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Theatre Resources on the Internet
Compiled by Dr. Dorothy J. Holland, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Richmond.
McCoy's Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies
Compiled by Dr. Ken McCoy, Communication Studies and Theatre Arts, Stetson University.
Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Provides a searchable database of newspaper clippings, photographs, drawings, programs, scores, sheet music and recordings.
The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939
Part of American Memory from the Library of Congress, this collection "contains playscripts, production materials, photographs, and administrative records selected from the output of a New Deal WPA arts project."
The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870 - 1920
Part of American Memory from the Library of Congress, this collection is "a multiformat collection of selected materials from the popular stage and allied arts. Photographs and memorabilia of Houdini; English playscripts; Yiddish playscripts; a selection of playbills and program books; motion pictures; and sound recordings."
William Shakespeare in Quarto
"On this site you will find the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by William Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642."

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In this Nov. 30, 2012 photo, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a public meeting before filing his nomination for state assembly elections in Ahmadabad, India. Eleven years after Modi became the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat - and 10 years after brutal anti-Muslim rioting left over a 1,100 people there dead - Modi is campaigning for his third term. Nearly everyone expects him to be swept into office, and the top leadership of his rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party is already hailing him as a future prime minister. But few politicians in India are as polarizing as Modi. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)


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This is a discussion on After the RIF notice, before you leave - Solaris Rss ; Family Update In light of Sun's current circumstances , here is an updateof what I think is my most popular blog entry: "After the RIF notice, before you leave" (15 January 2009). My husband, John Plocher , was laid off ...
Family UpdateIn light of Sun's current circumstances, here is an updateof what I think is my most popular blog entry:"After the RIF notice, before you leave" (15 January 2009).
My husband, John Plocher, was laid off from Sun in November 2008 and (despite manyinterviews) is still looking for work. If anyone is looking to hire a senior software architect with extensive open source experience, please contact John!
This has been a wild year for our family. A few weeks after I wrotemy "After the RIF notice.." blog entry, our son Paul ended up in emergency brain surgery. Paul recovered from that but still has constant terrible headaches. After finishing his Junior year at the hospital school, Paul is happy to be back in his regular High School for his Senior year. He plans to go to college nextyear. Having John off work during this time of medical adventures has been sortof a blessing.
During the last year, we have found a good many things we wished we had thought to do before John was laid off. Additional items on this list were generouslysuggested to me from people who read my original 15 January blog entry. I eventually realized that official company sources are limited in what they can tell people. So, this list, while just based on limited observations and experience, turns out to have been of unique value to a variety of people. RIF stands for "Reduction in Force", also known as a lay off or restructuring.
Here are my opinions of some good actions to consider after the termination notice but before you leave Sun and lose your SunWeb access (and some actions to consider after). Some of these actions may only be appropriate for Sun staff in California since circumstances may differ from state-to-state, and country-to-country. Some actions - like joining LinkedIn - are good ideas whether you are staying or leaving. Usual disclaimers apply. Your mileage may vary. May contain nuts.
First, if you have to leave Sun involuntarily, please accept my appreciation for yourwork. After 25 years of working here, I know that Sun is a great company. Even if I never knew or worked with you, I thank you for your contribution and I am sorry you have been laid off. Check out "A Tribute to Sun Microsystems"and remember your good times.
What to do immediately
- Before your SunWeb access shuts down, print out copies of key records:
- Current and last year paycheck history
- Company training history
- Stock option history and status
- Health benefit elections
- Vacation balance
- Past annual performance review documents
- Many of these records will just go away and be unavailable by any meanssoon after your last day in the office. You may need your training history fora future certification, and you will certainly need your vacation balance toapply for unemployment. This is your one and only chance to get copies.
- Immediately locate all personal internet identities (personal accounts, groups, billing, etc.)that you have communicating with your @sun.com email address, and change themto your personal email address. It is easy to set up a gmail account where you can continue to manage your billpay, website subscriptions and email lists after your Sun account goes away. Moving accounts will take time and theymay continue to send updates and confirmations to you @sun.com for days oreven weeks. Start this move soon!
- Your Sun home directory will go away very shortly after your last officeday. If you have personal email in your Sun home directory, move it orcopy it to a home server or your personal laptop before your Sun home directory disappears. Gmail has a way to upload old messages from other email accounts. Don't copy anything that belongs to Sun.
- If you have not already done so, use your Employee Giving matching grant for the current year. If you do not have a SunWeb account (and you will not),you cannot take advantage of this benefit even if you are laid off long beforethe end of the calendar year.
- Create a blogs.sun.com account or use your existing account to post a brief and professional going away message including at least your LinkedIn reference. Your blogs.sun.com postings stay available after you are gone.
- Change your Sun voice mail outgoing message with a new professionallyphrased reference to your home phone or other non-Sun phone number.
What to do later
Resources which may help and actions to consider later:
- Sun provides some very good benefits to RIFed staff.Use any coaching services offered as part of your package(such as the excellent Right Management service). Let the service review your resume before you send it out. Join their networking groups.
- Think through your health, dental, vision, and life insurance choicesand application timelines. Read your RIF package carefully. If the staff member who is laid off is the spouse of a continuing Sun staff member, talk with Human Resources (SunDial) soon about when and how you can initiate a "Qualifying Life Event Change" to provide insurance coverage to the RIFed spouse.
- File for unemployment immediately. In most states there is at least a oneweek waiting period and some states may have more. In California, you can apply for Unemployment Insurance from the day of your notification (while you may still have months yet to receive Sun paychecks). If you are asked by the California Employment Development Department, do not call money Sun provides you after the notification period "severance". It is accurate to call it "payment to forestall legal action".
Here is Sun's address and phone number which you will need forthe EDD paperwork - from Sun's 2008 Annual Report:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
4150 Network Circle
Santa Clara, CA 95054
(650) 960-1300
- In the San Francisco Bay Area, there is a networking and lunch groupcalled CSix where job hunters share ideasand leads. Similar formal or informal groups probably exist elsewhere.
- Review and update your resume. Create one or more cover letter templates.Review and confirm your references. (You need to know that Sun and other companies have a policy against giving job references.) Brush up on your interview skills.
- Buy a current-year copy of the book What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles. This book is available inmany languages (French, Korean, Russian, Turkish...). Also check out the resources on Dick Bolles' web site: JobHuntersBible.Com
- Join LinkedIn - a social networkingweb site for professionals who want to extend their contacts. Follow LinkedIn'sadvice to create your complete profile. Be diligentin linking to your former Sun coworkers so that you don't lose each otheronce you are no longer @sun.com. Use LinkedIn to recommend people you think highly of and also ask them to recommend you. There are several LinkedIn Sun Alumni groups, including SUNAlumni. Sun Engineering SEED mentoring program alumni can join the SEED LinkedIn group.
- Join the Sun Microsystems Alumni Association "The network is the people"
- Consider other social networking sites such as Facebook which has several Sun Alumni groups, including: The Sun Microsystems Alumni Group, Sun Alumni on fb, (& several others). Plaxo is another good networking, address book site.
- Participate in Sun Alumni Blogs
- Make your own business cards so that you can easily tell contactsyour new email and phone. John and I like the designs at Overnight Prints.
- Make doctor, dentist, and other health care appointments soon, so you are seen while you are still insured. Renew prescriptions that are close to refills. COBRA continuation insurance coverage isn't always the same as the coverage you had before.
- Consider creating a special job seeking email address at yahoo.com orgmail.com. Make it professional, not cute.
- A job searching and recruitment web site which some people have recommended is http://www.dice.com/ - "career website for technology and engineering professionals"
- A job searching web site which some people have recommended ishttp://www.indeed.com/ "to search job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages"
Keep active and keep networking. Volunteer while looking for work. If you arein the San Francisco Bay Area and need a good cause, you are welcome tojoin John and me in helping inner city San Jose kids in the computer club at SMUM.
Don't lose touch with Sun people you care about. As John says, there areonly really 100 people in the Silicon Valley, everyone else is just thereto create traffic jams.


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October 5, 1999
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U.S. Military Wants No Domestic Law-Enforcement Role
A column in USA TODAY last week implied that the Defense Department is seeking an active role in domestic law enforcement. That is absolutely wrong. Ironically, we strongly agree with the headline (''Terrorist attack in U.S.? Don't put military in charge," The Forum, Thursday).
Like any federal agency with the appropriate training and resources, the Defense Department has a proper role to play in preparing America for a terrorist attack involving chemical or biological weapons. As part of an ongoing federal interagency effort and because it has long prepared to face such attacks on the battlefield, the Defense Department is doing its part to prepare the nation by supporting lead federal agencies in their efforts.
However, we fully understand and have stated repeatedly that any such assistance will be in support of the appropriate federal civilian authority -- either the Department of Justice or the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Our efforts to date -- including special National Guard teams that will advise and assist communities upon request and the training of local emergency "first responders" under a program mandated by Congress and now being transferred to the Justice Department -- remain consistent with this supporting role.
There are no plans to create a "Homelands Defense Command" or any other military institution to oversee civilian-led response efforts.
Indeed, our new Joint Task Force-Civil Support is specifically tailored to coordinate only the military component of such an effort, to support state and local authorities and the lead federal agency.
The law and the Defense Department's implementing policies are clear: The military is not to conduct domestic law enforcement and will support local law enforcement agencies only when explicitly authorized to do so. Moreover, a long history of successful military support to communities ravaged by disasters such as Hurricane Floyd is clear.
The American people need not fear our preparations. The greater threat to our civil liberties stems from the aftermath of an attack for which we had failed to prepare.
John J. Hamre, Deputy secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C.
Editor's Note: The column referred to appeared in the Current News Early Bird, October 1, 1999.


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The FSSD is a K-8 school system with approximately 3,850 students enrolled. Students are served by eight schools: four elementary schools, one intermediate school, one middle school, and a K-8 school. The FSSD Board of Education has proudly committed itself to meeting and/or exceeding the state's teacher-pupil ratio requirements, with ratios at: 1 to 20 in kindergarten through third grade, 1 to 22 in fourth grade, and 1 to 25 in grades 5-8. All schools and the Central Office are accredited by the AdvancED, one of the largest and most esteemed school accreditation agencies in the country.
The Franklin Special School District gets its unique name from a Special Act of the state legislature that provides the Board of Education its own taxing authority, enabling the schools to be funded appropriately in order to maintain "Excellence in Teaching and Learning for All."
- New TNReady Parent Guide and Resources Now Available
- Business Sponsors/Exhibitors Needed for Career Exploration Day
- "Meet and Greet" on Aug. 4 for 5th-8th graders
- Liberty Elementary ROARING Back to School Event on Wed., Aug. 3
- Bus Routes Now Online for 2016-2017 School Year
- State Releases 2016-2017 Testing Information
- Free Breakfast and Lunch over Summer Ensure Kids Don't Go Hungry
- Honors Program (High School Credit Courses) Summer Testing July 14
- Honors Program Summer Testing for Grades 5-8 on July 14
- Summer Hours at Schools and Central Office
- Special Ed Parent Support Meeting on May 17
- Come aboard for reading fun on FSSD's Story Bus Plus this summer
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Aug 8 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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Please join us for the FIS Open House!
Skyward is a software company specializing in K–12 administrative software packages used in schools to manage and store information pertaining to Student Management, Human Resources, Financial Management, Food Service and Special Education. Skyward is a provider of school administrative software to more than 1,700 K-12 school districts worldwide.
- Find Your Bus Route: At the opening screen, simply type in your address (example: using the abbreviated suffixes of St., Ln., Rd., etc.) and you will be shown your bus number, your child's closest bus stop, and the approximate arrival and drop-off times.
- Zoning Information: There are five FSSD school zones. This link will allow you to view the five zoning maps.
- Neighborhoods by School Zone: This listing shows schools by neighborhood and subdivision.
The FSSD Transportation Department oversees a fleet of 31 buses which carry kindergarten through 8th grade students to eight schools.All bus drivers are trained in CPR and first aid and are provided ongoing annual training for school bus operation, as required by the state. Getting your child safely to school is of utmost concern to the FSSD and many safety precautions are in place. If your child will be riding the bus please note the following:
- Students should be waiting for their bus at least 5 minutes prior to the scheduled pick-up time. Bus times are approximate due to factors such as variable ridership, traffic tie-ups, mechanical difficulties, etc.
- Students should stand at least 5 feet away from the bus stop staging area. This is for your child's safety so that they are not in harm's way of other vehicle traffic.
- Students should NEVER walk behind a school bus while boarding or deboarding the bus. The bus driver needs to have a clear view of the student at all times.
- Video monitoring equipment is on all buses to address student behavior issues.
Linda McKee, Secretary
Freedom Middle School
750 New Highway 96 West
Phone: 790-4704
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I wasn't going to write this post. I wasn't going to write it because it's about a topic that I've found so hard to write about that I've avoided writing it all week. In fact, I had to drink a beer in order to bring myself to write this post.
I also wasn't going to write it because I asked you what you wanted to read on this site, and only a few of you indicated that you wanted to read sweet stories about my husband. I get it. If you are in a bad place, the last thing you want to read is a story about someone in a good place.
But you know what? I'm going to tell the story anyway.
I am because I told this story to a good friend earlier this week and her reaction was, "Aw." She didn't say, "Really? With everything going on in my life you have to go and tell me about your husband being sweet."
No, she rather enjoyed it.
So for those of you who would rather I only write about the times my husband screws up and causes me to plan every detail of his funeral: stop reading.
For everyone else: enjoy, but note that this is a long story with many twists and turns. And before I tell you the story I must let you know one thing about me. It is this: I don't cry very often. I might have a few stereotypical female traits – such as my shouting "ewww! What's that?!" whenever I see a bug, worm or small reptile or amphibian – but I am not your usual tear and snot factory. And when I do cry, it's usually about something touching like my kid's holiday pageant or the scene in the Justin Bieber movie when he finally gets to Madison Square Garden.
But sad things? I'm basically your regular old rock.
So when, the other day, I happened to drive past an accident right after it all went down, my tears were an aberration. I was not completely sure what had taken place. But I saw people on the ground doing CPR. I saw a baby stroller in the middle of the street. I noticed that none of the cars seemed dented in the least. And everyone standing around looked as if their hearts had fallen out of their bodies. They were ashen.
"Oh my God, I think I am going to cry," I said, not realizing I was talking out loud. I could feel the surge of emotion rising up from my heart.
"Mommy, what's wrong?" my kid asked from the back seat.
"Nothing. Don't look. Nothing. It's just something really sad. It's something really, really sad. Oh my God. It's so sad."
And the tears came. I pulled into a parking lot. I got out of the car. I wiped the tears from my face. The next thing I knew, my completely dry faced kid was hugging me and saying, "It's okay, Mommy. Don't cry. Why are you so sad?"
I didn't want to upset her, so I stuffed it down as best I could. Eventually I said, "You saw that accident back there? I think a car hit a pedestrian, and I think the pedestrian was either a Mommy or a baby or a very small child."
Later, I told my husband about it.
"I don't know why it got to me like that. I saw it and I just thought, 'That could be me. That could be her. Oh my God that poor person. That poor family.'"
He held me, but this isn't the sweet part.
The next morning, I asked him. "Is it in the paper?" He told me it wasn't. "Oh, good, maybe no one was seriously hurt," I said.
The following day he told me, "I have bad news. It was in the paper today. A mom was walking across the street with her baby and her four year old. She held the 4 year old's hand all the way across and they got to the other side. But then the 4 year old ran back to get a toy he dropped and was hit by a car. He's in critical condition."
"I think I'm going to throw up," I said.
We did not discuss the matter after that. There was nothing more to say. We just went about our business. But my eyes teared up again, and he saw that and he knows that I don't often cry at sad things. As I said, I usually only cry at happy things.
The next day he called me at work. He sounded happy.
"I am calling you with great news!"
I was thinking, "What? Do we have more money in our bank account than I realize? What?"
"The little kid who got hit by the car was upgraded to stable!"
"I love you," I told him.
And just in case it's not obvious, this is a sweet story because he would not have normally followed the stories about this car accident and about this kid. He hadn't seen it. He had no reason to stay on top of it. He only made sure to look for the stories because he knew I wouldn't be able to bring myself to read them, but he also knew that I wanted to know what they said.
That's love.


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SEATTLE: Software maker Microsoft Corp agreed to pay computer maker Gateway Inc $150 million over four years to settle a legal dispute, and Gateway said it will use the money to market and develop products that run Microsoft software.
As part of the settlement announced on Tuesday, Gateway will release all antitrust claims against Microsoft based on past conduct. Microsoft denies any wrongdoing.


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"Honor your female friendships, because men can come and go, but when we nurture our relationships with women, they can be forever."— Kate Hudson
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"I've had insecurities. You have to honor who you are."— Kate Hudson
"My workout mantra is 'Break a sweat every day.' Even if it's just for 20 minutes."— Kate Hudson
"I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love. Everything in moderation."— Kate Hudson
"If you work out for vanity, you're going to hit walls that are going to feel really bad. Now, my fitness ambition is internal. It's about feeling connected to myself."— Kate Hudson
"The more you push against your own boundaries, the easier it becomes to push."— Cobie Smulders
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"If you package your happiness with if-only goals, you'll never really be happy."— Cobie Smulders
"I love the quote, 'if your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.'"— Julianne Hough
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"People think that women work out to look hot to get a date, but we don't: We work out for ourselves."— Julianne Hough
"Never be afraid to get a dance party started."— Julianne Hough
"Little dreams turn into big ones. Go with it!"— Julianne Hough
"I do it first thing in the morning. It's important to get a workout in, even if you only have 15 min."— Cameron Diaz
"I depend on fitness physically and emotionally. I feel so much more empowered."— Cameron Diaz
"Put your 'Why do I want to be in shape' list everywhere to constantly remind yourself how your life will improve by becoming fitter."— Jillian Michaels
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"Don't look at a struggle as a failure or validation that you're not as good as other people. Everyjourney begins with a first step."— Jillian Michaels
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The Witten Farm Market and Greenhouse, based in Lowell, is operated by siblings Tom Witten, Scott Witten and Julie Witten.
Although the Wittens are best known for their sweet corn, the family farms 290 acres of many different varieties of fruits and vegetables, including cucumbers, cantaloupes, strawberries and tomatoes.
Their father Jerry also manages the beef cattle end of the business, raising black angus steers for locally sold freezer beef.
Tom Witten took some time away from farming to answer a few questions about the farm.
Q: What is the history of your family's farm?
A: The Witten family has really been farming along the river for over 200 years. As far as our personal business that exists now along (Ohio) 60, that was started in 1958 by my grandpa Ralph Witten. He was a dairy and vegetable farmer in Fly, Ohio and they sold the farm there in (19)57 and moved here north of Coal Run in 1958, so it started as a dairy farm. That was prior to interstate travel so the reason it was chosen was for the traffic for the roadside retail on the vegetables.
Q: Besides the farm itself, Witten's has several satellite stands in the area. How many are there and how did those get started?
A: My grandpa always had a sizable vegetable farm and a market by the road. In 1992 my oldest sister Amy started a market in Reno on (Ohio) 7. That was our first satellite store. She moved away and then Julie graduated from Ohio State (University) in 1994 and started a few more satellite stands and our flower production was started in 1994. This year we'll have 22 markets.
Q: On what philosophy is the farm operated? What has kept it up and running all these years?
A: We don't want people to buy from us because it's local - we want people to buy from us because it's better. That's where I see the sustainability of the buy local movement. We can all buy local but if it's an inferior product, it doesn't matter if it's from your community - it's an inferior product.
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May 16th, 2014 - 5:14am
(PORT ANGELES) The Clallam County Historical Society will open its renovated research library in Port Angeles to the public this Sunday during a hosted open house.
The public will have the opportunity for guided tours of various historical artifacts dating back to the 1880's. The renovated facility stores a vast array of items including maps, local history books, photographs, clothing and other written documents not normally open for public viewing.
The guided tours start at 1:00 PM and run through 4:00 PM on Sunday at the Historical Society, on West 9th Street behind the historic Lincoln School.
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Knyazikhin, Y, Martonchik, JV, Diner, DJ, Myneni, RB, Verstraete, M, Pinty, B, Gobron, N (1998). Estimation of vegetation canopy leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from atmosphere-corrected MISR data. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, 103(D24), 32239-32256.
AbstractThe multiangle imaging spectroradiometer (MISR) instrument is designed to provide global imagery at nine discrete viewing angles and four visible/near-infrared spectral bands. This paper describes an algorithm for the retrieval of leaf area index (LAI) and fraction of photosynthetically active radiation absorbed by vegetation (FPAR) from atmospherically corrected MISR data. The proposed algorithm is designed to utilize all the information provided by this instrument, using a two-step process. The first step involves a comparison of the retrieved spectral hemispherically integrated reflectances with those determined from the model which depend on biome type, canopy structure, and soil/understory reflectances. The biome/canopy/soil/understory models that pass this comparison test are subject to the second step, which is a comparison of their directional reflectances at the MISR angles to the retrieved spectral directional reflectances. This procedure, however, can produce multiple acceptable solutions. The measure theory is used to specify the most probable values of LAI and FPAR using the set of all acceptable solutions. Optimization of the retrieval technique for efficient global processing is discussed. This paper is the second of a two-part set describing a synergistic algorithm for producing global LAI and FPAR fields from canopy reflectance data provided by the MODIS (moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer) and MISR instruments.
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A quick follow-up to the scurrilous speculation a little while back that Interplay was about to resuscitate most of its major franchises. Actually, they are. "The company will leverage its portfolio of gaming properties by creating sequels to some of its most successful games, including Earthworm Jim, Dark Alliance, Descent, and MDK," says robot-press-releaseman right here. They're also setting up a new in-house development studio to get all this done. Exciting!
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Slow, steady but determined.
Well, I didn't get a run today, but I did have a l-o-n-g walk with Benson and my son Paul and anyone who knows Paul (6ft 4" and really long legs) will know that I was almost running trying to keep up with him. We went over the hills behind the park so it was a very strenuous walk so conscience salved this time. Back and hips were killing me though so I'm sure it was muchy harder work than any run I would have done It all counts
Hiya everyone
Hope you are all well Hastings 5 on Sunday for me
I tripped last Thursday and grazed my elbow pretty badly which went on to get infected So I am on anti-b's and have had to have it dressed by the nurses. I had the dressings changed yesterday and have to go back again on Monday BUT the doc said I could run
PB at Hastings 5 today by 1m23s
Well done Roobs
Well done Roobs, you're starting to fly now
Today I did 38.21 for 6.43 miles.
What's your marathon time then greekweek? Just looked at your profile and to me, it looks like you're on the wrong thread!
Doing 7m tomorrow evening with Tracey It will be slow and painful just like all my runs are at the moment, still!
Roobs - it will be slow and enjoyable I promise as not going to overdo it.
Hello all
Welcome greekweak
Roobs - well done on your PB
My return to running has taken a knock this week, have developed a sore knee Might try a gentle tredmill run today se if it is any better!
(((MWW))) - do you shoes need replacing?
4.05 miles before the race tomorrow. 24.30. This is including crossing two big busy roads. And a session yesterday of half mile warm up and 3.5 miles tempo in 19.16
Hi there everyone!
had a few stomach issues this week so I've not run yet although I'm hoping to bang out a few tomorrow
Off to see a fetchie for the day Sunday!
have a good one everyone!!!
Roobs - rain check on yesterday's run for another decline run. I'm sure Jane will run again as she's doing Beachy.
ignore decline run Roobs.
Shame about the on-going effects if your RT Roobs. Hope you can get over it ok.
Really must dig my trainers out of their mothballs and start pounding the streets again but the weather has been so awful that I keep putting it off. When we have had an odd nice day I've always been too busy
Beachy! I'm looking forward to finally doing that one. Sounds like there will be a good show from the club
I'm hoping to do 7 tomorrow Be good to run with you and Jane another time Going to run home from work Monday to be ready for the club race on wed. Will go down on Tuesday for tea and food though
You need a 'getyourarseback' group like ours Lyndy!
Lyndy - Bernard got his London 2 Brighton number on Wednesday
I will be in Brighton in the summer, so I will kick your arse. Maybe we could borrow Bones and drake him for a walk on the Downs
No good borrowing Bones, all he wants is a nice slow stroll. Benson's the one for running with. He loves it, but you have to get the sniffing out of his system first. Being of the hound variety he LOVES to sniff. Worse than any other dog I've known
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I thought it would be an interesting look into our nation's political cartoon history if, this month, I took a look at a different editorial cartoon each day that won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Do note that we're talking basically 1922-1967 here, as since then, the Committee has almost always awarded cartoonists generally for their work, not for an exemplary single cartoon. So in many ways, this is a snapshot of American politics (for better or for worse) over a forty-five year period. Here is an archive of the cartoons featured thus far.
Today we look at Vaughn Shoemaker's 1938 award-winning cartoon.
Yesterday I showed you Vaughn Shoemaker's second Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon and today I'll show you his first, which is a pretty straightforward (but powerful) anti-war piece from 1937.
The piece came out on Armistace Day in 1937, celebrating the end of World War I, but as we all know by now, 1937 was an uneasy time in a world seemingly destined for a great conflaguration.
The work was titled "The Road Back," and it shows a soldier (the soldier appears European) walking backwards in time to the time of the first World War.
The world is shown aghast that the soldier is willing to go back to such a terrible time in World history…
It's a powerful image, but it's interesting to note if perhaps Shoemaker is getting the roles reversed a bit. When it came time for World War II, it was really "the world" that was pushing the issue, certainly not the soldiers who were fighting in the battles.
Still a damn good image…
Maybe one day people actually will start to learn from History…
Ah well…
World War II had not yet officially started, but the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were already taking part in a proxy war in Spain where to varying degrees they had their fingers in the Civil War there; meanwhile, Japan had long been engaged in a war of conquest against China, which was also beset by a civil war between Nationalists and Communists. Then there was also Mussoliini's war of conquest against Ethiopia. In the era of fascist tyrants, if you wanted peace, you just had to hold your head back and let them cut your throat or be willing to live under their tyranny while they murdered everyone they considered sub-human or a threat to their regimes.
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text: I recently decided I need to start running again. So this morning that's exactly what I was doing, running at the gym. Ahead of me, on a stationary bike, was a woman knitting a sweater while riding. Not even a scarf or something really simple, a sweater. And she was riding hard and sweating a lot. Unfortunately, she left before I finished my workout and I never got the chance to talk to her. Can anyone else do this as well?


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This is an updated version of an article first published in 2010.
Also see our previous fireworks photography guides in 2009 and 2004.
ISO 100, f/16, 1.6 seconds exposure. When it all comes together, photographing fireworks can result in a riot of colour and patterns.
We always like the challenge of photographing (and these days also videoing) fireworks displays. We're on the eve of the two traditional fireworks nights in England; Guy Fawkes night, the other being New Year's night, but the information in this article should be useful to anyone contemplating capture the colour and motion of fireworks at night wherever they are.
First I'm going to cover some basics that you should avoid. Some of it's common sense, but I hope this section will save you time and unnecessary trouble on the night.
Shutter speed: 1/6th second - this is too brief. Best try 2-8 seconds.
SHUTTER SPEED Don't use too short a shutter speed. This (above) was taken with the shutter set to 1/6th of a second. In normal daylight photography that would be considered a very slow shutter speed and you would almost certainly be affected by camera shake with out a tripod. But with fireworks, you need an even slower shutter speed in order to capture longer and more attractive light trails. Normally, I would experiment with exposures of between 1 and 5 seconds.
Yes, it's out of focus! Set the camera focus to infinity.
FOCUS Don't forget to focus properly. Autofocus is completely useless for photographing fireworks, so switch it off and adjust manually, either by trial and error until you get sharp results, or if your lens has the luxury of a distance scale, set it to infinity and use small aperture for increased depth of field.
Taken at ISO 250 and with an aperture of f/3.9, this is much to bright and so much of the detail and colour has been lost, and an unwanted glowing halo has been emphasised.
Don't over expose and wash out the delicate colours of your fireworks. Your camera's exposure system will naturally see a sky of black and expose accordingly, leaving your fireworks bleached out and lifeless. Because fireworks are extremely bright, relatively speaking, you normally only need to use the lowest ISO sensitivity setting your camera offers, e.g. ISO 100.
I prefer to use manual exposure and experiment with shutter and aperture settings until the images look perfect on the camera's screen. If your camera doesn't offer manual settings, use the +/- exposure compensation/override option (most cameras have this) and start at -2EV, and adjust accordingly. As a rule of thumb, it's much better to record pictures that are slightly too dark than ones that are slightly too bright. You can recover fireworks shots that are a bit too dark, but not ones that are too bright.
If you can, use a tripod. In this case, because you will be using wide angle views of the sky, a tripod is preferable to a monopod. After all that good advice, I'm going to throw a spanner in the works by revealing that all the pictures in this article were taken...hand held! But the underlying message is the same - you need to keep the camera steady.
I would switch image stabilisation options off. IS systems were never designed for the long exposures that you usually require for fireworks photography and in my experience they can introduce unwanted movement that spoils the smooth transition of the streaks and arcs that we look for in fireworks.
Fireworks scene mode settings
Establish if your camera has a scene mode for photographing fireworks. I find that some cameras that offer these modes benefit highly from them, especially if there are no manual modes, but the scene modes of other cameras are often very disappointing. But it's a good idea to try it so you can find out if your camera's option is worth using.
Not just fireworks
Don't forget that fireworks events offer many more opportunities than just photographing fireworks in the sky. Don't forget bonfires, the moody atmospheres of dimly lit hot dog stands at night, and static fireworks, too:
ISO 100, f/3.9, 1/500th second exposure.
ISO 400, f/3.5, 1/40th second exposure.
ISO 100, f/22 (to avoid over exposure), 1/6th second exposure.
Using flash
Flash can be a very effective tool on the night when combined with a long exposure. In the example above the flash has frozen the girl ensuring her face is sharp and properly exposed. But the camera has been set to keep the shutter open for a couple of seconds, enabling the motion of the sparklers being waved about to be recorded.
Don't be afraid to crop your images to find the best from them, as this example demonstrates:
ISO 200, f/8, 1 second exposure.
This is a nice enough example, with two bursts in the frame, but the one on the right is a bit 'scruffy' compared to the one on the left. So I cropped out the one the right and in doing so ended up with a vertical format framing of the one on the left:
There isn't a lot of very fine detail in firework shots, so severe cropping like the above isn't usually a problem.
When post processing you may wish to explore darkening the black levels if there is a lot of glowing smoke in the shot, and sharpening can also breath some life into shots. If you have a clarity adjustment (sometimes called 'definition) this can help. Also experiment with saturation to really pump up the colour.
And to round off, here are some of my own more successful firework shots, complete with camera settings for your reference:
Lens focal length 33mm (equivalent to 66mm in 135 format (full frame)), ISO 100, aperture f/16, shutter 3.2 seconds.
Lens focal length 12mm (equivalent to 24mm in 135 format (full frame)), ISO 100, aperture f/8, shutter 3.2 seconds.
Lens focal length 46mm (equivalent to 92mm in 135 format (full frame)), ISO 100, aperture f/10, shutter 3.2 seconds.
Lens focal length 12mm (equivalent to 24mm in 135 format (full frame)), ISO 100, aperture f/11, shutter 2 seconds.
And last of all, good luck if you are venturing out to photograph a fireworks event, and why not show us how you got on by posting your results on the DPNow forum and galleries?


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Eliot Gordon Ellefson, the 51-year-old brother of MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, died earlier today after a two-year battle with cancer.In his memoir, "My Life With Deth", David Ellefson wrote about his early family life, "I loved the farm [where I was raised, about six miles north of Jackson, Minnesota], but I didn't love farming quite so much, so my brother, Eliot, was always the one who was going to take it over from my father when the time came. He showed an aptitude for farming from a very young age. When I started getting into music at eleven or twelve, Eliot was focusing on being disciplined and working around the farm." "My Life With Deth" was made available on October 29, 2013 via Howard Books. It chronicles the story of Ellefson's fall into addiction during the band's early years, followed by his subsequent recovery and the return to faith which championed the band's rise to fame over the past several decades. The book features contributions from Kerry King (SLAYER), Scott Ian (ANTHRAX), Ellefson's current bandmate in MEGADETH Shawn Drover and also former colleagues Chris Poland and Marty Friedman.
MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON's 51-Year-Old Brother Loses Battle With Cancer
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A.M. Vitals: Pfizer Earnings Top Estimates, But Sales Miss
It's Pfizer's Turn: Pfizer said first-quarter profit rose to $2.22 billion, or 28 cents a share, from $2.03 billion, or 25 cents a share, in the previous year, the WSJ reports. Stripping out restructuring and other charges, earnings were unchanged from last year at 60 cents, a penny higher than analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had expected. Revenue was $16.5 billion; analysts had expected $16.63 billion.
Medicaid Rules: The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would hold steady or even push up Medicaid payments to providers in order to improve access to health care, the New York Times reports. Some state officials tell the paper the proposed rule gives too much authority over the program to the federal government. State Medicaid programs are paid for with both federal and state dollars.
Flawed Measure of Heart Risk: Body mass index, the indicator most commonly used to measure obesity, doesn't accurately capture the risk of dying from heart disease because it doesn't reflect whether a person is carrying more dangerous belly fat, the WSJ reports, citing a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The study found that among people with existing heart disease, even those with BMIs in the normal range were at higher risk of dying after a heart attack or major heart procedure if they had big waistlines.
Limited Benefits: The best health-insurance option for new college graduates is usually to take advantage of a provision of the health-care overhaul law that permits them to stay on their parents' plan up to age 26 — if they can, Kaiser Health News reports. That coverage is likely to be better than what could be found on the individual market or in a state-based insurance plan. One hitch: if a young adult takes a job offering coverage — even a limited-benefit, so-called mini-med plan — he or she is no longer eligible for a parent's plan, KHN says.
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First Fledged Meal
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This baby broad-billed hummingbird landed on a jasmine vine after its first solo flight from its nest, looked around, wobbled, regained balance, preened--then awaited its mother, who alighted, ready to feed. This image captures their moment of connection, beak to beak. The light & foliage bathed everything in blue green--even the mother's beak, which is normally red.
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Includes: Standards and processes used in libraries by cataloguing and metadata staff for creating or obtaining data for resource description and discovery; the relationship of cataloguing and metadata services to a library's internal operations and to relevant external agencies and systems; and managing cataloguing operations.
Taught by the School of Information Management, part of the Faculty of Commerce
This course is not offered in 2016.
Please note we recommend that you complete the core course INFO 527 before taking this elective as part of the MIS or PGCert/DipIS.
INFO 546 Bibliographic Organisation examines the way information resources are described and organised for retrieval and access in libraries and information centres. We will also be spending a few weeks looking into issues involved in the practice.
We are at an interesting point in time with respect to bibliographic organisation. More than 30 years ago, the second edition of the Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) became the standard code for cataloguing among libraries in the English-speaking world. While there have been revised editions to AACR2 in 1988, 1998, and 2002 to accommodate things such as new formats of materials, the rules themselves have changed little. However, we are now at the cusp of a significant change -- the arrival of RDA which stands for Resource Description and Access. RDA is based on the principles of FRBR aka the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. RDA will be a completely online tool and it is scheduled to be available for subscription by libraries later this year. But more about that later -- in this course we will look at both the existing (AACR2) and the new (RDA) -- being at the cusp of change means that we have to understand both!
We shall commence the course by looking at the various types of bibliographic control, and at the development of library catalogues. We shall then examine the key standards that are meant to meant to make the cataloguing process efficient and effective, both for the users of library catalogues and those who create them. One of these standards is the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd ed., rev. 2002). Known as AACR2R, it is the standard upon which the vast majority of English-language libraries have based the description of their resources over many years. We shall spend several weeks looking at AACR2R along with RDA. In essence, the course aims to provide you with a basic understanding of how the cataloguing rules work - and their strengths and weaknesses.
In the second half of the course, we shall look briefly at two of the key English language tools for providing subject access to information resources -- the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).
In the last part of the course, our focus will be organisational considerations, such as bibliographic networks, automated systems, and staffing. We shall wrap up the course by trying to peer into the future of cataloguing.
It is important to realise that this course is not meant to teach you how to be a crack cataloguer -- that can only be done by working in a cataloguing department and getting a chance to practise using the tools. The main function of this course is to help you understand the key concepts and important issues involved in the creation of catalogue records.
By the end of the INFO 546 course, students are expected to:
1. Furrie, Betty. Understanding MARC: Bibliographic (8th ed), Washington, D.C.: Cataloguing Distribution Service, Library of Congress. You can access Understanding MARC: Bibliographic from the Library of Congress website.
2. Gorman, M. & Winkler, P. (eds.) (2003). Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd ed., 2003 rev.). Ottawa: Canadian Library Association. You will be provided with access to the online version of AACR2R via the RDA Toolkit.
3. Resource Description and Access (RDA) Toolkit. This is available online and you will be provided with logon details on Blackboard.
4. Dewey, Melvil. Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index (23rd ed), 4 vols. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC. You will access to DDC23 via Web Dewey and logon details will be provided on Blackboard.
5. Library of Congress (2012) Library of Congress Subject Headings (34th ed), 6 vols. Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress. You will be provided with online access via Classification Web to the Web version of LCSH, Logon details will be provided on Blackboard.


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Banana Purée
Bananas are full of slow-release sugars which provide sustained energy. They make a perfect baby recipe as they are portable and come in their own easy to peel packaging. They are also good for the treatment of diarrhoea and constipation.
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- 1 small banana
- Peel a small banana and mash with a fork.
- During the first stages of weaning, add a little milk if necessary to thin down the consistency and add a familiar taste.
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Singing is an integral and vibrant part of the life of Germantown Friends School. All students have an opportunity to sing under the guidance of choral directors Taia Harlos, Anne Hess, Teri-Gemberling-Johnson and Steve Kushner.
Lower School students participate in class choral events, as well as combined choral ensembles. In 1st through 4th grade, students regularly join with other classes to present choral music as part of class plays or Lower school Assemblies.
Open to all 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students who wish to learn about choral singing, the Upper School Chorus rehearses and performs the great works of choral literature. Performances are often accompanied by a professional orchestra. Recent concerts have featured performances of Orff's Carmina Burana, Vaughan Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem, and Babatunde Olatunji's Betelehemu, and Beethoven's Mass in C.


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Juelz Santana - The Second Coming
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Already tapped as the best score to a basketball shoe commercial… ever, Juelz Santana has done Dipset proud by lending his work to The Second Coming. Super producer Just Blaze has concocted a production as gigantic as an airplane hanger which strings together an orchestra of violins and the industrial sounds of a scrap metal factory. The pureness of the single make everyone question what they're more excited to hear: Juelz highly-anticipated collaboration album with Lil' Wayne entitled I Can't Feel My Face or his third studio album due out later this year, Born To Lose, Built to Win (The Reagan Era).
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Cleveland, Ohio-based custom toy artist Infinite Rabbits created this fantastic (and magically gruesome) custom MINDstyle Horselington figure called "The Unicorn Hunter". In addition to the custom paint job, he exchanged the hunter's sword for a giant battle axe, added a golden unicorn horn to the horse's severed head, sculpted the unicorn's body (complete with a tail made from actual hair) and, last but not least, created the pool of rainbow blood - along with the rainbow splatter on the axe.
To give you an even better idea of how much work was put into this amazing custom figure, click here take a look at the original version by EWOK 5MH.
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Elizabeth McGorian is a Principal Character Artist of The Royal Ballet. She joined the Company in 1977 and was promoted to Soloist in 1991 and Principal Character Artist in 1997. Her wide repertory with the Company includes Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Empress Elisabeth and Helene Vetsera (Mayerling), Madge (La Sylphide), Lady Elgar (Enigma Variations), Pianist (The Lesson), Berthe (Giselle), Queen (The Sleeping Beauty) and roles in The Concert and Elite Syncopations. Her role creations include Marie Virginie Avegno (Strapless), Madame Moritz (Frankenstein) and in Fleeting Figures, Piano, Half the House and Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus.
McGorian was born in Zambia and studied at the Mercia Hetherington School in Zimbabwe. She joined The Royal Ballet Upper School in 1976, won gold in the 1977 Adeline Genée International Ballet Competition and joined the Company that year. Her many roles with the Company have included Utah Longhorn Ram ('Still Life' at the Penguin Café), Myrtha (Giselle), Countess and Carabosse (The Sleeping Beauty), Josephine (Wedding Bouquet), Bride (Les Noces) and Tsarevna and Tsarina (Anastasia).
Work away from the Company includes appearing in Arthur Pita's Facada with Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev as part of their Solo for Two programme at the London Coliseum.
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Earlier this month, we told you that wage-violations specialist Maimon Kirschenbaum filed a complaint on behalf of Felidia's employees alleging, among other things, that the restaurant illegally distributed tips and failed to meet minimum-wage requirements. And yesterday, Kirschenbaum sent around a document (the full PDF of which is here) indicating Bastianich offered current employees a lump sum payment in exchange for signing a document indicating the person signing it "unconditionally releases and forever discharges" the restaurant from any legal obligation over "any claims for unpaid tips, wages, gratuities, and/or service or related charges." In short, it looks like Bastianich is paying people off in exchange for their silence. We reached out to Bastianich's legal team to see what they had to say.
"Felidia isn't going to just back down," says Carolyn Richmond, the attorney representing the restaurant. Richmond didn't address the document directly — she released a statement to Eater yesterday saying "restaurateurs can't risk their businesses or their employees livelihoods" — but added that Felidia's ownership is "comfortable and secure" in the knowledge that it has treated its staff fairly. (No surprises there.) She adds that Kirschenbaum has "recovered a heck of a lot of money for his clients," but says he and his associates take home one-third of "any so-called settlements, so they're not sweeping in like Don Quixote." Richmond adds, "At some point, these tip suits have got to stop."
Given Kirschenbaum's success at getting serious results from these suits — most notably that $5.25 million settlement from the Bastianich restaurant group back in March — we're sure it's an opinion shared by plenty of restaurateurs around the city.
Earlier: Now Lidia Bastianich Is Being Sued by Felidia Servers
Related: Batali, Bastianich & Co. Settle Tip-Skimming Suit for $5.25 Million


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Helios (Sol)
Helios (Sol)
Helios is all fired up. Mainly because the Titan god of the sun got booted from his job by a shiny young Olympian named Apollo. During Roman times, people smushed Apollo and Helios together in their minds, and the next thing you know, Apollo was driving the old god's chariot across the sky with the sun flaming behind him. We wonder what Helios's fiery-winged steeds thought about this regime change. Did they rebel against their new master? The world may never know.
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|Sol, Sol Invictus, the All-Seeing, Helius, the Sun, Hot Stuff
|Current city
|I've got an awesome palace at the edge of the world. (It's way cooler than anything Apollo's ever dreamed of.)
Work & Education
|God of the Sun (forced into retirement)
|The Uranus School of Sky-Riding
|Political views
|Pro-Zeus (Until he let Apollo take my job.)
Family & Friends (& Enemies)
|Hyperion (Dad)
Theia (Mom)
|Selene (the moon)
Eos (the dawn)
Aeetes (Father of Medea)
Pasiphae (Mother of the Minotaur, Ariadne, and Phaedra)
|Selene (My beautiful sister)
Eos (My awesome brother)
The Hesperides (Who know how to rock out a sunset.)
|Apollo (Who's a no-good chariot stealer)
Ares (Who's still mad at me for telling Hephaestus that he was sleeping with Aphrodite.)
Aphrodite (See above)
Hades (Who is ticked off that I told Demeter that he was the one who kidnapped Persephone... it's complicated)
Kronos (Who hates me because I sided with Zeus during the War of the Titans)
|Relationship status
|Flings with nymphs like Klymene and Neaira
|Interested in
|Someone nice to pass eternity with
|"When you hear a boy ask why the sun comes and goes, tell him because in this life there is no light without the dark."
– Mago de Oz
"There's more to light than the opposite of dark."
– Ric Ocasek
"Hey now it's the sun
And it makes me smile."
– The Polyphonic Spree
"To me every hour of light and dark is a miracle. Every inch of cubic space is a miracle."
– Walt Whitman
We are young
So let's set the world on fire
We can burn brighter
Than the sun."
– Fun.
|The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (A voyage to the end of the earth? That's what I do every day.)
Twilight (How cool is it that the vampires in this book don't die when they see me?)
"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Picked this one up because of the title, but man is it good.)
"Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art" by John Keats
Horses of the Sun by Leanne Owens
Henry V by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare uses the sun as a symbol of awesome kingliness—sounds about right to me.)
"When I Consider How My Light is Spent (Oh His Blindness)" by John Milton
The Odyssey by Homer (I love reading about how Odysseus's men got what they deserved for eating my cattle.)
The Sun by Seymour Simon
|We Are Young by Fun. ("Set the world on fire," huh? Reminds of when my son, Phaeton, did just that.)
Keep Your Eyes Ahead by The Helio Sequence
Every Breath You Take by the Police (I'll be watching you, Sting. They don't call me "all seeing" for nothing.)
Light and Day by the Polyphonic Spree (An ode to my glory worthy of Homer.)
Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden (I listened to this song over and over again when Apollo stole my job.)
Night and Day by Frank Sinatra
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me by Elton John
Lights by Ellie Goulding (Okay, yeah, I dance around my bedroom to this song.)
Killer Joe (I'm thinking about hiring this guy to take out Apollo.)
Spartacus (Can't get enough of the chariot scene.)
Breaking Dawn
Wrath of the Titans
City Slickers
Rock of Ages (What can I say? I just have a thing for 80s power ballads.)
War Horse (Not as tough as my horses, but still impressive.)
|TV Shows
|Luck (I heart horses.)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Just plain funny.)
Activities & Interests
|The Sun
Cattle Ranching
|Raising my sacred cattle (Before Odysseus's men ate them)
Driving my winged chariot (Before Apollo took it away)
Towing the Sun across the sky (Before Apollo took it away)
Playing solitaire while trying not to cry (It's really hard being me…)
|Helio astronomy
Sun worshipers
Chariot lovers
The Dude Ranchers' Association


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Our research topics include digital signal processing, digital content analysis/editing/presentation, large-scale multimedia information retrieval, computer vision and pattern recognition, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and computer graphics.
We welcome students with research passion and crazy ideas to join us, and expect our research projects can have great impact on improving human daily life.


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Places to buy yarn online using Paypal?
I'm not able to get out often to my LYS, and I don't do credit cards, so I'm looking for online shops or stores that sell yarn and take Paypal.
American sites are great, but Canadian sites would be wonderful too.
Does anyone know of any?
Ebay, both ebay.com and ebay.ca
Little Knits accepts Paypal:
I don't know if they ship to Canada, but you can call their toll free number and find out. They are in Seattle.
I did try eBay, but it's really hard to narrow down all the stores.
Also, their shipping prices are often outrageously high, and it's difficult to find everything I need at one specific place, so I'd have to pay shipping for each item instead of a combined shipping price.
If you have the names of specific eBay stores, I'll check those, though!
On eBay, I like Julia's Yarn, Over the Rainbow, and NotJustYarns.
Here are a few eBay dealers that are a bit offbeat. They're all nice to deal with.
lesliep4819. Her store's name is Ewe-phoria. Nice prices on Noro. Individual balls often available. Excellent service.
lifes_an_expedition. Interesting yarns, imports and handpaints; plus a miscellanea of everything from Guatamalan fabrics to ethnic jewelry.
nana cindy. Mill ends and rejects of Mission Falls yarns, often on huge cones and alwakys dirt cheap.
sanfelipeysantiago. Handpainted pure merino from a South American coop. Lovely soft yarn, great prices.
I searched and found these that say they accept Paypal. There may be more as well. Check their payment options to be sure.
I use ebay frequently, the shipping prices are not high if you purchase multiple skeins. When a seller shows a shipping price for a skein of yarn they almost always offer discounted shipping on more than one item. So, if the shipping cost listed is $2.50 for a skein multiple skeins are usually just the additional cost of postage.
There are always those who want to get "a little more" but I have found many who only charge the actual cost of shipping. You just have to ask them before you bid what the shipping for "X" number of skeins would be.
I love littleknits.com as well as elan.com. Both have great sales and good service. Littleknits does charge a bit more for shipping (even more than most ebay sellers) but their customer service is exceptional.
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The gruff U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, the central male character of Charles Portis' True Grit, has been immortalized on film by both John Wayne's Academy Award-winning performance in 1969 and Jeff Bridges' Oscar-nominated turn a generation later.
But what if the fictional one-eyed, overweight, larger-than-life lawman was inspired by a flesh-and-blood individual? Author Brett Cogburn discusses his great-grandfather in a discussion of his book, Rooster: The Life and Times of the Real Rooster Cogburn, the Man Who Inspired True Grit, on Sunday, October 6, 2013, at 2 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W 10th St.
Born in Arkansas in the wake of the Civil War, John Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn stood six foot three inches tall and was a dead shot. He was never a lawman and had two good eyes, yet several elements of his wayward life are strikingly similar to the "Rooster" in Portis' novel.
Cogburn's biographer and direct descendant illuminates these similarities, as well as those attributed to several other colorful personalities of Arkansas and Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). They provided Portis with the flavor and "grit" of his fascinating character study.
Brett Cogburn, an emerging Western author, has written two novels, Panhandle and The Texans. In addition to his biography of the "real" Rooster Cogburn, he has written a collection of short stories titled The Devil's Hoofprints: Tales of the American West.
Admission is free. Free parking is available at the Library District Parking Garage at 10th and Baltimore. RSVP at kclibrary.org [1] or call 816.701.3407.
This presentation is part of the Missouri Valley Sundays series, a program of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Central Library. The series is made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
It is also part of the Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and bring the transformative power of literature into the lives of its citizens. The project brings together partners across the country to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. This year's Big Read selection is True Grit.
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David Lacey at Anfield for The Guardian on 26 September 2001.More
Liverpool Echo report on Aston Villa - Liverpool on 13.01.2001.More
"It's strange that he was so pleased when he signed me and then decided to not use me. I cannot explain it myself."
Litmanen on Houllier
"Keegan and Dalglish were extra special to me because they played in my best position, just behind the main strikers. That is why the no 7 shirt had a special attraction I am more than happy to settle for 37, anything with a 7 in it will do."
Litmanen signing for Liverpool in 2001
"You know, Jari wanted to stay, and I couldn't understand that. But I let him go because I have always believed he had great potential which could benefit other teams. I am very pleased for him that things are going so well for him at Ajax. When we had some difficult moments, he was there for us, notably with goals against Fulham, Sunderland, AS Roma and in other crucial games. He had a lack of opportunities in the team but I really liked the reaction of the Ajax players towards Jari when I sold him!."
Houllier on Jari Litmanen
"I've never seen a player with such a good eye for the final forward next to him or his team-mates. He never missed a pass, his vision was just unbelievable. He wasn't the quickest when he came to us but his performance on his debut at Aston Villa was one of the best I've ever seen in a Liverpool shirt."
Didi Hamann on Jari Litmanen
"I used to watch Jari Litmanen a lot. I enjoyed how he moved and got into space. And he was patient. If you looked at him, he always never looked like he was rushed doing anything. He always used to take his time. Then, when the opportunity came, he found the space to get the ball in the net. The more you do it, the more it works. You need to know where everyone is on the pitch. You need to see everything."
Wayne Rooney on Jari LItmanen in May 2012
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Jackson fire crews responded to a house fire just after 4 a.m. Tuesday on McClure Road.
The wooden house was fully involved when fire crews arrived at scene. Fire officials said flames were seen shooting out of the house so high nearby trees were charred.
Neighbors said the fire started off small.
"All of a sudden it just went crazy and I just started calling for help, calling everybody for help and it just went out of proportion," said Yesenia Roman.
Firefighters remained at the scene for several hours putting out hot spots.
Fire investigators were working Tuesday to determine the cause of the fire.


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The "Buffalo Billion", as it has been dubbed in many circles, has created a great deal of excitement in our region since Governor Cuomo announced it in his State of the State address this past January. It has also generated a lot of questions ranging from "when will the money be available?" and "how will it be spent?" to "where do I sign up to get some?" Last week, Brookings Institute Vice President Bruce Katz was in town and held a number of public and private meetings and discussions that began to put some substance and form around the process of how these resources will be utilized.
As a part of his visit, members of BNE's research staff and I met privately with Katz and some of the key entities that will be getting this process off the ground. Besides the Brookings Institute, that included representatives from Governor Cuomo's office, Empire State Development, the University at Buffalo Regional Institute and the University at Buffalo Urban Design Project. A significant amount of data collection is going to be required for a market analysis that will be performed, and the university and BNE will be playing a very active and supportive role in that process.
The WNY Regional Economic Council, in concert with state officials, will also select a consultant to assist in establishing a plan that should identify the critical areas where the $1 billion should be focused and specific initiatives involving programs and spending. I have personally reviewed the request for proposal that will be used to solicit the consultant for this work, and I was very pleased with the scope of work outlined and the deliverables being requested. It is a sound RFP that should hopefully attract a very capable and qualified consultant.
Longer term, once the data collection is done and a consultant is selected, the WNY Council hopes to have some broad priority areas for how the resources should be committed in place later this year. It is an aggressive timeframe, but the sense of urgency is invigorating. Our first meeting with UB officials regarding our data collection work already took place this week.
Thanks to the continued support of our private sector investors, we have succeeded in developing an infrastructure with contemporary and state-of-the-art economic development tools that will enable us to access vital information and present it to our partners and consultants in the most usable and verifiable form.
The BNE will no doubt continue to play an integral role in the work of the council as our community pursues this extraordinary opportunity. And we'll continue to add postings to keep the community informed accordingly.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Twisted Throttle now has a huge variety of accessories under a single umbrella, and new "Twisted" project bikes to show them off.
For example, R&G Racing has kitted out a new ZX-6R with nearly every piece of crash protection you could imagine, from carbon fiber tank and tank sliders to frame and axle sliders. The highlight was the new range of engine case covers (starting at $76.99).
Built from an "indestructible" polymer as compared to a more fragile material such as carbon or a too rigid material such as billet, each cover is molded directly over the original cases for a perfect fit and bolts up in seconds using existing cover mounting points.
Denali Lighting has a full range of its high-tech dual-stage LED accessory lamps. The highlight was the new PowerHub2 fuse block ($115). Now with improved waterproofing and more compact design, the fuse block allows easy connection of various accessories to a bike's electrical system and provides easy switch between always on and switched power modes for individual farkles.
Twisted Throttle also is distributing new SW Motech universal hand guards with optional integrated LED turn signals and new Drybags available from Bags Connection.


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In January, 1945, in the waning months of the Second World War, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: An attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines.
Among the group? There is 18-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats who were originally pleased when their massive estate once more become a part of Germany in 1939, but who discovered over the next five years what Nazi management really meant for their rural district.
There is her lover, Callum Finella, a 20-year-old prisoner-of-war who was brought from the stalag to her family's farm as forced labor. And there is a 26-year-old Wehrmacht corporal who the pair know as Manfred - but who is, in reality, Uri Singer, a Jew from Germany who managed a daring escape from a train bound for Auschwitz, and who has been sabotaging the Nazi war effort in every way he can ever since.
As the three of them, as well as Anna's mother and younger brother, work their way west, they encounter a ravaged countryside that is both horrific and surreal: There is evidence of both the Nazis' crimes, as well as the revenge being wrought by the Soviet Army. Their flight will test both Anna and Callum's love, as well as their friendship with Manfred—assuming any of them even survive.
Skillfully capturing the flesh-and-blood behind a part of history we know little about and employing his prodigious storytelling gifts, Chris Bohjalian has crafted a rich tapestry that puts a moving face on one of the 20th-century's greatest tragedies—while creating, perhaps, a masterpiece that will haunt readers for generations.
Special Note: Skeletons at the Feast was inspired by an actual World War Two diary. To see some of the published secondary sources Chris used, visit the novel's acknowledgements. One memoir in particular that he found both informative and inspirational was Gerda Weissmann Klein's poignant and powerful account of her adolescence and young adulthood, All But My Life. The fictional character in his novel, Cecile Fournier, owes much to her. To read All But My Life, visit your local bookstore or visit visit www.bn.com or www.amazon.com. To learn more about the Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation and the work they do promoting tolerance and respect for others, visit www.kleinfoundation.org.
Chris visited Bethanne Patrick in the Book Studio when he was in Washington, DC. To watch the seven-minute interview about Skeletons at the Feast, click here.
Chris joined Todd Moe in March on North Country Public Radio. To listen to the nine-minute interiew or download it to your iPod, click here.
Chris spoke at Catawba College in North Carolina this week. To get a sense of his remarks, read Deirdre Parker Smith's article.
Listen to Chris's interview about the novel with the NPR affiliate in Lexington, Kentucky.
Read Chauncey Mabe's take on Chris's career in the Sun-Sentinel. Click here.
Read Connie Ogle's interview with Chris from the Miami Herald. Click here.
Chris visited the program, 207, last month. Click here to watch the six-minute interview.
Watch what critics and book groups are saying.
Molly Pesce of www.bn.com chose Skeletons at the Feast as her #1 bn.com of 2008. Watch the video here.
A St. Louis Post Dispatch 2008 Best Book of the Year
One of the Washington Post Book World's Best Novels of 2008
A New York Times bestseller, a Publishers Weekly bestseller, and a NEBA bestseller
A Book Sense Selection
Foreign rights sold across Europe.
A Today Show Pick as a Top Ten Summer Read. "Bohjalian is another favorite author of mine. This is the perfect novel for a book club because there's so much to discuss. The story is set in World War II and follows a group of German refugees as they flee their homeland. Normally, I'm not a big fan of historical fiction, but this book sucked me right in. It opens with a young girl who's trying to get across a frozen river with her family, but enemy soldiers are bombing the ice to keep people from crossing. It's vivid and heart-wrenching. One interesting sidenote: The author was inspired to write this book when someone gave him an unpublished diary of a Prussian woman who fled west in 1945," said John Searles on the show. Searles is the author of Strange but True and Boy Still Missing and the book editor at Cosmopolitan.
"Harrowing. . .Bohjalian spins a suspenseful tale in which the plot triumphs over any single sorrow. . .[His] sense of character and place, his skillful plotting and his clear grasp of this confusing period of history make for a deeply satisfying novel, one that asks readers to consider, and reconsider, how they would rise to the challenge of terrible deprivation and agonizing moral choices." (To read the full review, click here.)"
"A bittersweet story of romance, war and death, inspired in part by a real diary. . .Strongly dramatic and full of the heartbreaking horror of war, this novel is Bohjalian at his imaginative best."
"A poignant account of the conflict's last year. . .Harrowing. . .In creating the Emmerichs and their relationship to Uri, Bohjalian has given us something new and disturbing. He has also created a wonderful character in the protected child, Theo, whose gradual understanding of what is happening to them is moving and real. . .Bohjalian has given us an important addition to the story of World War II, and, not at all incidentally, may expand the vision of those who may have avoided 'Holocaust literature' in the past." (To read the full review, click here)."
"Harrowing. . .ingenious. . .compelling. . .Judging who's right or wrong is difficult in 'Skeletons at the Feast,' and one senses that's just the way Bohjalian wants it. . .A tightly woven, moving story for anyone who thinks there's nothing left to learn, or feel, about the Second World War. That Bohjalian can extract greater truths about faith, hope and compassion from something as mundane as a diary is testament not only to his skill as a writer but also to the enduring ability of well-written war fiction to stir our deepest emotions."
"Reading Bohjalian's descriptions of terror and tragedy on the road has just as much impact as seeing newsreels from the end of World War II. . .While creating suspense, Bohjalian agilely balances the moral ambiguities of war." (To read the full review, click here.)"
"Once in a while a novel comes along that crawls into your soul from the first page and won't let go, even long after you've read the final word. Your perspective is changed; you've been transported to another place and time. Skeletons at the Feast is such a novel. . .Definitely a keeper, this book is very highly recommended."
"This story mixes the nail-biting brutality of T'he Kite Runner with the emotional intimacy of Anne Frank's diary."
""Bohjalian is a good storyteller; he doesn't flinch from the beyond-horrendous parts of the war, yet he infuses the hell- on-earth with hope through his characters. Cecile never loses hope, though it is often dimmed by outrageous violence. Uri, although painfully cynical for a young man, still has drive for one thing — he wants to tell the world what the Germans have done to the Jews. The Emmerichs march on for each other, even though the family is decimated. A death just as the family gains hope they will be safe is devastating and feels like a personal loss. That anyone survives the cold, disease, starvation, beatings, fear, anger, hatred and utter blind stupidity is a miracle, but Bohjalian makes it happen.""
"Bohjalian's Skeletons at the Feast is a deftly crafted and empathetically woven novel of survival and hope."
"Intense and fascinating. . .Bohjalian masterfully presents the desperation of troops who realize their cause is doomed.. . .He successfully captures the humanity of one of the 20th century's most horrendous tragedies."
"An extraordinary historical novel based on the exodus of Germans in eastern Germany escaping the Soviet Army's advance in the waning days of World War II. . . A sense of justice pervades all of [Bohjalian's'] books. He demands that we act humanely toward one another and understand and respect others' beliefs and values. . .Skeletons at the Feast is not a screed on good vs. evil, but it does inspire thought on man's inhumanity to man, and, conversely, how individuals overcome adversity with acts of kindness, civility and integrity,"
"Rich in character and gorgeous writing."
"Nail-biting, heart-ripping. . .truly brilliant. The reader of Skeletons at the Feast is quietly checkmated by Bohjalian into a radical compassion we've heard somewhere before: Love Thy Enemy . . . I loved this unforgettable novel." (To read the full review, click here.)"
"Riveting. . .an unforgettable finale. . .Chris Bohjalian handles the context of this story effortlessly and has created characters so engaging that any reader will find themselves connecting with these very real people.. . .I hail Bohjalian's new novel and its fearless account of one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century."
"A deeply moving and engrossing novel. . .Bohjalian has created a microcosm of that devastating winter of 1945. . . he makes us care deeply for his characters. His terse, dry prose renders the most appalling atrocities in an almost stoic manner, doubling the emotional impact."
"Skeletons at the Feast is a prime example of a well-written historical fiction. Readers will feel the despair experienced by the characters but will be able to find the bit of hope that keeps them moving forward. Bohjalian provides a vivid and well-researched look at the horrors experienced by the characters and presents a more personal account of anguish caused by the events of World War II."
"Sheer storytelling. . .an epic romance. . . Bohjalian is especially good at conveying the surreal 'beauty,' the misshapen lyricism, of the war-torn landscape . . . From harrowing to inspiring."
"Carefully researched detail and an unflinching eye . . . Bohjalian's well-chosen descriptions capture the anguish of a tragic era and the dehumanizing desolation wrought by war."
"Bohjalian demonstrates an intricate historical knowledge and impressively illustrates the stark horrors of the time...A compelling read with its mix of history, romance and portrayals of strength in the midst of severe adversity: War really is hell, the book says, but the human spirit is ultimately salvageable."
"A lush romance, reflecting resilience in the face of nearly certain tragedy....a trenchant epic that is both agonizing and enriching."
"Chris Bohjalian has written his finest novel to date, set against the brutal, waning days of World War Two in Eastern Germany....Skeletons at the Feast is Bohjalian's masterpiece. The power of the narrative will stay with the reader long after it is put down. Inspired by an actual World War II diary the author read, it will stand as one of the best novels ever written about one of the most brutal periods in history."
"Immensely readable...Bohjalian takes a fresh perspective and details the brutal realities of World War II in a novel that for once does not focus entirely on the Allies. Recommended for fiction collections."
"A fictional tale of love, violence and redemption. . . Bohjalian deftly moves from the journey to the back stories of each character, fleshing out their histories and making their choices more poignant as their friendship and interdependence develop. Who will live and who will die? The author keeps up the suspense until the last page, with a surprise twist at the end."


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As Iran celebrates the 30th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution, RFE/RL looks at the legacy of the revolution and its effect on Iran and the world. More
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