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Dr. Jason Valentine, assistant professor of both mechanical and electrical engineering at Vanderbilt University, got his start in cloaking research as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley.
If there's one adjective that does not fit "Parenthood," NBC's six-season series that shuttered its doors in January, it's symmetrical. Great show! I hate to see it go. But it was out of balance. Always! And delightfully so!
Keating Lowery has been installed as the 2015 president of the Association for Women Attorneys. As an attorney with Lawrence & Russell PLC, Lowery devotes her practice to litigating Employee Retirement Income Security Act matters on behalf of employers, plan fiduciaries and third-party administrators throughout the United States.
What a difference a boom makes. In 2008, when the Icon condos in the Gulch were beginning to close, the developer was under scrutiny. Some doubted the veracity of his reported sales figures.
One group even went as far as to photograph the tower under the cover of darkness in order to prove no one lived there. If the lights are out, they argued, units had not been sold.
KNOXVILLE – Butch Jones has done it again.
Tennessee's football coach has created a national buzz with his 2015 recruiting class.
UT finished with the No. 4 class in the nation as rated by 247Sports and ended up ranked No. 5 by Rivals when the Feb. 4 national signing day was over.
Common Core determines what Tennessee's K-12 students should know and when they should learn it, yet like many other issues it has become a political pariah, especially for the state's Republican leaders.
He was supposed to be the next Andy Roddick, the next great American tennis player. That's what they said about Ryan Harrison.
Romance means something different for everyone, but most people can agree that if there is low lighting, soft music, a charming companion and something delicious to eat, you've already got the makings of one outstanding evening.
When a restaurant's been around for a decade or eight, that's usually a pretty good indication that the food is palatable. We've rounded up some of the best dishes to try at Nashville's longest standing dining establishments, and, of course, it's impossible to pick just one thing. Feel free to recommend your own favorites in the online comments.
The West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center, which is managed by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is one of four Tennessee locations participating in the new Sudden Death in the Young Case Registry, a national data collection project to learn more about the reasons for sudden and unexplained deaths of those under the age of 20.
The resurrected One Beale project at Riverside Drive and Beale Street has returned to a two-tower plan that will include 280 apartments, 40,000 square feet of retail and meeting space, 20,000 square feet of office space and a 300-room hotel.
First-year Memphis Open tennis director Erin Mazurek no doubt could tell you more than you ever wanted to know about the Detroit Red Wings.
Mazurek spent five years working for the National Hockey League team as director of private events. So, she's got a history there. She knows the value of winning and what the Stanley Cup means (last won by the Red Wings in 2008).
Hefty student loans are a major stumbling block for young Americans as they try to buy their first home, a National Association of Realtors' annual survey shows.
In spite of an improved job market and low interest rates in 2014, the number of first-time homebuyers dipped to 33 percent, down 5 percent from the previous year and the lowest since the National Association of Realtors began tracking the rate in 1981.
Three-and-a-half years after graduating from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Yasameen Hoffman is still trying to land the kind of full-time job that will help her start paying off her student loan.
A FedEx commercial that never made it past the storyboard stage portrayed company founder, chairman and CEO Fred Smith as a child filling out an order form in the back of a comic book for a batch of Sea-Monkeys, sending it off and waiting for the delivery.
Center Marc Gasol has broken through the glass ceiling that forever has hung above Memphis and the Grizzlies.
The NBA's fans, a global group to be sure, shattered that glass by voting Big Spain into the Western Conference starting lineup for the Feb. 15 NBA All-Star Game. Naturally, there is pride about that in every corner of the Grizzlies' locker room and in every corner of the city.
The Soulsville Foundation and the Memphis Grizzlies are bringing the worlds of basketball, music and mentoring together at the foundation's largest annual fundraiser, Staxtacular 2015.
Presented by SunTrust, Staxtacular will be held Feb. 7 from 7 p.m. until midnight at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.
KNOXVILLE – Jack Jones didn't want to waste any time getting started with his football career at the University of Tennessee, so he graduated in December from Murfreesboro Oakland High School.
It's easy to appreciate the art in painter Jared Small's depictions of dilapidated shacks, shotgun-style homes and other aging structures that appear to be fading away right there on his canvas, images that suggest the creaks of doors and the groans of floorboards to accompany the lonely scenes.
Fast Facts: 1998-99 NBA Rookie of the Year; 2000 Olympic gold medalist; won the Slam Dunk contest at All-Star Weekend in 2000; eight-time NBA All-Star; averaged more than 24 points in a season six times in his career; has averaged 19.8 points per game over his career; received NBA Community Assist Award in 2005; signed with Grizzlies this past summer as a free agent; cousin of former NBA player Tracy McGrady; ranks 25th on the NBA's all-time scoring list with more than 23,000 points; turns 38 on Jan. 26.
A SPECK OF CEREAL. Insure Tennessee reminds me of Lorne Greene, David Letterman and a can of Alpo.
You remember Lorne, don't you? Dad on "Bonanza"? In an old commercial for Alpo, he made his ancient dog fetch a stick to get fed. As she struggled back with the stick in her gray jaws, Lorne suggested that her longevity was due to Alpo – dog food, he said, "without a speck of cereal."
Ray's take: Most things in life involve a set of basic principles, and money management is no exception to the rule.
First, you should know and understand what you earn. You should not only know your gross salary and net pay amounts, but you should also understand your withholding and insurance benefit withdrawals. Without earnings, there would be no need for money management principles. Make the most of what you earn by following other principles.
Kenneth Batts has joined HealthChoice's new Population Health team as complex care manager. In his new role, Batts will reach out to patients identified with complex medical needs to schedule home visits, where he'll provide customized intervention and condition education, including goal setting, care coordination, and long-term support with the goal to achieve improvements in their health.
With Memphis elections on the horizon in another election year, Rotarians are about to begin the process of selecting new winners of the Bobby Dunavant Public Servant Awards.
The 12th annual awards that go to one local elected official and one local non-elected public official are a way of not only honoring the late Shelby County Probate Court clerk but also fostering a broader discussion about the nature of public service and specifically local public service.
The Memphis Ambassadors Program is accepting applications for new ambassadors for the 2015-2016 school year. The program, presented by the City of Memphis and Mayor A C Wharton Jr., is open to high school students (grades 9 to 12) who reside in one of the seven City Council districts.
Tiffany H., 43, has found the perfect way to make money. It's close to home, easy-to-manage and gives her the flexibility she needs as a busy mom shuttling two children back and forth to two different schools each day.
KNOXVILLE – Donnie Tyndall has hardly slowed down since the former Southern Miss head coach took over Tennessee's basketball program in April.
Of course, Tyndall had little choice.
It was late September, and local officials were deeply engaged with retail giant Target as the company explored investing in an online fulfillment center in Memphis when the discussions turned toward a familiar subject.
Justin Totty has joined Gateway Group Personnel as a research associate in the company's executive search division. In his new role, Totty focuses on sourcing the best candidates for clients across numerous fields and industries, specifically targeting accounting, finance and engineering.
KNOXVILLE – Christmas break has come and gone for the University of Tennessee's football team. Now it's back to business.
The Vols return to campus for practice Saturday and, after a Sunday practice, fly to Jacksonville for the Jan. 2 game against Iowa in the TaxSlayer Bowl, formerly the Gator Bowl.
Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital, was founded in 1751 by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin in order to "care for the sick-poor and insane who were wandering the streets of Philadelphia."
Retired air traffic controller Sterling King moved to Knoxville when his brother needed him. Five years later, he has fallen in love with the area and everything it has to offer.
Moderate weather, without the bone-chilling Northern winters or the searing heat of Florida summers, is a big draw, along with its location in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, says King, 58, who migrated from Dayton, Ohio, to Raleigh, North Carolina, and then to Knoxville.
Ray's Take There's been a lot of discussion in recent years about Roth accounts, specifically the Roth IRA and the Roth 401(k). Maybe you're wondering if you should convert your own accounts but aren't sure.
Dr. Barden Greenfield has been unanimously voted president-elect for the American Veterinary Dental College. In 2009, Greenfield started Your Pet Dentist, the umbrella that incorporates his involvement in Memphis Veterinary Specialists, Nashville Specialists and the Animal Emergency and Specialty Clinic of Little Rock. He has been on the AVDC board for three years, serving as chair of the PR Committee and as a member of the Credentials Committee.
Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y. Cleveland, Ohio. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. These cities and the deaths of these African-American males – men and boys – are in the headlines. So are people's responses.
Memphis City Council members Harold Collins and Lee Harris agree for the most part on the value of the Graceland expansion plan the council approved two weeks ago.
For all the tough times University of Tennessee football has endured in recent years, a turn for the better was bound to happen.
It certainly did early this week.
UT's invitation to the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville – now called the TaxSlayer Bowl – was a stunning coup for a 6-6 team that seemed destined for anything but a January bowl on the beach.
My early New Year's resolution is to be more like Christopher Foyle. Demeanor-wise and wisdom-wise. No, I won't be wearing a vest.
"Foyle's War" is a British detective series created by Anthony Horowitz. As World War II rages, Inspector Christopher Foyle (played by Michael Kitchen) investigates crimes from his headquarters in Hastings, England. He never raises his voice. He's never puzzled by an inconsistency. Obvious lies from the devious don't faze him one bit.
Fast Facts: Now in eighth NBA season, he set a career high in 2013-14 by averaging 17.2 points; was fourth overall pick of 2007 NBA Draft after leading Ohio State to the 2007 NCAA Championship Game as a freshman; father, Mike Conley Sr., won the gold medal in the triple jump in the 1992 Olympics.
The contingency plans and other political maneuvering for the city of Memphis elections are well underway.
And a key part of the calculation is making plans for a change in plans.
Architect and planner Charles "Chooch" Pickard is one of several citizens running "exploratory" campaigns at this point.
Dr. Stephanie Ivey never intended to get into the transportation field. After earning her doctorate in engineering from the University of Memphis, Ivey had planned on being involved in environmental work but, through a series of twists and turns, accepted a position at the U of M focused on transportation.
The two journalists honored in the annual Freedom Awards given by the National Civil Rights Museum had the most to say Tuesday, Dec. 2, about the broader impact of events in Ferguson, Mo.
The police shooting, grand jury decision and rioting that followed were an undercurrent at the annual awards public forum Tuesday at the Temple of Deliverance Church of God in Christ.
Dr. William E. Evans, former president and CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, will receive a 2014 Claes Nobel World Betterment Award on Saturday, Dec. 6, in Atlanta.
Claes Nobel, senior member of the Nobel family and founder of the National Society of High School Scholars Foundation, will present the 2014 Claes Nobel World Betterment Award to Evans, as well as to Laura Turner Seydel, chairperson of Captain Planet Foundation, and Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago Public Schools and current U.S. Secretary of Education.
The youngest is 53 and the oldest is 98. Some appreciate classical music and others prefer Elvis, the Mamas & the Papas or the Beatles, and others John Denver, Arlo Guthrie or Bruce Springsteen.
The average consumer typically has at least one mobile device within arm's reach at any given time throughout the day. Our growing dependency on these devices has increased the opportunity for marketers to reach targeted consumers with greater immediacy than ever before via text marketing.
Greg Spillyards has joined the brokerage team at Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors to launch the firm's Community Advisors service line.
Community Advisors is focused on the Memphis city core, with a goal to provide real estate advisory services to assist in the revitalization of the city's underserved areas with passion, creativity and entrepreneurship, and with service to those already living and leading in their neighborhoods.
After Marc Gasol had demoralized the Los Angeles Clippers – which is what 30 points and 12 rebounds from the Grizzlies' slimmed-down center will do – coach Doc Rivers noted that Gasol "looked great, he's playing with an edge. Very serious."
Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero became the first woman to hold that office when she won the election in 2011.
She's been actively involved in a number of local issues since her election, from urban-core revitalization and business recruitment to broader social issues such as marriage equality.
Memphis-based Boyle Investment Co. hopes to break ground next year on a new office building at its Ridgeway Center complex near Poplar Avenue and Shady Grove Road, according to company officials.
This week is a special one. With Veterans Day this past Tuesday, it has been important to honor our military personnel. In addition to thanking them for their service, former military members face an issue many people overlook: underemployment.
Visible Music College has come a long way from the building in Lakeland that once housed a catfish restaurant where the school launched almost 15 years ago.
Next year represents the 15th anniversary for the Memphis-based music school focused on training musicians, technicians and business professionals for work in churches and in the music industry. Its graduates are in studios today, in churches and rising up the charts, and Visible's presence extends to a partner school in Germany and a campus in Lansing, Ill.
OXFORD, Miss. – There wasn't a good place to watch that fateful play near game's end. Whether on the sideline, in the stands, or following on TV, the result was going to be the same and for all members of Rebel Nation it was going to hurt like hell.
Home sales activity in Memphis and Shelby County certainly wasn't spooky in October, with sales up 10 percent compared to the same month a year ago.
Memphis and Shelby County recorded 1,479 homes sales, up 10 percent from 1,343 in October 2013, according to real estate information company Chandler Reports, www.chandlerreports.com. The 1,479 homes sold in October is down 4 percent from 1,543 in September.
Ray's take: I occasionally am asked to teach a short financial literacy course in the Shelby County Schools system. I am amazed how many 11th and 12th graders already have credit cards. When I ask if they pay off their cards each month, they usually respond, "Oh yes, I pay the minimum balance every month!"
Andrea Hill has been named manager of Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association's COOL (College Offers Opportunities for Life) program, which provides higher education counseling, life skills training and mentorship opportunities to 11th- and 12th-graders from G.W. Carver and Booker T. Washington High Schools. Hill previously worked as director of volunteer services for Cool Girls Inc. in Atlanta.
By background, Maria Lensing perhaps doesn't fit the expected parameters of someone quick to defend Memphis and eager to take on the challenge of revitalizing a local university's alumni association.
Memphis Reads, the citywide community reading program, will host Dinaw Mengestu, author of Memphis Reads selection "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" Tuesday, Nov. 4, for a reading at 5:30 p.m. at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar Ave. Mengestu will also speak at 8 p.m. at the University Theater on the Christian Brothers University campus, 650 East Parkway S. Both events are free. Visit cbu.edu.
Here is a scary Halloween tale: Many real estate transactions do not close on the actual date specified by the legally binding contract.
This is not a recent phenomenon and has occurred since the time buyers required funding by third parties to purchase homes.
The odds of an income tax becoming a reality in Tennessee – one of the nation's lowest-taxed states – are slim to none.
And, yet there is an amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot that would change Tennessee's constitution by giving the Legislature authority to prohibit passage of an income tax or payroll tax in the state.
MAY WE NOTE LEST WE FORGET. The day after Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee died last week, I told my audience that I was going to open my remarks with a question, and I knew I was going to be depressed by the answer.
So those World Series Champion Kansas City Royals T-shirts are probably headed to Angola and Namibia and Rwanda and Zambia and, well, anyplace but my hometown.
It's a well-known story now. The manufacturers want to be ready with merchandise for the giddy fan bases eager to celebrate online with their credit cards. So they make championship stuff for both sides.
University of Penn professor, Dr. Shaun Harper, will travel to Memphis, Oct. 22-23 for a visit focused on educating young men of color in an urban context. The visit is the second in a speaker series hosted by SchoolSeed, a nonprofit working to drive educational excellence and innovation in the Greater Memphis community.
A first-ever look at whether Mississippi's kindergarten students are ready to learn to read shows that two-thirds are not.
Those results, released Friday by the Mississippi Department of Education, will be used by proponents to call for more state spending on prekindergarten classes, and to tailor efforts to help students improve before third grade. By then, educators are required by state law to flunk students who don't read at least at a basic level.
Yes, Overton Square is booming, but that may not have been the case without Memphis-based Loeb Properties Inc.
Ask Janet Miller about her remarkable career at the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and she'll likely attribute it to good timing or pass credit onto others.
KNOXVILLE – Bud Ford usually had no problem wearing the orange blazer in his early days as assistant sports information director at the University of Tennessee.
Not on this day, though. It was Nov. 15, 1969.
THIS MORNING. THIS TOWN. This morning, I woke up in a challenged neighborhood. You know the challenges well.
The population is declining and aging – talking about the good old days, bemoaning the present, fearful of the future. The city is trying to reinvent itself – built on a booming business now faded and all but gone. Young people aren't returning. One major employer dominates and other jobs are mostly in government or in lower-paying positions in service or tourism. People outside the city point to it as the source of the area's problems.
This week we heard two expressions we are compelled to share with you, our readers. They are "The Fooling Yourself Theory" and "Don't mistake my kindness for weakness."
The new president of the Memphis Area Transit Authority wants more collaboration with groups that have ideas about where the city's bus system can gain passengers while keeping those riders who depend on the bus system.
A SCORE Prize finalist three years ago, Williamson County Schools is making another strong push for the top district in Tennessee for student learning, based in part on data compiled by the State Collaborative on Reforming Education [SCORE].
Harpeth Hall's new head of school is a fierce proponent of single-sex education who says that an all-girls school can nurture a female mind, especially one interested in going into a STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and math.
Aijalon Carter, 15, still remembers her first day as a timid 3-year-old at Goodpasture Christian School. Crying and scared, she was greeted by Miss Jill, her new preschool teacher and immediately felt better.
At this stage of his NBA career, there are a lot of euphemisms for Vince Carter.
Veteran. Elder statesman. Old guy. Those were Carter's own words when describing his exit in Dallas this summer, after owner Mark Cuban put a three-year, $46.1 million offer sheet in front of 25-year-old Chandler Parsons. The Benefactor indeed.
Central Station is 100 years old, an age that most train stations never reach. And if they do, they get there with some really harrowing years in mid-life.
The landmark at South Main Street and G.E. Patterson Drive marked its centennial this month with hundreds of people taking a look around the now recovered and renovated station as well as Amtrak trains and Canadian National railroad locomotives on the tracks that run by the station.
Ivan Gerling, professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health, to study the process of Type 1 diabetes.
A few weeks ago, I had the honor of sitting on a career panel about making the right career moves. In a packed room, we covered everything from preparing for a job interview to how office politics can influence promotions at work.
Before they played the game, Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze suggested it amounted to the "Super Bowl" for the University of Memphis. But in many respects it was more of a Blooper Bowl for both teams.
The tag "Hip Donelson" evoked plenty of snickers, eye rolls and snarky comments when it first appeared. After all, the local joke goes, Donelson's known for hip replacements – not hipsters.
So here's the offer: lower salary – meaning it will take longer to pay down your student loan debt – less prestige, and perhaps even a questioning of your intelligence and skill.
In 2014, that's what comes with the decision to become a primary care physician. Recently, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, Mara Gordon, wrote an article for The Atlantic explaining her decision to become a primary care doctor.
Picking a new transit chief is critical for a city in transition.
Next year, Nashville residents will elect a new mayor and turn over its large Metro Council.
Davidson County also expects some 200,000 new residents over the next 20 years, and much of the success of future development will depend on the ease of navigating around Nashville – already the nation's second-worst area for sprawl, according to Smart Growth America.
Nothing surprises Murfreesboro Blackman High School football coach Philip Shadowens when it comes to college recruiting.
Shadowens has seen it all – including the flurry of activity created by Blackman senior quarterback and safety Jauan Jennings, rated the No. 18 athlete in the nation by Rivals.com.
Butch Jones was sitting in the office of Knoxville's South-Doyle High School athletic director and football coach Clark Duncan during a visit to see recruit Jocquez Bruce last winter.
The first thing to understand about the task that Opera Memphis general director Ned Canty feels is before him is that he's not leading a music organization that competes only with other music outlets and venues for audiences' attention.
It's a big game. Big enough that the University of Memphis got the Grizzlies' Tony Allen – "The Grindfather" – to do a short video urging fans to come out for the football game this Saturday, Sept. 20, against the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders.
In mid-August, Memphis Police brass realized they had a crime problem in different parts of the city.
"We realized we had a spike in crime," is how Deputy Police Chief Clete Knight put it Wednesday, Sept. 17, to a neighborhood group in East Memphis.
Long-term outcomes, such as improved high school graduation rates and reduced dropout rates, are the ultimate objectives of the Memphis Athletic Ministries' still-young Academic Diligence program.
When I talk with millennials who have recently graduated from college, one thing is clear: They're struggling to figure out what exactly to do next.
A common theme is they're taking jobs that would normally be considered beneath their skill level.
Everyone always says the expectations are highest in their clubhouse. But when the St. Louis Cardinals say it, well, it has a certain depth. The past decade has seen seven playoff trips and two World Series championships. And this season, the Cardinals are hunting their fourth straight Red October.
Nancy Keen Palmer is worried about Lily and Holly.
The worry doesn't show, though. Only a bright smile lights her face as Lily, a 6-year-old miniature dachshund-Yorkie mix, and her half-sister, Holly, a 7-year-old Yorkie, take turns climbing into Palmer's lap and lavishing her with licks.
A larger share of business for minority- and women-owned local businesses should begin with an inventory that matches existing businesses with existing opportunities.
And three leaders of the recently revived effort to build that share of business say from there the local Memphis economy overall can grow.
When Dara Ashworth's father died this spring after battling metastatic melanoma, she and her two sisters struggled with the best way to honor his life, his memory and his body.
Their father, Leonard Daniel Hamby, 64, a lab technician with the Tennessee Department of Health, didn't have a specific plan, but the family knew enough about his wishes and knew that he didn't want a traditional burial.
The Memphis-based marketing communications agency archer-malmo has won awards for its company culture, and it draws a steady stream of creatives attracted to everything from the hip workspace to the way creativity is given room to flourish.
The young creatives included among the workforce at Sullivan Branding don't just bring fresh thinking and out of the box perspectives to projects and client work.
This particular demographic, often tagged as millennials, also brings with it ideas about what a company culture should look like and how a workplace should operate – including its core values and strategic priorities – that all tend to stand apart from those ideas of older generations.
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel as part of the Memphis Urban League Young Professional's 2014 Empowerment Conference. We spoke on the topic of "Stand Out in the Crowd."
First off, I don't believe everything that Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper says.
"Coach Lane Kiffin is a great coach and a great person to be around," Cooper said of the Crimson Tide's new offensive coordinator. "Coach is a likable guy."
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen said police in Ferguson, Mo., could have shot to wound instead of shot to kill Michael Brown in the fatal incident there this month that has prompted national and international reaction to a number of race-related issues beyond the shooting.
Recently, my doctor explained a topic so complicated that even my two advanced degrees weren't helping to decipher what she was talking about.
"If we were talking about marketing, I'd completely understand," I said. "But, unfortunately I don't. Can you explain this to me again in a more simple way?" My doctor paused, laughed, and said, "You know, this is how I feel when my pest guy comes to tell me about my lawn. I have no idea what he's talking about!"
The University of Memphis Athletic Department has announced it will continue the free football season tickets promotion for first-year graduates and has added a new discount ticket program for anyone who graduated from the university in the last four years.
Some time in October, lovers of local craft beers could enjoy a cold brew in a new tasting room at Memphis Made Brewing Co.'s facility in the Cooper-Young district.
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Blackbird Festival presents Taylor Mali
joined by poets Chris August and Steve Mandes
Howard County Poetry & Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo), in partnership with Howard Community College's Office of Student Life, English and World Languages Division, and Arts & Humanities Division, presents the annual Blackbird Poetry Festival on Thursday, April 23, 2015, at Howard Community College. The all-day event features readings by Taylor Mali, Chris August, and Steve Mandes. The festival will also include readings by student poets from HCC and on-campus patrols by the Poetry Police, who will award individuals carrying a poem in recognition of national Poem in Your Pocket Day.
Poetry Police
Morningbird: Kittleman Room (DH 100) from 11am-12:20
Sunbird: Smith Theater from 2:30pm-4:30pm
Nightbird: Smith Theater from 7pm-8:30pm
Tickets to Nightbird are $15 for students, teachers, and seniors or $20 for general tickets. Tickets can be purchased at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1332550 For more information, call HoCoPoLitSo at (443) 518-4568 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Poet Bios
Taylor Mali is a vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, having himself spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to math and S.A.T. test preparation. He has performed and lectured for teachers all over the world, and his 12-year long Quest for One Thousand Teachers, completed in April of 2012, helped create 1,000 new teachers through "poetry, persuasion, and perseverance," an achievement Mali commemorated by donating 12″ of his hair to the American Cancer Society.
Mali is the author of What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World, two other books of poetry, The Last Time As We Are and What Learning Leaves, and most recently Bouquet of Red Flags. Formerly president of Poetry Slam, Inc., the non-profit organization that oversees all poetry slams in North America, Taylor Mali makes his living entirely as a spoken-word and voiceover artist these days, traveling around the country performing and teaching workshops as well as doing occasional commercial voiceover work. He has narrated several books on tape, including The Great Fire (for which he won the Golden Earphones Award for children's narration).
WATCH Taylor Mali perform his poetry:
Chris August, 2011 Individual World Poetry Slam champion, is a writer, activist, and former special educator from Baltimore, Maryland. A frequent spoken-word performer around the country, he has also represented the United States at the Poetry World Cup held in Paris, France and was a featured opening performer at 'Howl' in the City in 2010.
Steve Mandes (a Blackbird alum from the very first festival in 2009) is a teacher, poet, and fiction writer. He received his Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Baltimore. His poems have appeared in Barbaric Yawp, The Unknown Writer, The Muse, Welter, The Red River Review, Prick of the Spindle and Xanadu, and he is the author of Kiss Big Life.

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School district disputes claim that threats led to QB injury
"This was not someone trying to take out (Kimbrough's) son, other than his son is the quarterback," Ward said. "I've seen the kid play before and you better try to figure out how to tackle him or he'll single-handedly beat you."
Ward said when he asked San Diego High for its footage of the game he was told it wasn't available, that it had been taped over. Ward was able to obtain game footage from another source.
Kimbrough also questioned the Morse player's behavior after the injury.
"The way (Khari) was taunted after the injury it was very inappropriate, very unsportsmanlike," Kimbrough said. "After the young man hit him he made a comment 'How you going to run with one leg?' And he stood over him and pointed at him."
Ward disputed that charge as well.
"We have a young coach who has not been a coach very long — that had a tragic, heartbreaking injury to his son — react the way a dad would react," Ward said. "So nothing that he says surprises me."
Adding to the tension following the injury, there was a delay in attending to Khari Kimbrough. The ambulance on the scene had a dead battery and a second ambulance had to be called.
After consulting with administrators from both schools, the referee made the decision to call off the game. One issue still to be decided involves the status of the game, whether it will be a San Diego forfeit or a no-contest.
Home and visitors sit on the same side at Morse, whose football stadium is still under construction, but Ward said there were no issues involving spectators.


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Radioactivity airs speech by American History Professor and author Howard Zinn06/01/15 Rob Lorei
Radioactivity: Live Call-In (Monday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Howard Zinn, War, peace, A People's History of the United States, wmnf, Rob Lorei
We listen to a speech by esteemed American History Professor and author Howard Zinn, whose best-selling and controversial book A People's History of the United States looks at American History people of the common people and marginalized groups. Zinn was a combat veteran in WWII, his experiences later shaped his stance aganist the wars in both Vietnam and Iraq. In this 2006 speech he gave in Austin Texas, he talks at length about war and peace.Be the first to comment
Tampa Peace House group uses comedy to combat Islamophobia listen05/11/15 Seán Kinane
MidPoint with WMNF News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: islam, Islamophobia, Muslim, Peace House, peace, humor, satire, comedy, Muzzies
(update: in June Peace House posted a new video, scroll down to the bottom of this page to watch it)
A new group in Tampa is using humor to fight Islamophobia.
A couple of weeks ago the daycare section of a mosque in Tampa caught fire. When news of the fire was posted on television websites the string of angry, mean and downright Islamophobic responses flooded in.
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The Ralph Nader Radio Hour interviews Peace Activist Frances Crowe02/24/15 Rob Lorei
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Today Radioactivity airs the latest episode of KPFK's Ralph Nader Radio Hour. Nader conducts a fascinating interview with pacifist Frances Crowe, who has been objecting war since the nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshimi in World War II. During the Vietnam war she helped thousands register as conscious objectors of war and refused to pay war taxes since the beginning of the Iraq War. Her activism and civil disobedience has led to her arrest many times, although not enough, in her own wor...Be the first to comment
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In the years between 2001 & 2014 about 230,000 soldiers & veterans self-identified as suffering from "mild traumatic brain injury," also called TBI. That's according to estimates by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Monday WMNF News interviewed Caroline Alexander a contributing writer for National Geographic Magazine. She's also a bestselling author and has written a number of documentary films, most recently Tiger Tiger. She wrote the February 2015 National Geographic cover story, "[The Inv...Be the first to comment
USF Students for a Democratic Society will hold anti-war teach-in Wednesday listen02/09/15 Seán Kinane
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Some area students are holding an anti-war teach-in at the University of South Florida this week. The Books Not Bombs teach-in on Wednesday is focused on ties between USF and the U.S. military. Andrew Curry is a member of the USF SDS; Students for a Democratic Society. He's a student at St. Petersburg College and helping to organize the teach-in.
update: In a press release on 11 February, SDS wrot...Be the first to comment
Peace coalition will protest "war profiteering" at Raytheon in Largo listen10/16/14 Seán Kinane
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Tampa Peace activists opposed to more war in southwest Asia have demonstrated outside MacDill Air Force Base several times in the last few months as the U.S. escalated its wars in Iraq and Syria; but Friday there will be a new location for their anti-war protest: a Raytheon plant in Largo.
It begins at 4:00 p.m. at the corner of Bryan Dairy Road and Belcher Road and is being organized by St. Pete For Peace.
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Peace activists to demonstrate against action in Iraq Friday at MacDill listen06/24/14 Seán Kinane
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Local peace groups will protest possible U.S. military actions in Iraq this week near the Tampa command center for southwest Asia.
United States Central Command is housed at South Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base and for years, anti-war demonstrations have used the location to oppose military strikes.
During a forum on Iraq in St. Petersburg Monday night hosted by St. Pete for Peace, participants decided to [protest outside MacDill this Friday at 4 p.m.](htt...Be the first to comment
Peace advocates continue to raise awareness on Pinellas street corners listen04/17/14 Seán Kinane
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Religious-based peace activists continue their weekly sign-waving on busy Pinellas County street corners.
During rush hour Wednesday afternoon, Kathleen Rumpf joined half-dozen others from Pax Christi and Quaker groups on the corner of U.S. 19 and 22nd Avenue South in South St. Petersburg.
They plan to peace corner again next Wednesday.
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Peace activists are planning a No War With Syria demonstration in South Tampa Saturday at 6 p.m. Theyâre gathering at the corner of Gandy Boulevard and Dale Mabry Highway.
One of the organizers from St. Pete for Peace was on the WMNF program True Talk Friday morning. Host Samar Jarrah is in Jordan but used Skype to interview Chris Ernesto, who was in the studio with Rob Lorei.
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Peace activists deliver varied anti-war messages at USF Tampa listen04/17/13 Janelle Irwin
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As part of a national anti-war initiative called April Days of Action Against Drones and Occupation, some USF students and community activists are reaching out for peace. During a rally today representatives from different groups passed out literature to students on the Tampa campus. Tampa Bay Bradley Manning Support Networkâs Bill Livsey defended whistle-blowing by drawing attention to Manningâs prosecution.
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Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88
SAN FRANCISCO Doug Engelbart, a visionary who invented the computer mouse and developed other technology that has transformed the way people work, play and communicate, died late Tuesday. He was 88.
His death of acute kidney failure occurred at his home in Atherton, Calif., after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, according to one of his daughters, Diana Engelbart Mangan.
Back in the 1950s and `60s, when mainframes took up entire rooms and were fed data on punch cards, Engelbart already was envisioning a day when computers would empower people to share ideas and solve problems in ways that seemed unfathomable at the time.
Engelbart considered his work to be all about "augmenting human intellect" - a mission that boiled down to making computers more intuitive to use. One of the biggest advances was the mouse, which he developed in the 1960s and patented in 1970. At the time, it was a wooden shell covering two metal wheels: an "X-Y position indicator for a display system."
Engelbart "brought tremendous value to society," said Curtis R. Carlson, the CEO of SRI International, where Engelbart worked when it was still known as the Stanford Research Institute. "We will miss his genius, warmth and charm. Doug's legacy is immense. Anyone in the world who uses a mouse or enjoys the productive benefits of a personal computer is indebted to him."
The notion of operating the inside of a computer with a tool on the outside was way ahead of its time when Engelbart began working on it. The mouse didn't become commercially available until 1984, with the released of Apple's then-revolutionary Macintosh, a prelude to future breakthroughs such as the iPhone and iPad.
All of those devices were conceived by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in October 2011. Although Jobs' contributions to personal technology are far better known, Engelbart left an indelible mark, too.
"There are only a handful of people who were as influential," said Marc Weber, founder and curator of the Internet history program at the Computer History Museum, where Engelbart had been a fellow since 2005. "He had a complete vision of what computers could become at a very early stage. He was thinking about these things when computers were used just for calculations and number crunching. They weren't interactive at all, so it was pretty radical at the time."
Engelbart conceived the computer mouse so early in the evolution of computers that he and his colleagues didn't profit much from it. The mouse patent had a 17-year life span, allowing the technology to pass into the public domain in 1987. That prevented Engelbart from collecting royalties on the mouse when it was in its widest use. At least 1 billion have been sold since the mid-1980s.
Although computer mice remain prevalent, their usage is waning as people increasingly control smartphones and tablets in an even simpler way: by merely swiping their finger across a display screen. But the leap to touch-screen controls might not have been made if the mouse hadn't simplified computing in the first place.


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In this course, Chris Meyer helps beginning After Effects artists take their animations to the next level. Chris shows how to refine animations to create elegant, coordinated movements with the minimum number of keyframes—as well as slam-downs, whip pans, and other attention-getters. Additional movies show how to reverse-engineer existing animations, create variations on a theme, and master other parts of the program. Even though this course is designed for beginners, even veterans should learn tricks that many experienced users are unaware of. Chris' friendly running commentary lets you in on his mental process as he works on an animation. Exercise files are included with the course.
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We're going to start with a quick review of what keyframes look like, how to reveal them, and how to navigate between them. If you're already comfortable with this, feel free to skip to the next movie. If you have the project files that come with this lesson, open the Project AEA_Advanced Animation.aep, and we're going to be in composition 00-keyframes 101. This composition contains an animation. You can drag the Current Time Indicator through the Timeline to see how things change over time, or you can click the RAM Preview button in the Preview panel, or press zero on the Numeric keypad.
The green bar shows it's caching the frames for this animation, and then we'll play back in real time. You see that we have our snowflake both moving around the screen, animating its position, and also changing in size, animating its scale. I'll press the Spacebar to start my preview. To reveal my keyframes, I can do a few different things. One, I can click on this arrow which we call a twirly, next to my source name Snowflake, and it will reveal Transform. Twirl down Transform and it will reveal all the properties for this layer.
You'll note that some of them have these little diamonds which indicate keyframes. A quicker way to reveal animated properties is to select the layer and press U on the keyboard, and that will reveal just the properties that are being animated for the selected layers. When this stopwatch next to a property's name is highlighted, it indicates that keyframing has been enabled for that property, and therefore it can change value over time. If that stopwatch is not highlighted, the value stays constant over time. Now the best way to study keyframes is to have the Current Time Indicator positioned directly on top of a keyframe.
Don't rely on just eyeballing it, because if you're off a little bit and then you start editing a value, you will just create a new keyframe rather than edit the existing keyframe. So there are a few different ways to make sure you land exactly on a keyframe. One, you can hold the Shift key while dragging, and you'll see it will snap to the nearest keyframe. Another is to use this keyframe navigator. Now unfortunately, it defaults all the way here to the left side of screen, so one of the first things we do when we open up a new copy of After Effects is we grab this A/V Switches column and drag it to the far right so it's right next to the Timeline.
That way the keyframe navigator is right next to our keyframes. These little arrows to the right and to the left can jump between keyframes for that selected property. And whenever you're directly on top of the keyframe, this yellow diamond in the middle will illuminate, indicating you are indeed on a keyframe. If I was a little bit off, you see that these are grayed out. They are not illuminated. I can click on this arrow to jump to the next keyframe for the Scale property. Notice that Position does not have a keyframe at this same point in time, so its navigator is grayed out.
There is one other handy shortcut to navigate between keyframes. If you use the J and K keys, you will jump earlier in time or later in time to the nearest keyframes, markers, starts and ends of layers, et cetera. It's another good shortcut. To focus on a specific property, you can type its shortcut key. For example, the shortcut for Position is P. Since I already have properties revealed, pressing P once will actually hide all the properties. If I press P again, it will reveal just the Position property. Now Position is a pretty interesting property, because it has two different types of keyframes.
Here in the Timeline panel, it has what are known as temporal keyframes, keyframes that have a value at a specific point in time. All properties pretty much have temporal keyframes. What's different about position and other related properties--such as anchor point, camera position, effects points, et cetera--is they also have spatial keyframes. The have keyframes in space revealed here in the Comp panel; sometimes you'll also see them in the layer panel. And you'll note that by dragging the Current Time Indicator so it lands exactly on a temporal keyframe you notice our snowflake is indeed centered right on the spatial keyframe as well.
Note that clicking on a keyframe does not immediately jump to that keyframe; it merely highlights it, both in the Timeline panel and in the case of spatial keyframes, the Comp panel. Now when you just look at a keyframe, you might assume the only thing it has is a value. Here is this frame's value, 497, 150, at this point in time. But in reality there is a lot more going underneath the hood, and that's what we'll talk about next.
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Anyone who decides to add his drop to the tidal wave of commentary on the impeachment of President Clinton must acknowledge, at the outset, a built-in difficulty. The very act of writing or speaking about the crisis, irrespective of what is said, tends, by adding to its momentum, to make it worse. Faced with the snowball rolling downhill that is everyone's favorite metaphor (unless it is the runaway train) for impeachment, the writer who tries to stand athwart its path, waving his puny arms in protest, is in danger, as it rolls over him, of becoming an additional particle of its filthy mass. Thus does impeachment, like so many other obnoxious products of the information age, co-opt resistance against itself. Under these conditions, writing about the crisis seems of doubtful use, and one might prefer, if this were possible, to subtract an article about impeachment from the swelling mass than to add another. Editors, however, do not offer the option of unwriting someone else's work.
A similar anxiety accounts for a question that has become a motif of the impeachment debate: whether the crisis is "historic" or not. By threatening to remove the chief executive of the self-described "world's only superpower" (last seen in action cruise-missiling Iraq), impeachment certainly seemed to qualify as the stuff of History. On the other hand, the proceedings entirely lacked the gravity, or grandeur, that we still, for some reason, associate with the historic. On the contrary, they possessed all the grandeur of one of the seamier talk shows. The feeling that we were watching a tragedy kept getting undermined by the suspicion that the whole story belonged in the category of farce, and it was difficult a good deal of the time to know whether to weep or giggle.
There was, in truth, no need to choose. For the essential mechanism of the impeachment crisis has been the elevation of the trifling (sex and lies about sex) to the earth-shaking (impeachment of a President and damage to the constitutional system), and the question that most urgently needs answering is how and why this happened. The most obvious reason is that, for reasons not yet well understood, the Republican Party, which styled itself "revolutionary" when it won control of Congress in 1994, has turned out, to most people's surprise, to be exactly that. ("Conservative" is the last word that would apply.) What sounded like mere bombast in 1994 turned out to be a plan. The business of revolution, let's not forget, is to overthrow the existing government. In 1995 the party merely shut down the government as a tactic to force legislation upon the President. Owing in part to the public backlash, Bill Clinton was re-elected in 1996. This year, in a sort of quasi-legal insurrection, the party has proceeded from shutdown to decapitation, in an attempt to reverse the results of that election.
None of this, however, could have happened were it not for a development that transcends the Republican Party--the creation of the media machine of the information age: the satellite feeds, the hundreds of cable channels, the multiplying sources of "infotainment" and the Internet. These media have supplied the screen (or the millions of screens), unavailable in earlier times, on which the small-bore misdeeds of the Clinton scandal have been blown up to billboard-sized proportions. We have traveled far from the days when the press was symbolized by the underpaid, seedy, hard-bitten, ink-stained wretch with a heart of gold and a pencil in his hat depicted in Ben Hecht's The Front Page. A better symbol for today's media would be the six-figure-earning, deceptively ingratiating TV interviewer plying celebrities with invasive, intimate questions while wearing an expression of fake concern and trenchancy. And this is not to mention Montel Williams, Howard Stern or Larry Flynt or any of the other assorted monsters of the "new media"--tails that now wag the dog of American political life.
The Framers of the Constitution warned their posterity against standing armies. Better, they advised, to raise armies to fight wars than to find wars to busy armies. The Framers did not worry too much about the news media, but in our day the media machine has become a standing army of a kind. This army's need, to be sure, is not for wars per se; it is for any dramatic story to cover. These stories satisfy both the natural craving of the journalistic profession for novelty and excitement and the financial interests of its conglomerate corporate masters, who depend for their profits on high ratings. Most of the time, this machine is underfed. Like many of the largest industries today, it suffers from overcapacity--too many cable channels, too many Web sites, too many talk shows, too many networks, too many mouths dinning into too few ears. Left to its own devices, the world simply doesn't produce enough blockbuster stories to feed this beast.
December 19--the day Clinton was impeached, the Speaker-designate of the House Robert Livingston resigned from his position and the bombing of Iraq entered its third day--was the exception that proves the rule. At last, the supply of stories equaled the demand. For a moment, the machine was able to run on all cylinders. You could feel, behind all the long faces and solemn television talk, the glow of satisfaction of a profession at full employment. The question that needed asking, though, was to what extent the media standing army had created the news it was now so contentedly masticating.
The rise of the new media machine may have fatally tipped a newly endangered balance of power: the balance between fantasy and reality. In totalitarian countries, of course, it has proved possible, through the combination of ideology and terror, to fabricate wholly fictitious realities. In free countries, where terror is unavailable, political manipulators must satisfy themselves with a subtler, more limited and, we trust, milder--but still highly dangerous--variant of this. Even under conditions of democracy, human beings have a well-known capacity to mistake a world of their own making for the real one. In dreaming, for example, we create, behind our own backs, so to speak, a "reality" that we then experience as objective--frightening or arousing or even surprising ourselves with the creations of our own mind. Is it possible that because of the rise of the new media, which have given us the ability to manufacture what we call virtual reality, we are now able, without quite knowing what we are doing, to secrete a secondary world that we are liable to mistake for the primary world given to our senses at birth? If so, the prime need it serves is probably not political at all but the one Freud identified as the chief motive for dreaming: wish fulfillment--a need catered to both by our luxuriously proliferating sources of entertainment and the means of their support, namely, advertisement of consumer products. In our variant of self-deception, pleasure plays the role that terror plays under totalitarianism.
If--supposing that these suggestions are sound--a history of this secondary reality is ever written, a pivotal chapter, I believe, will concern the trial of O.J. Simpson, in which the media, making use of materials offered by the real world, managed to construct a drama indistinguishable from a soap opera. The key moment was, of course, the pursuit of O.J. along the freeway in his Bronco--an episode in which reality furnished a live version of that archetypal scene in movies and television programs, the car chase. At that moment, virtual reality and plain old-fashioned reality were inextricably fused in some new way.
The many commentators who opined that the trial of Clinton in the Senate may be "even bigger than O.J." were speaking to the point. In both stories, highly diverting ascertainable facts mingling sex and crime were presented as, among other things, entertainment. However, there is, of course, a critical difference. The O.J. trial marked the apotheosis of infotainment--the use of factual material to amuse. (If virtual reality is the use of fictional material to simulate a factual world, then the O.J. story was virtual fiction, which we can define as the use of factual material to satisfy the need for a fictional world.)
The Monica and Bill story started that way, too. A factual story became a bigger and better blockbuster than anything any of the ratings-chasers at the networks could confabulate. The entertainment value of the story certainly was one reason the public, though engrossed in the tale, has never taken it very seriously. Only a minority, for instance, has ever thought that Clinton should--or would--actually be impeached. But then the story was given a fateful turn. The soap opera suddenly became serious and real. Against the public's wishes and its expectations, Clinton actually was impeached. The public, which thought it had been watching a mere program and now would have liked to switch channels (perhaps to a football game, which CBS actually offered on a split screen alongside the impeachment debate in the House), discovered not only that the program was going on but that they were doomed to play a supporting role.The whole country found itself trapped inside a television program.
What was now happening was no longer infotainment (the manufacture of dramas out of real events) but reification--the sudden mutation of what the public had taken to be soap opera into something terrifyingly actual. All at once, the fun was over, and the amusing characters in the drama--the rascally President, his hypocritically puritanical inquisitors, the empty-headed ingenue, her comic-book-wicked, treacherous "friend"--were capable of authentic, long-term harm to the United States and its people. O.J. went the way of Jurassic Park and Seinfeld. Not so Bill and Monica. This sudden inversion of the O.J. process accounts for the dual character, so vexatious to commentators, of the crisis, which now is indubitably real while remaining at the same time false to the core. Never has James Joyce's saying that history is a nightmare--or perhaps we should say a TV miniseries--from which we are trying to awaken been more true than it is today.
It's often said that no one--not the feckless President, not the vindictive Republicans, not the spineless Democrats, not the braying, news-famished media--has come out of the scandal looking good. This accusation, however, overlooks a notable actor in the crisis--the public. It's true that the public had made a modest contribution to the problem by falling victim to a bait-and-switch procedure. The bait was sex and power (the usual stuff), and the public gobbled it down eagerly; the switch, which came with remarkable speed in the wake of the fall's Congressional election (whose results had mistakenly seemed to bury impeachment), was the authentic, if gratuitous, crisis in which the country now finds itself caught.
Nevertheless, if there has been a hero in the crisis, it has been a majority of this same public, which, notwithstanding its pardonable appetite for a sensational story, has in what amounts to an information-age act of mass civil disobedience resolutely chosen reality over fantasy and resisted the stampede to judgment urged upon it by the establishment. (It's almost enough to give apathy a good name.) Here is a very important body of sane men and women whose unbroken ranks give heart--let us all praise the silent majority!--to one wavering, anti-impeachment commentator and can, we may hope, shatter the dirty snowball that is rushing toward us into a thousand pieces.


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Fleming said another Burdette worker, Jimmy Carrigan, 60, climbed the tree cut off the branch that had the limbs on it that were caught in the fishing line. Then Fleming and another employee, 22-year-old Jerry Grannan Jr. used a boat to pick up the owl from the water and got the hook out of the owl's wing.
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Stars Matt Damon and Heath Ledger patiently and cheerfully worked their ways down the entire arrivals line Monday night inside the Directors Guild of America. All the while, they discussed "Grimm," opening stateside Aug. 26, which casts the two as fictionalized versions of the real-life kings of the fairy tale.
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Moore had been partners in the LivePlanet production venture with Affleck, Damon and Sean Bailey. Among Moore's producer credits are the "American Pie" movies, the "Project Greenlight" movies, "Joy Ride" and Affleck and Damon's breakout hit "Good Will Hunting."
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Such a cute place! Staff was very welcoming upon arrival. They gave us recommendations on places to eat (Buen Comer and Limoncello), which were amazing. We had to leave early at 6am the next morning so we didn't get a chance to try their breakfast, but they offered us coffee which was amazing. Very close to downtown, we were able walk there and explore. Donna also helped set up a taxi driver (Giovanni) who picked us up from the airport and took us directly to Casa 69 for $25. He was soo nice and gave us some historic background as we drove to the hotel. Would definitely recommend this place. Also, wifi worked great.
We had a wonderful experience at Casa69! The room looked even better in person. Casa 69 is very close to a pharmacy, Peruvian eatery and a pub! Everyone there was so nice, helpful and accommodating to our needs. From Casa we were able to explore on foot the churches, museums and even the zoo. We will miss Casa 69 and San Jose.
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Stayed here with my wife for one night the day we arrived in Costa Rica. We had a really hard time finding it as there are few street signs and house numbers in San Jose. If you're driving, plan to pay $10 to Casa 69 to use their parking. Casa 69 is clean, and as peaceful as one could hope for in San Jose and they have a nice roof deck with great views. The staff is really friendly and helpful. Their breakfast and coffee is good and affordable. Two items to be aware of are that there are a few animals that live there and there is a loud train that passes nearby regularly including throughout the night.
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|Kodiyeri Balakrishnan
|Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala State Committee
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February 23, 2015
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|Pinarayi Vijayan
|Member of Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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Kodiyeri, Kannur, India
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Kodiyeri Balakrishnan is one of the prominent communist leader from Kerala, India. He is the current Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala State Committee.
During 2001 to 2006 United Democratic Front (India) (UDF) government, he was the deputy opposition leader of Left Democratic Front (Kerala) (LDF), and in 2011 he retained the same position and still continues. During 2006 to 2011 LDF government, he was the home and tourism minister of Kerala state. At present he is also a politburo member of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M).[1]
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He came to politics through the students wing of CPI-M at 1970. He was Secretary of the Kerala State Committee of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) and its All India Joint Secretary between 1973 and 1979. During the time of The Emergency (India) Kodiyeri Balakrishnan was imprisoned under MISA for 16 months.
During 1980 to 1982, he was the Kannur District President of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI). At present he is CPI (M) Polit Bureau Member and CPI (M) Parliamentary Party Deputy Leader. He was elected to Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1982, 1987 and 2001 from Kannur and in 2006 & 2011 he was elected from thalashery.[2]
On 10 July 2013, The High Court demanded a vigilance investigation against Kodiyeri Balakrishnan and other CPM cadres for irregularities regarding funds up to 3 crore Rupees taken from the State Treasury. These funds were used to hire expensive out-of-state lawyers who appeared on Mr. Balakrishnan's behalf when he was Minister. The Minister is among those believed to be involved in the SNC Lavalin case.
On 23 February 2015 , he was elected as the Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala State Committee.
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He was born in Kodiyeri (Kannur,Kerala) on 16 November 1953. He studied in Kodiyeri Junior Basic School & Onion High School. He became active in politics while studying Pre-Degree at Mahtma Gandhi College , Mahe. He was active in Trivandrum University College during his degree . He is married and has two children, Bineesh and Binoy.[3]
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Competing in USA Boxing:
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