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Up-and-coming actress, filmmaker Josephine Decker returns to Cucalorus
Published: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 1:06 p.m.
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"There's a lot of me in this character," said the actress and filmmaker Josephine Decker, who plays the lead role of Holly, a passionate, artistically ambitious college theater director in Stephen Cone's drama "Black Box." "I'd say, if anything, I might be more stressed out (than Holly). Making your own film, it feels like the whole world's riding on your shoulders. If it fails, not only has the project failed, but you have failed."
What: "Black Box" at Cucalorus
When: 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14
Where: Thalian Hall studio theater, 310 Chestnut St., downtown Wilmington
Tickets: $10 or admission with festival pass
Details: 343-5995 or Cucalorus.org
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For someone with a fear of failure, Decker has already experienced a lot of success. Although she's still an obscure name, expectations are rising for the willowy artist with the killer smile who was recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
She's appeared in three films directed or co-directed by mumblecore icon Joe Swanberg - "Uncle Kent," "Autoerotic" and "Art History" - but Decker sees herself as more of a filmmaker than an actress. Her directorial feature debut "Butter on the Latch," a dark, surreal look at female friendships and the nature of art itself, received a rapturous review by The New Yorker after it screened at the Maryland Film Festival in May. ("An utter exhilaration of cinematic imagination, a pure high of invention ... An original rethinking of the expressive force of movie technique.")
She has another film, "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely," in post-production along with a slew of movie, performance art and musical projects in the works.
Decker gained a degree of notoriety in 2010 by trying to sit naked in front of the performance artist Marina Abramovic during Abramovic's performance piece "The Artist is Present" at New York's Museum of Modern Art. After waiting in line for 31 hours, Decker was stopped by guards before should could fully disrobe and was escorted out. She wrote about the experience in the New York Press: "I realized only later that what I intended as a pure and loving act could have come across as the act of a crazy person."
Decker, who also has a small role in "Loves Her Gun" at Cucalorus and is screening one of her own films at the festival as a work in progress, has done nude and sex scenes in various films, and "Black Box" has a pair of steamy sex scenes as well as a nude scene that's laugh-out-loud funny.
The sex in "Black Box" is far from gratuitous, though, serving to deepen our understanding of Holly, who seems to be in a friends-with-benefits type relationship with a character the audience barely gets to know.
"When you're obsessed with your art, it's hard to have functional relationships," Decker said.
This will be Decker's fifth year at Cucalorus and she's an official festival "ambassador," which involves "trying to tell everyone how awesome Cucalorus is," she said. "We're trying to generate ideas about ways that support filmmakers and keep the festival fresh."
Decker's on-screen vibe is similar to that of Greta Gerwig ("Greenberg, "Frances Ha"), who appeared at Cucalorus with her film "Hannah Takes the Stairs" in 2007. Asked if she'd like to see her career follow a path similar to that of the indie darling, Decker said, "I love acting. Being in the present is something as a director you don't often get to do."
"It would certainly be super-fun to act in big movies," she added, "but I've always identified myself as a filmmaker."
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SEATTLE - One of the most prestigious high school meets in the country, the Brooks PR Invitational went off Saturday just south of Seattle at Renton Stadium. Washington's track and field future continues to look bright as seven UW recruits took part in the meet.
Brooks moved the PR Invite outdoors this year after hosting it for the past three years at Washington's Dempsey Indoor facility. In-state UW recruits competing Saturday included Megan Beauchene, Rose Christen, Hannah Derby, Drew Schreiber, and Eric Simpson. They were joined by California products Fred Huxham and Anna Maxwell.
Christen, out of Central Kitsap High School, continued her outstanding senior season with a third-place finish in the 800-meters, one of the most competitive races of the day. Christen ran a time of 2:06.35 as five girls broke 2:07. Christen ranks fifth in the nation with her PR of 2:05.64.
The girls mile run featured Maxwell and Beauchene. Maxwell, who ranks No. 2 in the nation at 1,600-meters this season, took third in a time of 4:44.07. Kennewick native Beauchene, coming off a pair of 3A state titles, was eighth in 4:52.06. Derby, from Tacoma's Bellarmine Prep, was fourth in the 400-meters in 57.69 seconds.
On the men's side, Schreiber, a Yakima product, was fifth in the men's mile in 4:09.28. In ninth place was Huxham in 4:10.53. Huxham won the California state title at 3,200-meters this season, going 8:54.24, which ranks 14th in the nation.
Simpson, a Rogers-Puyallup High School product and recent Washington state champ, took fourth in the 110m hurdles, clocking a time of 14.12 seconds.

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Frank Citro, Sr. spent more than 40 years practicing the credit union philosophy of "People Helping People". He contributed 25 cents to Chicago Federal Credit Union in May 1960 to become its first member and treasurer. He even granted the credit union's first loan of $100.
C F Federal Credit Union was originally chartered to serve the employees of Consolidated Freightways trucking company and loans were handwritten or completed on a typewriter. The credit union's first financial statement indicated assets of $32.25.
As Consolidated Freightways grew so too did the credit union. Frank Citro, a truck driver himself, volunteered evenings after work to run the credit union. He also recruited his wife to assist with hand posting each account. Upon retiring after 31 years of driving, Frank Citro knew he wanted to do work for the credit union.
Four decades later Frank Citro is still treasurer of the credit union. He has retired from running the daily operations of the credit union, but remains an integral part of setting the strategic direction for the credit union. He is currently involved in overseeing the construction of a new 3,000 square foot facility to provide easier access for members. Today the credit union has more than 2,500 members and $7.2 million in assets and offers a wide array of financial services. The credit union has also changed its name to Condolidated Financial Federal Credit Union.
Pioneers like Frank are one of the reasons the credit union movement has remained unique in the highly competitive world of financial services. Frank is a highly motivated and dedicated individual who saw a need for a credit union and did something about it. Forty years later, he is still doing something about it. Frank's love for the credit union movement and his desire to help his fellow man make him an excellent choice for induction into the Hall of Fame.
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Soda Stream CEO Daniel Birnbaum sees his brand as a David taking on soda Goliaths Coke and Pepsi, with controversy-generating commercials as his slingshot.
When CBS rejected last year's Super Bowl spot – his company's first – at the last minute because it showed Coke and Pepsi bottles exploding, Birnbaum reveled in the free publicity, including "about 5 million views on YouTube, which we didn't pay for."
The beginning of last November, Birnbaum voiced the hope that Fox, who's airing this year's Super Bowl, "will be a little more courageous than CBS" and air this year's commercial as is.
They won't.
History repeats itself
This year's Super Bowl commercial "will be edgy," he said, "because that is who we are. You have to be edgy if you are challenging and disrupting a big category."
But that's not why Fox rejected it. The supposedly "edgy" commercial is anything but.
As the Times of Israel describes it, "spokeswoman Scarlett Johansson extols the virtues of Soda Stream's home carbonated beverage technology and, after strutting around a bit, ends by saying, "Sorry, Coke and Pepsi." It's a perfectly blah stand-up plus product demo, so that wasn't the problem.
The first time as farce
The problem was four little words at the end – "Sorry, Coke and Pepsi." – which Fox won't let air.
As a result, Birnbaum got ammunition to start giving shocked – shocked! – quotes to the press again this year, telling USA Today that Fox's rejection stemmed from the fact that Coke and Pepsi were major Super Bowl sponsors and Soda Stream, with just one fourth-quarter :30, isn't.
"What are they afraid of," he sputtered. "Which advertiser in America doesn't mention a competitor? This is the kind of stuff that happens in China."
So Soda Stream will edit out the four offending words, remix the audio, run the spot, get more free publicity, and get free YouTube views of what they're calling the "uncensored" commercial, implying it's something like what GoDaddy would have run.
The second time as tragedy
No big deal, life goes on.
Except for opposition from another, totally unexpected, source – the anti-Israel movement.
"To the emerging boycott-Israel crowd," writes Commentary Magazine, Johansson's role as Soda Stream's "global ambassador" is "infuriating." This is because Soda Stream committed the cardinal sin of having
a plant in the West Bank. Johansson probably thought this was a win-win: she can proudly promote an Israeli company (Johansson is Jewish) that also helps the Palestinian population by offering them jobs at higher wages as well as benefits and an on-site mosque.
Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) advocates have a problem with that. In response to weeklong pressure from them, the New York Times reports, "The international aid and development group Oxfam" is
distanc[ing] itself from one of its own global ambassadors, the actress Scarlett Johansson, since she agreed to become the face of SodaStream, an Israeli company that makes products in a settlement built on West Bank territory...
In a statement added Wednesday to a web page on Ms. Johansson's work for the charity, Oxfam said that while it "respects the independence of our ambassadors," the group also "believes that businesses that operate in settlements further the ongoing poverty and denial of rights of the Palestinian communities that we work to support. Oxfam is opposed to all trade from Israeli settlements..."
In 1852, Karl Marx wrote that "History repeats itself – the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." In Soda Stream's case, it seems to have reversed that order.
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Fairyland Hotel Gulou Kunming
- Location: Green Lake Park
- Address: No.716 Beijing Road, Kunming
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- Hotel Name in Chinese: 云上四季酒店(昆明鼓楼店)
- Lowest Price: $30
Opened in 2008, the Fairyland Hotel Gulou Kunming is a boutique business hotel as a branch of Fairyland Hotel Brand. The hotel is located at city center - the flourishing business area. It is next to the Gupanlong River, adjacent to the Kunming typical building - Yuantong Gaojia Bridge, adjoining Yuantongchan Temple which is built during Tang Dynasty. It is 2km away from the Kunming Railway Station and 4km away from the Wujiaba Airport.
The Fairyland Hotel Gulou Kunming offers a total of 109 guest rooms of various types. All rooms are provided with free broadband internet access and 24 hour hot water and so on. As for dining service, there is a Chinese restaurant in the hotel providing mainly Sichuan and Yunnan cuisines. Other facilities in the hotel include business center and meeting room, etc. Apart from these, the Fairyland Hotel Gulou Kunming also provides laundry service, luggage service and postal service and so on.
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The Book of Spells
When I was a youngster, there was no basic spell book to give a beginner witch like myself the clear and simple instructions that would have made magic a much less mysterious process. I struggled to understand the complicated instruction in the old-fashioned text books I was given at school ... When I grew up, I quickly realized that the help I had craved simply did not exist – and so I created the book you're holding now: The Book of Spells. -- Miranda Goshawk, forward to The Book of Spells
...(T)he closest a Muggle can come to a real spellbook. I've loved working with Sony's creative team to bring my spells, and some of the history behind them, to life. -- J.K. Rowling
The Book of Spells is an augmented reality video game product which can only be played on the PlayStation using the Move Controllers. The material for the game was written by Rowling (which makes the content canon):
TGL: How important is it for Wonderbook that its first experience in Book of Spells is attached to such a high profile franchise like Harry Potter?
JS: It's huge. Of course Harry Potter is nothing without J.K Rowling and she has actually been working with Sony on the Pottermore website for a while now. She was able to see a very early version of Wonderbook. Apparently at the very same time, she was toying around with the idea of creating a book of Harry Potter themed spells. Once she saw Wonderbook in action she thought it was a perfect fit for her book of spells idea. The two came together quite quickly.
ST: She's done a lot more than actually lend her name to it. She's directly involved in the making of the game. She's written all the stories and she doesn't directly put her name to things she doesn't personally approve of. So, we're often interacting with her to share ideas and to play the game with her. (source: http://www.thegamingliberty.com/2012/07/tgl-interview-london-studio-talk-wonderbook-book-of-spells/)
The Book of Spells is a 200-year-old primer used in magic schools around the world to teach students the basics of spellwork. The book was written by Miranda Goshawk. It is now kept in the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts library.
The book has been translated into seventy-two languages, including Gobbledegook and Mermish. The spells covered in the book include:
- Levitation Charm (Wingardium Leviosa)
- Water-Making Spell (Aguamenti)
- Unlocking Charm (Alohomora)
- Wand-Lighting Charm (Lumos)
- Fire-Making Spell (Incendio)
- Bird-Conjuring Charm (Avis)
- Revealing Charm (Aparecium)
- Engorgement and Shrinking Charms (Engorgio and Reducio)
- Gouging Spell (Defodio)
- Mending Charm (Reparo)
- Scouring Charm (Scurgify)
- Shield Charm (Protego)
- Summoning Charm (Accio)
- Severing Charm (Diffindo)
- Impediment Jinx (Impedimenta)
- Hardening Charm (Duro)
- Bubble-Head Charm
- Doubling Charm (Gemino Curse)
- Disarming Charm (Expelliarmus)
- Reductor Curse (Reducto)
- Stunning Spell (Stupefy)
- Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum)
The Book of Spells does not appear to be the same book as The Standard Book of Spells series of books required of Hogwarts students, although the two may be related (the Standard Book of Spells found on Pottermore has a similar but not identical set of spells in it, plus the Standard Book of Spells is certainly not kept in the Restricted Section, since every student is required to purchase a copy every year).
The author Miranda Goshawk is listed on the Famous Wizard cards as having been born in 1921, which doesn't match with the date given for the original creation of The Book of Spells ("two-hundred years old"). How do we rectify these discrepencies? Perhaps the original Miranda Goshawk lived two-hundred years ago and wrote The Book of Spells, while her descendent, also named Miranda Goshawk and born in 1921, revised, expanded, and updated the venerable book into a book series with one volume for each year of a student's education.
Since these spells require a wand to perform, it seems unlikely that the book would be translated into the languages of magical being who are forbidden to carry a wand (Gobbledegook is the language of Goblins while Mermish is the language of the Merpeople).


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Skyla is one of those party girls who was made for In the VIP: she loves to flash shots of her gorgeous pussy and ass, teasing until she gets what she wants. Skyla visited In the VIP in December 2004, and this asian beauty created quite a stir in her episode Bar Nuts. The RK network led her run loose, and soon this cherry blossom was getting her fill of both pussy and cock, though a severe fucking was why she came. And come she did; her pussy took a pounding that had her sitting down funny for a week! See Skyla get reamed at RealityKings.com
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Date: Monday, December 6, 2004
The girls keep coming out with us and, we keep picking up more because we have the best tasting bar nuts around. We got ourselves some drinks and warmed up with our hot ladies. After that we wanted to share the warmth and get some other play. We found some real nice trim dancing around so, we decided that Skyla and her friend would get a taste that all club hopping ladies want.


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Readmission rates vary moderately from year to year, suggesting need for other measures of hospital care quality
Patient Safety and Quality of Care
Hospitals' annual readmission rates are not very stable, according to a new study. The importance for hospitals of their annual readmission rates (for specific conditions) began when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began reporting these rates to consumers through the Hospital Compare Web site. Subsequently, a provision in the Affordable Care Act makes $500 million available to hospitals and community-based organizations to implement collaborative programs for reducing readmission rates. Finally, CMS is reducing payments to hospitals with higher-than-expected readmission rates.
Because of the growing importance of readmission rates to hospitals and patients, Andrew P. Ryan, Ph.D., of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, and his colleagues compared the change in readmission rate rankings (by quartile) for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia between 2009 and 2011.
The researchers found that there was little difference between the lowest rate for heart attack readmissions among the fourth quartile ("worst") hospitals and the highest rate in the first quartile ("best") hospitals. In addition, only 49 percent of the 545 hospitals in the 2009 fourth quartile remained in that quartile in 2011, while 51 percent had moved into the first through third quartiles. Similarly, among 564 hospitals in the first quartile for heart attack readmissions in 2009, 58 percent remained in that quartile in 2011, while 42 percent had moved to lower quartiles. The 2009–2011 changes in readmission rates for heart failure and pneumonia were similar.
For all three conditions, many hospitals with higher-than-average readmission rates in 2009 showed somewhat improved rates in 2011 and many hospitals with lower-than-average readmission rates in 2009 showed somewhat worsened rates in 2011. Teaching hospitals tended to have higher readmission rates than nonteaching hospitals. Also, the condition-specific readmission rates in 2011 correlated only weakly, or even negatively, with other recognized quality indicators for each condition, such as mortality rates.
Based on their findings, the researchers suggest that policymakers consider augmenting the use of readmission rates with other measures of hospital performance during care transitions. The study was funded in part by AHRQ (HS13903).
More details are in "Limits of readmission rates in measuring hospital quality suggest the need for added metrics," by Matthew J. Press, M.D., M.Sc., Dennis P. Scanlon, Ph.D., M.A., Dr. Ryan, and others in the June 2013 Health Affairs 32(6), pp. 1083-1091.


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The reality TV show called "Wahlburgers" is all about the Wahlberg family restaurant. Yes, as in Mark and Donnie Wahlberg. It is set to premiere on A&E on Jan. 22, 2014, but things are already booming on it. Boston.com reported on Jan. 8, 2014, that tickets for the premiere went on sale on Wednesday and sold out within just an hour.
Mind you, there were but a mere 100 tickets for the event at Hingham Harbor, but that's still pretty quick. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Dorchester Youth Collaborative.
"It's a program that Mark [Wahlberg] has been affiliated with for a long time," Paul Wahlberg (chef and co-owner of Wahlburgers) said of his brother. "We're very excited for it, and they were excited as well. It's a great program, what they do over there is amazing."
Wahlburgers took to their Twitter to announce the TV show premiere party, and obviously, word spread quickly.
The "Wahlburgers" reality show will premiere on Jan. 22, 2014, at 10:30 p.m. on A&E. It has been in the works for months, and it is going to be about how the three Wahlberg brothers own and operate the restaurant.
Alma Wahlberg, the mother of the Wahlburger brothers, is expected to attend.
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Lawmakers, advocates to introduce stun gun billThe Associated Press | February 12,2013A group of Vermont lawmakers and the heads of disability and civil rights groups are pushing legislation that would create new rules governing police use of electronic stun guns.
They planned a news conference on Tuesday to unveil a bill that would set up statewide training and rules for law enforcement officers using Tasers and similar devices.
The effort follows the death last year of Macadam Mason, a Thetford man who died of a heart attack after a state trooper hit him with a Taser.
Attorney General William Sorrell and the Orange County state's attorney announced last month that Senior Trooper David Shaffer was justified using the stun gun on Mason last June because the distraught man failed to comply with orders and made threatening movements toward the trooper.MORE IN This Just InMichael Chadwick adores karate, but the 27-year-old with cerebral palsy needs a lift to get into... Full StoryBENNINGTON The Vermont Department of Health has slightly altered its health advisory for PFOA... Full StoryMOUNT TABOR Vermont State Police said a two-vehicle crash on Route 7 sent a juvenile female to... Full Story
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Local military moms talk about challenges of returning home
Two and a half months wasn't a lot of time, but it felt like forever.
Not long after U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Gaby Caban was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in July 2011, she was homesick for her husband, Jos�, and family. But she especially missed her 1-year-old daughter, Jayda.
"It was hard leaving her,especially since she was so little," said Caban, 23.
Between12-hour night shifts spent working on C-130 planes, Caban took every opportunity to connect with family back home. "I would Skype with them, I would e-mail every single day, and I would call almost every day," she said, but it didn't feel like enough.
"It really wasn't the same," Caban said.
Then more than two months into her deployment, after a work-related accident that required partial amputation of fingers on her right hand, she was sent home. And although her reunion with her daughter and husband was joyful, her transition from active duty to civilian life was difficult for Caban and her family, and it's still an ongoing process.
"I had no idea how it was going to be," she said. "Of course you think it's going to be different. I think as a person, they prepare you, but as a parent, I don't think they prepare you. I don't think you really can prepare for that."
Caban isn't alone. For many other returning service members, reintegrating into daily routines and re-establishing relationships with families, spouses and children isn't always quick and easy.
It can be especially tough for returning military moms who are eager to get back into mom mode and the way things were, said Nadean Sitter, women veterans program manager for the Erie Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
"They come home, and they want it to be just like it was when they left," Sitter said."They want to take over their role."
But family dynamics change when the other parent takes over for an extended period of time.
"They've developed their own norms, their own rules," she said. "The kids, no matter what age they were, are older, and they're used to the new rules and the way things are."
Or it can be the exact opposite. A returning mom might be expected to slip back into normal life, but she isn't ready to take on the stress.
"She's coming home, and he's like ..., 'I'm going to go back to my other life that I had before,'" Sitter said."All o fa sudden, there's maybe a lot of pressure on this person to do things they might not be ready to do."
Some situations are made even more complicated by issues like post-traumatic stress disorder or guilt for coming home when other comrades can't. It's also unknown how the lifted ban on women in combat, announced by the Pentagon on Jan. 23, will affect future military women.
"Some spouses don't understand that their wives really miss their unit, they miss the people they were with, they miss the camaraderie," Sitter said."So then there's conflict that can happen there.
"There are so many pieces. The most important things families can do is give it time."
Caban remembers her homecoming in 2011 as bittersweet. When she finally reunited with her daughter, who was living with family in Erie while her husband was stationed in North Carolina, Caban felt like she missed a big part of her life.
"She was so different when I came back. Even though it was only a couple months," said Caban, who left the Marines as a sergeant in October 2012. "I remember her being just a little thing. And then I came back, and I was like 'Omigosh! Her hair grew, she's talking to me in full sentences.'"
Caban said she and her husband also had a difficult time reconnecting.
"He was really mad at me for leaving. We got really distant when I was over there,"she said. "I guess he was just hurt because he was by himself.
"I think most marriages in the military go through that."
Jayda, now 3, also refused to let Caban out of her sight for months, forcing her to stop working.
"When I came back from Afghanistan and she went back to day care, ... she would cry every single morning. It would kill me," she said." She would just cling to me and be like 'Mommy! I want to go home!' I can tell that little bit of time had a big impact on her."
U.S. Air Force Sgt. Natalie Martin had a similar experience with her son, Nasir Williams, after returning from a four-month stint in Qatar in 2009.
"When I got back from my deployment, I couldn't even shower by myself. He was attached to me," said Martin, 29.
"If I wasn't in his sight, I guess in his mind it meant that I was gone."
And as a single mom, there wasn't an opportunity to reintegrate slowly, Martin said. Her ex-husband is also in the Air Force.
"From the moment I got off the plane, it was go time," said Martin, a New Jersey native who is now an Air Force recruiter in Erie."My world doesn't stop. It's either full-time military or fulltime mom. It was a lot of pressure. It was very stressful."
But Martin — who could still be deployed, though she said it's unlikely—feels she and her son were able to rebuild.
Although her recruiting job means moving around occasionally, Nasir, now 6, is in kindergarten and becoming more independent.
"I don't think I would do anything different," Martin said. "It's a matter of keeping him understanding what I do and what his dad does and why it's so important."
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Happy Friday everyone! We're back with our picks for dessert table "basics" – those decor pieces that will carry you through any dessert table scenario. Our last post covered a few dessert table building blocks such as apothecary jars and vases, cutlery, and cupcake stands and towers. Today, we explore a few more options to help you create your dream dessert table – let's get started!
1. Cupcake Boxes and Bags – With an endless spread of cupcakes and other treats, it's highly likely guests will be clamoring to take some of the goodies home. However, brown paper bags or even plastic bags will just not do the trick. Elegantly displayed cupcakes deserve to be sent home in style! Consider using cupcake domes, cupcake bags, or cupcake boxes. Guests will be delighted to be taking home a piece of the dessert table.
2. Crystal Decor – While you may feel that delicious desserts are enough for your display, if you plan on using your homemade desserts, you just may not be able to create a full dessert bar (but more power to you if you can!). That's when a little extra table decor help comes in handy. Crystal decor such as magnetic hanging crystals, diamond rhinestone ribbon wrap, and diamond confetti decor, fill space on your dessert table while also providing a decorative touch.
3. Washi Tape – a current DIY favorite, washi tape is versatile and oh-so-cute! It's perfect for dessert tables as it can be used in practically any capacity. Mix and match colors and patterns for a whimsical look. Apply it to wooden cutlery, favor boxes, cupcake domes, apothecary jars, and more – the possibilities are truly endless!
We hope we've inspired you a bit in getting started and creative with your dessert table. Remember that when you have the basics, you can build and create from there. Only your imagination is the limit!


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The Amarillo Rattlers snapped their two-game losing streak Friday night by outlasting Lake Charles for a 2-1 shootout victory before a crowd of 4,419 for the Western Professional Hockey League game in Lake Charles, La.
It gave the Rattlers a 1-1 record on their three-game swing through Louisiana, which concluded with Saturday night's game in Shreveport. Results from the game were not available due to an early press time because of the inclement weather conditions around the Amarillo area.
In a superbly played game for both teams, the Rattlers outshot Lake Charles by a 41-39 count over the course of the game and got an outstanding 38-save night from starting goaltender Adam Lord.
The Rattlers took a 1-0 lead in the first period when Chris Brooks scored off an assist from Jay Hern, a forward who was acquired in a trade with Shreveport for future considerations.
Hern took the roster spot of Derek Innanen, who likely was lost for the season with a knee injury during the team's game against Corpus Christi more than a week ago.
That 1-0 lead held up until the early stages of the second period, when Lake Charles tied the game with a goal at the 6:22 mark.
The 1-1 score held up through the rest of regulation, as the Rattlers amassed 40 penalty minutes - including 10-minute misconducts for both Brendan Kenny and Cal McGowan - as opposed to just 18 for Lake Charles.
In the shootout, Peter Jas scored the game-winning goal as the Rattlers improved to 23-18-3 for 49 points. That officially ties them with Odessa for fourth place in the WPHL Western Division, although Odessa has played three more games than the Rattlers.
El Paso (25-19-2, 52 points) is just three points ahead of the Rattlers in third place and has played two more games than the Rattlers. The top three teams in each division qualify automatically for the WPHL playoffs, with the three teams with the highest point totals thereafter also receiving a playoff berth.
If the season ended after Friday's games, Monroe, Amarillo and Odessa would be the three wild card teams with Fort Worth and its 48 points just missing out on the postseason.
After Saturday night's game, the Rattlers return home Wednesday for a game against Shreveport before hitting the road for two more games at Corpus Christi and Austin.
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Levi Randolph leads the Crimson Tide with 16 points and six rebounds
Junior guard Trevor Releford, who went over 1,000-career points with a career-high 26, led both the Tide and the game in scoring
Freshman forward Devonta Pollard led the Crimson Tide with 13 points and eight rebounds
The Alabama men's basketball team dropped a thriller at No. 17 Cincinnati Saturday, 58-56, when the Bearcats hit a two-point basket at the buzzer in the SEC/Big East Challenge in Fifth Third Arena.
Player Profiles: Devonta Pollard
Prior to Alabama Was a five-star prospect according to Rivals.com and ranked as the seventh best small forward in his class and the 22nd best prospect in the nation by the organization ...led Kemper County High School to the Mississippi 3A State Championship by averaging 23.8 points, 15.7 rebounds and 5.1 blocks to earn Mississippi's Mr. Basketball title along the way ... he was also named the Gatorade State Player of the Year and the MVP of the Alabama/Mississippi All-Star game ...received an invitation to the prestigious McDonald's All-American game, but did not participate in the actual game due to injury ... is the 10th McDonald's All-American to suit up for the Crimson Tide.
PersonalBorn July 7, 1994 ... son of Jessie Pollard ... undecided on a major.


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Joanna, Amanda and Terri talk to Green Lantern Director Caroline Picard.
Marc and Brian talk to the Aaron Gach of the Center for Tactical Magic in San Francisco.
Richard continues his slide into "Ed Asner"dom.
This week Duncan and Richard talk to Julie Rodrigues Widholm and a number of the artists from the hot hot hot new show at the MCA – Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City.
Duncan talks to Packard Jennings about his residency at ThreeWalls.
Richard is turning into Ed Anger.
Episode 97: Jack Hanley
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THIS WEEK: Superstar gallerist Jack Hanley is interviewed by Brian and Marc. Our own beloved Mike Benedetto reviews Terry Gilliam's Tideland and is responsible for the intro to this week's show. The London bureau's Christian and Emily talk about lots of gallery shows.
Episode 96: Jeff Wall
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Jeff Wall, people! Canadian superstar Jeff Wall is interviewed by Duncan and Richard when he was in
Chicago for the opening of his huge new show at the Art Institute of Chicago:
Jeff Wall
June 29-September 23, 2007
Regenstein Hall
Chicago talk to Terri and Joanna at the Printers Row Book Fair.
Finally, Amanda is leaving for
Episode 95: Old Gold/Boumstein-Smalley/JMOCA
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Allright so my computer is fairly f-ed and therefore this show note will be even less witty than usual. A bunch of post-its are wedged between the keyboard and the video processor to hold it in place. Curse you IBM.
Duncan and Marc LeBlanc talk to Caleb Lyons of Old Gold Gallery and formerly of Art Ledge.
Duncan talks to artist Lisa Boumstein-Smalley about her new show at the Alfedena Gallery.
Brian Andrews and Marc LeBlanc talk to Justin Hansch about Justin's Museum of Contemporary Art. We collectively apologize for the crappy sound quality on this one but we are working to correct the problem.
Sarah corrects BAS on their grammar.
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3rd Annual ISH Money League
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I know, right? I made it to the championship in my other league. The guy who I was playing for the big prize -- a good friend of mine -- called me before the first game of the week and proposed us combining the runner-up prize ($450) and the championship prize ($1,150) and just splitting it instead of going through the stress of losing $700.
I know it was sort of a cop-out move, but I agreed to the deal. I figured, not a huge difference between $1100 and $800. There is a huge difference between $1100 and $450.
Luckily, I ended up losing 140-130, so it was the right decision... And I'm $800 richer!
Anyway, I will admit I thought you were going to win. Then again, I thought SCY had the best overall team and he took third. You just never know when you get into the playoffs. It takes actual skill to get to week 14. Once you're there, you need some luck.
Seems like everybody does a whole bunch of leagues. No doubt I probably had an upperhand because ISH was the only one I was in. Only one team to focus on all week. A $1000 bucks for winning a fantasy football league is pretty intense.
I figured SCY was going to win too, pushed for Greene to get that 7 points so I could play PT. Was negative all year thinking I was going to crash an burn or make a mistake but whatever reason come the final week I was convinced that skrilla was mine
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A two-month old Wisconsin law intended to allow patients with intractable epilepsy access to cannabidiol, a non-psychotropic plant cannabinoid, is not going as planned, Republican Gov. Scott Walker recently acknowledged.
That's because, to date, not a single patient has been able to utilize the new law -- a fact that is not going to be changing any time soon.
As enacted, the measure reclassifies CBD from the state's list of prohibited substances in instances where a physician or a state-licensed pharmacist dispenses it explicitly for the treatment of a seizure disorder. However, the law dictates that neither may do so unless they have first procured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to do so.
With the FDA having recently confirmed CBD's status as a schedule I controlled substance lacking any accepted medical value, it remains improbable that the agency will be signing off on such recommendations any time soon -- a reality that essentially eliminates its access to Wisconsin patients.
"Right now I don't know exactly how that would be done," Gov. Walker recently told reporters in response to questions about the law's implementation.
However, Gov. Walker -- like the bill's sponsors -- were well aware months ago that the measure, as written, was largely symbolic. "It's very controlled, from the examining board and oversight by pharmacists and physicians and I think that's important moving forward," Walker said upon signing the measure into law in April. "This is not in any way what we see with other laws across the country."
Indeed, it is not. Most other medical cannabis laws are written to be functional. Wisconsin's law is not.
Lawmakers in Wisconsin are hardly the first to back-peddle on their previous promises in regard to the feasibility of CBD-specific legislation. Weeks after the passage of a similar law in Kentucky, doctors and researchers acknowledged that it would "likely take months, if not years" before any patients could obtain access to CBD under the state's new law.
In total, nearly a dozen states have enacted legislation<http://norml.org/act> this year seeking to provide limited access to cannabidiol-dominant strains of cannabis or extracts. However, virtually none of those laws provide for a viable in-state source for these products.
Wis. Gov.: CBD Oil Bill Won't Help Anyone
A two-month old Wisconsin law intended to allow patients with intractable epilepsy access to cannabidiol, a non-psychotropic plant cannabinoid, is not going as planned, Republican Gov. Scott Walker recently acknowledged.


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Button, Lindbergh, King Collection
On May 20-21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh literally flew into history when he crossed the Atlantic Ocean in his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, thus becoming the first pilot to fly solo and nonstop from New York to Paris. This flight made Lindbergh a household name and catapulted him into fame and celebrity. The objects of popular culture in the National Collection display everything from ashtrays to wristwatches reflect the public adulation for Lindbergh and the powerful commercial response to his celebrity. More than 75 years after the Spirit's historic flight, Lindbergh's name still has the power help sell manufactured goods.
Gift of the Stanley King Family.
Physical Description:
A white button with two aircraft, one red and one blue both flying over a city skyline. Two lines extend between the two planes. The words "CHICAGO" and "ENDURANCE FLIGHT" border the image.
- Date
- 1929
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- Boeing Aviation Hangar
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Popular Culture
- Materials
- Metal, ferrous in nature, plastic and paper.
- Dimensions
- 2-D - Unframed (H x W): 3.7cm (1 7/16 in. dia.)


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Arizona State men's basketball coach Herb Sendekhas decided to add professional experience to his staff.
A three-time conference Coach of the Year entering his 20th season as a college head coach, the 49-year old Coach Sendek has gone the NBA route to fill his staff, as he has named Eric Musselman and Larry Greer as assistant coaches, the first time since the spring of 2008 Coach Sendek has had to hire an assistant coach.
We are excited to welcome Eric Musselman and Larry Greer to the Sun Devil Family! fb.me/xcp19cFR-- Coach Sendek (@HerbSendek) September 4, 2012
Two outstanding basketball coaches headed to #ArizonaState NBA to College:Larry Greer and Eric Musselman m.espn.go.com/ncb/story?stor...-- Paul Biancardi (@PaulBiancardi) September 4, 2012
"In talking to several people it was clear to me Larry and Eric were great additions to the Sun Devil family because of unique backgrounds and a passion for the game," says Herb Sendek, the 2009-10 Pac-10 Coach of the Year. "I love the fact Eric has coached at so many levels, including leagues where guys are trying to make the next step. Larry comes highly recommended by several people in the basketball world that I have a lot of faith in and are good friends with. Together with Coach Dedrique Taylor I am really looking forward to our future as we bring the experience of the NBA game to our program."
"Our goal as we approached this search, was to swing for the fences and enhance the experience, depth of knowledge and teaching skills of our men's basketball staff. All basketball players, like other athletes, dream of playing at the highest levels. The breadth and depth of the candidates who expressed interest in the open positions was very encouraging," notes Steve Patterson, Vice President for University Athletics, himself a NBA front-office veteran. "The addition of these two men to our staff accomplishes our goal while simultaneously helping our student-athletes become the best basketball players they possibly can be. Eric and Larry are both knowledgeable, energetic, hard workers and bring a great deal to the table in terms of helping players improve their individual and team play. They are a great fit with Coach Sendek and Coach Taylor. The number of games Eric and Larry have watched, opponents they have scouted and players they have worked with is staggering. All that knowledge will be a great addition to our program. Eric and his father both earned their coaching stripes recruiting, managing and coaching in the minor leagues before moving on to the NBA; while Larry started his career at successful college programs before making the same jump. Herb and I are both very excited they have decided to join Sun Devil Athletics."
Greer, who has spent the past five seasons working with Nate McMillan at the Portland Trail Blazers, was an assistant coach in 2011-12 and was the advance scout from 2007-2011. He also served as the advance scout for the Houston Rockets from 2005-07 under Jeff Van Gundy. He started his coaching career in the college ranks as an assistant at Brandeis for the 1992 ECAC champions and worked at Boston College from 1992-94 where he was part of the support staff for the team that reached the Elite Eight in 1994. He was an assistant at Boston University from 1994-2003 as the Terriers posted a record for single-season wins (25) and made the NCAA Tournament in 1996 and 2002 as well as the NIT in 2003. He also worked at Wright State from 2003-05 before taking the job with the Rockets. Greer graduated from Northeastern with a B.S. in June of 1989 and was team captain in 1988-89.
ASU expected to add Portland Trail Blazers assistant Larry Greer and former NBA coach Eric Musselman to Sendek's staff sometime next week.-- Doug Haller (@DougHaller) August 31, 2012
"I have known Larry Greer for over 20 years as a college basketball coach. I have had the good fortune to have him on our staff at Wright State University. When it comes to scouting the opposition there are few better," says Paul Biancardi, ESPN Basketball Director of Recruiting. "He covers all the details of the opponents and knows how to make a game plan that makes a difference. In practice and as a bench coach he knows the pulse of his own team and is ready to make in-game adjustments if needed. His knowledge about the game from college and NBA are in depth. His organization skills in the basketball office are strong and the players always know he is honest and can trust him as he will work diligently to make them improve. His loyalty, work ethic and experience will elevate the Arizona State basketball program immediately."
"The best recommendation I can give to anyone is would I would hire them in a second if I was given the chance? If I got a job tomorrow Larry would be a call I would make," says former NBA head coach and esteemed TV analyst Jeff Van Gundy. "He is an ideal fit and a wonderful addition to Herb's staff. He is professional and versatile and combines loyalty and hard work as good as one can expect. He embodies what you want in a staff member."
Really like energy of #SunDevils' new asst hoops coach hire Eric Musselman. GOOD get for Herb Sendek, especially so late in year-- patrick finley (@patrickfinley) September 4, 2012
Musselman just recently finished earning league Coach of the Year honors with the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA D-League. His squad had eight NBA call-ups and won the regular season title with a 38-12 record, including wins in 21 of the final 23 games. He also coached the Venezuela National Team in 2011 and 2012 at the Pre-Olympics in Argentina while his 2011 team averaged a tournament-best 94.8 points per game. His NBA experience includes leading the Sacramento Kings to a 101.3 points per game scoring mark in 2006-07, eighth-best in the league as the Kings sold out every home game.
In 2002-03 he was second in NBA Coach of the Year voting as he led the Golden State Warriors to their two best seasons in ten years, including a 51-31 (.622) home record. The Warriors were the most improved team in the league with 17 more wins and the second-leading scoring team in the league at 102.4 points per game. He has served as an assistant coach under Mike Fratello (Memphis), Lon Kruger (Atlanta), Chuck Daley (Orlando) and Doc Rivers (Magic).
ASU is expected to add two coaches with extensive NBA experience to Herb Sendek's basketball staff early next week bit.ly/N4a1aZ-- azcentral sports (@azcsports) August 31, 2012
Much of his coaching knowledge was learned in the minor league level, as he has the second-best winning percentage in the 54-year history of the CBA (208-102) behind only George Karl. A five-time CBA All-Star Coach, his teams won six division titles and reached the postseason in each of his seven seasons. Twenty-four of his players eventually reached the NBA. He also coached in the USBL in 1995-96 where his teams went 54-3 (.947) and earned league Coach of the Year in 1996. The coaching started early for Eric as he took over the Rapid City (S.D.) Thrillers at age 23 in 1989-90, a year after serving as general manager and hiring then-college assistant Flip Saunders as head coach. In his five seasons (1989-1995), he guided the Thrillers to four division titles and two appearances in the CBA finals. In addition, his Rapid City teams posted the CBA's best record four times.
He was retained as general manager and head coach when the Thrillers franchise relocated from South Dakota to West Palm Beach, Fla. In two seasons there, he guided the Beachdogs to a 79-33 mark, reaching the conference finals in 1995-96 and the league finals in 1996-97. His 1996-97 Florida club ranks as the top defensive team in CBA history, surrendering just 90.8 points per game. A Minneapolis native, Musselman's international coaching experience is extensive and includes serving as an assistant for the USA team that won the gold medal at the 1997 Tournament of Americas in Uraguay.
He coached a CBA All-Star team that went undefeated in five games against the Chinese National Team in 1993 and was an assistant to Hubie Brown on a Nike/CBA All-Star team that won the Limoges Grand Trophy tournament in Limoges, France. A 1987 graduate of the University of San Diego, Musselman played under Jim Brovelli and Hank Egan and was a West Coast Conference (WCC) all-academic selection and twice played for NCAA Tournament teams.
Married to Danyelle Sargent Musselman, Eric and his wife have two sons: Michael (16) and Matthew (13), and a daughter Mariah (2). Eric's father is the late Bill Musselman, the only coach to lead teams in four professional basketball leagues (NBA, ABA, CBA, WBA).
Herb Sendek has had nine former assistants earn DI head coaching jobs, including eight currently as Archie Miller, who was with him as player and assistant coach at NC state and at Arizona State (2006-07), earned the Dayton gig in spring of 2011 and 12-year sidekick Mark Phelpsearned the Drake spot in the spring of 2008 after serving for 10 years on the staff at NC State and for two years at ASU. Former NC State sidekick John Groce also earned the Ohio University position in the spring of 2008 and is now the head coach at Illinois. The others are Jim Christian, formerly at Kent State and TCU and now at Ohio (Miami assistant from 1994-96), Larry Hunter at Western Carolina (NC State assistant from 2001-05), Ron Hunter of Georgia State (Miami assistant from 1993-94), Ohio State's Thad Matta (Miami assistant in 1994-95) and Arizona's Sean Miller (assistant at both Miami from 1993-95 and at NC State from 1996-2000). Charlie Coles retired after the 2011-12 season at Miami of Ohio and was a Miami assistant from 1994-96 under Coach Sendek.
1993-1994: Ron Hunter, Dave Manzer, Sean Miller
1994-1995: Charlie Coles, Thad Matta, Sean Miller
1995-1996: Brian Blaney, Jim Christian, Charlie Coles
1996-1997: John Groce, Larry Harris, Sean Miller
1997-1998: John Groce, Larry Harris, Sean Miller
1998-1999: John Groce, Larry Harris, Sean Miller
1999-2000: John Groce, Larry Harris, Sean Miller
2000-2001: Larry Harris, Sean Miller, Mark Phelps
2001-2002: Larry Harris, Larry Hunter, Mark Phelps
2002-2003: Larry Harris, Larry Hunter, Mark Phelps
2003-2004: Larry Harris, Larry Hunter, Mark Phelps
2004-2005: Larry Harris, Larry Hunter, Mark Phelps
2005-2006: Larry Harris, Mark Phelps, Archie Miller
2006-2007: Mark Phelps, Archie Miller, Dedrique Taylor
2007-2008: Mark Phelps, Dedrique Taylor, Scott Pera
2008-2009: Dedrique Taylor, Scott Pera, Lamont Smith
2009-2010: Dedrique Taylor, Scott Pera, Lamont Smith
2010-2011: Dedrique Taylor, Scott Pera, Lamont Smith
2011-2012: Dedrique Taylor, Scott Pera, Lamont Smith
2012-2013: Dedrique Taylor, Larry Greer, Eric Musselman
Welcome Coaches Pritts, Musselman and Greer to the #asuathletics family!-- Melissa Luellen (@ASUGOLF) September 4, 2012
Note: All hires are pending until background checks are complete.


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Jim Ross has a new blog entry available on his official website. Below is an excerpt:
Will Goldust wrestle his brother Cody Rhodes any time soon? Beats me but I'd say unlikely. Not saying that it wouldn't be an interesting bout but I don't see it occurring any time soon.
Next Wednesday night I will join my friend and the voice of the Boston Celtics, @SeanGrandePBP, in OKC when the Celts play the @okcthunder in NBA action. I will likely do a quarter of color commentary for the game and will keep you informed as to how you can hear it on the Boston Celtics Radio Network.
Click here to read the latest from JR in its entirety.


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Happy Valentines Day, HH readers! I know today is supposed to be about hearts and flowers and love, but on this Monday, like every Monday, I'm still a mom. So welcome to Mommy Mondays. If you're just insistent about the holiday, check out last week's chocolate fountain.
The most basic of parenting principles you just have to learn yourself.
As long as we could wash Pigtail in our large farm sink, everyone loved bathtime. From infancy, she would get still as a mouse and let the warm water roll over her. We moved and she outgrew the sink around the same time.
For months I have despised bathtime. At first I blamed it on the awkward bathtub shower in Pigtail's bathroom, but when we replaced the cumbersome shower doors with a curtain, the task instantly became more accessible. But still I dreaded the ritual. I don't even like washing my own hair, let alone my daughters. Bathtime got shorter and shorter until we were in and out in five minutes.
Recently - and seemingly out of the blue - Pigtail started hating bathtime. It couldn't be the water, she loves to swim. She always had plenty of bathtoys. But a month or so ago she started screaming when I tried to put her in the bath. I always had that moment of terror that I'd made the water too hot, but that was never the case. She would scream and cry the whole 5 3 minutes it took to give her a good scrub.
Last week, The Gorilla had an evening screening and I canceled dinner plans with a friend. After Pigtail goes to bed is when I usually write or create and it's often my busiest time of the day. But that night I was in a crummy mood and just wanted to stay at home in my sweats. I gave myself full permission not to get one single productive thing done. Pigtail and I had dinner together and then I took her upstairs for her speedracer bath. Since I had penciled in an evening of nothing, I wasn't in a hurry. For no reason at all I belted a rousing rendition of "Rubber Ducky" as we prepared to get clean.
I braced myself a little for the screaming to begin, but I kept singing as I lowered Pigtail into the water. She laughed and splashed. I made her little froggy spit water onto her belly. We both giggled and I sang intermittently and there wasn't an ounce of protest when I washed her hair. Bathtime lasted fifteen minutes and neither of us hated it.
After she was safely tucked in bed, I wondered what the difference had been. Was it the song? Was it a fluke? But it was obvious to me even though I hated to admit it. The Gorilla and I have noticed lately that Pigtail is so much more aware of everything. And I know that she had picked up on my attitude towards the bath (grumpy, hasty, and potentially with sharp words involved) and was reflecting it back at me. As a parent, my attitude matters.
I think attitude matters in life, not just as a parent. But I forgot. Or rather, I didn't think it mattered to a fifteen-month-old. But it does. Rubber Ducky proved it.
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More shakedown and drama continues on the west coast. First, it was the Los Angeles Clippers' owner, Donald Sterling getting banned for life from his team and the NBA, plus getting slapped with a $2.5 million dollar fine for his recent distasteful racist remarks. Now is former New York Knicks coach, Mike D'Antoni for quitting his head post as coach of the famed Los Angeles Lakers.
For D'Antoni to quit as head coach of the Lakers, is something Los Angeles fans and former players are actually thrilled. One former Laker who actually did not hold back showing his contentment of D'Antoni's resignation, was legend Magic Johnson.
Johnson quickly took to Twitter and tweeted: "Happy days are here again! Mike D'Antoni resigns as the Lakers coach. I couldn't be happier!"
Sadly, for the 16-time champion team, D'Antoni's last two years with the team was nothing but disappointment. D'Antoni's 67-87 record this season led the purple and gold team to one of their worst seasons in franchise history.
However, there are some fans and players who admittedly thought D'Antoni was not given a chance at the job, considering some of his star players like Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash were constantly on the injury list this season.
According to sports reports, D'Antoni saw his fate coming when in actuality he had one guaranteed year left on his contract, but when time came to negotiate his contract, the Lakers' powers-at-be flatly refused.
As for the Los Angeles Clippers and Lakers, the drama will continue, for the Clippers will likely be in search of a new owner, with big names in the entertainment industry already expressing interest; like Oprah Winfrey, Sean "P-Diddy" Combs, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Oscar DeLaHoya. The Los Angeles Lakers will obviously be in search of a new head coach.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is the most easterly of the large islands in the central Caribbean and is situated midway between Hispaniola and the Leeward Islands. It has an area of about 8,800 sq km/3,400 sq mi.
It is a mountainous island with the highest land rising to over 1,200 m/4,000 ft, so the centre and north coast of the island, exposed to the northeast trade winds, are rather wetter throughout the year than the sheltered south coast.
The table for San Juan, on the north coast, shows that here, as on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, the annual rainfall is well spread over the year and there is no dry season.
This is unusual for the Caribbean and is a local effect of the moist trade winds being forced to rise over the mountains close to the coast.
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Alabama Softball 2013
#4 Alabama at South Carolina
Mar 16, 2013 at Columbia, SC (CSS at Beckham Field)
Score by Innings R H E
Alabama............. 100 003 1 - 5 4 3
South Carolina...... 010 020 0 - 3 8 3
Umpires - HP: Art St. Germain 1B: Joe Massaro 3B: Christie Cornwell
Start: 12:08 PM Time: 2:22 Attendance: 830
Weather: 71 degrees, sunny
Marks, K. faced 3 batters in the 6th.
Alabama Softball 2013
#4 Alabama at South Carolina
Mar 16, 2013 at Columbia, SC (CSS at Beckham Field)
Alabama starters: 1/lf Braud; 8/cf McCleney; 10/2b Hunt; 33/dh Traina; 19/3b
Richard; 24/1b Lafaele; 15/ss Hays; 21/c Bell; 18/rf Hawkins; 23/p Jury;
South Carolina starters: 12/ss Garcia, S.; 22/lf Page, A.; 24/2b Hathorn, D.;
9/cf Struett, K.; 10/rf Hawkins, C.; 5/dh Ard, A.; 23/1b Sarratt, J.; 17/c
Gonzales, S.; 18/3b Yeske, C.; 4/p Marks, K.;
Alabama 1st - Braud reached on a muffed throw by 1b,
assist by 3b. Braud stole second. McCleney doubled to center field, RBI; Braud
scored, unearned. Hunt grounded out to 3b. Traina walked. Richard flied out to
cf to right center. Lafaele flied out to cf. 1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 2
South Carolina 1st - Garcia, S. singled up the
middle. Page, A. reached on a fielder's choice to third base; Garcia, S. out at
second 3b to 2b. Page, A. stole second. Hathorn, D. reached on a fielding error
by 2b; Page, A. advanced to third. Struett, K. grounded out to 3b; Hathorn, D.
advanced to second. Hawkins, C. grounded out to 2b. 0 runs, 1 hit, 1
error, 2 LOB.
Alabama 2nd - Hays fouled out to 3b. Bell singled to
right field. Hawkins popped up to 3b. Braud flied out to cf. 0 runs, 1
hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
South Carolina 2nd - Ard, A. singled through the
left side. Sarratt, J. out at first 3b to 2b, SAC, bunt; Ard, A. advanced to
second. Gonzales, S. popped up to ss. Yeske, C. singled to shortstop; Ard, A.
advanced to third, scored on a throwing error by ss. Garcia, S. singled to left
field; Yeske, C. advanced to second. Page, A. struck out swinging. 1 run,
3 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Alabama 3rd - McCleney grounded out to p. Hunt flied
out to lf. Traina popped up to ss. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
South Carolina 3rd - Hathorn, D. grounded out to 3b.
Struett, K. grounded out to ss. Hawkins, C. grounded out to ss. 0 runs, 0
hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Alabama 4th - Richard popped up to 2b. Lafaele
fouled out to c. Hays popped up to p. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
South Carolina 4th - Ard, A. lined out to lf.
Sarratt, J. reached on a fielding error by ss. Barnhill, B. pinch ran for
Sarratt, J.. Masters, A. pinch hit for Gonzales, S.. Masters, A. flied into
double play cf to 3b; Barnhill, B. out on the play. 0 runs, 0 hits, 1
error, 0 LOB.
Alabama 5th - Sarratt, J. to 1b for Barnhill, B..
Gonzales, S. to c for Masters, A.. Bell grounded out to 2b. Hawkins grounded
out to p. Braud grounded out to ss. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
South Carolina 5th - Yeske, C. flied out to rf.
Garcia, S. singled up the middle. Page, A. homered to left field, 2 RBI;
Garcia, S. scored. Hathorn, D. lined out to cf. Struett, K. singled through the
left side. Hawkins, C. singled up the middle; Struett, K. advanced to third.
Ard, A. struck out looking. 2 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Alabama 6th - McCleney walked. Hunt walked; McCleney
advanced to second. Traina homered to left field, 3 RBI; Hunt scored; McCleney
scored. Sarratt, J. to p. Dillon, K. to 1b for Marks, K.. Richard reached on a
fielding error by 3b. Iamurri pinch hit for Lafaele. Iamurri out at first 1b to
2b, SAC, bunt; Richard advanced to second. Spencer pinch hit for Hays. Spencer
grounded out to ss; Richard advanced to third. Bell grounded out to ss. 3
runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 LOB.
South Carolina 6th - Traina to p. Lafaele to 1b for
Iamurri. Hays to ss for Spencer. / for Jury. Davis to rf for Hawkins. Sarratt,
J. walked. Gonzales, S. grounded out to p, SAC, bunt; Sarratt, J. advanced to
second. Yeske, C. struck out swinging. Garcia, S. intentionally walked. Page,
A. flied out to cf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Alabama 7th - Davis struck out swinging. Braud
reached on a fielding error by ss. McCleney walked; Braud advanced to second.
Hunt singled to right field; McCleney advanced to second; Braud advanced to
third. Traina flied out to lf, SF, RBI; Braud scored, unearned. Sewell pinch
hit for Richard. Sewell flied out to lf. 1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 2
South Carolina 7th - Richard to 3b for Sewell.
Hathorn, D. flied out to lf. Struett, K. popped up to ss. Hawkins, C. struck
out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.


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The cutting of the first sod at Harborne's Moor Pool Estate 1907
This picture shows the ceremony of the first sod cutting at Harborne's historic Moor Pool Estate. The estate was the first of its kind here and was inspired by John Nettlefold the first Chairman of Birmingham's Town Planning Committee. The first sod was cut by Margaret Nettlefold on 26th October 1907 and the Estate completed in 1912.
Many thanks to Rob Sutton from the Moor Pool Residents Association for allowing use to reproduce this photograph on our web site.
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Chronology of Birmingham 1883 - 1950
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Colleges often like to talk about being a "big tent" serving as shelter and nourishment to people from all walks of life. In the case of "A Taste of Greater Newburgh," that description is a very literal one.
The Newburgh Rotary Club will be hosting -- under a big white tent, which makes the event a rain-or-shine one -- the tasting of local culinary products on the campus of Mount Saint Mary College overlooking the Hudson River. The event is scheduled for 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 18. Tickets, priced at $30, are available online.
Visitors will be able to experience delectable dishes from a range of food purveyors from the region, ranging from ethnic eateries and BBQ joints to white tablecloth restaurants. In addition, vendors of craft chocolates, cheeses, wine and beer will be on hand. Live music plus an art show and sale are included. Proceeds from the event will benefit a multitude of local community organizations.
Past participants expected to be involved this year: Avocado, Billy Joe's Ribworks, Captain Jake's, Cosimo's, El Solar Cafe, Fresh Start Cafe, Gus's, Hudson Street Cafe, Hudson View Cafe, Leo's, Machu Picchu, Newburgh Brewing Company, Red Ginger, River Grill, Ruthie's, Pizza Shop, Wherehouse and Wildfire Grill.


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Below are my Pac-12 power rankings following the opening weekend of the college football season. Disagree with my rankings? Feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the page.
Oregon (1-0, won 62-13 vs South Dakota): Ducks took care of business with much anticipated showdown with Michigan State looming.
Stanford (1-0, won 45-0 vs UC Davis): Like Oregon, with showdown against USC upcoming, shutout FCS foe UC Davis.
UCLA (1-0, won 28-20 at Virginia): UCLA was one of just four preseason top 25 teams to play a true road game. Despite the ugly win, they will gladly take it.
USC (1-0, won 52-13 vs Fresno State): Offense looked great in the first game of the Sarkisian era.
Arizona State (1-0, won 45-14 vs Weber State): D.J. Foster ran wild in the Sun Devils romp over FCS member Weber State.
Arizona (1-0, won 58-13 vs UNLV): Wildcats high powered offense was in full form in blowout of UNLV.
California (1-0, won 31-24 at Northwestern): The Bears picked up the Pac-12's best win in the opening weekend by hanging on at Northwestern.
Washington (1-0, won 17-16 at Hawaii): Like UCLA, a win is a win. Especially early in the season on the road.
Oregon State (1-0, won 29-14 vs Portland State): Game was closer than many Beaver fans would have liked for a while. But Oregon State got the job done in the end.
Utah (1-0, won 56-14 vs Idaho State): Quarterback Travis Wilson looked good as the Utes blew out FCS foe Idaho State.
Washington State (0-1, lost 41-38 vs Rutgers): The Cougars let a late lead slip away in a tight game against new Big Ten member Rutgers.
Colorado (0-1, lost 31-17 against Colorado State): Colorado State scored the final 24 points to deny the rival Buffaloes a two-game winning streak in the series.
Pac-12 non-conference record (through week 1): 10-2
Week 1 thoughts
- The Cougars and Connor Halliday (532 yards and five touchdowns) should continue to light up opposing defenses all season. The question is, will their defense improve enough to allow them to pull out the close games.
- Marcus Mariota looked in control and comfortable, as he should have, in the Ducks win over South Dakota. Should be interesting to see if he can continue to play smart and effective against a very good Michigan State defense.
- USC and new coach Steve Sarkisian looked perfectly in sync on offense. Can they keep it rolling this week against a good Stanford defense? Should be fun to see.


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Hi all. I need a list of great children's books-- my mom has requested I put one together (I presume to look for at her local used book store).�What are your (and your kids!) favorite children's books (preferably ages 0-3 or so)?�
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THANK YOU so much for all of your responses! I thought it might help more than my mom and me to have the list that came from the posts thus far. In most cases, I have just cut/ pasted from responses to make book, author, and series lists in (approx) alpha order (not sleeping well, so excuse any mistakes!). There's some overlap in these lists. An * means the same book was mentioned in a second, third, etc., post.�What a great start for me as a FTM-- thank you!
A Pocket for Corduroy
Are you my mother?*
Baby's belly button (Karen Katz)
Bear Snores On (Karma Wilson)
Blueberries for Sal*
Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Eric Carle)**** (good kid-version Scholastic.com)
Bumper Book (Watty Piper)
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!*****
Colors (Richard Scarry)
Counting kisses
Don't Let the Chicken Drive the Bus
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Mo Willems)
Dr. Suess ABC's
Everyone Poops (Taro Gomi)
Farley Farts (Birte Mueller)
Five Little Monkeys
First 100 Words (Bright Baby Series)
Fox in Socks
Freight Train
Go Dog Go! (Dr. Suess)**
God Gave Us You
Good Night Moon**
Goodnight Gorilla*
Grandfather Twilight
Green eggs and ham
Guess How Much I Love You**
Hand Hand Fingers Thumb*
Heads (Van Fleet)
Hey Wake Up (Sandra Boynton)
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight
How Do Dinosaurs Say I love you
I am a Bunny (Ole Risom)
I Can Do It Myself (Sesame Street)
I Love You Because You're You
I Love You Forever (Robert Munsch)**
I Love You More
I Love You Stinky Face (Lisa McCourt)**
I love You Through and Through
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Is that my puppy
Jesse Bear, What will you wear?
Just In Case You Ever Wonder (Max Lucado)
Kiss Goodnight (Amy Hest)
Little Critter Books!
Llama llama misses Mama
Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel
Make Way For Ducklings
Monkey Puzzle
Moo Baa La La La (Sandra Boynton)*
Mr. Brown Can Moo!
My Mother is Mine
My Truck is Stuck (Kevin Lewis)*
On the Night You Were Born (Nancy Tillman)*
One Morning in Maine
Pajama Time (Sandra Boynton)
Pat the Bunny**
Peek-a-Who? (Nina Laden)
Pout Pout Fish
Put Me in the Zoo
Richard Scarry's Best Storybook Ever!
Runaway Bunny
Snuggle Puppy (Sandra Boynton)
Ten Little Ladybugs
Thank You Prayer
The Cat in the Hat
The Foot Book�
The funny town of upside down
The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)*
the going to be book (Sandra Boynton)
The Goodnight Train
the happy man with the dumb truck (Golden books)
The I Love You Book (Todd Parr)
The Lorax
The monster at the end of this book starring grover (Seasame Street)
The no no yes yes book
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle
the pokey little puppy (Golden books)
The Runaway Bunny (Margaret Wise Brown)
the seven little postman (Golden books)
The Very Busy Spider
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)*
Time for Bed (Mem Fox)
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Tuck Me In!
Where is Babys Bellybutton
Where is Spot?
Where the WIld Things Are**
Yummy, Yucky (Leslie Patricelli)
Beatrix Potter
Dr Suess (Theodor Seuss Geisel)*
Eric Carle****
Karen Katz (e.g., baby's belly button, toes, ears & nose, etc)***
Mo Willems
Sandra Boynton (esp the going to be book)*****
Fancy Nancy Books (Jane O'Connor)
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the bearenstien bears*
The Biscuit Books (Alyssa Satin Capucilli)
The little critter books*
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Last Wednesday at XTech 2006 in Amsterdam, Leon Katsnelson made an annoucement about some of the projects that we've been working on at IBM. You can download Leon's presentation here:
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In a matter of days, the Startup Toolkit for DB2 on Rails for Windows will be available online. Providing a one-click solution that will allow you to try out DB2 on Rails.
The toolkit installs both Ruby and Ruby on Rails and includes:
The installed version of Rails generates customized starter pages with useful links which enable you to learn more about DB2 on Rails. As well as config\database.yml, which by default uses the ibm_db2 adapter.
The adapter that I wrote will be released as open source (of course), but so is Sam 's driver. I love to see IBM's dedication towards open initiatives. In fact, other projects I'm working on will be made available to the OS community too (some of them in a few month' s time).
I plan to write articles and create videos about DB2 on Rails for this blog. More interesting things to come. Stay tuned. 😉
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Will the DB2 support include the I5/I-Series/AS400 versions of DB2?
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To effectively provide services to the various levels of government, companies must understand the regulations, key objectives, mandates and programs responsible for driving the business and technical needs within government departments and agencies.
At Maplesoft, we help our government clients with outstanding service, value and results within the critical areas of telecommunications, desktop computer services, cloud services, and information technology security services. We are successful because we understand and assist our clients with purchasing and procurement strategies; providing professional resources cleared to the appropriate security levels and language specifications required by government; and delivering strategic and innovative solutions that adhere to government regulations, standards, methodologies and enterprise-wide mandates such as "shared/integrated/managed services" and "modernization."
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I am the owner/baker of Innocent Cakes. I have been working on mastering a cake batter that is not dense, not gummy, and is light and fluffy. I wanted people that didn't have to eat gluten free to take a bite and ask "This is gluten free?!" Check out my page on facebook. I don't have a store front. All special orders. Don't see something that you want, just ask? Support local!
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Hamouda, H O; Chen, P; Levoye, A; Sözer-Topçular, N; Daulat, A M; Guillaume, J L; Ravid, R; Savaskan, E; Ferry, G; Boutin, J A; Delagrange, P; Jockers, R; Maurice, P (2007). Detection of the human GPR50 orphan seven transmembrane protein by polyclonal antibodies mapping different epitopes. Journal of Pineal Research, 43(1):10-15.
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GPR50 is an orphan seven transmembrane protein related to the melatonin receptor subfamily comprising MT(1) and MT(2) receptors. In the absence of any known ligand for GPR50, other tools are critical for the characterization of this protein. Here, we describe the generation, purification and characterization of the first rabbit polyclonal antibodies generated against peptides corresponding to the N-terminus, C-terminus and two additional regions within the intracellular tail of GPR50. Immune sera were purified on peptide-antigen affinity columns. Antibodies specifically recognized a GPR50-YFP fusion protein on the plasma membrane of HEK 293 cells in immunofluorescence experiments. In Western blot experiments, the monomeric and dimeric forms of GPR50 were detected as proteins of 66 and 130 kDa, respectively. In addition, these new antibodies were sufficiently sensitive to detect GPR50 in brain slices of the rat pituitary and human hippocampus. In conclusion, we successfully produced antibodies against the orphan GPR50 protein that will become valuable tools for functional studies of this protein.
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Last summer in my blog post Then and Now: Simanek Family Home I described a nice find when I looked up my grandmother's home in the Czech Republic using Google Street View and then found a matching photo in our family albums.
Aaand, we're back in The Republic again!
First, thanks to a distant cousin, Pavel Vanac who sends me all sorts of links and information on our shared Vanac lines. He has been looking for all the Vanacs and descendants and is hoping to have a reunion one day in Prague and I really hope I can attend.
For this year he has scaled back the idea to an online reunion – which may be difficult since I have only a tiny bit of the Czech language in my brain. (We normally communicate using Google Translate between us – which has sparked some fun confusion on both sides.) But I am still looking forward to that!
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Small Biz Adviser: Rules for home
office deductions
Dear Small Biz Adviser:
Are pre startup costs entered into your cash
flow report? If they are entered, are they included as separate
entries and totals, or should they be included in the first year
account total? Another question: If your home-based business is
80 percent business and 20 percent your living area, is depreciation
of the building 100 percent or 80 percent?
Dear Bill:
It is that time of year when we need to think
about Uncle Sam, the IRS and preparing to submit our income tax
returns. Yours is a good inquiry from which to begin, given the
growth of home-based business and little-known facts about tax deductions.
However, I was somewhat taken back by your suggestion that 80 percent
of your home is dedicated to the business, and only 20 percent is
for personal living accommodations. Experience suggests to me the
IRS will definitely slow down when reviewing your tax returns.
For safety's sake allow me to outline some of the
basic requirements to secure deductions on a home-based business:
Administrative and management activities are defined
To get the details on these and other factors regarding
the qualified definitions of a home-based business, review the IRS
Publication 587.
Regarding depreciable expenses directed to the home,
I strongly urge that you determine the percent of the total square
footage devoted to the home-based business. In other words, if 800
square feet of the building with total square footage of 1,000 are
devoted to the business then that represents 80 percent. At that
point you can then deduct the following home expenses at the rate
of 80 percent as home-office deductions:
However, note that these expenses cannot be deducted
from business income for any period in which the home was not used
for the business. Equally important, you cannot deduct certain home
expenses if the gross income from that business is less than total
business expenses. Furthermore, there are limits on the amount of
home expenses that can be deducted.
Again, I cannot emphasize enough the need to review
the IRS
Publication 587.
And now let me address the matter of your pre startup
expenses. Those expenses are not entered into your cash flow statement.
They are expenses and flow of cash incurred prior to the startup
of the company. However, it is important to note that if the expenses
are common to the startup of your type of business venture, they
can be categorized as Organizational Expenses listed under fixed
assets on the balance sheet. Depreciation is deducted from the gross
income on your income statement, and the accumulated depreciation
is deducted from their original value on your balance sheet. With
one recent client we depreciated approximately $70,000 using straight-line
depreciation over a period of 5 years.
Finally, if you have any questions, contact the IRS.
Over the years I have encountered no foundation to the fear that
contacting the IRS can lead to problems. To the contrary, I have
found these people to be very helpful.
I wish you a happy tax season.
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"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Philippians 4:13
This verse says, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." That fact that this verse says through Christ is very important. We on our own are weak, however when we allow Christ to work through us and live in us, we are powerful. All our mistakes, weaknesses, and failures are turned into new chances, strengths, and successes.
Think of the victories God has helped you to win in your life. When you feel like you cannot go on and your flesh is failing you, lean on God. Remind yourself that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Life is not easy. There will be challenges to overcome and battles to be fought, but if you allow Christ to work through you, you can overcome these challenges and battles instead of them overcoming you. Remember to always allow the fire God has created within you burn as bright as possible.