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Microsoft on Tuesday released a software update that lets the Zune work with Windows Vista. Although Vista has yet to go on sale to consumers, the software has been available to businesses since last month, and many tech enthusiasts have been running test versions of Vista.
Microsoft noted the lack of Vista compatibility in November but pledged that a software update to fix the issue would be out well before the January 30 consumer launch of Vista.
In addition to adding support for the new operating system, Microsoft said on its Zune Insider blog that the update "improves the Zune software installation process."
A Microsoft representative said the new software also includes updates, but Microsoft declined to elaborate on the nature of the security issues involved.
The lack of Vista compatibility has been one of several knocks on Microsoft's would-be iPod rival, which went on sale in November. Sales of the device were strong in its first week, but the device has since seen its place in the sales rankings dip.
Microsoft has said it is considering upping its advertising budget for the Zune.
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Windows Home Server is Microsoft's bridge between the home PC and the server market. Maybe it's not surprising, then, that its partners and customers may see it as a way to extend into new markets, too.
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David Wilcken and his team at the Prince Henry Hospital in Sydney, have studied more than 20 different genes which could increase the risk of heart disease, such as those affecting blood cholesterol levels and clotting. They looked at the gene that codes for the NO enzyme because the dissolved gas relaxes blood vessels, keeping them open and allowing free flow of blood. The gene sits on the long arm of chromosome 7, and about 7 per cent of the population carry the dangerous form.
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ND oilseed facility will be soldA defunct oilseed processing plant in Northwood, N.D., will be sold at a sheriff's foreclosure sale on Nov. 27, and the plant potentially could resume operations quickly, according to an official with the auction company handling the sale.
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A defunct oilseed processing plant in Northwood, N.D., will be sold at a sheriff's foreclosure sale on Nov. 27, and the plant potentially could resume operations quickly, according to an official with the auction company handling the sale.
"By the end of the year, in theory, it could be up and running," says Allison Guyton, operations manager for Maas Companies, a Rochester, Minn.-based auction company.
The former Northwood Mills opened in 2007 and closed two years later. Company officials pointed to weak demand for canola oil and higher-than-expected prices for oilseeds.
The plant initially crushed soybeans, but later expanded into canola, sunflowers, corn germ and flax, with a daily output of 200 to 300 tons. North Dakota is the nation's leading producer of canola, sunflower and flax, and both soybeans and corn are increasingly popular with farmers in the state.
Guyton says the plant's ability to crush a number of crops makes it more attractive to buyers.
Equipment at the 40-acre plant is in "pristine condition," the company says.
Guyton says the facility has drawn strong interest from potential buyers inside and outside North Dakota, as well as internationally.
The plant is adjacent to the BNSF track, with space for a 30-car rail spur, according to Maas Companies.
Northwood is about 35 miles southeast of Grand Forks, N.D. Canola is grown in the Northwood area, although the majority of the state's canola is raised to the north and west.
The plant, which employed 24 people, cost $10.2 million to design and build. Potentially, the plant could sell at a "significant savings," according to Maas Companies.
The sale of the plant provides "a good opportunity for someone," says Bruce Uglem, a member of the Northwood Economic Development Foundation.
The plant's concept is sound, but it had the misfortune of "opening at the wrong time as far as commodity prices," he says. "It's sat idle long enough."
The city of Northwood is hopeful the plant will reopen, according to Jeremiah Black, city auditor and administrator. He referred financial questions about the plant to Fargo, N.D.-based American Federal Bank, which has a Northwood branch. American Federal Bank was one of the original partners in the project.
Gary Hoots, senior credit officer for American Federal Bank, says the bank has foreclosed on the property.
It's possible American Federal will end up buying the plant Nov. 27, but the bank would prefer that another party buy it, he says.
He couldn't comment on the plant's debts or ownership.
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In 2010, the Sodrugestvo Group announced it had acquired a 26 percent stake in the Northwood plant. The company's website currently lists the facility as a manufacturing asset, but it's unclear if the company has further plans for it.
"The company is not in a position to comment at this time," says Henry Feintuch, president of a New York City-based media relations firm that represents Sodrugestvo.
Sodrugestvo, based in both Luxembourg and Russia, describes itself as a "fast-growing Russian agro-industrial company with business partners around the world." The company "focuses on soybean and oilseed rape processing, manufacturing of fishmeal and composite animal protein mix, imports of corn gluten and lysine, as well as distribution of products to the end consumer."
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When the plant shut down in 2009, it had $860,000 in unpaid bills, with most of the money owed to grain companies and area grain elevators, according to information on the North Dakota Public Service Commission website.
In February of this year, the PSC officially cancelled the plant's warehouse license and ordered business discontinued, according to the PSC website.
Any purchaser of the Northwood plant would need to qualify for, and be granted, a new license, says Sue Richter, PSC licensing director.
The area's canola industry would benefit if the Northwood plant reopens, says Kevin Waslaski, a Langdon, N.D., farmer and president of the U.S. Canola Association.
Demand for canola oil is strong, he says.
Typically, processing plants are more likely to succeed when their operators are well funded, Waslaski notes.
The Northwood plant will be available for inspection by appointment and at these times:
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Remote corners of Canterbury are becoming increasingly popular as makeshift homes for eastern European migrants.
Up to 10 people are living amid disused agricultural buildings in the south of the city while two have been sleeping rough on the Thanington Rec.
A barn opposite the entrance to the Boys' Langton in Nackington Road has been turned into a living area with mattresses stacked on top of car tyres to create beds.
Nearby is a stove comprised of breeze blocks with a grill in the centre, while clothing, drinks bottles and empty food packaging is strewn around the outside.
Just two men were there earlier this week.
One, who called himself Tomasz, said the men were from Poland and had been in the UK around a year.
In broken English, he said: "We came here to work, but we have no work so we stay here."
They refused to answer further questions and did not want to be photographed.
Tomasz says other Poles are living in a shipping container 50 yards from his living area.
It was the container that we revealed in March was home to two Poles, a man and a woman, who claimed that life living rough in the UK was better than staying in Poland, where there is little chance of finding work.
Two other men from the Czech Republic are staying in sleeping bags under trees in the far corner of Thanington Rec.
They said they had been in Canterbury about a week, but were planning to move on.
A report which went before city councillors this week suggested that a council survey recorded just 22 people living rough in Canterbury – a figure questioned by Barton ward councillor Paula Vickers.
But Cllr Joe Howes, the member for housing, insisted it was correct: "This figure has remained the same for the past three to four years."
Council officer Larissa Reed, whose department includes homelessness, added: "There are the street drinkers you may have seen in the city centre, and the foreign nationals who don't tend to have the same addiction problems.
"We still have entrenched rough sleepers who we struggle to engage with. The less entrenched tend to go further afield and stay in small groups for their own safety.
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Happy. I am so, so glad that the election season is nearing an end for many reasons. And while many people waited in long lines to cast their ballots today, I stayed away. My absentee ballot had been sent back to Iowa a month prior. In my mind, that method is preferable, as I can study up on the candidates and make an informed decision that doesn't feel rushed. Today, I was able to say I did my part and am ready for the results to be in.
Why so glad, you ask?
Ads. Fortunately, in a non-swing state, I haven't been inundated by wasteful flyers, annoying commercials, and endless campaign stops. I have listened with sympathy to Iowans with a completely different story. During recent Skype conversations with my mom, she would receive two to three phone calls from politicians during each 30-minute period.
Hyperbolic rhetoric. Each presidential candidate (even the one I voted for) has engaged in digs on one another. He did this or he didn't do that. Whatever it was or how small and mundane the issue at hand was, it is brought up again and again. Supporters try to bring out the pettiest of charges against the other candidate to grab the public's attention. It's ugly and just plain sick.
Money. The amount of money raised by both of the main political parties is disgusting. I can imagine many wondrous causes doing so much good with that kind of capital. Instead, it contributes to the giant spectacle that is the political season.
But my main beef at the moment with political campaigns is this: Uninformed voters.
I cannot complain enough about people who do not research the issues and candidates themselves. People who will cast ballots based on a teeny iota of information that can possibly be false. That is what scares me most about the outcome of this election. Social media has been awful. From Facebook to Twitter, people will type furiously about why they believe such and such – sounding quite ignorant. I could care less if they are writing about Obama or Romney, but before putting yourself out there – at least Wikipedia the topic to see if there is even an ounce of truth in the statement. And please stop getting your information from liberal or conservative outlets — try to find a news source that is fair and factual.
It's not just the candidates but the issues that people have neglected to become educated about. Honestly, it scares. me. There are some very, very important decisions being voted on tonight, and I have seen some of the DUMBEST, MOST IDIOTIC statements made on the internet about people's voting intentions. If you feel one way or another, it could be completely against what I believe in, I will respect your decision if it is well-informed and based in fact. Not fiction. Not rumor. Not petty gossip or hearsay.
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The Yakima Valley AVA is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. It was the state's first federal designated wine region when recognized in 1983.
Wine Yakima Valley is planning a number of events to celebrate the anniversary this year. For starters, the organization this week published the first lesson in a master class series about the region. "Fire & Ice," covers the geology of the Yakima Valley. The valley's designation as an American Viticulture Area may be only 30 years old, but the volcanic, glacier and flood-eroded soils responsible for its unique agricultural properties began taking shape about 15 million years ago.
For those who love wine and want to know why one wine may taste different than another, this is a great little primer in learning at least one aspect of "terroir," that quality of vineyard soil, climate and viticulture that can influence wine quality.
Many Washington wines are made from grapes grown in the Yakima area. And the geology there is similar in most respects to vineyard land throughout central Washington.
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Dante's Inferno won't be coming out in the Middle East according to gaming site, GamesLatest, based out in Dubai. Following an "evaluation process which is based on consumer tastes, preferences, platform mix and other factors.", EA has apparently decided not to risk publishing the title in the region.
The article indicates that it likely ran the risk of getting banned in the same way that Darksiders and Bayonetta were due largely to the sensitivity that certain topics can elicit there. A ban doesn't mean that the game is impossible to get, but that it can't be sold where it takes place in. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't get into the hands of players willing to import it, either.
It's not that surprising considering the Xtreme angle that the marketing for Dante's Inferno has employed to drum up excitement over the game despite the controversy it brought down on them from last year's E3 to the last minute changes to their proposed trailer for the Super Bowl. But its interpretation of Dante Alighieri's classic has also drummed up as much concern here, especially from those that had actually read the original work it is based off of.
One thing that I honestly don't think it's going to do is to get more players to look up the classic despite the efforts being made for the book. It'll bring more attention to it, that I have no doubt, but I'm not entirely certain that players will be hitting up Amazon to get to it, either. How many players do you know had read through Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms after picking up the latest iteration of Koei's Dynasty Warriors?
But you have to give them props for even trying to bring attention to a classic like this and it will be interesting to see just what kind of imaginative interpretation the designers bring to it, even if the kind of attention it brings doesn't necessarily fit between the covers of the original book. Or within the public boundaries of every culture.


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One would think, from your correspondents, that the world would not know war if it were not for religion (1 June, p 56). Ownership of land is probably the main cause of war, as can be seen today in the dispute over Kashmir and 11 years ago over Kuwait.
That is not to deny that religion lies at the heart of many wars, but such wars stem from the fear people have of being ruled by those who have a different set of beliefs to themselves. However, not all these beliefs are religious beliefs. Some are political and some are nationalist beliefs. There is the belief in the liberation of the oppressed peoples of the world and the belief in defending the free world against such people. It was the fear of the socio-economic beliefs of the other side that drove the nuclear arms race.
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A Legend of Sleepy Hollow TV Series? Networks Consider Two Competing Projects
From American Horror Story to The Vampire Diaries, supernatural and horror series are all the rage on TV these days. So it's no surprise that networks are looking for the next big thing in this breakout genre — and that they're particularly interested in putting a contemporary spin on old classics.
For example, MTV is developing a series based on Scream, Lifetime is looking to produce a Silence of the Lambs prequel, and A&E is working on a Psycho prequel called Bates Motel. Now Deadline reports that The CW is considering a project from Missing writers Patrick Macmanus and Grant Scharbo that would be a modern-day take on Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. While there would still be plenty of creepy headlessness, Ichabod Crane would be recast as an FBI agent.
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No matter which series — if either — makes it to our small screens, this news cements the reality that viewers are hungry for the otherworldly.
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Which will always come to pass,
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.
"Step forward now, old warrior,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To my church have you been true?"
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'Cause those of us who carry guns
Can't always be saint.
"I've had to work most Sundays,
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
'Cause the world is awfully rough.
"But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
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When the bills got just too steep,
"And I never passed a cry for help,
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I've wept unmanly tears.
"I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here,
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
"If you've a place for me here, Lord,
It needn't be so grand. In life
I didn't expect nor need too much,
So if you don't, I'll understand."
There was a silence all around the throne,
Where the saints had often trod,
As the warrior stood quietly.
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What do masters do when their opponent deviates from opening book or they enter a position where they do not know the book moves?
I want to know how they think,the guidelines of choosing the next move.
They use their understanding of the position, pawn structures etc.
It's not like they have only memorised the book moves, they know what they are trying to achieve with them.
they go cry in a corner
No seriously, they've problably seen everything. I read somewhere that GMs have literally thousands of positions memorized.
There's no way you're gonna play something that a GM didn't see already, a bit scary thought.
Scottrf is right, they understand why the book moves are played and why the non-book moves aren't considered best. So when someone leaves book or they forget the moves, they use their knowledge of chess.
Usually they just destroy him... unless they are very drunk.
I'm not too sure about that.
If he plays 1 e4 and I reply 1... b5, I doubt he thinks "oh, yeah, this is what I play against that..."
Thousands of positions? Absolutely. That said... that's not really all that many positions in terms of how many are possible.
Korchnoi and Petrosyan have already said that only UNDERSTANDING a position is the hallmark of Great Masters!
So, They use their positional lessons which they have received in young age or innate Positional Genius like Capablanka!
Quite right. He will just gobble the pawn, and order a soda.
raykrish, at your rating, this book may help you, as it did me:
LOL, at his peril, I have a few wins with that
But seriously, at our club there was a Sokolsky line that was fashionable (Yeah, I know, the club is weird).
A few years ago, GM Neil McDonald visited (I wasn't there, so this is hearsay) and the players told me he was totally unfamiliar with this line, and a little intrigued, as I recall someone managed a draw in a simul, or a Blitz afterwards, or something.
Poor Neil. I have played against him once (being Black) and somehow he had a large, virtually winning advantage in a typical Open Ruy endgame, after I effectively blundered a pawn in slight time pressure.
He played the endgame so unassumingly, that I drew without much trouble. Actually this just another case where an engine will tell you that white is easily winning, while the truth is that it's an easy book draw.
Since people at that level have a deep understanding of chess they'll figure out good moves over the board. It was said that Capablanca once refuted Marshall's home preparation over the board, so they do it by ability, not memorization. If we don't understand something in one of our openings we should strive to understand it by weighing different moves against the principles of chess.
I think 1000 or 2000 positions will cover pretty much everything that there in chess (or at least everything that can happen with one's repertoire).
Don't be misled by the game tree complexity of chess. While the possible permutations of pieces are bazillions, the actual positions that could happen in practice are much, much less. Also in the endgames there are many permutations of pieces that would not alter the evaluation.
For example: Lucena is one position. If you count all the possible locations of the black and white rooks and the black king, then multiply all that for the 6 files, you have more than 1 million...but the knowledge required for that position is just one.
ok, if they don't know what to play, they will just sit their and think until a good move pops into their heads
I saw this thing on 60 minutes about Carlsen that said he usually already knew what to do the moment his opponent made his/her move and he just made sure that it was sound before making that move.
raykrish you ask an important question. That phase of the game would be associated with the term Theoretical Novelty. The top players spend a huge amount of time over the board when a Theoretical Novelty appears...
i think when a gm meets a non book move ...hmmm...they go take a leak
and return ith a great move similar to the best move of a chess program or somthing.
Is the idiotic smile supposed to make this post less troll-ish?
I really dont know.Hmm...What do you think?
Smart grandmasters lose to it on purpose then go write a book about the "innovation"
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The entire CHORD project – funded urban regeneration schemes for each of Argyll's five keystone towns - Campbeltown, Helensburgh, Oban, Rothesay and Dunoon – has been an expensive mess from the outset.
It began with a teststerone-packed winner-takes-all competition between the five, utterly at odds with the continuing pork-barrel politics of local government, throwing the odd morsel into each of several pens to keep the inhabitants minimally content.
All five towns failed to produce competent proposals, so more money was thrown to continue to employ consultants to help to steer them to competition standard.
The reality dawned – late – that one winner would mean four sore losers.
When the decision was made, the then Council Leader, Dick Walsh, was wreathed in beatific smiles as he pronounced that they were ALL winners and that the council would raid its reserves to pay for ALL the schemes to go ahead.
The story since then has been one of management failures, changes of plan, virement of funds, unminuted meetings, inaction and a delivery marked by how little has actually happened and how little is even certain.
Local politics and the promotion of councillors' own vanity projects saw the Oban CHORD project suffer in addition to most of the features noted above.
The shambles this quickly became saw a town with an intrinsic, unique attraction and natural advantages remain in serious need of regeneration.
Over the past year, the Oban CHORD project has, for the first time, been making real progress, with projects important to the economic growth of the town moving much closer to becoming a reality. A key example here is the planned transit marina for the town side of Oban Bay, with walk ashore access direct to the town centre.
The decisions now taken need to be formerly actioned – which is normally done simply by the Council Leader and Depute Council Leader. Due to the state of play with the SNP machinations, there is currently only a Council Leader, Councilor McCuish, with no Depute Leader. He could, constitutionally, action the decisions alone – but Council officers are unnerved by the volatility of the scenario in which they are compelled to work just now so it is unlikely that Councillor McCuish would wish to take such an action.
With next week's full meeting of Argyll and Bute Council certain to see a change of administration, there is well founded concern amongst the Oban business community that this change might destabilise the progress of the vital CHORD project. And it might. The uncertainty alone is unhelpful in terms of public confidence.
Audit Scotland are in Kilmory at the moment, investigating member-to-member relations, with a nervous CEO keen to be present at as many individual interviews with members as possible. The commissioners will be present at next week's meeting, which, on form, should be an instructive experience.
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Elected members of Argyll and Bute Council have, for a long time now, been engaged incessantly in kaleidoscopic shifts of position, structure and group membership, seeing:
- the SNP party hierarchy continuing to do everything possible to ensure that, whatever happens and, literally, at all costs, the SNP are formally responsible for nothing [although they were elected to responsibility, as the largest group and have worked in deliberate self-mutilation to lose that dominance];
- pressure constantly applied to a core group of SNP councillors to give in and join the lemmings.
- turkeys digging in against the onset of Christmas, as those who actually left the current administration some time ago have nevertheless continued to cling to their paid senior positions within it. And yes, this does beggar belief.
The pressured core group of SNP councillors, under the notional leadership of novice councillor, Sandy Taylor whose own position is variable, have worked to make the party face up to its elected responsibilities rather than cut and run, as it insists on doing.
Those at the heart of this group – current Council Leader Roddy McCuish and Councillors Mary Jean Devon, Louise Glen-Lee and James Robb – cannot hold the ring much longer. They will personally be judged by their respective constituents on whether or not they go with the flow that has put the deformed contortions of party interest above those of Argyll.
It will take a choir of fat ladies to sing in synch before anyone can be sure what has actually happened at next week's council meeting – the last before the July recess.
Predictably the manoeuvering is ongoing and while all that is certain is that this meeting will see change of some kind, the planned likelihood is that the 17-strong Argyll and Bute for Change group will become a minority administration, replacing an SNP-led administation with the agreed support of an SNP group led into that position by Councillor Sandy Taylor.
The key thing here is that this will be an informal – and even possibly unspoken – arrangement, since the SNP party's sole objective remains to get to a position where it can be held responsible for nothing.
This surreal plan would see:
- the SNP support into office the very group of councillors whose previous administration they claimed to have badly damaged Argyll;
- the SNP dump their own administration and support into office those whom – as a result of the SNP's explicit campaign in May 2012 – the electorate set aside in favour of the SNP as the largest group of elected councillors;
- the SNP with two members active in a politically competitive group – Argyll and Bute for Change – while still retaining party membership and attending party group meetings;
- the possibility that this group might even vote in as Council Leader the novice councillor, SNP resignee and serial trouble maker within the SNP, Councillor Michael Breslin. We discount this rumour – which is being mooted in Dunoon – because it is impossible to believe that Councilor Duncan McIntyre, who has a better claim to the leadership, would step aside. However, given the illicit meeting of the two-man College of Cardinals at Councillor MacIntyre's home last week – himself and local MSP Michael Russell, to whom Councilor Breslin is close – who knows, until next Thursday, just what deal went down then?
Bolters versus stayers
The number and membership of that SNP group will not be known until the deed is done at next Thursday's meeting – although, with fudge the flavour of Argyll and Bute, it is not impossible that that will remain unclear.
There will be keen constituency interest in seeing just who goes where and who chooses to keep their position to themselves.
The reality, which the political caste cannot see, is that Argyll is heartsick of this mess, of the continual game-playing, of strings pulled from outside, of the deliberate lack of transparency.
Those who voted for each and every one of the SNP councillors need to know exactly were they stand – and to know whether each prioritises fidelity to their electorate or fidelity to their party.
The SNP, as a party, has damaged itself immeasurably with its machinations to get out of the power it had campaigned successfully to be given.
There is absolutely no residual credit for the party in any of this, nor for any of the councillors who have gone along with it. The party has shown no responsibility to Argyll or to colleagues; and no trace of strategic political intelligence or common sense.
Current Council Leader, Roddy McCuish from Oban, who has always been a gold-standard of personal integrity, of care for his constituency and for the wider interests of Argyll, of collegiality and of a very savvy common sense, is bound to make some sort of El Alamo last stand in defence of right.
With his own party whipped against him, he is unlikely to carry the day – but will deservedly emerge from a year seeing plunging local credit for his party, with his personal credit higher than ever.
And the SNP has chosen to pay the enormous cost in credibility of being seen to be a bolter in tough times – to protect the 'Yes' vote September 2014′s independence referendum. Everyone knows that an independent Scotland would face very tough times and serious challenges to its competence in its early days.
Fro the evidence of what has been going on in Argyll within the SNP. how can the party that bolts from local government responsibilities hope to persuade the nation that it can be trusted to handle national government bravely, competently, straightforwardly, with transparency and without internal civil war?
Note: Argyll and Bute for Change is made up of the former Alliance of Independent Councillors [9], two resignees from the SNP group, two current members of the SNP group, the three Argyll First councillors and an Independent from Oban North and Lorn. Specifically, they are:
- Vivien Dance [Helensburgh Central, Independent]
- Iain Angus Macdonald [Oban North and Lorn, Independent]
- Alistair MacDougall [Mull, Independent]
- Duncan MacIntyre [Oban North and Lorn, Independent]
- Donnie Macmillan [Mid Argyll, Independent]
- Bruce Marshall [Cowal, Independent]
- Alex McNaughton [Cowal, Independent]
- James McQueen [Dunoon, Independent]
- Len Scoullar [Bute, Independent]
- Dick Walsh [Dunoon, Independent]
- Donald Kelly [South Kintyre, Argyll First]
- John McAlpine [Kintyre and the Islands, Argyll First]
- Dougie Philand [Mid Argyll, Argyll First]
- Michael Breslin [Independent - SNP resignee, Dunoon]
- Fred Hall [Independent - SNP resignee, Oban South and the Isles]
- Gordon Blair [SNP, Cowal]
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"Prick Up Your Ears" is the sixth episode of season five of Family Guy. The episode originally broadcast on 19 November 2006, with guest stars on the show including David Cross, Drew Barrymore and Gary Cole. The plot follows Lois discovering that Chris's school has no sex education program, successfully applying to become a teacher there herself, and then being dismissed in favor of abstinence education. Meanwhile, Stewie attempts to find and kill the tooth fairy after being told horror stories by Brian and Chris. Three scenes originally scheduled for broadcasting were censored and only made available on the DVD. The episode received positive reception from critics.
After the termination of Lois's sex-ed classes, the children are taught information about sex by a reverend, who encourages the children to be abstinent and wait to have sex after marriage. In the assembly, Meg meets Doug, whom she begins dating. After Peter looks at the information booklet that Meg brought home, he decides to become abstinent himself (despite the fact that he's married). Meanwhile, Meg and Doug, in order to honor their own abstinence commitment, have ear sex, much to Lois's horror. Lois tries to talk her out of it but, Meg refuses to listen to her. Lois eventually rapes Peter, and he gives up on abstinence.
Stewie sets up a trap in his bedroom in an attempt to capture the tooth fairy, but when Brian tells him that the tooth fairy is not real, Stewie is disappointed , but the tooth is missing (it shows that the tooth fairy is actually a creepy man rolling on a hill of teeth). In protest, Peter and Lois go to the school. They get past security, and Lois gives the children a speech persuading them that safe sex is okay and that they should decide when they're ready. Doug is excited about now being able to see Meg naked, but after he does, he ends his relationship with her, leaving her distraught. The episode ends with Cleveland getting his first and only line of the episode.
The sequence about five minutes into the episode where Brian, Chris, Quagmire, Cleveland, Mayor West, Herbert, the monkey, the Doctor, and the Kool-Aid guy try to violently 'calm Stewie down' is a reference to the David Zucker film Airplane! where the same thing happens.


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With the final installment of our "better late than never" draft grade series, we take a look at the NFC West.
Arizona Cardinals: A-
Arizona is a team that could quickly see the number in their win column diminish this year after the retirement of Kurt Warner and trading away Anquan Boldin. Their success will ultimately hinge on the quarterback position, whether it's Matt Leinart or Derek Anderson. That being said, the Cards have a strong wide receiver corps and a decent rushing attack, but had plenty of needs on the defensive side of the ball.
Arizona actually had one of the better drafts this season, even though they aren't getting a lot of attention for it. By taking Dan Williams in the first round, their defensive line immediately becomes stronger than before. Williams has some versatility and can move along the defensive line, making him an even better selection. The Cards followed up the Williams pick by moving up to grab Daryl Washington, an underrated linebacker out of TCU. Washington fits in well inside for the Cards 3-4 defense and should be an instant replacement for Karlos Dansby.
Even though the Cards wide receiver corps might be one of the best in the league, Arizona used the pick they received from the Ravens for Anquan Boldin to take Andre Roberts, the receiver from the Citadel. Roberts really made a name for himself in the Senior Bowl this season and could be the next stand-out wide receiver to seemingly come from nowhere for the Cardinals.
My absolute favorite pick for the Cardinals came in the 4th round when they selected O'Brien Schofield, who was one of my favorite players in the draft. Schofield made a name for himself as a pass rusher at Wisconsin but successfully played outside linebacker during the East-West Shrine Game. Schofield accepted an invitation to the Senior Bowl the following week and tore his ACL during practice, drastically reducing his draft value. However, when Schofield gets healthy, he could be THE steal of the draft. Versatile, athletic, tenacious and a class act personality, Schofield has supreme value in the 4th round.
Round 1 (pick 26) Dan Williams — DT — Tennessee
Round 2 (pick 47) Daryl Washington — LB — TCU
Round 3 (pick 88) Andre Roberts — WR — The Citadel
Round 4 (pick 130) O'Brien Schofield — DE/OLB — Wisconsin
Round 5 (pick 155) John Skelton — QB — Fordham
Round 6 (pick 201) Jorrick Calvin — DB — Troy
Round 7 (pick 233) Jim Dray — TE — Stanford
San Francisco 49ers: A
If there was a theme for the 49ers draft this year it was "physicality." Singletary and company addressed some major needs on both sides of the ball and grabbed players that seem to relish physical contact. In the first round, the Niners took two offensive linemen in Anthony Davis from Rutgers and Mike Iupati from Idaho. While Davis is more of a finesse offensive tackle, Iupati brings the mean streak to the middle.
Following up those picks were the selections of USC safety Taylor Mays and Penn State linebacker Navorro Bowman. Both Mays and Bowman have their own issues but Singletary could be the coach they need to fully succeed. Singletary helped turn around the career of another physical specimen that had yet to reach his potential in Vernon Davis, and Taylor Mays certainly fits that bill. Bowman had some off-field issues but a true mentor like Singletary could keep him on the straight and narrow. Bowman will have to play inside for the Niners 3-4 defense, but nothing could help him more than playing next to Pat Willis.
Keeping with the physical nature of their draft, the 49ers selected Anthony Dixon, the bruising running back out of Mississippi State. Dixon is a true in-between the tackles runner that does a nice job falling forward after contact. He's also had his share of off-field troubles but he'll be a nice addition to a backfield that includes Frank Gore and Glen Coffee.
If the 49ers picks progress to their potential, they could easily set themselves up to be a force in the NFC for years to come and at the very least, they should have the NFC West locked down for a few years.
Round 1 (pick 11) Anthony Davis — OT — Rutgers
Round 1 (pick 17) Mike Iupati — OG — Idaho
Round 2 (pick 49) Taylor Mays — S — USC
Round 3 (pick 91) Navorro Bowman — OLB — Penn State
Round 6 (pick 173) Anthony Dixon — RB — Mississippi State
Round 6 (pick 182) Nate Byham — TE — Pittsburgh
Round 6 (pick 206) Kyle Williams — WR — Arizona State
Round 7 (pick 2224) Phillip Adams — DB — South Carolina State
Seattle Seahawks: A-
Seattle is another team that certainly has a way to go before they're as competitive as they once were, but for new head coach Pete Carroll, he couldn't have asked for a better draft. To top everything off, they made a nice trade with the Jets to get a versatile running back in Leon Washington, which will go a long way to help the offense. Seattle also traded for LenDale White, but he's no longer with the team.
The Seahawks couldn't have asked for a better first round, grabbing our #1 rated offensive tackle in Russell Okung and the super-versatile Earl Thomas to sure up their secondary. Thomas has the ability to play corner, but he'll be at his best when he's allowed to play center field and make plays on the ball. Seattle followed up a strong first round by taking Notre Dame receiver Golden Tate in the second round. Tate will more than likely be a slot receiver that will focus on short passing game, but with concerns at the offensive line and running back positions, the short passing game will be a point of focus for the Seahawks offense.
A late round pick for the Seahawks that I absolutely love is Kam Chancellor, the safety from Virginia Tech, in the 5th round. Many believed that Chancellor doesn't have the range to effectively play safety in the NFL, but pared up with a roaming center-fielder like Earl Thomas at the free safety spot, Chancellor is a perfect fit as an in-the-box, strong safety. Known for his hard hitting, Chancellor will be key in run support and is at his best when he plays closer to the line.
Seattle has had it's share of issues with their pass rush and they really could have used a prove pass rusher in the draft. This is where I think the selection of Golden Tate in round 2 might have been better off being a pass rusher. Seattle picked up a few developmental pass rushers but that doesn't fix the situation immediately. The Seahawks did a good bit of moving around on draft day and that worked to their favor in most instances. At times, it felt like Carroll was trying to be a bit too cute by moving around but he seemed to be targeting a handful of players and he did what he had to to get them.
Round 1 (pick 6) Russell Okung — OT — Oklahoma State
Round 1 (pick 14) Earl Thomas — S — Texas
Round 2 (pick 60) Golden Tate — WR — Notre Dame
Round 4 (pick 111) Walter Thurmond — CB — Oregon
Round 4 (pick 127) EJ Wilson — DE — North Carolina
Round 5 (pick 133) Kam Chancellor — S — Virginia Tech
Round 6 (pick 185) Anthony McCoy — TE — USC
Round 7 (pick 236) Dexter Davis — DE — Arizona State
Round 7 (pick 245) Jameson Konz — WR — Kent State
St. Louis Rams: B
It's never easy to be the first pick in the draft and this year, the Rams had to suffer through this curse. The team had a huge decision to make with the first overall pick and decided to go with Sam Bradford, the quarterback from Oklahoma. While he was the top rated QB on practically everyone's board, the guy was still coming off some serious injuries and hadn't played in several months. But, when you're rebuilding a franchise from scratch, it's usually a good idea to start with your field general.
At least the Rams had the smarts to grab a strong offensive tackle to protect their major investment in round 2. Rodger Saffold, the tackle out of Indiana, was a bit overshadowed by the big name tackles like Okung, Williams and Davis, but he's still a solid player. Saffold is the perfect player to anchor the right side of the offensive line after the Rams selected Jason Smith to play left tackle in the first round of the 2009 draft.
St. Louis was fairly consistent throughout the draft, not reaching for players and getting solid value at just about every pick. Jerome Murphy in the third round is a nice addition to the Rams secondary as he has a chance to crack the starting lineup relatively soon. Mardy Gilyard, the shifty wide receiver from Cincinnati will certainly get his share of touches this season on bubble screens and quick slants as their young quarterback develops. Mike Hoomanawanui, the tight end from Illinois, is a great addition as a blocking tight end in the 5th round.
What could end up being a nice sleeper pick for the Rams is George Selvie, the defensive end from South Florida. Selvie was very highly touted at the start of the 2009 season, but was greatly overshadowed by JUCO transfer and first round draft pick, Jason Pierre-Paul. Selvie has the physical tools to succeed, but he just hasn't put it together yet.
The Rams draft wasn't flashy by any means, but it was pretty solid from top to bottom. While they're a long way from being a competitive team in the NFC, they're certainly building the foundation of the team in the right way.
Round 1 (pick 1) Sam Bradford — QB — Oklahoma
Round 2 (pick 33) Rodger Saffold — OT — Indiana
Round 3 (pick 65) Jerome Murphy — CB — South Florida
Round 4 (pick 99) Mardy Gilyard — WR — Cincinnati
Round 5 (pick 132) Mike Hoomanawanui — TE — Illinois
Round 5 (pick 149) Hall Davis — DE — Louisiana-Lafayette
Round 6 (pick 170) Fendi Onobun — TE — Arizona
Round 6 (pick 189) Eugene Sims — DE — West Texas A&M
Round 7 (pick 211) Marquis Johnson — DB — Alabama
Round 7 (pick 226) George Selvie — DE — South Florida
Round 7 (pick 254) Josh Hull — LB — Penn State
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—Aaron K. Thompson, '10, Sanders, Bruin, Coll & Worley, Roswell, N.M.
"One of the most important skills I learned because of the course came from an exercise that seemed utterly ridiculous at the time. We held a mock interest group meeting to discuss a piece of proposed legislation. Like a high school drama class, Professor Brady cast each of us in roles as elected officials, as directors of state agencies, as representatives of a interested organization or as concerned citizens who were directly affected by the legislation. We then argued from the position of that person. It became quite humorous to watch my non-actor classmates portray the characters such as my friend who is a veteran of running democratic political campaigns play a far right political appointee of a republican governor to a state agency. Even though the bad acting got over the top, I learned a lot about my own negotiation skills and how to further develop them. I hope to spend a good bit of my career around the Legislature where negotiation is an essential skill that I would not have otherwise been taught in law school but for this course."
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"Participating in the Legislative Lawyering Clinic was one of the best decisions I made while at UT Law. Through the clinic, I had the opportunity to work with a legal services organization to research and draft legislation that will improve the lives of elderly and low-income Texans. I also gained a strong foundation in the art of legislative drafting and an appreciation for the extensive negotiation that often accompanies the development of legislation. My experience in the clinic helped me discover the type of law that I want to practice, and will no doubt prove invaluable in my legislative counsel position after graduation."
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"During my semester in the Clinic (Spring 2010), I worked as a student counsel for the City of Buda. In that capacity, I drafted and oversaw the enactment of an ordinance regulating First Amendment activities within the City of Buda, helped to develop several reforms to the Buda Economic Development Corporation and provided counsel to the City Attorney regarding a case pending before the Texas Supreme Court. These experiences gave me an inside look at the lawmaking process and allowed me to gain practical experience in the field of legal drafting.
"In the summer following my time with the Clinic, I served as a law clerk on U.S. Senator John Cornyn's Judiciary Committee Staff. The lessons and skills of the Legislative Lawyering Clinic were extremely pertinent and useful in that job, as I believe they will continue to be for many years to come."
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I was in upstate New York recently and my friend made the most delicious dinners. She puzzled over what to do with white beets. I thought to myself, "You buy things before knowing what you'll cook with them?" But then she explained that she's part of a Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA. Each week, she goes to a local farm and buys a pre-filled box of local fruits and vegetables.
The salad she made with those beets was the best beet dish I've ever eaten. I was inspired.
I returned to NOLA and sought out our own CSA. Alas, we do not have one. But, we do have something similar at Hollygrove Market. Every Saturday morning, the market sells CSA-style boxes (or bags) of local fruits and vegetables from several local farms for $25. I've been three Saturdays in a row. They open at 10am and usually sell out of boxes within 2 hours. They also sell other fruits and vegetables, fresh breads, and dairy products.
Here's what was in this week's box:
Three pears, six satsumas, a bag of brown jasmine rice (instead of white popcorn rice), a bag of black-eyed peas (my choice of peas or beans), two ears of corn, a zucchini, a yellow squash, two patty pan squashes, two tomatoes, two green peppers, a bag of okra, and a container of white button mushrooms.
I've never cooked with patty pan squash. And I have found that I love the thought of being given the opportunity of working with something new, something that's not too daunting. And I love even more that most of the what's in each box are things I'm familiar with, even if some are things I've never cooked with before.
And for the last two weeks since we started getting the boxes, we're eating more fruits and vegetables. We've eaten out just once in the last two weeks, and that includes having had company in town to feed! THAT is a big deal.
So, are you looking for fresh and delicious local fruits and vegetables? With maybe a slight twist that pushes you to try new things? At a price that is more than worth it?
Then get to Hollygrove Market next Saturday and get in line for the best kept secret in the city right now. I'll see you there!


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This sort of relates to the phrase, "One man's hero is another man's terrorist"


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'Peace is only a time to be used to prepare for war.'
Sun Tzu
How many wars to end all wars have we had? It's my understanding that out of some five thousand years of recorded history Mankind has been free of major conflict for only about two hundred. Not a very impressive record. There is always a war of some kind going on somewhere. Time and time again come the calls from those people who, as a rule, lie to get elected, for an end to all war. They must be in dreamland, for how can war ever end when it is intrinsic to life?
'Only the dead know the end of war,' said the sublime Plato. What would we do if all war and strife ceased, neighbors loved each other, the whales saved, nobody died of starvation, disease was wiped out and all turkeys flew around ready-roasted? We would most certainly all go insane and start new wars and go after not only the whales again but salmon and dolphins too.
For the real problem lies in existence itself. Life swings like a pendulum from struggle to boredom and then back again. Each person can clearly see this in their own lives. Sometimes, the problems we face suddenly dissolve, things get solved for the moment. What then is our state of mind? We are at peace, but only for about five minutes, because soon that eternal curse of Mankind weighs in — boredom. We scan the room for something to do. We phone and message everyone. Help me my problems are solved! What shall I do now?
What if we solved the disease/death thing? The first result would probably be the collapse of civilization. Already the world population is out of control, totally out of control. Very soon supplying the billions will require the equivalent of the resources of two earths. In fact, Mankind properly fits into the grouping known as the plague species. Man joins in this illustrious group with cockroaches and vermin. Like a virus, Man does not reach an equilibrium with his environment but moves into an area on a search and destroy mission.
He savages every area he moves into. When food supplies soar massive birthing follows. The population increases exponentially and soon a crunch comes — a cataclysmic event reduces population levels drastically. The result is sometimes annihilation of the species. This is our possible future.
If you look at a graph showing the rise in numbers in a rat colony it is very similar to a graph of human population growth since the last ice age. At that time there were only some four or five million humans. We now approach seven billion with one hundred million added every twelve months. Every person over the age of forty has seen the world population double in his own lifetime.
There have been about thirty billion species on this planet. 99.9% of them are extinct. Solving the world hunger problem and all the suffering that entails, could spell disaster in the end. So in some way we are doomed to suffer, watch others suffering, knowing that eliminating the suffering could even worsen the situation.
The same is true with disease. As admirable are the efforts to make this a disease-free world just stop to think what would happen if everyone survived. This is the sad story of Mankind.
Now we are told that the lifespan of a human is between seventy and seventy-five years. But I am of the view the natural span is when your teeth start falling out, when you have to pay huge sums to a dentist for crowns and whatnot. Most people start having problems with their teeth in their fifties and I say this is a better estimate of the natural human lifespan. In any case passing fifty, one enters into the realm of doctors, pills — it becomes a staving off of death really. It appears to me that once past this natural lifespan I speak of, people are kept alive artificially.
The Italians have a fine phrase regarding this last period of life — 'old age is nothing but pain.'
Of course a young person, unless he be of superior intellect and insight, will not see things this way. We can say that the young, as they look forward to life, are like children in a theater eagerly waiting for the curtain to go up and the play to start. It is a blessing they do not know what is really coming. At times children seem like innocent prisoners, condemned not to death, but to life.
So I say that solving our problems could, in the end, increase them; that the real problem is existence itself. There is a blind, purposeless force of unknown origin that pushes everything into 'becoming.' As Plato noted: 'Nothing is, everything is becoming.' It's as though each thing is trying to escape from what it was. This in itself should tell us something about the nature of this world. Nothing wants to be what it is.
The great thinkers of all ages agree that with the tremendous suffering and angst here it would be far better had there been no world at all. Struggle is at the core of existence for every organism. Look at mother and child — there's a virtual war between them. They cooperate, but selfishly.
The mother needs the foetus to get her DNA into the next generation, the foetus needs the mother to come to fruition. We can say that 'love' is, in reality, a pleasurable feeling resulting from a dump of 'feel good' hormones and the desire of the unborn egg to come to fruition. Shortened, that last sentence would make a fine slogan for a Hallmark card.
The foetus is taking no prisoners in its struggle to survive. It rips off blood supplies from the mother and fires hormones into her system that suppress insulin production. The effect of the latter is to enrich the blood with sugar for itself, a process that often pushes the mother into a pre-diabetic situation. The foetus steals nutrients from its mother – especially iron and calcium.
We can say that the foetus and mother cooperate in the same way the liver works in conjunction with the digestive system, they work together, but each for itself.
Our own bodies give us a fine example of this incessant struggle. We are under constant assault from viruses and bacteria of all kinds. In fact, if we were able to gather all the strictly human cells into one place in the body they would fit in the space of one leg — from the knee down to the foot. The rest of us is bacteria.
Struggle then is at the epicenter of life and those born are condemned to it. When I meet an 'optimist,' as a rule, I find a silly person, one who is delusional, or an expert in self-deception. Deception seems essential to living. Melancholy rises in proportion to intellect, according to Aristotle. It is not by chance that virtually all classic works in literature end badly, while the commonplace books and films must have a happy ending or risk being shunned by the herd.
We should take the confirmed optimist on a tour of prisons, places of execution, battlefields, homes for the terminally ill, operating theaters and the shocking spectacle of real poverty which envelops a good part of the globe. I am sure this optimist would be filled with horror. It's said that an optimist believes this to be the best of all possible worlds and that the pessimist fears this may be true.
I believe that any man, with a modicum of intellect, who passes the age of forty will incline towards melancholy.
I am told that suffering is out there if you want to find it. As if one has to search out suffering when it is everywhere at all times! It's not suffering one has to seek out, but real goodness, let me say, a genuine, kind human being. This is a rarity, not suffering, which is the rule. I wonder if we were able to show a film to each foetus whether they would refuse to leave the safety of the womb. Let the Auschwitz tape roll! Have a look foetus. I am sure that if we could approach the dead and ask them if they wanted to live again they would shake their heads, 'no thanks!'
'Life flees and never rests one moment,
and death runs after it with mighty stride;
Present preoccupations and memories from the past
and things from the future, too, wage war on me.'
— Petrarch
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While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene. In 1965 he met filmmaker Claude Lelouch and was hired to help write the score for the film A Man and a Woman. Released in 1966, the film was a major international success, earning a number of Academy Awards, and for the young Francis Lai, a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best Original Score". This initial success brought more opportunities to work for the film industry both in his native France, where he continued to work with Lelouch on scores to films such as Vivre pour vivre (1967), Un Homme qui me plaît (1969), Le Voyou (1970) and La bonne année (1973), as well as in Great Britain and the United States. He is known for his support of Mireille Mathieu in many compositions and recordings. In 1970, he wrote the score for director René Clément's film, Rider On The Rain ("Le Passager de la Pluie"). It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc in September 1971.
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Pollinator Party to introduce citizens to area bees, butterflies
Jun 15, 2014 - From staff reports
The University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute will host a Pollinator Party from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at Sawmill Campground in Sinks Canyon State Park. The event will introduce Lander citizens and visitors to the bees, butterflies and hummingbirds that pollinate vegetable gardens, flowering trees and prairies.
These parties are free, open to the public, hands-on and interactive, and allow children and adults to catch insects, identify the species, watch what plants they visit, and learn how to attract them to their yard.
The Pollinator Party is part of Pollinator Awareness Week, a national event geared toward increasing the visibility and appreciation of pollinators, held June 16 to June 22. Gov. Matt Mead has officially declared the week as such in Wyoming.
Pollinators are a group of organisms that are critical to the process of plant reproduction, fruit and vegetable production, and in many cases agricultural success.
However, populations of a variety of pollinators are in decline, for many reasons known and unknown. Fortunately, this is a problem Wyoming citizens can help alleviate in their yards and towns.
Party participants will learn what types of pollinators exist in Lander, and how to provide food and shelter for them in their yards. There is also opportunity for participants to engage in citizen science activities by learning how to identify pollinator species and submitting sightings of pollinators to an online database. The database collects all observation information and fills in information gaps that are critical to the understanding of pollinators in Wyoming.
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The Brill Building, located at 1619 Broadway at 49th Street, is well known for housing music industry offices where some of the most famous American pop songs were written. Songs like "Up On The Roof," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," "River Deep - Mountain High, were created in the fifties and sixties at the Brill Building. A uniquely talented group of Jewish songwriters fused R&B, Latin music, Broadway, and Tin Pan Alley into an original sound that changed the face of music forever.
In this program, TCC members will perform songs written by Goffin & King, Bacharach & David, Leiber & Stoller, Mann & Weil, Greenwich & Barry, Pomus & Shuman, and more. Jack Lechner will review the history of the songs and the era. Louise Moed will provide piano accompaniment. Come enjoy this wonderful music!
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Plan celebrates power of youths' voices at UN event
On August 12, 2010, Plan played host to an evening reception at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to celebrate the opening of the youth photography exhibit, Visual Voices: Youth Perspectives on Global Issues.
The event, held in collaboration with the UN Youth Programme and Shoot Nations, celebrated the power of youths' voices as agents of change at the highest levels. The event coincided with a day-long launch at the UN of its International Year of Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding.
At the reception, a keynote address was given by Audrey Bracey Deegan, Interim President/CEO of Plan USA. She highlighted how the International Year of Youth is "closely aligned" with Plan's belief that youths' voices should always be heard and acted upon by those in positions of power. She said, "The time is now and the youth recognize that they are their own agents for change."
Remarks were also given by Dr. Jean-Pierre Gonnot, a chief from the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He said: "We deeply value the partnership with Plan and Shoot Nations," and that "never before has there been so much talk about youth around the world in the General Assembly, and this year that talk will be replaced with action."
Several members of both Plan UK's youth advisory panel and Plan USA's Youth United for Global Action (YUGA) attended the event and also gave speeches. In her remarks, Claire, one YUGA member, said that, "people say we are the future, but we are not only the future - we are the present. We have a voice now. We have ideas we want to share."
That message was not lost on the many Plan supporters who attended. Several long-time child sponsors were recognized at the event, including 49-year sponsor Loti Gaffney, and two 45-year sponsors: Arlene Stern and Stevie Phillips. Ms. Gaffney said that she became a sponsor after her son survived a bad car accident nearly 50 years ago. She was so grateful for his survival, that she felt she had to do something to give back.
Ms. Phillips decided to make a commitment to charity and wanted to focus on children. For 45 years she has tried to inspire her sponsored children and encouraged them to chase an education through the letters she has written. She remains excited every time they share their successes with her. "What I get back in return feels almost selfish really. I could never give to them, what they have given to me."
Jeremy Slezak, whose family have been Plan sponsors for over eighteen years, summed up the experience of becoming a sponsor by saying, "Sponsorship is about being connected to the world, and the personal connection you make with someone, makes the unknown real."
The photo exhibit, which is on display until September 10, 2010, includes 39 photos, which were selected by the UK organization Shoot Nations from over 2,500 entries coming from over 100 countries. The young photographers were first asked to consider three themes: gender, global warming, and governance. View a slideshow of the photographs showcased in the UN exhibit.