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To keep your hot dog up and off the grill, just use the "Roast My Weenie" sausage cooker.
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So we have this 3ft wide by 2ft tall mirror that weighs 25 to 30 lbs. It has two triangular hoop connections on the back. I was thinking of getting some heavy wire from a framing or arts/craft store, attaching the wire to the hoops, screwing some hooks into the wall studs with wood screws, and hanging the wire on the wall hooks. BUT, the mirror specifically says not to use a wire to hang it. The only other option is to screw two hooks into the drywall using drywall screws that line up with the two hoops on the back of the mirror, but I hate trusting dry-wall screws.
Why do you think it says I can't just use a wire with wood screws into the studs? What should I do? Thanks. |
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We always use the hollow wall anchors. They work great, and they don't have to be in a stud. |
- Posted by bigdoglover (My Page) on Thu, Oct 9, 08 at 23:45
I have a similar huge mirror with those loops. We had it hanging for ten years in our last house (in CA, so it went through one or two mild earthquakes and several tremors). We just used the loops, and a huge (50-100 lb) picture hanger for each of the two loops. The picture hangers were just in the drywall, not studs. Mirror was hanging horizontally. Now that we moved to this house, we have it hanging vertically. Professional movers of our designer relocated one of the loops so it could hang that way. They did not want to put a wire on it. So I wouldn't do so. Again, it is on big hooks put into the drywall and is just fine. It is probably about 5' x 3'. Biggest challenge is getting both nails in the right place so it hangs straight! |
- Posted by justgotabme (My Page) on Fri, Oct 10, 08 at 0:07
I too am curious why it says not to use wire. If done properly, I would think it would work quite well. That is if you want your mirror to hang angled downward. If it's triangle loops aren't sturdy enough to work with wire then they shouldn't be able to hold the mirror any other way either. At least in my opinion. We have two large, but not quite so heavy mirrors that we'll be adding the same sort of "loops" to the frame. We've had great luck with use the drywall anchors that look like large plastic screws that you screw into the wall first. They come with screws that you then screw inside the plastic anchors leaving just enough stuck out of the wall to attach the "loops" over. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The item shown in the back is what I'm talking about. The ones we have are white though.
I guess I never trust those hollow drywall hangers even though I'm sure they work. I'm thinking the mirror company doesn't want to be held liable if you use a wire and the mirror's weight/tilt causes it to come off the wall...especially if you are just hanging the wire on the screw heads (which I wasn't planning on doing). bigdoglover, what exactly is a picture hanger? I'm assuming it screws into the drywall, but is it just a screw or does it have a hook shape that lets you hang the mirror hoops on? Robin and Justgotabme, did you just hang the mirror hoops right on the drywal screw heads? I would think that would be even more likely to fall than using a wire on hooks screwed into the studs. Or did you use the drywall screws to attach some sort of hooks to the wall and then hang the mirror hoops on those hooks? Thanks again people! |
- Posted by western_pa_luann (My Page) on Fri, Oct 10, 08 at 8:57
I would use a cleat. |
I would NOT use wire. If your mirror is very heavy, as you describe, you will be concentrating the weight at a single point in the middle of the wire. This is not over or even near the two anchor points for the wire (the triangular hoops), and thus if the conditions are right it will pull out of the wall. We recently had a 20 lb mirror hung by the handyman I get for such jobs. He used something called a "molly" and put two of them in the wall. The two triangular hooks hang on them. Something that heavy needs to have more than one attachment, to spread out the weight. |
We were planning on hanging the wire on two wall hooks to distribute the weight. What is a cleat or a molly? Cleat? Molly? Were they attached to studs or, as in the second picture, were they using hollow drywall type screws? |
- Posted by western_pa_luann (My Page) on Fri, Oct 10, 08 at 11:43
Yep, that's a cleat and a molly! Cleats are nice because the weight is distributed across its length. VERY sturdy! IF the mirror is large enough, I'd put the cleat onto the studs. |
How informative! So if I use molly bolts, I'm assuming I can just line them up with, and hang the mirror hoops directly onto the bolt heads? If I use cleats, it would seem that I need to use a wire in order to lay in the cleat track? I'm almost there. |
No I think molly's are like these http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/inffastener/i/molly1.jpg The ones in your picture are toggle bolts, one draw back is that they are not as precise, and seem to require tightening down for it to work, so there won't be a bolt stick out for you to hang with, unless you use that to secure a cleat or bracket. I used 2 hollow wall anchors (molly) like above picture, but as a fail safe, I also strung a 100 lb rated wire between the two, onto a earth quake proof hook in the center (it's got a maze for the wire so it's hard to come off), the wire is not under tension, it's just incase an anchor fails it will not fall into the ground. That hook is fastened into a stud with a 3" screw and rated for 100 lbs. Of course everything is still at the mercy of the hook on the back of the mirror though. Where I live, at home depot they have a earth quake area that sells the hooks and muesum wax, cabinet brackets etc, that's where I get the hook with the maze in it. |
I just hung our heavy mirror and found that the problem with the wire was that when I attached it the way I usually do like on a framed picture, the weight of the mirror pulled the wire so taught it eventually slipped. I think I solved the problem by wrapping the wire around the triangular hoops a few times then knotting it and then wrapping it around itself. I also strung two wires - just in case. I really like the suggestions of using two hooks to distribute the weight. I think I will take it down and add the two hooks. |
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Hello! I have this little tree that i collected from the wildest part of my Family's Lands (Northern Mountains of Puerto Rico). I have cultivated it for the last 4 years and have made an extense research looking for the ID of this tree. Still, remains unknown for me. I think it must be a native tree, since i have found several of these trees growing in the wild, and have managed really well to grow and develop under the dense vegetation in the wild (Tropical Rain Forest).
Can anybody ID it, or maybe give me some opinions? Any help is very welcome. Thank you very much,
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It looks like it is in the witch hazel family....hamamelidaceae...but I could be way off. Danielle |
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The Dawson County Middle School football team needed a win over visiting Jasper Middle School last week to gain some momentum going into the Mountain League playoffs.
However, the Dragons used a strong running game to bounce the Tigers 38-16, Thursday.
Riverview Middle School is off to a rough start this football season. The Eagles fell to 0-3 with a 36-6 loss to Clear Creek Middle School last week in Dawsonville.
The only touchdown for Riverview came on a 60-yard kickoff return by Mateo Fritz.
Dawson County Middle School used a ball control offense to come away with a 14-6 win at Pickens County Middle School last Thursday.
The Tigers used five different running backs on offense.
Offensively the Riverview Middle School Eagles could not muster up any scoring against Jasper Middle School last week.
The Eagles didn't pick up a first down until 3:15 of the second quarter as the team was shutout by the Dragons 40-0.
For the first time this season, Riverview Middle School head softball coach Jeff Compton said his team played up to its potential.
"It was very exciting to see the Riverview Eagles play like I know they can play," Compton said.
It was a night of firsts for Dawson County Middle School's football team. Playing in a recently renovated Tiger Stadium the Dawson County Middle School Tigers did something that they have never done before, defeated Riverview Middle School, 14-0.
The Tigers dominated on both sides of the ball.
The Riverview Middle School Eagles are applying the final touches before playing its opening game of the season this Saturday against rival Dawson County Middle School.
The Eagles played in a jamboree last week in Blue Ridge against Fannin and Pickens counties. The scrimmage was the final chance for Head Coach Mark Thomason to take a look at his squad against different competition.
Football is almost here. Cross-county rivals Dawson County and Riverview middle schools will hit the field against each other at 7:30 p.m. Saturday night at Tiger Stadium.
"It is a great way to start the season off, playing Saturday in front of a big crowd. It gives the fans an opportunity to see what the future holds for Dawson County football since all of the boys will be playing on the same team in upcoming years," said Dawson County Middle School Tiger Head Coach Thomy Edwards.
Head Riverview softball coach Jeff Compton seemed excited about starting the upcoming 2011 campaign.
Summer passing camps have come and gone for the Riverview Middle School Eagle football team.
The team completed its final passing league July 26 at White County Middle School in Cleveland.
Head Coach Mark Thomason's Riverview Middle School football team traveled to Flowery Branch last week to participate in a Fellowship of Christian Athletes passing camp.
Several local middle school teams took part in the event. The Eagles were able to throw against White County, Union County, West Hall, East Hall, South Hall, Putnam County, Flowery Branch and Chestatee middle schools during the event.
At Riverview Middle School the football team is on a mission.
The Eagles began summer workouts recently and will continue throughout the rest of the summer.
Riverview Middle School Head Softball Coach Jeff Compton recently announced that tryouts will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. Aug. 1 and 2 at the school.
Any seventh or eighth grade girl interested in trying out for the 2011 Riverview Middle School softball team must have with them a parent permission form and an up-to-date physical on the first day of tryouts.
Riverview Middle School Head Football Coach Mark Thomason has planned several summer activities and workouts for his Eagle team this summer.
The team has been working out on Tuesday's and Thursday's throughout June from 4 to 6 p.m. at Riverview Middle School.
The Dawson County Lady Tigers' seventh grade basketball team played in a basketball league held at the Suwanee Sports Academy in Norcross this past spring. The team played one night a week for 10 weeks and went undefeated.
Members of the team were: Peytan Porter, Summer Vaughn, Ashton Abbott, Karlie Bearden, Haley Burgess, Brittany Griggs, Lauren Burgess and Heather Brady.
The Dawson County Middle School wrestling team finished in fifth place at the recent state duals at Cass High School.
The Riverview Middle School eight grade boys 'basketball team continued to improve its record after picking up two wins last week.
Riverview Middle School girls' basketball coach Natosha Beary's seventh and eighth grade teams split games with cross-county rival Dawson County Middle School Dec. 19.
The Dawson County Middle School wrestling team won the Appalachian League Individual Tournament on Dec. 20.
The Dawson County Middle School wrestling team captured the 2014 Mountain League Dual Championship on Saturday. The Tigers, under head coach Thomy Edwards and assistant Christopher Doerrer, went 3-0 in the tournament to bring home a first place trophy.
Coach Mark Thomason's Riverview Middle School eighth grade boys basketball team defeated Jasper Middle School, 49-28, in Jasper Dec. 1.
The Riverview Middle School seventh grade girls' basketball team suffered a heartbreaking loss to Jasper Middle School Dec. 4. The team lost by a score of 28-25.
Campbell Reed led the Riverview Middle School seventh grade boys' basketball team to a 34-28 win over Jasper Dec. 1.
The Dawson County Middle School wrestling team came away with a 40-39 victory over Clear Creek Middle School on Nov. 20.
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'Laggies' Review: Keira Knightley Grows Up With the Help of Sam Rockwell and an Anorexic Tortoise
Movie Reviews By Rob Hunter on October 24, 2014 | Be the First To CommentThe film landscape is filled with movies about people struggling with the idea of growing up, acting responsible and accepting that they're an adult, and roughly all of these films feature a man-child as their protagonist. What Lynn Shelton's new film Laggies presupposes is… what if one of them was a woman? Megan (Keira Knightley) has been watching from the sidelines as friends get married and start careers and families, but while she's a bit young for a mid-life crisis that doesn't stop her from losing her emotional footing when her boyfriend proposes out of the blue. The issue is compounded further when she sees her dad getting a handy from a woman who is most definitely not Megan's mother, and in shock and disbelief Megan immediately hops in the car and heads out into the night. She meets a teenager named Annika (Chloe Grace Moretz) out front of a Grocery Outlet with her friends on the lookout for a "cool" adult willing to buy them some booze, and she agrees to help in exchange for a place to hide out for a few days. Megan may look too young for a life crisis, but one glance is all Annika's father (Sam Rockwell) needs to know that she's also too old to be his daughter's classmate. She explains her situation — well, a heavily redacted version of her situation that includes no mention of a boyfriend or a proposal — and Craig decides to let her stay through the weekend. She tries at first to treat her new […]
'The Imitation Game' Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Makes Anything Possible
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Movie News By Kate Erbland on July 21, 2014 | Be the First To CommentPlink. Plink. Plink. Plink. Plink. What's that? Oh, just the sound that signals that a serious, dangerous, historical trailer is coming on through (consider it on par with the "brrrrannngghhh" of setting a mood). Plink. Plink. Pllllunk. The Imitation Game is indeed serious, dangerous, and historical — fortunately for all involved, it also looks pretty good. After years of development back and forth (remember when Leonardo DiCaprio was going to star in this?), Graham Moore's Black List script about the life of Alan Turing ("the father of computer science") is finally an actual movie with a bunch of actual stars and enough street cred to push it into "hey, maybe we need to think about awards or whatever" territory. Cool beans, and maybe it will get kids interested in computer science! It's a win-win! (Although we wonder what kind of kids will be checking out the historical Benedict Cumberbatch film this fall, but c'est la vie.) The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, with Keira Knightley on board as his best pal/early cool coding girl Joan Clarke and Matthew Goode, Charles Dance and Mark Strong around to add some gravitas. Ready your ears for the plinking, after the break:
'Laggies' Trailer: Keira Knightley's Just a Slob Like One of Us
Movie News By Samantha Wilson on July 16, 2014 | Be the First To CommentQuarter-life crises hit everyone differently, whether it's paying for a bodega sandwich in change for the third day in a row and coming up short that does it, or resolving to stay in your room indefinitely because you've received another wedding announcement from a childhood friend the morning after an OkCupid date with a guy who wanted to sniff your hair, or just realizing that woah, high school was awhile ago and you still don't have your shit together. It's even happening to Keira Knightley, one of the so-called Laggies who doesn't quite have things figured out yet, and is taking the most adult and rational approach to handling her problems: running away and ignoring them. The trailer for the Lynn Shelton film introduces us to Megan (Knightley), a 28-year-old on the verge of something not-so great when she attends her high school reunion. A proposal from her boyfriend (Mark Webber), whom she's been dating since high school, leads to her fleeing into the night and away from that whole nightmare (ugh, can you imagine getting engaged at your high school reunion in front of a bunch of people you probably hate?) and more or less into the arms of Chloe Moretz (who, for the first trailer in a long time, is not wearing some sort of neon wig). Like an respectable gaggle of 16-year-olds, Moretz's Annika and her buddies hit Megan up for help buying a six pack "because they left their IDs at home," and seeing some of her old, fun self […]
In just two films, writer/director John Carney may very well have created a new genre: the neo-musical. First, there was 2006's Once, a breakout indie film with an Oscar-winning song, "Falling Slowly." Now he follows a similar plot trajectory with Begin Again (which was once wistfully titled Can a Song Save Your Life?). Two musicians – one male and one female – meet, collaborate on a project and flirt with impunity before ultimately deciding they would rather make music than love. Through his stories about musicians and collaboration, Carney has found a way to update the musical to our contemporary, authenticity-driven times. In his films, the characters frequently break into song, but they don't break the fourth wall, and the stories never devolve into spectacle. However, Carney has more on his mind than genre-busting. Both of his neo-musicals contain a creeping criticism of a music industry that is depicted as overly-focused on image and provides little room for the true artist to find space to grow. In Once, the characters are working to create a demo so that they can get a record deal, but the implicit question asked by the film is why a singer as talented as Glen Hansard has to make ends meet by busking on the street in the first place (in real life Hansard fronts The Frames, a successful Irish rock band). If Once's industry criticism is subtextual, Begin Again is more overt about its intentions. The film stars Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley as Dan and Greta, a music producer […]
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10 Big Questions Left Unanswered By 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit'
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Kenneth Branagh on Supplying 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' With An Authentic Backbone
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Movie Reviews By Rob Hunter on January 17, 2014 | Comments (1)Alec Baldwin. Harrison Ford. Ben Affleck. Playing Jack Ryan is almost as dangerous of a job as being Jack Ryan, and now 24 years after Tom Clancy's most famous character first hit the screen in The Hunt for Red October he's back with a new face and a new reboot. This is not a good thing. Ryan (Chris Pine) is a college student when the Twin Towers fall in New York City, and the event leads him to join the U.S. Marines. An early mission in Afghanistan leaves him incapacitated and struggling to regain his physical faculties, but a mysterious C.I.A. agent named Harper (Kevin Costner) recruits him to help follow the money on Wall Street being used to line terrorist pockets. Ryan's nose for numbers and patterns identifies a possible discrepancy with a Russian company headed up by Viktor Cherevin (Kenneth Branagh), and then all hell breaks loose. Unlike those earlier films, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is not based on an existing Clancy novel. The "original" story uses elements of the Ryan we already know but adds in additional elements to increase his heroism and speed up his journey into the C.I.A. These elements work well enough, but as the story and action unfold it quickly becomes clear that those novels featured something else sorely lacking here. Brains.
'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' Trailer Introduces a New Hero With a Familiar Name
Movie News By Rob Hunter on October 3, 2013 | Comments (2)Fathers everywhere may have lost their favorite novelist recently with the passing of author Tom Clancy, but the man left a multitude of parting gifts on his way out the door. At least two new Clancy-branded videogames hit shelves in a couple months, and his most memorable fictional character is getting a big screen reboot. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit brings the famed C.I.A. analyst back to his rookie days and his first real adventure after he discovers a Russian plot to upend the U.S. economy through deadly terrorist attacks. This is the first of the Ryan films to not be based on one of Clancy's novels, and that's fitting as it's once again an attempt at building a future franchise for the character. Chris Pine, already no stranger to franchise characters previously played by others, steps into the title role and follows in the big footsteps of Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. This is particularly impressive for an actor of Pine's miniature stature (see above). Check out the first trailer for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit below.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley Are Playing 'The Imitation Game'
Movie News By Scott Beggs on September 16, 2013 | Be the First To CommentWell this is interesting. After appearing on The Black List in 2011, Graham Moore's The Imitation Game was going to tell the story of computing pioneer Alan Turing under the wing of Leonardo DiCaprio and Warner Bros., but the studio dropped the project in August 2012. Black Bear Pictures (Broken City, A.C.O.D.) took over production duties and then signed Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) to direct, but things have been quiet for almost a year. This week, news broke that Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley would star in the film — playing Turing and code-breaker Joan Clarke respectively — and now we can report that principal photography has actually started as of yesterday. The film focuses on Turing's life, particularly during WWII when he and a team were attempting to crack the Nazi Enigma Code, and it also stars Matthew Goode, Mark Strong and Rory Kinnear. Obviously a lot of events from 2011 are culminating into an interesting project here. Black Bear was launched that year, Moore's script hit The Black List then and Tyldum's breakout Headhunters premiered at festivals in 2011 as well. It's excellent to see this vision finally come to fruition, and it looks on track for its planned 2014 release. Now if they can only get the movie to trick people into think it's a sentient being.
'Can a Song Save Your Life?' Review: Charmer Probably Won't Save Anyone, But It Will Certainly Entertain Many
Movie Reviews By Kate Erbland on September 8, 2013 | Be the First To CommentJohn Carney's Can a Song Save Your Life? answers its own (inescapably clunky-sounding) titular question within its first twenty minutes, but it's hard to tell if that salvation is ultimately sustainable. After all, most songs only last a few minutes, and what happens when the music stops? Burnt out music executive Dan (Mark Ruffalo) has a thing for long shots, and while that may have worked for him in his early days, he hasn't had much luck when it comes to finding bankable new talent for a number of years. (Oh, and his personal life is also in shambles, because of course it is.) Stuck in a low-rent apartment, estranged from his rock writer wife (Catherine Keener, who can't quite reach her normal charm levels here, mainly because half of her face is bizarrely hidden behind her hair) and his just-rebellious-enough teen daughter (Hailee Steinfeld, who should have gotten more screen time here), and running on fumes career-wise, Dan is at rock bottom. So it's a pretty nifty stroke of luck that he just so happens to walk into a local bar running an open mic night in order to kill time before actually killing himself, and it's also pretty cool that Greta (Keira Knightley) is there (reluctantly) singing and yes, it's also totally awesome that her song actually refers to someone throwing themselves in front of a subway. If you can get past the silly plot contrivances and relatively thin script, Can a Song Save Your Life? just might […]
Casting Couch: Philip Seymour Hoffman Joins 'Child 44,' Keira Knightley Joins Her Latest Period Piece, and More
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on June 26, 2013 | Be the First To CommentWhat is Casting Couch? A compiling of the day's casting news that today has word of new gigs for Elizabeth Banks as well as some good news for a couple of the former cast members of Party Down. How many A-list actors does it take to make a movie about a string of child murders in Soviet-era Russia? Apparently one more, because Deadline is reporting that Philip Seymour Hoffman is the latest big name to join the already impressive cast of director Daniel Espinosa's Child 44. His addition to the film sees him rubbing elbows with the already cast Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, and Joel Kinnaman, and it will quite possibly give us a chance to finally see him wearing one of those furry Russian hats, which seems like something that should have happened years ago.
Casting Couch: Keira Knightley Ready to Play 'The Intimidation Game,' Kristen Stewart Keeping Busy, and More
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on June 5, 2013 | Comments (1)What is Casting Couch? It's a news column concerned with movie castings that has word of a new role for Game of Thrones star Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, as well as some controversy surrounding Johnny Depp. The Intimidation Game has had Morten Tyldum attached as its director and Benedict Cumberbatch attached as its star for a while now. But it seems like all of its pre-production ducks must now be getting in a row, because today a report out of THR is suggesting that they've started to go forward with the rest of their casting. This Alan Turing biopic, which is set to cover his days breaking codes during the war as well as his days being tried by the government for homosexuality, is reportedly close to signing Keira Knightley as a woman who comes from a conservative background, but who forms a friendship with Turing and sticks by him all the way to his life's tragic end. This will all, no doubt, be very emotional, so expect lots of opportunities to see her make that face she makes when she's just about to cry.
Oscars: A Last Minute Pitch for 'Anna Karenina'
Academy Awards By Daniel Walber on December 14, 2012 | Be the First To CommentThe 2012 awards season is coagulating. Thanks to SAG and the HFPA, we now have a solid list of contenders for Best Picture and a narrowing group of potential nominees for everything else. Forgive the metaphor, but it does feel a bit like goop. Both major lists of nominees this week are full of easily predicted choices, and the few unexpected picks that take us by surprise only do so because we thought they were too bland even for the HFPA. (Except for you, Nicole Kidman! There's nothing bland about The Paperboy.) Don't get me wrong, I love Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, and Maggie Smith, but this is getting unseemly. And the days are running out for films to make their way in from the sidelines. However, I am going to take this last chance to fight through the often claustrophobic box of awards watching and shout to the heavens a bit about a movie I think should be getting substantially more attention. I was sort of hoping that the Golden Globe nominations would do that for me, given how hard they went for Atonement a few years ago. They like to shake things up in a good way, at least now and then. Alas, it seems it was easier to go out on a limb for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Anna Karenina is the best awards-ready movie of the year that isn't getting an ounce of awards attention. Frankly, I find it somewhat surprising. Joe Wright's three literary […]
Joe Wright, 'Anna Karenina' Director, Sets Himself Up for the Limitations of His Vision
Features By Jack Giroux on November 16, 2012 | Comments (2)Joe Wright set up a big challenge for himself with Anna Karenina. The material could easily lend itself to the stuffy brand of period piece, which is the type of film we see all too often during the awards season. Wright didn't want to make that film, though. With his theater concept, he may have stripped the budget down, but, according to Wright, it was the exact type of challenge where the most creativity comes from. That notably happened with his previous project, Hanna, as well. Everyone adored the long-take fight scenes in that film, and that approach came out of saving time, budget, and, of course, creative impulse. It's those type of decisions Wright seems the most excited by. Here's what director Joe Wright had to say about why his brain switches off when filming, the power of limitations, and why Anna Karenina is his least indulgent film:
Review: Beautiful, Bold 'Anna Karenina' Breaks Under the Weight of Its Own Ambition
Movie Reviews By Kate Erbland on November 16, 2012 | Be the First To CommentDirector Joe Wright's latest film, a lush and visually striking adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," is uniquely suited to the filmmaker's tastes and tones. Joining his other love-struck and leading lady-centric films like Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, Wright again adapts well-tread material with an eye for emotion, dizzying and overwrought as it may be (or truly, as it can be). Utilizing a "theater-set" concept to frame up his film, Wright's Anna Karenina offers up his most original film yet, but one that still fails to ultimately come together and connect with his audience. Tolstoy's novel has been adapted countless times before and in a variety of mediums. While not a complicated story, the trials and tribulations of the young Mrs. Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) are still ripe for discussion and dissection, and Wright's choice to keep the film in the book's period setting does nothing to diminish its aching relatability. A dazzling society maven, Anna's life centers on her husband (the beloved politician Alexei Karenin, Jude Law, whom she seems to simply admire, not adore), parties, and her young son. Mildly upended by the news of her brother's (Matthew Macfadyen) cheating ways, Anna sets off to visit the broken family in Moscow and to help mend some long-simmering wounds. Upon her arrival in Moscow, she meets the dashing (sure) Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and the pair eventually fall into an all-consuming affair that threatens to destroy every element of Anna's life.
Keira Knightley Is the New Anne Archer to Chris Pine's Harrison Ford
Casting Couch By Kate Erbland on August 10, 2012 | Comments (4)Despite some apparently rigorous auditioning, there has not been a tremendous flurry over which leading lady would be cast as Dr. Caroline "Cathy" Muller Ryan in Kenneth Branagh's Chris Pine-starring Jack Ryan. Perhaps the years we've spent waiting for the film have burned us out, or maybe everyone is just sick of "shortlists," but word is now out on the final choice for the role, and it's an interesting one. THR reports that Keira Knightley is in negotiations for the role of Mrs. Ryan for the film, which will serve as a prequel of sorts to Tom Clancy's book series about his popular CIA analyst character. The film will reportedly center "on ex-Marine and Moscow-based financial analyst Jack Ryan (Pine), who uncovers a plot by his employer to finance a terrorist attack designed to collapse the U.S. economy. Ryan must race against time to save America and his wife (Knightley)." The role of Cathy Ryan has been most notably played before by Anne Archer in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, and she has also been portrayed by Bridget Moynahan in The Sum of All Fears and Gates McFadden (hey, Dr. Crusher!) in The Hunt for Red October.
16 Movie Characters We Want to Spend Our Last Days With
Cinematic Listology By Kevin Carr on June 22, 2012 | Comments (2)Just as the fears of global cataclysm at the end of the last century fueled films like Deep Impact and Armageddon, the ticking clock to December 21, 2012 has led to more end-of-the-world movies that rely on something larger than a zombie outbreak or a deadly contagion (although those have been recently popular as well). The latest entry into Hollywood's obsession with the Earth's last days is the apocalyptic rom-com Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, and if the Mayans were right, that might very well be the last one made. Film School Rejects responds to your concerns about the end of the world, as evidenced by the Apocalypse Soon feature currently running on this site. While you're catching up on these films to see before the end of the world, we wondered who would be the best people to spend that time with. Steve Carell's character gets to spend the end of the world with Keira Knightley, and here are some cinematic characters with whom we'd like to spend our last days.
'Anna Karenina' Trailer: Aaron Johnson's Mustache Seduces Keira Knightley
Movie News By Kate Erbland on June 20, 2012 | Comments (3)Oh, look, Joe Wright went and directed a historically-set film based on a novel that stars Keira Knightley! I am positively shocked! This time around, Wright and Knightley are taking on no less than Tolstoy (after already going after Austen with Pride and Prejudice and McEwan with Atonement), with Wright directing his frequent muse as the eponymous character in Leo Tolstoy's enduring work, "Anna Karenina." Wright's Anna Karenina hews close to the basic story – Knightley's Anna, a high society aristocrat, gets caught up in a consuming affair with the dashing Count Vronsky (Aaron Johnson, sporting one hell of a mustache) that has repercussions far beyond just her unsatisfying marriage to a smarmy-looking Jude Law as Alexei Karenin. It's tragic, it's sad, it's Russian. So let's see what Wright can do with it with the film's first full trailer and an overly Moulin Rouge-d poster.
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Woman Killed In Motorcycle Crash
(WETHERSFIELD,Conn./CBS Connecticut) – A New Britain woman was killed Saturday afternoon when she apparently lost control of her motorcycle on Interstate 91 northbound in Wethersfield , when she attempted to stop for slowed traffic. 37 […]
Gamers Use Police Hoax To Lash Out At Opponents
The calls to 911 raised an instant alarm: One caller said he shot his co-workers at a Colorado video game company and had hostages. Another in Florida said her father was drunk, wielding a machine gun and threatening their family.
International "Swatting" Conspiracy Blamed For Threat At UConn; Wethersfield Man Faces Federal Charges
A Wethersfield man already facing charges in a bomb threat at UConn last April has now been charged by federal authorities in that case and others. Federal authorities say he was part of a group making threatening calls over the internet.
Malloy Touts Bridge Rehab Funding
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is plugging his administration's efforts to help municipalities replace and rehabilitate local bridges.
Glastonbury Man Who Threatened Family's Life Arrested Again
A Glastonbury man arrested earlier this week for threatening to kill his wife and kids has once again been arrested by police in that town for violating a protective order.
Additional Cameras For Wethersfield Police Cruisers
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Wethersfield Woman's Death Led To Fla. Parasail Crackdown
New details on a Florida parasailing accident in 2012 that led to the death of a Wethersfield woman.
Wethersfield Man Charged With Killing Mother
Wethersfield police have charged a man with murder in the death of his mother.
Wethersfield Police Investigate Death of Woman
WETHERSFILD, Conn. (AP) _ Wethersfield police are investigating the death of an elderly woman whose body was found in a house last week. Police Chief James Cetran says it's unclear how long the woman had […]
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Screaming in Bradley Manning's Trial
3:04 am in Uncategorized by David Swanson
I sat in the courtroom all day on Wednesday as Bradley Manning's trial wound its way to a tragic and demoralizing conclusion. I wanted to hear Eugene Debs, and instead I was trapped there, watching Socrates reach for the hemlock and gulp it down. Just a few minutes in and I wanted to scream or shout.
I don't blame Bradley Manning for apologizing for his actions and effectively begging for the court's mercy. He's on trial in a system rigged against him. The commander in chief declared him guilty long ago. He's been convicted. The judge has been offered a promotion. The prosecution has been given a playing field slanted steeply in its favor. Why should Manning not follow the only advice anyone's ever given him and seek to minimize his sentence? Maybe he actually believes that what he did was wrong. But — wow — does it make for some perverse palaver in the courtroom.
This was the sentencing phase of the trial, but there was no discussion of what good or harm might come of a greater or lesser sentence, in terms of deterrence or restitution or prevention or any other goal. That's one thing I wanted to scream at various points in the proceedings.
This was the trial of the most significant whistleblower in U.S. history, but there was no mention of anything he'd blown the whistle on, any of the crimes exposed or prevented, wars ended, nonviolent democratic movements catalyzed. Nothing on why he's a four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Nothing. Every time that the wars went unmentioned, I wanted to scream. War was like air in this courtroom, everybody on all sides militarized — and it went unnoticed and unmentioned.
What was discussed on Wednesday was as disturbing as what wasn't. Psycho-therapists, and relatives, and Bradley Manning himself — defense witnesses all — testified that he had been wrong to do what he'd done, that he'd not been in his right mind, and that he is a likable person to whom the judge should be kind.
Should likable people get lesser sentences?
The prosecution focused, with much less success I think, on depicting Manning as an unlikable person. Should unlikable people get heavier sentences?
What, I wanted to scream, about the likability of blowing the whistle on major crimes? Shouldn't that be rewarded, rather than being less severely punished?
There were some 30 of us observing the trial on Wednesday in the courtroom, many with "TRUTH" on our t-shirts, plus six members of the news media. Another 40 some people were watching a video feed in a trailer outside, and another 40 media folks were watching a video in a separate room. The defense and prosecution lawyers sat a few feet apart from each other, and I suppose the politeness of the operation was preferable to the violence that had led to it. But the gravity of threatening Manning with 90 years in prison seemed belied by the occasional joking with witnesses.
Before he'd become a criminal suspect, Manning had written in an online chat:
"If you had free reign over classified networks for long periods of time… say, 8-9 months… and you saw incredible things, awful things… things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC… what would you do? . . . or Guantanamo, Bagram, Bucca, Taji, VBC for that matter . . . things that would have an impact on 6.7 billion people . . . say… a database of half a million events during the iraq war… from 2004 to 2009… with reports, date time groups, lat-lon locations, casualty figures… ? or 260,000 state department cables from embassies and consulates all over the world, explaining how the first world exploits the third, in detail, from an internal perspective?"
Manning made clear what his concern and motivation were:


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Biden Looking Forward To VP Debate
Posted: 09/07/2008 - Democrat Joe Biden says he's debated "an awful lot of tough, smart women" throughout his career and that next month's vice presidential debate with Republican Sarah Palin will be no exception.
Posted: 09/07/2008 - Democrat Joe Biden says he's debated "an awful lot of tough, smart women" throughout his career and that next month's vice presidential debate with Republican Sarah Palin will be no exception.
Posted: 09/07/2008 - The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else. "Real change with a real woman," read one sign at a Wisconsin rally. "Hurricane Sarah leaves liberals spinning," cried another.
Posted: 09/07/2008 - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain's approach to Social Security on Saturday, saying it would undermine the government program aimed mainly at retirees. McCain said he would preserve Social Security.
Posted: 09/07/2008 - The mother kneels in the snow, cheerfully posing beside her bundled up daughter, behind the bloody, dead caribou the mom just shot.
Posted: 09/07/2008 - A top House Democrat confirmed Saturday that the government is planning to intervene to stabilize troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Updated: 09/07/2008 - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton marched for labor and stumped with Democrats on Saturday, but sidestepped questions about the woman who has taken her place as the nation's most-talked-about female leader.
Posted: 09/06/2008 - The epic nomination battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined.
Updated: 09/06/2008 - Florida has ordered a recount there and is now considering sending monitors for the November election. Many say it's an eerie reminder of Election 2000.
Posted: 09/06/2008 - North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry and his Democratic challenger Daniel Johnson are making their pitches to a pool of unaffiliated and undecided voters.
Posted: 09/05/2008 - Rocker Jon Bon Jovi hosted a fundraiser Friday night at his New Jersey mansion for Barack Obama.
Posted: 09/05/2008 - Sen. Elizabeth Dole says officials have great things to say about North Carolina's emergency response to storms like Tropical Storm Hanna.
Posted: 09/05/2008 - As the race for the White House heats up the Republican party earned a victory in the battle for American viewers.
Posted: 09/05/2008 - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama grappled for the mantle of change Friday as the fall race for the presidency took off in states teeming with the independent voters they needed to win.
Updated: 09/04/2008 - Sen. John McCain has accepted the Republican Party's presidential nomination, culminating a long primary season fight and setting the stage for battle with Democrat Barack Obama.
Posted: 09/04/2008 - More than 40 million people tuned in to the Republican convention Wednesday to hear vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin introduce herself to voters.
Updated: 09/04/2008 - The huge audience for Palin's acceptance speech rivaled that for Obama's address at the Democratic National Convention six days earlier.
Updated: 09/05/2008 - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards says in a statement that he will not have any public events until after the November election.
Updated: 09/04/2008 - John McCain faces a delicate assignment: presenting his credentials as a reformer willing to take on his own party and stressing his independence from President Bush - all without breaking faith with his Republican base.
Posted: 09/04/2008 - Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole is airing a new television ad defending herself from attacks that she's ineffective.
Updated: 09/03/2008 - Greeted by thunderous applause, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin presented herself to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, and millions of Americans watching from home, as a small-town outsider ready to fight.
Posted: 09/03/2008 - Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin mocked Barack Obama's experience and promise of change Wednesday night and pledged to help John McCain upend the Washington establishment.
Posted: 09/03/2008 - Pat McCrory's campaign for governor filled out donor reports largely complete after all.
Posted: 09/02/2008 - President Bush spoke by satellite TV hookup to Republican National Convention delegates, calling John McCain "a great American and the next president of the United States."
Posted: 09/02/2008 - Republicans are airing their first ad in North Carolina this year in an attempt to buoy the campaign of GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
Posted: 09/02/2008 - Almost 300 people have been arrested so far while protesting the Republican National Convention in Minnesota.


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Tennessee Aquarium
Date opened |
May 1, 1992 (River Journey Building)[1] April 29, 2005 (Ocean Journey Building)[1][2] |
Location | Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA |
Coordinates | 35°03′21″N 85°18′39″W / 35.0557°N 85.3108°WCoordinates: 35°03′21″N 85°18′39″W / 35.0557°N 85.3108°W |
Number of animals | 12,000[3] |
Volume of largest tank | 500,000 US gal (1,900,000 L)[4] |
Total volume of tanks | 1,100,000 US gal (4,200,000 L)[1] |
Memberships | AZA |
Website | www |
The Tennessee Aquarium is a non-profit public aquarium located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. When it opened, the River Journey building was the largest freshwater aquarium in the world.[1][5]
The Tennessee Aquarium's River Journey and Ocean Journey buildings are home to more than 12,000 animals including fish, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, birds, penguins, butterflies, and more.[3][6]
River Journey[edit]
The original River Journey facility, which contains a total of 400,000 US gallons (1,500,000 L),[1] is organized around the theme of the Story of the River, following the path of a raindrop from high in the Appalachian Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico.
Approximately 2/3 of the facility's display follows this theme, with the rest devoted to smaller aquatic exhibits hosting organisms from around the world. The self-guided tour takes visitors through three living forest exhibits that teem with life above and below the water's surface. The first part is the "Cove Forest" exhibit, which has free-flying North American song birds, an exhibit for river otters, and various North American fish (shiners, daces, darters, redhorse, hog suckers, trout and more), as well as an artificial waterfall falling into a 30,000-US-gallon (110,000 L) mountain sink.[7] Other parts of the River Journey are the "Mississippi Delta" with exhibits for American alligators, alligator snapping turtles, various other turtles, birds, snakes and fish (shiners, chubsuckers, topminnows, mosquitofish, darters, sunfish, bowfin and more), "Rivers of the World" with several small to medium-large aquaria aimed at the Amazon River, Congo (Zaire) River, Fly River and more, and the "Tennessee River gallery" where the centerpiece is the 145,000-US-gallon (550,000 L) Nickajack Lake featuring large North American freshwater fish.[7] River Journey initially included the 88,000-US-gallon (330,000 L) "Gulf of Mexico" aquarium with saltwater fish, but it was changed to "River Giants" after Ocean Journey opened.[7][8] "River Giants" contains giant freshwater fish from around the world, such as alligator gar, arapaima, giant pangasius, redtail catfish and giant freshwater stingray.[8]
Ocean Journey[edit]
A new addition to the facility, Ocean Journey, opened in April 2005, and contains a total of 700,000 US gallons (2,600,000 L).[1] It ostensibly follows the theme of the River Journey, though with much less consistency than the original. However this facility does include more hands on displays, such as a small shark and ray touch tank, large macaws, a butterfly garden with South American species on constant display. The largest tank in the Ocean Journey (and the Tennessee Aquarium) is the "Secret Reef", which contains 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 L) and features species such as sand tiger sharks and bonnetheads.[4] Other sections include the Boneless Beauties gallery, where guests can see invertebrates like jellyfish, cuttlefish, giant Pacific octopuses, and Japanese spider crabs. An even newer 16,000-US-gallon (61,000 L) exhibit with Macaroni penguins and Gentoo penguins opened on May 3, 2007. The Tennessee Aquarium was the first to breed sea dragons.
The Tennessee Aquarium's initial conceptual design, architecture and exhibit design (opened in 1992) was led by Peter Chermayeff of Peter Chermayeff LLC while at Cambridge Seven Associates, and the expansion's conceptual design, architecture and exhibit design (opened in 2005) was led by Peter Chermayeff and Peter Sollogub and Bobby C. Poole at Chermayeff, Sollogub & Poole.[9]
Conservation and Research[edit]
The Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute, TNACI, is the aquarium's own research institute. The TNACI works to "preserve, protect, and sustain" the Southeastern region that the aquarium is located in.[10] The Institute first formed in 1996, four years after the opening of the aquarium, as the Southeast Aquatic Research Institute, which was a collaborative partnership of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Tennessee River Gorge Trust.It was later renamed to "emphasize their mission to protect the aquatic species and habitats in the region." The TNACI has been under the direction of many directors that have guided members of a respected staff to accomplish many things that better not only the aquarium, but also the environment surrounding the Chattanooga area.
The Institute funds and takes part in research projects to help strengthen the community as a whole. Some projects undertaken by the Institute include but are not limited to:
- the publication of Aquatic Fauna in Peril: The Southeastern Perspective, edited by George Benz and David Collins, the Curator of Forests at the Aquarium. This publication provided information on the region's aquatic animal groups, along with "historical perspectives" and their "current conservation status."
- Conservation Biologist Paul Johnson's work with mollusks
- collaboration with the Tennessee River Gorge that improved monitoring of the local turtle assemblage.
Originally located at a facility in Cohutta, Georgia but moved to Chattanooga in 2011.[11]
This section contains a gallery of images. |
Potbelly seahorse pair linking tails.
Sea nettle jellyfish.
- ^ a b c d e f Tennessee Aquarium Newsroom - News Release
- ^ "Tennessee Aquarium Ocean Journey Building". Tennessee Aquarium. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Endangered Beluga Sturgeon will be Reunited with Brother: Delta Air Lines Transports 7-Foot Fish on 767 Passenger Plane". Tennessee Aquarium. May 25, 2006. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
- ^ a b Tennessee Aquarium: First sizeable sharks delivered to Aquarium's animal care facility. Retrieved 21 March 2014
- ^ Flessner, Dave (April 29, 2012). "Tennessee Aquarium aims to raise attendance and donations". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
- ^ "Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga Houses a Variety of Animals". BusinessClimate.com. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
- ^ a b c North American Native Fish Association:The Tennessee Aquarium: A Must-See for Native Fish Enthusiasts. Retrieved 21 March 2014
- ^ a b Tennessee Aquarium: River Giants. Retrieved 21 March 2014
- ^ "Peter Chermayeff LLC". peterchermayeff.com. Peter Chermayeff LLC.
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External links[edit]
- Media related to Tennessee Aquarium at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Aquarium's Newsletter


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18 And it was done, when he was alone praying, his disciples were with him, and he asked them, and said [saying], Whom say the people that I am? | 18 Once when Jesus was praying in private and his disciples were with him, he asked them, "Who do the crowds say I am?" |
Copyright © 2001 by Terence P. Noble. For personal use only. (Wycliffe Bible) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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Your February 2009 issue came with a DVD of openSUSE 11.1.
Although I have no quarrels with the technical side of the distribution, it does come with a wordy End User License Agreement (EULA) that the user is deemed to have agreed to by the mere act of installing and/or using openSUSE 11.1. Some clauses of that EULA make me uneasy, such as:
"As required by US law, you represent and warrant that you: (a) understand that openSUSE 11.1 is subject to export controls under the US Commerce Department's Export Administration Regulations ("EAR"); (b) are not located in a prohibited destination country under the EAR or US sanctions regulations; (c) will not export, re-export, or transfer openSUSE 11.1 to any prohibited destination, entity, or individual without the necessary export license(s) or authorizations(s) from the US Government; . . . . . . . ."
"If any provision of this agreement is held to be unenforceable, that will not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions. This agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Utah and of the US, without regard to any conflict of laws provisions, except that the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods will not apply."
OpenSUSE 11.1, to me, is essentially a well-packaged bundle of free open source software that is covered by the GNU General Public License. I wonder whether the Novell people may be breaching the terms of the GNU General Public License by slapping an additional EULA on top of it. At best, it fits poorly with the spirit of the Free Software community. I would welcome Jon 'maddog' Hall's take on this.
Further, does Novell really expect me to acknowledge any alleged extraterritorial powers of the US Justice or Commerce departments, or expect me to ensure that my country doesn't get onto some list that, in my understanding, can be changed anytime at the whim of the US Government of the day?
Your readers may like to have a close look at the fine print of openSUSE's EULA. Some, like me, may feel more comfortable with an open software distribution that is simply covered by the GNU General Public License. OpenSUSE might be an excellent distribution, but fortunately it is not the only one.
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We provide openSUSE as a DVD option because it is an important Linux distro and many of our readers are interested in it in spite of its EULA restrictions. We agree that EULAs are increasingly becoming an issue throughout the open source community. Unless you have your own lawyer on staff, the best approach is to read the EULA carefully and make sure you agree with everything in it – don't click the ACCEPT button unless you are OK with all the provisions. If that means you don't use distros that use EULAs, that can only help pressure Linux vendors to reverse this trend.
On November 26, 2008, openSUSE's Community Manager, Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, announced changes to the licensing agreement. "We're happy to say that you'll be able to enjoy openSUSE 11.1's final release without clicking through a EULA at all," he says. Zonker also says, "This is not a EULA, it's a license notice," and he links to the new license, called "LICENSE AGREEMENT openSUSE 11.1." We noticed that the clauses that concern you are still a part of the agreement.
For more information on licensing, see Zonker's announcement – and reader comments – here: http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/11/26/opensuse-sports-a-new-license-ding-dong-the-eulas-dead/
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: a shark (Rhincodon typus) of warm waters that has small teeth, feeds chiefly on plankton strained by its gill rakers, may sometimes attain a length of up to 60 feet (18.3 meters), and is the largest known fish
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I love a New Year! I'm all about a holiday that doesn't require any actual effort, but does leave you with a fresh start. One of my personal goals this new year is to help encourage other women to attend and participate in open source events. One great way to participate is to speak at an event, and if you're considering submitting your very first talk proposal, you might want to pick up Scott Berkun's Confessions of a Public Speaker.
I read Confessions of a Public Speaker on Christmas Day, while snowed in at my dad's house out in the middle of the country. (That's a photo of my dad, frantically trying to dig us out because *no one* wants to be stuck in a house with yours truly for two days. Happy Birthday, Dad! Thanks for digging us out!)
Confessions of a Public Speaker is a quick, enjoyable read, packed full of personal stories and practical advice. Feeling too freaked out and nervous about speaking in public? Scott offers tips for helping you get over your nerves. If you already speak at events, you'll still find other practical advice on engaging – instead of boring – your audience. Scott also includes his own "confessions" about public speaking engagements that were less than perfect, in addition to humorous confessions from other well-known speakers. The Appendix is particularly useful, offering tips for handling hecklers, filling the front row, and looking good on stage. At the end of the book, Scott provides an annotated bibliography so you can be more than prepared for your next speaking gig. (I really really really wish I'd read this book before my first stab at public speaking. Really.)
And speaking of speaking gigs: SCALE 8x is still accepting talk proposals for the Women in Open Source day. As if speaking at SCALE 8x isn't reward enough, the WIOS speakers can receive a 1-year free subscription to Ubuntu User magazine*, so submit your talk proposal soon!
I confess that I also considered offering my review copy of Confessions of a Public Speaker as a giveaway, but I don't think I'm ready to give it away yet – I should use it as a reference when I'm working on my next talk.
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Definition of Sheela-na-gig in English:
A medieval stone figure of a naked female with the legs wide apart and the hands emphasizing the genitals, found in Britain and Ireland.
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- Another of his books, Images of Lust, was a guide to Sheela-na-gigs in Ireland.
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Review: 'Make Believe' Finds Magic In the Teenage Search For Identity And Flair
Movie Reviews By Rob Hunter on July 1, 2011 | Be the First To CommentMagic is like the Schrödinger's Cat of obscure passions. Or, to put it another way, magic is simultaneously very cool and not cool at all. Similar fields are definitely one or the other… mimes for instance, are never cool. But watching a good magic show can leave an audience in awe wondering how exactly the tricks were done, while at the same time the magicians' offstage persona often reveals them to be socially awkward, obsessive-compulsive geeks. So cool and uncool, simultaneously. Make Believe follows six teenagers from around the world who have immersed themselves into the world of the stage magician. They practice and perform constantly while juggling their "normal" teen lives with varying levels of success. The crux of the story is their involvement in an annual World Teen Magician competition, and the film follows their preparation and experiences leading up to and beyond the event. The six teens come from varying backgrounds and personalities but all share a common love for magic and the art of illusion, and their stories as seen here help prove the maxim above.
There are few subjects that will bring back all the awkward memories of my middle school days, but the one always gauranteed to, is magic. That's because I am a dork of the first order and made more than a few dollars cutting ropes up at parties and putting them back together again. But I never would have had the dedication or guts to do what the kids in Make Believe do. The documentary chronicles the lives of six teenagers as they prepare for a huge magic competition in Las Vegas. They come from all over the world, but they're all outsiders. And only one of them can win. Check out the trailer for yourself:
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COLUMBIA CITY ŌĆö A new slate of officers was installed for the new year at MondayŌĆÖs Columbia City Parks Board meeting. Officers include: Kelley Sheiss, president; Mark Ellis, vice-president; Mauri Bordner, recorder; and Dennis Warnick, member. Tammy Nickolson will serve as an intern from Leadership Whitley County.
With the resignation of member Michael Malcolm, effective Dec. 31, the board continues to seek a replacement.
In other business, registration for softball and baseball is ongoing with Feb. 26 the final date to sign up. This year, participants can look forward to many positive changes in the program.
ŌĆ£I think itŌĆÖs (softball/baseball) going to be a really neat change, people are going to like it,ŌĆØ Parks Director Mark Green said. ŌĆ£There are seven people on the softball board and seven on the baseball board and our point is to obviously help our league programs get better ŌĆö we have more collaboration with the high school because we have coaches on both boards.ŌĆØ
Nickolson, also a member of the softball board, said opening day for summer leagues will include a parade which will begin at the Whitley County Family YMCA. More details will follow at a later date.
ŌĆ£We will have flags and somebody to sing the National Anthem with possibly the Tin Caps,ŌĆØ Nickolson said
Every person who registers for softball/baseball will receive one free ticket to a Tin Caps game.
ŌĆ£If parents want to buy additional tickets, they can,ŌĆØ Green said. We will have a Columbia City day at a Tin Caps game ŌĆö the Tin Caps is also one of our sponsors this year, so they will be coming down with their mascot.ŌĆØ
Lob ball and T-ball players will receive their uniforms on opening day.
ŌĆ£There will be a lot of excitement going on down at the park that day,ŌĆØ Green said.
In old business, extending a new bridge in Blue River Trail is in the horizon which will follow along the river and connect to DeMoney Grimes Funeral Home.
ŌĆ£I have a meeting next week with an engineer to discuss not only plans for the bridge, but also the environmental study to get started this year,ŌĆØ Green said. ŌĆ£Once that is done, we can pursue with building it, but IŌĆÖm not sure how long that process will take.ŌĆØ
Grants are still being pursued for the bridge which will be for pedestrians only.
Green reported on a fence which was recently installed by the T-ball fields to eliminate people from parking and driving on the grass.
In old business, the current condition of the pavilion in Morsches Park was briefly discussed, along with maintenance and alternatives for the Burnworth Pool.
ŌĆ£We appreciate the publicŌĆÖs use of the parks facilities ŌĆö we encourage it,ŌĆØ Sheiss said. ŌĆ£And in doing so, we are trying to provide the best facilities with the resources we have available at this time with a limited budget.ŌĆØ
The father/daughter dance is 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 11 at The First Church of God. Admission is $25 per father/daughter, and $5 for each additional daughter. A dinner will be served, along with pictures by Chad Moore and entertainment. Tickets are available at the Columbia City Parks Department and City Hall.
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Summary: Bridging the gap between elementary number theory and the systematic study of advanced topics, A CLASSICAL INTRODUCTION TO MODERN NUMBER THEORY is a well-developed and accessible text that requires only a familiarity with basic abstract algebra. Historical developement is stressed throughout, along with wide-ranging coverage of significant results with comparitively elementary proofs, some of them new. An extensive bibliography and many challenging exercises are also ...show more included. This second edition has been corrected and contains two new chapters which provide a complete proof of the Mordel-Weil theorem for elliptic curves over the rational numbers, and an overview of recent progress on the arithmetic of elliptic curves.
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What is the Marketplace?
It's another way for you to get the right price on the books you need. We approved every Marketplace vendor to sell their books on Textbooks.com, so you know they're all reliable.
What are Marketplace shipping options?
Marketplace items do not qualify for free shipping. When ordering from the Marketplace, please specify whether you want the seller to send your book Standard ($3.99/item) or Express ($6.99/item). To get free shipping over $25, just order directly from Textbooks.com instead of through the Marketplace.
FREE UPS 2nd Day Air Terms
Rental and Marketplace items are excluded. Offer is valid from 1/21/2013 12:00PM to 1/23/2013 11:59AM CST. Your order must be placed by 12 Noon CST to be processed on the same day. Minimum order value is $100.00 excluding Rental and Marketplace items. To redeem this offer, select "FREE UPS 2ND DAY AIR" at checkout. Offer not is not valid on previous orders.Close | ||