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Was it serendipity or did Arts Upstairs inspire Mother Nature to give us our first white stuff on the day of the opening? The elegant art buying crowd was thicker than snowflakes in a blizzard, or possibly a double-vanilla albino mocchiato slushie. Windows were absolutely dripping with exhaled, condensed, animated conversations. There was a fabulous feast including pungent garlic goat cheese, hummus, guacomole and Lynn's finger lickin' chicken bar-b-q. Paloma, Sylvia and the rest of The Isadorables were whipping through the throng, leaving wowed whirlygigs in their wakes. I saw Michio Kaku and he said Arts Upstairs is now the center of gravity of Phoenicia. Even the art was top drawer, as you shall soon see. So don your carved bone Inuit snow blindness spectacles and brave the all-indoors for an icy ART SAFARI to the frosty north... well, north of Woodstock, anyway...
Cara Cruickshank created a crystalline "Winter Fairy House".
It would be the perfect stage design for a mid-winter night's dream.
She be chillin.
Alan Fliegel sent chills up my spine with this stark tale of crime and punishment, "Justice in the Electric Chair".
I think George W. Bush should try sitting on the chair just to see what it feels like.
Bronson Eden has a way with women. Each miraculous brushstroke looks like it was applied with love.
"Eve in the Garden" has such a happy smile. Let's go swimming!
Margarite DeSoleil carved a block of plaster to create "Cry No More".
Funny how the woman's tears keep their identity even after flowing into the stream.
The owl stopped crying long ago.
Gavin Owen said he would break my legs if I didn't include his starkly mysterious portrait of "Samuel Beckett". I asked why one eye is glowing brightly and the other is dark. He said it is supposed to represent the duality of existentialism. Dark, light, that sort of thing.
The ladder falling short of the window evokes a Sartre-esque "No Exit Strategy" reminiscent of George W. Bush's foreign policy.
Folks say Bush should pull out of Iraq. I say his dad should have pulled out of his mom.
Too late now.
(Bear in mind that the opinions expressed in this Art Safari do not necessarily represent those of Arts Upstairs.)
When I was a kid I saw a guy on the Atlantic City boardwalk demonstrating how easy it is to make the new miracle substance, foam rubber. Just mix up a couple of chemicals and bingo presto, out gushes this goopy goo. He wouldn't let me keep a sample because as he put it, it's way too flammable. (Kind of like the old Emerson)
Now it comes in an easy to use aerosol can. Life is good.
Charles Einhorn shares my childhood fascination with goopy goo in "Neat Stuff".
Tom Fraser gets me going with his stellar found art/mixed media peeping-tom painting titled "The Star".
I thought it might be painted on an album cover called David Bowie in Africa.
Turns out it's Mario Lanza.
Polly M. Law always delights with her dioramic puppet doll boxes. "Madame D'Hiver" (that's french for snow) seems to be wondering about something.
I wonder what it is.
Margaret Owen is rushing the season with "Dragonfly". It will be spring soon and these magical buzzing critters will be back again.
Has anyone seen the dragonflies in "Pan's Labyrinth"?
Jesse Owen rounds up a triple play of Owens this month with the best use yet for a previously owned pizza box.
The pepperonis, mushrooms and anchovies just about pop out at you.
He calls it "MM". I call it mmm - yummy!
Laura Raymond is "Trapped in Perfection".
Everybody's gotta be someplace...
I like the frostyness of the layers.
Lynn Fliegel creates an opening in the sky that you could almost fly through.
She calls it "Full Circle".
I'm there!
Salvatore Scalisi's huge "Winter Scene" is so shiny, it looks like it has been painted under a thick layer of ice.
It's probably a thick layer of some kind of plastic resin. I hope Sal has good ventilation in his studio.
John Sowley is 87 years old and still painting as strong as ever. Maybe stronger.
"Dandy" makes a lot of sense for a whiteout show. Remids me of Miles Davis.
Gotta love those suspenders.
Jose Acosta represents what might be the Civil War in "Things Change".
I'll have to take another closer look, but it appears the grey and the blue are both bearing the standard US flag.
Judith Singer strikes a happy medium between Louise Nevelson and Joseph Cornell in "Nevelson in Flight".
So many kinds of flight... a floating feather, darting dove, butterfly, cherubic angel, star and moon.
Michelle Spark has captured light dancing across the snow in "Back Yard Winter #1".
The bony structure of trees and rocky layers of hillsides are never so clearly revealed as during the winter.
She got both.
Here is a simple tiny drawing by Anique Taylor called "Apple".
It looks really sexy to me.
Did you know that apple trees are wildly promiscuous and fertilize with such infinite randomness that no two apple seeds are genetically alike?
Kind of like people, I guess.
I suppose apples me think of Fred Woller's "It's a Pleasure", which demonstrates one needn't look outside one's self or be wildly promiscuous to find pleasure.
Take that, apple.
Have I defrosted your tootsies yet? Wipe them off on the mat and return to Arts Upstairs. Or stop along the way and pay a visit to PH3, the first of a series of first fridays at Arts Upstairs - evenings of performance, cookies and coffee... Coming this Groundhog day!
See you at Arts Upstairs!


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Former Franklin County Deputy Sentenced for Murder of Ex-Wife
Roanoke, VA - After a day and half of testimony and arguments, a Roanoke judge sentenced a former Franklin County deputy to three consecutive life terms plus 11 years in prison on Wednesday.
The judge did not accept Jonathan Agee's defense of being blackmailed by his ex-wife Jennifer and "roid rage."
Nevertheless he wanted to hear all the evidence before making his decision.
Judge Charlie Dorsey gave Agee a lengthy lecture before he announced the verdict.
After the verdict, sobs from both sides filled the room. In the courtroom there were no winners, just broken families.
No victory as Jennifer Agee's family leaves the courthouse not long after the man that used to be a part of that family was ordered to serve multiple life sentences.
"It was an unprecedented act of violence in the City of Roanoke. It was a cold blooded execution of an unarmed woman, in broad daylight. Not quite at high noon but pretty close," said Don Caldwell, Roanoke Commonwealth's Attorney.
Agee isn't the only one with a life sentence.
Unknown numbers from Jennifer's family got one when they lost Jennifer.
Matthew Brannock's family got one. The former State Trooper himself lives with the guilt of not returning fire that day.
"Mr. Brannock, there was a coward on that interstate that day, but it most certainly was not you," said Judge Dorsey.
The children who saw Jennifer murdered that day - they got one too.
"His selfish, narcissistic, violent behavior changed her life forever," said Mary Pettitt, Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney
And so did the Agee family.
In the end, the judge didn't buy the excuses of domestic issues, blackmail and steroids. He said none of those matters in sentencing and none of them justify murder anyway.
Everyone talks about closure at the end of a criminal proceeding, but what we are learning here is that closure just begins at the end of the process.
"I think what people will define it as will vary based on who you talked to. But for me personally, I think it will be years down the line before I can classify the recovery as closure," said Brannock.
Jonathan Agee will spend at least the 26 years in prison at which time he is eligible for geriatric parole. However, the Commonwealth asked specifically for these life sentences to run consecutively, as a sign to the future parole board of the sheer magnitude of this crime; a reflection of the victim's families who want to see Agee stay in jail for as long as possible.


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Dear Editor:
In response to the two letters in the Sept. 12 edition in favor of the Voter ID Amendment, I recently defended a gentleman who was charged with illegal voter registration. He is a convicted felon and therefore is ineligible to register to vote. Before leaving prison, he filled out an application to renew his driver's license. The application also had a section to register to vote and he mistakenly filled out that part also.
While reviewing the investigatory reports, I learned that he was one of only three persons in all of Isanti County to have illegally registered to vote in four years—2005 through 2009. So is voter fraud a problem worthy of an amendment to our state constitution? Not from the evidence that I can see.
Mark W. Benjamin
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This week us folks here at KSK are drafting celebrities from any sphere of fame – that we would like to never hear about again. Not their personal issues, not their opinions, not their work (assuming they do any) not even retrospectives on their life. Just wiped out from the total public consciousness.
The field is deep, and yet somehow we only made it through two rounds, leaving lots of solid undrafted choices for you guys in the comment section.
Let's get to the picks.
1. Eric Sollenberger selects Justin Bieber
Gotta take Bieber. He's the obvious Andrew Luck number one overall but Jesus I'm sick of hearing about him. So the insulated millionaire child is a dick and racks up DUIs and doesn't show any remorse during depositions? No kidding, I'd just rather not hear about it.
2. Trevor Risk selects Bill Nye
Celebrity scientists aren't the worst offender when it comes to making every job in America into a celebrity (science is actually useful, and we probably should admire the intellectuals out there instead of pawn shop owners or poor bastards with 300 pound scrotums), but Jesus do this guy's followers annoy me. People who consider themselves educated actually thought that kangaroo court debate with some yahoo about evolution was going to solve some idiotic stalemate. "See! Bill Nye beat some hickory dipshit in a debate, so God is dead." I should thank him for helping me single out who is and who is not braindead in my social media feeds. Oh you've made an intellectual deity out of somebody who used to be on Almost Live? Well now I know where you are on the evolutionary scale. Beakman's World was a far superior program too.
Ed.- Beakman's world is terrifying for a 6 year old.
3. StuScottBooyahs selects Taylor Swift
That's right, she's just a regular 22-year-old like you and me, just chillin' at the pool, frolicking on the beach with her supermodel girlfriends, dancing around dressed up in designer outfits (SOOO RANDUM), and going to kicking parties straight out of a Bacardi commercial. Oh and by the way, she has the WORST LUCK with relationships, you guys. Like, seriously, it's not even funny. LET'S GO GET WINE COOLERS AND TALK ABOUT HOW HARD IT WAS TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL.
When I was 22, I was eating Ramen on a busted up couch while watching South Park reruns in my studio apartment, wondering if I was going to get canned from my newspaper job the next day. CRAZY TIMES.
Ed.- Why do you have to be so mean? I totally didn't put on a Taylor Swift playlist on youtube after typing up this pick and blast it as I was writing this post. Didn't happen. Next question.
4. PFT Commenter selects Barack Obama
I just wish this celebrity wish hed shut up.
5. Sarah Sprague selects Kim Kardashian
The inspiration for this draft, Kim Kardashian. I don't want to hear about her Vogue cover, I don't want to hear about her relationship with Kanye, I don't want to hear about her mom, her sisters, her sex tape, her ass, her kid, her wedding, her other wedding, nothing. When I see her with Kanye West all I can think is, "I wonder what it feels like to be a blank-slate human accessory" and then I feel so shitty about absolutely everything including that even I had a thought about her that frames her as a human prize that I feel incredibly rage-y. I could ignore her before, but now with his guidance and clout she is an unavoidable human foie gras that is going to make society fat and diseased to its very core.
6. Old James selects Donald Trump
Imagine a world where The Donald is incarcerated for fraud. But instead of white collar lockdown, a special cell for him is erected in the middle of Silver Dollar City as a novelty act, where tourists could fork over $5 from their fanny packs for the privilege of most literally slamming a door in his face, all day, everyday. That's a world I'd like to live in.
7. RobotsFightingDinosaurs selects Tim Tebow
If this includes never hearing from him, or hearing from people talking about him, or hearing from people talking about people talking about him, and so on, it'd be the best thing to happen to sports journalism in a while.I honestly hope he's great in his role doing analysis for the SEC network so they decide to keep him forever and us NFL fans can just forget about him.
8. Big Sandy selects Gwenyth Paltrow
Look, divorce is an often messy, painful affair, especially when there are children involve. Those feelings, too, are only magnified when you're a celebrity in the public eye. And yet Gwyneth managed to suck all possible sympathy and empathy out of her divorce from Coldplay sad sack mope bag Chris Martin by announcing their divorce in her GOOP newsletter. And she didn't call it a divorce but rather invented a new rich, white person euphemism – "conscious uncoupling." Fuuuuuuuck you, Gwyneth. Not only that, but GOOP is an insufferable pile of patronizing condescending dipshittery. Oh, and the aforementioned children? You can blame their names – Apple and Moses – for the streak of ridiculous celebrity baby names.
9. Christmas Ape selects Kathy Lee Gifford
I realize that she's easy enough to avoid as all she does these days is get drunk on network TV on weekday mornings but it continues to boggle my mind that someone who not only has no discernible talent but is also loathed by everyone is constantly employed.
10. Christmas Ape selects Peter King
My life is worth living again!
11. Big Sandy selects Ellen
Yes, what she's done for the gay community is great and now all our moms are totally cool with it because Ellen's just so nice, right? And maybe that's the biggest advance: not hating on Ellen because of her sexuality but because her cloying pandering is simply grating – really, really grating. Exhibit A: that stupid Oscar selfie.
12. RobotsFightingDinosaurs selects Michelle Bachmann
I can usually tune out hateful, misguided speech, but something about Bachmann — the way she presents her thoughts, her obliviousness, her pandering — it really gets at me. Anyone who says publicly that, no, gays aren't being bullied, the gays are bullying REAL 'MURRCANS doesn't deserve this kind of attention.
13. Old James selects Chris Brown
If we're not hearing about him, that means he's probably not being an abusive shitstain. Two birds, I say.
14. Sarah Sprague selects Lady Gaga
Much like how I feel about Beyonce, I cannot believe this is who we point to as feminist icons these days when all they do is play into straight-male ideals while making shitty music.
(Wait, I'm writing this on a football website? FUCK.)
15. PFT Commenter selects Michelle Obama
She thinks she can tell me what to do well guess what jokes on her i can turn my life into a real veson of SuperSize me except with copenhagen longcut and theres nothing she can do about it I'll show her.
16. StuScottBooyahs selects Richard Sherman
What's that? You're the best in the game? Everyone else sucks? OK, I think everyone's heard you. You can shut the fuck up now.
17. Trevor Risk selects Ryan Gosling
I met him once and he was a piece of shit. Sorry to burst your bubbles, but he was trying to get laid while he was dating Rachel McAdams, so all those memes about how he's a dreamy boyfriend are baseless. Drive is just Twilight for Pitchfork readers in that it's about a woman who did absolutely nothing but sit on her ass and mope but somehow has perfect, robotic men giving their entire lives up to the woman.
18. Eric Sollenberger selects North West
Getting in on the ground floor on this one. I'm steeling myself for a lifetime of that kid being a celebrity. It's not going to work out because either:
a) He has two dipshits for parents who will turn him into the most arrogant person in a state filled with them (no offense Sarah) or
b) He will go through normal minor teenage screw-ups under the microscope of the media, which will create a stupid false-redemption story and/or
c) He will be lauded as an artist due to whatever 2030's version of autotune is.


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Dr. Anke A. Ehrhardt, Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs at Columbia Psychiatry, chaired a panel discussion on "The Neuroscience of Gender" focused on the question of how sex hormones influence male and female behavior. The event was sponsored by the German Center for Research and Innovation with RWTH Aachen University.The German Center provides a platform for German science, research, innovation and research-based companies (www.germaninnovation.org). In 2011, the German Center featured University Professor Eric Kandel as one of two keynote speakers.
The panelists included leading neuroscience esteemed experts from Germany and the United States discussing the neural and hormonal basis of gender differences in behavior. Pictured above at left is Dr. Ehrhardt, an internationally known sex researcher and Director of Columbia's Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health. At right is German Center Director Dr. Joann Halpern. The two panelists are at center: Dr. Bruce S. McEwen, who is Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University in New York and Dr. Ute Habel, who is Professor of Neuropsychological Gender Research with the University Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at RWTH Aachen University.
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The duo are members of the pony club centre branch and the Throstle Nest group in Eccleshill, Bradford.
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September 11th, 2013 02:12 PM #46Senior Member
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I think if they're both going to be in their kids' life then they both deserve a say in what that kid's name is going to be. I could never name my kid something knowing that my husband hated it. It wouldn't really bode well for future parenting outcomes if our first real act as parents was me ignoring his opinions and doing whatever I wanted. To me, marriage and parenting should be an equal partnership and that includes naming.
I'd rather give up my favorite name than alienate my husband.I hope to be a mom one day. For now I enjoy being a name lover.
My apologies for any typos; i post from my mobile phone.
September 11th, 2013 03:00 PM #48
Here's what my partner has given up in this 13 week long pregnancy:
- Freedom.
Why? Because I have raging SPD and can't do 90% of the household chores I used to do. It means NO hovering, NO laundry, NO bending down (I simply can't), NO lifting of any kind, NO washing the floors, NO shopping and NO changing the litter box
- Identity
Why? Because currently all he does is work, clean, put our brood to bed and then massage my sore limbs in an attempt to ease the pain
- Sanity
Why? Because he gets next to no time to himself. His entire life atm is being spend running around like a headless chicken trying to help out as much as he can
- his wallet.
Why? Because not only do we need every piece of baby equipment and clothes, including expensive school uniforms, for our children, but we also need to invest in very expensive bus passes as my SPD prevents me from walking on the school run and the bus is the only option for us.
- Quality time for himself
Why? Not only does he work two jobs, but he also does everything he can to make life as easy and comfortable for the rest of us while putting his own needs in the backseat.
These are NOT things he is being asked to, these are things he wants to do!
I do NOT feel I have given up anymore than my partner has for us to have this child and he does it all without complaining; not just for me, but for our children - born as unborn, because its what a father and a partner does when his "mate" is in distress. He knows it will be a long 6 months while my SPD will probably only get worst, but he doesn't complain or place blame or in any way make me feel like a nuisance or this baby a burden. So why should I place myself on a pedestal of "I'm carrying the baby" - I may well be, I may also be the one experiencing the physical pain, but he's carrying me as much as he can to try to make this pregnancy as smooth, good and easy as possible.
Maybe I'm just lucky - but I know that this child is being brought into the world with equal sacrifice from both parents and he will love and bond with this child as much, easily and quickly as I will. Even if I breastfeed I know he will be right there, ready to get out of bed to get me/us whatever we need to be comfortable, just as he has with the other children.
When it comes to naming - we did it in a pretty simple way: when we couldn't agree, we made a deal. He chose the first ones name and I the second ones. The middle names we agreed on. He does veto a lot and he is annoying, but I'd never say "I'm carrying it, its my choice" because its his baby and he is there for our children as much as I am.
There isn't room for selfishness when raising a baby. Compromise, yes. Persuasion, yes. But not the "it's more MY baby than YOUR baby" card. Not in my opinion anyway.
September 12th, 2013 11:26 PM #50
The author sounds selfish to me, too. Feminism is great but when it crosses the line to dismissing men/fathers or taking them for granted, that bothers me. I hope people don't read this article and think that all women share her attitude. The ability to compromise is a necessity for a healthy relationship, as is the ability to put oneself in their partner's shoes. Or at least be willing to attempt to figure out where they're coming from. I hope the author is more empathetic when she's not on hormone overdrive; otherwise, her unappreciative attitude is the warning siren of much marital difficulty to come.
When it comes to deciding which parent has how much say in naming, I don't think it matters which parent does what childrearing activities (working, cleaning, caregiving) as long as both parents put in their "fair share"--which is whatever works for the couple. I work in a field where there is actually gender equality in the workforce (pharmacist) and when we have children, my husband will be a stay-at-home dad while I bring home da bacon. And this arrangement, flipped gender roles and all, makes no difference to how I feel about naming. We are compromising in a way that works for us. We both have a say because we are both interested in naming and both have ideas.
Of course, when mom and dad are not together, both in the picture, or interested in naming, those are different stories.Personal Favorites: Mira Cairdeas and Darrow Paine
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September 13th, 2013 08:54 AM #52Senior Member
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I have found it helpful to create a list, then have him mark names as "no way," "maybe" or "yes." It takes some of the pressure off of him, and I can see which names are "maybe" that I can work to warm him up to. I think I have found my favorite name for our boy (Victor Woodford), and I think I can get him to come around to it.Married since June 2007, expecting our first child on Christmas Day, 2013
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September 13th, 2013 10:03 AM #54
Without reading any of the other replies, this is my two cents worth...
The mother and father should pick a name together. To "punish" the man by saying, "I'm the one who carries the baby for nine months and goes through all that entails, so I get the final say," is rather pathetic. To punish a man for what is nature - i.e. the woman is the one who carries the offspring - just isn't on. (And men miss out by not being the ones who experience pregnancy too, they never get that feeling of the baby growing inside of them, which I can imagine is the most magical feeling on earth).
Yes it's true that women are the ones who go through the pregnancy, but they wouldn't be pregnant without the man would they, it takes two to make a baby?!
Choosing a name should be a joint effort and neither parent should try to force the other to use a name they don't like.
I'd like to think that when my time comes to start a family, with the man I love, choosing names for our children will be something we'll do together, one of the first steps on our joint parenting journey.⋆ Margaret Mary ⋆
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Amarillo Spends $13,000 Securing Safety At David Grisham / Terry Jones Rally
Whether you agree with Grisham/Jones or think they are completely out of bounds, it is the city and tax payers who paid for this. Was there a true purpose to this rally or more of a publicity stunt? We ask the readers to decide.
Ensuring public safety at a rally featuring a controversial Quran-burning pastor: $12,700.
Experiencing a largely incident-free event: Priceless.
That's Amarillo City Manager Jarrett Atkinson's view.
"All the groups that came out handled themselves very well, I think," Atkinson said, referring to both supporters and those who gathered at Sam Houston Park on Sunday to protest speeches by the Rev. Terry Jones, the lightning rod pastor from Florida, and local street preacher and mayoral candidate David Grisham.
"By the end of the day, we truly saw the ability for folks, on whatever side of a particular issue, to peacefully assemble and voice their thoughts and opinions on the matter."
Jones' March mock trial, in which he sentenced a Quran to burning, sparked deadly riots across the globe.
He traveled to Amarillo to preach against homosexuality, abortion and Islamic extremism at the invitation of Grisham, leader of Repent Amarillo.
Like Jones, Grisham is no stranger to controversy. His thwarted attempt to burn a Quran on last year's anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks drew more than 200 protesters to Sam Houston.
Given the sparks generated by the pastors, the city had to prepare, Atkinson said.
"You can't ever really gauge that," he said. "I would liken this to many other responses or potential responses that we do.
"You could compare it to how we staff for a potential weather event or a red-flag day for (wild) fires where we might pre-stage and pre-deploy assets, hoping that we don't have to use them."
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NY GOP Chairman alleges 'rogue' RNC staffer [Updated]
POLITICO'S Maggie Haberman (whose own, New York-centric blog should launch next week) reports:
New York' GOP chairman Ed Cox had what appeared to be a somewhat tense, half-hour discussion with the's RNC political director Monday in front of party officials and state chairs -- but when asked about the encounter the Empire State Republican insisted a "rogue" employee of the national party was leaking against him.
Cox, the son-in-law of Richard Nixon whose early political life was shaped with the former president, had the conversation with the RNC's Gentry Collins in a hallway outside a meeting room where state chairs were gathered at the national party's three-day confab in Maryland.
In the encounter, which was also witnessed by a Politico reporter, Cox discussed the many races New York has this fall, outside of the governor's race, which the chairman feels are winnable and which he'd like the party's help with.
But the subject of the RNC's help to New York, as has been widely reported, has become a sore point, after party officials made clear they were concerned about sending funds to the state if Cox's handpicked candidate for the Republican ticket, Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, is at the top of the ticket.
The RNC had several hundreds of thousands of dollars in so-called "victory funds," which could be used for offices and equipment and other hard-wire items statewide, at a time when the party is doing its best to rustle up cash.
Cox was talking audibly, but it wasn't clear to observers what Collins' reply was. Collins didn't respond to requests for comment.
But when asked about the moment, Cox -- stung by earlier reports of conflict with the national party -- seemed disinclined to believe a third party observed it.
"That is yet another complete mischaracterization by a rogue member of RNC staff regarding a private conversation between Chairman Cox and a member of the RNC," Cox said through a spokesman. "This rogue staff member repeatedly misrepresented the positions of the RNC and NYGOP, their relationship, and the content of private meetings and conversations between RNC officials and the New York State Republican Party by leaking misinformation to the press."
Okay, then!
UPDATE: Cox sent along a later statement through a spokesman, saying, "It's certainly possible that fundraising was a topic of discussion between a prominent RNC official and the Chairman of the New York GOP during a crucial period during which the party is raising money for GOTV and to stage a convention, and candidates are staffing up their campaigns and considering ad-buys. It's only natural that Chairman Cox would discuss where New York stands in advance of primary season."


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Valerie is a photographer and explorer based out of Belgium. She is the queen of taking pictures of abandoned places. The following is an interview with Valerie where she discusses her photography techniques, working process, and inspiration. The interview has been edited for brevity. A photo posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⓥ ⓐ ⓛ (@valsdarkroom) on Jan 30, 2015 →
Robert Jahns, known as nois7, is a photographer, digital artist and art director based out of Germany. His wild imagination, jaw dropping creativity and immense skills have made him a legend on Instagram where he shares his art works with over 752,000 fans and followers. The following is an interview with Robert Jahns where he →
Abel Perez is an entrepreneur, computer programmer, world traveler and a maniac photographer. He bends reality with pixels to create futuristic elements and arts. The following is an interview with Abel Perez where he discusses about photography, gears, inspiration, composition, post processing and Instagram. The interview has been edited for brevity. A photo posted by →
Roberto Cuevas, known as iamcued, is an 18 year old photographer, musician and visual artist based out of Blacksburg, Virginia. He creates amazing 3D imagery using only an iPhone 5s. The following is an interview with Roberto Cuevas where he discusses about creativity, innovation, smartphone technology, visual artworks, and his inspiration. The interview has been →
Puji Faisal Nawawi is a photographer based out of Garut, Indonesia. He is only 20 years old though he has been doing tremendous amount of great works. His works will inspire you to dream, will give you the courage to love, and will push you to imagine in different ways. The following is an interview →
Dominic Liam is a photographer based out of Athens, Greece. He has been setting the new standard of Silhouette Photography. The following is an interview with Dominic Liam where he discusses his photography techniques, working process, and inspiration. The interview has been edited for brevity. A photo posted by @dominicliam on May 2, 2015 at →
Jeff Hagerman is a photographer based out of Atlanta. He is a king of taking pictures of abandoned buildings and has brought High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography to a new level. The following is an interview with Jeff Hagerman where he discusses his photography techniques, working process, and inspiration. The interview has been edited for →
She calls herself "a tinkerer at heart." And ever since Catherine Mohr walked into a Boston-area bike shop looking for a high school job repairing drive trains and spokes, the New Zealand-born surgeon and inventor has taken tinkering to a mind-boggling high art here in Silicon Valley. Dr. Catherine Mohr is the Director of Medical →
Daria Khoroshavina is portrait & fashion photographer based in Moscow, Russia. AdobeMax Creative Conference has featured her photography works on October 2014 and she has become a part of Adobe Creative Cloud Mosaic Collaborative project. Her works have been recognized and featured by online magazines and blogs such as Cat In Water, Practical Photography, Mehron blog, →
Cole Thompson is an award-winning black and white photographer who has been creating some of the most amazing and brilliant BW images that I know over the years. His art has appeared in hundreds of exhibitions, numerous leading publications and has received many international awards. To learn more about his works, visit his Official Website →
Andrew Hessel is a futurist and catalyst in biological technologies, helping industry, academics, and authorities better understand the changes ahead in life science. He is a Distinguished Researcher with Autodesk Inc.'s Bio/Nano Programmable Matter group, based out of San Francisco. He is also the co-founder of the Pink Army Cooperative, the world's first cooperative biotechnology →
Debra Harder is a Portrait and Landscape photographer. She is well respected in photography community for her wonderful works. As an art student in college, she developed an interest in photography. Originally, inspired by the works of Ansel Adams, she focused entirely on black and white images. In December of 2006, she was in a →
Jon nathanson is a technology and business columnist for Slate. He is also an angel investor and a strategy consultant in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The following is an interview with Jon Nathanson about Disruptive Innovation, Apple, Amazon's Fire Phone, Disrupting Hollywood and Future of Content Business. The interview has been edited for brevity: Niaz: Dear →
Do you know what Twitter, Groupon, and Shopify have in common – Ruby on Rails. It's a game changer in the way web-base applications are made for developers. It's also happens to be a by-product when David Heinemeier Hansson was building Basecamp (which is also a by-product). He is a founding partner at 37signals (now Basecamp), a NYT →
Editor's Note: Philip Delves Broughton is the author of The Art of the Sale, published in the UK as Life's a Pitch, and Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School, published outside the US as What They Teach You at Harvard Business School. His first book, Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard →


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Alexander Tierney, a resident of Danville, died suddenly June 19 at the age of 23.
He was born April 26, 1985, and always lived life to its fullest. After graduation from San Ramon Valley High in 2003, he enlisted in the Marines, where he served from 2003 to 2007. He fought bravely in Iraq and after completing his service, started a new career as project engineer in construction management.
He was an inspiration to all who knew him, a brave young man who showed strength and confidence. This U.S. Marine never shied from showing his love with a hug and kiss.
He was the son of Colin and Katrina Tierney; brother to Corinne; stepson of Gloria; stepbrother to Sarah and Megan; and cherished by his Nana, aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends.
A visitation was held June 27 at Wilson & Kratzer in Danville followed by a memorial service and celebration of his life June 28 at the Rolling Hills Church in Danville. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Blue Star Moms, Chapter 101, P.O. Box 2537, San Ramon, 94583, in memory of Alex Tierney.


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This week, more than 12,000 students have joined Carnegie Hall for the culminating concerts of the Weill Music Institute's interactive Link Up program. Link Up encourages students in grades 3–5 to discover how composers and musicians play with elements of rhythm, creating patterns of sound and silence that are expressive and exciting. Applications for the 2012–2013 school year are available now.
For more photos of Link Up at Carnegie Hall, visit our Facebook page.
Link Up is now accepting applications for the 2012–2013 school year. The program features the following:
Interested NYC-area elementary schools are invited to apply today. If you're outside the area, visit the Online Resource Center for access to a variety of digital materials, including Link Up program guides.


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Another Revolution Is Coming To The WWE
May 9, 2012 | News, Top Story | No Comments|
A new WWE viral marketing campaign is underway. The campaign, which states, "A Revolution Is Coming," has launched on the WWE website and will be pushed more heavily starting on Monday. No word yet on if the campaign will air on television – or whether it is promoting a superstar return/debut, the WWE Network launch or something else.
The video, which is hidden on the WWE.com and appears randomly before certain video content on the site, appears to show flashes of citizen uprisings.


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Man charged with threatening mother
A Grand Junction man was ordered by a judge not to have contact with his mother after he was charged with threatening her in their home.
Mesa County Judge Craig Henderson on Wednesday set bond at $3,000 for Marc Alan Muffly, 43, on charges of menacing, neglect of an at-risk adult and criminal mischief.
According to Muffly's arrest affidavit, police received a report about 9 p.m. Tuesday that an angry, intoxicated man was throwing knives at his elderly mother. When a Mesa County sheriff's deputy arrived and was waiting outside the home's front door, he heard a man, later identified as Muffly, saying he had a meat cleaver and "it could chop someone's head clean off." The man then made a chopping motion with his hand, saying "whack, whack, whack," the affidavit said.
After Muffly's 70-year-old mother allowed the deputy inside the home, the woman said she and her son had been arguing. After she had gone into her bedroom, he began throwing kitchen knives at a wall. The woman said she became afraid of the knieves and her son's statement about the meat cleaver, so she loaded a rifle with one round of ammunition to be able to defend herself, the affidavit said.
"She stated she had no intention of shooting him or killing him and that she thought if he attacked her with a knife she may shoot him in the leg to stop him," the affidavit said.
The woman told police she did not want her son arrested because he was already in trouble for drunken driving and that being arrested again might aggravate him and cause him to retaliate against her.
"She said he had been drinking alcohol and she just wanted him to stop drinking," the affidavit said.
Muffly admitted to the deputy that he had thrown three knives at the wall and admitted to making a statement about chopping off someone's head with a meat cleaver, the affidavit said.
In court Wednesday, Muffly told Henderson that he wanted to get out of jail so he could continue to work and support his mother and girlfriend. He downplayed his mother having loaded a rifle at the home, saying she regularly keeps loaded guns in the house.


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Santa Clarita United Methodist Church will host its Vacation Bible School July 21-25 from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. with the theme of "Surfing through the scriptures." Brochures for the school are available at the church office, as well as during the Sunday services. The church is also taking registrations for youth and adult volunteers.
For more information, contact the church office at (661) 297-3783.
Lake Hills Community Church
Lake Hills Community Church will hold its Vacation Bible School, known as Cactus Canyon, Monday to Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. The VBS is designed for children ages five years old through fifth grade.
The school will be held at Lake Hills Community Church, located at 33100 Lake Hughes Road in Castaic. For more information, call (661) 257-5777.


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OGDEN — Brady Nicholes can't stop himself from laughing as his traveling partner considers the ridiculousness of the suggestion.
What if Spencer Wright, one of seven Wright brothers from Milford, who seem to have saddle bronc riding in their genetic make-up, had decided he'd like to be a ballet dancer instead of riding bucking horses for a living?
"Well, I'm sure they (his family) would have supported me," he said, grinning at Nicholes.
Luckily, no one has to wonder what Spencer Wright might have been, as he is shaping up to be quite a bronc rider in his own right. It's not easy growing up in the shadow of his oldest brother, Cody Wright, who is a two-time world champion in the sport. On top of that, two of his brothers, including Cody, who set an arena record in Ogden on Friday with a 91-point ride, are ranked in the top 10. All four of his bronc-riding brothers are in the top 33 in the world.
So, does he feel a little pressure being the baby brother of one of the world's best?
"Not really, but in some small way, yes, I guess," he said after earning 77 points riding Hairy Mary at Ogden's Pioneer Days Rodeo on Saturday night. "Some people expect you to ride like him, which I try to do."
Wright travels with Nicholes and both are entering their sophomore year at Panhandle State University in Oklahoma on rodeo scholarships. They're competing this summer on their PRCA permits, which means they may not get into the country's top paying rodeos.
"This year has been a lot of fun," said Nicholes.
Adds Wright, "It's a lot better this year. The broncs are better."
And, as any rider will attest, drawing a good horse is the key to a successful season.
Both young men said they're not sure if they'll finish school should their ability to earn a living riding bucking horses continue to improve.
"The only thing I don't like is that the stock isn't as good," Wright said. "We're sort of the test pilots. But we're supposed to be in the toughest region."
Both men have already earned enough money to enable them to compete next year on their rookie cards, but for now they'll continue to work on their degrees while riding ornery horses.
"It's hard not to enjoy the life of a cowboy," said Wright grinning at Nicholes.
The nearly packed Pioneer Stadium had another treat when bareback rider Kaycee Feild, of Payson, managed to make the whistle on Tequila Sheila and earn 82 points. It was the third-best score of the night, behind Wes Stevenson with 85 points and Tom McFarland with 84.
Feild has been competing with a pelvic injury that was really bothering him two days ago at the Days of '47 Rodeo. Currently ranked third in the country, Feild is enjoying a successful season in spite of the pain.
He was one of the cowboys the PRCA invited to travel to the Middle East in May to visit with U.S. troops.
"We just visited them, meet and greets," he said. "I couldn't believe how many rodeo fans there were. There are tons and tons of western guys in the military."
He spent time talking with them, exchanging stories and even teaching a few of them how to rope.
"Going over there motivated me indescribably," he said. "It was awesome to go over there and meet them."
Before the rodeo began, the crowd honored retired U.S. Army master sergeant Gordon Ewell, who was part of an elite bomb-finding unit in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was part of the rodeo committee's tribute to the American Cowboy, as Saturday was the National Day of the American Cowboy.
Saturday's rodeo results
Bareback riding: 1. Wes Stevenson, 85 points; 2. Tom McFarland, 84; 3. Kaycee Feild, 82.
Steer wrestling: 1. Lex Smith, 4.7 seconds; 2. Coby Jones, 5.6; 3. Pat Page, 6.2.
Team roping: 1. Tom Richards and Bobby Baize, 6.8 seconds.
Saddle bronc riding: 1. Erik Wolford, 84 points; 2. Spencer Wright, 77; 3. Max Filippini, 72.
Tie-down roping: 1. Kenneth Winn, 8.9 seconds; 2. Justin Parke, 9.0; 3. Radar Shepherd, 20.4.
Barrel racing: 1. Jill Atkinson, 17.69 seconds; 2. Benette Barrington, 17.72; 3. Mary Aller, 18.06.
NOTE: No cowboys posted bull riding scores.
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Situated near the airport, this hotel is within 12 mi (20 km) of Koldmose Church, Lindholm Hoje, and Budolfi Cathedral. Jens Bangs Stenhus and North Jutland Art Museum are also within 12 mi (20 km).
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Along with a restaurant, this hotel has a bar/lounge and conference rooms. Free buffet breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free manager's reception. Additionally, free newspapers, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff are onsite.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning as well as a complimentary manager's reception. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
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Ruling watery realms
In Greek mythology the Titan god Oceanus was the son of Uranus and Gaea. He presided over "water, seas, lakes, rivers, oceans, streams and ponds," according to Wikipedia. Later on, Poseidon (known as Neptune to the Romans) was considered the ruler of the seas.
From this Greek god's name comes the English word "ocean."
Statute of Oceanus in Trevi Fountain, Rome
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"Choking" is a pretty common term in the sports world, but this may be the first time anyone ever thought it was offensive.
Then again, maybe things are different in North Dakota.
ESPN carried a report that Paul Ralston, the radio play-by-play man for North Dakota, called the team's effort in a 74-72 loss to North Arizona a "choke job."
He was then suspended by the university for two games.
Come on, North Dakota.
It's actually kind of amazing that his use of the phrase caused such a backlash since there couldn't have been more than 11 or 12 people listening to the broadcast. The state's ability to even field a basketball team is kind of impressive.
So what's the deal? Perhaps they've gotten a little overly sensitive ever since they had to retire the Fighting Sioux mascot?
Grand Forks Herald columnist Tom Miller argued in favor of the suspension, saying, "The employee crossed the line with a co-worker by using an inappropriate choice of words and creating a combative environment."
Uh, what? He said "choke job," not "I hate this job."
In reality, though, Miller's biggest problem with Ralston's choice of words seems to be that the team didn't actually choke because it was a close game.
So it's not that the words were offensive, it's that he was unprofessional for criticizing the team that sends him a paycheck.
It's time to grow a thicker skin, North Dakota. You're going to need it to survive the rest of the winter.


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Welcome to WeRelate, your virtual genealogical community. We're glad you have joined us. At WeRelate you can easily create ancestor web pages, connect with cousins and other genealogists, and find new information. To get started:
If you need any help, we will be glad to answer your questions. Just go to the Support page, click on the Add Topic link, type your message, then click the Save Page button. Thanks for participating and see you around! --Support 15:50, 30 April 2012 (EDT)
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Changes on existing pages [23 November 2012]
In reviewing possible duplicate pages for WeRelate, I see that you have made several changes to pre-existing pages without giving any evidence or explanation. A particularly extreme change, for example, was that for Alice Major (1), where you replaced her husband Daniel Walker with John Waller.
Some of the changes are difficult to understand, particularly the changes that have resulted in the duplicate pages Thomas Skiles and Alice Link (1) and Thomas Skiles and Alice Link (2).
Because the pages on WeRelate are shared pages, it is really important that changes made to a page someone else has created be done with some consideration, including an emphasis on sources and their reliability. You may want to have a look at the Wiki etiquette page for guide lines, in particular for ways to deal with disagreements and differences of opinion.
Following these guidelines makes it easier for others to understand what you are doing and why, and can greatly strengthen support for your research. It looks as though you may have valuable information that would be of benefit to others, but at the moment it is not clear.
As indicated in the Welcome message above, there are also a number of ways you can get help if you have any questions about or problems with entering data into WeRelate. --GayelKnott 16:29, 9 September 2012 (EDT)
Messing up the Family vs People entries is my fault. We Relate is difficult to use. Alice to Daniel Walker? I have never seen that marriage.--Rojamg 17:20, 23 November 2012 (EST)
Okay, I can really relate to feeling that WeRelate is difficult to use. I had a hard time learning how to use it, and sometimes, particularly when you are learning, it seems like you get into a really scary situation you don't know how to fix or get out of. (At least I did and sometimes still do.) Other people have said the same thing. All I can say is, hang in there, it really is worth learning. And, again, don't be afraid to ask for help. There really are some nice people here. One way, when you are editing a page, is to click on the "get help editing" link at the top right hand corner of the page. That will take you to a set of questions, with answers, that may help. If they don't, try the "Help editing" link at the bottom of the page. If that doesn't work, then try the "Support" link in the Welcome message above. Or if it's not too difficult, I can try to help. --GayelKnott 23:46, 23 November 2012 (EST)
Oops -- forgot what page your comment about Daniel Walker was on. The best way to handle a situation like the marriage of Alice to Daniel Walker is to question it and ask for a source. There are a lot of ways to do this, but probably the easiest is to just write a comment in the "Personal History" section of her page (and the marriage page), something like "The marriage of Alice to Daniel Walker does not appear in other records where she is found. Can someone provide a source for the marriage?" Or you could say something like, "The marriage of Alice to Daniel Walker seems questionable based on the records available. Can someone provide a source?" Or something like that. That way, other researchers are alerted to the problems with the assumed marriage, and you haven't thrown out someone else's research. If you can prove that Alice wasn't married to Daniel Walker, there are other things you could do, as well.
In this case, no one seems to have gotten upset about the changes that have been made, so I'd just leave it for now.
Hope that helps. --GayelKnott 00:16, 24 November 2012 (EST)


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Tuesday, 4 September 2012
The Imp Act Factor strikes again
So, what's the problem? In the context of a one-sided long-tail distribution, the mean is highly sensitive to outliers, and thus almost useless. Let's take an example. Let's suppose there were 99 papers published and each was cited once giving an Impact Factor of 1.0 (99*1/99). Now let's suppose a single additional paper was published which garnered 100 citations. The Impact Factor of the journal is now (99*1 + 1*100)/100 = 2.0. So a single paper, an outlier, has doubled the Impact Factor.
But that wouldn't happen in practice, right? No - you don't get it. The distribution of journal citations has a shape that guarantees this to happen; all those impact factors you read are just measures of outliers. How about instead "the Outlier Factor", or better still the "Extreme Value Factor"?
Still don't believe me? Well, let's take a concrete example. Thomson ISI has just deigned to give J. Cheminf. its first impact factor with a value of 3.42. Let's say that 65 papers have been taken into account, so that's about 222 citations in total. Now let's enter an outlier into the mix, say the Open Babel paper published in Oct of last year. I would expect about 30 to 60 citations a year once it gets going (based on prior citations of the software, as well as experience with the GaussSum paper) - let's just say 50 for a round number, so 100 citations in the 2-year period included in an impact factor. This means that all else being equal, in one year's time the journal's Impact Factor will rise to 4.1, and in two years to 4.9.
I just hope those Avogadro guys don't publish another outlier. :-)
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- gioby said...
Thank you for your post. I guess that the most striking example is the one of Acta cristallographica A, who jumped from 1.5 to ~50 in 2009, just for a single paper.
- 4 September 2012 at 12:23
One could get a bit more rigorous on this by asking about the observed variability of impact factors from year to year...?
- 4 September 2012 at 12:27
- baoilleach said...
@gioby: What a great example! I'm tempted to rewrite the post now. Maybe I'll insert a comment to see below.
- 4 September 2012 at 12:27
Actually, journal IFs and medians correlate: pic.twitter.com/QVMQkeZg
Some context here: http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2012/08/19/sick-of-impact-factors-coda/#comment-12080
- 4 September 2012 at 13:59
- baoilleach said...
Hmmmm...that's a bit strange, don't you think? In your example, the IF and the median not only correlate but have about the same value. Is my assumption about the shape of the distribution wrong then?
To clarify...did you calculate the mean yourself on the same date (apples-to-apples), or use the IF?
- 4 September 2012 at 14:10
To clarify, the horizontal axis on the plot I linked to above corresponds to the 2012 Journal IF as given by Thomson Reuters. However, the medians on the vertical axis are of citations received in the last 5 years (note that the IF time frame is two years). I extracted the data from Thomson Reuter's Web of Science.
Clearly, a journal's IF is a good predictor of the 5-year median number of citations per paper in the journal. The median is of course a better metric than the average, as the former is much less affected by the skewed-distribution issue.
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Summer? Whatever, Halloween is coming up, and thanks to General Mills, it's going to be even more nostalgic this year than ever before. The food corporation announced that for a limited time, they would resurrect all of their special monster-themed cereals, because Halloween is a time to celebrate spooky corn syrup-flavored treats.
Though they'll be available in stores nationwide, the old-time boxes of Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo Berry, Frute Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy will soon relocate to everyone's local favorite haunted mansion, Target. According to General Mills's blog, it's the first time that all five spoooOOooOOOooky flavors have been available at once, and the first time that Frute Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy have returned to store shelves ever since they were discontinued decades ago.
But now we, too young to remember these cereals, have so many questions: what the hell is a Frute Brute? Are Frankenberries genetically-modified Monsanto berries? Is the Yummy Mummy a man or a woman (or, judging by all those bandages, a post-op Joan Rivers)?
Please let us know, we need to boost our spooky cred.
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National Skyline's This = Everything is all about mood and atmosphere. Mysterious and lonely, National Skyline builds meaning out of drum loops, purring guitars, and the hushed vocals of Jeff Garber. Deceptively gentle, This = Everything is a reflective take on the modern world, where magic and beauty still exist beneath the surfaces of technology.
Far from being about the emptiness of everyday life, This = Everything tackles the search for significance in ordinary relationships, whether they're personal or public. While there is a certain sorrow that permeates this album, there's a sense of optimism, from the hypnotic opening track "Some Will Say" to even the ominous final track, "Grandstanding". Even when things are at their darkest (and This = Everything never quite becomes upbeat, so that is often), the message answers can be found as long as people seek them.
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No one element of National Skyline's music is given priority over the others. Lead singer Garber treats his voice like another one of the instruments, rising in and out, transferring importance back and forth from the vocals to the arrangement of the song. While the effect is subtly manipulative, it becomes clear when listeners should focus on either the lyrics or the overall effect of the music.
National Skyline is not as straightforward as they may seem, but lead listeners along with them, transitioning from glistening, layered arrangements like "A Million Circles" to nimbly spare tracks like "Make It Stop". These shifts never jarring listeners away from the entire effect of the album as a whole, which seems to be the most important thing that National Skyline is trying to achieve with This = Everything.
With a sparse grace, National Skyline has created beauty out of what seems like nothing. This elegant and moving collection of songs is both disarming and comforting, and fills the complicated spaces between the emotional life and the intellectual one. This = Everything does encompass everything that makes up life.
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The Beckman-Argyros Award in Vision Research is intended to reward individuals who are making significant transformative breakthroughs in vision research; this may include those whose contributions to science in general, or through the development of an innovative technology or fundamental scientific breakthrough have been applied to, aided and/or improved the vision sciences. The award includes a $100,000 prize plus $400,000 over three years to support the award recipient's research. Limited Submission – This opportunity requires internal coordination … Read More


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There's more ground breaking work on Franklin street
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The City of Kirksvilleâ??s Contractor, Mihalevich Concrete Construction resumed work on Franklin Streetscape project.
The area of focus for construction will be between Washington Street and McPherson Street. This portion of the beautification process on Franklin Street includes the removal and replacement of the curbs and sidewalks on the west side of Franklin street.
Please donâ??t park on the west side of Franklin street between Washington and McPherson. Anyone who is caught doing so will have their car towed at their expense. If all goes according to plan and Mother Nature cooperates, construction will conclude on Friday, May 3 at 5 p.m.


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Meet Captain Jide George, The Father Of Taiwo Oshadipe's Baby Boy Obama [PHOTOS]
Oct 15, 2014 – Meet Captain Jide George, The Father Of Taiwo Oshadipe's Baby Boy Obama [Pictures]
- Rev Dele George's Husband Impregnated Late Taiwo Of Oshadipe Twins
- Jide George Is The Owner Of Gold Myne TV & Husband Of Reverend Dele George Of The Little Saints Orphanage In Lagos
Less than 6 hours after her burial, the top kept secret of Taiwo Oshadipe is out.
NaijaGists.com sources just disclosed to us that the adorable baby boy named Obama is the product of a secret romance between Jide George popularly called Captain and the talented singer.
George is the founder of Goldmyne TV and a visiting husband to the owner of Little Saints Orphanage, Rev Dele George.
Before her death, the beautiful and highly skilled musician, who was elated with the arrival of the baby, had always dodged any question that had to do with the father of the baby as she was reluctant to let the cat out of the bag.
But, the lid on the secret appeared to have been blown open with a shocking rumour that the father of the baby is the Chairman of Goldmyne International, and financier of the musical duo.
NaijaGists.com reliable informants insisted that the baby is a result of Taiwo Oshadipe's long time secret romance with Jide George, whose wife, Reverend Dele George owns the popular Little Saint Orphanage in Lagos.
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It will be recalled that the duo were said to be an item few months back, but none of them was bold enough to admit that they were having an affair.
It's a common knowledge within the entertainment industry that Captain George is a godfather of the twins as he doted on them like his own children.
It was however a top secret that Taiwo, who with her sister made the world to believe that they were born again Christian, was warming the bed of their perceived godfather.
Jide George we learnt bought the 2 KIA cars the girl drives around Lagos and also recently bought late Taiwo a new KIA Elantra as part of their agreement to keep their romance secret from his wife, Rev Dele George and outsiders.
It was further revealed that after their romance resulted in her first pregnancy, the dark Captain ordered her to terminate it which she yielded to but as time goes on, she stood her ground and kept the pregnancy. We gathered that her move angered Captain George and he started withdrawing from her. '
All of a sudden, all the spoils stopped for the girls, and when he attempted to take back the new car he bought for Taiwo, she became mad at him and threatened to wreck his family by revealing everything that transpired between them to his wife, Reverend Dele George.
We hear, the Captain then aborted that idea and distanced himself from her until she delivered her baby boy.
Another reliable informant said since then, Taiwo has been struggling to gain the favour of Captain Jide George but to no avail until her rumoured spiritual attack that eventually led to her death.
Though her autopsy revealed that she died of Cardiopulmonary failure, family sources believed her death was spiritual in nature.
May her soul rest in peace and may God comfort her Twin sister, Kehinde Oshadipe and the family members.
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Truman students raise money for their 'pals'
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A group of Truman State University students held a bake sale to raise funds to provide activities for their 'pals.'
The universities Campus P.A.L.S. or People Acting Like Siblings is an organization where college students are paired with a student from the Kirksville School District, and they serve as their mentor. The children involved in the program range from kindergarten through fifth grade.
The purpose of the program is to provide the children with leadership, guidance, and friendship.
"I think it's just important for kids to have role models to look up to, especially if they don't have older siblings, it's nice just to have somebody to look up to and play with," said Elizabeth Grothoff, a member of the Campus P.A.L.S.
Members of the organization plan to use the funds raised from the bake sale to pay for activities like going to the movies with their pals.


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Victoria's Secret Secret Garden Collection Ultra-Moisturizing Hand & Body Cream Reviews
LoveI know that some people don't like strong scents, but I am a big fan of strong, lasting scents, and that's just what this collection delivers. My favorite is Love Spell-- it is a very unique and feminine fragrance, lots of florals in this and it lasts all day. The creams give really deep moisture, too. — 6 years, 5 months agoLittleBunny | 545 reviews
YummyThis lotion is so great and smells awesome. I have it in Love Spell which is my favorite scent and I fine that I don't even need any perfume or body spray after using this, I smell great all day as if I've used the body spray and it keeps my skin moisturized. — 7 years, 9 months agoBon_Bon | 522 reviews
very moisturizingi love victorias secret scents for special occasions. the scents are so delicious and give a boost of confidence for a special night out. it doesnt hurt that these creams are also very moisturizing. you'll get soft skin for hours! — 6 years, 4 months agokenya | 504 reviews
Light and moisturizingMy favorite scents are Secret Charm and Lost in Fantasy. The cream absorbs into skin and does not feel greasy or sticky, just hydrated. Not enough for very dry winter hands. — 3 years, 8 months agoSubCulture | 332 reviews
thick and creamy in a tube!Great for your purse, fragrances being changed all the time so keep an eye on your fav. The men in my house even use this hand cream. — 9 years, 7 months agothedragonslady | 483 reviews
LOVE SPELL!These are great! My favorite is Love spell, one of the best scents from Victoria's secret hands down! They are great for moisturizing, and I feel so sexy and feminine when I have these on because I don't even have to wear perfume when I put on the body lotion, the scent is strong enough like a perfume, but its not overwhelming and it will last all day. Its a warm floral smell so its great for spring and summer. — 4 years, 2 months agonelly_recinos | 139 reviews
love my skin in thisI love the way my skin feels like velvet when i use this after stepping out of the shower. It absorbs quickly and doesn't leave a colored tint unlike the body lotion. The scent isn't too strong, it's just right. i love my Vanilla Lace scent. — 9 years, 1 month agoMiss_Vicki | 271 reviews
love love loveim addicted to all victoria secret scents and this lotion in amber romance is my absolute favorite. ive been using it for quite some time and it has become my signature scent, its not too overwhelming but it definitely gets noticed by others i love how soft my skin feels and i stay smelling good all day long. i will continue to buy this product — 6 years agoiluvbailey | 4 reviews
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Awesome!!Love using Victoria Secret hand and body cream. My favorite scent is Love Spell. Actually this is my signature summer scent. The body cream has a thick texture but goes on nice and smooth. Doesn't leave your skin feeling sticky. If you use Love Spell it will last all day. I've rec'd lots of compliments when wearing Love Spell. Smells so pretty as if you were wearing perfume. If you are looking for a quality body cream, I would definitely recommend Victoria Secret hand & body cream. — 6 years, 9 months agoTweety12 | 118 reviews
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Are Your Losses Putting Your Company At Risk?
EP Editorial Staff | November 13, 2013
Time for a reality check. Coming to grips with various risk-related situations in your operations is an important step toward improving the organization's position and profits.
By R. Keith Mobley, CMRP, Life Cycle Engineering (LCE)
Few organizations truly understand the risks they face (risks that could potentially cause the company to suffer severe setbacks or even fail). The first thoughts of business-related risk usually revolve around catastrophic failures or events such as explosions, fires or floods. Although quite serious, these types of risks usually can be covered by insurance policies that will at least support continued operations should an event occur.
Equally significant are the risks that cannot be covered by insurance, and often go hidden or ignored until it is far too late. Characterized as "expense-related risks," they generally fall into three categories.
Risk from direct materials cost increases
Direct materials cost increases are often cited as a reason for financial loss. Few organizations recognize that these costs are controllable and should not pose a risk to the company. The problem is that no one is really trying to control materials costs within the operation. Instead, all of the focus is on controlling the procurement cost.
For example, a dairy products plant unknowingly permitted habitual substitution of more expensive ingredients in recipes; used cleaning methods that led to millions of dollars in contamination losses; incurred losses of entire batches of product because of scheduling problems; and consistently produced overweight products. The net result of these losses increased cost of goods sold by more than 50%.
The distressing fact is that direct materials losses resulting from poor practices, lack of supervision and a failing work culture contribute heavily to rising costs in far too many organizations. Even more distressing, they often go unnoticed.
Risk from scrap, reclaim and rework
Scrap, reclaim and rework represent another significant risk that, while recognized, goes uncontrolled in most organizations. The amazing part of this category of risk is that few people acknowledge it as true loss, even when confronted with the following troubling fact: about one-third of a typical manufacturing or production facility's footprint, workforce and costs are consumed by this work classification.
The loss of revenue, combined with the potential loss of market share caused by both quality and delivery issues, creates a significant risk. And it reflects something that is absolutely controllable.
Risk from energy consumption
Energy consumption and its associated cost represent another significant risk. Studies conducted by a variety of industry-specific organizations state that energy consumption is 10% to 20% higher than necessary. Most of these losses are attributed to operating and maintenance methods.
For example, one refinery wasted $6.3 million annually to operate its slurry pumps. Instead of limiting the control range of the pumps, the operators constantly varied output from full-open to full-closed—essentially doubling the required horsepower to run the pumps. Compounding the unnecessary increase in power, this mode of operation added $4.0 million in annual pump repair costs.
But there's more
- Employee-related risks must also be considered. Operating mistakes resulting in catastrophic failures or measureable downtime are generally acknowledged as potential risks, but few people recognize that many, if not most, of these are caused by training-, morale- and procedures-related deficiencies that are the true risks. Unless these underlying issues are recognized and effectively resolved, the potential for serious risk will always be present.
- Organizations also put themselves at risk by operating manufacturing or production systems at less than their designed rate. Unchecked, operators sometimes elect to arbitrarily change an asset, line or system's operating "sweet spot." This can, and often does, reduce throughput by 50% or more. Expand this failure to follow procedures to the entire operating spectrum, e.g. startup, speed transients, changeovers and shutdowns, and employee-related risks can easily make the difference between profitability and bankruptcy.
- Few organizations fully understand the absolute necessity for universal adherence to value-added standard work and business activities. Instead, they live with, and often encourage, employee freedom to use variation in the way work is executed and decisions are made—not recognizing how the resultant variability and associated losses put their businesses at risk.
What does all this mean for your organization?
Not everyone perceives the correlation between these limiting factors and risk, but it is clearly there. The waste and losses detailed here result in a market position that is at risk to competitors who have recognized and resolved them. In a global market where high-quality, low-cost products are immediately available to consumers, inefficiency is a death knell manifesting as lost market share, revenue, operating profit and, ultimately, business continuation.
Get serious. Ask yourself if your losses are putting your company at risk. Organizations that acknowledge the risks of wastes and losses I've described—and take positive actions to correct them—can substantially improve their market position and operating profits.MT
Keith Mobley is Principal, SME, with Life Cycle Engineering, based in Charleston, SC. He has more than 35 years of direct experience in corporate management, process design and troubleshooting. Email: email@example.com.


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The Effect of Z-338 in Subjects With Functional Dyspepsia
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Z-338; PhaseIIb, Single-centre, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Parallel group study in Subjects with Functional Dyspepsia, evaluate the motility of gastro-duodenum by ultrasound
|Functioanl Dyspepsia
|Drug: Z-338
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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
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|The Effect of Z-338 in Subjects With Functional Dyspepsia, Evaluate the Function of Gastro-duodenum by Ultrasound
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|20 Years to 79 Years (Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Postprandial fullness, upper abdominal bloating and/or early satiety should be at least moderate for 2 days or more at the 7 days at Visit 1.
- Upper abdominal pain, upper abdominal discomfort, postprandial fullness, upper abdominal bloating, early satiety, nausea, vomit and belching should be at least moderate for at least 2 symptoms for 2 days or more at the 7 days at Visit 1.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects that heartburn should be the most bothersome symptom
- Subjects presenting with primary complaints relieved by stool movements (IBS)
- Subjects with diabetes by treatment
- Subjects that heartburn should be more than moderate
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00458328
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|Kawasaki Medical School
|Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan, 701-0192
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Zeria Pharmaceutical
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Q. I manage the finishing facility at my plant where we are spraying a high-viscosity paint and have problems with the spray pattern. Our primary problem is getting a consistently even distribution of paint in the spray pattern. This has resulted in striping on the sprayed parts. To get better results, we are currently adding reducing solvents to lower the paint's viscosity for spraying. We have tried airless spray equipment from several suppliers with mixed results. No matter what equipment we try, we still have a problem getting a repeatable, consistently even spray pattern. Can you recommend a company whose equipment will improve our application and hopefully eliminate the problem entirely? M.H.
A. In these times of high-priced solvents, their addition to paint for viscosity reduction is not cost-effective. Furthermore, it is counter-productive to the goals of the U.S. EPA and other regulating agencies whose goals are reduction of solvent emissions.
I cannot recommend specific suppliers, (visit PFonline.com for a complete supplier list), however you will get good results spraying high-viscosity, high-solids and even some 100-percent-solids paints using air-assisted airless spray equipment. This equipment should suit your needs since you will be able to control spray patterns in much the same way as with conventional air spray guns. Another approach to spraying high-viscosity paint is the use of high-rotational-speed bells and discs.


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Hotel rates in Israel for the winter season starting on September 1 have been cut by ten percent on previously published rates, the Israel Hotel Association announced today. The association represents 230 tourist-recommended hotels throughout Israel. The lower rates are aimed at boosting traffic by individual tourists during the winter season.


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Jon Huntsman Jr. implored voters Monday night in South Carolina to compare his gubernatorial record in Utah to Mitt Romney's in Massachusetts.
Huntsman, speaking to approximately 200 Republicans at Mutt's Barbeque in Greer, said, "Take a look at what we have done — simply stated take a look at what we have done. … When you look at the absolute increases in job creation, Utah led the United States in job creation. That compared and contrasted with other states — say, Massachusetts, I'll just pull that out randomly — not first, but 47th."
"Huntsman's critique was fairly gentle — he made clear he meant to refer to his main New Hampshire rival, without naming him," Maggie Haberman wrote for Politico. "It's not clear right now that Huntsman can gain the ground he needs by bringing a knife to what's quickly becoming a gun fight in advance of the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, but since he's skipping that state and has months until the New Hampshire primary, he has some time."
"While record-comparing is still the theme of Huntsman's stump speech, his delivery has taken a clear turn … (from) his usual no-names-mentioned approach to campaigning," observed ABC News reporter Sarah Kunin, who was present at Monday's event.
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text: Yankees Superstar Bernie Williams Discusses Career, Performs with University Jazz Orchestra During Distinguished Lecturer Series Williams talked baseball and music with author and veteran sportswriter Phil Pepe. View slideshow of photos from event Bernie Williams discussed his sixteen-year career as a Yankee superstar and showcased his virtuosity as a jazz guitarist during his appearance at the University on November 12 as part of the University's Distinguished Lecturer Series in front of a sold-out audience in Shea Center. Williams talked baseball and music with author and veteran sportswriter Phil Pepe. He also performed six of his own contemporary jazz compositions (which were arranged by William Paterson graduate music students) with the William Paterson University Jazz Orchestra, composed of students in the University's Jazz Studies Program. He also answered questions from the audience before ending the evening with his own arrangement of the classic baseball tune Take Me Out to the Ballgame. The William Paterson Jazz Orchestra, directed by David Demsey, professor of music, is one of the most respected student jazz ensembles in the nation, and regularly performs with well-known guest soloists as part of the Jazz Room Series. Members include saxophonists Caleb Curtis, Nathan Giroux, Nicole Glover, Ben Kovacs, and Eric Neveloff; trumpeters Zachary Gillespie, Kyle McGinty, Mark Pawlak, David Pomerantz, and Danny Reyes; trombonists Collin Banks, Andrea Gonnella, Peter Lin, and Anthony Meade; and rhythm section members Julia Brav, Britt Ciampa, Brian Messenger, and Adrian Moring. The arrangements of Williams's compositions were written especially for the performance by students in the University's master's degree program in jazz, including Shannon Baker, Greg Chako, Chris Connolly, Allen Farnham, Jacob Nevill, and Erica Seguine. 11/17/10


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CARE Clinic can help navigate MNsure
The Red Wing CARE Clinic is now an official MNsure partner and has certified navigators available to help uninsured Goodhue County residents apply for coverage through the state's health insurance marketplace, the organization announced this month.
"Becoming a contracted MNsure partner allows us to serve our patients and community members, as we are able assist those who are in need of access to health care coverage and options," clinical Director Julie Malyon said in a statement.
Three certified navigators will be on hand Tuesdays 4 to 8 p.m. during normal clinic hours, said Julie Hatch, one of CARE Clinic's MNsure volunteers.
Certification involved a 20-hour education process for participants to learn about MNsure and the Affordable Care Act, Hatch said. The navigators also receive ongoing updates about the programs.
Patients coming into the CARE Clinic will first meet with a resource coordinator for a pre-screening to determine if they are eligible to sign up with MNsure, Hatch explained. They will then work with the certified navigators to explore available coverage.
Residents can make an appointment to meet with a navigator at the clinic without needing medical care, she added.
As part of its partnership with MNsure, the CARE Clinic also received a grant to provide education and community outreach. The clinic teamed with Three Rivers Community Action and the Workforce Development Center to host a MNsure enrollment fair Dec. 12.
So far Hatch said the number of people they have signed up for insurance is still fairly low, but that is largely due to ongoing technical problems with the MNsure website.
Fines or premiums
Short for community, access, resources and education, the CARE Clinic provides medical care and support services to low-income and uninsured county residents.
As more people are able to sign up for insurance through MNsure, Hatch said it could reduce the number of patients treated at the clinic — but she said it's still too early to tell how much of an effect the marketplace will have.
"A lot of people will qualify (for insurance), but there will be some who still can't afford it," Hatch said, adding that some people will choose the fine for refusing coverage instead of paying monthly premiums.
The individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act requires most adults to have health insurance starting in January. Unless exempt, forgoing health insurance incurs a tax penalty of $95 or 1 percent of taxable income if that would be greater. The fine jumps to $325 per adult or 2 percent of income in 2015.
AmeriCorps volunteer Janine Foggia said the CARE Clinic will bridge care for people who have not yet signed up or are waiting for their new insurance to kick in.
The CARE Clinic will continue to provide dental and vision services that are not covered under all plans and help supply medication to those who cannot afford it, Foggia said.
"We will be here as long as there is a need."
The CARE Clinic is located at 1407 W. Fourth St. in the former St. John's Emergency Room. For more information, call 651-388-1022 or visit www.careclinicrw.com.


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