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But don't expect Madden, 30, to be the one cueing the music when those acceptance speeches run a little too lengthy – but he would be up for it.
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This is the fourth and final part of the build your first Windows Store app with Visual Basic video series. In this video, you'll learn how to use the File Picker API, how to do data bind properties of a file to controls, and we'll show how to preserve access to a file for later use using the StorageApplicationsPermissions class.
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ST. PETERSBURG — A 16-year-old southwest Florida girl has died after the car she was riding in jumped a curb and collided with metal guardrails, which pierced through the windshield killing her instantly.
Authorities say Christina Shiver and Alexia Douglas were driving Friday night when 16-year-old Shiver became distracted and looked away from the road briefly. St. Petersburg Police said it's not clear why Shiver looked away.
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1. Cardinal O'Hara girls basketball. Tuesday's historic victory over Sacred Heart gives us a clear No. 1 on this list. Fun-to-watch Hawks (fun to watch on PrepTalkTV Weekly on buffalonews.com as well) are undefeated with impressive wins outside the area.
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3. Canisius boys swimming. Followed rout of St. Joe's with excellent win over Cathedral Prep (Pa.). All-Catholic meet Monday at ECC should be a Crusader showcase.
4. Canisius boys basketball. Great start to the month. Win at Timon, win over Section V power Fairport, ascend to No. 1 spot in both the state Class A poll and The News large school poll.
5. Clarence wrestling. Season-long No. 1 large school is seventh in state AA poll. Sunday's Section VI championships at UB might end up a Red Devil-fest like the ECICs and Class AA tourney.
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7. Sacred Heart girls basketball. An oh-so-close loss to O'Hara. Stay tuned: The No. 1 large school Sharks will likely have another shot at the Hawks.
8. Nichols girls hockey. Nine straight wins as they head off to face more elite competition at Shattuck-St. Mary's Jamboree this weekend.
9. Falconer wrestling. No. 1 small school dominated Class D tournament with four individual champions as they head to UB on Sunday.
10. City Honors swimming. Set four records in winning All-High title, with freshman Alize Allen – not surprisingly given her record-breaking season – in on three of them.
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Dylan Schumaker, the 16-year-old accused of beating to death his girlfriend's toddler son, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of second-degree murder and first-degree assault in Springville Village Court.
Schumaker has been charged as an adult and, as a result, his name has been released by authorities. His identity initially was withheld because of the possibility he could be granted youthful-offender status.
Following his arraignment in front of Springville Justice Kelly O'Neal Adams, Schumaker was returned to the Erie County Holding Center in downtown Buffalo, where he remains jailed without bail.
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LISBON - The vehicular homicide jury trial of Michael Bair was postponed Tuesday after his attorneys asked Columbiana County Municipal Court Judge Mark Frost to be allowed to withdraw from the case.
Attorneys David A. D'Apolito and Marc A. Carfolo filed the request Tuesday, only a day prior to the start of a scheduled jury trial. D'Apolito told Frost there had been a breakdown in the client relationship, adding there were differences of opinion in the strategy which should be used to defend the case.
D'Apolito went on to state one plea offer was made, accepted and then rejected. Two others were later presented to Bair, including one D'Apolito suggested was "what I considered a very fair offer." However, he continued Bair at some point may have began to believe his attorneys were only interested in getting a plea deal instead of defending him.
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Bair was also asked to speak on the issue of his attorneys. He said he has tried to speak with other attorneys to confirm whether they are defending him well or not, but other attorneys will not speak to him while he has other counsel. At the same time, Bair said he was losing confidence in his current attorneys.
While noting he has not seen anything which would show to him D'Apolito and Carfolo have done anything except defend Bair, Frost said he does not of course know everything happening in the client relationship. He agreed to allow them to step down as the defense attorneys.
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Lee County, Fla., medical examiners said Thursday that Arthur Hohensee, a 74-year-old retired Amherst police detective, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a tense incident in his home involving alleged gunshots he fired at his newly-divorced wife and an adult daughter and then briefly exchanged gunfire with Lee County sheriff's deputies who were called to the scene about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
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What are the benefits of each and especially WHEN and WHY we might want to use one over the other.
I've been developing multi-layered web applications(web forms & APIs) now for 8 years and in my experience the MVC pattern is hands down the best choice for architecting an extensible, maintainable and highly isolated solution. Prior to the ASP.NET MVC framework,
I was using the UIP application block w/NET 2.0(I'm serious) that Eugenio Pace and team had put out a guess about 6 years ago? The clean separation of layers & responsibilities throughout the application architecture just makes perfect sense to me. When MS
announced they were introducing the ASP.NET MVC framework I knew something great was on the way…and thus far I have been more than impressed the framework, community involvement/support and the team's responsiveness to the developers currently working with
the MVC.
I'm currently working on implementing a solution for my employer that makes use of the ASP.NET MVC framework to expose a REST based API for consumption by internal and in the future external clients. We are currently also making use of the following MS Enterprise
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Thus far everything is fitting together very well under the MVC 'hood' with the use of some other design patterns such as Façade & factory (abstract) including the ASP.NET membership model. Once the UI component of the application is built, I'm sure we'll make use of the JQuery framework as well.
Regarding what I'd like to see at the presentation…
Ditto on the previous suggestions:
1. More information on the different types of action filters we can implement (or that are on the way).
2. General solution layout best practices, naming conventions, code organization etc.
3. TDD examples, how-to's - I realize there's a lot of information available on this. However, sometimes seeing a demo(w/Preview 5) really drives the message home.
Perhaps some of these topics could be addressed or discussed:
1. The use of the MVC framework for a REST application that could serve as both an API as well as a data source for UI application(sound familiar?). I believe Rob Conery had an article touching on this topic.
2. The concept of the use of the standard verb/action methods typically associated with REST…should we stick to using the 7 defined actions? Perhaps reason why we should or should not?
1. Index
2. List
3. Show
4. Edit
5. New
6. Create
7. Update
8. Delete
3. Routing best practices & how to configure routes in a config file of sort?
4. What not to do when developing with the MVC…perhaps lessons learned from the team?
5. A road map of the framework…I realize a lot of people have been hounding you guys about this. But any further insight you could provide on when we could expect a release date would be greatly appreciated!
Looking forward to conference!
@Haacked: Hi Phil,
I'm in the process of starting a major project and still debating what platform to use (WebForms versus MVC). Let's assume this site will have 100,000 users.
I was wondering if you could tell me what is the best practice to keep the user known across pages. I don't believe it's the Session, and I don't want to use the Membership database since I already have my DB and don't need another one.
I'm not too clear if the call HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated needs a Membership Database underneath or how does it remember the current user? Is that by the means of a cookie?
If so, is it "bad" practice to create my own cookie and put my own data, as long as I encrypt it before saving on the Response.Cookies ??
Salut from one Fil ...to another Phil
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a very small gun dont buck this shit unless its a remington cause you aint coppin' nothin'.
The fuck you think your doing pullin' a deuce deuce (.22) on me that shit is funny cause that might burn through my damn shirt if your lucky.
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a small gun that does little harm when the standard firing function is used, but does a good deal of damage if it is used to bludgeon someone's eye areas.
Whatever you do, just don't use the deuce deuce on me. You might dent my soda can.
by I Dance Jigs March 12, 2003
A small caliber hunting cartridge only capable of taking down small game. In a self-defense role, the .22LR cartridge has little stopping power and little stopping power. So, just because Ice Cube says it's cool, don't go out and buy one. The 9mm is the better choice in defending yourself. Although it at best is a crappy round for anything but rabbits, it can be used for maximum infection because if used wisely, a .22 will not leave an exit wound.
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LISBON - A Hanoverton man faces vehicular homicide charges nearly four years after the death of Gary Paulin, a Lisbon man killed in a hit-skip accident on U.S. Route 30 near state Route 172.
Jeffrey L. House, 47, last known address Canal Street, Hanoverton, was indicted last week by the Columbiana County grand jury. He was arrested this past weekend.
House faces two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, one a first degree felony and the other a second degree felony. Additionally, he is charged with a third degree felony for failing to stop after the accident.
The first vehicular homicide charge alleges House was intoxicated and driving under suspension at the time of the crash on Nov. 23, 2008.
Newspaper accounts from the time state at 1:47 a.m. a westbound F-150 pickup truck owned by Hallie House went left of center striking head-on the 1990 Chevrolet Tracker driven by Paulin. The driver of the pickup fled on foot, while Paulin, 53, died at the scene of the crash.
Jeffrey House, Hallie House's husband at the time, reported at 2:37 a.m. to Lisbon police the pickup had been stolen. The highway patrol investigators reportedly determined Jeffrey House had been driving the pickup earlier the evening of Nov. 22. He claimed to have driven the vehicle to the home of Sam Stacy in Lisbon, left the keys in the pickup and the two of them went to Night Court bar.
House claimed at the time, when they returned to Stacy's home at 1:50 a.m. the pickup was gone. He also had explained a cut on his left arm and bruise on his hip as happening while returning from the Night Court by slipping on the edge of Stacy's porch.
In 2010, Paulin's sister, Patricia L. Hall of Lisbon, along with Paulin's car insurance company, Motorists Mutual Insurance, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against House. The matter had been set for a jury trial for Jan. 10, 2012, but was dismissed in December.
Paulin left behind a wife, Theresa; four sisters, Patricia Hall, Barbara May, Margaret Scullion and Judy Altman; and a brother, Donald.


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Firefighters say a space heater sparked an apartment building fire at 518 North Queen Street.
The flames broke out just after 7 a.m.
8 people were in the building at the time and crews evacuated the building.
Firefighters say the fire started on the first floor. A resident tried to put the fire out and was taken to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation and burns.
The estimated damage for the building is around $80,000. The Lancaster Red Cross is assisting.
Firefighters say the 2nd floor of the apartment building was missing smoke detectors.


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Friday, May 17, 2013
Who will be the Ashley Ridge quarterback; who will he throw the ball to; and who will run the ball for the Swamp Foxes?
Ashley Ridge football fans can gain insight into the potential answers to these questions and more Monday during the 2013 Swamp Fox Cardinal and White Spring Game.
For the event, scheduled for 6 p.m. at The Swamp, members of the Ashley Ridge football team will be divided into two teams for an inter-team scrimmage. Offensive players will line up for the Cardinal team and defensive players will line up for the White team.
Coaches have established a point system just for the scrimmage that awards points to the offensive squad when it does things like move the ball and enter the end zone and points to the defensive squad when it stops the other squad from gaining yards.
The Spring Game will mark the end of Ashley Ridge's spring football practice, which opened May 1.
"Largely, we've worked on the basics this spring," Ashley Ridge coach Kenny Walker said. "We have a lot of new kids and kids who will be in new positions so we have focused on teaching them the fundamentals of those positions. We don't have many skills players back with experience, but we have some talented young kids and some guys who have kind of been waiting around to get their chance so we are excited."
The Swamp Foxes will lose their starting quarterback, both starting running backs and some of their top receivers to graduation. However, Ashley Ridge does return three experienced offensive linemen – Tyler Moss, Jonathan Byrd and Keith Clark.
Five players are vying for the starting QB position.
Ashley Ridge is pretty young on defense but it does return four linemen on that side of the ball with varsity experience. That includes all-region athlete Josh Springer.
The team has some holes to fill in the defensive backfield but does have some experience there. Senior Kendall Felder returns to the safety position after receiving all-region honors last season.
"We lost three starting linebackers, but we have a couple of players with experience there and the young players in that position are showing so much promise that we may end up moving a linebacker to another position so we can get more of those guys on the field," Walker said. "We will have some new guys in the secondary but things seem to be developing there."
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Open source for designing next-generation digital hearing aids
At 64 Studio, we use the Linux kernel with real-time patches to ensure reliable, glitch-free I/O for our customers' demanding audio applications. Having source code and full control over the design of the system means that we can tweak the machine for the best possible performance on the target hardware. Typically, our end users are in the "pro audio" market--music production, recording, or broadcast. When an audio engineer switches on their new mixing desk, they probably don't realise that it's actually an embedded GNU/Linux device, albeit one that weighs a few hundred times as much as their Android phone.
Recently, we've been working on a rather different product which makes use of the same real-time Linux features that pro audio users already enjoy. We'd presented our work on real-time audio for mobile devices at the Linux Audio Conference in Parma, Italy in 2009. Following that presentation, we had an enquiry from Giso Grimm, a researcher on hearing augmentation algorithms at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. The trouble with designing next-generation digital hearing aids is that optimization and hardware miniaturisation are very expensive. If you pick a sub-optimal algorithm and build it into a hearing aid, you've just wasted a lot of money on a product that won't deliver. So researchers at the Haus des Hörens R&D facility in Oldenburg field test new algorithms on standard PC hardware, using a specialized multi-channel USB audio interface with I/O cables that connect to ear pieces.
Using a general-purpose operating system in place of highly optimized hardware presents a potential performance challenge. The PCs can run either GNU/Linux or Windows, but fortunately the real-time Linux kernel delivers better latency performance than Windows can. In a digital audio context, latency means the delay imposed by processing on the sound that the user hears. We can get away with a few milliseconds of delay, but if latency is too high, the brain begins to notice. The effect of excessive latency is not unlike watching a badly-dubbed movie, in which the lips of the actors are out of sync with the words; clearly, this would be unacceptable in a hearing aid field test.
At first, we considered building custom embedded hardware for the field tests, based around a single board computer with an Intel Atom processor. On reflection, it was decided that it would be better to be able to test very CPU-intensive algorithms before they had undergone any optimization. As a consequence, we targeted the Lenovo Thinkpad X200 notebook, due to its Core 2 Duo CPU in a relatively small and lightweight device. We were then able to build a minimal, high-performance, yet stable GNU/Linux distro, which we codenamed Mahalia, for the researchers to use on the Thinkpads. User reports indicate that Mahalia is performing well, and another round of field tests is due to begin soon.
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I wonder if the Android phones do not have everything necessary to build an Open Source Hearing Aid?
We need to lean into technology with huge consumer numbers in order to take advantage of the economies of scale.
Another point I would make is that young people are running around with all kinds of electronics hanging off of every part of their body. The cosmetic reasons for hiding the ear piece have largely disappeared.
I'm in. I'm a former electrical engineer with congenital deafness in my right ear and hard of hearing in my left. I'm sure we could come up with some kind of affordable solution!
Great Zac.
I am currently in USA visiting my mom who will be 100 years old this year. But in ten days or so I will be back home in the Philippines. I really want a collaborator and will also try to involve some young people from the University of the Philippines.
Great to see your interest.
Thanks Bob!
There are some hearing aid chips you can buy that sound pretty exciting to play with and might be the basis of an "open source" hearing aid just like the arduino microcontroller is for less specialized open source projects.
It sounds like all you need is the programmer, a microphone, a receiver and a battery and you're ready to go... Well you need to know how to program the DSP, which is assume is not for the faint-at-heart!
You know, another thing I'd love to do is accurately simulate hearing loss to raise awareness of hearing loss. The trick is to figure out how to completely eliminate sounds of a given frequency that falls below a given threshold.
I'd imagine you'd have to do an FFT of the speech signal, eliminate bins that are less than the threshold for a patient's audiogram and then reconstruct audio.
If it is done correctly, the playback of the modified audio would sound exactly the same to the patient but would probably be shocking to the normal-hearing spouse.
Leaving in a few minutes for the Philippines so I won't reply after this for a while.
Yes, great idea.
There are so many things one can do algorithmically (and nonlinearly.) I have ideas for parking markers of sibilants (high frequency hissing sounds) as low frequency tonal markers. The speech would not sound natural but would be very intelligible.
And so on,
More in a few days.
Maybe you should constact me by email: robert dot laquey at gmail dot com
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Music featuring a French composer's requiem will fill the sacred space at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Saturday.
The "Sacred Music in Sacred Space" concert emphasizes "sacred music by 20th-century composers," and will feature the late French composer Maurice Durufle and his 1947 requiem, Altoona Symphony Orchestra Maestra Teresa Cheung said.
The Cathedral Choir, the State College Choral Society, organist Nicholas Will of Crafton and mezzo soprano Raquel Winnica Young of Pittsburgh will perform with the orchestra.
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Maestra Teresa Cheung will conduct the Altoona Symphony Orchestra in the "Sacred Music in Sacred Space" concert, to be held on?Saturday at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in?Altoona.
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"It will be a concert with great strength, beauty and comfort," Cheung said. "The ambiance of the Cathedral will no question highlight the essence of these pieces, a couple of them are to be performed on the historic Steinmeyer organ at the Cathedral."
The first half of the concert will include a performance of "The Prayer of St. Gregory," and the second half of the concert will feature the Durufle Requiem.
Will, who performed with the ASO for the "Music of Enlightment" concert in spring 2011, said the requiem is "rich" and "poignant" with a "mystical element."
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What: Altoona Symphony Orchestra's "Sacred Music in Sacred Space: Durufl Requiem"
When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Altoona
Tickets: $33, adults; $13, students. To purchase, call 944-9434 or stop at the Mishler Theatre Box Office, 1208 12th Avenue.
For more than 500 years, "the text of the requiem mass has inspired composers to set it to music," he said.
"The requiem could be especially poignant for those who have recently lost a loved one," he said. "For many, it brings a sense of peace."
Mezzo Soprano Winnica Young will sing with the Altoona orchestra for the first time at the concert.
"I am very excited about it; I deeply admire and respect Teresa, and it will be a pleasure to make music with her and the ASO musicians," she said.
Young's husband, Lenny, is the principal oboist for the symphony, but will not perform in the upcoming concert.
Young will sing one aria of the requiem, "The Pie Jesu," which means: "Have Mercy on us Lord Jesus, and give us a peaceful rest."
Durufle wrote the requiem when his father died, she said.
"This fabulous Cathedral is the perfect venue for this concert, so the audience will be in the right place to give themselves to the music," she said. "I hope to be able to give my best, communicate and connect with the spirit of the piece."
The choral society also worked with the ASO on Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana opera performance, said State College Choral Society director Russ Shelley.
"Unlike many other requiems, the Durufle Requiem places full weight on the chorus," Shelley said.
"With limited solo sections, the chorus carries the beautiful chant melodies throughout the piece."
The choral society will contribute 100 singers to the performance, he said.
"The Durufle Requiem uses Gregorian chant melodies as a backbone for very lush harmonies," Shelley said.
Saturday's performance "presents the full orchestra version which provides suddenly changing aural colors from bursts of brass to long string lines. As a requiem, the drama moves from an opening serenity through fierce judgment and returns to the serenity of final rest. This contrast is perfect subject matter for Durufle's skillful orchestration and tender handling of the timeless chant melodies."
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New dimension to Parkland's staffing crisis: lack of doctors
Parkland Memorial Hospital's self-described staffing crisis is even worse than it appears in today's front-page story.
"We're running with about 50 percent of [the nurses] we should have in labor and delivery," my colleague Sherry Jacobson quoted a hospital board member as saying. "We've been asking our nurses to work overtime, and they're getting burned out."
Today I discovered on a Parkland employment website that it's also seeking at least 25 more doctors in the childbirth unit, which is one of the nation's busiest.
Parkland typically delivers over 30 babies a day — and recently handled twice that number in a 24-hour stretch. That's according to Peter Urbanowicz, who heads the federal monitoring team at the public hospital.
His crew, from consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal, advises federal regulators about whether Parkland can safely continue operating. The deadline for systemic change is April.
The monitors warned in February, in their initial assessment of Parkland, that the birth unit was dirty, overcrowded and sometimes understaffed. Similar problems were found throughout the hospital.
The latest monitoring report, which is attached to this blog post, notes that some mothers are still laboring on beds in hallways.
The report doesn't detail the staffing shortages, which came to light at yesterday's meeting of Parkland's governing board. Officials said there are more than 1,300 unfilled jobs — a vacancy rate of nearly 16 percent.
I've been asking since Monday for statistics on vacancies by job category.
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Support is the most important principle in singing. Without it, everything else in the development of your voice is like painting a used car and calling it new. The major issues will still be present; they'll just be covered up with a pretty veneer. I sang professionally for 10 years with absolutely no concept of support and it was very difficult for me to maintain my voice during that time. I got hoarse often, had serious trouble singing high notes; if I sang a song loudly and aggressively, I couldn't come right back and sing one cleanly and gently. I often spent my days worrying about whether my voice would work that night. It wasn't a lot of fun to have so little control over my voice but I believed that that was what singers had to go through.
Much of my troubles had to do with "singing from the throat" (more on that later) instead of using my support system. So what is support? I ask this question of all singers in their first lesson. Some singers have never heard the term, some have heard it and have no idea what it means, and others have answered that it has to do with posture, singing from the diaphragm, or tightening the abdomen. All of these concepts seem elusive to most singers, even though they know they're "supposed" to be doing something with their abdominal area. Prior to singing, we expand the abdomen to draw air into the lungs. As we begin to make sound we lift in and up with the abdomen to create the air pressure that will start the phonation (creating sound). However, if there is no resistance to the lift, all the air would escape in a fraction of a second. We would have no way to sustain a note. What must occur is a resistance to the in and up lift.
If you put the palm of one hand on top of the other, lift with the lower and resist with the upper, you will reproduce what needs to be created in your torso. I will explain how we will create this resistance later. For now, let's look at the concept, for this is what support truly is. Support is the control you have over the airflow coming out of your body when you sing by how you resist the in and up lift of the abdominal area. In other words, you can control the intensity of the air pressure against the vocal folds (cords) and the speed of the airflow by the opposition you create as you lift. This in turn will affect most of the elements of singing: volume, registration, vowel color, pitch, vibrato, breathiness, etc.
Support is the engine of your vocal vehicle−it is what drives the voice and allows you to control the mechanics of singing. This is the piece of the puzzle that is missing for most singers. You not only have to be aware of needing to create lift and opposition, this process has to be hooked up and functioning while you sing so that you are using the larger, stronger abdominal muscles to do more of the work than the smaller, more vulnerable focal folds. This isometric action can be felt when you try to lift an immovable object. It's a great way to get in touch with how to engage the muscles that control the lift and opposition.
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The heavy and light registers of every voice (sometimes called "chest" voice and "head" voice or falsetto) can operate automatically as you sing higher or lower pitches and you can learn to manually shift registers to get different sounds. This gives you the option of sounding the way you want to on any given word or line in a song. The Sing Free Now! Method helps you create many choices—not just one sound when you sing.
Singing in pure heavy register with dark vowel color to establish the strength of the voice. I teach you how to make a tone called "dark vowel color" that will allow you to sing higher notes with more ease and control that you ever thought possible. This teaches the body how to set up for high notes and will allow you to then sing them with whatever tone you want (yes, you can intentionally change the tone of your voice.)
Modifying vowels to "oo" as pitches get higher. This technique will help you to sing high notes easier by slightly changing the pronunciation of vowels. The effects of this are dramatic.
Modifying vowels to "ah" as pitches get lower. This technique will give you stronger and more present low notes.
Singing different ratios of balanced registration. You will be able to blend heavy and light register in whatever ratios you want to create more colors on your palette to paint with. Another way to have many options with which to sing—not just one "right" sound that most voice teachers demand you use.
If you think of your body as if it were the crew in the engine room of a ship and your mind as if it were the captain of the ship, you can learn to send commands to your body and get the vocal results you desire. I teach you how to assign a number on a scale of 1-to-10 to any vocal element so that the crew in the engine room knows exactly what your intention is. With the Sing Free Now! Method you'll just have to picture the sound you want and your body will make that sound.
Through song analysis and dynamics exercises I will show you how to introduce emotion and style to your singing. This allows you to connect the story of the song to your audience--your main job as a singer. If the audience is captivated by your story-telling, perfect delivery becomes less critical and you leave the audience wanting more.
We all have a Vocal Defense Mechanism (VDM) that is a subconscious system working to protect you from harming your voice, from embarrassing yourself, and from working too hard during singing. Singing a loud note, singing a high note, or singing anything that seems in the least bit threatening can trigger this mechanism. It often sabotages your singing, making it harder for you to do what you want with your voice. The Sing Free Now! Method shows you how to override the VDM so that you can sing what you want to sing the way you want to sing it.
It is often easier and faster for you to develop a performance sound by practicing a sound you would not perform with. This sound may seem unmusical to you at first but it will develop the strength, coordination, and control you need to make the performance sound you want. It will get you to that point more quickly than banging your head against a performance sound that you cannot make at first.
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8 ounces Eden Soba, 1 packageor any Eden Soba
4 cups kombu dashi (soup stock), see Eden's recipe, or vegetable stock
1/2 cup carrots, dice small
1/2 cup organic sweet corn, fresh or frozen
14 1/2 ounces Eden Diced Tomatoes, drained
1/2 cup zucchini, diced small
5 Tbsp Eden Agar Agar Flakes
1/4 tsp Eden Sea Salt
1/4 cup water
2 tsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce
1 tsp fresh ginger root, finely grated
1 Tbsp green onions, finely chopped
Cook pasta as package directs, rinse and set aside. Place the kombu dashi in a pot, bring to a boil. Blanch the sweet corn 1 minute and remove to drain. Blanch the carrots 1 minute and remove to drain. Blanch the zucchini 30 seconds and remove to drain. Add the agar agar flakes and sea salt to the stock. Bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to low and simmer 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the flakes dissolve. Pour half the stock into a shallow glass baking dish. Place in the freezer until gelled but not frozen. Place the soba and vegetables in layers on top of the gelled agar. Pour the remaining stock over the soba and vegetables. Refrigerate until gelled, about 1 1/2 hours. The soba and vegetables should now be sandwiched in between two layers of the gelled stock.
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The Ball State Board of Trustees named a new football complex after Ronald and Joan Venderly in recognition of their generosity over more than two decades.
"We are deeply grateful to the Venderlys for their support," Bill Scholl, Ball State director of intercollegiate athletics said. "This new facility will give our student-athletes another competitive advantage on the field. It is also a sign of an even brighter future. The most competitive recruits take notice of these facilities, and it affects their decisions. The complex will bring us closer to being on par with facilities in the Mid-American Conference. Having this new space available will provide another competitive advantage for our student-athletes."
The Ronald E. and Joan M. Venderly Football Team Complex will adjoin the west side of the John W. and Janice B. Fisher Football Training Complex. It will provide dedicated meeting space for the entire team and will house offices for coaches and support staff. The new facility will also allow for the repurposing of existing space to better serve student-athletes. The complex is part of the university's $20 million Cardinal Commitment campaign, which will fund strategic improvements for softball, baseball, men¹s and women's golf, football, men's and women's basketball, and men's and women's volleyball.
"I have enjoyed getting to know the Venderly's over the last three years and greatly appreciate their support of both the university and the football program," Ball State fourth-year head football coach Pete Lembo said. "Their generosity will make a very positive impact on the experience of hundreds of student-athletes, coaches and support staff in the years to come."
The Venderlys have demonstrated extraordinary generosity and deep commitment to furthering higher education, the arts, cultural opportunities, youth programs and athletics in their home community and across Indiana. They established the Ronald E. and Joan M. Venderly Scholarship Endowment funding scholarships for more than 30 Ball State students from Fort Wayne and Allen County. Most recently, the Venderlys have taken a leadership role in the Cardinal Commitment campaign. They are leadership benefactors, and Mr. Venderly, a 1964 Ball State graduate, provides his time and talent on the campaign committee.
"It is clear the university needs ongoing support, so that is why my wife and I got involved," Ron Venderly said. "We need to update the football complex to stay competitive from a recruiting standpoint with other schools in the MAC. We hope this will help entice good football players to come to Ball State."
Born and raised in Fort Wayne, Ind., Venderly's ties to athletics runs deep with him. He served as the offensive and defensive line coach for Concordia High School in Fort Wayne from 1953-59 and was athletics director at Fort Wayne Central High School from 1961-67. A successful career with two brokerage firms soon followed as Venderly worked for Shearson and was a vice president for 20 years at Merrill Lynch. He retired in 2000.
"Jo Ann Gora and Ben Hancock were the original reasons I got involved with Ball State about seven or eight years ago," Venderly said. "Hudson Akin and Bill Scholl came along more recently and we have become good friends and I appreciate the friendship I have built with Coach Lembo."
"The lives of students are changed by the extraordinary generosity of the Venderlys," Ball State President Jo Ann M. Gora said. "Ron and Joan take the long view with their philanthropy. They have invested significantly over decades, and their impact will be felt for decades to come. We are truly grateful."


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When Bedford's Ryan Easter walked out to the Giant Center floor, in front of a packed house, for the PIAA Championships' parade of champions for all of those wrestling for medals last year, he wore a broad smile he couldn't hide.
He had reason to smile. As a 113-pound sophomore, he was wrestling for his second state medal, which is two more than most high school wrestlers in the state.
And he had no problem with the fact that he was wrestling for fifth place again, which is what he placed as a freshman. He later lost to Ligonier Valley's Josh Patrick, 2-0, in the fifth-place finals. Still, it was another medal in the toughest state tournament in the nation.
"That's the place to be," Easter said. "Why not be happy about placing? I was still going for fifth. I worked all season and life for that medal. I knew I would only be there a couple more times, so I may as well enjoy it."
"Ryan really loves to wrestle," Bedford coach Brian Creps said. "When it comes to the big situation, he loves the big matches. He loves the chess match of getting ready for the big matches."
A year later, the junior will be looking for his third medal and for that spotlight to hit him in a darkened arena as he's being introduced for the finals. It won't be easy, that's for sure. He opens with Saucon Valley's Bryan Israel, whom he beat, 4-3, in his fifth-place bout as a freshman, and Benton's Matt Welliver, who beat him in overtime, 3-1, in the consolation semifinals last year, is a possible semifinal opponent.
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* Three-time District 5 Tournament champion, two-time state medalist.
* He's 33-2 with six technical falls as a junior.
* Has a 106-15 career record in three years.
But this kind of pressure in a big tournament is nothing new for Easter. The former Pennsylvania Junior Wrestling state champion and five-time PJW medalist says he knows what to expect at states, which is an advantage he has over some of his opponents.
"That experience will carry me a lot," he said. "It will keep me relaxed. I have my routine before a match, and I won't change anything. Some of the nerves will be gone. That won't be a factor."
"Having been down there twice really makes a difference," Creps said. "It seems like the bigger the venue the more basic wrestling skills show through. The basics are what wins there."
When Easter wrestled in his first state tournament as a 103-pound freshman, he opened with a 6-0 loss to Hanover's eventual fourth-placer Ian Brown. But he won three straight consolation bouts until he lost again to Brown, 6-1, in the consolation semifinals. Easter finished with a 36-5 record, despite having to wrestle much of the season with a torn hamstring.
"He went to states his freshman year not knowing what to expect," Creps said. "There's a lot of people in the arena and you can feel the electricity. It's a really big jump to get to that level. He lost his first one and came back through. Most freshman would have said 'Maybe this is too big for me,' but he got on a roll. It was a real big thing to get a medal."
It didn't take him until the state tournament the next season to face a challenge. In fact, he faced it in his own backyard in Chestnut Ridge freshman Trent Crouse, who beat him twice during the regular season. But, Easter avenged those losses by beating Crouse for the second of his three District 5 titles.
"That really bugged him," Creps said of the two losses. "He lost to him at the district duals, and he wrestled really well in the state duals. That was about the time he turned it on. Sometimes you have to get a down moment to get motivated."
"The first two losses were definitely harder than the last time I wrestled him," Easter said. "I battled through, and it made me more mentally tough. I could have said to heck with it and stopped working. It made me work harder and helped beat him, and it made me better."
Easter, who owns a career record of 106-15 in only three years, reached the semifinals at states last year before losing to Meyers' Vito Pasone, 3-0. Oh so close to getting that spotlight shone upon him, which is why many semifinalist losers fall again in their next bout.
"I definitely had higher expectations," Easter said. "I thought I could do better than I did."
Easter enters the state tournament with a 33-2 record, with his losses coming to an out-of-state wrestler at the King of the Mountain and to Ligonier Valley's Josh Patrick in the tiebreaker in the Southwest Regional finals.
"That King of the Mountain loss really got him motivated," Creps said. "He got on a roll and is wrestling really well. Patrick and him have gone back and forth in their careers. Two years ago, when they wrestled in Hershey, Ryan won. When you're wrestling guys like that, it makes in interesting. He's having a great season."
It was his third loss in the regional finals, but the loss actually put him in a better bracket in Hershey. Patrick is in the same bracket as Bethlehem Catholic's returning champ Darian Cruz.
"I hope to go down and win," Easter said. "I've beaten everybody or lost to them by one or two points. I don't think it's a longshot. If I lose, I'll come back and try to get third."
Wonder how big that smile would be if he won a state title.
"It would be awesome," Easter said. "That would be the best feeling ever."


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Friday, May 2, 2014
Traveling from the Low Country to the High Country has wonderful benefits especially in the spring or fall.
When we leave Summerville in October to celebrate Girls Weekend at my sisters Blue Ridge Mountain home, the colors are just barely turning. We arrive in Virginia at the peak of fall splendor. On the way back the vivid reds and yellows are only slightly waning in Old Dominion and all the way downhill we enjoy another round of brilliance as we head back to the Palmetto State.
Last weekend I discovered its the same way in the spring.
Jon and Cynthia invited us to an early season getaway and it was wonderful. We all love Summerville and the surrounding areas with beaches, year round outdoor activities, lots of seafood and beautiful flowers, to name but a few amenities.
Perhaps thats why we all enjoy a mountain jaunt. The terrain is so different. The mountains tower and the roads unravel unexpectedly, revealing different vistas at every high turn. Much of the architecture is done in stone and the enticing twang of the mountaineers is counterpoint to the enticing drawl we are used to hearing.
Then theres that second season thing again. Most of our dogwoods had bid us adieu before we left, but we got to enjoy them again all the way up to the highest mountains. And best of all to me my favorite pink dogwoods were in full flower.
These delightful trees were perfect examples of their prominence in the Dogwood State.
We left on Thursday and returned on Sunday, refreshed, relaxed and rejuvenated just what a getaway should accomplish. Our list of activities was not exciting except to us as two sets of grandparents. We slept late, breakfasted at home, and set out for different destinations each day, usually eating lunch out and dinner in -- with one glorious exception. That was an evening meal at a top-of-a-mountain chateau which boasted a winery and a gift shop (another favorite destination of mine).
During a delicious dinner we sat in front of a warming big stone fireplace with nearby stained glass accents and looked out a huge bay window onto a beautiful sunset.
Our excursions out included a visit to a state park by a beautiful river, where we sat and soothed ourselves with the peaceful calm of a clear blue sky above and gentle ripples gliding alongside us. We enjoyed a picnic lunch, a drive through intriguing arts community towns and spent a grand day in Mt. Airy, N.C., the setting for the Mayberry of the Andy Griffith Show. We ate a Pork Chop Sandwich for lunch after lining up at the café locally famous for this specialty.
Mt. Airy is also a wonderful place for couples to explore. There are comfortable benches all along the wide sidewalks and a special niche where shopped-out husbands can sit at umbrella tables, watching the world go by. (They can also watch over purchases so wives arms are free for more!) Mt. Airy is full of entrancing shops. We brought home a couple of Christmas gifts and some wind sculptures that dance gleefully in the slightest breeze.
Our evenings consisted of sitting on the delightful front porch surrounded by lush evergreens. That, and a movie or two and early to bed, concluded our days. To end that heavenly trip, there is only one appropriate word.
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DLLR, MHEC Partner to Expand Adult Education and College Completion
BALTIMORE, MD (March 21, 2011) Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (DLLR) Secretary Alexander M. Sanchez, Assistant Secretary for Workforce Development and Adult Learning Paulette Francois and Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) Interim Secretary Elisabeth A. Sachs announced today a new partnership between MHEC and DLLR to expand college outreach to the adult learner community.
In order to pull out of this national economic downturn, Marylanders must develop the skills necessary to compete in the new economy, DLLR Secretary Sanchez said. Im proud that DLLR and MHEC are partnering to expand opportunities to more Marylanders. Together, we are building on the progress that has helped develop Marylands best-in-the-nation workforce. I am confident that we can build the worlds best trained and most skilled community of workers.
This joint endeavor supports Governor Martin OMalleys Strategic Education Policy Goal to improve Marylands higher education completion rates and narrow the gap in attainment rates between underrepresented minority groups and others. Working with DLLR, MHEC has expanded its regular mailings of financial aid information to secondary and postsecondary education institutions to include Local Workforce Investment Boards and Adult Education and Literacy Services (AELS) providers. Publications can be requested online, and financial aid information sessions are scheduled around the state.
Financial aid is a key element to improving access to secondary and post-secondary education. Many students do not realize that programs exist to help them pay for their education and training, Secretary Sachs said. By expanding our outreach efforts to include adult learners, well be able to bring these learners back into the higher education system and help them complete a degree or attain a credential to enter the workforce. With DLLR and MHEC working together, we will be able to meet the Governors goals and produce a highly-educated workforce in Maryland.
Governor OMalleys Strategic Education Policy Goal sets three specific ambitious goals that will improve the states commitment to adult education:
DLLR and MHEC continue to explore collaborative efforts to assist adult learners with college access and degree/credential completion. DLLR has agreed to provide a review panel member for retention-related competitive grant programs under the MHEC purview to provide expertise in adult learner retention. Additionally, DLLR plans to meet with MHEC to develop strategies to include links on the Maryland Workforce Exchange to these available materials and expand information designed to encourage learners to take advantage of Maryland scholarship funds. These combined efforts support state initiatives in the Skills2Compete campaign as well as the college completion goals set forth by Complete College America, a national nonprofit working to significantly increase the number of Americans with a college degree or credential of value and to close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations.
For more information, visit the DLLR website or the MHEC website.


text: Firefighters from Leetonia, Columbiana, East Palestine and Winona gathered for the "Last Call" service for Jim Tingle in Leetonia Monday. He began his volunteer firefighting career in 1958 with the Washingtonville Fire Department, moving to the Leetonia Fire Department in 1969, and served there until his retirement in 2008. The long processional was led by the Leetonia Fire Department's Engine 88 to Oakdale Cemetery where Jim was laid to rest. (Salem News photo by Patti Schaeffer)


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Tax Competition, Tax Arbitrage, and the International Tax Regime
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
University of Michigan Law School
January 2007
U of Michigan Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 07-001
U of Michigan Public Law Working Paper No. 73
This paper argues that a coherent international tax regime exists, embodied in both the tax treaty network and in domestic laws, and that it forms a significant part of international law (both treaty-based and customary). The practical implication is that countries are not free to adopt any international tax rules they please, but rather operate in the context of the regime, which changes in the same ways international law changes over time. Thus, unilateral action is possible, but is also restricted, and countries are generally reluctant to take unilateral actions that violate the basic norms that underlie the regime. Those norms are the single tax principle (i.e., that income should be taxed once - not more and not less) and the benefits principle (i.e., that active business income should be taxed primarily at source, and passive investment income primarily at residence).
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Keywords: tax competition, tax arbitrage, international tax regime
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text: Experience an unforgettable wine trip to the "Hofkellerei" in Vaduz - the winery of the Prince of Liechtenstein. Try high quality wines that have garnered multiple awards. The Wine Trail in the Princely House-owned Herawingert region has twelve information panels with texts and pictures that explain the activities over the course of the vine year, from grape to wine.


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Super leet and pro, total ownage!
you are seriously Gaston mate!
লিখেছেন- DeanHitchcock 27 de জুলাই de 2006
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a rude, conceited, and narcissistic guy who is all about appearances. like the character from Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
Can you believe that guy?! He is such a Gaston!
লিখেছেন- somegirlinusa 24 de জুন de 2010
An amazing guy that is caring. Loves you a ton and is really hot. If you find a gaston never let go.
Woah that guy is almost as good of a person as gaston.
লিখেছেন- Bonnie12 13 de সেপ্টেমবার de 2016
A small town in South Carolina in the Columbia area. It's home to Peachtree Rock, a section of the woods known for several large rocks in that location that are shaped like upside-down pyramids. There is a Diamond dog food factory as well. As far as last names go, there are a lot of Pounds and Sightlers running around. The town is associated with Swansea, a neighboring country town. If your an adolescent living in Gaston, you'll go to Swansea's high school. Unfortunately, Gaston is saturated with drugs and there has been a lot of methamphetamine production going on in recent years, as well as a lot of busts. The town is starting to grow. A Food Lion, several pawn shops, liquor stores, a Wendy's and a Burger King have recently been built, among other things.
Person 1: Let's make a trip to Gaston to visit Peachtree Rock!
Person 2: Okay, sounds like a plan.
Person 3: Word.
Person 2: Okay, sounds like a plan.
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লিখেছেন- Sifting Through 3 de মে de 2012
A huge faggot
Hey! Look at that Gaston
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text: Six stations depicting scenes from fairytales can be visited on the one-hour tour. The fairytales, written by local women, and the sculptures created by the Graubünden artists Not Vital, Francis Engels and Jean Badel, form this atmospheric trail and delight the young and the young at heart in equal measure. An illustrated book on the stories of the Fairytale Trail is available.


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Savognin lies in the high sweeping Surses valley (Oberhalbstein), between Tiefencastel and the Julierpass and Septimerpass. The impressive landscape with its craggy mountain chains, steep gorges and hilly mountain meadows already caught the eye of the renowned painter Giovanni Segantini, who resided in the Surses valley from 1886 until 1894. The mild climate of the Surses with its prominent southern influence is characterised by dryness and an abundance of sunny days.
The village of Savognin with its medieval bridge and three steeples remains accessible throughout the year thanks to the permanently open Julierpass. The nearby resort of Bivio situated on the Julierstrasse is also closely associated with the destination of Savognin.
The rather tranquil resort of Savognin boasts a particularly wide range of holiday apartments and bears the «Families welcome» quality mark. Eight children's playgrounds reflect the efforts that have been made to accommodate the needs of children.
Savognin lies at the heart of Parc Ela, Switzerland's largest nature park. Visitors can discover over 1,000 km of hiking trails, rugged mountain chains, steep ravines and undulating mountain meadows – on foot or by bike. Children will enjoy the Pinocchio Club and the Alp Flix Treasure Chest Trail. Lai Barnagn is an inviting lake for swimming or relaxing; more daring visitors can try the via ferrata on Piz Mitgel. A paradise for everyone seeking peace and quiet, for sports lovers and families.
Savognin, a small resort with a large ski area: in winter, the 80 kilometres of especially wide pistes are a paradise for skiers and carvers, but they also lure many snowboarders. And kids will be well looked after too in the «Pinocchio Club» with its practice slopes right in the centre of the village.
32 kilometres of skiing trails await cross-country skiers, while winter hikers will benefit from 45 kilometres of signposted walking trails. Tobogganing enthusiasts will delight in the numerous toboggan runs which extend up to nine kilometres in length. Snow-shoe trekkers have a choice of six routes. After an intensive day on the slopes, the sulphur spring in the nearby thermal baths of Alvaneu offer welcome relaxation in warm water.
Fascinating experiences for visitors of all ages: pan for real gold, discover animal tracks, watch wildlife, become a circus artiste, take part in the regatta on the Wildbach, extinguish fires or play on an Alpine meadow. The Pinocchio Club also offers fantastic attractions for children aged 4 or more: bathing lake, Pinocchio Express, barbecue facilities, many events for families.
- Alp Flix – highland moor of national importance with over 2000 animal and plant species.
- Parc Ela – a regional nature park measuring 548 square kilometres situated in the Albula and Surses valleys.
- Senda ferrada Piz Mitgel – alpine fixed rope route offering two grades of difficulty.
- Alvaneu thermal baths – thermal baths and sauna landscape in the nearby Albula valley (15 km from Savognin).
- Ziteil pilgrimage church – one of the highest places of pilgrimage in the Alps.
- Via Sett – cultural and long-distance trail from Thusis to Chiavenna.
- Golf Club Alvaneu – an 18-hole golf course in the rugged and romantic Albula valley.
Top Events
- National Alpine 'Guggenmusik' Meeting (NAGT) – around 400 'Guggen' musicians bring a cacophony of sound and colour to Savognin (mid March).
- Origen Festival Cultural – Graubünden's largest cultural festival with opera performances in Riom Castle and the Sontga Crousch cultural centre (June-August).
- ÖKK Children's and Family Festival – master 12 jobs and enjoy a varied supporting programme (July).
- Savognin Lake Festival – with delicious food, music and entertainment until after midnight (July).
- Savognin sheep shearing spectacle – visitors are in the immediate vicinity on the Gravas village square; farmers bring their sheep to Savognin and shear the patient animals there and then (October).


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Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps (why not just call it Money Never Sleeps? – I hate numbered sequels) is a film we've been following for a while here at The Film Nest. Frank Langella recently came on board. We covered the casting of Javier Bardem as the films villain, only to have him drop out over scheduling conflicts. His role has not yet been recast, while there have been rumors that Josh Brolin will be filling his No Country for Old Men costars shoes, as yet nothing has been confirmed.
It seems that Bardem's vacated role is still up in the air, but there are reports that Susan Sarandon has possibly landed a role in the Oliver Stone film. From Variety:
Susan Sarandon is negotiating to join the Oliver Stone-directed "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps Sarandon will play the mother of a young Wall Street trader (Shia LaBeouf) who falls under the seductive influence of Gordon Gekko. Michael Douglas and Frank Langella also star. Production begins next month in New York.
When I first stumbled across this article I figured Sarandon would be playing Gekko's girlfriend or his wife. I was surprised to see that she will be playing Shia's mother. I think she is a little too old to be Shia LaBeouf's Mom. Then again, they need an actress old enough to look like they would be involved with Michael Douglas. I think Susan Sarandon is a great actress, and she definitely still has "it". What do you have to say about Sarandon's casting in Wall Street 2?


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New boil advisory just issued
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources said Friday that a boil advisory has been issued for the city of Attica in Marion County.
The DNR said Pershing Utility had a water main break and the line was shut down for repair. The boil advisory is a standard practice after a loss of water pressure in the system.
The DNR said residents should boil their drinking water until test results show the water is safe to drink.
Bring all water to a boil, let it boil for one minute. Let it cool before using. Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes and food preparation.
Untreated water can be used for bathing and similar purposes.
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