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Hidden Talents: Kayak
By John Regentin
Assistant Dean of College Life, Director of Experiential Education.
Location: Browsing Room (Main Floor)
September – December, 2008
When John Regentin turned 30, his wife gave him an unusual gift – a kit to make his own wooden kayak. "When I opened the first box and saw all the pieces of wood, I said 'either this will be a remarkable craft or the most expensive bundle of kindling ever purchased,'" he says. A year later, he was paddling his craft around Lake George in New York.
Regentin's woodworking skills are this fall's Hidden Talents exhibit in Musselman Library's browsing room. Through posters, tools, drawings, and the actual kayak, the exhibit tells the story of hand-building a kayak.
Known for his love of the outdoors, Regentin, Assistant Dean of College Life and Director of Experiential Education, added kayaking to his repertoire 10 years ago in Nova Scotia. "I was watching others paddle in and out of the coastal caves along the shoreline and it looked like a great way to get around in the water."
Still, he isn't sure why he wanted to build a kayak. "I remember embracing the romance of paddling a wooden craft in quiet waters listening to the world around during a sunset. The only issue was I did not have the wooden kayak—so I suppose I was then drawn to the idea of just building one, it was cheaper than buying one already fabricated."
Regentin learned his carpentry skills from his father, who, in turn, had learned from his own father and grandfather. But he says it was really his father's work ethic that inspired him to tackle this job. "I learned from my father not to question my abilities and not to seek recognition for a job completed. He would say 'a job well done is its own reward.' This kayak represents that statement; I built it to see if I could."
Since completing the kayak, Regentin says his carpentry skills have flourished. He is in the final stages of a complete home renovation where his father joined him in demolishing walls, building headers, adding trim and flipping the kitchen. Now he wants to refurbish a classic Chris Craft runabout boat and take a course in timber frame construction.
"Though these are skills I am interested in developing, it is more important that my son Jack is able to reflect on life one day and say 'this is what I learned by watching and spending time with my dad,'" he says. "The kayak was just a stepping stone to what life has to offer…"


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The Lizardz' EYEBLINDER For Sale EVERYWHERE
Vinyl now in stock!
We are pleased to announce the official release of "Eyeblinder", our first album on Zard-o-Fone Records, and the debut of all original tunes by the Lizardz and friends! We are busy stocking vinyl for your listening pleasure, and have mechandise available at the shows.
We are being featured on blueoystercult.com and are really excited to be offering our music at C Note Music in Wisconsin Rapids, WI, Inner Sleeve in Wausau, WI (Thanks, Mike!), Deaf Ear in LaCrosse, WI, Strictly Discs in Madison, WI, (Thanks Angie!) RadioKAOS in Stevens Point, WI and Mad City Music Exchange in Madison, WI. Also available at The Exclusive Company in Appleton, Oshkosh, Green Bay, and Janesville, WI, Heid Music in Wisconsin Rapids, WI, Deaf Ear Records in LaCrosse, WI, Go Johnny Go Records in White Bear Lake, MN Revival Records in Eau Claire, WI (Thanks Billy!), and The Vinyl Cave in Superior, WI (Thanks Toms!) Whew.
NOW also available on iTunes and CDBaby, and Amazon.com, so start downloading today!
Abbey Road pics in the Gazette!
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BREAKOUT MAGAZINE from Germany reviews "Eyeblinder"
Full interview coming soon!
January/February CD Review (translated from German):
"More than two decades have passed from the first steps in the late 80s, including some lineup changes until now's release "Eyeblinder". But here we are, and The Lizardz present their debut "Eyeblinder" which is released as cd and vinyl also. Attention please: This isn't the Southern group Lizard from Germany or the US band The Lizards. If you have a look on The Lizardz's homepage they declare their style with many influences from The Kinks, The Who, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty or The Allman Brothers Band. This is true, and so we find on "Eyeblinder" a colorful musical journey with stops in different areas. If you listen to the album the first time this might be a little bit confusing, but the more often you listen to it, you get a great view into the Lizardz's sound cosmos. By the way: the record was mastered at the legendary Abbey Road studios in London. There are some musical guests performing for The Lizardz: Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and Richie Castellano from Blue Öyster Cult, and Buck co-produced two tracks also. All in all "Eyeblinder" is a fine debut with a lot to discover." - Breakout Magazine, February 2014 issue
March/April Vinyl Review (translated from German):
"Wow, wow and again wow: an unknown band with an independent record company, but the vinyl is 180 grams. Amazing. Remember: the cd was reviewed the last issue (imports), but this high quality pressing vinyl makes it much more fun, as you you can hear now everything in the versatile Lizardz style. The groove factor is awesome, just listen to the bass. There is so much you don't hear on the cd. Vinyl quality is perfect, no scratches between the songs and a clean middle hole. All in all the best example of how lps have to be. So I only miss one thing to be in vinyl heaven: an antistatic inner sleeve, but I don't want to claim such a high standard because everybody who is into vinyl owns such sleeves. "Newcastle" and "Utah Moon" – such a warm sound that you have to get on analog feeling. Thanks a lot for this great musical feeling." - Breakout Magazine March 2014 issue
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Bandersnatch House! Colors teal, purple and vermillion.
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Here are ten common but hazardous customer service mistakes. All fixable (which keeps me in business), but each tragic in its own little, or not so little, way.
1. Burning your customers (and therefore yourself) because something bad happened once, or even never. Not taking checks, for instance, because one time someone bounced one.
2. Forgetting it's not just what you do, it's also how you do it, specifically, it's the language you use. Language needs to be gentle, kind, and brand appropriate—without sounding stilted. And language includes getting the "words without words" right at your company as well: yielding the right of way to customers, never having your back to a guest, and so on.
3. Failing the "cues to quality" test: customers in every setting pick up cues to quality from the darnedest places. Typos in your signs, dirty shoelaces on your nurses—this stuff matters.
4. Getting everything right except the beginning and the ending—the two most important moments as far as a customer's memory is concerned.
5. Hiring the wrong people and expecting that you'll be able to provide good customer service anyway.
6. Hiring the right people but then failing to give them power: power to help customers in ways you haven't thought of, power to design their tasks differently, power to do their best for you.
7. Treating your employees like dirt and expecting them to treat their customers like gold. You get a lot better results (not to mention karma) by emulating institutions like the Ritz-Carlton with its central operating philosophy of putting employees and customers first: "We are ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen."
8. Refusing to say you're sorry.
9. Saying you're sorry in a way that makes it obvious that you aren't, really.
10. Being late, being misleading about timetables, being insensitive to the timing issues and pacing preferences and expectations of your customers. Remember: a perfect product, delivered late, is a defect.


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Are you as a citizen of The United States of America aware of how similar to 1930s Germany you are? As things are it doesn't take much to completely close down your society.
Your country is already in the gray area, on the verge of becoming a totalitarian police state. You just don't realize it.
A study by Prof Martin Gilens at Princeton University and Prof Benjamin I Page at Northwestern University has shown that your country is an oligarchy not a democracy.
Political scientist Michael J. Glennon at Tufts University says that the people you elect aren't the ones calling the shots. You can vote how much you want the secret government won't change.
There is much more to this but what they are saying is very serious. It should be headline news and talked about in every news outlet in the western world until democracy is fully restored. But it is not. Ask yourself why that is.
You perceive America to be a democracy and beacon of light for freedom. Only on paper and what you think. You have become blind to reality.
I love your country but would not go there under current circumstances. It would be like going to Germany in 1933. And what would I eat? Dangerous GMO seems to be in everything.
Don't you see it? The security state controlled by special interests is all around you. What is the purpose and end goal of all the surveillance?
It doesn't look good. The spying on you as individuals, police that looks like military, taking away your liberties and infringements of your basic constitutional rights, the treatment of whistleblowers and real journalists, and more.
Obama promised that his administration would be the most transparent of all. It has become the complete opposite.
This is a plea to you as citizen of The United States of America to act with the powers you have. For all our sakes.
Please take a second look at some of the biggest things that has happened in the latest 20 years, issues that main stream media do not want you to see and discuss. Rethink world and domestic events.
Challenge your world view. Look outside the box. Don't call people crazy or conspiracy theorists if you don't know what they are talking about. If you know you're right help them see your truth or be prepared to change your view.
Understand that anyone in government or media who doesn't want to help clear layers of doubt has something to hide.
History will tell if you were as passive as Germans were or if you honored the legacy of your ancestors.
Don't be afraid to speak up. It might be your last chance. If you know something, say something.
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DSU 3rd in Midwest in International Rankings
Dakota State University is ranked third in the Midwest Region by an international survey focusing on the communication of scholarly knowledge using the worldwide web.
The rankings are released under the name "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities", and an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group of the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS), part of the National Research Council (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.
Cybermetrics Lab is devoted to the quantitative analysis of the Internet and Web contents, specifically those related to the processes of generation and scholarly communication of scientific knowledge. This is a new emerging discipline that has been called Cybermetrics or Webometrics.
Rankings are based on the idea that a university's activity is multi-dimensional and should be reflected in its web presence. Cybermetrics used four indicators to compile the rankings: Size, visibility, rich files, and scholar.
Size deals with the number of pages recovered from four search engines, Google, Yahoo, Live Search, and Exalead. Visibility is the total number of unique external links received by a site. Rich files are the number of files on the site relating to scholarly information, and scholar is the number of papers and citations for each academic domain, for example, research papers, reports and other academic items.
Universities were split into categories similar to those used by U.S.News and World Report for their annual rankings.
Other area colleges on the list included Augustana College, Sioux Falls in 9th, and Black Hills State University in 15th place.


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Indulgence Silk Plush Blanket 25 27
beautiful blanket Excellent quality, comfortable and plush feel blanket. Color is as shown on website. November 24, 2014
Silk Plush Blanket The silk blanket is nice, although I was surprised when I received the blanket that the label said dry clean only. I would not want a blanket that is not washable; however, I did wash it in cold water and dry it on medium heat and it did just fine. Otherwise, really like the blanket. April 14, 2014
Good but not what I expected I purchased this blanket because the catalogue listed the item as "machine washable". However, when I received the blanket the labeling clearly stated "dry clean only". The blanket looked nice, especially the binding on 4 sides, so I decided to try it anyway. We are very pleased with the warmth it provides. Just as the item description stated, it seems to regulate body heat to keep us warm without overheating. It is the perfect weight for this time of year. Needless to say, we decided to keep the blanket and worry about the cleaning later. November 12, 2011
Smooth as silk This is a nice silky smooth blanket.initial smell quickly went away. It's a nice soft medium warmth blanket. Not enough for a real cold night in my opinion. I too was definitely disappointed that it is not machine washable, customer service confirmed this, though the latest catalog still says it is. I was going to send it back, but my dry cleaner said 15 bucks to wash it, so I figured I'll keep it rather than bother sending it back. You might be able to machine wash it gently, but shrinkage could occur, cause silk tends to do this. I don't think I would buy it again, because I like washing my blankets frequently. December 24, 2011
Silk Plush Blanket--oh my I am so disappointed, and am returning this product. For two years, I've searched for a very light-weight blanket that is warm. I was excited to find this one, especially since I've ordered many Frontgate products, and found them to be high quality. When I opened the package, there was an overwhelming odor that smelled like petroleum. I'm not going to chance that it is temporary. The description on the website says the blanket is washable, but the packaging says it must be dry cleaned. Need to rethink this one, Frontgate. December 21, 2011
Nice The blanket is nice, and it really is thin enough to use during the summer. I personally was expecting it to be much softer, but it's nice enough to keep. Also it does have a terrible industrial smell to it that takes a few days to get rid of. I did wash mine in cold water and it came out ok, but it has small little bumps now :( August 6, 2014
Very soft and warm I have been using my Indulgence Silk Plush blanket since the day that arrived. Its great now for cold nights is a quality material, like most of the Frontage Products. Thanks. Bob April 16, 2014
Silk Plush Blanket This is my second blanket (first is about 6 yrs old and is still functional) and I looooove it! It keeps one warm in the winter while it is not so heavy. I bought another for my daughter, and we will see how she likes it. I would recommend this for anyone -- especially those who have allergies -- since this is made from natural fibers (silk). July 21, 2014
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I'm looking to purchase a King size blanket in Seafoam. Will it be made available or are the Kingsized blankets limited on color choice? Thank you!
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Med School Letters of Recommendation, Part 2
It's a well known fact that med school letters of recommendation (LORs) are an important part of your application. In my last article, I provided some tips and guidelines to consider when choosing who to pick as your letter writers. Now that you know who you'll be asking for letters, today we'll pick things up by discussing how to request your letters and make sure you get them.
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We are surrounded by space. And that space contains lots of things. And these things have shapes. In geometry we are concerned with the nature of these shapes, how we define them, and what they teach us about the world at large--from math to architecture to biology to astronomy (and everything in between). Learning geometry is about more than just taking your medicine ("It's good for you!"), it's at the core of everything that exists--including you. Having said all that, some of the specific topics we'll cover include angles, intersecting lines, right triangles, perimeter, area, volume, circles, triangles, quadrilaterals, analytic geometry, and geometric constructions. Wow. That's a lot. To summarize: it's difficult to imagine any area of math that is more widely used than geometry.
Introduction to Euclidean geometry
Roughly 2400 years ago, Euclid of Alexandria wrote Elements which served as the world's geometry textbook until recently. Studied by Abraham Lincoln in order to sharpen his mind and truly appreciate mathematical deduction, it is still the basis of what we consider a first year course in geometry. This tutorial gives a bit of this background and then lays the conceptual foundation of points, lines, circles and planes that we will use as we journey through the world of Euclid.
Angles and intersecting lines
This topic continues our journey through the world of Euclid by helping us understand angles and how they can relate to each other.
If you can take one figure and flip, shift and rotate (not resize) it to be identical to another figure, then the two figures are congruent. This topic explores this foundational idea in geometry.
Right triangles and trigonometry
Triangles are not always right (although they are never wrong), but when they are it opens up an exciting world of possibilities. Not only are right triangles cool in their own right (pun intended), they are the basis of very important ideas in analytic geometry (the distance between two points in space) and trigonometry.
Perimeter, area, and volume
A broad set of tutorials covering perimeter area and volume with and without algebra.
Special properties and parts of triangles
You probably like triangles. You think they are useful. They show up a lot. What you'll see in this topic is that they are far more magical and mystical than you ever imagined!
Let's think more visually about things like shifts, rotations, scaling and symmetry.
Analytic geometry
Geometric constructions
We now have fancy computers to help us perfectly draw things, but have you ever wondered how people drew perfect circles or angle bisectors or perpendicular bisectors back in the day. Well this tutorial will have you doing just as your grandparents did (actually, a little different since you'll still be using a computer to draw circles and lines with a virtual compass and straightedge).
Worked examples
Sal does the 80 problems from the released questions from the California Standards Test for Geometry. Basic understanding of Algebra I necessary.
All content in "Circles"
Circle arcs and sectors
This tutorial will review some of the basic of circles and then think about lengths of arcs and areas of sectors.
Central, inscribed and circumscribed angles
We'll now dig a bit deeper in our understanding of circles by looking at central, inscribed and circumscribed angles. This is fun and beautiful as is, but you'll also see that it shows up on a lot of math standardized tests. Why do people like to put geometry like this on standardized tests? Because it shows deductive reasoning skills which are super important in every walk of life!
Equation of a circle
You know that a circle can be viewed as the set of all points that whose distance from the center is equal to the radius. In this tutorial, we use this information and the Pythagorean Theorem to derive the equation of a circle.
- Equation for a circle using the Pythagorean Theorem
- Pythagorean theorem and radii of circles
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- Equation of a circle in factored form
- Completing the square to write equation in standard form of a circle
- Equation of a circle in non-factored form
Area of inscribed triangle
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8 � Resource allocation is without formal accommodation for ITS-related investments. These resources are often viewed as the first place to cut. � Partnerships (interjurisdictional roles and relationships) among operations participants, including PSAs, local governments, MPOs, the private sector, are exacerbated by informal and unstable partner relationships in congestion management activities. Capability Maturity Levels of Institutional Architecture Level 1 is reflected by the many transportation agencies that are transitioning into SO&M as an identifiable, managed activity. At the other end of the maturity scale is Level 3--an ideal agency culture, fully staffed within an efficient organizational structure, a transparent resource alloca- tion process for SO&M, and formal relationships with partners. Between the transitioning situ- ation and the ideal is Level 2, already evident in some state DOTs that are committed to formalizing SO&M as a core program and are making changes to rationalize organization, staffing, resource allocations, and partner relationships toward that end. These relationships reveal a pattern of institutional evolution toward configurations that are increasingly support- ive of effective SO&M processes. The three distinct levels of institutional capability maturity have been defined as follows: � Level 1: Ad hoc. An architecture that reflects a legacy of civil engineering culture in which SO&M activities are accommodated on an ad hoc and informal basis, typically as a subsidiary part of maintenance or capital project arrangements. This level, as exhibited in transitioning states, is reflected in a legacy organizational structure and informal resource allocation, frag- mented SO&M activities, ad hoc project-oriented business processes, and a narrow SO&M program with no clear sense of performance. � Level 2: Rationalized. An architecture exhibited in mature states that reflects an appreciation of SO&M as a distinct activity, with adjustments in arrangements, resources, and roles to accommodate the distinct features of SO&M. � Level 3: Mainstreamed. A hypothetical, fully integrated ideal of an architecture in which SO&M is considered a core mission, with appropriate formal and standardized arrangements (equivalent to other core programs) configured to support continuous improvement. The relationships between the process levels and their capabilities on the one hand and the institution architectures and their supporting features on the other constitute the framework for an institutional capability maturity model for SO&M. Table ES.3 summarizes the concept of the related levels of process and institutional maturity pictured in Figure ES.1. The levels of process maturity for each key process element are directly related to the levels of maturity of the key insti- tutional elements described. The project research provided considerable detail regarding the criteria for the three levels of institutional maturity. (Process maturity is not addressed in detail in this project other than to pro- vide structure for the criteria of levels of institutional maturity.) Table ES.4 presents the criteria that define the institutional architecture levels. Each cell within the table represents either a point of departure or a target for improving architecture to the next level. Transportation agencies can plot their current situation and their targets for improvement. Capability Improvement Strategies at Each Level For each of the four elements of institutional architecture, there is a set of generic strategies that have been and can be used to make the required adjustments to move up a level in institutional maturity. The strategies have their own related tactics associated with each level of maturity. The interpretation of strategies changes with successive levels. The differences reflect the increasingly


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Francois Hollande has moved a step closer to becoming the first Socialist president of France since 1995, by beating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the first round of elections.
"I think that we [Socialists] are leading, but it is only half time and like in any soccer game you only win if you win at the end of the game. All the propositions of Hollande are in favour of the jobs, youth, social security for everyone, and environmental issues are the main reasons why he is leading right now in the polls but we need to mobilise every French citizen … to vote in favour of Francois Hollande two weeks from now."
- Thierry Marchal-Beck, the president of the Socialist Youth
This election comes at a crucial time for France with its faltering economy and for a whole continent struggling with the Eurozone crisis.
Sarkozy is seen by many as having failed to live up to his promises. The strong result by the left seems to reflect a desire for change in the country after 17 years of centrist, conservative presidents.
However, in a bid to court right-wing voters, Sarkozy has campaigned hard on immigration. He wants to halve the number of foreigners entering the country illegally and increase deportation of illegal immigrants.
He has also promised to raise around $4bn by tightening profit tax loopholes for big companies. And in a move that would lower the cost of labour for employers, he plans to raise VAT to fund a reduction in social charges.
Meanwhile, Hollande has been very vocal in opposing a financial policy based on austerity.
He has promised to renegotiate the European Union fiscal compact to stimulate growth and create new jobs. His plan includes $26bn of new spending over five years that will help create 150,000 new jobs to tackle youth unemployment, as well as new positions in education and the police.
Hollande also wants to reverse tax breaks for the wealthy, with a 75 per cent tax rate on those earning more than $1.3m.
Undoubtedly France has come the closest to a move to socialism since Francois Mitterrand's two-term presidency between 1981 and 1995.
"It is not looking terribly good for him. I don't think everything is lost but I should say he has about a 20 per cent chance of inverting the trend. If you add all the votes that were cast yesterday you will find that actually, the right still has a majority but that would mean slapping together Monsieur Sarkozy's votes with Madame Le Pen's."
- Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph
But the big surprise for many was the strong result for Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front Party. She secured 18 per cent of the vote, exceeding her father's second-place result in the 2002 presidential race.
"With joy, courage and dignity, against all odds, the French people took on the elite tonight. This first round is not an end but the beginning of a great union between of all those on the right and on the left who love France," Le Pen said.
Can Sarkozy somehow convince National Front supporters to switch their votes to him in the second round? Could the Socialists make a comeback in France? And can Hollande really deliver on all his promises?
Inside Story, with presenter Shakuntala Santhiran, discusses with guests: Thierry Marchal-Beck, the president of the Socialist Youth; Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph; and Thomas Klau, a political analyst and head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
"The French today have understood the historic choice they have to make for this presidential election. They have thrown away all the predictions. And in doing this they've expressed themselves, it's a crisis vote stemming from their worries, suffering and anxieties. Having to face this new world that's in the process of such change."
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president at an election rally
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Boku no Pico is a a series of shotacon (think: reverse loli) OVAs released by Natural High studios. It is used to troll newcomers on /a/ into watching a video about a college student having sexual relations with a prepubescent boy (ex: "Hey /a/ I just finished watching [series]. What should I watch next?" "Boku no Pico.")
The copypasta
"Man this sh*t is so wrong in so many motherfu*king levels yo…I was talking to one of my white friends and he sent me 3 videos with the name only labeled "Boku" I said to this dude, What's this sh*t? He just giggled and said "Just watch them and MAKE SURE NOBODY IS AROUND YOU WHEN WATCHING IT!" Then I thought it was some weird porno or some strange sh*t but as I watched the first video, I was like "Yo…..what the fu*k.." THEN IT CONTINUED and I was like "Yoooooooooooooooooooooooo……." THEN THEY GOT IN THE MOTHERfu*kING CAR AND THEN I SAID "YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" I couldn't fu*king believe what I just saw, It was like Satan gave me his porno collection, sh*t was so disturbing..YET I COULDN'T STOP WATCHING IT, THEN VIDEO TWO AND IT WAS TWO OF THEM…..THOSE NIGGAS…YOOOOOOO…….THOSE NIGGAS….AND THAT GIRL SAW THEM THEN SHE…YYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO… THEN THAT NIGGA TOOK THAT DOG TOY THEN YYYYYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO……..IT WAS LIKE YOUR bi*ch WANTED TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU BUT SHE WANTED TO SOMETHING "DIFFERENT" AND IT WAS SO fu*kED UP AND CREEPY, YOU JUST…KEPT WATCHING IT…AND THAT'S WHAT I fu*kING DID!!!!! THEN I SAW VIDEO THREE…THREE NIGGAS…THRRREEEEE!!!!!! IT…WAS…THHHHHHRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! AND COCO WAS HIS NAME NIGGA, COCO WAS HIS MOTHERfu*kING NAME!!!!!! OH MY GOD,I AIN'T GOING TO HEAVEN NIGGAS, I ALREADY SOLD MY SOUL TO LUCIFER!
So I Just want to tell you all right now..DON'T WATCH AN ANIME LABELED BOKU, DON'T DO IT NIGGA, IT'S LIKE SUCCUBUS. REMEMBER WHAT I'M SAYING TO YOU NIGGAS!"
(source – http://slumz.boxden.com/f429/dont-watch-anime-called-boku-1161642/)
Said copypasta has since been adapted into a dramatic reading on YouTube.
There's also another copypasta first posted on /mu/ that regards the second OVA (Chico to Pico) in a much different manner.
"I recently started watching an anime entitled Pico to Chico, and all I can say is… Wow. Unlike so many modern shows that stumble over every excruciating minutia of their characters, Pico to Chico tastefully crafts a story and leaves the characters to mystery (only a fool would dare call the character development "shallow"). Post-modern existentialism is the soup of the day as we progress through their adventure, only to find that materialism is the only thing that keeps us living, but it's not in a pompous, pseudo-intellectual style that implies that's a recent phenomena; it's handled delicately but will impact you in a way that leaves you asking "Why?" Unlike our hack-ridden film industry, Pico to Chico uses metaphors in an excruciatingly subtle way. Sharp-eyed spectators should be able to spot the humanistic properties Chico's sister displays. Just when you think all of the questions raised will be answered, the film comes to a halt, leaving you, the viewer, left to ponder the hidden questions scholars have kept to themselves up to their untimely deaths.
I don't think this film justifies an arbitrary rating of stars; it's much better than that. It deserves a place among the highest modern philosophical works of our world. Nietzsche, thy name is Pico."


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How to rock your glittery party dress
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What about summer parties, specially prom, night parties and red carpet events. Metallic, golden, shinny pieces will be the hottest choice no matter in trend or not. You can easily rock your glittery party dress in minutes with perfect accessories and make over. Don't ever overdo your party beauty look when hitching a glittery pieces of dress. What else, I am going to tell you.
Here i have three perfect glittery dresses with 3 basic ideas to keep in mind.
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First idea is completely about rocking an exclusive golden sequin party dress, achieving overall dark look. A complete celeb look for red carpet and award events to grab attention from thousands of people in front of you. I pair the dress with Alexander McQueen Black Crystal Chain Sandal, a gold cuff from Etsy and Leetal Kalmanson black earrings. You can simply finish your eyes with shimmery gold eye shadow. For the pouts, don't overdo just apply peach metallic or simple peach lipstick.
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Valparaiso leads wire-to-wire in blowout of Milwaukee
By Michael Osipoff 648-3137 or firstname.lastname@example.com January 12, 2013 11:22PM
Updated: February 14, 2013 7:02AM
MILWAUKEE — No issues going on the road. No looking ahead to Thursday's showdown at Detroit.
Just a thorough performance from Valparaiso against Milwaukee.
The Crusaders routed the Panthers 76-52 on Saturday at the Klotsche Center, leading from start to finish behind Ryan Broekhoff. Valparaiso (13-5, 3-1 Horizon League) matched its largest margin of victory since it joined the Horizon League, done two other times, and posted its most lopsided conference road win since a 74-42 decision at Chicago State on Jan. 21, 1999.
"This is a rare thing for a Milwaukee-Valpo game, because it always usually comes down to the last possession. … This was one of our superior games of the year," Crusaders coach Bryce Drew said. "I'm really proud of our team that we came in and played the way that we did, because we had to, especially against a Rob Jeter-coached team."
Since the Crusaders became members of the Horizon League, six of their 11 previous games against the Panthers (4-13, 0-3) had been decided by three points or fewer.
But this one was over early.
Valparaiso got right to business, taking a 12-2 lead less than four minutes into the game, with Broekhoff scoring eight points, including two 3-pointers — the first coming with four seconds elapsed, and the second bouncing off the rim, high into the air and through. He finished with 26 points on 9-of-13 shooting (tying a career high for field goals made), including 7-of-9 from 3-point range (setting a career high for 3s made in a game, after he had made six three times), and 10 rebounds, his third straight double-double. Broekhoff also had three of the Crusaders' eight blocked shots and four assists.
"Once I got that first look, I got off the tip and the defense kind of separated," Broekhoff said. "It probably wasn't what Coach wanted to start the game, but if it went in, it's a little bit better. I definitely got the confidence going early, and my teammates were fantastic in finding me in open spots."
Kevin Van Wijk had 12 points on 6-of-7 shooting, Matt Kenney 11 and LaVonte Dority 10.
"The teams are too good in our conference to ever think that you can just come in and win," Drew said. "You have to not only show up, but you have to play a good game to have a chance to win. I was very pleased our guys were motivated and very energetic to start the game."
Valparaiso moved the ball exceptionally well, and had 18 assists. The Crusaders shot 49.2 percent (29-of-59) from the field, including 61.5 percent (16-of-26) in the second half, and went 12-of-31 from 3-point range.
"Guys were just looking for that extra pass," senior point guard Erik Buggs said. "That's one thing about our team, we're really unselfish.
If another guy has a better look, the ball's probably going to swing that way. Today was one of those days where everything looked and felt good. Those extra passes were turning into extra points."
At the other end, Valparaiso limited Milwaukee to 34.0 percent shooting (17-of-50), including 29.2 percent (7-of-24) in the first half, a combination of tough Crusaders defense and sketchy Panthers shot selection. The Milwaukee guard tandem of Paris Gulley and Jordan Aaron had 18 and 10 points, respectively, but on 6-of-16 and 4-of-12 shooting. Demetrius Harris had 14 points.
"Those two are probably one of the best backcourts in the conference," Buggs said. "We knew coming in that would be a tough matchup. We just had to stay focused and stay locked in. You can't take a play off with those guys otherwise they can have a really, really good night."
After Valparaiso's early burst, Milwaukee drew to 21-16. But the Crusaders started raining 3-pointers in the last four minutes of the half. Will Bogan initiated the binge, followed by Broekhoff and Dority twice (split by two Gulley free throws) to give Valparaiso a 33-18 lead with 47 seconds left.
The Crusaders proceeded to score the first eight points of the second half to lead 41-20 with 16:26 left. The Panthers moved to 45-31 with 12:14 left, before the Crusaders reeled off seven straight points — with the last five from Bogan, including a 3-pointer — to build a 64-38 cushion with 6:58 left.
"Valpo played like they're supposed to play," Milwaukee coach Rob Jeter said. "They're picked to be the best team in the league, and they played exactly like that.
"We played a team tonight that played up to their capabilities, and we didn't play up to ours."
Around the rim: Valparaiso last had played at the Klotsche Center in the 2002-03 season, a 75-61 loss. Milwaukee had won 13 straight Horizon League games at the building, including last season's conference tournament win against UIC, and were 22-3 in its last 25 games there. The Panthers have not called it their permanent home since the 2002-03 season, and Saturday was the first time they played a regular-season league game there since the end of the 2003-04 season. When asked what he liked about the Klotsche Center — where Valparaiso had a considerable contingent of fans on Saturday — Broekhoff said, "Everything. "We had a great support base, which is fantastic being on the road. Obviously, winning games in the Horizon League on the road is key, and to have that fan support really gave us that extra motivation when we made good plays, when we got stops. It's always good to have the crowd on your side."


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We have all been waiting but now the wait is over. Now you can get a Star Wars silicone rubber ice tray that makes one large and four small droid shaped ice cubes. How cold is that?
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The Big Lebowski will be released on August 22, 2011 in a region free Blu-ray edition.
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Special Features:The Dude's Life, The Dude Abides: The Big Lebowski Ten Years Later, Flying Carpets and Bowling Pin Dreams: The Dream Sequences of the Dude, Interactive Map, Jeff Bridges Photo Book, An Exclusive Introduction, Making of the Big Lebowski, The Lebowski Fest: An Achiever's Story, Photo Gallery, Scene Companion PIP, U-Control: The Music Of The Big Lebowski, Mark It, Dude PIP, Worthy Adversaries: Whats My Line Trivia
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Cult movie actress Tura Satana, born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan, has passed away.
Satana's most noted screen role was as "Varla" in the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!–a very aggressive and sexual female character for which she did all of her own stunts and fight scenes.
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"When a modern day hot rod girl finds a mysterious letter dating back to the fifties hidden in her roadster, she is left with nothing but questions… Who is Johnny Callaway? She sets out to find the answers and retrace her deuce's troubled past. Fast hot rods, cool cats, gravity defying swing dancing and rockin' retro music all serve as a colorful backdrop to this heartfelt, inspiring story. Discover an underground scene where counter culture is in, old school is cool and nostalgia forever reigns."
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THE HOLY GRAIL OF BURLESQUE MOVIES! The legendary Queen of the Curve, Bettie Page, America s greatest pinup model, stars in Varietease, a unique peek of the wonderful world of burlesque complete with singers, slickers and saucy strippers! Flashing her sexy smile and gyrating in a harem girl costume, Bettie Page does her Dance of the Four Veils and easily steals the show. Another legend, the sophisticated and sparkling Lili St. Cyr, shows us just how elegant a striptease can be. Aiding and abetting are jokester Bobby Shields, bikini-clad Chris La Chris, Warblers Cass Franklin & Monica Lane, exuberant contortionist Twinnie Wallen, and fame female impersonator Vickie Lynn. First released in 1954. Produced and directed by girly-pix impresario Irving Klaw (the man who photographed Bettie in bondage).
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Cadillac Records is Hollywood's take on the Chess label, created just after the Second World War in Chicago by Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody), the son of Polish immigrants, to promote young black performers, primarily from the South of the US. That means a host of blues and soul icons being taken off by modern-day actors and performers - including Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Howlin' Wolf (Eamonn Walker), Chuck Berry (Mos Def) and Etta James (Beyoncé Knowles).
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Wienerworld proudly presents the Blu Ray edition of the classic reggae film Rockers, to coincide with the film's 30th anniversary since its release.
A riotous burst of energy and colour, almost documentary in style, Rockers is a cameo-packed gutsy thriller of the dread-locked, ganja-smoking drummer Leroy Horsemouth Wallace's attempts to succeed in the cut throat Jamaican music biz which provides much insight, amusement and education.
The film captures reggae at its musical apex with a vibrant and magnificent reggae soundtrack now digitally re-mastered from the original 35mm film made in 1978. Release date 15 June 2009.
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Almost every B-movie has a little something. Teenage Gang Debs from 1966 features the top tune Don't Make Me Mad by Lee Dowell. Which does exist as a 45 but very few copies are known. Anyway, here's the trailer for Teenage Gang Debs. "The Go Go girls who go... too far".
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Ever since Universal Pictures and Manadaly Pictures secured the rights to Frank Sinatra's music and life story, they have been looking for a suitable director. Now it has been announced that Martin Scorsese will direct the biopic.
No news yet on who will play the role of Frank Sinatra.
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Today it is 15 years since the passing of Lee Brilleaux, lead singer of Dr Feelgood. We thought it could be a nice tribute to his memory to mention the upcoming movie Oil City Confidential.Julien Temple is the man behind the Dr Feelgood documentary coming out this fall.
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Justice Sotomayor: The Unjust Hearings
It may be too late to save any future Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominations from farce, as the Judge Sonia Sotomayor hearings quickly became. She is an excellently qualified nominee and will make a careful, thorough justice.1 She demonstrated her clarity and technical skill in correcting several senators' misunderstandings of constitutional issues and explaining the facts of a large number of her own lower court and recent Supreme Court decisions to them. Her personal history is remarkable—from a poor South Bronx family she became a Princeton summa graduate and an editor of TheYale Law Journal. Her long judicial and extrajudicial record suggests that she is markedly less driven by ideology and more respectful of technical legal argument than Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito seemed before their nominations and have shown themselves to be once on the Court.
Her hearings could therefore have been a particularly valuable opportunity to explain the complexity of constitutional issues to the public and thus improve public understanding of this crucially important aspect of our government. But she destroyed any possibility of that benefit in her opening statement when she proclaimed, and repeated at every opportunity throughout the hearings, that her constitutional philosophy is very simple: fidelity to the law. That empty statement perpetuated the silly and democratically harmful fiction that a judge can interpret the key abstract clauses of the United States Constitution without making controversial judgments of political morality in the light of his or her own political principles. Fidelity to law, as such, cannot be a constitutional philosophy because a judge needs a constitutional philosophy to decide what the law is.
The constitutional provisions that provoke the most controversial Supreme Court decisions are drafted in abstract moral language: the Constitution refers to "due process of law," "equal protection of the laws," "cruel and unusual" punishment, the "right" of free speech, the "free" exercise of religion, and the "right" to "bear arms," for example. Some lawyers, including Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, insist that we can interpret these clauses and apply them to concrete contemporary cases by asking a historical question: What did those who wrote that language, and the citizens they spoke to, assume the clauses meant? But that conservative theory can itself be defended only by appealing to highly controversial political principles about the nature of democracy and about the role of intention in constitutional interpretation. The theory is unhelpful anyway because the authors of the abstract clauses almost certainly intended to say what their words naturally mean: they meant to forbid any law that denies equal status to all citizens, which is very different from forbidding any law they themselves thought denies equal status.
The clauses, read literally, therefore require interpreters to develop what they believe to be the best theory of equal citizenship, which is not necessarily the theory of the framers. The same Congress that approved the equal protection clause in 1868 itself segregated the public schools of the District of Columbia, but no one now supposes that the equal protection clause allows segregation.
The Supreme Court's past decisions do act as precedents that limit contemporary interpretation. But these past decisions often themselves require interpretation. In 1937 Justice Benjamin Cardozo laid down a test for interpreting the due process clause: he said it protects those rights that are "of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty. To abolish them is…to violate a 'principle of justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental.'"2 What is now the leading precedent on abortion rights declares that constraints on abortion are unconstitutional if they impose an "undue burden" on pregnant women.3 Lawyers and judges disagree markedly about what is essential to ordered liberty, how American traditions and conscience are to be understood, and what constraints on abortion are undue. And justices may ignore past decisions, openly or covertly, as Roberts and Alito, who themselves promised fidelity to the law, have done brazenly since their confirmations.4
So a genuine constitutional philosophy must be a system of different kinds of political principle that guide a judge in interpreting the abstract constitutional clauses and the past decisions of other judges. It must include some at least rough theory about the best conception of democracy, including the best understanding of the individual rights that must be secured by law, as a matter of justice, if government by majority rule is to be fair. I emphasize that these are principles held as a matter of moral conviction; they are not prejudices of political partisanship or sympathy for or identification with any class or racial or ethnic group. The difference is crucial: a judge will try to justify his principles by some more general theory of political morality and he will respect their demands even when they cut against his partisan preferences or loyalties. The difference was made stark by the Court's shameful decision in Bush v. Gore, when five conservative justices declared George W. Bush president on grounds that they had themselves rejected in past cases and that they conceded would have no application in future ones.5
Sadly, practically everyone concerned in judicial confirmation hearings—senators and nominees—has an overriding interest in embracing the myth that judges' own political principles are irrelevant. Sotomayor was, of course, well advised to embrace that myth. Her initial statement, and her constant repetition of it, made her confirmation absolutely certain; she could lose the great prize only by a candor she had no reason to display. She was faced by a group of Republican senators who had no interest in exploring genuine constitutional issues but wanted only to score political points, if possible by embarrassing her but in any case to preen before their constituents. They scoured her record of extrajudicial speeches for any sign that she actually doubts the myth so they could declare her a hypocrite who is not faithful to the law after all.
Democratic senators had no wish to challenge the myth either. They only wanted to protect her from questions that might supply ammunition to her opponents, so they offered her endless opportunities to repeat her empty promise to follow the law. Only President Obama, in a remarkably candid statement, seemed to challenge the myth. The law, he said, decides 95 percent of the cases but that leaves 5 percent to be decided in the judge's "heart." Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona asked Sotomayor if she agreed with Obama on this point. No, she roundly declared, I do not.
So the minuet was choreographed, and any illumination ruled out, before the hearings began. Both supporting and opposition senators asked Sotomayor whether she approved of recent Supreme Court decisions they believe of particular concern to their constituents: about abortion, of course, but also gun control, the president's power to defy Congress, his power to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely, and the permissibility of a city taking private property for private development. They wanted to be seen as knowledgeable and concerned by what worried voters.
She refused to answer, as they knew she would, on the ground that these issues might come before the Court again, and she would therefore violate judicial ethics if she took a position. As she asked Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma: "Would you want a judge or a nominee who…said I agree with you, this is unconstitutional—before I had a case before me…?" Opposition senators told journalists, predictably, that they were irritated with her evasions; supporting senators praised her for wise judicial restraint.
If the myth had been abandoned, the senators could have asked different and better questions that Sotomayor could not as easily have refused to answer. For example,
Judge, I know you can't prejudge cases that may come before you if confirmed. But we both know that in many cases a judge's philosophical convictions play an unavoidable role. So can you tell us, speaking abstractly, what individual rights you think should be protected, in your personal opinion as a matter of justice, to give all citizens equal status in our democracy? Or whether you think there is any moral objection to race-sensitive policies, short of quotas, that are well designed to reduce racial inequality and tension? Or whether and how far you think that the majority of citizens should have the right to bar sexual practices that they find immoral or distasteful?
Of course I know that many other factors affect your decision about equal protection and due process cases: the Constitution's text, the Court's precedents, statutes, and so forth. So I can't and won't draw any inferences about how you would vote in any actual case from what you say. But it would be helpful to this committee, and valuable to citizens watching, to know your thoughts.6
Such questions are, of course, out of order so long as the myth is accepted; it declares that a judge's moral opinions are beside the point because she should be guided only by the law.
The main bone the Republican senators gnawed during the hearings was Sotomayor's now famous remark that "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." That statement does seem to challenge the myth: if a judge has only to discover the law, and if personal experiences and convictions are irrelevant, what difference could it make whether the judge is a woman and a Latina? It was therefore imperative for Sotomayor, since she had declared that her constitutional philosophy was only fidelity to the law, either to explain away or to abandon her remark. She first said that she meant only that judges should set their personal experiences aside, which appears the opposite of what she had said. Later, on several occasions, she retracted the statement altogether:
My rhetorical device failed. It failed because it left an impression that I believe something that I don't…. It left an impression that has offended people and has left an impression that I didn't intend.
In fact, however, if we substitute "sometimes" for "more often than not," leaving the question open which kinds of cases she had in mind, her remark makes eminent sense. It plainly helps a judge not only in finding facts but in formulating law to be able empathetically to understand the law's impact on people of different kinds. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told The New York Times, for example, being a woman helps a judge understand the horror of a strip search for a teenage girl.7 Being a Latina may give a judge a better understanding of the crucial moral difference between racial discrimination poisoned by prejudice and race-sensitive policies aimed at erasing that prejudice. A judge with that understanding would reach a better interpretation of the Constitution's equal protection clause than a judge without it. No wise Latina would miss the obtuseness of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's observation, for instance, that if he had said a wise white man could make better decisions his career would have been destroyed.
Sotomayor was confirmed by the full Senate, 68–31, on August 6. Nine Republicans voted for her and the rest voted against. Her margin of victory was significantly greater than Justice Samuel Alito's margin—58 to 42, with only four Democrats supporting the nomination—when he was confirmed on January 31, 2006.↩
Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (1937).↩
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).↩
See my The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc (New York Review Books, 2008).↩
See my "A Badly Flawed Election,"The New York Review, January 11, 2001.↩
Senator Tom Coburn apparently wanted to ask a question of that kind. With his mind on gun control, he asked Sotomayor whether people have a right to defend themselves. When she began to describe what the courts had decided in the past he interrupted: "I wasn't asking about the legal question. I'm asking about your personal opinion." She then dismissed the question as "abstract."↩
See Emily Bazelon, "The Place of Women on the Court," The New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2009. Ginsburg was referring to Safford Unified School Dist. #1 v. Redding, Supreme Court, decided June 25, 2009.↩
Sotomayor was confirmed by the full Senate, 68–31, on August 6. Nine Republicans voted for her and the rest voted against. Her margin of victory was significantly greater than Justice Samuel Alito's margin—58 to 42, with only four Democrats supporting the nomination—when he was confirmed on January 31, 2006.↩
Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (1937).↩
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).↩
See my The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc (New York Review Books, 2008).↩
See my "A Badly Flawed Election,"The New York Review, January 11, 2001.↩
Senator Tom Coburn apparently wanted to ask a question of that kind. With his mind on gun control, he asked Sotomayor whether people have a right to defend themselves. When she began to describe what the courts had decided in the past he interrupted: "I wasn't asking about the legal question. I'm asking about your personal opinion." She then dismissed the question as "abstract."↩
See Emily Bazelon, "The Place of Women on the Court," The New York Times Magazine, July 7, 2009. Ginsburg was referring to Safford Unified School Dist. #1 v. Redding, Supreme Court, decided June 25, 2009.↩


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How Jay-Z gained power in 2004AGE 34
You'll find more people still believe Iraq has WMDs than take Jay-Z at his word that he's retiring his mic. But even if he does, it won't be to hit the Bahamas with Beyoncé: He's being pursued by at least two labels to take on an executive position, with Universal reportedly close to signing him as president of Def Jam. It would mark the first time a still-popular artist controlled a major not vanity label, risky for both parties.


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'My Brother Marvin' goes behind the music of Marvin Gaye
Musical stage play comes to The Lyric
BALTIMORE - The rollercoaster life of Marvin Gaye takes center stage at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore.
"I just bring out the whole truth. I just let all the skeletons out the closet," said Zeola Gaye. She is sharing her sibling's struggles in the musical stage play "My Brother Marvin."
It's snapshots of the soul singer's dramatic life from growing up in Washington D.C., his rise through Motown to his untimely death.
"That's all I get is what happened. What really happened? So I'm telling what really happened," Zeola said.
A lot happened in Marvin's life, especially when he teamed up with songstress Tammi Terrell.
"When they sung together it was so beautiful! That was the 'love affair'. When the two of them were on stage, nobody else exists," said actress Lia Grant who plays Tammi.
"I promise you it's an emotional rollercoaster. You're going to laugh. You're going to cry. You're going to feel sexy. All of those different emotions play a big part in this piece," said Lia.
"You get to see some of the turmoil Marvin was going through battling with addiction. Battling with trying to please his dad. Battling with his own spiritual beliefs," said actor Tony Grant. He plays Marvin in his 20s.
"There are a lot of things that you'll see in this play that will help you kind of understand why Marvin was, who he was. Marvin was a genius who was flawed, like a Whitney Houston or a Richard Pryor," said actor Clifton Powell who plays Marvin's father Marvin Gaye Sr opposite Lynn Whitfield.
Zeola says her brother's musical genius lives on in his songs like "What's Going On" and "Mercy, Mercy Me."
"I just get happy inside. His music makes me happy. It helps me to deal with the fact that he's not here with me," Zeola said.
"My Brother Marvin" runs Thursday through Sunday at the Lyric.
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Salted Caramel Plum Tarte Tatin
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup ruby port
2 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 teaspoon flaked salt
2 pounds firm plums, halved and pitted
1 frozen puff pastry sheet, thawed
Position oven rack in center of oven and preheat to 400°F.
Combine sugar and Port in a small saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until sugar dissolves. Turn up heat to high and boil (without stirring) until syrup is a deep amber color, about 6 minutes. Immediately remove saucepan from heat and, using a whisk, add butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, then salt. Pour caramel into a 10-inch-diameter cast iron skillet and quickly spread evenly with a spatula before caramel hardens. (Use caution as caramel is very hot).
Arrange plums in concentric circles atop caramel. (Plums will shrink as they cook).
Roll out puff pastry on a lightly floured surface and cut into a 12-inch round. Place atop plums. Tuck edges down between plums and sides of skillet, covering the plums completely. Using a fork, pierce in several places to allow steam to escape while baking. Place in oven and bake until pastry is golden brown and the plum juice is bubbling, about 20 minutes. Using an oven mitt, gently tilt skillet and, using a turkey baster, remove excess juices (a few tablespoons and up to 1/2 cup). Allow tarte to cool in skillet, at least 30 minutes.
Place a rimmed platter atop skillet. Using oven mitts, hold skillet and platter firmly together and turn skillet over, allowing the contents to settle on the platter. Cut into wedges and serve.


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All told, there are some 5,000 local Senior Nutrition Programs in the United States. These programs provide well over one million meals to seniors who need them each day. Some programs serve meals at congregate locations like senior centers, some programs deliver meals directly to the homes of seniors whose mobility is limited, and many programs provide both services.
While remarkable, the one million meals per day figure underestimates the size and shape of our network and its reach and influence in communities across America. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of seniors who receive meals, there are many thousands of professionals employed at the various local Senior Nutrition Programs across the U.S. More notable than that is the virtual army of two million volunteers who also "work" for these programs.
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Before Spring Planting Expert Says, "Dig A Little. Learn A Lot."
DAVIS, Calif., April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As spring temperatures go up, it's an excellent time for farmers, ranchers and gardeners to focus their attention down to the soil below them. A spring check-up of your soil's health gives clues of your ground's ability to feed plants, hold water, capture carbon and more. No fancy equipment required. Just grab a spade or shovel and prepare your senses to dig a little and learn a lot.
"It doesn't matter what kind of landowner you are," says State Agronomist Dennis Chessman with USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). "Small farmers, large farmers, organic farmers and even home gardeners can all benefit from this simple discovery project of one of their most important resources. And in the process you can reap big rewards for your crops and the environment around you," Chessman said.
With your shovel, nose, eyes and hands ready, Chessman suggests the following steps to investigate soil health:
LOOK—first at the soil surface which should be covered with plant residue, providing organic matter and preventing erosion. Dig into the soil and observe the color and structure. It should be dark, crumbly, and porous--rather like chocolate cake. Healthy soil is full of air holes and live roots, and of course, you should see earthworms—our wonderful soil engineers! Poorer soils are lighter in color, compacted or unstructured, and lack living roots and critters.SMELL—Healthy soil should have a sweet earthy smell, indicating the presence of geosmin, a byproduct of soil microbes called actinomycetes. These microbes decompose the tough plant and animal residues in and on the soil and bring nitrogen from the air into the soil to feed plants. An unhealthy, out-of-balance soil smells sour or metallic, or like kitchen cleanser. TOUCH--Soil should be loose and crumble easily indicating a porous texture. This holds water better making it available for plants and stemming flooding and runoff. In healthy soil, roots can grow straight and deep, allowing plants to reach nutrients and water they need to produce the food we love to eat. "We are blessed with productive soils in California," says Chessman. "We want to keep them that way and even build them where possible." In addition to the vital production values of soil health to the individual farmer or gardener, Chessman explains that healthy soil has clear impacts on many of the larger agricultural and environmental issues of our day from sustainable food production to water quality to mitigating climate change. Healthy soil holds, filters and regulates water, mitigates drought and flooding, reduces runoff and erosion, cycles nutrients, sequesters carbon and suppresses weeds and pests naturally—all while supporting our homes and buildings. For all these reasons NRCS has recently launched a nationwide effort to "Unlock the Secrets of the Soil."
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|The text is taken from McClure's Magazine/Volume 1, Number 4, September 1893, p.308. The author's name appears as "Gertrude Hall".
Then lead me, Friend. Here is my hand,
Not in dumb resignation lent,
Because thee one cannot withstand—
In love, Lord, with complete consent.
Lead—and I, not as one born blind
Obeys in sheer necessity,
But one with muffled eyes designed,
Will blindly trust myself to thee.
Lead.—Though the road thou mak'st me tread
Bring sweat of anguish to my brow,
And on the flints my track be red,
I will not murmur—it is thou.
Lead.—If we come to the cliff's crest,
And I hear deep below—oh, deep!—
The torrent's roar, and "Leap!" thou sayst,
I will not question—I will leap.