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February 05, 2003
Green Power Adopted in North Carolina and Successful in Washington D.C.
The North Carolina Utilities Commission approved a statewide green power program on January 29th. The NC GreenPower Program will draw on biopower, wind, and solar energy and will be coordinated by Advanced Energy, a non-profit corporation. See the announcement on the Advanced Energy Web site.
Green power-electricity produced from renewable energy sources-is proving popular in the Washington, D.C. area: Washington Gas Energy Services and Community Energy, Inc. announced last week that 25 percent of the output from the new Mountaineer Wind Energy Center has already been sold. American University, World Wildlife Fund, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Norm Thompson Outfitters, and Ecoprint are among the organizations that have signed up for the wind power, in addition to almost 5,000 residential and small commercial customers. See the Washington Gas Energy Services press release.


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Doug Storm talks to singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zac Little of Saintseneca, an American folk rock band from Columbus, Ohio, about Apalachia, songwriting, God, the devil, and the Tao of Physics in this Arts Interchange. RELATED Saintseneca: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert CMJ 2013's 10 Best Discoveries Pop for Misfits MUSIC From Such Things unless otherwise noted. "Daendors" (Dark Arc) "River" …Read More »
Interchange – The Next Mayor of Bloomington: An Interview with John Hamilton and John Turnbull
Welcome to Interchange at Noon, a special Mayoral Election edition. Today we've got our two mayoral candidates in the studio with us; Republican candidate John Turnbull and Democratic candidate John Hamilton. Let me set the tone in a way that I think is necessary. Which is to say that I think we are past the point of acting as if …Read More »
Interchange – The United States of Apartheid: Gerald Horne On the White Supremacist Project
For tonight's show, "The United States of Apartheid," we welcome Gerald Horne. It would be something of an understatement to call Gerald Horne a prolific author; he has more than 30 books and over 100 scholarly articles to his credit. The Wikipedia entry describes his work further: While many of Horne's books use a celebrated, intriguing or politically engaged individual …Read More »
Arts Interchange – Rhiannon Giddens
My guest today is Rhiannon Giddens co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops an old-time string band from Durham, North Carolina. Their 2010 album, Genuine Negro Jig, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. Giddens has released a solo album produced by T. Bone Burnett called Tomorrow Is My Turn. David Fricke in …Read More »
Interchange – Targeting the Vulnerable: Charter Legislation and Urban School Districts
This conversation was excerpted for the program, "Darker than Blue: The Failure of School Integration." This is the full conversation between Interchange host Doug Storm and Joe Johnston, an assistant professor of sociology at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, who earned his doctorate at Indiana University in Bloomington studying how and why Kentucky has not enacted any state charter laws …Read More »
Interchange – Darker Than Blue: The Failure of School Integration
"Darker Than Blue" is in three parts. The first is an excerpt of a conversation I had with with Joe Johnston, an assistant professor of sociology at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, who earned his PhD at Indiana University in Bloomington studying how and why Kentucky has not enacted any state charter laws in education. He studies Jefferson County schools …Read More »
Interchange – Writing Red: Joshua Clover On The Poetry and Politics of Riot
The work of Joshua Clover blends the worlds of poetry and economic crisis. Poet, communist, cultural critic, translator, editor, and professor of literature and critical theory at the University of California Davis, Clover has published three acclaimed volumes of poetry: Madonna anno domini, The Totality for Kids and his most recent, Red Epic, published by Commune Editions, a small publisher …Read More »
Arts Interchange – Abby Lee On Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler has become Hedda Tesman in marriage to George Tesman. But the play is not called Hedda Tesman. And this must be our first indication of how an audience needs to be critical of the social world where marriage confers a new identity on a woman. Hedda will have none of that. But what has she had, and what …Read More »
Interchange – George Kateb: Accentuate the Negative
With our guest, George Kateb, who has been called "the most interesting and important philosopher of liberalism alive today,"* we'll focus on oppression and resistance. Our texts for this conversation will center on three essays from Kateb's 2006 collection of essays, Patriotism and Other Mistakes: "Is Patriotism a Mistake," "Socratic Integrity," and "Wildness and Conscience: Thoreau and Emerson," as well …Read More »
Interchange – Necessary Trouble: March and The Example of John Lewis
Tonight we discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series, March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. March: Book One spans Lewis's youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Nashville Student Movement's battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins. The memoir …Read More »

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TORONTO - As a black president gets set to take up residence in the White House, a Canadian documentary maker is heading to the Sundance Film Festival with a portrait of a racially torn Mississippi community.
Paul Saltzman's "Prom Night in Mississippi" shines a light on a high school in the deep South where racism has been so ingrained that separate proms are held for black and white students.
"I was blown away, I thought: 'Really? In 2008?"' says Saltzman, whose film debuts at Sundance this weekend.
At Charleston High School, black and white kids share classes, sports, friends and even fall in love, but when it comes to their final formal, they divide along racial lines to celebrate amongst their own.
It was such a staggering fact that a little over 10 years ago, movie star and former resident Morgan Freeman offered to pay for all the arrangements if the school would integrate the prom. But nobody took him up on it. Saltzman went to Freeman again to see if the offer still stood, and it did.
"Tradition is one thing. Idiocy is another. And to me, this is idiocy," Freeman says bluntly in the film when he meets with school officials to repeat his offer, which they accept.
What unfolds is a remarkable journey by the students, who at first seem indifferent to the school's antiquated traditions but gradually become empowered by the bold decision they've made to stand up for themselves and in many cases defy their parents by celebrating as a single class.
"Mostly it's a journey of the courage and the beauty of these high school seniors in shifting a long tradition of racism," says Saltzman.
The film elicits telling revelations from students like the white teenager Jessica, who says she'd be beaten for socializing outside of her race and the black senior Jeremy, who's had a white girlfriend since Grade 7 but has never taken her out in public on a real date.
The film will screen as part of Sundance's world cinema documentary competition, along with the Canadian film "Nollywood Babylon," a documentary about the Nigerian film industry directed by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal.
Saltzman says they've also arranged two screenings in Salt Lake City for high school students, and the festival is holding a special screening for its volunteers. In all, "Prom Night In Mississippi" will be shown seven times.
"The timing, in a certain sense of the zeitgeist, couldn't be more remarkable," says Saltzman. "We premiere our film at Sundance on the 17th of January, this coming Saturday, and (U.S. president elect Barack) Obama is inducted into office three days later. I mean, what an amazing period of time for our film to come out."
The film's producer, Patricia Aquino, says getting ready for the festival has brought about a slew questions as they make their Sundance debut.
"Things like, do we need a sales agent? Do we need a publicist? What's it like in Sundance in this regard? And it is, probably, the place where most people that are going to be there in the business are there looking for product or selling product. So it's really important that we prepare ourselves in that way."
But Aquino says their biggest goal is for young people to see "Prom Night in Mississippi" and to be inspired by the remarkable teens who changed history in their town.
"If young kids watch this film and in some way or another, whether a tiny, tiny little way or a large way, they start to actually explore what it is they feel in their own lives about these issues, that's phenomenal."
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Gershon Shafir, UCSD: Capitalist bi-nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Carole Pateman, UCLA: Terra Nullius: Its past and some thoughts on today.
Patrick Wolfe, La Trobe University, Australia: The settler's ongoing contract: Assimilation and removal in the post-frontier era.
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Bklyn Designs 2007: Daniel Moyer Design & Fabrication
That giant ottoman is our favorite in Moyer's booth
Daniel Moyer Design & Fabrication: this dude loves his skate boards. He loves his furniture, too. You can just tell that he absolutely loves what he's doing. Check out the furniture above and the skateboards after the jump.
These look beautiful even to us, and we know nothing about skateboards
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Duke Energy Closing Troubled Nuclear Plant
From USA Today
By Emery P. Dalesio
The nation's largest electricity company said Tuesday that it will permanently close its Crystal River Nuclear Plant, which has been shut since 2009, after botched repairs.
Duke Energy, based in Charlotte, N.C., says it is starting a closing process that may take 60 years before the nuclear site is decontaminated and dismantled. And it is considering whether to build a new, natural-gas-fueled power plant to replace the power lost.
Duke says it will return to customers $835 million from an insurance settlement because they were forced to pay for higher-cost replacement power. But Duke also said it will seek to recoup from customers its $1.65 billion investment in the plant, 70 miles north of Tampa.
The nuclear plant, operated by Duke Energy subsidiary Progress Energy Florida, was shut down when its concrete containment building cracked during a maintenance and upgrade project. A 2011 repair attempt resulted in new cracks in other parts of the containment structure. Estimates put repair costs at between $1.3 billion and $3.4 billion.
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The third part in a series on the way Islam is represented in Western cinema.
Director James Ivory talks about his film adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel.
Pablo Villaça reports on the sad status of Brazil's government and its possible effect on a phenomenal new film from director Kleber Mendonça Filho.
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A look at "The In-Laws" in light of its Criterion Blu-ray release this month.
An interview with the one and only Norman Lear.
A report on three documentaries playing at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.
Monica Castillo responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
An article highlighting three films at Sundance 2016.
The movie questionnaire and 2015 reviews of RogerEbert.com film critic Simon Abrams.
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A review of FX's "The Comedians" and "Louie".
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The first official day of San Diego Comic-con, Thursday, I sat down with the award-winning Broadway producer Vivek J. Tiwary for an interview about his first graphic novel, "The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story," which he is adapting and producing into a feature film.
An interview with Woody Allen about his new film, "Magic in the Moonlight."
"Anchroman 2: The Legend Conitunes" director Adam McKay talks about Mel Brooks, 1980s television news and Ron Burgundy's pet shark.
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Some horror movies have mercy on uninformed audiences who have no idea about what they will get. The opening sequence of New Zealand horror film "Dead Alive" (1992), which is also known as "Braindead", is a good example because it kindly gives the audiences a very clear idea of what it about and how it is about. As the hero escapes from the natives of Skull Island (Southwest of Sumatra) with a mysterious creature dreaded by the natives, he accidentally gets bitten by the animal, hidden in a wooden crate. He says he's all right, but his local employees are suddenly frightened about that.
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I took this gig as a challenge. It's not that I hate Woody Allen; I just don't adore him as much as you would like. Plus, I live in the Bizarro World when it comes to his films, enjoying the ones most people hate and vice-versa. For example, I hated "Match Point," disliked "Annie Hall," and could never commit to "Manhattan" despite its astonishing, heartbreaking cinematography. Conversely, I loved "Deconstructing Harry," found "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" amusing, and I may be the only sane person who liked "Hollywood Ending." These confessions may disturb die-hard fans, but before you vow never to read anything of mine again, you should watch American Masters' "Woody Allen: A Documentary." There you'll discover that Woody Allen dislikes most of his movies, even going so far as to offer to make a different movie for free if United Artists used "Manhattan" for kindling. Compared to that, my "meh" reaction to the gorgeous-looking film is a ringing endorsement. We now know who should be getting your hate mail, don't we?
Not that Allen would care. Robert B. Weide's exceptional documentary makes clear that critical opinion is the farthest thing from its subject's mind. The prolific writer-director has been too busy cranking out a film a year for the past four decades to worry about what anyone thinks of them. You'd have to go back to the studio system's heyday for that kind of output, work that produced eleven solo and three collaborative Oscar nominations for writing. That's two more than my beloved Billy Wilder, who coincidentally never got a solo writing nomination. Add to those fourteen writing nods his six directing nominations, sole acting nod and the resulting three wins, and you have one of the most honored filmmakers in Hollywood history. He can expect a 22nd nomination for "Midnight In Paris," which I cop to liking but not with the slobbering praise afforded it by most critics. (It's like a cross between Cliffs Notes, "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and a Tea Party rally, with all that "it's so much better in the past" nonsense.) The fact that awards mortify Allen makes these numerous acknowledgements the kind of ironic, funny joke one would find in, well, a Woody Allen movie.
Marie writes: remember "The Heretics Gate" by artist Doug Foster? Well he's been at it again, this time as part of an exhibit held by The Lazarides Gallery - which returned to the subterranean depths of The Old Vic Tunnels beneath Waterloo Station in London, to present a spectacular group show called The Minotaur. It ran October 11th - 25th, 2011 and depending upon your choice (price of admission) dining was included from top Michelin-star chefs.Each artist provided their own interpretation of the classical myth of Theseus and the Minotaur and as with The Heretics Gate before it, Cimera, Doug Foster's new and equally as memorizing piece made it possible to project whatever comes to mind onto it, as images of body forms and beast-like faces take shape and rise from the bowels of earth. (click image to enlarge.) Photo by S.Butterfly.
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"There was a Vegas casino that offered me twice what I was making," Buddy Hackett was explaining to me one day. "I went to look at their show room, and I said I could never work there. The money didn't matter, because in that room I would never get a laugh."
Why was that? I asked.
"Because the stage was above the eyeline of the audience. You had to look up to see the act. It was great for sight-lines but lousy for comedy, because you can never laugh at anybody you're looking up at. A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style."
What's the logic behind that?
"You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death."
So when you go to the movies, I said, should you sit in the balcony for a comedy and on the main floor for a drama?
"Seems to me," he said.
This was one of many conversations we had in the mid-1990s, when we both found ourselves installed simultaneously at the Pritikin Longevity Center, which at that time was on the beach at Santa Monica. Hackett, a great comedian who died this week at 78, was engaged in a lifelong struggle with weight and cholesterol, although once he had me feel his calf muscles: "Hard as steel! I'm a great skier."
Hackett lived nearby, but checked into Pritikin to isolate himself from life's temptations. Other regulars were Rodney Dangerfield and Mel Brooks, who ate at Pritikin twice a week with his wife, Anna Bancroft. At lunch, Hackett would preside over a table of his guests, other comics, including George Gobel, Jan Murray and Soupy Sales.
Once a woman approached the table and said she had a joke she wanted to tell.
"Lady," said Hackett, "go tell your joke at a table where amateurs are sitting. We're professionals here. We got all the jokes we can handle."
One night Buddy brought over a tape of "Bud and Lou" (1978), a movie where he played comedian Lou Costello. He felt he'd done good work in a less than great film, and wanted his Pritikin friends to see it. Hackett's Costello comes across, as many comics do in private life, as a lonely and sad man, and I felt Hackett did a good job of portraying that--even though I never sensed gloom in his own makeup.
Hackett said he once thought he was on the edge of a great movie role. Martin Scorsese called him up and said he wanted to come over and talk to him about working in "GoodFellas."
"He comes over to the house," Buddy says, "and he tells me the scene. Ray Liotta is walking into the nightclub and the waiters seat him, and I'm on stage doing my act. So I ask, what do you want me to say? Where's the script? And Scorsese says there isn't any script. I'll just be in the background telling part of a joke. PART of a joke? "
Hackett's face grew dark.
"I stood up and walked over to the window. I invited Scorsese to stand next to me. 'Isn't that a beautiful lawn?' I said. He agreed that it was one of the most beautiful lawns he had ever seen.
"Take a real good look," I told him, "because you will never be back in this house again. Part of a joke! Get the fuck outta here!"
One day I told Buddy a true story. It took place in 1979, I said. Jack Lemmon came to Chicago to promote "The China Syndrome." He told Gene Siskel and myself he wanted to relax, and suggested we go to the Gaslight Club, where he heard there was good jazz.
Four women at another table were celebrating a birthday. They looked at our table and giggled, and finally one of them approached our table with a menu. "Here comes the autograph request," Lennon said.
"Mr. Siskel," the woman said, "I enjoy your reviews so much! Would you autograph my menu?"
Gene agreed with a smile.
"You've made my day," the woman said.
"In that case," Gene said, "your day isn't over. Did you notice who I am sitting with?"
The woman looked over.
"Ohmigod! Jack Lemmon! Oh, Mr. Lemmon, you are my favorite actor. I didn't expect to see you here! Would you sign my menu?"
Lemmon agreed. Then Gene said, "And your day still isn't over. Look who's sitting right here!" The woman looked at me, and her face broke into a delighted smile.
"Buddy Hackett!!!" she said.
After I told this story to Buddy, he nodded thoughtfully.
"The question is," he said, "didn't she know how I look, or didn't she know how you look?"
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For some reason I have the notion that the guy with the camera, getting the low-angle shots of Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley) against that American flag that stretches across the Parthenon from sea to shining sea, is the cinematographer Paul Lohmann. Is that right?
I didn't know it at the time, but 35 years ago the course of my life was set into motion. It began, no doubt, the previous summer with Roman Polanski's "Chinatown," followed the next June by Robert Altman's "Nashville." If those two movies -- seen at the impressionable ages of 16 and 17 -- don't thoroughly transform your world, then I don't know what would. I'd always loved the arts, but from that moment on I knew for certain that movies were the art form of the century -- my century -- because never before could such vibrant, kinetic masterpieces have been born. They made me feel fortunate to have come into the world just at the moment in human history when, at long last, such miracles became possible.
Gene Siskel and I were like tuning forks. Strike one, and the other would pick up the same frequency. When we were in a group together, we were always intensely aware of one another. Sometimes this took the form of camaraderie, sometimes shared opinions, sometimes hostility. But we were aware. If something happened that we both thought was funny but weren't supposed to, God help us if one caught the other's eye. We almost always thought the same things were funny. That may be the best sign of intellectual communion.
Gene died ten years ago on February 20, 1999. He is in my mind almost every day. I don't want to rehearse the old stories about how we had a love/hate relationship, and how we dealt with television, and how we were both so scared the first time we went on Johnny Carson that, backstage, we couldn't think of the name of a single movie, although that story is absolutely true. Those stories have been told. I want to write about our friendship. The public image was that we were in a state of permanent feud, but nothing we felt had anything to do with image. We both knew the buttons to push on the other one, and we both made little effort to hide our feelings, warm or cold. In 1977 we were on a talk show with Buddy Rogers, once Mary Pickford's husband, and he said, "You guys have a sibling rivalry, but you both think you're the older brother."
Once Gene and I were involved in a joint appearance with another Chicago media couple, Steve Dahl and Garry Meier. It was a tribute to us or a tribute to them, I can't remember. They were pioneers of free-form radio. Gene and I were known for our rages against each other, and Steve and Garry were remarkable for their accord. They gave us advice about how to work together as a successful team. The reason I remember that is because soon afterward Steve and Garry had an angry public falling-out that has lasted until this day.
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"The Producers," Mel Brooks first film, uses its first shot to break taboo by sexualizing old women. The character Max Bialystock is based on a producer Brooks worked for as a young man. This producer would, like Max, make love with old women to get funding for his plays. But Mel Brooks, whose films "rise below vulgarity," doesn't end his taboo-breaking here. He goes on to apply the same gleeful irreverence to ex-Nazis, homosexuals, and voluptuous foreign blonds. Indeed, if the studio had not objected, Brooks would have called this movie "Springtime for Hitler."
Cold open on a frosted glass window with the legend, "Max Bialystock, Theatrical Producer." Behind the glass, two silhouettes kiss and giggle mischievously. The man, the taller of the two, excuses himself for a moment, putting up his finger to tell the woman to keep quiet. Slowly he cracks open the door and peeks out. Here is Max Bialystock, theatrical producer, played by the tall, portly comic actor Zero Mostel. He's checking to see that there are no witnesses to his clandestine love affair.


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LITTLE HOCKING - The Little Hocking Volunteer Fire Department was formed 51 years ago, and its annual ice cream social soon followed.
Charter department member John Smith has been there since the beginning of both.
"I haven't missed one yet," Smith said just prior to the parade that kicked off Friday's social. "When this thing started out, we had two five-gallon, hand-crank ice cream freezers."
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Little Miss Barlow Fair Alexa Wilson throws candy to spectators. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
Randall Elder rings a bell from the original Porterfield Baptist Church on the church float as the Little Hocking Volunteer Fire Department Ice Cream Social parade makes its way up Federal Road on Friday. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
From left, Little Hocking Volunteer Fire Department firefighter/EMT Scott Casto, EMT Shawna Alloway and firefighter Matt Alloway serve ice cream Friday during the department's annual ice cream social at Little Hocking Elementary School. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
On Friday, the department had about 400 gallons of ice cream ready to serve to the hundreds of people who turned out for the event at Little Hocking Elementary School. It's long been a key fundraiser for the department, but over the last 15 years or so it's evolved into something more, Chief Mike Chevalier said.
"It's a good opportunity for the people to come back to the area and visit family," he said. "It's kind of like a homecoming."
The chance to visit with folks is one of the main draws for people like Little Hocking resident Robin May.
"The whole experience is fun," she said. "And I see a lot of people I went to school with, graduated with. You just never know who you're going to see."
The food is another attraction. Some people who were out of town Friday asked friends to snag them a few chicken dinners to save in the freezer for later.
In addition to live music provided by local bands and a country store, the festivities also included a scheduled landing by a MedFlight helicopter and a visit from the Washington County Sheriff's Office's drug dog.
Food and fellowship bring Little Hocking residents Wilbur and Fay Marks back to the social year after year. The couple have only missed a handful - or maybe just one, they couldn't quite agree - of socials since Wilbur was hired as principal at the elementary school in 1972.
"Tradition," Wilbur Marks said. "You can't miss the Little Hocking parade and ice cream and hot dog social."
Meanwhile, Friday was 1-month-old Lily Atkinson's first ice cream social. Mother Allison Atkinson, of Belpre, said she knows several members of the Little Hocking fire department and enjoys the event.
"I have a lot of fun at it," she said.
For Smith's wife Emily, attending and helping with the social is a way to show pride in the department.
"It's a really good department," she said. "We've got a lot of young guys; we're not short on people."
The parade had dozens of units - fire trucks from Little Hocking and Belpre, local festival royalty, Boy and Girl Scout troops, politicians and businesses. Many threw candy, which eager young parade-goers snatched up.
Belpre resident Alexa Wilson, 7, said she preferred throwing candy from a vehicle as Little Miss Barlow Fair over trying to catch it on the sidelines.
"It's more fun," she said.
Her mother, Bobbi Wilson, said the girl was very specific about the mix of candy she wanted to toss and eager to get started.
"She's waiting all day long. 'Can I just practice throwing?'" Bobbi Wilson said.


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Definition of lofty in English:
adjective (loftier, loftiest)
1Of imposing height: the elegant square was shaded by lofty palms
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- The 12 girls took to the lofty heights of Lugnaquilla to participate in a sponsored walk in aid of the Special Olympics.
- From the lofty heights of Neiphin Mountain, you can view the landscape from Keenagh all the way to Easkey.
- Giant yellow-poplars are remarkable for their lofty heights and barely tapering columnar shapes.
tall, high, giant, towering, soaring, sky-high, sky-scraping;
imposing, magnificent, majestic
1.1Of a noble or elevated nature: an extraordinary mixture of harsh reality and lofty ideals
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- The GGA failed to live up to its lofty and noble ideals due largely to the self-serving nature of some of its less progressive members.
- It is a world where nobody aspires to anything lofty, noble, or daring, and where nobody must love another when such love is fragile, mysterious, and hard.
- A noble and lofty goal, the setup is an interesting one but the actual action is brutally difficult.
noble, exalted, high, high-minded, grand, fine, sublime, elevated, worthy
1.2Haughty and aloof: lofty intellectual disdain
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- On no account is he an aloof, lofty person, but instead he eats and drinks with the Minjung, sometimes asking favours from them or vice versa, granting their requests.
- The conversational performance bar was high - not to any ridiculously lofty intellectual setting, but higher than I am generally used to in the general course of things.
- It has inspired essays by France's lofty intellectuals.
haughty, proud, aloof, arrogant, disdainful, supercilious, condescending, patronizing, scornful, contemptuous, self-important, conceited, snobbish;
lordly, grandiose, imperious, pompous, magisterial, overweening, overbearing
informal high and mighty, stuck-up, snooty, snotty, toffee-nosed, uppity, uppish, hoity-toity
literary vainglorious
archaic contumelious
2(Of wool and other textiles) thick and resilient.
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- These loftily general values, in other words, hide some deep conflicts - conflicts that new technologies may not help us to overcome.
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- The loftiness, the breeze, the view, the sense of privileged isolation - I spent many hours up there, with friends or alone.
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Bessie Faye Nixon, a resident of Wynnewood, was born on December 16, 1932, in El Dorado, Okla., to Anna Lou (Doyle) and Jess Tyner. She passed away on Thursday September 20, 2012, in Norman, Okla., at the age of 79 years 7 months and 4 days. She married Luke Ratliff in Ardmore, Okla., on October 9, 1948. She later married Art Nixon in Gainesville, Texas. They both preceded her in death. She had spent the majority of her life as a homemaker, but spent some time as a dietician for the Veterans Center in Ardmore, Okla. She had attended church at the Flowing Waters Church in Wynnewood as well as, the First Baptist Church in Davis. She was also preceded in death by two daughters, Deborah Ratliff and Kathy Smith; and nine brothers and sisters.
She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Gayle and Jim Taman of Wynnewood, Okla., Sharon and Jerry Wyatt of Joy, Okla; special sister, Mary Joyce Hicks and husband, Doyle of Ardmore, Okla.; nine grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and numerous special nieces and nephews
Services will be held on Monday September 24, 2012, at the DeArman Funeral Chapel at 2 p.m., officiated by Rev. Curt Bartmess. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Ardmore, Okla.
Services under the direction of DeArman Funeral Home of Wynnewood, Okla.
Please send online condolences to www.dearmanfuneralhome.com.
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About Jason
Hometown: Plattsburgh, NY
Physical Activity:
"I honestly can't put a reason as to why I love it; there's just something majestic about it. You just run - there's no equipment required (well a good pair of shoes helps), no group to join, no membership or test to pass. It's a great stress reliever, a way to challenge and push yourself, a flood of natural endorphins, time to reflect on life and some solitude time. Running or any type of physical activity is the greatest metaphor for life because you get out of it what you put into it."
In this issue...
President's Challenge News
State Champions announced
Every year, the President's Challenge designates up to three schools from each state as State Champions. These schools earn the honor by achieving the highest percentage of students who earn the Presidential Award for the President's Challenge Physical Fitness Test. The winners for the 2010-2011 school year were announced Oct. 1. Out of all the schools honored, Lower Creek Elementary in Lenoir, NC had the highest percentage, with 91.5 percent of their students meeting the award criteria. Additionally, 59 schools earned further recognition for having won the award in previous years.
Each State Champion school received a distinctive award certificate as well as statewide and national recognition for their physical fitness achievement. The students who contributed to earning this recognition by scoring at or above the 85th percentile in all five sections of the fitness test each received an embroidered State Champion emblem and a certificate.
The application for the 2011-2012 school year will soon be available on the President's Challenge website. Congratulations to this year's winners!
PCFSN and Other Government News
Follow the Council on Twitter
The PCFSN is now on Twitter: @FitnessGov! Follow them for the latest on staying healthy and active.
First Lady celebrates the Million PALA Challenge at Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play
For three hours, Nickelodeon shut down their television programming to encourage kids to get out and get active. First Lady Michelle Obama made an appearance at the network's annual Worldwide Day of Play to congratulate those who earned their PALA and contributed to the success of the Million PALA Challenge, a joint initiative of the PCFSN and Let's Move! While there, the First Lady also announced the advent of PALA+, the updated version of the PALA program with a new nutrition component. Read more from the Let's Move! Blog. Videos, pictures and tweets from the event can be found on the Nickelodeon website.
Like Nickelodeon, Go Trybe is promoting activity through the screen as well. Go Trybe is featured as our President's Challenge Advocate of the Month in the Get Inspired section.
President Obama appoints new PCFSN member, Dr. Jayne D. Greenberg
On Oct. 17, President Obama announced his intent to appoint Dr. Jayne D. Greenberg as a new member of President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Dr. Greenberg is the District Director of Physical Education and Health Literacy for Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Previously, she served as Special Advisor on Youth Fitness to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and as President of the Florida Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance, and Driver Education. Dr. Greenberg assisted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in developing the "I Can Do It, You Can Do It Program," addressing physical activity for youth with disabilities. Dr. Greenberg received the March 2009 Point of Light Award by the Governor of Florida and was appointed to the Governor's Council on Physical Fitness in 2009. She was named the 2005 National Physical Education Administrator of the Year by the National Association of Sport and Physical Education and received the 2005 Highest Recognition Award by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Dr. Greenberg has a B.S. in Physical Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; an M.S. in Sports Psychology from Florida International University; and an Ed.D. in Instructional Leadership in Physical Education from Florida International University. Read the full press release.
Judith Palfrey named new Executive Director for Let's Move!
Starting Sept. 6, pediatrician Judith Palfrey, M.D., began her new role as the Let's Move! Executive Director. As the former president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, she has been part of the medical community for over 30 years and has extensive experience in caring for children's health. Read the full press release.
Upcoming Events and Deadlines
International Walk to School Month
Even if you missed Walk to School Day on Oct. 5, there is still time to celebrate being active on the way to school! The entire month of October is Walk to School Month. Whether you are a parent, teacher or concerned community member, there are all sorts of ways to get involved with promoting active and environmentally friendly routes to and from school. Learn more.
Check out our Get Active section to learn more about how you can celebrate this month.
National Women's Health Week 2012 Proposal Deadline October 20, by 5 p.m. (MT)
National Women's Health Week will take place May 13 - 19, 2012. If you wish to host an event that week, funding is available for projects that empower women and girls across the country to get healthy. Community-based partnerships and collaborations are strongly encouraged. Anyone can apply. Projects will be funded up to a maximum amount of $2,500. Applicants will be notified by Nov. 18, 2011. Learn more.
Food Day
October 24
Created by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Day is a time to come together across America to "push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way." The website offers a wide variety of resources, guides and webinars to help you bring Food Day to your community.
American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
October 29 - November 2
Washington, DC
Learn more.
American Council on Exercise Fitness Symposium
November 3 - 5
San Diego, CA
Learn more.
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Walk or Bike to School Month
What is it?
A total of 3,930 schools from across the nation registered events for Walk to School Day on Oct. 5. Although the official day has passed, the entire month isdedicated to increasing the number of students who either walk or bike to school.These physically active modes of transportation not only help to increase the health of students, they also reduce air pollution. Organizations from all over have come together to promote celebrating Walk or Bike to School Month. Check out the following video of the "Ped Safety Dance" for getting kids excited and educated about walking to school.
The dance was created by the Michigan Fitness Foundation, with support from the National Center for Safe Routes to School.
How walkable or bikeable is your community?
Use the following checklists to find out! Created by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center, these simple checklists allow you to assess how walker- and biker-friendly your community is.They also provide practical tips for both immediate and long-term changes you can make to improve your community's score.
What can you do to get involved?
Mason City, Iowa recently received a $25,000 grant from the Wellmark Foundation to begin a Walking School Bus program. Whether part of a formal program like in Mason City or just a casual gathering of a few area families, these groups create safe walking environments for students on their way to school. Safe Routes to School and the CDC offer resources to help you get started.
The New York City Department of Transportation plans to begin implementing a bike share program throughout the city. By making bikes accessible to more people, bike share programs benefit community members and visitors interested in more physically active, environmentally-friendly modes of transportation. Watch the video below to see how it works.
Check out more event ideas, like Walk to School Parades (pictured below).
News and Research
Physical activity helps teens quit smoking
A recent study sought to find ways to improve smoking cessation among teens (ages 14 - 19 years). Researchers from the West Virginia University School of Medicine combined the "Not on Tobacco" smoking cessation program with a physical activity module. After six months, the teens who completed the physical activity module were more likely to successfully quit smoking than those who just did the cessation program. Physical activity appeared to be more beneficial for boys than girls. Read more.
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Fall Foods
Top Chef competition utilizes seasonal ingredients
Fall fruits and veggies, figs, broccoli and sweet potatoes, are key ingredients in the winning recipes from the annual "Job Corps" event on Capitol Hill, which took place Sept. 13 - 15. Annually hosted by the National Job Corps Association (NJCA), the event included a "Top Chef" competition to promote healthy and nutritious food services in support of Let's Move! Read more about the event. The following three recipes created by Job Corps chefs were winners in the competition and could be winners in your kitchen as well!
Entre Winner: Balsamic and Fig Glazed Pear-Topped Chicken Breast
4 oz goat cheese
3/4 tsp. thyme
1/4 tsp. fresh minced garlic
1/2 cored pear
1/2 cup low sodium chicken broth
1 1/2 cup dried figs
3/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup sugar
chicken breast
Preheat oven to 375* degrees.
Goat Cheese Filling:
1. Combine the goat cheese, thyme and garlic until thoroughly mixed.
2. Take the cored pear and with a rounder tablespoon, scoop the mixture into the pear. Put aside.
Fig Sauce:
1. Puree the low sodium chicken broth, dried figs, balsamic vinegar and sugar in a blender until smooth.
2. Strain out solid and pour half of the fig sauce into a 13/9 in. pan.
1. Place a chicken breast over the fig sauce in the 13/9 in. pan.
2. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place filled pear on top of the chicken, open side down.
3. Drizzle chicken with remaining fig sauce.
4. Bake at 375* degrees for 20 minutes, basting occasionally. Bake for another 30-40 minutes until chicken breast reaches an internal temperature of 160 degrees.
5. Serve and enjoy.
*Baking time will vary depending on how many chicken breasts you wish to cook at once.
Side Dish Winner: Mac-N-Cheese Muffin Surprise
3/4 Lb. whole wheat pasta
1/2 gallon 1% milk
3 1/4 cup low fat cheddar cheese
1/4 cup diced broccoli
1/4 cup diced sundried tomato
1/4 cup diced red peppers
1/4 diced carrots
1/4 cup of diced red onion
1 tbsp. flour
1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
1 tbsp. of Smart Balance Butter
1. Boil water and add pasta, turning down the heat to medium. Drain but do not rinse off.
2. In a sauce pan bring milk to a slight boil add 3 cups of cheddar cheese, stirring constantly with wire whip and until blended. Add 1 tbsp. of flour to mixture, simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Dice vegetables and saut them with 1 tbsp. olive oil. Be careful not to overcook, vegetables, they should be al dente.
4. Add your vegetables and cheese sauce to pasta, mix together.
5. In a small bowl mix 1/4 cups of panko crumbs with 1 tablespoon of smart balance butter.
6. Grease muffin tins. Using a 4oz scoop, scoop mixture into each tin; top each one with a sprinkle of bread crumb mixture and a little shredded cheddar cheese. Garnish with a piece of sundried tomato and a fresh parsley sprig. You can also take a little of the cheese sauce and put a dollop down on each plate and place the muffin on top.
7. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake for 30 minutes.
Dessert Winner: Sweet Potato Bread Pudding
3-4 large sweet potatoes
1/2 stick earth balanced butter
3 eggs
1/2 cup fresh orange juice (strained from orange)
4 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup agave nectar
5 qts wheat bread
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup soymilk
1 cup pecans & walnuts
1/2 cup brown sugar
Sweet Potato Bread Pudding:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook sweet potatoes. Add cinnamon, nutmeg, agave nectar, orange juice, beaten eggs, butter and vanilla.
2. Once potatoes are soft & tender, break up and add pecans. Taste and adjust seasoning to taste.
3. Cut bread into cubes, toss sweet potatoes mixture with bread. Bake for 40-45 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes.
1. Take the juice from the sweet potatoes and let it cool down. Add 1/2 cup orange juice and cup soy milk.
2. Reduce down and glaze top of pudding.
3. Roast the pecans and reduce the agave nectar, dipping the pecans into the nectar, 1/2 cup brown sugar.
4. Garnish with orange peels (julienne), glazed whole pecans and mint leaf.
More fiber for less belly fat
The kind of fat that is to blame for bulging waistlines is known as visceral fat. A recent study from Wake Forest University found that people with higher intake of soluble fiber tended to have less of this kind of fat. For every additional 10 grams of soluble fiber that people ate, their accumulation of visceral fat decreased by 3.7 percent. Ten grams of soluble fiber is roughly the amount found in two small apples, a cup of green peas or a half-cup of pinto beans, according to the lead researcher.
An apple a day may actually keep the doctor away
Fruits and vegetables with white flesh, such as apples of pears, may help decrease risk of strokes, according to a study from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. As opposed to fruits and vegetables of other colors, those with white flesh were found to reduce stroke incidence by as much as 52 percent with high intake. Every 25 grams per day of white fruits and vegetables consumed led to a 9 percent decrease in the risk of stroke. Read more.
Guest Column
Quality over Quantity
Getting the most out of an exercise program means putting quality over quantity. This raises some common questions:
How many days per week should I work out?
One size does not fit all when it comes to determining the number of days per week to exercise, but generally for beginners, strength training two to three times weekly and performing 30 minutes of low to no impact aerobic exercise most days of the week provides a safe starting point from which to build.
Frequency can also vary depending on the number of exercises performed. If performing a total-body weight training workout for example, it is important to allow a day or two for the muscles to recover. If working different muscle groups on different days, alternating between these workouts is acceptable.
Other factors that influence how often to train include current state of health (ex: medical conditions, joint problems, prior injuries) degree of exercise experience and individual goals.
How can I avoid plateauing?
A plateau is your body's way of letting you know that it is no longer being challenged enough to continue giving you greater results. Instead of being discouraged if you reach a sticking point or using it an excuse to throw in the towel, think of it as your guide to knowing when it is time to make your workout to the next level. With resistance training, the number of repetitions, sets and weight lifted should not only match your goals, but should also change periodically as your strength and muscular endurance increase. To enhance cardiovascular benefits, doing a variety of different types of activities allows for the muscles to be worked along multiple planes of movement and prevents workouts from getting stale. You can also up the intensity of your aerobic workouts by increasing minutes, pace or frequency.
What is the proper form and speed of movement?
The next time you are in the gym, take a moment to observe the many ways that exercises are performed. When it comes to training, whether its cardio or resistance training, it is not unusual to see people moving too quickly, resulting in either improper form, injury or less than satisfactory results.
For a new challenge and alternative to focusing on how fast you are moving, try increasing the level of incline or resistance on cardio machines such as treadmill or elliptical instead. If you normally walk fast but on a flat surface, try slowing it down a bit and incorporating hills.
If it's been a while since you've changed the intensity in this way, do so gradually so you don't do too much too soon. Going from walking on a flat surface to doing an entire workout of walking up hill for instance, could result in shin splints or muscle cramping. A better idea would be to alternate between hills and flat surfaces within the same workout for the first week or two, increasing the amount of time on hills as your body begins to adapt.
With resistance training, it is tempting to move quickly in order to lift a weight, however, with increased speed of movement comes an increased risk of injury. If you are an advanced exerciser, have sports-specific training goals and are without joint problems or medical conditions, a faster, more-explosive lifting pace can be productive. For most exercisers however, moving at a slow or moderate pace reduces risk of injury while allowing you to pay attention to proper form and technique. A two to three second lifting and lowering pace is sufficient for most exercises.
Marjie Gilliam is an internationally syndicated fitness columnist and freelance journalist, and has authored thousands of articles devoted to health and wellness. Each month we feature one of her articles. Check back next month to see what she has to say about seasonal affective disorder (SAD) as it relates to fitness, health and wellness.
Share Your Story
President's Challenge participant Jason Lemieux explains how he turned his life around
My name is Jason Lemieux, I am 32 years old, I am a proud President's Challenge participant and a winner of the Presidential Champions Bronze Award. Here's my story...
I quit smoking on April 1st of this year, yes April Fool's Day, no joke. I was a smoker for about 17 years, so after several failed attempts at quitting, I knew that if I was going to quit then I would have to completely reformat my life as well.
The major part of this reformatting was exercising and eating healthy. I am fortunate enough to work where I can use my lunch break to work out in the fitness center we have in the facility. Also, I was fortunate enough to have a co-worker who was highly educated in fitness. Most importantly, I was fortunate enough to have a supportive family.
About three weeks after I quit smoking, I received an email at work regarding The Presidents Challenge, and our agency suggested we join. I thought this would be an excellent tracking and motivation tool, which it was since I've been using it ever since I joined. If it wasn't for the support I have, the participation and motivation of being in The President's Challenge, I don't think I would be were I am today.
As of today (Oct. 10) I have been cigarette free for 27 weeks and 3 days. I have also started and continued to eat healthy. I am now addicted to running and finished my first 10K a few weeks ago - taking 2nd place in my age group. I am a new me, and I have The President's Challenge to thank for that.
So the basis of my story is that regardless of your age or your bad habits, you can change. Focus on the future and feel good about yourself just by taking a few big steps. Thank you for the motivation and information you have provided to keep me on my new found journey to the new me.
If you are a President's Challenge participant, we want to hear from you! How has the President's Challenge impacted your life? Tell us about your personal fitness and nutrition journey. Share with us today, so we can publish your story can inspire others! E-mail your story to our writer, Brooke, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Advocate of the Month
GoTrybe is an online, interactive social community dedicated to the health and wellness of our youth through Active Screen Time™. "Trybers" can interact with fitness, nutrition, motivation and wellness content that supports their journey toward living healthfully. GoTrybe wants to be an inspiring force in the fight to get children and teens active while combating childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes. As a result, GoTrybe's mission is to change some of the normal sedentary screen time into activity and health education. Learn more.
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Join the conversation on the friendliest most helpful DIY solar energy forum
I just put together the solar kit. The meter on the controller is reading between 14 and 15. When I plug in one of the the lights it doesn't come on. How much do the panels need to generate for these to work ? I was hoping to run two small 12v DC camping fans for my greenhouse with the panels but now I am concerned that this system won't do the trick.
If anybody could help me out I would appreciate it.
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How about the battery/batteries? What is their state of charge?
I don't have batteries yet. I thought the panels could run small stuff by themselves.
Hi Andy,
Welcome to the forum.
Nope, the HF solar kit needs a 12-volt battery. The battery drops and stabilizes the input voltage from the panels to a little above the battery voltage.
If the battery is fully charged, the fans will run directly from solar.
If the battery is not fully charged, the battery and fans will share whatever amps coming from the panels. That sharing will not be equal; the fans will run and whatever amps are left over will go to the battery because the fans will have a lower resistance than the battery's internal resistance.
No sun: the fans operate from the battery.
It would be a good idea to determine the total amp draw of those two fans.
Hillbilly Gene
or it sounds like you may have a bad bulb...or .... how far are you trying to push your dc voltage to reach the light. i.e in feet of wire
i tried both bulbs that came with the kit. Neither work, I have not added any extra wire to the system.
In looking for an answer I found a guy (green power science) on Youtube that has the same system and he can run both bulbs or a fan off of just the panels.
Isn't this the same system I have ?
They can run from the controller, I ran mine from controller and they worked fine in strong sunlight. On a cloudy day they will flicker if the controller isn't hooker to a battery.
It is the same but they have changed the design on the controllers,..YOu must use a battery hooked to it.
OK thanks
HI, I got a battery, But I am still not getting any power from the controller. The meter on it read between 12.1 and 13.1.Neither the lights that cam with the kit or the small fans that I bought will work. The fans pull 500 ma
How do I trouble shoot this ?
thanks Andy
Silly question.....do you have the power switch in the on position. Not the display, but power.
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This group is a forum for current and past participants of the VII Gallery Workshops, with thanks to Canon USA for their enthusiasm and support.
Location: VII NEW YORK
Members: 189
Latest Activity: Jan 6, 2015
The VII Gallery will be hosting a series of workshops this fall geared toward pro-am and pro photographers as well as videographers. The workshops are free, thanks to the generous support of Canon USA.
Fifteen participants will be selected to participate upon a portfolio review. To be considered, please submit a short bio (in the email) and a web link to your portfolio, or no more than 20 low-res images (1024@72 dpi), to: email@example.com, by the deadline provided below. Please include "Workshop Submission" in the subject line and specify which workshop you are applying for. Selected participants must be available for the full two days, from 10am-6pm.
The workshops will take place at the VII Gallery at 28 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York (F-York).
Editing Workshop
September 20 - 21, 2010
Deadline for submissions: Closed
Antonin Kratochvil has an international reputation for his individual style of story-telling whose power comes from emotional association as much as journalistic description. Antonin will demonstrate his edit process in some of his own stills and video stories and will lead the workshop through editing exercises in their own work. Participants will see their work with a fresh eye and will learn to edit in a more fluid expressive style.
Join the discussion on this workshop »
Photojournalism Today
October 25 - 26, 2010
Deadline for submissions: Closed
This intense two-day workshop will explore the multi-faceted approaches to photojournalism and help guide participants on their own path. Discussions will include what is required of a photojournalist, not just in the field but also organizing workflow, developing a marketing plan and publishing your images.
Developing a personal sensitivity and visual style will be discussed and Haviv will encourage participants to work using instinct rather than formula. These discussions will help develop each student's individual narrative direction. The workshop will combine lectures, portfolio reviews, a thematic assignment, and editing sessions. Haviv will also share his own work and experience as a photojournalist.
In two short days, Haviv will help you understand the reality of photojournalism today and share his tips on what it takes to cover the world. You will leave with a clearer understanding of what it takes and be well along the way to defining your personal path forward in the world of photography.
Join the discussion on this workshop »
Learning To See: Shooting Stills and Video on one Assignment
Date: November 3 - 4, 2010
Deadline for submissions: Closed
Christopher Morris' eclectic career has embraced conflict photography, political coverage, portraiture and fashion. For each he has shaped a distinctive visual style and most recently his embrace of video has led to a new phase of invention. Christopher will lead the workshop through the process of working in several platforms simultaneously and learning to see afresh in each. He will demonstrate his assignment process, which typically includes shooting stills in color while simultaneously shooting mono video from which he can subsequently edit stills for additional markets.
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Video Journalism
Date: December 11 - 12, 2010
Deadline for submissions: Closed
Ed Kashi has been on the A list of visual story–tellers for over two decades, and with the creation of Talking Eyes Media with wife and partner Julie Winokur, he put himself at the forefront of photographers using video as an integral part of contemporary documentary practice. In this workshop Ed and Julie will share stills and video work made using the Canon 5D Mark II, discuss how different shots are made, methods for stabilizing the image, dealing with external audio, approaches to shooting in this hybrid mode, pitfalls and challenges. Ed and Julie will share some of their multimedia work and review the work of participants. Participants must have made at least one multimedia piece and have something to show, ideally, including a new project or work in progress requiring feedback.
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Definition of visuomotor in English:
Relating to or denoting the coordination of movement and visual perception by the brain.
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- Long-term sequelae include impairment of auditory attention, visual memory, visuomotor speed, sequencing, and problem solving, motor steadiness, reaction time, and dexterity.
- A smaller group of aerospace workers reportedly performed significantly worse in areas of motor and visuomotor speed, and marginally so in areas of attention and memory.
- These findings suggest the existence of two distinct modes of visuomotor control, one activated for visually guided movements and the other for delayed actions.
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What is this?
It's a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments.
Several VanHackspace members are involved in Open Data, Open Standards and Open Access.
Who is this event for?
If you have an idea for using open data, want to fina an interesting project to contribute towards, or simply want to see what's happening, then definitely check the Hackfest out. No matter your skillset or interests, there will be plenty of opportunities for you to learn and help the global open data community grow.
You can hack on anything that involves open data
Could be a local or global app, a visualization, proposing a standard for common data sets, scraping data from a government website to make it available for others or even creating your own data catalog of government data. We would like to have a few projects people can work on around the world – these include creating data for Random Hacks of Kindness projects and creating a Mapit web service for your country.
What to Bring
Anything! Bring your laptops, mobile phones, phasers set to stun, etc. but above all, your energy and your brains! We're trying to make this event very hands on, so feel free to bring all your wacky geektronics so that you can participate in all the fun. Don't worry if you don't bring anything since there will still be tons of stuff to do.
Expect to:
- Learn more about open data.
- Find out how your local and national government could do more to release open data.
- Engage local non-profits and companies in the uses of open data for the products and missions
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Heart Disease and Dilated Cardiomyopathy
In this article
What Is the Treatment for DCM?
Treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy is aimed at decreasing the heart size and the substances in the bloodstream that enlarge the heart and ultimately lead to worsened symptoms:
Medications: To manage heart failure, most people improve by taking drugs, such as a beta-blocker,ACE inhibitoror an ARB, and/or diuretics. If you have an arrhythmia (irregular heart beat), your doctor may give you a medication to control your heart rate or lessen the occurrence of arrhythmias. Blood thinners may be used to prevent blood clots from occurring.
Lifestyle changes: If you have heart failure, you should reduce sodium in your diet based on your doctor's recommendations. Your doctor may recommend aerobic exercise, but don't do heavy weight lifting.
What Surgeries Are Used to Treat DCM?
People with severe DCM may need one of the following surgeries:
- Cardiac resynchronization by biventricular pacemaker. For some people with DCM, stimulating both the right and left ventricles with this pacemaker improves the heart's ability to contract with more force, thereby improving symptoms and increasing the length of time you can exercise. This pacemaker also will help people with heart block or some bradycardias (slow heart rates).
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). ICDs are suggested for people at risk for life-threatening arrhythmias or sudden cardiac death. The ICD constantly monitors the heart rhythm. When it detects a very fast, abnormal heart rhythm, it ''shocks'' the heart muscle into returning to a normal rhythm.
- Surgery. Conventional surgeries for coronary artery disease or valvular disease may be recommended. Some people may be eligible for surgical repair of the left ventricle or placement of a cardiac assist device.
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Stocks End Sleepy Session Virtually Unchanged
Bulls and bears fought to a standstill in yet another quiet trading day.
Dow industrials snapped a four-day winning streak, dropping 12 points, or 0.1%, to 12709. S&P 500 edged up a fraction of a point to 1316, remaining stuck between the 1315 to 1320 range which technical analysts say is a key area of resistance.
Nevertheless, it was the fifth straight rise for the S&P 500 and 12th gain out of the last 14 days, underscoring the slow melt up taking place in the market.
Sears, the S&P 500′s biggest gainer of 2012 finished down 3.3% at $47.39 in another choppy trading session. The stock opened higher and gained as much as 12% before erasing gains in the afternoon and closing lower.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Comp dropped 3 points, or 0.1%, to 2784. RIMM had another tough day, dropping 8.5% after announcing a CEO shakeup.
Greece's debt talks remain in limbo and the IMF's Christine Lagarde warned the global economy could face a depression-era collapse — "a 1930s moment" to be exact — if Europe doesn't get its act together.
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CBOE's VIX — the stock market's "fear gauge" — edge up 2.1% to 18.67, but whether the market is merely getting calm or complacent remains a key question.
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The types of green jobs that are common in one state or region may not be common in another. Minnesota's green sector has been shaped by its unique blend of abundant farmland, natural resources, and extreme temperatures.
Farmland and Corn
Minnesota has 27 million acres of farmland, over one-third of which are used to grow corn. In fact, Minnesota produces over nine percent of all the corn grown in the United States. While corn is most commonly used for human and animal food, it can also be used as a raw material for biobased products such as ethanol and plastic. Twenty-two ethanol plants in rural Minnesota produced 1,119 million gallons of ethanol in 2010, right near the source of the raw material. This industry provides jobs in production, transportation, and management.
Have you come across compostable plastic yet? Much of it is made of corn and, in the future, may be produced here in Minnesota. Minnesota already has a vibrant plastics industry cluster and now a few new companies are working to perfect corn-based plastics. These plastics would have strength and durability, and be able to withstand extreme temperature changes, allowing them to effectively compete with petroleum-based plastics. Some will likely be made from corn cobs instead of kernels. This is more sustainable, since it doesn't require taking large quantities of corn out of the food chain. One key reason these startups are located in Minnesota is the proximity to the necessary raw material — corn.
Natural Resources
Wind is another resource that has helped shape our green jobs sector. Minnesota is the 11th windiest state in the country, and now ranks fourth nationally in installed wind power generation capacity. Because of this natural resource, the state has added many jobs in wind power. But it isn't just the presence of wind that has fostered job growth. The state's renewable energy mandate requires 25 percent of our electricity to come from renewable sources like wind and solar power by 2025. This has helped to move the wind industry forward.
Minnesota's abundant farmland provides the physical space for wind turbines, which generate electricity to power homes and businesses. Wind turbines are most often located on farms for several reasons.
- Turbines don't interfere with farming, but they can be noisy when the wind is blowing. This can be undesirable in urban areas.
- The wide open farmland allows the wind to blow unobstructed.
- Farmers can earn extra money by leasing out land for the turbines or building their own.
There are many wind turbine technicians in Minnesota, but the wind industry generates plenty of other jobs in the engineering, production, construction, and utilities sectors.
Water, Prairie, and Forest
With well over 10,000 lakes, almost everyone who lives in Minnesota has a connection to at least one of them. This might be one reason we, as a state, devote resources to protecting them and our rivers and streams, forest and prairie, and the wildlife that inhabit them. The resources that we are willing to devote create jobs in the administration of conservation programs. These jobs range from management to landscaping and maintenance to park rangers and other parks and recreation staff to scientific and research positions.
Extreme Temperatures
Minnesota's exceptionally cold winters have led to economic development in energy-saving construction supplies. Did you know that Minnesota has a world-renowned window and door industry? And if you think windows and doors are boring, think again. Important new technologies like electrochromic windows that let in more or less light depending on environmental conditions are being developed right here in Minnesota. This cluster provides jobs primarily in production as well as engineering and marketing.
Temperature extremes have also helped establish Minnesota as home to an HVAC and automatic environmental controls industry cluster. Companies in this cluster work to make the heating and cooling systems in large commercial and public buildings as well as homes as efficient as possible. This cluster provides jobs in architecture and engineering, HVAC installation and repair, and production.


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"Some say the Devil himself spat out the horrors that we all hide from now, a punishment for mankind's failures. Papa always said that was a load of crap. I'm not sure what made him so certain, but he truly believed most of those things had been human once."
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Scripting and Oracle: Christopher Jones Notes on the Scripting Languages and Oracle Database. I cover Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, Apache, Linux https://blogs.oracle.com/opal/feed/entries/atom 2016-08-25T08:21:47+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/opal/entry/oracle_enhanced_adapter_1_4 Oracle Enhanced Adapter 1.4.0 for Ruby on Rails is Available cj 2011-08-10T08:45:59+00:00 2011-08-10T08:45:59+00:00 Check out Raimond Simanovskis's updated Rails ActiveRecord adapter for Ruby and JRuby with Oracle DB: Oracle enhanced adapter 1.4.0 and Readme Driven Development. I love the "Readme Driven Development" approach. It's close to my favorite model which is "install Driven Development". https://blogs.oracle.com/opal/entry/raimonds_simanovskis_developer Raimonds Simanovskis: Developer of the Year, 2009 cj 2009-10-19T12:19:49+00:00 2009-10-19T12:25:10+00:00

 Check out the Oracle Magazine Editors' Choice Awards 2009.

Raimonds was at the Oracle OpenWorld Conference last week. He seemed to be everywhere: I bumped into him numerous times and got to see one of his talks. He was always thinking of an interesting problem or great technical challenge to solve.

Congratulations Raimonds!

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When talking to Raimonds Simanovskis the other week, I convinced him to sign up to give an OpenWorld Unconference session. Raimonds is the maintainer of the enhanced Oracle Adapter for Rails so this session should be excellent.

His talk "Using Ruby on Rails with legacy Oracle database" is on Thursday at 10pm, Moscone West 3rd Floor.

All unconference sessions are listed at http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+OpenWorld+Unconference. There are still slots open.

Other Rails activity at OpenWorld includes an interesting session on Rails and Oracle Mix at 1pm Monday (Marriott Salon 14/15), and a Hands on Lab at 2:30pm Tuesday (Marriott Golden Gate B1).
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After seven months in business, Wildwood Market has closed. In March, the store sold its last item.
Owner Frank Dutro said that the neighborhood grocery store at 14413 Big Basin Way was unsustainable. "Everything about it was great except for the making money part," he said.
Dutro said Wildwood just wasn't attracting enough customers on a regular basis to keep the store in business. He and his wife, Lety, who was helping him run the store, were not generating a profit and were actually losing money, he said.
Some people had expressed interest in a deli, said Dutro. But as the saying goes, it appears they wanted to have their cake and eat it, too.
"That's all well and good, but there are costs associated with that. And they wanted it cheap," he said, adding, "If I had enough money to reconfigure the store, we probably could have done more--built a whole kitchen. But then, your workers compensation goes up ... it gets tricky to manage and actually make money at it."
Dutro said that he and his wife opened Wildwood because they saw a need for a place where people could run in to buy staples. Lety Dutro oversaw the purchasing of the items and their three children helped out at the store. But, running Wildwood made Dutro realize just how tough business owners on Big Basin Way have it.
"It's a tough street because there's not a tremendous amount of foot traffic," he said.
Still, it wasn't all doom-and-gloom for Wildwood Market. Among some of the more popular features were a soda machine and self-serve blending bar complete with a milkshake machine. Deli sandwiches and frozen foods, as well as staples such as milk, bread and cheese also sold well, as did wine and beer.
"I'm sad that it didn't work out, but I'm proud of what we accomplished," Dutro said. "We brought something nice to the citizens. I think it set a nice example of how things should be in the Village."
Still, Dutro indicated, people might have expected from Wildwood more than it was prepared to offer. "I wasn't trying to be Trader Joe's," he said. "It would be ridiculous to try to compete with them."
Councilwoman Jill Hunter expressed regret about Wildwood's closure in an email listserv sent out to members of the Saratoga Village Development Council. "We all thoroughly enjoyed the unusual items and friendly atmosphere at the market and are full of regret that it has closed," Hunter said.
The opening of Wildwood Market last September marked a culmination of a year's worth of work for the Dutros, who upon coming across the site on Big Basin Way decided it would make an ideal spot for a neighborhood grocery store. After the Dutros agreed to lease the site, they had the previous building gutted and built a new one from the ground up.
Dutro, who was raised in Saratoga, was conscientious about maintaining the city's history, which was reflected in the form of postcards at the cash register and signs and canvases hanging on Wildwood's walls.
Wildwood Market closed its doors in mid-March and the space has already been rented out, according to Dutro. As for himself, Dutro said he would likely return to his technology roots.
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"Carrot Field: Pick, Pack & Shipped" is a new showcase from Anwar Carrots that will open at Scion AV Installation in Los Angeles on March 28, 2015, with an event going from 7pm to 10pm. If you want to attend, you must RSVP.
The exhibition will feature products available for purchase, including items from the Carrots capsule collection, which features original artwork by SLVSTR; Pixote; Stella Blu; Tyler, The Creator; and Hairy Fools. Plus there's limited edition collaboration with Freeminds, Born x Raised, U.S. Alteration, Dertbag and Midnight.
We had Anwar Carrots answer some questions about "Carrot Field: Pick, Pack & Shipped" to give some background.
Here are his answars…
What's the concept for the show?
The concept of the show is a carrot field—pick, pack and shipped to the Scion AV Installation space. My whole thought process behind the show was showing the parallels between farming and fashion, as they mirror each other in many respects. Since this is the debut of my new venture I felt that the concept should display where I am today: a small-scale farmer bringing product to market. However, I see the "carrot field" growing in the next three to five years to a system of large scale global distribution and product management. I am a huge believer in what you put into the universe will come back to you, so why not think huge. I was put onto this Earth to see how far I can go in life.
Is there an item in the exhibition you're most excited about?
The Carrot Field x Ebbets Field crew jacket. I am a big fan of Seattle's own Ebbets Field, from their varsity jackets to their crew jackets. I first got introduced to the company a few years ago and always wanted to own a piece, so for me to collaborate with them on a crew jacket is like a dream come true.
Is there an item that you think best represents what you're trying to do with your career and put out into the world?
I feel that the varsity pillow best represents where I am going with my career. I always envisioned myself as Martha Stewart meets Nigo. I want to make essential goods, home goods and just all around good product from my perspective. The pillow to me is just a crawl before you walk process, like Chandler Easley would say to me.
Do you have a favorite previous exhibition you saw at the Scion AV Installation space?
My favorite as far as an exhibition would have to be Hood By Air.
How did you choose the artists and collaborators you worked with on the show?
The artist that I chose are all close friends to me and I just wanted to share my platform with great people. I am also a fan of everyone I collaborated with. If you do not know them, this is your chance to get to know who they are and what they do.
Have you worked with most of these people before or is this largely the first time you're doing something together?
I have worked with 50% before, the other half will be a brand new experience!
Is there an artist or collaborator involved in the show that you're particularly excited for the world to know more about?
Yes, Stella Blu.
What's your concept for how you want the space to look?
The concept is a carrot field. In an ideal world I would have the space filled with carrot rows and furrow to capture the exact feel.


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If I learned one thing from a crazy commute back and forth from Markham to OCAD University through my 4 years there, it was to always come prepared during the winter. I usually have either a silly or bright beanie stuffed in my purse. That was until I found this amazing headband last season. To me this is a game changer. The Russian and vintage inspired headband does a great job in keeping my head warm, without destroying my hair. Faux fur also adds amazing texture while framing the face.
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Anyone know how or if you can check your stats on multiplayer. I know they have the 10,000 kill acheivement and the 500 head shots. But, is there anyway to check your progress. I looked briefly this morning after getting the Unyeilding acheivment. But, I didn't find a Stats section.
Also, on a side note. When hosting a Co-Op firefight. How do you change the enemy density? Am I just a tool and looking right past it or what???
G.r.a.w. Question......
Started by matt57 , Mar 17 2006 02:46 AM
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Posted 17 March 2006 - 02:46 AM
Posted 17 March 2006 - 02:16 PM
You can change the density on the lobby, select Custom (working from memory) and then you can choose enemy levels and your respawn count.
then save it as a new custom setting.
I just change it each time just to be sure and overwrite my previous settings
then save it as a new custom setting.
I just change it each time just to be sure and overwrite my previous settings
Posted 17 March 2006 - 06:52 PM
matt, I havent found a way of being able to check progress towards online achievements. Id like to know how far along I am in the "head shots" dept. Thats all I aim for when playing It also gets me killed a lot.
Posted 17 March 2006 - 10:30 PM
ivebeen looking for some kind of stats also but no luck in finding any yet
Posted 18 March 2006 - 02:17 AM
Set yourself as an auto rifleman. Then kill as many guys as possible in the co-op territory setting. I call it "The last 15 minutes of 'Commando'". Set the enemy density to infinite and turn off respaws. Just try and stay alive, with 6 or more buddies. When you all die off, create a new game and it'll count to your hosts as well. Killing rebels in this setup will get you the 500 headshots quickly. You don't even have to aim for the head.
Posted 18 March 2006 - 01:53 PM
I was really hoping that they would have a better ranking system on the new Xbox Live than is in effect right now. I like the ranking system in GR:AW, but I was hoping you would be able to track this on the web, and see leaderboards easier and stuff like Halo 2. Halo 2 is still the best Live game (not talking about gameplay) because of the ease of leaderboards and the whole lobby system and everything. GR:AW is close, but could be better.
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