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Tombstone of famous Chinese writer Bingxin was tarnished by her grandson. The grandson, Wu Shan, wrote eight big red Chinese characters "教子无方,枉为人表" which means: Bad at educating the son and shamed of being model of others.
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My name is Erika.
I am 19.
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I am predominantly a writer of Final Fantasy VII fanfiction. I adore the Turks (that includes Vincent), Tifa, Sephiroth and Jenova. Most of my stories are about Vincent and Tifa, because it is my personal opinion that they mesh together well. I encourage this pairing because I like it, and I'm always happy when I am able to make a non-fan of the pairing like the story, even if in the smallest bit.
When I'm not writing FFVII stuff, I usually dabble in bits of Final Fantasy X fiction. I do love Auron and Rikku pairings that make sense, but that's about the only pairing that interests me. Yuna annoyed me after FFX, and Tidus just looks too much like Meg Ryan for me to find him attractive. I used to write FFVIII stories, but as of yet I am not working on anything big in that area. Favorite characters include Irvine, Quistis and Seifer.
I don't have much time to devote to fanfiction anymore because I'm no longer a witless, jobless child. I am saving my money so that I can visit friends abroad, and that means I spend most of my days at work. On my time off, I'm usually playing Dungeons and Dragons. Don't knock it unless you've rocked it, people. It's fun and addictive. Currently I am playing a 5th level rogue elf called Utharwyn on version 3.5 because 4.0 is stupid and full of god-moddery.
If I have time to write, I tend to favor my own original works over fanfiction, but it all depends on the mood I'm in. I tend to rotate between fandoms, and there will be phases where I'm really into something one minute and then really bored with it the next. I never really drop these fandoms all together, but it can take time for me to pick them back up again. I can't really help myself since I'm somewhat ADD and a hereditary procrastinator. Reviews help, but they can't save a project I've completely trashed (rarely happens, but I've done it before).
I love to draw and I'm always doodling when I can. I can be found on deviantart with the screenname alectryomachy. It means "cock fighting" and is just another wonderfully obscure word that has been forgotten amongst the tides of the English language. I picked it because it is a vague joke reference to yaoi, another thing I like reading on occasion. I tend to stick with mainstream shonen-ai titles, such as Loveless or One Thousand and One Nights, though.
Personality wise, I'm often an asshole to other people. It just tends to come out because I'm not very fond of the levels of incompetence that I must face when I go out every day. I also happen to work in retail at the moment, and it's not a pleasant thing when you have to be inside the same building for 8 1/2 hours answering the same question billions of times coming from people who will treat you like dog poop. I know it's life and I accept it, but don't expect me to be peachy in return about it. I also feel strongly about people who don't care to proofread before they post their stories. I can understand a typo or a few misspelled words, but if the document is riddled with errors, it's a huge turn off to me. If you speak English as your first language and you are 13 or older, you have no excuse for illiteracy. Even if you don't have the internet at home, you have access at some point in your life or another to a dictionary. Utilize it or expect your ass to be burned.
As far as my story situation goes:
Keepsake is on hold at the moment. I am thinking of trashing this story because I am not pleased with where I led it, and I was a less mature author at the time. I have a great idea instead that I would like to put in place, and I am going to work on that ASAP so I can post it and ask for feedback.
I have deleted the Naruto stories I had previously posted because I determined that I would not continue with them. Please don't ask about them. I don't care about Naruto and have never read the comics, and I don't believe I am doing the original story justice when I don't actually like it in the first place. Thank you for your reviews and time, however. :3
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There has been a lot of talk on all sides of the political spectrum recently about the incivility of the public discourse. Much of this comes in reaction to the horrible shootings in Arizona…which, as I have expressed, had more to do with an unbalanced and mentally ill individual than what pundits and talk show hosts of any stripe have to say. Perhaps we should be focusing instead on the identification and treatment of these mentally troubled and potentially violent people that are evident throughout society. Instead the laws regarding institutionalizing those who are dangerously mentally ill have been so weakened and watered down over the years it is a wonder we don't see more instances of this sort. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. Laws of this nature have to be very carefully monitored and applied judiciously. But several people who knew the shooter said they had warned that it was only a matter of time before he went on a rampage such as he did. They were basically told nothing could be done until he did. Society needs to be protected and so do the violently mentally ill. Most mentally ill people are not violent…but those who are can be a danger to others and themselves and we should have the mechanism in place to intercede and treat them before they act. At least it's a discussion that is worth having and would be more productive than banning the word target from all newscasts…such as one major news organization made a big deal of doing this week. I'm Jim Cameron. That's my opinion. I'd like to know about yours.
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Morbotron is a screencap search engine for Futurama. The cap above is perhaps the most popular use case. It also does animated GIFs. See also Frinkiac, the Simpsons screencap search engine.
Morbotron is a screencap search engine for Futurama. The cap above is perhaps the most popular use case. It also does animated GIFs. See also Frinkiac, the Simpsons screencap search engine.
Terrapattern is a search engine for satellite images. You click on a specific feature of interest on a map and the site returns results that match it. For instance, here are the locations of solar panels in NYC.
You can also use Terrapattern to find school bus depots, fracking wells, Air Force bombers, baseball diamonds, train tracks, and much more.
There are only four cities currently represented (Pittsburgh, New York, San Francisco, and Detroit) but this is already super cool to play around with. (via @genmon)
Frinkiac searches through the subtitles from every episode of The Simpsons (in the first 15 seasons) and returns screencaps of all the times when the search term was used. For example, inanimate:
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Update: Hi diddley ho! The Frinkiac now does animated GIFs. Like this one. (via @buzz)
This map was compiled using the autocomplete results for "how much does a * cost" for every country in the world.
Some notable desires: Mexican tummy tucks, Brazilian prostitutes, Albanian nose jobs, Russian MiGs, Lebanese PS3s, and Japanese watermelons.
See also the desire map of the US.
In Alaska, people search for the cost of a gallon of milk. In Alabama and Florida, people search for the cost of abortions. In other states, vasectomies, facelifts, and taxis are popular searches. The map was compiled using the autocomplete results for "how much does a * cost"… for each of the 50 states. (via mr)
Yobi3D is a search engine for finding 3D objects. Here's a search for "horses":
This is pretty neat…all the objects are zoomable and rotatable in the browser. (via prosthetic knowledge)
Lantern is a search engine for the books, periodicals, and catalogs contained in the Media History Digital Library. If you are a fan or student of pre-1970s American film and broadcasting, this looks like a goldmine. Here are some of the periodical titles and the years available:
Variety 1905-1926
Photoplay 1914-1943
Movie Classic 1931-1937
Home Movies and Home Talkies 1932-1934
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Whenever I start to feel sick, I hit the Internet and start searching for more information about my symptoms. When a doctor writes me a prescription and I start feeling something unexpected, I search the web for side effects. And I'm not the only one whose first instinct is to turn my head and search. So many of us have adopted this behavior that researchers are gathering valuable information by studying our search queries and "have for the first time been able to detect evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects before they were found by the Food and Drug Administration's warning system."
Facebook's new Graph Search can be used to find some very unusual, disturbing, and potentially dangerous things. Like "Married people who like Prostitutes", "Family members of people who live in China and like Falun Gong", and "Islamic men interested in men who live in Tehran, Iran".
Earlier today I shared a quick way to read a links-only version of your Twitter stream using Twitter's new "people you follow" search filter. More than three years ago, Twitter removed @replies to people you don't follow from people's streams… e.g. if I follow Jack Dorsey on Twitter and you don't, you won't see my "@jack That's great, congrats!" tweet in your stream. With the "people you follow" search filter, you now have the option of seeing all those @replies again: just do a search for some gibberish with the not operator in front of it. (But obviously not that gibberish because then you'll miss tweets with that link in it. Get yer own gibberish!)
Two things that I wished worked that don't: -@ and -# for searches that exclude @replies and #hastags.
Update: Andy Baio reminds me that you can filter out @replies and #hashtags with "-filter:replies" and "-filter:hashtags". Which makes things a bit more interesting. Using the "people you follow" filter in combination with other filters, you can see your Twitter stream in all sorts of different ways:
- Only links
- Only links excluding Foursquare, Instagram, or whatever…
- Without links
- Without links and @replies (which is kind of an amazingly old school way to read Twitter)
You can also use it to read your stream with certain terms excluded…say if you didn't want to read anything about the Presidential candidates, SXSW, Rupert Murdoch, the Yankees, or Gawker. I know other tools let you filter tweets in your stream in different ways, but this is the first time Twitter allows people to do it on their site, even if it is through the back door.
A few weeks ago, Twitter added an option to search the tweets of only the people you follow. This is useful for several different reasons (try searching for [recent pop culture key phrase] to see what I mean) but for those who use Twitter primarily to find cool links to read/watch, it's an unexpected gift. To view your Twitter stream filtered to include only tweets containing links, just do a search for "http". Simple but powerful.
ps. Who knows if they're interested in this or not, but by a) making their entire archive available to search and b) allowing people to limit their search to their friends + 1-2 degrees of separation, Twitter could significantly better the search experience offered by Google et al in maybe 25-30% of all search cases. This is what Google is attempting to do with Google+ but Twitter could beat them to the punch.
Update: The search above, while quick, is also dirty in that it will include non-link tweets like "My favorite protocol is HTTP". The official Twitter way to is to use "filter:links", which will avoid that problem.
You can also filter out the links from your Twitter stream by negating the http search (this no longer works…), but you'll have to wade through all the @replies.
This is mesmerizing: using Google Image Search and starting with a transparent image, this video cycles through each subsequent related image, over 2900 in all.
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If you search Wolfram Alpha for "planes overhead", it returns a list of planes passing over your current location along with a sky map of where to look.
The most fun on the internet right now: go to Google and search for "do a barrel roll" (no quotes). Whee!
Google is thirteen today…back in 1998 when the site was still hosted at http://google.stanford.edu, Keith Dawson gave the search engine its first online coverage in English on the fondly remembered Tasty Bits From the Technology Front.
This site, one of the few rigorous academic research projects on Web searching, presents a demonstration database — only 25M documents — that already blows past most of the existing search engines in returning relevant nuggets. Google employs a concept of Page Rank derived from academic citation literature. Page Rank equates roughly to a page's importance on the Web: the more inbound links a page has, and the higher the importance of the pages linking to it, the higher its Page Rank.
Austin Kleon explicitly tied the last two posts together and fed Kurt Vonnegut's story shape graphs into Google Correlate's search by drawing feature. This is SO GOOD.
This is kind of amazing…you draw a graph and Google Correlate finds query terms whose popularity matches the drawn curve. I drew a bell curve, a very rough one peaking in 2007, and it matches a bunch of searches for "myspace".
This fits beautifully with the previous post about Vonnegut's story shape graphs.
Dorothy Gambrell looked up all of the state names on Google and made a map of what the autocomplete suggestions were. Here's part of it:
Lots of sports and schools.
The dickwad who threatened his customers as an SEO tactic (detailed here in the NY Times) was arrested on Monday by federal agents.
The merchant, Vitaly Borker, 34, who operates a Web site called decormyeyes.com, was charged with one count each of mail fraud, wire fraud, making interstate threats and cyberstalking. The mail fraud and wire fraud charges each carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The stalking and interstate threats charges carry a maximum sentence of five years.
He was arrested early Monday by agents of the United States Postal Inspection Service. In an arraignment in the late afternoon in United States District Court in Lower Manhattan, Judge Michael H. Dolinger denied Mr. Borker's request for bail, stating that the defendant was either "verging on psychotic" or had "an explosive personality." Mr. Borker will be detained until a preliminary hearing, scheduled for Dec. 20.
Have you noticed that when you search Google for the answer to a mathematical calculation, the only result it lists is Google's own? I mean, just look at this obvious result tampering:
This "hard-coding" of calculation answers as the top search result goes against the company's supposed policy promising completely algorithmic and unbiased results. How are other mathematical calculation sites supposed to compete against the Mountain View search and math giant? What if 45 times 12 isn't actually 540? (I checked the calculation on Wolfram Alpha several times and on my iPhone calcuator and 540 appears to be correct. For now.)
And this isn't even Google's most egregious transgression. As Eric Meyer points out, Google is blocking private correspondence between private parties. That means that grandmothers aren't getting necessary information about erectile disfunction, people aren't finding out where they can play Texas Hold 'Em online, and the queries of Nigerian foreign ministers are going unanswered. There are millions of dollars sitting in a bank somewhere and all they need is a loan to get it out! Google! This. Is. Un. Acce. Ptable!
P.S. I think this "research" is obvious and the conclusions are misleading and biased. But then I don't have Ph.D. from Harvard, so what do I know?
Steven Levy on how Google's search algorithm has changed over the years.
Take, for instance, the way Google's engine learns which words are synonyms. "We discovered a nifty thing very early on," Singhal says. "People change words in their queries. So someone would say, 'pictures of dogs,' and then they'd say, 'pictures of puppies.' So that told us that maybe 'dogs' and 'puppies' were interchangeable. We also learned that when you boil water, it's hot water. We were relearning semantics from humans, and that was a great advance."
But there were obstacles. Google's synonym system understood that a dog was similar to a puppy and that boiling water was hot. But it also concluded that a hot dog was the same as a boiling puppy. The problem was fixed in late 2002 by a breakthrough based on philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's theories about how words are defined by context. As Google crawled and archived billions of documents and Web pages, it analyzed what words were close to each other. "Hot dog" would be found in searches that also contained "bread" and "mustard" and "baseball games" — not poached pooches. That helped the algorithm understand what "hot dog" — and millions of other terms — meant. "Today, if you type 'Gandhi bio,' we know that bio means biography," Singhal says. "And if you type 'bio warfare,' it means biological."
Or in simpler terms, here's a snippet of a conversation that Google might have with itself:
A rock is a rock. It's also a stone, and it could be a boulder. Spell it "rokc" and it's still a rock. But put "little" in front of it and it's the capital of Arkansas. Which is not an ark. Unless Noah is around.
It didn't feature an athletic woman with a flimsy bra throwing a hammer through a screen, but I thought Google's Super Bowl ad was pretty well done:
Google announced their public DNS server today. I'm using it right now. There's been a bunch of speculation as to why Google is offering this service for free but the reason is pretty simple: they want to speed up people's Google search results. In 2006, Google VP Marissa Mayer told the audience at the Web 2.0 conference that slowing a user's search experience down even a fraction of a second results in fewer searches and less customer satisfaction.
Marissa ran an experiment where Google increased the number of search results to thirty. Traffic and revenue from Google searchers in the experimental group dropped by 20%.
Ouch. Why? Why, when users had asked for this, did they seem to hate it?
After a bit of looking, Marissa explained that they found an uncontrolled variable. The page with 10 results took .4 seconds to generate. The page with 30 results took .9 seconds.
Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.
Former Amazon employee Greg Linden backs up Mayer's claim:
This conclusion may be surprising — people notice a half second delay? — but we had a similar experience at Amazon.com. In A/B tests, we tried delaying the page in increments of 100 milliseconds and found that even very small delays would result in substantial and costly drops in revenue.
Google is developing their next-generation search engine and needs your help in testing it out.
For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. It's the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits "under the hood" of Google's search engine, which means that most users won't notice a difference in search results.
(via waxy)
After I heard Microsoft's announcement of yet-another-interation of their search engine (named Bing), I went to look at the stats for kottke.org for the past month to see how many visitors each search engine sent to the site. I couldn't believe how dominant Google was.
Google | 262,946 | 93.8%
MS Live | 4,307 | 1.5%
Yahoo | 4,036 | 1.4%
It's a small sample and doesn't match up with Comscore's numbers (Google: 64.2%, Yahoo: 20.4%, MS: 8.2%), but wow. As a comparison, the numbers for a year ago for kottke.org had Google at 91%, Yahoo at 4.9%, and Live at 0.7%.
At some event called the Churchill Club Top Tech Trends, VC Steve Jurvetson had an interesting idea about the future direction of search.
He said the aggregate power of distributed human activity will trump centralized control. His main point was that Google, and other search engines that analyze the Web and links, are much less useful than a (theoretical) search engine that knows not what people have linked to (as Google does), but rather what pages are open on people's browsers at the moment that people are searching. "All the problems of search would be solved if search relevance was ranked by what browsers were displaying," he said.
I like that idea a lot, but it got me thinking: how many instances of Firefox can you run on a cheapo LInux box, how many tabs could you have open in each of those browsers, and would that be more or less cost effective than the search term gaming that currently happens? In other words, good luck with that!
If you're skeptical of WolframAlpha (as I was), you should watch this introduction by Stephen Wolfram. The comparison to Google (usually "is WolframAlpha a Google killer?") is not a good one but the new service could learn a little something from the reigning champion: hide the math. One of the geniuses of Google is that it took simple input and gave simple output with a whole lot of complexity in between that no one saw and few people cared about. Plus the underlying premise of the complex computation was simplified, branded (PageRank!), and became a value proposition for Google: here's what the web itself thinks is important about your query.
Here's a small and nerdy measure of the huge change in the executive branch of the US government today. Here's the robots.txt file from whitehouse.gov yesterday:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /query.html
Disallow: /omb/search
Disallow: /omb/query.html
Disallow: /expectmore/search
Disallow: /expectmore/query.html
Disallow: /results/search
Disallow: /results/query.html
Disallow: /earmarks/search
Disallow: /earmarks/query.html
Disallow: /help
Disallow: /360pics/text
Disallow: /911/911day/text
Disallow: /911/heroes/text
And it goes on like that for almost 2400 lines! Here's the new Obamafied robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
That's it! BTW, the robots.txt file tells search engines what to include and not include in their indexes. (thx, ian)
Update: Nearly four months later, the White House's robots.txt file is still short…only four lines.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /omb/search/
TinEye is an image search engine. You give it an image and it'll find it on the web for you. If it works — I didn't get to try it too much because it was down — this is great for chasing down attribution and finding other pix by the same photographer and such. (via master kalina)
Google Book Search has added a few magazines to their repertoire.
Today, we're announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony.
At least I think it's a few magazines…it might be thousands but there's no way (that I can find) to view a list of magazines on offer.
Update: Spellbound and Thomas Gruber have lists of some of the magazines on offer.


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NEW YORK (AP) Former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will take flight on Animal Planet with a new sport — pigeon racing.
The network this week announced a new reality show that will pit Tyson, a novice pigeon racer, against serious competitors.
The show is currently titled Taking on Tyson and promises to bring audiences inside this "intensely competitive and bizarrely fascinating world."
Tyson has raised pigeons all his life but will take to the rooftops as a racing rookie. The network says he'll be assisted by a colorful team of pigeon experts as he rears, trains and races them.
The show is scheduled to be taped this spring in New York City and air early next year.
Animal Planet is owned by Discovery Communications.
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We are an independent game development company based in Brazil. Some years in the market gave us experience to work with some publishers doing different genres like: Survival, Tactical FPS, Simulators and RPG. Our team is strong and has a great enthusiasm, always wanting to go further and enrich our company. The gaming industry is always changing, so we keep improving ourselves to deliver the best experiences to the players. Our goal is to create better and bigger games with a great team.
In this action RPG, the heroes must retrieve the Primordial Instruments that were stolen from the Concert Halls to return the balance and stability of the floating islands of AereA. Creatures that were peaceful now attack villages and cities and there is the risk of AereA losing their entire stability and fall into the unknown world Below. Choose the class that please you more, grab your gear and help to restore the order in the world of AereA - The Scattered Lands!
A survival simulation game where players needs to survive on an abandoned island, with buildings and lots of nature elements to explore, with no fantasy plot. You awaken on an island with no memory but a child's photograph is in your pocket. To uncover the mysteries of the island and the past, the player will need to search for resources and locate a way to escape. Played in both first and third person view, the game features a crafting system that is inspired by classic point and click adventure games. Players will not stack items in a table but will create new items by using actions like Cut&Tie.
In WSS player can buy ships and then participate in various missions in three different ports: services, freight and tourism. Missions include different destinations, challenges on the road and has a nice visual and easy to learn. From small boats to large ships, the player will handle situations patience and caution - because, as in real life, small errors can cause a tragedy.
A strategy action game that will put players in tense moments, usually taking care of terrorists and hostage situations, but also having to manage the team and coordenate them in action. In CTU (Counter Terrorism Unit), the player is part of a special force against terrorism and criminals. Players can command invasions of homes, buildings and lead their teams against the enemy rather than just shoot them. They can also recruit and train their soldiers to ensure that they have the best performance in the missions.
A police action simulator game where the player can take actions used in real situations and explore towns, rural areas and forests while he/she is on or off duty in a sandbox environment. Drive police vehicles, imposes fines and catch the bady guys in this police simulator. In addition to your work, you have to manage your life as a civilian and can buy items for your home and new vehicles. Hundreds of missions combinations, vehicle options, weapons and neighborhoods of Mountain Valley will leave the player stuck for long hours.


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Beckham asks Real to be patient with friend Zidane
By Adriana Garcia
VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - David Beckham believes Real Madrid should give his former team mate at the club, Zinedine Zidane, time to succeed even if the French great fails to inspire them to victory in the Champions League final later this month.
Zidane fell just short of steering the club to La Liga glory, with Real finishing one point behind Barcelona, but can claim his first title since replacing Rafa Benitez earlier this year in the May 28 Champions League final against city rivals Atletico in Milan.
"Madrid needs stability and continuity," Beckham said in an interview with Spanish magazine Semanal XL.
"It would be good if Zizou (Zidane) continues for some time and that they maintain the players they have today.
"Even if they don't win the Champions League, it would be good to let Zizou work.
"Stability is key, not just in every aspect of life but in business."
Former England captain Beckham played with Zidane at Real from 2003 until 2006 before the French great retired from soccer.
"Besides being a great friend, he is the person that is most passionate about soccer and Real Madrid that I have met and the best player I've ever played with," Beckham said. Continued...


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"The mission of the State Theatre is to deliver the arts to our community in a way that is inclusive, accessible and sustainable."
The State Theatre is a regional theatre serving the Piedmont area of central Virginia. All of the town of Culpeper – Culpeper County, Little Washington-Rappahannock County, Warrenton and Fauquier County, Virginia
Mr. Steven Barker
Dr. Robert A. Hansen CFRE
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The State Theatre brings exciting artists to Culpeper while also sharing the stage with the talent in our own backyard. We strive to provide diverse programs to the community, giving everyone an opportunity to experience the arts.
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The State Theatre of Culpeper is a state of the art preforming arts center which directly benefits our community in many different ways, including:
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Sold out preferences at Christmas for Dickens "A Christmas Carol" and Charlotte's Web in May 2016.
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Dr. Robert A. Hansen CFRE
Steven Barker has been a theatre-maker and educator for the last 17 years. He holds an MFA in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University (ASU) and a BFA in Theatre Education and a BS in Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Steve returned to Virginia in April to work as the Events & Outreach Coordinator and Capital Campaign Manager at the State Theatre before being promoted to ED. He also serves as the Artistic Director of the newly formed Piedmont Players, where he most recently directed their inaugural production of A Christmas Carol.
Before coming to Culpeper and the Virginia Piedmont he was up north working as a Teaching Fellow and Curriculum Supervisor for The Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, NY. Mr. Barker has been a teaching artist for Pied Piper Theatre (Manassas), Imagination Stage (Bethesda), Orlando Repertory Theatre, ASU and VCU. As an instructor for Northern Virginia Community College, Steven founded the NVCC Tour Bus program. He has successfully directed the theatre programs at Lejeune High School and Falls Church High School. Students under his direction have place at regional and state levels for national competition. He has been nominated for both directing and design work, recently earning the North Carolina Theatre Conference's 2012 Excellence in Directing award and a Superior rating for his production of Black Butterfly, Jaguar Girl, and Piñata Woman, and other Superhero Girls… like me.
Mr. Barker has been involved in over 65 professional productions in his 17-year career. He has a range of directing and design credits including Radium Girls (world premiere – one act version), Godspell and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (with LHS), Tartuffe (with BDP), A Doll's House, The Glass Menagerie, The Doctor In Spite of Himself, The Mouse Trap, The Lion in Winter and Macbeth (with CCCC), Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Charlotte's Web (with PPT), One Night with Fanny Brice (with TACT), Noises Off, The Madness of King George, and Man of La Mancha (with FCHS).
Steven most recently served as the Strategic Planning and Development Director and the Treasurer of the Virginia Theatre Association, as a Theatre In Our Schools Professional Development Conference chair (for Metro DC and Central Virginia), and the High School Network Co-chair for the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
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WEST JEFFERSON-North Carolina lawmakers may have missed their original state budget deadline by more than two months but, in the end, the budget was just what Ashe County Schools was hoping for.
That's according to Todd Holden, Superintendent of Ashe County Schools, who said this week the proposed budget the North Carolina General Assembly considered this week will allow his district to keep all its teacher assistants and pay for local driver's education classes for another two years.
It puts to rest two issues Holden said he'd worried about before the school year got underway.
Holden said he'd worried about both issues before the school year got underway.
"Those were two big snag points for Ashe County Schools," Holden said. "We've not had an opportunity to really dive into the budget yet, but I do know they've funded driver's education to the same level as last year, and we know we'll be able to keep all our teacher assistants, and I couldn't be happier about that."
State senators voted along party lines Wednesday to pass the nearly $22 billion budget. The North Carolina House of Representatives took up the bill later in the week ahead of a Sept. 18, deadline.
And both chambers needed to pass a budget, and get Gov. Pat McCrory's endorsement, by Friday or extend the temporary budget fix that has kept state government going since July 1, when the previous year's budget expired.
Phyllis Yates, associate superintendent of Ashe County Schools, said the budget will keep the system from dipping into its fund balance – or tack on a $65 fee per student – to fund the roughly 175 students who will take driver's education this school year.
It also means the district will hold on to all 29 teacher assistants at the county's three elementary schools.
"Those assistants, they're vital, absolutely vital to what happens in classrooms," Holden said. "And it's not just about the fact that they help teachers manage kids. They're a big help in terms of instruction. Teachers and students are better off with those assistants in the classroom."
Other budget highlights include:
•Reduces personal income tax from 5.75 percent in 2015 to 5.499 percent beginning in 2017.
•Frees up an additional $216 million annually that was being transferred from the state's highway fund to the state's general operating fund. That means more money available for road building and spends $705 million over two years for transportation needs.
•Increases early teacher pay $2,000 per year to $35,000 annually, while granting raises based on experience to teachers, assistant principals and principals among other state employees.
•Provides nearly $800 million over two years for Medicaid services based on enrollment and demand for services.
•Maintains the existing system for allocating sales tax revenue. Seventy-five percent is allocated based on the county where a sale takes place and 25 percent is based on population.


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If you've read 'Looking for Alaska' by John Green, you'll understand this poem. My friend lent me the book and it inspired this poem. If you haven't, you probably won't.
Still driving, straight and fast,
White flowers in her car, still driving,
Headed for the one she didn't save,
Just another cold grey tomb.
Hears the sirens, sees the lights,
Still driving - faster, faster,
Out of the labyrinth, straight and true,
No regrets, alcohol through her blood
And white flowers in her car.
Driving, straight and fast,
The only way out of the labyrinth.


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Local News
Snowmobile Safety Awareness Week is Jan. 13-19-
Gov. Mark Dayton with the support of Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Minnesota United Snowmobilers Association (MnUSA) has proclaimed Jan.
New commissioner discusses assignments-
The first county board meeting of the new year means new appointments and assignments for the commissioners. WTIP's Jay Andersen spoke with new District Four Commissioner Heidi Doo-Kirk.
City's harbor is Park Board focus-
Lots of action at the Grand Marais Rec Park…especially with respect to the harbor. WTIP's Jay Andersen spoke with park manager Dave Tersteeg.
Deep snow makes Denali climb tough Wednesday for Dupre-
In the latest report from Alaska's Denali, Lonnie Dupre had a good 10 hours of sleep during his first night on the mountain, but had a difficult climb Wednesday..
Human trafficking at highest point-
Human sex trafficking is on the increase and is a multi-billion dollar industry. WTIP's Roger Linehan spoke with Lucy Perpich of the Cook County Violence Prevention Center.
Sen. Franken talks about guns and mental health-
Guns in school, better mental health programs and reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. WTIP's Jay Andersen spoke with Minnesota's US Senator Al Franken.
Silver Bay Area loses girls' hockey match to Proctor-Hermantown-
The Proctor-Hermantown girls' hockey team visited Silver Bay Tuesday night and left with a 4-0 shut-out of the Mariners.
Lonnie Dupre is on Denali-
Cook County mountain climber and Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre is on Denali.
State encouraging residents to test homes for radonAssociated Press (AP)-
ST. PAUL (AP) - Governor Mark Dayton has declared this "Radon Action Month" in Minnesota, and the state is encouraging residents to get their homes tested.
Ross Fraboni of Two Harbors takes top finish overall in Gichigami Express Sled Dog Race-
Ross Fraboni of Two Harbors and his team won all three stages of the inaugural Gichigami Express Sled Dog Race and mushed his way to the top prize Tuesday.


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My ears pricked back, I heard the scream. It deafened me. But then. It just stopped. Dead.
I growled and leaped from my seat, almost ripping the door from its hinges as I exploded into the main garage, bolting toward her car. I heard her slow breath, she was unconscious and something else was there.
I ripped open her door and instinctively leant over her, looking into the face of the blonde vampire. "You!" I growled, not forgetting his face from the bar yesterday.
He smiled sweetly at me. "Heya there, wolfie. You don't mind if I take a sip of your girlfriend, do you? I'm just a bit thirsty and I won't hurt her."
"Of course I do! Get away from her!"
"Now, now, wolfie," he said in a patronisingly stern voice. "No one has to get hurt if you just let me have a sip. One sip. That's all. I promise."
"May I warn you, I've just eaten and if you want a drink, that means you're hungry," I grinned.
"You're so very innocent," he replied, grinning. "I'm not thirsty at all." His tone changed slightly and I felt like it pulling at me as he said "Now you will let me feed off this witch."
"No. I won't." I growled, "Back. Off."
The vampire grabbed my hand with lightning speed and jerked me towards him in one movement. As I lay across Flora, he leant down and whispered in my ear "You will do as I say now," his tone more forceful and less resistible than before."
Something pulled in me, a force; the instinct to protect... "No. I. Won't." I growled, bringing a fist straight up into his jaw but he swiftly countered with his fangs sinking into my fist. Perfect. It bought me enough time to drag a small wooden spike from my pocket and clearly show him it. "I don't believe you want the final death today, bat-boy."
He froze, eyes suddenly focused on the spike. "You care a lot about this witch," he said, meaning to sneer but the strain was audible in his tone. "You know she doesn't love you back, right?" And quickly, he had opened the car door and slipped off, somehow disappearing in broad daylight.
"No, I just promised I'd protect her," I murmured with a faint smile, retracting back to her side, "Flora... Flora?" She looked like she was in a trance. How the hell did you wake someone up from a trance? I resigned with a sigh and picked her up, carefully kissing her cheek, "you're gonna be so much trouble." I whined, noticing the Sleeping Beauty trick didn't work.
I took her to my freshly made bed. I say freshly made, it was made a few months ago but I hadn't slept in it. I laid her down carefully as if she was a porcelain doll before drawing up a chair at her bedside and checking her temperature at regular intervals. I wasn't sure what this was, I wasn't a doctor... I'm not even close. But when her eyes flickered, something in me jumped.
"Flora? Flora! You're up!" I grinned, rubbing the back of her hand frantically.
She sat up with surprising energy, her voice high and alert, "was I asleep?" She looked down and frowned, "whose bed is this?" She looked at me with a raised eyebrow.
"Mine and you were unconscious."
She looked thoughtful, before continuing uncertainly, "no, I wasn't," she said slowly. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, suddenly looking very fragile. "I was hypnotised, wasn't I?" she asked, her voice barely louder than a murmur.
"Hmm, quite possibly. You looked unconscious..."
"Well, of course," she said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world, "he put me in a deep trance. How long have I been... out of it?"
"About two hours and a bit."
"Wow, that's disorientating," she murmured. I thought she was coping considerably well before she suddenly swallowed hard and tears came to her eyes. "What was his accent?" she whispered.
"Boston... American," I paused, "Damn Punk."
"Phew," she said, but she didn't look very relieved to me. In fact, she looked like she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "Why did it have to look like him?" she asked, anguished.
"I don't know, sweetie, fate is cruel like that," I murmured, pushing hair from her face.
She stared up at me, with wide, vulnerable blue eyes which glinted in the light, "you saved me," she murmured, as if only just realising this.
I smiled softly, warmly and comfortingly at her, tilting my head slightly, "Of course, I said I'd protect you."
She frowned, "yeah, for totally the wrong reason." She rolled onto her front, resting on her arms. "You ruined the moment. I was going to kiss your cheek like in the movies."
"I'm protecting you," I continued in a very low whisper, "because... I care about you."
She slowly rolled back onto her back. She gazed with an almost disconcerting intensity into my eyes, searching for any hint that I could be lying. Satisfied with what she saw, she leant up and pecked me on the cheek, withdrawing almost instantly. But before she did, there was something like to an explosion in my mind... I disregarded this, however, because Flora was blushing in the cutest way imaginable.
"Flora..." I murmured.
"Yeah," she replied, her eyes locking onto mine as if mine possessed some sort of magnetic quality.
I stared into her eyes for a moment before breaking it, a cold snap breaking in my chest. "Would you like a drink?" I swallowed with a grimace.
Pain flashed in her eyes but she swallowed it and replied "Erm... yes please." I turned away, the pain in her eyes was too much for me and I had to move away. The thudding in my heart was too much to bear. I needed to distract myself... I refused to admit it... admit what the feeling could be. I don't believe in it... not like that. I shook my head and growled, grabbing a glass from the kitchen and filling it with water.


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Nope wasn't me, but I got some from Linda too. Mine are blooming also.
Just wonderful!!
Too bad she's not on the list to thank her, lost her email in the pc crash
too, unfortunately.
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I got some too, and mine are also blooming- a red and maroon colored
> one.. I believe it was from Linda (or Lynda) and she was from Wyoming I
> think???? I have a horrible memory for names...
> Theresa
> A A HODGES wrote:
> >About 3 years ago someone from this list (and now I cannot recall who!)
> >sent me cuttings from their epiphytic cacti. I went out to the
> >greenhouse tonight where I've left them neglected and unwatered for
> >weeks, and low and behold one is blooming. It's HUGE and it's GORGEOUS!
> >So, I think maybe it was Noreen, but whoever sent them to me, I love
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NASHVILLE, TN - The GRAMMY® nominated and Dove Award winning band Newsboys recently announced they have rejoined the Sparrow Records roster.
Having spent the majority of their career with Sparrow, they have sold over 7 million albums, have five RIAA Certified Gold albums and 25 #1 radio hits including their most recent #1 smash "God's Not Dead." Newsboys' Sparrow Records debut will come in the form of Newsboys: Live in Concert, God's Not Dead, due October 22nd.
"The Newsboys continue to impact the Christian community with songs that connect deeply with their listeners and with a show that consistently entertains concert goers around the world with impassioned songs about life & faith," comments Peter York, President, EMI CMG Label Group. "We are excited to partner with them once again and look forward to effectively representing them at radio, retail and, most importantly, in the hearts of all who will listen to this extraordinary band."
"The history of Newsboys and Sparrow Records is a long and successful one, and we are extremely excited about renewing this relationship and continuing to build on the success of our recent projects." remarked Wes Campbell, the band's manager.
Recorded live at in front of tens of thousands of fans at 2012's Sonshine festival in Willmar, MN and LifeFest in Osh Kosh, WI., Newsboys: Live in Concert, God's Not Dead primarily features songs from their hit recordings God's Not Dead (2012) and Born Again (2010), and premieres the first new recordings of lead vocalist Michael Tait singing past Newsboys hits "He Reigns" and "Something Beautiful." (Note: Full track listing below)
"Newsboys has always been known for their live show, and we feel sharing this experience through this initial release is a perfect way to re-launch this partnership." said Michael Tait, Newsboys' lead singer. "In the end, the live experience is only possible because of the hundreds of thousands of fans who attend our shows, and we are eternally thankful for their continued support."
Newsboys will continue to bring this live experience to fans this fall as they re-embark on their highly successful God's Not Dead Tour. Having already visited over 60 markets this spring, and scheduled for 35 more this fall, the tour will also feature Building 429 (Provident Music Group) and Luminate (Sparrow Records). For more tour details and all things Newsboys, please visit their website.
About Newsboys:
This GRAMMY®-nominated and Dove Award-winning band has sold close to 8 million units, has garnered five Gold albums and 25 No. 1 radio hits. Their 2010 release, Born Again, saw the largest street week of their careers, selling astounding 45,311 units and hitting No. 4 on Billboard's overall chart, positioned above new releases from such artists as Justin Bieber, Sting and M.I.A. Its self-titled single topped the radio charts for 8 weeks, gaining close to eight million impressions to date. The record also garnered three No. 1 hits.
Newsboys released their most recent CD on November 15, 2011 - the highly anticipated project, God's Not Dead. This rock-driven worship album finds front man Michael Tait and his band mates who've played together for two decades - Jeff Frankenstein (keys), Duncan Phillips (drums) and Jody Davis (guitar) – with some of today's most widely church-embraced modern worship anthems as well as several original and never-before-released worship songs written by some of today's biggest worship songwriters. It's title song, "God's Not Dead," topped the CHR radio format for seven weeks in a row.
Renown for their heart-pumping live concerts, the tight knit Newsboys unit continues to headline shows in the U.S. and around the world. 2011 saw them headline the world's biggest tour, the Winter Jam Tour, playing to more than half a million people. Stay tuned to www.Newsboys.com for the most updated tour dates and latest information on the band.
Newsboys: Live in Concert, God's Not Dead Tracklisting:
1. Escape
2. Born Again
3. Something Beautiful
4. The King Is Coming
5. Your Love Never Fails
6. Here We Stand
7. He Reigns
8. Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus
9. Mighty To Save
10. Save Your Life
11. Miracles
12. Jesus Freak
13. God's Not Dead Message
14. God's Not Dead
15. Revelation Song
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Chapter 28Mature
I woke with a start, I was still on the same bench I was on last night with a fancy black velvet coat draped around me. I went to sit up and examined myself to see if I was actually still alive or if I was just an illusion. I felt here in the now, but something seemed a bit off. I held my left hand up and noticed the Sapphire Diamond had turned into a Black Diamond, sparkling so strong in the morning sun. For some reason it gave me peace, not anxiety and I just smiled. I looked around the park and noticed that it was still pretty early. The sun had just risen exposing the dense fog that was moving across the park. I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and just live in the moment. When I slowly opened my eyes I heard a voice, "Beautiful, isn't it?"
I quickly turned my head to find my Father Kane, the same man who not only abandoned me once, but twice when I needed him most. But, for some reason I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and hear him out. "Beautiful, doesn't do this scene justice, I would say Majestic. I wish I could just live in this forever. No Varations, and Vampria's dictating my every move."
Still looking to the distance, he smiled, "I wish it was that easy for you. I never wanted your life to be like this, mixed up in this Vampire politics. I always wanted for you to be normal, live a long, healthy, fulfilled life that you could be proud of. Your mother and I always wanted to protect you from all of this. That protection came at a price, a price your mother was willing to pay."
"What are you talking about? Xavier mentioned the same thing, she died in a car crash, is there something I'm not in the know about?"
He turned to me and put a gentle hand on my shoulder to brace me for what he was about to say, "My dear, sweet Charlemagne you are right, your mother did die in a car crash, but you and Armada were right there in the car with her."
"What? I would've remembered a horrific car crash, and if she died of the impact, that same impact would've killed us all. I saw the report, the car was so damaged no one would've survived that, I don't care who you are."
"You and Armada were too young to remember, she staged it just right."
"Meaning what? Staging what? I don't understand!" I huffed.
He closed his eyes, and took a deep breath, "Your mother staged the car accident to make it look like there would be no survivors, so the Varation's and the Vampria's would stop this battle. She made it so she faked yours and Armada's death, so that you two could go on and live your lives outside of all this."
I was so full of rage, but for some reason I was able to contain it within myself, "She gave you two beautiful children, raised them, and sacrificed her life, and what did you do? Stand by, and watch it all unfold? Couldn't get your hands dirty, no sacrifice on your part, you make me sick!" I went to stand up, and Kane grabbed a hold of my arm to stop me.
"I did sacrifice a lot, having children with a witch instead of a Vampire was a huge risk, a risk I was willing to take because I loved her so much. I was destined to be with another according to the book of Varation, but I decided fuck the book, it's not going to dictate my life and what I stand for. But as soon as you were born, all Hell broke loose and there was a battle of who the future aire of Kane was going to rule."
"I was fucking born a Varation, it should have been a no brainer."
"You have so much to learn, but the first thing you should know and always take with you is that your mother and I both love you and Armada so much, and everything that was done was to protect you."
I put my left hand up to my forehead, I was trying to take this all in and process it, but I felt so off. I wanted to know more, but I needed to get home and face my husband who I'm sure is having a field day with my disappearance and has sent out a search team.
"Charlemagne, where did you get that diamond?"
I pulled my hand away and examined the now Black Diamond, "Really? Didn't you realize that I'm a full Vampire now? I'm married now."
Kane stood straight up, and yanked my hand toward him, "Who?"
"Alexander Jeremiah Dante."
His eyes glowed with furry, "Why is this diamond black? It's supposed to be blue."
"It was, then with my last encounter with Robert he beat me so much that I was starting to reject Alex's blood for some reason. Then when you abandoned me, yet again Xavier somehow called me down and healed me, and then you showed up."
"Do you mean Xavier Sinclair?"
"How do you know him? Another Varation you control, to clean up your messes?"
He took a step back, "It can't be?"
I took a step toward him, "What can't be?"
Kane looked down in confusion, looked back up at me, "I'm sorry." And he was gone.
I shouldn't be surprised anymore, sacrifice my ass, as far as I'm concerned he doesn't even earn the title Dad.
I started to see early joggers make their way across the park. Well better make my exit before people start to notice a disheveled Varation Vampire with a velvet cloak around her person.
I took one last look at perfection, closed my eyes, and took a mental picture because for some reason I feel like this will be the last time for a while that I'll ever be in complete peace.


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Chapter Twenty-Three, Part Two: The Golden EmperorMature
He'll pay more attention to the dust now.
It smells a bit like...
He sticks a finger in his mouth, wetting the remains.
"Who are you? Who... Flavia." he murmurs, wrinkling his nose. "...and a slight taste of living metal... where have I tasted that before..."
Blinking more carefully again, as to avoid more ridiculous blood tears, he coughs suddenly, gagging on the idea that has just tickled his nerves like a finger in a socket.
"Of course. That bloody bird. It smelled like this, the Hand. The Hand! But that means... Rassilon killed her... she must have opposed him, but... surely it wasn't just that. The man is calculating."
He speaks again, again to himself, and again to the cold pile of dust re-settling in his hair, newly-abandoned by his probing fingers as they lower, lost in the baggage compartment of his train of thought. Sifting the details like cake flour.
"Killed Flavia. The day Number Ten Son and I made nice, when I used the Gate to copy myself. And then the 10-point star diamond...the Doctor helped me find my answers... that the signal was placed in my head by Rassilon, when I was a child, when I stood before the Schism... The Doctor and I made up... I was grateful, ready to leave... so I protected my idiot and his pets from the old bastard... I told the Doctor to get out of the way, so I could shoot the diamond... burned a few years to force Rassilon back into the Time Lock with me... Not surprising he killed her, really. But what does it mean?"
He shoves his fist sideways, smashing into the rest of the coffin.


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