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Assignment 2: Annotated Bibliography
The purpose of this assignment is to utilize what you learned thus far. To do that you will be writing an annotated bibliography.
One way in which psychology examines issues in life-span development is to review current research on related topics. For this assignment you will review current research and provide a critical evaluation on that research through an annotated bibliography. An annotated bibliography is simply a brief summary and analysis of the journal article reviewed. For more information on the required format of the bibliography please click on annotated bibliography template.
You will need to find research articles located in scholarly journals. Scholarly journal articles are also referred as primary source peer reviewed articles. A scholarly journal article can be found in the South University Online Library. To find more information regarding utilizing the South University Library and accessing scholarly journal articles click on Library Guide. What cannot be used for this assignment are web pages, magazines, newspapers, text books, and other books. Finally, current research for our purposes is an article that was published within the last 5 to 6 years.
Remember this is a course on human development so when looking for articles make sure that it is related to the subject matter covered in the course. Include one or more of the following as topic areas in your search:
For this assignment you will find 2 scholarly journal articles for each of these age groups:
The annotated bibliography should include for each article.
Summary: You will also write a summary (1-2 pages) of what you learned from your research on the different age groups as seen from the life-span perspective. To assist in the development of this summary answer the following questions:
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The match will take place in the evening session of the opening day of the tournament, Wednesday February 19. The £300,000 world ranking event runs until Sunday March 2.
"Ronnie's the one player I have always wanted to play," said Travis, who is not on the professional tour but has gained a place in several ranking events this season thanks to his results in 2013 Q School.
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Travis has given up his job in a call centre and is now focussed on snooker, though he has kept his weekend bar job. "There are so many opportunities in snooker these days, I am putting 100 per cent into it now," he added. "I'm planning to play in Q School in May and hopefully I'll be on the tour next season."
There are ten Welsh players in the event, including Mark Williams who faces Michael Wasley on the afternoon of Saturday February 22, and Matthew Stevens who meets Adam Wicheard on the afternoon of Wednesday February 19.
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In honor of Wayne Krivsky, let's talk about five general managers who should have been canned faster than he was, but weren't. In compiling this list, the vasty list of candidates clamoring for inclusion was pared by eliminating any GM who worked more recently than 20 years ago. That means no Cam Bonifay of the Pirates, and no Chuck LaMar of the Devil Rays. We need not kick the Pat Meares deal again, as much fun as that might be. Even with that restriction, the final list of honorees is by no means exhaustive.
It should be noted that even the worst general managers luck into the odd good move, here we can operate on the "even blind squirrels find a few nuts" theory (and sometimes something bigger-a myopic squirrel once snatched a gyro out of my hand) and consider the big picture to be the more valid measure of the success or failure of an administration, rather than any single deal.
5. WILLIAM WALKER, Chicago Cubs (January 11, 1934-October 23, 1934): In the fall of 1933, longtime Cubs president William Veeck (father of the great, midget-signing Bill) unexpectedly took ill and died-some sources blame influenza, others leukemia. None say it was "the Cubs." Rather than opt for an experienced baseball man to run the team, owner Phil Wrigley elevated one of his minority partners, seafood dealer William Walker. You know those bar bores who insist that if they were running the local nine they could do a better job than the current management? That was Walker. He really liked baseball and thought he knew a lot about it. As it turned out, his area of expertise was limited to scales, fins, and gills.
Christina Kahrl wrote about Walker's brief reign a bit in our recent book It Ain't Over. Whatever he understood about baseball, that knowledge set didn't include park effects. To be fair, it's not clear how much anyone was thinking about park effects in those days, but even without the statistics, savvier baseball minds were aware that such things existed. When Ty Cobb dropped in to check out Braves Field in 1915 during its construction and noted the huge outfield dimensions, then said something like, "No one is ever going to hit a ball out of this place," he was observing a park effect.
Walker's ignorance expressed itself in his dealings with the Phillies. The Phillies played in a bathtub of a ballpark called the Baker Bowl. The park, and specifically its 280 foot right-field line, famously expressed its prejudices in the stat line of right fielder Chuck Klein, who batted .359/.412/.632 in his first six seasons with the team, while also racking up as many as 44 assists in a season by standing in short right and nailing runners at first base on singles.
Guess who Walker's first trade target was? To be fair, Walker was trying to complete a move that Veeck had been exploring at the time of his death, and Klein's numbers were so good that even if park effects had been considered, they probably would have been dismissed with a cavalier, "Hey, if he's 60 percent of that player for us, he'll still be great." On November 11, 1934, Walker sent Ted Kleinhans, Mark Koenig, Harvey Hendrick, and $65,000 to the cash-strapped Phils (see below) for Klein.
Klein turned out to be a terrific disappointment. He batted .297/.366/.497 as a Cub, which sounds grand until one realizes that this is the 1930s were talking about. Although National League offensive levels settled down faster than they did in the American League after the crazy rabbit-ball season of 1930, they were still quite high. Klein also proved to be unmotivated-playing for the Phillies did that to a guy in those days-and needed to be platooned. In 1936, the Cubs shipped him back to Philadelphia, but Walker was long gone by then.
Walker made a far more disastrous trade that June, when he "solved" the team's first base problem by dealing the solution to the Phillies. In trading for 28-year-old Don Hurst, Walker acquired a .303/.382/.488 career hitter whose mediocrity was obscured by his park and the high-offense era in which he played. Hurst's 1932 season, in which he batted .339/.412/.547, had some genuine value, but everything else was out of Tino Martinez's "Off-Year Songbook." Hurst batted .199/.239/.291 in 51 games for the Cubs, just enough to cripple their stretch drive, and was then out of the majors. All he cost Chicago was Dolph Camilli, a more or less picture-perfect "one-dimensional slugger" who would play regularly through World War II, annually placing in the top ten in home runs. He was good enough at it to win the 1941 MVP award as a member of the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers.
4. SPEC RICHARDSON, Houston Astros (July 27, 1967-July 10, 1975): One of the worst traders of all time. A short list will suffice:
Despite all of this damage, Richardson did close out his Astros career with two terrific moves-in October, 1974, he picked up outfielder Jose Cruz from the Cardinals for cash, and in April of the following year, he sent $35,000 to the Braves for Joe Niekro.
3. GERRY NUGENT, Philadelphia Phillies (1932-1943): A unique situation, in that the GM isn't going to be fired if he's the owner's husband. When William Baker of Baker Bowl fame kicked off, he willed his shares in the club to two women, his wife and his secretary. The widow Baker initially had majority ownership, but she wasn't much interested in running the club, and when she soon after passed on, she too willed her shares to the secretary, Mary Mallon Nugent. Two years after the Angel of Death passed over the Baker family, the secretary's husband was running the cub.
It's possible that with a different attitude, Nugent would have been a good GM. He clearly recognized good players when he saw them, because he kept acquiring them. His problem was a defeatist attitude. Although he inherited the Phillies at a time when the A's were about to forever end their run as a good team, or even a serious one (at least in Philadelphia), Nugent didn't bother trying to compete with them. Instead, he developed his players, and then he sold them. He figured this was the only way he could compete, completely discounting the idea of winning.
The full list of regrettable moves made by Nugent is too long to list here; suffice it to say that the outright sale was his favorite. Among his more notable trades were two deals that saved the Brooklyn Dodgers from bankruptcy and won the team the 1941 pennant (the 1938 trade of Camilli to Brooklyn for Eddie Morgan and $45,000, and the 1940 deal that sent Kirby Higbe to the Borough of Churches for Vito Tamulis, Bill Crouch, Mickey Livingston, and $100,000). Nugent's Phillies went 662-1165 (.362), losing 100 or more games six times.
2. FRANK LANE, Cleveland Indians (1958-1960): "Trader" Frank was a baseball executive for years, and famous for being a compulsive deal-maker. He made deals just to make them, saying that if you made a bad trade, just make two more and move on with your life; Lane thought he was very smart. The only problem was that his clubs never won anything, and whereas the sheer volume of trades he made meant that he pulled off quite a few good ones, many of them were outright disasters. After years of looking up at the Yankees with the White Sox, Lane moved on to the Cardinals in 1956 and quickly alienated ownership by arguing that the best thing for the franchise would be to swap Stan Musial. He didn't last long.
Lane arrived in Cleveland at a sensitive time. The Indians had fielded very strong clubs for about a decade, winning the 1948 championship and the 1954 pennant, but they were sliding. From 1955 to 1957, the club slid from 93 wins to 88 to 76. The team's all-time great pitching staff was aging, with Early Wynn, Mike Garcia, and Bob Lemon all already in their thirties, but the club still had hope because the offensive core was decent and there were still good young players coming along, among them the young outfielders Roger Maris and Rocky Colavito. Some decent pitchers were also in the pipeline, including Mudcat Grant, Jim Perry, and Gary Bell.
You probably can guess where this is going. Lane's maniacal trading helped put the Indians in a hole it would take them roughly 35 years to climb out of. Early Wynn had a few years of good pitching left, but he was dealt for two seasons of an aging Minnie Minoso. Maris went to the A's for Woodie Held and Vic Power. Hoyt Wilhelm was sold to the Orioles for the waiver price. While Lane successfully got the White Sox to bite on old man Minoso in 1959 and getting catcher Johnny Romano and then-unheralded first baseman Norm Cash in the deal, he quickly flipped Cash to the Tigers for third baseman Steve Demeter.
Most infamously of all, on April 17, 1960, Lane sent Rocky Colavito to the Tigers for Harvey Kuenn. He wasn't yet done-before being asked to leave town, he even traded managers, swapping Joe Gordon to the Tigers (again) for Jimmy Dykes. By the time he was through, the Indians no longer bore any resemblance to what had been a great team with a winning tradition.
1. HAWK HARRELSON, Chicago White Sox (October 2, 1985-October 29, 1985): Succinctly, the bill of indictment. First, he fired Tony La Russa, who had brought the team its first taste of the postseason since 1959. He decided to emphasize speed and defense by pushing out the outfield fences, then bizarrely released the team's main speed threat, Rudy Law, and moved future Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk to left field, where he could run down anything that was hit where he happened to be standing. That couldn't last, and the Sox ended up with just one regular outfielder, right fielder Harold Baines, with John Cangelosi and Darryl Boston splitting the season in center and about a dozen guys trying to play left, including Steve Lyons, George Foster, Ron Kittle, Bobby Bonilla, and Ivan Calderon.
Harrelson's trading record was a mixed bag, and in the long view not altogether disastrous. Sending useful infielder Scott Fletcher and highly-regarded pitching prospect Ed Correa to the Rangers for Wayne Tolleson and Dave Schmidt didn't make much sense, while the deal that sent lefty starter Britt Burns to the Yankees for Joe Cowley and Ron Hassey is tough to evaluate-it was a brilliant steal if Harrelson knew that a hip condition would prevent Burns from ever pitching again, and a mismatch in favor of the Yankees if he didn't. A subsequent deal with the Yankees (there were seemingly hundreds) allowed Harrelson to pick up catcher Scott Bradley, who he later moved to Seattle for the hard-hitting but injury-prone outfielder, Ivan Calderon, a small-scale win for the club. The trade of Tom Seaver to the Red Sox brought Lyons to the South Side, while the big July 30 deal with the Yankees gave away Kittle, Tolleson, and catching prospect Joel Skinner for Hassey (the third time he had moved between the two clubs that year), Carlos Martinez, and Bill Lindsey. Perhaps most damaging of all, someone on the club had had the prescience to pluck Bobby Bonilla from the Pirates in the Rule 5 draft back in December; in July, Harrelson sent him back to Pittsburgh for the hard-throwing right-hander Jose DeLeon.
The 1986 White Sox went 72-90 after going 85-77 the year before. They wouldn't post another winning season until 1990, though perhaps that wasn't due to Harrelson's ineptitude so much as the general shortcomings of the club at the time Harrelson took it over. Still, he did little to address those weaknesses, missed opportunities to bolster the club's talent pool through meaningless trades, and overall only succeeded in demonstrating what a year of aimless, undirected activity with no thinking behind it can do to disrupt a baseball team.
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Chesapeake Energy (CHK) Who They Are: The company was founded in 1989 and is based in Oklahoma City, Okla. Chesapeake trades an average of 21.2 million shares per day with a marketcap of $12.2 billion. 52 Week High: $34.35
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I am 27 and have a prescription of -6.0 in both eyes and a central corneal thickness of 413 (right eye) and 427 (left eye). So, Lasik is not an option for me. The surgeon recommends ICL but says it has its complexities. Also, in my area all advanced treatments are not available. I need your advice on what other suitable option do i have, coz I really want to get rid of my glasses.
What is my Option of Eyesight Treatment with a -6.0 in Both Eyes and a Central Corneal Thickness of 413 and 427?
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The best option for you would be to go with ICL. Because your corneas are too think for a Lasik/PRK procedure, the safest way to get rid of your glasses would be to go with ICL
Thin Corneas: When Lasik Is Not An Option
You are certainly not a candidate for either Lasik or PRK, as your cornea is too thin to tolerate either. It does seem, though, with the information you presented, to be an excellent candidate for an Intraocular Contact Lens(ICL) in each eye. It is true that this procedure is a little more complicated than a surface laser treatment. There are more steps to the procedure and, it is usually performed in an operating room, so the cost is higher. I usually perform ICL surgery on both eyes on the same day, but not all surgeons will agree to this. It sounds like you will do great with ICL surgery and, if you don't want to wear glasses or contacts, this is really the only procedure available to you.
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"Medical marijuana" became legal in Massachusetts on January 1, but the first draft of rules for its use are just out today.
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Many critics of the law had urged DPH to narrow the definition of "debilitating" conditions for which patients could use marijuana. But DPH interim Commissioner, Dr. Lauren Smith, says creating a list of conditions would surely leave something out. She says she's confident that the focus will be on "those patients who have serious or significant conditions and not on people who are looking for a way to obtain marijuana purely for recreational use."
"So far so good, I'm very pleased with the progress they've made," says Eric McCoy of Boston who uses marijuana daily to relieve cramps and other symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. Some patients are objecting to the state's proposed limit of 10 oz. every 60 days, but McCoy says he uses less than that.
"It's [the law] really going to make life a lot easier for people like me who have MS and other chronic diseases," says McCoy.
The ballot question Massachusetts voters approved in November says the state must allow up to 35 marijuana dispensaries, what the regulations call Marijuana Treatment Centers, this year. These regulations create the application, licensing and enforcement rules.
Anne Johnson, who directs a new trade group called the Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Association, says she's concerned about a requirement that dispensaries must have $500,000 in escrow in order to apply for a license.
"We don't want there to be barriers to entry," says Johnson, "so we're looking at that and how we might be able to tweak some things, but I'd say they've [DPH] been very thoughtful about a lot of the issues and we think that's going to continue."
That $500,000 requirement is one of many hurdles marijuana dispensaries will have to clear before they can open. The state rules affirm that cities and towns can use local zoning or siting laws to limit where dispensaries will locate, and that anyone applying to open a dispensary will have to demonstrate local support.
Johnson says it's possible that some dispensaries will open in Massachusetts this year, but Massachusetts Municipal Association director Geoff Beckwith says it may be several years before many communities are comfortable with this law.
"This is a brave new world," adds Beckwith. "This is an activity that has been illegal, there have been no regulations on it and so there will be concern and trepidation as we move forward to make sure communitites can set commonsense rules that regulate this, in a way that protects the community interest.
Cities and towns that don't want marijuana sold in their community can and likely will put up many barriers, says Wayne Dennison, a Boston lawyer who specializes in land use litigation at Brown Rudnick.
Although 63% of the people in Massachusetts may be in favor of medical marijuana," continues Dennison, "I would suspect a much smaller percentage of those people would be in favor of medical marijuana in their back yard."
Anyone can propose changes to the state's draft regulations through April 20th. The final rules are expected on April 24th. DPH still has to set up a database for registering patients and determine the fees they and the dispensaries that sell marijuana will have to pay. But sometime this summer or fall, expect to see the first applications for new medical marijuana treatment centers in Massachusetts.


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3xited|2013-12-04 16:00:00It makes sense in groups, so people won't get XP be "leeching" too fast. But can you give me 1 logical reason, why would I get less (or even 0) exp for harder fights as solo player?A character will gain 100% XP if he fights a monster with a level difference of 10 maximum. It will then lower progressively to offer an acceptable range of monsters to fight.
This extreme is reached when the monster has 70 levels more than the player. Passed this level, the player will not gain any XP.
- Monsters are too hard
Atm, I get 1 XP for soloing fights, that aren't even that hard. This makes 0 sense to me and I thought, you will change it with this update. But no, this senseless formula still goes through.
@edit I just want to add, that I'm not mad or anything and I know, it's too late for any changes. But I'm just really, really curious. 3xited, Troyle, Sabi or whoever. Can you ask the author of this idea, what was his reasoning behind this?
Because your current explanation is like "Players will get no xp from hard fight, because I said so and deal with it". Just tell me what's the point of this, please.


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Boys basketball: Irish in fourth after rout of Eastview
A home game against last-place Eastview helped the Rosemount basketball team get back on track Monday night.
Coming off a game where they gave up a season-high 84 points in regulation in a loss at Lakeville South, the Irish buckled down defensively and completed a season sweep of the rival Lightning with a convincing 70-48 win at Irish Gym.
The Irish (13-8) now stand at 6-7 in the South Suburban Conference, in a three-way tie for fourth place with Prior Lake and Eagan, with five games to go.
"This was a very nice team win," Rosemount coach Bryan Schnettler said. "We were very balanced on offense and did a nice job talking on defense. A lot of guys gave us good stuff tonight."
That balance produced five players with at least nine points. Jack Kessler made 7 of 9 shots from the field and led the way with 16 points. Logan Halvorson scored 12 points, Cole Northwick drilled three three-pointers while notching 11 points and Matt Stephenson supplied 10 points and a team-high six rebounds.
Kyle Kaupa matched the six boards and added nine points.
The Irish shot 45 percent from the field and made just 14 of 23 free throws, but made up for it by grabbing 39 rebounds and turning the ball over just seven times.
The Irish couldn't produce enough offense to overcome a hot-shooting South team in Friday night's 24-point road loss.
"We played very poorly on defense and didn't play with the focus and communication needed to beat a good shooting South team," Schnettler said.
Tyler Hartigan led the visitors with 15 points. Kessler scored 12 points, Halvorson 11 and Stephenson nine. Halvorson and Hartigan each knocked down three three-pointers.
Northwick scored eight points and handed out six assists, but made just 2 of 14 shots from beyond the arc.
Northwick connected on four shots from downtown while scoring a game-high 21 points in the Irish's 74-66 home win over Prior Lake last Tuesday.
Stephenson added 20 points as the Irish shot 54 percent from the floor. Halvorson chipped in with 17 points and Kessler gave Rosemount four in double figures with 10 points to go along with a team-high five rebounds.
"We played very well as a team and did a nice job of sharing the ball on offense," Schnettler said. "We protected the paint well for the most part on defense."
The Irish are back on the floor tomorrow night at home against Bloomington Kennedy. They close out the home schedule Tuesday against Eagan before wrapping up the regular season with road games at No. 6 Lakeville North, Burnsville and No. 1 Apple Valley.


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Vanquish Volante Q Demonstrates High-End Customization
Premium automakers typically offer customers a wider array of choice than purveyors of, say, entry-level commercial vans. Stepping things up, Aston Martin allows its buyers to uniquely customize their vehicles via the new Q program.
In addition to their already vast bevy of paint colors and interior trim options Q takes personalization to the extreme. Customers can choose unique embroidery, special leather and can even order matching custom luggage. A run-of-the-mill Samsonite roller-board has NO PLACE in the boot of an Aston Martin.
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Demonstrating the breadth and depth of Q is a special model of the Vanquish Volante, the open-air version of the brand's amazing super grand tourer. The car is dressed in shimmering orangeish copper-colored paint. Various carbon fiber parts of the car have been left exposed including the side-view mirrors and the front splitter. Additionally its interior features red piping on the seats and lots of black leather.
The Vanquish Volante Q by Aston Martin demonstrates the company's ability to deliver an ultra-premium experience to its customers.
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I have a pile of old Stereophile issues from 1997 through to today ... are they worth anything ($) or should I just put them in the recycle bin? My office is overflowing with stuff and I need to clean it out!
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1. I don't know if those have any value to others.
2. Probably not.
3. Even if they're worth some $ to someone, think of the expense of shipping them. You wouldprobably have a net loss on the deal.
4. Since your office is overflowing, get rid of them (recycling bin) and feel happier!
I agree about the shipping expenses, it would only make sense to sell them locally and only for a minimal amount. I see folks on eBay selling single issues, a volume at a time, etc. but gotta believe they don't sell too often!
Having a collection is a good thing, but if it doesn't go back to the formative years it's hard to consider a collection as whole. The hobby between 77 and 93 was a magical time in it's development, and even though there are moments after 95 there isn't the earth shattering that took place back in the day that I think a collector of the read would be looking for.
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Turner Classic Movies' airing of Stagecoach (1939) last night sort of jogged my recent memory bank that Criterion is planning to release a Cadillac version of the John Ford western classic this coming May 25th, in both Blu-Ray and DVD editions. I'm sorely tempted to plunk down the cash for this—Stagecoach being one of my all-time favorite oaters—but apart from the inclusion of Bucking Broadway, a 1917 silent feature directed by Ford, I'm hard pressed to justify the expense…particularly since I already bought the two-disc edition that was released in 2006. What to do, what to do…
I'm a little more amenable to picking up this Criterion tidbit, however—the 1940 war thriller Night Train to Munich, which will be brought forth from the Criterion stables on June 22nd. I've been a big fan of this film ever since I watched it one Saturday evening long ago on West Virginia Public Television, and since that particular print wasn't what one would call pristine (I won't swear to this but I was under the impression that Munich had fallen into the public domain) I'd love to take a gander at Criterion's restored version. The Fox Movie Channel ran this one sometime back and I had the foresight to program my sister Kat's DVR to record it for a later viewing…unfortunately for me, Kat had other plans and she erased it from the device (she probably had a few pressing Antique Roadshows to save, I'm guessing).
I ran across this while perusing Amazon.com yesterday; a two-disc DVD due to be released from Kino on July 6 entitled Lost Keaton: Sixteen Comedy Shorts 1934-1937. The material in this collection consists of the sixteen two-reel sound shorts The Great Stone Face made for Educational Pictures in the 1930s, and while I would love to obtain a copy of this release (I try to support these kinds of releases whenever I can) I've already added the Keaton Educationals to the dusty Thrilling Days of Yesteryear archives via an earlier set produced by my very good Facebook pals Ali and Dave Stevenson at Looser Than Loose. (I did a review of this collection back in those halcyon Salon Blog days, if you're curious as to the quality.) However, I don't have a copy of this book—The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures and
And in TV-on-DVD news, TVShowsOnDVD.com sent out e-mails this morning to alert fans of Boris Karloff's Thriller TV series that they have the final skinny on the release of Thriller: The Complete Series collection from Image Entertainment…the set will hit the streets August 31st. The SRP on this baby is $149.98, so I'm probably going to have to wait a while—a long while—to see if this landmark release comes down a bit in price. I have to say, though—the cover art (to your left) is mighty attractive.


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RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- Dwight "Doc" Gooden is coming to The Ridgefield Playhouse on Thursday, April 10.
Gooden, the former New York Mets and New York Yankees pitcher, will speak about his successes and challenges as part of the "Get Real" Series.
The event, which begins at 7:30 p.m., is underwritten by Ridgefield Prevention Council -- Family University and Rudy & Sally Ruggles with partial underwriting by Midwestern Connecticut Council on Alcoholism (MCCA), Reliance Merchant Services? and The Tutoring Club.
"With fresh and sober eyes, Dwight 'Doc' Gooden will share the most intimate moments of the highs and lows of his life -- from three World Series rings to endless self-destructive drug binges," playhouse representatives said in a release.
"Known for his triumphs on the baseball field and his excesses off it, Gooden was a soft-spoken, dominating wünderkind who tallied a mountain of strikeouts while leading the 1986 bad-boy New York Mets to a World Series win. Even at that pinnacle, Gooden had already succumbed to addiction that would short-circuit his career and personal life."
Gooden won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1984, as he led the league in strikeouts. He went on to win the NL Cy Young Award and a Triple Crown in 1985. While a member of the Yankees, Gooden pitched a no-hitter in 1996.
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Wacken Open Air 2014 - MEGADETH Confirmed
December 24, 2013, 3 years ago
US thrash titans MEGADETH are confirmed for Wacken Open Air 2014, taking place in Wacken, Germany from July 31st - August 2nd.
Organizers state: "Another huge Wacken premiere for the Anniversary! Thrash legend and Big Four member Megadeth will come to the holy land for the very first time. A real metalhead surely doesn't need instructions on what Dave Mustaine's band is about. After he left METALLICA he released Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! in 1985 - and the rest is history."
Acts confirmed for Wacken Open Air 2014 include: AMON AMARTH, APOCALYPTICA, ARCH ENEMY, AUGUST BURNS RED, AVANTASIA, BEHEMOTH, BEMBERS, BLECHBLOS'N, BÜLENT CEYLAN, CARCASS, CHILDREN OF BODOM, C.O.P. UK, CREMATORY, DECAPITATED, DEGRADEAD, DER W, DUNKELSCHÖN, EMPEROR, ENDSTILLE, EXCREMENTORY GRINDFUCKERS, FIRKIN, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, FOR THE IMPERIUM, GODSIZED, HAMMERFALL, HATEBREED, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, HELLYEAH, ICED EARTH, I.C.S. VORTEX, J.B.O., KING DIAMOND, KNORKATOR, KREATOR, LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE, MOTÖRHEAD, A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH, PAMPATUT, MASTERPLAN, MEGADETH, NACHTGESCHREI, NAILED TO OBSCURITY, NIGHTMARE, THE OCEAN, OMNIA, ONKEL TOM, PRONG, RED HOT CHILLI PIPERS, SALTATIO MORTIS, SANTIANO, SAXON, SCHANDMAUL, SODOM, STEEL PANTHER, TORMENT, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, THE VINTAGE CARAVAN, VOGELFREY.
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When eighth-graders Anika Patel and Angela Riggins found out they won a 2010 ExploraVision Award, their all-girls school in Bellevue, Wash., erupted into cheers. But the winners? They were mostly in shock.
For the last 19 years, the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards program has been used to encourage young students across the nation to excel in science and technology. Students work in teams of 2 to 4 to develop and research new forms of technology that could be used in the future.
Anika and Angela landed a first-place prize for their creation, the EPPIC or Ecological Paper Printing and Ink Collector. The pair wanted to find a way to help the environment and save trees. The result of all of their hard work is "a futuristic laser printer system that would extract used ink from paper by reducing the grapheme surface contact area, then reusing the collected ink and paper to make new prints," the girls tell me. The essential part of this invention is the new ink technology, which sticks to paper but also has the ability to release from it when necessary.
The girls were inspired by geckos, which can stick and unstuck their feet, but were spurred on by the BP oil spill. A lot of printer ink uses oil, the pair explains.
On Oct. 18, Anika and Angela traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the White House Science Fair, where they were honored by President Obama for their invention. Obama, they say, "was a genuinely nice guy. He seemed to actually care about our project and what we had to say."
Though they did both receive a $10,000 U.S. Savings Bond, they're real reward comes in the comfort of knowing that they're doing their part to save the environment. Bravo, girls!
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EARTH CITY, Mo.—If the Rams handed out their rookie of the year award in October, sixth-round draft pick Greg "The Leg" Zuerlein would be a slam dunk.
The kicker from Division II Missouri Western is 12-for-12 on field goal attempts and already owns a franchise record for longest field goal (60 yards) and the Soldier Field record for longest field goal (56 yards). He also is the first kicker in NFL history to make two boots of 58 yards or longer in the same game, something he accomplished in the Rams' 19-13 win over Seattle last Sunday.
Coach Jeff Fisher has supreme confidence in Zuerlein, but then again, why wouldn't he? Zuerlein has displayed both distance and accuracy from the first day of camp.
Zuerlein is on the small side (6-0, 187) for a kicker in today's NFL but generates tremendous leg speed—that's where his distance comes from. Fisher isn't afraid to take risks, so it may be only a matter of time before Zuerlein gets a chance at the league record field goal. The current record of 63 yards is shared by four players.
The Rams' other rookie on special teams, punter Johnny Hekker, also is off to a very good start. Although he still needs to work on his consistency, Hekker has proved to be an adept directional punter—a good skill to have in a division that includes return men such as Patrick Peterson, Leon Washington and Ted Ginn Jr.
Hekker, signed as an undrafted free agent, also is a threat as a passer on trick plays. Even before his TD pass on a fake field goal against Seattle, Hekker had completed four of five passes on trick passes in college at Oregon State.
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Shell Key was once a popular spot for boating enthusiasts in Tampa Bay. Located at the mouth of Tampa Bay, just north of Ft Desoto County Park, you could anchor your boat there and play in the sun on the undeveloped island all day long. That changed a few years ago when the island was designated as an official preserve for nesting shore birds, with people and their pets banned from the island. Now a company filming a commercial for personal watercraft is under fire for disturbing the bird nests with a low-flying helicopter. Read all about it on page 1B of the Times. What is your take on the situation, were filming permits granted too easily by the county, or did the filming crew overstep their boundaries? Leave your comments here on our blog!


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Toy enthusiasts are invited to nominate their favorite classic toy or game for induction into The Strong museum's National Toy Hall of Fame. Submissions are being accepted through July 31.
COMMENTARY: Battery-Powered Toys Are Still as Relevant as Ever
Toy stores today offer kids an ever-impressive selection of playthings that do more and more each year. From video games to talking plush, appcessories to robotics, it seems like there is no end in sight for innovation in the toy industry. I've often wondered just how far toys will go—it seems that literally anything is possible these days, with the right amount of willpower and support. Will we see invisibility cloaks? Toys that let kids fly? Time machines? The list goes on and on. [Read more...]
American Classic Toy Now Accepting Orders for Its Carousel
American Classic Toy Inc. has begun pre-production of the American Classic Carousel, with orders now being accepted for the coming fall.
The amusement park-style carousel features steel construction, an 80-inch diameter, and aluminum corrugated non-slip platform. The motorized base includes horses that raise, lower, and are decorated in four colors, as well as non-breakable mirrors. Each horse includes a mounting bar, handlebar, and footrest. [Read more...]
Radio Flyer Cyclone Provides Modern Take on Classic Kid-Powered Toy
Radio Flyer Inc., maker of the famous little red wagon and leading producer of wagons, tricycles, and three-wheel scooters in the U.S., has introduced the Cyclone for kids ages 3 to 7. It features giant 16-inch wheels that kids rotate with their arms to propel into 360-degree spins, quick forward sprints, and reverse rolls.
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Gyrodyne Company of America Inc. (NASDAQ:GYRO) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2010-12-31.
Gyrodyne Company Of America Inc. has a market cap of $94.8 million; its shares were traded at around $73.47 with and P/S ratio of 19.6.
Highlight of Business Operations:Gyrodyne owns a 68 acre site called Flowerfield, primarily zoned for light industry, which is located approximately 50 miles east of New York City on the north shore of Long Island in the hamlet of St. James, New York. Flowerfield's location also places it in hydrological zone VIII, one of the most liberal with respect to effluent discharge rates. The Company currently has 127,062 square feet of rentable space located on approximately 10 acres of developed property at Flowerfield. As of December 31, 2010, there were 45 tenants, comprising 53 leases which include 4 long term tenants under month to month commitments. The annual base rent based on the rates in effect as of December 2010 is $1,637,000 which included month to month annualized base rent of $242,000 on approximately 17,800 square feet. The occupancy rate is 81% as of December 31, 2010. The Flowerfield property is located in Smithtown Township. Environmental studies are in the process of being updated and numerous other studies including archeological, ecological, and traffic have been conducted in connection with development plans -- all with no significant adverse findings. The Company believes that it will not incur material costs in connection with compliance with environmental laws. During the years ended December 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, the Company had no material expenses related to environmental issues. Associated with the new mortgage loan secured by the Flowerfield Industrial Park, the Company agreed with the bank to an escrow balance of $250,000. The escrow will be released to the Company following the pending environmental testing provided the results are satisfactory to the bank.
On June 27, 2007, the Company acquired ten buildings in the Port Jefferson Professional Park in Port Jefferson Station, New York. The buildings were acquired for an aggregate purchase price of $8,850,000 or $225 per square foot. The buildings, located at 1-6, 8, 9 and 11 Medical Drive and 5380 Nesconset Highway in Port Jefferson Station, are situated on 5.16 acres with 39,329 square feet of rentable space. As of December 31, 2010, there were 22 tenants, comprising 21 leases, and one long term tenant under a month to month agreement, together renting space with an annual base rent of approximately $992,000, based on the tenant base and rates in effect on December 2010. The occupancy rate was 97% as of December 31, 2010. The Company funded $5,551,191 of the purchase price by the assumption of the existing mortgage debt on the property and the remainder in cash after adjustments. The property qualified for the deferral treatment under Section 1033 of the Internal Revenue Code.
On June 2, 2008, the Company acquired the Cortlandt Medical Center in Cortlandt Manor, New York. The property consists of five office buildings which are situated on 5.01 acres with 31,198 square feet of rentable space. The purchase price was $7 million or $231 per square foot. As of December 31, 2010, there were 13 tenants, comprising 14 leases, renting space with an annual base rent of approximately $979,000, based on the tenant base and rates in effect as of December 2010. The property was 100% occupied as of December 31, 2010. Of the $7 million purchase price for the property, the Company paid $1,750,000 in cash and received financing in the amount of $5,250,000. The property qualified for the deferral treatment under Section 1033 of the Internal Revenue Code.
On March 31, 2009, the Company acquired the Fairfax Medical Center in Fairfax, Virginia. The property consists of two office buildings which are situated on 3.5 acres with 57,621 square feet of rentable space. The purchase price was $12,891,000 or $224 per square foot. As of December 31, 2010, there were 30 tenants, comprising 31 leases, renting space with an annual base rent of $1,451,000, based on the rates in effect as of December 2010. The occupancy rate as of December 31, 2010 was 91%, which included one signed 2010 tenant who took possession of additional space in March 2011. Of the $12,891,000 purchase price, the Company paid $4,891,000 in cash and received financing in the amount of $8,000,000. The property qualified for the deferral treatment under Section 1033 of the Internal Revenue Code and completed the tax-efficient reinvestment program of the $26.3 million Advance Payment received in connection with the condemnation of the 245 acres of the Flowerfield property.
The original limited partnership investment of $1.1 million, which was made in 1965, has since yielded distributions to Gyrodyne of approximately $5.5 million in the aggregate. Due to recurring losses of the Grove, the investment is carried on the books of the Company at $0 as a result of recording the Company s pro-rata share of losses under the equity method of accounting. In fiscal 2000, when the Company s share of losses equaled the carrying value of the investment, the Company, pursuant to the equity method of accounting , no longer recorded the Company s share of losses. The Company does record the tax expense and deferred tax liability related to the Company s limited partnership interest in the tax losses of the Grove. The 2010 tax expense and year ended 2010 deferred tax liability related to the Grove is $109,000 and $1,315,000, respectively.
On December 29, 2010, the Company closed on a new term loan facility with a bank for $4 million. A portion of the proceeds was used to retire the outstanding line of credit with AWM of $1,750,000. The new loan has a maturity date of January 2, 2031 and a floating interest rate of prime + 100 basis points with a floor of 5%, to be adjusted once annually on its anniversary date. Lamb & Barnosky LLP represented AWM in connection with the new loan, and was paid closing fees of $2,045 by the Company. The Company agreed with the new lender to deposit $250,000 of the proceeds from the loan in an escrow account until the satisfactory completion of environmental testing and related receipt of a clearance certificate. The Company is not aware of any material environmental clean up costs that will be incurred to release the escrow.
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Chris Brown says a lot of things. Earlier this year he claimed a country album could be in his future. He also said he will retire from all social media. Months later, he proclaimed that that his next album will be his last.
While it remains to be seen if Brown's upcoming album X will in fact be his last, he took to Twitter late last night (Sept. 30) to announce that his album will be released next month.
Chris Brown (@chrisbrown) September 30, 2013
Originally slotted for a July 16th release, X features Brown's latest collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland, Wiz Khalifa, B.o.B. and more, according to his tweet from July.
Despite his supposedly impending retirement statement, Brown told Charlotte radio station Power 98 (a Radio.com station) a couple months back that he will continue to make the music he wants moving forward.
"Music is for everyone," he said. "When you put genres on music, you segregate it. I want to always be able to do any kind of music I want. When I get older I might want to do a country album. Next year, I might want to do all hip-hop album or alternative album. Just making sure that anything that goes down, showing my audience or showing people that have a creative mind that you can do anything you want, it's just about believing and loving what you're doing in a positive way."
As far as his upcoming release, Brown touted that "some songs might change your life."


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Tijuana-based Tania Candiani teases rather than ignites fires with her solo show at Kunsthaus Miami, but her work might provoke if one's perceptual libido responds to erotic irony laced with the soft and subtle instead of the hot and sweaty.
"Mattresses" distills what she refers to as "the cruel game of seduction" onto the space of a mattress where she carouses conceptually between objects and words without bouncing into the gutter.
The exhibit features the scarred interiors of bed mattresses, embroidered, jaggedly cut, or punctured by sewing pins to spell out phrases uttered in the throes of passion.
"Mattresses" and "Sweet Basil"
"Mattresses": Through January 31. Kunsthaus Miami. 3312 N Miami Ave, Miami; 305-438-1333, www.kunsthaus.org.m x.
Sweet Basil: Through January 28. Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. 3550 North Miami Ave, Miami; 305-573-2700. www.berni cesteinbaumgallery.com.
Instead of in-your-face, spank-me-I've-been-naughty sarcasm that the subject matter begs for, one encounters a muted, seemingly surgically antiseptic commentary on the sex act.
Upon entering the gallery, one sees In-Out, a labor-intensive mattress piece hanging on a wall, pierced with hundreds of sewing pins. A closer examination of the foamy material's undulating topography reveals that the pins actually spell out the words of the title on the seedy surface. The artist has stuck the pins into alternating bubbles of bed guts, which bear a striking resemblance to the diamond tuck upholstery favored by classic car junkies. An IN appears here and an OUT there, over and over as if conveying instructions to a fumbling lover.
Another mattress work, Don't Stop, features the title stitched repeatedly across the surface in red thread, and one senses the artist is attempting to cryptically negotiate love's brittle tension wires.
Jumping from mattress to mattress, one can safely assume that if Candiani doesn't cut loose with the moves and vocabulary, she may run the risk of being ditched by the spectator.
A series of works made up of embroidered bed sheets and pillows sporting embroidered cases seems downright frigid compared with the brawnier mattresses soaked in their histories of hidden secrets. Three pristine white cotton sheets are folded lengthwise and hung vertically on the gallery walls like limp banners. Their matching pillows are displayed at the bottom of each sheet, floating on invisible supports at knee level. One gets the impression the arrangement might have been conceived by a frustrated housewife spending her time at a sewing circle, hoping to send the hubby a subliminal message. One set is embroidered in gold lamé thread with the words more, more; a second in shimmering silver strands with oh my God; the last simply reads please scrawled in pure white string each phrase betraying the corresponding titles of what seem to be starched Martha Stewart spinoffs.
Love Hurts comprises a suite of ten doormat-size digital prints, arranged chronologically near the entrance, depicting what the artist refers to as a dialogue between a knife, a bed, and a heart. The series unfolds the sequential imagery of a woman's hand clutching a serrated steak knife as she stabs a mattress, perilously close to what appears to be a child's necklace or a soap-on-a-rope doohickey in the shape of a pink heart. Walking from image to image, one observes the hand, the knife, and the heart from multiple angles, as if the artist is trying to narrate a story that plays out in a maudlin haze rather than threatening undertones.
On a wall across the room, a syrupy digital print featuring a closeup of a white cushion with a skin-color Band-Aid on it made me wonder whether the artist might be suffering from bed head or if the gallery's curator was asleep at the wheel.
Disposed the most visceral work in the show may reflect the artist's spin on abusive relationships, infidelity, or wife-battering. Multiple pockets of the flayed bedding have been slashed vertically with a knife and propped open with small wooden rods, giving the gaping flaps the appearance of a vagina probed by a speculum. Only a closer inspection of the invasive wooden pegs, covered by barely perceptible words, shows that the flesh-tone orifices are vacant, disposed, submissive, reusable, facile, elastic, or oozy, and it becomes clear the gashes that the pegs inhabit are perhaps reminiscent of defensive wounds suffered by victims of domestic violence. This piece convinces that the artist can saw at the innards and make a compelling statement when she wishes, rather than safely play the field, forcing viewers to moan for more.
"Sweet Basil," a group exhibition at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, spotlights its stable and features photography, sculpture, paintings, drawings, multimedia works, video, and installations in a tidy survey of the space's program.
In the elevator, the spectator encounters Teresa Diehl's untitled Plexiglas installation encasing two large flat-screen TV sets projecting a DVD loop from opposing walls. The stunning work portrays a flock of white-feathered finches, blown up to the size of seagulls that appear to be dive-bombing.
As one sits on the provided bench, the sound of an electronically simulated heartbeat echoes as the amplified flutter of wings and twitter of birds resonate loudly, heightening the sense one is stuffed in a birdcage. The artist who built a huge enclosure for the finches and filmed them from inside the structure captures a sense of Hitchcock's The Birds, almost prompting the viewer to protect one's eyes from the red-beaked peckers buzzing frantically overhead.
Outside the elevator, a startling entomological drawing by conceptual coconspirators Elsoca and Fabian rivets the viewer. The devilish duo, who might get their jollies by pulling the legs and wings off insects, creates poetically arresting imagery with the plundered body parts.
Snaking around the walls surrounding the elevator is the message "We were truly offensive and undesirable, but today we are redeemed, beautiful, and acceptable thanks to sacrifice done as an exercise. We are so proud of ourselves ... our wings ... our legs ... no blood smell" in a meandering cursive scrawl. The artists created the work by whipping bugs in a blender and gluing the luminous concoction to form words that delicately refract the gallery lights.
A drawing on canvas nearby showcases thousands of spindly housefly legs the amazing pair used to create an image that looks remarkably like a torn spider web or a bullet hole in a car window.
As one marvels at their inventiveness and mordant wit, the sounds of shattering glass and crunching metal split the air.
Walking toward the source of the ruckus, one is greeted by a hail of gunfire from Peter Sarkisian's video sculpture, Drive, a sensational piece that evokes the muscle-car era with unrepentant mayhem.
The toy model-scale version of a sliced-in-half Seventies Cutlass, painted burgundy with a black vinyl top, pimps a video screen the width of a business card inside the driver's-side window and triggers associations with epic car chases in movies like Bullitt or of a zany demolition derby. It features a middle-age man clenching a steering wheel with white-knuckle intensity as he wreaks havoc on city streets, destroying dozens of cars chased by the police, their sirens blaring.
Another of Sarkisian's savory pieces, titled Milk Bath Mermaid, resembles a pair of burnished metal salad bowls until one peers inside. A video is projected into the bowl's interior, and as the viewer watches a creamy swirl and hears the sound of splashing, a fetching nude brunette pops up. The woman rolls languidly in one bowl, submerges herself, and reappears in the other, where she floats on her back.
James Croak's Double Dirt Man is a crunchy sculpture created from dirt and resin that has a noirish vibe and stopped me dead in my tracks. The work depicts two life-size trench-coat-clad goons standing back-to-back and ready to duel. Their heads are bald, their shoulders are slumped, and their eye sockets are as black as a lump of coal. The dirt-caked figures grip Saturday night specials, their index fingers tightly frozen on the triggers in a gritty scenario that smacks of a hardboiled pulp novel. It left me craving more of Croak's work.
One of the most evocative pieces in the show is Elizabeth Cerejido's poignant For the Record, a color transparency mounted on a light box and accompanied by sound. In it the artist is wearing her mother's white long-sleeve blouse and full-length slate skirt as she stands on a winding asphalt path bracketed by towering rows of trees. Though the landscape and foliage are sharply clear, the image of the artist looks haggard and out of focus.
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Cerejido's mom was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and you can hear her voice on a scratchy recording capturing nearly 40 phone messages she left on the artist's answering machine one afternoon. "Liz, are you there?" Beep. "Lizzy, uhhh." Beep. The calls pile up, revealing the woman's frail condition, and one feels a discomfiting awkwardness, as if eavesdropping on a deeply complex psychological ritual between mother and daughter.
Contemplative in scope and isolated in a small room near the back of the gallery, Cerejido's work is a straightforward revelation in which the artist bares her reality. It will make a mark on anyone who has dealt with aging and ailing loved ones.
This show, featuring the work of 26 artists, including some of South Florida's most talented, seems holiday gift-wrapped and full of surprises.


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Jermaine Jackson is straight trippin' in his latest interview with Telegraph, in which he claims President Obama is where he is now because of Michael Jackson. Um, really Jermaine? He cited Oprah Winfrey's 1993 interview with Michael Jackson as catapulting her to fame and the "effect of reiterating Jackson's black heritage" helped Obama win the election after she publicly endorsed him. Right. Michael Jackson helped Obama win the presidential election. Jermaine Jackson needs to lay off the hairspray and take care of his kids. Obviously Obama's parenting skills haven't rubbed off on him one bit. I am also laughing at the thought that Michael Jackson helped Oprah Winfrey become famous.
Winfrey's backing of Obama in the 2007 primaries is cited by some as the moment that secured his nomination as leader of the Democrats. "Michael invited her [to Neverland] and that was the moment that put her in 90 countries around the world and made her successful. What did she do with that success? She put it behind Obama."
Yesterday his brother added: "No one knew Michael like we did. He wasn't weird or strange he was just different. And it is only since his death that people are finally beginning to truly understand him." Source: Telegraph
Right, Jermaine, that's exactly why you all should have known the people Michael Jackson surrounded himself with and the fact that he was using anesthesia to go to sleep. The bullsh*t from the Jackson family, namely Jermaine and Latoya Jackson just never cease to amaze me. Hey, Jermaine, are you caught up on your delinquent child support payments yet?


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JAG PANZER - Historical Battles: The Early Years Picture LP Box Set Due In April At Keep It True Festival
December 28, 2012, 4 years ago
High Roller Records will issue a 4 x Picture LP box set from JAG PANZER, entitled Historical Battles: The Early Years, to be sold at the 2013 Keep It True festival in April.
The box set will be limited to 500 copies and includes a book. Further details to follow.
Organizers of the annual Keep It True festivals in Germany have annouced the first round of bands confirmed for the 17th edition of the event on April 25th and 26th, 2014. Confirmed thus far are Jag Panzer (first time in Europe with Joey Tafolla), LETHAL, SINNER (special old school show), PERSIAN RISK, IRON CROSS, ATTENTAT ROCK, and DEEP MACHINE (UK)
It will take place at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Koenigshofen, Germany.
Keep It True XVI takes place at the same location from April 19th - 20th, 2013. Acts confirmed include: WARLORD, LIEGE LORD, ANGEL WITCH, POSSESSED, MEDIEVAL STEEL, HOLOCAUST, JACK STARR's BURNING STARR, STEEL PROPHET, QUARTZ, MORBID SAINT, LEGEND, OCTOBER 31, MIDNIGHT, HIGH SPIRITS, TORANAGA, RAZORWYRE, AIR RAID, BORROWED TIME, ELIMINATOR, ATTIC.
Further festival details at the official website, or via Facebook.


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Minnesota Atheists' "Atheists Talk" radio show
Sunday, July 27, 2008, 9-10 a.m. Central Time
P.Z. Myers discusses "Evo-Devo: What do a mouse's leg and a bat's wing have in common?"
Also, atheist blogger C.L. Hanson discusses her book "Ex-Mormon."
"Atheists Talk" airs live on AM 950 KTNF in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
To stream live, go here.
Podcasts of past shows are available at Minnesota Atheists or
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Do not miss the St Louis Dispatch this week as they honor St Louis "Wrestling at the Chase" with some great information videos and more.
A video of the History of wrestling in St Louis
St Louis wrestling Fans and grunts
Photos: Wrestlers from the early days of Wrestling at the Chase
Photos: Ready to Rumble? Browse pictures of the current wrestlers
Photos: Browse more than 20 photos from the South Broadway Athletic Club
Buy tickets for an upcoming show
50th anniversary of 'Wrestling at The Chase'
8 p.m. May 9
Where: South Broadway Athletic Club, 2301 South Seventh Street
How much: $8 at the door, $7 in advance, $4 for kids
More info: 314-776-4833, southbroadwayac.org/events/wrestling.php
8 p.m. May 23
Where: East Carondelet Community Center, 823 State Street, East Carondelet
How much: $8 at the door, $7 in advance, $4 for kids
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The 8 Ball 11.27.12: The Top 8 Holiday Movie Gift Ideas
Welcome, one and all, to the 8 Ball in the Movie Zone! I'm your host Jeremy Thomas and as always, we will be tackling a topic and providing you the top eight selections of that particular category. Keep in mind that this list is meant to be my personal opinion and not a definitive list. You're free to disagree; you can even say my list is wrong, but stating that an opinion is "wrong" is just silly. With that in mind, let's get right in to it!
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Thanksgiving is over and Black Friday has turned into Cyber Monday, which can only mean one thing: it's time for the holiday shopping season to get into full swing. Over the next twenty-eight days (twenty-nine for you super-last minute shoppers), it will be time to go hunting for that perfect gift for your mother, father, brother, sister, best friend, lover, Secret Santa recipient, family member you only see during the holidays, co-worker you've had an unrequited crush on for years or whatnot. We here at 8 Ball Headquarters are no different in that respect, and I know that holiday shopping to find interesting and exciting gifts can be a pain. The good news is that for those of us who are of the geeky persuasion, the kinds of gifts we've been wanting to give have become cool to give over the last few years. What was once cheesy and dorky is now perfectly acceptable and even desired in order to wrap up and stick a bow on to hand off for the holidays. With that in mind, I thought that this week we would look at some great gift ideas for the movie lovers in your social circle.
Caveat: No real caveats this week, except to say this: I tried to make sure there are a variety of potential gift ideas at different price levels. I could have done a list of all DVD sets or all novelty items or whatnot, but that wouldn't have been nearly as inclusive and the all DVD sets in particular could have been fairly bank-breaking. My hope is that you should be able to find something on this list that can appeal to the movie/TV geek in most people, and at a price range that works. I have also included links to where you can buy the items if you'd like; as a disclaimer, I am not partnered or affiliated with any of these sites or products, just in case partiality is a concern. It's all just stuff I really think your favorite cinephiles should enjoy.
Crazy 4 Cult: Cult Movie Art (Buy Here)
Tony Stark LED Iron Man Shirt (Buy Here)
Star Wars Han Solo in Carbonite Ice Cube Tray (Buy Here)
Titan Books is one of my favorite places when I'm looking for a good pop culture-related read. From reads like Tales From Development Hell and the Dark Knight Rises novelization (one of the rare movie novelizations I've really enjoyed) to the stunning Art of Prometheus, the intriguing Hammer Vault and interminably cool Crazy 4 Cult coffee table books, the publisher is full of amazing books that cover a wide scope of fandoms and cool pieces about movie history. Of all of them, what may be my absolute favorite is this little gem. Olly Moss is a name that people may not know off the top of their heads, but you've almost surely seen his work. The acclaimed graphic designer has done awesome work reimagining movie posters for quite some time, with Empire magazine regularly featuring his work. For his first book, Moss came up with a fairly brilliant concept: interpreting some of the most well-known pop culture icons within the Victorian art of silhouette portraits. The 144-page book includes silhouettes of everyone from the Terminator and Conan the Barbarian to Jack Sparrow, all six James Bonds, the Xenomorph and Ripley from Aliens and so on. This is one of my favorite conversation pieces I have in terms of coffee table books; even non-hardcore movie and TV buffs can be found flipping through and trying to figure out who each silhouette represents. And unlike many coffee table books, it isn't hideously expensive. I am still working my way through figuring out who all of the people are, a month after its release.
One of the few parts of geek culture that really hasn't become particularly mainstream yet is that of non-video gaming. Tabletop gaming is still largely the purview of the hardcore geeks and hobbyists, though even that is changing a bit thanks to the amazing people at the Geek and Sundry YouTube Channel. Between Wil Wheaton's amazing web series TableTop and the brand-new series On the Table hosted by Warren Johnston, tabletop games are starting to seep their way to a wider audience. I have a variety of tabletop games I love (Zombie Tile games and Cards Against Humanity for the win!), but this is one of my favorite tabletop games I have discovered thanks to TableTop. Basically, this is a single-session roleplaying game where you and a group of your friends make your own Coen Brothers movie by a simple and straightforward yet incredibly well-designed set of rules. There are a variety of playsets, all free, that allow you a variety of tweaks for settings ranging anywhere from the mean streets of a gangster-infested Snatch-esque London or the 1867 post-Civil War reconstruction era to Dallas in 1963 or even 1593 London. Even people who turn up their noses at roleplaying games for whatever reason are bound of have a blast with this game.
This is pure geek joy as far as I'm concerned. As readers to my column likely know, I am a huge Doctor Who fan and have literally seen just about every available episode of the fifty year-old series. One of the main staples of the Doctor's repertoire of resources is his Sonic Screwdriver, an all-purpose device that has become almost as iconic a part of the franchise as the TARDIS itself. If you show me a Doctor Who fan, I will show you someone who has, at one point in time, very truly and sincerely wished that they had a Sonic Screwdriver all their own with which to solve the problems of the world (or at least their lives). This won't solve the life problems of your resident Doctor Who geek, but it will answer that nasty question of "Why do we have so many remotes?" The TV Remote, shaped like the screwdriver of the Eleventh Doctor, is infrared and leanrs the codes from just about any standard remote control and can story up to thirty-nine codes, making it a true single remote for all your devices. It includes all the classic sound effects and the tip illuminates just like it should (if you don't like the sounds, it has a silent mode). But the coolest part is that it is actually gesture-based and rather intuitively so, responding to simple twists and turns in order to change your channel or turn up the volume. There's nothing quite as awesome as watching your Doctor Who DVDs by virtue of a perfect replica Sonic Screwdriver.
* Buy Netflix gift subscription
* Buy Hulu gift subscription
I was going to include an Amazon Prime gift subscription too, but apparently Amazon doesn't want money and thus has no way to give Amazon Prime Gift Subscriptions so screw them. Netflix and Hulu are hardly secrets at this point, but there are people who still don't know that the two services allow you to buy gift subscriptions for other people. This is a great gift for people in that it just gives them the freedom to watch whatever they want. Netflix has taken its hits over the past couple of years due to the Flixter fiasco, the much-hated price increase and competition from Amazon, but for the money they still serve as one of the best values for entertainment. A purely-streaming subscription service is just $7.99 and works on a variety of devices (if your giftee doesn't have such a device, just look further down this list). And if they don't stream, there are still physical DVD plans available. Meanwhile, Hulu Plus is known largely for its television selection which is admittedly great; that being said, they have no shortage of movies. Included in that category is (more or less) the entirety of the Criterion Collection of films, which comprise some of the all-time great movies from the likes of Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Charlie Chaplin, Roman Polanski, Guillermo Del Toro, Ingmar Bergman…the list goes on. Either or both of these make great gifts for those discerning movie watchers who are very picky about what they watch; they can find just about anything to fit their tastes.
Buy It Here (High-End Framed Print here)
So come on, movie geeks…level with me. You still have posters on your walls, don't you? It's okay, so do I. People may frame them to make it look more like "proper art," but whether they do or not movie and TV-related posters are a regular part of many people's decor. Similarly, Game of Thrones is a regular part of many people's TV viewing; it has helped build upon the Lord of the Rings films in making fantasy entertainment acceptable to mainstream audiences. So what to get the Game of Thrones fan? HBO has a variety of items on their website, many of which are hideously expensive. I was going to include the "Vote Tyron 2012: A Lannister always pays his national debts" T-Shirt but the election is over so as funny as that is, it's kind of dated at this point. This poster, on the other hand, is eternally cool. You have your choice of standard power for a reasonable cost or a super-high quality print in a frame for a much higher price, but either of them are the kind of decoration that would look amazing on anyone's wall. The map is expansive and covers the area from the Ice Wall to the Highgarden in Westeros, and east to cover Pentos to Qarth in Essos. It's a must-have for anyone who's ever wanted to imagine ruling on the Iron Throne.
There are a ton of streaming devices out there, and many households already have the capability thanks to their Blu-Ray players, Xbox, PS3, Wii, internet-connected televisions or whatnot. For those who aren't adopters of streaming entertainment devices however, there is still the Roku. The Roku is the most reasonably-priced streaming device on the market. The Roku is a small box that sits comfortably alongside your other TV-connected devices and can stream from a variety of services including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, HBO Go, EPIX, Crackle, Vimeo, UFC and a ton of others (for subscription prices, of course). TNA has an App on the service and you can watch some iPPV for the wrestling fans here; there are music apps as well. It is incredibly simple to set up and use over a wireless network, making it the kind of device that technophobic types will be able to use without fear of having to deal with anything too complicated. It is even useful for people who have a console or other streaming device in the home, as it can be put in the bedroom or another room to expand streaming capability in the house.
Now we get to the DVD sets worthy of your gift-buying consideration this holidsay season. The first of these is one that a lot of cinephiles have to have been hoping would happen for a long time, and it became a reality this year. Quinton Tarantino's films are beloved by movie fans high and low and the DVDs are always huge sellers, though they have taken a little while to trickle their way onto Blu-Ray because of various reasons. Now that they have all made it, the inevitable Blu-Ray collector's set has been released. This Blu-Ray set includes all seven of Tarantino's directorial efforts films–that's Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, both Kill Bills, Death Proof and Inglorious Basterds, for those keeping track–as well as True Romance, which Tarantino wrote and the late Tony Scott directed. Getting all of these films and their various bonus features in one attractive boxed set would be enough to make any Tarantino fanboy happy as it is, but the fact that it also includes a five hour (you heard me right; five hour) set of discussions from various film experts about Tarantino's films as well as a two-hour career retrospective of the man himself makes this a must-have, especially for the fairly low price of $90 (as of this writing).
There were two potential definitive, incredibly lengthy sets that I considered for this list. The first, a Criterion set that includes twenty-five of Akira Kurosawa's most essential films, is an unbelievable set and worthy of any collection. However, with Hulu having most of those films available, its impact was diminished somewhat. There is no other place where you can get all twenty-two James Bond films (minus Skyfall) in one place on Blu-Ray, so this one didn't just make the list; it topped it. And for those who might want to complain that the set isn't complete because it lacks the just-released-in-theaters Skyfall, there is a place within the boxing for the film when it does eventually come out on home video. How forward-thinking is that? But let's get to the important part; this set has every film from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace on Blu-Ray with all the bonus features that the individual Blu-Ray sets contain (a full 130 hours of features, for those keeping track) as well as a disc containing an hour's worth of new extra content. This is actually the first time that Goldeneye, Octopussy, The Spy Who Loved Me, You Only Live Twice, The Living Daylights, Tomorrow Never Dies, Diamonds are Forever, A View to a Kill and On Her Majesty's Secret Service have ever been available on Blu-Ray. Unfortunately the brief Black Friday window of the set being available for just $99 has passed, but for someone who has enough money to spend, this is the kind of thing you just can't really pass up if you have a film-lover on your buying list…at least, one that you don't mind dropping a fair amount of money on.
Current Doctor
Note: Now that I am caught up to current, I have gone back to watch the episodes that have become available in the US since I started watching and thus were previously unavailable to me (thus why I have episodes remaining despite being caught up).
Current Series/Season: Season Eight (1971)
Episodes Watched: 587
Last Serial Completed: Colony in Space – When the Time Lords discover that the Master has stolen their secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they realize that they have only one recourse and send the Doctor and Jo–without their knowledge or consent–to the planet Uxarieus. There, they become enmeshed in a struggle between an agrarian colony and a powerful mining corporation, with the Master himself pulling strings from the shadows.
Surviving Episodes Remaining: 42
And that will do it for us this week! Join me next week for another edition of the 8-Ball! Until then, have a good week and don't forget to read the many other great columns, news articles and more here at 411wrestling.com! JT out.


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Cine Goers Association Founder B Kishan no more - Tv9
Sun, Aug 21, 2016, 07:45 PM
Cine Goers Association founder general secretary B Kishan has passed away yesterday after battling with Cancer for two months. Cine and political people have expressed their grief over his demise. They have consoled the family members of B Kishan. They have offered their rich tributes to B Kishan. Today in the afternoon, B Kishan's last rites have been performed at Punjagutta grave yard.