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It was a great experience, being on the board as the draft approached. Posters here did a very good job of identifying player styles and how they translated to the Ravens' offensive and defensive systems. We also did a great job of differentiating what we wanted the Ravens to add, from what the Ravens tend to want, and so forth.
We separated the head banging ILBs, from the speedy run around ILBs and the reliable, sound technique ILBs.
Posters didn't just look at a highlight reel or what they read from one site. Posters actually took time to watch the tape and it sparked interesting conversations about certain prospects.
Personally, I think we did a better job than some of the draft sites out there.

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Nas, Damian Marley Hope to Inspire With 'Distant Relatives'
When Nas and Damian Marley sat down to discuss their collaborative album 'Distant Relatives' — available online and in stores today (May 18) — the pair emphasized that the project was about "making good music" while, possibly subconsciously, educating the masses.
"Reggae music over the years has always been a voice for social awareness," Marley told The BoomBox. And Nas, when it comes to hip-hop, is no stranger to social awareness. The rapper, after all, professed that 'Hip Hop is Dead' in 2006 and fought (but lost) to name his last solo album the n-word. But Nas insists that he and Marley aren't trying to make a statement on 'Distant Relatives.'
"I don't think me and D thought we would change the world with the record," Nas added. " I think that during these times we're in, there's good music to go along with the times. You can put this record on when you're just chillin', or when you're trying to get inspired."
Watch the video interview after the jump to hear more about the pair's new album. For more on the origins of 'Distant Relatives,' check out Part 1 of this two part interview.


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Nobody ever said you had it easy… between work, family and maybe thinking about eating something other than leftover Taco Bell (oh, that's only me?), it's not easy to find time to take care of yourself.
But your clothes? If you ask me, a great pair of jeans goes a long way to making you feel better about how you look and feel. When you find the perfect pair for your figure, you want to make them last as long as you possibly can. Here are three easy tips for denim care that won't stress you out OR break the bank.
Tip #1: Wash before you wear. I'm a big proponent of not washing your jeans, but there are a couple of main reasons you need to give them a good wash (on Cold/Cold, please!) before you wear them. First, many brands use chemicals and silicone to treat their denim. While it may not irritate your skin, it's still best to not risk getting them into your system (and if you do have sensitive skin, you don't want to be uncomfortable all day long). Also, if you went to a boutique to try on those new 7 For All Mankind jeans, odds are you're not the first person in them. They're yours now… start the love affair with a clean slate. Finally, washing an untreated or dark indigo helps remove the excess dye. If you don't do that, you'll end up turning everything from your shirt to your shoes – and even your skin – blue. And I don't think you want to be Smurfette.
Tip #2: Find a great tailor. One of the obvious signs of someone who doesn't know how to care for their jeans is a dragging hem. This is terrible for your denim (and not to mention gross… you don't know what you're dragging those poor things in!) and can lead to fraying, shredding and an altogether sloppy look. Get your jeans hemmed for either flats or heels (bring both when you go if you're not sure which you'll want!) from someone who has experience with premium denim. A good tailor is an artist, and while you may have to pay more for exactly what you want (like keeping your original hem), you get what you pay for. Also remember to factor in the cost of alterations when purchasing – it can cost anywhere from $10-$50, depending on where you live and what you need done. (PS – know a good tailor in your area? Leave a comment for other readers. It's the stylish thing to do!)
Tip #3: Please, PLEASE keep your jeans out of the dryer! This one has been coming up more and more lately. I've said it before – it's how to have longer lasting jeans! – and I've heard every excuse in the book. I do not care if your jeans "feel starchy," or "they've stretched out too much" because my mind is made up and this rule is set in stone: Premium Denim does NOT go in the dryer. This is especially true for stretchy denim; it's likely that extra stretch in your skinny jeans is from Spandex that was added to your cotton. While this blend is great for giving you an amazing backside, it does not like large doses of dry heat. Do it enough and you'll "blow out" the spandex (giving you a pair of jeans that are saggy in all the wrong places). It's just like putting that new All-Clad non-stick skillet into the dishwasher; sure, you won't see the effects after the first wash, but soon you'll lose that amazing nonstick coating.


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When Mary Nagy was diagnosed with breast cancer, the support from her husband, family and friends was vital.
"Just having those people behind me and knowing that they were there, it was doable," Nagy said.
Nagy needed two surgeries and rounds of chemotherapy, which took a heavy toll on the mother of two. "I truly thought Mary was going to die at one point," said Betty Pruszynski, Nagy's mom.
But they dealt with Nagy's cancer together. Her mom and her sister, Suzy Rice, helped with chores and errands. "It was always just pick up the boys for her, keep them for a while, bring her dinner if she needed it, or on a good day we go out shopping," Rice said.
"It would really take my mind off a lot of what was going on," Nagy said.
A new Kaiser Permanente study finds that close relationships can help breast cancer patients deal with pain and other physical symptoms better. "Having more friends and family engaged with you actually led to those women having a better quality of life, a better physical quality of life," said Dr. Joanne Schottinger, an Oncologist with Kaiser Permanente.
Dr. Schottinger says she takes social support into consideration when treating patients. "That we assess how much support they have and try to refer someone and help them if it looks like they need more," she said.
Nagy has been cancer-free now for more than seven years.
Suzy Rice: We did a lot of laughing.
Betty Pruszynski: We did.
Mary Nagy: We had to. Yeah, we still do.
Nagy celebrates each day with her mom and sister by her side.
Teresa Garcia - CBS News


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Fast Track Admissions Day
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Can anyone tell me what (turning ridge) means?
I am using a pattern for slippers and the instructions say, K17 P1 (turning ridge? P1 (turning ridge) knit across.:knitting:
The p sts will form a ridge when you fold the knitting. It's just letting you know that's what they're for, you don't have to do anything different to them.
:muah: Thanks So Much. I think I am going to love this place.
there is a second reason.. Stocking knit want to roll forward.. to the smooth side--
if you want it to turn or fold, a row or 2 (or 3 or 4 rows) of reverse stocking knit will make the 'fabric want to fold the other way..
I use this trick on hats.. to get a sharp fold (from body of hat to crown--when i want a flat (beret like) top! but its good lots of places..(knit (then felted) bowls will have "flatter" bottoms if you make a turning row/ridge!)


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IRISH airline Aer Lingus last night unveiled plans to lay off 670 workers as it aims to save about 97 million (£88m) in a radical restructuring plan.
Cabin crew who rejected a cost-saving proposal face 230 compulsory redundancies while four unions of pilots, maintenance, craft and administration staff will see 440 voluntary job cuts.
The announcement came after the carrier revealed that its operating losses had widened from 20m in 2008 to 81m last year, despite passenger numbers rising by 4 per cent to 10.4 million.
The carrier was in the red by 93m for the first half of last year but recorded an operating profit of 12m for the final six months.
Total revenue for the year fell by 11 per cent to 1.2 billion as ancillary revenues – fees charged for services such as checking bags – helped cushion reduced passenger fares and cargo revenues.
The publication of the unaudited trading update comes hours after Aer Lingus craft workers joined pilots and administration staff in backing the airline's radical cost-cutting drive.
Aer Lingus had been due to publish its full results for the year but postponed the announcement after the outcome of the ballot was delayed.
The airline – which has fended off two hostile bids by rival Ryanair, led by chief executive Michael O'Leary – had previously warned that it would have be forced to make 1,100 lay-offs if the restructuring plan, hammered out in several months of talks with unions, had not been accepted.
It had also warned that routes would have been scaled back if the deal brokered at the Labour Relations Commission had failed.
Ryanair, the Irish government and Aer Lingus employees control 70 per cent of the airline's shares between them.


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last night's DESTROYER show, I had my doubts as to whether Dan Bejar
was a real person. In the time since its release, last year's Kaputt
has ascended to mythical status in my mind. Like, even if you told me
that the album was recorded in Vancouver or something, I wouldn't
believe you. Its pristine sensibilities are too fanciful for Vancouver.
first thing I think when THE TING TINGS take the stage for their sold out show
at the Paradise last night is "well, look at this
fucking adorable hipster duo. How do they even get any band practice in
what with all the mutual soaking up of each other's Aryan-ass good looks? And
how are they not doing it?" (They're not, I looked it up.
impossible to not move at a SBTRKT show. Trust me, I tried. Just last night,
in fact, as I showed up to a sardine'd-the-fuck-out Paradise, more
prepared to slink around the back of the venue than I was for the eventual
adrenaline bump I would receive. I hadn't slept well Tuesday night, worked a full day
yesterday, and wanted to lean right up against one of those obtuse
poles, close my eyes, and take a quick five.
indie-kids BEAR HANDS have toured with Passion Pit, so I can only
imagine that when they booked last night's gig with Awolnation, the
overwhelming sentiment was "shit, what a drag."
maybe not. It could be that I was the only one at the Paradise last
night that thought that the vibe of headliner Awolnation's show was like walking into the
party scene of a bro-tastic teen movie circa 1997.
you need evidence that time heals all wounds, look no further than
Saturday's UNITY FEST, arriving a bit more than a year following Guru's
tragic passing, and marking the first Boston appearance since his death
by Gang Starr brethren DJ PREMIER. Whereas last May's tribute show at
the Middle East was understandably bogged down with some weighty
connotations (both mourning his death and calling for Solar's head),
Saturday felt more like a straight up celebration of the man's life.
Some accompanying video to Luke O'Neil's lament of America's youth.I
must admit that I was a tad concerned that I was out of my element
while watching the "teenagers who pretend like they're going to fight
people on their skateboard" flood into the Paradise last night. I'm in
my mid-20s, my head is too big to rock a snapback, and while I do
wear skate shoes, it's mostly for their orthopedic value.
By now you've read over and over Chris Faraone's expose on the making and selling of Los Angeles hip-hop collective ODD FUTURE, you've endured more than a few Shaq'rolls in trying to snag a leaked copy of TYLER, THE CREATOR's debut record Goblin, and you've sold your first and third born to get into tomorrow night's very-fucking-sold-out show at Fort Paradise.
summer, when the much buzzed about triple-bill of Beach Fossils,
Javelin, and Warpaint rolled through Great Scott, the preeminent feeling
was that all three of the night's bands were about to blow up. Of the
three, it currently seems as if WARPAINT are most dead set on making that
premonition true. Since the aforementioned August show, they have
released a critically exalted debut LP
and have made two more stops in our fair city, including a nearly
sold-out Paradise gig this past Tuesday.
now for something completely different. Amid the litany of SXSW
coverage, I'm happy to report that last night SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO played
the rawest show I've seen thus far in this short year. Probably too raw
for a Monday in fact, as I sit here at my desk way too early into
this work week to have such a sore neck as a result of violent
Well, they may or may not get rich with this reunion, but last night, the recently-reunited Dismemberment Plan played their television debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and, well, anyone who was concerned about how they'd sound at next week's (officiall sold out) Paradise show can probably stop worrying.
Fifteen years ago, Better Than Ezra took over the modern rock airwaves with "Good," a number one song that still defines them to most people with its bouncy beat and annoying "oh-wah-ah" refrain.
"Well, not everybody thinks that," says bassist Tom Drummond before the band's show at the Paradise last week. "'Cause we're sold out tonight, we sold out last night, we're sold out tomorrow [Philadelphia] and in New York, so…"
cool can't be faked. You either got it or you don't. And if you try to
manufacture it, you can come across as a try-hard. So even before
singer Chris Chu filled us in, it was pretty obvious that the Morning
Benders hail from the Golden State -- the group of young 20-somethings
had a densely packed Paradise crowd, of chicks and bros alike, devouring
their seemingly effortless brand of laid-back rock.
As you may or may not know, we here at OtD have been following the post-Sleater-Kinney moves made by Carrie Brownstein, Janet Weiss, and Corin Tucker. Weiss and Brownstein now have formed a new band, and it may be the most intriguing new project from anyone affiliated with Sleater-Kinney thus far as it involves another one of our favorites, Mary Timony of Helium (as documented in this vintage On the Download post from the blog's infancy).
There was little chance that I was going to miss Caribou's return trip to Boston after last May's psychedelic drubbing, which still ranks up there as one the best shows I've seen this year. And even though the venue was different, the result was pretty much the same: synchronized drum madness, whirling synth peaks, and strobe lights.
Wondering what's up with Bang Camaro lately? Well, we awoke this morning to find a pretty interesting 2,900-word recap of the Boston gang's epic rise and fall, penned by founding guitarist Alex Necochea (who now dabbles in classic rock heroes Township). Pretty interesting stuff.
While we won't steal the page's thunder and let you read the dirt on their home field, we will point out that there's another Bang Camaro gig Nov.


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2. A Torn Telegram
I lunched alone at the Gilmore house, and went back to the city at once. The sun had
lifted the mists, and a fresh summer wind had cleared away the smoke pall. The
boulevard was full of cars flying countryward for the Saturday half-holiday, toward golf
and tennis, green fields and babbling girls. I gritted my teeth and thought of McKnight at
Richmond, visiting the lady with the geographical name. And then, for the first time, I
associated John Gilmore's granddaughter with the "West" that McKnight had irritably
flung at me.
I still carried my traveling-bag, for McKnight's vision at the window of the empty house
had not been without effect. I did not transfer the notes to my pocket, and, if I had, it
would not have altered the situation later. Only the other day McKnight put this very
thing up to me.
"I warned you," he reminded me. "I told you there were queer things coming, and to be
on your guard. You ought to have taken your revolver."
"It would have been of exactly as much use as a bucket of snow in Africa," I retorted. "If
I had never closed my eyes, or if I had kept my finger on the trigger of a six-shooter
(which is novelesque for revolver), the result would have been the same. And the next
time you want a little excitement with every variety of thrill thrown in, I can put you by
way of it. You begin by getting the wrong berth in a Pullman car, and end - "
"Oh, I know how it ends," he finished shortly. "Don't you suppose the whole thing's
written on my spinal marrow?"
But I am wandering again. That is the difficulty with the unprofessional story-teller: he
yaws back and forth and can't keep in the wind; he drops his characters overboard when
he hasn't any further use for them and drowns them; he forgets the coffee-pot and the
frying-pan and all the other small essentials, and, if he carries a love affair, he mutters a
fervent "Allah be praised" when he lands them, drenched with adventures, at the
matrimonial dock at the end of the final chapter.
I put in a thoroughly unsatisfactory afternoon. Time dragged eternally. I dropped in at a
summer vaudeville, and bought some ties at a haberdasher's. I was bored but unexpectant;
I had no premonition of what was to come. Nothing unusual had ever happened to me;
friends of mine had sometimes sailed the high seas of adventure or skirted the coasts of
chance, but all of the shipwrecks had occurred after a woman passenger had been taken
on. "Ergo," I had always said "no women!" I repeated it to myself that evening almost
savagely, when I found my thoughts straying back to the picture of John Gilmore's
granddaughter. I even argued as I ate my solitary dinner at a downtown restaurant.
"Haven't you troubles enough," I reflected, "without looking for more? Hasn't Bad News
gone lame, with a matinee race booked for next week? Otherwise aren't you comfortable?


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Money and Marriage
Money and marriage can be a challenge. Statistics show that money woes are one of the top reasons for problems in a relationship or marriage. That's why it so important before you tie the knot to sit down with your partner and make sure you're both on the same page when it comes to your finances. Perhaps the big day has already come and gone. That's ok, it's never too late to have "the talk."
Figure out a plan that both of you can live with. Maybe you're a saver and your spouse thinks money is only good while being spent. Planning a budget that accommodates both can go a long way in lessening financial tension.
- When working out your budget consider giving each partner a set amount they can spend without having to account for. This way each person still feels they have their "own" money.
- Plan ahead for these financial discussions. By scheduling these talks in advance there is less of a chance of a huge blow-up over a past due bill or impulse purchase.
- Set goals together as a couple. This could be for short term purchases like a new appliance or vacation or something more in depth such as retirement.
- Consider using a financial planner. Many times having an impartial third party helps keep things in perspective for everyone involved.
Money is such a sensitive subject for most people. The sooner you learn how to comfortably discuss your joint finances the happier your relationship will be!
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welcome from north central BC
Welcome from N California! We'd love to see what you've done or are currently working on!
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Derek Feuer is nothing but a liar. Derek Feuer and I have had a "behind doors" relationship for almost 3 years now, and his true colors have really came out. I met Derek on manhunt.com, and we started dating seriously within a few months of our meeting. I really believed him that he would "come out" as public support for gay marriage grew. He said his parents wouldn't approve of me, not that we were gay, but because I am black. I hoped and believed that Derek would find the courage to tell them someday, because we had agreed we were going to be together
Derek you've broken my heart, and I see you back on the dating sites, and you even have contact with some females. Thats funny considering you can't even get turned on by a girl, you said so yourself. DEREK FEUER.....you can find another black d**k but you'll never find another man that loves you as I did
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This author idiot is so full of herself!
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Environmental Studies Program, 1968-2000, n.d. | Oberlin College Archives
The records are arranged into seven series, with subseries as listed:
Series 1. Administrative Files
Subseries 1. Annual Reports
Subseries 2. Minutes
Subseries 3. Program Review Files
Subseries 4. Miscellaneous Administrative Files
Subseries 5. Grant Files
Subseries 6. Personnel Files (restricted)
Subseries 7. Environmental Studies and ES Program Committee
Subseries 8. Correspondence
Subseries 9. Majors
Series 2. Curriculum Files
Subseries 1. Academic Course Materials
Subseries 2. Winter Term Files
Subseries 3. Visiting Scholars and Mini-Courses
Subseries 4. Student Papers
Subseries 5. Files relating to the Gorn Prize
Subseries 6. Study Abroad Programs
Series 3. Historical Files
Series 4. Financial Records
Series 5. Program and Special Events
Subseries 1. Speakers' File (at Oberlin)
Subseries 2. Colloquium for Majors Related Materials
Subseries 3. Special Events at Oberlin College
Subseries 4. Projects Relating to the Oberlin Community
Series 6. Subject Files
Series 7. Publications
Subseries 1. Printed (regular)
Subseries 2. Publicity Files
Subseries 3. Newsletters, 1985-2000 (4 folders)
Subseries 4. Non-Oberlin Related Publications
Series 1. Administrative Files, 1972-99, n.d. (248 folders)
The series documents the development of an Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin from the second ad-hoc committee of the late 1970s, to the Environmental Studies Committee (1979), then the Environmental Studies Program Committee (1980-93). Although program status was granted in the 1979-80 academic year, the ESPC slowly expanded their control over the new program. This series consists of documents pertaining to or generated by individual committee members. The existence today of Environmental studies at Oberlin owes much to the dedication of a small group of faculty members to this interdisciplinary field in terms of time and committee work.
The series is arranged into the following subseries: 1. Annual Reports, 2. Minutes, 3. Program Review Files, 4. Miscellaneous Administrative Files, 5. Grant Files, 6. Personnel files, 7. Committees, 8. Correspondence, 9. Majors.
Subseries 1. Annual Reports, 1979-84, 1988-89 (3 folders)
Included in this subseries are Annual reports from the ESPC (1979-83, 1988-89) as well as the supporting documents used by the committee to write the reports.
Subseries 2. Minutes, 1979, 1980-92 (3 folders)
Contains the minutes of the Environmental Studies Committee (1979) and the Environmental Studies Program Committee (1979-92). These committees are composed of faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences.
The handwritten notes from several of the meetings belong to Harlan Wilson. For additional information on the activities of the committee see subseries 7.
Subseries 3. Program Review Files, 1984-85, 1992-93 (4 folders)
The initial program review of Environmental Studies took place in 1985, in accordance with the five-year plan developed after the program was granted official status in spring 1980. The second review occurring approximately every seven years took place in 1993. Supporting documents accompany each program review.
Subseries 4. Miscellaneous Administrative Files, 1978-80, 1981,
1983, 1988, n.d. (7 folders)
The files in this subseries pertain to decisions carried out during the transition from an Environmental Studies Committee (1978-79) to the attainment of program status in 1980. Included are materials maintained by the chairperson of ESC, investigations of other academic programs in ES, and Oberlin College generated ESP proposals.
Subseries 5. Grant Files, 1979-98 (110 folders)
In the early years Environmental Studies at Oberlin College depended on grants from NEH and the Mellon Foundation. Some of these files may be of interest to higher education historians as they contain proposals and descriptions of individual independent projects carried out by the earliest Environmental Studies Majors at Oberlin (until 1984 ES majors were actually Individual Majors).
Also contained in this subseries are the ES Curriculum Enrichment Grant (1978-80) and subsequent proposal to the Ohio Environmental Education Fund to establish an Environmental Education curriculum in the Oberlin Public Schools. Of some interest is that Oberlin College professors and students collaborated to generate this proposal.
Subseries 6. Personnel Files, 1980s-90s (73 folders) RESTRICTED
The general personnel files contain job descriptions and staffing requests. Some of these documents report on the interdisciplinary nature of Environmental Studies as well as on how departments filed joint applications for faculty to build up the number of courses in Environmental Studies. Also contained within this series are personnel files of individuals. Access to this series is restricted.
Subseries 7. Environmental Studies and ES Program Committee,
1978-79, 1980-92 (22 folders)
Contained in the subseries are one file of notes and documents from the Environmental Studies Committee, 1978-79, and ten folders from the Environmental Studies Program Committee, 1980-86.
For information on the two ad-hoc committees (1971-72, 1977-78), see also the historical files series.
Subseries 8. Correspondence, 1979-82, 1988 (3 folders)
This small subseries consists of letters written by members of the ESPC, including one folder of Clayton Koppes' correspondence.
Subseries 9. Majors, 1972-99 (14 folders)
The bulk of the subseries contains records on students who majored in Environmental Studies from 1979-88. Materials exist pertaining to advising and the academic work of minors. Of special interest is a compiled list 1972-99 of all Environmental Studies majors, including names of students that pre-date program's existence.
Series 2. Curriculum Files, 1973-96 (81 folders)
The Environmental Studies curriculum grew out of the academic interests held by particular faculty members. The files found here reflect how faculty incorporated environmental concerns and issues into their courses, as well as developing new courses that specifically related to the environment. Without a permanent tenure-track faculty teaching position in the field of Environmental Studies, ESPC had to develop other paths to enhance the curriculum and promote community awareness. This included visiting scholars teaching mini-courses and a colloquium series of lectures. Also found here are files relating to Winter Term, which further developed an ES program at Oberlin.
This series is arranged into subseries: 1. Academic Course Materials, 2. Winter Term Files, 3. Visiting Scholars and Mini-Courses, 4. Student Papers, 5. Files relating to the Gorn Prize, and 6. Study Abroad Programs.
Subseries 1. Academic Course Materials, 1973, 1974, 1979-92, 1993
(25 folders)
Contained in this subseries are materials related to courses taught on Environmental themes. Included are files for two courses taught by David Egloff in the early 1970s, well before the existence of an ESC. The bulk of the materials, however, pertain to courses established by the ESC and later the ESPC. This subseries documents the interdisciplinary nature of Environmental Studies, as well as the effort that went into planning the core courses, such as Introduction to Environmental Studies (ES 100/BIO 100) and Environment and Society (ENVS 101).
See also Committee files for class schedules and course listings by year.
Subseries 2. Winter Term Files, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1977-90 (18 folders)
The original proposal (1971) for an ES program grew out of interest in an ExCo course on the environment. Seven years later, in 1978, the success of an interdisciplinary Winter Term project, entitled "Humankind Tomorrow," generated the interest to create officially an Environmental Studies Committee.
Subseries 3. Visiting Scholars and Mini-Courses, 1980-88, 1990
(25 folders)
The records in this subseries document the selection of visiting scholars, the mini-course materials used, as well as promotional materials for academic work falling under the Visiting Scholar program in Environmental Studies. These mini-courses formed an integral part of the early ESP curriculum.
Some of the materials in these files span the academic year in which the mini-course was taught, however, the folders are labeled with the date of the course was offered.
Subseries 4. Student Papers, 1980-85, (5 folders)
These papers represent a sampling of early student work from courses, honors projects, private readings, and independent research initiatives in Environmental Studies.
Subseries 5. Files relating to the Gorn Prize, 1979-95 (2 folders)
Funded initially by the Joyce A. Gorn (OC '73) Memorial Prize Fund, and later with an endowed prize fund, this award recognizes students for "excellence in an off-campus activity which required personal initiative and was designed to have an important impact on an environmental problem."
Subseries 6. Study Abroad Programs, 1987-91 (6 folders)
The subseries contains information on a variety of study abroad programs related to environmental studies.
Series 3. Historical Files, 1969-93 (16 folders)
Documented in this series is the development of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin. Of particular interest are two early initiatives—the Eco-Oberlin Conference (1970) and the ExCo "Environment" course (1971-72, 1978-79). These were collaborative efforts between faculty and students. The success of the course prompted the founding of the first ad-hoc Environmental Studies Committee (1971-72). Also of note in this series are timelines of ES at Oberlin, compiled lists of committee members and majors from 1969-93.
Series 4. Financial Records, 1980-91 (11 folder)
This series consists of financial records, particularly ones related to outside grants and speaker funds.
Series 5. Program and Special Events, 1968-69, 1977-93, n.d. (61 folders)
The Environmental Studies Program Committee and ES students sponsored a number of special events and projects, which are documented in this series.
This series is broken into subseries 1. Speakers' File (at Oberlin), 2. Colloquium related materials, 3. Special events at Oberlin College, and 4. Projects relating to the Oberlin Community.
Subseries 1. Speakers' File (at Oberlin), 1980-88, 1992-93
(19 folders)
Included in this subseries are the files on talks given at Oberlin College by prominent environmentalists.
Subseries 2. Colloquium for Majors Related Materials, 1981-87
(15 folders)
The Environmental Studies Weekly Colloquium for Majors complemented the Mini-courses in the spring semester. Both programs supplemented the Oberlin Environmental Studies curriculum during the program's early years. Each fall ES majors signed up to attend the Friday afternoon lectures and in return for a write up of the colloquium lectures they received 1.00 credit toward their individual major.
The documents in this series pertain to the organizational efforts by the ESPC to coordinate the weekly lecture series.
Subseries 3. Special Events at Oberlin College, 1969, 1979, 1984-85,
1988-90, 1992, 2000 (11 folders)
Contained in this subseries are information on conferences and panels held at Oberlin on environmental issues, and materials related to the dedication of the Adam Joseph Lewis Environmental Studies Center building, September 15-16, 2000.
Subseries 4. Projects Relating to the Oberlin Community, 1968,
1977-91, n.d. (18 folders)
This subseries documents the programs and projects initiated in the Oberlin Community by individuals connected to the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College. Included is the 1968 Kenndicot Petition project to stop mining in Washington state. Information and materials on student environmental groups at Oberlin, such as the Environmental Cooperative House of Oberlin (ECHO) and the Environmental Studies Information Center (ESIC), can also be found here.
Series 6. Subject Files, 1969-91 (20 folders)
Files on a variety of topics related to Environmental Studies are contained in this series, including newspaper clippings and materials from Ohio Environmental groups.
Series 7. Publications, 1969-2000 (12 folders)
Subseries 1. Printed (regular), 1969-89, 1992, 2000. (5 folders)
This subseries includes printed matter pertaining to the Environmental Studies program at Oberlin. David Egloff collected many of these files.
Subseries 2. Publicity Files, 1981-83 (2 folders)
Contained in this subseries are publicity releases and admissions materials for the Environmental Studies program.
Subseries 3. Newsletters, 1985-2000 (4 folders)
The variety of newsletters on Environmental Studies at Oberlin are located in this subseries, including "Backyard," "Friends of Environmental Studies," and the "Oberlin Environmentalist."
Subseries 4. Non-Oberlin Related Publications, 1970s-1990 (2 folder)
Included are newsletters and clippings from regional environmental organizations, such as the Sierra Club.


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Only Shri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College, Mata Sundri College for Women and Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, Karol Bagh,will now be eligible to offer Punjabi as major subject to students from the first year. Earlier, there was a provision for Punjabi as compulsory subject and students could keep this option for all three years in nearly 15 colleges.
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The Liberal Jewish Community of Tilburg unveiled the monument in memory of Deen on Monday in partnership with a neighborhood association, the Dutch daily Brabants Dagblad reported Monday.
The city of Tilburg also has named the square where the statue was erected for Deen, who was killed at 18 in a gas chamber at the Sobibor death camp in 1943. Her German mother, Dutch father and 15-year-old brother, Klaus, also were killed there.
Unlike the teen Dutch-Jewish diarist Anne Frank, who wrote about her life in hiding in Amsterdam, Deen's diary was about her monthlong stay as a prisoner in the Vught camp. From there she was shipped to Westerbork, another Dutch concentration camp, and then to Sobibor in Poland.
Frank also was incarcerated at Westerbork; she died at 15 in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Approximately 75 percent of Holland's Jewish population of 140,000 died in the Holocaust, according to the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.
During her stay in Vught, Deen also wrote to her fiance, Kees van den Berg. Her letters to him were found after van den Berg's death by his son, who gave them to a local archive along with the diary that Deen sent to van den Berg from the camp. Deen's writings appeared in a book published in 2007.
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Lemony Smashed Potatoes
Serve these easy lemony potatoes with our Roasted Salmon with Herbed Yogurt.
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Source: Everyday Food, May 2009
- 3 pounds small red new potatoes
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon zest
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
Set a steamer basket in a saucepan with 1 inch simmering water. Add potatoes, cover, and cook until potatoes are easily pierced with a paring knife, about 25 minutes. Lightly smash potatoes, toss with oil and lemon zest, and season with salt and pepper.


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The GOP's ludicrous claim about their jobs bill
--news release by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) about the Senate GOP jobs plan
"Paul said the bill would create 5 million new jobs—although he did not offer a specific time frame."
--news article on unveiling of the plan, Oct. 14, 2011
Politicians love to make claims about how many jobs their proposals will create. As a practical matter, readers should immediately discount such assertions, since they are often based on guesstimates that are then extrapolated beyond reality. One good example of such a dubious claim is one made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in August about the Federal Aviation Administration funding bill, for which he earned Three Pinocchios.
But the current battle over the jobs bills is, of course, about jobs. President Obama has toured the country, making the case for his plan while frequently citing an estimate by one economist that nearly 2 million jobs would be saved or created. Bloomberg News surveyed 34 economists and came up with a decidedly smaller average – the plan would "add or keep 275,000 employees on payrolls." Still, the economists concluded the president's plan might help avoid a recession in the next year.
Senate Republicans, including Rand Paul (Ky.), John McCain (Ariz.) and Rob Portman (Ohio), last week unveiled what they labeled as their alternative to Obama's plan. Their plan was mostly a mish-mash of previous offered bills, such as that hardy perennial--a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. (Some experts would argue that such a requirement could hurt employment if government spending dropped too quickly.)
During the news conference, and in a news release, Paul claimed the GOP plan would create 5 million jobs
So, we wondered: Where did that figure come from?


text: Hopper First Soccer Player in USF Hall of Fame November 17, 2011 By USF Related Links Sign Up For Free Email Updates The voice of USF Athletics, Jim Louk, will routinely put down his radio headset and pick up the pen to share his perspective on the history of USF Athletics. Louk has been broadcasting games for 27 years and is the resident historian in the Athletics Department hallways ... This week he remembers USF soccer's first All-American soccer player. Letters From Louk: Class of 2011: Fergus Hopper By: JIM LOUKGoUSFBulls.com The man who will be the first soccer player in the USF Athletics Hall of Fame didn't come to USF for soccer. "Fergus knew what he wanted to do," says former teammate Con Foley. "Teams we know... Arsenal... Manchester United... they all wanted Fergus when he was 17 or 18 years old." Instead, Ireland's Fergus Hopper came to America to join USF. "Fergus came to USF because it gave him what he wanted to do. As much as he loved soccer, he realized long term he had to have a career," says Foley. Hopper, in fact, was already working at the time for Allied Irish Banks in Dublin. He took a four-year hiatus to come to USF, play a little soccer, and go back to banking, USF degree in hand. Turned out, though, he did more than play a little soccer. He was USF's first soccer All-American, getting the honor three times, in 1974-76. He was on the All-Sun Belt Conference team in 1976, and in 1977 he was nominated for the Herman Award, the college soccer equivalent of the Heisman. He led the Bulls to two NCAA Tournament appearances in his USF career and won four meritorious service awards from the department. Even tempered and personable off the field, Hopper was a tough defender on the pitch. "He had a great ability to read and understand the game. He would be there before the ball. He could understand what his own defense would do and he would fill in when we made errors," says Foley. As the program grew under USF Hall of Fame coach Dan Holcomb, Hopper was a stabilizing force on defense. "Fergus was in the center of our defense," says Holcomb. "As a result, we were really solid there all four years he played." "He set the standard," says Foley, "for people who would come to USF and play defender in the future." "Just an all-around athlete," recalls former USF trainer Tony Jonaitis. "A great athlete and a great person. He always appreciated whatever you did for him." Away from the game, the native of Ireland adapted to a new country easily, and quickly won the respect of teammates, coaches, and USF staff members. "Once he became your friend he was always going to be your friend. He was there to help in the tough times and there to enjoy the successes of the team," says Foley. "He was definitely the leader of his team and definitely the hardest worker," says Jonaitis. His honor is an important moment to both Foley and Holcomb. "He was probably the best player we ever had," says Holcomb. "He was a wonderful student. Fergus Hopper is a prime example of an excellent student-athlete." "It means a lot for the soccer program," says Foley, speaking of Hopper's induction. "He was a great leader. Fergus is what soccer is about." Fergus Hopper, three-time All-American, joins the USF Hall of Fame on Friday night as part of the class of 2011. Jim Louk Voice of the USF Athletics since 1983 When the 2011-12 academic year rolled around, Jim Louk began his 28th year in the athletics department at the University of South Florida and his fifth as Assistant Director of Athletics for Sales and Broadcasting. Louk came to USF in 1983 as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Bulls' men's basketball team and served as the lead voice until the conclusion of the 1997 season. He then made the transition to football in USF's inaugural 1997 season, and still serves as the team's play-by-play announcer today. Louk will come into the 2010 football season having broadcast every Bulls' game in their history – a span of 165 games.Not only a contributor over the airwaves, Louk has also made his presence felt in getting other USF sports teams exposure on radio and television as well. Prior to the 2003-04 season only men's basketball and football were consistently seen or heard in the Tampa Bay area. However, since then, men's and women's soccer, volleyball, women's basketball, softball and baseball all make regular appearances on either radio, television or on the internet – via audio or video – with live streaming.Truly the "Voice of USF Athletics," in addition to men's basketball and football, Louk has also frequently announced USF women's basketball, baseball and softball games for both radio and television. On the sales side, Louk heads up all season and group ticket sales for USF athletics while also overseeing a staff of three associates. The ticket sales team was part of a departmental sales effort that resulted in over 7 million dollars of USF game ticket sales in the 2009-10 academic year.A native of Rochester, N.Y., Louk is a 1979 graduate of the University of Bridgeport where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism. Louk, his wife Barbara and their son Ross reside in Lutz. Archives 05/14/10 - Fond & Funny Memories at Red McEwen Field 05/27/10 - Memories of Leagues Past 06/19/10 - Early Travel with the Bulls 06/23/10 - Home(s) of the Bulls 07/12/10 - 21 in a Row 08/25/10 - Bring Me the Head of Rocky the Bull 09/06/10 - Another Signature Win 09/15/10 - Happy 15th Birthday, USF Football 09/17/10 - Visit with Joe Lewkowicz 09/17/10 - Visit with Sherry Bedingfield 10/18/10 - The First Bowl Game 11/03/10 - Top 10 Wins in USF Football History 11/16/10 - 1990 Sun Belt Championship 11/23/10 - Visit with Dan Holcomb 11/30/10 - Visit with Kerine Black 12/02/10 - Visit with Ross Gload 12/10/10 - Let's Just Get This Game Over With 01/19/11 - Way Out West for the NCAA Tournament 01/31/11 - The Best Road Trip Ever 02/10/11 - History of the NCAA Tournament in Tampa Bay 03/22/11 - Go For Broke - 1986 Baseball 06/09/11 - Goodbye from an Old Friend 07/12/11 - The 2009 WNIT Championship 08/03/11 - Radenko Dobras 09/01/11 - Class of 2011 -Anthony Henry 09/01/11 - The Wait Is Finally Over 09/05/11 - Genuine Selmon Unforgettable 09/10/11 - This Group Is Special 09/16/11 - Ray Jay Will Be Rocking 09/23/11 - Memories of USF's El Paso Trip 10/02/11 - Time to See What USF Is Made of 10/04/11 - 1997 Homecoming Memories 10/12/11 - Class of 2011 - Monica Triner 10/14/11 - The Bulls Are Due for a Win 10/21/11 - Home Sweet Home 10/27/11 - The 2008 Men's Soccer Run 11/02/11 - Class of 2011: Michelle Collier 11/16/11 - Class of 2011: Bob Grindey 11/17/11 - Class of 2011: Fergus Hopper


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Beringer Napa Valley Chardonnay 2011
Chardonnay from Napa Valley, California
Winemaker's Notes
Bright lemon zest, apple, pineapple, star fruit and mineral aromas and mouth-filling lemon curd, apple and butterscotch flavors.
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It's hard not to think of Napa Valley when thinking of California wines. The region is, after all, the one that brought world recognition to California wine making. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux Blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Notable FactsWithin the Napa Valley lie smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two is St.-Helena and finally, just granted an AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap and Mount Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country into itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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The impact on businesses if the minimum wage increases
AMMON, Idaho - Raising the minimum wage is a hot topic in Washington, D.C. and across the nation.
President Barack Obama is supporting congressional democrats' proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour to match inflation.
It's more than a dollar higher than the $9.00 proposal he made in his State of the Union address in February.
At The Cellar in Ammon, a local restaurant that's been in business for nearly a decade owner Scott Hinschberger said raising the minimum wage for his 23 employees would be a big deal.
"If we have to deal with it, it's not us that pays for it. It's the customer," said Hinschberger
He said menu prices will go up
"We're already perceived as an expensive place even though we are not so to go higher could be tricky for us," said Hinschberger
According to Hinschberger, if the minimum wage was raised to $8.50.
"I'd need to bring in an extra hundred dollars just to break even with where I am now," said Hinschberger.
Up the street at Geraldine's, owner Jay Bungard remembers when he started his first job being paid minimum wage.
"I remember when I started it was like $2.35 an hour, and of course gas was 67 cents," said Bungard.
Now with 30 employees and wages ranging from $7.25 to $12 an hour, Bungard agrees with Hinschberger that his customers will have to foot the bill if it goes up.
"If you increase the minimum wage to $10. That's going to affect the cost of goods sold, because I can't absorb that cost."
Bungard says most of his employees are high school students or people supplementing their incomes.
"With the last minimum wage increase I had to cut back on the employees I had and the employees that were left had to do more. So it's like anything else you have to do more with less," said Bungard.
Hinschberger said starting at minimum wage gives employees an incentive to work hard and climb the ladder.
"You start at minimum wage and you try and work your way beyond that. I know that's not easy for some people but I think that's the process of going to work," said Hinschberger.
Idaho's minimum wage is $7.25 an hour which equals an annual salary of $15,080.
The $10.10 increase would equal an annual salary of $21,008.
California has the country's highest minimum wage at $10 per hour.


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In Uncertain Times, Grassroots Opera Keeps it Nimble
This Saturday at 12:30 pm, host Naomi Lewin explores the world of small, artist-driven opera companies—representing "grassroots opera."
Marc Scorca, president and CEO of Opera America, talks about the perception of grassroots opera and how it has changed over the years. Then, we hear from the people who run two small, nimble outfits: Michael and Benjamin Spierman are the father-and-son team behind one of New York's most established companies, the Bronx Opera; Wesley Chinn is the founder of Opera Omnia, one of the newest on the scene. We hear performances from both of those companies, plus one by singers from Gotham Chamber Opera.
Interested in learning more about grassroots opera? Here's a list of links that will help you find a performance near you:
From this week's show:
Opera America: Opera America is the national service organization for opera and is dedicated to the creation, presentation and enjoyment of the art form.
Bronx Opera: In its 47th season, the Bronx Opera has long been apart of New York's performing arts scene. The Bronx Opera's two annual productions are always sung in English with a full chorus and orchestra, featuring talented singers selected from a semi-annual open competitive audition process.
Gotham Chamber Opera: GCO is dedicated to creating performances with a high production value in intimate spaces.
On Site Opera: Very new to the operatic scene, On Site Opera is its third season. The fledgling company is devoted to bringing opera out of the theater and into the community with productions performed with specific sites in mind.
Opera Omnia: This company concentrates on musical-dramatic works from the 17th century, performing them in English translation and modern staging.
In the New York area:
New York Opera Alliance: The New York Opera Alliance is a consortium of New York opera companies and producers established to enhance and support the visibility and viability of the companies they represent.
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Ricky Ian Gordon Orpheus and Euridice "Orpheus"
Elizabeth Futral, soprano; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Melvin Chen, piano
Ghostlight 84417
Gioachino Rossini La gazza ladra excerpt from Act I
Bronx Opera Orchestra; Michael Spierman, conductor
Jennifer Moore, soprano; Jason Coffey, baritone; C. David Morrow, bass
The Bronx Opera | Live performance from The Lovinger Theatre | January 2013
Francesco Cavalli's Giasone "Sleep now"
Avi Stein, music director; Hai-Ting Chinn, soprano; Cherry Duke, mezzo-soprano;
Opera Omnia | Live performance from WNYC's Soundcheck | September 2011
Nico Muhly Dark Sisters Act I, Finale
Neal Goren, conductor; Kristina Bachrach, soprano; Jennifer Check, soprano; Caitlin Lynch, soprano;
Jennifer Zetlan, soprano; Eve Gigliotti, mezzo-soprano; Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano; Kevin Burdette, bass
Gotham Chamber Opera | Live performance from The Gerald W. Lynch Theater | November 2011


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IT WAS in an uncomfortable 2003 interview with Martin Bashir that Michael Jackson allowed, for a moment, the veil behind the troubled myth that surrounded him to be lifted.
Jackson, his oddly moulded face peppered with five o'clock shadow, lowered his high-pitched voice and told Bashir: "I am Peter Pan."
"No you're not, you're Michael Jackson," Bashir retorted.
"No," corrected Jackson. "I am Peter Pan in my heart."
Right until the end, Jackson was, in his own eyes at least, the boy who never grew up. To others he was merely an ageing freakshow: a child trapped in a man's body who harboured socially unacceptable notions about children and was forever seeking to regain his own lost childhood.
Yet whatever the public perception of Jackson – as the man who dangled babies from balconies, the epaulette-wearing legend who invented the Moonwalk, or the bankrupt has-been with too much plastic surgery – his life was undoubtedly an extraordinary one. A heady mix of myth, rumour and scandal, the truth of which may never be fully revealed, it captivated the world for more than 40 years.
Born Michael Joseph Jackson on 29 August, 1958, in the working-class town of Gary, Indiana, he was the seventh of nine children. He was a shy boy, yet displayed a talent for singing and dancing. By the age of six his domineering father, Joe Jackson, had placed him front and centre of the family group. It was a decision that would radically alter the rest of Jackson's life.
Joe was widely reported as being violent and abusive, often whipping his young, nervy son, taunting him about his supposed "ugliness" (something which has been attributed to causing Jackson's adult obsession with plastic surgery) and terrorising him into such submission that, as Jackson revealed in a 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey, "there were times when he'd come to see me and I would start to be sick".
Joe worked the children hard, forcing them to rehearse late into the night and banning friends. When Jackson was ten years old the Jackson Five signed with Motown Records. Over the next six years they produced an eye-popping 13 albums. Years later, Jackson talked of being in the studio, looking out the window, seeing children playing and crying "from loneliness".
His fame had come at a high price: unable to walk the streets unrecognised, he was a prisoner of his own talents, deprived of a normal childhood and sparking a lifelong lust – perhaps most obviously manifested in his enormous Californian ranch, Neverland – to recapture that long-lost childhood innocence.
At 20 he met songwriter Quincy Jones and started down the long path to superstardom. Off The Wall, released in 1979, confirmed his place as one of the most exciting new artists of his generation, but it was the release of Thriller in 1982, the best-selling album of all time, that fixed the Jackson myth in the world's mind's eye: a black man who was acceptable listening for all races, whose quirky, military-inspired clothing could fuel a thousand fancy-dress parties, and who really could sing and dance.
As his fame exploded, Jackson appeared smiley and polite in public, always waving and talking about his love for his fans in a succession of increasingly eccentric, white-gloved get-ups.
But behind the scenes his insecurities were growing. In early 1984 he suffered second-degree burns to his scalp while filming a Pepsi commercial. It was a massive blow to his already fragile self-image, and not long afterwards he is thought to have had the third in a long line of plastic surgery operations to his nose.
His skin appeared to be lightening. Although he has always blamed this on a disorder that affects skin pigmentation, many believe he was having surgical procedures.
It was around this time that he started sporting a surgical mask, while rumours abounded that he slept in an oxygen tent. An adoring public lapped up the gossip as if it were gospel.
Throughout the 1980s, love appeared to elude Jackson. Apart from patently "for the cameras only" romances with the likes of Madonna and Naomi Campbell, he appeared a curiously sexless pop star, more interested in spending time with pet chimp Bubbles – for a while an integral part of his image and often dressed in identical clothes – or one of the many animals he kept in his Neverland zoo.
Then there were his under-age companions. He often invited children to stay at Neverland and struck up a close friendship with the 12-year-old actor Macaulay Culkin. Murky rumours concerning secret rooms in the house and inappropriate relationships began to emerge and, in 1993, Jackson was publicly accused of child abuse by the father of 13-year-old Jordy Chandler. Although the case never came to court – Jackson is believed to have paid Chandler an out-of-court settlement of about 13 million – it tarnished Jackson's image forever.
A few months later he married Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis. The media viewed it as a cynical publicity stunt designed to boost an ailing Jackson's public persona, and few were convinced. The pair divorced less than two years later.
By 1996 he was married again, this time to Debbie Rowe, a nurse. Details on how the pair met were sketchy and they seemed an unlikely couple who spent little time together and were rarely seen in each other's company. Their son, Prince Michael, was born in 1997 and a daughter, Paris, in 1998.
Yet rather than play happy families, a year later Jackson divorced Rowe and she gave up all parental rights to her children. The exact provenance of the children, plus a third son, Prince Michael II, who was born in 2002 and whose mother is unknown, remains mysterious: although they are often seen in public with masks, they have been occasionally photographed without them. They bear little resemblance to Jackson.
In 2003 Jackson, by then having had few hits in recent years and thought to be struggling financially, made the ill-fated decision to be interviewed by Bashir, who was given access to the singer's inner sanctum.
"It's a beautiful thing (sharing a bed with a boy]," Jackson said on camera. "It's very right, it's very loving. Because what's wrong with sharing a love?"
Jackson was arrested in November 2003 and charged with seven counts of child abuse. His four-month trial, in early 2005, captured the US in a way no courtroom battle had since OJ Simpson had taken the stand. He was cleared in June 2005 of all charges and disappeared from public view – moving the family to various hideaways, before being forced into a sale of his beloved Neverland.
Jackson was an enigma, a walking contradiction. An extraordinarily talented singer and dancer whose early promise was exploited mercilessly; a curiously asexual man fted worldwide as a sex symbol; a man who loved children, yet seemed unable to know where to draw boundaries; who claimed to be a representative for black culture, yet whose skin seemed progressively whiter with each album. For many, his much-hyped London performances scheduled to begin in August seemed a last throw of the dice by a man desperate to recapture a youthful image that had long since crumbled to dust. Whether his gamble would have paid off will become yet another question in the Jackson pantheon that will never now be answered.


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Free downloadable content for the best-selling Batman: Arkham Asylum videogame will put the Dark Knight into even more crazy, life-threatening situations this week, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Eidos said Monday.
The "Insane Night" map pack will include two new challenge maps: The "Totally Insane" combat map lets players test their fighting skills against hordes of crazed escapees from the asylum's records facility; the "Nocturnal Hunter" map has players using Batman's gadgets and stealth skills to attack the Joker's goons from the shadows.
The Arkham Asylum downloadable content will be available beginning Thursday for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The update for the Games for Windows version has not been dated but will be coming soon, according to the press statement.
The critically acclaimed action-adventure/stealth game has sold 2 million copies since its release last month.
See Also:
- Review: Creepy Batman: Arkham Asylum Redefines Comic-Book Game
- A First-Hand Tour of Batman: Arkham Asylum's Madhouse
- Video: Latest Batman: Arkham Asylum Clip Introduces Harley Quinn
- Batman: Arkham Asylum Trailer Nods to 20-Year-Old Grant Morrison
- Kevin Conroy Brings Batman Street Cred to Arkham Asylum
- Video: Batman: Arkham Asylum Trailer


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Greek Chicken Wraps! (7 points +)
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Opah! I love Greek food and I have shared a few of my favorites like turkey gyro and tzatziki. This chicken wrap is very easy and delicious and can be a low point lunch or dinner. I am a member of Food Buzz….notice the ad to the right —–>and they send us yummy new products to try out. This week I got a coupon from the Food Buzz tastemakers program compliments of Tyson. A free bag of their new Grill and Ready meat. I went to the grocery store today and decided what I wanted. They had about 5 different options to choose from: chicken fajita strips, chicken southwest strips, seasoned beef strips and just plain grilled chicken. I decided on the plain grilled chicken, I figured that would allow me to decide later what I wanted to add it to.
The best part about these is that they are precooked and you can cook them up super fast and throw a meal together in 5 minutes. They are also only 3 points per serving! Yeah!
My husband whipped up these delicious wraps for 7 points each!
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