddenly I get amnesia and I don´t know what fly fishing and casting is about, so I start aiming flies at trees and rocks ´cause I find that´s rather fun...
And all along I thought the double haul was when I had to make two trips to the dump because I let the trash build up to long!
It's the only "double haul" I've been able to make the last few weeks due to blown-out rivers and honey do's! This morning we woke up to about an inch of snow................ Hope you are getting in more double hauls than I have been!
interesting topic
The timing of the double haul varies a bit, but lets start with the haul itself.
There are two motions - the pull and the drift.
The purpose of the pull is to increase the load in the rod beyond that which can be achieved by rod motion alone.
The purpose of the drift is to reset the hand so that it can be done again on the next loading move.
Although the timing of the pull varies - it always coincides with an increase in the loading of the rod, or it should.
We can collect some slack with the line hand to improve pick up, kind of a pre-haul. I do it all the time subconsciously. I wouldn't refer to that as the haul itself necessarily, but if you called it part of the haul I wouldn't argue as long as it's continous and there is still some room to pull/load once the line is lifted off the water.
In other words there is no reason not to slowly start the haul to lift the line and transition into the actual loading stroke with haul.
So let's conclude that a haul is not a single instantaneous event but instead it's a gradually accelerating action that parallels the casting stroke itself.
It should start slow and accelerate to a release. It should be timed to apply rod load in the proper manner, that is to say not deflect the rod too early or past it's prime.
As far as timing for the haul on the forward stroke...
Once again as long as the pull follows the principles of good casting you can pre-load a little to eliminate slack in a tail-wind but lose that percentage on the stroke load as you go. In a headwind you may let the wind straighten the backcast and save all of the haul to pierce forward at the acceleration point of the cast.
So in conclusion, the haul should be applied in parallel to proper casting load for the situation at hand.
the timing on the double haul
this has probably been covered before in the forum, but I haven´t found the thread. Please patience or I´ll settle for a link.
My instints tell me the first haul should begin when I´m picking up the line (it also helps me get it off the water), and the second haul when I´m starting the foward cast.
But I´ve read this is better: First haul as the rod reaches vertical position right before you flip back and up, and the second haul after the foward cast has begun. This feels a lot more awkward; becaus I´m loosing the chance to use the tension of the fly line fully extended behind me to make the tug in the second haul.
Any tips for the timing??
by the way, something I read that works for me real well is making the hauls with a fast movement
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You can hardly imagine a more innocent public venue than a marathon, where most participants run solely for the love of the sport after devoting untold hours to building their endurance and strength.
So naturally you can hardly imagine a more vicious blow to our collective sense of peace and security than the sort of terror attack that rocked the nation Monday in Boston.
We write this while the details of the bombings are only beginning to be confirmed, and with no knowledge of whom the perpetrator might be. But whatever the particulars of his grievance, his broader purpose – to harm as many innocent people as possible while sowing fear in everyone else – is unmistakable.
And as often is the case when someone without scruples seeks such ugly ends, he has been too tragically successful in his quest.
Here in sports–happy Colorado, we boast of the Bolder Boulder in running, the USA Pro Challenge in cycling, and a variety of other high–profile events. What precautions and inconveniences will the organizers of those competitions now feel obliged to impose on those who participate or attend – and to what actual usefulness?
We can only echo the sentiments of the Bolder Boulder website, which by mid–afternoon Monday had posted a note saying, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Boston, the Boston running community and the Boston Marathon family."
We can't reflect on the despicable attack on innocent people in Boston without at least some reference to our own community's horror last year at an Aurora theater – another venue of seeming innocence turned into a living hell.
Such attacks may shock us to the core because of their mindless cruelty, but our society – resilient and fundamentally stable – ultimately shakes them off and moves on.
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I have a confession to make. I love movie trailers. I'm one of those people who actually likes seeing 15 minutes worth of previews at the cinema, and I count trawling through trailers online as one of life's pleasures.
For studios, they're important (and often expensive) miniature works of art, marketing tools that are constructed and primed to give you up to three minutes of concentrated entertainment.
For viewers, they're a brief source of escape, provoking curiosity, awe, terror, sadness or laughter.
And they're called trailers because they used to "trail" the main feature at a cinema. That was a short-lived policy, because it was discovered that patrons often left the cinema when the film finished; but things might be different now, as demand for online trailers is as high as it's ever been.
In recent years, the release of a big trailer has become almost as newsworthy as the release of a film - and studios are getting clever in packaging much-anticipated trailers with much-hyped film releases too.
For example, if you're heading along to The Dark Knight Rises (which opens today), you'll be allowed a first peek at next year's Superman: Man of Steel. Talk about a captive audience; it's like directly injecting anticipation into the bloodstream. And punters love it.
But lately there's been a few complaints about trailers.
Most recently it's been the low grumbling that trailers for much-anticipated films like Prometheus, or The Amazing Spider-Man, or The Dark Knight Rises are giving too much away.
The new trend in releasing multiple trailers for a single film (each of those mentioned had at least three official trailers) may well be a good way to satiate the appetites of rabid fans, but there are those who think seeing so much online takes the shine off when the actual film is released.
Though I agree, with heady action films like these the trailers don't necessarily leave you with much of the storyline. They often piece together many short, bombastic segments, out of order, without context, in a sensory-overload style montage. Which means that though I know there's going to be many an explosion in The Dark Knight Rises, and I know a football field will blow up, a couple of bridges will disintegrate, and Batman will have to drive his flying-car-machine extremely fast, I don't know who lives or dies, or why Gotham's reckoning has arrived, or what Catwoman's intentions are.
So multiple trailers aren't a major complaint in my book - perhaps just don't watch all of them. More typically problematic are trailers that use up nearly all the decent jokes, give away the whole plot, or are quite simply misleading.
I don't have much time for people who didn't realise that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's Sweeney Todd was a musical (really?!), or the woman from Michigan who wanted to sue director Nicolas Refn because "there wasn't enough driving" in acclaimed 2011 film Drive.
But I have sympathy for people who headed to Pan's Labyrinth thinking it would be a whimsical children's film (even though it was brilliant), or to Young Adult, expecting a broad comedy. It's not that these films don't deliver, it's that marketing teams disorient audiences by dumbing down the trailers, over-explaining the story, and trying to jump on the bandwagon of some previous success (ie. "Bridesmaids is The Hangover for women").
But if you do any research, you'll often be put right, and they're still useful guidance tools for getting a brief idea of the film - perhaps no more so than when it comes to selections for the film festival (which begins this evening).
When you're faced with such an array of treats, it can be overwhelming (even with the very informative festival programme at your fingertips) so the NZIFF has helpfully collated all their trailers on one youtube channel.


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For you Krush fans waiting for recent event videos to surface, your day has come. The main events from Krush.18 and Krush-EX vol.1 have popped up on youtube thanks to a channel most of you are likely familar with, GalaxyJill. Fights include Krush -63kg champ Ryuji Kajiwara taking on 2008 K-1 Koshien champ HIROYA, Krush -60kg champ Hirotaka Urabe taking on MMA fighter Masato Kobayashi and Krush -55kg champ Shota Takiya taking on ISKA UK 55kg champ Reece Crooke from Krush.18, as well as ISKA World -55kg champ Nobuchika Terado taking on unbeaten Team Dragon prospect Namito Izawa and Team Dragon's Takumi, who is set for a title eliminator, against KO-ICHI from Krush-EX 2012 vol.1.
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How to earn your NTS Master of Divinity here at the MVNU campus:
- Enroll as a graduate student at Mount Vernon Nazarene University and Nazarene Theological Seminary. Requirements for admission include an accredited bachelor's degree with at least a 2.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale.
- Take classes at both MVNU and NTS. Classes may be taken simultaneously provided pre-requisite courses are met.
- A total of 76 credit hours must be completed to earn a Master of Divinity.
- At least 46 of those hours must be taken through NTS to graduate with a degree from this institution.
- Up to 30 credit hours may be taken in the Master of Ministry program at MVNU.
- At least 24 hours of residential credit through NTS can be taken on the MVNU campus.
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- Go to your blog and paste the code into a post or HTML sidebar module.
If you add more images to the Picasa Web Album, they will automatically be included in the slideshow.