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Blank Slate Theatre's production of the off-Broadway hit, "Columbinus," created in 2005 by the United States Theatre Project, grabs you by the throat right from the start and doesn't let go for an uncomfortable two hours. In the tradition of "The Laramie Project," this two-act play blends fact and fiction to dramatize the events surrounding the April 20, 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.; the massacre left 24 students injured and 15 more dead, counting the two responsible for the attack, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, whose rampage ended in suicide. The script, by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli, draws liberally from eye-witness accounts, testimony from students, parents and community leaders, police records, 911 recordings, and after-the-fact investigative journalism, as well as video and text journals left behind by Harris and Klebold.
"Spring Awakening," staged in November, was billed as the company's final public production, but "after the Newtown shootings," says artistic director Adam Arnold, "we couldn't just sit back. We needed to be part of this conversation."
Lavish though it is with true-crime detail, Blank Slate Theatre's "Columbinus" is concerned with more than mere re-enactment; the play also aims to universalize the dark undercurrents of contemporary American adolescent experience, to parse a narrative through-line that might make sense of the more pervasive, society-wide currents of alienation and suffering at play behind such eruptions of violence by and against children.
Everything about the show is rendered in starkly contrasting terms: the stage is cast in persistent shadow penetrated by bright strobe or spot lights. Characters are costumed in all-black iterations of the teenaged uniform – loose-fitting cargo pants for the girl who's self-conscious, shorts and a tight cami for the one who's not; a button-down and chinos; tees and hoodies – offset by a single, revealing mark of character in white (i.e. white-rimmed glasses for "AP," a white hair ribbon and ball cap for "Perfect" and "Jock" respectively). The soundtrack – all driving beat and synth distortions, thick with rock-opera sensibility and electric menace – calls to mind the angry but not-quite-punk of the late '80s.
"Columbinus" runs from May 3 - May 13 at Blank Slate Theatre in St. Paul. Photo courtesy of Blank Slate Theatre
There are surprising flashes of humor in the script, but little by way subtlety or irony to soften the angles of of this difficult story. The young actors deliver utterly committed, if raw-edged performances; indeed, the players' unstinting emotional investment lends an authenticity and dimension to characterizations that would otherwise read as caricature. To my chagrin, I've a hard time connecting with the unabashed earnestness: the unrelenting melodrama of high school so rendered makes me squirmy. Maybe it's the naked emotion on view, the interplay between the characters so fraught with cruelty, pain, anger and longing – right at the surface. I just feel like a voyeur; the role of spectator to such bald anguish and fear leaves me itchy in my skin. I suspect it's supposed to.
But then I look around the audience, packed with teenagers who are riveted by the morality play unfolding in front of us, and it hits me – "Columbinus" is not intended, primarily, to speak to me. It's for them. It's performance as a means to epiphany and empowerment, intended to galvanize conversation and a sense of agency among the population of young people most immediately affected by such violence. And by that measure, the show is, without question, effectively communicating to its target audience.
"Columbinus" by Blank Slate Theatre, written by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli of the United States Theatre Project and directed by Adam Arnold, is on stage May 3 -13 in the basement of the First Baptist Church, 499 Wacouta St., St. Paul. For ticket details and additional information about the company, visit www.blankslatetheatre.com.
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Hallelujah! The heartfelt prayers of Bay Area theater buffs will finally be answered when the breathlessly-anticipated Broadway blockbuster "The Book of Mormon" comes to San Francisco's Curran Theatre in November.
One of the most ecstatically-received musicals ever, "Book of Mormon" -- which will be opening show of SHN's 2012-13 season -- marries up old school musical theater pizzazz with Cartman-worthy snarkiness in an outrageous riff on Mormon missionaries dispatched to a drought-riddled, AIDS-ravaged village in Africa. Enthusiastic streams of expletives exist side by side with jazz hands in this outrageous marriage of pop culture, political satire and high art. Lord knows that few other Broadway musicals have mashed up the sacred and the profane with such profitable results.
Created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker of "South Park" fame and Robert Lopez ("Avenue Q"), "Book" has been the hottest ticket on the planet since its debut last year. Heavenly reviews, nine Tony Awards including best musical and the emergence of the Gleek generation has elevated "Book" to must-see status.
Critics raved that the show transports audiences to "that improbable paradise called a musical comedy." Jon Stewart, the ne plus ultra of equal-opportunity mockery, gushed that the show is "so good it makes me (expletive) angry."
Perpetually tap-dancing across the fine line between heretical and hysterical, "Book" targets everything from religion to Rodgers and Hammerstein. The tongue-in-cheeky musical has inspired devotion even among those who didn't come of age steeped in the gospel of Cartman ("respect my authoritah!")
"Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone take a schoolboy's delight in throwing spitballs at things sacred, including most major religions," decreed the New York Times, "But you also may have gathered that these men take equal pleasure in the transcendent, cathartic goofiness of song-and-dance numbers."
Now, before you run out to grab tickets, you should know that details are sketchy.
Exact dates for November's five-week run at the Curran, 445 Geary St., have yet to be announced. And you can only assure yourself of tickets right now by getting a season subscription to SHN (prices range $197.50-$567.50, 888-746-1799, www.shnsf.com).
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In step with the recent Milford Music Festival, Music in the Park has taken place at 1 p.m. every other Sunday at Ann Street Park starting the last weekend of June.
Explaining how musicians were selected for the free series, Lee Raden, a Music in the Park organizer, said, "We had open submissions. We put the notice on Facebook, and people found us. But we strive to showcase local artists who play originals. We also work hard to bring a variety of musical styles and genres into our concert schedule each year, so there's something for everyone."
On July 27, Dan Engvaldsen, a singer, songwriter and guitar teacher from Pike County, will open for Paradyme Void, a rock band from Milford.
Then, on Aug. 10, comes Juggernaut String Band's "power folk" from Monroe County, with banjo, fiddle, trombone and drums, "like a party," Raden said. Don Lowe, a singer, songwriter and storyteller from Connecticut, will open.
On Aug. 27, jam jazz by the Dirk Quinn Band from Phoenixville, will be the main act, with singer-songwriter Carl Ferriere, from Sussex County, N.J., opening.
The season's last show, Sept. 7, will feature rockabilly by Peter Florance and the New Kings, from Honesdale, with Closer to Home, a nuvo-folk Sussex County duo, opening.
Bring a blanket and a picnic, Raden said.
For more information, go to facebook.com/gazebomusic.
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Emily planted trees at Bridlewood Elementary School. The trees will provide shade so students may utilize the outdoors to study and also improve the visual appeal of the school.
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Queen Anne
The Politics of Passion
She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain's last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual invalid) and living through seventeen miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births in seventeen years. By the end of her comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power; the succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain's future naval and colonial supremacy.
While the Queen's military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attention—indeed her realm—rested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of utter torment.
At the core of Anne Somerset's riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in England ("Definitive"—London Evening Standard; "Wonderfully pacy and absorbing"—Daily Mail), is a portrait of this deeply emotional, complex bond between two very different women: Queen Anne—reserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Queen's great general—beautiful, willful, outspoken, whose acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper.
Against a fraught background—the revolution that deposed Anne's father, James II, and brought her to power . . . religious differences (she was born Protestant—her parents' conversion to Catholicism had grave implications—and she grew up so suspicious of the Roman church that she considered its doctrines "wicked and dangerous") . . . violently partisan politics (Whigs versus Tories) . . . a war with France that lasted for almost her entire reign . . . the constant threat of foreign invasion and civil war—the much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I ("Exhilarating"—The Spectator; "Ample, stylish, eloquent"—The Washington Post Book World), tells the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne's favor, how her replacement, Sarah's cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, so Sarah whispered to growing scandal, the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation.
To write this remarkably rich and passionate biography, Somerset, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, has made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal correspondence and previously unpublished material.
Queen Anne is history on a large scale—a revelation of a centuries-overlooked monarch.
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Peleliu deploys
Some 4,000 Sailors and Marines departed Monday morning on the Peleliu ARG/15th MEU for the Western Pacific and the Arabian Sea/CENTCOM. Families said tearful goodbyes since the deployment of the Peleliu, the Green Bay and the Rushmore will be gone through the coming holiday season. The mission was planned before the recent unrest in the Middle East.


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50+: Live Better, Longer
Poll: Patients Unhappy With Rx Drugs
The Marketing Issue
In an interview with WebMD, Santa focused on the advertising issue, using as an example overactive bladder drugs. "Last year the industry spent $126.9 million for five overactive bladder drugs," he says. "The most popular three had total revenues of more than a billion."
He takes issue with the ads themselves. "They give you the impression the problem is more serious [than it typically is] and that treatment with drugs should be the first thing you do, when in fact for most of the people who have problems with incontinence it's a mild to moderate problem that almost universally gets better with exercise programs [such as Kegels] or bladder training."
Side effects, he says, are downplayed in ads and commercials.
Industry Perspective
Victoria Davis, a spokeswoman for Pfizer, which makes overactive bladder drugs, takes exception with the report and Santa's views about marketing. In a statement, she says:
"We have always been committed to responsible advertising that provides clear information about medical conditions and treatments. We adhere to all requirements on DTC [direct-to-consumer] communications set forth by the FDA and the FTC, as well as guidelines set by Television Advertising Standards and Practices and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)."
"Our advertising campaign for Toviaz encourages people with overactive bladder who may be just coping to talk to their doctor about their symptoms and ask if Toviaz may be right for them. The ads also include important safety information."
Second Opinion
Allen J. Vaida, PharmD, a spokesman for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, who reviewed the survey for WebMD, says he was surprised poll respondents showed a ''lack of understanding about generic drugs, the fact people think they are not as good, may not work as well."
The findings about people skipping medication due to financial concerns reflect anecdotal reports, Vaida tells WebMD. "Having it come out in the polls should be another wake-up call that some people are cutting corners" due to drug costs, he says, and not always in safe ways.
The practice of pill splitting to save money, he says, ''makes us nervous. Some medicines aren't meant to be split. You may not get the correct dose."


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Location: Exotic & Emerging Avian Viral Diseases Research
2013 Annual Report
Work on this project was initiated during October of 2011. Accomplishments for FY2013 include completing:.
A quality control panel (47 sets) for the diagnostic detection of avian influenza virus genetic material was developed and distributed to 37 laboratories in the US and abroad. This testing ensured that diagnostic laboratories involved in animal surveillance for influenza as part of the National Institutes of Health Centers of Excellence in Influenza Research and Surveillance program could detect the virus with adequate sensitivity.
Work with H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses continued as this strain remains a threat to poultry in many regions of the world. We examined the pathogenicity of H5N1 HPAI viruses in different species and breeds of domestic ducks and the effect of route of virus inoculation on the outcome of infection. We determined that the pathogenicity of H5N1 HPAI viruses varies between the two most common farmed duck species, Muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata) which presented a more severe disease than various breeds of Anas platyrhynchos var. domestica that includes the Pekin, Mallard-type, Black Runners, Rouen, and Khaki Campbell ducks. We also found that Pekin and Muscovy ducks inoculated could become infected by the intranasal, intracloacal, or intraocular routes. This information helps support the planning and implementation of H5N1 HPAI surveillance and control measures in countries with large domestic duck populations.
Newcastle disease virus (also known as avian paramyxovirus type.
A novel avian influenza virus emerged in February 2013 and was first recognized for cause severe disease in people. It is recognized that this virus was being maintained in an animal reservoir. Since the virus was genetically consistent with being an avian influenza virus, numerous avian species were examined for whether they could be infected with the virus. Chickens, Pekin ducks, Muscovy ducks, Embden geese, Japanese quail and pigeons were tested. All species could be infected and no species presented with any clinical disease, therefore infection was effectively "silent". Some species were more susceptible than others and shed more virus into the environment (for example chickens and quail), therefore are more likely to be the animal reservoirs. It was also shown that oral or tracheal samples were far superior to fecal samples for detecting the virus and should be the primary sample used in surveillance for the virus.


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Clinton Speechwriter's Memo: Address the Racial Divide
Updated to add details on the context of the memo and ties to the O.J. Simpson verdict.
On October 12, 1995, speechwriter David Shipley wrote to Don Baer, George Stephanopoulos, Ann Lewis, Bill Curry and Dick Morris—some of President Bill Clinton's top advisers—and emphasized the need for the president to address racism in the wake of the O.J. Simpson trial verdict.
In the so-called trial of the century, Mr. Simpson was found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife and her friend, and feelings about the verdict split to a large degree along racial lines — many African Americans questioned the police investigation and the evidence, while many white Americans believed the evidence pointed toward a conviction.
"The whole country is waiting for the President to talk about the racial divide. If he does not step up to the plate, it will be seen as an abdication of leadership," Mr. Shipley wrote.
COMPLETE LIVE DIVE: Clinton White House Papers
In his note, among the thousands of pages of records from the Clinton presidency released Friday, Mr. Shipley said Mr. Clinton was "one of the few American leaders with the credibility to address both blacks and whites — more than the G.O.P.; almost as much as [former Secretary of State Colin] Powell. In fact, if he demonstrates that he can bring people together now, he could preempt the vision of Powell as the only leader who can erase division and bring us together."
The memo doesn't directly mention Mr. Simpson, but refers to the "imbalances exposed by the trial." [David Shipley memo, page 130]
(Mr. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H. W. Bush, was seen at the time as a formidable presidential contender to challenge Mr. Clinton. He later decided not to run; he would subsequently serve as secretary of state under President George W. Bush; he also endorsed Barack Obama in both of his runs for president but remained a Republican.)
Less than week after Mr. Shipley's letter, the president delivered a speech tackling race. According to a CNN transcript, he said: "White Americans and Black Americans often see the same world in drastically different ways. Ways that go beyond and beneath the Simpson trial and its aftermath, which brought these perceptions so starkly into the open." He called for a cleansing of the criminal justice system to "root out the remnants of racism."
"America, we must clean our house of racism," he said.
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Pajhwok01/07/2013By Sharafuddin Stanikzai [Printer Friendly Version]
HERAT CITY - A woman was detained after killing her husband with a stick in the western province of Herat, officials said on Monday.
Abdul Rahman was beaten to death by his spouse due to a family dispute in the Kashk Kohna district, the police spokesman, Col. Noor Khan Nikzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News.
The woman and one of her relatives were detained in connection with the rare overnight mariticide, he said, adding that the detainees were investigated.
Last year, a woman shot dead her spouse after a verbal clash in Zaranj, the capital of southwestern Nimroz province.


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ANZ Frequent Flyer Black Ad
If you're going overseas with an iPhone, here are the top five things you must know before you go.
#1 Don't use data roaming
The iPhone uses a lot of data, which can result in incredibly expensive global roaming bills. Global roaming rates are $10 - $20 per MB depending on your telco (Optus being the most expensive, Vodafone being the least).
Even moderate usage of an iPhone could easily result in usage of 100MB in a week or two, and that would result in a global roaming bill of $1000 - $2000!
A much cheaper option is to buy a prepaid SIM card with data enabled at your destination. Not only will you get internet access at affordable rates (literally 99% cheaper than global roaming), you'll be able to make phone calls without worrying about being charged dollars per minute, too.
We've previously published guides on the best SIM cards for various countries:
USA - T-Mobile or AT&T or Tru
UK - Tru
Europe - MaxRoam or Droam
Hong Kong - Three
Singapore - Bridge AsiaRoam Data SIM
Malaysia - Bridge AsiaRoam Data SIM
Indonesia - Bridge AsiaRoam Data SIM
The Philippines - Bridge AsiaRoam Data SIM
Thailand - Bridge AsiaRoam Data SIM
India - Bridge AsiaRoam Data SIM
Sorry if the country you're travelling to isn't on the list yet -- we're still researching the best options for prepaid SIM cards in different countries.
#2 How to ensure your iPhone is unlocked
In order to use a foreign SIM card, you'll need to ring your telco and make sure your iPhone is unlocked.
Telstra, Optus and Vodafone all provide free unlocking for iPhone customers, even if you're still within your initial contract period.
Optus: 1300 300 937 or 02 8082 5678
Telstra: 1800 474 663 or 02 9242 0213
Three: 133 320 or 02 9034 8081
Virgin Mobile: 13 63 69 or 02 8860 9848
Vodafone: 1300 650 410 or 0414 141 414
Don't leave it to the last minute, though -- it can take five to 48 hours for the unlock to go through.
There is another catch: even if your telco unlocks your iPhone at their end, it will only actually be unlocked if you insert a different SIM card into it, and then sync it with iTunes.
This means, unless you are travelling overseas with a laptop that is normally synced with the phone, you have to get a different SIM card while you are still in Australia, put it into the iPhone, and sync it with your computer in order to complete the unlock.
The easiest way to achieve this before going overseas is simply to borrow a SIM card from a friend who has the same model of iPhone but on a different network, put it in your iPhone, and then sync it with your computer. iTunes will give you a message saying that the phone has been successfully unlocked.
If you don't have a friend with an iPhone on a different network, you can buy a prepaid SIM card at a service station or supermarket and put it in your iPhone. The $2 Amaysim SIM card is a good one to buy, as it will fit in any model of iPhone, including iPhone 4, and is on sale at 4,500 locations around Australia.
#3 Bring a SIM card cutter with you
For reasons known only to Apple, the iPhone 4 uses a different size SIM card to every other phone in the world -- a "Micro SIM".
Although telcos that sell iPhones all offer Micro SIMs, they may not be readily available for prepaid customers who walk in off the street -- as you will be doing.
Fortunately, the electronics of a Micro SIM are exactly the same as a normal-sized SIM, so you can easily cut down a normal-sized SIM to Micro size. The easiest way to do this is with a SIM cutter, which works exactly like a holepunch.
You can buy them on eBay very cheaply -- at the time of writing they were available for $1 each, with $4 postage to Australia (from Hong Kong).
To use the SIM cutter, you simply slide the normal size SIM card into the cutter's slot, squeeze the handle down, and an iPhone sized Micro SIM will pop out the other side.
(Bonus tip: if you've never actually had to change the SIM card in your iPhone before, you'll discover it's a bit different to other phones in terms of where the SIM card slot is. Look for the pinhole on the top or right edge of the phone, which you'll need to stick a paperclip into to pop out the SIM tray.)
#4 Be prepared to fiddle with the APN setting
When you buy an iPhone from an Australian telco, it comes with all the right settings for it to connect to the internet.
However, when you swap the SIM card over to a foreign one, you'll need to manually change the "APN" setting, which is a setting that allows the phone to connect to the internet with the new telco.
When you buy a prepaid SIM card, make sure you check the instructions that come with it (or ask at the shop, if it's a telco shop) to find out what the correct APN is.
You may be able to change the APN on your iPhone just by going to:
Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network
Then look for the "cellular data" heading, which should be at the top of the page, and change the details in the APN field, and if specified by the telco, the username and password as well.
If you can't access that settings screen, you'll need to change the APN a different way -- there's a website that can do the work for you, called Unlockit.co.nz. You will need to be connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot (often found in hotel lobbies, or Starbucks/McDonalds) in order to access the website through the iPhone's browser.
Go to Unlockit.co.nz, and follow these instructions.
In this example, we've used AU - Truphone as the network (as if you were using a Tru SIM card) but generally, in step C, you'll need to select the country name and telco that you bought the SIM card from.
#5 Don't expect "personal hotspot" to work
Unfortunately, the iPhone's "personal hotspot" feature that lets you turn the phone's internet connection into a Wi-Fi hotspot for use with other devices like a laptop or iPad, is unlikely to work with a prepaid SIM card, as it requires approval from both the telco and Apple.
If you want affordable internet access on your iPad or laptop, check out our articles on Droam and XCom Global -- two companies that rent out portable 3G/Wi-Fi hotspots for use on trips.
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Push to regulate firearms gains steam
The intern who rushed to aid Rep. Gabriel Giffords, D-Ariz., after during the Jan. 8 Arizona shootings, traveled to New York today to offer his assistance to Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which has ramped up activities aimed at keeping weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally imbalance.
Segregated housing rooted in government policy, panel shows
"From Redlining to White Flight, the History of Housing Segregation and the Importance of Regionalism" presented shocking details of how government and industry played a big role in segregating neighborhoods and schools.
Republicans playing with fire on immigration, Latinos say
Republicans are pushing anti-immigrant bills in states across the country, spurring anger among Latinos, who are a major voting bloc.
Coalition urges filibuster reforms in new Senate session
A coalition of progressive organizations, Fix the Senate Now, is calling for filibuster reform.
Banning ethnic studies in Arizona is wrong!
A new draconian law in Arizona went into effect banning classes statewide, k-12, that promote the teachings of civil rights leaders such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez.
Scott sisters freed!
Jamie and Gladys Scott received the news on December 29 that their 16-year prison ordeal was over at last: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour commuted their double-life sentences and ordered them out of prison. They were originally accused of having taken part in an $11 robbery!


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A Quote by Pierre Simon de Laplace on achievement, appreciation, genius, ideas, inventions, men, merit, simplicity, and value
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.
Source: H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.
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A sophisticated Caribbean paradise boasting some of the world's finest resorts
This small coral island is big on personality, culture and unadulterated Caribbean indulgence. With a culture that blends an array of national influences, Barbados has long been a favourite destination for those who seek the finer things in life.
Discover award-winning restaurants, enjoy a host of watersports, head to Bridgetown for duty-free shopping, or learn about the history of Barbados' rum. Retreat to one of the island's most luxurious and iconic hotels set on white-sand beaches, sample the laid back way of life, mingle with the affable locals and enjoy the Barbadian rhythm of life.
- The fashionable west coast plays host to the island's iconic resorts, chic hotels and impossibly clear waters
- People flock to the livelier south coast for the family-friendly resorts, nightlife and the island's prime wind and kite surfing spots
- The UNESCO-listed capital Bridgetown was once a key British trading and naval port
- A stay in Barbados is easily combined with time spent on another Caribbean island
- The birthplace of rum – be sure to try a rum cocktail or two.
Best time to visit Barbados
• Barbados is a popular year-round destination as temperatures tend to range between the high 20s and low 30s
• The dry season is from December to June
• The wet season is from July to November when some showers are likely and humidity levels are high
• Hurricane season runs from 01 June to 30 November.
Barbados holiday highlights
Barbados sits in the Lesser Antilles and is the most eastern of all the Caribbean islands. Defined by crashing Atlantic waves on its east and lapped by the calmer azure waters of the Caribbean Sea to the west it is a land of contrasts and perhaps this is one of the many reasons why people keep coming returning time and time again.
West Coast
The chic west coast attracts royals, dignitaries, icons of the silver screen stars and the world's leading sports stars to its upscale resorts such as The Fairmont Royal Pavillion. Lavish private mansions line the palm fringed shoreline of the 'Platinum Coast' while world-renowned resorts, such as the exclusive Sandy Lane offer unparalleled service to those of a discerning nature.
Delightful Cobblers Cove offers the perfect blend of Caribbean charm and English elegance. Part of the renowned Relais & Chateaux group, this boutique hotel is tucked away in gorgeous gardens edging a stunning beach and is famed for its award-winning cuisine.
South Coast
The parish of Christchurch is home to the lively south coast, offering an experience that differs significantly from the tranquillity of the western shore, a perfect destination for group or family holidays. The restaurants, bars, rum shacks and nightclubs of St Lawrence Gap and Oistins, and its famous 'Fish Friday', are the perfect remedy for those who seek to do more than simply lounge on the beach.
Thrill-seekers and watersports enthusiasts also flock to the south coast, and in particular Long Beach, Silver Rock and Silver Sands which claim to be the island's premium wind and kite surfing spots.
Ocean Two Resort & Residences boasts an enviable setting on beautiful Dover Beach just a short stroll from St Lawrence Gap. Its rooftop deck offers spectacular 270º views of the coast and is a popular spot for enjoying the beautiful south coast sunsets.
East Coast
Along the ruggedly beautiful east coast small fleets of fishing boats brave the large swells that roll in straight off the vast Atlantic, while daring surfers ride the rolling waves. A drive along the dramatic coastal road, with stops at the coral boulder studded beach of Bathsheba and the surfing mecca of the 'Soup Bowl enroute, is a highlight of any trip to Barbados.
The captivating Bajan culture was born from a blend of West African, British and Indian roots. A game of cricket and afternoon tea can be enjoyed before an evening of calypso music and dancing. In the nation's capital Bridgetown, Jacobean, Georgian and Victorian buildings sit side-by-side with vibrant wooden chattel houses. Barbados, known as the birthplace of rum, also boasts the oldest rum producer in the world – Mount Gay Rum – which has been producing this exotic spirit since 1704.
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A well-known non-profit organization you rely on to avoid getting scammed is actually the victim of the very thing it tries to protect you from.
The Better Business Bureau says you might want to be wary of any emails you get bearing its name. The bureau says there is a "spoofing scam" going on falsely involving its name.
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Washington, DC (September 29, 2005) – The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) released a survey today which found that the popularity of radiant floor systems is gaining, with 23 percent of builders surveyed planning to "increase" or "greatly increase" their use of radiant floor systems in the next 12 months. This trend is strongest in the Northeast, where 40 percent of respondents say they are likely to install more radiant floor systems, followed by the Midwest (31%) and the West (23%). Builders cited radiant floor systems' ability to provide even heat and cleaner air with lower operating costs as the primary factors for choosing them over competing systems.
However, the survey found that during the past 12 months, heating system trends remain unchanged, with forced air heat systems remaining the number one heating distribution system installed. Builder perceptions of homeowners' acceptance of radiant heating systems appear to be a major factor affecting market growth. When asked about consumer attitudes toward radiant floor heat, 47.5 percent of builders surveyed said consumers were neutral. When asked the same question about forced hot air, builders said only 17 percent of consumers were neutral, with 67 percent of consumers having a high acceptance of forced hot air.
Regardless of the heating system installed, gas fuel sources – natural gas (59%) and propane (7.6%) – continue to be the preferred home heating fuel choice for builders, followed by electricity (27%) and home heating oil (4%). Alternative fuel systems, such as geothermal, appear to be waning, with just 1 percent of builders saying they had installed a geothermal system in the past 12 months.
Fireplaces trailed only water heaters and kitchen appliances as the most popular gas appliance in today's home. Gas fireplaces have the highest penetration rate in the South, with 20.7 percent of homes having a propane fireplace, followed by New England (14.3%) and the Midwest (9.1%).
"The survey shows that propane and natural gas continue to provide builders with the highest level of comfort and reliability, regardless of the heating system they choose," says PERC representative Jim Hitzemann. "With gas fireplaces continuing to gain in popularity, we encourage homebuilders to examine all appliances they plan to install in a new home to understand the value consumers can realize with propane."
While propane is a preferred fuel source for home heating systems beyond the main, the survey found that homebuilders appeared to be missing an opportunity to extend propane's benefits beyond home heating systems. When single-family detached builders were asked what other appliances were fueled by propane, they said propane was used for 7.6 percent of water heaters, 6.3 percent of indoor cooking appliances and 1.7 percent of outdoor appliances. Propane had a much larger footprint among multifamily and apartment builders, with nearly 25 percent of all fireplaces installed in apartments fueled by propane, followed by water heaters (23%), and kitchen appliances (20%).
The finding contrasts with the number of propane appliances builders say they would use if propane was the primary heating fuel source for their home. When given the choice, 67 percent of builders surveyed said they would use propane for water heaters, outdoor appliances, and fireplaces. Of those surveyed, 53 percent said that their kitchen appliances would also use propane.
"The survey findings show that builders understand the total home benefit of propane," added Hitzemann. "Within the multi-unit sector, given the impact of energy costs on overall operating costs, it appears that sector is realizing the cost-savings benefits propane can provide when used to fuel multiple appliances. The propane industry will continue to work closely with residential builders to help improve their understanding of propane's value beyond home heating applications."
About the SurveyThe Web-based survey was conducted by the NAHB Research Center, a subsidiary of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), on behalf of the Propane Education & Research Council in August 2005. A nationally representative sample of 302 builders participated in the survey.
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As in years past, we will be highlighting all 25 titles on the BTBA Fiction Longlist, one by one, building up to the announcement of the 10 finalists on April 10th. A variety of judges, booksellers, and readers will write these, all under the rubric of "Why This Book Should Win. You can find the whole series by clicking here. And if you're interested in writing any of these, just get in touch._
My Father's Book by Urs Widmer, translated from the German by Donal McLaughlin and published by Seagull Books
This piece is by translator, critic, and BTBA judge, Tess Lewis.
Urs Widmer, woefully underappreciated in the English-speaking world, is one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific writers. And My Father's Book is one of Widmer's very best. A fictionalized biography of his own father, Walter Widmer, this novel is by turns heart-wrenching and laugh-out loud funny. Heady, intellectual passages alternate with slap-stick comedy in this exploration of how much we can know even those closest to us.
The narrator's father, Karl Widmer, is an unworldly, intellectually voracious man whose fiery temper is balanced by his essential good nature and extreme absent-mindedness. He lives primarily through the great works of French literature he translates—Stendhal, Flaubert, Rabelais, Balzac, and Diderot, whom he treasures above all others—and dies in his fifties of a heart ailment exacerbated by a life of chain-smoking. Karl is an inveterate idealist who venerates the Encyclopédistes and the rationalism of the dix-huitième. He becomes a Communist for a time, but is too impolitic for the Party. What he loves, he loves ardently. He only occasionally registers the fact that his beloved wife's tendency to withdraw is a sign of unhappiness, and always too late.
According to tradition in Karl's remote ancestral mountain village, on his twelfth birthday he was given a book for him to record each day's events throughout his life. On the day after his father dies, the narrator learns to his horror that his mother had already disposed of Karl's book along with mountains of manuscripts and unpaid bills. The narrator, who had only glanced through it the night before, resolves to rewrite his father's book, now in the readers' hands. Widmer not only recalls the events and circumstances of Karl's life, he is able to render a sense of the man's internal life by quoting imagined passages from the imaginary book.
As the Germans advance through Europe, Karl, until now unfit for service, is called up along "with a few other oldish men with weak hearts" to protect Basel from the Wehrmacht. In the barracks at night Karl dutifully makes his daily entries in which mundane events alternate with vivid meditations on things literary.
'19.5.40 Letter from Clara,' my father wrote, once he'd saved the quill from the hobnailed boots of a comrade racing to the toilet. 'Kitchen duty for insubordination (the corporal asked me—it was to do with the dismantled gunlock I wasn't able to put together again—whether I thought he was stupid and I said yes). The Germans still aren't here yet. General mobilization nonetheless. —In the ancien régime, ladies vaginae could speak too. Not just their mouths. Often the gentlemen would sit with their countesses and ducal lovers, having tea, and chatting to one another about an especially good bon mot of Madame de Pompadour or the Pope's last bull, while, simultaneously, from beneath their skirts—many-layered mountains of material—came a chattering and sniggering, the sense of which they didn't quite catch. At any rate, there was almost constant chat from down there. The many different materials muffled the voices, but people sometimes thought they would hear their names, without knowing what the braying laughter beneath all the other skirts was all about. —The light! The light of the dix-huitième, you don't get light like that nowadays.
My Father's Book is a boisterous, expansive novel, an encapsulation of twentieth century Swiss life through an idiosyncratic and highly concentrating prism. This sense of breadth comes not only from the contrast of Karl's engagement in politics and his ludicrous stint as a soldier with his wife's extreme introversion, but also from his appetite for life and the arts, which Widmer evokes beautifully. The sheer artistry of the writing in this novel alone would be deserving of the Best Translated Book Award, but in addition Donal McLaughlin's translation is pitch-perfect, capturing the various registers and tonalities of Widmer's prose and, most difficult of all, the many shades of his humor.
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Roger has been elected European Athlete of the Year 2009, making it his fifth overall title. The election is coordinated by the Polish Press Association (PAP), with a total of 18 news agencies participating.
The result was very clear as Roger (135 points) had plenty of room to Formula-1 world champion Jenson Button who came second (81 points). Roger had already been awarded the title during four consecutive years from 2004 until 2007. Rafael Nadal had received the award last year.
The further 2009 ranking: 3. Ole Einar Björndalen (NOR/biathlon) 73, 4. Sebastien Loeb (FRA/rallye) 56, 5. Blanka Vlasic (CRO/athletics) 51, 6. Alberto Contador (ESP/cycling) 50, 7. Cristiano Ronaldo (POR/soccer) 42, 8. Pau Gasol (ESP/basketball) 41, 9. Valentino Rossi (ITA/motorcycling) 40, 10. Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR/athletics) 36.
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Toledo sinkhole swallows moving car
Some traffic lanes on a Toledo road have been reopened after a sinkhole caused the pavement to collapse earlier this week.
Toledo's WTOL-TV reports that the northbound lanes on Detroit Avenue were reopened Friday after repair crews worked through the Fourth of July holiday.
A spokeswoman for the city says the collapse of brick sewers beneath a road caused the approximately 10-foot-deep sinkhole that swallowed a moving car Wednesday.
The 60-year-old driver was briefly trapped but climbed out using a ladder with help from a firefighter.
The station reports that crews continue to work on repairs to the combined sewer and six-inch water line. Crews are expected to finish these repairs early next week.
The pavement restoration is scheduled to be completed next week.
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As they work on construction projects in the area, the employees at Leeward Construction are making the most of their time in the Poconos. Just off the newly opened Marshalls Creek Bypass, they are crushing stone on Friday to use in their work in the area.
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Week in Review: A Time to Give Thanks
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With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it's a good opportunity to reflect on what we're thankful for and the progress we've made this year. For the biopharmaceutical research companies discovering new medicines, we're proud of our advancements that have helped develop new treatments and ensured the health and safety of our patients.
The passing of the Drug Quality and Security Act this week is an example of the progress made this year to improve the security and protection of the prescription drug supply chain. According to the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, the counterfeit drug business is very lucrative, generating $75 billion in global revenues in 2010. Our President and CEO John Castellani recently thanked members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate for their work to safeguard the U.S. drug supply chain.
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Determine selection criteria for next generation atoxigenic biological control agents through development of laboratory and population based assays and criteria. Delineate both association of specific fungal groups with target crops and genetic characteristics of value in monitoring fungi of interest and in selecting elite biocontrol fungi.
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Apply genetic methods to identify unique biological control agents and to associate specific fungal genetic groups with target crops and regions. Develop pyrosequencing assays to monitor specific fungi in the environment and during host infection. Utilize genomic approaches to identify traits of potential value in selecting next generation biological control agents for aflatoxin mitigation. Use crop based assays to rank relative desirability of atoxigenic strains for use in target agroecosystems.
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Prepare Spicy Tomato Sauce.
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
Lightly score the cut side of the eggplant and sprinkle with salt. Turn the pieces cut side down and let the bitter juices drain out for 15-20 minutes. Wipe the eggplant dry, brush with a little olive oil and place cut side down on a baking sheet. Roast the eggplant in the preheated oven for 15 minutes until the flesh is tender but not completely soft. They will be done when the purple skins wrinkle slightly and when gently pressed a fingerprint will hold it's shape, but the flesh will still be firm.
When the eggplant is cool enough to handle, use a spoon to scoop out (and reserve) the tender eggplant flesh, leaving a ½ inch thick skin or shell to use as a sturdy "boat." Chop up the reserved eggplant for use in the filling.
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Heat the olive oil in a large skillet or sauté pan over medium high heat. Sauté the garlic and parsley until the garlic is golden, 1 minute. Add the chopped salami and eggplant and cook 4-5 minutes until the eggplant browns slightly. Stir in the olives, capers, black pepper and the Spicy Tomato Sauce, bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer to a nice, thick sauce consistency, 5-7 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook the pasta in the boiling water according to the directions on the package. Drain well, return to the empty pot and mix with half of the tomato sauce (2 ½ cups). Stir in the smoked mozzarella. Carefully spoon the pasta mixture evenly into the eggplant boats. Sprinkle with the Romano cheese and Italian style breadcrumbs.
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Panthers' cap runneth over
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- May 09, 2012
PENRITH are fighting a salary cap crisis - with the club's current woes set to continue for at least another two years.
The Daily Telegraph understands that over half of Penrith's salary cap for 2014 will be taken up by just five players on huge back-ended deals worth nearly $2.5 million.
Panthers football manager Phil Gould has met with the ARL Commission to find some cap relief.
Gould would not reveal the five players but it is known that Luke Lewis, Sam McKendry, Lachlan Coote, Tim Grant and Michael Jennings are on healthy contracts. The back-ended deals were struck by Penrith's former management. Gould will hold further talks next week with NRL chief executive David Gallop and senior official Andrew Hill. The Panthers won't admit it but they are desperate for success given the arrival of GWS.
Some possible solutions to Penrith's salary cap drama would be to adjust contract figures or obtain an allowance to reduce the deals."We wanted to alert them (NRL) of our plight," Gould said.
"I am the one who has to come up with some solutions. This has been inherited. I am getting my head around the cap. The solution is in junior development and having first graders coming through our system. That may take four or five years but we have to start now."
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PARRAMATTA are not only in crisis at senior level - but also in the junior ranks. Investigations continue into executive officer of the Parramatta Junior League Terry Rose being stood down amid allegations of financial irregularities.
YOU may chuckle but Italy are ready for a real crack at next year's World Cup. Italian officials want Anthony Minichiello as skipper and Canberra's Terry Campese.
Others being sought include Kade Snowden, Craig Gower, Mark Minichiello, Vic Mauro and Cameron Ciraldo.
Italy are also assembling a strong off-field team which could include Manly head conditioner Don Singe, Sea Eagles physio Andre Rickenbach and Melbourne football manager Frank Ponissi. Peter Peters will be the media director.
NRL players have this week been warned about a Twitter drama in England involving former Dragon Clint Greenshields.
Greenshields, playing for Catalans, was fined $2500 and suspended after calling referee Ben Thaler "retarded" on Twitter.
One NRL player yesterday said: "It shows how careful we have to be no matter how emotional you get after a loss."
THE great stadium debate will be discussed at the next NRL CEOs' conference. With government funds drying up for major upgrades at suburban grounds, rugby league is heading more and more toward Sydney blockbusters being played at ANZ Stadium or Allianz Stadium. Lesser games though will continue at suburban grounds.
NRL and English officials have agreed to investigate the possibility of playing an extended World Club Challenge. One option would be for an end-of-season tournament between the top four clubs from NRL and Super League.
BLUES legends will converge on the NSW Legends' Blue Tie Ball on June 6 at Le Montage, Lilyfield - a week before Origin II in Sydney.
Attendees will include Max Krilich, Brad Fittler, Steve Roach, Paul Sironen, Andrew Johns, Benny Elias, Mario Fenech and Brett Kenny. Ricky Stuart and the side will be there. Details: Irene on 8765 2847.
THE ARL Commission yesterday issued Canberra with a $10,000 breach notice over comments coach David Furner made last Sunday. Canberra have five business days to respond.
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Live chat: Railroad museum's Big Boy locomotive to head north to Frisco
Updated at 5:30 p.m. Aug 25: The Museum of the American Railroad has moved the last piece in its collection of rolling stock to its new home in Frisco. The Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive No. 4018 made the trip in two parts and arrived in Frisco just before 2:30 p.m. Aug. 25. The museum plans an open house in Frisco in late September. Limited group tours will start in October. Join in the conversation below with #bigboytrain. See the map at the bottom of this post to track the locomotive's trip.
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The San Jose Giants had two big innings offensively to take the rubber game of their three-game series against the Ports.
The Giants scored five runs in the fourth inning and four in the seventh to rout Stockton 10-5 on Monday at Municipal Stadium in San Jose. Stockton begins a three-game series today at Visalia and returns home to face the Giants.
On Monday, five San Jose starters had two hits and six of the Giants' 15 hits went for extra bases. Ricky Oropesa hit a three-run home run, his fourth of the season, in San Jose's four-run seventh.
James Simmons took the loss for the Ports. He gave up six runs on 10 hits in six innings.
Stockton's Rashun Dixon hit his 10th homer this season, a solo shot in the fifth inning off Edward Concepcion, who entered in relief of starter Jason Forjet, who was pulled with two outs in the fourth.
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Aldon Smith didn't make the Pro Bowl, much to the dismay of 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and co-captain Patrick Willis. But Smith is on the verge of making NFL history for most sacks ever by a rookie.
"Yeah, it's crossed my mind," Smith said Wednesday. His 14 sacks are one shy of breaking Jevon Kearse's record for most in a season by a rookie. Kearse had 14½ sacks in 1999 with the Tennessee Titans.
"I've watched him, admired him but have never talked to him," Smith added. "Both of us are athletic guys who know how to get after the passer."
Smith, the 49ers' first-round draft pick, has requested 16 tickets for family and friends for Sunday's debut in his native Missouri, where the St. Louis Rams (2-13) will host a 49ers team (12-3) seeking to clinch the NFC's No. 2 playoff seed.
Smith has lined up primarily as a defensive end in passing situations, although he said he played about 10 snaps at outside linebacker in Saturday's 19-17 win at Seattle. "He's done a nice job, hasn't he?" Harbaugh said.
Willis, who's made the Pro Bowl in each of his five seasons, mentioned Smith and fellow linebacker NaVorro Bowman as those deserving to join eight other 49ers on the Pro Bowl roster.


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- Understanding the After Effects workflow
- Precomposing footage
- Explaining the basics and beyond of animating
- Creating glows, patterns, textures, and more with effects
- Color correcting footage
- Working with text
- Manipulating video playback speed
- Masking objects and shape layers
- Removing backgrounds with keying
- Compositing multiple pieces of footage
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Skill Level Beginner
Before we get much further, I want to give you a little tour of the interface of After Effects. Basically, you need to know your way around here. It really will help you become a more efficient user of the program. We have already talked about the Project panel and few other panels, and basically, that is the overall theme of After Effects' Interfaces that we have the series of Docked panels. By Docked, I mean they are grouped together. If you put your cursor in between two panels, you'll get a little divider, like this. This will allow you to resize panels, either from left to right, or up and down here.
If you put your cursor in between a spot where three or more panels meet together, where they intersect, you'll get one of these little icons. It allows you just to resize the interface however you'd like. Now, when you put your cursor over a panel, you'd hit the Tilde key. That's the little squiggle that's above the Tab key, to the left of the number one on your keyboard. If you press that key, it will maximize whatever panel your mouse happens to be over at the time. So, I'll put my cursor over the Project panel, maximize it and then minimize it again by using the Tilde key.
It may just going to seem like a cool trick down. But when you are actually working, there's so much complexity to these panels that to be able to maximize them like this, you can see, for example, in the Project panel, maximize that, and you could see that's we have so much here as far as like the File Path, even like the Name of the file and the Type. And sometimes, these things get really long and so you need to be able to resize, grab these little dividers and resize them, so you could actually see, what's going on here. Then you could just hit that Tilde key again, to get back to where you were. But being able to maximize panels is a great asset to your arsenal of skills.
Now, there might be times when you want to undock panels. So, let's say for example, the Composition panel, which is our Viewer here. I am going to select it, and you could tell it's selected because of the gold outline around the edge of it. That's how we know it's selected. That's also going to become very important as we go through the program, because the keyboard shortcuts that you will use will change based on which panel is currently selected. But getting back to the Composition panel here, I have currently a two-monitor setup. And so if I want to use this Composition panel on my other monitor, I could hold down the Command key on the Mac, or the Ctrl key on the PC as I drag away.
Then let go off the mouse, then let go off the Command or Ctrl key, and now I have this floating window, and I could put this over here on my other monitor, which you can't see, just pretend it's going to another monitor there, and we have this now floating window as opposed to a docked window. You might want to do this with other panels. You might have a panel that you want to kind of like levitate over here, over your Timeline panel while you are working on at something, and then you could re-dock it just by simply grabbing these little grip things here on the left-hand side. When we drag this to re-dock this, we get these things called Drop Zones, these little geometric panels that kind of like light up.
Basically, that tells us where this panel is going to go, once we let go of it, and when we have a side drop zone like that, then it puts the panel to the right of that. If we want to group panels together, let's say we wanted the Info panel to be grouped along with the Composition panel. So, they are basically tabs next to each other. You would use this center drop zone, and that allows these two panels to be in the same group called a Frame. So, this one frame has these two panels in it.
I am going to put the Info panel back with the Audio panel. Shift it over here, because I want the Audio panel in front. And that's basically what you need to know about the interface. If you are not seeing a particular panel, let's say for example, I close Effects & Presets panel, which you can do by clicking little x that gets rids of it there, I can go to the Window menu, and then choose Effects & Presets to get it back. Now, you may get the interface set up the way you like it, which may take some time, specially if you have like a two- monitor setup, and you might want to save your layout, you can using a feature called the Workspace.
If you go here to the top of the interface, you could see this Workspace dropdown. Right now, we are using the Standard Layout. But if we wanted to do something with text, we could choose Text, and that will basically get us the Standard layout except with the Character and Paragraph panels, which allow us to manipulate and adjust our text. We could choose Motion Tracking or any one of these other various workspaces already created for you, or we can go back to Standard. What's kind of cool about After Effects too is that it automatically remembers the changes that you make. So, this is the Standard Workspace. Let's just say I do something super crazy like this, and we'll go back to Animation or something like that.
If we go back to Standard, then you can see that it actually remembered the quirky way we had it. And if we don't like it like this and we want to reset things back to their defaults, we can go back down at the dropdown and choose Reset "Standard" or whatever the name of the Workspace is. Here, we could also create a New Workspace based on our current layout, and we could also Delete a Workspace as well. So, let's choose Reset Standard, and I'll say Yes. Now, this gets back to the way the application shipped when we first got it. Now, one other component of the interface that's not really a component of the interface, but this little Search field in the upper-right here - this will allow you to search After Effects' help while you are here in the program.
So, let's say I have a question about Motion Tracking or something. I can click in this field and type in motion tracking, and then I could hit Enter, and it will launch my Internet browser and take me to the spot in the After Effects Help that deals with Motion Tracking. So, this is a handy feature. Again, as you are a new user, this is critical. The documentation for After Effects is just fantastic as far as programs go. A lot of times, those manuals are just really confusing and overly technical, but a lot of Adobe's manuals are fantastic. But the ones for After Effects and even for like Photoshop, just phenomenal, wonderful documentation there.
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Never one to take a back seat in his movies, Broomfield projects a shambling, Columbo-style bonhomie that gains him access to people who should be very afraid of letting him cross their threshold.
Though a great deal of this material (e.g., Troopergate) seems like old news, Broomfield is so dogged that he makes a case, in a deeper way than we've seen, that there's a terrifying remorselessness to Palin's feuding nature.
As divisive as his documentary "Kurt and Courtney," this made-for-British-TV doc by Nick Broomfield begins with the promise of neutrality - but it's a promise the film can't keep.
In case you think Sarah Palin-You Betcha! is a hit job on an easy subject, see the movie and learn something. It's terrifying, but in all fairness, no disgrace, no rumor of extramarital affairs in office, no broadside is explored unless it can be substantiated.
Fleshing out now-familiar tales of misconduct and bad judgment, Palin investigation is entertaining but holds no dramatic discoveries.
It feels warmed over, devoid of urgency and, in spite of Mr. Broomfield's on-camera displays of doggedness, lacking in curiosity.
Palin may have lost her taste for the responsibilities of office, but thanks to Broomfield's barely veiled condescension, this slightly prejudiced portrait could win her more supporters than it loses.
Shovels enough dirt on the Tea Party guru and self-described hockey mom to satisfy her haters, but lacks sufficient humor and insight to make it a must-see for anyone outside the Brit muckraker's fan base.
The barbs feel stale at best, squandered at worst, and the ominous music that accompanies each sounds as if it has been lifted from the silent movie era.
For all the legitimate reasons to jeer Palin, should her rightful wariness of Broomfield's camera be one of them?
Recalling the lesson about bringing a knife to a gun fight, a British documentary filmmaker brings a spoon to a hatchet job in the film Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
Broomfield's point that Palin followers threaten her enemies, though, is worthy of a different documentary - perhaps one about American fanaticism.
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Oct 5, 2011Sarah Palin is a waste of space. Anything giving her any more screen time than she already has is not worth my time. save yourself the troubleSarah Palin is a waste of space. Anything giving her any more screen time than she already has is not worth my time. save yourself the trouble of watching this pile of well u get the idea… Full Review »
Oct 4, 2011Another Sarah Palin documentary? Give me a break. I hate Sarah Palin. Her floppy show, her sister's stint on "Dancing with the Stars," and herAnother Sarah Palin documentary? Give me a break. I hate Sarah Palin. Her floppy show, her sister's stint on "Dancing with the Stars," and her popularity. Her glasses looked like Steve Urkel from Family Matters. I promised you, if she wins in 2012, I'm gonna vomit in less than 60 mins. This is one of the worst documentary since Apollo 18.… Full Review »


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I managed to install and connect to my iPad, but now I wonder where to put my files, film etc etc so I can access them on my iPad ??
I managed to install and connect to my iPad, but now I wonder where to put my files, film etc etc so I can access them on my iPad ??
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why FTP specially i think it is not eazy to do that
File Browser
allow you to connect to network shares and pull and save files to your Ipad,
When you open the AVPlayer app and select WiFi transfer
you can try alternative to iTunes
PhoneView (7 days free trial)
As it was explained Apps normally don't have access other then to their own storage location and maybe the 'official' media folders.
There may be a Cydia app that could access them but not sure you really need that.
Personally I'm using the app "AcePlayer" which allows you to put media files into it's storage folder via iTunes.
The issue is iDevice store media files in random generated directory name so theorically you can copy and paste to those folder if you know the exact path. But it will take long time and sometimes those files cant be read due to wrong random path. So the best and easiest way is to sync them.
The problem is, your apps don't have access to iPad's filesystem. So even if you uploaded your films via FTP, your iPad won't be able to read them.
The same works for your files. That's why viewing your files is best done through an app like Air Sharing or Readdle which will open your documents or suggest apps for opening them.
Ok, then I don´t se why I should install this Open SSH, prob for more advanced users then me :-)
Open SSH is used to transfer files using SSH Interface. I think it is different from FTP. You can use SSH client for Mac OSX. You should try to read more specific in the help in cydia. You can do all mentioned there. It is the perfect help, i use OpenSSH in Windows.
But to use it, both MAC and IPad/IPHone must be connected to same network.
Try to connect both device to the same wifi network.
Yeah, installing Open SSH on iOS devices is something you'd do if you want to tinker with the workings of the device.
For home users, it's not really recommended.
I have tried open ssh but could not make it to work.
I have try it, you just need to connect the devices to same wifi network, and read all the rest in Cydia. They make a clear instruction there.
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That's right, the iPhone app you've been dreaming of is finally here. I am, of course, talking about Burgerapp!
Monday, 30 April 2012
BURGERAPP! for the iPhone
That's right, the iPhone app you've been dreaming of is finally here. I am, of course, talking about Burgerapp!
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Thursday, 19 April 2012
Preview: Byron "Chilli Queen" Jubilee special
Byron has teamed up with chef Fred Smith of The Admiral Codrington in Chelsea to create a special Diamond Jubilee burger that will be available throughout May: The Chilli Queen. It's HOT STUFF...
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Sexy-Sweater burger design
Sexy-Sweaters is a cool site run by Greta Gibbens and Alex Weitl. The duo mock up awesome sweatshirts in Photoshop and post them on the site with the hope of one day being able to print up some of them...
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
The Admiral Codrington Double Cheese Stack
Fred Smith at The Admiral Codrington in Chelsea has done it again: He's cooked up another totally amazing "special" burger that will be served at lunchtime only from Tuesday 10th to Thursday 19th April. It features two mustard fried patties and cheese of Fred's own concoction. It's VERY good!
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Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Royale Burgermat Show & The Burgerac Burger
A month ago I was in sunny Cape Town for the brilliant Design Indaba conference. The very lovely folk at the Royale Eatery not only provided the perfect venue to host a South African Burgermat Show, but suggested we combine forces to create a special burger for the occasion: The Burgerac burger...
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Monday, 2 April 2012
Burger King's Tasty New Look ad
To be honest there's only a handful of girls I know that could pull this off - it's not a look for everyone, but if you really love burgers, why the heck not! Does this Dutch Burger King ad make me want ot eat a burger? Not really. Does it make me realise that there are myriad ways to express burger love? Yes, it does. Well done to the agency, creatives, make-up artist and photographer that created it!
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In this Monday, Oct. 1, 2012 photo, farming director Sam Brake walks through a test plot of Arundo donax near the Biofuels Center of North Carolina in Oxford, N.C. It's fast-growing and drought-tolerant, producing tons of biomass per acre. It thrives even in poor soil and is a self-propagating perennial, so it requires little investment once established. To people in the renewable fuels industry, Arundo donax is a miracle. But to scientists and environmentalists, Arundo looks like a nightmare waiting to happen. Officials in at least three states have banned the bamboo-like grass as a "noxious weed." (AP Photo/Allen Breed)


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Overload resolution is one of the most convoluted corners of the Java programming language. Therefore it is crucial for any compiler implementation to provide enough test coverage in this area, in order to make sure that the JLS twists and turns are properly implemented. Unfortunately, as we shall see later, testing overload resolution is anything but straightforward. In this post we provide an overview of how overload resolution testing is achieved in the javac compiler.[Read More]


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A thriving contemporary music scene where performers play to enthusiastic young audiences? It seems unattainable. But not for the Meitar Chamber Ensemble. This award-winning young Israeli group, founded by pianist Amit Dolberg, consists of nine players who share a passion for contemporary music. They have been working together for seven years, yet their average age is still under 30.
"We started really young," says Dolberg. "We had all wanted it to be possible to listen in a serious way to Israeli contemporary music, but we couldn't really find it in Israel. There was nothing! I spoke to several musicians whose work I really appreciate and we decided to establish an ensemble for Israeli music."
Given the healthy quantity of general musical activity in Israel, the lack of contemporary outlets might seem surprising. Why the gap? "It's very difficult to live as a contemporary music ensemble anywhere in the world," Dolberg says. "It needs to be very well organised, it's hard to survive the few years at the beginning and, of course,relationships with composers are complex because they're all over the world. We have many, many Israeli composers and you need to find the right ones for you to play. Don't forget this is not popular music - you need to really like it to do it. You need to be crazy for it. And we are crazy for it," he adds, "so that's all right."
The proof of the ensemble's success is in its sold-out concerts, its packed schedule - some 80 projects in the diary this year alone - and the variety and quality of the composers virtually queuing up to work with it.
"A high proportion of our concerts are still with contemporary Israeli composers, but we have done projects involving Jewish music from the start of the 20th century and now we are also working closely with some distinguished international composers," says Dolberg.
The ensemble commissions about 20 new pieces each year, but also takes up and performs existing works:
"We have so many projects that we have the possibility to keep pieces of music alive, whether they were written two or 50 years ago. And our commissions can be from the older generation or really young composers. We're doing everything!"
The Ensemble will be playing in London next week when the featured composers will represent a snapshot of the Israeli contemporary music sphere.
"Most of the pieces, whether jazzy or rocky, tonal or non-tonal, were written especially for us," says Dolberg. "It was very important for us to show the diversity of the styles."


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Father of 19-year-old shot to death by Dallas police officer in July 2013 files federal lawsuit
The father of a 19-year-old shot and killed by a Dallas police officer last summer has sued the officers — and the city of Dallas — in federal court.
Gerardo Pinedo Sr. says the officers are responsible for the wrongful death of his son Gerardo Pinedo Jr., who Sr. Cpl. Mark Meltabarger and Officer Jamal Robinson initially believed had broken into a house on Conner Drive, off Buckner Boulevard, in Pleasant Grove. That house turned out to be Pinedo's childhood home, and the suit claims that the 19-year-old was "lawfully within [the] home" during the moments leading to the fatal shooting.
According to police and the lawsuit, around 10 p.m. on July 17 officers were dispatched the house in the 1600 block of Connor Drive; a neighbor had called 911 after hearing loud noises coming from inside the abode. Officers initially believe someone was ransacking the house. But, no: Police said Pinedo had been drinking whiskey at a friend's house and grown belligerent during his binge. The friend asked him to leave, so Pinedo walked with a buddy to the house owned by his father.
When Meltabarger and Robinson pulled up, police say, they saw Pinedo looking around inside the darkened house with a flashlight and ordered him outsidee. But he was in bad shape, police said: Pinedo, rambling to himself, ran around in circles, fell to the found in the fetal position, started banging at the ground, then got up and threw a cell phone at Meltabarger's head before he charged at the Robinson. Maltabarger, a 13-year-veteran at the time, discharged his Taser; Robinson, who was newly out of the police academy, fired his gun.
Pinedo, who, by all accounts, was not armed at the time, was taken to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, where he was pronounced dead. He died of a single bullet wound to the chest.
The suit alleges, among other things, that Pinedo didn't receive emergency medical treatment for about half an hour after the shooting. The father also alleges that the officers "prodded," grabbed and dragged his son, and that Meltabarger and Robinson used "excessive and deadly force for no lawful reasons" on his son.
According to Dallas police spokesperson Sr. Cpl. Sherri Jeffrey, the department's Internal Affairs Division investigated the shooting and "determined the actions of Officer Robinson were consistent with Chapter 9 of the Texas Penal Code and within guidelines of the Dallas Police Department's Deadly Force Policy."
Meltabarger was investigated for "failing to take proper action as a Field Training Officer by allowing his Recruit to become separated from him during the investigation of a Burglary-in-Progress call." That allegation was sustained, but Meltabarger wasn't disciplined.
The suit doesn't say how much Pinedo wants for his son's death, only that he's demanding "such heedless and reckless disregard of Gerardo Pinedo Jr.'s rights, safety, and welfare is more than momentary thoughtlessness, inadvertence, or misjudgment. Such unconscionable conduct goes beyond ordinary negligence, and as such, Plaintiff requests punitive and exemplary damages be awarded against Defendants Robinson and Meltaberger in a sum which is within the jurisdictional limits of this Court."


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Police warn of warrant scam
Man pretends to be court clerk, police say
Police are warning the public of a scam involving a person pretending to be a court clerk.
Officers said they received at least two complaints Monday from South Burlington residents who had been contacted by a man who said he was from the United States District Court in the "warrants division."
No such office exists, police said.
The man told the complainants that they had outstanding warrants, but that they could be remedied if they put $325 on a Walmart money card.
Police confronted the man, whose name was not released. The man admitted to not being a court employee, police said.
Anyone who receives a similar call should contact police.
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A man went to this week's monday night football game with some foam, a tongue, and a plan. Well played.
School is back in session and you're already wasting time on the internet. You never seemed like college material anyway.
AP: Curtis Allgier stole a gun from a corrections officer and shot him to death Monday, when the prisoner was at a doctor's appointment in the University of Utah medical center. He was later captured at an Arby's.
Part of us is jealous and we wish this would happen to our foot. It would be a great way to spend the afternoon.
This poor girl can't stop sneezing. Luckily the internet is here to make light of the horrible situation.
We're still dying over how hilarious this clip is! Here's all you need to know: Host Erik Hartman is conducting interviews with victims of medical malpractice. He did not have time for the pre-interview he usually conducts. The male guest went in for routine surgery and came out without his balls. Oh, and Hartman was fired shortly after this interview.
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These emergency calls are hilarious! Except that now I've bled to death. Oh, can your taco save you now?
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Circuit Court Judge Luis Garcia has struck down Florida's ban on same-sex marriage.
The ruling applies only to Monroe County and the Florida Keys, but licenses could be issued to same-sex partners as soon as Tuesday.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi could request a stay on the decision.
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Bobonis honored by Homer S. Brown Law Association with Drum Major for Justice Award
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|FAMILY—The Homer S. Brown Law Association hosted their annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast at Mount Ararat Baptist Church in East Liberty Jan. 18. After breakfast, Regis Bobonis was presented the Drum Major for Justice Award. Mistress of Ceremonies was Darryl Ford-Williams. The event was free and open to the public. Kristi L. Johnson, president of the Homer S. Brown Law Association, said that Bobonis is an unsung hero who has been very instrumental in the advancement of Black people in media. Even today, he still contributes to the media and educating individuals about history. He is truly a phenomenal and humble man, very deserving of this honor. Bobonis is believed to be the first Black to work for the Post-Gazette. With Bobonis, center, from left: Regis Bobonis Jr., Melany Myers, granddaughter; Lesie Bobonis Myers, daughter; Jack Myers, in-law; Maurice Myers, grandson; and Michael Myers, grandson.
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Pediatrician Lewis First from Vermont Children's Hospital at Fletcher Allen explains how "building" in transition time when you want your child to move from one activity to another helps to prevent whining.
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