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Things to see and do - USA West
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USA West :
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Aneth Lodge Budget 6 from46 $Book
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USA West Leisure tips
Yosemite National Park Day Trip from San Francisco
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Mini Baja Buggy Half-Day Tour from Las Vegas
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San Francisco Helicopter Tour and Sunset Dinner Cruise
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Art and Culture
Art and Culture
The landscape of the West is big, distinctive, vividly colored and demanding; and so is the art it has engendered, from the huge, compelling canvases of Bierstadt and Moran to Georgia O'Keeffe's abstract personifications of nature. And the indigenous custom of storytelling finds expression in the modern art most dependent on story—film.
Although US Indians created works of art, almost everything also had a utilitarian or religious purpose. Some of the finest baskets ever created were the work of Washoe artisans, of whom Datsolalee , of the late 19C, is the best known. Coastal California tribes also made baskets exceptional for their beauty and utility, some woven so tightly they could hold water. Peoples of the Northwest coast and Alaska excelled in the art of carving soapstone and walrus tusks, cedar masks and totem poles. Hawaiians created coral jewelry and finely decorated robes and helmets adorned with bird feathers.
All the tribes of the Southwest fashioned decorated pottery, although the art had slipped into a utilitarian mold by the early 20C. Potter María Montoya Martínez (c.1881-1980) of New Mexico's San Ildefonso Pueblo is credited with reviving the potter's art in the 1930s when she produced exquisite black-on-black ware. Southwest Indian artists also made names for themselves as painters, among them Pablita Velarde (1918-2006) and Harrison Begay (b.1917). Navajo women today weave rugs crafted in distinctive regional styles.
The Spanish decorated their missions with silver work and wood carvings, much of it made in Mexico and carried north by mule train. The Spanish probably also taught lapidary skills to the Pueblo Indians, who today produce some of the finest stone (especially turquoise) and silver jewelry in the US.
The American West provided an exceedingly rich canvas for artists and other chroniclers of frontier life and scenery. Early explorers often were accompanied by sketch artists, some of whom went on to become noted artists. Karl Bodmer (1809-93) and George Catlin (1796-1872) both recorded Indians and mountain men in the 1830s, while John James Audubon (1785-1851) made his own journey west to sketch birds and wildlife. Artist-photographer Solomon Nuñes Carvalho (1815-94) accompanied Frémont during a survey of the Far West. The paintings of Thomas Moran (1837-1926) and photographs of William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), part of the Hayden Expedition to Yellowstone in 1871, were crucial in swaying the public and Congress to create the first national park. Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-74), a Baltimore artist, made a trip west in the company of fur traders in 1837 and capitalized upon it in creating a series of paintings of great documentary value. German-born Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) painted Western landscapes in a particularly Romantic style. Grittier and more lifelike are the sketches, paintings and sculptures of cowboys, Indians and other Western characters by Frederic Remington (1861-1909) and Charles M. Russell (1864-1926).
New Mexico, with its pueblos and unusual scenery, became a popular magnet for artists in the late 19C. Santa Fe, long the cultural center of the Southwest, is one of the largest art markets in the US after New York and Los Angeles; so is Scottsdale, Arizona. Taos boasted an artist colony in the very early 20C. Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), an annual Taos visitor who later moved to the New Mexico desert, painted austere landscapes and decorated more than one famous painting with a parched cow skull against a bright Southwestern sky.
The stop-action photography of Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) preceded the invention of his zoopraxiscope, a landmark in pioneering the moving-picture industry. The haunting black-and-white shots of Western landscapes, particularly Yosemite, by Ansel Adams (1902-84) inspired generations of photographers and conservationists. Through her poignant portraits of farm migrants and photos of vast public-works projects rising amid arid landscapes, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) dramatized the tragedies and triumphs of the Depression-era West. Photographers Edward Weston (1886-1958) and Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) were among the more influential members of a West Coast coterie known as Group f.64.
The west coast of California also exerted a strong influence on 20C painting and sculpture. Artist colonies at Carmel, La Jolla and Laguna Beach spawned the California Impressionism and Plein-Air movements, including Franz Bischoff (1864-1929), creating landscapes inspired by the unique light and natural features of the area. During the 1930s, abstraction, surrealism and social realism came into play. In San Francisco, Mark Rothko (1903-70) and Clyfford Still (1904-80) inspired an explosion of abstract painting by their students, who included Robert Motherwell (1915-91). Painters such as Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93) and David Park (1911-60) responded with a representational movement known as Bay Area Figurative. An influential art scene that has developed in southern California since the 1950s includes David Hockney (b.1937). Tacoma, WA, native Dale Chihuly (b.1941) established a blown-glass art tradition, the Pilchuck School, now famed worldwide.
Native Americans built homes to suit their environment and culture with available materials. Nomadic Plains tribes adopted buffalo skins spread over lean-to timber frames to build highly mobile tepees . Farming tribes of the Great Plains, like the Mandans and Pawnees, built permanent earthen lodges . Northwestern tribes erected sturdy plank houses , while the people of the Great Basin and California lowlands preferred light summer lean-tos of thatch and brush, using more substantial materials in winter.
Most of the farming people of the Southwest built fixed houses. Ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos of dried mud or stone, some occupied for hundreds of years, still stand throughout the region. Raised on canyon shelves for protection from marauders, the cliff dwellings were abandoned in the late 12C. Latecomers to the Southwest, such as the Navajo, erected six-sided houses called hogans . The likely descendants of the cliff dwellers live today in pueblos . Some, like those of Taos, New Mexico, are stacked like apartment houses and are among the most remarkable buildings in America.
The Spanish built with sun-baked adobe bricks, made from wet clay and a binding material such as straw or horse hair. Structures were whitewashed and roofed with overhanging clay tiles to reduce rain damage. Adobe walls retain heat in winter and coolness in summer. Doors and windows could be carved from the sturdy walls with a minimum of effort. For their ecclesiastical buildings, Spanish architects tried to copy structures they knew from Spain or Mexico.
Most Western settlements in the American era were initially built of wood, the cheapest and most readily available material. A prominent exception was the sod house of the Great Plains which, though sturdy shelter, was dark and readily abandoned when wood became available. Rudimentary log cabins were usually superseded by frame houses , while commercial establishments achieved a tone of respectability by sporting facades of brick (often imported from the Midwest or East) or dressed stone, locally quarried. A characteristic feature of many towns was the false front , which served to make one-story shanties look larger and more reputable.
Large cities looked East for architectural inspiration in the 19C, often drawing upon the Greek Revival style for banks, or a hodgepodge of styles for the mansions and row houses of residential districts. Romanticized throwbacks to the Old West have remained popular through the 20C, especially at dude ranches, resorts and national parks—a spectacular example being the Old Faithful Inn (1904, Robert Reamer) at Yellowstone National Park.
Widespread prosperity in the 20C enabled Westerners to experiment more with architectural style. In California, some builders put form before practicability, so that wealthier residential districts in some cities were imbued with a bewildering array of styles in close juxtaposition. In Los Angeles, one residential block might boast Tudor, Norman and Mission-style houses between a Japanese garden and Swiss chalet. The 1920s and 1930s popularized whimsical structures built to resemble extraneous objects (giant oranges, derby hats, even cartoon animals) to attract clientele.
More thoughtful architectural fashions of the 20C included the Mission Style, which resurrected the arched doorways and windows, red-tile roofs and white earthen walls of Spanish missions; Art Moderne , with streamlined contours and Art Deco detailing; and the Prairie School , emphasizing strong, horizontal lines and a lack of superfluous decoration. The latter, a creation of architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), stressed organic architecture harmonizing with specific landscapes. Of hundreds of buildings designed by Wright in the West, the most important is Taliesin West (1937) in Scottsdale, Arizona. With its low-profile buildings of indigenous materials, uneven rooflines and deeply shaded entrances, Taliesin West remains a strong influence on design. The West Coast was a stronghold for Craftsman style, the American adaptation of the British Arts and Crafts movement, featuring simple decorative wood trim, built-in cabinetry and porches with broad pillars. San Diego and Oakland both have notable Craftsman neighborhoods.
Tall tales and colorful humor were popular on the frontier. Westerners were famous for telling tall tales—which is why John Colter's earliest descriptions of Yellowstone's geysers, hot pools and astringent streams were thought to be lies. Humorists like Mark Twain (né Samuel Clemens, 1835-1910) and Edgar "Bill" Nye (1850-96) carried on the tradition of exaggeration in print, writing satire that turned on common sense and droll humor. Twain's first break came with "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1867). Roughing It (1872) is considered richest and funniest description of a dude's life in Virginia City, San Francisco, Hawaii and other parts of the Wild West.
More serious Western observations also were widely read in the East. Francis Parkman's exciting account of The Oregon Trail (1849) remains a standard today. John C. Frémont's reports of his forays to the West, scribed with governmental precision, were rewritten with dramatic flair by his wife, Jesse Benton Frémont (1824-1902); they were best-sellers in their day and made Frémont's guide, Kit Carson, into a great Western hero. The laconic Carson himself told his own story with less flamboyance in an autobiography not published until 1926. Other accounts of Western experiences embraced a wide range of views, including those of Indians ( Black Elk Speaks , 1932) and homesteaders (the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder , 1867-1957). Historians like Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932), Bernard De Voto (1897-1955) and Wallace Stegner (1909-93) added heft and drama.
Sentimental stories, exemplified by the California gold-rush tales of Bret Harte (1836-1902), were popular throughout the 19C, but it was adventure and derring-do that gave the real impetus to a new brand of fiction, the Western. The first mass-market adventure fiction set in the Wild West appeared in the 1860s, and thousands of "dime novels" were enthusiastically embraced by the public—including several by Buffalo Bill featuring himself, and dozens more by other authors about him. The prototype of the modern Western is generally considered to be Owen Wister's The Virginian (1902), which combined a love interest with all the elements of frontier lore: chivalrous cowboys, treacherous Indians and a brooding bad man. Among the most enduring work is that of Zane Grey (1875-1939); his Riders of the Purple Sage appeared in 1912. The Western occasionally rose to high levels of literary complexity, as in the psychological narrative of a lynching in Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident (1940), Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose (1971). Jack London's novel of man and dog in the Klondike gold rush, The Call of the Wild (1903), probably has been translated into more languages than any other novel set in the West. Few books have sparked so large a following as Jack Kerouac 's awakening call to the Beat Generation, On the Road (1957), a fictionalized account of aimless journeys through the contemporary West.
Other writers alerted public opinion to regional problems. John Muir's books and articles helped arouse Eastern support for greater protection of Western lands and resources. Helen Hunt Jackson's Century of Dishonor (1881) helped awaken sentiment to the mistreatment of Indians, a forerunner to Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1971). Frank Norris (1870-1902) attacked the problem of greedy railroad barons in The Octopus (1901).Among the defenders of the deserts' fragile beauties were Mary Austin (1868-1934), whose The Land of Little Rain exalted the Owens Valley and Mojave Desert; and the irascible Edward Abbey (1927-89), author of Desert Solitaire (1968).
Another stalwart of Western fiction is the hard-boiled detective. Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) created the tone with Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1930), set in San Francisco. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) followed suit in The Big Sleep (1939) by introducing Philip Marlowe, a cynical, self-sufficient but honorable detective who guarded the mean streets of Los Angeles. Ross McDonald 's books featuring detective Lew Archer succeeded Marlowe, painting a realistic but humane portrait of Southern California from 1949-1976. Tony Hillerman (b.1925) blends Western and detective fiction in his books, which recount the adventures of Navajo policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in the Indian lands of the Southwest.
Native Americans employed music and dance in all their ceremonies, both religious and social; these forms endure today at numerous annual pow-wows . The Spanish, who introduced the guitar to the West, also used music for sacred and social purposes, and took pains to instruct their mission neophytes in playing instruments. The bulk of popular music today, carried West in the folk music of pioneers and the hymns of missionaries, has roots in the British Isles. Fiddle, harmonica and banjo were the instruments of choice on wagon trains, where popular Oregon Trail tunes included "The Arkansas Traveler" and "Sweet Betsy from Pike." Accompanied by stomping feet, clapping hands and instructional dance calls, the fiddle gave life to capers, jigs and square dances at frontier gatherings, and entertained cowboys on cattle drives and soldiers in lonely barracks.
The archetype of contemporary Western music is a highly commercialized hybrid of cowboy songs, themselves descended from Scottish, English and Irish ballads by way of the rural South, and often incorporating elements of the Hispanic muwsic of Mexico. The genre was popularized on radio and in film by cowboy singers like Roy Rogers (1912-98) and Gene Autry (1907-98). Influenced by well-traveled singers like Buck Owens (1929-2006), several of whose songs were recorded by the Beatles, cowboy music began to absorb outside elements in the 1940s, picking up the tempo, heavier rhythms and twanging guitar that characterizes popular country-and-western music today. Texans Bob Wills (1905-1975), the "King" of Western swing; Ernest Tubb (1914-1984) and Willie Nelson (b.1933) broadened the genre's scope, incorporating popular music elements ranging from swing to rock and blues. National radio has eroded regional distinctions, but artists such as Texas' Don Edwards have revived traditional Western song.
The West has made conspicuous contributions in the realm of rock music. In the early 1960s, as the Beatles emerged in England, southern California originated its own brand of lighthearted "surf" rock; its best-known ambassadors, The Beach Boys, sang in intricate harmony of waves, hot rods and surfer girls. Later in the decade, the social upheaval in San Francisco, culminating in 1967's "Summer of Love," drew numerous prominent singers and performers—including Texan Janis Joplin (1943-70) and Seattleite Jimi Hendrix (1942-70)—to a local scene already celebrated for its "San Francisco Sound." The music of Jim Morrison's The Doors , Jerry Garcia's Grateful Dead, Grace Slick's Jefferson Airplane , John Fogarty's Credence Clearwater Revival and other top groups was characterized by driving guitar riffs and influenced by more traditional blues. In the early 1990s, Seattle became the center of a style termed "grunge rock," with bands like Kurt Cobain's Nirvana and Eddie Vedder's Pearl Jam noted for their raw, rough-edged music.
Theater and Film
Nineteenth Century miners were noted for their love of opera. They were so generous in supporting fine opera houses in remote towns that Eastern and European companies routinely toured San Francisco, Virginia City (Nevada), Central City (Colorado) and other thriving mining frontiers. Stage plays, running the gamut from Shakespearean excerpts to melodramas, were also popular. Among the famous actors who toured the Western mining camps were Edwin Booth (1833-93), Helena Modjeska (1840-1909) and the unconventional Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923). Less exalted entertainment was offered by the scandalous exotic dancer Lola Montez (1818-61) and her comedic successor, Lotta Crabtree (1847-1924).
Today, San Francisco remains among the preeminent opera cities of the West, staging lavish productions with renowned casts. The Dallas Opera and Houston Grand Opera also are highly regarded, the latter known for its modern world premieres of John C. Adams' Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991). Since 1957, one of the brightest lights in the American opera scene has been the Santa Fe Opera Company, which offers outdoor summer performances. Live stage plays continue to attract tourists and local audiences in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and smaller cities like Ashland, Oregon, and Cedar City, Utah, both of which mount internationally recognized annual Shakespeare festivals.
Of all the Western-themed entertainment, nothing was more popular during the late-19C and early-20C than Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, a commercial extravaganza. Theater on an epic scale, the show thrilled East Coast and European audiences with dramatized excepts from William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) himself. Drawing on Cody's remarkable life as a Pony Express rider, bison hunter, Army scout and soldier, the show re-created famous Western battles and presented feats of sharpshooting, an Indian attack on a stagecoach, trick riding and roping, bucking broncos, bull-riding, steer wrestling and other rodeo events. Among the most famous cast members were Sitting Bull sharpshooter Annie Oakley (1860-1926) and Cody himself.
Spectacular live shows continue to be a hallmark of the Western stage, particularly in resort centers like Lake Tahoe, Reno and especially Las Vegas. The prototypes of Las Vegas-style performers were stand-up comedians, torch singers and chorus-line Parisian showgirls like the Folies Bergères. Shows now embrace a mind-boggling array of magician acts, circuses, water choreography, and spectacles of electronic and pyrotechnic wizardry, as well as concerts by famous singers.
No other medium has propounded the myth of the Old West more successfully than the Western movie. Like Medieval morality plays, classic Westerns depict history selectively but irresistibly, winning audiences who root for heroes and boo villains without complicating ambiguities. Larger than life, Westerns helped to establish Hollywood as the world capital of film-making.
From the first silent Westerns in the early 20C through the 1950s, Westerns' cowboy heroes were chivalrous characters; Indians were usually villains, and other ethnic minorities were rarely depicted despite the prominent roles played by Chinese, black and Hispanic people throughout the American West. Some of these Westerns were undeniably powerful. Among the most emotionally satisfying, if conventional, were Red River (1948), starring John Wayne; High Noon (1952), starring Gary Cooper; The Searchers (1956), starring Wayne; and many visually exciting works by director John Ford , beginning with Stagecoach (1939), also starring Wayne. Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s tended to reinforce the Western myth in shows like The Lone Ranger, Gunsmoke and Bonanza .
Since the 1960s, Hollywood has produced ever-greater numbers of offbeat, thoughtful, brooding Westerns that run against the grain of earlier productions. Protagonists are anti-heroes in Lonely Are the Brave (1962), starring Kirk Douglas ; Hud (1963), starring Paul Newman; The Wild Bunch (1969), directed by Sam Peckinpah ; and a series of "spaghetti westerns" (including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1967) directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood. Another trend reversed old roles by placing Indians as heroes and soldiers as villains, as in Little Big Man (1970), starring Dustin Hoffman , and Dances with Wolves (1989), starring Kevin Costner. Film festivals throughout the West continue to influence the world and disseminate the medium. Among the most famous is Utah's Sundance Film Festival, the creation of actor-director Robert Redford.
Sports and Recreation
For exercise, entertainment, drama and fellowship, Americans love to play and watch sports. A year-round slate of professional ("pro"), collegiate and amateur competitions keeps the excitement high. College sports, especially football and basketball, attract the excited attention of fans and alumni nationwide, especially during the annual football "bowl game" series in December and January, and the "March Madness" championship basketball tournament.
Take Me Out to the Ball Games
Often called the national pastime, baseball inspires legions of devoted fans who follow teams with religious intensity. Played on a diamond-shaped field with bases in each corner, the game tests the individual skills of batters, who try to strike a thrown ball, against pitchers and fielders, bearing some similarities to cricket. The game may appear slow-paced but can be fraught with suspense, the outcome often resting on a final confrontation between pitcher and batter. In March, when pro teams engage in their annual spring training in Arizona and Florida, seats at practice games are the hottest tickets in town. The Major League Baseball (www.mlb.com) season runs from April to October, culminating in the World Series, a best-of-seven-games matchup between the American League and National League champions.
Fast-paced basketball draws participants and spectators from every walk of life. In part because it requires a smaller playing area than most sports, the game is often played outdoors in crowded urban areas. Players score by throwing a ball through a suspended hoop. The 29 teams of the National Basketball Association (NBA) begin play in November, competing for a berth in the NBA Finals held in June. The 12-team Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), founded in 1997, has inspired a new host of professional female players around the country. For information on both, visit www.nba.com.
With its unique combination of brute force and finely tuned skill, American football demands strength, speed and agility from players in their quest to pass, kick and run the football down a 100-yard field to the goal. The National Football League (NFL) oversees 32 teams in two conferences, the champions of which meet in late January in the annual Super Bowl, a game that draws more television viewers than any other event. Football season begins about September 1; visit www.nfl.com.
Other Professional Sports
Although ice hockey was born in Canada, the US has adopted the game in a big way. In this breakneck sport, skated players use sticks to maneuver a hard rubber puck into a goal at either end of an ice arena. The 29-team National Hockey League (NHL) pits professional Canadian and American teams in annual competition for the coveted Stanley Cup, with finals held in June.
The US may be the world's preeminent golf nation, attracting golfers from around the globe to its challenging, well-manicured courses. Public and private links abound throughout much of the West, especially California, Arizona, Las Vegas and Hawaii, where the climate permits year-round play. A yearlong slate of tournaments for men, women and senior men utilizes numerous championship courses in Arizona, California and Hawaii.
Descended from frontier horsemanship contests, rodeo celebrates the skills developed by generations of cowboys. Members of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) compete for millions of dollars in bronc-riding, calf roping, steer wrestling and other events. Most dangerous is bull-riding, in which a cowboy tries to remain on the back of a rampaging bull for all of eight seconds; rodeo clowns distract the bull from goring the rider after he has been thrown. Hugely popular pro rodeos are held in Cheyenne (Wyoming), Pendleton (Oregon), Houston, Las Vegas, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Denver, Reno and other cities.
A Recreational Paradise
Skiing in the Colorado Rockies; surfing the big waves on the north shore of O'ahu. Whitewater rafting down Idaho's Salmon River; backpacking the 2,550mi Pacific Crest Trail. Mountain-biking through Utah's slick-rock canyons; fly-fishing isolated lakes in Alaska's vast interior; riding horseback through aspen-clad mountainsides: Seekers of outdoor recreation and natural beauty take full advantage of the wealth of mountains, forests, lakes, rivers and oceanfront, as well as urban parks and biking/running paths.
In-line skating, snowboarding and mountain biking are recent additions to the panoply of popular recreational sports. Sky-diving and mountain climbing attract increasing numbers of mainstream participants. Adventure-travel agencies design vacations around bicycling, canoeing, wildlife viewing and other themes.
Hiking, horseback riding and river rafting provide the best access to thousands of square miles of Western backcountry and parkland. A vast network of trails probes remote corners of the Rockies, Sierra Nevada and Cascades. Undeveloped Alaska offers plenty of true wilderness for adventurers—even for comfort-loving anglers or hunters who hire bush pilots to find the perfect lake. Throughout the West, guest ranches offer room, board and riding opportunities to "city slickers"; some even sponsor working cattle-drive vacations. The Colorado River of Utah and Arizona might be the most celebrated rafting challenge, but most Western states offer white-water to match the skill level of any rafter or kayaker.


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Porterville library just keeps the wonderful events coming. Just within the last two-months; they have had, 'George the Giant,' 'National Library Week,' showcasing, 'Wonder Woman and Spiderman,' and, 'Magic Grandpa the Performer,' just to name a few.
On April 30th, 2014, 'The Porterville City Library Celebrates, 'The Day of the Child.' There will be prizes, a bounce house, entertainment, candy, food, and lots of parents and caregivers with lots of children. It will be a very grand time, so come join the fun.
When: April 30th, 2014, 5:00 pm -7:00 pm
Where: 41 W. Thurman Porterville, California 93257 Phone: (559) 784-0177
Fun Fact about the Porterville City Library, they have been open since 1908.
Hours of operations are: Mon-Thu: 9:00 am – 8:00 pm Fri – Sat 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Sun: 1:00 pm – 5:00pm

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Albert Einstein Academy, one of the many charters in our Valley, is having an Information Night for potential new families and current families next Thursday, May 8th at 7pm.
They will be making a few changes next year, which they will share at the meeting. Their new program coordinator will be promoted and they will share some news about new teachers, new activities, the new planned newsletter, and more. There will also be a time for questions and answers.
The meeting will be held in their Multi-Purpose Room with parking in the back of the building.
If you have any specific questions before the meeting, feel free to contact Eddie Nathan at (661)513-3179.


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Remember the IE exploit we told you about the other day? Well it was all due to a simple typo. I know that during World War II the phrase Loose Lips Sink Ships was very popular meaning that you had to be careful with what you said and did.
I just never thought that this would include leaving a gaping hole in an OS component that would allow a "bad guy" to take control of your computer.
If you are interested to know what the typo was; well it was a single character out of place. The culprit was an ampersand yup the "&".
So next time you code something (I am sure you do that every day) remember to count your &'s and make sure you do not have too many.


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- Istanbul-Zagreb flights at ten years
- Istanbul-Belgrade flights upped to 5 per week
- New steps by Turkish Airlines and Egypt Airlines
- Turkish Airlines introduces flights to Birmingham (England)
- "First Class" service on Turkish Airlines 3 Boeing 777's
- Uşak and Çanakkale flights get under Way
- Redeeming Miles&Smiles award tickets now easier than ever
- TRT to broadcast in 30 languages trt-world.com
Ethnic cuisines
The communities that made up the Ottoman Empire blended together by creating a common set of values. Their shared eating habits therefore differ only in the nuances.
All the ethnic communities live on these lands cook their dishes with almost same receipes, despite of their relegious, social and cultural differences. A few variations, however, stemming from different social and religious traditions, give rise to certain culinary differences, as recently published cookbooks especially make even more clear.
In her cookbook, 'Sofranız Şen Olsun' (May Your Table Be Festive), Takuhi Tovmasyan describes the Armenian family dining customs and eating habits she observed from her childhood on. Most of the recipes in this book, which reads like a novel, are conspicuously the same in name as those for Turkish dishes. The same is true of Sula Bozis's 'Istanbullu ve Kapodokyalı Rumların Yemek Kültürü' (The Food Culture of Istanbul and Cappadocian Greeks). In an exception to this, the eating habits of the Sephardic Jews who fled from Spain to the Ottoman Empire 500 years ago entered our lives as a food culture new and different to these lands. The food cultures of these communities also exhibit significant differences in Istanbul and Ankara. To appreciate this better, one needs to examine the history of these lands in depth.
The Balkans, the Mediterranean basin and the Asian and Middle Eastern regions make up the world's fertile triangle, the heart of which lies in Anatolia or, as it is known in the West, Asia Minor. On its long road to civilization, mankind over time discovered that these bountiful lands were in fact the world's 'food silo', for which reason alone they witnessed some of the most brutal wars in history. The depth and richness of the Anatolian way of life derived largely from the attraction exercised by this geography.
In a cookbook entitled simply, 'Türk Mutfağı' (Turkish Cuisine), published and distributed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Stefanos Yerasimos and his wife Marianna, in their article "Cuisines of the Greek community" in the Ottoman period, describe how there were 180 fasting days designated by the church and that all Greeks during the period were therefore forced to spend almost half the year on a strict diet. Due to this frequent fasting, bloodless seafood constituted an important source of nourishment for Greeks living on the coast, while those living in the rural areas further inland consumed vegetables, fruit and legumes as dietary staples. The communities that made up the Ottoman Empire blended together by creating a common set of values. Their shared eating habits therefore differ only in the nuances.
The most significant differences in the eating habits of Turkey's communities stem from the ritual dietary laws laid down by religious rules. At the same time, the society that comprised every religion and community in Istanbul from the founding of the Ottoman Empire onwards developed a common way of life that would last for centuries, a process during which foods cooked in olive oil had a central place. Even today the food culture based on olive oil is more characteristic of Istanbul than of Anatolia. Similarly, although it was not prohibited by their religion, Muslims from Anatolia avoided eating seafood, which was nevertheless consumed by Muslims from the Balkans.
In Ottoman Istanbul, the communities that came from the Balkans made significant contributions to the development especially of pastries and dairy products. The 'terbiye' method of cooking food in an egg-lemon sauce is a technique that came into Istanbul cuisine from Greek cuisine. Endless examples could be cited. But the differences between the cuisines of the Istanbul communities and of those living in Anatolia are quite profound. It is the natural conditions of geography that primarily determine the nature of cuisines all over the world. And the people who live in those geographies create their traditional dishes and recipes subject to those conditions. That is how it has been up to now, and in subsequent centuries as well natural conditions are certainly going to exert multiple influences on developing regional cuisines. What is important is that the process as developed up to this point be passed on to the future.
I am grateful especially to Diana Yumul and Alis Berberoglu for their help in preparing some of the recipes.
Roast turkey
A 2 kg turkey
200 gr ground beef or veal
100 gr sausage stuffing
100 gr ground ham
100 gr grated Parmesan
2 eggs
500 gr roasted chestnuts
25 green olives, pitted
Brown all the ingredients in 50 gr of butter for 15 minutes. Stuff and grease the turkey, then roast two hours in a medium oven. Serve slices of turkey with stuffing on the side. May be served with a side dish of oven-roasted potatoes.
Source: Levanten Katolik Mutfağından (From Levantine Catholic Cuisine) by Anita Marinoviç
Igado kon vinagre (Liver in vinegar sauce) - Jewish Cuisine
1 kg liver, chopped
For the sauce:
2 cups water
1/2 cup vinegar
2 large tomatoes, grated,
or tomato puree
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
3 tbsp flour
1/4 cup liquid oil
Chop the liver as for Albanian Liver and sauté in the oil. Remove from the frying pan and arrange in a skillet.
Preparation of the sauce:
Mix together the water, vinegar, grated or pureed tomatoes, salt and sugar. Add the flour to this mixture and mix in well. Pour the mixture over the liver. Just before serving, cook over a slow fire until thickened.
Source: Sephardic Cuisine of Izmir
Boiled Eggs Jewish-style
10 eggs
1 tbsp salt
1 cup olive oil
1 tsp ground red pepper
juice of one lemon
3 onion skins
1 tsbp ground coffee
Water as needed
Arrange the onion skins in a pot and the eggs over them. Then cover the eggs with onion skins. Sprinkle with the salt and ground coffee and add water to cover. Cook over a low fire for about 3-4 minutes. The white shells of the eggs will turn brown and the eggs take on an interesting flavor. Crack the eggs and carefully remove the shells. Slice very thin, arrange on a platter and drizzle with olive and lemon juice.
Source: Gökçen Adar
Topik - Armenian Cuisine
Slice the onions paper thin. Place the salt, sugar, pistachios and one cup water in a pot. Cover and cook. When cooked, add the black pepper, cinnamon, allspice and tahina, mix well and let cool. Cook the chickpeas and mash well. Then mix together with the pureed potatoes and salt. Then add the tahina and mix well. Spread the pureed mixture on a plate, cover with the onion mixture and serve.
This is the method suggested by Alis Berberoğlu. The topik may also be placed in a cheesecloth bag and shaped into balls.
1 medium onion (thinly sliced)
1/4 cup pistachios
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 cup water
1/4 cup currants
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp allspice
250 gr tahina (about 1/4 cup)
1 cup chickpeas (soaked overnight and skinned)
3 medium potatoes, boiled and pureed
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Monterey Peninsula Unified School District (MPUSD) is talking about raising the Math standard requirement for graduation by making Algebra II a requirement and why not? It's a fact that future jobs will require higher level Math proficiency, so why lower the bar for Monterey's graduates?
Some say not all are college bound and while that is true, whether a student is college bound or not, Math proficiency will still be a big part of any equation in the real world and not just the world of academia. School board members don't want to make graduating easier, but rather to make education more relevant for the lives of our young people who face the daunting task of fitting into a science and technology world. That world will always require number sense and number talk.
Every aspect of our society needs Math and for that reason Monterey's secondary students need to have a solid Math foundation and not an easier path the graduation. Stanford is now offering science writing, solar cell energy for engineers, and quantum mechanics for engineers as their free online offerings. More and more high level universities are offering classes from software engineering to MBA programs freely to students who have a computer and the time to invest in the class learning.
With these kinds of bargain basement learning opportunities, people ought to be clamoring for the chance to implement the knowledge that seasoned professionals are offering on a silver platter to them. Think of the ways you will be able to use a quadratic equation in your everyday life from crocheting a border on a your favorite afghan to planning the solar panels in your organic garden. Nothing about math is mysterious or mystical -- it's all practical and pragmatic and in this education market, the price is right with all the free online courses being offered.
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Hi! We can absolutely add this patch to odbc if it will pass our test-suite. However it will probably not make it in time for R12B but maybe R12B-1. It would also be good to have some new test case for this functionality. If you could provide some test data it would speed things up. Preferably the test should be able to run on all database backends. If it can not be made genericly we already use callbacks for some special cases. The currently tested backends are sql-server and postgres. The test case should create a data base table, do operations on the table to verify the functionality and then drop the table. Regards Ingela - OTP team Scott Lystig Fritchie wrote: > Howdy. We've been using the patch below for months without any ill > effect and are wondering if it'd be useful for the community at > large. IIRC, it supports out & inout parameters for stored > procedures ... er, or something else that the ODBC driver can't quite > do. > > -Scott > > --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- snip --- > > --- ./otp_src_R11B-5/lib/odbc/c_src/odbcserver.c.org 2007-01-29 05:17:56.000000000 -0800 > +++ ./otp_src_R11B-5/lib/odbc/c_src/odbcserver.c 2007-07-24 19:03:43.000000000 -0700 > <at> <at> -81,7 +81,8 <at> <at> > N - integer > Binary - binary encodede tuple of {SQLQuery, NoRows, Parameters}(Continue reading)


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- Hotel Name in Chinese: 上海田林宾馆
- Lowest Price: $46
Opened in 1990 and renovated in 2009, the Tianlin Hotel Shanghai is located near the Xujiahui Commercial Area, within walking distance to the Metro Station. It is 4km away from Shanghai South Railway Station, 13km away from the city center and Hongqiao Airport and 45km away from the Pudong Airport.
The Tianlin Hotel Shanghai offers a total of 310 guest rooms of various types. All rooms are provided with free broadband internet access and IDD/DDD phone and other service amenities. As for dining service, there is a Chinese restaurant and a cafe in the hotel and meal delivery service is available.
For recreation and relaxation, beauty room, karaoke, chess and card room, massage and sauna are available. Other facilities in the hotel include business center, meeting room, parking lot and store, etc. Apart from these, the Tianlin Hotel Shanghai also provides service such as foreign currency exchange service, ticket booking and laundry service and so on.
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The Parks Foundation of Clark County was named a "Force of Nature" and the Outstanding Organization of 2013 by the Intertwine Alliance, a regional coalition of trail and natural-area boosters.
The honor came Wednesday at the Intertwine Alliance Fall Summit. The Parks Foundation was cited for innovation and collaboration. Its nomination mentioned its grant program for Clark County cities, its work with groups and organizations of all sorts and the success of its Nature Explore Club for kids and families.
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The Medina County OVI Task Force will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Friday night on state Route 94, south of Interstate 76, in Wadsworth.
The checkpoint will begin at 10 p.m.
The task force has already conducted two checkpoints this month. The checkpoints are funded through a federal grant.
Checkpoints are designed to deter and intercept impaired drivers. To aid in the effort, police also will conduct "saturation patrols" of the surrounding area.
"If you plan to consume alcohol, designate a driver or make other travel arrangements before you drink," police said in a press release. "Don't let another life be lost for the senseless and selfish act of getting behind the wheel impaired."
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Cabrillo Cooking Classes
Enrolling in the Cabrillo College culinary program has made becoming a chef a reality for hundreds of students for over 20 years. "You have to complete certain courses to advance to the next course, so the program accepts anyone who completes these programs," says Instructor Beverlie Terra. "We get students from 18 to 58, from future chefs to home cooks looking to improve." It should be noted that wine classes are the most expensive and you do not need these to get your culinary certificate.
The Cabrillo program differs from that of other Community College programs, according to Beverlie, "because we run a restaurant four days a week, giving students front of house, back of house, costing, and internships at restaurants in town." You could pay upwards of $40,000 a year to attend a similar program at a traditional culinary school! Here, to a 1-2 year culinary certificate (30 units at $46 per unit) will cost around $1800 when you factor in fees; students wishing to combine this with an Associate's Degree (60 units) will pay c. $2200. There is a separate "wine and wine service" certification (18 units).
Each course lasts for 16 weeks and, after finishing their classroom ABCs, the students are put to work at Pino Alto restaurant, located in the Sesnon House on the Cabrillo campus. Class members must produce recipes, devise (a total of 8 over the 4 month semester) menus, prepare and serve the food. Rotating teams ensure that everyone gets to perform all of the tasks as well as how to play nicely in the kitchen.
The evening I visited there were 3 appetizers and 5 entrees on offer: I chose the Gyoza vegetarian potsticker with daikon salad, the former pleasingly plump and browned with no hint of greasiness. For the entree: goat cheese and mint filled beet ravioli, which I'd seen prepared moments earlier by my efficient server, Sarah Pesout, who was quick to give credit for the recipe to her colleague Dare Arowe.
The dining room is sedate and quiet, a rare and welcome atmosphere in this age of loud eating arenas. The wine choices are extensive and reasonable.
Sue Slater heads up the wine program and—NEW THIS SUMMER—will offer a six-week course on champagne and French sparkling wines. Open to all, this course will debut in mid-June; registration begins in May.
Coming up are more of the restaurant's popular themed dinners; the next one on April 11 will showcase Route 1 Farms and Guglielmo winery: 4 courses followed by a reception to meet the farmer and the winemaker. These dinners fill up, so register now at pinoaltorestaurant.org


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Are you struggling for primal/paleo meal ideas? You may have breakfast and lunch dialed down but are unsure what to make for dinner. Or maybe you are sick and tired of bacon and eggs for breakfast and want something new.
In this post I will throw at you 12 different meal ideas. I personally enjoy one or two big ass salads every single day and never get sick of them.
Feel free to mix and match any of the following.
1. Big Ass Salad
My favorite. Everyday I grab my large red bowl, throw in the following:
- Mixed greens, spinach, romaine or other green
- Veggies and/or fruits
- Meat/Fish/Fowl/Eggs
I'll sometimes add avocado or shredded coconut and my dressing is always different. Some combination of vinegars, olive oil, macadamia oil, mustard, lemon or lime juice is the norm. I'll even throw in some dark chocolate chips sometimes.
2. Smoothie
This is easy for me because I also make smoothies on an almost daily basis. I mean, I kind of have to since I am the creator of Toadally Primal Smoothies. I'll sometimes enjoy a smoothie as a meal or part of a meal. It's not hard to create a smoothie with 400-800 calories. Especially if you throw in raw eggs and/or coconut milk.
3. Meat & Veggies
This is simple. If you have steak, chicken breasts, thighs or drumsticks, pork chops, fish, crab legs, lobster tail, venison or more of the same, then throw that on the grill, in the broiler, on a frying pan, etc. Steam, roast, bake or grill veggies along with it. Throw some butter, coconut oil or other fat on the veggies and/or meat. Add spices or herbs as you please.
4. Egg Scramble
This is one of the simplest meals. Grab your smallest sauce pan and warm up your favorite fat. Once melted, crack 3-4 eggs in a bowl, whisk and then throw in the pan. Cover for a few minutes and then stir into a scramble. Cook it on medium low for best results. Add your favorite spices or try something new. Add various veggies a few minutes before the eggs are finished cooking depending on how cooked you want your veggies. I often times will throw in a half or full 6 oz can of tomato paste. Enjoy with a smoothie or piece of fruit if you wish.
5. Crustless Quiche
Throw eggs, veggies and pre-cooked meat in a 9×9 pan and bake for about 30 minutes or so at a 350+ degree oven. The temp and time is very general. An excellent recipe for a crustless quiche can be found in Mark Sisson's latest cookbook, Primal Blueprint Quick & Easy Meals. This quiche will last 1-2 people many meals.
6. Stir Fry
This is very similar to a big ass salad. The only difference is you are going to cook your veggies! Warm up your favorite fat in a saucepan, add veggies and then some meat! Robb Wolf likes to make it easy and says to add meat and veggies at the same time and then simply cover on a medium-low heat for about 7 minutes or so. Throw in random spices for added flavor.
7. Plate of "Sides"
Who says you have to do something crazy for your meal? Or even enjoy some type of animal food? How does this sound for a meal… Larabar, coconut flakes and avocado. This is a perfect "I'm in a huge rush" meal. Not much protein but you don't need x amount of grams of protein every single meal. Get over it. This meal would still give you more than 10 grams.
8. Leftovers
When you cook food, cook a lot of food. Eat the leftovers. A lot of times they are a lot better since the spices are able to mingle.
9. Large Steak, Fruit Salad or Something Not Primal
Have you ever enjoyed a nice sized steak, say 16 oz and nothing else as a meal? I have yet to do it but I want to badly. Who says that you have to eat animal and plant foods for every single meal. Enjoy a steak one meal and then enjoy a fruit salad the next meal. Are you worried about the fructose content? Then do this once in a blue moon. I guarantee it will not harm you if you do this once or twice per year.
Enjoy food that is not primal once in a while. I always prefer to eat primal foods, foods that I can tolerate well, because I generally feel awesome when I consume them. I am also very curious. The last time I had deep dish pizza in Chicago was over 2 years ago. I visit my brother there often and I am thinking of trying some deep dish next time. Will I feel like shit after? Only if I eat a few slices. I think I'll be fine if I limit it to one piece… ok, not going to happen! Maybe two?
10. Soup
Grab your dutch oven. Throw some water or broth in. Throw in veggies and fresh herbs with some sea salt and black pepper or other spices. Fry up some hamburger meat or other meat of your choice and add in once the veggies are how you like them. Make a lot so you have leftovers. Make hot soup in the winter and chilled soup in the summer. Say what? Click here for chilled soup recipes.
11. Slow-Cooked Beef Roast
One of my favorite winter meals in West Michigan is a beef roast in the slow cooker. Since I work from home I don't mind the aromas in the kitchen while the roast is cooking.
Make this easy. Brown all sides of the roast in your favorite fat for a couple minutes and then throw the roast in your slow cooker with some water or broth. Add spices and herbs. Feel free to add some root vegetables if you have a desire. Or make a big salad to enjoy with it. Or eat it on its own!
12. Intermittent Fast
Skip a meal once in a while. While I prefer 3 meals a day I only eat 2 many times. Skip a meal or simply don't worry when there is not optimal food around. You do not have to eat every single day in order to feel awesome!
Phew. That's a lot of meal ideas! I am sure you all have more ideas! Let me know in the comment section what your favorite primal meals are.
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Maria Rita Testa
Research Group: Comparative European Demography
Job Title: Senior Research Scientist
Phone: +43 1 515 81 7708
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Project: Reproductive decision-making and human capital - www.fertilityeducation.at
2000 PhD in Demography, University of Florence, Italy.
1995 Laurea cum laude in Political Sciences, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy.
Professional Career
Since 2014 Senior research scientist at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.
Since 2001 Research scientist at Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
1999-2001 Assistant professor at the Department of Statistics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.
1997-1999 Doctoral student at the Department of Statistics »Giuseppe Parenti«, University of Florence, Italy.
- 1995-1997 Research assistant at the Department of Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences, University of Rome »La Sapienza«, Italy.
Research Interests
Family demography
Reproductive decision-making and fertility
Multilevel models
Panel data analysis
Selected Publications (6 most important)
- Testa, Maria Rita and Stuart Basten. 2014. Certainty of meeting fertility intentions declines in Europe during the 'Great Recession'. Demographic Research 31(23): 687-734. more
- Testa, Maria Rita, Laura Cavalli and Alessandro Rosina. 2014. The effect of couple disagreement about child-timing intentions: a parity-specific approach. Population and Development Review 40(1):31-53.
- Testa, Maria Rita. 2014. On the positive correlation between education and fertility intentions in Europe: Individual- and country-level evidence. Advances in Life Course Research, 21: 28-42. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040260814000069 )
- Billari Francesco C., Dimiter Philipov and Maria Rita Testa. 2009. Attitudes, norms, and perceived behavioural control: explaining fertility intentions in Bulgaria. European Journal of Population. 25(4): 439 – 465.
- Lutz, Wolfgang, Testa, Maria Rita, and Dustin Penn. 2006. Population density is a key factor in declining human fertility. Population and Environment 28: 69-81. Published online on March 20, 2007.
- Goldstein, Joshua R., Wolfgang Lutz and Maria Rita Testa. 2003. The emergence of sub-replacement family size ideals in Europe. Population Research and Policy Review. 22 (5-6): 479-496.
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There are certain types of food that help promote weight loss more than others. Surprisingly, some of these are foods you have right in your refrigerator or pantry. From keeping you full longer to burning more fat, these foods are not only necessary for your health, but also for losing or maintaining your weight. Here are some interesting diet benefits from regular, everyday foods.
Dairy. Long thought of as a diet no-no, dairy has recently been proven to have fat-burning capabilities. Studies have shown that people on high dairy diets lose significantly more weight than people on low dairy diets consuming the same number of calories. Specifically dairy has been shown to increase fat loss, especially around the midsection. Put yogurt or cheese back into your diet to speed up your weight loss efforts.
Fiber. It helps keep you full longer by providing bulk and slowing digestion. Filling up on foods high in fiber like fruit, vegetables and whole grain bread will make you less likely to reach for a snack an hour after a meal.
Protein. This nutrient helps keep you full because it takes longer to digest than carbohydrates. Protein may also release certain hormones that contribute to feelings of fullness. Include protein in every meal to reduce cravings and stabilize blood sugar.
Red Wine. Besides having heart benefits, a moderate amount of red wine can also help keep weight off. Studies have shown that resveratrol, a substance found in grapes and red wine, may hinder fat storage and keep fat cells from increasing in size. It may also help to reduce the risk of disorders associated with obesity, such as diabetes and clogged coronary arteries.
"Dairy Foods Help Burn Fat, Speed Weight Loss." WebMD Health News, 16 April 2004. Web. 24 March 2010. The Endocrine Society. "Red Wine's Resveratrol May Help Battle Obesity." ScienceDaily, 17 June 2008. Web. 24 March 2010


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Officers joke they "almost had a pursuit" after finding the pet strolling down a street in Los Angeles County.
05:50, UK, Monday 04 August 2014
A large runaway tortoise detained by police on a California street has been reunited with his owners.
Clark, who weighs an estimated 150lbs (10st 10lbs), was found on Saturday on Sixth Street in Alhambra, Los Angeles County.
Officers appealed for information on their Facebook page and posted pictures of the reptile next to their patrol car.
"The tortoise did try to make a run for it; but, our officers are pretty fast. Almost had a pursuit!" said police.
"It took two officers to take this guy into custody because it weighs about 150 pounds (and our cuffs . . . well not practical in this situation)."
Happily, after an enthusiastic public response, Clark was delivered back to his human family on Sunday.
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Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.
Common sense is not so common. (Le sens commun n'est pas si commun.)
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.
Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.
Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Christian: A good-natured,
simple fellow; a true lamb of the fold, who, in the innocence of
his heart, persuades himself that he firmly believes unbelievable
things that his priests have told him to believe, especially
those he cannot even imagine. Consequently, he is convinced that three x's
make fifteen, that God was made man, that he was hanged and rose
to life again, that priests cannot lie, and that all who do not believe
in priests will be damned without remission.
The son of God
is the same as the son of man; the son of man is the same as the
son of God. God, the father, is the same as Christ, the son; Christ,
the son, is the same as God, the father. This language may appear
confused to unbelievers, but Christians will readily understand it.
Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.
The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.
Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.
Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed.
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?
I think the best way to fall on the infamous [l'infâme meant the Church for Voltaire] is to seem to have no wish to attack it; to disentangle a little chaos of antiquity; to try to make these things rather interesting: to make ancient history as agreeable as possible; to show how much we have been misled in all things; to demonstrate how much is modern in all things thought to be ancient, and how ridiculous are many things alleged to be respectable; to let the reader draw his own conclusions.
It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicaea that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.
If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?
My dear sir, nature is very cruel. One would find it hard to imagine how the laws of movement cause such frightful disasters in the best of possible worlds. A hundred thousand ants, our fellows, crushed all at once in our ant-hill, and half of them perishing, no doubt in unspeakable agony, beneath the wreckage from which they cannot be drawn. Families ruined all over Europe, the fortune of a hundred businessmen, your compatriots, swallowed up in the ruins of Lisbon. What a wretched gamble is the game of human life! What will the preachers say, especially if the palace of the Inquisition is still standing? I flatter myself that at least the reverend father inquisitors have been crushed like others. That ought to teach men not to persecute each other, for while a few holy scoundrels burn a few fanatics, the earth swallows up one and all.
What concern to me are humanity, benevolence, modesty, temperance, gentleness, wisdom, piety, so long as half an ounce of lead shatters my body, and I die at twenty in torments unspeakable, surrounded by five or six thousand dead and dying while my eyes, opening for the last time, see the town I was born in delivered to fire and sword, and the last sounds that reach my ears are the shrieks of women and children expiring in the ruins -- and the whole for the pretended interest of men that we do not know?
What can I hope when all is right?
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This article is a fifth, and may be the last follow-up to my previous 4 articles on Smartphone apps! The last apps that I discussed were Deal or no Deal, What's the Word, Family Feud, and Hill Climb. Let's do this one on educational stuff; here's a few that are my top picks.
The first app is iBooks. I can't believe that I just discovered this app. I am an avid reader (when I am not studying or tired), but I am still trying to get used to the idea of reading from an electronic device. But since I am currently studying for a few technical certifications, I'm checking out iBooks for downloading books to my phone. So far, so good, as long as I don't have to pay too much for a text book!
I'm sure that most people, especially iPhone users know about iTunes; but there is an app called iTunesU that I also use from time to time. When I was reading an article, I stumbled upon a series of free lectures from TED (Technology, Education, Design) that I wanted to read. When I looked into finding the lectures, I found out that they could be downloaded from iTunesU. iTunesU is very similar to iBooks, but it's geared more towards educational material.
Another app that I use pretty frequently is LinkedIn. I have been a member of LI for a few years, and since I use the web version, I thought it would be good to try the app. It's pretty good, and I use it mainly for looking at and accepting invites.
Since I am on the subject of books and reading, another good book-type app is Audible. Although I do like reading a good book now and then, every once in a while, I like to get chill out and listen to someone read me a book – an audio book. I find it very soothing, and a good way to take a "time out" from everything, especially work.
I'm not much of a regular app person, but I do use them now and again, and the ones that I find the most useful and enjoyable are the ones that help with my studies and with my regular tasks and to-do's. With everyone having so much to do these days, its good to know you can keep track of the important things in the palm of your hand.


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Revenge Of The DemonsDanger lurks in the shadows as this jarring cinematic score forces your audience to the edge of their seats. A powerful drum kit supporting gothic choir drives to a powerful, climatic ending.Single?$ ?7100270-EX$ 59.957100270-W$ 149.95Emotions: Driving, Energetic, Ominous, Brooding, Dramatic, Hectic, Heroic, Intense, Powerful, Punchy, Serious, Sinister, Tense, Uncertain, Action, Chase, Heavy, Dark Production Types: Animation, Cinematic, Film Trailer, Video Games, Epic, Action-Drama Genre: Orchestral Instrument: Orchestra, Studio Orchestra, Brass, Brass Section, Guitar (Electric), Percussion, Strings, Choir
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Challenge Failure AContestants will pour everything they have into the last event, but one little slip and it all goes down the drain. Pumping brass and skittering drum loops blast towards a dramatic crescendo that says, 'see ya next time.'https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/strata_cover_100.jpgSingle50701-ST$ 39.9550701-EX$ 59.9550701-W$ 149.95Emotions: Exciting, Edgy, Competitive, Hectic, Intense, Punchy, Suspenseful, Tense, Action, Angry, Chase Production Types: TV/ Film Drama, Sports, Reality TV, Suspense, Action-Drama Genre: Orchestral Instrument: Studio Orchestra, Instrumental
Challenge Failure A from the album Reality Drama TV
Title Theme AThis recording barrels through with non-stop motion and force from the first downbeat. Try closing your episode with 'End Theme A' from 'Edgy Drama TV', as the perfect bookend.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/strata_cover_100.jpgSingle50616-ST$ 39.9550616-EX$ 59.9550616-W$ 149.95Emotions: Driving, Exciting, Competitive, Hectic, Intense, Sinister, Suspenseful, Tense, Action, Drama, Chase Production Types: TV/ Film Drama, Suspense, Action-Drama Genre: Themes, Orchestral Instrument: Studio Orchestra, Instrumental
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Medium Suspense BGrinding guitars, big drums, and massive orchestral hits. This anthemic track has the raw energy to give your scene a push, giving it a few rugged scrapes for good measure.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/strata_cover_100.jpgSingle50608-ST$ 39.9550608-EX$ 59.9550608-W$ 149.95Emotions: Driving, Mysterious, Edgy, Competitive, Extreme, Hectic, Intense, Powerful, Punchy, Raw, Sinister, Suspenseful, Action, Drama, Angry Production Types: TV/ Film Drama, Suspense, Action-Drama Genre: Orchestral Instrument: Studio Orchestra, Strings, Instrumental
Medium Suspense B from the album Edgy Drama TV
Outro ALeave them with a big blast of energy that will carry straight through to the same time next week. Includes a bumping bass line and hot, sweeping drum loops that give it that 'remix' feel. Designed to compliment 'Intro A' from 'Reality Drama TV.'https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/strata_cover_100.jpgSingle50711-ST$ 39.9550711-EX$ 59.9550711-W$ 149.95Emotions: Energetic, Edgy, Positive, Competitive, Confident, Hectic, Intense, Motivating, Action Production Types: Sports, Reality TV, Action-Drama Genre: Themes, Orchestral Instrument: Studio Orchestra, Instrumental
Outro A from the album Reality Drama TV
Action BMatch your most frantic chase scene with this all-out sprint of drums, percussion and brass. It brings enough impact to cover all big screen needs and everything in between.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/strata_cover_100.jpgSingle50602-ST$ 39.9550602-EX$ 59.9550602-W$ 149.95Emotions: Driving, Edgy, Competitive, Dissonant, Fierce, Hectic, Intense, Punchy, Raw, Sinister, Suspenseful, Action, Drama, Angry, Chase Production Types: TV/ Film Drama, Sports, Suspense, Action-Drama Genre: Orchestral Instrument: Studio Orchestra, Strings, Instrumental
Action B from the album Edgy Drama TV
Action ALeaving clouds of dust and rubble in its wake, this fierce track stomps through any scene with a full head of steam. Loaded with strong guitar hits to accent any action clips.https://www.smartsound.com/strata/images/strata_cover_100.jpgSingle50601-ST$ 39.9550601-EX$ 59.9550601-W$ 149.95Emotions: Edgy, Extreme, Hectic, Intense, Punchy, Raw, Suspenseful, Tense, Action, Drama, Chase Production Types: TV/ Film Drama, Suspense, Action-Drama Genre: Orchestral Instrument: Studio Orchestra, Strings, Instrumental
Action A from the album Edgy Drama TV
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KombustionChainsaw riffs and warp-speed beats make this track sound like it's ready to explode. Great for active scenes with a fierce edge.https://www.smartsound.com/producer/images/ps16_210.jpgSingle31604-ST$ 39.9531604-EX$ 59.9531604-W$ 149.95Emotions: Driving, Energetic, Edgy, Hectic, Intense, Mechanical, Powerful, Pulsating, Urgent, Action Production Types: Action-Drama Genre: Themes, Rock, Heavy Metal, Rockin, Electronica, Hard Rock Instrument: Electronic, Guitar (Electric), Instrumental, Guitar
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ThrillboundEerily subtle strings give way to a propulsive onslaught of drums on this high-energy soundtrack. As every fiery beat flies by, we can feel time running out.https://www.smartsound.com/filmscore/images/fcp_b01_200.jpgSingle5112-ST$ 39.955112-EX$ 59.955112-W$ 149.95
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Violation is another term for an offense or an infraction. All of these terms generally mean an act of disobeying a law or a legal order. There are several categories of violations that exist at various levels of the legal system. Committing violations can result in a variety of consequences depending on the type of disobedient behavior.
A violation is a wrongdoing or some type of disobedience. Everyone is generally bound by the laws in the jurisdiction where they are. Where a person is determines what is or is not a violation. There may be laws that exist in one jurisdiction that do not exist in another. When a person acts illegally, he violates the law and may be held accountable.
This is often true even if the individual did not know that the law existed when he broke it. In some instances, sincere mistakes, even when illegal, are overlooked or excused. There is a wide range of consequences for violations, however, and which consequences are imposed generally depends on several factors.
To begin with, laws are often classified into categories of severity. A minor infraction, such as a misdemeanor, may not result in anything more than a warning or a fine. A major violation could result in life imprisonment or the death penalty.
Another factor considered is the number of previous violations a person has or how many he committed on a given occasion. When a person commits too many violations, it can appear to authorities that he has blatant disregard for the law. This can result in a person being subjected to severe consequences he otherwise would not endure.
Laws are not, however, the only way a person's behavior can be legally dictated. There are some authorities that do not make laws but which have the authority to issue orders. For example, a worker at the Department of Child Support Enforcement, can order a non-custodial parent to pay a certain amount in child support each month. If this person does not adhere to this order, a violation is committed and legal action can be taken.
The same is true in instances where people are placed on probation. The terms of one person's probation may differ from those of another individual. Each set of orders, however, is legally binding and refusal to follow any one of them is a violation. These types of infractions can often result in consequences similar to violations where laws are broken.
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We have fired our attorney because he won't go back in for a bond reduction and keeps telling us that well, you committed the crime, as if he doesn't care for our case.
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What could happen if I'm on parole and have only been out for two months and get in a fight with my sisters but they drop the charges, but I still have to go to court in front of the parole board. What am I looking at happening to me?
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@Subway11 - That is so funny. I just want to say that in some states speeding violations are taken very serious. As a matter of fact in Virginia, a person exceeding the speed limit by twenty miles per hour is charged with a criminal offense on top of getting a ticket.
It is actually classified as a criminal misdemeanor violation due to reckless driving, and some counties will not allow you to get your points back by going to driving school. Of course if the speeding was a result of racing or some reckless behavior like then the criminal charge is upgraded to s serious felony.
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@Latte31 - I know what you mean. I have two young children and would have cringed if they had seen something like that on television. I have to say the only violation that I have ever received was a traffic violation.
I had a minor car accident a year ago and it was my fault. I crossed over to a lane that had a solid line which does not allow for passing. I learned my lesson because my ticket was over $125 and I had to do the driving school in addition to getting my car fixed.
My husband gets speeding violations all of the time. In fact, he got a speeding ticket on his way back from driving
school. What are the odds of that? The officers just started laughing because when he tried to tell my husband that he could always go to driving school, my husband showed him the certificate of completion from the driving class that he just took. I guess not everyone learns their lesson.
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@SauteePan - I agree with what you are saying. I think that there should be stiff penalties imposed on these companies because there are a lot of young viewers watching sports programs like this and the programming should remain family friendly.
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@Smartypantz - I know that in sports the violation tickets can be several thousand dollars. Some of the infraction records have included cursing and arguing with officials.
As a matter of fact, a player can be suspended and fined for several games for arguing with an official. Really you have to have these penalties because if not you will have players doing whatever they want and the games would not be fair.
You can also get fined if you use profanity on the air whether in a radio program or a television show. I remember when Janet Jackson had a problem with her outfit and briefly showed some nudity during a Super Bowl half time show, I believe that the network was fined although this was an accident.
So I think you can still get fined and charged with a violation even if it is an accident.
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@m3g4n – Good call! And speaking of sports, I've noticed that both sports and laws can issue violation tickets. If you drive too fast, you get a ticket, and they give out tickets or cards in Soccer, for example.
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There are also violations in the world of sports, such as basketball violations. Basketball violations can be physical, like traveling, or time-based, like the Three-Second-Rule. These rules are set in place to keep the game moving at a good pace and to eliminate any unfair advantages between the teams. This is one reason why games like basketball are so popular.
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Robyn over at the Blue Acorn eCommerce Blog offers tips on being engaged with customers who shopped with you over the holidays. Here's one more idea - personalize offers to the customer based on their demographic information.
Recommendation systems are getting a lot of press coverage these days. While a lot of the personalization works based on past user behaviour, such as what they bought and when, very little seems to leverage personal information. Back here in India, its common for restaurants to ask for your birthday and wedding anniversary in a feedback form at the end of the meal. If you do choose to share this information, typically, the restaurant sends you a card and offers like "a free cake" or "20% off" close to that date. Why not do this online as well? You then have a great way to stay in touch with your customers at very important moments in their lives.
Merging this information with Friend data - assuming that privacy issues are taken care of - makes it sound even more interesting. How about telling your customers friends what products they might like for their birthday? Sounds intriguing and worth exploring!


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MVC 3 application runing in AZURE Dev enviroment Authentication in AZURE ACS implemented the same way found here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh127794.aspx
I am trying to get the users name, and email, but I can't find a way to configure the "Claim Rule", in a way that I would get a clear text value, instead I get a string that seems to be encrypted. So can I configure the rule in a way that I get it in clear text? Or can I unencrypt the value returned? Is any of this possible or am I looking at the wrong thing here.


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Howie Carr makes a very interesting point – liberals support reverse discrimination because they and their kids will not be affected by it personally. Their kids are not going to become firemen, policemen, sanitation workers, public school teachers, teamsters, subway conductors, etc. The diversity that they celebrate will never impact negatively on a Kennedy, Rockefeller, Bush, Gore, Edwards, Clinton, Obama, Kerry, Warren, Pelosi, et al. Their kids will all get into the best schools as legacies. Ted Kennedy hired someone to take a Spanish test for him at Harvard – did he pay a price for it?
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The Beautiful People still can't figure out what all the fuss is about over Granny Warren's family "lore."
The other day, The Washington Post ran a lengthy story about the 62-year-old Oklahoman's sputtering campaign. Would you care to guess how far down you had to read to find the first mention of the fake-Indian fiasco?
The 21st paragraph.
The problem the elites have understanding the power of this story is simple. They've never been passed over for a job they were qualified for because of some allegedly disadvantaged person who wasn't.
Nobody ever leapfrogged over a moonbat's kids into a good school because of the racial spoils system. As Michael Barone put it yesterday, the upper classes have no comprehension of the "rottenness" of this system. (And even if they did, it would be un-PC to bring it up).
Someone passed over for a job because he's white? But Chauncy, don't the ads always say "Equal Opportunity Employer"? Must be another of those anecdotes our eminently qualified governor Patrick is always talking about.
Liberals are all for affirmative action … in the police and fire departments, because they know their kids won't be working there.
Oh sure, someone in the Harvard counseling office might sadly inform a young Trustafarian that he might have a problem getting into the law school. But then Someone who knows Someone picks up the phone and young Throckmorton suddenly bumps a kid from Quincy with higher LSAT's who never knows what hit him, although he probably has his suspicions.
Guys grew up around here figuring they'd be the third, maybe even fourth-generation cop in their family. Now they're pounding a beat … at the mall.
The racial spoils system doesn't reduce the number of legacies in the freshman class, but it damn sure decimates the population of working-class whites and Asians. It's as if the old white-shoe outfits have dusted off their old "No Irish Need Apply" signs. Only now they say, "Celebrate Diversity."
Granny's fellow multimillionaire academics may pooh-pooh it this summer on the Vineyard, but this is going to be a problem for Pinnochio-hantas. Nobody who ever lost out, or thinks they lost out, on a good school or job because somebody played the racial trump card on them is ever going to vote for that person.
Read the rest – Granny Warren's race card was a real joker
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As a teacher of solo performance, I make it a point to see lots of solo shows, and in so doing I find that many solo shows are still, despite technological advances that allow us to access so many rich options, literal, self-indulgent, focused on the sharing of traumas, and blind to the experience of the audience. The motto still seems to be "just express yourself in a straightforward manner and get everything off your chest" with the hidden culmination of that motto "then bask in the pity (or disdain) of the audience." I find that approach to be self-centered and devoid of one simple ingredient: "time equity."
It seems to me that a playwright's goal should always be to ensure that a minute spent in the theater is worth more to an audience than a minute spent outside of the theater doing something else. People only have so many minutes to work, study, sleep, eat, drink, read, create, converse, play with children, pets and lovers, etc. So, to ask an audience to spend an hour or two in the grip of a play should be worth the audience's expenditure of time. An audience should leave feeling changed in some way, or they should at least be grateful for the experience.
One reason why people love books and movies so much (indulge me while I state the obvious) is that the reader or viewer is afforded the opportunity to go on a journey and learn valuable life lessons in less time than it would take to go on that journey and learn those lessons firsthand. The reader gets to live the protagonist's life without having to spend time living the protagonist's life.
Books and movies have this so-called time equity, and, therefore, so should plays. Whether solo or ensemble, plays should be teeming with loads of bang for ticking-clock buck.
In the spirit of time equity, and in allowing you, the reader, to glean a bit of info on two plays at once -- two plays that are currently playing in LA, with the latter a solo play and the first an ensemble -- I share with you my two pence on how many minutes each of these two plays is worth.
Phil Olson's "Mom's Gift," which is a dramedy and hence a departure for playwright Olson, who usually writes broad Minnesota-themed comedies, is about a dead mother who haunts her daughter so that the daughter might alter her life plan. The play lobs back and forth between sitcom-esque comedic and heartfelt and sincere, which is a back and forth that I did not, personally, always enjoy. But my own occasional humbug was offset by the women in the row before me who were clearly quite moved. These women sobbed and wiped their eyes and were noticeably changed (and therefore likely grateful because who doesn't appreciate a good catharsis?). But it wasn't just the women in front of me who were moved and changed and grateful. I heard guffaws and sniffles throughout the theater. The majority of the audience, in fact, seemed to feel that their time spent with "Mom's Gift" was time well spent.
In contrast, Christopher Vened's one-man piece "Human Identity" was a colossal time suck. Vened's overly literal pontification about what it means to be human was, and is, a pseudo-intellectual lecture with a side of poorly executed mime. (Vened should refresh his skills with some Groundlings or iO West improv classes where the miming is much more detailed.) Vened's lecture is an attempt at teaching the audience what it means to be human. The writer-performer's thick European accent, which might be otherwise endearing, does nothing, here, to mediate his self-congratulatory and arrogant tone.
Vened spends close to half of his (and the audience's) time teaching the audience how humans compare to primates. In Vened's quest to compare humans to primates (to what I end I never fully fathomed), he mimes chimps doing various human things, the particulars of which worked that night to deeply insult this particular human. As Vened mimed chimps serving food and wine, painting interior and exterior walls, gardening and landscaping, and as Vened said aloud that we can teach chimps to do all kinds of manual labor, suggesting that such labor doesn't require much human skill or intellect, this human wanted to roar like a lion. Is Vened suggesting that the working class in general, and day laborers in particular, are really nothing more than chimps?
I was so offended that I almost left but didn't because reviewers are not to leave in the middle of a play. Plus, I was curious to see if this nightmare (assuming chimps like me have dreams) would get worse, which is did. Vened mock chimped and mock primped and said at one point that his favorite animal to impersonate is a bird. Then he pretended he was a bird, after which point, I, for one, wanted him to flutter and fly right out of there, preferably into a closed multi-pane window.
My guest also seemingly wanted Vened to fly out and into a window. At one point she leaned in and whispered to me, "Oh, my God. This is the worst!" Indeed. And, therefore, perhaps, totally worth the time. One thing that makes a bad play worth the expenditure of time is the fact that it can afterward be held up as an example of what not to do. Vened's "Human Identity" might therefore be "Vened's Gift."
Phil Olson's "Mom's Gift," directed by Sherry Netherland, plays presently a the Lonny Chapman, via a recent extension, through February 2. Christopher Vened's one-man debacle "Human Identity," directed by no one, shows Sundays at the Lounge through February 9.
Spend time, yourself, seeing them, and then comment below about whether they were worth the time.


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I was glad to see your forum. I own four Kimbers and have yet to have a failure of any kind. Nor have any of the MIM parts disintegrated like some would lead you to believe.
I did have a problem with my last Kimber, a Super Carry Custom HD, but it's not a failure issue - I posted a thread about that.
Actually Tangle is my dog's name - she just let's me use it. When I first got her, she kept herself or her leash tangled around my legs, so she got the name Tangle.


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The Chinese government is so disturbed by its nation's growing reputation for poor air quality that is willing to pay cities that try to buck the trend.
China's cabinet has announced the development of a fund worth $1.6 billion to reward cities and regions that make efforts to control key areas of pollution, according to a report from The Associated Press (AP).
Key goals include controlling particulate matter in the air, curbing coal consumption, promoting "high-quality gasoline" for vehicles, saving energy during construction and using environmentally friendly boilers. The country will provide the rewards from the fund instead of providing frequent subsidies. The country did not state how or when the cities and regions would be paid.
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Beijing is off to an early start, announcing this month that it would shut down 300 polluting factories this year and phase out unspecified industries in an effort to improve the city's air according to the Xinhua News Agency. The city will publish a list of the factories by the end of April. It will also conduct "clean audits" of 200 factories while launching and promoting 50 clean energy projects around the city.
In December, China's Ministry of Environmental Protection said that 8 million acres of farmland across the country was far too polluted with heavy metals and chemicals to be used to grow food.
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