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Tulsa Oklahoma Rehearsal Dinner
Exactly what is a Tulsa Oklahoma Wedding Rehearsal Dinner?
The day before the happiest occasion, a Tulsa Oklahoma rehearsal dinner will certainly have to fit into the schedule. If the wedding event is to be held on a Saturday then Friday night at seven o'clock the banquet must begin. Having it a little latter in the day is a high quality idea so people who work could get home and not be hurried to make it on time. If the wedding celebration is to be held on a different day after the choices on timing could vary. Then the dinner can be the evening before or even a couple nights prior to the event, if the wedding event is on a Sunday or perhaps a holiday.
The night meal often develops into a real celebratory event. That in its self could be a fantastic reason to have a day in between the wedding celebration and the supper. Let everyone sort of catch their breath. A different strategy to a dinner could be a breakfast instead of the dinner. Frequently when time is a consideration when groomsmen or bridesmaids cannot arrive until late the night prior to, then a day of the wedding breakfast is a most outstanding concept. This is far much better than to simply avoid the meal altogether.
Why are we having a Tulsa Oklahoma Rehearsal Dinner?
This is an ideal time for people to meet and get to know a little something about each other. This time is generally a little less rushed compared to at the wedding celebration itself. Folks can take pleasure in a relaxed time and chat with each other. It will certainly be the last time for the upcoming twenty-four hours that this can take place.
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Who is accountable for the dinner?
Usually the family of the bridegroom takes responsibility for the location and payment for the dinner. If the bridegroom's family is coming from out of city and is not knowledgeable about quality spots to have a dinner this might be a good time for the new bride's parents to aid in locating the dining establishment and make the reservations. It is a real good concept to have a person talk about the budget plan if this takes place.
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A few weeks from now, the brash, kooky cousins of Pasadena's storied Rose Parade will carouse their way down Colorado Boulevard. The Occasional Doo Dah Parade is coming, and the organizers are ready to crown their queen. Want to try out? Dig out your candy-covered Day-Glo scepter.
Started in 1978 the parade has recurred sporadically ever since, sometimes celebrating the same anniversary twice (when organizers lose track) or jumping a year (even Doo Dahs shudder at the number 13). Clad in outrageous, improvised costumes, participants walk or wheel their way down the boulevard atop homespun floats, perform in group acts like the Synchronized Briefcase Drill Team, and sometimes show off irreverent signs with a social or political bent ("Trolls vote. Shouldn't you?"; "I might look like a girl but I don't hit like one"; "Life begins at first base").
Tryouts for the 36th Parade (which occurs April 27) will be held this Sunday at the American Legion Bar in East Pasadena, and they're open to any age, race, gender, and body type. Importing your own royal entourage is optional, bribing the judges with libations is strongly encouraged, and sassiness is a must. They'll provide the mic and sound system.
Upon ascension to the throne, previous winners have taken royal monikers like Naughty Mickie, Queen Skittles, and Cherry Capri. May the best name win.
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The original scripting extension.
Gino D's GIMP Scripts:https://sites.google.com/site/ginodonig/gimp-scripts
This script creates a new palette derived from the visible area or from the active drawable (layer or channel) of the current image.
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Enviromap V1.4 script assists in the rendering of environment maps suitable for use with GIMP's Lighting Effect plug-in. It is based on the article described here. The script uses a random seed, along with multiple user defined parameters, to generate endless variations of several types of environment maps.
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Revisiting the concept of creating and using Luminosity Masks in GIMP. This script-fu will generate a full set of Light, Dark, and Midtone masks as channels for your image (based on the work of Tony Kuyper originally).
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[edit] Harry's Wife and Children
Harry married Ginny Weasley (b. circa 1982; Hogwarts, 1992) (who he first dated in Half Blood Prince before Dumbledore's death and reunited after the war against Voldemort)
Harry Potter: Became Head of the Auror Office after Kingsley Shacklebolt became Minister of Magic Ginny Potter: Played professional Quidditch before taking a position at the ministry.
and had three children:
- James Sirius (b. circa 2005; Gryffindor, 2016?)
The oldest son of Harry and Ginny Potter, named for Harry's father and godfather. He seems to have inherited a bit of Weasley – interrupting his cousins while snogging[1] – as well as a bit of his namesake, stealing the Marauder's Map from his father's desk [2].
- Albus Severus (b. 2006; Hogwarts, 2017)
Middle child of Harry and Ginny Potter, named for Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape (the two greatest Headmasters of Hogwarts [1]). Albus is the only of Harry's children to have Lily's (Harry's mothers) green eyes [1] When he begins Hogwarts he's quite nervous about being sorted into Slytherin, thanks in large part to the goading of his older brother James; Harry reassures him that the Sorting Hat will take his choice into account [1]. Albus is the only one of Harry's children that knows that the hat took Harry's choice.
- Lily Luna (b. 2008; Hogwarts, 2019)
Youngest child and only daughter of Harry and Ginny Potter, named for Harry's mother, Lily. Like her mother twenty-eight years earlier, Lily was jealous as she stood on Platform 9 ¾, watching her older brothers go off to Hogwarts, she still had to wait 2 more years before she was to head off on the Hogwarts Express with them [1].
[edit] Other Relatives
According to Dumbledore, the Dursleys are Harry Potter's only living relatives[3]. We do know a little about the rest of the clan, but not much.
Charlus Potter: Rowling's Black Family Tree mentions a Charlus Potter who was married to Dorea Black (1920-1977), a grandchild of Phineas Nigellus Black [4]. They had one son (unnamed) [4]. It is doubtful that Charlus is Harry's grandfather because Jo has told us that "James's parents were elderly, were getting on a little when he was born, which explains the only child, very pampered, had-him-late-in-life-so-he's-an-extra-treasure, as often happens, I think. They were old in wizarding terms, and they died." [5] Dorea was only 57 when she died.
Potter grandparents: Very little information is given about this side of the family. Harry saw a grandfather among the various relations in the Mirror of Erised, but we haven't been given any more than that. It would seem that all the Potter family were wizards, and that they're all dead [6]. JKR has told us that there was nothing sinister about the deaths of Harry's Potter grandparents [5]. Harry's grandfather was in Gryffindor, like his son and grandson [7].
Sirius Black ran away from home at the age of 16 and moved in with James' family. He said that James' parents took him in as "a second son" [8], which strongly suggests that James was their only son.
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 J. K. Rowling, DH Epilogue
- ↑ Accio Quote, J.K. Rowling and the Live Chat (2007)
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, PS 1
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter Lexicon, a hand-drawn tree that Rowling donated to Book Aid International (2006), The Noble and Most Ancient House of BLACK
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet fan websites interview with J. K. Rowling (2005), The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet Interview Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, PS 12
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, DH 34
- ↑ J. K. Rowling, OotP 6


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The Administrative head of the Department is Shri. R.K. Srivastava, IAS as Principal Secretary (Tourism). The Department has Zonal Offices in North Goa at Mapusa and in South Goa at Margao.
The Tourist Information Centres/Counters are located within the State and in Mumbai (temporarily closed).
The Zonal Officers are primarily responsible for monitoring the Registration of Tourist Trade under the Tourist Trade Act, 1982.
What we do
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Google Glass is HIGH FASHION in September Vogue magazine
I always thought that Google Glass ....
would be in vogue one day.
So fondleable Windows 8 didn't work out so well: Why not try it IN 3D?
@Kubla Cant re.
I assume it monitors keypresses, since that's what happens when you type.
Microsoft DMCA takedown requests targeting OpenOffice
Could it be ....
.... that Microsoft see Open Office as a competitor to one of their own products and are trying to stifle it? One interesting aspect of this is that Open Office is free, so there is no company has its sales and therefore its profits affected - so no damages can be claimed.
Data protection bods Bocada list dog on senior management team
I can imagine
"The board and I had some differences about the direction of the company"
The board had noted her lack of interest in chasing squirrels or patrolling the perimeter of the premises, with no inclination to bark at strangers. She didn't even mark her office so how was anyone supposed to find her? It was felt that she was not a good fit with the company ethos.
Boffins harvest TV, mobile signals for BATTERY-FREE comms
Re: And is illegal in the UK
The near field of a transmitter contains stored energy that forms part of the operation of the transmitter and tapping into this certainly constitutes 'stealing'. When the radiated field has been 'launched' and you tap some power from it, you are not affecting the transmitter in any way. If you created a large enough signal shadow to affect people who wanted to receive the signal, I'm not sure what the legal situation would be.
Evernote hobbles third-party apps... but is it pulling a Twitter?
Evernote on Linux
The Evernote Windows application runs ok within WINE on Linux (MINT 13), in my simple and limited useage experience. The fonts are a bit rough but I haven't made an effort to improve them.
Does Gmail's tarted-up tab makeover bust anti-spam laws?
@Ad Fundum
Are you funded by the Ad industry?
Philips' smart lights left in the dark by dumb security
Getting the entire story
It would be interesting to talk with the actual designers/developers for this product and ask them what their initial ideas were, what time and budget pressures they were working under and what management/marketing interference they were subjected to. However, I'm sure that Phillips would fight tooth and nail to prevent that and would quietly threaten dismissal to anyone who spoke to the press.
Would any ACs like to give information?
DARPA calls Big Data boffins: Help us lock up everyone's privates
I watched "Oranges are not the only fruit"
Does this mean that I'm a closeted lesbian?
There she blows! Mid-October release date for Windows 8.1 sighted
@Spoonsinger Re: It's like a bad movie with no review showing in advance
"... telestial TV ..."
Is that like a joint venture between terrestrial and celestial TV? Oh, the rapture!
No distro diva drama here: Penguinista favourite Debian turns 20
It's a slippery slope down that rabbithole
" ...some disdain for the gateway distros .."
I've been snorting Mint for four months now but the thrill has worn off. I'm worried that I might move into trying Debian and then start installing from the CLI.
Violent Hamlet 'bard' by British Library Wi-Fi filters
@Pete 3 Re: Excellent re. Titus Andronicus
I believe that sort of fiction is now illegal in the UK, or is it just pictorial representation (for the moment)? I'm a bit worried that I downloaded Oedipus Rex, but that's freaky anyway so I suppose I deserve to have the book thrown at me.
ZTE to flog Firefox OS mobe worldwide via eBay
@Zola Re: Lackluster
If you want a weekend/party phone, there are lots of cheap unlocked ones to choose from on e-bay, especially if you're used to Android and don't want the hassle of learning how to use a new phone OS. I bought my first two Android phones on e-bay and they are both still working fine.
Mobe-slurping Wi-Fi SPY BINS banned from London's streets
If wishes were fishes
"...capabilities that could be developed and none of which are workable right now."
I bet they were working hard to develop those capabilities and working out how best to 'monetise' them.
Should UK tear Wi-Fi a new one at 5GHz? Speak your brains, says Ofcom
re. 5GHz and walls
I was thinking about putting a WiFi router or WiFi extender high up in the loft and using a directional antenna to spray the signal downwards. Is 5GHz easily stopped by plasterboard and cheap floorboards?
China has another go at rare earth dominance
Not learning from history?
From what little I know (by reading about it), I understand that the senior figures in the Chinese government are 'technocrats' and so you'd think that they'd do their research and understand what is likely to happen when a 'free market, capitalist' economy is unleashed onto a previously 'socialist' society. They have the recent example of the USSR to consider. They also have access to a hundred years of records of what happens in the traditionally capitalist societies of the West when politicians pass laws to modify people's economic behaviour.
So, is it because becoming a politician makes people stupid and arrogant, or is it only stupid and arrogant people who want to become politicians?
ULTIMATE cuppa contenders prepare to go mug-to-mug
"... plucked with golden tweezers ..."
The tweezers should be made of wood, from the root of an old tea bush. This reduces the stress on the young leaf when it is plucked. You really can taste the difference.
CANNIBAL CLOUD found devouring enterprise bit barns – report
Google can afford to think big
"... such pricey projects as harnessing the cooling power of the North Sea, or in some cases redirecting entire rivers."
Have Google revealed their 'payback' period for the initial costs of these projects and the ongoing annual savings?
I've always said that large date centres should be built in cold costal areas to use the sea for cooling; or even better to sell the waste heat to nearby industrial, commercial, residential, whatever consumers.
Facebook to get IN YOUR FACE with video ads
The benefits of ageing
" ..everyone on Facebook aged between 18 and 54."
I'm just outside the demographic - woohoo! Oh, ... I don't use Facebook .. I forgot about that.
'Hand of Thief' banking Trojan reaches for Linux – for only $2K
Re: Problem with this idea...
I downloaded a file called See-Nekid-Wimmin.deb and clicked on it and it seemed to install. It doesn't do anything when I run it so I suppose I need one of those obscure library packages to be installed as well.
Android approaches 80% smartphone share as Apple's iPhone grows old
Re: "... the cyclicality ..."
Oh ...... my .....god!
Apple can't dump Samsung, it needs those iPad displays – report
Re: Competition
BT had an effective monopoly in many places and some areas of functionality. Apple are free to buy display panels from a variety of different suppliers. Samsung are free to quote whatever prices and lead times they like.
Samsung rolls out first mass-produced 3D NAND flash memory chip
@swissrobin Re: re. photo of V-NAND package
"That's a development or presentation DIL (dual in line) package. The window allows you to "see" the die."
I was totally correct then (apart from exact terminology). I do remember UV EPROMs and sticking thick black tape on top after they'd been programmed, 'just in case'.
re. photo of V-NAND package
Why does it have a window on the top? I'm tempted to think that it's a 'prototype marketing' package to convince people that there really is some high-tech-stuff inside.
NO, ELEPHANTS, it's we DOLPHINS who NEVER FORGET our best pals
I wonder what the reaction would be if they played a recording of a long lost enemy's whistle. Then again, maybe dolphins are too intelligent and civilised to hold grudges.
Super-SVELTE BLUSH-PINK planet goes too far with star
@Phil Re: Hah something Science can't explain
You don't need proof if you have faith.
Leaked docs: SOD squad feeds NSA intelligence to drug enforcement plods
Re: It simply creeps me out
" ... that person ....will .."
I'm sure they already have. I can't know for sure because I don't have access to email/phone records of NSA staff.
Limbaugh: If you hate Apple then you're a lefty blog-o-twat hipster
Re: Well thats cleared that up
You're getting messages from THRUSH? That really is paranoid, and also nicely retro.
Upgraded 3D printed rifle shoots 14 times before breaking
Looks like a very simple breech loader to me
See title
Re: If you want to build a gun
@Tom 35 - It's not actually a tamping rod; more of a barrel clearing device.
If you want to break the law by owning an unlicensed weapon, you might as well buy one from a reliable criminal armourer, someone who has a reputation to uphold and might even give a limited period guarentee.
@Miniphis Re: Someone who has *no* failed to maintain his weapon.
Ha! You're obviously a real engineer.
The Old Reader drops Google refugee eviction plan
Re: Remember if you cannot figure out what product the company provides..
If a 'simple' RSS reader started pushing adverts at me, I'd easily move to one that didn't. My subscriptions to The Independent, The Register, New Scientist, Dilbert, Girl Genius and xkcd won't cause me to become an international terrorist suspect (I'm making an assumtion here, of course) or any kind of 'person of interest'. If I did want to read 'dodgy' websites, I wouldn't do it via an RSS subscription.
The hammer falls: Feds propose drastic controls on Apple's iTunes Store
@MyBackDoor Re: He who pays the piper....
It does say an 'external monitor', i.e. not an employee of Apple. As soon as I'd posted my comment, I thought about adding a line that said, "That's what I'd do if I were the DoJ and I'm assuming the DoJ will be sensible and think about this in the same way." Maybe I've overated the DoJ thinking and forward ability?
Re: He who pays the piper....
The monitor will be employed by the DoJ and Apple will pay the DoJ the costs of the monitor's salary plus any reasonable expenses. Even if Apple convince the DoJ that the monitor is the spawn of Satan and useless at monitoring, that person will still have a job with the DoJ and will be replaced by another DoJ appointed monitor.
Big blue Avatar movie spawns THREE SEQUELS
Re: Translation
What in the name of Smaug did they do to you?! Do you have any pics?
Win XP alive and kicking despite 2014 kill switch (Don't ask about Win 8)
Re: I like XP apps, they run under wine just fine.
This old fellow has Linux Mint 13 MATE, personalised to look very similar to WinXP, pop out toolbars (LInux panels) and all (yes, it's a foolish and sentimental thing). MS Office 2000 and a couple of other things run fine under WINE, as you say. The great thing about MInt-MATE is that you can have genuinely separate workspaces, selectable on the system bar.
Who's who: 12th Doctor has been chosen, will meet you on Sunday night
Re: Peter Capaldi
How about: "Piss off you overgrown pepperpot. If you mess with me, I'll rip that stupid sink plunger off you and shove it so far up your arse that you really will need a doctor!"
It's about time we had a sweary doctor.
Apple files patent for iPhone enabled auto-adjustable auto interior
As I struggle and start to drown ......
.... I shout out and grab at any little piece of floating thing that I think will help to keep me above water. I put some of them in my pocket, saying, "This could help save me later."
MPs get secret squirrel dossier of 'lawyers, megabiz hiring hackers'
Breaking news
The head of SOCA resigned today. It was revealed that his wife (a senior former Whitehall official) is the head lawyer at a major global security/investigations company; and that together they had recently set up a private business. None of this had been declared to the 'authorities' who he was supposed to be working for.
I find it amazing that nobody in the police, the security services or the government knew about this .............. Oh, wait a minute ....... we're a third world country aren't we?
Snowden's XKeyscore revelations challenged
@mutatedwombat Re: I agree with you, Combat Wombat. Also,
Never mind the family reunion. The rest of us want to know if you have 'special powers'.
Chubby-chasing SEX TROLLS ran me offline, says fashion blogger
It's a sad world (in parts)
I'm not sure that many of these trolls are particularly driven by mysoginistic motives. If a young black man were to produce a similar fashion blog then I suspect that he'd get lots of racist insults and homophobic slurs from trolls; probably with some overlap from the trolls who posted to the Fat Aus woman.
The fact is that they are mainly sad pillocks who don't have anything approaching a 'life'. That raises the wider question of why they became like that and whether we can be bothered, as a society, to find the answers and correct the situation.
No fondleslabs please, says Microsoft as Office 365 hits Android
re. Redmond mouthpiece ...
Surely, you mean 'Microsoft spokesperson ...'
May the fourths be with you: Muso John Williams returns to Star Wars
re. "fourths and all"
Thank you for that link. I regard myself as musically 'dyslexic' but I do enjoy reading about musical theory. Try as I might, I can never 'hear' the music in my head and can't understand most of what I read. That doesn't bother me though; I'm just glad that other people can do it.
Ha ha, Osborne, these Gov 2.0 web wranglers have wiped out UK debt
Maybe, but Re: Think this is more cock up rather than conspiracy
Do any senior people actually check the results of their dictats/requests, or get someone who 'has a clue' to do a quick sanity test?
Silly question, I know - I'm on my way out.
German guardsmen growing mono-boobs from drilling with Nazi-era rifles
re Tits-n-Guns
Perhaps - 'Guns and Mammo'.
Oz defence department: We don't have a ban on Lenovo kit
A small backwoods company?
"We have not received word of any sort of a restriction of sales so we are not in a position to respond to this question, ..."
Can someone send them a copy of the Australian Financial Review from last weekend?
Plods probe death threat tweets to MP - but WHO will rid us of terrible trolls?
It makes you wonder
" Emails that regularly hit your correspondent's mailbox often start out abusive, before softening into an apology at the end. "
You have to wonder if they are aware that an e-mail can be fully edited at any time before it is sent.
Jurors start stretch in the cooler for Facebooking, Googling the accused
It gets better/worse
"... Davey denied the Facebook account was his, or that he even had a Facebook account,..."
" ...Davey eventually apologised for the comment ..."
Perjury as well. Another serious criminal offence.
Exposed: RSPCA drills into cops' databases, harvests private info
Ah, ....ACPO
As I understand it, ACPO are a private company set up by senior police officers to enable them to make lots of money from their experience and wide ranging contacts in government and the police. I don't mind them being paid to give their expert opinion and advice or to carry out expert audits etc. I'd do that if I had the relevant experience.
However, I wonder how it is that a private company, with no statutory authority, can take a copy of highly confidential and sensitive information and then sell it to another 'company' which has no statutory authority.
Who else are they selling this information to? Could it be those banks and financial institutions, involved in illegal information gathering, that SOCA have known about but refuse to identify. (SOCA, another group of senior and experienced police officers.) It all looks very cosy doesn't it?
Selfridges dreaming of a snot-themed Christmas
It's not Batman, it's Catman
The shape and position of the ears often confuses people.
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Cannibal Caper Serving Up Richard Heading to New York and Los Angeles in September
A new film about cannibals is heading our way from Dance On Productions entitled Serving Up Richard, and if you live in NYC or LA, you'll be able to see it before the rest of us. Curious? We have the trailer, a few photos, screening info, and more right here.
Serving Up Richard was written by Henry Olek and Jay Longshore, directed by Olek, and stars Ross McCall, Susan Priver, and Jude Ciccolella. Producers are Diane Levine and Susan Priver.
It will open at Cinema Village in New York City on September 7th and at Laemmle Theaters in Los Angeles on September 21.
Meet Glory and Everett Hutchins…maybe you've already met them. They live in a neighborhood very much like yours, except they have a little secret. Everett (Jude Ciccolella) and Glory (Susan Priver) are active cannibals. Not exactly a Main Street practice today. And their lifestyle presents some practical challenges: like how do you get those necessary provisions?
Meet Richard Reubens…perhaps you've met him, too. A mid-level Wall Street investment specialist, Richard (Ross McCall) was transferred to the LA offices under some murky circumstances. In LA everyone needs a car. When Richard answers an ad selling a vintage Mustang, he unwittingly winds up Glory and Everett's captive in their secret room, in their nice house, in the neighborhood that looks like your neighborhood. And Richard is fated to be the next addition to their unorthodox menu. However...Richard is not a silent lamb about to be led willingly to his own slaughter.
Perceiving Glory as the "weak link," Richard uses all his Wall Street persuasiveness to break her – creating twists and turns that expose surprising personality traits in Glory which constantly thwart his plans and keep us guessing how it all will end.
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Discover California Cheeses at Trio Last week Jennifer and John traveled to Sacramento for the American Cheese Society Conference where they got to visit several creameries, meet some of the country's most accomplished cheese makers, learn from visionaries in the cheese world and swap ideas with like-minded cheesemongers and restauranteurs. Oh yeah, and there were over 1,600 cheeses entered in the […]read more -->
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Delivering Results Customer service/support isn't just one person or one group. It takes different team members, different strengths to keep the customer safe. Today's best companies really are A-Teams. They're people (creative, motivated, dedicated) and customer resources (for systems, devices and software). Granted, our team's work is less dangerous and has a different type of stress; but the work is just as focused on results... delivering the ultimate customer experience. Today's customers won't wait for Plan B. ...Read More »
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East Xtra: When Central Catholic has full lineup available, it can be a forceJanuary 24, 2013 10:00 AM
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Garrett Vrbanic had just sat out two games with a sprained ankle when he returned to the Central Catholic basketball team's lineup last week and helped spark a 67-62 victory at Fox Chapel by scoring 11 points.
There wasn't a lot of reason for this senior point guard and the Vikings to celebrate, however. Vrbanic sustained a broken nose during that game, an injury that required surgery and sidelined him for at least two more games.
Central Catholic coach Chuck Crummie is hopeful of getting Vrbanic back Friday night for a game against McKeesport.
It has been that kind of season for Central Catholic. The Vikings have rarely had their starting five on the floor at the same time because of a rash of injuries.
Yet Central Catholic has been able to survive.
The Vikings beat Franklin Regional, 69-66, last Friday then defeated Penn Hills, 84-40, Tuesday to improve to 11-5 overall and7-2 in Class AAAA Section 2. That gave them seven wins in nine games after a 4-3 start to the season.
"I think we've shown improvement as the season has gone on but I don't think we've played as well as we're capable of playing yet and a lot of that has to do with the injuries," Crummie said.
"We've had to rely on some young players who have had some growing pains, but they have gotten better. Our guys have played hard, though, and it just seems like we're just now starting to pull together as a team."
That could be because Central Catholic might finally be close to full health when Vrbanic comes back.
Central Catholic could use all the help it can get in what has been an extremely tight section race. The Vikings were in a three-way tie for second place entering the week with Fox Chapel (12-4, 7-2) and McKeesport (11-4, 7-2), one game behind defending WPIAL Class AAAA champion Gateway (11-2, 8-1).
Besides playing McKeesport on Friday, Central Catholic faces the other two section title contenders to finish the regular season. The Vikings play host to Gateway on Feb. 5 and visit Fox Chapel Feb. 8
"Coming into the season, we expected there would be six teams fighting for [four] playoff spots," Crummie said. "I'm not surprised the standings are close but there have really been a lot of close games in our section -- games that have gone into overtime, games decided by one point, two points, three points. It's really a very well-balanced and competitive section."
In traditional Central fashion during his 33 seasons as head coach of the Vikings (584-282 record), Crummie has utilized his typically deep lineup, using 10 players or more in his game rotation on a regular basis.
As has become the Vikings' "modus operandi" under Crummie, they play a tight, pressing man-to-man defense for the most part, an up-tempo, fastbreak attack on offense when possible, and a methodical, work-for-a-good-shot, half-court offense.
The player who has kept Central Catholic competitive despite all the injuries is David Urso, a 6-foot-2 senior guard who is averaging 19.1 points a game. Urso's play has been vitally important because Central Catholic's second-leader scorer, 6-5 senior forward Sam Calhoun, has missed five games this season and continues to be hobbled by a sprained ankle.
"[Urso] has been a leader for us," Crummie said. "He's a real team-oriented guy and he's also a very versatile player. He can hit the 3-point shot but he is also very capable of being a slasher and take the ball to the hoop.
"Not only has he scored a lot of points but he's opened things up for other guys because the defense has to pay a lot of attention to him."hsbasketball
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CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - The anti-Semitic rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hezbollah spiritual leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the late Yasser Arafat, among many others, is evidence of the influence of Nazi ideology on Islam, according to a US historian.
University of Maryland Professor Jeffrey Herf believes the infusion of Nazi ideology to followers of Islam came into its fullness decades later.
"A confluence of Nazi anti-Semitism and Muslim fundamentalism did take place during the [Second World] war, which was a mixture of ideological affinity and shared political interests," Professor Herf said during a lecture at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
"When the Nazis broadcast propaganda in Arabic, Persian and Turkish to the Middle East, they were taking a narrative they had developed -- rooted in a paranoid fantasy of an international Jewish conspiracy -- and presenting it in a different context," he said.
"The Nazi hardliners saw an affinity between Nazi ideologies and that of a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam," he said.
When Jerusalem's Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini -- uncle of the late Yasser Arafat -- visited Hitler in Berlin in 1941, he opened the door for Nazi ideology to native Arabic speakers.
"As they had in Europe, the Arabic-language broadcasts claimed the war was a Jewish war and that an allied victory would mean Jewish domination of the Middle East," Herf explained.
A 1942 broadcast was titled, "Kill the Jew before they kill you," he said.
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Roger Ebert is the reason I became a newspaperman
Even though I didn't really know him, Ebert began clipping out my columns from the paper and putting them on the desk of his editor, Jim Hoge. When I was a senior, I got a call from Hoge asking me to come to Chicago, where he offered me a job. I politely turned him down, saying I wanted to work for magazines.
That night, when I was back in Champaign-Urbana, I got this roaring call from Ebert, telling me that nobody in his right mind would turn down the offer of a job from a newspaper! Newspapers were where the most important writing in America was done!
Ebert ordered me to get on a train and come back to Chicago, where he picked me up in his souped-up muscle car - I think it was green and yellow Dodge or something like that, the kind of car central Illinois kids drove around on Friday and Saturday nights because there was nothing else to do in town - and took me to O'Rourke's Pub in Chicago's Old Town, where we spent hours with what would become the usual suspects - John McHugh and Jay Robert Nash - and I was instantly and totally captivated by the world of Chicago newspaper people. I decided then and there that there was nothing I would rather be than a Chicago newspaperman.
I missed the last train back to campus and so Ebert and McHugh drove me back - 150 miles! - singing Irish Republican Army songs at the top of their lungs.
I called Hoge back in the morning and begged for the job. And, all these years later, it still seems to me Ebert was right: Nobody in his right mind should turn down the chance to work at a newspaper.
Some years later, when we were both working at the Sun-Times and both found ourselves in London on vacation, Ebert took me on a walking tour of Hampstead Heath. It started at Keats' House and ended . somewhere. I can't remember, because the tour was really a pub crawl. I told Roger I couldn't drink because I was meeting my wife's London relatives that night and had to stay sober.
Ebert sagely advised me to stick to cider. After several hours of walking, accompanied by Roger's very knowledgeable commentary on all the sights we were passing and their history, and after several stops in pubs, where I had several pints of cider, I noticed the scenery was taking on a certain bleary aspect.
With a grin, Ebert informed me that English cider was very alcoholic. He then pointed me to the nearest tube stop so I could go and meet my relatives. I walked into a wall.
Ebert would give up drinking, but his humor and charm and friendship remained utterly unchanged. It didn't come from a bottle. It came from deep inside him.
I became a newspaperman because of Roger. It's a debt I can never repay. It's a cliché I am sure he would never use, but now he has passed on to his everlasting seat in the balcony.
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The kingly trio in this year's "Jazz Nativity": Ray Vega, Steve Turre, and Max "Rhumba Tap" Pollack.
For some of us, carols still resonate in our hearts even after many, many Christmases. When I hear the start of a tinny carol in stores and elevators, I consciously tune it out, the better to enjoy singing these old song with my family. Still fresh—after 70 years!—the exotically minor "We Three Kings"; the manly tale of "Good King Wenceslas"; the exultant melodic ornamentations in "Angels We Have Heard on High," the piercing, childlike sweetness of "The Holly and the Ivy."
But there's more freshness to be found—a modern version of those carols, Bending Towards the Light . . . A Jazz Nativity, rendered by a collation of famous jazz musicians who, every December, come together to perform the Christmas story through the medium of jazz.
"The story is told though Christmas carols, Biblical readings for which I wrote the musical settings, and original songs," notes Anne Phillips, the singer/composer who wrote the show back in 1985. The new songs are "One Star," "Softly Falls the Gentle Night," and the title song, "Bending Towards the Light," for which Phillips's husband, saxophonist Bob Kindred—the show's musical director—wrote the melody. Dave Brubeck and his wife, Iola, wrote the other original song, "God's Love Made Visible."
The cast changes every year; the musicians' ranks have included Tito Puente, Clark Terry, Dave Brubeck, Lionel Hampton, and tap dancers Harold Nicholas, Jimmy Slyde, and Honey Coles (the second King is always a tapper). The Three Kings leave their talents (their instrument or their dancing shoes) before the light descending in front of Mary and Joseph that represents the Child.
All these music legends perform for "scale," because they love this show. This year, the Three Kings boulevarding down the aisle will be Ray Vega (on trumpet), Steve Turre (on trombone), and Max "Rhumba Tap" Pollack (dancing). Among the show's many other players are percussionists Candido and Chembo Corniel, soprano Brenda Feliciano as the storyteller, jazz singer Claudia Acuña as Mary, Franshees Ricardo as the Little Shepherd Girl, and New York's "singing policeman," Daniel Rodriguez, as the opening singer and host.
For 27 years this fully costumed Nativity has been held at Christmastime in New York (and other cities)—first at St. Peter's Church, then St. Bartholomew's, then Avery Fisher Hall, and even—ecumenically, the year that TJN lost its venue at the last minute—at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. This year the Christmas-story-in-jazz will be told at B. B. King's on December 21.
Two-hundred-year-old carols with jazz ornamentation? For a sample of how they're rendered, see the "Bending Towards the Light" link above. "Each carol starts with a statement of the carol melody, some of them swinging," Phillips explains. 'What Child Is This?' is a jazz waltz. 'Angels We Have Heard on High" uses modern vocal harmonies, then swinging instrumental jazz choruses and a swinging vocal ending. All the instrumental choruses are improvised, the musicians embroidering on the melody and the harmonic changes. As in a game, every player knows the rules—the melody and the harmony and the amount of bars. That's why so many musicians who have never played together can make such beautiful and exciting music.
"The finale is 'Deck the Halls.' The wonderful thing about that (and why it has been compared to Peter and the Wolf) is that you hear all the different instruments riffing. So many styles: Benny Goodman–style swing, bebop, Latin, and (on the show's CD), a rather far-out electronic vocal. The vocal group states the melody in the beginning—it's an easy carol to swing—and at the end. The bows at the end of the show are done to a Dixieland version of "Joy to the World."
And there's even more: This season's show is a world premiere: The Jazz Nativity, for the first time, will be sung in Spanish. This year, it's called Inclidando Hacia la Luz: La Navidad en Jazz.
Phillips, who has written several fervent essays for us on the joy of singing has been yearning to do a Spanish version for years. "We have always used many Latin Jazz musicians in the show. King No. 3 is a Latin king, so "We Three Kings" goes into Latin rhythm. For many years our Latin King was always Tito Puente; after he died, the famous conga player Candido took over. He is still in the show, playing percussion, at 92!
"Interestingly, as clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera tells us, there is no traditional Spanish Christmas show like A Christmas Carol. Performing the nativity story in Spanish opens the show up to New York's growing Latino population and is our first step in doing it other languages so we can go global. As for our English-speaking fans, well, they know the story, they know the songs, so it won't be hard to follow."
Here is the first verse of 'Angels We Have Heard On High"—
Oigo a los ángeles
Dulce canto pastoral
Contesta con júbilo
Dulce eco montanal
Charles Kurault, the show's first host, wrote this explanation of the ray of light that stands in for Baby Jesus. "The light is meant to serve, as light serves for so many religions and philosophies, as a symbol of truth and love . . . and hope. Hope that even in a dark season we may begin to see the world "Bending Towards the Light."
If you've always loved carols but regret to find yourself jaded by years of aural assault in stores, played between those irritating pop jingles, this show's for you.


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Tuesday July 1, 2014 MYT 6:11:15 PM
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The acting speaker of Iraq's newly elected parliament said the first session had been adjourned without settling on a new speaker and that a new session would be held in one week if there was an agreement.
"This session is adjourned, and it will be held next week in the event of an agreement," Mehdi al-Hafidh told lawmakers.
(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Writing by Alexander Dziadosz; Editing by Alison Williams)
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