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While abroad, you will not only have assistance from the program sponsor and/or host institution, but the Office of International Programs will be happy to assist in any way possible! You are encouraged to maintain regular communication with your Study Abroad Advisor throughout your time abroad.
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Cultural Fatigue
Upon arriving in your host country, you may notice vast differences between life abroad and your life at home. You will encounter a multitude of new concepts, from unfamiliar language and hand gestures to strange food and buildings. These differences can be exciting and fun, and exposure to different cultures is one of the primary benefits of studying abroad!
In some cases, though, these differences can lead to a kind of cultural fatigue. Cultural fatigue means a feeling of disorientation that may occur when a person leaves familiar places and tries to continue normal daily activities outside the safety-net of customary patterns of communication and social interactions. Cultural fatigue is normal, and the tiredness and stress that result from having to get along in such unfamiliar surroundings can feel overwhelming, even to seasoned travelers.
Symptoms of Cultural Fatigue
If you experience cultural fatigue to any extent, don't be alarmed or ashamed � it's normal and will get better as you become acclimated to your host country's culture. There are several things you can do to help reduce this feeling.
How to Fight Cultural Fatigue
Can I register for a course abroad that I did not have pre-approved for credit at SIUE?
Yes. You may find that a course you had pre-approved is no longer offered or you may have discovered a new class that you would like to take. For whatever reason, if you plan to register for a course that you did not have pre-approved, you should email your Study Abroad Advisor as soon as possible, and ideally before you enroll in the course. In your email, include the course title, course description (or link to syllabus) and the hours of instruction. The Study Abroad Advisor will contact the appropriate Department Chair on your behalf. This process may take some time, so plan to contact the Study Abroad Coordinator as soon as you know of your interest in the course. Do not wait until the final day of registration at your host institution. If your Study Abroad Advisor is able to work out a course approval in your absence, you will be contacted by email regarding the course equivalency information. Keep in mind that you should have planned for this occurrence and obtained approval for additional alternate course options prior to your departure. Ultimately the obtaining approval at SIUE for the courses in which you enroll abroad is the student's responsibility. Often it is easier to wait until you return to SIUE to seek departmental approval on a course taken abroad.
If I plan to travel independently while I am abroad, do I need to inform anyone about my travel plans?
Yes, absolutely! It is very common for students to travel to nearby cities or countries during weekends or breaks. Many students make arrangements to travel and sightsee with other students in their same program. If you plan to travel within or outside of your host country at anytime while abroad, you should plan to notify your on-site director(s) and your parents. This is extremely important in the case of an emergency either abroad or at home. Someone should know how to contact you at all times.
What should I do if I lose my passport?
If you lose your passport while abroad, you should notify your on-site director. You will also need to notify the nearest U.S. Embassy that your passport has been lost or stolen. You should have kept a copy of your passport in a location separate from the original, for this purpose. For additional information about replacing a lost or stolen passport, visit the U.S. Department of State webpage on Lost or Stolen Passports. If you have an ISIC card, you may be able to file an insurance claim for all or part of your travel document replacement costs. See the ISIC Description of Coverage for more information.
How can the U.S. Embassy assist me while I am abroad?
Consular officials at U.S. Embassies help U.S. citizens abroad. To help the U.S. Embassy assist you while you are abroad, be sure to register your trip with the Department of State prior to your departure. Consular officials provide many different services both emergency and non-emergency services. Emergency services include assistance with:
Can I vote while abroad from outside the United States?
Yes, it's easy to do! Go to www.fvap.gov, the official U.S. Government website for overseas absentee voting information, to start the process.There are also resources and information about voting while studying abroad at Youth Vote Overseas.


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Complete the visa application form DS-160 for each person applying for a visa, even babies and children who may be included in a parent's passport. Please note the following points:
- In the "Travel Information Section" please ensure that you select the correct visa category under "Purpose of Trip to the U.S". Once the visa class has been selected, click on "Specify" and choose from the drop down list.
- You must upload a digital photo. Please read carefully requirements to upload your photo and the photo specifications before you begin completing your application. If the photo you upload is not accepted as suitable, you will be given the option to continue without one. If you choose to do this, you must bring with you to the interview a photograph which meets the above photo specifications - click here to view a video clip explaining this further.
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NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Fertility Experts Dr. Zev Rosenwaks and Dr. Marc Goldstein Share Information on Common Fertility Problems, New Treatment Options and When to Seek Help
New York (Aug 20, 2010)
Infertility affects about 7 million Americans -- that's about one in six couples during their childbearing years. There are many reasons for infertility, with equal chances it's his medical issue as it is hers. A new book, A Baby at Last!: The Couples' Complete Guide to Getting Pregnant (Fireside Books, Simon and Schuster), points the way for couples to get past the emotionally wrenching obstacle of infertility and finally bring home their bundle of joy.
The book is written by Dr. Zev Rosenwaks and Dr. Marc Goldstein, two world-renowned fertility specialists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. They draw from years of experience to provide guidance and advice to couples, sharing a wealth of information on the most-up-to-date therapies, many of them developed and perfected at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, as well as real stories from their actual patients. The book is co-written with Mark Fuerst.
"The common misconception is that fertility is a woman's issue, but it happens just as frequently in men. This is why a couples-based solution is imperative," says Dr. Rosenwaks, director of The Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine and the Revlon Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell. "There are many reasons a couple may find it hard to get pregnant, and these reasons can stem from a problem with either or both partners. In about 40 percent of infertile couples, the man has a problem. In another 40 percent, the woman has a problem. And in 20 percent both partners have a problem."
"Fertility is, on the face of things, a very simple process. It's a matter of getting the sperm and egg together. But the variables are plentiful, and as many couples find, it's easy for something to go wrong. The good news is that couples have more treatment options than ever before," says Dr. Marc Goldstein, director of the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine and Microsurgery and the Hardy Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Urology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
Only a few decades ago, there were no drugs to induce ovulation, no microsurgical techniques to unclog fallopian tubes in women or blocked ducts in men, and in vitro fertilization was just a dream. Now cutting-edge treatments, including microsurgery for varicoceles (varicose veins in the scrotum), the most common cause of male infertility; intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for men with low sperm counts; and endometrial-cell coculture, a special technique for women with poor embryo quality, are further increasing couples' ability to conceive. Nonsurgical methods for improving fertility --diet, exercise, and other lifestyle adjustments -- are similarly advanced.
The authors also offer advice on when to seek a medical evaluation. If a woman is younger than 35 and hasn't conceived after 12 months of unprotected sex, the couple should consult with their doctor. If the woman is 35 or older, they should wait only six months. If the male has a history of treatment for cancer, surgery for undescended testicles or a varicocele, or if the female has a history of irregular or no menstrual periods, a history of cancer treatments with radiation or chemotherapy, or repeated miscarriages without successful births, the couple should seek help as soon as they start planning to achieve pregnancy.
Fertility Tips
Even in the best of circumstances, the chances that a woman will get pregnant are about one in four each month. Drs. Goldstein and Rosenwaks offer some tips on natural ways to boost fertility:
- Have sexual intercourse regularly, especially during the woman's most fertile time of the month. Couples seeking to get pregnant should have intercourse two to three times a week. They can also time sex for her most fertile period. As a rule of thumb, if she counts the first day of her period as day one, and she has regular periods every 28 to 30 days, the couple should try every other day starting on day 12 to 16 or so. Use ovulation kits available in pharmacies.
- Be healthy. Don't smoke, limit alcohol intake, reduce stress, exercise regularly and moderately, eat healthy foods, take vitamins and avoid environmental toxins. Men should avoid excessive heat and tight-fitting shorts. Women should limit caffeine intake and maintain some body fat.
- Check your meds. Medications like anabolic steroids that contain testosterone can reduce male fertility. Illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine can interfere with ovulation. Some drugs for hair growth, hypertension and Crohn's disease can also affect fertility. Check with your doctor.
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Hi! My name is Jenny (I also go by Jen, Jennifer, JD, Jenna, or Beezu (by my little brother-long story!)- depends on who you ask :) That's me with my husband George (Geo for short) up there. I'm... read more
Hi! My name is Jenny (I also go by Jen, Jennifer, JD, Jenna, or Beezu (by my little brother-long story!)- depends on who you ask :) That's me with my husband George (Geo for short) up there. I'm originally from NYC but moved to Rochester, NY in 2006 for grad school working towards a Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Rochester. I graduated in 2013, along with Geo, who also has a PhD (in Chemistry). He's recently been hired as a post-doc at Berkeley (so proud of him <3), which is how we are now in the Bay Area!
Before I go on, I must stop and thank Geo who has been my partner in crime every step of the way in starting this business these past few years. While Geo may say this is my business, we are in fact a husband and wife team! Geo has been there with me by my side as my "assistant" at every wedding and I couldn't do this without him! We've been married since 10.10.2010 and every second has been amazing and continues to be so.
So now for a little more of my story. I had a really hard time during my graduate program so I discovered a love for photography a sort of outlet from all things grad school. My amazing parents bought me a DSLR for passing my qualifying exam (basically one big torture-fest that determines whether you can continue with the program). At around the same time, I was researching photographers for my own wedding and was inspired by all the beautiful photos. I took this fancy new camera to the many friends weddings we were invited to that year and got rave reviews with the photos I took! For fun (and for more of that outlet thing) I decided to try to take a whack at this photography thing! In order to get more experience, I asked some friend couples to do portrait shoots with me (thank you Steph & Dan, Matt & Ria, Doug & Chelsea). After seeing these, some super awesome people gave me a chance at really doing this and hired me as their wedding photographer (thank you to my awesome cousins Lauren & Ryan, and Andy & Diana, and some awesome peeps Julie & Jon, Nicole & Justin, Sarah & Sky, Sarah & Brendan, Karin & Beau, and Lisa & Mark for giving me a chance and booking me when I first started).
Technically my business has started with the help of these awesome people back in late 2010. I'd say I officially got this business up and kicking in 2012 when I've been fortunate enough to have shot a huge number of amazing weddings. Grad school was rough but, they've helped me make it through. I'm so thankful to have been a part of so many amazing and creative weddings and to have met some amazing people!
I'm seeing myself get better and better and more creative with each wedding I shoot. I am a perfectionist when it comes to photography and I always go above and beyond to capture amazing photos. I continue to strive for the best and can only get better. I love shooting weddings and enjoy all the emotions associated with them; from planning, to watching your day unfold, to that moment you realize you'll be spending the rest of your life with your best friend. Capturing someone's special day and giving people those memories in photo form is something I've been so fortunate to experience and I absolutely love it. Most couples put their heart and soul into planning their wedding and want a photographer to do the same in capturing it. I only invest my heart and soul into things I love, which would be my family (including my cats!) and my photos.
Doing wedding photography is my dream and I really want to pursue this. I hope you enjoy my photos and if you're interested in hiring me (and helping make my dream a reality!) drop me a message through my contact page on my website!
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Flurry finds apps now preferred to web on phones
Use of mobile apps has grown to where they're now overtaking the web as the preferred format on phones, Flurry said in a new study on Monday. Where the web was still the most used in a given day a year ago at 64 minutes per day versus 43, the situation has now reversed. As of this month, phone owners spend about 81 minutes in apps per day and an increased but still lower 74 minutes on the web, marking the first time the web wasn't the main avenue.
The data was based on about a half-billion transactions per day and included Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows Phone, and the feature phone-oriented J2ME.
The reversal stemmed mostly from the rapid rise of Android and iOS apps, both of which soared in popularity over the past year. Many were switching their devices on more often rather than using them for longer stretches of time.
On the mobile web, Facebook was the most frequent platform of choice and accounted for about 14 minutes, even with the existence of a native app on virtually every major platform. The interest may help explain Facebook's decision to launch Project Spartan, which would put many Facebook games on the HTML5-based web and take attention back from apps.
Among apps themselves, games were still the dominant factors at 47 percent of all time spent, or about 38 minutes. Social networking like Facebook was important in itself at 32 percent (26 minutes), with news, general entertainment, and everything else making up the remaining 21 percent.
The data suggested an increasing tug of war between apps and the web where both sides are fighting for primary control. The web has usually been the open and most flexible platform where native apps are often much more heavily optimized for touch and don't need to be used exclusively online. Apple has been the strongest advocate of apps, both because it can profit from sales in iTunes as well as because it steers users away from plugins controlled by a single company, like Flash.


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Mr. Barak spoke about his victory over Shimon Peres as Israeli Labour Party leader. He stressed that he will reinvigorate the party and help it compete in the next election. Translation from Hebrew to English was by voiceover.
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Appetising and appealing brimming with inspirational signature dishes, diners discover personal attention and a large selection of culinary delights that cater for all occasions.
Enjoy an unforgettable dining experience in elegance and style. Inspired by fresh ingredients and contemporary food trends, the dishes remain simple and fresh, yet appetising and inspirational.
From fresh continental breakfasts, daily buffets and a la carte dinner menu, delectable dishes grace the palate complimented by a diversity of flavours.
Start the day with silky eggs Benedict or a delicious deli style lunch that remain light, healthy and wholesome. Dinner boasts succulent dishes such as the beef fillet and fresh line fish alongside other gourmet delights.
10 2nd Avenue Houghton Estate inspires an unforgettable dining experience that embraces fresh and whole contemporary food trends.
22nd on Main Restaurant and Grill is a vibey restaurant and grill situated in the Palmgate Shopping Centre. Enjoy some of the finest steaks, perfectly prepared to your taste, in a vibrant setting. The restaurant has various other dishes on the menu and caters for all tastes. A great wine list is available.
Enjoy super shisha, a refreshing drink and great food to accompany your, well, company. Around the Corner Cafe is a bustling Egyptian eatery that offers the sights, sounds and tastes of this interesting country. Great breakfasts, burgers, pizzas and sandwiches can be enjoyed, as well as a variety of snacky, tapas-style dishes.
Auralia's Restaurant is a beautifully decorated, stylish restaurant. The menu is large and varied and boasts dishes from around the world sure to cater to all tastes. Enjoy a delightful alfresco breakfast, or choose an a la carte course for a romantic candle-lit dinner. Aptly named after the mother of Julius Ceaser, Auralia's invokes passion, romance and Old World elegance.
Nestled within the five-star Avenida Hotel, this fabulous restaurant pampers the palate with seafood delights and international culinary dishes.
The interior is modern and comfortable, welcoming relaxation and indulgence on national and international cuisine.
Soak up mouth-watering dishes and elegant and intimate surroundings at Avenida Hotel Restaurant.
Nestled in the heart of Newlands Village, Barristers Grill Café is the place to be if you enjoy a good local spot and consistently good dishes.
Dine indoors, alfresco or within the bustling garden atmosphere on a menu brimming with meats, fish or chicken dishes served by attentive waitrons.
Try their fabulous salads with cheese, calamari or beef accents, gorgeous Thai chicken and prawn curry, and grilled sole with lemon and ginger butter.
The meat comes perfectly prepared with favourites being the lamb rump dressed in a delectable Madeira sauce.
Barristers cater for all tastes and palates in a bustling atmosphere in the heart of Newlands.
Exuding a dining experience that embraces traditional comforts infused with modern style, Beach Blanket Bohemia pampers with legendary hospitality and a Mediterranean menu that entices.
Whether dining over breakfast, lunch, dinner or a light meal to accompany the comprehensive wine list, diners enjoy an old meets new ambiance touched by sophisticated surrounds.
Whatever the occasion, albeit formal dining, romantic evenings or languid lunches, Beach Blanket Bohemia dwells on decadence evident in the crystal cut chandeliers, eye-catching fireplaces and social lounge.
Dine indoors or alfresco soaking up the rays on the beach ambiance terrace or socialise in style to the sounds of laid back tunes spread by live dj's and musicians.
The in-depth menu leans towards Mediterranean, using fresh wholesome ingredients with a dash of contemporary for an all round delectable dining experience in the beautiful surrounds of Sunninghill Village Centre in Sandton.
Beach Bobbies Restaurant and Cocktail Bar is located very close to Silver Beach, offering a good selection of light meals and drinks.
The menu has a huge variety of delicious items to choose from light lunch meals to some big bites for the more hungry. Relax, kick back, and take in the great views while sipping on a fantastic cocktail.
Beau Vallon invites sumptuous dining in soothing tranquillity of alfresco garden dining or within the beautiful colonial mansion décor.
Located on the edge of sugarcane fields set within the Beau Vallon estate, diners savour table d'hote dining under shady fruit canopies.
Beau Vallon unites intimacy and refined flavours in a setting perfect for dining.
This relaxed and comfortable, café-style restaurant is located on Marine Drive in Port Elizabeth, ensuring breathtaking views of the ocean. Blue Water Café is family friendly and has a large menu with dishes sure to suit all tastes. Light meals, salads, pastas, seafood dishes, steaks and a wide variety of desserts are available. A comprehensive wine list is on offer.
Breeze is a laid-back restaurant at the Emerald Resort and Casino that offers a great vibe, live entertainment and a family friendly environment. Be sure to try a Breeze breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays. A good selection of unpretentious, hearty meals are available and their burgers are sure worth a try. Pair your meal with a glass of wine, an ice cold beer or a delicious refreshing cocktail.
Meat meat and meat is what Butcher Block is all about. Only triple A cut beef is served and perfectly prepared to diners tastes. Fish, chicken and vegetarian options are also offered. Starters like the three-sauce calamari and the potato skins with bacon, peppers, cheddar, mushrooms and onions are indulgences that are must-tries.
This popular restaurant is situated within close proximity to the prestigious Paxton Hotel in a prime location above Humewood Road.
Framed by eclectic décor warmed by natural crete-stone walls and vibrant abstract artwork, Café Brazilia exudes a contemporary Mediterranean feel bustling with activity.
Boasting an excellent variety of dishes from open sandwiches, tramezzinis, and salads to impressive seafood platters and peppered ostrich fillet.
Portuguese inspired dishes include the famous espetada, trinchado and Brazilian steak served with fried egg. Alongside the aforementioned, Café Brazilia offers beautifully presented salads of which the spicy grilled chicken salad comes highly recommended.
Conclude the dining experience with a selection of cakes and tarts, which includes Café Brazilia's famous baked Cheesecake.
Cafe Rojo offers a modern feel and fine dining that is at the same time relaxed and laid-back. The restaurant serves a large array of international dishes and the food is made from the freshest ingredients ensuring the best quality and flavour. Cafe Rojo is a definite must on your trip to Gibraltar.
This restaurant certainly lives up to its reputation and is sure to satisfy all tastes and palates. Choose from an extensive menu that caters for vegetarians and meat lovers alike. A great wine and beverage selection can also be enjoyed.


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Robert Gordon's 'Respect Yourself' traces the history of Stax, the Memphis soul music label.
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
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By Robert Gordon
Bloomsbury, 480 pages, $30
Whats the greatest soul music label of all time?
With all respect to Philadelphia International Records, which places a strong third, the battle ultimately comes down to Motown Berry Gordys Detroit hit factory that achieved its goal of becoming the Sound of Young America and Stax, the Memphis label that made stars out of Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Wilson Pickett, and many others.
Some argue that because Motown aimed above all to produce sleek, polished pop music (sung, albeit, by supremely soulful artists), Gordys enterprise was principally a pop label. (Its a valid but debatable point.) That would leave us with Stax, whose sound was always grittier, funkier and brassier.
The sign Gordy hung outside his Detroit garage, after all, read, Hitsville, U.S.A. Stax, in deliberate counterpoint, identified its studio in a converted movie theater in earthier terms: Soulsville, U.S.A.
Robert Gordons Respect Yourself tells of the precipitous rise and dramatic fall of Stax, which went into bankruptcy in 1975 after a spectacular run that ended with the labels last hit, Shirley Browns Woman to Woman in 1974.
The label was founded as Satellite Records in 1957 and changed its name four years later, with the new moniker combining the names of banker and fiddle player Jim Stewart and his big sister Estelle Axton, who mortgaged her house to pay for the companys first tape recorder.
Stewart and Axton were white, as were guitarist Steve Cropper and bass player Donald (Duck) Dunn, one-half of Booker T & the M.G.s, the house band that served up one of the labels early enduring hits: the instrumental Green Onions in 1962.
But the other half of the M.G.s Hammond B-3 player Booker T. Jones and sublime drummer Al Jackson Jr. were black, as were virtually all of the other significant players in the Stax story.
Funky Chicken auteur Rufus Thomas was one of scores of talented Memphians who walked into Stax off the street. If you had talent if you thought you had talent you could go there, Thomas says in Respect Yourself. No studios no nothing ever gave any of the black artists that kind of chance.
How that cooperation between the races worked and then ceased to in the segregated South is a unifying thread running through Gordons page-turner of a musical history. In 1961, Carla Thomas Gee Whiz lured Atlantic Records Jerry Wexler to town. But those attending a meeting with Wexler had to travel to his hotel room while hiding in the freight elevator because blacks and whites could not be seen congregating in public.
Memphis, of course, is the city where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 at the Lorraine Hotel. The Lorraine was the Stax musicians second home, where out-of-town players would stay and where Cropper and Eddie Floyd wrote Knock on Wood. As Jones tells Gordon: It couldnt have been any closer had he been shot at 926 McLemore.
Gordon tells the Stax story with flair, packing it with amusing anecdotes. (Hayes and David Porter composed Sam & Daves Hold On, Im Coming while Hayes sat at the piano and Porter hollered out the songs title to be from the bathroom down the hall.)
The Memphis of Respect Yourself was a racially divided city ripped apart when King was killed, less than four months after the plane-crash death of Redding, the commanding soul man who was the labels biggest star. Those two blows, coupled with Stewarts realization that he had handed over ownership of master recordings to Atlantic in a previous handshake deal with Wexler, seemed to do Stax in.
But the Stax story is a tale of resiliency and ingenuity, much of it embodied in Al Bell, an innovative African-American executive. In 1969, Stewart bought Axton out and handed over the reins of the company to Bell, who turned it into a symbol of black pride.
It was Bell who engineered Staxs impressive second act, riding hit makers like Johnny Taylor, Hayes and the Staple Singers, whose 1971 Respect Yourself gives the book its title. Bell, who wrote the Staples Ill Take You There, signed acts like Richard Pryor and masterminded Wattsstax, the 1972 Los Angeles music festival that became a feature film.
He also brought dubious types to Stax, like Johnny Baylor, the intimidating radio promo man arrested in 1972 at the Memphis airport with $129,000 in cash in his briefcase, strongly suggesting payola. During the bankruptcy trial, Bell was indicted on (and acquitted of) bank-fraud charges.
Much of the ground Gordon covers is familiar and can be found in Peter Guralnicks broader Sweet Soul Music and Rob Bowmans label history, titled Soulsville U.S.A. But Respect Yourself shines because the thoroughness of Gordons research doesnt stop him from keeping a complicated story moving quickly, while doing evenhanded justice to the dozens of characters who brought this gloriously gritty music to the world.


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SANTA FE, N.M.—A man accused of fatally shooting another man during an argument at a home in the Santa Fe area has been arrested.
The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office says 54-year-old Jose Gutierrez is expected to face charges of homicide and other crimes in the fatal shooting of 44-year-old Frank Salazar early Saturday morning.
Investigators say the fight broke out during a family gathering at which people were drinking and that an argument between Gutierrez and Salazar escalated into a fight.
Salazar tried to leave, but Gutierrez eventually pulled out a gun and fired several times at Salazar, his girlfriend and Salazar's 3-year-old daughter.
The child and girlfriend weren't injured in the shooting.
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BELFRY, Ky. (WYMT) - A tractor trailer carrying pop tarts overturned in Pike County Tuesday morning.
It happened in Belfry just after 8:00 a.m.
Emergency responders say the driver went into a curve too fast.
The trailer flipped and dragged the truck into a gas station parking lot where it hit a pickup truck.
The driver of the tractor trailer was treated for injuries and released.
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Traffic was rerouted for several hours as crews cleaned up the cargo and fuel that spilled out.
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Tichenor Middle School eighth-grade counselor Kendilynn Madden, right, points out highlights in 13-year-old Addison Viox's schedule on an iPad, as Addison, her mother, Donna, and brother, James, 16, look on. Madden and math teacher Eric Fangman were making home visits Friday morning in Erlanger.
As her son Leonard starts eighth grade at Tichenor Middle School next week, Staci Allgeyer is concerned.
"He spells so many words wrong," she told her son's teacher Friday. Allgeyer didn't have to make an appointment or go to the school to discuss her concerns - she simply brought it up when the teacher and a counselor stopped by her house.
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The U.S. Department of Energy and the contractor that runs the Waste Isolation Pilot Project Wednesday confirmed that 13 workers who were above ground the night of the leak have tested positive for radiation exposure. And they say more workers are being tested.
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Assist with assembly on event set-up day, and/or disassembly on event break-down day, of the competition playing field. Volunteers need not do both. These volunteer roles have interesting and varied responsibilities and are physically active roles.
- Assemble playing field and electronics
- Demonstrate and comply with safe procedures for lifting and other physically challenging tasks
- Disassemble playing field and electronics and pack in travel crates
- Assist in loading travel crates onto truck, as needed
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- FIRST experience not required
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- Basic mechanical/technical skills
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Ability to move about the facility
- Ability to listen to and follow instructions
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Day One of the Competition 8am – End of Day
Day Two of the Competition 8am – Completion of breakdown
*Note 1: Event schedules vary. Please check the event schedule and talk to your Volunteer Coordinator, for detailed information on when you are expected to arrive.
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Strickland signs bill to implement livestock care board
Calling it the right approach for Ohioans, Gov. Ted Strickland today signed H.B. 414 which will allow the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board to move forward.
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Calling it the right approach for Ohioans, Gov. Ted Strickland today signed H.B. 414 which will allow the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board to move forward.
The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF) Board of Trustees has voted to support passage of State Issue 2 on the May ballot. Issue 2 would authorize a change in location for the Columbus casino, which was approved by Ohio voters last November.
13-member Care Board is set
The naming of the members of the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board is a great step toward Ohioans taking control of animal care issues, according to John C. (Jack) Fisher, executive vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF).
The Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board is expected to begin meeting in the coming weeks as almost all members have been appointed.
A class of 22 recently graduated from Ohio Farm Bureaus AgriPOWER Institute, an intensive leadership training program launched in 2008 to help farmers and agricultural professionals gain influence over public policy issues.
The people and culture of rural Ohio will be showcased through a new promotion, which allows Farm Bureau members to win prizes for sharing photos and stories about how they are tied to agriculture.
Helping Hand; Figured Up; Hunting for Answers; In Their Words
If you were to draft a 100-page plan of what agriculture and rural Ohio should look like, what would you write? More importantly, how would you put it into action? Thats exactly what Ohio farmers consider each year as they review and update Ohio Farm Bureaus policy book.
Two statewide issues that will appear on the May 4 ballot have received the support of Ohio Farm Bureaus board of trustees.


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The name Hedmark originates from the old Norse "Heiðmǫrk" (woodland of the heathens), and was the name used for the area between Hamar and Elverum.
Femundshytten was used as a smelting house by Røros Kobberverk from 1739 to 1822. A whole new community was created, and in the late 1700s the area comprised 11 farms and some 80-90 inhabitants. Stay in one of the cabins surrounded by old farm culture, and learn what life was like in this remote area far from other settlements. It is also possible to hire fisherman's shacks in Femundsmarka National Park or stay at mountain farms. In 2010, Femundhytten was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List.
Galten Farm has been open to visitors since the 1800s, and it is currently run by the fifth generation of the same family. The farm has been a natural meeting point for anglers since the lawyer-brothers Smith from London visited at the beginning of the last century. It has been popular among fly-fishing enthusiasts for generations. Galten Farm offers accommodation in comfortable cabins and flats, and rooms in the main building are also available.
This well-preserved farm dating back to the 1600s is located by the foot of Rondane, close to Folldal. Stay the night in one of the old farm buildings, and enjoy traditional Norwegian farm food. Old-style techniques are used at the farm, which has horses, sheep, dog and cats. This is an ideal location for walks or horseback riding, and horse and sleigh rides are available during winter.
Treat yourself to a break among old farm houses and weather-beaten fir trees at Sjusjøen. Rustad Hotell & Fjellstue has been the property of the same family for four generations, and has both character and soul. You can choose between hotel rooms in various price categories, or opt for a cabin or an apartment. Good home-cooked food is the trademark, and the mountain air and excellent walking terrain will sharpen your appetite.
Savalen Fjellhotell & Spa offers everything you expect from a modern mountain lodge. Renew your energy in the hotel's spa facilities offering views of lake Savalen and the mountains.
The Hamar region has an array of manor farms with a rich cultural heritage and welcoming hosts. Among the largest is Hoel Guest farm, majestically situated by Mjøsa. The farm can cater for groups of six to 225 people, and has 48 beds available. Its menu changes with the season, and is based on local ingredients. Self-catering is possible in the cabins by the beach. For more farm accommodation in the area, please see hanen.no or hamarregionen.no.
Spend the night twenty-six feet above ground, among the squirrels and birds. The tree-top cabins are built high up in the trees, with Furuhytta as the most basic and remote. Lerkehytta, a more luxurious option, offers shower facilities, whereas Granhytta has a 130-feet long wheelchair ramp leading all the way to the top. Himmelhytta, with room for six people, has a glass roof above the mezzanine, a balcony all the way round and a bonfire area. Combine your stay with bicycle rides, canoeing, fishing or dog sledding.
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Funny Lady, the follow-up to the 1968 Funny Girl which made a movie star of Barbra Streisand, picks up the character of Fanny Brice in the 1930s. Although she is a tremendously famous Broadway star, she has suffered from the stock market crash and needs to boost her finances. Even Ziegfeld, who soon will pass away, is having a hard time raising money for a show. Into this scene bursts brash young Billy Rose (James Caan), an egotistical lyricist with unrestrained ambition. He cajoles and charms Fanny into linking up with him, convincing him that he can produce a revue that will showcase her to their mutual advantage. Out of town, the show is an unmitigated disaster, and Fanny uses her professional know-how to whip the show into shape. It arrives in New York a hit -- and Fanny and Billy arrive an item. Both of their careers blossom, but even though they marry, their relationship suffers. Fanny still carries a torch for first husband Nick (Omar Sharif), and Billy, partially because of insecurities caused by Fanny's feelings for Nick, has a roving eye. In California working on a lucrative radio show, Fanny and Nick connect again -- and Fanny realizes that she is finally over him. Thrilled, she flies to Cleveland, where Billy is working on a new show, ready to commit herself totally to him -- only to find him in bed with another woman. The two part, but years later they meet again to discuss a new show, and it's clear that the chemistry between them is still there. ~ Craig Butler, Rovi
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11. 4 A.M. in Fanny's Room [2:52]
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13. "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley" [2:17]
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- Region: 1
- Studio: Columbia TriStar
- Length: 135 minutes
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I've told you about Green Peace Freaks trashing towers.
But a Cell tower Fire?
Actually it happens more often than you would think, and it's typically not pretty.
Take this AT&T Monopole that was a multi-carrier unit (in other words, other carriers rented space on the tower for their own systems. A fairly common practice) that went up in flames in New Jersey.
Fair warning, there is some hard language.
For those curious, a monopole is effectively hollow, and the transmission lines run inside of it. So when a tower crew doing welding work accidentally ignited the transmission lines (which are basically 2 or 3 inch pieces of coaxial cable, and very flammable) they created a over 150 foot roman candle.
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
Playwright Ugo Chiti directed this Italian romantic drama set in the summer of 1957. Single mother Anna (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) marries truckdriver Fosco (Lazar Ristovski) and moves with her infant daughter Santina (Jessica Auriemma) to a rural Tuscan coastal community where Fosco lives with his son, sensitive teen Livio (Giorgio Noe). Fosco, who moonlights by robbing Etruscan graves of relics valued by art dealers, is jailed for theft and thrown in prison, a situation which draws Anna and Livio together into a passionate romance. Shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival (Perspectives). ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi


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Amazon (but not Barnes & Noble or Borders) is showing an estimated delivery date for Bailout Nation on May 8th, 2009:
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Transcriptomic profiling in maize inbred lines and their reciprocal hybrids. (a) Distribution of the mapped reads in the maize genome for mRNA sequencing (mRNA-seq) libraries from shoots and roots. For each organ, the mean percentages of both hybrids and parents are shown. (b) Proportion of mRNA transcripts identified in shoots and roots by mRNA-seq, according to gene annotations supported by expressed sequence tag (EST) or full-length cDNA data. For each organ, the mean percentages of both hybrids and parents are shown. (c) Functional categories of genes showing organ-specific expression. For each organ, only genes whose transcripts were detected in both hybrids and parents were included in the analysis. False-discovery rate adjusted P-values: *P<0.05 and **P<0.01, respectively.
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The 25 Best Public Works Projects of 2013
APWA / August 28, 2013
KANSAS CITY, MO. – Each year, APWA presents the Public Works Projects of the Year awards to promote excellence in the management and administration of public works projects. The APWA Project of the Year Award recognizes the alliance between the managing agency, the contractor, the consultant, and their cooperative achievements. This year's award winners will be recognized during APWA's International Public Works Congress & Exposition, which takes place August 25-28, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center.
The APWA Public Works Projects of the Year awards are presented annually and this year, APWA selected projects in five categories: Disaster/Emergency, Environment, Historical Restoration, Structures, and Transportation. New this year is the Projects of the Year Award for Small Cities/Rural Communities. The SC/RC Projects of the Year award is for agencies from cities and counties with a population of 75,000 or less, and was established to promote excellences in demonstrating creativity, ingenuity, and efficiency in the delivery of public works projects that have a profound impact on the community.
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Coming Up @ RADAR: SAMUEL ACE
I've been a big fan of Samuel Ace's since finding his book Normal Sex years ago and devouring it. I then devoured he next, Home in Three Days, Don't Wash, and again was all lit up from his sort of dreamy/sad, obsessive, sex-y poems that were filled with longing and the everyday in this great, energized way. He has since then published a collaborative work, Stealth, with Maureen Seaton, and throughout it all picked up awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lambda Literary Awards, Astrea, the Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction, and the Firecracker Alternative Book Awards. His poetry has been published all over the place, and I am very excited he's be coming from either Tucson, Arizona or Truth and Consequences, New Mexico – where he splits his time – to read at RADAR December 12th. We had a chat via chat this weekend, take a peek!
Michelle Tea: Hey!!!!!
Samuel Ace: Hey Michelle! Happy Saturday!
MT: Happy weekend! Are you a weekend person, do weekends mean anything to you?
SA: Not sure it's really happy – being World AIDS Day. A day of mourning.
MT: Are there any memorials happening in your world, or are you having a private moment with it?
SA: More private here today… although Facebook seems to make everything (falsely?) a bit local. Because I still work a full-time job, I love the weekends. I want every one of my days to be a weekend.
MT: Do you have weekend rituals?
SA: Well yes… I make coffee. I take an extra long walk with Jack. I go to meetings. Saturday morning. Sunday morning. I spend the days reading a collection of things I could not read during the week. I see friends.
MT: I have been so moved by and inspired by (if inspiration = a sense of urgency, which it can) by the sudden emergence of AIDs documentaries and histories. I'm thinking in particular of Sarah Schulman's Gentrification of the Mind, which totally annihilated me. But also the ACT-UP documentary, the How to Stop a Plague film and another one about the response in SF in particular, We Were Here. Have you seen any?
SA: I'm sorry to say I haven't seen the documentary yet… but I so want to. I just got a copy of Sarah's book… it's on the stack to read. I find it odd to talk to my younger queer friends… how a sense of history seems sometimes so murky to them. I suppose anyone who went through a war feels this when talking about it.
I mean … we read, we see the documentaries. We who experienced a particular time – are brought right back into it. But how does it affect someone who was born so far after the fact?
MT: That is exactly the sort of punch it gave me. I participated in some ACT-UP demos in the 90s, but the really brutal years had already happened, people were on meds and not dying in such waves, so I didn't have the traumatizing experience of people even a few years older than me. Taking in these new works really is an incredible reality check – any queer person in their late 40s/50s are survivors of a massive trauma that no one acknowledges or speaks of. I must feel really devastating. I have younger friends and was saying to them, after reading Sarah's book – it's as if everyone we were out with last night just DIED. And I was about to die. It is really incomprehensible.
SA: Yes. yes. I got sober in NY, in the 80's at the height of the crisis. Michelle – almost every man in the rooms was dying. And yet I learned more from those dying friends than I can possibly say. They saved my life. They brought me awake.
SA: Early 30's.
MT: It must have been such crazy overwhelm to be getting sober, which is a weird sort of death, and be dealing with actual death.
SA: I don't want to risk a parallel here Michelle, between actual death, the end of life, that was happening all around me – to the slow-motion feeling of suicide that addiction creates. What I felt so strongly though in those men, was their life, their desire to live, and to stay sober. Somewhere that got through to me in the early haze of those days – and it gave me the strength to not drink.
MT: I wanted to ask you about the impact of getting sober on your writing and on your writing process.
SA: Thanks for asking that! When I first started writing seriously – I wanted a reach a state of connection to something bigger that myself… I was drawn to the incantatory, the unconscious, the roar of language unmediated by idea. I still am drawn to that reservoir. But back then, I would write for 15 minutes and be so freaked out by what I let loose, that I had to have a drink. And more, and more… until I would pass out and the writing would stop. After getting sober, I would use other entrances to write… lust, for one. It took me years to trust that I could go to that deep well by just creating a place inside to do it. Now it's part of my daily practice.
MT: That's so amazing. I love hearing how people's writing get better when the get sober, because I really believed that my writing came from the alcohol, not me. So that was a very frightening part of getting sober. What is your daily writing practice? Is it daily?
SA: I too thought I needed alcohol to get me through, over the edge of my anxiety and fear. What a relief not to feel that anymore! I do have a daily practice. I take time to sit almost every day with my keyboard. I've always loved keyboards over paper and pen – my body remembers what it was like to play music at a piano. To use the whole body. I find that the energy is most fluid for me with a keyboard. Most days too, my writing is in the fabric of everything I do. I feel like a camera, or the eye behind the camera. I don't mean this in any way to say that I'm out there "capturing" anything. I could be writing while at a work meeting, or at a reading… I feel as if I'm writing in parallel to the event, rather than simply listening. Like a duet maybe…
MT: I love that! Do you narrate in your head? I've done that my whole life. I remember having a really dull job as a bagger at a giant grocery store in high school, and getting through my shift by narrating everything around me. It changed everything! Also, interestingly, I switched to keyboard from notebooks when I got sober. Part of that was the time – computers were a part of my life by then, but also, my thoughts were so much faster sober it was frustrating to write, my hand cramped, etc. I love that you compare it to playing piano. I love the noise of typing.
SA: Wow that's so interesting. I love hearing about your process – and it makes so much sense to me knowing your work. I love the image of the younger Michelle bagging groceries with a text streaming out all around her. I bet some of the milk containers ended up on top of the eggs!
I, on the other hand, don't so much narrate. It seems that I have been drawn over and over again to chipping away at the structures and grammars of language, and subsequently how those structures create a narrative. I have an image of myself when I'm working, of holding a chisel. It's the physical act of the arms, shoulders, hands, banging the hammer down on the chisel, and watching the chips fly around, gather or erase themselves. Bits of narrative appear, disappear, but I hope an emotional whole comes together where there wasn't one before.
MT: It seems that poetry in particular is about minimalism. I love the idea of whittling away the narrative to the essential story, or elements.What obsessions do you find yourself returning to again and again in your work?
SA: Sometimes poetry is about the minimal, but sometimes it seems riotous and rococo! Not sure that my essential process has changed. I do find that I am losing more and more inhibition, finding more places that the writing can take place, exist, participate!
I'm constantly interested in the fluidity of identity. I'm interested in questioning the our conceptual frame. I want to keep looking behind the veil of what we think we are seeing, hearing, perceiving – I'm not sure there is a "behind" – but I do find a universe of energies back there, swirling around.
MT: I want to ask you about how you interact with your pre-transition self (if that's what to call it) in your work. I imagine you have a complicated relationship to your past, and you directly invoke and communicate with it. What was the impetus behind that series?
SA: I have been thinking a lot about this. Recently, when I do a reading, I've been showing video of me, as Linda Smukler, reading older work. I started doing this in order to integrate the history of myself, and the history of my work. I also want to challenge the audience to think about gender. About what assumptions they might bring to seeing a man reading a poem, vs knowing the same poem was written by a woman. I want to create at least the acknowledgement that we all bring certain frameworks to what we are hearing and reading. Not only that, but we bring those frameworks to people we meet on the street. I'm saying – it's all so much more complicated than that. I'm also saying that those frameworks and masks often get in the way of a deeper knowledge and connection.
So the recent epistolary series I'm working on (I think that's what you are referring to?): They are "letters" from Sam to Linda and vice versa. Letters in only the most general sense. I'm writing to see what is revealed. They are taking me on a wild ride!
MT: That is so so awesome. I'm very excited for your reading! I would like to keep chatting with you for like another hour at least but I have to go! Can we end with you sharing what you are currently feeling inspired by, and what you are reading right now?
SA: Thank you so much Michelle! I have a huge stack on my desk… and so much to read online. Right right now – I'm reading Myriam Moscona's "Negro Marfil" translated by Jen Hofer. It's amazing. I'm also reading everything I can get my hands on by Maggie Nelson and Anne Boyer. Also Andrew Solomon's new book – "Far from the Tree". So grateful to have this time to talk!
Catch Samuel Ace at The RADAR Reading Series, Wednesday, December 12th with Jan Richman, Harris Kornstein and Lydia Daniller! San Francisco Public Library, 6pm, Free. And, before you leave – two poems.
ahhhhh Samuel
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From: Linda
Subject: ahhhh samuel I said with the trace of corners the crown of needles the peg of temples ahh samuel I said to herd matchsticks and oil ahh samuel the crevasse of bodies the crescent of tails my tremble my corset the eyebrows of descendants the coats the coattails the blue shirt of love I take off without regret and hand to you I lift my arms for you to kiss the drain scars of towers ahhh samuel we are carried into the treble the eyesight the sweet balance of corners the corrals of graves my hatter's haven for you a cross ahhhh samuel shiv ahhh Samuel
Date: August 4 5:03:15 PM EST
To: Samuel
ahhhh Samuel
I said with
just a trace
of corners
a (small) crown
of needles
a peg
a model of
the temple
ahh samuel
I said to
herd matchsticks
and oil beneath
a crevasse
of bodies
a short crescent
of tails
my corset's corset
my eyebrows
of descendants
my coats and
blue shirts of love
I take off without
regret and hand
you my arms
to kiss the scarred
drains of towers
ahhh samuel
carried to a treble
with the eyesight
of sweet balance
to the corrals
of graves
a knuckle for you
a cross
ahhhh samuel
a tiny shiv
Box of tv
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From: Samuel
Subject: box of tv box of screen box of sound box box of keys box of phone box of notable persons box of silence I stand I stand box of print box of sudden rain box of surge box of swim today trial sent it was sent it was silent box of prisoners box of day old bread box of water box of surge box of crate and board and slab and slab box of notes box of face so lap so leaven box of car no car box of wave so float box of fluff and margin box of river box of crates box of milk some milk box of river and rods box of scissors box box
Date: November 2 6:39:58 AM MST
To: Linda
Box of sudden rain box of swim silent box of prisons box of day old bread box of water box of surge box of crate and board slab and slab box of notes box of face so lap so leaven box of car box of wave so float box of fluff and margin box of river box of crates box of milk box of river and rods box of scissors box of box
Sudden box box (my traitor my sudden wave) crust of crusts a scented sound of keys waves of milk


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1. Re: CRASH CS6Chris Cox Apr 20, 2012 1:06 PM (in response to gilb2)
What OS version are you using?
And what does the crash report say?
2. Re: CRASH CS6gilb2 Apr 20, 2012 4:43 PM (in response to Chris Cox)
My recollection it said something like We are sorry Adobe required to shot down I don't remember the exact notice. I have had 2 chat sessions with Adobe. The first one they
told me to go to a forum; that link could not be opene d. The second one sent me to the same forum that I have available "join discussion" when I open cs6. Both of these simply closed the chat session
after they told me that so I could not question them further.
My real problem is not what I say etc about the crash but how can I send it in. I have tried looking at your comments; still can't find how to send. I am mising something of course but all I need
is a send button.
3. Re: CRASH CS6gilb2 Apr 22, 2012 7:59 AM (in response to Chris Cox)
My previous reply was very short on information and patience. Lets see if I can correct both.
Just today I was doing a lot of gradient work and it crashed.
Message "CS6 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconveince"
I am operation in Windows XP. Of course I am limited to 3gig ram which limites me to around 1.7gig available to CS6; may this be a problem? My scratch disk has
over 350gig unused.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Gil Audette
4. Re: CRASH CS6Curt Y Apr 22, 2012 8:59 AM (in response to gilb2)
Not the expert Chris is, but it is a safe bet you are runnig out of memory.
You say "My cs6 beta crashes after I do a lot of things such as content aware etc", which is a good clue.
With limited resources you can dial down the histry states, and watch which proceedues you use. If you can flatten image after a few image intense proceedures.
If you start with a 1 meg file you can gain in size rapidly. If you do a whole gaussian blur to a layer now you have a 2 meg file. Each time to do something it adds to file slze.
Liquify and probably content aware of a large section can eat up a lot of resources.
Seems like each new version requires more horsepower. A 64 bit machine with 8 gigs of RAM is now becoming the min. machine to be able to uses all the features of the program.
5. Re: CRASH CS6Noel Carboni Apr 22, 2012 8:29 PM (in response to gilb2)
gilb2 wrote:
It's time to move up to a more modern OS.


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Harvesting Honey is the subject of our next Guild meeting on Thursday, June 20 at 7:30 pm at St. Andrew's Lithuanian Church on 19th St. one block south of Fairmount. Weather permitting, we will once again "pre-meet" at 7pm and open a hive in the Spring Gardens Community … Continue reading
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As a Linhof Technika photographer I admire range finder camera's and M Leica's offers the best quality possible in 35mm.
(all the people who says that this is not true, never saw a negative produced by a M Leica or can not handle a camera properly)
The reason I will continue to take pictures the analog way is the quality I can get from film. Digital is just another technique and will never produce the same product you can make with film and vice versa.
I hope Leica will find a way to survive and will produce their fine camera's for ever.


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Will 'Antichrist' come to your neighborhood?
Posted By Drew Zahn On 10/16/2009 @ 9:10 pm In Front Page | Comments Disabled
Still from the film "Antichrist"
Already dubbed "the most horrific movie ever seen" for explicit and pornographic sadomasochism, violence and occult content, the film "Antichrist" is not yet rated, but when it is, the rating it gets could determine whether or not it's seen in your local theater – and there may be something you can do about it.
The Christian media ministry MovieGuide is inviting people concerned about the film's gruesome and graphic content to join a petition of the Motion Picture Association of America to rate the movie NC-17, which would not only prevent children from viewing the film, but also dissuade many theaters from showing it.
"Coming to your local theater Oct. 23 is a movie that I can only call the most horrific movie ever seen," writes Dr. Ted Baehr, founder and publisher of Movieguide and chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission. "It's called 'Antichrist,' and it's filled with a wicked worldview, vile pornographic scenes, onscreen mutilation of private parts and some other material which I simply cannot describe to you in a family publication.
"We cannot stop this movie," he continues, "but we have a strategy which we believe will be the next best thing."
MovieGuide's petition explains three reasons why an NC-17 rating, rather than an R rating for the film, would limit the number of people – especially children – exposed to the movie:
The film "Antichrist" stars Willem Defoe, who also played the role of Jesus in "The Last Temptation of Christ," a film blasted as blasphemous by many Christians.
According to MovieGuide's review of the film, Defoe's newest effort includes demonic activity, full nudity and graphic on-screen depictions of sex, sadomasochism, sexual mutilation with both a block of wood and a pair of scissors, child abuse, and violent animal acts.
"'Antichrist' is the wicked story of a married couple's plunge into occult darkness as they try to grieve the loss of their son," the review states. "This movie wallows in evil and contains extremely graphic pornographic sexual scenes, much occult content and extreme sadomasochistic violence, making it a movie to avoid."
At the Cannes Film Festival in France, where Charlotte Gainsbourg won best actress for her part in "Antichrist," even some defenders of the movie's writer and director, Lars von Trier, were shocked by the content of his newest endeavor.
"I thought I had my head down a lavatory, frankly," said Baz Bamigboye of Britain's Daily Mail.
The Associated Press reports Bamigboye still maintains von Trier has a "right" to make outrageous films, but nonetheless demanded in a press conference that the director justify the content of "Antichrist."
"I don't think I have to justify it," responded von Trier. "I work for myself and I do this little film that I am now kind of fond of. I haven't done it for you or an audience, so I don't think I owe anybody an explanation."
MovieGuide disagrees.
"If the world had standards, this movie would be Triple X and banned," states the site's review of the film. "As it is, we are issuing our strongest warning not to see it, and to complain to the MPAA for allowing a movie like this to come to theaters near you."
Those that wish to sign the petition demanding the MPAA rate "Antichrist" NC-17 can do so on MovieGuide's website.
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Virgie Forestier Sonnier
(September 30, 1926 - November 25, 2013)
CARENCRO ~ Funeral services will be held Wednesday, November 27, 2013 at a 3:00 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial in St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Lafayette for Virgie Forestier Sonnier, age 87, who passed away Monday, November 25, 2013 at 1:49 p.m. at her residence in Lafayette.
Interment will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens in Lafayette. The Rev. Brian Taylor, pastor of St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Lafayette, will officiate at the services. Readers will be Simone Degeytaire and Nichole Nelson. Giftbearers will be Whitney Nelson and Angelle Degeytaire. Eucharistic Minister will be Dorothea Sonnier.
Mrs. Sonnier was a native of Carencro and a resident of Lafayette for most of her life. She was a parishioner of St. Genevieve Catholic Church in Lafayette and was a member of the St. Anne Society at St. Peter Catholic Church in Carencro.
Survivors include her companion of thirteen years, Leroy Richard of Lafayette; two daughters, Barbara S. Degeytaire of Lafayette and Kim S. LeBlanc and her husband, Richard, of Coteau; five grandchildren, Nichole Nelson and her husband, Clay, of Scott, Simone Degeytaire of Breaux Bridge, Angelle Degeytaire of Fort Worth, TX, Kolby LeBlanc and Brock LeBlanc, both of Coteau; two great grandchildren, Whitney Nelson and André Knight; and one sister, Verna Mae Bearb of Lafayette.
She was preceded in death by her husband, after forty five years of marriage, Odon Sonnier; her parents, Anasta Forestier and the former Leah Dugas, both natives of Vatican and Carencro; her son-in-law, Richard Degeytaire; and one sister, Eva Delle Benoit.
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