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Posted 16 March 2005 - 03:57 PM
But I don't know that it's a particularly beneficial film for all ... or even for me, for that matter.
Posted 16 March 2005 - 03:58 PM
I'm not currently on Netflix, but I would be willing to join in as long as I can track down a copy of the film being discussed. For me, ten days should be plenty of time.
I would be willing to start with Slacker. I've seen it, but I know I can find a copy at a local Hollywood Video. F & A sounds interesting, also. I hope I can track down a copy of that one.
Posted 16 March 2005 - 03:59 PM
Posted 16 March 2005 - 04:35 PM
I'm up for whatever, my netflix list is
also rather long, but I'm always up
for moving things around and adding to
my queue.
Posted 16 March 2005 - 05:12 PM
Also, I know that this is awfully premature, but here's something else to consider. When I teach, I often ask my students to writeup their initial responses to whatever play or novel we're reading together, and ideally they do this before we get together for the discussion. It guarantees (as much as you can guarantee anything in a classroom) that everyone has processed the work on their own terms, formed their own opinions, chased their own interests, before being absorbed into the class consensus.
I don't in any way want to turn this great idea into something school-like, but I wonder what would happen if, before diving into a conversation, we first allow some safe room for everyone who is interested to post their initial, mostly subjective impressions. We might even find someone willing to synthesize those initial posts and form some general questions as a way to get the discussion rolling.
Note: You are now all witness to my more embarrassing, anal tendencies -- tendencies to organize and systematize things. It's just an idea. Feel free to shoot it down.
I do feel, though, that something like this -- some method of processing the experience alone and perhaps even in silence before talking and talking and talking -- goes some way toward achieving what we were talking about in that now-defunct thread: becoming better "equipped" as thinkers and critics.
Posted 16 March 2005 - 06:09 PM
Posted 16 March 2005 - 06:15 PM
I think you're right about option 3 Alan.
When I read the topic I thought *I bet they haven't thought about us Brits getting later cinema releases* which I'm glad to see you have
I'm intrigued by that Veronica film by keislowski, anything by Bergman (I'd be very happy to rewatch Fanny and whatever her brother's name is), a few Woody Allen films I feel I ought to see, ummm... this is like having google open when you're bored: you had all this stuff you wanted to check up on but nothing comes to mind right at that moment.
thanks to a link to an interview with Jonathan Demme in the Napoleon Dynamite thread, I've been reminded of a film that I've been wanting to see again for about 6 years: Il Conformista (The Conformist). Saw it as part of an Italian cinema class and was struck by it on so many levels. Of course, with my awful memory for titles it took me years to work out what it was and keep forgetting/remembering it. It's stuck with me for this long though, so it's definitely worth revisiting. So that's my suggestion.
Edited by gigi, 16 March 2005 - 06:41 PM.
Posted 16 March 2005 - 11:57 PM
(Those who do not know the relationship between Thom and I do not know how much of my respect he actually has; that I hold him in the highest esteem, and that I think he's one of The Cooler people walking Planet Earth.)
(I only razz the ones I love.)
And only the TV version, which I still don't think is as long as the version I saw years ago on video in England (I always thought it was five hours until recently reading the Criterion capsule).
I favor #3.
I would love to see Fanny and Alexander again after all these years. It was one of the viewing experiences that brought me from "movies" into "film." Same with Veronique, which I saw in Wolverhampton, England, the same week, either late January or early February of 1996.
It might be cool to view the Top 100 this way. There are still 40-or-so films on that list I haven't seen.
Posted 17 March 2005 - 12:45 AM
PS. Balthazar was in the theaters last year. Where. Were. You??
Posted 17 March 2005 - 01:15 AM
I second that commotion.
I used to work late back then and I actually enjoyed it. It was a job that could have turned into a fairly satisfying career.
(I only razz the ones I love)
You are being WAY too generous but I'll TAKE IT!
Edited by asher, 17 March 2005 - 01:17 AM.
Posted 17 March 2005 - 04:58 AM
You can get Werckmeister on Ebay usually...
Posted 17 March 2005 - 07:31 AM
Sadly, The Double Life of Veronique isn't out yet in R.1 DVD.
Wow, and for people thinking about buying it, the former Ken Crane's/ current DVD Planet has it for $39 for the five-disc set. $20 off.
Posted 17 March 2005 - 07:33 AM
Slacker, Fanny, and then Heart of Light.
Posted 17 March 2005 - 07:47 AM
Posted 17 March 2005 - 09:24 AM
Posted 17 March 2005 - 12:43 PM
Is anybody not OK with it? We can do this by consensus and not need to invoke polling. I want to make sure there's not somebody who wants to participate but who won't because of the movie choice. If that's you, feel free to speak up here or PM me (I'll keep your confidence) and we'll go at this another way.
Otherwise, can we set the next week to ten days for viewing our first movie and formulating written responses (either to be kept to ourselves or forwarded to/read by some discussion moderator; need to discuss this further), with discussion on the Board to begin on Monday the 28th?
Posted 17 March 2005 - 12:45 PM
This, BTW, was Leary's rearrangement.
Posted 17 March 2005 - 12:55 PM
Posted 17 March 2005 - 12:59 PM
Posted 17 March 2005 - 01:27 PM
I just want you to know, I am not getting together with you to strip naked, punch each other and watch a movie no matter how you dress, or don't dress, at work.


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McMahon of Saratoga adding Highcliff stallions
McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds is set to become the largest stallion facility in New York state, as it will welcome six Highcliff Farm stallions for the 2013 breeding season.
Highcliff stallions Bob and John, Congaree, Cosmonaut, Maybry's Boy, Smart Bid, and Stonesider will relocate to Joe and Anne McMahon's farm, located in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., about 10 minutes from Saratoga Race Course.
The six newcomers join the eight stallions who were already slated to stand at McMahon this season. Teuflesberg, sire of Breeders' Cup Sprint winner and champion Trinniberg, is new to the farm for 2013 and highlights the existing roster, along with Alphabet Soup, Catienus, Here Comes Ben, Justenuffhumor, Mr. Sekiguchi, Touch Gold, and Utopia.
Following the death of Highcliff Farm owner Carl Lizza, Jr., in 2011, the farm's operations moved to Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, N.Y., under the care of longtime Highcliff managers Suzie and C. Lynwood "Doc" O'Cain. The horses moved included Highcliff's stallions, broodmares, foals, yearlings, and lay-ups.
Joe McMahon, who founded McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds with his wife, Anne, and Suzie O'Cain have previously worked together on the boards of several state organizations, including the New York Thoroughbred Breeders.
"Doc and I spent 26 years 45 minutes away from Saratoga, and with the closing of Highcliff Farm after Carl Lizza's passing, we wanted our friends and clients to know we would always be close and involved with their bloodstock investments," Suzie O'Cain said. "Anne and Joe are not only two of our good friends, their farm is just five minutes down the road, and Doc and I will be there on a regular basis. We all feel this will be the best Thoroughbred stallion station in the Northeast."
C. Lynwood O'Cain will bring his background in reproductive therapy to the partnership, while Anne McMahon will continue in an active role in hands-on horsemanship and farm management.
"We could not be more thrilled," the O'Cains stated in a release. "We have always dreamed of bringing Saratoga Thoroughbred breeders to the forefront in the state, and with 14 stallions, including the sire of a 2012 Eclipse winner and the sire of a 2012 Grade I stakes winner, we felt now was the time to make the dreams of both families a reality."
winners of g-1 that were loaded with every drug known to man. therefore they are useless as sires, unless the breeder supplies the drugs that the sires raced on so their progeny can race on these sam drugs. the whole industry is a joke. thank god for the arab oil money.
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(ABC 6 News) -- In the past 16 years the number of female business owners has risen by more than fifty percent.
Several area business woman say they've definitely seen a big change in ownership.
"it's a juggle, it's most definitely a juggle," said Michelle Kalina.
Kalina learned the challenges of being both mother and business owner when she opened her own beauty store about face.
"I'm on photo shop at 5:30 doing advertisements, I do my kid thing, and then I come to work for a bit and then I go home and do my kid thing and then I'm back on the computer," said Kalina.
And Kalina says since she's started there she's met more and more woman that are businesses owner themselves.
"There's a great group of women Business owners in Rochester and we always help each other," said Kalina.
LeeAnn Zubay the owner of ZZest Café and Market says she's definatley had times where she was treated differently than a male business owner.
"There are times and my husband laughs at this, I go to shows and they almost always looked at him, and I'm like excuse me it's me," said Zubay.
But times are changing. According to an American Express report, in the past 16 years more while new businesses have increased by 41 percent the number of woman owned businesses have increased by 59 percent. In Minnesota woman owned businesses have increased by 35 percent.
Leeann says she's definitely seen a change.
"I think with more woman in business you can kind of be the boss a little bit easier, because people are more accepting," said Zubay.
And while it takes juggling, for Michelle, the best part of owning her own business is setting an example for her children.
"the reward I see is when I look at my daughter who's here with me and that she will learn also the business," said Kalina.
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We featured Yasemin and her sister earlier last month when we saw her at ISNA and even Pop Culture Hijabi loved her hijab fashion and style.
Yasmin has set up some Youtube tutorials featuring all kinds of hijab styles.
We'll be posting them every now and then, for now enjoy this one that's perfect for a Eid hijab style:
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ha ha ha ur hilarious!!! loved the video and the hijab style. cant wait to try it out inshallah!
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Super cute video,I loved the hijab style it was very pretty :)…keep up the good work,pleaseeee post makeup tutorials
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|This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (April 2009)
The Natchez Trace, also known as the "Old Natchez Trace", is a historical path that extends roughly 440 miles (710 km) from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee, linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi Rivers. It was created and used for centuries by Native Americans, and was later used by early European and American explorers, traders, and emigrants in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Today, the trail is commemorated by the 444-mile (715 km) Natchez Trace Parkway, which follows the approximate path of the Trace,[1] as well as the related Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail. Parts of the original trail are still accessible and some segments are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Origins of the Natchez Trace[edit]
Largely following a geologic ridge line, prehistoric animals followed the dry ground of the Trace to distant grazing lands, the salt licks of today's central Tennessee, and to the Mississippi River. Native Americans used many early footpaths created by the foraging of bison, deer, and other large game that could break paths through the dense undergrowth. In the case of the Trace, bison traveled north to find salt licks in the Nashville area.[2] After Native Americans began to settle the land, they blazed the trail further, until it became a relatively well-established path. Numerous prehistoric indigenous settlements in Mississippi were established along the Natchez Trace. Among them were the 2000-year-old Pharr Mounds of the Middle Woodland period, located near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi.
The first recorded European explorer to travel the Trace in its entirety was an unnamed Frenchman in 1742, who wrote of the trail and its "miserable conditions". Early European explorers depended on the assistance of Native American guides—specifically, the Choctaw and Chickasaw. These tribes and earlier peoples, collectively known as the Mississippian culture, had long used the Trace for trade.
Development and disappearance of the Trace[edit]
Even before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson wanted to connect the distant Mississippi frontier to other settled areas of the United States. To foster communication with what was then called the southwest, he designated a postal road to be built between Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road (the southern branch of the road ended at Nashville) and the Mississippi River. To emphasize American sovereignty in the area, he named it the "Columbian Highway."
The U.S. signed treaties with the Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes to maintain peace, as European Americans entered the area in greater numbers. In 1801 the United States Army began the trail blazing along the Trace, performing major work to prepare it as a thoroughfare. The work was first done by soldiers reassigned from Tennessee and later by civilian contractors. By 1809, the trail was fully navigable by wagon. Critical to the success of the Trace as a trade route was the development of inns and trading posts, referred to at the time as "stands." For the most part, the stands developed southbound from the head of the trail in Nashville.[1]
Many early United States settlements in Mississippi and Tennessee developed along the Natchez Trace. Some of the most prominent were Washington, Mississippi (the old capital of Mississippi); "Old" Greenville, Mississippi (where Andrew Jackson conducted slave trades); and Port Gibson, Mississippi.[3] The Natchez Trace was utilized during the War of 1812 and the ensuing Creek War, as soldiers under Major General Andrew Jackson's command traveled southward to subdue the Red Sticks and to defend the country against invasion by the British.
By 1816, the continued development of Memphis (with its access to the Mississippi River), and Jackson's Military Road (heading south out of Nashville) created quicker, more direct routes to New Orleans, Louisiana. This began a shifting of trade to the east and west, away from the Trace. As author William C. Davis writes in his book A Way Through the Wilderness, it was "a victim of its own success" by encouraging development in the frontier area.
With the rise of steamboat culture on the Mississippi River, the Trace lost its importance as a national road, as goods could be moved more quickly, cheaply, and in greater quantity on the river. (Before the invention of steam power, the Mississippi River's south-flowing current was so strong that northbound return journeys generally had to be made over land.) Although many authors have written that the Trace disappeared back into the woods, much of it continued to be used by people living in its vicinity. With large sections of the Trace in Tennessee converted to county roads for operation, it continues to be used.
Early 19th century[edit]
Though the Natchez Trace was only used as a major United States Route for a brief span, it served an essential function for years. The Trace was the only reliable land link between the eastern states and the trading ports of Mississippi and Louisiana. This brought all sorts of people down the Trace: itinerant preachers, highwaymen, traders, and peddlers among them.
As part of the "Great Awakening" movement that swept the country in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the "spiritual development" along the Trace started from the Natchez end and moved northward. Several Methodist preachers began working a circuit along the Trace as early as 1800. By 1812 they claimed a membership of 1,067 Caucasians and 267 African Americans.[4] The Methodists were soon joined in Natchez by other Protestant denominations, including Baptist missionaries and Presbyterians. The latter accompanied the migration of Scots-Irish and Scots into the frontier areas. Both Presbyterians and their frontier offshoot, the Cumberland Presbyterians, were the most active of the three denominations in this back country area. They claimed converts among Native Americans. The Presbyterians started working from the south; the Cumberland Presbyterians worked from the north, as they had migrated into Tennessee from Kentucky.
As with much of the unsettled west, banditry regularly occurred along the Trace. Much of it centered around Natchez Under-The-Hill, (as compared with the tame sister city of Natchez, Mississippi) atop the river bluff. Under-the-Hill, where barges and keelboats put in with goods from northern ports, was a hotbed for gamblers, prostitutes and drunkenness. Many of these men, referred to as the "Kaintucks," wer crude frontiersmen from Kentucky who operated flatboats down the river. They delivered goods to Natchez in exchange for cash, and turned Natchez Under-the-Hill into an early 19th-century Las Vegas. Then they would walk up the Trace the 450 miles back to Nashville. In 1810 an estimated 10,000 Kaintucks used the Trace to go north and start another river journey.[1]
Other dangers lurked on the Trace in the areas outside city boundaries. Highwaymen (such as John Murrell and Samuel Mason) terrorized travelers along the road. They operated large gangs of organized brigands in one of the first examples of land-based organized crime in the United States.[5][6]
Death of Meriwether Lewis[edit]
Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition fame, met his death while traveling on the Trace. Then governor of the Louisiana Territory, he was on his way to Washington, D.C., from his base in St. Louis, Missouri. Lewis stopped at Grinder's Stand (near current-day Hohenwald, Tennessee), for overnight shelter in October 1809. He was distraught over many issues, possibly affected by his use of opium, and was believed by many to have committed suicide there with a gun. Some uncertainty persists as to if it was suicide. His mother believed he had been murdered, and rumors circulated about possible killers. Thomas Jefferson and Lewis's former partner, William Clark, accepted the report of suicide.
Lewis was buried near the inn along the Trace.[7] In 1858, a Tennessee state commission erected a monument at the site. On the bicentennial of Lewis' death in 2009, the first national public memorial service honoring his life was held as the last event of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Bicentennial. A bronze bust was installed at his grave site.
See also[edit]
- Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge
- Natchez Trace State Park, Tennessee
- Trace State Park, Mississippi
- ^ a b c Devoss, David (May 2008). "End of the Road". Smithsonian Magazine 39 (2): 72. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
- ^ Lay, M G (1992). Ways of the world. Sydney: Primavera Press. p. 401. ISBN 1-875368-05-1., p5
- ^ Cotterill, R. S. (April 1921). "The Natchez Trace". Tennessee Historical Magazine 7 (1): 29–35.
- ^ Daniels, 1962 pp.146-149
- ^ Coates, 2014 pp.107, 115-116, 270
- ^ Daniels; 1962; pp.114, 124-128
- ^ Dee Brown, "What Really Happened to Meriwether Lewis?", Columbia Magazine, Winter 1988, Vol. 1, No. 4, accessed 17 Oct 2010
- Coates, Robert M. (2004). The Outlaw Years The History Of The Land Pirates Of The Natchez Trace.
Kessinger Publishing. p. 244. ISBN 9781417943777. Url
- Crutchfield, James A. (1985). The Natchez Trace: A Pictorial History.
Rutledge Hill PressNashville, Tennessee. ISBN 0-934395-03-9
- Daniels, Jonathan (1962 The Devil's Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace).
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- Davis, William C. (1995) A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontier
HarperCollins Publishers, New York. ISBN 0-06-016921-4.
Further reading[edit]
- George, Linda, George, Charles (2001). The Natchez Trace
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- Hall, Robert Green (1914). The Natchez trace:a study in transportation and travel between the early west and southwest
University of Wisconsin, pp. 128 -- Ebook (full view)
- Jamison, Lena Mitchell (1938). The Natchez trace
University of Wisconsin—Madison, pp. 208 Url
- Kroll, Harry Harrison (2005). Perilous Journey
Kessinger Publishing, pp. 420, ISBN 9781417997626 Url
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- National Park Service: Natchez Trace Parkway
- Natchez Trace Profile and Videos - Chickasaw.TV
- The Natchez Trace Compact
- Natchez Trace Parkway at byways.org
- Stands on the old Natchez Trace, running north to south (Nashville to Natchez)
- Natchez Trace
- National Register of Historic Places in Lauderdale County, Alabama
- Native American trails in the United States
- Roads on the National Register of Historic Places
- Historic trails and roads in Alabama
- Historic trails and roads in Mississippi
- Historic trails and roads in Tennessee
- Historic districts in Mississippi
- Historic districts in Tennessee
- National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
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In the second semi-final, dangerous marksman Samed Yesil put a battling, inventive Singapore side to the sword
Adam Morgan claimed after the match Liverpool showed Singapore's team the kind of respect they would accord Barcelona.
High praise indeed, and probably a little exaggerated, but Aide Iskandar's boys put in a showing Singaporeans could be proud of, surrendering by a mere 1-0 in the NexLions Cup semi-finals this evening.
"We rose to the occasion. I'm disappointed we didn't score. We had the chances but unfortunately this is football. Overall I'm very proud of the boys. We managed to compete with a good side," the Singapore Selection coach said.
"We gave Liverpool a tough fight."
Despite fielding players up to three years older than the Liverpool U19s, the locals were always hard-pressed to get a result. Throughout the game, the Merseysiders' composure and fitness showed, with man-of-the-match Samed Yesil grabbing the winner via a backheel, after winning the initial corner kick.
Still, Singapore were fearless and set out to make life difficult for their opponents, with attackers Safirul Sulaiman, Iqbal Hussain and Shahfiq Ghani, though wasteful, especially problematic.
On what motivated his players, Aide said, "Basically it's about playing for pride. I always tell my boys, once you put on the national jersey, you have the national flag on your chest, you should play like there's no tomorrow."
Liverpool will face Sporting Lisbon in the final on Sunday, while Singapore entertain Manchester United for 3rd place.
Aide is wary, despite the Red Devils' 4-1 humbling at the hands of Sporting.
"Sporting were a class above. [But] United are a well-grilled and disciplined team, not an easy team to break. We can't take United lightly," he warned.
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Let's all be honest here. Flip Saunders is a great guy. Everybody that deals with him likes him. He's a players coach. The media respects him. But he's a dead man walking. He's going to get fired.
It's not going to work here with the Wizards. It didn't work with Gilbert Arenas, Antawn Jamison, Caron Butler and Brandon Haywood. And it's not going to work with John Wall, Nick Young and dumb (Andray Blatche) and dumber (Javale McGee).
I'm hopelessly homerrific too. Last year I bet the Wizards would take the 8th seed and get to the playoffs. Instead they lost their first 25 road games and became the laughingstock of the league. Again.
Remember Javale trying desperately for that triple double? How embarrassing was that? Or what about Andray refusing to go into a game? Poor Flip is so beaten down by these losers that he started Andray the very next game and named him captain this year! Captain?! You can't be serious.
Just a few days ago before the season opener I bet the Wizards would win at least 20 of their 66 games. Mind you that didn't seem like a huge number. If they went 20 and 46 that is a winning percentage of 30%. That seemed doable to me. After they blew their 21 point lead to the woeful New Jersey Nets I had a sense that bet was a stretch. When they got blown out by the Hawks I KNEW it was a loser. In fact I paid the bet off today before the 3rd game. They are not winning 20 games. They might struggle to get 1o.
You don't believe me? Look at the schedule for their next 9 games. Tonight at Milwaukee - Loser. Then back to back games vs Boston. Loser. Loser. At Orlando. Loser. Home vs the Knicks. Loser. The Twolves here- winner maybe? A third home game against Toronto- winner maybe? Then on the road to Chicago. Stone. Cold. Loser. Then at Philly- probably another loser.
Best case scenario is they start out 2-9. They could easily go 0-11. Would you bet against that? I wouldn't. I'm out of the business of betting on the Wizards. It's too expensive.
And it's not like Flip can't coach. He can. Before he came to DC he had guided teams to the playoffs 11 out of 13 seasons. He'd been to the conference finals 4 out of 5 years. Around the league he's know for being a great tactician. Now those teams had more established talent. No question about it. And in his defense he wasn't brought here to coach most of these turkeys. He was supposed to coach Gilbert, Caron and that crew.
But can he coach these players? At 49-117 here in DC it sure doesn't look like it.
Maybe nobody can. I've defended Andray Blatche and Javale McGee for years because I can see they have great raw talent. But they have ten cent brains and zero desire to win. I'm out of the business of defending these guys anymore too. It's making me look even dumber than usual. That's not easy.
We've heard privately that one reason Flip didn't name the cornerstone of the franchise John Wall captain is because he's not convinced his head is screwed on straight either. God help us if that's true.
I still think this is the most athletic Wizards team that I can remember. Wall, McGee, Chris Singelton, Jordan Crawford, Nick Young, Jan Vesely and others are genetic freaks. They can all run, jump and explode. But the truth is very few of them can actually play winning basketball.
This team is destined to lose. They have no collective heart. They play zero defense. They show no particular desire as a team to win. The best X's and O's can't save this team from it's destiny of losing. Probably nothing can.
So do the right thing Ted Leonsis and Ernie Grunfeld. Free Flip Saunders. Let him out of this prison that is the Washington Wizards. Give somebody else the brutal job of trying to whip these losers into shape. We've all seen the toll the losing and and just dealing with these characters has taken on Flip. Every year he comes on our radio show and promises to be a regular throughout the season. And inevitably the losing kicks in and we never hear from him again.
Free Flip Saunders. Free him from the burden of having to talk to dolts liks us about this team. Free him from having to stare at a captain like Andray Blatche. Free him from the empty seats at home and the beat downs on the road.
It's the holiday season. We're all in the spirit of giving. Let's change a life. Let's give Flip Saunders reason to wake up in the morning. Two years of this nonsense is enough. Free Flip Saunders from the Washington Wizards. Now please.
Oh…don't worry we aren't ignoring the other elephant in the room. This is just the beginning of the purge. Ernie- you're next.


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When Do You Need a Model Release?
Posted By Rohn Engh On December 31, 2007 @ 10:00 pm In Legal Matters | 4 Comments
The recent case of Virgin Mobile using a Flickr photo in an ad campaign [2] without the model's permission [3] has once again raised the issue of model releases. When are they necessary, and when are they not required?
The rule of thumb is that editorial usage does not require a model release; however, advertising, promotion, and endorsement usage always requires a model release. Most amateurs are not familiar with their First Amendment rights and the fact that model releases are not required for editorial use — so when a case like Virgin Mobile comes up, early-career photographers tend to panic.
To add to the confusion, some photo editors state that they require a model release when by law they don't need one. They often do this simply to weed out amateur photographers. Pro stock photographers know what's what concerning editorial usage. They ignore the reference to model releases and submit their photos, with or without model releases.
You'll find that photo editors at editorial markets will welcome any non-released photo that matches their current need (when they are going to use it for editorial purposes). Publishers fiercely protect their First Amendment rights. A policy of actually requiring model releases for publication could reduce the flow of quality photos coming into their publishing houses, which would greatly reduce their output, and might even put them out of business.
Since photo editors at most publishing houses hardly ever deal with advertising or other endorsement-type assignments, it's rare that they ever need a model release. When they do need a release, it's usually because they are working on a project of a particularly sensitive nature, such as drug abuse, mental retardation, sex education, etc. In those cases, it would be appropriate to ask for a model or property release.
We deal with dozens of photo editors daily here at PhotoSource International, from small regional magazines to national book publishers. Rarely do they ever ask for a model release. If one does, it throws up a red flag to us as an indication that the photo editor is new to the field of publishing and might not know, not only their rights, but your rights as well. We avoid publishing photo requests from such an editor.
I've met competent photographers who were unaware of their rights regarding model releases and other legal issues, and consequently took years before they got squared away and took the step to properly market their photography.
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#1 Comment By Manuel Pecina On August 28, 2008 @ 7:29 am
I have recently been asked to produce a models release for an art exhibition at the local University. The work being displayed was shot during a theater play and is documentary. Do I need model releases, for this work? There will be no sales.
#2 Pingback By Can photography get you in trouble? « The Open Road On October 21, 2010 @ 1:54 am
[...] No! Model release forms are only required if that model is going to be advertising, endorsing or promoting something. Heck, you can sell images (as art) that have people photographed in a public place and not have to worry about it. This is one of the most common questions I hear about publishing or selling photos. Even photos used for editorial purposes do not need model release forms, as noted by the excellent photographer blog Black Star. [...]
#3 Comment By Kellie On June 10, 2011 @ 4:19 am
My neighbor asked me to take pictures of her niece's wedding shower (free). A few friends on my facebook want me to post them there so they can see what they look like. The wedding shower was in a hall, so it was not a public place. I am not selling the photos, just showing them to others so they can see how good my work is. Do I need a model release form? I've researched the answer online but it seems every place says something diffferent. I'm not selling the photos and am not using them as a logo to advertise my name in photography, only showing others what type of work I do.
#4 Comment By Susan Blick On May 9, 2012 @ 10:37 pm
So, if Im not advertising or endorsing, but simply selling a fine art print where somebody's face is in the frame there are no worries?
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I've had a melamine tray for a while that I liked, but that was limited in pattern - the red and white felt too Christmassy and therefore I would not use it in the summer. I decided to use some painter's tape and spray paint to update it a bit and get some more use out of it.
1. I spray painted a a few thin coats of metallic silver and waited 24 hours for the paint to fully dry.
2. The next day I took my painter's tape and punched random holes in it. The random pattern creates the confetti look.
3. I then carefully placed each strip of tape on the tray making sure the tape overlapped and was pressed down firmly around all the holes.
4. After that I covered the tray with a few thin coats of neon pink spray paint and removed the tape very carefully *. Tataaaa an easy project to update an old tray!
I like the fun confetti pattern, the metallic and neon colour and now I can use it all the time to serve food and drinks outside. After the summer I can use it in the office, to corral books or boxes or any place that needs a bit of fun colour and pattern.
*When I removed the painter's tape it did leave some marks on the metalic paint - I'm not sure if it's glue from the tape or paint that got removed. Next time I try this I might let the base paint dry even longer. So it's not perfect, but for the price of two cans of spray paint I now have something fun.


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Spartans, Vikings play to 2-2 draw
No matter which shade of blue he's representing, Lorenzo Ortiz wants to beat Northern Vance.
Kerr-Vance Academy's Southern Vance transfer will have to wait until October for another shot at Northern after a spirited 2-2 draw Monday at Viking Stadium.
"Even since when I was at Southern Vance, I always wanted to beat Northern Vance," said Ortiz, the Spartans' senior forward. "No matter where I'm at in Henderson, it's a rivalry. Everyone wants to win and have the bragging rights of the town.
"It's intense. Everybody at school talks about it. Everybody wants a 'W.' Nobody wants to lose a game like this."
KVA and Northern each have a win and draw on the season and each side had 14 shots on Tuesday.
Robert Depo scored the equalizer for the Vikings in the 70th minute when the senior found the ball at his feet inside the 18-yard box, an open net ahead.
Northern's Irving Cheluca redirected a Jonathan Byrom free kick, straight on from about 40 yards out, in Depo's direction.
Byrom said he was aiming to put KVA goalkeeper Jordan Smith in a difficult position with the kick.
"It was a tough ball to control and I knew had Irving and Depo to crash the goal," said Byrom.
Cheluca, who put Northern ahead in the first half, went airborne with Smith for the ball on the left side of the penalty area before it fell to Depo.
"It's instinctive to just tap the ball and put it in the net," said Depo, a senior.
Smith finished with eight saves and Northern goalkeeper Thomas Knight came away with four stops.
Northern opened the scoring with Cheluca's goal, assisted by Byrom and set up by charging central midfielder Joseph Sharpe.
"He's pretty strong," Northern head coach Razvan Tegean said of Sharpe. "He's a great athlete and he was definitely a huge player to help us control the midfield."
The Vikings controlled much of the first half, limiting the Spartans' opportunities before the visitors leveled in the 54th minute on Jordan Hogge's goal.
KVA's Juan Lopez started the buildup near the halfway line before sending a ball forward for Ortiz, who played a ball for Joseph Burnette inside the 18. Burnette then slotted it right for Hogge, who buried the finish far post.
KVA head coach Devon Honeywell said it took his side 40 minutes to adjust.
"I think Northern came out and played a good first half," he said. "They have some strong players that can take long kicks and long throws. They use that to their advantage."
Ortiz put the Spartans ahead on a penalty kick less than two minutes after Hogge's goal.
The draw, against a KVA squad with high expectations, was the kind of result Tegean wants to see consistently from Northern.
"It's a great game," said Tegean. "Many of them are friends, played together, traveled for a long period of time. For most of them, being one of the last games they play against each other, they wanted to prove themselves. But if I can get the boys to that point where we can play with that hard effort and passion every game, it will be awesome."
Northern is scheduled to visit KVA Oct. 9.
The Vikings return to action Saturday, Sept. 6 against East Surry in a Cary showcase event.
KVA hosted Wayne Country Day on Tuesday.
"We're going to get better," said Honeywell.
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Highlights of a few of our programs:
The Code for Good Challenge brings together college students and the firm's employees who are passionate about technology and making a difference. These hackathons take place in cities around the world, benefit local and global change-making organizations from the surrounding communities.
The two-day competitions run overnight, with students coding in teams and racing against the clock and each other to come up with creative technological solutions to real challenges faced by nonprofits. The students' innovative ideas are developed into working prototypes with the support of JPMorgan Chase technologists who work directly with the students, serving as mentors and subject matter experts.
In nine challenges held over the past year in Delaware, Ohio, New York, London and Mumbai, dozens of socially-focused organizations have benefitted from the students' creativity and technical skills. "Overall, the weekend exceeded my expectations," said Andrew Courtney from The Nature Conservancy. "The entire event was a great opportunity to work with highly talented students, who rapidly prototyped numerous solutions for an ongoing challenge we've faced."
Many students agreed that the Code for Good Challenge is "the best coding event I have attended" and that they loved the "intense atmosphere of rapid development and the enthusiasm that radiated from everyone."
Students and JPMorgan Chase technologists brainstorm, problem solve, and work with the charitable partners to come up with solutions over 24 hours.
Force for Good is a social innovation program organized by JPMorgan Chase's Technology for Social Good team. The program leverages our technology staff volunteers and our internal subject matter experts to form creative, motivated, and diverse project teams. Technology analysts from our full time program form core project teams, and are paired up with more skilled mentors. These skilled technologists work with social organizations experiencing issues that can be addressed with technology to drive their programs forward. Projects range from mobile application development to technology optimization. To learn more about the program, please visit this page.
A SharePoint based web platform developed made it easier for JPMorgan Chase to automate and streamline a veteran-matching and home-donation process with Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that awards mortgage-free homes to veterans.
A series of prototypes showing a mobile application under development.
The Digital Guestbook is an innovative technology solution which we have designed and implemented at cultural institutions to enhance the visitor experience and increase fundraising capabilities. The Guestbook addresses the issue of 'anonymous' visitors regularly faced by cultural institutions across the globe. Launched in January 2013, the Digital Guestbook has appealed to several museums and cultural institutions interested in gathering information about their visitors and using that information to reach out to them. The Guestbook is strengthening communication between organizations and their supporters, whether they are a plane ride away or a block away.
Depending on the requirements of a particular organization, a Guestbook can be personalized and completed in a matter of months. It can generate metrics on how many people are signing, tagging their locations, and making donations.
The Youth Coding Program provides students ranging from elementary schools to high schools with an early introduction to designing software algorithms and programming constructs through computer game design using a visual programming platform. Through Days of Service, JPMorgan Chase volunteers visit local schools and partner with small teams of students to introduce them to computer programming by visually dragging objects and logic around to develop interactive computer games and robotics in a fun and exciting way.
In partnership with Code.org, Technology for Social Good facilitated the Hour of Code, a global event focused on introducing students to Computer Science to get them excited about coding. Globally the event touched more than 16 million people and generated over 500 million lines of code. Volunteers from across various cities ranging from Detroit to Bangalore visited several schools to join the effort to demystify "code" with over 450 students.
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co., commented, "In a world where technology drives our industries, the financial sector is no different. Having bright, talented, creative minds developing innovative technology solutions for our businesses just makes sense. It's good for them, and it's good for business."
A JPMorgan Chase volunteer assists a team of students on how to program a Lego Mindstorms Robot.
Volunteers unpack laptop donations at an elementary school in Detroit.
Since 2009, we've been able to redeploy almost 30 percent of the desktops, laptops, monitors and printers collected – avoiding costs and reducing our environmental impact. We are proud to present Tech Warehouse with our global partners as a way to continue our work toward preserving the environment while providing useful technology for those in need. Since the inception of the program, over 1,000 organizations have benefitted from a donation of 3,000 assets.
Tech Warehouse is a dual benefit program. First, we assist nonprofit organizations and schools with contributions from the firm's refurbished technology to improve productivity at an individual and organizational level. Second, when our hardware has reached its end of life, we address zero waste initiatives by ensuring that our technology ends up in proper recycling channels, not landfills. Additionally, we ensure donated assets are also properly recycled once they reach their end of life.
As part of the international Tech Warehouse program, a computer lab was donated to Muktangan, a nongovernmental organization that runs a teacher-training center for low-cost, child-centered education in Mumbai, India.
"I am pleased that we are getting involved with our larger community at a grass-roots level. The kids of Muktangan – and I can see how excited they are – will be better prepared to continue their higher education and be better citizens with skills they will learn in this computer lab."
–Punit Sood, Chief Information Officer, JPMorgan Chase India
The King Center Imaging Project was a digitization effort to preserve and make publicly available tens of thousands of documents from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other key figures and organizations from the Civil Rights Movement housed at The King Center. This unprecedented effort is showcased on the Center's website, which was completely redesigned by JPMorgan Chase. To promote this significant undertaking and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of major events in Civil Rights from 1963, including the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom where Dr. King delivered his unforgettable "I Have a Dream" speech, an traveling exhibit was developed to travel across the United States throughout 2013. On Martin Luther King Day in 2013, we launched the latest feature on The King Center site: Dreams. Site visitors are now invited to share their dreams with the world and read about what others are dreaming about as well.
Watch the video about the project online.
In addition, JPMorgan Chase committed $1 million to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. Visit jpmorganchase.com/MLK for more information or visit this page for more details.
"Our valued relationship with JPMorgan Chase and their innovative Technology for Social Good program is helping to preserve and extend my father's important message to sustain the momentum of nonviolent social change around the world."
– Martin Luther King III
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In this week's New Yorker, Paul Goldberger, an architectural critic for whom I have great respect, has a piece in the "Talk of the Town" section entitled "Cathedrals: The Park That Ruth Built." It's about the old Yankee stadium and what the city should do with it. The article begins:
"When Shea Stadium was torn down and its site turned into a parking lot for the Mets' new Citi Field earlier this year, nobody seemed to care, least of all historic preservationists. It didn't have that much history, and it was ugly besides. Shea was no Yankee Stadium."
Why does this always happen? Why does anyone think or say this? Did nobody care? Not that much history? The first stadium concert ever? The Miracle Season of 1969? The Miracle Decade of the Eighties? The preferred stadium of MORE THAN HALF of everyone who attended a major league baseball game in New York from 1962-1995? More than 100 million afternoons and evenings filled with the warmth of family, friends, or the solitary delights of a genuinely beautiful game?
Ebbets Field was home to the Dodgers for 45 years. Shea was home to the Mets for 45 years. Would anyone ever say that Ebbets Field didn't have much history? Do you know much about the Dodgers before 1947? Are their 45 years worth so much more than our 45 years? Apparently there are people who think so.
I wasn't alive for the Dodgers and I never liked the Yankees. But my 47 years with the Mets have meant a lot to me. And unless I am a psychotic and have imagined it all, there are millions of people who have been there with me. I am not sure why people often don't respect us, or even see us, but I'm pretty certain we've actually been there and that our experiences deserve to be considered history as much as the experiences of anyone else.
Shea may not have been beautiful. A lot of wonderful and meaningful things aren't, strictly speaking, beautiful. But it's funny, sometimes, how people define beauty. Greenwich Village and Soho were almost torn down by developers who wanted to make it easier to get from the Holland Tunnel to the Manhattan Bridge. They wanted to get Federal slum clearance money to tear down what they considered to be ugly old buildings, which they wanted to replace with hi-rise towers filled with air and light. Jane Jacobs and a few local residents had to stand up and say that their neighborhood might not be beautiful, but it had vitality, and besides they lived there. We didn't make that kind of argument to preserve Shea. We knew it wasn't as worth preserving as the Village and Soho. But it had vitality and it was our old neighborhood. It felt a lot more like an old neighborhood in New York than Citi Field ever will. Even if it wasn't worthy of being preserved, wasn't it worthy of being spoken of with respect?
Paul: There were people who cared when Shea went down. It's true that Shea Stadium was no Yankee Stadium. But that's why we went there.
My new book, The Last Days of Shea: Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan can be pre-ordered on Amazon for $11.53. You will have it in your hands before the end of August. In the meantime, you can read samples and blurbs here.


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2 cups
all-purpose flour
1/4 cup
white sugar
1/2 teaspoon
3/4 cup
1/3 cup
corn syrup
2 (8 ounce) packages
cream cheese, softened
1 cup
corn syrup
2 teaspoons
vanilla extract
3/4 cup
peach preserves
ABSOLUTELY AWEFUL! I love peaches and I love cheesecake. This sounded like a great recipe to try. The dough was too thick, the filling too thin and absolutely tasteless! What a waste of perfectly good ingredients. I made the mistake of making this for a party that I was having. It was an absolute embarrassment to me to have made this recipe!
I haven't made this recipe, but a peach cheesecake bar sounds like it would be good. I have never seen any cheescake recipe that called for corn syrup for the sweetener and I think I'd try a half a cup of granulated white sugar instead in the filling for this. I don't much see the point of corn syrup in the crust either. Maybe the recipe orignally was published by Karo or something!
5 Ratings
for LYNN-BOB, a good idea to improve this recipe is to use 3 8oz cream cheese instead of 2, use graham crust and thinly drizzle with chocolate fudge.
I did not care for this recipe.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Peach Cheesecake Bars
Serving Size: 1/64 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 64
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 94
Calories from Fat: 44
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June 7th marked the birth date of Hungarian-born conductor and pianist George Szell. It's not a round-numbered anniversary - the 114th - but there is a birthday present of sorts. A brand new biography, Michael Charry's George Szell: A Life of Music, was published by University of Illinois Press last week. Szell is best remembered as the man who, over 24 years, meticulously molded the Cleveland Orchestra into one of the finest ensembles in the world.--from NPR


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Duke's fund raising lifts city
In 2012-2013, contributions to Duke University set a record –$410.9 million in philanthropic giving.
That may have seemed breathtaking, but we hope you saved some breath for this year's announcement. Duke said this week that donors had given another record, $441.8 million, in the year that ended June 30. Four years into the seven-year Duke Forward campaign to raise $3.25 billion, the school's efforts are at a healthy $2.17 billion toward that goal.
Those numbers should be exciting if only because we love to see a local institution doing well – sort of like vicariously enjoying a national championship in basketball, a first-ever 10-win season in football or a Nobel laureate.
But Duke's money-raising success should resonate in this community for other, more concrete reasons as well.
Already one of the top private research universities in the nation, Duke's academic stature burnishes Durham's brand and contributes to the city's economic, cultural and social vitality.
The Duke Forward funds will further elevate Duke's prominence. They will, as a Duke news release summarized it, "enrich the student experience in and out of the classroom, invest in exceptional faculty and support research and initiatives focused on training leaders to address some of society's most pressing challenges."
And, as the Triangle Business Journal's annual list of the Triangle's top employers reminds us, Duke is the region's top employer. In fact, its 36,000 employees are roughly equal to the total Triangle employment of the next five largest employers (IBM, Wake Med Raleigh, Food Lion, Rex Healthcare and Cisco Systems) combined. Duke is, according to the N. C. Department of Commerce, the second-largest private employer in the state. Its head count has grown by one-third in the past decade.
That means the university and its medical complex are an enormous – and relatively recession-proof -- economic engine. As we've mused before, Durham and the Triangle region today are the beneficiaries of decisions made more than 75 years ago – when James B. Duke renamed and endowed the modest Trinity College – and more than a half-century ago when Gov. Luther Hodges and a cohort of business leaders from Durham and across the state conceived the Research Triangle Park. That park owes its existence to their vision – and to the presence of Duke, UNC Chapel Hill and N. C. State as elite research institutions.
Duke and RTP had already laid the groundwork for a completely different economy here when the tobacco and textile industries – whose magnates in their heyday had done so much to launch both – collapsed. Far too many towns and cities in our state struggle to this day with the gloomy aftermath of that collapse, even as Durham surges forward.
Duke President Richard Brodhead, in the school's release on contributions, said he wanted "to express how grateful we are for the extraordinary support we've received this year."
For many reasons, the larger community, too, should be grateful.


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Welcome to the Fairfield Inn & Suites Chattanooga East
An on-site bar/lounge, free breakfast and free Wi-Fi are included at Fairfield Inn & Suites Chattanooga East.
Hotel Features
This five-story property has 108 rooms that feature free Wi-Fi, 42-inch flat-panel cable TVs, desks and coffeemakers. The hotel has a well-equipped fitness center, a business center, a seasonal outdoor pool, meeting facilities and an on-site restaurant. Guests can start their day with a free breakfast buffet. Parking is free.
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Located in northeast Chattanooga, the hotel is an easy four miles from Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport/Lovell Field. It's 13 miles from downtown and sites like Ross's Landing, the Southern Belle Riverboat and the Tennessee Aquarium, and seven miles from Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park. The University of Tennessee is 15 miles away. The Tennessee Valley Authority main complex is nine miles from the hotel. Lookout Mountain is a 16-mile drive.
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Brothers Doug and Skip Oppenheimer to Receive Honorary U-Idaho DegreesBy Donna Emert
Idaho businessmen Douglas and Arthur "Skip" Oppenheimer began their storied careers with solid grounding in the humanities. Their shared interest in culture, history, civics, communication and the arts has helped to shape them as successful entrepreneurs, and as generous public servants.
As undergraduates at the University of Idaho, Doug earned a journalism degree and Skip a degree in history. Skip went on to earn a master's in business administration from Harvard University. Doug joined the ranks of the fourth estate as a journalist for the Idaho Statesman.
"Journalism provided me the opportunity to learn skills as an active listener, asking pertinent questions and working to become a better communicator both in person and in writing," said Doug. "It's still a work in progress for me."
"One advantage of studying history is having the opportunity to gain broader perspective from the past as one looks at current and future challenges," said Skip. "The lessons and context of history can provide a deeper understanding of the world we live in."
The brothers' business acumen, and their insights into the historical and social context wherein businesses operate, have paid big dividends to Idaho: Together, they established and head Oppenheimer Companies, Inc., a national food processing, sales, marketing and distribution organization and a leading Idaho corporation. The brothers have been business partners for 38 years.
At commencement ceremonies on December 8, 2012, the Oppenheimers will receive honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Idaho. Honorary degrees are awarded to alumni whose impacts include outstanding public service.
The brothers' social impacts are diverse and profound. Most recently, the Oppenheimer brothers established the Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium. The Symposium brings together participants from the fields of journalism, law, public relations, advertising, business and government.
Their many philanthropic and public service interests focus on Idaho's children and their families, health care, economic development, the liberal arts and education. In a joint statement, they define their educational objective as: "continuing to improve and enhance opportunities for students in the state of Idaho, to help them become effective citizens of the 21st Century."
In addition to their leadership, entrepreneurship and far-reaching public service, the brothers are legend for their sense of humor.
"We feel in most things, especially business, the difference between tragedy and comedy is a day or two. . .or even an hour or two," Doug said. "Of course, we are not necessarily that good at telling the difference between real laughter and courtesy laughter, or for that matter, people laughing at us or with us. Actually we stopped trying to tell the difference," says Skip.
While an education in the humanities is a path less taken to a career in business, the brothers recommend it without reservation.
"Getting a broad background in the arts and humanities is a very big opportunity as a foundation for personal and professional growth," they said. "It is also, we feel, an opportunity to have a little broader awareness of other people, cultures and points of view. We become quite specialized in this 21st Century world, and the opportunity to have a broader background is one that we have always felt was very valuable in life."


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There, there, now. Make yourself feel better by doing a little reading.
Come into the library, make yourself at home, and curl up with Street & Smith's SportsBusiness journal. Or stay right where you are and read Sports Illustrated online: just go to the list of online journals at http://library.ucf.edu/Databases/OnlineJournals.asp and click on the title. Lexis Nexis, on the list of online databases, http://library.ucf.edu/Databases/, contains the full text of hundreds of newspapers---perhaps you'd like to know what a newspaper in Europe or Asia had to say about the game.
Spring practices for college football are not that far away. You could always do some extra studying between now and then.


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A Few Spotty Showers, Cool Temps!August 12th, 2014 at 1:58 pm by Ken Brewer under Colts Forecast, Weather
As Randy mentioned earlier, it feels like October! A few isolated showers have popped up in central Indiana this afternoon. Skies are mostly cloudy and temperatures are in the upper 60s for most of the area, with the most southern locations reaching into the low 70s. Spotty showers will continue developing this afternoon. but any lingering showers are expected dissipate overnight.


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Video:Simple Sangriawith Ben Kurtzman
Sangria is a Spanish wine punch that is refreshing on a hot summer day. This video shows you how to make sangria with whatever leftover fruit you have around the house.See Transcript
Transcript:Simple SangriaHi, I'm Ben Kurtzman for About.com Food, and today I'm going to show you how to make sangria.
What is Sangria?Sangria is a Spanish wine punch that is refreshing on a warm summer day. There are many different recipes for sangria out there, but I find that you can make a delicious and simple sangria simply by using whatever fresh fruit you have around the house.
Sangria IngredientsFor this recipe you will need:
- red wine
- the juice from one lime
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 to 3 cups of chopped fresh fruit
Chop the Sangria FruitLet us start by chopping up the fruit. I am going to use an apple, an orange, a peach, and some grapes, but you should feel free to use whatever is in your kitchen. With sangria, you want to maximize the surface area of the fruit that is soaking in the wine, so thin slices or cubes are best.
Appearance is always important, so let us leave a few slices aside for garnish.
Mix the Sangria IngredientsPut the fruit in the pitcher, add the sugar and lime juice, and pour in the wine. Now, Spanish wine is traditional for sangria, however if you do not have any, any red wine will do in a pinch. Mix all of the ingredients together, and then put it in the refrigerator to chill.
Chill and Serve the SangriaIf you are not going to drink the sangria for a while you can put it in overnight. However, if you want it right away, just put it in the refrigerator until it is cold. Once the drink is chilled, pour it over ice, add the garnish, and enjoy.
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Introduction to Choral Music
A few things you wanted to know about choral music (but didn't know who to ask)
Choir. Chorus. Choral. Chorale. What do they all mean?
A choir is an ensemble of singers. Not a group of soloists competing with each other. That's American Idol. No, a choir is an ensemble. The word "ensemble" comes from French and means "together." And that's what the singers in a choir do. They sing together.
A chorus and a chorale are pretty much the same thing, when you get down to it. In fact, they've come from the same root word, but passed along to us from ancient Greece and Rome in several different forms.
The word "choral" is an adjective describing what choirs, choruses and chorales all do. They sing. Together. Thus, choral music.
In practice, people do make distinctions between the words, but there are no hard and fast definitions keeping them separate. "Choir" often refers to a choral group associated with a church or school. "Chorus" is often used in a theatrical context, such as opera or musical theater, for the group of singers (and often dancers) who "back up" the featured performers. "Chorale" can refer to a particular type of church music, or simply be another name for a choir or chorus. Like Pacific Chorale. Your favorite choir / chorus / choral ensemble.
"Chorale" shouldn't be confused with "corral." (Yes, they're pronounced the same way.) A corral is where you pen your livestock. A chorale is, well, where you pen your singers. As it were. Pacific Chorale does not have any horses for rent.
And "choral" shouldn't be confused with "coral." Coral is an underwater creature that builds reefs. "Choral" is a description of a type of singing, which is hard to do underwater.
No, it's not another standardized test. It's an abbreviation for the most typical structure of a choir: soprano, alto, tenor, bass—SATB.
Soprano is the high female voice. They usually sing the melody. Because our ears are calibrated to hear higher pitches more clearly, the soprano is usually what we hear first when we listen to a choir.
Alto is the low female voice. They sing harmony, which usually means lots of work and little glory. You'd certainly notice the difference, though, if they all got tired and left. Altos add warmth and richness to the sound.
Tenor is the high male voice. The tenor voice is relatively rare, which is why tenors are valued in the choral world. They add brilliance to the sound.
Bass is the low male voice. Don't pronounce it to rhyme with "grass"—that kind of bass is a fish! "Bass" sounds just like "base," and that's what they are: the base of the choir's sound.
A few other voice types you might encounter are treble, mezzo-soprano and baritone. "Treble" is usually used for boys who sing in the soprano range. "Mezzo-soprano" is the medium female voice, higher than alto and lower than soprano. It is not commonly used as a category in choral music, but is frequently applied to soloists. "Baritone" is the medium male voice, higher than bass and lower than tenor. In many choirs, baritones act as a subset of the bass section.
There are lots of other combinations of voices possible besides SATB. More to come about that in a future segment.
Isn't it all just classical? Why Romantic music isn't necessarily romantic.
Music historians break down the history of music into different eras, styles or periods. Music is constantly changing and evolving, and it helps us to understand these historic trends by creating categories that emphasize common characteristics of music from a certain time, say, the 14th century or the English Renaissance or the last days of disco. The six basic historical periods of Western art music are as follows:
The Medieval Period (1000-1450)
Because music notation was developed during this time period, this is the earliest Western music that we still possess. During the Medieval period, church music developed from single-line chant to polyphony, or music sung by multiple voices. This is the beginning of choral music as we know it. Literacy was almost the exclusive domain of the Catholic Church, so most of the Medieval music we know is sacred in nature. Of course, people were singing music on non-religious themes at the time, but since most of them did not have access to the skill of writing it down, comparatively little of it has been preserved. That was a development that took place during…
The Renaissance (1450-1600)
"Renaissance" means "rebirth," and this era marked the rediscovery of much knowledge and literature from the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. At least, thatÕs what the publicists were saying at the time. Some familiar elements of todayÕs music emerged during the Renaissance, such as notated (written-down) instrumental music, commercial music publication, and opera. Choral music reached a peak during the Renaissance: not only was music written in massive quantities for the church, but secular music written for hired or amateur singers to perform in home concerts also became extremely popular. (They didnÕt have iPods or XM radio in 1550 Ð if you wanted to hear music, you either had to hire a musician or perform it yourself!)
The Baroque Era (1600-1750)
"Baroque" was not a complimentary term when people first started applying it to the arts. Critics thought the new style of the era was irregular and overly ornamented, and used the term to compare it to an oddly-shaped pearl. Opera may have been invented during the Renaissance, but it really took off during the Baroque period. Music became more instrumentally driven, and vocal styles became more elaborate and stylized. Now is when the music we usually hear sung by larger choirs began to be written, such as the works of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. From this point until the twentieth century, we start to find less a cappella choral music (sung without instrumental accompaniment) and more music written for combinations of voices and instruments.
The Classical Era (1750-1820)
The shortest of the six periods, the Classical era is dominated by the great Austrian composers Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The symphony orchestra came into its own, opera continued to grow in popularity, and choral music fell in prominence. Even so, some of the greatest choral music ever written comes from this period: HaydnÕs Masses and oratorios, MozartÕs Requiem and C Minor Mass, and BeethovenÕs Missa solemnis and Ninth Symphony are all masterworks of the genre. Maybe thatÕs why we still tend to refer to all art music as "classical."
The Romantic Era (1810-1910)
Not Romantic as in hearts and flowers (necessarily), but as in an idealized, subjective, emotionally intense form of expression emphasizing mood, color and atmosphere. Choral music responded in three ways to this movement: expanding to vast proportions in the Verdi and Berlioz Requiems, contracting to intimate gatherings of amateur singers in the home, as in the part-songs and Liebeslieder of Schubert and Brahms, or looking to the glorious achievements of the past in the oratorios of Mendelssohn and the Masses of Bruckner. The churches that had been the mainstay of choral music were no longer at its forefront, but in their place arose models of community, symphonic and academic choruses that continue to influence the art form today.
The Modern Era (1900-present)
An era of innovation, exploration, and rebellion against the conventions of the past. Choral music had by now become just about exclusively the domain of amateur performers, so it avoided some of the wildest forms of experimentation going on in other fields. Even so, choral music during the twentieth century saw renewed interest in folk traditions from around the world, influences from the booming popular music industry (jazz, rock, Broadway, gospel), a revival of choral music from earlier periods in history, improvisation, aleatoric music (music that relies on a certain level of random chance to determine its materials or structure), and new applications of technology. All this tumult was supposed to bring about the music of the future, but at some point (no one can agree exactly when) it turned into postmodernism, which, as Alanis Morisette might say, is just ironic.


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A conundrum is a riddle having only conjectural answers, and a long-standing mathematical conundrum with numerous conjectural answers is centered on how Archimedes, in his Measurement of a Circle, arrived at his famous inequality \[\frac{265}{153}<\sqrt{3}<\frac{1351}{780}.\] In the first pages of [1], Heath offers only what are called "probable steps" that would lead to these inequalities. In [2], Dickson states that the two approximations, " . . . can be explained in connection with \(x^{2}-3y^{2}=-2\), \(x^{2}-3y^{3}=1,\)" but gives no hint that Archimedes proceeded in such a manner.
In [3], Dijksterhuis argues that Archimedes might have used what is called "the Babylonian rule," equivalent to Newton's Method for the function \(y=x^{2}-3,\) to arrive at \(\frac{1351}{780}\), but that rule doesn't explain the other fraction, except indirectly by means of what seems to be a curious supposition and roundabout calculations. (The Babylonian Rule asserts that in estimating a square root, make a simple but reasonable guess, then average your guess with the radicand divided by your guess to obtain a better estimate, then repeat. In our case, beginning with \(x=1\), and computing the average of \(x\) and \(\frac{3}{x}\) through four iterations yields the sequence of four estimates obtained on page 4.) Heath (again) in [4] seems to mention the inequalities only in a passing manner, and Stein [5] curiously does not mention these famous Archimedean inequalities at all. To see how much attention has been paid to speculation about the above inequalities, visit the website Archimedes and the Square Root of 3.
Recall that Occam's Razor asserts that among competing explanations, the simplest is the most likely to be correct. To that end, notice that the two fractions involved here are contained in rungs nine and twelve of the Greek ladder for \(\sqrt{3}\) on the second page of this paper. That would seem to be the simplest explanation all right, but did Archimedes know of Greek ladders or something equivalent? Did he realize that
if \(\frac{a}{b}\) is an approximation to \(\sqrt{3},\)
then \(\frac{3a+b}{a+b}\) is a better one?
Because this, beginning with \(\frac{1}{1}\) and iterating, yields – exactly – the rungs of the classical Greek ladder for \(\sqrt{3}\). It would seem that knowing of Greek ladders or something equivalent is a reasonable supposition, as is suggested on the second page of [6] in a quote from [2], wherein it is urged that the ancients seemed to know of Greek ladders or something equivalent to them.
On many classroom occasions over the years, I have used Greek ladders to get simple approximations. I have also on occasion described this conundrum about the Archimedean approximations to \(\sqrt{3}\), and students always seem surprised that there can be such current disagreements and open questions among mathematicians about so ancient a topic. This opens the door for more dialog about the open-ended nature of mathematical discovery as well as of our current understanding of the ancient history of mathematics.