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The Back to School Rx Kit
By Teri Shookla
Yes, it's that time of year again; your eye begins to twitch every time you see a holiday commercial, and let's not forget (like we ever would), back to school time. I thought it would be a good time to talk about a few beauty items that will help ease some of the stress associated with back to school chaos. One item that is a must have is Bliss Foot Patrol for those tired and achy feet. Once your feet are on the mend grab yourself a drink (alcohol optional) and have a relaxing facial with Murad Clarifying Mask. Now, once you wake up from this dream… Get some really great eye cream such as the one from Perricone MD Cold Plasma Eye, a bit pricy but well worth it. This will help maintain a youthful awake appearance and give you a healthy glow. Then grab your sunscreen and tinted moisturizer and head back out and enjoy what's left of summer. And hurry before those holiday commercials kick into full gear.


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Grilled Cheese Month
Who knew that there was such a thing as Grilled Cheese Month?! Well, according to this website , April is just that, and you won't find any complaints about that here – except for the fact that I found out about it a little late…so I'll just have to observe the "holiday" in May, instead. ;) Click here for tons of yummy grilled cheese recipes to celebrate with all month long! {via GlamDish }
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1Katie SAYS:
I heart grilled cheese too! The photo looks scrumptious!
2Amy SAYS:
Thanks for the plug! I hope to run a contest every month, look for the next one in early May.
3jennifer ramos SAYS:
Hi Jen- That is one stylish GRILLED CHEESE….
Jen Ramos
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01. Do it yourself:
You know your business better than anyone else and chances are you're more prone to like a name that you came up with. But, sometimes it can be difficult to name something that you're too close to. We all seem to be great at giving relationship advice to our friends, but somehow it's far more difficult to navigate our own relationship problems. Naming can work the same way. Unfortunately if your new name gets you into legal trouble, or it means 'bestiality' in Italian, you'll have no one to point the finger at except yourself.
02. Ask your friends:
You ask them for advice on dating, diets and doctors, why not names? The only problem is, if you don't like their ideas, they'll remember it for the rest of their lives.
03. Get f'd up
You know you come up with great ideas when you are detached from the moorings of everyday life. Just remember to write the ideas down–hopefully they'll look just as good the next morning. Hey, it worked for Jimi Hendrix.
04. Call a board meeting
Everyone thinks they know a thing or two about naming and these are your go-to guys. There's a lot of egos, a lot of opinions and little-to-no chance you're leaving the room with everyone happy.
05. Use a machine
There are a few places on the web where you can enter a couple of key words and plug into a vast repository of used word parts and Latin cognates. Push a few buttons and see what shows up. For example, if you type in 'space' as a theme at nuttall.org, (great name, btw) you'll get back awesome names like 'Astrocket.' Who wouldn't want to call their company Astrocket?
06. Have a contest
People love contests, particularly if there are cool prizes. You won't get a lot of great responses, but you might find a diamond in the rough. The downside is that you're bringing a ton of people into the decision making process and some people's feelings are bound to get hurt. If you don't know enough people personally to have a contest, you have a bunch of new best friends at NameThis. Results may vary.
07. Steal something
It's been said that there's nothing new under the sun. If you are going to steal, you might as well steal from the best. Just don't get caught with your hand in the cookie jar.
08. Ask a kindergartener
Kids are getting smarter and smarter. And they're definitely going to come at it from a different angle than your colleagues and friends. You pay to put food on their plate, you might as well get something in return. Who knows, maybe you have a little namer sitting at the dinner table playing with spaghetti.
09. Find an available URL
This solves one problem and will likely create another. Everybody wants a URL that is as pure as the driven snow and there aren't enough to go around. So unless you're good at musical chairs, it might be wiser to find a name that means something to your audience and figure out a smart URL from there.
10. Hire a naming company
Believe it or not, some people actually do this for a living. And they should be able to help you navigate around the major pitfalls. Finding the right name can make a huge difference in building a brand, so it's probably a good idea to make sure it's done right. As Warren Buffett says, "If somebody can do a job better than I can, I will have them do it for me. I didn't deliver my own three children, I called an obstetrician. I do not want to have some member of my family fill my teeth or try to do it myself. So I go to a dentist. I'm a big believer in outsourcing."


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heart valve surgery
A number of diseases can cause the heart valves to malfunction. They can become calcified and stiffen causing an obstruction to blood flow, as in aortic or mitral valve stenosis. The valves can also weaken and leak, resulting in a backward flow of blood, as in aortic or mitral valve regurgitation or insufficiency. All of these scenarios lead to abnormal pressures and flow within the heart, lungs and aorta with deleterious secondary effects.
The diagnosis of heart valve problems is usually made by your primary physician and/or cardiologist using physical exams and other tests such as echocardiography. Many of these conditions can be managed medically; however, in cases of severe valve malfunction or evidence of heart enlargement or dysfunction, surgery to repair or replace the damaged valve can be lifesaving.
In many instances, our surgeons can use a variety of surgical techniques to repair and reconstruct the native valve. These techniques have shown superior long-term results and can help avoid the need for blood thinning medications. We repair a higher percentage of mitral valves than any other facility in the region. In many cases, these operations can be performed minimally invasively.
Some disease states are not amenable to repair and the native valve must be replaced. Bon Secours cardiac surgeons are skilled in techniques utilizing the latest in heart valve technology, utilizing bioprosthetic (tissue), mechanical or homograft (donated human tissue) valves.


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Be My Sweet Darling, first published in Korea in 2003 by Daiwon C.I., is a short, 240-gm (the weight is indicative) shôjo or whatever is its Korean equivalent manhwa series by Do-ChAn who shares at the end of volume one that her (I assume, despite the androgynous caricature) pen-name comes by way of Laruku's Hyde (romanized into Haido » shortened into Ido » fangirled into Ido-chan » and finally abbreviated as Do-ChAn). The Indonesian translation was released sometime last year by Elex Media.
True to its name (the manhwa, not Do-ChAn), the series begs for emotional investment by pleading twee, but with leads nearer to flimsy, promptly takes a header into the pit that is Okay To Pass The Time With If The Series You're Following Hasn't Released Its Latest Installment. Be that as it may, My Sweet Darling graduates into a somewhat antithetically enjoyable read, props to its supporting characters who deserve more than the limited panels they received in the course of this three-volume manhwa.
But before I lose reader interest (not that I have many, I know) with the premature babbling about charas, lemme proceed with this review methodically.
the lowdown
Yu NanHee and Jang KukYong are high school kids who belong to their school's drama club, the latter having been conscripted because of his calculating (as in math) skills. NanHee heads the club and tsundere that she is, disses and bosses KukYong constantly because she likes him. Mild-mannered-though-no-Clark-Kent bishounen KukYong doesn't react and gardens whenever he has the spare time (as in during lunch).
NanHee and KukYong end up married (think Honey Mustard instead of Goong) due to contrived circumstances involving underage drinking, puking, love confessing, toppling over and hitting head on desk and fainting, and parents arriving at the boy's place the morning after to find our couple near-nekkid.
This forces them to lead secret married lives while still continuing school.
KukYong For a male lead, KukYong (named after the late HK actor Leslie Cheung, which Do-ChAn kept as homage after the actor's suicide) is extremely hard to pin down. He's neither the dominant alpha nor sensitive beta hero. If I had to designate him using the Greek alphabet, I would stick an omicron—complete with the problematic debates that accompany this is-it-zero-or-not symbol—on his forehead. Of course doing so might grant him more substance than his creator intended, omicron being equal to 70, after all. But numerical nitpicking aside, what is clear is that KukYong doesn't resemble any romantic manhwa lead I've crossed paths with (some would say this is an accomplishment).
Despite his shiftiness in being categorized, KukYong's not mold-breaking. He's a a gardening hero like Kouki in Imadoki! and Arou in Mekakushi no Kuni. He evinces some of the cluelessness paraded by Fujioka Kyouhei from Haruta Nana's Cactus Secret (Saboten no Himitsu)—although not to the extent where it becomes the kawaii comedy (wince-worthy blah-ness is more the standard). This is because KukYong is cipher extraordinaire. Unlike Cactus' Kyouhei's interactions with the mad-about-you Miku, KukYong doesn't (even accidentally), "retaliate" against NanHee, which pretty much renders the two's face-offs as thrilling as a spoiled mystery.
In short, beyond his pretty-boyishness, KukYong doesn't seem to have much going for him.
NanHee Like KukYong and unlike KumJi (Chocolat) and HyeMin (Cynical Orange), initially-but-it's-only-on-the-surface tuff girl NanHee doesn't have much to recommend to her either. A high-maintenance nightmare, she displays the worst excesses of a stereotypically clingy and jealous wife. For instance, she reveals just how needy she is by gifting KukYong with a cell phone—just so that she can always call her husband. Yes, even during school hours. When NanHee finds KukYong has given his cell number to another girl (
It's mine, isn't it?), she grabs the phone and drops it into an aquarium (Eclair from Ouran High School Host Club, anyone?).
Later, because of some sob story from dad, she apologizes to KukYong for being the telemarketing nuisance she has been. Too good to be believed and already henpecked KukYong readily forgives her, even agreeing to her new stipulations without protest:
- He will always answer her calls.
- He will never turn off the phone.
- He will never give out his number.
KukYong nearly gets away with not pandering to NanHee's selfishness (the phone's sleeping with the fishes, remember?) but NanHee gets them a pair of walkie-talkies instead.
She really lives up to her name which Do-ChAn sez means
luar biasa cerewet (astoundingly carpy and fault-finding).
The brighter side In NanHee's defense, I would like to say that I actually like the sans-apology portrayal of her, psychotic possessiveness and all. And she's not that unlovable: when the couple goes to Ganghua for Christmas holidays with KukYong's parents, NanHee defends KukYong's younger sister KukHee to Mrs. Jang who favorites the more brilliant male sib.
KukYong too is not altogether the hero-to-zero character. After being criticized by his wife for not paying attention to li'l sis' problems, he goes to KukHee and tries to comfort her in his
vapid own way by inviting her to go to school in Seoul.
But it remains writ in eye-popping and speechless large that the supporting characters make this manhwa more worth the read.
KukHee From my first ogle at KukHee on the cover for chapter four, it was wub at first sight.
KukHee comes to visit her brother and faster than the train she just stepped off zooming out of Seoul Station, gets lost in one of the world's biggest cities (you already know what's coming, even if I don't tell you that the chapter illustration has a cosplaying KukHee facing a big, bad, costumed wolf). She asks directions from a good-looking bystander who then gallantly offers to accompany her to her destination. KukHee shoulda twigged when the zippered-sweatshirt-jacketed knight to her prim-sweatered damsel in distress refused to help with her luggage, despite having observed that it must be heavy, and ushers her on board a train. Instead, KukHee sits there in a daze, thinking, What a pretty ocean... as the coastline zips past.
Funnily enough, Kukhee's behavior didn't raise the too dumb to live flag; it should have, but I was prolly being more generous than my usual (I customarily am with the elderly, the marginalized, and Li'l Red Riding Hoods—gosh, did that sound as patronizing as I think it did? Gomen...) Anyhoo, our anachronistic heroine for this chapter and the next finally realizes that the watery vista is out of place but still gets on another train (gee, genre blind much?) with her "helpful" escort and lands at the port of Incheon. At this overdue point, she charges the young man with prevarication and he admits that yes, he is a liar. He then advises KukHee to follow whatever he sez, otherwise, he will $@!&!%?? her, a prospect that makes KukHee faint.
When KukHee comes to, KukYong and wife NanHee are looming over her. Her relief at seeing big brother and escaping a fate worse than $@!&!%?? however, is lopped off when she is introduced to NanHee's uncle (same age as his niece), the person who allegedly found her unconscious in front of the house—Yu Jemin.
Because, obviously, Jemin is none other than KukHee's wolf ^^
Jemin Another wub at initial gape, this time because of my predictable thing for light-haired bishounen, regardless of the truism that white haired pretty boys (I don't have any other color reference to go with) are invariably evil. And Jemin is. A thoroughly magnificent b*stard and to KukHee, the devil in plain sight, Jemin plays these variations on the trickster theme with heart-palpitating and stylish aplomb. We might not always know what he really wants, but sometimes he hints at his true nature (his t-shirt reads: KINKY: BE ALL YOU CAN BE and I don't think that's a Freudian slip, either on Jemin's part or on the part of his manga-ka).
Conniving Jemin has his reasons for ditching dorm life and crashing at house no. 128 (not simply to spy on the newly-married couple like KukHee uncovers), but whatever they are and whatever plans he may or may not have with KukHee, they give the tale a shot that rouses it from the undead and saves Sweet Darling from being the blandest of milquetoaste stories.
A relationship-driven story, you would espy a plot only if you squint. A lot. The series basically tracks KukYong and NanHee's ho-hum romance. Giving my own Friends-inspired titles to the chapters would probably suffice to fork over an idea of where Sweet Darling is headed.
Be My Sweet Darling manhwa volume 1
- The one where KukYong and NanHee marry
- The one where NanHee's friend visits
- The one with the cell phone
- The one with Li'l Red Riding Hood
- The one where Jemin eavesdrops
- The one where NanHee tries to kiss KukYong in a swan boat
- The one where NanHee tries to one-up KukYong during the exams
- The one where NanHee spends Christmas with the in-laws
- The one where KukYong tells KukHee to also go to Seoul
The Art
Basic manhwa style with the marble eyes and willowy chara designs, but nowhere as pretty as Pretty (by Pink, published originally by Seoul Cultural Publishers, Inc.) or differentiated-in-that-it-looks-like-Japanese-manga-Hakusensha's-at-that President Dad. Panel layouts are more shounen-y than shôjo-ish. The cover looks like it's been vectored quite a bit.
Chemistry there ain't between NanHee and KukYong (I sed ho-hum, I did) but Jemin x KukHee has a science-lab-full of it. It must be that rogue vs innocent thing.
the rating
A two out of five hearts for story and a three and a half for shipment (only 0.5 for NanHee x KukYong, the rest of the grade is for you already know who).
~nik who's wondering if Do-ChAn wrote a series starring Jemin and KukHee
Be My Sweet Darling is © by Do-ChAn, Daiwon C.I. Inc. First published in Korea in 2003, 2004. Indonesian copyright by PT Elex Media Komputindo. No infringement intended.


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Xavier Rudd at The Depot
Xavier Rudd will be performing at The Depot on Tuesday, June 3.
Xavier Rudd will be performing at The Depot on Tuesday, June 3.
The art of mosaic tiling has been documented since the second half of 3rd millennium BC and it holds a long history of beautiful pieces throughout all time. Learn the history of this ancient art while using basic techniques to create a small piece to use as a wall hanging or shelf decor and open the doors to your creativity. Special fee includes materials necessary to complete your project.
To register or for more information, call 801-587-LIFE (5433) or visit lifelong.utah.edu.
Get the highlights of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts for free. The half-hour guided tour starts at 6:30pm and is limited to twenty people.
This training is designed for individuals who want to work in the growing field of mediation, participate in mediation as an advocate, or apply these dispute resolution skills to a current career field. This includes attorneys, arbitrators, human resource professionals, ombudspersons, directors, managers, planners, union representatives, and anyone who wants to learn conflict resolution skills for professional, personal, and community benefit.
UDR's Basic Mediation Training is approved by the Utah Court system and satisfies the training requirement for mediators wanting to be included as a basic level mediator on the Utah Court Roster of Mediators. The Utah State Board of Continuing Legal Education has approved this workshop for 36 hours of CLE credits, which includes 2 hours of ethics and 1 hour of Professionalism and Civility. Our commitment is to teach not just a model for solving problems, but how to use this process to help people change how they handle conflict.
This five-day workshop covers the following topics: * Negotiation Styles and Strategies * Sources of Conflict * Conflict Management Styles * Stages and Phases of the Mediation Process * Convening the Mediation * Communication Skills: Listening and Use of Questions * Writing Agreements * Managing Cultural Differences * Ethical Dilemmas in Mediation
This is the RubberBand's 13th year performing at the Sandy Amphitheater. Hailing from Salt Lake City, this five-man band is a breath of fresh air in an age where much of the music is over-produced. They have built quite the following not only in Utah, but across the country
Tickets can be purchased at any Smith'sTix location, charged by phone at 1-800-888-TIXX, online at www.sandyarts.com/amph or at Sandy City Hall 10000 S. Centennial Pkwy, room 310.
Tickets: $10, $14, $16
Join us for Pride weekend! Let's celebrate by kicking off with Utah's biggest White Party at the Paper Moon. Get out your white clothes and head down to the moon for an epic night.
Daytime event: 10 a.m.–1 p.m. at Youth Garden Project, Moab. Info Booths, Student art exhibit, Kids activities, music. Fun for the whole family.
Evening event: 6–9 p.m. at Eddie McStiff's, Moab. Live music and silent auction with art and other nice goodies donated by local and out of town artists and businesses.
With #1 hits like "I'll Still Be Loving You", "That Rock Won't Roll", and "The Bluest Eyes in Texas", Restless Heart has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in country music history. Four of their albums have been certified Gold and they have placed 25 singles on the charts. This is Restless Heart's 30th anniversary.
Tickets can be purchased at any Smith'sTix location, charged by phone at 1-800-888-TIXX, online at www.sandyarts.com/amph or at Sandy City Hall 10000 S. Centennial Pkwy, room 310.
Tickets: $12, $17, $20
It'll be a wild ride run with your best friend, your mom, your daughter or new friends through the intense, gorgeous landscape of the outlaw heroines' journey. The 3rd annual Thelma & Louise Women's Half Marathon will inspire, challenge and give back. Proceeds go to two organizations that support women and girls: Girls on the Run and Seekhaven Family Crisis Center.
AQHA, AQHA, UQHA approved horse show with open all-breed classes. moabhorseshow.com
The National Ability Center's Equestrian Program has helped countless numbers of participants and their families for more than 25 years. From talking when told they wouldn't to walking when told they couldn't, participants have astonished doctors, nurses, family members and friends.
Our annual Barn Party is an opportunity to celebrate our staff, volunteers and the successes of our participants. This event is full of activities the entire family can enjoy, including delicious food, plenty of dancing and riding demonstrations.
Pride weekend! Join us for the Paper Moon's annual Rainbow Bash, featuring Utah's sexy DJ Ria. So grab your brightest colors and head on down to the Moon as Ria heats up the dance floor.
It'll be a wild ride—run with your best friend, your mom, your daughter, or new friends through the intense, gorgeous landscape of the outlaw heroines' journey. The 3rd annual Thelma & Louise Women's Half Marathon will inspire, challenge and give back. Proceeds go to two organizations that support women and girls: Girls on the Run and Seekhaven Family Crisis Center.
Come experience sandy beaches, breathtaking lakeside views, and a variety of exhilarating water sports right in your own backyard.
The Utah Lake festival offers residents of the Wasatch Front the opportunity to enjoy all that the lake has to offer as well as learn about the lake's ecosystem, native species and the importance of stewardship. Activities for the whole family. Admissions and activities are absolutely FREE.
Games and activities for kids
Sand Volleyball
Free fishing including instructions, free fishing pole rentals and bait
Casting target practice
Boat tours
A sailboat regatta
Boat show
Hay rides
Water equipment rentals (kayaks, jet skis, paddle boat, and more!)
Educational Booths
SLC Events will help kick off summer with a mega yard sale in Salt Lake City with a festival atmosphere on Saturday, June 7 from 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Yard sale space (15' wide by 10' deep) can be reserved for just $25 and sellers are then welcome to bring their own items to sell (obviously- weapons, drug paraphernilia, illegal or questionable items will NOT be allowed. Also, no food booths please-we've got it covered.).
There will also be a stage with live music, food booths and lots of free kids activities (bounce houses, giant slide, obstacle course, etc.).
Sign up for a yard sale space at http://goo.gl/mt7CE0 Please note: No tables, chairs, power or canopies will be provided. Space assignments will be made during setup the morning of the Extreme Yard Sale.
If you have any questions about the event, please email email@example.com and include Extreme Yard Sale in the subject line.
Living on the Colorado Plateau forces plants and animals to adjust to extremes in weather, temperature and the ebb-and-flow of water, or die.
Join Dead Horse Point State Park staff at 9 a.m. on a one mile moderately-easy guided hike and examine the intricacies of life on the plateau. Participants should bring plenty of water, hiking boots, cameras and dress weather appropriate. For more information, please call 435-259-2614.
During our four day summer camp program, your child will have a unique opportunity to make lasting memories exploring and learning on a real working farm. Summer camp activities include: Animals—Children absolutely love caring for our farm animals, which include goats, sheep, chickens, rabbits, pigs and bees. Plants—We learn about farm crops, get our hands in the dirt, and grow our own pumpkins and come back to harvest in the fall. Food—We connect the importance of farms to our daily lives by turning fresh produce into delicious snacks (We are experienced in accommodating allergies). Tractors—We interact with real, working farm equipment and learn how they help us grow food. Most importantly, we have fun!
Full Day Camps run June 9–12 and 16–19, 9 a.m.–3 p.m., $210 per week includes lunch. All other camps run Monday–Thursday, $100 per week (includes snack) 9 a.m.–12 p.m. Boys and girls, ages 5–11.
Gardens grow, and that can be both a blessing and a curse. The fresh young blooms of spring fade, stalks bend and droop, groundcover runs amok, and spent flowers turn brown on their stems. What's a gardener to do? With a little maintenance know-how, you can extend the bloom of some favorite perennials, get a second bloom from others, control invasive plantings, prop or strengthen weak stems, and overall neaten your summer and fall garden.
Join us for three evenings in the garden as we get hands-on experience deadheading, pruning, thinning, dividing, and transplanting—and keep your garden looking grand all season long. Co-sponsored by Red Butte Garden. To register or for more information, call 801-587-LIFE (5433) or visit lifelong.utah.edu.
Distinctive and delicious the wines of Italy don't have to be hard on the purse strings. Join us as we explore the wine growing regions of Italy and discover the amazing value that can be had from all. We will be traveling from the top of the boot to the toes and exploring the mountains and valleys in between.
Enjoy reds, whites, proseccos and more from this amazing country. Please bring a photo ID that indicates your age to class. To register or for more information, call 801-587-LIFE (5433) or visit lifelong.utah.edu.
Every four years, the world's most promising pianists convene in Salt Lake City for the prestigious Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition to compete for prestige, cash, and prizes. The Competition returns this summer from June 11–25.
The Competition will feature 39 pianists from 14 countries competing for more than $80,000 in prizes. The unique single elimination format allows each competitor, aged 19-32, to perform in two rounds in the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center before 12 Semi-Finalists are selected. Since there are no repertoire requirements, the pianists are free to display their artistry and virtuosity through music of their own choice.
The Final Round will feature the three finalists performing concertos with the Utah Symphony in Abravanel Hall.
The complete schedule is at bachauer.com.
Tickets ($20–35): 801-355-ARTS, arttix.org.
Hailing from the city of Atlanta, Georgia, Collective Soul shot to international fame with their 1993 release "Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid", and their #1 hitShine. After playing the 25th Anniversary Woodstock concert, the band recorded its sophomore follow up, the self-titled "Collective Soul". This would be the album that defined their sound of catchy melodies and guitar driven songs. Containing four outstanding singles (three of which reached #1), "December," "The World I Know," "Where The River Flows," and "Gel," it is the bands best selling album and went Triple-Platinum spending 76 weeks on the Billboard Top 200 charts.
Tickets can be purchased at any Smith'sTix location, charged by phone at 1-800-888-TIXX, online at www.sandyarts.com/amph or at Sandy City Hall 10000 S. Centennial Pkwy, room 310.
Tickets: $30, $35, $40, $45, $50
Explore this multi-faceted and popular genre, which ranges in scope from literary journalism to personal narrative and memoir, in this interactive 6-week course. Through sample readings, discussion, in-class writing exercises, and writing assignments, we will learn to use the narrative devices—narrator stances, characterization, verb tenses, dialogue, and scene and setting—that make this form of prose especially fascinating and appealing.
Open to writers of all levels of experience who are confident with basic sentence structure and composition.
To register or for more information, call 801-587-LIFE (5433) or visit lifelong.utah.edu.
Take three of your friends and cycle non-stop from Moab to St. George. One teammate in the saddle at all times makes for a "never forget" experience. The course will follow the scenic back roads of Southern Utah, traveling through two National Parks and Utah's most beautiful landscapes. Covering 530 miles of majestic beauty, it will test your mind, body and soul.
Hale Centre Theatre presents this play based on the classic Disney film about one of the most famous nannies of all time.
Racers will run from Grand Junction, Colorado to the world famous Moab, Utah along the beautiful 148-mile Kokopelli trail. Distances will range from day to day between 9 and 50 miles. This is a grueling event that will challenge the most seasoned athletes yet it is designed so that less experienced ultrarunners can train for and successfully complete the course.
Layer upon layer of rock, life and time stretch into the distant view from Dead Horse Point. Understand the story behind the incredible vista while walking along the rim rock. Join park staff on Dead Horse Point for an easy one-mile hike and explore the deeper meanings behind the views.
Art Rocks | $195
Understand the landscape in a brand new way through creative explorations of art and earth science in Utah. You'll never play Rock, Paper, Scissors the same way again. Dates: June 16–20, Ages: 8–11, Time: 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Mushrooms are a wonderful ingredient to use in a variety of different cuisines from Asian to French to Italian. This unique ingredient can even stand alone as its own dish when prepared properly. This workshop will explore some easy and delicious ways to cook with mushrooms. You will learn about how to properly clean, handle and prepare mushrooms of different varieties. We will use fresh and dried mushrooms including porcini, shiitaki, enoki, cremini and Portobello. This hands-on class is limited to 12 and requires 48 hour advanced registration.
To register or for more information, call 801-587-LIFE (5433) or visit lifelong.utah.edu.
Welcome the summer by attending a Garden Dinner at the Youth Garden Project in Moab, Utah.
Chef Henry Christian of Sorrel River Ranch will be preparing the freshest local cuisine under the summer sky. Enjoy fine dining in our garden setting. Four courses served of fresh locally grown goodness and a beautiful sunset! $50/person, including tax. Large parties welcome. All proceeds support youth and community programs. RSVP by June 13 online or call 435-259-BEAN.
Be a part of shifting yourself and the planet to a higher vibration. The Children of Light Conference offers enlightend speakers, musicians and vendors all with the purpose of elevating you and the planet.
Keynote speaker: Joe Crane, DD, PhD, author of "On the Wings of Heaven," "The Masters Return" and "Wisdom from the Angel." Crane has shared messages given by the angelic realm for healing, sacred oils, spiritual revelations and becoming the masters we truly are.
Other speakers: Adil Kassam, founder of Unify World Peace; Baljit Rayat, Sacred Geometry Founder; and Creator of Lotus Destiny, Paula Ruffy.
Also appearing: Larry Contier, Angel Therapy Practitioner; Meg Blackburn, International best-selling author and Master Healer; and author Julia Hanson.
Reach beyond self-interest, expand your aspirations and actions claiming your birthright.
2014 marks the 44thanniversary of perennial classic-rock favorite, America. Founding members Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell (along with former member Dan Peek) met in high school in London in the late 1960s and quickly harmonized their way to the charts with their song "A Horse with no Name". America has been a band capable of transcending borders with its uplifting music and positive messages.
Tickets can be purchased at any Smith'sTix location, charged by phone at 1-800-888-TIXX, online at www.sandyarts.com/amph or at Sandy City Hall 10000 S. Centennial Pkwy, room 310.
Tickets: $25, $30, $32
Calling all cheeselovers. Whether your a cheese expert or rookie, Create What You Crave's Cheese Course is the place to be. We'll explore the world of tasting aged cheeses with local cheese experts, Pat Ford from Beehive Cheese and Dr. Carol George, PhD. We will show you the life of a wheel of cheese and demonstrate how you too can make cheese at home. Come enjoy this tasting experience! Price: $55/Member Rate $45
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles first appearance in the U.S. From their convincing Liverpool accents with Beatle wit, to their pointed Cuban heel boots and authentic vintage instruments, what you'll experience during their show is pure magic. These four lads joined in 1993 and have played more than 1,100 shows around the world. This show is like seeing a Beatles concert for the first time!
Tickets can be purchased at any Smith'sTix location, charged by phone at 1-800-888-TIXX, online at www.sandyarts.com/amph or at Sandy City Hall 10000 S. Centennial Pkwy, room 310.
Tickets: $10, $15
Modern West Fine Art presents the contemporary artwork of Lenka Konopasek. Lenka's haunting and timeless, blurred rodeo scenes represent the "the slowly dying Americana." The artist will be in attendance at this event. Please join us.
Life in the desert can be tenuous at times. Thunder rumbles underfoot, lightening will be quick to follow. Water gathers quickly during rain showers turning dry washes into raging rivers. Venomous creatures can be found anywhere, at any time. Learn how to protect yourself from the hidden dangers of the desert.
Meet Dead Horse Point State Park staff at the visitor center amphitheater at 5 p.m. For more information, please call 435-259-2614. facebook.com/DeadHorsePointStatePark/events
Parents, caregivers, educators and therapists are invited to a free overview of the Anat Baniel (a-knot ban-yell) Method, presented by Anat Baniel.
Transform the life of the child with special needs and your own life. Turn your child into a powerful learner. Learn the nine essentials for waking up your child's brain. Learn about breakthroughs with ADHD, austim spectrum, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, developmental delays and more.
Opening reception for Plein Air Invitational Exhibition, our biggest landscape show of the year. Fifty terrific paintings of diverse, beautiful places such as Paris, Southern and Northern California, and Utah painted by 12 award-winning plein air artists. Music by Millie and the Moths. Refreshments will be served.
The Bumble Bee Bash Children's Festival celebrates the arrival of summer with activities for kids of all ages, including face painting, balloon art, entertainment featuring local cultural and youth performance groups, prize giveaways and much more! $5/Members $10/Nonmembers
1-Day Workshop: Transform the life of the child with special needs…and your own life. Turn your child into a powerful learner. Learn the nine essentials for waking up your child's brain. Learn about breakthroughs with ADHD, Autism Spectrum, Cerebral Palsy, Traumatic Brain Injury, Developmental Delays and more. In this workshop, Anat Baniel (a-knot ban-yell) introduces an innovative theory (Anat Baniel Method) and practices you can use in your daily life for breakthrough outcomes with your child. You'll experience the remarkable capacity of your brain to change and learn how to do the same for your child. Professionals will learn techniques for breakthrough outcomes with their clients. (Scholarships available)
Celebrate Daybreak's tenth anniversary and spend the day at Daybreak's Summer Serenade featuring:
-Spectacular sand sculptures by The Sand Guys
-Food truck caravan including Wilma's Gourmet, Georgia Boy, Mama Fimonetti and Cup Bob
-Free outdoor concert with Ryan Innes from NBC's The Voice
-Free outdoor screening of Dreamworks, Turbo, at dusk.
Plus explore over 25 model homes including 10 lakefront homes in in Daybreak's Lake Village.
Get close to your favorite feathered friends at Breakfast with the Birds. Enjoy an exclusive early morning in Tracy Aviary designed to delight the entire family, featuring exclusive encounters, exciting activities and a charming breakfast buffet that are sure to enchant avian enthusiasts of all ages.
Don't miss the special appearance by Andy the Andean Condor!
Join the Huntsman 140 fundraising bike ride on June 21, 2014. There are 25, 50, 75, and 140-mile ride options, with all fundraising and proceeds benefiting Huntsman Cancer Institute. Entry fee is $35 and each rider is encouraged to raise $500 through Huntsman Cancer Foundation. This ride features a mass finish and celebration at the steps of Huntsman Cancer Institute. Location: Huntsman Cancer Institute.
Information and registration available at huntsman140.com
Urban Art | $145
Legal urban art is a way to beautify a neighborhood, communicate social concerns and unleash your inner creative genius. Work side-by-side with artists who have impacted the street-art scene, tour SLC's "urban gallery" and try your hand at different techniques all while creating your own unique artwork.
Dates: June 23–25, Ages: 14–18, Time: 1:30–4:30 p.m.
The Salt Lake Acting Company will be performing their biggest summer party to end the 2013-2014 season: Saturday's Voyeur 2014 playing June 25- Aug. 31, 2014.
Saturday's Voyeur is known to be a voice for liberals in Utah. This funny, raucous, truly unique, musical satire written for Utah and about Utah will give Utahns a place to laugh and love living here.
For more information on the show or to purchase tickets, visit their website or call the box office.
This production is for mature audiences only.
Enjoy free ice cream to help raise $10,000 for The Salvation Army of Salt Lake City.
Denali Flavors, developers of the legendary Moose Tracks flavor of ice cream, has partnered with Meadow Gold Dairy to host a free ice cream giveaway on Wednesday, June 25 in downtown Salt Lake City. Ten-thousand scoops of Meadow Gold Dairy Moose Tracks ice cream will be served at the Gallivan Center as a 10,000 Scoop Challenge issued by Denali to Salt Lake CIty area residents. For each scoop served, Denali Flavors will donate $1 to The Salvation Army of Salt Lake City in an effort to raise $10,000 of new support for its vital community programs.
During the event ice cream lovers can tweet the hash tag #10KScoops for a chance to win free ice cream for a year from Denali @Moose_Tracks.
Sandy's own community orchestra, American West Symphony comes to the Amphitheater for its annual summer Pops Concert playing classical, Broadway show tunes and patriotic songs. Bring the whole family and enjoy an evening of great music under the stars.
This event is free to the public.
Complimentary sales management training workshop: Why Sales People Fail and What you Can Do About it!
To learn more and RSVP please visit: http://bit.ly/Sandler-June27
The Finch Lane Gallery is celebrating artists who have exhibited in this iconic space over the past 30 years with the exhibition titled "30 Years at Finch Lane Galleries: A Retrospective." The exhibition features 30 of the hundreds of artists who have shown in the space, many of whom also have pieces of public art in Salt Lake City. It is a celebration of artistic diversity, the Salt Lake Arts Concil, and those who have contributed to the city's artistic fabric.
The exhibition will be on view at the Finch Lane Gallery June 27 through Aug. 8, 2014, with an opening reception on Friday, June 27 from 6–8 p.m.
Harmons Best Dam Bike Ride is Utah's largest cycling fundraising event with 3,000 cyclists raising over $1.5 million annually. This two day event is based out of the Cache County Fairgrounds in Logan, UT.
Ready to break out of "auto mode" on your digital camera? Working indoors and out, we'll decode the mysteries of digital cameras in a friendly and fun way as we see how to make properly exposed and focused images, identify and select white balance settings appropriate to the subject, and figure out how the focal length of lenses affects final images. You'll also create a set of reference images that demonstrate the workings of various controls on your camera.
Appropriate for DSLRs and point-and-shoots with manual controls. (Point-and-shoot photgraphers: please consider "Make the Most of Your Point-and-Shoot Camera", LLART 196.) Please bring your camera and manual to class; post-it flags and/or a highlighter to annotate your manual are also recommended. Want more guided practice with the basics? Take Digital I (LLART 115) either before or after this class. Class is limited to 10.
To register or for more information, call 801-587-LIFE (5433) or visit lifelong.utah.edu.
The "Warriors Over The Wasatch" Open House and Air Show featuring the USAF Air Force Demonstration Squadron: The Thunderbirds, and the US Army Precision Parachute Team: The Golden Knights will be held June 28–29 at Hill Air Force Base.
The show will also consist of 14 additional world-class acts, including 11 aerobatic demonstrations, a heritage aircraft flight, Red Bull precision Jump Team, a jet-powered car and a titillating pyrotechnics display. The event will feature a wide variety of military static aircraft, including remotely piloted aircraft, helicopters, fighters, bombers, large cargo transports and refuelers.
In addition, ramp displays will include military ground transport and fighting vehicles, a collection of vintage and exotic cars, and dozens of assorted food and other vendors. Gates open at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. Aerial performances start at 10:30 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday. See website events/restricted items.


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Released: Apr 01st, 1995
Running Time: 137
Director: Ed Powers
Company: Vivid Entertainment Group
Cast: Janine Lindemulder, Sabrina (I), Mona Donna, Mikala, Ed Powers, Sandi Beach
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Gonzo
You practically hear Ed thinking to himself, "Smart move, Powers. Now that I'm in good with Vivid, I've got access to their exclusive stable of fabulous babes!" Sell-through covergirl Janine jumps on the Powers bandwagon with the enthusiasm of a gold rush prospector, striking a vein of fabulous babes." Sell-through covergirl Janine jumps on the Powers bandwagon with the enthusiasm of a gold rush prospector, striking a vein of pure, precious pussy by way of Mona Donna, whose lovely tanned body and nice round buns set her heart a-flutter.
"This chick is perfect! She really reads my mind," gulps Janine, while Mona delivers a gushing burst compliments in native Italian. Friskin each other like it was an audition for a Linda Blair prison flick, they tangle with tongues, vibrators and strap-ons… a real pelvis pounder; and nearly an awards contender. The scene unfortunately falls a mite short due to off-camera flashbulb action and over-reliance on the PIP (picture-within-picture) device. Ed redeems himself when using PIP effectively while taking Mikala's anal cherry. You wouldn't know it by looking at him, but Ed is an ace fudgepacker.
Of course, fans of 4-Play's Bust Stop Tales will appreciate the format that made Ed such a traffic hound. While his verbal foreplay – part nebbishness, part self-confidence – works with Mona, it sags like an old breast with Sandi Beach, and their scene is correspondingly mediocre. Of the latter, Ed repeatedly and painstakingly begs to kiss her here or touch her there; as if he were the valedictorian of Antioch College. His persistence pays off with a North-ern geyser at the finale.
Lastly, Sabrina goes down on the Power pole. Ed, who seems to have boundless energy from his latest project, engages in some fast and furious intercourse, ending with a hot gooey facial. It appears as if Vivid's new acquisition may one day liken to the San Francisco 49'ers getting Deion Sanders. A well-run juggernaut never rests.


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Member of the novice four that finished fourth at the Atlantic 10 Championship and at the Dad Vail Regatta...also on the UMass swimming team, swimming the 50 and 100 free, and the 100 fly.
Before UMass:
Swam at Truman State University as a freshman and sophomore, helping the Bulldogs win two conference championships...four-year letterwinner in swimming in high school and a three-year letterwinner in softball.
Member of the Atlantic 10 Commissioner's Honor Roll and the UMass Athletic Director's Honor Roll...majoring in political science...born February 10, 1982.
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Pay Phones to Be Replaced by Internet Machines
New York City's street-side communication machines are getting an upgrade.
It's rare to spot someone in New York City using a pay phone for anything other than a little privacy while puking, but the system is getting an upgrade, essentially bringing Internet cafés to the streets. Computers called "My Internet Kiosk Everywhere," or MIKE, will begin replacing the antiquated public phones in a few months, the New York Post reports, featuring 22-inch touch screens, access to the web, cameras, and electrical outlets. The machines will charge $1 for four minutes online and 50 cents for a 15-minute call, in addition to a tax on your human soul. Words With Friends is hopefully angling for an app partnership now, because what if your phone dies while it's your turn?


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This weekend's Boulder Writers' Workshop Literary Salon will be hosted by non other than the group's founder, Lori DeBoer. Here are the details:
Literary Salon Hosted by Lori DeBoer
When: Sunday, August 10, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Where: Boulder Public Library, Meadows Branch
Boulder-based author, freelance journalist and writing coach Lori DeBoer will open tomorrow's salon by reading from her short story, "All the Love in the World." Published in the Spring 2013 issue of Bellevue Literary Review (Dept. Medicine, NYU Langone Med. Center) this story was shortlisted for the Bellevue Literary Prize judged by Jane Smiley.
After the reading, DeBoer will host a discussion on literary topics including but by no means limited to writing from real life and revising with a purpose. These discussions tend toward an open format, welcoming input from all participants. If there's a particular subject you'd like to explore, don't be shy about putting them out there.
Undecided? Check out Laura Lauda's notes on the July 13 Literary Salon, which was hosted by Kim Lajevardi. Lajevardi began by reading from her book Silent Witnesses, then opened the discussion with the topic of writing from multiple points of view. From there the conversation turned toward other facets of characterization before coming back around to the topic of Lajevardi's own writing process.
This event is free and open to the public, but preregistration is required. Use the EventBrite widget at the bottom of the event page, linked above.


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Wake Lock gives you control over the Android Power- and WifiManager.
For example, you can force the PowerManager to keep the screen on or have the CPU still running in standby mode or make sure the Wifi connection keeps running at full performance.
You can use it on any android phone or tablet.
What are the permissions used for:
A few keywords to help people:
For example, you can force the PowerManager to keep the screen on or have the CPU still running in standby mode or make sure the Wifi connection keeps running at full performance.
You can use it on any android phone or tablet.
Use it to keep the screen on in full brightness or dimmed mode during movies or slideshows.
To make sure the CPU is still running in the background doing your tasks when you press the standby button.
There is a "Donate Version" available if you wish to support my work.
What are the permissions used for:
WAKE_LOCK, to obviously be allowed to aquire wakelocks
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, to start the app after device reboot
READ_PHONE_STATE, to be able to act on start/ending calls, allowing the app to aquire a lock just for the duration of the call
A few keywords to help people:
screenon,screen always on,keep awake,darken,dark3n,no sleep,nosleep,Keep on,WifiLock,Sleep Policy,WifiManager,CpuLock
PartialWakeLock does what I want it to do! Keeps my CPU running on my Ematics tablet plugged in when the screen sleeps so I can receive IMs and notifications in real time when the screen is off. Awesome. Fixes one of the most annoying problems of my garbage poor mans tablet. Now if it could be configured to throttle down the CPUs or turn some of them off too but I'm not complaining. Interface is bare bones simple and hacker elegant. Keep it free!
Perfect on Desire HD Nothing wakes my Desire HD from 'deep sleep' except the now flaky power button so this combined with Proximity Tool Extension (also highly recommended) has rendered the power button obsolete. Thank you to both developers.
Saves jelly bean What can I say! If you are having wifi drop out issue's with jellybean Rom this is a life saver! I'm running jellybean evolution prime on my cube u30gt tablet and every time the tablet went to sleep it dropped wifi, very annoying if you have 3.6gb to download for "bards tale" (: but now it is working thanks to this app!
It's good I'm using AOSP lollipop for mi3, custom rom. I had this random reboot problem. Trust me guys, wakelock solved it and I'm very happy with the apps performance. Only problem I encountered is while on call, the app opens automatically and calling screen is moved to background. It's not much a problem still would appreciate if the developer fixes this. Thank you for the app.
galaxy s2 sod it cures completly the sod problem but i can´t recieve calls i can´t do it also. everything else work perfecltly in the phone but has the same behavior if the phone would asleep. And i must reiniciat again.
Great App, only one minor issue This app is really a great download. It helped solve the issue of my SD card being unmounted after my tablet went into idle mode. However, after using this for a few months I've encountered one issue: After having installed an optimizer app (Clean Master) the "Autostart on boot" feature no longer works. I've since uninstalled the cleaner app and have uninstalled, and then reinstalled this one. Still the problem persists. Other than that, it's a near perfect find!
What's New
Fixed inconsitent behavior
Disabled autostart when aquiring WakeLocks onCall
Fixed WakeLocks not being aquired on initiated calls
Redid UI
Added Widget
Added WifiLocks
Added Option to aquire Lock only during call
New permission to know when a call starts/ends
Join 330+ million users who have enjoyed longer-lasting battery power!


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College Hockey:Skidmore Group Trying to Save Hockey
A group of Skidmore alumni is trying to raise enough money to save the school's ice hockey team.
President Philip Glotzbach said recently Skidmore would discontinue the team after this season, following a lengthy review of the school's athletic and recreation offerings.
Skidmore coach Paul Dion told the Albany Times Union that alumni have raised at least $1 million to try to save the program. He said the yearly operating costs of the program are $125,000.
Citing alumni, the Post-Star of Glens Falls, N.Y., said the Skidmore administration has asked for an endowment of between $3 million and $4 million to save the program.
The Times-Union quoted Jeff Segrave, the Skidmore athletic director, as saying the hockey program takes 15 percent of the college's athletic department budget and that the school was facing a projected $5.2 million deficit through 2008.
A petition on www.saveskidmorehockey.com has generated more than 2,200 responses, most identifying themselves as Skidmore alumni or students.
The Times-Union said Glotzbach is expected to announce within the next two weeks if there's any chance the program can be saved.
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Miami student designer creates "green" gown for "The Artist" star at Oscar's red carpet
South Florida will be working the red carpet at the Oscars.
Valentina Delfino, a fashion design student at Ai Miami International University of Art & Design, will dress "The Artist" actress Missi Pyle. Out of hundreds of entries from around the world, Delfino won the Red Carpet Green Dress design contest, for making a gown out of sustainable materials. The contest was founded in 2009 by Suzy Amis Cameron, wife of the director James Cameron.
"I looked at the gowns that had won in previous years," said the 25-year-old Venezuelan. "A blue one won and a pink one won, so I pulled myself away from those colors. And then I thought about Mrs. Cameron; I put her in my mind. I didn't know anything about sustainable fabrics. Finding information is harder than you think."
She's a quick learner, finding an organic "peace" silk chiffon where the silk worm is not killed and lining her dress with recycled polyester. Even the color is from an OSHA-approved natural mineral dye.
"It was originally supposed to be in saffron," Delfino said. "But the actress had worn a similar color to the Golden Globes, so we had to change it to a pastel teal."
It's been a whirlwind for designer who hopes to land an internship (Oscar de la Renta, Elie Saab) when she graduates this December. "I found out I won last Thursday. I found out who [was wearing the dress] yesterday. And now tomorrow [Friday] I'm flying out there for anything I can do – fittings, whatever."


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I first wrote these words at the end of another thread, back on june 28, 2011. No one replied to my post there, perhaps because the thread started so long ago. So I'm re-posting here, instead:
i'm having trouble reconciling these 2 things:
1.) max lyons's first post on this thread:
2.) daniel browning's first post on this thread:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/sho ... p?t=747761
in the same vein, i'm having trouble reconciling certain conclusions i (perhaps mistakenly) draw from
1.) mr. lyons's lens equivalence / diffraction calculator ( http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/calc.htm ) and
2.) the pictures in mr. browning's first post, above:
does the lyons calculator indicate that a photograph taken with a 21-MP full-frame sensor at f/14 will resolve no more detail than a photograph taken with a full-frame 12-MP sensor, all other things being equal (same sensor quality, same filter, etc.)? does it (also? instead?) indicate that a picture shot at f/14 with a 21-MP full-frame sensor will look the same at native resolution as it looks after being down-rezzed to an 11.4-MP file and then up-rezzed back to 21-MP? neither of these indications is claimed in these words by max lyons or by others in the threads I mention; rather, they are my attempts at drawing practical conclusions from the calculator. am I misunderstanding the calculator? what confuses me is that the photos shot at f/16 (viewable on the browning post, above) seem to show that the full-frame 21-MP sensor resolves more detail than the 12-MP sensor even when both sensors are exposed with the same lens at f/16. Granted, this is not an "all other things being equal" situation, since the 21-MP sensor is arguably of higher quality, with a better filter; and i don't know what algorithm mr. browning used to up-rezz from the crop of 12-MP picture; and i don't know what sharpening was used on the 2 images, or whether the sharpening was applied equally, and so on. but i would expect, based on the implications of the lyons calculator, to see these two sensors resolving roughly the same amount of detail at f/16 (indeed, even at f/14). I know that my understanding is not full, and that i am probably overlooking some important considerations; i mean this post not at all as a challenge to either mr. lyons or mr. browning, but rather as a question, a plea to both of them for help in understanding their claims. it might be that they do not even disagree with one another. so i'm asking for help in seeing how their claims or conclusions about diffraction-limited systems are compatible.
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Changes needed for CYF to earn trust
A women's refuge in South Auckland says recommendations from a Child, Youth and Family caseload review need to be implemented in order for people to trust the agency.
The review found caseloads are too high and social workers spend too much time on administration duties, rather than with vulnerable children.
It recommends Child, Youth and Family's systems be overhauled and more staff hired.
Te Whare Marama women's refuge co-ordinator Christina Teikamata said the agency is difficult to work with and she welcomed the review.
She said CYF social workers are overworked and do not have time to form relationships with families.
The Association of Social Workers said the review had vindicated what its members have known for a long time.
Next story in New Zealand: Call to relax home lending restrictions
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Ok I was walking through the parking lot at home depot today. Just bought some batteries for my xbox controller. I scan my immediate surrounding as usual as i walk to my car. I notice a man in his late twenties walking toward me but i assume he is walking to the store front. He's scruffy looking, but so am i when i have chores around the house
But something is wrong. I notice he is staring right at me and walking right in my direction. He is between me and my car so i pretend to look for my car a aisle over. As I move over so does he. Still staring and coming at me.
Now i wonder if i did something, Maybe something like a rock came out the back of my pickup and hit his windsheild. Hopefully..........
He is still pretty far, about 30 feet but definatly coming over to me.
I smile and say "Hi, something wrong?"
Nothing just stares.
Now he's inside twenty feet and alarm bells are going off. Things like the 21 foot rule with knives pop into my mind.
I let the bag drop from my left hand and circle around a station wagon to get it beween me and him.
In a loud voice I yell something like "Sir you are making me uncomfortable, please back off!" Some people are near and are definatly noticing. I have a firm defensive posture and have my right hand poised near the butt of the g19 i carry at 3:30 iwb.
He is now only two cars over. He has nothing in his hands and has not said a word. He has slowed down a bit, but looks as though he is deciding which side of the station wagon to approach from.
I yell real loud "stop!!!"
Ok i will stop now and see what you guys think so far. Would you have drawn already or said something different?
What would you do. What if he keeps coming?
And say this was a quick trip. I didn't grab the OC or the pocket knife I normally bring to keep the glock company.
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For the seventh consecutive holiday season, Catholic Charities teamed up with Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway to make the holiday season a little warmer and a little brighter for families in need.
Empire City Casino President & CEO Timothy J. Rooney presented over 500 toys and coats gathered from its two-week toy and coat drive to Catholic Charities yesterday, December 12.
Catholic Charities Executive Director Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, accompanied by Catholic Charities Community Services Supervisor Karen Reynolds along with Sister Christine Hennessey and Orla Kelleher of the Aisling Irish Community Center accepted the gifts for distribution to local children and families.
"Providing help by giving a warm coat also provides some Christmas hope this season," Ms. Reynolds said.
Read more in the Yonkers Tribune
Tags: Aisling Irish Community Center, Catholic Charities Community Services, Empire City Casino, Holiday Season, Karen Reynolds, Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, Orla Kelleher, Sister Christine Hennessey, Timothy J. Rooney, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers Tribune


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Co-chairs may also be selected given the student's research interest and/or methodology, a faculty member's schedule, or in other circumstances.
Faculty members and/or chairs who have left the university may not serve as chairs. However, they may remain on the committee as a co-chair or member, provided that they coordinate with the graduate college to maintain full graduate faculty status within the Department of Teaching and Learning.


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Interview Technique (from How to Interview a Programmer)
- Explore an Area of Expertise
- Have Them Critique Something
- Ask Them to Solve a Problem
- Look at Their Code
- Find Out What Books They Read
- Ask About a People Problem
- Get to Know Them
Notes on Hire With Your Head: Using POWER Hiring to Build Great Teams by Lou Adler
These notes are incomplete (I didn't finish the book)
- Create 6-8 SMARTe performance objectives
- Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Results-driven, Time-bound, and include a description of the environment
- 4 Main Interview Questions
- Please think of your most significant accomplishment in your career. Now could you tell me all about it?
- If you were to get this job, how would you go about solving this typical problem (describe the problem)?
- Give me a quick overview of your current (prior) position and describe the biggest impace (or change) you made.
- NON-SUPERVISORY: Please draw an organization chart and tell me about a team project you were involved in, and describe your role.
- SUPERVISORY: Please draw an organization chart and tell me how you built and developed this team, and describe the group's biggest accomplishment.
- Other Questions
- Think about your favorite work experience, something you feel was exciting, energizing, and personally fulfilling. Please describe it and tell me why it was personally satisfying.
- You've indicated to me that you're a real problem solver. Can you give me three examples of the types of problems you like to solve?
- This job requires a real self-starter. Can you please give me three examples of initiative in one of your more reecent positions? This would be something you did over and above the requirements of the job.
Rate Candidates On:
- Engery, Drive, Initiative
- Trend of Performance over time
- Comparability of Past Accomplishments (Anchor SMARTe Objectives)
- Experience, Education, and Industry Background
- Problem-Solving and Thinking Skills
- Overall Talent, Technical Competency and Potential
- Management and Organization
- Team Leadership: The Ability to Persuade and Motivate Others
- Character: Values, Commitment, Goals
- Personality and Cultural Fit
See Also:
Notes on 45 Effective Ways for Hiring Smart!
(How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People) by Dr. Mornell Pierre, et al
- Pre-Interview Strategies
- Make Phone Contact with the Candidate
- Ask for a Letter and Resume
- Give an Assignment Before the Interview
- visit store, plant, campus, office, or web page and ask for observations
- Walk Around the Office When the Candidate Arrives
- to lower anxieties
- observe behavior
- does the candidate asks questions?
- Read Resumes in Teams If Possible
- 3-5 people
- Cast the Widest Net Possible
- inform friends, colleagues, consultants, professional associates, board members, ex-employees, family members, search firms, trade groups, previous candidates who went elsewhere of opening
- Use Caution Around Any Big Changes
- use caution with candidates from significantly different environments (corporate to small business, structured to entrepreneurial, etc)
- Rethink the Position Before the Interview
- Use Pre-Interview Tips in Combinations
- Conduct a Brief Pre-Interview Interview
- Strategies During the Interview
- Trust Your Instincts-Chemistry Is Crucial
- Look for the Passionate Candidate
- Ask All Your Questions at Once
- Have Fun During the Interview
- ask "Columbo-type" questions; Are you lucky?; Are you curious?
- Assign a Mini-Project to Finalists
- Seek Closure by Announcing the Five-Minute Warning
- the look for important statements preceeded by "Oh, one more thing. . ." or "I almost forgot. . ."
- Watch for Inappropriate Behavior
- Identify Strengths and Weaknesses
- Pick a Subject Where You Are the Expert
- Take Notes During the Interview
- line down the middle, notes on what canidate says on one side, your thoughts on the other side
- Interview in Teams for Top Candidates
- Ask for a Legal Release
- Throw a Few Curveballs at the End of the Interview
- for instance, walk to candidate to their car
- Strategies After the Interview
- Ask for a Return Call from the Candidate
- Assign a Take-Home Project
- give a current project you're evaluating and ask for an analysis
- Travel with Finalists for Executive Positions
- Meet the Spouse or Significant Other
- Put Potential Problems on the Table
- Use an Intuitive Person in the Selection Process
- Consider What Psychological Tests Have to Offer
- Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, etc
- Experiment with Handwriting Analysis
- Checking References
- Ask the References to Call You Back
- call during lunchtime, "X is a candidate for (the position) in our company. Your name has been given as a reference. Please call me back if the candidate was outstanding.
- Network Up the Chain of Command
- be persistent about moving up the chain of command
- Use the Internet as a Resource
- Perform Due Diligence for All Finalists
- Ask the Candidate, "What Will I Hear?"
- . . . from references
- Devise a Phone Reference Checklist
- Technical competence
- Intelligence: "On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate the candidate's intelligence?"
- People skills
- Motivation: "What motivates the candidate?"
- Everything else: "Is there anything that I haven't asked?"
- Meet References for the Finalists
- . . . in person, if possible
- Ask the References to Call You Back
- Final Strategies
- Invest in People, Not Ideas
- Find Someone You Trust
- Follow These Three Cardinal Rules
- Do you trust the candidate?
- Clean record on crime and alcohol?
- Physical health?
- Ask Yourself These Ten Questions
- Do you agree with Shakespeare's "Let's kill all the lawyers?"
- Do clothes make the man or woman?
- Are drug-free employees important?
- Does responsiveness count?
- Should you create a model for future hires?
- Do people like working for your candidate?
- Can your current employees help you?
- Is documentation important?
- Do you also evaluate search firms, suppliers, and vendors?
- When you add one new idea from this book, should you discard one old habit?
- Use Yourself as a Test Case with Experts
- run the same background checks on yourself as you run on the candidates
- Suggest a Trial Run When Possible
- Design Your Own Hiring System
- interviews in which you induce stress seldom work
Reference Questions:
- Did you like the person?
- What did they fail at doing?
- Reputation in the compnay?
- How did they communicate?
- Reputation in the industry?
- How did they react to authority?
- Reason for leaving?
- Level of energy, drive?
- What did they accomplish?
- What would you change about the person if you could?
- resume & application screen
- telephone interview
- face-to-face interview and testing
- reference checks
- executive/final interview
- selection of top candidates, contingent offer, drug/security test, and acceptance of offer
Ten-Step Interview
- make small talk
- go over the job briefly
- ask questions in sequence
- education
- job history
- outside interests
- strengths
- shortcomings
- goals, personal and professional
- take notes
- probe, probe, probe--always in your areas of expertise
- announce "we have about five more minutes", then listen carefully
- tell the candidate what to expect next in the selection process
- let the candidate ask questions
- thank the candidate
- compare notes with other interviewers
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"In 2006 the city of Moab, Utah was in the midst of a construction boom. As a photographer I am interested in the dynamic interaction of the environment and the people who use it. I don't edit out the presence of humanity with the aim of revealing a pristine (but false) image of nature. Rather I wish to present to you the viewer the juxtaposition of local landscape and the changes that people make to it. Some of the changes are permanent but many of the intermediate stages are ephemeral, here for a short time before being incorporated or transformed."
This work was first shown in July 2006. The original edition of ten 10"x10" inkjet prints was limited to one of each image. This book contains additional photographs not shown in the original exhibition.
Images from "Recent Developments" can be seen outside the Council Chambers at Moab City Hall, 217 East Center Street, Moab, Utah.
"My Business, Your Business" is in a private collection.
14 full-color photographs.
First Edition © 2009
Brian Parkin is a photographer and owner of Moab Art Works of Utah. After graduating BSc Chemistry from the University of Reading he taught high school sciences in England and Belgium, edited schoolbooks for Oxford University Press, and moved to San Francisco in 1991. He studied at the Academy of Art University graduating MFA in 1996, assisted in commercial studios and on location, and scouted locations where his specialty was California's Mojave desert.
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>Brookings Oregon News, Sports, & Weather | The Curry Coastal Pilot
Wednesday, Feb. 15
•The annual Soroptimist Awards Dinner will be at 6 p.m. at the Tea Room, 434 Redwood St., Brookings. The group will honor recipients of the Women's Opportunity Award, Violet Richardson Award and Ruby Awards.
•Chetco Grange will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Chetco Grange Community Center, 97895 Shopping Center Ave., Harbor.
•FACE Cancer Support Group meets at 12:30 p.m. at Chetco Community Public Library, 405 Alder St., Brookings. For information, call Marie Kirk at 541-412-7977.
•Kids Club meets at Living Waters Foursquare Church, 1136 Fifield St., at 7 p.m. Children 3 years old through sixth grade are invited.
•A pinochle group meets at 12:30 p.m. downstairs in the Chetco Activity Center, 550 Chetco Lane, Brookings. For information, call 541-469-6822.
•Awana Club meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at First Baptist Community Church, 607 Pacific Ave., Brookings. The club is for children preschool through high school. For information, call 541-469-2014 or visit brookingsbaptistchurch.com.
•Community Kitchens offers free meals from noon to 1 p.m. at Star of the Sea Catholic Church, 820 Old County Road, Brookings. Donations are welcome. Everyone is invited. For information, call 541-469-3411.
•Renegade line dance class for beginners is from 6 to 7 p.m. followed by classes for intermediate to advanced dancers from 7:15 to 8:30 at Ship Ashore Resort, 12370 Highway 101, Smith River For information, call 707-464-6866.
Thursday, Feb. 16
•The Brookings-Harbor High School Safe and Sober Graduation Party planning committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. at The Salty Dog Coffee Bar at the Port of Brookings Harbor boardwalk. The group will discuss plans for the Spring Players Payback Golf Tournament and the annual Bruin Bash Auction. For information, to make a donation or to help, call 541-661-0724.
•The Chetco Library Book Discussion Group will meet at 3 p.m. in the Chetco Community Public Library small meeting room, 405 Alder St., Brookings. The group will discuss books by Pat Conroy. Everyone is welcome.
•Brookings-Harbor Redshirts invites the public to help pack boxes to send to American troops serving overseas. The group meets at 2 p.m. at Lighthouse Assembly of God, 15803 Highway 101, Harbor. Donations of food, snacks and hygiene items are always welcome. The group also accepts the address of any American soldier serving overseas. For information, call 541-412-8968 or visit www.brookings-harbor-redshirts.org.
•Chetco Chatterers Toastmasters meets at 7 a.m. at the Curry Coastal Pilot conference room, 507 Chetco Ave., Brookings. Enter through the back door along Art Walk Alley. Guests and all Toastmasters are welcome.
•TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) OR432 members weigh-in from 8 to 8:45 a.m. A program and business meeting is from 9 to 10 a.m. at Sea View Senior Living Community, 98059 Gerlach Lane, Harbor. Anyone interested in joining this weight-loss support group may call 541-412-8022 or 541-412-0726.
•Game day is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Chetco Activity Center, 550 Chetco Lane, Brookings.
•Chess players gather at 1 p.m. at the Chetco Community Public Library, 405 Alder St., Brookings. For information, call 541-469-8461 or 541-469-4353.
•Mexican train dominoes are played at 6 p.m. in the Driftwood Estates Mobile Home Estates clubhouse, 16063 Driftwood Lane, Harbor. For information, call 541-251-3442.
•Cub Scouts meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Scout Hall, 414 Azalea Park Road, Brookings. Cub Scouts is for boys between first and fifth grades. For information, call Cub Master Tim Buehler at 541-469-0897.
•Community Kitchens offers free meals from noon to 1 p.m. at Brookings Presbyterian Church, 540 Pacific Ave. Donations are welcome. Everyone is invited. For information, call 541-469-3725.
•Civil Air Patrol meets at 6 p.m. at the CAP building at the Brookings Airport at the end of Parkview Drive. The organization teaches leadership, aerospace education and emergency services to children in sixth through 12th grade. Pilots and non-pilots are welcome to attend meetings. Students interested in joining may contact Charles Kresa for information at 707-218-4529.
•A meditation class taught by Abby Gail Layton is offered from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. at Visana Yoga Studio, 603 Hemlock St., Suite 3C, Brookings. This is an ongoing, drop-in class. No experience necessary. Donations accepted. For information, call 541-254-0485.
•The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Addiction Recovery Program meets at 7 p.m. at the church, 770 Elk Drive, Brookings. The program is based on 12 steps designed to assist those suffering from addictions and their families, but also to help with harmful habits, behaviors and ways of thinking common to everyone. For information, call 541-254-1012.
•Al-Anon Family Group meets from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 209 Wharf St., Brookings. The group is a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who meet to share their experience, strength and hope in an effort to solve common problems.
Friday, Feb. 17
•The 17th annual South Coast Writers Conference will include a free authors' reading, book sales and signing from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Curry Showcase Building at the Event Center on the Beach, 29392 Ellensburg Ave., Gold Beach. This event is free and open to the public.
•Brookings textile artists gather from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at Manley Art Center and Gallery on Oak Street. People interested in all levels of knitting, crocheting, weaving, felting – as well as sharing working projects and patterns – are welcome. For information, call Marge Norvelle at 541-469-1949.
•Chetco Shrine Club meets at 11:30 a.m. at Sebastian's Bar and Grill, 16011 Boat Basin Road, Harbor. All Shriners and Master Masons are welcome.
•Community Kitchens offers free meals from noon to 1 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1200 Easy St., Brookings. Donations are welcome. Everyone is invited. For information, call 541-469-3411.
•Arnis (Philippine martial art of stick fighting) classes are offered at 7 p.m. at South Coast Fitness Center in the Brookings-Harbor Shopping Center. For information, call 541-469-7118.
•Al-Anon meets at noon at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, 401 Fir St., Brookings. The group encourages people with friends or family members whose drinking affects their lives to share experiences, strengths and hope. For information, call 541-469-5504.
Saturday, Feb. 18
•The 28th annual Cedar Valley/North Bank Fire Department Fish Fry will be served up from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Docia Sweet Hall at the Event Center on the Beach, 29292 Ellensburg Ave., Gold Beach.
•The Curry Progressives' Brunch will be a no-host gathering at 10:30 a.m. at The Y Knot Cafe in Gold Beach. Call 541-247-5230 to RSVP.
•The Brookings Tea Party will feature Randal O'Toole, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, at 2 p.m. at the Brookings Inn Resort conference center, 1143 Chetco Ave. O'Toole will address land-use issues and their effects on the economy.
•Democrats of Curry County meet at 2 p.m. at the Chetco Community Public Library, 405 Alder St., Brookings. All Democrats are invited. For more information, call 541-412-DEMS (3367) or visit currydemocrats.org.
•Calvin E. Murphy Detachment 578, Marine Corps League will meet at noon at Sebastians Seafood Grill, 16011 Boat Basin Road, Harbor. All detachment members, active duty, retired and honorably discharged Marines and Navy Corpsmen are invited to attend. For information, call Bob Gilmore at 541-251-4167.
•Pennies for Pooches sponsors a dog wash fundraiser from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Curry County Animal Shelter, 29921 Airport Way, Gold Beach. The cost is a $10 donation.
•Friends of Curry Public Library will have its annual book and bake sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the second floor of the Cannery Building, 29975 Harbor Way, Gold Beach. The sale will continue from 10 a.m. to 3 p,m. Sunday, Feb. 19.
•Al-Anon Fourth Step group meets at 10 a.m. at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, 401 Fir St., Brookings. For information, call 541-469-9002.
•The Law of Attraction discussion group meets from 10:15 a.m. to noon. For location, call 541-412-8664. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Sunday, Feb. 19
•The Brookings Emblem Club Military Mail Breakfast will be from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Brookings Elks Lodge, 800 Elk Drive. The cost is $7 for adults and $3.50 for children 12 and younger. The breakfast is open to the public. Proceeds benefit sending letters and cards to troops overseas. For information, call Terry Clawson at 541-412-0333.
Monday, Feb. 20
•The Brookings-Harbor Garden Club meets in the Brookings Inn Resort conference center, 1143 Chetco Ave. A social time begins at 11 a.m. followed by the meeting at 11:30. Afterward, Frank Burris, Curry County extension coordinator who has an interest in botany and natural resource management, will present "Water Conservation in the Garden." Anyone interested in gardening is invited to attend.
•Pennies for Pooches sponsors a rabies clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Curry County Animal Shelter, 29921 Airport Way, Gold Beach. The cost is a $10 donation. Dr. Jan Jammer from Town and County Animal Clinic will be available to administer any other shots dogs may need.
Tuesday, Feb. 21
•Alzheimer's Support Group meets at 2 p.m. in the Chetco Activity Center dining room, 550 Chetco Lane, Brookings. The group is for anyone who cares for, or has a family member living with Alzheimer's Disease or other dementia. The group's facilitators are Bharti Patel and Dana Maciel of Ocean Park.
•Coastal Rebels will meet for lunch at 1 p.m. at Sebastians Seafood Grill, 16011 Boat Basin Road, Harbor.
•Moms In Touch International meets for prayers weekly. For information, call Ruth Wilson at 541-469-4798.
•The Pregnancy Care Center of Brookings, located at 344 Pacific Ave., offers free and confidential pregnancy tests, education on all pregnancy options, parenting classes, baby and maternity items and more. The center is open from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays. Client classes are offered on Tuesdays. For information about classes or about the center, call 541-469-1846. A 24-hour hotline is available at 800-395-4357.
•Nichiren Buddhist gatherings are scheduled weekly in Brookings. New introductions are welcome. For information, call 541-412-3639.
•Stop-smoking workshops are offered as a free public service of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionaries and is for people of any faith. For information about the program, call 541-254-1012.
•Alcoholics Anonymous has many meetings from which to choose in Brookings-Harbor and Gold Beach. Locations and times in Brookings-Harbor may be obtained by phoning 541-469-2440. In Gold Beach, call 541-247-9038 or 541-247-0695.
•Oasis Shelter Home provides a haven for women and their children to be free of domestic violence, sexual abuse and resulting homelessness. Oasis offers a women's peer support group on domestic violence intervention from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Call for dates. For assistance, call 541-247-7600 or 800-447-1167.
•CC's Cancer Resource Center offers free counseling and resource options daily to women addressing cancer issues. The resource center is inside CC's Upscale Resale Clothing Store in the Brookings-Harbor Shopping Center in Harbor. The center is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The resource center also hosts Tea at Ten group meetings every Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. For information, call 541-469-2072.
•The Christian Science Reading Room and Bookstore, 429 Pine St., Brookings, is open from 1 to 3 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays. The room contains products and resources for the exploration of spiritual healing. For information, call 541-469-2398.


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TNA European tour starts this week
Jan 18, 2011 - by Steve Gerweck
TNA Superstars and crew are on the way to Europe for a nine day European tour which will see the company perform shows in France, Ireland, Germany, Scotland and England. Seven shows will be held in total with the first stop
in France starting on Friday in Lyon and then the next day in Paris. Then it's off to Ireland on the 24th with a show in Dublin, Germany the next day in Berlin and Glasgow, Scotland on the 27th. The tour then wraps up with the shows in England, one in Manchester on the 28th and the next day in London.
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Under Armour and the Baltimore Ravens debut new school uniforms
BALTIMORE - Under Armour, the Baltimore Ravens, and Ray Lewis showcased new Baltimore City high school football and girls basketball team uniforms on Wednesday.
The uniforms will be donated to 24 public Baltimore City high schools from the Baltimore Ravens and Under Armour.
"Take these uniforms...They're for the next generation," Lewis said. "But don't cheat them. Every time you put it on, you represent something way greater than you: Baltimore, family, love, loyalty, respect."
President Barack Obama initially announced the initiative when the Ravens visited the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl XLVII Championship.


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Literary fiction has intrinsic attributes to it's nature. The major quality being a theme conveying what the story is about. Another is it's figurative language, for a heightened meaning. This form of literary writing is sometimes referred to as lyrical or layered, and has a rhythm. The attention on the main themes of the story, assists with creating and developing interesting characters, for engaging and involving the reader.
"When I think of the word 'literary', I envision writing that is entirely memorable, vivid, and original," says Veronica Ross, fiction editor of The Antigonish Review. "The language is wonderful. The story can be quite simple, but it will impart a certain feeling when you read it. A feeling of joy, of surprise perhaps. There is nothing predictable about these 'literary' stories. The voice is big", notes writingworld.com.
Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, is known for writing majestic themes, picturesque dialogue, and richly layered characters. In her novel, Song of Solomon, she uses the symbol of a peacock's tail as a temporary display of beauty in comparison to the promise of luxury.
Life, safety, and luxury fanned out before him like the tail-spread of a peacock, and as he stood there trying to distinguish each delicious color, he saw the dusty boots of his father standing just on the other side of the shallow pit.(Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison)
Robert Frost, received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and the Congressional Gold Medal for Poetry. He is revered for his realistic illustrations of rural life and detailed themes. Rhythmic language is represented in his poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay". It starts off talking about nature, with 'green is gold.' This takes the idea that green is the color we see nature as, and then shows that at the beginning of spring, nature is more gold in color than green.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
All language can be figurative. When writing about daily moments and events, comparisons and symbols most often are used. Figurative language shapes meaning and can astonish you. It can allow for experiencing places, people, and events around you.


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Say it loud and say it proud! #dd4814 is the Ubuntu Orange and we want the world to know about it!
Ubuntu Orange is #dd4814
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Very difficult to find something unique colour wise to identify your brand… I think Canonical has done a sterling job :)
Claiming a color for one company is just as offensive as patenting human DNA.
Good luck with getting rid of all the official orange that's not #dd4814! :P
what about ubuntu purple lol
nice orange btw :)
What makes you think they are claiming this colour? To me it looks like a simple branding effort.
We're working on it, but it'll take a while! If you spot something, then the place to file it with a link to the problem URL/image is at:
Main problem, Paul, is the refusing of tri-coloured Ubuntu circle for sake of boring single-coloured one :-(
foo: I agree with you. Ubuntu is about sharing, and this is not about exclusive use of a particular colour. For example many organisations might have guidelines that state "always display the logo black-on-white, not white-on-back"; this does not mean that they're claiming exclusive use of the colours black, or white: just that they'd like their own logo presented in a particular way.
In the case of Ubuntu, the guidelines are to use black, white or orange for the logo and when using black, white or orange in a webbrowser the hex colour codes for those should be
#fff and
#dd4814 so that all of the oranges look the same.
For print, there is a slightly different orange, specified in as both a Pantone™ spot colour and a CMYK combination.
purple and orange? it's been done
Ah, but not Aubergine and Orange ;-)
This branding combination was also "done" about 18 months ago with the launch of the current branding in Ubuntu 10.04!
Aubergine and Ubuntu Orange no less :p
Hi all,
Let me ask a question to all those who commented here. "Does Ubuntu Design Team using proprietary tools like Adobe Photoshop , Dreamweaver , Illustrator etc for designing and web development ?????!!!
Expecting a reply. (email@example.com)
Good morning Ranjandas. I think in Ubuntu we try and collectively do our best to ensure that people get answers to their questions, even at the weekend!
On to your query about what tools various people working on Ubuntu development or design use. The short answer is yes, some people in the design team regularly use Adobe Photoshop, Flash, AIR or Illustrator as part of their working environment. For the question about Dreamweaver, I can't give you a definite answer: I don't recall seeing anyone rebooting to use Dreamweaver, but that doesn't mean that there isn't somebody, somewhere, using it). To my knowledge most of the web-development is CSS and checked into Bzr or open-source CMS software like WordPress.
In addition, there are those people who are working on specific tasks, such as the Ubuntu One Windows client team where it's necessary to have a machine (or a virtual machine) running the target operating system.
For myself, I work solely in Gimp and Inkscape (and have been doing for the last ten years), but I'm also fairly pragmatic about interacting with other people. I generally expect files to be delivered in open formats (SVG, PDF), but I'll also use the Skype client to communicate with people overseas if they don't have VoIP/SIP-based video conferencing set up.
A similar situation exists with the Ubuntu Font Family. The Design Team looked for many months trying to find a realistic organisation who would build it using libre tools such as Inkscape and Fontforge. What you have instead is a free typeface with source that was produced using FontLab Studio and VOLT/VTT as part of the build system. The end result of that engagement will be a better knowledge about what design improvements can be made to Fontforge and
fonttools in order to enable professional companies to use them purely out of choice—as many do already with TTX and RoboFab.
It is this same pragmatism that got the GNU project bootstrapped in the mid-1980s. The end-output was lots of Free Software, but at the time it had to be compiled with a proprietary compiler, then linked to a proprietary C library, and run on a proprietary kernel. Over time, each of those pieces was gradually replaced with libre alternatives (GCC, Glib, Linux).
That same pragmatism is also what has gotten Ubuntu to where it is: the CD contents must to be libre, with an exception for hardware-enablement where Ubuntu can't boot the user's machine to full functionality without certain components (Nvidia binary drivers, Bluetooth and Wifi radio firmware). Everyone in Canonical is expected to be running */X/K/Ubuntu and the Ubuntu stack of libre applications—some people may need to run other operating systems and other tools as well, in order to ensure the success of Ubuntu and Free Software in the long-run.
Finally, it's much easier to beat the competition if you have people around who know and understand what that competition is. It helps to provide use-cases for where Ubuntu is sub-optimal and can be improved in the next version!
Does that answer your query? Is there anything more you'd like me to expand upon or try and get answers for?
Even more specifically, it's Canonical Aubergine (
#772953 ) and Ubuntu Orange (
#dd4814 ). There are three other variants: Light Aubergine (
#77216f ), Dark Aubergine (
#2c001e ) and Mid Aubergine (
#5e2750 ) used depending whether the target audience is end-user, enterprise/corporate, or a mixture of both:
The linked PDF has a series of visual sliders which show how the shades and tones of orange and aubergine can be mixed together for different tasks.
My god that was a long response, and very illuminating. Thanks Canonical Design. When I'm all "growed up" i want to be one of you :D
Hi Paul Sladen,
First of all Extremely sorry for the late reply. Yours was an amazing reply which i never expected and also which no one gave even after all these community interactions. I have repeatedly trying to get an answer( a convincing one ) and was with people in IRC channels etc. But none of the answers did convince me.
Your reply gave a lot of solid informations and also it was just an eye opener, "Especially the case of Free software's evolution from proprietary products."
An year before i was attending a seminar based on Free and Open Source Software (in INDIA) where RMS spoke. And he was saying that we should avoid using proprietary software , and if there is anything that cant be done with Free Software then according to him its better to quit that work. :) While in one way its seems to be funny. But the other side of it, its really critical.
When people starts finding comfort with proprietary software they wont usually look back to Free and OpenSource Softwares.
One of the news which was really shocking is that the inclusion of Adobe Photoshop and other proprietary software to Ubuntu and that too via Ubuntu Software Centre.Now Do you think the GIMP and INKSCAPE will have the same value then? I dont think so. We may argue that its the comfort that matters. and if that is the case then for comfort people will completely switch to proprietary software. According to me what Ubuntu should have done is that instead of working for including Adobe products into OS they should have co-operated with the GIMPSHOP like projects that share a similar look and feel like photoshop and should have brought it to compete with photoshop.
Anyway I dont have words to express my gratitude and thanks to you for such a wonderful reply. Lastly Please forgive if there are any mistakes told by me. Expecting to keep in touch with in future too.
Thank you
Nice to know, question: How does photo to comment, instead of this ghost?
Cool, I discovered.
Well, i think there is no real counterpart for the adobe suite on the linux side.. Gimp isn´t as intuitive as Phototshop in my opinion, Inkscape is better than Illustrator, but thats the only tool i know, which is better in the linux world… If you want to do serious designing you are pretty much forced to do it in PS if you don´t want to invest a lot of time.. I have i windows installed just for that designing case.. but i boot it rarely.
I'm confused, when I open the brand guide in Evince, it displays the colors differently, namely Canonical Aubergine similar to #8b005 etc. The same happens when I import the pdf into Inkscape. Is this a bug in Evince or an error in the documents?
5. Ubuntu colour palettes and colour landscape.pdf
Oscar: Glad you found it! For anyone else wondering, the little icons next to people's names ("Avatars") come from Gravatar. By associating an icon with the same email address that you have used to post on the Design Blog, the icons will be fetched and displayed automatically.
The enables one icon to be used across many blogs and webpages, without having to upload an icon separately to each one.
Freddi: Yes, the specification of the named colours do vary depending upon the target medium (screen, or printed). In this case, the Brand Guidelines PDF was designed to be printed out, so can only be approximated when reviewing on-screen. The colours chosen for the environments are intentionally different. The same often happens with logos: for instance, the British Rail Double Arrow logo (PDF, page 18) of the National Rail design guidelines notes: "It is important to know that the reversed version is not just a white copy of the positive version. It is actually slightly heavier in weight to give the visual impression of being the same when reversed."
An analogy might an item priced in multiple currencies, but if you convert the currencies they won't match exactly, because the price is related to the target. (For instance the base-price of a Brompton folding bicycle is £650, €808 or US$1052.50 but converting those amounts produces different results depending on the situation).