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Merrill Lee Connally, Sr., was an American film actor, a county administrative judge, a rancher, and a brother of both Governor John B. Connally, Jr., and Texas State Senator Wayne Connally. Connally was born, reared, and died in Floresville, the seat of Wilson County southeast of San Antonio. His parents were John Connally, Sr., a hard-working and industrious tenant farmer, and the former Lela Wright. The senior Connally once ran for Wilson County clerk. In addition to Wayne and John, Merrill had five other siblings. Merrill Connally served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He portrayed Davy Crockett in the 1988 picture Alamo: The Price of Freedom. He also appeared in Steven Spielberg's Sugarland Express and Close Encounters of the Third Kind In the filming of Close Encounters in 1977, Connally was known on the roll-call sheets as "The American Eagle" because of his shock of white hair and his authoritarian demeanor. He physically resembled his brother John. Spielberg was so impressed with Connally's diction that he kept taking lines of dialogue from other actors to give Connally a greater part.
- Merrill Connally Movies before 2015
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
- Alamo:The Price of Freedom
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Welcome to the HALO Project
High power lasers are an established industrial tool. They are used to cut, mark, join and pattern metals, ceramics, glasses, semiconductors and plastics. The device you are reading this on was made with the help of such lasers.
The HALO project is developing the next generation of these tools. Lasers create a highly intense spot of light when they are shone onto a surface. This spot is naturally most bright in the centre, trailing off rapidly to the edges in a bell-shape of intensity known as a Gaussian distribution. This laser 'shape' is not always optimal for some applications. For example, a shape with a darker centre surrounded by a brighter ring, or halo, may create a far neater cut on some materials.
Adapting the shape of the beam in real-time, e.g. using components placed in front of the laser, should enable rapid switching between the traditional Gaussian mode and ring-shaped modes or other novel shapes. This means that an application which currently requires more than one type of laser, such as a robot on a car production line cutting rubber and metal, may, in the factory of the future, only require a single laser. The HALO project, which will be delivered by a consortium of European companies, has been set up to exploit this high-value opportunity. It is developing the necessary components to help ensure Europe's leading role in this technology space.
HALO is an FP7 project supported by the European Commission. The project will run from 01-Sep-2012 until 31-Aug-2015.
This website has been set up to provide public information on the project, and will be regularly updated throughout the project with news and relevant documents. If you would like to receive an email when a news item is published, please subscribe using the form to the right of this page.
For further technical information, please take a look at the Technology section of this site or view this video overview of the project. There are other outputs on the Results page, including a project presentation and newsletters.
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Prosecutors dropped a bombshell concerning the Elaina Steinfurth case during a hearing for 23-year-old Steven King, the boyfriend of Elaina's mother. King is charged with obstruction of justice and a judge ordered him to stay behind bars on a $250,000 bond after an Ohio prosecutor claimed that "the defendant lied to police in the course of what is regarded now as a homicide investigation" according to the Toledo Blade.
Prosecutors are turning up the heat on Steven King, and according to NorthwestOhio.com in the early stages of the investigation, King was given a polygraph, however the results have not been made public.
19-month-old Elaina vanished from King's residence in East Toledo, Ohio June 2nd. She was staying there with her 25-year-old mother Angela Steinfurth, who is currently behind bars for obstruction of justice. Allegations have swirled that Elaina suffered injuries before she went missing and that Angela failed to get her proper medical treatment.
There have also been allegations by a cellmate of Angela Steinfurth who claims Angela confessed to her that she threw her daughter's body off a bridge, and that Steven King was behind her when she did.


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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Big Huge Biffybeans News!
It's true! So come on over and hang out on Rhodia Drive.
So what does this mean for the Bean blog? The Bean blog lives on!
In the interest of full disclosure, I'd like to state that I am now working for Exaclair - the company that distributes Rhodia, Clairefontaine, Exacompta, Quo Vadis & J. Herbin.
As for my reviews- whether they be Exaclair product or not, I will continue to present them in a way that is objective towards their functionality and durability, and subjective in whether or not they prove to be useful for my own personal needs and as always - YMMV. (Your mileage may vary - meaning that in testing the same product, you may achieve different results.)
Vroom Vroom!
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- journalingarts said...
Congratulations! It is the perfect gig for you!
- September 1, 2009 at 8:43 AM
- Bill Bradford said...
Congrats! I can't think of a better person to join the team at Exaclair - everyone I've talked with there has been grade-A awesome.
- September 1, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- Ontheroad said...
Congratulations, Stephanie.
You are an excellent edition to the Exaclair team!
- September 1, 2009 at 9:33 AM
- Kate the Kate said...
- September 1, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- Biffybeans said...
Thank you everyone!
- September 1, 2009 at 11:08 AM
- Gentian said...
Thanks so great! Congratulations! :D
- September 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- B2-kun said...
Awesome news, congratulations! That explains the prevalence or black and orange in your recent Flickr uploads.
- September 1, 2009 at 1:27 PM
- Chris said...
Hi, I've only just today discovered your blog... Nonetheless, congratulations! Look forward to following your continued adventure here an on the Rhodia Drive. Best of luck!
- September 1, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- Cathy said...
This is awesome! Congrats to you!
- September 1, 2009 at 4:24 PM
- Stephen said...
I started my blog in 2005 with a post about Rhodia, (quoted in the fourth post at Rhodia Drive - 2007), so I'm not a stranger to the brand or blog. :-)
- September 1, 2009 at 11:53 PM
- Woodworker said...
Congratulations miss Beans ;-)
- September 2, 2009 at 12:48 AM
- Sam said...
Fantastic! Great news! Go Beans! :)
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The wonder of the English Lake District caught through the photographic eye of Steve Dale.
In 2006 Steve had injured his leg in a minor accident. To recuperate he needed to exercise the leg, and his friends suggested he took "a walk around a lake" (or something like that!). The result was his first visit to the English Lake District, and a passion and yearning to return time and time again to wonder at the scenery and try to capture it through his other, life-long passion, photography.
This book is Steve's personal account of his trips to record the wonder of the Lake District through photography since then, focusing on the changing seasons, and in every type of weather the area can offer.
A photographer since my teens, my love has been photography. Since finding the English Lake District my passion has become landscape photograhy. I hope to continue to develop and that others will enjoy my photos.
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Steve, the book is AWESOME I have been so looking forward to seeing the finished article, I cant wait to see the printed version, the photos are fantastic and the way it's written, well it's just you all the way through. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading through it.
It will be a book that people will love for some time to come. You have put your heart and sole in to it and it shows.
All the best
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I am bummed.April 21st 2009 11:24 pm
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The phone rang, mom answered, said "ok, I'll be right there!". Put on her shoes, locked the dogs up, turned on the air conditioner for us. I tried to get into the bedroom for my nappie, but mom told me that she had to leave and wasn't sure when she would be back. Grandma had to go to the emergency room because she couldn't breathe. What? Again? Didn't this just happen? Mom dashed out the door, I heard the door lock click and the truck start and she was gone. Daddy got home before mom. By then, the room was hot and no way was I going in there. I am done melting. So, I went back to my spot on the couch and laid back down. Mom promised tomorrow we could do nappies. Right after she gets up first thing and calls grandma's doctor. I don't like it when Grandma gets sick. Everything gets messed up and I love my Grandma. She has known me all my life and still can't say my name right. I love it. MOL. Looking forward to a better day tomorrow. Nappies and no sick grandma.
Oh brother!April 21st 2009 7:21 pm
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(dramatically) Paisan pulls himself to kitchen "Must...have...water!"
Man, Is it ever gonna cool off?April 20th 2009 11:41 pm
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I mean, seriously I could not even handle a pizza right now! It's that hot. Me, Paisan, willing to pass up a pizza for some cooler weather. It's true. Sorry Guido! MOL. I went and laid on the kitchen floor and then dad turned the A/C back on cuz it was way too hot still. Then I got in the cat cube and it was really cool in there. I stayed in there, even after Lexi and Duke came inside. Lexi looked at me, but I was not moving. I was finally somewhere cool. So, it is now 11:30 at night and we give up. Dad left the front door open but locked the security screen. Molly came to get food for her friends. Mom told dad that when she went outside the cement was still warm. Poor Molly. I think she hides most of the day when it is hot. We feel heat on our feet too. Some people don't realize that. Mom put a clean sheet on Duke's bed. She said if her knee is doing good, she is giving Lexi a major haircut. The weather is supposed to get cooler, but this is only April....or is it? I am starting to wonder. Well, be safe my friends, wherever you are. Mom will take good care of all of us in this extreme heat. We will be ok. I wish all my friends the same.
Whew its hot in here!April 20th 2009 1:17 pm
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Current conditions as of 12:53 pm PDT Downey, California
Weather check for MollyApril 20th 2009 1:46 am
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Monday, April 20 2 am 67° F
Birds!April 18th 2009 4:50 pm
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Boy, are we lucky or what? I am in the bedroom and I can hear the chirping of birds. I know, big deal but guess what? They are nesting in our attic, and the opening is right above the bedroom window. So, I can lie happily on this nice soft bed and watch birds come and go and not even move a whisker. How cool is that? I know, I am spoiled. But, ya gotta love me!!! Mom is mean. She put that new pic on my profile and told me it was a mugshot. I was not awake! No fair! And I look....fat. Wonder who I should speak to about that? Nah, nevermind~I am just too happy lying here looking at birds.
My mom is taking way too long to get back on the computer.April 17th 2009 3:11 am
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I got things to say, friends to check on, you know Catster stuff. Mom fell down last week in the yard taking the dogs out. At first she thought she got caught up in Lexi's leash, but actually her knee gave out, causing her to fall....weird. So, the whole week has been a wash! No computer time for any of us!!!
Hello to all of my friends.....April 12th 2009 8:58 pm
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Iwish all of my friends had a Happy Easter and Passover.
ItalyApril 7th 2009 11:09 pm
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Please visit my page to see the memorial slide mom made for Italy.
Praying for Italy and my friends.April 6th 2009 3:25 pm
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Hi everyfur!!! Mom FINALLY got my page up again. 99% operator error, 1% computer. Hmmph.
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For an actress that came to the international film arena just before the turn of the century, Cate Blanchett has built an impressive resume that defies definitions, apart from the fact that each of her characters is a strong no-nonsense woman and that physically, she has a commanding presence. When she's in the room (or screen) you can't take your eyes off of her.
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1969, Blanchett caught Gillian Armstrong's eye and was immediately working for her in Oscar and Lucinda. What came after was a tireless series of performances that secured her image as one of the best actresses on the planet. Of course, this has led her to be nominated (and win) numerous worldwide awards. Her Oscar as Best Supporting Actress playing Katharine Hepburn, and her turn as Jasmine in Woody Allen's 2013's film have been lauded unanimously.
Among her best performances, she's been in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley, Sam Raimi's The Gift, Joe Schumacher's Veronica Guerin, Lasse Hallstrom's The Shipping News, Steven Soderberg's The Good German, Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, apart from her latest work for George Clooney in The Monuments Men.
The following 10 performances singled out in the "More Photos" section, have an indelible staying power and give proof of Cate Blanchett's extraordinary talent and film persona.
And now that you're at it, check on the other award season nominated actresses:
(1998) Directed by Shekhar Kapur.
Nobody was ready to witness a new actress unravel her power through a regal performance that is a role model to all new actresses. Suddenly Blanchett caught the world by storm and won, among others, a Bafta, a Golden Globe and her first Oscar nomination (stolen by new American sweetheart Gwyneth Paltrow). She embodied Elizabeth with such ferocious strength that producers and director saw the need for a part 2, which is a rarity for a biographical costume drama.
Blue Jasmine
(2013) Written and Directed by Woody Allen. Jasmine is a woman who struggles so much to be where she thinks she belongs, but has to face the fact that deceit and misery is ready for her. Obviously based on Tennessee Williams' Blanche Dubois, and with a naiveté that also reminds us of that other beautiful Woody Allen character Cecilia (from The Purple Rose of Cairo), Jasmine is the definition of a Tour-de-force performance that requires a delicate restraint to control the characters fall into overtly dramatic registers. After all, she's been deceived by her husband, abandoned by her son, and welcomed by the people she's always despised.
For a full review of Woody Allen's latest Oscar Nominated film, please click on the following link:
The Aviator
(2004) Directed by Martin Scorsese. Actors can create an all-new character from pieces of others and their inner beliefs, or they can take an existing person and reinvent it, giving it back to the audience with a flavor of memories. Cate's version of Katharine Hepburn, apart from her vocals and dresses and body language, exudes that aura of an untouchable Hollywood star, almost like a semi-God living in her own piece of Mount Olympus. It was obvious the Academy would give her the award as a supporting actress.
Notes on a Scandal
(2006) Directed by Richard Eyre. As the subject of Judi Dench's ominous Barbara Covett, who finds in her the perfect lover in a destructive unwanted relationship, Cate's Sheba Hart breaks down to her most frail independent character. A woman who surrenders to hidden passions and has to face a double attack, not without a pivotal primal scream scene. Once again Cate was nominated for Best Supporting actress.
I'm Not There
(2007) Written and Directed by Todd Haynes. A one-of-a-kind film that takes 6 different actors to create a version of Bob Dylan's public persona. Blanchett is not only the only woman to become Dylan in the film, but the one who resembles him more physically, which, at certain moments made you dizzy, watching her introverted and mysteriously androgynous presence. There's no denying that Blanchett has become a daring actress in the commercial world of cinema nowadays.
Oscar and Lucinda
(1997) Directed by Gillian Armstrong. Before her international success with Elizabeth, Cate starred in this Gillian Armstrong's very elegant film with Ralph Fiennes. Everybody was asking "Who's that actress next to Fiennes and why is she so exquisite?"
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
(2001-2002-2003) Directed by Peter Jackson. How can you stand out in a trilogy that is CGI infected, filled with men and strange creatures, and with a story that doesn't have much to do with your character? Well, if you're Cate Blanchett, you don't have anything to worry about. Galadriel's ethereal aura of goodness is brought to visual splendor by Cate, with a soothing and commanding voice. Suddenly, you wanted all angels to look like her.
Charlotte Gray
(2001) Directed by Gillian Armstrong. Her second collaboration with Armstrong gave her the chance to play spy (something she would return to for Soderberg in The Good German). But as with any of Armstrong's films, Charlotte is a strong figure, not a tragic one, which is one of Cate's signature traits.
(2002) Directed by Tom Tykwe. Krzystof Kieslowski was the first director to plan his films based on groups (just like Eric Rohmer did before). He unfortunately passed away before shooting of his next trilogy. Heaven was the first one and it gave Blanchett a role of controversial repercussions when her character Philippa goes from being a woman seeking revenge to a public criminal.
(2006) Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu. Holding herself in a choral film that runs around the World to see how we are all connected, Blanchett is the one who takes the bullet and has to suffer the physical consequences, in a marriage that seems headed to disaster, not knowing her children are lost with her Mexican nanny and feeling lost and frail in a cold world.


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Portland VA Medical Center, Portland,OR (October 2009- May 2010)
Via Christi Regional Medical Center, Wichita, KS (August 2007- May 2008) – Intership. Wichita Clinic (August 2007- May 2008)
• Conducted daily aerobic and anaerobic bacteriology testing, gram stains, multiple set up procedures including urine, blood, tissue, and swabs from various sources, MRSA PCR, susceptibility and ID, work- up of positive blood cultures from BacT/ALERT instrument. Also, conducted rapid tests including Rapid Flu, RSV, Rapid Strep, and Wet mount.
• Performed manual cell differentials, manual body fluid cell counts, dilution procedures, CBC with automated differential using LH 750, PT/INR, PTT, Fibrinogen, and D- Dimer on STAGO Compact.
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Magic, for all intents and purposes, started on Dominaria. Sure, Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited had no plot to speak of, but they used setting and character names that were later to be associated with the plane of Dominaria; and although Arabian Nights, the first expansion, was retroactively deemed to be set on the thousand-faceted plane of Rabiah, both the early standalone expansions (Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, and Fallen Empires) and the first few blocks of Magic were set on Dominaria. That world is and was huge and diverse, having been the setting for seven full blocks and other scattered sets besides, but its story seemed to have ended with Time Spiral block, which aimed to bring a fitting conclusion to the fractured and fraught history of the most fought-over plane in the Multiverse.
But perhaps the Time Spiral Crisis wasn't the end: Mark Rosewater says not.
When bioboy66 asked, "Will we ever see a 'return to Dominaria' expansion?" Rosewater responded:
I assume one day.
I've already covered the massive turnout in favor of such a "return to Dominaria" set or block that resulted from a straw poll Mark Rosewater took last year. Community ideas for that block are detailed in that article, but in the comments of this question on Tumblr, commuterist voiced the thoughts of probably many readers, saying "I'd take this as meaning that the idea has at the very least been creatively concepted." After all, the actual process of rebuilding after the "residue of apocalypses" put an entire plane in a state of decay needs explanation, and Rosewater wouldn't make such promises if he didn't already know a good reason.


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I test drove a Blueridge BG160. It's a Chinese Gibson j45 clone & it plays & sounds the part. Made of all solid woods but at only $650.00 it's almost too good to be true. Tuners seem a bit…Continue
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Does anybody happen to own a Recording King Guitar? The one I'm interested in in particular is a very good knock off of a Gibson j45. Can"t find a dealer or anyone that owns one
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Hey Richard,
Great seeing you in the Epiphone Group I started! Consider joining us in the Gibson Owners Group! I started it a while back and it's been great! Here are my two Gibson acoustics: A 2006 J160E, and a 1994 J100 Extra.
My Les Paul is a 1976 Les Paul Signature:
My Epiphone is a 1948 Zenith archtop:
Oh, man Richard, I didn't think you were putting folks down. You're right, you gotta put buying a guitar in perspective. Heck, I saved for 2 years to get mine. I wouldn't have bought the Martin if I didn't match one of those 'gainfully employed or gigging professionally' conditions. There are a lot of capable guitars less expensive, and give you less worry on stage, and traveling.I've gone from cheap silvertone acoustics up to what I currently have. Each guitar along the way had their own character, and as time went on I learned to appreciate better built instruments.
I appreciate your kind words about my posted music, though I see them as only first takes - not perfect by any means. I know about choking up, on stage, and in the studio. The cure - keep doing it, I try to think about just having a conversation with myself when I record. There's no real pressure for me, not worried exactly about capturing the perfect recording as much as I want to get through the dang song. In fact, my version of 'Spike Driver Blues' is incomplete - I fudged the next verse, so I took the engineer's way out - I faded it out before the mistake. The guitar was already tuned to open-G, so I did the song there, but really, I play it in G standard tuning. I just had the time, so I rushed the recording. My voice drops about an octave in the morning, so I can get that old blues guy voice, so when it happens, I like to take advantage of it. Works nice for blues.
When I get my workflow down, I hope I can get better at recording what I can really play. That's what I'm shooting for anyway. Post or send me some examples of your playing.
Hi Richard ... Thanks for joining the Seagull group. Glad to have you with us!
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel visited with students at the Summer Engineering Experience for Kids program as it got underway Monday at Miles Davis Magnet Academy.
General Electric, the National Society of Black Engineers and the Illinois Institute of Technology have partnered with Chicago Public Schools to launch the program for the first time in Chicago. As part of the Chicago City of Learning, this program provides students the opportunity to earn digital badges for developing skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.
"I am proud to welcome the SEEK program to the City of Chicago, since this program will expand students' access to high quality STEM learning opportunities that will challenge them, expose them to new interests, and help them develop competitive skills for a 21st century economy" said Emanuel. "The SEEK program complements our City-wide strategy to increase Chicago students' access to a rigorous STEM education to prepare them to excel inside and outside the classroom."
NSBE developed this free program in 2007 to offer a diverse, hands-on engineering design curriculum to encourage students to consider the STEM fields as a future career path. This summer, 150 SEEK students grades three through five will learn science and engineering concepts while engaging in team competitions during the program, which runs July 7 to July 25.
Emanuel said he remains focused on a city-wide strategy to increase Chicago students' access to high-quality STEM learning experiences from early childhood through college and career. The city of Chicago is home to five Early College STEM schools that have been paired with corporate partners to provide mentors, internships and feedback on the curriculum. CPS also has the most comprehensive K-12 computer science education plan in a major school district. CCOL and the SEEK program will help build toward Emanuel's goal to triple the number of Chicago students earning STEM credentials by 2018.


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"Psych" season 8 premiered Wednesday, Jan. 8, with "Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels and Burton Guster's Goblet of Fire," which featured the return of Despereaux, Shawn and Gus traveling to London, and many Harry Potter references. And oh yes, it was very entertaining.
Riding high on the big musical episode, "Psych" kicked off its eighth season with a winner filled with twists, Harry Potter and more, with Cary Elwes' performance in this episode only leaving us wanting more Despereaux immediately. While we never truly believed that Despereaux was anything but what we've known him to be – an international thief – it was fun to watch Shawn and Gus question everything they knew about him.
Off to a rocky start After a quick look into the future, as Shawn narrated with a British accent as he and Gus were held at gunpoint, "Lock, Stock, Some Smoking Barrels and Burton Guster's Goblet of Fire" flashed back to when they were still in Santa Barbara. Interpol – you know, the one on the DVD warning screen – called requesting Shawn's help in the UK, and Gus invited himself along to attend PotterCon. At the airport, they were detained by security, and the hidden compartment in Gus' wand and the broom he was carrying with him didn't go over so well. Oh, and of course Gus was dressed for the convention for the flight because he had a bit of a time crunch between their arrival time and a PotterCon event.
Meet Royston Cornwallace Staley Upon arriving at Interpol, however, Shawn learned that he wasn't there to investigate but to pose as an American getaway driver (who looked just like him) in a planned heist after Scotland Yard arrested the guy. Winston explained the Deputy Director, Royston Cornwallace Staley, requested Shawn after meeting while undercover, and yes, exactly what you expected happened next. After Gus' poor attempt at hitting on the Director's secretary ("Have you heard about Pluto?"), they came face to face with…none other than Despereaux!
The truth about Despereaux? Despereaux explained that after a long, glamour-free life as an Interpol analyst, 10 years ago, his boss put him undercover as Despereaux. He never stole anything, and thanks to his stint in prison, he brought down two kingpins. Gus didn't believe there was such a thing as a police-sanctioned criminal and thought it was just Despereaux running a con, and who could blame him?
The silky-haired doppelganger Whether Despereaux was telling the truth or not, there was still a case and there was a Shawn doppelganger, who did nothing but spit, write notes, eat paper and spit some more. He was supposed to be the getaway driver for Ronnie's latest heist. Ronnie Ives, a criminal boss, never worked with the same crew twice and managed to pull off crimes then retreat back into the shadows. This was their chance to catch him, and that meant coaching Shawn on the driver's history.
Despereaux, Royston Cornwallace Staley, Corey, Westley, whatever his name, there was nothing better than Cary Elwes in this episode, especially as he had to deal with Shawn not even knowing where Philadelphia is and then completely ignoring everything he told him to say (nothing), do (nothing), and wear (not the hat, jacket, or gloves) going to meet Ronnie and Gus trying to get to his Harry Potter convention and track down Rupert Grint for a "Pottering" photo.
The meet takes a "Psych" turn Right from the start, it looked like Shawn might not even get a chance to ruin everything himself when Ronnie declared there was a traitor among them. Fortunately, he thought it was another guy and pulled him into another room for "a word," that word being a gunshot (presumably) to the head. So began Shawn's inability to pronounce Dierdre's name. When Ronnie declared that the heist was off, Despereaux told Shawn to make the job happen, and so he did, by using Gus (a.k.a. "The Wizard") to fill the empty spot left by the dead guy and somehow winning over Ronnie with his charming/eccentric/crazy self.
Gus argued he was busy with all his PotterCon events he was totally missing by running around chasing after someone he thought was Rupert Grint in the back alley of a pub, and after some arguing ("I am pretending to be a wizard. Get your fantasy fiction right."), stomping, and Shawn going "sexy beast" on him, Gus realized (or rather was left with no choice but to accept) that his only chance at any kind of cosplay during the trip was to go along with Shawn's plan. Sorry, Gus, no Butterbeer, Pottering photos, or Quidditch for you.
Harry Potter to the rescue! Gus lucked out that no one else in the crew had ever read the Harry Potter books as he listed his previous jobs, while Shawn decided that sharing a victory from when he was seven years old was the way to go as Ronnie ranted about his hatred of royalty since his father had to work hard in the mines. Then, of course, Despereaux had something else to hate as they decided to move to a second location.
At the warehouse, Ronnie tested Shawn's getaway driver skills with a timed course, and despite Shawn running over every single obstacle (and figure), Ronnie still liked him. He wasn't so sure about Gus, and despite Shawn trying to make "explosives dysfunction" a thing and 'arry thinking his wand was a listening device, Gus won them over with Floo powder and "Expecto Patronum!" before an explosion across the room. When Ronnie asked how he did that, Gus said, "Expecto Patronum" like it was an actual thing.
About that Despereaux/Staley thing… Upon returning to Interpol, Shawn revealed that he had taken Ronnie's keycard as Winston gave him the "follow protocol" spiel. However, then Winston revealed that he had only been working with "Staley" for a short time and barely knew him. He came in during a staff turnover, and no one around there really knew "Staley." The guy who hired him was a "legend" who never came out of the field and no one had ever met him. Gus was suspicious, and while Gus raided the office kitchen, Shawn decided to do some digging using someone from back home: Lassie. The former Head Detective was all too happy to drop what he was doing to look into this "Staley" and his boss, and he found nothing about either of them in Interpol's database. It looked like Gus was right about Despereaux.
The new kid in the gang Shawn convinced Winston to let him have Ronnie's keycard back and to keep the Staley/Despereaux business secret, and he and Gus checked out Ronnie's place. "Don't be "The Howling 2: Your Sister's a Werewolf,"" Shawn told Gus as he worried about getting killed if Ronnie found them. They snooped around, discovered Ronnie's father had died, realized it was all about Ronnie's hatred for royalty and he was going after a royal residence for the heist, and managed to get away after 'arry caught them by just giving up the keycard and their share of the heist (which, you know, no big deal since they weren't actually a getaway driver and explosives expert).
Shawn and Gus turned to Winston for help narrowing down the heist location, and it helped that Shawn remembered the blueprints of the house on the floor of the warehouse, before they ducked out to meet Ronnie at the warehouse with a lie for Despereaux that they were going to the hotel. Upon arriving at the warehouse, Ronnie declared it was time for the heist, for some reason still liked Shawn even though he couldn't even catch the keys he threw at him, and then declared they had another traitor, discovered 'arry had his keycard, and threw him out of the moving van. The crew needed another new replacement, and surprise! (or not), it was Despereaux.
The heist Despereaux continued to claim to be nice guy Interpol Deputy Director Staley who had to reprise his role as Despereaux one last time after Winston messed up and hid key information from him. (Poor Winston!) He did Gus' "job" for him since Floo powder clearly wasn't going to cut it as Lassie called to report that "Staley's" boss did exist but had been erased by someone with high clearance.
As for the heist part of the job, well, someone had already taken care of that – and murdered the royal Calvin Dorchester. Upon noticing the family crest and recognizing it from Ronnie's digs, Shawn put the pieces together. They were related, but Calvin had cut them all out, leaving Ronnie's father to work hard and die poor. So Ronnie set it all up and planned to tie it all together with a nice Gryffindor-colored bow by killing Shawn and Gus. Shawn was certain Despereaux/Staley/mostly-dead Westley for all they knew would rescue them, but he was a bit busy going out the back door with his own loot. However, he did come back and after trying to knock Ronnie out didn't work, they fought hand-to-hand until Despereaux won.
Seriously, who is Despereaux? (Though, do you really care as long as Cary Elwes keeps popping up?) As Shawn and Gus continued to question just who the guy who brought them to the UK was, a guy another guy told them was the boss who hired him wanted to see him. "How do you say suck it in English?" Shawn wanted to know. "You just did, Shawn." Despereaux was suspended, and so he packed up a box of expensive items, said his farewells, and headed out to some old dreary office. Or to steal more stuff. One of the two.
With PotterCon over, Shawn and Gus just had enough time for one drink and a ride to the airport, and who did they see standing outside the pub but "Staley's" supposed boss, a homeless man. So who is Despereaux?
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The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel. However, we always say linux which means GNU/Linux. Here is the explanation. Every Linux distro has its own official website. DistroWatch is a website that show almost all linux distros.


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Scandal-Tinged Races Are Raking in the Cash
For Weiner as well as Scott Stringer.
We learned on Monday that past scandals hadn't hurt poll numbers for Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer, but the fund-raising numbers out Monday night don't track quite as easily. While Weiner has raised a hefty $828,886 since he entered the race seven weeks ago, Spitzer, who just joined the comptroller's race last week and is paying for his own campaign, has no data logged with the city's Campaign Finance Board. However, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has raised $110,000 since Spitzer announced. That's the lion's share of the $151,000 he's raised in the last two months, the Daily News reports: "Stringer had 330 donors give to his campaign between mid-May and Thursday — 241 of them in the last four days of the two-month stretch, a spokeswoman said." So apparently scandal pays, but not necessarily to those who incur it.


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Imagine driving a car and not knowing the letters on the signs on the freeway. Imagine looking over a bottle of medicine and being unable to discern what the strange phonetics could mean. Imagine, going to the movie theater and not being able to tell the clerk which ticket you want because you can't read the titles of the movies.
I pride myself on being able to imagine many things. It definitely helps in my career as a trying novelist and avid reader. However, if there would be anything I could not imagine, it would be being illiterate.
Not being able to read words in the English language is absolutely mind-boggling for me; I couldn't even fathom looking at English words and not knowing what they meant. Reading is crucial in society, as it has been for a long time. It can be something as trivial as reading which movie is available to watch in the theater or as important as reading the instructions on a medication bottle- literacy is one of (if not, the) most important lesson a child will learn in their first years of academia.
But what about those children who don't have the opportunity to learn? According to kickstarter.com, "One in four children in the USA will grow up illiterate." Lavar Burton, the host of the 1983 children's program "Reading Rainbow" teamed up with kickstarter.com in May 2014 to raise over $5,000,000, all to be donated to getting kids to start reading through multiple means of technology.
Through Kindles and iPads, the Reading Rainbow app can be purchased for use, but through this Kickstarter project, it would be available to stream online as well as devices such as Android, game consoles, and other types of technology (Forbes, 2014).
The multitude of ways to access Reading Rainbow will ensure that more children than ever have access to books, helping them learn how to read as well as gain an appreciation and enthusiasm for reading.
It's so important to help encourage literacy among children. Not only is it necessary for daily life, but reading helps a person grow mentally and emotionally. Academically, avid readers are given an edge, not only because of the speed at which they can read, but because their comprehension levels are also high.
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A Baltimore city man has been arrested after his DNA was linked to three separate sexual assaults in the city.
According to published documents, 25 year old Bernard Burton of the 2000 block of E. Baltimore Street was arrested by the Baltimore City Warrant Apprehension Task Force on February 12 after being linked to a sexual assault and robbery that occurred July 2012 in the 100 block of N Rose Street.
Two days after his arrest his DNA was linked to a sexual assault on February 10 that occurred in the 2800 block of East Fairmount Avenue.
Bernard also faces thirteen charges of robbery and sexual assault in another case that occurred in June of 2012.
Detectives from the southeast district are continuing the investigation and Bernard is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on March 11.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald Movies & TV
Fitzgerald's literary masterpiece has struggled to a satisfactory translation to the screen. No footage or prints exist of the silent movie made in 1926. A 1949 remake directed by Elliott Nugent has been hailed by critics as the best Gatsby film so far but is not available on DVD, making it difficult for today's audiences to access. A made-for-TV version in 2000 was, well, meh. The 1974 remake directed by Jack Clayton is probably the best-known version, but not the best loved. The filmmakers' attempt to remain as faithful to the script backfired—images that are poignant on the page come off as cheesy on screen, like Robert Redford's Gatsby reaching toward the green light on Daisy's dock. Nobody has anything nice to say about Mia Farrow's performance as Daisy. Here is the trailer, with Robert Redford looking dreamy in the title role.Despite past failures, Hollywood is not yet done with Jay Gatsby. Baz Luhrmann, the Australian director behind Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, is rumored to be working on yet another remake due in 2010.
Fitzgerald's second novel was made into a silent film the same year it was published. Unfortunately, it seems that the original film no longer exists. An Australian remake from 2008 merits neither link nor mention, but never fear, Fitzgerald fans! Keira Knightley has just signed on to star in yet another version of the story, due for release in 2010.
This film about three young German soldiers in the aftermath of World War I was Fitzgerald's only screenwriting credit. It is worth watching, both as the sole surviving example of Fitzgerald's screenwriting style and for Margaret Sullavan's exquisite performance as the woman all three friends fall in love with.
Fitzgerald worked briefly on this film during his late-1930s Hollywood phase, though he has no screen credit. In "The Crack-Up," Fitzgerald rued the public's preference for cinema, "a glittering, grosser power," over literature. When you contrast the subtlety of Fitzgerald's fiction with this movie, which is anything but subtle, you start to understand what he's talking about. We still love it though.
This film is inspired by "Babylon Revisited," one of Fitzgerald's best short stories. It is notable for Elizabeth Taylor's performance and the filmmakers' decision to completely scrap the story's original ending in favor of a happy, Hollywood-friendly one.
Fitzgerald's delicate depiction of a struggling marriage has never been successfully made into a movie. A 1962 version starring Jason Robards and Jennifer Jones as the ill-fated couple received mixed reviews, though the original song "Tender is the Night" was nominated for an Oscar. If you have a few more hours to spare or are a Fitzgerald obsessive, you might try the well-received 1985 TV miniseries adaptation.
This is a made-for-TV, semi-fictional account of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's romance, featuring Blythe Danner in a strong turn as the suffering, manic Zelda. For a TV movie it was fairly well received, but we think you'd probably rather read a biography of the famous couple instead.
Some critics believe that this TV movie starring Shelley Duvall is actually the most successful screen adaptation of any of Fitzgerald's works. The story of a shy young woman wanting to fit in resonates today and translates well to the screen.
This film boasts some seriously heavy hitters in the credits—Elia Kazan directed, Harold Pinter adapted the book for screen, and Robert de Niro played the lead. Ironically, Fitzgerald's novel about the film industry doesn't strike the right nerve on screen. Nominated for Oscar in Best Art Direction.
This documentary, part of the PBS American Masters series, is an excellent look at Fitzgerald's life. Archival footage spliced in with current interviews shed light on the rise and fall of the writer's career. The title comes from a short story from Fitzgerald's popular first collection; he was fired from the film version in 1939 for drunkenness.
Fitzgerald was not a great screenwriter, and film adaptations of his work tend to be not so great. This 2008 Best Picture nominee could actually break the streak of mediocre Fitzgerald-inspired films . . . although the screenplay actually bears startlingly little resemblance to the original story. Go see it—just don't be offended if most of your fellow filmgoers are just there to ogle at Brad Pitt.


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ReptilesQ8 is a new electronic magazine, published by the ReptilesQ8 club. The magazine is new, their July\August issue is the first one.
I found it interesting that this magazine is electronic. In my opinion, that makes it very easy to follow and read.
Here's the [link] to their first issue, and the [link] to their website.


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Saturday, June 25 - Pink Out Night
After much thought and deliberation, the Board of Directors has decided to remain status quo in regards to the Sportsman class motor rules for the 2013 season. The water-cooled 250cc motors will not be permitted to run in the Sportsman class. We would like to thank the Technical Committee for the time they spent in drawing up engine specs for a water-cooled 250 motor. Also, thank you to all who took the time to attend the October and November meetings to discuss the Sportsman motor rules.
A rule change was submitted that proposed to allow 250 liquid-cooled engines to compete in the Sportsman class. There was lengthy discussion at both the Membership and Board Meeting concerning this rule change. We are aware that teams are already planning and purchasing parts for the 2013 season, but we want to take some time to ensure a good decision is made for Lanco and the Sportsman class. The Technical Committee is researching 250 liquid-cooled motor rules and will be drawing up engine specifications for the motors. These specifications will be presented after the November Membership Meeting on Monday, November 12, 2012 at the West Earl Fire Company in Brownstown. Opinions on the engine specifications and allowing liquid-cooled 250s to compete with the Sportsman air-cooled motors will be heard as well. The Board of Directors will then make a decision on whether to allow the 250 liquid-cooled engines at their meeting on November 14, 2012.
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Lets go home teams, really tired of people ragging on Ryan and obvious
Seattle Seahawks (12-5) at Atlanta Falcons (13-3)
Line: Falcons by 2.5. Total: 47.
Walt's Projected Line: Falcons -3.
Sunday, Jan. 13, 1:00 ET
Houston Texans (13-4) at New England Patriots (12-4)
Line: Patriots by 9. Total: 49.
Walt's Projected Line: Patriots -7.5.
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Lets go home teams, really tired of people ragging on Ryan and obvious
Im going to be rooting really hard for the Falcons. And i feel pretty confident that theyre going to win. NOBODY believes in tge Falcons. Meanwhile there might be (total speculation) a sense in Seattle that the Hawks have arrived already
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Colin Kaepernick (QB), Ndamukong Suh (DL), Vince Wilfork (NT), Jamie Collins (LB), Brandon Graham (DE), Anquan Boldin (WR), Lane Johnson (OL), Tyrann Matheiu (DB), Mike Iupati (OL), Austin Seferian-Jenkins (TE), Datone Jones (DL), Bradley Roby (DB), Barkevious Mingo (LB), Chance Warmack (OL), DJ Hayden (DB), CJ Spiller (RB), Troy Polamalu (S/LB), Jermaine Gresham (TE), Jerick McKinnon (RB), Jeremy Parnell (OL), Bruce Miller (FB), Jonathan Cooper (OL), Vance McDonald (TE), Brock Vereen (S), Jon Bostic (LB), De'Anthony Thomas (WR/RB) Miles Austin (WR), Lamarcus Joyner (DB), Quinton Dial (DL), Marcus Smith (LB), Cam Thomas (DL), Terrelle Pryor (RB)
Seattle win and the Pats win via shady refereeing and a good performance from Brady.
I hope the Patriots lose. I just want one Super Bowl where I don't care who wins.
I'm nervous that the Pats will get home field in the championship game now that the Refs screwed over Denver. Sigh. C'mon Texans.
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Hopefully the Pats, but Belichick specifically, have learned their lesson from the 2010 Jets game. The whole team seemed to take it for granted, but the gameplan seemed lackadaisical and Belichick just got outcoached. Just because he out-gameplanned the Texans earlier in the year doesn't mean he will again. Hoping for creativity and not playing it safe or going out with an identical plan to last game.
I really want to see Falcons-49ers, but a Seahawks-Niners threematch would be great too. Mostly rooting for the Falcons for Ryan's sake.


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Braun, M; Mura, K; Peter-Wight, M; Hornung, Rainer; Scholz, Urte (2010). Toward a Better Understanding of Psychological Well-Being in Dementia Caregivers: The Link Between Marital Communication and Depression. Family Process, 49(2):185-203.
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Dementia research has frequently documented high rates of caregiver depression and distress in spouses providing care for a partner suffering from dementia. However, the role of marital communication in understanding caregiver distress has not been examined sufficiently. Studies with healthy couples demonstrated an association between marital communication and the partners' psychological well-being, depressiveness, respectively (e.g., Heene, Buysee, & Van Oost, 2005). The current study investigates
the relationship between caregiver depression and communication in 37 couples in which the wives care for their partners with dementia. Nonsequential and sequential analyses revealed significant correlations between caregiver depression and marital communication quality. Caregivers whose husbands used more positive communication reported less depression and distress. Additionally, caregiver depression was negatively correlated with rates of positive reciprocal communication indicating dependence between the couples' interaction patterns. This study is one of the first to illustrate the relevance of spousal communication in understanding caregiver distress and depression.
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Global Spotlight Grants — Faculty
* Due to technical difficulties with the online application, we have extended the deadline to Friday, November 1st. For questions, email: email@example.com
International Research Seed Grants
Grants for faculty include the International Research Major Grants and the International Research Seed Grants.
About the Global Spotlight Grants Program
Global Spotlight is the Global Programs and Strategy Alliance's biennial focus on a region of the world and a pressing global issue. In 2012-2014, the focus is on the region of South Asia and the issue of Global Food Security.
The initiative comes from taskforce recommendations, as part of the University's strategic positioning effort. Funding is provided from Central Administration to support international scholarly initiatives at the University.
In 2014, the second year of the biennium, GPS Alliance will offer a grant program to support innovative research and the continued development of a global network of engagement and scholarship across the University. This program will target research and scholarly initiatives related to the Global Spotlight themes for 2012-14.
South Asia
South Asia is a complex region—politically, geographically, and economically—that serves as home to approximately one-quarter of the world's population. While definitions of the region vary, countries included for the purposes of this grants program are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
The region boasts a rich cultural history and a wide diversity of religious and linguistic practices. The eight countries of South Asia are comprised of more than 2,000 ethnic groups and several hundred languages. The countries in the region are economically diverse with increasing opportunities for growth; however, they also confront substantial challenges in infrastructure development, education, public health, nutrition, and resource challenges such as water supply and access.
Food Security
Global food security—food access and quality, food use, and food availability—remains high on the list of critical global issues. Scholars, practitioners, and policymakers alike grapple with effective approaches for achieving sustainable access to food. Ensuring sustainable food security requires the perspectives of scholars specializing in agriculture; ecological systems; food production and markets; institutions at the local, national and transnational levels; water access and distribution; livelihoods and economic systems; human and animal health and nutrition; education and extension; households and families; and cultural and social life. In keeping with the University's land grant mission and the related responsibility to work toward solutions to vexing local and global challenges, this competition's focus on food security is intended to illuminate pathways to increased food security among food insecure communities.
New Funding Partnerships
The Global Spotlight scholarly focus on food security is supported by an innovative funding partnership including the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), the broader Global Programs and Strategy Alliance (GPS Alliance), the Institute on the Environment, and the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR). This collaboration will seek to foster interdisciplinary approaches to global food security in connection with social justice.
Guidelines for International Research Seed Grants
(Go here for information on the International Research Major Grants for faculty.)
Research team
Faculty and academic staff with PI eligibility from academic units throughout the University of Minnesota system may apply.
Research focus
Eligible grant proposals may focus on:
- any aspect of South Asia (defined for this competition as including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka);
- any aspect of global food security (we encourage projects with a focus on global food security and social justice, but all themes are eligible); or aspects of both South Asia and global food security.
Key priorities
Projects should address three key priorities:
- Build international research partnerships and projects
- Foster interdisciplinary collaboration
- Supporting innovations in project articulation, implementation, and dissemination
Description of Award
The distribution of award funds will be determined based on the pool of proposals, but we anticipate the following:
- Approximately four to five seed grant awards up to $20,000 each.
- Funding to be used during an 18-month funding cycle: January 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015.
Selection Criteria
Research Team
- Involvement of faculty from two or more academic fields and from more than one academic unit (college, department, center, etc.) within the University of Minnesota or from collaborating international institutions, with a preference for intercollegiate projects
- Recently established or new international partnerships or contacts as relevant to the proposed project
Research Project
- Addresses key program priorities: international partnerships, interdisciplinary collaboration, innovative initiatives and ideas
- Intellectual merit and potential for impact on scholarship, policy and/or practice
- Potential for continued funding
- Plan to disseminate research in academic and/or public arenas
- Quality of research design and methodology
- Clear and feasible time line and implementation plan
- Appropriateness of the budget to the proposed work
Special note for proposals focusing on global food security: In keeping with the University's land grant mission and the related responsibility to work toward solutions to vexing local and global challenges, this competition's focus on food security is intended to illuminate pathways to increased food security among food insecure communities. In addition to the guidelines above, we encourage (but do not require) respondents to clearly articulate the relationship between their proposed work and pathways to increased food security.
Applied Research Grants: In particular, a subset of the faculty seed and/or major grant awards will be made to projects that go beyond the criteria above to support outcomes-oriented research, which includes an explicit partnership between the research team (consisting of a broadly interdisciplinary mix of agricultural scientists and other natural scientists and engineers, and scholars with expertise in policy, economics, and other social sciences and humanities) and non-academic partners (e.g., from NGOs, corporations, governments, or civil society). The goal of these applied research grants is to focus on problems that are articulated in collaboration with outside partners, and focus interdisciplinary research and engagement from the University to addressing these problems. For these applied research proposals,respondents must clearly articulate the relationship between the proposed research and engagement, the needs of the outside partner(s), and pathways to addressing food security. These additional criteria apply only to a subset of food security-themed projects.
Application Materials
October 28, 2013 (this date has been corrected)
Grants will be announced in December 2013.
Application Materials
Completed grant proposals must include the following components (see below for more details):
- Cover Sheet
- Project Abstract
- Personnel
- Project Description
- Budget and budget justification
- Letters of commitment from international partners (if relevant)
- Approvals and clearances
- Curriculum vitae from principal investigator or co-principal investigators
- Global Spotlight grants online application (available June 2013)
- Maximum length of 250 words (not including references and appendices, Times New Roman, 12 point font, 1-1.5" margins)
- One page maximum (list including University of Minnesota participants with departmental affiliations such as PI/co-PIs, participating faculty, academic staff and/or graduate students; list of international partners with institutional/organizational affiliation and field or department)
- 8 pages maximum, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12 point font, minimum one-inch margins
- Research question(s) and connection to Global Spotlight themes
- Context in literature (and policy where relevant)
- Research design and methodology or description of plan to establish research collaboration
- Significance and potential for impact on scholarship, policy and/or practice
- Project time line and implementation plan, including specific description of involvement of international partners
- Dissemination plan (academic and public arenas)
- Plan to generate additional future funding
- Complete the budget form on the Global Spotlight grants application page (or create your own Excel budget document following this format)
- Budget justification to describe budget line items (e.g., one graduate assistant to collect project data at 25% for one semester at hourly rate of XX)
- Other funding: list other funding sources pending or received for this project (funding sources, project title, grant period, amount awarded)
- Note on budget content: full project budget should be provided even it exceeds maximum funding for this award. Discussion of any matching funds should be included in the justification.
- Note on faculty salary: seed grant funds may not be used for faculty salaries or stipends
LETTERS OF COMMITMENT FROM INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS (if relevant)
- Letters should address the willingness/capability of the partner to participate in the project
- Letter should address any resource commitments by international partners that are important to project success or that are shown as matches in the budget
- Attach documentation of approvals/clearances, or an explanatory document of up to one page addressing:
- IRB approval (or application for approval) for proposed research if required (PI must provide documentation of IRB approval or waiver before funds will be released)
- Description of any necessary research clearances or permissions required by foreign government(s) and their status. Please attach translations of any documents in languages other than English to the original document with your application.
- 3 pages maximum per CV
Submission of Application
Grant Requirements
Research Report
Grant recipients will be required to submit a report within 2 months of the end of the project's timeline.
The report should describe:
- Activities that have been completed (e.g. specific deliverables with details)
- Progress made toward the original goals of the project
- Long-term sustainability and impact of the project
- Additional funds secured or applied for to support continuation of the project (internal or external to the University of Minnesota)
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Who does not love some fabulous Southern Wedding Ideas? From The Dallas signature cocktail created by Michael Rios Event Bartending, to the real peaches used as decor, you'll see bits and pieces of southern charm everywhere throughout this wedding. We were in awe when we saw all of the gorgeous aspects of this shoot and we know you will be too! The gorgeous florals from Posh Floral Designs, the breathtaking cake from Layered Bake Shop, and the lovely gown from Wtoo by Watters will leave you wanting more.
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The style was southern, preppy, and fresh. With the girls in cornflower dresses, and the boys wearing khakis and bow ties. The florals were vibrant and elegant. The brides bouquet was tied with a gorgeous Seersucker bow and the maids bouquets were tied with small silver bells.
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College Hockey:Harrold Caps BC Comeback With OT Winner
Eagles Lead Cats 1-0 In Quarterfinal Series
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Peter Harrold's goal at 10:41 of overtime completed a dramatic comeback for Boston College, giving the third-seeded Eagles a 3-2 victory over sixth-seeded Vermont and a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series.
Harrold intercepted a blind pass at his defensive blue line. He then cut down the right wing side, skated just below the goal line and fired a bad-angle shot on Vermont goaltender Joe Fallon (31 saves). The puck hit Fallon's stick as he tried to deflect it and then bounced between his legs into the net sending the sparse crowd of 1,679 into celebration.
"I was hoping it would bounce out, maybe into the slot," said Harrold of the play. "I think [Fallon] stuck his stick out trying to poke check it and it just bounced in on him."
"We haven't had much [puck-luck] in our season," said BC head coach Jerry York, whose team entered the playoffs 1-5-1 in its last seven and lost the Hockey East regular season title on the final night.
The goal came just 29 seconds after BC goaltender Cory Schneider (25 saves) saved the game, literally, for the Eagles. Vermont center Torrey Mitchell skated in alone and made a quick move on Schneider. He lifted a shot that Schneider had to reach in back of him with his glove to make a highlight-reel save.
"I saw [Mitchell] cutting down the slot… he's one of their best forwards," said Schneider. "I knew he was going to be patient and try to out-wait me. I thought I did a good job of staying up.
"I just stuck my glove out there and hoped I got it because at that point you're just reaching and trying to cut off his angle as much as possible."
The BC win spoiled a spirited performance by Vermont that took them within a minute of victory. BC's Chris Collins scored the tying goal with 59.4 seconds remaining in regulation to steal the win from the Catamounts.
BC jumped out to an early lead thanks to Brian Boyle's career-best 20th goal of the season. On the power play, Boyle received a Stephen Gionta feed from behind the net and quickly snapped of a shot that beat Fallon cleanly at 5:17.
Vermont answered with a power play goal of its own at 7:47. Mitchell and Dean Strong transitioned quickly off a neutral zone turnover and skated in two-on-one on Schneider. Strong had an empty net to bury a backhander after Mitchell drew both the defender and goaltender, knotting the game at one.
The first period was quite even territorially, evident in the shot chart that showed each club putting eight attempts on goal.
In the second, the physical play picked up but the skating seemed to slow a bit. Shots actually picked up in the period, with BC outshooting the Catamounts, 11-10. Each team, though, mustered just a single noteworthy scoring chance.
BC's came at 10:45 when Nathan Gerbe took advantage of a Fallon miscue. The sophomore goaltender bobbled a rebound allowing Gerbe to take a wide-open swat. The puck hit Fallon, bounced over hit shoulder and floated to the top of the net forcing a whistle.
Vermont countered with a bid of its own at 15:10. With Schneider looking down and out, Brady Leisenring's shot ended up right in the glove of the outstretched goaltender, keeping the game even heading into the third.
Vermont looked like it was on its way to victory when Jaime Sifers' slap shot through an Andy Corran screen squeaked through the legs of Schneider at 3:28 to give the Vermont a 2-1 lead.
It remained that way into the game's closing minutes. With 1:28 remaining, York lifted Schneider in favor of an extra attacker. After gaining the zone following a neutral-zone faceoff, defenseman Harrold found Benn Ferriero in the high slot. Ferriero's original shot was saved by Fallon but Collins was camped out at the right post and slapped the puck into the wide-open net with 59.4 seconds remaining to send the game to overtime.
"A couple of things went wrong [on the six-on-five]," said Vermont coach Kevin Sneddon. "One of our guys picked his own player and we couldn't get out to the shooter. And obviously Collins is a pretty good guy to have net front. He's going to bury those."
The win puts Vermont on the brink of the season's end. The Catamounts, who once looked like an NCAA tournament contender, now must put together four straight wins to make it to the national stage.
That all begins on Friday night, a game both York and Sneddon know will be a battle.
"The toughest thing in hockey is to take the sticks away from [the other teams]," said York. "Tomorrow night we're trying to eliminate Vermont, and that's a hard thing to do. We'll have our hands full tomorrow night."
"We've got our backs against the wall, but we remember what we did last year against Dartmouth," said Sneddon of his club's ECACHL playoff series in which the Cats lost the opener but rallied to win the series. "I don't have to remind them that it's do or die. They're disappointed right now but we've got to shake that feeling and come back and play tomorrow night."
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American terrorists, California boys, and how the press thinks about treason.
By Julia Rabig
In the wake of the FBI's public appeal earlier this week for help locating seven alleged terrorists, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and MSNBC — not to mention theOrange County Register — responded with profiles of Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the only American citizen among the suspects. Although none of them explicitly links Gadahn to John Walker Lindh (the "American Taliban"), most of these stories try to fit him into the taxonomy of the impassioned California seeker gone awry, an archetype of American journalism.
According to Newsweek, "Young Gadahn's life has been one of those strange trips that only an odd melding of '60s and '70s counterculture and the modern Internet culture could produce." This narrative captures some truth about Gadahn's life, but the consistency with which it is applied drains California's religious landscape of its complexity and underplays its significance.
The Los Angeles Times coverage leads the pack admirably by delving into the process of Adam Gadahn's conversion and eliciting thoughtful observations from Gadahn's father, Philip, on the family's idiosyncratic beliefs. The son of a prominent Orange County doctor, Philip changed his name from Pearlman to Gadahn as a young man, and moved to rural California, where he avoided technology, home-schooled his four children, and raised goats. He became a halal butcher, supporting his family for a time by supplying meat to Islamic markets in Los Angeles. Evident in the Los Angeles Times article is the elder Gadahn's own lifelong attempt to articulate a religious identity and the journey of his son, Adam, from "demonic" heavy metal fandom, to fascination with fundamentalist Christianity, to Islam — a conversion he describes himself on a site dedicated to helping others make that leap of faith.
The level of detail in the LA Times article suggests that its correspondents established a better rapport with their source than reporters for The New York Times, for whom Gadahn seems to have provided only perfunctory, somewhat defensive, answers to questions about his life. Both articles tell us that Philip Gadahn calls the belief system he and his Catholic wife arrived at "universalism"—a seemingly peaceful concoction of the religions he had studied over the years. But The New York Times attributes a Christian gloss to Philip Gadahn's beliefs (perhaps because he home schooled his children, a practice associated in much of the press exclusively with Christian conservatives), while The Los Angeles Times asserts that Philip found the teachings of Islam "closest to his heart (he is, after all, a halal butcher).
Of course, these inconsistencies could have less to do with reporters' carelessness and more to do with the fact that Philip Gadahn is an unusual character in particularly stressful circumstances. The federal government has accused his son (believed to be in Pakistan) of collaborating with terrorists; and Philip's isolated, rural life is suddenly under scrutiny by the media and FBI officials. He is asked to explain the beliefs of a son he has not spoken with in years, and implicitly expected to justify the decisions he has made about religion and parenting. Imagine the confusion that would result if every parent of an alleged criminal were asked to produce a detailed religious history.
And yet, the Gadahn articles leave unanswered many compelling questions about the three-generation trajectory of religious belief that produced Adam Gadahn. So what, readers might reply. The minutiae of the twenty-five-year-old Southern Californian's philosophy are less important than the fact that he allegedly dressed like Osama bin Laden, trained in a terror camp, and offered translation services to Al Qaeda leaders. These details, however, offer a subtle, but significant link to the larger role of Southern California's religion and politics, particularlyOrange County's, in recent U.S. history.
Philip Gadahn's parents — the Pearlmans –prospered in postwar Orange County. Although they donated reliably to Jewish causes, the Pearlmans were not considered especially religious. Their son, Philip, rejected suburban life, the secular Judiasm of his parents, and the atheism of his youth when he found a Bible on the beach and experienced an epiphany. He renamed himself and moved "off the grid." When his son, Adam, reached adulthood, he returned to the Orange County home Philip had abandoned, moved in with his grandmother, and converted to Islam.
Adam Gadahn seems to have found in Orange County a belief system that satisfied the same search for meaning that had led his father in the opposite direction, from affluent suburb to dusty goat farm. Both seemed to have sought some kind of purity: Philip Gadahn embraced rural life as a fresh start and an escape from modern technology. His son, upon conversion, gravitated toward a militant group of young Muslims who rejected the moderate, ecumenical stance of their mosque's leaders.
Reporters need not look far to discover in the Gadahn family's story — a story that ricochets between liberal ecumenism and enthusiastic orthodoxy — a reflection of Southern California history, particularly that of Orange County, long a bastion of the New Right. In Surbuban Warriors, a seminal work on Orange County, Harvard historian Lisa McGirr describes the creation of the first drive-in churches in the 1950s, which inspired lackluster believers to reject the equation of secularism and suburban life and deepen their commitment to Christ.
At the same time that this mini-revival got underway, Orange County produced a generation of young, fervid, conservative voters who rejected the older, east-coast version of compromised Republicanism represented by Nelson Rockefeller. They fueled Barry Goldwater's radical right 1964 campaign (brilliantly described in Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm), sparked the California tax revolt, comprised the backbone of Ronald Reagan's political career, and provided protest models for parents around the country who tried to rid public school curricula of communist-leaning literature and sex education.
Although Adam Gadahn's father took a more highly individualized route by withdrawing from surbuban society to home-school his children, he might have found an affinity with many of the Orange County conservative suburbanites who were unsatisfied with secularism, who jealously protected their control over their children's education, and who fiercely guarded their communities from the high taxes, multiple-family dwellings, and heavy regulations they associated with big-city life.
The omission of this context becomes especially striking in light of the reportage lavished upon another traitorous young Californian — John Walker Lindh. Upon Lindh's capture in Afghanistan, reporters eagerly sought a clue for his actions in his background, suggesting that the excessive hippy tolerance of his left-leaning childhood homes — Takoma Park, Maryland, and Marin County, California — figured in to his conversion to Islam and decision to fight for the Taliban. To the extent that the press has followed this strategy with Gadahn, they present him as another product of California's excessive, if well-intentioned,freethinking ethos.
One problem here is that freethinking is a fairly imprecise adjective. But as long as it's in common use, we should remember that it's not the exclusive property of West Coast lefties. As Lisa McGirr shows, many of the conservative and liberarian activists of Orange County might have wanted the adjective for themselves as a weapon in their fight against imperious federal bureaucrats, high taxes, and meddling public school systems, all of which they considered part of a lockstep liberalism blind to American realities.
While the assertion that Gadahn's and Lindh's parents and communities influenced them is an easy bit of journalistic psychology, it's nearly impossible for reporters working on a tight deadline to pinpoint where these influences mixed with Lindh's and Gadahn's adult identities and the choices they inevitably made for themselves. Success yields a more interesting and nuanced article, failure results in polemical overstatements that rest on creaky logic.
Yet the risks are worth taking. Although the lives of Lindh and Gadahn took extraordinary, violent turns, the questions about faith that led them have deep, familiar roots.
Julia Rabig is a historian working on a book about Newark, New Jersey, after the riots. She has previously written for The Revealer about culture war.


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I still have a few of their .380s. Never any problems whatsoever and a lot of rounds have been through them all.
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I still have a few of their .380s. Never any problems whatsoever and a lot of rounds have been through them all.
I have a Bersa Thunder 9UC Pro. Obtained it about a year and half ago unfired for $300. It has been flawless through hundreds of rounds and very accurate to boot. I trust it to be my main cold weather EDC. If I stumble upon a HC or another UC for the right price I will snatch it up. I love my Bersa! :yup:
Me AND my girlfriend both own bersa handguns THEY ARE WORTH THE $$$ FOR SURE
I have a Bersa Thunder .380. Not to be mr. negative but it is my least favorite gun. I don't feel it is reliable to protect myself or family. When I purchased the gun several years ago it was priced right and has lots of features. It is ammo fussy with lots of jams and stovepipes.
I use the Ruger LC9 instead. Very happy with the LC9.
I have owned 3 Thunder 380s and a Firestorm 22lr. All have been reliable accurate.
I had one of the early mdl 15 shot 380, Nice wood grips & accurate, Still kicking myself for selling it ; )
I carry a Bersa Thunder 9 Ultra Compact Pro. I've put hundreds of rounds through it and have never had a failure of any kind with it. It's so accurate you could drive nails with it.
The bottom two are the Thunder 9UC Pro and the BP9CC....both exceptionally accurate especially with the polyganol rifling Bersa added
with the Pro Series.
Bersas used to run around the low 300.00 mark IIRC now they run closer to $400.00 for some models.I would not hesitate to carry one after running enough ammo thru it to make sure my gun was reliable
I had the UC40 that was a decent gun, but just a little too thick IMHO for IWB CCW.
The finish on the slide was nasty as well.
I sold it
I have a friend that has the new 9mm BP9cc and it shot very accurately.
I have started trying to buy American made wherever possible a few years back..... There are many great choices
Bersa makes a fine pistol.
I just purchased one and it seems like a fine gun. As for looks its pretty sharp and it 100s of dollars less that the others. Mine's a Thunder 380 and we'll see after a few 1,000 rounds. If I was looking for a 9mm, i would probably also look at Sig and Bernelle but Bersa would be in the mix.
The Bersa Thunder is a great little gun. My old $279 Bersa Thunder .380 could outshoot my ex-girlfriend's Beretta 84 .380. I did improve it with a little trigger job ;-)
I've had a .45 Ultra Carry for a year or so.
It's OK. A co-worker expressed interest in it, so I might sell that to him.
Pro -- reliable, seems accurate. Controls are large, and easily reached. Safety is just like the 1911 guys like. Take down is trivially easy.
Con -- magazines are pricey. Nickel plating quality is spotty.
I've got 2, Bersa Thunder ultra compact pro .40 and a Bersa thunder .380 deluxe. Both excellent guns, though I'm looking for some adjustable sights for the .40, combat sighting doesn't do it for me, I prefer not to have to aim above my target.


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ECONOMICS International freight movements are often impeded by national and regional trade barriers. ASEAN's attempt to create a single market is moving slowly towards fruition. Leschaco discusses how this may help logistics providers and what it is already doing to take advantage of the opportunities
Warrant Group has taken over the operational and commercial operations of Leschaco Group's deepsea tank container business in the UK.
Leschaco has opened a new logistics centre in Laredo, Texas, focusing on the chemicals sector.


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I've been driving North Beckley for months, watching the slow, slow progress of veggie favorite Spiral Diner. Would it ever open? Now comes word from Pegasus News' Teresa Gubbins that the Fort Worth import is ready for customers. That makes me happy—not that I don't like my meat. (Insert joke) But I've always enjoyed the […]Read More


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Microsoft is expanding the availability of the Surface RT tablet on February 14 with the release of the tablet in more European countries. The following countries will be able to procure the Surface RT February 14: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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