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Having read through two threads about technology in-flight, I was reminded of a very peculiar practice on PR: all electronic devices must be turned off and not be used during the flight. Seems normal, right?
But there's more: they must be turned off and not be used during the flight...even in flight mode. As far as I know, PR is the only airline that does this, and to this day I still don't know why. (Curiously, they don't enforce it, but they do sometimes: I was asked to turn my mobile phone off, but I responded that it was in flight mode, and the F/A said "even in flight mode".)
So this thread's question is pretty simple: how effective is flight mode in reducing and/or preventing interference during a flight, and do devices that have flight mode enabled still pose an interference threat to in-aircraft systems?

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Armstead: GOP may take majority
Candidates speak at Upshur County Lincoln Day Dinner
February 24, 2014
BUCKHANNON — The keynote speaker at the Upshur County Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday said he is confident the republican party could finally take the majority vote in the House of Delegates with thi......
" If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own"
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Left getting 'perturbed' at TRUTH being set straight to citizens.
TRUTH is what hurts the left's socialist mentality!
I will not stay silent anymore while the left attempts to make our christian nation into a godless morally bankrupt failed socialist 'experiment' like what is happening in socialist Venzuela at this very moment!
If biased media won't do their JOBS; we, the citizens MUST!
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House Republican leaders have scheduled a vote this week on legislation that would halt most insurance premium increases called for under a 2012 law intended to bolster the significantly underfunded National Flood Insurance Program.
NOW; let's watch the democrat-controlled Senate NOT vote on it and sit on that vote like they've been doing for 5 years now on 30-plus JOBS BILLS that republicans in the House passed years ago!
OR; watch democrats in senate vote AGAINST IT!
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wvworking....you 'say' all politicians are liars yet you defend the dems. Yeah, sure, whatever!
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wvworkingperson says:Get a LIFE, TruthSeeker.
Newsflash: I have a WONDERFUL life! But thanks for your concern, even if it was done mean-spirited which is nothing new from the left.
Can I assume that comment has 'racist undertones' as the left in here keep telling me all the time? I know in reality it has nothing to do with racism; but hey if left can use it on anything they don't like....why can't we?? LOLOLOL.
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wvworking says:Get a LIFE, TruthSeeker. Politicans are all crooks and liars.
and 'why' should I listen to YOU? I don't know you. Maybe it's you that isn't being truthful?!?!?!
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joefromelkins says: So, truthseeker. Nixon's wasn't a Republican? Or a quitter? Or a crook?
LOLOLOLOL. ONE long gone and dead republican is ALL you can name? Well I consider that pretty good stats compared to 59 quitting giving up liberals LIVING today that's recently quitting; giving up.
I feel for you joe...it's painful to see your party leaving you all behind. Not a good feeling is it????
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Progressive democrat party is finished. And they cannot deal with it. LOL.
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Joefromelkins thinks:And, the earth is a whole 6000 years old. LOLOL
As a christian, I've read the Bible and the archeological digs all over the world and a lot of it right here in the USA PROVES the 'earth' is NOT flat and this 'earth's age' is BILLIONS of years old and not 6000 years old. WHERE DO YOU GET ALL YOUR FALSE INFO ANYWAY?
Joe...your info is flawed! You need to stop listening to the left's lies. Lots of real christians can see that when it comes to the earth's age...God's Word AND science agree the same. It's ONLY those lazy proclaimed people who refuse to open their Bibles and READ/STUDY and then look at all the 'proof' from archeological digs that keep claiming it's only 6000 years old. You are quite 'confused.' (God said, "study to show thyself approved."
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Do a little research. When it comes to which political party is best for the American economy, it's not the GOP. As history shows, from economic growth,and job creation to stock market performance, and just about every other indicator of the health of American capitalism, the modern U.S. economy has almost always done better under Democratic presidents. Despite what republicans would have you believe, America generally gained more jobs and grew faster when taxes were higher and income inequality was lower. The economy under republican presidents generally favors lower taxes for bussineses.
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Dingell...59 years!! THAT is the problem. NO politician should serve 59 years in office! Voters need to smarten up!
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Another democrat bites the dust: Representative John Dingell, a Democrat from Michigan, announces his retirement after record 59 years in Congress.
Notice how since they've bankrupted the country and they don't have anymore of our money to play around with....they're all RUNNING AWAY from the problems they created?????
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I would like the InterMountain to explain 'why' we aren't allowed to comment on the WV News articles on here.
Are the democrat leaders/governor THAT thin-skinned that they cannot take the negative comments to their constant yelping about raising our taxes? Or is it just that they do NOT care what we think? Hmm...
Didn't Gov. Tomblin and democrats few months ago tell InterMountain that they passed a bill for TRANSPARENCY????? Yeah, now where have we heard that bull before? Oh yeah the Democrat run current administration under Obama. Sorry, NOT buying the lies and deceit anymore. Wake up people; dems aren't finished yet with taxes. They even admitted now (with election coming up) is not a good time for this. Oh, but they'll just do it AFTER the election. Vote them OUT!!!
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Of course this is the right time as our democrat leaders in WV last week met together with Governor Tomblin to discuss "raising WV citizens' taxes once again." And oh yeah, that tax they removed from food? Forget about it! They discussed raising SALES TAXES and you can bet once again the democrats will put the tax back on food. This food tax disappeared years ago when a democrat gov. turned around months later and raised the sales tax on non food items and then put the sales tax BACK on food. It's a game they play over and over. They are NOT interested in the people of WV and their circumstances; they only care about taking MORE of YOUR hard-earned money for their political pork projects.
The InterMountain had the tax raising meeting last week on this under "WV NEWS." Of course they never allow anyone to "comment" on WV news as it would 'irritate' the Democrat Governor and the democrat leaders in the state to hear all the 'negative' responses to it. Ya
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|Ricardo Costa, the "hero"
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Mists (Brumas) is a 2003 Portuguese independent feature-length film by Ricardo Costa, a docufiction. Nonlinear narrative, conceived as an auto-biography, it is a voyage to childhood.
Shot with no state funds (uncommon situation in Portuguese film production), self-financed, it is an art film. Formal simplicity[1] – associated with a non conventional, sober and fluid narrative[2][3][4] of Time and human condition – is common to most of Ricardo Costa's films. For him, narrative involves necessarily mise-en-scène and that's why documentary (real life) tends to turn into fiction. This tendency is fully assumed with Mists, the third Costa's docufiction, after Changing Tides (1976) and Bread and Wine (1981).
Mists is the first film from a new sequel docufiction autobiographic trilogy, Faraways.[5] Drifts (Derivas), upcoming in 2016, is the second and Cliffs (Arribas) the third one. The filmmaker stars the main roles in those films. Mists is set in Peniche, the protagonist's place of birth. Drifts is set in Lisbon, where he lives and works as photographer, and Cliffs again in Peniche, where he returns to face disquieting situations and people.[6]
Mists premiered at the 60th Venice Film Festival (New Territories – 2003), was released in Portugal on 16 November 2006 and opened in New York at the Quad Cinema on March 23, 2011, event followed by other screenings outside the city.[7][8]
Back to his birthplace (Peniche, a Portuguese fishermen town) more than fifty years after he saw Maria José, who used to be a maid at his parents' house, when he was a child, the "hero" (the film director) meets her again in the summer of 2011. She is now a mother, grandmother and a great grandmother, with the sea embedded in her soul.
Reflecting what the hero's eyes observe, the camera follows those steps, moves backwards, and then it lurches forward, suggesting a disquieting outcome of situations of these days, like those of the September 11. «The boys who live around her tell the same story in a different way. To make that possible, all it takes is a flick-knife, a handsaw, a broom stick, bamboo canes, floaters from the sardine nets, a few magic tricks».
- Producer – Ricardo Costa (filmmaker)
- Director – Ricardo Costa
- Production year – 2001
- Format – DVC pro converted into 35 mm Dolby SR
- Release – September 2003
- Locations – Peniche, Portugal
- Image studios – Concept and Tobis Portuguesa
- Image master and sound mixing – Téletota (Paris)
- Premiere - 60th Venice Film Festival 2003 (New Territories)
- No budget film / Guerrilla filmmaking
- The hero – Ricardo Costa
- The grandmother – Maria José
- Her grandson – Rudolfo
- Her grand grandson – David
- Her daughters – Isabel, Beta
- Her sons – Henrique, Paulo
- Her friends – Maria Velha, Maria Joaquina, Maria Bernardina
- The ancient prisoner – (Portuguese) António Dias Lourenço [9]
- The old photographer – Luis C. Peixoto
- The hero's friend – Isaura
- Producer and director - Ricardo Costa (filmmaker)
- Script – Ricardo Costa
- Photography, camera, sound, editing – Ricardo Costa
- Assistant director – Maria José Silva
- Image assistant – Maria José Silva, Lígia Pereira, António A.B.C. Marques, António Maurício, Ricardo M. Costa
- Editing assistant – João Brandão
- Image supervisor – Vitor Estêvão a. i. p.
- Sound editor – Ricardo Sequeira
- Sound mixer – Jean-Paul Loublier[10]
- Music - Manu Chao and Nuno Rebelo[11]
See also[edit]
- ^ Mists: Memory and Meaning in Peniche, Portugal – review by Michelle Orange, Village Voice, Mar 23 2011
- ^ Ricardo Costa and The Flowing Pictures – article by José de Matos-Cruz
- ^ Mists – review by Eric Monder at Film Journal, March 23, 2011
- ^ Mists – review by Diego Costa at SLANT, March 23, 2011
- ^ Faraways at the producer´s page
- ^ Cliffs at Faraways trilogy, producer's page
- ^ Film screening and Q&A with director at Brown University, April 6, 2011
- ^ Screenig announced at Cable Car cinema – News, Theater Profile: Cozy Flicks at Cable Car Cinema at New England Film, Thu, 06/30/2011 - 19:00
- ^ NYT article about a related political prison
- ^ Jean-Paul Loublier at NYT Movies
- ^ Nuno Rebelo (Azul Esmeralda and other themes) at the ballet school of Museu Municipal de Peniche (Lifecooler)
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Movie Reviews (resume with Portuguese translation)
- Movie reviews (print)
- Mists Reviews at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Peniche Museum (fortress and prison), article at Texas A&M University
- Museu Municipal de Peniche (film location) at Lifecooler
- Mists at the 60th Venice Film Festival: line-up at IndieWire (2003) premiere
- Mists – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation News, 23 March 2011 US release
- Mists – Portuguese American Journal, News, 22 March 2011, US release
- Mists at Film Up (Italian)
- Mists at The Complete Index To World Film since 1895


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Teen Girl Escapes After Two Years Of Being Held Captive & Sexually Assaulted
Disturbing news out of Illinois today: a teenage girl from Missouri escaped from a home in which she had been held captive for the past two years.
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RICHLAND — Gull Lake Community Schools is asking property owners to continue paying taxes that would otherwise expire in order to provide more technology for students.
In community forums this week, residents are asking whether the school district is really ready to use new technology.
On Wednesday, about 20 people attended a community forum at Gull Lake High School, the second of two this week. Superintendent Christopher Rundle said about 10 people attended the first session, held Tuesday at the Richland Township offices.
Among residents' main concerns: How will the district maintain new technology that often changes? And, are the teachers well enough prepared to teach using new technology?
The school district intends to ask voters to continue a 0.32 mill levy currently used to pay off bonds issued for the construction of Bedford Elementary and Ryan Intermediate schools. Those debts will be retired next year, but continuing the levy would allow the district to issue new bonds of about $7 million.
Rundle said 70 percent of the $7 million would go toward technology, with the other 30 percent going toward building upgrades, specifically improvements related to energy, security and infrastructure.
The bonding for technology would occur in three phases. That would allow the district to spend bond proceeds incrementally, allowing it to upgrade equipment in future years as technology advances.
"What we see here is a sustainable plan to take this initial purchase and push it out for 12 years before it comes back again," he said.
Debbie Rude, executive director of Parents for Public Schools for Greater Kalamazoo, said Gull Lake officials seems to have a "well-thought out" plan.
"They know the teachers need to be ready to go, and they are gently nudging those who are reluctant to really engage in a world of technology because that's how kids are learning," Rude said after Wednesday's community forum. "They are looking at a different approach, and it seems they've done their homework."
Gull Lake Assistant Superintendent Kristin Flynn said teachers who are reluctant to adapt to technology in the classroom eventually will have to give in or they may want to think about retiring.
Flynn said she has attended conferences where teachers who had once opposed using more tech-savvy methods in the classroom eventually praise how it helps students learn.
Suzanne Sippel, a mother from Augusta, said she thinks technology is important for students and a worthy investment.
"I'm just motivated to see it move through," she said. "I don't have many concerns and I'd like to see community support."
In response to a questions from a parent on how supporters would win voter approval for the bond issue, Rundle said, "We have a board in place that is very courageous in their approach to education in difficult times, to the point where we are growing programs at a rapid rate when the economy is telling most districts to wait."
He noted that the district has managed to grow its home school-partnership program, alternative school and the number of online high school graduates despite the economy.
"The important thing is to teach and prepare our students and these are the tools they are going to be dealing with," the superintendent said of the technology the district wants to employ.
School trustees could decide at their regular Jan. 16 meeting whether to place the tax request before voters in May. For the request to appear on that ballot, the board must take action by Jan. 25.
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The story behind the Pogues' holiday gem, 'Fairytale of New York'
In the Guardian, Dorian Lynskey offers a terrific backgrounder, with comments from most of the principals, on how the Pogues created their masterful Christmas song, 'Fairytale of New York.' This 4-minute Christmas suite is 25 years old now, but its popularity continues to grow, even though it's a melancholy tale of lovers who may or may not survive another Christmas together. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Big-time jazz returns to Milwaukee
There was a time when widely known jazz stars included Milwaukee clubs and concerts on the music's national circuit. That ended decades ago, but there's a brief revival of sorts this week.
At 8 p.m. Friday, the Gerald Clayton Trio performs in the adventurous Alverno Presents concert series at Alverno College's Wehr Hall, 4100 W. Morgan Ave. »Read Full Article(1)
Museum of Wisconsin Art opens new building
After researching and refining the history of Wisconsin art for decades, the Museum of Wisconsin Art will be able to tell more of its story starting this weekend. It will reopen in a dramatic new building nestled on the Milwaukee River at 205 Veterans Ave., West Bend - a gleaming, white wedge with twice the space for art inside.
The museum also is altering its narrative, opening up what it means to focus on "Wisconsin art" and creating a greater focus on contemporary art. »Read Full Article
Discovery World baseball exhibit opens on opening day
It began in 1845 with the invention of the modern baseball field. It continues with the Brewers' home opener Monday with the retractable roof at Miller Park.
Baseball has embraced change and new technologies all through the history of the sport. Now baseball fans can get a sense of that evolution at the new Discovery World Museum exhibit: "MEARS Presents Baseball - Innovations That Changed the Game." »Read Full Article
Big Sean fumbles the flow at Rave show
Even the most dedicated hip-hop fan might have to admit that rap shows are not usually known for their excellent pacing.
Songs die just as they're getting started; shout-outs take the place of choruses or, although this is rarer, the performer follows a whim and recruits female fans to compete in an informal contest of callipygous qualities. »Read Full Article


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Civil unions celebrated and criticized on first day
MANITOU SPRINGS, Colo. - The pop of champagne at midnight by same-sex couples echoed across Colorado all day and into the night.
Wednesday was the first opportunity for gas and lesbian couples to make their partnership legal in the eyes of the law by entering into a civil union.
Denver recorded 130 applicants around the midnight hour. Boulder had 48.
During regular business hours, clerk and recorders offices saw lots of civil union applicants as well. A spokesman for the office in Pueblo said they had 19 couples filling out the civil union paperwork. In El Paso County, 36 applicants did not want to wait another day to make it official.
Southern Colorado saved the party for Wednesday night. The advocacy group One Colorado hosted a public ceremony at the Business of Arts Center in Manitou Springs for those who waited until after work to tie the knot.
"I'm so excited, we've waited a long time," said Terry Martinez who entered into a civil union with her partner of three years, Shawn Teel.
Martinez and Teel want to share a life together and an insurance policy but up until now have not been able to.
"They don't acknowledge you as a couple so that makes it a little hard when people look at you as different but we're not," said Martinez.
The celebratory spirit rings false for faith-based groups like Focus on the Family. A spokeswoman for their political lobby, Carrie Gordon Earll, said it's just the first step in what they expect to be another fight for gay marriage. It could also hurt organizations like Catholic Charities and their efforts in the adoption industry.
"This law is a threat to the religious freedom- adoption agencies that may have to close their doors because there is no exemption for them," said Gordon Earll.
Earll added that this movement toward gay marriage is a societal ill akin to pregnancies and cohabitation out of wedlock and divorces.
"We must count the cost before we go down the road," said Gordon Earll.
Earll argued that some parts of the civil unions law duplicates some efforts that were already available to same sex partners. Jon Monteith, spokesman for One Colorado, said a designated beneficiary agreement gives partners limited control in legal matters. Montieth said the civil unions bill is more powerful and not as easy to terminate as a designated beneficiary agreement.
"Civil unions provide comprehensive protections to same-sex couples, whereas designated agreements offer a patchwork of security," said Monteith.


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Many Religious Right leaders have thrown their support behind anti-gay laws around the world that not only criminalize gay sex but also limit free speech by making even the advocacy of LGBT equality illegal. Another tactic is to limit the free speech of equality advocates by restricting public criticism of their opponents. In Croatia, a county court has upheld a ruling of the Zagreb Municipal Court that Zagreb Pride, an LGBT rights group, had violated the personal honor and dignity of a journalist by placing her on its annual list of candidates for "homophobe of the year" in 2013... MORE
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A Christian leader in Nigeria is warning the government that it must stop the attacks by a radical Muslim group.
The president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Ayo Oritsejafor, said that if the government won't put an end to the violence, Christian worshippers may take matters into their own hands.
"The church leadership has hitherto put great restraint on the restive and aggrieved millions of Nigerians, but can no longer guarantee such cooperation if this trend of terror is not halted immediately," he told journalists in Nigeria's capital Abuja. The radical Islamist group Boko Haram has killed almost 500 people this year alone. The dead include both Christians and Muslims.
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Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun hasn't had much time to ponder retirement. He's too busy taking care of administrative duties, like getting housing in place for his players.
Not until he's playing golf or relaxing on vacation in Hilton Head, S.C., will he think about his future, he told The Connecticut Post while in Bridgeport, Conn. on a spring speaking tour.
"I don't have a timetable. I think it kind of just evolves," said Calhoun, who just guided his team to the NCAA championship. "Whatever I decide to do, that's what I'm going to do."
How's that for an open-ended? Calhoun is 69 and has coached 39 seasons. Twenty-five of those have been at Connecticut.
Meanwhile, he is very much occupied with the business at hand, including dealing with the recent arrest of rising junior F Jamal Coombs-McDaniel on a marijuana possession charge.
Calhoun told The Post that Coombs-McDaniel was drug-tested three times: when he arrived at UConn, in January after a regular-season game and again at the NCAA Tournament. He passed all three, so a university suspension is unlikely.
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DARWIN ZEN GROUP MEETS WEDNESDAYS FOR MEDITATION 7.30pm INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST CENTRE 37 PARKSIDE CRESCENT LEANYER
What do we do in Zen? "Nothing. Zen is a way of being. There is no-self and no-one doing anything. Just complete fulfilment in this moment. Needing nothing. Just being this. Just resting as this moment."
"In Zen this nothing, this no-self, contains everything. Absolutely nothing is left out. It's all of it. With the self out of the way nothing is separate, Everything is the True Self, the One Body, so compassion and love arise for all that is. Whether it is the homeless, the sick, (including our ailing planet) the oppressed. The crying child, the angry colleague, the disappointed friend or our own so called failings. Nothing is left out and from no-self an appropriate response arises to love and to serve whatever is needed."


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CHARLES TOWN - Josh Newhouse never thought Thursday would arrive.
When it did, the Washington striker never imagined he would have a comeback to end all comebacks.
The senior returned in grand fashion after nearly a year off, scoring the game's first two goals, and Washington went on to a 4-0 shutout of Musselman at Marcus Stadium.
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Musselman Kerry Coles, left, and Washington's Josh Newhouse battle for control of the ball Thursday night. (Journal photo by Dave Morrison)
His first goal came just 54 seconds into the contest.
"I wondered if I would even get to play at all," said Newhouse, who injured his shoulder in last year's 5-2 loss to George Washington at the state championship game in Beckley. "To come out and score was more than I imagined. I couldn't believe it when it went in. It was all unbelievable."
To do it again 11 minutes later was just icing on the cake.
In fact, 11 seems to have been the magic number for Newhouse.
On Oct. 11, No. 11, who was told by his doctor 11 days ago he could return for senior night, had the game of his life.
Even coach Kevin Robins was impressed.
"I've been coaching for a long time, and I have never seen a kid come back from an injury and have an impact like that," Robins said. "It really gave us a lift. I think it picked the whole team up."
The two goals were a career-best for Newhouse, who had played primarily defense last year.
Washington did add two more goals in first half, a 20-yard strike from Daniel Bouchoc in the 24th minute and a point-blank goal from Benjamin Capriolo in the 32nd minute.
The game was scoreless in the second half.
"We knew (Newhouse) was a good player," Musselman coach Gino Marchese said. "I remember him being a good player last year. They are a good team. It took us a while to get in a flow. It's a credit to them. We did a lot better in the second half."
Marchese started four freshmen and two sophomores in the game.
By the time the second half rolled around, the game was well in the control of the home team.
Robins told Newhouse that he was playing offense on Wednesday.
"He's been mostly a backline player for us, but we have seen some of what he can do in practice," Robins said. "The concern was were his legs going to be there. We have struggled in some places and for him to come out and respond like he did is really unbelievable.
"It really was an exciting night for him and for his family. His brother, Myles, is on the team, and they had a chance to play together. I was happy for him and for the family. It definitely was a big night."
Newhouse, who underwent two surgical procedures on his shoulder, said he e-mailed his doctor 11 days before the game and asked if he could play on senior night.
"They told me there was a chance I wasn't going to get released until the 22nd (of October) so by then the season could have been over," Newhouse said. "I e-mailed my surgeon and asked him if I could play in this game because it might be the last one. He said I could, and I jumped at the opportunity.
"It was my senior night. For it to end like this was more than I could ask for. Just to be back out here, after being out so long, would have been enough. To have two goals, I never would have even dreamed something like that would happen."


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Klebanow Among NSCAAs '30 Under 30' for 2014-15
MUNCIE, Ind. – Ball State assistant soccer coach Marcie Klebanow has been selected for the National Soccer Coaches Association of America's 30 Under 30 program.
Klebanow, entering her third season with the Ball State program, was one of more than 600 nominees. In the end, 15 women and 15 men under the age of 30 were chosen.
"I am honored to have been selected as a member of the NSCAA's 30 under 30 program for the 2014-15 year," Klebanow said. "This opportunity will allow me to further develop my leadership abilities and use the knowledge I gain to give back to our players. I am looking forward to the experience and the impact it will have within the Ball State soccer program."
The 30 Under 30 program, in its second year of existence, is a year-long education and mentorship opportunity for a select few up-and-comers who have made soccer coaching their career of choice.
The selected coaches, who come from all levels of the sport, receive numerous benefits. They are granted a scholarship to attend two NSCAA educational events, including the organization's annual convention. They also benefit from networking opportunities and access to mentors dedicated to their growth as coaches.
Klebanow, who works directly with the goalkeepers at Ball State, helped the Cardinals rank among the top 50 in the country in both save percentage (20th) and goals against average (47th) last year. Ball State finished the season at 11-7-4, marking its highest win total in six years, and reached the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship game for the first time.
Klebanow also has international coaching experience. Last summer, the Cleveland native coached the United States Girls' Junior National Team to the gold medal at the Maccabiah Games in Israel.
For the most up-to-date news on Ball State soccer, follow @bsuathletics and @BallStateSoccer on Twitter.


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BLSA Black History Week - Community Walk-- "I, Too, Am America"
- When:
- Location:
- John and Frances Angelos Law Center
- Room:
- lobby
- Description:
This event promotes community unity, health and citizenship, while honoring the legacy of those who paved the way.
The walk is 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., but participants will meet in the law school lobby at 10:45 a.m. and will walk from the law school to the Washington Monument in Mt. Vernon. Please wear red, white or blue!
- Contact Name:
- Darryl Tarver
- Contact Email:
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- Contact Phone:
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The St. Peter's Prep wrestling team's most important piece of equipment arrived Friday, just in time for the start of practice this week.
It wasn't a box of mouth guards or headgear. Rather, five cases of a blue, water-based, anti-bacterial solution called Pro-Tex Sport landed in coach Anthony Verdi's office in Jersey City along with a n e w , e a s y - t o - u s e d i s p e n s e r t h a t w i l l promote use every time a wrestler heads out to the mats.
''We never did this when I was here,'' said Verdi, who graduated from St. Peter's in 1995. ''You're probably looking at the cleanest team in the state right now.''
St. Peter's comes by its cleanliness honestly. Last December, six St. Peter's team members came down with a form of skin herpes that was passed on to wrestlers from Nutley and Livingston during a threeway scrimmage. The virus forced St. Peter's to shut down its program for two weeks and close school early for Christmas break.
Now, the start of the 2007-08 wrestling season coincides with a growing concern over methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a potentially fatal strain of staph known as MRSA. That has athletes and sports officials ramping up efforts to limit the sorts of infections that can emerge when bodies bang against each other and teenagers live up to their reputations for somewhat lax hygiene. More than 5,000 wrestlers around the state begin practice on Friday.
''Any abrasion on the skin can get an infection because of the opportunity that bacteria has to get into the bloodstream,'' said Julia Piwoz, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Hackensack University Medical Center.
''The single biggest way of preventing this is simple hygiene. It's essential.''
Concern over MRSA, which has been around for decades, reached a fever pitch in the region last month after a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy died of the virus.
Around the same time, the Centers for Disease Control announced that 19,000 cases were reported last year.
Experts in sports medicine said the focus on MRSA has become a double-edged sword. On the one hand, athletes and coaches are becoming more cognizant of hygiene and stopping the spread of dangerous bacteria.
''At the same time, though, you have parents who are driving the school boards crazy,'' said Jack Kripsak, a specialist in sports medicine at Somerset Medical Center and an adviser to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, which oversees high school sports.
''For the most part, the coaches are on top of it because they don't want their teams to get these things and not be able to comp e t e , ' ' h e said.
The danger, however, is that athletes make an i n f e c t i o n w o r s e b y keeping quiet about it, according to Piwoz.
''They don't want to report it because they know if they do, they won't be allowed to play,'' she said.
NJSIAA officials convened a coaches' summit on MRSA two weeks ago in an attempt to get in front of the problem. The discussions covered all sports, because skin infections also affect hockey and football players, whose rarely washed pads become breeding grounds for bacteria.
Even fencers have to be wary, because teammates often share the metal probe worn on the chest where hits from an opponent's sword register.
But much of the discussion focused on wrestling, a sport built on skin-to-skin contact and in which wrestlers are constantly rolling across a mat exposed to years of sweat.
The message was clear, said Bob Baly, who oversees wrestling at the NJSIAA: Make your kids shower after practice, disinfect your mats every day, and wash your gear after every workout.
Even then, it sometimes might not be enough.
''Unfortunately, you can do all the right things and the whole team can pick it up from another environment.'' said Mike Moyer, executive director of the National Wrestling Coaches Association in Pennsylvania.
Verdi and his St. Peter's wrestlers said they thought the school had been taking the appropriate steps to prevent infection last year. To this day, the source of the herpes virus is unknown.
''We always showered,'' said John Donaleski, 17, who wrestles in the 140-pound weight class.
At the same time, having an infection affect your team isn't the easiest thing to go through either.
Verdi said the main shift this year is to the Pro-Tex solution rather than the oil-based, anti-bacterial shield the team used last year. Wrestlers rub the solution over their bodies.
Safety doesn't come cheap. The first shipment of the Pro-Tex, which is unlikely to last the full season, cost $800.
Maintenance workers also use a hospital-grade disinfectant on the mats before and after practice and, at Verdi's urging, change the mop heads so often that he fears the cleaning staff is beginning to despise him.
''We're on top of it,'' he said. ''These days you have to be.''


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Trailers: What Style Are You?
Did you know that there are now THREE different Tumbleweed trailer designs? It doesn't matter if you're building a classic Tumbleweed Elm, a modern Mica or a custom design of your own, Tumbleweed has the right trailer for you!
The Original Utility Trailer
The Tumbleweed Utility Trailer design now comes in four lengths: 18', 20', 24', and 26,' and is the perfect trailer for a Tiny House RV design with a loft, such as the Linden, Elm and Cypress, because it maximizes interior height.
The Utility Trailer floor framing allows for insulation, saving you an extra 3 1/3" of headroom! With 5,200 lb axels the utility trailer is outfitted with two axels for trailer lengths of 18' and 20,' and three axels for lengths of 24' and 26.'
By building between the wheel wells, the Utility Trailer design allows for exterior eaves that will extend to the maximum legal width of 8'6." Eaves are gorgeous aesthetically, but they also protect your siding from rain and snow damage.
The Deck Over Trailer
The Deck Over Trailer is the ideal trailer for single-story Tiny House RV designs, like the Tumbleweed Mica. The Deck Over has maximized trailer width by building over the wheel wells. This trailer comes in three lengths of 20', 24' and 26,' all outfitted with two 7,000 lb axels.
*Eaves are not recommended for Tiny House RVs built on the Deck Over trailer because the trailer is already at the maximum legal width of 8'6."
The Low-Wider
NEW!!! Interested in building lower AND wider? The Low-Wider trailer maximizes interior space (height and width) in your Tiny House RV by building around the wheel wells. This trailer comes in lengths of 18', 20', 24', and 26,' all outfitted with two 7,000 lb axels.
The Low-Wider trailer is a good fit for custom Tiny House RV designs, as there aren't any Tumbleweed designs for this trailer (yet).
*Eaves are not recommended for Tiny House RVs built on the Low-Wider trailer because the trailer is already at the maximum legal width of 8'6."
Why I Chose the Tumbleweed Trailer
Whenever someone asks me what are the most important pieces to "splurge on" when building your own Tiny House RV, I always say: "Your trailer, windows and roof." When I built my Tiny House RV, I had zero building experience and renovating an old trailer requires welding - something I was not prepared to do. By purchasing one of the first Tumbleweed trailers, I saved myself hundreds of work hours and I knew I was getting a quality product.
Other reasons why I recommend purchasing a manufactured Tiny House RV trailer -
- By purchasing a Tumbleweed Trailer, I felt safe towing my house over 22,000 miles. I knew the heavy duty 5,000 lb axels and radial tires were able to withstand the load, and they did.
- Tumbleweed trailers are tested to be perfectly balanced for Tiny House RV designs.
- Brakes, lights and flashing are included and designed specifically for Tiny House RVs.
If you want more information on delivery, pricing and specs for any of these trailers, click here to download your free study plans.
Jenna Spesard is currently living and traveling around North America in a DIY Tumbleweed Cypress with her partner, Guillaume. They are photographing and writing about Tiny Homes and their adventure. Follow their informative blog.


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Tutorial: How to change the Flash context menu
Every Flash movie has a mouse 'right-click' context menu with items like "About Adobe Flash … " etc. – you may not know you can add your own entries. This tutorial tells you how.
You may have wished that the right click context menu offered options other than the standard:
- Zoom In,
- Zoom Out,
- Show All,
- Quality,
- Print…,
- Settings…,
- Global Settings… &
- About Adobe Flash Player XX…
Fortunately the menu can be altered with a small amount of scripting. The ContextMenu and ContextMenuItem Classes added to Flash Player 7+ allow the context menu to be altered. Although the SWiSH Max help manual does not describe these classes, Max3 is fully Action Script 2.0 compliant hence any commands outlined in the Action Script 2.0 reference should work.
The sample code below shows how to disable most of the menu items and add your own copyright notice. This script could be easily modified to perform different actions by modifying the gotosz function. Alternatively additional functions and menu items could be added. The Settings, Global Settings and About Flash items cannot be disabled.
For more detailed modifications, see the description of the ContextMenu and ContextMenuItem classes within the AS 2.0 reference mentioned above.
function gotosz() { // menu select handler // open main swishzone.com webpage getURL("http://www.swishzone.com", "_blank"); } onSelfEvent (load) { // create an object for our revised context menu var mymenu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu(); // hide the normal zoom, quality etc. items. // note that settings and about cannot be hidden mymenu.hideBuiltInItems(); // create our own menu item for a copyright message. var copyright:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(); copyright.caption = "(c) SWiSHzone.com"; // caption copyright.onSelect = gotosz; // define handler function // add our copyright menu item mymenu.customItems.push(copyright); // update the context menu for the main movie this.menu = mymenu; }
An example movie with modified context menu is shown below:
The source for the sample movie can be downloaded here.
Care should be taken not to base your user interface too heavily on the context menu as Mac users without a second mouse button will be unable to access such menus.


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"So long as there are little children to be introduced to the creative arts and harried adults who missed exposure to great art and literature and timeless music, there will be a need for efforts to increase appreciation of the arts."
So reads the mission statement of the Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts, whose trustees were presented with the Director's Chair Award of the Community Arts Center on Sunday evening.
The foundation began its work in 2007, when sisters Lynne Gale and Lorrin Watson decided to liquidate a collection of Western American art their father, Lionel Woodcock, had accumulated over the years.
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Sisters Lynne Gale, left, and Lorrin Watson relax in their director's chairs as they are congratulated by Janet Harris, executive director of the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra.
Woodcock, a businessman based in St. Louis, spent lots of time in New York City on trips. When his colleagues were becoming material for the "Mad Men" writing staff during the cocktail hours, he was taking in paintings and making friends at museums and galleries.
"He had a very good eye for art and was a very astute businessman," Gale said. "This is much more fun than having art that was in St. Louis."
Woodcock's collection, which included paintings by Wild West artists such as Charles Russell, Frederic Remington and George Catlin, now helps put on plays and presentations for students at the arts center. When there are yellow school buses lined up on West Fourth Street, the Woodcock Foundation is at work.
"We brought in a Shakespearian show, and brought in 1,000 students," arts center Director Rob Steele said. "Two days before the show we got a call from the company, and they said 'we don't do an intermission.' Two hours of a Shakespeare show, and no intermission. I said to myself, 'call the police, we're going to have a riot.' And the kids watched with rapt attention for two hours and stood up and cheered at the end. When you put a student in front of a live performance in this hall, there's something magical about that."
Dr. William Martin, chairman of the arts center board, presented the award to the Woodcock trustees - Gale, her son Nick Gale, Watson and Barbara Hudock.
"Since I'm no longer full-time employed, I can walk into these shows," Martin said. "I saw a program called Magic School Bus, and they're teaching little elementary kids about global warming. It's a fairly difficult subject to get your arms around. As a former educator I can tell you they're doing a great job."
Steele praised the organization's working method.
"A lot of places have a grant application that's the size of a phone book from the '70s," Steele
said. "They took 400 man-hours, lots of ink, lots of copy. Your process has been so efficient, but I think very effective."
"We're a very low-key organization," Lynne Gale said. "We're very much word of mouth. People hear about it and apply."
Those who think they might qualify for Woodcock Foundation funding have until Dec. 31 to apply for next year's funding. The foundation's board meets in March to make decisions, and disbursed about $245,000 last year to 35 groups, many of them in the Susquehanna Valley. Over seven years, the foundation has given $1,824,990 to artistic endeavors here, in Florida, Missouri and now in Montana.
"The arts and music are a moral law," Hudock said to the Woodcock family. "They give soul to the universe, wings to the mind, life to imagination and charm and gaiety to life and everything. Plato would be proud."


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The Yellowstone Leadership Challenge gives a stage to secondary school understudies all through Yellowstone Country to reveal their potential as preservation pioneers inside their particular groups. Program members assemble in the Gardiner range for an escalated multi-day wild withdraw. The retreat unites understudies from an assorted range of Yellowstone Country groups and encourages talk to scaffold the holes between the country and urban zones of this remarkable scene. With Yellowstone National Park as the setting, the workshop sustains understudies' understanding of provincial preservation issues and gives administration aptitudes that will further their capacity to make enduring change as backers all through Yellowstone Country park. The workshop incorporates presentations from pioneers in the preservation field; classroom exchanges concentrating on wild, protection and natural issues; gathering work identified with administration advancement abilities and group building; and other outside exercises all through Yellowstone National Park and the Gallatin National Forest. Over the long run we want to bring this system to various diverse groups all through the Yellowstone area.
The objective of the Bear Education Program is to encourage endure mindfulness and preservation. In spite of the fact that the mountain bear populace keeps on growing in size and extent, every year the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem becomes littler and more battered, hence contracting grizzly territory. This, alongside a relentless decrease in whitebark pine timberlands a key fall sustenance hotspot for grizzlies—has prompted a becoming number of human/bear clashes, making bear training more imperative than at any other time. Each one bear training presentation is custom made to fit the need of the group of onlookers, which fluctuates from understudies and group parts to chasing gatherings. Themes range from bear environment and physiology (or what we like to call the "Bear Essentials") to voyaging securely in bear nation (counting bear spread lessons and demos) and figuring out how to live with bears in our "patios"


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IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.
Worklight, which is based in Israel, had already partnered with IBM. Its technologies include Worklight Studio, an Eclipse-based IDE (integrated development environment) and Worklight Server, described on the company's website as a "secure and scalable gateway between applications, external services, and the enterprise backend infrastructure."
The Worklight platform is suitable for developing mobile applications for both consumers and enterprises, as well as targeted toward various industry verticals, IBM said. It includes SDKs (software development kits) for iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows mobile devices, and "enables rich, cross-platform apps without requiring code translation, proprietary interpreters or unpopular programming languages," according to Worklight's site.
Also Tuesday, IBM announced IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices, a software platform companies can use to secure and manage employees smartphones, tablets and laptops. The software is based on technology IBM acquired through its 2010 purchase of BigFix.
Customers will be able to use the system to remove sensitive data from devices that become lost or stolen, as well as determine whether a device is meeting security compliance rules, IBM said in a statement.
IBM's close partner SAP is also trying to become a major player in mobility through its 2010 acquisition of Sybase. That deal provided SAP with the widely used Sybase Unwired mobile middleware and Afaria device management platform.
IBM took steps on Monday to help enterprises go mobile, introducing a set of software and services called Mobile Foundation.
The portfolio includes offerings derived from IBM's January acquisition of Worklight, a vendor of cross-platform mobile application development tools. But the introductions also extended to management products for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs and, not surprisingly from IBM, strategy and deployment services.
Mobile Foundation was introduced at IBM's Impact2012 conference in Las Vegas. IBM said it was zeroing in on the growing market for enterprise mobile capabilities, citing its own survey of 700 CIOs that found three-quarters of them were embracing mobile technology to make work in their companies more flexible. The popularity of smartphones and tablets for doing work has brought more mobile devices into enterprises and raised concerns about supporting and securing them.
For developers, IBM is introducing IBM Worklight, a set of development and integration tools that allow developers to write applications and other mobile software just one time for deployment across Apple iOS, Google Android and Research In Motion's BlackBerry platform. To go along with those tools, the company is offering resources through its DeveloperWorks site.
For administrators, IBM is rolling out software from IBM Endpoint Manager for managing all types of endpoints on a network and making them secure. The software spans servers to mobile devices and can carry out critical tasks such as wiping the data and applications off a mobile device when those resources could be at risk, IBM said.
IBM also added ways for enterprises to bring their current data and services to mobile devices. New capabilities in IBM DataPower appliances are designed to help IT departments quickly bring their existing resources to mobile devices. WebSphere Cast Iron, based on technology the company acquired through its 2010 buyout of hybrid cloud software vendor Cast Iron, can help enterprises link mobile applications to clouds and other back-end infrastructure, according to IBM.
The company also announced that service offerings, including IBM Quick Win Pilot, can now help enterprises plan and carry out a mobile strategy. Through Quick Win Pilot, companies will be able to do a 10-week pilot of IBM Mobile technology to observe the results, the company said.
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Kellogg (NYSE: K ) has reached a proposed $4 million settlement in a class action lawsuit regarding its advertising of its Frosted Mini-Wheats brand of cereals.
The lawsuit alleged that the Kellogg's advertisements for the cereal falsely promoted an ability to boost memory, attentiveness, and other cognitive functions in children.
Kris Charles, a representative for Kellogg, denied any wrongdoing and stated that the cereal company had resolved the misunderstanding years earlier. "Kellogg Co. has a long history of responsible advertising," Charles was quoted as saying by Food Business News. "This class action settlement pertains to an advertising campaign that ran approximately four years ago. We long ago adjusted our communication to incorporate F.T.C.'s guidance."
The settlement, if approved by the court, will lead to a cash refund for a consumer of up to $15 to cover three boxes of cereal purchased in the United States between Jan. 28, 2008, and Oct. 1, 2009.


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Window on history closes
BREAUX BRIDGE – A local treasure has been lost.
A generation knew Corinne Murphy as a sprightly yet proper, twinkle-eyed centenarian frequently arrayed in a crown or sash conveying one honorific status or another.
She was also a child who rode in horse-drawn wagons to family reunions between here and Lafayette, a pretty young girl who enjoyed the weekly dances once held downtown, a young working woman, a young wife traveling to different parts of the country, a young mother.
Ms. Corinne saw a lot of changes in her 104 years and remained mentally agile.
It was Mayor Jack Dale Delhomme – a man known to be both a soft touch for the elderly and one who appreciates the value to Breaux Bridge of its people – who called Mrs. Murphy a "treasure."
"You know, you don't realize the true value of something or someone until they're gone," Delhomme said.
"We should have done more with her. She should have gone to all the schools. There's so much she could have told the young people today."
Corinne Murphy did get out a lot, gracing the dais of many a Council on Aging or similar kind of banquet. Dressed sometimes with little white gloves like the perfect little lady.
"When I think of Mrs. Murphy – and I only met her after I became mayor – the term 'grace' comes to mind," said Delhomme. "She had that old-style, genteel way about her that is largely missing from society today."
After she got a couple of birthdays over 100 with no sign of slowing down, people might have started taking her for granted, as though Ms. Corinne would be around forever.
But now she's gone, and Breaux Bridge is the less.


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Michaels, 35, says she's been left with no meal money by Etheridge, 49. "When I went to get cash just last week [to eat] ... not enough funds," she wrote.
"What the [Expletive] is marriage all about anyway?" Michaels says. "I thought I did everything I was supposed to do. Support support supprt. love family, be there, love, right?"
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Clap your hands say jazz
Laurence Mackin
For those, who like their music from the jazz end of the spectrum, it's a good week to be in the capital. Tonight sees Madeleine Peyroux play the National Concert Hall. Peyroux's music might be a touch too pop for some jazzers' tastes, but she's taken a more earthy approach on her latest album – perhaps all those years busking on the streets have rubbed off on her studio work. You can read an interview with her here.
Most jazz fans will be clearing their diaries tomorrow night, with Dave Holland and Pepe Habichuela rolling into town. The paid need little introduction: Holland is a formidable double bass player, and has worked with almost every jazz luminary you care to mention – Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea to name just a handful. Pepe Habichuela has made a habit of crossing musical borders with spectacular effect. There is Yerbagüena, regarded as the first time Hindu music and flamenco have shared the same space, and now he is drawing on his gitano tradition to spar with Holland's sublime bass grooves. Expect fireworks. And if you fancy winning a pair of tickets to the show, head over to promoter IMC's Facebook page and get your Share on.
Then on Saturday, the Robert Glasper Experiment will be showing off their chops in the Workmans Club. Glasper is one of the most exciting piano players in modern jazz, and regulary gets mentioned in the same breath as Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock. His calling card, though, is the hip hop grooves that underpin his tracks and set his music apart from the competition. I've a short interview with Glasper tomorrow in The Irish Times, but here's a video of Glasper playing things a little straighter with his Trio.


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That includes The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, in which Mirren played Peter Sellers' loony girlfriend in what was to be his final movie. "He looked gray, but I attributed this to working hard," Helen recalls. "He was an insomniac and took too many pills, but you couldn't take him in hand. All you could do was have fun with him and be there when he needed you." Praising her performance in the disappointing film, the New York Times said, "Miss Mirren is a heaven-sent breeze." Indeed, between them, Caligula and Fu may finally break the well-kept secret of her distinction to U.S. audiences. "The problem was that I'm not pretty-beautiful," she reckons. "People like Susan George would always get the parts."
In Britain, on the other hand, she is a national favorite, and not least on Fleet Street. Theater critics have called her everything from "an amorous boa constrictor" to "the Royal Shakespeare Company's very own sex bomb, stacked like the carved figurehead of an old sailing ship." The tabs have linked her romantically to a string of suitors, and years ago she lived in the commune headed by Princess Margaret's friend, Roddy Llewellyn. She admits that her liaisons tend to crumble after three years. "It's happened three times," mourns Helen. "I just fall in love with somebody else. It's sad that I can't live with them all at once. Nothing to do with sex," she adds, "but just to have the pleasure of their company."
The latest man in her life is Irish actor Liam Neeson, a former amateur boxer who is seven years younger and a foot taller than the 5'4" Mirren. The chemistry, says Helen, was "pretty instantaneous" at their meeting last March on the Dublin set of John Boor-man's upcoming Knights. As the sorceress Morgana in the Arthurian film, Helen had to seduce Liam, who plays Sir Gawain, on camera, and the two became offscreen lovers within a week.
That was a far piece from her stage premiere at 6 as the Virgin Mary, but the experience, reports Helen, was not dissimilar. "My first taste of an audience reacting as if I were a creature from another world or a strange flower which they daren't touch was very heady." Otherwise her childhood as the daughter of a civil servant (whose father was an émigré Czarist colonel forced to work as a cab driver) was "an absolute nightmare. I felt like a mouse amid the viciousness of children. I retired into private fantasies as a fairy princess or a very beautiful nun." After graduation from convent school, she juggled a three-year teacher-training course with roles at the National Youth Theatre. Two years later, at 19, she knocked over critics as Cleopatra in a performance at the Old Vic, splurging across the stage with what she calls her "pent-up passions" and "quite big bosoms." She acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1967 to 1972, and her film credits include O Lucky Man! with McDowell, Ken Russell's Savage Messiah and Age of Consent with James Mason.
Recently she played the title role in a Manchester stage production of The Duchess of Malfi, which meant she saw Liam only on weekends. "He's a wonderful mixture of strength and quietness," exults Helen, who claims to be "discovering the pleasures of faithfulness." Her home is a two-room London flat, draped with the "wonderfully vulgar" red velvet curtains from Fu Manchu. Between acting jobs, Helen confesses that she sometimes watches TV "nonstop from 10 a.m. to midnight," fortified by champagne and Indian takeout food. She drives a battered Toyota pickup truck.
There is currently some possibility that her bohemian days may end (though she can't seem to stop talking a good game, dropping lines like "Give me Edith Piaf on heroin to Farrah Fawcett jogging any time"). Liam, she notes, "is Irish and Catholic and believes in things like marriage. The terrible thing is that he makes me want to knit his socks, which goes against the grain. I actually ironed his shirt the other day," Mirren continues. "First time in my life. Ridiculous!"
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Richard C. Walker of Gardnerville, passed into the arms of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on March 19th 2013, he was 82 years old. Richard was a South Lake Tahoe resident for 40 years before moving to the Carson Valley in 1997.
Richard worked for several Tahoe casinos. He was the cashier department manager at Harvey's, at the time of their infamous bombing. Later he worked for Harrah's in security and retired from there.
Richard is survived by his wife, Gayle, of almost 60 years; two daughters, JoAnne Regan and Suzanne (Rich) Lammay all of Gardnerville. He also leaves behind four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
There will be a memorial service on Saturday April 20th at 1 p.m. at High Sierra Fellowship church located at 1701 Lucerne St. Minden, NV.


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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has lowered the bar for what constitutes successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
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Brrr! A Blizzard of Winter Ideas
- Grades: PreK–K
Whatever climate you live in, you can celebrate the winter season with these fun winter activities, crafts, games, and snacks!
- Make a snowman outside if you can. If not, make one inside. Stack three different sizes of white boxes; stuffed, white garbage bags; rolls of white play dough; balls of snow made from two cups of laundry soap and 1/2 cup of water; or even balls of ice, which you can stick together with salt or sand.
- Have students practice their shapes by decorating paper or doily snowmen.
- Have a "Dress the Snowman" relay race, hold a snowman fashion show, or play Frosty Frisbee by trying to land a hat on a snowman's head. Any of these games can be played outdoors or indoors. If indoors, the kids themselves can be the snowmen.
- Make a snowman with glue (put the glue on wax paper if you want it to peel off), white pom-poms, or three large marshmallows.
- Watch or read The Snowman.
- Take a field trip to Snow School.
- Brush a mixture of water and glue on real pictures of outdoor scenes without snow, then sprinkle them with iridescent white glitter to watch a simulated snowfall. Or brush a mixture of water and salt onto painted scenes to make them sparkle, glisten, and shimmer. (To make three-dimensional snow, use 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup salt, and 1/2 cup water.) Make a picture with ice and powdered tempera paint, or paint the snow outside with colored water from a spray bottle.
- Make an igloo or snow castle. If you don't have real snow, make igloos with sugar cubes. Then have a snowball fight with styrofoam balls or balled-up paper.
- Read The Snowy Day. Paint rulers white, add circles for snowman heads, decorate, and plant in the snow to measure the depth. (Check out Webbing Into Literacy for The Snowy Day lesson plans.)
- Catch snowflakes on black construction paper and examine them — quickly, before they melt! — with magnifying glasses. To examine snowflakes under microscopes, catch them on frozen slides covered with "Crystal Clear" spray. For a keepsake, catch snowflakes on pieces of frozen glass covered with hairspray.
- Have a sled-pulling race, outdoors or in!
- Go ice skating. If you live in a climate that doesn't have snow and ice, turn your classroom into a skating rink and let your students ice skate inside by gliding along on pieces of wax paper. For an ice skating craft, make a pair of skates with popsicle sticks.
- Put water in a bucket along with some plastic fish. Freeze the water, and when it's time to play, melt the middle of the ice with hot water. Have the students go ice fishing.
- Hide toys in ice, and have your students pick away at the ice with a toy chisel to get the toys out.
- Make ice sculptures, either by carving ice with a plastic hammer and chisel, or by sticking ice cubes together with salt. You could also add food coloring or have the children paint the ice. (Take a look at the St. Paul Winter Carnival's past ice palaces.)
- Make ice crystals with beads and pipe cleaners, or glue sparkles to pine cones.
- Play ice hockey. If you don't have ice, play air hockey.
- Make eskimos wearing coats with fur collars, and have them lead candy cane dog sleds. Learn about all the Inuit words for "snow."
- Paint water bottles white and decorate with construction paper to make penguins. Watch the movie Happy Feet.
- Explain that arctic animals have blubber to keep them warm in the winter. Have the children put their hands in an empty plastic bag (to keep them clean), then in a bag of vegetable shortening, then in a bowl of icy water to see how they stay warm protected by a layer of fat.
- Talk about animals who have to hibernate in the cold winter weather. Blindfold the students, hide stuffed teddy bears, and then have the students search for the hibernated bears. Or make a large mitten and put stuffed animals in it as you read the book The Mitten. (Check out this teacher's guide for The Mitten.)
- Read the story The Three Little Kittens. At math time, have the children put the kittens' mittens in a lidded box decorated to look like a washing machine, close the lid, and shake the box to "wash" the mittens. When the mittens are clean, the students can remove them and set them out to dry in matching pairs. (The washing machine idea came from The Mailbox.)
- Make snow ice cream! Scoop fresh, clean snow into bowls and add sugar, milk, and 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract. To make snow cones, put snow or crushed ice in a paper cone and cover with flavored syrup, Kool-Aid, or juice. For a cool store-bought treat, have Eskimo Pies or Klondike bars.
- If you have an electric frying pan, warm up with grilled cheese finger sandwiches. For a toasty treat in the microwave, have s'mores, or cups of hot chocolate or chicken soup.
- Make a glacier with graham crackers, blue Jell-O, and whipped cream.
- Use Scholastic's Snowy Day lesson to make snowflakes with tortilla shells and cream cheese.
- Put white materials in your art center.
- Put snow or crushed ice and mittens in your sensory center.
- Put Styrofoam blocks and packing peanuts in your blocks center. (Use indoor ice blocks made of foam to build a polar paradise.)
- Put winter clothing and accessories in your housekeeping center.
- Put an igloo made of stacked milk cartons or jugs in your reading center.
- Make a snowstorm with shredded paper or white confetti.
For more winter theme activities, DLTK's has winter-themed alphabet tracer pages, writing paper, coloring pages, and printable games such as bingo, dominoes, memory, tic-tac-toe, puzzles, and mazes.
Do you have seasonal themes in your room? If you live in a warm climate, how do you teach about winter?
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I have used my snow cone machine but instead of putting it in a cup with syrup, which wasn't enjoyed as much as I thought it would be, I dump a bunch on paper plates, crank the air down to 65 degrees and let them plat in the snow! I play too and put my face in it, eat it, etc! It's a ton off fun!
Hi Lisa Marie, I hope you enjoyed looking at my Winter Ideas. Come back and see what is in store for next week. ~Allie
my name is lisa and i do preschool lesson plans, ideas, and themes if interested in receiving a sample of my lesson plan, ideas or themes just email back and i will send you what u want? if you like it then i will continue to send you my lesson plans, ideas and themes. please email me back?
Hi Lynsie ~ I love the puffy paint idea. I am going to try that. I know the kids will love it. Wow! A trip to Mt. Charleston - wouldn't that be something! Thanks for reading. Come back soon. ~Allie
Hi Cami ~ I have gotten that snow for the kids too - it is really fun. I think I might get some more and make lots of it. The kids can make a real snowman then! What a treat for Las Vegas kids. Thanks for reading - I hope you come back soon. ~Allie
Great ideas! I miss the days of kindergarten fun! I have tried catching snowflakes on the slides and freezing them. It didn't work so well. Also, you can make a 3d puffy paint like snow with one part glue and one part shaving cream. It's a lot of fun and the kids love it. I did that fake snow stuff in my sensory table that one year-the kids loved it! Too bad we can't take the kids on a field trip to Mt Charleston!
Such great ideas! You always amaze me at the things you come up with! One thing I like to do is use the store bought fake snow. Just add water and you've got cold wet snow to play in!
Hi Joy, Being a Minnesota girl, I thought how am I going to teach winter to kids in Las Vegas! The kids had such a great time and they are still talking about it! Thanks for reading. ~Allie
Being from a place with no snow most years, I never thought to have a snowball fight with paper balls. Love the ice skating adaptation, too. Great ideas!


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From Everett to Port Angeles: To travel from Everett you can either drive around Puget Sound, getting on Highway US-101/Olympic Highway out on the peninsula, or catch a ferry from Seattle.
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