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Has football replaced Catholicism in Spain?
This article by Canada's leading news magazine on the state of Spanish football perhaps goes too readily down 'the football bubble has burst' route which is the increasing first resort of journalists everywhere. Undeniably, Spanish football faces big challenges which are in part related to the country's economic, financial and political problems. It could suffer the kind of decline experienced by Italy's Serie A.
One of the most intruguing suggestions in the article is that football has replaced Catholicism as a community focus in Spain. I don't know enough about Spain to comment on that, although possibly Catholicism could face the kind of long-term decline that it has experienced in France and Belgium. When I had an audience with Spain's crown prince in July, we didn't discuss either football or Catholicism.
There has been considerable discussion recently about a possible breakaway by Catalonia. If La Liga lost the Real Madrid-Barcelona rivalry, it would lose much of its point. An independent Catalonia could presumably be allowed to have teams in La Liga, although that would raise questions about Scottish teams taking part in the English leagues. Paradoxically, an independent Scotland might feel more relaxed about that.
Of course, Catalonia might be allowed to stop short of full independence perhaps reviving the sovereignty-association model touted by René Lévesque in Quebec.

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Ex-Pen Gonchar unsure where future will take him
Sergei Gonchar is trying not to think.
That is no easy task for one of the NHL's most cerebral defensemen.
He is 38, in the final season of his contract, and there is another world out there for him, his wife and their two daughters.
That world could be anywhere.
It could be Ottawa, playing out his NHL career with the Senators.
Or Pittsburgh, finishing on a run with dear friend Evgeni Malkin.
Or Sochi, Russia, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Or Moscow, in a cozy apartment with a kitchen cramped by racks of fine wine.
It could be South Beach, boating in the clear waters off Florida's coast, baking in the sun and basking in the glow of longtime friends.
The promise of that world — any of them — is why Gonchar is trying not to think. If his career, which dates to a 1994 debut with the Washington Capitals, is short on months, a moment spent recalling the past or pondering the future is just wasted time.
"You can't plan the way you're going to finish it," Gonchar said. "You don't know how it's going to turn out."
Pittsburgh always there
Games like the one Sunday afternoon are never easy for Gonchar.
He loves his Ottawa teammates. The franchise's surprising return to the Stanley Cup playoffs last season rejuvenated him. He believes, though many outside Canada's capital do not, that the Cup could come to Ottawa this summer.
Playing against the Penguins, as the Senators will Sunday, still is not a lot of fun for Gonchar, even though almost three years have passed since his tenure in Pittsburgh ended.
"I had a special time there," Gonchar said. "They are such great, great players. It was probably the highlight of my career. To be honest, not that many hockey players have a chance to play with the two best players. It will be there always for me."
It will be there for them, too.
Gonchar spent five seasons with the Penguins. He was, and remains, the most prominent free agent to sign with the franchise. His five-year, $25 million contract in July 2005 represented an enormous commitment for a cash-strapped franchise.
No free agent has been paid more by the Penguins.
History shows the Gonchar deal was former general manager Craig Patrick's last great move, and not just because Gonchar took a young, shy and uncomfortable Malkin under his wing.
"He helped me become (a) good player in (the) NHL," Malkin said, downplaying the MVP season he had without Gonchar as a teammate. "Sergei (would) teach me hockey, life, America. He is like (a) brother for me. Even now, he is not in Pittsburgh, (but) he is my best friend."
Gonchar's time with the Penguins, which ended in July 2010 when he signed with Ottawa, should be remembered for an aura that became a constant.
There is a reason this group of Penguins leaders — Sidney Crosby and alternate captains Malkin, Brooks Orpik and Chris Kunitz — never panic.
"He was just so calm, and that kind of wore off on everyone," Crosby said. "He brought it in the room. He brought it on the ice. He just seemed like he never really panicked. Everything was always calm, cool and collected with him. That carried over.
"He was here my first year. That was the big acquisition for us. The way he treated me — I could not have asked for a better veteran. I was a younger guy, and he was always there to help. You obviously saw that with Geno, but Gonch was that way with all the younger guys. Certainly he was that way with me, and I'll never forget it."
Orpik, who became Gonchar's defense partner, said there is no guarantee the franchise's turnaround — the Penguins were a bottom-five team in 2006 but played for the Cup in '08 — would have happened without Gonchar or his family.
The Gonchars threw team parties, organized events and helped create a family atmosphere that is now an organizational hallmark. Gonchar was usually the first player at practice, quick to share training tips. He became Malkin's translator. He even was the guy who replaced broken lounge appliances.
"Even as quiet as he was, he had that quiet leadership quality where just his presence — look, a guy that established being around a lot of young guys who were impressionable, even if Gonch wasn't saying anything, we all, not just the defensemen, kind of just watched how he carried himself, his routine, that stuff," Orpik said.
"Not enough has been made about his role here. It wasn't just with Geno. There is that because they really are great friends, but Gonch was big for everybody. You can ask anyone who played with him who is still in this room. I don't think you'll find a more respected guy who's been here."
From Russia with energy
Two recent Game 7s losses have left their mark.
There is the one he would wipe from his memory if he could: The last game at Mellon Arena, his last game with the Penguins, a Cup defense-ending defeat against Montreal in 2010 — and that haunting image of Gonchar misplaying a bouncing puck.
That one lingered until last spring.
Now there is the Game 7 that helped him find a spark: At Madison Square Garden, the eighth-seeded Senators playing the favored New York Rangers to the end, falling by a goal.
Yeah, that loss was the one that started Gonchar thinking maybe there is more left in this Russian's tank.
Playing for a Cup contender, which, again, he believes the Senators are, can make a veteran feel young, Gonchar said.
Then, after a summer spent — as always — training with Malkin in Moscow, the NHL lockout happened. It provided Gonchar another chance to play with his best friend, the one who dedicated his Hart Trophy to him.
"When you play with a friend, you find the chemistry right away, and it gives you that energy boost," Gonchar said of the 37 games he and Malkin played for Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League.
"You always love to play. When you play with a partner, you enjoy it more than you normally would. It's a special feeling, and you don't have it every night. But when you have it, you have it, and you want it to be that way all the time."
It could be that way all the time.
The trade deadline is April 3.
A free-agency summer approaches.
Soon enough, the world could be anywhere for Gonchar.
"Obviously, everybody talks about me and Pittsburgh, but I am having fun in Ottawa," Gonchar said. "I had fun in Magnitogorsk with Evgeni. I have fun at home with my family.
"I haven't thought about what is next. My focus is to do as good as I can and have as much fun as I can right now. However it's going to work out is how it's going to work out."
Rob Rossi is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @RobRossi_Trib.


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But the statement issued after a meeting in Deauville in northern France did not refer to the recent decline of the US dollar, which economists say presents a serious problem for some members of the group.
Two major worries about the global economy have eased in recent weeks.
The situation in Iraq no longer casts the shadow over business decisions that it did in the run up to the war.
And there are signs of the Sars illness which originated in East Asia, abating.
But the currency markets are creating new challenges, which the ministers' statement did not go into.
Curious omission
The recent decline in the dollar has undermined the competitiveness of exporters in other important economies, notably Germany and Japan, two countries that were in difficulty already.
But many believe it rather suits the US, because a weaker dollar makes American industry more competitive.
It is a rather curious omission.
In previous decades, currency market intervention was sometimes the main action to come out of these finance ministers' meetings.
Iraq debts
This time, according to the US Treasury Secretary John Snow, currency issues were not even a major item of discussion.
Mr Snow also said there was a recognition that Iraq would not be able to make any payments on its debts before the end of next year.
Some US officials have been encouraging countries owed money by Iraq to forgive it, on the grounds that the loans were not used for the benefit of the country's population.
Three members of the G8 - Russia, France and Germany, who opposed the war - are owed substantial amounts by Iraq.


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When DS (dear son) was in the NICU and I was begging (yes, literally begging) to breast feed him the doctors kept telling me that BM only has 20 calories in it. Nothing will change that. Breast milk = 20 calories and DS (dear son) needed more calories than that. I went along with that and added formula to his pumped milk until DS (dear son) was not quite 4 months old when I said enough was enough and threw out all the formula in the house.
My point is that BM can have MORE than 20 calories, some studies use 22 and the average amount. But I know 2 women that had their breast milk tested (per their doctor's request because they're babies had slow weight gain and the docs thought their milk was LESS than 20 cals) only to discover their milk actually had 23 and 24 cals! The doctors were stunned! But you can't argue with the tests. These mamma's bodies were making a higher calorie milk because that is what their babies needed. Our bodies are AMAZING.
I really want to get my milk tested. I have about 25 ounces in the freezer from January (when DS (dear son) was still in the NICU) and would love to see how many calories it has in it.
I'm posting this because if you feel strongly that BFing or giving pure pumped milk is important to you, ask to have your milk tested. Our doctors wanted DS (dear son) to be getting 24 cals per ounce so we added 4 cals through formula, but it is very possible that my body was making 24 cals on it's own.


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I would be nearly 10 weeks along if I am pregnant. My body seems to be telling me that something is going on, but 3 neg urine tests and one neg blood test so far. My very low tummy is expanding and feels tight, like when you have a very full bladder, and I am constantly bloated with occasional nausea. My lower back aches at times. My boobs are slightly larger and sore. My fatigue level is very high. It is confusing to me because I got over a 2-month bout with mono a few weeks ago and maybe these symptoms are related to that? I had a couple episodes of bleeding around my monthly period time, but more irregular and shorter than normal. Could the mono cause a false negative pregnancy test? It's frustrating not to know!!
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Liverpool's decline has been placed into stark context after they were offered a nightmare European draw.
One of English football's most prestigious clubs will play in the third qualifying round of the Europa League, UEFA's second-tier competition, and must travel into the depths of eastern Europe to face either FC Gomel of Belarus or Macedonian club FK Renova.
But while owners John Henry and Tom Werner accepted that "no supporter will take pleasure where we are right now", the pair insisted new boss Brendan Rodgers will be given time to turn things around.
According to Henry, that means no immediate demand to return the Anfield club to the Champions League elite - even though the American believes last year's failure to do so was a humbling experience.
"We don't want to put any pressure on Brendan by saying. 'You have got to make the Champions League this year,'" he said.
"Of course he wants to make the Champions League - we all do, and so does every team in the Premier League.
"I thought it was realistic last season but we were so far off that pace. So at this point we're just trying to get things stabilised - that should be one of our goals."
Werner, meanwhile, was explicit in his concession that Liverpool have underperformed since the Americans took control 18 months ago.
"Our first year and a half was spent learning as much as we could, and we are just now really beginning to understand what we have to do differently," he admitted.
One of those is to back the manager - even if the first task Rodgers has been given is to take Liverpool to a far-flung outpost of European football, in a competition no one wants to win.
The trip looks like it will be to Gomel - Belarus' second-largest city after Minsk and hometown of tennis star Maria Sharapova's mum and dad - as they lead Renova 2-0 after the first leg of their round-two tie.
Inconveniently for Rodgers, the flight out to the away leg will have to be made just a couple of days after Liverpool arrive back from the current pre-season tour of north America.
But the new manager will do so at least in the knowledge that his owners are taking a long term view of his tenure, with Henry expressing his belief in - and admiration of - the Irish coach.
"Brendan has a very structured approach and he plays the kind of football that we think Liverpool fans will love to see," Henry said.
"You can see why he was appointed. He's an inspirational figure. He's very charismatic, he's smart, he knows what he wants to accomplish and he's determined to accomplish it."
And after the disappointment of last season, when the American owners invested more than £100million in playing talent only to see the team record their worst league showing in 30 years, Henry believes they are now on the right track.
"We know more now than we did when we bought the club," he explained.
"We didn't know a lot at the start. We have had something like 20 months to study and learn and this is really the direction we want to go in.
"We are working on a long term programme and we are fully committed to this programme. It will be the kind of football we want to play, with the right manager."
Now read more...
Red leaver? Brendan Rodgers is open to offers for Andy Carroll - but rules out loan move
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Having created several robots that roll on wheels of various kinds, we decided to build a robot that walks, or more accurately, crawls, in a spider-like fashion. We call him Creepy Crawler. We control this robot using a PS/2 remote control. Each leg has three Degrees of Freedom (DOF) so his gate and other movements are very creepy and biological. To create Crawler's head, we hacked into a PS/2 receiver and installed the red receiver lights (LEDs) so that it looks like he has glowing eyes.
Technical Details
- Servos: 12 Hitec HS-645, 6 HS-485
- Remote Control: PS/2
- Batteries: NiMH & NiCad
- Legs and body pieces: Lynxmotion, black anodized aluminum
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Rocky Horror Midnight Madness Midnight at the Music Box.
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For those that have never been, what this entails is a celebration of throwing things at the screen, shouting obscenities at the screen, and just a general fun time of madness.
I was planning to go to the January 22nd one, but there is also a February 19th showing. Anyone who's interested is welcome to show up as well.
More information here and here.
Posted 06 December 2010 - 11:19 PM
We are celebrating Yuugi's, Judai's, and Officer Jenny's Birthdays at ACEN 2011! Bring cake! XD
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stumpy1337, on 07 December 2010 - 08:56 AM, said:
Just so you know, they play Rocky Horror at the Hollywood Blvd. in Woodridge every Saturday, all year long. If you can't make it to one of the showings listed above, you could always make a quick jaunt out to the Western burbs.
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Did not read above post. X.X I said pretty much the same exact thing..
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If you can read this you get a pat on the back.
I drank GOD and it is good!!!
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I don't know what else to really put here....
So have a nice day. ^^
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Concealer is an absolute essential in my makeup bag. Sure, I use it underneath my eyes and to cover up blemishes, but I've also discovered many different ways to use the high-coverage complexion miracle worker. Playing around with different shades of concealer, using different tools and the right technique, can totally enhance your look. Here are a few different ways to use your concealer.
- To clean up your brows
Brows feeling a little untamed? Simply clean them up with a brighter shade of the concealer of your choice where you want your fuzzies (those small stray hairs) to disappear. Use a clean flat brush to get the most coverage and lightly press to blend. Remember not to choose a shade that's too light, though! Try and stick with a shade or two lighter than your natural skin tone for a soft, natural look.
- Add more coverage to your complexion
If you don't want to wear foundation everywhere, or simply want more coverage, extend your concealer beyond your eyes. Apply it in a triangle shape to create more coverage for an extended long wear. It doesn't have to feel heavy with the right technique. Use Quo's Blending Sponge to blend it out so you're not left with a heavy look.
- Sharpen your contour
I love how chiselled my cheeks look after I contour, and for a night out I like them to pop even more. Applying a small amount of a brighter concealer under your cheekbones will subtly accentuate them. I love using Maybelline New York Fit Me Concealer, as it blends flawlessly with my foundation.
- Define your lips
A bold pout is a beautiful statement. To really make your lips stand out, apply concealer around the edge of your lip line for a clean, crisp pucker that's naturally highlighted. You can also use concealer to help clean up any messy edges around your lips.
Those are just a few of my favourite ways to use concealer. How do you love using it in your makeup routine?
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Feb 5, 2007 #014
Contact: Jill Dunlap
"The Vagina Monologues" Returns to UMKCThe University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Women's Center, in collaboration with the 2007 V-Day campaign, is proud to bring The Vagina Monologues to its campus. The performances will take place Monday, Feb. 19, Tuesday, Feb. 20, and Wednesday, Feb. 21 7:00 p.m., University Center, Pierson Auditorium, 5000 Holmes Road. Proceeds will benefit the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) and the UMKC Women's Center violence prevention efforts.
The Vagina Monologues is performed annually on college campuses around Valentine's Day as part of a global campaign to stop violence against women. In line with the V-Day campaign and fundraising efforts, the Women's Center is selling chocolates, hand-made scarves, V-Day buttons and T-shirts in its office from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily, as well as at the performances.
V-Day is a national, non-profit corporation that distributes funds to grassroots, national, and international organizations and programs that work to stop violence against women and girls. In 2007, more than 2,700 V-Day benefits were presented by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, and, in its nine-year existence, the V-Day movement has raised more than $30 million.
Tickets are $7 for students and $12 for UMKC faculty and staff and Kansas City community members in advance and $10 for students and $15 for faculty, staff and community members at the door. Tickets can be purchased through the Central Ticket Office at (816) 235-6222 or online through the Women's Center web site at www.umkc.edu/womenc. For information on purchasing V-Day items or on becoming involved with the 2007 UMKC V Day campaign, please call the Women's Center at (816) 235-1638. For information about the national V-Day campaign, please visit www.vday.org.


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The Systims2017 Organizing Committee welcomes you to attend the conference "Systems Biology of Adaptive Immunity" that will be held from May 14 to 17, 2017 at the Conference Centre Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, the venue of choice for Congressi Stefano Franscini, the international conference platform of ETH Zurich.
The understanding of adaptive immunity is of paramount importance for human health and the prevention of disease. A full understanding of its complexity may only be gained by leveraging a multi-scale systems approach that integrates high-throughput and computational methods. This conference will bring together established researchers and young scientists from different facets of the burgeoning field of systems immunology. Topics presented will range from data-driven mathematical modeling of the complex regulation of lymphocytes to the analysis of immune repertoires in health and disease. Furthermore, insight will be given into recent technological developments in immunogenomics and immunoproteomics and their use in building novel computational tools for studying adaptive immunity. Finally, we will highlight the potential to translate systems immunology for clinical applications such as immunodiagnostics and immunotherapy.
Keynote Speakers
Antonio Lanzavecchia, IRB Bellinzona, Switzerland
George Georgiou, University of Texas Austin, USA
Ido Amit, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Invited Speakers
Ramit Mehr, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Andrew Sewell, Cardiff University, UK
Philippe Bousso, Pasteur Institute, France
Hedda Wardemann, German Cancer Research Center, Germany
Lélia Delamarre, Genentech, USA
Dmitriy Chudakov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia


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There is a distinct lack of good, free, educational websites that cater for younger children; Kneebouncers.com is limited and appeals mainly to the very young (under 2s), whilst the Cbeebies website is excellent but hard to navigate (maybe thats just me) and encourages my daughter to recognise certain characters on their heavily marketed ranges of products, increasing the level of pestering that I am subjected to. So I had resigned myself to a couple of years getting frustrated with the Cbeebies site when I heard about poissonrouge.com and thought it was worth a look.
***The Site***
Poisson rouge is one of several websites set up by www.interactica.com; which has a list of all their other sites/games and links on it (worth checking out). These sites include sites for the Tellytubbies and games for The Science Museum and National Portrait Gallery. I had a quick surf around their links and bookmarked quite a few for future use, as they are all well put together and obviously designed to appeal to kids (and parents) without dumbing everything down.
Poisson rouge (or red fish for non-French speakers) is a website for children of all ages, containing over 150 mini games to work on mouse control, language development, motor skills, literacy and numeracy. The websites main page is simple and uncluttered, taking the appearance of a childrens playroom; you navigate by clicking on the toys. This design is brilliant as it means that pre-school children can surf this site on their own, without having to have a parent there to decipher all the words and instructions. This is something that other childrens websites should observe as my daughter gets terribly frustrated (as do I) trying to find her favourite games on other websites which are often overly wordy and complicated. Here she can simply say ladybird mummy and she has more control over her experience.
***The Games***
As there are no written instructions given anywhere on this site, it can take some time to a) work out where all the games are and b) what on earth you are supposed to do! I was a bit baffled when I first arrived on the site so here is a brief overview of the different areas!
*Playroom floor*
On the left is a painting game where children are given a choice of objects to paint (fill in the patterns) using the mouse as a paintbrush. There are five different colours given but you can mix and blend them to create the colour you want i.e. click on the blue and the red and you get purple paint, then click on the white and you get a paler shade. To clear the brush you simply click on the water jug.
The building blocks on the right are a series of 9 mini games related to numbers, so clicking on seven brings up a series of Russian dolls to take apart and put together again; or clicking on 8 brings up my favourite game which involves bottles and a nice big hammer!
The final game in this area is the record player in the corner, you click a colour and then click the lever on the left which lowers the needle. You can control the speed using the blue wedge at the side.
*Right hand shelf*
The keyboard allows you to create your own short tune by clicking on the piano keys and then play it, great fun for budding composers. As you click the keys the note appears on the lines above so you can see the tune coming together whilst you are creating!
The blue box next to it contains 20 smaller games all jumbled together, ranging from blowing up a balloon until it bursts, to finding the 3D shape that matches the 2D shape and a simple peg board.
I love the next one (the black and white picture) as it leads to 8 black and white optical illusions, but the lack of colour doesnt appeal to my daughter at all, so I have to visit that area when she goes to bed!
Finally the four little people allow you to create a round of Frere Jacques. Sung by children with what sound like authentic French accents this is absolutely charming. You can click on one child or all four, make them discordant or blend beautifully and is a really sweet little game.
*Ladybird Window*
Leads to a flower picture with 14 little bug related games. They are all hidden and only appear when you run the mouse over them. The majority of them help develop mouse control as you move and place the little bugs, ranging from the easy (the butterfly), to the difficult (the coloured lines) and they are all great fun.
*The a pictures*
Each one takes you through to an alphabet page, with a little mini game behind each letter. The left hand a is the French alphabet, the middle one is English and the right hand one is Spanish (a relatively new addition). If you have your speakers on you can hear the words pronounced, as well as hear all the sound effects from the other games! Some of the games are repeated on several alphabets e.g. the Cake game is also the Gateau game, which I think is brilliant as it helps make the connection between the words. There are also some interesting words such as ukelele which I love, and you can hear the sounds it makes in the game behind it. As a parent its great as my daughter is having additional exposure to languages without me having to puzzle my way through a foreign website, my French is ok but my Spanish is terrible!
*Left Hand Shelf*
Click on the submarine to dive into an underwater world, with a strange little game behind each sea creature you meet.
Behind the ladybird are simple jack in the box games and ones that are designed to appeal to the lower age ranges. My daughter particular likes the wibbly wobbly clown and the boingy seagull, but I love the little theatre on the shelf. Clicking on it changes the background and moving the little red tabs on the either side moves the figures ..simple pleasures for simple minds I guess!
The puzzle piece leads to eleven 3-6 piece puzzles to be put back together by your child. One click picks up the piece so you dont need to hold down the mouse when you are moving them (I make this mistake a lot!). A lovely colourful range of images to be put back together and once completed you have the option of doing them again and again and again!
Behind the rocket are 9 card matching games, all quite complicated and I would imagine for children of 4+ as my daughter is certainly not ready for them and even I have been known to struggle.
Finally the dangly pictures take you to a page where you have to match the mini images below to the main picture. Another complicated one for older children (and adults!)
All the games have a great range of sounds to encourage your children to participate, but the main page produces a baby laugh every few minutes, something worth remembering if you have it inactive in another window. It didnt make me jump, honestly! Quite a few of the games open with the page covered in bubbles, as your child is supposed to practice their mouse skills and pop them all, a nice additional feature.
To get back to the main page at anytime you simply click on the red fish in the bottom left of the screen, or the image at the top left to get back to the sub menu.
***My Impressions***
Both my daughter and I love this site and I have been known to occasionally visit it for research after she has gone to bed. It is bright and stimulating, without being too childish and if you visit it whilst drunk it is absolutely compelling! Designed to gently stimulate and teach it doesnt feel like you are learning anything until someone asks you what the Spanish word for butterfly is (mariposa by the way!).
The games cover a whole range of skills and help to gently build up competence, especially when used with an over-enthusiastic adult! Whilst some of them are admittedly extremely simple, they are beautifully executed and hold my 2 year old rapt! I would totally recommend this site to anyone with children and adults who like simple and interesting little websites (with FLYING PIGS!!) that make you feel about 10 years younger. This would also be a very useful resource for home educators or those who are teaching their children another language (only French and Spanish though!).
My only gripe would be that there just isnt enough on the site and its hard to tell someone the web address, but apart from that it is a fantastic little site. My daughter has come on leaps and bounds in her potty training since we have been using this site, because we promise her 20 minutes of games every time she does something in her potty (so its saving us a fortune in chocolate rewards as well).
You can buy cotton T-shirts with the fish logo on from the link at the bottom of the page, but at 22 euros each I havent taken the plunge. There is also a link to download your own customised versions of some of the games for 5 euro each, or 25 for 7, but seeing as the whole website is free, again I havent bothered.


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Trib Total Media launching SportsTalk
Beginning Jan. 18, Pittsburgh sports fans will have a new way to get information on their favorite professional, college and high school teams.
Trib Total Media is launching SportsTalk on Trib Live Radio on its website, www.triblive.com . Programming will be live 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, with content looping 24 hours a day.
"Five years from now, Internet radio will be the predominant leader in radio," said Jennifer Bertetto, Trib Total Media vice president and chief operating officer.
From 9 a.m. to noon, hosts are Chris Mack and former Penguins player Rick Tocchet. From noon to 1 p.m., John Steigerwald will be talking all things sports. From 1 to 5 p.m., Ken Laird, former Steelers player Deshea Townsend and former Pitt basketball player Julius Page are hosts.
Steigerwald said his show will be "sports talk for regular human beings."
"I like to get into the social stuff, where sports and politics and social issues intersect," he said. "I like to get involved in the non-X's and O's as much as the X's and O's."
Bertetto said it was important to find hosts with local ties.
"In Western Pennsylvania, people love and know sports inside and out," she said. "People who are homegrown bring more credibility to the programming."
In addition to professional and college sports, programming will include segments on high school sports, including information on Sports Spotlight athletes and a pregame high school football show, said program director Mike Barker.
Trib Total Media is partners with several sports teams, including the Penguins, Pirates, Pitt and Duquesne.
A fully-equipped studio has been built on the sixth floor of the D.L. Clark building on the North Side, home to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Bertetto said while the online radio program is launching with sports, future programs could be planned. The goal is to eventually expand to 24 hours of live material, Bertetto said.


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THE Skye Orchard mosaic was officially unveiled in its permanent site in Topaz Drive by Councillor Pat West.
The mosaic, which had been on display in The Chantry Centre for several months, is a community project set up by Transition Town Andover and is now situated at the site of a community orchard.
Pupils from Portway Infant, Portway Junior and Harrow Way Community schools were also involved in the design of the mosaic.
Carol Bartholomew, of Transition Town Andover, said: "I have to thank Councillor Pat West, who has made the mosaic possible by generously funding the project and Joanna Dewfall, the mosaic artist. And a massive thank you to Test Valley Borough Council for all their support from the beginning of the community orchard."
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Google fans living in the shadow of the Great Firewall are breathing sighs of relief today, after the Beijing government agreed to let the U.S. search and ad giant continue to do business in China.
(I'm sure the Googlers ordered up some beef brisket in Wikipedia flavor for everyone to celebrate.)
[ Also on InfoWorld: Check out Google's Chinese acrobatics and Net neutrality, and Cringely points out that Google's Wi-Fi spygate is its BP moment. | Stay up to date on all Robert X. Cringely's observations with InfoWorld's Notes from the Underground newsletter. ]
Apparently, that silly website dipsy-doodle Google pulled last week -- putting up a splash search billboard on Google.cn, but still redirecting all search queries to the uncensored Google.com.hk -- was enough for Chinese officials and Google to save face, even though the only difference between the .cn and .hk sites is that the Hong Kong engine shows you what sites the Chinese are blocking.
This move allows Google to maintain some presence in China for its music, translation, and shopping services. Still, it's a little like letting Ford or GM do business on the mainland but only allowing them to sell cup holders and floor mats. Or letting them to display pictures of cars, but not allow you to drive them.
Still, for Google, any piece of the Chinese Internet -- which already exceeds the United States in user population and still has a long way to go -- is better than no piece. What I don't understand is, what's in it for China? The only conclusion I can reach is Google just isn't that important to them.
While Google is a big deal here in the U.S. market, it's more like Bing in China. Baidu controls nearly two-thirds of the Chinese search market, and Google's share is dropping. Aside from the embarrassment caused by what became an international incident (at least, from the U.S. perspective), the Chinese simply may not care that much.


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Lying at a distance of about 1,450 light-years in the constellation Orion, and measuring about 30 light-years across, the Orion Nebula is ionized and made visible by a small group of O stars and B stars known as the Trapezium cluster. Altogether the Orion Nebula contains about 700 stars, in various stages of formation and development. It is part of a much larger nebula called the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
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A Henan man who imprisoned six women in an underground cell, used them as sex slaves for between three and 21 months and killed two of them was sentenced to death yesterday, mainland media reported.
The Intermediate People's Court of Luoyang found Li Hao, a 35-year-old former firefighter, guilty of murder, rape, organised prostitution, illegal detention and spreading pornography for profit, Xinhua reported.
It said one of the women locked up by Li had been jailed for three years for helping him murder two of the other women. Two of his other prisoners were given suspended jail terms for taking part in one of the murders, with their lenient treatment due to the extraordinary circumstances of the case.
A lawyer in Changsha who has kept a close eye on the case said Li's death sentence was predictable, but she could not agree with the verdicts for the three women.
"I was shocked when hearing of their verdicts because they were victims in this sex-slave scandal," said Zhang Yan , who had attempted to represent the women in court. "When the scandal was disclosed, I immediately headed to Luoyang to lobby the city legal office, public security bureau, women's federation, legal aid office and other departments, but none of them allowed me to take the case."
Zhang said information released by the police indicated that all the women had suffered inconceivable mental and physical torture.
The survivors were rescued in September last year after one prisoner managed to escape and reported the case to police.
"I wanted to help the women because they had worked at karaoke bars, hair salons and massage shops before being kidnapped, all areas that have been marginalised and discriminated against by our society," Zhang said.
"But the local authorities just arranged a lawyer for them who would go through the motions. That's very unfair."
Ji Xuguang , a former reporter of the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily, who first exposed the case in the media, said he had sympathy with the women although he could not comment on the sentences given to them.
The court said Li had dug the dungeon himself, under a basement of a house he had bought in August 2009, and locked up the six women after tricking them into going home with him.
China Central Television reported earlier that Li offered to pay them for sex if they went home with him but then locked them up and forced them to have sex with him.
The court said Li was working as a clerk for Luoyang's technology supervision bureau when he was arrested in September last year. He was married and had an eight-month-old son, Xinhua reported.
He forced the six women into prostitution and made them appear in pornographic videos, which he uploaded to the internet and profited from.
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All of the work I did with MAME led me back to my gaming roots and my Atari 2600. I dug out my old system and games and began to play. Playing the few Atari games I had eventually led to wanting more games to play. I began going to flea markets, yard sales, and retro game stores to look for games which of course led to finding other games and gaming systems that were rare, odd, or just interesting. The occasional flea market or yard sale find just served as fuel to the fire that eventually became a game collecting addiction, and I've been collecting pretty seriously for about a year now. I hope to be able to find some time this summer to work on a few other game related projects which will be detailed in Homework 0304. If you are interested in discussing games, or game collecting e-mail me.


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By San Jose Giants | July 18, 2013 11:59 AM ET
SAN JOSE, CA- MiLB.com, the official website of Minor League BaseballTM, launched their second MiLB.com Mascot Mania today, an interactive tournament allowing fans to choose the best mascot in each league and in all of Minor League Baseball. San Jose Giants mascot Gigante is a part of the tournament and needs your votes in order to be named this year's "Best Mascot in Minor League Baseball".
"Mascot Mania is a great way for our fans to show everyone that Gigante is not only the best mascot in the California League, but also in all of Minor League Baseball," said Juliana Paoli, San Jose Giants Chief Marketing Officer. "I'm excited that this year our fans can vote not only an unlimited number of times online, but also up to 25 times per day on Twitter. Together, let's show Minor League Baseball what our fans already know, that Gigante is truly the best!"
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All hail Nathan Fletcher. The hard charger sits atop my list of favorite surfers for his huge airs and underrated roundhouse. Over the last 20 years I have come to know Nate for his dynamic personality and unique approach to surfing and surfboards, which made him an easy choice for my first interviewee. I drove up to his San Juan Capistrano home and met with Nathan, and as we wandered through his board shed I saw one that caught my eye — a Stretch quad made of cork, bamboo and epoxy. Didn't really surprise me. It's guys like Nathan that help push our sport by taking risks with their equipment and in the water. Who knows? Maybe this is the beginning of the cork era. —Mitch Abshere
Mitch: Does this board have a name?
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What are the dimensions?
I don't know. It's a 7'0" and pretty narrow but still has a wide nose and tail. I have an 8'0" that's the same shape and rode that thing all winter but I left it in Hawaii because it worked well there.
Where would you ride this board?
At Pipe from 6- to 12-foot. With this board you can paddle fast enough to catch the waves and it handles the transition at the bottom because of its outline. Once you're on your rail the rocker turns into your outline. If you have a curved nose with a flat rocker it's going to penetrate a steep transition better than a narrow nose with a lot of rocker. It's a smaller board for bigger waves.
How's the flex?
The flex is insane; it really handles well. I got some footage of me riding the 8'0" in Hawaii, and I shouldn't have made this one drop. The outline, I don't know what it is, but you can hit the lip. You can go straight up on an 8'0". Normally you can't pivot a big four-fin like that.
What was the reason Stretch made this board?
The design was linked to the shortboards I have been riding, and this was just an experiment trying to cut down the vibration you get from foam boards when you're riding bigger waves. Foam is rigid, but because this board is made of cork, bamboo and epoxy, it absorbs the bumps better when you're going fast.
How is this board different from your normal board?
My perception of surfboards is so off that I don't even know what's normal. I've had magic boards that are totally different and you get on them and don't even think for a second about it. A shitty board makes you work for it — as soon as you have to think about it, it's a shitty board. But when you're in the moment you're not worrying about what your board looks like — it's all about how it feels.


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Human Brain Project Kicks-Off
So it comes to pass that mankind is about to embark on a massive attempt to model the human brain computationally. This is very exciting for me personally because, as my regular readers are aware, the study of artificial life has been a long standing hobby of mine which inadvertently resulted in the creation of gaming technologies like Direct3D.
"The Human Brain Project kicks off Oct. 7 at a conference in Switzerland. Over the next 10 years, about 80 science institutions and at least 20 government entities in Europe will figure out how to make that computer brain. The project will cost about $10 billion euros — or about $1.3B in US dollars."
It's huge, ambitious, exciting and all that good stuff, but I must confess to having some hugely mixed feelings about this endeavor. When I see these giant government price tags I can't help thinking; Or you could just wait for 10 years for the technology to catch up to your ambitions and solve it for $200M sort of like Craig Venter did with the Human Genome Project. That's a minor concern however compared to my deeper instinct that it's doomed to horrible costly never ending failure by virtue of simply starting out wildly misguided.
This line kind of says it all.
"The research hinges on creating a super-powerful computer that's 1,000 times faster than those in use today. If you're keeping track, that's an "exascale" supercomputer, one fast enough to model a nuclear explosion or the complex, planetwide forces that shape the climate. Just a few years ago, scientists started using "petascale" supercomputers like Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois that went online last year."
Let's break these claims down a bit for rational consumption. The research doesn't "hinge" on creating a big enough computer, it hinges on developing a DEEP insight into the nature of biological computation. Without new insight (which costs nothing) all they will learn is that they have a huge computer gathering dust that they don't know how to use.
Yeah… about that planet wide climate modeling… these geniuses IMAGINED that they could do that in 1997 and completely failed to predict anything correctly about how our climate evolves, in fact they also failed to launch two rockets which blew up over the Antarctic Ocean in an effort to try to figure out WHY their climate models were failing. Oddly, they got a decisive answer for the hundreds of millions they spent on failed climate satellite launches… your models don't work for the same reasons your rockets explode on launch…. YOU ARE IDIOTS with PhD's. I thought we mathematicians and computer scientists had been pretty clear on the whole "We can't model turbulent systems with any amount of computer power AND we can never know the initial state of a real-world system with sufficient precision to simulate it even if we could" If that were even REMOTELY feasible we'd be hearing about these researchers funding their projects with Lotto winnings or from tapping out the stock market… hasn't happened yet and neither of these problems are even in the same ballpark of complexity as climate and brain modeling. I think one of the REQUIREMENTS for getting government funding to computationally model ANYTHING should be demonstrating that you can match your grant dollars with your online AI Poker winnings. Back in 1997 while the IPCC geniuses where consuming our tax dollars pretending to predict the weather my Mathematica AI projects were supporting me with income. If you're not bright enough to model simple economic systems that can pay for themselves, should you be getting government support? Again, I point to Craig Venter, who was not only smart enough to sequence the Human Genome with a fraction of the resources of the multi-billion dollar Human Genome effort… he was able to fund his work privately! It all smacks of a giant academic boondoggle to justify massive research grants forever.
Another reason for my skepticism about all of this is that every approach they are discussing involves studying and modeling a brain… as though they are complete organisms that can be raised in terrariums. Don't we already know that when we raise a brain in isolation from the real-world it just goes nuts… in fact if we take a working brain and isolate it for even a few hours it goes nuts. I'm pretty sure we don't need to spend 10 years and 1.3 billion dollars also discovering that brains don't work very well when you remove them from bodies… Since nobody has ever managed to actually keep a living brain in a jar and measure it's function we don't even know if the rest of the organism is NECESSARY to it working correctly… by the way… I'm going to venture WAY OUT on a speculative scientific limb and assert that the answer to that great unsolved scientific mystery is that the complete organism is VITAL to a brains correct operation and development. Crazy, I know, now they'll also be calling me a Human Brain Project Denier… clearly there is a consensus of more PhD's than I can argue with that this is a BRILLIANT venture fully justifying the vast investment everybody is so eager to make. At least the Human Genome Project had a completely measurable goal. These guys seem to be suggesting that 10 years from now they'll have a giant disembodied virtual brain doing brilliant rational things without any intimate connection to the rest of reality. I guess the whole "landing humans on Mars" thing was a little too "tangible" for everybody's tastes… too easy for the rest of us footing the bill to measure their progress. These scientists are wising up however, the well must have dried up after the whole Higgs Boson discovery thing so it occurred to them that it would be much brighter to dream up a giant costly scientific endeavor that has no tangible goal!
Is it just me or is there something pathetically humorous about spending 1.3 Billion dollars trying to use a delusional blob of thinking jello composed of 76% water that consumes roughly 100 Watts of power to analyze it's own design by building a computer many thousands of times larger and more powerful? They must have gotten the idea from Douglas Adams. I think the computers answer will be: "You are now no closer to duplicating a brain by that approach than your TRS-80 is to designing an iPad… may I suggest using your PhD's to wrap some fish?"
I know what Moulder on X-Files must have felt like… I WANT to believe… but every way I examine these ventures I end up finding a weather balloon or a guy throwing dinner plates in front of a camera instead of an actual UFO. This doesn't smell like science it smells like make-work research for academics.
In a tragic related news story:
Yeah… I'm stricken… how can we let the Swiss surpass us in silly research spending! Where is our national pride! I can just see those smug Swiss researchers sitting around in their lab coats sipping their Swiss Miss hot chocolate and picking their teeth with those little Swiss Army Knife toothpicks laughing at our incompetence at rationalizing MASSIVE spending on science fiction research projects. F**KING SWISS! STUPID CONGRESS! I'm shattered… really…


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HBO – Cool Or Not? [POLL]
Things are definitely changing in media. People's tastes evolve. Audiences are getting younger. Things that once were hot now are not. Is HBO in this category? According to some sources, yes. According to Newser.com, there has definitely been a shift in what's considered "cool" on TV.
HBO was once necessary if you wanted "any hope of being part of what is appallingly known as the conversation." But today quality television is everywhere, and we have innumerable ways to watch it. We form relationships with shows, not platforms; a pay channel feels like "an increasingly illogical premise." Now that's weird. We watch HBO all the time. Sure, there are choices all over the place, but that doesn't mean that we don't think HBO is cool anymore.
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Blog Beast Creates A Home Business Marketing System
Blog Beast Creates A Home Business Marketing System. Blog Beast has created a marketing plate form to help any local business get found by their customers.
Eagan, MN, October 03, 2013 – Blog Beast Creates A Home Business Marketing System. Blog Beast has created a marketing plate form to help any local business get found by their customers. This new viral marketing system makes it easy to dominate a local community Nilsson says because it eliminates the technical problems in building a website.
Blog Beast will help all business to dominate your local or even regional market and explode your business online, all without spending more than a couple extra hours a week. AND it will cost you WAY less than traditional advertising methods such as yellow book ads, direct mail campaigns, bill boards, or newspaper ads.
Blog Beast simplifies the audio/video blogging experience by allowing the user to record video or audio with the aid of a mobile app. With two simple clicks, anyone can post a podcast or video online from a smartphone or computer, making Blog Beast essentially "grandma-proof."
Sharing is also easier because Blog Beast allows users to reblog posts from other Blog Beast sites, giving the original author credit, while posting the content within their own blogs. A new proprietary commenting feature allows readers to share blogs and their blog comments on social media platforms with links back to the original blog posts.
Nilsson says, After intentionally staying on the fringe of the Home Business/Network Marketing Industry for a dozen years, the careful evaluation and due diligence of a dozen different top internet marketing systems, it was obvious that Blog Beast had the perfect combination of product, leadership, training and appropriate market timing. It's very rare to have all of
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Chase Away The Winter Blues At Atlanta Botanical Gardens Orchid Daze
Enjoy beauty in the midst of winter at Atlanta Botanical Gardens Orchid Daze. From February 9-April 14 the gardens Fuqua Conservatory and orchid houses come alive with gorgeous blooms. Celebrate an explosion of color and intriguing form as the orchids will have visitors longing for spring. Here are some of the highlights of the gardens popular Orchid Daze activities.
The conservatory lobby will be transformed as mirrored walls reflect a dazzling array of orange, yellow, and red orchids. Pink and white dendrobium orchids will trail downward from the ceiling in a dramatic hanging display. Moth orchids, cymbidiums, cattleyas, and colorful slipper orchids will fill the orchid houses.
Garden visitors can enjoy guided exhibition tours of Orchid Daze on Saturdays from February 9-April 13 at 1pm. Tours will leave from the Hardin Visitor Center and are included with garden admission. Orchid Market Weekends are scheduled for February 9-10 and March 9-10 from 10am-4pm and April 13-14 from 10am-6pm. Visitors may purchase live orchids and supplies from local growers, and get expert advice and growing tips. Orchid Care Clinics will be held on February 9, March 9, and April 13 from 10am-noon.
The Atlanta Orchid Society will host its annual Orchid show March 8-10 at the botanical garden. Hundreds of gorgeous orchids will be on display from 9am-5pm in the Day Hall. Some of these beautiful plants will be offered for sale, and there will also be a raffle.
Many people do not realize that vanilla is an orchid. Attend Vanilla Sunday on February 17 from 1-4pm to learn how the plant grows, and how vanilla flavoring is made from the vanilla bean pods and seeds. Local chef Christina Curry will demonstrate cooking with vanilla in the Edible Garden. She will prepare vanilla risotto with crab, vanilla anise biscotti, vanilla
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The Upcoming Residential Projects In Kolkata Are Ready To Flourish
The upcoming residential projects in Kolkata are ready to flourish
The Kolkata real estate market is growing at a steady rate and is counted as one of the most lucrative investment options in the country. The city once wore a jaded look, but thanks to the developers of real estate, Kolkata now has a happening outlook with lots of swank residential apartments and other retail and commercial premises.
Presently, Kolkata is ready to accept and welcome the West International City which is situated just on the opposite banks of river Hoogly. This is the very first venture that has attracted foreign investments and boasts of a premises of 390 acres which would have 5500 bungalows. This township has the best kind of lifestyle and is just a drive away from the busy parts of the town.
Then there is South City which stands at 35 storys and it also hosts the largest mall of the city and an international school.
The Kolkata properties are not very costly in terms of price, as the city has its old heritage and culture. In the recent times, the Kolkata real estate has taken a plunge since many commercial as well as residential projects in Kolkata are coming up.
The government of West Bengal has a cross subsidy model for the developers of real estate in Kolkata. This allows the developer to make huge profits on the high income residential projects wherein the middle income groups must get residential premises at flat rates with no profit no loss cost price. The lower income group must also be given the flats at lower than the cost price.
According to the property experts, the ready commercial plots that are available at a given short notice make Kolkata an attractive destination in terms of
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Creating An Indoor Or Outdoor Pet Memorial Garden
You can connect to the healing process by creating a pet memorial garden dedicated to your beloved pet. Losing a family dog, cat, or other pet can cause feelings just as strong as when we lose our human companions to death. Finding ways to cope is essential to moving through the grieving process. By creating an indoor or outdoor space in memory of your pet, you are sure to find greater peace as you contemplate positive memories that you shared with your loved one.
The first step in creating a memorial space is to determine whether it would be better suited indoors or outdoors. People who live in apartments or other dwellings without a private backyard will find that they can create a small indoor garden using a planter box or a large plant container. If you have a small porch space, you can place several plant containers in a dedicated space, and add a memorial stone that includes your pets name for a personal touch.
If you do have a private outdoor space, you will find that there are endless opportunities for creating a memorial garden. You may already have a garden space in which you can put a memorial stone, a bench that has been engraved with a special poem that reminds you of your beloved pet, angel figurines, or other objects that honor your pet.
You can also start from scratch with an outdoor space by planting a memorial tree with a stone engraved with your pets name near the tree. This will offer a living tribute to your pet.
Adding wind chimes, hanging your pets tags from a tree, using engraved memorial stones, or putting a framed picture of your pet near your indoor memorial garden are all beautiful ways to remember your pet.
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Meenakshi Temple Madurai The Best Of Dravidian Architecture
Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple or Meenakshi Amman Temple is a historic Hindu temple which is located in the city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu. This is among the most famous temples of India which is known throughout the world for its outstanding and impressive architectural beauty. In Hindu religion temple is the place which is reserved for spiritual and religious activities that include prayers and analogous rites.
Sri Meenakshi temple of Madurai is dedicated to Lord Shiva and his consort Goddess Meenakshi (Parvati). Goddess Meenakshi is an incarnation of the Goddess Parvati who is worshiped mainly by South Indians. The utmost architectural wonder of this templeis a testimony to the affluent Dravidian Culture. Some of the prominent features of this colossal temple are:
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This temple was built by Kulasekara Pandyan around 2000 years ago. The colossal structure of this temple is among the finest preserved monuments of the Dravidian style of temple architecture. Architectural and sculptural magnificence is the aspect of this temple which makes it popular throughout the world. The temple premise is surrounded by elevated wall which is adorned with various paintings and sculptures. The main deities of this temple are Lord Sundareswarar and Goddess Meenakshi, whose sanctums are encircled by number of smaller shrines and majestic pillared halls. Among the several magnificent structures the most striking ones are the 12 gopurams which are known for their bright colors painting and decoration of stucco figures of deities, animals, monsters, demigods, and celestial nymph.
Ashta Shakthi Mandapam:
This is located at the eastern entrance of the temple which is known for its 1,008 lamp holders. During festive occasions these lamps are lighted which gives spectacular sight to this place. Pillars of this structure are known for their carvings which depict the stories related
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Osmo Vanska
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, November 19
Kalevi Aho's percussion concerto, Sieidi, is a co-commission from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Luosto Classic festival, and the composer was always conscious that it would be premiered both in a traditional concert hall and on the slopes of Luosto Fell in Finnish Lapland. Without hearing the outdoor performance, it's hard to know whether he succeeded, but it is a work in which space is key. The soloist's instruments range across the front of the stage, and he makes his way, ritualistically, from one end to the other and back again. Three other percussionists, strategically placed at the back of the stage, answer him, and a large orchestra fills the space in the middle.
Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska and Scottish percussion virtuoso Colin Currie have been doing the rounds, worldwide, with this monumental work since its premiere in 2012. It is compelling, visually as well as sonically. Currie moves solemnly from unpitched wood and skin to pitched metal to unpitched metal and back, discovering each new timbre, examining its potential, revelling in its uniqueness. Meanwhile, the orchestra erupts with gaping tuttis and frantic climaxes. At one point, with bass drums going off in sequence at the back of the stage, it sounded a bit like the fuzzy ordnance of Sydney on New Year's Eve. Impressive but, ultimately, within the confines of Opera House Concert Hall, it felt a little overblown.
Not so for Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, by Johannes Brahms. Vanska looked like a different conductor, shaping the expansive phrases with woolly gestures which somehow perfectly expressed the music, drawing a glorious sound from the orchestra. While the first movement took its time, the sound never faltered, sustaining its rich, focused quality over the long lines. There were too many fine solos from within the orchestra to mention individuals, but the second movement was exquisite, and the final movement was a masterly balancing act between wild abandon and wise control.
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Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West
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PALO ALTO BOARD OF EDUCATION ... The school board will discuss Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest budget proposals and will vote on where to place portable classrooms at Palo Alto High School during an upcoming building project. The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 12, in the board room at Palo Alto Unified School District headquarters (25 Churchill Ave.).
PALO ALTO PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission plans to discuss the Stanford Avenue and El Camino Real intersection improvement project, which includes new corner bulbouts, realignment of pedestrian crosswalks, widened medians and new landscaping. The commission also plans to review the Business Elements Programs and Policies for the Comprehensive Plan. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 13, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).
PALO ALTO HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an update on the Police Department's Citizen Advisory Group; to hear a presentation on the "Universal Playground Project" at Mitchell Park; and to discuss items for the commission's joint meeting with the City Council. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 14, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.).


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Dearest New Trick,
Ever since I first laid eyes on you in this season's newest video, I knew that you and I were destined for one another. Countless nights I spent pining for you, dreaming my way through the fall until those first flakes of white gold began to sail downward upon our local slopes.
Months I spent perusing the local park, preparing for our first encounter and flirting with a hope of calling you mine. Then, one fateful day when I finally got ahold of you the feeling coursing through my veins made me cognizant of the reason that I have fought the suffocating cold and the unrelenting winds. Weeks of PDA in full view of the chairlift followed, and brought me respect from my peers while simultaneously jading my rivals with jealousy.
Our time in the snow-covered Elysian Fields was not wasted, and I want you to know that I will always care about you because you have an eternally special place in my bag of tricks. However, I have noticed that many of my friends have also began to place your notch in their belts, so it is with this letter that I insist we see other people.
I cannot sincerely go on like this, and it would not be fair to you anyways because I have began to play the field myself, and have been pursuing a new trick.
I wish you the best of luck, aged trick once so fresh, but our love that once seemed to have a twinkie's shelf life has now gone the way of MySpace, and I must bid you Adieu.


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An evening of classical music featuring mezzo-soprano Katie Calcamuggio and John Elam on piano will be presented Wednesday, May 7 at 7pm at the Buffalo High School Auditorium.
Vicki Chennette, with the Johnson County Arts and Humanities Council, tells us more about the performers and their stop in Buffalo.
The event is free and all interested are welcome to attend.
The concert is made possible through the Piatigorsky Foundation, with a generous sponsorship from the Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Charitable Foundation along with local sponsorships from the Johnson County Arts and Humanities Council, Johnson County School District #1, and the Buffalo High School Music Department.
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|This publication offers the twelfth consecutive annual report on teaching, research, service, and development at the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park (ORWRP). It covers progress in calendar year 2003, the tenth year of hydrologic operation of the two 2.5-acre experimental wetland "kidneys" on the site, the seventh year of ecological development of our 7-acre mitigation wetland "billabong," the fifth year of the Sandefur Wetland Pavilion, and the first year of occupancy of the Heffner Wetland Research and Education Building. Twenty-four courses from 5 OSU Colleges (FAES, MAPS, ENG, BIOSCI, SBS) and several other universities used the ORWRP in 2003. Two masters' theses and one Ph.D. in wetland ecology were completed in 2003/early 2004, raising the total number of theses and dissertations completed at the ORWRP to 44. Five short courses on wetland restoration, wetland delineation, ecological engineering, and ecosystem modeling were taught in 2003 to 55 participants from 19 states/provinces. One hundred thirty-three tours or presentations of the ORWRP were given in 2003 to almost 2000 participants as public outreach. Grants and contracts totalling \$2.2 million were active at the ORWRP in 2003. Approximately \$362,000 in donations were secured in 2003, about the same as the \$365,000 secured in 2002. These donations included several in-kind contributions related to the wetland building construction. The \$2.8 million Wetland Research and Education Building at the ORWRP was completed and occupied in 2003. The economic impact of the ORWRP to The Ohio State University in income from grants, contracts, development, and short course fees over its 12-year history has been \$5.4 million, not counting its significant academic and wetland management contributions.
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That's what I call it when the really practical-minded ideas come from the neophytes and not my "cradle Catholic" compatriots. Not because I begrudge a convert who is smarter than I am - or at least, more articulate. Rather, it has to do with the fact that the exclusionists are guilty of rank tribalism, when to be so causes them to positively reek of hypocrisy. If you're the Christian, then how exactly do you expect to convert people by turning them into pariahs? And if you're one of the "progressives," well then why are you segregating your opponents when you have a more decent shot at winning hearts and minds by keeping them exposed to mainstream society? And don't both camps toot their respective horns about how all are supposedly welcome?
We'll leave aside the skepticism with which we've approached Pluralism in the recent past for the sake of this exercise, because no matter how unsupported it finds itself in reality, it's desirable in theory.