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Amid all the political and media hoopla about the "fiscal cliff" crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting.
First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on "the rich," even if that is done it will scarcely make a dent in the government's financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the top two percent will not get enough additional tax revenue to run the government for ten days.
And what will the government do to pay for the other 355 days in the year?
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting "the rich" to pay "their fair share" is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. Taxing "the rich" will produce a drop in the bucket when compared to the staggering and unprecedented deficits of the Obama administration.
No previous administration in the entire history of the nation ever finished the year with a trillion dollar deficit. The Obama administration has done so every single year. Yet political and media discussions of the financial crisis have been focused overwhelmingly on how to get more tax revenue to pay for past and future spending.
The very catchwords and phrases used by the Obama administration betray how phony this all is. For example, "We are just asking the rich to pay a little more."
This is an insult to our intelligence. The government doesn't "ask" anybody to pay anything. It orders you to pay the taxes they impose and you can go to prison if you don't.
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The Art of Connecting with Your Customers Through Stories.
From the earliest days of telling tales around the campfire to cave paintings and beyond, telling stories has been how humans communicate.
We tell stories to teach values to our children. We tell stories to celebrate acts of heroism. We tell cautionary tales to pass on lessons we learned the hard way. Our stories are part of who we are and when we share them with another person we are sharing our hearts and inviting them to do the same.
I'm not talking about jokes here. The old stereotype of salesmen always having a story to tell or a new joke to entertain their customers is based on seeing selling as being a good talker with a storehouse of knee-slappers, going from site to site hoping to entertain and amuse their customers as the basis for softening them up to do business. While everyone enjoys a good laugh, telling jokes carries with it a huge risk of offending the very person you wanted to please. Jokes that make fun of someone else or reduce the butt of the joke to a stereotype perpetuate prejudice and discrimination.
If you look at humor in different parts of the country, the same jokes that are told about Olie and Lena in Minnesota to make fun of Norwegians are told about Pat and Mike in Chicago to put down the Irish and about Abie and Moshe on the East coast to put down Jews. The jokes told about Polish people are the same jokes told about blondes. The jokes about lawyers are the same jokes told about politicians and, more viciously, about any race or ethnic group considered unworthy of respect.
So jokes are notthe way we connect, but often the way we try to show superiority to another group or person. They often alienate others and make them uncomfortable and wondering what we say about them when they aren't in front of us.
Story-telling is a whole different communication skill. A story is based on our own experience and often pokes gentle fun at ourselves.
A story tells how we learned a valuable lesson or how we finally stopped making a mistake. It is self-deprecating and appeals to the listener because it is one flawed but sincere person sharing their own journey with another. It connects us, often eliciting a similar story from the listener. It makes a human connection based on shared experiences.
Story-telling is the art of Mark Twain who tackled tough questions in front of his audiences but did it with a willingness to make fun of his own limitations as well. He is reputed to have said that quitting smoking was easy, and that he himself had done it hundreds of times.
It is the art of Abraham Lincoln who told Colonel Silas W. Burt, "I have the popular reputation of being a story-teller, but I do not deserve the name in its general sense, for it is not the story itself, but its purpose or effect that interests me. I often avoid a long and useless discussion by others, or a laborious explanation on my own part, by a short story that illustrates my point of view. So too, the sharpness of a refusal or the edge of a rebuke may be blunted by an appropriate story so as to save wounding feelings and yet serve the purpose… story-telling as an emollient saves me much friction and distress."
What are your stories? When you want to establish a human connection with a customer, what is it you share?
Maybe it's the story of how you got started in sales in spite of the negative stereotypes surrounding the job and learned from a customer how to be yourself instead of following some standard sales advice. Or maybe it's how you were told to make one hundred cold calls and dutifully worked your way down the list, taking the hang-ups with grace, until someone surprised you by saying, "I'm interested. Tell me more," and at that point you froze and said, "Um, can I call you back?"
Whatever the story, the essence is you're human, you make mistakes, and you learned a lesson the way most of us do—the hard way. That kind of sharing invites the customer to be human, too, and to share something of themselves. And that's really what we're here for, isn't it?If you're interested in story-telling, you might enjoy Mike Bosworth and Ben Zoldan's book, "What Great Sales People Do."
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There will be a new teacher, but a familiar face, when classes begin at U of M - Flint this fall.
There will be a new teacher, but a familiar face, when classes begin at U of M - Flint this fall.
An event being held this weekend over at University of Michigan - Flint will hope to bring awareness to those that have gone missing.
Students at U of M Flint are hoping to help Mid-Michigan girls who are unable to afford gowns and accessories for prom.
Going to college costs a fortune. If you compare how much college graduates make vs. what high school grads make over a lifetime, the high cost is worth the investment. If you're willing to do some homework and legwork, you can get a lot of that paid for by other people. Sunday, February 12th, the University of Michigan-Flint will host College Goal Sunday with volunteer assistance in properly filling out the FAFSA forms (Free Application for Federal Student Aid).
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Vital statistics: White female. Born on July 5, 1997. Brown hair, brown eyes. Her nickname is "Alex." She has unaddressed physical and mental health issues; she had brain surgery in early 2007 and may be in need of medical attention. Was nine at the time.
Circumstances: She was abducted by her non-custodial mother, Angelica Pina. She was born on July 7, 1957; she was forty-nine at the time. No photos or other vital statistics for her are available. Her father was given custody of her after her mother failed to appear for several custody hearings about her denial of visitation to him. They are believed to be in Mexico. They may be in the company of her two adult half-sisters, Andrea and Nicole.
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The 11th annual Five Points Jazz Festival has come and gone on Saturday and it was a great day of incredible jazz music. Here are a few of my photos from a great day of music.
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Five Points Jazz Festival 2014
Latin Life Denver
Denver Five Points Jazz Festival
This year's Five Points Jazz Festival will take place on Saturday, May 17, 2014 from 11am until 8pm. The yearly festival is a celebration of the Five Points neighborhood culture and music, and it provides an opportunity to honor individuals who have made lasting contributions to jazz music. This year the festival will have seven stages and over 20 bands will be performing, including main stage headliners the Nelson Rangell Quartet and the Brad Leali Orchestra.
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Youth Jazz Band Ready for Festival
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High school musicians in Denver's Five Points Heritage Band admire their jazz heroes, from Duke Ellington to Miles Davis, but they also hope to make their own jazz history... The Five Points Heritage Band, Denver's citywide honor jazz band, is comprised of auditioned players from Denver high schools. The band receives a $3,500 stipend each year from the Denver Arts and Venues Arts & Education Fund and performs on the Youth Stage at the Five Points Jazz Festival. Other bands performing on the Youth Stage are the Denver School of the Arts Jazz Sextet and the Claim Jumpers from the University of Colorado at Denver.
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Better Block Five Points
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Better Block Five Points demonstration on May 11th was a huge success!
Estimated 1,200 people visited Sonny Lawson Park during the event.
Huge thank you to 150 volunteers and 30 community partners who helped us build the Better Block.
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Five Points Jazz Fest 2013
Story and photos by Joe Contreras & Alex Johns, Latin Life Denver Media
Thousands of jazz enthusiasts turned out for a day of sun and fun in the wonderful ambiance of jazz music coming from 10 stages performed by 25 bands along Welton Street in East Denver's Five Points neighborhood.
It was the 10th annual Five Points Jazz Festival that featured not only music but a variety of exhibits, vendors and activities in the daylong celebration of the music, people and culture that define the history of jazz in the United States and in Denver, Colorado.
In his proclamation for the festival U.S. Senator Mark Udall stated that "Once characterized as the "Harlem of the West", Five points was a jazz mecca for legends such as Billie Holliday, Duke Ellington and Count Basie to name a few. Colorado can take pride in the significant role Five Points played during the jazz era of our nation".
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Photos: Five Points Jazz Festival in Denver
Denver Post
Photos from the Five Points Jazz Festival, a free community event highlighting local musicians and art, held in the historic Denver Five Points neighborhood on Saturday, May 18, 2013.
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Scenes From the Five Points Jazz Festival
Photos by Danielle Lirette, Westword Slideshows
The Five Points Jazz Festival took place along Welton Street Saturday, May 18, 2013. Jazz fans of all ages enjoyed live performances by local musicians, art, and street food.
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Five Points Jazz Festival Workshop
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My good friend Ido Ziv called me up Friday night asking what my plans were for Saturday. I hadn't seen him in a while and he mentioned Greg Harris (Gili (yes, that is the instrument made of squash)), John Grigsby (bass) and himself (percussion) were putting on a music workshop at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library on Welton for the Five Points Jazz Festival. I thought not only would it be a good chance to catch up with Ido, but also a great opportunity to snap off some images.
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Denver Five Points Jazz Festival
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The 10th annual Five Points Jazz Festival was a blast! "Once characterized as the "Harlem of the West" Five Points was a jazz mecca for legends such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Count Basie to name a few." This year's festival featured Denver's own Hazel Miller and a raft of the finest Jazz music, historical exhibits, lectures and much, much fun!
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The Five Points Jazz Festival brings the beats to Denver's historic neigborhood
Five don't-misses for this year's Five Points Jazz celebration
By Ricardo Baca, Denver Post Pop Music Critic
If you're talkin' jazz in Colorado, you're clearly talkin' Five Points.
Be it local jazz history, touring artists visiting Colorado in the '60s and '70s or jazz's vibrant now, Denver's historic Five Points neighborhood is an essential character in the region's jazzy story.
The most colorful example of that tome is the annual Five Points Jazz Festival, which plays the neighborhood on Saturday (with a head start Friday at the McNichols Building). The event has long been a signal of summer's start, and here are our five don't-misses for this year's Five Points celebration.
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"Nothing but the truth" for Denver's own Bluesman Willie Houston
86-year-old shares bill with youth at Five Points Jazz Festival May 18
By Laurie Dunklee, Stapleton Front Porch
The blues are true; it must be true for me to write about it," says Delta blues musician Willie Houston, one of the last authentic Delta players and a Denver resident since the 1940s.
Houston will bring his dapper style and Southern wit to the 10th annual Five Points Jazz Festival on May 18, 11am to 8pm at 27th and Welton streets. The free event will feature 20 bands on six stages.
"The festival is new each year, with different bands and other entertainment for all ages," said Niecie Washington, special event coordinator for the city of Denver, which sponsors the festival. She expects 17,500 people to attend this year.
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Denver's Hazel Miller headlines the Five Points Jazz Festival in May
By Bret Saunders, Special to The Denver Post
I've arrived at the conclusion that Hazel Miller can sing any song she wants, convincingly. Miller has been a fixture on the Denver music scene for more than three decades, and her strong vocal presence is omnipresent in the city.
Miller and her band frequently play shows at just about every notable area destination, from Herman's Hideaway (they'll be there on June 7) to Red Rocks (appearing the following night, with longtime collaborators Big Head Todd And The Monsters). You can usually expect raucous soul and funk from Miller, but when she decides to go down that path, her jazz chops are spot on.
Miller's charisma as a performer and stylistic diversity make her a model choice to close out the day-long Five Points Jazz Festival on May 18.
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10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (all free!), May 17-19
By Robin Edwards, Westword
You won't need to crack open that piggy bank to go out this weekend, because every event on our 10 for $10 list is absolutely free. Whether you choose to peruse mandala drawings at an art show, gaze at vintage Volkswagons at a car fest, or take in Denver's jazz history, you won't have to frantically check your bank balance on Monday. Share information about other bargain events in our comments section below, and head to the Westword events calendar for a complete listing of goings-on around town.
Five Points Jazz Festival in Five Points (Saturday, free)
Celebrate Denver's rich jazz history at this free festival. With lectures, a car show and dozens of great musical performances, you can spend the day celebrating the legacy of Five Points that continues today.
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Five Points Jazz on Film presents The Girls in the Band, a look at unheralded musicians
By Bree Davies, Westword
The annual Five Points Jazz Festival is Saturday, May 18, and to kick it off, the city is offering a special screening of the 2011 documentary The Girls In the Band at the McNichols Building tomorrow night. The film traces the history of female jazz musicians who were marginalized and often hidden from the spotlight, starting in the 1930s and continuing to the present day; it includes rare footage of the players, and many sharing their own stories of struggle and triumph on camera.
"We thought it was an important film to show because it is a story that no one really knows," says Niecie Washington, special event coordinator for Denver Arts & Venues, which puts on the Five Points Jazz Festival.
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The growing diabetes epidemic is not limited to people—diabetes mellitus is increasing among dogs as well. Researchers estimate that one in 200 dogs will develop the disease. Fortunately, treatment has made huge strides in recent years, and as a result, dogs with diabetes are living longer, healthier lives.
The mechanism of diabetes is relatively simple to describe. Just as cars use gas for fuel, body cells run on a sugar called glucose. The body obtains glucose by breaking down carbohydrates in the diet. Cells then extract glucose from the blood with the help of insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas in specialized cells called beta cells. (The pancreas, an organ situated behind the stomach, produces several hormones.) In diabetes mellitus, cells don't take in enough glucose, which then builds up in the blood. As a result, cells starve and organs bathed in sugary blood are damaged. Diabetes is not curable, but it is treatable; a dog with diabetes may live many happy years after diagnosis.
Kinds of Diabetes
Humans are subject to essentially three kinds of diabetes. By far the most common is Type 2, followed by Type 1 and gestational diabetes. Type 2 diabetes has typically been a disease of middle and old age (though it is being seen increasingly in young people), and has two causes: The beta cells don't make enough insulin, or muscle cells resist insulin's help and don't take in enough glucose (or both). As a result, blood glucose levels climb. Type 1 diabetes usually occurs when the immune system attacks and destroys the beta cells, cutting off insulin production; the reason for this attack is thought to be a combination of genetic predisposition plus exposure to a trigger (research into possible triggers is ongoing). Glucose then stays in the blood and, again, levels skyrocket. Roughly half of people who have Type 1 diabetes develop it by age 20. Gestational diabetes starts during pregnancy and is probably caused by hormonal changes.
You may have heard that dogs generally get Type 1 diabetes, but the reality is more complicated. Though there are no universally accepted definitions of dog diabetes, the United Kingdom's Royal Veterinary College identifies two forms: insulin-deficiency diabetes (IDD) and insulin-resistance diabetes (IRD). Neither matches any kind of human diabetes exactly.
In IDD, a dog loses beta cells and no longer makes enough insulin to keep glucose levels under control. Causes include genetic defects, inflammation of the pancreas and immune attack (as in human Type 1 diabetes). In IRD, something prevents the dog's insulin from functioning properly. That "something" may be "diestrus," pregnancy, an endocrine disease, or treatment with steroids or progesterone-like hormones. Diestrus, the most common cause of IRD, is the approximately two months of high levels of progesterone (a female hormone) between periods of estrus (heat). Hormonally, diestrus resembles pregnancy, making this form of IRD similar to human gestational diabetes.
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Several factors raise a dog's risk of developing diabetes. These include breed, age, gender, weight, diet, virus infections, an inflamed pancreas, chronic inflammation of the small bowel, Cushing's disease (excess production of the hormone cortisol) and long-term use of progesterone-like drugs or steroid drugs.
•Breed. A study published in the Veterinary Journal in 2003 examined diabetes rates in thousands of American dogs and found that overall, mixed-breed dogs were more prone to diabetes than purebreds. Among purebreds, breeds varied greatly in their susceptibility.
•Age. Dogs most often develop diabetes during middle or old age.
•Gender. Female dogs and neutered male dogs are more likely than intact males to get diabetes.
•Weight. Obesity can make cells resistant to insulin, but it's unclear whether it actually causes diabetes in dogs.
•Diet. A diet high in fat may contribute to pancreatitis (inflamed pancreas), a risk factor for diabetes.
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Diabetes can be a silent disease. Your veterinarian may discover your dog's diabetes through routine bloodwork, but before that, you are likely to notice some of its symptoms: greater than normal hunger and/or thirst, weight loss, and frequent or copious urination (some dogs start having accidents in the house).
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Ira Wood is an author, a teacher, a former publisher, and the host of a weekly interview program called The Lowdown on WOMR-FM, a Pacifica Radio Network affiliate station with studios in Provincetown, Massachusetts and broadcasting the length of Cape Cod.
You're Married to HER? a collection of linked, autobiographical essays was released in 2012. His three novels are The Kitchen Man, Going Public, and Storm Tide, co-authored by Marge Piercy, with whom he has also written So You Want to Write, an award-winning book about the craft of writing fiction and memoirs which is based on their popular course. His short pieces have been published in 'Ploughshares,' 'Tikkun,' 'Fifth Wednesday,' 'The St. Petersburg Review,' and the 'Utne Reader' among many small magazines. In 1996 he and Marge Piercy established the Leapfrog Press, an internationally distributed 'boutique' publishing company, which the Boston Globe called "the pulse of what's hot in the publishing world." Although they sold it in 2007 it has continued their mission of publishing cutting edge literature and has more than tripled in size.
Ira is known for his work with writing students to overcome the inner censor. His darkly funny and wildly confessional lectures include everything from the peculiarities of the publishing industry to obsessional gardening to attempting to use the Tao Te Ching as a guide to governing a small New England town. (And yes, he tried.) For over a decade he has taught regularly at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies.
While an editor at Leapfrog he specialized in the resurrection of near misses: books that had come close to being published by mainstream New York publishers but lacked certain elements, sometimes just big numbers for the author's previous books, but that notwithstanding, a compelling beginning, a tighter plot, a selling title, or simply a great marketing campaign—as well as the patience to keep a book in print until it found its audience. With a hand in the marketing of every one of Leapfrog's books, his small press titles received national media attention, some becoming regional best sellers, BookSense and best-of-the-year picks.
Originally from the New York City area, he has lived for over thirty years in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, a small fishing village celebrated for its oysters, its art galleries, and the colony of well known writers, architects, painters and intellectuals who have embraced life in a rugged outpost near the tip of Cape Cod. Indulging in a passion for public affairs, he has spent much of that time in town government, serving four terms as a selectman—one of a board of five women and men elected the principal administrative officers of the town.
Zazen meditation is an important practice for him as is organic gardening, in which he indulges with far too much passion resulting in way too many tomatoes, and disposes of in 'grants' to friends. (He and Piercy are known locally as The MacArthur Foundation of Vegetables.) In 2010 he began hosting a series of bi-monthly political debates on public radio which morphed into a weekly radio show. Interviewing authors, politicians, activists, and newsmakers, enables him to indulge a lifelong compulsion to pester people with questions. His guests have included the famous, the infamous, and the vapid. His motto: There are no boring guests or subjects, just bad interviewers. His 5-minute essays, which he calls 'Rooneys' in homage to the American radio and television writer Andy Rooney, air most Fridays at the end of the station's weekly news magazine.
Ira's writing tends to reflect his life experience. His first novel, The Kitchen Man, details the secret life of a gourmet waiter. His second, Going Public, is set in the early years of the burgeoning dot com industry, while Storm Tide considers politics in a New England town. You're Married to HER? is a collection of essays about sex, drugs, teaching, politics, publishing, and everything he did instead of writing.
Since 1982 he has been married to the poet/novelist Marge Piercy. They live on four hilly acres of land surrounded by pine and oak forest, midway between the Atlantic Ocean and Cape Cod Bay. They share their space with five cats (again, way too many).


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Collecting Regions
- David Stouck (Editor) and Myler Wilkinson (Editor)
Genius of Place: Writing About British Columbia. Polestar Book Publishers (purchase at Amazon.ca)
- Lothar Honnighausen (Editor)
Regional Images and Regional Realities. Stauffenburg Verlag (purchase at Amazon.ca)
- George Melnyk (Author)
The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two. University of Alberta Press (purchase at Amazon.ca)
Reviewed by Alison Calder
In 1998 David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson edited West by Northwest, an anthology of short fiction from British Columbia. Genius of Place shows how the same ground has been covered by non-fiction writers. The anthology collects 29 essays, articles, and memoirs that focus on British Columbia from a variety of cultural perspectives. Almost all have been previously published, but many are located in hard-to-ftnd sources; this collection is thus a useful resource to readers seeking historical writings about British Columbia.
Stouck and Wilkinson have wisely decided not to try to force the selections in their anthology into a narrow definition of British Columbian identity. The pieces show that British Columbia can be many different spaces at once, existing as a space of adventure and possibility, as in the exploration and mountaineering selections featured, but also as a space of imprisonment and oppression, most clearly seen in accounts of Japanese internment camps and the tightly regulated population of Chinatown. The province also emerges as a radically different space throughout time, as the explorer texts contrast with more recent accounts of pleasure sailing up the coast. The focus on articulating the land leads to a collection weighted towards environmental and nature writing; we see correspondingly few selections that treat urban British Columbia. Standout pieces in the collection are Terry Glavin on the oolichan, Muriel Kitigawa on Japanese internment camps, Helen Meilleur on Ft. Simpson, Milton and Cheadle on the incredible hardships faced by travellers in the interior, and Muriel Wylie Blanchet on dreamy sailing summers.
The Literary History of Alberta Volume One ended at the close of the second World War. Volume Two, also by George Melnyk, picks up where the first volume left off. Chapters cover the novel, short fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction and scholarship, popular fiction, and children's literature up until about 1997. Melnyk also discusses the frequently overlooked category of writers who publish in languages other than English. His chapter on Alberta book culture (publishers, literary institutions, and writers' organizations) emphasizes the importance of these networks and outlets to the Alberta literary community. Melnyk has chosen to organize the book by genre; within each genre, each author is discussed in the order of the year of his or her first publication. (Writers of the 1990s are put together in their own chapter). This organization provides the reader with a sense of the connections within each genre. Unfortunately, this layout also makes it difficult to track the development of authors who work in more than one genre and leads to some repetition.
Melnyk seeks to create an understanding of authors who have "contributed to a sense of Alberta identity." He stresses that his role is that of literary historian, not literary critic. The book provides a good catalogue of writers, including brief biographies, a description of their works, some sense of their relative importance, and a sample of critical response to their writing, where relevant. Such a project is necessarily limited; specialist readers may find Melnyk's generalizations frustrating. As a basic source, however, it is useful, not the least because of the many photographs it includes.
The genre of the literary history requires a concluding statement. Melnyk argues that Alberta writing has undergone what he describes as a "macro movement" from "aboriginal, to anti-aboriginal writing, to reconstructed aboriginal." (The concluding chapter is heavily laced with Marxist rhetoric.) Unfortunately, this conclusion is not supported by the book's contents. There are very few Aboriginal authors included in this history, and the non-Aboriginal writers writing about Aboriginal topics occupy a spectrum from Rudy Wiebe to W.P. Kinsella. One thing the catalogue does show is Alberta's increasing multiculturalism, and one wonders how this new cultural mix can fit into any conception of "the Alberta identity."
If there is one strand that unites the widely varied studies of region collected in Regional Images and Regional Realities, it is the argument that there is no such thing as one regional identity. Instead, the papers that Lothar Hönnighausen has assembled demonstrate that any region is a mixture of cultures and geographies whose boundaries are always in flux. No longer is the important question "what is a region," writes Hönnighausen, but rather "how do these apparently opposite tendencies of globalism and regionalism interrelate and complement each other?" Correspondingly, many of the essays focus on the "creolization" of regional culture, from general discussions like Jürgen Donnerstag's "The Question of Regional Culture in Intercultural Learning" to Hanjo Berressem's delightfully focussed analysis of "Elvis and El Vez." This interdisciplinary collection ranges from history and political science to literature and music, but its geographic scope is limited to Europe and North America. Some of the essays, such as Gundula Wilke's consideration of regional elements of North American crime fiction, rely on description more than analysis, perhaps reflecting this anthology's origins in a symposium. Eva-Marie Kröller's essay on Vancouver regionalism will be of particular interest to Canadianists.
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MLA: Calder, Alison. Collecting Regions. canlit.ca. Canadian Literature, 8 Dec. 2011. Web. 10 Oct. 2015.
This review originally appeared in Canadian Literature #170-171 (Autumn/Winter 2001), Nature / Culture. (pg. 240 - 241)
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Keith Roberts could have pursued a career in electrical engineering. Instead he chose to be a cowboy. Over the last few decades, he's worked as a bull rider, bronc rider, calf roper and horse trainer.
In his latest endeavor, the 54-year-old owner of KR Ranch in Covington is the lead organizer for the area's first International World of Rodeo performance and competition. The rodeo takes place on May 28 at 7:30 p.m. and May 29 at 3 p.m. at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers.
The rodeo features bronc riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, team roping, barrel racing, a calf scramble and bull riding. There's also a Buffalo Soldier demonstration, an equestrian drill team and a live buffalo on display.
But what makes this rodeo unique is that Roberts is making an effort to include competitors from as many ethnicities as possible -- those from white, black, Latino and American Indian backgrounds.
Having organized the Atlanta Black Rodeo from 1995 to 2003, open only to black cowboys, Roberts said he "felt bad not letting" people from other races compete. But, at the time, "that was the market."
"We had always talked about opening up the rodeo and I think that's how it ought to be," said Roberts.
He recently drove to Florida to visit with Seminole Indians involved in rodeo and met with local Hispanic cowboys, mostly bull riders and ropers.
"We actually pursued the different nationalities" for the International World of Rodeo show, Roberts said.
Raised in Connecticut and in a small town in upstate New York, Roberts said his parents kept horses, and he began horse riding at age 7.
At 19, Roberts got a job as a rodeo pick-up man, the person who helps cowboys get out of the ring once they've been thrown by a bull or bucking bronco. One day while he was laughing at a cowboy who'd been thrown into the mud, the cowboy challenged him to try a round with the bull.
"It went poorly. I remember nodding my head and the gate opening ... but I loved it," Roberts said.
As he earned a college degree and landed a job as an electrical engineer, Roberts continued to work with rodeos, both as a pick-up person and a rider. Eventually, five years into his electrical engineer job, he quit.
"It was interesting, but it wasn't rodeo," said Roberts.
He made a living riding broncs and bulls and in the offseason he trained horses. After age 30, when his body could not longer take the punishment of riding bulls and broncs, he moved to calf roping.
Roberts came to metro Atlanta in 1989 to be closer to his parents, who had retired to the area. As Atlanta grew, he moved farther east in search of ranch area, living first in Stone Mountain, then Lithonia, then Conyers, and then Covington, where he relocated in 2003.
He said he hopes to take the International World of Rodeo on the road, eventually covering the eight states of the Southeast.
"One thing about the rodeo is that it is always exciting. There's always something going on," Roberts said.
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As eager as we are to see thee premiere of 'Game of Thrones' season 3, we love the months before promotional campaigns get underway, where every morsel of teaser from an upcoming year feels that much more tantalizing. Such is the case with 'Game of Thrones' season 3, which released a fairly vague teaser poster last week, but looks to be ramping things up with the very first teaser trailer! Are you ready for 'Game of Thrones' season 3?


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Social Interactions: Ocular Explorations and Pupillometry in Autism (ISEOP)
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The primary objective of this work will first to characterize in typical childhood, visual exploratory behavior and pupillary response associated with salience of human social stimuli (faces and body movements), and then to evaluate these markers in children with autism.
The second objective of this work will be to achieve in a population of children with autism a longitudinal evaluation of these markers during development and therapeutics.
Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Time Perspective: Prospective
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|Social Interactions: Ocular Explorations and Pupillometry in Autism
- Total time spent on pictures [ Time Frame: two years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Total time tracked during exploration of faces and human motion, compared to objects
- Interest zones [ Time Frame: two years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Time spent on interest zones such as eyes or mouth.
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|February 2013
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|May 2015
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|May 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Patients with autism have significant social difficulties and communication alterations. It has been shown in these patients difficulties to understand some clues indispensable to social relations, for example, faces and their emotions and motion of human bodies. The faces and human movements are an important source of information helping to interact with others. Understanding the intentions of the others through facial expressions and gestures can help them to adapt their behavior and their interactions. While in healthy subjects, faces and human movements receive special attention, autistic patients seem to pay less attention to this kind of social stimuli. It has already been shown that children and healthy adults spend more time looking at faces and human movements (relative to objects), whereas the opposite behavior is observed in patients with autism. Studying gaze behavior seems to be essential for progress in the understanding of autism pathology. Eye-tracking systems allow to measure precisely what a subject looks on a picture. Moreover, eye-tracking systems permit the measurement of the pupil size which variations are correlated with cognitive processes. The objective of this study is to analyze the ocular behavior (ocular scan path and pupil diameter) of young patients with autism when viewing faces and human movements and to compare these measurements with those of chronologically age-matched healthy children. This work will identify attentional problems concerning exploration of human faces and movements that can be related to their social difficulties. These disorders should be manifested by an atypical ocular scan path and by changes in pupil variation in response to face and human motion. Then to follow the evolution of these indices will allow to evaluate the effect of therapies. These results will highlight new data essential to understanding disorders of social relations and to better adapt rehabilitative strategies.
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|3 Years to 12 Years
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Autistic children from the University Hospital of Tours Healthy children from the normal population
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- For autistic children, diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders according to DSM IV-TR and ADI / ADOS criteria ; normal or corrected vision; no nervous system disease
- For healthy children, normal schooling and normal or corrected vision
- For all, parental consents
Exclusion Criteria:
- psychotropic treatment
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01647295
|Contact: Frederique Bonnet-Brilhault, PU-PH
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|Tours, France, 37044
|Principal Investigator: Frederique Bonnet-Brilhault, PU-PH
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|Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
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|July 19, 2012
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Keywords provided by Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France:
visual exploration
pupil size
social interactions
human motion
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Autistic Disorder
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive
Mental Disorders
Mental Disorders Diagnosed in Childhood
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Wait a second, Katherine Heigl makes HOW much money?
1. She stars in ABC's Grey's Anatomy.
2. She's not afraid to speak up if she thinks the show's writers have screwed up.
3. She'll never let you hear the end of it if you pronounce her name wrong, and she'll hunt you down like a dog.
Now there's a fourth thing I know about Heigl: she's the fifth highest paid actress in Hollywood.
Now please note that I don't mean she's the fifth highest paid actress just on television, I mean she's the fifth highest in general. With her $13 million, she comes in behind Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, and Cameron Diaz. I'm amazed that Diaz is on such a list, but I'm even more amazed that Heigl is right behind her. What exactly is this based on, besides Grey's Anatomy and Knocked Up? I want her agent.
I wonder if this is accurate though. I mean, she gets $13 million for one season of a TV show and those other stars get anywhere between $10 million and $20 million a movie, and sometimes do more than one movie a year. It's a lot of money no matter how you say it though.
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Justin Van Leeuwen's Distance Test Shoot
Photographer Justin Van Leeuwen of Ottawa, Ontario shoots some great commercial interiors, but his true passion is people. Environmental portraiture is where he really shines, doing his best to catch an individual's entire personality in just one frame. Here's his account of an exciting outdoor photo test he undertook.
Sometimes we take photos just because we can.
I was walking around the Ottawa River with the Canon 200-400mm f/4 L IS 1.4x Extender, testing it for my review on canonrumors.com. With such a long telephoto reach, one that I'm not typically used to, I started looking, and seeing, things in areas I hadn't before. This included a really cool cliff opposite Ottawa's Parliament on the Quebec side. It was covered in graffitti, which meant it was also accessible. It gave me the idea to try to take a really cool and unique shot; a portrait from across the river from Ottawa to Hull, Ontario to Quebec — an interprovincial photo shoot.
I went home to brainstorm the logistics of the shoot. I knew the lighting would be contrasty and unflattering during the day (as it is) which would move the shoot closer to dusk and sunset. I had never been to the cliffs either, and since I would be on one side of the river to take the shots, whoever I would send out there would be on their own. That didn't sit well with me, so I knew I would have to enlist one or two volunteers as assistants as added security. I also knew I wanted to light it, because taking a photo from 1600 feet away isn't hard enough, I wanted to do something different and make the image pop.
How are we going to light someone that far away? I know my Canon ST-E3-RT system can't go that far, neither can my Elinchrom Skyports. I had just read about PocketWizard radios new Plus III Transceiver's, that not only had a "long range" option, but also offered a relay mode to piggy-back the signal from one PocketWizard radio to the next. I did a little Google Map math, and figured the direct line from camera to location (about 1600 feet) was a bit too close to push the max range on a set of transceivers, which is rated at 1600 feet. Adding a relay point on a conveniently placed island would cut that distance in half and should assure us a successful flash trigger.
The only PocketWizards I currently own are the MiniTT1 and two FlexTT5's – I use them to get Hypersync® on my flashes for mid-day shooting — but they don't have the range of the Plus III's. Thankfully, my friend and colleague John Rathwell does, and he was gracious enough to loan them to us for that night.
I put a general call out on twitter to get some people on-hand for the shoot. I wanted a "model" (as in not a paid model, but a real-life human person), a first and second assistant on the other side of the river to hold lights, keep the peace if there was any trouble, and communicate via walkie-talkie. I also needed someone to man the relay point, since I didn't trust a lone PocketWizard on an island on a light stand… I suppose I could have just attached it to a tree, but that seems complicated.
Twitter delivers: Toosje was more model than I could have possibly hoped for – she was fun, beautiful, and perfect. Too bad she was going to be kind of tiny on the other side of the river. Bryan and David were on board for lighting, David having assisted me in the past, was familiar with the gear. Jamie took point on relay and, as you can see, he had a great time.
In the distance, we could hear Weezer come on stage as they started their set at Ottawa's Bluesfest.
I instructed everyone on what they had to do as soon as we met, if the radios didn't end up working, I wanted to be able to at least attempt the shot without having to run around and across the river just to communicate. Also, since it was sunset, we were losing light fast. I watched through the glass as my team arrived on the rocks. There were a number of youth *shakes fist at air* hanging out, swimming, drinking, smoking, but they didn't seem bothered by more people dropping by. Bryan and David set up the light, plugged in the PocketWizard (we had it set to "LR" to get whatever distance we could to the relay), I turned it on, on my end and "POP" the light went off!
I found 560mm (the lens at 400mm with the internal 1.4 teleconverter engaged) was still too far out from where I wanted to be to properly frame the image. I took a slight hit on the image quality by adding my own 1.4 extender to get the lens to a 392mm-784mm zoom. The next tricky part was communicating by walkie talkie, trying to direct our model into the right position, get them to hold the light just-so, and to dial in the right power output. The color temperature wasn't right and it all seemed to flat for me. The sun ducked behind some office buildings then, and we were shooting in the blue, it was getting dark and I didn't have my shot. I shifted my white balance, radio'd accross the river to get them to add a CTS gel to warm up the light and I took the last few photos I could, all while pushing my ISO and especially my shutter farther than one should on such unstable footing (note: while I have a tripod, and used it for this shoot, it and the ball head are not equipped for a level of this size and weight).
All the extenders brought my minimum aperture to f/8 and I ended up shooting the last few images at f/9, ISO 1250, 1/40th of a second at 784mm — definitely not an ideal shutter/focal length combo, and softness in my final image definitely shows it. That said, this is just shy of the "rated" 4 stops of IS on the lens, and it performed pretty well even if my own technique didn't.
Aside from moving my subject, there wasn't much else I could do to change the composition of my shot. So after I got what I hoped was good enough I told them to start shooting and I'd head over.
Luck favors the prepared. I had set David up with his own trigger for the lights so that he could use the location and take some portraits of his own while there was still light.
I was crossing the provincial border to try and get some more photos. Weezer is still playing in the background, their music carrying over the water and bouncing off the cliff we were working on.
I show up and it's getting pretty dark. The sun has mostly set and we're in full blue-hour. I decide to switch-up our lighting design and use an additional light, and a few colored gels to really bring out some color. Jamie is now holding a light off to the side, Bryan is holding up the battery and main light, and David is taking behind-the-scenes photos because I always forget. My buddy Quinn is there too, he came to help, and now he's holding a flashlight up to Toosje's face so I can lock focus. I'm in the bushes… because 200-400mm means I need to back up. Weezer wrapped up their set and so did we.
Everything and everyone really came together for this shoot. With one small exception: Jamie had never turned on the relay.
Yes, a slight miscommunication meant Jamie was on an island, with no walkie, "waiting for our signal." What impresses me though, is that those PocketWizard's made it from transmitter on the camera to receiver 1600 ft away, over a moving river, up to a cliff, and set off my Elinchrom Quadra pack reliably and consistently. Wow. I highly recommend these if you ever need to shoot between provinces or states.
Huge thanks to Toosje, Bryan, Jamie, Quinn and David Johnson for working on-site that night. Huge thanks to John Rathwell, and special thanks to lensrentalscanada.com for sending me that lens to frivolously play with that week.
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This product is amazing when used with Jojoba oil. Put a 10c sized amount of each into the palm of your hand and rub onto your face roughly for a minute or so. Look at your hands after doing so and see all of your blackheads on your fingers. This keeps my skin blemish-free and hydrated. I highly recommend! and it's really cheap too :)
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Saw on Dr Oz that castor softens the appearance of Elevens, those vertical wrinkles between the eybrows. Mine were becoming One Hundred and Elevens. Applied the castor oil, neat, on freshly washed face, at night. Works! The eyebrow lines, and the horizontal lines on my forehead are softer, shallower, appearing. It is very thick and sticky, but it does just take a tiny amount so it's very economical. I also mix it with other essential oils for the extra hydration. Very pleased.
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A research has shown that Nigeria is the 34th country in the rating of countries with the best civil justice system.
It scored 0.57 on a scale of 1.0, making it the second in Africa after Ghana (25th), which scored 0.59.
Norway had the highest score among the 66 countries surveyed with 0.81, followed by Germany and Netherland, which both scored 0.79 and were 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
Japan- 0.73, the United Kingdom- 0.71 and the Unites States- 0.63 were 7th, 10th and 21st, respectively.
The report said of the 66 countries, "no one comes close to potential for civil justice, which scale is 1.0."
Ghana took 1st among the nine countries in the low income category, while Nigeria made 2nd, behind Jordan, which was 1st among the 16 medium-low income countries. The US however, came 22nd in the high income category.
A professor of law at the Tilburg University, Netherlands, Maurits Barendrecht, who led the team of researchers, gave the report during a consultation on the United States Resolution 2005/69 on Business and Human Rights organised by the African Centre for Corporate Responsibility in Lagos recently.
He described the Nigerian justice system as worrisome and called on citizens to be socially responsible to resolve conflicts among themselves.
He said, "Based on research in many countries and the survey of 300 people living in big cities, when asked whether they had access to justice; whether it is easy to get a lawyer or if it is easy to take a case to court, it showed that Nigeria is not doing very well but it is also not doing badly.
"There are many countries where the courts are not accessible but Nigeria is not one of the worst places. However, I follow activities in the Nigerian judicial system and I think it is worrisome. It is not only the state system that helps to resolve conflicts; people themselves can set up ways to resolve conflicts."
Barendrecht explained that the new trend was for communities to set up informal justice systems to resolve their conflicts and prevent crimes. He said they could also help in resolving consumer-producer disputes.
In his remarks, the convener of the forum, Dr. Austin Onuoha, decried the decadence of infrastructure in the country, saying it incapacitated the government from being socially responsible. He said the United Nations guidelines could help address the rights of employees and organisations.
He said, "If, increasingly, governments relinquish their responsibilities, multi-nationals will not respect them. Where the organisations provide basic infrastructure and security for themselves, the governments cannot enforce certain laws on them.
"It is interesting to know that when there is a disaster like fire outbreak in the Niger Delta, state governments call on the oil companies for intervention and assistance."


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Thursday, April 03, 2014
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In the wake of yesterday's tragedy at Fort Hood, our USO staff and volunteers supported III Corps and Fort Hood troops and families through the night. Many, including about 650 individuals at the Emergency Action Center and another 1,200 witnesses, were unable to return home until early this morning. USO Fort Hood staff and volunteers delivered donated food and items to those required to remain on base.
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Castle trail
Castle Ward, Strangford, Downpatrick, County Down BT30 7LSRoute details and mapDownload as a print friendly PDF
Route overview
An excellent trail for spotting wildlife and taking in the stunning scenery of Strangford Lough, Audley's Castle and Farmyard at Castle Ward.
Route details
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Start: Shore car park, grid ref: NW677031
Start in the shore car park.
Follow the shore of Strangford Lough from the farm yard to Audley's Quay
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The trail then leads you around Audley's Castle
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The castle dates probably from around the 15th century, but the early history is unknown. The castle is named after its late 16th-century owners, the Audleys, an Anglo-Norman family who held land in the area in the 13th century, although it is not known if they built the castle. It was sold, with the surrounding estate, to the Ward family in 1646 and used in 1738 as an eye-catching focus of the long vista along Castle Ward's artificial lake, Temple Water.
Now follow Audleystown Road, a quiet public road back to the farmyard.
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Built in the late 16th or early 17th century by Nicholas Ward, Old Castle Ward is a 3-storey tower house built of split stone rubble with sandstone dressings. At present Old Castle Ward is part of a 19th-century farm with a saw mill belonging to the estate. Do you recognize it? It's Winterfell - The first season of Game of Thrones was filmed here.
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A report from Troop I of the Arkansas State Police says 27-year-old Justin Hutson of Salem was killed when the vehicle he was driving lost control while traveling north on Old Sturkie Road. The vehicle then traveled off-road and overturned.
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CeBIT 2013 Technology Trade Fair
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Two ideas to help parents transform the parent-child relationship from reaction and struggle to freedom, power and joy.
Easy Positions for Elimination Communication with a Newborn
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