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Atlanta author Drew Jubera's book "Must Win: A Season of Survival For a Town and its Team" doesn't officially debut until Sept. 4, but it's already scored a touchdown in Valdosta, the pig skin-partial Georgia town the veteran reporter chronicles in the book. Earlier this summer, at the Valdosta High football coach's request, Jubera sent his own dog-eared advance reader paperback proof of the project down to help out with the team's annual fundraiser at the Valdosta Country Club.
"I figured it might pull in $20 or $30," Jubera tells us. "The coach left me a voicemail later that night saying that things got so crazy he even had to drop out of the bidding." Winning bid? $800.
Jubera cracks: "I may rethink the book's current $25 price point." Atlantans, meanwhile, get their first crack at snapping up copies of "Must Win" on September 1 at 12:30 p.m. at the Decatur Library when the writer speaks, signs and publicly debuts the project at the AJC Decatur Book Festival.
We hear that actress Skylar Nicholson, who memorably portrayed the title character in this summer's production of "Alice in Wonderland" at the Serenbe Playhouse has now traveled through the rabbit hole and magically landed in Los Angeles via Peachtree City. All without the aid of mushrooms. Nicholson will appear on this Sunday's episode of Lifetime's "Drop Dead Diva" at 9 p.m. The Los Angeles-set "Freaky Friday"/"Ally McBeal" mash up shoots in Peachtree City. The show's ridiculously nice star Brooke Elliott posed for a photo op on-set with the talented young actress, too.
Actor/writer Vince Vaughn, enjoying the long beans and James River oysters, along with an entree of halibut with fries on the side, with a group of five at The Optimist Monday night. Server Jen Young (who got along famously with the comic actor in town shooting "The Internship" with Owen Wilson) reports that Vaughn raved about the fries and cleaned his plate accordingly.
We've already seen tonight's season one finale of TNT's successful "Dallas" reboot and we're pleased to report that, even at 81, Larry Hagman still has the acting chops that once landed him beside Henry Fonda in director Sidney Lumet's 1964 cold war thriller "Fail Safe." "Dallas" fans old and new will no doubt relish Hagman's emotional hospital scene tonight with longtime co-star and pal Patrick Duffy as J.R.'s younger brother fights for his life. Hagman is so good in the scene Duffy admits he wore earplugs during Hagman's monologue so he wouldn't tear up during the shoot (Bobby is comatose, after all). And just like every classic season ender of the primetime soap, there are a series of cliffhangers (one doozy involving Cliff Barnes, even!) hardwired into tonight's season one finale. The show airs on TNT at 9 p.m. and is competing against the Summer Games for eyeballs. Never fear, TNT has already greenlit Hagman and gang for season two set to air next summer.
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Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama took center stage with a remarkably personal account of her husband and their marriage.
She told potential voters that President Obama is still the same man he was four years ago.
"After so many struggles and triumphs and moments that have tested my husband in ways I never cloud have imagined, I have seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are."
Mrs. Obama said that's why the president cut taxes for the middle class and helped rebuild the American automotive industry.
She said he did that because of his upbringing.
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Sasquatch 2011: Listen to The Flaming Lips Set!
The Flaming Lips played the main stage at Sasquatch 2011 on May 29th. You can listen to the entire set online thanks to NPR here.
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Race for the Prize
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5/26 Barcelona, Spain San Miguel Primavera Sound
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Young-onset dementia (YOD), that is, dementia diagnosed before 65 years of age, has been related to genetic mutations in affected families. The identification of other risk factors could improve the understanding of this heterogeneous group of syndromes.
To evaluate risk factors in late adolescence for the development of YOD later in life.
We identified the study cohort from the Swedish Military Service Conscription Register from January 1, 1969, through December 31, 1979. Potential risk factors, such as cognitive function and different physical characteristics, were assessed at conscription. We collected other risk factors, including dementia in parents, through national register linkage.
All Swedish men conscripted for mandatory military service (n = 488 484) with a mean age of 18 years.
Predominantly Swedish men born from January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1960.
Potential risk factors for dementia based on those found in previous studies, data available, and quality of register data.
Main Outcomes and Measure
All forms of YOD.
During a median follow-up of 37 years, 487 men were diagnosed as having YOD at a median age of 54 years. In multivariate Cox regression analysis, significant risk factors (all P < .05) for YOD included alcohol intoxication (hazard ratio, 4.82 [95% CI, 3.83-6.05]); population-attributable risk, 0.28), stroke (2.96 [2.02-4.35]; 0.04), use of antipsychotics (2.75 [2.09-3.60]; 0.12), depression (1.89 [1.53-2.34]; 0.28), father's dementia (1.65 [1.22-2.24]; 0.04), drug intoxication other than alcohol (1.54 [1.06-2.24]; 0.03), low cognitive function at conscription (1.26 per 1-SD decrease [1.14-1.40]; 0.29), low height at conscription (1.16 per 1-SD decrease [1.04-1.29]; 0.16), and high systolic blood pressure at conscription (0.90 per 1-SD decrease [0.82-0.99]; 0.06). The population-attributable risk associated with all 9 risk factors was 68%. Men with at least 2 of these risk factors and in the lowest third of overall cognitive function were found to have a 20-fold increased risk of YOD during follow-up (hazard ratio, 20.38 [95% CI, 13.64-30.44]).
Conclusions and Relevance
In this nationwide cohort, 9 independent risk factors were identified that accounted for most cases of YOD in men. These risk factors were multiplicative, most were potentially modifiable, and most could be traced to adolescence, suggesting excellent opportunities for early prevention.
AD indicates Alzheimer dementia; NUD, dementia of unspecified type; VD, vascular dementia.
The bar graph depicts the number of risk factors present in each tertile of cognitive function, with hazard ratios (HRs) in the tabular material. Men in the highest tertile with no independent risk factor (alcohol or other drug intoxication, depression, neuroleptic use, stroke, lowest decile of height, highest decile of systolic blood pressure, and father's dementia) were used as a reference. Hazard ratios were adjusted for age and year of conscription.
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on May 13, 2012 at 3:31 pm
BART puts criminalty's foot into the door. Low income housing will put the criminals right in our living room. We're doomed. I plan to launch as escape to join my brother living in Idaho.
on May 14, 2012 at 9:32 am
Over and over I read it's Bart's fault. It is low income housings fault. Who is going to come to town and walk all the way to Foothill High from Bart, just to vandalize the office? Also why does it have to be low income people that vandalize places? I am sure that low income parents raise their children just as well as High income families. Is it that in low income families both parents work? Then the same should hold true for high income families. Why don't we put the blame where it belongs? Someone from a high income or low income family, thought it would be a thrill to bash the school.
on May 14, 2012 at 3:35 pm
@steven - I will help pack you up, let us all know when you are leaving. Again, no one is taking BART into Pleasanton, to then walk 2 miles to break into the high school principal's office. Or to break in or rob anyone anywhere. Stop and use the part of your brain that is there for logic. It is probably an inside job. Probably a student. Probaly not low-income.
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I wonder why it is rare in film to see women partaking in rebellious activities, rather than activities that are not rebellious whatsoever, but somehow claim to be. Hysteria, a newly released film directed by Tanya Wexler, examines the invention of the vibrator during Victorian England, and depicts female orgasms as the cure for the contrived illness of "hysteria". Why is female sexual desire– especially the idea of a woman having an orgasm– still something that feels so taboo? How is it that a film such as Hysteria can exist based solely on the shame surrounding the idea of a woman as a potentially sexual being, the comedic elements relying on shame-induced laughter? And lastly, why do we continue to tell the offensive and oversimplified story that all an uptight woman needs in order to feel liberated is sex?
Hysteria centers around Mortimer Granville (played by Hugh Dancy), a young and educated British fellow, who wants to innocently dedicate his life to helping others (and also make lots of money). Granville is portrayed as a progressive/liberal character, because he believes in "modern medicine" and specifically the futuristic idea of germ theory. He favors all things modern and looks down on those he believes to be stuck in the past. The beginning of the film depicts him struggling to find someone who will bless his naïve eagerness and hire him. The only person who will give him a job is Dr. Robert Dalrymple (played by Jonathan Pryce), a "women's doctor". Dr. Dalrymple has two daughters, Charlotte (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal) and Emily (played by Felicity Jones). Charlotte is "feminist" because she is loud and reactive, while Emily is quiet, obedient and clearly missing out the exciting life that Charlotte the feminist leads. Charlotte punches men in the face when she is angry, and Emily just doesn't get angry. Dr. Dalrymple treats hysteria by giving women orgasms via pitching a puppet-show-like tent around their waists. Then, while they're lying down so they cannot see him, he rubs them off. This is all unbeknownst to the women, who are depicted as having no idea that they are even feeling sexually aroused, and furthermore may not even know that they are capable of these sensations.
A major reason that I wanted to explore this film was because I find it simultaneously troubling and fascinating how we all too often underestimate the psychological strength of medical labeling (for example when words such as "sick" or "crazy" are used to describe a person). Labels like these carry much weight, and can easily encourage the formation of intense, dominant/submissive relationships (between friends, family, doctors and patients, whoever). This film is shocking because it does not portray hysteria accurately, but attempts to make light of it. It does not depict the pain and suffering that many women experienced during Victorian England. It does not do justice to what hysteria really was—a contrived medical diagnosis that gave men the power to oppress women, to strip them of their rights and to delegitimize the way that women felt. I argue that the film reflects how many of these misogynistic ideas have still managed to linger around. The female characters in the film are not complex individuals, and as a viewer, I wondered how they really felt about what was going on. Obviously, if we cannot acknowledge past suffering we cannot honestly move on. The diagnosis of hysteria was never humorous, and fully worked to further sexism and the violence against female-identified bodies. Hysteria may aim to lovingly mock the past, but in reality, it winds up inadvertently displaying how little feminist and queer efforts have impacted the major film industry and society at large. I realize that Hysteria was not meant to be a "serious" film, but the point is precisely that it is grappling with very serious topics. Although it may have intended to be a retrospective, tongue-in-cheek look at the invention of the vibrator, it fails to tell the whole story, which I also realize is generally difficult (if not impossible) to do. The danger is that the film masks itself as feminist, telling a story pitched to female viewers, intending to give women more power by telling us to just laugh off the past. We absolutely cannot laugh off the past, especially when it comes to issues of inequality.
Hysteria uses similar logic to beauty magazines: a woman must suffer and sacrifice in order to be considered worthy. I would like to seriously question this: should we really always suffer for what we want, or even need? I'm not arguing against the concept of hard work, but I am arguing against the idea that abuse, self or culturally inflicted, is okay if there is a positive outcome. In Hysteria, Charlotte is financially dependant on her father (whom she despises), and in the end she is only satisfied when Granville gives her money so she can pursue her dream. However, in order to get Granville's money, she had to go through hell. There are plenty of feminists who are not simply reactive—they are thoughtful, brilliant, and yes–often very angry, but for the most part (if they have the financial means to do so) rely on themselves and their support systems for their needs rather than the forces that oppress them. Why is it that there are not more movies made about women starting revolutions, loving each other, and achieving their goals without requiring the approval of men?
In Hysteria, a woman can quite literally only have an orgasm at the hands of a man (until the end when the portable vibrator is invented) and the film completely disregards women who might use their own hands to induce orgasms. Hysteria pities women who are not like Charlotte, who may actually be comfortable in their submissiveness (such as Emily). What about those women who fully embrace their positions of submission and subordination and might even enjoy it? Are those women considered less worthy of respect? How does this film account for them, besides including a character that is a former female sex worker, and who is often the unfortunate subject of jokes?
The medical diagnosis of hysteria is not taken seriously within the film, and this creates a lack of acknowledgment that distorts the very real, very serious, and very legitimate feelings that women experienced (and still experience!). Consider the trouble that would occur if a comedic film were made depicting the logic of a group of oppressive people? It would not be funny at all! This film fails to show how women really felt (and feel), and furthermore, the ways in which patriarchy is still alive and kicking today, just in a slightly different form.


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Each piece from the repertoire will be played in two concerts, each person plays in six or more concerts. All participants in the Thy Chamber Music Festival will be in three or more chamber music groups performing together with the professors, and in groups with the other participants. Participants, from all over the world, are generally 20 to 35 years old.
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Deus Ex: The Fall was teased yesterday, and fans got all hot and bothered over the idea of a brand-new game in the franchise. Well, now we have more information about the game, and surprise, it's a mobile title!
The video announcement covers most of the details, so give it a watch.
We know the game is coming this summer for $6.99, and it's a sequel to the novel Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect. We also know that fans do not seem to be into the idea of a mobile Deus Ex title, right now the video has 176 thumbs up votes and 2,699 thumbs down votes. That's just what people click on a video though, the question is whether they'll complain about the title now, but buy it when it comes out.
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TUPPER LAKE — The people tasked with shaping Franklin County's future tourism initiatives will go over budgets, existing campaigns and visit local venues today.
The Tourism Advisory Committee is to meet beginning at 10 a.m. at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake for presentations from Media Central; Ad Workshop; and Bernadette Logozar, the rural and agriculture economic-development specialist and ag-tourism program director at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Franklin County.
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Logozar said shifting the approach to promote the county, its unique tourism experiences and locally grown and produced goods as a whole can mean more income for the county, its businesses, venues and farmers.
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History 7: World Cultures
World Cultures continues the study of civilizations begun in sixth grade. Students learn to think critically about historical eras, analyze primary sources for accuracy and bias, define problems, and relate historical events to the modern world. Students acquire the patterns needed to read actively for both the main idea and increase their vocabulary. Students focus on writing as a process. Students concentrate on the process of developing their essays through such stages as pre-writing, outlining, and first and second drafts. Students extend the depth and detail of their writing and practice writing introductory paragraphs, topic sentences, and strong conclusions. Beginning the year in a large group, they learn the skills necessary to complete projects independently, including planning, time management, outlining, and research. Research involves interviewing, reading for specific information, and using both print and electronic research. In the course of the year, students practice speaking skills including, exchanging ideas; debating, and honoring ideas of others. Units include geography and the human experience with an emphasis on current world geography; Middle Ages in England, China, Middle East, North Africa, and Japan with an emphasis on mapping of culture, impact of religion, and development of political systems; and revolutions in science, Enlightenment, America, France, and Estonia. Spring brings planning a trip to a country in the Eastern Hemisphere with an emphasis on studying the culture of a country through travel. The final unit of study involves the history of Mt. St Helens.
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In Seventh grade science, we will be delving into what it means to be a scientist and how science provides a unique and powerful way to understand the world. Throughout the year, we will be asking big questions and looking closely at how science connects to our lives. Along the way, we will explore how humans have come to understand their place in the universe, consider how rare and precious life is, and investigate how our choices and actions during this brief moment in geologic time dramatically affect the environment and our fellow living members here on the one and only planet Earth.
The scope and sequence of the year can be thought of as a grand transect* that stretches from deep space to the center of the Earth. The year's investigations are divided into five units beginning with the Nature and Processes of Science Inquiry. Following this, we will blast off into a unit on Space Science and the frontier-expanding field of computer programming and robotics. From here, we will pass through the Earth's atmosphere and explore the living surface of our planet through the interconnected fields of Ecology and Environmental Science. Finally, we will wrap up the year by plumbing the depths of our planet to uncover its inner-workings and to figure out what the field of Earth Science has to say about the past and future of the Pacific Northwest. As a grand finale, we will wrap up the year with a four-day trip to Mt. St Helens, a local reminder of the dynamism and resiliency of our one and only planet Earth.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - President Barack Obama's proposal to expand access to preschool is seen as a way to close the achievement gap for poor and minority students, improve high school graduation rates and ultimately strengthen the workforce.
But that can't happen if children don't show up.
Educators say a district's youngest students are often among those with the worst attendance because in many cases, prekindergarten and kindergarten is voluntary. And many parents regard it as little more than babysitting, rather than a chance to build fundamental literacy and math skills.
Buffalo is among several districts taking steps to fight that, in part by identifying which students are considered chronically absent and then reaching out to educate families.
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Walking through Chain of Lakes State Park over several days. Kept watching the works of a busy beaver. He finally got the job done and dropped the tree..Rangers had to pull remains of tree to safety. It was an awesome experience to watch their work. You can see it all through the park,
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Posted: 9:56 pm Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Brennan Carroll: UM recruiting "everybody" including other schools' commits
By Jorge Milian
Brennan Carroll, UM's new tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator, spoke to reporters this afternoon on a teleconference. Here are some of the highlights:
Do you see similarities between UM and USC and how do you think you will help Miami get back to where it needs to be?
"I think there's quite a few similarities. One, the great home recruiting bases. South Florida is very similar to Southern California — great talent, great kids. I also believe both private schools bring huge benefits for recruiting, and for these kids to get a private education. It's almost $55,000 a year. It's the same at USC. It's a really and impressive education, world class, all that stuff. In terms of helping the program get better, hopefully, I'll be able to help in recruiting and coach the tight ends up, get this offense going."
When you look at the roster, what are the biggest areas, immediate needs that need to be met in 2011?
"I really haven't gotten a long look at our depth chart. I haven't been able to evaluate our own guys. I know obviously we lost our big receiver, so that's going to be an area of need. We only have two quarterbacks on scholarship. So, obviously, we're going to have to go and get some depth there."
Have you had a chance to watch any film on this team?
"I really have not. I got into Miami the 1st, flew out right after New Year's Eve. It's been non-stop recruiting. The coaches have done a good job keeping me up to date, kind of what our needs are for recruiting. And I just kind of just gone off that. That's the one thing I wish I could do and I will do next week when we have our dead period, really evaluate our team. I just don't have the time. I can't do it right now. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I'll be all over it. I'm really excited to get into that."
On coming into recruiting game late with new staff…
"It's always tough. When you have a new staff, there's always questions, concerns. Most of these guys have been getting recruited for 12 months by other staffs. We've been at it for a week — a week or two. Obviously, it's difficult. But we're trying to bring a new energy, a new passion to Miami and hopefully some of these guys feel that."
Recruits have been changing minds on coming to UM. Do you ignore it and move on? What do you do?
"I haven't stayed up to date on who is supposed to come in and who is all that right now. Some of these guys were scheduled before we were hired. We just want to get all the guys that want to be Hurricanes. If a kid doesn't want to be a Miami Hurricane, he's not the kid for us, to be recruited. So, we'll find a way to get there."
How do you know coach Al Golden and what was the decision making progress to come to UM?
"I knew him just a little bit, through the coaching circles. My decision process was: it was Miami. How could I turn it down? Tight end U. Tight ends coach. I had to come check it out. It wasn't very hard. The only thing I had to really make sure was that it was good for my family and that the kids could make the transition. I talked it over with the wife. She was great about it. We're in a new area now. But you're in Miami."
With quarterbacks, you watch the Top 100 guys, most of them are committed somewhere. How tough is it to get on a top quarterback at this point?
"There's a ton of kids. The rankings are great, they're great to look at, especially if at the end you have one of the top classes. But really, there's a lot of great quarterbacks out there that aren't always on everybody's radar. We've identified a couple of them. We still think we can get guys we think are great quarterbacks. It doesn't always have to be who everybody thinks is the best. We just have to get the best for our system, the best fit for what we're trying to do and guys who want to be winners and great leaders, great kids and guys who love Miami."
Miami hasn't signed many JUCO players in the past. Seems like you guys are going after a good number now. What is the benefit of getting a JC player versus a high school kid.
"Well, obviously, the JC guys have played against guys that are older than high school. They've played against 19, 20, 21 year olds, so they've played at a higher level of competition. They've played in college technically. So, if there's a need we're trying to fill — obviously, [Brandon] Harris, our corner, is going into the league, going to the combine and tear it up there. So, there's a possibility we may have to go get a junior college guy to replace a starter we may lost to that spot. At USC and Miami they have very strict relations on getting JUCO kids in. So, there's a lot of kids we won't even be able to touch in recruiting because of the rules and such. We're trying to work it out, we're trying to find any means we can to make this team better as fast as we can."
What is the biggest lesson you've learned regarding football from your dad?
"Just be a great competitor. Just find a way to compete, whether it be in coaching or recruiting. Just find a way to get better. Usually things will work out as long as you compete."
Do you find that people still use negative recruiting?
"Oh yeah. Sure they do. I think they need to and when they do, it's a backwards way of respecting us…"
You guys are going after a lot of players that are committed to other schools?
"[To say] we can't really consider kids committed to other programs — that term [commitment] holds so little value nowadays anyway. We're going to recruit everybody. We're a new staff. Just because somebody says something to somebody they're going to do this or go to that school or whatever that doesn't deter us at all initially, Some of these kids are truly committed and want to go to whatever school they want to go to. That's just how it's going to be. We wish them well. It goes back to we want guys that want to be at Miami. That's what it's all about. There's some kids who always wanted to be at Miami and for some reason didn't get recruited….if we can find those guys who have been to other schools but always wanted to be at the U, we'll try to find a way to get them here."
Some local coaches felt that relations with the previous staff had deteriorated. Has that been a focus of your efforts to mend those relationships?
"I can't really comment too much about the last staff because I don't know too much about them. The only coaches I'm familiar with are coach [Micheal] Barrow and coach [Jeff] Stoutland, but our goals are always going to be to get to every school in Florida and let every coach know that Miami is the top school in Florida and we're going to be recruiting their kids, we're going to do our research, do a very good job at it and involve them in the process and let the coaches know what we're all about."
Can you talk about the parallels of when you father took over USC and taking over this program?
"I agree. I feel coach Golden and coach Carroll got started at the same time in recruiting, it was late and were trying to make a push and make a splash. They felt like they needed a ton of guys and they really had a ton of talent. Coach Carroll inherited Troy Polamalu and Carson Palmer. Just talking to coaches, there's a ton of talent in this program. There's a great offensive line, a great defensive line. That's the core of everything so in terms of recruiting there's a lot of similarities. They're both city schools. USC is south of downtown and Miami is a little south of the city and South Beach. That's one of the things that attracted me to it."
But the stages of the programs, USC was a sleeping giant waiting to get awoke again and Miami seems to be in the same situation?
"If we get anywhere near what we did at USC, I think we're doing pretty good. Miami went to a bowl game this past year so they're doing a little better than USC when that change was made. But we'll see. Hopefully we can get going right away. USC's first year, coach's first year there at USC went 6-5, went to a bowl game. I think we can do better than that, but we'll see. There's a lot of work to do and a lot of hours to put in. Hopefully, we'll get a lot better and there will be a lot of similarities. Hopefully."
What did your dad tell you about taking this job?
"He was fired up. He was excited for me to come down here and get started."
Were you out of football last season?
"I was out of ball and working on some family projects. When the shot came up, everything I was trying to do on the side fell off. I said let's go do this. This is what I always felt comfortable doing. When you start coaching football, there's not many opportunities to do something else. When this opportunity came up, I couldn't even think twice about it."


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REDDITCH-based distribution specialist Oakland International has joined the British Contract Manufacturers and Packers Association (BCMPA).
The association is the official voice of the contract packing and manufacturing industry in the UK. Business growth in the contract packing sector is providing a focus for Oakland's 2013 sales strategy.
The firm's managing director Dean Attwell said: "The association plays a key role promoting outsourcing within the industry and we are delighted to become a member."
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One of my daughter's favorite parts of the day is our nightly walk. I strap her into the Baby Bjorn, and off we go with my dog leading the way through suburbia.
This used to be fun for me, too — until about a month or so ago, when my daughter grew to her current height/length. At this exact size, she is capable of delivering a perfectly angled back-heel kick to my testicles. She does this about a dozen times during our walks now.
As she hones her soccer skills on my junk, I think of all the times that we parents have been on the receiving end of violent shots to the midsection.
Moms aren't immune. I've seen several changing sessions where kids audition for a role in a Jackie Chan film, seemingly out of nowhere. These kids, they know when our attention is diverted — even for a second.
I think the only people who have benefited from nutshots are Tom Bergeron and Bob Saget. They made nice careers out of laughing and pointing while dads were pummeled with baseballs, fireworks, model airplanes, flying produce, model rockets, birds and anything else that could smash sperm. I can't blame them. I watched America's Funniest Home Videos, and I too laughed at the one where the kid hit the baseball off the batting tee, and… well, they're all the same, it doesn't matter.
Now, thanks to the internet, we have a new generation of nutshot vids. I consider these kinds of videos one of the pillars of the internet, alongside porn, pictures of cats and political ramblings. Without these four cornerstones, the internet would crumble.
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Josh Brolin arrested in Calif. on New Year's Day
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - Josh Brolin spent some of New Year's Day and the following morning in a Southern California jail cell after getting arrested for misdemeanor public intoxication.
Santa Monica Police Lt. Darrell Lowe says the actor was not given a citation for the Tuesday arrest, which means he likely won't have to appear in court.
Lowe says Brolin was arrested just before midnight January 1, when officers found him heavily intoxicated on a Santa Monica sidewalk. He was booked into jail and released about six hours later after he had sobered up.
A call to a publicist for Brolin was not immediately returned Sunday.
Brolin is starring in the crime film "Gangster Squad," which opens this week.
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"Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?" Kids reading this rhyme find out the cat has been visiting the queen and frightening a mouse! Then kids count the Y's in the rhyme! This worksheet offers practice recognizing and naming lowercase letters of the alphabet and exposes kids to nursery rhymes and poetry. Kids completing this worksheet also practice counting.
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It began with a simple question…
"Do you want me to pick up a bottle of water for you?" asked Christine Witthohn, my agent and roomie at the Women's Fiction Festival in Matera, Italy.
"Yeah, that'd be great," I said.
"Large or small?"
"Large, since I'm trying to drink more water."
And, with that, Christine returned with the largest bottle of water I'd ever seen. Which sent me into a round of giggles.
When I retold the story to Cassy Pickard, more giggles ensued, and I said the water bottle felt like an award, which somehow led to a discussion of the author I aspire to be like one day, Dean Koontz, which somehow led to this video:
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So, which kind of country is for you?
Chances are, if you didn't grow up loving country music, you're a recent convert. Maybe you heard a Faith Hill song on the radio and thought.. hey, I like that. Then, you decided to explore her music some more and found out that she's not pop, she's country. (Well, actually she's country-pop now, but she used to be only country) So, you investigate a little further and you find out she's married to this guy, Tim McGraw. You decide you'll give some of his music a try, and find out, you like him too. Pretty soon, you start listening to country radio stations and you find out there's a whole lot of it that you like. Maybe some you don't like as much. That's true in any genre. After a while you find out that you're listening to country radio more and more often, and you'd like to learn more. You're hooked!
Country-pop artists are often one of the ways that people that never listened to country music come on over to the country side of things. But, there are other types of country you might want to explore. In this lesson, and those following you'll find examples of some the different styles of country music.


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Win or Lose, at least the New York Jets can say they had a complete lineup against the New England Patriots.
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The finding of a body of water makes the moon, Enceladus, a promising candidate for harboring extraterrestrial life, even more than Mars.
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November 19, 2013, Tuesday
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looked back from the shadow of Saturn to take a picture that sweeps 405,000 miles across the planet and the inner solar system. For perspective, the Earth is 898 million miles away.
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Hampshire's James Vince failed with the bat as England Lions suffered another one-day tour loss to Victoria today.
Vince, opening the batting, was out for just three as the Lions were dismissed for 173 at the MCG.
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Marcus Books can stay if it can raise $1 million
Marcus Book Store continues to be threatened with the loss of its Fillmore Street location – but if an ambitious community-based campaign can succeed in raising $1 million by Feb. 28, the institution will be able to remain where it is for the foreseeable future.
At a Thu/5 press conference at the bookstore's 1712 Fillmore Street location, attorney Julian Davis announced that the bookstore proprietors and the San Francisco Community Land Trust had reached an agreement with the current property owners, Nishan and Suhaila Sweis, enabling the land trust to purchase the property for $2.6 million.
If the money is raised, the property will be transferred to the trust, which will preserve the bookstore as a tenant in perpetuity and keep the upstairs flats as permanent affordable housing.
"This is an opportunity," Davis told reporters. If the campaign succeeds, "That is going to be a rare victory for retaining cultural diversity in San Francisco."
Tomiko Johnson, daughter of Karen and Gregory Johnson, said she was proud of her family for securing the agreement.
Marcus Book Store has been facing eviction since earlier this year, when the building was sold to the Sweis family in a bankruptcy sale after a family member of the proprietors got behind on payments after taking out a bad loan.
The new owners operate a taxicab business in San Francisco and had planned on living there, according to Joe Sweis, who spoke at the press conference. But after a wide range of community supporters mobilized to halt the bookstore eviction, "We felt that the best solution was really to just come to the table. We saw that their property meant so much," Sweis said.
Raising $1 million in less than three months is a tall order, but the land trust is using a new, web-based fundraising tool it hopes will help attract support.
Called FundRise, the tool is similar to a real-estate investment version of the microloan website Kiva.org. It offers some intriguing potential for re-shaping the way real-estate investment happens in practice, particularly in a city like San Francisco where market pressure is so intense that droves of low and middle-income tenants are being priced out.
Taking advantage of new federal financial regulations, it works by allowing anyone – not just bankers or finance professionals – to contribute investment funding of any amount toward property acquisition.
By opening the doors for a broader subset of individuals to invest, the platform can offer greater potential for community residents to pool their resources toward ownership of significant buildings or critical housing.
"It sort of opens up a new power to change the face of a city," said Ben Miller, who started FundRise three years ago with his brother, Daniel, in Washington, D.C. The brothers said they started it because "The idea that you could invest in a Japanese company but you can't invest across the street made no sense. I think it's a revolution in how a city can develop."
In the case of the FundRise campaign that is being created by the San Francisco Community Land Trust to save Marcus Books, any "accredited investor" who wants to invest in the bookstore can provide a loan in the amount they choose and expect an annual return of four percent.
"We are the first nonprofit affordable housing developer to use this platform," said Tracy Parent of the Land Trust, adding that the plan is to look to "investors across San Francisco and the nation to achieve this fundraising goal."
Under federal guidelines, investors are considered "accredited" if they have assets totaling more than $1 million, or an annual income of $200,000 a year or higher.
If Marcus Book Store had more time, it might have been possible to open the door for supporters of any income level to become investors, Miller said. "That usually takes three to four months for regulators to give the green light," he explained. "February's too fast – you can't get the regulators to sign off that quickly."
But Parent noted that nevertheless, the Land Trust is investigating ways to incorporate contributions from anyone who wants to donate toward the effort of saving Marcus Books, be they accredited investors or not.
Ever since the prospect of losing Marcus Bookstore surfaced this past spring, neighbors and supporters from the surrounding community have pitched in to help preserve the cultural institution. It is the oldest African American bookstore in the nation, housed in an historic building where, decades ago when it was Jimbo's Bop City jazz club, luminaries from Dizzy Gillespie to Charlie Parker held late-night jam sessions.
Karen Johnson, a co-owner of the bookstore, remembers when her parents, Raye and Julian Richardson first discovered the building, which had been sitting vacant. "When I found out it was the Bop City building, I figured it was waiting for us," she said. They had opened the business in 1960 and moved to a series of locations before settling into the Victorian, which averted demolition during redevelopment because it was put on a truck and transported around the corner.
Johnson said she was overwhelmed by support from the community in recent months. "It's heartwarming, and it's a witnessing that humanity is still in San Francisco," she said. "Humanity is a verb," she added. "You can't just think it. It's an action verb."
Karen Kai is a community member who helped round up supporters for the months long campaign to save the bookstore. When news that the store could be evicted started to spread, "there was such an outpouring," she said. "People said, we can't lose this. Because if we lose this, we lose a little piece of our soul."
They own the house, they own the business and they take out a loan for $950,000 and then default?
Please explain this "family members" issue in more detail.
All of the American Opinion Bookstores have closed up, must be some sort of nefariousness.
they just threw away a million.
How will the recipients of the "affordable" housing units be chosen?
measly 4% return on your investment. While that is higher than the return available on cash, you can easily get 4% or more on corporate bonds, and without any of the risk.
And of course these tenants will be paying low rents and at a high risk of default, which could lead to the entire enterprise failing (again).
Sounds like a truly horrible investment, especially with equities traditionally giving you returns of twice that amount.
Oh, and why is it "increasing cultural diversity" in SF having a book store that employs blacks to sell books about blacks to blacks? Sounds like the exact opposite of cultural diversity to me. It's exclusively a mono-racial focus.
It's diversity because no other bookstore in SF has a predominantly African American staff and stocks African American literature. People like you are sickening.
Actually people like YOU are sickening. These people OWNED the property. They took out a million in loans already! Their property was like a lotto ticket WIN for them, they should move to a cheaper part of town.
I'm struggling with that idea.
Who better to promote , sell, enrich, than those who the books have been wriitten about?
It makes sense. Do you know that this bookstore is discriminating in their hiring practices?
I don't know about the finances but perhaps the city cultural dept could take over the property and have volunteers/docents run it.? There may be back taxes owed to the city.
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