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Speedy-RepoInternet United States of America
Speedy-Repo I contacted this company via the internet, seeking assistance repossessing a personal vehicle from an individual. They faxed an application which required you to supply your bank information, with a Internet
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AUTHOR: Speedy Repo - (Canada)
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This customer was told that we required them to fax us a copy of the title along with our completed hold harmless including their credit card information. They faxed us the documents several times leaving the credit card information blank. We explained to them on several phone calls that we would not accept the repossession assignment without it.
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Here is a little secret I want to share with you. The most amazing at the Reichstag Building is across the Spree at the viewing platform of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus- the scientific service centre of the German Parliament. You can see the entire building and the shoreline from the glass platform. Although it's a public place nobody seems to know about this amazing spot. No tourists, no couples, no kids...
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Dear all,
I am going to plan to make a backup with a old server.
Previously, my guys told me that when using dd for clone like command
to make the clone results in hard disk corruption.
I am planning to work like this:
On the new machine:
1. Boot from live cd for else that supports networking.
2. Mount the local hard drive and format as ext3 (label: /)
3. rysnc the old machine root (/) to the new one.
Two machine hardware configuration is identicial, I would like to ask,
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The Vancouver Canucks (11-6-2) will close out their four-game road trip tonight when they play their second game in less than 24 hours taking on the Pacific Division-leading Anaheim Ducks (14-3-1).
If you thought last night's game against the Kings was a tough one for the Canucks, then tonight's tilt against the Ducks might measure off the scale on the difficulty meter. As good as the Kings have been all season – and they certainly were great last night knocking off the Canucks by a score of 5-1 – the Ducks have been all that much better and they've been virtually unstoppable lately having won four in a row and seven of their last eight games coming into this contest.
The Ducks, who are coming off a 6-2 over Buffalo on Friday, are also the only team left this season that has yet to suffer a loss of any sort on home ice having posted a record of 7-0-0 at the Honda Center. The Canucks will have to come up with a superb effort, not to mention ward off the effects of fatigue, if they hope to avoid dropping consecutive road games for just the second time this season and to return home with a record above .500 on their road swing.
Puck drop at 5 pm PT – Live on Sportsnet Pacific, THE TEAM 1040, or online at www.teamradio.ca.
1. Commit to playing 60 minutes. The Canucks can ill-afford getting off to a slow start or to have any major meltdowns as they did last night in Los Angeles if they want to come away with two points against a Ducks team that can make you pay for your mistakes.
2. Draw penalties and capitalize. If the Ducks have one glaring weakness it's their penalty kill which is only 75.9 percent efficient (although they are significantly better at home killing off 91.3 percent). The Ducks are also one of the least penalized teams in the NHL (surprise!) so Vancouver will need to do some work to get their opportunities.
3. Pancake stays hot. With all the talented forwards on the Ducks, you'd be surprised to learn the hottest Duck these days is none other than Dustin Penner, who was actually a healthy scratch earlier this season. Penner is on a five-game point streak (3-5-8) and is coming off a four-point game on Friday.
Ducks forward and future Hall-of-Famer Teemu Selane suited up in his 1,400th career NHL game on Friday in Anaheim's 6-2 win over Buffalo. In the process, he became just the 33rd player in NHL history to accomplish that feat.
In addition, Selanne is only one of two European-born NHL players to reach the 1,400-games plateau. Selanne, along with New Jersey's Jaromir Jagr, are the only two currently active NHL players with 1,400-or-more career games played.
.667 – Win pct. for the Canucks this season when playing on zero days rest (2-1-0).
1.000 – Win pct. for the Ducks this season when they score 3-or-more goals in a game (11-0-0).
2 – Straight wins for the Canucks at the Honda Center, including a 5-0 win in their lone visit there last season.
3.44 – Average goals per game for the Ducks this season, way up from last season's 2.79 average.
7 – Game home win streak to start the season for the Ducks, longest in franchise history.
8 – Straight games without a regulation loss for the Ducks (7-0-1).
For the Canucks…
F Dale Weise (leg), F Jannik Hansen (upper body), and F Jordan Schroeder (sprained ankle) are on the injured reserve list.
For the Ducks…
F Matt Beleskey (upper body), F Saku Koivu (upper body), F Jakob Silfverberg (broken right hand) and G Viktor Fasth (lower body) are on the injured reserve list. D Sheldon Souray (torn right wrist tendon) is on the non-roster injured reserve list.
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By DEALS INDIA STAFF
News roundup from Indian newspapers, news wires and websites on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013. Deals India has not verified the stories from other media organizations and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Reviewing Options Over Orient-Express: Indian Hotels
Tata group's hospitality firm Indian Hotels is reviewing options regarding its failed $1.86 billion bid to acquire Orient-Express Hotels. Last year in October, IHCL had made a bid for $1.86 billion to acquire all outstanding class A shares of Orient-Express Hotels, which termed the offer as "unsolicited". (Source: Business Today)
Dr Reddy's Laboratories Acquires 93% Shares of OctoPlus
Dr Reddy's Laboratories, which is in the process of acquiring Netherlands-based specialty pharmaceutical company OctoPlus for about 27.4 million euro, has so far managed to get nearly 93% shares of the firm in its favor. (Source: Economic Times)
NTPC JV Gets Largest Loan Ever from REC
State-owned power financier, Rural Electrification Corporation gave its largest loan ever of Rs 87.75 billion to NTPC and Bihar State Electricity Electricity Board's power project. (Source: Business Standard)


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DJ1766 departs Brisbane at 10am, arriving in Port Macquarie at 12.25pm – it's actually just a 1.5 hour trip, but the difference in summer time between Queensland and NSW 'adds' an extra hour.
On the other hand, that time difference means that flight DJ1763 leaves Port Macquarie at 10.10am to land in Brisbane just 20 minutes later, at 10.30 am.
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(Click here for an inside look at the fuel-efficient 68 seater, which Virgin Australia chief John Borghetti trumpets as "the best aircraft to operate on regional routes throughout Australia".)
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The Sirui P-224 4-Section Carbon Fiber Monopod is a portable, lightweight camera support that sets up quickly and is ideal for fast moving situations like sporting events, where tripods lack portability and take up too much room.
The monopod has a maximum height of 66.9", folds down to 22" and supports up to 22 lb while weighing in at only 1.1 lb. This updated version of the P-224 has smaller, more ergonomically designed twist locks, allowing you to more easily collapse and expand the monopod. The rubber foot twists to reveal a retractable stainless steel spike to maintain stability on hard or soft surfaces. Its head mounting platform has a reversible 1/4"-20 & 3/8"-16 screw to accommodate your choice of ball or pan head. A foam grip on the top section provides comfort when holding or carrying the monopod. A carrying case is included with the monopod to protect it during transport.
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Linda Hammond's Aug. 19 letter ("Still a special break for Congress") took issue with The Journal's PolitiFact ruling on Jim Langevin's statement that members of Congress will have to buy insurance through the Obamacare insurance exchanges (but which conveniently left out that their premiums will be ultra-heavily subsidized). Her letter was followed by a very long explanation from PolitiFact editor Tim Murphy.
When the editor has to go into such detail about how PolitiFact goes about the oh-so-convenient rulings that all too often happen to label Democrats' statements as "true," anyone can see why the Politifact column is also known as Politi-crat, Demo-fact, and, in this latest case, may as well be known as Cherry-Pick-a-Fact.
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Reichardt 1985 Category: Symmetrical biraphid
BASIONYM: Navicula cryptocephala f. terrestris Lund 1946
Contributor: Loren Bahls - June 2012
Length Range: 22-38 µm
Width Range: 4.8-6.9 µm
Striae in 10 µm: 14-18
Valves are lanceolate with rounded, unprotracted to weakly subrostrate apices. The axial area is narrow. The central area is transpically expanded and asymmetric. The raphe is filiform and straight, with weakly expanded proximal ends. Striae are curved and radiate near the valve middle, becoming straight and parallel to weakly convergent near the apices. Striae in the central area are irregularly shortened. Areolae in the striae are fine and difficult to resolve in LM.
This widespread, but little known and difficult to identify taxon, lacks distinguishing features and has characteristics of several other Navicula species. Correct identification requires consideration of all morphological characters.
Basionym: Navicula cryptocephala f. terrestris
Author: Lund 1946
Length Range: 13-23 µm
Width Range: 4-6 µm
Striae in 10 µm: 15-20
Valves (13-23 µ l.; 4-6 µ br.) elliptic-lanceolate to lanceolate, margins typically convex (Fig. 9 H-L), but occasionally almost parallel centrally (Fig. 9 P, Q); one margin may be flattened centrally while the other is weakly convex, so that the valve has a cymbelloid appearance (Fig. 9 N, O, R, S). Apices sharply (Fig. 9 L) or obtusely (Fig. 9 N, O, R-U) rounded, sometimes weakly rostrate (Fig. 9 P, Q, U-W). Axial area narrow, central area transapically dilated. Branches of the raphe straight. Striae (15-20 in 10 µ) curved and radial except near the apices, where they are straight and parallel to weakly convergent.
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Bahls, L. (2012). Navicula lundii. In Diatoms of the United States. Retrieved August 29, 2016, from http://westerndiatoms.colorado.edu/taxa/species/navicula_lundii
Species: Navicula lundii
Contributor: Loren Bahls
Reviewer: Sarah Spaulding
Lange-Bertalot, H. (2001). Navicula sensu stricto, 10 genera separated from Navicula sensu lato, Frustulia. Diatoms of Europe 2: 1-526.
Lund, J.W.G. (1946). Observations on soil algae. I. The ecology, size and taxonomy of British soil diatoms. Part 2. The New Phytologist 45(1): 56-110.
Reichardt, E. (1985). Diatomeen an feuchten Felsen des südlichen Frankenjuras. Ber. Bayer. Bot. Ges. 56: 167-187.
Navicula lundii is widely distributed in moist soils and wet habitats, such as walls and seeps. In the Northwest U.S., these habitats occur in all states and ecoregions and typically have alkaline waters with average to moderately elevated dissolved solids (see table below). Small numbers of N. lundii are also present in headwater streams and along lake shores that are subject to seepage and erosion. Here it is probably an incidental floristic component.
Abundance-weighted means of selected water quality variables measured concurrently with the collection of samples containing Navicula lundii.
Credit/Source: Montana Diatom Database
Charlie Creek, Richland County, Montana: home of Navicula lundii.
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Man who committed crime another wrongly imprisoned for says he's sorry
Lemondo Simmons has admitted that he and a friend kidnapped a couple from Dallas' West End years ago, and that they raped the woman and terrorized another couple. But neither Simmons nor his friend, Byron Bell, ever served time for the crime.
And because the statute of limitations has expired, they never will.
Instead, another man, Patrick Waller, was convicted in the case despite proclaiming his innocence. He was in prison for nearly 16 years before prosecutors agreed last year that he was wrongly convicted and he was set free in July.
Now Simmons, 36, sits behind bars – where he likely would have been all along – accused of another violent crime and facing a possible life sentence. He said in an interview this week from the Dallas County Jail that he wishes Waller hadn't gone to prison for something he did.
"I was sorry for what we had done," Simmons said in explaining why he confessed last year to the 1992 crime. "I was young, but now I'm a Christian and remorseful."
Waller, who is taking classes at the University of Texas at Arlington, said Wednesday that he has never spoken to Simmons or Bell.
"That's the first time I've heard something from either of them about me," Waller said when told of Simmons' apology. "I don't know what to think about it."


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I'm blogging this report to let you all know of the incident which had occur to me on , 01/01/09. edp reporting company from their online web service had taken out a fee of $ 99.00 on 01/01/09 as a one time debit fee for some credit platinum card which they claimed that i had signed up for , which I know I didn't! I did however apply for an online payday cash loan from national lending company in December, I'm sure they must have gotten my checking account # through the loan company!, talk about an upset individual.! it caused my bank account to overdraw by hundreds of dollars , as an alert i changed my account to be safe, will never apply for online loans or maybe even credit cards online. plese be alert'!! I did the cash loan thinking i was supposed to be secure, but not!
i'm now waiting for the refund if i don't receive it i will press legal action' !!
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Over the last few days I've been having problems using the provided update
methods - urpmi and MandrivaUpdate. My urpmi.cfg is setup to use the
mirrorlist approach rather than having the media URLs hard-coded.
The mirror names are found OK and the remote MD5SUM file downloaded OK. The
actual required files appear to be located OK, however at least some of the
actual rpm file downloads don't happen properly - very slow download with
speed and ETA values set at strange values.
The interesting thing is that I can use my browser to go to the relevant
media location and download the required rpm without any fuss and at normal
speed for my configuration.
Has anyone else seen this behaviour? It may just be a specific mirror
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In a first for North America, a fully automatic machine aseptically fills and seals presterilized bags. Rated at 60 bags/min, the unit fills volumes from 50 to 1000 mL. The space-saving design features a robotic infeed and outfeed, laser printing of variable data, print-quality confirmation by a camera-based vision system, shelf-life-extending evacuation or nitrogen flushing, a clean- or sterilize-in-place product path, and fully automated changeover (BFL 854 aseptic bag filler–sealer, Plümat North America, Naperville, IL).
A vacuum system gently transfers solid dosage forms from bulk boxes, bag-lined drums, bags, or intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) to the hoppers of filling machines. The automated system eliminates manual handling, lifting, and climbing to reach hopper heights, as well as the need to suspend IBCs above packaging machines. The system also dedusts as it transfers, thus eliminating the need for a separate dedusting operation. For flat-bottomed drums, which are difficult to empty completely, a collar on the vacuum wand draws the bag liner inward to shift remaining product to the center for capture by the vacuum. If necessary, the system can use conditioned air or be sealed to limit operator exposure to the product (No Tip Unloader, Volkmann, Neuss, Germany).


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April 30, 2003
Large Solar Power Systems Online in New Jersey and California
The number of large solar power installations in the United States continued to grow in recent weeks, including two new projects in the half-megawatt range in California and New Jersey.
New Jersey was actually graced with two new solar power installations: a 500-kilowatt system, installed on the roof of Janssen Pharmaceutica in Titusville, and a 275-kilowatt system installed by BP in Paulsboro. The BP installation is located on the site of a former petroleum and specialty chemicals storage facility, and was supported by the New Jersey Clean Energy Program and the Virginia Alliance for Solar Energy. PowerLight Corporation installed the larger Titusville system. See the press releases from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities and BP.
PowerLight was also responsible for a 536-kilowatt solar electric system installed at the headquarters of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. in Torrance, California. The 624,000-square-foot building complex opened to the public on Earth Day, April 22nd. It is the largest facility yet to earn the Gold Level Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system. It incorporates direct-indirect lighting, high efficiency insulation and thermally insulated glass, exceeding California's energy efficiency targets by more than 20 percent. The Torrance facility also houses Toyota's hydrogen fueling and service station. See the Toyota press release and accompanying photos.
PowerLight has been busy lately: The company also installed a 21.6-kilowatt system in Boston and a 120-kilowatt system at a California winery. See the PowerLight press releases.
With so many solar power systems being installed in the United States, it's hard to keep track—which is one reason why the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) is building a database of commercial solar power installations. SEPA is just beginning to build its database, so if your company's project isn't listed, the association encourages you to submit it. See the SEPA Commercial Solar Electric Installation Inventory.


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Russell W. Densmore, 75, of Streetsboro died Jan. 16, 2014.
Born Oct. 13, 1938 to the late Elmer and Nellie (Sheldon) Densmore, Mr. Densore was an avid auto racing fan.
He is survived by his sons, Denis Densmore of Baton Rouge, La., Robert Densmore of Jamestown, Tenn., Todd (Crystal) Densmore of Louisville, Ky.; brothers Richard Densmore of Seattle, Wash. and Charles Densmore of Garrettsville; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and his sister-in-law, Mary Densmore of Streetsboro.
A funeral service will take place at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 23 in Evergreen Cemetery in Streetsboro with the Rev. William Synder officiating.


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Published: Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 12:04 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 12:04 p.m.
ST. PETERSBURG | A small portion of Bay News 9's seven-county viewing area could get rain today, and it may be fairly substantial.
According to Bay News 9 meteorologist Josh Linker a sea breeze off the Gulf of Mexico will run into an sea breeze off the Atlanta Ocean later today, and that's likely to produce showers and some thunderstorms in the middle of the state.
"By this evening, we'll see some heavier showers, perhaps some thunderstorms, in the farthest reaches of our area," Linker said. "Most of us will not see any rain today. Some of us will, and it could be pretty heavy along inland spots. We'll have a similar setup tomorrow."
The trend toward warmer continues will continue - especially inland, where highs could get above 90 degrees, Linker said. The coastal areas will be dry and a little cooler because of the sea breeze, Linker said.
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Jobless rate climbs as employers shed 51,000 jobs
Published: Friday, August 1, 2008 at 10:19 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, August 1, 2008 at 10:19 a.m.
The nations employers eliminated 51,000 jobs in July, the seventh consecutive contraction in the labor market, as the unemployment rate reached a four-year high, signs that the pressure on business owners and consumers is likely to continue.
Still, the decline in the job market has softened since the spring. The number of layoffs was less than the 75,000 that economists had expected, and the government said that businesses cut fewer jobs in June and May than previously reported.
Still, the nations unemployment rate has steadily moved higher. In July, it rose to 5.7 percent from 5.5 percent in June, its highest level since March 2004.
The steepest losses came in the manufacturing, construction and trade industries. Administrative and retail workers also slipped.
Stocks on Wall Street opened flat, as investors weighed the better-than-expected jobs figures against a $15.5 billion quarterly loss at General Motors.
Businesses have been cutting workers since the start of the year, in an effort to make ends meet amid an economic slowdown. While export sales have risen, many American customers have ratcheted back their spending to cope with expensive fuel and food and the ailing housing market.
The payroll report is the second major snapshot of the economy in 24 hours: on Thursday, the government reported that the economy grew 1.9 percent from April to June, less than economists had hoped. The disappointing number came despite the injection of billions of dollars into the economy from the governments tax rebate program. Some analysts took that as an indication that the economy would continue to struggle until the end of the year.
So far, though, the nation has avoided the traditional definition of a recession, two consecutive quarters of contraction in gross domestic product. But economists have pointed to the steady erosion of the labor market as a sign that many Americans are facing significant financial problems, making the recession debate more a matter of semantics.
To workers, its a recession, John Lonski, the chief economist at Moodys Investor Service, said. And really what matters in the end is whats taking place in payrolls and the unemployment rate, and theyre both moving in the direction of a labor market recession. How can you argue with that?
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Next, Natalie details a variety of common one-light and two-light lighting techniques, explaining exposure, metering considerations, and light modifiers along the way.
The course concludes with several lighting tips, including minimizing physical challenges and do-it-yourself lighting gear instructions.
- Understanding lighting positions
- Deconstructing photos to study lighting
- Lighting a portrait for a Rembrandt pattern
- Backlighting in portraits
- Examining a four-light portrait scenario
- Lighting for different skin tones
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Backlight isn't normally referred to as a key light even though it's often the brightest light in the setup. The key light would be the light that shapes the body from the front. As you'll see in the first setup, Evey was looking directly at the camera with a light behind and above her. The reflector then became my key light. Natalie Fobes: So today Sam, I want to have more of a dramatic look than we had on the other sessions. We are going to be working with one light. This is going to be in a backlight situation in the position.
It's going to increase the drama, working with one light and having a lot of shadows always increases the drama of a photograph. Sam: Okay. Natalie Fobes: So go ahead and take the diffuser off here while I do a little bit of adjustment here. How you are doing Evey? Evey: I am good. Natalie Fobes: Good. Okay, so just go ahead and relax a little bit I am going to fuss with your hair a little just to get it ready. We've got some beautiful light for you today. I am so excited about doing this, all right. Sam: Is that square enough for you Natalie? Natalie Fobes: No, yeah square it up please, that'd be nice.
And bring it forward toward me just a wee bit. There you go, that should be fine. Sam: Good. Natalie Fobes: Okay so what I am looking Sam is that I don't want any of that spill on her face; I want it only to highlight her hair and her shoulders. Look at the beautiful shadows that are happening right through here. We are going to do a few things with reflectors. I don't want to bring in a second fill or a second light to fill, because it's--I don't want to overpower this beautiful light that we have happening here, and so let's see what we can do with some reflector. Sam: Okay.
Natalie Fobes: Go ahead and let's pull this black cloth back. You know this will act a little bit more like what we have out in nature when we have a hard backlight situation. Sam: Like bouncing off the white. Natalie Fobes: It's bouncing off, you can see how it added just a little bit and you know maybe half a stop of balance to her face. Why don't we go ahead and let's try the mirror first. Sam: Okay. Natalie Fobes: This is kind of a cool technique, I love this because I can actually make it a spotlight right there, spot on her face.
So if we want to hold that I am going to take a quick shot. Sam: Okay. Natalie Fobes: We still have that beautiful backlight and we have a nice spot on her face. Now this is the--this is almost as bright as the backlight, in this situation though I think that the specular highlight is too much. Sam: It really is like a spotlight. Natalie Fobes: It does, it's a beautiful light, but I think not for you because your features are so gorgeous.
So let's put that down and take a look at our insulation board. Sam: This one? Natalie Fobes: Yeah. I got this at the hardware store on Saturday, I love it, I love it; it's just so awesome. And look at the light that bounces in her. Sam: Oh yeah. Natalie Fobes: Okay, so I want you to work a little bit, move it around to see about angle of incidence or reflection and see how it changes. Right about there is your maximum reflection back into her face. Let me take a shot there.
But you know I think I like it better this way. Let's feather it out so that we have a nice no shadow there, beautiful. All right, Evey you want to give me a little smile? Oh there you go. And we have got some beautiful specular highlights happening in her eyes. They are a little bit low so let's pull this off and I want to do a little softer light. So let's grab the white, white foam core, I got that at the art store. So bring it on in and again work the angle of incidence or reflection.
Let's see, oh yeah there you go, all right. And it is a much softer light. And you can see in her--the reflection in her eyes, you can see that it's much broader and softer. So I think in this situation I'm going to try something different. I'm not happy with the way our reflectors are working today. So go ahead and let's do a profile. I love profiles. Especially in this situation in this kind of light, the backlight.
If you're in a situation where you don't have reflection or can't reflect or put a fill in, you can still get a beautiful shot. Sam: It's a great outline too, yeah. Natalie Fobes: Showing the person yeah let me take a couple of quick ones. And if you really lean forward, really lean forward. Now you have got a little bit of a hair, I am going to pull this back. So lean forward from the chest, there you go.
And twist your body just a little bit toward me. Oops that's too much! Just your face back, there you are. Okay now really, really stretch, there you go, nice, nice. That's getting there. Sam: Yeah. Natalie Fobes: See how pretty it is on the profile of her face? Sam: Yeah it's so dramatic. Natalie Fobes: It's so dramatic and that's the shadows. You know shadows make a photograph very dramatic. I want to do a little bit of changing of the background, now I want to make it a little darker and I want to change out the light. It's not quite there.
So Evey swing around here and why don't you go ahead and pull your hair back for me, that's oh! Hold on, go ahead and do that, let's see, oh great. Let me take a couple of shots here. Oh that is gorgeous! And have your eyes up toward the light, I want to get the catch light in there. Oh, nice, nice! Okay one more shot and go ahead and maybe have your hand maybe really over like that. There you go, nice.
Sweet! You are going to love this. Sam: Wow that's amazing. When you are about to change everything. Natalie Fobes: Yeah, I know yeah. Well that's a bonus shot. That's a bonus shot. The light was great up for this shot. So anyway, go ahead and take a break. We are going to change out the background and the lighting and we'll be right back with you. Sam: Okay. Natalie Fobes: Okay, so for this one I am thinking that we want to pull this over here and let's--we will get a black background. Sam: Okay, on this side I'll put a new back drop up, okay.
Natalie Fobes: Okay Sam, I am going to have you do a little bit of tweaking here. So go ahead and assume the position Evey. Sam: Natalie why do we bring it down this way as opposed to lighting from the top like we were back lighting earlier? Natalie Fobes: Well I really wanted to emphasize her profile. It's just gorgeous. And the top, having the light on the top was creating a rim light around her whole upper body. Sam: Right okay. Natalie Fobes: So this when I finally get it tweaked you'll see that this is just spectacular.
Sam: Okay. Natalie Fobes: Okay, so push it back that way just a little, like a hair. Good, excellent, excellent, yeah looks good. So come on over here I want to show you something really cool. Okay so, take a look at that very slender--slim little highlight right here. That's bounce from the floor. Isn't that beautiful? Sam: Yeah it's great. Natalie Fobes: Just a small detail like that will make a difference in the photograph.
So let me take a meter reading here. You never want to use your camera meter when you're metering in this situation because the camera is going to take a look at the scene, it's going to want to make the shadows a medium gray. I don't want the shadows to be medium. Sam: No you want them to stay dark. Natalie Fobes: I want them to stay dark. And so this will be using my incident meter, I'm still getting it about at F4 but that's okay, because of the angle that I am photographing, there is that nice angle of incidence law coming in again where it's coming in and bouncing back.
So it's actually going to give me a little bit more of a highlight than what my meter is indicating. You'll see in a minute. It's going to be cool. Okay, so really stretch out, really stretch out, there you go. And put your head down just a little bit, there you go. Oh nice, that is so nice. This is going to be great. See how that's working? But now we are going to add a light here. Sam: Yeah it's real dark. Natalie Fobes: Yeah it's really dark, but grab that reflector and let's get it in here.
I want it just rimming her--her arm, okay. So pull it back just a little bit, back that way. I am getting a little flare off of it and raise it up. Yup there you go, nice, oh nice. Evey you are going to love this. Okay, and now put it down and turn your nose toward me. There you go, gorgeous.
So what I am doing here is concentrating just on her eyes. That's great! Hey how about, you have got your sunglasses, right? Evey: Oh yeah. Natalie Fobes: Yeah go ahead and put them on. There, go ahead and have your head up, oh yeah. And twist a little bit back toward me, okay and that's a little too much about--there you go. A little bit more, a little more, there. So what's happening Sam is that the sunglasses are reflecting that light, the specular highlight on that light is fantastic.
And it's just coming in and giving a little bit more of an interest to that part of the face, not that we needed that, but it still is kind of more, kind of a modern, kind of zoomy look, whereas before I was working with some of the classic lines and poses. So I think this is going to be fantastic. In the second setup, I moved the light to camera right and had Evey turn in profile. At that point the backlight did become the key light.
I love the variety of photographs I was able to get from this one light setup. I worked with poses and compositions and when I added the sunglasses, it resulted in a clean modern look. This photo session reminded me that you should always be ready for the unexpected. When Evey pulled her hair back, she naturally looked up into the light. I loved it and took a few moments to photograph her in that position. It was a totally unplanned photograph that resulted in one more fantastic look.


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It's a scary thought being almost done with school and having to start looking into getting a job. Luckily, the industry doesn't want a good brain to go to waste, so luckily someone on the inside is putting together this nice little guide for breaking into the game industry. I will most likely keep putting this series up as I see them update.


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Rain's Dating of Tae-hee Becomes PR Problem
The new year started off with big romantic news in the South Korean entertainment industry: actress Kim Tae-hee is dating singer Rain.
But the news, broken on Tuesday morning by an entertainment news Web site called Dispatch.co.kr, seems to have turned into a PR headache for Rain.
The couple first met in 2011 by doing a TV commercial for Coupang, the social commerce Web company. Ms. Kim's agency confirmed the report. "They are in a process of getting to know each other more with good feelings," her agency said, adding they've been a couple for about a month.
For much of Tuesday, South Korean online message boards were with fans expressing surprise at the news. "I think I just saw news that Rain is dating Kim Tae-hee and I must have been still in half asleep," one person wrote on Twitter.
But as the day wore on, the focus on Rain shifted to whether he was living up to his military service commitment. The singer, whose full name is Jung Ji-hoon, is in the midst of his 21-month stint in the South Korean Army, but some fans began to question whether he is getting too much vacation time from the military.
Typically a person serving in military can take up to 28 days of vacation for the 21-month period, with some additional stand-downs that don't exceed 60 days overall.
In response to the online uproar, the Ministry of National Defense said Wednesday it would investigate whether Rain violated regulations.
Ms. Kim begins work on a new TV drama for SBS in March.


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Jerry Yahiro believes he knows why, more than 38 years after the last U.S. troops returned from Southeast Asia, America is still trying to give Vietnam veterans a proper welcome home.
"A lot of it is because of the national guilt I think our country still suffers today," said Yahiro, a Danville resident and Army veteran who saw combat in the Vietnam War.
Veterans Day is an observance intended for all U.S. veterans from all wars. But there is a movement, more than a decade old and still gaining momentum, to give Vietnam veterans something more -- namely the homecoming they were denied decades ago.
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day was first proposed by 63-year-old Army veteran Jose Ramos, of Whittier. It calls for an observance each March 30, the anniversary of the day in 1973 when the final American troops withdrew from Vietnam. To date, 24 states have either enacted legislation for an ongoing observance or passed a one-time resolution, with half coming on board in 2011. (Some states cite March 29.)
Barbara Boxer is one of four Senators and Representatives who signed a letter to President Barack Obama in May urging him to make Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day an annual federal observation.
"Establishing a national day of recognition for veterans of the Vietnam War will honor their service and show the deep gratitude our nation feels for these brave men and women," Boxer said in a release announcing the letter.
"That, to me, would be disrespectful to World War I veterans and World War II veterans that have gone before us," said Walnut Creek's John Reese, a Navy vet who served three tours in Vietnam. "And Korean vets. I also think it would be somewhat disrespectful putting us on a pedestal, that we are somehow above those serving today."
No one disputes that many Vietnam veterans got a chilly reception when they returned from serving in a divisive, unpopular conflict. Not all of them have horror stories to tell, but it seems they all know someone who does.
"I had friends who had some very bad experiences," said Yahiro, a native of Hawaii. "Some were based on ethnicity. Being Asian, many of my friends were singled out as, 'This is what the enemy looks like.' Other friends were spat upon."
"There are some bitter stories in our group," said Reese, a member of the Vietnam Veterans of Diablo Valley.
For some, no reaction was a good reaction.
"I don't recall being treated badly, anywhere, anytime," said Tim Haslem, a Walnut Creek resident who was an infantryman in Vietnam. "There certainly weren't any welcome home parades or ceremonies."
The make-good effort began barely five years after the war's end, when President Jimmy Carter signed legislation dedicating a spot on the Washington mall for a memorial to those who had served in Vietnam. The wall opened in 1982. Replica walls, scaled-down versions of the original, began touring the country in 1984 -- one is on display at Cupertino's Memorial Park through Saturday. In October 2000, 25 state governors signed proclamations officially welcoming home Vietnam veterans. It was called "The Final Mission."
Ramos wanted more.
"I came back with a lot of survivor's guilt," said Ramos, a medic who served a year in combat. "I belonged to a PTSD group. I went to (weekly meetings) without fail for 12 years. Of the guys in those groups, six passed. As these guys went down, I thought, isn't this rude? Shouldn't America say, 'Thank you for your service'?"
Ramos began his grass-roots movement in 2000. His first goal, a proclamation from Whittier, was achieved in 2002. "I wanted to show there was at least one city in country that cares," he said.
From there he got Rep. Linda Sanchez to introduce the idea to Congress. He rode his motorcycle to Washington, D.C., and knocked on politicians' doors. In 2009, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day into California law.
"I wanted it because we deserved it," Ramos said. "What I didn't know was that America really felt bad."
Haslem likes the idea of a special day for Vietnam veterans.
"I was talking to another veteran," he said, "and he said something that rang true for me: 'In the last 40 years, I spent 35 years trying to forget about all that, and the last five trying to remember.' Maybe it is time to remember it in another context."
There is anecdotal evidence to suggest that the process has been ongoing for years. As a member of the Vietnam Veterans of Diablo Valley, Reese has received rousing ovations at public appearances. It was in Danville's Fourth of July parade, about 15 years ago, that he received his first heartfelt welcome home.
"A woman stepped out of the crowd and hugged me and said, 'Welcome home,' " he said. "I broke down. I didn't know how to handle it."
Reese now handles it by paying it forward, assisting the group in flag-waving welcome-homes for soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We'd rather look at what we're doing as a group to serve fellow veterans," he said.
"What happened in the past cannot be corrected by establishing a separate date to honor Vietnam veterans," Yahiro said. "I feel that what we need to put the emphasis on is never, ever letting that happen again."
What: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall traveling display
Where: Cupertino Memorial Park on Stevens Creek Boulevard across from De Anza College
When: Through 3 p.m. Sunday; official dedication ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday
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A Yahoo! User Feb 13, 2009 18:24 Flag
Different cloud but silver lining...
Morning John, it's not that I have a Downer on him, as you put it, it's just that he never appears to have that quality I expect from a Spurs player.
Yes although we have a lot of talented players, I know there are plenty of others in the squad that come under that heading, but they don't play up front and their errors aren't so magnified as those of a striker's.
This position really highlights the player's quality touch and their vision to see what's happening around them.
I'm afraid IMO Bent has no vision of other player's position and his touch let's him down too often.
He doesn't seem to notice a player's run past him, into a more dangerous position, crying out for a little through ball into the space. His supposed touch was there for all to see when he cost us 2 vital points, missing that sitter in front of goal a couple of weeks ago.
On the funnier side, Harry's missus obviously has better ball control, although I don't think they have a lot of kids. Lol Tee Hee!!!!!!!!!!!!Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
...but would you then rather have a striker that's smooth and silky who scores 10 a season, or a clumsy carthorse that gets 15?...
Do you remember a couple of seasons back when Drogba (why does that always remind me of Porridge?) mis-hit every goal that he got? Off the shin, off his nose, off his bum - but they all count - and does he look that bad now? OK, yes .......
Bent will be there. He's getting in the positions - even 'that' header - who was with him? He was by himself - that's where good strikers find themselves...
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A Yahoo! User Feb 13, 2009 20:30 Flag
Fair comment John.
But I'm afraid I like to see more contribution from a stiker than just a goal tally. 15 might seem good but if that's the only contribution then I'm sorry that's not good enough.
Keane and Berba both scored 20+ goals and had as many assists. I just can't see Bent having many ticks in the assisting column.
Strickly my opinion.


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Counter Monkeys in New York?
Well they might not be Counter Monkeys, but 2 years ago i went to The Big Apple and had the pleasure of riding the New York Subway system. 722 miles of sights, sounds, and bumpy rides. The most impressive thing to me was an amazing display of Mosaics that lined much of the walls. Ranging from animals to hats, I enjoyed them all! If you haven't been able to see them, I feel it's a must when visiting the NYC.
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It's quite amazing for two teams from the same town to be playing each other in the final of the Champions League. It's unique! It means that half the city will be will be happy, and half of it will be sad at the end of the match.
But we football lovers, we only wish that we will see a nice match. All the ingredients are here. One team is more compact, relies more on defence, and the other team is more skilled, twirling and fast. But, ultimately, both are counter-attacking teams, and the first goal will set the tone for the rest of the final.
It's a nice clash of styles. Diego Simeone's team plays like him, with a lot of fighting spirit and aggressiveness, but also a lot of tactical discipline. He did a wonderful job with Atletico. Carlo Ancelotti too at Real.
The Italian has integrated well in the Spanish team. Ancelotti is able to well adapt anywhere because he has real human intelligence and he quickly understands how it will go.
I think he had a great season, as he does everywhere he goes. Real want to win this final so badly. If they lose it, they will be really disappointed. At the end, 12 months of hard work will be decided on details, and it's a bit hard to accept it.
You have to forget the idea that the manager is responsible for the result of a final. As a manager, you control the quality of the work all year long. But the greatest players make the difference during matches.
An important match is quite easy to analyse: your goalkeeper has to save one or two dangerous shots, and one of your best players has to appear and make the difference. It's as simple as that. If your goalkeeper does not have a good day, if your best player is having a bad day, you are much more likely to lose the final.
The outcome of the final will depend on big players. Naturally, all other players must play well too, but the difference will be made by these players. And it's hard to bet on anything.
Atletico have managed their most important matches well in recent years: they were present in the Europa League, in the European Super Cup. The real pressure will be on Real.
Atletico will have the advantage of being the outsiders who are able to destroy their rivals. They are really good at this, and I was very impressed when they played against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
The real question with Atletico is: how far will they be able to go physically? They don't have a lot of extra players and this team has given a lot.
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The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man Power Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Draw the bolts," said the man with the black beard, "and if he comes—" He showed a revolver in his hand.
"That won't do," said the policeman; "that's murder." (16.17-8)
Here's a traditional symbol of power: the gun. (Actually you could probably write an interesting paper on all the times guns come up in this book, what with this gun, the costume-shop owner's gun, and Kemp's gun that the Invisible Man takes.) But notice that as soon as the man with the black beard claims some power, the policeman shoots him down with yet another form of power: the law (which would declare shooting a man as an act of murder). He (almost) fought the law and the law won.
Quote #5
"And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none." (19.38)
Sometimes power is blinding. Period. Well, period plus one other thing. Notice the three benefits he mentions: "the mystery, the power, the freedom." Is he saying that power and freedom go together? What do you think?
Quote #6
"I did not know what he would do, nor even what he had the power to do." (20.39)
Here, the Invisible Man tells Kemp about his experience in London with his landlord. In this part of the never-ending story, the Invisible Man is worried that the landlord might have some power over him. But the (legal) power that the landlord has is very different from the (illegal) power that the IM has (post-invisibility).


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It happens every year in minor league baseball, good players are promoted to different teams. The Chukars felt the first sting of promotions on Wednesday as pitcher Zeb Sneed and Infielder Nick Cuckovich were promoted to Class A Lexington. Both players were in their second seasons with Idaho Falls.
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NEW DELHI: The aviation space is witnessing one of the worst turmoil of recent times, however one growth story in the sector, i.e. airport infrastructure development, is still intact, suggests the latest KPMG report on airports in India.
NEW DELHI: The aviation space is witnessing one of the worst turmoil of recent times, however one growth story in the sector, i.e. airport infrastructure development, is still intact, suggests the latest KPMG report on airports in India.
Ideally this infrastructure development should have preceded the rapid growth in the sector, but that not being the case, it has made it imperative to bridge the gap now. The current downturn provides an opportunity to bridge this supply gap in airport infrastructure and be ready for the next wave of growth hits India, says the report.
The Indian aviation sector is undergoing a turmoil resulting from the global meltdown, leading to a subsequent decline in traffic and rise in costs. Indian airlines have been considerably impacted by this and are resorting to unconventional measures to tide over. Sole reliance on cost cutting is also not an easily achievable option.
However, what may change as a result of the economic slowdown in the development process is the mechanism of financing the growth. In the absence of significant liquidity in the market, AAI and private airport developers may have to rely more on internal accruals and equity for financing these projects and decrease dependency on external debt.
Low cost carriers, which opened the skies for the average Indian traveler, have underpinned the growth story of Indian aviation. With less than 5% of the Indian population currently travelling by air, there is a large untapped market, which could continue to fuel growth in the sector. To capitalize on this opportunity the key stakeholders in the airports industry need to focus on enabling regulations and infrastructure for low cost carriers.
The KPMG report, titled 'Indian Airports – Global Landing Ground', tries to map the journey of airport development by analyzing the role played by its key stakeholders, the challenges faced at a micro and macro level and the opportunities present in the current landscape.
A new urban infrastructure form is on the anvil as suggested in a recent report on airports by KPMG. 'Aerotropolis', as it is commonly referred to, is a cluster of aviation oriented businesses around airports and transportation corridors emerging from them. An Aerotropolis has an 'airport city' as its core, which comprises retail malls, leisure and culture centres, logistics and air cargo, hotels and entertainment and is surrounded by clusters of aviation related enterprise.
Speaking on the report release, Rajeev B Batra, executive director, KPMG, said, "Airports in India are a future potential area not just from an aviation perspective but also from a real estate point of view. While this might be a new phenomenon in India, globally, airports have embraced the concept of developing the surrounding commercial areas."
The KPMG report takes a look at how the 'low cost airports' and 'non operational airports' have the potential to be the next step for the Indian airports industry. Besides offering the advantage of enhancing connectivity across the country, these airports shall also help in rationalizing costs incurred by the airlines and decongesting traffic at regular airports. The report suggests that these airports shall also provide much-needed relief for 'low cost carriers' whose financial position has been negatively impacted by rising aviation fuel prices and operational costs. These airports shall further the 'no frills experience' being offered by the low cost carriers currently.
The study has an optimistic outlook towards the future of airport retail as well. Key findings of the study suggest that the takers for airport retail are spread across industries and service providers. The food and beverages players have showed the maximum interest in creating a presence in airports, and are closely followed by fashion houses and consumer durable players. Most international luxury brands consider setting up shop in Indian airports as a definite part of their global strategy.
Also, passengers are a key stakeholder in the entire process of airport development in India as they are the end users of the facilities and drivers of revenue growth. The report highlights the lack of representation for this set of stakeholders and brings out the challenge faced here.


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The Prisoner's Journalby Sara Freeman
Albertine Sarrazin
(New Directions, 2013)
In 1968, a 21-year-old Patti Smith finds a copy of Astragal in the 8th Street Bookshop. On the cover is a young woman—the author—with close-cropped hair à la Jean Seberg. Smith buys the book and immediately falls in love with its author, Albertine Sarrazin. Astragal, one of Sarrazin's two autobiographical novels written in jail, was first published in 1965 in France to great commercial success. Sarrazin became an immediate celebrity and the book found a tentative place in a literary tradition headed by Jean Genet, the archetypal rogue writer. But by the mid-'70s Sarrazin was no longer being read; her work was relegated to the confines of scholarly appraisals, which focused on Sarrazin's representation of the female prison experience.
Fortunately, Sarrazin is being resurrected. In France, Astragal was republished in 2011, alongside a biography of the late writer. Now, New Directions has reissued Patsy Southgate's translation of Astragal, with a glowing, highly personal introduction by Patti Smith. In it, Smith pieces together Sarrazin's biography: born and abandoned in 1937 in Algiers, Albertine Damien is adopted, relocated to Aix-en-Provence, then winds up behind bars for armed robbery at the tender age of 18. She escapes, meets Julien Sarrazin, love of her life, gets caught, escapes again, makes ends meet through prostitution and petty theft, is caught again, until she is finally released from jail, but dies tragically of a botched kidney surgery, at the age of 29, in 1967, only two years after the publication of Astragal.
In her introduction, Smith also presents Astragal as an aestheticized object, which she has come to associate with her own rise to fame and rebellious femininity. She remembers: "In 1976, as I traveled the world, I carried Astragal in a small metal suitcase, filled with sweat-stained T-shirts, talismans, and the same black jacket I wore with careless defiance on the cover of Horses." Smith alludes to the book's literary achievements, but doesn't exactly name them. So what is this Astragal, beyond its talismanic quality, beyond its writer's compelling biography?
There are the facts of Astragal, which are easy enough to pin down: the protagonist, Anne, 19 years old, escapes from the prison school where she has been serving a seven-year sentence. She jumps from a 30-foot wall and injures the astragalus bone in her ankle. She drags herself to the side of the highway, is picked up by a small-time criminal, Julien, who hides her out in his family home. Anne is moved from hiding place to hiding place, "from a bed to a car seat, from a car seat to a bed, to be put down, lugged around at will by friendly men and strangers." Anne waits around for her Julien to come find her at night, her obsessive love a new kind of jail sentence. But beyond the facts of injury, of physical communion, the feeling of the book is difficult to pin down. In Astragal, every bit of reality is destabilized by its protagonist's gaze: both compulsive and myopic. The prose is unruly, peculiar, funny, obsessive, so wholly felt in each of its facets, that reality becomes detached, overlaid, prismatic.
It is impossible, in reading Astragal, not to be reminded of the fact that Sarrazin wrote the book from the confines of a prison cell. Anne's gaze is fixed; it can roam out to touch other characters, the streets of Paris, Julien's tawny arms; but it swiftly returns to the self, to the confining experience of Anne's own broken body. Confinement and yearning can be sensed at the cellular, even molecular level of the prose:
"I looked at my foot, black and ghastly, my foot which would be thrown into the garbage can. And suddenly I realized how much each cell, each drop of my blood meant to me, how much I was cell and blood, multiplied and divided to infinity in the whole of my body."
Tracking the characters in Astragal highlights a similar emphasis on cells multiplying and dividing. Anne is taken in first by Nini, then Annie—two women who bear an uncanny resemblance to the protagonist, not only in name, but in physical appearance, occupation, in their own experience of criminality and confinement. In life, Sarrazin herself also lived as Anne-Marie, and Anick, to name a few of her aliases. Perhaps the greatest difficulty in reading Astragal, then, is to be confronted with the growing knowledge that all attempts at escape are futile. Anne's every body part has been inscribed with the experience of institutionalization, the fact of "being weighed, measured, tested," and "assigned to a group." The world outside the "rectangle" of the prison cell can only present a series of further imprisonments.
Even in the couple of years Albertine Sarrazin had to appreciate her books' success, she writes of her struggle with being "classified and reclassified" by the public and critics—another set of judges and wardens. With Astragal's English reissue and Patti Smith's new introduction, there is the hope, perhaps slight, that Sarrazin will find a new audience and, with it, a new kind of freedom.
ContributorSara Freeman
SARA FREEMAN is an M.F.A. candidate at Columbia University, where she won the Henfield Prize. Her reviews and short stories have appeared in the Montreal Review of Books and Maisonneuve Magazine.
DAVID LEVI STRAUSS with Jarrett Earnest
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David Levi Strauss is a writer who looks deeply into the dark realities of our world, providing analysis that is both sensitive and urgent. His newest work, Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography (Aperture, 2014) is a major intervention in contemporary discourse on photography and political representation.
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Anselm Jappe was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1962. Now based in France, he is the author of several major works of critical theory and analysis in German, French, and Italian, with many translations of his works appearing in other languages, including English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Poetry Journal RHINO Turns Forty
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MAY 2016 | Books
Evanston-based international poetry journal RHINO turns forty this month, and co-founder Ralph Hamilton's recent collection, Teaching a Man to Unstick His Tail (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015) is as much about endurance as it is about reconsidering the elegy. Hamilton's version suggests that loss is not always tragic, and this intermeshing between possession and absence drives the work toward a question that curtails itself through its own arrangement: "what would we say if / we had something / to say? A storm."
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Ecological Activism in France
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Not far from Toulouse and Albi in the Tarn (south central France), the ingredients were assembled for a new ecological and political scandal: local government and agricultural industry came together, with the support of the Socialist government, to construct a dam in the midst of a forest; opposition to this project was met by high levels of violence by police and private militias. On the night of October 26 27, when approximately 7,000 people gathered to protest the planned resumption of work on the dam on the following Monday, the police killed one of the protesters, Rémi Fraissethe first killing of a political activist under the current Socialist governmentapparently with a stun grenade.


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Wuthering Heights
Wherefore art thou, Heathcliff?
When Emily Brontë set pen to paper to write Wuthering Heights, she probably had no idea that she was about to change the face of romance forever. Heathcliff was the hot shot heard 'round the world, and almost two centuries later, even Bella Swan is reading about him.
In this detailed fifteen-lesson course, you'll get the ins and outs of this 19th-century novel, including
- dozens of readings about vampires, ghosts, and necrophilia…oh my!
- unique Common Core-aligned activities about obsessive love and brooding men. Leave the rainbows and butterflies at the door, folks.
- a crash course in Gothic fiction and Romanticism.
- a brief side trip to visit everyone's favorite Gothic dude, Edgar Allan Poe.
Course Breakdown
Unit 1. Wuthering Heights
Edward and Bella, meet Heathcliff and Catherine. This 15-lesson course will introduce you to the original brooding hero and give you bragging rights over all your friends who think that the whole vampire thing started with Buffy. Suckas.
Sample Lesson - Introduction
Lesson 1: Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
Take a little bit of Twilight, a dash of Gone with the Wind, and a smattering of Othello, and what do you get? A gothic, vampire-laden, tumultuous romance, set against the backdrop of jealousy and revenge.
In other words, Wuthering Heights.
But before you get sucked into the stormy drama of Wuthering Heights (and, trust us, you will), we want to mention a few important details.
- Emily Brontë is kind of an enigma, so we won't spend a ton of time thinking about how her life, interests, and beliefs may (or may not) have affected her writing. Because really, it's mostly conjecture. Not even the experts know. Instead, we'll focus our time on the Gothic and Romantic side of things.
- Unless 19th-century novels are your thing, you're probably going to find Brontë's style of writing to be tricky. But once you get the hang of it, it will be a breeze. Read carefully, and if you need to, listen to an audio version online—sometimes all it takes is learning to observe the punctuation.
- Wuthering Heights uses of a frame story or frame tale. That means there's an overarching narrative that contains another narrative. Keep your eye out for it.
Let's get to it.
Sample Lesson - Reading
Reading 1.1a: The Woman, the Author
Emily B had a major case of the one-hit wonders. So let's get to know the woman behind the book. Read through this comprehensive background about Brontë:
Sample Lesson - Reading
Reading 1.1b: Getting Started
Before you dive into Wuthering Heights, remember: take your time with Brontë's writing style, and feel free to mark passages that really throw you for a loop. You'll have plenty of time to revisit them. Start with Chapters 1-4, and in case you are feeling a bit confuzzled, drop by our chapter summaries to make sure you didn't miss anything important.
Sample Lesson - Activity
Activity 1.1a: Topic Blog (or Tumblr)—On-going assignment
There's a lot going on in Wuthering Heights, and while we want you to sponge up as much as possible, we want to be sure you focus a bit, too.
Your task will be to stalk one character and one theme or motif from Wuthering Heights that really piques your interest. Whenever or wherever your topic comes up, make a note. (There's an app for that, BTW.) Then turn those notes into posts on your own blog.
Step 1: First things first. Take a look at this list of themes, motifs, and characters:
- Nature and weather
- Illness
- Doubles (names, places, family structure, etc.)
- The supernatural (ghosts, vampires, and so forth)—just a quick FYI: vampirism isn't limited to the simple matter of sucking blood; it also has to do with "selfishness, exploitation, a refusal to respect the autonomy of other people" (Foster 16)
- social class, education, and property
- Setting: for example, Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, the moors; and then all those other out-of-the-way places that invite exploration
- Freedom versus captivity and togetherness versus isolation or solitude (symbolically represented by doors, gates, locks, and so forth)
- Eyes (and other inherited features)
- Revenge
- Characters, including Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, Ellen "Nelly" Dean, Mr. Lockwood, Edgar Linton, Isabella Linton, Cathy Linton, Hindley Earnshaw, Hareton Earnshaw, Joseph
Step 2: Once you have a good sense of the big issues and key characters Wuthering Heights explores, consider the following questions:
- Which topic or character type really intrigues you?
- Do you have strong views on any of the topics or characters?
- Do you have personal experience or an educational background that ties in with any of the topics or characters?
- Is there a topic (or character) that you would like to get to know better?
Step 3: Using those questions as your guide, choose one theme/motif and one character to follow throughout the book.
Step 4: Set up a Tumblr or topic blog focusing on your choice of topic and character. Then, based on the reading and research that you have done so far, make your first entry.
Oh, yeah: you'll be wanting some nuts and bolts. The concept behind this project is to follow your chosen topic or character type through all of your Wuthering Heights reading. Yes, all. That way, you can see how Brontë explores that one concept in various ways. It also gives you a chance to think about and react to the ideas she is writing about.
Your blog/Tumblr entries can be of various sorts, but they should always be related in some way to your main topic or character. Here's a list of suggestions to start you off; feel free to add to the list:
- You can comment on what you see happening.
- If there is an implied question, you can respond to it.
- You can ask questions of the text.
- You can make connections between the topic/characters and other historical or current events or ideas.
Your entries should be varied. Now, this means at least two very different things.
Thing 1: Vary the types of entries you make. In other words, don't always ask a question or always comment.
Thing 2: Vary the content of your entries.
- Consider including a poem or song that connects to the issue.
- Post a painting or comic that relates to your topic.
- Include some original art or lyrics that you've created.
- Include a link to an article (newspaper, historical document, etc.) that relates to your topic.
Step 5: Get posting. The frequency of your posts may vary, but aim for one post per lesson. In case it's not convenient to post when you are in the middle of reading a thrilling passage, just jot down a note whenever or wherever your topic comes up. (There's an app for that, BTW.) Then turn those notes into posts later.
Sample Lesson - Activity
Activity 1.1b: Double-Entry (Dialectical) Journal—On-going assignment
Throughout this unit you will be keeping a double-entry or dialectical journal. A what now?
Basically, there will be two columns:
- In one, you'll jot down interesting tidbits, quotes, ideas, thematic concerns, symbols, and anything else from your assigned reading in one column.
- In the other, you get to have your say.
It's human nature to have something to say, but your goal is to take it up a notch and have something meaningful to say. Your entries may take many forms:
- You can pose questions.
- You can highlight passages that really get under your skin or that make you gasp in horror—and say why.
- You can compare what you read to something else.
- You can talk about how something is developing over the course of the book.
Please note: we did not say summarize. So let's keep it that way.
Ultimately, the dialectical journal that you keep will be an informal record of your experience reading about the tumultuous (and sometimes downright crazy) events and people of Wuthering Heights. You will be referring to this journal throughout the course, especially when you are in the idea-gathering stage for other activities. So no slacking.
Now that we've touched on the preliminaries, here's what you do:
Step 1: Grab a notebook or open Word and create a simple table: two columns, lots of rows. Get into the habit of writing a heading for each new lesson's work, and always include a note of which chapters you're reading that day.
Step 2: Read whatever's on deck for the day (in this case, the first four chapters of Wuthering Heights).
In the left column of your organizer, jot down quotes or points from the reading that make you want to pause so that you can have your say. Then, in the right column, say what's on your mind. For this lesson generate at least five entries (1 quote/idea + your response = one entry). Response length will vary. But, on average, you should aim for 3-5 sentences.
Step 3: Reflect on what you've seen, heard, and written. Note any trends or patterns that are beginning to emerge. If you are keeping a paper notebook, then jot any noted trends at the top or bottom of the page. If you are working in Word, then consider inserting a page break after your last row of dialectical entries for the day or merging the last two cells and jotting your note there.
Sample Lesson - Activity
Quiz 1.1c: Wuthering Heights, Chapters 1-4
- Course Length: 3 weeks
- Grade Levels: 9, 10, 11, 12, College
- Course Type: Short Course
- Category:
- English
- Literature
- High School
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Paydar, Keyianoosh Z. M.D.; Hansen, Scott L. M.D.; Chang, David S. M.D.; Hoffman, William Y. M.D.; Leon, Pablo M.D.
Background: Free flap success depends on rapid identification and subsequent salvage of failing flaps. Conventional free flap monitoring techniques require an external component, whereas an implantable monitor readily indicates changes in free flap perfusion, especially in buried flaps used in head and neck reconstruction.
Methods: This is a retrospective review of 169 consecutive head and neck free flaps reconstructed mostly for oncologic surgical defects in 155 patients from April of 2000 to December of 2006, all of which were monitored by an implantable venous Doppler device.
Results: There were 25 buried flaps, representing 14.8 percent of 169 flaps. Flap ischemia caused by thrombosis (n = 16), hematoma (n = 2), or tight closure (n = 1) occurred in 11.2 percent of the cases. The Doppler probe detected all of the failing free flaps, and we were able to salvage 18 of 19 ischemic flaps (94.7 percent). All Doppler-detected ischemic nonburied flaps (100 percent) and three of the four buried free flaps were salvaged (75 percent). There were 33 total complications (19.5 percent), with thrombosis occurring in 9.5 percent of the flaps, whereas 12 flaps required reoperation for vascular revision (7.1 percent). The mortality rate was less than 1 percent (0.6 percent). The overall success rate using the implantable Doppler probe was 98.2 percent, which was similar to that of the most recent reported cases of all free flaps in the literature, with significant improvement in the salvage rate for both buried and nonburied head and neck free flaps.
Conclusion: The implantable Doppler probe is a useful monitoring device in buried free flaps and should be considered for use in head and neck reconstruction.
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Tendulkar, 39, called time on his record-shattering 50-over career earlier this month, leaving India with a giant-sized hole to fill in their batting line-up as they prepare for their World Cup defence. India have just over two years to find a replacement for a player who scored a world record 18,526 ODI runs in 463 appearances for his country.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's side are, at least, hardly short on candidates to try and fill the role with the likes of Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Ajinkya Rahane set to draw the focus of attention after standing in the shadows of Tendulkar at the start of their careers.
Of that trio, Kohli looks the most equipped to handle the pressure set to fall upon India's young batsmen following his stellar 2012.
The 24-year-old is third in the list of ODI run scorers this year with 1,026 runs, and five centuries, in just 16 games. The two men in front of him, Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan, have played almost double the number of matches yet could be caught before the year's end.
While Kohli has busied himself becoming India's hero-in-waiting over the past 12 months it could be that a man who has not played since last year's World Cup success is their most important player in the post-Tendulkar era.
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As a member in the Collegiate 4-H club, you will participate in monthly community service and leadership projects. Fundraisers are also an important aspect of club activities. The money we raise through our fundraising projects helps pay our members way to National Collegiate 4-H Conference. In giving back to the youth 4-H, we also give a scholarship to a graduating senior each summer at Texas 4-H Roundup.
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Ryan Ciminelli of Cheektowaga and John Szczerbinski of North Tonawanda advanced to match play of the Lucas Oil PBA Bear Open in Wauwatosa, Wis., Monday. The tournament is part of the PBA's Summer Swing this week in the Milwaukee area.
Ciminelli (2,117 pins) was 14th after 10 games of qualifying on Monday while Szczerbinski (2,109) was 15th. The Bear qualifying also partially determined the field of 28 bowlers for the PBA Milwaukee Open which will begin Wednesday. Ciminelli is fourth in the Milwaukee Open qualifying. Szczerbinski missed the cut.
Ciminelli already has earned $1,600 this week for finishing eighth in the PBA Wolf Open in Milwaukee. He had an 11-4-1 match-play record and 6,319 total including bonus pins for 26 games.
Stepladder finals of the four Summer Swing tournaments will be bowled this weekend and taped for later showing on ESPN.


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A Long Island, N.Y., man heading out to his lawn for his morning paper made headlines himself this weekend when he was swallowed up by an 8-foot sinkhole.
Michael Ciron, of Oceanside, was not seriously injured in the fall and even boasted that he held on to the newspaper, Newsday reported.
The 80-year-old was later rescued by fire crews using a harness after his 24-year-old daughter heard his screams for help from the large hole.
As for the origins of the sinkhole, both father and daughter told Newsday that they believe it may have been the remnants of an old well or cesspool.