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When the season began, the Los Angeles Clippers had Randy Foye, Chauncey Billups and Mo Williams as possible options behind Chris Paul. Given that, how could anyone have predicted that Eric Bledsoe would be in this position? Not only is he playing regularly, but he's providing the Clippers with a huge spark off the bench, especially defensively and pushing the ball.
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Monday, November 4, 2013
A Talk by Max Blumenthal: Goliath: Fear and Loathing In Israel.
Award-winning journalist and NY Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal comes to Oxy to discuss his book Goliath: Fear and Loathing In Israel.
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Daily Beast, the Nation, Guardian, Independent Film Channel, The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, and many other publications. He will speak on the political and religious issues and movements within present-day Israel by uncovering the histories of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
A Talk by Dr. Walid A. Majid: Searching for Pulsars at the Center of the Galaxy
Dr. Walid A. Majid of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will give a talk entitled "Searching for Pulsars at the Center of the Galaxy," presented by the 2013 Physics Seminar Series.
Pulsars are highly magnetized, rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation that could be directed at Earth. Dr. Majid will discuss why it is important to search for pulsars in the center of the galaxy, and will give a summary of previous and ongoing efforts to survey the region with radio telescopes. He will also describe JPL's monitoring program using a newly refurbished Deen Space Network antenna, and will discuss the potential of future instruments that could detect hundreds of pulsars in the region.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Artist Liz Collins in Dialogue
Textile artist, fashion designer, and Wanlass Artist-in-Residence Liz Collins will engage in dialogue with noted art historian Julia Bryan-Wilson, followed by the opening of her new installation, Distancer-Pursuer.
An opening reception will be held at Mullin Gallery after the presentation. And don't miss the West Coast debut of Collins' KNITTING NATION on Wednesday, Nov. 6, on the steps between Johnson and Fowler halls.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Screening of "Why We Fight"
Presented by the Politics Department as part of the weekly film series for Politics 101.
Why We Fight (99 min) describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its more than 50-year involvement with the wars led by the United States, including the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Washington University School of Social Work Info Session
Interested in social work post-Oxy? Come here from this elite institution.
Social work and public health students at Washington University's Brown School are united by a passion to help others and a need to make change happen. Learn more about their graduate social work degree, graduate degree in public health, and doctoral degree programs.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Russell Shorto is the bestselling author of Descartes' Bones and The Island at the Center of the World and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. His books have been published in fourteen languages and have won numerous awards. From 2008-2013, he was the Director of the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Talk: Hawai'ian Food Heritage, Community Empowerment, and Sustainable Development
Hawai'i Club brings Daniel Anthony, a taro farmer from O'ahu, to Oxy to speak on Hawai'ian food heritage, community empowerment, and sustainable development.

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It was reported Wednesday that Texas free safety Kenny Vaccaro is visiting with the Carolina Panthers prior to the draft. Along with Jonathan Cyprien, the two top safety prospects have now met with the organization. Unlike other positions where it's simply one player vs. another, the safety spot is a lot more difficult to predict. These are two prospects with very different games, though either would help immediately.
Up to this point the plan has been to move Charles Godfrey to the starting FS spot. Struggling in an aggressive role, switching him back would allow him to display the ball skills that resulted in five interceptions in 2010. While the Panthers attempted to bolster their safeties over the last decade, their attempts to select cornerbacks and covert them was largely a disaster. Lacking the ability to play at the line of scrimmage, and failing in coverage -- they were the definition of 'jack of all trades, master of none'.
Widely regarded as the nation's top safety, Vaccaro was the heart of a terrible Texas defense. His situation is not dissimilar to Luke Kuechly's in 2012 -- a rose among thorns.
Comparisons to Kuechly continue. Vaccaro is regarded as a solid defender, but not a difference maker. He's not the player to deliver the huge hit, or be a ball hawk in the secondary -- however, he is the kind of player who could be plugged into the free safety spot for a decade. He also offers schematic versatility. While he projects to be the last line of defense, he has an ability to do the dirty work up around the line of scrimmage -- and can shoot the gap when needed, being a nuisance in the backfield.
Unlike last year's rookie of the year, he doesn't display the off-the-charts football IQ. Far from a complete prospect, he takes bad angles at times, gets prone to playing overly-aggressive, and could struggle against speedy deep-threat receivers. In taking Vaccaro, the Panthers would be committing to return to Charles Godfrey at the strong safety spot. This isn't an ideal situation, but in two years it could be a moot point if Dave Gettleman parts ways with the veteran safety.
Cyprien is the safety the Carolina Panthers could use right now. A strong, hard-hitting player with a knack for getting turnovers, he would immediately slot in with Charles Godfrey and push the Panthers towards their end goal.
Almost unheard of prior to the senior bowl, it was a case of Cyprien making the most of his opportunity to show off for scouts -- and now he's a lock to be selected in the draft's first two days. He closes well in space, hits with full force, and has the versatility to move into either safety spot if needed.
Both Vaccaro and Cyprien are incomplete projects, but in order to excel at the next level Cyprien needs more work. It goes beyond the competition leap from FIU to the NFL, and instead pertains to the way he engages on defense. Often he hits high, rather than take to the legs -- a hallmark of Charles Godfrey's game. His play recognition leaves a lot to be desired, and he tends to get beaten in man coverage. Until these gaps are filled, he could be a liability if asked to cover slot receivers and tight ends.
Where do they fit?
Ultimately it's a case of patching a hole right now, or patching a hole in a year or two. Jonathan Cyprien offers immediate help, and has the upside to develop into an excellent NFL strong safety. Meanwhile, Kenny Vaccaro is a safety blanket. He might not make any huge plays, but as a last line of defense he'll stop passes like last year's Atlanta debacle.
The Panthers need two new safeties to achieve their goal. Charles Godfrey is interchangeable, but carries a huge price tag starting in 2014. Meanwhile Carolina has no good option at SS -- and need to find an upgrade immediately.


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There is new global consensus that the rules of trade embodied in the W.T.O. agreements are unfair and need to be changed. The next step of work is actually achieving changes on the basis of justice.
Trade justice demands that justice should govern trade, instead of trade creating deeper inequality and injustice. Justice creates an imperative to include the excluded, those who have been or are being excluded from rights and access to natural resources, access to markets, and means of livelihood and access to decision making. The roots of poverty lie in the destruction of livelihoods, destruction of resources, destruction of markets for products of one's labour, and devaluation of labour. As livelihoods are destroyed and resources robbed from people, as systems of trade liberalization devalue the worth of labour in the
Globalization and free trade deepen poverty in the
A zero cost resource that belongs collectively to farming communities is transformed into a high cost input to be bought every year because it is covered by intellectual property which makes seed saving and sharing and knowledge sharing a crime. GATS threatens to rob the rural poor of the access to water, as has already happened with the DFID financed water privatization in Orissa. Irrigation water costs have increased 10 fold as a result of privatization. Privatization is destroying the livelihoods of the poor. In Haryana, 63 farmers have been shot dead in protests against water and electricity privatization.
Trade liberalization is destroying local markets and local livelihoods, as in the case of dumping of artificially cheap subsidized agricultural commodities on markets in
Trade justice therefore needs to defend the rights to natural resources of the poor and change TRIPs and GATS to exclude biodiversity, genetic resources and seeds from patentability and water from privatization and commodification.
Trade justice also requires that
These issues of natural resources rights and restricting market access to markets of the South are shared principles and objectives in the trade justice movement.
The confusion and uncertainty lies in the area of market access to markets of the North. Superficially, this is proposed as the rich giving market access to the poor. This superficial and mechanical proposition however hides and renders invisible the processes unleashed in the lives of poor people when the "market access" logic starts to transform resource ownership and use, trade and marketing patterns, and entitlements and incomes.
"Market access" by itself is a vague and confusing phrase. It does not clarify "which market" and "whose access".
Markets can be local, national and international. Access of producers to local and national markets implies regulation, not liberalization of trade. For example, by the policies created in post-independent
Guaranteeing domestic market access meant restricting imports as well as exports. In the first year of trade liberalization, when cotton was exported, weavers could no longer get cotton at affordable prices, and 2 million were pushed out of their livelihoods within one year. Domestic market access therefore can often require blocking international market access to ensure that the raw material and markets that generate livelihoods are ensured. It is, therefore, not enough to say "market access" but elaborate which market, and also assess the impact of international market access on domestic markets to categorize.
It is also necessary to categorize "whose access". In a globalized world, with global corporations producing in the South or exporting from the South, merely saying "market access to the South" could end up facilitating the unjust and unequal systems of trade which corporate rule is creating. An example is the food exports from
While the conditionalities from global trade and financial institutions are preventing the government from supporting the poor to have access to adequate and nutritious food, they are promoting the diversion of subsidies from people to corporations. While people have been forced to buy wheat and rice at Rs. 11.30/Kg., because of the withdrawal of subsidies, export corporations such as Cargill are getting wheat and rice at highly subsidized prices. Using the artificially created surpluses as justification for exports the government will be exporting 5 million tonnes of wheat and 3 million tonnes of rice during 2001 while people pay Rs. 7000 per tonne for wheat, exporters are getting it at Rs. 4,300 per tonne, a subsidy of Rs. 13.5 billion. While people pay Rs. 11,300/Ton for rice, exporters are getting at Rs. 5,650 per tonne, a subsidy of Rs. 60 billion. Exports increase while people starve. Corporations are subsidized while people's food subsidies are withdrawn. This is how globalization is causing hunger and starvation in the
It is the trading giants like Pepsi and Cargill who have benefited from withdrawal of food subsidies to the poor and redirection of subsidies for exports. Pepsi is exporting 100,000 tonnes of rice from
The trade justice movement would clearly not want to support the Cargill and Pepsi exports from
Free trade market access implies Monsanto freedom, not the freedom of people of the South or North. People's freedom must be based on fair trade, not free trade. We therefore need to go beyond the "Market Access" slogan and discriminate between fair trade and free trade market access, domestic and international markets, access for small producers vs global corporations. We need to give priority to the former since local livelihoods are strengthened through participation in local markets, while export markets increase corporate control while destroying local livelihoods. Exports under free trade regimes also transfer resources such as land and water from the poor to corporations, thus deepening poverty. They also put countries in competition against each other, lowering the value of commodities have devaluing labour and lowering incomes.
Free Trade Market Access
Fair Trade Market Access
Market access for corporations.
Peasants and farmers displaced to make way for corporate farming.
Seeds become a corporate monopoly.
Water is privatized.
Local food security undermined.
Small ecological producers of North destroyed.
Northern consumers get hazardous and unsafe products, poor in South Starve.
Market access for small producers.
Peasants and farmers have resource and livelihood security.
Seed sovereignty for farming communities.
Water is common property.
Third world producers remain autonomous, getting just and fair prices.
Local food security strengthened.
Small ecological farmers of North strengthened.
Consumers of North get safe food, poor in the South have access to food.


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Spring is almost here, and we all know what that means... spring cleaning! But forget about the mop, 'cause today, we're talking about clearing out your wardrobe! It is Fashion Friday, after all. So, start by pushing those dark wintery duds to the back of your closet. This season it's all about bright colors! And Miranda Cosgrove knows exactly how to lighten your look. "I'm really into bright-colored tights right now," Miranda told Popstar!, "like I love wearing skirts with like some bright colored tights and some boots, like maybe hot pink or something, it makes the outfit more fun."
But what else? According to Miranda, now is the time to ditch the winter leggings. "I think people are getting a little over leggings now," Miranda said. Instead, opt for some black tights to give your outfit the same look, but avoiding the heat!
And the one cold weather accessory that never goes out of style for this fashionista is trendy boots. In fact, they're Miranda's fave year-round pick. "I have pretty much every color in boots in my house," she dished.
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To book another HAL cruise while on board, it is a $100p/p non-refundable booking fee! After the way we were treated on this one, why would we want to endure any more of this nonsense? We came home, and immediately started looking at Oceania, MSC and Celebrity. After 39 years of cruising and many many wonderful cruises on HAL, this 5 day cruise did us in. Perhaps we have grown up and they haven't. It felt more like a Carnival Cruise than anything else. When another reviewer said it was Motel 6, he was being extra nice.


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Help us save the Deanes School in Thundersley
4:30pm Tuesday 28th January 2014 in Local News
THE determined headteacher of the Deanes School is calling on the community one last time to help save it from closure.
Inspector David Lennard from the Office of the Schools Adjudicator will be visiting the school, in Daws Heath Road, Thundersley, on Thursday to decide whether to overturnEssex County Council's decision to close it for good from August 2015.
The Government body, which operates independently from the Department for Education, will hold a public meeting with parents, pupils and residents on Thursday to hear evidence on why the controversial decision should be reviewed.
Hundreds of worried residents turned out to make their voices heard during the consultation meetings over the school's future last summer and numerous public protests were made.
Headteacher Jan Atkinson is imploring the community to do the same again and show the overwhelming support needed to keep the Deanes open.
Mrs Atkinson said: "The adjudicator is independent and will listen to us. It is essential everyone attends this meeting. The adjudicator must not be left in any doubt about our support.
"He will take the feelings of parents, students and the community into consideration. Every current parent needs to be there.
All future parents need to attend.
All past parents need to attend.
Everymember of the community who uses the Deanes' facilities needs to be there. This is our final chance to save the Deanes School."
The decision to close the school was taken by the county council's ruling Tory cabinet last November.
This was despite opposition from thousands of worried parents and pupils as well as formal objections from local MPs and Castle Point, Basildon and Southend councils.
The school is still awaiting the outcome of its bid for academy status, which rests with Education Secretary Michael Gove.
Lisa Stroud, assistant headteacher, who has worked at the school for more than 20 years, said: "Finally, we have our chance, teachers, parents, students and community members, for a fair hearing of the future of the Deanes School."
The meeting will take place at 7pm at the school on Thursday.
For more information, call the school on 01268 773545.
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Driving to a Dodgers game sucks. Driving home from a Dodgers game sucks.
Such it is, such it has always been, and such it shall always be. Probably.
Is this such a terrible thing for the Los Angeles Dodgers as a franchise, though? For their Los Angeles Dodgers' business?
Here's Bill Plaschke in The Los Angeles Times:
Once again, the worst sporting experience in this town is driving into — and out of — a Dodgers game that fills a 56,000-seat stadium that is baseball's biggest and most unmanageable. Tuesday was the Dodgers' 10th sellout this season, which is 10 traffic nightmares too many.
Agreed. Plaschke offers some terrible examples. Fans who reach the parking lot an hour before game time, and still miss the first pitch. Fans who are still trying to park, four innings into the game. And of course we know that many fans leave in the seventh inning because they want to get home before midnight.
These are all terrible things. I mean, they don't rank real high on a serious hierarchy of horribles. But going to the ballpark should be fun, and none of that sounds like any fun at all. Here's where Plaschke loses me a little bit, though:
The Dodgers have won a surprising number of games while spending a stunning amount of money this summer, but none of that will fix their still-smarting public perception if they don't fix the gridlock, and they know it.
I'm not following the logic here. For many years, the Dodgers were hugely successful at the box office. For just as many years -- as Plaschke notes -- the traffic was terrible. If the gridlock didn't hurt the Dodgers' public perception back then, why would it hurt their public perception now?
Last year, the public perception was smarting because a) someone got assaulted in the parking lot, b) the team wasn't very good, and c) the owners were behaving atrociously, in a very public way. By far, the best barometer of public perception is attendance (especially in the absence of easily accessible, accurate television ratings).
The Dodgers' attendance is up 13 percent this season, compared to last season. That's a huge increase. Last season the Dodgers finished sixth in the National League in attendance; this season they're third. There's room for improvement, no question -- they were second in the league in 2010 -- and I expect more improvement in 2013, following a winning season and what's likely to be an interesting off-season. Still: 13 percent is really good!
Which doesn't mean the gridlock's any fun. Whatever word describes the opposite of fun, it's that word.
How do you fix it, though? How do you make the traffic better, so more people want to visit the ballpark? Again, Plaschke:
There's really only one answer, and it works not only for parking, but on a variety of levels.
The Dodgers need to shrink the stadium. Fewer fans, fewer cars. Shrink it by replacing a bunch of seats with patios and railings and the kinds of restaurants that are landmarks in other stadiums. Transform the mammoth into a more intimate creature that has been so popular in other cities.
Shrink it to also increase comfort, ambience and buzz.
Right. Instead of doing something to make the fan experience better and increase the number of fans, do something to decrease the number of fans.
In theory, this makes a certain sense. According to Plaschke -- and to the Dodgers as well, I suspect -- there simply isn't any practical solution to the traffic issues (more on that in a moment). But if you rip out 12,000 seats, then - presto, you've made the traffic better, especially on those nights when the game is sold out.
Hey, this would be great for fans like me. I hate traffic, and I know people with access to the good seats. If Dodger Stadium held 44,000 seats rather than 56,000, my experience as a fan would be improved by some measurable amount. No question.
But the Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball shouldn't think exclusively about fans like me. One of the best things about Dodger Stadium is its size. The Marlins are visiting Dodger Stadium this week, and you can purchase an upper-deck seat for $10. The reason you can purchase an upper-deck seat for $10 is simple: There are a lot of upper-deck seats. There are a lot of seats, period. If there's one thing I can promise you, with metaphysical certitude, it's that if the Dodgers rip out thousands of seats, a) the average ticket prices will rise significantly, and b) there won't be nearly as many cheap seats available.
We might call it "the gentrification of baseball", and we've just seen it happen in New York. Maybe this makes me a radical, but it seems to me that you should build a ballpark big enough to hold the fans who are willing to pay a reasonable price for a ticket. And considering the Dodgers' attendance over the years -- and those 10 sellouts already this season -- it seems that 56,000 is just about right for Dodger Stadium.
Ah, but that traffic ... Again, if it were that terrible a problem, the Dodgers wouldn't have sold so many tickets over the years (including this year). What's more, I simply don't believe that there's nothing to be done about it. What I think is that nobody's really tried hard enough. Yes, building more roads is problematic because of the cost, and because of the surrounding neighborhoods. But what if the Dodgers offered free parking to every vehicle with more than two people inside? What if the Dodgers subsidized buses from satellite parking lots? What if the Dodgers provided the seed money for some radical new transportation system from a nearby population center?
There's been a great deal of talk about remaking Dodger Stadium, the way that Fenway Park has been remade. In fact, the Dodgers recently hired the woman who oversaw the remaking of Fenway Park. What's odd is that Fenway Park was expanded because there was obviously a demand for more seats. Are the Dodgers really going to shrink Dodger Stadium, in the immediate wake of a huge attendance increase?
The renovation and "enhancement" of Dodger Stadium will inevitably happen, even though there's nothing actually wrong with the old place, in all its early-1960s glory. You know, progress. But I can't help wondering ... Let's assume the Dodgers ultimately spend in the neighborhood of $200 million on Dodger Stadium "improvements" ... What if they assign just a quarter of that money to solving the traffic and parking problems?
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Aberrant regulation of cellular signaling pathways can lead to uncontrolled cell growth and proliferation leading to malignant transformation and tumorigenesis. Constitutive activation of the mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway is a highly frequent event in human cancer, which results from mutations in key components of the pathway or by mutations in upstream activators of the pathway. Despite the current advances and therapeutics targeting this pathway, cancer cells develop resistance mechanisms or alternative signaling to bypass the effect of current kinase inhibitors. Therefore, we are using innovative chemical and structural approaches to elucidate and target novel mechanisms that regulate critical components of the MAPK signaling pathway e.g. RAS, RAF, MEK and ERK proteins. Our goals are to advance our understanding of the structure-function relationships regulating important components of the MAPK signaling pathway and provide new avenues for drug development overcoming resistance mechanisms to current therapies.
Gavathiotis E, Reyna DR, Davis ML, Bird GH, Walensky LD. BH3-Triggered Structural Re-organization Drives the Activation of Pro-apoptotic BAX Mol. Cell 2010, 40:481-492.
Whelan RS, Konstantinidis K, Wei AC, Chen Y, Reyna DE, Jha S, Yang Y, Calvert JW, Lindsten T, Thompson CB, Crow MT, Gavathiotis E, Dorn GW 2nd, O'Rourke B, Kitsis RN. Bax regulates primary necrosis through mitochondrial dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012, 109:6566-6571.
LaBelle JL, Katz SK, Bird GH, Gavathiotis E, Stewart ML, Lawrence C, Fisher JK, Godes M, Pitter K, Kung AL, Walensky LD. A stapled BIM peptide overcomes apoptotic resistance in hematologic cancers. J. Clin. Invest. 2012, 122:2018-2031.
Gavathiotis E*, Reyna DE, Bellairs JA, Leshchiner ES, Walensky LD*. Direct and selective small-molecule activation of proapoptotic BAX. Nature Chem. Bio. 2012, 8:639-645.
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The Rutherford Ram basketball team is a guarantee to make a deep run in the play-offs year after year. This year, no different, as the Rams are led by a veteran squad, and a very talented Senior point guard in Kiki Williamson.
Watching Kiki on the floor is like watching a human highlight reel- from lights out defense, to no look passes, to seemingly doing the impossible- there's no doubt, the senior point guard puts on a show every game.
"He's one of the most talented players I've ever coached," says Ram Head Coach Rhondie Ross. "He's very explosive. Quite frankly, he's fun to watch."
It's also fun for Rutherford fans- as the Rams boast a 17-3 record so far this season, thanks in part to Kiki's 11 points and 5 assists per game.
"There's nothing that they can throw at us that he hasn't seen," says Coach Ross. "He's a four year player for us. He's been vital to our success- especially this year."
"As a point guard, he's always going to count on me," says Kiki. "Now he's counting on all the seniors to come together to talk to everybody to come together and win."
But Kiki's not just influencing the younger guys with his skills on the court- as he also boasts a 3.0 GPA with a tough course load.
"Of course my dad has influenced me a lot," laughs Kiki. "He's always on top of me- study, study, study all the time. My dad always told me no matter what happens with basketball, you can always have your degree in school."
Like his success in the books- Kiki's hoping to mirror that success on the court this season.
"Of course we want to make it to state," he says. "We're just going to have to see where this defense and high tempo offense takes us."
"It's not a coaches job to teach the culture of a program- it's the upperclassman," says Coach Ross. "They must teach the younger kids. It's my job to get in here and coach them, but I can't teach them the culture. That's up to the upperclassmen, and he's done a great job of that."
"As a Senior, I'm always a role model to the younger players," says Kiki. "I let them know, come to practice and work hard everyday. Don't have the mindset like aw, we gotta come to practice today- just come do it."
With that mindset and those postseason goals on the horizon, Kiki's hoping to add a little more to his own highlight reel this season. Kiki has received several offers from JUCO schools to play basketball, but says he's weighing his options, and taking his time to reach a decision. He says no matter where he ends up, he'll study business.
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All that said, I could easily tell that there wasn't nearly as many people on board (1000 less), and that is nice. Coming and Going off the ship on Port days was a breeze, and boarding was fantastic (Seattle). Also, the Liberty had impressive staff/service, but I was blown away by the staff on this ship. Most that I talked to had done their rounds on the other, larger ships and were now working on the Rhapsody - that experience was very easy to notice. Also, we had a 'Captains Corner' where for an hour we could do a QA with the Captain - never had one of those on the Liberty. It was cool to get some inside stories and information on how the ship works. I must say Cruise Operations fascinate me.
A few complaints - our bed was not very comfortable. I'm not used to a hard bed, and unfortunately our mattresses weren't very cozy, they were not replaced in this last major upgrade. However, we were bargain basement inside staterooms, perhaps the Balcony did get new mattresses. Also, this ship has shower curtains (Liberty has a nice slide door, a'la capsule) and it was annoying having to always peel it off me. Other than that the staterooms were as expected - nice and tight!
Windjammer was great, Dining Room was fantastic, Solarium Park Cafe had some okay selection. I really missed Sorrento's and the Cafe Promenade. However, I did end up eating less than normal so I wasn't sick all the time ;)
Overall it was a great cruise, I wouldn't hesitate to do an Alaskan Cruise again. The ports were great, and we had phenomenal weather. I would recommend this cruise. Keep in mind, I am offering this review with a pretty biased view towards the Liberty, so take my ship concerns as you will.


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With his last street release, So Many Gems, flying off the (figurative) shelves, Northeastern buzzmakerTalent Couture has gotten straight to work on a follow-up mixtape. Making its world premiere right here in the Booth, this... Read More
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A haunting and honest look at the life of not only an aspiring rapper but an actual person, Waiting Another Day is the latest visual contribution from Harlem, NY native, ESSO. This video is directed by Shane for... Read More
ESSO ft. Shanell - Calling Out [Stream & Download]
On EP cut Someday, featured back in October 2010, Booth favorite ESSO stated with confidence, "I know I'm gonna get it one day, and I know that day ain't far." Well, turns out the next plateau in the Harlem... Read More
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CANBERRA, Australia, May 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Why doesn't the Law of Attraction work for you? - Welcome to the Book of Spells II, a book that explains possibly why you can't get the things you desire and how to break free. If the laws of attraction existed, wouldn't you believe that there is also a competition on that realm? People with conflicting interests of what they want and what you want are not aligned? Someone has got to be the victor. Welcome to the world of spells. Spells are used for creating the death and birth of forms, these could be in the form of mental spells that are affecting you right now! It's important to break free to get your true alignment to your purpose and what you so desire in life.
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The Chargers waived LB Shawne Merriman on Tuesday after he passed an exit physical. They also placed WR Buster Davis (groin) on injured reserve and signed OT Adam Terry.
Merriman is now on the waiver list, along with WR Randy Moss, and teams have until 4 p.m. ET Wednesday to claim him.
The Chargers had placed Merriman, a three-time Pro Bowler, on injured reserve Oct. 13 with a "minor-injury" designation because of a calf injury.
Merriman had 39½ sacks in his first three seasons. He has had just four in the 2½ seasons since.
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Merriman makes the next 24 hours very exciting for the waiver wire, with two former All-Pro players available. The Dolphins, Ravens and 49ers are among teams who reportedly are interested in Merriman.
Davis' injury is a blow to a depleted wide receiving corps with Malcom Floyd and Legedu Naanee also nursing injuries. Davis had 21 catches for 259 yards and a TD this season.


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Assembly Members are warning that a hundred thousand people across Wales are facing a postcode lottery in the support they get for a wide range of neurological conditions such as Parkinson's.
They say most of the patients would benefit from physiotherapy and self managed exercise sessions, and raise concerns that many are not getting such services.
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Long before either of us had passed the 50 mark, Steve had already narrowed down his precise fears on the subject of mortality: "I'm not afraid of getting old," he once said. "But what terrifies me is that I might turn into Some Old Goof. And if that happens, it'll be time for me to suck on my trusty .45." While I don't embrace quite as drastic a solution to unwanted Goofhood as Steve does, it's an ongoing fear for me, as well. Though "goof" is more frequently used as a verb, we all know what the noun form of the word means, especially when preceded by "old."
An Old Goof is a person who rants, very loudly and for as long as you'll listen, about the unfairness of life as illustrated by constant, fresh tales of his own mistreatment in just the past 24 hours by forces beyond his control. (Can an Old Goof be a "her"? Maybe. But for some reason these particular qualities are most prevalent and obnoxious in males, at least in my experience. But that's a subject for another day. Maybe another lifetime.)
So you can imagine my horror when I realized, just yesterday, that I had been transformed into Old Goofhood while complaining about ... the phone company.
In my defense (which, speaking of mortality, wouldn't be a bad tombstone inscription), when I was younger at least there was only one phone company to rant about. Now there's at least a kazillion, with seemingly more new ones every day. (Do phone companies go somewhere to breed? OK, probably an image best not thought about too much.)
And back in the post-9/11 hysteria, when some demagogues convinced us that the first step in fighting terrorists was to give up all our privacy, there was one phone company that took a courageous stand and refused to let the government tap its customers' calls. I changed my cell service to that company, and swore to be a loyal customer as long as I lived.
This was when I lived on Red Mountain in Birmingham, and we could see broadcast and cellular towers out our back window. I'm not saying signal strength was always good, but occasionally we could pick up FM radio in the fillings of our teeth. When we moved back to Walker County, though, that brave cell company's signal was slightly below the audio quality of tin cans with kite cord. I was back to a behemoth carrier, or nothing. Which worked sort of OK until I noticed a text message on my phone yesterday saying I'd been billed for some application I'd never heard of, and the charge would occur again in December. Then I vaguely recalled, a few weeks ago, seeing a folder on my cell phone's screen that said "Games And Apps." I had opened the folder and scrolled through it to see what was there, found nothing of interest, exited the folder and returned to my business.
But apparently the mere fact of seeing a list of programs "subscribed" me to some of them forever. And a day. I looked online for a Customer Service phone number in hopes of getting this injustice rectified, but the contact phone numbers were as cleverly hidden as the phantom agreement to these dinky applications I had sold my soul to. But, then came hope!
A video popped up onscreen, of an attractive young blonde lady in a tasteful sweater saying, "Can't find what you're looking for? We know it can be annoying!" Well, yes, hon. It sure can. "Here's some help," she said, and I got out my pencil to be ready.
Then, for the next five minutes, the video scrolls through the SAME SCREENS that I've just finished looking at. A big color pointer appears over each heading, one by one, and she reads them to me. READS them to me, as if the whole problem is my fault for not knowing how to read.
This was the juncture at which I turned into Some Old Goof (a SOG?), as instantly and totally as Superman donning his cape. I addressed the inanimate computer screen loudly and profanely for probably half a minute until I realized I had become one of those folks Steve had warned me about. On the plus side, nobody was in hearing distance but the young video lady in the costly sweater, so I figured no harm, no foul, and swore to mend my ways. I've now gone slightly more than 24 hours without repeating any such type of obnoxious behavior, and my fingers are crossed for coming years.
I've always heard patience is a virtue, and apparently the older our bodies get, the more virtuous patience becomes. And patience, with a sense of humor, is sometimes all we can fall back on.
In the big picture, it occurs to me that I was actually a lot more cranky and judgmental in my 30s and 40s than I am now. Although this probably has less to do with my spiritual development and more with the fact that ranting takes more energy than you'd think, and these days I don't have any to spare.
With luck, if I'm still hanging around in a decade or two, a stranger will see me pass by and say to his companion, "Who's that?" And the companion will reply, "Beats me. Some Old Nice Guy, I guess."
What if, just maybe, life is a SONG? Works for me.
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McKINNEY –– Stephanie Cravens' fourth grade class at Vega Elementary in McKinney is on the ball –– literally.
At the beginning of the year, all 17 students gave up their chairs for stability balls.
"As long as they're not using it as a trampoline, movement is good," said Cravens. "It's good for your brain, it's good for your blood flow. It's just good for how you feel about yourself."
Cravens wanted to try exercise balls in her classroom after seeing them used in a children's museum. Texas Health Plano donated them.
"The health benefits for all the kids and adults as well is a stronger spine and then a strong core," said Sara Brice of the Texas Health Plano Scoliosis and Spine Tumor Center.
Brice has a daughter in the class and saw the stability balls on the teacher's "wish list" at the beginning of the school year.
"On a chair you have to lean back and on a ball you have to stay straight," said student Keyon Brown. "Or else you're going to fall."
Posture improved immediately. So did attention.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A large steel sculpture knocked over and damaged by a truck that barreled across the lawn of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art might return baring few scars from the collision.
The repair of the damaged "Helmholtz" abstract steel sculpture has entered a "scientific phase," with the artist testing pieces to see if heat will return them to their original shape or if they need to be replaced, Charles A. Shepard III, executive director of the museum, told The News-Sentinel.
"The artist seems totally convinced it is going to look as good as new," Shepard said after speaking frequently by phone recently with "Helmholtz" creator Mark di Suvero.
The 8-ton, 26-foot-tall sculpture made largely of steel I-beams was damaged June 16 when police sway Colton Adamonis of Fort Wayne drove into it.
Early tests have shown di Suvero that he likely will need to replace a stainless steel disc on the sculpture, Shepard said. The collision bent the disc and it will be very difficult to flatten it to the correct circumference.
The museum hopes to get an estimated cost of the repairs in a few weeks. Those costs will be paid by the insurance policies of the driver and the museum, Shepard said.
"Helmholtz" probably won't be repaired and returned to Fort Wayne until this spring, Shepard said.
The museum wanted di Suvero to make the repairs to preserve the artistic integrity of the piece as well as its market value, Shepard has said. The piece, which has been part of the museum's collection since 1985, would have been valued at $1 million to $1.5 million before the damage.
A construction crew took apart the sculpture in early August so it could be shipped to di Suvero's studio in Petaluma, Calif.
One factor complicating the repairs has been that di Suvero built "Helmholtz" before artists started using computer-aided design (CAD) technology, Shepard said. Instead of comparing pieces of the sculpture to their exact specifications on an original design, di Suvero must test pieces individually to see if they have been twisted or bent and what it would take to return them to original condition.


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Marquette freshman and key point guard recruit Duane Wilson will redshirt this season because of a left leg injury.
Wilson missed most of the preseason after sustaining a stress fracture in mid-October. Marquette announced the move Friday and said Wilson only recently returned to practice on a limited basis.
The Golden Eagles (7-5) play their final nonconference game Saturday against Samford before opening in the new-look Big East on Tuesday at Creighton.
Coach Buzz Williams said in a statement he had though conversations with Wilson and his family, and that it was decided sitting out this season would be best for his career.
Marquette has played a tough nonconference schedule, including losses to No. 3 Ohio State and No. 4 Wisconsin, and has had inconsistent play in the backcourt.
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