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UTSA, community pay homage to 'Don Quixote' author
(April 26, 2005)--The UTSA and San Antonio communities are invited to a full day of multi-lingual reading of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's masterpiece, "Don Quixote," from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday, April 29 in Frio Street Building Room 2.534 at the UTSA Downtown Campus.
On the anniversary of his death, the event pays homage to one of the greatest writers of his time. The reading is sponsored by the UTSA Department of Modern Languages and Literatures with support from the Spanish Consulate in Houston.
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The event commemorates the death of Cervantes Saavedra (April 23, 1616) with the reading of his 400-year-old novel.
A piano concert of Spanish music by Felipe Ramirez and a dramatized reading of a brief play written by Cervantes Saavedra will follow the book reading from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Buena Vista Street Building Room 1.326. Refreshments will be served before the concert.
The reading is free and open to all with everyone invited to read an excerpt from the novel in the language of their preference.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Sept. 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616) was a Spanish author best known for the novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha." He was wounded while fighting in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and lost the use of his left hand, earning the nickname "el manco de Lapanto" (the one-handed man of Lepanto).
He and his brother, Rodrigo, were captured by Barbary pirates in 1575 and turned into slaves until his ransom was paid in 1580. Cervantes began writing "Don Quixote" in 1597 while in prison in Seville for debt.
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This isn't rocket science. Giants and Cruz are obviously pretty far apart numbers wise considering they agreed to the structure of the deal a long time ago.
Reese has the upper hand in negotiations being that he can tender Cruz. But the giants would want a long term deal so won't really low ball him. They would give him a "fair" deal. Like the ones Pitt gave to Brown. Ironically, Pitt offered that same contract initially to Wallace, but Wallace turned it down because he felt he was worth more, so Pitt gave him the tag, had him play under that for the year. Then will probably let him walk.
The precedent is in place. Giants will negotiate some, but do not over pay for guys off a fair market value.
I'm assuming that the lion's share of the focus is on Beatty right now. I doubt Reese wants to go back to the offensive line struggles of 2011 where everyone and their grandmother had their way with Diehl. Beatty should be easier to get on a more team friendly deal this year with the OT FA class compared to Cruz being the top guy for this year's WRs.


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Tapper to Gibbs: Can you clarify Biden's moronic comment about subways?
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Funny but mean in that it's a question designed simply to make Gibbs squirm. No one can "clarify" what Greasy Joe said because what he said was perfectly clear: He's freaked out about swine flu — needlessly — and doesn't have the good sense as a politician to keep that fact to himself so as not to worry the public. This makes twice now in four days that Team Barry has panicked New York City while providing rich fodder for gallows humor. What do they have planned for the weekend? Obama idly wondering aloud whether skyscrapers built before the 1980s might be structurally unsound?
Tom Maguire said all that needs to be said about this: "They told me that if I voted for McCain we'd have a Vice President who was a moron … and they were right!"
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Having seen all of these ladies live - Kanako twice (lucky me) I just don't see why the "next one" is Gao.
And speaking of Angela - Maxwell over Gao everytime! Too bad Angela is injured. Hope she's better for JR World's!
Having seen all of these ladies live - Kanako twice (lucky me) I just don't see why the "next one" is Gao.
And speaking of Angela - Maxwell over Gao everytime! Too bad Angela is injured. Hope she's better for JR World's!
First of all, I don't think any US lady will surpass Abbott in popularity going into the Olys. It just isn't a Lady's Year. Having said that,back to the US Nats:
Sasha and Rachael seem to be the top Faves for Nats' results, and will go quietly unto the Olys. But the bronze medalist, which is up for grabs,will also go to Worlds since I don't think Sasha will stretch her return that far.
We will be speaking of this later on another topic thread, but we need 13 points at Worlds to have 3 Ladies next season. I'm not sure the Selection Committe is aware of that from recent events.
Kanako is good, but I really don't see all this hype about Polina, she's kinda boring. The other thing is Kanako always gets edge calls for her lutz and her 3t-3t is often UR. It really just depends on how they all do there, Mirai won senior US nationals in 2008 then went on to Jr. Worlds and struggled a bit to finish 3rd. At this point I think Gao, Murakami, and Shelepen are all about even.
I agree that Angela is better though, it's just that after last year when she got 8th place when she should have been in the top 5 I kind of just accepted that the USFSA would keep her down in the scores. I didn't know she was injured though, that's too bad
To help jump-start some last-second discussion of ladies before the SP on Thursday, Sylvia (Thanks FSO) has been tweeting practice info from today's session:
[Ashley] Wagner's FS run thru: 3F-2T-2T, 3Lo, spirals into 2A, 3S, 3Lo-2A seq, 3F-2A(ur?), 3Lz off-balance.[Caroline] Zhang also landed 3F-3T, 3Lo-2T-'tano 2Lo, 3Lo, and several 3S. Only saw 1 fall and 1 step out -- both on 3F.Czisny did a FS run thru, landing 3Lz-2T, 3F, 3Lo, 2A, 3Lz, 3T-turns-2T, 3T fall. Afterwards she landed 2A-2A seq., 3Lz-2T, 3Lo & 3T, etc.[Mirai] Nagasu ran thru her SP: 3Lz-2T, 3F, 2A. Some of her Lutz & flip landings looked iffy but some had good flow out as well.1st official practice for Sr ladies at Eagles rink has started. Sasha's SP music was just played.--she's not here.
As we know, practice means nada when it comes to competition, but it does give an idea of how far the skaters have progressed since the fall. Everyone seems to be in good shape based on those tweets.
Mr Nicks said Sasha would first practice in Spokane at Wednesday's training sessions.
So no, she did not get off the plane and rush to practice last night.
Her first practice in Spokane is supposed to be today.
Don't be so nervous kandidy - Sasha will practice today and skate tomorrow.
I saw the practice yesterday (on tv), and these were my observations-
Flatt looked the slowest and most labored.
Mirai skated the fastest and looked the most polished. Did someone sprinkle fairy dust on that girl's skates? (But she stole Sahsa's signature, end of the program spin. tsk tsk)
Wagner had an expression of pure determination on her face when she finished her run-through. It would have made me cower.
Alissa looked very relaxed and confident.
That's my biased but completely honest opinion, just for a different, non-technical POV.
Oh, and I think its going to be a fierce competition.
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Warning: nothing of technical interest in this entry. I'm taking the "diary" nomenclature seriously this time.
So the same night Evan Lenz tells me his brother broke his arm snowboarding, and a couple of days after Lori's friend Heather was telling her about a pressure cast she'd got for a broken ankle, Osi decided to do an apocryphal Lionel Johnson down the stairs. One trip to the urgent care and a pressure cast for a hairline break later he seems to be doing quite well. It is distressing as a parent to reflect that I've never broken any bones in 30 years and under my watch the nipper did the trick before he was three. Oh yeah, jinx factor number 3: the date was the 13th, though not Friday.
Also, the car manufacturer decided, after four long months, to finally send back the CDs from a cartridge that had got stuck in the player. Nice to have Indigo Girls Become You again ("It took a... long time toooo..."). And Musiq's Juslissen, and Ska down her way. And, of course, Thomas the Tank Engine's Roundhouse Rhythms.
Random thought: most of the world likes to play chess. A handful prefer to clear the entire board at whim with a sweep of the hand and call inexplicable "check". These have always included Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Cuba, Afghanistan, and most sub-Saharan African countries. Seems the US has joined these ranks for some reason, and if we aren't having the rarest bit of fun with Iraq and Korea.
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21 Whataburger Finalists Contending in National WhataGames Competition Also Competing for $5,000 Non-Profit Donation
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The 21 finalist teams advanced from a pool of 100 semifinalists, who beat out their competitors among Whataburger's more than 740 restaurants in 10 states. Semifinalists had to prove their skills through a series of elimination rounds to earn one of these 21 coveted spots at the WhataGames Finals in Dallas in April 2013. The finalists will compete in three days of high-intensity competition for the Gold Medal and the esteemed title of WhataGames 2013 Champion, as well as $165,000 in cash prizes. Silver and bronze medals are also awarded.
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Unit 537, 1460 North Dysart Road, Avondale New Life Center
Unit 72, 1101 Thomasville Road, Tallahassee Tallahassee American Cancer Society
Unit 861, 3851 Bienville Blvd, Ocean Springs Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Unit 79, 5315 N May Ave, Oklahoma City C.A.R.E. Center
Unit 659, 7530 FM 1960 East, Atascocita Humble ISD Education Foundation
Unit 1024, 15255 Montfort, Dallas Boys and Girls Club of Greater Dallas
Unit 655, 4640 Woodrow Bean Drive, El Paso Child Crisis Center of El Paso
Unit 982, 18609 Limestone Commercial Dr., Pflugerville Pflugerville ISD Education Foundation
Unit 602, 10112 FM 2, Laredo Volunteers Serving The Need
Unit 669, 7110 McPherson Rd., Laredo Sacred Heart Children's Home
Unit 702, 202 W. Del Mar Blvd., Laredo Laredo Animal Protective Society
Unit 289, 2503 East Hubbard Street, Mineral Wells Mineral Wells Backpack for Kids Program
Unit 318,143 S Interstate 35, New Braunfels Alamo Area Parkinson's Support Group
Unit 729, 6225 Precinct Line Rd., North Richland Hills Boy Scouts of America TrailBlazer District
Unit 328, 1629 West Highway 100, Port Isabel Port Isabel High School
Unit 147, 3202 Sherwood Way, San Angelo McGill Elementary
Unit 790, 5760 W. Loop 1604 N., San Antonio Battered Women's Shelter of Summit & Medina Counties\
Unit 797,17480 W. Grand Pkwy. South, Sugar Land Lamar Educational Awards Foundation
Unit 40, 2411 Palmer Highway, Texas City Advocacy Center for Children of Galveston County
Unit 175, 4302 N. Navarro, Victoria American Cancer Society
Unit 391, 604 N. Hwy 77, Waxahachie Waxahachie CARE
Whataburger has focused on its fresh, made-to-order burgers and friendly customer service since 1950 when Harmon Dobson opened the first Whataburger as a small roadside burger stand in Corpus Christi, Texas. Dobson gave his restaurant a name he hoped to hear customers say every time they took a bite of his made-to-order burgers: "What a burger!" Within the first week, people lined up around the block for his 25 cent, all-American beef burgers served on five-inch buns. Today, the company is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with more than 740 locations in 10 states with sales of more than $1 billion annually. Visit www.whataburger.com for more information on the company or become a fan on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/whataburger.
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As part of her month-long birthday celebration, Epicure's Jacqui Love Marshall will eat her way though various birthday lunches. [Web Link This week], she visited Cafe Esin where crowds are large and the pie is even larger.
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Like this commentPosted by Danville 411
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Cafe Esin has not been in San Ramon for years. It moved to Danville and was renamed Esin Restaurant & Bar. So how savory is San Ramon? Why do you have an article about San Ramon on DANVILLE Express?
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Be sure to check out the Hawaiian BBQ near Orchard Supply Hardward. It's amazing!


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Spring Breakers
Movie Review
"I'm so tired of seeing the same things every day," Faith, a college girl tells her friends. "I'm tired of driving past the same depressing houses every day."
The cure for her ennui? The cure for those same feelings her friends, Brit, Candy and Cotty, are having? Spring break, of course. In St. Petersburg, Fla., of course. It's a goal they've been saving up for all year. But when the time finally arrives to go, they still don't have enough money.
No worries, one girl suggests. We'll just rob a restaurant and make it happen. And so they do. (But it's important to note that Faith doesn't learn about the heist until after the fact.)
A bus ride later, and the four young women land in a kind of secular promised land, one where the keg's never empty and the party never stops. Until, that is, a drug-filled bacchanal lands the girls in jail. They seem destined to pout through a two-day stint in the clink until they're bailed out by a rapping drug dealer named Alien. He was in court to buy back two of his lackeys, and they suggested he may as well give the girls a get-out-of-jail-free card too.
But it's hardly free.
Soon, Alien's seducing them into a world that's even seedier than the seedy places they've already been, an underworld of drugs and violence. Faith's unwilling to go any further, but the other three practically leap at the chance to become Alien's unlikely bikini-wearing henchmen in a turf war against a rival named Archie.
It's a wilder ride than any they've ever had before. And it soon becomes clear that the wilder the ride, the more jarring the journey. And the more deadly the end.
Positive Elements
What do we do with reality when we don't like it? Spring Breakers, in a brash, bawdy way, addresses that question.
Faith complains to her friends about how much she loathes her mundane life. In contrast, spring break represents a paradise of newness and pleasure for her. In a phone conversation with her grandmother, Faith gushes that it's "so nice to get a break from reality." But after getting arrested, Faith begins to lose faith in spring break's "salvific" promise. She tells her friends, "This is not fun. This not what it's supposed to be. I'm very uncomfortable. This is not what I signed up for."
After Cotty gets shot in the arm, she also has a similar reality check.
We're then left with the two really wild child characters, Candy and Brit, who are sliding as fast as they can down the Alien rabbit hole. They pay lip service to telling their parents that they're looking forward to coming home and trying to do better in their lives. But they've bought the fantasy Alien is selling, and they've checked into a hotel they can never leave.
There's a lesson in that, and Spring Breakers does teach it. (Again, in a twisted, horribly sordid way. Read on.)
Spiritual Content
Faith, who wears a cross, attends a college group at a local church. A pastor says, "I can feel the presence of Almighty God in this room" and asks, "Are you jacked up on Jesus? I'm feeling the Almighty Jesus in this room." The group sits in a circle, praising God and clapping. Everyone, that is, except Faith, who's not clapping and looks unhappy. The pastor quotes 1 Corinthians 10:13, saying, "But when you are tempted, you will also be given a way out." He says that every temptation can be endured because God faithfully provides a way to resist.
Faith later tells two other women that she's headed to Florida with Brit, Candy and Cotty. One woman labels her friends "demon blood" and "evil," and exhorts Faith to pray.
This sets Faith up for a mighty struggle with her dissatisfaction in her Christian walk. She longs to be fulfilled. And she starts searching in all the wrong soirees. She says of the rules-free world she encounters in St. Petersburg, "I'm starting to think that this is the most spiritual place I've ever been." In a conversation with her grandmother, she describes it as "beautiful," "magical" and "perfect."
Though Faith parties with her friends at first, she becomes increasingly uneasy after the girls get sucked into Alien's ominous orbit. Before she leaves, he asks Faith if she has faith in God and if she prays for her friends. She says that she does.
Sexual Content
Perhaps 30 seconds—if that—into the movie, we see a montage of topless women on the beach. Five of them recline on the sand as men pour beer down funnels into the girls' mouths, spilling it onto their breasts. It's the first of many such scenes. Indeed, the movie rarely goes more than a few minutes without intercutting shots of smiling, laughing, drinking and nearly naked coeds.
We see guys in jock straps once. But it's the topless women the camera refuses to leave alone. Sometimes they're making out. Sometimes they're submitting to having alcohol or cocaine licked or snorted off their torsos and breasts. Sometimes they're rubbing their chests against other women's. And such scenes are often presented in lingering, slow-motion.
A lengthy sequence in a strip club features more topless women dancing and milling about backstage, surrounded by ogling men. While she's showering we see one girl's backside and breasts. And even when women aren't nude, they're rarely wearing much more than tiny string bikinis.
There are two explicit sex scenes, each involving two women and a man. Candy and Brit succumb to Alien's seduction and have a threesome in a swimming pool. Shots above and below the waterline reveal that they're all naked. Unambiguous sexual movements and sounds are seen and heard. Even more graphic is a scene with Archie and two women. Sex is shown, as is a sequence in which the two women make out with each other as Archie watches.
Many other explicit verbal and visual references are made to sex acts and sexual anatomy. A man is made to perform "oral sex" on a gun barrel as girls talk about pulling the trigger.
Violent Content
To "finance" their trip, Candy, Cotty and Brit rob patrons in a local diner, then burn the getaway car they've stolen from a professor. They violently break bottles, hold people at gunpoint (with squirt guns) and repeatedly threaten to kill them. Later, they act out the event for a horrified Faith, bragging about how much fun it was.
Once Candy, Cotty and Brit fall under Alien's thrall, they wear skimpy bikinis and pink ski masks as they rob a group of college guys in a hotel room, one of whom gets nastily smacked in the mouth by Alien, to bloody effect. They also hit a wedding and rob its attendees.
Alien's new all-girl posse infuriates Archie, who says Alien is infringing on his turf. He shoots a burst of bullets from a submachine gun at Alien's car, hitting Cotty in the arm. We see Alien dig the bullet out.
Alien then decides to attack Archie on his home turf, with Candy and Brit toting machine guns. Alien is quickly dispatched by a bullet to the head, but Candy and Brit go on a rampage anyway, shooting and killing about a dozen of Archie's goons and eventually executing him in his bed (while two naked women in the shower cower).
Crude or Profane Language
More than 100 f-words (30 or so of which are paired with "mother"). About 25 s-words. We hear multiple uses of "p‑‑‑y," "t-ts" and "d‑‑k." "B‑‑ch" is trotted out repeatedly, as is the n-word. Milder exclamatories include "h‑‑‑," "a‑‑" and "p‑‑‑." God's name is combined with "d‑‑n" a half-dozen times.
Drug and Alcohol Content
Alcohol of all kinds is omnipresent. Party scenes repeatedly show people consuming beer through bongs and hoses. And we see young adults getting drunk pretty much everywhere, on the beach, at hotels, in parking lots, outside stores. For the most part, drunkenness "merely" has an intensifying, almost manic, effect on the women giving themselves over to carnal excess. At one point, though, we do glimpse someone passed out next to a toilet.
Nearly everyone smokes cigarettes and marijuana, smoking the latter from bongs. Candy and Brit blow the drug-derived smoke suggestively into each other's mouths. They coax Faith into smoking marijuana through a bong, apparently for the first time. She enjoys it.
Cocaine turns up repeatedly as well, again with Candy and Brit leading the charge. We see it repeatedly chopped and snorted—sometimes, as mentioned, off of women's naked bodies. We see Alien's extensive drug-dealing operation, and huge mounds of cannabis in Archie's home.
Other Negative Elements
Each young woman calls home and lies to either parents or grandparents about what's going on. Alien brags that he never wanted to be good; that he always wanted to be bad. After laying waste to Archie's compound, Brit and Candy steal his Lamborghini and drive off into the sunset.
For months leading up to the release of Spring Breakers, news and entertainment outlets fixated on Disney "good girls" Selena Gomez ( Wizards of Waverly Place ) and Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) plunging into the world of debauchery director Harmony Korine depicts in his latest film. Slate movie critic Dana Stevens summarized the response, writing, "There seem to be two critical perspectives on Spring Breakers. Is the veteran provocateur Harmony Korine's most mainstream movie yet—the story of four college girls who go a little too wild on a party trip to Florida—a dead-on formalist send-up of our of culture's sick obsession with guns, drugs, and the sexual exploitation of young women? Or is it a stultifyingly dull piece of exploitative garbage? This false binary misapprehends the central Harmony Korine stratagem, which is to ensure that the viewer can have it both ways."
In other words, is it the most immoral morality tale ever? Or is it just plain immoral, debasing and manipulating young actresses even as it supposedly makes a statement about exploitation?
I'm going to land a lot harder on the latter interpretation. Sure, a critical, self-aware adult trying to mine sociological meaning out of Korine's film could conclude that he's painted a devastating portrait of our culture's intoxication with sex, consumption and excess, largely at the expense of women.
But Spring Breakers itself objectifies women in just about the most outrageous way I've ever seen, with rarely a few minutes passing between topless scenes. And when the film's four young stars aren't naked, they're nearly so, wearing the tiniest of bikinis—so incessantly that trying to find images to publish along with this review was nearly impossible.
"I'd been collecting spring break imagery for a couple of years from fraternity and coed pornography [websites]," says Korine. "There were all these hypersexualized, hyperviolent subjects. But then there's all these interesting, childlike details, like nail polish and bags, stuff like that. So I just imagined girls on a beach in bikinis robbing fat tourists. I thought that was funny, and from there I started building that image and dreaming this story."
Mingling that inspiration and its resulting "wardrobe" with the degrading sexual activities shown and an increasingly violent storyline only confounds any intended message here even further.
For fans curious about Selena and Vanessa's "grown up" metamorphosis, then, it's a toxic, virulent stew of nonstop carnality, an assault of fleshy, violent images that are more than just disorienting and confusing, they're dangerously suggestive to their impressionable young souls.
To old souls too, for that matter.
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Selena Gomez as Faith; Vanessa Hudgens as Candy; Ashley Benson as Brit; Rachel Korine as Cotty; James Franco as Alien; Gucci Mane as Archie
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When I saw one of the long time beekeepers in town back in October, he told me to expect 50% losses. Yikes! I only have two hives...which one will it be? I'm feeding the Warre hive, but trying to go as natural as possible on the log hive. With that in mind and some of the warnings from some very respectable beekeepers about 'going natural,' I'm happy to say both the Warre hive and the log hive have come through December intact, with the latter still the stronger hive.
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Sons of Anarchy - Season 3
This season begins with SAMCRO feeling powerless over Abel's kidnapping, especially Jax, whose grief sends him into deeper turmoil over his future with the club.
The aftermath of Abel's kidnapping has the Sons reeling - especially Jax, whose grief sends him into deeper turmoil over his future with the MC. Framed for murder, Gemma remains on the lam, and is hit with some unexpected news from her past.
To get intel on Abel's whereabouts, Jax and the club help a bounty hunter track down a skip. They also press a source for answers about the attack at Half-Sack's wake -- the MC way. Meanwhile, Gemma deals with her father's dementia.
To secure weapons and raise money for Abel's search, the club exploits its porn connections to entertain Henry Lin's clients, which doesn't sit well with Opie. Jax's decision to search for Abel in Canada gets derailed. When Gemma's dad goes MIA, her prisoner makes plans to do the same.
Jax and Clay head towards Canada after Jimmy provides misleading intel on Abel's whereabouts. The rest of the club splits off to help Happy with a pharmaceutical favor in redneck territory. Gemma tries to put old family matters to rest.
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That's hot!! We should see all of your creations on a turntable!
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Sweet as usual, Art. I like the pillarless top the most. But it's not as long as the Duesenberg Torpedo coupe
Quote:Sweet as usual, Art. I like the pillarless top the most. But it's not as long as the Duesenberg Torpedo coupe
hah hah hah. i'll concede the über lux class to you, Intrepid! my little lincoln will stay in near lux. . .duesenbergs rule!
too bad it'll never happen. would sell well
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i use a mac, and the combo is OPTION U, then u. it's a double stroke.it may be your ALT key if you use a PC.
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That's fantastic!
Another winner from Art. Perhaps the Continental Mark XI?
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Prineville resident and life-long Oregonian, Jason Carr, announced Thursday that he'll be seeking a seat on the Prineville City Council this fall.
Carr has been the economic development director for Crook County since 2007, and will soon be taking over as executive director of the Partnership to End Poverty.
Carr will emphasize jobs and the economy as a councilor, and will work to ensure the city's continued financial health. Carr successfully managed the local economic development program, which attracted Facebook and Apple to Prineville and assisted local businesses.
"I've dedicated the last five years advocating for jobs and a friendly business environment. I'm proud to say that despite the difficulties of the recession, Prineville is on the path to economic diversification," said Carr.
Carr spent 10 years as a journalist working for KTVZ-TV in Bend, and KEZI-TV in Eugene, before moving to Prineville. Carr's media and economic development experience provides him with a unique combination of skills to be an effective leader at a time when jobs are at the center of every public policy discussion.
"Prineville is a community just bursting with potential. Aside from data centers, the Prineville Airport and Freight Depot offer the ability to support future job creation," said Carr. "I believe my experience, knowledge, and relationships with key leaders in Central Oregon and across the state, will bring a unique perspective to the council."
Carr has served on the City of Prineville's Budget Committee, the Highway 126 Corridor Planning Committee, and the committee updating the city's Transportation System Plan. Carr also serves on the boards of the Prineville Hospital Foundation and the Crook County Education Council that oversees the OSU Open Campus. Carr has been married to his wife Gwen since 1998 and their two children attend Crooked River Elementary School.
Carr noted, "I love Prineville. My family enjoys living here, contributing to the community and attending church in this community. We have no plans to move, and I think a seat on the Council is a perfect way for me to ensure that my children and someday even my grandchildren have reasons to want to live here, too."


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PUEBLO, Colo. - Neighborhoods contaminated with toxic metals from an old smelter will be cleaned up.
City council members have reservations but after considering the issue for several years, they agreed Tuesday they would draft a letter with Pueblo county commissioners to send to Gov. John Hickenlooper.
"I do believe it needs to be done, but I want it to be done where everybody has the right to be protected and not just the kids in this neighborhood but the kids in the surrounding neighborhoods have the same rights," city council president Steve Nawrocki said.
More than 100 people crowded the hall at St Mary Help of Christian Church for a community meeting with local and state health officials, including the Environmental Protection Agency.
Julianne Williamson said her four-year-old daughter has blood lead levels that are slightly below reportable federal standards. She said if the city hadn't proceeded to move forward with the listing, council members would have failed the city's children.
"I can't imagine picking up and leaving, but I can imagine fearing for the rest of my life if we're gonna have a safe, healthy long life," Williamson said.
Victor Ketellapper, an engineer with the EPA, reminded neighbors the agency will only clean a home if the homeowner has given approval. "Not every property in the neighborhood needs to be cleaned up," Ketellapper said.
Joe Kocman, a longtime Eilers resident, asked if there were other ways to clean up the slag pile aside from Superfund designation.
Ketellapper estimated the cost of the cleanup would be between $7 million to $10 million, plus the cost of removing the slag pile. It's a cost the city and county cannot afford on their own.
Kiera Hatton, a member of the Sierra Club, urged elected officials to support the cleanup. "Pueblo is seen as the dumping grounds for the rest of the state," Hatton added.
Over the years, homeowners have expressed concern that listing the neighborhood would diminish property values. Others argued the stigma surrounding the area has already depreciated the value.
"We need to put more value in our kids than we do in our property value," Williamson said.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry tested adults and children in September. Several neighbors asked city council to postpone making its decision until those results were available.
"We all want to take care of the children. My concern is that we'd still like to get the finalized data from the study that's been done," said Eilers resident Judy Kochevar.
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Iran 'ready for talks' if West comments on Israel's nuclear capability
He also said the West would have to determine if it wanted friendship or a state of conflict with Iran, and that the talks would have to be guided by the international atomic watchdog's rules.
Israel is widely suspected to have nuclear weapons, but has refused to either confirm or deny their existence.
"We would like to know your logical and legal opinion," Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast live on state television.
"You may keep silent," he added. "But silence to us indicates that you are... backing the Zionist regime's atom bombs and that you are not seeking friendship."
Iran has consistently insisted Israel must join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Tehran is a signatory.
The Iran Six - the United States, Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany - are due to hold talks with Iran on November 15-18. Western powers believe the Islamic Republic's nuclear program is aimed at the production of atomic weapons. Iran dismisses the claims, saying it is designed for the peaceful generation of civilian energy.


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Sean Carroll is a senior research associate at the California Institute of Technology and a contributor to the popular physics blog Cosmic Variance. His most recent book is From Eternity to Here (Dutton, 2010); the prologue appeared earlier this month in the Wall Street Journal.
Could you tell us a bit about yourself?
I'm a theoretical cosmologist at Caltech. It's a great job to have; my professional duty is to think about where the universe came from and how it works, which very few people can say. I was one of those lucky people who figured out back in elementary school what I wanted to do for a living, and I'm lucky enough to be doing it. I live in Los Angeles with my wife, Jennifer Ouellette, who is a science writer. We own a lot of books.
What books are you currently reading (or have you just finished reading) for your work or for pleasure? Why did you choose them, and what do you think of them?
I just finished A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin (Bantam, 1996). It was recommended to me as one of the best fantasy novels of recent decades, but I didn't really get swept up in it. Before that I read David Plouffe's memoir of running Obama's 2008 campaign (The Audacity to Win, Viking, 2009), which was interesting but not revelatory. And before that I read Alistair McGrath's The Twilight of Atheism (Doubleday, 2004), a historical look at the development of atheism. It was intellectually interesting, especially as I disagree with the author's underlying point of view.
When and where do you usually read (specific location, time of day, etc.)?
Either late at night at home, or on airplanes. I do a lot of traveling, and probably at least half of my reading time comes in transit.
Who are your favorite writers (fiction, nonfiction or poetry)? Why?
For fiction, off the top of my head: Jane Austen, Thomas Pynchon, Iain Banks, Julian Barnes, Jeanette Winterson, Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw. I tend to like fun ideas, witty dialogue and active characters. But then again, I like Samuel Beckett and Albert Camus, who don't always have the most active characters.
For nonfiction I don't have favorite writers so much as favorite individual books. These include Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct (Morrow, 1994), any of Stephen Jay Gould's essay collections, and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel (Norton, 1997).
What are the three best books you've ever read? Explain.
I can't possibly pick three "best," but in the running might be Pride and Prejudice (1813), with its wonderful insights into how people think and fool themselves; Mason and Dixon (Holt, 1997), which combines Thomas Pynchon's fondness for elaborate, chaotic constructions with a warm and entertaining story; and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein (Putnam, 1966), a gripping yarn about revolution on the moon. Heinlein was my favorite author growing up.
What book has influenced you most? Explain how.
That's very hard to say, but a good choice would be George Gamow's classic One, Two, Three ... Infinity. The book was published originally in 1947, and I stumbled across it as a kid and fell in love with it. Gamow was a theoretical physicist (one of the pioneers of nuclear fission), but he had wide-ranging interests and a madcap sense of humor. In this book he covers physics, math and even biology, and he illustrates it all with his own drawings. It was certainly one of the books that got me interested in science.
Name three books you want to read but haven't gotten to yet.
Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon & Schuster, 1986); Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Viking, 2006); Carol Tavris, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) (Harcourt, 2007).
What book recommendations do you have for young readers?What science book recommendations do you have for nonscientists?Name one book in your discipline that you would recommend for scientists outside your field. Explain your choice.
I'm grouping these three questions together, because the distinctions aren't very clear. There really aren't any books I would recommend for scientists in other fields that I wouldn't also recommend for nonscientists—and there aren't many books I'd recommend for adults that I wouldn't also recommend for younger readers, if they were ambitious enough!
I still recommend Gamow's books, although they are now somewhat out of date. More recently, there are a handful of great books that really present the state of the fields I'm interested in from the perspective of people who are scientists in the trenches: The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Brian Greene (Knopf, 2004); Black Holes and Time Warps, by Kip Thorne (Norton, 1994); The Inflationary Universe, by Alan Guth (Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1997); Warped Passages, by Lisa Randall (Ecco, 2005); and The Black Hole War, by Leonard Susskind (Little, Brown, 2008). For the view of an interested nonscientist, I highly recommend Dennis Overbye's Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (HarperCollins, 1991).
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Original post made by Gina Channell-Allen, president of the Pleasanton Weekly, on Oct 8, 2013
I thought I would address one of the questions I am asked often: "What's going to happen to the newspaper industry? Aren't newspapers a dying breed?"
People have been predicting the end of newspapers for decades. And if publishers had maintained their staunch opposition (almost to the point of arrogance) to anything digital, those naysayers might have been right. I remember standing in a newsroom at a daily Illinois newspaper in the early 1990s and hearing the managing editor say, "We will never put our journalism on the Web. Never!"
Ironically, while I was in Illinois listening to reasons why my stories would never be in digital form, the parent company of this website, Embarcadero Media Group, got onboard with putting their journalism on the Web. In 1994, the [Web Link Palo Alto Weekly] was the first newspaper in the U.S. to have a website.
Now newspaper content is available on so many platforms other than newsprint. And last year newspaper subscriptions actually increased because now digital and bundled subscriptions are included in the numbers. Those subscriptions only account for a 5% increase in the number.
What I find particularly heartening is that more young people, including "Millenials," are reading newspaper content. But unlike their parents who read on their desktop, or their grandparents who share sections of the paper across the kitchen table, they access the content on mobile devices. Here are some other interesting facts from a report published in March by the Newspaper Association of America using the latest data on media consumption from Scarborough Research:
* The vast majority of U.S. adults, 164 million (69%), read newspaper media content in print or online in a typical week, or access it on mobile devices in a typical month.
* The majority (59%) of young adults, ages 18-24, read newspaper media content in print or online in a typical week, or access it on mobile devices in a typical month.
* The mobile newspaper audience is growing fast; up 58% in an average month in 2012 compared with 2011. That totals 34 million adults.
* The mobile audience skews young; the median age of an adult newspaper mobile user is 17 years younger than the print reader.
* Those who are newspaper mobile-exclusive - that is, those who access newspaper content on mobile devices only - are younger by four more years (with a median adult age of 33). That audience grew 83% in 2012 compared with a year ago.
So not only are subscription numbers increasing, the median age of newspaper readers is younger!
So, no, the newspaper industry is not on its way out, but the vehicle by which we receive and read content has definitely changed. The industry's goal is not to sell newspapers, but to educate and inform citizens of the republic. As the "Fourth Estate," we can accomplish that goal in print or digitally.
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on Oct 8, 2013 at 11:32 pm
Newspaper editors can ballyhoo all they want about print vs. web. Just another indication that they are clueless about how the world has changed, how journalism has been consistently spiraling down the drain, and how our communities-as-public-realm have suffered because of such.
For decades the overwhelming majority of newspapers has been corporate owned. Today, not only are they corporate owned, but they are corporate controlled. Almost completely dependent on corporate advertising, rarely do newspapers dare cross that line between corporate advertising and corporate wrath.
The quality of journalism has steadily declined over the years. Most journalism programs don't focus on much more than spelling and grammar. Asking hard questions? Forget it. How are young journalists to know what questions to ask when they don't have any extensive training in, say, economics or political science? How are young journalists to show the courage to ask probing questions when editors and owners, sensitive to the wants and needs of their corporate owners and advertisers, are poised with red pen to delete anything that might prove itself to be 'offensive to the sensibilities of their readers' (i.e., translated: offensive to the views of corporate leaders and public relations officers).
As such, concepts such as 'social class' or 'economic exploitation' have been all but purged from the lexicon of corporate media reportage. Opposing sides are reported upon, domestically and internationally, with readers rarely provided even the most minimal understanding of what is at the basis of the opposition. In-depth reportage is absent, displaced by 'Big' questions like Who will win? Who is winning? Who will back down?
Privileged social groups are reported upon regularly. Underprivileged groups are reported upon as criminals, rarely anything else.
Want to see how corporate media might report on the world were they not to be totally watered down by corporate power and journalistic mediocrity? Take a look at the black press. Google the Chicago Defender or New York's Amsterdam News. Notice the kinds of probing questions that are asked, the references to history that in today's corporate media are only the stuff of fish wrap, the effort to give traditionally voiceless peoples a voice. A cursory read of some of the most outstanding black newspapers can only make one ashamed of what most Americans are reading for what passes today as news in the corporate media.
Our corporate media are the McDonalds and Burger Kings of the newspaper industry. Lesser papers, local but no less corporate influenced/controlled, are the Del Tacos. Fast corporately sponsored news is equivalent to fast food. Our bodies are bloated with salt, fat and sugar; our minds saturated and numbed with superficiality.
Example: We see a newspaper's editor wringing hands over the state of today's newspapers, and can't get beyond 'print journalism' v. 'going on the web'. Now, there's a real in-depth treatment of the issue for you! Any reference to (today's absence of) investigative journalism? Any reference to newspapers in historical perspective? Any references to how newspapers can possibly function under corporate power and influence without losing their objectivity (integrity)? Any reference to ethnic media's challenge to the corporate media?
How many of us realize that the ethnically based media in California has a larger combined readership and a larger percentage of subscribers than do the so-called mainstream corporate newspapers? Why might that be? Well, that would call for an honest discussion that places corporate news under some critical scrutiny. Can't have that because, gosh, it might mean reduced subscribers or, more importantly, a withdrawal of corporate support! So, let's talk about something really pithy, like print v. web.
a resident of Amador Estates
on Oct 9, 2013 at 9:23 am
The overwhelming majority of media outlets, including the Pleasanton Weekly and its parent corporation are nothing more than political activist organizations for the Socialist Democrat party. Period.
My guess is that you will quickly censor this post since you go to great lengths to block any post critical of the Democrat party.
One of the main roles of the media is to keep our government in check and the Pleasanton Weekly, along with it's cohort organizations, fails miserably in this critically important regard.
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Wealthy parents are quick to denounce special privileges for poor children as examples of quota schemes that deny admission to the best and brightest. Of course, in America George Bush was admitted to Yale as a legacy as are thousands of other children of the elite who take advantage of schemes to admit individuals on the basis of wealth and social status. Australia has recently witnessed an extraordinary explosion in "special consideration" giving children who are taking entrance exams. Ostensibly, "special consideration" is for children with learning disabilities, but according to many elite schools, that could mean extra time to complete a test, assistance with handwriting(and answers?) sweaty palms and a host of such critical issues children encounter during an exam.
Private schools in Australia seek such considerations at twice the rate of public schools, and Masada College gave nearly 30% of students taking exams special considerations. The private school of Reddham House won special consideration for 36% of those taking the test. One can only wonder what parents of these children would be saying if one-third of poor children obtained special considerations. Of course, the poor simply do not understand that "special considerations" is meant for children of "special parents," particularly those with some spare money.