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Sunday, 30 March 2014
by bervin cheong
All stars: (From left) CEO of Bloomberg TV Malaysia Michael Chan, producer of Style File segment on BFM Adeline Choong, Folger, Yeoh, Datuk Jimmy Choo, Bon, Wong, Yona and Fairuz.
KUALA LUMPUR: On an occasion that was billed as the high spot of a six-day fashion festival, the Mercedes-Benz Stylo Fashion Awards Gala paid tribute to deserving talents of the industry.
Held at Hap Seng Star on Friday, the red-carpet event was presented by Mercedes-Benz.
It was part of the Mercedes-Benz Stylo Fashion Grand Prix that coincides with the beginning of Malaysia's Formula 1 Petronas GP.
Designer of the Year went to Bon Zainal and Emerging Designer of the Year was Yona Yuliani Hutari.
Both will have the opportunity to showcase their designs at the Mercedes-Benz Stylo Asia Fashion Week at the end of the year.
Datuk Seri Wong Chun Wai, The Star's group managing director and CEO, presented the award for Emerging Designer of the Year.
The winner received a cash prize of RM15,000 in aid of design efforts for an upcoming collection.
The cash prizes for the title (inclusive of the first and second runners-up, RM10,000 and RM5,000 respectively) were sponsored by My Creative Ventures – a new government initiative that supports creative development.
According to Roland Folger, the president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Malaysia, the awards recognise the best players and those who have contributed to the world of fashion in Malaysia.
"We hope to continue to help unearth exceptional talents through this platform, and to present them to the world," he added.
Other awards included Most Promising Designer (Iliza Ho), Best Designer Showcase (Fairuz Ramdan), Best Male Model of the Year (Darren Tan), Best Female Model of the Year (Gabrielle Boudville) and Industry Award (the late Ronnie Choong of Trend Matrix).
Datuk Nancy Yeoh, president and CEO of Stylo International explained the distinction between the Fashion Grand Prix and the Asia Fashion Week that was launched last year.
"The latter is strictly a business-to-business event held for trade buyers.
"The former is now purely a fashion festival, which features all types of designs from current to past collections, styled according to a theme."
Other partners and sponsors for the Fashion Grand Prix include De Beers Diamond Jewellers, Visa Worldwide, A Cut Above, Kinohimitsu, Diva Productions, Asia Fashion Inc, ICAD, Beach Club, Malaysian Official Designers' Association, Bumiputra Designers Association, Harley Owners Club and RAPR Mileage Communications.
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13-year old male wants sports massage for back pain - plays football. Any advice? Any contraindications?
If he needs it for medical reasons, why not -- as long as he isn't hoping for a happy ending. Send him to a 60-year old male sports masseur, not a 25-year old blonde female, though, and that should remove any question you have.
You might be better off asking your doctor than asking here.
The massage therapist would need a signed parental consent form and would take a detailed consultation to try to establish any contraindications to treatment. If there is any doubt about treating because of a pre-existing medical condition then signed consent from their General Practitioner would be required too.
I would have him evaluated by a sports medicine Dr first. at 13 and playing football, there could be other things going on besides just a few sore muscles
Make sure he stays dressed! The shirt can come off, but the pants or shorts stay on...though of course, a nice foot massage might help his back, so taking off his shoes and socks shouldn't be excluded.
I've actually given several back massages to friends and their younger brothers. They would take their shirts off, but 9 times out of 10, I would slip their shoes off as well and massage their stocking soles. If I thought or knew their bare feet might look good, I would tug their socks off too. I loved massaging their bare toes and soles.
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By Jonathan Leaning
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Together with our supporters, during 2015 Grassroots International championed hands-on solutions to some of the most pressing challenges we face: hunger, violations of human rights, climate justice and economic disparity. At this moment, we stop to celebrate some of the remarkable achievements from the last year.
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Grassroots International is hard at work across the U.S. and beyond putting issues such as climate justice, food sovereignty, resource rights, Palestine, women's leadership—even when they are controversial or unpopular—into the limelight.
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Epica -- Moscow, Russia -- September 10th, 2010
[B]01. Samadhi (Prelude)
02. Resign To Surrender
03. Sensorium
04. Mother Of Light
05. Unleashed
06. Martyr Of The Free Word
07. Cry For The Moon
08. Tides Of Time
09. Blank Infinity
10. The Obsessive Devotion
11. Desine Your Universe
12. Quietus
13. Sancta Terra
14. Consign To Oblivion[/B]
A few change ups, but mostly the same set they've had for a while. I'd still love to see this.
was pretty cool seeing them with Symphony X back in 08...even though we didnt get Mother of Light...
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The velvet curtains parted, and Maddy watched Steven Weller step into the room, his girlfriend on his arm. Gracefully, he began to move through the crowd, laughing, clapping backs, kissing women. He was trim, though not tall, and blessed with a full and apparently natural hairline envied by millions of middle-aged men.
As she watched him glad-hand, she was surprised to feel her cheeks grow warm. In her job as a restaurant hostess in New York, she was never starstruck by the actors and baseball players who came in to eat, priding herself on being able to keep her cool. But here at the Mile's End Film Festival, not thirty feet from Steven Weller, she felt jumpy and wowed.
"I thought the new one was Venezuelan," said Sharoz, Maddy's producer. "She doesn't look Venezuelan." The girlfriend, who had a few inches on Steven, stood just behind him, nodding faintly. She didn't appear to be participating in the conversations so much as endorsing them.
"That was the last one," Maddy said. "The real estate agent he met on a plane. This one is the Vegas cocktail waitress."
"Cady Pearce," said Maddy's boyfriend, Dan, from her other side.
"You know her name?" Maddy said, planting a hand on his chest. An NYU film school graduate and theory nerd, he never read the trades. "Since when do you follow Hollywood gossip?"
"My barber gets People."
"Did you guys notice that he never stays with any woman more than a year?" Sharoz asked. "And usually only from one awards season to the next. The man is so gay."
"Just because a guy is single in his mid-forties doesn't mean he's gay," Maddy said. "Maybe he just hasn't met the right person." For years there had been rumors of Weller's homosexuality, but Maddy felt they were a sign of the entertainment industry's increasing puritanism, its tendency to fetishize marriage and domesticity.
Her costar Kira was coming over, unmistakable in her white-blond buzz cut, sleeveless orange jumper, and knee-high moon boots, looking like the catalog model she was. Unlike the others, she had skipped the opening-night selection, Weller's new vehicle The Widower, to meet an old friend for drinks. "Is that the new one?" Kira asked, tossing her head in Weller's direction. She spoke in a hoarse voice that resulted from childhood nodules on her vocal cords. "She's even taller than the real estate agent."
"I heard he has a longtime boyfriend," Sharoz said. "They've been together fifteen years."
"You mean Terry McCarthy?" Maddy asked. McCarthy, an actor turned screenwriter, had been Weller's friend since they were both struggling young actors in L.A.
"Not Terry McCarthy," Sharoz said. "A Korean-American flight attendant for United."
"How do you know?"
"This guy I grew up with went to Hobart with the sister of the flight attendant's best friend," Sharoz answered. Sharoz, a striking, long-haired girl from Tehrangeles, had been Dan's classmate at NYU and was one of those detail-oriented people who never seemed harried even in the midst of crises, like the dozens they'd had on I Used to Know Her.
Maddy noticed Kira holding one hand in front of her eyes and squinting at Weller. "What are you doing?" Maddy asked.
"You can always tell by the mouth," Kira said. "Yep, yep. Definite gay mouth." She moved her hand in front of Maddy's field of vision so it blocked Weller's forehead and eyes.
Maddy watched his mouth move, unsure what she was looking for. He had a thin lower lip that veered slightly off to the side. "What makes a mouth gay?" she asked.
"The palsy. Gay men have slightly palsied lips."
"I hate to disappoint you, Kira, but I think he's straight," Dan said. "He was married, after all."
"And we all know why Julia Hanson left him," Sharoz said.
A middle-aged actress who was now experiencing a mid-career comeback with a cable procedural, Hanson had been married to Weller for a few years during the 1980s. She had never spoken publicly about the marriage, but in recent months there had been chatter, in the tabloids and on the Internet, that they had divorced because he was gay.
"Even if he is . . . with men," Maddy said, "who cares? It's his business."
"That is so heteronormative," Kira said. "He has an obligation to come out. By staying in the closet, he's doing a disservice to young gay men and women. It's disingenuous." Kira had become a women's studies major at Hampshire College on the heels of a bad breakup from a Northampton Wiccan.
"Everyone in Hollywood is disingenuous," Dan said. "They do drugs, they cheat on their spouses, they have illegitimate children. If I were him, I would never come out. He would lose all the macho roles. The guy wants to work."
"He would work," Kira said. "He's successful enough that it wouldn't hurt. His female fans would still fantasize about him."
"Just—with another guy in bed at the same time," Sharoz said, and the women giggled.
Across the room, Cady Pearce said something, and Steven Weller laughed so loudly that they could hear it. She was either the funniest cocktail waitress in all of Las Vegas or Steven Weller was very easily amused.
A server passed by with a tray. Not caring how it looked to anyone else, Maddy grabbed four pigs in blankets. The others clustered around, too, double-fisting food. After flying into Salt Lake City, they'd barely had time to change clothes at the condos before rushing off to The Widower. Mile's End, the festival, was not all that different from a Mile's End film: You were always cold, hungry, and short on time.
The party was in a private room on the third level of the Entertainer, a lodge/club on Mountain Way, and it was hosted by the studio that was distributing The Widower. Guest-list-only, it was much more intimate than the official Mile's End–hosted, post-Widower party raging two levels below. This crowd was older, with white teeth, tan skin, and cashmere sweaters.
"How did you get us in here, anyway?" Maddy asked Sharoz. "Had to be some kind of mistake."
"It was Ed. He owns Mile's End." Ed Handy was their producer's rep, and Sharoz's words were not hyperbole; the New York Times Arts section had recently run a front-page profile entitled "Ed Handy Owns Mile's End."
"Do you think those guys downstairs chasing cheddar with sponsored vodka know what they're missing?" Maddy asked.
"Of course," said Sharoz. "That's what this festival is about, varying levels of access."
Both Sharoz and Dan had been to Mile's End once before, with a short about a gamine subway busker who falls for a conductor. Maddy, who hadn't known Dan then, had never been. She had never even been to Utah. Ever since they got accepted, Dan had been calling her "a virgin to the festival." She understood that his smugness was a cover for his anxiety—I Used to Know Her was about to premiere at the biggest independent festival in the country—but she still didn't like it. She wanted to feel that they were all the same, united by what had brought them together in the first place: the desire to make good work.
"So what did you guys think of The Widower?" Kira asked.
"Not one true moment in the entire eighty-five minutes," Dan said. "Mile's End has become like Lifetime television." This was a frequent complaint of Dan's: that the festival had become less edgy now that it was entering its twenty-fifth year. But Maddy took it with a grain of salt, because if he really hated the festival, he never would have submitted.
Like all opening-night selections, The Widower had been chosen for maximum audience appeal. It wasn't in competition, and its Mile's End screenings were publicity for a spring theatrical release by Apollo Classics, the mini-major division of Apollo Pictures. Weller played an aging dad in Reno trying to remake his life. It was the latest in his independent-film phase, in which he played unglamorous roles that showcased his gravitas and graying sideburns.
"I thought it was moving," Sharoz told Kira. "I got choked up when he took the dad hiking."
"Come on," Dan said. "The guy has no process." In one of Weller's recent "small" films, Beirut Nights, which had been nominated for a slew of awards, he had played an over-the-hill CIA operative. The critics had made much of a moment when he found a small boy's body in the middle of the road, pushed a lock of hair from the boy's face, and cried a single tear. Weller had been still and very contained, without the histrionics that most actors used when they cried, but there was a cut just before the tear fell out, and after they saw the film, Dan told Maddy that he must have used glycerin drops.
Steven Weller was best known for having played Stan Gerber, a libidinous divorce attorney, on the hit NBC drama Briefs during the '90s. He did seven seasons, winning women's hearts across America. Maddy was fourteen when Briefs came on the air, and she thought he was so sexy, she had a poster of him from Tiger Beat on the wall next to her bed. She would kiss it every night before she went to sleep. After Briefs, he ventured into big-budget, high-profile action films and romantic comedies, his quote said to have climbed to $8 million per film. There had been a bump or two along the way—his biggest flop, Bombs Away, was about hostage negotiators who fall in love—but since then he had gotten choosier about his roles and was now considered one of the top ten actors over forty.
In interviews, he was quick to mock himself and his success, pointing to the element of luck in his career. Maddy didn't know if his disbelief at his fame was real or an act designed to make him more likable. Several years ago he had bought a palazzo in Venice and spent a few months there in the spring and summer, entertaining luminaries. He was an anti-scenester, or so it was said.
"I think he has process," Maddy said. "He's just not very showy."
Though she found some of the writing twee, Maddy had enjoyed The Widower. Weller wasn't genius—her best friend in grad school, Irina, called him a "hack-tor"—but Maddy found herself responding to his less important scenes. In one, he kissed a woman too eagerly at the end of a date, and the woman recoiled, and Maddy felt that his posture as he walked away showed everything about his character.
"The only reason people think he can act is because he's a handsome guy who makes himself look less handsome in his films," Dan said. "Which is ultimately kind of offensive."
"I don't understand," Sharoz said.
"Weller's attractive but takes these unattractive roles," Kira said, "so it seems like he's transforming himself, except the whole time the audience knows it's really him, so they want to sleep with the character even though he's a sad sack, which makes them feel deep and generous instead of totally shallow and looksist."
Ed Handy was approaching, cell phone in one hand and a tumbler in the other. A paunchy bald man in his early fifties, he carried himself like a male model. "Welcome to Mile's End," Ed said. "It used to be all prostitution and saloons. Now we service a different kind of whore."
"How many times have you used that line?" Dan asked.
"Hundreds. You have to understand, every conversation here has been spoken."
"Does that bother you?" Maddy asked.
"Not at all. Repetition relaxes me."
A middle-aged woman, maybe late fifties, with shiny brown hair, blue eyes, and perfectly aligned teeth, came over and kissed Ed on both cheeks. Maddy had noticed her earlier, circulating gracefully. She wore dark jeans tucked into riding boots and an off-white sweater that hugged her boosted breasts. To her left was an extremely short young man with intense light blue eyes.
"This is Bridget Ostrow," Ed said. Steven's longtime manager-producer, Bridget Ostrow was one of the most powerful women in entertainment. "Bridget produced The Widower."
"Congratulations," Dan said, smiling widely. "Loved it. Loved it."
When Maddy glanced at him, he didn't make eye contact. She hadn't expected him to be rude but was surprised to see him being so phony. "And this is Bridget's son, Zack," Ed said. "Zack's at the Bentley Howard Agency in New York." Bentley Howard, which had offices on both coasts, was one of the top five entertainment agencies. Ed turned to the Know Her crew. "These guys made I Used to Know Her. Dan Ellenberg here's the director. A New York dancer goes home to Vermont to try to prevent her best friend's wedding to this total sleazeball—I identified with him the most—and realizes they've grown in different directions. Maddy helped write it, it's based on her hometown. Bridge, these two girls, Maddy Freed and Kira Birzin, are brilliant. First screening is Saturday at ten."
"A.M.?" Zack asked.
"Yes," Ed said. "If you guys are up, it would be fantastic if you came." Maddy glanced anxiously at Dan. He had been furious when he first got the screening schedule. On Friday night, Bentley Howard was throwing a party for Rap Sheet, a film about a car thief turned rapper, at Mountain Way Pub and Grill. This meant that at ten the next morning, most Mile's Enders would be sleeping off hangovers, not seeing films. Dan was convinced the bad timing would harm their chances of distribution.
"I had already made a note to see it," Zack said.
"I'll be there, too," Bridget said, glancing over Dan's shoulder at another face in the crowd.
"Your film has great buzz," Zack said, clapping Dan on the back.
"Everything has buzz here," said Dan. "It's like the old man who told his friend his knee surgeon was the best, and the friend said, 'They're all the best.' " Zack laughed and rubbed his palm against his nose. Maddy didn't know if it was a nervous tic or a sign of drug addiction.
Dan turned to Bridget. "I'm a big admirer of your movies. I loved Frogs." Frogs was an ensemble retelling of the Exodus story set in the adult entertainment industry. Weller had played a porn director who blows out his brains.
"Interesting that you used the word 'movies,' " Bridget said. Her voice was melodious and pleasing, with the trace of an outer-borough accent. "Steven likes to say we have to make the movies to keep making the films."
Maddy caught Zack rolling his eyes. What was it like to be Bridget Ostrow's son, trying to carve out your own niche as an agent? Clearly, mother and son were not in perfect harmony—but if he didn't admire her on some level, he wouldn't have gone into representation.
"It was so wonderful meeting you all," Bridget said abruptly, glancing at Steven and Cady across the room.
Zack gave out business cards to the foursome. "I'll see you Saturday morning if not before," he said. As they left, Ed beside them, Maddy noticed that mother and son had the same gait, pigeon-like, the heads bobbing, the bodies undulating slightly, as they moved.
"How come you were sucking up to Bridget when you didn't like her movie?" Maddy asked Dan.
"We're here to network," he said testily. "Her client is one of a dozen actors who can get a project made by attaching himself. If she remembers me a couple years down the line, I could wind up directing Steven Weller."
"But you hated his performance."
"I could get better work out of him."
In New York, Maddy was used to being the social one, going out with fellow New School alums to plays and movies, while Dan preferred staying inside or seeing foreign films with Maddy and no one else. She always tried to get him to come with her—he might meet actors for his films, producers—but he said he didn't believe in networking. He'd trot out some line he attributed to Hunter S. Thompson: "An artist must have a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing." Now all his high-art soliloquies seemed a handy way of casting an unwilling lack of success as a willing one.
Steven Weller was holding court in the center of the room. Bridget's eyes were on him, but her body was turned slightly away. She looked like a Secret Service agent scanning the room for danger.
It occurred to Maddy that Bridget Ostrow probably knew things about Steven Weller that no one else did, even Cady Pearce. Over the years she must have seen his insecurity, fear, anger, everything a celebrity had to hide from the rest of the world. A manager couldn't yell at her star client or act jealous when he got all the attention. She couldn't cross him (or let him find out if she did), and when she disagreed, she had to do so gently, respectfully. Maddy wasn't sure which one had the real power—Weller, with his fame, or Bridget, who had made the fame possible.
Dan said he wanted another drink, and Maddy followed him to the bar. As he tried to get the bartender's attention, she leaned back to face the room. She closed her eyes and tilted her head, the din thrumming in her ears, phrases like "entire ecosystem" and "digging deep."
There was a skylight, and through it she could see the moon. She wanted to call her father on her cell and tell him she was at an elite party, a stone's throw from a movie star, and then she remembered that she couldn't. She sighed and lowered her chin. Her gaze fell on the group huddled around Steven Weller. Everyone was zeroed in on him, but he was staring, unblinkingly, at her.
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In this big, juicy literary novel from bestselling author Amy Sohn, an ambitious young actress discovers that every marriage is a mystery, and that sometimes the greatest performances don't take place on screen.
When Hollywood heartthrob Steven Weller pulls Maddy Freed out of obscurity for a starring part in his newest, Oscar-worthy film, she feels her career roaring onto the express track. Steven's professional attention soon turns personal as they are thrown together amid Europe's Old World charm, and Maddy allows herself to tumble headlong into a fairytale romance with the world's most eligible bachelor. She knows there's no truth to the gay rumors that have followed him for years.
Yet what is it that Steven sees in Maddy that he has not seen in his string of past girlfriends? Steven tells her he is drawn to her stunning gift as an actress—her ability to inhabit a character so seamlessly, so convincingly, that it is nearly impossible to tell she is playing a role—a compliment that becomes more ominous as their marriage progresses. Ultimately, as Maddy's own happiness and success grow intertwined with her new husband's, she cannot afford to ask too many questions about Steven's complicated past. But can she ignore her inner voice, and her instincts about her own worth?
Set in a tantalizing world of glamour and scandal, of red carpets and ruthless competition, of scheming agents and the prying eye of the press, The Actress is a romantic, sophisticated page-turner about the price of ambition, the treachery of love, and the roles we all play.
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AmeriCorps is a National Service Program providing volunteers an opportunity to serve their community (also referred to as the "Domestic Peace Corps"). In Lake County, the AmeriCorps Program focuses on:
*Academic Support (Pre-12th) - Members provide small group and one-on-one tutoring in literacy and comprehension.
*After-School Programming (K-12) - Members lead students in an hour of tutoring and homework help, small group tutoring, followed by enrichment activities focused on topics such as leadership, community service, and social issues.
*Oral Health (0-5) - Members serve students, in the 0-5 population, around the importance of oral health and assist families in finding needed services.
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Members start the program year with a comprehensive series of trainings, and participate in continued training and coaching opportunities throughout the year. The emphasis is on encouraging the personal and professional development of each member in a supportive environment. Members are asked to whole-heartedly commit to the term of service they sign up to complete, challenge themselves, and take full advantage of this wonderful opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children, families, and our community.
The Lake County AmeriCorps program is a school year-long commitment to serve their community, dedicating 450 or 900 hours over a six to ten month period. Upon completion of their commitment, they are also qualified for an Education Award to use for college expenses. Those members 55 years and older can now transfer their education award to a family member.
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This post is not about me, but about my 24 year old sister and nephew. I want to know how to help her and if anyone has hear of anything like this or had a similar situation.
My sister was 39 weeks and went into labor. She was running a low grade (99) fever when she checked into the ER (est time 4 am). They sent her up to labor and delivery. They advised my mother they thought that Brayden had a bowel movement in utero thus the reason for the low grade fever. They began rinsing out my sisters uterus with saline solution. Her fever began to rise around 10 am. At 11 am Braden's heart rate began to elevate. By 11:45 his heart rate was at 214 and the dr. rushed in and told my sister that even though she wasn't fully dilated it was time to push and they were going to use the vacuum to get Brayden out. Brayden was born at 12:20 unresponsive. The labor and delivery nurse lost his heart beat sometime after she began pushing. Her fever was up to 105 once she began pushing.
My sister who is only 24 then began to hemorrhage. They did everything they knew to do. 3 hours later she was sent down for emergency surgery. We were told that she had an infection (unknown infection, just an infection women get during pregnancy at times) that had attacked her whole body, as well as Brayden. Her uterus was still the size of a watermelon and had to be removed. She lost her 1st and only child, and the ability to have another one that day. She ended up with 16 pints of blood, on a ventilator for 48 hours. Luckily she made it out alive but the death of Brayden has consumed her as well as my family. We can't get past it. We don't understand any of it. She had a perfect pregnancy. Tested for everything, and nothing showed up. I am at a loss as to how this happened. She was not given any pitocin to allow her labor to progress any faster to get Brayden out sooner so maybe he would still be here. The dr. attempted to make it out like it was her fault saying she didn't know her water had broken and that's why she had the infection. She had been in out of the ER as well as seen the dr. everyday up until her water broke. My Mom said that the smell from when her water broke was rancid before she ever got to the ER. I know we will never get answers but just wondered if anyone out there had a similar situation or any insight as to how, or what could help my sister get through this. Brayden would be 7 months old this month and it's still just as fresh at the day it happened.


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The E-Journal is seeking a volunteer to help post the 2011 collection of game commentaries online as part of the 2011 American Go Yearbook. No coding involved; all the files have already been uploaded, and you'll be working with 2010 collection editor Brian Kirby and Yearbook Managing Editor Chris Garlock. This is a great opportunity to provide a great service to the go community with a small investment of time. If interested, send us a note at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Monday May 9, 2011
GO SPOTTING: 'The Archaeology of Internment'
Monday May 9, 2011
"Readers may be interested in the current May/June issue of Archaeology magazine," reports Janice Kim. "There is an article 'Archaeology of World War II' that includes a section 'The Archaeology of Internment' that describes some findings at the Kooskia camp in Idaho, where American citizens of Japanese ancestry were interned during World War II. It notes that archaeologists '… are uncovering evidence that people not only survived, but also struggled to maintain their identity and dignity even in the most restrictive and dehumanizing environments', with a picture of go stones discovered at the site. In light of recent events I think it's important to reflect on this chapter in our history, and I was heartened by the Journal's reporting of fundraising events for Japan by the US go community."
- photo: go players in the Wyoming Heart Mountain internment camp in 1943; photo by Tom Parker, The War Authority via The National Archives
Yuanbo Liu Wins Prague Korean Ambassador Cup
Monday May 9, 2011
As in Paris, the 40th Prague Tournament was easy prey for Yuanbo Liu 2P (r), better known as MilaMilan, who swept again with a 100% score. Best of the West was Ondrej Silt 6d, losing only to Liu. This year's European Youth Champion under 20, Pavol Lisy 5d, only lost to Yuanbo and came in third. Young talents Lukas Podpera 4d, 2010-2011 European Youth Champion under 16 Mateusz Surma 5d and Jan Prokop 4d came in 4th, 5th and 6th in this 101-player field.
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World Amateurs Set for Japan May 26-June 3
Monday May 9, 2011
The 32nd annual World Amateur Go Championship (WAGC) will be held later this month in Matsue City in Japan's Shimane Prefecture. Seventy top amateur players from 70 countries and territories will compete to be the best amateur in the world. The tournament runs Thursday, May 26 May through Friday, June 3, and for the third year the E-Journal and Ranka Online are teaming up to bring you complete coverage of this exciting event, with daily updates including game records, commentary, photos, player profiles and news about the tournament.
Go Game Guru Interviews SmartGo Author Anders Kierulf
Monday May 9, 2011
Anders Kierulf is fairly well-known in the go community as the author of SmartGo, but he also invented the widely-used sgf format, was the U.S. Othello champion in 1992 and is also an avid joggler. Go Game Guru recently published an extensive interview with Kierulf, who last month launched SmartGo Books for iPad and iPhone.
4th Yuan Zhou Workshop Held in NC
Monday May 9, 2011
"Go is not just a a simple game," said Yuan Zhou 7d (r) at the 4th Yuan Zhou North Carolina Go Workshop, held May 6-8 in Raleigh, North Carolina. "It is deeply connected to the philosophy of life. That is one reason why parents want their children to learn go. It teaches values and decision making skills that are important." Fourteen people from the local clubs, Virginia, and Maryland participated in the three-day event. Zhou employed his characteristic combination of humor, philosophy, and rigorous game analysis to help elevate the games of players of all ranks, with particular emphasis on the need to understand the value and efficiency of each move. The workshop was sponsored
by the Triangle Go Group of Durham, North Carolina.
- Paul Celmer, Chapter Head, Triangle Go Group
Chinese Go Leaders to Visit New England
Sunday May 8, 2011
The Ing Foundation, MIT Go Club, and the Massachusetts Go Association are joining forces to co-host an unusual event on May 19 featuring visiting Chinese go leaders working to promote go across the world. "The President of the Chinese Qiyuan (Chess Institution), the Secretary-General of the Shanghai Ing Foundation, and the Former Chinese University Tournament champion will be visiting Boston in May to gain insight into how to promote a thriving New England go community," reports Walther Chen. On May 19 at MIT in Boston, from 6:30-10p, "there will be a special event to honor our Chinese guests as well as provide opportunities for networking and, of course, playing go," says Chen. RSVP by May 10 with your rank to help setting up matches: firstname.lastname@example.com
Jimmy Yang 4D Sweeps NOVA May Madness
Sunday May 8, 2011
Jimmy Yang 4D went 4-0 to take the top section at the annual May Madness tourney in Fairfax, VA on May 7. The May Madness event is known for its gift exchange where each player brings a wrapped gift and takes a different one home. A new feature was the Life and Death contest where players received a set of five life and death problems at registration and had until the start of the first round to complete them. Ethan Baldridge 2D took home the prize for Dan level problems, and Kevin Chin 1k, with the only perfect score of five correct, won the prize for kyu level.
The other sectional winners in the tournament were Kelsey Dyer 2K 4-0, Robert Ehrlich 5k 3-1, Alan Chen 11k 3-1, and Yang Tang 28k 3-1. Second place winners were Wesley Wu 3D 2-2, Yukino Takehara 2k 3-1, Joey Phoon 6k 2-2, Jason Long 8k 3-1, and Anderson Barreal 22k 3-1.
- Gurujeet Khalsa, Tournament Director
Zhang Wins Morning Star Tourney
Sunday May 8, 2011
Lee Sedol Prevails in 5-Match Battle to Win BC Card Cup
Monday May 2, 2011
Lee Sedol 9P has won the 3rd BC Card Cup World Baduk Championship, defending his title against Gu Li 9P, in an exciting five-match showdown.
At press-time last week, the E-Journal reported that the 3rd BC Card Cup final was tied at one all. What an exciting week fans of professional go have had since then!
Lee pulled ahead in Game Three, staging a surprise reversal after Gu led for most of the game. Gu, playing white, made a small overplay in the late middle game, invading black's position at the top with move 146. Lee met this with unrelenting force and an iron will. He managed to kill all of white's invading stones, bringing himself back into the game and going on to win by half a point.
Game Four was the most complicated of the series, opening with a new and fiendishly difficult variation in the lower right. The fighting spread from there and didn't stop for the whole game. Many assumed the game was over and that Lee had won the title when he took a decided advantage at move 134. However, Gu kept fighting and pulled off an even more amazing reversal with his brilliant play from move 173 onwards. Be sure to check out An Younggil 8P's commentary.
Given the preceding games, there was a lot of excitement around the fifth and final match. The game itself was relatively peaceful and, unfortunately for Gu, Lee took the lead after Gu misjudged a ko around move 70. After this, Lee demonstrated how to win a won game, trading his way around Gu's strong challenges and leading things into the endgame. Gu resigned after all his opportunities to reverse the game had been eliminated, giving Lee Sedol his second consecutive win in the BC Card Cup. This also resolves the deadlock in the head-to-head record between these players, with the record now tilting in Lee's favor at 14-13.
- David Ormerod; compiled from the collected reports on the BC Card Cup at Go Game Guru. Photo: (from left) Lee Sedol, Rui Naiwei, Jujo Jiang and Gu Li review Game Four of the final.


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We can try to schedule meetings at a time that will be least disruptive to your work schedule. Visiting times can be coordinated around family meetings or meals. It is also important to plan for time at home with the rest of the family.
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When a parent is focused on supporting a child in crisis, a regular schedule can be stressful or impossible. Some parents cannot ask for or accept help, particularly when they are accustomed to juggling busy schedules and have always managed in the past. But this is a time to reach out to family and close friends.
There are many small ways people can offer support. They could watch other children while you are at the hospital or provide transportation to after-school activities. They could make a meal, run errands or walk the dog. They might even take a turn visiting your child in the hospital. People who are concerned about you and your family may be looking for ways to help and often feel reassured if they can contribute.
Since having a child in the hospital is time and energy consuming, it is important to find time to spend with the rest of the family. Some two-parent families find that it is most helpful to have one parent plan a special evening with the children at home while the other visits the unit.
For single-parent families, it can be helpful to involve other family members in visiting or helping the children at home so, both your child in the hospital and those at home, all get some of your time. Also, it is important for parents to plan to spend some time alone together to stay connected and support each other.
Some parents have shared that they felt overwhelmed during the time their child was hospitalized. Some have expressed feelings of guilt and fear that somehow their actions may have caused their child's illness. Some parents feel isolated and alone. Others may be overcome by sadness, fearing their child may not fully recover or be able to achieve their previous goals.
It is important to have an outlet to talk about these feelings. Our staff is certainly available to provide support. It is also important to stay in touch with people close to you who will be available after your child returns home.
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Some people in the community may have very strong ideas, be judgmental or try to assign blame. This reaction often comes from a lack of understanding about mental illness and the societal stigma attached to it. Unfortunately, these people sometimes surface in the most unlikely places like a church or a school.
You may choose to be cautious with unenlightened individuals, sharing only basic information, while using sympathetic people who understand mental illness to bring out support for yourself and your family. When you share information about your child's hospitalization you may be cautious at first, "testing the waters" to see how a friend or relative may react. It will quickly become evident whether someone will be supportive or not. You can then judge how much information to share about your child's illness and hospitalization.
Remember that your own feelings about your child's hospitalization are probably influencing how you imagine others will react. When your child is first hospitalized, your own feelings of stress, guilt, shame or disappointment may bring out similar reactions from friends and family. As you come to terms with your child's illness and hospitalization, you may find that it is easier to share information and to receive support from friends and family.
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what! no more love when you delete it again. ha... ;D
was trying to delete it from t-shirts not the entire thing - ahhhhhh
ha...why? look good on the Tee! ;D
subbing it to threadless :)
awesome! ;)
i had the tee in my shopping cart ...
Am really sorry Laura - if threadless don't use it I will post it back up here. People seem to like it more than I thought, so decided to sub it to Threadless.
More than likely it will be back soon, sorry again... but really glad you like it.
More than likely it will be back soon, sorry again... but really glad you like it.
i love love it ... the only reason i didn't purchase is because i need a little more money in my bank account before i treat myself :)
Good news - now back on shirts. Couldn't sub it to Threadless as it said the word 'kodak'
Laura - you are in luck :)
Laura - you are in luck :)
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Retro awesomeness!
Nice style
cheers whoever just bought this :) wish there was a way on this site to see who buys your stuff, would be nice to be able to say thanks
poor Kodak has filed for bankruptcy.
So cute!
so simple, yet so charming!
Impressive work! Simple, but great visual outcome.
just in case you were wondering i purchased my tee ... can't wait for it to arrive!
thanks so much Laura, hope it looks good?? see your a vintage camera fan??
me too! (comment on the illustration ;-) )
why yes ... yes i am! i have a growing collection that right now is right around 40 ... film was my first love!
me too! Lovely design!
just thought i'd let you know ... I . LOVE . MY . TEE ... it's one of my new favourites & the pomegranate colour looks awesome. The tee itself is american apparel, great quality & a good fit & they did an awesome job printing the design.
that's amazing Laura, don't suppose you could post a picture somewhere or email one to me: email@example.com I'd love to see it.
Amazing work!
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Love this! Your style rocks.
thanks very much
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We had some snacks and beautiful cupcakes, then we quickly opened presents. We work in a customer service center, so the phones still have to be manned during a party! :)
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Saturday we made the hour and a half drive to Madill, Oklahoma for the National Sandbass Festival. Don't act like you're not impressed! :) Country artist Sammy Kershaw was playing, and he decided to check out his show. He just so happened to be my hubby's baseball coach in his younger years (small world!). He is a character for sure. He still puts on a great show - the weather was nice, the crowd was great - it was such a fun evening.
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I am serious when I ask this... is this LEGAL? Why can some websites get listed in a MAJOR search engine for free while others have to pay through the nose? It's not like at Google where if you work real hard and do what is "right" you can get yourself ranked higher. Another thing, I don't think the surfers on MSN have clue that what the results they are seeing are all part of MSN's editor buddy list (I don't think they care either).
Just had to vent!
I've seen the same thing with SE's using out data DMOZ dumps. You pay through the nose to get in with no guarantee that you won't drown in 1,000 free listings, most of which have little relevance to the search terms.
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MSN is in the business of making a profit, just like you. I'm not going to begrudge them that. Is it fair? A lot of things in business aren't.
You may want to ditch LS and experiment with INK.
I finally checked out BCentral the other day. Will this program get a site into MSN? (It says it does, but I am ever the skeptic.)
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Not sure. If bcentral activates the spider to crawl for the free ink spider, then you might get a temporary penalty. I'm not sure if that has changed or not.
In any case, if you have links to you, the ink spider will find you, regardless.
The cool thing about ink paid submission is that their spider visits every 48 hours, allowing you to tweak your page and see the results within a couple days, instead of a couple months with Google/Fast/etc.
Not sure. If bcentral activates the spider to crawl for the free ink spider, then you might get a temporary penalty. I'm not sure if that has changed or not.
My impression is that submitting through bcentral is essentially the same as submitting through any Inktomi paid submission reseller. I've never tried it, but come to that conclusion through my reading of the information on the bcentral site, and because they're listed among the "Search Submit" resellers [inktomi.com] on Inktomi's site.
It's amazing how critical to relevancy a site can become with an affiliate program. If you have one, that could be a way in........
Personally I have some really great results with ZEAL. This helped me to go up in the top 15 for a couple of keywords.
Plus also submit once in a while a page of your site to msn for free, because the more pages crawled and indexed the higher the rank...to my opinion.
The CEO of the corporation that employs me has strong feelings that we will try to never pay for listings. The internet used to be a level playing field; smaller shops had as much opportunity as those with much more funding.
But, since some folks are willing to pay for exposure, eventually free exposure may be totally extinct.
What would happen if we all just decided to do business only with parties who wanted us, gratis?
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As for you and LS,simple go elsewhere.
You said its "free" clicks are working for you yet you will not increase your monthly spend.
If its working you can increase your monthly spend to suit "your" budget,if its notworking,go somewhere else,you will have too come December anyway when your "free" clicks run out......unless of course you want to be on MSN then you will have no choice but to use Looksmart or Overture.
The days of a free ride are nearly gone,you think Yahoo are going to let you list through INKT for free or for a one time fee,Yahoo more then anyone are moving to a user pays system.......the others are following just as quickly.
Jillbert, I disagree with your assessment of Yahoo's planned use of INKT. I think they'll largely continue to use INKT as it's being used today, which means you do not have to pay for a listing.
To have true relevancy is search you simply cannot exclude sites from your index. Yahoo will drive people to Google in record numbers if they only listed sites who were willing to pay.
MSN has shown how this works. By imposing low quality LookSmart results on their users, they've lost more searchers to Google than any site in the history of the web. I make that statement based on the fact that most web users start using the web with MSN as their default homepage, yet more users use Google driven sites than MSN today.
That sounds familiar. To me, one of MSN's greatest failures is capitalizing of the incredible market potential of bCentral. Search engine positioning is crutial for small businesses yet bCentral only provides misinformation on the topic.


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As Suhail Khan has said himself, his father, Mahboob Khan, helped found and was very active in ISNA. He said so in that same 1999 speech, further pledging as his "life's work, inspired by my dear father's shining legacy ... to work for the umma," which means transnational Islam. According to a key internal document of the Muslim Brotherhood, ISNA is a Muslim Brotherhood front, probably the largest one in America. Which means that no matter what CNN's Anderson Cooper ignorantly accepted from Khan as fact recently, Khan's father, Mahboob Khan, was part of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan) in America.
That's right, America. The Brotherhood isn't merely an Egyptian movement committed to Islamic world government (caliphate) and Shariah (Islamic law); the Brothers are here. According to evidence introduced by the U.S. government in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, MB claims 29 front and "friendly" organizations that include virtually every big Muslim organization such as ISNA and CAIR. Due to the mass suicidal reflex known as "Muslim Outreach,' representatives from these fronts are routinely invited into practically every American institution to pronounce on all things Islamic. What we're talking about is an influence operation to rival, or perhaps surpass, that of the communist Kremlin.
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Checkers anyone? lol
Hahaha good one. Thanks for the compliments guys!!
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Thank you! I know right?!! This was like the luckiest shot ever. It was just before a huge crowd of people stormed through!
Stunning POV, great play on light & shadows Kim:)
Thanks so much Chris!! :)
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Gorgeous reflections here - love it - and so empty - it's beautiful.
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You Slipped A DiskYou Slipped A Disk (1997) Season 2 Episode 201-A- Disney's 101 Dalmatians Cartoon Episode Guide by Dave Koch
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- Traditional Animation
- Walt Disney Television Animation
- Animation Studio: Jumbo Pictures
- Distributed by: Buena Vista Television
- Cartoon Characters: Lucky, Rolly, Spot, Cruella DeVil, Roger Dearly, Anita Dearly, Nanny, Jasper Badun, Horace Badun, Pongo, Perdita, Patch.
- Voice Actors: Pamela Segall, Debi Mae West, Kath Soucie, Tara Charendoff, April Winchell, Jeff Bennett, Charlotte Rae, Michael McKean; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Ken Boyer, Victor Cook, Peter Ferk, Rick Schneider, Kelly Ward.
- Produced By Rick Schneider, Victor Cook, David Campbell, Tony Craig, Roberts Gannaway, Jim Jinkins, Carin Greenberg Baker.
- Written By Scott Gray, Carin Greenberg Baker, Ken Koonce, Kat Likkel, Don London, Michael Merton, Reed Shelly, Dodie Smith.
- Music: Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn, Mark Watters.
- Editor: Tony Mizgalski, Anthony F. Rocco, Philip Malamuth.
- First Aired on September 01, 1997.
- Originally Released in Syndication.
- Running Time: 11 minutes.
- Episode Number: 201-A
- Season: 2
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Lucky, Rolly and Cadpig chases after Scorch when he steals a diskette that Roger ordered Lucky to keep out of Cruella's hands.
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Believe it or not, there are players besides Alex Rodriguez subject to MLB's investigation of the Biogenesis clinic.
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Lots of people spent time yesterday declaring that, despite the fact lots of players have had PED suspensions and have come back to play, A-Rod simply can't possibly do that.
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The credit spigot is opening for small businesses, says Fair Isaac as its survey of bank risk managers finds 62% saying the supply of credit will meet demand over the next 6 months and 89% saying the approval rate would hold steady or increase. "Particularly striking," says FICO's Andrew Jennings. "In the past, (they) haven't been as optimistic about credit for small businesses."
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Hello everyone
Exciting news!
(Sounded a bit like Prof Farnsworth there...)
I've released my old tutorial, Armature to Art Doll. It's been up on the website Doll Makers Dream for the past couple of years to encourage people to do their own research (easy to find if you googled 'art doll tutorial') but I see no harm in taking it out of storage.
I'd like to point out (as I have in the first part) that it is dated. I don't personally make dolls like this anymore. In fact, amongst other things, I completely scrapped wire armatures recently in favour of plastic ball-and-socket armatures. However it serves a perfect purpose of getting you started in the basics of doll making
One thing I would add is that I haven't made armatures for the feet in a long, long time. When I used wire I twisted a little loop in the end with pliers to stop the fimo from spinning or the wire from coming out. Also copper can discolour fimo over time.
Another thing I would like to mention is that if you make a doll with the tutorial I would LOVE to see it! You can submit it to the open folder at named "First Dolls"!
So one and all.. Enjoy!
In group news, there is a new folder for your first doll. Submissions are automatically approved! You do not have to be a member to submit.
There is also a new folder for tutorial submissions! If you have a doll making or doll related tutorial to share please submit it there. It can be specifically for making art dolls, or it could be sewing tips, or it could be a pattern, or how to dye fur... Anything you think is relevant.
A reminder of the rules
Only one rule, please don't submit more than one deviation of an art doll. One image in the gallery is enough to draw attention.
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Thank you for this sooo much! I've been really interested in making these but no matter how much I googled and researched I couldn't find anything on posable art dolls. Thank you!!
Glad to see that familiar image back on DA. (though, I'd had it book marked from the other website before I even saw it on DA). This is such a lovely starting point, and is helping to guide me along my first doll. I'm really looking forward to gathering some ball-and-socket joints for future dolls, once I get the basic process figured out. Cheers!


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Rainbow Coke by lululoserWatch
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This was so fun to do, I had so many coke bottles in the garage and decided to try this out.
How did you do that?
as much i like that drink i fave
Fill them up with water, shine a phone light underneath each, and you've got the lanterns of visible light!
That is so cool
Colorful beauty!
looks really really great. ^^
Very cool
Imagine drinking from those bottles.
Wrong. ROYGBIV: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
PS: Good job!
PS: Good job!
Really amazing. I love it.
Whoa. Five Coca-Cola bottles with rainbow lights, really cool. I think I like it.
Coca-Cola is my favorite drink.
Coca-Cola is my favorite drink.
Love this
Thank you so much for reporting that!! Whoever it was has been deactivated but thank you <3 means so much
Not a problem! Glad they deactivated, I actually had a bit of help from a good friend of mine, so I think that helped.
How did you do this? NICE JOB!!!!!
LOL awesome
I love everything about this picture: The lights, the colors of the rainbow, Cocacola bottles, the perspection, and again... EVERYTHING!!!!
This is crack for my eyes
i like soo much
very cool idea and nice colours
epicness in da house!!! xD this is awesome!
second from left looks like nuca-cola quantum (fallout)
Now I'm thirsty. Awesome picture!
It the effect of drink coca-cola *-*
You should make this into a wallpaper
That's so pretty!
beautiful and very creative, as well as inspirational for my psy trance 3d abstract animations.
haha so great
Too bad they stop glowing after a while ><
That is a nice idea!
Yay shiny colors! ^^
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