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Professor Sean Kay to Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy on WOSU's 'Open Line' with Fred Andrle
February 2, 2009
DELAWARE, OHIO – Sean Kay, Ph.D., professor of politics and government and chair of Ohio Wesleyan's International Studies Program, will be Fred Andrle's guest on "Open Line" at 10 a.m. Feb. 4 to discuss U.S. foreign policy in a time of conflict.
The program may be heard by tuning into 820 AM on the radio dial or by logging onto www.wosu.org/news/openline/. The show will be replayed at 7 p.m. and then archived online for listening on demand.
Kay is the author of "Global Security in the Twenty-First Century" and is considered one of the nation's leading NATO experts.
Ohio Wesleyan University is an undergraduate liberal arts college that transforms the lives of its students through a combination of rigorous academics, mentoring relationships, and real-world experiences. Featured in the book "Colleges That Change Lives," the private university's 1,850 students come from 47 states and 50 countries. Visit www.owu.edu for more information.
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Sunday, 26 August 2012
My Week in Words.
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I'm sure they won't mind about jury duty, although when I did it, it lasted like a whole week and 2 days. Just ring them with plenty of time. I'm glad everything is going well with your boyf moving in. I live with mine's family so we're the opposite! I agree about the amount of football though, it's just wrong xxxReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah I hope it will be fine, I rang the school today and she said the court should allow me to go as they're very accommodating etc so I'm going to phone them tomorrow and hopefully they agree with it!Delete
Good luck with the interview and Jury Duty! I wouldn't worry, they appreciate that it is unavoidable so I am sure it won't affect your chances =)ReplyDelete
Good luck with your interview! I know what you mean about ringing to re-arrange an interview, it doesn't give off the best impression does it. But I honestly wouldn't worry about it Jury Duty isn't really avoidable and I'm sure they'll appreciate that even more with fact that it's run by the local council I'm sure it won't affect your chances! Let us know how it goes.ReplyDelete
Thank you! I phoned today and luckily it's all sorted now :) all the worrying for nothing as usual! xoDelete
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A 67-year-old woman critically injured in a wreck in Senoia last month has died.
Lynda Adcock's vehicle was struck by a tractor-trailer April 16 on Georgia Highway 16 near Harper Road in Senoia. She was in an induced coma and was taken off life support and died Friday, according to authorities.
She was extricated from her vehicle by Coweta County Fire Department rescue personnel and then air-flighted by helicopter ambulance to Atlanta Medical Center after the accident.
"The preliminary investigation by Senoia Police indicate that (Adcock's) Chevy Cobalt made a left turn from the westbound right lane of Hwy. 16 across the path of the tractor-trailer truck that was traveling west in the left westbound passing lane," Senoia Police Major Steven Tomlin said in a statement.
The driver of the semi was identified as Jeffrey Williams, 50, of Smyrna, Ga. No charges were filed. It took about 15 minutes to rescue her from the vehicle.


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I am not a fan of zoo's but tucked away at the Botanical Gardens at Wagga Wagga is a small zoo. The animals are free, (within reason) to wander around and here are a few snapshots.
Meanwhile, the gardens are an abundance of colour and are simply lovely!
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Mary Washington vs. Hampden-sydney
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|The University of Mary Washington men's lacrosse team opened the season with a 5-2 loss to 16th ranked Hampden-Sydney College on Saturday at the Battleground. Freshman goalkeeper Ryan Kleman turned in a stellar effort in his first collegiate start, registering 16 saves to spearhead a solid defensive effort.
The Eagles netted the first goal of the game, as junior Charlie White scored unassisted at 13:48 of the first quarter. The Tigers tied the score after one period, and added two in the second, including a goal with one second remaining before the half. After a third period goal advanced the lead to 4-1, Brent Fisk tallied UMW's second goal, with 13:54 left in the game. Hampden-Sydney scored with 8:35 to play to cap the scoring.
The Tigers outshot the Eagles, 25-17, and picked up 36 ground balls to 30 for UMW. Kleman had 16 saves for the Eagles, while HSC goalie Phil Hage had seven saves.
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I have this thing about teeth. It's one of the first things I notice about people when I meet them, and I brush my own teeth with a rabid sort of OCD that makes the bristles of my toothbrush part like the red sea and lay flat against the plastic. Suffice it to say, I value my teeth and I fully judge others based on the condition of their teeth.
That being said, I find myself noticing each time a celebrity goes out and buys him or herself a new set of veneers. (Here's a widely overlooked fact about human teeth: the teeth you are born with are the teeth you are supposed to have. If you look in a mirror, you will notice that the shape of your teeth matches the shape of your face…I'll wait while everyone tests that theory)…In my humble opinion, it is both aesthetically pleasing and structurally vital for one to take great care of the teeth that God gave them rather than paying for a set of Lee Press-on Teeth, lest your mass-produced pebble-tech teeth make you look like this:
Seriously, think about ANY Hollywood celebrity and picture their teeth. Chances are they have had a set of Chiclet veneers placed over their perfectly good, natural teeth. Nicholas Cage, Chris Rock, Elliot Yamin…the list goes on. Even Miley Cyrus had her fucking baby teeth covered in veneers (of course, hers have a long stem on the back, so you can just poke them into her potatohead):
As if she didn't look like an 18 pound bag of ass before…now she SOUNDS like she has a mouth full of potato salad, thanks to the second row of shark-teeth she had glued to the first set. Here's another example:
Perfectly fine teeth…freakishly unnatural teeth.
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Fake tan, fake teeth, fake boobs, fake ass…and they still don't look good. That reminds me, has she done ANYTHING else besides being "Posh?" Ugh.
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Editor's Analysis: siiiiiiiiiickkkkkk
Here's the deal. Fake isn't pretty. Fake is fake. If you want straight teeth, visit the orthodontist. Why can't chubby girls with their own teeth and boobs be considered pretty? Just wondering.
As if these veneers aren't creepy enough, get a load of THIS…
This little pageant victim is wearing what is known as a "flipper." Evidently, it is undesirable for little girls competing in pageants to have missing, crooked, or otherwise unsightly teeth, so their mothers and pageant coordinators provide them with vendors who will gladly create a snap-on set of false teeth so that they can be "glitzy" and "glam." Comfort is not a priority. Beauty is.
What is the shelf life of these fake teeth? Will they expire and start popping out of celeb mouthes in a mass exodus of porcelain? Or is like painting a house, where layers and layers build up over time, so much so that they will eventually not be able to close their mouthes?
this creeps me out…what's next? Kneecap veneers?


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text: Personal data mining to improve your cognitive toolkit David Rowan's Blog 18 January 11 CC-licensed: Xelcise David Rowan Editor of Wired magazine Follow @iRowan Every year, John Brockman of the Edge Foundation poses a question to the Edge community of scientists, public intellectuals, writers and thinkers who make up what he calls "the third culture". The question is designed to provoke fascinating yet inspiring answers, and is typically open-ended -- such as "What's your law?" (the 2004 question), "What are you optimistic about?" (2007), and "How is the internet changing the way you think?" (last year's). Often these questions are turned into paperback books.This year, Brockman asked: "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?" He took as his starting point James Flynn's notion of "shorthand abstractions" -- "concepts drawn from science that have become part of the language and make people smarter by providing widely applicable templates ('market', 'placebo', 'random sample', 'naturalistic fallacy', are a few of his examples)". If we have a shorthand linguistic means of expressing the notion, Flynn suggested, we can use it as an element in thinking and debate. "This is the most challenging question we've put forth to date," Brockman said. Daniel Kahneman, the father of behavioural economics, said: "It is my favourite question ever. You will get great responses and actually move the culture forward."On Saturday Brockman published this year's submissions, more than 150 answers from the likes of Craig Venter, Brian Eno and Steven Pinker (mostly men, it has to be said, with contributors such as Alison Gopnik and Lisa Randall making up a small female minority). A number of Wired contributors have sent in answers this year, writers such as Jonah Lehrer, David Eagleman and Matt Ridley. Some journalists and editors were also invited to add their thoughts, which is how I submitted a proposal for "personal data mining" as part of the symposium.So what concepts did the contributors suggest that we need? The answers included:- "Cognitive load", from Nicholas Carr (author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains): a limitation in how much information entering our consciousness we can process at any instant;- "The Pareto principle", from Clay Shirky (author of Cognitive Surplus): a reminder that the richest or busiest or most connected participants in a system will account for much more wealth, or activity, or connectedness than average";- "Connective intelligence", from Matt Ridley (author of The Rational Optimist and former Wired columnist): the idea that human achievement "is entirely a networking phenomenon" and is "based on collective intelligence".There are plenty more worth your time exploring. As for my contribution, here it is:Personal data mining From the dawn of civilisation until 2003, Eric Schmidt is fond of saying, humankind generated five exabytes of data. Now we produce five exabytes every two days -- and the pace is accelerating. In our post-privacy world of pervasive social-media sharing, GPS tracking, cellphone-tower triangulation, wireless sensor monitoring, browser-cookie targeting, face-detecting, consumer-intention profiling, and endless other means by which our personal presence is logged in databases far beyond our reach, citizens are largely failing to benefit from the power of all this data to help them make smarter decisions.It's time to reclaim the concept of data mining from the marketing industry's microtargeting of consumers, the credit-card companies' anti-fraud profiling, the intrusive surveillance of state-sponsored Total Information Awareness. We need to think more about mining our own output to extract patterns that turn our raw personal datastream into predictive, actionable information. All of us would benefit if the idea of personal data mining were to enter popular discourse.Microsoft saw the potential back in September 2006, when it filed United States Patent application number 20,080,082,393 for a system of "personal data mining". Having been fed personal data provided by users themselves or gathered by third parties, the technology would then analyse it to "enable identification of opportunities and/or provisioning of recommendations to increase user productivity and/or improve quality of life". You can decide for yourself whether you trust Redmond with your lifelog, but it's hard to fault the premise: the personal data mine, the patent states, would be a way "to identify relevant information that otherwise would likely remain undiscovered".Both I as a citizen and society as a whole would gain if individuals' personal datastreams could be mined to extract patterns upon which we could act. Such mining would turn my raw data into predictive information that can anticipate my mood and improve my efficiency, make me healthier and more emotionally intuitive, reveal my scholastic weaknesses and my creative strengths. I want to find the hidden meanings, the unexpected correlations that reveal trends and risk factors of which I had been unaware. In an era of oversharing, we need to think more about data-driven self-discovery.A small but fast-growing self-tracking movement is already showing the potential of such thinking, inspired by Kevin Kelly's quantified self and Gary Wolf's data-driven life. With its mobile sensors and apps and visualisations, this movement is tracking and measuring exercise, sleep, alertness, productivity, pharmaceutical responses, DNA, heartbeat, diet, financial expenditure -- and then sharing and displaying its findings for greater collective understanding. It is using its tools for clustering, classifying and discovering rules in raw data, but mostly is simply quantifying that data to extract signals -- information -- from the noise.The cumulative rewards of such thinking will be altruistic rather than narcissistic, whether in pooling personal data for greater scientific understanding (23andMe) or in propagating user-submitted data to motivate behaviour change in others (Traineo). Indeed, as the work of Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Gilbert, and Christakis and Fowler demonstrate so powerfully, accurate individual-level data-tracking is key to understanding how human happiness can be quantified, how our social networks affect our behaviour, how diseases spread through groups. The data is already out there. We just need to encourage people to tap it, share it, and corral it into knowledge. Edited by Duncan Geere Comments The comment : "we need to think more about data-driven self-discovery" really struck me. It struck me with how different I must be, having used introspection and quiet to do this without external data mining devices. I guess Buddha, Old Lao Tse, and the rest could have just chilled.Now knowing your hearts desire is to become as simple as asking a device which will monitor and report back? Great time saver.As for using such data tracking to study how disease spreads...noble cause. Hope it does not lead to dystopian apps. (fat chance)On the other hand, if I could have an implant that could type my thoughts for me and mail them to the persons who inspired a certain one, or with whom I share a topic...a sort of internal twitt (but its gotta allow 2-3 pages minimum), I would be ready in the time it took to go under anesthesia waltinseattle Jan 23rd 2011 One form of data mining is using a search engine. Another form is to set up a personal interest profile to run against regularly electronically published data bases, usually of a bibliographic nature. Used to do this for people back when i was a struggling professional Librarian with a family to support. Now i just play with fun psychological ideas such as the brain-mind interface. Is that one of the things you're loooking for? Don Fox Jan 29th 2011 "... how different I must be, having used introspection and quiet to do this without external data mining devices. I guess Buddha, Old Lao Tse..."Well, Buddha and Lao Tse, with their deep introspection, lived in a perceived reality in which the earth was flat and the stars were lamps (literally) that were attached to a disk. The body was composed of four humors, and things like air, blood, etc etc, were spiritual essences.I for one am much happier living in the modern, scientific world... Renaldo Feb 8th 2011 The philosophy/practice espoused by both Buddha and Lao Tse in no way conflicts with the modern, scientific world. Nor does either of them assume the earth is flat, stars are lamps, body is composed of humors, etc. Although I can hardly claim to be an expert, I would suppose that Buddha or Lao Tse would look at this personal data mining effort and say "that might be a great help in making you more efficient, but will not make you one iota happier, since you are looking outside yourself for your source of happiness, and that is not where happiness exists." Craig Mar 30th 2011 LPN programs in washington state unfortunatly, this kind of problem is becoming more frequent in the UK too. LPN programs in washington state Mar 9th 2012 I am late to bringing this idea into coherence however now that microsoft has announced its "Life Browser" I feel an open methodology of processing 'personal' data is imminent. Screenshots of their interface still follow a 'flat' model of information display, with much blank space intentionally left. Information will be consumed instead of appreciated, and from this I conclude an open source solution will come out ahead. Chad Terry Mar 24th 2012 Reply to a comment Name Email Comment Submit » Latest on wired.co.uk


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'Justified' Creator Graham Yost Talks Raylan, Boyd and Season 2 Feuds
Don't worry, the second season of 'Justified,' which arrives at 10PM ET Wednesday on FX, is not an homage to the USA show about a fake psychic. In its second season, 'Justified' is better than ever; it's still a rich and intoxicating blend of shaggy yet taut storytelling, sterling dialogue and terrific acting. The FX show remains deeply embedded in the world created by Elmore Leonard (who wrote the stories on which 'Justified' is based), and U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) is not heading to Santa Barbara to visit Shawn Spencer.
But as Yost and I were wrapping up our chat, I said that I looked forward to watching 'Justified' because it's, well, fun.
"That's the whole goal," Yost answered with a smile.
"My whole goal when I signed on to do this show was, I wanted to do a fun show," said Yost, whom I spoke to in his Los Angeles office in January. "I wanted to do a show where people look forward to it because they're going to have a really enjoyable hour. Part of it comes out of just watching TV with my kids," who are fans of 'Psych.'
"Something like 'The Pacific,' 'Band of Brothers,' even 'From the Earth to the Moon,' and certainly 'Boomtown' -- these are shows that were incredibly well-respected and high-quality," continued Yost, who had key creative roles on all those shows. "But I couldn't say that week in and week out, they were something that people would look forward to because it was going to be fun."
But 'Justified' is that rare top-flight cable drama that offers, among an array of other pleasures, the appeal of escapism. The professional and personal life of Raylan Givens can be knotty and some of his cases take him to dark places, but the show isn't in the business of making viewers question their existences or despair over human nature.
Obviously 'Justified' is a more substantial and ambitious show than anything on USA, but one of the pleasures of the FX drama is that it wears its many accomplishments lightly. It's probably difficult to mix ambiguity and intelligence with a sense of playfulness, but 'Justified' makes it look easy.
I'll post a review of the show's very enjoyable second season Wednesday, but below, Yost talks about Raylan's new adversaries, the Bennett clan, which includes a cunning matriarch, Mags (the great Margo Martindale) and her son Dickie ('Lost's' Jeremy Davies); Loretta McCready (Kaitlyn Dever), the young character who became "the heart of the season"; the challenges of giving adequate screen time to the ensemble drama's many intriguing characters (including Walton Goggins' Boyd Crowder); and the differing demands of stand-alone episodes and serialized arcs.
This interview has been edited and condensed. There are some general indications about things that will happen in the second season, but, in my opinion, there are no spoilers.
Maureen Ryan: I watched the first three episodes and I love that I can't predict where the stories are going. How challenging is it to create stories like that yet not put people off by being too out there? Where do the germs of story ideas come from, and how do you make it so that it's challenging in a fun way for the audience to follow along?
Graham Yost: Well, it all goes back to Elmore. Talking to him about how he writes is actually terrifying because he doesn't outline, he just starts writing and he doesn't know where the story's going to go. That doesn't mean he doesn't rewrite, you know. He'll go in one direction and say, "No, I don't want to do that," and then go back and change directions. But because he's always surprising himself, he's also surprising the reader. And he really follows [the dictum], "What are the interesting characters, what would be something weird to happen here?" So, that's a little bit of our guiding principle, on the one hand.
On the other hand, we're doing a television show, we have to know where we're going because we have to plan it in terms actors whose time we buy and [having the right sets ready]. So we can't just be making it up as we go.
The way we started this season was, we visited Kentucky and we went to Lexington and we went to Harlan and we heard stories. And we heard stories for five seasons worth of material. And at least I say that now [laughs]. And we came up with an idea for a good antagonist for Raylan.
We came up with the idea of this Bennett family, which has an age-old feud with Raylan and his family. It has been peaceable for the past 20 years, partly because Raylan's been out of the state. And so we wanted to play with the idea of feud culture in that part of the world.
We also wanted to play with the idea of second chances. Raylan's got a second chance with Winona. Boyd's got a second chance. Ava [too]. Everyone's sort of got a second chance and what are they gonna do with it? One of the themes in Elmore is, do people change?
That's one of the things I was thinking about as I watched those season 2 episodes -- can Boyd change? Can Raylan change?
There you go. I would say that's the entire series is about whether Raylan can change or whether Boyd change, but primarily Raylan. So we wanted to explore that.
And then we start to craft this notion of, what is our story for the whole season? And what you'll notice in 'Justified,' [both] last year and this year, we have more standalone episodes in the first half and fewer in the second half. And by the time we get into the last three, four, five [episodes of the season, it's much more serialized]. So in our early episodes, those have more standalone elements to them, but we also have our big arcs [that start building].
Was there ever a thought about wanting to avoid the stereotypes about that region and those kinds of clans? Because, as you say, in the last few episodes, we're deep in the Bennett's territory and that feud culture.
We find out more and more about the Bennetts and the history between the Bennetts and Raylan's family [over the course of the season]. We start to get a sense of each of the brothers as individuals, where they fit into the pecking order of that clan.
And then the other character that we came up with [for the Bennett story line] was Loretta. Elmore started writing some new Raylan Givens stories and he had a story [about the Crowe family, which is related to Dewey Crowe. The story] was Pervus Crowe and his sons Dickie and Coover, and we decided to make the patriarch a matriarch and make it Mags Bennett instead of Pervus Crowe, but we liked Dickie and Coover. We added a third brother, Doyle [Bennett], who was suggested by another character in Elmore's story.
There was also this 14-year-old girl, Loretta McCready. And we just fell in love with that character. And so we said, we've got to put her in -- let's make her the client in the first episode. So it ultimately becomes about saving Loretta.
This was a character Elmore had come up with?
Yeah. She's not in peril in his story, she's just this 14-year-old kid who witnesses some events and talks to Raylan. We just loved her attitude and how smart she was. There was a moment in the story that we ended up not using in the script, where Raylan says, "You know, when you start dating boys, be kind." Because he can already tell that she's a pistol.
But when we were looking at that character, we knew, if we cast this well, she could be integral to the whole season. If we don't cast it well, then we will have to banish her. And we cast above our pay grade. We cast above the quality of our show, I would almost say. We've got such a great cast, but this girl [who plays Loretta], Kaitlyn Dever, is just stunning and is so good. And you can see in the scene with her and [a character in the season premiere], the way she held her own. We've got fun stuff for her.
And we heard that Jeremy Davies was interested in being in the show and so we said, "Well, what about Dickie?" We wrote the part and then he did an episode and we go, "That's who Dickie is. Now we get it." And so that's sort of adjusted things. So, Dickie and Coover and Doyle, the three brothers, [those characters] started to shift [based on the performances]. Joel playing Doyle -- he's incredibly charming. So let's play to that.
The biggest thing I would say is the casting of Margo Martindale as Mags. There's that one big scene toward the end of the first episode with her and Dickie and Chris Mulkey, we went "Okay. We've got a season." Now, thank God it worked out because we were already writing episodes five and six by that point...
If it hadn't worked out, you'd have been in ...
We'd have been in deep trouble.
Up a creek, as they say.
Yeah, as they say. But, let me go back, because you were talking about stereotypes. One of the things we found when we went to Lexington and down to Harlan is that, like people everywhere, they've got a sense of humor about themselves. There is a sensitivity to being portrayed as shoeless, toothless hicks; they were very happy that at no point did we ever have a character say "y'all." They said, "Please, don't have anyone say y'all." That doesn't mean the people down there don't say y'all, they just don't like the cliché.
But a couple times I heard people say, "You know, I'm watching the show and I see a character and I say, 'I know that guy.'" And I think that if we have been able to not insult people and if they have gotten a kick out of it, [that's the best response]. A lot of it, again, originates with Elmore, because he always treats his characters with respect. As he has said, there have only been a couple of characters he has written he hasn't liked in some way. He likes them, they're not stupid. They can do crazy things, but there's a twinkle...
There isn't condescension.
You know, just to focus on Raylan for a minute, he does a lot of things that aren't necessarily good. On the page, he could almost be ... not an unlikable guy, but a difficult person to empathize with, put it that way. Is that something you are conscious of in the writing of each episode, or do you know that Timothy will just kind of nail it in the performance, because he brings innate quality to the role that makes you kind of root for him?
I think it's a combination of [things]. I think we've established with the character that he's got a good heart and that he's well-meaning and that he's not a law breaker and that he has a code.
And so much of [whether a character is likable has to do with] who likes him and why. Ava's not too fond of him right now, but she was in love with him last year. And Winona, despite all the crap that's gone on between them, she loves him. And you know that [Raylan's boss,] Art, despite all the stuff that Raylan has put him through, he has affection for him.
So I think because we see things through the other characters as well, he earns a lot of trust and affection. The stuff that he does, it sort of divides the audience a little bit. There are some people who are just, "Oh man, I'm so glad he did that. I'm so glad he busted that guy in the chops." And other people are like, "Wow, really? You're a Deputy U.S. Marshal. I don't think you really should be doing that." We end up, hopefully, satisfying both sides of that.
I will say, without giving away any big story points, there is something that happens in the middle of the season where Raylan crosses a line that makes him really question himself and his future in the Marshal Service. And it's a big experience for him and it does lead him to certain revelations about himself and about his relationship with other people. And that was one of the goals early on as well.
Well, there's that line [in season 1], Winona saying, "You're the angriest person I've ever met."
You mean the line I put in so that FX would put it on the air?
Oh. Is that how that line got in there?
Pretty much. Yeah.
That came from a note from the network?
It was a note on the script. It was like, "This script was great, but we want to get the sense that there is dark stuff going on." I said to [FX president John Landgraf], "Well, what do you want, John? At the end of the episode, do you want him to go down to the basement of his house and there's a 19-year-old boy chained to the wall?" And he said, "No."
I just sat and I thought, well, what's true to this character? He's got a criminal father and he becomes a Marshal and what would that do to him? And I thought, "Oh yeah, he's probably incredibly angry." So he has some moments of self-doubt and self-reflection occasionally. At the end of the pilot [he was thinking], "Would I have shot him anyway?" He doesn't know. Because he's interested in finding out.
But I want to go back to something you said -- you know, how does he get away with stuff with the audience? And I was saying a lot of it is simply the other character's responses [to Raylan]. But a good chunk of it is Tim. Tim as [Seth Bullock] on 'Deadwood,' he was a pretty serious character. But he's done other stuff where he's been really funny. One reason I think this [role] is so great for him is because he's funny, he's charming, he's dangerous, he's scary, he's violent, he's endearing.
I feel like you have the high-class problem of having a world full people that I want to spend more time with. But how do you parcel that out? You know, this season will we get more Rachel, more Tim, more Boyd and all these other characters?
You'll see in [episode 1 and 4], there's a lot of Rachel. And then in the second episode, we thought, let's pair Raylan with Tim, let's spend some time with them. And you see this flintiness, this sort of cranky side from Tim. That was fun.
The third [and fifth] episode, we get a lot more Boyd. We felt we earned that by this season we not only earned it, but that the audience would be clamoring for it, because people love them their Boyd.
They do. To me, he is the flip side of Raylan.
He is. The careful thing with Boyd, and I hope we get it right this season -- we didn't want to have him so broken and so despondent over the events of the end of the first season that he didn't have a spark. [He talke briefly about an event in an upcoming episode that demonstrates that "Boyd is back."]
And so we have a lot of stories we want to serve. And that's the greatest challenge.
Not to give anything away, but Boyd and Ava are less antagonistic than I would have predicted this season. Is it that just me not remembering how things ended up between then at the end of season 1?
Well, where we started with him in [season 1], he had this sort of lustful attitude toward her. And then he had this religious conversion and is it real or is it a lie? That was the big question of season 1, is Boyd full of crap or does he mean it? And I loved Raylan's line, he said, "I don't know if he's full of crap, but I think he believes it." And you know, [in the season 1 finale], Raylan and Boyd are headed toward Bulletville and Raylan says something to the effect of, "So, you were sincere." And Boyd says, "Was I?"
You know, he still doesn't know. But, but something did change in him. I think the scene that, for me, concretely showed that he had changed or was trying to change was when Boyd went to Ava and apologizes at the beginning of the last episode [of season 1]. He says, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry that when my brother was beating you, I didn't step in." He doesn't say those words, but that's the intent.
And those words are absolutely, 100 percent sincere?
A hundred percent sincere.
But she's not buying that.
She doesn't buy it. But he said it and that has an effect on her. And I think that also, she's alone, Raylan doesn't have any time for her [when season 2 begins] and so that's why we made that choice. You'll see where we're going with Ava, she has an understanding about herself later on this second season, and I hope people will say, "Of course."
I think the danger with the female characters in the first season is that they started to seem like they only exist as possible love interests for Raylan, and I enjoy the show so much that I want all of the characters to be as nuanced as Raylan is. Do we see more of both Winona and Ava this year?
We see a lot more of Winona, and Ava is a bit on a more of a slower boil, or [there's] slower development, but we will find things out about her and see things about her as the season progresses [to the point that,] as I said, I hope the audience says, "Of course. That makes sense."
Was the desire to do those stand-alones at the start of the season something the network requested or was it just what you found most practical? Or was it what people enjoyed?
I actually love doing stand-alone episodes because I love creating that really satisfying single hour. Because you know, you have two audiences. You're got the people who are sampling and then you've got the people who get invested. So the people who get invested want the big story. Right? And the people who are sampling don't want to feel lost.
The feeling was in the first season, the first seven or eight episodes needed to be more standalone while we built the framework for the serialized arc, then we could just go into that. Our feeling was with this season was that we could really, in terms of standalones, [do those in] the first four episodes. After that, everything is pretty much... I wouldn't say [fully serialized], but there'll be different facets [of the big story in each episode].
Obviously this show, it's the Raylan show, but it still blows my mind that there was an idea to kill Boyd off in season 1. I mean, do you just sit there and go, how can we add more Boyd?
How can we fit it in? I mean the thing is, Walton is so brilliant, if he's only in three scenes in an episode, he scores in every one.
We do feel we have an embarrassment of riches in terms of the cast and hopefully the characters, but it feels inconceivable to do the series without Boyd, even though that was the intent when we were shooting the pilot. And I would say, that also goes back to Elmore, which is being open to opportunity.
If Elmore creates a character and that character starts to speak well and interestingly and they get along with the main character, well, maybe the story's gonna go that direction. So, to a degree, that's what we did with Boyd. You know? "Well, it worked out with Walton, he's unbelievable. Let's keep going."
And as I said before, this girl, if we hadn't gotten Kaitlyn Dever we wouldn't have seen much more of Loretta in this season. Turns out Loretta is the heart of this season in a way.
What is Elmore's role in the process? Did it change from season 1, or is it the same?
It's the same. The thing that changed was the fact that he got enough of a kick out of season 1 that he started writing some more Raylan stories.
As the person running this show, was that, like, better than getting 10 Emmys?
Better than 10 Emmys. You know, that was the biggest kick that we got -- the fact that he got a kick. I say that the two best reviews we've gotten on this show was the fact that Elmore's writing more Raylan stories and that people in Harlan enjoy the show.
What he said to us was, "How about these stories? Hang 'em up and strip 'em for parts." He's got a whole story about organ theft, we're not touching that. We're going to save that for another season, but we like Dickey and Coover and we like Loretta, and we like his character Pervus, who became Mags. "Let's use that... Oh that scene... the town meeting, let's use it." You know, it's that kind of thing.
You know, I guess what's different about this show is -- of course it's an excellent cable drama, but I look forward to watching 'Justified' because I know it's going to be fun.
That's the whole goal. Listen, I love 'Boomtown,' I love 'The Pacific,' I love 'Band of Brothers.' [Those are all projects that Yost either created or in which he had a key writing/producing role.] When people ask me, I say 'The Pacific' is the best thing I've ever been a part of. I take no authorship of that, nor do I [with 'Justified']. This is Elmore Leonard's show; we're just trying to serve his vision.
But something like 'The Pacific,' 'Band of Brothers,' even 'From the Earth to the Moon,' and certainly 'Boomtown' -- these are shows that were incredibly well-respected and high quality, but I couldn't say that week in and week out they were something that people would look forward to because it was going to be fun.
And my whole goal, when I signed on to do this show, was I want to do a fun show. I want to do a show where people look forward to it because they're going to have a really enjoyable hour. Part of it comes out of just watching TV with my kids. I watch most episodes of 'Psych.' It's a fun show.
It is, definitely.
I look forward to it. It's fun every week.
Yeah. And you know, I can sit down to watch an episode of 'Justified,' and I'm pretty sure I won't end up feeling bad about human nature.
About life.
I won't have existential despair at the end of it.
Yeah. I think there's room for those shows.
There's absolutely room. I watch them all! [laughs] But it's a relief to explore something that has elements of darkness but isn't dark.
It's like, "I like these characters, they like hanging out with each other."
Yeah, Elmore's funny. We try to be funny like him.
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Does the Dixie Mafia figure into the season or can you not talk about that?
No, I can talk about it; it just spoils people's enjoyment of the episodes. Let's ruin Christmas while were at it. [laughs] We will see the Dixie Mafia. You'll see an episode four, there's a scene with Emmitt Arnett. Arnett played a big part in episode 7 last year, 'Hatless,' where Raylan goes to try to bail out Gary. So we see Arnett and without giving anything away, we will see [Arnett employee] Wynn Duffy later on in the season. That's our hope, as long as [actor] Jere Burns is available.
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Chapin, SC (WLTX) - For 21 years the Chapin Police Department was crammed in the old town hall, but after ten years of planning, officers now have moved into a new $3.5 million dollar space.
Chapin Police Chief Troy Crump said the old town hall used to be a high school and then became a doctor's office.
"I actually remember going to that doctor's office as a kid," Crump said.
The new town hall has more space for the police department, which includes a victim's assistance room.
Crump also said every officer gets their own office complete with new furniture. There is also a multipurpose room for events.
Employees said they are happy to be moving into a new building during the holidays.


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|What if there is an order one refuses to follow? I am interested in Islam and agree with all the principles (the oneness of God, the angels, the prophets the requirements for prayer, fasting, hajj etc). However, while I understand the purpose and usefulness of hijab for most women (although I have never experienced harassment or discrimination by members of the opposite sex – thank God – but I usually dress conservatively and wear my hair up anyway). I do not think it is something I am willing to follow. My problem comes with whom I can take it off with. I was adopted at birth (biological parents unknown) and my adoptive father is the only family (except my son) I have (and we are all he has). I cringe at the thought of telling him he can no longer see my hair because he is not my real family and he might lust after me. I know it would hurt him, and frankly, I would feel ridiculous explaining it. After all the sacrifices he has made for me, I can not imagine that God would order me to insult him in such a manner or that showing my hair to him or hugging him would be considered unlawful. I do not want to reject Islam all together but I want to know: how serious is it that I fail to follow that order? And, in any event, would it be contradictory to be ordered to honor, respect and obey your father on one hand, and then suggest he may have ill-intentions with you on the other. I am so very confused.
|Ahmad Saad
Thank you for your interest in Islam as well as your interest to make everything crystal clear before you take the step of conversion.
In fact, conversion is such a big step for which a person has to get himself or herself ready. One of the main tenets of Islam is submission to Almighty Allah (God), our Creator, Originator, and Sustainer. This submission is not something that we do due to force or coercion. Rather, it is something which we do as a reflection of our love and dedication.
This love is so very deep in the heart of a Muslim, that it encompasses all his or her movements, directions, and choices. When Allah accepts us amongst His slaves, we are so honored and blessed that we want to show Him this love in everything we do.
As Muslims, we are sure that Allah wants the best for us. He knows what is suitable for us and what is not; and therefore we prefer what He knows to be better than our own choices vis-à-vis His choices. We believe that He is a Merciful God. Even when we lose the whole world, we still have Him and when we have Him, we have everything.
A Muslim sage and well-known scholar of his time, Ibn Ata'illah As-Sakandari says :
"What has he found the one who loses You, and what has he lost the one who found You."
Sometimes, we do not understand certain things, but we are sure that He knows better, just like when we obey our mother or father as little kids, knowing that they genuinely want the best for us in all cases.
Because our knowledge is limited, we tend to judge things from our perspective. Yet, this limited perspective leads to a defective judgment. The wisdom of hijab is not only to cover, because there are many people who are covered from outside but naked from inside.
The wisdom of hijab is far beyond this. It aims at showing love that we conduct ourselves the way Almighty Allah loves to see us. If a lady knows that her husband likes a certain dress, she will be wearing it every day to show him her love and respect.
When a Muslim man or woman listen to the call of the Creator, they understand that, by responding to the call, they are adding meaning to their own life as He told us in the Quran to respond to His call when He calls us to what gives us life.
{O you who believe! answer (the call of) Allah and His Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life; and know that Allah intervenes between man and his heart, and that to Him you shall be gathered.} (Al-Anfal 8:24)
It is us who will win and prosper when we answer the call. You asked, "What if there is an order one refuses to follow?" The thing is, we are not in the army where one person commands and the other accepts or refuses. It is all about love and trust.
Worship that does not emanate from a loving heart cannot have any effect or bear fruit. We worship Allah through loving Him and with this love we will see nothing but obedience in everything.
On top of all this, hijab is an experience and no one can judge it except the one who has experienced it. Therefore, I advise you to give yourself some time and think deeper about things; try to put on the hijab to feel it, because I do not think we should base our judgments on theory.
No one can know the pains of a pregnant woman except a pregnant woman. Even her husband who is next to her cannot tell exactly how she feels. No father feels what it is like to be a father until he gets a child and becomes a real father.
There are things that cannot be described by words. Rather, we can know them through experience. I want you to live the experience with a true intention and genuine call to Allah to show you the truth and enlighten your heart and He will.
When you pass this experience, you will feel a change. Look at yourself a few years ago; did you even expect any change in your views then? Now, look at yourself and see how many views you have changed based on your experience.
It is good to answer many questions in our life through the accumulation of experiences. Such answers are more truthful, more satisfying, and more practical.
I hope that through your experience with hijab, you will be able to decide what to say to your stepfather. I am not going to tell you a clear-cut action or a religious view here. Rather, I will leave you to experience the hijab. The experience will help you to decide later how to present the whole concept to your stepfather and how to approach him about this new change in your life.
When you speak then, you will speak with a tongue of an experienced person and a tongue of experienced person is more truthful.
I hope this answers your question. Please, keep in touch.
Useful links:
Talking to My Mother About Hijab
Hijab: Is It All About Appearance?
Hijab: An Insult to Unveiled Women?
Hijab: A Guarantee for Protection?
Islamic Scholarship and the Hijab
Is Refusing Hijab a Form of Treason?
Modesty of Appearance… in Hijab?


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Goucher vs. Elizabethtown
April 24, 2002
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|Mike Harper
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|Andy Behles
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|Michael Amash
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|Reeves Craig
|2 (0.667)
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|Justin Mcquaid
|(1, 0)
|Allen Churchman
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|Matt Newell
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|Brian Burke
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|TOWSON, MD - Goucher College was :01 away today from allowing an opponent to
score only one goal in a game for just the second time in school history. The
Gophers (9-6) gave up a goal right before time expired in the fourth quarter,
but still came away with an 8-2 triumph over Elizabethtown (5-8).
Goalkeepers Michael Amash (Guilderland, NY/Christian Brothers Academy), who was
making his 60th consecutive start for Goucher, and Reeves Craig (San Antonio,
TX/St. Mary's Hall) combined to make 11 saves in the victory, which assures the
Gophers of a winning record in 2002. Amash, the all-time leader in career saves
at Goucher with 756, stopped nine shots and allowed only a fourth-period goal
by Justin McQuaid. Craig entered the game with 9:11 remaining and made two
saves before giving up the late goal to Matt Newell.
The last time Goucher allowed an opponent only two goals in a game was a 12-2
triumph over Franklin & Marshall in 1998. Back in 1994, the Gophers defeated
Villa Julie, 17-1.
Three Goucher players scored as many goals today as the entire Elizabethtown team. Phil Anthony (Flemington, NJ/Hunterdon Central) tallied the Gophers' only goals in the first and fourth quarters, allowing him to tie the single-season school record of 47 goals by an individual. In addition to contributing a pair of goals to the victory, T. Scott Robertson (Greenwood Village, CO/Cherry Creek) won nine of the 12 face-offs he attempted. With his two goals today, Qadir Stern (Lower Merion, PA/Lower Merion) moved into a tie for second place in career goals at Goucher with 121. Regis D'Angelo (Hampstead, MD/North Carroll) and Max Agee (Towson, MD/Towson) accounted for Goucher's other two goals.
Goucher's man-down defense didn't allow a goal on any of the Blue Jays' five extra-man opportunities. For the season, the Gophers have 64 stops on 79 extra-man situations (.810).


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The Sugar Killerz - 4x Cooperative madness Dealspwn review by Jonathan Lester Version: Xbox360 Mark: Highly recommended
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The Sugar Killerz - Dealspwn review by Jonathan Lester
Goodness me, we've certainly got a lot of twinstick shooters on the Xbox Live Indie marketplace. And here's another one. 400 Microsoft Points is a seriously big ask for a colourful, shallow clone – so the The Sugar Killerz has to work very hard to justify its price tag.
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The Sugar Killerz may have a terrible name, but it's far from a terrible game. High production values and rampant, ridiculous fun is the order of the day.
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Director Goran Rebic's movie Donau, Duna, Dunaj, Dunav, Dunarea from Lotus Film features 3 Piranha Musik tracks . Starring Robert Stadelober as Bruno, this 90-minute work tells of a young man who is attempting to grant his mother's dying wish of being buried at sea. Bruno must convince a captain, Franz (Otto Sander), to take him on this sad, watery journey.
The song which is used in this scene is Disco Dzumbus by Piranha Musik artists the Boban Markovic Orkestar.
This semi-documentary short film tells the story of Oury Jalloh, an asylum-seeker from Sierra Leone who lives in Germany. Forbidden to work or leave his city, he gradually begins a silent struggle against governmental heteronomy and social exclusion. The song Mama by Bantu ft. Ayuba was used in this scene. "Oury Jalloh" recieved the 2008 German Human Rights Film Award (Deutschen Menschenrechts-Filmpreis 2008)For more information visit:
Leonora is an Argentinian feature film about a 25 year old university student named Julia. Two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, she is charged with the murder of the father of the child and sent to prison. Chango Spasiuk`s "Mi pueblo, Mi casa, Mi soledad" was used in this picture, chosen for the official selection of the Festival de Cannes. (Director: Pablo Trapero/ Production company: Matanza Cine)
(Peledao- Eleven friends and One Beauty Queen) A documentary from Jörn Schoppe, "Peledao" depicts an annual Brazilian soccer tournament with over 1,000 teams from every social class. The twist is that every team must have a beauty queen who is participating in a beauty peagent at the same time. Should their queen win the prize, she can use her new power to bring an excluded team back into the tournament. For this scene the director chose the dynamic song "Proibido Chochilar" by brazilian group Cabruera. The Peladao soundtrack features additional music by Cabruera as well as by fellow Piranha artist Anastacia Azevedo.
Boris Kovac`s "Danza Transilvania" was used in this short film by an emerging young director Attila Veres, based in Budapest. "One Bullet" was chosen for the competition of an international polish film festival.
(Norwegian director Line Halvorsen/ Norsk Filminstitut) This documentary depicts the lives of three boys in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Betlehem whose 13 year old friend has just been killed by Israeli soldiers. In this scene "Lama Bada Yata Sama" by Jalilah ft. H. Shaker provides the emotional backdrop. "A Stone`s Throw away" was awarded the prize for the best documentary at the Norwegian Film and Short Film Festivals.
Produced by Platige Image, Fallen Art is the 2nd short animation directed by Tomek Baginski, following up his Oscar-nominated Cathedral. Among other distinctions, Fallen Art won awards at the Arizona and Beverly Hills Film Festivals. Fanfare Ciocarlia supports the main scene of the movie with their song Asphalt Tango.For more information visit:
In this animated film by Agata Gorzqdek, a lonely clown looks for a brotherly hand in the crowd. Boris Kovac`s song Orient Express" sets the mood. The film was awarded Best Film by a Student at the Polish National Festival of Original Animated Films Krakow 2008 - Grand Prix.
Süd-Chemie AG is a highly-innovative chemical company operating on a worldwide. Süd-Chemie's catalysts and adsorbents divisions offer products and technical solutions to facilitate effective use of resources in customer value chains. For the company's 150th anniversary, Piranha Musik was commissioned to compile, clear rights and produce an international 16-track CD, a special gift for Süd-Chemie's employees around the world.
Berlin's Werkstatt der Kulturen is an institution dedicated to presentation of cultural diversity through arts and culture. One of the largest annual events organised by the Werkstatt der Kulturen is the multi-day Carnival of Cultures, since 1996 one of Berlin's most important street festivals. Piranha Music was commissioned to compile, clear rights and produce a double CD give-away for the Carnival of Cultures.
Home House is London's most exclusive 'Private Members Club' offering personal service in all areas of the House. Members and their guests can savour the atmosphere of Home House at home, in the car or on their iPod with the CD At Home House. Sold exclusively at Selfridges and Harvey Nichols department stores in London, this CD's packaging was inspired by the Home House crocodile mascot. The music is an eclectic mix from around the world and includes Piranha Musik's Boban Markovic Orkestar.For more information visit:
Piranha Musik artist Gino Sitson lends his musical voice to the parallel universe of Dodo, a science fiction fairy tale for youngsters and adults published by Lauscherlounge Records. Dodo- Part 1 received an Audio CD Award Hörspiel des Monats (audio CD of the month).For more information visit:
Der Prinzessin 2 is the sequel of the highly sucessful audio CD Der Prinzessin which was rated Best Audio CD for Adults in 2006. Der Prinzessin 2 is expected to be released in December 2008 on Lauscherlounge Records. Boris Kovac's songs Slow for Julia and The last Balkan Tango create a very unique mood in this audio CD.For more information visit:
Capito! Was prophezeite Josef dem Pharao? Produced by the Bayerischen Rundfunks' radioWissen", this audio book series aims to teach children bible stories. Ali Ismail's Ranet al khul khal sets the scene for the tale of Joseph and the Pharoh of Egypt.


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Ford announced that they will begin licensing their inflatable safety belt technology to other industries, including competing car companies. The goal is to increase wider adoption of these safety belts so that passengers in a wide variety of vehicles can have better safety.
The inflatable safety belt has been used already in a number of Ford and Lincoln vehicles since 2010, and has helped lessen passenger injuries, especially among the elderly and children. Ford says this technology has potential applications in military, airplane, helicopter and water travel as well.
The technology works by inflating a conventional looking seatbelt in the event of a crash, which allows for up to five times the area of a traditional seatbelt. This distributes the crash forces across an occupant's torso, meaning less pressure on the chest and less head and neck motion.
You can currently get the inflatable safety belt on the Ford Explorer, Flex and Fusion for second row passengers. The new aluminum 2015 F-150 will soon have it optional, as well as the Lincoln MKT and MKZ luxury cars.
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This ax is typical of those imported from England in the 17th and early 18th centuries. With a lightweight poll, this type of ax soon proved impractical in the huge forests of North America and was supplanted by axes of American design with heavier polls. These axes were typical in colonial era shipyards before 1740.
Size: 8" long, 7" wide cutting edge, 2" long and 1" wide poll, 31" long handle.


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A Thing Called Divine Fits is the first collaborative album between Britt Daniel of Spoon and Dan Boeckner, formerly of the Handsome Furs, but the record could also be seen as a pilot for a buddy cop show. Daniel is known for his coiled intensity, built over the 15 years he's been the frontman for a band that specializes in a consistent type of sleek and deceptively simple guitar-driven indie rock that's not exactly fashionable but rarely out of style. Boeckner is known for his emotionality, and he spent most of the '00s trying to fit his rugged, muscular style into various guises including the often anthemic Wolf Parade and the often confrontational husband-wife duo Handsome Furs. While Daniel looks friendly in photos, like a math teacher, Boeckner looks like the rebellious student who'd skip math class to go smoke cigarettes. The contrast between these two befits the Lethal Weapon tagline: "If these two can learn to stand each other… The bad guys don't stand a chance."
Lucky for listeners, it seems that these two can do much more than stand each other; they feed off of each other. Working with drummer Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks, Boeckner and Daniel don't do too much to mess with the individual template each has established as an artist. Daniel still sounds cool and removed; Boeckner still sounds nervous and passionate. But, just like in any decent buddy cop movie, the two ultimately learn from each other. For one thing, Boeckner's voice is allowed to take center stage. Freed from the roaring prog-rock ambitions of his Wolf Parade cohort Spencer Krug, he sounds reinvigorated on the opening synth-pop track "My Love Is Real." "I will not sleep until I've tried every way to bring your little black heart back," he sings over a prickly beat, and he sounds more determined than ever.
While Boeckner gets to show off his songwriting gifts ("Civilian Stripes" is an acoustic-driven standout), Daniel gets to do a little swaggering around, flirting with ideas that might be considered too straightforward or silly for Spoon. Where the last two Spoon albums featured bits of soul-indebted retro-pop and the occasional garage-rock slow-burn, they were often so stripped down they sounded like they were constructed in a lab where Daniel and the his team of pop scientists peeled the skin off of great rock songs to see how few bones they needed to walk.
With Divine Fits Daniel takes a less clinical approach. On "Flaggin A Ride" he conjures some of that Girls Can Tell and Kill The Moonlight simplicity, but here the guitars take on a quivering, hallucinatory edge as the song builds to a close. Other songs find Daniel experimenting with joyous synth-pop ("Would That Not Be Nice"), mannered krautrock ("The Salton Sea") and even a cover (Boys Next Door's "Shivers"). He gets to show off his range and try new things. That's what side projects are for.
If the album has a significant weakness, it's that despite the impressive attention to detail and the impeccable production work, the record can't quite shake that side-project feeling. Perhaps it's because Spoon and Wolf Parade albums often feel like mini-events, but the Divine Fits can't help but feel like a spinoff or like a special crossover episode—think when the New York detectives from Law And Order would team up with the Baltimore crew of Homicide: Life On The Street. It's fun to see characters you know and love interact with each other in new situations, but they always seem a little stilted, a little out of place. I bet the sequel will be better.


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Bring a taste of Spain home for you and three friends: This memorable springtime dinner stars a range of simple Spanish dishes and décor inspired by the Moorish influences of southern Spain. With unfussy yet delicious food and drink, this menu lets you focus on what's most important--your guests.
With a small, four-person dinner, don't let patterns or color overwhelm the table. Instead, focus on a few standout pieces, like the bright Talavera Melamine serving line from our partner, Pottery Barn. To round out the table with some color, use smaller pieces like terra-cotta Cambria Tidbit Plates ($18 for 4) for dessert and appetizers. Consider the best qualities of your dishes--such as the striking yellows of the saffron allioli in the menu--and highlight these, using similarly hued serveware like these yellow dinner plates ($40 for 4).
For an intimate evening gathering, candles and flowers are a must. Addison Glass Candle Holders ($14) add height to the table; select a mix of white hydrangeas and yellow roses for a striking floral arrangement.
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Nod your head to a snappy, catchy new track from Spanish indie-pop artist Bebe while sipping a summery white-port cocktail, and dig into white gazpacho--aka ajo blanco, an Andalusian classic--to the tunes of flamenco guitar great Paco de Lucía.
By the time the roasted apricots are served, you'll have heard an eclectic mix of new and classic Spanish and Latin artists, plus one Algerian, a nod to the historic relationship between North Africa and Spain. Click here for the full playlist, including favorites such as:
"Adiós" - Bebe
"Mama Tierra" - Macaco
"The Boxer" - Paulinha Pirez
"Volare" - Gipsy Kings
The Cocktail: Port Punch
Tawny port, a fortified red wine from the Douro region of Portugal, is most commonly served as a dessert wine, typically alongside blue cheese or chocolate. But lesser-known white port is typically served as an apéritif, where its nutty stone-fruit flavors shine.
For our Port Punch, we combined it with txakolí, an effervescent dry white wine from the Basque region of Spain, then made it an especially summery sipper by adding peach brandy, mint sprigs and slices of fresh peach.
White wines with a mineral quality are especially great with seafood such as shrimp a la plancha. Verdejo wines can sometimes be overly fruity, but a bottle made from old, ungrafted vines has lots of citrus and stone notes. If you'd like a richer, more complex wine, consider Fino sherries. For dessert, look to Spain's neighbor, Madeira, which makes some of the finest sweet wines in the world.
2010 Ermita de Nieve Verdejo Rueda ($12)
Valdespino "Inocente" Single Vineyard Fino Jerez ($19 for 375 ml)
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Sufi Soul - Sounds of South Asia
Presented by American Islamic Congress
April 19, 2013
Berklee student and Bangladeshi-born Armeen Musa plays traditional Sufi spiritual music in celebration of her South Asian heritage. Presented as part of AIC's Muslim Women in the Arts art and culture series. About Armeen: Armeen Musa is a singer/songwriter and arranger from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her journey in music begins from her teenage year performing in the Underground music scene in Dhaka which led to her debut album released in 2008. From Dhaka she has ventured to performing and recording in the UK, Canada and finally the US where she currently is studying at the Berklee College of Music. She has performed with many internationally acclaimed artists including Joey Blake, Bobby McFerrin, Arnob, Kishon Khan, Fazal Qureshi and Mark Mondesir. Armeen is currently producing the soundtrack of British Bangladeshi film "Shongram" and is working on an an electronica EP with Rousseau Mannan with whom she runs an online record label ME Label.
Her latest EP with guitarist Zak Dylan Wass is being released in April.
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Solar companies among Inc.'s top job creators
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Inc. Magazine just released its 'Hire Power' award winners for 2012, and among the top 100 were a number of solar companies, with SolarCity making the top 10 overall and five solar companies making the top 10 list among all energy companies. It's the first year for the list and it shows that solar is among the top job creators among small businesses in the U.S.
The entrepreneur- and business-focussed magazine offers business-minded people information, advice, insights and resources to help them build and grow their businesses. In the latest issue, it announced the Hire Power Awards and the 10 biggest job creators in America. "They've created an astounding 33,413 jobs in three years, and top Inc.'s inaugural Hire Power Awards. Some are already well known; others you may not have heard of yet. But together, they are all helping to rebuild the economy and put Americans back to work," the magazine said.
The only solar company to make the top 10 list was SolarCity. The magazine said that in the past three years the third-party ownership solar installer has 1,381 employees, has created 989 jobs over the past three years and is expected to grow. "Thanks to a partnership with Walmart to install solar units on Walmart stores in California, Colorado, and Arizona, as well as an initiative to provide solar energy to 120,000 military homes, SolarCity's growing workforce will be kept quite busy for the foreseeable future," Inc. reported.
SolarCity explained that its employee base grew by more than 252 percent and in 11 states over the three-year period Inc. studied. "SolarCity's award win shines a light on the whole solar industry which has driven job creation eight times faster than the overall economy," said SolarCity's VP of Human Resources, Linda Keala.
The magazine also broke the Hire Power Awards into different business segments and in the Energy sector solar companies were atop and at the bottom of the top 10 list, with the aforementioned SolarCity taking the top spot and Massachusetts-based Solectria Renewables, an inverter manufacturer, taking the bottom spot. Solectria has 122 employees according to the report, with 105 of them being added in the past three years.
Solectria has also grown since the magazine ranked it. It said it now has 160 employees in positions that include engineering, quality, customer service, assembly, administration, sales, marketing and management. "Solectria Renewables is extremely honored to receive this prestigious award from Inc. Magazine," said Solectria COOAybike Doganci Crott, at an award ceremony. "Solectria Renewables has been profitable for over 6 years, doubling or tripling sales each year. With this amount of growth, our staff has grown tremendously and we predict this will continue," she said.
Other solar companies that made the Hire Power top 10 in Energy list are Trinity Solar, Verengo Solar—both installers, and Xtreme Power, which manufactures and operates integrated energy storage and power management systems, for customers from individuals to utilities.


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Fat Tuesday was yesterday, but that didn't stop us from frying up our own batch of Dairy, Egg and Nut Free Apple Cinnamon Doughnuts. In my life before FA (Food Allergies), I loved to make a special trip to my local bakery for a Paczki (pronounced poonchki). Often I would choose a raspberry or custard filled version, but really any type was delicious.
Speaking of doughnuts, my all time favorite hails from Long Grove, Illinois, a beautiful little historic village about 40 minutes north of Chicago. Every fall I would go there with my mom and sister for lunch and shopping. The village boasts adorable antique and speciality shops as well as their famous Long Grove Confectionery Shoppe. But the real draw for me always was the Apple Haus; home of the gorgeous apple pie baked in a brown bag. The pie is amazing, but the real secret of this place is its Apple Cinnamon Doughnuts. Oh I can see them now all lined up on big baking sheets, sold as fast as they're brought in.
I've taken John to Long Grove only twice for Apple Fest and Chocolate Fest, but often wished he could share the same sentimental experience of going to the Apple Haus that I had all those years growing up. I had to create the perfect replica of that special Apple Cinnamon Doughnut, just so John could know what a freshly baked doughnut tastes like. And so here it is: The Best Dairy, Egg and Nut Free Apple Cinnamon Doughnuts you or kids will ever have. I think this version rivals anything made in a true neighborhood bakery. The best part is they are super easy to make, require no rise time and very little kneading. Making them with your kids is a blast because they get to shake their warm doughnuts in a brown paper lunch bag filled with cinnamon sugar. I guarantee you'll love these.
4 ¬Ĺ- 4 ¬ĺ c. unbleached all purpose flour
3 ¬Ĺ tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
¬Ĺ tsp. nutmeg
¬ĺ c. unsweetened applesauce
2 tsp. vanilla
¬ĺ c. granulated sugar
3 T. dairy free margarine, melted
1 c. soy or rice milk
Vegetable oil for frying
Cinnamon Sugar for rolling
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2 tsp. cinnamon
In a large heavy pot heat 2-3 inches of vegetable oil until candy thermometer reaches 375 degrees.
Meanwhile, in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment combine applesauce, vanilla and sugar. Add margarine and mix well. In a separate medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon with a wire whisk. Add flour mixture and soy milk alternatively with margarine mixture. Add more flour if needed to make a smooth and not too sticky dough.
Transfer dough to a lightly floured board. Knead for about a minute and roll out to a ¬Ĺ inch thick circle. Dip doughnut cutter into flour and cut into dough. Remove trimmings and reroll, repeating process.
Slide just a few doughnuts carefully into hot oil, being careful not to crowd the pot. Fry until doughnuts rise to the surface, about 2 minutes and turn over with metal tongs to fry other side. Doughnuts should be golden brown on both sides. Lift with metal tongs and drain on paper towels.
Place cinnamon sugar mixture in brown paper lunch bag. Place warm doughnuts, one at a time in brown bags and shake to coat. Shake off excess sugar and place on serving platter. Repeat with remaining doughnuts.
Yield: 12 doughnuts and 12 holes
(Note: If you don't have a donut cutter, instead use a 3 inch biscuit cutter. To make the donut hole use an empty and sterilized medicine bottle without the cap. Poke the hole in the middle of the circle and out will pop the hole. This is a time tested trick my mom used in the kitchen.)


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Medial tibial stress syndrome, or "shin splints," is an overuse injury caused by repetitive stress placed on the lower legs while running and exercising. This stress can lead to inflammation of the tibia (shin bone), which causes the pain. Flat feet also may contribute to this condition. Symptoms include pain along the shin bone, pain before, during, and/or after activity, and tenderness to the touch.
The standard treatment for shin splints is rest, ice, and compression, along with ice massage along the tibia. Those who suffer from shin splints also should "change up" their exercise routines by swimming or biking instead of running.
To prevent shin splints, be sure to properly stretch and strengthen for athletic activity. Wear the proper shoes for your activity, avoid running on uneven surfaces, and when training, progress your activity gradually.
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Ventura approves funding to repair beach bike path
Coastal watchdogs, outdoor enthusiasts, fairgrounds officials and community leaders finally succeeded in their 15-year campaign to relocate and replace a crumbling bike path along Ventura's coastline.
The Ventura City Council this week approved a $1.6 million contract to begin the first half of a beach restoration effort that has been hailed as a model environmental approach to stabilize and restore 1,800 feet of beach near the Ventura County Fairgrounds.
Often referred to as "managed retreat" or shoreline retreat, the project will relocate the crumbling bike and pedestrian trail on the seaward side of Shoreline Drive about 65 feet inland near the fairgrounds.
Once the path and an adjacent parking lot are relocated, 26,000 tons of cobblestone would be spread at water's edge, adding to the rocky shoreline. Sand then would be laid over the cobble to help restore the area to a more natural beach habitat and prevent future erosion. Improvements also will be made to stormwater outlets that discharge into the ocean. The work is set to begin after Labor Day — to avoid the summer holiday season and the Ventura County Fair, set to run Aug. 4-15.
City officials pledged continuous beach and bike access during construction. "To actually see this happen on the ground is going to be a big day for Ventura," said Paul Jenkin, environment director of the Ventura County chapter of the Surfrider Foundation. The group has spent more than a decade working toward a solution and considers it one of its top priorities, along with the removal of the Matilija Dam.
Jenkin said he first spoke in favor of the innovative approach to avoid a sea wall in 1995. He praised Councilman Brian Brennan, an early supporter, and Assistant Public Works Director Rick Raives for his patience and success in securing some $3 million in grant funding to make the first phase a reality.
The city is working on an informational kiosk to make beachgoers aware of the project. The Surfrider group will help to provide outreach materials, and are producing a short video to support the project, Jenkin said.
The effort is a national model for environmental stewardship, according to state Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, who has written letters of support.
The California Coastal Commission unanimously adopted a construction permit in 2006, and the project has drawn great attention from coastal experts and enthusiasts eager to watch the project's effectiveness. The fairgrounds agreed to give up some of its property to make it all fit.
This "is an innovative approach to dealing with erosion and sea-level rise using a variety of techniques to sustain the shoreline ecology and protect a popular beach," said Sam Schuchat, executive officer of the State Coastal Conservancy, which contributed a $1.5 million grant toward the project. "As the ocean rises, we expect this to become a model for restoration efforts along all parts of the coast."
Elements of the first phase, include:
n Removal of roughly half of the existing damaged parking lot closest to the Ventura River estuary.
n Widen a roughly 900-foot stretch of beach by 60 feet.
n Place 26,000 tons of small cobblestones along the beach to provide erosion protection and import 18,000 tons of new sand to cover the cobble.
n Shorten Shoreline Drive and construct new cul-de-sac.
n Relocate 1,200 feet of the pedestrian and bike path, and install path lighting.
n Construct new rainwater-permeable parking areas on fairgrounds property.
n Install a new stormwater system, including a grass bioswale along the bike path and a stormwater filtration system to treat runoff before it reaches the river estuary and ocean.
Unfunded future phases, likely to cost upward of $3 million, would remove the remaining half of the damaged parking lot and cover it with cobble and sand, add landscaping and restrooms, and create a larger overflow parking area covered with "grasscrete," a pervious concrete ground cover with slots for drainage and grass but sturdy enough for vehicles.
"We may be able to pick off certain pieces as money becomes available," Raives said.
The project's history has been far from a day at the beach.
Initially projected to cost a few million dollars, construction and construction management costs at one point ballooned to $9 million during the housing boom because of the rising cost of materials and added public amenities.
Ventura also was unsuccessful in its bid for $5 million in federal stimulus funds for "shovel-ready" proposals.
Backers had to come to its defense at the time when the beach restoration plan was cast as frivolous by a Wall Street Journal opinion piece on projects it felt unworthy for federal funds.
Former Mayor Brennan said the editorial's authors likely didn't take the time to understand a plan that "may be frivolous sounding in name, but is a well-respected project."
Not all bad came out of the opinion piece, he said. Since its printing, coastal cities in North Carolina and other states have called Ventura wanting to learn more about the progressive approach and he's been asked to present the plan at a smart growth conference this year.
On Tuesday evening, Ventura residents Dick and Sherry Stoneman were walking along the path. They were dubious about the eroded sections, metal debris in the sand and the bulky concrete barriers to keep people at a distance. Already a famed surf spot, Dick Stoneman said the stretch of beach "has a chance to become something we can all be proud of."
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