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Water-in-oil emulsions containing a polymeric quaternary ammonium compound prepared by the condensation of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and 1,4-bis-dimethylamino-2-butene as a biocidal agent, and wherein the emulsifying agent is an amine oxide.
1. A method of controlling the proliferation of fungi in a water-in-oil emulsion which comprises incorporating into said emulsion as a fungicidal agent a condensation product and an amine oxide as an emulsifier, said condensation product being formed by mixing 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and 1,4-bis-dimethylamino-2-butene dissolved in a solvent at room temperature whereby an exothermic reaction is obtained causing the temperature of the mixture to rise, then maintaining the mixture at no higher than reflux temperature until the reaction is complete, the reactants being present in the reaction in relative molar proportions to each other of between about 1:3 and about 3:1, said condensation product being present in the emulsion in a fungicidally effective amount, and said amine oxide being present in an amount to effectively emulsify the composition.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said amine oxide is a higher alkyl dimethylamine oxide.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said amine oxide is stearyldimethylamine-N-oxide.
This is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 495,328, filed Aug. 7, 1974 and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 3,929,990, dated Dec. 30, 1975, which was, in turn, a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 425,931, filed Dec. 18, 1973, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 3,874,870, dated Apr. 1, 1975.
This invention relates to water-in-oil emulsions which contain a polymeric quaternary ammonium compound as a anti-fungal agent, and it particularly relates to such emulsions wherein the emulsifying agent is an amine oxide.
The aforesaid application Ser. No. 425,931, disclosed that the polymeric quaternary ammonium compound formed by the condensation of 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and 1,4-bis-dimethylamino-2-butene comprises a very potent biocidal agent in oil-in-water emulsions and that such emulsions have relatively little foaming action.
As disclosed in the aforesaid application Ser. No. 425,931, which is herewith incorporated by reference, the aforesaid polymeric quaternary ammonium compound is formed by mixing 1,4-dihalo-2-butene and 1,4-bis-dimethylamino-2-butene dissolved in a solvent, in relative molar proportions of between about 1:3 and about 3:1, at room temperature, whereby an exothermic reaction is obtained causing the temperature of the mixture to rise, then maintaining the mixture at no higher than reflux temperature until the reaction is complete. For the sake of brevity, this compound will be referred to as "Product P".
This same polymeric quaternary ammonium compound provides the same satisfactory results when used in water-in-oil emulsions, except when such water-in-oil emulsions include non-ionic emulsifiers. When such non-ionic emulsifiers are present, biocidal effectiveness is seriously impaired. However, when the non-ionic emulsifier is replaced by an amine oxide as the emulsifying agent, the biocidal effectiveness is satisfactory.
In the same manner as the oil-in-water emulsions described in the aforesaid parent application, the compound in the present water-in-oil emulsions is active at concentrations as low as 10 ppm against Aerobacter aerogenes and as low as 25 ppm against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, while against algae, such as Chlorella pyrenoidosa, it is active at a concentration at least as low as 1 ppm or lower, and it is active against a mixture of the fungi Aspergillis niger and Penicillium expansum in concentrations of about 2000 ppm, or less, as a inhibitor against proliferation. Insofar as concerns their upper limits, the concentration appears to be capable of being increased indefinitely without deleteriously affecting the biocidal activity.
Also, as in the case of the corresponding oil-in-water emulsions described in the aforesaid parent application, when used in cosmetic compositions the present water-in-oil emulsions are effectively protected by the polyquaternary compound.
In order to show anti-fungal activity of water-in-oil emulsions, utilizing the present polymeric quaternary ammonium compound, wherein an amine oxide is used as the emulsifying agent, a cosmetic-type water-in-oil emulsion was prepared using an emulsion containing an amine oxide, namely "Ammonyx SO", as the emulsifier. "Ammonyx SO" is stearyldimethylamine-N-oxide made by the Onyx Chemical Company, Jersey City, N.J.
The amine oxide, "Ammonyx SO" is dissolved in water, together with "Product P", at 65° to 75° C. Then, the lanolin, petrolatum and mineral oil are heated to a homogeneous melt at between 65° to 75° C. Thereafter, with constant mechanical stirring, the aqueous phase is added very slowly to the oil phase and stirring is continued while cooling, until a stable smooth emulsion results.
The following tables illustrate the particular compositions used and the anti-fungal results achieved with each composition:
Table 1______________________________________The following emulsions were prepared for microbiologicaltesting:______________________________________ Emulsion Emulsion Emulsion A B C______________________________________Lanolin, USP Anhydrous 2.0 2.0 2.0Mineral oil (65/76 saybolt) 40.0 40.0 40.0Petrolatum, White USP 30.0 30.0 30.0"Ammonyx SO" (25%) 16.0 16.0 16.0"Product P" 1.0 0.5 0.2Water 11.0 11.5 11.8 Emulsion Emulsion D E______________________________________Lanolin, USP Anhydrous 2.0 1.0Mineral oil (65/75 saybolt) 40.0 35.0Petrolatum, White USP 30.0"Ammonyx SO" 16.0 10.0"Product P" 0.0 0.2Cetyl Alcohol 1.0Water 12.0 52.8______________________________________
Emulsions A, B, C and D are water-in-oil emulsions containing "Product P" in concentrations of 10,000 ppm; 5,000 ppm; 2,000 ppm; and 0 ppm respectively.
Emulsion E is an oil-in-water emulsion of "Product P", which has been shown to be a potent fungicidal emulsion.
Emulsion D is a "negative" control for emulsions A, B, C and emulsion E is a "positive" control for emulsions A, B, and C.
Following is a description of the method used in testing for the anti-fungal properties of water-in-oil emulsions.
Fifty gram samples of each emulsion to be tested were aseptically transferred to sterile 8 ounce wide-mouth jars. Two replicate jars and an untreated control were prepared in each instance.
Each jar was inoculated with 5.0 ml. of an aqueous suspension of Aspergillis niger, and Penicillium expansum to provide a concentration of 1 × 105 spores per ml. of jar content. (The spore suspension was prepared previously as an aqueous suspension of 14 day old agar growth of test organisms).
At weekly intervals following inoculation, some of the jar contents in sterile "Azolectin"-"Tween 80" sterile neutralizer solutions were plated into Sabouraud Dextrose agar, incubated at 28° C, and observed at 7 and 14 days following the plating, to count the number of colonies arising from the viable spores.
Table 2______________________________________Number of Spores CountedStart Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4______________________________________Emulsion A 1 × 105 2 × 103 16 × 101 8 × 101 6 × 101Emulsion B 1 × 105 5 × 103 42 × 101 64 ×101 45 × 101Emulsion C 1 × 105 9 × 103 63 × 101 86 × 101 14 × 101Emulsion D 1 × 105 2 × 105 34 × 104 13 × 104 18 × 104Emulsion E 1 × 105 <10 <10 <10 <10______________________________________
The biocidal test results displayed in Tables 1 and 2 clearly indicate that the polyquaternary compound functions as an effective anti-fungal agent in water-in-oil emulsions when it is in a system which is emulsified by amine oxide emulsifiers.
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CLEVELAND -- The hundreds of marines who have invaded our city this week are leaving a lasting impression on those who come to honor them.
At the Indian's game Friday night, 50 men and women took the oath to serve the United States in the Marine Corps. The crowd cheered as they vowed to defend our country.
This week, civilians have come face to face with the men and women who make a daily impact. And after visiting the displays set up for Marine week, they realize this event is much more than just fun and games.
"Sometimes you don't appreciate what they do for us in all aspect," says Lydia Patterson.
Patterson didn't expect to get emotional to meet the Marines and hear the planes over head. But a native of Panama, she feels gratitude to these men and women in uniform.
"The invasion in Panama [is how] we got [our] freedom and our democracy," she added
Veterans who once wore the Marine Blues see first hand how things have changed and unexpectedly remember how much of themselves went into their service.
Some tell stories about how their own blood, sweat and tears went into basic training. The other stories of combat get stopped by a well of emotion.
Most people we spoke with expected to come and enjoy the nice weather and see the battlefield equipment. Most didn't expect to be touched emotionally by the face to face interaction.

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I'm Here! Just T I R E D.
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What do You Wish you Would Have Known?
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Texas on the Potomac is pleased to offer political commentary from across the political spectrum. Today, we share with you a guest column from Houston Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who serves on the the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees. We will offer additional perspectives if other members of the Texas delegation come forward. Here […] [Read More]
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I. Readymade Postcard of Readymade Art
Post-card is the result of joining 3 'readymades' by analogy:
Duchamp's Bottle Dryer, the Coca-Cola bottle, and a postcard
of "Christ Enthroned" by Jan Van Eyck (also objects produced in series,
although with different aesthetic intentions). In this way, the juxtaposition
of 3 powerful icons (one of them invisible, only referred to in the postcard)
activates their corresponding connotations: industrial, cultural, and
religious. The stamp, another readymade, is a spiraling galaxy that sends
the postcard to a more 'scientific' dynamic level (optic disks, View,
II. The Clew
A visual interpretation of Marcel Duchamp,
A Bruit Secret [With Hidden Noise] 1916, in a sequence of seven images.
Figs. Bottle Dryer, With Hidden Noise, Chessboard, Note
© 2005 Succession Marcel Duchamp, ARS, N.Y./ADAGP, Paris. All rights


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Reply+17#65 - brenton (07/01/2013) [-]
********* ******* excuse ever. I used to think to myself, "Of course Bill Gates succeeded. He's an absolute genius that didn't really care about certain subjects, so didn't really study. You're just a bunch of ******** that are too stupid to recognize the fact that science courses take a lot of hard work." Oh, and then they would blame everything on the professor when they got a 20% on the final. Grinds my gears, man.
Reply+2#104 to #65 - zzforrest (07/01/2013) [-]
Bill Gates knew what he wanted to do and how to do it and so when he quit highschool he got to work and man did he WORK. There wasn't play for him. He worked his ass off. People who use him as an excuse are lazy assholes that just want everything handed to them in life.
Reply+1#69 to #65 - arkytior (07/01/2013) [-]
Sounds a lot like our college. I'm studying chemistry too. Most of the people who didn't make it through the tests blame the professors or that the subject's "too hard" or "not understandable at all". Like this guy, who's doing this one subject for the fifth time and always studies a lot and just can't make it. Like a friend said, just face it, you're too stupid for this college, go study economy or something.
I didn't make the finals yet and will do them in august but that's just my fault for not studying and procrastinating here on FJ.
I didn't make the finals yet and will do them in august but that's just my fault for not studying and procrastinating here on FJ.
Reply0#127 to #69 - brenton (07/02/2013) [-]
Well I was a bio major, and I definitely failed Organic I the first time around, but took full responsibility for my ********* and still got accepted into an accelerated PharmD program for this coming school year. Grad schools don't give a **** if you fail, it all depends on how you bounce back, and that's exactly what these idiots don't realize. If you fail, you can't afford to do badly a second time, and no matter how ****** of a professor you have, there is always a way to do well. Sometimes you have to teach yourself the entire course, but it's possible.
Reply+1#106 to #102 - arkytior (07/01/2013) [-]
Three times it's free, then the fourth you pay. He failed it for the fourth time already. You can talk to the professor to not write down an attempt if you failed it and he might give you another try if you have finished all other subjects... But this guy won't make it.


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Merlyn Nielsen
Professor, Animal Breeding
A218j Animal Science Building
Lincoln, NE 68583-0908
Phone: (402)472-6406
Fax: (402)472-6362
Email: email@example.com
Website: Small Animal Lab
Mini CV
- Ph.D., Major Animal Breeding, Minor Statistics; Iowa State University, 1974. Advisor: R. L. Willham
- M.S., Major Animal Breeding, Minor Statistics; Iowa State University, 1972. Advisor: R. L. Willham
- B.S., Major Animal Science, Minor Mathematics; University of Nebraska, 1970.
- Professor (1984-present) University of Nebraska
- Associate Professor (1978-1984) University of Nebraska
- Visiting Scientist (1982-1983) University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Assistant Professor (1974-1984) University of Nebraska
- Graduate Assistant (1970-1974) Iowa State University
- Pioneer Award, Beef Improvement Federation, 2014
- Fellow, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, 2012
- Appointed Kermit Wagner Professor of Animal Science, 2006
- Holling Family Award for Teaching Excellence, UNL, 2005
- Gamma Sigma Delta Award of Merit, UNL Chapter, 2003
- Outstanding Scientist, Nebraska Chapter of Sigma Xi, 2002
- American Society of Animal Science, Rockefeller Prentice Memorial Award in Animal Breeding and Genetics, 1999
- Team Effort Award, IANR, UNL, 1993
- Gamma Sigma Delta Research Award, UNL Chapter, 1992
- Membership in Sigma Xi, 1976
- Membership in Phi Kappa Phi, 1971
- National Science Foundation Graduate Trainee, 1970-1973
- Membership in Gamma Sigma Delta, 1969
- Membership in Alpha Zeta, 1969
- Genetic variation in energy utilization and in reproduction in beef cattle and mice as a laboratory species.
- Selection to change feed energy requirements for maintenance, including selection to change heat loss using mice as experimental animals.
- Genetic variation in response to stress and gut-performance parameters.
- Identification of selection goals and selection methods, including phenotypic and molecular techniques.
- Selection and crossbreeding strategies to improve efficiency of beef production.
- ASCI 395D: Research Experience
Semester: Summer and Fall
Summary: Students will be placed in industry jobs with specific learning objectives declared before entering into employment. Experience in some aspect of animal agriculture.
- Leamy, L.J., K. Elo, M.K. Nielsen, S. Thorn, W. Valdar, and D. Pomp. 2014. Quantitative trait loci for energy balance traits in an advanced intercross line derived from mice divergently selected for heat loss. PeerJ DOI 10.7717/peerj. 392.
- Bhatnagar, A.S. and M.K. Nielsen. 2014. Lifeclycle efficiency of mice divergently selected for heat loss. J. Anim. Sci. 92:3237-3278.
- Bhatnagar, A.S. and M.K. Nielsen. 2014. Body composition and feed intake of reproducing and growing mice divergently selected for heat loss. J. Anim. Sci. 92:1886-1894.
- Bhatnagar, A.S. and M.K. Nielsen. 2014. Lifetime reproductive performance and survival analysis of mice divergently selected for heat loss. J. Anim. Sci. 92:477-484.
- Nielsen, M.K., M.D. MacNeil, J.C.M. Dekkers, D.H. Crews, Jr., T.A. Rathje, R.M. Enns, and R.L. Weaber. 2013. Life-cycle, total-industry genectic improvement of feed efficiency in beef cattle: Blueprint for the Beef Improvement Federation. Prof. Anim. Sci. 29:559-565.
- Sojka, P.A., R.S. Griess, and M.K. Nielsen. 2013. Locomotor activity and body temperature in selected mice lines differing greatly in feed intake. J. Anim. Sci. 91:3557-3563.
- Howard, J.T., S.D. Kachman, M.K. Nielsen, T.L. Mader, and M.L. Spangler. 2013. The effect of Myostatin genotype on body temperature during extreme temperature events. J. Anim. Sci. 91:3051-3058.
- Murphy, T.W., J.M. McDonald, and M.K. Nielsen. 2013. Hepatic mitochondrial efficiency in lines of mice differing in feed intake. J. Anim. Sci. 91:2077-2082.
- Rolfe, K.M., W.M. Snelling, M.K. Nielsen, H.C. Freetly, C.L. Ferrell, and T.G. Jenkins. 2011. Genetic and phyenotypic parameter estimates for feed intake and other traits in growing beef cattle and opportunities for selection. J. Anim. Sci. 89:3452-3459.
- Snelling, W.M., M.A. Allan, J.W. Keele, L.A. Kuehn, R.M. Thallman, G.L. Bennett, C.L. Ferrell, T.G. Jenkins, H.C. Freetly, M.K. Nielsen, and K.M. Rolfe. 2011. Partial-genome evaluation of postweaning feed intake and efficiency of crossbred beef cattle. J. Anim. Sci. 89:1731-1741.
- McDonald, J.M., J.J. Ramsey, J.L. Miner, and M.K. Nielsen. 2009. Differences in mitochondrial efficiency between lines of mice divergently selected for heat loss. J. Anim. Sci. 87:3105-3113.
- Zhou, Y., S. Zheng, W. Sprout, J. McDonald, and M.K. Nielsen. 2008. Additional evidence showing an additive effect of glucocorticoid receptor polymorphisms on anxiety-type behavior, stress response and bodey weight in a population of mice with low heat loss backgrond. FASEB. 22:6-8.
- McDonald, J.M. and M.K. Nielsen. 2007. Renewed selection for heat loss in mice: Direct responses and correlated responses in feed intake, body weight, litter size and conception rate. J. Anim. Sci. 85:658-666.
- Xu, D., A. Buehner, J. Xu, T. Lambert, L. Meyerle, C. Nekl, M.K. Nielsen, and Y. Zhou. 2006.. A polymorphic glucocorticoid receptor in a mouse population may explain inherited altered stress response and increased anxiety-type behaviors. FASEB J. Express. doi: 10.1096/fj.06-5926fje:E1-E9.
- Eggert, D.L., and M.K. Nielsen. 2006. Comparison of feed energy costs of maintenance, lean deposition, and fat deposition in three lines of mice selected for heat loss. J. Anim. Sci. 84:276-282.
- McDonald, J.M, and M.K. Nielsen. 2006. Correlated responses in maternal performance following divergent selection for heat loss in mice. J. Anim. Sci. 84:300-304.
- Cammack, K.M., M.K. Nielsen, K.A. Leymaster and T.G. Jenkins. 2005. Estimates of genetic parameters for feed intake, feeding behavior, and daily gain in composite ram lambs. J. Anim. Sci.83:777-785.
- Leamy, L.J., K. Elo, M.K. Nielsen, L.D. Van Vleck, and D. Pomp. 2005. Genetic variance and covariance patterns for body weight and energy balance characters in an advanced intercross population of mice. Genet. Sel. Evol. 37:151-173.
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2014-2015 Dance Courses
Graduate Seminar I
Writing about dance performance will be the topic for Fall 2014. This will involve reading past and present criticism as well as writing about current performances in New York City. This seminar provides an opportunity for students to develop their research, writing and analytical skills while studying a variety of topics that are of interest to them. Recent subjects have included investigations of the creative process, dance criticism, world dance forms, and the collaborative process. Each project culminates in an oral presentation.
Graduate Seminar I
The Spring semester will focus on critical perspectives in dance, culture and identity. When we look at dancing, what are we seeing, experiencing and understanding? How do current representations of dance perpetuate or disrupt assumptions about personal and social identity? Embedded notions of gender, economic class and race are threaded through our daily lives. Art and popular culture sometimes reinforce dominant cultural ideas, but can they also serve to propose alternatives to those ideas? In this seminar, we will examine a range of dancing on film, web-based media, television programs and commercials. These viewings, along with selected texts from the fields of dance and performance, literary criticism, feminist theory, queer theory and cultural studies, will form the basis of class discussions, exercises, readings, research and writing. The ultimate aim of this course is to cultivate a richly informed conversation among engaged participants, using academic work and life experience to illuminate and advance our appreciation of dance as an elemental art form.
Graduate Seminar II
This seminar is a laboratory for developing and refining projects from the "Dance Making" class. It is designed to encourage students to work collaboratively in solving questions of physical, spatial and temporal issues in their work, to explore connections between dance and other forms , and to make them aware of and conversant with the creative process always at work in the world.
Graduate Seminar III
This seminar emphasizes a dynamic foundation for dancing, offering participants an opportunity to refine their technique and analytical skills. Relevant aspects of functional anatomy are presented and considered throughout this class. Students are encouraged and coached to increase awareness of their current strategies, to broaden their range of movement possibilities, and integrate their creative and technical practices.
Anatomy in Action
How is it possible for humans to move in the multitude of ways that we do? Learn to develop your X-ray vision of the human being in motion in a course that combines movement practice, drawing, lecture and problem solving. In this course, movement is the vehicle for exploration of our profoundly adaptable anatomy. In addition to making drawings as we study the entire musculoskeletal system, we will learn Irene Dowd's Spirals ™; a comprehensive warm-up/cool-down for dancing that coordinates all joints and muscles through their fullest range of motion. Insights gained in this course can provide tremendous inspiration in the creative process. Students may enter this yearlong course in the second semester only with the permission of the instructor.
Anatomy Seminar - Graduate
This is an opportunity for advanced students who have completed Anatomy I to pursue their study of anatomy in greater depth. Each student will research a topic or topics in which functional anatomy plays a significant part. We will meet weekly to discuss questions and share experiences.
Ballet - Graduate
At all levels, ballet studies will guide students in creative and expressive freedom by enhancing the qualities of ease, grace, musicality, and symmetry that define the form. To this end, we will explore alignment with an emphasis on anatomical principles and enlist the appropriate neuromuscular effort needed to dance with optimal integration of every aspect of the individual body, mind, and spirit. Students may enter this yearlong course in the second semester only with permission of the instructor.
Movement is the birthright of every human being. These components explore movement's expressive and communicative possibilities by introducing different strategies for making dances. Problem posed run the gamut from conceptually driven dance/theatre to structured movement improvisations. These approaches vary depending on the faculty. Learn to mold kinetic vocabularies of your own choice and incorporate sound, objects, visual elements, and text to contextualize and identify your vision. Students will be asked to create and perform studies, direct one another, and share and discuss ideas and solutions with peers. Students are not required to make finished products but to involve themselves in the joy of creative. This course will be taught by Mr. Hurlin for the year with an additional class added in the Spring, to be taught by Ms. Westwater. Beginning Improvisation is either a prerequisite or should be taken at the same time.
Contemporary 3
Emphasis will be on the continued development of basic skills, energy use, strength, and control relevant to the particular style of each teacher. Attention will be given to sharpening each student's awareness of time and energy and to disciplining the body to move rhythmically, precisely, and in accordance with sound anatomical principles. The students in this advance class will study complex movement patterns, investigate somatic use, and concentrate on the demands of performance. The course will be taught by Ms. Welliver in the fall and Mr. Kyle in the spring.
Contact Improvisation - Graduate
This course will examine the underlying principles of an improvisatory form predicated on two or more bodies coming into physical contact. Contact Improvisation, which emerged in the 1960s out of the Judson Experimental Dance Theatre, combines aspects of social and theatrical dance, bodywork, gymnastics, and martial arts. We will explore movement practices that enhance our sensory awareness, with an emphasis on action and physical risk taking. Contemporary partnering skills, such as taking and giving weight and finding a common "center," will provide a basis for further exploration.
Dance and Camera - Graduate
When technology and the human body become partners, who leads? In this course we will investigate the blending of movement and technology in performance. Why do you look at a huge screen onstage when the live person is standing there beside it? What makes us look at one thing over another? By refining our awareness of how we see, we become more sophisticated choreographers and more articulate performers. Students will be encouraged to develop two perspectives - both of performer and viewer - and to discuss their findings. Technology is such a part of our everyday life; it's like breathing. We never stop to think about it. But when technology is used on stage as an equal partner with the performer, our habits of seeing are disrupted; breaking those habits often lets us discover something new. This course celebrates the imagination. Students will be encouraged to work with simple materials such as cameras and projectors as tools for performance or to harness technology to make live performance more eloquent. Each week, the class will be making sketches to be performed and viewed. At times, dances from the 1980s by people like Steve Paxton and Ishmael Houston Jones will be conjured up and viewed.
Dance History - Graduate
This is a course in the history of performance in the United States from the early 20th century to the present, as exemplified by the dancers, choreographers, and teachers who brought about notable changes in the art. The relationship of dance to the larger cultural environment will be discussed, with emphasis placed on the dance of our time. The spring term will also include studio practice. This course is designed to help the student relate his or her own work to the development of the art and to encourage creative critical perception. Dance History will be taught by Ms. Thom in the fall and Ms. Folkman in the spring. For all students beginning the Dance program. Open to any interested student.
Dance Making
Individual choreographic projects will be designed and directed by seniors and graduate students with special interest and experience in dance composition. Students and faculty will meet weekly to view works-in-progress and to discuss relevant artistic and practical problems. Whenever possible, the music for these projects, whether new or extant, will be performed live in concert. Dance Making students are encouraged to enroll in Lighting Design and Stagecraft for Dance. Prerequisites: Dance Composition, Music for Dancers, and permission of the instructor.
Dance Meeting
This is a regular gathering of all Dance Thirds in which we share ongoing student interests and invite guests to teach, perform, and inform. Topics have included dance injuries, dance therapy, kinesthetic awareness, nutrition, world dance forms, and presentations by New York City choreographers.
Experimental Improvisation Ensemble
This class explores a variety of musical and dance styles and techniques, including free improvisation, chance-based methods, conducting, and scoring. We will collaborately innovate practices and build scores that extend our understanding of how the mediums of dance and music relate to and with one another. How the body makes sound and how sound moves will serve as entry points for our individual and group experimentation. Scores will be explored with an eye toward their performing potential. The ensemble is open to composer-performers, dancers, performance artists, and actors. Music students must be able to demonstrate proficiency in their chosen instrument. All instruments (acoustic and electric), voice, electronic synthesizers, and laptop computers are welcome. Permission of instructors is required. Permission of the instructors is required.
Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement®
Moshe Feldenkrais believed that "rigidity, mental or physical, is contrary to the laws of life." His system of somatic education develops awareness, flexibility, and coordination as students are verbally guided through precisely structured movement explorations. The lessons are done lying on the floor, sitting, or standing and gradually increase in range and complexity. Students are required to bring their full attention to their experience in order to develop their capacity for spontaneous, effortless action. Self-generated learning will release habitual patterns, offer new options, and enhance the integrated activity of the entire nervous system.
Improvisation A
This more advanced class continues the creative trajectory that leads to composition and dance making. Merge your imagination and movement potential through dance improvisation. This invaluable creative mode offers students the opportunity to recognize and develop sensations, ideas and visions of dancing possibilities. Internal and external perceptions will be honed while looking at movement from many points of view—as an individual as well as in partnership with others.
Lighting Design and Stagecraft for Dance
The art of illuminating dance is the subject of this component. We will examine the theoretical and practical aspects of designing lights for dance. Students will create original lighting designs for Dance program concerts.
Music for Dancers
The objective of this course is to provide dance students with the tools to understand relationships between music and dance. Students will expand their knowledge of musical elements, terminology and procedures, and learn the basics of rhythmic notation. Students will also learn how to scan musical scores with various degrees of complexity and explore the diverse rhythmic styles that have developed in response to different geographical, social and philosophical conditions. This course will provide students with the opportunity to play percussion instruments.
Performance Project - Graduate
Explore the genius of Alvin Ailey through the eyes of those who knew him in a lecture, technique, and repertory residency. Sylvia Waters, former principal dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and founding Artistic Director of Ailey II will guide students through a definitive look into the history of the legacy created by Alvin Ailey—a celebration of the African-American heritage and the Modern Dance tradition. Ms. Waters will present lecture/discussion sessions and teach sections of iconic Ailey repertory, including excerpts of Blues Suite, Streams, and Mr. Ailey's signature masterpiece, Revelations. Master Horton technique instructors Elizabeth Roxas or Ana Marie Forsythe will lead Horton classes that focus on developing range of movement in an anatomically-corrective manner. Working closely in tandem, the instructors will enable students to create an interactive discourse about history, theory and applied practice. Students will showcase their work with an end of semester performance.
Performance Project - Graduate
Investigating the aesthetic ideals of another era can evoke questions about our own assumptions of what is beautiful and what is considered "art" today. In this course, we will explore early European ideals of beauty and harmony through the pre-classical dance forms and choreographies of the 17th and 18th centuries. Using as our material original texts of dance (treatises and notation systems), music, painting, and letters, we will delve into the juxtaposition of art and life in 17th and 18th centuries. Special attention will be paid to developing a physical sensitivity to musical phrasing, spatial awareness, and how one embodied "character" on the stages and in the ballrooms of Louis XIV and Louis XV. Discussion will be encouraged as we make connections to our current performance and training practices. We will create a new work based on our investigations and live music, spoken text, and historically inspired costuming will be used in the final creation. Students will showcase their work with an end of semester performance.
Teaching Conference
This course is an inquiry into the ways in which dance might be taught in various settings to different populations. The detailed study of kinesthetic, verbal, and creative actors in teaching will be presented and analyzed in terms of teaching objectives. Students will be placed as practice teachers, under supervision, in dance classes on campus and in community schools. Students may enter this yearlong course in the second semester only with permission of the instructor. The course will be taught by Ms. Thom in the fall and Ms. Gould in the spring.
Yoga - Graduate
This asana yoga class is designed with dancers and theater students' interests in mind. Various categories of postures will be practiced with attention to alignment, breathe awareness, strength and flexibility. Emphasis is placed on mindfulness and presence. This approach allows the student to gain tools for reducing stress and addressing other unsupportive habits to carry into other aspects of their lives. Instructor has a background in dance and theater in addition to various somatically based practices which she draws upon for designing the classes to meet the needs of the class members. Her class draws upon an alignment oriented practice as opposed to a vinyasa style of yoga. Additionally this class introduces various awareness building practices borrowed from other body oriented approaches.


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The first lady was spotted eating out with friends Sunday at Cork Wine Bar in Northwest DC, according to the Washington Post.
Michelle Obama has been venturing out solo more often as of late, taking in a gospel concert, hitting a pizzeria, and dining at an upscale Mexican restaurant in recent months.
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Kenneth Burns: I wish there were more good science fiction movies
I'm going to share something private. Normally I only talk about this with close friends and family members.
I'm a science fiction fan.
Actually, there is no shame in this. Many people are science fiction fans, because when it comes to movies, science fiction is a mainstream taste. Three of the 10 highest-grossing films of all time, adjusted for inflation, are science fiction: Avatar, Star Wars, E.T.: The Extraterrestrial.
When I say I'm a science fiction fan, what I mean is that I'm a fan of written science fiction. That's a less mainstream taste.
In high school, I was fond of the novels and stories of Robert Heinlein, who famously wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, about an Earthling raised by Martians. I also enjoyed books by Arthur C. Clarke, including Rendezvous With Rama and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I didn't talk about this much. I was a deeply anxious teenager, and I worried about certain, shall we say, assumptions regarding science fiction fans.
I've since gotten over my self-consciousness, and I've revisited the Heinlein and Clarke books many times. I also read books by other masters of the genre, like Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert.
At its best, written science fiction is thoughtful about technology and resourceful in the way it describes the interactions of people and machines.
I wish the same were true of more science fiction movies.
Yes, Avatar, Star Wars, and E.T. are very good. More commonly, however, what we think of as science fiction films are essentially thrillers, horror movies or action movies with technological themes, especially space-travel themes. That's thanks in no small part to Star Wars, which tells a lively story but is perhaps most influential because of its special effects and battle scenes.
I thought about this last weekend, when I revisited Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the wonderful 1977 science fiction movie. It was written and directed by Steven Spielberg, who was just 30 when it came out.
Close Encounters is the rare science fiction movie that features dazzling special effects and also tells a beautifully compassionate story about people who are recognizably human.
It stars Richard Dreyfuss as a man who sees a UFO and can't get the experience out of his mind. He is driven to obsession, as are other people who saw what he saw. Meanwhile, scientists study the alien appearances and try to reach out to the otherworldly beings.
Spielberg is coy about what is happening. What do the aliens want with us? Why do they only communicate with some people? How is what they do technically possible?
We don't get many answers, and that is part of the movie's strength. There's a clichéd principal in writing: Show, don't tell. That's what Spielberg does.
Other science fiction films might fill in the blanks with technobabble. Spielberg encourages us to ponder the mystery.
There is a scene in which the Dreyfuss character, apparently driven by alien-inspired mania, drives his family away and all but destroys his house, as he attempts to build a model of his vision. Contemporary critics interpreted the sequence as low comedy, and believed it was distracting.
I think it's essential, and it's one reason Close Encounters is a great science fiction movie. We're not looking at aliens or ostentatious special effects. We're looking at a man who is behaving outrageously because he can't get an idea out of his head. It could be anybody, and aliens need not be involved. The scene made me cry.
I also cried this past winter, when I went to see Her, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with a computer program, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. I wasn't necessarily crying at the story. I was crying at the miraculous fact that a quietly thoughtful science fiction movie had somehow worked its way into the multiplexes.
Her wasn't marketed as a science fiction movie, and that may, ironically, explain its success. I hope many others like it hit the big screen.
I'm not getting my hopes up.
Kenneth Burns is Community News Editor of The Mountain Press. Call 428-0748, ext. 212, or send e-mail to email@example.com.


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CHARLESTON — The new season of the Spoleto Festival USA features everything from acrobats and aerialists to opera and Irish theater.
Grammy award-winning musician Bela Fleck and his wife, Abigail Washburn, jazz and self-guided tours through private Charleston gardens are also on the schedule for the internationally known festival's 38th season.
The festival founded by the late composer Gian Carlo Menotti will be staged at 13 venues throughout Charleston from May 23 through June 8, 2014. The schedule announced on Friday includes artists from 14 nations and across the United States in 152 performances.
The festival is staging three operas, including John Adams' "El Nino," telling the nativity story with a libretto based on European writings and sermons, passages from the Bible and Latin American poetry.
Composer Michael Nyman, who wrote the score for the film "The Piano," has recomposed a large portion of the score for the American premiere of the opera "Facing Goya" which touches on everything from science fiction to conspiracy theory to ask questions about human relationships.
The theater offerings include Ireland's Gate Theatre's return to Spoleto with an adaptation of "My Cousin Rachel." Finnish aerialist Ilona Jantti will perform, as will the Australian acrobat troupe Gravity & Other Myths.
Spoleto features four dance companies including the return to the festival of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as well as South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma presenting a solo work. Jazz singer Rene Marie will also appear.
The festival also will include the popular chamber music concerts and orchestral concerts.
The finale at Middleton Place plantation will be a day-long event with a beer garden and regional bands playing throughout the afternoon. The lineup includes the Charleston country-folk husband and wife duo Shovels & Rope on the main stage.
Again this year, festivalgoers will be able to purchase tickets to visit the private gardens of the homes in Charleston's historic district. Festival tickets go on sale online on Dec. 9.
Abigail Washburn and her husband, Bela Fleck, who will be performing at the 2014 Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston.×
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Holy Cross men's swimming and diving team completed day one of competition Thursday at the Patriot League Championship in Annapolis, Md., hosted by Navy. Sophomore Jan Yburan (Livingston, N.J.) finished 27th in the 50 yard freestyle preliminary with a time of 22.01 to lead the Crusaders. Junior John Vatalaro (Strongsville, Ohio) finished 31st behind Yburan with a time of 22.70.
Other top preliminary Crusader finishes included junior Brian Power (Southport, Conn.) who took 29th in the 200 yard IM finishing at 1:58.44 and junior Brian Lyons (Greenwich, Conn.) who finished 30th in the 500 yard freestyle with at time of 4:51.58. Sophomore Kevin O'Connor (Ridgewood, N.J.) finished close behind Lyons in 34th with a time of 5:05.05.
Sophomore Nick Videtti (Woodcliff Lake, N.J.) led Holy Cross in the one-meter dive finishing 12th with a score of 215.80. In the relays, the 400 yard medley relay team finished seventh with a time of 3:36.62 while the 200 yard freestyle relay team finished eighth at 1:29.45.
Navy is atop the leader board after one day of competition with 275 points. The second day of competition at the Patriot League Championship begins tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 17, with the preliminary heats beginning at 10:00 a.m.


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NYT: Soda is worse than you think -- Obama open mike: 'Our I.T. purchasing is horrible' -- Axelrod: 'The kids I carried on my shoulders are all grown now''– David Ensor to head VOA – Ann Romney b'day
CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK – Front page of tomorrow's WashPost Outlook, "How to raise taxes without losing votes: Former vice president WALTER MONDALE argues Americans are willing to pay for their priorities": "I told the truth in 1984. … I lost the election, but I won the debate." http://wapo.st/dNkH7V
TOP TALKER – Chicago Tribune banner, "An unguarded moment for Obama: He's not embarrassed that he called some federal workers 'slugs,'" by Christi Parsons: "The comments, made at a Thursday-night fundraiser at MK restaurant on the Near North Side, came after reporters had been escorted from the room. But the remarks were mistakenly piped back to the White House press room, where a couple of veteran reporters took notes. … White House information technology isn't what he expected, the president said: 'We are, like, 30 years behind. … The Oval Office, I always thought I was going to have really cool phones and stuff,' Obama said, according to Jim Kuhnhenn of The Associated Press. 'I'm like, come on, guys, I'm the president of the United States. Where's the fancy buttons and stuff, and the big screen comes up? It doesn't happen.'" http://bit.ly/icQnPU
--More open-mike Obama from Mark Knoller (with the memorable headline, "Obama laments lack of 'cool phones' at the White House"): "'We can't get our phones to work … Our [federal] IT purchasing is horrible. … It's true in the Pentagon. It's true in the agencies. It's true in the Department of Homeland Security. … What's striking when you enter into the federal government is how generally smart and dedicated people are.' He did opine that some employees 'are slugs and not trying to do their job. But that's true of any large institution.' But generally speaking, he said he would put up federal workers against any workers in the private sector. As for staffers at the White House, he said 'they are as good as anybody else.'" http://bit.ly/f8roBb
--Jay Carney said during his Air Force One gaggle back to Andrews that the release of the remarks "was a miscommunication, nothing more than that. But we've -- it's not a problem, not an issue." Asked if the president was embarrassed or regretted anything he said, Carney replied: "Not at all. … He obviously -- that was meant to be a closed-press event. He was taking questions from supporters. But there's nothing -- nothing he said that contradicts anything he said in public."
RUT-ROH! WashPost A1, "NATO's bomb supply is running short: Doubts raised over whether U.S. can continue to stay out of Libyan air campaign." http://wapo.st/fiUr4S
SPOTTED, having dinner at The Source this week: Senator and Mrs. Daniel Inouye (Irene Hirano Inouye) … and Tammy Duckworth!
BEN FELLER, AP White House correspondent, got a solo interview with President Obama in Chicago yesterday, and asked: "You know what it takes to win the presidency. I'd like to hear you assess yourself as candidly as you can, going into a re-election bid, what's your biggest weakness?"
--OBAMA: "Well, I think that I have learned an enormous amount over the last two and a half years as president and before that, almost two years as a candidate. My biggest strength is my confidence in the American people. And I think that when I'm out campaigning and interacting with folks, I draw an energy from them and an optimism and a confidence about the future from them that can keep me going 24/7. I think that my biggest concern when it comes to re-election is my biggest concern as president of the United States, which is, is our economy moving fast enough to give people the kind of relief that they need. …
"[T]hose are the kinds of issues that are on people's minds on a day-to-day basis. And that's not a political challenge for me; that's my challenge as president that I wake up every day with, that I go to bed every night with. And that is, how can I work so that ordinary folks who are out there working really hard, looking after their family, being responsible, doing the right thing - how can I make sure that what we're doing in Washington, what I'm doing in the White House, what our government is doing, is helping them, as opposed to hindering them, from achieving the American dream."
EXCLUSIVE -- TO BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY – "David Ensor to serve as Director of Voice of America: The Broadcasting Board of Governors has selected … David Ensor … as the next director of the Voice of America. … 'The democracy uprisings of the past two months have shown the critical importance of the free flow of credible information in empowering people around the world. The Voice of America has been pursuing this mission for seventy years by providing great journalism and a clear presentation of America and its policies,' said Walter Isaacson, Chairman of the BBG … Ensor has been Director for Communications and Public Diplomacy of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan since January 2010 and will join VOA in June. … He was CNN's National Security Correspondent and prior to that, an ABC News correspondent, with assignments in Washington, Moscow, Rome, and Warsaw." Board members include Secretary Clinton, plus McCue, Meehan and Perino!
Good Saturday morning. I'm excited to be heading down this morning to talk to The Woman's Club of Richmond – the Holy City, as it's known in the Old Dominion. As summer interns at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, my buddy Brian Kelley and I used to amuse ourselves as we typed up shorts about the group's events on the Atex system: Why is it "The Woman's Club"? Only one? Twenty-five years later, I get to ask them in person.
WILL THE CABLES REFRAIN? Jack Lew, White House budget director, on the debt ceiling, as he appeared with Jay Carney in the briefing room on Thursday: "[I]t's not like the government shutdown; it will be a very bad thing if all of the cable TV stations have countdown clocks to government default. The fact of anticipation would in it of itself undermine our position as an economic power. So nobody should be playing chicken with the debt limit. We should get it done. We should get it done soon, early, and get it out of the way."
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BIRTHDAYS: Ann Romney ... Doug Heye … Brett Coughlin … Pope Benedict XVI is 84 … MONDAY: Ben Chang is 39.
TO BE MARRIED THIS EVENING IN NEW ORLEANS – "Black Tie Preferred": Beth Rachel Shapiro, to Austin Leo Lavin, son of Lauren and Carl.
THE BIG IDEA – N.Y. Times Magazine cover story, "SWEET AND VICIOUS: The case against sugar … Is Sugar Toxic?" by Gary Taubes: "It's one thing to suggest, as most nutritionists will, that a healthful diet includes more fruits and vegetables, and maybe less fat, red meat and salt, or less of everything. It's entirely different to claim that one particularly cherished aspect of our diet might not just be an unhealthful indulgence but actually be toxic … If I didn't buy this argument myself, I wouldn't be writing about it here. ... [I]f you take … sugar in liquid form — soda or fruit juices — the fructose and glucose will hit the liver more quickly than if you consume them, say, in an apple (or several apples, to get what researchers would call the equivalent dose of sugar). The speed with which the liver has to do its work will also affect how it metabolizes the fructose and glucose. In animals, or at least in laboratory rats and mice, it's clear that if the fructose hits the liver in sufficient quantity and with sufficient speed, the liver will convert much of it to fat. This apparently induces a condition known as insulin resistance, which is now considered the fundamental problem in obesity, and the underlying defect in heart disease and in the type of diabetes, type 2, that is common to obese and overweight individuals. It might also be the underlying defect in many cancers.
"If what happens in laboratory rodents also happens in humans, and if we are eating enough sugar to make it happen, then we are in trouble. … [M]alignant cancer, like diabetes, was a relatively rare disease in populations that didn't eat Western diets, and in some of these populations it appeared to be virtually nonexistent. … Now most researchers will agree that the link between Western diet or lifestyle and cancer manifests itself through … association with obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome — i.e., insulin resistance. … Cancer researchers now consider that the problem with insulin resistance is that it leads us to secrete more insulin, and insulin (as well as a related hormone known as insulin-like growth factor) actually promotes tumor growth. … If sugar just makes us fatter, that's one thing. We start gaining weight, we eat less of it. But we are also talking about things we can't see — fatty liver, insulin resistance and all that follows." Gary Taubes … is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation independent investigator in health policy and the author of "Why We Get Fat." http://nyti.ms/eOd8Je
TOP STORY: WSJ 4-col. lead, "GOP Passes Budget Cut" … N.Y. Times 1-col. lead, "HOUSE APPROVES REPUBLICAN PLAN TO CUT TRILLIONS – NO DEMOCRATS JOIN IN" … WashPost, 1.5 col. lead: "House approves plan to cut trillions: GOP'S 'RYAN BUDGET' ALTERS MEDICARE."
THE BIG PICTURE – "First 100 days foreshadow slog," by John Bresnahan and Jonathan Allen: "President Barack Obama had signed just eight bills sent to him by the 112th Congress into law by Friday. Besides the 2011 spending measure and six short-term extensions of existing laws, only a post-office naming measure has made it through both the GOP-controlled House and Democratic-run Senate. … During a members-only, closed-door Republican Conference meeting on Friday, several lawmakers — including Reps. Virginia Foxx (N.C.) and Geoff Davis (Ky.) — 'called out' Bachmann for taking a veiled shot at Boehner by criticizing the budget deal he helped craft. Freshman GOP Rep. Jon Runyan (N.J.), a former lineman for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles, compared 'some' in his conference to star wide receiver Terrell Owens, a brilliant but controversial player who was slammed for dividing Runyan's old team with divisive public comments." http://bit.ly/ieRFtx
ELIZABETH DREW, on The New York Review of Books blog, "Obama and the House Radicals": "[I]f the Democrats lull themselves into thinking they can just sit back while the Republicans destroy their own reelection chances, they could awaken some day to find that there has been an abrupt reversal of the direction that, with a few brief interludes, this country has been going in since the l930s, and an upending of longstanding assumptions about the relationship of the state and individuals." http://bit.ly/hsrHBU
GOP 2012 – "Pawlenty courts tea partyers; call him 'Tea-Paw?'" by AP's Thomas Beaumont, in Des Moines: "Tim Pawlenty, 'T-Paw' to his supporters, has increasingly tied himself to the new crop of grass-roots activists in the 2012 presidential campaign. So maybe it's time to call the former Minnesota governor 'Tea-Paw.'"
MAYOR EMANUEL – Chicago Tribune, p.1 tease: "Emanuel's tab for ballot fight: $800K: But the mayor-elect's legal bills in his residency challenge barely dented the $14.5 million his campaign raised, records released Friday show. He also spent a cool $5.5 million on TV ads."
THE PRESIDENT'S WEEK AHEAD – "President Obama to Hold Town Halls to Discuss his Vision for Bringing Down our Deficit Based on Shared Responsibility and Shared Prosperity: Next week, President Obama will travel to Northern Virginia, Palo Alto, California and Reno, Nevada to speak directly to the American people about his vision for reducing our debt and bringing down our deficit, based on the values of shared responsibility and shared prosperity. …
"The President will file and release his taxes on Monday … The President has no public events scheduled this weekend. … On Monday, the President will present the Commander-in-Chief Trophy to the Air Force Academy football team at the White House. On Tuesday, the President will host an Easter Prayer Breakfast at the White House. Christian leaders from across the country will join the President at this breakfast for a time of prayer, reflection, and celebration of Easter. Later, the President will hold a town hall in Northern Virginia to discuss his vision for reducing our debt and bringing down our deficit, based on the values of shared responsibility and shared prosperity.
"On Wednesday, the President will travel to California to hold a town hall at Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto, California to discuss his vision for reducing our debt and bringing down our deficit, based on the values of shared responsibility and shared prosperity. In the evening, the President will attend a DNC event. The President will spend the night in San Francisco, California. On Thursday, the President will travel to Reno, Nevada to hold a town hall to discuss his vision for reducing our debt and bringing down our deficit, based on the values of shared responsibility and shared prosperity. Later, the President will travel to Los Angeles, California to attend DNC events. The President will spend the night in Los Angeles, California. On Friday, the President will return to Washington."
--THE V.P.'s WEEKEND: "On Saturday, the Vice President will be in Washington, DC. On Sunday, he will be in Wilmington, Delaware. There are no public events scheduled."
DESSERT -- FOR KEVIN McCARTHY and ADAM LEVINE – L.A. Times second front, "Now it's Down-N-Out: Customers are glum as historic In-N-Out is razed," by Bob Pool and Victoria Kim: "Cathy Martinez and Alejandra Ruiz were served up a double-double dose of frustration Friday when they visited an old In-N-Out Burger stand in Baldwin Park. First they discovered that the historic outlet just a stone's throw from the chain's first drive-thru was being demolished. Then an employee told them they couldn't take a souvenir brick from the pile of rubble. 'My husband cried when he heard this was being torn down,' said Martinez, of Pomona. 'I cried when I found out,' said Ruiz, of Baldwin Park. The popular hamburger chain was created in 1948 a few steps from the heap of concrete and bricks next to Francisquito Avenue, just north of the 10 Freeway. Harry and Esther Snyder first ran the drive-thru from a tiny house."
THE SHOWS, from Matt Mackowiak:
--NBC's "Meet the Press": Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner; roundtable with former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI), author Jon Meacham and author and PBS' Tavis Smiley ("Fail Up")
--ABC's "This Week": Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner; panel with Tea Party Caucus members Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL), Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) and Rep. Allen West (R-FL); roundtable with ABC's George Will, political strategist Matthew Dowd, former Clinton Budget Director Alice Rivlin and Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA)
--CBS's "Face the Nation": Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI); Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
--"Fox News Sunday": Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood; Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); roundtable with former Bush White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, Fortune's Nina Easton, former Romney Press Secretary Kevin Madden and Fox News' Juan Williams
--CNN's "State of the Union": Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY); former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden (Ret.); former Shell Oil President John Hofmeister; Trump Organization Chairman and President Donald Trump
--CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS Live" (SUN 10am ET / 1pm ET): PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi; the New York Times' Jeffrey Gettleman; U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Lord Mark Malloch-Brown
--C-SPAN: "The Communicators" (SAT 6:30pm ET): U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, questioned by the Washington Post's Cecilia Kang … "Newsmakers" (SUN 10am ET / 6pm ET): Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA), questioned by the Army Times' Rick Maze and Congressional Quarterly's Frank Oliveri … "Q&A" (SUN 8pm ET / 11pm ET): Weekly Standard senior editor and author Andrew Ferguson ("Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College") … "Road to the White House" (SUN 6:30pm ET / 9:30pm ET): Donald Trump delivers remarks to the South Florida Tax Day Tea Party in Boca Raton, FL (taped on 4/16)
--Univision's "Al Punto": Mexico's National Human Rights Commission President Raul Plascencia Villanueva; "National Immigration Forum" Press Secretary Katherine Vargas and "Vamos Unidos USA" President Juan Jose Gutierrez; Environmental Committee of Cabañas Founder and President Francisco Pineda; comedian and actor Eugenio Derbez; roundtable with independent journalist Karina Flores-Hurley and "Contacto Total 1190AM" Host Gabriel Villalobos
--NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show": Time's Joe Klein, CNBC's Becky Quick, the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan and NBC's Norah O'Donnell
--PBS's "To the Contrary" (airs all weekend, check local listings): Fitness expert Jillian Michaels; roundtable with former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell, the Heritage Foundation's Genevieve Wood, BlackSnob.com Editor Danielle Belton and conservative commentator Tara Setmayer
--TV One's "Washington Watch with Roland Martin" (SUN 11am ET): Pre-empted for two-hour presentation of the April 9 leadership form hosted by the National Action Network.
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I hope someone points out to Obama that he is the number one "slug" in Federal Government.
Since I don't believe that the President's comments on the "open mic caper" were an accident I have to believe he is angling for money to overhaul the IT system and for some "cool" phones. Would a Mickey Mouse phone please him? They make them. Maybe Soros and friends can make the President's wishes come true without dipping into the US Treasury. Oh, he was just kidding? Yeah, that and accidently too.
I think my brain is melting. Yes...I'm sure it is. Again and again and again it happens with this guy, and the media gives him more passes that the Seahawks gave to Steve Largent. I mean, c'mon Mr President. As you said, you 'are' the president. You've been in the shack for two years, and you're *****ing about the phones? That after spending a gazillion dollars on nothing much. Maybe a post-it note on the back of a highspeed train will get to you fast enough. Ya think? Anyhow, Could you any more miss the point of why people are irritated with you? You stack government workers up against the private sector without quoting productivity statistics. It's the current joke that the FAA says it "won't sleep" until they figure out why their ATCs 'are' sleeping. I mean...seriously...they actually said that. Now I hear that the solution is 'nap time' for ATCs. Frankly, I think 'unemployment' for the sleepy few is the solution to the others. I'm trying to remember the last time I needed to think about what to do with an employee that slept on the job. Hmmmm...thinking...thinking! OH...yeah...that's right....NEVER! People in the private sector that get caught sleeping on the job get fired. Um...unless of course, they have a union that can protect them. I mean...c'mon...everybody needs more rest, right? Just kidding about that one. If you need more Z's, do it on your own time. That's how it works in the real world. Maybe someone should write the Prez a memo. Or better yet, text him on his BB.
Obama said absolutely nothing wrong. I can't imagine why the media would even bother to report it but I suppose it will inflame someone somewhere. What a crazy world we live in-everyone must try to be perfect and charming all the time or possibly suffer the consequences.
With all the problems facing our country (and the world) and this clown is complaining that the phones aren't "cool" enough. OMG! What is he? Some teen age girl?
Let him buy his own "cool phone". He had better start worrying about the increasing gas prices, oil, the war he started in Libya (what's our exit strategy?), lack of jobs, our Southern border beset with drug wars, or he won't have to worry about phones in The WH b/c he'll be sent home.
OK...look...I'm sorry about starting the whole 'phone' thing. It seems to have upset people. Let the guy have his mickey mouse phone. I'm sure that, via the splendiferous efficiency of the governmental purchasing process, he can acquire one for substantially less than $4.8B. Ummm.....installation, of course, extra.
Question: How many phone installers does it take to plug the jack into the President's Mickey Mouse Phone?
Answer: Unknown. There currently exists no job classification for that in the SEIU or the IBEW under contract to the government.
Of course, if you asked me a trick question, (like CNN asked Michele Bachman), "What would you do if you were President?" .I'd say, "Let me tell you what I wouldn't do. I wouldn't B__ch about the phones. That'd be tantamount to fiddling while Rome burned. Next question."
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Every April, hundreds of former college football players gather around their TVs with close family, friends and coaches to watch the NFL Draft, anxiously waiting to either hear their name called or see it pop up on the ticker at the bottom of the screen. Prior to draft weekend, those players spend months of preparation after their collegiate careers have ended to put themselves in the best position possible to achieve that dream.
One such player is former Toledo cornerback Desmond Marrow, who got a taste of what professional football was like when he traveled to Tucson, Ariz., to participate in the Casino Del Sol College All-Star Game on Jan. 16.
"I mean, the first day we had to pretty much walk in a room full of, like, 75 [NFL] scouts with just, like, your underwear on pretty much," Marrow said. "[You're in] your shorts. You weigh in and then do the height, and it was just, like, the most nervous five minutes of my life.
"It's like a meat market. Like, they don't say anything; they just look. They just have their clipboards and just stare."
Between player arrival on Jan. 10 and the game on Jan. 16, Marrow had nearly a weeklong job interview in front of NFL scouts and personnel to showcase his abilities on the field, competing in four hour-and-a-half long practices from Jan. 11-14.
"The first day we weighed in and we had, like, an hour-and-a-half between the weigh-in until practice," Marrow said. "I mean, as soon as we hit the practice field every NFL team was there [and] represented at least, like, two or three scouts from each team. A couple general managers were there. The general manager for the Packers, and the Bears and the 49ers were there.
"And there was just, like, the whole perimeter of the field was just covered with NFL teams. It was real intense. It's like nothing I've ever been around."
Marrow estimated that there were approximately 75 scouts at practice each day in Tucson, giving players an opportunity to meet with various NFL personnel if they performed well. And among the typical topics of draft position and performance, Marrow was surprised by how much the NFL personnel he talked to knew about him as well as what they asked him.
"They were, like, naming my brothers, naming some of my friends," Marrow said. "They just asked me just a bunch of random questions. They'd be like, 'You got any kids?' And I'd be like, 'Nah, I don't have any kids.' And they'd be like, 'You sure you don't have any kids?' And I'd be like, 'Nah, I'm sure I don't have any kids.'
"They'd be like, 'You 100 percent sure?' And then they'd make you think, like, 'Wait, do I have kids?' because they'd just keep asking. Then I'm trying to tell them 'No,' and they'd be like, 'So you don't have any kids that you know of?' And I'm like, 'No, man; I don't have any kids.'"
While in Tucson, Marrow met with the Seattle Seahawks, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans Saints, Houston Texans, Baltimore Ravens and Philadelphia Eagles. He finished with one tackle and one pass breakup for the Stars team in a 24-21 loss to the Stripes team in the all-star game.
"I think I did well in the game," Marrow said. "I mean, the most important part was the practice, though, because that's where the scouts were at. They want to see you compete — like, what your practice ways [are] and see if you're ready to play at the next level because they can only get so much from games. So they want to get, like, an up close, practice feel."
Marrow has kept in touch with former Rockets' teammates Stephen Williams and Barry Church, both of whom went undrafted in 2010 but earned roster spots with the Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys, respectively.
"I talk to them all the time, like at least two or three times a week just to get some insight, some pointers or whatever," Marrow said. "Church was my roommate and [Stephen] was one of my better friends there, so we're real tight."
In the meantime until the NFL Draft in April, Marrow has signed with agent Craig Redd of Integrity Sports Management LLC and moved out to Los Angeles on Jan. 28 to begin training at Velocity Sports Performance, where he'll be for approximately seven weeks.
"You've just got to take it all in, man," Marrow said. "This whole process is sweet. Like, I get to do stuff that I probably never would have done without football, and now I can get paid to play football legally. It's pretty sweet."
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Tegan And Sara's Heartthrob Album Review
I have been an AVID/DIEHARD/OBSESSIVE Tegan and Sara fan for almost 10 years now (I mean I even have their lyrics TATTOOED on me...) Holy hell, that's a long time. Anyways, if you look at the evolution of Tegan and Sara, you can watch their music grow and evolve, sounding different from record to record (impressive when you actually look at some of the musicians out there...) I just got my copy of Heartthrob yesterday and let me just tell you, the album is pretty damn good. There is perhaps a song or too that don't quite sit right with me, but in my opinion this is one of their best albums, although I'm sure someone somewhere will be arguing me tooth and nail, saying that they've sold out into a poppy version of themselves. If that's you, then I have three well chosen words for you... turn it off. If you don't like it, don't listen, simple as that! But I, the true fan, applaud them on the ability to move with the flow of the music industry, instead of getting stuck in a vicious cycle of releasing the same album over and over just changing the track titles.
* through ***** I am going to rate this album with stars, on the pure level of how badly these songs will make you turn it up and jump around... so beware.
Alrighty, let's do this. Heartthrob starts out with their first single on the record, 'Closer,' the 80's synth style pop-ish number that makes you want to jump around on your parents' expensive couch. 'Closer' is definitely going to be the song playing in the background of every angsty teen soap that we (do and say we) don't watch. *****
Goodbye, Goodbye the second track on the record solidifies this album as heavily 80's/90's pop influenced and although if we listen and read the lyrics, we see sad, the Quins turn it into a drum machine-y pop song, leaving behind their image of depressed rockstars (The Con). *****
I Was a Fool, the first track of the album that's a little less hoppy up and downy and more, put on repeat whilst laying in bed with a pint of chunky monkey... **
I'm Not Your Hero. Every Tegan and Sara fan will recognize pure and simple the power of the twins... This track doesn't emulate another song, another band, this is Tegan and Sara, regardless of the pop influence of the rest of the record. This is typical Tegan and Sara, picky listeners, rejoice! With heavy guitars and a heavy bassline, this song is sure to please the fans, even before the release of the record. ****
Drove Me Wild. This track is about perspective... stepping back to look at your love from a new angle and learning to let it just fade away while you remember how to have a good time, because in this **** track you will be sure to get a good jump around out of it.
How Come You Don't Want Me. This reminds me of a more energized, girly-pop version of an xx/passion pit lovechild song. Once again showing off their ability to turn a sad song about love and loss into a catchy pop song. ***
I Couldn't Be Your Friend. This is one of my favorite songs on the album, typical electropop synth beat, but the chorus of "oh oh's" in the background has this old school Tegan and Sara feeling that makes me happy. Although I have heard a friend compare this song to that of Katy Perry (um, what?), this song is definitely sure to please some of you knuckleheads. *****
Love They Say. Although it starts out rather boy-band-y, this song is actually growing on me, and yes it's probably got a lot to do with my endless supply of love and appreciation for these girls, buuuuut it does sound like what would have played at my junior prom... sorry gals, but it's true. ***
Now I'm All Messed Up. The album begins to wind down here, with some slower yet bubbly beats.
Shock To Your System. Opening with a heavy dark beat, we really feel for Sara as she tells us how to learn from her pain and stand strong during times you feel your heart is being ripped out of your chest. This song is so bittersweet when you listen to it, "what you are is lonely," being the most recognizable line from the song. Also one of my favorites. ***
Guilty As Charged. This song, although not on the album, immediately brings me to a more indie place than pop, I like it. I think you will too. **
I Ran Empty. Also not on the album. Ah, some guitar and heavy piano! A slow song to round the album, a little reminiscent of the older days, although still could have been written in 1980 in a sweatsuit, not complaining though... *
YES, the word pop has been thrown around this review A LOT and that might scare some of you off, yes they have pretty much traded in their guitars for synths... but let me reiterate what is truly happening here while most of you toss this album on while getting ready to go out to the bars. What prides me so much in being a loyal Tegan and Sara fan is their ability to turn rather emotional dark lyrics about love and loss into a surprisingly upbeat record rather than falling into an "Elliot Smith on a loop" territory, (extra points to whomever gets that reference.) While most of you will probably write this album off as a pop piece of junk, when you actually look at what's happening underneath the heavy beats, you see the bittersweet love, pain, and heartbreak that is present in every Tegan and Sara album, it's still there, it's just evolved into something more adult.
FOR THE REST OF YOU LOVELIES, THE ALBUM COMES OUT JANUARY 29th, SO PLEASE GO PICK IT UP!
Overall, I give this album an A, and I highly recommend that all Tegan and Sara fans, old and new, check it out and give it the chance it deserves! Thanks for sticking around and putting up with my mindless babbling!
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If you are new to social media, or you have been working at the medium as long as someone like Jennifer Navarette, Wednesday's social media breakfast is one event you may not want to miss. On Wednesday, Geekdom, SilverFox Studios and Talk Now SA will host the monthly meeting at the 11th floor of the […] [Read More]
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If this was high school football, the four teams who made it to the finals of CyberPatriot would have gotten front page coverage in the local paper as well as coverage on local TV and radio stations. Alas, cyber security is not as appealing as high school football. Yet. Still, if you care about the […] [Read More]
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