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Credibility of EMS Interest Rate Policies: A Markov Regime-Switching Approach
The primary objective of this paper is to use the Markov regime-switching modeling framework to study the credibility of monetary policy in five member countries of the European Monetary System (EMS) during the period 1979 to 1998. The five countries examined for this purpose are Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. The major innovation of this paper is the use of a Markov regime-switching model with time-varying transition probabilities. The output-gap variability and the inflation variability variables are incorporated into the determination of the monetary policy preferences of individual member countries of the EMS. Empirical evidence is provided to show that although all the countries in our sample followed a credible monetary policy regarding price stability, they had different preferences regarding the trade-off between the stabilization of output-gap variability and inflation variability.
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Some who saw the tabloid's cover took offense, contending that the headline –"Fright 214" — perpetuated the oft-used stereotype of an Asian accent.
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" Historic Earl's palace in Kirkwall, Orkney "
The Earl's Palace is located in the heart of Kirkwall, next to St Magnus Cathedral. It was built around 1606 by the infamous Patrick, Earl of Orkney, known for his cruelty.
The Palace now stands in ruins, managed by Historic Scotland. Entry is adult £3.70, child £2.20, and concession £3.00 - this gives you a joint ticket for the Earl's Palace and the adjacent Bishop's Palace. We used our Orkney Explorer passes. The building is not wheelchair accessible, so we couldn't borrow one for my mum, but the nice lady at the desk still gave us one free entry for a carer - so along with the two Explorer passes, we didn't hand over any money at the ticket desk.
From the outside, despite being in ruins, the building is still very imposing. It has a lot of turrets and corbelled windows, and it is easy to see the Earl's intention of displaying his power and wealth. There is a large area of lawn around the building, which must have been pleasant for a stroll when the building was intact and in use. What struck me however is that here is a building from 400 years ago in ruins. I think of the 1600s as being relatively recent history, as so many buildings from this period have survived - not this one though. The day before our visit to the Earl's Palace we had visited Skara Brae, 5000 years old yet not in a much worse condition than the Earl's Palace, comparatively speaking.
The ground floor of the building was the cellars, kitchens and so on. It is very dank and dark, full of drips. In one room there is a large display covering the history of the building and the Earl, but the damp atmosphere isn't very nice to stand in so we just skimmed over it.
Most of the floors and supporting structures of the building are still intact, so we were able to go up higher, and even up to one of the highest points in the building. The fireplace of the great hall is still distinguishable, and the windowframes of what was the Earl's chamber are quite beautiful.
One complaint however is that there were few "labels" telling us what each room was. Some rooms had little green notices stating "Cellar" etc, but most didn't, which was rather unhelpful. I had a guidebook which helped, but visitors shouldn't have to buy a guidebook on top of their ticket price just to identify rooms in the building.
The Earl's Palace and its history are interesting, but there are definitely better things to see in Orkney. However, I do recommend getting an Explorer pass, and so this makes a visit to the Earl's Palace worthwhile to get your money's worth out of the pass.


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By Rusty Miller, AP Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS Just a few blocks from Bourbon Street, where partying was perfected, the Ohio State Buckeyes are getting primed for their national championship date with LSU by staying in their hotel and staying out of trouble.
It's almost like they're in a monastery. No, wait - that happened almost 40 years ago.
So that his players were walled off from all the distractions - or, as some would put it, fun - of going to a bowl game, coach Woody Hayes used to make his Buckeyes spend the nights before their Rose Bowl games in a monastery.
"Have you ever been to one?" laughed Rex Kern, the Buckeyes quarterback in 1968 when Hayes first conceived of putting his linebackers in with the monks. "It's really peaceful, which is obviously why Woody wanted us there. I remember walking among the olive trees, all the shrubbery and the landscaping - it was great for meditation."
The current Buckeyes aren't exactly contemplating their navels. They're surrounded by plenty of things to keep them occupied, including a world-class workout facility and a game room that includes piles of the latest video games and large flat-screen monitors.
Still, they believe their singularity of mind and purpose will be reinforced by sticking around the Hilton instead of collecting strings of beads down at the French Quarter.
That ethic comes from their head coach. Jim Tressel constantly repeats the age-old coaching caveat, "Nothing good ever happens after 10 o'clock."
So the Buckeyes are all but sequestered as they count down to Monday.
Harrah's Casino is mere steps from the front door of the team hotel, but Tressel has banned the Buckeyes from going there.
Several LSU players were spied enjoying the gambling tables and one-armed bandits late on Thursday night. (The jury is still out on whether slot machines strengthen or weaken a player's arm.)
Hoping to somehow "protect" his players from the wild side, Hayes took his teams in 1968 and 1970 to a monastery on the outer reaches of Los Angeles. There was no carpet in the entire complex, and no TVs or radios. There was one bed to a room - a single, barren cot.
"We laugh about it when we get together at reunions," Kern said.
Before the Buckeyes played O.J. Simpson and Southern Cal in the 1969 Rose Bowl, Hayes showed the John Wayne movie, "The Hellfighters."
Players were excited to see it, but the impatient Hayes couldn't figure out how to wind the film onto the lower reel. By the time the first half of the movie was over, there was a huge pile of film around Hayes' ankles.
Rather than put on the second reel, Hayes barked, "That's enough. It's time to go to bed anyway."
So the players shuffled off to their Spartan rooms while glancing back at what looked like a mammoth plate of brown spaghetti covering up Hayes' shoes.
The Buckeyes split those two Rose Bowls they played after spending time in Hayes' form of solitary confinement, winning the 1968 national championship by beating USC but being upset by Stanford two years later.
Hayes also showed his disdain for distractions when he brought Ohio State to its first Sugar Bowl after the 1977 season.
After the bus pulled up to the very same Hilton where today's Buckeyes are staying, the team started getting off.
Hayes wandered over to the nearby Mississippi River where a Russian freighter had been docked near the hotel.
"Get back on the bus! We're not going to stay here!" he thundered, according to Ohio State sports information director Steve Snapp. "We're not going to sleep with any Russians!"
It took two hours of pleading by a Sugar Bowl representative before Hayes relented, but only on the condition that the Russian ship had to leave.
The next morning it was gone. No one knew if it was merely departing on time or if it was another example of the power Hayes wielded.
Chances are Hayes blamed the Red Menace for Ohio State's lopsided 35-6 loss to Bear Bryant and Alabama in the game a few days later.
Current Buckeyes stress they could go out on the town, but they don't want to leave anything to chance after a 41-14 pounding by Florida in last year's national championship game.
"I've actually not gone anywhere," safety Kurt Coleman said Friday. "I've lived in the hotel room and the film room. I haven't been anywhere."
Defensive tackle Doug Worthington said he and teammate Nader Abdallah, a New Orleans native, spent 30 minutes on Bourbon Street earlier this week but hustled back to their rooms because of temperatures in the 30s.
Others have said the only thing they've seen of New Orleans is through the windows of their bus on the way to and from practices.
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Taste the Difference Chablis 2010 (£9.99 Sainsbury's)
Young perky style, sprightly and lively with tangy rhubarb, apple and lemon fruit and a richer, mealy streak. S
Waitrose 'In Partnership' Chablis 2010 (£10.49 Waitrose)
Feels younger and dumber than the above to start with, but as it opens up, the nutty/leesy character is joined by ample citrus and apple flavours, with cool minerality adding to the pleasure. S-
Louis Moreau Chablis 2010 (£9.99 Marks & Spencer – link is for 2009 vintage)
Starts well, with sappy green apple flesh and a touch of minerality, but overall feels slightly flat, and lacking concentration. B(-)
Tesco Finest* Chablis Grande Cuvée 2009 (£9.99 Tesco – this vintage may have disappeared from many stores)
Quite generous ripe citrus and v ripe green apple, with the creamy nuttiness too, but lacks something of the vibrancy of the best wines here. B+
Tesco Finest* Chablis Premier Cru 2008 (£14.29 Tesco)
The zing of youth may have passed, but this still has taut rhubarb, lemon and apple flavours, nutty notes, a touch of wet clay and a precise mineral backbone. S(-)
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Median home prices are said to be inching upwards throughout the region.
Doesn't seem to be the case for Copper Beach Farm, a more than 50-acre estate in Greenwich, Conn., along the Long Island Sound that dates back to 1898.
According to listing agent, Christie's International, the 12 bedroom home with 10 fireplaces was put on the market for $190 in July. See our earlier story.
But we hear today from our friends at Curbed.com that the price is down to $130 million. Now that's a reduction! The highest selling Greenwich property was at $45 million.


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Waarheid Rhodesian Ridgebacks
Promoting the Total
Rhodesian Ridgeback
"Function First, True to Type"
Hunting Companion, Cattle Drover, Farm and Family Guardian
A word about Ridglessness and Breeding Ridgeless Dogs
A quick glance around this site and you might notice the term "Ridgelessbacks" being used and wonder what that's all about. In fact not once will you find the phrase "Ridgeless Rhodesian Ridgeback".
Most in the breed will use this definitively incorrect phrase when identifying the Ridgeless puppies that they have produced, thinking that these dogs are "Ridgebacks" even though they have no ridge, and genetically, cannot contribute a ridge to their offspring. After all, their logic goes, these dogs are pure bred - the progeny of two ridged parents, and the Rhodesian Ridgeback is more than just its ridge. In short, a Rhodesian Ridgeback is not defined by it's ridge.
From a historical, semantic, and genetic perspective, I respectfully disagree.
The history of our breed
makes it transparently clear that the ridge is the breed
defining feature of the Rhodesian Ridgeback.
The classification was at that point specifically changed to "Rhodesian Ridgeback".
The next obvious question
then is "Why the change?" History gives us the answer. As it turns
out there were numerous types and kinds of dogs that were used in
the pursuit of lion... even then, in the mid twenties when lion
hunting had already experienced the 'lion's share' of its demise,
the ridged descendants of Van Rooyen's stock were not the only dogs
being used for lion hunting. Rhodesian Ridgebacks weren't the only
'Lion Dogs', even in the 1920's.
From the historical perspective, to say that "a rose is a rose" or "a lion dog is a lion dog is a lion dog" is intellectually dishonest and places oneat odds with the founders of the breed, and most breed historians/experts. Follow the timeline, the message remains constant - The Ridge IS what makes these dogs.
Beyond the testimony of
history/founders/experts, there is the genetics. Unlike recessives,
as an autosomal dominant trait, the Ridge is also reliably
indicative of genotype - if you don't show it... you don't have it
to offer. Ridgelessbacks cannot produce Ridge- backed offspring by
matings to another Ridgelessback. Whether the AKC would grant them
registration or not is completely irrelevant. Consider a theoretical
2 or 3 or 5 or 10 generations of breeding ridgeless offspring to
ridgeless offspring. This theoretical breeding program would only
produce one thing - more ridgeless offspring. Would the AKC register
these dogs as "Rhodesian Ridgebacks" as the 10th consecutive
generation of ridgeless to ridgeless bred offspring? Yes, they
absolutely would!!! But are they really "Ridgebacks"? No. They
haven't had a single ridged genotype in their pedigree for 10
generations, but 'by gum' the AKC will register them. --- They are
not Ridgebacks, they are 10 consecutive generations of brown dogs
bred to brown dogs.


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Major psychological theories of gender-role development; biological and environmental influences that determine and maintain gender differences in behavior; roles in children and adults; topics include aggression, cognitive abilities, achievement motivation, affiliation. Recommended: either PSYCH 101 or GWSS 200. Offered: jointly with GWSS 257.
Class description
This course is divided into three parts. The first is a general overview of the problems and pitfalls frequently encountered when trying to empirically assess the relationship between gender and behavior. Problems associated with everything from the selection of a research question to the interpretation of experimental results are addressed. This section is designed to provide students with elementary skills necessary to assess current research on gender and provide a foundation upon which they can continue their study of gender-related research in the future. The second section of the course looks at the various theories which have been proposed to account for gender-related differences in behavior. Biological, psychoanalytic, sociobiological, social-learning, sociological, cognitive-developmental, gender-schematic and interactionist approaches are described and critiqued. The third section of the course addresses specific current stereotypes and beliefs about gender and behavior in US society and examines the scientific data which support or contract these beliefs. Topics addressed include gender and physical functioning, mental health, aggression, parenting, cognitive skills, achievement motivation, communication and romantic relationships. Current research on each of these topics is discussed and analyzed. In each case, it becomes obvious that general statements about differences or similarities between the genders tend to be inaccurate or misleading and that finer analysis of specific behaviors in specific situations is required to truly understand the gender-behavior interaction.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Course meets 4 hours per week for lecture and 1 hour per week for discussion. During lectures, students are highly encouraged to ask questions or to comment on course material.
Discussion section meetings immeidately preceding tests are used for review of material. Remaining section metings are used to discuss current social issues relevant to course material. To prepare for these discussions, students are asked to prepare informal, ungraded papers in which the student briefly discusses her/his own opinion on the issues at hand and then attempts to argue for the opposite position.
Recommended preparation
This course assume no prior knowledge of either psychology or women studies. Introductory courses in either of these fields of study would be helpful but are not necessary.
Class assignments and grading
Latest textbook used for this course was: Brannon, L. (1996) Gender: Psychological Perspectives. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. A packet of articles from Psychology journals and/or newspapers and magazines is frequently assigned. Additional assignments are in the form of ungraded opinion papers (discussed above) required for many discussion sections.
Course grades are based mainly on test scores. Three midterms and 1 final are given. The grade received on the final is always included in course grade calculations. The lowest of the scores on the midterms is dropped. Grades are based on the percentage of total possible points earned on the remaining midterms and final with individiuals earning 96% or more of the possible points receiving a grade of 4.0. Course grades decline by 0.1 for every 1% below 96%. Additional credit is given for participation in quiz sections.


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Weekend Sports Open Thread
By NB Staff | April 19, 2008 11:09 AM EDT
For sports-related discussion this weekend. Possible talking points:
- Who do you like in the NBA playoffs?
- How are the NHL playoffs going for you?
- Are you ready for some baseball, or does something seem missing this year?
- How's the NFL draft going for you? Any big surprises yet?
- Are racing fans interested in this weekend's Corona Mexico 200?
- How's Tiger's surgery going to impact him and the game?
- Anything else on your mind?


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Jim Fankhauser. (Photo by Bob Bumpas.)
One of the best-kept secrets of Jim Fankhauser is his Renaissance-man background. Jim, a meteorologist retiring from NCAR this summer after nearly 30 years, was heretical enough to finish a bachelor's degree in humanities, then turn around and get graduate-level credentials in meteorology.
"I took history, social science, and psychology as an undergraduate, but no physical science whatsoever," says Jim. "It's incomprehensible."
Jim made up for lost time when he entered the U.S. Air Force ("which was nothing more for me than draft-dodging the Army") and got the meteorology bug. He joined the U.S. Weather Bureau not long after the Korean War. The Bureau, in turn, sent him to graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he met his soon-to-be mentor, Chester Newton. In typically self-effacing fashion, Jim calls Chester "the underlying reason for any success I may have had."
After spending 18 months here in the early 1960s on loan from the Weather Bureau, Jim joined Chester's synoptic meteorology group at NCAR in 1967. "We were a pretty odd group," he says. "Very few of us shared common interests, but between us we covered a wide breadth." Chester, according to Jim, served as "a true mentor without ever trying to be."
Jim's focus in the 1970s was the National Hail Research Experiment, a huge field program based in northeast Colorado near Grover. "My interests were always in convection-the details of thunderstorm structure and initiation on various scales." NHRE's support, Jim believes, was driven largely by similar research in Russia and resulting U.S. nervousness. However, "we did have a fairly legitimate and productive scientific core and some pretty famous people involved." Jim and most of the other NHRE scientists later moved into the former Convective Storms Division, which became the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division in 1987.
It takes some doing to get Jim to acknowledge his own success. With a little prodding, he'll admit to at least a few lasting accomplishments. One is a technique developed with Jim O'Brien (now at Florida State University) that accounts for errors in estimating vertical velocities. "It's always been an elusive problem, because velocities are so small in the vertical relative to the horizontal [usually on the order of 10 centimeters per second, as opposed to 10 meters per second for horizontal winds]. This allows errors to develop and accumulate with height." The technique Jim developed with O'Brien distributes these errors through the vertical column and thus reduces their impact at any given level.
Another satisfaction of Jim's has been "the analysis of fairly complicated and diverse data sets from large field programs. I've always found it stimulating and challenging to amalgamate these into a cohesive picture." Much of this work has involved aircraft measurements, which he enjoyed collecting as much as analyzing. "I had an advantage-we used mostly light aircraft, which allows the scientist to sit in the cockpit and establish a rapport with the pilot. I really don't like to fly in the back of a large plane where you can't see anything or actively participate in the decision-making."
Jim is easing into retirement. After going part-time in 1993, he officially retired on 9 June but is maintaining his MMM office and coming in as he likes. "I'm analyzing data sets from CaPE [the Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment] and having a good time doing it. Even though the salary stops, I'm not going to. I'll keep doing this work until I don't enjoy it. My work has always been my hobby." •BH


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Corbett, D.P. (2001) Visuality and unmediation in Burne-Jones's Laus Veneris. Art History, 24 (1). pp. 83-102. ISSN 0141-6790
This article argues that a contest between the image and verbal knowledge is central to the work of Burne-Jones and that this contest thematizes cultural tensions around the capacity of the visual arts to deal adequately with the new conditions of contemporary experience. Contrary to most established readings, I argue that Burne-Jones's painting possessed for contemporaries the possibility of critical potential in its resistance to the instrumental values of late nineteenth-century modernity and that this potential was expressed most powerfully through their visual character. But if Burne-Jones's dream was critical in this way, it was also insecure. Opposing the visual to the word as forms of effective knowledge about reality, Burne-Jones's paintings of the 1870s nonetheless turn out to be dependent on the word and to enact a dialectic between word and image as a central part of their constitution.
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Citing people familiar with the plan, the newspaper said the automaker will cut up to 30,000 hourly jobs in North America within five years and close at least 10 assembly and component plants.
Ford Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Ford has said the plan would include "significant plant closings" but has declined to elaborate. The extent of the restructuring has been the subject of widespread speculation,
On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Ford is likely to close five North American plants as part of a restructuring plan still being developed.
Ford's board is expected to review parts of the restructuring plan during a two-day meeting beginning Wednesday.
Mark Fields, the executive vice president in charge of Ford's Americas operations — who is drafting the company's turnaround strategy along with Anne Stevens, chief operating officer of Americas — told employees Friday in an e-mail that the restructuring plan is not yet final.
In addition to the plant closing and blue-collar layoffs, the Detroit News said the No. 2 U.S. automaker will announce the departure of up to seven top executives in coming weeks.
Gerald Bantom, the United Auto Workers vice president in charge of the union's relations with Ford told reporters late Tuesday that the automaker's restructuring plan is expected Jan. 23.
Like its larger U.S. rival General Motors (GM), Ford has seen its margins squeezed by soaring health care and raw material costs, and a decline in U.S. market share. So far this year, Ford's North American unit has lost more than $1.4 billion before taxes.
Ford's U.S. sales have fallen for all but two of the last 18 months. The company's sales fell 18% in November.
GM said in November that it would cut 30,000 North American manufacturing jobs through 2008 and close 12 facilities to reduce excess capacity.
Last month, Ford said it planned to eliminate 4,000 salaried jobs, or 10% of its North American white-collar workforce, as part of its turnaround plan dubbed the "Way Forward."
Minnesota's Commissioner of Employment and Economic Development, Matt Kramer, said he spoke with a Ford official on Friday morning about a report that the St. Paul plant is targeted for closure.
"He made the same comment that I did, which is that the (story) appears to be much ado about nothing," Kramer said.
He said Ford has promised to notify him in advance of any public announcement regarding the St. Paul plant — and he doesn't expect that to happen until January. Asked whether he has been given notice that such an announcement is pending, Kramer said, "none whatsoever."
"Obviously, we've indicated we will address our excess capacity," Ford spokesman Oscar Suris told The Associated Press on Friday. "We've been pretty consistent in saying we'll share these plans in more detail in January. Nothing is finalized."
Last week, Ford said its car sales slid 6% despite strong demand for the company's new Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln Zephyr sedans and a 46% increase in sales of the Ford Freestyle crossover. Sales of Ford trucks and sport-utility vehicles slipped 22%, led by a 52% decline in sales of the newly redesigned Ford Explorer SUV.
Ford also said it plans to build 850,000 vehicles in North America in the first quarter, down 2.5% from a year ago. Ford said it will be increasing car production and lowering its output of trucks and SUVs.
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By George Frey, AP Business Writer
FRANKFURT German carmakers Volkswagen and Porsche said Friday they had come closer to merging the two companies, with the supervisory boards of both companies approving certain agreement contracts between them.
The contracts set out the organizational, structural and legal details of the agreement which was first announced in May and which is hoped to be concluded in 2011.
Volkswagen announced that its board approved the contracts this morning, while Porsche released a statement after market close that its board had done so.
The next step of the process will be VW shareholders approving that VW take on a 49.9% stake in Porsche through the issuance of new shares. An extraordinary VW shareholder's meeting is planned for Dec. 3 to take a vote on that issue.
"The creation of an integrated automotive group with ten strong brands follows a compelling industrial logic," VW, based in Wolfsburg, said in a statement.
"It represents a unique opportunity for Volkswagen and is in the best interests of all shareholders. Volkswagen will further expand its position as the leading global multibrand group with the inclusion of Porsche AG and the automobile trading business of Porsche Holding Salzburg."
Volkswagen, Europe's largest carmaker by sales, said last month it would take an initial 49.9% stake in Porsche, based in Stuttgart. VW said it expects to pay around 3.9 billion euro ($5.9 billion) for the stake.
Volkswagen has said it will then in turn buy Porsche SE, the holding company for Porsche AG, for about 3.55 billion euro starting in 2011.
Porsche said in its statement that it could close some negotiations with its lenders now that the agreements had been approved.
"In this case, the existing Porsche SE credit line of 10.7 billion euro is replaced by a new credit line, which reaches a total of 8.5 billion euro," Porsche said.
"This sum is distributed across three tranches with terms of between two and three years, and it substantially reduces the interest burden of Porsche. All banks involved in the old credit lines are involved with the new ones with unchanged rates," Porsche said.
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Faris Haroun returned from the calf injury which had kept him out of Boro's last four fixtures and soon made up for lost time with a first-half brace.
His first goal came after nine minutes when he provided a cool finish to a blistering counter-attack which left Posh stunned.
Any home supporters privy to the knowledge Peterborough had not taken a single point after going behind would not have been surprised to see Haroun head home the second shortly afterwards.
However, Peterborough staged an unlikely comeback when on-loan striker Dwight Gayle struck either side of half-time to turn the game on its head.
The striker, who grabbed the first goal of his loan spell from Dagenham last week against Blackpool, feigned one way then shuffled the ball on to his right foot before rifling into the top corner.
The London Road faithful were taking a shine to Gayle's work ethic and he endeared himself to them even more with the leveller seven minutes into the second period.
The 22-year-old won the corner himself, drawing Jason Steele into a smart stop from a tight angle, before he prodded home Lee Tomlin's set-piece delivery.
Both sides pushed hard for a winner but Miller's speculative effort surprised Posh stopper Robert Olejnik to extend Darren Ferguson's side's winless run to eight games.


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Greg Warmack has gotten used to being considered a crazy man. He`s used to people frowning as he sifts through rubbish in search of something he can transform into art-and extra income.
Now he must get used to the local and national attention his work is gaining.
Warmack has been living on disability checks since being shot twice during a 1978 robbery that left him in a coma for four weeks. But he has hit a nerve for some Chicago-area consumers, and carved out a modest niche in the increasingly popular market for ``recycled`` art.


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Sonrise is a special place. Built by an Anglican Priest to address the orphan crisis after the genocide, Sonrise pulls in the neediest orphans from all over the country. Parish priests are well established in their individual communities and recognize vulnerable children. They bring the most desperate cases to the orphanage where they can be fed, watered, immunized, educated, protect, loved, raised.
Interestingly, they call themselves a boarding school rather than an orphanage to help de-stigmatize Rwanda's orphans. Additionally, to help meet the cost of running the facility (which are fantastically low by our standards), they accept 200 students from "intact" (which can still mean a non traditional nuclear family — 1994 touched everyone) who can pay for the child's room, board, and education. In addition to covering a bit of their operating costs, this address the wider social concern of integrating orphans into the society of other children, rather than isolating them. They equalize all children regardless of their status by having policies of uniformity: the "rich" kids only bring 2 changes of clothes, so they don't look fancier than the orphans (remember, Rwandais on average live on .80 a day), and Sonrise supplies the bedding to keep it simple (no higher count sheets for the posh ones, so to speak). All the dorms are the same. There are 7 bunk beds with sweet, colorful sheets that would appeal to any child, and in the corners was a small plastic cubby for each child's changes of clothes and their notebooks. That's it.
But the place is far from austere. Classes resume tomorrow, and the large dirt courtyard (someone who reads this, please pay to seed grass for them!!!) was pleasant mayhem. The kids were running, laughing, carousing, exploring, and looking for all the world as if they didn't have a care in the world, except when it was time to pull wide eyes at the arrival of muzunga, white person! I could really get used to this greeting. It is truly something to be a constant source of amazement and joyous outbursts.
Tomorrow, the children begin their school year routine, waking up at 5:30 to make their beds, sweep the floors (they line the window sills with their little shoes, and to wash themselves. At 6 they have a hearty, healthy breakfast of cow's milk, eggs, and something else, I forgot what! At 10 and 4 they have a fruit snack (banana and pineapple) and lunches and dinner are meat, potatoes, rice, and beans cooked with other vegs, onion, and fish.
Sonrise is very, very proud of the healthy, fresh food they provide, and rightfully so. Everything is made in an amazing and beautiful pre-industrial kitchen. Wood was burning under the hand made oven that bakes fresh bread (delicious, I had some) and the store room was a still life, piles of carrots, cabbages, and potatoes leaning in corners on rough canvas mats.
The children wear white shirts (the girls' have peter pan collars) and blue pinafores or pants. And what do they do in these charming uniforms? Learn! They rank top 5 in the country each year in academic testing! They recently have tested as high as No.1! Parliamentarians, ministers, business leaders, and the other elite of Rwanda jostle to send their children to be educated at this orphanage. They are building a secondary school and matriculating their children into it as they grow up. These are the only kids I have met who can speak some English and French, even the littlest.
Always thinking long term about the integrated education of the whole person, during the academic holidays the orphans go back to their home communities, as it is believed they do need to live to learn in a household and create relationships with their extended families and villages. I did ask about how the Diocese ensures that those households to which they go for a 2.5 months are safe for children, who by their very nature are needy, vulnerable, and dependent, an orphan being an example in the extreme. The parish priests are responsible for bringing the child to live with him/her if the household is not suitable.
In spite of all they are able to do, this is a poor institution in a very, very poor country. They did not have a single malaria net and I noticed while studying their books that they were paying a lot for malaria care. Also, they buy firewood, which is expensive, and have to use labor to fetch (car, gas, time, etc) it as well as to boil water all day long to prevent diarrheal disease in the 600 kids and staff of 150.
Firewood to create safe water is a huge problem: the use of it adds to deforestation, which creates erosion, which reduces topsoil for farming in an already hungry, subsistence land (it also creates greater catastrophe during natural disasters). It diminishes habitat and biodiversity. It is labor intensive and back-breaking on people who need to be spending their energy and calories doing other things to catch a break, to get ahead of merely surviving. It leads to children receiving the chore of fetching wood, and it's always the girl who gets the task, so the boys can go to school. It is amazing how nefarious this one thing is, firewood.
Today we presented each child (all 600!) with a bottle of Sur Eau. One tiny capful will safely purify 20 liters of water, a bottle will purify a child's water supply for more than 6 months. No spending precious financial, labor, and environmental resources on boiling giants vats of water. We also gave each one a long lasted insecticide treated net, which will drastically reduce incidence of malaria. One kid I met yesterday had malaria 4 times last year alone; this is so important for all children.
It is such a sweet place, I really enjoyed my time with the director Joy Businge, another gentle woman who held my hand. We spoke intimately and closely about all they do, and she carefully showed me each feature, each room, each staff member, all the bedrooms, toilets, classrooms (so precious, the long benches with built in desks, lovely dark faces lined up behind them so earnestly ready to learn), the ovens, the giant, beaten tin pots filled with supper, the vegetable store, the cows, everything! And I was delighted to see each thing. Rwanda, such a mixed state, land of incredible natural beauty, abject poverty, scars of genocide, and blooms of healing like Sonrise.
We closed in a big circle, holding hands in the dirt courtyard, singing "Jesus loves me" and saying the Lord's Prayer. Earlier, I talked with them about what I do when I get scared (ask a friend if they can listen, get a hug from a safe person, write a letter to God, make a gratitude list), and after our prayers, I taught them how I do affirmations. I left Sonrise with a hundred or so kids chorusing in Kinyarwanda, "I am beautiful inside and out! I am precious! I am worthy! I am intelligent! I am creative! I was made on purpose for a purpose! I can do anything I set my mind to! The world is a better place because I am in it!"
To read more about Sonrise, you may google it! This article has links, too, on how to support them: http://www.mustardseedproject.org/section.asp?secID=7
Day one — arrival
Day two — genocide memorial
Day three — the countryside
Day three — the PSI.org offices
Day three — malaria nets
Day four — you go, global girl
Day four — water purification
Day five — world malaria day
Day six — Women for Women International
Day six — Democratic Republic of Congo
Day six — heal Africa
Day seven — Sonrise
Day seven — Dushishoze
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Killin' it 08: Joseph W. Carey-Stark-Arts
Joseph W. Carey and I got together this weekend and did a shoot around the city. It was a ton of fun and he's very easy to work with. JC is such a good photographer that you can't even tell I had a massive allergy attack that day and my eyes were watering so bad I had to redo my makeup a couple of times. See, that's talent. You should check out his other work at the site above. Just click on his name and you will be magically transported. Site NSFW, so take a look when you aren't at the office.
En Gypsy Couture 05: Time Out
It's been non-stop for the past month and doesn't look like it's going to slow up anytime soon. Next weekend brings Thanksgiving which means I'll be taking a breather in MA. And by taking a breather, it basically means I'll be catching up on my writing.
Amazing things have happened this week. I recently shot with Joseph W. Carey who is a wonderful photographer and someone I can see working with on a regular basis. I also just sent a box of small paintings to the Anno Domini Gallery in San Jose. So if you are in town the month of December check out my work as well as the other talented artists that are participating in the show and get some of your Christmas shopping out of the way.
Been thinking a lot lately about how I was brought up and how my parents interests have shaped me as well as other family members. You can thank my friend Warren and "Shivering Sands" for that. ( It's a good thing.) I grew up around horse racing, drumsets, rock n' roll, classical, publishing, mystics,and home businesses. My Grandparents started the "Horseman's Yankee Pedlar", I believe in the 70's and sold it during the 80's. My Grandfather was a horseracer who's gelding "Good Luck Boulder" won him race after race. Rumor has it when I was born he bought me a pony but I was so allergic my family had to sell it. It didn't stop me from riding though, neither did the fact that I wasn't very good at it, but I digress, my grandparents started a newspaper and my parents worked for them during the day. In the evenings my parents would attend corvette parties. My Dad was a corvette enthusiast and started Vette n' USA. That lasted throughout the 70's and into the early 80's. It may still be around. I'm not to good at keeping track of these things but I know he's not the publisher of it any longer. He also played and still does play the drums. My Mom worked with both of these publications as well as writing and painting, she even caught the eye of Playboy scouts who were in town with Barbi Benton and asked her to pose in Playboy mid 70's. She declined the offer. My Mother's Mother was a healer and came from a long line of witches. My Father's Grandmother held seances in her home, her best friend was a Hollywood starlet and they grew up in Grammercy Park. Her mother married a movie producer and became a socialite. Do you see where this is going? I have become all of them, a publisher, a model, artist, and sometimes socialite who dates the occasional drummer, their body maps engraved into me.
But I don't think any one of them had a leopard print coat or a choak chain collar. Somewhere down the line the map took a sharp turn, ran into a rough patch, and found punk rock, junk, and any other drama it could find. I'm glad to be out of the mud now but damn, the fashion stayed with me.
I have to finish some layouts now, deadlines slowly tick away. I hope at least some of this made sense. If not we'll just blame the sleep deprived girl staring at the computer and the soft clicking of computer keys.
Currently reading Tony O' Neill's "Down and Out On Murder Mile"
Current Soundtrack: The Germs
I apologize for the atrocious grammar and any spelling errors. I'm so tired my eyes are starting to cross.


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TURIN, Italy --Though he stayed on his feet, Jeremy Wotherspoon again stumbled in the men's 500-metres long track speed skate.
The 29-year-old from Red Deer, Alta., finished ninth with a combined time of 71.05 seconds in the two-round competition at the Oval Lingotto. His first round of 35.37 left him more than half a second back of eventual gold medallist Joey Cheek of the U.S. and his second 500 was slower (35.68).
Brockville's Michael Ireland moved up into seventh with a strong second skate of 35.29 seconds after finishing the first skate ranked 11th (35.59).
Cheek took top spot with a combined time of 69.76, Russia's Dmitry Dorofeyev (70.41) won silver while Korea's Kang Seok Lee (70.43) grabbed the bronze.
For Wotherspoon, it had been a long wait to redeem his disastrous 500 metres in 2002 at the Olympics in Salt Lake City where, as a strong possibility for a gold medal, he tripped right at the start of his first race and did not finish.
And though he claimed there were no demons from that race, his time in the first round today left him psychologically wounded. Disappointed at not having a realistic shot at gold, Wotherspoon was unable to gear himself up for a medal of any colour.
"In that first race I really felt like I let myself down," Wotherspoon told Sun Media's Terry Jones. "I really had a hard time forgetting it and getting on to the next race.
"I was too mad at myself for too long to be really ready for the second race and concentrate on getting a medal."
Wotherspoon entered the Games ranked fourth in the World Cup standings for the 500 metres, a distance in which he was the overall World Cup champion the past four seasons. He also holds the world record for the most career World Cup titles by a man. He won a silver medal in the 500 at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano.
Wotherspoon has one race to go in these Olympics, the 1,000 metres on Saturday.
For Ireland, the result was a strong one after missing most of last season with a serious concussion stemming from a mountain bike crash in September 2004.
Two other Canadians were also entered. Vincent Labrie, who turns 23 on Feb. 14 and lives in St. Romuald, Que. was 27th (72.43), while Brockville's Brock Miron, 25, was right behind in 28th (72.54).


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Hear No Evil
By Mary L. Hamilton
Middle Grade Readers. Christian fiction for 8-12 year olds. Summer camp is no fun for Brady McCaul. The girl with the cute dimples thinks he's immature and childish. The camp bully targets him with cruel taunts and teasing, and flips Brady's canoe to keep him from winning the race. But worst of all, his mom won't let him come home. She doesn't want him living with her anymore. Brady wonders if even God cares about him. Can Brady figure out what he did to earn Mom's rejection and change her mind by week's end? Or will he have to live with his workaholic dad, the guy who left when Brady was seven? All seems lost until a surprising secret changes everything.
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Garrett College Foundation Awards Student Scholarships (Part 11)
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The Garrett College Foundation board of directors announced more names of scholarships winners for the academic year 2012-2013. Among those earning scholarships are the following:
Kevin J. Spradlin, a resident of LaVale, has been awarded the Total Biz Fulfillment, Inc.: Ruddell Family Scholarship. He will pursue his Garrett College degree in Adventure Sports Management.
Catherine M. Dignan, who resides in Friendsville, has been awarded the Wilma A. Calhoun Scholarship. A 2012 graduate of Northern High School, Catherine will major in pre-dental hygiene.
Jessica Bender of Grantsville has earned the Jeffrey Kirk Roszell Scholarship. Currently a student at Garrett College, Jessica is pursuing her degree in early childhood education.
Addison Varndell, a resident of Grantsville, has been awarded the Amy Mildred Sharpless Scholarship.


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A homeland security study cites a "code of silence" that protects corrupt co-workers from exposure, among other problems.
In the latest sign of trouble for the Homeland Security Department's inspector general, the agency has removed five oversight reports from its website pending an internal review of a possible conflict of interest.
More than 140 Customs and Border Protection employees have been indicted or convicted of corruption-related charges since October 2004.
The top watchdog for the Homeland Security Department told a House oversight panel today that turf battles over internal corruption investigations have subsided and his agency is not backlogged with employee misconduct cases, but he deflected questions about an ongoing criminal investigation of a Texas branch office.
A U.S. House subcommittee plans to hold a hearing next month to examine the Department of Homeland Security's troubled watchdog office, according to letters sent to prospective witnesses last week.
Success stories about U.S. Customs and Border Protection's quarter-billion-dollar drone program are in short supply, according to a Homeland Security Department inspector general's report.
Through recently filed court documents, new details have come to light in the corruption case against two brothers and former U.S. Border Patrol agents. It's been six years since the investigation became public.
When Luis Alarid was a child, his mother would seat him in the car while she smuggled people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. She was the sweet-talking commuter, he was her cute boy, and the mother-son ploy regularly kept customs inspectors from peeking inside the trunk.
A veteran inspector with U.S. Customs and Border Protection was arrested this afternoon at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing on bribery, drug trafficking and human smuggling charges, the U.S. attorney in San Diego said.
Google Street View angers advocates, but can it see inside your car?
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All together now…awwwwwwww.
What a shame. After a number of dismal weeks scraping the bottom of the ratings barrel – as well as numerous changes in time slot positioning, personnel restructurings, and bucket-loads of advertising dollars – the "let's hope life will imitate art," and much ballyhooed ABC television series "Commander in Chief," has finally been yanked from the airwaves.
I guess those folks over at the Golden Globe were more impressed with Geena Davis in the role of president than the voters. Just imagine an awards organization having a different view of reality than the people. Tough to believe, isn't it.
Sadly, it's true. According to Reuters: "In its most recent airing, 'Commander' hit series lows, reaching just 6.5 million viewers." 6.5 million viewers. Isn't that almost as many votes as Pat Paulsen got in his last bid for president? Regardless, the show has grown so out of favor with viewers that ABC hasn't even announced when the final three episodes that have already been taped will air.
With any luck ABC will choose to not air them at all, but instead ship the entire series over to Euro Disney to be incorporated into one their rollercoaster rides.


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Kylie Minogue slammed for Logies performance
Melboune: Celebrities have slammed Kylie Minogue for her performance at the Logie Awards as twitter was abuzz with a barrage of abuses directed towards her.
Viewers and celebrities mocked the 45-year-old Australian singer`s performance of `I Was Gonna Cancel`, as reported.
`Dancing With the Stars` judge Todd McKenney took to the micro-blogging site saying that he is not sure if performing was a good idea for Minogue and she "mimed badly".
`The Block` contestants Dale and Sophie also accused the `Sexercise` hitmaker of lip-synching at the event, while former Spicks and Specks panellist Myf Warhurst mocked Minogue`s dancing likening it to a 1980s school camp dance routine.


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Small Engine Troubleshooting Problems? Ask a Mechanic Now.
Did you shut off the fuel or pinch the fuel line shut before removing the bowl? If so, and there's still fuel leaking, you probably have a bad needle and seat and it's not allowing the float to shut off the fuel. Let me know and we'll continue troubleshooting. Please hold off on accepting until we are finished.
Okay. I'm going to bring it in and work on it after I warm my hands up, as they're about frozen.
I will bring try pinching the fuel line shut, like you suggested, and see what happens. In the meantime I want to let you know that on the left side there's a slide switch. Is that the throttle or choke? If the choke, which is on and off?
Then on the right side, there's a button switch. What is this and should it be turned left or right?
Also to note: Before I took off the carbureator bowl to clean it, I had plugged in the electric cord and tried to start it by the electric starter button and it turned over but didn't start. Now it doesn't even turn over with the electric cord plugged in, using the electric starter button. Thanks, I'll wait to hear back from you.
Get your hands warm. It's a bear to try to do this kinda stuff with frozen fingers....
The slide switch on the control panel is for the choke. Right is the choked position.
I'm thinking the push button switch you're referring to on the right is the engine kill switch. What does the picture next to it look like?
Let's use the rope start for the moment and get you going, then we'll look at the electric starter.
Let me know if the needle and seat are in good shape in the carburetor.
Take your time and let me know when you can. Sometimes these things go really fast, others take several days and even a few weeks. I'm here for the long haul.
The key usually indicates the run/stop switch.
I'm sorry this didn't work out. I appreciate the attempt to help but it was too cold and I had to give up. My friend plowed the snow out. Looks like i will have to have the carbureator re-built.
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Redman Announces Muddy Waters 2 Album and Preload EP
Redman fans rejoice, the New Jersey Mc just announced on Twitter that he'll drop the follow-up to his 1997 classic album Muddy Waters this Fall. The release will be preceded by The Preload EP coming this August.
this is announcement im coming out with "MUDDY WATERS 2 the PRELOAD EP"in AUGUST…AND MUDDY WATERS 2 THE ALBUM IN FALL 2013 !!
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Raspberry Sorbet
Make two batches of this recipe if needed. Get the recipe for Vanilla Ice Cream.
- Yield: Makes about 1 quart
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 3/4 cups plus 4 teaspoons water
- 6 cups (1 2/3 pounds) raspberries
Bring sugar and 1 cup water to a boil in a large saucepan. Cook, stirring occasionally, until sugar dissolves. Let syrup cool.
Pulse raspberries and remaining 3/4 cup plus 4 teaspoons water in a food processor until smooth. Strain through a fine sieve set in a deep bowl or a large glass measuring cup. Using a rubber spatula, gently press down on the mixture to extract as much liquid as possible; discard solids.
Transfer raspberry puree to a deep bowl or airtight container. Add syrup, and stir until well combined. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
Pour mixture into an ice cream maker, and freeze according to manufacturers' instructions. Transfer sorbet to a large airtight container, and freeze for at least 2 hours.
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kaylarae21 JUL, 2010Delicious recipe! So simple and wonderful! I added a blurb of cream to make kind of a sherbet, because I was afraid it would be icy, and it turned out soo well! Lovely texture! Great way to use up my abundance of raspberries!Reply


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We had planned a Brooklyn/Manhattan bar crawl with 2 of my husband's older brothers, their spouses and their children and their significant others. It was an interesting study in how age plays into the art of a party. Here is a bar by bar breakdown of how the age groups handled the evening:
Bar 1 - Brooklyn Heights - 5:00 PM
20's - Arrive late as they were already pre-gaming elsewhere in the city
40's - Order appetizers (gotta build a base for all that alcohol), begin drinking at a steady pace that will be sustained all evening.
50/60's - Terrified by the exotic nature of the appetizers (fried pickles and nachos), order Mozzarella Sticks as they are more familiar. Begin nursing drinks.
Hop on the Jay Street Subway to Mahnattan - 6:15 PM
20's - Followed GPS on phone to subway stop. Came prepared with loaded Metro Cards to swipe everyone through.
40's - Swiped through without incident. Bored everyone to tears with stories of how they worked in the city in the late 80's. Comments heard "Fulton Street. This used to be my stop. I used to go to the Seaport for lunch." That was me. Even I rolled my eyes.
50/60's - Completely confused by the concept of a Metro Card. Questions included - "Isn't that paper? How does that work?" and "I thought we needed subway tokens."
Bar 2 - Insanely Croweded West Village Bar: 6:30 PM
20's - Sidle their way in and up to the bar with ease. Begin ordering drinks, shouting over the blaring football games and masses of humanity.
40's - Stand with arms pinned to side, barking drink orders to 20 somethings. Power drink cocktail and go outside to take pictures.
50/60's - Patiently wait for a seat at the bar. Get bartender to put a bowl of peanuts in front of them. Munch peanuts and sip drinks slowly, while asking the bartender a barrage of personal questions like - "Do you have a girlfriend?" "This place is very busy, how much money do you make a night?" "Why are these drinks so expensive?" (Not terribly personal, but probably annoying to the bartender.).
Bar 3 - Neapolitan Style Pizzeria - Beer and Wine Only 7:00 PM
20's - Order many Sicilian beers, eat their pizza and their girlfriend's and mother's leftovers.
40's - Quietly and with great reverence and focus, order a nice glass of Italian wine and savor their amazing pizza, marveling at the char on the crust, the milky mozzarella and the tang of the San Marzano tomatoes.
50's/60's - Hem and haw about whether to drink wine or beer after cocktails. Order pizza and eat half, taking the remaining pie in a to go box. Carry the box through the city for the next three hours..
Walk across town to East Village 8:30
20's - Walk quickly and confidently, never looking up from GPS on Iphone.
40's -Walk quickly but cautiously as not to twist their trick ankle on uneven pavement.
50's/60's -Ask 1000 times "Are you sure you know where you're going?".
20's - Recognize the need for both alcohol and caffeine and begin pounding vodka and Red Bull.
40's - Continue drinking steadily, not veering from the original drink of choice.
50's/60's - Have one beer and say "that's my last one for the night".
Walk Around Block to Karaoke Bar
Bar 5 - East Village Karaoke -Private Room, no hard liquor. Only beer, wine and Sake 10:30
20's - Order three pitchers of hot sake and grab the microphone, confidently starting off the night with a Whitney Houston song. Continue to pound Sake and beer at an admirable clip. Major microphone and song book hogging in play.
40's - Follow along, singing when 20's give up the mic. Mostly laughing in the background at the song choices and generally having a good time. Drink mystery japanese cocktails that are as close to vodka and cranberry as can be provided with limited menu.
50's/60's - Part ways with the rest of the group at the entrance to the Karaoke bar, preferring to go home and go to bed.
Overall, it's fair to say that the bar crawl was epic. It lasted from 5PM to 3AM, spanned two buroughs and included 14 people. Although the older group bailed early, they mad a pretty respectable showing. As I start to think about the onset of my 50's, I wonder how I will handle the hang as my years advance.
I think the real difference in the ages is best described by the day after.
50's/60's -Sleep until 5:30 AM. Walk around Brooklyn in the dawn light. Get breakfast and get on the road by 10:00 AM.
40's - Sleep until 7:30 AM. Get a vat of Starbucks. Go home and fall asleep on couch.20's - Sleep until 2 PM. Go out again the next night.


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Dr. Amy Wooten Thornburg is the Associate Dean and an Associate Professor in the Cato School of Education at Queens University of Charlotte. She is also the Coordinator of the Elementary Education Program and Oversees Accreditation. Dr. Thornburg is beginning her eleventh year at Queens. Prior to Queens she worked as a teacher in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school district before earning her Ph.D. degree in Philosophy of Education with focus on Curriculum and Instruction and Literacy. Dr. Thornburg teaches literacy and social studies courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs and supervises student teachers. Dr. Thornburg�s areas of expertise include student motivation, working with at-risk students, professional development, balanced literacy instruction and teacher retention. She has been a presenter at many national and international conferences during her time at Queens. She is also a consultant for the Charlotte Mecklenburg school district. Dr. Thornburg received the Cato Leadership in Education Award in 2015. This award is granted to faculty members who embody a contagious love of learning and a passion to help students grow and succeed. Other awards Dr. Thornburg has received include the Most Influential Woman on Campus and the National Association of Professional Development Schools� Award for Exemplary Professional Development School Achievement.
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An Interview With Konec (Including An Exclusive Preview To His Upcoming EP!)
Based in England, Konec has been producing some serious tracks that have gotten some serious attention on the internet and has had two of them tracks played on xKore's mix for UMF Radio. I recently got to correspond with the man behind Konec (Richard Wilkins) via email to get to know him a little better.
Konec on Facebook, Twitter and Soundcloud.
GPS: Tell us about yourself.[box]Richard: Making music is pretty much my hobby as well as graphic design, I do all the graphics for Konec. Big fan of TV comedy too, Peep Show, Arrested Development, Community, 30 Rock, The Office are all up there for me. Food-wise i'm not too fussed, just not liver. That's one thing that will never go on my rider.[/box]
Do you plan on experimenting on genres beyond the dubstep and drumstep you have released?[box]I have been focusing on electro, it's where my background is so that's always on my agenda![/box]
Dubstep and Drumstep seems to be genres that are quickly branded onto producers if they make it from the start. Do you feel as though that may set you back when you make different sounds and show them to your followers?[box]Not at all, I put my Konec sound into the different genres I make so people hopefully won't think of my music as "Dubstep" or "Drumstep" so much but more as Konec music, be it [tempos of] 100, 110, 128, 140, 170 or higher.[/box]
The dubstep/drumstep that has mainly been pushed forward over the past few years is, as many refer to it as, "brostep." Some think that sound has reached it's peak and is bound to decline sooner or later. Do you think there is still hope of keeping it alive? What are your thoughts on the brostep sound in general (as some categorize your music as such).[box]I have a bunch of production experience that let's me have more freedom with the Konec sound that will let me move out of the bass movement when the time comes. Although I hope it keeps going to be honest because what's better than some mad huge beats and bass that max out systems, right? I make music I enjoy so yeah, I are having fun at the moment and couldn't care about the naysayers and unconstructive critics.[/box]
When the topic is not electronic music, what do you like to talk about?[box]Design, how the world works, streetwear and music that isn't electronic.[/box]
What do you hate to talk about?[box]Bass patches.[/box]
What artists do you admire/look up to? Which would you love to work with?[box]I really look up to Diplo. He's got a great work ethic and he's gotten so big without selling out at all, he's still so humble. One day he'll be in the studio with some big r&b guy and next he's working with some underground unheard of kid, it's really cool. I'm a big fan of his whole aesthetic right now too. Would love to work with him some day.[/box]
Related Reading: An Interview with xKore
Are there any certain songs that you can hear a million times and never get bored of hearing? What songs just make you go "wow, this is amazing" every time you hear it?[box]Roygbiv by Boards of Canada, 4 by Aphex Twin, Hover Traps by Rustie, Faxing Berlin by Deadmau5, Digital Love, Emotion by Daft Punk, All Your Love by Hudson Mohawke and Baby I'm Yours by Breakbot with Irfane. All I can think of for now, there will be more i'll want to add the minute this gets uploaded.[/box]
What are your goals for the next few months/years?[box]Finish up my EP 'Cascade' (Title track posted as a preview below!), get it released and then find myself management. Then who knows really![/box]
Thanks for your time Konec and I look forward to what the future has in store for you! Be sure to check out the exclusive preview of his new track "Cascade" down below!
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