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Smilee's doing drugs again, he's walking in the streets.
He's singing in the rain, he's tripping on his feet.
All his neighbors stop and stare, it really is a shame.
They spit right in his face, he doesn't really care.
Are you feeling higher?
What has been so tragic that you need to dull your pain?
Are you really higher?
Lee Roy's riding on the train, a 40 in his hand.
10 life times on his face, he's a hard bitter man.
What has lead him to this state, what's eating him away?
Lost hope and lost dreams can drive a man insane.
Are you feeling higher?
A proud man in your younger days but you let yourself fall.
Are you really higher?
Are you in a better place where you can love, and be loved.
When you see you lived a lie then you can fly so high.
Now I'm standing at the bar.
I watch the dead stroll by.
I use to walk with them but now I'm doing fine.
What a crazy game I played lust had me on my knees.
I quickly made my mark then quickly changed me scene.
Are you feeling higher?
A proud man in your younger days but you let yourself fall.
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Social media breeds promiscuity. Plenty of not-very-well-thought-out approaches, rash promises and a prevalent lack of respect for latest link-ups. For example, how many LinkedIn requests do you receive from people you don't know, who then try to sell to you? Cheap and dirty…
But before you get too moralistic and agree too quickly, think about your own "little black book" of conquests you tend to call "likes". How meaningful is that set of relationships? How much do you listen to their wants and needs, as opposed to diving in with the "me me me" approach? Is it a two-way relationship, or is that a term that doesn't sit with the "notches" approach to measuring social impact? Are these "friends with benefits" or just hangers-on?
Richard Medley, managing director of Nexus Communications, claims the rules for finding relationships of real mutual value in the social space are no different, on many levels, from the face-to-face world. He says: "As in any fledgling relationship, it pays to listen to your new friend and not just talk about yourself all the time. Finding common ground helps, and making sure you don't set out on the 'use them and dump them' path for your own short-term gratification. If you are good… then your charms might get shared and talked about."
So does your brand have any such "friends with benefits"? People you spend time with, share with, cultivate as fans – but don't have to be exclusive with?
The personal touch
To achieve social-media cut-through, your communications need to have the personal touch – the "relations" aspect of public relations – and be delivered with the effort "friends with benefits" expect as part of their relationship with you.
In contrast, mass-reach messages can be misinterpreted, miscommunicated or lost in the ever-growing crowd – which, in turn, erodes visibility, trust and action from your target audience.
"The danger is that brands assume they need to adopt advertising strategies through mass media to achieve mass impact. While there's clearly a time and place for the big ad campaign, speaking to a few can lead to the many," adds Medley.
"It's about balance and things working in tandem. Advertising is relevant; it's talking to the 10,000s. But talking to 30 or 40 connected people can really open the floodgates, too, by setting up a chain reaction of sharing good content, and with added endorser credibility."
Sophie Griffiths, head of digital at Nexus Communications, says: "While social networks such as Facebook and Twitter invest in optimising their own paid advertising structures and enhance effectiveness, there's a gut feel out there that, as users on social networks, we just don't interact with advertising – or, even worse, we interact with it in a negative way by hiding news-feed stories, and taking every opportunity to block brand content."
"As in any fledgling relationship, it pays to listen
and not just talk about yourself all the time.
Finding common ground helps"
She continues: "So begins the advertising arms race. New advertising features get added, algorithms get tweaked and the marketer responds, but the consumers get bored or find a way to ignore it, and then the process reiterates.
"Each social network platform relies on ad revenue to exist, so it stands to reason that they must keep innovating in this space in order to survive. And advertising isn't bad – it's just not always the best standalone approach for social without real engagement in tandem."
So finding the right influencer – the "friend with benefits" – should become central to a brand's social-media strategy. And careful consideration, research and the use of the right tools are required to make sure that the few who are being targeted are effective.
Influencers are not always the most-well-known names, and relevance is important in what they talk about online. They will be the people who are interested in your world; who might tweet or post about the real-life context in which your brand exists; who will have a following based on what they focus
on, and who therefore could be of prime potential relevance to your brand.
"We use tools that help analyse content, sentiment, follower profile, resonance and sharing – and even personality and preferred ways of working. If you don't analyse and know who these people are before you talk, all the lights might go off when you do…" says Griffiths.
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"The 'benefits' bit of this is simple" she adds. "If you think around content and your own everyday circles, it will be recommendations and shared stuff from a friend or family member that count for more than any other marketing discipline can muster. There is real value in the endorsement that comes from content shared by people who are trusted and respected. It has so much more real-time resonance among digital natives bored of pop-up ads and inappropriately served content."
Your influencers should also inform your content-marketing strategy, feed it and then want the output. So listen; engage; be courteous, Talk like a real person and respect them. Find the 30 or so who are connected, relevant, interested and will tell their gang about you, and what you have is scale of word-of-mouth combined with the efficiencies of targeting. And no one minds a little promiscuity in this world as long as the time you spend with each of your "friends with benefits" is high-quality and focused.
This is the PR thing. Hearts and minds. Relations. One-on-one storytelling. Personal, but with big impact. As marketers, we are constantly challenged to stand out from the crowd, and sometimes the secret is not to try to talk to everyone in that crowd at the same time.
"In the past, marketers have faltered at defining influence and measuring the impact of what influential people do, which is, in reality, making your brand relevant and sharing the content that makes a real business difference," concludes Medley.
"It is a simple truth, and one where investing in a new digital wardrobe and social style mantra is not such a massive leap to take. Especially to avoid the eventual finger-pointing that will come with the realisation that many current strategies and outfits for the 'emperor' sit somewhere between the threadbare and the downright naked."
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(ABC NEWS) A UPS cargo plane lies on a hill at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport after crashing on approach, Aug. 14, 2013, in Birmingham, Ala.
A UPS cargo jet crashed and erupted into flames a half-mile from the airport in Birmingham, Ala., this morning. The two pilots on board died in the crash, according to law enforcement sources at the scene.
The plane had taken off from Louisville and was on final approach to Birmingham International Airport at 6:10 a.m. when it went down, according to authorities.
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At 5-years-old I saw a magician in the Dominican Republic take a chicken and make his head vanish. Then it would appear in his pocket. You would see the chicken head poke out and do a little squawk, then vanish again and appear back on the chicken's body. It was some trippy stuff. I later moved to Peru where, in the high altitudes, I learned to tear and restore a newspaper. I always wondered then, how could that street magician vanish that chicken's head?
My family moved to Bolivia where I discovered that if you move your TV antenna just right the magic of Xuxa would come in (this is when I learned Portuguese). She is still the most magical magician I have ever seen, besides the guy that could make the chicken's head disappear.
Years later, I was walking down an old street in Key West where, at in an antique shop, I purchased a coin trick for five dollars, with the initials PG written on it. I later learned about [PG's] crazy adventures, and his wonderful inventions became magic in my hands. I was able to destroy my friends in the Miami Correctional Facility (also known as Miami Lakes Middle School). Here, I discovered the importance of misdirecting my teachers and creating my own ideas about performing magic for my friends, but mostly hostile Miami kids.
Many years later for my high school talent show, I vanished a chicken's head and had it appear on top of a dancing hank.
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What is theory11 to you? Why is this site different?
theory11 is an opportunity to go back to a time when I was creative about where magic could go. It also says to me, think outside of your normal box, and push for something beyond the rules of today. This site takes an active approach at creating better magicians that are empowered with better, more creative magic.
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How long have you been performing?
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The Coin On Shoulder.
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"Bird" (1988)
Considering his reputation as a big-screen tough man, it's somewhat remarkable that one of the more successful and sensitive musical biopics, a genre full of disastrous attempts to overexplain legends, came from Clint Eastwood. But the noted jazz enthusiast (his son Kyle is a jazz musician, and Eastwood Sr. composed jazz-inflected scores for several of his films of the '00s, as well as for James C. Strouse's "Grace Is Gone") hit a real passion project with Charlie Parker biopic "Bird" and his love for the music and the man shines through. Forest Whitaker, in one of his earliest high-profile roles, is sensationally good, picking up a Best Actor award at Cannes, with the ever-underrated Diane Venora easily his match as his last wife Chan. It doesn't shy away from the darker aspects of Parker's life either (he was addicted to heroin for basically all his adult life), but still manages to keep on the right side of cliche. However, the film falls down in its loose structuring, which is appropriately jazz-like, but rather works against the picture, and it's hard to walk away without feeling that 20 minutes could have been happily shaved from the film. What shines through, however, is Eastwood's love of the music, which is outstanding -- Eastwood and music coordinator Lennie Niehaus isolated Parker tracks from original recordings, then mixed them with contemporary musicians, paying tribute to the man while keeping the music fresh. [B+]
"White Hunter Black Heart" (1990)
Considering he's now spent over 50 years on film sets, you'd think that Eastwood would have made movie-making the subject of a film earlier than 1990's "White Hunter Black Heart." But anyone looking at this film for an insight into Eastwood's working methods -- his portrayal of obsessive director John Wilson (a very, very thinly veiled version of John Huston during the making of "The African Queen") doesn't strike one as anything close to Eastwood as director, even if you substitute "trying to shoot an elephant" for "playing a round of golf." It is an undeniably enjoyable film -- somewhat looser and funnier than much of Eastwood's work -- and its examination of machismo shows the director to once more be a more contemplative figure than his onscreen figure sometimes suggests. But Eastwood the actor seems out of his depth, seeming preoccupied with impersonating Huston, and coming across as somewhat mannered as a result. Jeff Fahey is fairly strong as his foil, and George Dzunda is entertaining as the Sam Spiegel surrogate, but for the most part this is a one man show where the one man proves to be a disappointment. [C+]
"Unforgiven" (1992)
Considering it's now close to twenty years since he tackled the genre, one would think that Eastwood would have considered returning to the Western by now -- after all, Kevin Costner doesn't seem to be able to go five years without taking another crack at the genre. But then, if we'd made "Unforgiven," we're not sure we'd have anything left to say either. Almost inarguably the crowning achievement of Eastwood's career to date, the revisionist Western had been floating around the industry for years, with the director eventually buying up the rights, but deciding to wait until he was old enough to pull off the lead role. And we're glad he did -- no-one else would have brought the baggage (and we really do mean this in a good way) that Eastwood does here; the history of his career weighs heavy on the shoulders of Bill Munny. The key line here is "It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have," and Eastwood plays Munny as though the weight of every life he took on screen, from The Man With No Name to Dirty Harry, is catching up with him. He's ably assisted by a killer supporting cast, particularly Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris, and a magnificent script from David Webb Peoples ("Blade Runner"). Eastwood's never felt so confident behind the camera, either, and his take on the genre that he'd already made a hell of a stamp on has influenced everything since, from HBO's "Deadwood" to the Coen's upcoming "True Grit." He's not topped it since, but we'll put up with "Changeling" or "Hereafter" if we think that Eastwood will ever get close to this again. [A+]
"A Perfect World" (1993)
Coming off probably the greatest achievement of his acting and directing career (and an acting-only role in the sizable commercial hit "In The Line of Fire" in between), nobody expected Eastwood to match "Unforgiven" next time out at bat. What was truly surprising was how close the director came with "A Perfect World." Teaming for the first and only time with Kevin Costner (at that time, and it's hard to conceive now, easily the biggest movie star in the world), Eastwood originally intended to only direct, but was persuaded by Costner to take on the supporting role of Texas Ranger Red Garnett, who pursues escaped convict Butch Haynes (Costner) after he takes an eight-year-old Jehovah's Witness boy hostage. Eastwood's solid, but it's the performances he draws from both Costner, who's rarely been better, proving enormously sympathetic without ever letting us forget the cold-blooded killer that he is, and child actor TJ Lowther, that make the film. Maybe, at close to two-and-a-half hours it's a touch too long, but as Eastwood's most lyrical film (you wouldn't be crazy to call it Malick-esque in places), you'd be reluctant to cut a frame. And the deep, desperate melancholy, and unexpected humor, mean that, while it may never quite get the due it's owed, it'll remain the great hidden gem of Eastwood's directorial career. [A+]
RNL | June 21, 2014 1:25 PM
That Changeling writeup is very silly, guys. Has the writer never seen a solemn film about serious issues before? Bergman, Dreyer, Bresson, etc? Not exactly a laced with comic relief, were they?
Marrz | February 22, 2014 9:06 PM
You guys don't know what Eastwood's cinema is all about.
functional | October 24, 2010 12:59 PM
GREAT retrospective, everyone! I love these articles so much. Don't agree 110% on all of the grades, but it made me add a bunch of unseen jawns to my Netflix list.
TheoC | October 24, 2010 5:45 AM
Great read, now I really want to see The Gauntlet. I do have a soft spot for the absolute stupidity of absolute power though.
KitCon | October 24, 2010 1:11 AM
While Changeling should have ended earlier, I thought it was a much better movie overall than Gran Torino. I also like Letters from Iwo Jima and thought it was original and insightful.
MishuPishu | October 23, 2010 6:08 AM
Thank goodness someone recognized the wonderful nature of "A Perfect World". Loved that movie when it came out but it got such bad press that I began to question my perspective on film.
Brett | October 23, 2010 2:49 AM
Knocking Changeling for not providing humor? Jeez, I could say the same thing about Schindler's List I guess.
cirkusfolk | October 23, 2010 2:48 AM
I think the grades for The Changeling and Gran Torino should be switched. Torino was dreadfully cheesy and since when should a movie about a child serial killer be humorous?
Rashad | October 23, 2010 1:53 AM
Changeling a D?
Oh my word
John Bury | October 22, 2010 10:40 AM
Eastwood is a master craftsman. Even when cliched and unsubstantial, his films are almost always totally watchable. He knows how to tell a story, which I think is worth more than it's given credit for these days. The arthouse too often overlooks it, and Hollywood by and large seems not even to grasp the concept. He may not be a Frank Gehry, but Eastwood builds sturdy, comfortable houses for the average moviegoer to live in for a couple hours.
And while I agree with you that Unforgiven is his peak, I'm with Ryan that "Letters" deserves much better.
Ryan M., Atlanta Movies Examiner | October 22, 2010 10:03 AM
First, full credit for recognizing "A Perfect World" as Eastwood's second masterpiece behind "Unforgiven."
Second, "Letters from Iwo Jima" is easily one of the best war films ever made, and its "C-" rating here is less believable that Jeff Daniels' serial killer in "Blood Work."
Finally, though I probably would have had the same rating for "White Hunter, Black Heart" after my first viewing, subsequent viewing have moved it up considerably in my estimation, and I now consider it a great film to stand along Eastwood's best.


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A Maricopa County Superior Court judge earlier this month dismissed a lawsuit challenging how the state is using some of the settlement money paid Arizona by lenders. The judge ruled that the Legislature decides how to spend the state's money.
The petition was filed Friday by the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest and the William E. Morris Institute for Justice.
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La Crosse, WI (WXOW) A little bit of Africa is now on display in the City of La Crosse.
Tuesday morning Western Technical College president Lee Rasch delivered an African mask from Kumbo, Cameroon to La Crosse mayor Tim Kabat. Rasch traveled to the Cameroon earlier this summer to visit some former Western students. Rasch also presented the mayor of Kumbo with a City of La Crosse flag. The Kumbo council voted to officially form a sister city partnership with La Crosse in June.
Mayor Kabat says partnerships like these are important for the La Crosse community. "We've been able to learn and grow. We've been able to expand our awareness of culture and just be part of the wide world out there." Mayor Kabat plans to hang the mask in his office.
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So, mortgages are more affordable because interest rates are low, right? Pick your chart provider and timespan of choice, but it is a well worn argument in favour of higher house prices: afford bigger mortgage, buy
bigger more expensive house.
Not so fast. There is a case to be made that basing the analysis on the size of the initial payment is a form of mass delusion.
You see, the logic of affordability has its roots in the 1970s, but it is the reverse effect of something most people will have to fish out of the intellectual dustbin where the Taylor Rule and other inflation related analysis now molder: money illusion. Read more


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Hello everyone,
I had a chance to have an exclusive interview with LB Ali Highsmith.
After having four solid years at LSU, ending his final two years as a semifinalist for the Butkus award (Best Linebacker in all of college), he entered the draft after his senior year.
Ali was undrafted because of poor combine results. He performed much better on his pro-day, but it was too late.
Here is the link to the interview.
What do you all think of him?
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We've had a lot of discussion about the ambiguous use of the word chemistry and how it relates to having a good clubhouse. I wrote this article late last summer but decided not to post it. Since this is a pretty dead time for baseball, I thought it could spur some discussion on team failures.
I've been involved in high school athletics for over three decades. In the summers I teach graduate classes that deals with playing team sports at an optimum level. While the curriculum is pretty sizeable, I want to share four things that happen on a team and relate them back to our past season.
Many textbook authors (most recently Jeff Janssen) have referred to teams being built in four phases: Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing.
The forming stage is when players learn roles and start to develop group bonds. In MLB this is spring training. A team attitude emerges.
The Storming Phase would be when a starting line-up is first introduced and a struggle ensues. Egos can get in the way of performance; jealousy can occur. I would compare this to spring training or early in the season when a certain player is getting most of the at-bats at a particular position and another player figures they could be left out. Or, another example would be the bullpen and the order at which players are used.
Norming is the time when things settle down and players begin to accept their roles. Players become comfortable with each other and a trust begins. This probably happens at least by the time a 25-man roster is set and a few games have been played. By the end of April a team is probably "normal". A veteran team with all members returning from the previous season might attain this early in spring training.
Last of all, the Performing Stage is when all things are going well. Players play their role and the team excels. This is an easy comparison to the 2008 team when it seemed virtually all year the team performed at a high level.
Here's the problem. At any time a team can revert back to the storming phase. It could be an attitude problem from a player or something that happens in a game. It could be an injury where a team is thrown back into trying to get back into a set line-up with new roles. Some teams may go back and forth from Storming into Norming for long periods. Some teams may never get to the Performing Stage.
I've seen personal examples of a player being eliminated from a high school team and the team will run off a win streak. I've seen high school teams that suffer injury or disciplinary infractions never recover back to their old form due to players in new roles and fighting to be in a role. Injuries and attitudes were the 2009 Cubs.
This past season, from the outside looking in, had all the signs of failure. Injuries all season, and they were major injuries. One (or more) players' attitude may have made everyone uncomfortable. It's very hard for a manager or coach to fix or prevent this "storming" phase thing from happening, but the duration could be shortened. In my opinion, it is hard to imagine at the major league level how teams perform at all, when you add booing, media critics and the fans call for change throughout the season. Players have to be so strong as to trust themselves, their teammates and coaches to prevent any of this. Leadership is critical.
I hope this might shed some light as to what can happen on teams and what could have happened in 2009. When you look at everything, we should probably have not had a winning record. What we could probably expect next season with a few new faces is a longer adjustment period (Forming-Storming-Norming) until we start "Performing" at a high level. We could surmise that if the team has a good April, management did a good job bringing in the right players and the team has good "chemistry".
There are many factors that relate to chemistry and this is one area. There are certainly other factors.
Have a great holiday season and here's hoping for a great 2010 Cubs season.


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Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, who has missed the last three games while recovering from thumb surgery, said Wednesday that there is an "outside chance" he'll return on Christmas Day to face the Green Bay Packers in Lambeau Field, but he warned Bears fans not to get their hopes up."
Outside shot, let's not get anyone's hopes up, let's not ruin anybody's Christmas dreams, but outside, outside." -- Jay Cutler on possibly facing Packers
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Cutler was asked a hypothetical question on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000 on Wednesday about the possibility of him returning to face the Packers if the Bears beat the Seahawks on Sunday in Seattle. The Bears have lost all three games that Cutler missed, but their wild-card hopes could remain alive with a win in Seattle.
"I'll say outside," Cutler said. "I wouldn't say it's good or definite or a real possibility, but there's always a chance, but like you said, we have to get this one first."


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Portland Trail Blazers forward Nicolas Batum and France advanced past Greece in the EuroBasket quarterfinals with a 64-56 win on Thursday. Here's a boxscore. Batum had 15 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 block and 1 steal on 6-for-9 shooting in 35 minutes. Chris Sheridan of SheridanHoops.com reports that Batum was key down the stretch. ---------------------- it was Nicolas Batum who rose to he occasion and made the biggest plays in the final 120 seconds. First, it was a side jumper off a pretty feed from Nando de Colo. Next, he blocked a shot by Nick Calathes to preserve that four-point lead. And finally, he knocked down a jumper from the corner with 1:12 left to make it 60-54. "We had to fight for 40 minutes, and we never gave up, and we continued to play defense," French coach Vincent Collet said. "In the fourth quarter, we wanted it in the same way that before the Greek teams had wanted it against us in the past. ---------------------- A full rundown of Batum's play against Greece will be posted this weekend. Thanks for your patience. France will face the winner of Russia vs. Serbia, a game that will take place later today, in the semifinals on Friday. Spain will play Macedonia in the other semifinal game. Here's the full schedule. -- Ben Golliver | email@example.com | Twitter


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A feature I'm planning for to post during Oscar season is a look at if/how winning (and even being nominated for) an Oscar has affected the careers of black actors and actresses.
I probably won't get to that for a few months, but THIS Vulture interview with Octavia Spencer (posted this afternoon) as she does press for Smashed (a movie she's co-starring in, which screened at TIFF last week, and will be released in USA theaters on October 12), helps answer that question for one of the few actresses on my list.
Of course, Spencer won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in last year's polarizing period drama, and box office smash, The Help, and after that win, some of the conversation that followed wondered what impact, if any, it would have on her career as a black actress, in an industry where work for black actresses isn't exactly overflowing.
Since her Oscar win, she's been a busy bee it seems, from a starring role in Diablo Cody's still-untitled directing debut, to a project I'm really looking forward to, Joon-ho Bong's thriller Snowpiercer (he directed the awesome South Korean creature feature The Host), to the Forest Whitaker-producer Oscar Grant project, Fruitvale, as well as the feature film adaptation of David E. Talbert's Baggage Claim, and the adaptation of Del Shores' 2003 critically-acclaimed, award-winning play titled The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, titled Blues For Willadean.
BUT, as Spencer notes in the Vulture interview, when asked about her career receiving an Oscar bump, she reveals that she was cast in most of these projects before she won the Oscar for The Help; in fact, for at least one of them, Smashed, she says she booked the role before The Help was even released, even though the film doesn't hit theaters for another month.
No, the reality for me was that I thought my phone would be ringing a lot, and it wasn't. And this project came along, and it was a great film, and it was [prior to] the success of The Help. Now, looking back, they get huge kudos from me. So no, because my phone wasn't ringing off the hook, I didn't feel like anything was changing.
As for the other projects, here's what she said:
Well, the funny is thing is that I got the Diablo Cody movie and I got Snow Piercer before I got any nominations, so I knew I had both of those projects in November.
Blues For Willadean is based on a 2003 play that she co-starred in, so this was years before I think most of us knew who Octavia Spencer was, and most of the play's starring cast, played the same roles in the film, and she was one of them.
The last 2 projects, Baggage Claim and Fruitvale, were both post-Oscar gets.
However, Spencer does say that the Oscar win was "a needle-mover" - specifically, it gets her meetings that she wouldn't have been invited to if she didn't win the Oscar. But she notes that, at this point, it hasn't quite translated to job offers, and that her phone hasn't exactly been ringing off the hook.
To that, she adds...
I don't want to sound as if [I'm complaining]. The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.
I'm not sure if she's referring to the roles that are "out there," when she says "zilch have been studio movies," or if she's referring to the roles that she's booked thus far, since The Help. Baggage Claim is a Fox Searchlight-backed project, so that's definitely a studio movie. Unless she booked that before her Oscar as well; but I have no information to confirm that. She doesn't include it when she talks about movies she booked before The Help, or before Oscar.
But I understand the overall point she's making about the absence of roles for women of color, especially at the studio level. And to combat that, she added this:
So my challenge and my opportunity now is to take the opportunity to create my own work. I'm fine with that.
Music to my ears. This is what many of us continue to encourage - creating your own work. Easier said than done, obviously, but she's in a good position right now, with some steam behind her, and notoriety that she can take advantage of - just like Viola Davis formed her own production company, and has been developing projects for herself to star in.
I'm looking forward to reading about projects Spencer is developing for herself.
You can check out the full Vulture interview HERE.
Eric | September 19, 2012 7:54 PM
I believe Octavia will do alright if she stays in the lane she seems to be headed. Halle Berry made a mistake by passing on the lead female role in "Wanted' a role that was clearly written/based on her as Catwoman. And people we have to remember everybody isn't meant to be the lead no matter race or looks.
Orville | September 18, 2012 7:21 PM
I looked at IMDB Octavia is doing alright I think she's working and that's the most important thing. Like Octavia said she's a black woman in Hollywood let's face it even though she's won the Oscar it is still tough. I just want to say that Octavia is trying her best and I wish she did get a leading lady role one day.
I know Octavia didn't mention it, but Hollywood is also very sexist and it relates to body image. Let's face it, if Octavia looked like Gabrielle Union or Paula Patton or Halle Berry I bet she would be getting higher profile roles.
Donella | September 18, 2012 1:20 PM
Monique had the same issues post-Oscar.
K | September 17, 2012 10:53 PM
I mean I think this is it, you know. We can't keep waiting to get cast. We have to make things happen. I cannot understand how Hollywood can fight so hard for gay rights yet be so indifferent when it comes to racial equality. Yet people try to tell me to be liberal is to not be racist. Yeah right. Green is the color that people are most worried about. And since they see black people, or people who aren't American(or English, Canadian) as aliens they can't fathom creating stories for them. SO THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO. WE NEED TO CREATE OUR OWN STORIES! We need to write, produce, direct, star, edit our own films. Films about nothing, and anything. Oh to be black, a woman, not thin, and a character actor in Hollywood. Lol. I sound very woe is me. But I just hope she takes the film world by storm whether she's behind the camera or in front of it.
T | September 17, 2012 10:47 PM
:(. So sad but true...the only person it benefitted was Halle and we all know why


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The reason Park is getting so much playing time at the minute is because Nani is injured and Giggs just doesn't have the legs to play many games anymore so Ferguson is trying to keep the squad as fresh as he can before the really big games come.
Last season we had to play the run-in using the same players in virtually every match and that, coupled with an injury crisis in defense cost us our chance of progression in the champions league. At least this year we have been able to rotate the team so players like Anderson, Tevez, Nani, Carrick, Scholes and Hargreaves are all reasonably fresh. Even Ronaldo was able to completely sit out the entire Roma game last week.
As for Ronaldo showboating, it was merely a case of him running down the clock. Arsenal have scored more late goals than any other team this season and although a draw for them wouldn't have helped their title chances it would most definitely have dented ours.
PR316, did you notice that Adebayor actually scored his goal with his hand? It was blatant and should have been disallowed. Arsenal will always be a team who can look better than their opponents because they play such pretty football but there is pretty football and winning football. They don't know how to grind out a result and far too often they try to walk the ball into the back of the net. I seriously think they have missed the grit of English players in the run in. Both Chelsea and ourselves have some excellent English lads in the squad and when push comes to shove it is those sort of players who help get the team results in this league even if they aren't as technically gifted as their foreign compatriots.


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Longtime defense lawyer takes plea in Secret Service money-laundering sting
Posted Jan 30, 2013 4:02 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
A prominent Missouri criminal defense lawyer has taken a plea in a federal money-laundering conspiracy case that arose from a Secret Service sting, effectively ending his legal career.
Ronald E. Partee admitted in federal court in Kansas on Wednesday that he agreed to help hide the source of what he thought was proceeds from illegal drug operations, pleading guilty to two counts of money-laundering, the Kansas City Star reports.
Actually, the money came from an undercover federal agent working as part of a Secret Service operation. It initially targeted a co-defendant who operated a credit-counseling business marketed to clients who were in bankruptcy. The agent, who posed as a marijuana dealer, entered into a contract to purchase a business owned by Partee and the co-defendant, the Associated Press reports.
Prosecutors have agreed to recommend a five-year prison term for Partee.
At a May 25 meeting, Partee discussing with the undercover agent techniques for storing marijuana, drug-courier risks and how to transport money to pay drug suppliers, according to court records.
Partee's lawyer, Gary W. Hart, said in a written statement that his client has served as a distinguished member of the state bar for decades. "But his errors of judgment in a small-scale money laundering case, in which he did not receive even a dime in illegal money, have now cost him his career and his freedom for up to five years."
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Joan Beets, an MBA student at IMD business school in Switzerland, survives the feared integrative exercise
IT DOESN'T take long after matriculation before students start to hear whispers about IMD's two infamous "integrative exercises". Tales are told of assignments that deprive you of sleep and break you down until there is nothing left. It works like this: each group of students receives an enormous pile of information based on a real case. The challenge is to come up with a single proposal or solution by integrating knowledge from various parts of the MBA programme, such as finance, strategy and organisational behaviour. In no more than 48 hours.
However, having gone through them, I can say they really aren't that bad. True, I only had four hours of sleep in 48 hours during the first exercise; but I did manage to sneak five hours a night for the second. And my group didn't fall to pieces. We came close one time, but we held together and managed to get to the finishing line.
The goal of our second exercise was a sustainable merger between several companies. Naturally, the deadline was far too short to process all the data and come up with a detailed analysis, let alone a comprehensive presentation. But then in real life we will not always have the time to make a well-rounded decision either. None of us thought we would ever make sense of so much information, but we kept our worries to ourselves and got stuck in.
The first deadline came around and it was time to give our pitch. The professors pointed out the gaping holes in our analysis and recommendations and sent us back to the drawing board. Sleep deprived and running on coffee, we threw ourselves back into the data, knowing we could not make the same mistakes twice. Tempers flared amid PowerPoint chaos, and Excel started to look like an Escher drawing. I can picture my group mate at 3am whispering, with a crazed look in his eyes and his hands in his hair, "it won't save….it won't save", when his computer froze on the presentation he had just spent hours reformatting. By that time all I could do was laugh and take another swig of energy drink. I think we may have cracked up without our social committee, who did their best to relieve our stress by throwing a 15-minute mini-party at midnight on day one.
Then, before we knew it, ding ding, it was round two. At 7am on Saturday I walked down the hill to school for our second and final presentation. Dead on our feet, we found ourselves standing in front of the faculty. "This is it; it's now or never," I thought. "I just hope I don't fall flat on my face." We started our presentation. We set out the analysis, showing how we had addressed the gaps and presented our conclusion and recommendation. Then came the questions about our reasoning. But we stood firm as a group, referring back to our analysis and showing a clear logic behind our recommendations. And then it was over. Relief. We'd made it.
Only when the emotional rollercoaster was over did I realise how much the integrative exercises had taught me: how to filter a vast amount of information; how to decide which area to emphasise in the decision; and how to make a decision when the information gives you more questions than answers. It also taught me that, although I had learnt a great deal, I was still not there. The aim was to achieve a sustainable merger. But it had taken the group all of five minutes to lose sight of the word "sustainable" and focus solely on the dollar signs. And we wonder how the banking crisis came about.


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The remote offices may be fortunate enough to be in the service area of the same fiber provider, so they connect back to HQ via an AES256 VPN handled by the main firewalls. Offices in other areas may still be connected via T1 or fractional T3, smaller sites by standard VPN. There are no backup lines because the cost is prohibitive and ISDN won't provide anywhere near the bandwidth required to run those offices today. Each office peels out a portion of their fiber connection for Internet connectivity, so Internet traffic doesn't flow back to HQ. This requires that Internet policy maintenance be implemented at each site, not just HQ, which can be costly depending on the type of solution in place.
In this scenario there is no physical separation of anything; it's all controlled within the firewalls and switches. The core switches are carrying trusted and untrusted traffic and in places trunking that traffic to virtualization hosts, edge switches, and so forth.
From a convenience standpoint, this might make sense. If your admins are absolutely grade-A, top-notch, it might make sense. For everyone else, it can quickly turn into a disaster as even a casual attitude regarding switchport assignments and allowed VLANs on trunks can open up security holes the size of volcanoes. Lacking that physical separation, mixing trusted and untrusted networks can be a nightmare if you're not careful, and a nightmare even if you are. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
But the cost savings can't be argued with. Terminating remote-site VPNs on the same device that also controls local DMZs and Internet access has significant benefits these days, especially if those remote sites can play on the same provider network. Suddenly, a high-speed WAN is as cheap as dirt. It's also necessarily more complex from a configuration and administration standpoint. That doesn't mean don't do it; it means do it right.
The moral of this story is that even though the transports are different, the overall architecture shouldn't vary: Physical separation of trusted and untrusted networks should be sacrosanct.
Now get off my lawn!
This story, "In defense of good old network design," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Paul Venezia's The Deep End blog at InfoWorld.com.


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Although fixed indexed annuities have been around for approximately 20 years, the last few years they have seen wild growth in both sales and popularity. In many respects, it was a perfect storm for the fixed indexed annuity as the 2008 financial meltdown quickly reminded baby boomers how important that safety is to their portfolio, not to mention this also collided perfectly with the first wave of 10,000 baby boomers per day turning 65. For those of you not aware of a fixed indexed annuity, it is considered a specific type of fixed annuity (versus a variable annuity, aka a security product with a prospectus) that has returns tied to an index (usually with some form of cap "annual maximum"), has some form of a guaranteed minimum, and an ability to create a contractual lifetime income stream. There are too many different variables of these features to list, but hopefully the description gives you an idea (for more in depth information, read articles found on the left side of this page.
So what does a Hybrid Indexed Annuity have to do with a fixed indexed annuity? We asked ourselves the same thing a few years ago when we first heard financial professionals start marketing "hybrid annuities" that turned out to just be normal fixed indexed annuities. Based on our research, the term hybrid annuity has been around for quite some time to describe an annuity that has a blend of both fixed and variable annuities. More precisely, that it was a term first used in conjunction with variable annuities. However, we can also see how today's fixed indexed annuities can also correlate with the word "hybrid" as both of these retirement products (fixed indexed and variable annuities) have converged so much that it would be tough to discern the difference in any "Annuity Challenge Blind Taste Test" if you were doing it on features alone. If you compared fees, it would be much easily discernible. Either way, it appears as though the term "hybrid annuity" has slowly morphed into a description for fixed indexed annuities.
What is the moral of the Hybrid Annuity story here? To be careful what you are being sold, and educate yourself on all of the features. The chances are that if you are being marketed to or sold a "hybrid annuity" today, it is most likely some sort of fixed indexed annuity (not a variable). There are countless types of fixed indexed annuities and not a single one that can be a fit for everyone. Just like they make different cars, investments, houses, etc to fit a specific person or family, the same goes for fixed indexed (aka hybrid annuities). Stay educated and best of luck in retirement!


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ANAHEIM -- Though the Angels didn't complete their comeback against Jonathan Papelbon during that furious ninth-inning rally on Saturday, they at least assured themselves they wouldn't have to face him during Sunday's series finale.
Boston's hard-throwing closer needed 39 pitches to close out a riveting, 5-4 win for the Red Sox, which meant he will get at least one day of rest before pitching again.
It was a tradeoff manager Terry Francona was more than happy to take.
"Not having him and winning [the day before] is better than not having him and losing. That was getting a little hairy at the end there," said Francona.
While Francona has never wavered in protecting Papelbon ever since the righty had shoulder issues late in the 2006 season, the task has become even easier this season with the addition of Takashi Saito.
In three seasons as the closer for the Dodgers, Saito converted 81 saves and posted a 1.95 ERA.
The only question with Saito is health. Because of his elbow problems last year, the Dodgers non-tendered him, creating an opportunity for the Red Sox to sign one of the most talented relievers in the game at a discount rate.
"We haven't used him back-to-back [days]," Francona said. "That's really the only thing we haven't done. It's still early. We really think we've got a good reliever. We'll keep an eye on him."
Depending on how the matchups played out, Francona also said that Hideki Okajima would be a closing option for Sunday.
Saito came in with rest, having pitched just once in the first five games.
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Ariana and SpongeBob On Parade!
The holidays are almost here! And that means it's almost time to see your favorite yellow sponge in float form in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! You're not the only one who's super excited though. SpongeBob just can't wait to be up in the air, so he took to the skies for a little test flight. Is it just us, or does he look like he's jumping for joy?
Despite living underwater in Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob looked right at home among the clouds. Maybe he should consider getting a second pineapple up there!
Could his smile get any bigger? Not likely. Seriously though, just imagine the size of the Krabby Patty this guy could wolf down!
As if seeing SpongeBob wasn't enough, you can also expect to see Sam and Cat's Ariana Grande alongside her porous pal in the parade. She'll be performing some sweet songs on the Dora The Explorer float. There's no better way to warm up in the cold than jamming to an Ariana tune!
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be strolling down the streets of NYC next Thursday, on Thanksgiving morning. And SpongeBob will be soaring in style! We wouldn't miss it for all the jellyfish in the world.


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Review by AJProDie-Cast
In the quest for all things Andromeda comes this totally diecast ten inch baby.
It came in a windowed box with a weird engulfing Styrofoam tray.
It rests on a hard plastic and felt covered stand; simple but nice looking.
The ship kind of shut me up... all diecast, but nothing moves. Made me actually wish for some plastic parts that move.
If you get by the fact that it is a metal paperweight, it is has the great look we have come to love from the Andromeda.
It came out in 1999 and can be found on Ebay for around 80 bucks. It looks nice next to the GX-58, and while as interesting as Medusa's boyfriends... it comes recommended.
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Reckless driving during morning school hours
Original post made by Concerned neighbor on Sep 12, 2006
If you have kids walking to school (Juana Briones and/or Terman), please stay alert as the speed of this car was quite high, and I do not imagine this to be the last time we see this car passing by our neighborhood at such high speeds. It's a silver, late model (2006 or 2007?) Mercedes Benz E-series. I think I have the accurate license plate number, so contact me at my email address (1jacktripper at gmail) for it if it'll help you to watch out for this driver.
Be safe.
on Sep 12, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Thanks for the alert. I saw a similarly reckless driver this morning at Wilkie & Charleston... She was heading north on Wilkie and arrived at the intersection just as the light turned red. She wanted to turn left. But instead of waiting the 1-2 minutes for the light to turn green again, she turned RIGHT (which was legal, although the eastbound traffic on Charleston had just got their green light) and then did A U-TURN (!) in the middle of Charleston to head in the westward direction. Unbelievable. As others have posted on this board before, there WILL be another death at this intersection, it's only a matter of time.
For what it's worth, the driver was an Asian woman in a Honda Odyssey minivan... I think she had pulled out of a driveway on Wilkie so she probably lives near that intersection and is likely to do this again.
on Sep 12, 2006 at 8:46 pm
Thank you for bringing this up. If anybody sees drivers who are driving recklessly, please get the license plate number and we will probably be able to locate the drivers.
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Children who will turn 5 years old on or before Sept. 1, 2013 can register to attend kindergarten at the Montour School District.
Registration for the 2013-2014 academic year takes place between Feb. 19 and March 8, between the hours of 8:30 to 11 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m.
Parents should complete the district's registration packet and turn it into the administration office at 225 Clever Road in Robinson between those dates.
Click the media in this article to view the registration packet. Click here to view the district's registration announcement.
The deadline for families currently living in the district to register is April 30.
A mandatory annual kindergarten round-up activity has been scheduled for May 24 at Forest Grove Elmentary School. Additional information on that date will be available to parents after the registration packet is completed, according to a district announcement.


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The Thanksgiving lull was a good time for me to read On My Watch.
I had retired well before Martha Johnson became GSA Administrator. I was there however, in a high level position, when she was Chief of Staff to GSA Administrator David Barram. During Mr. Barram's administration, GSA, in my opinion, underwent the most dramatic cultural change in its history. The agency went from a…Continue
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Yes from Bloomberg.com which means that the author most likely has an agenda...
IMO a very interesting discussion of the various political arguments going on across the country but primarily inside the beltway...
An article/commentary by Cass Sunstein:
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Last week my friend at YGL Cara Ann Bumgardner wrote a blog about an awesome POLITICO event she attended that inspired her. She doesn't have a GovLoop account, but wanted to share her experience:
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Most Americans will tell you that their number 1 issue in this past Presidential election was the economy. So Obama's contribution to the economic upturn in various cities must have helped him clinch the win, right? Wrong. I read an interesting study on the relationship between votes for Obama and the economy and was surprised at the results. An analysis of voting patterns in US…Continue
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First, the came for the statisticians, and I said nothing because I was not a statistician
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I found a story on American Public Media's Marketplace fascinating. The interview discussed a recent paper by researchers at Stanford and Harvard that reveal that employers are more interested in what you may accomplish that what you…
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People who ask this question usually want to start a fight or are pathetically ignorant. Our Constitution emerged 225 years ago today. It matters as long as the United States exists. Yet Americans still argue about it, file lawsuits about it, claim to love it, and swear to uphold it. They accuse each other of violating it. But most have never READ IT. So let's look at it.
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Social media has become a major influencer in the way candidates campaign. Newark's Cory Booker has over one million followers, and is one of the best examples of a politician successfully utilizing social media. On New Years Eve in 2010, Mayor Booker even responded to a grandson tweeting about his grandfather who needed his driveway shoveled. Booker tweeted "I will do it myself; where does he live?" And shovel Booker did, with a handful of other volunteers.
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Would you recognize your authentic self if you saw him or her? How would you know it is the real you? What is an "authentic self" and why in the world does it matter to your ability to lead?
One of the greatest weaknesses, and almost without question at the root of all inglorious downfalls of well-known leaders, is the discomfort they have with who they truly are. Each person is born with a beautifully unique set of talents, skills and abilities and in our early childhood we bring…Continue
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Well, I must admit that I took a bit of heat for my initial post on this subject. My general position stands although much more has surfaced in the last week and this gets uglier by the day. I doubt whether anyone initially expected this to go viral.
I'll repeat in no uncertain terms that I do not condone reckless spending and inappropriate behavior at taxpayer expense. My record at GSA supports that. Check out my Dorobek…Continue
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Fresh off of his Super Tuesday "victories," Mitt Romney was so desperately pleading his case that he was the inevitable winner of the Republican Presidential Primary, yet the results in Mississippi and Alabama reveal that the electorate is not ready to bestow that title upon him. While his wealth and political machinery may provide him the razor sharp edge he needs to pull it off, one thing has become painfully clear during these primaries—no one is enthused about him as a leader and even…Continue
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Einstein's ubiquitous quote about the definition of insanity as "doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result," is so widely used because we see this behavior all the time, particularly in election season. Armed with enthusiasm and often more money than sense, candidates dutifully make the rounds telling crowds what everyone wants to hear—that by simply pushing the button for the "right" candidate on Election Day it will solve all our…Continue
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While Mitt Romney continues his limp toward the Republican nomination, his Etch A Sketch moment has revealed and even deeper and more fundamental flaw in his campaign strategy.
While there is a part of me that is pained to see a favorite childhood toy become a political metaphor, it shows that his campaign ultimately sees this election as less about the mettle and personal characteristics of the candidate and much more about the environment in which he is running. Hence, the example…Continue
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Marking the 20-year anniversary of the Year of the Woman, Karen Tumulty's front-page Washington Post article details the never-ending challenges of gender parity in American politics. While an informative piece about the United States' 78th world ranking in woman's representation in national legislatures, tied with Turkmenistan for those keeping track, it reflects a flawed conventional wisdom about why more women don't run for and win elected office.
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Bruce Arians does not try to pretend this is just another game. Not after what he and the Indianapolis Colts went through last season.
As anyone who pays attention to the NFL knows, Arians took over as interim coach of the Colts when Chuck Pagano was stricken with leukemia. He famously left the light in Pagano's office on, never to be turned off until the coach returned.
Meanwhile, Arians guided Indianapolis to a 9-3 record, earning coach of the year honors in the process. That propelled Arians to the head coaching job in Arizona and on Sunday his Cardinals will face Pagano and the Colts.
Arians says he wished the Colts weren't on the schedule. Since they are, he says, better that the game be played in Arizona than Indianapolis.
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Onesie walk at Dudley Zoo
Updated 1:04pm Monday 28th April 2014 in News
FUNDRAISERS will be stepping out in their animal onesies for a sponsored walk at Dudley Zoo.
The wander around the zoo's 40 acre site on Saturday (May 3) will coincide with Get Walking Week and help save one of the world's rarest big cats.
Walkers will also be able to see their favourite species en-route during the 2km, 5km or 10km treks.
Proceeds will be split between the zoo's conservation projects and 21st Century Tiger, a charity that supports tigers in the wild.
The zoo's marketing assistant, Andrea Hales, said: "Not only will you be discovering the pleasures of walking and its health benefits, but you'll also be raising money towards critically endangered Sumatran tigers in the wild, where there are now less than 140 existing.
"Staff have been practising for the walk over the last few weeks by wearing their onesies while carrying out their daily duties.
"We're all really looking forward to it, so we hope many of you will join us and help us do all we can to ensure the survival of Sumatrans."
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Do you still have Christmas cards to make?! I do!!
This card is pretty simple.....the colouring is a little time consuming but to put it together, it is pretty quick!
I am using another one of those GORGEOUS A La Mode stamps from My Favorite Things - I am slowly collecting them!
I am using the Candy Cane Kisses one along with the Everybody Loves Christmas collection from Echo Park!
1) Stamp both image and sentiment onto white cardstock using Memento Black Ink Pad (this is a great ink to use if you are colouring with Copics as it does not cause the image to bleed)
3) Trim the image down and mount on brown cardstock.
4) Using the circle nestability, cut a circle around the sentiment. Also cut a layering scalloped circle in the red cardstock.
5) Cut the other pieces of cardstock and mount the striped one onto white cardstock. Attach those two pieces to the card.
6) Using blue ribbon, tie a bow around the card.
7) Use pop dots to pop up the image and sentiment.
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1500 signatures and the media is starting to pick it up! Hopefully this will Old man Sterling's desk and make him choke on his croissant. I have to admit I was pretty skeptical about the whole internet petition thing while i was signing it but it seems its doing the job, which is to shed a light on the growing number of frustrated clipper faithful. So kudos to whoever it was that started this thing, hopefully we get more of the media to write about it. FIRE DUNLEAVY clap clap clap!


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Youngsters enjoy party in the park
10:20am Sunday 2nd September 2012 in News
YOUNGSTERS enjoyed some fun in the sun at a party in the park in Droitwich.
Each summer Wychavon District Council 's community development team organises the events to provide young people with entertainment in the school holidays and showcase what community groups have to offer.
Organiser Tracy Grubb said the event at Droitwich Lido Park on Tuesday, August 28 was a big success, with large crowds showing up to join in the fun.
"We had good weather, lots and lots of people and it was just a really good day," she said.
Children were given special "activity passports" when they arrived, which they had stamped as they moved around various activities including judo, circus skills and graffiti art design.
Party in the Park events also took place in Pershore on Wednesday, August 29 and Evesham on Thursday, August 30.
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