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Modern Pinup Pictures & Tutorial
So today's theme for the FOTD Challenge Calendar was "Modern Pinup" and I thought that theme happened to be a perfect match for my plans today. My birthday was last Thursday and I had a second celebration today. It was a very low key pool party and so I thought I would hit two birds with one stone. Honestly, I wear different variations of this look quite often. This is basically a go to when I want to do a neutral eye with a bold lip.
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Your hair's just amazing, looks very elegant whereas it normally has the rockish 'coolness' attitude, love to see how you can pull off a variety of products. I love your lip colour, the perfect pink shade imo!
gorgeous look! and love the hair!
you look great!
Love the soft gradient blending you did on your eyes, it's flawless! I love this FOTD calendar idea, I might have to make one of my own for the days when I'm lacking inspiration/motivation.
I love your hair in this one!
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Yes I said it already! I dont care. You should LIVE in impassioned! fabulous look


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The Bijou Cafe - August 25, 2006
Nancy King and Robert Moore
Nancy King - Vocals
Robert Moore - Vocals, Trumpet, Harmonica
Steve Christofferson - Piano
Dan Schulte - Bass
Alan Tarpinian - Drums
Cheryl Alex - Flute
Friday night, August 25th the Bijou Café was transformed into a musical palace via the vocal magic of the queen of scat, Nancy King. A packed house delighted at her always superb song stylings, some solo and many shared with the local king of swing, Robert Moore. Jazz standards such as Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen's Come Rain Or Come Shine, Mountain Greenery, It Never Entered my Mind, It Ain't No Use; Centerpiece; Groovin' Hot, I'm in the Mood for Love and the wry, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross tune Twisted got the audience toe tapping & hand clapping.
Steve Christofferson on piano has fit hand in glove with Nancy for so many years and his keys tonight, one more time, tapped out a message of jazz synchrony and fluidity of the highest order. Dan Schulte on bass, Alan Tarpinian on drums comprised a tight rhythm section, which gave this ensemble superb musical backbone. Cheryl Alex tooted her flute with the group during the last set and it is great to see her back in action.
Robert Moore should be experienced live by every jazz aficionado as soon as possible. His talent on vocals, trumpet and harp (monica) adds treasure and richness to the local jazz scene. Word is spreading quickly about this phenomenal talent and jazz buffs are urged to watch for and attend Moore's gigs around town while you can still get in. The audience continues to grow as word spreads that there is yet another jazz legend in the making right in our own backyard.
Robert Moore concerts at least once a month at The Bijou Café, appears Thursdays at JAX and Tuesdays at the Mississippi Pizza Jazz Jam. The Blue Monk and other jazz venues around town showcase Mr. Moore on occasion, so keep an eye out.

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The Fantasticks (2010)
Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones
Music by Harvey Schmidt
Directed by Rod Caspers
Music Directed by Lyn Koenning
October 15, 17, 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 PM
October 17, 24 at 2:00 PM
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Mark the 50th anniversary of the longest running musical in American theatre history with seven special performances of The Fantasticks, produced by the Department of Theatre and Dance. Written by College of Fine Arts alumni Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, The Fantasticks is a moving tale of young lovers who become disillusioned, only to discover a more mature, meaningful love is punctuated by a bountiful series of catchy, memorable songs, many of which have become standards.
Learn more about The Fantasticks 50th Anniversary, hosted at the department October 15-16, 2010.
About Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt:
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt wrote The Fantasticks for a summer theatre at Barnard College. After its Off-Broadway opening in May 1960, it went on to become the longest-running production in the history of the American stage and one of the most frequently produced musicals in the world. It is currently running in a successful revival in New York. Their first Broadway show, 110 in the Shade, was successfully revived a few years ago by the New York City Opera and is scheduled for a new Broadway production this April, produced by the Roundabout Theatre, starring Audra MacDonald. I Do! I Do! their two character musical starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, was a success on Broadway and is frequently done around the country and the world. (One production, in Minneapolis, played for twenty-two continuous years with the same two actors in the leading roles.)
For several years, Jones and Schmidt worked privately at their theatre workshop, concentrating on small-scale musicals in new and often untried forms. The most notable of these efforts was Celebration, which moved to Broadway, and Philemon, which won an Outer Critics Circle Award. They contributed incidental music and lyrics to the Off-Broadway play Colette, starring Zoe Caldwell, then later did a full-scale musical version under the title Colette Collage. In 1998, The Show Goes On, a musical revue featuring their theatre songs and starring Jones and Schmidt, was presented at the York Theatre, and Mirette, their musical based on the award-winning children's book, was premiered at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut.
In addition to an Obie Award and the 1992 Special Tony Award for The Fantasticks, in 1999, their "stars" were added to the Off-Broadway Walk of Fame outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Press and Reviews:
• The Fantasticks Press Release
• Celebrity Guest Artist Panel Press Release
• Austin American-Statesman - 'The Fantasticks' and Austin by Michael Barnes - 10/12/10
• AustinLiveTheatre.com - Upcoming: Celebration of The 50th Anniversary of The Fantasticks, University of Texas, October 15-16 - 10/12/10
• Austin American-Statesman - UT celebrates the 50th anniversary of 'The Fantasticks' by Claire Canavan - 10/13/10
• Austin Chronicle - Try To Remember: How two kids from UT changed the course of the American musical by Robert Faires - 10/14/10
The Fantasticks is presented through special arrangement with Musical Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
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Ben Golliver of SI.com: "Assuming only one fan per game gets a crack from half-court and a shot is attempted at every home game, Oklahoma City $20,000 shot-takers are converting at a 19 percent clip since Mar. 5. Just for giggles, here's a list of NBA players who are hitting less than 19 percent of their three-pointers with at least 21 attempts so far this season (through Sunday): Luol Deng, Patrick Patterson, Evan Turner and Kyle Singler. You guys are welcome to swing through the Sooner State for a little extra shooting work anytime. Just don't be surprised if your new shot doctor is only willing to accept a giant novelty check for payment."
Darnell Mayberry: "Brooks waited until 3:01 to insert Jackson in the third quarter. I'm sure he'll tell you Jackson still got 24 minutes, but this is what Brooks used to do with Harden that drove me nuts. It's not a matter of how many minutes a player ends up with at the end of the night, it's when those minutes come. And Jackson checked in only after the Thunder's offense had stalled and the Nuggets had constructed an 11-point lead."
Zach Lowe's Tuesday column. Always a must-read.
David Aldridge of NBA.com: "I've said this before, but I really think Reggie Jackson can be a big-time contributor to the Thunder when it counts in the playoffs."
Denver Stiffs recap: "But when the game tightened and the pressure mounted Denver clammed up. The offense wouldn't run, the attacking lanes closed, and open shots were unavailable. Oklahoma City was more than willing to foul any Nugget player approaching the basket, and Denver rewarded them by missing nearly half of their free throws. Tonight, a statement could have been made announcing that Denver had arrived after early growing pains. After the fourth quarter the only thing said was, 'We are not ready.'"
The Thunder dropped to eight in Stein's power rankings. They're sixth in CBSSports.com's.
Reminder: On Thursday there's a little pregame happy hour with specials and prizes at Yucatan Tacos in Bricktown. Be there before the game and stuff your faces with good tacos.


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Leslie Bensley is in for an extra busy work week.
Bensley is executive director of the Morris County Tourism Bureau, a destination marketing organization that promotes Morris County as a premiere heritage, cultural, eco-tourism destination. While there's always plenty to do at work, the list may be a little longer as Bensley gears up for National Travel and Tourism Week, which takes place May 7-15.
Growing up in the historic city of Savannah, Ga., "immersed in the beauty and significance of its unique design elements" is what motivated Bensley to enter the travel industry. For those looking to join the field, Bensley said, it's important to bring passion to the job. As a director of a non-profit organization, she often has to use a lot of her energy to accomplish things since funding is always an issue, she said. The most difficult part is trying to create enough of a consensus to move a big idea or project forward.
Since she started working in travel and tourism, the Morris Township resident has seen brochures, guides and maps replaced by smart phone applications. In line with the times, her organization is making its first foray into that arena with a Morristown Walking Tour application as well as a mobile website. Both will be launched May 12.
For National Travel and Tourism Week, Bensley said, nine local historical sites will be open to the public free of charge from 12- 5 p.m. on May 15.
Bensley spoke to The Star-Ledger about the travel and tourism industry.
Q. How has your educational or career background led to your current position?
A. I studied politics at NYU, which brought me north of the Mason-Dixon Line. It was while I was in New York City that I met a wonderful boy from Morristown. After we married, our careers took us to London, Brussels and Tokyo for 12 years. I certainly learned a great deal about traveling from those experiences and have visited 22 countries.
Q. How has the current economy affected tourism in Morris County and the state?
A. Undoubtedly, Atlantic City has been hit hard, but we (Morris County) saw a 4.73 percent growth in tourism expenditures. The governor and his people have created a plan to address the issues in Atlantic City and hopefully we will see that destination recover. What is good for Atlantic City is good for all of us in New Jersey tourism.
Q. What is your favorite "tourist attraction"?
A. That's like asking a mother which is her favorite child! All I can say is that each and every attraction is worthy of a visit.
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UNESCO, the WTO, and Trade in Cultural Products
Christopher M. Bruner
Washington and Lee University School of Law
ESSAYS ON THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION, VOLUME 1: POLICIES AND LEGAL ISSUES, Julien Chaisse & Tiziano Balmelli, eds., EDIS, 2008
On 20 October 2005, the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a treaty legitimating legal measures to protect domestic producers of cultural products. The Convention represents a major victory for Canada and France - its principal proponents - and a major blow to Hollywood and the United States, audiovisual products being among America's most lucrative exports. This chapter examines the UNESCO Convention's legal and diplomatic significance. Following a brief look at the treatment of cultural products under the WTO system, the chapter discusses UNESCO's history, the Convention's negotiation, and its legal and diplomatic status, concluding that it will have little (if any) legal effect on existing WTO obligations, but a significant diplomatic impact on future negotiations toward greater audiovisual liberalization - a key trade policy goal of the United States.
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Keywords: trade negotiations, international law, UNESCO, media, audiovisual, culture, cultural diversity, cultural goods, cultural services, cultural products
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Tiftarea Academy athletics has had a good week.
Last Friday, soccer player Neeli Fortson signed a letter of intent with Georgia Southwestern. Then, on Thursday, Madison Smith signed on to play softball at South Georgia State College.
Smith is a speedy second basemen who hopes to hit at the top of the order for the Hawks. When she visited the campus and met head coach Nicki Levering, she was sold on her future.
"She's new to the program down at South Georgia," Smith said. "I loved her when I met her."


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6 out of 7 people recommended this car.
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great cheap 4x4
by blazer owner from new hampshire | October 9, 2012
i got this as a first car and it could go anywhere i wanted i only got stuck one time and it never needed any huge repairs. the most i ever spent of it was on tires and those are never cheap but its a great 4x4 and i would recommend it to anyone who wants a 4x4 that doesn't want to spend a lot of money and parts are all over the place and cheap
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very good suv
by brian from west asheville, nc | January 26, 2011
we just bought our first 92 chevy s10 blazer about 2 weeks ago and it is very good. runs good. only thing is with new shocks on it it still loud when you hit bumps. but it is a good reliable vechile. that is why i put 3 stars for comfort
Purchased a new car
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Does recommend this car
1994 S10 Owner - An Excellent Truck!!
by Z56 from Saratoga, NY | November 20, 2009
As an owner of said truck, I can't find any negatives toward the truck. It goes thru snow with absolutely no problems. Mechanical problems, none, and the truck is still running strong. I also own a 1993 S10 Blazer and it too is just as nice as the 1994. Therefore, anyone I know who looks at a 1993 or 1994 S10 Blazer and wants advice, I'd tell them they were making a great decision buying/owning said truck.
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Great Car
by blazer from Maine | July 15, 2009
i bought a Chevy blazer for my first car and it is great. I don't have any serious problems with it just every day wear and tear.
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Work Horse
by Dan from Savannah GA | May 5, 2009
This was my wifes old high school truck and has lasted through the years. Have never had a problem with it outside of normal wear and tear. The only complaint I have is that the power window motors have had to be replaced a few times.
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Extremely good in bad weather (4wd system is excellent!), and unbelievable heater system when the weather is cold. Very good visibility all around and very reliable mechanically.
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I went and looked at this truck and was very interested in buying it. 1st...it needed to be jumped...no big deal. I drove it off the lot and knew right away it was going to fall apart. Every bump or stone in the road made the truck make awful noises and I honestly didnt even think the truck would make it back and all I did was drive around the block. So just test drive it and you will know.
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Public Higher Education Advocacy Day
Join PHENOM & allies for the Public Higher Education Advocacy Day at the State House on Tuesday, March 5th!
So successful last year, it promises to be even bigger this year with more people and groups involved early on in the planning. It is not too soon to do a few important things:
1. Spread the word on your campus or in your community.
2. Get your organization involved in the planning (please RSVP with a name and contact information).
3. Plan for transportation from your campus.
4. Plan one or more events leading up to March 5. Ideas include a call-in day to legislators; a letter-writing campaign; speak-out on student debt; public hearing on impact of reduced state funding for public higher ed; etc.
Please contact PHENOM's Organizing Director Alex Kulenovic with questions or for help organizing.


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Yogbox - Holy mother.. epic monster is epic I can't kill it!
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TheNeckbeard 4 years ago#1
Inside most of these I'm finding artifacts... i'll have to see what these are all for but I've saved them all. After a few deaths I get near the top and the last chest inside was full of tons of diamond tools.. I also got 2 pieces of Chain Mail which I've never seen before either. I realized at this point there was still a stair case leading to the roof...
As I get up on the roof I literally jump a bit in my PC chair, as I'm staring at a man shaped GIANT stone brick Golem and behind him another chest. It aggros on me and I go to pull out my sword. It moves quick as hell and it's firing things at me that explode... this isn't good I'm several stories in the air... and this thing is taking blocks out all around me. It's nearly got me dead and all I have on me is pounds of zombie flesh. I bolt down the stairs and eat a couple pieces but then I about crap myself cause this thing is still after me and to get to me it's blowing up the blocks and it's coming quick I make a mad dash down the stairs, floor after floor after floor. I keep thinking I can get some distance between us but everytime I stop to look he's like right above me blasting and blasting his way down. Finally I get to the bottom and moments later he's right there with me, he blasts a hole in the side wall and I leap out. I could swear he is getting smaller he chases me out the tower and now I'm strafing him in open area I pelt him with a whole stack of arrows.. he's still alive!!! the area looks like WWIII as his explosions have decimated the area... I need a breather to eat some zombie flesh and recoup so I run around the tower but then I notice he's gone.. not sure if he just reset or if he glitched but looking up I see he's magically back at the top of the tower.
New problem.. he took out all the stairs on our chase down the tower.. I gather up the mountain of loose stone and dirt he has blown up in our battle and started building my way up the top... I build in behind the roof chest and loot it. Some gold some artifacts and some crazy rainbow pickaxe and a couple diamond.
He reaggros but due to the tower being in shambles now, he falls to the floor below I'm trying to pelt him with arrows from the roof but he's big again and this seems futile.. he then get a few good shots in and nearly blasts me off roof. I can't figure out how to beat him. I thought I need to get him soon or I'm going I'm going to get blown to smitherins.. so I think I need to get on him with the sword instead.. but as I try to close down on him, I lose my footing and plummet down the tower to my death. :(b
On the brightside I've gotten all the loot from the tower.. on the other hand. He won and the tower is still in his.. whatever that thing is, hands.
I just started the game i don't have much health, like 5 hearts and I'm only in well now some iron and chain mail. Perhaps I need to be in diamond? I can make a diamond sword with those 2 I got from the treasure. But I dunno how i'm going to get close enough to him.. those ranged explosion blocks are insane.
Typheus_Orikoma 4 years ago#2
Time to bust out the musket.
<3 Technic Pack <3
He kicked my ass once and I never tried again, I just went on peaceful for that final chest.
On a side not, check out the ocean if you're playing the yogbox. If my memory serves correctly you won't be disappointed..
The_Viking_Swan 4 years ago#4
If I remember right the guy who made that mod was from gamefaqs. That mod is back from the pre-nether days if I remember right.
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Cookie Bag 4 years ago#5
Sounds like battle fortress.
KS = Kill Secured, Get over it noob :D
Mufufu_Master 4 years ago#6
Yeah, that's the Battle Tower mod. It's an adaptation of the old Battle Towers, which was by Kodaichi but stopped being updated. Kodaichi's original battletowers were not in the Yogbox initially because (allegedly) there was a disagreement, and Kodaichi apparently sent some flames and threats and that was it. The new modmaker is fine with it, however.
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ScholarMongoose 4 years ago#8
Your voice goes with your user name. It's awesome.
If he's anything like the original battle towers golem boss, all he drops is a diamond or two and a crapload of stone slabs. Not really worth the effort unless you're really desperate for diamonds (or... stone slabs, I guess)
Better to just ninja the loot and run away.
also i think he might be immune to arrows but i'm not sure.
Protoss is clearly the new alliance race for WoW.
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ScholarMongoose posted...
Your voice goes with your user name. It's awesome.
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Geologic Mapping of the Briggs Ranch Quadrangle, Beaverhead County, Montana
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In the summer of 2005 we spent six weeks mapping the geology of the Briggs Ranch Quadrangle in the northern Rocky Mountains. Geologic mapping is the first step in studying the geologic evolution of a region. It involves documenting the rock types in an area and recording their distribution and orientation with a goal of providing base-line data for future studies. Our area is located in the deep foreland basin located just east of the southwest Montana fold and thrust belt. We mapped the coarse conglomerates that were shed into the basin off the rising and eroding mountains about 75-65 million years ago, identifying at least three genetically distinct deposits from three different uplifted regions. We also mapped newly discovered volcanic intrusions, which will require further study.
Research sponsored by U.S. Geological Survey EDMAP grant number 05HQAG0067, Virginia Wesleyan Science Undergraduate Research Fund and Virginia Wesleyan Faculty Development Grant.


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The 30th anniversary of the Charleston-based Renaissance Weekend gets under way today with a guest list that includes some of the nation's luminaries from the fields of art, law, medicine, politics and science.
The gathering, headquartered at Charleston Place Hotel, is expected to bring 1,100 participants to the city to take part in 500 lectures, seminars, discussions and performances. The event concludes with song at the stroke of the New Year.
Event founder Phil Lader, a city resident and former ambassador to the Court of St. James, said this "granddaddy of ideas festivals" draws a wide range of participants with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
"It has always been a celebration of the power of ideas and relationships," Lader said Monday. "Civility is the dominant theme. The discussion traditionally brings more light than heat."
This year's participants include outed former CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson; Obama administration "Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowski; Physics Nobel laureate Bill Phillips; Space Shuttle commander Mark Kelly; astronaut Joan Higginbotham; and Tiananmen Square revolt leader and hedge fund manager Li Lu.
Other participants come from business and finance, education, religion, the media, science and technology, sports, nonprofits and the arts.
Additional attendees include National Public Radio host Scott Simon; former Interior secretaries Bruce Babbitt and Dirk Kempthorne; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Charles Savage and Alex Jones; former congressman, NBA player, Olympian and Rhodes scholar Tom McMillen; CNN political commentator Roland Martin; "Passages" author Gail Sheehy; and sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Lader and his wife, Linda, founded the nonpartisan retreat in 1981 to bring together innovative leaders from diverse fields. Ideas and challenges from the events spurred hundreds of participants to start businesses, found nonprofit organizations and establish private foundations, officials said. More than a dozen marriages also resulted from couples meeting at these weekends.
This year's programs cover topics such as "Restoring the American Dream," "What Christians Don't Understand about Islam," "The Coarsening of American Culture," "Is Estrogen the new Ritalin?" and "Making Sense of the Wine List."
Participation is closed for this week's events. Attendees submit biographies and references, and a group decides who is invited, said Lader, chairman of WPP, the world's largest advertising/media services company.
The 30th anniversary edition of the Renaissance Weekend in Charleston will include the following participants:
Physics Nobel laureate Bill Phillips
Former Bush administration Interior Secretary, U.S. Sen. and Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne
Former Clinton administration Interior Secretary and Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt
Obama administration 'Drug Czar' Gil Kerlikowski
Former Clinton administration education secretary and former S.C. Gov. Richard Riley
Space Shuttle Commander Mark Kelly and astronaut Joan Higginbotham
Former top Afghanistan CIA agent and U.S. Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism Hank Crumpler
Internet guru Esther Dyson
Ohio State University President Gordon Gee
Tufts University President Lawrence Bacow
American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene
'(500) Days of Summer' & 'Pink Panther' screenwriter Scott Neustadter
U.S. Civil Air Patrol Commander-General Amy Courter
Former Australian Treasury Secretary John Dawkins
Tiananmen Square revolt leader and hedge fund manager Li Lu
First lady Barbara Bush's former chief of staff, Susan Porter Rose
'Passages' author Gail Sheehy
Evangelists Tony Campolo and Leighton Ford
HIV virus discoverer and biologist Flossie Wong-Stahl
Hedge fund managers Samuel Gottesman, Peter Kellner and Jeff Weber
Conservative direct mail guru Richard Viguerie
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Charles Savage and Alex Jones
Financial writer Andrew Tobias
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame, and her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson
Snapfish founder Bala Parsatharathy
Financial Services Roundtable president, former Dallas Mayor and Republican Congressman Steve Bartlett
Emmy-winning National Public Radio host Scott Simon
MacArthur Prize-winning education professor Howard Gardner
Former Congressman, NBA Player, Olympian and Rhodes Scholar Tom McMillen
Web pioneers/entrepreneurs Michael Tiemann, Brad Horowitz, Ben Nelson and Jordan Mendelson
CNN political commentator Roland Martin
20th Century Fox Executive Producers Steven Puri and Lauren Neustadter
US Pension Benefit Guarantee Fund Chairman Josh Gotbaum
Yale and Princeton theologians Lamin Sanneh and Elaine Pagels
Sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer
SAS Institute co-founder John Sall
Newsweek contributing editor and TV commentator Eleanor Clift
'You Just Don't Understand' and 'Talking 9-5' author Deborah Tannen
Former CNN business anchor Myron Kandel
African Methodist Episcopal Bishops Vashti McKenzie and Bill Deveaux
MIT media sociologist Sherry Turkle
Economics historian John Steele Gordon
Norton Utilities developer and arts patron Peter Norton
Conservation ecologist Stuart Pimm
'Washington's Most Quoted Pundit' and American Enterprise Institute Scholar Norm Ornstein
Former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Gillian Sorensen
American Council on Education and former University of North Carolina President Molly Broad
'God's Politics' author Jim Wallis
Congressmen Rush Holt and Gabby Giffords
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According to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States, sales of Nintendos Wii reached almost 560, 000 in March, and with the DS also selling like hot cakes, Nintendo systems accounted for 59 percent of all video game hardware sold in March. In terms of software, Super Mario Bros. Wii is still flying off the shelves, as is Wii Fit Plus with Wii Balance Board. Heres Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of Americas executive vice president of Sales & Marketing talking about the news:
Demand for Nintendo fun continues unabated. Were glad so many people are able to get their hands on our systems as we prepare for the May launches of Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Wii and Picross 3D for our Nintendo DS systems.Did somebody say Super Mario Galaxy 2? That sounds like a good excuse to post these fantastic new screenshots that Nintendo has just released to the world. Roll on May 23rd!
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"It was a beautiful day and there were constant residents but no waiting in line," stated Melinda Williams, HHW coordinator.
Residents from all over Salem County delivered their household generated hazardous waste during the event at no cost.
Residents are reminded to bring only oil base paints to the events.
"Latex, water-based paints (clean up with soap and water) are not a household hazardous material and can be disposed of with regular household trash once they let the paint dry out in the can," stated Williams. "Open up the paint can and add kitty litter, sawdust or a retail paint hardener in the can with the lid off and the paint will dry up. This can of dried up paint can then be disposed of in a trash bag with your regular trash."
Materials to bring are solvents, thinners, turpentine, varnish, metal polishes, nail polish, pesticides, herbicides, rechargeable batteries, fertilizer, weed killers, pest poisons, swimming pool acids, gasoline, antifreeze, used oil filters, kerosene, motor oil, used cooking oil and fluorescent bulbs.
Residents are limited to 20 gallons of liquid or 200 pounds of dry material per trip. No small quantity/commercial generators of hazardous materials will be allowed to dispose of their waste at any residential collection events.
"No need to save those everyday alkaline batteries for the event because they are now regular household trash," stated Williams.
Changes in Federal regulations combined with less hazardous battery components mean that the typical alkaline, household AAA, AA, C, D and 9-volt batteries fall below the federal and state hazardous waste standards and can be disposed of with regular trash.
Tires and propane tanks will not be accepted at the Household Hazardous Waste Collection events because these are accepted every Wednesday and Saturday at the convenience center at 36 McKillip Road. There is a small fee for recycling these items.
For more information on any of the Household Hazardous Waste Collection events, call the SCIA, Solid Waste Facility, at 856-935-7900 exts. 10, 15 or 21.
The next collection events will be next year on the following Saturday dates and locations: April 19 at 52 McKillip Road, Alloway Township; June 21 in Pennsville at the end of Industrial Park Road; Aug. 16 in Upper Pittsgrove at the convenience center at 190 Groff Road; and the last event will be at 52 McKillip Road, Alloway Township, on Oct. 18. All events are from 8 a.m. to noon.


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38 Special: Official site
Friday, June 19, 2009
Miller Lite Stage, City Stages, Birmingham, Ala.
What to expect: Southern rock
FYI: Founders Don Barnes and Donnie Van Zant are still with the group.
Known for: The songs "Caught Up In You," "If I'd Been the One" and "Hold on Loosely."
Review: 38 Special at City Stages 2009 (The Birmingham News)


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Detroit Pistons fans think they'll be watching a team headed to the playoffs this season.
Of the 618 people who answered our poll question – will the Pistons make the playoffs? – more than 90 percent answered yes.
A total of 558 people said the Pistons will indeed end their four-year playoff drought while 60 think there will be no postseason play again next spring.
"The way I see it, there are five sure playoffs teams (Heat, Nets, Bulls, Pacers and Knicks) in the Eastern conference and then there is the Pistons, Cavs, Wizards, Celtics, Raptors and maybe the Hawks battling for the last three spots," wrote reader UDM_Titan. "Before the injuries (Jennings and Stuckey), I had the Pistons going 43-39 now, I have them going 41-41. I have the Pistons making the playoffs getting one of the last 3 spots in the Eastern Conference along with the Cavs and Wizards."
Brandon Jennings (wisdom tooth) and Rodney Stuckey (thumb) both missed Wednesday's 113-102 victory over Washington in the season opener but Jennings is expected to be back in a week to 10 days while Stuckey might play Friday in Memphis.
Until they get to play regularly with the rest of the Pistons in coach Maurice Cheeks' rotation, the Pistons might not realize their potential, says reader BabyGotBackus.
"I anticipate a few struggles early until they find their chemistry and a set rotation," BabyGotBackus wrote. "I believe by January they will hit their stride and be right in the mix for a 4-5 seed. I believe 47-5-52 wins is very achievable for this group."
Reader JP apparently isn't worried about the injuries. He sees the Pistons headed toward a big regular season.
"Sticking with my 50 win prediction," JP wrote. "I'd be a lot more confident in it though if Jennings and Gigi had been playing and were ready to go now. 45-50 is more realistic... But I'm a fan, I'm just going with my gut, reality will have to prove me wrong. Until then I'm sticking with my gut."
If the Pistons do make the playoffs, one reader isn't sure it will be a huge accomplishment.
"In nba it's harder to miss the playoffs than make it," wrote reader FaninChitown. "Had dumars not tried to elongate the winning by signing Gordon and cv, they would have been back earlier."
Then there are those who aren't convinced that a starting lineup featuring Josh Smith, Greg Monroe and Andre Drummond is going to produce the results the Pistons are hoping for.
"I still just don't have a good feeling with smith ,monroe and drummond starting," wrote reader superbowl_or_bust. "Monroe needs to be the 6th man to make this thing work. it's a 3 point shooting league and they are gonna get torched in the first quarter with that none shooting starting line up."
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Sutliff offers spring open house
The Sutliff Museum will have a spring open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday.
The public is invited to have some punch and cookies along with a visit to the Victorian parlor featured in the museum, located on the second floor of the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, 444 Mahoning Ave. N.W., Warren. The parlor was created with furniture, paintings and memorabilia from the Sutliff family home, which was built in Warren in 1850 and located on High Street. The family home was maintained in authentic Victorian style until the death of Phebe Temperance Sutliff in 1955.
On display during the open house will be a collection of Victorian Easter cards and teapots made by the Hall China Company, which is located in East Liverpool. The teapots will remain on display through April. For more information, call 330-399-8807, Ext. 121.
Staloff paintings displayed at Butler Trumbull
The work of New Jersey artist Fred Staloff is featured in a exhibition currently on display at the Butler Institute of American Art Trumbull Branch, 9350 E. Market St., Howland.
''Interiors and Landscapes'' includes paintings that span six decades of the artist's career. Staloff is a member of Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists and Artists' Fellowship Inc., and his work has been shown in solo shows at The James A. Michener Art Museum, Galerie Mouffetard, Paris; Atelier Decida, Paris; Kunstzall Polder, The Hague, Holland; and Galerie des Jeunes, Paris.
The 50 paintings, which are part of the Butler's permanent collection, will be on display through May 5. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. For more information, call 330-609-9900.
MetroParks Farm plans animal baby shower
Mill Creek MetroParks Farm will celebrate the arrival of spring with a farm animal baby show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at 7574 Columbiana-Canfield Road, Canfield.
Visitors will be able to see and pet some of the new arrivals at the farm. Cake and punch will be provided while supplies last.
Admission is free. Wagon rides and a craft will be available for $2 per person or $5 per family. For more information, call 330-533-7572.
Dana choirs perform spring concert
The Dana School of Music will present its spring choral concert, "Humanity and Deity in Choral Music,'' at 8 p.m. Monday at St. Columba Cathedral, 159 W. Rayen Ave., Youngstown.
The concert will feature the YSU Dana Chorale, University Chorus, and the Symphonic Choir. The program under the baton of Hae-Jong Lee, will be accompanied by the Dana Chamber Orchestra, a brass quartet and organist Kathryn Miller. It will also feature several vocal soloists, including Lauren Corcoran, Rebecca Enlow, Emily Alcorn, Victor Cardamone, Anthony Ventura, William Hogue and Chris Nutter.
A free-will offering will be collected. For more information, call the Dana School of Music at 330-941-3636.
Crown Theater stage Wilde comedy
Crown Theater Productions will stage the Oscar Wilde comedy ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' the Main Street Theater, 5 N. Main St., Columbiana.
The cast features Erich Offenburg, Leigh Ann Kocanjer, Caleb Pieplow, Amy Arthurs, Ginger Wilczak, Jim Couchenour, Kate Murphy, Kevin Clark and Brian Moore.
Show times are 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and April 12-13 and 2 p.m. Sunday and April 14. Tickets are $13 for adults and $10 for children ages 10 and younger and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com and by calling 330-482-9915.
GLSC unveils renovated NASA center
The Great Lakes Science Center will celebrate the opening of its renovated NASA Glenn Visitor Center on Saturday with free admission for children ages 12 and younger.
The redesigned visitor center will feature more than 9,000 square feet of new galleries with 50 new interactive exhibits, artifacts and media. The NASA center moved to the science center in 2010, and the renovations were financed through a $5 million capital campaign.
NASA engineers will be on hand for Saturday's festivities, and the first 300 guests will receive a free bag of astronaut ice cream. For more information, call 216-694-2000.


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Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Views of the world around us become special not in what we see but in how we see them.
In Mary Ann Bridgmans new exhibit at Art Central Gallery, From the Edge, the artist captures the beauty and nostalgia of local landscapes and street scenes from a different perspective.
Several of Bridgmans paintings are images seen from above, from the edge of tall buildings.
From the Edge will hang at the gallery on Short Central Ave. through the month of July. Meet the artist at Third Thursday and see more of her art at www.artcgalleryltd.com.
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For a delicate story about heartbreaking loneliness and the world of silence in a small Southern town in the late 1930s, Rebecca Gilman's stage adaptation of Carson McCullers' first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," is awfully loud, broad and overbearing, failing to find a solid theatrical voice.
For a delicate story about heartbreaking loneliness and the world of silence in a small Southern town in the late 1930s, Rebecca Gilman's stage adaptation of Carson McCullers' first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," is awfully loud, broad and overbearing, failing to find a solid theatrical voice. What's more, the usually spot-on director Doug Hughes ("Doubt") misses with his casting and calibrations in this co-production, commissioned by the Acting Company, which makes its world preem in Atlanta, in the state where the story is set.
Unlike the 1968 film — which centered primarily on the relationship between Mr. Singer, a deaf mute pining for his institutionalized companion, and tomboy Mick Kelly (memorably played by Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke, respectively) — Gilman returns to the novel's chamber quartet of outcasts desperate to be heard.
There's Mick (Julie Jesneck), a poor young girl who dreams of being a symphonic composer; Jake (Andrew Weems), a drunk in search of his radical self; Biff (Randall Newsome), a selfless cafe owner with a secret longing of his own; and Dr. Copeland (Ron Cephas Jones), a black medic bitter at his own community's refusal to demand its rights. All four find in the mute (Henry Stram) someone attuned to their most private yearnings, dreams and desires. But they also fail to see that same need in him.
But what works on the page comes across onstage as unwieldy, unfocused and ultimately unmoving. Dry-eyed conclusion may make those longing for a hanky-wringer version turn to Netflix.
Though Gilman's adaptation is expansive in embracing the many subplots, the script and production actually reduces the world of the novel by shrinking not just the scope of the town but Mick's family and its boarding house population as well. Aud sees principal characters as isolated figures, but in a void they don't have much impact. It also misses the point that one can be dying of loneliness in the most crowded of places.
Jan Hartley's smartly done projections help give period atmosphere. It's unclear whether Neil Patel's handsome abstract setting is meant to render things lonelier onstage or simply make the production easier to tour.
Most of the actors project their characters to the Alliance's far balcony, which hardly suits the work's intimacy. At least Singer doesn't speak (for most of the play) so Stram is a model of effective downplaying by comparison, nicely capturing the character's gentleness, formality and ultimately tragic anguish.
Weems plays Jake with a single level of obnoxious gruffness while Jesneck as 13-year-old Mick gives a game perf but never breaks through the obvious disparity of age. Ditto Adam Green as the teenage pal who takes her into womanhood. As Copeland, Jones projects righteous pride but little else. Roslyn Ruff as doc's daughter gives the ensemble's most layered perf.
Gilman embraces many scenes from the 1940 novel that were cut for the film, but these episodes tend to be repetitive, failing to add to any cumulative effect. Playwright hasn't found enough theatrical moments to call her own: a scene in which the four characters surround Mr. Singer and simultaneously pour out their heart makes an early dramatic statement, but few others follow.
The grace of McCullers' haunting prose comes in the smallest of details, and onstage those are mostly missed. An exception: A widower going through his wife's personal effects — nylons, hairbrush and perfume — says more in silence than many of the political rants Gilman has resurrected from the book. However, giving speech to Singer at the beginning and end of the play — even if one was based on a letter lifted from the middle of the novel — prevents the aud from projecting itself into the heart and mind of the silent protagonist.


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|The 1999 Israeli Elections: A Primer
On May 17, Israelis go to the polls to elect a Prime Minister and the members of the 15th Knesset, Israeli Parliament. Already the 1999 elections are remarkable for the unprecedented number of parties running for Knesset - 32 - up from 21 in 1996. There are also five candidates vying for the prime ministership, including the first Israeli Arab candidate, compared with only two candidates running for Prime Minister in 1996. If all the candidates stay in the race for the May 17 ballot, a run-off vote for Prime Minister is expected to be held for the first time. If necessary, this second round of voting will be held on June 1. Finally, this campaign is significant for the emphasis the parties are placing on attracting the Russian vote. Each of the major parties and prime ministerial candidates is wooing Russian voters with a greater intensity than ever before, changing the message and tenor of the campaign.
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As in the 1996 election, voters will have two ballots on May 17 - one for the direct election of the Prime Minister, and the other for the Knesset. This system is the result of the 1992 election law that created a hybrid parliamentary/ presidential structure.
The authors of the new election law intended to reduce the power of the small political parties who had previously wielded extraordinary influence over larger parties seeking to build governing coalitions. It was believed that the direct election of the Prime Minister would mitigate this situation. Ironically, 1996 elections revealed that the new law had exactly the opposite effect. Having voted for a Prime Minister from a major party, voters felt free to choose Knesset representation from the smaller parties with more narrow agendas. In fact, the new election law served to increase the influence of the smaller parties as the Prime Minister sought to woo them into his coalition in the weeks after the May 1996 election.
Technically, these elections are being held eighteen months early. In January 1999, Prime Minister Netanyahu initiated a dissolution of the 14th Knesset and early general elections.
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Israelis will vote directly for Prime Minister on a ballot which lists only the candidate's name, not his party affiliation. Any party may nominate a candidate for Prime Minister if it currently holds at least 10 seats in the Knesset or if the candidate is nominated by a petition of 50,000 eligible voters.
The Prime Minister must be elected by over 50 percent of the popular vote. If no candidate wins over half of the vote, within 14 days a run-off election must be held between the two candidates who received the most votes. In this second round, whoever gets the most votes becomes Prime Minister.
Within 45 days of the election, the Prime Minister-elect must form a coalition of at least 61 Members of Knesset, a list of cabinet ministers and a policy platform and submit it to the Knesset. The Prime Minister may appoint between eight and 18 ministers, of which at least half are Knesset members. The Prime Minister's new government must then pass a vote of confidence by the Knesset. Should the Knesset not approve the government, new elections for both Knesset and Prime Minister must be held.The Candidates:
In 1999, five candidates are running for Prime Minister. The key challengers to incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are Labor Party chief Ehud Barak, running for the coalition One Israel list, and Yitzhak Mordechai, the leader of the newly established Center Party and Netanyahu's former Defense Minister. The two long-shot candidates are Benny Begin, former Likud member and Netanyahu government Minister of Science, who heads the newly formed rightist Herut Party and who is running for the coalition National Union list, and Azmi Bishara of the Balad Party (Arab National-Liberal), a former lecturer at the Department of Philosophy in Bir-Zeit University. There is great speculation that Mordechai and Begin may withdraw their candidacy for Prime Minister shortly before May 17.
It is expected that if each of the five candidates remains in the race until election day, none will reach the necessary 50 percent mark. If so, a second round of voting will be held on June 1 - the first such run-off in Israeli electoral history. There is much discussion on how voters will react to a second round: Will they turn out to vote for the second time in two weeks? Will voters for the candidates who did not make it to the second round be influenced by their candidate's endorsement for the run-off?
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Israeli voters vote for the party list, not for particular candidates for the Knesset. Parties represented in the current Knesset can automatically run for re-election. Other parties become eligible through a petition of 2,500 eligible voters. A party cannot register if it rejects the Jewish and democratic nature of the State of Israel, incites racism, or there is reason to believe it will function as a cover for illegal activities. Each political party presents a list with a rank of candidates for the Knesset determined through their own internal procedure.
Following the election, the allocation of the 120 Knesset seats is determined according to the party's percentage of the vote. A minimum of 1.5 percent of the total vote is required for a party to be allocated one Knesset seat.The Parties:
An unprecedented 32 parties have registered to participate in the upcoming elections, representing almost every possible sector within Israeli society. Familiar parties such as Likud, the religious-nationalist National Religious Party (NRP), the left-wing Meretz, Aryeh Deri's Orthodox Sephardic, Shas Party, the Communist Hadash Party, the Arab, Balad and United Arab List parties and the ultra-Orthodox, United Torah Judaism are running.
Parties newly formed for the 1996 elections, such as the anti-Golan withdrawal Third Way and Natan Sharansky's pro-Russian immigrant Yisrael B'Aliyah are also running in this campaign.
A number of parties have joined together to run on one ticket. Labor has joined with David Levy's Sephardic, Gesher Party and the moderate modern Orthodox Meimad Party, to run as the One Israel list. Benny Begin's new party, Herut, joined with the established ultra-right Moledet and Tekuma parties as the National Union list.
There are a striking number of new parties running for the 15th Knesset. These include Yitzhak Mordechai's highly touted Center Party and Netanyahu protégé Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu Party (Israel Our Home) which is competing with Natan Sharansky's party for the Russian vote. Model-turned-business woman Pnina Rosenblum is heading her eponymous party.
A variety of new, single-issue parties round out the Knesset challengers. These include parties championing secular rights, the environment, men's rights, pensioners, Romanian immigrants, gambling and the protection of the Negev.
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The Issues*
*Issue information from party platforms (where available), candidate statements and traditional parties' positions.
Peace Process:
Continue peace process with Palestinians including final status negotiations based on principle of reciprocity. No implementation if lack of Palestinian compliance. Pursue renewed negotiations with Syria based on principle of "no preconditions." Territorial compromise on the Golan Heights.
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Israel faces great danger with stalled peace process. Pursue negotiations. Implement Wye Agree-ment. Move forward on final status negotiations. Any final status agreement must first be approved by the Israeli public in a referendum. Vigorously pursue renewed negotiations with Syria. Territorial compromise on the Golan Heights.
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Israel faces great danger with stalled peace process. Pursue negotiations. Implement Wye Agree-ment. Move forward on final status negotiations. Vigorously pursue renewed negotiations with Syria. Territorial compromise on the Golan Heights.
Jerusalem shall remain the eternal and undivided capital of Israel.
Jerusalem shall remain the eternal and undivided capital of Israel.
Jerusalem shall remain the eternal and undivided capital of Israel.
Consultation on withdrawal from Southern Lebanon.
Phased withdrawal from Southern Lebanon within one year.
Initiate negotiations with Syria for full withdrawal from Southern Lebanon.
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Support for status quo agreement. Any government must include religious parties.
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Create new relationship between religious and secular. Mandatory military service for all Israeli citizens, including ultra-Orthodox.
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Maintain status quo while bringing together all elements of Israeli society. Seek consensus solutions to difficult issues.
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Education from age 3. Promote full employment. Basic social service for all.
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Education from age 3. Creation of new jobs to reduce unemployment.
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Provide health care, education from age 3 and social services for all.
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Free market economy. Privatization. Expand foreign trade.
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The rebuilding has begun after Hurricane Sandy ravaged South Jersey.
Since the storm, both Cumberland and Salem counties have collected preliminary damage numbers that will be sent to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
For Salem County, the grand total of public infrastructure damage due to the hurricane is $1,126,047.
"It includes all the municipalities that experienced damages from Hurricane Sandy, as well as the county," said Jeff Pompper, Salem County's emergency management coordinator.
The total includes overtime needed to respond to the storm, roadways and emergency protective measures.
All of the individual municipalities have also been in contact with FEMA since the storm came through South Jersey.
FEMA splits the storm cost so that each local government will only need to cover 25 percent of their damage.
The preliminary numbers are subject to change, however.
"It's an ongoing process," Pompper said. "These are very fluid numbers."
In Cumberland County, the Office of Emergency Management released the county specific total.
According to Troy Ferus, spokesman for the county, there is more than $500,000 in damage to public property.
"This is where we're at right now but it may change depending on what we qualify for," Ferus said.
The county managed to meet FEMA's damage threshold of a half-million dollars.
"At least it shows that we're going to get some support by FEMA," Ferus said.
The number was difficult to process, according to Ferus, because all of the different agencies involved in damaged dikes and roadways.
"There's a lot of entities that have a lot to say about different things," Ferus said.
The municipality specific damage is being handled by each respective mayor.
While the western part of South Jersey was damaged by the storm, winds, rain and flooding affected the shore area the most.
Overall in the state, according to the governor's office, Hurricane Sandy caused a total of $36.9 billion in damage.


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Alhambra is closing its doors after many years of providing guests with a great beach atmosphere. We would like to thank all our past guests for the many years of loyalty to our resort. As of Jun 25, 2016 we are no longer taking reservations and our office is closed.
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A jury in North Carolina Thursday acquitted John Edwards on one count in his federal campaign finance case and deadlocked on the others. The judge declared a mistrial. The government had accused the former vice presidential nominee of accepting campaign donations to cover-up an affair with his pregnant mistress. The government is unlikely to retry the case.


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- Daniel Bruun (Organ)
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- Mathias Friis-Hansen (Percussion)
- Carl Husum (Trumpet)
- Amir Lavie (Timpani)
- Jesper Lutzhoft (Guitar)
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- Ole Worm (Piano)
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Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), of German/Jewish decent, was born and raised in the former Soviet Union. From the mid-1970s he won great popularity in his home country, perhaps the greatest popularity ever enjoyed by a living composer, and his popularity subsequently spread to the rest of the Western world. During the 1970s and 1980s Schnittke's music represented most sincere and full expression of Soviet culture and Soviet life. Far better than words, his music explained, reflected and gave evidence of the social, psychological and cultural standing of the Soviet Union. This, the Soviet censors understood instinctively, and that was the reason why Schnittke was persecuted by the system to an unheard of extent, even for the standards of the Soviet regime. Other musicians and ordinary Russians also saw this and they therefore crowded in huge numbers whenever his music was secretly performed or performed in distant parts of the country. Such conditions are the prerequisite for the music on this CD and the present three works should be seen in that light.
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Works DetailsSchnittke, Alfred : Concerto for choir (Concerto for soprano & chorus)
- Conductor: Flemming Windekilde
- Running Time: 39 min. 8 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1984-1985
Schnittke, Alfred : Short Pieces (2) for organ
- Performer: Daniel Bruun (Organ)
- Running Time: 8 min. 24 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1980
Schnittke, Alfred : Requiem, music to Schiller's drama "Don Carlos", for soloists, mixed chorus & instrumental ensemble
- Performers: Daniel Bruun (Organ); Jesper Egelund (Double Bass); Mathias Friis-Hansen (Percussion); Carl Husum (Trumpet); Amir Lavie (Timpani); Jesper Lutzhoft (Guitar); Jon Meinild (Percussion); Thomas Rischel (Trumpet); Kasper Thaarup (Trombone); Markus Wall (Percussion); Ole Worm (Piano)
- Conductor: Flemming Windekilde
- Running Time: 34 min. 17 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1974-1975


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Make a home for wildlife
4 November 2009
Image: Andy Hay
A wildlife-friendly garden doesn't have to be wild and overgrown and it can look attractive all year round. Grow a wide variety of plants and you'll offer food and shelter for all sorts of wildlife.
The size of your garden will limit what you can plant, but it's possible to provide something on even the smallest balcony or terrace.
This section tells you everything you need to know about planning your garden and selecting, planting and managing trees, shrubs and flowering plants to achieve the maximum potential for wildlife.
Creating a rich habitat of trees, shrubs and flowers is the key to providing wildlife with year-round food. You might like to think of it as the equivalent of a motorway service station: a place for creatures to stop over for food and a rest!
Include a variety of plants: evergreens, fruit trees, colourful cottage garden plants, annuals and wildflowers to prolong flowering and fruiting times and give a year round food resource.
A well-managed area of trees, shrubs and flowering plants of different structures will support many kinds of wildlife. A range of different structures and ages have many benefits, such as somewhere for birds and insects to breed, feed and shelter.
Native species are a rich source of food. However, do not rule out some of our non-native garden plants. Many are closely related to their native counterparts and palatable to most insects. Equally, birds seem to find the berries of non-natives such as cotoneaster or pyracantha just as edible as those of the native hawthorn, for example.
A well-planned garden can provide a mix of vegetation, light, shade and shelter by using plants of different shapes, sizes and growth characteristics, planted in borders with wavy edges.
A variety of features will attract more wildlife too. For example, different birds and insects use different parts of the tree and shrub canopy in which to feed.
Overly tidy gardens are not great for wildlife, but that doesn't mean you have to let your garden run completely wild! Some maintenance, such as regular pruning, is necessary to enhance the benefits a garden brings to wildlife.
Any maintenance should be planned with care. For example, if you tidy up and trim immediately after plants have flowered, birds can't use the seeds, so think about letting plants die back naturally and tidying them up later.
Other ideas include allowing ivy to scramble up a fence at the end of the garden, leaving piles of leaves and fallen fruit, and letting a patch of flowers go to seed.
You'll find you soon create the kind of habitats to attract wildlife.
You might spot blackcaps eating the red berries of honeysuckle in the autumn and common darter dragonflies feeding on the flies that come to feast on the over-ripe juices of the fruit. Blackbirds gobble up cotoneaster berries through winter or forage for insects under the shelter of a humid shrub bed all year round, accompanied in summer by a hedgehog or toad that has also come to feed on the insects.
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Do. Not. Eat. Cake.
Or anything with eggs. For quite some time. Very possibly a year. Maybe two. But really.....nothing - give your immune system a break from them....it's your best bet for being able to eat them with abandon at some point in the future.
*crosses fingers for beefy*
Chances are very good that this will work. Your immune system did the right thing for 21 years. I'll remember how to do it again.


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Is there a way to check the video resolution and video syncs info coming out of
Indigo2/HighIMPACT (IRIX 6.5.x) and also MaximumImpact (if I get one)?
I remember there used to be a IRIX command like "setmonitor" or something. Or,
was there a video control panel to change the resolution of such compatible LCD
What are the important video syncs info that I should be looking for when
buying 19" 1280x1024 LCD? Is it good enough: "1280x1024 at 75 Hz,
whatever-khz, video sync on green, SOG"?
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Paddy Cullivan: Golden age of television? Pity I've not enough time on my hands to watch it
Published 25/04/2014 | 15:48
WE are, supposedly, living through the Golden Age of Television.
You will hear it everywhere. First The Sopranos was the greatest TV show ever made – then The Wire and Breaking Bad and so on.
To watch these shows in their entirety requires nearly 100 hours of your life – something people do over long marathons bingeing on boxed sets.
And now we also have Netflix where you can go square-eyed watching all 13 episodes of House of Cards in one sitting.
We are drowning in a sea of long, involved television shows that require a time investment that seems crazy when you think of where we were years ago.
Back in the 70s, I distinctly remember watching very little TV, especially if the set offered only RTE One and Two.
Sure, we all watched Glenroe, and my father would often make sure we saw Fawlty Towers and Monty Python, but bar that and the news there was more fun to be had playing outside or with my Star Wars toys (Stars Wars and the cinema was the big event).
I do remember my parents being obsessed with I, Claudius, which had millions of viewers on a Monday Night on BBC – much like Game of Thrones does now – proof that excellent storytelling always works.
In the 80s, I enjoyed The A-Team, Knight Rider and Battlestar Galactica, even I noticed when they were using the same shots and storylines week after week, and I got bored.
I can honestly say I watched no TV in the 1990s – I was having too much fun in college, and music was still good. From what I'm told, it was an equally barren time for television, bar for procedural police dramas.
But they were different times. Now we live in a world of constant encouragement – from friends on social media to TV networks – to get heavily into the latest 'greatest TV show ever made'.
It's an unfortunate by-product of the '100 things to see before you die' and '100 greatest movies ever' lists we get browbeaten with every few minutes.
We're being pressurised into watching things we have no time for.
Viewing Episode of 1 of Mad Men Season 7 the other night, I was struck that, though I've always enjoyed it, I might as well be watching these people's lives in real time.
Don Draper is still a swine, the Advertising Agency is still growing, and clothes are still getting different. Then I realised – I have no time for this!
A lot changes in a year – including my tastes – and a sense of mortality crept over me, like I was simply wasting my time waiting for Don to jump off a skyscraper (I assume that's what he'll do, according to the opening credits).
I also had the same feeling trying to re-watch The West Wing. Having watched all eight seasons during the Bush era I thought I'd go back and see what had made me love it.
Unfortunately, I couldn't bear it – the clever-clever writing of Aaron Sorkin that impressed me in my thirties now appalled me – as it does in The Newsroom.
And even repeats of The Sopranos, though brilliant, are slow and ponderous. As for Breaking Bad, the snail-like pace almost killed me. Sure, it had amazing moments, but a sense of my own mortality forbids me from going back into them here.
Still, if such dramas make people happy, who cares? I might prefer movies like Gravity or The Wolf of Wall St (which tells an epic story in three hours) but, yes these TV shows have helped make movies better.
For all my criticism, True Detective is the best thing I've seen in years.
I didn't want it to end, and I'll be buying the boxed set to watch it again.
But only when I've time.
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Dukes Trounce Temple, 18-5
March 20, 2004
Duquesne University's women's lacrosse team defeated reigning Atlantic 10 champion Temple, 18-5 in Philadelphia in the Dukes' A-10 opener. The victory snapped a 19-game Atlantic 10 winning streak for the Owls and also marks the first win over Temple for the Dukes. The teams have met 11 times beginning in 1998, four of which have been in the A-10 Tournament. The closest the Dukes had gotten to a victory prior to today's game was a 10-9 sudden-victory loss in the 2001 A-10 title game.
Kelly Mulford led the Red and Blue with five goals, followed by Meredith Williams with four goals and Ginger Flocco with three goals.
Laura App added two scores and led the game with two assists while Sarah Pacini racked up 13 saves on the day in front of the cage.
The Dukes opened the game strong grabbing a 3-0 lead in less than four minutes as Caroline Gallagher, Meredith Williams and Mulford each found the back of the cage. Duquesne went on to hold an 8-0 edge before Temple got on the board with an unassisted score at the 12:54 mark. The Red & Blue held a 12-3 edge at the break led by Flocco's three scores and two goals each from Mulford and Williams.
Duquesne extended its lead to a 17-3 advantage in the second half before allowing an Owls' goal wtih 8:25 ticking. The host would get past Pacini just one other time with 7:04 ticking as the Dukes went on to take the 18-5 edge.
The Dukes return to action tomorrow, Sunday, March 21 as they travel to Monmouth for a noon contest.


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(100% sauvignon blanc; 100% new French oak; no malolactic fermentation): Leesy chardonnay-like aromas of lemon cream, minerals and coconut. Estery stone fruits give immediate sex appeal to the palate, with underlying minerality and serious acidity giving the wine shape and grip. A bit edgy today but built to age.


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Ways to Communicate
There are many ways to communicate with legislators. Some make it easy by providing a link on their Web sites. Most prefer letters and/or visits. Remember, timing is everything. Make sure you know the legislative cycles for various governing bodies. The sooner you voice your concerns the better. ALA and many state associations issue action alerts on key issues.
Face-to face discussion is the most effective means of communication and helps to establish a solid working relationship. While politicians have demanding schedules, but generally welcome opportunities to stay in touch with their constituents. Visits to district offices may be easier—and more relaxing—for both advocates and legislators. It's better if citizen advocates outnumber staff.
- Know your legislator. Fill out the pocket checklist provided and review it before making contacts.
- Know when is the best time to time to schedule visits. Timing is everything. All legislative bodies have their own cycles. Make a point of knowing when the legislature meets, when key committee hearings are held, when bills are marked up, when debate is scheduled, when recess is scheduled. Time your visit accordingly.
- Know who to bring. Delegates should be constituents, and citizen advocates should outnumber staff. Keep the delegation small enough for an easy exchange of views.
- Know how to make your case. Make sure everyone understands and agrees on grounds rules before the visit. Choose a spokesperson who will lead the discussion, cover the main points and keep the conversation focused. Not everyone needs to speak to make a contribution. Be prepared to answer hard questions.
- Know why you're there. Have a clear agenda. Tell the legislator what specific legislation you want him or her to support. Legislators can't keep track of all pending legislation. Make it easy for them to help you.
- Know what you don't know. Practice your presentation with at least one person who is unfamiliar with your issues. They may point out inconsistencies or ask questions that you've overlooked. Edit your presentation accordingly.
- Know what to bring. Bring a policy statement or fact sheets that supports your position. Keep paper to a minimum—one page is best.
Letters are a simple and powerful way to let a legislator know how you feel. Legislators pay attention because letters represent votes. And each letter is deemed to represent several likeminded citizens. Your letter may be formal or informal, typed or handwritten.
- Be sure to identify yourself as a constituent and include your contact information.
- Use the correct form of address.
- Write from your own experience. A personalized letter carries more weight than a form letter.
- Limit yourself to two or three paragraphs—no more than a page.
Telephone calls
Telephone calls are appropriate and easy, especially if there is a vote pending. When should you call? Call to ask support before a hearing or floor vote, to ask for help with legislative colleagues or to convey urgent concerns.
- Start by identifying yourself, where you live and why you are calling.
- Write down your key points.
- Again, be brief and express thanks.
- Write down when you called, whom you spoke with and the outcome of the call for follow up and a thank you note.
- Encourage others to call.
E-mail and fax
These options are best used when time is of the essence, e.g., in the days approaching a key vote. Follow the same general rules as regular correspondence. The following are especially important for email.
- Put your name and address at the top of your message so it is clear you are a constituent.
- Be very brief and personal. If you are working from a form message, personalize it.
- Make your view known in the subject line (e.g., "Support the library") and do not expect a response. Staff may check only the subject lines to gauge public opinion on a particular issue.
- Avoid attachments, which are rarely read.
- Use e-mail sparingly to avoid being considered "spam."
- Proof carefully, especially when writing in haste. Mistakes may cost you credibility.
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House Republicans have introduced their version of commercial and industrial property tax reform, one day after Senate Democrats and the governor released their version.
One of the key differences is the business rollback.
House Study Bill 676 would specifically cut the percent of a business's assessed value that is taxed from 100 percent to 90 percent by 2017 and allocate as much as $140 million a year to local governments to help offset revenue losses they may see. The senate version, Senate Study Bill 3205, creates what is being called the "Enterprise Property Tax Credit" that would grow in increments of $25 million a year when state revenues were strong up to $125 million and provide across-the-board tax reduction that would ultimately be around a 7.2 percent rollback.
Additionally, the Senate version includes another credit that would allocate $125 million in tax relief. That credit, when fully implemented, would allow businesses to pay taxes in a similar amount on the first $100,000 of property that a home is taxed at. It would also be contingent on state revenue growth before being fully implemented. The House version proposes a $120 million portion for the credit, which would be implemented over five years and not be contingent on state revenue growth.
Senate Democrats have estimated that, under their plan, the amount of assessed business property that is taxed would drop by about 25 percent. The House version appears to have a similar amount.
Here's a side-by-side comparison as put together by House Republicans:
Property Tax
Increases from 7% to 10%.
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
Increases from 7% to 15%.
| 5 year phase in$5 million – $150 million.
Includes " intangible property."
No report required
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|5 year phase in$4 million – $20 million.
Definitions are different
Take out "intangible property."
Requires a report recommending changes to current system.
|Doesn't include vacant landStarts FY 15.No triggers.
$24 million up to $120 million
Includes C/I/RR.
A certain % of value is taxed at residential rate.
|Business Prop Tax Credit
|Includes vacant landStarts FY 14.Triggers – 3% GF receipts
$25 million up to $125 million
Includes C/I/RR.
A certain % of value is taxed at residential rate.
|Phased in over 5 years at 2% per year starting in assessment year .January 1, 2013 Backfill with no triggers starts at $28 million up to $140 million.
|Governor's 10% Rollback
|Not included.
Not included.
Budget limitation
Enterprise Prop Tax Credit
|Not included.
Credit "mimics" a rollback.
$125 million max
Trigger – 3% GF receipts
All parcels would receive it.
However, not eligible if you maxed out under the business prop tax credit.
Includes land, buildings and vacant lots.
Excludes Section 42 housing.
|5 year phase in
90% to 60% then same as residential.
Definitions different than Senate.
Includes apartments, assisted living centers, mobile home parks, nursing homes.
|Multi-Residential Prop Class
|7 year phase in98% to 64% then same as residential.
Section 42 housing not included.
Some small units may benefit under current system as commercial – they can stay that way till FY19. Then all would be taxed the same.
|4% to 3%.
No ceiling or floor.
Prop Tax Assessment Limitation
|4% to 3%.Includes ceiling of 60% and a floor of 50% for residential.


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Outside (George Michael song)
|Single by George Michael
|from the album Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael
|"Fantasy '98"
|19 October 1998
|CD single
|Nu-disco, dance-pop, funk
|George Michael
|George Michael
|George Michael singles chronology
"Outside" is a song by George Michael, released on Epic Records in 1998. It was released on 19 October 1998 as the lead single from his 1998 greatest hits album Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael.
The song was seen as a fine self-deprecating public relations exercise by Michael, as it was the first single since he was arrested for engaging in a lewd act six months earlier by an undercover police officer in the public lavatory of the Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills, California - an incident which prompted him to declare his homosexuality, which had been rumoured for some years but never confirmed.[1]
Michael took a swipe at the incident in the lyrics, claiming he wanted an alfresco sex life because he was bored with lovemaking behind closed doors. Reference to the Beverly Hills affair came with the line "I'd service the community, but I already have, you see" (he was sentenced to 80 hours of community service for the offense) and direct samples of radio reports of his arrest.
The song was recorded at Sarm West in London with a string section and arrangement by Andrew Skeet.
Music video[edit]
The video, directed by Vaughan Arnell and filmed on 4 June 1998, was especially satirical. It features a police helicopter hovering over Los Angeles and shadowing a variety of people, gay and straight, kissing, having sex or engaging in foreplay, all in public. The scenes of public coupling are styled like real surveillance footage and interspersed with scenes of Michael and his dancers performing in a men's toilet. Michael is dressed as an LAPD police officer and clutching a nightstick, while the toilet is decorated like a disco nightclub, complete with flashing lights and disco balls. Two female dancers dressed in police uniforms are also seen dancing with Michael.
At the climax of the video, two male officers arrest numerous couples previously shown engaging in lewd conduct. At the end of the video, however, the two officers--thinking that they aren't being watched--share a passionate embrace and start kissing; the surveillance video then focuses in on their public indecency.
The beginning of the video, before the song begins, is a parody of 1970s European pornography films, with on-screen test reading: "eine fulm bi Hüu Jarss", "mit Klaus Hoöd", "ünde Heidi Kóchenblauer", "ars 'Cindy'", "direktum bi Marchelo Üffenvanken", which is an introduction to the 'movie' consisting mainly of made-up names and words, most likely meant to resemble Swedish or German, but with deliberate misspellings (i.e. "Hüu Jarss": Huge Arse etc.). "Cindy" is played by SI swimsuit model Melissa Keller.
There is also the following narration, in Swedish: "Vem var hon? Vart kom hon ifrån? Hade hon ätit? Då plötsligt kom jag ihåg, det var ingen dröm: jag var... i Hollywood!", which roughly translates to "Who was she? Where did she come from? Had she eaten? Then suddenly I recalled, it was no dream: I was... in Hollywood!"
In the video, apart from the aforementioned model Melissa Keller, porn stars Rebecca Lord[2] and Brittany Andrews make their appearances, including actress Jeanne Carmen (as the Blonde Dominatrix).
In 1998, Marcelo Rodriguez, the undercover officer who arrested Michael, brought a $10 million court case in California against the singer who has amassed an estimated personal fortune of £70 million ($140 million). The court dismissed the case, but an appeals court reinstated the case on 3 December 2002.[3] The court then ruled Rodriguez, as a public official, could not legally recover damages for emotional distress.[4]
Track listing[edit]
- "Outside"
- "Fantasy '98"
- "Outside" (Jon Douglas Remix)
Chart performance[edit]
"Outside" reached number two on the UK Singles Chart; one of many songs to be held off by a seven-week run at the top by Cher with "Believe". It was not featured on a studio album, but was included on his solo hits collection Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael - the title of which was also a sly dig at his activity in the lavatory.
Charts and certifications[edit]
- ^ Entertainment: George Michael faces $10m lawsuit, BBC News, September 14, 1999
- ^ "Rebecca Lord - Adult Film Star" interview by JesseCapps, RockConfidential.com, May 19, 2007.
- ^ http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/6BEA0A1BA36F0D2A88256C84000643EA/$file/0056923.pdf?openelement
- ^ "George Bust 'Bad Karma' Says U.S. Cop", Sunday Star, 5 March 2006
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j George Michael - Outside (song). Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ Nederlandse Top 40. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ Single-Chartverfolgung. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ The Irish Charts. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
- ^ Listas de Afyve. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ Top 75 Releases. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ George Michael: Dance/Club Play Songs. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 1999 Singles. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
- ^ Certified awards search. Retrieved 3 May 2011.