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The President of Cyprus cut his own salary by 25% today as his country's banks reopened for the first time in almost two weeks.
Armed guards were on duty as customers queued peacefully for hours to get their hands on cash.
A daily withdrawal limit of 300 euros (£254) was imposed to stop a run on the banks.
Five shipping containers filled with billions of euros had been delivered to the central bank and cash was driven to branches in armoured trucks.
The limits on transactions, to be reviewed daily, also include a cap of 1,000 euros (£847) on cash travellers can take out of the country.
Froso Kokikou, 64, queueing outside a branch of Cyprus Popular Bank, said: "I feel a sense of fear and disappointment having to queue up like this.
"It feels like a Third World country, but what can you do?"
Kostas Nikolaou, 60, said: "How can they tell you you can't access your own money in the bank? It's our money, we are entitled to it."
President Nicos Anastasiades, who also imposed a 20% wage cut on Cabinet members, used Twitter to thank people for their "maturity and collectedness".
The restrictions, the first in the Euro's history, are part of an £8.5billion Euro bailout deal for Cyprus, which has to itself raise £4.9billion.
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action: haven't really adjusted the action on my guitars in years. I just don't really care about it anymore. I kind of like a medium action. Don't like the strings too low because when I do a big bend on one string I like the tips of my fingers to slide *slightly* under the other strings instead of push right up against them.

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The Plymouth State University Search Committee has selected four finalists for consideration as the next president of the University, Committee Chair Eugene Savage announced today. The four finalists are: James McCarthy, dean of the School of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire; Christopher Hopey, vice president for adult and continuing education at Northeastern University; Virginia Barry, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Plymouth State University; and Sara Jayne Steen, dean of College of Letters and Science at Montana State University.
The finalists will be visiting Plymouth within the next few weeks for final interviews and other events, including opportunities for students, staff, faculty, alumni, Greater Plymouth Community, and the general public to interact with them. A full schedule of these meetings will be distributed shortly.
In addition, citizens and community business leaders in the Greater Plymouth area are invited to meet with the candidates at 7:30 p.m. in the Plymouth Regional Senior Center on the following dates:
James McCarthy: Tuesday, February 28
Christopher Hopey: Thursday, March 2
Virginia Barry: Tuesday, March 7
Sara Jayne Steen: Thursday, March 9
"This has been a rigorous process. We have read about, researched, and talked to many highly qualified individuals who have expressed interest in being the next president at PSU and are very pleased with the four candidates we are presenting to the Greater Plymouth community," said Savage, a 1958 PSU alumnus and a member of the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) Board of Trustees.
Biographies of the candidates (in order of their campus visits) follow:
James McCarthy, Ph.D. has been the dean of the School of Health and Human Services (HHS) and professor of health management and policy at the University of New Hampshire since 2001. In this role, he leads 2,100 undergraduate and graduate students and 150 full-time faculty who teach in eight departments and who conduct research and provide direct services through six centers and institutes. >From 1988-2001 Dr. McCarthy was the director of the Heilbrunn Center for Population and Family Health at Columbia University, and Heilbrunn Professor of Public Health. From 1984-1988, Dr. McCarthy was the director of The Hopkins Population Center at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. McCarthy's teaching and scholarship include 26 years of undergraduate and graduate teaching at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of New Hampshire in schools of arts and science, public health, health and human services, and medicine. He has done extensive research and community outreach work in demography and reproductive, adolescent, and community health, carried out in the United States and numerous countries throughout the world with financial support from state, federal, and international public agencies and private foundations.
Dr. McCarthy received an A.B. in sociology from the College of the Holy Cross in 1971, an M.A. in sociology from Indiana University in 1972, and his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in 1977.
Christopher Edward Hopey, Ph.D. Since 2003 Dr. Hopey has been the vice president for adult and continuing education at Northeastern University and has served as an associate professor in the School of Education. As vice president, he serves as the chief academic and administrative officer for the Division of Adult and Continuing Education, which includes the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, the Lowell Institute School for Engineering Technology, Executive and Corporate Education, the Institute for Graduate Studies and Professional Development in Education, the Bouve Institute for Leadership in Healthcare, Northeastern University Online, Network Northeastern, Northeastern's Burlington, Dedham and Downtown Campuses, the Emergency Medical Services Institute, and the English Language Center. From 1991 to 2003 he was employed by the University of Pennsylvania where he served as the vice dean for the Graduate School of Education (2001-2003); executive director, Graduate School of Education (1998-2003); associate director and senior researcher at the National Center on Adult Literacy (1996-1999); project director & researcher, National Center on Adult Literacy (1993-1996): and as a Literacy Fellow (1991-1993).
Dr. Hopey received a B.S. in Political Science in 1988 from Northeastern University, an M.P.A. in 1991 from Northeastern University; and his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Pennsylvania in Higher Education Management.
Virginia M. Barry, Ph.D. has been the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Plymouth State University since 1999. Dr. Barry began her career at Plymouth State in 1979 as an assistant professor and coordinator of early childhood studies. In 1984, she held a dual appointment in the Department of Psychology, and from 1984 to 1988, she was the director of graduate studies where she coordinated all components of graduate programs. In 1989 Dr. Barry was an associate professor and director of the Center for Young Children and Families and continued in that role until 1991. From 1992 until she became the vice president for academic affairs, Dr. Barry was a professor and chair and coordinator of Teacher Education Programs. Outside of Plymouth State, Dr. Barry's career included four years as a primary school teacher in the William Floyd School District, a graduate teaching fellow at Queens College City University of New York, a teaching fellow at Florida State University, and an elementary school principal in Mastic Beach, New York.
Dr. Barry received a B.S. in Early Childhood/Elementary Education from Florida State University in 1973, an M.S. in Child Development from Queens College, City University of New York in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Child Development/Early Childhood Education in 1979 from Florida State University. Her education also includes postdoctoral studies, certifications, management and leadership studies at Harvard, College of William and Mary, and New York University.
Sara Jayne Steen, Ph.D. is the dean of College of Letters and Science—the largest college—at Montana State University and has served in that capacity since 2003. She oversees the Departments of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Earth Sciences, Ecology, English, History and Philosophy, Mathematical Sciences, Microbiology, Modern Languages and Literatures, Native American Studies, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology and Anthropology. In addition, the college includes the Center for Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials, Center for Computational Biology, Center for Thermal Biology, Geographic and Informational Analysis Center, Humanities Institute, Local Government Center, Spectrum Lab, Wheeler Center for Public Policy, and the Women's Studies Program. In 2002 she was nominated by Montana State University and selected by the American Council on Education for a year-long, in-residence fellowship to study higher education administration at the University of Delaware. From 1996 to 2002 Dr. Steen chaired the Department of English at Montana State and has been a Full Professor of English since 1989.
Dr. Steen received a B.S. in Education (English, Speech) at Bowling Green State University in 1970, an M.A. in English at The Ohio State University in 1974, and her Ph.D. in English at Bowling Green State University in 1978.
The Committee met this past weekend to select the finalists and is following a timeline that calls for presenting a final candidate to the University System of New Hampshire Chancellor Stephen Reno by the end of March. The Chancellor will conduct his own thorough review at that time and make a formal recommendation to the Board of Trustees at their April 20th meeting, which will be held at PSU.
As of January 6, the deadline for applications, there were 133 nominations or expressions of interest in the position. The Committee has followed a timeline that would call for having the next PSU president take over the position in July 2006. The next president will succeed Dr. Donald Wharton. Dr. Wharton announced last fall that he intends to retire as of June 30, 2005 after serving 13 years in this capacity.
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Plymouth State University (PSU) is a regional comprehensive university offering a rich, student-focused learning environment for both undergraduate and graduate students. PSU offers 42 majors and 62 minors in programs that include education, business, humanities, arts, and natural and social sciences. The College of Graduate Studies offers coursework that promotes research, best practices and reflection in locations on- and off-campus as well as online. For non-traditional students, PSU¹s Frost School of Continuing and Professional Studies offers working professionals opportunities to pursue an undergraduate degree by attending classes in the evenings, weekends and online. Located in a beautiful New England setting, Plymouth State University has been recognized as one of the "Best in the Northeast" by The Princeton Review.


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WEBER, William John (Rev.)
In 1979 Weber was one of two ministers who spread the message of religion among those who lived in the Times Square area of New York City. Living in a room at the Lamb's Club, once a famous off-Broadway actor's club purchased by the church in 1976, Weber was supported entirely by donations including those received from Dubuque churches. For five years he served in rescue and recovery efforts with addicts, prostitutes, teenage runaways and the homeless.
In 1984, Weber founded the New York Fellowship, an interdenominational ministry, which provided spiritual direction, counseling and pastoral care to leaders in the business and professional communities of the New York City area.
For more than a dozen years, Weber served as Chaplain for the World Series Champion New York Yankees. He was the co-founder of more than twenty-five inner-city ministries, including the East Harlem Little League, Youth Impact, Pregnancy Help, Brooklyn Little League, and Kids to Camp Program. He also was co-founder of the Amistad Mission Clinic and Orphanage in Bolivia.


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"The flea market's owner, the Bumb family, supports the city's broad goals for the area, but intends to build up to roughly 2,800 housing units on the property, many of them single-family homes. While city officials approved that plan, it falls short of their hopes to see an urban center emerge in what is now a sparsely developed part of town.
The city has little clout to alter the family's plan, says San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed. The Bumbs 'have property rights, and they are entitled to certain things there,' he says. But placing lower-density development on the site would be a disappointment, he adds. The flea market is 'an opportunity for a very large site to be developed in a planned way, and you don't get many of those in the Bay Area.'"


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InnerWorkings (NASDAQ: INWK), a leading global marketing supply chain company, today announced that it has signed a global managed services agreement with William Grant & Sons Distillers, Ltd, a premium spirits company headquartered in the United Kingdom that distills some of the world's leading brands, such as Glenfiddich, The Balvenie, Hendrick's Gin, Sailor Jerry Rum and Milagro Tequila. The agreement builds on InnerWorkings' existing partnership with William Grant & Sons, USA that began in 2010.
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Over its archway is still the hat, or "capello," which represents the arms of the family of the Capulets.
How, then, does it happen that capello did not hear of them?
There is no spot at capello I love so well—no spot in the world I love so well.
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(a) Period
A stockholder vote in favor of—
(2) the merger of banks within a district under section 2279a of this title;
(3) the transfer of the lending authority of a Federal land bank or a merged bank having a Federal land bank as one of its constituents, under section 2279b of this title;
(5) the termination of the status of an institution as a System institution under section 2279d of this title; or
(6) the merger of similar banks under section 2279f of this title;
shall not take effect except in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Reconsideration
(1) Notice
Not later than 30 days after a stockholder vote in favor of any of the actions described in subsection (a) of this section, the officer or employee that records such vote shall ensure that all stockholders of the voting entity receive notice of the final results of the vote.
(2) Effective date
A voluntary merger, transfer, or termination that is approved by a vote of the stockholders of two or more banks or associations shall not take effect until the expiration of 30 days after the date on which the stockholders of such banks or associations are notified of the final result of the vote in accordance with paragraph (1).
(3) Petition filed
If a petition for reconsideration of a merger, transfer, or termination vote, signed by at least 15 percent of the stockholders of one or more of the affected banks or associations, is presented to the Farm Credit Administration within 30 days after the date of the notification required under paragraph (1)—
(A) a voluntary merger, transfer, or termination shall not take effect until the expiration of 60 days after the date on which the stockholders were notified of the final result of the vote; and
(4) Vote on reconsideration
If a majority of stockholders of any one of the affected banks or associations voting, in person or by written proxy, at a duly authorized stockholders' meeting, vote against the proposed merger, transfer, or termination, such action shall not take place.
(5) Failure to file petition
If a petition for reconsideration of such vote is either not filed prior to the 60th day after the vote or, if timely filed, is not signed by at least 15 percent of the stockholders, the merger, transfer, or termination shall become effective in accordance with the plan of merger, transfer, or termination.
(c) Special reconsideration
(1) Issuance of regulations
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Farm Credit Administration shall issue regulations under which the stockholders of any association that voluntarily merged with one or more associations after December 23, 1985, and before January 6, 1988, may petition for the opportunity to organize as a separate association.
(2) Requirements
The regulations issued by the Farm Credit Administration shall require that—
(B) the petition be signed by at least 15 percent of the stockholders of any one of the associations that merged during the period;
(D) if the petition is approved—
(i) the loans of the members of the new association will be transferred from the current association to such new association;
(ii) the stock, participation certificates, and other similar equities of the current association held by members of the new association will be retired at book value and the proceeds of such will be transferred to the new association, and an equivalent amount of stock, participation certificates, and other similar equities will be issued to the members by the new association; and
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Not later than 30 days after the filing of the petition for organization, the current association shall notify its stockholders that a petition to establish the separate association has been filed.
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The notification required under this paragraph shall contain—
(C) FCA approval
(i) In general All notifications under this paragraph shall be submitted to the Farm Credit Administration Board for approval prior to being distributed to the stockholders.
(ii) Amending notification The Farm Credit Administration Board shall require that, prior to the distribution of the notification to the stockholders, the notification be amended as determined necessary by the Board to provide accurate information to the stockholders that will enable such stockholders to make an informed decision as to the advisability of establishing a new association.
(D) Special stockholders' meeting
(i) Timing of meeting The special stockholders' meeting to consider the petition shall be held within 60 days after the filing of the petition.
(ii) Approval If, at the special stockholders' meeting, a majority of the stockholders of the current association who would be served by the new association approve, by voting in person or by proxy, the establishment of the separate association, the Farm Credit Administration shall, within 30 days of such vote, issue a charter to the new association and amend the charter of the current association to reflect the territory to be served by the new association.
Source(Pub. L. 92–181, title VII, § 7.9, as added Pub. L. 100–233, title IV, § 416,Jan. 6, 1988, 101 Stat. 1648; amended Pub. L. 100–399, title IV, § 408(n), (o),Aug. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 1002.)
1988—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 100–399, § 408(n)(1), substituted "this chapter" for "section 2252 (a)(2) of this title".
Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 100–399, § 408(n)(5), redesignated par. (5) as (4).
Pub. L. 100–399, § 408(n)(2), inserted reference to section 2279f–1 of this title.
Subsec. (a)(5). Pub. L. 100–399, § 408(n)(5), redesignated par. (6) as (5). Former par. (5) redesignated (4).
Pub. L. 100–399, § 408(n)(3), substituted "or" for "and".
Subsec. (a)(6). Pub. L. 100–399, § 408(n)(5), redesignated par. (7) as (6). Former par. (6) redesignated (5).
Pub. L. 100–399, § 408(n)(4), substituted "section 2279f" for "section 2279f–1".
Subsec. (a)(7). Pub. L. 100–399, § 408(n)(5), redesignated par. (7) as (6).
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 100–399, § 408(o), struck out comma before "shall not take effect" and substituted "such banks or" for "such".
Effective Date of 1988 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–399effective as if enacted immediately after enactment of Pub. L. 100–233, which was approved Jan. 6, 1988, see section 1001(a) ofPub. L. 100–399, set out as a note under section 2002 of this title.
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Medvedev wants to increase Russian presidential term
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today sent a draft law on extending the presidential term from four to six years to parliament, amid speculation over his predecessor Vladimir Putin's intentions.
The legislation "has been sent to the Duma", a Kremlin spokesman said, referring to parliament's lower house.
A Kremlin statement said he had also submitted a draft law to extend the terms of legislators in the Duma from four to five years, as well as a proposal to add to the lower house's monitoring of executive power.
Putin, whose United Russia party dominates parliament, now serves as prime minister after stepping down earlier this year following two terms as president.
Talk of extending the presidential mandate has fuelled speculation that Putin may seek to return to the Kremlin.
Medvedev announced his intention to increase the terms last week when he made his first state-of-the-nation speech since being elected in March.
He also spoke of creating "a constitutional standard requiring the government to report each year to the Duma on its activities and on questions posed directly by parliament".
An aide to Medvedev, Larisa Brychyova, has said the mandate extension will not apply to the president's current term, which is set to run out in 2012, Russian news agencies have reported.
"This should not be seen as a strengthening of presidential power. It should be seen as a balanced model for a new political construct," First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said last week, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Putin is eligible to run again in the future because a constitutional ban on holding the post more than twice in a row does not prevent a return to office later.
As he wound up his second term in office, he designated Medvedev as his successor, virtually guaranteeing him an election victory because of Putin's massive popularity among Russians.
Last week, the Vedomosti daily cited a source close to the presidential administration as saying that Medvedev's proposal would lead to elections and was part of a broader plan for Putin's comeback.
The source also said Putin would give a campaign-style speech at a congress of his United Russia party on November 20.
Opposition political commentator Yulia Latynina has condemned the move to extend the term, saying it would be part of "a coup d'etat" to ensure the presidency returned to Putin.
However, an aide close to Medvedev said on Friday that Putin is unlikely to return to the presidency soon.
Arkady Dvorkovich, an economic aide at the Kremlin, added that Medvedev could well seek a second term as president.
Sam Greene, an analyst with the Carnegie Moscow Centre, gave a different view last week, saying Putin and Medvedev were "all one team" and that the mandate proposal was just part of standard Kremlin policy.
"There's a risk averse group of people in power in Russia.... With fewer elections, you have less risk," Greene said.
"Life is not going to be easier for political parties," he added.
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Dell's Last Hope? Company Turns to Windows 8 Amid Plunging Sales
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August 22, 2012 3:00 PM
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Tablets are only part of the problem for Dell
While Michael Dell's offspring have drawn the ire of the executive's $2.7M USD family security detail, thanks to some
indiscrete postings
picked up by "Rich Kids of Instagram", Mr. Dell himself has face equally
embarrassing numbers
from his
struggling firm's financials and sales
I. Dell Faces Tough Questions, Says Windows 8 is the Answer to Everything
Dell, who
says it's "no longer a PC company"
is surely performing like a company who's out of touch with consumer PC sales.
In Q2 2012, Dell, Inc. (
) fell into roughly a tie for third place with Taiwan's Acer, Inc. (
) after fast-growing Lenovo Group, Ltd. (
) booted it from its perennial second-place spot behind Hewlett Packard Comp. (
). That sales fall resulted in a 22 percent plunge in consumer sales revenue and 8 percent overall revenue drop, despite a good quarter for the enterprise unit.
Michael Dell's company has stumbled into a tie for third place. [Image Source: Forbes]
But CFO and senior VP Brian Gladden is convinced Microsoft Corp.'s (
) Windows 8 will bail out his chief's struggling firm. He commented to investors in
a call
You'll see new Windows 8 ultrabooks, all-in-one tablets and converged devices in the fourth quarter and headed into next year.
It's not clear what Dell means by "all-in-one" or "converged devices", but he was probably talking to hybrid tablets -- tablets with a keyboard (which may or may not be removable). Also unclear is exactly how Dell plans to differentiate itself from its rivals; Lenovo, HP, and Acer are
most definitely
pushing Windows 8 product
Dell thinks Windows 8 will be sweet salvation. [Image Source: Storage Look]
II. Editorial Blasts Dell as "Done"
In an editorial
carried by
magazine staffer Farhad Manjoo writes "Stick a fork in it: Dell is done."
The opinion columnist comments that Dell is suffering an "existential threat", continuing:
However ugly your life gets, just try to put yourself in Michael Dell's shoes. Imagine what that's like. Picture yourself at the helm of a company that rakes in $60 billion in annual revenue — and then watch the money evaporating, floating away on a post-PC cloud. You built this company on the theory that computers were a forever-business, that the world would never fall out of love with the PC, and that you would be the guy to supply their fix.
The tragedy is that you were right: The world will never fall out of love with the PC. The PC is still riding high, the PC will be bigger than ever. What blindsided you is how the word "personal computer" would come to be redefined.
The overall premise of the column is that the rise of the tablet is killing Dell. Mr. Manjoo mocks Dell's sales chief's nebulous remarks on his company's
tablet timeline
from earlier this year, in which he stated, "We have a roadmap for tablets that we haven't announced yet."
While the criticism may be fair, it's equally important not to neglect that Dell is also failing in
PC sales -- a topic Mr. Manjoo surprisingly overlooks.
Tablets, like the ill-fated Dell Streak, are only part of the problem for Dell. [Image Source: Engadget]
Looking at Gartner, Inc.'s (
and the IDC Group
for Q2, one company that jumps out is ASUSTek Computer, Inc. (
) who stole the crown for fastest growth from Lenovo (who continues to grow pretty fast itself). ASUSTek -- which has a stable of
drool-worthy Windows 8 laptops, tablets, and hybrids
waiting in the wings -- grew at a 40 percent clip on a year-to-year basis. A few more quarters like that -- and a few more quarters like Dell's -- and the U.S. PC giant may find itself in fifth place in global sales.
That would be a stunning fall for Dell, which vied for the top spot in global sales for so long.
It's clear tablets are only the start of Dell's problem. From
shady sales tactics
to a
floundering web presence
, the problems at Dell are numerous across the board. Dell may look to Windows 8 for salvation, but its failure to execute with current generation designs, inspires little faith that it will be able to execute in the next generation Windows era.
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Daydream" -The Lovin' Spoonful
Jessica – The Allman Brothers Band
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Lotus Blossom – Duke Ellington
Field Of Dreams (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music by James Horner
1. The Cornfield [5:35] 2. Deciding to Build the Field [5:52] 3. Shoeless Joe [2:15] 4. The Timeless Street [2:39] 5. Old Ball Players [2:45] 6. The Drive Home [2:15] 7. Field of Dreams [3:32] 8. The Library [2:31] 9. Moonlight Graham [2:05] 10. Night Mists [4:21] 11. Doc's Memories [3:19] 12. The Place Where Dreams Come True [9:07] 13. End Credits [4:07]
Synopsis: "If you build it, he will come." That's the ethereal message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. At first, "he" seems to be the ghost of disgraced ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on the ballfield and plays a few games with the awestruck Ray. But as the weeks go by, Ray receives several other messages from a disembodied voice, one of which is "Ease his pain." He realizes that his ballfield has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain valuable aspects of their lives. One of these folks is Salingeresque writer Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), whom Ray kidnaps and takes to a ball game and then to his farm. Another is Doc Graham (Burt Lancaster), a beloved general practitioner who gave up a burgeoning baseball career in favor of medicine. The final "second-chancer" turns out to be much closer to Ray. That "magical" field in Dyersville, Iowa still draws thousands of baseball-happy tourists each year. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Cast: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster
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On 5/22/06, Scott Ullrich <sullrich at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Hi All!
> Just wanted to give a heads up on a virtal PPTP fix that was recently
> commited to HEAD on FreeBSD. This fixed a number of strange PPTP
> issues that we where seeing in pfSense. Not sure if this would be
> required for 4.11 but it appears the bug is also there. It was also
> fixed in DragonFly recently.
I emailed this FreeBSD commit to Manuel earlier based on Scott's
suggestion. Manuel said he'll include it in the next release, as
though he's never seen any problems caused by it, it's probably caused
problems that went unresolved for m0n0wall users in the past.
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The choppers, which had been sold to Syria by Russia in the early 1990s, had been undergoing a refit in Russia.
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I thought doctors always had a lot of tools," I said; "knives and saws and choppers for operations.
Brigades of choppers were opening roads here and there to deceive.
The fatigue-party consisted of choppers, whose business it was to fell the trees and cut them off at proper lengths.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jun 2, 2009 at 8:26 am
Regardless of what happens today, we are going to have to get government employee costs, including salary, health benefits, legacy benefits, and pension plans under control. Through union negations with administrators that adhere to a "me too" policy, the public sector has far outpaced the private sector for lifetime compensation when all factors are considered. Soon reform will be a matter of necessity, not choice.
a resident of Foothill Knolls
on Jun 2, 2009 at 10:02 am
In the spirit of what embodies this town of Pleasanton that I love dearly, I hope that we can come together regardless of the outcome of this very polarizing & bitter issue to work & make our schools & especially their unions & administration a more efficient, responsive & effective governing entity.
If I'll be paying an additional $233 a year I want to know for sure that this money is going to it's most vital recipients & not to some nameless, faceless administrator.
a resident of Birdland
on Jun 2, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Finally we can stop bashing each other; we can stop bashing the teachers who spend countless hours with our children and do an incredible job; we can stop reading too many blog entries from both sides that have selective information; we can become a civilized community again that I call home.
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In this follow up to my article,
first of all I wish to thank very much all the friends and
teachers that contributed with their comments, and then to
respond to the principal questions and remarks that I received.
At the end, I will add some considerations.
1. B12 deficiency in vegans
does not exist, it is a myth created by the meat and dairy
Carlo: Unfortunately, B12 deficiency
in vegans is a documented fact: please see references in my
article. Vegetarian institutions emphasize the importance
of vegetarians and especially vegans taking vitamin. B12 supplements.
As a very authoritative example of a dedicated vegan doctor
recommending vitamin B12 supplementation, please refer to
Neal Barnard and the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine site
Macrobiotic people, also if not vegan in principle,
may eat such a little amount of animal food so as to be at
risk of Vitamin. B12 deficiency.
At least two studies document this fact. The
first one, Vitamin B12 status in a macrobiotic community,
published in 1991, has been conducted within the macrobiotic
communities of Boston, MA, and Middletown, CT.
The study showed that many of the macrobiotic individuals
tested were lacking vitamin B12 to a certain extent, and probably,
with the more sensitive tests available today, the results
would have been even worse. At that time no test for Homocysteine
was conducted, for example. Everybody can download for free
and check by himself the study here:
The second study, while not specifically speaking
of macrobiotic people, checked and compared the vitamin B12
(and anti oxidants) status of people that:
1. ate no animal food at all.
2. ate only fish / meat once a week (and this is roughly
our case).
3. ate eggs and milk / dairy frequently.
4. ate an omnivore diet rich in meat.
1. ate no animal food at all.
2. ate only fish / meat once a week (and this is roughly
our case).
3. ate eggs and milk / dairy frequently.
4. ate an omnivore diet rich in meat.
The study gave similar results employing a
wider range of tests, included the one for homocysteine concentration
in blood. The less animal food that was eaten, the worse was
the vitamin B12 status, and higher was the level of Homocysteine
in blood, so the approach similar to the macrobiotic one fared
worse than the lacto ovo vegetarian one, from this point of
The study is Total Homocysteine, Vitamin B12,
and Total Antioxidant Status in Vegetarians,
freely downloadable here:
It is true that we must be aware of the meat
and dairy industry interest in this topic. However, it is
not impossible to discriminate when a specific study or research
is nothing more than an advertisement for these industries,
or a good and honest one. The studies cited in the references
are all of very high quality and solidly based on facts. Of
course, it is necessary to read them thoroughly in order to
verify my affirmation.
2. It is demonstrated that vegans are far
more healthy than omnivores, so there is no reason to worry
about vitamin B12 deficiency.
Carlo: Eating a lot of vegetables and
fruits, and reducing or avoiding animal foods, sugar and chemicals,
definitely improves one's health conditions. Nevertheless,
in this way it is still possible to slowly determine a lack
of Vitamin B12 and other substances, and it can create problems
at a later time, even decades later.
3. My affirmations and concerns about B12
are groundless, and that is demonstrated from a
study cited here:
(the study is Staging B12 status in Vegetarians,
and it is freely downloadable here:
Carlo: Actually this study confirms
my affirmations and concerns. In the very first page it says
that dietary deficiency of vitamin B12 results from
a strict vegan (all plant food) diet, while vegetarians
who are not vegans (...) ingest adequate amounts of vitamin
B12 in animal (e.g., egg, milk, and other) products.
The author then says that Vitamin B12 is reabsorbed
from the intestine and recycled, so that an healthy and adult
vegan can avoid B12 deficiency for many years, even 20
30 years (page 1217 S). But this only means that, when all
organ conditions are perfect, deficiency can be delayed.
In fact (page 1215 S): If daily vitamin
B- 12 absorption continues to be less than daily vitamin B-12
loss, negative balance will progress to Stage II, depletion
of stores. At this point, many vegetarians stabilize for years
with depleted stores, because depleted stores trigger upregulation
of healthy machinery for absorption, making more efficient
the absorption of the trace amount of vitamin B-12 from bacterial
contamination of the small intestine and vitamin B- 12 secreted
in the bile.
Eventually, however, continuing slight negative balance will
deplete vitamin B-12 stores, after which Stage III negative
balance occurs (biochemical deficiency, i.e., inadequate vitamin
B-12 for normal vitamin B-12-dependent biochemical reactions,
sometimes called preclinical deficiency).
Moreover, if the gastric or intestinal efficiency
is not perfect, deficiency can occur far earlier, because
B12 is not adequately absorbed, the same study states. This
is a rather common situation both for omnivores and vegetarians
but, according to the author, it is a more frequent occurrence
in vegetarians, due to a less efficient utilization of iron
from vegetable sources.
In fact (page 1215 S): iron from plant
foods averages 3% absorbable; iron from animal foods averages
15% absorbable. Therefore, iron deficiency is twice as common
in vegetarians as in omnivores. Because some vegetarians,
especially those consuming restrictive diets, are at greater
risk for deficiencies than omnivores, all vegetarians should
be tested for iron disorders. Prolonged iron deficiency damages
the gastric mucosa and promotes atrophic gastritis and gastric
atrophy, including loss of gastric acid and IF secretion,
and therefore diminished vitamin B-12 absorption. This would
cause vitamin B-12 deficiency in twice as many vegetarians
as omnivores.
The study also states that the situation is
even worse if one individual becomes vegan without large Vitamin
B12 stores in the liver, a not infrequent possibility, or
for children of vegan mothers.
Actually this study is aimed to identify the
best laboratory tests to detect vitamin B12 deficiency, not
to demonstrate the possibility to thrive on a strict vegan
diet, and its affirmations clearly sustain, complete and precise
the ones from the other references I reported in my article.
4. Many vegan groups and populations have
demonstrated, through-out human history, that vegan nutrition
is safe.
Carlo: Actually there are no data to
support this thesis. It is possible that vegan monks stay
healthy for a long time because they start their diet when
adults, but probably many of them actually suffered in the
past and suffer now for vitamin deficiency. They did not necessarily
live a long time, or were healthy.
Moreover, monks have a very different way
of life from common people, and practice powerful techniques
that probably can help in optimizing the resources from food.
In Daoism, practices are known that can help you to live almost
without food, but of course this is very far from what common
people regard living a normal life.
No population in the world has been vegan for
generations: animal food has always been enjoyed if only available.
Of course, specific religious groups may be vegan, and this
is more common in India.
The only study of which I am aware on vegetarians
living in India finds a very widespread B12 deficiency, even
if the authors report that this situation cannot be completely
attributed to a vegetarian diet but also to other factors.
In any case, deficiency is there, not an adequate level of
this vitamin.
(Please refer to this free downloadable article:
Hyperhomocysteinemia and elevated methylmalonic acid
indicate a high prevalence of cobalamin deficiency in Asian
Indians, available here:
and the comment to the same study available here:).
It may be helpful to remember here the Ohsawa's
book Zen Macrobiotics, in which ten eating patterns
are proposed as ways to health, and where the
most wide one includes only 10% of grains and 30 % of animal
foods, plus vegetables and fruits, while the most strict one
is totally vegan and based only on grains. Apart from the
details and proportions, the general idea is a good, flexible
and realistic one.
Vegan diets, as well as animal food based ones
like the chetogenic diet, are both legitimate, because a human
being is able to sustain himself only on vegetables or animal
foods for a pretty long time, if necessary. Otherwise, we
could not explain some good results obtained with the Atkins
diet, for example in rebalancing blood risk factors for cardiovascular
diseases or metabolic syndrome.
This comes from the fact that humans have been
able to survive on many different foods during their evolution,
thanks to the development of specific abilities to optimize
the use of the available nutrients (as vitamin B12).
However, those diets are at the limits of the human ability
for survival, and humans usually sustained themselves on diets
in which both vegetables and animal foods were present in
different proportions according to climate.
(For a very balanced view on this subject,
please refer to Hunter-gatherers diets: a different
perspective, freely downloadable here:).
Extreme diets such as vegan or semi-vegan ones, as well as
highly carnivorous ones, are clearly sustainable only for
a imitate period of time, even if vegan ones may be continued
far longer than the ones that include a lot of animal foods.
How much animal food is necessary in our present
way of living, and for each individual, is something that
we must still discover, and experiment with, but starting
from the fact that it represents a legitimate part of the
human way of eating.
5. If both scientific conclusions and the
ones based on yin-yang are not absolutes, why should we trust
only those coming from science?
Carlo: I completely agree that it would
be foolish. Science is absolutely blind with regard to many
realms of our existence. I am speaking about a dialogue. We
have much to learn and much to teach, but if we only stay
within the limits of our philosophy, we end in making mistakes.
The data from science are very interesting for us because
we can evaluate them according to our yin-yang principle,
so expanding our understanding of reality.
And if the data suggest that a substantial
number of macrobiotic friends may be lacking B12 and presenting
high levels of a toxic substance as homocysteine in the blood,
there is no profit in trying to nullify this truth.
In any case, the way to clear this quarrel
is very simple: anyone interested can have his own blood tests
done and check the results. It seems that the best test for
screening an early negative Vitamin B12 balance is the test
for serum Holotranscobalamin II, while the test for Homocysteine
is important in order to show the presence of an unnoticed
but already existing even if not clinically evident
yet metabolical damage. Of course, this is a matter
to be discussed with a qualified Physician.
6. Yin-yang and science are the same thing.
If intuition is refined, it can be a tool as reliable as science
in order to understand reality.
Carlo: The yin-yang method has been
born in China around 300 B.C., as a way to organize the data
from senses, and the daily experience of living, in a coherent
way. The underlying paradigm, at that time, was that humanity
has to adapt to an harmonious and cyclically changing nature.
According to this view of the world, people can stay healthy,
and can even reach superhuman states, if they are able to
find their right place in the order of the universe, and flow
with its law.
Actually, not only ordinary senses were used
in order to reach that goal, but also superhuman senses and
abilities developed through special practices. It is also
important to note that this method was originally based on
Chinese language, which is far less definite and far more
open to paradox than western languages, and that it never
developed a clear concept of cause and effect, relying more
on the idea of influence and attunement with the natural order.
Modern science springs, around the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, from a very strict interplay between
ordinary senses, intellect working on the basis of non-contradiction
principle, mathematics and technology. Cause and effect is
the cornerstone of this way to consider the reality, at least
until the development of quantum mechanics. The paradigm in
which modern science is born is an individualistic one, aimed
to free man from dependency on nature.
So yin-yang and modern science are both in
contact with reality, but approach it from different perspectives
and using different tools. As I understand it, the greatness
of George Ohsawa stays in his efforts to start a dialogue
between these two paradigms, and I believe that his vision
is still an inspiring one for our present times. Hopefully,
it could lead to integrate these two approaches in one higher
order future approach. But we are still not able to do that
well, and sometimes we are not rigorous enough even in applying
yin-yang itself, so we must learn more from the other side.
An example of how lightly yin-yang is often
applied can be offered by referring to a classical question
in macrobiotic lessons: why water expands when heat is applied
to it (which is no surprise) and also when it freezes? The
usual macrobiotic answer is: because Oxygen is
yin and Hydrogen is yang. When cold is applied, the more yang
Hydrogen attracts it and becomes more yin. Necessarily, the
attraction between Oxygen and this yinnized Hydrogen diminishes,
so the molecule expands, making ice light and able to float
on water.
It is an attractive answer, and correct under
the yin-yang point of view, but it is not true.
What actually happens is that, when freezing,
the water molecules (and not the atoms within the molecules)
arrange themselves at the vertex and in the center of a tetrahedron
(a pyramid-like shape), with Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms of
different molecules united by hydrogen bonds, so that ice
becomes structured in an expanded way compared to water. All
this is still in perfect harmony with yin-yang principles,
but it is completely different from what is stated in the
classical answer above.
It must also be said that it is absurd to think
that the water molecules themselves can expand under the weak
influence of a few degrees difference in temperature, because
the Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms in the water molecule are united
by very strong covalent bonds that differently from
the weaker hydrogen bonds that link together water molecules
in ice - do not allow for that. If something like this could
happen it would subvert modern Physics.
Now, it seems that nobody ever had the desire
to check if this affirmation actually corresponds to reality,
and I believe that the same is true for many assertions taken
for granted in this field.
So, again, I am sure that yin-yang can really
help in solving many problems and suggesting new hypotheses,
but we must learn to use it rigorously. I personally experienced
some of this difficulty when I gave my contribution to the
work of one of the leading epidemiologists in Italy, who is
presently studying the risk factors for breast cancer.
He asked me to try to figure out for him,
according to yin-yang and starting from the available scientific
data on this subject, how foods influence the level of a very
important class of hormones, the Insulin-like Growth factors,
and related binding proteins.
I checked the data, interpreted them according
to yin-yang and combined them with my macrobiotic experience,
and finally proposed a few ideas that could be experimentally
checked. So I believe that it is definitely possible to reach
useful conclusions with yin-yang, even entering the scientific
ground, but I know that it is not so easy to do.
(I've written a book that tries to carry the
dialogue between yin-yang and science a little further on.
The book is titled Il grande libro dell'Ecodieta,
and it is published in Italian by Edizioni Mediterranean.
The first third of the book presents the scientific
data that we have about the food that human beings did eat
during the last couple of millions years of their evolution,
plus the principal data about the favourable and unfavourable
effects on the health of the main groups of modern foods.
From this first section, a general indication of the best
eating pattern for the human being comes out, and it is very
in tune with the macrobiotic approach.
I decided to start with the scientific approach
because this is the language of our modern society, and I
wanted to reach not only macrobiotic people but the widest
audience. The second part of the book is dedicated to yin-yang
and its use, and shows how this method can confirm, pinpoint
and make more practically and flexibly usable the data from
science, beyond supplying new information by itself. The third
part is about how to address specific sicknesses with food
and treatments.)
7. Cancer in macrobiotic people comes from
eating every day pressure cooked brown rice or other grains.
This creates a too contracted condition, that makes people
overeat and eat in a disorderly way.
Carlo: I agree that eating everyday
pressure cooked brown rice makes people too yang in the long
run, and that this contributes to overeating and attraction
to sweets, so leading to several kinds of problems. A wider
range of cooking methods and preparation should be routinely
used. However, I believe that some stronger factors
as the ones proposed in my article - are at the core of such
a big problem as cancer, even if overeating and sweets can
possibly contribute.
8. I am deadly allergic to fish and fish
oils, and dislike meat. How can I get adequate amounts of
B12 and Omega-3 Fats?
Carlo: Any individual health problem
has its own particularities, and must be discussed with a
qualified therapist. However, in general it can be said that
free range eggs and poultry contain a certain amount of both
long chain omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin B12.
Milk contains B12. It is better to learn how
to introduce these foods in a balanced way and in proper amounts,
than risking a Vitamin B12 depletion. An alternative, or in
addition, supplements are there.
However, supplements only supply some definite
nutrients that we are aware of, while a lack of B12 may indicate
a lack of many other nutrients contained in animal foods such
as zinc, Vitamin B6, and more. A whole food is always very
different from a supplement.
Short-chain omega 3 fatty acids, from
which the long-chain ones can be synthesized, are also contained
in flaxseed oil and green vegetables, that should be regularly
consumed. However, the synthesis of long-chain omega 3 fatty
acids from the short-chain ones is often not sufficient to
satisfy the body needs, hence the need for the animal foods
in which they are already present.
9. Depletion of Jing is not necessarily
linked with being skinny. The classical Chinese medicine views
for depletion of Jing include: stress, over consumption of
foods, alcohol and drugs, excessive sex, excess or lack of
exercise, lack of sleep, poor breathing and natural aging.
Carlo: I don't put in connection the
fact of being lean with jing depletion, and I am aware of
the classical Chinese view on this subject , that seems very
valuable to me. However, I am referring here to an impression
of emptying, a kind of exhaustion
that some macrobiotic individuals show, and that can be easily
noticed by a trained eye, if only attention is paid to it.
Moreover, my suggestion is that vitamin B12, being so important
for correct DNA reproduction and expression, has to do with
jing depletion, even if this is something that the classical
Chinese view could not understand in ancient times.
The problem of cancer is a huge one, and I
do not pretend to have exhaustively or perfectly identified
the factors that can contribute to its manifestation in macrobiotic
people. However, the problems that I mentioned definitely
exist, derive from our current way of interpreting the macrobiotic
way of eating, ask for a solution, and probably can help us
to understand also the cancer issue.
It could even be that the present global environmental
unbalance, added to the lack of natural selection in the first
years of life, are factors too strong to be overcomed only
by a good way of eating and an active life.
And certainly the emotional problems have a
role bigger than what we usually take into account, when dealing
with this specific sickness. If things are like that, there's
nothing to hide. We know that many people succeed in healing
their cancers with macrobiotics, and very probably our way
of eating still prevents many cases of this illness. What
we have to offer is of the utmost importance for humanity,
even if we are not able to completely prevent this sickness.
In any case, the main point here does not regard
only vitamin B12 or D, Omega 3 and 6 fats, or any other specific
nutrient, but our attitude toward the facts that disturb us,
and oppose our idea of what the reality is. We just need to
look at the problems as they are, without trying to explain
them off in a simplistic way.
An example of this attitude is attributing
the problem of cancer in macrobiotic people only to minimal
mistakes within an otherwise perfect way of cooking and eating.
If we say that it is possible to get cancer
only from, say, sautéing too much our vegetables, or
eating too many cookies, or pouring too much raw oil on our
salad, or something similar as we have indeed heard, we not
only say something that it is very probably not true, but
also create an attitude of fear and rigidity in many friends
that trust our judgment and experience. This cannot be a road
to liberty and happiness.
Every school of thought, or spiritual path,
starts with an enlightening experience that shows aspects
of reality that were hidden until that moment. As time passes
the experience fades, and knowledge remains. After a longer
time, even knowledge ages, loses its contact with reality,
and dogma arises.
If we wish to avoid that eventuality, or at
least to delay it as long as possible, it is essential that
we strive to keep in touch with reality. And we know very
well that the most painful experiences are the most useful
ones, with regard to keeping us aware and alert.
Believing that we know how to stay healthy,
how to prevent and cure any sickness, and that because of
that we must become leaders of the new world and save the
Humanity from the dangers in which it lives, would be a delusional
attitude. I would like to suggest another approach.
Many of us have children. From them we learnt
that we cannot really lead another persons' life to a big
extent. Our children have their way to go, their goals, limits
and experiences to live just as we have. If we believe that
we understand everything about life, and so we can guide them
to reach their happiness, we create unhappiness. We can just
help, and even that not so much. The same is true with Humanity.
We don't know what future Humanity will choose
to live, nor which future is actually the best for it. We
learned a few things from our macrobiotic practice, because
we experienced them and because we apply a method that really
helps in understanding things, but we are ignorant about many
more matters.
The only attitude that we can reasonably cultivate
is the one of nourishing the future, as we nourish our children,
with good food, a little knowledge, a few dreams, and many
unanswered questions, helping the future to grow according
to its own way. We can put the little we know in the big flow
of the human evolution, and let Humanity take or reject what
it chooses to.
say that we can strive to become good ingredients of
the cosmic soup, knowing well that we are not the Cook.
If we keep ourselves open and eager to learn
from reality, also when it opposes or disappoints us, we will
be able to stay flexible and helpful to others for a long
time, putting something positive and valuable in the flow.
And this can really make a difference, especially in a deeply
transformational historical period as the one we presently
live in.
Here in the center of the spiral of history,
what we learned and can offer to others even if very
limited - can make a critical difference for everybody.


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In October 2010, the Goucher Board of Trustees passed a resolution allowing the college to join Project Pericles, a nonprofit organization that encourages and facilitates commitments by colleges and universities to include social responsibility and participatory citizenship as essential elements of their educational programs.
Founded in 2001 by philanthropist Eugene M. Lang, Project Pericles works directly with its member institutions, called Pericleans, as they individually and collaboratively develop model civic engagement programs in their classrooms, on their campuses, and in their communities.
Each school is required to develop a comprehensive program that gives students the intellectual and experiential foundations for all aspects of responsible citizenship. These include taking an interest in public affairs, engaging in civil discourse, understanding and actively participating in democratic political processes, being able to analyze news and information, cultivating and effectively advocating opinions on matters of public policy, tolerating diverse opinions, supporting free speech, and being involved in community service that addresses public problems.
The program must engage all members of the college's community - administrators, faculty, staff, students, and alumnae/i. Pericleans are also expected to share their program concepts and experiences. This collaboration is fostered through annual meetings where member presidents, faculty, and students share best practices for promoting civic engagement.
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Emotional attraction is one of the reasons marriage lasts. It keeps the relationship going strong regardless of what the situation is. Yes, it is also the reason why long distance relationships work. Emotional attraction also results in "falling in love". It might seem a little melodramatic; to be in and out of love, but emotional attraction does really exists.
Imagine. A gaze can be equivalent to a touch when you are emotionally attracted to the person. People who are emotionally attracted can talk to hours and never get bored of each other's presence. They will feel sincere with their thoughts and feelings and would feel very comfortable chatting with you. By establishing emotional attraction, you are bringing Love to another dimension, and hence making the relationship last even longer.
Nuff said. Movies make falling in love seem all too easy. In reality, much more work is definitely needed to make sparks fly. But if you are man, then you must be very lucky. Women in general are pretty easy to please. With just a praise, you can leave a girl blushing.
The root of emotional attraction with women is to be the gentleman that every woman wants. Every guy sure has a soft side to him no matter how tough a man you are.
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Emotional attraction is a sacred attraction that is supposed to be shared between two special people. It is something that should not be taken lightly as emotional attraction can also lead to a lifetime commitment.
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Imagine you are 15 and you live in Way-Out, Montana, pop. 1,240. You're told to show up in the cafeteria for third period because there's going to be a performance called The Beat Generation put on by the distant University of Montana, and then you're going to have to stick around because there's going to be a poetry workshop with the actors.
Now imagine you are somewhere in your twenties, you've lived in Chicago, you've studied poetry forever, you've got a rare acting gig with the Montana Repertory Theater, and you're about to spend eight weeks in a van with three guys and you, traversing the state in an outreach project, bringing to life the New Yorkiest, the San Franciskiest Beat poets for groups of Montana kids, politely excising all mention of the "fucks" and "cocks" that Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg adored.
Randy Bolton directs The Beat Generation, an original work by Rebecca Knickmeier commissioned by the Montana Rep. The play weaves together cultural references and segments of Beat literature placed in the mouths of two men and a woman. You could consider it a crash course in a small moment of American culture, a glimpse and explanation of a cult that has long since been absorbed into the mainstream so effectively that it seems delightfully sweet to consider a time when it was subversive for a man to think of kissing another man. Bolton, who admits to "telling people I'm an old Beat poet," was pleased to direct the production and challenged by the demands of the tour, not the least of which is squeezing everything, including the actors, into one vehicle. Denise Massman's effective and clever set design collapses from a multi-paneled backdrop of connected paintings so that it can fit into the van. Yet within these confines she has brought out depth, history and texture, all illustrating a Beat world of Paris and poems and urgent insurrection.
Jessica Adam, Reid Reimers and Andy Greenfield have nameless roles as the speakers, and they move casually around their small stage, sitting on empty crates and climbing onto bare ladders from which they lean forward and bring words to life. In one scene, Adam sits before a typewriter as the two others feed a continuous roll of paper to her so she can bang out whatever comes to mind, a la Jack Kerouac. The actors variously perform excerpts from Ginsberg's "Howl" and Kerouac's On the Road and invoke Walt Whitman. Adam had to learn the saxophone, and Reimers plays the bass to give more texture to the cool-hot jazzy '50s world.
Before heading off on tour, the slim company will perform the work for three nights in the Masquer Theatre and then, in November, will visit different schools in Missoula. How will Ginsberg, Kerouac and Snyder play in Power and Troy? How will Ferlinghetti, Burroughs and Cassady read in Glasgow and Glendive? It's hard to say.
"This play can show kids that rebellion is OK, and it's happened before and it can take different outlets," says Reimers, dressed in black beret and a vest over black turtleneck. "Anyway, as Randy likes to say, any high school kid worth their salt is rebellious. Angst is OK, and you can do things about it."
But how do you condense a movement into a meaningful performance that can be squeezed into third period? The Beat Generation uses snippets of poems, court proceedings, newspaper reports and correspondence between the famous poets for its substance. The actors are dressed in underground-Paris-jazz-club chic, and two slideshows—one before the opening, one at the end—depict various events and cultural icons of the 1950s. Occasionally, the dialogue announces with little subtlety something like, "This is a conservative time!" But in order for the work to succeed in its limited life span, such obviousness is necessary.
"Our job is to perform a poem, to get inside that poem," says Adam. "Which is very different than performing dialogue. You have to think like the poet and writer, as if they were your own thoughts."
"This is not a poetic reading," Bolton adds. "The challenge is to make it interesting. In a reading you let the words do most of the work, or at least you try to. To get to the core of the poem and keep it interesting in a way that translates to the viewers instead of to readers, that's the challenge."
"And rooming with three guys," says Adam.
"And the workshops," says Reimers, who will be participating in one of three workshops for each stop on the tour: "Creating Your Own Beat Poetry, "Theatre for Social Change" or "Acting Skills: Text, Subtext, Body Language." Greenfield thoughtfully adds his own personal challenge for the statewide cafeteria tour: "The transition from tater tots to gems."
The Beat Generation will be performed Sept. 9, 10 and 11 in the UM Masquer Theatre. Performances begin at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $7, available at the Drama/Dance Box Office or by calling 243-6809.


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Delays in construction at the Emporium Melbourne have forced
It is expected joint investor Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC will have to write off a similar amount.
The 45,000 square metre retail development was hit by industrial strife earlier this year, causing cost rises.
It was hoped the project could open before Christmas, but the Colonial-managed trust confirmed it was now aiming to open by the end of the first quarter next year.
The Emporium write-down is the major contributor to an overall decrease of $20.7 million – or 0.4 per cent – in the book value of 19 assets that the trust revalued in its 30-property retail portfolio.
By contrast, its Chatswood Chase mall in Sydney was given a 4.0 per cent lift in valuation to $845 million.
Uncertain future
Its sister fund,
Although the Emporium write-down – the trust now values its stake at $325 million – was widely expected by analysts, it comes as investors in the retail property fund mull its future, with some favouring a switch to an internalised structure where management would be more aligned with the returns on projects.
The disquiet also adds to reports that CFS Retail and co-owner
While CFS Retail fund manager
Mr Gorman said the construction delays had resulted in a $15 million blow-out to project costs. At the same time, weaker conditions in the retail leasing market had softened the income generating potential of the flagship asset.
Delays anticipated
The group has revised its target for the centre's year-one yield on costs to approximately 5 per cent.
The Macquarie team noted that excluding the write downs of 5 Martin Place in the Colonial fund's office portfolio and of the Emporium, then the office trust's valuations increased 0.5 per cent while the retail portfolio gained 0.9 per cent.
"We have been expecting that asset value changes would be very modest at this point in light of cash flow assumption changes required to be made by valuers to reflect the softer environment.
"We expect the pace of asset value appreciation to pick up from the fourth quarter in calendar year 2014."
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Social Media Is Time-Consuming – and Content Creation Is Most Time-Consuming of All
25% of the small businesses surveyed by Vertical Response spent between six and ten hours on social media each week, while 11% spent between 11 and 20 hours each week. Seven percent spent a whopping 21+ hours a week on social media. What is the thing that small businesses say takes up the most time when engaging in social media? Content creation. "Finding and posting content" was reported as the most time consuming, followed by "learning and education", "analyzing efforts", "scoping out the competition" and "responding to questions".
Source: Vertical Response
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