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Performing Your Song: Gesturing Appropriately
The big question beginning singers ask is what to do with their hands. Well, what do you do with your hands as you speak? If your hands normally move when you speak, you may feel stiff if they remain frozen at your side during your song. Work the song as a monologue to discover what's happening and how the character may react to the actions in the story.
Basically, you gesture when you react. For example, think about how you'd move in reaction to Whoa! Don't bring that spider any closer to me! Or how would your hands gesture if you were saying, I wanted to buy that doll, but the woman snatched it out of my hand or Here I am! or When are you going to clean up this incredibly messy room?
If you recognize the same kind of opportunities in a song, you feel more like yourself gesturing with your hands than trying to plan something interesting to do during your song.
You may have noticed that when you gestured and said the phrases, your arms moved to gesture and then dropped. That motion is too abrupt when singing. You want to gesture and then release the gesture and move your arms and hands back down.
On the other hand, sometimes people go too far in gesturing by holding the gesture for a long time. You may look frozen as if you aren't sure how to put your hands down.
The following exercise gets your hands in the right place for gesturing:
Put your hands by your side.
With your thumbs leading the way, move your hands up toward each other and then out in a big arc, with your elbows away from your body and your palms up and open.
Draw the Chanel logo — two back-to-back Cs, )( — in the air.
Start with your hands at your side and trace your hands from the bottom right hand of each C until your hands are out to the side of your body, with your hands about as high as your shoulders. To make the gesture look natural, you want distance between your elbows and the sides of your body.
Gestures can vary widely, but this is the most basic shape of a gesture. As you practice this movement, you'll be able to do it faster and vary it slightly by using just one arm or by moving your arms higher for those times you need a big emphasis for your text.
Avoid these gesturing pitfalls:
Pantomiming: Pantomimic gestures only mime the text. For example, if you plan specific movements without thinking about why they help your story, such as lifting your hand to the sky when you say the words Moon and stars, or placing your hand on your chest when you say heart, you're not doing your job as an actor.
What roles do those two elements play in your story? Your audience knows exactly where to find the moon and stars — give them something more. Pantomime may work if you're creating a comic character, and pantomime is one way to play the character. However, serious songs work best when the gestures come from what you're saying and thinking about the song, not from pantomime.
Choreographed moves: If your song is fun and spunky, allow your joy of singing the song to reflect through your story, not through choreography. You don't need to plan any movements before you do your work on the text of your song. You want the gesture to feel organic, as if you're experiencing it for the first time every time you sing the song.
If you've chosen a dance number for your song, you can assume that some movement is in order. Singing while dancing requires a great deal of stamina. Plan where to breathe in the song so you can practice your breath control.
The slowest blues pattern in which the bass note plays on beats one and three and the chords play on beats two and four.
By far the most popular form for the blues, created by following a 12-bar blues pattern of three lines per verse, with the first line repeated.
A chord created from the altered or unaltered first, third, fifth, and seventh notes of a scale; 7th chords have a complex, bluesy sound.
A musical notation (>) indicating that a note should be played louder than the rest of the notes.
A musical notation indicating that a note should be played a half or whole step higher or lower; accidentals include flats (b), double flats (bb), sharps (#), double sharps (x), and naturals.
A type of hybrid guitar that is an acoustic guitar with built-in pickups and electronics.
Electric guitar electronics that have a built-in power source.
A combination of upstrokes and downstrokes that enables the guitarist to play faster and is the key for playing fast leads smoothly.
A musical pattern in which you alternate between playing the melody and bass parts one at a time instead of at the same time.
The notes of a chord played one after the other instead of simultaneously.
The way in which a musician plays and connects notes to create a distinct tonal quality, as well as distortion of the tone.
The initial distinguishing sound of a note.
A rhythmic alteration in which the melody falls behind the beat.
The thick ring at one end of a guitar's steel string.
The vertical lines that separate music into measures.
A basic unit of musical time containing a specific number of beats.
The combination of notes that sound when a guitarist presses down two or more strings at once with a single left-hand finger.
A type of chord that has only fretted notes and is able to move to any position on the neck of your guitar.
The lower, wider part of the body of a guitar.
In musical notation, a beam can be used to connect a group of notes (eighth notes or shorter) that would normally each be flagged.
A guitar effect in which a note's pitch is raised by stretching the ringing string while it is sounding.
A bending effect in which a note is played, then bent without repicking, and then returned to its original tone (unbent) without repicking.
A popular R&B rhythm that uses left-hand muting, syncopated strumming, scratches, and sounded notes to create an implied syncopation effect.
A rhythm pattern created by alternating notes and chords.
An amplifier control that you can use to create a distorted or lead sound.
A 17th-century French up-tempo dance.
The angle that is created by the string and the tuning post when a string winds down the tuning post; the sharper the angle, the more sustain is produced.
1. A contrasting section of music that is used to separate similar sections. 2. The plate that anchors the strings to the body of a guitar.
A set of metal springs that pull a floating bridge in the opposite direction of the strings, thereby holding the bridge in balance.
The clarity of sound produced.
A usually unwanted distortion of a guitar sound created when a string vibrates against the fret wire.
A device that clamps down across the fingerboard of a guitar at a particular fret to shorten the length of all the strings at the same time, forcing the strings to play in higher pitches than they normally do.
A popular folk guitar picking style — named after the famous Carter family — in which the melody is played on the low strings with the thumb while the fingers provide an accompaniment in the form of brushes.
A chord is produced when three or more notes are played simultaneously.
A string of changing chords.
A musical style — frequently used in jazz solos — that incorporates both the melody and chords of a song.
An amplifier effect that makes your guitar sound like two guitars being played together.
A tool used by musicians to determine the relationship between major and minor keys.
A specific time signature (4/4 time) that indicates four beats in each measure, with the quarter note equalling one beat.
Notes that appear in two or more consecutive chords.
A musical style — used frequently in classical guitar music — in which you play two or more simultaneously.
In musical notation, when one musical line ascends while the other descends.
A rhythm pattern created by alternating notes and chords.
In musical notation, a symbol —a C with a vertical line cutting it in half — that tells you to count the half note as one beat instead of the usual quarter note.
A silencing effect created by touching strings to prevent them from ringing out clearly.
Part of an instrument's tone color that is heard in the final part of the played note.
A powder or crystal substance that draws humidity out of the air, lowering the local relative humidity level.
A guitar effect that produces a fuzzy sound, as if the signal was too powerful for the amp.
A chord built from the first, third, fifth, and flatted seventh note of a scale. In a major scale, a seventh chord built from the fifth note of the scale is naturally a dominant seventh chord.
The fretting and playing of two strings simultaneously.
A technique for creating power chords by playing the same notes in different octaves on different strings.
1. A musical notation often shaped like an open-bottomed box that indicates that the note or chord should be played with a downward motion of the pick. 2. Dragging your pick (or thumb) across the strings toward the floor as you play.
The volume at which notes are played.
A musical notation (a solid oval head with a stem and a flag or beam) indication a note that is half as long as a quarter note.
A battery-powered device used to tune instruments.
The metal post where the back end of the strap connects. On acoustic-electric guitars, the pin often doubles as the output jack.
A method of relative tuning whereby you tune a guitar based on the pitch of a single string, usually the lowest one.
An exercise used to train the left hand for fingering and to build up finger independence.
A type of guitar notation that indicates where to place your fingers on the neck of the guitar.
The flat piece of wood embedded with frets that you position your left-hand fingers on to produce notes and chords.
A type of guitar playing that involves using the individual right-hand fingers in a way in which the thumb plays the bass strings and the fingers play the treble, or high, strings.
A type of guitar playing that involves using the individual right-hand fingers in a way in which the thumb plays the bass strings and the fingers play the treble, or high, strings.
A musical style that originated in Spain and was designed to accompany flamenco dancing.
1. When a string sounds out at a lower pitch than it should. 2. A note that is played one fret lower than the note is on the musical staff. 3. An accidental (b) indicating that a note should be played a half-step lower than indicated.
A type of bridge held in place by the string tension (which pulls it one way), and a set of bridge springs.
The most successful form of floating bridge — a movable bridge system that uses a locking nut to ensure that the bridge returns to its home position — was designed for guitarists who like to use the whammy bar extensively.
A right-hand stroke — used in classical and folk guitar playing — in which you pluck a string at a slightly upward angle so that your finger comes to rest freely in the air.
1. The thin metal wire or bar that runs across the fretboard at specific intervals. 2. The place on the fretboard where you position your finger to produce different pitches.
The flat piece of wood embedded with frets where you position your left-hand fingers to produce notes and chords.
A note produced by pressing your finger over the string at a specific point on the fretboard.
A musical style that is very busy and relies heavily on sixteenth notes.
A musical effect wherein all the notes between two principal notes sound.
A saturated rubber-enclosed sponge that clips onto the inside of the sound hole or is kept inside the case to raise the humidity level.
A form of musical notation that contains the information of most importance to the guitarist: fingerboard diagrams and tablature.
A liquid polish designed specifically for cleaning and polishing a guitar.
In musical notation, the half note has a hollow oval head with a stem; it lasts half as long as the whole note, or twice as long as a quatrter note.
In musical notation, the smallest difference between two pitches.
A guitar articulation technique in which you sound a note by fretting a string with enoungh force to make the string vibrate.
A method of finding the same notes in different places on the fretboard of a bass guitar.
A musical scale created by lowering by a half-step the third and sixth notes of a major scale.
Notes that sound naturally on a string when you lightly touch it at certain points and then strike it with your right hand.
The part of the guitar that holds the tuning machines.
An inexpensive device that tells you the relative humidity of a room with a good degree of accuracy (close enough to maintain a healthy guitar, anyway).
A bending effect that is caused by playing a note and then immediately bending it up.
A type of note decay in which the tone produced begins to fade as soon as the next note is played.
The socket used for connecting the guitar cord to the amplifier.
The gap between musical notes, which are measured in half steps and whole steps.
The accuracy of the pitches produced by fretting.
The socket used for connecting the guitar cord to the amplifier.
The main tonality, or organization of the pitches, of a piece of music.
In musical notation, a grouping of symbols (sharps or flats) that tells you to always play certain notes one semitone higher or lower.
An articulation designation meaning that notes should be played smoothly and flowingly.
Playing a note at one fret and then, withoug repicking the string, sliding your finger to a different fret while maintaining pressure on the string.
A short melodic phrase — a solo is a succession of licks.
In musical notation, a ligature can be used to connect a group of notes (eighth notes or shorter) that would normally each be flagged.
A chord built on the unaltered first, third, and fifth notes of a major scale.
A five-note scale based on a major scale, but without the fourth and seventh notes.
A basic unit of musical time containing a specific number of beats.
As its name suggests, this scale is used for melodic, as opposed to harmonic, content. Ascending, the melodic minor scale is the same as a major scale but with the third note lowered one half-step; descending, it's the same as a natural minor scale with a lowered third, sixth, and seventh scale step.
A mechanical or electronic devices that emits clicks or beeps at regular, precise time intervals; used to help practicing musicians maintain a constant tempo.
Referring to sounds that exist between consecutive half steps.
Fretting two or three strings, but not all of them, with a single finger.
A three-note chord in which the second note is three half-steps above the first note (the root of the chord), and the third note is four half-steps above the second note — the unaltered first, third, and fifth notes of a minor scale.
A five-note scale based on a minor key.
A short musical phrase that you repeat.
A way to explain and describe the music we hear.
An independent and self-contained musical phrase, sort of like a sentence when you're speaking.
A written form of music used to convey the music we hear in a way that can be repeated by musicians.
A series of notes within a single octave that follows a specific pattern.
A silencing effect created by touching strings to prevent them from ringing out clearly.
A musical scale created either by lowering by a half-step the third, sixth, and seventh notes of a major scale or by playing an octave of a major scale starting on the sixth note (for instance, playing from A to A in the key of C major).
The long wooden piece that connects the headstock to the body of a guitar.
In musical notation, the little line that comes off the top or bottom of the note stem, indicating note lengths shorter than a quarter note.
A note stem is the vertical line attached to the note head.
In musical notation, the round part of a note.
The grooved section between a guitar's neck and its headstock through which the strings pass.
In musical notation, when one musical line ascends or descends, while the other continues or repeats the same note.
Twelve half-steps, from one note to the next note of the same name.
Two dots that appear on many guitars at the twelfth fret used to signify the octave.
A method of finding the same notes in different places on the fretboard.
Chords that contain open (non-fretted) strings.
A combination of all the open strings plus the notes in the second position on a guitar.
A string that is not fretted.
Chords that contain open (non-fretted) strings.
The insertion point for the cord that connects the guitar to an amplifier or other electronic device.
A dampening technique in which you anchor the heel of your right hand against the strings just above the bridge.
A small triangular piece, about the size of a quarter, used to strum the strings on a guitar.
A rhythmic pattern that adds variety to the music by separating the bass and treble lines so that they play independently.
A type of guitar playing that involves dragging a pick across the strings to produce sound.
A switch that determines which pickups are currently active.
Bar-like magnets that pick up the vibrations of an electric guitar's strings and transmit those signals to the amplifier.
An artificial harmonic created by simultaneously striking the string with a pick and the tip of your right thumb.
The specific wavelength frequency of a musical sound indicated as a letter from A to G with or without a sharp (#) or flat (b).
A device that produces a single specific pitch, used as a reference to tune a guitar.
A way of playing the guitar in which your left hand remains in a fixed location on the neck of the guitar.
Any artificial device used to pluck or strum the strings of a guitar.
A smooth, continuous change in pitch often created by using a slide.
On the guitar, a position is a group of four consecutive frets.
The electronic capacitors connected to the other side of a volume knob.
A chord consisting only of roots and fifths.
A bending effect that is created when you stretch a string before you strike it, then strike the string, and then release the bend.
A guitar articulation technique in which a string is played by a fretting finger as it is released from a fret.
In musical notation, the quarter note has a solid oval head with a stem; it lasts half as long as the half note.
Striking a string with one finger and then striking the next lower string with the same finger.
A way of tuning the guitar to itself so that you don't need any outside reference pitch.
In musical notation, a combination of one thick and one thin vertical line with two dots that tells you that you repeat some portion of the song.
Any time during a musical piece in which no notes are being sounded.
A right-hand stroke — unique to classical music — in which you pluck straight across (not upward) the strings so that your finger lands, or rests, against the adjacent lower-pitched string.
A regular pattern of beats or pulses in music.
An indicator in guitar notation that uses slash marks (/) that tell you how to play rhythmically but not what to play.
The tuning posts on a nylon-string guitar that uses a slotted headstock.
Musical phrasing and timing that is governed by the musician's musical ideas instead of by the strict adherence to a set tempo.
The moving metal part of the bridge of an electric guitar that have grooves for the strings to lie across.
A series of notes in ascending or descending order that presents the pitches of a key, beginning and ending on the tonic of that key.
In musical notation, the smallest difference between two pitches.
A method of relative tuning whereby you tune the bass guitar using the pitch played on the seventh fret as the comparison note.
An accidental indicating that a note should be played a half step higher than originally indicated.
The act of moving your fretting hand's position to reach a note.
An important rhythm feel that has a lilting eighth-note sound — created by dividing the beat into two unbalanced halves, a long note followed by a short — that is used extensively in rock guitar.
In musical notation, an indication that you should continue articulating the notes in a similar manner.
In musical notation, the sixteenth note has a solid oval head with a stem and either two flags or two beams; it lasts half as long as the eighth note.
1. A tool (often made of glass) that you can use to slide along the strings while strumming to produce a smooth sliding sound. 2. An effects technique in which you slide your fingers (or an actual slide tool) up the strings while you play.
The tuning machine on a nylon-string guitar in which rollers around which the nylon strings are wound are contained within the headstock, as opposed to sticking out above the headstock.
Sounding a note by hitting the strings with your open right hand or closed right fist.
The opening on the top of an acoustic guitar that amplifies the guitar's sound.
A type of short, separated articulation.
In musical notation, the five horizontal, parallel lines on which notes and rests are written.
An effects unit that is controlled by a foot pedal.
The metal post where the front, or top, end of the strap connects.
Little rollers or channels screwed into the top of the headstock that pull the top two or four strings down low onto the headstock.
Dragging a pick or the back of your fingernails across the strings in a single, quick motion.
1. (noun) The length of time that a note rings out. 2. (verb) The act of making a note ring out for an extended length of time.
A type of decay in which a note continues to sound steadily as long as the note is still being played.
A musical style based on the triplet feel in which the beat is divided into three equal units.
Striking a note (or chord) at an unexpected time.
A form of guitar notation that shows you which strings to press at which frets for each note.
The speed at which the beat of piece of music is played.
A string's ability to hold tension and thereby hold a certain pitch.
A plastic or wood bar on a bass guitar on which to rest your thumb.
In musical notation, a tie tells you not to strike the second note of the two tied notes, but to let the note ring out for the duration specified by the two tied notes.
Part of the tone color of an instrument that distinguishes its sound from that of another instrument.
The fraction-like figures at the beginning of a piece of music that tell you how many beats are in a measure and which note value gets one beat.
The character of sound produced by an instrument; made up of three basic components: decay, timbre, and attack.
To change the key in which a progression is played.
One of the most popular folk guitar techniques; created by varying the timing that you use to hit the treble strings.
The metal rod attached to the bridge that can be used to move the bridge back and forth to change the string tension.
Simple chords composed of three notes.
A musical pattern wherein the beat is subdivided into three equal units instead of the usual two.
The adjustable metal rod that runs the length of a guitar's neck that controls the curvature of the neck and fingerboard.
A tool specifically designed for adjusting a specific truss rod.
A type of guitar amplifier that uses vacuum tube technology.
The mechanisms in the headstock that raise and lower the tension of the strings, drawing them to different pitches.
A device that produces a single specific reference pitch.
The round post connected to a tuning head around which the strings are wound and that can be adjusted to define the pitch of the string.
1. (noun) In musical notation, upstrokes (often indicated by a V-shaped symbol) indicate that the sound should be made by dragging your pick or your right hand across the string in an upward motion. 2. (verb) Producing sound by dragging your pick or your right hand across the string in an upward motion.
A fluctuation in the pitch of a note that can be created on guitar by repeatedly bending and unbending a note.
A pedal inserted between the electric guitar and the amp that lets you control how loud your electric guitar sounds.
A bass guitar technique in which a new note is played on every beat of music.
A musical style that uses rhythms that are relatively common to South America, Africa, and the Caribbean.


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Blurb is in the news. Today's Boston Herald features an article on the growing trend of self-publishing among established and budding authors. In the last year alone, self-published books numbered 764,448, a 181% increase over 2008, and far more than the 288,355 books produced by traditional publishers. And, Blurb, along with Blurbarians like you, played a big part…to the tune of more than 350,000 unique book titles in 2009.
Read the article. It has some great stats on some of Blurb's bestsellers and some good insights on how people are using self-publishing to promote their business and their art (the book as business card – great idea).

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Washington, April 20, 2007 – Earlier this week when Yom HaShoah was recognized, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel made outrageous, venomous comments on Israeli radio stating that the Holocaust was caused by, and was punishment for, Reform Judaism.
Jewish leaders cannot stand silent when we hear such hate-filled language. As Jews, we cherish the biblical commandment found in Leviticus 19:17: "You shall not hate another in your heart." We know all too well the dangers of hate-filled language, and of failing to recognize such hateful language for what it is: language that is designed to victimize and demonize the entire Reform Jewish Movement – past, present and future. We continue to work arduously to build bridges throughout the entire Jewish community so that one day we can function as a complete and whole people.
We applaud Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who in response to this controversy, reached out to the World Union for Progressive Judaism, the international umbrella body of Reform Judaism, showing his appreciation for the Reform Jewish Movement and for its "contribution to Jewish life in Israel and the Diaspora."
It is difficult to convey the pain such accusations cause among the two million who identify as Reform Jews when such sentiments are expressed by anyone, most particularly by a former Chief Rabbi of Israel. To those who are survivors and to the families of victims of the Nazis, such sentiments are particularly abhorrent.
We call on Rabbi Eliyahu to apologize for these remarks, and for responsible Jewish religious leaders across our nation and the world, from all streams, to condemn them unequivocally. Too few have yet done so.
The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism is the Washington office of the Union for Reform Judaism, whose more than 900 congregations across North America encompass 1.5 million Reform Jews, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, whose membership includes more than 1800 Reform rabbis
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Governor Patrick Moves to Responsibly Address FY'10 Budget Shortfalls
Process to identify potential solutions already underway, will update FY'10 revenue estimates by October 15th
BOSTON - Friday, October 2, 2009 - Responding to a Department of Revenue (DOR) report that September state revenue collections fell $243 million below budget estimates, Governor Deval Patrick today announced that his cabinet has already begun to identify potential emergency cuts to the Fiscal Year 2010 budget and will begin the process of adjusting tax revenue estimates for the remainder of the fiscal year. Year-to-date revenues are $212 million below benchmark.
"Our Cabinet has effectively managed through a $7 billion gap already through a series of spending cuts, layoffs and strict hiring controls, voluntary contributions from constitutional officers and quasi-independent agencies, the use of federal recovery funds and rainy day funds, and new revenues. But today's news means we have more to do," said Governor Patrick. "Secretary Kirwan and her team have been working with other Cabinet members and their agencies across state government to prepare for further spending cuts and other solutions. I have directed the Secretary and Undersecretary Gonzalez to work with the Department of Revenue, my Council of Economic Advisors and other financial experts over the next two weeks to update the tax revenue estimates for the rest of this fiscal year. Within two weeks after that is announced, we will announce our plan to close the gap."
Massachusetts, like other states, is still dealing with the effects of an unprecedented national recession. At least 47 other states are experiencing budget shortfalls - in most cases more severe than the Commonwealth's. Additionally, about half the states have already had to revise their revenue projections downward for the current fiscal year, indicating that this has been a very difficult recession to forecast.
The Governor noted that the state's economy is showing early signs of recovery. Recent reports chronicling increases in business investment, growth in the labor force and an uptick in housing starts demonstrate that Massachusetts is poised to emerge from the recession faster than other states. The Governor's commitment to investing for the long-term in areas such as education, life sciences, clean energy, and infrastructure have created jobs today and laid the foundation for strong growth in the future.
"State revenue always recovers more slowly than the private sector economy. As people start to go back to work and some of the stress on families is relieved, as businesses take advantage of new opportunities in the capital markets, and as the housing and commercial real estate markets strengthen, state government's fiscal situation will improve, too," said Governor Patrick. "In the meantime, we have more work to do, and we will get it done as we have in the past: by being tough-minded about the tough choices in front of us, and by being mindful that these are not just numbers on a balance sheet we're dealing with, but people whose vital services and livelihood are at stake."
The Governor noted that his team has already developed a number of scenarios to address the Fiscal Year 2010 shortfall. Today, he called on state employee unions, vendors, advocates, and members of the legislature to use the time over the next few weeks to work with the Cabinet to refine those plans in order to achieve the maximum savings and efficiencies with the least impact on people and public services.


text: I don't need your stinkin' money So where were we? Ah yes, I remember now. We were leaving the Garden Grill restaurant after a great lunch. So – some of us are in the restrooms and the rest of us are hanging around at the top of the escalator when our server comes rushing out of the restaurant and comes up to us saying, "you left your change." Huh? We told him that it was supposed to be a bit extra for him because he was a great server but he was insistent that we take the change from him. He said, "I don't need it," and practically threw the money into my hand, and dashed back into the restaurant looking quite irate. Strange. We looked at each other for a few seconds wondering if what just happened really did happen. Oh well, the rest of our group returned from the restrooms and we went downstairs and joined the line for Living With The Land. The line didn't look that long for the attraction but for some reason they were so sloooooooow loading the boats that we eventually waited about 30 minutes before getting on. Then when we got seated in our boat Steven decided that he was tired, but didn't want to go to sleep, and proceeded to have a screaming fit all the way around the ride. And of course it's not one of those attractions where you can bail out half way. We were stuck there holding this screaming child in a boat full of people trying to hear the man at the front tell them all about the giant cucumbers. Even Harry was turning round and saying, "don't cry Baby Steven, it's alright." Of course, it wasn't alright though. If I'd have been able to stand up, Steven would have calmed down straight away but I was confined to my seat, trapped in a boat. About 3 seconds after we got off of the ride Steven was fast asleep on my shoulder. See, told you. All I had to do was stand up. We decided to give the rest of Future World a miss and head on into World Showcase. I'd already decided I wasn't going to mention Honey I Shrunk the Audience because there's no way I was going to subject Ellie and Harry to the gairy snake, so that one was out. Test Track and Mission Space were out because we decided not to go through all the child swap malarkey involved, and to be quite honest, none of us really wanted to ride Mission Space after reading reports of motion sickness epidemics and stuff. Wonders of Life kind of got forgotten about too, but we'd managed to get a lot done here in Future World, and have a long lunch, so it was time to visit the back half of the park. So as we head away from The Land pavilion I suddenly start to do some number crunching in my head regarding lunch. After a minute or so I stop dead in my tracks, almost causing a buggy pile up, and gasp with horror, "he didn't add on the gratuity!" :shocked025: Oh my God, I couldn't believe it. Every time I called WDW Dining I was told that groups of 8 and over automatically have a 15% gratuity added to the bill. Every time we checked into a restaurant we were told that 15% gratuity would be added on to the bill. When we checked into the Garden Grill we were told by the CM at the podium that 15% gratuity would be added on to our bill. And it suddenly hit me that our server had not added the 15% on to the bill. That's why he came out of the restaurant and threw our change back at us. He thought we had stiffed him. No way did we mean to do that, he was an excellent server. It's just that when the check came we assumed, as we had been told by many people, that the gratuity already was on there. So we just checked the final total, rounded it up a bit – because he was a great server and deserved a bit extra – and left the money on the table. Nightmare. When I told the others what had happened we were all horrified. What to do? Should we go back and apologise? Then Big Steve pointed out that if we were told the gratuity was added on then why didn't our server add it on? Also, his attitude in the way he came out and threw our money back at us suggested he wasn't such a great server after all. In the end we agreed with Big Steve, if someone can go from very nice to nasty just over a few dollars then maybe they didn't deserve the gratuity. I don't know. Even now I wonder if we should have gone back. I know these people rely on their tips to make up their ridiculous basic salary, but he did go a bit overboard when he thought we'd wronged him, when we'd made a genuine error. Anyway, we learnt to scrutinise every check with a magnifying glass after that incident. So after the horror of what had just happened had sunk in and melted away we head off toward World Showcase. We managed to get past Pin Central without Lisa spotting it, walked through the festive archways and swung a left at the Christmas tree and headed into Mexico. Adrian waited outside with Steven who was still sleeping after his earlier tantrum and the rest of us ventured in. Did the little antiquated ride in here – no line – and had a quick browse around the shops inside. Ellie didn't want anything in here strangely enough. Maybe it was too dark to see anything. Anyway we exit the pavilion just in time to catch the end of the Three Kings telling their Christmas story. Oh and El Rio de Tempo is not gairy.


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- Also known as
- Fielding Harris Yost
- born
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- died
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Fielding Yost, in full Fielding Harris Yost, byname Hurry Up (born April 30, 1871, Fairview, W.Va., U.S.—died Aug. 20, 1946, Ann Arbor, Mich.), American collegiate football coach at the University of Michigan (1901–23, 1925–27) and athletic director (1921–41), who became famous for his "point-a-minute" teams (average 49.8 points per game to opponents .07) that had a 55-game winning streak (1901–05) during which they were tied only once (by the University of Minnesota) before the University of Chicago finally beat them.
Yost taught school for a year in Ohio, where he learned to play football. He attended Ohio Normal University (Ada, later Ohio Northern University; 1891–94) but left without taking a degree. After working in the West Virginia oil fields, he played tackle for the University of West Virginia (Morgantown; 1895–97; LL.B., 1897). Before he became coach at Michigan, Yost coached at Ohio Wesleyan University (1897, Delaware), the University of Nebraska (1898, Lincoln), the University of Kansas (1899, Lawrence), and Stanford University (1900, California), at each of which schools he won a conference championship.
Teams he coached at Michigan won 164 games, lost 29, and tied 10. They had eight undefeated seasons and won or tied for eight Big Ten (Western Conference) championships. He won his nickname from his constantly repeated admonition to his players, both in practice and in games, to "hurry up." Swift execution of plays was the key to his coaching success.
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Towns struggle to find, keep life-saving volunteers
It helps to give them perks
|Prospect volunteer firefighters, from left, Tim DeBiase, Randy Donnelly, Dave Tross and Asst. Chief Bill Lauber, pose with a sign the department uses to recruit new members on Thursday at their firehouse. Alec Johnson/RA
Recruitment and retention are so high on the list of priorities for leaders of volunteer ambulance and fire services that they often come right after saving lives and dousing flames.
Municipalities are helping the cause, trying to lure and keep volunteer emergency medical technicians and firefighters who endure intense training, rising expenses and time commitments that can rival full-time jobs.
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Nothing wrong with Towns compensating for out of pocket, or even providing a little, thank you, type consideration. If you live in a small Town it's still a hell of a bargain, and we appreciate them.
If you live in the Waterbubble, bring your checkbook, and like it. " "
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I've worked at fire calls for 20 years. The difference between professional (career) firefighters and vols is night and day. It's the difference between bringing your car to the dealer or letting the neighbors kid try to fix it.
I will explain this again. If you live in Waterbury and own a home you pay property taxes and homeowner insurance. If you pay $5000 in property tax on your home. $250 or 5% of that covers the Fire Department. Compared to the 50% or $2500 for education. You save more than $250 on your homeowners insurance because you have a class 1 fire department. So basically you have a full time professional department and the Fire Department PAYS YOU to SERVE YOU. Capito?
Someone tell me which town in CT I can live in and pay less in property taxes than Waterbury. Minus refuse pickup. Minus my insurance being higher because of a vol FD. I don't think there are any.
Of course our education system is horrendous. Not because of teachers but because of leadership.
When it comes to your Fire Department, you get what you pay for. When you and your children are trapped in a fire or your trapped in your vehicle following a horrific crash, when seconds mean life or death, who do you want responding? The (career) Waterbury Fire Dept or your weekend warrior neighbor and his son responding from their home or work or school, or maybe they just don't feel like responding that day. "
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The Tufton Arms Hotel is a small, intimate, luxury hotel in Cumbria, situated in the centre of the charming medieval town of Appleby-in-Westmorland. Appleby is rightly regarded as the jewel of north west towns with its wide elegant main street Boroughgate, ancient church and grand castle all looped by the River Eden. The town is set in the heart of the tranquil, un spoilt and beautiful Eden Valley, near to Penrith which borders the Lake District.
Run since 1989 by The Milsom family this most comfortable of hotels in Cumbria will assure you of a warm, friendly welcome. The Tufton Arms Hotel was originally a 16th century coaching inn and is now a Grade II listed building rebuilt in Victorian times with tall ceilings creating a sense of space and elegance. A stunning backdrop which Teresa Milsom has used to display her interior design which takes its inspiration from and reflects the ambience, character and charm of the Victorian era. Attractive patterned wallpapers, engravings and prints, heavy drapes, old fireplaces and large porcelain table lamps mix with contemporary fabrics, soft muted tones, modern lighting and bathrooms to create a sophisticated yet rich, classic look at this luxurious hotel in Cumbria.
At the heart of our hotel is The Conservatory Fish Restaurant offering daily changing fresh fish and seafood from Fleetwood as well as a grill menu with locally sourced meats. All complemented by a large, but fairly priced wine list. If you need a hotel in Cumbria for civil weddings, meetings or functions we also have a range of suites to accommodate you.
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Administrators at Shelton High School in Connecticut have decided to let senior James Tate go to prom, despite him breaking school rules to post an elaborate invitation to his date.
Last month, James, an honor student, decided to cut out 45 letters and post them on the side of his school.
Administrators said he trespassed on school grounds after hours to post the elaborate invitation, which read, "Sonali Rodrigues Will You Go To Prom With Me? HMU (Hit Me Up) - Tate."
He was suspended as a result, and thus banned from going to prom with the girl he'd gone through so much trouble for.
"I was telling her for the longest time that I was going to go with her and waiting for a special time to, a special way to ask her, and I did that," James said. "And this is what happened."
Now, school officials have reversed the suspension. Headmaster Beth Smith said "international notoriety" of James' situation led to the decision.
People across the country defended James with more than10,000 tweets and 175,000 Facebook hits. Even late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel stood up for him.
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In compliance with the FCC "Compliant Resolution Procedure" regulation, we are pleased to provide you with the following procedures to help us resolve any cable signal problems as quickly as possible.
- Any time you have a problem with your billing invoice or cable reception, please contact a GCI Customer Service Representative (CSR) at a local GCI Store, via email at email@example.com, or by phone at 265-5400 (Anchorage) or 800-800-4800 (statewide)
- When GCI receives calls about service during normal business hours, a CSR will attempt to resolve the problem over the phone. If the problem cannot be resolved, the CSR will schedule a Service Technician to visit the home, within the next business day. If possible, the service call will be scheduled for same-day service.
- Emergencies that affect signal quality such as fallen utility poles, violent storms or very cold weather may interfere with reception of cable service. We are committed to having one of our crews promptly correct an emergency situation.
- GCI maintains complaint records for at least one year. In addition, these records will be available for inspection by the FCC or the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (Attn: Consumer Protection Section 701 West 8th Ave., Suite 300, Anchorage, AK, 99501)
We urge you to call or write us anytime with questions or concerns about your bill, service, equipment hook-up, or any other aspect of the cable television service that we take pride in providing you.
Billing Procedures and Payment Options
Billing Process
As a GCI customer you are billed monthly, in advance, for the cable service and equipment to which you have subscribed. Your first bill extends from the first day of cable service and one month forward and will include credit for any funds collected at the time of your installation. You will typically receive your first bill one to two weeks after installation.
Partial-month charges will be itemized on your statement if you add or change service between billing dates. Payments can be made on or before the due date. Please include the top portion of your bill with your payment.
In the event that you cable service is interrupted and is not reestablished within 72 hours from the time a request for service is made, your account may be credited on a prorated basis for loss of service during each 24-hours following your request.
Payment Options
GCI offers you a number of payment options. You may mail your payment to the address listed on your bill. Our customer service centers offer drop boxes and payment in person by: cash, check, most major credit cards, or bank debit card. You may arrange to have your monthly cable charges billed automatically to your credit card. You may pay your bill online using GCI eBill option.
Billing Questions
Should you have any questions regarding your bill, please bring it to our attention within 30 days so that we can review it. Please pay all amounts not in question by the due date to keep your account current. For billing complaints, please see the Complaint Resolution Procedures.
Late or Missing Payments
Please note there is a late charge assessed to any account that is not paid in full by the "Due Date" listed on your bill. If your account is disconnected due to nonpayment, a reconnection fee will be required to reconnect your cable service. Returned checks are subject to a $30.00 return fee.
Installation Policies
When adding new cable service or additional cable television hook-ups to your home, you are entitled to an installation appointment within seven business days of your request of service or your installation charges may be waived. Your appointment will be scheduled in a window no larger than four hours, unless you request otherwise.
Upon arriving at your home for an installation or service appointment, GCI Cable TV employees will properly identify themselves by using their first and last name and the reason for the visit. We recommend the individual(s) responsible for the cable service account sign for the equipment required in your home. It is imperative that someone over 18 years of age be home during the installation of your cable television service. This will insure complete installation and allow you to become more familiar with your cable service and equipment.
Disconnection & Termination of Service
You have the right to cancel your service for any reason at anytime by giving us notice. We will refund any balance due to you by mail shortly after disconnection of service if there are no outstanding charges and after equipment has been returned to us. If you are disconnecting service due to a move, please call our Customer Service department a week in advance of your move to ensure that your final bill is correct. You will need to return any GCI equipment, such as your cable converter, to our office. Otherwise, you will be charged for unreturned equipment.
When The Sun Gets In The Way
Sometimes the satellites from which we receive much of our programming end up directly between the earth and the sun. This usually occurs during the first weeks of March and October. When this happens, the energy of the sun can overpower the satellite signals for several minutes at a time, resulting in an interruption with your television picture. This disruption generally does not last longer than about 10 minutes a day during this limited "sun outage" period.
Consumer Guide to Cable TV and Home Entertainment Equipment
Here are some things you should know about how GCI Cable works with your TV, VCR, DVD andor BluRay devices. With cable TV connected to your home entertainment system, you enjoy the best choice, convenience, and value. Extra steps may be required for cable TV to work effectively with various equipment types. This guide provides information about when cable TV is compatible with your equipment and when it may not be. If you don't find your particular situation described in this guide, please call us. We will work with you to determine the cable setup most appropriate for your needs.
Set-Top Converters
Now that GCI delivers all of the programming in a digitized format, a set-top converter or a CableCARD is typically required. Without a set-top converter or CableCARD, you may be unable to view channels delivered via the cable system. GCI will provide you with a set-top converter or a CableCARD for a monthly rental fee. We lease CableCARDs for use in customer-owned retail CableCARD-ready devices. You may contact us to request professional installation of CableCARD in such devices or request that we provide a CableCARD to you for self-installation. Many of our leased set-top boxes also include CableCARDs inside, and the same portion of our lease rates for those devices is attributed to the CableCARD. Please note that, at present, none of the retail devices that use CableCARDS are able to access our advanced interactive digital cable services, such as Video-On-Demand, Pay-Per-View, the programming guide, and other interactive services. If you wish to access those services, you must still lease a set-top box that you may use in conjunction with your CableCARD device. From time to time, we may offer bundled packages that include one or more set-top box leases within the base package price. A customer that purchases such bundles and also leases a stand-alone CableCARD in lieu of taking the included set-top box may request a prospective monthly credit for the unused device. In such cases, the credit shall be the amount we charge for such set-top box if leased separately. It is a federal crime to purchase "decoder" boxes that are designed to circumvent the cable system's security network.
Compatible Remote Controls
GCI's converters work in conjunction with some remote controls available for purchase at retail stores. These remotes may be used in place of the ones we provide with your converter.
Additional Equipment/Recording a Second Channel
The set-top converter "converts" all cable channels to channel 3 so you can only receive one channel at a time through the converter. This means that there may be certain features of your TV and VCR that you will not be able to use without additional equipment. For instance, you may have trouble taping one program while watching another or using the picture-in-picture feature.
Should you wish to use the features noted above, GCI will provide you with supplemental equipment, such as a splitter, for a nominal charge. If you prefer, you may purchase supplemental equipment at retail outlets.
Additional Details
Please visit our TV support pages at www.gci.com/support, for additional details pertaining to these operational matters. Alternatively, visit a GCI Store or call our office to speak with a CSR if you have any questions regarding your cable TV equipment set-up or to request a copy of applicable equipment compatibility information.
Cable Television Subscribers Privacy Rights Notice
Federal law requires that we provide a copy of this notice to you annually. It does not mean that we are changing existing business practices.
Collection of Information
We are required by the Federal Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 ("the Cable Act") to inform you about our practices with respect to personally identifiable information in our files. We collect personally identifiable information about you with your consent or when necessary to obtain information in order to render a service you receive or to detect theft of cable services. The information that this cable system generally collects and maintains includes billing records; service maintenance and repair records; premium service subscription information; marketing information; equipment and usage information; and subscriber complaints or correspondence. The personally identifiable information we collect may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, phone number, social security number, driver's license number, credit/debit card information, bank account information, payment history, and credit reports. (Personally identifiable information, however, does not include aggregate data that does not identify a particular person.) We use this information to enable us to provide you with the services you have requested and to support related business activities such as service calls, customer and technical support, customer surveys, as well as billing collection and marketing needs. We also need and use this information for our own tax and account records.
Under the Cable Act, we may disclose personally identifiable information without your consent if it is (1) necessary to render service or conduct a related legitimate business activity, (2) required by law, or (3) disclosed as a mailing list (as described below). Unless otherwise noted below, all the personally identifiable information that we collect is used for the business purpose of offering, marketing, rendering and supporting our services to you. Some persons have access to such information when necessary in connection with our business. People who require access from time to time include our employees; our affiliates; our sales agents; our vendors or contractors that provide services or components to the cable system (such as our installers, accountants, billing and collection service, and consumer and market research firms); our program and program guide providers where applicable; our programmers and broadcasters that will periodically audit subscription information; our equipment suppliers; and representatives of the franchising authority. If we enter into a merger, sale, transfer, or any other reorganization of some or all of our assets, your personally identifiable information may be transferred as part of that transaction. This cable system will not maintain such information after it is no longer necessary for carrying on our business, including record-keeping for tax and accounting purposes.
As a subscriber, you may review any personal information held by us that pertains to you if you give us a reasonable period of time to locate and, if necessary, prepare the information for review. (Preparation is sometimes necessary to avoid disclosure of information relating to other subscribers.) If you wish to review your personal information, please contact us to set up an appointment during regular business hours. You may request a correction of any errors in personal information that we collect or maintain pertaining to you.
Mailing Lists
We are permitted to disclose personally identifiable information to the extent necessary to conduct our business. In addition, the law allows us to disclose your name and address for non-cable service related mailing lists or other purposes, unless you advise us in writing that you do not wish us to disclose it. However, such disclosures of names and addresses may not include the extent of viewing or other use you make of any service we provide, nor may it disclose the nature of any transaction you make over a two-way system. If you do not wish to have your name and address disclosed, please contact us at the system office.
Disclosure Required by Law
We may disclose personally identifiable information without your consent if we are required to do so by law. For example, a governmental entity may seek through valid legal process (such as warrants, court orders, or subpoenas) to obtain personally identifiable information from the cable system concerning you as a cable subscriber. However, we will disclose records revealing your viewing habits only if (1) served with a court order indicating the governmental entity has made a clear and convincing showing of relevance to criminal activity and (2) you have been given an opportunity to contest the order. If we are served with a court order requiring such disclosure to a non-governmental entity, we will inform you before any information is released.
Rights Under the Cable Act
We urge you to call or write us anytime you have question about your service, equipment hook-up, or any other aspect of the cable television service that we proudly provide. If you believe you have been aggrieved as a result of a violation of the Cable Act, your rights are also enforceable through a civil action seeking damages, attorney's fees, and litigation costs in addition to other rights and remedies that may be available under federal or other applicable laws.
Programming Expirations
GCI is happy to bring Alaskans the best TV programming available. Most of this programming is subject to agreements with the content owners who provide it to us. These agreements expire from time to time, and sometimes we are unable to continue them. In such cases, we would lose access to some programming now being carried. Go to www.gci.com/programmingexpirations for more details.


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OpenGrok 0.10 Available Includes Perl and Python Analyzers
Written in Java, OpenGrok is a source code search and cross reference engine that helps users search, cross-reference and navigate their source tree in a fast and efficient way.
Announced this week, OpenGrok 0.10 is now available for download. OpenGrok understands various program file formats that include C, C++, C#, Java, sh, Perl, Python, along with version control histories such as Mercurial, Git, SCCS, RCS, CVS, Subversion, Teamware, ClearCase, Perforce, Monotone and Bazaar.
New features in version 0.10 include python and perl analyzers, listing of variables/methods for quicker navigation, sh analyzer xrefs improved, SQL analyzer updated to SQL:2008, UI usability improvements, updated Lucene to 3.0.2 and introduced Maven as alternative build system to Ant.
More information on OpenGrok can be found on the OpenSolaris website and in the release notes.
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Men wanted! - Male teachers needed to mentor boys
published: Monday | March 3, 2008
Tyrone Reid, Enterprise Reporter
Colin Blake, teacher at Polly Ground Primary School in St Catherine, has the full attention of his grade-six boys during class on May 31, 2005. In an effort to improve the performance of grade-six students, teachers at Polly Ground Primary have separated male and female students. - FIle
As the number of male teachers in the classroom decreases and boys continue to slip through the cracks, education experts are making yet another impassioned cry for more men to enter the profession.
According to the educators, the future of the nation's boys depends on it.
Laurel Brent-Harris, national literacy coordinator, Education Transformation Team, at the Ministry of Education, told The Gleaner that the ministry's research has revealed the absence of men today in the classroom continues to have an adverse effect on the men of tomorrow.
Number declining
"The decline in the number of male teachers has severely affected the education of boys. The boys need mentors, somebody to look up to," Brent-Harris explained.
She added: "The best way to make them recognise who they are is to have the male mentor."
Beverly Jobson-Grant, principal of Polly Ground Primary School in St Catherine, said she believes the Government should implement policies geared towards boosting males within the pro-fession.
"More men need to come into the profession. That is what I am pushing for," she stressed.
Dr Claude Packer, principal at the Mico University College, finds the situation worrying and said that if it is not addressed, the country will be in serious trouble.
Dr Packer pointed out that Mico's student population of approximately 1,000 is over-whelmingly female. "It is becoming almost all-woman," he said.
Troubling gender ratio
At present, the male-to-female ratio at the 173-year-old institution - which, at once stage in its history, admitted only men - is about five to one.
"It is a serious problem in the system - the nurturing of the boys. We need men to teach, we need men to mentor the boys," he said.
In addition, Dr Packer expressed that the dearth of male teachers in the profession is compounded by the fact that after completing their studies, some men opt not to go into the classroom.
He explained the university's plans to admit men with leadership qualities into an intensive one-year preliminary programme and then matriculate into the degree programme.
Dr Packer pointed out that the drive will be done for the school year that begins in September 2008. Already, he said, missives havebeen written to leaders in depressed areas asking them to make recommendations.
"We are targeting inner-city communities and we are going across Jamaica to attract men," he said.
While funding will be sought and attempts made to secure scholarships from the school's alumni, Dr Packer said the young men would still have to pay some fees.
"We are not waiting for them to apply, we are going to get them," he said.


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Junior Season (2008-09)
Had a breakout season, establishing career highs in nearly every offensive category during the year ... earned 16 starts and saw action in 33 contests during season ... team's leading returning scorer (7.9 ppg) and rebounder (3.5 rpg) ... collected a career-high 19 points, including hitting all seven of his foul shots, in 26 minutes of action in the victory over UTEP (1/21) ... recorded his first career double-double with 12 points and 10 boards against Rice (1/24) ... had 14 points and pulled in seven rebounds in the win over UL-Lafayette (1/19) ... also set career-highs with seven field goals and 10 field goal attempts against the Ragin' Cajuns ... scored 13 points and pulled down eight rebounds in the win at East Carolina (2/28) ... collected 13 points in 22 minutes of action in the loss at Houston (1/10) ... connected on 6-of-7 field goals and went for 13 points in the win over Marshall (3/7) ... had nine points, all coming in the second half, in the loss at Memphis (1/17) ... recorded 12 points and four rebounds in 22 minutes of action in the win over Jacksonville State (12/17) ... collected 16 points and four rebounds (8.0 points and 2.0 rebounds per game) in two games in the NIT Season Tipoff against then-No. 11 Oklahoma and Boston College ... played a career-high 34 minutes in the win at Southern Miss (2/7) ... only game he missed during the season was the Cincinnati game (12/6) due to an illness.
Sophomore Season (2007-08)
Saw increased role during his second year at UAB, playing in 31 contests and making four starts ... shot 59.4 percent from the floor which ranked second on the team ... in the three games he played 20 or more minutes, Crawford averaged 12.3 points and 5.0 rebounds per contest ... also one of team's better free throw shooters at 76.9 percent (40-of-52), which was up from 48.1 percent (13-of-27) during his freshman season ... had first career start against East Carolina (1/23) and responded with a then-career-high 15 points and seven rebounds in 20 minutes of action ... played 24 minutes against Alabama A&M (12/4), and recorded then-career highs with 12 points, five rebounds, five field goals made and six field goals attempted ... scored 10 points on a perfect 4-of-4 from the floor in 21 minutes of action against UTEP ... played 16 minutes against Jacksonville (11/24), and connected on 9-of-10 free throws to finish with nine points - all then-career highs.
Freshman Season (2006-07)
Played in 21 games as a true freshman and made significant improvement throughout the season ... scored five points in six minutes played against USF (12/27) ... had four points and a then-career-high three rebounds in 11 minutes of action in the win over Radford (11/11) ... collected two points and first career block in win over Wyoming (11/22) ... saw first action of career against Radford (11/5).
High School
Played for head coach Rodney Wesley at Greene County HS ... helped lead GCHS to the Alabama 4A state title in 2005 ... named MVP of championship game ... tabbed the West Alabama Player of the Year ... averaged 24 points, 12 boards and three blocks per game as a junior ... averaged 16 points and nine rebounds per game during senior season ... listed No. 5 on The Birmingham News' 2006 Super Seniors list ... named first-team all-state in 2006 by The Birmingham News ... also selected as an Alabama all-star.
Full name is Howard Earl Crawford, Jr. ... born May 28, 1988 ... parents are Howard and Linda Crawford ... older brother is former University of Alabama basketball star Antoine Pettway ... also has one other brother, Pierre, and a sister, Lwanna ... majoring in mass communications.


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Two Trees Management raised $168 million in financing for its 32-story, mixed-use project known as BAM South in Downtown Brooklyn, The Real Deal has learned. [more]
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The original Domino Sugar Factory is officially making way for Two Trees' Domino megaproject. [more]
Leasing launches today at Two Trees Management's 60 Water Street in Dumbo today, and so particulars on the unit offerings have finally been revealed. Click here for the details and floor plans.
Taking another full floor at Two Trees Management's 45 Main Street, Digital agency Huge Inc. continues to grow in leaps and bounds in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Huge will lease out the building's entire third floor, growing from 55,000 square feet to 80,000 square feet, the New York Post reported. The startup founded in 1999 carved out a 2,500-square-foot space at 45 Main Street in 2006, and expanded by nearly 30,000 square feet three years later and 20,000 square feet two years after that, according to the newspaper. [more]
Two Trees Management filed plans today revealing information on the third new building at its Domino Sugar Factory development along the Williamsburg waterfront. [more]
UPDATED, 2:33 p.m., July 17: The owner of Bridgehampton's Two Trees Farm, Dumbo-based developer David Walentas, is shaking up his strategy for unloading his famed 115-acre property and splitting it into two separate listings. [more]
The first permits for 320 Kent Avenue have been filed. [more]
While many luxury developers are using art to lure wealthy buyers (see previous item), Two Trees Management is using hefty discounts to attract artists. [more]
The Arker Companies, a New York-based developer of affordable housing, is making a major property play in the South Bronx. Arker is buying Two Trees Management's "Morrisania" multifamily portfolio, a 676-unit, 18-property affordable housing package with nearly 675,000 square feet of space, according to a source familiar with the deal. [more]
UPDATED, 10:56 a.m., June 4: Two Trees' Jed Walentas has filed building permits for infrastructure at Site E, which will ultimately house the waterfront buildings of the long-awaited Domino Sugar refinery megaproject. [more]
Tenants of Two Trees' Court House Apartments are accusing the developer of moldy and dangerous conditions in the building. The tenants are now asking the city to intervene and force Two Trees to improve their living conditions before allowing work to start on the Domino Sugar Factory conversation. [more]
The New York City Council is scheduled to vote on the final plan for the Domino Sugar Plant redevelopment in Brooklyn on Wednesday. [more]
Two Trees' Domino Sugar redevelopment project will have to wait a little longer to clear the its last administrative hurdle. [more]
City Council has reached an agreement with developer Two Trees Management to allow for buildings as tall as 55 stories at the former Domino Sugar Factory site in Williamsburg. [more]
The opulent 32-story Mercedes House project on the Far West Side, mostly built for the well-off New Yorkers who inhabit it, is about to take on a whole new breed of residents. [more]
From the April issue: Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio seemed to notch an early victory when he convinced Brooklyn developer Jed Walentas, of Two Trees Development, to increase the number of affordable housing units at the mammoth Domino Sugar Factory mixed-use project in Williamsburg. [more]
At a hearing on the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar factory, the zoning subcommittee of the City Council voiced concern the 2.2 million-square-foot project could house more people than the Brooklyn neighborhood can handle. [more]
The deal the City Planning Commission struck with Two Trees Management to redevelop the Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn is being declared a win for the city — and real estate interests, too. [more]
In the wake of Mayor Bill de Blasio's deal with the developers of the $1.5 billion Domino sugar plant project – which allows for greater building heights in exchange for additional affordable housing — some activist and preservationists fear that the new towers will literally cast a shadow over their beloved neighborhood. [more]
The City Planning Commission has approved Two Trees Management Company's redevelopment plan for the landmarked Domino Sugar site in Williamsburg.
Two Trees plans to convert the shuttered waterfront factory at 292-314 Kent Avenue into 2,184 apartments and 631,000 square feet of office space. [more]


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Cornerback has broken left shoulder blade. Terry McCormick
There is more bad news for the Oakland Raiders on the injury front, as cornerback Ronald Bartell will miss four to six weeks with a broken left shoulder blade, according to Bill Williamson of ESPN.com.
Bartell will not need surgery, but will need time to allow the break to heal. The Raiders got bad news on Tuesday when it was learned that receiver Jacoby Ford will need surgery on his foot and will be out for several weeks as well.
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Case Study: Good Corporate Communications in a 'Difficult Situation'
Today we're glad to bring you a guest post via Laura Kelso. Laura is a co-founder of Pasta, a Bay Area startup providing public relations management solutions to tech clients. A former tech PR pro turned fledgling front-end developer, she now focuses on building smarter approaches to the management and execution of PR.
Earlier this month at PyCon 2013 — a big tech industry conference for developers — a female attendee tweeted a picture of two male attendees, publicly shaming them for making inappropriate sexist jokes. This tweet led to at least two people losing their jobs. One of them was the woman herself, who worked for SendGrid as a "developer evangelist", and the incident has sparked heated debate about sexism in tech and attacks on all sides.
But stepping away from the commentary regarding her intentions or actions, we can learn some valuable PR lessons from the actions of a company facing fire due to the actions of an individual employee. As the title of the CEO's public statement implies, SendGrid did an excellent job of handling a "difficult situation" by taking a stance and communicating it quickly to stakeholders.
SendGrid correctly decided that the incident required a corporate response.
The behavior of an individual employee via personal social media channels is always a gray area. Since the employee in question was officially representing the company at PyCon and her actions directly affected her responsibilities, SendGrid was correct to address the situation directly and publicly.


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Once you have your onsite copy optimised to perfection your
What you have now is an opportunity to start making use of the internet as a finely honed tool rather than simply fuelling the machine, toiling away like the fireman on the footplate of a lumbering great steam engine. You need to start being strategic and the entry level to strategic SEO is writing press releases.
The great thing about a good press release is that you can target it to your audience and, if it's news worthy enough you should see it disseminated through trade journals or even in mainstream media if it really is that important.
Given that you're going to be aiming this press release at journalists and industry heads it can be a bit daunting but you don't want to send out something that looks boring or is just a blanket statement. If you're at the stage where you have something you really want to say then you should have enough confidence in your convictions to be able to write compelling, interesting news about it. News which a journalist should be able to lift and, after a few personalising tweaks, put into their newspaper or magazine. (Of course we all know a real news hound would never cut and paste but we want to make their lives as easy as possible if we want to get published.)
First thing you need to do is research, starting with your distribution list. You might as well not even bother if your contacts database is full of firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. If anybody ever does read them it won't be until a couple of months after your news was current. What you need is the addresses of real people, important people and aim high; if you send the press release to a head of department then it's far more likely to trickle down than sending it to the intern and hoping it will trickle up. Another trick is to send the press release out in bundles of twenty addressees at a time, spam and bulk mail filters will accept twenty as reasonable but more than that and you might start seeing delays, fifty addressees or more and so many will be blocked that, again, you're wasting your time.
So, that's the hard work out of the way, now for the copy itself. Remember that you want this to be read by people who write for a living so it has to be damn good. Your headline has to draw them in, make it interesting with your company's name in it. If your headline is dynamic it will make the reader want to read on, you've tickled them now hold onto them with your sub header, this will tell them a little more about what the story relates to , a précis to let them know how important it is that they read on. But remember, it is a sub headline, keep it to one sentence. Your release is in all likelihood going to be put out on any number of websites as well as being read by those you have specifically targeted so make it as journalistic as you can so that anybody can pick it up and comment "That's interesting." The more people who do that the more people will pick you up and link to you.
Your press release should be top heavy with data, think of your piece as an ice cream cone, delicious at the top and a bit dry at the bottom but by the time you've got that far you might as well finish it! The first paragraph should summarise the content of the copy. All good news stories answer the 5 Ws: Who, Where, Why, What and When. You might also want to throw in a little How as well. Always bear in mind you're writing a news article, not advertising or marketing blurb, do some research into the SEO keywords associated with your business and make sure you fit them in naturally and be careful not to stuff them in. Use your keywords as anchor text but bear in mind that you only want to put links in at a rate of one per hundred words maximum.
As I mentioned above, the dry bit at the end of your press release should be your boilerplate; data including the name of your company, your contact details including your name and phone number as well as your website and email address. It would surprise you how many people don't put this information in so if I did want to get in touch I'd have to track them down, you want your contacts to find it as easy as possible to get in touch with you.
If you disseminate your press release through free distribution networks like mailchimp or prweb as well as your own distribution list you can get some great coverage but it may not be as well targeted as if you had paid for the services of organisations like marketwire who boast newspapers and search engines of international renown on their contact/distribution list.
Best of luck with that and I look forward to seeing you in the press soon!


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Unfolding briefcase-laptop is perfect for secret agents
We may not get the name — "Playing By Heart" — but we're definitely down with the concept. Zhang Shouze's svelte laptop folds into a briefcase when you're in transit, and unpacks into a laptop when you need to use it. Unfolded, its legs even act as a stand, a thing a lot of people use these days to improve laptop ventilation. You also benefit from not having to lug a laptop bag around if you don't want to, as this thing turns into its own case.
Again, don't get too excited: this thing's just a concept — and that's definitely a bummer.
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Performance eyewear – used, not just endorsed.
Wiley X sunglasses are recognized worldwide as high performing "tactical eyewear," favored by the military, law enforcement and trades where eye protection is essential. For this same reason, Wiley X has grown popular in another fast-paced, dangerous environment: NASCAR's pit road.
As the official eyewear of each of Roush Fenway Racing's four NASCAR Sprint Cup teams, Wiley X's goal is to not just position themselves as marketers, but as an integral part of the teams' performance. The benefit has been constant exposure in front of millions of fans across the U.S. and beyond. Each time the media covers drivers Carl Edwards, David Ragan, Matt Kenseth or Greg Biffle when they are wearing their sunglasses – which is often – Wiley X racks up brand awareness, ad value and fashion credibility in the eyes of outdoor sports enthusiasts. Being talented, trained spokespeople, the Roush Fenway drivers are also quick to give credit to the brands that support them.
Use of driver likeness/image = powerful brand association.
Away from the track and cameras, Wiley X also enjoys the Roush Fenway benefit of driver likeness and image rights, using photography of drivers using their products in catalogs and video, on wileyx.com and on various social media sites. These activations are helping to expand Wiley X's position from purely a protective eyewear to one of fashion and speed-oriented style. Driver standees (stand-up likenesses) and other activations remind consumers that Wiley X is not only an endorsed product but is a supporter of the teams and drivers that the fans love. In a similar way, print ads in trade publications use drivers' images to heighten brand awareness and credibility in the minds of potential retail partners.


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We're wrapping up all our exclusive Comic Con coverage. We're going through our picture files and doing another pass in our notebook to see if there's anything we've missed.
There is.
We found this display on the showroom floor. It's amazing to us that even as a LEGO man Josh Holloway is hot.


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Lone Wolf Wurst Meats® Variety Pack 5. Savory, delicious, bursting-with-flavor meats from the company that does nothing BUT!
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