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Having just hosted its final party at San Francisco's Elbo Room in June after a seven-year weekly residency, the wild dance band Afrolicious has broken out with a new album, "California Dreaming Remixed." In the midst of its 2014 summer tour that has taken it from the High Sierra Music Festival to clubs and festivals across California and Colorado, Afrolicious makes its Ashkenaz debut tonight with Ghanaian star Paa Kow opening.
Afrolicious has established itself as one of the top live/electronic bands on the scene. Launched as a weekly dance party featuring DJs and brothers Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz alongside percussionists, MCs, and horn players, over the years the band has evolved as founding DJ/producer Pleasuremaker (Joe McGuire) alongside his brother Señor Oz (Oz McGuire) hooked up with some of the most exciting personalities in the Bay Area music scene and started writing original music under the alias Afrolicious. By 2010 the live band version of the music had also adopted that moniker. The 8-to-12 member ensemble mixes its live sound with club-heavy beats and textures. The new CD features some of its best-known original songs remixed by Jamaican dub producer Scientist and Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation among others.
Ghana's groove master, Paa Kow (pronounced Pah-Ko), brings a new sound as he fuses Ghanaian rhythms with jazz and African pop to build what he calls "the perfect groove." With his second studio album, "Ask," due in August, Paa Kow is crossing the U.S. as part of his mission to spread the music and culture of his homeland by touring the world with his Afro-Fusion orchestra.
Paa Kow is an internationally renowned drum set player, bandleader, composer, and music teacher. Growing up in the small village of Enyan Denkyira near Cape Coast in Ghana, West Africa, he began to play music and tour with his family's concert band at an early age. As he grew, so did his talent. Paa Kow became famous in the region as the "small-boy drummer." He says, "Music was everything I wanted and I followed my dreams." In his early teens he left home and was soon playing with Ghanaian pop star Amakye Dede, and eventually with an array of West Africa's best musicians, throughout Africa and Europe. He has since grown to be widely recognized as one of the most remarkable drum set players to tour in Africa, Europe, and America.
In his travels he met by chance a University of Colorado (Boulder) student, Peyton Shuffield, who was looking for a highlife drummer to study with. Through that friendship, in 2007 Paa Kow was invited to the University of Colorado as a guest artist and teacher. There he put together his Afro-Fusion orchestra and in 2012 released the double-disc album "Hand Go Hand Come." With the new album "Ask" already recorded, Paa Kow and his band are touring across America, featuring Shuffield (percussion and congas), Justin Fichtner (congas and percussion), Paul Wallace (bass), Joel Michael Timm (trombone), Noah Fulton-Beale (trumpet), Michael Silverstein (tuba), Jonnie Cohen (guitar), and Solomon Goldbas (keyboards).
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Ashkenaz is the East Bay's home to world music & dance... established 1973; nonprofit since 1997. We are always all ages! Kids 12 & under are admitted free unless otherwise noted.
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Sept. 21, 2008 - SSHS quarterbacks Tyrik Rollison and Johnny McSheffery completed every pass they threw on Friday night, but they weren't perfect.
That's because two of the passes landed in the hands of Mesquite Poteet defenders. Still, Rollison hit 17-of-19 passes and McSheffery went 2-for-2 as they combined to complete 19-of-21 aerials to the guys in blue shirts. That's a cool 90.5 percent completion rate.
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STREAKING ON - Sulphur Springs' regular season winning streak has now reached 12 games.Head coach Greg Owens' record at his alma mater is now 15-10. That is a .600 winning percentageSulphur Springs had 19 plays of 10 or more yards on Friday. They had just three negative plays. Poteet, comparatively, had 12 plays of more than 10 yards and 10 plays that netted negative yardage.
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Subject: Re: [NYWestch] 1830 census online?
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:37:47 -0400
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> Familysearch.org only has the 1880 US Fed. Census on line.
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It's called democrats thinning of the opposition. Obama and his socialist followers have no need for the elderly anymore. As a matter of fact they are the most expendable of all the classes. The socialist/ progressives/democrats are honing in on the young citizens. As recent events in our country depicts...the young are very trainable and very weak and very easily brainwashed on their way to the slaughterhouse.<quoted text>
It's funny you mentioned that, OZ.
I ran into my neighbor in the store today and he told me he got a $7 cost of living increase in his Social Security. Then he got an increase in his Medicare that went from $98 a month to $104. So he ended up with a whole $1 increase for the month.
When he told me that we both just stood there and looked at each other. What a bunch of crap! One whole dollar?!!! I wonder what kind of cost of living increase Congress gives themselves this year!!!
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#67981 Dec 11, 2012
You are a jooooookkkkkeeeeeeee....
You can take 100% from all those rich and would not help the country .....at all...
#67982 Dec 11, 2012
Unions Using Tax Free Union Funds To Buy Luxury Resorts For Fat Cats..
Check in to the luxury $187 million Westin Diplomat Hotel on the beach outside Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and youll be impressed by sumptuous, art deco features, hotel suites overlooking the ocean, flowing fountains, waterfalls in its infinity swimming pool, the plush green golf course and the top-notch restaurants.
Its a place even Donald Trump might envy.
You might also be impressed that this opulent hotel is owned by a labor union, and is frequently used for union junkets, government documents show. As is the $15.4 million Hillcrest Golf Club in Saint Paul, Minn. As is the $33 million lakeside resort and golf club in Onaway, Mich., owned by the United Auto Workers Union, a resort now hemorrhaging millions of dollars at a time of auto bailouts and auto job losses.
#67984 Dec 11, 2012
And those tax hikes on the wealthy will add how much revenue to the books? LOL Then what? LMMFAO
#67985 Dec 11, 2012
Oh how horrible,$14.00 per hour, in Tennessee no less, they must not be classy, their self worth must be pretty low,
on the other hand,$54,000 for a pickup truck that gets 15 mpg, and paying someone more than $100,000 per year to watch a machine stamp out parts, now thats progressive, and middle class.
#67987 Dec 11, 2012
Unions supported Obama. Obama stimulus 767 billion was to pay his supporters, Wall street, bankers, union thugs .....he don't care about poor dummies that voted for him, he gave them .!.
Socialist regime in progress ...
#67988 Dec 11, 2012
Hey, lets take that approach with Right to Work, we need to pass it to see whats in it! WAAAAAAAAA
#67990 Dec 11, 2012
I for one am loving the fact that the union mafia just got their lunch handed to them right in their own front yard!
#67991 Dec 11, 2012
And then some..........
Obama Arms The Enemy Again
In a rare moment of journalism, the New York Times reported that the Obama Administration secretly encouraged Arab countries to ship arms to rebel forces in Libya during the rebellion to oust longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi. The arms were provided to the rebels and Islamic extremists with links to al Qaeda in a Muslim Brotherhood-sponsored insurrection to turn the oil-rich African nation into an Islamic republic.
#67993 Dec 11, 2012
-Detroit bankrupt,(hundreds of millions of $)
-Detroit public schools taken over by the state
because they are one of the worst in the nation
-Detroit and Flint in the top two most dangerous
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#67995 Dec 11, 2012
Yes Jay, neighbor of mine got $3.00 less ...on SS!
Yes, how much those greedy politicians got in Christmas bonuses and their increase.
You know Jay, CA governor Jerry Brown (D) said before the election ..."I have no choice but to take from poor", what a creep. City of Bell, CA last year went bankrupt ....city manager Robert Rizzo, fat pig, had a salary of $850,000.00 a year. He was illegally increasing utilities, property taxes and using city money like a piggy bank. That is just one we know ...how many are they like him across America. He was paying people around him and kept everyone quiet. He increased his own salary.
Now in CA, Governor is Democrat, legislators and state Senate, all Democrats. Be careful people, do not become California ...but I guess it's to late, entire America starts to look like California ...
#67997 Dec 11, 2012
Right KYMI...!!!!!
#67998 Dec 11, 2012
Well libs, gotta go for now, its late, sweet dreams about flowers and pictures and group hugs and things like that, don't forget to brush your teeth after you take them out,
nite nite,
#67999 Dec 11, 2012
OK, just one more before nite time,
The good news about Obamas inauguration was that of the two million people who showed up, only 10 of them had to call off work.
#68001 Dec 11, 2012
Remember last year when they were trying to find out what it cost taxpayer's to send the Prez. daughter and her friends on spring break? Judicial Watch has been digging for that total cost and finally came up with most of what it cost us. The Obama's think nothing of spending us into debt even further, and are taking advantage while they can.
And the elderly who worked their butts off for 40/50 and are now finally getting petty cash for their labor in SS benefits get a $1 a month increase!!!
Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released records detailing the government funds expended on First Daughter Malia Obamas March 2012 Spring Break vacation to Mexico. According to the records, obtained from the U.S. Secret Service as a result of a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed on September 20, 2012, the total cost of the trip amounted to $115,500.87.
The following is a breakdown of the costs as detailed in the documents:
Ground transportation:$23,964.81
Vouchers:$21,636.14 (not itemized)
Support Charges:$449.66 (travel for one from Mexico City to Oaxaca, not itemized)
Malia Obamas spring break trip evoked controversy after the Obama White House reportedly ordered the removal of press reports detailing the trip. On March 19,2012, numerous online press outlets reported that the presidents 13-year-old daughter, Malia Obama, was on a Spring Break trip to Mexico accompanied by 25 U.S. Secret Service Agents and as many as 12 of her friends. However, shortly after the press reports surfaced they were quickly removed from the Internet. The trip took place shortly after the Texas Department of Public Safety issued a statement advising students on Spring Break to avoid Mexico.
#68004 Dec 11, 2012
What ever happened to, "We all have to have some skin in this game?" BO.
And then there was Michelle's vacations logged onto by Judicial Watch:
Presidents Day weekend ski vacation to Aspen, Colorado, with her two daughters. The records indicate U.S. Secret Service costs, including accommodations at the Fasching Haus deluxe condominium and the Inn at Aspen, were
August 2010 vacation to Spain. According to a Judicial Watch analysis, the records indicate a total combined cost of at least
Africa trip that described costs of $424,142 for the flight and crew alone. Other expenses, such as off-flight food, transportation, security, etc. were not included.
#68006 Dec 11, 2012
Just enough to keep the wealthy Obama family on golfing outings and vacations for the next four years!
#68010 Dec 11, 2012
Yep AL, all they do is battle each other. Now we have States opting out of Obamacare...around 38 I think. I saw a chart of the States tonight and a large majority have totally opted out. Practically all the mid-western States. I can't remember all of them but Florida is undecided a couple of mid-western states here and there. Tonight they just said Tennessee, who was formerly undecided has opted out. There are only a few that conceded to opt in, and I know two are Illinois and Calif. This thing is going to be another mess they can fight over.
By the way, you and Ari were talking about the storm the other night. I got zapped because our IP tower was hit, and so, I and had to buy a new router and card. And my computer was shut off at the time, so be careful if there is lightening, pull the plugs....LOL!!!
#68013 Dec 11, 2012
You're right guys, my aunt back home, TV and cordless phone got zapped by lightening ...
NO TV, cordless or cell phones...during lightening.
You're safe insight your car if you're driving during lightening, as long you don't touch metal parts...
If you feel your hair is up-electricity ...
move immediately, the lightening is about to strike...
#68014 Dec 11, 2012
You're right, too. When lightening is ceiling to ground, there is no telling where it will go. The middle states had some horrendous thunder and lightening the other night. Someone was telling me it lit up the bedroom at night. When towers are hit, the volts go everywhere and even surge protectors are useless. I lost a microwave a couple years back, and my new flat screen monitor went black and had to buy a new one. My neighbor had a volt hit his roof, it went down the wall, out the electrical plug, through a magazine rack and into his recliner and burned a hole in it. So with all the electronics we have today, there truly is no way to protect it unless you totally unplug it from the sockets. Another incident, and this happened to someone and it was told to me. Kids were playing on a game on the floor under a ceiling fan that was running overhead. Lightening struck something outside and the fan wires were affected somehow and threw sparks all over the kids under it. Probably this is rare, but it goes to show you how electronics can be destroyed in a second.
Have a good night all you night owls, ttyl.
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About Haiti ...
Announcements, messages, and commentary from the week of January 17, 2010:
- 1/21 Patrick Moynihan: "The presence of the U.S. military is more and more evident in the country."
- 1/21 Christopher Born: The greatest good for the greatest number of people
- 1/20 Cate Oswald: Keeping the hospitals running in central Haiti
- 1/20 Haiti's leading librarian offered residency at JCB
- 1/20 Sachita Shah: "Today was the first day I saw some non-earthquake-related patients."
- 1/18 Stephen Sullivan: "The injuries we are treating will require months of care and multiple operations."
- 1/15-18 Patrick Moynihan: "The bodies of the dead are still in inhuman arrangements, in places you do not expect to see them."
- 1/14 Cate Oswald: "I don't have words to describe what people are living right now."
Christopher Born: "The greatest good for the greatest number of people"
Christopher Born, professor of orthopaedics at the Alpert Medical School and chief of orthopaedic trauma at Rhode Island Hospital, is working in Port-au-Prince with the International Medical Surgical Response Team.
Thursday 1/21: The Boston Globe and NPR describe the difficult decisions facing surgeons now working in tents erected in a Port-au-Prince schoolyard, as well as the less than ideal conditions: "Sweltering," the Globe notes, with rudimentary and temperamental equipment. The report describes Christopher Born of Brown's medical faculty looking at an X-ray of a woman's shattered hip and thigh bones and deciding quickly to send her to a full-service hospital.
"At this facility," Born told the Globe, "we could try to do something, but we might do more harm than good. One of the mantras for disaster medicine is: The greatest good for the greatest number of people."
Cate Oswald: Keeping the hospitals running in central Haiti
Cate Oswald, a 2004 Brown graduate, is Partners in Health's program manager for psychosocial support and mental health services in Haiti.
Wednesday 1/20: I am in the Central Plateau, organizing the logistics of running our 10 hospital facilities that are all over capacity with patients hurt in the earthquake, while also working on getting gas, food, water, and supplies into the country to keep the hospitals running. Other colleagues are in Port-au-Prince opening new operating rooms in the general hospitals.
One of the most important efforts I'm involved in is making sure PiH's 4,000 Haitian employees and their families have places to find shelter, food, water, and psychological support now and in the coming days.
Patrick Moynihan: "The presence of the U.S. military is more and more evident in the country."
Patrick Moynihan, a 1987 Brown graduate, is director of the Haitian Project's Louverture Cleary School in Port-au-Prince. He had returned to the United States the day before the earthquake; Moynihan quickly made his way back to Haiti.
Thursday 1/21: The presence of the U.S. military is more and more evident in the country. The airport is secured; however, aid flights continue to disrupt regular traffic. Along with charter flights, the bus is now running to the Dominican Republic.
I picked up the [U.N. Development Program]'s official Earthquake Engineering Evaluation Team. This is a group of 10 specialists sent to determine whether standing buildings are fit for use. They will assist the government agencies of Haiti as well as other international groups. They use green and red tags to mark if a building can be used. We received the expected green tags for our buildings that are currently in use. Then came the happy surprise: They also cleared the original girls' dorm for use. This building will require some repair for the long term. More importantly, the group has chosen to sleep in this building while they stay for five days to work in Haiti! Mr. Zamy, Louverture Cleary School grad and assistant principal, said, "I will sleep anywhere now!" The students have been singing ever since.
We have begun to receive food supplies. This is great because business interruption may delay the local support we built up during the last semester.
Haiti's leading librarian offered residency at JCB
Patrick Tardieu, an eminent Haitian librarian who was forced to flee Port-au-Prince during the earthquake, has received an offer of temporary residency at the John Carter Brown Library.
Tardieu is chief conservator at the Bibliothèque Haitienne des Pères du Saint Esprit and director of the library at the University of Quisqueya. He has been a pioneer in making Haiti's precious historical documents available to an international community of scholars, both online and in the collections under his supervision.
"It is an honor to be able to reciprocate the generosity Patrick Tardieu has always shown to others and to welcome him to our community," said Ted Widmer, the JCB's director and librarian.
The JCB intends to help Tardieu raise funds that will help preserve documents and other materials that are important parts of Haiti's rich cultural heritage.
Sachita Shah: "Today was the first day I saw some non-earthquake-related patients."
Sachita Shah, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Alpert Medical School, is providing front-line care to survivors in Haiti.
Wednesday, 1/20: In just a few days we have our operating rooms up and running and are seeing droves of patients. [We] awoke to another quake this A.M., and the people are all still sleeping in the streets. Surgeries are mainly amputations, some pediatric hands and legs, many adult lower limbs. The emergency room is crazy busy with many trauma victims still being transferred. For example, a septic patient who was amputated with hacksaw at Port au Prince hospital came in the back of a flat bed truck needing a higher amputation with hip disarticulation — though today was the first day I saw some non-earthquake-related patients with simple typhoid and some new fractures related to the earthquake in the A.M.
Patrick Moynihan: "The bodies of the dead are still in inhuman arrangements, in places you do not expect to see them."
Friday 1/15: It was a relief finally to stand on the [Louverture Cleary] school driveway. The evening was just dark enough to obscure faces, [making] handshakes and hugs more important in communicating than words. It was a wonderful moment of being close and gathered after a period of especially painful separation. I asked Zamy, our prefect of discipline, [how to answer] the question, "When will LCS reopen?" His reply: "It never shut, of course."
Saturday 1/16: I visited the city today. The bodies of the dead are still in inhuman arrangements, in places you do not expect to see them. It is shocking and drives one to tears. It was hard to see the National Palace crushed. All of America has lost something. I have made many proud visits to this monument of a great people. It was also hard to visit the Caribbean Market, where my kids have enjoyed finding a piece of home as they grew up here. [The market] is completely fallen.
Monday 1/18: Today, with the help of some of our volunteers and two visiting German journalists from Der Spiegel, we carefully began the removal of "precarious elements" — pieces of structure weakened by the quake — that could fall in aftershocks. The first item on the list was the railing on the third floor of the old classroom and the boys' dorm building. Outside the walls of the school, the U.S. military has taken over responsibility for the airport. This makes one very reassured.
Later I visited the Montana. This nearby hotel had been a place of relaxation for us and our volunteers. Now it is completely collapsed. I thought of the people I have met there and the people trapped under the rubble, one of them a school board member's niece. I taught Marianna, our youngest daughter, how to dive in the Montana's pool, and swam races against Chilean and Argentinian military with son Timothy.
We have lost friends. The demolished buildings are tombs, in many cases. This remains the context to each day, but life is the focus.
Steve Sullivan: "The injuries we are treating will require months of care and multiple operations."
Stephen Sullivan, assistant professor of surgery in the Alpert Medical School, is working with Partners in Health.
Monday 1/18: Dr. Helena Taylor and I are operating in Cange, Haiti, where I have spent a significant amount of time over the last two years. We now have approximately 160 patients in hospital spaces, which include a surgical ward, medical ward, pediatrics ward, a church converted to a ward, and a school converted to ward. There are dozens of other patients waiting to be seen and triaged.
Most of the injuries are fractures and wounds. Many of the fractures have not been treated as we don't have hardware. We are doing our best with reduction, splinting, and casting. Amputations and wound care remain our main operations. The injuries we are treating will require months of care and multiple operations.
Thursday 1/21: Our team, which includes five surgeons, has performed approximately 110 operations. In the last two days, we've received a large amount of Synthes ortho rods and fixators – a blessing! There are still many fractures to treat. The next several weeks will be filled with long days in the OR doing wound care, skin grafts, and tissue transfers. Rehab will also be important.
The number of amputees in Haiti has increased by thousands. Even in the States it is difficult to get good prostheses. In Haiti, it will be impossible unless there is a huge investment. Many strong young people will be less able to care for their families unless they receive long-term rehab and care
We feel so blessed with the opportunity to be here at this time of crisis and are so thankful for the team at Brown and Lifespan. Our future work in Haiti will be clinical and also an area of academic development for the program in Global Health, benefiting medical students and residents who join us.
Cate Oswald: "I don't have words to describe what people are living right now."
Cate Oswald, a 2004 Brown graduate, is Partners in Health's program manager for psychosocial support and mental health services in Haiti.
Thursday 1/14: I have just returned from Port au Prince to the Central Plateau, where our Zanmi Lasante (Partners In Health) team sent as many medicines and supplies as we could and will continue to do so as the days and hours progress. I don't have words to describe what people are living right now. All phone communication is down. With Port Au Prince the epicenter of the disaster, and the epicenter of all things government and business related for the country, the fact that practically the entire population has at least one family member in Port Au Prince means everyone is affected by this tragedy.
We have staff who still can't locate family members. We haven't yet accounted for all of our 4,000 employees. All of our ex-pat employees are OK physically. Everyone is in shock — working off adreniline only — but our hearts are aching for all those who are still searching. There are dead bodies everywhere in the streets in Port au Prince, and we're not sure where to start collecting them all. Tonight as I was leaving the U.N. headquarters, I drove by the national plaza and national palace (destroyed) and there are thousands of people everywhere, sleeping outside. We're still feeling aftershocks, so no one wants to go back inside homes and many people can't go back in their homes. The death toll is rising as we speak, and there are a lot of foreigners who are going to be in the death count based on where they lived and the multilevel structures that they lived in.
Some more hopeful news:
Today we mobilized staff to start donating blood, as we are out of blood in the blood banks. We got much-needed supplies to the new makeshift U.N. headquarters (the old one collapsed, killing the head of the U.N.) We were the first and thus far the only group to get anything to the temporary hospital to which all ex-pats and U.N. employees and many injured Haitians were being evacuated. We set up a triage center in Cange in the church and school grounds to receive patients coming from Port au Prince, as our small emergency room was overwhelmed.
We have started surgeries in Cange and Hinche. Many people have started coming to our hospitals as most all hospitals in Port au Prince have been destroyed. Tomorrow we will continue by working in the general hospital in Port au Prince, getting supplies and staff there to continue the work.
We are in need most urgently of blankets, tents, sleeping bags, tarps, water purification tablets, clothes, shoes, socks, winter hats, food, water. It gets cold at night in January in Haiti. Everyone's in shock and many injured. We need to keep people warm. ... We have a plane coming tomorrow with some supplies and orthopaedic surgeons to help with all the broken bones that need to be pieced together. We're not so much in need of volunteers from the United States at this point, as it is hard to get people into the country right now and we have a team of 4,000 staff who are responding as well.


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I consider myself a naturalist; my love of nature underscores my life choices. I love learning about the diverse members of a forest and how they support each other. I'm volunteering with the WV DNR and Monongahela NF and looking forward to seeing a lot of WV this summer in search of rare plants. I hope to start leading hikes in the Elkins region - maybe this summer. I've been the first and only Naturalist for the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club.
I also love learning about history - all of it - from how world civilizations grew, innovated, and collapsed to how the Potomac River valley was settled. I enjoy visiting old mills and iron furnaces and have been known to stop at roadside historical markers.
I enjoy day hikes and backpacking. Within the past three years, I've backpacked down the Grand Canyon (and back up!), staying at the Phantom Ranch for two nights, summited Mt. Whitney (Highest peak in the lower 48 - camping and hiking on a 2' snow base), and hiked up Long's Peak in the Rocky Mountain NP (probably the most exposed, exciting hike I've ever done!). Done a lot of backpacking in Roaring Plains, Dolly Sods, and the Shenandoah National Park, as well as Denali, Yellowstone, Glacier and Rocky Mountain NP. No, my mate does not have to be an active backpacker - an interest in day hikes or nice weekends in a cabin or camping in my popup camper can be wonderfully fullfilling (but she'll always be invited on my backpacking trips!)
I get a lot of pleasure landscaping yards - especially mine. I like building water ponds and bogs - such entertainment! The frogs and toads will find the pond on their own, as will butterflies and birds.
Music has always been a significant source of happiness. I played drums in a family band throughout high school and for years later. I was the snare drummer with the Fairfax Symphony, playing at Wolf Trap and the Kennedy Center. My favorite playing was with big bands at places like Blues Alley and the former Cellar Door in DC. I love jazz, classical, musicals (Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables), Barbra Streisand and, yes, Barry Manilow.
I love romantic comedies (When Harry Met Sally is the best - yes, I love Meg Ryan!).
I also love my black 'medium-haired' cat, Asher.
I love travel. I've spent the summer of 2011 driving to Alaska and spending two months hiking and brown bear watching at many of the National Parks. The year before, I drove through Mexico for six weeks, living in my pop-up camper. Have gone to Peru (including hiking the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu), visited the Amazon jungle, Belize, Austria/Switzerland/Germany and Paris, France. Still looking forward to going with someone (?) to the Serengetti Plains of Africa and Italy - and I'm open to other suggestions.
I'm also my 1970 McLean High School class reunion organizer - every five years we get together.
I'm open to exploring new interests and can appreciate seeing the world from someone elses point of view. I would love nothing more than to find a mate who wants to travel, spend time outside, has a strong desire for love and a tremendous 'spirit of adventure'.


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Saturday, July 28, 2007
For a Third-World Takeover? Vote Obama
Presidential Candidate Opposes Immigration Law Enforcement
Barack Hussein Obama
Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- July 27
Well presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama voiced support for yesterday's court ruling that struck down Hazleton's illegal immigration law. Senator Obama called the federal court ruling a victory for all Americans. The senator said comprehensive reform is needed so local communities do not continue to take matters into their own hands. Senator Obama was a supporter of the Senate's failed immigration bill, which would have given amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney took a strong stand against chain migration today....
Obama states position, praises judge's ruling
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Likely invaders charged with murder in icy death of boy
The 9- year- old boy who died from hypothermia at a Salt Lake City restaurant was held naked in a trash can of ice water for 45 minutes by his sister and her friend as a disciplinary measure, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday. -- Pedro Gaucin- Canales and Rebecca Hernandez- Velasco were each charged with first-degree felony murder... [
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by Daniel Sheehy
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Long Beach, Calif. sanctuary church protested today
...Here are a few pictures from todays sanctuary church protest. As usual I took pictures of the pro-illegal counter protesters and neglected to take pictures of our side of the protest. I don't know why I always do that. I did get some video of us though. [Photos of lying reconquista headache Larry Lopez included]
Daily Record -- Morris County, New Jersey
5 arrested at Morristown immigration rally
Morristown, NJ -- Hundreds crowded the front lawn of town hall on Saturday in a boisterous and passionate rally in support of U.S. immigration laws -- an event headlined by Mayor Donald Cresitello -- while hundreds more conducted a loud counter-rally, decrying the main event's speakers as racist... [
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KCEN-TV -- College Station, Texas
Invader gets life in brutal sex attack case
An illegal [
alien... criminal
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Day labor center envisioned
Ricardo Velasquez was perplexed when he heard about Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman's idea to require people to get a permit in order to hire day laborers. -- "Why would they do that?" the day laborer asked in Spanish while scanning traffic Thursday morning along Bonanza Road...
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Group gathers to protest vicious Hispanic gangs
More than a dozen anti-illegal immigration advocates gathered outside Los Jilbertos, 2812 North Ave., around noon Thursday to protest what they called the increasing "racial tension" on the Western Slope following the suspected ethnic intimidation of two white teens on Sunday...
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New Haven, Conn. -- Friday was day four of availability for New Haven's city identification cards. People lined up before dawn to apply, as another bank announced it will recognize the I.D. cards. -- Hundreds of people lined the sidewalk as early at 4:00 AM. They came with their coffee in hand and children in tow.
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Pr. William policy on invaders prompts call for boycott
Latinos in Prince William County, angered and panicked by a county resolution to crack down on illegal [
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Vista, Calif. -- Brian Mendoza frequently found comfort, along with a few naps, in his father's arms. -- But the bond between father and son was shattered May 5 when the 6-year-old was killed in
a drunken- driving crash
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A jury acquitted former border guard Robert S. Rhodes III of beating up a Chinese tourist - but the federal government did not. -- Rhodes filed two lawsuits this week, asking for $50 million in damages, claiming he was unfairly prosecuted and fired as a homeland security officer after a highly publicized confrontation at the Rainbow Bridge...
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Nobles and Knaves
...Knave: New Haven, Conn. Mayor John DeStefano (buffoon at left), who launched a program to give ID cards to illegal aliens in his city. -- The city of New Haven is trying to tackle the problem of illegal immigration. But instead of enforcing the law, Mr. DeStefano is offering sanctuary to the 10,000 to 15,000 illegal aliens [
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Free Agents Ramos and Compean
Nothing can sum up the case of former border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who stopped, pursued and shot at a fleeing Mexican drug smuggler near Fabens, Texas in 2005, better than Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's appraisal that "the whole episode stinks to high heaven." Not only was the smuggler...
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No "victory for all Americans" was had in Hazleton, Obama
...In watching yesterday's
'Lou Dobbs Tonight' program on CNN
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Dump the horndog Mexican Reconquista L. A. mayor
Los Angeles can and should be the envy of the world. Instead, our city is a mess, and it gets worse each month. We can't afford four more years of a mayor who spends all his time running for the next office, staging photo-ops and going on out- of- town trips. We need a competent, full-time working mayor who takes the job seriously...
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Virginia county might crack down on invaders
James City County could soon consider a law that would deny illegal [
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Customs officer allegedly allowed loads of pot into U.S.
A Customs and Border Protection officer was arrested Friday morning while at work at the Paso del Norte Bridge for allegedly allowing loads of marijuana to pass through her bridge lanes unchecked for the past four years. -- Officials of the U.S. attorney's office said Margarita Crispin was indicted for alleged conspiracy...
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Romney should stop Hispandering, run on record
Dear God! What in the world was Mitt Romney doing addressing the Republican National Hispanic Assembly last week? (The RNHA is a thirty-three year old front group created by George H. W Bush). -- There was Romney, Hispandering to the choir about "
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Virginia is for lovers (not illegals)
Setting a tough example in what is becoming a movement by many cities and towns throughout the nation, Prince William County in Northern Virginia just outside the Nation's Capital has taken the issue of dealing with illegal immigrants into its own hands. Last month, following the best-attended -- and by far the stormiest -- public meeting...
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Standard-Speaker -- Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Hazleton expects legal defense fund total to surge following ruling
When Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta's assistant checked the office voice mail box at 7 p.m. Thursday, it was full. -- Three hours later, it had filled again. -- By 6 p.m. Friday, it was loaded with yet another batch of well wishers, some asking how they could
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McMillan TAC-50 A1-R2
The recoil on a 50 BMG rifle can be stout. McMillan has cut it by 90 percent with a new hydraulic recoil mitigation system for the TAC-50.
The heart of the new TAC-50 A1-R2 recoil mitigation system is a proprietary hydraulic piston in the buttstock. As the rifle is fired, the piston compresses, softening the recoil by lowering the peak recoil force and spreading out the recoil over several milliseconds. The sensation for the shooter is that of a long push, rather than a violent punch.
Without the R2 recoil mitigation system, the peak recoil from a 50 BMG cartridge is approximately 7,500 pounds of force. From start to finish, the recoil lasts 1 millisecond in a machine rest. With the R2 system, the peak recoil is only approximately 520 pounds of force. What's more, the force is spread out over 6 milliseconds. While the total recoil energy is roughly the same, the hydraulic piston lowers the perception of recoil dramatically for a shooter by lowering the peak force and spreading the recoil out over time.
The proprietary muzzle brake offered on the TAC-50 A1-R2 provides additional recoil reduction.
In addition to the new R2 recoil mitigation system, the TAC-50 A1-R2 features a new take-down A1-style fiberglass stock with a forend that is 5 inches longer than the original TAC-50 stock, moving the balance point for the bipod forward. There is a saddle-type cheekpiece, and the removable buttstock is attached to the rifle with a quick-detach push pin. The stock incorporates a smaller pistol grip to fit a wider range of hand shapes, with and without gloves.
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I am looking for an experienced cocos2d-x and c++ iPhone developer to submit our game apps to the app store on an ongoing basis. This initial project will be for 4 games as a test to prove you're reliable, efficient, and a good communicator.
Source code will be provided. It will have a RevMob SDK already provided which you will need to test to make sure its working.
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Additionally, we will need your help with testing our Game Center code so we can have a functional leader board for each of our games. This should be easy for an experienced programmer.
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text: The following incidents with Princeton addresses were reported to the Sheriff's Department between July 29 and Aug. 4. The times printed are when a complaint was received, not necessarily when it occurred. The report was compiled by Jeff Hage. Monday, July 29 12:49 a.m. Assisted the State Patrol with a three-vehicle accident on Highway 95 at Rice Lake Road. 5:11 p.m. Investigated a report of criminal damage to property on 85th Avenue. 5:22 p.m. Medical response on Highway 169. Tuesday, July 30 4:17 a.m. An animal complaint was received on 85th Avenue. 11:22 a.m. A theft was reported on 70th Avenue. 2:13 p.m. Assisted the Princeton Police Department with an incident on Eighth Avenue North. 2:16 p.m. Assisted the Princeton Police Department with an incident on Third Street North. 7:49 p.m. Assisted the Princeton Police Department with a bomb threat at Walmart. Wednesday, July 31 10:06 a.m. Removed an unwanted individual from a location on Aspen Road. 3:23 p.m. Investigated a trespassing complaint on 70th Avenue. Thursday, Aug. 1 4:18 a.m. Responded to an animal complaint on Highway 95 and 140th Avenue. 10:56 a.m. Responded to a domestic dispute on 82nd Avenue. 10:36 p.m. Assisted Princeton Police with a domestic disturbance involving the violation of a no-contact order at Walmart. Saturday, Aug. 3 3:05 a.m. Assisted Princeton Police with a traffic stop and vehicle search on Highway 169 at First Street. 9:06 p.m. Responded to a report of a civil issue on 10th Street. Sunday, Aug. 4 3:44 p.m. A theft was reported on 100th Avenue. 7:44 p.m. Responded to a report of a disturbance on 85th Avenue. 11:09 p.m. Responded to an animal complaint on Bricton Road.


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A new paper by Peter Hotez and his colleague summarizes what is known about the prevalence and distribution of the disease burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Africa. They confirm what we have always known – that these diseases are highly prevalent and are a major contributor to the burden of disease in Africa – even though they do not kill as many people as other, more high profile, diseases.
The table above, taken from the Hotez paper, suggest that upwards of a third of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa may be infected by some of these diseases. Hookworm, for example, may infect up to 30% of the continent. Scary stuff.
Even scarier, in my mind at least, is that a lot can be done to tackle this burden. Many of these diseases can be treated with simple mass drug administration programs, which are cost-effective and relatively easy to implement. Obviously we have a ways to go.Share on Facebook


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-- computational reconstruction and transformation of flattened retinae
Retistruct is an R package to morph a flat surface with cuts (a dissected flat-mount retina) onto a curvilinear surface (the a standard retinal shape). It can estimate the position of a point on the intact adult retina to within 8° of arc (3.6% of nasotemporal axis). The coordinates in reconstructed retinae can be transformed to visuotopic coordinates.
Reconstruction is achieved by: stitching the marked-up cuts of the flat-mount outline; dividing the stitched outline into a mesh whose vertices then are mapped onto a curtailed sphere; and finally moving the vertices so as to minimise a physically-inspired deformation energy function.
Retistruct has been tested on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 12.04), Mac OS X 10.8 and Microsoft Windows Vista. Installing the graphical user interface on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and 10.10 (Yosemite) is possible, but requires the GTK library to be installed first; see Chris von Csefalvay's instructions.
To install the stable version of Retistruct hosted on CRAN, follow the instructions in the User Guide. The installation contains a number of demonstration retinae, and instructions for how to handle retinal flat-mount images in Retistruct.
The development version of Retistruct contains the most recent bug fixes and improvements, but is not stable. Builds of the package are usually available on R-forge and can be installed using the R install command given there. If the R-forge packages are not available, you will have to build from the source code using R CMD build.
The source code can be checked out from the R-forge subversion repository or Github.
For reference purposes, this zip file contains the version of Retistruct that generated the reconstructions in Sterratt & al. (2013; PLoS Computational Biology 9). The file also contains some Matlab code to read data directories contained by Retistruct.
As well as the built-in demo data, there are some sample images to practise on:
Retistruct was written by David Sterratt at the University of Edinburgh, and tested by Daniel Lyngholm and Ian Thompson at the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, KCL.
This work was supported by a Programme Grant from the Wellcome Trust (G083305).


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The Routine
You may not have touched one since you were 10, but the humble hula hoop is a bona fide piece of workout equipment that can tone your thighs, abdominals, gluteals, and arms. And it's just as much fun as you remember. "You barely feel like you're working out," says Sunny Becks-Crumpton, a hooping instructor and the owner of Hooprama, an exercise studio in East Nashville, Tennessee. To try it, grab a hoop (Becks-Crumpton's site, hoopsupplies.com, has easy, DIY hoop kits) and complete this routine three times a week, going through the sequence twice. At first the moves may throw you for a loop, but don't despair: Practice makes perfect.


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NJ Parents Warned About Dangerous Toys [AUDIO]
Now that Thanksgiving has arrived, parents all over the Garden State are ready to begin their holiday shopping.
And not coincidentally, the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group is out with its annual Trouble in Toyland Report to help moms and dads avoid potentially dangerous and hazardous toys.
"Our researchers found four hazards in toys, with toxic materials, choking hazards, magnetic toys and excessively noisy toys," said NJPIRG Program Associate Peter Skopec.
He pointed out some of the most dangerous hazards in toys are invisible because they contain poisonous metals.
"This year we found a vinyl toy – the Captain America soft shield – to contain 2,900 parts per million of lead. This toy violates the federal standard," Skopec said.
In addition NJPIRG found the Ninja Turtles pencil case to contain 600 parts per million of cadmium, which is a highly toxic heavy metal.
Skopec stressed parents must be on guard for toys that could become choking hazards for their younger children.
"We all know that toddlers like to put a lot of things into their mouths, and between 2001 and 2011, over 80 children choked to death on balloons, balls, toys or parts of toys," he cautioned.
The bottom line, said Skopec, is that we still need to protect our littlest consumers from unsafe toys, which means parents and caregivers need to watch out for hazards when shopping for toys this holiday season.
"Work by NJPIRG has led to more than 150 recalls and other actions to get dangerous toys off store shelves," he said. "Parents should always carefully examine toys for potential dangers before they make a purchase, and always read and heed labels."
For more information on toy safety, he recommended you visit the Safer Products website.


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MSHA News Release: [04/13/2006]
Contact: Dirk Fillpot Amy Louviere
Phone: (202) 693-9406 (202) 693-9423
Release Number 06-559-PHI
MSHA Fines Pennsylvania Operator $150,000 After Fatal Accident
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) today announced a proposed fine of $150,000 against Rosebud Mining Company, operator of an Armstrong County, Pa., mine where a miner was killed in a roof-fall accident June 10, 2005.
"The safety and health of miners must be protected every day. The failure of any mine operator to provide safe working conditions carries a high risk for their miners and will not be tolerated," said David G. Dye, MSHA's acting administrator. "MSHA will assess strong penalties, as in this case, when a miner suffered fatal injuries because the operator failed to provide safe working conditions."
A roof-bolter operator at the Tracy Lynne Mine in Armstrong County was fatally injured by a roof fall that occurred while installing six-foot resin grouted roof bolts in an area previously supported with 36-inch bolts.
The fines MSHA has assessed for safety violations contributing to this accident are as follows:
- failure to limit cut depths to 20 feet when adverse roof conditions were present (30 CFR 75.220(a)(1)), $50,000;
- failure to initially install supplemental roof supports when adverse roof conditions are present (30 CFR 75.220(a)(1), $50,000, and
- failure to conduct an adequate pre-shift examination (30 CFR 75.360), $50,000.
MSHA can assess fines ranging from $60 to $60,000 per violation depending on the nature of the violation, level of negligence and several legal factors. Rosebud Mining Co. has 30 days to appeal the fines.
For more information about MSHA, please visit www.msha.gov.
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Re: NDSolve problem with switching
> Here are simpler choices for the box wave.
> box[x_] = Piecewise@{{1, FractionalPart@x < .5}}
> Plot[box@t, {t, 0, 2}]
> or
> box = If[FractionalPart@# < .5, 1, 0] &;
> But, strangely enough, they don't speed things up in NDSolve.
I think there is no reason to expect they would. I think the problem is
that a numeric differential equation solver will always use a lot of
sampling points near one of the steps. Actually the resolution it will
use is just limited by the precision it tries to achieve, since it would
need infinitesimaly small steps to resolve the step. So if you want to
see speedup, one pragmatic approach would be to use a "smoothing" of
your step function, e.g. by replacing it with an appropriate ActTan.
Then you can control the resolution of the step function independently
of the desired precision. In most pratical problems you will have an
idea about what a reasonable resolution for such a step function would be...


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Hello guys you have a really great community here.
Please correct me if i posted to the wrong forum but i didnt know where else to post.
Im looking for some help. A guy in my town is selling its Beomaster 5500 without remote plus a pair of black cx 100 in both great condition. What do you guys think is this package worth? I read a lot and tried to check on ebay but couldnt find a good answer. He said it was barely used.
Best regards and thanks for your hel?
He is also selling and Beocenter 8500 + 1 pair of black CX 100 both great condition
what price would you suggest here?
Thanks Peter. Im located in Europe. Well as far as using i would like to stream music to the beomaster via appletv as I don't use vinyl cd or cassettes. The most important thing would be just switching the channel I.e. From cd to aux so I can use my streaming device. Any idea about the pricing?
I use a 5500 and CX100s under my computer and it has plenty of inputs so excellent for doing this - a Beolink 1000 is fine for almost all operations.
About £100-150 for the Beomaster - has to work though - and about the same for CX100s if in good condition and not needing refoaming.
Thanks for you quoting. As I'm new to this kind of stuff and really like the design of the old bo speakers and beomaster 5500 in looking for some good. I manly listen to some electronic (house) music as well as pop and some rock. Would you suggest the cx 100 or some other? There is also a pair of rl45.2 for 130€ in my area
Ohh ok thanks, so you would suggest the rl 45.2 more for some electronic music?
Remember you still need a remote control. Othervise the 5500 is useless. Beolink 1000 will do fine as mentioned above.
The RL series will match the 5500 fine.
Office: Beomaster 3000-2 with Beovox P45 (all in white)
Living room: Beomaster 7000 and Beogram 7000 with Beovox RL 7000 (all in white)
Kitchen: Beocenter 2300 with Beovox 4500 (not available in white :-(
You mention that you will use your Apple TV as source. As far as I remember the Apple TV does not have an analogue output. Either you should use a DAC to convert the signal or buy an Apple airport express or Chromecast audio to stream to the 5500.
Hey Beold, thanks for your answer. It has an toslink output and I wanted to buy an converter from there to cinch that should work right?
As others have stated, a remote should be your top priority here if you are truly interested. With the Beomaster 5500, all you can do is power it on, mute it, and change the channels that may or may not be preset in it's memory currently.
I have both the Beolink 1000, and the Master Control Panel 5500. The Master Control Panel is much easier to use for this model, and also allows more options. The loudness button for example. The Beolink 1000 can not control the Loudness control on the Beomaster 5500 (Though it can control Loudness on the Beomaster 6500 and up). So if loudness control is important to you, the MCP should be your choice. If Loudness control is not important, then the Beolink 1000 is typically cheaper and more reliable.
The Beomaster 5500 only has 1 set of line level RCA inputs. It may look like there are more, but one is for Phono inputs, another is line level output for recording. Then the RCA pre outs, that if used can be run to an external power amp.
If you want to hook up other non B & O equipment, I use these cables from cables online. Though I also think that there are more options in your area of the world.
As for prices, I see these things jump all over the board. Some are expensive, some are cheap. Some are beat up heavily, others are pretty clean. As Peter said a few posts back, audition it if you can. Listen for flaws. There is a fan in these receivers, and if you listen closely, you can tell when it's running. As long as it doesn't go into protection mode, and the sound is up to your standards, it is a good place to start your B&O journey.
One thing I currently have hooked up to my Beomaster 5500 is a Bluetooth audio adapter. It honestly works pretty well, and may be a better option over using the Apple TV. Just a thought, and may even be less expensive, since with the Apple TV, you'll need to purchase a Toslink to RCA DAC (Digital Analog Converter)


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Research Shows Drinks with Diet Soda Get You Drunker
Bad news for drinkers who also are trying to watch their figures. According to Scientific American, a new study found that drinking cocktails made with diet sodas can make your breath-alcohol levels 18 percent higher than those made with full-calorie sodas.
The study, completed by researchers in the Department of Psychological Science at Northern Kentucky University, is titled "Artificial Sweeteners Versus Regular Mixers Increase Breath Alcohol Concentrations in Male and Female Social Drinkers."
See also: The Skinny On Sugar & Sweeteners
The study tested 16 "casual" drinkers, each of whom was asked to imbibe three drinks -- vodka mixed with sugary soda and vodka mixed with sugar-free soda (the placebo) -- over three sessions. After each drink, they were then given breathalyzer tests, and researchers took time-reaction measurements.
For both men and women, breath-alcohol measurements were an average of 18 percentage points higher when the participants ingested drinks with diet soda rather than regular soda. And no, they didn't just blow higher numbers. Their reaction times were slower, too.
What's even more dangerously interesting is that though the participants were drunker after the diet drinks, they rated themselves as not being drunker.
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Clara (Arterton) and her daughter Eleanor (Ronan), both vampires, have been on the run together from the Brotherhood, an order of male vampires, for 200 years. After being nearly caught by Darvell (Riley), a vampire who was involved in their creation, they abandon their current home and move to a faded English seaside town. Clara persuades weak-willed Noel (Daniel Mays) to let her run a brothel from Byzantium, his failing hotel, and Eleanor befriends a sickly youth, Frank (Caleb Landry Jones).
Vampire movies are not a passing trend in horror/fantasy, though movie vampires change with the times. They are always a good commercial bet, though. Neil Jordan's last seaside fantasy, Ondine, was about a 'selkie' (another female supernatural being) and barely rippled filmgoers' consciousness. That might explain why he's looking at the blood-drinking undead for the second time in his career.
A generation ago, Jordan directed the sumptuous film of Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire, a starrily cast study of the relationship between two male vampires who are at once lovers and parent and child. Nearly 20 years on, Byzantium — written by Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe, Jane Eyre) from her play A Vampire Story — is a return to the genre. Here, a pair of mother-and-daughter vampires cling and clash throughout the centuries like Louis and Lestat in Interview, evading an organised society of male bloodsuckers who disapprove of their very existence. Whereas the earlier film was an elegant and well-dressed Gothic, this makes even its historical flashbacks seem cold and uncomfortable and imbues all its characters with dread and desperation.
Each vampire story has to reinvent the rules. Buffini's fangless creatures sprout thornlike thumbnails to open their victims' veins, and the process of transformation from regular human to immortal is uniquely folkloric, involving a boat trip to a mist-shrouded island, a stone hut embedded in a waterfall and a cloud of seabirds. Starting in realist mode with mama monster Clara (Gemma Arterton) as a contemporary lap-dancer who keeps cheesewire handy to behead unwelcome callers and daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) haunting council estates for OAPs to bleed, Byzantium looks to pre-Stoker literature for the early 19th century flashbacks which explain their origins. Darvell (Sam Riley) and Ruthven (Jonny Lee Miller), naval officers whose casual attitude to women has centuries-long consequences, take their names from versions of a story told by Lord Byron (A Fragment) and John Polidori (The Vampyre) which introduced the vampire into English prose.
There's a touch of early '70s films like Daughters Of Darkness and The Velvet Vampire, though making its vampires mother and daughter means it doesn't default to Hammer-like lesbian kink (Interview probably gave Jordan enough gay vampires for one career). In an eerie, chilly, tatty-yet-genteel seaside town, the couple fall out — Clara preys on those who deserve to die while Eleanor seeks out those who don't want to live — and their pursuers close in. A vein of humour is punctured as Eleanor is red-flagged by teachers because she takes seriously an assignment to write the unvarnished truth about her early life and turns in an assignment that reads like a Gothic fairy tale, but this is mostly a melancholy, strange picture.
A mixture of tough and wistful and reflective and brutal, this is the ideal vampire movie for Twi-hards whove had their hearts broken for the first time and want to move on to a less cosy vision of eternal romance with a side order of addiction.


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Magnifying glasses at the ready – law firm Keddies seems to be wrapped up in a little mystery.
Keddies, which Slater & Gordon bought for $30 million in January, is in hot water over claims it has been unethically approaching another lawyer's clients – a no-no under solicitors conduct rules.
On Tuesday, NSW Supreme Court judge Michael Adams heard that Keddies had approached Basil and Maria Goritsas, who were suing Keddies for overcharging, to try to settle the case behind the back of their lawyer, Stephen Firth of Firths. Firths was in the Supreme Court trying to stop Keddies from contacting its clients, and in the District Court settling the Goritsases' separate overcharging claim at the same time.
According to written evidence by the couple's daughter, Angela Goritsas, an approach was made last week by a Michael Navin, who said he was the nephew of another former Keddies client, Leila Chafei.
Chafei settled her late husband's overcharging case with Keddies in September amid similar allegations by Firths of unethical approaches made by Keddies. If true, the fact that her nephew was urging former Keddies' clients to settle might be described as curious.
Keddies' barrister's argument – that Navin had nothing to do with Keddies and was acting on his own – also raises the curious question of how, if Angela Goritsas' evidence is true, he knew the Goritsases' phone number and details of their cases.
He is also alleged to have said another lawyer, James Hasson of Leitch Hasson Dent Lawyers, had settlement deeds and cheques ready. Hasson declined to comment this week as the case was still in court.
The Goritsases, having declined Navin's alleged settlement offer of $30,000 each, agreed on Tuesday to settle for more than $50,000 each plus costs. They even got indemnity costs from November last year, when Keddies knocked back an offer to settle for less.
The Supreme Court action, meanwhile, is still bubbling away. Keddies is yet to put on its evidence, but the partners said through their lawyer that the allegations against them were "untested and disputed".
Hearsay is eager to see whether Navin, who couldn't be reached for comment this week, will feature among the witnesses.
It is not often that a barrister decides to hang a portrait of themselves in their chambers, especially before they make silk.
Barrister Stuart Wood took down his portrait after a ribbing from colleagues, but is now being urged to put it back up after being appointed a senior counsel in Victoria this week.
The industrial relations heavy hitter is unlikely to be getting congratulatory cards from many unionists though. Wood is acting for the Victorian government in its wages stoush with public servants, for Baiada in the bitter dispute with its chicken meat workers, and against 1350 striking workers at the Pluto LNG project in Western Australia .
This week's silk appointments were not wildly promising for those hoping to see more gender equality in senior ranks of the bar, with just two women making the cut in Victoria: commercial expert Caroline Kirton and criminal lawyer Lesley Taylor.
But to be fair, only four women applied for silk, compared with 82 men. The other recipients were: Bill Stuart, Thomas Gyorffy, Daniel Masel, Michael O'Bryan, Martin Scott, Peter Kidd, Stephen O'Meara, James Gorton, Peter Gray, Matthew Collins, Stephen Donaghue and Michael Croucher.
The Australian Corporate Lawyers Association dished out its annual awards last night at Melbourne's Regent Theatre.
The corporate lawyer of the year was Specsavers' Srechko Kontelji, while the Australian Government Solicitor's Glenn Owbridge won government lawyer of the year.
Westpac's lawyers were recognised for "excellence in corporate social responsibility", while in-house lawyers at Thiess John Holland and Incitec Pivot won "legal team of the year" awards.
Still on awards nights, and the legal team behind the successful High Court challenge to the so-called Malaysia solution won special recognition at the Law Institute of Victoria's end-of-year bash at Zinc in Melbourne's Federation Square last Friday.
Pro bono lawyers from the Refugee Immigration Legal Centre, Victoria Bar and law firm Allens Arthur Robinson were given the LIV president's honorary award.
Among them was the centre's Robert Manne, barristers Debbie Mortimer, SC, and Richard Niall, SC, and Allens lawyers Malcolm Stephens, Claire Forster, Rebecca Kelton and Tom Prince.
After his much-maligned advice to the government over the failed Malaysia asylum seeker solution, Solicitor-General
But when he took the microphone last week he was in fine form. It was a great pleasure to be in Sydney and "a greater pleasure to be out of Canberra", he said.
As for the contentious topic: "I can tell you this is the least contentious issue I've been speaking on for quite some time," he said.
His topic was a technical one and he apologised for the absence of a helpful audio-visual presentation.
He had tried one in the recent Betfair case in the High Court, he said, adding: "Before I did that I did not have these grey sideburns. So never again will I attempt an audio visual presentation of any kind."
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"we shall have to share pipes, as good friends must at a pinch'....'I keep a treasure or two near my skin, as precious as rings to me. Here's one: my old wooden pipe. And here's another an unused one...He held up a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl, and handed it to Gimli. 'Does that settle the score between us', said Merry. 'Most noble hobbit, it leaves me deep in your debt."


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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Peter Thiel Launches Fellowship Program
Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, said this week that he has launched a fellowship program, which will grant cash worth $100,000 to 20 people under 20 years old. Thiel said his new Thiel Fellowship, is aimed at fostering the next generation of tech visionaries, and specifically is aimed at spurring the "most brilliant and promising young people" to not wait on their ideas. Thiel specifically said that that some of the "world's most transformational technologies" came from people who had quit school early, because they had ideas that couldn't wait until graduation, and that he was looking to encourage students to not stick around college but instead to launch their ventures immediately. Thiel said the foundation will start its fellowships beginning in 2011.


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Apr 26 2008
TobyMac is the real deal. TobyMac (aka Toby McKeehan) won 4 Dove awards this past Wednesday at the 39th Annual GMA Music Awards, including Artist of the Year. With over 8 million career CDs sold (including those with DC Talk) and multiple sold-out concerts, Toby is one the most successful Christian artists ever. His concerts …
Dec 13 2007
Forgive me if that sounds like a strange and rather unbecoming question from someone who is a major proponent of music and of praise. However, for many of us as worship leaders and pastors, it is a question that lurks in the back of our minds week in and week out. I have to admit …
Dec 07 2007
Author and teacher, Dwayne Moore, is the founder and president of Next Level Worship, a ministry that provides worship discipleship materials to worshipers and worship leaders. Dwayne has been leading and teaching worship for over 30 years. He is a frequent contributor to Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox. He has also been an instructor with WorshipLeader.com's …


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More Mummy Movies Coming
Bello confirms there will be sequels
Universal would probably prefer that Maria Bello hold off on talk of more films in the Mummy franchise until after the latest comes out, but the actress told MTV that there will be at least one more undead foe to be fought after The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
"I don't know when, but it's going," said the actress who replaces Rachel Weisz as Evelyn O'Connell and is signed for three more, if Universal chooses to make them. "[There will] absolutely be The Mummy 4".
We'd expect this to be dependent on the box office success of the latest movie, directed by Rob Cohen. But others on set, when we visited last year, were making indications that there could be further adventures after the third movie, which is going for quite a different direction than the previous films. Brendan Fraser suggested that there might be a set up to another sequel in another country.