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Thanks to Ron Burgundy, the term "big deal" has been undermined in recent years but it's time to reclaim it because make no mistake, Emiliano Ponzi is a big deal. The Milan-based illustrator is a master of delicate yet powerfully descriptive drawings which have made him the go-to guy for a host of clients – think The New Yorker, Le Monde, The Guardian, Penguin, The Economist, Saatchi and Saatchi, you get the picture.
"Nice hair!" is a classic phrase. "Have you had a haircut?" is even better. The difference in appearance after a mere haircut is pretty marvellous. James Jenkins, documenter of mundane weirdness, has taken a charming series of before-and-after shots of people at the barbers, competing in sports matches and even skydiving. His other projects include a fascinating insight into the Queen's guard and a hilarious series of images documenting strange, British, ritualistic sporting events. See you at the Whittlesea Straw Bear Man Festival!
Elisa Strozyk had us at Wooden Carpet, the beautifully crafted isometric floor covering made from hard wood, but we'll take her Accordian Collection too. A designer with a penchant for surfaces and surprising manipulations of very traditional materials, this latest work created in collaboration with artist Sebastian Neeb, continues with Elisa's affinity for creating unusual textiles.
It's always good to know your dinner table dos and don'ts; no elbows, no talking with your mouth full, no taking food off other people's forks, the usual. But do many of us know how to properly lay a table? And I'm not talking using a magazine as a place mat and a spork to save on washing-up. I'm talking, dinner party standard. No? Well neither do photographer Scott Newett and art director Sonia Rentsch, but they sure know how to make a still life series from it. Titled, Dinner Etiquette, crockery and all its cutlery cousins have never looked so sleek.
It is important to let your gut trust the work of certain artists. And just as something in your gut would tell you to trust someone at a party confidently telling you to climb on to the roof with them and throw cactii from the chimneys, you must put your faith in Darren Bader. Bader creates debatable pieces of installation based only upon his certainty that the objects just "go together." He is able to fill entire spaces with contrasting, incompatible paraphernalia whilst the doubting public look on, only then to be astounded at the magic he is making. You didn't think Tahini could go well with buttons? Well think again…
I know we're all bored of flashmobs in adverts but this is a nice twist on the idea to promote the TNT Channel's launch in Belgium. With the idea that they are injecting some much-needed drama into the humdrum reality of everyday life, they set up a red button in a sleepy square and waited for passers-by to push it. The gloriously over-the-top way in which events unfolds is great fun, although there may be suspicions about quite how organic the set-up really is.
Collaboration. A fine word for the creative community to adopt and nuture – it's as though it was made for them to tuck nicely above their ears alongside their trusty pencil. A recent example of this comes from clothing label Yutaka Tajima, based in Sheffield, who have invited a whole host of illustrators, designers, artists and photographer to reinterpret their simple, geometric Y – an integral part of the brand.
We're going to be treated to all sorts of design gems in the build up to this years Milan furniture fair, and occasionally these products might even look like jewels. The P.O.V vase by NIGHTSHOP (Ward van Gemert and Adriaan van deer Ploeg) is an iridescent vessel with a perspective heavy design, changing colour as you move about it. Tasking themselves in creating "surprising products," the vase more than qualifies.
To celebrate his upcoming exhibition in Brighton's Ink-d Gallery, award-winning illustrator Graham Carter has teamed up with animator Simon Armstrong of TickTockRobot to create a lovely short, bringing the characters and landscapes of his static work to life. The show, Me, Marionette will feature much of the contemporary print-making and illustration that has made his name and this animation, titled Warrior, with its charmingly conceived characters, has got us pretty excited about what else will be on offer.
When you watch Mad Men you are struck not just by the suits and the sexism but also by the happy-go-lucky approach to the actual ads they produce. It's relentlessly shiny and upbeat full of promises about how your life WILL improve if you drive/smoke/drink what they tell you. Fast forward half a century and Don Draper would be aghast at this new campaign for Fernet-Branca bitters by Ogilvy. Rather than gloss over the life's frustrations it revels in them and it's massively effective in highlighting that contrary to what ad-land might have you believe, things are not always brilliant. A very good example of this kind of thing.
"As far as the Kosovo graphic design scene goes," Bardhi Haliti explains, "there isn't really one. Certainly there are some individuals doing interesting things, but I wouldn't dare call it a scene!" Kosovo born and bred, Haliti studied in the US (he lived in New York, Maryland and Utah), before returning to Prishtina in 2009, where he designs good-looking, highly functional printed matter for a wealth of arts and culture sector clients.
Lesser creatives than Karim Charlebois-Zariffa might rest on having the best name in the business and churn out pedestrian work in place of anything interesting safe in the knowledge all those syllables are going to raise an admiring eyebrow. But KC-Z continues to work across a range of disciplines with real flair and imagination as his latest site update proves. There's a Mexican pimped BMX ad for a Russian telecoms company installed upside down and flipped in photography for maximum effect (quite the response to a brief to do anything that includes the firm's trademark two blue dots). There's a car-parts typeface for AOL and a remote-controlled book/car made in conjunction with Sagmeister for BMW.
At first, Maarten De Celaer's newest project reminded me of multi-coloured, science lab mould growths – a slightly unpleasant reference but aesthetically fascinating. Using the sciences as inspiration, Maarten wanted the pieces in his Mutation Series to resemble transformations of cells, that have germinated into upholstered mutations because of a chemical or nuclear reaction. This approach to furniture design is rarely seen and it's why Maarten's project is featured at this year's Milan Design Week. Achieved by carefully composing patterns with cut-offs of varying foam spheres which are applied to a basic structure, the entire piece then gets coated with a rubber or velvet-like finish. This is a direct challenge to classic upholstery, and I for one am welcoming it with open (and lab coat-protected) arms.
Porcelain is such a delicate material that as an indelicate child I was often kept away from the pearlised slopes of a figurine, the voluptuous derriere of a vase, and the regal arch of a teapot handle. It's because of this isolation that I can't help but be entranced by anything porcelain now – even a toilet seat has sometimes rendered me speechless, but most recently, it's been the work of Buenos Aires born, Cecilia Borghi that's enchanted me.
What do all of us have, few of us share and some handle better than others? Yes, that's right germs. But also secrets and that universal appeal helps explain the stratospheric popularity of Frank Warren's PostSecret blog, where he invites people to submit their deepest darkest pearlers anonymously. He's received hundreds of thousands of them to date ranging from the whimsical to the life-altering. As with the best examples of this kind of project it builds up to something much bigger than the sum of its parts – in this instance a fascinating study of people, their relationships and the ways in which they construct their own realities.
On August 15 2008, at the Beijing Olympics, Ethiopian long distance runner Tirunesh Dibaba won 10,000 metre gold. A week later she won the 5,000 metres, too. Until then no woman had won both races at the same Games, and only one woman had ever run the 10,000 metres faster. Dibaba's achievement was undoubtedly huge – how many people win one Olympic medal, let alone two? – but her triumph was noteworthy for another reason: the now-26-year-old athlete was born in Bekoji, a rural Ethiopian town from which seven other Olympic medalists have also come running.
To celebrate Tate Modern's ongoing Yayoi Kusama retrospective, creative partnership Hellicar and Lewis created 'The Hello Cube', a quietly complex, social media-savvy interactive installation inspired by the great Japanese artist's work The Passing Winter.
Creating models so that we might see something invisible (like sound) is a fascinating and perpetuating phenomena between artists and scientists – both striving for physical representations so that we might better understand the thing beyond its theory. What Daniel Palacios's Waves installation has done is create a beautiful explanation of how sound inhabits space, how the "chaos of infinite variables" that create noise might influence the sinusoidal waves conducted between two turbines connected by a length of rope.
You know why everyone loves coke floats? Because Coke is delicious and ice-cream is delicious but when you bring them together they create something day-changingly wonderful. As with refreshing beverages, so with online cultural content. We are thrilled today announce a link-up with Crane.tv, the finest purveyors of video this side, heck all sides of the Mississippi.
benbenworld is Benoît Bodhuin, a graphic designer and "créateur de caractères" (of the typographic persuasion). His latest update is ZIGZAG, a fun font that aims to break the rhythm of reading by using a rotation of four varieties of each letter in the alphabet, all of which retain the same rounded, loose letter forms.
If every-day life is lacking drama for you – and let's face it Tuesday probably is the most boring day of the week, even if The Hairy Bikers are on TV tonight – then inject some cinematic edge with these moody paintings by American artist Alec Huxley. Like screenshots or retro film posters, there's a real sense of tension and darkness through the narratives created within each piece. Successfully applying filmic devices to his work, Huxley manages to blend the qualities of film into the static canvas through his use of shading, limited colour palettes, and layering of translucent figures in the foreground as though one scene's blurring into the next in the surreal world he's created.
"Math is beautiful. Arithmetic is simple. Rechner is both." It may sound like the strapline of a particularly leftfield perfume advert but actually that's what Colorado-based designers Todd Berger and Lucian Föhr say about their new app which creates the world's first minimalist gesture-based calculator. Taking the touchscreen iTechnology we've all come to know and love, they've applied it to one of the world's most basic products with stylish results. Certain swipes engage different mathematical functions (multiply, divide etc) and both in aesthetics and functionality this appears to be a significant milestone on the road to a time when this technology is ubiquitous.
It seems to be a particularly rich time for fashion videos at the moment and this latest offering from Gia Coppola (niece of Sofia) is in no danger of bucking the trend. Created to promote the DVF URRENT/ELLIOTT Spring 2012 collaboration, it tells the tale of a young screenwriter in 1960s Hollywood, and above and beyond the beautifully tongue-in-cheek sense of time and place and the clever visual touches there's also a cameo from Ray Liotta off of Goodfellas. Tips of the hat all round.
It's understandable to be feeling blue (and bloated) after the Easter weekend. But turn that frown upside-down as photographer Tobias Colz has made blue, or rather cyan, look incredibly good in his latest project CyanCali.. By abstractly capturing the sights of California, the Hockney-esque cerulean skies of the west coast state are transformed into fresh, graphic shots of clean lines and striking contrasts. It's the clarity of these images that really stands out as it's pretty much like diving into a pool of slick, blazing azure – which incidentally is rinsing my bank holiday funk right away.
Kids being bad is not by any means a revolutionary way to make something instantly cool. From Hook to Lord of the Flies to the debatably brilliant Rock and Roll High School, this method is a tried and tested tag of rebelliousness which, when attached to something, makes people love it.
Peter Shire has famously avoided definition. But, come to think of it, how can you accurately define someone who's as happy making sculptures as they are chairs, teapots and toys? Shire's work is colourful, amusing and compositionally striking, and his workshop – a sprawling warehouse space in Echo Park, Los Angeles, where he grew up – is a veritable cabinet of curiosities.
Working up to his current spot as designer/prototyper in the Human Interface Device Prototyping group at Apple, multi-hyphenate creative Matthew Irvine Brown has left his mark in the design departments of Nokia, Last.fm and BERG. His personal projects site that runs parallel (and then cheerfully off in remarkably creative tangents) is full of interactive, experimental and quite brilliant projects (singing sock puppets anybody?): a three-fold theme pretty well exemplified in an ongoing demo-based initiative called Music for Shuffle.
If, like me, you've ever uncontrollably tried to copy and paste something in real life, or move a real apple core to the trash folder on the desktop, then take a look at these paintings by Kon Trubkovich and see if your mind starts automatically figuring out the image behind the glitch. Mildy confusing but intensely satisfying, Kon's portraits that 'lack identity' become all the more impressive when you realise they are created with oil paints and graphite – killer!
When she's not drawing obviously fictional characters whose appendages are ambiguously jointed and whose faces are sublimely happy (excellently so), a lot of Rebecca Crompton's illustration looks like it's some visual inventory of her immediate surroundings – good, honest observational drawing. Although granted, Rebecca must see the world in a different way to the rest of us.
Uniformity, sharp lines and slightly bleak scenes are all characteristics of Patrik Lindell's photography. It sounds terrible but actually it's these components that become the strengths of his work. he works for a number of high-profile clients, but in his personal work Lindell uses the ordinary to inspire him, meaning we're treated to patterns made from exteriors of buildings and harsh industrial landscapes in a graphic and measured approach. Ultimately Lindell makes the ugly, beautiful, and let's face it, who wants conventional beauty now anyway? It's so overrated…
At any Sunday league football game there are certain phrases you always hear. "Let's get at it lads!" "Offside?! Lino! Lino!" and perhaps more surprisingly "Has anyone got any tape?" Tape plays a pivotal role in amateur footy, from securing the nets to holding shin pads in place, so it seems appropriate that London design studio GBH has created PUMA's new typeface out of gaffer tape.
Shadow Land is a new show, comprehensively revealing the extraordinary work of Roger Ballen. Revered for his contribution to contemporary photography and as one of the most important artists in the field of his generation, New York-born Ballen spent 30 years in South Africa, developing his style and documenting his surroundings, all in the consistent black and white and square format.
In this, London's very "olympic" year, the cultural games played out by the top galleries is quietly being lead by their curators. It's a critical responsibility and so it makes sense that those behind the galleries programmes of big name retrospectives with their blockbusting four-hour-queues, are some very skilled and very qualified lot, not least, the Whitechapel Gallery's chief curator, Achim Borchardt-Hume.
It's Easter so while we put the finishing flourishes on our Easter bonnets (ribbons are heavily present this year), we decided to unload our bountiful basket of Things. While inedible they're definitely a feast for your eyes and this week there's a right mix of goodies, so let's get cracking!
Because it's Easter, I think it's about time we talked about religion. Me? I'm a respectheist. I respect ALL the major deities and some pretty minor ones too. The reason for my magnanimity is because I worship at the shrine of Sheryl Crow. Thanks to my committed Crow-mania, the It's Nice That redesign has been very inspirational for me, because our Lady of Sheryl has wise words: "A change (change) would do you good." She has little aphorisms like this for any occasion (All I want to do is have some fun" is another good one) but I'm not here to evangelise – each to their own. Let's do this…
Pencil and paper – the first tools we were given as a child after crayons and play-doh. They're pretty good, and even better when put in the hands of someone with an eye for detail and precision. Over the last few years, illustrator Simon Prades has been churning out amazingly-detailed and technical work in a way that makes my hands feel like they'll never be able to achieve anything that good, ever. His portfolio is packed full of pencil drawings, ink work with slices of colour and etchings and it's the concept in his latest project Our Books that caught our attention. Choosing six books that have a personal connection to his own family and friends, Prades has created a series of lovely pencil drawings that unite both of these elements.
In 2010 Julia Born designed A NOT B, a fantastically colourful book filled with Uta Eisenreich still-lifes. Inspired by non-verbal IQ tests, Eisenreich's sets were constructed from a vast array of ubiquitous household items – apples, tea pots, hand-held mirrors, etc. – and displayed the artist's penchant for games, language and symbolism. A NOT B, the book, originated from A NOT B, the exhibition, held at Amsterdam gallery Ellen de Bruijne Projects in 2009, in which the artist's weird and often very funny objects could be experienced in real life.
Andy Rementer may be an artist, an illustrator and a gentleman. But more than all of that, he's a joy-monger. If you can look at his work without smiling you're probably dead inside. His new show at the Ship of Fools gallery in The Hague promises to be a bobby-dazzler, with a series of gouche portraits, plants and typography work. Nice indeed.
The shortlist for this year's BP Portrait Award has just been released after the judges whittled down more than 2,00 entries to a final four. It's a strong selection as you'd expect but made especially intresting by the absence this year of an obvious favourite. The winners will be announced on June 19 and the exhibition runs from 21 June until 23 September.
Alex Kisilevich could easily be placed in the sculpture bin, what with his ability to carefully craft his subject matter in an effect not dissimilar to an installation or fine artist. But photography is Alex's mainstay, a label that allows manipulation, ranging from the subtle to the deliberately abstract.


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Manchester United striker Robin van Persie admits despite all his experience he still gets lifted by some of the younger members of the squad.
The 29-year-old played in the last World Cup final with Holland and has spent more than eight years in the Barclays Premier League, but a move to Old Trafford in the summer has kept him fresh, with the Dutchman singling out the younger duo of Javier Hernandez, 24, and Danny Welbeck, 22.
"It goes both ways - I can learn from them as well," Van Persie told MUTV. "For example, I love Chicharito's (Hernandez's) enthusiasm, I love how he plays and trains and does his work off the pitch after training."
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The first "why" that struck me on seeing Why Evolution is True was why do we need yet another book on evolution? There are lots of good ones out there already and nothing less than a mountain of evidence to support the reality of evolution by natural selection.
But we do need another, insists Jerry Coyne, a professor of evolutionary genetics at the University of Chicago, because creationism is spreading.
And he's right - creationism is all over the place, not just in the US, where it often gains huge amounts of publicity. In December, a UK poll found that 29% of science teachers thought that creationism should be taught in science classes alongside evolution; a state of affairs that Richard Dawkins called "a national disgrace". It is also on the rise in Islamic countries.
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Creationism, Coyne tells us in this wide-ranging, beautifully written account, is like a roly-poly clown that pops back up when you punch it. But he resists the temptation to punch. He seeks to persuade, by carefully leading the reader through the overwhelming evidence, that evolution is a fact.
The audience is those who are uncertain about explanations of life's diversity. The book is not aimed at people who hold faith-based positions - Coyne considers them to be lost causes - but you have to wonder how many people who are "uncertain" will be won over.
Coyne describes, for example, giving a talk on evolution versus intelligent design/creationism to a group of rich Chicago businessmen. You would think that people in the business world might think that evidence for something is worth taking into account, but this was the response Coyne got from one audience member after his lecture: "I found your evidence for evolution very convincing - but I still don't believe it".
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It is unfortunate that there are large numbers of people for whom no amount of evidence and elegant argument will do. For those of us comfortable with the fact of evolution, even those already familiar with many of the arguments and the examples demonstrating evolution, there is much in his book that is new and stimulating, even refreshing.
I loved reading of how Raymond Dart was literally handed the greatest fossil find of the twentieth century - the "missing link" between apes and modern man - while dressing for a wedding. Other highlights include a section on the remnant signs of evolution, such as the vestigial tail at the end of our spines, and a fascinating account of how evolution and even speciation can be seen occurring before our very eyes in the lab.
Coyne ends by asking where evolution leaves us, and shows that it ennobles us, that human civilisation has improved despite our animal nature. That's why, when creationism is spreading to the extent that there is even a creationist church in the main town in the Galapagos, of all places, that we need another book on evolution. This is a marvellous one.
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This is a pointless mod imo. At least the stock setup has cool air flowing through it, it slows in the box, thus gaining some pressure. Deleting it just sucks in fender air that probably is warmer than what comes from the outside of the car.
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Khartoum — Student protests opposed to the government austerity plan continued for the second day on Monday in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and its suburbs.
President Omer Al-Bashir announced before the members of the parliament on Monday the main points of drastic measures his government aims to implement.
The austerity plans impact negatively the living conditions of Sudanese who are already affected by the high inflation in the country and the economic crisis hitting the country after the loss of South Sudan oil revenue.
Police forces used tear gas to disperse protests that erupted for the second day in the University of Khartoum and near girl compounds located near the campus.
Other protests calling for the downfall of the regime were organized in Kober suburb in Khartoum North and in Omdurman.
Eye witnesses reported sound of gunfire, while unconfirmed reports speak about injuries among the demonstrators.
On the other hand, different sources in the capital confirmed the arrest of dozens of protesters after destroying two buses owned by Khartoum state transport company, in Kalaklla, a suburb located in the south of the capital.


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The bizarre juxtaposition of the 2012 election and Hurricane Sandy should give voters a clear view into the minds of the two men who are aspiring to lead America in the next presidential cycle.
While President Obama has allowed his campaign to take a back seat to his duties as president, Mitt Romney seems to using this time to not only score points but also sneak out discredited information about Obama's policies.
First and foremost is his supposed campaign rally/ "storm relief" rally in Ohio today. Pam, our blog mistress, provides many details as to how bad this event was.
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With the president holed up in the White House monitoring the hurricane response through at least Wednesday, Romney announced yesterday he would refrain from partisan business as usual on the campaign trail. That meant converting an already scheduled rally Tuesday morning in Kettering, Ohio, into a relief drive for Sandy victims.
Still, the election was never entirely removed from the event, according to reports from the scene. Most notably, the event included a biographical video of Romney that typically plays at his rallies. Press badges still referred to a Romney"victory rally."
Also, ABC's Jonathan Karl sent out the following tweet of two attendees of this "storm relief" rally:
The grand irony? The Red Cross specifically stated that they can't use the canned goods that the Romney camp urged folks to bring because giving either money or blood would better suit the needs of those caught up in the hurricane.
The Romney camp later said that the food donations won't be going out to the Red Cross. Instead, the campaign bus will be handing it out.
Also, Romney came out with yet another distorted ad against Obama, this time repeating false charges he made regarding the President and welfare:
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Titled "Can't Afford Another Term," the spot isn't as nefarious as the infamous Jeep ad that Mitt Romney's campaign similarly put out without fanfare. But there are certainly aspects with which to quibble, including the idea that Obama weakened welfare reform (a point that countless fact-checkers have disputed). Obama has offered waivers to states after governors asked for them. None have applied yet.
. . . As newsworthy as the ad's script is the way in which the Romney campaign released the new spot. There was no public pronouncement, at least not via email (the campaign did post the spot to its YouTube page). And it seems to fit a pattern. The campaign is throwing what it can against the wall in the election's closing days. Any movement it creates among voters outweighs howls it may cause from the press corps, the campaign believes.
And if this is not enough, Romney continues to double down on the distortion he made that the auto industry bailout overseen by President Obama is causing jobs to be shipped overseas.
Today, he released a new radio ad in Toledo and Dayton, two Ohio markets, repeating the lie. About this particular ad, The HuffingtonPost said:
A fair reading of the script suggests that the new attack is even more misleading than the ad that the Romney campaign has already aired. Chrysler is thinking of building cars in China, but only for purposes of expanding into the market there. The company's CEO has vehemently denied that any American jobs are being outsourced.
But now, Romney is adding the GM company in the mix. According to The Detroit Free Press:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has broadened his attack on President Barack Obama's auto industry restructuring, implying that General Motors used the aid to hire more workers in China than in the U.S.
"Barack Obama says he saved the auto industry. But for who? Ohio or China?" says the narrator in a radio spot running in Ohio. "Under President Obama, GM cut 15,000 American jobs, but they are planning to double the number of cars built in China, which means 15,000 more jobs for China. And now comes word that Chrysler plans to start making Jeeps in, you guessed it, China."
GM spokesman Greg Martin condemned this ad:
"We've clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days. No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country."
It is unclear how the ads will affect the election. But they are already scaring the hell out of auto workers. According to Think Progress, some auto workers even called their unions because they feared that they would be out of work:
Bruce Baumhower, the president of the United Auto Workers local that oversees the major Jeep plant here, said Mr. Romney's initial comments on moving production to China drew a rash of calls from members concerned about their jobs. When he informed them Chrysler was, in fact, is expanding its Jeep operation here, he said in an interview, "The response has been, 'That's pretty pitiful.' "
Regardless of whether Romney's gambit stinks of cleverness or desperation, voters should do well to remember that if Romney can get this brazen with a smile on his face and in the face of being discredited, think about what other lies he thinks he can get away with.
It makes me wonder if he really means it whenever he says "I believe in America."


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We had some hands-on time with the new LG G2, and that means we were able to take a whole slew of pictures. Both the white and black models were there, as well as LG's fancy Quick Window case. Take a look past the break and enjoy!
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Those of us who took a keen interest in the Strategic Defense Initiative programme, alias Star Wars, sometimes mused on whether it could supply the means of diverting an asteroid heading Earth's way. NASA takes such thoughts seriously and Edward Teller, developer of the hydrogen bomb, even went so far as to suggest that a massive nuclear arsenal should be kept in orbit to deflect such incoming objects. His was a dangerous solution but an asteroid could present an ominous problem.
I put the idea to Jonathan Aitken, now defence procurement minister after more than twenty years on the backbenches. He agrees with the line taken by both myself and New Scientist, namely, we must be cautious in any support for proposals that violate the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972.
He goes on to say that to link the SDI programme with any nuclear ...
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I've always thought this, but after todays signing, I really get the impression that the reds are gearing up for a championship run in the 08-09, 09-10, 10-11 years.
I think that "the trade" makes sense in the regard if you consider that our main weakness (if our prospects pan out) would be bullpen. We locked up what look to be 2 solid bullpen arms that will help us out in the future, when we need them most.
I also think that the playeres we gave up were very expendible. It seems that WK likes to focus on defense, so it was very easy for him to part with FLo. And AK's spot was going to be taken by Bruce in these years. By unloading these contracts, it freed up space to sign top of the rotation pitchers...which is exactly what we've done.
I see us going into our "championship run" with a lineup consisting of:
Denofia CF (with stubbs hopefully taking over in the latter years.)
Phillips 2B (We could still possibly see him switch back to SS by 2010)
EE 3B (Super Star in the making?)
Dunn LF (I think he's expendible as well, but he may still be around...)
Votto 1B (Hopefully he adjusts well to the MLB)
Bruce RF (Should help form one of the strongest 3-4-5-6 in the league)
Defensive SS (Our lineup will not have problems scoring runs...)
Defensive C (Maybe Perez?)
Maybe I'm just a homer, but that seems like a dang good lineup...
And the rotation:
Bailey (Hopefully he lives up to his potential, but should at worst be a solid 3)
Harang (Should be one of the best #2 pitchers in the league)
Arroyo (Should be one of the best #3 pitchers in the league)
Cuerto (Hopefully he doesnt move to the bullpen)
Wood (Banking on him regaing his velocity)
Once again, seems to me to be a real solid pitching staff.
I really think that barring a major injury, this team will be a force to reckon with in the 08-11 years...


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In the film world, Ezra Miller has steadily been on the indie circuit with roles in films like Afterschool, City Island, and Every Day. He's also been on television in such series as Showtime's Californication and USA's Royal Pains. Now the 18 year-old's latest role is in the teen film Beware The Gonzo.
The newly-minted adult Miller shared with us his own high school experiences.
"14 to 18, I don't know if I can think back that far," Ezra jokes, "That was a second ago. So hard to recall. How quickly it all flies by. I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now."
"So I kind of watched as the preparatory system, which is sort of what we see in Gonzo became more present in the school I went to," he continues, "I had a very hard time in high school and did feel the compulsive need to be outspoken against a lot of the institution out there and did get in trouble, and some of that was probably unnecessary, and some of that probably just came from sort of a self-centered rage that is sort of just endemic, is just like a part of that time I think for people. I think there are similarities between all kids' high school experiences."
Ezra was asked what kind of trouble he got into in high school.
"Varieties of things," Miller replies, "It would be like we'd have a school concert where we were supposed to play covers of bands and I'd sing "Killing in the Name Of" by Rage Against the Machine and they'd be like, 'Well, do you have to choose a song where every line has an expletive in it? Or could you maybe have chosen a different song?' And then I raised a "You're trying to censor me and limit my amendment rights," and that whole thing that I think kids should do and must do because we must define ourselves.
In Beware The Gonzo, Miller plays Edward "Gonzo" Gillman, an outcast who starts an underground newspaper after he is fired by the school paper's editor. Miller was asked if her own high school ever had an underground newspaper.
"The year, I left high school my insane British friend Quentin, he is both insane and British and he's been working in a union organization and very real radical causes from a very young age," he remembers, "The year I left he started a true reporting paper within my high school, the Hudson School, and it did actually go up against the blonde leader of the more popular school paper."
"And that was going on, they were duking it out," Ezra adds, "And he was getting in trouble when I was making Gonzo, which is actually something I never really told anyone. I should say it in more press but it just kind of was like this private thing that I drew from which is that this happens all the time. The official school paper is under the thumb of the school and it's there to be a nice thing for the parents to see. Really high school is a place where just like in the world you want real journalism because you want the kids to be able to have a voice and keep an eye on the goings on within an institution that they don't run. And that's kind of supposed to be the role of journalism, right?"
Ezra talks about the music that helped him identify more with Gonzo in the film.
"Punk rock changed our lives," Miller notes, "terms of definitely speaking about this character there is this culture or this music that is for angry kids. There are actually a few types of music that speaks specifically to disenfranchised youth. There are some cultural divides in what type of music that will be for various people, but punk rock and hip hop are in this country the major forms of music of disenfranchised angry youth, which there are far more of than you guys suspect."
"That music of distorted, loud, and fast rock and roll, that's how a lot of kids are formulating their personal beliefs and philosophies under the umbrella of the raw energy of that music," he continues, "And I say again, hip hop is very much the same. There's an energy in it which is the energy of being enraged as a young person in this society that was informative to me and my life and it's informative to this movie."
One of Gonzo's more memorable lines in the film is, "The revolution will not be televised." Miller was asked if he was familiar with Gil Scott-Heron, who originally said that line.
"Yeah," he says, "And also I love that song. This was a fun one for me because a lot of my investigations just as an individual from a young age have been into radical opposition resistance movements. And essentially there's something very funny about when a kid in this uninformed idealism takes on a complex radical philosophy and tries to execute it in the context of his high school life."
"It's a hilarious situation I found myself in, which is that like no really you're going to have to wait a while to really start to bring in a lot of the realities of what is actually at play on a case by case basis," Ezra continues, "But as kids who don't like the way things are moving there's a natural draw to these movements that we can't actually grasp as such young people but it's still important to take them on and investigate."
Ezra talks about the film's focus on bullying in high school and the current "It Gets Better" campaigns currently being implemented in high schools across the country to combat it.
"But will it get better?" he replies, "I love the It Gets Better Foundation what they're doing, but that promise is not always true because the injustices that exist in high school are a microcosmic representation of the injustices that exist all over the world and are only getting worse and worse and worse and worse and we all know it. I think when it comes to a kid, each individual teenager has to, this is like the name of the adolescent game, you have to in this time figure it out, and you shouldn't be listening to anyone."
"You should be listening to everyone but you should be listening to no one," Miller adds, "You should be taking no one's advice, no one's supposed words of wisdom because, 'Look, I made it through and I'm in this position in my life.' No, you need to go with your gut and your instinct and just do you and as much as you can ignore all the people who are telling you that you can't do that."
Miller talks about how Gonzo in the film defends himself against his bullies.
"There's something about people have too much pride or they have too little pride," Ezra says, "People are either far too strong in their lives as ego presences, or they're far too meek and submissive and humble. Finding the balance between those two things is one of the hardest things to do, and in a society where as a boy if you're not strong enough or as a girl if you're not weak enough or all these conventions surrounding strength and humility. I think Gonzo is an interesting story because it's about someone who is coming from the place of being trampled on, finding the natural empowerment that exists for every living being on the planet."
"There's empowerment to be had, but then going far too far to the other extreme of knowing your power and then abusing your power, which puts you right back on the other end of where you started, which was getting trampled on," he adds, "So now you're trampling on someone. There's something interesting about teenagers trying to figure out how to not be stomped on but also trying not to stomp. Because in high school sometimes it seems like I have to choose and I have to be one or the other; I have to be a stomped on or a stomper on, and you don't have to be either."
Ezra has made much of his film career in indies, so he was asked whether he can find just as much relevance in a bigger budget film as in a smaller one.
"It doesn't matter," Miller believes, "But then you do think about certain things like there would be certain things that you just couldn't make a film about that would be funded by a big studio. That's just a reality, and certain ideas will have to find independent forums for now."
Miller talks about the past teen films he loves that he believes Beware The Gonzo strives to be.
"I love The Breakfast Club," Ezra replies, "And I also love in the context of this movie some lesser known equally relevant films, like Malcolm McDowell in "If…. It's like this kingdom. There's a kingdom of horror but then there's a very specific kingdom of teen movies."
Ezra was inquired about whether or not there was any improvisation done in the film.
"There were a lot of kids who were ready to go in terms of adlibbing and improvisation," Miller answers, "I do actually remember that scene where I give that speech at the punk show. He told me five minutes before we shot that he still hadn't written anything and that I should just make something up."
Co-starring with Miller as one of his subordinates is Zoë Kravitz, the daughter of rock star Lenny Kravitz and actor Lisa Bonet. He talks about working with the budding actress.
"She's the best person in the world," Ezra believes, "I learned that Zoë's literally the best human being alive. I'm actually not exaggerating or kidding. She's the most inspired, on fire artist of this fucking generation and like the most beautiful person ever to live, and people know it. And people will know it more and more and be like, 'Lenny who?'"
Ezra was also asked about how he enjoyed playing the leader of the group.
"Good," he replies, "One thing I discovered on this film is the vast importance, especially in a high school movie, this makes and breaks high school movies all the time, which is extra work. How background is either involved with a story or literally just a bunch of people there for the day being shepherded around like goats and not participating in the making of a story."
"And one of my favorite things on this film was we had this amazing army of extras who I got to really explore the leader of the pack thing with this group of kids," Miller continues, "So that was a lot of fun. In terms of the exploration of what that means, it was mostly about what is this thing of the irresponsible leader, and the irresponsible leader takes the fuel from the movement and instead of pushing it back out into the movement incorporates it into his own view of ego and self. That was the exploration. It was about everybody who becomes a leader takes it too fucking far."
Miller talks about whether or not he has any plans to return to Royal Pains.
"I doubt I return to Royal Pains, although I'm not necessarily opposed," Ezra answers, "We Need to Talk About Kevin comes out all over the world over the course of the next four or five months. Another Happy Day is coming out. The Perks of Being a Wallflower comes out in spring."
"My band, Sons of an Illustrious Father, we just dropped an EP and we will release our album in winter," he continues, "And I'm sending out a call right now to artists internationally to come converge on New York and start a collective with me and my friends."


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David Braden, a technology prep teacher and Bay Area Writing Project consultant teacher at Oakland's Bella Vista Elementary School, wrote this essay after learning two of his colleagues would be moved, or "consolidated," to different schools next week — in mid-October. I wrote about the issue too, in this story. – Katy
The Merriam Webster app on my Droid tells me the word "consolidate" has three different meanings: 1) to join together into one whole, 2) to make firm or secure or 3) to form into a compact mass. I looked it up because today our principal informed us that our school would be consolidated.
Leaving the third definition aside for a moment, it sounds like a pretty good thing. Unity, firmness, security are all admirable qualities that would be welcome in any environment, but especially an elementary school. A staff that is united around discipline with consistent rules and consequences gives students a sense of security. If a staff unites around a clear curriculum, then students will have a firm grasp of what they need to know before graduating to the next level of schooling.
These qualities also describe what we want for our students. All teachers want a class in which students are united in support of each other. A child's ideal development is a process of firming a sense of self. In kindergarten, children enter with runny noses and loose-socket gazes like disembodied leaves that just blow in the door. One thousand and eighty school days later, they graduate as more clarified individuals with opinions, personalities, voice, attitude and preferences.
Security is an essential basic that we all need as educators and human beings. We spend a lot of energy making sure that our students are safe and secure, and that they feel secure. We arrange our day with predictable routines. Creating this daily sense of security takes hard work and commitment. Teachers do this work day in and day out, and carry it home on the weekends in order to make sure that everything is ready for students by 8:30 Monday morning.
The process of school consolidation does none of these things, and in fact does the exact opposite. This year, for example, our consolidation involves letting two kindergarten teachers go, moving one first-grade teacher and one second-grade teacher down to kindergarten. Then those first- and second-graders are dispersed into the remaining first- and second-grade classrooms so that all the K–2 classrooms are at maximum capacity. And this madness is implemented one month after school has begun.
Instead of unity, students are torn from their teachers and teachers are torn from their school. Teachers look at each other and ask, "Which one of us is going to move?" We usually look forward to October as the routines of school become firm. Now with consolidation, all those routines and norms have to be re-instilled, re-practiced. It's like starting the whole school year over again.
Consolidation destroys security. For various reasons, we don' t tell students or parents who their teacher will be until September. All summer students wonder if they will get Ms. X or Mr. Y; they deliberate the pros and cons of each, and pray that they get the teacher they want (or don't get the teacher they DON'T want!). Their teacher on the other hand is given her assignment in May. She dreams away through summer vacation, imagining, visualizing the students she will have next year, the changes they will make to their room, and how she will try this or that activity with them. Consolidation takes these hopes, trepidations and dreams away. It sends a message to students and families that the school is NOT secure, that those class lists in the hallway didn't really mean anything.
Trust is a pre-requisite for security. Any trust we have built between school and home now has to be completely re-won. And consolidation tells teachers, "Don't get too attached to your students. Don't spend too much time planning your lessons or classroom. Don't bother going to any staff development. Don't reach out to your parents. Or at least don't put any effort out until you know which grade you will really teach, which room you will really be in, and who your students will really be." Trust is hard won and easily lost.
The truth is, that consolidation is more aligned to the third definition of a "compact mass." I'm thinking here of a trash compactor. It's a machine that squeezes everything down into an undifferentiated homogenous cube of solid waste. True, compacted trash is more neat and tidy to work with. It's certainly more convenient and economical. In our anger we look for someone to blame. But there's no one to blame. It's just a trash compactor. It's just doing what it was designed to do.
After our principal announced the consolidation at our faculty meeting, and after a few minutes of gloomy silence, one colleague pointed out that it wasn't anyone's fault in particular. She waved her arms wide and called it a "systemic problem." Now we had somewhere to lay the blame for all this pain and suffering and undoing of all that we've worked to achieve in our classrooms: someone named Mr. Systemic. If we could just get his phone number, and call him and explain that this was really a bad idea. But even if he did answer his phone, he would shrug and say, "I didn't turn the trash compactor on. I only made it."
Through the years we have united together as a staff, we have felt safe to take risks and learn from each other, and we have firmed and solidified our teaching practice. We have consolidated ourselves into a high-functioning school of people who live, learn and achieve. To use the same word to describe the process we've been asked to endure, and which will surely set us back in our race to the top, is nauseating and hurtful.
What term, then, would be more accurate? Disintegration.


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Name of story:the hairy hands
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It bothers me when kids are harrassed by these things. Demons portraying to be kids themselves or whatever. You must rebuke in the name of Jesus. Fight spirit with spirit. The only thing is to believe and have faith. Then you must attain salvation and comfort from the Holy Spirit. Otherwise these demons will find an open door way and return. You may think me looney, but I believe this. Demons pretend to be human spirits or ghosts. Do not engage them in conversation or try to communicate with them. It gives them more of a right to mess with you. Try going to contendingfortruth.com for more depth on this. Lots of false prophets out there, and false supposedly 'christian' churches.
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Wajda's story of a determined young union leader and the birth of the Polish Solidarity movement played NYFF '81 and returns to Film Society tomorrow night at 6pm as part of our ongoing series "50 Years of the New York Film Festival."
New Monthly Series "Indie Night" and "Art of the Real" Coming in March
Two ongoing programs will highlight the best new independent narrative and documentary films, respectively, and further Film Society's commitment to discovering emerging cinematic talent. "Indie Night" will be guest curated by producer Ted Hope in 2012.
Asghar Farhadi: "I proudly offer this award to the people of my country"
A hit at this year's New York Film Festival, Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film last night. Here's the text of Farhadi's speech.
From Film Society to the Kodak Theater
Heading into Sunday, a whopping 50 of this year's Academy Award nominations belong to movies that played at Film Society this year as part of the 49th New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, member and patron screenings, or in runs at our beautiful new Film Center!
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Documentary's most recognizable filmmaker reflected on the impact of non-fiction film last night at the annual pre-Oscar celebration for non fiction nominees in Los Angeles.
Video: Two Conversations with Raquel Welch
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Kim Hyong Jik's Exploits Lauded
| Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- Jean Marie Lambret, chief of the French Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, issued a statement on July 10 to commemorate the 115th birth anniversary of Kim Hyong Jik, an indomitable revolutionary fighter and outstanding leader of the anti-Japanese national liberation movement of Korea.
Kim Hyong Jik advanced the idea of "Jiwon" (aim high) in his early years and devoted all his life to the sacred struggle for national liberation, cherishing ardent patriotism and indomitable revolutionary spirit that any Korean should surely liberate the country from the Japanese imperialists' rule through diehard struggle from generation to generation even if his body were torn to pieces, the statement noted, saying:
He bequeathed the idea of "Jiwon", the preparedness for three contingencies, the idea of recruiting comrades and two pistols to President Kim Il Sung. These legacies served as a fundamental source whereby the President led the anti-Japanese armed struggle to victory to liberate the country and turned Korea into a powerful socialist country independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence.
His noble idea "aim high" has been brought into reality by the President and General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
The immortal exploits of Kim Hyong Jik, who dedicated himself to the independence of the country and eternal prosperity of the Korean nation, will remain long with the history of the Korean nation.
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Lemon-Orange Cake
Serves: 8 to 12
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Vegetarian Corn-free Dairy-free Gluten-free Peanut-free Soy-free Wheat-free
Bright, citrus flavors are complemented by honey and almonds in this unusual cake.
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Preheat oven to 350° F. Lightly grease a 9- by 12-inch baking pan. Line with parchment paper, if desired, for easier removal.
In a bowl, cream eggs and honey with an electric mixer until fluffy, thick and glossy. This will take about 10 minutes on high speed. If you reduce the time, the cake will not set correctly.
In a food processor add chopped orange and lemon pieces and process until smooth.
In a separate mixing bowl combine almond flour, baking soda and salt; mix well. Fold beaten eggs and pureed oranges and lemons into flour mixture. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.
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New Charges For Man Charged With Abusing 'Puppy Doe'
The man accused of abusing a dog so badly, the dog had to be euthanized, is now facing additional charges.
Man Charged With Abuse Of Puppy Doe May Have Stolen $100K From Elderly Woman
The man accused of torturing a dog may also have stolen from an elderly woman.
Grand Jury Hands Down 13 Indictments Against Suspect In 'Puppy Doe' Beating Death
A Norfolk County Grand Jury has indicted a man accused of torturing and beating a dog in Quincy in September.
Man Held On $500,000 Bail In 'Puppy Doe' Beating Death
A man accused of torturing and beating a dog in Quincy was ordered held on $500,000 bail Tuesday.
'Puppy Doe' Suspect Also Wanted For Stealing $6,000 From Church
The man charged with torturing and beating a dog in Quincy is also wanted for robbing a church in New Bedford, police said Tuesday.
Man Arrested In Beating Death Of 'Puppy Doe'
Police say a Polish man who was living in Massachusetts is charged in the torturing and beating of a dog whose plight drew wide attention.


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You'd think by now I'd be used to it….but I'm always surprised and amazed at life's twists and turns. You wake up in the morning with your day sort of planned out, your loose list of expectations and the next thing you know, life steps in. One week ago all of our lives were effectively changed, some more than others. We're all still raw and processing the events of Marathon Monday. Eventually the initial shock will wear off and when it does I'm hoping I will ask myself what the incident was here to teach before I get lulled back into routine. It's my personal understanding that everything happens for a reason, there's always a lesson and it's always for the greater good of self and humanity which are basically one in the same. I have a lot of conflicting and confusing thoughts and emotions in relation to what happened and I wonder if you do too. I also have questions. Most specifically: why? And I don't want to hear about culture or religion. I want the deeper humanity why. But perhaps that's not my business. Perhaps my business is what I can do internally to make sure I don't perpetuate the kind of energy that promotes that kind of behavior. Words matter. Thoughts matter. Perhaps the lesson is to choose each wisely.
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Sadly, it won't be coming to TV or the big screen—but IDW has announced it has a new comic series based on arguably the most popular edition of the Trek franchise: Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Namco Bandai was recently declared the biggest software revenue earner for the month of March in Japan, according to a recent article in Famitsu. The company that made Pac-Man and Tekken took 36.8 percent of software revenues for the entire month, bumping down Nintendo and Sega, who were at second and third place respectively.
The biggest contributing factor was the release of the PS3-exclusive title One Piece: Kaizoku Musou, which came out on March 1 in Japan. Developed by Omega Force (the team behind the Dynasty Warriors franchise), the game sold a total of 771,000 units. The PSP adaptation of Mahou Majo Madoka Magica also sold 79,000 units for the month.
In related news, Nintendo's top titles for the month were Kid Icarus: Uprising and the 3DS version of Mario & Sonic at the 2012 London Olympics. The former sold 144,000 units while the latter sold 105,000 units for the entire month. The other two companies just below Namco Bandai, Nintendo, and Sega were Capcom and The Pokemon Company; the former represented 6.9 percent of the revenues chart, while the latter represented 6.3 percent.
The rest of the companies in order of the top 10 list were Konami, Tecmo Koei, Square Enix, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Idea Factory. For more information on Namco Bandai's top-selling title, check out GameSpot's video segment on One Piece: Kaizoku Musou.
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Luanda — Angola's Parliament passed on Thursday its internal budget for 2013 term, estimated at over 30 billion Kwanzas, during its an extraordinary plenary session, Angop has learnt.
The resolution draft read by the Parliament's Spokeswoman, Emília Carlota Dias, says it as passed by 163 votes in favour, seven against and none abstention, in an act chaired by the Speaker of the Parliament, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos.
The document will be submitted to the Executive for debate so that the amount be inserted in the state budget.
The session had the presence of the country's Ombudsman, Paulo Tjipilica, and of the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Rosa Micolo.


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By NATHAN GREGORY
The Starkville Board of Aldermen voted to amend the city's code of ordinances to allow transient vendors to set up temporary facilities and sell goods on public property in its meeting Tuesday.
The amendment gives vendors the ability to set up a stand in a public parking space and sell goods such as food and clothing.
Section 30-31 of the amendment originally stated vendors could not leave their businesses parked and unattended while occupying any public space for a period longer than 30 minutes. The time limit was changed to one hour before the amendment was moved to the consent agenda.
Ward 5 Alderman Jeremiah Dumas said having the ordinance in place opens opportunities for locals — particularly during weekends of high traffic volume in the city — to offer their services to residents and visitors of Starkville.
"The general idea behind this is food vendors. It's my hope that we can open up the process so more progressive-type individuals can explore the options of restaurant development," Dumas said. "It helps on business incubation and food options around town. It's happening across the nation, and we hope we can get some type of establishment here."
The board also heard from Kimley-Horn and Associates Project Manager Wain Gaskins regarding a traffic study the consulting firm recently conducted along South Montgomery Street. The assessment was initiated in order to address concerns about traffic volumes growing on the corridor extending from Poor House Road to Academy Drive and causing congestion during peak travel hours. He presented capacity analyses for each intersection on the corridor's service abilities to drivers and the projected abilities if no improvements are made to those intersections by 2035. Most of the corridor consists of a two-lane rural cross section.
Though he ultimately voted in favor of allowing them to attend, Ward 6 Alderman Roy A. Perkins disputed approval for Starkville Mayor Parker Wiseman's and Starkville Electric Department General Manager Terry Kemp's travel to the American Public Power Association annual meeting this June in Seattle, Wash., using city funds. The measure, which was originally on the consent agenda and pulled at Perkins' request, passed unanimously.
Kemp said the conference is beneficial for getting the latest information on utility practices and being able to bring it back home and use it to help customers.
"The meeting creates tremendous opportunity to talk to representatives, learn the best practices and be able to bring those back home," Kemp said.
"We need to be more conservative and cognizant (of city funds) ... It is overkill to send two people from city of Starkville almost to Canada. I've been to Seattle before but not at the taxpayer's expense. One person should be substantial to get the information. As we move forward … hopefully in the future we'll start streamlining these requests. These are not friendly skies, these are expensive skies," Perkins said. "We have people struggling … the economy is tough and we're spending money to send people to Seattle ... I just want to say in the future hopefully we'll cut this plus traveling. Just because we have it budget doesn't mean we have to spend it. This money belongs to the taxpayers and rate payers."
The board also approved amending job descriptions for all supervisory positions in the water/sewer and construction/rehab divisions of the city's public services to include a requirement for all future hires to have Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality operator II-C within one year of acceptance. The measure passed 4-2 with Perkins and Ward 7 Alderman Henry Vaughn opposed.
Starkville Public Works Director Doug Devlin said the need for certification came as a result of conversations with MDEQ during its annual inspection of the city's water treatment systems.
"I think it's important our supervisors and foremen have that face-to-face relationship with MDEQ each year," Devlin said. "If we have a good relationship with them and do what we have to do there's no fear. We have to be transparent and honest. I would sleep better knowing the people in these supervisory positions are qualified."


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The brain regions critical in allowing us to understand another person's thoughts and feelings have been revealed by a new imaging study.
People with autism lack this "Theory of Mind", and show abnormalities in these three key brain areas, says Francesca Happe of the Institute of Psychiatry in London.
Pinpointing brain dysfunctions involved in autism should lead to a better understanding of the causes of the disease. It should also help to develop accurate methods of evaluating autism treatments and to investigate whether animals have a Theory of Mind, she says.
Smart thinking
Happe used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to study groups of adults with a mild form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome and healthy people while they completed a series of tests. "We gave them tasks where they have to work out what someone is thinking or feeling - such as a story about an incident involving a misunderstanding," she says.
Happe found that during these tasks, activity increased in three regions of the brains of healthy people: the paracingulate cortex towards the front of the brain, parts of the temporal poles, and a region called the tempoparietal junction. But the scans of patients with Asperger's revealed a very different picture.
"These individuals use different brain areas to solve the problems - it seems that they are using sheer intelligence rather than an innate social intelligence," Happe told New Scientist.
"For healthy people, mind reading is an innate and effortless ability, even though it's in fact very complicated. For people with autism, it's like doing mental arithmetic."
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In the healthy patients, the increase in blood flow in the three key regions directly correlated with the time the patient talked about mental states, says Happe. Scans during similar tasks, such as talking about the thoughts and intentions of characters in newspaper cartoons, revealed similar results.
But activity in these three areas did not increase in the Asperger's patients while they completed the same tasks. "Instead they activate other areas of the frontal lobes. This fits in with the idea that they solve social problems through general intelligence," she says.
Other studies of Asperger's patients have found a lower density of grey matter in the region of the paracingulate cortex, says Happe. "It seems we're now closing in on the structural abnormalities involved in autism."
Significant differences between activity in the brains of healthy people mean that scans are unlikely to be useful for diagnosing autism, Happe says. But some researchers have attempted with limited success to teach children with autism a Theory of Mind, and scans could be used to evaluate whether there are any associated brain changes in the key areas, she says.
Some researchers have suggested that chimpanzees also possess a Theory of Mind. Brain scans could be used to probe these claims, Happe says.
This research was presented at the British Psychological Society's Centenary Conference in Glasgow, UK.
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First Responders Snubbed; Not Invited to 9/11 Ceremony
They were the first ones on the scene when the towers fell on September 11, 2001, but ten years later, the 9/11 first responders are being told that they will not be invited to take part in this year's ceremony at ground zero. The city announced that due to security and space issues, there's no room for the first responders. Instead, they'll be invited to a private ceremony on a different date
Retired NYPD officer Anthony Flammia discussed the snub with Gretchen Carlson, saying, "I'm disgusted."
He believes it is a total disrespect to the responders.
Flammia had to retire from the force due to illnesses suffered as a result of being on scene at ground zero.


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Somewhere between quiet villages and metropolises that never sleep are these perfect up-and-coming American cities. With their revitalized downtowns, they're savvy enough to brew smooth craft beers, land touring Broadway shows, and attract Food Network-caliber chefs. But they'll welcome you with that unpretentious small-town warmth that automatically puts you at ease. Here are 10 terrific little cities, from Chattanooga to Yakima, and plenty of reasons why each one is worth a visit.
Portland, Maine
What's Hot: The creative economy. There are so many artists, photographers, ad-agency writers and designers, and high-tech creative types in Portland that collectively they're driving change in the city. This influx of young creative professionals has fueled new expansion in the historic Old Port waterfront district, with new shops and restaurants that now stay open year-round. It has also transformed the Bayside district's scrap yards and warehouses into student housing, restaurants, and even a hipster bowling alley.
Why We Love It: Portland has all the trappings of a metropolis—touring Broadway shows, an opera company, two ballet companies, its own symphony, and chefs who regularly turn up on the Food Network—but without any of that pretentious big-city attitude.
If You Go: Don't miss the First Friday Art Walk tour of galleries and studios or the Old Port with historical red-brick buildings and cobblestone streets. In October, sample seafood at the Harvest on the Harbor festival, when the Maine Lobster Chef of the Year is awarded.
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The Republic of Colombia is the fourth largest economy in Latin America, after Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, and has the third largest population with approximately 46 million inhabitants. It is the only country in South America with two coasts (Pacific and Caribbean), which provides tactical shipping advantages in today's global economy. Aided by major security improvements, steady economic growth, and moderate inflation, Colombia has become a free market economy with major commercial and investment ties to the United States, Europe, Asia and the rest of Latin America. Since the implementation of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on May 15, 2012, U.S. exports to Colombia have increased nearly twenty percent.
Nevertheless, Colombia may be a far different country than many U.S. exporters expect. In fact, the past ten years have brought extraordinary change to the country in terms of economic development due to improvements in the national safety and security situation. Strong political stability, a growing middle class (35.3 percent of the population), and improved security have created an economic boom in Colombia that, coupled with the government's conservative fiscal policies, lessened the impact of the global economic crisis. Key economic indicators demonstrating the positive long-term effect of Colombia's political and economic policies include: GDP growth of 4.3 percent in 2013; and foreign direct investment of US$ 16.8 billion in 2013, a record for Colombia, which is an increase over the previous record of US$ 15.3 billion in 2012. These are all signs of a strong and growing economy.
Due to Colombia's close ties to the United States and Colombians' appreciation for the quality and reliability of U.S products, consumers in Colombia often favor U.S. products and services over those of our foreign competitors. The United States is Colombia's largest trading partner and Colombia was the 22nd largest market for U.S. exports in 2012. U.S. exports to Colombia in 2013 topped US$ 16 billion, an increase of more than 14 percent over 2012.
Colombia is unique in that there are five bona fide commercial hubs in the country: Bogota, Medellin, Barranquilla, Cali, and Cartagena. As opposed to the majority of Latin American countries that have one or two major cities, Colombia offers U.S exporters access through multiple commercial hubs, each of which has its own American Chamber of Commerce. While these cities, and many other secondary cities, offer unique market opportunities, they are close enough via air routes that is common to have one partner (agent, distributer, or representative) to cover the whole country.
Coal mining and oil and gas exploration/production are the principal areas of U.S. foreign direct investment, followed by consumer goods, high tech and tourism/franchising sectors. A sample of the major U.S. companies in Colombia include: Drummond, Chicago Bridge and Iron, General Electric, General Motors, Occidental Petroleum, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, Unisys, Kimberly Clark, Johnson and Johnson, Goodyear, Kraft, 3M, Pfizer, Baxter, Corning, Marriott, and Sonesta Collection Hotels.
The next couple of years will bring greater investment in infrastructure projects ranging from roads (US$ 26 billion allocated over the next 4 years), airport modernizations, port construction, and railway projects. New FDI will begin to be reflected in major hotel (Hilton and Hyatt) and infrastructure (highway, mass transportation, ports and airport) projects.
The Colombian government has implemented bilateral or multilateral trade agreements with most countries in North and South America, including the United Stated and Canada. The European Union ratified a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia in December 2012, which entered into force in August 2013. An FTA was signed with South Korea in February 2013 and one with Panama was signed in December 2013. Colombia has also initiated FTA negotiations with Japan, and Turkey.
The U.S.-Colombia FTA entered into force on May 15, 2012, , which immediately eliminated import tariffs on 80 percent of U.S. exports of consumer and industrial products to Colombia, with remaining tariffs phased out over one to ten years. Other provisions include strong protection for U.S. investors (legal stability), expanded access to service markets, greater intellectual property rights protection, market access for remanufactured goods, increased transparency and improved dispute settlement mechanisms (arbitration).
You can also use the link below to access a PDF version of the complete report.
2014 Colombia Country Commercial Guide
For assistance in identifying specific areas of opportunity, and to receive tailored business counseling services, please contact the Commercial Service at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota: Tel: (571) 275-2519; Fax: (571) 275-4576/4575, e-mail email@example.com.


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Thus Reeves, the Atlanta coach, and his defensive coordinator, Phillips, are stubbornly both still playing runball in a passball era.
But their progress in the playoffs next month will depend on whether the Falcons can modernize their game. They have a way to go. In a 34-10 rout last Sunday, it was Reeves, not the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who routed Vick. Even worse, it was Phillips' defensive strategy that led to Tampa's three touchdown passes in the second quarter, putting Vick in a hole so deep he couldn't climb out. Strategically, the Falcons' game was a disaster.
Wrong Defense Lets Johnson Star
THE TAMPA PASSER, Brad Johnson, is the picture-perfect opposite of a mobile quarterback. Among NFL starters, he ranks as probably the least mobile. Nor is Johnson's offensive line well respected. Offensively, the Buccaneer asset is Johnson's arm. Near or far, he can throw a football straight. Yet, obviously, there are ways to attack good passers who can't move and who play behind offensive linemen so ordinary that no one fears their running backs. In Johnson's case, the way to beat him, his smartest opponents say, is with a two-man blitz up the middle, using either two linebackers or one and a safety. They say it almost always works. Nonetheless, that's precisely what Atlanta didn't do.
Throughout the Tampa-Atlanta game, Phillips, the defensive coach in charge of stopping Johnson, lined up the Falcons in conventional defenses designed, in the NFL idiom, to stop the run and react to the pass. And stop the run they did, for as long as the score was close. The Tampa threat, though, is Johnson, who was left alone, just the way he likes it. It's the only way he can get off a pass. Once in a while, Phillips blitzed him from the outside, but it is the multiple inside blitz that a statue masquerading as a passer can't handle. Leaving a player like Johnson free to throw those big passes was a defensive disgrace.
Wrong Offense Ruins Vick's Day
GOOD DEFENSIVE FOOTBALL is an art requiring different approaches to different quarterbacks. Against a slow-footed passer like Johnson, the defensive play that works is a hard rush up the middle that flushes him outside, where he tends to be helpless. But against a running quarterback like Vick, defensive teams want him inside.
And when Vick was on the field Sunday, inside is where he was, but it took two teams to keep him there, the other team and his own. His conventional coach, Reeves, lost by playing conventional football with the most unconventional quarterback of our times.
The players who give the Buccaneers the league's best defense are their front four, who, though awesome, can be discouraged by quick, rather long passes thrown before they can get to the passer — just the kind Vick throws so well. The best formations for that kind of offense are those with four wide receivers — just the kind that Reeves didn't use Sunday.
Falcon Play-Calling Also Hurts Falcons
INSTEAD, IT WAS orthodox football as usual for Reeves, whose play selection was as conventional as his strategy, and as detrimental to Vick's style. Unlike other quarterbacks, he is both an alert passer and an extraordinary runner whose big gainers come on scrambles, one of which, a long one, had beaten Minnesota in overtime a week earlier.
But scrambles are runs that begin as pass plays — opening up the field — and the Falcons called few passes at Tampa until the second half, when, far behind, they had to pass, and Tampa knew it, which is a wholly different problem.
In terms of Vick's future, only the first half was relevant that day when Tampa led at the break, 21-3. The second half — in which a 22-year-old neophyte was playing catch-up against the league's toughest and most mature defense — doesn't count.
At times, theoretically, Reeves could have used Vick as a designated runner in planned running plays out of the quarterback position; but fearing an injury, the Falcons frown on such plays, as most football people believe they should.


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Throughout the year, the Carriage House Gallery is home to changing exhibits that bring Cape May history to life. Visit scenes from the Victorian era or explore Cape May's African American heritage; reminisce on years past or become a kid again when the Gallery turns into a holiday wonderland.
The Carriage House Gallery is fully accessible
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From the beginning, fire has shaped Cape May more than any other force, natural or manmade. Even today, fire continues to be the bane of Cape May, a National Historic Landmark filled with hundreds of restored Colonial and Victorian buildings. Exhibit curator Ben Miller, author of Exit Zero's best-selling book, The First Resort, takes visitors on a journey through Cape May's fiery past in this must-see exhibit that includes an authentic 1924 Model T fire truck.
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Cape May County Art League brings their Members' Fall Fine Arts Show to the Carriage House Gallery in celebration of the organization's 85 years of community service.Admission is free.
November 21, 2014 - January 1, 2015
The Carriage House Gallery at the Physick Estate becomes a Christmas wonderland this time of year. It's all about the wonder of Christmas morning with model trains and toys beneath the tree. You can actually stand under our tree and marvel at the trains, old-fashioned toys, and Dickens Village houses, people and accessories that make you feel like a kid on Christmas morning. Kids can write a letter to Santa and leave it in his special mail box.
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