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A fledgling generation of African writers, shortlisted for prizes, need readers all over the world to embrace their work
What does it mean, "African writing"? If you think about it, the idea is a little problematic. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has remarked that "European writing" would lump together literature from Italy, Germany, France ... you get the idea. It doesn't work very well, does it?
And yet, there's no getting around that writers from the African continent have rather less traction in Europe — certainly in Britain — than they should. Writers such as Adichie are changing that, of course, but so is the Caine Prize for African Writing. Now in its 13th year, it's open to work published in English by writers


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To keep this standardized: does anyone have any thoughts about adding Lesure numbers to all of the page titles?-- Snailey Talk to Me Email me 04:22, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- Problem with Debussy is that there are two sets of Lesure numbers, but for whatever reason, most people only know the old ones (even though the new set was published in 2003, the only site I've seen use them is this one). ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 14:52, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Hmmm....we could try what's in use on the Mozart page...they've got 3 major sets. :)-- Snailey Talk to Me Email me 14:57, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- I suppose we should use the new set, with a parenthesis in the general information box. But any catalogue is better than what we have now.-- Snailey Talk to Me Email me 01:36, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Images inedites.
Many years ago - maybe 20 or thereabouts - I heard a third set of 3 "Images" for piano that (at that time, at least) had not been published, and they were known as "Images Inedites". (It sounds like that means "unedited" rather than "unpublished" - but maybe the words means both in French.)
I was wondering if anyone might have a copy of this, and whether they could be posted here. As far as I recall, they were very good pieces, worthy of being better known.
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This weekend brought us two more pieces of the caregiver-supervision puzzle at Parkland Memorial Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center:
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Med students can't work as clinicians, says the national accreditation agency whose approval qualifies Parkland for Medicare funding. Clinicians are licensed health-care professionals such as doctors and nurses.
UTSW spokesman Tim Doke said that even though the letter repeatedly calls the med students clinicians and says they do clinical work, they are actually just "administrative assistants." The professors' letter never uses that term for the students — who, according to Doke, have no job description.
On Saturday, a "Community Voices" columnist for The Dallas Morning News described a series of problems with UTSW doctors during her husband's recent stay in Parkland's burn unit.
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If all the people involved in the Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival participated in a spelling bee, the competition would be fierce. Each one can rattle off the spelling of a complicated, almost unpronounceable name like 'Jaap van Zweden' as easily as most of us can spell potato. Well, except Dan Quayle. If you get that joke then you might have been around when Bravo! started 25 years ago. Needless to say, the brains at Bravo! can recall quite a bit. We had them recap the last 25 summers, telling us what made them laugh, smile, and even cry. Like the spelling of "Nikolaj Znaider," there's something about this festival that sticks in one's mind, making it impossible to forget.
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John Giovando, Bravo's first and only executive director, remembers typing up the festival's articles of incorporation on an old Smith Corona typewriter. Fellow founder and violinist Ida Kavafian was also there from the beginning. Back in 1987, their resources were so meager they couldn't even afford four walls.
"The office was in the hallway of somebody else's office," Kavafian said. "If anybody had to move, everybody else had to get up."
The audience for Bravo! was small, but passionate.
"We didn't have that many people in the audience, but we did have some people who were really enthusiastic about it," Kavafian said. "In true Vail predictability, they wanted to buy it. But John said, 'It's not for sale.'"
"When we started, there was just a little tiny ski thing with this magnificent mountain behind it," Giovando said. "It grew right along with the ski industry. We literally put it together with nothing. It was all part of a dream to do it and we just did it ... then people started coming and loving it."
During the first few summers, the audience was so tiny they used to invite everyone on stage when it rained.
"More people on stage than in the audience, we use to joke about that," Kavafian said.
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When the lights come up and the show begins, those who made it happen want you to believe it was as effortless as playing "Chopsticks" on the piano. But behind the scenes there's a frantic rush, figuring out how to button up a complicated button-down, or locating sheet music that mysteriously got misplaced sometime between rehearsal and lunch. Monica Wentz, who served as the artistic administrator and artists' liaison between 2007 and 2010, remembers one performance with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center orchestra that wasn't exactly wrinkle-free.
"They got in so late they didn't time have to iron their whole shirts," Wentz said. "(The interns) decided to only iron the front of their shirts, because that's what the audience would see."
Rob LeVine, who runs the Antlers at Vail in Lionshead, has been hosting Bravo! musicians for more than two decades. LeVine has found that not every musician's personality is what you would imagine.
Although he won't name any names, LeVine described a "young, petite, attractive, diminutive" piano player who played at Bravo! a few years ago who caught him off guard.
"If you catch her off-stage she has a mouth that would make a sailor blush," LeVine said, laughing. "It's amusing seeing someone who you think is going to be so polite and quiet, and then they let out a blue stream like you wouldn't expect."
Flutist Eugenia Zukerman served as Bravo's artistic director for 13 years. Her first summer on the job she got a knock on her door early in the morning. Pianist Andre-Michel Schub cut his hand slicing a bagel and was bleeding pretty badly. Zukerman was about to take Schub to the hospital, but he refused.
"He said, 'No, I'm going to play,'" Zukerman said.
Schub bandaged up his hand and played the concert.
"It went wonderfully well until the last moment," Zukerman said. "Suddenly blood started spurting from his hand, all over his keyboard, all over his white jacket. It was a great moment; a gruesome but funny moment. I told him he ought to do that every night because he got a great response (from the crowd)."
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This year Joshua Bell's name was buzzing on everyone's ears as the classical music celebrity to see - and for good reason. But Bravo's had big names in the past, and those at the festival got to rub elbows with the best of them. Ida Kavafian was so excited about meeting trumpet player Doc Severinsen, who led the band for the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, that she took it upon herself to be his chauffer.
"One of his riders was that he has to be driven around in a luxury car," Kavafian said. "My husband and I had just bought a really cute Lexus coupe sports car. I was so enamored with Doc that I said I wanted to be his driver, so I drove him all over Vail and got to know him."
Back in the day, Gerald R. and Betty Ford were a staple at Bravo concerts. Giovando would always give a shout-out to the Former President and First Lady before the concert began, but the greeting wasn't always pitch-perfect.
"One evening I said to the audience, 'Please welcome the President and Mrs. Betty Alpine Ford," Gionvando said, mistaking the Former First Lady with the local Betty Ford Alpine Gardens. "The audience got a kick out of that. She was cracking up."
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One of Giovando's most touching moments was when Bravo! added a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, 'Ode to Joy' in the summer of 2002, following the events of Sept. 11 in 2001.
"After 9/11 in '01, the country went into such a shock," Giovando said. "It was such a downer time, and we wanted to do something really uplifting."
Ten years ago, the debut of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra was considered a turning point for the festival. Chair of Bravo's Board of Trustees Argie Tang could feel the anticipation in the air before they took the stage.
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"The first time they ever set foot in Vail, just before their concert, the whole sky opened up and the rain was enormous," Giovando said. "No one moved. They stayed sobbing wet on the lawn and in the seats."
This season, Bravo's 25th, marks the end of an era. Giovando is retiring after this summer, passing the baton along to another executive director next year. "Bittersweet" was the resounding sentiment about Giovando leaving. Reflecting on Bravo's journey, Giovando thinks the festival's uphill climb has been worth the view from the top.
"(When) you hear the music, you know it was worth every bit it took to put it together for one year," Giovando said.


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–, Wednesday, November, 28, 2012, (2:51am)
The NSW waste and environment levy was introduced by Labor to cut garbage outputs and encourage recycling. Naturally, it's become a debacle:
ABC reporter Brendan Trembath: Some of Sydney's garbage is taking a long road trip. It's transported more than 800 kilometres to south-east Queensland, where dumping costs are cheaper.
Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of NSW boss Tony Khoury: We're starting to see hundreds if not thousands of tonnes a week being transported from Sydney to south-east Queensland, and that is an unintended consequence of the fact that we have a high levy, they have no levy in Queensland, and it's not a good thing for our roads, it's not a good thing for our environment.
Trembath believes the solution is for Queensland to increase costs, rather than for NSW to reduce costs:
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… that it was more about raising revenue and raising taxes, a tax on business, than it was about environmental outcomes.
And that describes the present-day environmental movement to a T.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (03:12am)
Wed 28 Nov 12 (11:59am)
Well, that plus a whole heap of adolescent feel-good poseurism…
Wed 28 Nov 12 (12:42pm)
Another legacy from Baghdad Bob
Funny. Warren Buffet and the rest of the bien-pensant class in America are telling us that raising taxes does nothing to change people's behavior. And yet, a garbage tax in Australia is causing people to truck garbage hundreds of miles rather than pay the higher fees.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (04:53am)
Wed 28 Nov 12 (01:35pm)
Here's what Buffet said:
"[Raising taxes] will not change my behavior. I have paid all different kinds of rates and I've always been interested in making money."
If Buffet were trying to dispose of some garbage in NSW, where the govt imposed a "garbage tax", then being interested in making money, I'm sure he would truck the garbage to where-ever it was cheaper to get rid of it, taking into account transportation costs, etc.
Buffet is a rich idiot. Raising taxes on "the rich" in America will make some of them go offshore, with a resultant loss of jobs. Even those who don't go offshore will have less money to invest. Taxation is a redistribution of wealth from producers to consumers, and economic growth only occurs when we refrain from consuming that which we produce.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (01:54pm)
Rather than tow it out to sea to dump, and pollute globally??
Wed 28 Nov 12 (03:53pm)
Like a Tiger.
Sydney Water is already dumping 3 million tonnes of their garbage (untreated effluent) in the ocean every day. Wonder if they are paying the $90 tonne levy.
The environment gang will never get it right. Save the planet? The planet does need saving - from the likes of them.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (06:24am)
Fair suck of the sauce bottle. We gave you Kev and you reply by sending us your rubbish?
Wed 28 Nov 12 (06:30am)
Wed 28 Nov 12 (01:04pm)
"Trading same for same" I believe is the term Blair.
Tim, your readers might be interested to know that here in Tas it costs us $4.50 to take a ute or trailer load of rubbish to the local tip. But the price went up 50c last January, so we face the outrageous prospect of seeing it rise to the dizzying cost of $5 a load next January. We don't have garbage pickup at our property so the council gives us 12 free vouches per year for the tip, the $4.50 charge only applies to extra loads.
From memory it cost us $25 per load at our local tip in NSW before we moved down here 5yrs ago.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (06:50am)
Wed 28 Nov 12 (01:55pm)
$14 for a Getz bootful here in Geelong last weekend. A Getz! Roadside rubbish dumping will also increase I'm betting.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (07:33pm)
Cost is 7 spondoolies for me to take my ute of green waste (99% of the time) on a trip to the dump. It's a 30km round trip and I get 4 free vouchers a year with my rates. It also costs me $860 a year to register said 6 cylinder 1999 Holden ute for the privlige of trying to avoid open cut coal mine size potholes driving to and from the tip as well as to and from work.
Sydney rubbish being dumped in southeast Qld
Well at least it's being acknowledged now Oh dear.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (07:27am)
Wed 28 Nov 12 (01:52pm)
This comment wins the internet. Congrats, Evie!
If there's no regulation of rubbish in ground hamburger yet, consider disposing of it in fast food. It worked for nuclear waste.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (08:29am)
The Law of Unintended Consequences again weighs heavily on a green scheme. With green laws, including Gillard's carbon tax, making it too expensive to dump in NSW, thousands of trucks emitting a cloud of CO2 take garbage to Queensland.
Has there ever been an environmental initiative that has achieved its goal?
Wed 28 Nov 12 (08:42am)
I hate to say this but the solution is easy. Introduce an interstate waste disposal levy in SEQ…
Wed 28 Nov 12 (09:18am)
Wed 28 Nov 12 (07:08pm)
That would be against s.52 of the Constitution, I am afraid.
Whoever it was in ABC Management who assigned Brendan to this story about garbage, swill, etc, clearly has a sense of humour and a knowledge of the Cornish language and surnames, because the surname 'Trembath' derives from a contraction of 'tre-an-bath' and means "The boar's farm".
Wed 28 Nov 12 (09:39am)
It's just another issue to deal with living in a big city. A few years ago there was a site near Dapto that accepted excavation soil/spoil. A large fleet of tippers, with super-dog trailers (carrying about 25 tonnes each), circulate between Sydney excavation sites and Dapto, all because the tipping fees made it cheaper.
Who is going to look at the bigger picture, and consider the other pollution this pollution is causing?
Damn, I'm starting to sound like a grippie.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (09:53am)
If you are looking for the right answers (or is that the Left answers?) you can always rely on Radio Moscow and its minions.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (10:17am)
Ah, greenies and their unintended consequences. If they weren't so technically ignorant, they wouldn't make so many stupid decisions.
Memo to greenies everywhere: an idea may be ideologically correct but that does not guarantee that it will work as intended.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (11:17am)
"Trembath believes the solution is for Queensland to increase costs, rather than for NSW to reduce costs..."
Whatever the problem (or imaginary problem), the answer is always higher taxes, more regulation and bigger bureaucracy.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (12:02pm)
Wed 28 Nov 12 (12:42pm)
What the leftist bureau drones don't get is that the taxes, regulations, administration and consequently them, are and is the problem.
Of course the epic own goal in all this is the unintended consequence.
The bush is only a few kilometres from where I live and the people who live on roads leading into the bushland all report a steadily increasing amount of rubbish dumped on the roads leading into the bush.
Another epic fail by the short-sighted environazis.
Wed 28 Nov 12 (02:29pm)
The sad part is Trembath used to be an anchor on Bloomberg TV! The power of the AgeBC to corrupt knows no bounds
Wed 28 Nov 12 (09:17pm)
Pffttt ... you reckon those guys are smart driving all that way to save a few bucks, the guys around here are a lot smarter than that, they just dump their rubbish on the side of the road for free.
Of course the local council and Gov. being the mega genius's that they are refuse to believe its all of their environmental taxes that are to blame and instead of lowering the fees they just buy lots of surveillance equipment to hide in the bushes so they can issue fines instead
Wed 28 Nov 12 (11:00pm)
ABC reporter Brendan Trembath.
So instead of common sense fixing the problem, we increase the cost of the problem on the people?
Where do we get these idiots from?
Thu 29 Nov 12 (12:10am)
Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of NSW boss Tony Khoury: [...] and it's not a good thing for our roads, it's not a good thing for our environment.
Let me translate that: "It's not a good thing for my 'association' and thus for me, so NSW should be forced to give me their trash business rather than exporting it".
Rent-seeking is eternal.
Thu 29 Nov 12 (05:04am)
Tony Abbott!!@!!
Thu 29 Nov 12 (06:32pm)
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- Applause to all the dedicated education professionals in our area who worked so hard to get local schools ready for the return of students this week. No work is more important than educating our children. We salute you!
- Applause to the free concert offered Wednesday in downtown Elkins. The performance by Bear Hill Bluegrass was provided by the Elkins Depot Welcome Center. A large crowd attended the show, and Mother Nature smiled on them by holding off rain clouds until the band had finished.
- Applause to all who helped support the Elkins/Randolph County YMCA?Drive for Fitness last weekend. The event raised $10,000 for the local institution, and will help provide funding for classes, basketball programs and general operating expenses.
- Boo to the Barbour County Board of Education for ignoring state rules about how governmental meetings should be run. During Tuesday's special call meeting of the BOE, members voted on every item on the agenda, and then decided to go into executive session. The trouble is, there was no executive session listed on the agenda, and there were no remaining items for discussion listed either. C. Joan Parker, the executive director of the West Virginia Ethics Commission, has said elected officials cannot go into executive session for issues that are not printed on a meeting's agenda.
The Barbour BOE may feel like they're being unfairly - and regularly - singled out for criticism on this editorial page. However, they invite such criticism by their actions: Barbour Board of Education meetings frequently last from five to six hours, and more than half of each meeting is usually consumed by lengthy executive sessions. This seems excessive, to say the least. If the Barbour BOE is going to spend so much time meeting behind closed doors, at least they could follow the state's rules on how and why an agency can go into executive session.


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Issa Ibrahim Islam was accused of Nakba Day truck rampage in Tel Aviv last May and found fit to stand trial after a psychiatric evaluation submitted by the prosecution.
"He screamed 'Allahu Akbar' and then threw a traffic light on my head," says eyewitness.
The trial opened a week after David Morag, the father of Aviv which was killed during the rampage, committed suicide. "Aviv was his whole world," said a friend of the family, "The last few months were very difficult for him, and the holidays were even twice as hard."
Jerusalem District Court convicts Shani Sevilya of abuse, intimidation, after she aims gun at Palestinian detainee, squeezes trigger while saying 'death to Arabs'
Published: 11.10.11
The trial of Issa Ibrahim Islam, a truck driver who went on a killing rampage on Nakba Day, opened at the Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday.
The Kfar Kassem resident is accused of killing 29 year-old Aviv Morag and injuring 17 others while recklessly driving a truck along Bar-Lev Street in Tel Aviv last May. The driver also ran over several vehicles during the rampage.
A psychiatric evaluation submitted by the prosecution found Islam fit to stand trial, and determined that the defendant was lucid while he committed the act.
During the hearing, eyewitness recounted the horrors of that Sunday morning, as they were commuting to work and school: "He screamed 'Allahu Akbar' and then threw the traffic light on my head," recalled Shani Oz, one of the witnesses.
"The truck collided into my car and the back windshield shattered to pieces," said Amitai Asif, "People were scared. I had blood all over my face even after being taken into the ambulance," he noted.
According to the indictment, Islam carried on with his rampage even after colliding into several vehicles. "The defendant did not stop, but rather stepped on the gas and continued his killing spree," the indictment read.
The trial opened a week after David Morag, the father of the victim killed during the rampage, committed suicide.
"Aviv was his whole world," said a friend of the family, "The last few months were very difficult for him, and the holidays were even twice as hard."
Islam's defense attorney, Yehosua Resnik, rejected the accusations, claiming that "the incident was nothing more than an accident that went wrong."
Border Guard female officer gets 3 months in jail for abusing Palestinian minor -
The Jerusalem District Court on Thursday convicted former Border Guard officer Shani Sivilya, 22, of abusing a Palestinian minor that was detained and placed under her supervision.
Sivilya, who was let go from the Border Guard following the incident a few months ago, was sentenced to three months in prison and three months community service as part of a plea bargain in which she admitted of aiming a gun to the minor's head and squeezing the trigger, while saying "death to Arabs."
Sivilya also admitted that her acts were motived by racism.
The court convicted Sevilia of three counts of abusing a minor, intimidation and recklessness behavior.
Sivilya's attorney Refael Farij, claimed his client is a responsible and dedicated young woman, who made a one time mistake, and asked the judge to mitigate the punishment, however his request was denied.
Justice Amnon Cohen noted in his ruling that Sivilya's acts must be looked upon gravely, as they were committed while the minor was under her supervision. "Border Guard officers fulfill a difficult task and many times are places in strenuous positions, however that does not a justify abusing their duty," he said.
"The defendant admitted of being driven by racism, which adds another element of severity to the offence. A clear message must be sent that those who abuse their power and uniform in order to humiliate and degrade those who are their subordinates will face severe punishment," he added.
Judge Cohen took under consideration the defendant's young age, but rejected the probation service's recommendation not to sentence her to a prison term.
"By her acts, the defendant harmed the image of the Border Guard who are tasked with a difficult job day in day out," the judge ruled.
"With all due respect to the District Court, we believe the judges have made a mistake by sentencing the defendant to both an active prison term and community service," Sivilya's attorney said after the sentencing.
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The item combines 2 different cases- the first is of The border guard female officer which put photos of her abusing Palestinians on Facebook.
The second case is of the Arab truck driver which made a killing rampage on Tel Aviv on last May (during the Nakba day).
The first photo is of the female officer, the second is of the Arab killing driver on trial, the other photos and video are from the rampage scene in Tel-aviv and the victim and his father (which committed suicide last week as a resul More..
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The Arab killing driver was published twice already but on each time was 'pushed' aside from different reasons and got 0 views - this all new system of publishing items on LL REALLY STARTS TO GET ON MY NERVES, since it seems there is some sort of agenda behind what is put under the spotlight and what is being pushed aside to the shade (it WASN'T like this before that!), and for the first time makes me think about leaving this site.
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You will be surprised maybe but this is not what i meant- Iv'e noticed that items which are promoting mutual life, co-existence and tolerance between different religions and nations are being put in the shade, and those promoting the old stigmas are being featured, weather it's against Muslims,Blacks, Jews and so on.
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@Duckmanlivesagain Do you kiss your sister with that mouth or maybe your cousin and as far as i know ive spelt "Communist" the correct way,thank you come again.
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LONG BEACH - The city's two largest healthcare providers - Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and St. Mary Medical Center - have been awarded "A" ratings for patient safety.
The Hospital Safety Score was tabulated by the Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and large purchasers of health benefits.
Memorial's sister hospitals - part of MemorialCare Health System hospitals - were also recipients of the high scores, including Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley and Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills and San Clemente.
"Hospitals ... that earn an A have demonstrated their commitment to their patients and their community," said Leapfrog Group president Leah Binder.
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Straightening out circular needles wire
I recently bought some circular needles, however they are hard to knit with because the wire wants to curl up into a couple of little circles instead of just one circle. I am wondering if anyone knows how to fix this problem and get the needles to stay in one circle. Thank you for your help.
You can try dipping them in very hot water. It's not a perfect solution, but it might help. Once you have enough knitted fabric the weight will hold it straighter, too.
BTW..there are brands that don't curl. Addi Turbos and the new Knitpick Options are great for that.
I have some Crystal Palace ones that did that and the man at the LYS said to pull them across the steam as it comes out of your kettle ... the Susan Bates ones come out good but there is no hope for the Boye needles ... I just got a set of Addis but haven't used them yet .. I have boiled my kettle and held the cord in there for a few seconds and out again, pulled on them and if not to your liking, repeat it.
I will definately try this. I don't have a kettle, so i will probablyjust put them in a pot of hot water. If it doesn't work, I will buy a different brand. Thank you both for your help. :hug:
Don't give up on them completely. Sticking them in hot water then letting them cool straight will help. Using them with large projects will too. It just takes time and they won't be absolutely straight, but won't coil up on you.
I've never had a problem straightening circular needles, even Boye's.
I bring a pot of water to a full rolling boil. When it's ready, I turn on the cold water faucet. While holding the needle tips, I dunk the cable into the water for a few seconds, making sure it gets good and hot. Then I hold the tips apart to straighten the cable and run it under the cold water to cool it rapidly while holding it straight. Every cable as come out straight or nearly straight for me. HTH!
Word of caution...heat only the cable. If using boiling water, don't dunk the joint of needle and cable. This topic has been addressed numerous times on all knitting-related boards so you may run across more ideas in other threads but another suggestion, and one I do, is to heat the cable with blow dryer. If doing this solo, hold one needle between your knees, the other in hand while running dryer up and down length of cable. You'll literally see it relax. Then just hold straight for the few secs it takes to cool. Don't store coiled as it'll resume its old form.
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Mark Romanek is no stranger to making you dance in your seat when you're watching MTV – or any other channel, for that matter. The director behind those infectious iPod commercials, including the colorful, rocking U2 "Vertigo" spot, had millions of VMA viewers (12.4 million, to be exact) grooving along with the now-famous trio of hip-hop-happy hamsters (and a group of equally skilled robots who couldn't resist a catchy beat) in the latest Kia Soul ad which aired during the awards show last night.
Romanek's other credits including film (Never Let Me Go, One Hour Photo) and, perhaps most notably, music videos (he's behind such legendary videos as Michael Jackson's "Scream", Madonna's "Bedtime Story", Fiona Apple's "Criminal", Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" and Johnny Cash's "Hurt"), and he tells EW he infused some of his prior work into this latest commercial. In addition suggesting that the look of the commercial be in a "very video game[-like] world," Romanek, rather than relying solely on CGI, used real dancers to make the moves for the characters.
With the help of choreographers Rich & Tone, a group of "great dancers from the East and West coast" and computer animation, Romanek had the resources to bring the latest chapter of those jamming hamsters to the small screen. "The key was making the dance great," said Romanek.
Of course, they'd need a great song to dance to. Romanek explained that while there were a lot of choices for which song to use in the early stages, it was LFMAO's chart-topping club smash "Party Rock Anthem" that became the obvious choice for what the hamsters and robots would dance to. "We all gravitated towards this one. It was the big song of the summer."
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Romanek -- who credits fellow directors like Spike Jonze for creating "beautiful pieces of short filmmaking" with his transcendent, storytelling commercials -- says also he enjoys the opportunity of working on ads. "It's an aesthetic puzzle to figure out [as a director]," he said. "It's a luxury to work on [commercials]. You are given these enormous resources and you're expected to use them, for your craft."
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"It's an amazing opportunity," Romanek says of the possible upcoming venture. "I just went from making this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's very sad Never Let Me Go to a commercial of a video game world with dancing hamsters. You can't really get pigeonholed [as a director] with that."
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I was reading this article (here: http://tinyurl.com/24rj2m), about the Institue of Medicine's recommendation that junk food be banned from public schools, and replaced with more healthy snacks. They're doing a whole two part series tonight on the CBS evening news about health food and stuff as a part of this - and I'm wondering, is this really the best way to get kids started on apath of losing weight? My problems as a kid weren't because I ate bad food at school (though granted we didnt really have like vending machines or something like that), it was the junk I ate at home...I feel like we should be maybe doing more to encourage people to buy more healthy food all around?
eating is a habit for many people, triggered by various things, and availability is one.
When my boys graduated from high school, both since 2001, I was shocked and saddened by the number of young adults lumbering across the stage to get their diplomas. These kids weighed well over 200 pounds, and there were lots of them. Currently, 42% of kids are overweight or obese. PE is no longer required and there is no lunch recess where the kids can go outside and toss a ball or have a race. They sit and sit and sit.
Did you see the TV shows on the bed-ridden morbidly obese? Those numbers have doubled since 1989, making up 5% of our population. One admitted to eating 46,000 calories per day, via chocolate and greasy foods.
As a parent, I bristle at being blamed for every negative aspect of my childrens' behavior. That being said, I believe that parents have to take the lead in demonstrating healthy habits. I am very lucky that I have been able to be at home with my children, and will homeschool them both for as long as I can. I do all the cooking. We rarely get take-out food. I am very firm about what my children can have and what they can't (for example "You just had a granola bar. The next time you eat it will be real food."). They are incredibly healthy eaters. They both love vegetables, beans and other healthy foods. My son even loves the vegetable smooothies I often make for myself for breakfast. They are very, very physically active.
Of course it's not easy if both parents work and the children have to attend daycare, where you have little or no control over what they are eating. But I believe that healthy habits start very early. If your children are fed a sweet breakfast, given cookies and juice for snacks and allowed to have a giant piece of chocolate cake after a dinner of take-out pizza, they are going to develop a taste for sweets which will stay with them for life. My daughter really doesn't like sweets; as a diabetic she sometimes needs to eat whatever I have handy, and it's a real chore getting it into her if it's "too sweet."
Children model what they see. If they see you having a cream doughnut for breakfast, they will want nothing else. If they see you eating whole-wheat toast and peanut butter, they will most likely want whole-wheat toast and peanut butter.
Let's face it-junk food is not going to leave the schools easily, and I agree that a lot more junk-food eating is done at home. What's the solution? How about not making it available at home? How about saying no, and putting up with a little tantrum? It's a whole lot easier to take control of it when the child is 3 than it is to wait until he or she is 13 and teetering on the edge of Typw 2 Diabetes.
parents or schools aren't responsible for all food choices kids make (and will make as they grow). my sister-in-law was never allowed to eat sweets or any junk food. Her family always cooked meals at home from organic ingredients and any sweets they got were home baked from whole wheat flour, etc. Well, as soon as the was able to drive, she gained a lot of weight. We couldn't figure out why, until I needed to borrow her car. I accidently discovered tons of empty packages from doughnuts, cookies, ice cream bars and such..
Kids are people too and they grow up as they will. but you can teach them why healthier food is better , while still allowing a treat every now and then.
But I am afraid some parents don't know how to eat well themselves! One mom proudly told me that her kids don't eat any sugar, but at the same time she was giving her daughter a mid-morning snack of girl scout cookies...I guess she did not think that was sugar..;-)
Of course we all like sweets to a certain extent. It's part of our biology. The trick is to teach children how to eat them without going overboard, and knowing WHEN to eat them. My son could eat chocolate all day long-but he only gets a granola (chocolate) bar or a cereal bar if he's eaten a decent breakfast. He behaves very, very badly if he has a sugary breakfast, so it's not allowed.
Sorry if I gave the impression that I NEVER let my kids have anything sweet. Our cupboards are full of granola bars. We all like them. But they know that sweets are a treat-not a meal. And, like I said before, I keep them very active.
I like to eat healthy, but I'm not stuck on organics, wheat-flour only, etc (in fact, I prefer white bread and Re: Junk Food white rice). We cook at home, but it's very simple food. I tried baking my own bread once; I'd rather be out running than doing that. Perhaps your sister-in-law was just going through a rebellious phase when she got a taste of freedom for the first time. That's the danger of such absolutism, and that's why I let my kids have a certain number of treats.
I do think that today's adults have forgotten how to eat healthy. I used to know a woman whose teenage daughter went to the same dance studio as my daughter. The girl had a horrible diet-doughnuts, chocolate milk-and it really showed on her. She looked like she had had 5 children, and she was only about 14 years old. Was the mother a good example? NO! We used to take our son to a class there on Saturday mornings, and this girl's mother would be sitting there, eating a huge doughnut and drinking her chocolate milk.
So how are today's kids supposed to learn healthy habits when their own parents don't have a clue?
Yeah, everything in moderation seems to be the key. And setting a good example is more important than the "eat your vegetables" speech.
we need to make choices for our kids because we are the adults. That's our job; that's why kids need parents. Kids who raise themselves make terrible mistakes, not just in food choices, but right across the board.
I used to have snacks ready for my boys after school: cut up fruits - melons, peaches, apples, strawberries - and vegetables - fresh cucumber slices and those cute little carrots, bunny bites. No dips of chocolate or ranch dressing. Or a sandwich or something on the stove, like pot roast or barbecue.
I also keep a big basket of candy on top of my refrigerator, and my boys and they're friends have free access to that. And just like the sister-in-law, the kids who are too restricted at home will pack their faces and their pockets. One day, my boys weren't even home, and a car full of their friends burst through my door, a bunch of teenage boys, laughing and shoving each other, trying to get to that candy basket. they must have been talking about how much they all wanted candy. But those boys told me they never have candy or sweets in the house unless it's a birthday or something.
The "eat your vegetables" speech certainly doesn't fly when the parents won't touch vegetables themselves. I love vegetables, and my children know it. My 8 year old has always had a difficult time eating vegetables (a very sensitive gag reflex). Since she refuses to eat meat, I make vegetable and bean soups for her, puree them really well in the food processor and add them to her rice, french toast or pancakes. She was a little suspicious at first, but now she loves it. She tells me exactly what she wants in the soup, and I slip in other stuff as well.
I wanted to add something else. We have really forgotten what "moderation" means. Either we allow nothing fun or interesting, or let the kids go all out and eat WHATEVER they want, WHENEVER they want. So they don't learn to handle themselves when it comes to eating sweets. They don't learn to stop after 2 or 3 cookies. They don't learn to stop after a handful of chips, or 1 bowl of ice cream.
That is the truth. I once left a bag of those little hershey chocolate bars on the coffee table, and one of the neighbor kids sat in front of the tv and ate the whole bag. Again, his mom never bought anything like that because she, herself, couldn't control how much she ate. I wonder if her son saw her eat one or two pieces of candy and be satisfied if he would learn, like you say, by example.
helen82, this raises the question: what is your favorite vegetable? I love them all, but i am a peas addict. They are my homegrown prozac. I love peas.
Where do I start? There are so many. I'd have to say any kind of leafy greens (lettuce, spinach, red spinach). I love Asian vegetables, too. Tomatoes and avocadoes, although they are technically fruits. This is kind of sick, but my favorite way to eat them is to make soup, then puree it. Or puree cooked veggies with cooked apple, banana and seaweed for a breakfast smoothie.
I can't say I care for peas very much-at least not the sweet peas you find in the US. I love marrowfat peas, but it's impossible to find them here.
And potatoes (baked, with a little olive oil, garlic powder and salt). Is it ime for lunch yet??
i once ate four pounds of peas from the farmers market, all in one day. Then i crawled around on the floor, like a crack addict, looking for the ones I dropped. I never heard of marrowfat peas, but it might be better that way.
You have an adventurous eating style. Do you put crackers in your soup? It sounds like they would go with a pureed veg soup. What seasonings do you use?
Is anybody else interested in this "favorite vegetable" discussion?
Hi yo-sal,
We moved, and I didn't have internet until today. It's so nice to be connected again!
My kids are waiting to go to bed; I've missed exchanging posts with you.
I'm so glad you're back.
I never realized how much I depend on my internet....
And I've been wanting to answer your last post for 3 long weeks.
Spices: There are so many good ones!! I used to be very cautious about mixing them, but lately I've become much more bold. Of course, everything I eat has garlic powder in it. And white pepper. Also dill. Paprika is a new favorite. And olive oil and lemon. I also love basil, but am not so keen on rosemary or sage.
How funny-I used to think I was much more adventurous as a meat eater. I really made it a point to try new things at every opportunity. I think the best thing I ever had was wild buffalo chili in Oklahoma (for breakfast!). I was also a big fish eater (especially sushi...yummy!). But now, as a vegan I have to be a bit more adventurous in order to get a little variety in my food.
The best part of all this is, my 8 year old has become more adventurous about food as well. Her new favorite food is bulghur. And she wants cous-cous for dinner.
So good to be back yo-sal and everybody!!
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MOBILE – Spring Hill College's Amnesty International and Students for Life will host a screening of the documentary film "Invisible Children" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 11 in Byrne Memorial Hall on the college campus.
In the spring of 2003, three young filmmakers from Southern California traveled on a film-making adventure to Africa, where they discovered a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them. After returning to the States, they created the documentary "Invisible Children: Rough Cut," a film that exposed the tragic realities of northern Uganda's night commuters and child soldiers. The film was originally shown to friends and family, but has now been seen by millions of people. The overwhelming response has been, "How can I help?" To answer this question, the nonprofit Invisible Children, Inc. was created, giving compassionate individuals an effective way to respond to the situation.
For more information on the event, contact the Office of Student Activities at (251) 380-3027. For details about the project, visit www.invisiblechildren.com.


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The Northwestern Water and Sewer District has received a grant to study the feasibility of establishing an emergency water connection link to service customers in the event of a consumption ban like that issued by the City of Toledo last August.
The grant for $50,000 was issued through the Local Government Innovation Program of the Ohio Development Services Agency.
During the ban, district personnel discussed how to construct an emergency link from the City of Perrysburg's water system, which receives water from Toledo, to the Bowling Green system.
The district purchases Toledo water for its customers in the northwest portion of Wood County – with most of those customers located west of I-280. Most of the customers to the east receive water from the City of Oregon, which, like Bowling Green, wasn't affected by Toledo's water advisory.
The Oregon Planning Commission on June 16, in a split vote, recommended that a request for a Special Use Exemption (SUE) permit to raise chickens in a residential area on S. Wynn Road be denied.
David Pullella originally made the request to raise no more than six chickens, four rabbits, two ducks, two goats, four turkeys, two swans and four pheasants at 935 S. Wynn Road. The property is in a low density residential district. His request was later amended for a permit to raise just the six chickens.
The Project Review Committee had no objections to the request, but recommended that a plan be submitted and approved for waste removal and housing.
Pullella said his immediate plans are to raise the chickens to lay eggs.
The Lake Township trustees haven't committed to developing a section of township-owned property into a dog park, but they've given the township's park supervisor the authorization to apply for grants to fund amenities for a dog park.
The trustees Tuesday gave the go-ahead to Ron Hanely to apply to the Wood County Parks District for grants that would fund benches, trash and pick-up stations, dog agility equipment and fencing.
Hanely recently floated the idea of developing a dog park at the property adjacent to the township's former dispatching center on Lemoyne Road but the trustees haven't decided to proceed with the proposal.
Hanely last week said the deadline for applying for grant money from the park district for 2016 is June 26. Successful applicants will be notified in November or December and grants will be awarded in April of next year.
He said he's visited dog parks in south Toledo and in Danbury Township to get opinions from dog owners about those facilities.
The newest member of the Woodmore school board hopes a lawsuit against him over his appointment to the board will result in clarifying the relevant legal issues and the board can get back to business.
Dan Hoppe, whose appointment is being challenged in Sandusky County Common Pleas Court, said he was, in effect, a bystander in the appointment process but looks forward to a resolution of the matter.
"Although I am disappointed the Sandusky County Prosecutor's Office has chosen to focus their efforts on me personally, I welcome this opportunity to clarify the law and be a part of a solution that is best for the Woodmore School District," Hoppe said in an email message to The Press. "As a dedicated member of our schools' community, I look forward to clarity and justice so that we may be able to focus on real as opposed to perceived challenges and opportunities within our district. It is unfortunate that a dispute has developed over the process by which I was selected, a process in which I was essentially a bystander. I volunteered to serve on the board to help improve our district and I look forward to doing just that."
Oregon City Council on Monday will consider accepting the lowest and best bids from three contractors for the 2015 road program.
Mayor Mike Seferian said at a committee of the whole meeting last week that the city will spend $1.8 million in its road program this year. Last year, the city spent $1 million to repair roads.
"I think all of us take pride in the fact that this year will probably be one of the biggest road programs we've ever experienced," said Seferian.
When putting together this year's budget, Seferian said there was some discussion about spending up to $2 million for this year's road program.
"We spoke of possibly spending $1 million with an additional $1 million when we talked about the road program in the budget. We're very close to the $2 million figure. Before it's all said and done, with some possible change orders, we may even exceed that," he said.
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There are three weeks left until Halloween, and News 4 is marking each Thursday until that holiday with a segment called "Terrifying Thursdays!"
This week, we're talking about favorite candies and the most unusual of Halloween treats received.
Here are some of viewers favorites:
• Mary Kidd: Candy Corn
• Tami Woodham: Miniature Peanut Butter Cups
• Emily Hays: Dots
For more, check out the video above!
We're also discussing the most unusual treats that trick-or-treaters have received on Halloween! Check out the video to see what some of our viewers got! And, be sure to leave your favorite candies and unusual treats below!
At the end of Thursday's show, they also discussed one possible idea for Halloween costumes for the three of them! See the second bonus video to see what that is!


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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is a committee of the United States House of Representatives, currently chaired by Silvestre Reyes. It is the primary committee in the U.S. House of Representatives charged with the oversight of the United States Intelligence Community, though it does share some jurisdiction with other committees in the House, including the Armed Services Committee for some matters dealing with the Department of Defense and the various branches of the U.S. military.
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- 1 Oversight and Investigations
- 2 Previous committee membership
- 3 Articles and Resources
- 4 Contact Details
Oversight and Investigations
Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) corruption probe
On August 10, 2006, the committee announced that an internal investigation found that "major breakdowns" in legislative controls enabled former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) to use his position on the committee to direct classified government contracts to political, business, and personal associates. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), ranking member of the committee, declared that the seven-month probe could significantly expand the scope of the Cunningham scandal. While the report was not immediately released publicly, Harman did indicate that the findings centered on Cunningham's repeated pressuring of committee aides to set aside secret funds for his associates. [1]
Oversight of covert operations
In 2005, Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker that President George W. Bush had signed a series of findings and executive orders authorizing the Department of Defense to undertake covert military operations in several Middle Eastern and South Asian countries. Covert actions were typically the province of the Central Intelligence Agency, which has oversight obligations to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. The congressional reporting requirements were passed into law after several assassination and domestic spying scandals in the 1970s. Covert operations undertaken by the military have significantly less clear congressional reporting and oversight requirements. [2]
In November 2004, the New York Times reported that Bush had ordered the creation of an interagency working group to examine the question of whether the CIA's in-house paramilitary unit should be moved to Department of Defense Control. Hersh also reported that in fall 2004 Bush signed an "Execute Order on the Global War on Terrorism" authorizing the military to "find and finish" military targets abroad including al Qaeda. In December 2004, Vince Cannistraro and Philip Giraldi reported in Intelligence Brief that Bush had signed a Presidential finding authorizing the military "to operate unilaterally in a number of countries where there is a perception of a clear and evident terrorist threat... A number of the countries are friendly to the U.S. and are major trading partners. Most have been cooperating in the war on terrorism." The operations were to be supervised by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Under-secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone and Army Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin. [3]
In early 2005, Hersh reported that "Pentagon advisers" had told him that the types of activities the military was now authorized to undertake included the recruitment of locals in foreign countries to join terrorist or guerrilla organizations as moles without informing the U.S. Ambassador or CIA station chief in that country. They could also include the formation of local "action teams" by the Special Forces in target countries that could be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations. [4]
Hersh reported that a "Pentagon adviser" had assured him that some members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees were briefed on the Defense Department's new operations but did not say how extensive the briefings were. A second "Pentagon adviser" told Hersh that "There are reporting requirements... But to execute the finding we don't have to go back and say, 'We're going here and there.' No nitty-gritty detail and no micromanagement." [5]
Jeffrey H. Smith, who was general counsel of the CIA in the mid-1990s, said that congressional oversight requirements of covert operations undertaken by the Department of Defense are unclear:
"It's a very, very gray area... Congress believes it voted to include all such covert activities carried out by the armed forces. The military says, 'No the things we're doing are not intelligence actions under the statute but necessary military steps authorized by the President, as Commander-in-Chief to "prepare the battlefield." ' [When I was at the CIA] we were always careful not to use the armed forces in a covert action without a Presidential finding. The Bush Administration has taken a much more aggressive stance... Congress has always worried that the Pentagon is going to get us involved in some military misadventure that nobody knows about."" [6]
The Yellow Fruit scandal
The Department of Defense previously got involved in covert operations in the early 1980s after the failed April 1980 rescue of the American hostages in Iran. The program was called called Intelligence Support Activity, or ISA. It was initially kept secret from many members of Congress, senior generals and political appointees in the Department of Defense. [7]
The unit was deployed in Nicaragua to support the Contra war against the Sandinista government. Soon, however, financial scandals involving arms deals that resulted in the courtmartialling of several of its senior officers in what was called the "Yellow Fruit scandal" (the name of one of the one of ISA's front operations). The program was then scaled back but kept alive as an undercover unit in the U.S. Army, with its operations hobbled by requirements for clearance and no-go zones. [8]
Previous committee membership
110th Congress (2007-2008)
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110th Congress
109th Congress (2005-2006)
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House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
109th Congress
Articles and Resources
- Seymour Hersh, "The Coming Wars: What the Pentagon can now do in secret," January 17, 2005.
- Greg Miller, "'Duke' Inquiry Cites Breakdowns," Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2006.
- The dKosopedia page on the House Committee on Intelligence.
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Halonen Speaks Out against Pride Attack
President Tarja Halonen has condemned the pepper spray attack at the Helsinki Pride festival last Saturday. She said the incident was a blow to Finland's reputation as a tolerant country.
"This is a very unfortunate situation for those participating in the parade and for Finns. We are accustomed to respecting people's differences, both morally and of course under the law."
"Many countries put on a Pride festival. Finland had a good reputation in the past. Now it's been delivered a harsh blow. This incident could result in the kind of brand we don't want," she added.
Premeditated Attack
Halonen also expressed concern for the parade's participants.
"It has taken decades of work for them to believe that we are on the side of human rights, and we value individuals' rights to choose their sexual orientation," she said.
"Hopefully, society will react strongly to this situation. The fact that the attack was premeditated makes it even more serious. It shows that people don't do these kinds of things in the heat of the moment."
Police have taken three young men into custody in connection with the attack and are looking for three others. Officers are to decide on Tuesday whether to release the suspects or press charges.


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February 21st, 2013 - 6:19am
(Sequim) -- Nearly three thousand post cards go out this week asking residents in Clallam County to help change a new water rule for the Dungeness Valley.
The cards come from the Olympic Resource Protection Council. The North Peninsula Building Association is providing the funding.
The ORPC, which recently formed as a non-profit, wants to see changes to the sweeping, new rule that governs water use. The Department of Ecology is now requiring new well user to purchase "water credits" and only use water for indoor, domestic use. Those who want more water, need additional credits. Water use could be subject to monitoring by the state.
ORPC officials tell the Sequim Gazette they aren't seeking to overturn the rule, but change it so there is more local control in administering the rule.
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But one thing not up for argument is the magnificent setting of Trinity: many of its majestic buildings are hundreds of years old. (The college was founded by England's Queen Elizabeth 1 in 1592.) Architecturally at least, Trinity is way above its nearest rivals.
Although the college is best known for the Book of Kells, it's also worth going there to check out the Long Room, the room that holds the Book of Kells. (Apparently, this room was the inspiration for a room called the Jedi Archives, in the movie, "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.")
It is also worth taking one of the guided tours around the college as nearly every building seems to have an interesting story. Many of the tour guides appear to be Trinity College drama school graduates: They always seem to add a little dramatic flair to their tours.
The best time of the year to visit this university is around the end of May, just after the students' exams are over. Then the whole college comes to life.
A popular activity among its students is to sit out outside the Pavilion Bar (known as "The Pav"), while watching a game of cricket. Join them and bring a few beers, if you get the chance.
8. The Burren
The Burren, which is formed by limestone karst plates that have been thrust to the earth's surface - in other words, it's a great big rocky mass - is one of Ireland's most famous natural attractions.
The limestone terrain holds a special fascination for geologists and botanists for its Mediterranean and alpine plants.
Described as a botanist's paradise, the Burren has one of the most diverse and beautiful floras in Ireland: 635 different plant species (including 22 of Ireland's 27 native orchids) have been recorded here.
The region also has a number of more rare and elusive species such as the carnivorous pine marten, the snake-like slow worm and the rare lesser horseshoe bat, as well as over 100 breeding birds and almost all of Ireland's native butterfly species.
The diversity of species is due to a happy coincidence of natural and cultural factors. As well as the unique growing environment provided by the thick limestone and thins soil, low impact traditional farming practices such as the ancient practice of winter grazing contribute to the presence of this rich flora. The European Union has designated most of the Burren as a Special Area of Conservation, a title reserved for the finest natural environments in Europe.
9. St. Patrick's Cathedral
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ireland's largest church, is also one of the biggest tourist attractions in Dublin.
In a well close to the cathedral, St Patrick was believed to have baptized converts from paganism to Christianity. To commemorate his visit, a small wooden church was built on the site. Later, in 1191, the present building was constructed, and St. Patrick's was raised to the status of a cathedral.
St Patrick's is also notable for being the first place where Handel's "Messiah" was performed, in 1742. Another interesting fact: Jonathan Swift, the author of "Gulliver's Travels," who was the dean of the cathedral from 1713-45, is buried here.
While this cathedral is replete with history, St. Patrick's is not, however, a museum. It's still very much a living building with services held every day of the year. There are also sung services six days a week. The choir sings two services every day during school terms - the only cathedral in Ireland or Britain to do so.
10. Croke Park
Croke Park is the stadium where Ireland's two national sports, hurling and Gaelic football, are played. It is also the headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the sporting body responsible for these national games.
It is hard to belive that Croke Park is primarily designed for amateur sports - with a capacity of aroound 80,000, it is the fouth largest stadium in Europe.
But it's much more than merely a stadium: it has been described as the spiritual home of Irish cultural nationalism. Hurlers and Gaelic footballers - and indeed their fans - speak of Croke Park as if it were sacred ground.
"Croker" is something of a hidden secret for tourists. If you can get a tickets, the chances are that you will be one of the few tourists there. The best time to get tickets is usually around May at the start of the season. To go and see a game of either hurling or football at Croke Park is to sample a unique slice of Irish life.
While you're there, visit the GAA museum and for a tour of the grand stadium.


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Nicole Ducouer, in this week's "I Dare Ya, Ducouer," learns to be a mascot! She gets help from Blake Edmunds, the mascot trainer at Wake Forest University.
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
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The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake. (11-12)
It is quiet out here, and just a wee bit creepy, if you ask us. You know when it gets too quiet that you begin to freak out a little bit? That's the kind of quiet that fills the woods our speaker watches. Our speaker is all by himself, and yet we can't help but feel like he's not alone.
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And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep. (15-16)
We've reached the end of the poem, and we still don't know if our speaker has a family or if anyone is waiting up for him at home. The word "I" appears five times throughout the poem, and we get the feeling that our speaker is one individualistic kind of guy.


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Catie Martin's photo earned more than 20 votes on neighborsgo.com, making her the Reader's Choice Winner for week two of our contest.
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UPDATE: "The Flash" Hasn't Cast Savitar, Says Berlanti
TV, Comic Books
After delighting and disturbing us in 2014 with a Ralph Wiggum anatomical cross-section cake, Kylie Mangles of Letterpress Bakery kept one foot in Springfield and the other in a galaxy far, far away for a recent project: an incredible 3D cake depicting Homer Simpson as a Stormtrooper.
Never let it be said that Homer J. Simpson doesn't have a social conscience. Also, never let it be said that he passed up an opportunity to stick it to Ned Flanders.
Responding to the viral sensation with impressive speed — this isn't South Park, you know; animation typically takes time — Fox has released a video of Homer embracing the spirit, if not the actual title, of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. All right, maybe a glass of water isn't in keeping with the spirit.
However, in grand Simpsons tradition, even that doesn't turn out well for him …
No matter how many Simpsons T-shirts, posters, figurines and lunchboxes you own, you'll never be as big of a fan as Lee Weir is.
The 27-year-old New Zealander is a bit of a Homer Simpson devotee. Well, maybe he's more than a bit, considering he holds the Guinness Worlds Record title for Most Tattoos of the Same Cartoon Character Tattooed on the Body. Because, yes, that's a thing — so much of a thing that it requires "tattoo" to be mentioned twice.
As Man of Steel, with its spiritual themes, soars toward a $590 million worldwide box-office haul, the Vatican's official newspaper has turned its attention to the faiths of other prominent superheroes, asking in the headline, "Is the Hulk Catholic?"
The answer, according to L'Osservatore Romano writer Gaetano Vallini, is yes, and he points to the wedding of Bruce Banner and Betty Ross as the most concrete evidence of this. "Bruce Banner, the incredible green man, in fact married his beloved Betty Ross in a church and a Catholic priest presided at the ceremony," he writes in the full-page article. "There are other indications dispersed among the hundreds of comic strips dedicated to him that are said to unequivocally reveal his faith."
Of course, Adherents.com, the go-to source for the religious affiliations of comic-book characters (and other figures, both real and fictional), lists the Hulk as a lapsed Catholic, but the website appears preoccupied with the Ultimate and live-action TV versions of the character. A final determination may require Pope Francis to intercede.


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4Minute & Phantom to volume up Jakarta with Volume Up Party
24 September 2012, Jakarta – This Halloween, 4Minute will volume Jakarta up with an explosive performance in "4 Minute & Phantom's Volume Up Party". The showcase will be held at Kelapa Gading Sportsmall in North Jakarta and organised by YS Media Entertainment.
4Minute made their debut in 2009 with 5 members—Nam Ji Hyun, Heo Ga Yoon, Jeon Ji Yoon, Kim Hyuna and Kwon So Hyun. The 'Volume up Party' showcase will be held with a Halloween Party theme with lots of surprises for the audiences, and is also 4Minute's first time in Jakarta.
Apart from 4Minute, a South Korean hip hop male group "Phantom" will also perform at the showcase. S4 (Superstar 4), an Indonesian boy band will also join the Korean stars to perform in the showcase. S4 is a Indonesian boy band created by YS Media Entertainment who had their audition through a TV show held with Indosiar titled 'Galaxy Superstar'.
Name: Volume Up Party feat. 4Minute, Phantom & Superstar S4
Date: 31 October 2012
Venue: Kelapa Gading Sportsmall
Organiser: YS Media Entertainment
Ticketing Agent: Duta Suara, Disc Tarra, Aquarius, Ibu Dibyo, Rajakarcis.com and Qoo10
Ticket Price:
- Tribune: Rp. 500000
- Festival Class: Rp. 750000
Not only the showcase, YS Media Entertainment will also hold a 4Minute Cover Festival, a 4 Minute dance and song cover competition. To join this competition, simply register and upload your 4Minute cover performance to www.lovelytoday.com.
The winner will get a chance to perform on the same stage as 4 Minute and also these prizes:
1st Place: Rp. 3000000 + a picture with 4 Minute
2nd Place: Rp. 2000000 + a picture with 4 Minute
3rd Place: Rp. 1000000 + a picture with 4 Minute
Meanwhile, lets watch the '4Minute & Phantom's Volume Up Party' teaser video below:
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UB40 performing in Les Gets
UB40 will be performing a special concert in Les Gets as part of the Lounge Music Festival on SATURDAY 2 AUGUST ON THE BIG STAGE OF THE FESTIVAL
One year after the french signer Garou, it is now the turn of the legendary British group to thrill the Lounge Music Festival stage.
Opening of the space concert doors
Opening act
UB40 concert
For detials on prices please visit the Lougne Music Festival, website.
You can book online via the link below
Online booking
For e-tickets purchased online on Tourist Office website: 1. Print your e-ticket. 2. With your printed e-ticket, go to the Les Gets Tourist Office from the 20th July to the 2nd August at 7.00pm to get your ticket.