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Celebrate the circle of life and feast your eyes with the vivid African savannah that is sure to liven the stage in this Julie Taymor directed Broadway masterpiece, 'The Lion King'. This Tony Award winning musical adaptation of the Academy Award winning Disney film is coming to New Orleans this spring for a month-long engagement at the Mahalia Jackson Theater, from March 14 to April 15, 2012.
'The Lion King' is an extravagant theatrical phenomenon that defies the boundaries of musical theater. "A landmark event in entertainment," as Newsweek calls it, this production will have you hanging onto the edge of your seats in astonishment and exhilaration as the vast and majestic Pridelands emerge vividly onstage, transporting the audiences to a prairie richly filled with colorful, lifelike characters and creatures clad in scene-stealing costumes as brilliantly conceptualized by Tony Award winner Julie Taymor. Accompanying the stunning visuals are Elton John and Time Rice's grand, rhythmic and soulful scores and tunes. The musical is the ideal combination of visual genius, storytelling mastery and musical perfection, and to say that "there is simply nothing else like it" (The New York Times) is like saying not one superlative in the English vocabulary will suffice to completely describe this exceptional Broadway spectacle.
Show times for 'The Lion King' are at 8 PM from Tuesdays to Saturdays and 6:30 PM on Sundays. Matinee performances are at 2 PM on Saturdays and 1 PM on Sundays, with a special matinee on Thursday, March 15, 2012, at 2 PM. The performance running time is 2 hours and 45 minutes with 1 intermission.
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Pumbaa – Ben Lipitz
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Simba – Jelani Remy
Nala – Nia Holloway
Banzai – Keith Bennett
Shenzi – Rashada Dawan
Music – Elton John
Lyrics – Tim Rice
Book – Roger Allers & Irene Mecchi
Director, Costume Design, Mask/Puppet Co-Design, Additional Lyrics – Julie Taymor
Choreographer – Garth Fagan
Scenic Design – Richard Hudson
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In regards to picking up all of these technical and creative things, one of the things that we want to think about is: "How can we isolate what we're learning?" This is another photograph of my office, and here you can see I have a sculpture, an old VW Bug hood on the wall, and a calendar over here. One of the reasons why we hang things up on a wall is to isolate them, to set them apart, and you and I need to figure out how we can do that with all of this information that we'll be gaining. Let me illustrate what I mean here. Let's take, for example, shortcuts.
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If we start to talk about this key in Photoshop, I'll say that, well, this key, you can use in order to modify your brush. And if we dig into this further, I'll say that you can use the left-bracket key to make your brush smaller. Well, with this view, this information is still a little bit cluttered. Yet if we isolate this even further, and then if we try this out, say, by selecting the Brush tool and then pressing the left-bracket key, we see that, yes, we can decrease our brush size. Then we may intuit that you can also press the right-bracket key in order to increase your brush size.
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February 24,2008
Needs a Makeover !
Been there 2 times , with a space of a year in between both my Visits with friends.
The Once a ever popular place now definitely needs a Makeover, Space is a little short but people can manage, The lighting needs spricing up, the interiors need to be a little more spruced up but the most most important Part......Please fire the DJ !! The weirdo was playing Hindi movie love songs remixed and expected people to dance !
And like most people before me mention, its NOT packed to the hilt even when you are going in at Peak hours !
Quite ok...enjoyable
After 5 years i came back to india to enjoy... and we actually planned to go to Enigma but cudnt make it.. saw this place squeeze... wen we entered it was empty... and hip hop music was on... nobody dancing nothing.. so we tot of hang out there.. thinking its only for us...we had fun drinking and food was good too... best was the bouncers standind all around as if they were pillers... ehheheh ok ok place for timpass... good luck guys change your DJ if can.. hehehe
August 08,2007
Clutching & Niiiice!!
Its a lot of fun at Squeeze on saturdays...DJ Swapnil plays some wicked sets from Club to Hip Hop to Janta and people love it. If you're not in the VIP lounge you tend to feel that you're amongst a majority of college goers. Overall a good place on Saturdays....other days are RISKY....don't forget to take lots of friends along...works well there!!
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I Dont liked That Place but Enjoyed A lot
I went there last night it was an Mtv party. The party was good crowd was good and even the band was rocking but if this party would have been organised somewhere else instead of squeeze i think people would have enjoyed more as the place was too small for the nice and huge party.
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2010, 95 minutes, in English and French For whatever his schlocky flaws, I'll take the chest-beating mainstream action of French director Pierre Morel (District B13, Taken) over Michael Bay's visual incoherence, Neveldine and Taylor's self-impressed postmodern pranks, the workmanlike tedium of later-era Ridley Scott, or anything with a Brett Ratner credit every time. A former cinematographer and pupil of Luc Besson (who co-wrote this script with Adi Hasak), Morel's underrated eye and knack for making kinetic movement rhythmic and easy to follow elevates Besson's run-of-the-mill, mismatched-buddy thriller into a propulsive, enjoyably Eurotrashy entertainment. In the straight man role, Jonathan Rhys-Myers is the U.S. ambassador's aide James Reese, a by-the-books nerd from the East New York projects who now lives with his fashionable French girlfriend and secretly moonlights for the CIA. James hopes to catch his big break into special-ops when he's assigned to partner with rogue FBI agent Charlie Wax, played by a bald, goateed, makeup-caked ruffian named John Travolta, chewing the scenery like it were the greasiest, juiciest hamburger he's ever tasted (not for nothing, he has a gratuitous predilection for the Royale with Cheese). There's certainly a bit of post-Pulp Fiction burlesque to Charlie, the most unhinged and legitimately fun-to-watch Travolta performance since Face/Off, and his blustery braggadocio (with more gratuitous predilections: hookers and blow) gives the film ten times more personality than that Arnold on Green Acres. Oh, and don't worry about the plot. With all the Chinese drug dealers and Pakistani thugs who Charlie gleefully drops (while poor James stands slackjawed, holding a vase full of coke that gets to break at precisely the right comedic/badass moment), some critics have taken stabs at the sociopolitical mechanisms working within the film's convoluted war-on-terror references, but that any exist and engage is a stretch. Knowing any more than that might ruin what's essentially super-spy camp with a half-serious swagger, John Woo's sense of blood-splattered symphony without the pretentious iconography, and the clearest of delineations: The good guys are as easy to profile as the bad guys, the story twists are outrageous instead of believable, and of course your driver should pull up to the overpass; it's too hard to jettison another car with a bazooka from the freeway.
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Having fun should never be a "guilty" pleasure. Just a pleasure. Unless you're someone who thinks that every film he watches must be art. In any case, I agree with you about Morel, and in fact pretty much most of the Besson stable. Their stuff -- and Neveldine/Taylor's, too -- is so ENJOYABLE!Posted by: James van Maanen at June 8, 2010 7:21 PM
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Uzbekistan possesses enormous tourist potential. The country is considered one of the centers of tourism not only in the central Asia, but also all over the World. In the cities most attractive to tourists through which in an antiquity passed the Great silk way connected China with the countries of the Europe, a plenty of architectural monuments of various historical epoch is located: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Shakhrisabz, Kokand, Termez. In ancient cities of Uzbekistan the modern architecture adjoins to monuments of national architecture of the last centuries that is feature characteristic only for Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan has also other resources for attraction of the big number of foreign visitors: deserts and the reserves rich with different kinds of animals and plants (sometimes meeting only in Uzbekistan); mountain tops and the rivers having huge value for development of an active kind of tourism; mineral sources with the curative water which is frequently not having analogues in the World; traditions of an applied art and original culture with which it is possible to get acquainted only in Uzbekistan; economic potential of the country growing every year.
Recreational resources of the Republic allow to organize various kinds of rest, tourist routes and to receive foreign visitors in all-the-year-round.
For complex tour-excursion service in the Republic there is a branched out network of hotels, cafe and restaurants, camping, objects of entertainment and rest, and also set of tourist routes on fine mountain tracks and the rivers.
In order to develop of tourism sphere in expansion and strengthening of the international relations, with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated from 07.27.1992 had been created National Company "Uzbektourism". Priority directions of the National Company are development of legal, economic bases of tourism, perfection of its infrastructure in the Republic, due to attraction of foreign investments, carrying out wide propagation of a historical heritage, implementation of restoration works on monuments of history and culture. There is a lot private travel agencies are operating in the Republic except for National Company "Uzbekturizm".
For today in Uzbekistan operates more than 400 private tourist firms from which 290 are based in capital, and more than 200 - in 12 areas. From 120 hotels only on a to Tashkent it is placed 32, on regions of the Republic - 88.
Laws "About tourism", "About insurance", "About state borders", the governmental orders directed on formation of an investment climate, privatization and privatization in tourist sphere, providing privileges, improvements of a hotel infrastructure, construction of networks of roads and resorts, etc. are operating in Uzbekistan.
According to forecasts, by 2010 56 hotels on 1.07 numbers by capacity in 2.1 thousand places will be constructed, hotels "Bukharas", "Ziyorat", tour base "Kumishkan" are reconstructed. Also the network of road points of service, stationary camping, and complex points on the line Tashkent-Urgench will be erected. The factor of loading of number fund will increase up to 66.9 % (in 2003 it made 22,2 %). Internal and entrance tourism will increase with 626,4 thousand in 2003 up to 2.2 million in 2010, or more than in 3.5 times. The volume of entrance tourism will achieve 1.0 million person. It is predicted the increase in incomes of tourist activity more than in 9 times, export of services - in 4.3 times, profits - in 3.5 times.
By experts of "Uzbekturizm" it is counted up, that by 2010 additional workplaces on 1.0 thousand places will be created. 2 thousand experts, from which supposed to prepare 45 % - with higher education.
Great Silk Road
Great Silk Road – an original phenomenon of the history of developing of humanity, its aspiration for union and exchanging cultural wealth, conquest of the living spaces and markets for goods. In the East they say: "sitting man is a mat and walking man is a river". Motion is a life, and traveling, learning of world always was a driving force of progress.
This, the biggest transcontinental trade road in history of humanity had been binding Europe and Asia and in the old time was stretching from antic Rome to ancient capital of Japan Nara. Of course, trade between East and West was from time immemorial, but it was a separate piece of future Great road. For beginning of trade relations in many respects assisted working of in mountains semiprecious stones – lapis lazuli, nephritis, cornelian, turquoise valued in the east. There was "lapis lazuli" road by which they delivered this stone from Central Asia to Iran and Mesopotamia and even to Egypt. At the same time with it appeared nephritis road, which had connected regions Khotana and Yarkent with Northern region of China. Moreover, to the countries of Minor Asia from Sogdiana and Baktria had been exported cornelian and from Khorezm turquoise. All this routs in the end jointed with Silk Road.
Real start of great road, bounded caravan's way, laid from Central Asia to the west and the South, and routs coming from Chine to East Turkistan, belong to the second century B.C., when for Chinese people for the first time was opened West Side – countries of Central Asia.
We should say that this road was not only one arterial road; it included different itineraries, which formed several branches, like a crown of big three. One of the main roads, crossing Asia from east to west, started at ancient capital of China Chanane and continued until its northwest boundary along desert Gobi, through Tien Shan, part of caravans went to Fergana valley and Tashkent Oasis to Samarkand – capital of Sogdiana, Bukhara, Khorezm, further to the shores of the Caspian Sea. Part of the caravans from Samarqand headed to Baktria and through Kashkadarya valley got out to Termez, from where crossing the Amudarya river, headed to the South to Baktria and India.
Another branch of way from Tarim rounded Takla-Makan desert from South and trough Khotan and Yarkent leaded to Baktria (North Afganistan) and Merv, from where through Persia, Syria reached the Mediterranean, and part of goods by sea got the Rome and Greece.
Downright from name, main subject of trade on caravan ways was silk, very valuable in all sublunary worlds. For example, in the early middle ages silk was most popular calculation unit, forcing out even gold. In Sogdiana price of horse was equated to the price of ten length of silk. With silk paid for finished works, for maintenance of mercenaries, with silk could be paid off for crime.
For the first time to caravan's road the silk road was given by Venetian merchant Marko Polo, who was the first European that reached the boundary of Chinese empire. And to the scientific turn term "Great Silk Road" in 1877 entered German researcher Ferdinand Rihtgofen in his fundamental work "China".
Although silk was a main, but not unique goods that was transported on transcontinental road. From Central Asia were exported horses, camels, very estimated in China, military equipments, gold and silver, semiprecious stones and glass wares, leather and worst, carpets and cotton fabrics, gold-embriodery clothes, exotic fruits – watermelons, melons and apricots, fat tail sheep and gun dogs, leopards, lions. From China caravans brought chinaware and iron dishes, furnished wares and cosmetics, tea and rice. In a traveling bag of merchants you could find elephant's tusk, rhinoceros's horn, tortoise's shell, spicery and many other things.
On Great Silk Road moved not only trade caravans but also disseminated cultural achievements of nations, cultural wealth and religious ideas. Buddhism was in a row other religion of Kushan kingdom and from here extended to China. In the first centuries from Asia Minor penetrated Christianity. Unbleached warriors of Arab Caliphate in VII century brought Islam doctrine. Hordes of Timuchin rolled past from way laid by merchants and preachers, from Mongol deserts to European plains. From the heart of the Silk Road - Samarqand started his campaigns great commander of medieval Eeast Temur.
At last, during hundred years, scientists and researchers had traveled from caravan road. From traveling notes and scientific works of Chinese monk Soan Czan and Venetian merchant Marko Polo, Arab traveler – merchant Ahmed bin Fadlana and Bavarian warrior Shiltberger, Hungarian researcher Armini Vamberi and Sweden geographer Svena Hedina, Russian scientist Aleksey Fedchenko and French journalist Ella Mayer, American geologist Rafael Pampelli and French traveler Joseph Martin, we know about history of nation, lived in countries, laid along the Great Silk Road, about their traditions and manners.
As live memory of nations, laid this unique road connected East and West, can serve ancient Uzbek cities like Samarqand, Bukhara, Khiva, Shaxrizabs, Termez, Tashkent with their architectural monuments, that personifies centuries – old history of Great Silk Road.
Tashkent - is one of the most biggest ancient city in Central Asia - the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The first information about Tashkent as a city settlings is kept in the ancient east chronicles of the II century B.C., in the Chinese sources it's called Yuni; in the inscriptions of 262 years B.C. of Pursian king Shapura I on "Kaabe Zoroastra" the oasis of Tashkent was called Chach. Chach was a crossroads on the way of gold export, precious stones, spices and splendid horses to another towns and states. Today Tashkent, in translation from uzbek standing for "Stone town" is a capital of modern Republic, keeping the evidence of future, the memory of many history events of Uzbekistan, - one of the biggest industrial center of Central Asia, with the population of over 2 million people.
Historical and architectural monuments of Tashkent:
• Medrese of Kukeldash (14th century).,
• Mausoleum of Kaffal-Shashi (15th century).,
• Architectural ensemble of Hazrati (Saint) Imom (16th century).,
• Medrese of Abul Kasim (19th century).,
• Medrese of Barak-han (16th century).
• The Mosque of Juma (Friday) (19th century).,
• The museum of Amir Temur - masterpiece of modern architecture,
• The Square of Amir Temur,
• The Square of Freedom,
• The Square of Friendship of Nations,
• The Monument of Courage,
• The Square of Hasti Imom,
• The Mosque of Tilla Sheyh,
• The Square of Hadra,
• МMausoleum of Sufi Ota.
The history of Samarkand - numbers of about 2750 years, and architectural monuments referring to the time of governing dynasty of Timurids' has such as importance as architectural masterpiece of ancient Egypt, Chinese, India, Greece and Rim.
Historical and architectural monuments of Samarkand
• The ancient settling of Afrosiyab (8th century B.C.),
• The Observatory of Ulugbek (1428-1429),
• Architectural ensemble of Shohi Zinda,
• The Mosque of Hazrati (Saint) Hizr (in the middle of 19th century),
• The Mosque of Bibi - Hanum (1399-1404),
• Medres of Ulugbek (1417-1420),
• Medres of Sher -Dor (1619-1635/36),
• Medres of Tillya - Kori (1647-1659/60),
• Bazaar of Chorsu (four water)(end of 18th century),
• Mausoleum of Ruhabad (1380th ),
• Mausoleum of Ak - Saray (white shed)(1470),
• Mausoleum of Gur - Emir (1404),
• The Mosque of Namozgoh (17th century),
• Mausoleum of Ishrat Xona (1464),
• Ensemble of Hoja Ahror (15-20 century),
• Mausoleum of Chulpan Ota (1430-1440),
• The Cemetery of Hoja Abdu Darun (15th -19th ctntury),
On Sanskrit the Bukhara means "abbey", which was a big commercial center on the Great Silk Road whenever. Bukhara -"The city of museum", proposes more than 140 the architectural monuments of the Middle Ages. Such ensembles as Poi - Kalan, Kosh Madras, mausoleum of Ismail Samoni, minaret of Kalyan and others built 2300 years ago, today they are attracting the great attention of tourists. The famous poets like Narshahi, Rudaki Dakiki and others have played the important role in development of Bukhara .
Historical and architectural monuments of Bukhara
• The Ark (11th -20th century),
• An Ensemble of Bola - Hauz (in the beginning of 18th -20th century),
• Mausoleum of Samani (9th -10th century),
• The Cemetery of Chashmoi - Ayub (1380 or 1384/85),
• Medres of Abdulla - han (1596/98),
• Medres of Madari - han (1556/57),
• The Mosque of Baland (High) (in the beginning of 16th century),
• An Ensemble of Gaukushon (the mosque, minaret, medrese (16th century)),
• Honaka of Zaynutdin Hodji (1555),
• An Ensemble of Poi - Kalon (12th - 14th century),
• An Ensemble of Labi -Houz (16th -17th century),
• Medres of Kukel'dash (1568/69),
• Hanaka of Nodir Divanbegi (1620),
• Medres of Ulugbek (1417),
• Medres of Abdulaziz Han (1652),
• The Mosque of Bola Hauz,
• Mausoleum of Sayfiddin Buharziy (the second half of 13th -14th century),
• Mausoleum of Buen Kuli Han (the second half of 14th -15th or 16th centuries),
• The Mosque of Namazgoh (12th -16th centuries),
• Hanaka of Fayzabad (1598/99),
• The Mosque of Chor-Minor (four column)(1807),
• The Palace of Emir of Bukhara "Sitorai Mohi Hossa" (in the end of 19th the beginning of 20th century),
• Chor-Bakr - the burial place of shih Jubaeri family (1560/63), .
Mystical city Khiva succeeded to keeping its exotically shape of eastern city in the ancient parts of Ichan-Kala, where disposed numerous of architectural monuments.
Historical and architectural monuments of Khiva
• Ichan-Kala: The Mosque and Medrese of Said-bay (end of 18th -beginning of 19th centuries),
• It's around the gate of Polvan Darboza,
• Medrese of Allakulihan (1834/35),
• Medrese of Kutlug-Murad-Inak (1804/12),
• Bridge and Caravansary of Allakulihan (19th century),
• Medres of Abdulla Han (1865),
• The Mosque and Palace of Anush Han (1657),
• Tosh-Hayli (the stone lot)(of Allakulihan) (1830/36),
• Ok mechet (the white mosque ) (1832/42),
• The Mosque and Minaret of Juma (1788/89),
• Mausoleum of Said Alauddin (14th century),
• Medres of Muhammad Amin Han (1851/52),
• Minaret of Kalta Minor (1855),
• Kun'ya-Ark (1868/88),
• Minaret of Tura-Murat-Tur (1888),
• Medres of Muhammad Amin Han (1871),
• Medres of Shirgaziz han (1718/20),
• The Mosque of Boglandi (19th century),
• Medres of Arabhan (1838)


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Keene Keene's Fire Station, destroyed on August 28, 2011 by Tropical Storm Irene, will be rebuilt on higher ground. Construction is set to begin in August 2012. Private tax-deductible gifts will be necessary to raise adequate funding for the project.
The New Fire Department
Since the storm, Keene Fire Department has housed its equipment, four fire trucks and one ambulance, at temporary sites in an attempt to maintain the same level of emergency readiness. The new site of the all-volunteer department is directly across from the Stewart's Shop on Route 73 where Mountain Manor Lodge now stands. Sean Foran, project manager of Division of Fire Protection Services for the Syracuse construction management company Hueber Breuer, has been project consultant since October for a range of services, from site selection and financing to construction management.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, new emergency facilities are classified as Essential Facilities, which must be constructed to be the last structures standing after a disaster. This requirement adds to construction costs.
The Keene Fire Department volunteers provide ambulance, fire and rescue services. Keene requires two fire houses who work together for rapid response to emergencies. The Town of Keene, which covers 156 square miles, is divided into two fire districts. Keene Fire Department (District #1) covers the entire Town of Keene and responds to calls in Upper Jay, Jay, AuSable Forks, Lake Placid, Wilmington, Elizabethtown, and New Russia. The second district is Keene Valley (District #2), five miles south, who also responds to the neighboring districts. While most of the 450 households lie within five miles of the center of town, there are settlements at the extreme ends of the town's boundaries, including those high on the hillsides. Further, Keene and Keene Valley are cut off from each other in emergency weather situations, especially high water. Emergency response time would be inadequate should there be a single fire station serving the entire area.
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A very rare tag worn in the late 1700s by a Lowcountry free person of color was unearthed recently by a relic hunter from Columbia.
Hal McGirt, who discovered the piece of history in February at a Cooper River plantation site, said Wednesday he was advised that the tag, circa 1783, may be worth $20,000 to $30,000. He said the tag will not be marketed, and will stay with the family that owns the property on which it was found.
He did not reveal the exact site where his metal detector helped turn up the City of Charleston Free Badge No. 320. While tags once worn by slaves are somewhat common, freedmans tags are quite rare, he said.
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Massive Response to Kinder Morgan Despite Hurdles
Despite numerous obstacles to participation, approximately 2,000 respondents applied to participate in the National Energy Board (NEB) public review process for Kinder Morgan's proposed new Trans Mountain Pipeline.
"Given the constraints of the application process, the huge response confirms just how important this issue is for British Columbians," says Sierra Club BC campaigns director Caitlyn Vernon. "Nothing has changed here in B.C. A clear majority still do not want tankers and pipelines threatening B.C.'s jobs, communities, and valuable natural environment."
The new pipeline proposed by the Texas-based corporation would bring over 400 tankers a year across the Salish Sea, carrying tar sands crude to international markets in the U.S. and Asia, putting B.C.'s coast and salmon rivers at risk of oil spills.
The application process, which closed on Feb 12, 2014, only opened on Jan 14, 2014, leaving a very small window for applications. This was especially difficult for municipalities and other larger bodies who require more time to pass major decisions through an approval process. Nevertheless, numerous municipalities have applied for intervenor status, including Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Kamloops.
The diverse range of applicants also include residents, First Nations on both sides of the border, golf courses, environmentalists, condo councils and car dealers. Read more in the Vancouver Observer.
Not only was the online application form itself unnecessarily lengthy and complicated, applicants had to justify how they will be "directly affected" by the project under a very narrow set of conditions. The NEB will not be considering the impacts of tar sands expansion linked to the proposed pipeline, or the greenhouse gas emissions produced by burning the heavy crude oil it transports.
"Submissions will only be accepted if the NEB deems an applicant is 'directly affected' or has 'relevant expertise,' however their definition of "directly affected" excludes many British Columbians." says Vernon. "We are all directly affected by proposals that threaten B.C.'s lands, waters and climate and we all deserve a say in whether they are approved."
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The term 'analysis paralysis' refers to over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation, so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome. A decision can be treated as over-complicated, with too many detailed options, so that a choice is never made, rather than try something and change if a major problem arises. A person might be seeking the optimal or 'perfect' solution upfront, and fear making any decision which could lead to erroneous results, when on the way to a better solution.
In Aesop's Fables' 'The Fox and the Cat,' the fox has 'hundreds of ways of escaping' while the cat has 'only one.' When they heard the hounds approaching, the cat scampered up a tree while 'the Fox in his confusion was caught up by the hounds.' The fable ends with the moral, 'Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.'
Analysis Paralysis
Lourdes Effect
The term Lourdes [loordz] effect was coined by Belgian philosopher and skeptic Etienne Vermeersch to describe the observation that supernatural powers never manifest themselves in a completely unambiguous fashion. According to Vermeersch, should the miraculous power of Lourdes actually exist there would be no reason to think that it would be more difficult for the Virgin Mary or God to reattach a severed arm than to cure paralysis or blindness.
The accounts and photos of, for instance, the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti lack reliability and clarity due to a similar effect. Vermeersch uses this term to mock what he calls the selective and uncritical approach to miracles, or the frivolous attribution of supernatural gifts to human beings.
Coprolalia [kop-ruh-ley-lee-uh] is involuntary swearing or the involuntary utterance of obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks. Coprolalia comes from the Greek 'kopros' meaning 'feces' and 'lalia,' 'to talk.' The term is often used as a clinomorphism (a simplification or amplification of the term for a medical condition), with 'compulsive profanity' inaccurately referred to as being Tourette syndrome (an inherited neurological disorder characterized by involuntary speech and movements). Related terms are 'copropraxia,' performing obscene or forbidden gestures, and 'coprographia,' making obscene writings or drawings.
Coprolalia encompasses words and phrases that are culturally taboo or generally unsuitable for acceptable social use, when used out of context. The term is not used to describe contextual swearing. It is usually expressed out of social or emotional context, and may be spoken in a louder tone or different cadence or pitch than normal conversation. It can be a single word, or complex phrases. A person with coprolalia may repeat the word mentally rather than saying it out loud; these subvocalizations can be very distressing.read more »
The Caine Mutiny
'The Caine Mutiny' is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by American author Herman Wouk. The book grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by the captains of ships. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during a historic typhoon in December 1944. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot.
The story is told through the eyes of Willis Seward 'Willie' Keith, an affluent, callow young man who signs up for midshipman school with the Navy to avoid being drafted into the Army during World War II. After barely surviving a series of misadventures that earn him the highest number of demerits in the history of the school, he is commissioned and assigned to the destroyer minesweeper USS Caine, an obsolete warship converted from a World War I-era destroyer.read more »
Near-death Experience
Near-death experiences (NDE) are associated with several common phenomena such as feelings of detachment from the body, levitation, serenity, security, warmth, dissolution, and bright light. These sensations are usually reported after an individual has been pronounced clinically dead or has been very close to death. With recent developments in cardiac resuscitation techniques, the number of reported NDEs has increased. According to a 1992 Gallup poll, approximately eight million Americans claim to have had a near-death experience. Popular interest in the topic was initially sparked by psychiatrist Raymond Moody's 1975 book 'Life After Life,' in which he interviewed 150 people who had undergone NDEs.
In 1981, the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) was founded and the following year began publishing the 'Journal of Near-Death Studies,' the only peer-reviewed journal in the field. Research from neuroscience considers the NDE to be a hallucination resulting from one or more of several conditions including cerebral anoxia (insufficient oxygen to the brain), hypercarbia (elevated carbon dioxide in the blood), or damage to the temporal lobes (which are responsible for giving meaning to events). Spiritual thinkers and an parapsychologists have long pointed to NDEs as evidence for an afterlife and mind-body dualism.
Antipatterns are common practices that initially appear to be beneficial, but ultimately result in bad consequences that outweigh hoped-for advantages. The term, coined in 1995 by programmer Andrew Koenig, was inspired by a book, 'Design Patterns,' in which the authors highlighted a number of practices in software development that they considered to be highly reliable and effective.
The term was popularized three years later by the book 'AntiPatterns,' which extended its use beyond the field of software design and into general social interaction and may be used informally to refer to any commonly reinvented but bad solution to a problem. Examples include analysis paralysis (over-analyzing a situation while indefinitely delaying making a decision), cargo cult programming (the ritual inclusion of code that serves no real purpose), death march (pressing ahead on a project members feel is destined to fail), groupthink (a desire for harmony in the group results in an irrational decision-making outcome), and vendor lock-in (preventing customers from seeking alternatives).read more »
Ego Reduction
The concept of ego reduction is predicated on the use of Sigmund Freud's concept of the ego to describe the conscious adult self; and broadly describes the deflating of an over-inflated or egotistical sense of oneself – a curtailment of what Irish philosopher Iris Murdoch called 'the anxious avaricious tentacles of the self.'
Among other contexts, ego reduction has been seen as a goal in Alcoholics Anonymous; as a part of BDSM play, providing a means of entering 'subspace' (a state of submissiveness); and as a way of attaining religious humility and freedom from desire in Buddhism.read more »
Lucid Dream
A lucid dream is any dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming. The term was coined by the Dutch psychiatrist and writer Frederik van Eeden (1860–1932). In a lucid dream, the dreamer may be able to exert some degree of control over their participation within the dream or be able to manipulate their imaginary experiences in the dream environment. Lucid dreams can be realistic and vivid. It is shown that there are higher amounts of beta waves (normally associated with waking consciousness) experienced by lucid dreamers, hence there is an increased amount of activity in the parietal lobes making lucid dreaming a conscious process. The first book to recognize the scientific potential of lucid dreams was Celia Green's 1968 study 'Lucid Dreams.' Green analyzed the main characteristics of such dreams, reviewing previously published literature on the subject and incorporating new data from subjects of her own. She concluded that lucid dreams were a category of experience quite distinct from ordinary dreams, and predicted that they would turn out to be associated with rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep). Green was also the first to link lucid dreams to the phenomenon of false awakenings (a convincing dream about awakening from sleep).
Philosopher Norman Malcolm's 1959 text 'Dreaming' had argued against the possibility of checking the accuracy of dream reports. However, the realization that eye movements performed in dreams may affect the dreamer's physical eyes provided a way to prove that actions agreed upon during waking life could be recalled and performed once lucid in a dream. The first evidence of this type was produced in the late 1970s by British parapsychologist Keith Hearne. A volunteer named Alan Worsley used eye movements to signal the onset of lucidity, which were recorded by a polysomnograph machine. Hearne's results were not widely distributed. The first peer-reviewed article was published some years later by Stephen LaBerge at Stanford University, who had independently developed a similar technique as part of his doctoral dissertation. During the 1980s, further scientific evidence to confirm the existence of lucid dreaming was produced as lucid dreamers were able to demonstrate to researchers that they were consciously aware of being in a dream state (again, primarily using eye movement signals). Additionally, techniques were developed that have been experimentally proven to enhance the likelihood of achieving this state.
Henny Penny
Henny Penny, also known as 'Chicken Licken' or 'Chicken Little,' is a folk tale with a moral in the form of a cumulative tale about a chicken who believes the world is coming to an end. The phrase 'The sky is falling!' features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. The story is listed in the Aarne–Thompson tale type index (a listing designed to help folklorists identify recurring plot patterns in the narrative structures of traditional folktales) as type 20C, which includes international examples of folktales that make light of paranoia and mass hysteria.
There are several Western versions of the story, of which the best-known concerns a chick that believes the sky is falling when an acorn falls on its head. The chick decides to tell the King and on its journey meets other animals (mostly other fowl) which join it in the quest. After this point, there are many endings. In the most familiar, a fox invites them to its lair and there eats them all. Alternatively, the last one, usually 'Cocky Lockey,' survives long enough to warn the chick, who escapes. In others all are rescued and finally speak to the King. In most retellings, the animals have rhyming names. The moral to be drawn changes, depending on the version. Where there is a 'happy ending,' the moral is not to be a 'Chicken' but to have courage. In other versions where the birds are eaten by the fox, the fable is interpreted as a warning not to believe everything you are told.
Positive Psychology
Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology whose purpose was summed up in 1998 by psychologists Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: 'We believe that a psychology of positive human functioning will arise, which achieves a scientific understanding and effective interventions to build thriving individuals, families, and communities.' Positive psychologists seek 'to find and nurture genius and talent', and 'to make normal life more fulfilling,' not simply to treat mental illness.
The field is intended to complement, not to replace traditional psychology. It does not seek to deny the importance of studying how things go wrong, but rather to emphasize the importance of using the scientific method to determine how things go right. This field brings attention to the possibility that focusing only on the disorder itself would result in a partial concept of the patient's condition.
Conversion Disorder
Conversion disorder is where patients suffer apparently neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, but without a neurological cause. It is thought that these problems arise in response to difficulties in the patient's life, and conversion is considered a psychiatric disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition (DSM-IV). Formerly known as 'hysteria' (unmanageable emotional excesses), the disorder has arguably been known for millennia, though it came to greatest prominence at the end of the 19th century, when the neurologists Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud and psychiatrist Pierre Janet focused their studies on the subject. Before Freud's studies on hysteria, people who suffered from physical disabilities that were not caused by any physical impairments, known as hysterical patients, were believed to be malingering (faking illness), suffering from weak nerves, or just suffering from meaningless disturbances. The term 'conversion' has its origins in Freud's doctrine that anxiety is 'converted' into physical symptoms.
Though previously thought to have vanished from the west in the 20th century, some research has suggested it is as common as ever. The DSM-IV classifies conversion disorder as a somatoform disorder (characterized by symptoms suggesting a physical disorder but for which there are no demonstrable organic findings or known physiological mechanisms); while the the tenth revision of the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) classifies it as a dissociative disorder (disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception). A 2007 review stated that conversion disorder and dissociative disorders are statistically associated, share features such as a history of abuse and high suggestibility, and likely have common underlying causes. It recommended that DSM should follow ICD-10 and reclassify conversion disorder from a somatoform disorder to a dissociative disorder.
Mass Psychogenic Illness
Mass psychogenic [sahy-kuh-jen-ik] illness (MPI) is 'the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic etiology [cause].' MPI is distinct from other collective delusions, but included under the blanket term mass hysteria, because MPI causes symptoms of disease, though there is no organic cause. There is a clear preponderance of female victims. The DSM-IV does not have specific diagnosis for this condition but the text describing conversion disorder (where patients suffer apparently neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, but without a neurological cause) states that 'In 'epidemic hysteria,' shared symptoms develop in a circumscribed group of people following 'exposure' to a common precipitant.'
'Mass hysteria is to date a poorly understood condition. Little certainty exists regarding its etiology' Besides the difficulties common to all research involving the social sciences, including a lack of opportunity for controlled experiments, Mass Sociogenic Illness presents special difficulties to researchers in this field. According to Timothy Jones of the Tennessee Department of Public Health, MPI 'can be difficult to differentiate from bioterrorism, rapidly spreading infection or acute toxic exposure.' These troubles result from the residual diagnosis of MPI. Singer, of the Uniformed Schools of Medicine, puts the problems with such a diagnosis thus: '[y]ou find a group of people getting sick, you investigate, you measure everything you can measure . . . and when you still can't find any physical reason, you say 'well, there's nothing else here, so let's call it a case of MPI.' There is a lack of logic in an argument that proceeds: 'There isn't anything, so it must be MPI.' It precludes the notion that an organic factor could have been overlooked. Nevertheless, running an extensive number of tests extends the probability of false positives.
Information Pollution
Information pollution is the contamination of information supply with irrelevant, redundant, unsolicited and low-value information. The spread of useless and undesirable information can have a detrimental effect on human activities. It is considered one of the adverse effects of the information revolution. Pollution is a large problem and is growing rapidly in e-mail, instant messaging (IM), and RSS feeds. The term acquired particular relevance in 2003 when Jakob Nielsen, a leading web usability expert, published a number of articles discussing the topic. However, as early as 1971 researchers were expressing doubts about the negative effects of having to recover 'valuable nodules from a slurry of garbage in which it is a randomly dispersed minor component.'
People use information in order to make decisions and adapt to circumstances. Yet, cognitive studies have demonstrated that there is only so much information human beings can process before the quality of their decisions begins to deteriorate. The excess of information is commonly known as information overload and it can lead to decision paralysis, where the person is unable to make a judgment as they cannot see what is relevant anymore. Although technology has clearly exacerbated the problem, it is not the only cause of information pollution. Anything that distracts our attention from the essential facts that we need to perform a task or make a decision could be considered an information pollutant.
Defense Mechanism
A defense mechanism is the coping technique individuals unconsciously use to protect themselves from getting hurt in unpleasant situations (e.g. conflicts, unhappiness). Without defense mechanism, people may suffer from psychological and mental illness. In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, defense mechanisms are unconscious, psychological strategies brought into play by various entities to cope with reality and to maintain self-image.
Healthy persons normally use different defenses throughout life. An ego defense mechanism becomes pathological only when its persistent use leads to maladaptive behavior such that the physical and/or mental health of the individual is adversely affected. The purpose of ego defense mechanisms is to protect the mind/self/ego from anxiety and/or social sanctions and/or to provide a refuge from a situation with which one cannot currently cope.read more »
Competitive Eating
Competitive eating is a sport in which participants compete against each other to consume large quantities of food in a short time period. Contests are typically less than 15 minutes in length, with the person consuming the most food being declared the winner. Competitive eating is most popular in the United States and Japan, where organized professional eating contests often offer $10,000 or more in prize money. Competitive eaters are sometimes known as 'gurgitators,' a word used by those close to the sport and an assumed opposite of regurgitation.
The chief criticism of competitive eating is the message the gluttonous sport sends in an age of rising obesity levels among Americans and the example it sets for today's youth. Others contend that competitive eating is an example of Western gluttony at a time when others around the world are starving. Gastroparesis, also known as stomach paralysis, is also a concern among those who routinely stretch their stomachs beyond capacity. The condition may lead to the stomach's inability to contract and lose its ability to empty itself.


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Boeing awards $23,000 grant to fund programs
Boeing's university relations champion Senior Manager Robert Beggs is pleased that Boeing has awarded Lehigh a $23,000 grant in support of a variety of student organizations, two student scholarships, and the Supply Chain Management Faculty Development Fund. "Lehigh has done an excellent job targeting Boeing investment toward programs that directly enhance students' academic and professional development," he said.
The Supply Chain Management program received $8,000 to help facilitate faculty research, develop new curricula and incorporate technology for the undergraduate program. The new four-year bachelor's degree spans the College of Business and the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science and is designed to educate students who can strategically configure the supply chains of companies such as Boeing for global advantages.
Lehigh's new Supply Chain Management student organization, the first of its kind, received $4,000 for start-up costs. This organization will provide value-added resources to students via hands-on projects made possible by Boeing's contribution in support of planning, staffing and marketing. "We are very fortunate to have a company as excellent as Boeing support our supply chain program," said Robert Trent, associate professor of management and marketing. "Their generosity is truly appreciated and will be put to good use."
The Boeing grant will also support four other student organizations that facilitate the development of leadership and team management skills outside of the classroom. The Society of Women Engineers, the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Hispanic Engineers and the Society of American Military Engineers were each awarded $500. These organizations work to discourage barriers, provide moral support, and encourage diversity. Boeing's support underlines the company's own commitment to diversity in the workplace.
The Boeing Scholarship program not only helps Lehigh attract the best students to campus but also increases the pipeline of qualified professionals for industry. Galina Gorelik, a senior computer science major, and Jessica Ann Hill, a senior supply chain management major, are four time recipients of the Boeing Company Scholarship. Each was awarded $4,500 to apply to their college tuition.
"I am honored to have received a scholarship from such a prestigious and well-respected company as Boeing," said Hill. "I am very honored that Boeing has extended the scholarship through my senior year," added Gorelik.
The Boeing Company is a committed and longstanding supporter of education institutions and programs and has been a strong supporter of Lehigh University for several years. The company is particularly interested in programs that advance undergraduate programs, employee recruitment, and research. In addition, Boeing is committed to a performance-based educational system and supports educational reform at the local, state, and national levels through leadership and financial support.
The Lehigh University Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) facilitates relationships with companies such as Boeing and works closely with the university community to strengthen such relationships with both corporate and foundation partners. As a fundraising unit, CFR seeks support from a variety of sources, for programs and projects that advance Lehigh's mission. For more information, call 610-758-6623, or visit the department's web site at
Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003
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