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Costume Department
Our Costume Department has amassed its enormous collection into a highly efficient hiring facility. It is primarily geared at the wider arts community and is an ideal resource for professional theatre, amateur dramatics, opera, advertising, television, video, films or photographic shoots.
The costumes on offer range from both period and contemporary clothes, broken down/distressed items, military/uniforms, workwear, ecclesiastical wear and accessories. This stock was created by the Costume Department for a varied range of productions seen on our stages over many years. You should be able to find what you need for a full stage production.
Open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10am to 4.30pm by appointment only.
To make an appointment please call 01 87 97 310 or email email@example.com
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For directions,information on hiring and costume hire policy please click here.
For the full price list see here.
Please note we do not hire for fancy dress or parties. All hires are subject to VAT at 23%
Your Comments & Reviews
10 Comments
by Lisa O Sullivan, Co Waterford
17 Oct 2012 at 16:56pm
Hi there,
Just wondering if you rent props.
Our Drama club is staging a play based on a flying column in West Waterford and we're trying to source weapons, rifles revolvers etc suitable to the time.
Any help in this would be much appreciated
by Keith, Maynooth
16 Oct 2012 at 23:52pm
Does your stock include a Royal Marines dress uniform? For use at a costume party. Thanks. K.
by Cathal Cooney, Wicklow
16 Oct 2012 at 16:48pm
I am looking to hire a De La Salle brother's collar & suttan for a class reunion. Can you help?
by eveleen, dublin 12
16 Oct 2012 at 15:55pm
hi i would like to hire a 18th century dress light blue/ navy if possible? what would the cost be.
thank you Eveleen
by Rístéard Sinclair, Birmingham, UK
15 Feb 2012 at 14:00pm
Visited the abbey October last for a performance of 'Juno and the peacock'. Found the whole event one of utter magic and heartfelt tears. So different from the the 'stuffy' theatres of the UK. Would have no hesitation in recommending the Abbey to all.
Is mise le meas
Rístéard Sinclair
ps after the theatre try La zou mere for a an excellent and great value meal
by Chris Kelly, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
16 Dec 2011 at 11:51am
I am trying to source a soldiers uniform circa WW1 and was wondering if you would have anything appropriate.
by Karolina Schlagner, D-light Studios
20 Oct 2010 at 10:55am
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to hire 2 costumes/dresses for a business Halloween Party.
Could we please make an appointment with your Department?
Warm Regards,
Karolina Schlagner
by Chris Ibbotson, Athlone
18 Oct 2010 at 15:51pm
I am a member of the High Street Drama group and this years production is The Plough an the Stars which we shall stage mid Feb 11, we are looking to hire Peter,s "Foresters " costume, some replica lee -enfield rifles and flags of the plough and the stars and tricolour. Could you e-mail me on details please.
Slán Chris Ibbotson
by Sylwia Kaminska, Dublin
18 Oct 2010 at 14:47pm
Hi There,
I would like to make an appointment for tomorrow to see some costumes for hire.
Please advice what time I could see your woardrobe if possible.
Kind Regards
Sylwia Kaminska
087 054 93 89
by Marion Murphy, Co. Wicklow
22 Sep 2010 at 00:27am
My local drama group are performing a sam cree play "cupid wore skirts" in Oct, this play is set in the 6os, i am inquiring re costumes for hire from the Abbey.
thank you for your time,
Marion Murphy,
The Village Players,
Co. Wicklow.


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I read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and even went to a series of seminars years ago. What he teaches is how to be positive, treat people nicely and fairly and when you create good will - they will usually reciprocate. I agree with you that best practices in social media are the same fundamental rules Dale Carnegie teaches, but now we can reach many people at once, and everything happens almost instantaneously.
Thank you for this great blog. I have included it in Best of the Web so I can share with my audience.
Jul 23 Posted 5 years ago
8 wonderful things to live by in social media and everyday life!
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My Dad was born when Dale Carnegie printed his first edition of 'How to win friends and influence people.' He worked most of his life in sales and was at his most successful when he followed the book's guidance to the letter. My Dad first gave it to me to read at 14, and I have revisited 2 more times since then.
Your helpful blog Limor has saved ny going back for a 4th time to review it for the digital age. What you have proven is that the principles for successful social interaction that Dale Carnegie observed are as true today as they were when my Dad was born nearly 80 years ago. Thank you.
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I think simply put social media is a journey identicle in a way to your life journey. Much the same as you learn life skills you learn social media skills. What I mean by that is as we grow up and interact with different people and cultures and are put in various situtaions we learn and adapt with new skills. Much the same as your experiences in social media.
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Amen on this post Limon! The mediums may change, but the rules of human interaction remain the same. I am particularly attached to #3
"The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want. What do you want?"
At my company, TalentCircles, we have built our entire engagement platfrom around this philosophy. If you want value, you must first provide value.
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Great job. Everything you wrote makes a lot of sense. Thank you.
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Hi Kent, yes indeed Dale's book could be applied to many aspects of our lives.
I understand your point about needing to log-in to leave a comment on this forum, though in social media terms once you are "loged-in" you are now a part of a community, a hive, vs. just being a visitor, so your engagement level is higher and you are more involved.
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| June 29, 2017 - BEA Revises 1st Quarter 2017 GDP Growth Upward To 1.42%:
In their third and final estimate of the US GDP for the first quarter of 2017, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) revised the growth of the US economy upward to a +1.42% annual rate, up +0.26% from their previous estimate for the first quarter but still down over a half percent (-0.66%) from the +2.08% reported for the fourth quarter of 2016.
Weak consumer spending grew at a meager +0.75% annualized rate during the quarter, up +0.31 from the previous estimate but still down a significant -1.65% from the prior quarter. The previously reported inventory contraction worsened slightly to a -1.11% annual pace (a swing of -2.12% from the prior quarter). Although government spending was revised upward +0.04%, it still contracted during the quarter, removing -0.16% from the headline.
The good news continued to be commercial fixed investment, which although revised downward -0.14% is still now adding +1.71% to the headline. Foreign trade was also revised upward slightly (+0.09%) to a +0.23% contribution to the headline number, up some +2.05% from the prior quarter.
The BEA's "bottom line" (their "Real Final Sales of Domestic Product", which excludes the contracting inventories) was more than a full percent better than the headline at +2.53%, up +1.46% from the 1.07% rate recorded 4Q-2016.
Real annualized household disposable income was essentially unchanged at an annualized $39,360 (in 2009 dollars). The household savings rate was revised -0.1% lower to 5.1%.
For the fourth quarter the BEA assumed an effective annualized deflator of 1.94%. During the same quarter (January 2017 through March 2017) the inflation recorded by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in their CPI-U index was lower at 1.54%. Over estimating inflation results in pessimistic growth rates, and if the BEA's "nominal" data was deflated using CPI-U inflation information the headline growth number would have been somewhat higher at a +1.84% annualized growth rate.
Among the notable items in the report :
-- The headline contribution from consumer expenditures for goods was still a miniscule +0.11% growth rate (down -1.18% from the prior quarter).
-- The contribution to the headline from consumer spending on services strengthened as it was revised upward +0.27% to +0.64% (although that was down -0.47% from the prior quarter). The entirety of the increase came in upward revisions to the costs of healthcare and insurance (+0.38%). The combined consumer contribution to the headline number was +0.75%, down -1.65% from 4Q-2016.
-- The headline contribution from commercial private fixed investments was revised downward -0.14% to +1.71%, although that remained +1.25% higher than the prior quarter. That growth was primarily in non-residential construction.
-- Inventory contraction deducted -1.11% from the headline number, a downward revision of -0.04% from the previous estimate and down -2.12% from the prior quarter. It is important to remember that the BEA's inventory numbers are exceptionally noisy (and susceptible to significant distortions/anomalies caused by commodity price or currency swings) while ultimately representing a zero reverting (and long term essentially zero sum) series.
-- Governmental spending was still reported to be contracting, although at a revised lower annual rate (at -0.16%, down -0.19% from the prior quarter).
-- Exports were revised upward +0.13% to a +0.82% contribution to the headline, a +1.37% improvement from the prior quarter.
-- Imports were revised downward (-0.04%), and they subtracted -0.59% from the headline number (up +0.68% from the prior quarter). In aggregate, foreign trade added +0.23% to the headline number after subtracting -1.82% during the prior quarter.
-- The "real final sales of domestic product" grew at an annualized 2.53%, up +0.30% from the previous estimate and up +1.46% from the prior quarter. This is the BEA's "bottom line" measurement of the economy and it excludes the reported inventory contraction.
-- As mentioned above, real per-capita annual disposable income was essentially unchanged. At the same time the household savings rate was revised downward again by -0.1%. It is important to keep this line item in perspective: real per-capita annual disposable income is up only +7.32% in aggregate since the second quarter of 2008 -- a meager annualized +0.81% growth rate over the past 35 quarters.
The Numbers, As Revised
As a quick reminder, the classic definition of the GDP can be summarized with the following equation :
or, as it is commonly expressed in algebraic shorthand :
In the new report the values for that equation (total dollars, percentage of the total GDP, and contribution to the final percentage growth number) are as follows :
GDP Components Table
Quarterly Changes in % Contributions to GDP
Summary and Commentary
This revision boosts the headline growth about a quarter percent to +1.42% -- better but still tepid. The notable takeaways from this report are :
-- The largest upward revision was in consumer spending for healthcare and insurance.
-- The growth rate for consumer spending on goods remains anemic.
-- The inventory contraction worsened, possibly in anticipation of softer future consumer spending.
-- Foreign trade remained a bright spot and is not a drag on the headline number.
The US consumer may be spending more, but that increased spending is not on discretionary "life-style" goods. And as per usual, the Fed is once again projecting a return to "normalcy" in the form of 3% growth in future quarters -- with consumer spending leading the way. But if this past quarter's pattern persists those consumers may continue to face a toxic mix of stagnant disposable income, rising insurance costs and shrinking savings -- not exactly a formula for happy campers.
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As part of a look at the 20th Engineer Battalion in the wake of Nov. 5, 2009, I interviewed Casey Andrysiak, the wife of the commander and senior adviser to the battalion's family readiness group. The battalion was less than three months from deployment, and during the mass shooting, the battalion lost four soldiers and another 11 were injured.
This interview shows a behind-the-scenes look at how the family readiness group pulled together and supported the families during the tragedy. As an FRG volunteer myself, I tried to imagine what the days and weeks following Nov. 5 were like for those spouses, and I can't.
Casey shared more than I could include in the print edition of the story, so here are her emailed responses to my questions. I hope fellow volunteers can appreciate the dedication to soldiers and families this story tells.
Rose: It sounds like the community really responded to meet the needs of the battalion. I know you mentioned the assembly line, but what were some of the specific things you can remember? Items donated, or anything that caught your eye or really stood out to you?
Casey: Immediately after the event occurred, we were overwhelmed with family and friends of the fallen and wounded driving and/or flying to Fort Hood. The majority had immediately started travel upon hearing of the event — meaning, they had no time to package up food or clothes, find lodging, and/or grapple with the transportation requirements of a city outside the scope of the major hubs (DFW, San Antonio, Houston, etc.). As such, the immediate mission of our battalion was to coordinate the procurement and delivery of at least seven days of meals, lodging, clothing, transportation for the most dramatically impacted 11 families/extended families.
We put together a plan — short-term food products needed, clothing and hygienic necessities required, lodging, transportation. Lodging and transportation requirements were addressed outside of the Family Readiness Group, food, clothing and toiletry items fell to the FRG.
Short-term food requirements meant procurement and delivery of hot meals; long-term required procurement of gift cards to various area restaurants; clothing/toiletries required physical donations, gift cards, and monetary donations. We received, packaged and distributed warm meals for seven days to the 11 families; we received and distributed restaurant gift cards that met their needs for the following two to three weeks; we received enough monetary and retail cards to meet every single clothing, toiletry, etc. request for an approximate three-week period as well.
We asked and we received beyond anything we could have ever imagined.
Rose: Were you the FRG leader, or senior adviser? Had you ever dealt with anything on that level?
Casey: I was the FRG senior adviser; I had dealt with the injury and deaths of soldiers per my husband's previous deployments; however, nothing near the scale of need resulting from this incident. And, there are many processes, people, plans for combat related injuries and casualties. For an incident such as this? We had no precedent.
Rose: Were you surprised by the outpouring of support? Or how would you describe your emotions?
Casey: I was more than surprised; it was overwhelming — the donations were so extensive, they required hours of late-night detailed spreadsheet tracking to ensure that every dollar, every dish, every gesture was captured. And it's not as if this was a massive corporate marketing campaign led by a team of advertising experts. It was word of mouth, it was the forwarded email, it was the phone calls from friend to friend that drove the contributions. Not a single dollar was spent driving this effort. It was genuinely voluntary and generous beyond anyone's expectation.
Rose: It was a dark moment in Fort Hood's history, but was there anything about it that you are able to look back on and see positives? The good in people? The plans in place?
Casey: The requirement to immediately provide warm meals to approximately 100 people for multiple days required us to implement a food drop-off location where we then organized and packaged up food for immediate delivery. We organized this event for the Sunday immediately following. Around 2 p.m. in the afternoon, I stepped outside of the food delivery location and realized the line of cars and people positioned to drop off food had curved around multiple streets. I started walking through the line of cars and people thanking them, and started jotting down the organizations they represented. Within 30 minutes I had the following organizations noted: First United Methodist Church Killeen, Bush's Chicken - Harker Heights, the Patton Park mayoral team, Grace Lutheran Church and School, Grace United Methodist Church in Copperas Cove, the Henry T. Waskow High School in Belton, the San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind, the Previus Group - Salado, the Timber Ridge Elementary School in Killeen, Graphics Concepts in Killeen, the 36th Engineer Brigade, the 8th Engineer Battalion, the 62nd Engineer Battalion, the 2nd Engineer Battalion, 1-7 CAV, the 720th Military Police Battalion, the 41st Fires Brigade, the 2nd Squadron 3d ACR, and many, many friends and family ... all patiently waiting in line (on an overcast day) to donate warm food, to offer delivery assistance, to drop off gift cards. There was no question of loyalty to a specific military group or organization or loyalty to a specific religion or political group or loyalty to a specific ethnicity or gender or lifestyle. Everyone cared for all, everyone contributed to all.
Rose: Do you still volunteer for FRG and do you use any lessons learned from then in your volunteer work today?
Casey: I'm the senior adviser for the 2nd Engineer Brigade FRG. I'm an adviser for the Fort Richardson Spouses Club. I'm the yearbook editor for my children's elementary school. I write a column for the Army Engineer magazine. And when I come in contact with people or groups as part of these positions, I remember the compassion showed to the 20th Engineer Battalion and I'm reminded of the importance of being patient, humble and generous.


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Plaid parliamentary leader Elfyn Llwyd said new powers for the Welsh assembly meant there was a need for Plaid peers.
Mr Llwyd told the Plaid conference in Llandudno peers were required to ensure planned legislation for Wales was not blocked at Westminster.
It is the first Plaid conference since the party entered into government in coalition with Labour in the assembly.
Party leader Ieuan Wyn Jones had warned his party ahead of the conference that it could not live in the "luxury of opposition".
The new Government of Wales Act 2006 allows the Welsh assembly to make its own laws in key devolved areas once permission has been granted by Parliament.
Mr Llwyd believes that many in the House of Lords will not be keen on rubber-stamping such permission, known as Orders in Council.
He told the conference: "We therefore need to have hard-working members of the House of Lords who will be able to ensure that not just our views are reflected, but the views of the people of Wales are properly reflected, and that these Orders in Council are not blocked".
Mr Llwyd called for an urgent review of the policy and the conference is expected to endorse this review in a closed internal session later this afternoon.
Dafydd Elis Thomas, the Plaid Dwyfor Meirionnydd AM and presiding officer of the assembly, is a peer, although he sits as a cross-bencher.
Meanwhile, Plaid added its voice to the campaign for a referendum on the new European Union reform treaty.
Delegates unanimously backed an emergency motion calling for a referendum on the treaty when it is finalised by EU leaders, and the party's national council will decide which side Plaid would back.
Jill Evans, the party's sole MEP, who proposed the motion on behalf of the party's national executive told delegates that opt-out agreed by the UK on the Charter of Fundamental Rights meant that British citizens would have fewer rights "especially workers' rights, than the rest of the EU".
On its opening day the conference was also discussing potentially contentious issues on women-only candidate selection and its opposition to nuclear power stations.
A number of branches from across Wales have asked for the policy to be changed of placing women at the top of regional lists in the Welsh assembly election.
There has been resentment among some grassroots members that strong male candidates such as former party leader Dafydd Wigley were not in a position to be elected to Cardiff Bay last May.
The nuclear issue is potentially problematic for the party leadership, since Mr Jones supports in principle a possible replacement station to the one at Wylfa in his own constituency, Ynys Mon.
Otherwise, a planned landmark speech by Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones has had to be shelved.
Ms Jones had been due to address the conference on Thursday afternoon and would have been the first minister from Plaid to do so. Following the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak, she remained with her departmental team in Cardiff.
Ieuan Wyn Jones will address delegates on Friday, when he is expected to deliver a rallying call for the party to concentrate all its efforts to make a real difference in government.
Mr Jones is also expected to make a thinly veiled criticism of the party's existing policy not to send any representatives to the House of Lords.
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[THIS POST HAS BEEN REVISED TO CORRECT AN ERROR. Bedrock Pictures is not necessarily making all three of the films in question. But the screenwriter, Jeff Stockwell, is attached to all three projects.] Bedrock Pictures plans to make a movie of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time, from a script by Jeff Stockwell.And my, my... Stockwell's a busy guy.He's also working on adaptations of Kate DiCamillo's The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery … [Read more...]
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On the day that Mr Swan suggested Mr Palmer faced the prospect of a "humiliating backdown" if he didn't nominate as a Liberal National Party candidate for the seat of Lilley – as he had promised last month – a big yellow billboard of Mr Palmer appeared in Virginia.
The first billboard showed the portly businessman giving a double-thumbs up and the words: "Together we can achieve the extraordinary."
Another sign showed a picture of Mr Swan next to the slogan, "Don't let Wayne's carbon tax take your job."
"We've certainly put our money where our mouth is," Mr Palmer told The Australian Financial Review.
Mr Palmer said he planned to spend tens of thousands of dollars on half a dozen billboards in Lilley, with one opposite Mr Swan's office.
"I want him to see this every morning when he goes to work so he can assure himself that I won't nominate," he said. Nominations for LNP candidates have not yet opened, but Mr Palmer said he was confident he would be able to win over the local branch members to pick him as a candidate.
Mr Swan, who has a 3 per cent margin, tweeted that Mr Palmer's first appearance in Lilley was "literally a sign".
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Times' Super 7
1. Armwood (1-0)
In a re-loading sense, Hawks are Hillsborough County's version of Alabama.
2. Plant (1-0)
Unlike past years, Panthers defense will carry torch 'til offense catches up.
3. Robinson (1-0)
Truth be told, Knights probably should've scored even more against Jefferson
4. Sickles (1-0)
We see no glaring holes in the Gryphons' lineup. None.
5. Tampa Bay Tech (1-0)
Anyone who beats Newsome by three TDs gets our respect reallll quick.
6. Hillsborough (1-0)
We expect Terriers to go to the East Coast next week and give Cocoa a game
7. Jesuit (0-1)
Tigers' defense -- defense, mind you -- played well enough to defeat Plant
In the conversation: Berkeley Prep (1-0), Durant (1-0), East Bay (1-0)
Debut of the week
Riverview's 24-17 victory Saturday against Spoto under new coach Mike Thornton was the program's first on-field triumph against a team not named Leto since Nov. 6, 2009.
Other first-year coaches winning Saturday:
Darryl Gordon, Blake (37-6 at Leto)
John Kelly, Strawberry Crest (21-7 vs. Plant City)
D.J. Mayo, Chamberlain (27-13 at Bloomingdale)
Breakout players
Berkeley Prep senior TB Chris Williams, the every-down heir to Nelson Agholor, ran for 158 yards and two TDs in a 28-6 win against Winter Park Trinity Prep. The yardage total was 40 percent of what he ran for (402) in all of 2011.
Counting the preseason win against Gaither (which may as well have counted), Sickles sophomore TB Ray Ray McCloud has 274 yards in his team's two contests.
Record watch
Yards needed by Carrollwood Day senior Robert Davis to become Hillsborough County's alltime rushing king. Davis opened his 2012 season with 136 yards (and two TDs) on 11 carries in the Patriots' 42-7 rout of Imagine School of North Port.
Hot Reads
* Gaither's 24-21 win against Alonso was the Cowboys' first triumph in a season opener since 2006
* The 43 points East Bay put up against Lennard were the most scored by the Indians in a regular season game since Oct. 23, 2009
* Dating to last season, Chamberlain senior TB Xavier Johnson now has six consecutive 100-yard rushing games
Three thoughts on next week
* We wouldn't be shocked in the least if Armwood's defense notched its ninth shutout in its last 11 regular season games against reigning Class 3A state champ American Heritage
* If Carrollwood Day can put half a hundred on Keswick Christian, the Patriots will. They're bitter about last year's three-point loss to the Crusaders, for various reasons.
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When we make predictions, we form ideas about the future based on what we've already seen or done. Preschool children are beginning to notice patterns, sequences, and other connections that help them guess what to expect from spoken and written language. You can involve older preschoolers in making predictions when you read them a book that they haven't heard before (see Illinois Early Learning and Development Benchmarks 2.A.ECa Engage in book-sharing experiences with purpose and understanding., 2.B.ECa With teacher assistance, ask and answer questions about books read aloud. View sample lesson plan, 2.C.ECa Interact with a variety of types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems, rhymes, songs)., 2.D.ECa With teacher assistance, discuss illustrations in books and make personal connections to the pictures and story., and 5.B.ECc With teacher assistance, use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to narrate a single event and provide a reaction to what happened.).
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The 'Smile' hitmaker goes topless for May edition of Harper's Bazaar Australia, with the image displaying her naked from the waist up.
British singer Lily Allen is set to cause a storm Down Under - she will appear topless on the front cover of Harper's Bazaar Australia. The "Smile" hitmaker, who is winding down her pop career to launch her own designer clothes hire store and record label, will grace the sleeve of the magazine's May edition.
The image shows her naked from the waist up, with one arm covering the right side of her chest but with her left breast clearly on show. But magazine bosses have cleverly avoided any potential fallout from the risque cover - the image is a painting based on a photo from Allen's topless shoot for Harper's Bazaar Russia in January.
Back in July 2009, Lily Allen posed topless for ID magazine. Outside the photo studio, the singer also has often snapped topless. During her Caribbean holiday in December 2008, she was snapped topless while sunbathing on the beach and she previously did the same thing on her France vacation the same year.
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These Lemonade Cookies take an ordinary cake mix and kick it up a notch with all sorts of lemon – and keep reading for a giveaway from Kizmos!
I'm so excited to share these cookies with you today . Since the arrival of our son, I haven't been able to do as much baking as I would like (which I knew would probably happen), so when I do have an opportunity I need something that won't leave me in the kitchen for too long. These Lemonade Cookies are so easy and simple to make – I was able to sneak away to make them while my husband was on baby duty!
If you can follow the instructions on the back of a cake mix box, I guarantee you'll be able to make these cookies.
My favorite part of these cookies is the glaze that gets drizzled on them soon after they come out of the oven. It makes them almost into little pieces of cake – SO good!
Lemonade Cookies1 pkg. lemon cake mix 1/3 cup vegetable oil 2 eggs 1 tbsp. lemonade 1 cup powdered sugar 2 tbsp. lemonade 1 tsp. lemon zest
For cookies
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl, mix together the cake mix, oil, eggs, and 1 tablespoon of lemonade. The dough will be sticky.
2. Drop dough in 1 inch balls onto a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper.
3. Bake for 10-12 minutes.
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 2, No. 335. Monday, 23 Dec 1991.
Subject: Stratford (Ontario) Festival - 1992
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 91 14:44:15 EST
Thought I'd distill the stack of press releases I've accumulated from
the Stratford (Ontario) Festival in the past month, regarding their
40th Season, 1992. (Those not likely to travel to Ontario for
Shakespeare can stop reading any time).
On December 7th, Stratford announced a deficit of $1,351,271 for the
1991 season, perhaps because of a 5% decline in attendance from 1990.
The Festival also announced that the search for an Artistic Director to
replace David William for 1994-7 has begun. Most disturbing of all,
because of the "continuing difficult economic climate" Stratford has
cut the playbill from 14 to 11 productions for 1992, shortened the
Avon Theatre's season by a further two weeks, cut the acting company
from 105 to 90, and is planning to "rigorously monitor" budgets for
next year.
On December 11th, David William announced the particulars of the 1992
playbill. *The Tempest* will open June 1st, directed by David William
and starring Edward Atienza (Trinculo), William Needles (Alonso),
Nicholas Pennell (Stephano), Claire Rankin (Miranda), Alan Scarfe
(Prospero), and Mervyn Blake (Gonzalo). I'd expect strong comic
performances from Atienza, Needles, Pennell, and Blake (all
established veterans of the Festival), particularly considering
William's demonstrated talents for directing comedy (in *The
Shoemaker's Holiday* two years ago). Hopefully the production, to be
designed by Susan Benson, will not be as dull as the *Hamlet* William
directed this past season.
*Romeo and Juliet* will open June 3rd, and will be directed by Richard
Monette and designed by Debra Hanson. (This sounds like a winning
combination already!) The production will star Barbara Bryne (Nurse),
Antoni Cimolino (Romeo), Colm Feore (Mercutio), and Bernard Hopkins
(Friar Lawrence). Monette has directed a string of first-class hits
in recent years, including *The Comedy of Errors* and *As You Like
It*, the former broadcast by CBC and the latter in production as a
major motion picture. Bryne and Feore's abilities speak for
themselves. This is going to be a must-see, I suspect.
*Love's Labour's Lost* will open June 5th. It will be directed by
Marti Maraden, and will star Peter Donaldson (Armado), Colm Feore
(Berowne), Lucy Peacock (Princess), Douglas Rain (Holofernes), and
William Needles (Nathaniel). Maraden has recently demonstrated her
abilities directing Canadian and British contemporary playwrights
(David Storey's *Home* in 1990, Michel Tremblay's *Les Belles Soeurs*
and Elliott Hayes' *Homeward Bound* in 1991) and should do better at
*LLL* than Hopkins did several years ago. The cast is strong and I have
high hopes that Stratford will be able to pull off a good production of
this play at long last.
*Measure for Measure* will open mid-season, on August 14th, directed
by Michael Langham and designed by Desmond Heeley. It will star Brian
Bedford (Duke Vincentio), Antoni Cimolino (Claudio), Colm Feore
(Angelo), Nicholas Pennell (Lucio), Peter Donaldson (Abhorson),
Bernard Hopkins (Pompey), Brian Tree (Elbow), and Susan Wright
(Mistress Overdone). This looks like it has the potential to be a
very strong production too: I look forward in particular to the
performances of Feore and Pennell.
Marti Maraden has been appointed Director of the Young Company for
1992, a position which Bernard Hopkins held with reluctance this season.
*The Two Gentlemen of Verona* will open August 2nd at the Tom
Patterson Theatre (formerly the Third Stage), directed by Maraden and
designed by Debra Hanson. The members of the 1992 Young Company will
appear in *The Tempest* and *Romeo and Juliet* early in the season,
and in larger roles in *The Two Gentlemen* at mid-season.
David William has also continued his quest for younger audiences.
Stratford's "Family Experience" discount tickets will apply to 154
performances in 1992, expanded from 65 in 1991, offering children's
tickets (18 and under) for $13.50 when accompanied by a paying adult.
(Limit two children's tickets per adult.) Furthermore, Stratford has
announced a new "Under Thirty Theatre Club" for those 29 and under.
For a $25 entrance fee, members will receive ten discount coupons for
50% off tickets for any Tuesday evening or Sunday evening performances.
1992 looks like a promising season for Stratford, and I'll try to keep
you posted as news comes in.
Ken Steele
University of Toronto


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Life changed two weeks ago on an average Tuesday. I was getting ready for work and saw a tragic accident on the news. I continued my morning ritual until I later discovered that the motorist in that accident was my friend, Susan, a fellow mom in my son's grade at school and, quite simply, a rare and remarkable woman. We bonded over shared curly hair and her one-time career in PR. Her smile is engaging and enticing and every time I run into her, I am left wanting more. Today, Susan remains in the hospital where she will likely be for quite some time, recovering from numerous operations and injuries. It will be a long journey, but one that anyone who knows the extraordinary Susan, knows she can make.
What has transpired since Susan's accident has also been nothing short of extraordinary. I – and others – remembered the original (read pre-Internet) definition of the word "community."
When you google "community," the first two results, oddly enough, refer to an American television comedy series that premiered in September of 2009 on NBC. Wikipedia's definition comes in third, defining the word twice. First, referencing "a social unit larger than a small village that shares common values," then, a bit later a rather sterile evolution: "Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community has less geographical limitation, as people can now gather virtually in an online community and share common interests regardless of physical location. Prior to the internet, virtual communities (like social or academic organizations) were far more limited by the constraints of available communication and transportation technologies."
In today's world the word "community" usually refers to a virtual group of people who never actually meet, but who are connected by some commonality – say, their excitement for the next Twilight movie. Companies pay (very) good money to build communities around their products and one wrong marketing move can easily destroy the community faster than you can say "scandal." In recent weeks, I've been wondering: has technology stretched the definition so far that we forgot what it means to be part of an actual and physical community where we need an actual life occurance to jolt us back to the buried definition: "A community is a group or society helping each other."
We see examples of it everywhere, most recently in the wake of Hurricane Sandy – families coming together to search for lost family photo, strangers opening their homes to share a generator, hot meal, or working outlet. Just ask the folks in our temporary makeshift "Edelman Brooklyn" office.
In Susan's case, news of the accident traveled swiftly among her countless friends – both inside and outside the school. Disparate and desparate, all quickly united by one oveririding calling: we all wanted to help. Within a day of the accident, the 'moms' swarmed in: sharing what we knew and how we might help. A few days later, I received an email from someone I had never met, inviting me to join Mealtrain.com, a free site designed to help organize the age-old tradition of the community coming together to bring meals to a family in times of need. I found great comfort in knowing that the virtual world is actually helping those of us in the real world come together. By the time I opened the email later that day, all the meal slots were already full for the month, though I'm hopeful one will open up come next month. The meal train had left the proverbial station and I was left wondering what I could do.
That's when I decided to write this post, spread the news about Mealtrain.com and share my rediscovery of my own community. Each evening, the woman's husband, who happens to be a professional TV writer (this is LA, after all) writes the most touching and exquisite updates on her condition. Like everyone else who reads them before sleep, I smile, cry, learn more about Susan, examine my own life and, most importantly, am hopeful. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about Susan and all she represents in our community. Some days, there isn't an hour.
I am comforted by the fact that I now believe that should anything happen to me, the community will jump in and see that my boys are well-fed and well-loved. I can't wait until Susan sees the community she has inspired. It is quite remarkable, just like her.
Gail Becker is chair of Canada, Latin America and U.S. Western Region


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TRURO - An SUV and pickup truck collided at the Pleasant and Arthur streets intersection at about 10:20 a.m. Monday.
The initial collision resulted in the vehicles then pushing into a car.
Emergency services responded, however, there were only minor injuries and no one was taken to hospital. Police are continuing to investigate. Drugs and alcohol are not suspected.


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Options expiration. When you sell options, it's an anticipated event. When you own options, it's something to dread. At least that's how most people view expiration day.
If you trade options, there are things you must know, and steps you should take, to avoid any unpleasant surprises on the third Friday of each month. (True expiration is the following morning, but for our purposes here, that is just a technicality.)
I'm going to provide you with some pointers for handling options expiration day.
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Be AfraidBy Jonathan Wilson
The political fear of soccer; how to shame a pathological diver.
As Americans continue to watch the World Cup in their accumulating millions, the denizens of the political right are running scared. Ann Coulter, whose bark is worse than Suárez's bite—and whose delusions match José Mujica's, the President of Uruguay, who referred to FIFA's punishment of his country's star as a "fascist ban"—weighed in a few days ago with a column listing the myriad ways in which soccer is un-American. It would be hard to find someone who knows less about soccer than Ann Coulter, but as Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel would say, that's nit-picking, isn't it? So: soccer doesn't reward "individual achievement." It's "foreign," meaning French people, liberals, and fans of HBO's Girls like it. And, perhaps worst of all, it's wussy: the "prospect of personal humiliation or major injury" essential to receiving the Coulter seal of approval as a real sport, like hockey or American football, is apparently missing in soccer.
Peter Beinart, writing in the Atlantic, has an interesting take on Coulter's silliness: She's right to be scared of the World Cup. Why? Because its burgeoning devotees look a lot like the people who elected Obama—first generation immigrants and their children, Hispanics, young people, and, yeah, liberals, who like soccer because they get to play with rest of the world instead of apart from it. Ann the Fan prefers it when Americans aren't contaminated this way; better just to have a little local competition and call it the World Series.
Fans of Team USA have bought more tickets than any group outside the host country to this year's tournament. And there they are in the stands, whooping it up, win or lose—reveling, it seems, in being part of a truly international party. Will the enthusiasm last? The test will come, possibly as early as tomorrow, if the U.S. loses. Will the nation switch off? I don't think so. Read More


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Chris O'Brien Shanahan
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Chris O'Brien Shanahan has been creating visual art works since graduating from art college in 1985. The work is inspired by our natural environment and changing seasons.
Boundary lines that separate, link, divide, protect or connect people and places are central themes in my work. Since childhood I have thought of hedges as remnants of ancient forests; as pathways - sheltering wildlife and connecting tracts of woodlands. They reveal glimpses of places to explore - between and beyond. The changing colours of nature and their impact on our subconscious are important.
Within our creativity the boundary lines connect 'between' or 'around' individual and collective cultural identities; offering glimpses of other states of being, perceptions and ways of seeing.
Facilitated creative workshops, installation and collaborative work reflect the ethos of the 'slow movement' - supporting creativity, valuing local cultural and natural heritage and exploring new ways of promoting natural and sustainable development. Christine exhibits with 20ten.
NEMUS: Sacred Grove -
Art Exhibition of new work by 20ten & guest artists John O'Regan, Magda Karol and Beata Zakrzewska, is supported by Waterford City Council.
Official opening by special guest Ben Hennessy at 5.30pm on Thursday 9th October. Part of Waterford Imagine Arts Festival
Culture Night 19th September, 2014
SCG Studio Artists open their space to the public from 6 to 8 pm. Drop in and see what the SCG artists are working on, discuss their work, etc at 6 & 19 Lombard Street, Waterford
New Studio
19 Lombard Street as part of SCG - Soma Contemporary Gallery
Visual Artists Get-Together at SCG:
Calling all visual artists in the South East ...
VAI Get Together 2014 Friday, 23rd May 2014 in The Irish Museum of Modern Art – IMMA
Visual Artists Ireland, VAI, national day of coming together with talks, clinics, presentations, information sharing, and a chance to catch up with our fellow artists. Visual Artists in Local Areas: This session will look at ways of connecting artists to one another and supporting them in their locality. Invited speakers including artists Linda Shevlin, Christine O'Brien Shanahan, Lisa Fingleton and curator Hollie Kearns, will talk about creating networks of local partners and stakeholders and experiences of working in rural settings. This will be followed by a discussion on approaches taken to developing collaborations, as well as mentoring and mobilizing artists in local communities.
Three month artist residency at SOMA Contemporary Gallery Waterford
February 2014 : Worked on art installation as part of the continuing weave series of works, and delighted to have to space to work with materials grown and harvested from our own garden. The installation is inspired by a 2012 painting 'nine nests' which was created in response to National Bealtaine Festival question: 'What kind of old do you want to be?'
CREATIVE Workshops :
Beginners painting workshops designed to guide participants through the creative process. The classes are designed for beginners and experienced enthusiasts alike. Current series will run until the end of May - visitors always welcome... more info ->
Slow Art Day - Greyfriars Municipal Art Gallery, Waterford
This year's annual Slow Art Day took place on April 12th from 11am to 2 pm. This global event is run by volunteers. The aim is to facilitate engagement with art in a new way - 'if you look slowly, your experience will be transformed.' Over 160 galleries around the world have signed up so far over.
|Moving On, pen on paper, 2013 | Waiting, pen on paper, 2013 | Origin, oil on canvas, 2012 | the same But Different, installation, 2012 | Evening Light, oil on canvas, 2011 | winter solstice, photographic print, '07
|© Chris O'Brien Shanahan 2006- 2014, all images, paintings, photographs © Christine O'Brien Shanahan


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Mere alluding to the walkout was sure to get a strong response from the suburban Republican crowd, and it did, said one attendee.
But her fans would have none of it, and demonstrated a walkout on the once liberal singer.
As 25,000 public-school teachers stage a walkout in Chicago, Emanuel is facing the first major trauma of his mayorship.
The office of Ted Cruz, who's led the unprecedented witch-hunt against Hagel, hadn't even heard of the walkout threat.
From some perspectives, the walkout borders on the irrational.
I'm going to fall down flat on my identification and give you a walkout.
He related that a gang of workers had come to him with certain complaints and the threat of a walkout.
This was due largely to the walkout of the railroad men employed in the mill yards, who acted on their own volition.
However, the impression still prevails that a few days will see an end of the walkout.
A strike: There's a walkout at the supermarkets right now (late 1880s+ Labor union)


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Our Lord Jesus Is With You - Poem by Alon Calinao Dy
You may be alone in this world
With no friends around you
'Cause every word you say is true,
Our Lord Jesus is with you.
You may feel abandon by your loved ones-
Family, relatives, and friends.
Put all your trust to our Lord Jesus,
He will guide you throughout your sorrows.
You may be judged by your enemies
With their bitterness and tilted lies.
Have faith in Jesus and be merciful,
God Himself will reveal the truth for all.
Even in your days of success, happiness,
Anger, loneliness, frustration, weariness...
Our Lord Jesus is with you always.
He loves you as His precious ones.
Somewhere down the endless line
In which they called 'Eternal Life, '
Jesus will reward you in Heaven
And no more sufferings and pain.
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Assistant Professor of Economics
Whittemore School of Business and Economics
"Reagan's direct-care research is pioneering."
We've all heard about the nursing shortage, but little attention has been paid to the direct-care workforce, which is critical to the care of an aging American population.
Direct-care jobs—nursing aide, home health aide, and personal/home care aide—are now among the nation's fastest growing occupations with demand for workers projected to increase until at least 2012. But these jobs are poorly paid and high turnover lowers the quality of patient care.
Reagan Baughman has brought her expertise in labor economics and health policy to bear on this subject. In a recent article published in the Monthly Labor Review, Baughman and UNH Carsey Institute family demographer Kristin Smith show that turnover in this profession is 40 percent a year and that high turnover is associated with low wages. In a related study, they identify a public policy that appears to boost wages: Medicaid wage "pass-throughs."
Baughman earned her doctorate in economics with a focus on both labor economics and public finance. Subsequently, as a research fellow in health policy research with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Baughman set the stage for a policy-oriented career. Within economics, her reputation is growing with a strong list of publications that include papers in the Journal of Health Economics and National Tax Journal.
At UNH, this sought-after professor teaches both undergraduates and graduates. Her favorite course is Labor Economics. "We talk about families, taxes, income inequality, and health care—real-life economic issues," says Baughman.
She also resurrected the honor society in economics and runs the graduate seminar. Her philosophy is simply to "try and make the world a bit better." It's a modest approach that has yielded significant results.
"Reagan's direct-care research is pioneering. She has raised our research profile," says Karen Conway, professor of economics. "She is everything you could hope for in a colleague, and more."
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Megan Fox: "I Could Never" Have Kids With A Friend
Posted Monday March 12, 2012 10:17 PM GMT
Talking about her recent film "Friends With Kids" - which follows two best friends who decide to have a child together to avoid the toll kids can take on romantic relationships - Fox admits to CBS News that raising a child with a friend wouldn't be for her. "I could never do it, I could never pull it off. But maybe some people could get away with it and be happy with the results. I just...I worry about it," she told. Check out the trailer for "Friends With Kids," which hit theaters Friday (March 9).
Grabbing a bite to eat, Megan Fox was spotted at a local bagel shop in Los Angeles on Monday (March 12).
Walking out of the store carrying a FiJi water bottle, the "Transformers" bombshell kept warm in a flannel top, green jacket and bright pink winter boots under yoga pants.
Enjoy the photos of Megan Fox stopping at a bagel shop in Los Angeles, California (March 12).
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065: "Rival
Showdown! The Orchid
Now that they're back in Masara Town, Satoshi and his friends head to Orchid-Hakase's lab to learn more about the Pokemon League. There, the professor tells Satoshi and Shigeru that the two of them are the only Trainers out of the four who left that day to return to Masara Town with eight badges or more. He also tells them that the Pokemon League will be held in the Sekiei Plateau two months from now. He evaluates both their Pokemon Zukan and finds that while Satoshi's seen more types of pokemon Shigeru's actually captured more. Elsewhere, Musashi, Kojirou, and Nyasu are returning to the Rocket-Dan headquarters when they see the building exploding and Mewtwo flying away. When they approach the wreckage they find Sakaki crawling into this helicopter, ready to make a run for it. Before he leaves, however, he tells the trio they're free to do whatever they want. Back at the lab, Satoshi and the others are given a tour of the campus. They get a look at the storage room where Orchid-Hakase keeps all the Monster Balls sent to him and the fields where he observes the pokemon in the wild. The Rocket trio attack Satoshi and the others but luckily for our heroes Satoshi's Kentauros stampede past at just the right moment to send the villains blasting off. Later, Shigeru leaves the ranch after telling Satoshi that the two of them will meet again at the Pokemon League. Only two months left before the big tournament!
This is a very unusual episode of Pocket Monsters in that nothing happens in it at all and yet a ton of stuff happens at the same time.
This episode does not have a plot. Orchid-Hakase drops some important exposition - when and where the Pokemon League is (which, at least during Kanto, is simply referred to as the "Pokemon League" instead of, say, the Sekiei League), what happened to the other two Trainers who left Masara Town the same time Satoshi and Shigeru did, what the rivals' Pokemon Zukan look like - but then after that it's just a montage of random scenes. Here's Orchid-Hakase showing Satoshi and Shigeru around the ranch they've probably visited a hundred times before, just because! And now here's the Rocket-Dan getting attacked by pokemon, one after the other! Oh wait, did we waste too much time dicking around to give this episode a proper conclusion? Alright, let's just have Satoshi's Kentaros stampede through the area and be done with it.
If it wasn't for the Pokemon Shock incident then this episode would have probably aired on June 30th, 1998, several weeks before Mewtwo Strikes Back was scheduled to hit theaters. But since the show went on a four month hiatus this episode didn't end up airing until October. So much for that!
I guess this is also the TV show's idea of wrapping up the Rocket-Dan? I mean obviously in the games Red is the one to defeat Sakaki and cause the organization to disband but in the TV show they opted to have Mewtwo presumably kill everyone in the headquarters (That's what we're supposed to assume, right? There's no way anyone else survived that explosion), leaving only Sakaki and the Rocket trio. I don't know if the producers of the TV series would have necessarily known about the pokemon mafia returning to Gold & Silver at the time this episode was written (late 1997 / early 1998) so their decision to not write the organization out of the show most likely had to do with the Rocket trio's popularity at the time. On a related note, are we supposed to assume that the Rocket-Dan's headquarters is near Masara Town? Its location in relation to everywhere else in this show is kind of vague but that's the feeling it seems like we're supposed to have.
If people had been keeping up with the Japanese version back in 1998 they probably would have wondered how the dub was going to handle the massive plot hole caused by them skipping the gun episode where Ash caught all those Tauros. Well the answer is that they don't even try to explain anything and hope we don't notice (BTW, this is something they'll do again a few years later). It's just "Oh, all of a sudden Ash has 30 Tauros. OK." This is also the second episode in as many weeks where there's a typo on the episode's title screen, so LOL.
The Kentauros keep their Japanese voices.
Dialogue Edit
There aren't any cuts or paint edits in this one but holy crap the script for this episode more than makes up for that. I don't know who was in charge of this one (the credits just have a long list of names under a generic "Adaptations by" credit) but they sure seemed to enjoy taking the original script and going "nah, I can do better."
Ash comes downstairs for breakfast (Which is apparently some kind of stew? Do people eat stew for breakfast?):
Delia: "When Mr. Mime sees something dirty, he has to clean it. Right Mimey?"
Mr. Mime: "Mr. Mime."
Misty: "Maybe now you can go another week without taking a bath."
Originally Satoshi's mother defended Bari-chan, saying that it only wanted to make Satoshi nice and clean. Kasumi then tells Satoshi that having his face sucked on by a vaccuum cleaner at least saves him the trouble of having to wash his face himself (よかったじゃない、顔を洗う手間が省けて).
Also, Delia refers to Mimey as a "he" even though the Japanese version doesn't.
A few lines later:
Delia: "Oh, Mimey, would you go and pick some more vegetables from the garden, please?"
Ash: "Hey, that used to be my job."
Satoshi's mom asks for herbs instead of generic vegetables, but also Satoshi's response is "Well, isn't (Bari-chan) a little suck-up?" (ちっ、調子いいヤツ).
The Rocket trio:
So yeah! Lots of
little differences here. 4Kids brings the yuks with their
brilliant "C.F.S." thing (Does anyone actually enjoy hokey lines like
this?) before having the Team Rocket trio quit the
organization. Which of course is an incredibly out-of-character
thing for them to do.
Giovanni's about to get on
the helicopter:
Jessie: "But, sir, is there anything we can do for you?"
Giovanni: "Just do your job for a change!"
Jessie: "I'm sorry I asked."
Sakaki's order in the Japanese version is to "Do what you see fit, just like you've been doing up until now" (今までどおり、適当にやっていろ!).
After he leaves:
Jessie: "You just heard what the Boss said, didn't you?"
James: "He just wants us to do our job."
Meowth: "The head honcho just gave us a major vote of confidence."
Musashi's and Kojirou's lines in the Japanese version have them doing a variation of the opening lines of their motto: "If we're asked to do things just like we've been doing up until now."" (今までどーりと言われたら) / "It's thanks to the world that we're not getting the axe" (クビじゃないのが世の情け). Nyasu then responds "That means we can stay in the Rocket-Dan Nya?" (ニャーたちはまだロケット団やってっていいニャ?).
I suppose 4Kids "translation" of the Rocket-Dan's motto doesn't really lend itself to the rewrite that this scene calls for ("Prepare for...doing our job?") so I guess it's understandable that they didn't even try to recreate this cute little moment for the dub. Still a shame, though.
Music Edit
This one's so strange.
So after the above exchange, the Rocket trio stands with their heads held high, ready to start fresh. At this point the opening notes of Rocket-Dan yo Eien ni start to play in the background. It's only the first ten seconds or so of the song and so it cuts away before any of the song's vocals kick in. The song's completely safe, from a localization point of view.
The dub decides to do away with that and play a shortened version of the Rocket-Dan's motto theme instead. Not the one that they created for the First Movie, mind you; the one created by Miyazaki Shinji for the Japanese version of the TV series.
In other words, 4Kids swapped out one piece of Japanese instrumental music for another.
One of the most common theories as to why the dub even bothers to replace the Japanese music in the first place is so 4Kids / TPCI can charge royalties for the new stuff whenever it's used in any of the non-English dubs of the show. But replacing one piece of Japanese music (which 4Kids does not own) for another piece of Japanese music (which 4Kids also does not own) doesn't allow them to do that. From a financial point of view the change here is completely pointless.
Another theory is "well, we think our music is better" but, again, this isn't "our" music. It's Japan's music.
Maybe the rights to Rocket-Dan yo Eien ni were too expensive / weren't free since it's a vocal song and those tend to be handled differently (yes, that includes the instrumental versions)? But then they used the song in "Go West, Young Meowth" five episodes later (and also in the Purin episode from last season) which tells me that using the song isn't that prohibitively expensive.
So that leaves...we think this Team Rocket song is better than this Team Rocket song? We like change for the sake of change?
Dialogue Edit
The scene inside Oak's lab is basically one big rewrite after the other.
First up:
Oak: "Alright, calm down you two. Why can't Pallet's two top Pokémon Trainers get along?"
Gary and Ash: "Top Trainer!? Not him!"
Oak: "That's right. You're both such fine Trainers that you'll be Pokémon Masters before long. You might even be able to learn from each other."
Gary and Ash: "Hmph!"
Orchid-Hakase calls the two of them "our stars of hope" which is kind of the same as "top Trainer," I guess, but it still feels a little different. Oak's "You might even be able to learn from each other," however, is pure 4Kids; originally Orchid-Hakase just says he's happy that the two of them have so much potential.
Oak: "Here's your Krabby, Ash."
Ash: "How ya doin', Krabby? Long time no see."
Gary: "That's his, huh? Ha!"
Orchid-Hakase doesn't explicitly state that this Crab is Satoshi's; Shigeru is left to figure that out on his own. Shigeru's line here is different, too; originally he says "'Long time no see...?'" with a hint of disbelief in his voice. Had Satoshi really not seen his pokemon in so long?
Here's the juicy part:
Oak: "Ash, four Pokémon Trainers left Pallet Town on their Pokémon journeys, but you and Gary have earned the most badges and I'm very proud."
Ash: "Oh, what happened to the other two?"
Oak: "They both got off to an excellent start but they just didn't have the skill."
Ash: "Oh, that's too bad."
Gary: "They just wimped out."
Shigeru's final line here is "their training wasn't enough," implying that they quit because of a lack of skill, not because they were wimps.
After Oak praises Ash for getting eight badges:
Ash: "Well gee, thank you."
Misty: "Hey, the Pokémon deserve lots of credit too."
Pikachu: "Pika."
Ash: "Misty's right. Maybe they deserve more credit than me."
Originally Satoshi says that he put in a lot of work too (俺だってそれなりに頑張ったんだけどなー), which, as you can see, is actually the opposite of what Ash says.
Professor Oak tells the young Trainers that the Pokémon League is in two months:
Gary: "I'm not saying you're a bad Trainer, Ash, it's just that you don't have what it takes to beat me."
Ash: "We'll just see about that."
Shigeru's line in the Japanese version is "If we're both the "stars of hope" then that means we're at least at the same level, right?" (同じ希望の星ならせめて僕と同じレベルになってもらわないとね). Satoshi angrily asks him what he's trying to say with that.
The Rocket trio visit mom's house:
Jessie: "Good morning. We're from PNN, the Pokémon News Network."
James: "Is that little son of yours at home? Because we'd love to feature an interview with him about his return to Pallet for our show Pokémon Masters of Tomorrow."
Here, Kojirou asks for an interview but accidentally starts to call him Jaari Boy ("twerp"). He catches his mistake and, after stammering for a bit, finally refers to him as "Satoshi-kun." The English dub, to make up for the mouth flaps not being used to deliver this perfectly translatable bit of dialogue, has James yammer on about some made-up show Pokémon Masters of Tomorrow instead.
Also, Musashi introduces themselves as reporters from right there in Masara Town, something Jessie doesn't bother to do.
Back at Oak's house:
Gary: "So Ash, I guess you're happy with how your Krabby's doing here?"
Ash: "My Krabby's fine."
In the original Shigeru questions the "long time no see" comment he heard Satoshi give earlier. Satoshi responds by saying "And what of it?"
Gary: "Maybe I shouldn't have said anything but I thought you might like to know how...real Trainers work."
Brock: "You gotta stop this, Professor, or there's gonna be a fight."
Oak: "I'm sorry, Brock, but I'm a professor, not a referee."
The professor's reply to Takeshi's plea in the Japanese version is quite different. Originally he tells Takeshi that the two of them have been fighting like that ever since they were little (あの二人は昔からあんな風じゃったからのう). Shigeru's first line is completely different too: originally he says that battles can get ugly if you don't use your head.
A few lines later:
This whole speech in the Japanese version has Shigeru telling Satoshi what he does himself. The dubbed version, on the other hand, is him telling Satoshi what he (Ash) should do. In the last line he also talks about calculating levels, something the dub leaves out altogether.
The very next line:
Lots of tense changes
here. In the Japanese version they're talking about the battle
that Satoshi had against Takeshi while in the English dub they're
talking about a hypothetical battle against any Rock-Type Trainer.
After having their PokéDexes evaluated:
Gary: "You use your PokéDex every time you see a Pokémon, but I know so much about 'em I capture 'em first and ask questions later."
Ash: "Is that the best way?"
Gary: "Of course it's the best way."
Shigeru's first line there has him scolding Satoshi, saying that if he has time to open his Pokemon Zukan and listen to it describe each pokemon then he has time to actually catch them.
Right before the commercial break 4Kids unleashes this on us:
Oak: "Let's poké-round my laboratory."
Misty finds out that Gary has over 200 Pokémon:
Misty: "If there's only around 150 kinds of Pokémon, you must have captured more than one of some kinds."
Gary: "You can never have too many Pokémon. That's my motto. The more Pokémon you have, the better position you're in to win battles."
Shigeru doesn't have any such motto in the Japanese version. He does, however, say that he's not happy only having one of each pokemon and that if there's a chance the next one he finds is stronger than the one he caught beforehand then there's no reason not to catch it.
Shigeru's basically Shinji lite at this moment.
More fighting:
Shigeru's basically Iris
Also, a lot of the above
got rewritten, but you can look at the two there and see for yourself.
Oak gives his speech:
Oak: "Pokémon are special and they need our special care."
Pikachu: "Pika."
Oak: "Just like ever other living creature, they deserve our consideration and our respect. If we care for them the way we care for those we love, we'll be able to live in peace as we learn about them and ourselves. My research has taught me that we need to deal with Pokémon like we need to deal with people - as individuals - if we want to discover their mysteries."
So here's the Japanese version: "Pokemon are truly mysterious living creatures. Evolution, special powers...you can even say they surpass other living beings. We'll have to become friends with them if we want to understand their secrets. Humans and pokemon co-exist. My life's work begins with me understanding each pokemon, one by one."
A bit later, during Professor Oak's breakdown of a typical day at his ranch, he frames everything by how close they occur to breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This isn't done in the Japanese version.
After that:
Oak: "And that's basically what I do everyday."
Ash: "You must get to learn a lot, living with so many Pokémon."
Originally Satoshi compares Orchid-Hakase to a zookeeper, indicating that zoos exist in the Japanese version. Real-world animals had already more or less been retconned out of the series by this point so is this a pokemon zoo?
Gary meets his "new" Pokémon:
Gary: "Hiya, Doduo. How's everything going today?"
Shigeru calls his Dodo "My Sweet" (マイ・スイート) but Gary doesn't give his pokemon a similar pet name in the dub.
Oak: "We believe there are lots of Pokémon that no one has ever captured or even seen."
Brock: "Yeah, some people used to say that there were only 150 Pokémon. Then we discovered Togepi."
What's this "we" business? You didn't discover jack squat, Brock.
Originally Takeshi merely cites Togepi as an example of a pokemon outside the original 150 pokemon.
After Ash and Gary see eye to eye about something:
Brock: "They really love Pokémon."
Misty: "Then maybe they can like each other."
Takeshi: "Those two are really fired up, aren't they?" Kasumi: "What do you expect from two rivals?"
The Japanese version is far less shippy.
The Rocket trio crawl out of their hole:
Jessie: "That smokes gets in your eyes."
James: "Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I want to go to bed."
Meowth: "Volare."
And now Meowth is Italian, apparently.
Y'know, if it weren't for the closed captions I wouldn't have had any idea what Meowth was saying here. Is this something that kids get? Or adults, for that matter?
After Misty finds out that they have to help repair the fence:
Misty: "Us too?"
Oak: "Believe me, helping others, sharing their burdens...that's the way to become a better Trainer, a better friend, and a better person."
Orchid-Hakase's original line is "Effort Willpower! Sense of duty! It's said that anything can become experience for a Trainer during his training." (努力!根性!義理人情!!トレーナーの修行は何事も経験値がモノを言うのじゃ)
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Well, after reading I Am Hutterite (thanks to your suggestion), I'm sure you could use duck feathers to make pillows... in your space time... even though you probably have pillows... with chicken feathers instead. Obviously just kidding. Mulch is a good idea. Is it worth chopping up the feathers with the mower to get them decomposing faster?
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Dodge Repair Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Hello I'm Neal and I am here to help resolve your issue. If I cannot help I will opt out and refer your question to another expert.
The first thing to do is a tune up. If there is no check engine light then that is by far the most likely problem and is the first thing you need to rule out. Just a set of plugs to start and see if it helps. Let me know what you find and I will continue to assist as needed.
OK...I understand, but what about the rpm gauge reading what it is? Is this a sign of idling too high? Because of clogged fuel injectors?
Thanks Neal!


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Principles of Information Visualization for Business Research
In the era of data-centric-science, a large number of visualization tools have been created to help researchers understand increasingly rich business databases. Information visualization is a process of constructing a visual presentation of business quantitative data, especially prepared for managerial use. Interactive information visualization provide researchers with remarkable tools for discovery and innovation. By combining powerful data mining methods with user-controlled interfaces, users are beginning to benefit from these potent telescopes for high-dimensional spaces. They can begin with an overview, zoom in on areas of interest, filter out unwanted items, and then click for details-on-demand. With careful design and efficient algorithms, the dynamic queries approach to data exploration can provide 100 msec updates even for million-record databases. Visualizations of business information are therefore widely used in actually business decision support systems, and by business researchers also. Visual user interfaces called dashboards are tools for reporting the status of a company and its business environment to facilitate business intelligence and performance management activities. In this study, we examine the research on concepts, and the principles of business information visualization, because we hope to be using correctly by business Ph.D. students in their researches. Visual representations are likely to improve business managers, and business researchers efficiency, offer new insights, and encouraging comparisons.
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Volume (Year): (2008)
Issue (Month): 2 (November)
Pages: 161-178
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GERRINGONG Lions' Group 7 Rugby League title defence is still alive after ending Kiama's 2014 campaign on Saturday.
A three-try blitz early in the second stanza ensured the Lions downed the Knights 34-16, amid inclement conditions at Centenary Field.
Gerringong led the elimination semi-final 16-6 at the break, eventually grabbing six tries to three and scoring 34 unanswered points.
The Knights, buoyed by the late inclusions of returning stars Tom Atkins and Jack Alexander, opened their account after 10 minutes.
Following a Lions' error inside their own half, Kieran Poole sliced through sub-par defence.
It was the only time Kiama would enjoy the lead, with Gerringong punishing their opponents for a mistake of their own when halfback Rixon Russell wrong-footed the defence, stepping and weaving his way through heavy traffic to get across the stripe.
Joel Roberts' conversion squared the ledger.
A penalty afforded the Lions some momentum, and a Peter Cronin four-pointer increased the scoreboard advantage.
The Knights spent several minutes camped at the money end of the field, but were left to rue numerous missed opportunities due to errors and mistimed passes.
Gerringong made no such mistake, a dummy half ball finding Lloyd Bowen, who crashed over for a simple try.
The match-up was effectively settled by the 50th minute, the clinical Lions attack laying on three rapid-fire tries finished off by skipper Brad Davidson, Simon Hoare and Bowen's second.
Late tries to Alexander and Daniel Martin added some respectability to the final score-line.
It was a disappointing finish to what appeared a promising season for Kiama, while Gerringong will have another sudden-death encounter against Nowra-Bomaderry this Saturday at Nowra Showground.
Sunday's qualifying semi-final turned into a low-scoring affair between Shellharbour City Sharks and Nowra-Bomaderry Jets as the Sharks moved into the major semi-final against Warilla-Lake South Gorillas with a 16-12 victory.
In an often mistake-ridden first half, both sides failed to capitalise. The stalemate was broken soon after the resumption when Steve Brandon stepped through for the opening try and a 6-0 Jets lead.
His brother Mark soon had a penalty and spectacular try in the corner. The visitors were flying at 12-0.
Sharks hit back after a Jets mistake, prop Harold Snell charging over under the posts.
Bronx Goodwin converted and then took a spectacular mark off a cross-field bomb and converted to tie. Veteran winger Jamie Manukonga put the icing on the cake when he barged three defenders to cross in the corner.


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