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COMING UP:The Arizona women's basketball team (6-12, 2-6) faces California (13-5, 5-3) at 1 p.m. (PST) Sunday, Jan. 22. The game will be televised live to a national audience on FSN. Live audio of the game is available at www.arizonaathletics.com, as well as on KJLL 1330 AM in Tucson.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE WILDCATS:Arizona suffered its worse loss of the season, falling 82-51 to Stanford at Maples Pavilion Thursday night. The Wildcats shot 31 percent from the field and 75 percent from the free throw line on the game, but made just 2-of-18 (11 percent) from three-point range. Stanford, meanwhile, shot 46 percent from the field, 50 percent from downtown and 67 percent from the charity stripe on the game. Arizona, which had out-rebounded the Cardinal by four in the first half, was out-rebounded 49 to 39 on the game. Sophomore Ashley Whisonant led Arizona with 12 points. She was the only Wildcat to reach double-digit scoring. Freshman Whitney Fields paced Arizona with six rebounds.
Junior Joy Hollingsworth leads Arizona this season with 14.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. Whisonant adds 13.4 points per game, while senior Natalie Jones averages 13.3 points. As a team, the Wildcats are shooting 39 percent from the field, compared to the 47 percent of their opponents. They are also being out-rebounded 36.0 to 38.3.
SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION:Freshmen Devanei Hampton (17 points, 14 rebounds) and Ashley Walker (10 points, 10 rebounds) each posted double-doubles and Alexis Gray-Lawson tallied a game-high 23 points to lead California to a 66-64 victory over No. 13 Arizona State Thursday night at Haas Pavilion. The win marked Cal's first over a team ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 poll since Dec. 21, 1998. Cal shot 55 percent on the game and held ASU to just 36 percent. The Bears were able to pull out the win despite turning the ball over 24 times and hitting only 52 percent of their free throws (13-of-25). However, Cal out-rebounded ASU 45 to 35 and held ASU's starters to only 25 points on 10-of-33 shooting.
On the season, the Bears are led by Hampton, who averages 15.6 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. Gray-Lawson adds 14.6 points, while Walker averages 12.8 points and a team-high 7.7 rebounds. As a team, Cal is shooting 44 percent from the field on the season, compared to the 36 percent of its opponents. The Bears are also out-rebounding their opponents 39.5 to 35.2.
SERIES SHORTS:Arizona leads the all-time series with California 28-14. The last time the two teams met, on Feb. 5, 2005, Arizona lost 70-61 in Berkeley. The Wildcats are 16-4 at home, 12-9 away and 0-1 at a neutral site vs. the Golden Bears.
INJURY UPDATE:Sophomore Ch?© Oh suffered a concussion at Stanford on Thursday and is out five days. Freshman Amina Njonkou re-injured her right foot at Stanford on Thursday and is questionable for Sunday's game.. Junior Linda Pace suffered a left knee injury against Washington State on Dec. 29 and is out for the rest of the season.
RANKING IN THE PAC-10:As a team, Arizona ranks in the bottom half of the conference in every statistical category but offensive rebounds (second), turnover margin (fourth) and free throw percentage (fourth).
Individually, several Wildcats rank in the Top 10 in various categories. Senior Natalie Jones is third in free throw percentage (.829), sixth in minutes per game (34.8) and seventh in steals (2.2). Junior Joy Hollingsworth is fifth in three-point field goal average (2.0), ninth in offensive rebounds (2.5), and 10th in both scoring (14.1) and minutes per game (32.8). Sophomore Ashley Whisonant is seventh in assists (3.6), while freshman Whitney Fields is second in offensive rebounds (2.9). Sophomore Ch?© Oh is third in offensive rebounds (2.8).
ROAD WOES:Arizona has yet to win a game on the road this season (0-6). In fact, over the past six seasons, the Wildcats have had a winning record in Pac-10 road games only once (5-4 in 2003-04).
SHOOTING SORROWS LEAD TO LOSSES:In each of their 12 losses this season, the Wildcats have had a worse shooting percentage than their opponents. In fact, the three times Arizona has produced a better field goal percentage than its opponent (Furman, Lehigh, Chicago State), the team has also won the game. Three times (Loyola Marymount, Washington State, Oregon) the Wildcats have shot worse than the other team and still managed to win the game.
SHOOTING THE THREE OFTEN:Arizona has made 90 three-pointers this season, while its opponents have made 91. The Wildcats have 67 more attempts than their counterparts, which accounts for the difference in percentage (37 percent compared to 29 percent).
HALFTIME SCORE INDICATIVE OF FINAL RESULT:In Arizona's 18 games this season, the halftime score has been indicative of the final result 15 times. The Wildcats are 1-10 when trailing at the intermission and 5-2 when leading. The only two games Arizona lost after leading at halftime were against Central Connecticut State and Utah.
HACK AWAY:The Wildcats are fouling quite a bit this season. In its 18 games, Arizona has committed more fouls than its opponent 12 times and the same number once. The Wildcats have fouled less than their opponent only five times, against Chicago State, Arizona State, Washington State, Oregon State and Oregon. Arizona has committed 20 or more fouls in eight games this season, six of which have been losses.
WILDCAT TRIFECTA:Senior Natalie Jones, junior Joy Hollingsworth and sophomore Ashley Whisonant lead the Wildcats this season. The trio account for 61 percent of the team's points. Hollingsworth and Whisonant have reached double-digit scoring in 15 of the 18 games, while Jones has 10 or more points in 14 games.
JONES STARTS 80TH STRAIGHT GAME:Senior Natalie Jones started her 80th consecutive game at USC on Jan. 8. On her career, the guard has started 87 total games.
LACK OF SIZE EXPOSED:With the death of 6-5 Shawntinice Polk and the medical redshirt of 6-2 Shannon Hobson, Arizona is left without much size inside. As a result, the Wildcats have been out-rebounded in 13 of their 18 games this season. In those 13 games, the Wildcats have managed just 33.6 rebounds to their opponents' 40.5 (-6.9).
CURRENT CATS ON UA CAREER LISTS:Senior Natalie Jones ranks sixth all-time at Arizona in both free throw percentage (.767) and three-point field goals attempted (340), seventh in three-point field goals made (98) and 10th in minutes per game (27.8). She looks to become just the 14th Arizona player ever to score 1,000 or more points as she has 957 on her career.
PAC-10 ACTIVE CAREER LEADERS:Arizona boasts several of the Pac-10's active career statistical leaders. Senior Natalie Jones ranks second in assists (279), fourth in steals (165), fifth in scoring (953) and three-point field goals made (98), and seventh in rebounds (472). Junior Joy Hollingsworth ranks eighth in scoring (823).
GOING POLLING: Six of Arizona's 2005-06 opponents (Stanford, Maryland, UCLA, USC, Utah and Arizona State) were nationally ranked in the various preseason polls. Pac-10 power Stanford was ranked as high as No. 8, while Pac-10 teams USC and Arizona State were ranked in all four polls.
STACKED PAC:As a conference, the Pac-10 finished last season ranked as the third toughest conference in the nation after sending five teams to the NCAA Tournament. Finishing ahead of the Pac-10 were the Southeastern Conference and the Atlantic Coast Conference.
TOUGH SCHEDULE:The Wildcats have a challenging schedule that includes 12 games against eight teams (Arizona State, Maryland, Oregon, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, USC, Utah and Wisconsin-Green Bay) that made it to the NCAA Tournament last year. Of those teams, six advanced to the second round, while Arizona State made it to the Sweet 16 and Stanford to the Elite Eight.
CATS PICKED TO FINISH SIXTH, SEVENTH IN PAC-10:Arizona was picked to finish sixth in the Pacific-10 Conference in the preseason coaches' poll. The Wildcats garnered 42 points, just one point behind fifth-place Oregon. In the media poll, Arizona was picked to finish seventh in the conference, receiving 59 votes.
WILDCATS ON THE RADIO:All of Arizona's games this season are broadcast on Tucson's Jolt, KJLL 1330 AM. Paul Johnson is in his 11th year as the Wildcats' play-by-play announcer.
WILDCATS ON TELEVISION:The Wildcats have one more game this season that will be broadcast on FSN:
Sunday, Jan. 22 - 1 p.m. (PST) at California (FSN)
In addition, the Wildcats' games at home against Stanford (Feb. 18) and at Arizona State (Feb. 25) are "wild card" games that could get picked up in the Pac-10 television package.
UP NEXT: Arizona continues its four-game road swing with a trip to the state of Washington. The Wildcats face the Huskies at 7 p.m. (PST) on Thursday, Jan. 26, before traveling to Pullman for a 2 p.m. (PST) game at Washington State on Saturday, Jan. 28.


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But I had to change the pitch of the song (stupid copyright...), that's why the song sounds weird. I will try to upload the video some place else with the right sound and give you the link!
Ok, finally here it is, my way of dealing with their break up. I would have finished this video much earlier but... life got in the way.
So I told you in my latest Rebecca/Evan video that I wanted to wait for this video to tell you my thoughts about the finale but I don't have much to say. I think I said it all with my video. I know there are a lot of Cappie/Casey fans who are on Cappie's side, others are on Casey's side. I actually can understand both of them. It's like it's said in the song: Both are not ready to let go... : Casey is not ready to let got of her dream to become a lawyer, Cappie is not ready to let go of college, BUT they both aren't ready to let go of EACH OTHER! I understand why Casey has to leave to follow her dream, why Cappie can't leave... but what I don't understand is, why they can't find a way to make it work despite that!? I mean, in a relationship you have to deal with decisions like that, everyone who has been a relationship that lasted a few years knows that. The important thing is to find a solution TOGETHER. And that's what they never did. And that's what they need to do next season, don't you think?
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Wyoming: A Guide to Its History,
Highways, and People.
New York: Oxford UP, 1941.
Chapter Two:
Designing a Landscape of Words:
Genre Negotiations, Composition Policies, and Stylistic Features of the
Wordage, Poundage, Yardage: Inventing and Operating the American Baedeker Machine
Designing a Landscape of Words: Genre Negotiations, Composition Policies, and Stylistic Features of the Guides
Patchwork Quilt of These United States: The Rhetoric of Cultural Enthusiasm in Contemporary Reviews of the American Guides
Un-American Guides and Pink Baedekers: The Red Scare of the Federal Writers' Project
A Fabricated Nation: The Politics of Democratic National Portraiture
Vintage Snapshots from Alabama to Wyoming: Reflections of a Cultural Nation in State Profiles
In chapter two, "Designing a Landscape of Words: Genre Negotiations, Composition Policies, and Stylistic Features of the Guides," I study the formal features of the American Guides and attempt to come to terms with their essential hybridity as literary texts. The FWP never articulated a clear poetology or a mission statement, and the absence of such a framework led to a considerable range of local interpretations of the American Guides' aims and methods. The prefaces of the American Guides, written by the respective FWP state director in charge of supervising a team of writers in the state, testify to a confusion of genre and the desire to invent tropes-such as the mosaic, the panorama, or the inventory-that would elucidate the writing endeavor. Often these prefaces are retrospective attempts to invest a text with symbolic meaning that was absent during its making. I argue that the hybridity of the American Guides is the result of conflicting notions about the texts' goals, which ranged from a type of regional fiction to a geographical encyclopedia and a road book.
Using the FWP's American Guide Manual, an instructional book that spelled out composition policies to state offices and their teams of field workers, and editorial memoranda from the Michigan Writers' Project, I try to reconstruct the process of writing the American Guides. Federal writers were encouraged to maintain a crisp descriptive style that would be significantly different from the predominant sentimental rhetoric of travel advertisement and local color writing. Looking at the actual texts, I offer a stylistic vocabulary to assess the essential characteristics of the WPA writing mode. These features include a mentality-defining essay that often uses a dichotomizing strategy in its attempt to delineate a state's profile. The American Guides are most distinctive in their tours section, which employs three predominant forms of description: the people portrait, the catalogue of objects, and the industrial panorama.
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The Cars of "Five-O"
When I was in grade school, one of the most popular shows on TV was Hawaii Five-O. The series followed the exploits of a fictional major-crimes unit of the equally-fictional Hawaii State Police as they protected their island paradise from con artists, drug dealers, jewel thieves, serial killers, kidnappers, smugglers, renegade hippies (it was the 1960s, after all), miscellaneous mobsters, and shadowy international criminal masterminds. Its famous opening title sequence was the best advertising the Hawaii Tourism Authority ever got: lovingly photographed clips of beaches and Boeings, hotels and hula dancers, creatively strung together in synchronization with the theme tune; an MTV music video a decade before there was an MTV.
Though at heart it was just another late-60s cop show with all the usual charming cop-show cliches, Five-O made good use of its Hawaiian setting. Instead of relying on stock footage and "California doubling" to fake being in Hawaii, Five-O actually filmed in the islands, used local residents as actors, and even had some characters speaking in Hawaiian dialect. This gave it genuine Hawaiian flavor (and a generous helping of genuine Hawaiian eye candy) that caught viewers' fancy, and it went on to be one of the longest-running crime dramas in television history. Its rousing theme music and memorable catchphrases ("Book 'em, Danno!" "Be here. Aloha.") became permanent pop culture memes, instantly recognizable even to those born too late to have ever seen Five-O in prime time.
Today we'll be looking at some of the most prominent, and yet underappreciated, regular characters in the show: the big black Mercury sedans driven by protagonist Steve McGarrett (played by Jack Lord).
In real life, Ford did not offer police versions of the big Mercurys, or Ford police vehicles in anything above a base trim level. To be perfectly realistic McGarrett and company should have been riding around in less expensive fleet-special Custom 500s. Of course, it's just a show, and one can forgive the creators for waiving strict compliance with Ford's order book and Hawaii state government asset procurement guidelines and picking the car for its imposing good looks.
The Park Lane Brougham was a typical 1968 Detroit land yacht, with a soft suspension tuned for comfort rather than handling--not exactly your first choice for high-speed pursuit driving. While Five-O was never as chase-happy as, oh, say, Starsky & Hutch, McGarrett did get into his fair share of action sequences--and when he did, the Park Lane plowed the asphalt with its understeering front tires and heeled over onto its bump stops every time he flung it into a turn.
McGarrett always, and I mean always, wore a suit and tie. Though he regularly drove around a humid tropical island in full sunlight in a black car with a black interior, you never saw him (or Danno, Chin Ho, or Kono for that matter) sweat. That car must have had really good a/c!
In the fall of 1974, Ford provided the show with a new four-door Mercury Marquis to supplant the '68 Park Lane as McGarrett's daily driver. Like the Park Lane, the Marquis was a plus-sized sedan painted black-on-black with every box checked on the options list. It was undoubtedly slower off the line than the '68 due to its power-robbing first-generation smog controls and heavy 5-mph bumpers, but it more than compensated for that with jazzy hideaway headlamps and fender-top chrome trim strips.
There was also a third McGarrett car that should be mentioned: in the two-hour pilot film Coocoon, he drove a '67 Marquis two-door hardtop with a red interior. That's the car that you see very, very briefly in the opening titles. Stock footage of Jack Lord driving the '67 was re-used in later episodes when he was supposedly driving the '68 or the '74. In more than one instance unintended hilarity ensued as McGarrett's car changed from four doors to two and back again, and recolored its interior, with every cut from one shot to the next!
After the '74 Marquis became McGarrett's daily driver, the production company kept the '68 around for use as a spare and a background vehicle. In 1978, it was deliberately wrecked in filming a crash scene for the two-part episode "Number One With a Bullet."
Several years later, Michael Timothy, a Five-O fan and old car buff, decided to try to find and restore one of McGarrett's Mercurys. He located the battered remains of the '68 Park Lane in the back of the production company's storage facility, which was now being used for Magnum P.I. The Park Lane hadn't been repaired (or even moved since 1978) and the wreck was serving as living quarters for a local mongoose. Mr. Timothy eventually talked the film company into selling him the car, served the mongoose with an eviction notice, and had it shipped to his home in Chicago. Several years, a lot of work, and nine donor parts cars later, the Park Lane was fully restored. Sporting a custom license plate ("BOOK EM") and a sun visor autographed by three of the original main cast members, it makes occasional appearances at Five-O fan conventions and car shows.
The 1974 Marquis also survived. John Boley Nordlum was Jack Lord's stunt double for many years, and the two became close friends. After the show ended, Jack Lord gave Mr. Nordlum the Marquis as a gift, and he still owns it today. Best of all, it's back in service (sort of) as Steve McGarrett's car!
Unless you've been living off the grid and under a rock for the last few months, you already know that a "rebooted" Hawaii Five-0 (officially spelled with a zero this time instead of a capital "O") is running in prime time. Though it goes in its own direction and has its own distinctive style, the new Five-0 shows a lot of respect for the old. The premise is similar, of course, the main character names are the same, the new title sequence is a loving tribute to the original, McGarrett still tells "Danno" to book people, and they've even made a point of finding roles in the new series for actors who worked on the original. That includes the '74 Marquis.
In the first episode of the new series--I'll try not to spoil it too much for those of you who haven't yet seen it--Navy SEAL Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) comes to Hawaii after his father is murdered by terrorists and is recruited by the governor to head up her new major-crimes task force. (I'll give you three guesses what they end up calling that major-crimes task force, and the first two don't count.) There's a sequence in that first episode where Steve is looking through his father's house after the funeral and finds an important plot development in the garage. Also there in the garage is the Marquis, under a sheet and missing its hood and side mirrors and a few other pieces.
Over the course of the season they've developed a minor story arc in which Steve works on the Marquis in his spare time, finishing the restoration project his father started. In the episode "Powa Maka Moana," which first aired on February 14 of this year, Steve takes Danny (Scott Caan) along on the restored Mercury's first "shakedown cruise" and, as often happens with vintage iron, things don't go quite as planned. Danny complains about having to push a Detroit large-barge down the road in the tropical sun, and witty repartee ensues:
Steve: This is a classic car, and classic cars are temperamental, okay?
Danny: Temperamental?
Steve: Just like you.
Danny: No, no, no. That is an excuse. That is an excuse for poor automobile maintenance my friend. Okay? This is a car. It is not temperamental, it is a product. If it's not working, you get another one, understand?
Steve: What happened to you man? I mean, where's your sentimental side?....
Obviously, the 21st century Steve McGarrett is a Car Lust kind of guy. In fact, it would be perfectly appropriate for him to be shown in some future episode kicking back and reading Chris Hafner's latest post on his laptop. (Hint! Hint!)
One last thing I'd like to mention: since the original series was filmed almost entirely on location, it's also an "inadvertent documentary" of what was rolling on the streets of Honolulu from 1968 into the 70s. In a warm climate with no road salt, cars tend to last longer, so there's an interesting mix of older vehicles to be seen. If you watch the first few seasons' episodes on DVD or streaming video with that in mind, you'll discover many hidden gems such as the Studebaker Lark Wagon that appears in the opening shot of the episode "Twenty-Four Karat Kill."
Join us next time for another thrilling installment of Car Lust, Project AMC: AMC Pacer.
Be here. Aloha.
--My dog's da Cookie kine, brah!
The vintage publicity photo of Jack Lord on the radio asking the Honolulu Police dispatcher to "patch me through" (a minor catchphrase) comes from the blog of The Car Guy Who Gets It. (No relation to our own That Car Guy.) The photo of Michael Timothy's restored '68 Park Lane comes from IMCDB. Mr. Timothy wrote about the restoration of the car for the International Mercury Owner's Association magazine Quicksilver; the article is reprinted here and includes links to more photos. The shot of the '67 comes from the Hawaii Five-0 Fan Club's "Cars of Five-O" page. The photos from the new Five-0 series are CBS publicity images. Your humble narrator got the screencap of the Studebaker off of his wife's first-season DVD set.


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I remember having lemonade stands back in the good ole days. . .
We never had lemonade in my fridge,
but there was always plenty of sweet tea.
So, my lemonade stand would turn into a "sweet tea" stand.
This would bring the neighborhood children running.
It was always hard to determine which friends would drink for free.
This privilege was usually saved for whoever my business partner was for the day.
There were usually several business partners. . .
Not leaving many paying customers.
I didn't live on a high traffic street.
But, we would wave our signs. . .
Making us so hot,
that we would drink most of our tea.
But, on occasion,
someone would stop and place their order.
This would set the whole stand in a frenzy.
Whose turn was is to pour?!
Who would collect the money?!
Who would give the change?!
They would walk away.
We would dance around. . .
counting our money. . .
thinking about what we were going to buy with all of our profits.
If we made a dollar at the end of the day,
it was all worth it.
Those were the good ole days. . .
Life to the full!
how cute is that?!?!
What an adorable little 'stand'! The good ole days for sure! 🙂
You don't even know how much I love this!
Aw, how sweet…love the striped awning! And the red splatterware pitcher is divine!
I went to a lemonade stand once and lemonade was so sour.The little girls running the stand said "Mamma said we could make lemonade, but we couldn't have any sugar!" Sweet tea at least promises sugar at this pretty stand.
This is too cute! I absolutely LOVE this!
This is SOO cute, every child's dream:) We would love for you to share at our new Super Summer Saturday party here: http://www.thechirpingmoms.com/2013/06/super-summer-saturday.html
Very cute..pinned for my granddaughter. Thanks for sharing.
Cute, cute cute. How fun is this. Thanks for linking to Inspire Me. Hugs, Marty
Great project! So cute! Thank you for joining Home Sweet Home!
I love this project! I would love it if you would come and link this up at my link party
Dandelion Wishes Wednesday.
Wow! It's beautiful! I wish I had the time to build my kids one like this! I'd love for you to share it on The Crafeteria's Pinterest Feature Me! board (I already sent you an invitation)
So, so cute!! This beats the folding card table and hand written poster board sign my kids use!
That is ADORABLE, Melissa! Pinned and I'm including a link back in this week's DIY highlights. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity. Now if a little one in my neighborhood would just sell some lemonade! I've missed the local fair, farm show and carnival but I do love fresh squeeze lemonade. Guess I'll have to add some lemons to my grocery list. 😉
Very sweet Melissa!
Hi! Just featured it on The Crafeteria. Thanks for sharing on the Pinterest Feature me! group board. Hope to see you again soon!
How could I get the plans to make a Lemonade stand just like this one? Thank you
How can I get the plans to build a Lemonade stand like this one ? Thank you so much


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Panel to consider new pay cut for California legislators
I'd like to hear if you believe that our friends in Sacramento deserve what they are paid and why.
As I see it, they can't really balance a budget (They continue the old smoke and mirror approach-pushing the dreaded day of gloom to the future, thus creating even more of a crisis) and their best method to balance the books is not by fiscal constraint, but by raiding the funds of cities, counties, school districts and other agencies (We're the blame here since we voted to allow this as long as Sacramento pays these entities back with interest, but how can they do that when they don't have any real money??).
Where is the leadership if passing the problem to the next generation is their only solution?
How can they really justify their salaries, but then maybe they really do deserve it, because we keep on electing them.
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I say we take them back to 92′ levels (if memory serves me right that was $52,500) and then tell them to work from home (no per diem). And we should deduct $1000 for each bill that they introduce…that way hopefully we would have only bills that are really meaningful and necessary.
It's been stated hundreds of times but I'll repeat it…if these people were in the private sector and ran a business they way they run the state there is no way they'd get raises, and most of them would have been fired years ago. If the State of California were a business it'd be out of business


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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Carnaval de San Miguel (en vivo below) aka the Carnival of San Miguel 2012 returns with a live broadcast tonight November 24, 2012. Carnaval de San Miguel culminates a series of celebrations across the region this week. But in keeping with a history started in 1939, and modified twenty years later, the Carnaval will return to the streets tonight with live streaming video below (transmission en vivo) provided by TVO Canal 23.
Organizers tell news that floats will fill the streets tonight. Start time on the Carnaval de San Miguel 2012 is 6 pm locally tonight with more telecasts kicking in at 10 pm locally.
Earlier this week, Sarbelio Campos, director of the Institute Gerardo Barrios and Historian migueleño, told news that "Everything [shown in the carnaval is] what the doctor looked for and was his intention was to make a kind of popular carnival, where the different social strata to participate. And that instead of these big bands were enclosed in these centers, it was best to get them out into the street and dance there anyone who would."
The current carnival took its shape in 1959 under Governor Charlaix Miguel Felix. After seeing other carnivals worldwide, he devised a new vision for the carnivals which had moved in dates and locations previously. Originally held in May, local carnivals were moved in 1939 to November 21 for the Virgin of Peace and offered in locations like the Casino Migueleño
But in a news statement this week, organizers said "The holiday of November in honor of Our Lady of Peace took a new turn from 1959, the year the region appointed as governor Dr. Miguel Felix Charlaix. Thanks to the experience that they had earned during his numerous trips abroad to places where they are very common and traditional carnivals, he devised this bright idea to make one for her land."
Dr. Miguel Felix Charlaix, eventually died March 21, l966 in a plane crash. But his vision still carries on tonight. A complete listing of tonight's calendar can be seen HERE. Below is live, en vivo video.


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Marissa Mayer is so over Yahoo's Bing search deal
Probably isn't Googling for alternatives
YAHOO CEO Marissa Mayer is quietly, though not entirely secretly, plotting to rid her firm of its search deal with Microsoft Bing.
A source close to discussions at Yahoo headquarters has heard Mayer express her desire to drop Bing and move towards a different kind of contextual internet search arrangement.
Unfortunately for Mayer, Yahoo is locked into a search deal with Microsoft that has at least six years left to run.
According to a report at Recode, Mayer is looking towards something that involves three S's, those S's being Stream, Shopping and Search. The report says that Yahoo is trying to differentiate itself from both Microsoft and Google and has its eyes on contextual and mobile advertising.
The concern seems to be that Yahoo has signed away its right to be a player in the internet search market and that recently this has rankled Mayer.
"It's like half pregnancy. A company cannot outsource the foundations of one of its two core businesses to a third party, and these deals never meet their 'projected' goals," said one insider.
"The minute Marissa finds a way out of that deal without committing suicide, she will. She hates it," offered another.
Recode reports that Yahoo might have some wiggle room if Bing does not yield the level of search revenues it expects.
It adds that the view is that the Yahoo CEO demands control over the organisation and is frustrated that such a large amount of control over search has been sacrificed. "Mayer is all about control," said one executive. "And this, to her, is core."
We have asked Yahoo to comment on the report. µ
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Indigenous Evolution, 2005, by Rosemary Lonewolf and Tony Jojola, ceramics and blown glass. Permanent installation at the Heard Museum. Photograph © 2007 Catherine King.
by Jerome du Bois
So much contemporary art is beyond parody that, when I try to describe it, I feel like someone stuck with explaining a lame joke. The upside is that, since so many people take it seriously, there's a lot of material to poke fun at, which is healthier than seething with anger, I have learned. Sometimes it gives Catherine and I the opportunity to point to art that really is worth attending to. Which is not the case with --here he is! there he goes!-- Steven Yazzie trundling by in his cute l'il art car, trying to draw and steer at the same time.
Where to begin? Usually art writers draw on precedent first, just to show they know something. Okay, well, Chris Burden did the vehicle part of the notion better in 1977, with his B-Car. As for drawing under unusual constraints, Matthew Barney has been doing it since graduate school. It's a dumb idea, but that never stopped anybody, including once-local sweat artist Angela Ellsworth. Now we need someone drawing while skydiving, while underwater, while pursued by a bear . . .
No no no, Heard Museum curator Joe Baker explains; I'm missing the point. It's about being an American Indian:
For decades, Monument Valley was used as a backdrop in Hollywood Westerns that depicted American Indians in racist terms. These films fed into a mythology of the American West in which Indians were either stoic noblemen or fierce savages. In Draw Me a Picture, Yazzie challenges these stereotypes of Indian identity by re-envisioning this landscape from a fresh, alert vantage point.
From the drivers seat of a self-styled art car, Yazzie winds along a red dirt road into Monument Valley while simultaneously creating drawings-in-motion of the dramatic red rock formations passing by. Powered only by gravity, the art car is part sculpture, part rolling studio according to curator Joe Baker. Fitted with an attached easel, [the car] allows the artist to be in motion while drawing the advancing landscape. The entire process is captured on film.
Draw Me a Picture shatters outmoded thinking about Indians by offering a new representation of this well-known American landscape. According to Baker, through his actions and urgent drawings of Monument Valley, [Yazzie] reclaims this picture, making it his own by creating images that are free of expectations and stereotypical gestures of Indianess. The final result is drawing that is alert to self, place, and time.
The final result is drawing that doesn't look even a smidgeon like Monument Valley, and an Indian so swathed in safety devices --white helmet, reflective jumpsuit, red warning flags-- you'd think he was a porcelain doll. We've come a long way from counting coup, apparently. (I know, I know, that wasn't the Navajo.) And Joe Baker's trumpeting hits all the pomo flat notes: shatters outmoded thinking --reclaims this picture-- making it his own-- alert to self, place, and time.
From the only published review of this exhibition, I learned that the inclusion of the silent film The Vanishing American, with its shame-on-you-white-man theme, was Joe Baker's idea, not Yazzie's. If you browse Yazzie's web site about this Drawing and Driving project of his, he displays no obvious political overlay in his descriptions. He did this driving thang in Maine, and as far as I can tell that silly stunt was apolitical (and without a helmet). As for Joe Baker, his predictable political credentials were loudly evident in the "Holy Land" exhibition. Now, take away the Indian/racist scrim at the Heard exhibition, and what have you got? Something even thinner, no?
But wait --there's more.
I have a soft spot for the Navajo, having lived up there, primitively, a long time ago. They don't beat their women down, and their elaborate cosmology pays due respect to the awesome world. In fact, they say that traditional Navajos call this world, their Fourth World, the Glittering World.
The Glittering World. Yes, that's the way it looks to me, too. Reality is grainy, made up of trillions of hard little bits, combined in inexhaustibly beautiful ways. Not only that, the procession --and evolution-- of humanity through four worlds harmonizes nicely with Lee Smolin's cosmological natural selection, for which I also have a soft spot.
Instead of attacking the straw man of Hollywood, which left off racist depictions of Indians quite a while ago, Joe Baker (and Yazzie, if he's so inclined) could draw attention to the real dangers to continuing Navajo identity: Mormons, Adventists, Pentecostals, and the Native American Church. And don't forget the package of selfishness and greed --the way to make money-- that First Man sent the bird back to the drowning Third World to retrieve.
Veering back from the whole Indian schtick, leaving Steve Yazzie in the dust (what else is there to say about his gimmick, except that he should consider a variation --pole-dancing at SMoCA in May?), and anyway more generally . . .
[II] The Heard Museum is famous for its collections of indigenous art from around the world. Catherine and I made three long visits in the past few months, renewing a long-neglected acquaintance with the place, taking hundreds of photographs, and what struck us most deeply --and thankfully-- was the total lack of irony in the indigenous work. The art and artifacts face the world, and stand up to it, and glow with their hard-earned lives. (Catherine adds here, "We didn't even have any expectations, and we were blown away.")
Ironically, some of the Museum's curators (and preparators) for the past few years have felt the need to draw more contemporary audiences, so they turned their backs to the lessons of the indigenous art (some of which is contemporaneous), to try on some pomo shoes, get dazed and confused, and the contemporary art suffers by comparison.
We saw a pared-down version of "Holy Land," at the tail end of the exhibition, but the three centerpieces were still there:
1) the de la Torre brothers' trashy-trailer fused with Olmec head, insulting America while ripping off Jasper Johns and Ed Keinholz;
2) an inexplicable installation consisting of the following: a wall of red plastic ice coolers, one side of which had been cut open in a giant circle; six feet away, a vertical constuction of C-clamps of various sizes, like a wizened Stankewiecz; six feet further, a powerful mounted floodlight casting a shadow of the sculpture into the circle; that's it, that's the piece!;
3) An Israeli artist's piece called, I think, Tree House. In two parts: a wall-projected video of its construction, with the ectomorphic artist, bare-chested, well-bearded, and wearing baggy blue-and-white swimming trunks, uses sprockets, ratchets, and bolts to construct what you see on the floor next to the video projection. It's a bare mattress, and what rises awkwardly from its head is no tree house --there's no space to lie down-- but instead a spindly and starving wooden dream. I've built children's playground equipment that was far more complicated.
Catherine and I believe that every one of these contemporary pieces suffers in comparison with the objects highlighted above in the paragraph marked [II].
We leave readers to make their own comparisons.
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Post Notes:
All photographs taken from Catherine's extended piece on the Heard Museum, still in preparation.
If Mr. Baker or Mr. Yazzie or anyone wish to comment, choose your words carefully.
Cryin' And Dyin'. Paranormal Photography © 2007 Catherine King.
Two Nows In Platonia. Digital photocollage by Jerome du Bois from photos by Catherine King. © 2007.
For an explanation of the title, the reader needs to consult Julian Barbour.
Paranormal Photography © 2007 Catherine King.
Paranormal Photography © 2005 Jerome du Bois.
Third in The Cosmic Joke series. See sidebar.
Paranormal Photography © 2007 Catherine King.
Paranormal Photography © 2007 Catherine King. From a photo-based work in progress titled The Fullness Of Time.
A Woman's Reach. Digital Photocollage and Collage. 38" wide. © 2007 by King & du Bois
Detail here.
by Catherine King
This collage took its title from a poem by Robert Browning: Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Seeing as the photograph is of my hand, though, Jerome and I decided to paraphrase the line.
The online search engine tells us that Browning's words suggest that, to achieve anything worthwhile, a person should attempt even those things that may turn out to be impossible.
While not untrue, I have more possible interpretations as applied to King & du Bois' latest piece.
This piece is about extending oneself by sheer will, as in morphing, changing oneself however necessary in order to accomplish, let's say, a task that one has set for oneself. It's about reaching farther than is ordinarily possible, or doing whatever it takes, because one refuses to accept limits.
So it's also quintessentially human, in that it's about the age-old desire to make a mark, to have some kind of an impact. It expresses the attempt of one soul to reach out, and in doing so to try one's hardest both to contribute and to communicate.
The image is timelessly mysterious, like those self-portrait handprints made by our cave-dwelling ancestors. All they left is proof that they, too, tried to touch their surroundings . . .
But, on the other hand, we all know that our efforts inevitably lead to unifying with our surroundings. We disperse and melt until there's nothing left.
The image is also postmodern -- it refers to fractals, of which everything is made, we now know. Like a tree, with fingers like leaves, the hand's development is always outward, upward, forward, making contact, solving problems, and creating beauty.


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My dad likes old cars, albeit tuned up with tires full for optimal performance. He can't pass a sock sale without buying five pairs, although he has drawers full of them. And he recently discovered Sam's Club, where he likes to buy my children lots of plastic toys made in China.
But when I was a kid, things were different. Although my dad grew up in a white-bread family and a small mid-western town, as an adult he was adopted as a blood brother to the patriarch of a Lakota Sioux clan. In the late '60s, he started teaching the novels and poetry of Native American writers to students in his English classes; eventually he co-founded the Native American Studies Program at UCLA.
When I was five, he caravanned a group of these students from California to North Dakota, meeting Native American writers and elders along the way. I remember a Monarch butterfly that landed on my finger at Sitting Bull's grave site and stayed that way for the next two hundred miles.
So as an adult, I never thought of my dad as much of an environmentalist. But then I started looking at the ways my life has changed in the last few years, and I realize that much of the inspiration comes directly from him.
Take the garden for example. As a child growing up in the canyons of Los Angeles, we planted corn, tomatoes, salad and squash; even when he lived in a condominium, my father had edible plants growing on the balcony.
And he doesn't just grow them to eat: My dad believes in the power of plants. If you cut your finger, he'll offer you an aloe vera leaf. Feeling under the weather? He'll brew up some foul-smelling concoction of Chinese herbs. On important days-my wedding day, and the first time he met each of his three grandchildren-my dad will sprinkle our heads with corn pollen as he says a prayer to the four directions.
But most importantly, my father taught me that plants-and all living things, really-deserve our respect. That when you cut a flower or an herb you should give the plant some water or food in return, and thank the plant for what it gave you. And he helps me pass these lessons on to my children.
There are some childhood habits that die hard, however. My father now buys organic milk when we come to visit, but he still likes his meat bought in bulk and eaten daily. He does not believe that my Green Wash Ball can actually get his clothes clean. He stocks up on antibacterial soap and scoffs at my inspection of shampoo labels when he sends my kids to shower at his house.
And regardless of how many times I talk with him about the dangers of chemicals in cleaning products and fertilizer, he still cleans his tub with Tilex and douses his weeds with Round-Up.
But hopefully, just as his lessons changed my life, mine might change his someday. Thanks, Dad.
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PORTLAND, Oregon -- First baseman Casey Kelley was 4-for-8 with two home runs on the day as the Washington State (16-14, 6-4) baseball team defeated Portland State (11-20, 1-10) 6-3, 8-5 in a doubleheader Saturday at Civic Stadium.
Kelley blasted a home run in each game and now has a Pac-10 North leading 14 homers. Kelley was 1-for-4 in the first game and 3-for-4 in the nightcap. He also added a triple and six RBI. Kelley entered the PSU series tied for 20th in the nation in home runs and is now only 10 homers away from breaking John Olerud's school record of 23. Ray Hattenburg started both games in left field and faired well with a 4-for-7 day, including two doubles, a triple, and three RBI.
Todd Meldahl (4-3) started the first game and pitched his second consecutive complete game to pick up the victory. Meldahl gave up only three runs and seven Viking hits while striking out seven.
In the nightcap Cougar ace Wade Parrish (5-2) bounced back from his loss at Washington and was impressive in his five and a third innings of work. Parrish gave up four runs, all of which came in the sixth inning, and seven hits. Reggie Rivard entered in the sixth and put a stop to a four-run PSU rally. Rivard gave up only one run off two PSU hits in the final three and two-thirds innings to pick up his second save of the season.
Portland State's Rick Southall continued his hot hitting and contributed a 3-for-7 day with two doubles. PSU starter Josh Pearce (1-5) took the loss in the first game giving up four runs in just over five innings of work. Tony Blackhurst went to the mound in the nine inning game and didn't fare much better, giving up six runs in four and two-thirds innings.
The Cougs played catch-up in the first game that saw them down 2-1 before entering the sixth inning. In the sixth WSU exploded for five runs to put the game out of reach and secure the 6-3 victory. Kelley hit a three-run blast that proved to be the game winner and Hattenburg added a two-run double to close out the scoring in the sixth.
The nightcap saw a pitcher's duel between Parrish and Blackhurst for the first three innings. Both teams were held scoreless before the Cougs scored four runs in the top of the fourth. Hattenburg pushed across two runs with a two-out double and catcher Ryan Smith scored two more with his fifth double of the year. Kelley provided two more runs in the fifth with his second homer of the day. The home run over the left field wall gave Washington State a 6-0 lead.
The Vikings rallied in the bottom of the sixth to pull within two, but Rivard entered and shut down the PSU lineup. The Vikings recorded only two hits off of Rivard who has now only given up one run in his last eight and two-thirds innings of relief. The Cougar defense continues to improve and for the second straight day they did not commit and error.
The Cougars are now just a game and a half out of first place in the Pac-10 North behind OSU and UW. Oregon State remains in first place after splitting a doubleheader with No. 15 Washington. Dave Wheeler (1-2) will get the start in Sunday's 1 p.m. series finale. Portland State had scheduled Adam Flohr (4-5) to get the start, but Flohr pitched the final three innings of Friday's opening game.
Game 1 WSU 000 150 0 - 6 7 0 PSU 020 000 1 - 3 7 0 Todd Meldahl and Ryan Smith. Josh Pearce, Brannon Cedergreen (6), Travis Rainwater (6), and Neal Andrade. W - Meldahl (4-3); L - Pearce (1-5); S - None, HR - Kelley (13). T - 2:10; A - 182. WSU Hits - Stevenson, Randall, Kelley, Mitchell, Curran, Bode, Hattenburg. PSU Hits - Remington, Keith, Southall, Rainwater 2, Steward, Curry. E - None. 2B - Stevenson, Southall, Rainwater, Curry. 3B - Hattenburg, Remington.
Game 2 WSU 000 420 011 - 8 10 0 PSU 000 004 100 - 5 9 2 Wade Parrish, Reggie Rivard (6), and Ryan Smith. Tony Blackhurst, Ryan Woodard (5), Travis Rainwater (8), and Travis Boslar, Neal Andrade (8). W - Parrish (5-2); L - Blackhurst (2-5); S - Rivard (2), HR - Kelley (14). T - 3:18; A - 213. WSU Hits - Randall, Kelley 3, Grove, Curran, Hattenburg 3, Smith. PSU Hits - Remington, Rainwater, Keith, Southall 2, Riehl, Curry, Stewart, Boslar. E - Rainwater, Andrade. 2B - Hattenburg 2, Smith, Remington, Southall, Curry, Boslar. 3B - Kelley.


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Beer is Europe's convivial drink, a beverage steeped in European history, tradition, and craftsmanship, and brings people together like no other. During this Symposium the various speakers will guide you through the interesting world of beer; from ingredients, to myths, to science.
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If $A$ is invertible, $F$ is algebraically closed, and $A^n$ is diagonalizable for some $n$ that is not an integer multiple of the characteristic of $F$, then $A$ is diagonalizable.
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(1) Why the condition "$A$ is invertible" essential?
(2) In wikipedia, diagonalizable matrix , it says $A$ satisfies the polynomial $p(x)=(x^n- \lambda_1) \cdots (x^n- \lambda_k)$, is that means $p(x)$ is the minimal polynomail of $A^n$? If yes, why it can be written in the form of $(x^n- \lambda_1) \cdots (x^n- \lambda_k)$ instead of $(x- \lambda_1) \cdots (x- \lambda_k)$??
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This weekend was devoted mainly to one thing - beading the costume I'm wearing at a dance competition the first weekend in March.
Yes, in two weeks. It's not done. Every bead and sequin is sewn on by hand and it's a huge task and one I'm behind in. My goal was to have it complete by 14 days out from the event.
No go. I did get a long way on it this weekend, but that meant several hours of sitting on my butt to do it, so my fitbit stats are very, very sad.
I'm reminding myself I can do everything I want....but perhaps not at the same time. Aiming for 25 miles distance in a week is great if you have time to do it realistically. The next two weeks? It's not going to be realistic. The costume MUST be finished, and that's more sitting outside of work than I usually do. But there is an end in sight to it, it's only until the competition weekend.
Sigh. Working on health and wellness is a lot of work. A lot of time. Planning, executing, focusing on. With a full time job, a part time job of dance, and a family, I'm seeing so clearly how it was easy to push trying to be healthy aside because of all of the other demands of life.
But I won't BE there for that life if I don't deal with my health. This weekend, my stress and anxiety were probably the highest I've had in years. My risk factors are high for some kind of cardiac event and the last couple of days as I felt soooooo stressed, that was all I could think about. So, goals for this week - I need them. And, I need for them to be REASONABLE.
1. 5,000 steps a day. This is half of my usual daily goal, but about 1500 steps more than a day when I'm not trying to move. It's a reasonable goal.
2. CPAP. I've gotten to the point of avoidance here, again.
3. Medication compliance. Take yer freaking medicine!
4. Actively working on stress reduction.
5. Drink some water.
6. Eat 5 freggies a day.
That's it. Those are the only goals I'm working for this week. It's all I can handle. Once again, something is better than nothing. How about YOU? How do you handle really stressful weeks? Do you try to keep your full schedule up and running, or do you sometimes modify to attain goals at all?
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Hang in there - you can do it. Good for you, for being reasonable about what you can accomplish this week. I tend to just keep trying to add everything in and when it doesn't work I feel like a failure. Thanks for the reminder that something is better than nothing.
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David Bedein has a sobering piece for those who want to believe, in spite of all evidence, that John F. Kerry is pro-Israel. Bedein describes Kerry's newly appointed Middle East advisor, Martin Indyk, as Kerry's Arafat Yes-Man <http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp'ID=14474>'and backs it up with numerous disturbing examples. In early November 2000, Arafat's Second Intifada terror campaign was getting underway, and Indyk was strongly condemning Israel's military actions against Arafat's forces. Indyk remarked that what the Israelis had to do was to get Arafat to act against the perpetrators of the violence, such as Hamas, Tanzim gangs and the Islamic Jihad /diplomatically/. He did not mention that Arafat's own Force 17 bodyguard, Preventive Security and other Palestinian Authority forces were also responsible for a considerable portion of the violence. Indyk never wants to hold Arafat responsible when Arafat's personal forces carry out terrorist activities and kill people. And in late November 2000, when Israel issued a 'white paper' on intercepted intelligence from Arafat's headquarters that showed documentary evidence that Arafat and his mainstream PLO gangs were indeed facilitating the campaign of terror, Indyk made a special trip to Jerusalem to /demand/ that the Israeli government withdraw its report. Indyk had just reported to the U.S. Congress that the Palestinian groups organizing the terror campaign were NOT under Arafat's control. Eight months later, on May 21, 2001, in an address to Ben Gurion University, Indyk stuck to his guns and continued to position Arafat(Continue reading)


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By simple algebraic means I got that $P(x):=(x^3-7)^2-3$ is a polynomial s.t $P(\alpha)=0$ where $\alpha = \sqrt[3]{7-\sqrt{3}}$.
I wish to show that $P$ is of minimal degree, is this proof ok ?
Clearly $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt3)$ is of degree 2 over $\mathbb{Q}$ so If I show that $F(x):=x^3-7+\sqrt3$ is irreducible over $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt3)$ then the degree is 6 [Here I am missing an argument, not too sure why this will end things]
I know that $F(x)$ have exactly 3 roots, 2 are in $\mathbb{R}$ and one is not. So I also have to prove that the two real roots are not in $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt3)$...
Any ideas ?


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I have HD video, which I play through browser. Whenever I try to play it with "low quality" and "medium quality", the video plays smoothly.
But when I select "High quality", the same video sticks while playing. All videos are fully buffered before playing. What can be the cause for this?
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Kansas author Shannon A. Thompson sets her fourth young adult novel, the thriller 'Take Me Tomorrow,' in a grim dystopian America where the State controls the civilian population after blaming a clairvoyant drug called tomo on a revolt that ends in massacre. Drugs, oppressive government and revolution are weighty backdrops for a YA novel about a teenage girl, but Thompson isn't shy about tackling darker material.
Thompson's last two novels were the first two books in The Timely Death Trilogy, which are young adult paranormal romance tales with fantasy elements. 'Death Before Daylight,' the final book in The Timely Death Trilogy, is scheduled for release in early 2015, but Thompson says 'Take Me Tomorrow' is a chance to introduce readers to her darker side.
'The Timely Death Trilogy is the lightest piece of writing I've ever written,' Thompson says. 'I generally focus on darker writings, and I wanted to share 'Take Me Tomorrow' in order to get a feel for my readers. I want to go back toward darker fiction, and sharing that story is allowing me to prepare my darker fiction while I also focus on releasing the final book of the trilogy. It also shows my readers something else they can look forward to.'
Thompson says a conversation with her father sparked the idea for 'Take Me Tomorrow.'
'I'm very passionate about drug use, including the effects of addiction and abuse,' she says. 'I have been ever since my mother died from an accidental overdose. At first, I didn't understand what had happened, so I spent many of my teen years reading everything I could about drugs. … The novel itself was sparked from a single conversation I had with my father in a coffee shop one afternoon. We were discussing what I had learned when the conversation turned toward futuristic drugs. 'Take Me Tomorrow' was born.'
'Take Me Tomorrow' is told from the first-person point of view of 16-year-old Sophia Gray, a strong-willed protagonist who's essentially oblivious about the world around her until she meets a mysterious young man on the run named Noah.
'I think all of my characters are oblivious to an extent,' Thompson says. 'I am attracted to situations where characters are oblivious because it forces them to choose between remaining oblivious or to face the truth. To me, actually dealing with the truth of a situation is a very heroic thing to do, especially if that truth destroys your comfort zone or the relationships you've held dear to you for your entire life. It changes everything, and it shapes you into someone new entirely.'
Another prominent theme in Thompson's novels is the struggles her young characters have with their identities and their places in the world.
'Identity is such an important subject matter, especially for young people, which is probably why I focus on it so heavily,' Thompson says. 'Finding yourself is a constant adventure, and it can morph over time, leaving people wandering around in directions they never thought they would go. Because of this, identity is different for everyone, so it's fascinating to explore that endless array of possibilities – both good and bad.'
While 'Take Me Tomorrow' is about Sophia's journey, the dystopian setting manages to hit close to home: A government that limits freedoms and closely monitors its citizens all in the name of security. The quote from the movie 'V for Vendetta' comes to mind: 'People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.'
'Looking at the current state of our world – both economically and politically – I have many fears for young people in the future everywhere,' Thompson says. 'I'm very involved with politics, but I do try to keep my beliefs to myself. That being said, I do encourage young people to read more about the world from outside sources … sources in other countries, not mainstream media. The first time I ever did this was a life-changer. My history teacher brought me a French history book to flip through, and their stories were almost the stark opposite of what I read in U.S. classrooms. I was hooked.'
If 'Take Me Tomorrow' reads like one book in a larger series, it should. Thompson has already written the sequel, but its release will rely on reader response and isn't set in stone. With 'Take Me Tomorrow,' Thompson admits the urge to go into more detail about key aspects of the plot was difficult to resist, so she tapped her own experience as a youth trying to comprehend a national tragedy.
'I wanted to show more information on the massacre, but Sophia was very young and still is when the novel takes place, so it didn't come naturally,' Thompson says. 'I thought about 9/11 when I considered the event. I was 10 when that happened, and it took me many years to finally grasp it or understand the importance of the event, but I definitely didn't understand it when it happened. So I took that approach with Sophia.'
Thompson says the sequel to 'Take Me Tomorrow,' titled 'Take Me Yesterday,' is written, but its future isn't part of any tomo-induced vision. It's strictly up to the readers.
'It answers many questions that readers have had,' Thompson says. 'What was the massacre? What are the other regions like? Who is Lyn and what happened to Sophia's mother? Will Noah and Sophia end up together? But the sequel is completely dependent on whether or not readers want it. Sharing the novel and encouraging others to share it will make the sequel happen.'
Read the Examiner.com 5-star review of 'Take Me Tomorrow' here.
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Jeremy Abbott proved he is no one-hit wonder by skating into first at the U.S. Championships last night in Spokane, Wash. Meanwhile in the pairs 2009 U.S. silver medalists Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett were the surprise leaders.
The defending men's champion, Abbott saw himself in the underdog role heading into the event because Evan Lysacek, who finished second last night, won the 2009 World men's title last March.
"I was very happy with my short program. I was so much more nervous here, more so than in my other competitions," Abbott said. "I had to put that aside and focus on the job I had to do like I do in practice, When I hit that third jump, the Lutz, I just exploded and had so much fun."
Abbott put down a stellar program. Skating to Jeff Beck's version of the Beatle's "A Day in the Life," Abbott earned a personal-best score of 87.85. His performance was entertaining technically solid.
The 2009 U.S. champion nailed a triple flip-triple toe combination, followed by a huge triple Axel and he also hit a nice triple Lutz. Meanwhile, Lysacek had a costly miscue on his opening triple Axel whe he stepped out of the jump in his program to Stravinsky's "Firebird." Lysacek was second with a score of 83.69.
Three-time U.S. champion Johnny Weir (2004, '05, and '06) was certainly good last night. He is in third place, just 0.18 behind Lysacek with 83.51. Adam Rippon is in fourth place with a score of 72.91.
The U.S. has three spots for the 2010 Olympic Games in the men's discipline.
In the pairs 2009 Denney and Barrett came out strongly and grabbed the lead. They scored 63.01 for their short program skated to "Variations" from the "Song and Dance" soundtrack. They nailed a huge triple Lutz twist lift and then put down beautiful side-by-side triple toes.
Another surprise couple came out the gates roaring. Relative unknowns Caitlin Yankowskas and John Coughlin finished less than a point behind with a score of 62.09 points. Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig are in third with 58.76 points.
Both Denney and Barrett credited their hard training with helping them perform so steadily in Spokane. "We are training a lot smarter this year. We are trying to simulate competitions in our training," Barrett said. "It was nice to get out there and have all the hard work pay off."
Denney added: "Having the crowd behind us was fun."
Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker, the two-time and defending champions, are in seventh place. McLaughlin fell twice during the duo's short program. She fell on a triple Salchow and more surprisingly on a death spiral when she leaned too far back and caught the heel of her blade on the ice.
The United States has two berths in pairs to the 2010 Olympic Games.
U.S. Figure Skating will announce the Olympic team after nationals.


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Every year millions of people decide to travel on cruise ships. Many are repeat customers. Most people wouldn't mind trying it. Others would never dream of it. Some are in between.
Here are some pros and cons to help you establish whether you are a cruiser at heart. Or not.
More relaxing: Cruise ship travel is more relaxing than land tourism. There are fewer hassles and unexpected problems. You don't have to spend hours in cramped vehicles going from one destination to another. There are also so many activities for each family member to do, that you won't be in each other's hair all the time.
Destinations: On many cruises, you will get to see several destinations and countries on that one cruise. On land vacations, that is not usually that easy to do.
Food: The food on cruises is usually much more superior to what you would get on land vacations.
Pampering: The pampering you receive on cruises are at a higher level than treatment at most hotels.
Unpacking: Some land vacations you pick may consist of several destinations which will require a lot of packing and unpacking. On cruises, you still get to visit many destinations, but you need to unpack only once.
Exciting excursions: Many cruise lines pick a diverse selection of excursions at each port for you to choose. This often includes many unique experiences you wouldn't think of doing yourself or know about doing.
Less exploration time: Most of your time will be aboard the ship. You won't have much time to absorb the local culture of everyday life.
Fewer destination options: With a cruise, you are mainly limited to visiting coastal areas. Cruise ships cannot go inland whereas cars, trains, and planes can.
Small cabins: Most cabin rooms are small. Try to find a ship that offers larger cabin room, or book a suite for more room for you to relax. Most cruise lines do offer larger cabins, but it all depends on how much you are willing to pay for them.
Not all-inclusive: Even though many things are included on most cruise ships, most times alcohol, sodas, and specialty snacks are not. Not to mention the tips.
Time constraints: At each port, passengers must return to the ship at a specific time.Mealtimes, special events, entertainment, and other cruise organized activities also run on set schedules. If your priority on vacation is to relax and "get away from it all" you may feel that cruising isn't relaxing enough, and you will be happier staying on one the islands, where you can explore on your own, following your own schedule -- or no schedule at all.
Seasickness: can put a damper on your trip. Those prone to motion sickness should make sure they have medication with them. Particularly if the weather turns stormy, choppy waters can rock the ship and lead to seasickness or queasiness. While modern cruise ships use stabilizers which minimize the problem, those who are most prone to motion sickness may still find themselves battling nausea, dizziness, or headaches.
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Banks Community United Methodist Church
July 18, 2004
Pastor Brian Shimer
"Just Three Words"
Romans 13, part 3
This week I had so much fun with the short presentations for the
VBS kids. These little vignettes pictured the relationship of 5 year old Jimmy, played by me, and his grandma, played by Nancy Hilgendorf. Well, Jimmy was rambunctious, inquisitive, and really active, and caught the imagination and delight of the children. One little girl asked, "Is he really like this at home?" "Thankfully, not always," my wife would say. Another little girl told me she thought I looked like a monkey. And another boy said, "I like it when you are Jimmy."
But when Jimmy wet his bed one night, the children went "full stop". Indeed, many of them could not escape from the remembrance of their own similar experiences. Getting the message out of that story was "oh so hard!"
As adults bed wetting does not cause us to come to a full stop, but rather to go into overdrive... remaking the bed, comforting the child, and tucking them back in for the night and then returning to sleep ourselves.
But there are things that bring us adults to a full stop.
I have had phone calls do that to me. "Brian, your dad has a spot on his lungs," my parents told me over the phone. It brought my life to a standstill.
Conversations have done it: "Your message hit my life. This change has resulted. I just wanted to thank you for letting the Lord work through you."
Issues in the relationships of others have stopped me.
Karen and I were in a bead shop in Nahalem Bay, behind a woman who was buying what looked to me like a small tray of beads. The lady behind the counter rang them up and the total came to $249.00. I was astounded. But what astounded me more was the comment made by this woman purchasing the beads: "My husband will kill me when he sees this one..." That brought me to a full stop for it manifested a lack of respect and relationship in her marriage.
Or the women Karen has encountered in stamping stores who enter the amount in the check book but write in "Safeway" or "Albertson's" in the line so that when their husbands do the books they would not know that the purchase went for stamping supplies. That is another thing that stops us for it manifests deception in the relationship.
When we seek to balance the checkbook and find we have forgotten to enter the $800 insurance payment, that has a tendency to bring our hearts to a similar stop as our stomachs drop to our feet.
There are many things that stop us, but there are other things that
ought to stop us. The sentence in Romans 13:8 begins with a phrase that ought to stop us: "Let no debt remain outstanding..."
Now when we encounter the word "debt" we immediately think of bills, which come without fail. You pay them, but like weeds, they just keep coming back. There is the light bill, the gas bill, the water bill, the fuel bill, tax bills, mortgage payments, insurance bills, credit card bills, car payments, and on, and on, and on, ad infinitum.
So we read the words and think the Scriptures mean "don't be in debt" to anyone, at any time. Indeed, the Greek has just three words for this statement, and the words are arranged so that the emphasis is upon the negatives: "No one Nothing Owe!" Does that mean we ought not have a house payment or pay rent for an apartment? Does that mean no car unless you save and pay cash?
The warning here as it applies to money means to not incur unreasonable debt, it is a warning against living beyond our means or in other words to pay what we owe. In this context we had better listen. These three little words "owe no one anything" ought to be taped to our credit cards. They ought to be written on our billfolds, for Proverbs reminds us that the debtor is slave to the lender. We need to be reminded in this culture of ours to live within limits.
In a book called Money Makeover I read the story of the author, Mary Hunt, who writes of the time when she and her husband came to full stop. He had lost his job, had no unemployment benefits, absolutely no source of income, and over $100,000 in unsecured debt due to her inability to control her credit card spending. She would just pay the monthly minimum payments!
(Cheapskate Monthly: Money Makeover, St Martin's Paperbacks, c.95, p.13, ubp).
Three years ago the average unpaid credit card balance in the US was 4,400! And that figure had gone up 123% over the previous decade!
US News and World Report 3/19/01 Article: Digging your Way out of Debt. Paul J. Lim and Matthew Benjamin
Juliet Schor in her 1999 book called The Overspent American: Why we want what we don't need emphasizes the source of this spending cycle of ours-- our relentless attempt to keep up with the Jones' who are no longer the next door neighbors, but the imaginary world of people presented by television. She speaks of people in her book with six figure incomes who still believe they do not have enough, who are still overspending.
This reminds me of the great danger there is when we believe we just need a little more money to solve our financial woes. The book of Ecclesiastes 5:10 warns us: 'Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income." And the danger with the love of money is it is the root of all kinds of evil. We need to come to full stop and grow in wisdom.
One place we can go for wisdom is John Wesley, a preacher from
the 1700s in England encountered the same kind of attitudes then that we see in our nation today.
He emphasized that money is not an evil but instead, "a primary vehicle by which people help one another and thereby grow in faith and love. It is unspeakably precious and an excellent gift of God precisely because of the good it can do."
(quoted from an essay by Rebekah Miles, entitled "Works of Mercy as Spiritual Formation," included in The Wesleyan Tradition: A Paradigm for Renewal, Paul Chilcote,ed. Nashville: Abingdon, c. 02, p. 104, ubp).
Wesley had a threefold admonition regarding money. First, he said, "earn all you can," without taking advantage of your fellowman, without fraud, without evil action. This was a principle of diligence. Second, "save all you can," in order that you have the funds you need for your livelihood. This was a principle of thrift. And finally, "give all you can." This was the principle of generosity.
All three were necessary for lives which exhibit the holiness God intends. However, in Wesley's day people managed to apply just the first two, became wealthy, and refused to learn to have a generous heart.
This caused Wesley as an old, old man to plead with them, saying:
"Sit as loose to all things here below, as if you were a poor beggar."
He would warn:
"Have riches not so hurt you as to stab your religion to the heart? Have they not cooled (if not quenched) your love of God? ... And if your love of God is in any wise decayed, so is also your love of your neighbour. You are then hurt in the very life and spirit of your religion! If you lose love, you lose all"
(ibid., p. 108).
He would advise his hearers to spend not "one pound, one shilling, or one penny, to gratify either the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, or the pride of life; or indeed, for any other end than to please and glorify God. ... and hoard nothing. Lay up no treasure on earth, but 'give all you can", that is, all you have. I defy all the men upon earth, yea, all the angels in heaven, to find any other way of extracting the poison from riches."
(ibid., p. 108).
When we think of debt that is what we hear, bills.
But the word does not only mean bills, does it. It means not to "owe" anything to anyone. We pray it this way in the Lord's prayer: "Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us."
The second word translated "sin" in that prayer is not the word for sin but the word used here for "debt" or "owe". Forgive those who "owe" us something. Jesus is connecting this "owing" to sin, to the missing of the mark, the falling short of the glory of God. In this passage Paul has told us to pay our taxes and to give honor to all and then to owe no one anything except one thing: to love him or her. So in this sentence the meaning does not apply only to our money -- which is an essential area to bring under discipline-- but also to our behavior.
Do not sin against another person and leave it that way. Do not owe anyone anything for your sin. The only thing you ought to owe someone is your love.
This whole chapter has dealt with how we are to obey our government, and the ultimate governing authority above us is God, and here he says the means God has given us to obey God's government is to love others.
This week I experienced that opportunity through the little plays
we did for VBS -- it was a simple opportunity to love these wonderful kids. The teachers and workers in every area also experienced this unique gift to love others.
And loving your children is what Vacation Bible School is all about. For Love is what life is all about.
That's what Romans 13 says. "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another."
What does it mean to love someone else? It means to do what is best for them.
And what is best for anyone is not just what is best for the moment but what will be best for eternity -- so best is to express to them the greatest wonder they could ever have the knowledge that God loves them, the experience of that love, and the transformation possible through Jesus' resurrection power.
Why love like this? Paul reminds us that although it appears we have all the time in the world upon earth, that really the hour is late for the world. That although are lives look like they will expand out before us for months and years, that our lives are only brief, like the breadth of our hands, like a mist in the air, like a blink of the eye. If that is the case, do not fritter any of your time away in wickedness or darkness, but use time to love others, to do what is best and to determine not to owe any one anything.
Do you need to bring your finances under control? Is there brokenness to clean up in some of your relationships? Then come to a full stop in your life, and applying all diligence "owe no one anything" while living in a manner that glorifies and honors the Lord.
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Dvd Release Date: 2003-03-25
Genre: Comedy,
Rating: R
Duration: 1hr 25min
Cousins Craig and Day-Day are back in the old neighborhood and ready for Christmas. Although they've left behind the security of living with their parents, at least they're on their own. The rundown apartment they now share is filled with all the accoutrements and spirit of the holiday season. It's a time for giving and joy--until Craig wakes up in the middle of the night and discovers a ghetto Santa Clause stealing their presents and anything else he can stuff into his bag--including the rent money they had hidden and stuffed into their stereo speakers. Faced with the harsh reality of having a Christmas without presents--as well as having to face the unwanted advances of their landlady's recently paroled son, if they can't pay the rent--Craig and Day are forced to score some quick cash. They go to the local strip mall where their fathers Mr. Jones and Uncle Elroy have opened Bros. Bar-B-Q restaurant and help land them jobs as unarmed security guards. While Craig handles the chaos of the Christmas Eve shopping crush, Day Day's renegade rent-a-cop tactics put the put the pair's jobs and lives in jeopardy. Nonetheless, in the process, Craig and Day-Day learn some comic lessons about the true meaning of the holiday season.
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f/STOPS Opening Huge Success
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The show took place at Indy Ink in Denver - a super cool shop that designs and prints their own t-shirts. Last Friday night it was transformed into a gallery opening (as is the case most First Fridays) and race headquarters for the start and finish of an alleycat.
The f/STOPS show was curated by Broox Pulford. The show featured a variety of photos dedicated to the image of the bicycle, from a picture of Lance Armstrong mountain biking to an artful black and white developed on real film. The 20 plus artists and the alleycat drew quite a crowd that ebbed and flowed throughout the evening.
With the show off and running, Broox "shifted gears" to the other event of the evening - the alleycat race. With 20 participants and three check points (Track Shack , Crema Coffee House , Washington Park Tennis Court) we were impressed with how smoothly the race went off. We saw the top four finishers come in and they were spent.
Photo Credit: Lenny Maiorani
The show will run through the end of March. So, if you missed it go check it out. We'll keep you posted on future alleycats.


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Producer prices edged up in July
August 15, 2003
The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods inched up 0.1 percent in July. This increase followed a 0.5-percent rise in June and a 0.3-percent decrease in May.
The index for finished energy goods advanced 0.3 percent in July, following a 3.4-percent rise in June, and accounted for most of the slower rate of increase in finished goods prices. Prices for finished consumer foods moved down 0.2 percent, after rising 0.4 percent in the preceding month. By contrast, the index for finished goods other than foods and energy turned up 0.2 percent in July, following a 0.1-percent decrease a month earlier.
From July 2002 to July 2003, the finished goods index moved up 3.0 percent (as shown in chart). Over the same period, prices for finished energy goods increased 14.4 percent, the index for finished consumer foods rose 3.7 percent, and prices for finished goods other than foods and energy edged up 0.2 percent.
These data are from the BLS Producer Price Index program. Find out more in "Producer Price Indexes, July 2003" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 03–421. All producer price indexes are routinely subject to revision once, 4 months after original publication, to reflect the availability of late reports and corrections by respondents.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Producer prices edged up in July on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/aug/wk2/art05.htm (visited June 26, 2016).
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I don't remember the movie name, but it had something like this story line.
Girl joins a boy high school, she races joins a race that's meant for boys only. Then she becomes friend of a boy. Both become best friends. Girl takes boy to his house back side jungle and its like a wonder land and girl makes everything come to real like a dream and something like that. In the end girl dies in a home robbery. Please let me know the movie name.


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Totally Lame Robot Mods: Halo 3 Legendary Edition Helmet
Our good friend Totally Lame Robot aka Brittney has made another terrific mod. This time it's a custom paint job of the helmet that comes with Halo 3 Legendary Edition. Pretty cool details here. I'm thinking about ordering a second Legendary Edition just to get one done.


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Co Producers and Broadcasters (TV, cinema, Video)
Line producer
Patricia HOUTART
Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) was an American dancer. She is considered by many to be the creator of modern dance. In the United States she was popular only in New York, and then only later in her life. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe.
Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves was the cause of her death in a freak automobile accident in Nice, France. Duncan's large silk scarf while still draped around her neck, became entangled around one of the vehicle's open-spoked wheels and rear axle, breaking her neck.
Duncan's insistence on more natural movement than that performed in ballet, along with the use of unrestricted costumes and utilization of emotional expression were highly influential on other dancers. While her schools in Europe did not survive for long, her work had impact in the art and her style is still danced by a new generation of loyal followers based on the instruction of Maria-Theresa Duncan, the last of the Isadorables. Maria-Theresa co-founded the Isadora Duncan International Institute (IDII) in New York in 1977. She personally passed on the original choreography to one of her pupils, Jeanne Bresciani, who is now the artistic director and director of education of the Institute. Although Maria-Theresa died in 1987, IDII continues to educate and instruct in the original choreography, style and techniques of Isadora Duncan through the tutelage of Bresciani. Graduates of the IDII certification programs also perform Duncan's choreography and hold classes in the Duncan technique.


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2011-12 (Sr.): Posted a combined record of 1-4, with a 1-3 mark over fences and going 0-1 on the flat... Earned a 78-73 win over fences 9/29 against Fresno State... Scored a season-best 80 over fences 11/12 at No. 5 Baylor.
2010-11 (Jr.): Earned a victory with a score of 82 over fences against Delaware State... Scored an 82 on the flat for a point against Fresno State... Earned an event-high 81 over fences against Sacred Heart.
2009-10 (So.): Finished the year 2-3 in fences... Won 78-70 against San Diego State on November 22... Posted a season-high score of 85 against Texas A&M... Averaged 75.2 on the year.
2008-09 (Fr.): Finished 5-5 over fences and 3-6 on the flat... Won in both the fences and the flat twice, at No. 7 TCU (2/21) and against No. 10 New Mexico State (2/27)... Won 168-156 in her match at the Varsity National Championships against No. 6 Oklahoma State (4/16).
Prep: Placed third out of 31 in the 2007 Open Hunter Classic at the Atlanta Summer Classic in Conyers, Ga... Finished fifth at the ASPCA Maclay Equitation Finals in Syracuse, N.Y., and was 12th at the Capital Challenge Equitation Finals in Washington, D.C.
Personal: Anticipated journalism/marketing major.


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It's a good thing when our decision making for selecting a Next Step winner becomes more difficult. February was a great month for entries – so much so that we're going to have an honorable mentions post next week! Canadian-Dominican singer/songwriter/producer Krystale inched out ahead of the rest and struck us with her amazingness, though. Congratulations, madame!
Krystale's parlor style future jazz and soul vocals coax you into your own personal illusions of swanky fancy times (even in your socks and sweats) on her 2011 Reboot EP. Think a jazzier Norah Jones with a little sprinkling of Fiona Apple. Just watch the live performance for "Caught Up" above and let yourself unravel to its spell.
And the lady isn't without versatility. Below, you can also find a more recent single of hers called "Sweet Tooth," a slinky playful track that hinges more on the R&B side with a hard hitting track compliments of Montreal beatmaker Kaytradamus. Vocals reminding us a bit of Anne Wise from Sonnymoon here – you know that's a win already.
Look out for Krystale's debut full length album to drop this year – we're gripping our seats.
Purchase Reboot EP on iTunes | Amazon