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Betta Fish Life
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The following is a list of new or renewed business names registered with the Monroe County Clerk during the past few weeks. Included are the registered address and the name and address of the business principals. If no address of a business principal is listed, it is the same as the business address. If no town is listed, the mailing address is Monroe. The listings are published periodically on Wednesdays on the Business page.
AK Construction, 8143 N. Dixie Hwy., Newport; Charles Michael Kolenda, 2555 Kathleen.
Aastek Computers, 7137 Middlebury Dr., Lambertville; Alice A. Snyder.
Action Disposal, 2510 W. Temperance Rd., Temperance; Betty Lou Stevens, 2550 W. Temperance Rd., Temperance.
All Pro Construction, 5971 S. Otter Creek Rd., LaSalle; Timothy Patrick Holmes.
Alphabet Academy Child Care, 2751 Luna Pier Rd., Erie; Tara Lee Tubbs.
Anne's Writing Workshop, 10156 Grand Blvd., Luna Pier; Jean Anne Miller, 150 Santure St.
B&E Transport, 10187 S. Stony Creek Rd., Carleton; Michael B. Evans.
BDB Trucking, 604 W. Third St.; Belinda Grace Brockway.
Club In It To Win It, 3136 Cloverdale; Patricia Zanger.
Demoss and Sons Home Improvement Co., 1313 Meanwell Rd., Dundee; Thomas J. Demoss.
Development Solutions, 9295 Minx Rd., Temperance; Walter Gregory Dindoffer.
Dream Catcher Farm, 11312 Haggerman Rd., South Rockwood; Therese Ferraro.
Dundee Swim Club, 5501 Teal Rd., Petersburg; Christopher Daniels.
Egyptian Comfort & More, 2121 N. Monroe St.; Nancy Ann Young, 10391 Butterfly Palm Dr., 1032, Fort Myers, Fla.
Frenchies Fast Freight, 1319 Henri, Newport; Jennine Ellen Bain.
Go Party, 3366 Sterns Rd., Lambertville; William Timothy Pearsall, 7588 Secor Rd., Lambertville.
Grandma Science, 1304 Rutledge Dr., Temperance; Dawn Marie Shock.
Hard Work Misc, 223 Jerome St.; Leslie A. Austin II.
Heller Group, 15649 S. Telegraph Rd.; Kevin Heller, 2627 N. Custer Rd.; Les C. Heller, 4748 E. Dunbar Rd.; and Mark T. Heller, 2574 Meanwell Rd., Petersburg.
Helm and Bulkhead, 1603 W. Newburg Rd., Carleton; Steven Lilleyman.
High Stakes Farms and Karen's Canines Training & Boarding Kennel, 4110 Kane Rd., Carleton; Karen Marie Murphy and Gregory Richard Murphy.
Hollywood Stylin, 320 Rawson St., Apt. 83, Dundee; Phillip John Frantz Jr. and Amber Marie Burke.
JD Process Service, 526 W. 5th St.; Joseph Albert DeSloover Jr.
Keep The Joy Media & Communications, 1423 N. Raisinville Rd.; Dirva Vannice.
Little 'Roos, 144 Cranbrook Blvd.; Katelyn Elizabeth Pierce.
Maple Grove Farms, 7572 E. Lulu Rd., Ida; James E. Zimmerman and Sian F. Zimmerman.
McKeen Vending, 218 W. Monroe St., Dundee; George McKeen and Heidi McKeen.
Mike Mobile Mechanic, 7051 Burkenhead, Lambertville; Michael J. Wesolowski.
Missile Enterprises, 7135 Whiteford Center Rd., Lambertville; David Leroy Whitely, 1227 Valley Dr.
MJR Photography, 15378 Orchard Meadows Dr.; Mary Jean Renwick.
Monroe Squeegee Works, 1153 LaPlaisance Rd., P.O. Box 1421; Rodney Scott Smith.
Morgan's Income Tax Service, 128 Cass St.; David Matthew Morgan, 914 Waterloo Ave. and Thomas Edward Morgan Sr.
NK Consulting, 1600 Stumpmier Rd., Suite 2; Nathanael Peter Kaseman.
Novus Windshield Repair, 3036 W. Albain Rd.; Chester J. Owens.
Pasko Cleaning Service, 7541 Douglas Rd., Lambertville; Patricia Ann Pasko-Never.
Pit Stop Thrift Shop, 27 W. Front St.; Richard Gene Minton, 2051 Clark St., Detroit.
Positive Choices, 23 W. First St.; Paula Lynn Whitman, 1 Island St.
RentInMonroe, P.O. Box 123; Nancy Dover, 2330 Yargerville Rd., LaSalle.
Robin Lynn's Pies and Confections, 2803 S. Otter Creek Rd., LaSalle; Robin Lynn Heath and Jeffrey Hazen Heath.
Rocky's Roofing, 3107 N. Custer Rd.; Jeffery Charles Rochowiak, 1253 Sunset St. and Charles Irvin Rochowiak.
Secure Self Storage, 15420 S. Telegraph Rd.; James J. Rostash and James F. Rostash.
Serenity Farm, 5162 Lewis Ave., Ida; Christina Patricia Riggs.
Simply Beautiful Party and Wedding Rentals, 1516 Hampton Ct., Apt. G; Luke A. Jaskowiak.
Simply Hydro, 8015 Summerfield Rd., Lambertville; George Edward Estes-Stevens, 8427 Low St., Jasper, Mich. And Ryan Christopher McLaughlin, 830 N. Summit St., Morenci, Mich.
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Comelec extends filing of late SOCEs until June 30-A A +A
Friday, May 16, 2014
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has approved the requests to extend the deadline for the filing of the statements of contributions and expenditures (SOCEs) of winning and losing candidates in the May 2013 midterm polls.
With this, poll body thru Resolution 9873, has set until 5 p.m. of June 30, 2014, the last day for candidates, political parties and partylist organizations to submit or correct their campaign finance statements.
"In view of the numerous requests for extension from candidates, political parties, and party-list organizations, and in the interest of promoting transparency and fair play in the electoral process by encouraging candidates and parties to fully and truthfully disclose their campaign contributions and expenditures, the Commission En Banc hereby resolves to extend the deadline," the resolution read.
Originally, the deadline was set on May 12, 2014, thru Resolution 9849 approved by the en banc.
The Comelec ordered candidates and parties to submit their late or corrected SOCEs in person at the Office of the Campaign Finance Unit located at the PMO area, ground floor of the Palacio del Gobernador Building, Gen. Luna St., Intramuros, Manila or through courier, messenger service or registered mail.
Likewise, they were reminded that the submission of the SOCEs does not constitute full compliance unless accompanied by the payment of the late penalty.
The Comelec has issued the amount of the late penalty for various positions which are the following: senator P16,000, governor and vice governor P9,500, member House of Representatives P8,000, city mayors P8,000, city vice mayor P8,000, partylist organizations P16,000, national political parties P16,000 to mention a few.
The penalty may be paid in cash at the Cash Division of the Commissiory which is located at the Comelec Annex Building, Arzobispo St., Intramuros, Manila or through postal money order or manager's check issued to the Comelec as the payee.
Section 14 of Republic Act 7166 provides that "no person elected to any public office shall enter upon the duties of his office until he has filed the statement of contributions and expenditures required." (FP/Sunnex)
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It is worth saying something about the social position of beggars, for when one has consorted with them, and found that they are ordinary human beings, one cannot help being struck by the curious attitude that society takes towards them. People seem to feel that there is some essential difference between beggars and ordinary "working" men. They are a race apart–outcasts, like criminals and prostitutes. Working men "work," beggars do not "work"; they are parasites, worthless in their very nature. It is taken for granted that a beggar does not "earn" his living, as a bricklayer or a literary critic "earns" his. He is a mere social excrescence, tolerated because we live in a humane age, but essentially despicable.
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John Shu's practice areas include securities litigation, complex civil litigation, class actions, appeals, general commercial litigation, internal investigations, corporate governance, intellectual property, strategic counsel, crisis management, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, real estate litigation, labor & employment litigation, antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act and international affairs. Mr. Shu also advises U.S. companies doing business internationally, including in China, Taiwan, Europe and the Middle East, and foreign companies doing business in the United States. Mr. Shu has lectured and published articles on a wide variety of issues such as appellate advocacy, securities, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley, regulatory affairs, litigation avoidance, class-action, antitrust, federal sentencing guidelines, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act, crisis management, intellectual property, constitutional law, and international affairs. Mr. Shu is a member of the Firm's Technology Committee.
Mr. Shu served in the White House under President George H.W. Bush and in Bush/Cheney Transition Headquarters under President-elect President George W. Bush. Mr. Shu served as a judicial extern to Judge Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Sporkin formerly served as Director of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Shu served as a law clerk to Judge Paul Roney, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, who also served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
Mr. Shu received his J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law, where he received the Dean's Award, served on the Pepperdine Law Review and on the appellate and trial competition teams, and was featured in the National Law School Deans' List. Mr. Shu received his G.C. with honors from Peking University and his B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania, where he won the Sol Feinstone Undergraduate Award.
Mr. Shu is a member of the State Bar of California. He is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Board Member of the Sino-American Bio-Pharmaceutical Association. He is a Member of the Foreign Policy Association, the National Committee on U.S. - China Relations, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Mr. Shu received the Orange County Asian-American Bar Association Award.
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By Beth Fisher. CREATED Feb 27, 2014
Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- This Saturday, take the kids to the Orleans to Touch-A-Truck. It's a really cool event featuring more than 100 massive trucks your kids can climb on, honk, spray and pretend drive. It's great fun for the kids and helps raise money for Family to Family Connection.
They sing, they play, and they interact with other children. It's an important part of learning many preschoolers never experience. Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod is on the board of Family to Family Connection. She says, "It's not regulated. It's not even regulated that children go to kindergarten here in Nevada. But it's so important."
Important because these kids are less likely to suffer abuse, more likely to read by the third grade, and more likely to succeed in school. But it's also important for parents like Jessica Magnes. "They teach Delilah things that are more fun with other kids. And also important for me because I get to spend time with other mothers."
In addition to songs and interacting with other kids, a lesson today that makes all of us at Channel 13 proud. They're learning about crosswalk safety.
"You listen. You look both ways. There goes the car. Bye car!"
Family to Family offers classes like these and also parenting classes. And unlike many programs out there, these classes are very affordable. Making early childhood education accessible to everyone. Mom Amy Cox is grateful. "I am a stay at home mom, so we have one income. So we try to save money where we can. But to be able to be around other kids her age, it's definitely, if we had to pay a lot for it we wouldn't be able to do it."
Family to Family Connection can only do this as long as our community offers support. You can help by donating or simply by bringing your family to climb, play, and touch a truck
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Mechanical drum machines, Mixmaster Mike and The Gaslamp Killer getting crazy on the decks… with NAMM still on the brain, there's no shortage of awesome tech clips coming our way. So without further ado, check those out and more after the jump.
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– Is everything better in pairs? Vibe outlines their 20 favorite DJ duos and collaborations in electronic music history. (full story)
– Ulrich Schnauss is definitely most known for his gauzy and ethereal electronic-pop compositions, but for XLR8R's latest podcast, he takes an entirely different tack: Seba, Source Direct, Photek, and more feature on this one, entitled Drift to the Centre: Deep Atmospheric DnB from the Golden Age. (full story)
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Some of you remember that Ira Nayman has been with us before in the Brenda versus Brenda character interview, and he's returned to answer Ten Questions with Mia for his new release, Welcome to the Multiverse (Sorry for the Inconvenience)! Thanks for joining us again!
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Author Bio: The odds are good that Ira Nayman has been writing humour longer than you have been alive. That thought scares him more than it does you, although he also finds it perversely comforting.
Author Site: http://www.lespagesauxfolles.ca & http://www.facebook.com/ThrishtyFriednishes
You can find Welcome to the Multiverse at Elsewhen Press and at Amazon!
About the Writer
1. What five words describe you?
Aerodynamic. Invertebrate. Inveterate. Slartibartfastian. Purple.
2. What was the first story you ever wrote? I mean the really bad one we all have that you're trying to hide in the back of closet now that you're published?
According to family legend, I decided I wanted to be a humour writer when I was eight years old. The first things I wrote were parodies of Sherlock Holmes stories (ever precocious, I was reading Conan Doyle at the time). They (my stories, not Conan Doyle's) were written on the backs of my father's green, legal-sized accounting sheets (because the fronts had distracting lines all over them). Each story was a page long. I remember thinking at the time, "How do people come up with enough ideas to fill whole stories?" Over the years, I must have learned…
My family moved around when I was young, and these stories were lost to time. I am, of course, curious about them; I'm sure they were awful, but they may have given an early indication of how I would develop as a writer. This assumes, of course, that I could even read them (my handwriting today is not quite good enough to be considered atrocious; back then, it must have been absolutely Hieroglyphic!).
3. What inspires you?
The sound of other people's laughter. It is a joyous sound that I would like to create more of in the world.
4. What distracts you?
Apple pie and lobster. Not necessarily together. But, not necessarily separate, either.
5. What's your favorite story? This can be specific, as in a particular book or even story-driven movie, or general, like "I'm a sucker for a hero looking for redemption story."
I'm a fan of intelligent, anarchic, absurdist/surreal comedy. I grew up with the Marx brothers, the Firesign Theatre, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon and Monty Python's Flying Circus, among others. My favourite story is: boy meets girl. Boy turns into a giant space squid. Girl gets a job stamping passports in an interdimensional customs office. It rains. THE END. Preferably, the story should be told in faux Italian. The fauxer, the better.
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1. Tell us about your currently available titles.
I have three Alternate Reality News Service books in print, Alternate Reality Ain't What It Used To Be, What Were Once Miracles Are Now Children's Toys and Luna for the Lunies! These are collections of short (mostly under 1,000 words) humourous science fiction stories in the form of news articles. I also have a novel, Welcome to the Multiverse (Sorry for the Inconvenience) out. Published by Elsewhen Press, it is currently available as an ebook; it will be available in print early in 2013.
2. What's your favorite part about writing these stories?
Making myself laugh. It's best when I'm sitting at my computer and surprise myself so much that it just falls out of me. Unfortunately, that's rare. What happens more often is a year or two will pass, and, rereading something that I have written, I will have forgotten a specific idea or turn of phrase, and I will burst out laughing.
3. What would your characters say about you? Be honest!
Are you kidding? They would love me! After all, they are made up of parts of me, so how could they not love me?
4. Who would play your favorite character if a movie of their story was made?
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Head north on Sir Reginald Ansett Drive. Turn left to stay on Sir Reginald Ansett Drive. When reach Tapleys Hill road turn right, travel for about 6 minutes. Turn right at Henley Beach road, travel for about 10 minutes and take a slight right over Glover Avenue, about 2 minutes.
Turn left onto West Terrace and continue for about 1 minute until come to Hindley Street Continue down Hindley Street over the intersection of Morphett Street and the Hotel is on the Right.
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In fact Boone was invited to go on this remarkable journey, but had just returned from Florida, and was spending a short time with his family before going on the above mentioned long hunt in the following fall. It is well documented that many "long Hunters" went to Nachez on the lower Mississippi to sell the peltries that they had accumilated on these long hunts, after the above stated trip.
I have been hoping that some kindly genealogy researcher would contact me regarding the James Ward named in the above article. As of this date I am still trying to discover his family line. Please note that on the first record I had found the name was listed as "John Ward" but upon comparing that with the original documents have corrected the name to "James Ward", as it was correctly listed.
However the John Baker listed above is related to our family, through the Whitaker family that married into our Ward family twice.Thanks to Garland Lively for the info and the suprise in his e-mail upon finding John Baker listed here. RW
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From 1790 through 1840 Greene County Tennessee was one of many stops on the migration west and south. The 1830s were a time of expansion from the relatively poor soil farms in the east to more fertile lands in Kentucky and Western Tennesse, and beyond. The indian problems faced by migrating setlers was still of major concern each and every wagon. However, The Wilderness Road accross the Cumberland and into Kentucky called and many answered the call to it's rugged course to the lands beyond the Apalachians looking for cheap or free land, better soil and less civilization too. The States to the east of Tennessee and Kentucky fueled this migration by offering Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois Land Warrants to soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Our William Ward would join this journey but lived in Greene County Tennessee for several years before doing so.
The area that became Greene County Tennessee (Washington County) saw many boundry changes. On its founding it included what would become the entire State of Tennesse, and part of Virginia. North Carolina, the State of Franklin, Fincastle County Virginia, and the" Territory south of the Ohio" River, all had this area within it's borders at one time or another. All in less than 30 years.
The area originaly contained parts of "The New River Settlements"from Virginia Southwest into (now) Tennessee, And the "Wautauga Settlements" of North Carolina.. These new "Settlements" were on the edge of the "frontier" and in Indian held lands. From about 1760 untill after 1830 was a dangerous place to live. The Indian Wars (Creek) continued sporadicly, in some areas untill about 1835. Amazingly a lot of the frontier families had reached a peaceful co-existance with the local Cherokee Tribes. This did not hold true of roving bands and War Parties of other bands.
The first explorers of this "new land" were the likes of Daniel Boone, John Stewart, John Baker, James Ward, Benjamin Cutbirth, John Findlay, James Knox and Cox, and became known as "Long Hunters"
The first record we have found, is of William Ward's marriage to Lucinda (Duncan) Anderson in Greene Co. Tennessee, on Jan 17, 1828.
William & Lucinda's Children, Elbert Surveyor, Mary Jane and Eliza Ruth Ward were born in Greene Co. Tennessee .The family moved to Kentucky before 1836, Where William Taylor Ward was born, and on to Greene County, Illinois by 1838, where Mahala, Jasper "Newt" and Francis M "Frank" Ward were born. William and Lucinda ward's family was enumerated in the 1840 U S Census in Greene County Illinois.
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William and Lucinda Ward were found on the 1830 U S Census for Greene Co. TN, and the 1832 Tennessee State Census for Greene County TN, both listing William Ward on pages marked " The 3rd Regiment" (East Tennessee Militia ).
"COLONEL WILLIAM JOHNSON" Commander 3rd Regiment East Tennessee Militia
"DESIGNATION: 3rd Regiment East Tennessee Militia
DATES: September 1814 - May 1815
MEN MOSTLY FROM: Knox, Claiborne, Greene, Jefferson, Anderson, Blount, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Hawkins, Rhea, Roane, and Sevier Counties
CAPTAINS: Christopher Cook, Henry Hunter, Joseph Kirk, Andrew Lawson, Elihu Milikin, David McKamy, Benjamin Powell, James R. Rogers, Joseph Scott, James Stewart, James Tunnell
Part of General Nathaniel Taylor's brigade, this unit of drafted militia(about 900 men) was mustered in at Knoxville and marched to the vicinity of Mobile via Camp Ross (present-day Chattanooga), Fort
Jackson, Fort Claiborne, and Fort Montgomery. Along the way the men were used as road builders and wagon guards.Many of them were stationed at Camp Mandeville (near Mobile) in February 1814, where there was much disease. For example, the company of Captain Joseph Scott had thirty-one listed sick out of an aggregate of 104 at the final muster. "
Sources; TSLA Archives, 1830 U S Census for Greene County Tennessee, 1832 State Census for Greene County Tennessee, Marriage records from Greene County Tennessee, Land and Estate records Greene County TN, & Greene County Illinois. 1840 and 1850 U S Cebsus for Greene County Illinois.Ramsey's Annals ofTennessee
We have not been able to determine if William Ward served in the War of 1812, although a William Ward was recorded as having done so. Again being so common a name we were unable to determine which William it was, with any certainty. But this record is interesting in that it shows the men as being used as road builders, which shows the ability to survey locations and routes, which is probably why Col. William Johnson was given the Border Survey by the Tennesse Legislature in 1821. RW
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" As 1769 is generally considered the date of his first trip across the mountains, it becomes important to state that Thwaite (p.69) says that, in 1767, Boone's brother-in-law, John Stewart, and Benjamin Cutbirth, who had married Boone's niece, and several others, went west as far as the Mississippi, crossing the mountains and returning before 1769; and that Boone himself, and William Hall, his friend, and, possibly, Squire Boone, Daniel's brother, in the fall of 1767,"
"One of the most remarkable westward journeys of the Long Hunters was made by Benjamin Cutbirth, John Stewart and two others of the Yadkin valley, all younger than Boone, in the summer of 1767. They crossed the Appalachians and explored all that unknown country between the mountain and the Mississippi River. English traders had for fifty years been plying the lower Mississippi and it's southerly approaches, but so far as known those adventurers were the first white men to cross the mountain barrier and reach the great river overland." Source for following," The Long Hunters, A New Life of Daniel Boone" by Lawrence Elliott (based on the Draper Manuscripts) Places and People in History around and associated with William Ward of Tennessee
Originaly mustered for the War of 1812, but continued in service to combat Indian up-risings and other duties in East Tennesse untill after 1835.
Washington County, where?
The following account of the "Long Hunters" is quoted from Ramsey's "Annals of Tennessee":
" In 1767 he (Cutbirth) and John Stuart, John Baker and James Ward, crossed the mountains and went to the Mississippi river, where they spent a year or two, going even to New Orleans."
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Chance Allred, one of the founders of Platinum Protection, has come home to Vivint again—in a way.
Platinum, a summer-model sales company based in American Fork, Utah, in February this year abruptly laid off virtually all its employees and shut down its summer sales program. The company, founded in 2006, hasn't talked publicly about the reasons why, but it appears to be in severe financial distress.
Since then, Vivint, a summer-model giant based in Provo, Utah, has hired about 130 of the unemployed Platinum sales reps, Vivint told me. It's not clear what percentage of Platinum's former sales force that represents, but it's just 4 percent of Vivint's sales force, that company said.
In addition, Allred in March was hired as VP of sales for Vivint Solar, a sister company of Vivint that offers residential customers the opportunity to purchase power generated by Vivint solar panels on their homes.
That's kind of interesting because before helping to found Platinum, Allred used to work for APX Alarm, which is what Vivint was called before it rebranded last year to highlight the fact it offers home automation and other services beyond security.
VIENNA, Va.—Alarm.com has added a new feature to its emPower home automation and energy management platform, one that it says makes homeowners even more invested in their security systems because it allows them to use data the security systems collect to better program their thermostats to save energy and money.
Today was the first day of ISC West 2012 and I started my day off at a Honeywell breakfast where Scott Harkins, the new president of Honeywell Security Products, talked about a series of "firsts" the company was announcing at the show.
"We're very excited that this show, the ISC show, is where we're launching the great technology revolution in the intrusion space," Harkins said.
He cited a series of products and technologies that he said are "firsts for us and first for our industry" include 2G/3G/4G radio, "one module that can do all three," switching to whichever has the strongest signal. "We're the only manufacturer in the industry with that," Harkins said.
Among other innovations, Harkins said Honeywell's Wi-Fi enabled system is "clearly a first," and also said the company is the first to have an IP video system "that's literally three clicks to get up and running."
Honeywell wasn't the only company talking about "firsts" today.
I stopped by the Cooper Notification booth, where Ted Milburn, vice president, marketing, and Jacquiline Townshend, marketing channel leader told me about that company was having a soft launch at the show of its Exceder LED, which Milburn described as "the first to replace the traditional strobe with an LED."
They said the device is energy efficient, having a lower current draw than a traditional notification device, and is easier and less costly to install and has a smaller profile.
The device, which Townshend said would be available in May, is priced the same as a traditional one. "We think if the function is the same, the price should be the same," Milburn said.
Over at the Fire-Lite by Honeywell booth, customers were acting like a product that the company introduced about four years ago was brand new this year.
While I was there a steady stream of people were showing up to learn more about Fire-Lite's IPGSM-DP Commercial Fire Communicator, which is used to upgrade a fire system from reporting to the central station by phone lines to one that uses an IP or GSM cellular path.
The product saves end users money by letting them get rid of their telephone lines, and dealers can use that fact as a selling point to generate more business for themselves, the company says.
Beth Welch, public relations manager for Honeywell Fire Systems, told me interest in the IPGSM has suddenly taken off. "We're just now seeing the real, true adoption of this. It's a landslide," she said. "Dealers are using this to get their foot in the door with new accounts."
She said there are a variety of reasons why the product has taken off now, but believes one is just that AHJ's are seeing how well it works and so are endorsing it.
I also talked today to Alex Dunn, COO of Provo, Utah-based home security/home automation giant Vivint. Vivint has to be the first security company to start a new company to sell solar panels to residential customers. Vivint Solar was created almost a year ago.
Although the two companies are separate, I asked Dunn if there was any sales crossover. He said there was and will continue to be.
"I think you'll see in the future more integration from a sales perspective, even from a technology perspective, when the control panel integrates with the solar panels, Dunn said.
Among other people I met on the show floor today was Don Moore, president of Redondo Beach, Calif.-based Moore Protection, who stopped by the Security Systems News' booth for our "meet the editors" event. Moore's security company is the first to create its own "Security Oscar": At the time of the Academy Awards each year it gives out the Morpheus Award to a film that best depicts the use of security. This year "Tower Heist" was the winner.
It was great to meet Don in person and while chatting, he told me another interesting fact about his company. It turns out that the graphics for the company's lawn sign were designed some years ago by George Lois, an advertising wizard who is known as "The Original Mad Man," a real-life version of Don Draper on the AMC television series.
Now, that's got to be a first!
YARMOUTH, Maine—By most measures, the economy is slowly improving. But that doesn't mask the pain of the past four years, and for many sectors—the security industry included—the recovery has been a case of two steps forward, one step back. Caution still abounds and it continues to temper growth in jobs, investment and spending.
In the face of this sluggishness, how has the monitoring industry fared when it comes to keeping and adding customers? To find out, Barnes Associates, a consulting and advisory firm specializing in the security alarm industry, teamed up with Security Systems News for a second annual survey of wholesale monitoring companies.
Comcast is now selling home security in Utah, right in the backyard of the major summer-model security companies.
When it comes to telecoms and cable companies getting into home security, I've written before about how Comcast has been in the forefront of that trend. It launched its Xfinity Home Security product in 2010.
It also recently renamed the product as just Xfinity Home to reflect the fact that the service includes many home automation features in addition to home security. And Comcast has launched the product in numerous major markets around the country and continues to introduce Xfinity Home in even more places. For example, it had a Seattle launch in February and this month Comcast announced it's now offering the service in Utah, home to residential security giants like Vivint and Pinnacle Security.
I'll be talking to them about their take on this new player both in their home state and nationwide. Keep your eye on this site for more!
PROVO, Utah—In a deal that includes 20 lenders, Vivint announced Feb. 29 that it has closed a new $762 million senior debt financing, $72 million more than the residential security and home automation provider's previous financing.
LANCASTER, Pa.—Select Security--a super-regional based here that has spent the past two summers trying to beat the big summer-model companies at their own game by running its own door-knocking program--is upping the ante.
PROVO, Utah—Vivint on Aug. 31 announced that Jim Nye has been promoted to vice president of product management.
OREM, Utah—Pinnacle Security is suing two former employees and an industry consultant, claiming they "conspired together" to create a new Canadian company, Titan Alarm, to compete against Pinnacle in Canada. Pinnacle contends the employees were working for Pinnacle at the time and that the new company was created by "unlawfully using Pinnacle resources and in violation of contractual and fiduciary duties."
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
Felipe Contepomi's winning drop goal isn't a winning drop goal
Felipe Contepomi had a bit of a nightmare first start at flyhalf for Stade Francais in the Top 14 last weekend. An earlier knock to the head clearly affected his thinking with time running out. Here's a look at what happened, as well as the two great tries.
Stade Francais hadn't had a win in their last six visits, while Toulouse were been unbeaten at home. Contepomi, who played at center the week before, moved to number ten for his new club, who themselves had a host of new signings and had the home side under pressure with little time left.
As the forwards drove it up, the platform was set to go left or right, with a converted try the only way to get the win with the score set at 18-12. Contepomi ended up on the pocket, with plenty of time to choose his route of attack.
Instead though, he opted for the Matt Dunning approach to winning games, and slotted a dropgoal. The fist-punch to the sideline signalled his joy, before closer inspection revealed the looks of horror on the coaching staff and other players faces. By the time he had realised his error, the fulltime whistle went, and Toulouse won the game 18-15.
We chatted briefly to Luke McAlister earlier, opposing flyhalf, and he was as shocked and amused as anyone. "I couldn't believe it when I saw him sitting in the pocket. I thought they had some special move planned haha," he said.
Contepomi later admitted that he had miscalculated the score and thought that they only required two points for the win. He took a knock on the head earlier in the match, which probably explains this absolute shocker. How he failed to check the massive scoreboard, only he knows.
Two excellent tries were scored by Toulouse, so they've been included in the below video too.
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Buzz: Could Ryan O'Reilly Be In New Jersey's Future?
Pat Pickens
Last week we discussed the possibility of Jarome Iginla coming east to the Garden State.
This week, especially in light of Pete DeBoer's line mixups, perhaps we could foresee a new center in red, black and white?
If you follow Hockey Night in Canada's "Hotstove" as closely as I do, you're aware of the Ryan O'Reilly saga in Colorado.
O'Reilly's situation is a lot like P.K. Subban's was with Montreal. The player is unsigned but remains under the team's control for the foreseeable future. Subban ended up signing a two-year deal with Montreal, ending his holdout on Jan. 28.
Yet, the O'Reilly saga drags on, and it is getting ugly. The father of the recently turned 22-year-old forward just typed a letter to the Denver Post spelling out his son's demands and what he's going through.
So where do the Devils fall in all this? New Jersey's had trouble scoring — it ranks 20th averaging 2.53 goals per game. Much like talked about with Iginla, O'Reilly could potentially give New Jersey a shot in the arm offensively.
Plus, if DeBoer is serious about Adam Henrique and Andrei Loktionov playing with Ilya Kovalchuk, the Devils are missing a center somewhere. O'Reilly, is a two-way center who can score — think of a younger Jordan Staal. O'Reilly posted a career-high 55 points last season.
I'd bet that would even make Lou Lamoriello's eyes light up.
Plus, Rich Chere reported Monday that it's a possibility.
What's the problem? Well, 22-year old top-2 centers with upside don't come cheap. If you believe the rumors, Colorado's asking for somewhere between a team's first-born son or one arm and a leg for O'Reilly.
New Jersey is down to its No. 1 draft pick this year having already traded both its fifth- and seventh-round picks to get Loktionov and Alex Ponikarovsky, respectively. The Devils still must forfeit a No. 1 thanks to Kovalchuk's "CBA-circumventing" deal either this year or next, so trading a No. 1 to get O'Reilly's rights would leave the Devils without a No. 1 for two straight years.
Plus, a player? If Colorado would take Henrik Tallinder, good riddance. But I doubt the Avs would do that. In all likelihood, it'd have to be a Mattias Tedenby-type, a top-6 defenseman and a draft pick.
But I'll leave it to you. Should New Jersey try to get in on Ryan O'Reilly?
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Despite a wildly misleading, spoiler-filled trailer that presents it as a violence-driven action film, The Proposition is in fact a western much more in the style of Terrence Malick than that of Sergio Leone. Written by musician Nick Cave and directed by John Hillcoat, the film is dominated by the barren landscape of wildest Australia, and manages the nearly impossible task of combining great tension with languorous pacing. The violence, when it occurs, reflects not Leone's glorious, long-awaited explosions, but rather the horror and suffering of real life. Nothing about the west in The Proposition is romantic or seductive: this place is lawless and dirty and full of death.
Set in Australia during the era of the bushranger (criminals who hid in the Outback to avoid capture; Ned Kelly, subject of the Heath Ledger film of the same name, is easily the most famous) that fell during the last half of the 19th century, The Proposition opens with the brutal capture of two such men, Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) and his younger bother, Mikey (Richard Wilson). Along with older brother Arthur (Danny Huston), the two men are known to have raped and killed a woman and her family, so both face death by hanging. Desperate to capture Arthur, however, and unable to extract Arthur from his Outback hiding place, the British commander (Maurice Stanley, wonderfully played by Ray Winstone) offers Charlie a deal: if he finds and kills his brother by Christmas -- nine days' time -- Mikey will be spared the hangman's noose. Just as fiercely protective of his simple-minded brother as the Captain suspected, Burns accepts the deal; Mikey is taken to prison and his brother begins his search.
With this setup as its narrative engine, Hillcoat's film takes off in an unexpected direction. Instead of focusing on the story, of one brother's pursuit of the other, his film examines the inner lives of its protagonists, and the terrible prices they pay for their choices. On one side is Charlie Burns, a wiry, weary man whose life in unavoidably violent and punishing. As played by Peace, he's wordless and, often, virtually expressionless, grimly treading the path he has chosen, without visible regret. One gets the feeling that he long ago gave up sorrow as a sign of weakness; life is short and brutal, so there's no point in fighting it, or complaining about ones fate.
On the other side stands Captain Stanley: recently-arrived from England with wife Martha (Emily Watson), he is determined, as he repeatedly growls, to civilize a land he describes as "hell." Though on one hand he is heartless enough to force a man to kill one brother to save another, Stanley also displays more outward sensitivity than anyone around him. When his secret agreement with Burns is revealed to the little town in which he's stationed, his dirty, unshaven face falls so completely that it looks like tears are just seconds away. Taking place as it does in front of a superior, that openness and vulnerability are as shocking within the world of The Proposition as tears would have been. Deemed weak by his underlings, Stanley struggles desperately to do what he believe is right, only to realize, tragically, that he has no idea what "right" is.
Alongside Burns' furious stoicism, Stanley's desperate searching stands at the center of The Proposition, both are clear, unavoidable indicators that no matter how hard one tries, almost nothing in their world can be controlled. Even the occasional scenes of violence make a mockery of the illusion of control. Instead of being swift and decisive, they inevitably are sloppy, drawn-out, and impossibly cruel. Deaths don't happen quickly or quietly in this world. Instead, they pass with horrible, uncontrollable sounds of human suffering, the noise human flesh makes when its struck by a foreign object, and explosions of blood that coat anyone nearby. Within The Proposition, there is neither grace nor dignity in death, only more pain and suffering for everyone involved
In addition to his unconventional narrative choices, Hillcoat's film departs from the mainstream with its unusual look, as well. Though it does contain conventional close-ups, an unusually high percentage of The Proposition is filmed in longshot. Whether the images are of figures dwarfed by landscape, or a couple sitting down for dinner, the camera tends to stay far away from the action, a choice that again emphasizes the insignificance of the characters. Like their unforgiving environment, the camera is just another distant observer, unaffected by the suffering of the people it surveys, and unwilling to get close enough to risk involvement in their lives. While increasing the isolation of its characters, this visual style also serves to showcase the breathtakingly vast nature of the Australian Outback. Over and over again, figures are shown standing or riding in the middle of a massive, unending plains, images that are presented less to show the progress of the character or story, than to build up the personality and presence of the Outback. By the film's end, the landscape is an equal partner in the story with both Burns and Stanley, a fact that's confirmed in its final scene of companionship.
The Proposition may not be a great film, but it certainly stands as a harshly lovely, hypnotic piece of art. Unconventional in its lack of interest in narrative drive, the movie nevertheless present a certain kind of truth in its beauty, brutality, and dismal insignificance, and Cave and Hillcoat should to be applauded for their commitment to the unrelenting darkness of that truth. Their movie may not be pleasurable to sit through, but its core is more profoundly real than anything else we're likely to encounter in an American theater this year.
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Buddhists Have No Souls
Gone, gone, gone beyond. So what went?
July 28, 2013 - 5:00 pm
Yes, I'm serious. Buddhists have no souls. Or permanent ones at least. That's really what Buddha taught.
Okay, end of column.
Well, no.
Let's talk about souls first. What is this "soul" thing we're talking about? The ever-convenient Mac built-in dictionary says the soul is "the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal."
The common conception of the soul in the West is the immortal part of us, the thing that goes to Heaven — or doesn't — when we die. There's a whole lot of Western Christian philosophy about the soul that I'm not going to try to go into in depth, but certainly that's the basic idea: an eternal, undying part that just "wears" the body, like clothes that it takes off and leaves behind. There's a living, breathing entity there that's "alive," and then the breath stops and something is gone.
In fact, the Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Chinese words that correspond to "soul" all have roots in "breath." (I just looked up the etymology of "soul," which is of Germanic origin, and it turns out to be pretty much perfectly obscure; it appears that early missionaries into Northern Europe picked it up to translate the Greek word psyche.)
In any case, the Sanskrit word is atman, and one of the Buddha's basic teachings was the doctrine of an-atman (an- being a negative), or in other words, the doctrine of the non-existence of a permanent soul.
This was a radical revision of the Hindu idea that appears in, for example, the Bhagavad-Gita, where Krishna tells Arjuna, "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be." (That's from Prabhupada's translation, the one the Hare Krishnas used to sell in airports. Another thing we lost after 9/11.)
Basically, what Buddha was pointing out was that anything that was "us," was our "identity", was inherently changing from day to day, instant to instant, and so necessarily couldn't be "eternal." So there is no permanent Self, no soul, no spirit that exists forever.
This is probably the thing that is least understood in Buddhism, and this time I don't mean in the West; I mean everyone. That illusion of Self is persistent and very very stubborn, because it's a necessary illusion in day-to-day life — if there's no Self and no others, then who's going to write the columns? Who's going to cash the checks?


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The Gabriel Ash Cedar Potting Shed
Constructed, like our greenhouses, using only the best Western Red Cedar the potting shed can be made to be either free standing or abutting your greenhouse. Available in a range of widths and lengths and like our greenhouses the potting shed comes with a maintenance free roof made from powder coated aluminium. Should you choose we have a range of greenhouse staging and shelving that can be utilised in the potting shed.
As with all the greenhouses that we produce at Gabriel Ash there are a number of options available. Once you have settled on an appropriate size you can specify whether you want a door to the shed from the greenhouse or perhaps just an opening. We can make a door for the plain end so you can enter the shed rather than having to travel through the greenhouse – the choice is yours.
The potting shed will need to sit on a level base that we would ask you to prepare. Retreat to the potting shed when it showers and take cover. The noise of rain falling onto the hardwearing aluminium roofing is quite comforting and it is not difficult to imagine the hours that could be spent pottering in such a pleasant environment. In the winter turn on the greenhouse heater and while away the hours.


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Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the link between rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular disease by studying inflammation, joint disease, cholesterol abnormalities, and endothelial function.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Endothelial Dysfunction
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|Atherosclerosis in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Role of Inflammation, Lipoproteins, and Endothelial Dysfunction
- flow mediated vasodilation of the brachial artery, measured by ultrasound [ Time Frame: 1 day ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- pulse wave velocity/arterial stiffness [ Time Frame: day 1 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- lipid metabolism [ Time Frame: day 1 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- pulse ampitude [ Time Frame: 1 day ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples Without DNA
serum, plasma
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|September 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
rheumatoid arthritis subjects
60 subjects with rheumatoid arthritis, defined by American College of Rheumatology Criteria, enrolled in the UCSF RA cohort
healthy controls
20 matched controls without rheumatoid arthritis
Detailed Description:
In the general population, individuals with elevated inflammatory markers (e.g. C-reactive protein, CRP) have increased cardiovascular disease. Patients with RA have chronic elevations in CRP and other inflammatory markers that are usually higher than the levels associated with increased cardiovascular risk in the general population. Indeed, RA patients have accelerated disease of their blood vessels, and increased cardiovascular death not explained by traditional cardiac risk factors but associated with chronic inflammation. However, the mechanisms by which inflammation leads to cardiovascular disease are not well characterized in RA. Moreover, current treatment strategies of RA largely target joint symptoms rather than inflammation, potentially leaving patients at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Studies of markers that increase the risk of heart disease in the full spectrum of RA are missing. We hypothesize that inflammatory markers will be more strongly associated with abnormalities in blood vessels in RA patients than any clinical measure of disease activity. This hypothesis will be tested with a cross-sectional study of patients in the UCSF RA cohort. Aim 1 will characterize abnormal blood vessel changes across the spectrum of RA disease activity, specifically measuring ultrasound of the upper arm artery, markers of oxidative stress, and abnormalities in cholesterol proteins. Aim 2 will identify factors associated with these changes across the spectrum of RA disease activity, specifically focusing on the association between inflammatory markers, cholesterol, and blood vessel abnormalities.
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|18 Years to 80 Years
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|Probability Sample
RA subjects are from the UCSF RA cohort based at San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF Medical Center. Controls will be selected from primary care clinics from these hospitals
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of RA by ACR criteria
- Age 18-80
- Enrolled in UCSF RA cohort already
Exclusion Criteria:
- Diabetes (on meds or in medical history)
- Pregnant or Lactating
- Renal failure (Creatinine > 2mg/dL or on dialysis)
- History of MI or CAD
- History of ischemic CVA
- Symptomatic PVD
- Current uncontrolled hypertension (blood pressure > 160/100mmHg)
- Daily prednisone > 10mg daily
- Current smoker
- New BP med within 3 months
- New statin within 3 months
- Change in RA meds: new or increase in prednisone within 1 month, new TNF inhibitor within 2 months, titration of methotrexate, leflunomide or sulfasalazine within 3 months.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00990730
|United States, California
|UCSF San Francisco General Hospital Vascular Research Center
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|Principal Investigator:
|Priscilla Y Hsue, MD
|University of California, San Francisco
|Study Director:
|Peter Ganz, MD
|University of California, San Francisco
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|Responsible Party:
|Priscilla Hsue, Principle Investigator, University of California, San Francisco
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00990730 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|October 2, 2009
|Last Updated:
|January 23, 2012
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
rheumatoid arthritis
endothelial dysfunction
oxidative stress
arterial stiffness
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
Vascular Diseases
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Police studying actions of ex-South teacher
Probe centers on relationship with students
Pueblo police have been investigating a former South High School teacher for allegedly sending explicit text messages and scantily clad photos of herself to male students.
Police reports show investigators also have been looking into whether Larisa Oringdulph, 31, had been intimate with at least one male student.
Oringdulph resigned her teaching position on Nov. 7, Scott Jones, Pueblo City Schools (D60) spokesman, said Wednesday.
Jones has refused repeated requests from The Pueblo Chieftain , dating back to Nov. 5, regarding whether there had been an investigation involving Oringdulph and what her employment status was at the school. The Chieftain's attorney has been working to obtain that information, but the district has not cooperated.


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Ever wonder where your money disappears every month? Take a look in your garage.
Your car could be driving your budget into the ground.
If you're driving 15,000 miles a year — not uncommon for an American worker — in a midsize sedan such as a Toyota TM, -1.33% Camry or Ford Fusion, you'll spend more than $760 a month on average, or $9,150 a year, on gas, maintenance, tires, full-coverage insurance, license and registration costs, depreciation and finance charges.
That's according to an annual report by AAA, the auto club, on driving costs in 2013, based on buying a new car and driving it for five years and 75,000 miles.
But your costs easily could be higher.
Got an SUV? It will cost you about $967 a month, or $11,600 a year, according to AAA.
And don't forget those one-time and infrequent costs not included in the AAA report — say, $10 a pop for a carwash every other month, an occasional parking ticket of, say, $40. Perhaps you're also shelling out for paid parking at the baseball game or a downtown garage. Add $300 a year for those types of charges. Let's just say you avoid budget-busting speeding tickets.
We could add in the square footage of your garage — say 400 square feet at $100 a square foot. That's $40,000 of your mortgage that's going to the car.
Plus, if you're like 76% of Americans, you drive to work alone — and it takes you about 50 minutes a day round-trip on average. Your driving costs are counted in AAA's estimate, but what about the value of your time?
Let's say your time is worth $25 an hour. Add up that 50-minute commute every weekday for all but two weeks a year and you're spending about $5,200 a year.
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After 10 years, that's $52,000 worth of your time, gone, not to mention the $94,500 in direct car costs, without even including your garage financing costs.
Realize, too, that where you choose to live also plays a part. "Transportation costs vary by region," says Linda Young, research director at Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago.
Some of the most expensive U.S. housing markets, including San Francisco and New York, rise high in the Center's affordability rankings when transportation costs are factored in, and more spread-out places such as Houston or Tampa become less affordable.
"In places that are compact, close to jobs, with a variety of transportation choices, people spend less. In dispersed areas, people need to own a lot more autos and need to drive them farther, so hence the costs go up," says Ms. Young. For more, see HTAIndex.cnt.org.
Take a look at these tips for ways to reduce your automobile costs. (Clearly, avoiding costs such as time spent commuting entail major life changes. The point is: Don't ignore these expenses in your decision making.)
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His father was a captain in the Royal East London Militia, but after this regiment was disbanded, became an estate-agent. John Gilbert started in this business but showed a talent for sketching, and submitted his first picture for exhibition at the age of nineteen. He was soon exhibiting at the Royal Academy and became a full academician in 1876. Five years earlier, he had been knighted. Gilbert was also a major illustrator of the nineteenth century and frequently contributed pictures to the Illustrated London News one of which depicted the Charge of the Scots Greys at Waterloo. His interest in history led to numerous paintings, particularly water-colours of historic battles. The Civil War was a common theme in his output, and several important canvases exist: Waiting for the Ring: Marston Moor (Southgate Gallery of Wolverhampton), A Regiment of Royalist Cavalry, and Naseby (Towneley Hall Art Gallery, Burnley), which was exhibited at Royal Academy in 1873. Similarly, the Crusades and the Middle Ages provided material for military pictures, e.g. The Morning of the Battle of Agincourt and Queen Margaret of Anjou taken prisoners after the Battle of Tewkesbury (both Guildhall Art Gallery), Crusaders an the March (water-colour in Victorian and Albert Museum), and The Battle of the Standard, Northallerton (water-colour in Guildhall Art Gallery; another version at Oldham Art Gallery). His canvas Edward 111 at the Siege of Calais was destroyed by enemy bombing when the Guildhall Art Gallery was hit. Reference: DNB; Spielman 1897; Oldcastle 1878
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From the Houston Children's Chorus series comes an historic story-anthem, Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin. Remember the story of Daniel and the hand writing on the wall at Belshazaar's feast? Thanks to the clever words of J. Paul Williams, and the creative music of Craig Curry, any choir that sings this anthem will never forget the story or the words written on the wall.


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Blake Shinn has been reminded of his responsibilities at the end of an inquiry into his ride on Zanbagh in the Light Fingers Stakes.
The Oaks-bound filly finished ninth in last Saturday's 1200m race, running the fastest last sectional time of the day.
Stewards queried Shinn's vigour during the race but an examination of the overall sectional times drew the conclusion she would not have finished any closer.
Trainer Guy Walter told stewards Shinn had ridden in compliance with his instructions which included not making a 600-metre run on the filly.
Shinn said the tempo of the race had taken Zanbagh out of her comfort zone but stewards were concerned about a lack of vigour from the jockey.
After studying the sectional times, stewards said although the first part of the race been run faster than average, the section from the 800m to the 400m was also quicker than average.
"We are not satisfied that if Zanbagh was ridden differently she would have finished closer," chief steward Ray Murrihy said.
"Therefore we don't deem it to be a blameworthy ride.
"But instructions are only a guide and it's a jockey's responsibility once in the race.
"You have to ride so there is no doubt."
Zanbagh will run in next Saturday's Surround Stakes (1400m) at Warwick Farm.


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The truth is, The Hunger Games will still be raking in mad dough [1] this weekend. (Even Julia Roberts [2] can't step to Katniss Everdeen, and if John Carter is any indication of moviegoers' fatigue of CG uber-spectacle, Wrath of the Titans [3] is doomed. Though, to be fair, if anyone can step to Katniss Everdeen, it's Liam Neeson [4].)
So. Your weekend options include: The Hunger Games, round two; re-watching last week's zooby-zooby-zoo-tastic Mad Men [5] season premiere over and over until episode two airs; or binging on all of Game of Thrones [6], season one, to prep for that show's return to HBO (praise to R'hllor!) Also: Sat/31 and Sun/1 screenings remain of 1927 masterpiece/cinema event of the season Napoleon [7] at Oakland's Paramount. (Ain't cheap [8], but worth it.)
If you really, really want to take in a new movie, the rep and art houses are the place to be Fri/30. Tom "Loki" [9] Hiddleston squeezes in some acting cred ahead of The Avengers [10]' May 4 release, starring opposite Oscar winner Rachel Weisz in the new one from Terence Davies (2000's The House of Mirth):
The Deep Blue Sea [11] Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, filmmaker Terence Davies, much like his heroine, chooses a mutable, fluid sensuality, turning his source material, Terence Rattigan's acclaimed mid-century play, into a melodrama that catches you in its tide and refuses to let go. At the opening of this sumptuous portrait of a privileged English woman who gives up everything for love, Hester (Rachel Weisz) goes through the methodical motions of ending it all: she writes a suicide note, carefully stuffs towels beneath the door, takes a dozen pills, turns on the gas, and lies down to wait for death to overtake her. Via memories drifting through her fading consciousness, Davies lets us in on scattered, salient details in her back story: her severely damped-down, staid marriage to a high court judge, Sir William (Simon Russel Beale), her attraction and erotic awakening in the hands of charming former RF pilot Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), her separation, and her ultimate discovery that her love can never be matched, as she hazards class inequities and ironclad gender roles. "This is a tragedy," Sir William says, at one point. But, as Hester, a model of integrity, corrects him, "Tragedy is too big a word. Sad, perhaps." Similarly, Sea is a beautiful downer, but Davies never loses sight of a larger post-war picture, even while he pauses for his archetypal interludes of song, near-still images, and luxuriously slow tracking shots. With cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, he does a remarkable job of washing post-war London with spots of golden light and creating claustrophobic interiors — creating an emotionally resonant space reminiscent of the work of Wong Kar-wai and Christopher Doyle. At the center, providing the necessary gravitas (much like Julianne Moore in 2002's Far From Heaven), is Weisz, giving the viewer a reason to believe in this small but reverberant story, and offering yet another reason for attention during the next awards season. (1:38) Embarcadero, Piedmont, Shattuck, [12] Smith Rafael [13]. (Kimberly Chun)
Liked A Separation, recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film? Here's another standout Iranian film, The Hunter, not to be confused with the upcoming Australian film of the same title [14] starring Willem Dafoe:
The Hunter [15] Shot and set during Iran's contentious 2009 Presidential campaign, The Hunter starts as a Kafka-esque portrait of quiet desperation in a cold, empty Tehran, then turns into a sort of existential thriller. The precise message may be ambiguous, but it's no surprise this two-year-old feature has so far played nearly everywhere but Iran itself. Ali (filmmaker Rafi Pitts) is released from prison after some years, his precise crime never revealed. Told that with his record he can't expect to get a day shift on his job as security guard at an automotive plant, he keeps hours at odds with his working wife Sara (Mitra Haijar) and six-year-old daughter Saba (Saba Yaghoobi). Still, they try to spend as much time together as possible, until one day Ali returns to find them uncharacteristically gone all day. After getting the bureaucratic runaround he's finally informed by police that something tragic has occurred; one loved one is dead, the other missing. When his thin remaining hope is dashed, with police notably useless in preventing that grim additional news, Ali snaps — think Peter Bogdanovich's 1968 Targets. He's soon in custody, albeit in that of two bickering officers who get them all lost in the countryside. Pitts, a long-ago child performer cast here only when the actor originally hired had to be replaced, makes Ali seem pinched from the inside out, as if in permanent recoil from past and anticipated abuse. This thin, hunched frame, vulnerable big ears, and hooded eyes — the goofily oversized cap he wears at work seems a deliberate affront — seems so fixed an expression of unhappiness that when he flashes a great smile, for a moment you might think it must be someone else. He's an everyman who only grows more shrunken once the film physically opens up into a natural world no less hostile for being beautiful. (1:32) Roxie [16]. (Dennis Harvey)
Finally, a timely doc about the recently forced-to-resign-under-shady-circumstances prez of the Republic of Maldives, an island nation imperiled by the planet's changing climate:
The Island President [17] The titular figure is Mohamed Nasheed, recently ousted (by allies of the decades long dictator he'd replaced) chief executive of the Republic of Maldives — a nation of 26 small islands in the Indian Ocean. Jon Shenk's engaging documentary chronicles his efforts up to and through the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit to gather greater international commitment to curbing greenhouse gas emissions. This is hardly do-gooderism, a bid for eco-tourism, or politics as usual: scarcely above sea level, with nary a hill, the Maldives will simply cease to exist soon if waters continue to rise at global warming's current pace. ("It won't be any good to have a democracy if we don't have a country," he half-jokes at one point.) Nasheed is tireless, unjaded, delightful, and willing to do anything, at one point hosting "the world's first underwater cabinet meeting" (with oxygen tanks, natch) as a publicity stunt. A cash-strapped nation despite its surfeit of wealthy vacationers, it's spending money that could go to education and health services on the pathetic stalling device of sandwalls instead. But do bigger powers — notably China, India and the U.S. — care enough about this bit-part player on the world stage to change their energy-use and economic habits accordingly? (A hint: If you've been mulling a Maldivian holiday, take it now.) Somewhat incongruous, but an additional sales point nonetheless: practically all the film's incidental music consists of pre-existing tracks by Radiohead. (1:51) Embarcadero [12]. (Harvey)
P.S. In honor of next Wed/4's re-release of James Cameron's Titanic [18] in 3D ... the immortal Titanic II [19] (not coming to an IMAX near you anytime soon.)
"Looks like history's repeating itself!"
[1] http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=hungergames.htm
[2] http://mirrormirrorfilm.com/
[3] http://wrathofthetitans.warnerbros.com/index.html
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKTh7zBIcrM
[5] http://www.amctv.com/shows/mad-men
[6] http://www.hbo.com/html/error/browser_message_e.html?return=http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html
[7] http://www.silentfilm.org/napoleon-home.php
[8] http://www.ticketmaster.com/Napoleon-tickets/artist/1618888
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki_(comics)
[10] http://marvel.com/avengers_movie/
[11] http://www.thedeepblueseamovie.com/
[12] http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Index.htm
[13] http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/
[14] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703148/
[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunter_(2010_film)
[16] http://www.roxie.com/
[17] http://theislandpresident.com/
[18] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzgtthLqIJE
[19] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_II