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Few plays capture the soul of a nation as powerfully as "Juno and the Paycock."
In this simple story of a family beset by financial woes in the midst of civil war, Sean O'Casey conveys the poetic yearnings, the blowzy humor, the trusting innocence, the stubbornness, the festering hatreds and the tragic cantankerousness of the Irish unforgettably.
The play comes to vivid life in the Gate Theater, Dublin's production, here until July 2.
Donal McCann is a memorable Capt. Boyle, a man whose evasiveness and laziness do not strike him as any reason to lessen his aloof, paternal manner. When he strides into his shabby Dublin apartment (designed with a flair for seediness by Frank Hallinan Flood), he might still be commanding a boat on the high seas.
There is a marvelous scene where he pours tea sloppily into his own cup and his friend Joxer's. He pours the remains of a bowl of sugar into his own cup, then breezily dusts what has fallen onto the table into his hand and drops it into Joxer's cup. A king could not do it with more majesty.
For all his posturing and chicanery, McCann makes Boyle a man who claims our sympathies and affections.
As Joxer, John Kavanagh is masterly at conveying earthy humor without losing sight of the mean-spirited pathos of the character. A lean specter of a man, whose body seems to have been sharply honed by a lifetime of scrounging, Kavanagh's Joxer is impressive because it does not minimize the hardness and cruelty of what is often merely a buffoonish character.
The women are less strong. Geraldine Plunkett has a noble energy as Juno, but she misses the almost mythic stature of the character. There is a moment when she finds her slain son's cane that should shatter us. She rushes through it. Similarly, Rosemary Fine lacks depth as their hapless daughter. Maureen Potter has funny moments as their dizzy neighbor. Stella McCusker gives a beautiful performance as a grieving mother. There is also good work by Tony Coleman, Garrett Keogh and Seamus Forde.
This moving, funny production is the first major one since the Abbey did it at BAM 12 years ago. You're not likely to see a better one for a long time.
It is the alcoholic coda to a tragedy. Two Beckett-like derelicts are rolling around a crumpled Dublin tenement, paralytic drunk. One sinks hopeless to the floor; the other, grabbing a lost coin, rises in a jerky but jaunty parody of life and nips down the staircase to survival.
This Irish finale to Joe Dowling's deep-etched realization of Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," which comes from Dublin's Gate Theater and opened at the Royale Theater last night, sets the seal on one of the greatest nights the New York theater has seen in years.
All the accretions of endearingly comic Irish acting, meticulously added over the years from the likes of Barry Fitzgerald onwards, are brusquely wiped away, and O'Casey's clowns stand realistically revealed in a merciless spotlight of pain tempered only with comic compassion.
Yes, it is still funny. Indeed, it is the funniest, most boisterous staging of the play I have ever encountered. But the ironic mingling of tragedy and comedy - and here O'Casey demands comparison with Shakespeare - has never been so much to the life before.
Even the language has never sounded so honest, so good - it flows like the Liffey and froths like Guinness. And what in inferior stagings can so easily sound like arrant sentimentality, here has true passion and love of life, as well as the punctured nobility of fine music out of tune.
Dublin in 1922. The Troubles are ending, but brother's hand is against brother as the I.R.A. clashes with the more militant Irregulars. The whine of the bullet and the shadow of the gun are familiars in the Dublin streets.
And here O'Casey places his Boyle family. The matriarchally Irish Juno (so nicknamed because everything happened to her in June), like the classic Juno also has her strutting peacock of a husband, the surly, vicious, bombastic "Captain" Jack Boyle, a wastrel, a no-good, a Falstaff with self-pity instead of self-knowledge, with meanness in place of generosity.
But like Falstaff, this "paycock," has his own parasite, Joxer Daly, a snivelling toady who would survive a Pope's bonfire.
Now O'Casey magisterially takes his two themes. One is comic and has to do with a false inheritance. One is tragic and has to do with death and betrayal. Both are symbolic of an Ireland that O'Casey loved but despaired of and was about to desert, and both are intertwined with the conviction of rare dramatic genius.
Dowling - probably Ireland's best young director - goes about his business with flawless clarity, yet charity to none but the play and the playwright. Even the setting by Frank Hallinan Flood is gorgeous in its detail but unsparing in unpicturesque reality, and the careful costumes by Consolata Boyle place this Dublin with the accuracy of a time machine.
Of course, as much as the production, almost as much as the play itself, this is a total triumph of acting. If, like me, you have had your fill of the blatherskate school of Irish acting full of tears, laughter and forget-me-nots, this one is for you.
The cast glitters like lamplight on an oily puddle. It takes the histrionics, the phony poetry from the play and gives it back with an unexpected immediacy. It sounds like Yeats or Joyce as it jumps in the air with a dying fall.
How wonderful is Geraldine Plunkett as Juno - no false heroics, no false anything, just a woman in a shawl shielding the babies of Ireland!
Then there is Maureen Potter, herself at the heart of vaudeville as the tipsy neighbor, a corrosively self-loathing Joe Savino as the ambiguously doomed patriot/informer son, Rosemary Fine as the luckless daughter, and Stella McCusker and Seamus Forde as left-over vignettes of a slain Dublin.
But best of all are the tramps themselves - John Kavanagh cringing petulantly but ferociously, like a mangy cur, as the evasive and deceitful scrounger, Daly, and, of course, Donal McCann as Boyle, the Paycock.
McCann - indelibly remembered from John Huston's last move, "The Dead" - has redefined the role for all time, or at least any future of living memory. By playing him as if he were conceived by Henrik Ibsen rather than Dion Boucicault, McCann (and Dowling) take O'Casey on a giant leap.
McCann's brutal and brutalized Boyle has no redeeming social value, about as much intrinsic charm as a Saturday night football drunk lurching from a Dublin snug, and is less pitiable than a dying pig.
Yet somehow this revisionist figure puts O'Casey's play into living focus, and, incredibly but conceivably, for the first time.
If you love the theater do not miss the play, this production or this performance. It shatters Broadway's summer sky with unexpected lightning.
The curtain rises very slowly on the Gate Theater Dublin's thrilling production of Sean O'Casey's ''Juno and the Paycock,'' now at Broadway's Golden Theater. Even so, our eyes must struggle to adjust to the dim light and to take in a panorama of poverty so grim that one might think the rear wall of the playhouse had been torn away to expose the innards of a Hell's Kitchen tenement just outside.
The tenement in O'Casey's play belongs to the Boyle family of Dublin, during the Civil War days of 1922. The home's crumbling walls are caked with slime, as if sewage had been flushed through the living room. The windowpanes, cracked and sooty, are framed by the cobweb remains of lace curtains, while the meager furniture has long since spilled its guts.
What family could live in such squalid decay? Only a doomed family, says O'Casey: In ''Juno and the Paycock,'' we watch the steady destruction of the household headed by the indomitable mother Juno and her drunken, strutting paycock of a husband, ''Captain'' Jack Boyle. But crippling poverty and social disintegration are not exclusively Irish troubles, and ''Juno,'' to many the quintessential Irish play, is not parochial. The slum in this work does bleed into the impoverished war zones of our own city and time. A remarkable Irish company, visiting under the auspices of the First New York International Festival of the Arts, is out to prove to a new generation that O'Casey's tragicomedy belongs to the world.
That case is made by a director, Joe Dowling, who has a deep vision of the play and the perfect cast to execute it. His ''Juno'' is alive at every level - as boisterous comedy, as wrenching tragedy, as blistering social commentary. O'Casey isn't Shakespeare or Beckett, but that Shakespearean brew of taproom farce and high drama materializes here, as do the bleak shadows of a distinctly modern Irish landscape. In Mr. Dowling's staging, a fizzy party scene awash in song can expire in an instant as a passing funeral procession, carrying another unnecessary victim of community fratricide, throws its gloomy pall from the street. The alcoholic buddy act of Boyle (Donal McCann) and his faithful pub-crawling sidekick Joxer Daly (John Kavanagh) can instantly veer from grotesque tableaux of degradation to burlesque routines worthy of legendary music-hall clowns.
Mr. Kavanagh's indelible portrait of Joxer is the key to Mr. Dowling's conception. A hypocritical sycophant, Joxer will do anything to cadge a drink or a crust of bread. Whenever Boyle is telling fictitious tales of his nonexistent career at sea or pontificating about politics and the church, Joxer is always there to flatter, often by tossing around the all-purpose compliment ''darlin'.'' But from the moment we see Mr. Kavanagh, we sense the evil beneath the blarney, the potential betrayer masked within the ostensibly loyal friend.
A twisted and cadaverous tramp with rotting teeth and a long motheaten coat, Mr. Kavanagh rocks his hunched shoulders in and out of his haze of booze and cigarette smoke, his beady sewer rat's eyes forever searching for the next vulturous score. ''It's better to be a coward than a corpse,'' Joxer says. A thief and a parasite but no idiot, he is the kind of rootless, selfish exploiter who always comes out on top in a human hell - even as he pretends to decry ''man's inhumanity to man.'' Yet Mr. Kavanagh still cuts a comic image: He earns laughs up to the terrifying climactic moment when, in a symbolic gesture not in O'Casey's stage directions, he performs an act akin to robbing his best friend's grave.
As Joxer's collaborator in dereliction, Mr. McCann is equally brilliant at blending robust humor with brute nastiness. This performance won't be confused with twinkling Irish rogues of stage lore - or with Mr. McCann's poetic Gabriel Conroy in John Huston's film of ''The Dead.'' Certainly, the actor is hilarious early on when Boyle fakes leg pains to evade work. And the comedy continues when the Boyles become convinced that an inheritance will bring them prosperity: Mr. McCann makes a vain bourgeois show of signing important documents and is soon pompously preaching the same pieties he had ridiculed in an earlier tirade. The blotchy-faced liar and bully never disappears entirely, however, and finally rises up with frightening force just at that moment when his wife and pregnant daughter need compassion most.
With such men about, O'Casey's empathic appreciation of his heroine is all the more striking and moving. Geraldine Plunkett's Juno, desperately trying to keep a family together under impossible circumstances, is not a plaster saint but a mortal woman whose moral strength cannot camouflage her physical and emotional weariness. When the mother finally stands alone, her last few possessions in a bundle at her feet, and demands that God ''take away our hearts o' stone and give us hearts o' flesh,'' Miss Plunkett strips the sentimentality from the line to offer a plain plea from a woman who has reached a serene acceptance of her tragic losses. Juno also makes her own use of the word ''darlin' '' - to describe a boy ''riddled with bullets'' - and the love in Miss Plunkett's inflection brings the hollowness of the ''darlin' '' constantly spewed by her husband's most constant companion into bitter relief.
Almost as impressive are the supporting players: Rosemary Fine as the Ibsenesque daughter Mary, Stella McCusker as another grieving mother and Joe Savino as the Boyle son whose crippled state stands for Ireland's past bloodbaths and whose half-mad demeanor prefigures horrors yet to come. Of particular note is Maureen Potter, a longtime Irish variety performer, who brings a priceless authenticity to the role of the gabby neighbor Maisie Madigan. Though Maisie is delightful when tippling and singing, it's not coincidence that she is Joxer's dancing partner in the party scene. When she later decides to collect a debt by walking off with the Boyles's gramophone, Miss Potter rids her previously hearty characterization of its own merry music to reveal a predatory soul.
Such is the staging's keen attention to detail that the props, set (by Frank Hallinan Flood), costumes (by Consolata Boyle) and lighting (by Rupert Murray) also play important roles in animating the Boyles's Dublin. When money is briefly plentiful in Act II, the new, bright-red furnishings and Boyle's spiffier nautical costume become mocking emblems of the affluence kept tantalizingly out of the poor's reach. By the time the furniture has been repossessed - and the Boyles's last hopes along with it - the tenement is a cave with only the eerie glow from a distant streetlamp to illuminate the blackness.
''Th' whole worl's in a terrible state o' chassis!,'' is Boyle's famous line as he stumbles around that bare room, his stupor anesthetizing him from the chaos and his own role in it. Then Mr. McCann passes out on the floor, a grimy sack of a man tossed into the night, an unnerving double for the men we'll step around in the street as we make our way from Sean O'Casey's play to the safety of home.


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An Egyptian pharaoh, identified by his crown and staff, and an obelisk with meaningless hieroglyphs decorate the front of this Roman cameo glass flask. On the other sides, one boy approaches an altar surmounted by the Egyptian god Thoth in the form of a baboon, while a second boy approaches another altar decorated with a uraeus or sacred snake. The decoration of this small flask, which probably held perfumed oil, may show the story of the young god Horus, who was brought back to life by Thoth after being stung by a scorpion. The imagery on this vessel may have had specific meaning for its owner; or, more probably, it may reflect the general popularity of Egyptianizing scenes in Roman art after the Roman Empire's annexation of Egypt. Due to the time and labor involved in its creation, cameo glass was very rare. Artisans first covered or encased colored glass with opaque white glass. They partially cut away the white layer to reveal the colored background, and then carved the raised white areas in relief. Artisans practiced this technique almost exclusively in the early Roman Empire.


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Considering next season already & I want to pick a variety that I primarily grow for the purpose of picking unripe. This yr I picked anything that looked like it had the potential to get sunscaled & sold those for frying tomatoes. I am sure I could sell 20+ pounds of green tomatoes each market day-- as long as they are large tomatoes. Was wondering any one else had a preferred green tomato that you grow just for fried green tomatoes. Sunmaster size is good but prefer a plant the will produce larger yields than sunmaster. Bush Goliath is another one I am considering. I love the actual plant since it is so sturdy & short. |
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- Posted by myfamilysfarm 5b (My Page) on Fri, Aug 3, 12 at 21:25
I plant old fashioned Beefsteak for picking green, they can and will get large, but tend to get rotten blossom ends if allowed to ripen. I have customers that want those plants, so the left-over ones go into the garden. Plus they are heirlooms, and the seeds are cheap. The plants will get HUGE, downside if you have a small garden. It's never too early to think about next season. I'm thinking about the next season as soon as the seeds go into the ground/dirt for the current season. I always try to have 2 years of seeds, in case there is a crop failure for a certain seed. Marla |
I do prefer to grow heirlooms, but my thoughts on the fried green tomatoes was that taste of an unripe tomato isn't as important to the customer as the size & availability. Most customers will buy 6-8 slicers that are unripe. If I am down to only 2 or 3 most time the turn their noses up since that isn't enough for a mess of fried green tomatoes. Or at least that is what they say. For my family 2 or 3 is plenty, and theres 4 of us! I was leaning towards a hybrid so I could get something to succession plant that would put on lots of fruit at once & maybe every 3 wks plant them again for as long as I can through August. I do have TONS of beefsteak seeds & they are on my list to grow again next yr. |
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I always have plenty of beefsteak, and they just keep growing. That's the nice thing about indeterminates, they just don't stop. I plant about 25-30 of them along with my Big Beef, that really produce. This year, we planted about 200-300 plants and most are Big Beef. You can use almost any Beefsteak type, since big is one of the main part of the description. Most heirlooms are of the Beefsteak type, but take longer to produce. I just start my plants extra early to give them a head start. I know people say that the size of the plant doesn't mean anything as far as production dates, but I've found that it does. My plants are usually at least 4" pots, and 12-18" tall when they go into the garden. Some people will have fried green tomatoes for the entire meal a few times each year. Not me, tho. I get my tomato seeds from Jordans Seeds out of MN, very reasonable pricing and good seed and service. I usually buy 1/16 oz or more of any variety, usually costs about $3-4 for that amount. Look for open pollinated instead of heirloom, usually cheaper without the hype. Marla |
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How do you feel about the statement in the title?I am a second term nursing student. Not the super star straight A student, usually B student. I have never been surrounded by so many type A, super... Read More
1Feb 29, '12 by 0402Maybe it's regional- both where I went to school, as well as where I work now ask for GPA on your application for new grad residencies, and for the most part, they do care. You can definitely have other things to bring attention to your application, but it's a part of them.
Also, at my school, C= failing. 80% was a B-, but it was also the lowest passing grade.
I don't understand why people always come out to mention that people that get good grades all suck at clinical and have no common sense, but coddle those who struggle in the classroom by saying they're probably amazing at clinical and that plus their caring, nurturing manner (that those with good grades obviously lack) are all that you need to be a good nurse. I'm sorry, but some people actually get good grades, do well in clinical and go on to be good nurses. I also know that there are some that struggle in the classroom but do have the ability to put it all together in a clinical setting, as well as those that struggle in the classroom and get totally overwhelmed in a clinical setting, when the concepts they cannot understand in a controlled setting are even more complex and not static.ladylysis likes this. -
0Feb 29, '12 by KatieMII wish I could just forget about the whole issue, pass NCLEX and be happy! Unfortunately, it looks like prestigious (not online) clinical Master's programs may have internal cut-offs even higher than ones they post officially, and it's the truth not only about CRNA programs nowadays. One place I'm longing to join one day officially requires GPA of 3.5, but in private letter they say that their internal cut-off for "otherwise equally qualified candidates" is 3.75.
0Mar 1, '12 by HorseshoeQuote from gitanorn"no one" will ask for grades? i don't think you can make such a sweeping statement. when i graduated, i applied for two very competitive new grad internships in critical care. not only did they ask for grades, but the gpa requirement was a 3.5 minimum, and most of the new grads hired had at least a 3.8.if it's any consolation once you graduate no one will ask you for your gpa, furthermore, a nurse is still a nurse even if they pass with a c or a , the same goes for doctors
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2Mar 1, '12 by HorseshoeQuote from 0402Yes, it's that oft repeated myth that nurses with the 4.0 are simply book smart and lack any other positive attributes. It's simply not true. The lack of common sense many bemoan occurs in just as many C students as in A students. One's grades tells you nothing about their "common sense." At my school, we received grades for our clinical performance. Students could not receive an A in that class if they were total idiots, so the argument straight A students have no clinical competence falls completely short, at least at my school.I don't understand why people always come out to mention that people that get good grades all suck at clinical and have no common sense, but coddle those who struggle in the classroom by saying they're probably amazing at clinical and that plus their caring, nurturing manner (that those with good grades obviously lack) are all that you need to be a good nurse.
In my critical care internship, I was surrounded by some of the sharpest people I've ever met. All had good grades, and most were as clinically comptetent as one could be as a new grad. What they couldn't do right out of school, they learned quickly on the job (while being supervised by the most experienced and knowledgeable preceptors). In critical care, knowing the "book stuff" is equally as important as getting the "skills down," if not more. One has to anticipate complications and work to head them off before they become problems; without knowing your anatomy and physiology, understanding disease processes, comprehending very well the actions and interactions of drugs in the human body, implications of lab values, etc., this won't happen, and the nurse will simply be reacting to problems that could potentially have been prevented. -
2Mar 1, '12 by Wrench PartyI'd love As and Bs, but my real goal is passing. School and my schedule is brutal enough without heaping
more expectations on top of everything.
I'll worry about my MSN, honestly, when I've graduated, have my license,
and have been working a few years.
I will say it is sort of ridiculous to hear people who haven't even applied to school
yet, talk about getting their DNP. It's great to have ambition, but you really
can't "put the cart before the horse". -
0Mar 1, '12 by nguyency77Quote from Wrench PartyYeah. Someday I would like to go to graduate school, but I think I need to see if I can be a good, competent nurse before I even fantasize about diagnosing people and ordering tests.
I will say it is sort of ridiculous to hear people who haven't even applied to school
yet, talk about getting their DNP. It's great to have ambition, but you really
can't "put the cart before the horse".
It sounds bad, but I laugh a little at those people who think they can just get through nursing school and then go be a nurse practitioner like it's nothing. They don't realize that in order to be a good clinician, your clinical skills must be strong first. -
0Mar 1, '12 by weaversI am a nursing student and a B student.
I feel C students have a place in nursing, its not anything in critical care or anything that involves critical thinking. Maybe simpler jobs like blood bank. easy positions need to be filled. I feel like c students really don't know the content. I use to be a C student and I knew nothing.
IMO A students are even worst. they only have classroom knowledge and no practical knowledge. they can't explain things. Just memorize, but not able to apply that knowledge. Maybe with higher education they can develop this.
B students are the best. They work super hard and get things wrong. Then they go back to find out what they got wrong and why it was wrong. They will always push themselves for an A. I have heard hospitals want B students with a great attitude .
I realize attitude and culture make a huge impact with grades. also I am making a ton of generalizations and assumptions. I really really have to push myself to get an A. actually I have to read the book if I want an A...I am second year in a ADN program and I don't ever read the text books. tons of studying and videos and NCLEX practice questions. I really want a 3.0. I have a 2.9. to be honest there are alot of people in my program i would never want to take care of me, they may make good nurses for some departments. I value critical thinking and a high level of understanding. -
7Mar 1, '12 by nguyency77Quote from weaversThank you for that enlightenment, but I happen to be an A-student, and I also happen to be a rather competent CNA.
IMO A students are even worst. they only have classroom knowledge and no practical knowledge. they can't explain things. Just memorize, but not able to apply that knowledge. Maybe with higher education they can develop this.
Not all A-students are idiots in clinicals, and not all average students are good in clinical.
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1Mar 1, '12 by Al.gingerI saw several post like this and all the anwsers are like " Oh, No, you OK if you have all C, it doesn't matter". It is so annoying to me. Especially those about "ijust book smart". If you are not aware, clinical rotations are graded too. And if person "just book smart" who he gets an A in clinical???
I'm second semester student and I have 4.0 and planning on having it to the end of the program. I'm working and have 2-year-old baby. And I'm not "just book smart". I'm working hard on my grades. And I want to be apperciated.
I won't critisize people who don't have 4.0 GPA. They may be good nurses too. But I think all A's telling something about student too.nguyency77 likes this. -
1Mar 2, '12 by nguyency77It's a combination of "book knowledge" and common sense. If you don't have the book knowledge to administer medications with the five rights, who is going to let you guess?MelissaLynn likes this.


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Bad Hard drive? BAD MOTHERBOARD!?
Here, im like an amateur Technician. I know a lot of things, although there's something that really questions in my mind.
These are like the performance of my PC. Normally, a hard drive can go like 32mb ( or more ) per second copying some files or something like that. Installing Black Ops takes less than 4 or 10 minutes. Loading a Counter Strike Source game takes around less than 2 minutes or something like that. ( For some reason. ) My friend's PC? its like fried. Back then he told me that its not that slow. Of course i can see that it doesn't really seem to be so slow before. After doing a format due to some reason that his PC became so slow, kinda realized that something weird is happening to his PC. Loading a Counter strike game takes like 10 Minutes. Installing Black ops took like an hour. Loading a Modern Warfare 2 Mission takes like 5 minutes, In the middle of battle takes like 2 minutes. Frame Rate was really damn smooth, but its like when it reloads the sound file, it takes like a minute to load it. Mid Battle of some game, shooting a shotgun one time sounded like BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRRRRRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT, then another shoot was normal. We did another format, but it doesnt seem to budge. One time his BIOS is telling him that his hard drive doesnt exist anymore in the system, so No boot. Next day, i opened it and checked the cables, and turned it on, it now tells me that it does exist. So... Bad Hard drive? or Bad motherboard? |
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Rosemont Mine, opponents clash over air permit
Court hearing over permit issued by ADEQ to allow mine to operate.
Rosemont's Cienega restoration plan goes nowhere
But failure wouldn't prevent owner from getting the water permit it needs.
Huckelberry defends negotiating with Rosemont on land preservation
Critics say any mitigation deal could help the mine win approval.
Hudbay looking to expand beyond Rosemont in Arizona
This Q&A with company officials covers Rosemont environmental, business, transportation issues.
Northern Mexican gartersnake listed as threatened species
The northern Mexican gartersnake has joined the ranks of federally protected species.
Hudbay, Augusta agree to friendly takeover
Hudbay Minerals Inc. and Augusta Resource Corp. announced early today that the two companies have agreed on a friendly takeover bid for the British Columbia company that owns the proposed Rosemont Mine site near Tucson.
Rosemont opponents sue to toss out air-quality permit
A community group and a retired air-pollution scientist filed separate lawsuits Wednesday challenging Arizona's approval of an air-quality permit for the proposed Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay vs. Augusta: By the numbers
The difference in size and scale between the current owners of the proposed Rosemont Mine and its suitor is staggering, their financial reports show.
Hudbay again extends offer for Augusta
Hudbay Minerals Inc. said Tuesday that it has again extended its offer to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Rosemont Mine developer Augusta Resource Corp., this time until June 9.
Both sides praise Canadian decision on Augusta shareholder rights
In a decision that both sides are spinning as a victory, the British Columbia Securities Commission says that under certain circumstances, it will put an end to Augusta Resource Corp.'s shareholder rights plan by mid-July.
Augusta, Hudbay to duke it out over shareholder rights plan
The takeover battle for the Canadian company that owns the Rosemont Mine site hits a climactic moment in Vancouver, B.C. today (Tuesday, April 29).Officials of Augusta Resource Corp. and Hudbay Minerals Inc. will argue over whether the British Columbian government should put a halt to a shar…
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June 2, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Captivating Mushaira Organized by Engineer Shamshad Wali & Team of Gahwarah-e-Adab
Gahwarah-e-Adab was found in 1989 in Karachi, Pakistan. Since then Gahwarah-e-Adab has been working to promote Urdu literature and poetry all over the world. In USA, a branch of Gahwarah-e-Adab was established under the name of Gahwarah-e-Adab USA in the year 2003, and during the last five years, Gahwarah-e-Adab USA has organized several international and domestic poetry recitation events (Mushairas).
This year 19 programs are being organized under the title of "Fifth International Pakistan-India Friendship Mushaira". This past night of Saturday-&-morning of Sunday (10:30pm.-2:30am), Engineer Shamshad Wali and his able Gahwarah-e-Adab Houston team organized a well attended Mushaira (tenth of the 19 scheduled this year for USA), at the Royal Center. Books and CDs of various poets were on sale, and refreshments were given to the large enthusiasts of poetry, who had fervently gathered.
First part of the Mushaira had local Houston poets making their splendid presentations. Engineer Shamshad Wali presided over this segment. The second session included guest poets from Pakistan, and India, and that was chaired by Iqbal Haider Sahab.
Program started with nice Qurani recitation by Qari Hashim Abbasi of Madrasae Islamiah, followed by Naat by Mohammad Abid of Houston.
Local and international poets included visiting from Pakistan Umat-ul-Haya Wafa, Aqil Ashraf, Ishrat Afreen, Perwaiz Jafri, Dr. Khalid Rizvi, Salman Jalali, Tariq Hashmi, Tahir Faraz, Malikzadah Manzoor, Muzahir Hussain, Naeem Hamid Ali Hamid, and Iqbal Haider.
The hall with four hundred seats was brimming with admirers of good poetry and stayed till the end at 2:30am.
In a communiqué, Engineer Shamshad Wali has thanked all the people, who came to attend this function, has applauded his team of volunteers for job well done, thanked Naeem Khan for making the nice stage & the good sound system, and hard work of young Ali Fakhar for video recording the event.
For more information, one can contact Engineer Shamshad Wali at 1-832-875-7996.
Farha Ahmed into the Run-offs for Sugar Land Council
Legal counsel and activist of many community organizations, Attorney Farha Ahmed, after receiving around 35% of the votes, has reached the run-off elections for the City Council of the AAA rated and one of the safest cities in USA, Sugar Land Texas.
Farha is a former Sugar Land Planning and Zoning commissioner and is currently a First Colony Community Association board member. She is considered a strong and independent voice for the residents of District 4. Farha is married and has two children. More information on Farha Ahmed is at www.FarhaAhmed.com
Two Sugar Land City Council positions are into runoff elections, with no candidate earning a majority 50%+ vote. The runoff election will take place on Saturday, June 11, 2011.
In District 3 of City of Sugar Land, Howard Paul will face Amy Mitchell in the runoff to replace Councilman Russell Jones, who is term-limited. Paul earned 651 votes (44%) to candidate Amy Mitchell's 430 votes (29%), while the third candidate Jim Hoelker earned 411 votes (28%).
In the District 4 race, term-limited councilman Michael Schiff will be replaced by either Farha Ahmed or Harish Jajoo, who will face in the June 11th runoff.
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Congressmen Almost Unanimously Vote Against Freedom of the Press
May 6, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Yusra Alvi
Karachi, Pakistan–THE United States claims that one of its top foreign policy initiatives is to spread democracy and freedom around the world. But a recent bill in the US Congress has led many to wonder whether the US wants to become one of the world's biggest hindrances to media freedom.
Early December the US House of Representatives voted by an overwhelming majority to pass a bill in order to stop satellite TV channels from 17 Arab nations from being transmitted to American audiences due to their engagement in 'anti-American incitement to violence'.
In a Congress that cannot seem to agree on many burning issues — whether fixing the broken healthcare system or ways of dealing with the turbulent economic situation — the bill passed with 395 'yes' votes, and only three dissenters.
The bill — known as House Resolution 2278 — has to pass many stages before it becomes a law, but it has shocked many for contradicting American support for free speech.
Airing of respectful disagreement with the policies of the US government is a part of the development process, which should be taken positively the US.
Case Against Aafia Siddiqui Begins to Unravel
January 28, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
The case against Pakistani citizen Aafia Siddiqui, who is charged with attempted murder of FBI agents and US military personnel, is beginning to unravel as witnesses have offered conflicting accounts in testimony delivered at her trial.
The long-awaited trial of Siddiqui began in a federal courtroom in New York on Tuesday.
On January 21, which was the second day of the trial, Assistant US Attorney Jenna Dabbs showed jurors numerous photographs of the room of the Afghan police station where the shooting allegedly took place, and a photo of the cell where Siddiqui was held when she was first brought to the station on July 17, 2008, the independent online news network Mathaba reported.
But Carlo Rosati, an FBI firearms expert who testified in the federal court on Friday, expressed doubts whether the M-4 rifle, which was allegedly grabbed by Aafia Siddiqui to attack US interrogators in Ghazni, Afghanistan, was ever fired at the crime scene, the Associated Press of Pakistan said.
In addition, on the third of the trial, an FBI agent testified that the FBI did not find Aafia Siddiqui's fingerprints on the rifle.
No Pakistanis reporters were granted press credentials when opening statements began on Tuesday.
The MIT-educated neuroscientist is currently on trial, facing charges of trying to kill US soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan in 2008 and connections with Al-Qaeda operatives.
She insisted on the first day of the trial that she knew nothing about a plan to carry out terrorist attacks on targets in New York, The New York Daily News reported.
"Give me a little credit, this is not a list of targets of New York," she said. "I was never planning to bomb it. You're lying."
Siddiqui told jurors at her trial on Tuesday that she was held in a secret prison in Afghanistan, her children were tortured, and the case against her is a sham.
She was ejected from the federal court on the first day of here trial after her shouting outburst.
Siddiqui vanished in Karachi, Pakistan with her three children on March 30, 2003. The next day it was reported in local newspapers that she had been taken into custody on terrorism charges.
US officials allege Aafia Siddiqui was seized on July 17, 2008 by Afghan security forces in Ghazni province and claim that documents, including formulas for explosives and chemical weapons, were found in her handbag.
They say that while she was being interrogated, she grabbed a US warrant officer's M-4 rifle and fired two shots at FBI agents and military personnel but missed and that the warrant officer then fired back, hitting her in the torso.
She was then brought to the United States to face charges of attempted murder and assault. Siddiqui faces 20 years in prison if convicted.
However, human rights organizations have cast doubt on the accuracy of the US account of the event.
Many political activists believe she was Prisoner 650 of the US detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, where they say she was tortured for five years until one day US authorities announced that they had found her in Afghanistan.
Who is Aafia Siddiqui?
By Mauri' Saalakhan
As someone who has been a human rights advocate for most of his adult life, I have seen many cases come and go; few have been as heart rending and consequential as the mysterious case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
More than six years into this saga there still remain many unknowns. What brought the US government's attention to this soft-spoken, unassuming woman? Why was she abducted and secretly held for five years? Why did Pakistan hand over one of its citizens to the US? And given the nature of the allegations that were being made by US authorities around the time of Aafia's disappearance, why have none of those terrorism-related innuendos found their way into the criminal indictment that was finally brought against Aafia in a US federal court?
Dr. Siddiqui and her three children (two of whom are American born) disappeared in March 2003 following their abduction from a taxicab in Karachi Pakistan. No one would know of their whereabouts for the next five years. As time passed, however, and tales began to spread about a mysterious woman being held at Bagram (Afghanistan), identified only as Prisoner 650, pressure began to build toward indentifying who that mysterious woman was.
Investigative journalist and human rights activist Yvonne Ridley – who produced an excellent documentary on the subject ("In Search of Prisoner 650") – dubbed her "The Grey Lady of Bagram." Shortly after Ridley traveled to Pakistan to build mass support for an investigation into who the grey lady really was, a disheveled and degraded Aafia Siddiqui reappeared on the streets of Ghazni, Afghanistan in July 2008, only to be drawn back into a deadly web of intrigue.
One of the most riveting parts of "In Search of Prisoner 650," for this writer, was Ridley's interview of Ghazni Counter-Terrorism Police Chief Abdul Qadeer. The chief recounted that on the day of Aafia's re-arrest 12 to 13 Americans were given permission to interview her. After one went behind the curtain where she was being held, all of a sudden there was gunfire. Aafia was shot and seriously wounded.
The official story was that Aafia had tried to pick up a rifle to fire upon the investigators, but ended up being shot in the stomach herself. According to the report, she received emergency treatment only because Afghan authorities insisted on it. In the documentary, Abdul Qadeer expressed suspicion about why she was removed from their (Afghan) custody. When the Governor of Ghazni Province, Dr. Usman Usmani, was confronted with this question by Yvonne Ridley, he gave a rather confused and clearly uncomfortable response.
Who is Dr. Aafia Siddiqui?
Aafia Siddiqui is a 37 year old Pakistani national who did her graduate and post-graduate work in the United States, graduating from MIT and Brandeis University, where she received her PhD. Those who knew her in Boston (who this writer has spoken to) have had nothing but glowing things to say about her. Quiet, soft-spoken, focused; a devoted mother, excellent student, and committed muslimah who was known for her charitable work in the Boston community, is how she is invariably described.
She was married to a Pakistani doctor, but they were divorced (under acrimonious circumstances) by the time of her abduction. The two youngest children from this marriage are still missing to this day. The oldest, a now 12 year old son, was returned to his family just this past summer and now resides with Aafia's sister, Fauzia.
What brought this young mother to the attention of U.S. authorities remains a mystery. Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a press conference years ago, described her as an "al-Qaeda facilitator." And yet, now in custody awaiting trial, Aafia Siddiqui does not face even one terrorism related charge!
What we can do
This case involving Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is one of the most important precedent-setting cases confronting the Muslim-American community post 9/11. (Laws are established on the basis of precedent.)
In 2002, Deputy Attorney General Viet Dinh – a prominent member of the Justice Department's "cartel of conservative lawyers" – was the first high level official in the Bush-Cheney administration to openly admit the government's use of "profiling" (both racial and religious) in the so-called "war on terrorism." When questioned on the criteria employed, his response was, "The criteria Al-Qaeda itself uses; eighteen to 35 year old males who entered the country after the start of 2000 using passports from countries where Al-Qaeda has a strong presence."
In his address to the American Bar Association conference in Naples, Florida earlier that year (Jan. 2002) he stated quite emphatically: "We are reticent to provide a road map to Al-Qaeda as to the progress and direction of our investigative activity. We don't want to taint people as being of interest to the investigation simply because of our attention. We will let them go if there is not enough of a predicate to hold them. But we will follow them closely, and if they so much as spit on the sidewalk we'll arrest them. The message is that if you are a suspected terrorist, you better be squeaky clean. If we can we will keep you in jail."
Clearly this has been the policy of the U.S. government for Muslim males post 9/11. With the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, that policy was expanded to include Muslim females as well. If they can get away with what they're doing to Aafia today, it will be others tomorrow.
A demonstration is being planned for the courthouse on the day of opening arguments in January 2010. The two most important things we can do for Aafia at this point are to keep her in our prayers, and show up on the date of this mobilization. As our beloved Prophet (pbuh) said: "Tie your camel, and have trust in ALLAH."
Mauri' Saalakhan serves as Director of Operations for The Peace And Justice Foundation. For more information on the upcoming mobilization call (301) 762-9162 or E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I don't know if you guys remember that the thedailywh.at used to be a pretty great and videogum-similar site. Then cheezburger bought it and the main blogger left for gawker and it turned total crap. Well, someone from the community there went on to start a new blog, dailyoftheday.com, and it's not that bad and I think actually a lot of the active people in the community moved there. The commenting has gone down remarkably the last couple of months though. Well, this was an uplifting post… Sorry.
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It's the funniest show right now and it's got a wonderful opening credit. So, yes, I'm watching it too. Also enjoying: Philly (not their best season but the effort is great as always), The League (some great episodes this far along with some weak, as usual), Kenny P (it's almost television history we're watching right now, right?) and, well, no-hiatus Parks is in a rut but I don't mind that when it's a good show with cool people. But, boy, am I dissapointed with Homeland so far. The twist? Come on.
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Um.. it's in the middle of the night here in Sweden and I'm up watching Modern Family and Jon Cryer win awards? I don't think so. Have a nice one, goodnight.
The Seventh Seal – Max von Sydow playing Wordfeud with Death.
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On September 8, 1994, BMW built its first car in North America. The event, in a new BMW Manufacturing Company (BMWMC) plant located in a former peach orchard between Spartanburg and Greenville, South Carolina, marked an early milestone on its road to becoming the first European carmaker to establish a lasting manufacturing presence in America.
BMWMC built 3-series, then Z3s and Z4s; now its South Carolina facility is the world's sole supplier for the X5 and the X6, with as much as 71 percent of annual output (hovering around 170,000 units, which exceeds the plant's stated capacity, thanks to regular overtime shifts) destined for export. Plans to build the next X3 are in place, along with the upcoming hybrid version of the X6. Last September, the factory's 1.5 millionth car - a right-hand-drive, dark blue X6 headed for Hong Kong - rolled off the line and the company paused, briefly, to celebrate.
The master of ceremonies on that auspicious day was the charismatic Robert M. "Bobby" Hitt, BMWMC's department manager of corporate and public affairs, by title. Little known outside his industry and state, this native son of the Palmetto State ought to receive a fair helping of credit for BMW's achievement here. It's a triumph that not long ago might have seemed the height of improbability.
Hitt was hired as a sort of all-purpose fixer - part PR man, part sensitivity trainer, part statehouse navigator, and part redneck Miss Manners - to guide the German tenderfoots through the thickets of South Carolina politics, media, and custom. If the plant's smooth ride - from its inception through five expansions, including a recently disclosed plan to bump potential output to 250,000 cars a year - is any indication, Hitt's paycheck was, is, and will continue to be worth signing.
Starting with BMW in 1992, when the company first announced its intention to build a plant somewhere in America (Nebraska was another leading candidate), Hitt - a former newspaper reporter and editor who by the early 1990s had abandoned the journalism game for a nonlegal position at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, a prominent Columbia, South Carolina, law firm - was there when BMW showed up looking for some local counsel. Before long, the carmaker knew it had found the exact man it needed for the job that awaited it, even if BMW hadn't known it was looking for him.
Five presidents and five chairmen of BMWMC have come and gone on their way up the corporate ladder (current BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer was the second president of BMWMC), but Hitt remains the plant's greatest ambassador, providing continuity and always fixing, fixing, fixing.


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Becoming famous after death isn't uncommon, unless you are a Hollywood actor. Heath Ledger's family were pleased with the premier of Dark Knight in which Ledger starred as The Joker.
Dad, Kim Ledger told reporters it was "very good" and they were very proud of their deceased son's performance. Other family members ducked the red carpet.
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Gordon's Functional Health Patterns Marjorie Gordon (1987) proposed functional health patterns as a guide for establishing a comprehensive nursing data base. These 11 categories make possible a systematic and standardized approach to data collection, and enable the nurse to determine the following aspects of health and human function: Health Perception and Health Management. Data collection is focused on the person's perceived level of health and well-being, and on practices for maintaining health. Habits that may be detrimental to health are also evaluated, including smoking and alcohol or drug use. Actual or potential problems related to safety and health management may be identified as well as needs for modifications in the home or needs for continued care in the home. Nutrition and Metabolism Assessment is focused on the pattern of food and fluid consumption relative to metabolic need. The adequacy of local nutrient supplies is evaluated. Actual or potential problems related to fluid balance, tissue integrity, and host defenses may be identified as well as problems with the gastrointestinal system. Elimination. Data collection is focused on excretory patterns (bowel, bladder, skin). Excretory problems such as incontinence, constipation, diarrhea, and urinary retention may be identified. Activity and Exercise. Assessment is focused on the activities of daily living requiring energy expenditure, including self-care activities, exercise, and leisure activities. The status of major body systems involved with activity and exercise is evaluated, including the respiratory, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal systems. Cognition and Perception. Assessment is focused on the ability to comprehend and use information and on the sensory functions. Data pertaining to neurologic functions are collected to aid this process. Sensory experiences such as pain and altered sensory input may be identified and further evaluated. Sleep and Rest. Assessment is focused on the person's sleep, rest, and relaxation practices. Dysfunctional sleep patterns, fatigue, and responses to sleep deprivation may be identified. Self-Perception and Self-Concept. Assessment is focused on the person's attitudes toward self, including identity, body image, and sense of self-worth. The person's level of self-esteem and response to threats to his or her self-concept may be identified. Roles and Relationships. Assessment is focused on the person's roles in the world and relationships with others. Satisfaction with roles, role strain, or dysfunctional relationships may be further evaluated. Sexuality and Reproduction. Assessment is focused on the person's satisfaction or dissatisfaction with sexuality patterns and reproductive functions. Concerns with sexuality may he identified. Coping and Stress Tolerance. Assessment is focused on the person's perception of stress and on his or her coping strategies Support systems are evaluated, and symptoms of stress are noted. The effectiveness of a person's coping strategies in terms of stress tolerance may be further evaluated. Values and Belief. Assessment is focused on the person's values and beliefs (including spiritual beliefs), or on the goals that guide his or her choices or decisions. |
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Posted: January 8, 2013
By: RBM
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Searchable, Social and Sexy
Happy New Year folks! We hope you're having a great start to the year.
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Akil Augustine and I take a seat on the Raptors bench to discuss bouncing back against the Knicks after a tough loss, the return of Amar'e Stoudemire and of course, the growing legend of Jeremy Lin.
Probable Starters
TOR – Jose Calderon (G), DeMar DeRozan (G), James Johnson (F), Amir Johnson (F), Aaron Gray (C).
NYK– Jeremy Lin (G), Landry Fields (G/F), Bill Walker (G/F), Amar'e Stoudemire (F/C), Tyson Chandler (C)
Key Injuries
TOR – Andrea Bargnani (left calf strain) – out, Jerryd Bayless (sore left ankle) – day-to-day
NYK – Carmelo Anthony (strained right groin) […]


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"Cool as a cucumber…."
Cucumbers are so refreshing! Cucumber salads are fun to make and can be flavored to add to your entree or to eat alone. I had lots of oranges and wanted to make a sweet cucumber salad. I added some thinly sliced almonds and celery to give it some crunch. I hope you will enjoy this salad! (more…)
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Saturday, April 19th, 2014Citrus Chicken Fajita Marinade
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
I love the bright and fresh citrus that we get in the wintertime from Bountiful Baskets but sometimes my counter fills up faster than I get them used. I was inspired to use the citrus to make a flavorful marinade for the fajitas on my meal plan for this week. The resulting chicken is moist and flavorful and it comes together super easily. (more…)
Tangy Cran-Orange Coconut Chicken
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013When I was a small child, I would awake Christmas Eve morning to the smells of cinnamon, cloves, vanilla, oranges and cranberries that wafted around the clinking sounds of Grandma in the kitchen preparing everyone's favorite dishes for our dinner later that day. Grandpa would be in the his chair humming Christmas Carols as he put on his shoes. I could see the glow of the Christmas tree lights dancing across the ceiling from where I lay snug in my bed, cozy and warm under the heavy handmade quilt. (more…)
Citrus Rosemary Salt Blend
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
I love having special spice blends in my pantry so it is easy to whip up meals. During the winter, when citrus is plentiful, I zest the fruits and let it dry on a napkin then store it in a jar. I used that zest in this blend along with Rosemary that I received in an Italian Veggie Add-on. This blend is wonderful fragrant and tasty on poultry or roasted veggies.
- 1/4 C Sea Salt
- 1 T Orange Zest
- 1 T Rosemary
- Put all of the ingredients in a food processor and pulse until well blended. You don't want to overpulvarize the salt.
Facebook Orange Recipes Roundup
Monday, December 19th, 2011Our participants have been sharing some awesome orange recipes this week, and we wanted an easy place for you to find them. Here's what we have:


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The Molecular Chair by Designklein is comprised of six hexagonal frames.
This chair is the perfect thing for people who want something eye catching and different. It is available in multiple colors like yellow, red, green, blue and black.
Designklein is made up of two individuals named Sinisha and Sasha Klein.


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To the Carolina Community:
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Ew Quimbaya-Winship (EW) as the Deputy Title IX Officer/Student Complaint Coordinator reporting to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. This position will serve as the primary point of contact to advise students and receive reports of harassment or discrimination against students pursuant to all applicable University policies, including the Policy on Prohibited Harassment, Including Sexual Violence, and Discrimination (http://www.unc.edu/campus/policies/harassanddiscrim.pdf). In collaboration with the University's Equal Opportunity/ADA Office and units throughout Student Affairs, this position will direct students to appropriate campus and community resources, advise students of the processes for responding to complaints, coordinate the investigation and resolution of complaints against students, and monitor the University's compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements as it relates to complaints of harassment or discrimination. The position will also play a large role in developing education and training programs for all members of the campus community.
EW is currently the director of the violence prevention program and Title IX Coordinator at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. He has fifteen years of experience in the field of sexual and interpersonal violence prevention and response. His appointment is the result of a national search and input from faculty, students and staff.
EW will begin his tenure at Carolina on Monday, March 11, 2013. I wish to provide special thanks to members of the search committee who participated in the selection process for this position. I am excited to welcome EW to Carolina and look forward to his work.
Winston B. Crisp
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
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My posts have veered into rocker territory lately. Not sure if it's a short sartorial detour or not, but I think with colder weather this tends to be my thang (as opposed to summer where preppy emerges out of my wardrobe). Based on this, I thought I would put together a few different outfit options for holiday parties that aren't super formal and aren't super casual. The middle of the fancy road, if you will. I think these types of functions always outnumber the tres formal or uber casual on our calendars so hopefully this might inspire you to create some looks using things you already own! The common threads in these ensembles are metallic accents which keep them feeling festive.
I am also linked up this week with Long Distance Loving where the theme is "a little sparkle" so be sure to check out the other posts for more great ideas!
Look #1: contrast a fancy, structured jacket with a loose tee and tougher boots.
| metallic jacket - Club Monaco | snake t-shirt - Vero Moda | rhinestone spike necklace - Love Always Couture | large spike necklace - Aldo| Renegade ring - Stella and Dot | velvet tights - Joe Fresh | boots - H&M | clutch - Le Chateau |
Look #2: Not that sequins need any jazzing up, but the leather jacket and repeated mixed metals in the necklace kick it up another notch.
| jacket, tank top, necklace, skirt, tights - all Joe Fresh | boots - H&M | clutch - Aldo | earrings - F21 |
Look #3: This is the most formal of the three looks, however the gold lame and chunky statement necklace lend some edge to an otherwise demure and conservative pencil skirt. I found this gold top in the athletic section at Joe Fresh so get creative with your holiday style!
| gold top - Joe Fresh | necklace - Ell and Emm | skirt - Club Monaco | tights - Joe Fresh | clutch - vintage | heels - Calvin Klein |


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geographical name \ˈkȯ-sȯ-ˌvō, ˈkä-\Definition of KOSOVO
(Concise Encyclopedia)Self-declared independent country in the central Balkans, formerly a province of Serbia. Area: 4,212 sq mi (10,908 sq km). Population: (2009 est.) 1,805,000. The capital and administrative centre is Pristina. Ethnic Albanians (most of them Muslim) make up the vast majority of the population, with Serbs (mostly Christian) accounting for the bulk of the remainder. Kosovo was an autonomous region until 1989, when Serbia took control of Kosovo's administration, prompting protests from the region's Albanian population, which in 1990 voted to secede from Yugoslavia. Serbia responded by tightening its control of Kosovo, which led to the Kosovo conflict. The region was administered by the UN beginning in 1999. Kosovo declared independence in 2008. That December the UN transferred most of its powers of oversight to the European Union.
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Wes Niles never tried to sell you one car. He wanted you to buy five or 10. Or more. Not all at once, of course.
More than 350 people, including local and statewide leaders, celebrated former Lt. Gov. and Carroll Mayor Arthur A. Neu Saturday in a memorial service at the Carroll Recreation Center auditorium.
It's a small grape — innocuous, really. Light grayish-purple in color, the Frontenac Gris grape is diminutive, growing in long bunches that are exposed to the sun with careful pruning.
It's easy for David Martin to sing the praises of Carroll Community Chorus.
The signs at the home of Ben and Rebecca Dose and their four children say a lot. The "Bless Our Home" sign on a living-room wall tells you about their faith. Ben has been pastor at Zion Lutheran Church, next door to their home on the north side of Arcadia, since April 2008.


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Sony Pictures has announced that they are planning a 3D concert film about the British teen pop boy band One Direction. The release is set for August 30, 2013, so it's a last blast of summer occasion for all those little girls who hopefully won't have moved on to other things by then.
The movie will be directed by Morgan Spurlock, the documentarian behind "Supersize Me" and "The Greatest Movie Ever Sold." Here's what he had to say about the project:
"This is an incredible opportunity and an amazing moment in time for the band. To capture this journey and share it with audiences around the world will be an epic undertaking that I am proud to be a part of."
I'm guessing there may be plenty of people out there who see "One Direction" and "Morgan Spurlock" paired together and think, "That doesn't make sense." All I'll say is that many things in life do not make sense.
Simon Cowell, whose "X-Factor" tv show is where the band was discovered, said this:
"I'm delighted we're making this film and Morgan is the perfect person to give that access-all-areas, behind-the-scenes look into what it's like to be One Direction today. What the band have achieved is incredible, they and their fans have made history around the world – this is for them."
One Direction consists of Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. To be honest, I've seen them and don't think they're particularly cute as far as boy bands go, but hey, I'm not the target demographic. So, good luck to them. Grab your moment while it's there, boys. And all you fans, mark August 30, 2013 on your calendar with a nice big heart.


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Purpose (Brief): The joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN working Group (JIG) seeks input from the community on its draft Final Report on Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs. The draft includes recommendations to the ccNSO and GNSO Councils for further action to resolve policy and other relating to the universal acceptance of IDN TLDs The Working expects to finalize and publish its Final Report, and submit their report, after taking into account the comments received.
Current Status: Seeking public comment on its draft Final Report is part of the process for developing recommendations to the ccNSO and GNSO Councils as defined in the charter of the JIG.
Next Steps: The JIG will closely review all submitted comments to determine, at its reasonable discretion, to modify its report.
The Working expects to formally publish its Final Report by the end of August and submit it to both the ccNSO and GNSO Council for adoption and further action.
Detailed Information
Section I: Description, Explanation, and Purpose:
The issue of the Universal Acceptance of TLDs (Top-Level Domains) is not new. The introduction of new gTLDs, especially those that are longer than 3 characters exposed this Universal Acceptance issue in the 2000 experimental expansion round, and was continued to be felt through the 2004 sTLD extension round. The introduction of IDN ccTLDs through the IDN ccTLD fast track in 2010 further exposed the issue and also made this into an issue of common interest between ccTLDs and gTLDs.
Based on extensive discussion, both in the WG and with the community, the JIG intends to recommend to the ccNSO and GNSO Council that they will recommend:
The WG seeks feed-back and input on the specific recommendations.
This is a Final Report from the Joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN Group (JIG) on the recommendations for actions to be taken by ICANN and the ICANN community to address the issue of Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs in support of the implementation of IDN gTLDs and IDN ccTLDs. The document incorporates the findings from the Initial Report along with the public comments received respectively:
The JIG (Joint ccNSO-GNSO IDN Working Group) was created to discuss issues of common interest between the ccNSO and the GNSO on IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names), especially IDN TLDs. The JIG has identified 3 issues of common interest to date:
This report is specific to issue 3. Universal Acceptance of IDN TLDs. This Final Report is submitted to the ccNSO council and the GNSO council respectively for their consideration and adoption according to their own rules and procedures.
The Draft Final Report can be found at: ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/idn-tld-acceptance-final-25jun13-en.pdf [PDF, 135 KB]
Additional Information on the JIG can be found at: ccnso.icann.org/workinggroups/jiwg.htm
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