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ASPEN - "The Spirit of Aspen Spectacular," a musical with an original story by Jayne Gottlieb Productions that debuts this week at the Wheeler Opera House, goes heavy on the kind of images and ideas that might be found in a promotional brochure. The story is set in the snowy holiday season and populated with legends of Aspen's part and present. The characters traipse from Paepcke Park to the Wheeler Opera House, Pitkin County Dry Goods to Belly Up. And the stage - well, Jayne Gottlieb, who produces, directs, choreographs and co-wrote the show, calls the stage "all of Aspen itself." "It's a ski shop, the Little Nell hotel, the Aspen Candy store," Gottlieb said, noting that she brought in a set designer, Greer Beecroft, from Atlanta. There are lights, actual trees, a video screen with photos of the town and surrounding mountains looking picture-card perfect, Santa and his reindeer, a live five-piece band. And what would the holidays be without kids? "The Spirit of Aspen Spectacular" cast features has 25 of them, to go with three adult actors.
"It's lights and sparkle and snow and fresh air and fun. Happiness," Gottlieb said. "The story is about what makes Aspen so special for the holidays. It speaks to the magic of our town."
There are plenty, though, who would argue that what makes Aspen special is something a bit more than the surface lights and sparkle. As Elizabeth and Walter Paepcke, the founders of modern Aspen, had it, the town would be a place that would foster humankind's quest to realize its full potential of mind, body and spirit. Or as that formulation is often termed, the Aspen Idea.
As it happens, Elizabeth "Pussy" Paepcke is among the people who come to life in "The Spirit of Aspen Spectacular." The story - co-written by Gottlieb, local actor and director Mike Monroney, and Carbondale playwright and film producer Harriet Spalding - focuses on the Moore family, from Chicago, who arrive for their Aspen vacation wanting ... more. One of the Moore children, Becca (played by Jayne Gottlieb veteran Becca Maniscalchi), gets in a fight over a Gucci bag she wants to buy. In the shopping-spree melee, she falls, hits her head on the ice, and blacks out. While unconscious, she has a reverie (shades of "The Nutcracker") in which she is visited by the Spirit of Christmas (shades of "A Christmas Carol"). The Spirit (Nina Gabianelli) takes her on a journey through Aspen, and through the years.
Becca is introduced to the sportswear icon Klaus Obermeyer (Ken Quiricone), who is orchestrating a group of toy soldiers as they create Christmas (a nod to the Rockettes holiday show at New York's Radio City Music Hall). She meets John Denver (who several decades ago hosted a series of Christmas TV specials from Aspen), and witnesses a performance of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy." Enter Pussy Paepcke (Peggy Wilkie) who joins Denver (Quiricone) in a version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside." In act two, there are visits to Belly Up and the Wheeler Opera House.
ASPEN - Along the way, amidst the songs ("Seasons of Love," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "All I Want for Christmas Is You," the Motown number "Shop Around") and tap-dancing, Aspen reveals to Becca something she hadn't learned back in Chicago: that Christmas is about giving more than receiving.
"After she sees all the lights and the splendor and the giving and cheer, she comes to the realization: Christmas is about giving. And that it is in the act of giving that we receive. It's about giving of yourself," Gottlieb said. "It's Elizabeth Paepcke's idea of becoming a 'whole' person, of giving back and serving others, is reflected through this holiday of giving."
Becca passes along the gift to the rest of the family. In the show's thematic climax, she brings her family to Paepcke Park to help in a community-wide decorating of a tree. The show ends with a selfless act by Becca which inspires others to display their generosity, and the singing of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
Jayne Gottlieb Productions isn't leaving the lessons about generosity on the stage. The "Spirit of Aspen Spectacular" performance on Saturday doubles as a food-drive for Lift-Up, a local organization that provides services to those in need. Audience members who donate food items will receive a $5 discount on their tickets. (Friday's opening performance is Local's Night, with local residents getting a $5 discount on tickets. And Santa will make an appearance at Sunday's performance, a matinee.)
Gottlieb had no problem conjuring up the idealized vision of Aspen for the current show. "There's a feeling you get when you're here, this magic," she said. "I'd say that sums up our show pretty well."
And she had little difficulty finding the soul beneath the exterior. Gottlieb has been producing kids-oriented productions in the valley since 2005, and her work has been embraced; this will be her third Christmas-time appearance in the Wheeler Opera House, where she staged a version of "White Christmas" in 2009 and '10.
"Underneath the glitz and consumerism that sometimes come to overshadow the true Aspen Idea, it's easy to buy into this idea of Aspen," she said. "I invite everyone who comes to see the show to buy into the Aspen Idea. Go out and ski and play in the snow and frolic. And offer more than just your spare change - offer some of your time and yourself in service."


text: Time Monk Radio Network Presents:Nora Gedgaudas Friday August 24th 8pm EDT/12am UTC Nora Gedgaudas is one of the World's leading experts on Paleolithic (Paleo) nutrition and author of the international best selling book "Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond The Paleo Diet For Total Health and a Longer Life". She is Board-certified in Holistic Nutrition® through the National Association of Nutritional Professionals (NANP) and is recognized by the Nutritional Therapy Association as a Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT). She has appeared as a guest lecturer on radio and television. She was host of her own top rated radio program on Voice America Radio's "Health and Wellness" channel and her Primal Body Primal Mind Radio podcasts are now available on iTunes. Nora served as a trainer for the State of Washington Institute of Mental Health, illuminating nutrition's impact on mental health for State health care workers at all levels. She maintains a private practice in Portland, Oregon as both a Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT) and a Board-certified Clinical Neurofeedback Specialist (CNS). Nora's ground breaking book, Primal Body, Primal Mind, currently ranks near the top of all health-related books on Amazon and in August 2011, Nora was a featured presenter at the Ancestral Health Symposium at UCLA—billed as "the Woodstock of evolutionary medicine". http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/ Please submit your questions for Nora by Sunday, August 12th ___________________________ TMRN Interviews Present:Nora Gedgaudas FeaturingThe Mighty Time Monk Radio Arts PlayersYour Host:Gemini1111 RoundTable Members:Greenmeadow ~ Uranus Rising Music:Kevin MacLeod Technical Director:Neo Associate Producers:Gemini1111 ~ Greenmeadow ~ Lennie ~ MacLaren ~ Nomadic Executive Producer:Foxx ____________________________________ MP3 Tags are Set MP3: 64 Kbps 44100hz; Stereo;Length-----2:16:45 62.6 MBhttp://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ybf1jfgkz6h8h36 MP3: 24 Kbps Lite 16000hz; Stereo;Length-----2:16:45 23.4 MBhttp://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ah5h51ley94d2tx ______________________ YouTube

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End of fifth: Cy-Fair 3, Kingwood 2.
Tommy Collier is still going strong for the Bobcats – except for that error filled third when he was forced to throw a lot of pitches, he's kept his count down. He's thrown just 64 through five innings.
Churchwell has been solid for the Mustangs as well and has thrown 59 pitches.


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Open-Source 3D Success For Radeon RV770
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On the rainy anniversary of a civil rights milestone, a racially diverse mix of Lynchburg citizens gathered to talk about where we are now.
"Even though progress has been made, we still have work to be done," said Benjamin Hagwood, a Lynchburg resident.
The summer of 2013 has been one of racial tension in Lynchburg, from divisive comments at a city council meeting, to a police encounter that ended with a man's sudden death. Hagwood and other community leaders met at Riverside Park Wednesday morning to discuss the recent issues and announce renewed efforts to promote racial harmony.
"I think we know what the problems are. We are just going to have to face up to them and try to resolve them." said Walter Fore, a Lynchburg resident who has organized civil rights efforts in Lynchburg for more than 50 years.
Concerned residents like Fore are hoping to make progress on the racial front, by renewing the "Dialogue on Race and Racism." The program started six years ago, in response to another racially charged incident.
Today the dialogue is a citizen-led movement called "Many Voices, One Community." Organizers are working to address recent events, by starting a new conversation.
"This is an exercise for the community and we want them to feel empowered and know that their voices are being heard," said city council member, Ceasar Johnson.
"Many Voices, One Community" will hold its first annual "Race, Poverty, and Social Justice Conference" on Saturday, October 12 at Randolph College. Click here to learn more and purchase tickets.
In the meantime city leaders plan to meet with community members, to talk about what's needed to help Lynchburg address its lingering inequality issues.
"For right now the main thing is to reopen that channel again with the communities and those leaders in the communities," said Hagwood.


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Cover To Cover…'Fail Up'
Everything must be perfect. At least that's the way it seems. You have no margin for error in this economy, no second chances, no room for mistakes. If you want to keep your job, you get it right or you don't get it at all. No pressure, huh? Being the fallible human that you are, though, mistakes and failures are inevitable at some point or other—so why not use them? Start by reading "Fail Up" by Tavis Smiley and find out how going wrong can be so right. As the oldest of ten children growing up in Kokomo, Indiana, Tavis Smiley was a big fan of Muhammad Ali. Young Smiley particularly loved to listen to the fighter's trash-talk, figuring that if it worked for Ali, that it should work with fools in fifth grade. That it didn't was Smiley's first lesson in reaching for success.


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Delaboratory is a color correction utility for digital images. It features:
- Floating point precision (not 8-bit like Gimp, not 16-bit like most raw
- Native support for multiple colorspaces (sRGB, ProPhoto RGB, LAB, CMYK,
- Non-destructive editing (adjustment layers)
- KISS design, realtime preview
- Basic operations: CMYK curves, CMYK levels, RGB curves, RGB levels,
white balance in LAB, saturation in LAB, LAB curves, BW curve, HSV
equalizer, LCH equalizer, recover shadows/highlights, vignette, local
contrast, LAB/BW/RGB/CMYK gradients
- Expert operations: levels, curves, equalizer, exposure, saturation,
white balance, fill, tone, local contrast, auto_dodge/auto_burn, sharpen,
vignette, gradient, gaussian blur, recover highlights, recover shadows,
channel mixer, high pass, c2g, copy
- Many blend modes (multiply, screen, overlay, inverted overlay, dodge,
burn, add, grain extract, grain merge, sub, difference, darken, lighten),
color/luminosity blending for RGB and CMYK
- RAW support (via dcraw), up to 5 color samplers, histograms and color
matrices, etc.
WWW: http://code.google.com/p/delaboratory/
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/graphics/delaboratory/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install delaboratory
cd /usr/ports/graphics/delaboratory/ && make install clean
pkg install delaboratory
PKGNAME: delaboratory
SHA256 (delaboratory-0.8.tar.gz) = dfb95531009f5eddd14ae343d6a80a5eed407d031d731a464582cef26e77218a
SIZE (delaboratory-0.8.tar.gz) = 135250
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graphics/delaboratory: Unbreak F8 and F9 too
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Unbreak five wxgtk30-based ports by adding -std=c++11 to cxxflags
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Update the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection from GCC 4.7.4
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Part II, Bump PORTREVISIONs.
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Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Use wxGTK 3.0
- Fix the build on -CURRENT after libiconv was moved into the base
- Honor CXXFLAGS better, stagify, wordsmith in pkg-descr, relinquish
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Delaboratory is unique image post-processing application, it allows color
correction utility for digital images in a wide variety of ways and modes.
WWW: http://code.google.com/p/delaboratory/
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The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has charged two women with multiple charges after investigating reports of six victims having purses or wallets taken from their shopping carts at the Destin Walmart on Wednesday.
Keri Michelle Augustine, 29 and Lacey Jean Hernandez, 27, both of Defuniak Springs, are accused taking purses, removing items such as jewelry, cash, and credit cards and then discarding the purses or wallets inside the store.
Hernandez is accused of using three credit cards from one victim to buy three Walmart gift cards.
While interviewing Augustine, investigators say a gift card purchased with a stolen credit card was observed sticking out of her shirt.
Both women have been charged with theft of credit cards, fraudulent use of credit cards, and grand theft.


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Depression Health Center
Depression and Chronic Pain
In this article
How Do Antidepressants Help Both Chronic Pain and Depression?
Because chronic pain and depression can involve the same nerves and neurotransmitters, certain antidepressants are often used to treat both chronic pain and depression. Antidepressants can work on the brain to reduce the perception of pain.
There is abundant evidence of the effectiveness of tricyclic antidepressants such as Elavil and doxepin. However, because of side effects, their use is often limited. Newer antidepressants known as serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (Cymbalta, Effexor), on the other hand, seem to work well with fewer side effects.
How Can Physical Activity Help Both Chronic Pain and Depression?
Many people with chronic pain avoid exercise. But, if you don't exercise, you get out of shape and have an increased risk of injury and worsened pain. Consult with a physician to design an exercise plan that's safe and effective for you.
Exercise also helps ease depression by releasing the same kind of brain chemicals that antidepressant medications release.
Why Is Taking Control Important for Healing?
Chronic pain affects your ability to live, work, and play the way you're used to. This can change how you see yourself -- sometimes for the worse as you feel victimized by the pain and depression.
Getting busy and taking control of your life is important. Working with a health care provider who refuses to let you see yourself a helpless victim is key.
How Does Talk Therapy Help Chronic Pain and Depression?
Research clearly shows that, for many people, certain kinds of mental training can help improve chronic pain.
Cognitive therapy is one approach. In cognitive therapy, a person learns to notice the negative "automatic thoughts" that surround the experience of chronic pain. These thoughts are often distortions of reality. Cognitive therapy can teach a person how to change these thought patterns and improve the experience of pain.
Cognitive therapy is also a proven treatment for depression and can reduce symptoms of anxiety in those with chronic pain.
What's the Best Way to Manage Chronic Pain and Depression?
The best way to approach managing chronic pain is to team up with a pain specialist or even your family doctor to create a treatment plan. When chronic pain and depression are combined, the need to work with a doctor is even greater.


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Joby Energy Designs High-Altitude Wind Turbines
- Jun 30, 2010 4:45 PM EST
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Successful wind energy installations depend largely on being located in windy areas. Joby Energy is designing a wind power generator that will take advantage of some of the strongest, most consistent winds on Earth. Well, not quite Earth: Joby's generator will operate well above the ground, several hundred meters high.
The California-based company is designing a flying matrix of wind turbines, mounted on a wing. Once the wing is off the ground (launch will require a ground power source, briefly using the rotors as propellers), it will fly on its own, like a huge kite. The rotors will send power back to earth via a ground cable, which will also tether the structure. If the wind dies down too much, the cable can send power back to the turbines so that it can land safely.
The turbine shown above is a single-wing model; Joby says that it could also develop a multi-wing turbine with many more turbines, and that their model would require fewer materials than conventional wind turbines. Details (including a video) at Joby's website.
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San Jose has seen a sharp spike in graffiti, up 38 percent from a year ago to the highest number of documented tags since 1999.
The surge comes at a time when budget cuts have forced the city to outsource its cleanup work.
City officials say annual surveys done each January since 1999 noted 44,405 graffiti tags citywide this year, up from 29,285 in January 2010. That was the highest figure since the city first started tracking graffiti tags in 1999 and counted 71,541. The City Council will consider the issue Tuesday.
"The volume of graffiti is higher," said Mike Will, a San Jose parks manager who oversees graffiti abatement, adding that reasons for the spike are a mystery. There hasn't been a greater number of any particular type of graffiti, he said.
"It's generally everything," Will said. "Maybe it's something to do with the economy, people's frustrations. We're still talking to experts and police to see what's going on."
Mario Maciel, superintendent of the mayor's gang task force, doesn't believe the surge is related to gang activity and blames "tagging crews" of high-school kids who thrive on the thrill of spreading their tags all over town.
"When there's a quantifiable spike, it's these tagging crews," Maciel said. "It's the whole notoriety among their subculture. That's how they validate themselves. We see that as a social epidemic."
San Jose saw sharp drops in graffiti from 2000 through 2003, and the number of reported tags generally held between 2,000 and 4,000 for the next several years. But in 2008 the number jumped to 13,902 and has risen dramatically each year since.
City officials in the latest January survey noted the sharpest one-year tagging increase in the city's 5th Council District, centered in East San Jose, where the volume nearly tripled. District 7 in central San Jose also saw a substantial rise in graffiti. Downtown's District 3 as well as West San Jose's District 1 and the Cambrian area's District 9 also saw increases. Tagging volume dropped elsewhere.
Councilman Xavier Campos, who represents District 5, said he has noticed the surge in tagging and vowed in a statement Friday to devote city resources to fight it.
"Despite our budget cuts, we cannot allow for the city's graffiti problems to spiral out of control," Campos said. "Under my watch, I will work to get to the bottom of what has caused the recent increases. The taxpayers expect better, and as council member of a district that is plagued with graffiti, I intend on making sure they get the benefit of every dollar they spend."
To close a $115 million budget deficit in June, San Jose officials outsourced the city's graffiti abatement program to a private contractor to save $1 million. Under a $633,000 contract with the city, Graffiti Protective Coatings is taking a different approach to cleaning up tags. By taking time to match paint to the vandalized surface, they are working to erase not only the tags but evidence that they've been painted over.
Will said that because the city had a limited variety of paint colors, its graffiti abatement crews could seldom match the original surface when painting over tags. Over time, he said, those surfaces began looking splotchy, giving them away as prime graffiti targets.
"You ended up with a quilt-patch of covered graffiti, which in many cases looks just as bad," Will said, noting that those surfaces were often quickly vandalized again.
Barry Steinhart, general manager of Graffiti Protective Coatings, said San Jose isn't alone in seeing a graffiti surge.
"Everybody's increasing," said Steinhart, whose Los Angeles-based company also has served Alameda County and the cities of Santa Cruz, Long Beach, Santa Ana and Mesa, Ariz. "Graffiti's a problem everywhere. It's like a sport to these kids."
Steinhart said he was surprised how much graffiti there was in San Jose but that his crews are working to paint over tagged areas so that they don't invite repeat vandalism and are easier to manage. The company's crews are starting in the hard-hit East San Jose area.
"They had a lot more graffiti than we anticipated," Steinhart said. "It's just going to take a little bit of time to get everything under control and where it needs to be."
San Jose officials invite residents to report graffiti to Graffiti Protective Coatings, the city's new graffiti abatement contractor, by calling 866-249-0543 toll free.


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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:59 pm
Post subject: AMH and consultation booked. Eek!
Hi ladies not posted for ages. Still no sign of bfp and as nhs won't do anything else to help as fsh results were high. I have finally bit the bullet and made an app with spire. It's an initial consultation and amh. I've got a feeling from previous tests and scans that my ovaries are knacked and not doing anything. So thought I'd be brave and get the test and then at least I know if there are any options left to me. feeling slightly terrified but after 4 years I can't keep doing this and.am getting seriously old so need to come to terms with it if I'm not going to be a mum. has anyone else been for this.
Hope you are all good x
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I came around this website may be interesting reading:
Don't give up hope yet! Good luck with the consultation!x
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 10:43 am
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Hi Good luck with your results ladies. I am in the same position. The NHS wouldnt use my eggs because of FSH and AMH results so we were going to go down the road of egg donation, however now we've decided that maybe private clinics might accept me and my eggs so we are looking into that now...its expensive!!! but worth it
I'd be so interested to hear how yous got on so keep us posted ...please Thanks and best wishes x
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Hi. Got results today. Not good. Less than 1 they're basically saying donor eggs as likely to be poor response. Too be honest I wasn't really listening after this point. Got the call at work this morn so just had to keep it together. Feel numb. Sick. Lost. Consultant is writing too me. But think it's time to get off this roller coaster. How is everyone else getting on x
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Blossom sorry it wasn't the result you wanted, but don't give up yet, with the right clinic who are used to treat women with low AMH then you're still in with a chance it just means you wont get as many eggs but there are ways of improving your chances and some clinics offer tandem cycles with a donor so you have both options if you don't respond well EU clinics are often much cheaer as well due to lower overheads ,I had a quote froma czech clinic for under £3,000 with ICSI and going to blast, it would be more with a donor but still far cheaper than here (reprofit ) xxx
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Sorry Blossom I lost this thread, only just reading this now. So sorry about your result. Like the others say there are options they just need lots of thinking through. Hope you're ok hon.
Nat the Czech clinic sounds interesting, so good to know there are possibilities whatever the outcome.- Teebs they just tske bloods and then test for anti mullerian hormone which tells them how many eggs you have left, I think? I had my test - apparently I will be invited to follow-up appt when all my tests are done to discuss future action.
Enjoying the TTC ride!


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The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery collaborated with Ron Barboza to create an exhibition of his photographs that will open with a reception tonight from 6 to 8. The exhibition, "Aristides Pereira: A Man and His Journey/Cape Verde: A Land and its People," pays tribute to the life of Pereira, who became the first president of Cape Verde. The exhibition also includes an equally compelling selection of photographs that reflect the land and people of the Cape Verdean Islands.
Barboza's family settled in Massachusetts around the beginning of the 20th century and in the mid-1970s, he returned to the islands to photograph the homeland of his ancestors. That first trip was followed by several more, and during the next two decades he shot more than 50,000 photographs, many of them powerful images that reflect the life and culture of the great people of Cape Verde.
During this odyssey he found himself at the center of the struggle for independence from African colonialism, and he documented the life and the rise of Pereira who became the first president of an independent Cape Verde.
Of his work, Barboza has written, "It's important for me to be able to show others the riches of our culture and the role we played in history. We are a proud people, with a rich history."
His photographs have been exhibited around the world, including Mamae-Terra, Artistes due Cap Verte, 1993, Paris, France; Mostra De Arte Cabo Verdeana, 1994, Lisbon, Portugal; Culturgest Caixa Geral de Depositos, 1994, Lisbon, Portugal; Smithsonian American Folklife Festival, 1995, Washington, D.C.; Harvard Peabody Museum, 1995, Cambridge; "Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers," 2001, Brooklyn Museum; and "A Man and His Journey: Tribute to President Aristides Pereira," 2012 Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, DC.
Barboza lives in New Bedford.
The exhibition continues through Dec. 14. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Devoxx, JavaFX in Second Life
By dannycoward on Dec 08, 2008
The Planetarium is brought to you from Devoxx all week.
Devoxx is full ! The first two days are mostly in a University format: real in depth 3 hour sessions. After bumping into Devoxx organizer, Stephan Janssen (pictured left and whacked here) working the front desk, the Planetarium Janitor dropped in on a few sessions.
Like the first JavaFX session, where a highlight, after working through the language and API features, was in response to a question as to how to create a media player, Richard Bair answered it by coding one up in front of the packed crowd.
And the Groovy session where Guillaume Laforge showed some really neat examples of how compact Groovy can be, all running on the JVM, with a high ratio of application logic to syntax: in his words a high 'business density'.
And Chet's impromptu Adobe session on Flex and Flash, and what's coming up in Gumbo, the next version of Flex. Chet is such a natural presenter and stepped in at the last minute when someone else had to cancel.
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NIOSH List of Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings 2014: Proposed Additions and Deletions to the NIOSH Hazardous Drug List
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the availability of the following draft document for public comment entitled "NIOSH List of Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Settings 2014: Proposed Additions and Deletions to the NIOSH Hazardous Drug List." The document and instructions for submitting comments can be found at http://www.regulations.gov.
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You may submit comments, identified by CDC-2013-0007 and Docket Number NIOSH-233, by either of the two following methods:
- Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
- Mail: NIOSH Docket Office, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, MS-C34, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226.
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Background: The NIOSH Alert: Preventing Occupational Exposures to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Health Care Settings was published in September 2004 (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-165/). This Alert contained Appendix A which was a list of drugs that were deemed to be hazardous and may require special handling. This list of hazardous drugs was updated in 2010 and 2012 and covered all new approved drugs and drugs with new warning up to December 2009. (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2010-167/; http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2012-150/). Between January 2010 and December 2011, 48 new drugs received FDA approval and 276 drugs received special warnings (usually black box warnings) based on reported adverse effects in patients. From this list of 324 drugs, 42 drugs were identified by NIOSH as candidate hazardous drugs. Four of these drugs had safe handling recommendations from the manufacturer and NIOSH is following the recommendations of the manufacturers. Therefore, these four drugs will be listed as hazardous without requiring further review. A panel consisting of peer reviewers and stakeholders was asked to review and comment on the remaining 38 potentially hazardous drugs. In addition, the panel members were asked to comment on the addition of one drug requested by several stakeholders and the removal of one drug from the 2012 Hazardous Drug List. Reviewers were not asked to provide a consensus opinion and NIOSH made the final determination regarding additions and deletions to the 2014 hazardous drug list.
NIOSH reviewed the recommendations of the peer reviewers and stakeholders and determined that 24 drugs in addition to the 4 drugs with manufacturer's warnings, were determined to have one or more characteristics of a hazardous drug and this list of 28 drugs is being published for comment in CDC-2013-0007 and NIOSH Docket Number 233. In addition, 1 drug from the 2012 Hazardous Drug List is being considered for removal. The complete list of these drugs can be found at: http://www.regulations.gov as a supporting document.
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With starring roles in The Final Destination (in 3-D!) and You and I, Shantel VanSanten is proving she's a star in every dimensionBy Joe La Puma, Photography by Smallz & Raskind
If you're looking for a chick to hang out with your boys and laugh at all your dick jokes, Shantel VanSanten may be your dream woman. The star of August's The Final Destination and this fall's girl-on-girl heavy You and I (opposite Mischa Barton) is the self-described "goofiest person ever" and doesn't shy away from a little locker room talk. Which is great for all of us. But don't get it twisted—when the 24-year-old Minnesota native and former swimsuit model says she's "one of the guys," she's lying. You'll know what we mean when you see her in 3-D.
What's the weirdest thing about being in a 3-D flick?Shantel VanSanten:The way that they shoot it, they have two cameras with the right eye and one with the left and they converge and it comes out in one image. It's actually over a million dollars for each camera. That part of it was really cool, but the sex scene I had was a little bit weird.
Yeah, most of the sex we have is a little bit weird too. What's the 3-D version like?Shantel VanSanten:I just wanted to know what it looks like. I think my ass in 3-D would be really interesting. [Laughs.] I did a movie in Russia with Mischa Barton, and that had a love scene in it too.
Ah, yes, the scene with Mischa. We're looking forward to that one.Shantel VanSanten:We spent about five months shooting, and one day they were like, "OK, now we're gonna shoot a sex scene in a rotating bed!" It was more of a scene about love than softcore porn. Love is love in my mind; we've all experimented, and it's no big deal.
Mischa's a little more experienced with that, though—she kissed Olivia Wilde on The O.C. Did you feel any pressure to be a better kisser?Shantel VanSanten:No, I know I am, it's all good. [Laughs.] Just kidding! They actually made fun of Mischa 'cause she's had a lot of lesbian scenes. They said she'd better be good—it was her second one, and only my first.
So when you're not kissing girls, what type of dudes do you like?Shantel VanSanten:I like people who are spontaneous and super goofy because I'm probably the goofiest person ever, like a 4-year-old in a 24-year-old girl's body. I'm definitely immature. Guys are always telling me I'm like a guy because we're always talking about sex or penises.
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More pirates, more magic, and more adventure in the second book of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series! Caroline Carlson brings the unceasing wit, humor, and fun of the first book in the series, Magic Marks the Spot, to this epic sequel. Fans of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events and Trenton Lee Stewart's Mysterious Benedict Society will love this quirky tween series and hope to join the VNHLP just like Hilary!
Hilary Westfield is now a bona fide pirate, but when her daring, her magical know-how, and even her gargoyle don't convince the VNHLP that she's worthy of her title, the Terror of the Southlands, she sets off with her crew on a High Seas adventure. But then Miss Pimm disappears and Hilary decides to find the missing Enchantress and protect the magic of Augusta.
"Tell me, Pirate Westfield: When was the last time you drew your sword against an enemy? Or stole a stash of loot from a fellow buccaneer? When was the last time you sailed off on a thrilling High Seas adventure?"
Hilary Westfield is a pirate. In fact, she's the Terror of the Southlands! She's daring, brave, fearless, and . . . in a rut. Maybe she hasn't found any treasure lately. And maybe she isn't fighting off as many scallywags as she'd like. But does that mean she and her loyal crew (including a magical gargoyle) deserve to be kicked out of the ranks of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates?
There is only one thing to do—find a daring mission worthy of her fearless reputation. With the help of first mate Charlie, finishing-school friend Claire, and the self-proclaimed intrepid gargoyle, Hilary sets sail on a swashbuckling expedition that may or may not involve a kidnapped Enchantress, bumbling inspectors, a mysterious group called the Mutineers, and—the most terrifying thing of all—a High Society ball.
Caroline Carlson brings just as much rollicking fun, laughter, and action to this second book of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates as she did with the first, Magic Marks the Spot.
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New rules seek to preserve tradition of greek mixers
Tom Henning didn't expect the first woman he approached at a sorority Flower-In to break his ankle.
But when he bent down to hand her a flower, the freshman sorority member lunged, tackling him to the ground and fracturing his foot.
Henning, now a sophomore and member in Sigma Chi fraternity, spent weeks in a cast and on crutches, but he says he still supports Flower-Ins and even regrets some of the rule changes implemented this year.
Those new rules emerged in response to a growing concern over similar incidents of tackling, hazing, disrespectful behavior and alcohol use.
Last fall, senior and former Panhellenic Council Vice President of Risk Management Erin O'Donnell established a committee to address the current state of the fraternity and sorority meet-and-greets.
The group included members of the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Council executive boards, greek life coordinators and other greek students.
The resulting rules went into effect this year, the first time such a comprehensive list of prescriptions on Flower-Ins has been used.
"In the past, the quote, unquote 'rules' that were broken were never written down and were unclear," O'Donnell said. "We couldn't tell people not to do something, because we didn't have a rule base to tell them not to do it in the first place."
Previously, Flower-Ins were treated as another registered sorority event. Rules and restrictions existed, but O'Donnell said sororities were mostly left to follow the limitations imposed by their various insurance policies.
That meant no alcohol for all sororities and for some, restrictions on where guests were allowed and how long they could stay.
O'Donnell said sororities still have the freedom to follow their own risk management policies, but the new guidelines provide a framework for equal enforcement.
Kathryn Drew, a sophomore and Panhel's new vice president of risk management, said the most important change in the new rules was increased accountability.
Responsibility to remove any individual causing problems now rests on the sorority hosting the Flower-In as well as the visiting fraternity. Drew said a failure to comply could result in the cancellation of future Flower-Ins.
Addie McDonnell has attended as many as 16 Flower-Ins since pledging Alpha Phi sorority freshman year.
Now a junior, McDonnell said she didn't "really see a big difference" from past Flower-Ins when her boyfriend, sophomore Bradley White, and other members of Sigma Chi visited Alpha Phi Wednesday night for their first Flower-In of the year.
"I feel like they're really similar to how they've been in years past," McDonnell said.
Still, others feel the rules have brought misguided oversight to a longstanding tradition.
In an article posted Wednesday on the HerCampus DePauw website, junior Natalie Swiler wrote that the university "blew it" with the new restrictions on timing.
"The university thinks that this is the way to get us to not drink before the event," Swiler wrote. "Instead of not drinking, people now just have to start the shots before 7 p.m."
The new rules require a 30-minute pre-Flower-In period starting at 7:30 p.m. wherein all sorority members attending the event must be in the chapter house. Two sober representatives from the visiting fraternity then meet with the sorority's risk managers at 7:40 p.m. The Flower-In begins at 8 p.m. and must be completed by 9 p.m.
Sorority women must also remain in the chapter house for at least 30 minutes after the end of the Flower-In.
"The new rules haven't completely tainted the tradition," Swiler wrote. "As if we're going to let our party school name go to waste just because we have to start a little earlier."
Yet even though some say the new Flower-In rules are less fun, Tom Henning said the change is for the better.
"This is probably how it should be run," he said. "You can have fun afterwards."
Incidents like Henning's have yet to occur under the new rules, although greek life coordinator PJ Mitchell said there have only been about four Flower-Ins so far this year.
"We're hoping that everyone continues to respect the guidelines," he said. "Hopefully, it'll take off in a positive direction."
Still, Henning's ankle wasn't the only thing broken last year.
In one incident, fraternity men left alcohol containers on a sorority's lawn after a Flower-In, a violation of all chapters' insurance policies.
The new rules seek to address these and other issues that have arisen over the last several years.
In a section labeled "strict and mandatory," new regulations disallow tackling, "anything that would make a member uncomfortable," and "forceful behavior or pressure."
The list also prohibits "all unwelcome items," specifically mentioning paddles, blow horns, flasks and alcohol.
"I think that (reports of hazing with paddles at Flower-Ins) sparked some discussion of what have these become and has this become a problem, and what can we do to make sure that we're getting back to the initial roots of a Flower-In," Mitchell said.
Mitchell and Erin O'Donnell both said those roots are planted in the opportunity for new members to get to know each other in a social setting.
And while Kathryn Drew said some men have been "iffy" about the ban on paddles, sorority women especially appreciate that particular change.
"It's really rude," Drew said. "If your boyfriend is getting paddled because he has a girlfriend, it's really disrespectful."
In other cases, Drew said fraternities have had fun with the new restrictions.
Some men have taken to chanting sayings like, "Take her a on a date," and "Meet her parents," she said.
"I think students really like them (Flower-Ins)," she said. "It's tradition and now that they're safer, it's just more playful, more thrilling."
While not all students see the changes as an improvement, some like McDonnell maintain that Flower-Ins are just as fun as they always were.
Without those new rules, however, O'Donnell said the future of Flower-Ins may have been short lived.
After last year's risk management concerns, Erin O'Donnell said the university began considering a ban on the fraternity-sorority mixers.
PJ Mitchell confirmed a ban had been considered but said he wouldn't know what such a restriction would look like.
"It has been discussed as an option and always has the potential to be revisited if it needs to be," Mitchell said in an email to The DePauw. "That said, it is good to see our students stepping up and holding each other to a set of expectations. Ultimately, this is the best way to create some positive culture change at these events."
O'Donnell said that past problems with Flower-Ins have largely stemmed from a small group of individuals.
"On a general basis, our students are very responsible," O'Donnell said. "We have a few bad decisions that happen and those wreak havoc on the whole system."
Kathryn Drew says random oversight from Panhel executive board members will ensure fraternity men and women to follow the rules during every Flower-In.
"We're not there to be mean," Drew said. "We're just making sure that there's no hazing, no one out of control because of drinking and no one's being pressured to do something they don't want to do."
And O'Donnell agrees with Drew.
"I'm not a fun sucker," O'Donnell said. "I don't want anyone to be in danger and I still want everyone to have fun. These [rules] are hopefully going to make that happen at once."
While O'Donnell spearheaded the rules revision, she said others played a crucial role as well.
She credited the Interfraternity Council executive board members for stepping in to help Panhel in their discussions with representatives from the university, sparking notice with Mitchell.
"The students have worked hard on taking ownership of this," Mitchell said. "From our side, that's pretty cool to see."
Ultimately, O'Donnell, Drew and Mitchell would like to see a return to more traditional Flower-Ins, when alcohol and other concerns weren't an issue.
Communications professor Jeff McCall '76 said Flower-Ins, or Kiss-Ins as they used to be known, have kept at least one constant over the years: Kissing.
According to McCall, a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, the active members of both houses would line up on the sidewalk outside a sorority house and create a tunnel with their raised paddles. New members from each chapter would walk through the tunnel and kiss on the sorority house steps.
"They would have a short kiss," he said. "These weren't like deep romantic embraces or anything. They were just quick little pecks."
Looking back, McCall said the events probably sound a little more "primitive" than they actually were.
"I don't think it was as oppressive as it maybe comes off sounding 30 years later," he said. "I'm sure some people felt under the gun to participate at times, but people could opt out."
Kissing remains an optional tradition today, and Drew said the new rules ask that students not be pressured to do anything.
Either way, McCall said the purpose of Kiss-Ins wasn't the quick peck, but the opportunity to meet with new members of other greek houses.
At the time, there were 13 Interfraternity Council fraternities and 10 Panhellenic Council sororities.
Those numbers have since shrunk, but the number of Flower-Ins each fraternity and sorority conducts has more than doubled.
McCall said Kiss-Ins would only take place on weeknights and a fraternity usually participated in no more than two or three of the mixers.
They were also done by the middle of September, with the whole Kiss-In season lasting a week or two. When McCall attended DePauw, students went through formal greek recruitment before fall semester classes even started.
Fraternities now visit most of the six Panhel sororities on campus for Flower-Ins over the course of spring semester.
The Flower-In season often lasts months and some events take place on weekend nights.
Like in the '70s, students today often remain at the sorority house after a Flower-In to mingle with each other.
McCall said that some men would even ask the sorority women if they wanted to come over to their house for a party.
But, according to McCall, at least one difference existed between now and then.
"I don't remember anybody drinking at the Lambda Chi house before we went to these Kiss-Ins," he said.
Mitchell, who graduated in 2006 and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, said alcohol wasn't as much of focus in Flower-Ins when he was a student, too.
"I'm sure there were [issues with alcohol]," Mitchell said. "[But] it wasn't always an underlying culture of alcohol as a defining piece of the Flower-In."
McCall said that he would advise the greek system to take out all the drinking from Flower-Ins and not forsake the meet-and-greet aspect.
Many of the changes, McCall added, stem from a change in culture.
He said the use of lewd language, for example, wasn't as socially acceptable in public and particularly not in front of sorority women you were trying to impress.
"The greek system has changed in some ways, and I think in some ways maybe not for the better," McCall said. "But I think at its best, the greek system still does provide for what it was set out to do in the first place."
Tom Henning misses some of the excitement from past Flower-Ins, but he says the trade-off is better for fraternities and sororities in the long run.
Erin O'Donnell and Kathryn Drew agree, saying the mixers' future is more secure than it was a few months ago.
Still, McCall said university faculty and staff members have mixed feelings about the greek system.
Most professors believe the greek system shouldn't exist at DePauw, McCall said, adding that they also probably don't know the all-greek GPA is higher than the all-student GPA.
McCall said greek students need to return to the original focus of fraternities and sororities: To provide opportunities for people to get to know each other and develop close friendships.
And some believe that purpose may reemerge from rules revisions like those made with Flower-Ins.
"I think if we can work and get back to the value of new member classes getting to know each other out of these things — with maybe taking some of the risk out of it — then I think it's definitely a positive direction," Mitchell said.
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The Knights of Columbus recently presented a check for $3,997 to the Kershaw County Disabilities Foundation (KCDF). The money was from the proceeds of the Knights 2014 Tootsie Roll Drive. Pictured from left to right are, Fred Florian, TITLE Thoyd Warren, KCDF TITLE Valerie McKelvey, Peter Furlong, Jim Pontius and Mike Williams. Pontius and Florian were co-chairmen of the Tootsie Roll drive.
Foster Care Review Board 5E members (from left) Mary Long, Sandra Inabinet and Chair Laurie Parks helped host 50 Camden women on Dec. 10 for what it is calling the First Annual Girls' Night Out Christmas Party." The "party with a purpose" collected donations for 13 Kershaw County foster children ages 2 to 18 years old. The ladies collected more than $2,300 in toys, cash and gift cards, which were used to purchase clothing and other specific items on the children's wish list. In 2012, Board 5E became the S.C. Governor's Office Children's Foster Care ...
A retired surgeon is being remembered as a supporter of the Kershaw County Humane Society's Walter M. Crowe Animal Shelter.
Accuride employees (first picture) and Hengst employees (second picture) gather at the one-half mile mark at their respective companies' walking trails. Accuride and Hengst are among three businesses, along with INVISTA, which have partnered with Eat Smart Move More Kershaw County to provide their employees with a marked walking trail. Eat Smart Move More promotes healthy living for residents in Kershaw County. In 2008, the program conducted a survey, resulting in comments from residents saying they were not aware of designated walking trails in their communities. "One of the things we got out of our survey was getting more walking ...
Nannie Seegars made 220 fleece pillows for residents at the Springdale Nursing Home. Her family, including her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, distributed the pillows to residents and employees on November 15. Seegars wanted to make the pillows to show her appreciation for the nursing home. "Mama has been working on these pillows, tied up with love, for about 10 months and it has been a true labor of love. We pray that God blesses each angel who receives a pillow," Seegar's daughter, Pat Collins said.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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I was going to keep this project a secret until it was finished, but after thinking about it for a while, I realized HOW CAN I NOT BLOG ABOUT THE GIANT MANNEQUIN HEADS IN MY HOME??
Really? Could YOU keep these a secret? I think not.
Let me 'splain. Many years ago, I "met" whooshEr online. We both have ear whooshes, yes? And then I met her in Real Life in NYC last summer. I loved her more upon meeting her than I ever could have imagined. She's fantastic. She is SUCH a good friend to me.
For a while now, I've been trying to think of a nice gift I could send her (I have multiple gifts for her that I've somehow been too lazy to mail). Each gift seems not quite right, not personal enough, not whooshery enough...
And then I thought of it. I could buy a mannequin head and make a miniature scene in homage to pulsatile tinnitus right there in the ear/head. (Yes, I realize the girls are missing ears. It actually works better this way because I won't have to cut them off.) And why make one when I can make two? That way, whooshEr and I will always have each other... or have each other in each other's heads... Something like that.
So I bought the redhead on the left for me and the brunette on the right for whooshEr:
I will admit, when they showed up in the box, they were kinda scary. They were wrapped, but I unwrapped them and took the top picture and suddenly got a little bit creeped out. HEADS IN THE FARMHOUSE! It will be OK. They are less scary when you take them out and put them on the bookshelf to study them for a while.
My whoosh is in my left ear, and whooshEr's is in her right ear. I was going to cut the holes in the heads in those locations, but then I realized the right side of both heads is where they should go. The shape on that side is better for drilling/sawing. The girls are made of fiberglass, so Pa is going to have to help me get inside. I actually wrote to the company first and asked how thick they were and if it would be hard to cut into them? For such an odd question, I got a very nice reply. Yes, they are thin. No problem at all!
So soon, there will be holes in these heads. Don't worry. I won't hurt them. Much. Right side whoosh? Coming up:
They really are quite stunning. However, my mini friends online who were helping me decide which heads to choose (secretly) did point out that the boobs/shoulders on these heads are a little strange. But I decided I didn't care. I loved the heads, and that was that:
Weird boobs and shoulders are perfectly welcome in whoosher world!
So, the plan is to cut a hole in the side of the head, insert a box, and decorate/fill the box. Make sense? I didn't think so. You'll just have to wait to see what happens.
Dear whooshEr,
It will take me a while to get our heads done. I'll need some time with Pa, power tools, and crafting goodies. And I'm sorry to spoil the surprise, but I just HAD to blog about this. You understand. It's just too odd, right? I've been staring at the girls for only a few days, and it was just too much. I had to photograph and share them with the world.
I will do my best to not destroy them while I make little miniature scenes for us. The brunette will one day fly to NYC to live in your home and scare the crap out of anyone who stops by. They're really not that scary looking in real life, though. They grow on you. I promise.
You mean so much to me, and I love you dearly. These heads will be a symbol of our friendship, ridiculous health problems, and the childlike joy we can bring each other. WHEEEEEEE!
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4 comments:
You should send her the one of you and you should keep the one of her, kinda like two halves of a heart, right?
On a side note, I really hope the FBI profile team never needs to come into your house what with the isolated farmhouse, mannequin heads with holes drilled in them, catteries, dollhouses, mini kittens, etc. I think I've seen an episode of Criminal Minds or CSI very similar to this.
- Blondie said...
I originally thought about that, but the redhead grew on me... And yes, a CSI team would have a BLAST in here. Bahahahahaha!
- terry said...
cracking up. very clever! and sweet!
- WhooshEr said...
Ha! Love it. Thank you, Blondie! This is so sweet. You're the best. And I like my hair. :) I say give the FBI more reason to visit and maybe they can investigate the cause of your whoosh! :)