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Since the passage of the 1985 Farm Bill, federal agricultural policies have encouraged producers to cultivate the most productive lands and minimize impacts on wetlands and highly erodible soils in exchange for federal farm program benefits. The 2014 Farm Bill re-coupled conservation compliance to crop insurance, which was de-coupled in 1996. This policy of "conservation compliance" has helped provide an effective safety net for America's farmers, ensure an abundant and safe food supply for consumers, and conserve crucial habitat for waterfowl and other wildlife. Research has confirmed that this policy has been very effective in conserving wetlands on private lands over the past three decades. In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that more than 3 million acres of "farmed wetlands" (areas that can be cultivated and planted in dry years, but can't be drained or filled by producers without losing farm program benefits) have been conserved nationwide thanks to this policy. In addition, conservation compliance has helped reduce soil erosion by approximately 295 million tons per year on more than 140 million acres of U.S. farmland.
The continental United States has already lost more than 50 percent of its wetlands and continues to lose these habitats at an alarming rate. One of the most successful federal conservation programs has been the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), which provides a voluntary, non-regulatory, incentive-based way for private landowners, farmers, and ranchers to protect and restore wetlands on their property. In an effort to achieve budget savings and streamline existing programs, the 2014 Farm Bill consolidated several former conservation easement programs, like WRP, into the new Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). Through ACEP, producers can enroll land in either an agricultural land or wetland conservation easement programs, which will receive more than $2 billion in federal funding over the next five years. These easements are highly popular with private landowners and are an effective tool for conserving key waterfowl habitats in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, Gulf Coast, Chesapeake Bay watershed, Pacific Northwest, Great Lakes, Prairie Pothole Region (PPR), Central Valley of California, and many other areas of the nation.
ACEP will be administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and is the federal government's largest wetlands restoration program. It is designed to provide technical and financial assistance to private landowners and Native American tribes to restore, protect, and enhance wetlands that have been degraded or converted for agricultural use. ACEP provides an avenue for farmers and ranchers to remove marginal croplands from production. The program also provides societal benefits for improved water quality and quantity, reduced flood damage, and enhanced wildlife habitat.
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you know that cats can become mothers in their first year of life? While more
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a few days, she began to trust us enough to pet her. That's when we discovered
that she was pregnant. To make a long story short, we took good care of her and
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However, if these interpersonal abilities are not balanced by an astute sense of one's own needs and feelings and how to fulfill them, they can lead to a hollow social success – a popularity won at the cost of one's true satisfaction. Such is the argument of Mark Snyder, a University of Minnesota psychologist who has studied people whose social skills make them first-rate social chameleons, champions at making a good impression. Their psychological credo might well be a remark by W. H. Auden who said that his private image of himself "is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me." That trade-off can be made if social skills outstrip the ability to know and honor one's own feelings: in order to be loved – or at least liked – the social chameleon will seem to be whatever those he is with seem to want. The sign that someone falls into this pattern, Snyder finds, is that they make an excellent impression, yet have few stable or satisfying intimate relationships. A more healthy pattern, of course, is to balance being true to oneself with social skills, using them with integrity.
Social chameleons, though, don't mind in the least saying one thing and doing another, if that will win them social approval. They simply live with the discrepancy between their public face and their private reality. Helena Deutsch, a psychoanalyst, called such people the "as-if personality," shifting personas with remarkable plasticity as they pick up signals from those around them. "For some people," Snyder told me, "the public and private person meshes well, while for others there seems to be only a kaleidoscope of changing appearances. They are like Woody Allen's character Zelig, madly trying to fit in with whomever they are with."
Such people try to scan someone for a hint as to what is wanted from them before they make a response, rather than simply saying what they truly feel. To get along and be liked, they are willing to make people they dislike think they are friendly with them. And they use their social abilities to mold their actions as disparate social situations demand, so that they may act like very different people depending on whom they are with, swinging from bubbly sociability, say, to reserved withdrawal. To be sure, to the extent that these traits lead to effective impression management, they are highly prized in certain professions, notably acting, trial law, sales, diplomacy, and politics.
Another, perhaps more crucial kind of self-monitoring seems to make the difference between those who end up as anchorless social chameleons, trying to impress everyone, and those who can use their social polish more in keeping with their true feelings. That is the capacity to be true, as the saying has it, "to thine own self," which allows acting in accord with one's deepest feelings and values no matter what the social consequences. Such emotional integrity could well lead to, say, deliberately provoking a confrontation in order to cut through duplicity or denial – a clearing of the air that a social chameleon would never attempt.
Daniel Goleman
Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, Pages: 119..20
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4. Moonlight
Then the world stopped in breathtaking clarity, razor-sharp shadows cast by a perfect moon suspended against stars she hadn't seen in years. Against her will, her eyes were drawn to that horrible bright orb that mocked her as her heart traced again and again that one question: why.
Moonlight prickled her skin, pooled in her eyes and trailed down her cheeks unnoticed. She stood there in the middle of the street, searching even as she told herself her eyeglasses could do no more than the telescopes at the space command lab. Somewhere beyond, unblinking eyes stared at her, helmet dustless on an disturbed plain. Who knows? Perhaps a bone-dry mouth whispered sweet nothings across the expanse as she stood there, transfixed, deaf to the car that hurtled in from nowhere and sent her across the skies into his embrace.
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The eulogy is short, reminding us of death after life and life after death. The grave-digger's shovel works constantly through the service, reforming the irregular cavity hard-won from a too-yielding surface, shoring up the sides of the grave as they slope back in. The last words are said, the last prayers murmured. The pastor puts away his translucent book as the coffin is gently lowered past a decent height--and then released, plummeting through the air in a cloudburst of light and shattering upon a hospital below where at that instant a baby wakes up, squalling, thrust unwillingly into the violent world.
2. "Access Patterns Organize Data"
Old Dominion University researchers have devised a method that mimics the brain's ability to order information so that connections can be automatically established between digital objects; such a technique could one day enable information repositories to self-organize based on the way ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0607m.html#item8
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Google, the next challenger to Microsoft's dominance in personal computing, may have an advantage in that its entire culture is infused with research lust: The company famously hires Ph.D.'s and encourages them to pursue independent projects alongside their everyday work at the company. Though ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0607m.html#item5
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Now that you've transferred yourself to a healthier way of living, you can begin taking it on the road. It might alarm you at first to think about eating out. Especially if you read about all the fat, calories, and sugar contained in fast foods. We decided to consult myplate.gov for some tips on how to stay healthy when going out. It is part of life after all.
Begin with a glass of water, unsweetened tea, or low fat/fat-free milk. Add a salad packed with vegetables and greens & dressing on the side to that and you've got yourself a great appetizer!
If ordering the sandwich, be sure to get the whole wheat/grain option. Try for meals with mostly vegetables. Stir-fries, kabobs and pasta with tomato sauce are wonderful options. Look for steamed, grilled, or broiled dishes vs. fried or sauteed.
When choosing a size for your meal, go for a "small" or "medium" choice (think lunch size instead of dinner size). This goes for your main course, any drinks that aren't water, and dessert. You can use an appetizer or side dish as your meal if needed also, or share a main meal with a friend. You can also ask for a to go container to come out with your food. This way you are able to put ½ into it before you even begin.
To keep calories, fat and sugar low, stay away from ordering creamy sauces or gravy dishes. Don't add butter, or if you need to add only a little. Order fruit for dessert as much as possible to increase your nutrient intake.
If you're going to be out for a while, get into the habit of taking fresh and healthy snacks with you. Options include nuts, fruit, veggies, or low-fat string cheese.
As you can see, you aren't as limited as you may at first think when going out. There are so many ways to modify so you don't have to miss out on anything. This doesn't give you a free pass though. This is for situations when you really can't avoid going out. For the healthiest lifestyle, try to eat at home as much as possible so you know what is going into your food. For more information, please call the Wayne County YMCA at (570) 253-2083, or visit us online at ymcawayne.com.


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What Really Moves Us?
From the archive: Tory Higgins explains what managers and other leaders stand to gain by looking past simple carrot-and-stick tactics for motivating others.
What's wrong with viewing motivation as a function of the hedonic principle — that we are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain?
For thousands of years we've simply accepted this idea that in all cases, "carrots" motivate people to do something they want and "sticks" motivate people to stop doing something they don't want. We all think this way: managers with their employees, parents with their children, teachers and coaches with their students. One of the reasons for writing the book is to say that while that is not wrong, it is extremely limiting.
For example?
In one of our senior executive courses, a student, a VP in the aerospace industry, talked about a failed effort to improve the safety and reliability of their products. To produce the improvements, his solution was to introduce a carrot — a bonus. But the carrot failed. Next, he tried the stick — reducing salaries if safety didn't improve. Safety did improve, but morale dropped.
To understand why sticks worked better than carrots, you have to distinguish between what are two very different systems for dealing with pleasure and pain. In the promotion system you are trying to gain and move forward to something better. Pleasure in this case is a gain, and pain is a non-gain. In the prevention system you are concerned about security and maintaining a satisfactory status quo, rather than a gain, which could be risky and result in a loss. Pleasure in this case is maintenance, feeling secure, and pain is loss.
Improving reliability and safety is a prevention issue. Therefore, you want to put workers in a prevention mindset so that they will be vigilant and careful. That aeronautics firm's bonus probably put staff in a promotion mindset, prompting them to care more about innovation and creativity than safety and reliability.
Can you induce these states of mind even when someone is predisposed toward one system or the other?
Yes, and it's a real advantage for a manager, coach, or teacher to understand that. We've done research where success means ending up with $10 more and failure means not ending up with $10 more. In one case we frame it as a bonus, starting at zero and awarding $10 for achieving a set criteria of performance. In the other case we frame it as a potential loss, starting at $10 and deducting for mistakes. The first technique induces a promotion state and the second induces a prevention state. That aeronautics VP could have promoted safety and retained good morale by telling the developers that a certain amount of money had been set aside, but that it could be lost over the course of the year if safety goals were not met.
You don't have to use incentives at all. Prevention also relates to duties and obligations, which have to do with relationships. If the product developers meet the people who are going to use their products, it might foster a sense of responsibility toward those people that would prompt the developers to be more vigilant in their work.
That is related to another idea in the book, which is that people want to be effective. Would you talk about that?
Understanding how pleasure and pain relate to promotion and prevention states relates only to one way of being effective — value, or achieving desired results. Not all desired results bring hedonic pleasure: you can experience the pride of achievement, which for most people is accompanied by a lot of sweat, effort, and pain.
What the book says, in addition to that, is that we are very motivated to be effective, in ways that have nothing to do with value, but that have to do with control and truth. Control is the way you feel when you experience yourself having an effect on the world. In its most obvious form we see it in little kids jumping in puddles; you can see in their faces that they're feeling effective and engaged. You see it in adults whenever we are manipulating things, one thing and then another and another, to make them work until we achieve the final goal.
You should set the conditions to allow employees as much as possible to be the ones who experience having the effect of managing what happens. Micromanaging does not allow employees to manage what happens; it takes away control effectiveness.
Humans are also motivated in a way like no other animal is with respect to the truth. We need to know the difference between what is real and what is imaginary, what is true and false, right and wrong. Our whole legal system, religious systems, and political ideologies are about that. And no other animal has ideological conflicts; they don't kill each other for who owns the truth, and that has been really underestimated in the scientific literature on motivation and in people's everyday lives. Knowing what is true versus false is a way of being effective.
How can a manager use this in a workplace context?
Because people care about the truth and establishing what is real, they care about learning. We don't appreciate enough how strongly that can motivate people. To the extent to which you can set conditions where your employees feel that they are gaining knowledge — that could lead to higher morale and lower turnover. You don't want to undermine that in any way.
Shared reality is another aspect to truth: humans don't consider something to be the truth unless it is verified by others. I'm not talking about personal truths but about shared truths. It's another reason why some performances can be more effective if they are done in teams. It is not only because team members bring diversity and different skills. If your team develops a shared understanding of something, it becomes more real. They will be more committed to it.
And how do the three elements work together?
The essence of motivation, and what has been left out of motivation science, is that value, truth, and control have to work together. It's the fit that counts — making sure that the value, which is the goal, and the control, which is the means and the strategies, fit together.
The relationship between truth and control is another beautiful marriage: seeking truth alone, there is the possible downside of getting lost in reflection and not doing anything. So the control part says come on, truth, let's get on with it and do something. The flip side is that control guys will make anything happen, and make all kinds of mistakes. So truth tempers control, saying, let's just wait a bit and see what makes the most sense.
What's an example of this in practice?
We often look at fit in terms of the kinds of leadership and management styles that work best with different kinds of employees, but fit in this case relates to locomotion, which corresponds to control, and assessment, which corresponds to truth. A high locomotor is someone who just wants to get on with it. They would rather do anything than nothing at all. A high assessor wants to critically evaluate all possible options to arrive at exactly the right answer. They would rather do nothing than do the wrong thing.
These don't contradict each other. Research has shown that if you create a team in which everyone is a high locomotor, another team in which everyone is a high assessor, and another team that is mixed, the mixed team performed best at tasks for which speed and accuracy were both important. The locomotor team was really fast because they just got on with it, but they weren't so accurate. The assessment team was really good on accuracy but wasn't very fast. To produce a quality product on a deadline you need high locomotors mixed with high assessors: the mixed team was as fast as the high locomotor team and as accurate as the high assessor team. Not only do organizations with both high locomotors and high assessors perform better in team settings, but individuals perform better too.
What is the difference between what you've just described and your critique of Aristotle's prescription for moderation in all things, which you say he got wrong?
I think Aristotle made a common error we humans make, the fundamental attribution error: confusing the final observable output, the behavior, with where it came from. He looked at people who were performing well and declared that people who perform well behave in a moderate way, eager but not overeager, vigilant but not overvigilant, and so on.
But if you only select people who are moderate you will not get good outcomes. Lincoln and Obama both said this about wanting to create a team of rivals in which every member of the team is a strong advocate. You don't want a moderate advocate. It is when you combine strong locomotion and strong assessment that you end up with the kind of decision-making moderation that produces good outcomes.
E. Tory Higgins is professor of management and director of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia Business School.
E. Tory Higgins
Professor Higgins, the Stanley Schachter Professor of Psychology and Professor of Business is an expert on motivation and decision making. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is the author of Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works (Oxford) and co-author of Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence (Penguin). He teaches an...
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Vox is a little and simple music player for Mac OS X with support for many file types, including FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM, Games Music and many others. Includes numerous effects like Equalizer, Reverb, Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, Echo. Moreover, all supported files can be exported to AAC+, Apple Lossless, WAV and other formats with enabled effects.
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What I'd like to see in future releases:
* Media Library....but I'll settle with a playlist to start :P
* Option to not force ToolPlayer on top--it gets kind of annoying, being that I'm on a single laptop display--would be nice to have it "sent to back" when clicking on a window behind it
* IPod integration (obviously)
It truly looks great and has a promissing future. I however has problems with sound quality. For example if I adjust ever so much on the eqalizer I get disorted sound. On the effects side reverb and echo sounds fine but pitch and speed gets hevily disorted.
Allow mw just one more comment...
I wish it could read Musepack and Monkey Audio files. When it will, I will get rid fo Cog.
Don't get me wrong... I like Cog. But the latest developement of Cog happened more than one year ago.
And ToolPlayer's interface is much nicer.
Fantastic start for a very promising application! (And let's not forget that this is version 0.1.)
It's very stable and does exactly what's supposed to do. And the interface is just beautiful!
I really like it.
Fabulous player with so much room to be even better! Try it out, you will not be disappointed!
new media player with a great UI? I'll try it!
Cool UI - reminiscent both of the utility window UI Apple's using in apps like iPhoto and Motion, and Disco at the same time. I'm betting this would be a perfect iTunes substitute for low-resource machines like my 640 MB iBook...
I like it, but it didn't react well to non-English characters in filenames. I kept getting "File not found" errors, but it played perfectly when I renamed it. Metadata wasn't read correctly in the display window, either.
This looks really great. I'll have to have a play around and see how easy it is to play my existing iTunes Music folder.
I just wanna say WOW. Deadly simple, functional and pretty.
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Norway leading the pack in cancer
With a bold approach, including next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) and state-of-the-art biobanking systems, Norway is pushing forward personalised cancer treatments in its national health care system. Clinical-quality genome sequencing still isn't widely used yet, but the country has already begun tracking every patient diagnosed with carcinoma. In mid-February, the Research Council of Norway launched a new programme to couple analysis results with data from health surveys and registers. "The main objective of the programme is to develop research-based knowledge about human health and disease through better use of human biobanks and health data as unique resources," said Rolf Bergen, who chairs the programme. Norway has a head start in using NGS to look for tumour mutations in the clinic. Projects underway in the UK and elsewhere still use conventional genetic testing, but that might change soon. China's BGI, the world's largest genomics centre, has opened its first European Genome Research subsidiary in Copenhagen (Denmark). Kicked off at the beginning of February, the institute is the cornerstone of a collaboration between BGI and top Danish research institutes. "The vision is to create the best facilities in the field for genomics and bioinformatics," said Thomas Bjønholm from the University of Copenhagen, who wants to begin development on a vaccine against cancer.


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The secret art of inviting happiness The miraculous medicine of all diseases Just for today, do not anger Do not worry and be filled with gratitude Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people. Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer. Pray these words to your heart and chant these words with your mouth Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind
Mikao Usui
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We decorated sugar cookies inspired by the Cookie Paint recipe found at The Chocolate Muffin Tree.
Decorating Easter Cookies- Color Theme
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
We decorated sugar cookies inspired by the Cookie Paint recipe found at The Chocolate Muffin Tree.
6 comments:
- Roopa said... [Reply to comment]
We have painted glazed sugar cookies. Need to try painting them like this. Love the last pic where the colors look marbelised:)
- March 20, 2012 at 7:44 AM
- Growing a Jeweled Rose said... [Reply to comment]
I love the colors! Perfect for Easter, and those cookies look so yummy.
- March 20, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- Rebekah said... [Reply to comment]
Swirling around the colors was so pretty...until the colors all mixed together and turned grey. Clean brushes work well too. Thanks for reminding my readers, Roopa. =)
- March 20, 2012 at 12:02 PM
- Rebekah said... [Reply to comment]
Thank you! They were yummy. I think we will definitely make another batch (or two) again before Easter.
- March 20, 2012 at 12:03 PM
- Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks for linking back to me! Pretty Easter egg cookies! Love the pastel colors. We really should make your Easter version....thanks for the reminder to create egg cookies.
- March 20, 2012 at 6:49 PM
- Happy Whimsical Hearts said... [Reply to comment]
They look so lovely - really pretty colours :-) If you'd like to share on our baking with kids linky that would be great - http://happywhimsicalhearts.blogspot.com.au/
Warmly, Kelly
- March 22, 2012 at 4:37 PM


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Otto von Bismarck, the 19th-century German leader, is widely credited as having originated the maxim that laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them made. Over the years, several members of Congress have appropriated Bismarck's comment and applied it to our own democratic process. Others have taken great offense at the suggestion that American democracy is anything but a refined and respected practice.
The truth is that a vibrant democracy is seldom clean cut. Anyone looking for proof need look no further than the past year of political posturing, polling and prevaricating. No reasonable person can suggest with a straight face that the past year has been a shining example of above-the-fray politics, or that candidates on either side of the aisle have distinguished themselves as somehow nobler or better than those from the other side.
In some ways, this should come as no surprise. As Americans, we like a good fight, and although we repeatedly state that we would prefer a balanced campaign that focuses squarely on the important issues, few of us can say we do not revel in the notion of a good zinger at the expense of the other candidate. We rail against the perceived lies and injustices directed at our chosen person, even as we hold back our outrage when someone launches a similar fusillade against the opponent.
For the most part, however, we put faith in the process itself, if not always the outcome. If we need proof, think back to November 2000, when every political eye was focused on Florida. As lawyers brandishing both red and blue ties squared off, the nation seemed to hold its collective breath as we waited hours, then days and weeks to learn who would occupy the Oval Office.
The Supreme Court eventually intervened and awarded the presidency to the governor of Texas rather than the vice president. Thousands celebrated the decision, even as thousands more protested what they viewed as a legally sanctioned coup d'etat.
And yet, four years later, we went through the same process, just as we had for dozens of election cycles before, and will hopefully do so for many years to come.
Certainly, challenges remain. The corrupting influence of unchecked funding has helped make this election cycle the most expensive in history. Billions of dollars have been dumped into our elections, challenging whether this process, or any process so conceived or so dedicated, can long endure. It remains to be seen whether the very system that allowed such an egregious lapse to occur can also be the one to purge such corrupting excess from itself.
Today, as every four years, we have a new nation before us. It is built upon a foundation that is equal parts broken dreams, wild promises and unbridled hope. It is an imperfect, divided nation led by imperfect people, and we know that as far as we have come, we still have much farther to go.
But we just as assuredly know that on Jan. 20, 2013, we will again witness a peaceful continuation of the power of our democracy. It's the final product, not the making of the sausage, that gives democracy its strength.
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ANTIOCH -- In a move aimed at allowing for more input from interested residents, city leaders this week agreed to extend by 10 weeks the deadline to receive bids for a downtown project.
Antioch is soliciting developer proposals to build market-rate houses on roughly three acres of city-owned land on West Second Street -- including a vacant lot, the Antioch Senior Center and the Nick Rodriguez Community Center and Theatre.
If it pencils out, plans would call for the demolition of the buildings and construction of a new 10,000-square-foot senior center on city property elsewhere.
Bids were slated for this week, but the City Council Tuesday pushed that date back to Oct. 31.
"We have some time now. A lot of people thought we were moving too fast," Mayor Pro Tem Mary Rocha said.
At Rocha's request, focus groups will be held "as soon as possible." Those meetings will gather input from the seniors, those with interest in the theater, and downtown residents and merchants.
Given the timing it takes for adequate public notice, those groups would meet in early September, City Manager Steve Duran said.
"It doesn't mean I'm for or against anything, but I want to understand the whole picture," Rocha said.
Since the City Council's June approval to solicit requests, a growing number of residents, many who live downtown and favor a town square on the lot, want to halt the process to allow more community discussion.
About a dozen residents, many of them seniors, addressed the council at Tuesday's meeting.
William Chapman, who calls bingo at the center each Monday, said most seniors live in the Rivertown area and use it to cool off in the hot summer months.
"The senior center is a safe spot; it provides commonality and community. It should be talked about with the seniors, and not to the seniors," he said.
Lifelong resident Susan Dragon said that the community rallied together to create the Nick Rodriguez center after Sears left the space, with theater ticket money going to support it.
"It's a gem. It's very important that we keep this," Dragon said. "We need to get this community involved. People don't even know that this is happening. The community has a right to be involved in the decision that is being made for this center."
Lee Ballesteros, owner of downtown business Indigo Skin Design and head of theater group The Drama Factory, said Wednesday she is grateful the extension was granted, but saddened the council didn't take a full pause.
"I don't think they understand the gravity of the situation, and they are trying to appease us," she said.
The extension gives the interested parties downtown a chance to put together a proposal for an event center at the vacant lot.
What everyone agrees on is something must be done to bring life into the languishing Rivertown area, though there have been differing views on what the catalyst could be.
"If we are able to come to some kind of solution without knocking heads, I think we may be able to do something for the city of Antioch, and I think that's what we're all looking to do," Councilman Tony Tiscareno said.
Antioch is in the midst of putting a $427,000 state grant toward preparing a long-term plan for the area, with a goal of making it a transit-oriented community.
Delaying the initial bids for the project on the old lumber yard will likely push back the city's selection process of a developer until early next year.
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.


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It's one of those terms that not everyone is familiar with, but
once you've witnessed "palliative care" in the case of a loved one, you'll never
forget it. According to the World Health Organization, palliative care is a medical
approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing
complications associated with life-threatening illness, often through the prevention
and relief of suffering by treatment of pain and other problems. These treatments
are offered regardless of whether or not there is any hope of a cure by any means.
While palliative care has been available to humans for decades,
more and more veterinarians and pet parents are advocating for similar treatments
for companion animals, too. As a pet parent, you owe it to yourselves – and your
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Residents have until Jan. 31 to pay property taxes before accruing additional costs.
The city of Thibodaux granted a grace period for taxpayers because mailed notices were delayed.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — The Summer Rock Camps at the Institute of Rock/eLearning Cafe were a ripping success. Run by local musician/teacher Terry Pittman, the four camps produced four great Friday night concerts with standing room only for family, friends and the general public.
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Hello there TPS fans! Are you running out of shooter games to play? Are you getting tired of shooters taking place in the modern day period or shooters that take place in a World War II setting? Frankly, I'm tired of shooters simulating the events that just happened recently, like the war against Iraq. Why don't game publishers step up and think of something new and fresh? All right — now that my rant is over, there is actually a shooting game that is on my radar and at first blush looks like a total winner: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldiers.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldiers was initially titled as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 4 (it's actually the 4th game in the series if you exclude the expansions) and was going to be released in March 2012. However, Ubisoft is delaying the release until May in order to fine tune the game. For those who are not familiar with the series, it is a third-person shooter game. Ghost Recon: Future Soldiers takes place in a futuristic setting of Russia which is currently engaged in a grueling war. The entire mission includes visiting places such as Pakistan, Zambia, Russia and Norway. The Ghosts will be deployed in different missions in order to defeat and neutralize the ultra-nationalist force that took over Russia and are currently invading neighboring countries.
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ALEXANDRIA — United League Baseball has shut down the Alexandria Aces for the rest of the season but with plans to return the team to Alexandria in 2014.
League CEO John Bryant said on Thursday the public will not attend professional baseball at Bringhurst Field in its current condition.
The Aces were averaging about 200 fans a game at Bringhurst Field, which was built in 1933. Part of the park had been deemed unsafe last summer, when the city had a franchise — also called the Aces.
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The B-cell receptor (BCR) serves two essential functions in B-cell activation, namely the initiation of signaling cascades that lead to the transcription of a variety of genes associated with B-cell activation and the transport of antigen to intracellular compartments, where the antigen is processed and presented on MHC class II molecules for recognition by helper T cells. Provided with the appropriate T-cell help following antigen contact, B cells proliferate and differentiate into short-lived, antibody-secreting plasma cells as well as long-lived plasma cells and memory B cells that constitute immunological memory. The long-range goal of the Lymphocyte Activation Section (LAS) is to gain an understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the initiation of BCR signaling, the intracellular trafficking of the BCR, and the generation, maintenance, and activation of B-cell memory. Of particular interest is the regulation of these processes by B cell-activating and inhibitory co-receptors and during immune responses to infection. The long range goals of LAS are as follows:
It is hoped that knowledge gained through these studies will add fundamentally to our understanding of B-cell activation and its regulation. Such knowledge is likely to aid research efforts in two areas of high public health priority: namely, the development of new therapeutics to control B-cell responses in autoimmune disease and the design of effective vaccines to control infectious diseases.
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Approximately three months ago, county health experts felt this was the year everyone could protect themselves from the flu.
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Lee USA Speedway, Lee, NH., has announced a 23 event race schedule for the 2008 season. The NASCAR Whelen All-American Series will be featured weekly along with the Northeast's top touring divisions in special events. Included are the American-Canadian Tour, NEMA Midgets, ISMA Supermodifieds, True Value Modified Racing Series, Pro 4 Modifieds, Allison Legacy Series and NELCAR. All will be making appearances throughout the season.
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RICHMOND -- Much of Redell "Dell" Randle's 80 years were consumed with a game played on a dirt and grass diamond.
Long after his days as part of a celebrated prep team at El Cerrito High School, Randle sought diamonds rather than playing on them and imparted his wisdom to boys growing up in a challenging environment.
"This was a man of profound drive and vision," said the Rev. Albert Featherstone. "A man who devoted his life to finding those diamonds in the rough."
About 200 people, including former pupils ranging from schoolyard stars to former National League Most Valuable Player Willie McGee, filled North Richmond Missionary Baptist Church on Tuesday to say goodbye to a man who coached and counseled thousands of young area ballplayers over the years.
Randle died at his home in Atchison Village on Dec. 26 after a long illness. He was surrounded by family, his daughter Rosalind Randle said.
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Along with song and dance performances, a procession of speakers said Randle stood out for his unswerving dedication to helping young men reach their potential on the baseball diamond -- and in life. Redell was particularly committed to helping provide opportunities for African-American ballplayers, whose numbers in college and big league baseball have declined since the 1980s.
"All of our lives are better for having known Redell," said Marvin Webb, a former John F. Kennedy High School baseball star and eighth-round draft choice of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1971.
Born in Alexandria, La., Randle relocated with his family to Richmond when he was a child.
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The worship hall Tuesday was flecked with homages to Randle's life -- Red Sox jerseys and hats, a 3-foot diameter baseball made of red and white flower petals that hung over Randle's casket.
In addition to his work scouting Bay Area players for the Red Sox and the California Angels, Randle coached dozens of community youth baseball teams in Richmond, North Richmond and Oakland from the 1970s to the 1990s. He pitched batting practice and hit infield the same way -- hard -- to force the youngsters to improve and meet challenges. He was also a tinkerer and inventor, fashioning baseball training aids out of scrap metals and household items.
McGee, who would move on from the rugged streets of Richmond and the diamond of Harry Ells High School to stardom with the St. Louis Cardinals and three other teams, said Tuesday that Randle was a mentor whose lessons he will never forget.
"He was a no-nonsense guy," McGee said. "He always insisted that we deal with people respectfully, and he always told us that no matter what happened we had to 'keep our cool.'"
McGee, whose own father, Dean, worked with Randle at the naval yards, said Randle reminded him in his later years to appreciate his good fortune.
"He was proud of me, sure," McGee said. "But he was bothered by the players who didn't make it even though they had just as much or more talent. He wanted to help them all."
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I've done corn on the cob in my Crockpot before with water in it, but I never tried without the water. What a great idea! This way you don't have to deal with a crock full of boiling hot water when you take the corn out.
Did you have any trouble fitting the corn in your Crockpot? When I made it with the water, the corn I had was a little big for my pot - and cutting them smaller was just an impossible task.
I am sure you've already heard this a million times before, and will probably hear it a million times after me, but I love your blog!
The first thing I do in the morning is go to your blog hoping you've already posted the new recipe for the day.
so.... it's really okay to run the crockpot with no liquid in it??
Hi Crockpot Lady!
This is an awesome idea! My dad used to cook corn on the grill - he would shuck his and wrap it in foil with butter but my mom and I would remove the outer, dirty layers, then peel back the green, remove the corn silks, and put back the green and steam/grill the corn that way, without foil. I wonder if I could do the same technique of using the husks instead of using foil... :) Great post!
I just stumbled on your blog and love your site. How easy this would be! I can't wait to try it!Thanks!
well shoot, I didn't have any corn, so I clicked on your link and did the potatoes. I used LARGE potatoes and cooked them on high for 5 hours. DH hates my crockpot, so I didn't tell him how I cooked them. He loved them. I will do this all summer to keep the house cooler.
Now to run and get some corn!!
What a great idea! I am definitely trying this soon!
Love you blog and ideas....
okay, I meant your blog not you blog. It's late.
Can't wait to try this!
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Flippin' amazing... Im going to tell everyone I know!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! :)
I had to try this! I only made 3 ears in case it flopped. NO!!! It was very good. Very crisp, and hot. I will make this again. It beats boiling water and trying to figure out how long to boil them. Now I don't have to buy a 12-20qt pot just for corn! Yeah! Only downside is all the foil needed. Too bad you can't crockpot the corn without foil. Great recipe! Thanks!
Hi jennifer, I'm so glad that it worked for you!
the foil: I am guessing that it would work if you used the corn husks---I don't have any corn on hand, or I'd try it, but I think you can peel back the husks, remove the silky thready things, re-husk and then crock. The only drawback is that I don't know how you would really know if the husks were clean. It wouldn't be a problem if you grew the corn yourself, or knew the organic gardener, etc.
if you try it, let me know!
What an awesome recipe! Thanks for suggesting this idea. Everyone loved the corn. It was the best we've ever had! Thank you for your wonderful blog. I've gotten lots of fabulous ideas from it.
Thanks, Lisa! We've made it in the crock now a few times, and I will not go back to boiling it. The corn is just so flavorful when it cooks in only it's own juices; it's amazing.
thanks for reporting back!
Hi Stephanie,
I made 4 ears of corn today in my round crockpot and they turned out great. I used the method I explained above (rewrapping the husks) instead of foil and they turned out great after cooking on high for 2 hours. Awesomeness!
ooh, ~m, thank you for reporting back! I'm so glad it worked!
I like corn on the cob to be more well done, not crunchy; does anyone else? Should I add an hour or two to the cooking time?
In reference to the foil - I, too, used to use foil when grilling corn (I never thought of using the crockpot until I saw your recipe for it).
I now never use foil. I just trim the flappy green pieces and some of the top threads off the corn and cook it husk (no opening and pulling out the threads).
Once cooked, you shuck them and you won't believe how easily the threads come off. It's unbelievable - no more fighting with threads that stick to the corn.
Only problem is they are really hot and that makes them a bit hard to handle but so worth it.
I did read somewhere recently a woman recommended running them under cold water first just so the husks aren't so hot to touch.
If you are worried about issues with the unwashed husks in the crock, once cooked and shucked, you can rinse under water and not lose any of the heat. They'll still be plenty warm.
Another recipe to add to my crockpot collection. The family LOVED the results! I used fresh Olathe sweet corn and 2 hours left it nice and crunchy. I will use this method over and over again.....
Holy guacamole!! I cannot believe I have not found this blog sooner! I am SO putting you on my RSS feed! You'll have to check out the photos on my blog of my ribs in the crockpot. LOL
The second anonymous poster has it right...no need to peel back the husk and get the silk off...just cook it with it on and shuck afterwards. Yes it can be hot but just let it sit off the head for a minute and you're fine. The silks come off so easily. I haven't done corn in the crock pot yet but have done it this way in the microwave. I rinse the corn in water first and cook 2-3 minutes.
this might be a stupid question...
can I use frozen corn? should I defrost them first? I love corn on the cob and I am seriously in love with my crockpot, so I really want to try this.
I'll be doing this for our next party.
@Moonbug If your corn is fresh you shouldn't need to cut it to break it down. You should be able to snap the cobs in half with your hands.
Hi La Pixie,
I don't think that's a stupid question at all! I think the frozen corn would work quite well. I'd make them the exact same way, but add about 30 minutes to the time.
xoxo steph
I reasonlly read where you could cook corn on the cob in a slow cooker but never try it and couldn't remember where I read it. Thanks this sounds really good and easy and I'm going to try it tonight.
Made this today using the little frozen corn cobs. Put a little margarine on each one using a paper towel, sprinkled a little Vegetable Magic (it's a spice) and wrapped each one and let them cook for a few hours. I used them right from the freezer, so it took a while to get them all cooked up.
Big hit, thank you! Plus it wasn't much work for me, which I totally love hehehe :) I think I'll make this one at Christmas too.
Very glad to have found your site with real recipes, not just the usual pour a can of cream soup on top type stuff. Already have a few bookmarked to try out in the next few weeks!
I am making your ribs recipe right now and am wondering if I can just put the corn on top for the last two hours?
Hi Cara,
yup! That would work just fine.
yummy. I've been craving ribs.
xox steph
Great idea. I'm making this right now with the tin foil. Next time I'll try keeping the husks on. Love your blog!
Oh my word. We made this yesterday, and it is the best way to make corn on the cob, aside from possibly grilling it (but we don't have a grill). The ears weren't so boiling hot that my kids couldn't grab them, they were perfectly cooked and tasted sweeter than I'd have thought supermarket corn that had sat in my fridge for days could taste. My husband pronounced this idea "brilliant." I may have to ge a second crockpot so we can do corn on the cob as a side dish with other things cooked in the crock this summer!
Has anyone tried to season and butter the corn before wrapping it in foil. I wonder if it would all leak out? It would make for easy serving.
Tried it and loved it! Thanks!
Making Pulled pork in my crock pot tomorrow and just bought corn at the farmers mkt! I knew I could potatoes thought this might work and glad it will!!!
This was WAY better than I thought it would be. I add a sprig of thyme and a couple leaves of basil before wrapping up the cobs in the foil. I cooked on high for two hours and then low for one hour, then turned the temp to warm until hubby was ready to eat. Where the corn came in contact with the crock had a nice roast to it. This is a fantastic way to deal with corn when you have a ton of other things to cook.
WAY late to the table, but I do this all the time! I also butter the corn before wrapping it up in the foil and it's a huge it.
I have also been known to make a compound butter with chili powder & lime zest for the corn. For my high school reunion last year, 3 of us cooked and I made something like 100 half-ears of corn using this method and it worked like a charm! I'm still getting asked about the chili-lime corn too.
What a blessing! Were just "gifted" a dozen ears of corn.
Have been very sick with Lyme for several weeks and was considering experimenting with an "unhusked method" of cooking when this came up. LOVE your site and all the suggestions. And thanks to all those who participate.
Had to laugh at Karen considering a 2nd crockpot. We have 2 large AND 2 small ones - and there's only 2 of us! (The older of which will be 84 in a couple weeks...)
Worked great didn't shuck it just put it in crock pot on high for about 2 hr (no water) went off to my yoga class, shucked it afterwards tasted perfect
We have often slow smoked mini or whole ears of corn when we were slow smoking meat. We tried our slow cooker with a butter rubbed on the corn and Cajun seasoning, cooking on high for 3 hours and found the results different, though pleasant, a good change. We will do it again, sometime.
Thanks for the idea and ideas!
Sounds good. Can a pad of butter be added with the corn in the tinfoil?
I did this recipe on Wednesday & I did it longer using another recipe & it was good but now thatI see that she cooked it for 2 hours, I will have to agree....I like my corn well done...when I did it longer it was crunchy.
Made this and it's a hit!!! I left the husks on and it was super easy to shuck when it was done and then I wrapped a paper towel around the corn and moved my hand around and got the last of the silk off. Then I just added a little popcorn salt ('cause it tastes like butter) and pepper and dug right in!!! So yummy!!!
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by James
Everybody helps make this film work, including writer-director
Tim Robbins, actor Sean Penn (as the hard-shelled convict) and
superb cinematographer Roger Deakins (Shawshank Redemption).
But it's Susan Sarandon who makes it great--a moving (if understated)
expression of Sister Helen's humble humanity and an important
Catholic social ministry.
A delicate achievement (in the 1996 political climate) is the
film's willingness to listen with understanding to those who resist
the Church's teaching on the death penalty. (That includes just
about everybody in the movie--most poignantly, the parents of the
young victims who died cruelly for no reason.) Sister Helen reaches
out, listens, mourns with them.
The hero of Dead Man is a woman of compassion who has the
courage simply to "be there," motivated by unconditional
love. Sarandon suggests it all, in her eyes, her self-deprecating
manner. When the best possible ending occurs, it's not because
of science or an action hero who uses force to save or heal. It's
because of genuine--not sentimental--patience and kindness.
Among intriguing threads in the tapestry is the conflict between
the soft-spoken nun, who so clearly represents the image of Christ,
and the veteran prison chaplain (Scott Wilson), whose long experience
has hardened his heart. (Nearly 30 years ago Wilson played one
of the killers in the anti-death-penalty classic In Cold Blood.)
Director Robbins describes the murder, dimly but terrifyingly,
in repeated, distanced black-and-white flashbacks. In his strongest
moral statement, after the execution, he cuts from the bodies
of the victims to that of the dead killer, suggesting a genuinely
Catholic message: All killing is evil. Outstanding, artful
treatment of tragic but uplifting material; recommended for mature
youth and adults.
MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS (A-2, PG) is a heartwarming tale about
a dedicated high school music teacher (Oscar nominee Richard Dreyfuss)
who gives up his own musical ambitions to uplift several generations
of students. It's not quite Good-bye, Mr. Chips, because
Holland is always popular, but it's a welcome tribute to art and
music teachers in an era of myopic budget stinginess.
The script's major irony is that
Holland's son is born with a serious hearing disability, and the
busy teacher is challenged to understand and love him.
The hero reaches the kids by exploiting what they already like--the
Beatles and rock. There's some well-performed Gershwin, too. Glenne
Headly is far above par as Holland's caring wife, and Olympia
Dukakis and TV comic Jay Thomas fit very nicely as principal and
fellow teacher, respectively. Some power, some schmaltz, good
lessons; no sex or violence; satisfactory for youth and adults.
12 MONKEYS (A-4, R): It's 2035, the world has been ravaged
by a monster virus, and the survivors huddle in an underground
totalitarian society. A prisoner (Bruce Willis) is sent back in
time to locate the virus so the catastrophic epidemic can be retroactively
The circumstances of this sci-fi time-travel premise originated
in a 1964 French art film (La Jetee), with nuclear war
as the context, and were used again in the Terminator movies.
But the updated idea remains seductive. The erratic but often
delightful director Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King) puts
the emphasis on witty dark comedy, with enough action and love
story (Willis falls for Madeleine Stowe, the shrink assigned to
treat him) to keep audiences interested.
The trail leads to an animal-rights activist group, led by a more-than-slightly-crazy
Brad Pitt, and there are some amusing images of liberated animals
wandering around a big-city freeway. Gilliam's ultimate theme
is that humans should settle for nothing less than the simple
beauty of creation and human love. Flawed but imaginative;
some violence; satisfactory for mature youth and adults.
BED OF ROSES (A-3, PG) has a basic idea that could compete
in the Final Four of "nice." A gorgeous workaholic career
woman (Mary Stuart Masterson) is wooed by an unknown admirer who
sends her so many flowers her Manhattan apartment is awash in
The young man (Christian Slater), as nice as his flowers, proves
to be an ex-stockbroker who was inspired by tragedy to get out
of the rat race and (of course) "smell the roses." But
the heroine resists him, partly because she's too career-driven,
but mostly because she was raised in a dysfunctional home and
feels unworthy of this "perfect" fellow and his "perfect"
love-filled family. It's as if Cinderella rejects the Prince because
she has a rotten self-image.
As Slater wisely says, "Everybody now and then is entitled
to too much perfection. There are enough thorns out there as it
is." Anyhow, this problem isn't going to spoil the kind of
dumb warm love story we need to get through the winter. Bed
is another of Hollywood's recent gushy tributes to happy extended
families. Lovers pull happy finish from improbable difficulties;
problem sex situations; satisfactory for adults.
RESTORATION (A-3, R): This is a quick tour of 17th-century
England, and it's not a place you'd want to stay very long. It's
the reign of Charles II, with corruption and hedonism rampant,
bloody religious wars just finished or ready to resume, and the
plague about to hit London before it burns down, killing 70,000
citizens in 1666.
Restoration is an old-fashioned story of personal redemption.
The fictional hero, Robert Merivel (Robert Downey, Jr.), is a
young physician who gleefully gives up his practice amid the hopeless
diseases of the time to come to the palace to treat the king's
dogs and enjoy the sexy life-style. He falls out of favor for
pursuing the royal mistress, and finally is inspired by a Quaker
colleague to reform his life just in time to be a hero during
the catastrophes of plague and fire.
The tale is classic both in its "prodigal son" and "sin
sows its own rewards" morality and in its ability to tie
up loose ends. Downey is riveting and funny as always. Meg Ryan
copes well in a decidedly offbeat role as an Irish woman rescued
from insanity, and Polly Walker is the doomed royal favorite that
Merivel loves and loses. Sam Neill does the king with amiable
authority. The eye-filling sets and costumes, however, are what
you'll be unable to forget soon. Uneven but richly decorative
historical morality tale; problem sex situations; satisfactory
for adults.
A CASE FOR LIFE (ABC Sunday Movie): This Valerie Bertinelli
movie tried to break new ground with a delicately balanced drama
on the subject of abortion. She plays Kelly, a newly pregnant
suburban mother of four--a dedicated pro-life activist--who is caught
in the classic mother-or-the-child dilemma.
She needs open-heart surgery or her life is in extreme risk. But
doing that requires a therapeutic abortion, a solution she won't
even consider. The choice to have the baby is long and difficult,
involving bed rest and hospital stays. Her husband and parents
support her at first, until the possibility that she may die becomes
more real. As the father says, "She's trying to do the right
thing because of what we taught her....That could end up killing
The main opposition comes from Liz (Mel Harris), her pro-choice
lawyer-sister, who wants to protect her because, in her view, no one
else will. When the husband, Bob (Bruce McNamara), has second
thoughts, he joins Liz in a lawsuit to require the abortion. There's
little chance to win--ironically, because of legal precedent not
to interfere with a mother's choice--but the trial allows writer
Vickie Patik to explore the complex issues, including the rights
and well-being of Kelly's "already born" children.
This is a close loving family and it's easy to feel all the agony.
(They're obviously Catholics, although that's downplayed.) If
the major dramatic question is how the medical crisis will turn
out, it's equally important to see if the family can reconcile
and become whole again.
Since in the movie the child dies, you could argue that it has
all been for nothing. But everyone has been tested. Without doubt,
Kelly is the hero, although we're going to debate the moral requirements
of her situation for a few more centuries. Bertinelli, of course,
is the queen of made-for-TV movies. Harris, in contrast, is sympathetic
but chilly as the married-but-childless career woman who is "there"
for her courageous sister. In the end, she says she's "thinking"
about having a child.
For dads, the most poignant moment comes when Bob holds the body
of his lifeless son and mourns. It's an eternal human sound. A
tentative but important first step in working through this subject
via the medium of the popular arts.
GOD IS IN THE DETAILS: We all know that TV news is just
a headline service, and should never be embraced as a total source
of information about the world. That point was underscored again
recently on Scott Simon's marvelous Weekend Edition (Saturday
mornings, National Public Radio). It carried an extended live-on-tape
description of the funeral of many of the young people who died
in the tragic crash in suburban Washington, D.C., of a local train
and an Amtrak express headed for Chicago.
Most of these young men and women were returning from special
classes to help them qualify for better jobs and escape from poverty.
The details in the eulogies made each of them come alive as unique
persons, each with dreams, humor and, above all, hope. You understood
once more what "tragedy" means, if not why it happens.
That feeling of grief was something that had been lost in the
headlines and 30-second reports. In school a long time ago we
learned that's what good journalism does.
BEER COMMERCIALS saturate TV with messages targeted largely
at young males. The most successful this season has surely been
the Bud Light series, featuring the guy who says, "I love
you, man," with great depths of emotion, as he tries to con
various folks out of a can of beer.
The ads are obviously trying to spoof guys who express their emotions.
In general, hugs do a lot to keep out the bad chills and scary
feelings. If it's now become harder for a guy to say, "I
love you"--hey, you're really after my beer!--then that's too
bad. Arnold's rule: Never make fun of love in any of its forms;
it's harder to find than gold.


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Opening The Kimono: HP Labs Previews Upcoming TechnologyHP CTO Martin Fink closed the recent HP Global Partner Conference by bringing together the heads of several departments to look at HP Labs' projects and how -- and when -- they will become solutions available through the channel.
Deloitte And Verizon Form Security AllianceDeloitte and Verizon Enterprise Solutions unveiled on Tuesday a strategic security alliance aimed at helping customers become more resilient to cyberthreats.
While Investors Push Breakup, EMC Expects More AcquisitionsWhile a large group of EMC's investors continue to hope that EMC will sell parts of itself to create more clear valuation for them, EMC is likely heading in the opposite direction by considering more acquisitions, according to a top analyst.
The EMC Federation: To Be Or Not To Be, That Is The QuestionEMC is using a truce between it and its investors to strengthen its message that the EMC Federation is the key to long-term success. For now, it is a message that's resonating with partners.
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Amazon Channel Partners Talk Business Value Of Cloud Drive Price SlashAmazon cut the cost of its Cloud Drive storage to near free for unlimited files, a move which the company's channel partners said could impact the file sync and share competitors.
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8 Must-See Products And Solutions Unveiled At HP GPC 2015Last week's HP Global Partner Conference saw HP roll out several new server, storage, and other solutions and products for enterprise and SMB IT infrastructures, and showed the company's upcoming split has not slowed down product development.
Condusiv's Latest Diskeeper Defrags At The Logical, Not Physical, Disk LayerCondusiv says that by defragging disks at the logical disk layer, its new Diskeeper 15 Server adds performance beyond the standard disk defragging software.
Cisco Preps For Release Of Long-Delayed Invicta Storage BladesChannel sources say the Invicta storage blades, which have been quietly discussed by Cisco for months, could be officially unveiled during or around the Cisco Live conference in June.
2015 Partner Program Guide: 5-Star Storage VendorsAs part of the Partner Program Guide, CRN designates some programs as 5-Star Partner Programs. Here are the 5-Star designees in the storage space.
EMC Federation Bolsters Big Data Playbook With New Data Lakes SolutionEMC unveils its first data lakes analytics solution aimed at giving partners and businesses the ability to collect, house and analyze data.
NetApp's Flash Storage Guru Has Moved To Pure Storage, Stoking Fears About FlashRayFlashRay lead engineer's move could help tip the balance between legacy and upstart vendors in all-flash storage arrays.
NetApp's FlashRay Chief Pawlowski Departs, Partners Say Product Is Facing Uncertain FutureThe departure of FlashRay's leader, and the uncertain status of the one of his key deputies, have solution providers concerned about what form the FlashRay all-flash storage array will take now that development is under NetApp's FAS team.
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HP Intros New Flash, Data Protection Storage For SMBsAt this week's HP Global Partner Conference, the company is rolling out several storage solutions aimed squarely at SMB customers.
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Wong Kar-wai Scores With 'The Grandmaster'
After a decade of preparation and three years of filming, Wong Kar-wai's "The Grandmaster" opened in China on Tuesday, and any lingering questions over whether the movie would live up to its lofty expectations immediately evaporated.
Mr. Wong has made a martial-arts film for people who typically wouldn't go to see an action movie, and an art-house film for audiences who resist ambiguity in their cinematic experiences.
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Many of the kung-fu scenes are set in beautifully furnished parlor rooms that suggest the quiet intensity of a high-stakes chess game, but one in which the threats could mean life or death. It's in these moments it becomes clear that Mr. Wong is showing his audience that kung fu is as much an intellectual pursuit as it is a sport of strength and physical superiority.
Fans of Mr. Wong, one of Asia's most prominent filmmakers and a regular fixture on the international film-festival circuit, have been eagerly anticipating "The Grandmaster." More than five years have passed since the Hong Kong director released his last full-length feature film, "My Blueberry Nights" starring Norah Jones, and it's been nearly nine years since his last Chinese-language film, "2046."
Critics were quick to praise "The Grandmaster." Variety said the film "exceeds expectations," while Twitch described it as "an action-packed visual feast."
The movie follows the life of Ip Man, the real-life instructor of the Wing Chun style of kung fu, who was born in Foshan in 1893 and died in Hong Kong in 1972. (A young Bruce Lee was among his students, although his character doesn't appear in the new film.)
Tony Leung Chiu-wai plays Ip Man; Zhang Ziyi stars as Gong Er, the daughter of a powerful martial-arts master from northern China and a kung-fu expert herself; and Chang Chen appears as a mysterious character named Razor. All three actors joined Mr. Wong at a press conference in a crowded Hong Kong shopping mall on Tuesday night for the local premiere.
Mr. Leung, who is known primarily for his dramatic roles rather than action, told the Journal that preparing for the role was a challenge.
"The action part was really tough for me," Mr. Leung said. "We started practicing a year-and-a-half before the movie began shooting. … But we trained during the shooting, so we trained like four years."
"The character is very much different from what audiences have seen before," he continued. "With the role this time, we are trying to mix up Bruce Lee and the real man — Ip Man — together."
"The Grandmaster" takes place mainly from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s — a turbulent time in China's history, but one that the film doesn't dwell on — and focuses on Ip Man's tentative friendship with Gong Er and his rivalry with other kung-fu masters and their followers. The story also explores the deep patience, obedience and discipline that kung fu demands on its teachers and students.
The Ip Man character has become an extremely popular — and profitable — movie character in recent years, most notably with 2008's "Ip Man" and its 2010 sequel starring Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen.
"The Grandmaster" opens in Hong Kong on Thursday and in Taiwan next week, ahead of its European premiere on Feb. 7 as the opening film at the Berlin International Film Festival, where Mr. Wong is this year's jury president. The movie will screen out of competition.
Though the film runs two hours and 10 minutes, Mr. Wong said earlier this week that it could have lasted four hours due to all the footage he shot, which suggests that audiences someday could see a longer "director's cut."
The Chinese movie industry will now turn its attention to box-office receipts for "The Grandmaster," which took in 29.8 million yuan ($4.8 million) on its opening day Tuesday, according to media-research firm EntGroup. By comparison, "Lost in Thailand" pulled in 39.4 million on its first day on Dec. 12.
"Lost in Thailand" has earned 1.17 billion yuan as of Tuesday, making it the highest-grossing Chinese film ever in the domestic market, EntGroup said.
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