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Champion Chat: Jason Britton (Part 2) is continued from AMA Pro Racing's website. Click here to read Part 1.
M1: What's your favorite part about the Big Kahuna weekend?
JB: I'd have to say being a spectator. I love road racing, and I love how they put on the event and entertain the crowd. Besides riding, it's going to be spectating and catching up with my friends.
M1: Can you tell us who you will be stunting with?
JB: It will be myself and Eric Hoenshell. Eric and I have been riding together since 2001. It's not so much a job because we get to put on a great show and entertain the people that M1 is able to bring out to our event.
M1: Who are some of your heroes?
JB: My real heroes are Evel Knievel and Doug Domokos. Through the years to the more street and recent side of things, guys like Gary Rockwell and so many up and coming guys out there. They're young, hungry and trying some crazy things that are improving the sport.
M1: When you came on the stunting scene, you really brought a level of comfort and professionalism to the industry and manufacturers. Can you elaborate on that?
JB: For sure, the most important person that I represent is myself. If I don't represent myself correctly, it reflects on my children. That's how I approach things. When my kids first started climbing on my motorcycle and emulate me, I knew right then that I had to be an advocate for safety. I had to get the younger generation to ride motorcycles in a safe environment, and not do wheelies on the street or highway. Almost immediately, the protective apparel manufacturers and OEMs started to open their eyes. They saw that I was serious about it, and tried to create a legitimate sport that appealed to people from 6 – 60 years old. We're the real deal, and we're here to stay. We strive to be professional, maintain our equipment, represent everyone in the best possible light and get sponsors that see that. It's a great part of the industry and I want to be involved in it.
M1: Didn't you race in AMA Pro for a little bit?
JB: I did some racing as an expert in club racing and finished really well. I got my AMA Pro license, and was very passionate about road racing, but I didn't have the funds to race and stunt ride. I got to a crossroad where I had to make a decision. Racing was costing me a lot of money, and stunt riding was paying for it. I decided to pursue stunt riding and here I am today.
M1: We know you've done some stunt riding for movies. Tell us about that, and if people realize that you're the guy behind the visor in a lot of these Hollywood productions.
JB: I don't know if people really know it, but if they've asked the question or watched the credits at the end of a movie, they've kind of figured it out. If they have seen movies like Biker Boyz, Torque, Cradle to the Grave, Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 or commercials with Pepsi, Beyonce and Nike, I've doubled as the people in them. It's almost better just seeing the lives of the movie stars, as they get into cars with black tinted windows, can't go to the supermarket and get barraged by the paparazzi. It's a good fit for me to do stunt double work, and not be directly in front of the camera, as the direct talent.


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What is an EMI?
EMI stands for Equated Monthly Installment. It is the amount comprising a portion of the interest and the principal loan amount which is payable by a borrower to the lender every month
What is a Pre-EMI?
As soon as your loan is sanctioned the banks usually pay the builder amounts in a periodic basis (based on payment schedule as per agreement). Builders usually set milestones and on achieving these milestones the bank pays the builder a certain amount.
Until the complete loan amount is actually given to the builder by the bank, the borrower has to pay a simple interest at the rate agreed upon with the bankers. This interest is called Pre-EMI which is payable up to the date from which the payment of EMI actually commences.
How many types of Housing Loans are available?
Banks and other financial institutions offer mainly the following:
Home Loans - This is the basic housing loan for the purchase of a new home which covers cost of Villas/Apartments and parking space, deposits and charges, stamp duty and registration charges.
Home Improvement Loans - For implementing repair works and renovations in a home that has already been purchased by you.
Home Construction Loans - For the construction of a new house.
Home Extension Loans: For expanding or extending an existing house
Home Conversion Loans - The existing loan on a house is transferred to a new house, including the extra amount required, eliminating the need for pre-payment of the previous loan.
Land Purchase Loans - For both home construction or investment purposes.
Bridge Loans - For people who wish to sell the existing house and purchase another and need finance for the new house, until a buyer is found for the old house.
Balance Transfer - To pay off an existing housing loan and avail of the option of a loan with a lower rate of interest.
Refinance Loans - To pay off the debt you have incurred from private sources such as relatives and friends, for the purchase of your present house.
Loans To NRIs - As per requirements of NRIs who want to buy a house in India
Stamp Duty Loans - This loan is sanctioned to pay the stamp duty amount that needs to be paid on the purchase of property.
What is the Eligibility for a Home loan?
Eligibility criteria as maintained by most banks and financial institutions are based on three factors viz. age, income and job stability.
He/She must be at least 23 years of age when the loan is sanctioned for salaried employees/ professional and self employed persons/ businessperson.
The repayment should be complete before attaining the age of 65.
Other cases can be taken up as special case and subject to approval of higher authorities of the bank.
The loan applications in which point no. 1 and 2 are not satisfied, a guarantor is taken as additional co applicant satisfying the criteria.
The net income of the concern should be greater than Rs.1,00,000/- per annum for salaried employees/ professional and self employed persons/ businessperson.
Maximum of two persons income of the partners/directors holding a minimum of 25% stake each can be clubbed to the income of the concern.
The net income can be increased/ enhanced by clubbing income of maximum three persons who can either be family members in tree/chain or co-partner in business or co-partner in property.
Job stability
For a businessperson, his/her business should have a good future and growth.
There should be continuity in the business for the last five years.
The business must be profit making for the last two years.
For a salaried individual, he/she should have a continuous minimum employment for 3 years or more.
He/She can include his/her spouse/parents/children as co-applicant to a maximum of three applicants.
Permanent salaried employees/professional and self employed, persons/businessperson, having regular income to liquidate loan.
Can a NRI (Non Resident Indian) avail housing loans?
Yes. Repayment of loan should be made within a period not exceeding 20 years out of inward remittances or out of funds held in the borrower`s NRE/FCNR/NRO accounts.
How much can a person borrow?
Loans are generally disbursed upto a maximum of 85% of the cost of the flat. The balance 15% cost of the flat is to be funded by the flat purchaser from his own contribution.
What are the documents required at the time of making an Application for a housing loan?
Latest salary slips (proof of income for salaried individuals)
Proof of age
Identity papers
Proof of residence
Bank statements for the previous six months
For self employed, certified copies of balance sheet, profit and loss statement and tax challans / tax returns for the previous 3 years
For partnership/ private limited companies, the articles of association, partnership deed and details about the firm
For NRIs, latest salary certificate specifying, name (as it appears in the passport), date of joining, passport number, designation, perquisites and salary, Photocopy of labour card/ identity card, photocopy of valid resident visa stamped on the passport, photocopy of monthly statement of local bank account, property related documents.
How is the rate of interest calculated in India?
Interest rates vary from time to time and from institution to institution.
What is a fixed-rate housing loan?
A fixed-rate housing loan is a loan where the rate of interest is constant through the entire term of the loan period.
What is a floating-interest-rate housing loan?
A floating interest rate loan is a loan where the interest rate payable is linked to the market conditions such as the bank retail prime-lending rate and rises and falls with the bank rate varies. Hence a borrower bears the risk of interest rate fluctuations. Floating interest rates offered are usually lower than the fixed interest rates.
What is the difference between monthly reducing interest rate and yearly reducing interest rate?
In a monthly reducing interest system the principal on which interest is paid reduces every month as EMI is paid. In the annual reducing system the principal is reduced at the end of the year, and the borrower pays interest on a certain portion of the principal, which is actually paid back to the lender. The EMI for the monthly reducing system is effectively lesser than the yearly reducing system of calculating interest.
What are the repayment period options?
Repayment period options range generally from 5 to 20 years
What are the charges for availing a housing loan?
Processing fees - payable to the lender on applying for a loan and is either a fixed amount not linked to the loan or may also be a percentage of the loan amount.
Commitment fees - in case the loan is not availed of within a stipulated period of time after it is processed and sanctioned, then some institutions levy a commitment fee.
Pre-payment penalty - between 1% and 2% of the amount being pre-paid, is charged by some institutions when a loan is paid back before the end of the agreed duration.
Stamp duty and registration fee on a deed of mortgage.
Miscellaneous costs - such as administrative costs, legal documentation charges, technical consultant charges.
What security is required for a housing loan?
The flat purchased is the primary security and is mortgaged to the lending institution till the entire loan is repaid. Additional security such as life insurance policies, shares, bonds, fixed deposit receipts, national savings certificates can also be offered, as per the requirements of the institution
Do lending companies require guarantors?
Yes. Most of the lending companies require 1 guarantor.What is the time required for approval of a loan application?
About 15 - 20 daysWhat is the time required for disbursement of loans?
Usually loans are disbursed within 5-7 days after completion of verification by the institution, documentation (such as handing over of the original agreement for sale/ lodging receipt to the lender) and completion of all relevant procedures and only after proof that the borrower`s own contribution has been paid by him to the vendor/ builder/ developer.
Do institutions accept joint loan applications?
Do lending institutions offer incentives for housing finance?
Sometimes lending institutions offer incentives for a specified period or under a special scheme. Incentives could be any of the following:
Free accident insurance
Waiving of pre-payment penalty
Waiving of processing fee
Property insurance
Which sources, other than banks, can give loans for purchasing a flat?
A loan for purchasing a flat can be availed of from the following sources:
Housing finance company
Insurance company
Against provident fund account, fixed deposits, post office savings
Against shares and debentures of listed companies, government bonds and securities
Private parties such as relatives, friends
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Are Coed Dorm Rooms A Good Idea?
Starting next fall, Columbia University in New York City will institute a "gender neutral" housing policy for everyone but freshman. This means guys and gals can share a room. Gasp! Which means that hetero couples might decide to live together and … wait for it … have sex! Yes, this is a big concern for some people, especially of the parental variety. As if drunken, horny, stressed-out 20-somethings packed together on a small campus haven't been doin' it for decades. For real, though, there are a lot of reasons why this is a good thing. After the jump, why "gender neutral" housing makes everything a little more equal. First of all, single-sex housing still allows gay and lesbian couples to shack up together. Obvi, homosexuals don't tell the university they're in a relationship with the person they're planning to live with but, still, it happens. I'm all for equality, so if the LGBT crowd can do it, the hetero crowd should be able to as well. On the flip side, sometimes gays and lesbians are forced to live in same-sex housing and they don't want to. Why? Developing feelings for your (straight) roommate can make things totes awkward. Also, some straight peeps aren't really down with living with a person who could potentially dig them. They might feel weird changing in front of their gay roommate or even sleeping in the same room. Stranger things have happened. Clearly, this is going to make things pretty uncomfortable. "Gender neutral" housing allows gays and lesbians to live with a friend of the opposite sex, thus eliminating any potential romantic problems.
Also, everyone we're talking about here is over 18, so shouldn't they be able to live with whomever they want on campus?
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Kullryke Yurik Kralden-Wurl Plainsholm Drannor
NPCs (Major) (Combative)
's comment on 2009-01-01 12:50 PM
With each revision, Kullryke becomes clearer: Your next challenge is to bring all the tenses into line and put quotation marks around each of her quotes in the text.
The opening summary begins with several metaphors: These images paint a vivid picture, but I'd abbreviate it since you repeat the text within the main body of the piece. Alternatively, you might mark the opening as Gunther Weldenson's quote and remove the quote from the main body of the text.
Kullryke's special equipment and ablities are well-described. I'd also appreciate additional detail about her motivations and the suggested plot hooks.
Her background is... too much. While it has a great amount of interesting detail and says a lot about her character, you're basically asking the reader to absorb several of her adventures. I'd strip that down to a quarter its present size, saving the information to write separate tales of her early adventures. You have the imagination to do it, you just need practice polishing your writing.
A few errors eluded your previous review. After you revise the tenses, you should have someone else read the text, marking anything they find confusing. It's always harder to see one's own errors than it is to see other people's.
This piece will be impressive when it's fully polished!
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Lifeforms (Flora) (Swamp)
's comment on 2009-01-11 12:45 AM
"Torch the Leprosy Plants!" cried the maddened peasants as they marched through the forest, plumes of black, oily smoke rising behind them.
The most rosy of red herring plant life.
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Malver's Way
Locations (Neighborhoods) (Any)
's comment on 2008-12-13 03:12 PM
Medieval and renaissance innkeepers would occasionally add a variety of unhealthy ingredients to their drinks to make them keep longer or hide unpleasant flavors. Lead or chemical salts were sometimes used for the purpose, particularly as a sweetener in low-quality wine.
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Korara, the Maker of Brides
NPCs (Minor) (Domestic/ Craft)
's comment on 2016-10-17 11:34 PM
I'm sorry that I missed this when it was first submitted. Siren was building on the Volgotoi Ogrish culture, in which the males tend to be loutish and straightforward, while females master manipulation and deception. Rather than a male-dominated warrior culture, each gender has its own role in their society, with women acting as negotiators and intermediaries between family clans. Korara has simply chosen to specialize in matters romantic and matrimonial.
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Observer Beetles
Lifeforms (Unique) (Swamp)
's comment on 2008-05-06 07:45 PM
I remember my first posts here: It takes a few tries to get used to the Citadel's quirks. Please keep posting!
I could see these benevolent beetles appearing in a game, but I'd add some legends about them and their swampy home. While they might have occurred naturally, such creatures would be seen as powerful omens by those dwelling in the area. Mud-caked swamp elves would protect them as emmisaries of the nature gods, while those pillaging the wetlands' bounty would fall to the beetles' alien wrath.
Additional Plot Hooks:
"Drain That Pesthole" -
Lord Fawary cares little for his estates, but hopes to wring every possible groat from the "insect-ridden" swamp on its border. He plans to dam the stream that feeds it, building a mill and clearing the land for pasturage. The arrogant noble can't understand why his simple plan isn't working...
"We Found Them in the Swamp" -
Adventurers unearthed a unique treasure while exploring the great swamp: Statues of nature gods worshipped by tribes that once dwelt in the region. Purchased by Lord Fawary, these lovely statues delight visitors to his gardens. Unfortunately, swarms of tiny beetles have begun to plague the region, and Fawary's delight has turned to anger. He wants those adventurers found and his money returned.
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Observer Beetles
Lifeforms (Unique) (Swamp)
's comment on 2008-05-08 03:09 PM
Desiring that his humble servitors not pass from the realm, the sylvan god invested them with his power. Growing in power and wisdom, they were simple insects no longer. A fragment of the god's will possessed them, collectively making their race into a lesser avatar of the god.
I like the idea of magical effects: It's a style thing. Sure, the beetles could swarm over their foes, but bugs summoning mystical defenders of the wetlands is so much cooler (and not overdone the way swarms have been since "The Mummy").
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Tooky Bird
Lifeforms (Fauna) (Any)
's comment on 2008-05-06 07:56 PM
You might want to add that the males are territorial: If you kill one, another will soon move into the open territory...
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The Dung Goblins of Dabazook Island
Society/ Organizations (Agricultural) (Local)
's comment on 2008-03-27 12:45 AM
Detailed and silly, but I'd like to see some suggestions for zany adventures featuring the malodorous goblins of Dabazook Island.
Perhaps their caverns were once the tomb of an ancient hero (his sarcophagus now buried beneath tons of manure) and the PCs need to recover several holy relics from the ancient paladin's crypt: Unfortunately, the task must be done without spilling blood.
If the goblins heard of giant bats near a human village, their quest to find and tame the elusive avian mammals could be quite aggravating for the locals.
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Assassin's Creed
Society/ Organizations (Criminal/Espionage) (Regional)
's comment on 2008-03-21 07:03 PM
You're actually off to a good start. Don't beat yourself up.
If this were my sub, I'd pull out all the video game references and replace them with suggestions for how the organization could be implemented in someone's games. I'd add the historical information that others suggested, along with other interesting facts I'd learned since I started writing the sub.
Since your keyboard is causing you heartburn, you might want to find a better one: There's no point in handicapping yourself. A decent keyboard can be picked up for less than 20 bucks.
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White Children Of Hosok
Lifeforms (Third Kingdom) (Any)
's comment on 2008-01-20 03:05 PM
As always, the Captain delivers a dose of horror that would enliven any game it is used in.
I suspect that the mere possession of salt is suspicious within the lands of The Hand That Sees, drawing the attention of informants and those eager to buy the favor of their revolting overlords. Those preparing for battle with the dreaded White Children may learn that the hybrid undead aren't the only terror within the land, only the most infamous.
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The Shadow Scribe
NPCs (Minor) (Mystical)
's comment on 2007-04-04 02:00 PM
This is one of the more unpleasant contributions that the site has seen. While I don't shy away from controversial, gruesome subs, you might want to tone him down a touch, as there are some folks who would find this offensive and most of us would hesitate to use such a creature in our games.
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30 Assassins
NPCs (Extras-Horde) (Criminal/Espionage)
's comment on 2007-12-14 05:47 PM
Wow! I want to write a scenario based on Drizzle Deathstalker!
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The Tower of Necrology
Locations (Establishment) (Other)
's comment on 2007-12-09 06:31 PM
A place of dire mystery, described in hideous glory. Nightmarish and useful.
Well done.
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The Red Honey
Items (Potion) (Campaign Defining)
's comment on 2008-11-24 12:57 PM
A solidly-conceived piece: I've always had a taste for seedy Victorianesque adventuring, so the setting details particularly appeal to me.
Verita Brandy
Few people realize that Red Honey is a major ingredient of Verita Brandy, a rare distilled drink. The brewers mix the Red Honey with that of less-aggressive species, then ferment the resultant liquid into an oddly-flavored mead: This is then carefully distilled and allowed to age in apple-wood casks for 20 or more years.
Sipped carefully by nobles and wealthy merchants, Verita Brandy produces euphora similar to that caused by less-elevated forms of the drug, but it has a (generally undeserved) reputation for making its drinkers unable to lie effectively. As such, it is often shared during sensitive negotiations, used to enforce honest dealing.
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Landscape Description
Articles (Resource) (Game Mastering)
's comment on 2007-11-08 12:36 PM
I'll give it a shot.
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Landscape Description
Articles (Resource) (Game Mastering)
's comment on 2007-11-08 12:46 PM
The Waterfall
The thunder of falling water is audible for hundreds of yards, as the trail leads past a small waterfall. Beneath the fall, a large pool spreads out, its edges covered with thick growths of water plants. A few water birds quest among the growth, seeking for insects and frogs.
Downstream of the fall an ancient bridge crosses the water, its cracked stones covered with moss. The path leads to the bridge, but some suspicious soul has tied a stout rope across the water as well, forming a rope handrail for the decrepit structure.
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30 Legendary Antidotes/Cures
Items (Other) (Magical)
's comment on 2007-11-08 04:01 PM
30 adventure hooks! I like seeing the old subs dusted off and given another chance to live.
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The Maul
Locations (Neighborhoods) (Other)
's comment on 2007-11-06 06:21 PM
An excellent, sordid slum, loaded with tons of useful details. I enjoy run-down "Victorian" settings, and this dockside region has all the sleazy details that I like.
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Two Little Piggies Went to the Market
Plots (Hired) (Side-Quest)
's comment on 2007-11-06 01:13 PM
I like! A solid evening of investigative gaming, waiting to happen. I particularly like the first two solutions to the mystery.
This plot definitely fits in the "Tales of Adventure" freetext.
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The Dome of the Seven Captains
Locations (Establishment) (Any)
's comment on 2007-11-04 01:19 AM
This is an excellent location! It's convincing and well-detailed, the sort of place that demands to be used in a game.
I would like to learn more about what goes under the Dome of the Seven; a good companion piece would be the people that one might encounter there.
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Nike's Trashy Sneakers: Top Honors at Design Awards
Trash Shoes Can Dunk Nike's Trash Talk basketball shoe is just as high-performing as its best shoes -- it can play in the NBA -- but it's made from leftover leather and synthetic leather, foam, and rubber. And it just won Best in Show at the annual
Win a Trip to South Africa From KEEN Footwear
Image via: Green Living Project Love your KEENs? Well now your KEENs can show some love back by offering one lucky person the chance to take a trip to South Africa to explore and help out with a local animal shelter. Lions, Tigers, Bears, Oh My. Well,
Radiohead Flogs Rain Jacket Made of Bottles
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Bridgedale Adds Bamboo Socks And Reduces Global Warming
The other week I was sitting in a medical waiting room reading, as you do, a copy of Reader Digest. There was an intriguing article about Jackie Heinricher, her Booshoot company, and the plan to bring large scale bamboo cultivation to North America. At
Is Brooks Running the Best Green Source for Runners?
You a runner? Or an exercise-oholic? And you want your workouts to reflect your green lifestyle? Well, the race is ON or at least for me and a few friends to find the best performing green running equipment.
Old Jeans Get the Boot: Levi's Make Re-used Jeans Shoes
Lurking amongst Levi's new Red Tab footwear collection is their Reused Jean Shoe. Basically a Converse style sneaker styled around "pre-loved authentic Levi's jeans." Apparently it takes a couple of pairs to make a pair, with many of the
Adorable Wool Felt Slippers and Accessories, by Oveja Verde
With organic cotton being almost inexistent as a crop in Argentina and bamboo barely present, wool felt is one of the few local and sustainable materials that designers have in this country for fashion and accessories.
Merrell Partner With National Park Foundation to Get People Outside
We recently made mention of outdoor footwear company, Merrell, and their continuing campaign to get folk outside, in that instance to the Rothbury festival in July 09. Well, now they are at it again. This time teaming up with the US National Park
Vegan Footwear - Cowhugger Walk with Me
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That Was Pretty Darn Quick. END Footwear is Bought
We only started writing about END Footwear a year ago. They didn't even have retail product at that stage. Their Environmentally Neutral Design(ed) running shoes and boots eventually debuted in August 2008. Now they've just announced the company
Autonomie Project Brings Style to Fair Trade Accessories
While not as true as it once was, eco-friendly and fair trade clothing often still lacks that special something. The Autonomie Project is out to prove that idea wrong by providing sustainable, fair trade clothing and
Cool New Recycled Shoes by Camper and Bernhard Willhelm
Needless to say eco shoes have improved by leaps and bounds over the years. This spring, shoe company Camper & designer Bernhard Willhelm are launching their ready to wear Eco shoe line, made with recycled fibers & tire tread soles,
Patagonia Continue to Walk Their Eco Talk
Patagonia, the outdoor clothier (and cobbler) with an inspiring eco-conscience, have had so much Greenness going on recently, it's been tricky keeping on top of it all.
Celebrate Earth Day with Leonardo DiCaprio via eBay
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Best of Green: Fashion + Beauty (Slideshow)
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Greener Rubber Shoe Soles from Vibram: A Step in the Right Direction
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Merrell Wants You To Get Outside And On The Road to Rothbury
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UNCUT felt slippers by Amor de Madre
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SRM crank Wireless PowerMeter - Rotor 3D + Compact
The SRM is the performance measurement system on swear most cyclists. From track cycling to mountain biking, the SRM numerous athletes has provided valuable services on their way to the top.
An optimal training requires precise control. You can create an accurate performance profile over the combination of all measurable values such as speed, cadence, heart rate and power. This profile is the basis for a very specific training, strengths and weaknesses are most exactly shown and can be improved or expanded. Use the information gathered can be driven selectively in the optimum power range even during a race in which no slump is feared before the end of the race. So you can with the correct pacing, using the power meter, realize the best possible results for your performance level.
Eight strain gauges measure the introduced torque which is charged together with the instantaneous angular velocity to the entered power. The measurement is made without loss with an accuracy of +/- 1%. The measured values are transmitted via ANT + protocol and are all also ANT + devices dominant recyclable. Thus, Garmin Edge devices can be used with the SRM power meter crank.
The Rotor 3D + aluminum crank arms by the Trinity Drilling System very light yet rigid. In this system, three longitudinal bores are integrated in the crank arms, whereby material is removed from the core. The strength remains. Fitted is the crank assembly with chainrings of the American manufacturer Paxle Works. Forged chainrings are in things shifting performance and durability of the best on the market.
Technical specifications:
Material crank arms: aluminum
Material shaft: aluminum
Material SRM Spider: aluminum
Battery life PowerMeter: 1900 hours
Accuracy Power Meter: +/- 1%
Data Transmission: Wireless
Standard: ANT +
PCD: compact 110 mm
Translation: 50-34
Length crank arms: 165, 170, 172.5 or 175 mm
Q: 147 mm
compatible bottom bracket systems: PF30 | BB30
Weight: from 776g (Power Meter without bottom bracket)
SRM Wireless PowerMeter 8
Rotor 3D + crank unit
Practice Works chainrings
Cadence Magnet
Matching inner bearings are separately available in the shop!
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Lady Gaga Talks Sex, Fame With Anderson Cooper on '60 Minutes' (VIDEO)
The Fame Monster herself, who tends to shy away from doing many mainstream interviews, sat down for a candid chat with Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes. On tap during their conversation? The fact that some people call her Gaga in bed, which she says "would freak me out." Fair enough. Also on the table? Pretty much everything else about her image, and also her rise to fame from New York City club kid to the biggest pop star in the world.
Check out quotes and images after the jump!
Gaga says that the pressure is always on now that she's one of the biggest attractions in entertainment. She tells Cooper:
"Right now, we're in a bar, right? And there's a camera right there and a camera right there … But if I were to be sitting in this bar, and we didn't have a scheduled interview, there would still be a camera over there and over there and over there. I'm always on camera."
She also boldly declares that she's proud to not just excel in music, but at being famous. ""One of my greatest artworks is the art of fame. I'm a master of the art of fame," she said. She continued later, adding: "Part of my mastering of the art of fame, part of it is getting people to pay attention to what you want them to pay attention to. And not pay attention to the things you don't want them to pay attention to."


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Xiaomi Mi 5 128GBBy Xiaomi Mobiles
Status: Upcoming
- 5.15 inches
- 1080x1920 pixels
- 428 PPI Density
- 16 MP Primary
- 4 MP Front
- 4K Video Recording
- Dual-core 1.8 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo - Standard editionDual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo - other editions
- Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820
- 3000 mAh
- Li-Po
- View Specs
- 4 GB RAM thus, heavy games doesn't lags
- Full HD video recording at [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
- Pixel density of 428 pixels which gives you much clarity
- Fast battery charging – 83% in 30 min (Quick Charge 3.0)
- Design is impressive and looks stylish
- Brings an internal memory of 128 GB
- No protection features at all
- No water resistant
Full Specifications of Xiaomi Mi 5 128GB
- Screen Size
- 5.15 inches
- Screen Resolution
- 1080x1920 pixels
- Pixel Density
- Screen Protection
- Corning Gorilla Glass 4
- Display Type
- IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Rear Camera Resolution
- Front Camera Resolution
- Video Recording
- Yes
- Video Rec Resolution
- 4K Video Recording
- Camera Features
- Autofocus, Flash, Geo-Tagging, Touch Focus, Panorama, Digital Zoom, Face Detection
- SIM Card Slots
- Dual SIM
- SIM Card Type
- SIM 1: Nano-SIM
SIM2: Nano-SIM
- Bluetooth
- Yes, v4.2, A2DP, LE
- 3.5 mm Jack
- Yes
- Yes
- Internal Storage
- Card Slot/Expandable
- No
- Other
- 128GB storage, no card slot
- Battery Capacity
- 3000 mAh
- Battery Type
- Li-Po
- Removable
- No
- Quick Charging
- Yes, Fast battery charging: 83% in 30 min (Quick Charge 3.0)
- Brand
- Xiaomi
- Chipset
- Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820
- Processor
- Dual-core 1.8 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo - Standard editionDual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo - other editions
- Adreno 530
General Specifications
- Operating System
- Android
- OS Version
- Android OS, v6.0
- Weight
- 129 grams
- Dimensions
- 144.6 x 69.2 x 7.3 mm
- (5.69 x 2.72 x 0.29 in)
- VoLTE
- Yes
- Yes, LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 7(2600), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500)
- Yes, HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
- Yes, GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2
- Wi-Fi
- Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot
- Yes, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
- Yes
- Yes
- Radio
- Yes
Other Features
- Fingerprint Scanner
- Yes
- Sensors
- Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
- Messaging
- SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
- Browser
- Java
- No
- Other
- Fast battery charging: 83% in 30 min (Quick Charge 3.0)
Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.265 player
MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player
Photo/video editor
Document viewer
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Key Specifications Review of Xiaomi Mi 5 128GB
- Quite Big Screen - 5.15 inches Reading, browsing internet and watching videos is more pleasing experience on a bigger screen.
- Sharp Screen - 428 PPI Higher Resolution indicates sharp display images, videos and text look more vivid and clear.
- IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors In-Plane Switching Liquid Crystal Display (IPS LCD) Offers more sharpness, shows more realistic looking Images, Displays More Natural Colours and performs better in Bright sunlight as compared to LCD Displays.
- Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 Snapdragon processor offers seamless streaming of video and audio, crystal-clear voice calls, robust processing strength & groundbreaking battery efficiency.
- Dual-core 1.8 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo - Standard editionDual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo - other editions More cores result in better multitasking. More tasks can be processed in parallel without slowing down the User Interface.
- Lots Of RAM - 4 GB More RAM means faster loading of apps and smoother execution of multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Adreno 530 Graphics Processing Unit enables smooth processing of 3D Games and HD Videos. It also shares the load of processors and saves battery.
- Has Dual SIM Multiple SIM Phones allow you to use multiple sims at the same time without the need to carry multiple mobile phones.
- 16 MP Rear Camera A Camera with higher resolution takes more detailes photos which will look sharper on larger screen mobiles as well.
- 4 MP Front Camera Average Resolution camera that capture less vibrant selfies, low quality videocalling without focusing much on details.
- Has Flash For Camera With Flash Bright Selfies / Pics can be captured even in low light.
- Has Autofocus For Camera With Autofocus, the camera of the mobile is able to focus on the subject automatically.
- 4K resolution 4K is designed for digital cinema and computer graphics & offers higher image definition quality, more detailed picture, better fast-action and larger projection surface visibility.
- Light Weight - 129g Lightweight mobile phones are easier to carry and look more fashionable.
- Lots Of Storage Capacity - 128 GB More internal storage allows installation of more apps while allowing more space for storing songs, images, videos, etc.
- No Memory Card An external microSD card supplements the internal storage that can be used for saving images, songs, videos, etc.
- High Battery Life - 3000 mAh Higher Battery capacities generally mean longer battery life that runs atleast for a day or two. The Battery life also depends on screen size, processor, OS, personal useage and other factors.
- Quick Charge Quick Charging allows you to charge your phone faster(upto 50% in half an hour).
- Supports VoLTE Voice over LTE, You can use this to make voice calls over 4G(LTE) network.
- Supports 4G 4G connection provides internet access upto 100 Mbps. Get more download speed and a faster browsing experience. You can send voice calls and messages. It supports all features of 3G, 2G conncetivity.
- Supports 3G 3G Enabled Handsets give you more download speed and a faster internet experience. 3G enables fast internet access, high speed downloads and access to lot other internet features.
- Supports 2G With 2G connectivity option you can get all cellular features but stay limited to basic internet facilities.
- Supports WiFi Connect to wifi hotspots in your area or other devices to your mobile.
- Supports GPS GPS help you to track your current location. get directions to a place or any destination using apps like Google Maps.
- Supports NFC NFC enables wireless payments through phone. You can even connect two NFC enabled mobile phones just by touching them with each other.
- Have A FM Radio Allows you to listen Music, songs, etc from Radio stations even while travelling.
- Supports Bluetooth You can wirelessly listen to music and calls using bluetooth headsets or even share data.
- Has Fingerprint Sensor It allows you to secure your phone. Using your finger you can quickly unlock your phone.
- Has 3.5mm Headphone Jack 3.5mm Jack enables you to connect to large number of other devices such as speakers, headphones etc...
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Xiaomi Mi 5 128GB Mobile Key Features
The upcoming mobile Xiaomi Mi 5 128GB is expected to be priced 36990. Xiaomi Mi 5 128GB features a display of 5.15 inches & screen Resolution of 1080x1920 pixels with IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors and pixel density of 428 PPI. Xiaomi Mi 5 128GB comes with 16 MP of Primary Camera and 4 MP of Front camera. It is powered by Dual-core 1.8 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo - Standard editionDual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo - other editions processor paired with 4GB RAM, Xiaomi Mi 5 128GB has Adreno 530 as GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), it runs on Android OS, v6.0 operating system with a long lasting battery of 3000mAh. . It measures 144.6 x 69.2 x 7.3 mm (5.69 x 2.72 x 0.29 in) and weighs 129 gms. For communication Xiaomi Mi 5 128GB supports Dual SIM, built-in storage of 128GB storage, no card slot supports 4G VoLTE as well. Connectivity options of the Xiaomi Mi 5 128GB include 4G, 3G, 2G, GPRS, edge, Wlan Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot, Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, LE, NFC Yes, FM radio.
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He added that he had extremely limited contact with Bauer, Schreiner, and his daughter.
Read carefully the following beautiful dream of Olive Schreiner's.
Tell me, Mr. Schreiner, are we really as bad as they make us out to be?
After in vain trying to enlist Mr. Schreiner as a recruit, Mr. Reitz asked him to state the reason of his refusal.
Two of them were built on the Schreiner grounds at Lamington.
We invited Mr. Schreiner to spend the night with us, and this he did after fording with some difficulty the swift-running river.
The policy of Schreiner during the months preceding the war is obscure.
Mr. Schreiner: Yes, decidedly, so far as purely internal concerns are concerned.
Mr. Schreiner's action on this occasion was characteristic of the blind partizanship of the Cape Ministry.
Mr. Schreiner, on the other hand, was no less ready to bless the "Hofmeyr compromise" than Krger's original scheme.


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This worked reasonably well: I´ve ported the WebCenter Content Quick Search App to iOS and was able to get around all the approval hurdles for the Apple iTunes App Store. You can find the tool here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webcenter-content-quick-search/id532886293
Here are some statistics of the code:
I´ve started to port my Oracle Content Server Quick Search App to Cordova (aka PhoneGap) and jQuery Mobile. Obvious goal is to learn hybrid mobile app development and eventually port it to iOS. You can find the app for Android here.
Due to popular demand I´ve "downgraded" the Oracle UCM Quick Search App to Android 2.1 with some limitation.
You can find it on the Android Market as "Oracle UCM Quick Search SDK7″.
The limitation is in the area of SSL support. Due to the fact, that the public method "onReceivedSslError" of the WebViewClient Class is only available from Android 2.2 (SDK 8 ) on, viewing a content item through SSL does not work in this version. So if you got an Android 2.2 device, please be sure to load the *real* App "Oracle UCM Quick Search" instead.
I have just uploaded the free Oracle UCM Quick Search Android App to the Google Android Market.
I started evaluating Adobe Flex Builder because I though we´d need more trendy components on our user interfaces. Developing with Flash wasn´that easy due to the timelines, animation metaphor, etc. But the integrated development environment and designer for Flex is really cool. Now it is really easy to develop a nice Flash based user interface with MXML, an XML-based markup language, which offers a way to build and lay out graphical user interfaces.
Oracle UCM SiteStudio 10gR4 has recently been released and reusability of site assets and content has improved a lot. You can find the release notes here
We can use the new functionality to read a fully rendered content from Oracle Content Server and easily display it in a Flex application. We can also invoke a separate browser window for editing this content. All we need are the two new service calls WCM_PLACEHOLDER and WCM_BEGIN_EDIT_SESSION.
Ok, so for those of you not having access to an Oracle Content Server, here is an example with images from Flickr
You can find the Flex builder project here
In my last blog we saw how easy it is to call a web service of the Oracle Content Server (OCS) from within a Flex application. Can we use the same concept for a nice pictureflow Flex application, that uses an OCS query to show selected images ? Of course we could, but the disadvantage of calling a web service would be, that the user would need to be logged in and authenticated – he would get an authorization popup otherwise. May be we want to show this pictureflow component also to anonymous visitors of SiteStudio websites, so we need to find an alternative solution.
My first Flex application to test interoperability with Oracle Content Server.


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Blueberry Donuts with Blueberry Lemon Jam
Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
25 mins
Total time
35 mins
For the donuts
8 medjool dates, pitted
½ cup blueberries
¼ cup
Coconut Oil
, melted
4 eggs, whisked
4 tablespoons
coconut flour
2 tablespoons raw honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon baking powder
juice of 1 lemon (equivalent to 2-3 tablespoons lemon juice)
zest of ½ lemon
pinch of salt
For the jam
½ cup blueberries
2 tablespoons raw honey
2 tablespoons
Coconut Oil
2 tablespoons
Coconut Cream Concentrate
homemade coconut butter
1 tablespoon water
juice of 2 lemons (equivalent to 4-6 tablespoons of lemon juice)
zest of 1 lemon
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Pull out your handy dandy donut pan. Don't have one? Buy one. I got mine at Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Add your pitted dates to your food processor and puree until they begin to clump.
Then add your ½ cup of blueberries and puree.
Lastly, add you coconut oil, vanilla extract, raw honey, lemon juice and lemon zest to the food processor and puree together.
Add your mixture to a large bowl and mix in eggs, coconut flour, baking powder, and salt and mix thoroughly.
Pour your donut mixture into your donut pan up to the top of the donut rim. My mixture made exactly 6 medium sized donuts.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when you poke a donut with one.
Let cool.
While your donuts cool, make your jam.
Add all ingredients to a saucepan, except for the water, over medium heat, breaking up the coconut cream concentrate as the mixture heats up.
Stir frequently to keep from burning on the bottom. Cook for about 10 minutes, or until most of the blueberries have exploded. Then add your water.
Mix together one more time.
Use a spoon to top your cooled donuts off with the blueberry lemon jam.
Eat soon because the jam will get the donuts a bit soggy over time.
Store in an air tight container in the refrigerator.
Recipe by
PaleOMG - Paleo Recipes
at http://paleomg.com/blueberry-donuts-blueberry-lemon-jam/


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Apollo was no more the God-man or the living sun, but cosmical heat.
He thinks to himself: What this God-man says is indeed perfectly true.
The hour when the God-man poured forth his soul even unto death is a sad and awful memory familiar to us all.
The "God-man" may be "discovered" in nature; but the "Man-god" must be "created" by man.
This conception of Adam as the representative of humanity corresponds to Irenæus' doctrine of the God-man.
God-man, eternally incarnate, not an individual but an idea!
In short, the skeleton and muscle-preparation of metaphysics he concealed in the God-man of religion.
For he admits the worship of a God-man or a man-God is a species of idolatry.
Now this God-man, as sinless, is exempt from the punishment of sin; His passion is therefore voluntary, not given as due.
How can you believe that the God-man is dead before the Man in him, besides the God, is dead?


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Music News
June 7, 2011
Sonos to Estonia, Free Preview in SunnyvaleWhile the San Francisco Symphony is winding up its tour of Europe, the Sonos Handbell Ensemble is preparing to leave for the Estonian capital of Tallinn to participate in the June 25-29 Bell Arts International Festival there.
The invitation is a rare honor: Only three such ensembles in the world are invited to represent areas where there's significant activity in the handbell medium: England, Japan, and North America. In addition to performing in three concerts at the festival, Sonos will also teach classes, demonstrating their performing style to festival participants from Central and Eastern Europe.
For their main concert at the Niguliste Museum in Tallinn, Sonos takes five original groundbreaking American works for handbells, including RAPsody in View, created by the ensemble and choreographed by Laura Ellis. Starting on an empty stage, the players set up the space for the concert, bringing in tables, covers, bells — all to a percussive rhythm pattern, which then segues into the cadence of the Bach Toccata in G, connecting rap to Baroque.
Two other works are by Sonos Artistic Director James Meredith. After intermission Sonos returns to an empty stage, seated on the floor around a solo cellist (Jukka-Pekka Vainio) for Smirti. Meredith says that this response to the destruction of the World Trade Towers in 2001 is "an elegy to those lost and a call to a deeper memory of all human beings where we are all connected to each another."
Meredith's 2002 Sonics is a dodecaphonic (12-tone) and minimalistic work (two overlapping hexatonic scales a half step apart). "It was inspired by a question often asked of the players: 'Who does your choreography?' That is a somewhat puzzling to us, since most of the pieces have no specific movement designed for them; they are just the normal motions associated with the playing of different-size bells. That is, the movement comes from the written notes."
Meredith set out to write a piece that reversed that process. He designed some movements in space and then wrote the music to reflect those patterns. He also invented several new techniques in the process. Two players are seated on the floor, each around an array of bass bells played with mallets. The remaining 10 players stand in a variety of formations and moving patterns as the piece unfolds, coming to a concluding climax as vigorous and fast-paced as the rhythmic cadence of the concert's opening number.
The preview concert is at the Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, on Sunday, June 12, at 8 p.m.
Forging the RingWith a week to go before the first Rheingold of San Francisco Opera's three cycles of The Ring of the Nibelung, few tickets remain, notwithstanding some high prices (and low economic expectations). For example, as Kirsten Lee found out, the June 19 Götterdämmerung had only a single box seat left, for $385. Late last night, the number went up to 2.
The Opera's Robin Freeman did some checking with the box office, and reported on Monday afternoon:
Out of approximately 12,600 seats available for each four-opera cycle, there were 190 tickets left for Cycle 1; 300 for Cycle 2; and 500 for Cycle 3. By the time you read this, those numbers will drop significantly. But note:
- Availability is different for each opera. The order of popularity is Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, Das Rheingold, and Siegfried, so if the first two are completely sold out, there may still be a few stray tickets for the others.
- Always, without exception, there are tickets turned back before each performance by those unable to attend; check with the box office by phone (415-864-3330) or online.
- For those sturdy of legs and adventurous by nature, $10 standing-room tickets — going on sale at 10 a.m., and must be purchased in person (two per buyer maximum) — can get you in. Remember that the best sound in the house is in the top, second-balcony standing room space.
From the impressive, 102-page Ring program, which is still free, unlike similar publications just about anywhere else outside the U.S., come these true confessions by Jay Hunter Morris, who sings the title character in Siegfried, to the question "When did you experience your first Ring?":
At a Jenufa rehearsal in 2004 in Dallas, Francesca Zambello prophesied that I'd sing Siegfried one day. I told her to wipe the crazy off her face. The only thing I knew about the Ring I learned from Bugs Bunny.
Speight Jenkins in Seattle opined that my voice was indeed well suited for Wagner, and he engaged me to cover Siegfried in 2009. When the day came to start learning and preparing the role, I cried like a baby, and I drove my poor wife crazy for months.
I wanted out and wrote a letter withdrawing from the whole mess, but I never sent it because we had a newborn baby, and I needed the job. Once fully committed, I fell in love. And now I'm hooked, I'm in, and I can't wait to go to work every day.
Arts and Economy: the UpsideToo often, when attention is paid to the cost of the arts, the debate is over the wisdom of supporting symphony, opera, theater, and the like. The other side of that issue, how communities profit from the performing arts, is neglected.
Here are some current facts to bolster the neglected argument: Edinburgh's festivals (the International, Fringe, and 10 others) are worth $426 million annually, creating thousands of jobs. The report, commissioned by the Festivals Forum with backing from the Edinburgh City Council, Creative Scotland, and other agencies, was hailed as vital ammunition in calls for public funding and private sponsorship.
Sir Andrew Cubie, of the Festivals Forum, says: "The results are astounding. The festivals are treasured locally and celebrated locally. Collectively, they bring enormous economic benefit to the city and the country, but the founding principle was not to fill planes and hotels, but to provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit." Words to live by as you look around in San Francisco during June and see what the Ring festival alone does to the economy.
Oh, the other 10 festivals in Edinburgh? Art, Film, Books, Jazz & Blues, Tattoo, Mela ("celebration of cultural diversity"), Science, Hogmany (their New Year's Eve), Imaginate (children's theater), and Storytelling.
A contrast (one of many, alas): Kansas last week became the country's first — and so far only — state without an arts agency. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback privatized arts funding, meaning he erased all state support, leaving the Kansas Arts Commission with no budget, no staff, and no offices. The commission was founded in 1966, a year after Congress established the National Endowment for the Arts.
Arrivals & Departures: Costa, Bailis, Luisotti, Gaffigan* Michael Costa has been appointed general manager of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, effective immediately. Costa, whose most recent position was director of finance and administration, will supervise artistic administration, finance, operations, marketing, public relations, and education programs, and will report to Executive Director Peter Pastreich.
* San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti, whose career began as a rehearsal pianist at Milan's La Scala, is now making his debut there, leading nine performances of Verdi's Attila, June 20–July 14. Luisotti will also conduct the opera in the San Francisco fall season. In Milan, the title role is shared by Orlin Anastassov and Michele Pertusi; Ezio is sung by San Francisco favorite (of late) Marco Vratogna, alternating with the great veteran Leo Nucci.
* ODC Theater Director Rob Bailis is leaving the job at the end of the next season, having headed the theater since 2003. ODC Artistic Director Brenda Way says of him: "As an artist himself, he has been a serious proponent of creative exploration and growth, the originating mission for ODC Theater." Company Associate Director Christy Bolingbroke will serve as interim director.
* Former San Francisco Symphony Associate Conductor James Gaffigan is making his Spoleto USA debut, leading the Festival Concert in works by Richard Strauss, Debussy, and Prokofiev, and making no comment about the speculation that he may be a candidate to succeed Emmanuel Villaume as the festival's director of opera and orchestra. St. Lawrence String Quartet cofounder Geoff Nuttall is director for chamber music.
Bernal Heights Music News, Chapter 1The Bernal Hill Players are presenting a free concert of new chamber music by local composers about San Francisco neighborhoods.
The event, at 8 p.m., June 18, in the Community Music Center, features premieres of commissioned pieces by Peter Josheff and Katrina Wreede at the concert titled "San Francisco: In and About the City." Also on the program: recent works by Chus Alonso, Beth Custer, Loren Jones, and Erik Pearson, who have written pieces about Bernal Heights, the Mission District, Ocean Beach, Fort Funston, Sutro Tower, China Basin, and the Financial District.
This concert is free, as part of the San Francisco Community Music Center's Shenson Concert Series. The commission of Peter Josheff's Sutro Tower in the Fog was funded by San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music's Musical Grant Program.
The commission of Episodes in China Basin by Katrina Wreede, With the Birds Above Fort Funston by Erik Pearson, and Suite de los Barrios by Chus Alonso were made possible through Subito, the quick-advancement program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composer's Forum.
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San Francisco resident and San Francisco Symphony patron Elvis Johnson knows S.F. Symphony bass player Larry Epstein from his neighborhood bar, Skips in Bernal Heights, where the two play jam sessions, with Johnson on drums.
When Johnson heard about the SFS tour to Europe, he cashed in his Continental Airline frequent flier miles, flew to Vienna, attended the Mahler concert there, shared a few minutes with Epstein, and flew back to San Francisco the next day.
Says San Francisco Symphony Public Relations Director Oliver Theil: "That may win him 'Patron of the Year' in my book."
S.F. Ballet Showcase Shines AgainUnlike a revolution that "devours its children," San Francisco Ballet nourishes, supports, and showcases its young, perhaps more spectacularly than any other arts organization.
The company's large and famous Ballet School, headed by Lola de Avila, produces an annual Student Showcase, which serves multiple purposes: a graduation exercise, the opportunity for youngsters to be seen and for their parent to see how far they have come, and, for balletomanes, a chance to spot stars of the future.
Three performances last week in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts followed the usual, endearing Showcase routine, beginning with a phalanx of tiny Level 2 children, roughly between ages 6 and 8. Older students followed in brief, always charming demonstrations. Dressed in different colors, groups representing various levels added up to some 100 dancers.
Credit for handling large groups of children entering and exiting the stage without a hitch belongs to the volunteer group BRAVO and parents of students. Would that some professional stagehands around the city did a job like this.
After the "cute"-and-"awww!" demonstrations came the business part of the evening as the oldest students performed ballets choreographed for them. Some of the dancers, such as Wan Ting Zhao in Company Director Helgi Tomasson's Beads of Memory, showed what Trainees, or Level 8 students, can accomplish.
The Trainee Program is a kind of graduate school, for students chosen from the school's most advanced level. Ranging in age from 16 to 19, these advanced students can become apprentices with the company, and later a few lucky ones are hired into the corps de ballet or released to find positions with other companies. Fully half the company received at least some of their training at the S.F. Ballet School, and there are scores of dancers around the world who are its graduates. The last year was exceptional in accepting three young dancers in apprentice positions and three given full corps de ballet contracts outright.
Other 2011 Showcase pieces were 2009 graduate Myles Thatcher's Timepiece (with Jessica Cohen, Lacey Escabar, Ellen Rose Hummel, Shion Yuasa, Sean Bennet, Francisco Mungamba, Alexander Reneff-Olson, Henry Sidford, and Trygve Cumpson — who also partnered Zhao in the Tomasson work), plus the premiere of Parrish Maynard's Promenade, featuring Elizabeth Powell and Henry Sidford, among others.
The Tomasson stamp is clearly on these new generations of dancers, with emphasis on technique and form, but showing restrained communication with the audience. A smile or two wouldn't hurt, especially from young artists at their first, presumably happy, opportunity to strut their stuff.
'Assassins' Come to Life at the EurekaStephen Sondheim's 1990 Assassins is a uniquely bizarre musical about plots against presidents, beginning with John Wilkes Booth. It highlights the dark side of the American dream for fame and success, and does so with black humor some may find hard to take. For those brave enough to produce the play, it is a huge challenge.
Reminiscent of distant days of San Francisco burgeoning with small, adventurous, and excellent theater companies, the 10-year-old Ray of Light Theater is offering a brilliant production of Assassins in the Eureka Theater.
This extraordinary community-theater company, which last scored with Jerry Springer the Opera, has marshaled a cast of Broadway quality. Even more, Ray of Light is offering a bouquet of individual performances bursting out in a true, selfless ensemble presentation. Kudos to company Artistic Director Shane Ray, stage director Jason Hoover, and music director David Möschler.
Besides John Weidman's book — with a finale of the assassins' hosts coercing Lee Harvey Oswald to kill President Kennedy — and Sondheim's usual clever lyrics that are difficult to laugh with in the play's context, the music is very different from other Sondheim works.
Other than his stillborn Bounce, Assassins has Sondheim's least-inventive music. Some of it has much in common with Pacific Overtures (another cooperation with Weidman) and the patter-songs of Into the Woods. The rest, musically, is a mélange of Americana, clever, but not A Little Night Music or Sweeney Todd.
And yet, with an inspiring production such as this, a minor Sondheim is still superior to major presentations of singing cats or of roller-skating trains. Unlike most conventional, popular musicals, Assassins engages the brain and emotions and has some lasting substance.
At the center of the cast is the wonderful trio of Steven Hess' towering Proprietor, Derrick Silva's powerful Booth, and Michael Scott Wells' mocking, revelatory Balladeer (who morphs into a main character in the end).
One by one, killers and would-be assassins march by, revealing their private pains and demons, even while being funny and entertaining. Gregory Sottolano is Charles Guiteau, who killed James Garfield. Joel Roster is Leon Czolgosz, assassin of William McKinley, and enamored of the anarchist Emma Goldman (Anna Smith).
A pair of scary-funny, bungling, psychotic women attempting to kill Gerald Ford, Sara Jane Moore and Squeaky Fromme, are brought to life by Lisa-Marie Newton and Eliza Leoni. Danny Cozart plays another would-be assassin, Samuel Byck, who had planned to crash a plane into Richard Nixon's White House.
Alex Rodriguez is Giuseppe Zangara, whose bullets missed FDR; Charles Woodson-Parker plays the woebegone John Hinckley Jr. who shot Ronald Reagan for the love of Jodie Foster.
Möschler conducts a band of seven from the piano; they and all the singers are amplified in the tiny theater, not in excess, but still occasionally interfering with diction, which is so important in a Sondheim musical. Wouldn't it be a pioneering adventure, worthy of Ray of Light, to get away from the half-century-long bane of amplification in venues that don't need it?
Bollywood, Gilbert & Sullivan Mingle in San JoséLittle did W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan realize in 1877 that The Sorcerer would appear in 2011 in San José as a Bollywood spectacular.
Back in London, it was the pair's first Savoy opera, the first full-blown collaboration using all that would follow: comic duets, patter-songs, contrapuntal double chorus, a tenor and soprano love duet, a soprano showpiece, and so on.
The tale of forlorn village maidens, magic potions, and "air charged with amatory numbers" has everything but a setting in India, even though the country was a British Crown Colony back then. San José's Lyric Theater to the rescue: Collaborating with members of the large contingent from the subcontinent, it's offering the Bollywood version in the Montgomery Theater, June 18-26. Although the setting shifts to Victorian India, the story and the music remain the same.
Choreographer Ishika Seth from Mona Khan Dance Company joins stage director David Euresti and music director Aaron Schultz heading the production. "One of the biggest challenges for our cast is dancing in a Bollywood style while singing Victorian light opera, but I think that the expressive nature of the Indian dance adds an interesting dimension," says Euresti, a man apparently given to understatement.
Local News from BerlinBerlin, where former San Francisco Opera Music Director Donald Runnicles (and current leader of the band for the SFO's Ring) is the music director of one opera company (Deutsche Oper Berlin), the administrative director of another, the venerable Staatsoper Unter den Linden, is Ronald H. Adler. He is the son of the late Kurt Herbert Adler, who ran the San Francisco Opera for 28 years (general director 1953–1981, after serving as chorus director beginning in 1943).
Before Berlin, Adler had an important role at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich (where yet another San Franciscan, Kent Nagano, is music director through next year, going out with a production of Wagner's Ring —which you must have heard of lately).
Three years ago, when the Staatsoper had a leadership crisis and was faced with a temporary move to another building, Adler became both "intendant" (the top position) and opera director, which is second only to the intendant, for two years, and now, with the arrival of Jürgen Flimm, Adler remains director.
That's about to change, as Adler is retiring, after a lifetime in the opera, to be succeeded by Ivan van Kalmthout. Although born in Chicago, Adler spent his childhood around the War Memorial and attended both San Francisco State College and UC Berkeley.
Meanwhile, the Staatsoper is in temporary residence in the 1,000-seat Schiller Theater, while the historic (1,400-seat) Lindenoper is being rebuilt from the ground up — an even more radical operation than the War Memorial went through after the last big quake, finding performance spaces anywhere it could.
What was to be a three-year project in Berlin has run into engineering problems, and its return to home may not be possible until 2014 or later. Unlike the 20th-century Schillertheater, Lindenoper is historical and special. Starting as the Königliche Hofoper, commissioned by Frederick II in 1741, it was called the "Enchanted Castle."
It was destroyed by fire in 1843. The rebuilt house was completely renovated in 1928, then was bombed in 1945 — and has stood pretty much untouched since its last resurrection more than six decades ago. Whatever the cost and the time required, the current construction was unavoidable.
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The Demise of the Kansas Arts Commission
I read with great sadness of the privatization of the Kansas Arts Commission, the first of the State Arts Agencies to be abolished. I was Executive Director of that Commission from 1971-73. At that time we established a large number of community arts councils that served as developers of a wide variety of performing and visual arts events in rural Kansas. It was a time of promise and fulfillment in making the arts a vital part of rural America. Since then, unfortunately, the National Endowment for the Arts, established in 1965 to bring the arts to all Americans, has become a lightning rod for conservatives who consistently try to abolish it. Without the NEA, there would have been no Poets in the Schools, no Dance Touring Program, and a multitude of other programs that have made the arts the economic and social part of America's cultural landscape.
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SFB School Student Showcase
I would like to comment on your statement "Fully half the company received at least some of their training at the S.F. Ballet School..." If you were to survey those dancers, you would find that all or nearly all only came to SFB school shortly before being hired into the company. In other words, they were trained at other schools where they received better training. You can also notice, that none of the current numerous principals received any training from the school, and hardly any are even American. As a school that is connected to a major company, it really isn't concerned with actually teaching its students. They know that they can attract more talented and better trained dancers from elsewhere when they are ready to be hired into the company for the corps. The school is really more concerned with packing as many students as possible into their studios for maximum profit. The class sizes are especially huge in the lower levels(30 to as much as 50 on some days), when it is actually most important to establish good foundation in technique through extensive individual attention to detail. And while everyone knows that real performing experience consisting of learning actual repertoire and choreography is a very important part of professional training at every stage, students at SFB School only start to receive this at level 7. The first 6 levels only get class exercises on stage at the showcase. Some students get stage time in the company's productions, but these mostly involve standing around or running around on stage. This isn't an adequate substitute for actual performance experience where the students are the main attraction of the show. Unless the school changes the way it operates, it will continue to need to accept better students from other schools who outshine and displace their own students every year.


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Reprinted courtesy of Muscle Mob
On 1st May 2000, the legendary STEVE REEVES died in hospital in California. He was 74 years of age and most believed he would live forever; such is the stuff heroes are made of.
Having a handsome visage and an outstanding physique, Mr America and Mr Universe Steve Reeves became best known to non bodybuilders through the medium of the HERCULES muscle movies/videos and yet ironically, the film star Reeves was but a shell of his pre movie days, being ordered to slim down for the wide screen epics to "appeal" to a larger audience.
Born 21st January 1925 in Glasgow Montana U.S.A. of parents Lester Dell and Golden Reeves, Steve's father was killed when he was just 1 and a half years old. His first award in a lifetime of honours, and he probably received more awards in later years, than during his whole active bodybuilding career, was 'The Healthiest Baby in Valley County Montana'. Even with today's vast choice of physiques, Steve Reeves, because of a combination of facial as well as physical beauty and symmetry, had, the most universally envied development in modern tines.
World famous Muscle magazine photographer Russ Muscle Mob Warner (also gone) is quoted in Milton T. Moore's superb book Steve Reeves 'One Of A Kind' as saying "I don't think there is one chance in 50 trillion, that the particular mix of hereditary genes that formed the product we see in STEVE REEVES will ever occur in combination again. Steve was a very unusual bodybuilder. He had the overall beauty that no other bodybuilder has ever been able to achieve. I have had the occasion work with, photographically, most of the top bodybuilders in world, but when the good lord made STEVE REEVES, he threw the mould away."
In spite of the passage of time - now some 50 years since he recorded his Mr America victory and despite all the changes that have taken place in Bodybuilding's 'fashions', Reeves has remained the pinnacle of perfection to millions of fans, with an aesthetic physique many still attempt to emulate. Real beauty is as has been said timeless as is good taste.
Steve commenced bodybuilding when about 15 years of age, being the first to admit he had a good foundation and was an 'easy gainer', and after a year or so, soon had a potentially powerful physique. His first instruction was at ED YARICKS gym in OAKLAND California where he was encouraged to enter and - won, all local contests. His handsome features, healthy flop of hair and general overall vitality were all enormous assets for any muscle star and future film idol. With a balanced and harmonious development always his aim.
Drafted into the U.S. ARMY from 1944 to 1946 during which time he spent 19 months in the Far East (Philippines and Page 17 Japan) being involved in the Battle of Balete Pass, and witnessing the many horrors of warfare, later contracting malaria. Steve all the time managed to obtain some training, albeit often with Tarzan like rope climbing, general free exercises, such as push-ups or dips, and tension exercises. Later he designed his own weights and basic pulley apparatus.
Indeed there is a story that goes that he ended up with just 100 pounds of home made weights and managed almost to maintain his amazing physique with just that and hard training. SG.
On leaving the 125th Infantry in the Philippines and the service he resumed training at Yarricks making rapid progress. His first major contest was entering and winning the Mr. Pacific Coast. In 1947 Steve won the Mr America contest in Chicago on the 29th June, being just 21years old, beating, amongst others, the popular Alan Stephen and an even younger Eric Pederson, who at just 18 won the Most Muscular division. Steve with his harmonious physique, went on to greater glories
Already highly popular, after giving many exhibitions throughout the U.S.A Steve again competed in the Mr. America in 1948, this time being closely beaten by the great Clancy Ross, another man with a great balanced body. Steve came second and Alan Stephen 'made third place. With his fame preceding him Reeves came over to London in 1948 (complete with 'Zoot suit' and purple w-i-d--e shoulder style jacket.) On the 23rd August to compete for the first time in Europe, in the now classic battle between Reeves and the late John C. Grimek The battle of giants, Page 20 now physical culture history, saw Grimek nearly 40 years old, winning the first NABBA Mr. Universe title (there had been an earlier AAU Universe) and with Steve still on his way up in the World of bodybuilding.
Encouraged by Oscar Heidenstam, who recognised the potential Steve Reeves classic lines, they both travelled across the Channel to France. (This being the section of Jim Sheppard's Body Legand's video we reviewed. SG) and just three days later, on 26th August in Cannes Steve won the titles of Le Plus Bel Athlete Du Monde and Mr World from the Federation Francaise De Culture.
1949 saw Steve, along with almost a who's who of American bodybuilders, trying again for the Mr. USA crown. Grimek, the winner and Clancy Ross who took second place beat him. Reeves came third and genial George Eiferman, of huge pectoral fame, came forth. Possible reasons for placing, being this was the age of huge BULK. Physiques are as ever influenced greatly by judging requirements and of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
To the delight of his European fans, in 1950, Steve who was then an instructor at Bert Goodrich's gym, decided on an all out attempt at the NABBA MR UNIVERSE title, competing against a host of top stars, including Britain's own Reg Park. Reg later himself a triple winner, said it all when he remarked on Reeves. "The man had everything, the physique of the century ".
On 24th June at the Scala Theatre, Steve Reeves won the Mr. Universe title, and the unique originally designed SANDOW statuette, later copied and muscled up for the Olympia winners. Reg Park came second, and Muscle Mob third place went to the late Juan Ferrero, another aesthetic physique.
Steve's measurements, officially recorded at the event, something no longer followed, were, weight 2141bs, neck 18 inches, chest expanded 52 inches, arm 18", forearm 14", wrist 7 and quarter inches, calf 18", thigh 26 ins and height 6ft 1 ins. Although Oscar Heidenstam, considered that Reeves was in fact taller at more like 6ft 3 inches (actually I have stood next to Steve several times, and he appears to be same height as me i.e. 6ft 1 ins. D.G).
Steve was the first to admit that he had a good foundation, and right from the start was an easy gainer. Even early photos of him at fifteen display a good physique, with obvious potential.
Always impressive, Reeves shoulders, measured with callipers, reached 23 and half inches. (The only man I have seen with wider shoulders was the late Rueben Martin).
At times Reeves gained or lost muscle tissue almost at will, yet always retaining a harmonious and balanced physique. Never did one feature lag behind or out shine another. In his book (Steve Reeves, Building the Classic Physique the Natural Way) Steve set out his ideas of ideal physical proportions.
Having had the pleasure of his company, in recent years at the Oscar Foundation Awards and the NABBA 50th Muscle Mob anniversary. I can vouch he had lost none of his charm or physical charisma.
History records Steve Reeves won the Mr America, and all of five decades later, still remained one, if not the, most admired of all physique stars to grace the posing dais. Reeves was guest of honour at the 1997 Mr America contest, sponsored by DISNEY (we believe).
Steve Reeves really was ONE OF A KIND. Ours is the loss. �May 2000 David Gentle.
Pictures used with the kind permission of Richard Violatte of the unofficial Steve Reeves page (web site), Roy Edwards of Health & Strength (cover shot), Boris at the Steve Reeves Gallery (web site), Alan Radley and Roy Adams (the young Reeves in a front double biceps).
Lou Ravelle: It 's a great shock when a star of the
magnitude of Reeves dies because he is one of the
handful that we tend to think of as immortal. I think
he'll prove to be just that. He was my original
inspiration, as he must have been for a million or so
others, and I can still remember the photo. A side
shot showing triceps abs and those legs. I think he
must have provided more inspiration for beginners than
any other, before or since. Unforgettable, impeccable
and irreplaceable. He had a combination of grace,
power and line, which has never been matched, and
never will be.
You might also quote D J Johnson, then ed of H & S on Reeve winning of Universe in 1950."Reeves has the greatest physique out of this world."
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Not being in the iron game as long as some of our more esteemed bedfellows I can only reflect on my 20 years as a fan of the sport. I know that all of those I have informed have been saddened at Steve's passing. That the trainee with just a few years under his belt is as aware of Steve's influence as he or she is of Arnold's.
Those that have met him have said he remains - like Bill Pearl - a humble man aware of his talents but feeling no need to brag or boast. Like the many that have seen some of the amazing pictures seen here and others in the books mentioned, I am sure that we will not see the combination that was Steve in one man again and we should be sorry for our loss.
R.I.P Steve Reeves - we'll miss ya!


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5 Decadent Hand-Held Desserts for a Tailgateby Cameron Curtis in Recipes, September 11th, 2014
These treats are perfect to bring to a tailgate in the stadium parking lot or serve at home while watching the game on television. They're easy to make and easy to eat, and you won't have any plates to tidy up afterward.
1. Fried Pies
Ree Drummond's grab-and-go fried pies are great for guests to enjoy dessert while watching the game. The quick pastry dough can be made ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator in a zipper bag. When you're ready to make the pies, roll out the dough as thin as you can and cut it into rectangles. Canned apple and cherry pie filling mean less prep time. Once all the rectangles are filled and sealed, drop them into hot shortening and in just five minutes your pies will be fried to golden-brown perfection.


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There is a growing confusion over the government's target of reducing net migration to the tens of thousands by 2015 – at least, its chief adviser on immigration issues seems to think so.
As I reported last month, the 21 per cent increase in net migration over the past year, taking the total to 239,000 – more than twice the level the home office needs to reach in four years' time – must have made uncomfortable reading for the department's number crunchers.
However, speaking at London's Global Immigration Conference yesterday, Professor David Metcalf, chair of the Migration Advisory Committee, suggested that the firm target of less than 100,000 was actually more of an "aspiration" for the government. He told the lawyers at the International Bar Association event:
There are certain tensions within the coalition about whether [the tens of thousands] is a firm target or an aspiration.
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Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree supported the Tax Extenders Act of 2009, which extends tax relief provisions for the middle class and business to help spur job growth. The legislation will extend for another year over $30 billion worth of tax breaks, including property tax relief for up to 30 million homeowners and will help 4.5 million families better afford college with a tuition deduction.
"This is about fundamental fairness and getting our economic priorities straight," Pingree said. "Today we voted to extend tax cuts for hard working families and paid for those tax breaks by cracking down on offshore tax shelters and closing the loophole that has let private equity and hedge fund managers get a tax break they don't deserve and certainly don't need. These are exactly the kind of changes I've long argued for."
The bill passed today will extend a $250 tax deduction for teachers who pay for school expenses out of their own pockets and extends a will extend a tax deduction for college tuition and other educational expenses. Those deductions are "above the line" provisions, which means that tax payers do not have to itemize their tax return to get the benefit. The bill also includes a provision that allows home and property owners who do take the standard deduction to claim up to an additional $1,000 in deductions for property tax paid.
Also included in the bill was a provision that allows restaurants and retail operations to write off expenses over an accelerated 15 year period, extends tax breaks for R & D and extends a tax break for farm equipment.
The tax breaks are paid for by closing a loophole that allows private equity and hedge fund managers to pay taxes on income at the substantially lower capital gains tax rate instead of at a normal income tax rate. The legislation also gives the Treasury Department more tools to find and prosecute U.S. citizens who hide assets overseas.
Congresswoman Pingree had previously cosponsored legislation to extend tax breaks for conservation easement and railroad track maintenance--provisions that were included in the legislation passed by the House today.
Source: http://pingree.house.gov/2009/12/tax-relief-for-middle-class-families-small-businesses-and-students.shtml


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