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I was idly flicking through a book someone gave me about hieroglyphics when I decided to look up the Rosetta Stone in the index. I was initially consternated and then outraged when I couldn't find it – what sorry excuse of a hieroglyphics book was this if it doesn't have anything about the Rosetta Stone in it? Grumbling, I shuffled back through the pages and found a section that seemed to be related to the stone, which slightly mollified me although I was still a bit bemused about the whole thing. Five minutes later, when I close the book, I glance at its title, which reads, "The Rosetta Stone – The story of decoding the hieroglyphics'. Ah.
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John Hawkins has a good interview with BlogAds owner – Henry Copeland over at A Mini-Interview With Henry Copeland From Blogads. Henry is always most insightful and a creative thinker that I respect so when I see him featured in this type of thing I always carefully read it from top to bottom. Here are a few highlights:
'John Hawkins: Do you believe the number of advertisers and amount of revenue generated by blogging is going to continue to grow for the rest of this year and into next year?
Henry Copeland: I think the numbers will continue to grow at LEAST until bloggers get 0.1% of the total US annual advertising spend, $250 billion. That may take 3 years or it may take 18, but it is inevitable. Bloggers understand their subjects and their audiences better than anyone else in media AND they've got the lowest overheads. After all, pajamas cost much less than suits.
John Hawkins: I want you to play Nostradamus here — don't worry, everybody understands you're just speculating — and give me an estimate: How many bloggers do you see reaching the "earning a living" threshold over the next few years?
Henry Copeland: I'd be thrilled to reach 500. But 5000 is possible. And if things go really well 50,000.
John Hawkins: Are you considering branching out into other types of ads like banner ads or text ads?
Henry Copeland: We're just now adding a pure text unit, something designed to promote more intra-blog communication: 500 characters, no image, no edit, no HTML, no breaks, no bulk buy. Banners and other IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) units are antithetical to the spirit of blogging — there's no relationship with hyper-literate, hyper-linked conversational blogger way of thinking.'
Read more of this interview at A Mini-Interview With Henry Copeland From Blogads

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When I was growing up in the 60's and 70's, it seemed that everyone except my parents were members of the American Automobile Association (AAA). Roadside assistance was the great appeal, especially in the days before cell phones. I recall being quite jealous of the silver and red AAA stickers that my friends had in their cars and could never really understand why my Mom and Dad did not belong to the same club.
By the time I was about ten, I stopped noticing or caring about the AAA stickers and I did not think of AAA again until I was in my late twenties and married. My wife was adamant that we needed AAA because, heaven forbid, we might need roadside assistance. I figured that AAA was just an added charge that we did not need every year, because I could always call a service station if I needed a tow and the cost would probably have been less than an annual AAA membership. Fortunately, as with most debates with my bride, I lost.
Even though we had a AAA membership, I did not think of it again until about two years ago, when I really started to become interested in savings. I thought to myself that if I had to pay almost a $100 per year for the membership level that I enjoyed, I should at least find out what benefits I could get that would justify my expenditure. I quickly discovered that if I took the time to take advantage of AAA, the benefits were (and are!) tremendous and should really be explored by anyone with a car – and even by many who do not have a car.
AAA provides its members with discounts at over 160,000 locations worldwide. Its website offers listings of all of the discounts available but I find that if I am at a restaurant or retail store and I ask about AAA discounts, very often a discount is available. The key to this benefit is that as a member you need to carry your card and always remember to ask about discounts before you pay. A couple of years ago, I visited the Hard Rock Cafe with some friends and AAA was a last minute thought as I prepared to pay the bill. I saved almost $30 in that one meal alone.
Discounts are available at restaurants, from service providers, at entertainment venues, travel venues and just about every other type of place where you can spend money! For example, local movies tickets typically cost about $10 per ticket during prime time. I can buy my movie tickets from AAA for $6 to $7, depending on whether I want any restrictions on their use.
Travel Benefits
In addition to the discounts noted above, AAA membership includes tremendous discounts on a host of travel related benefits. Your local AAA office is a great one-stop source for travel insurance, booking assistance, travelers checks and free maps. You can even purchase your vacation directly from AAA. Customary fees are often waived or reduced and the AAA network provides accurate and friendly assistance (at least based on my personal experiences).
Financial Products
AAA has partnered with Discover Bank to offer CDs, money market accounts and IRAs that offer competitive returns.
Roadside Assistance – Battery Service
As a AAA member, If you are a driver or a passenger in a car that requires roadside assistance (even if the car is in your driveway!), AAA will send a qualified service provider out to provide the assistance you need. If your battery is dead, AAA will charge it. If your battery needs to be replaced, AAA will deliver a battery and install it for you, and then take care of disposal of your old battery.
Roadside Assistance – Towing
If your car needs to be towed, AAA will cover towing for at least 5 miles and up to 100 miles, depending on your membership level. I have had to call on AAA for many tows over the past few years and each time I have saved over $40, the charge that the towing service would have collected from me if I had not had AAA.
Roadside Assistance – Flat Tires
If you have a flat tire, AAA will come to you and put on your spare tire, free of charge. I took advantage of this benefit last year and managed to avoid admitting to my wife that I have never changed a tire and would not even know where to begin.
Expert Advice – Ask Pete
The AAA website offers an easy to use "Ask the Expert" form which allows members to ask AAA experts any automotive question that they may have. If you need an objective answer, AAA offers an excellent first line of inquiry before you start talking to your mechanic.
AAA Automanager
AAA members have the benefit of an on-line management tool that allows users to track maintenance, warranty and service information relating to vehicles. The system will automatically e-mail users when the user is close to needing service for his or her car. Similarly, the system will send e-mail messages to members affected by recalls and will provide other data that the member might find interesting or useful.
Consumer Repair Guide
AAA members also have access to an extensive consumer repair guide that explains the best ways to find and work with appropriate automotive service providers. Members who do not really understand even the basics of automobile technology can refer to the guide before going to the auto shop and then appear a bit more sophisticated when talking to service providers.
Car Buying Services
AAA offers a variety of services that can make purchasing a car easier including access to Kelly Blue Book values, used car reports and auto financing.
Like most member services, AAA requires that you pay attention to the discounts and savings that they provide. If you are diligent, however, you can save a great deal. My membership level costs me about $90 per year but I have regularly saved about $500 per year with my AAA card, not to mention the peace of mind that comes with knowing that I can call on AAA in the event of any automotive emergencies! You should explore AAA's website and visit a local office if you have any doubts. I suspect that most of you will someday regret not having AAA if you do not have it already.


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Monday's Leftovers: Chicken Salad with Cumin Carrot Raita
Monday's Leftovers: Chicken Salad with Cumin Carrot Raita
Making chicken salad is a classic way to use up leftover grilled chicken. However, when the leftover chicken happens to be tandoori style grilled chicken, the chicken salad is anything but ordinary.
This recipe combines the moist meat with cumin, radishes, and carrots. There's no mayonnaise involved, instead the base of the sauce is whole milk yogurt.
To check out the recipe — which is tasty inside warmed pita bread —
Chicken Salad with Cumin Carrot Raita
From Food and Wine magazine
- One 3 1/2-pound roasted chicken, meat shredded (4 cups)
- 3 large radishes, thickly sliced
- 1/4 small red onion, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped mint leaves
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- Cumin-Scented Carrot Raita, recipe below
- Salt
- Cayenne pepper
- Lime wedges and warmed pita, for serving
- In a large bowl, toss the chicken with the radishes, onion, mint and cumin.
- Stir in the raita and season with salt and cayenne. Serve with lime wedges and warmed pita.
Serves 6.
2/3 cup plain whole-milk yogurt
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
2 carrots, coarsely shredded
2 scallions, white and tender green parts only, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon finely chopped cilantro leaves
Cayenne pepper
- Spoon the yogurt into a coffee filter set in a strainer and let stand until slightly thickened, about 10 minutes. Transfer the yogurt to a medium bowl.
- Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a small skillet. Add the garlic and cumin seeds and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute.
- Add the carrots and scallions and cook, stirring, until just heated through.
- Add the carrot mixture and the cilantro to the drained yogurt and season with salt and cayenne. Serve the raita warm, at room temperature or chilled.
Makes 2/3 cup.
- Category
- Salads, Chicken
- Cuisine
- Indian


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Macauley has said that the history of a nation is best told in the lives of its people, and each community recognizes the fact that there are a few men who are the leaders in public thought and action, who stand forth as representatives of the trade interests and are the promoters of that commercial activity upon which the prosperity of every community depends.
Of this class William Brown is a representative. He resides in Oleta, Amador County, and is a native of the state of Missouri, his birth having occurred in St. Louis, on the 21st of January, 1850. He is of Irish descent and is a son of John E. Brown, who was superintendent of the gas works of St. Louis. His mother bore the maiden name of Bridget Grinell, and two children were born to them in St. Louis, William and George H. With his wife and two sons the father started across the plains to California in 1852, and during a brief interval spent at Salt Lake City another son was added to the family, to whom the name of John E. was given. While attempting to kill a buffalo in the summer of 1852, the father was gored by the horns of the animal and left upon the field as dead, but life was not yet extinct. The accident, however, kept the family in Salt Lake City for a year, but after he had sufficiently recovered they continued their journey to California and he engaged in placer mining in Rich Bar, on the Cosumnes River, where he continued his mining operations until 1857; at which time he secured a claim three miles below the town of Plymouth and engaged in ranching until his death, which occurred in 1865, in the forty-fifth year of his age, his demise finally resulting from the injuries sustained at the time when he attempted to capture the buffalo. The following children were added to the family in California: Albert M.; Elizabeth Ellen, now the wife of John Ellis; and Matilda Ann, wife of Frank Hammock. The mother survives her husband and is now in the seventy-fourth year of her age. Mr. Brown was quite prominent in the affairs of the community in which he resided, and filled the office of justice of the peace. He was accounted one of the reliable pioneer settlers of Amador County.
William Brown was in his third year when he arrived with his parents in Amador County. Therefore he was reared and educated in this locality, and in his youth he learned the blacksmith's trade in Oleta, after which he spent a year in the employ of Repper & Hill, of Sacramento. He worked at that business for seventeen years at Grizzly Flat, in El Dorado County, and later returned to Oleta where he purchased the shop in which he had learned the trade, his old employer being at that time sole proprietor. He has since carried on business here, meeting with excellent success as the result of a very large patronage. He has splendid mechanical ability, and his excellent workmanship, combined with honorable business methods, have won for him creditable prosperity. His efforts have been so discerningly directed along well defined lines of labor that he has been enabled to make extensive investments in real estate. He not only owns his own shop but has a good residence in Oleta, together with five hundred acres of rich farming land and one thousand acres of timber.
In 1878 Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Christina Neiber, of Grizzly Flat, a daughter of August Neiber, of that place and one of the California pioneers of 1850. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have five children: Albert N., the eldest son, is a graduate of Chestnut Wood University and is now pursuing a medical education with the intention of making the practice of medicine his life work; Jessie Belle; William Edward; and Dora Ruth and Cora Myrtle, twins, all at home. Their pleasant residence is celebrated for its gracious hospitality, which is enjoyed by numerous friends. When Mr. Brown attained his majority in 1871, he joined the Masonic fraternity and since then has been a valued member of the order, in which he has filled the offices of junior and senior warden. He also belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen. His political support is given the Democratic Party and he has filled the office of county surveyor of Amador County for six years, discharging his duties with promptness and fidelity. At the present time he is serving as notary public. His life of industry is most commendable, and Longfellow's poem is as applicable to him in its portrayal of hones, industrious manhood as it was of "The Village Blacksmith," of whom it was written.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: "A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern California", Pages 724-725. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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You are heading off out to a cafe to hand write the next chapter of your great American Novel or write notes about the passing tide of humanity? Or off to a park bench or riverbank to make a few notes about the joy of nature. Maybe you are heading to a lecture at the art gallery... Wherever you are going you want something to keep your essential supplies in (I'm not talking an accountant heading off to the office we 20 files for work, or a student heading off to the first of five lectures of the day).
You know what I mean: two or three trusted fountain pens (with perhaps one of them full of some new weirdly named and coloured ink); a pencil; perhaps a highlighter; then maybe some cartridges and a nalgene bottle full of your favourite emergency ink; a Molskine; a larger Clairfontaine notebook; a Rhodia pad; a small novel or book of poetry; your cellphone; perhaps a newspaper and a couple of small snacks.
As you head out of the door, what kind of manpurse is holding all your treasured stuff?
As a longtime photographer, I have what my wife refers to as my camera bag mountain. While some of these bags are very handy and great for cameras they are usually a bit boxy to be repurposed (and now that I tend to use either a 4x5/8x10 or a teeny little Canon digital, they tend not to get out so much). Mind you, I've always been partial to the original khaki Billingham Packington - though it is a bit large and you may be mistaken for Michael Palin (it also looks better with the tail end of pheasant sticking out of it...
And I've used a couple of different messenger type bags - most are rather too floppy, though I quite like some of the Crumpler bags. Though they tend to look a bit better if you are hanging around Campus with your hip young grad students.
So lately I've been looking around for something a little more distinguished, while still being somewhat cool looking. (shiny black or brown saddle leather briefcases with straps and brass buckles or the like are out - far too anal as well as heavy)
I saw a great looking black oiled leather bag in a funky local shop - but it turned out to be an actual "designer" bag from France and cost $540...
Then I saw this bag - somewhat similar but just a tad too Dutch schoolboy on his way to class having to stick his finger in a dike, though a little more affordable.
And then there was the kind of organic looking Swiss army (the actual Swiss army, not the ubiquitous penknife people) canvas and leather bread bag - usually already worn in - but kinda funky.
But still looking for now.
So, what's your favourite Manbag?
tim a
P.S. Ladies are, of course, welcome to contribute - although my take is you have far far more options open to you...
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Gilbert School graduate realizes his dream as a Denver chef
Published 2:02 pm, Tuesday, September 2, 2014
WINSTED >> Right from the start, Spencer Caine knew.
At age 5, he was telling his mother that all he wanted to do was cook and ski. In the mind of a child, each goal seems oversimplified. Ideas like this usually come and go as a child grows and interests wax and wane. This isn't the case for Caine. His dreams at age 5 were the same as his goals 19 years later. Both of which have been realized. One is now a hobby; the other, a career.
Caine is not a Winsted native, but he did spend many of his formative years in the Laurel City. The Gilbert School graduate recently made good as the Head Sous Chef at Twelve Restaurant in Denver, and was one of Zagat's 30 Under 30 announced in July.
Twelve closed earlier this month to make way for the owner to open a ramen bar nearby, but Caine landed on his feet, and will man the kitchen as a chef at Fruition Restaurant, also in Denver.
The young man's success story is as simple and arrow-straight as his initial goals. It all comes down to work ethic. He's been in and around kitchens his entire life, long before he was old enough to cook in a professional capacity.
Early on, Caine's family was always moving. His father was in the U.S. Navy. Caine, his parents and sister would uproot every few years. Caine was born in Puerto Rico but moved to Rhode Island, and then Italy, all before his fifth birthday.
As a child in Italy, his dual passions began to take shape. In 1994, at 4 years old, he put on skis for the first time in Bavaria, Germany. His mother, Jacky Heerz, reflects fondly on these trips, where she and her husband would pack up the children at 2 a.m. and arrive by 2 p.m. for a day of skiing.
Eating out, she said, was another story. Caine, still only 5, was impatient waiting for meals. He would wander into the kitchens of the three restaurants that his family frequented and the chefs there would let him sit on a stool and watch.
"We would order our drinks and order our food and he went in the kitchen," Heerz said. "And he would just sit there. He was fascinated."
At age 6, he would lock himself in the kitchen at home and "invent" meals to share with the family. His father was a good cook in his own right, and Caine would aid him in preparing the night's meal while Heerz was at work. Caine would go with his father to fish markets, vegetable stands and butcher shops, enamored with every part of the process.
"He just loved it all," Heerz said.
At the turn of the millennium, Caine was 10 years old. He and his mother returned to the United States and settled in Winsted. Heerz worked full-time in the banking industry and part-time as a server at Monaco's Ristorante, a family-owned restaurant on Main Street, which is still in business.
Just 10 years old, Caine approached the owner and asked if he could work with his mother. She declined, according to Heerz, and told Caine that in America people have to wait until they are 16 to work. The day he turned 16, Caine was back at Monaco's and told the owner he was ready to start work. He was hired on the spot.
"After school when most kids are at home playing video games he was watching food channels," Heerz said. "He would watch food channels and then call me and say 'can you pick this up or that up' on the way home."
Caine's entire adolescence was spent in the Laurel City. He attended St. Anthony School and the Gilbert School, graduating in 2008.
"He had a great experience," Heerz said. "He had a lot of people that were really supporting him and on his side. We had a great experience with both St. Anthony's and Gilbert."
For college, Caine attended Johnson & Wales in Providence, Rhode Island and occasionally visited the destination he had in mind to live after graduation: Denver, Colorado. When he secured a job in the city of Denver under owner and executive chef Jeff Osaka, the plan was set. He moved to Denver in January 2013. If his goals were to do nothing but ski and cook, Caine had found the right place. Working at Twelve in Denver, he could ski during the day and work the kitchen at night. Both of his childhood dreams had come to fruition.
Under Osaka, Caine worked as Head Chef until the restaurant closed earlier this month. Caine's work there earned him a spot amongst the list of Zagat's "30 Under 30." With Osaka looking to move and open a ramen bar nearby, Caine remained a step ahead and found a job at Fruition Restaurant. Fruition, also located in Denver, touts a farm to table menu.
Heerz repeatedly mentioned her son's work ethic as a key reason why he's been so successful at such a young age. From day one, Caine has known what he wanted and strode confidently straight down that path. This kind of clarity and dedication, from childhood on, is rare.
"He just has a very, very strong work ethic and he's very focused," Heerz said. "It was a really wonderful experience to watch him evolve from this four or five year who said all I want to do is cook and ski and he's actually doing it."
From here, Caine has his sights set on another goal. Heerz said her son is now looking for a backer, a venture capitalist of some sort to aid him in starting his own restaurant.
The dream he had as a boy has been realized. Now Caine is on to the next one.
Reach Ryan Flynn at 860-294-0155.


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FRANK McGarvey has told Neil Lennon to make a commanding centre-back top priority during the Celtic manager's scouting trip this weekend.
The legendary Hoops hitman believes that unearthing a ball-playing sweeper is a priority whether Dutch defensive ace Virgil van Dijk is prised away to the Premiership or not.
McGarvey also believes that Nigerian stopper Efe Ambrose is also not equipped to cut the Champions League mustard and has advised Lenny to think about relocating him next season.
McGarvey, who played 245 times for Celtic between 1980 and 1985 and scored 113 goals, said: "I believe Neil should make finding a commanding sweeper his priority.
"Celtic have proven very adept at unearthing talented players who are capable of making the step up to the Champions League and I am sure Neil will have a list of players he will be giving the once-over.
"But for me we are still short of a really commanding ball-playing centre-back and I say that whether Virgil van Dijk stays or goes."
When it comes to a summer departure for Dutch defensive master Van Dijk, McGarvey reckons he will be the stopper at the top of every English Premier League wish list this summer.
The former Celtic strike ace, who won two League Championships, two Scottish Cups and a League Cup with the Hoops, said: "Virgil van Dijk has been a fantastic signing for Celtic and if he does not make the World Cup with Holland it will be a travesty.
"But his quality and consistency both domestically and in the Champions League will have brought him to the attention of every boss in the English top flight.
"I would go so far as to say that, defensively speaking, Van Dijk will be the name at the top of their wanted lists. The good news for Celtic is that Virgil still has another two years on his current contract and quite frankly the club could ask what they want for him.
"But there is more at stake here in that Celtic have a lot of empty seats these days and the one thing they can't do is let another big player leave after letting Gary Hooper and Victor Wanyama go last year."
McGarvey is also adamant that Efe Ambrose is not good enough to fill one of the Celtic central defensive berths at Champions League level.
He said: "Unfortunately with Ambrose every time he makes a mistake in the Champions League it costs us a goal. The prime example of that was in the last 16 game with Juventus at Parkhead.
"So whether Van Dijk goes or stays we must get another top quality centre-back in.
"I like Ambrose and I think he has the athleticism to play sitting midfielder in front of the defence but Celtic just can't afford his errors at the very top level."


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Published success rates range from 60 to 80 percent for women who want to attempt to deliver a baby vaginally after a cesarean birth. However, a new study found actual success rates varied from 10 to 73.8 percent depending on whether certain maternal, fetal, or placental conditions were present. For example, women whose babies' heads were not in optimal position for a vaginal delivery had a success rate of only 9.8 percent when they attempted a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), while women who had a history of herpes had a 71 percent success rate, those with mental conditions had a 71.7 percent success rate, and those with no conditions had a 73.8 percent success rate.
Kimberly D. Gregory, M.D., M.P.H., of Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and colleagues examined birth and discharge records from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development from 2002. Of 41,450 women who attempted VBAC, they identified 12,324 who had high-risk clinical conditions. Rates for complications for mother and child ranged from 1 to 2 percent (except for maternal infection, which was 4.77 percent and neonatal respiratory conditions, which were 5.39 percent).
Complication rates were higher for mother and baby when high-risk conditions were present. For example, when a baby's head was not in the correct position for delivery, the odds that the mother would experience a uterine rupture was 8.8 times greater than a woman whose baby's head was positioned correctly. These findings indicate that VBAC is not an option for every woman, the authors suggest. Although many women are able to successfully complete a VBAC, women who have high-risk conditions may experience complications either for themselves or their children in attempting VBAC.
While additional research is needed to determine specific risk factors, providing this information to women can assist them in making informed choices about their deliveries. This study was funded in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS11334).
See "Vaginal birth after cesarean: Clinical risk factors associated with adverse outcome," by Dr. Gregory, Lisa M. Korst, M.D., Ph.D., Moshe Fridman, Ph.D., and others in the April 2008 American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 198(4), pp. 452.e1-452.e12.
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Iraq to distribute payment for retirees
The Iraqi minister of labor and social matters, Layala Abedalatif Altamimi, said that the ministry starts on Sunday (March 20) to distribute payment for many Iraqi retirees.
The minister revealed that these salaries are adjusted and they will include the first three months of this year. She disclosed that the amounts will be as follows: 330,000 Dinar for those whose retirement is over 25 years, 255,000 Dinar for those whose retirement is below 25 years and 210,000 Dinar for a family that has more than one qualified individual. She also revealed that the payment will include the bonus of the AlAdah feast.
She added, according to <i>Alahali</i> newspaper, that the payments can be taken or collected from the post offices. She also disclosed that the ministry starts to distribute the adjusted social allowance for the qualified families at the beginning of April.


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Stop BullyingCategories: One-on-one tutoring, Math Tutor, English Tutor, In-Home Tutoring, Parenting Advice, Bullying
Alarming new statistics show that bullying touches the lives of up to 25% of school-going children on a daily basis. Bullying may take the form of taunting and teasing, verbal abuse, aggression and physical harm. Bullying inflicts lasting emotional and physical scars, compromises the secure and friendly school environment and severely hampers learning. Your child may be too scared or embarrassed to tell you about their experiences. There are several warning signs that you can look out for that will help you to identify a child that is being bullied.
Some of the behaviours that suggest that children are being bullied include:
- Frequent illness; stomach aches and headaches can be a result of anxiety associated with bullying. Students may also be trying to avoid school by staying at home.
- Sudden changes in behaviour such as moodiness or shyness.
- Heightened anxiety, panic attacks, fearfulness, nightmares and a reluctance to attend school.
- Sleeplessness and exhaustion or sleeping too much.
- Wanting to change buses, classes or their walking route to school.
- Needing extra money for lunch and possessions that are often damaged or lost.
- Increased aggression at home towards younger siblings or other children.
What can you do?
If you suspect your child may be a victim of bullying, speak to them about it. Listen to their concerns and explain that they don't deserve to be treated badly. Do not put the onus on your child to overcome the problem; instead work with them, their teachers and the school to resolve the situation. Discuss coping strategies with your child and try to help restore their confidence. Role-play possible scenarios so that your child learns how to respond to bullying behaviour from their peers. Encourage your child to engage in social and extramural activities. This will help them to create a circle of friends and bolster their self confidence.
Talk to the school and the teachers. All schools should have a policy in place to deal with bullies. Discuss possible solutions with your child's teachers and the school councillor. Encourage your child to report bullying to an adult when it occurs so that immediate action can be taken.
If your child is a victim of cyber bullying through their social media interactions, teach them how to block people who are sending negative messages and how to limit their online presence so that only their friends and families have access to their personal information.
Support Pink Shirt Day on February 29th, 2012 by wearing a pink shirt to create awareness and show your support for victims of bullying. You can also donate to various charities which help support victims of bullying and campaign for the prevention of bullying in schools. Lady Gaga has launched the Born this Way foundation which aims to prevent bullying and create a tolerance for diversity in schools.Pic by College Degrees 360


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Melbourne, Au (PRWEB) January 03, 2013
The Multimedia Marketing Show with Jake Hower recently released a new podcast interview of Dave Dugdale, founder of learningdslrvideo.com, on how he built a huge online audience for his website.
Dave is an amazing guy. Hes built an incredibly large audience online as an amateur DSLR user by recording his experience with learning how to use the DSLR camera and publishing it online for everyone to follow along with him on his journey, said Jake Hower.
Dugdale started his website after stumbling upon an Apple promotional video he liked.
I wanted to spoof it, but I didnt know why the shot looked a certain way, and I kept studying it and looking at it and I was asking on the forums, said Dugdale.
Eventually the forum conversations led him to buy his first DSLR camera and he started shooting videos with it. Then Dugdale started a website to share the knowledge he was learning along the way.
At first I thought it was going to be more of a brain dump where I would just find a particular topic I wanted to look at. I was like, if I turn it on what does it do, if I turn it off, what does it do? Why not create an actual video of it for my own sake so I can go back and see later? Thats pretty much why I started it, said Dugdale.
You certainly created an amazing resource. I know Ive spent hours on your site and your Vimeo and YouTube channels going through all the videos. Now when Im trying to correct something with my videos, Ill just pop across to your site and bang in a few keywords into the custom search and nine times out of ten youve covered my issue, said Jake Hower.
Eventually, Dugdales audience grew, and his website now gets around 100,000 visits a month.
In terms of where I really see the growth, the huge amount of growth for me is by far on YouTube. That provides me with a lot of neat resources like having a relationship with one of the largest camera stores, B&H, where they just send me stuff, said Dugdale.
Jake and Dave go much more in depth about how to build a massive audience in the podcast at The Multimedia Marketing Show with Jake Hower website.
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Business owners who implement the strategies taught in The Multimedia Marketing Shows podcasts and videos will increase authority and build a defensible business that competitors cannot easily replicate.
Tap into the video marketing expertise at The Multimedia Marketing Show with Jake Hower.
About Jake Hower
Jake is a co-director of Pan Australian Travel. He joined his current business partner as a director in 2009. He has extensive travel industry experience, having worked in various senior positions before joining the company. Jakes role within the company has him overseeing marketing, client management and new client acquisition, with a focus on driving innovation through the entire group. Jake is a member of Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) and is actively involved in various travel industry associations.
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I Like Camping
Personal Stories, Advice, and Support 709 People
TheGirlYouNeverKnew 18-21, F 2 Responses 2 Oct 18, 2015
I'm going camping for a few days with somefriends, cooking on fire , tents , even horses , in the desert. Hope I it ends up with me being naughty and waisted . I need some crazy back in my life
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I like camping.I just wish I had brought myrunning shoes or my mountain bike.
2 Weeks :)In two weeks I'm going to go camping with my boyfriend and his family :)
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Currently camping with my friends then out onthe lake tomorrow boating (: haven't seen these amazing people in so long I've missed them. <3
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I've only been camping a few timesbut I like it. Its lots of fun and getting to make smores and sit by the fire is nice. :)
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And I like roughing it.If you're going to camp in the wild do it right and pitch a tent and be one with nature. :)
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Campingwhen i was little i went like every weekend in the summer but i have not gone in many years. i used to go in tents which i like unless it rains lol. i hate camping in rain but i guess that is what it is all about. i want to get a pop up thing. i forget what they r called. i like...
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Stormy Weather!!When I was a teenager, my dad and brother decided they wanted to try to climb the highest peaks in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. I climbed the mountains in Arizona and New Mexico with them, but not Texas. We had gone camping at Guadalupe National Park in Texas, and early the...
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When I first went camping,it was interesting and there were bugs but soon died down which was nice. It was pretty fun though, even though I got called princess the whole time, I began having fun- telling jokes around the huge camp fire and roasting marshmallows and making smores, going hiking, and...
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Camping Is Fun and EducationalI have been camping since I was little.I like to camp because it gets me out of this rat race we call life. I like to take my kids camping to show them that life is more than video games and TV. I like to go where theres no electric and just live the way mountain men lived back...
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SCOTLAND'S gymnasts will have their final opportunity next weekend to qualify for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The Celtic Cup gets under way at Bells Sports Centre in Perth on Friday with gymnasts from across Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland and Isle of Man set to contest team and individual all-around titles.
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The Commonwealth Invitational then begins on Saturday afternoon with a 10-strong team of Scots comprising Douglas Ross, Adam Cox, Daniel Iley, Ryan McKee and Liam Davie alongside Erin McLachlan, Emma White, Carly Smith, Kirsty Campbell and Beth McKellar.
Amy Regan had hoped that the event would mark her return to competitive action following a foot injury which has left her sidelined since February, but she and her coach Sandy Richardson have made the decision that it's too soon to risk it.
The 19-year-old from Giffnock fractured the talus bone in her left foot in a training fall from the asymmetric bars. "We had thought I might be able to do bars next weekend, but I can't dismount so we've decided not to," she said.
The four-time Scottish champion has already gained the Commonwealth Games qualification standards for all-around, vault, beam and floor.
"As I've started to be able to do more on my foot, I'm feeling a lot more positive and confident about it all," she said. "I've been doing somersaults on the trampoline and I'm back on beam which is good. Hopefully in the next three to four weeks I'll be back doing all my tumbles and vaults again."
However, Regan has had to deal with the additional heartbreaking news of her mother Ann being diagnosed with ovarian cancer three weeks ago.
"It's been hard getting into the gym and focus on training with everything that has been going on," she said. "But at the end of the day my mum says she wants to watch me at the Games so I'm doing it for her. It gives me that extra push to keep going."


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The United Nations Palestine Conciliation Commission will resume conferences with the Arab states and Israel this Saturday morning in a new attempt to bring about an agreement on the question of the borders of the state of Israel, it was learned here today. The decision to resume the parley was taken at a Commission meeting in New York last night.
The commission members–representatives of the United States, France and Turkey–will meet with representatives of Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Lebanon at 10 A.M. At about 11:30 A.M. they will meet separately with the Israelis. Although the subject under discussion is the border issue, it is considered likely that other aspects of the Palestine problem, such as the Arab refugee issue and the internationalization of Jerusalem, may also be raised.
Neither the Arab refugee problem nor the future status of Jerusalem will be soon or easily settled, according to a top Arab delegate here, who said that the majority of Arab states opposed a settlement of either issue since this would be tantamount to certifying the establishment of Israel. Discussing the Palestine problems soon to be aired by the United Nations Political considerations were of high importance in the refugee questions. He said that even though Syria had more than enough room and opportunity for the 150,000 Arab refugees displaced by the war in Palestine, Syria and other Arab states were faced with the political aspect of the problem.
Regarding Jerusalem, the Syrian leader contended that a withdrawal of troops from the area, as called for in the report of the U.N. Conciliation Commission for Palestine, would amount to indirect recognition of the Jewish "occupation" and would leave all of Palestine open to the Jewish "aggressor." He also expressed opposition to any internationalization project for Jerusalem, even of the Holy Places, pointing out that the religious shrines were concentrated in the Old City and in Bethlehem, which were the parts occupied by Transjordan military forces.
In the vote in the General Assembly today, Israel is believed to have cast its ballot for Czechoslovakia, the Soviet choice, as the East European member of the Security Council to succeed the Ukraine, Yugoslavia, backed by the United states, was elected. Israel is also understood to have voted for India and Equador, which were elected.


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Visualizing the Skyrim Creation Kit
What a few days it has been for Skyrim users and the details being revealed for both patch 1.4 and the Creation Kit, which has now led to the latest update being released to the pleasure of PC users. Sadly the process of getting this update onto the Xbox 360 and PS3 is not so simple, and might not become available until next week.
We touched on the PS3 patch process yesterday and you can read more on this in our earlier article and it's plain to see that Skyrim users have a mixed response to this news. While some gamers have been expressing their negative feelings regarding the delay others believe that waiting another few days is not a big issue, what are your feelings on this slight delay?
Bethesda needs to wet gamers appetites while we wait for the creation kit and has timed the video (see below) of the workshop release on the same day that patch 1.4 went live for PC users. The tools in the CK are the same as those used by the developers to create Skyrim and the response to the video has been varied but for the most part those who viewed it seemed pretty excited, as they feel Bethesda are just teasing them. What do you think of the video and the creation kit?
It's funny how a topic like this can lead into something else because some of our readers believe the Skyrim CK would mean they have no need for the 1.4 patch, which we mentioned earlier. It was also suggested that we would have the Creation Kit by now if there was not the big push to integrate it with Steam and there would be no need for a patch, as modders would be able to correct any issues quicker than Bethesda would.
There is the fear that when the CK is ready it will be released as a beta first, which would mean a longer delay until a final version was ready for Skyrim user. While it's easy to get into a debate about this we thought we would point you to a response from Bethesda on their blog where they said, "we have no current plans for an open beta," although they did say a few modders have been testing the creation Kit.
Knowing the Creation Kit is on the way is all well and good but when we are told by Bethesda to expect it in early January and we are now in February, you can see why some gamers will start to lose faith in what the developer says in the future then again these things cannot be helped. There is a fear that there could be another delay but we should not worry due to there being no public beta, as mentioned above.
The new Skyrim patch for the PS3 might not be released in the coming days and could be delayed even further, as Robert Bowling from Modern Warfare 3 said that the certification process for Sony is around two weeks and if this is true then there could be some backlash for those PlayStation users waiting to finally see an end to their lag issues.


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House prices in Richmond have risen by 20 per cent since January last year.
The average cost of a house in Richmond has jumped 7.2 per cent from last month, and 19.2 per cent from this time last year, according to property website Rightmove.
The monthly rise, from £751,237 to £805,271, is above the Greater London average of 5.2 per cent and the annual rise, from £676,086, is also above the Greater London average of 11.2 per cent.
Rightmove said demand for housing was outpacing supply and pushing up prices for first-time buyers and people selling up closer to central London and moving to outer boroughs contribute to sharp rises.
Miles Shipside, Rightmove director and housing market analyst, said: "The market rebound continues.
"While February is historically a positive month for prices of property coming to market, this is the second highest February rise since our index began in September 2001.
"New sellers are now asking over £16,000 more than those who came to market a year ago, a rate of increase not seen since before the credit-crunch took hold in 2008.
"Those contemplating trading up, down or out may well be encouraged to come to market as they see their equity grow as prices rise."
Average prices in Richmond are the sixth highest in the capital, according to Rightmove.


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Tomahawk Staff in 1935-36 in Grand Saline Grade School
This picture was printed in the Grand Saline Sun, Thursday, May 29, 1975. It was a special edition of the paper during the first Salt Festival that had been celebrated in quite a few years. There were lots of old Grand Saline pictures submitted to the paper for print in that edition. You will find them in this section. This picture is of these eight young ladies was taken in the 1935-36 school year.
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This page is about the slang term flick
Meaning: a movie
For example:
- Have you seen the new Batman flick yet?
- Those Bollywood flicks are fun to watch, but they're pretty crazy.
Also "the flicks", meaning the movies, as in "Let's go to the flicks on Saturday night."
Variety: This is typically used in British and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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Wednesday was Administrative Professionals Day, Stark County Commissioner Janet Weir Creighton told those present during the regular meeting, to which she had arrived late because she was a featured speaker on the topic at the Portage Country Club. Creighton said she took assistants in the Stark County administrative building, Rita Nicholson and Sara Donald, with her to the event.
Other business included commissioner approval for the release of an escrow amount of $102,412 to Wenger Excavating that had been held until the sanitary storm sewer system in the village of Marlboro was complete. The action was at the recommendation of Rick Flory, contract and property manager for the county, who said the project has been completed, inspected and approved.
Appropriations were also approved to include $9,428 in county obligations paid to the Regional Planning Commission for invoices that covered March storm water management, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System training, and county house numbering. Another county obligation was approved consisting of $125,000 to the Law Library for 2014 operations.
A reimbursement to the Job and Family Services division was approved from Juvenile Court. JFS will be repaid on a monthly basis for the initial rate of $131 for each child referred to Title IV-E eligibility for unruly children and $53 for each ineligible child, effective May 1 and continuing through April 30, 2015.
Requisitions were approved that included $102 for membership renewals for the electrical inspector, to be taken from the Building Inspection Fund; $576,645 for the state treasurer as a county obligation from the General Fund for the Department of Health/Handicapped Children Services; and $150 for membership dues for JFS with the Adoption Awareness Coalition to be paid from the Public Assistance Fund.
Non-encumbered expenses were also approved to include $106,513 to Motorola Solutions Inc. for the sheriff's county-shared radio system from Jan. 1 through March 31, to be paid from the Sheriff/County Shared Radio System Fund; and another $106,513 to Motorola Solutions Inc. for the sheriff's county-shared radio system from April 1 through June 30, to be paid from the previously listed fund.
Travel was approved that included four Coroner employees traveling to Cincinnati for an educational conference at a cost of about $4,250; and seven JFS employees traveling to Columbus, Cincinnati, and Greensboro, N.C., for industry meetings and educational conferences.
The satisfaction of a mortgage lien under the county Housing Rehabilitation Program was approved for Imogene Hensley, of Minerva, along with two liens on properties in North Canton, two in Massillon, and six in Canton.
Consulting services to the county from Traci Harbal Barry, director of health management strategies at Employers Health, for a wellness program to be added into the county's employee health plan was also approved at a cost of $12,500.
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Mulally, 68, is one of the few candidates still in contention for the Microsoft role, according to several sources close to the technology giant, and he has not tried to dispel talk that he is interested in the job.
That has begun to vex some on Fords board, two sources told Reuters this week, and the issue will be discussed when the board meets in the Detroit area on Thursday.
Mulally is a board member but it is not clear if he will attend the board meeting. The sources said that directors intended to raise the issue with him this week or next. Its drowning out the rest of the story, said one source close to Ford's board. People dont write about Mustang, they dont write about earnings, they write about Mulally.
That has led to frustration and a desire for clarity, the source said.
Microsoft declined comment on the progress of its CEO search, and a Ford spokesman repeated earlier statements that Mulally is slated to stay as Ford CEO through 2014, although it emerged in September that the board would be open to him leaving earlier than that..
Even if Mulally, credited with reviving Fords fortunes, does not take the Microsoft job, it is unlikely he will stay at Ford through the end of next year, the sources said.


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GYPSY OF THE MONTH: Daniel Cooney of 'Bonnie & Clyde'
A leading man on regional stages and an ensemble player on Broadway, Daniel Cooney has been juggling two new roles this fall. Professionally, he has a role—several of them, actually—in the Bonnie & Clyde musical. The other new role is personal: Cooney, 44, became a father for the first time when his son, Gavin, was born on Sept. 29.
Bonnie & Clyde opened Dec. 1 to mostly negative reviews and has already announced it will close on Dec. 30. That, unfortunately, makes two Broadway flops in a row for Cooney: His last show on Broadway was 9 to 5, which was poorly received by critics and closed after four months in mid-2009.
"It's just the business," shrugs Cooney, who says that such experiences reaffirm rather than diminish his commitment to a life in the theater. He was involved in both Bonnie & Clyde and 9 to 5 from the workshop/reading phase of development and did the regional productions before they reached Broadway (9 to 5 at the Ahmanson in L.A., Bonnie & Clyde at La Jolla and Florida's Asolo Rep). "I love getting the new material and diving in and discovering it, I love being a collaborator," Cooney says. "Even though it's commercial theater, we're trying to create the best art we can. So it's great being in that room...fully investing in the process. I do my part—show up, have a clear point of view, jump in if there's anything I can offer up to help them see if something's working or not. Beyond that it's out of my hands."
Still, Cooney says he was "shocked" by the chilly reception to Bonnie & Clyde, even knowing composer Frank Wildhorn is a critics' punching bag. He'd heard good things from friends in the business who saw the show in previews, including Marc Kudisch, who texted him enthusiastically after seeing it. (Cooney says he trusts Kudisch's judment because "Marc's a savvy theater dude...a no-bullsh-- kind of guy.") "I was expecting the reviews to be fine," Cooney says. "I thought they were going to pick it apart but say, At the end of the day it's really enjoyable."
In Bonnie & Clyde, Cooney plays a variety of small parts, including a prison guard, the minister at Bonnie's father's funeral and one of the policemen who track down (and kill) the fabled outlaws. While all his work on Broadway has been in the ensemble, he's had mostly principal roles on tour and regionally. For many years, he played Che in Evita—first on tour and then at regional theaters around the country. He was Perchik for a couple of years on the Fiddler on the Roof tour starring Theodore Bikel. He played Edgar Allan Poe in Nevermore, an original musical inspired by Poe's life and writing, at the Signature Theatre outside Washington, D.C., and also appeared at the Signature as the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods. Other credits include Fred/Petruchio in a 2003 Kiss Me, Kate at Long Island's Gateway Playhouse and Peter in the Company that was produced as part of the Kennedy Center's 2002 Sondheim Celebration. Off-Broadway, Cooney was in the cast of Under the Bridge, a children's musical written by Kathie Lee Gifford, and Joe DiPietro's 2003 screen-to-stage adaptation The Thing About Men, where he understudied Kudisch and Ron Bohmer in the lead roles.
Cooney also runs a semiprofessional theater in his home state of Michigan. He's the producing artistic director of the Encore Musical Theatre in Dexter, outside Ann Arbor. He cofounded Encore with a high school classmate, Anne Koch, and her husband, Paul. Daniel and Anne sang together in choir in high school but had been out of touch for two decades when she found him online and contacted him about her vision for a theater. Now about to begin its fourth year, Encore produces six shows annually in a converted warehouse space with 122 seats. Its 2011 season included The Light in the Piazza, and next to open is Smokey Joe's Cafe. Cooney has directed many Encore shows—and starred in a few, including a restaging of Nevermore and the theater's inaugural production, Evita, in 2009, in which he played Che to his wife Jessica Grové's Eva.
Grové—who starred as Dorothy on the Wizard of Oz tour as a teenager and performed in the recent Broadway revivals of Sunday in the Park With George and A Little Night Music—and Cooney first met through mutual friends in the business some years back but began dating when they were both taking Craig Carnelia's musical-theater performance class in 2005. They married early last year at Grové's family's beachfront home in Belize, and now baby makes three. "Being a parent has introduced us to parts of ourselves we didn't know existed," Cooney says on behalf of himself and his wife. "From an artist's perspective, this could only be viewed as a blessing beyond words." Speaking for himself specifically, he adds: "I now understand what 'a father's love' means. Being a father has brought such joy and beauty into my life that I will be forever changed for the better."
From his own father Cooney did encounter some early resistance to his interest in performing, though it was driven more by circumstances than flat-out objection. Cooney grew up about 20 miles west of Detroit in Westland, Mich., where sports is the dominant—often the only—extracurricular activity that kids pursue. And sure enough, Cooney played baseball, football and hockey for many years. Hockey especially. His father was the president of the local hockey association and would ice over their backyard in the winter. Cooney remembers being on hockey skates pretty much from the time he could stand on his own two feet. "We lived at the ice rink," he states. "So imagine my father's dismay" when his middle son started acting in school plays.
Dad was still flummoxed when Daniel was considering a summer-stock job offer shortly after graduating from high school. "In his mind it was just playing," Cooney says. "He had no way of perceiving it as a real job; he just didn't know that world." Cooney was working at the time in construction, which was basically the profession that boys in that area expected to go into. His mother—who'd first encouraged Daniel to perform after hearing him sing in the church choir and at home to the radio—somewhat surreptitiously bought him a plane ticket to New Hampshire, where the summer theater was located, and with that his performing career really got under way.
He'd done some community theater locally right after high school, then traveled to Florida to be in the same shows when the director produced them down there. One of those shows was Jesus Christ Superstar, which was also the musical Cooney would do—playing Judas—in summer stock in the Salem, N.H., area (right near the Massachusetts border). Many of his castmates there were based in NYC, so at the end of the summer he went back to Michigan, packed up his brother's old VW Rabbit and drove to New York, where he crashed with friends while looking for work.
Cooney had participated in choir and musicals in high school (even quitting the wrestling team in 10th grade to be in a play) but never had any additional training in singing, dancing or acting as a youngster. To this day, he's taken but a handful of dance classes and thinks of himself as an actor who sings. Years ago he was considering intensive dance training to improve his skills, but a musical-theater colleague warned him that if he made himself into a dancer, "you're kind of locking yourself into the ensemble." Cooney says the most demanding job dance-wise he's had was probably the hand-jive scene in Grease, in which he starred as Danny Zuko at Massachusetts' North Shore Music Theatre in 1999 ("I was terrible"), though he also mentions 9 to 5, as it was choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler in a follow-up to his Tony-winning work on In the Heights.
For the first couple of years after moving to New York, Cooney worked on the non-Equity circuit, at such theaters as the Derby Dinner Playhouse in Clarksville, Ind. At age 21 he got a role—and his Equity card—on the first national tour of Les Misérables, which he did for about two years. Les Miz would be the show in which Cooney made his Broadway debut when he was 25 and filled in briefly for an injured cast member. He eventually had a regular ensemble role in the Broadway Les Miz for about eight months.
He later got on the Evita tour, understudying John Herrera as Che. Herrera left after he'd been there just a month or so, and Cooney took over the role (eventually costarring opposite Donna Marie Asbury, our previous Gypsy of the Month, in the title role). The tour was directed by Larry Fuller, who'd choreographed the original Broadway production of Evita in 1979, and Cooney became Fuller's regular Che in productions he directed starting in the mid '90s at regional houses around the country, including Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Paper Mill Playhouse, Houston's Theatre Under the Stars and the St. Louis Muny.
In the 1990s, Cooney was also on the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof, in the role of Perchik. He admired the acting technique of his castmate James Kall (who portrayed Motel) and decided to apply to Kall's alma mater, the Yale School of Drama. Cooney's only higher education at that point had been "a hot second" in community college, but Yale considers applicants' professional experience in lieu of undergraduate credentials. With Kall's coaching, Cooney was accepted to Yale on his second time auditioning for them.
So at 29 years of age, Cooney matriculated at Yale. By that time, he'd begun sensing that he was becoming more suited to character roles rather than romantic leads and felt some strong dramatic training would serve him well. He graduated from the Yale Drama School's three-year program in 1999, receiving a certificate that will be upgraded to a master's should he ever complete a bachelor's degree.
He played a few more romantic leads shortly after graduating: Billy Bigelow in Carousel and Tony in West Side Story, both at Connecticut Rep. He also had his first job in a Frank Wildhorn work, The Civil War. Cooney stayed on that tour for just a short time, as he was covering more than half a dozen roles and found himself rehearsing all the time, even at home. But he did become good friends with Civil War headliner and country-music star Larry Gatlin—who would help Cooney out by performing in the concert that launched the Encore Musical Theatre.
Another valuable friendship has been with Eric Schaeffer, artistic director of the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va., whom Cooney met when Schaeffer directed Under the Bridge off-Broadway in 2005. Schaeffer invited him to take part in the reading of a new work at Signature and, much to Cooney's surprise, chose not to recast the lead role in that work when Signature—which often hires Broadway A-listers—gave it a full production in 2006. And so Cooney portrayed Edgar Allan Poe in Nevermore, which set the poet's words to music by Matt Conner (orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick) in a spooky, dreamlike production featuring Cooney and five actresses playing women in Poe's life. The Washington Post said the show was "carried aloft...on some potent performances, especially that of Daniel Cooney" and praised the star's "virile vocals." The following year, Schaeffer cast him in Signature's Into the Woods.
Heading into the new year of 2012, Cooney will have some unanticipated time off with the early closing of Bonnie & Clyde (is there such a thing as time off with a 3-month-old infant at home?). While Bonnie & Clyde was in previews last month, Nevermore had its New York premiere with a one-night concert staging at The Duplex starring Cooney and Natascia Diaz. In early January, he's scheduled to be in a reading of Secondhand Lions, a new musical based on the 2003 movie with Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. Just don't say that will be back-to-back stage adaptations of movies for Cooney: Though most reviews of Bonnie & Clyde referenced the iconic 1967 film version, book writer Ivan Menchell did not base the musical on the movie; he and director Jeff Calhoun created their own telling of the Bonnie and Clyde story. "I don't know where they're coming from comparing it to the film all the time," Cooney says. "Ivan and Jeff weren't interested in the film. They were trying to deal with other aspects of their lives, the relationship."
Photos of Daniel, from top: on right, in the midst of one of the title duo's armed robberies in Bonnie & Clyde; center, during the song "God's Arms Are Always Open" in Bonnie & Clyde; off stage with his wife, Jessica Grové; center, with other ensemble members in Bonnie & Clyde; as Perchik, with Tamra Hayden as Hodel, in Fiddler on the Roof; portraying Edgar Allan Poe in Nevermore. [Bonnie & Clyde photos by Nathan Johnson]


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NEW PORT RICHEY — Pasco commissioners approved spending nearly $54,000 in tourism tax money to help promote 17 local events — but not before a few officials questioned whether some organizations are inflating the number of hotel stays their events generate.
Organizers for the events — which include festivals, art shows and races — had asked for about $93,000 to be used on out-of-county ads. The county had less to give, however, because of declining revenue and more money going to event sponsorship.
County tourism officials use a point-based formula to decide how much each event should get. Seventy of the 100 available points are based on how many hotel stays the event generates and how much organizers spend on out-of-county marketing.
Karen King, who sits on the Tourist Development Council, which made the grant recommendations, told commissioners she now doubts some of the hotel figures that organizers provided.
"A lot of the information was false that we received on the application," said King, sales director for Hilton Homewood Suites in Port Richey. "The amount of heads they say they're bringing into beds, they're not."
Commissioner Michael Cox said some organizations had done much better jobs at tracking hotel stays. He said Chasco Fiesta, which reported 223 room nights, and the West Pasco Chamber's Bike Fest, which reported 124 nights, had documented those stays on paper.
But he questioned the 590 hotel room stays that the Founders Day celebration in New Port Richey said it expects to generate, as well as the 1,000 hotel room stays that Dade City's Bug Jam said it would bring.
"I don't believe that's possible," he said. "To me, the information being put before us is not accurate."
"I don't know what's real or not," added Chairman Jack Mariano.
County officials are sponsoring a tourism summit for organizations Thursday. On the agenda: How to better track hotel stays.
Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve the grants, with Mariano dissenting. Cox also got the commission's support to give the Chasco Fiesta an extra $2,776 to bring that event's total up to $15,000, making the county a "gold medal" sponsor that can participate in more marketing.


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EUGENE, Ore. -- Crews started dismantling the old Eugene City Hall building Wednesday, and supporters and detractors gathered to voice their opinion on b a new building at the location on 8th Ave. and Pearl St.
With her hard hat firmly in place, Eugene's mayor Kitty Piercy got the decommissioning going as she took down the first slab. Many are welcoming the changes to the half-century old building.
"The city hall will provide a public open space that will function effectively," said Sarah Bennett of Downtown Eugene Inc.
A city council majority said the old city hall is antiquated, unsafe and has to be replaced.
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On the other side of Pearl Street, members of "Save City Hall" had a different message.
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McCain, Obama Clash on Foreign Policy, Economic Future in Tense First Debate
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RAY SUAREZ: I'm here in Washington with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks.
David, your overall impressions?
DAVID BROOKS, Columnist, New York Times: I miss Ronald Reagan. He didn't know as much about the issues as these gentlemen just demonstrated they did, but he could make a values connection that people will remember weeks later, which I don't think either of them did.
Believe me, I think each of them did fine. I think it was much the better debate than we've seen in four or eight years. I think McCain was sharp and experienced, which he hasn't always been. I thought Obama was knowledgeable and forceful.
But there was a blizzard of policies that I don't think either of them made a values connection with people who don't already agree with them. So my bottom line is I think they both did well, but I don't think this changed the campaign in any fundamental way.
RAY SUAREZ: And Mark Shields?
MARK SHIELDS, Syndicated Columnist: Ray, I think national security is John McCain's wheelhouse. And I think Obama more than held his own factually and empirically tonight. I don't think there was certainly a substantive advantage.
On these, oftentimes it's how people react to them. I thought Obama's manner, the concern that Democrats had going in, would he be Bambi? He wasn't Bambi. He wasn't belligerent or bellicose, but he certainly showed a certain mettle.
And the question with McCain would be, any senior moments? There weren't any senior moments.
But I thought that John McCain's manner — he never looked at Obama. He just insisted on calling him Senator Obama all the way through. There was almost a frostiness and he punctuated, instead of the "my friends," it became "Senator Obama doesn't understand. Senator Obama doesn't understand." And I just think stylistically that didn't work for John McCain.
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RAY SUAREZ: What do you think, David?
DAVID BROOKS: I agree with that to a large extent, though I've sat through many McCain debates where I've cringed because I thought he was getting overly aggressive. And in the polls, it hasn't actually turned out the way. People do like a tough president.
But I basically agree. I thought he should have looked at him, should have showed a little humor, a little softening of the tone.
But I thought where Obama was best was in those interpersonal exchanges. Where McCain was best in the experience and the specific anecdotes, he told about his experience in leadership. And that's the stuff that Obama can't match.
MARK SHIELDS: Just one thing, Ray, and that is, the question was not about whether Barack Obama could move a crowd. He's demonstrated that. The question was whether he could be moved himself.
And I agree that he doesn't reveal anything about himself. There's never a moistening of the eyes. There's not a personal anecdote.
And I think that's missing, that there is a little distancing from him emotionally from the voters.
RAY SUAREZ: And in contrast to John McCain, he got all the way up until the end, when he began to speak about his father coming to this country from Kenya...
MARK SHIELDS: That's right. That's exactly right.
RAY SUAREZ: ... before he made any reference to himself and his own life until tonight?
MARK SHIELDS: That's right. Right.
Debate not a game-changer
RAY SUAREZ: Let's bring in the additional perspectives of Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page, presidential historian and author Michael Beschloss, and Politico's Jeanne Cummings.
Jeanne, what do you make of the last hour-and-a-half?
JEAN CUMMINGS, Politico.com: Well, it was interesting. I felt like we almost watched two debates.
The beginning focused mostly on the economy. I think, at that point, Barack Obama did a better job of talking about gas prices, and home mortgages, and trying to connect with, you know, those swing voters who are out there, whereas John McCain was talking about fixed price contracts and that sort of thing, and earmarks, earmarks, earmarks. I thought that Obama did a little better there.
When we moved into foreign affairs, clearly, John McCain hit his stride. It is his strength. And he showed, demonstrated that he's quite knowledgeable.
But I agree that I thought Obama showed that he is, as well. And it reminded me almost of the 2000 debate between Gore and Bush, in which Bush was not as knowledgeable, perhaps, as Gore. Bush went through the whole debate almost entirely saying, "Well, I agree with that, and I agree with that," to the point where it frustrated Al Gore.
And in the end, it didn't -- it didn't hurt Bush, that he had not really distinguished himself in some really sharp and significant way on foreign policy. So we'll see how voters absorb this.
RAY SUAREZ: Clarence Page, did Barack Obama pass the so-called commander-in-chief test tonight?
CLARENCE PAGE, Chicago Tribune: I think he did show a command of facts and issues. But, you know, David Brooks was saying he missed Ronald Reagan. I miss Mario Cuomo, who once said something about how we campaign in poetry, we govern in prose.
Tonight, both of these gentlemen were debating in prose. I think that -- I was saying to myself, gee, they think this is really a debate, because they really were debating issues like a Kennedy School seminar.
Most debates I have seen that seemed really memorable are those that are kind of dueling sound bites or joint news conferences. We complain about how they get off issues on those occasions, but they do produce some memorable exchanges.
I don't know how the folks back at the Billy Goat Grill back in Chicago watching this, if they had very many lines to cheer, but there was a barrage of facts. Both gentlemen were in command of those facts.
But I think Obama, who has had the problem in the past of being too professorial, he was quite professorial tonight. I was saying to Michael Beschloss, "He's more professorial than you, and you're a professor."
And John McCain was, you know, John McCain. I don't know how that -- those little remarks about lack of experience and all are going to play. In some ways, they were condescending. In other ways, there were folks who -- those folks who like John McCain would say, "Yes, he is more experienced."
So I don't know how many minds were changed tonight.
Obama strategy unexpected
RAY SUAREZ: Michael Beschloss, do you agree with Clarence Page that there's almost no standout encounter, no memorable exchange, no excerpt that we'll be watching 10, 20 or 30 years from now?
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, Presidential Historian: Yes, Ray, to save my life, if I had to quote to you a line from the last 90 minutes, I'd have a hard time. And that's pretty unusual, if you think of presidential debates.
And, you know, what surprised me was this. I thought that Barack Obama was fully credible, and nuanced, and sophisticated, fully credible as a commander-in-chief tonight.
But, you know, he was in a position where he could have attacked John McCain on three of the things that are very tough for a presidential candidate, an unpopular president of your own party, an unpopular war, and an economy that is going south very fast and has yet to be fixed.
Yet despite all of that, for a lot of this debate, John McCain was repeatedly on the offensive and, to some extent, Obama was on the defensive. I was surprised by that.
In terms of strategy, we'll see what works. But oftentimes in debates, if a candidate does go on the offensive, it does tend to work. That's what Kennedy did in 1960. It's what Ronald Reagan did in 1980. And it is what Bill Clinton did in 1992.
So I think, you know, you can certainly question the strategy, but those were two potential commanders-in-chief out there tonight.
RAY SUAREZ: Michael Beschloss, thank you.


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I saw them for the second time on the 17th. The first time was during the Summer Nationals tour back in August. :P I actually thought they were even better this time and I'm glad I got to see 'em do...
Reminds me of "Stuff is Messed Up". It's a fun song. Not one of their best, but enjoyable.
Sounds like he's saying "donkey kong" in the chorus...
Definitely looking forward to the new Good Riddance, Teenage Bottlerocket, Descendents, Strung Out, Anti-Flag, Nightwish and Kamelot albums. Dillinger Four have been teasing a new album for the past...
Bump. :P
These are the albums I enjoyed most in 2014, in no order -
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Chumped - Teenage Retirement
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Rancid - Honor Is All...
Bump. :P
Pennywise have announced a headlining tour with Anti-Flag and A Wilhelm Scream supporting! :)
Anti-Flag and A Wilhelm Scream have...
I listened to "Get Hurt" by The Gaslight Anthem and "Hold Your Applause" by Bracket yesterday.
The TGA album is disappointing but solid nonetheless, the new Bracket album is amazing.
I think it's the best of the animated videos they've done. It doesn't have the ugly animation of "Hammerhead" and "Hit That", and looks more like something you'd see in "The Wall" by Pink Floyd.
My first thought upon viewing the video in question was the following:
(it's pretty sweet though)
There are plenty of proggy bands I like that use keyboards - Dream Theater, Kamelot, and Symphony X come to mind immediately - but "Into the Unknown" mostly just bored me. They aren't good at...
I'm going to attempt ranking all these. (note: the only albums I dislike by BR are the bottom three on this list. I like every other album by them.)
1. Suffer
2. No Control
3. Recipe for Hate...
Ben Weasel from Screeching Weasel is also a Conservative.
He's also an asshole, kinda like Mark.
Last show I was at was The Menzingers, Lemuria, PUP, and Cayetana on July 3rd. It was fun! :D Up next is The Offspring, Bad Religion, Pennywise and Stiff Little Fingers on August 19th. Very stoked...
Two albums I've listened to recently that I recommend highly:
The Steve Adamyk Band - Dial Tone.
Garage rock-influenced punk. Very fun stuff. Fans of bands like Toys That Kill/FYP, Chinese...
I must admit, I didn't really care for "Appeal to Reason" or "Endgame". I love the other albums, though, including the recent b-sides comp! I'm cautiously optimistic toward "The Black Market" since...
Some albums I've been enjoying this year -
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Masked Intruder - M.I.
Me First and the Gimmes - Are We Not Men? We Are Diva!
The Menzingers - Rented World
Bane - Don't...
I'm officially going! Got my tickets TODAY! :) This will be my first Offspring show, and I can't really think of a more perfect one than the "Smash" tour - especially with Bad Religion and Pennywise...
Well, whoever added Fear to the St. Augustine line-up on last.fm is now my sworn enemy because I got my hopes up.
I'm just kidding of course. :P I'm perfectly fine with Stiff Little Fingers...
Fear are playing the St. Augustine date in Florida. :)
I was extremely excited when I read about it this morning. :D Seeing The Offspring with Bad Religion and Pennywise sounds incredible. I'm glad they're doing dates in Florida that aren't crappy...
Self Entitled is indeed awesome!
And the new TF and Shook Ones releases are great too - listen to 'em as soon as you can. :D
Also...more to add!
Propagandhi - Failed States
MXPX - Plans Within...
Doesn't look like it. It'll probably be another "Splinter", where it will just have songs that are more popular than the rest of the ones on the album. :P
"Fuck You" sounds like something you'd hear on "The Gray Race".
Hope the new album's good! :)
More stuff to add to my list:
Title Fight - Floral Green
Masked Intruder - Masked Intruder
NOFX - Self-Entitled
The Mixtapes/Broadway Calls split
Saves the Day - Daybreak
Dan Vapid and the...
If the CEO had simply said "I personally don't believe in gay marriage" and hadn't ever donated to anti-gay groups that want to make being homosexual illegal entirely, then I'd probably just ignore...
"Secrets from the Underground" would work excellently as a single, I think. It's incredibly catchy and gets the listener (or me at least) pumped up.


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While PC gamers know a lot about game discounts and sales, console gamers have to be a little more diligent to find games for the best value. One of the best ways to get a game for a substantial discount and at its best value is by picking up a Game of the Year Edition.
Today we have learned that two games are adding their names to the GOTY crowd: Halo 4, 343 Industries' first foray into the world of the Master Chief, and Borderlands 2, Gearbox Software's loot-obsessed FPS sequel. Of course, as the name suggests, a title needs to have earned some prestigious accolades in order to be eligible for a Game of the Year Edition (or does it?), but we think both games are well deserved.
First, IGN has received word from a source at GameStop that Gearbox Software will roll out a Game of the Year Edition of Borderlands 2 very soon. As expected, this GOTY package will include all the previously released Borderlands 2 DLC — from the Mechromancer Pack all the way to Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep — presumably at a discounted rate.
While many games stretch the term "downloadable content," the Borderlands franchise typically delivers when it comes to post-game adventures. It's a shame that the Season Pass for Borderlands 2 didn't include all the planned DLC, but that is an entirely different matter – this Game of the Year package won't leave anything out.
The Halo 4 Game of the Year Edition, on the other hand, has been confirmed by Microsoft and will be available this October for $49.99. Any gamer that purchases the Game of the Year Edition of Halo 4 will net themselves a War Games map pass, which is good for all of Halo 4's multiplayer DLC, as well as all of the pre-order and Legendary exclusive content.
The Game of the Year Edition will also include Season 1 of Spartan Ops, Halo 4's story-based cooperative mode, and the Champions Bundle that just recently hit Xbox Live. The Champions Bundle offers gamers a ton of Halo 4 content including new maps, armors, skins, an new game type called Ricochet, and several other ways for players to customize their Spartan.
Personally, the idea of a Game of the Year Edition at this point in the console cycle seems a bit odd, especially considering neither the Xbox One nor the PS4 will be backwards compatible. So those gamers who plan to pick up these spiffy new Borderlands 2 or Halo 4 packages will find there is a limit to their utility.
Nevertheless, for those gamers who have yet to check out Borderlands 2 or Halo 4 (we highly recommend both) this is the perfect opportunity. Both Game of the Year Editions include more content than the "vanilla" versions, and are a better value.
Will you be picking up either the Borderlands 2 or Halo 4 Game of the Year Editions? Although they were released in different years, which game did you enjoy more?
The Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition is only rumored at this point and therefore has no release date. The Halo 4 Game of the Year Edition will be out this October for the Xbox 360.
Source: IGN


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