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The Georgia & Nolan Payton Archive of Sacred Music consists of music, books, periodicals, documents, audio & visual materials, and oral histories. The primary goal of the Archive is to facilitate research and documentation of collections of African Diaspora sacred music (church music and religious concert music) created and/or performed by the multicultural population of Southern California.
Dr. Albert McNeil - conductor, composer, and founder and director of the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers, is professor Emeritus of the University of California at Davis . Born in Los Angeles , he earned Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of California , Los Angeles , and did his doctoral studies at the University of Southern California , the Westminster Choir College of Princeton, and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He was Director of choral activities at UC Davis for 21 years, and headed their music education program. He taught courses in ethnomusicology at the University of Southern California for twelve years.

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DEAR LIFE: Stories. By Alice Munro. Knopf. 319 pages. $26.95.
The first story of Alice Munros first short-story collection is the semi-autobiographical Walker Brothers Cowboy.
How fitting that 44 years later the pieces of Munros subsequent fiction should be so recognizable in its beginnings: the cheerful, feckless father; the awkward, socially aspiring mother; the child on the periphery of the central adult action, which is sexual. Always, in a Munro story, shame and betrayal hover, but the girl hero can galvanize herself to break away. She rushes toward whats strange and opens her future.
In Dear Life, her new collection, Munro still is dealing in dreamers, not the glossy kind who strut their ambitions but the quiet ones who learn early to protect their secret desires from public scrutiny, until the time comes to act. Now 81, Munro has created a world that we recognize as uniquely her own the way we talk about Kafkaesque or Proustian or Jamesian stories.
The tone of Munros stories is by now familiar to her readers: theyre vivid and inventive, ironical, acutely observant down to the nubby, material details and they portray what can seem to be a narrow range of experience. The typical Munro hero lives a clipped life; in some way things havent worked out ideally for her, but she approaches her circumstances with good humor, imagination and sometimes wild fantasies.
To Reach Japan, the opening story of Dear Life is a model of Munrovian artistry. The story opens as a husband is loading his wife and daughter onto a train. Almost 30 pages later, they deboard. Between departure and arrival, Munro inhabits the mind of Greta, a poet who begins to think obsessively of a Toronto journalist who gave her a ride home from a party: the dream was a lot like the Vancouver weather a dismal sort of longing, a rainy dreamy sadness. The man, oddly, told her that he thought of kissing her but changed his mind. Still, when she is ready to break away, it is he to whom she writes: Writing this letter is like putting a note in a bottle/And hoping/It will reach Japan.
The long-shot grab at happiness is pure Munro. So, too, is the ending, where Munro shifts emphasis to the daughter. Suddenly, an unlikely love story has becomes something else, a mother-daughter story. We are left watching little Katy: She just stood waiting for whatever had to happen next.
Munros neat sentences with their sudden shifts and outbursts of feeling (Greta, catching her freedom on the train, is buoyant, like a gladiator) get right to the core of human relationship its rewards but also its imbalances. One persons freedom may mean another persons captivity. Children especially can be trapped in the stories of others.
Gravel features another mother who has shed everything and taken her children with her to a trailer beside a gravel pit. While her daughters stay awake at night trying to remember the manicured lawn and wallpapered bedroom of their old house, the mother announces that she and her boyfriend will be having a baby to be named Brandy, boy or girl. Munro isnt one to look down her nose at the dreamy mother, who senses a threat to her new life (shes worried about wolves) but cant locate the true source. When disaster comes, the narrating child sits down and, like Katy in Japan, waits for the next thing to happen.
Dear Life ends with a quartet of not quite stories that Munro calls her Finale. She writes, They form a separate unit, one that is autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact. I believe they are the first and last and the closest things I have to say about my own life. The final four stories are rich with remembered flashes of life in the Canadian country around Lake Huron in the 1930s and 40s but the real treat and centerpiece of each is a moment when Munros young imagination transports her out of ordinary reality.
Together, the stories form an artistic testament. Whether shes looking in a casket and seeing the eye of a dead person move or fearing that she might strangle her little sister in the night, Munro is the inventor who, like so many characters in her stories, dreams herself into a new life.
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STEPPING LIVELY: Visitors walked on steps bearing the logo of a book fair in Leipzig, Germany, Wednesday. (Eckehard Schulz/Associated Press)
INDIGENOUS WEAR: An indigenous tribal man wore a monkey skull around his neck during a protest in front of the prime minister's office in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Wednesday. The Orang Asli people demonstrated against the government's land reforms. (Saeed Khan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
HORSE JUMP: Horses jumped over water during the William Hill Trophy Handicap Steeple Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in the United Kingdom Tuesday. (Adrian Dennis/Agence France-Press/Getty Images)
STACKED UP: A hotel constructed to look like traditional Zaanse houses stacked on top of each other prepared to open in Zaandam, Netherlands, Thursday. (Toussaint Kluiters/United Photos/Reuters)
TERRIFIED WITNESS: A police officer questioned a crying child who witnessed a gunfight in the La Saline slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday. Police said two gunmen on a motorcycle fatally shot two off-duty officers; a bystander was also fatally shot. (Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press)
TOP O' THE MORNING: Children watched the St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of people will mark the national day at more than 180 events in towns and villages across the country. (Julien Behal/PA/Associated Press)
SNOW SCENE: Snow crystals covered trees on Brocken Mountain in Germany Tuesday. (Eckehard Schulz/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
BABIES ON BOARD: Babies were evacuated to safety during a protest in Mexico City Tuesday. (El Universal/ZUMA Press)
REDUCED TO ASHES: A man prayed at the smoldering ruins of the Kasubi Tombs — a World Heritage Site dating back more than 100 years — in Kampala, Uganda, Wednesday. The cause of the fire is under investigation. (Marc Hofer/European Pressphoto Agency)
CRIME SCENE: Security personnel collected evidence from the scene of a shooting where suspected militants opened fire, injuring two paramilitary soldiers and three civilians in Srinagar, India, Tuesday. (Altaf Zargar/ZUMA Press)
FACE TIME: Models checked themselves out in mirrors as they prepared backstage at Fashion Week in Kiev Tuesday. (Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press)
CURIOUS ONLOOKERS: Scantily clad PETA volunteer Amber Tegantvoort promoted vegetarianism on a street in downtown Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday. (The Commercial Appeal/ZUMA Press)
A WARM WELCOME: Kimberly Fanning welcomed Sgt. Coy Hurley home to Fort Bragg, N.C., Tuesday. Sgt. Hurley's unit played a key role in the recent operation in Marjah, Afghanistan. (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty Images)
ROW YOUR BOAT: Ray Breimer paddled a rowboat on a street flooded with water from the Passaic River in Little Falls, N.J., Tuesday. (Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
SPRING'S IN THE AIR: A couple kissed in a boat on a lake at Madrid's Retiro Park Wednesday. (Susana Vera/Reuters)
SING A SONG: Tracey Wallace sang at a preview party Wednesday in Santa Ana, Calif., ahead of the La Habra Citrus Fair. (Paul Rodriguez/Orange County Register/ZUMA Press)


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hello,hope you can help.have just got oblivion yesterday,along with the shivering isles/knights of the nine expansion disc). when i installed them to my hd,the update that (supposedly) came on the disc doesn't install to my hd.hence i cannot play the expansion quests. i know that this is the problem (no scratched disc/time and date correct e.t.c) have re installed everything and cleared cache memory numerous times but no joy! have even resorted to formatting the hd,but it still doesn't install the update (1.2.1 update that it needs) i have already installed the latest 360 update (system update 13146) via a usb stick.it's just rediculous that i have paid for a disc that doesn't work because of an update (or lack of one) where can i download the update via my pc (and to a usb stick) and then install it to the 360.thanks in advance.
did you just new game and have you just run around and seen a msg pop up saying there's some kind of gate?
FiftyFourBravo.yes i bought the game yesterday (along with si expansion disc) the problem is definitely the update,as i have been playing the game (in game time for a number of days) was at the point of leading martin to cloud ruler temple (then looking for mythic dawn books) i had already installed both si and kotn expansions before playing game.it doesn't recognise any update (that the disc said it installed/no 1.2.1 on bottom left of video settings menu) this problem is widely known (from reading all the forums about it, whilst looking for a solution. even though i have the latest update installed in 360,the game isn't recognising the expansion quests.
Clear the cache (System Settings - Memory - Highlight your Hard Drive and press Y - pick the Clear System Cache option) and then the next time you play the game when connected to Live the update will be downloaded from there.
Unfortunately no-one can tell you how to download the update on the PC and then to transfer it to your console as Microsoft consider that system tampering, so oddly enough don't like us talking about it.
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thanks voteDC.unfortunately do not have a phone line (no xbox live) it just seems stupid for bethesda to release a game on disc (for people who cannot download the extra content) and then say that you need to download a patch to play it! (as the update on the disc doesn't work) have cleared the cache memory lots of times (along with reinstalling all the discs as well as formatting the hd in the hope that it would work.unfortunately it hasn't :-( looks like i will just have to wait until the 5th anniversary edition of oblivion is released in uk (i really hope that they will have solved this problem for the new edition/as it really is ruining the game!)
Is there no way you could take your console to a friends place to grab the update from Live? Not an ideal solution but it'd get you up and playing the expansions.


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- No. 12
Vegas, Atlantic City and Now...Deadwood, South Dakota, Where Legalized Gambling Is a Very Big Deal
Open-and-aboveboard gambling came to Deadwood in November 1989, and since then, "we've gone through 40 years of change," says Mayor Bruce Oberlander, who was forced to increase the police force from five to eight to handle the 85 percent increase in drunken behavior, disorderly conduct and such other violations as traffic offenses. "Before, I only had to worry about streetlights and barking dogs," says the Mayor.
But Ayres, whose family is woven into the very fabric of Deadwood's history, is hardly surprised. Her forebears were tending the store on Aug. 2, 1876, when a ruckus broke out just down the street: Wild Bill Hickok, the gunslinger, card shark. Army scout and occasional lawman, was shot in the back of the head by a drifter, Jack "Broken Nose" McCall. Wild Bill was playing poker at the time, holding aces and eights—thereafter known as the Dead Man's Hand. He was buried in the Mount Moriah Cemetery, overlooking Deadwood Gulch; his pal Calamity Jane was later buried next to him. Broken Nose was hanged.
A few months later, a prospector named Potato Creek Johnny found a seven-ounce gold nugget in a creek outside town, setting off the Black Hills gold rush of 1877, an event that did little to promote tranquillity in Deadwood. In that very year, Johnny Slaughter, a popular stage driver for the Cheyenne-Deadwood line was murdered during a robbery. "Johnny complied with the strange man's request to stop, when a lead horse shied and one of the dastardly villains blasted him in the chest, knocking him out of his boots," the local newspaper reported at the time. And so it went through the years. As late as 1980 Deadwood's largest employers were five brothels, employing up to 40 women—more during deer-hunting season.
The town's latest incarnation began in 1986 when a group of locals, led by Bill Walsh, a former Catholic priest who now owns the historic Franklin Hotel on Main Street, formed a committee called Dead-wood You Bet. Although it took a couple of years, the Deadwood You Bet people persuaded the South Dakota legislature to amend the state constitution in 1989 to allow limited gambling in Deadwood. Slot machines, $5-limit poker and blackjack would be permitted, roulette, craps and keno would not.
Deadwood has just 1,815 residents, so the 14 licensed gambling halls that were in place by November 1989 seemed at the time like more than enough. Mayor Oberlander and the Deadwood You Bet people estimated that a modest $2 million a year would be wagered, bringing the city treasury about $100,000 in new revenue to repair old sewers and water lines and restore historic buildings.
They were wrong.
Today, there are 1,909 slot machines, 27 poker tables and 83 blackjack tables in Deadwood—more than one for every man, woman and child in town. There are 84 gaming halls, including the town's only Laundromat (two slot machines) and gas station (also two slots). And in the past 18 months, an astounding $334.9 million has been wagered. Some 600,000 people swarmed into Deadwood last year, according to the Mayor, most of them lured by the gambling. "It grew a lot quicker than we thought,' " chuckles the Mayor, whose part-time municipal post pays him just $325 a month. "We only wanted to fix a few potholes."
Now, while the rest of the country wallows in deficits, the Deadwood town treasury is dealing with a $6.2 million windfall for the 1990 calendar year. Since the entire local budget is only $1.4 million annually, the town is doing a lot of historical restoration and water and sewer repairs.
Since gambling was legalized, $35 million in private capital has been invested along Main Street, 15 new restaurants have opened, and property values have soared. A downtown clothing store was sold in 1988 for $54,000 and resold a few months later for $1 million. Goldberg's grocery, which had operated continuously since 1876, was reborn as Goldberg's Gaming Hall and Soda Fountain. No more groceries. ("Thank God we still have the Safeway," says Agnes Ayres.) Recently, Kevin Costner and his brother, Dan, who lives in nearby Lead, paid $1 million for an old building at 677 Main Street, which will open May 1 as the Midnight Star gambling hall.
"I'd like to have a couple more cops," says Police Chief Les Bradley Sr., a Marine Corps veteran who has lived in Deadwood all his life. "We sure didn't anticipate this. We figured it'd be a couple of back-room poker games, like in the old days."
The old days weren't so long ago in Deadwood. In the early '80s there were five saloons, one of which offered illegal back-room gambling, as well as the whorehouses, which kept Deadwood recession-proof. But drugs were also involved, and the DEA arrived to shut down the brothels.
Before gambling arrived, Deadwood averaged about one murder a year. That's still the case. Last year's homicide happened at the Windflower gaming hall in September after Air Force Sgt. Daniel Cobb, 33, had a bad night at the poker table. He approached Windflower owner Stephen Sperlin after hours and, wielding a 20-gauge shotgun, requested his $1,137 back. Request denied. "I don't know how [the gun] went off," Cobb said later, when he pleaded guilty to murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.
Though some Deadwood residents have been startled by the extent of the boom, few are shocked that it happened. "People like to gamble." shrugs Joe Massa, coowner of the Prairie Edge and Buffalo Skull gaming halls and the Eagle Bar, where Broken Nose drilled Wild Bill. "We're isolated out here, and, except for Nevada and Atlantic City, we're the only show in the country. We offer an alternative to the glitzy crap in Las Vegas. This is a laid-back and less tense environment."
He's right. Deadwood has no feathery show girls, no dancing bears, no Wayne Newton, no limos, no fur coats, no lounge lizards in shiny suits and no pinkie rings. In fact, there are no shows at all.
"We get most of our people from the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming and eastern Colorado," says Bill Walsh, whose Franklin Hotel now has a gaming hall. "Gambling's gonna be here a long time, because it's always been here and people are comfortable with it."
"You could always find gambling in Deadwood," says Milton "Pop" Collins, 92, who ran the Grab It and Growl Restaurant (now Lilly's Smoke-Free Gambling Hall) on Main Street for 35 years until he sold it in 1966. "It was mostly cards a few years ago. They'd keep the roulette wheels upstairs and pay off the police. I liked it better when it was illegal and we did it anyway." About the only real change Pop sees is that people aren't so friendly anymore—too many strangers prowling the street. "This was the only town in the Black Hills where women could walk the streets and not be bothered," he claims. "Now I think they get bothered sometimes."
But even now, organized crime, hustling and cheating are minor concerns because of the $5 poker and blackjack limit. And Stan Triplett, director of enforcement for the South Dakota Gaming Commission, is a force to be reckoned with in Deadwood. Triplett, a former deputy sheriff, has four agents and two auditors who have uncovered three cases of poker cheating, a serious crime in these parts. Just ask Gerald Derby, 21, who got caught palming cards in the Buffalo Saloon last fall. "He pleaded guilty to a felony and was given three years in prison," says Triplett. "We won't tolerate it."
And Agnes Ayres? With a NOT FOR SALE note taped to the door to ward off real estate hustlers who keep pestering her to sell out, she now runs the only store on Main Street that hasn't got a piece of the action. It's not so much that Agnes is opposed to gambling; she just wishes it hadn't taken over Main Street.
Besides, through all the good times and bad, upstanding members of the Ayres family have sold pipe in Deadwood, and Agnes is not about to stop now. She is 73 years old, has outlived two husbands and walks with a cane. "Oh, Jesus help me," she says, "money isn't everything. What am I gonna do, sit in a rocker and count it? Not me, buster," she vows, "I'm staying."
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Smothered sliders, cilantro grilled cheese, seared tuna bowls, pasta carbonara: there's bipartisan agreement that you can't go wrong preparing any of these mouth-watering Plated meals, ready in 30 minutes or less, as you watch election returns!
1. Sweet Potato Spinach Soup with Cilantro Grilled Cheese
This soup overflows with tasty, good-for-you vegetables like sweet potatoes, spinach, and black-eyed peas. Watch out for the cilantro-grilled cheese!
2. Beefy Mac & Cheese with Roasted Brussel Sprouts
Oooey, gooey and cheesy, this macaroni and cheese is the ultimate indulgence. Campanelle pasta captures bits of browned beef and provides a fantastic counterpart to a crispy topping of panko, parmesan and parsley.
3. Smothered Sliders with Zucchini and Carrot Sticks
Make all-American sliders for tomorrow night as you watch the election returns - there's bipartisan agreement you can't go wrong with caramelized onions, hamburger patties, and teeny slider buns!
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Long ago, the demon Zarathos began building a tremendous power base for himself. His penchant for human souls led him into conflicts with foes such as the Blood cult and the vile Mephisto, who saw Zarathos as a rival. Mephisto ultimately tricked and enslaved Zarathos, rendering the demon amnesiac and trapping him in various mortal forms over many years. This torture eventually dovetailed with another pastime of Mephisto's - the search for the Medallion of Power, a mystical artifact crafted by the Blood that housed the essence of the original Spirits of Vengeance. The medallion had been broken into shards and embedded into the spiritual bloodline of two families. One of these bloodlines, the Kales, attracted Mephisto's attention in the 18th century when Noble Kale's shard of the Medallion transformed him into a Spirit of Vengeance, the Ghost Rider. Mephisto failed to corrupt Noble at this time, but he kept track of the Kale clan from then on, watching as Noble manifested in the firstborn of every generation. John Blaze was born into a world of motorcycle grease and cheering crowds. The son of Barton Blaze and Naomi Kale, Johnny spent his early years in the Quentin Carnival, where his parents starred in a stunt show with Craig "Crash" Simpson. His idyllic home life ended abruptly, however, when Naomi abandoned John, taking his younger siblings - Barbara and Daniel - with her. Naomi's decision to leave had been difficult, but she felt it was necessary because of the family curse. She feared that her own firstborn would suffer in the same way that she had, so she left him behind and placed her other children in the care of a woman named Francis Ketch.
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By Jungwook Choi
Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
Awake your brain by repeating to calculate the simple four basic operations!
-Enable to set the test time.(1-10minutes)
-Enable to set the question interval.(1-10seconds)
-Enable to check out the test result and statistics.(test time, questions count, correct answers count, incorrect answers count, accuracy, score)
-Enable to check out the history.(Max 50 tests)
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- Released: Feb 18, 2010
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- Languages: English, Japanese, Korean
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Many people swear by multiple monitors, whether they're geeks or just people who need to be productive. Why use just one monitor when you can use two or more and see more at once?
You can also use USB-VGA adapters if you don't have any more DVI or VGA adapters onboard. The USB performance isn't high-end Game worthy, but it definitely fits the bill if you're doing simple stuff. Then again, if you're gaming, you've probably installed dual or triple video cards anyway.
I use a USB-VGA adapter at work all day and never had a problem. Does what it says.
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I have a all in one desktop that I have connected to 5 USB display adapters and use the HDMI port to mirror my main screen on a 60 inch HDTV across the room. Once you start use multiple monitors you will never want to go back so much more convenient
Yes, using multi-monitors is great once you give it a try.
The one thing I do that I rarely see elsewhere is on a 2 monitor setup I use one in "Landscape" (ie normal) orientation and the other in "Portrait".
Spreadsheets are naturally landscape, and Word documents are naturally Portrait. Web pages can be either, but I tend to keep my browser on the Portrait monitor
Another program that puts the taskbar on secondary monitors is Actual Window Monitor (www.actualtools.com). Window Manager does far more than manage secondary taskbars but it includes this function.
The image for this article shows three monitors with different wallpapers on each. Is there a way to do this (in Windows) without third-party software?
There are only two actual pieces of multi-monitor software - Actual Multiple Monitors and Display Fusion. I reccomend AMM, because it develop quickly, than DF. It has more useful features, better tech support, and the same price.
I frequently have my work laptop next to my work desktop for the day. I use Synergy so I dont need to use 2 keyboards and mice. It is also cross platform and free (but please donate).
Yeah I keep two of my monitors in portrait usually use it to browse read Kindle books or comic book scans
Yea I'm glad you posted that. Because it helps me bring up a point. When gaming multi-monitor setups are terrible in my opinion. Even though he has decent monitors without huge bezels on them. And the fact that he's using a nice multi-monitor stand (probably one from ergotech). With all that said it still looks ugly. I would hate to spend all that money on a setup and it being ugly. That's like buying a Ferrari and it looking like this 1
I suppose it would look better if it was just a triple monitor setup instead of 5 like shown in the video cause then you would have only two bezels on your viewing screen. However if it's for video editing or anything in a productive environment yea it's beneficial but gaming? Heck no. That's just my personal opinion.
I hope people are still reading this. I think I know how to do this, but I want to have a stand-up desk and sit down desk using the same computer. Do I simply get a longer cable to plug a second monitor into the computer and then can I switch in Win7 telling it which monitor I want to use?
Pretty much. Its really that simple.
I've used GeChic 1303H a 13.3" 1080p portable monitor. Purchased from [Amazon][1].
I've only used it for a week with my Macbook Pro so I can't comment too much as of yet. It comes with an HDMI cable so you can hook it up to your mac mini as well.
I've listed some of the highlights of the monitor below:- Great picture quality/resolution; I've only tried web browsing and PS4 games so far but the monitor displays an an awesome 1080p picture with a clean refresh rate. Great colour range as well. You can make the picture very vibrant if needed.- Easy to set up and use; can theoretically plug any device with visual output into this thing if you have the right adaptors/cables.- Thin and light; this monitor is as thin as an iPhone 4- Useful case/stand- Simple menu navigation for settings
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Moot Court Team Advances to Nationals
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Newton, MA—The Boston College Law School Moot Court team has advanced to the National round of the 64th National Moot Court Competition, to be held February 10-13, 2014 in New York.
In the New England Regional Round of the competition, held this past weekend at Suffolk University, the BC Law team of Jessica Frattaroli '14, Brett Jackson '14, and Dave Vitale '14 bested Suffolk, Roger Williams, and Western New England before being defeated by Syracuse in the finals by a fraction of a point. The BC Law team was awarded Best Brief in the region.
"In representing BC Law at the National Moot Court Competition, Jessica, Brett, and Dave join a distinguished group, which includes Joan Lukey '74, the first woman president of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and Secretary of State John Kerry '76," said Tom Carey, Director of Advocacy Programs. "As with those alumni, our team's success rests on talent, dedication, and long, hard work. They embody our tradition, "Ever To Excel."
Sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Young Lawyers Section of the City Bar of New York, the National Moot Court Competition is one of the oldest and most prestigious competitions in the country among ABA-approved law schools. Fifteen regional rounds are held throughout the nation. The top two teams in each region proceed to the nationals.


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Shared data by mid-Summer, says Verizon
America's biggest wireless carrier has announced results and all seems copasetic — 6.3 smartphones, including 3.2 million iPhones, were activated last quarter. The money flowed accordingly with mobile data now accounting for over a third ($6.6 of $18.3 billion) of Big Red's revenue.
And, yes, their big bet on LTE continues to roll out with San Francisco and Reno just added to the two-thirds of the country now covered by the nation's "most reliable network."
That's all well and fine, and you can get get all of the details straight from the horse's mouth.
The tidbit in today's news that most interested me, however, is confirmation from Verizon that they will begin offering family/shared data plans mid-Summer. Pricing and cap details weren't released.
From the for what it's worth department consider this — in Q4 '11, Verizon sold 4.3 million of Apple's 37 million iPhones. Assuming Big Red maintained a proportionate share of unit volume last quarter, then Apple will next week announce 27.53 million iPhones sold through the end of March…
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hes out of breath because hes overweight and out of shape. there is no mystery there
I was in a hospital foyer for about 1.5 hours today (waiting on lab results) and I was reading The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf (still waiting on my copy of Primal Blueprint to arrive). A man who was very out of breath and quite overweight sits next to me and starts to chat a little bit and tells me that he's in for a stress test.
He asked me if I was studying because I was so engrossed in my book and I said no it's for my interest & health, it's a book about how our diet affects us. So he says "is there anything in there for me" (to improve his health) and I said as a matter of there is but didn't say much after that because he got a far away, disinterested look on his face which indicated that he really didn't want to hear it. I saw him after his stress test and he said that he lost breath quite a bit and the doctors were baffled as to why. I am brand new at this primal lifestyle and have no formal education on the subject but I wondered if a change in diet could help his breathing as most of the tests hadn't given an answer as to why he was having trouble breathing.
There was a family sitting behind me that had two little children about three years old and when I heard the Mum excitedly say to them "let's get donuts" I thought oh good grief.
I must admit that I feel frustrated about all the sick and tired people there are and I just want to stand up and shout "there's a better way !!!!!! "
I know that I want to work with people, especially the elderly, to improve their life through a primal/paleo lifestyle and right now I'm trying to workout the best way to go about that.
Hope you're all having a great day.
hes out of breath because hes overweight and out of shape. there is no mystery there
Yes, I agree
wonder why the doctors were baffled?
I agree aussie1girl, but it's really hard to convince people that what they are doing is going to hurt them, or given that they *know* it's going to hurt them, trying to change them. And that is not to say that our WOE will work for everyone, or that it's "right." It is right for us, but it may not be right for someone else. I would never try to convince someone that they need to eat like I do, unless they ask for help. That is just me though. I know a LOT of people that expound their hubris on me at a constant rate. Just makes me happy that I am not them. LOL.
People too weak to follow their own dreams will always try to discourage others.
I've notice other peoples' eating habits quite a bit more lately as well. I guess taking an interest in my own WOE has spawned a curiosity or an awareness of the dietary habits of others. Neat!
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If his breathlessness was inconsistent with his level of obesity, it sounds like something that needs to be investigated. Unless he should be kicked to the curb for being fat, nevermind any other medical conditions.
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A guy I know lost 40lbs by changing his diet to mainly primal but he now feels he has the right to let his family and friends know how wrong their eating (in his opinion) and he wonders why people get annoyed with him at dinner parties or social gatherings like birthdays etc.
I was at my drs last week in a busy waiting room and was reading Protein Power on my ipad.
The guy next to me asks me if that's an ipad and does it have books? I go "sure, I'm reading ome right now, this is a chapter on cholesterol...,"
The guy totally changed the subject right away! Haha
We talk about this all the time and it's easy to forget how many people really don't care.


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My dad, with ALS, worked until day he died
All of our loved ones will succumb to some accident or devastating health problem. I am happy, however, that finding a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and its victims is getting publicity and dollars to provide for research.
In the early 1960s, while I was living in California, my father asked me to check to see if any doctors there had a cure for ALS. Researchers are still looking for that cure.
People with this disease never lose their ability to think; they are trapped in a body that slowly shuts down.
An e-mail from a friend about the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for ALS research prompted me to write about my father, Thomas Harvey, and to find some photos of him from his better days to share with my friend. One picture shows him going off to work, and in another photo, he is smiling as he returns home from a long day working outside. The third photo shows my mother, Elizabeth, my father and me on my parents' 25th wedding anniversary. In two photos I found of my dad with my son, Douglas Wheeler, my father knew he had a terminal disease.
As time went on, Dad could not feed, bathe or dress himself; Mother was his caregiver. Even with those disabilities, Dad continued to work. He was an assistant supervisor for road construction at Fry Construction Co., including on the day he died in late May 1967. He loved God and family and was a good, totally fair and honest man who always worked to provide for his family, right to the very end. Before graduating from high school in Kersey, when two of his brothers-in-law, both medical doctors, offered to pay his way through medical college, my father declined because, he said, he "didn't want to be beholden" to anyone.
When he could no longer walk or drive the hand-equipped company station wagon, two employees from Fry Construction, a road and highway construction company located at West 19th and Cherry streets, would come to the house, carry Dad to the station wagon, drive him to the workplace and take care of his needs. Dad would sit in that car while the men worked on road construction; he was there to watch, direct and answer any pertinent questions. As the disease wore on, his body became weaker, but when he got home after an eight-hour day or so, Dad would ask me to write down the men's pay time for him, because he had lost the ability to use his hands and arms.
In the wintertime, a Fry Construction employee would park the company station wagon in our driveway. The owners of this private company, Dave and Pete Schaper, told Dad that when the weather warmed, he would still have his job and they would send employees to come and bring Dad back to work. Although there were no disability insurance payments, Fry's owners paid Dad his regular wages through the day he died -- and perhaps vacation pay a few weeks after. They even purchased a wheelchair for him.
My son, Douglas, one of Dad's three grandchildren, once e-mailed me to say that he remembered his grandfather "as being so kind and gentle," and that he remembered the men coming to the house and carrying Grandpa to the company car.
At the end of his note, Douglas added that, in today's world, most companies would not do that for their employees. Douglas was 6 years of age when his Grandfather Harvey died on May 23, 1967, at age 57. Tom Harvey was a great role model.
JOAN C. HARVEY WHEELER said that like her dad, Thomas G. Harvey, and his dad, Thomas H. Harvey, she wanted to work as long as possible. She retired first from AMSCO (now Steris) after 33 years, then in 2013, at 75, from the Economic Development Corp. of Erie County (now DevelopErie).


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My boyfriend and I have been sexually active for 9 months... He's the first guy I've ever been with this way. He's been with a couple other girls and was tested for HIV about 2 years ago. After he'd been tested, he had been with one other girl. He thinks it's a good idea if he gets tested, but because he knows I've never been with anyone else, he doesn't think I need to be tested... What do you think? I think I should be tested, just to be safe.
Dear Reader,
It's great that you are being proactive about HIV testing, it's part of being a responsible sexually active adult. Why not let your boyfriend get tested first? If he's HIV-negative (and he probably is if his past sexual experiences were safer ones), then you probably are, as well. If you'd like more peace of mind, then getting tested is a good idea. You and/or your boyfriend might also consider being tested for other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, and genital warts (HPV).
By the way, your boyfriend's reasoning is a bit off; just because someone has never had a sex partner does not necessarily mean that s/he is automatically HIV-negative. It's also important to consider when your boyfriend was tested in relation to his previous sexual experiences as it can take up to six months after an encounter for HIV to show up on a test. Plus, he was with someone after his last test — a possible risk factor where you (and he) are concerned. Condoms are very good at preventing HIV transmission, so if you have safer sex every time you get intimate, it's unlikely you'll contract HIV.
For more information on HIV testing, read HIV transmission: When does it show up on a blood test?. You and your boyfriend can also search through Alice's Sexual Health archive for more safer sex, HIV/AIDS, and other STI info, and/or you can contact these organizations and agencies to get more answers to your questions:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National STD and AIDS Hotline
CDC National Prevention Information Network
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene AIDS Hotline
Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC)
1.800.AIDS.NYC (243.7692) / 212.807.6655 AIDS Hotline
Getting tested for HIV will resolve any uncertainty you have about your status and will familiarize you with the testing facilities and process, which could be helpful if you feel the need to get tested again in the future.Alice!


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A beautiful fine-art photography book, capturing the winter wedding of Matt and Sarah on a cold, blustry day in rural Oxfordshire, England.
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- Publish Date Mar 28, 2010
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Jonathan Self is a photographer, writer and editor living in Oxford, England. A Christian, he is fascinated by people and the link between beauty and brokeness. Capturing that is a real joy - to show what connects us as humans and what links the divine to the ordinary. This often involves looking at things from the corner of the eye rather than from the centre – the face at the edge of the banquet, the woman leaving the church as everyone enters, the two people talking behind the stage. It's in such detail that he delights and which acts as inspiration for his photography. He spent much of the early noughties travelling around the world, visiting and photographing communities in India, Peru, South Africa and Swaziland. This included spending time on the Ground Zero site, witnessing HIV/AIDS work in Swaziland and South Africa, meeting community workers in two slum areas of Peru and paying many visits to orphanage and leprosy projects across India.
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Soon after the Dallas Cowboys snatched victory from the jaws of embarrassing defeat—at home against an awful Minnesota Vikings team that has no quarterback—owner Jerry Jones told reporters, "That one's gonna be hard to explain.''
It might be easier than Jones thinks. Despite the 27-23 win, the Cowboys once again did not look like a team that belongs in the Super Bowl conversation. Of course, no one put them in that discussion more than Jones and those close to him, but he wasn't alone.
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The Cowboys are just OK. Loudly and spectacularly so, enough to soak up lots of attention, but still just OK.
The fact is that marching downfield in the final two-plus minutes to pull out this win, is better than letting the other team march downfield in the final minute, as the Lions infamously did a week ago. Also, being 5-4 and in first place in the NFC (L)East beats being 4-5 and having Philadelphia and Washington closing in for the most dubious division lead in the NFL.
But all the Cowboys might have to count on is one of those hot streaks that mediocre regular-season teams occasionally catch in the playoffs. They cannot, in good conscience, count on anything else.
The Cowboys are counting on Tony Romo to be the solution (at a high price), just as they're counting on Dez Bryant (a huge catch on the final drive to counter a pointless personal foul earlier for taking off his helmet while arguing a call) and DeMarcus Ware and DeMarco Murray and Jason Witten and all the other "name" players who, collectively, are great individual parts.
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The organization has yet to turn them into a truly dangerous whole. It hasn't just been the last two drama-packed weeks, or the roller coaster of this season. Their recent dance with the .500 mark is well-documented, and so are their near-misses around playoff time.
Jason Garrett, since his first full season as head coach in 2011, is 21-20. Since 2008—the year after they had the best record in the NFC under Wade Phillips at 13-3— the Cowboys are 48-43, including the playoffs. With Romo starting over that span, they're 42-36.
The Cowboys are still waiting to be better than average. Even if they get a postseason berth representing a watered-down division, there's no reason to believe they'll manage that this season.


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The Washington Monument
Familiarize young students with America's first president and the purpose of monuments.
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2
Children read about George Washington and discuss the monument built in his honor. Then students create their own monument to honor a community member.
Students will:
- Learn about George Washington and the Washington monument.
- Connect the concept of a monument to their own life.
- A Picture Book of George Washington by David Adler
- Chalk board
- Washington Monument Cut-Out (PDF)
- Crayons
- Cardboard or flat sticks
- Glue or tape
Set Up and Prepare
- Create a two-column chart. Label columns: "What I Know," "What I Learned"
- Read the article about the Washington Monument.
- Print a class set of the Washington Monument Cut-Out (PDF)
Duration: Two days
Step 1: Ask children if they've ever heard of George Washington. Record responses in the appropriate row of the chart.
Step 2: Read over responses with children.
Step 3: Tell students that they are going to find out more about George Washington. Read a book such as Meet George Washington or A Picture Book of George Washington by David Adler to the class.
Step 4: After reading, ask children if they can add more information to the chart. Review what children know about George Washington by reading through the chart.
Step 5: Ask children to repeat what all they now know about George Washington. Point to each response in the chart as children say them aloud.
Step 6: Ask children if they know what a monument is. Define the word. Discuss that monuments are built to remember important or special people.
Step 7: Tell students that you are going to relate a story about how the Washington Monument came to be. Paraphrase the article about the Washington Monument, covering responses to each of the questions below.
Step 8: Have students answer the questions below. You may wish to write them on the board.
- What is a monument?
- Why was the monument built?
- What did George Washington do that was important?
- Why is it important to honor him?
Make available individual copies of the Washington Monument Cut-Out (PDF). Invite children to discuss special people in their family or that are important to those in their lives. Encourage students to dedicate the monument to this special person, and write the person's name on the copy. Have them add images or drawings, and color to their monuments that they think the special person would appreciate.
Have children share their monuments. Ask them to respond to the four questions from the day before, as they relate to their own monument.
Lesson Extension
Read excerpts from Don't Know Much About the Presidents by Kenneth C. Davis and play a "Did You Know...?" game with the trivia in this book.
- Did children find the book you selected engaging? Did it provide clear and sufficient information about George Washington's life?
- Did students understand the use of the chart to organize their ideas?
- Did students understand the concept of a monument and what it means to honor someone?
- What other resources could I have used to help children understand who George Washington is, what honor is, what monuments are?
- Was enough time allotted for reading and discussing George Washington before students began the monument activity?
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- Subjects:Arts and Crafts, Flags, Monuments, Symbols, The Presidency, Historic Figures
- Skills:Main Idea and Details, Biographies, Social Studies, Listening Comprehension


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Mercer Island High School hosts Taiwanese exchange student - 15-year-old was bound for New Orleans
By Katherine Sather
Mercer Island High School is hosting an exchange student this fall who was originally bound for New Orleans.
Fifteen-year-old Kevin Lin, from Taiwan, enrolled last week.
He is staying in Ballard with John Parker, the technical director of the school theater. Parker formerly counseled foreign exchange students at Lake Washington High School and responded to an advertisement on Craigslist, an online classifieds site, asking for help relocating exchange students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
``I just answered, saying I could try and help,'' he said. ``I told them to put me down as a last resort.''
It turned out that Parker was Kevin's best bet. None of the Seattle schools had room for Kevin, said Kathy Bowe, a representative with DM Discoveries, the exchange agency that posted the ad. Her company found Seattle-area homes for four New Orleans-bound students this fall. Since Parker is a Mercer Island school district employee, Kevin was able to enroll at MIHS.
``This whole thing has been almost eerie in how everything has fallen together,'' Bowe said.
But the commute from Ballard is tiring, and Parker thinks Kevin might be better off staying with a family on Mercer Island.
``It's only his third day in the country, and he's learning the Seattle bus system,'' he said last week.
Kevin has to take two buses to get to Mercer Island in the morning, a trip that makes him 15 minutes late for his 8 a.m. class. After school, he changes busses three times for an hour-and-a-half journey home. The commute costs $1.75 each way.
``It's a little bit crazy,'' Parker said. ``I don't know when he's going to get to study or meet other kids.''
Kevin, a sophomore, is from Taipei, Taiwan's largest city. He auditioned and was accepted in the advanced steel drum class at MIHS and plans to study here for the whole school year.
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It makes the case that simply repairing the current system won't work- because it's the current system that's the problem.
The most common argument heard about the crisis, is that something simply broke down/went wrong/ran amok. The break down caused a systemic malfunction of an otherwise fine system. Thus what we need to do is fix whatever caused the breakage in the first place and adjust things so the same thing cant happen again.
Fixing it will require a few trillion of cash injections. And then a combination of better regulation and a few technical adjustments such as a bit more capital here and a bit better ratings there.
The argument I have offered you is totally different. It says that we have NOT, will not, CANNOT and SHOULD NOT fix the present financial system back to its former state.
For the simple reason that the present catastrophic situation we find ourselves in, was not due to a break down in the system, but is an inevitable consequence of how that system works in the first place.
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TAMPA, Fla. — The Yankees signed former Seattle Mariners closer David Aardsma today, in hopes that the hard-throwing right hander can bounce back from Tommy John surgery in time to join the bullpen as soon as July.
Aardsma has an "outside chance" of joining the team midseason, general manager Brian Cashman said, though he believes the right-hander is more likely to contribute in 2013, when he's more than a year removed from surgery.
"This is more of a long-term effort," Cashman said.
Aardsma signed a one-year deal for $500,000 with a club option for next year, though incentives tied to how much he can pitch this year.
Cashman compared the move to the Yankees' signing of Jon Lieber — hoping to find another low-risk, high-reward arm. The Yankees moved lefty Pedro Feliciano to the 60-day disabled list to make room for Aardsma, who has also been moved to the DL. He is expected to report on Monday to Tampa, where he will continue his rehab.
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10 Great Stocking Stuffers for under $10Nichole
Santa (then my mother) always put a great deal of effort into choosing the perfect items for my Christmas stocking.
I always thought that all that effort was simply to delight me.
But now that I'm a parent, I know the real purpose behind Christmas stockings…they buy you a few minutes to wake up and have your first cup of coffee!
When my daughter was born, I realized just how much stuff it took to fill a stocking. I've learned over the years that you need the perfect blend of items to make a stocking a success, including…
- bigger items (for filler)
- an activity that they'll want to check out right away (this buys you coffee time)
- something they never even knew existed (more coffee time!)
Filling up a stocking can get costly, so I've gathered up some suggestions that are all $10 or less.
Here are my top stocking stuffer picks…
image-23 1 of 10This sun art paper looks like so much fun. Your child places chosen items on the paper, places it in the sun, and waits for the magic to happen. I love the way it incorporates both science and art. This might even make it into adult stockings at our house.
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image-18 3 of 10This fingerprint art set is sure to entertain your kids for hours. I'm a huge fan of kits like this that close up completely, keeping all small parts contained.
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image-20 5 of 10This pinky ball is a classic. I played with them when I was a child and now my kids look forward to getting these in their stocking each year.
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image-22 7 of 10Priced at $1.49 for a set of six, these felt tip pens/stamps are a perfect addition to your child's art stash.
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This combination bar pulling unit incorporates a cutoff tool so it occupies only one lathe turret station and eliminates an index from tool to puller.
There are multiple ways to automate a CNC lathe. If your goal is to gain lengthy stretches of unattended operation, then a bar feeder is hard to beat. Conversely, a bar puller is a cost-effective alternative for automated turning of small or medium batch sizes. That's because a puller can free up sufficient time between bar changes to enable a single operator to tend multiple machines, measure critical part features or perform value-adding secondary operations. The resulting labor cost savings can quickly pay for the puller, as explained in this past article.
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The Downcast's 2011 techno album of the year
SebastiAn: Total
Trashy, cheap and shining with lazy arrogance, SebastiAn's schizophrenic Total is a fucking blast. Listen as French DJ Sebastian Akchote shifts recklessly from stomping glitchcore and heavy house to warped disco and thump-swinging R+B. Across the album's 19 tracks, it's hard to find a common thread or prevailing influence, and it's even harder not to get bored. This is post-Justice dance-music for the post-MTV generation with a postage stamp on your forehead and a T-shirt that says "delivered to wrong address." Listen to "Jack Wire".
More of the year's best Electronica albums and EPs…
|Siriusmo: Mosaik
Berlin DJ Siriusmo weaves a playful, beautifully cluttered mosaic of dance textures on Mosaik (which, correct us if we're wrong, is his first album following years of remixes and singles). There are moments that remind us of Daft Punk, Justice, Boyz Noise and the like. But you won't be bored. Siriusmo switches quickly from one hip-shaking pulse to the next and never settles on a clear pattern with his sampling techniques. Freak out to "Sirimande".
|Andy Stott: We Stay Together
UK beat deconstructionist Andy Stott creates a hollow, pulsing purgatory on his latest, We Stay Together. It's a curious place where smoldering cinders and digital snowflakes fall from the twilit sky and dancehall witches slither through the charred remains of a post-modern city where techno was their last hope and music was their first religion. Creep out to "Posers".
|Holy Other: With U
We know there are more than two songs on this EP. There are five, actually. But it's hard to remember what the other three sound like when the hollow, spectral pulse of "Yr Love" and the devastating, shadowy beauty of "Know Where" are on endless repeat. Now that we're thinking about it, we vaguely recall the rest of the EP drifting like spirits through a cavernous hall, staring slowly at the distant light and smiling as if neither scared or happy with whatever it is they're supposed to be doing.
|Muta: Runner
We're pretty sure Muta descends from a race of underwater robots obsessed with creating music based on heavily corrupted acid house, trip hop and dubstep data files. You can hear it in the glitchy delivery of pixelated melodies, the fractured strut of the LP's beats and the smooth, submarine quality that infects all levels of Runner's sonic architecture. Dig "Sleepshop".
|Salva: Complex Housing
Salva finds a glitchy, neon-soaked techno-pop groove on his debut, Complex Housing. Although the producer hails from the Bay Area, his sound will remind beat junkies of LA's Low End Theory scene at its most accessible. Throughout Complex Housing, Salva laces slightly off-center beats with tangy keyboard washes and spacey melodies to create a cozy, futuristic underworld. Check out LP standout "Wake Ups" [via Pitchfork]
|Gesaffelstein: Conspiracy Pt. 1 and 2
Metallic, scorched-earth beats come swarming at you courtesy of French producer Gesaffelstein on Conspiracy Pt. 1 and 2. The second installment is certainly the strongest of the two, with the menacing one-two assault of "Viol" and "Opr". Tune in as each EP wanders from bleached, robotic disco and pulsing, deep-space ambiance to angular storms of pixelated, black raindrops.
|The Juan Maclean: Everybody Get Close
Pulsing, skinny-jean bass thumps are layered with neon synths, glam keys and lightly affected vocals over the boogie of squishy, low-slung bass lines and double-timed, digitized high-hats on The Juan Maclean's 2011 compilation, Everybody Get Close. It's jaded, high-voltage disco cut with the occasional, washed-out 4AM burner and a couple of trance-inducing glitch-shifters for good measure. Well, enough about you, "Let's Talk About Me".
More of 2011's best albums…
Best rock
Best mixtape
Best alternative music
Best metal
Best rap
Top-25 albums of 2011 (coming soon)


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They say there are no coincidencies in this world and it certainly proved true, when I googled Maira one day. One of the search results offered an option: Maera. In Greek mythology, Maera was the hound of Icarus, father of Erigone.
According to the myth:
"Icarus was a follower of wine god Dionysus and had been taught how to make wine. While travelling, Icarus met some drunken shepherds, who killed him. After getting sober next day the shepherds understood what they had done and buried Icarus' body. Erigone was worried about her father, and set off with her dog Maera to find him. Maera at last discovered his grave, and both became so overwhelmed with grief that Erigone hanged herself and Maera leapt off a cliff. According to the Greek poet Nonnos, Maera declined to leave the grave and was starved to death. Upon hearing the news, Dionysus placed them in the sky as the constellations of Virgo (Erigone), Boëtes (Icarus) and the dog star, Sirius (Maera)."
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I am trying to find out who is Emil's father. He was born in Bergo and died there and is buried with his wife Adina( one of the gravestones you found). I have a ship record that has Emil traveling in 1909 with 2 other Starks and all were around 19-24 years old( brothers? cousins?). Anyway, on the ship record, it lists what appears to be Anna Berta, but I think it is really Anna "Beata" Mattsdotter Stark which is also one of the gravestones you have on the Find a Grave site. How could I find the marriage info on Anna Beata Mattsdotter Stark and see who their children were? Do you have anything linking Anna Beata Mattsdotter Stark with her son Emil and mentioning a husband ofb Anna Beata Mattsdottter Stark ? Maybe even a gravestone ? Any suggestions?
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Kiitos! Täytyy tunnustaa, että olin ihan unohtanut, että digitaaliarkistossa on Hgin ruotsalais-suomalaisen seurakunnan kirkonkirjoja! Se mitä todella odotan on, että nettiin tulee Hgin rippikirjat vuodesta 1881 eteenpäin. Olen selvitellyt aika paljon Lagus-sukua ja laitan sinulle niitä tietoja lisää lähiaikoina.
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RE: llomantsi Ev-Lut Cemetery
Thanks Maira for making the Ilomantsi Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery. I added several more there. The are related to Onni. Jim
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Onni Henrik Määttänen, Memorial# 159643611
Hello Maira, maybe you can help me again. I made Memorial# 159643611 for Onni Henrik Määttänen, Awarded the Knight of Mannerheim Cross number 119 on August 1, 1943.
From what I found on line, his Place of Burial is Ilomantsin ev.lut.hautausmaa [Ilomantsin Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery]
I can not find it listed on Find-A-Grave, so can you help me? Thanks again - Jim
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Find A Grave Correction: Eino Juutilainen
Hello Maira - Thanks for all the information, including his cemetery, which is now added. I just happened to come across one of the KoMC honorees while looking for other MIA/KIA WW II soldiers from my country. I saw some of the Fins didn't have memorial pages yet and have added a few. Glad to help - Jim.
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Knight of Mannerheim Cross awardee Eino Ilmari Juutilainen
Hello Maria - Thanks for all you do for Find-A-Grave and for honoring some of the Knight of Mannerheim Cross awardees. I just added a memorial page for
Air Force Fighter pilot Ace and two time Knight of Mannerheim Cross awardee Eino Ilmari Juutilainen
but I don't know where he is buried.
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Aarne is buried at Malmi Cemetery
and I was wondering if they are buried in the same cemetery. Can you help me? Thanks in advance for your help, Jim-S.[46879912]
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Hi Maria,
In my search, I found someone has placed some incorrect information in our genealogy records, there a Cornelius Zitting that is showing he was born in Hannover, Prussia when in fact all our family records show proof of him being born in Friesland, Germany
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March 1870 Friesland, , , Germany
6 October 1940 Forreston, , Illinois
10 May 1898 Freeport, , Illinois
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Emma DEWALL
Grace Cornelia ZITTING,
Johnny Bernard ZITTING,
Hattie Henika ZITTING
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Vonda Lynn Zitting Kunz
RE: Transfer
Well you are asking me to look at my family tree, which is HUGE!!! considering we have a polygamy background.
To answer your question yes my heritage goes back to all of the above except I cannot find someone from Prussia? Can you give me a name please so I can see if the dots connect?
Here is some of what I can tell you;
My Grand Father was Charles Fredrick Zitting (1894 - 1954)
My great grandparents his father's side, were from Sweden, Denmark and Canada.
On his mother's side were from Denmark, Finland, Canada, Netherlands and Scotland
My Grandfather Charles Fredrick Zitting alone had 10 wives –
Minnie Rossiter Affleck Parker (1898 - 1968) father is from England, his great grandfather is from Scotland, mother side has Denmark and England
Rachel Wells Zitting (1902 - 1928) grandfather was from England
Elvera C. Olson Zitting (1901 - 1993) her grandparents stems back to Germany
Edna Aleen Christensen Zitting (1899 - 1991) on her mother's side her she has grandparents from Switzerland and Germany
Bonnie Elaine Kilgrow Zitting-Hunter (1925 - 2005) on her father's side her Grand Father is from Canada, Her grandparents were born in England and Canada.
Laura Tree Zitting (1894 - 1985)* both sides were from England
Orpha Cope Zitting (1900 - 1940)* her father and all grandparents on his side were from England
Nellie Ricks Smellie Murdock (1906 - 1997)* her dad was from Scotland and her moms side of the family came from Ireland and northern Ireland
Essie Frances Stokes Stratton (1918 - 1993)* her great-grandmother came from England
Amalie Christine Henriette Abel Vomar (1871 - 1954)* were all from here
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Vonda Lynn Zitting Kunz
And any other Find a Grave memorials for Zitting/Kilgrow/related family members that you might be tending?
Thank you!
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Vonda Lynn Zitting Kunz
My name is Vonda Lynn Zitting Kunz (#48291455),
I tend the graves of the majority of my family members and was wondering if you would please transfer Aleks Kustaa Zitting Find a Grave memorial to me.
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Dear Todd,
I have encountered people from other departments who are promoting the Provost's 'Power' application as the authoritative source for information on UTMB employees (not just those under the Provost). Some are planning to use feeds from Power instead of PeopleSoft for their own applications.
Has there been any discussion at the executive leadership level about this? It seems to me that we are heading towards an institutional train wreck.
Not an AIS employee
Thank you for the question. Both Bill Fuqua, Director of IS Administrative Information Systems, and Jimmy Clark, Executive Director for Business and Academic Systems in the Provost's Office, agree that POWER is not and should not be used as the authoritative source for information on UTMB employees by other applications. The only data from the PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM) system that is being fed to POWER is faculty data. Non-faculty HCM data is not being sent to POWER. PeopleSoft HCM is the authoritative source for information about UTMB employees and all uses of this information must be approved by the data owner (which in the case of HCM is Human Resources). I would be most appreciative if the person who submitted this anonymously would reach out to me directly via another anonymous submission and let me know who specifically may be planning to use feeds from POWER for something other than their intended use. I would be happy to personally investigate further, make sure the data use is appropriate, and set clear expectations. If an executive leadership discussion is required to ensure we avoid the train wreck, I will also be glad to take the issue forward. Todd


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It has planned a party featuring live music by a local Latin jazz band, gift card giveaways, free food samplings, and cooking demonstrations today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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To the Editor:
The first paragraph of an Associated Press article about U.S. House passage of the climate-change bill "Climate bill 1st step in change" (June 26), says:
"Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead."
Absolutely! And it has taken this revolutionary step with the flimsiest basis imaginable.
It goes back to Al Gore and others slickly promoting that mankind's activities which emit carbon dioxide will overheat the globe with disastrous results -- therefore, use of fossil fuels must be severely curtailed.
Such results are conjecture and remain to be proven. Yes, carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has been rising. Less certain is that global temperatures have been rising in a pattern. Many believe that a cause/effect relationship has not been established. To misquote a famous statement: "Seldom have so many been misled by so few."
Our president promised to embrace science in the deliberations of his administration, but he seems to have forgotten a prime policy of scientists: Be skeptical of unsupported hypotheses.
We can only hope that the U.S. Senate will vote to stop this unwise revolution by voting against anything approaching the House-passed Waxman-Markey proposal.
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List of Articles in Economic and Political Weekly, VOL 46 No. 26 & 27, June 25 – July 18, 2011
From 50 Years Ago ( 25 June 2011)
Silence on Killings in Bihar
The New IIP
Subversion of an Institution
Fasts, Hunger and Hunger Strikes
Anand Teltumbde
Paan or POSCO?
Banikanta Mishra , birendra Kumar Nayak
Universal Access to Healthcare: Threats and Opportunities
Anil Gupta , and Others
Writing Histories in Conflict Zones
Idrees Kanth
Status of Rural Migrant Workers in Chinese Cities
Swapna Banerjee-Guha
The Anti-Corruption Movement and Its False Divides
Saroj Giri
Debt Swap: A Solution for Greece's Problems
Avinash Persaud
India's FTA Choices Get More Ambitious
Ranja Sengupta
Malkangiri Kidnap in Orissa: Negotiating Peace
G Haragopal
Land Acquisition Law and the Proposed Changes
Mihir Desai
Judging Marxism by Its Fruits
Kobad Ghandy
Practices in Fiscal Federalism
Sudipto Mundle
A Window to Reality
Rahul Varman
Irrigation in Telangana: The Rise and Fall of Tanks
Gautam Pingle
Farmers' Suicides in Punjab: A Census Survey of the Two Most Affected Districts
R S Sidhu , Sukhpal Singh , A S Bhullar
Reorienting Land Use Strategies for Socio-economic Development in Uttar Pradesh
Arun Chaturvedi , N G Patil , S N Goswami
Revitalising Higher Agricultural Education in India
J Challa , P K Joshi , Prabhakar Tamboli
Farm Size and Productivity: Understanding the Strengths of Smallholder and Improving Their Livelihoods
Ramesh Chand , P A Lakshmi Prasanna , Aruna Singh
Spread and Economics of Micro-irrigation in India: Evidence from Nine States
K Palanisami , Kadiri Mohan , K R Kakumanu , S Raman
Water Harvesting Traditions and the Social Milieu in India: A Second Look
Shri Krishan
National Water Policy: An Alternative Draft for Consideration
Ramaswamy R Iyer
Pakistan's Army: Divided It Stands
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Rural Structural Transformation: The Case of the Services Sector in India
Jeemol Unni , Ravikiran Naik
Economic Growth and Employment
Prabhat Patnaik
On the Beach in the Andaman Islands: Post-mortem of a Failed Colony
Satadru Sen
Assessing the Mumbai Metropolitan Region: A Governance Perspective
Abhay Pethe , Sahil Gandhi , Vaidehi Tandel
The Dialectics of Globalisation in Arunachal Pradesh
Prasanta Kumar Nayak
Identifying BPL Households: A Comparison of Competing Approaches
M R Sharan
Reflections on 'Normalisation' of Imperialism
Sneh Mahajan
Deoband Patriarchy
Suneetha Achyutha
Macroeconomic Indicators (25 June 2011)
EPW Research Foundation
Trends in Index of Industrial Production
Biased Article on Sri Lanka
Consul General
Underestimate of Tamil Nadu Budget for Drugs
JMA Bruno Mascrenhas
A Reply
S Srinivasan
On Gandhi
Malabika Pande
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Circa Mid-1920s Pittsburgh Crawfords Photo Album
Starting Bid - $500, Sold For - $705
Extraordinary photo album, compiled during the 1920s, featuring numerous original photographs of members of the Crawford Recreation Center baseball team, the youth team that was the forerunner of the legendary Pittsburgh Crawfords Negro League club that was formally founded in 1931. This fascinating photographic archive is a time capsule of great historical significance to Negro League baseball in Pittsburgh in the 1920s, an era from which little survives. A total of seventy small black-and-white photos are beautifully housed in the leather-bound album, most of which depict family members in various activities. Of special importance to historians and collectors, however, are the fifteen baseball-related photos included here, all of which picture members of Pittsburgh's Crawford Recreation Center posing on a local sandlot. Thirteen of the photos capture an individual member of the club (some players are represented more than once), while another depicts thirteen players together (many of whom are also pictured individually in the other photos) in a classic team pose. The remaining photo pictures a catcher and umpire. The majority of the baseball photos (9) are set against the backdrop of the grandstand, which, surprisingly, is filled with mostly white spectators. The history of black baseball in America is woefully incomplete due to a lack of both written and photographic records. For that reason, photographs such as these are especially important to historians, providing a rare window into a lost time and world. Although the names of the players will probably never be known, the images seen here offer rare insight into the nature of inner-city black baseball during the 1920s. In that respect, these photos are remarkable in what they show. The sandlot they are on was exactly that. Not a blade of grass can be seen and many of the rocks and other debris strewn on the "field," such as pieces of wood, would frighten even the most resolute fielder today. Also interesting are the two players who are pictured, in a variety of actions, dressed in street clothes. Although the uniforms and fenced-in playing "field" indicate some degree of organization, little else is known about the Crawford Recreation Center team other than the fact that the club soon gave rise to the Pittsburgh Crawfords in the 1930s, one of the greatest teams in Negro League history.
This amazing album was purchased by our consignor a little over two years ago on Ebay, at which time he, the seller, and most of the other bidders, thought that the baseball players featured here were probably members of the legendary 1930s Pittsburgh Crawfords of the Negro National League. After receiving the book and conducting extensive research, it has been determined that the players pictured in this album were not members of the 1930s Pittsburgh Crawfords; however, the team and city are correct. Only the dating was wrong. It was earlier. While the appearance of Josh Gibson (who was with the team later and is not in these photos) would no doubt add many thousands of dollars in value to collectors, to many historians the greater rarity of the earlier dating of these photos give them an even greater historical significance. This is the youth team from the 1920s that was the genesis of Gus Greenlee's powerful Pittsburgh Crawford club in 1931. As one can easily see, most of the uniforms clearly read "Crawford" across the chest and bear the initials "RC" on the left sleeve. The sleeve initials, which stand for "Recreation Center," are the most important identifier on the jerseys. The same uniform style, with Crawfords across the chest and "RC" on the sleeve, can be found in an undated photo of the Crawford Recreation Center baseball team of Pittsburgh that is part of the permanent collection of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. There is no question that the photos in the offered album definitively originate from Pittsburgh, as opposed to another town named Crawford in some other state. Pittsburgh Crawford owner Gus Greenlee formed his new professional Negro League club in 1931, at which time most of the players came directly from the roster of the Recreation Center team. In conducting research on this album, neither we nor the consignor were successful in identifying any of the players pictured (our consignor even consulted the Negro League Museum for assistance) but it is possible that some of these players may have eventually went on to play with the Crawfords of the Negro Leagues. Josh Gibson, one of the greatest players in Negro Leagues history and star of the Crawfords during the 1930s, was a member of the Crawford Recreation team during the late 1920s and some of these players may have been his teammates at one point.
Nine of the baseball photos measure 2.75 x 4.75 inches, while the other six measure 2.5 x 3.5 inches. All display outstanding clarity and contrast. Eleven of the baseball photos are mounted to the album page by means of photo corners and are easily removed. The remaining four photos have been glued to the pages and would probably require professional service for safe removal. The photos are in Excellent condition overall, with five displaying a few light creases. The album (11.5 x 7.5 inches) is in Very Good condition overall, with most of the pages having been separated from the spine. Reserve $500. Estimate (open). SOLD FOR $705
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