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Celebrating the TransitoryLife
Thu 12th Apr, 2012 in Features
Transitory Life returns this week in Melbourne for its third party, bigger and sexier than ever. We chatted with Teague Leigh, who not only created the party series but Australia's first non-profit organisation dedicated to financially supporting the trans community.
What was the original inspiration behind the Transitory Party?
There are three contributing factors that led to the creation of the Transitory parties; I was on a mailing list in 2008, researching the transgendered community due to my own transition and the prevailing sentiment was gloomy when it came to just how expensive it was to transition. I had to borrow money to pay for my chest surgery, which was something I had never wanted to do and am still paying back. I was determined to never let anyone feel as belittled as I did. Also at the time, during the course of two years a number of suicides occurred impacting drastically on trans people.
I figured the best way to raise the issues and raise money to fund trans individuals was to create one hell a great club/performance night, the first being in 2009.
Now the Transitory parties are known in over 20 countries by over 60,000 people virally – that is a lot of people who may or may not have known about trans issues.
At one time you openly shared the experience of your transition on Facebook. What motivated you to do that?
I guess it was primarily for my own records, but I also wanted to show a different sort of transman. By that I mean, I've never been very androgynous. Ever since puberty I was what you'd typically classify as feminine. I had an hourglass figure. I also wasn't overly fit and didn't work out, which was something the professionals push trans people towards – work out and keep in shape – boring! I guess I wanted to be seen.
It also really helped me to see and accept myself in my altering physical state due to the testosterone and chest surgery. Despite me finally being in the body I had always wanted, it took a long time to start accepting myself after years of denial and sidestepping mirrors!
In the end the more trans people step into the light, the more people will realise there is nothing "abnormal" or "freakish" about us.
What are the biggest issues facing the ftm trans community in your opinion? What would you like people to know that they don't already?
The biggest issue still facing the trans community is transphobia/hatred. This phobia often leads to either physical or verbal abuse, which in turn leads to depression and often times suicide. Unfortunately the suicide rate within the trans community is 125 times greater than the 6.8% rate of the general population. To me, this is deplorable and totally unacceptable.
Another cause of depression is the exorbitant costs of transitioning of $25,000 compared to the average salary of a trans person of $20,000. Individuals can't afford to step out of their homes and feel good about being seen as the gender they feel. Something a lot of people take for granted.
Transitory has really grown since the first event. What are you most excited about in the upcoming event?
Whilst we had some amazing talent at the first event, it was all about giving the trans community a voice, and showing them that they are not alone and there is support. With Transitory III we are branching out and targeting the general public, with more diversity in the names we have performing for us. Acts such as Moira Finucane have a large following of not only queer men and women, but also straight people too. Buff DJ Kam Shafaati is largely known within the leather and bear communities. The extremely talented house DJ's Jax Juxtapose and Shannyn Lee Ducret have a large female following.
Teague Leigh pictured with trans singer Paige Phoenix
Photo: Evelyn Lobos Photography
Personally, I can't wait to get my groove on to the phenomenal progressive trance of Kam and also of the gorgeous Dan Wilson and also seeing Sword Swallower Aerial Manx who has the most world records in his craft than anyone – I can't wait to see how and what he swallows next! The excitement of getting a large, diverse crowd willing and wanting to spend money on the trans community is really rewarding.
Transitory III is on this Friday 13 April 2012, 10pm-4am at the RMH (629 Bourke st, Melbourne). See below for full details.
Transitory III
RMH - 629 Bourke St, Melbourne
Sexy. Famous. Transmen.
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Coalition calls for stepped up water protectionJanuary 10,2013
MONTPELIER A coalition of 32 environmental groups, businesses and other organizations are calling for improved protection of Vermonts rivers and lakes, including Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River.
Among the biggest threats seen by the groups is an overload of nutrients, including phosphorus flowing into the states rivers from both farms and yards. The groups say incidents like algae blooms in Lake Champlains Missisquoi Bay harm the states tourism economy.
Lori Fisher of the Lake Champlain Committee says the states public water supply infrastructure alone needs nearly $400 million in upgrades in the next 20 years.
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Recap Baltimore at New Orleans
New Orleans, LA (SportsNetwork.com) - Tyrod Taylor was 10-of-17 for 105 yards with a touchdown and interception as the Baltimore Ravens beat the New Orleans Saints, 22-13, in the preseason finale for both teams on Thursday night.
Fitzgerald Toussaint carried the ball 17 times for 103 yards, while Lorenzo Taliaferro totaled 88 yards on 25 totes for the Ravens, who will host the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 1 next Sunday.
Justin Tucker hit on all five of his field-goal attempts in the win.
Ryan Griffin completed 11-of-21 passes for 126 yards for New Orleans, which travels to Atlanta to face the Falcons in its season opener.
The Ravens accumulated 214 of their 436 total yards on the ground, while the Saints totaled just 190 yards, going 0-for-7 on third down.
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Played in 53 games, making 40 starts in the outfield … Finished the season batting .243 with one home run, 10 doubles, three triples, 25 RBI and eight stolen bases … Named to the Springfield All-Regional Team after going 5-for-12 (.417) with one double, four RBI and three stolen bases … Went 3-for-5 with two RBI, three runs scored and three stolen bases in Oregon's second postseason game against Canisius … The three stolen bases contributed to an eight-steal day for the Ducks, one of the program record set in 1949 …Had a career game in the third game of the four-game series with New Mexico State, going 4-for-6 with a double, five RBI and three runs scored … Followed that outing with two RBI in the series finale to help the Ducks to a sweep … From Feb. 16 to Feb. 28, went 8-for-24 (.333) with nine RBI, two doubles and nine runs scored … Hit first career home run on March 7 against St. John's, a solo shot in game two of the three-game series … Went 2-for-5 with a double and two RBI in a midweek game against Portland, and followed that up with two RBI in game two of the three-game series with USC … Put together a five-game hitting streak from May 8 to May 13, going 9-for-18 (.500) with three doubles and five runs scored … That streak included a 4-for-5 day with a double and two runs scored against Gonzaga … In the second game of the three-game series with Utah, clearing the bases with a three-run double to contribute to a six-run ninth inning for the Ducks in a comeback win … Finished the season leading the team in sacrifices with 15 … Recorded five mult-hit and six mult-RBI games throughout the season.
Finished the season batting .254 with eight doubles and 19 RBI in 57 games, making 34 starts … Finished with eight multiple-hit games and two multiple-RBI games … Started collegiate career off strong, going 2-for-5 with a RBI in first action of the season against Hawaii … Went 1-for-1 with a run scored and an RBI against Loyola Marymount after entering the game as a pinch-runner… Had a pinch-hit double and scored a run in the final game of the LMU series … Had first two-double game of career against Seattle, finishing 2-for-4 with one RBI and a run scored … Had four stolen bases on the season, including two in a win over Portland while also going 2-for-5 at the plate with an RBI and a run scored … Drove in a season high three runs against Washington State, going 1-for-4 with a double … Entered the next game as a pinch-runner and ended up throwing out a runner at second base from center field to end the eighth inning before the tying run could score … Had first career walk-off hit on May 3 against Arizona, an RBI single up the middle in the 10th inning to give the Ducks a 7-6 comeback win … Drew a season-high four walks in a non-league game against Oregon State … Had a strong outing in the first game of the NCAA Nashville Regional, going 2-for-2 with a double, an RBI and a run scored in the Ducks' 18-1 win over Clemson … Did not commit an error in 57 games in the outfield and finished tied for the team lead in outfield assists with three … Ranked 46th on the Baseball America top prospect freshman list.
A 2013 graduate of Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif. … A three-year letterman as well as a team captain during senior season … Named first-team All-Trinity League as a senior, as well as second-team all-state … Earned a spot on the Orange County Register All-County Team … Named to the National High School Invitational All-Tournament team after going 7-for-16 with three RBI, four runs scored and three stolen bases … Batted .407 (37-for-91) with a home run and 11 RBI during senior season … Had 13 multi-hit games, including four three-hit games … Drove in multiple runs twice, while scoring multiple runs seven times … As a junior, hit 262 (21-for-80) with two home runs and 12 RBI … Had five multi-hit games, two multi-RBI games and five games with multiple runs scored … As a sophomore batted .136 (3-for-22) with three RBI and three runs scored … High school coach was Burt Call.
Played with the Los Angeles Brewers of the California Collegiate League following the 2015 season … Hit .341 with one home run, five doubles, 19 RBI and 11 stolen bases in 22 games.
Dad (Craig) played Major League Baseball (White Sox, Marlins, Angels, Blue Jays, Red Sox) for 12 seasons, while uncle (Brian) reached Triple A … Parents are Craig and Jerrie … Has two brothers, Jonathan and Derek … Major is general social science, focusing on business.
At Bats.............. 6, vs. NMSU (2/21/15)
Runs.................. 3, 2x, last vs. Canisius (5/30/15)
Hits.................... 4, 2x, last vs. Gonzaga (5/12/15)
RBI..................... 5, vs. NMSU (2/21/15)
Doubles............. 2, vs. Seattle U. (3/4/14)
Triples............... 1, 3x, last vs. UCLA (5/23/15)
Home Runs....... 1, vs. St. John's (3/7/15)
Walks................. 4, vs. Oregon State (5/6/14)
Stolen Bases........... 3, vs. Canisius (5/30/15)
Hitting Streak....................6
Multiple-Hit Games........13
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Thousands of Conservatives Gather For FreePAC and Restoring Love
Last night in Dallas, Texas, I spoke to over 14,000 patriots -- the largest conservative confluence in the country's history -- as part of FreePAC. Normally, I don't write speeches, preferring instead to go off bullet points instead. I had two index cards last night, a green one and a red one; the green listed examples of egregious media bias against the tea party and the pink was bullet points for my speech. I grabbed it from my purse before walking onstage, except I grabbed it from a stack of cards, one of which was my packing list (yes, I make one) which was, unfortunately what was scribbled on that pink index card I looked at while onstage. So every time I glanced down I saw things like "curling iron, socks, black heels," etc. Because I am an epic genius. The full video of my speech is below. It was so great to meet so many new conservatives and reconnect with ones with whom I've conferenced around the country. More links from last night:


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The new year stretches before us like an adventure course. Let's welcome it with hope and enthusiasm!
We and our children come to the threshold of 2014 as whole persons – body, mind, and spirit. We can navigate the unknown course ahead with joy – as we listen closely to ourselves – with a sense of balance – one step at a time.
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This collection of images from China were taken in 2008. I traveled from modern Shanghai to country towns such as Fenghuang.
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Reactions, expressions and routines are familiar all around the world.
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Update, 9:40 a.m. EDT: NATS has issued a statement to say that flight restrictions in U.K. airspace will remain in place until 7 a.m. BST tomorrow, at the earliest. We will keep you posted.
(5:30 a.m. EDT) -- British travellers face chaos today as virtually all flights to and from U.K. airports have been cancelled. Britain's Air Traffic Control Service (NATS) earlier today advised the closure of most U.K. airports because of the danger presented by a large plume of volcanic ash headed south and east from an eruption under a glacier in the Eyjafjallajoekull area of Iceland.
From midday today until at least 6 p.m. tonight, there will be no flights permitted in U.K. controlled airspace. All flights from London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Stansted and London City will be cancelled. All Scottish airports are already shut and most regional airports in the U.K. have cancelled or suspended flights, although some have still been operating from southern airports like Bournemouth. Travellers have been advised not to turn up at the airport without checking their flight first. Airlines, including British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair, are offering refunds or the option to rebook.
The precautions have been taken because it is dangerous for aircraft to fly through volcanic ash; there have been cases in the past of engines stalling when they become jammed with particles of rock, sand and glass present in the ash.
The ash cloud, which has reached 55,000 feet, is expected to move through northern Britain later today and cross Europe tonight. Weather forecasters say it should lose intensity as it disperses but the volcano is still erupting so the situation over the next few days remains uncertain.
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12/15/2010 Freedom Watch w/ Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Jason Chaffetz, Radley Balko, more
Here is Wednesday's edition of Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano.
Here is Wednesday's edition of Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano.
Bless you, Judge Napolitano and the Patriots Network for bringing us sanity in an insane world.
Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah to all!
Where's part 4? Can't find it on youtube.
NVM – found it here. It had a different title. Very confusing. lol
That last little part of the show, Judge, where you talked about unconstitutional spending and general welfare, was extremely intelligent and well articulated. I love how you stand up for freedom and the Constitution! Keep up the great work!
Marx was a German philosopher? Now judge come on! Marx was a Jewish Talmudic inspired radical, atheist and revolutionary. This is outlandish that you would allow this sort of revisionist propaganda Judge. Once Americans are free from Israeli intervention, then we will start on the road to freedom. How about an intelligent answer from the editor of these comments on what I have written. If the judge ever came clean on the truth about Jewish power in this land we would then be on our way to a new America. Our biggest enemy has been Jews who love another country more than our blessed Christian USA.
I don't think Bachman is quite the earmark warrior she claims to be. She said: "This isn't trying to be too cute by half of what is an earmark and what isn't," Bachmann told POLITICO on Wednesday. "But we have to address the issue of how are we going to fund transportation projects across the country?"
So, she wants to embed money for specific transportation projects into legislation. That's called an earmark. If you call it by any other name, will it still stink so terribly?
Link: http://reason.com/blog/2010/12/09/when-we-said-we-were-going-to
"Not one dime of a cut" exactly! We need to CUT 20% across the board, including the sacred cow of military spending. Chris Christie of New Jersey shows the way!
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
I like Freedomwatch and the Judge (a lot), but will exercise my freedom and never watch an episode on which Huckabee is advertised as a guest….NEVER.
Most everything that comes out of his mouth is a sanctimonious, demagoguing, condescending, preacherly statement of fallacy. He deserves to be shunned. Shame on the Fox Business producers who are trying to give him face-time on a show about freedom.


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Dantonio reveals new-look Michigan State football locker room
(WXYZ) - Mark Dantonio showed off Michigan State's new football locker room on Tuesday, revealing images of the room on Twitter.
Athletic Director Mark Hollis raised a reported $24.5 million to renovate Spartan Stadium's north end. The work on the locker room is almost done, and will be ready for a dedication on August 25.
MSU's head coach showed a picture of the Ben & Barb Maibach Welcome Center, featuring a shot of Kyler Elsworth's Rose Bowl-saving tackle.
Also included in Dantonio's Twitter stream was a shot of the newly named locker room. Former Michigan State offensive lineman Flozell Adams helped the project, and the program will name the locker room after his mother, Rachel Fairman Adams.


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- You may be looking for Dukes, a borough in Liberty City.
The Imponte Dukes is a two-door muscle car found exclusively in Grand Theft Auto IV. It is based on the 1969 Dodge Charger (the name is a reference to the show, "The Dukes of Hazzard").
Since Imponte is based off Pontiac, the Dukes may have been meant to emulate a first generation Pontiac Firebird, but it still looks closer to a Charger. The taillights have a vague resemblance to those of a 1967 Chevrolet Impala. Dukes are quite popular in the borough of Bohan, and some of them are found with Roots blowers and bug-catcher scoops, all with '750 HP' written on each side - referring to its insanely powerful 750 bhp V8. Unfortunately, a lot of this power is wasted, owing to the fact that the Dukes has a heavy body and very limited traction, even on dry tarmac. It's rear wheel drivetrain allows players to hold long slides with relative ease, because the steering is not overly sensitive.


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The Taipei International Building, Construction, and Decoration (B, C+D) Exhibition is Taiwan's largest building show, featuring over 450 booths and 250 exhibitors. This exhibition, which is sponsored by by the National Taiwan Architect Association, is the island's most important event for designers, manufacturers, contractors, distributors, and agents of related technology and products. The event receives a wealth of media exposure including major TV stations, newspapers, radio stations, and a variety of websites. CS Taipei will organize a U.S. Pavilion at this show to promote U.S. green building materials and technologies.
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Can I dock bidentate ligands to a metal ion with Glide, and if so, how?
In general, you should be able to dock bidentate ligands to a metal with Glide, using metal constraints. The default ligand feature for a metal constraint is "Charged Acceptor". However, if your ligand has a carboxyl and -OH interacting with the metal (i.e., both neutral), Glide rejects the ligand as being unable to satisfy the constraint. In this case, you should use "Acceptor" as the ligand feature, which covers both charged and neutral acceptor atom types. You should also consider generating metal-binding states with Epik when you prepare your ligands.
If you have trouble getting the correct bidentate interactions with the metal, you could try a modification of our metal scoring and metal constraints that sets the interaction cutoff distance according to the vdW radii of the metal and interacting ligand atoms. To use this feature, write out the Glide Ligand Docking job files, edit the jobname.in file to add the following lines:
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Soprano Julie Adams is the latest opera star of the future to win the singer-friendly Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra Hennings-Fischer Foundation Young Artists Competition and add her name to an impressive roster of vocal category winners and finalists.
Adams shared the 2014 top prize with instrumental category winner, violinist Heidi Hatch. Western Region Winner in the recent Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Adams goes on to compete in semi-final auditions later this month. The soprano attends the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Other Competition finalists and winners have gone on to enjoy remarkable honors and careers. Also a Metropolitan Opera National Council winner in the 2007 auditions, 2003 Hennings-Fischer Competition finalist Angela Meade made her professional debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 2008.
Awarded the top prize in the Burbank Competition in 2008, Rena Harms was one of nine finalists selected to participate in the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals in New York City. The Grand Finals are the culminating contest. Harms currently is performing at the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in Oldenburg, Germany.
Mezzo soprano Laurie Rubin, who won in 2004, is making sound waves world-wide as a recitalist, recording artist, in opera and as co-founder and associate artistic director of Ohana Arts in Honolulu, Hawaii. Throughout 2014 Rubin is performing in a national touring production based on her personal memoir titled, "Do You Dream in Color?"
Winner of the 2011 Competition, Jacquelynne Fontaine has been cast in the role of Carlotta Giudicelli for the 25th Anniversary Phantom of the Opera Broadway National Tour. Fontaine won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions for the San Diego District in 2010.
Other Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra Hennings-Fischer Foundation Young Artists Competition vocal category winners and finalists to keep an eye on are Juhye Kim, Shira Renee Thomas, Narine Ojakhyan, Maria Dominique Lopez, Samantha Geraci-Yee, Kari Burgess, Natalie Erskine, Bernardo Bermudez and Anthony Whitson-Martini.
The 2015 Hennings-Fischer Foundation Young Artists Competition will be the 15th anniversary of the event. The live finals concert is free to the public. Steven Kerstein conducts the Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra. Go to burbankphilharmonic.org for more information.


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The original 1974 "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"celebrates it's 40th anniversary in 2014. Back in March, a restored print played at Austin's SXSW Film Festival. And horror fans can own it when it hits DVD and Blu-ray on September 16, 2014 (via Gorgon Video).
The film will be released in a 4k digital transfer, with 7.1 surround audio. And while it's available in basic packaging, "Chainsaw" fanatics will want to spring for the deluxe "Black Maria" edition (named for the big-rig truck which appeared in the film's finale). Indeed, the discs are housed in a truck replica.
Also included in the packaging is a replica of Leatherface's blood-stained apron and mini-one sheet posters. But the set isn't just about the packaging. All "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" DVD/Blu-ray releases have been chock full of special features, but the 40th anniversary set looks like the definitive version.
Here's a list of all the bonus features from the 'Black Maria' DVD & Blu-ray combo pack:
4 feature commentaries:
* Director Tobe Hooper, actor Gunnar Hansen, Cinematographer Daniel Pearl
* Actors Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, and Paul A. Partain, and Production Designer Robert Burns
* New commentary with Tobe Hooper
* New commentary with Daniel Pearl, Editor J. Larry Carroll and Sound Recordist Ted Nicolaou
Collector's Edition Bonus Disc:
* "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth"
* "Flesh Wounds: Seven Stories of the Saw"
* Tour of the "Chainsaw" house with Gunnar Hansen
* "Off the Hook with Teri McMinn"
* "The Business of Chain Saw: An Interview with Production Manager Ron Bozman"
* New Deleted scenes & outtakes
* "Grandpa's Tales: An Interview with John Dugan"
* "Cutting Chain Saw: An Interview With Editor J. Larry Carroll"
* Deleted scenes & outtakes
* Bloopers
* Outtakes from "The Shocking Truth"
* Horror's Hallowed Grounds: "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
* Dr. W.E. Barnes presents "Making Grandpa"
* Still gallery
* 40th Anniversary Trailer
* Trailers
* TV Spots
* Radio Spots
The 'Black Maria' set will be available exclusively from Gorgon Video on Sept. 16 for thirty days and will hit Amazon and other major retailers in October. It currently retails for $99.95. You can get price info and disc details for the 2-disc combo available for pre-order on Amazon by clicking here.
It's worth noting, that this edition was compiled before the recent passing of "Chainsaw" star Marilyn Burns, who died on August 5, 2014. No word on if any additional material to document her legacy will be added.


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Reports claim U.S. home values are rising
Home values increased by an average of 0.5 percent in March compared with the previous month. However, at $146,200 the national median home value was still down 0.5 percent quarter to quarter and 3.1 percent from a year ago, estimated researchers at real estate information portal Zillow.


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3000 Americans died on 9/11/2001 on Dubya Bush / Republican Congress watch. Another 4000 died in two unfunded wars started by Dubya Bush / Republican Congress. Finacial collapse and the worst recession since 1929 on Dubya Bush / Republican Congress watch.
This is the Party that will save America????.......ha..hah..ha..hah..ha..hah..ha..hah..ha..hah..ha..hah..ha..hah..ha..hah..
When you are busy playing golf at Pebble Beach and buying classic cars, you have no time for all that trouble others have. You and your family are safe and secure, you're "lucky" in life, others get to protect you with their lives. You want even more. Downturns are nothing but buying opportunities, so you come out ahead of the low class even more when times get better.
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Will Ferrell, Steve Carell and Paul Rudd star in the comedy sequel "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." Keanu Reeves headlines the samurai drama "47 Ronin." Minnie Driver and Meat Loaf are among the stars of the musical "Stage Fright." These are among the films that premiere on demand from March 31 to April 6, 2014. (Check with your cable or satellite provider for a lineup of on-demand channels on your system.)
Here is a list of those movies and their on-demand premiere dates:
April 1, 2014: "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" (Same day as DVD), Rated PG-13.
In this sequel to 2004's "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," egotistical anchorman Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell) has to start over after losing his job to his wife and co-anchor, Veronica Corningstone (played by Christina Applegate). Ron reassembles the news team and squares off against a new rival. Will the world's greatest anchorman be crushed beneath the weight of his own ego and his salon-quality hair? Also starring Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner.
For more info: "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" website
April 1, 2014: "47 Ronin" (Same day as DVD; weeks before Netflix and Redbox releases), Rated PG-13.
After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honor to their people. Driven from their homes and dispersed across the land, this band of Ronin must seek the help of Kai (played by Keanu Reeves) — a half-breed they once rejected — as they fight their way across a savage world of mythic beasts, shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors. As this exiled, enslaved outcast becomes their most deadly weapon, he will transform into the hero who inspires this band of outnumbered rebels to seize eternity.
For more info: "47 Ronin" website
April 1, 2014: "Bad Johnson" (Before theatrical release)
In "Bad Johnson," Cam Gigandet plays Rich, a suave Chicago ladies' man who refuses to take personal responsibility for his inability to maintain a lasting relationship. After his constant infidelities alienate yet another girlfriend (played by Jamie Chung), he wishes he could say goodbye to his 'little friend.' The next morning he awakes in horror to find that his wish has been granted and his penis has taken human form: a disgusting, selfish, oversexed jerk riotously portrayed by comedian Nick Thune. Pitted against his alter ego, Rich must figure out how to rein in his penis, both literally and figuratively, in order to finally learn what separates the men from their boys.
For more info: "Bad Johnson" website
April 1, 2014: "I Am Divine" (Before DVD release)
Harris Glenn Milstead, also known as Divine, comes to life in this complex documentary that traces his humble beginnings as an overweight, teased Baltimore youth to internationally-recognized drag superstar. The film includes interviews with many key figures from Divine's life, including legendary filmmaker John Waters, his mother and his co-stars Ricki Lake, Tab Hunter and Mink Stole.
For more info: "I Am Divine" website
April 1, 2014: "Ages and Stages: The Story of the Meligrove Band"
A documentary chronicling the Meligrove Band from its teenage beginnings to the release of the 2010 LP "Shimmering Lights." Packed with live footage, behind the scenes antics, interviews with the band, and interviews with members of Tokyo Police Club, Born Ruffians, the Hidden Cameras and more.
For more info: "Ages and Stages: The Story of the Meligrove Band" website
April 1, 2014: "Let Timmy Smoke"
This documentary follows the dramatic story of several players in the cannabis industry, leading up to the 2010 California election and the vote on Proposition 19, a voter initiative to legalize marijuana for adult use. The film chronicles a season in the life of an outdoor grower in Northern California, a High Times writer, a lobbyist, and the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series on the eve of the election, with fans chanting "Let Timmy Smoke" in support of their star pitcher Tim Lincecum. "Let Timmy Smoke" captures a moment when all eyes were on California and the debate surrounding cannabis legalization.
April 3, 2014: "Stage Fright" (Before theatrical release)
"Scream" meets "Glee" in this dark comedy musical about a starry-eyed teenager Camilla Swanson (played by Allie MacDonald) who aspires to follow in the footsteps of her Broadway diva mother. Instead she's stuck working in the kitchen of a snobby performing arts camp. Determined to change her destiny, she sneaks in to audition for the summer showcase and lands a lead role in the play, but just as rehearsals begin, blood starts to spill, and Camilla soon finds herself terrified by the horror of musical theater. Also starring Douglas Smith, Minnie Driver and Meat Loaf.
For more info: "Stage Fright" website
April 4, 2014: "The Unknown Known" (Two days after theatrical release), Rated PG-13.
In this documentary from Oscar-winning director Errol Morris, former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
For more info: "The Unknown Known" website
April 4, 2014: "Afflicted" (Same day as theatrical release)
This terrifying horror thriller follows two best friends who set out on the trip of a lifetime around the world. Their journey, documented every step of the way, soon takes a dark and unexpected turn after an encounter with a beautiful woman in Paris leaves one of them mysteriously afflicted. Written, Directed by, and Starring Derek Lee and Clif Prowse.
For more info: "Afflicted" website
April 4, 2014: "Goodbye World" (Same day as theatrical release)
James and Lily live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its way across the country, triggering a crippling, apocalyptic cyber-attack, their home transitions from sheltered modern oasis to a fortress for the estranged old friends that show up at their door for protection and community. The unexpected reunion--abundant with revelry and remembrances, generously enhanced by organic wine and weed--is quickly undermined by the slights of the past, the spark of lingering flirtations and the threat of a locally grown new world order. Starring Kerry Bishé, Caroline Dhavernas, Adrian Grenier, Gaby Hoffman, Ben McKenzie, Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi), Remy Nozik and Mark Webber.
For more info: "Goodbye World" website
April 4, 2014: "In the Blood" (Same day as theatrical release)
Gina Carano stars as Ava, a trained fighter with a dark past. When her new husband (played by Cam Gigandet) vanishes during their Caribbean honeymoon, Ava uncovers a violent underworld of conspiracy in the middle of an island paradise. Armed with a deadly set of skills, Ava sets out to discover the truth – and to take down the men she thinks are responsible for his abduction, one by one.
April 4, 2014: "Alien Abduction" (Same day as theatrical release)
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina. Starring Katherine Sigismund, Corey Eid, Jillian Clare, Peter Holden and Riley Polanski.
For more info: "Alien Abduction" website


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Now, finally, I get to Concordia, the most requested and sought-after Rio Grande release at Cafe Jay this year; Cafe Jay, of course, being the name of the area at the World Boardgaming Championships, where Rio Grande Games, in the person of me, lays out a set of new (sometimes not so new) games and teaches them to anybody interested. There were 10 games in all in Cafe Jay this year. Three of them were in the cafe last year - Copycat, Unexpected Treasures (both Friedmann Friese designs) and Goblins, Inc. Five of them I've reviewed here already - El Caballero, Renaissance Man, Boxcars, The Doge Ship and Myrmes. I received one of the games - The Quilt Show - upon my arrival at the WBC. According to the distributor who passed it along to me, it was a very popular game at Origins this year. Proved to be a popular game at the WBC, as well.
On to Concordia, which I was pleased, early on, to discover really had only one rule - On your turn, you play a card from your hand and do what it says. And then, it's the next player's turn, etc., etc. to game's end when the card deck is exhausted or one of you has placed his/her last house in a city on the board. There are no in-game victory points to be earned in Concordia. Scores are calculated once, at the end of the game.
The Concordia board was laid out in something of a cul de sac corner of Cafe Jay, and had a nice lamp on it. The atmosphere was congenial, Concordia was the only game on that corner table, and I think at least some of the people who dropped by were drawn like insects to the somewhat unusual light source of a lamp, cutting through the illumination cast by the overhead lights in the ceilings.
I have yet to meet anybody who hasn't liked this game, myself included. It's been rated over 2,000 times on BoardGameGeek and is edging toward an average of about 8 on the 1-10 scale (7.78, as I write). This qualifies Concordia for early membership in The Cult of the New club in which newer games rocket to high ratings. Puerto Rico spent a lot of time as the #1 rated game, a pinnacle it reached very shortly after its release in 2002. Twelve years later, it's still one of only six games to maintain an 8+ average on the rating scale, but it has dropped to #5 on the list's Top 10, behind Twilight Struggle (2005), Through the Ages (2006), Agricola (2007), and Terra Mystica (2012). Concordia is at #118, just behind Reiner Knizia's Battle Line (2000), and Stefan Feld's In the Year of the Dragon (2007). In true Cult of the New fashion, I spent a lot of my time cajoling the general public into playing any of the other nine games, but people came to the Cafe, looking for Concordia.
When people who'd heard of the game, but knew nothing about it, asked about it, I started telling them that I could teach it in five minutes. A number of people took me up on that challenge, and though no one actually timed me, I'm pretty sure I was able to do it within the promised time frame. This is relevant, of course, to the game's charm. It is really quite simple. Its central puzzle is engaging, and it doesn't take long to level the playing field between the experienced and newcomers to the game. And it's not kid-simple, either. The concepts are kid-easy to understand, but they're packaged in a process that makes execution of your goals challenging.
The key to understanding the game is the multiplication process involved with tallying the final score, similar to the way one scores in Stone Age, except with Stone Age, in-game scoring is vital to success. You start Concordia with seven cards, each with a different color strip identifying a particular enterprise in the world of the game. Personalities, they call them - Architect, Prefect (2), Mercator (merchant), Diplomat, Senator, and Tribune. You also start with two colonists in Rome (one land and one sea colonist) and four more in your personal storehouse (two each), along with two food, a brick, a tool, a wine, and a cloth.
You will produce more of these commodities as play progresses, and eventually use them to purchase new cards for your hand, or, in trade, to purchase other resources you need to purchase specific buildings. Each building you put onto the board requires the expenditure of particular resources, and some money. Multiple players can place buildings in cities, but the money cost increases each time. To build a house in a tool city, for example, the first player to do so will pay a brick, a tool, and three bucks (sestertii, in the parlance of the game). The second person to build in that same city will spend the same resources (brick & tool), but twice the money (six sestertii). The third person's price is triple the money amount, etc.
A draw deck of cards allows for the purchase of other cards to add to your hand. Seven of these cards are on display during the rounds of play, and as purchased, they're replaced from the deck. Some of these will be duplicates of the starting cards, while others (Colonist, Consul, and what are known as specialists; Mason, Farmer, Smith, Vintner and Weaver) have specific attributes associated with their use.
There is a European map, embracing both sides of the Mediterranean. You are in the Roman Empire of 2,000 years ago and there are a lot of cities on this map, all producing random goods; brick, wheat, tools, wine and cloth. At the beginning of the game, tiles with these resources depicted on them are randomly placed on the cities. The game, therefore, plays out a little differently, every time. On a player's turn, using one of the cards, in the start hand of seven, a player will select an action, take that action and play moves clockwise.
Without delving into exhaustive detail, players, using the Architect card, will be able to move their colonists, along land or sea routes, and at the conclusion of such movement, exercise the option of purchasing a house to put into a city, located to one side or the other of the spot on the board where the colonist came to a stop. The Prefect card allows a player to activate a particular province, and whether he/she has a house there or not, it allows the player to collect one of the province's most valuable resources. Of course, if the player does have a house in that city with the most valuable resource, the player will collect it twice. In fact, with use of the Prefect, every player in the chosen, activated province reaps the harvest of cities in which they have houses. Once activated, the most-valuable-resource token in that province is turned over, revealing a picture of either one or two coins. At some point, when a number of provinces have been activated, a player can choose (using the Prefect), instead of activating a province, to collect all the coins depicted on all the activated regions to that point in the game. The tokens are turned back over to their 'resource' side and are available for re-activation.
Other cards will allow you to trade goods (Mercator), buy new cards (Senator), use someone else's most recently used card to perform the same action (Diplomat), and finally, pick up the cards you've already used (Tribune).
And so it goes. . .
At the end of the game, your score will be based on how effectively you've been able to move around this map and place facilities in as many cities as possible. Each of the cards you have in your hand at the end of the game relates to certain goals you've accomplished on the board, and each is represented by a Roman God (thematically) and a color. Blue, for example, represents Jupiter, and you will multiply the number of such cards you have in your hand, times the number of non-brick producing cities into which you have managed to build a house. There are also purple (Vesta) cards related to the amount of money you have at the end of the game. Yellow (Saturnus) cards are related to the number of provinces you have managed to inhabit during the course of the game. If you've managed to have houses in eight provinces, and you have four yellow Saturnus cards in your hand at the end of the game, you'll score 32 points. Brown cards (Mercurius) represent the number of different types of goods that you produce (each house you've built is in a city that produces a specific good); maximum here is five, but each is worth two points, and again, if you're producing the maximum and have four brown cards, you score 40 points. Orange (Mars) cards are related to the number of colonists you've managed to get onto the board (six, maximum, worth two each) and green (Minerva) cards are related to specific resources; three points for each resource that you produce, listed on whatever Minerva cards you have managed to collect.
It is a logistics puzzle that effectively blends conceptual simplicity with just enough complexity to make it challenging. While it's true that it has a predictable, Euro-like core (collect resources to trade, one way or another, for victory points), it seems to have snuck past any boredom issues associated with the familiar process. It is not without its detractors on BoardGameGeek, who articulate variations on the JASE theme (Just Another Soulless Euro), but I find fan comments (those who rank it 9 or above), to be more insightful about why this all just just seems to work.
Concordia, designed by Mac Gerdts, with artwork by Marina Fahrenbach, is published by a number of companies, foreign and domestic, including Rio Grande Games, from whom I did receive a review copy. It can be played with 2-5 players and has a recommended age of 13 and up. The game box indicates 90 minutes, which is fairly accurate, whether you're playing for the first time or the 50th time. First time set-up might stretch this just a bit. It retails between $45 and $50, with the usual bargains to be found by the savvy shopper. As of August 17, there was a "New" copy available in the BoardgameGeek Marketplace for $37.


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UPDATE: Binita Baral organized the press meet. She is 'happy' to tell her story and seems 'happier' by the amount of media attraction the photo created. In her Facebook she didn't care to tell what was the real thing she told in the press meet. That means it is not the important. It seems, the press meet was well planned beforehand and they had taken some photos specially for the anticipated press meet – photos showing undergarments. Binita posted this message in Facebook:
The Facebook message says nothing about her concern (because, she isn't concerned about the real issue). She didn't even felt the need to clarify in her Facebook profile (because, she doesn't want to spoil the media attention).
Original article continues ….
Binita Baral, the 'Chapali Heights' fame model/actress, has been in and out of controversy since she enter the Nepali movie industry. At first she was kicked out of a movie, without compensation, after she had already signed the deal.
Then, she got a role in 'Chapali Heights', a movie told to contain bold scenes and story-line. The movie, the shooting of which completed in 45 days, is about a story of a girl living in a hostel, a target of two guys who have fallen in love with her.
A weekly published by Nagarik Media published a near naked photo of the actress in it's cover page on it's November 25, 2011 edition. The photo created a controversy on the bold move of the actress. Binita says that she is wearing black bikini underneath in the picture and it was advertised as something else. She also told that the photo was not taken to be featured in the frontpage of a magazine. It was only taken to be featured in poster.
Here is what Binita posted in her Facebook profile:
I don't know if controversy is following Binita or Binita is following it.
Whatever might be the case, I guess, she knows how to fuel it and keep herself warm on the heat… It is winter after all!
16 Responses to "Binita Baral – Chapali Height photo is no 'nudity'"
binita baral ko 1st movie hit hunu ma hami audince kai main hat hunu ma 2 mat na hola. tara aj deuso cjmc fm ma interview den janda binita ji ko ta khutta bhui ma na bhaeko clear dekhna paeyo. kinki ma tyas bela tyahi yhiea ra kura garna khojda waha le kunai kisim ko chaso nai dekhaunu bhaena. jatti chitti bhau badhyo ne tapai ko ? tyati nai chitti ghatne pani 6 yo yad rakhnu hola. tapai ko kunai pani movie ma ra mera frnds. haru bat bahiskar.
binita ji k 6 hal khaber ? euta movie hit hudaima afno darshak lae pani na ganne ? aaj deuso cjmc fm ma interview den janda bhet hunda 2 wata kura pani garna na chahnu timro dimag ali katti paisa le kaha pugeko re clear dekhoiyo. Tara jun darshak le garda mathi pugyou tyahi darshak le tala jharna pani sak6 yo hamesha yad rakhnu.timro kunai pani movie ma herdina ra mera sathi haru lae pani herna bat rokne 6u.ali kati hit hudaima audince sang pani kura na garne ?
binata , kukur haru bhukchhan tara hati afno mast chal ma hidi ranchha, so dont worry about samaj, aagadi bada, ok bey, god bless u, my mail id (removed) raj from abu dabhi
O..HO! Dhoud ta samae rakhu jasto rahey cha
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Keep showing ur body girl
i don,t have any comment take care your future u should more sexy
[…] a photo meant to be made into the poster was published in magazine covers, she cried foul. She even organized press conference to release her photos showing she had covered her chest by a piece of […]
auta nari le afno ejat dhakna janda che but i know she is not bad girl its just someone make her to not go up if u are right u can fight for right dont worry u will be good actress in feauther…u are so pretty….
[…] latest controversy involves magazine cover photos and her press conference in response. The photo was taken to be featured in the poster of her debut movie "Chapali […]
[…] Binita Baral was apparently upset when the photo specially shot for one of the posters of the movie got published in the covers of magazines like Kamana, Shukrabar and others. The photo shows the actress and the lead actor of the movie without cloth above their waists. […]
if she doesnt wear her underwear that wil b the best.
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[…] tone of message after the press meet – "I told you all I have to say. Now, go on and publish whatever […]
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Auction Napa Valley raises $8.5 million, sees strong social media buzz #AuctionNV
This weekend the 30th annual Auction Napa Valley event took place here in the valley.
Last year, in a down economy the event brought in some $5.7 million. This year a few changes were made–including moving the main auction from a dinner/late evening event to a lunchtime event–resulting in $8.5 million being raised for local charities (a 49% increase).
Also new this year was the level of participation by many local wineries and businesses in promoting the event via social media channels.
We ran a few search terms ("Auction Napa Valley", "#AuctionNV" and "Napa Valley Auction") through one of the social media monitoring platforms to see how things played out online. Here's a quick rundown from May 1, 2010 through June 6, 2010 (at 9am PT).
Overall Statistics
69 Blog mentions
68 News mentions
1,436 Tweets leading to 1.1 million impressions
It's clear from the graphic above that Twitter was the predominant driver of social media discussion around this year's Auction.
The graphic below drills into the Twitter conversation a bit more by looking at the types of Tweets that were being issued by attendees and observers.
The graphic below shows the top discussion topics on Twitter–the thicker the grey line, the more closely aligned the terms are.
In addition to Meadowood, you can see a performance by The "Bangles" was a hot topic and attendees were Tweeting out photos from the event "Twitpic.com".
The graphic below showcases the Twitter users with the most mentions during this time period.
Here's a breakdown of the number of relevant Tweets that were sent from the following handles:
@meadowoodnews: 113 Tweets
@napavintners: 98 Tweets
@legendarynapa: 24 Tweets
@rubiconestate: 15 Tweets
@mitziinglis: 13 Tweets
@lorenzarose: 13 Tweets
@sigvin: 11 Tweets
@ameliaceja: 11 Tweets
@rombauervino: 11 Tweets
@digitalbids: 9 Tweets
[techtags: Napa, Napa Valley, wine, winery, Auction Napa Valley]


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What's On » Event
Sacha Ferrier: Transience
Barnsley-based Sacha Ferrier began experimenting with digital photography in 2011. For him, photography opened up a pathway into a world of emotion and understanding that has enabled him to make sense of experiences and questions that have brewed inside for many years.
Date: Friday 7 March - Saturday 3 May
Venue: Gallery@
Time: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION
To be able to grasp thoughts and observations by the scruff of the neck and place them into some form of reason allows him the time to take a breath, observe in detail without fear of forgetting, and finally move forward knowing that all will be preserved.
Ferrier has a penchant for Baroque and Dutch still life, which is evidenced in his work. The four series of photographs on display in this exhibition all relate to recent happenings in his life, including the loss of a loved one. As a promise to his late wife, and to ensure that his young son would always have a clear understanding of his mother, the images portray personal possessions, questions raised and an attempt to explain the unknown.


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Find Kansas travel tips, stories, maps, videos and news for unusual tourist attractions and sights.
Top Rated Attractions
World's Largest Ball of Twine
Cawker City, Kansas
The late Frank Stoeber's giant twine ball continues to grow under the supervision of Cawker City residents.
The Garden of Eden
Lucas, Kansas
Weird home of folk art and political statements; the late Sam Dinsmoor can be viewed in the back yard.
Strataca: Underground Salt Museum
Hutchinson, Kansas
Museum transports visitors 65 stories below ground to tour vast salt galleries.
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
Hutchinson, Kansas
Second only to The Smithsonian in space artifacts -- see Cosmonaut cast-offs, Nazi ballistics, and American moon diapers.
Atomic Cannon
Junction City, Kansas
The Atomic Cannon was designed to fire a nuclear shell far enough so that it would destroy an enemy without incinerating itself. Park currently closed for security reasons; it may reopen later in 2015.
Dorothy's House and Land of Oz
Liberal, Kansas
Real-life Dorothys give tours. Plot points of the film are colorfully recreated and midget Munchkin mannequins are everywhere.
M.T. Liggett's Political Sculptures
Mullinville, Kansas
Sculptures blown by the winds of politics, this Kansas man's viewpoint is writ in metal and bile. But he's not mad.
Subterra Castle: Missile Silo Home
Shawnee County, Kansas
Defunct nuclear missile complexes are 20th century castles, according to the 21st century couple who live in this one.
Big Brutus
West Mineral, Kansas
Big Brutus, a humongous earth mover, stands where it died and is now a tourist attraction.
Dalton Defenders Museum
Coffeyville, Kansas
Coffeyville remembers the day that the Dalton Gang rode into town to rob two banks, and got shot full of holes by an irate citizenry.
He Killed Lincoln's Killer, Then Lived In A Hole
Concordia, Kansas
Soldier Boston Corbett shot John Wilkes Booth. Later, this hole was his home.
That Grow a Beard Abe! Town
Delphos, Kansas
Abe Lincoln's insistent Grow-a-Beard girl lived here, but Delphos has greater claims to fame...
World's Largest Easel
Goodland, Kansas
A giant replica painting on a giant steel easel -- Van Gogh sunflowers for the Sunflower State.
World's Largest Hand-Dug Well and Meteorite
Greensburg, Kansas
Two unrelated attractions under one roof -- until the roof blew away in a 2007 tornado. But the big hole and the space rock survived.
Valeda The Talking Transparent Woman
Halstead, Kansas
A life-size see-through plastic model explains her anatomy and the mysteries of life.
Comanche, Little Bighorn Survivor
Lawrence, Kansas
Comanche was the last U.S. Army survivor of Custer's Last Stand. He was the most famous horse in America, even after was dead and stuffed.
The Smithalo
Longford, Kansas
60 tons, stands on a hilltop. A personal monument to the American buffalo that was built by Ray Omar Smith, far from the normal tourist routes.
Rock City
Minneapolis, Kansas
A strange field of strange boulders -- 200 sandstone concretions -- and a popular stop to wear out children.
Home of Beautiful Women, Hot and Cold Water Towers
Pratt, Kansas
Take a photo of Pratt's famous "Hot" and "Cold" water towers, then see a historical exhibit on Pratt's heritage of beauty queens.
Topeka, Kansas
A distorted Stonehenge, but also a playful poke at bureaucrats.
Roadside America's blog, offering news, rants and ruminations on the state of Kansas
Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Kansas attractions.
- Belleville: Boyer Museum of Animated Carvings [tips]
- Bonner Springs: Truman's Plow, Agricultural Hall of Fame [tips]
- Cawker City: World's Largest Ball of Twine
- Coffeyville: Dalton Defenders Museum
- Coffeyville: Dalton Death Alley
- Collyer: Castle Rock [tips]
- Concordia: Nazi POW Camp
- Concordia: He Killed Lincoln's Killer, Then Lived In A Hole
- Delphos: That Grow a Beard Abe! Town
- Dodge City: Boot Hill Museum [tips]
- Ellinwood: The Underground [tips]
- Erie: Erie Dinosaur Park [tips]
- Garden City: World's Largest Hairball [tips]
- Goessel: Liberty Bell Made of Wheat
- Goodland: World's Largest Easel
- Great Bend: Inventor of the Microchip Monument [tips]
- Greensburg: World's Largest Hand-Dug Well and Meteorite
- Grinnell: Monument Rocks [tips]
- Halstead: Valeda The Talking Transparent Woman
- Hiawatha: The Strange Grave of John Milburn Davis
- Howard: Hubble's Rubble [tips]
- Hutchinson: Strataca: Underground Salt Museum
- Hutchinson: Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
- Junction City: Atomic Cannon
- Kingman: Yard Art of Glenn Stark [tips]
- Kinsley: Midway USA [tips]
- Lacrosse: Kansas Barbed Wired Museum [tips]
- Lawrence: Comanche, Little Bighorn Survivor
- Lawrence: Fifty-Foot-Tall Concrete Teepee
- Lawrence: Museum of the Odd
- Lebanon: Geographical Center of the 48 States [tips]
- Liberal: Dorothy's House and Land of Oz
- Lindsborg: Coronado Heights WPA Castle [tips]
- Longford: The Smithalo
- Lucas: The Garden of Eden
- Lucas: World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest...
- Lucas: Grassroots Art Center - Pull-Tab and Chewing Gum [tips]
- Lucas: Bowl Plaza: World's Most Artsy Public Toilets [tips]
- Manhattan: 30-Foot-Tall Johnny Kaw, Kansas Answer to Bunyan [tips]
- McPherson: Happy Chef - Chimney Sweep [tips]
- Meade: Dalton Gang Hideout - Secret Escape Tunnel
- Minneapolis: Rock City
- Mullinville: M.T. Liggett's Political Sculptures
- Oakley: Buffalo Bill Kill Statue [tips]
- Pratt: Home of Beautiful Women, Hot and Cold Water Towers
- Rose Hill: Jurassic Art: Welded Dinosaurs [tips]
- Shawnee County: Subterra Castle: Missile Silo Home
- Topeka: Truckhenge
- Topeka: Locally-Famous Big Wren Statue [tips]
- Wamego: Oz Museum [tips]
- Wamego: Old Dutch Windmill [tips]
- West Mineral: Big Brutus
- Wichita: Muffler Man [tips]
- Wichita: Museum of World Treasures
- Wichita: Early Civil Rights Sit-In Lunch Counter [tips]
- Wichita: Big Indian Surrounded by Ring of Fire [tips]
- Wilson: World's Largest Czechoslovakian Egg [tips]


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The American dream of owning a home has been a bit fuzzy over the past several years, in part the result of the economic downturn and the inability of some homebuyers to qualify for a mortgage.
Add to that, homeowners who found the market value of their homes plummet while continuing to pay the mortgage on the higher 'value.'
Yet there are signs that the housing market is on the upswing, albeit a slow rise. And those who predicted the homeownership dream was all but in the dumpster may have been too pessimistic.
So what signs are pointing to a reawakening of the dream to buy a home?
According to information from Fannie Mae, 73% of Americans think it's a good time to get off the fence and start looking. The online real estate website, Trulia, found 70% of Americans continue to hold onto the dream of owning their own home.
Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found that 86% of people age 25-34 believe owning a home is preferable, financially, than renting.
Relatively low mortgage rates continue to offer potential buyers attractive incentive to enter the home-buying market. But despite reports that the number of short sales and foreclosures is declining, the impact on home values continues to impact the appraisal process.
Appraisals are an important factor in the bank's lending decision. If a buyer submits an offer on a home and the appraisal comes in below the offer price, the lender won't lend the buyer the money based on the offer price. The seller will either have to reduce the price to reflect the appraisal price, or the buyer will have to pay the difference between appraised price and the sales price, based on the type of loan. (The lender generally bases the amount of the loan on a percentage of the appraised value.)
But all things considered, owning a home is once again the dream of Americans.


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It seems that for some at MSNBC, racism is everywhere. In a tweet prompting derision from a number of people, Andrea Mitchell wondered if Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery was detained by police in Ferguson for being black, Mediaite reported Thursday.
".@washingtonpost demanding why @WesleyLowery taken in prevented from taking video by #Ferguson police," she tweeted. "Detained for reporting while black?"
What Mitchell apparently failed to understand is that Huffington Post reporter Ryan Reilly was also detained at about the same time. Reilly is white. Both reporters say officers approached them while they were in a McDonald's restaurant. Both claimed they were roughed up, thrown in the back of a van and taken to a station, where they were later detained. They were later released with no charges and no explanation. Mitchell, however, chose to focus on the skin color of only one reporter.
The Washington Examiner's T. Becket Adams called Mitchell's tweet "outrageously irresponsible," and later referred to it as "trash." While the encounter with authorities may raise questions, Mitchell's tweet made the situation worse by suggesting race played a role, Adams said.
"It's the sort of garbage you'd expect from one of her lesser colleagues, from one of MSNBC's late night carnival barkers," Adams wrote. "It's not the sort of thing that you'd expect from NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent."
Adams, however, might have been a bit too generous. Mitchell, as we have previously reported, is not above tossing the race card with no evidence or engaging in biased reporting. While reporting on the Iowa caucus in January 2012, for example, she claimed the state doesn't represent the rest of the country because it's "too white, too evangelical, too rural." The state wasn't too white when Barack Obama won in 2008, however.
Mitchell was also caught using edited video to attack Mitt Romney during the 2012 election. In June 2012, Newsbusters said Mitchell "hinted at a long-since discredited 'supermarket scanner' meme about President George H.W. Bush, suggesting Romney was unfamiliar with touch-screens in convenience stores." It turns out Romney was comparing the government to the private sector, observing how difficult it was for a optometrist to change his address through the post office versus ordering a hoagie at Wawa. The average viewer, however, would never know that if all they saw was Mitchell's "reporting."
"The network should demand better from its news talent," Adams said. "And for this, Mitchell should be reprimanded for playing fast and loose with terribly irresponsible language."
Suggested Links
- MSNBC still network of insane liberal hate
- Former network producer: 'I'm done' denying liberal bias in the media
- MSNBC caught selectively editing video to attack Romney as 'out of touch'
- NBC News' Andrea Mitchell: Iowa 'too white, too evangelical, too rural'
- Yes, Virginia, there is a Democrat-media complex


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Intel's mighty Core i7-980X six-core monster has only been out for a short while, but word is beginning to circulate of an even higher performing model to push it off the podium later this year.
Apparently Intel is planning for a Core i7-990X to hit town sometime in the fourth quarter of the year. This Extreme Edition chip will be 32nm manufactured with 8MB of L3 cache, unlocked multi, six cores/12 threads and a clock rate not yet confirmed, but inevitably higher than the existing 3.33GHz part and costing the Earth for ownership.


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College Hockey:Minnesota finishes year as national champs, No. 1 in D-I women's poll
It should come as no surprise that the undefeated Minnesota squad that captured the Division I women's national championship also finishes out the year where it started – and sat all year long – atop the USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll.
Yet again, the Gophers received all 15 first-place votes in the final poll of the season.
National runner-up Boston University moves up one notch to finish second, while Boston College went to the Frozen Four and rises one to sit third this week. Cornell drops two to No. 4 and Frozen Four entrant Mercyhurst leaps three to No. 5.
North Dakota finishes sixth, Harvard seventh, Clarkson eighth, Wisconsin ninth and Northeastern rounds out the poll this week coming in at No. 10.
The USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll is compiled weekly and consists of 15 voters, including 14 coaches of Division I programs and one women's hockey writer.
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I've dedicate this book to Michael, he is a much better place.
And to all my friends, you guys are the greatest !!
On each book, $ 5.00 profit will all goes to local AIDS organizations.
Thanks !
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Location is an extremely important factor in determining your long-term happiness with your new home.
The right real estate agent should be able to give you a lot of information in this area.
Here are a few things to think about, so you'll be able to discuss them with your agent.
- Do the schools meet my needs?
- Is the commute time acceptable?
- Are there good public recreation areas nearby?
- Will I like the nearby grocery stores and services? Am I willing to drive out of my way regularly if I don't?
- Is the neighborhood stable? Is there sufficient improvement happening around it? If homes are being well maintained and renovated it's a good sign the area is stable.
- What trends are occurring in neighboring areas? Is there revitalization happening or are they experiencing a downturn? Neighborhoods transition, that's only natural. What you need to do is select an area where positive transition is the most likely possibility.
Start Looking Online: There are several excellent Web sites offering listings of homes for sale. Searching your price range is a good way to narrow down the field of neighborhoods you'll have to choose from, get a quick sense of areas you'd like to explore further, and figure out a few areas you'd prefer to skip entirely.
Write down the MLS numbers for any properties that get your attention so you can give them to your real estate agent. Remember that the real estate agent you select, with few exceptions, can show you the homes listed by any agency.
Check School Reports: If you'll need to send kids to school now or in the future, the quality of area schools is very important. Ask your real estate agent to provide you with the school reports for any neighborhoods you're interested in. Another good source is the economic development Web site of the city you're considering, the local convention and visitors' bureau Web site, and the Web site of the largest daily newspaper in the area here is a partial list and good luck:


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While using Mission Control and pressing Control ⌃+↑, I get the tiled view of all the applications in that particular desktop. Is there a keyboard shortcut to choose an application in this view?
No. I haven't found any, but that's not surprising. Mission Control was provided for mouse / touch interaction. Have you tried using Command ⌘+Tab for app switching and Command ⌘+`for window switching?
They are much more efficient if you're interested in keeping your hands on the keys.
You can type the name of the window (not the name of the app) and it will select the windows in mission control that matchs. What I don't know how to swicth between all the coincidences.


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|Soldiers & Sailors Civil Relief Act (SSCRA)
|Chapter 2, General Provisions (Page 2)
Territorial Application; Jurisdiction of Courts; and Form of Procedure
Section 102
(50 U.S.C. App. § 512)
General application. It is not clear whether Congress intended, by the language of the first clause of section 102(1), to make the Act specifically applicable to the governments of the geographical areas mentioned or merely to delineate those areas within which the Act would have operative force. The question is now, however, of small importance. The provisions of the Act were held applicable to the governments and the territories of the geographical areas listed in the statute.
The Attorney General of the United States early advised the Secretary of Agriculture in unequivocal terms that the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 is applicable to all agencies of the Federal government. In so doing, the Attorney General recognized, but did not decide between, the two possible interpretations of the statutory language. Instead, he invoked the rule of construction that a sovereign is bound by a statute when the sovereign is a chief party of interest in the statute. The Attorney General recognized this rule as an exception to the general rule of statutory construction that the sovereign is not bound by its own statutes.
The courts have applied the provisions of the Act to the United States without exception, as well as to state and municipal governments.
Additionally, State courts have applied the Act in its entirety, regardless of whether a particular provision under which relief is sought has no counterpart in state law
Judicial proceedings. The second clause of section 102(1) makes the Act applicable to proceedings commenced in any court within a geographical area over which the United States has jurisdiction. Section 101(4) defines the term "court" as any competent Federal or State court, whether or not it is a court of record. The third clause of section 102(1) allows courts to handle proceedings involving the Act either by use of "the usual forms of procedure" or "under such regulations as may be by them prescribed." For purposes of Federal jurisdiction, however, the Act does not generally present a Federal question. In Davidson v. General Finance Corporation, the court held that an action against a finance company for alleged fraudulent conversion of an automobile sold at a sheriff's sale, following the company's foreclosure of a conditional sales contract, was a common-law action only incidentally involving the Act. In Garramone v. Romo, et. al, a plaintiff asserted his rights under the SSCRA as part of a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983. The SSCRA, while not a jurisdictional statute, may be effectively combined with other causes of action as an equitable argument. In the recent case of Moll v. Ford Consumer Finance Co., Inc., a federal court has ruled that service members may have a private cause of action against creditors that refuse to voluntarily apply the six percent interest cap [50 U.S.C. appx. § 526] when requested, because otherwise the relief would [be] of no value at all.
With the exception of section 205, the Act makes no reference to administrative proceedings. In those few cases where this issue has been raised, it appears that administrative proceedings are not covered by the Act. For example, in Polis v. Creedon the court held that a proceeding before an area rent director was not a proceeding before a court and that a landlord in the military service had no protection under the Act. Unquestionably, however, section 205 of the Act, which suspends the running of the statute of limitations while a member is in the military service, is applicable in administrative proceedings.
The SSCRA does not empower district courts to collaterally review, vacate or impede decisions of state courts.
Persons Liable on Service Member's Obligation
Section 103
(50 U.S.C. App. § 513)
Primarily and secondarily. Sections 103(1) and 103(2) provide those persons who are either primarily or secondarily liable with a service member on an obligation or liability with the same rights to delay actions and vacate judgments available to service members. Specifically, these sections allow the court in its discretion to grant stays, postponements, or suspensions of suits or proceedings to sureties, guarantors, endorsers, accommodation makers, and others.
In considering whether to grant the stay to a co-obligor, the courts have applied a number of tests. In Modern Industrial Bank v. Zaentz the court specified that co-obligors are entitled to a stay only if the service member is a party to the action and the action has been stayed as to the service member. In Tri-State Bonding Co. v. State the court held that a surety could not obtain a stay unless he could show that the principal was in the military service on the date the principal was scheduled to appear, that an unsuccessful effort to secure the principal's appearance had been made, and that the principal's military service prevented his attendance on that date. Finally, a Georgia court held that where liability is joint and several and the action is brought against an accessible civilian party, the proceedings will not be stayed unless the service member is a party to the action
In exercising their discretion "the courts are primarily influenced by two considerations: first, whether the man in service is able to appear and defend, and second, whether a default on an obligation by reason of the change in his income will lead to an unjust forfeiture." The right to open a judgment taken against a person in the military service is reserved to that person only and is not available to a judgment co-debtor.
Courts differ concerning the propriety of granting stays when the defendant service member is protected by insurance and might be considered as only nominally a party to the suit. In Boone v. Lightner, the Supreme Court recognized this problem when it stated that: a nominal defendant's absence in the military service . . . might be urged by the insurance company, the real defendant, as a grounds for deferring the trial until after the war. In those cases where the issue has been litigated, the courts have taken several approaches: (1) granting the stay, (2) granting the stay on condition that the insurer post a bond, or (3) simply denying the stay on the grounds that an insurance company should not be permitted to use the protection of the Act as a shield to postpone or escape liability. In one instance, the court agreed that it could grant stays of proceedings to sureties, guarantors, and other persons primarily or secondarily liable when proceedings have been stayed as to one in the military service. The court determined, however, that a stay is not warranted in the cases of primary or secondary obligors unless it is apparent that denial of the stay would leave the civil rights of the person in the military service unprotected. More recently, an appellate court reversed a trial court that refused a stay to a service member when the limit of his insurance coverage was less than the amount demanded by the plaintiff. Another court concluded, however, that it was an abuse of discretion to deny a request for continuance even though the plaintiff would enforce any judgment recovered only against the proceeds of the insurance policy. The modern trend is for courts to look to the real defendant, and deny SSCRA stay coverage to military member defendants where the plaintiff has agreed to limit tort recovery to defendant insurance policy coverage limits. A well-reasoned opinion in this area is Tabor v. Miller. In that case, although a motion for continuance was ostensibly made on behalf of the military member, the court held that the real party in interest was the service member's insurance carrier. In reaching this decision the court noted that although the plaintiff's claim exceeded the service member's policy limits, his insurance carrier had rejected a settlement offer within those limits. The court concluded that the service member's absence had not materially affected the conduct of his defense, and upheld the lower court's decision to deny the requested continuance.
Co-defendants. As previously indicated, a proceeding stayed as to a service member may also be stayed as to others primarily or secondarily subject to the same liability. In section 204, however, the Act allows a court to proceed against other co-defendants, notwithstanding a stay as to the service member.
A Washington state appellate court was presented with the problem of a service member driving a vehicle owned by his father. They were named as co-defendants in a negligence action. The incident giving rise to the suit was witnessed only by the plaintiff and the absent service member-son. The trial court stayed the proceedings as to the son but denied a stay to the father, who was independently liable under the doctrine of imputed negligence. The appellate court held that the denial was within the trial court's discretion.
Criminal bail bond sureties. The language of section 103(3) prescribes that the court "shall not enforce the provisions of a criminal bail bond during the military service of the principal" and may in accordance with the principles of equity and justice either during or after such service discharge such sureties and exonerate the bail." In United States v. Jeffries the court held that because there was no doubt that the principal was in the military, it was without authority to forfeit the bail bond and issue a warrant of arrest. Subsection 103(3) was mandatory in that case. A New York court took this one step further and held the bond could not be forfeited if the principal was in the service even if he were on furlough at the time he was required to appear. In Ex Parte Moore, however, an Alabama court concluded that military service alone was insufficient to prevent forfeiture of the bail bond without a further showing that military service prevented the principal from attending the trial. In this regard, state courts will ordinarily require the surety not only to show that the principal is in the military, but also to demonstrate an effort to secure the principal's attendance. In cases in which the principal was discharged four months before default or was not inducted until almost six months after he was required to appear, the surety could not avoid forfeiting the bail bond under subsection (3) of this section.
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