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Are you at the point in life where you are trying to decide if going into business for yourself is right for you? Do you want more freedom and control of your time to do the things you want to do each and every day? Do you have the discipline to work without supervision and set attainable goals?
The following topics should be addressed when considering planning for a small business.
1. Developing your Business
2. Law and Order of your Startup
3. Financing
4. Small Business Administration Guarantee Loan Program (SBA)
5. The pros and cons of Franchising
6. The Lending Process
7. Business Planning vs. Business Plans
8. Tax Planning and Implications
9. Managing Cash Flows
10. Government Contracting
11. International Trade
12. Marketing and Sales
13. Internet and Technology
14. Business Brokerage vs. Franchising
15. Using Seller Financing to Buy or Sell a Business
16. Business Valuation Cap Rate and Seller Discretionary Earnings
17. Commercial Real Estate Purchase vs. Commercial Leasing
18. Types of Commercial Leases
Your small business advisor can help you prepare for your small business venture. Resources from organizations like SCORE offers a tremendous source of training opportunities for a nominal fee or in some cases free consultation to lead you to the proper channels to get your small business up and running without wasting time and money trying to do everything on your own. Go to scorechicago.org and sign up for free webninars on all of the subjects mentioned above or sign up for some of their workshops offered at a nominal fee at locations throughout the Chicagoland area.
You can also investigate Matrix Equity's website for available financing options for small businesses and access to a wealth of lenders who are more than willing to provide you with the financing you are seeking and in most cases these lenders are not overly concerned about credit issues. They understand that no one is perfect and are more willing to look at potential rather than past credit history as long as the issues can be explained away. Credit scores will not determine the success of your business as much as the potential profits for a successful relationship.


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VH1's Love & Hip Hop, an American reality television series, is so influential in urban America that it inspired Denzel Mooney, an intern at Eagle Rock Entertainment/Universal Music Group, and Enomfon Akpanuko, to create a derivative called Love & Long Island—dedicated to Long Islanders. I got a chance to converse with these two YouTube Content Creators—commonly known in the YouTube world as MoAkTV, and this is what they had to say.
ZT: How did you come up with the name MoAkTV?
MoAkTV: We took the first two letters of our last names and joined them together with TV and that's how the name came about. We did it that way to show that we are unified!
ZT: How did you two meet?
MoAkTV: We've been neighbors on the same suburban block for almost a decade. But it wasn't until our last semester at Queens College that our creative minds began to click as a unit. We started hanging out more and realized how great our chemistry was and how hilarious we are together. So, one day we decided to record ourselves and we made some funny Instagram videos.
ZT: What inspired you to do Love & Long Island?
MoAkTV: When we saw Love & Brooklyn, which is a digital spin-off of Love & Hip Hop, and not too long afterwards on YouTube we noticed that there was a Love & Queens spin-off also. So, right there and then we got an epiphany to do one for Long Island. Why not? We figured, what do we have to lose?
ZT: While filming Love & Long Island, what's the greatest obstacle you had to overcome and how did you overcome it?
MoAkTV: First of all, we didn't have any prior knowledge in TV production and editing. On top of that we didn't have any cameras, mics or lighting equipment. On top of that we didn't have any money to buy those items. But thank God for credit cards! Because credit cards financially aided us in our time of need. And while filming, we encountered other problems like—which angle to shoot from or the camera isn't picking up vocals during scene recordings. Eventually, we solved that problem by using the mics on our iPhones and later matching the audios with the video clips during editing. Another major problem was lighting. We couldn't film in certain locations because they were dark. So, we just filmed in places with proper or natural lighting.
ZT: So far, what is your greatest accomplishment?
MoAkTV: Our greatest accomplishment is coming up with the concept, writing the initial script, casting and filming the first episode of Love & Long Island within a week, and with hard work and continuous dedication we are finished filming Love & Long Island, Season One.
ZT: What's the worst advice anyone has ever given you?
MoAkTV: Someone told us that we should change our whole concept of the show and that we shouldn't take what we're doing too seriously.
ZT: What sets you apart from other YouTube Content Creators?
MoAkTV: We take our craft serious, but we also have fun with it and don't stress about views. We appreciate our viewers and allow them to voice their opinions and suggestions without any backlash.
ZT: What advice would you give to an aspiring reality show creator?
MoAkTV: Be creative and always have fun. Don't allow others to steer you away from your visions.
ZT: How can people get in contact with MoAkTV and where can they watch Love & Long Island?
MoAkTV: They can email us at firstname.lastname@example.com, follow us on Instagram @MoAkTV, and they can subscribe and watch Love & Long Island on our YouTube channel.
ZT: Thanks for a great interview, and as an honored guest, is there anything else you would like to say?
MoAkTV: Tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend to check us out! And if you want to collaborate on a project, we are open to anything interesting.
ZT: In conclusion, I want to end this Q&A session with Mel Blanc's famous catchphrase, "That's All Folks!" Thanks again for reading another Through The Wire article, and always remember that (P) Positive, (E) Energy, (A) Always, (C) Creates, (E) Elevation (PEACE).

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On Wednesday 16th November, lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill which introduces into St Petersburg Law on "administrative offences in St Petersburg" fines for "propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism, to minors" and "propaganda of paedophilia":
Article 71. Public actions aimed at propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgenderness amongst minors.
Public actions aimed at propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgenderness amongst minors incur imposition of fine on citizens in the amount from one to three thousand rubles; on officials – from three to five thousand rubles; on legal entities – from ten to fifty thousand rubles.
Article 72. Public actions aimed at propaganda of pedophilia.
Public actions aimed at propaganda of pedophilia incur imposition of administrative fine on citizens in the amount from one to three thousand rubles; on officials – from three to five thousand rubles; on legal entities – from ten to fifty thousand rubles ($1,600).
A second reading takes places today, Wednesday 23rd November, although it is expected that this too will pass, given the unanimous vote of 27 to 1 vote, with one abstention. The bill will become a law when it has passed three hearings and is signed by the governor. Nikolai Alexeyev of the GayRussia.ru said the bill could become "the main legal reason to deny any public actions by the LGBT community."
Homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia in 1993, yet each year gay pride parade applications are met with rejections, and any which do go ahead result in riots involving police and anti-gay rioters.
Sadly there are too many places in the world where it is unsafe to be openly gay, due to backwards governments and the uneducated mentalities of those in power. In may 2011 Ugandan leaders attempted to introduce an anti-homosexuality bill, dubbed the "Kill the Gays bill", this has been shelved for now. Also in May 2011 a bill was passed in Tennessee, known as the "Don't Say Gay bill", which bans elementary and middle school teachers from discussing homosexuality within school lessons, limiting instruction or material to "age-appropriate natural human reproduction science," explaining that the language was fitting because "homosexuals don't naturally reproduce."
However, in restricting speech about homosexuality, rather than heterosexuality, this creates a one-sided agenda, in addition, it will likely prevent anti-bullying initiatives, limiting the number of people children have to talk to, particularly for those being bullied due to their own sexual orientation.
In what is essentially another attempt to legalise discrimination, Michigan Senate Republicans passed "anti-bullying" legislation in August 2011 which sets out that schools cannot prohibit "a statement of a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of a school employee, school volunteer, pupil, or a pupil's parent or guardian." This is essentially allowing religious beliefs to justify harassment. The very notion that, within a law aimed to protect the vulnerable, it also ensures that religious beliefs be given special attention leaves me completely bewildered. In Time magazine Amy Sullivan argues that "social conservatives believe that efforts to protect gays from assault, discrimination or bullying impinge on their religious freedom to express and act on their belief that homosexuality is an abomination".
Amnesty international has stated that this latest anti-gay bill to be introduced in Russia "would threaten freedom of expression and fuel discrimination against the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community". Nicola Duckworth, Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia Programme Director, went on to say that "The notion that LGBTI rights activists are somehow converting Russia's youth through 'propaganda' would be laughable, if the potential effects of this new law weren't so dangerous and wide-reaching".
If this bill is passed, it must be remembered that in March 2010, the Committeee of Ministers voted unanimously to approve Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 of the Committee of Ministers to member states
on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity:
Recognising that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons have been for centuries and are still subjected to homophobia, transphobia and other forms of intolerance and discrimination even within their family – including criminalisation, marginalisation, social exclusion and violence – on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, and that specific action is required in order to ensure the full enjoyment of the human rights of these persons;
Paragraph 13 of the document, which Russia agreed to, reads:
"13. Member states should take appropriate measures to ensure, in accordance with Article 10 of the Convention [on Human Rights], that the right to freedom of expression can be effectively enjoyed, without discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity, including with respect to the freedom to receive and impart information on subjects dealing with sexual orientation or gender identity."
So far an online petition by All Out has amassed 166,968 signatures in its attempt to gain worldwide notice from international and European human rights treaties. Whether this makes a difference is yet to be seen.
A vote on the law has been postponed until next week, November 30th.


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MEDINA — Medina County commissioners Monday vetoed two proposals that would have changed the way the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency is governed.
Medina County is one of six members of NOACA, the metropolitan planning group that recommends how federal grants are spent in communities in the five-county Northeast Ohio area. The other members are Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake and Lorain counties.
The city of Cleveland also is a member. But, unlike the counties, the city doesn't have the power to veto changes in the agency's code of regulations.
One of the two proposed amendments to the regulations would have changed that by allowing future changes in the regulations to be ratified by a simple majority vote of the representatives.
The other proposal would require that alternate delegates to NOACA's governing board be elected officials within their county or city.
Medina County Commissioner Stephen D. Hambley said the proposals are not acceptable because allowing changes to be approved by a simple majority would give too much power to the more populous counties, such as Cuyahoga.
"Our position is that we are not willing to give up equal ratification authority or change the requirements for alternates," Hambley said. "We're not going to approve those."
Cuyahoga, Lorain and Lake counties have approved both proposals.
Geauga County has not yet responded. But because ratification must be unanimous, the Medina commissioners' rejection kills both proposals.
Hambley speculated that the proposed requirement that alternative delegates be elected officials may have been a reaction to Skip Claypool, a Geauga County alternate delegate and a member of the Geauga County tea party, which has been critical of NOACA.
Hambley said Claypool has a right to his opinion.
Medina County is represented by Hambley; Chris Easton, Wadsworth's service director; county Engineer Mike Salay; and Brunswick Hills Township Trustee Kathleen Scheutzow.
Alternates are Lafayette Township Trustee Lynda Bowers for Scheutzow, Brunswick Service Director Pat McNamara for Easton, county Commissioner Adam Friedrick for Hambley and Dave Szabo of the county engineer's office for Salay.
Contact reporter Dan Pompili at (330) 721-4012 or email@example.com.


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Introduction. Milton first published Of Education in 1644 as a rather informal looking, eight-page pamphlet without a title page, date, or publisher's name. The tract was reprinted in 1673 as part of the second edition of Milton's collected early poems in a volume called Poems, etc. upon several occasions. . . With a small tractate of Education — to Mr. Hartlib (see the title page in a new window).
Of Education is Milton's contribution to contemporary debate about methods of education, which in turn was part of a larger discussion about how the Church should be organized and how the State should be governed. In the Yale edition of 1928, editor Oliver Ainsworth wrote
In substance, Milton's tractate generally agrees with the humanistic theory of education that grew up in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, under the impulse of the Revival of Learning. This theory is marked by two or three outstanding characteristics, all of which are prominent in Milton's treatise. One of these is a clearer consciousness, among teachers and students, of education as a discipline for active life. A second is an insistence upon the more extensive reading of ancient writers, both classical and Christian, as the principal means of securing this discipline. A third characteristic is an attitude of severe and often hostile criticism toward medieval education and culture. (Ainsworth 8)
The theories of the Moravian divine and now renowned educator, John Amos Comenius (1592-1670), focused debate on educational reform, especially concerning the teaching of Latin. Comenius championed the idea of a "natural method" (Riggs 448). Gauri Viswanathan writes, "Comenius's empiricist bias had a predominantly theological interest that appealed to Puritan reformers, for he saw in the knowledge of nature, and the ways that nature reveals its secrets, the fundamental source of spiritual meaning and purpose" (Viswanathan 3). His ideas attracted the attention of Samuel Hartlib, a Prussian emigrant and merchant who gained prominence as a Puritan educator. Hartlib assembled a circle of trusted advisors dedicated to reforming the process of education along lines suggested by Comenius's theories. In her article "Milton and the Hartlib Circle: Educational Projects and Epic Paideia," Barbara Lewalski describes their "disgust" for Aristotelian scholasticism - "the logic chopping, metaphysical subtleties, and rhetorical emphases of the trivium" (Lewalski 204) - that was associated with the Catholic Church. Milton was not a member of this assembly, but he did communicate with them and he shared a keen interest in their ideas. Concerning his relationship to the group, Lewalski writes: "Milton conceived of education and learning in his own terms, which are in dialogue with, but not ... in close agreement with, the projects of the Hartlib Circle" (Lewalski 202).
Many of the ideas articulated in Of Education were inspired by Comenius. For example, Milton believed that education should move from experiences of the senses to the corresponding abstract concepts, that the educational process should be rigorous but also delightful, and that young students (always assumed to be exclusively boys) should study a wide variety of languages, ancient and modern, and read a wide variety of texts. He also agreed with the Moravian scholar that the current methods of learning Latin and Greek were a waste of time (Lewalski 209). However, while the Hartlib Circle endorsed the university system and sought to reform it, Milton "scornfully repudiated university education for arts students and ministers ... He denounced the Aristotelian scholastic university curriculum as a "'Lernian bog' of fallacies" (208). Milton also disagreed with the Circle on the final goal of education. While Comenius "proposed a pleasurable method of education applicable to and intended for all — boys and girls, the able and the dull, all social ranks," Milton expressed historical and literary study as "steadfast pillars of the State" and believed that "the object of education was to make good citizens of the state" (Viswanathan 3). For Milton, the education of women was not a relevant issue, since they could not be "brave men and worthy patriots."
Such disagreements with his contemporaries suggest that Milton drew heavily on his own educational experiences in forming his opinions. During the three years just prior to his acceptance at Cambridge, Milton studied at St. Paul's School, a small boys' school founded by John Colet and influenced by both Erasmus and Thomas More (Ackroyd 130) that was dedicated to a humanist (and largely anti-scholastic) approach to learning. His practical suggestions in Of Education were based on his good experience at St. Paul's and on his bad experiences under his first tutor at Cambridge, William Chapell (Flannagan 978). He also drew on "his experience (from 1640-46) in running a school in his home for his nephews and other boys, [and on] the highly disciplined five-year reading program he undertook after university at his father's charge" (Lewalski 208). From the testimony of one of his nephews and pupils, Edward Phillips, it appears that Milton was able to put many of his ideas into practice. Among other things, his school enacted the reversal of the normal educational order that he so strongly despised, and consequently facilitated the learning of Latin and Greek in a very short period of time (Flannagan 978).
Part of this "reversal" was the elevation of the art of poetry to the same level as skills such as rhetoric and logic. Many critics have speculated as to why Milton included Of Education in the 1673 printing of his early poems; perhaps it was a recognition on his part that the tract's attitude towards education in general and poetry in particular was fundamental to an understanding of his juvenalia.
An even more popular area of scholarly speculation is how Of Education can shed light on readings of Paradise Lost. Many critics think that the pamphlet's principles underlie the teaching Adam enjoys from the angels Raphael and Michael, and even in his conversation with the Father (PL 8.316-451). Ann Baynes Coiro sees Michael, in Books 11 and 12, as leading Adam "through an education that exactly parallels, down to the smallest detail, the 'methodical course' that Milton had delineated with such precision in his educational tractate" (Coiro133). In his essay "Divine Instruction: Of Education and the Pedagogy of Raphael, Michael, and the Father," Michael Allen argues that Raphael and Michael serve as foils for the Father, who is "the ideal schoolmaster." He sees the two angels as representative of Milton's "paradoxical teaching method... whereby teachers offer 'lectures and explanations' so as to 'lead and draw' their students 'in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue." It is the Father who "combines left and right" as the "embodiment" of Milton's educational principles (Allen 114).
Barbara Lewalski believes that Milton's poetry offers a more effective education than any of the reforms debated in the seventeenth century: "Milton's poems undertake directly what his educational projects and anti-censorship arguments could only propose: that is, to develop the moral and political consciousness of a now self-selected 'fit audience,' through a literary regimen at once intellectually arduous and delightful" (Lewalski 219).
The copytext for this edition of Of Education is a copy of Milton's 1673 Poems, etc. in the Rauner Library at Dartmouth College (Hickmot 173).
far country. Samuel Hartlib, though educated at Cambridge and a resident of England, was born in Prussia (Orgel and Goldberg 817).
voluntary. Arising or developing in the mind without external constraint; having a purely spontaneous origin or character. (OED2).
Idea. The italics might suggest that Milton is trying to emphasize the term and connect it to the concept of "forms" discussed so often by Plato (Flannagan 980).
Janua's and Didactics. Milton refers to two works by Comenius — the Janua Linguarum Reserata and the Great Didactic. The Janua is an elementary introduction to Latin and to the study of other languages, which had numerous precursors and imitators calling themselves "Doorways" to language study. The Great Didactic exerted a wide influence through men like Hartlib, who made an abstract of it in his abridgement of Comenius' larger work, Pansophia (Hughes 631).
flowr'd off. Come to flower.
ruines of our first parents. Milton, like Francis Bacon, believed that before the fall Adam possessed "a pure light of natural knowledge" (see Bacon's Of the Interpretation of Nature) and that he forfeited this perfect knowledge when he ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
conning over. Studying or poring over.
vacancies. Holidays or other vacations from school.
preposterous exaction. A premature requirement, reversing the more natural order of things.
copious invention. These are precise terms in classical rhetoric. Invention refers to the knowledge or discovery of everything pertinent to any topic, and copiousness or copia refers to the variety and fullness of their treatment. Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote an entire treatise on rhetorical copia
barbarizing. Unidiomatic Latin phrases or expressions were called barbarisms.
Anglicisms. Latin or Greek words pronounced or spelled like English words (OED2).
judicious conversing. Flannagan explains the connotation of this phrase as: "holding a dialogue or reasonable conversation; learning rather than just reading; digesting as compared with the simple act of eating" (981). This distinction between books to be tasted and books to be "chewed" and "digested" is one made by Bacon in Of Books and Reading (Hughes 631) when he writes, "Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested."
praxis. Practice.
Arts. The traditional seven liberal arts were: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music.
unmatriculated. Those students new to the university, barely oriented to its ways and practices.
Logick. Milton also rails against ignorance and poor teaching in Prolusion 7: "What about logic? That is indeed the queen of the Arts, if taught as it should be, but unfortunately how much foolishness there is in reason! Its teachers are not like men at all, but like finches which live on thorns and thistles."
Metapysicks. Metaphysics is that branch of speculative inquiry which treats of the first principles of things, including such concepts as being, substance, essence, time, space, cause, identity, etc.; theoretical philosophy as the ultimate science of Being and Knowing (OED2).
controversie. School exercises often took the form of debates or controversies.
Babblements. Incoherent, imperfect, or idle talk; thoughtless or unseasonable chatter, babble (OED2). Milton invented this word, derived from the biblical tale of the Tower of Babel (Flannagan 981).
Divinity. Career as a minister. In the 1640s, an English minister was been called a "divine."
litigious terms. Seasons when law courts were in session with a full docket of cases and suits.
shifts. Fraudulent or evasive devices or stratagems; subterfuges (OED2).
tyrannous Aphorisms. Maxims justifying absolute authority for kings or divine-right monarchy, but also implying that aphorisms tend to tyrannize over thought and reflection.
delicious. Highly pleasing or enjoyable to the bodily senses, especially to the taste or smell; affording exquisite sensuous or bodily pleasure (OED2).
airie. Unsubstantial, vain, empty; unreal, imaginary. Also "superficial" (OED2).
Orpheus. Legendary poet and singer said to have the power to civilize even beasts with his songs. For other important references made by Milton to Orpheus, see L'Allegro 144 and Il Penseroso 104 and Paradise Lost 7.34-39.
stocks and stubbs. This phrase refers back to the "dullest and laziest youth," and is synonymous with "blockhead" (Orgel and Goldberg 818).
hale. An obsolete spelling of "hail," meaning "to call out in order to attract attention" (OED2).
sowthistles. See also The Reason of Church Government 2 , in which Milton attacks the "thorny lectures of monkish and miserable sophistry."
War. Hughes indicates that Milton's definition of the civic objectives of education recalls Plato's Laws 643b.
peculiar. Distinguished in nature, character, or attributes from others; particular, special (OED2).
Physick. Medicine.
Lilly. This refers to William Lily (1468?-1522) whose Beginning Book in Latin "was the standard Latin grammar in all English schools after it was authorized by Henry VIII" (Flannagan 982). It continued to be used, in revised editions, for more than two centuries (Hughes 633).
absolute. Of numbers, parts: complete. (OED2).
Civility. The status of a citizen; citizenship (OED2).
convenience of. "Number appropriate for" (Orgel and Goldberg 818).
foot Company. Infantry company.
Italian. "Unlike most Englishmen, Milton believed that Italian should be a guide to the pronounciation of Latin" (Hughes 633). In a letter to his Italian friend, Benedetto Buonmattei, Milton urged him to supplement his Italian grammar with a section on pronounciation: "To Benedetto Buommattei, of Florence... I am wont so earnestly to request of you - to wit, that to your work already begun, and in greater part finished, you would, to te utmost extent that the case will permit, add yet, in behalf of us foreigner, some little appendix concerning the right pronounciation of the language" (Ainsworth 143).
smatter. To dirty, smirch, pollute, defile (OED2).
Law-French. The language in which legal reports were written. French was the official language of the English court well into Chaucer's time and a version of middle French persisted in law courts in Milton's day.
Cebes. Cebes was thought to be a pupil of Socrates. Milton recommends his The Table, "which describes the ascent of children up to a garden inhabited by wise men." During Milton's time, it was printed with the original Greek and a Latin translation in facing columns - a popular device for classical education (Flannagan 982).
Socratic discourses. "Many of Plutarch's essays in the Moralia - especially 'On the Education of Children' and 'On the Daemon of Socrates' - were among the Socratic discourses often used as elementary texts, either in the original Greek or in parallel Latin" (Hughes 633).
Quintilian. This first-century author wrote the most famous and widely used manual of oratory in England at the time, the Instutio Oratoria. This work also contained a course of education for children, beginning at birth (Flannagan 982). Quintialian's influence on Of Education is evident in the tract's emphasis on the Renaissance conviction that all study, especially that of mathematics, should be made to seem like play" (Hughes 633).
temper. To regulate suitably to need or requirement; to fit, adapt, conform, accommodate, make suitable (OED2).
study. desire, inclination; pleasure or interest felt in something (OED2).
liberall. Those arts "becoming a gentleman" (OED2).
Authors of Agriculture. Each of the Roman authors listed produced a treatise on agriculture. Cato (234-149 BCE) wrote De Agricultura, Varro (116-27 BCE) wrote De Re Rustica and Columella (1st century CE) also wrote a De re rustica.
Hercules. Orgel and Goldberg indicate that "the cleansing of the Augean stables was read, after Pliny (Natural History 17.50), as an allegory of the beginning of the manuring of Italian soil" (819).
natural Philosophy. The study of the natural world. A standard text in this field was Aristotle's Natural History of Animals.
Historical Physiology of Aristotle. This refers to Aristotle's zoological works, such as the Historia Animalium and De Generatione Animalium.
Theophrastus. Theophrastus was a pupil of Aristotle and his successor at the Peripatetic school in Athens.
Vitruvius. Marco Vitruvius Pollo, the first-century Roman author of De Architectura, a treatise highly valued by architects throughout western Europe in the Renaissance.
Senecas naturall questions. Lucius Amaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) authored the Natural Questions.
Mela. Pomponius Mela (first-century CE) was the author of the geographical descriptions of the known continents in De Situ Orbis (Latin).
Celsus. Aulus Cornelius Celsus (first century CE) wrote the famous medical treatise De Medicina, a standard text for Renaissance physicians.
Pliny. Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) wrote the Historiae Naturalis which Flannagan calls "a hodgepodge of fascinating natural observations on social and geographical issues" (982-3).
Solinus. Gaius Julius Solinus (third-century CE) compiled geographic descriptions of the known world, and especially of the British Isles.
compact. A combination, composition (OED2).
Enginry. Military engineering.
Institution of Physick. The teaching of medicine.
The tempers, the humours, the seasons. The "humours theory" of the body was developed by Hippocrates in ancient Greece, and was later revised by Aristotle and Galen. A person's character depended on how the four humours were mixed and tempered in his or her body. Orgel and Goldberg elaborate on these ideas: "The physics of the four elements (fire, air, earth, water) included four corresponding temperaments (choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic) in turn correspnding to four bodily humours (yellow bile, blood, phlegm, black bile); medicine involved a knowledge of these and their seasonal correspondences as well" (819).
crudity. "The state of being imperfectly digested, or the quality of being indigestible; indigestion; also, in old physiology, imperfect 'concoction' of the Humours; undigested (or indigestible) matter in the stomach " (OED2).
Seminary. The word here implies its literal sense as a "seed-bed for ideas" along with its more conventional sense of a school.
Orpheus. Like many in his day, Milton probably regarded the legendary poet of Greek mythology as the author of an extant work, the Lithica, a poem about the properties of precious and other stones.
Hesiod. This philosopher of the 8th century BCE wrote The Works and Days, an epic poem about the beginnings of everything.
Theocritus. This Greek poet (300 - 260 BCE ) was regarded as the first pastoral poet. His poems were termed "eidyllia" ("idylls"), a diminutive of eidos, which may mean "little poems." See a selection of his idylls in translation.
Aratus. A Greek poet of Soli in Cilicia (flourished from about 315-245 BCE, best remembered for his poem Phaenomena, a didactic poem in hexameter on constellations and weather signs.
Nicander. A Greek poet and physician of the second century BCE, Nicander wrote the Therica (on venomous animals) and the Alexipharaca (on poisons and their antidotes).
Oppian. Oppian's Halieutica is a poem on fish and angling from the second century BCE.
Dionysius. The Periegesis of Dionysius, (fourth century BCE) written in hexameter verse, surveys the geography of the ancient world.
Lucretius. Milton greatly admired the De rerum natura of Lucretius, a Latin poet and philosopher in the first century BCE.
Manilius. The last of the didactic poets, Manilius (1st century CE) was the author of The Astronomica, an unfinished poem on astronomy and astrology.
rural part of Virgil. This refers to Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics.
time. The students in the academy Milton envisions would be at the end of their third or fourth year of a curriculum which they would have begun at age twelve and which they would end at age twenty (Hughes 635).
Proairesis. Artistotle's term for the intellectual process of distinguishing good from evil. This idea is expounded on in the Nicomachean Ethics.
morall works of Plato, Xenophon. Milton paired the works of Plato and Xenophon as "the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon" in An Apology. Both wrote dialogues on the topic of love entitled Symposium. See Plato's Symposium and Xenophon's Symposium.
Laertius. Diogenes Laertius (second or third-century BCE) wrote Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, a popular text in early modern Italy. For an example of his work, see book 10, which is devoted to Epicurus.
Locrian remnants. This refers to On the Soul of the World and Nature, supposedly written by Timaeus of Locri (Flannagan 983).
reduc't. Led back, recalled (Orgel and Goldberg 820) and see OED2.
Economics. Household management (OED2).
Trachiniae. This domestic play was written by Sophocles about Dejanira, the widow of Hercules.
Alcestis. Euripides' household drama, Alcestis presents the story of the wife of Admetus, who according to Greek mythology sacrificed her own life in order to bring him back from the dead. She also appears in Milton's sonnet 23, "Methought I saw My Late Espoused Saint."
Moses. The preface of The Reason of Church-Government is an example of the great respect that Milton had for Moses, supposed author of the Torah or Pentateuch.
Licurgus. Lycurgus. Milton most likely refers here to the legendary principal architect of the constitution of Sparta. Some editors have also suggested the 4th century BCE Athenian statesman and orator. Only one of his speeches survives today, Against Leocrates, in which Lycurgus indicts Leocrates for cowardice at the Battle of Chaeronea. Plutarch wrote a life of Lycurgus, in a collection of Lives of the Ten Orators.
Solon. A Greek legislator who framed the constitution of Athens. He appears in Plutarch's Lives.
Zaleucus. The author, in the 7th century BCE, of a constitution for the Greek colony of Locri Epizephyrii, located in what is now southern Italy.
Charondas. The organizer of a legal system in Catana (present-day Sicily), around 500 BCE.
Justinian. Emperor of the Eastern Empire, Justinian I (527-65 CE) was a force behind the codification of Roman civil law.
Chaldey. The Chaldean dialect was spoken in the area known to the ancient Hebrews as Chaldea.
Syrian. Also known as "Christian Aramaic," this is the language of the oldest manuscript of the synoptic gospels -- Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Attic tragedies. Of or pertaining to Attica, or to its capital Athens (OED2). See also Il Penseroso 97.
Demosthenes. A 4th century BCE Athenian statesman, Demosthenes' oratory is reputed to have aroused Athens to repel Phillip of Macedon and his conquering so, Alexander. See Plutarch's biography in Lives of the Ten Orators. See also Sonnet 10, line 8.
Cicero. Probably most famous in the Renaissance for his orations on friendship, De Amicitia, and old age, De senectute, Marcus Tullius Cicero lived from 106 - 43 BCE.
Euripides. A Greek dramatist of 5th century BCE Athens, Euripides was most famous in Milton's time for his great tragedies, nineteen of which are extant in some form. These include Alcestis, The Trojan Women, The Bacchae, Iphegenia at Aulis, Medea, Electra, and Orestes.
Sophocles. Most famous for his tragic cycle Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, Sophocles (496-406 BCE) was perhaps the favorite Greek tragedian among Renaissance humanists. In his Colasterion, Milton likens his own relationship to the Presbyterian party in Parliament to that of Sophocles' Ajax to the Greek army at Troy.
organic arts. Orgel and Goldberg indicate that this refers to logic, rhetoric, and poetry as an unified set of arts (820).
fitted. Appropriate, decorous, fit or fitting (see OED2).
well coucht Heads. Appropriately and strategically arranged topics and points in an oration.
Topics. A kind or class of considerations suitable to the purpose of a rhetorician or disputant: passing into the sense "consideration", "argument" (OED2).
open her contracted palm. The movement from logic to rhetoric was proverbially compared to moving from the closed fist to the open palm (Flannagan 984).
Plato. This probably refers to Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus.
Aristotle. Milton probably refers to Aristotle's Rhetoric.
Phalereus. Some editors believe this may refer to Demetrius Phalereus (350-283 BCE), defender of the principle of liberty for the citizens of Athens. However, the context indicates Milton may rather refer here to a later Greek treatise, On Style, written by another Demetrius (first-century CE), which emphasizes a forcible rhetorical style (Ainsworth 2:403n).
Cicero. Cicero's chief treatise on rhetoric and style would proably be De Inventione.
Hermogenes. Hermogenes of Tarsus (late 2nd century CE) was a Greek grammarian and the author of treatises on writing style.
Longinus. Dionysus Longinus was an Atheian philosopher and critic of the first century CE. The treatise On the Sublime was attributed to him.
Aristotles Poetics. See Aristotle's Poetics.
less suttle. Milton believes poetry to be less subtle and fine than oratory.
Horace. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (65 - 8 BCE) was a famed Latin lyric poet and satirist under the emperor Augustus. The reference is to his Ars Poetica.
Castelvetro. Ludovico Castelvetro (1505-71) translated Aristotle's Poetics into Italian.
Mazzoni. Jacopo Mazzoni (1548-98) wrote two defenses of Dante's poetic style in The Divine Comedy.
Tasso. Torquato Tasso (1544-95) wrote two treatises on epic poetry, both of which are referred to as his Discourses.
Decorum. Hughes indicates that "the principle of decorum or propriety was regarded as a key both to problems of characterization in drama and epic, and to problems of style in work of every kind" (636).
comm. Common.
Play-writers. 1644 has "Play-writes" which is surely correct. Milton speaks disparagingly of contemporary drama in the preface to Samson Agonistes, "Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call'd Tragedy." In earlier poems, however he appeared to celebrate "sweetest" Shakespeare and the "learned" Jonson: L'Allegro 131-33." Milton's father wrote a celebratory sonnet, "To the memorie of M. W. Shake-speare", (lines 289-98) for Shakespeare's first folio in 1623, and the poet himself wrote one, "On Shakespeare," for the second folio in 1632.
fraught. Stored, supplied, furnished, filled, equipped with (OED2).
middle ward. The middle line of a military formation.
perfeted. Completed.
Schools of Pythagoras, Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle. In the 6th century BCE the philospher and teacher Pythagoras (580 - 500 BCE) founded a school called the Brotherhood. Plato's School was known as the Academy; Isocrates (436 - 338 BCE) assembled a school of one hundred eminent followers from all over the Greek world; Aristotle's school was known as the Lyceum (founded 335 BCE) and numbered Alexander of Macedon among its matriculants.
embattelling. Preparation for battle.
Studies of Cyrene and Alexandria. Milton refers to the medical school in Cyrene, and to the great center of literary and scientific activity in Alexandria, both of which flourished in the late third century BCE.
Plato noted in the Common-wealth of Sparta. Plato disapproved of the Spartans' strong emphasis on military training in their educational system (Laws I 633c, 636), although he did have great faith in athletic discipline as an important part of moral training.
Weapon. The rapier, or personal sword. Gentlemen wore them for self-defense.
prove and heat. Test and exercise.
out. Astray from what is right or correct; in the wrong, in error, mistaken (OED2).
passions. Milton shared the Renaissance faith in Plato's doctrine, set forth in his Republic 410a, that the correct kind of musical education would train the just man to sobriety and a mastery of the passions. In Paradise Lost 12.88-90, the archangel Micahel identifies "upstart passions" triumphing over reason as the root of all servitude.
concoction. Digestion (of food) (OED2).
skie or covert. Either indoors, covert, or outdoors, "under sky."
daily muster. Daily assembly for military training.
sick feathers. The feathers that fall out when a bird molts.
unrecruitible. Hughes writes about the seventeenth century English war machine: "in armies where colonels often recruited their own regiments it was not unusual for dishonest officers to keep their numbers low in order to embezzle as much of the soldiers' pay as possible" (638).
delusive. Having the attribute of deluding, characterized by delusion, tending to delude, deceptive (OED2).
commodities. Conveniences, advantages, benefits, interests (OED2).
Monsieurs of Paris. In 1667, Milton wrote a letter to his friend Richard Jones, praising him for "despising the luxuries of Paris" (Hughes 638).
Kicshoes. "Kickshaw" was a slang term for "useless trifle." It was derived from the French "quelque chose." The Oxford English Dictionary records Milton's use of the word as the first with the meaning of "a fantastical, frivolous person" (OED2).
Ulysses. This alludes to Homer's epic poem, (The Odyssey 21) in which Ulysses bends the bow that Penelope's suitors could not bend, and then kills them all with it.


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A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.
Take man's most fantastic invention -- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.... It is thus with most of us: we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
I doubt if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and for power -- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our lives.
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own...Whether it our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.
It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.... We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom." It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.
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I don't know how Brittany does it. Or, if she's being honest – and I think she is – how she enjoys it. I look at the scattered pile of junk in our El Chalten cabaña, and think back to her post. I'm suspicious. You've got to watch out for those wayward gypsy women, you know.
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Creative Zen X-FI2 just some questions regarding player
Based on reviews i've been reading online as well as older forum posts.
Pros :
- High quality sound (X-FI system)
- Good value for a decent PMP (120 for 8gb vs other players that go for alot more)
- Sleek finish
- Comes with great headphones
- Plays a variety of media files (Xvid, DivX4/5, MPEG4 etc).
- plays FLAC (even though i don't have any)
- Has HD capabilities (confirm?)
Cons :
- Unresponsive touch screen (compared to ipod touch / zune but firmware fixes has made it slightly better?)
- Screen bruises (seems often though it doesn't really affect people if you can't see it if player is lit)
- From an older forum post -> random shut offs etc.
- Clunky interface (though the firmware fixes of the player as shown in videos seems to make it smoother)
My questions i want to asked based on what i gathered would be. Some more feedback would be appreciated
1) Screen responsive-ness seems to be alright from videos and someone said on callibration you can set it by how sensitive you touch the dots so you don't have to apply pressure
2) Does the screen bruises really make the player difficult to tolerate (seeing bruises constantly), i have bruises scratches etc on my DS and i seems fine when the back light is lit
3) Interface runs more smoother now ? Maybe not as smooth as the iPOD touch but not like the first video of the interface when X-FI2 released?
4) Does the player still randomly shut off, or was it just because they recieved faulty hardware (the player)
5) If my videos on my computer are Xvid format (namely anime, and lets say the format is a compatible one with the player) and it is 1024x786 resolution, can i play it on my player (drag and drop) or do i have to resize it?
6) All files can be transferred through windows interface of drag and drop, no need to use centrale? (like how iPODs require itunes, my old muvo was simply drag and drop like a USB stick)
Thanks guys, I have already ordered my X-FI2, just waiting on it to arrive, I don't really care about comparisons between iPOD touch and Zune to the X-FI2, even if the touchscreen isnt the best i still prefer the creative player (more affordable), I just wanted to clear up some questions
The random shut downs worries me though
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Well first of all not everyone thinks the x-fi system improves the sound. But I think you've already come across such discussions in your search.
The rest of your "pro" points are valid I think, except for the last one: Where did you read that it has HD capabilities..? It can play videos with a maximum resolution of 640*480, and it's screensize is 400*240.
I'd like to see where you got this information from, because maybe I'm missing something?
The firmware updates have made very big improvements in the responsiveness of the touchscreen, as well as the smoothness of the interface. I can't complain about it anymore, but it stays a resistive touchscreen. When I use a player that has a capacitive touchscreen (such as the ipod) it feels more comfortable and easier to use. But that is just due to the type of touchscreen that has it's limitations..
If your player has bruises on the screen, it should be covered under warranty I guess. It's not something to consider or expect from this player.
1) I also read somewhere that the calibration affects the sensitivity of the touch. But I don't think this is true. Calibration only lets the player know where the touchscreen is, relative to the display underneath it. I do hope that it also sets the pressure you must apply, but I don't think it does this.. can anyone correct or confirm this?
2) I don't have bruises so I can't answer this one, but I think you should just ask for a replacement when you receive a player that has bruises that you didn't make yourself by molesting the screen.
3) Yes, exactly as you say
4) I guess the latter (faulty hardware), and that would fall under warranty. Haven't experienced this error myself though.
5) You wil have to resize it, since the player supports a video resolution up to 640*480. Also make sure that the format of the audio stream is supported by the player.
6) That's right, you don't need to install Centrale. Windows will see your player as an external disk. Which is great because you can use it on any computer as a regular usbstick.
First off as Brett_val said, I'm unsure where you got the HD info from. The max res is as he has told you, 640x480.
1) Responsiveness have become better, yes. But it is still a resistive touch screen. Let me draw a parallel to iTouch here, the iTouch have won most of it's fame due to how smooth it is running and how responsive it is, this is because they have used every interface trick there is to make SOMETHING happen as soon as you nudge the screen, so it seems really responsive but the fact may be that it computes just as fast as most other players, it just priorities the feedback to the user.
2) I have no bruises on mine so I cannot tell.
3) See 1) about my iTouch reference. But well, it takes half a second at times before the screen shows the affect of your touch and enter where you want and so, and as almost all players (except the iTouch where they somehow magically have found a way to prevent this with some l33t programmers) it lags behind in scrolling through lists by a little little while, especially noticeable if you drag quickly back and forth.
4) Mine have never shut off randomly unless I crash it completely with a fault app I've made xD
5) You will have to resize it. And it is recommended you lower the bitrate to ~800 for really smooth playback.
6) Yes, if they are compatible with the player you only need to drag and drop. I'm unsure about playlists though, those might have to be created through centrale, but you can make them with some work on the player. Also it is sorting the song by ID3 tags, so make sure they have those.
Hope that helped, if there's anything else don't hesitate to ask any of us here.
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I read that centrale isn't a very solid software, as for HD format it was on some random sites i been looking at about reviews, i might've read wrong.
Also about the playlist the ID3 tags, if my music has none, does that mean it won't be sorted the way i want it to be? if i want to sort my music to proper sequence i have to add ID3 tags?
And it is true that Centrale isn't very stable, I've actually never been able to transfer a single track with it, I have no clue where I go wrong but it isn't working, and it's real slow also and can't even see my entire anime library of vids. So I just boycott it and convert my videos with third party softwares and drag and drop with windows explorer.
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Well just got my player today, works like a charm, touchscreen isn't as unbearable as people make it out to be, i seem to be using it perfectly fine with minimal pressure however i dislike the fact that i sometimes click into something i didn't wanna go into T_T
no random shutdown, screens great, with a screen cover more protective.
Sounds great with X-FI on at 75%, you can notice the difference when you turn it on and off more clarity, expander is on 0.
used handbrake, video playback is fine, no broken pixels, colours are nice, however my video is somewhat static when volumes at 12, maybe on the converter the bitrate may be a tad too high but other than that i can just play around with the program and it should be great!
ID3 tags and sorting the mp3's i have never really bugged me, i mean my old iPOD most the songs had unknown artist, im not picky and i don't really care about album art since most the time the player will be in my pocket.
The lock feature is kinda annoying, sometimes if i drag it too fast it just resets >_> but then again just need to practise on it. other than that completely satisfied great purchase for only 130 AUD (8gb)
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You may remember the '90s. Recall Buckhead? Its decadent luster, its glossy sheen? In an economy of excess, Buckhead was it. But as corporate cool lost favor to industrial hip, culinary trails were blazed by restaurateurs like Anne Quatrano, Clifford Harrison and Ford Fry, transforming the once-rugged Westside into a regular boomtown. Next, Fry and other top toques—like Cakes & Ale's acclaimed Billy Allin—conquered the fringes of the city, where Decatur was the last foodie frontier. Finally, it seems, Buckhead has decided to rejoin the movement.
The once fine-dining apex of Atlanta is suddenly booming again, with accessible eateries like Farm Burger, Twin Peaks and YEBO fulfilling the cool-casual quota, as higher-end restaurants—from Del Frisco's Grille to F&B—proudly parade onto the scene. Even Ford Fry has tapped this growing trend by crowning the vacant Nava space his new King + Duke.
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As if the location wasn't incredible enough, the 12,000-square-foot resto comes complete with a 250-seat dining room, a sophisticated bar and a cushion-clad, 60-seat alfresco dining space—evoking the fourfold essence of a contemporary café, open-air bazaar, laid-back lounge and private escape. Retractable, floor-to-ceiling windows connect the buzzing patio with a luxe main dining room that promises to seduce on first blush. Conceived by Sandy Springs' Retail Capital Group, its design elements make the grade: Contemporary globe lights, abstract art, staggered ceiling soffits and walls formed from both textured tile and diaphanous curtains. The environs are sleek and spare, yet not cold. Perhaps it's the color palette? Soft, neutral shades of cream, ebony, rustic brown and café au lait keep it warm and inviting.
It's all a stylish stage to display the talents of General Manager Mark Stewart, who brings to the table two decades of experience at such venerated Buckhead venues as Chops Lobster Bar (which he opened), Bone's and Hal's. And the gourmet fare? It's finessed under the direction of Executive Chef Mark Alba, whose résumé sings from stints at Canoe, Food Studio, PARISH Foods & Goods, Eno and Spice. During his tenure as executive chef of Paces 88 American Bistro, the Buckhead restaurant won an AAA four-diamond rating and a natty nod from Esquire magazine. As expected, Alba's prix-fixe tasting menus are exquisite, ranging from five to seven courses, giving you the full spectrum of contemporary American cuisine, perfectly paired with any of 120 wines.
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Those who kill these children dehumanize themselves. Their hearts and consciences become dull. At one point, Dr. Nathanson began to see the contradiction between aborting babies on one floor of the clinic, and saving babies of the same size and age on another floor. Human reason began to shine through, and he eventually became pro-life.


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"Aldo" makes its World Premiere at the SF Indie Fest and is the tale of a hairdresser who must dodge loan sharks after losing a massive bet he placed on basketball playoffs. A throw-back to 1970s filmmaking, this original story mixes real people with trained actors. Plays with short film "Closure". Tickets for Feb. 12 in Oakland are almost sold out but it also screens Feb. 15 and 18 in San Francisco.
"Drift" is a psyological drama from Belgium that is a mix of narrative feature and performance art. It takes place in a hotel in which a woman suffering from mental illness is aided by her husband who then starts to mentally spiral on his own. It shows one time only.
"How to be a Man" falls into the crude movie category as a comedian (played by Gavin McInnes, co-founder of Vice magazine and published author) decides, after he learns he has cancer, to record his crude and comical journey of what it takes to be a man so he can leave it as a legacy of his unborn son. Plays Thursday in Oakland and Saturday and Sunday in San Francisco.
"80s Power Ballad Sing-a-Long" is an extremely popular event - kind of the anti-Valentine. Gather with other like-minded souls and do as the title suggests - sing-a-long with all of those big haired rock bands of the 1980s. Kind of like the play and movie "Rock of Ages" but without the inane plot.
"Towheads" makes its West Coast Premiere and while it's a narrative feature - it's more along the lines of reality a la "Curb Your Enthusiasm" as Shannon Plumb plays the lead as a mother facing a mid-life crisis and her real husband and children play her family in the film.
"Bounty Killer" seems to be an over-the-top cult film in the making with a sexy buxom woman and her star crossed lover/rival bounty hunters as the compete to track down the same corporate world's most wanted. Definitely worthy checking out if B-movie and exploitive films are your style.
"The Wait" stars two very talented actresses - Jena Malone and Oscar nominee Chloe Sevigny - as two sisters varied reactions to the news from a psychic who claims their recently deceased mother will be resurrected. Also plays Feb. 19.
"Flex is King" may start the new wave of dance styles as three young dancers bring their own spin of movement to the competitive arena. Their dance style that mixes simulated violence, seamlessly flowing footsteps and the occasional humorous touch seems to be as diverse as the film itself. Also plays Feb. 19.
"Blue Ruin" may be the closing night film on Feb. 20, but you can get a sneak peak on Feb. 16. "Ruin" is the story of Dwight who is a soft-spoken, somewhat shell-shocked beach hobo who lives in his blue car on the west coast, just trying to keep his head down and limit interactions with the outside world. When he is informed by a sympathetic cop that the man imprisoned for murdering his parents has just been released, Dwight vows to get revenge, and sets off on a road trip back to his old haunts to give the killer a different kind of homecoming.
"Proxy" has a graphic opening sequence that is not for the light-hearted as a very pregnant woman is brutally attacked in the street by a hooded stranger.. But this is only the beginning of the pitch-black psychosexual drama. It also screens Feb. 20.
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Dear Friends of Green Streets,
It is with great disappointment that I inform you that this years Boulder Green Streets Ciclovia, which was scheduled for Sunday, September 22nd, 2013 was cancelled by the City of Boulder for a variety of reasons related to the impact of the Colorado floods.
We are presently working to determine whether the event will be cancelled or postponed to a future date. Please stay tuned for updates.
While the sunshine is finally out the devastation of the Colorado Floods has left our City police, fire and staff overwhelmed, exhausted, and still desperately working to keep up with urgent flood related matters.
This is an important time to come together as a community but there are simply no barricades, and not enough energy to complete the large closure that makes Ciclovia so special. We encourage you to take the Sunday that was to be Ciclovia and dedicate your time to helping a neighbor or volunteering where there is need. Check with @Boulderrelief for suggestions.
Please stay tuned for updates. We will be working with the City to determine whether there can be a "make up" date and/or what our 2014 plan will be.
We are feeling so disappointed by the news however, we understand that our energy as a community right now must be spent cleaning up, helping people restore their lives, repairing our streets and public spaces, etc., and this is of great importance.
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"Many of the steps that you encounter while preparing new recipes have also been switched up a bit in an effort to make that aspect of the game more robust. Some of these work out for the better and recall earlier diversions, such as when you must chop a carrot or potato into small bits. Others aren't familiar to me but work well anyway, such as when the game asks the player to circle eyes on old potatoes to remove them. Then come the zany additions, like when you find yourself catching falling marshmallows on a skewer while avoiding dog bones. I like a bit of zaniness in my games or I wouldn't be playing Cooking Mama in the first place, but some of the stuff included here still had me scratching my head."
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FCC Censors New Whisper Song Remix, Results in 3:44 of Silence
WASHINGTON, DC – In an unprecedented move, the FCC has censored the entirety of the Ying Yang Twin's follow up to their seminal hit, "The Whisper Song."
"It was just distasteful," commented Gary Ichniowsky, Vice President of Urban Oversight. "I haven't felt this uncomfortable since Eminem was rapping about his mom."
The song, reportedly a collaboration with David Banner and Lil' Jon, allegedly contains 1268 obscenities and a shockingly low 18 adjectives, pronouns, and prepositions deemed too crude for radio play.
The ruling on the song was first reported by the Associated Press who received a memo from the FCC addressed to the Ying Yang twins. "We were trying to track them down individually, but let's be honest, no one actually knows their real names" said Ichniowsky.
The painstaking editing done by the FCC will not go to waste, as the song can now be featured on whichever volume of NOW! That's What I Call Music they are on these days.
Pitchfork, unaware of the ruling, awarded the song a 9.4 claiming it was a "post-modern commentary on speech utilizing the absence of noise as an audiological too, completely eviscerating John Cage."
Merriam Webster, rated a 2.0 by Pitchfork, is currently checking if "audiological" is a real word.