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I wanted to convey the concept that love is delicate and should be treated with caring. It's so easy to take for granted the people we love.
Creativity for me is being able to see and manipulate things around you to bring it together and create something beautiful and inspiring. It's the essence of life, the feeling you get when you accomplish something like that.
What I love about photography is being able to make something beautiful out of anything I can dream. There's something about it - every bit, from the subject to the colours to the light that gives me an exhilarating feeling when I'm done. It makes me so excited and makes me feel so great.
Thanks for the feedback!
The photo needs to be in more focus. Physically. The thought is good, I couldn't tell it was a knife until I read the description. The lighting is not very good either. but your photo is very creative. I wouldn't have thought of this. Good luck!
That's fair. This isn't by any means my best photo, but it is one of my most conceptual, and in sticking to the theme of the contest, I chose it for that reason. Would you care to expand on what you think could have been done better/differently?
The concept was good, but poorly executed. But this is a competition so good luck.
I certainly hope that Micheal Hall does not have a photo in the competition,if so it should be removed and disqualified .Truelly unproffessional.
The photo is very artistic and well thought out!!
wow michael if your so busy winning "nobel prizes" then you shouldnt have time to leave such stupid comments
Yeah, a not so delicate balance between a balloon and an ugly bitch. Why are you even in this competition if you can't make anything worthwhile. The pictures I've taken won various prizes, I'm talking, Nobel prizes.
So Awesome! Really captures the mood and emotion, well done!!
Your style floors me, Jen! Will you be my wedding photographer? :)
LOVE, what an awesome way to portray love! It is very delicate! Well done!! :)
WOW, I love it!!
Well done Jen...I love the whole thought behind the photo...imagination plus!
Beautiful and Artistic! Alot of thought and imagination went into this photo! Way to go!!
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FSYFL will now provide helmets and shoulder pads for rental to teams/players.
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The FSYFL will now provide 4 referees for the Varsity division.
The FSYFL will release a new mobile app for use on smart phones, for all online information, scores, schedules etc.
The new season dates are now released on the FSYFL website.
All these individuals will be presented with their award at the State Championships in Tarpon Springs on the stage prior to the games they are scheduled at, as displayed. The FYSFL will be contacting each of these winners over the next few days to plan and provide them with the attendance and award presentation process.
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This award is presented in honor of my friend and a great friend of Plant City, Buddy Bennett. Buddy epitomized what it took to be a great coach. This award is not about a winning record only, but also rather about the coaches that most display the attributes that would cause them to be fondly remembered by each child they coached, in their future years. The FSYFL is honored to present their Coach of Year award to each one of these individuals!
Please Note: If a team is not represented in the Pro Bowl they would have opted not to submit any nominations. Every FYSFL team automatically receives ONE selection. Teams choose to opt out for their own determinations. Varsity players are already at High School practices so therefore we do not offer a Varsity pro Bowl program.
ALL players selected MUST attend their specific age group State Championship game to receive their Pro Bowl jerseys and be presented on the Jumbotron (no attend = no jersey=no pro bowl)
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- Every team plays TWO (2) games in the Pro Bowl schedule
- As is tradition there are NO trophies for Pro Bowl winners. The games are strictly for bragging rights
- Pro Bowl coaches will be receiving their instructions on how to run a team by email directly to them
- Head Coaches can invite as many other teams coaches or their own coaches to help them. The FSYFL does not restrict game field coaches for Pro Bowl…the more the merrier!
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- In some divisions there is only one WEST team not a NW and SW team
- In the Supers D1 division there are only 2 teams, they will play 2 games against each other (similar to a longer 1st and 2nd half)
- In the Midget D2 division the NE has been split into 2 teams (NE and NEC) as there were a lot of teams in that division
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1. Over 220 teams from across Florida
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6. Games at Regional fields make for a weekly Jamboree atmosphere
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10. NFL style Pro Bowl Tournament
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The West coast Conference got beaten in the final leg game of the State Championships going down 4-3 in the battle for supremacy of the FSYFL football state tournament title hunt!
2014 State Champions
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Mitey Mite – Treasure Coast Spartans (defeated St Pete Raider Gang 12-0)
Peewee – Westside Broncos (defeated Flagler Falcons 27-0)
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Midgets – Treasure Coast Spartans (defeated Westside Broncos 40-6)
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KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) - Authorities say firefighters have been able to keep two neighborhoods in northwestern Arizona safe as a wildfire continues to burn in the mountains outside of Kingman.
The Dean Peak Fire has burned more than 8 square miles in the Hualapai Mountains. It remained 0 percent contained Thursday morning.
Crews were prepared for another day of hot, windy weather. Their plan was to strengthen existing fire lines and fuel breaks in the subdivisions of Pinion Pines and Pine Lake.
Officials say the evacuation order for the two neighborhoods remain in place, and the Wild Cow Campground will remain closed until further notice.
On Wednesday, changing wind forced the evacuation of about 200 more homes in the hill country. About 150 homes in other areas were evacuated earlier this week.
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Does Playing Music Boost Kids' Empathy?
A new study suggests it does, at least when practiced in a group.
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Music can make us feel nostalgic, melancholy, or energized. It can make us want to dance. Even learning how to sing better can affect our mood. And, a new study suggests, it can make us feel more connected to other people, especially when we play music together.
The study, recently published online in Psychology of Music, suggests that interacting with others through music makes us more emotionally attuned to other people, even beyond the musical setting.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge observed 28 girls and 24 boys, all between the ages of 8 and 11, from four different schools in the United Kingdom with a similar socioeconomic makeup.
Roughly half of these children were randomly assigned to a special music program that the researchers designed, where children met once a week in small groups for an entire school year to play games that encourage interaction, imitation, and "mindreading" through music. For example, in the "Mirror Match" game, the children had to repeat or match a short piece of music played by another student. In the "Improvising Rhythm" game, the children had to coordinate their playing even as the rhythm was being constantly changed.
The other half of the students also participated in weekly games that encouraged interaction and imitation, but their games were without music, using techniques like storytelling and drama instead.
Before and after participating in either of the two groups, all children in the study took an array of tests to measure their "emotional empathy," or their ability to experience another's emotional state as their own.
In one of these tests, children viewed a brief movie clip showing a character in an emotional scene. Each child was then shown pictures of faces expressing six different emotions, and was asked to select the expression that most closely matched his or her own feelings after viewing the clip. Children demonstrated greater emotional empathy if they selected the expression that corresponded most closely with the character's emotion.
The children also had to say whether they agreed with 22 statements designed to measure empathy, such as "I really like to watch people open presents, even when I don't get a present myself."
The results show that after the school year ended, empathy increased significantly among children in the music group but not in the group that played non-musical games.
That finding was somewhat surprising to the researchers, says Tal-Chen Rabinowitch, a doctoral student at Cambridge's Center for Music and Science and the lead author of the study.
"In a way we expected the children who participated in the control games group interaction program to also show an enhanced capacity for empathy following the program," she says.
The increased empathy among children in the music group suggests that interacting through music may hone our general ability to share the psychological states of others.
Still, Rabinowitch says she and her co-authors are hesitant to draw any definitive conclusions from this single study, since the number of students involved was small. In their Psychology of Music paper, they write that more research, involving larger groups of students, is needed to strengthen the link between music and empathy, and to explore how long the emotional effects of group music training can last.
This research is important, they argue, because prior studies have suggested that empathy is vital to kind and cooperative behavior, and to motivating people to stand up against bullying. "Therefore," says Rabinowitch, "if there is a way to educate for empathy using music as an enjoyable and welcoming medium, then it is important to be aware of this and understand how it can be done."
This piece is part of an ongoing collaboration between Start Empathy and UC Berkley's Greater Good Science Center. This piece was written by Stacey Kennelly and originally appeared in Greater Good, an online publication of the Greater Good Science Center.


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High School Baseball: Moorpark's Barry has 11 Ks in a row, 15 overall, in first-round playoff shutout [VIDEO]
Ace tosses shutout
Sean Barry insists he takes no special motivation into a playoff game.
"I treat it as just another game," says the Moorpark High senior pitcher. "My preparation is the same. My mindset is the same. I get ready as I would for any other game."
If the attitude was as cool as jazz, the stuff was hotter than jalapeno. Barry struck out the first 11 batters he faced, finished with 15 Ks, and pitched Moorpark to a 4-0 victory over visiting Arlington in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 playoffs Thursday afternoon.
Barry allowed just one hit and three base runners while pitching up to his teammates' expectations.
"We're pretty confident when he's on the mound," said left fielder Taylor Ready. "We feel like we're going to win whenever he's out there."
With the victory, Moorpark improves to 21-7 and earns a second-round matchup against No. 2 seed El Toro. The site will be determined Friday by a coin flip.
Moorpark's offense posted three runs in the second inning in solving the challenge posed by Arlington ace Daniel Honorof. The Lions' left-hander is adept at changing speeds and keeping hitters off balance, but Troy Conway rapped a bases-loaded single into right field for a 1-0 lead.
Ready, who had doubled in the first inning, followed with a sharp single up the middle to score two more runs and open up a 3-0 lead.
All the suspense associated with a playoff game seemed to dissipate except for one pressing question: Would anybody from Arlington put the ball in play against Barry?
The strikeout roll was 11 in a row until that finally happened.
Catcher Christian Bedolla grounded a single into right field with two outs in the fourth. That was the only hit Barry would allow.
He yielded just two other base runners on a walk and hit batter, both in the seventh inning.
"Everything was pretty much working today," said Barry, who improved to 11-1. "I'm at my best when I'm throwing strikes. The loss to Royal came when I was walking batters. I'm most effective when I'm pounding the (strike) zone."
Moorpark added one more run in the bottom of the sixth when Sherman Brawner singled, stole second and rode home on an Arlington error.
Just like its ace pitcher, Moorpark tried to take a low-key mindset into postseason.
That attitude is coach Scott Fullerton's preference.
"We're not really about going rah-rah into a playoff game," he said. "Our guys know what is at stake, and they know they play their best baseball by being focused. The team that makes the fewest mistakes usually wins these games."
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What is Hatch's Hit List? Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has introduced the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act (IICA, née INDUCE Act) in the Senate. The bill would make it illegal to "intentionally induce" copyright infringement, but is worded so broadly that it would have all sorts of unintended consequences, one of which is to severely limit, cripple or kill innovation in many different fields. Hatch's Hit List is a daily exploration of some of the technologies and fields that the bill would likely affect. See also, Introducing Hatch's Hit List and the Hatch's Hit List Archives. Send list suggestions to ernest.miller 8T aya.yale.edu.
Today on Hatch's Hit List: Instapundit
News flash: Sen. John Kerry is running for president. Shortly after he returned from military service in Vietnam he co-authored a book called The New Soldier. However, the book is out of print and, reportedly, Kerry won't allow a new edition to be published to take advantage of all the interest in the book raised by his candidacy.
Nevertheless, someone has put the book online, in clear violation of the copyright: John Kerry's New Soldier
Just after JOHN KERRY came back from Vietnam, he wrote the book THE NEW SOLDIER.
The book is out of print. John Kerry does not allow the publisher to reprint it.
To make a rational decision on November 2, you need to have all available facts.
You can now read John Kerry's THE NEW SOLDIER online for FREE.
The book is out of print. John Kerry does not allow the publisher to reprint it.
To make a rational decision on November 2, you need to have all available facts.
You can now read John Kerry's THE NEW SOLDIER online for FREE.
I blame Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit. He is the one who induced me to visit the infringing site through a link of his: There Was Lots of Talk. I probably never would have visited and infringed copyright had it not been for Reynolds' link.
He is a law professor familiar with copyright law, so he should know better, but it turns out he is not a fan of current copyright law. Among other actions and writings: he has hosted infamous anti-copyright law professor Larry Lessig as a guest-blogger; he has made outrageous claims that free downloads don't necessarily hurt copyright owners (RIAA Take Note); he has questioned the efforts of universities to protect copyright owners (Some Good Questions); and, he has said he is fine with a ridiculously short copyright term of fourteen years, renewable once (The Economist). Clearly, Reynolds is no fan of copyright.
Furthermore, he doesn't seem very enthusiastic about John Kerry (too many posts to mention).
Clearly, by linking to the infringing site, Reynolds was encouraging more copyright infringement. He knew what would happen when he pointed his massive traffic to the infringing site. His actions are a paradigmatic case of intentional inducement.
Want to know more about the INDUCE Act?
Please see LawMeme's well-organized index to everything I've written on the topic, including Hatch's Hit List: The LawMeme Reader's Guide to Ernie Miller's Guide to the INDUCE Act.
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1. Branko Collin on August 26, 2004 01:31 AM writes...
You're inducing me now to read the illegal book. Clearly, any unqualified hyperlink linking to a link that links to ... well, you get the gist. The scary thing is that, IIRC, several courts already found this a form of inducement.
(There was one case in Belgium where linking to sites that linked to MP3s was already considered infringement, and I believe German courts have produced some real beauts regarding consumer protection laws.)
2. Jim on August 26, 2004 05:11 PM writes...
You forgot to mention one thing -- Senator Hatch is an idiot.
3. mojo on August 26, 2004 05:29 PM writes...
You also mis-attributed the Senator's political affiliation, it should be (R-RIAA)
4. ViriiK on August 26, 2004 08:57 PM writes...
Look, I'm a Instapundit-reader and an LDS (Just like Hatch). Hatch can go screw himself over this since he doesn't believe in the Free-Agency concept. Forcing this action on us is like Satan forcing us to do the wrong thing. We know right from wrong and give me a break, artist have been losing money because they've been making crappy music period!
5. Nick on August 26, 2004 10:39 PM writes...
6. Ivan Lenin on August 26, 2004 11:14 PM writes...
Mr. Ernest Miller is bitching about InstaPundit providing a link that says bad things about the wonderful Mr. John Kerry. Boohoohoo. Copyright my ass, loser.
Clearly, Miller is no fan of common sense. But he attended Yale Law school, no less! which I guess gives him the licence to be a butthole and even get paid for it. I blame Ernest Miller's parents. A street punk has more class than this "intellectual"
7. russ on August 26, 2004 11:17 PM writes...
Ahhh, it must be hell to be a liberal and or a member of the party of the SEDITIOUS & SLEAZY (a.k.a. the dim-witted Democrats) now a days...
Cowardly Kerry has shown to be a pathological liar but then again so was the last dim-witted Democrat that made a run for the Presidency and the one before that has the distinction of being impeached...
Can't you people ever get someone of relatively decent moral character?
8. Ernest Miller on August 26, 2004 11:24 PM writes...
For those who don't get the sarcasm, this post is meant to show how easily a frivolous lawsuit could be brought under the INDUCE Act. I'm making fun of the proposed law by showing how it can be abused.
I'm a fan of Glenn Reynolds.
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Halve tuberculosis deaths among people living with HIV by 2015
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death among people living with HIV – 13 percent of those living with TB in 2012 were also living with HIV.
Concerted efforts have made the 2015 target possible: TB-related deaths have decreased by 36 percent worldwide since 2004. The World Health Organisation (WHO) claims that an estimated 1.3 million TB-related deaths have been averted between 2005 and 2012. Seventeen out of forty-one identified high-burden countries have reduced TB deaths amongst people living with HIV by over 50 percent. Additionally, the number of people with TB who received HIV testing in 2012 had increased by 14 percent from 2011.
However, this progress is beginning to level off. In some countries, mortality has decreased less or risen. Only two of the ten countries with the largest number of HIV/TB cases were delivering antiretroviral treatment to over 50 percent of HIV-positive people who also had TB in 2012. Globally, only 57 percent of people living with both illnesses received antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). It was also estimated that only 46 percent of TB patients were also being tested for HIV in 2012.
What still needs to be done?
- Scale-up the provision of antiretroviral treatment (ART). The focus on TB should be regarded as a very necessary part of the wider effort to scale up HIV treatment, and reduce the number of people who develop TB. Prompt HIV diagnosis and immediate treatment reduces the risk of developing TB by an estimated 65 percent and reduces the risk of death among people living with both HIV and TB by 50 percent.
- Create alternatives to ensure that essential drugs are affordable. As strands of TB can be multi-drug resistant, it is important to have alternative treatment methods available in high-prevalence areas.
- Implement routine HIV testing and counselling in TB care settings. This will help to improve early diagnosis in order to reduce the risk of people living with HIV developing TB.
- Fully implement the Three Is of HIV/TB. These refer to Intensified case finding, Isnoiazid preventive therapy and Infection control in clinical settings. Using these steps should greatly improve prevention efforts, as those currently receiving therapy are believed to be a small fraction of the number of people living with HIV who could benefit. Engaging communities can aid the uptake of these steps.
- Improve both completeness and accuracy of HIV/TB data. Increased integration between TB and HIV data collection systems will improve the coherence and quality and could also aid the facilitation of links between TB and HIV services.
- Introduce occupational health programmes for health care workers. This would meet the urgent need to ensure delivery of prevention interventions to workers who have been exposed to TB.
- Increase focus on the current blockages to providing an effective response to HIV-associated TB. These include poor uptake of prevention and treatment, not initiating ART immediately, a lack of HIV testing in TB clinics and a lack of infection control.
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Rampage says UFC bridge is burned. Looks forward to new chapter in career
Doesn't sound like he trained much for the Teixeira fight.
Might have to put some down on Teixeira.
I still like Jackson. He comes to fight and brawl. Could give two craps less what everyone else thinks. I have liked his fights and style for a long time and will continue to like his fights. So he opens his mouth or does something stupid. So what? So does half of the damn organization. He is just a person and a fighter. Shit happens. Ill watch the fight.
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Thousands of Oklahoma students are graduating in May; many this weekend. We asked some notable and interesting Oklahomans what they'd say to this year's graduates, or what they wish they would have heard at their graduations.
Beyond 'laugh often,' 'live much': Oklahomans offer graduates words of wisdom
If they knew then what they know now, here is what an assortment of Oklahomans would say to today's graduates — or wish they had heard at their own graduation.
We've compiled the advice into one extensive highlight reel of would-be graduation speeches.
First on our list are thoughts about college from a father-daughter team, Oklahoma country music superstar Toby Keith, who wanted his daughter to go to college, and his daughter, Krystal Keith, emerging music recording artist, who didn't want to go.
After that, individuals at many different stages of life offer their wisdom to recent graduates, whether from high school or college:
Toby Keith, 51, Oklahoma country music superstar: 'Be relentless'
"You just have to be really careful because some of these colleges are teaching such a political view in classes that have nothing to do with politics ... but I still think it's important. You just have to research it. Find your way. Have a game plan and carry it out.
"And be relentless. Don't let anybody outwork you. I told them the day I signed my record deal, 'There may be people out-sing or out-write me or sell more tickets than me or more records than me, but they'll never outwork me.' And they never did. There was no one that put in the time that we did. ...
"So be productive, have a plan and carry it out. And give back."
Krystal Keith, 27, emerging Oklahoma country music recording artist who just released her first EP, daughter of country superstar Toby Keith and University of Oklahoma graduate
"After high school, I was like 'Nashville, here I come.' And he (her country superstar dad, Toby Keith) was like, 'No, I said college.' I was like, 'No you didn't. You just said graduation,' and he's like 'college graduation.'
"I kind of thought that I would work my way out of having to go to college. I got to do 'Mockingbird' (a hit duet with her dad), and I had the fever. So I kind of didn't really take school seriously the first year or two, and he did not give in. I thought that he would eventually be like, 'OK, college isn't your thing; let's just go into music.' And he held his ground and just was really firm on it. Finally, I was just like, 'You know what, he's not giving in. I've gotta get this over with or I'll never have a music career.' And I literally did four years of school in 2½ years; I took every intercession, everything. ...
"He definitely knew what he was doing. I can't tell you how immensely important the experience of college was on my life, just finding out who you are and just getting life experience and being around other people. The whole experience matures you, so to have the life skills and life knowledge I have now, it helps me with my writing. It helps me with every aspect of my career. You know, I took business classes, so that helps me on the business side of it. If I would have gone into this industry at 18, there's no telling where I'd be right now. No telling. It really gives you the opportunity to become who you need to be to survive in this world.
"I fought it, and I'm actually thinking about getting my MBA now. So to go from somebody that really fought having to go to college at all to somebody that's considering an MBA just because I want it is a pretty big turnaround I would say."
Annina Collier, director of public relations, Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain: Resilience and relationships will define you more than successes
"It might not be the most uplifting or inspiring thing to say, but I think all young people need to hear this: You are going to fail. You can try your best to do everything 'right,' but you'll never be able to anticipate the powerful forces in the universe that can lay waste to your best-laid plans.
"Some of it will be your fault; some of it won't. You'll be measured not by your successes and failures, but by your resilience and adaptability.
"And most importantly, you'll be measured by your relationships. Call your mother. Hang out with your dad. If you are lucky enough to find a partner in life, feel grateful for that person every day. If you have children, spend as much time with them as you can, because one day you'll be sitting in the bleachers at their graduation, hoping they'll make time for you."
Annina Collier graduated from Norman High School in 1996 and gave a rather nostalgic commencement speech at her graduation ceremony. She earned a bachelor's degree in musical arts summa cum laude from the University of Oklahoma and a master's in music from Ithaca College in New York. She has performed at New York City's Merkin Concert Hall and the Juilliard School, and she appears on two CDs with Albany Records. Collier studied at the University of Limerick in Ireland and taught world music at the University of Oklahoma before becoming the director of public relations and outreach of the Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain in 2004.
Jane Jayroe Gamble, writer, former Miss America and television news anchor: 'Don't delay joy.'
"Advice for the fabulous graduates of 2013: Accept the great gift of education but also gather the gifts of wisdom through the heart of experience. Remember to be nice: You never know who could play an important role in your future. Plus, it's the right thing to do. Be grateful: in good times because they don't last forever and in bad times because that's what saves you.
"Bring your best: whether it's a job, lifestyle habits or volunteering. Best effort sets you apart, builds self respect and offers meaningful rewards. Try to avoid debt and don't marry it. The sooner you learn to manage money the more freedom and security you will enjoy.
"Don't wait to be happy — until the right job, a perfect spouse, a higher wage, a great weight, a new car, that first home — don't delay joy. God's party is within you — today."
John Griffin, attorney, Crowe & Dunlevy: You need more than an education to get a job
"I might offer something like this: 'Congratulations, you now have a B.A., a B.S., an M.B.A., a P.H.D., a J.D., or an M.D.; what you really need now is a J.O.B.! To get a job in this economy you need more than a good education; you need a pleasing personality, a willingness to work hard, and a commitment to put your employer's interests ahead of your own.
"'To be successful today, you will have to give more than you receive. Do not be afraid to take a job for which you are overqualified. You will excel in that job, and it will lead to rapid advancement. Be patient, you have the education, you have the personality, you have the willingness to work, you have the commitment, you will succeed!'"
Rilla Askew, author of "The Mercy Seat" and "Kind of Kin": Cherish where you came from
"I would encourage graduates to look deep, with clear eyes, at the place you come from — this land, this city, town, home, family — the forces that have already shaped you. At this exciting time, young people's eyes are naturally — and with good reason — on the future, the limitless horizon. It seems the world starts 'out there' somewhere. But cherishing, without either sentiment or cynicism, the place you come from gives a kind of grounding that will serve you the rest of your life."
Tripp Hall, vice president, Office of Development, University of Oklahoma: Bits of wisdom I have learned
"The following are lessons in life I have learned from others:
"'Go forth and travel while you're young. As you get older you may have the means, but not the time.' (Henry Zarrow)
"'If you have your health you are the wealthiest person alive.' (Zarrow)
"And here are the lessons I learned on my own:
"Never let your ego get in the way of good judgment.
"It is always easy for me to be nice to nice people.
"Your conduct, behavior and actions are constantly being judged. Will others rule in your favor?
"These are just a few thoughts I have learned from others and by experience."
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Of course no political party will touch this issues, that's because ALL political parties have been infiltrated by the Establishment. I'm a paid up member of UKIP who isn't naive to think otherwise. I would say that even my church (LDS) has been infiltrated at certain levels. The fact is that good UKIP members and citizens of Britain have a duty to promote the truth. So what if I've been banned from UKIP forum. I always knew that I would be banned at some point. Again, UKIP has been infiltrated. UKIP forum members are largely socialists and trouble makers. There are a few good people there, but they are slowly being driven away by outrageous censorship that goes on in that closed forum.


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Age Range: 5 to 11
Age Range: 5 to 11
Prediction is a very useful reading skill.
This activity can be used with any book, although ones which are split into chapters (which have "cliff-hanger" endings) may be more suitable. It can be organised a number of different ways:
- Most teachers read a book to the class, and this is an ideal opportunity for the children to predict. When you reach the end of a chapter (or an exciting part in the story), stop reading and discuss what might come next. Ask the children to justify their ideas (i.e. why do they think that? have they based their ideas on the story so far?). The children could write down their ideas, so that they can refer back to them later, if you wish. Continue reading, and discuss the children's predictions. Were they correct?
- Working in small groups, ask the children to read a story together. At the end of each chapter, they should discuss the story so far, and predict what they think will happen next (based on their reading so far). They should then read the next chapter, and look back at their predictions. Were they correct? Before reading on, they should refine their predictions in the light of what they have just read. Do they still think the same thing is going to happen? This process should be repeated at the end of each chapter, until the children reach the end of the book, when they can discuss the story itself, and their predicting skills.
- The above activity can also be carried out individually, with each child making short notes about what they think will happen next, and then reading on.
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Books to get Oregon's new AD on track
In a column in Sunday's Register-Guard, I suggest some books that will help Oregon's new AD, Rob Mullens, get a feel for his new place after working most recently at the University of Kentucky. A few touch on track and field ….
Ron Bellamy: AD should start here to get a read on Oregon
Appeared in print: Sunday, Jul 18, 2010
One of the former colleagues of Oregon's new director of athletics, Rob Mullens, described him as a "ferocious reader," particularly when it comes to books about successful companies.
Which conjures the image of pages being torn apart, but also led one reader to suggest that the first book that Mullens ought to read before he starts work at Oregon later this summer is Kenny Moore's "Bowerman, and the Men of Oregon."
An excellent choice, on several levels.
Because Mullens comes to Oregon from a place noted for men's basketball and from a league best known for college football. He's also an accountant, and it won't take but a quick glance at the balance sheet to see that Oregon track and field loses more money than it makes as measured in expenses and gate receipts.
But there's more to it than that. Track and field is a part of the University of Oregon's culture and part of Eugene's identity and history, and Moore's book captures that wonderfully.
And track and field was the sport that brought Phil Knight to Oregon, and the relationship between Knight and his coach, Bill Bowerman, led to the company that is Nike.
The sport and Hayward Field are special to Knight, and his financial support is vital to Oregon athletics. Which is just one reason that, at Oregon, track and field transcends the accounts ledger. To begin understanding his new place, and this new culture of sports and community, there's perhaps no better place for Mullens to start than the book by Kenny Moore, the gifted writer who ran for the Ducks.
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Happy Birthday to Dionne Warwick, who celebrates her 73rd birthday today (December 12th). Warwick recently received a Grammy nom in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category for her Now collection. USA Today reported this week that Warwick will release a new duets album, called Feels So Good in May. Among the special guests singing on the set are Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, Ne-Yo, Cee Lo Green, and Ziggy Marley. Feels So Good will feature "new songs and covers of classic hits."
In 2011 Warwick wrote her autobiography called, My Life As I See It, which was co-written by David Freedman Wooley and published by Simon & Schuster. Warwick's maternal aunt is legendary gospel singer Cissy Houston — the mother of the late Whitney Houston.
Warwick will always be best known for her classic 1960's hits written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, including "Don't Make Me Over," "Anyone Who Had a Heart," "Walk On By", "Alfie," "I Say A Little Prayer," "(Theme From) The Valley Of The Dolls," "Do You Know The Way To San Jose," "I'll Never Fall In Love Again," and many others.


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Everybody Wants a Thrill
Lots of people have asked me what I thought of The Sopranos finale last night. Many of those people are angry. Like them, I had been expecting something different from the show and so I went to bed not certain how I felt about it. When I woke up this morning (no A3 reference intended) I realized the profound statement Sopranos creator David Chase had just made about storytelling and I was sure that I loved it.
In fiction characters live their lives episodically. We drop in at a particular point and drop out at a particular point and everything that happens in between ties up nicely along the way. Presumably the characters get up the day after the story ends with blank slates. No worries, no debts, no obligations until the next episode starts. It's a manipulation done to satisfy us. Real life, we all know, is a lot messier and a lot weirder.
In the final scene Chase pulls out every manipulative trick in the filmmaker's bag. The two strangers in the restaurant are doing nothing suspicious and there is no reason to think they have designs on Tony except that Chase keeps cutting back to them. Outside Meadow is having trouble parking. Perhaps this happens every time she tries to parallel park but Chase keeps returning to it and suddenly it's ominous. One of the strangers gets up and walks into the bathroom. Anyone who has seen The Godfather knows there's always a gun hidden in the restaurant toilet and we just saw Phil Leotardo killed in front of his wife and grandchildren. The automatic symmetry creator in our heads is already storyboarding the next cut. It's a brilliant scene.
Much has been made about the fact that Journey's Don't Stop Believin' is playing in the restaurant at the time. Some think it's ironic and we're supposed to assume the worst after the screen goes black. Others try to sap meaning from the song's title. But it's obvious why Chase chose it:
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on
There is no place to end this story. Endings are arbitrary and artificial. It doesn't matter if Tony is about to be whacked in front of Carm and the kids, or if they will just finish a quiet meal and go home. Either way it's not an end to the story, it's middle. The Sopranos was all middle, riddled since the series premiere with red herrings and slow parts and unresolved storylines. Our lives are all middle, too. We never get many answers, and the real story just goes on and on and on and on.
It goes on this month in a federal courtroom where "the last big Outfit trial in Chicago history" begins. Among the 14 defendants will be reputed former boss Joey "The Clown" Lombardo (not to be confused with fictional New York boss Phil Leotardo). Lombardo is alleged to be a brutal gangster who ordered the killings of even close friends including the father of his own godson. A famous cut-up, Lombardo is employing a bizarre defense, claiming that he was never really a part of the mob and even if he was he voluntarily left that life a long time ago. To bolster that claim, Lombardo's attorneys will show the jury a full page newspaper ad that Lombardo took out in the early nineties daring anyone who saw him associating with mobsters to call his parole officer. Um, yeah, no one took him up on that.
One of the main witnesses for the prosecution is former Outfit hit man Frank Cullotta. Cullotta's been a federal informant for over two decades and unlike Lombardo he flaunts his long ago connections. In one of the most bizarre turns in mob (or mob movie) history, Cullotta actually played himself in Martin Scorcese's film Casino, graphically reenacting his 1979 murder of barber union head Jerry Lisner. (Cullotta was also the inspiration for another character in Casino, Frank Marino. Marino was played by Frank Vincent, who by the way played Phil Leotardo on The Sopranos.)
During a Saturday break from the Printers Row Book Fair we were sitting at Kasey's Tavern on Dearborn, just blocks from the skyscraping correctional facility where Lombardo is awaiting trial, and I told Cullotta's story to CJ Box. He shook his head and said, "If you tried to put that in a novel you'd never get away with it."
And David Chase knows it.
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Kevin, you remind me of my life back in the Insurance Mills, where one of my co-workers, who was studying theater in night school (she wanted to direct, not act) kept saying we couldn't film our office interactions because everyone would say we were over-acting. Now everyone over-acts, it's part of reality (so-called) TV, but the hysterias, jealousies, and verbal whacking that went on among the most senior levels of management were every bit as dramatic and dreary as Outfit whacking, and everyone's lives were just as messy. As Katherine Anne Porter says at the end of the Garden Party (I think) "Isn't life just--?" and it is, of course.
- JD Rhoades said...
In the final scene Chase pulls out every manipulative trick in the filmmaker's bag.
I agree. And that's what pissed me off. There was a certain feeling of contempt to it. "Hah! You want to see Tony whacked? Well we're going to build up to it, then pull the plug! PSYCH!"
It was like Lucy holding the football, and the audience was Charlie Brown.
- Kevin Guilfoile said...
Sara-It's so true that writing fiction is, first of all, and act of restraint, isn't it? The fictional world, oddly enough, is far more limited than the real one.
JD-I think a lot of people reacted the way you did, but I didn't interpret it the same way. I don't think he was mocking the audience, I think he was mocking the kinds of obvious manipulations that filmmakers overuse. They were so blatant and one on top of another that I don't think it possible that he could have been doing it unironically. As someone who's spent a lot of time in the editing suite, I appreciated the smile. I don't know either way, of course. That was just my sense of it.
Going to sudden black the way he did (and keeping it there for so long) was pretty clearly a joke on the audience, though. I think he wanted people to think, for a moment, that their cable went out. I thought it was funny. Not everyone did.
- Libby Hellmann said...
Thought-provoking post, Kevin... not just the Soprano finale (Which I thought was authentic in terms of story, but contrived in terms of technique)...
I'm interested in how the Lombardo trial will be perceived. Are we going to view it as this summer's entertainment.. a replacement for the Sopranos... are we going to embrace The Clown, laugh at his antics... (they're sure to be some).. and rue the "final" chapter of the Old Establishment Outfit? The "Hey, ya shudda seen the good ol' days when they whacked people after a plate of spaghetti Bolognese"?
I hope not. Trivializing the crimes and evils that were committed would be a travesty.
- Kevin Guilfoile said...
Libby, I think it's already starting. The Sun-Times ran a story yesterday specualting about the new boss of the Chicago mob and the best they could come up with is Al Tornabene, an 84-year-old former owner of a suburban pizza joint. I have no idea if that's a fair characterization of either the Outfit or Tornabene, but the tone of it was certainly "The Witch is Dead now let's have some fun."
I think in general the local media thinks the entertainment value of this trial could be high.
- Kevin Guilfoile said...
Sorry, meant to include a link to the Pizza Man story.
- The Home Office said...
Kevin, I read the Sun-Times article. Seems to be a condition of modern mainstream media to reduce everything to its least intelligentdenominator: elections are sporting events, criminal trials are theater. They are, in their way, but to base too much of the coverage on such simplifying metaphors trivializes the election/trial/newsworthy event of your choice.
Your perspective on The Sopranos is worth a whole 'nuther comment that could morph into a blog entry of its own.
I disagree with your thoughts on the Sopranos ending.
We agree that real life is filled with unresolved conflicts and meandering secondary plots that often add up to nothing. It's a huge, beautiful mess.
Fiction, on the other hand, only mirrors real life. It skips the boring parts. (Can you imagine an author describing every second of his hero's eight hours of shut-eye a night?)
Readers assume that surviving characters "live" beyond the plot to fight another day, but to leave an open ending under the guise of "it's all just middle" was a cop-out by David Chase.
It was even more of a cop-out that the scene was shot and cut to lead the viewer to believe something was going to happen.
I would have been happy if, before the abrupt fade to black, there was a single reaction shot from any member of the family indicating that something terrible was about to happen to Tony. I would have been happy if the scene was cut to show Tony wracked with paranoia.
The Sopranos was a messy, uneven series. A lot of brilliance, but also a lot of bush-league storytelling. (Tony's sudden gambling problem, anyone?)
It would have been one thing had Chase left the show on the bad note. It was downright criminal that he left the show with no note at all.
- Kevin Guilfoile said...
Fair enough, Matt. I don't agree but I think it's a strength of that episode, not a weakness, that we can react so differently to it.
In Cast of Shadows I made a decision not to resolve one major storyline and a lot of people were upset with me for it. But I did it because if you had this particular piece of information, it would tell you how to feel about everything else that happened in the book. If you had the voice of God whisper in your ear it would be telling you that the characters had either made good decisions or bad ones. And I wanted the reader to be able to judge that for themselves without knowing much more than the characters themselves did.
I think it's possible that Chase chose not to give The Sopranos an "ending" for similar reasons. Because if he had ended with Tony getting whacked or going to prison or turning informant or whatever, the show would have become about only that.
Or maybe not.
Daniel Radosh, as usual, has some smart things to say on the subject. I don't know if I agree with him that Tony is dead, but it's good stuff, especially his analysis of "the rules" of screenwriting coach Robert McKee, who is probably as responsible as any individual for the sadly formulaic screenwriting in Hollywood over the last twenty years. Daniel argues pretty convincingly that many people aren't reacting to the end of the show but to their own conditioning of how a show is supposed to end.
He also links to a page of final episode trivia, myths, and speculation that is definitely worth reading.
There is some discussion of the continuity trick at the start of that restaurant scene (Tony walks in the door and apparently sees himself already sitting in a booth, perhaps even wearing a slightly different shirt.) It's clearly deliberate and I'll admit I don't have a theory for what the heck that means yet.
We'll probably have to agree to disagree, but you make some interesting points. I am looking forward to reading "Cast of Shadows." (And, yes, it's in hardcover; I am all about supporting a fellow Chicagoan.) It's actually the next book on my stack. Just have to finish the Alexander Hamilton biography.
Incidentally, I remember reading the article about you in the Chicago Trib Magazine. I remember laughing when your wife was quoted as saying that you had approximately the length of the human gestation period to complete your book, because after that it was all about the kid.
Exactly what my wife told me as I was pecking away at my first book. But in my case, I sweated it out only to be told that maybe we should wait until we take one last big vacation to Europe this October. I didn't mind; there's nothing like working under the gun. Of course, I am presently trying to ward off the crisis of confidence that comes from shaping, cutting and rewriting my blob of a rough draft. I went through considerable pangs of doubt getting the first hundred pages of rough draft on paper. I figure it might be the same with the rewrite. Fingers firmly crossed. In any case, I bring this up because I saved the article, and read a little whenever I feel the book is going nowhere. So, thanks.
- Kevin Guilfoile said...
Thanks so much, Matt. Keep it going, man, and good luck. Every first novel is written in a state of total despair. (That probably goes for most second novels, too. And third and fourth and fifth novels and so on.) Try this: When you're feeling good, read a writer you think is brilliant. When you're feeling bad, read a writer you think is a hack. But don't ever do the opposite. One will make you even more despondent and the other is just mean.
And remember there's no reason it can't happen to you. It's not necessarily easy, and it takes luck. But it will be somebody's turn next and it might as well be yours as anybody's.


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Val and Chloe are best friends extraordinaire. After spending much time with Chloe, Val finds that other people pale in comparison. And it is different with Chloe. Val does not touch her other friends much, but Val and Chloe and are always joking and touching each other. They alternately refer to each other as kid or dollface. The girls practically live at each other's houses, and one day they fall asleep together.
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Congratulations to the following reunion classes, alumni and friends who were recognized during Homecoming Weekend 2008:Plumley Reunion Cup To the class with largest percentage of alumni registered: Class of 1958 (45 percent of the alumni attended Homecoming) Class Agent: Conrad RowellNorwich University Reunion Cup To the class with the largest number registered to attend: Class of 1958 (60 classmates in attendance)Shinquin Distance Cup To the alumnus/alumna who traveled the greatest distance to attend: William Shay '83, of Singapore
Distinguished Alumnus Gary J. Confessore '63 Barry R. Meinerth '68 Alumni Director's Award Richard T. Mullen '58 Donald C. Fawcett, Jr. '63 Philip L. Soucy '73 Sustained Service Award Kenneth Richardson '53 H. Edward Whitney '58 James D. Bannister '68 Jane Donahue-Holt '83 New Leader Achievement Award Mark B. Dahm '83 Honorary Alumnus Award Barry W. Mynter Board of Fellows Service Medallion Recipients Carlo D'Este Paula A. Gills H'05 Prof James R. Bennett H'05 Admissions Ambassador of the Year Roger C. Franklin '60 Admissions Sustained Service Award Wallace K. Williams '58 Confessore Leadership Trophy C/MAJ Christopher Pauze '09
The weekend was particularly satisfying for Conrad Rowell, who for 50 years has served as Class Agent for the Class of 1958. In addition to joining the Old Guard at Friday afternoon's Corps of Cadets retreat parade, the members of the Class of 1958 provided nearly half of this year's reunion giving.
"Homecoming is important really because of my classmates. We are really close," Rowell said.
Dr. Tony Caprio '60, echoed those sentiments. Caprio, who has attended every Homecoming since his graduation except for his tour in Vietnam and his time in medical school, said the friendships born during his time at Norwich are what bring him back year after year.
"The Norwich of 1960 is gone, but my classmates are forever," Caprio reflected. "Norwich is always evolving. It has to."
Saturday featured most of the weekend's major events, including the Alumni Parade. NU 1934 Classmates Maurice Smith and Dan Fleetham, Sr., led the parade.
"I've got my knees all warmed up," said Fleetham moments before he marched across Sabine Field. The 96-year-old said he has attended nearly every Homecoming since his Navy service during World War II.
Reunion giving this year totaled more than $2.8 million, with $1.3 million of that coming from the Class of 1958.
The Partridge Society Luncheon highlighted the impact of the Norwich Forever! campaign on the University's academic programs. President Richard W. Schneider noted that although Norwich launched the campaign with a goal of raising $6.5 million for academics, the University had already received more than $10 million in gifts and pledges for that portion of the campaign.
Two professors and two students spoke about the value of undergraduate research, which has been given a big boost through the Norwich Forever! campaign. Rick Dunn, Chair of the Department of Geology and Environmental Science, provided an overview of archaeological research that he and junior Greg Miller carried out in Greece this past summer. Alison Fischer, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, spoke about research she and several of her students have conducted on the genetic factors that cause plants to flower in response to the seasons.
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Senior Biology major Quinn Conklin spoke about how her work with Fisher allowed her to apply what she had learned in the classroom.
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Norwich Forever! campaign Chairman Pierson Mapes '59, concluded the luncheon by announcing that, with the close of the campaign still a year away, donations had already exceeded $71.5 million, adding, "And a consultant told us that we would be lucky to reach $50 million."
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