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The Gaels beat Loyola Marymount 74-61 in their conference opener at McKeon Pavilion on Saturday, led by Matthew Dellavedova's 17 points and eight assists.
The win came over a LMU team that suffered a 41-point loss at BYU two days earlier.
A barrage of 3-pointers to start the second half helped the Gaels (12-3, 1-0 WCC) pull away from the Lions (7-8, 0-2 WCC). The Gaels' win avenges their lone conference home loss from last season when they won the outright WCC crown.
An evenly-played first half ended when Jordan Giusti's running 3-pointer bounced off the backboard and in, giving the Gaels a 33-30 advantage at the break.
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Junior Stephen Holt, a preseason all-WCC pick, returned to the starting lineup for the first time since Nov. 25. A bruised knee kept Holt out for four games and he slowly returned to action the last four games.
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In-stream flow case reversed on appeal 'Paramount fishing water rights' gain circuit court support in JBC lawsuit The Flathead Indian Irrigation Project (FIIP) is front-page news again after a relatively uneventful summer, and it's good news indeed for treaty rights. In one of a number of pending lawsuits concerning FIIP, the 9th circuit court of appeals in Seattle ruled Nov. 17 that, "Because any aboriginal fishing rights secured by treaty are prior to all irrigation rights, neither the BIA nor the Tribes are subject to a duty of fair and equal distribution of reserved Fishery water [as had been decided earlier by a lower court]. Only after fishery waters are protected does the BIA, acting as Officer-in-Charge of the irrigation project, have a duty to distribute fairly and equitably the remaining waters among irrigators of equal priority". In other words: The Reservation's fish population, protected by treaty, will have its needs met first, with irrigators next in line. "You could say we're pleased," vice-chairman Ron Therriault told reporters Nov. 19 in Pablo as he handed out photo- copies of the 11-page court decision. "We're pleased and satified because the court's ruling is supportive of the Tribes' position on fisheries," added Tribal attorney Dan Decker. "The points made by the ninth circuit echo what we had argued." The case decided Nov. 17 has a history that began in 1985, when the Tribes sued the Bureau of Indian Affairs over FIIP's longstanding policy of de-watering streams and killing fish as it distributed water to irrigators. A committee of irrigators called the Joint Board of Control (JBC) (Concludes on page two) IG 10 00 0) o g 00 h 0) * S o ° $¦ »4 m Late again and skinny to boot Well, what can we say? November 1987 will not go down in the Char-Koosta diary as a time of particular joy: Nov. 10—Our non-brand-name label-making computer chokes up doing the Poison labels, only halfway through the 2,700-name run. No one outside Montana will get the 11-11 issue. Nov. 13 — We got permission to recreate the circulation list on the Main Office's IBM. We hope to have labels in time for the Nov. 17 mailing of the 11-18 issue. Nov. 16 — Two days of typing addresses sees us only through the D's. Because we have to get the news of the Nov. 25 run-off election out this week, we have to get labels somehow.. .It's decided to have the Enrollment Technician run off addresses for everyone 18-years-and-older who lives on the Reservation, using the per capita list. We end up with 3,240 labels in zip codes 598 and 599. . .even with hand-culling some 600 (who wants more than (Concludes on page two)
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A Very Special Mother's Day Gift: Independent Living for My Son, Hunter
This is a blog post by Marianne Sullivan, Assistant Director of National Outreach and Resources at Autism Speaks, and the mother of a young adult with autism.
This year on Mother's Day I will celebrate something very special: the gift of independent living for my 18-year-old son, Hunter, who is challenged by severe autism.
Several months ago, Hunter moved to a new home in our community that was designed with supportive living services. While there was a lot of anxiety as we approached this move, the staff assisted in a smooth transition. Living in his new home, Hunter walks to the Coryell Autism Center where he is focused on acquiring new job skills, and to neighborhood stores. Hunter, like any other 18-year-old, shows great pride in his new independence. When I stop by to see him or when he comes to visit me, it becomes clear we have a new relationship.
For the past 16 years, Hunter struggled to overcome severe challenges posed by his autism. He made some remarkable gains through a school that our community developed for children like him. Adolescence was difficult, like for any teen, and he tried to assert independence while still being very dependent in many areas. As he began to develop community living skills like money management, grocery shopping, and participation in community activities, we realized how much more there was that needed to be addressed. It was during this time that we began to plan for the creation of a new residential model where independent living skills could be more systematically practiced on a daily basis.
Hunter endured another challenge during this period. After a 20 year marriage, his father and I separated and then divorced. Our entire family went through a long period of emotional turmoil. Ultimately, Hunter has been able to adjust to this and, like many other teens whose parents divorce, he has grown from this life process.
For those of you who might be thinking about creating an independent living situation for your teen, let me give some background to aid you in exploring your options. When Hunter turned 18, we applied for SSI from Social Security so he would have his own funds for Medicare and health insurance coverage. We also applied to the California Regional Center for services that would assist him to live on his own. Supportive Living Services (SLS) is a state program that offers a range of services to adults with developmental disabilities who, through the Individual Program Plan (IPP) process, are given help to live in homes they themselves own or lease in the community. SLS may include:
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BERKELEY -- Hours after Sandy Barbour dismissed Jeff Tedford -- a decision she called "excruciating'' -- the Cal athletic director sketched the outline of the Bears' next football coach.
Barbour said Tuesday she wants "a builder -- a team builder, a staff builder, a character builder. Someone who's innovative, who understands the importance of academics, who has a strong vision for the program."
Then she paused.
"Football's not at the top of the list. We want a high level of football expertise, but other things are important to be successful here."
With that model in mind, Barbour will immerse herself in the most important hire of her eight-year tenure -- someone to recharge a team that just completed a 3-9 season and failed to qualify for a bowl for the second time in three years.
"After a season like we had, really the only way you can approach it is you can only get better from here," Cal linebacker Nick Forbes said. "Dealing with those trials we went through, dealing with those obstacles, you have to look for the light in a situation."
Barbour plans to move "as quickly as we possibly can" but declined to give a time frame for the hire.
She has retained the executive search firm DHR International, which helped Stanford identify Jim Harbaugh and San Jose State find Mike MacIntyre. But ultimately, the decision will rest with Barbour, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and a select few.
Whether Cal lands an A-list candidate such as Boise State's Chris Petersen remains to be seen.
The Bears could pursue a hot head coach from outside the six major conferences, such as Louisiana Tech's Sonny Dykes, Fresno State's Tim DeRuyter, Utah State's Gary Andersen or San Jose State's MacIntyre.
Or they could consider a well-regarded assistant such as UCLA offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone or Notre Dame defensive coordinator Bob Diaco.
Or they could look to the NFL, perhaps for 49ers offensive coordinator Greg Roman or ex-Raiders coach Hue Jackson.
"We just want a good coach," offensive lineman Jordan Rigsbee said. "Coach Tedford was a great coach as far as personality and things like that. We just want to win. We want the best opportunity to win."
The hire will depend, in large part, on what Cal has to offer.
The Bears have upgraded their facilities with a new training center and a renovated stadium, but those moves simply put them on equal footing with Pac-12 peers.
Their next challenge is to pay competitive rates for assistant coaches. That won't be easy given the resources available at North division rivals Oregon, Washington and Stanford.
Barbour said the Bears are intent on being competitive in the marketplace. But the salary pool for coaches must come from athletic department revenue -- no state money or student fees can be used.
The Bears received interest in Tedford's position "long before the job was open," Barbour said with a hint of disgust. She added, "It's a great job that was made better by Jeff Tedford."
Tedford took over a program that was coming off a 1-10 season and, within three years, turned the Bears into a top-10 program.
But his success waned in the later years, largely because of erratic quarterback play and unusually high staff turnover.
Cal missed the postseason in 2010, sputtered to seven wins last year and cratered this fall. Derailed by injuries and a porous offensive line, the Bears lost their final five games to finish 3-9 -- their worst record of Tedford's tenure.
In addition, their Graduation Success Rate, an important measure of academic performance, was 48 percent -- lowest in the Pac-12.
Barbour spent two days discussing the direction of the program with Tedford, then fired the winningest coach in Cal's modern era Tuesday morning.
When Tedford, 51, informed the team of his dismissal, the players gave him a standing ovation.
"We're all saddened by it but ... it's hard to talk about," guard Geoff Gibson said. "We all were really emotional. Coach Tedford is a great man. But at end of the day, the decision came from above our head. Obviously, the university decided to go a different way."
Tedford earns $2.3 million per year and has three years left on a contract with no buyout clause.
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The annual Bordeaux futures campaign attracts unparalleled attention, and there are many who feel the hoopla that surrounds it is undeserved. But it cannot be denied that en primeur focuses the attention of critics and merchants across the globe on the qualities of the vintage at hand. Interestingly, the lack of a futures program for California wines means they collectively escape the spotlight that Bordeaux wines enjoy (or rather endure, in the case of the 2011s). Instead, information about the latest vintage of California wines tends to come out bit by bit from those few critics who actually have access to winemakers and their cellars. However, it wasn't always that way…
As the market for California cabernet became more serious in the mid-1980s, many wineries began to emulate the way Bordeaux presented new vintages to the press and the market. Recognizing that consumers were becoming increasingly familiar with the en primeur system for Bordeaux, and at the same time taking advantage of Robert Parker's increasing influence in the California cabernet segment of the wine industry, MacArthur Beverages, a Washington D.C. retailer, held the first ever California futures tasting for their clients in 1985. Over the next few years, Parker attended the event as well and published his assessments of the unfinished wines while also offering practical advice to consumers interested in purchasing domestic wine futures. (more…)


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- Perhaps this is because he believes so much in divine providence and God's redemption in Christ, and he refuses to believe that God is capricious.
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fate, destiny, nemesis, kismet, God's will, divine intervention, predestination, predetermination;
astral influence, the stars;
fortune, fortuity, serendipity, chance, luck, accident, circumstances, coincidence;
one's lot (in life)
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An open house on Saturday will showcase the improvements being made at the Eagle Villas Apartment Homes, which are under new management.
The complex is at 405 Nogal Road in Eagle and the open house is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The Eagle Villas is a rent-controlled, affordable housing complex that opened in 1995. Thirteen of the 120 units are currently available.
"Before Sandalwood Management took over (in December), we lacked a big budget," said Eagle Villas Community Manager Edith Reyes, who worked for the previous owner as a leasing agent. "There was only one owner before and now this is owned by a corporation, which has more resources. Now we have nice, great improvements. Sandalwood is really big on fixing problems right away. Before, it took longer to fix things."
One of the advantages Sandalwood Management provides is 24-hour emergency maintenance.
Sandalwood President Joel Ospovat said the current improvements include a playscape, seal coating the parking lot, fixing garages and upgrading the apartments as warranted and as units become available.
"We want to deliver a product that is modern and new," Ospovat said.
The Eagle Villas are on the north bank of the Eagle River, next to the bike path and a city park.
"Properties like this, in a market like this, with a location like this, should have a waiting list," Ospovat said.
Reyes said the Villas are generally occupied by families.
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Ospovat said the rental rates are approximately 20 percent less than the average market rate in Avon.
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20 February 2012
The Artist
I went to see The Artist yesterday, and since a friend this morning asked me some questions about it, I thought I'd take a moment here to record a few thoughts, and, more importantly, link to people who have more interesting things to say about it than I do.
It's a nice little movie.
I really have trouble coming up with more than that. Its clear frontrunner status in many categories going into the Oscars is a bit baffling, but not inexplicable. I can think of three major reasons it's such awards bait, and I'm sure there are more: 1.) it's different enough from other movies released last year to stand out from the crowd, but not different enough to alienate any crowd; 2.) if you know things about movies and you like movies, it makes you feel good for being you; 3.) Harvey Weinstein is distributing it, and Harvey Weinstein is one of the most successful people in the history of the motion picture industry at getting awards attention for his movies.
Also, it's a hard movie to hate. You could, like me, find it a pleasant enough entertainment that isn't a lot more, but it's perfectly inoffensive. Certainly, the hype and awards are annoying, especially if you step back and realize what a good year 2011 was for interesting films, but the hype and awards aren't the movie's fault. And there are good things in The Artist that can get obscured by frustration with the huge acclaim.
(What would I say are the best of the year? you ask. I haven't seen tons of 2011 films, so I wouldn't make an absolute Top 10 list, but here are 2011 features I got more from than The Artist, in alphabetical order: Albert Nobbs; Attack the Block; Beginners; A Dangerous Method; Incendies; In Darkness; Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Tree of Life; We Need to Talk About Kevin; Weekend -- and I'm probably forgetting a few. Oh, Hugo, which I actually wasn't very enthusiastic about, but definitely enjoyed more than The Artist. And Le Havre, which, again, I had problems with, but think is certainly more substantial than The Artist in lots of different ways.)
Ultimately, I'm with Jon at Films Worth Watching, who said, "its uniqueness, as I see it, is the fact that it's a silent film in a non-silent era." His entire post is well worth reading. (And a commenter notes that the movie's charms are more apparent on a second viewing. Perhaps.)
In contrast to that negative opinion, there is the thoughtful, extremely positive view of the film offered by James Clark at Wonders in the Dark.
Richard Brody at The New Yorker has an interesting post on the Oscar contenders, with some insightful comments on The Artist.
Glenn Kenny and Glenn Whipp have a pro-and-con discussion of the movie at MSN.
Chuck Tryon's post at The Chutry Experiment on "Navigating Nostalgia" has some useful thoughts when considering why it is that Oscar voters so love movies like The Artist and Hugo.
Finally, don't forget that Oscar voters are primarily old, white, and male.
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Intrigued by the final comment. Do you think someone old, white and male would be more likely to love THE ARTIST than not? I'd love to hear more analysis of this. I was hoping for some interesting commentary from you on the deeper and more playful aspects of the film -- the idea of sound, the idea of silence, the discovery of the main character's 'voice' and his final acceptance of sound (by tap and not vocal)... probably one of your links leads to a page that does that but I want to hear the Matt Cheney version of this filmy analysis!ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm humbled by your faith in me! James Clark's post about the film is the best one on the details of what makes it special (in his view -- I don't actually disagree with much of his analysis overall, I just didn't find the movie as compelling and special as he did, but that's so often the way of it with matters of taste. Some people don't find Jean-Claude van Damme movies as compelling and special as I do, and, well, all I can say is: their loss.)Delete
The last link I added a few minutes after first posting this, having discovered it suddenly, so it's not at all integrated into my thinking about The Artist so much as a useful set of facts to keep in mind regarding the Oscars. I think it's dangerous to draw too many x-leads-to-y-leads-to-z conclusions about the demography of the Academy with regard to taste, because we all know that individuals differ hugely, and there are plenty of white men over the median Academy age of 62 who have vastly more progressive, edgy, and eclectic taste than plenty of non-white non-men under the median Academy age of 62.
When it comes to voting blocks, though, which is really what matters when thinking about the Oscars, that demographic, I think, makes some tendencies in the nominations and, especially, the winners make more sense, just as the fact that most Academy members are wealthy and yet also have a streak of social-conscience liberalism in them helps make some other nominations and winners make some sense (e.g., Driving Miss Daisy over Do the Right Thing, Crash winning Best Picture, the tendency of softly liberal movies to get nominations, etc.). I was surprised at the demographics, because though I would have guessed the Academy was definitely skewed toward the older, maler, and whiter realm, given the realities of Hollywood and of how you get to be an Academy member, I didn't expect it to be so breathtakingly monolithic. Suddenly, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close doesn't seem like such an outlier for that group, whereas when it was first announced among the Best Picture nominees there was a collective double-take from everybody watching. Similarly, some commentators suggested that if the Academy wanted to signal that it cares about racial issues, it should have nominated Pariah rather than The Help, but even if Pariah had had the same publicity campaign as The Help, it's less surprising that a group -- and group is a key word here -- of primarily white men over a certain age would be more fond of that than a more challenging movie about teenagers and their family in contemporary Brooklyn. (I haven't seen either film, so am not offering this as an opinion of one's superiority over the other.) (And yes, the idea of having one slot for a movie about "racial issues" is noxious. There's very little that's not noxious when thinking about Hollywood, race, class, and gender.)
Eventually, I'll perhaps write more on this, because it's clearly got me stewing. In some ways, I'm surprised that I'm surprised. But still. 94% white. 77% male. Median age of 62. Wow. Just... Wow.
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Hm, I have to disagree with the older white males liking The Artist. For everyone one of those, their is a young 20 something woman who was exposed to silent movies for the first time.And out of all the people in the theatre where I watched it, I saw two people asleep-both men. I think it's a bit more deep. George's downfall was George's alone. He didn't want to make talkies even when the tides turned-even when Peppy was able to give him a script at the end he still refused it. It was his pride and his vanity-adversion to new technology. I also loved the use of light and shadows and sound. The dream sequence was expertly filmed and jolting to both George and the audience. It's a feel good movie in the style that the 1920-30s movies were-happy endings all around.ReplyDelete
Have to disagree with the Tree of Life. Thought that was the most pretentious movie I've seen.Replies
Anecdotal evidence can be marshalled for all sorts of views, so, "I saw two men asleep" doesn't really prove anything. As I said in the previous comment (I think we were posting at the same time), individuals vary widely and unpredictably. Groups are less varied and more predictable, especially when they're groups of people within a specific industry chosen to be members of an extremely exclusive club like the Academy.Delete
My greatest hope with the popularity of The Artist is that it might send people back to old movies. I hope you're right about that. In the town where I live, a local theatre does monthly showings of silents accompanied by live music, and if more people start attending those because they were intrigued by The Artist, I'll be thrilled.
Tree of Life was clearly the most polarizing movie of the year, and it's no surprise that it won't win Best Picture, since such voting relies on there being a middle ground. It's not a movie that one can be argued into loving or hating; either you respond to it and more or less "get" it, or you're bored stiff or annoyed and resent it. Nonetheless, it's obviously unique in a way that few films are, regardless of whether you love it for its uniqueness or hate it for it.
Yes, a nice little movie: I had a similar response.ReplyDelete
Was I wrong in expecting, and then being disappointed by the inexplicable lack of, "Stompin'At The Savoy" at the end?
I think the main point why Artist is so successful is the originality. Sure, other movies you mention might be better in the terms of the story per se, but Artists' uniqueness is hard to doubt. But whether that should be enough to win an Oscar is a completely different story.ReplyDeleteReplies
The originality and uniqueness of The Artist depends on the context. It is certainly unique for a film that has some relatively major actors in it and is released by a major Hollywood distributor this year. In a context that included, say, films from the silent era, or films by Guy Maddin, or even Mel Brooks's Silent Movie ... not unique, and not so original.Delete
I'm a bit late to this one Matt, but I had somewhat of a mixed reaction to The Artist myself. The film is charming (both Jean and the lovable Uggie) and certainly looks good, but the experience in whole left me with somewhat of a bad taste in my mouth. The pace, narrative techniques, and style have very little in common with actual silent cinema. Dujardin's performance, for which he ironically won an Oscar, is much more in line with the performances of the Golden Age (epitomised best by the strange inclusion of the Singin' in the Rain tribute). The anachronistic use of the Vertigo score, much publicized, felt like an attempt to borrow emotion from somewhere else, which rubbed me the wrong way, and the less said about the schmaltzy Hollywood ending, the better.ReplyDelete
I suppose I sound very harsh, and like I said, I found the film for the most part inoffensive, but I also found it completely lacking in authenticity. Silent film as a period including so many greats, from Eistenstein and Dovzhenko to Lang and Murnau, Griffith, von Stroheim, (the master) Ozu, early Renoir and Ford, and so on. And as you rightly pointed out, it isn't even that original an idea. Tati did it in the vastly superior Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Maddin has done it a few times, Aki Kaurismäki did it in Jura, as did Hou Hsiao-Hsien is the middle section of Three Times (albeit with the use of colour). The problem with Hazanavicius' film is the only real thing that qualifies it as a silent film is the lack of sound. If it is, as claimed, a love letter to the silent era, it is a silent era that personally I am unable to recognize.


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Ryan Ellis, Rich Clune and Nick Spaling scored in the opening period for Nashville, which won its third in a row. The Predators entered with an NHL-low 12 regulation goals in their first eight games.
St. Louis lost its second straight after winning four in a row from Jan 24-31.
Nashville completed a 4-2-1 road trip, tying the longest in franchise history. St. Louis beat the Predators 3-0 on Jan. 24, the second leg of the trip.
Rinne improved to 3-2-3 this season.
Six players scored for Nashville—five in the first 30:09.
Alex Pietrangelo scored his second goal of the season for the Blues, who had won six of their first eight games.
Nashville scored three times on its first eight shots against Brian Elliott. Ellis scored on the power play 2:10 into the game on assists from Wilson and Erat. The goal snapped the Predators' scoring drought of 184 minutes, 54 seconds in St. Louis dating to Dec. 30, 2011. It also halted an 0-for-17 skid on the power play.
Clune and Spaling scored 3:20 apart late in the first period to push the lead to 3-0.
Elliott, who gave up four goals on 11 shots, was replaced by Jake Allen midway through the second period.
The Blues had allowed just seven goals in the first period over their first eight games.
NOTES: The Predators will host Los Angeles on Thursday in their first home game since Jan. 21. ... St. Louis G Jaroslav Halak is out with a groin injury sustained last Friday in Detroit. He is expected to practice this Friday. ... Blues forward Vladimir Tarasenko had a five-game point streak snapped. ..


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Soul-blues fans should make a beeline for downtown Hayward this weekend.
It's their chance to catch Johnny Rawls and Bobby Rush, two of the greatest soul-blues singers in the business, at the 14th annual Hayward/Russell City Blues Festival, which is set for Saturday and Sunday.
The 61-year-old Rawls, who appears at the festival on Saturday, has worked with everyone from B.B. King and Joe Tex to Little Milton and Bobby Bland. He came up in legendary singer O.V. Wright's group in the '70s, then spent the '80s and early '90s in the Ace of Spades Band.
He got a relatively late start as a solo artist, at least by blues standards, releasing the first album under his own name in 1996 ("Here We Go"). Since then, however, he's certainly made up for lost time -- receiving multiple Blues Music Awards for his string of solo albums, which includes last year's "Soul Survivor."
Rush, Sunday's headliner, is a tremendously talented frontman as well as one of the genre's true living legends. The 77-year-old soul-blues singer first came to fame when his song "Chicken Heads" became an R&B hit in the early '70s.
He received a Grammy nomination for 2000's "Hoochie Man" and was featured in Martin Scorsese's documentary TV series "The Blues," which originally aired on PBS in 2003.
But Rawls and Rush are only two of the reasons to catch the blues festival. Here are some expected highlights:
Sista Monica: The Santa Cruz singer, known as "the lioness of the blues," released her latest CD, "Living in the Danger Zone," in late 2011. Her reward was a 2012 Blues Music Award nomination in the best soul-blues female artist category.
Ron Thompson: He's one of the true treasures of the Bay Area blues scene. The East Bay vocalist-guitarist is perhaps best known for his time in John Lee Hooker's band, but he's also released several fine solo albums.
Lester Chambers: He was the lead singer for the Chambers Brothers, a '60s soul-rock troupe known for such songs as "Time Has Come Today," "All Strung Out Over You," "Uptown" and "I Can't Turn You Loose."
Bay Area Blues Society Caravan of Allstars: The name says it all -- this group features some of the best blues players in the area. The troupe is led by guitarist Ronnie Stewart, who also runs the Bay Area Blues Society (the organization that presents this festival and many other worthwhile events).
J.C. Smith Band: The San Jose bandleader has long boasted a loyal South Bay following. Lately, however, he's been cultivating an international fan base, thanks to multiple tours through South America, Russia and elsewhere.
Jamie "Bluesboy" Powell: This Cleveland-born vocalist-guitarist, who has been a staple on the West Coast club scene for 50-plus years, is a champion of Chicago-style blues.
Guitar Mac: The Sacramento bluesman is a fine singer, guitarist and bandleader who has earned several honors from the annual West Coast Blues Hall of Fame and Awards Show.
Harmonica Explosion: Blues harp heads won't want to miss this showdown, featuring Sammy Lee, Wingnut Adams, Sean McGroarty, Tumble Weed and Lil Vinnie.
Russell City Memorial Blues Band: Fillmore Slim, Jimmy Mamou, Bobby Webb, Lee Ashford, Big Bob Deance and others pay tribute to the mighty musical legacy of Russell City.
The music runs 11 a.m.-7 p.m. both days at the Hayward City Hall Plaza, 777 B St. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the gate (www.brownbagtickets.com). A festival kickoff party will be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday at the Bistro in Hayward.
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NWS Birmingham GIS Data Page 2012 State of Alabama Tornado Statistics Alabama Tornado Database
Currently on an experimental basis, the National Weather Service in Birmingham is offering GIS data from storm surveys following severe weather events. These data offer survey information from tornado tracks that are found by damage assessment teams in the field. The links below contain information for 55 tornadoes that have been surveyed across the State of Alabama that occurred during the entire calendar year of 2012. Most information was produced and extracted from the National Weather Service Damage Assessment Toolkit, which has been developed by National Weather Service Meteorologists to modernize storm survey information into a geospatial format for the general public and GIS analysts. The information can be passed along to decision makers and the emergency management community after storm surveys have been completed. The Damage Assessment Toolkit will continue to be devloped and improved, and well on its way to being implemented throughout the agency.
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Select Tornado Swaths - (Updated 6/22/2013) Zipped folder contains polygon shapefiles of individual tornado tracks and estimated damage swaths, as well as an all inclusive shapefile that has all path information merged together. Shapefile projections are in Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 16N.
Select Survey Points - (Updated 6/22/2013) Zipped folder contains point shapefile locations within specific tornado paths that include detailed survey information gathered from assessment teams in the field. The attribute information includes: Event Date, Survey Date, Damage Indicator, Degree of Damage, EF-Rating at the point location, Wind Speed, and the Tornado associated with the survey point. Shapefile projections are in Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 16N.
All Tornado Paths - (Updated 6/22/2013) Zipped folder contains line shapefiles of all 55 tornado tracks across the State of Alabama for 2012. Attribute information includes: Tornado Name, EF-Scale, Peak Wind, Counties affected, Start Time, Beginning and Ending Latitudes and Longitudes, End Time, Maximum width in miles and yards, Order Number of the tornado segement, and Tornado Number according to the statewide tornado map. Shapefile projections are in Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 16N.
Attention GIS Analysts Using ArcGIS: Please view the metadata within ArcCatalog to view a complete description of shapefile information.
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The map below presents an interactive view of tornado paths and survey locations collected by damage assessment teams in the field throughout the entire 2012 year throughout the State of Alabama. These data can be downloaded using the links for the Paths, Points, and Swath shapefiles above. To view information from the survey points, zoom in to the specific point of interest and click on the point. A pop-up box will appear with specific survey information. Damage photographs, if they are available, can be viewed by clicking on the "Damage Photograph" link at the top of the pop-up box. If several features appear within a close proximity to one another, look for the "Next Feature" button (>) on the top right of the pop-up to view each feature. To zoom in and out, use your mouse wheel or use the plus and minus buttons in the top left corner of the map. Once again, these data are experimental.


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Dr. Hirschberg's office sign, Bromberg, 1902–1910 (Enameled sheet metal)
Oscar Hirschberg (1866–1946) was a general practitioner who had his own office in Berlin. In October 1938 he received a circular from the "commissioner for Jewish practitioners" providing instructions on the design of his office sign. According to the letter, signs were to be 30 x 25 cm in size, and the doctor's name had to be written in black type on a "sky-blue background" together with the supplementary information "Only licensed to treat Jews." The upper left corner was to display a "lemon-yellow circle" measuring 5 cm in diameter and containing a blue Star of David. The "altitude of the triangles" was set at 3.5 cm. The circular also recommended adding the name "Israel" to the sign in order "to avoid subsequent costs."
The licenses of the more than 3,000 Jewish doctors practicing medicine in the German Reich expired in October 1938. Starting in 1933, it had become increasingly difficult for them to earn a living from their profession due to anti-Jewish boycotts, local initiatives by professional organizations, as well as discriminatory regulations. In autumn 1938, only 709 of the doctors considered Jewish under the Reich Citizenship Law were granted special licenses to continue practicing medicine, and they were only permitted to treat Jewish patients and their own wives and children. These licenses could be revoked at any time. The Jewish practitioners were also prohibited from calling themselves "doctors," and their offices had to be identified accordingly. Doctors in "mixed marriages" were often the ones to receive special licenses.


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The Redwood Area Education Foundation and the Redwood Valley Hall of Fame have announced those who are going to be inducted as part of the Class of 2013 hall of fame.
Six individuals have been selected for induction, including Barbara Darr, James Darr, James Gallery, Carolyn Laufenburger, Mary Liebl and Paul Pryor.
Barbara Darr is being inducted in the faculty/staff category. She spent her education career teaching language arts to students in Grades 7-9.
James Darr is being inducted in the faculty/staff category. He spent his education career teaching science to students in the local school district, and although he has retired he is still serving as equipment manager.
James Gallery is being inducted in the alumni category. He is a 1980 graduate of Morton High School.
He spent several years playing professional football as a placekicker for several teams, including the St. Louis Cardinals, the Cincin-nati Bengals and the Min-nesota Vikings.
Carolyn Laufenburger is being inducted in the community category. She has spent her life promoting music in various ways, including spending several years as accompanist for the school's music department.
Mary Liebl is being inducted in the faculty/staff category. She spent nearly 30 years working in the local district, including her final years as an RVMS secretary.
Paul Pryor is being inducted in the alumni category. He is a Redwood Falls High School graduate and long-time supporter of the school district in various ways.
The induction ceremony is taking place May 1 during the Evening of the Stars event.
Tickets for the banquet go on sale April 1 and are available in the RASD office.
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"The IEA continues to show the vitality and relevance of free market economics." – David Willetts MP
Leading economists warn 1% growth could become the UK's new norm
New research argues 'evidence-based' policymaking is based on poor science
Full cost of HS2 may reach £80bn
Harm reduction is a better strategy than prohibition
Tax havens are essential to maintain a healthy economy
Government urged to introduce voluntary pay-as-you-go system for drivers
High tax rates have led to shadow economy worth over £150 billion in UK
New IEA research finds fat taxes would hit the poorest the hardest
New research finds retirement has a detrimental impact on both mental and physical health over time
Evidence shows moral panic at gaming machines ill-founded
The euro zone as we know it must end or be radically reformed
Swathes of complex capital regulation have made banking riskier
European Commission spending millions on pro-EU lobby groups
New IEA research finds a market-oriented anti-poverty policy could lead to families being £750 a month better off
Not only is fuel duty unfair on motorists, it also puts British companies at a competitive disadvantage
Trade expert Sushil Mohan, in a paper published by the IEA, argues that non-tariff barriers are an important impediment to trade for less developed countries and need to be brought to the forefront of the trade debate.
Former Senior Reagan economist warns against US stimulus spending
Privatising Britain's road network would raise more than £150bn
IEA discussion paper shows the Treasury is losing as much as £1.2 billion every year to the illegal alcohol industry.
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"The Madonna Files ...Based on Prophecies of the Virgin Mary"
"I invite you to open fully and surrender fully to God. Throw out all the darkness from your heart and let God's light and God's love enter your heart and dwell there forever. Be carriers of God's light and love to all people, so everyone, in you and through you, can feel and experience the authentic light and love that only God is able to give you."
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Rapid progress is being made in stem-cell research and increasing numbers of therapies are expected to reach the market in the future. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells capable of undergoing self-renewal and differentiation into specific cell types (1). Their function is to replace tissue in response to normal cellular turnover or trauma (1). Harnessing the potential of stem cells can help combat many serious diseases with a high unmet medical need, including cardiac, neurological, and metabolic disorders (2–4). In the future, most cell-based therapies are likely to be:
The nature of a medical condition may dictate whether autologous or allogeneic therapy is most appropriate. For instance, allogeneic therapy may be the only option when emergency care is required because of the time needed to produce autologous therapy. However, there are many diseases where both autologous and allogeneic therapies are being considered.
Cell-based therapies are likely to be significantly more expensive to produce than small molecule and biological drugs due to the complexity of their manufacturing process. Given that profit is equal to retail price minus costs, whether a stem-cell therapy is commercially successful will be heavily influenced by its manufacturing cost. Understanding how manufacturing costs and processes are likely to differ between allogeneic and autologous therapies will allow an informed decision to be made by companies regarding which therapeutic type to pursue to produce a commercially attractive product. It is also essential to recognize that healthcare payers are evermore scrutinizing the cost effectiveness of treatments when making reimbursement decisions, so simply setting a high product retail price to attain a certain level of profit when faced with high manufacturing costs is not a realistic option. Having detailed data about manufacturing costs will also help companies optimize their manufacturing process to reduce production costs for autologous and allogeneic therapies.To the author's knowledge, no data exists in the public domain about the cost differential to manufacture allogeneic and autologous therapy. The author sought to address this by determining the cost to manufacture one dose of allogeneic therapy with stem-cell expansion and one dose of autologous therapy with stem-cell expansion. The assumption was made that both allogeneic and autologous therapy had already been approved by regulatory authorities for an unspecified medical condition and shown to be equally safe and effective. The analysis focused purely on manufacturing costs and did not take into account any other costs such as R&D or product marketing. The analysis is timely as, up until recently, stem-cell research was focused almost exclusively on elucidating the science underpinning the discipline. However, companies have now begun to assess how to actually commercialize therapies (5, 6).


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ANAHEIM -- Third baseman Josh Donaldson, who had started all but one A's game so far this season, got Wednesday night's game off.
Donaldson, in the midst of an 0-for-21 skid since a first inning homer Friday in Baltimore, was available to hit off the bench.
"I didn't go in and ask for one, but I'll take one, for sure," Donaldson said.
Since the A's are off on Thursday, Donaldson gets two days off, which made his face light up.
"That's a bonus to get two days off," he said. "We're at the point of the season where everybody can use a day off."
Manager Bob Melvin specifically targeted Wednesday so that Donaldson could get two days off in a row. In addition to not having a hit since his run-in with Orioles third baseman Manny Machado on Friday -- Machado thought Donaldson tagged him with too much force -- Donaldson has four throwing errors in addition to being hitless.
"I know the last four or five days aren't how I play normally," Donaldson said.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations to Major League Baseball's RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) program.
The Angels won 2-1 in 14 innings on Collin Cowgill's two-out homer off Jeff Francis.
"That was amazing," Norris said. "When I saw the ball leave his hand, I knew it was on line. It was either going to hit me in the chest or go over my head. That was absolutely sheer arm strength."
Cespedes got a call from his mother. She knew his shoulder had been bothering him, and after watching the throw, she wanted to make sure he was still healthy. He was able to assure his mom, who is a former Cuban Olympic softball player, that he was fine.
He said he only saw video of the play once, then his phone vibrated. He showed off the latest entry, a video of the play taken from the left field stands in which someone had replaced the ball with a glowing fireball that carried from Cespedes' hand to Norris' glove.
Donaldson said watching that throw was like "watching Tom Brady or Peyton Manning drop the ball right into a receiver's hands."
Stephen Vogt, who saw the throw play from right field, was equally in awe.
"If you weren't there, you wouldn't believe it," he said. "If you were there, you couldn't believe it."
Batting coach Chili Davis summed it up nicely.
"Cespy is a freak," he said. "I'd love to see him completely healthy and locked in for one year and see what he could do. It would be incredible."
Melvin said the hope is that Reddick will be ready to start baseball activities this weekend, but Reddick will have to be checked out.


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Ink remover is a chemical used to get out ink stains. Ink remover poisoning occurs when someone swallows this substance.
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This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does not need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Methanol is the most dangerous and poisonous substance that can be an ingredient in ink remover. It often causes permanent blindness.
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Critics of Zaltrap say the drug provides the same survival benefit as Genentech's Avastin when either drug is added to standard chemotherapy. Like Zaltrap, Avastin is also used to inhibit angiogenesis in patients with colorectal cancer, but Zaltrap did so at more than twice the price. At launch, Zaltrap was priced at an average of more than $11,000 per month for treatment compared with about $5000 per month for Avastin. Concerned about the question of Zaltrap's value, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center decided not to give the drug to its patients.
In an October 2012 op-ed article in The New York Times, three physicians at Sloan-Kettering (two of whom have served as paid consultants to Genentech) say the decision should have been a "no-brainer" (1). The exclusion of Zaltrap from Sloan-Kettering's formulary, though, didn't come easy, according to the doctors. That's because, they say, the culture of medicine equates new with better. "Our refusal to adopt this remarkably expensive therapy," they wrote, "risks being labeled 'rationing,' not 'rational'." Sanofi swiftly moved to cut the price of its drug in half, according to a report in The Cancer Letter (2).Today's pressures on drugmakers reflect greater pressures throughout the entire healthcare ecosystem as payers, patients, and providers wrestle with the escalating cost of healthcare and push systems around the world away from cost-based to value-based. For pharmaceutical companies, this reflects not only a growing pressure on pricing, but pressure from all quadrants of the healthcare world to demonstrate the value their products provide to justify their costs. This new reality is altering the life-sciences landscape and changing business models, development strategies, and funding opportunities for companies.
That pressure will only continue in the US, with the US Supreme Court leaving the Obama Administration's landmark healthcare reform legislation largely intact. The re-election of President Obama and the preservation of a Democratic majority in the Senate mean that efforts to repeal the legislation will be put to rest and the focus will shift to implementation of the law.
As of this writing, a fight in Washington over the impending fiscal cliff was under way. If not resolved before year end, sequestration could trigger broad cuts to the federal budget that could have significant effects on the life-sciences industry. Most notable would be cuts to the National Institutes of Health and FDA, even cutting into the 2012 reauthorization of fees paid by industry to FDA under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act in exchange for timely reviews of products seeking marketing approval.


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Artists can get financial support
Published: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 10:45 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 10:45 a.m.
Need some financial help for your art or cultural program?
Deadline to apply for grants from the Houma Regional Arts Council is April 19.
Any nonprofit in Terrebonne with an arts project may apply. Applicants may be awarded up t0 $1,500 to support public art programs.
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Shackleton in color Mar 02 2011
Color photographs of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition by Frank Hurley.
Early in 1915, their ship 'Endurance' became inexorably trapped in the Antarctic ice. Hurley managed to salvage the photographic plates by diving into mushy ice-water inside the sinking ship in October 1915.
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Abbey Wemimo isn't sure what he'll be doing at President Obama's inauguration on Monday in Washington, D.C. All the international student from Lagos, Nigeria, a senior at the University of Minnesota, Crookston, knows is that he's been invited to volunteer during the inauguration preparations, and he was thrilled to accept.
Wemimo worked on Obama's re-election campaign and subsequently submitted an application to be part of the inauguration. Approximately 50,000 similar applications were submitted.
Wemimo is set to graduate from UMC in the spring.
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Bell's Two Hearts is too hoppy for me. I just tried it again the other day, and it's more bitter than I like. Is this what is they call American pale ale? This is the same problem I have with Summit.
On a side note, I think Millstream out of Amana has a lot of good beers at about $7. Schild Brau Amber is a favorite. I just tried the seasonal Schokolade Bock, to good affect. I don't like their pale ale as well. I think I'm going to start promoting Millstream as Iowa's answer to Boulevard or Schlafly or even New Belgium.


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LIVE state final coverage
Ansonia is playing for its 18th state football championship and the Red Zone has you covered with live updates from Rentschler Field. We will have complete coverage both in the Sunday Republican and on the Red Zone. It is a dank day at the Rent, with a smallish crowd on hand for the first of threee state finals.


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Want to know how awesome starlets Lily Allen and Kate Moss stay in shape? This isn't a joke about blowcaine! You can do it, too. Kate and Lily took the most awesome Rock Chick vacay ev-ah and looked awesome. How?
According to Closer magazine, via D-Listed, The Three C's and a D Of A Healthy Diet: Coffee, Cigarettes, Champagne, and Vodka. Kosher, yes, but how healthy is a diet of these four things? Are there benefits? Disadvantages, possibly? Let's take a gander. We could use to be a little cuter, a little more rockstar, and maybe, even, a little healthier.
1. Coffee! It's made from beans that are often picked by underpaid farm workers in South American countries, but that's okay, because it's a widely accepted practice, now. The beans are ground up, water is put through them, and a drink is made.
Pros: Coffee tastes good, especially when you drink it black. It has lots of antioxidants, which are things that apparently do something good for your cells, like prevent them from aging as fast. It's been proven to reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease, kidney stones, and combat asthma issues. It might be combative against Type-2 diabetes, liver cirrhosis, gall stones, Alzheimer's disease, and other things. It helps contribute to things like mental performance and memory, which are proven! And it's an appetite suppressant. Also, it makes you shit, which is good if you need to be skinny on the fly.
Cons: Well, it makes you go doodie, which isn't good if you're stuck on the beach with Kate Moss and you don't want to go in the water. Also, it's been controversially associated with increasing the likelihood of heart disease, though that hasn't been proven. It definitely ups cholesterol levels, which is funny, because people like coffee with eggs which have lots of cholesterol in them and that's some bad 1-2 shit right there. It can cause irregular heartbeats, but so can these two ladies (SWOON), so it must be especially bad for them because they have to look in the mirror all the time. It has unfavorable consequences on blood pressure, can trigger heartburn, can fuck up your sleeping cycles, and is pretty goddamn addictive. You can develop a pretty harsh dependence on it. Some people put cream and sugar in it, which makes it less great for you. Also, Sweet N' Low used to give rats cancer and it still might. Splenda looks like cocaine, which is neat. Also, it'll stain your teeth, but if you can't afford fake teeth, WTF are you doing drinking coffee?
Feed It To LilyMoss In Mass Quantities? Sure! There are worse things than being talkative and poopie.
2. Champagne A favorite of rappers and the fiscally liberal everywhere, probably for the mere effect of opening it, upon which a piece of cork shoots out with a wonderful noise and foam bubbles over the top of the bottle in a somewhat phallic, metaphorical release of opulence. There are lots of sparkling wines but only The Real McCoy can be called Champagne, because it comes from the Champagne region in France, where - other than the fact that they keep their local economy thriving - locals probably detest most of the people who drink it.
Pros: Bubbly drinks are filling. Drinking booze supposedly has lots of benefits, but the process by which Champers are made - making it bubbly - makes it healthier, I read somewhere. Also, in rats, consumption of Champers led to less damage when they introduced strokes in the rats! Poor rats, but good for strokes? It's a status drink! People drunk on Dom smell way less than people drunk on, say, Bakers bourbon, which will give you the distinct odor of an assy barn of horseshit left out to dry in the hot, blazing, summer sun after a monsoon.
Cons: Plenty of champers tastes like piss, but if you enjoy the taste of piss, then this isn't really a problem. Also, people who drink too much end up in bad places, like the gutter. Too much booze can leave you looking aged, which, compounded with all that coffee, won't help. Also, drinking a lot makes you do ridiculously stupid things, like talking a lot on stage.
Feed It To LilyMoss In Mass Quantities? Maybe! All the bubbles make it hard to drink too much and make you gassy. Also, Champ-hangovers are worse than regular hangovers so it kind of regulates itself. And if they have a stroke, well, shit! They're in luck. Finally, surely there's some kind of nutrient in something that comes from a grape.
3. Cigarettes. Oh, wonderful cigarettes. They're made of tobacco which was once farmed but is now mostly made in a factory. They're paper and synthetic cotton and might actually have some real tobacco in them sometimes, who knows? The idea is to light them on fire and smoke them and get a buzz from them. They come in all different kinds of packages with all different kinds of "flavors" and whatnot but for the most part are all the same.
Pros: Sometimes, they give you a buzz! They don't really taste good but sometimes smokers convince themselves that they do. Cigarettes with recessed filters make for great impromptu hipster coke spoons, like Parliament Lights! Also, appetite suppressant, diuretic, and social accessibility point of entry into possibly otherwise impermeable conversation!
Cons: They give you cancer, they make breathing more difficult, they make you smell, they're addicting, you're giving money to really bad people (as opposed to only kinda bad people with coffee and booze), they make you poo, they turn your teeth yellow and make your breath stank like ass, the give you a nasty cough, have killed at least two people you know or are related to, cost a shitload of cash if you live in New York ($11/pack?!?!), and have a strong social stigma attached to them. Children will give you far meaner looks if you're smoking than if you're drunk or strung out on caffine. And you don't want awful looks from children, do you?
Feed It To LilyMoss In Mass Quantities? Let's try not to. They are smelly enough with the coffee. Also, Kate has kids! Smoking in front of kids is kind of bad if only because they don't have a choice. Not that being drunk isn't bad, but they're going to get drunk one day. They don't have to give their money to Big T like us, who are terribly hooked.
4. Vodka. It's fermented grain booze often made with potatoes, and it's the reason the Russians can't ever get anything right besides getting totally krunk with the komrades. Vodka can be mixed with pretty much anything but by the end of the night as long as you have something to chase it with, you could mix it with Pedialite and be fine (note to self: try this sometime). Vodka tastes like rubbing alcohol with a nice bottom note of "ouch."
Pros: Gets you really drunk, really quickly. Some Moscovite doctor once noted that Vodka in small quantities will help prevent atherosclerosis, which sounds like something you'd want to prevent. Also, Vodka's pretty filling as a booze. If you drink too much of it, you don't have to work hard to "pull the trigger" because puking up vodka's a relatively simply, effortless process.
Cons: It's vodka. What isn't bad about it? Anything but vodka, please. Seriously. Malibu and Milk. Peach Schnapps. Bottom shelf tequila. Whatever. People don't realize how truly awful vodka is. Vodka is the worst. Vodka's like those older kids you first meet in high school who you think are so cool, and they take you out and you drink and smoke with them and then a year later, they're working at the Gap and doing lots of Acid, and you're like, woah, what the fuck? I thought you were cool. And they were like, so did we. And then you do everything you can to get out of town and never see these people again.
Feed It To LilyMoss In Mass Quantities? Sure. Whatever, they're going to do it anyway. Besides which, who are we to judge? Just look at them. Hotness in motion. Someone, somewhere has said that fame and beauty take sacrifice. In which case, color me hot. I know how I'm getting into shape this season.


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Basic Spanish 101 - The Present
Below is a step-by-step Introduction to Spanish. These lessons will teach you how to speak in the present about the present. To learn how to speak about events which occurred in the past, go to Lessons on the Preterite. These lessons assume you have NEVER studied Spanish. If these lessons are too basic, or if you have a specific grammar question, go to Spanish Grammar, Videos & Quizzes.
Popular Phrase: conjugation of graduarse | Conjugated Verb: cachetear - to slap [ click for full conjugation ]


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Volkswagen Reveals 'Wings' Super Bowl Ad
Over the decades certain brands — Budweiser beer comes to mind — have built reputations for memorable commercials during the Super Bowl broadcast. But it took Volkswagen only a few years to become a top attraction for Big Game ad watchers.
The German auto giant, which made a splash with a "Star Wars"-themed Super Bowl spot called "The Force" in 2011, released this year's model today.
In the 60-second ad, a father points out to his daughter as they ride in their Volkswagen that the odometer is about to reach 100,000 miles. When the girl is unimpressed, he suggests that every time a Volkswagen reaches this mileage landmark, a German engineer grows wings.
You can probably guess what happens next.
What sets Volkswagen's ads apart from those of some other car makers is that while they are clearly about the car, they focus more on people. This particular spot touts the company's claim that it has the most vehicles on the road with over 100,000 miles. But viewers are likely to relate to the father-daughter dynamic and the odd things that happen when people suddenly sprout wings.
Watch the spot here and behind-the-scenes footage here. The full spot follows a teaser called "Algorithm," which the car maker released last week.


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How many congressmen are members of PETA??? you jackass..
or greenpeace? or GLAD?
Organizations that exist with social ideals but no real political affiliation MUST HAVE BEEN PERPETRATED BY LIBS IN GOVERNMENT
except the difference; they aren't.
All of the organizations I referenced were started by active politicians or immediate affiliates.
MADD and Focus on the Family are some ultra-conservative groups I didn't name because they aren't relevant to the point.. Because they were started by people with loose or no political affiliations. That is America! Aren't you always clamoring on about America? You're welcome to go out and start any organization you want with any belief you hold and take it as far as you can. But you're not a congressman! Or Senator!


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During the 2008 presidential campaign, then Senator Barack Obama delivered what was largely considered his most important speech of the campaign, and one of the most significant speeches ever on the subject of race relations. He was responding to comments made by his long-time pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright condemning what he called "racist America." Wright suggested that racism led to the September 11 attack at the World Trade Center. Because he was an informal adviser to the Obama campaign, Wright's comments raised questions about candidate Obama's own attitude on race. Sen. Obama delivered his response, titled A More Perfect Union at Philadelphia's Constitution Center. The candidate discussed racial tension, white privilege and black anger. He appealed for America and Americans to "come together" to confront and solve the major problems facing all Americans. The speech launched a national dialogue on race. In St. Louis, where the polarization of races had long been acknowledged by both blacks and whites, part of that dialogue was conducted by Lewis Reed, President of the Board of Aldermen, Rabbi Mark Shook of Temple Israel, and Reverend Earl Nance, Jr. of the Greater Mt. Carmel Baptist Church.
Contributors: Lewis Reed, Rabbi Mark Shook, and Reverend Earl Nance, Jr.


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Made up of the nation's best players, the England national team is a mainstay in international football. Show your love in this official England Away Shirt for the 10/11 season.
Female cut version of the jersey England's national team wears when they're on the road.
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