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Chief climate commissioner Tim Flannery believes Australia will be generating 100 per cent of its energy from renewable sources within decades.
At the moment renewables such as hydroelectricity, wind and solar power account for 10 per cent of Australia's energy mix. That figure is expected to rise to 25 per cent by 2020.
But Professor Flannery insists there's "no doubt" Australia will end up with 100 per cent renewables sooner rather than later.
"It's only my gut feeling, but I would say (it will happen) within decades and not many," Prof Flannery told AAP, adding that prices were coming down and penetration was growing "massively".
The Climate Commission on Monday is to release a report examining renewable energy in Australia.
It suggests there is enormous potential but so far it's under-utilised.
"Solar PV and wind could be the cheapest forms of power in Australia for retail users by 2030, if not earlier, as carbon prices rise," the report states.
"The rate of growth of wind energy is well above any other large-scale generation source, growing at an average of 40 per cent each year over five years to 2009-10."
Prof Flannery said the situation was similar to what was happening in the media where historically there'd been a few large generators of news and many consumers.
"But the internet means there's now a whole lot of producers and a whole lot of consumers," he said.
"The electricity sector is going the same way. We led the world in terms of small installations of PV (solar) last year."
Prof Flannery said as renewables replaced fossil fuels there had to be changes such as a national roll-out of smart meters to manage demand.
There could also be a limited need for new infrastructure such as a connection to transfer wind-generated power from South Australia to the southeastern grid.
The ability to store electricity produced from renewables was also key, the chief climate commissioner said.
"That's what is going to be the next transformational technological innovation," he said.
"We already have the technology in terms of lithium-ion batteries."
Monday's report notes that global investment in renewable power reached almost $250 billion in 2011. That exceeded spending on new fossil-fuel power plants for the first time.


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A CORONER has recorded an open verdict on the death of a man whose body was found in the river Avon.
Grahame Oswald was found caught in the moorings of the Weir Meadow Caravan Park, in Castle Street, Evesham, in February but was not identified until March because, although he was fully clothed, he had no identification on him.
Police launched an appeal attempting to identify the 63-year-old by his clothing but it wasn't until Robert Stevens found a backpack in a hedgerow that he believed could have belonged to him that police were able to trace Mr Oswald's relatives.
At an inquest in Stourport today, senior Worcestershire coroner Geraint Williams said a piece of Mr Oswald's heart was taken for DNA analysis and police traced his twin brother Martin through the backpack that was found to check his identity.
Mr Oswald was the last person to see his brother alive when he left his house during the night on December 30 last year. He left a note to say he was going backpacking and text his daughter, Holly, saying, "Don't worry. I'll not bother anyone anymore".
A post-mortem could not be carried out on Mr Oswald as his body had been in the water too long, and the date of his actual death was not known because he had not been seen or heard from in a long time, which his family said was not unusual for him.
"I have not been able to find out anything about what he was doing to where he was between when Martin last saw him and when he was found in the river," said Mr Williams.
"I don't know how he came to be in the river, I don't know where or when it physically happened. Did the floods get him, was he inebriated, did someone push him in, or did he jump in? We just don't know. So I have no choice but to register an open conclusion."
Mr Oswald was of no fixed address at the time of his death.

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A SPECIALIST hospital caring for children across the Midlands has been given a glowing report following a surprise inspection.
Birmingham Children's Hospital was visited by four Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors in November, who found families were happy with the care their children were receiving, and all essential standards were being met.
The inspectors visited areas of the hospital including intensive care, cardiac and cancer wards and spoke to more than 30 parents.
One said: "My child's condition was stabilised by the KIDS team. When we arrived at this hospital, the intensive care staff were ready and prepared for us."
The hospital's chief executive, Sarah-Jane Marsh, said she was delighted by the findings of the report.
"The staff of Birmingham Children's Hospital continually strive to deliver the best possible care to the thousands of children, young people and families that need our support, during very stressful and worrying times," she said.
"This report is testament to their hard work and commitment, but we will never become complacent, and always do everything we can to further improve, and listen to each and every concern raised about our hospital."
To view the full report visit cqc.org.uk/directory/rq301.


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THE board game Monopoly will soon lose a classic token and gain a new one, by way of a public vote on Facebook. It may sound like harmless fun, but is in fact a travesty, though not for the sake of nostalgia or preservational instinct.
Notice the four tokens currently winning the vote, and thus most likely to stay ''safe'' from elimination. They are, as of this writing, the Scottie dog, the race car, the battleship and the top hat. What do they have in common? Accoutrements of the 1 per cent. A Scottish terrier champion-line puppy may cost $1500. A roadster, $50,000. A battleship, $100 million in mid-century dollars. The top hat is as much a sign of the filthy rich as the monocle.
And here are the four losers: the humble thimble, the laceless workboot, the iron and the current bottom-feeder, the wheelbarrow. What do they have in common? Labour. Penury. Born, most of them, with the first 1935 edition, when the Great Depression was not an instructive economic case study, but outside your window. The full weight of society was in motion to fix it, and its legacy was a healthy wariness of a super-rich class run amok. When the Scottie and wheelbarrow, the latecomers, were introduced in 1952 - notice, one rich token and one poor! - the top marginal income tax rate was 92 per cent.
The proposed replacement tokens? A robot, a diamond ring, a guitar, a cat with sizeable bling on its collar and a bleeping helicopter. Not a one of them symbolic of the labouring class.
Monopoly is a ruthless teacher. To win, more than just accumulate wealth, you must bankrupt your opponent, watch as he or she, friend or family member, makes a steady march towards dissolution. Only a roll of the dice determines whether you pass Go or end up in jail, or whether it will be you bankrupted tomorrow. Its zero-sum lesson is, strangely enough, a fair one, in that it is equally unfair. But now that balance is soon to be disrupted in one important way, and yet another bulwark against the dominating perception that the rich life is the only admirable one will be dismantled. Where will be the reminders that society is built on the low ground as much as the high?
As a boy I favoured the car. I made zoom-zoom noises and took the turns hard, with a controlled fishtailing of the back wheels.
I usually played against my father, who used the iron, the token I now favour for its simple form and function. ''What do I need a race car for?'' my father said. And he proceeded to trounce me.


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I'll probably strip it all away and replace it with my theme, anyway, so I really don't care what it looks like. However, I care greatly about how it functions. I hope for more animations. With all the RAM in phones nowadays, the iPhone has some room to play around with buttons and animations that use more than a handful of frames.
Mac OSX can wait - we don't really need a new OS right now. Lion was a big step up, Mt. Lion brought improvements but nothing massive, and I don't suppose that 10.9 will be groundbreaking either - iOS on the other hand, needs some massive improvements and they need to be here now.
Actually ... It boosts sales for apple to pretend they have fixed all exploits for a jailbreak and yet still leave them open for the community to Cydia it's way through ... .. After all has anyone ever roughy that those exploits where not secured on purpose .. And course they wnt make it that easy
I wonder if Jony Ive will start doing the iOS presentations now.
At least there will be a few less tweaks to reinstall when we jailbreak ios7... They will implement a few good Cydia mods... A new UI will be nice, but like jahooba said, most of us will prolly just jailbreak 7 and theme it to our liking... Time will tell if the changes of 7.0 are gonna be sweet or the same...
The only reason my iphone lasts longer than my droid is cause it's jailbroken and I've tweaked it for optimal performance over optimal looks
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i know I posted one of these about 2 weeks ago, but I made a few tweaks and this one came out even better. I will be making lots of these, but I promise this will be my last post here on them. My first attempt at this two weeks ago came out great, but I was going to make a few tweaks. I let the dough rise a bit longer this time to make it a bit more supple. I added some tomato & basil tomato sauce because I felt the diced tomatoes only in the last one were a bit dry.
The first step was to saute some green peppers & onions.
The pizza dough has finished it's rise and has been stretched out into a disk. The ceramic deep dish pizza pan has been coated with olive oil. The dough goes into the pizza pan & gets covered & rests for 15 minutes.
The pizza dough is in the pizza pan where it gets stretched into it's final shape and the edges get crimped. The dough rests for an additional15 minutes.
The pizza crust is on the Egg where the crust has partially cooked for 10 minutes. It is now going back to the Kitchen to get topped.
The toppings are prepared & ready to go.
The first step is to mix the diced tomatoes, garlic, Italian pasta seasoning blend, sugar, onions & green pepper.
The finished diced tomato sauce.
The first topping is mozzarella cheese which is fanned out along the bottom of the pizza crust.
This time around I laid down a thin layer of tomato basil sauce...
Next comes the pepperoni...
Next came the diced tomato sauce, green pepper & onions...
The last topping was some parmesan-reggianno cheese.
The topped pizza is back on the Egg and will cook at 425 degrees for 25 minutes.
The pizza is done & will now rest for 15 minutes.
The pizza has rested for 15 minutes & is ready to eat. The smell in the house was amazing & made it tough to wait 15 minutes before cutting into this.
This was my best deep dish pizza yet. Adding the extra tomato basil sauce was a good move. the pizza was a bit more moist & tasty on the inside. This was my best crust yet.
The ceramic deep dish pizza pan gives you a nice even golden brown crust on the bottom. I'd turned the pizza midway through the cooking time and the top was nice & evenly cooked too.
These Chicago style deep dish pizzas are almost too easy. As long as I get the Egg to the right temperature and cook the pizza for the called for time, the results are consistently delicious. The pan I have is the old 7" version which has been discontinued in favor of the new 14" dia. ceramic deep dish pizza pan. The new pan seems to finally been out. I have seen it at my BGE dealer where it retails for $45.00.


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Xavier announces first class of Cintas Institute for Business Ethics Graduate Fellows
The Fellows will enter a study program in ethics, governance, leadership and sustainability | October 16, 2012
Xavier's inaugural class of the Cintas Institute for Business Ethics Graduate Fellows, introduced on Friday, Oct. 5, consists of eight MBA students who are employed at various local companies including Fifth Third Bank, Duke Energy and Procter & Gamble.
Ethics Fellows are MBA students who have expressed an interest in issues related to ethics, governance, leadership and sustainability by taking elective graduate courses on these topics. MBA students who have taken, or are registered for, two courses within these areas can apply to be Fellows. The first class of applicants submitted their applications last spring.
Applications include transcripts, a personal essay and faculty recommendations about the applicant's ability to meet the standards required of an Ethics Fellow. Those MBA students selected for the program receive a scholarship for coursework in the area of ethics, governance, leadership and sustainability and will participate in annual events, including the Heroes of Professional Ethics speaker series, hosted by the Cintas Institute for Business Ethics.
At the culmination of the program, the Fellows will be reimbursed the cost of one three-credit-hour MBA course from Xavier and will have the opportunity to work with Cintas Institute Faculty Fellows on multimedia projects that demonstrate the principles of these areas and explain how their personal business knowledge and career potential will be enhanced by their studies.
The inaugural class of Fellows includes:
• Angela Casebolt of Fifth Third Bank.
• Andrew Evans of Fort Washington Investment Advisors.
• Margaret Fenner of Duke Energy.
• Karima Thomas of UC Health-University Hospital.
• Danielle Perkins Hamlyn of Nielsen.
• Jennifer Kleemeier of Procter & Gamble.
• Beth Huffner of Education Services Group.
• Brooke Horan of Analytic Partners.


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Don't rush your baby's birth day
More and more births are being scheduled a little early. Experts are learning that this can cause problems. If possible, it's best to stay pregnant for at least 39 weeks. If your pregnancy is healthy, wait for labor to begin on its own.
Babies aren't fully developed until at least 39 weeks of pregnancy.If your pregnancy is healthy, wait for labor to begin on its own.
Important brain development happens during the last weeks of pregnancy.A baby's brain at 35 weeks weighs only two-thirds of what it will weigh at 39 to 40 weeks.
Babies born after 39 weeks have fewer health problems than babies born early.They also will have an easier time feeding and staying warm.
Be informed and ask questions.If your provider talks to you about inducing labor or having a c-section, ask if there's a problem with your health or the health of your baby.
If your labor is induced, your chances double for needing a c-section.Sometimes induction is needed for medical reasons. If your pregnancy is healthy, it's best to wait for labor to begin on its own.
What is happening this week in your pregnancy?
In the early weeks of your pregnancy, your baby is growing rapidly. But your baby's development during the last weeks is also important! Find out what happens each week.
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Conception usually happens 2 weeks after the start of your last menstrual period (also called LMP). Conception is when a man's sperm fertilizes a woman's egg. Most women don't know the day they got pregnant. This is why health care providers use your LMP to find out how far along you are in pregnancy.
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Once the egg is fertilized, it attaches to the lining of the uterus and begins to grow.
Week 5
Your baby's neural tube has formed. The neural tube becomes your baby's brain and spinal cord.
Week 6
Your baby's heart beats about 80 times a minute. Her nose, mouth and ears begin to take shape. Tiny buds start to appear that will become her arms and legs.
Week 7
Your baby's bones start to form but are still soft. They harden as you get farther along in your pregnancy. Your baby's genitals begin to take shape. But it's probably too soon to know your baby's sex. She now has eyelids, but they are sealed shut.
Week 8
All of your baby's major organs and body systems are developing.The placenta is working. The placenta grows in your uterus and supplies the baby with food and oxygen through the umbilical cord. Your baby is about ½ to 1 inch long.
Week 9
Your baby's arms grow and bend at the elbow. Her toes and ears begin to take shape. Tiny buds appear that become your baby's teeth.
Week 10
Fingers and toes continue to develop and grow nails. Your baby's head becomes round in shape. Her neck is developing. All of her organs are formed, but they're not fully developed.
Week 11
Your baby's bones begin to get hard. Her skin is still thin and see-through but gets less see-through over time. Her head makes up about half of her size.
Week 12
Your baby's hands develop faster than her feet. She moves around, but you may not be able to feel her move yet. You can hear your baby's heartbeat through a device your provider uses. She's about 3 inches long and weighs about 1 ounce.
Week 13
Your baby is growing fast as her organs continue to develop. Your baby's kidneys make urine. On an ultrasound, it may look like your baby is breathing and swallowing. This week is the end of your first trimester. Each trimester lasts about 3 months.
Week 14
This is the beginning of your second trimester. Your baby starts to move her eyes. Her nose and taste buds are developing. Her skin starts to thicken, and hair follicles under her skin begin to grow.
Week 15
Your baby is very active! She can flip and roll around inside you. You may begin to feel her move. Her bones are growing strong, and you may be able to see them during an ultrasound.
Week 16
Your baby's ears have developed. She can hear you! Talk or sing to her as much as you like. Your baby is about 6 to 7 inches long and weighs about 5 ounces.
Week 17
Your baby starts to add fat to her body! Fat gives your baby energy and helps her stay warm after she's born. Vernix starts to appear on your baby's skin. This is waxy or greasy coating that's waterproof. It protects your baby's skin in the womb.
Week 18
Your baby goes to sleep and wakes up throughout the day. Loud noises and your movements can wake her. Her skin has lanugo. This is soft, fine hair that helps keep her warm in the womb.
Week 19
Your baby's kicks and movements are getting stronger! If you think you felt her movements before, you really can feel them now. She starts to learn how to suck, which she needs for feeding after she's born.
Week 20
Your baby is swallowing more. Her nails start to grow toward the ends of her fingers. If you want, you can find out if your baby's a boy or a girl on an ultrasound. Your baby is about 10 inches long and weighs about 1 pound.
Week 21
Your baby's fingers and toes are fully formed, including her finger prints and toe prints. From time to time, she may hiccup. You may feel these as regular, jerky movements.
Week 22
Your baby's eyelids are still shut, but her eyes are moving behind them. Her tear ducts start to develop, and her eyebrows may begin to appear. She may move suddenly when she hears loud sounds.
Week 23
Your baby may recognize familiar sounds, like your voice. She may suck her thumb. The sex organs are developed. For boys, their testes begin to hang down. For girls, their uterus, ovaries and eggs are in place. These eggs could become your future grandchildren--how cool is that?
Week 24
Your baby's muscles continue to develop. She may start to have hair on her head. Her lungs are fully formed but aren't ready to work outside the womb. She is about 12 inches long and weighs about 1 to 1½ pounds.
Week 25
Your baby is growing and developing fast! Your baby also adds more fat to her body, which makes her skin look smooth and less wrinkly.
Week 26
Your baby's lungs start to make surfactant. This substance helps your baby's lungs get ready to breathe.
Week 27
Your baby is doing lots of kicking and stretching. Her lungs and nervous system continue to develop. This week marks the end of your second trimester.
Week 28
This is the beginning of your third trimester. Your baby can slightly open her eyes and can sense changes in light. Her eyelids begin to form eyelashes. Your baby is about 10 inches long and weighs about 2½ pounds.
Week 29
Your baby starts to put on weight fast! In the last 2½ months of pregnancy, your baby gains about half her birthweight. Be sure to eat healthy so your baby has the nutrients she needs to grow.
Week 30
Your baby begins to lose the lanugo, the soft fine hair that covered her body. She also may have a good amount of hair on her head! Your baby is about 10½ inches long and weighs about 3 pounds.
Week 31
Your baby's brain grows and develops. Parts of her brain can control her body heat without depending on the temperature of the amniotic fluid. Amniotic fluid is fluid that that surrounds your baby in the womb.
Week 32
As your baby adds fat to her body, her skin is no longer see-through. Even though your baby's lungs aren't fully developed, she practices breathing. Your baby is about 18 inches long and weighs about 4 to 5 pounds.
Week 33
Your baby gains weight quickly. As you get closer to your due date, your baby gains about ½ pound per week. She gains weight, but doesn't get much longer than 20 inches. The pupils in her eyes can respond to light.
Week 34
Your baby's fingernails reach the ends of her fingers. The vernix, the waxy, greasy coating that protects your baby's skin in the womb, starts to get thicker. Your baby also develops sleep patterns and likes to sleep at certain times during the day.
Week 35
Your baby's brain, eyes, ears and lungs are still developing. A baby's brain at 35 weeks weighs only two-thirds of what it will weigh at 39 to 40 weeks. If your pregnancy is healthy, wait for labor to begin in its own. Births scheduled before 39 weeks should be for medical reasons only.
Week 36
It's starting to get crowded in the womb! While she doesn't have room to do many flips or rolls, you still feel her kicks, stretches and other movements. If you notice that your baby's moving less, contact your health care provider. Your baby is about 20 inches long and weighs about 6 pounds.
Week 37
Important organs, like your baby's brain, lungs and liver, are still developing. If your pregnancy is healthy, it's best to stay pregnant for at least 39 weeks. Births scheduled before 39 weeks should be for medical reasons only.
Week 38
Your baby's toenails reach the ends of her toes. Your baby's size may make you feel uncomfortable. If your pregnancy is healthy, wait for labor to begin on its own. Hang in there!
Week 39
You and your baby have made it to 39 weeks! This is great! Your baby will let you know when she's ready to be born. Call your provider when you think you're in labor.
Week 40
Congratulations on 40 weeks! Your baby's had time to fully develop and is ready to meet you face to face. Call your provider when you think you're in labor. Your baby is about 18 to 20 inches long and weighs about 6 to 9 pounds.
Infographic: Healthy babies are worth the wait
Read our infographic on scheduling your baby's birth to understand the serious risks involved. Help us spread the message to other moms-to-be by sharing the infographic in your social spaces.
Visitors may have been directed to this web page through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS is partnering with the March of Dimes to increase awareness of the medical impact of babies being born before 39 weeks. CMS' involvement is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as an endorsement of the March of Dimes or its activities.


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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
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Win It! $50 Visa Gift Card + More from 'This Is 40!'
Enter to win a 'This Is 40' prize pack, including a $50 Visa gift card and more!
-The Betty Editors
You know, as excited as we are for all the new dramas that are hitting the cinemas right now, sometimes, you just need to laugh. That's why we can't wait to see This Is 40! Five years after Judd Apatow introduced us Pete and Debbie (Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann) in Knocked Up, we return to their lives for a closer look.
After years of marriage, Pete lives in a house of all females: Wife Debbie and their two daughters, eight-year-old Charlotte (Iris Apatow) and 13-year-old Sadie (Maude Apatow). As he struggles to keep his record label afloat, he and Debbie must figure out how to forgive, forget, and enjoy the rest of their lives… before they kill each other. Also starring John Lithgow, Megan Fox, Chris O'Dowd, Jason Segel, Melissa McCarthy, and many more, this hilarious and poignant new comedy captures what it takes for one family to flourish in the middle of a lifetime together.
Check out the trailer here!
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Cook pasta per package directions. While the pasta is cooking, prepare the pesto by placing all remaining ingredients, except the dulse, in a blender and pulse until creamy. Place the pesto in a serving bowl and gently mix in the chopped dulse. When the pasta is done, rinse, drain and place in individual serving dishes. Serve with 3 to 4 tablespoons of dulse pesto on top.
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"Black cats and goblins and broomsticks and ghosts. Covens of witches with all of their hopes. you may think they scare me. You're probably right. Black cats and goblins on Halloween night..."
Not many films capture the pure essence of the eponymous holiday, the night of mischief and tricks, demons and imps and ghouls better than John Carpenter's 1978 film, Halloween. From the quaint neighborhoods that could most certainly be our own and the dutiful rakers and lawnmowers and cross guards there, to the revelers garbed against the night, unaware that a truly ghastly soul walks among them in the autumn air. Halloween brings evil to our front lawns, raps on the front door with ferocious vigor at the very moment when we're supposed to be safest from it all. It makes the entire day spooky and unsettling, not just the night and what we don't see there.
Halloween centers on the sociopathic Michael Myers, a man who knows no emotion, no remorse, and no guilt, but only the utter carnality of evil. Immediately, Carpenter tells us this; in the first minutes we're introduced to a boy who has just murdered his older sister in cold blood. If he's capable of such as a child, our minds inexorably run to the urgency of what he could be capable of as an adult. And it doesn't take too long to get an idea: he escapes from a mental asylum and runs back to his home town, where he killed his sister 15 years ago, and where he'll kill again on this Halloween night.
When Laurie Strode, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, first encounters Michael Myers, he's standing across the street from her school. She's straightaway unnerved, caught off balance by the odd sensation of having a masked man stare at her, having him seemingly gawk at her. And Michael just stands there, stolid, preternaturally. It's an important scene not only because of the visceral connection between these two bodies, but also because of the in class discussion on fate. Through a simple plot device, the entire narrative is beautifully foreshadowed, the theme is thrust front and center: destiny is inescapable. Even as two bodies are not logically connected, they are somehow connected through the natural element of fate. If Laurie had never taken that key to the Myer's house, the common thematic thread would have never been connected, her friends would have never been killed, and she would have never been set on the ghastly road of events that would see her battling Michael several more times before his utter destruction years - and alternate timelines - later. Fate, like Michael, is immovable.
And like Michael and fate, the haunting score never changes, never moves. It's constant, incessantly prodding our minds and reminding us something's going to happen, that eventually the tenuous suspense so expertly crescendoed will finally manifest in an explosion of terror, emotion, and relief. Again and again and again just like Michael, that now infamous score never stops coming back. It just all works so surprisingly well for its utter and beautiful simplicity.
For the longest time after his escape from the mental asylum, we rarely see Michael's face, and if we ever do, it's from some far distance. This keeps Michael enigmatic, ferocious, something unknown and therefore dangerous. Michael becomes this disembodied, omniscient presence; he holds no identity outside of his actions, the actions of a detached murderer, one whose inability to collate his mind beyond psychosis makes him more animal than man.
Always masked even when killing, Michael represents not only the detached nature of insanity, but more importantly, he represents our need to separate our infantile sense of insecurity from our infantile rage. Michael is the insurmountable Other, he is the Bogeyman, the Bump in the night that we are terrified to confront. His mask sets him as so, it sets him apart from us because it is abnormal. But his mask also represents the burying of our infantile rage, the buried resentment for our repressed desires, desires that we cannot bring ourselves to face.
However, it's not only Michael's choice of murderous and frightening attire that does this to us. In the film's opening moments, as we're not quite sure what is going to happen or who we're going to root for, we're thrown into this strikingly poignant and perfect first person point-of-view. The constriction of our framework isolates us from the other characters; it slots us into the role of whomever we're following. And as the sequence progresses, we're further constricted as we don a mask. Now we've become someone else entirely, but whom? As our fears are reinforced because of this, we discover we're a killer, a murderer; we're complicit in this cardinal act. We've killed our childish fears and desires and brandished the yolk of rage whether we've chosen to or not. This, once we've discovered who it is we've been, sets us forever apart from him; he's cemented as Other, as fear, as enigma.
What Carpenter so deftly realizes about Halloween that makes it so timeless, is that Michael Myers isn't much a mere foreboding and terrifying killer because of his unmitigated efficiency, but more because he is a transcendent character, one from not only our nightmares, but from our legends, our most deeply rooted fears. Carpenter made him scary because he made Michael more than a killer while still being just a killer. He created a classic through not buckets of blood and gratuitous violence, but through solid scares, believable characters and settings, and perfect, delectable vision. Carpenter took a joyous and raucous occasion and turned it, in perfect fashion, into pure horror.


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LA MAMA KIDS -- a new series of creative workshop programming for youngsters and their families -- will make its debut at La MaMa at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St. -- 2nd floor) on Saturday, February 9 at 11 a.m., it has been announced by La MaMa's artistic director Mia Yoo.
La MaMa's first such regular series of programming for family audiences, LA MAMA KIDS is scheduled for the second Saturday of every month and will kick off February 9, 2013 with a hands-on workshop "Immerse Yourself!" by Jane Catherine Shaw, a longtime downtown puppeteer ("Universe Expanding," "Folktales of Asia and Africa"), who will demonstrate how to make and manipulate shadow puppets.
LA MAMA KIDS at Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 E. 4 St. - 2nd floor. Each
workshop or performance is approximately an hour. Workshops the 2nd Saturday of
every month. Performances are on select Saturdays. Workshops/performances
begin at 11 a.m. Admission $10 per family. Information 212 475 7710.
Now in its 51st season as one of the leading experimental theatre companies
in the world, La MaMa created LA MAMA KIDS with its eye on the present as
well as the future: according to Ms. Yoo, the increasing number of young
(and larger) families settling and remaining in the theater's East Village
neighborhood is a natural fit for family programming.
Ms. Yoo notes, "After celebrating our 50th Anniversary last season, we look
to our next 50 years and hope to nurture the next generation of theatre
artists and audiences in our incredibly diverse community. With this addition
to our expanding, inter-generational and inter-cultural programming, La MaMa
continues to be a place for everyone. We want this program to be open and
accessible; no one will be turned away for lack of funds."
LA MAMA KIDS is the newest addition to the LA MAMA LEARNS series of
educational programs, which also includes the annual summer workshops at La MaMa
Umbria in Italy; theater and dance classes at Sarah Lawrence and Hunter
colleges; annual Beatbox Festival; continuing partnerships with Pace University,
New School, NYU, Trinity, and Hip Hop ReEducation; distance learning with
CultureHub, La MaMa's incubator for creativity focused on the intersection of
art and technology.
Following its February debut, LA MAMA KIDS will continue on the 2nd
Saturday of each month, as follows:
"Sweetbeatz" with MerEdith Wright
Saturday, March 9 at 11 a.m.
Sweetbeatz is a musical group for young audiences that keeps little ones on
their feet and dancing to the beat! Listed by blogger Mommy Poppins as one
of the top shows to see for kids in NYC, you're certain to enjoy
Sweetbeatz's original soulful and silly tunes too! Sweetbeatz vocalist MerEdith Wright
-- a member of Great Jones Repertory since 2001 and has performed all over
world -- performs songs and stories from across the globe.
"The Magic Pot" with Julia Martin
Saturday, April 13 at 11 a.m.
"The Magic Pot" is a re-telling of an ancient magical, mathematical Chinese
tale about a very special pot that doubles everything, raising the question
for those who find it -- will they be rich forever or double their trouble?
"The Magic Pot" features music and puppets; the workshop will include
craft-making for youngsters. Julia Martin has been a member of the Great Jones
Repertory Company of La MaMa since 1996. She currently teaches acting at
various schools in New York and has directed numerous theatre productions
including the celebrated children's show Three by the Sea.
"Mask Making"with Federico Restrepo
Saturday, May 11 at 11 a.m.
A fun movement workshop for the whole family. Children will make animal
masks and create their own dance as they move through the jungle of their
imagination in an interactive environment. Federico Restrepo was born in Bogotá,
Colombia and is the founder and artistic director of Loco7 Dance Puppet
Theatre Company, which has premiered 13 pieces at La MaMa. He is a member of
the Great Jones Repertory Company of La MaMa since 1987. *This workshop will
take place at La MaMa Galleria at 6 East 1st Street.
"Mindful Music" with Perry Yung
Saturday, June 8 at 11 a.m.
A family fun workshop on the Zen concept of mindful music, "Mindful Music"
uses the Japanese shakuhachi bamboo flute, temple gongs and storytelling.
The workshop features theatrical games and instruction on how to craft a
musical instrument for everyone to take home. Perry Yung is a founding member
of the SLANT Performance group, a shakuhachi maker and a member of La MaMa's
Great Jones Repertory Company since 1994.
In addition to the once-monthly creative workshops, LA MAMA KIDS will also
present the following performances at the Ellen Stewart Theatre, also at 11
"Pelandok the Mouse Deer and Malaysian Folktales"
with Jane Catherine Shaw and Rebecca Leigh Silverman
Saturday, February 23 at 11 a.m.
Three popular recurring characters and their stories are interwoven to make
one exciting piece of theater for young audiences. Throughout the story,
traditional and authentic Malaysian music is played, and audiences will hear
the sounds of native birds, animals and insects in the soundtrack. All of the
voices are performed live, making this a rich and compelling piece of
theater for young audiences. The show is followed by a Q&A with the performers.
About "Pelandok...", CurtainUp has written, "The puppetry is truly
mind-boggling. It includes shadow, rod, doll, and others, ranging in height from one
foot to many feet in scale."
"Katcha and the Devil and Other Czech Tales with Strings"
with Vit Horejs
Saturday, April 27 at 11 a.m.
For 50 years, a troupe of antique marionettes was confined to a dusty
closet at Jan Hus Church, in the heart of New York's Czechoslovak neighborhood.
Discovered by Vít Horejš, Czechoslovak storyteller, author, and puppeteer,
the 24-inch century-old masterpieces of Czech puppet makers have since
brought joy to thousands of spectators young and old. Vít Horejš and his
marionettes tell favorite Czech stories he learned in his home town, Prague, from his
father and grandmother: Katcha and the Devil, about a shepherd who outwits
the devil, with a dance-loving shrew in pursuit. About the artist, The New
York Times has said, "Mr. Horejs is almost as dramatic a figure as his
marionettes, 50-year-old puppets that step, dance, ride horseback and even play a
"Family Playdate"
with Richard Ebihara and Perry Yung
Saturday, June 22 at 11 a.m.
Join the SLANT Performance Group as they weave their magical humor through
La MaMa's first Family Playdate - a fun-filled showcase performed by members
of the Great Jones Repertory Company. Embracing intelligent dance, music
and theatre, this unique event is tailored specially for a theatrical family
experience in a relaxed atmosphere.
LA MAMA KIDS at Ellen Stewart Theatre, 66 E. 4 St. - 2nd floor. Each
workshop or performance is approximately an hour. Workshops the 2nd Saturday of
every month. Performances are on select Saturdays. Workshops/performances
begin at 11 a.m. Admission $10 per family. Information 212 475 7710.
La MaMa is a remarkable arts institution with a world-wide reputation for
producing daring work in theater, dance, performance art, and music. Founded
in 1961 by theater pioneer and legend, Ellen Stewart, La MaMa has produced
and presented more than 3,200 theatrical productions to date and is a vital
part of the fabric of cultural life in New York City and around the world.
La MaMa provides a supportive home for artists and takes risks on unknown
work. Artists such as Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, Philip Glass, Robert
Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Blue Man Group, David and Amy Sedaris, -and others
whose names you haven't heard of yet - began their careers at La MaMa.
International Artists introduced to America by La MaMa include Tadeusz Kantor, Andrei
Serban, Kazuo Ohno and, more recently, the acclaimed Belarus Free Theatre.
La MaMa has been honored with more than 30 OBIE Awards, dozens of Drama Desk
and Bessie Awards, and, in 2006, Ellen Stewart was recognized with a
special TONY Award for "Excellence in the Theatre."


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There could be a free-for-all for young jazz drummers in the fall when Curtis Nowosad heads to New York City to work on a masters degree as a fellow of the Manhattan School of Music jazz institute.
Nowosad laughs at the image, but recognizes he's an in-demand drummer.
"That's a good question; who'll play all my gigs here. There are a lot of good young drummers here," says the 25-year-old who was accepted into six masters programs, including the Juilliard School.
Nowosad says the full scholarship that comes with the Manhattan fellowship was a deciding factor. He adds, "I'm really looking forward to working with John Riley, who will be my private teacher." Nowosad knows Riley from his work with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and as an author of drum instruction books.
Nowosad, who will relocate to New York with his wife Megan, a nurse, already has made a lot of musical friends in the jazz mecca. As a teen, he hung out at a weekly jam session, he met many New York-based musicians offering workshops through his jazz studies degree at the University of Manitoba and/or performing in the Asper jazz series, through a Banff Centre workshop and a recent Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead workshop in Washington, D.C.
Spending two years studying and performing in NYC will give him "a better perspective on the New York jazz world," Nowosad says.
He will join other Winnipeg musicians in New York: bassist Luke Sellick is studying at Juilliard and teen Devon Gillingham, the Transcona Collegiate student who recently won the first Essentially Ellington Gerhard W. Vosshall Student Composition/Arranging contest, will attend the New School in the fall, Nowosad says. Before that he will get to see and hear renowned jazz musician Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in New York City record his piece at the Essentially Ellington festival May 10-12.
Will we see the drummer again once he's seen the bright lights of the big city?
Well, he says he'll be back in the summer, and even if the stars align and he sees a chance to remain in New York and make a living after the two years of study. "I've been part of this community too long to simply say, 'See you later.'
"I've invested too much here to take off and never look back."
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Winnipeg drummer and jazz studies professor Quincy Davis will join his pianist brother Xavier onstage for the first concert of the upcoming Izzy Asper Jazz Performances series, which starts in the fall.
They will be part of a band supporting trumpeter Brian Lynch and tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander (along with bassist Steve Kirby, director of jazz studies at the University of Manitoba) in a concert called Best of the Blue Note (Saturday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 29, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Berney Theatre).
Lynch and Alexander are top-tier players who will pay tribute to the storied jazz label.
The second concert, Yesterdays: An Evening With Billie Holiday, features singer Vanessa Rubin singing some of Holiday's signature tunes such as My Man, Strange Fruit and God Bless the Child (Saturday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 27, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Berney Theatre).
The Brubeck Brothers Quartet pays tribute to the siblings' father, Dave Brubeck, the great pianist and band leader who died in December, with Chris (bass and trombone) and Dan (drums) updating classics such as Take Five, Blue Rondo a la Turk and In Your Own Sweet Way with new arrangements from the band's album Lifetimes (Saturday, March 8, 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 9, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Berney Theatre).
Latin Explosion (Saturday, April 12, 3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Winnipeg Art Gallery) sets the stage on fire with percussionist Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band playing a mix of Latin jazz, swing, bebop, salsa and soul.
The series closes with The Music of Fats Waller with New York singers Catherine Russell and Allan Harris reprising a program performed at Lincoln Center. The tribute will feature classics by Harlem stride pianist and composer Waller such as Ain't Misbehavin' and Honeysuckle Rose (Saturday, May 3, 3:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Winnipeg Art Gallery).
The Asper shows are largely a subscription series, although tickets are available for single shows. Ticket information is available at www.radyjzz.com or 204-477-7534.
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Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and saxophonist Steve Wilson are coming to camp this summer as special guests at the 20th annual University of Manitoba Jazz Camp, which runs Aug. 18-24.
The two American musicians will join jazz studies staff Steve Kirby (bass), Quincy Davis (drums), Derrick Gardner (trumpet), Will Bonness (piano) and Anna-Lisa Kirby (vocals) teaching at the camp aimed at musicians, junior and senior high school students, university students and educators.
Information on the camp program and fees is available at http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/coned/summer/jazz/.


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Is Pfizer Seeking a Trade Agreement to Raise the Price of the Medicines Donated to Programs in Developing Countries?
Mike Palmedo
January 29, 2009
Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler and Stanford Professor John Barton have written Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, proposing a new international framework on drug pricing. They had been asked by the Chairman to try to find a way to "protect our patents abroad but also demonstrate flexibility and compassion with respect to public health crises in the developing world." Kindler and Barton's letter to Baucus provides a rough outline of a framework to try to meet this goal. Under their plan, developed nations would generally accept higher prices, the poorest countries would be more-or-less exempt from strict enforcement of IP, and middle-income countries would segment their markets. They are convening a closed, off-the-record meeting in DC with invited stakeholders to further develop it in February.
Although there are few details, Kindler and Barton's rough proposal may raise some concerns. Last week, I posted a blog about possible risks to US state Medicaid programs that negotiate discounted pharmaceutical prices for low-income Americans.
I would now like to point out a part of the proposal that seems to call for developed countries to pay higher prices for the medicines they buy for use in developing countries. The letter states:
Developed-world nations would commit themselves to develop detailed mechanisms to ensure that their government pharmaceutical purchasing authorities pay an adequate price to encourage research and also that as donors, they pay a price adequate to cover an appropriate share of research costs for their purchases of new products of primary value to developing nations. [Emphasis added]
This could be interpreted in various ways, but it seems to imply that programs like PEPFAR, UNITAID, and the Global Fund ought to pay higher prices for medicines.


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Bids are expected by the end of this week for Hulu, the online video site owned by Disney's ABC, News Corp's Fox and Comcast's NBC that is said to be looking for a price tag around the $1bn mark.
Its status as an aggregator of some of the most popular professionally-produced content on the web has reportedly attracted a host of suitors, from traditional distributors such as DirecTV to Peter Chernin, who helped found Hulu while at News Corp, and Guggenheim Digital Media, the well-funded Guggenheim Partners offshoot run by Ross Levinsohn, formerly of Yahoo. Some seem to be talking the price down, claiming unhappiness about the sellers' terms.
Guggenheim has also been eyeing another of the biggest digital video properties, Vevo. It is more than two months since it was reported to be in negotiations about taking a controlling stake, but talk about Vevo's future has since gone rather quiet. Read more


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The true meaning of COE
Posted 28 December 2012 - 01:07 AM
Posted 28 December 2012 - 11:21 AM
I found a good tutorial as well as a simple ceramics explanation.
Here is a physics tutorial:
Nelson's "A Potter's Handbook" has a simple definition in the glossary:Coefficient of Expansion is the ratio of change between the length of a material mass and the temperature to which it is subjected.
If you read both the Physics tutorial and Nelson's definition it may gel.
Posted 28 December 2012 - 02:34 PM
Posted 28 December 2012 - 11:03 PM
Coefficient of Expansion is the ratio of change between the length of a material mass and the temperature to which it is subjected.
Thanks Marcia, that is exactly what I needed to know! Thank you both for the help. I think this is coming together. I've just red an article by Sohngen and revisited Ron Roy and I think I have a grasp of this now. I'll put it in another post and feel free to tell me where I'm getting it wrong.
Posted 29 December 2012 - 01:34 PM
Is there a cut and dry definition of COE? My Insight glaze calc gives a number. I understand that to be something like, for example, 7.25 x 10 -6, but the number given is simply 7.25. Does that number come from the percentage of expansion divided by the temperature change, or something to that effect? If not, can anyone tell me where it comes from? Other glaze calcs seem to have a different number, but I'm guessing that the zeros are just changed.
the answer is yes. it's a coefficient of linear expansion (ie how much length, delta L, as a part of the original length L is added with added temperature, delta T). see for example http://www.plainsman...m/data/H550.HTM or similar graphs is glaze chemistry books (i think there are some in MC6G)
a little twist in this: you'll notice the number you're getting is for the area where the curve is a straight line, and that the curve is not straight at all points (ie at certain temperatures your clay/glaze will lengthen MORE with temperature change than at other temperatures. this happens for example around the quartz inversion and around cristobalite inversion, which are temperatures at which the clay/glaze undergo a sudden and bigger expansion). as for the number of zeros, it doesn't matter as long as you omit the same number of zeros from all such figures. Like writing 'Neph Sy 35' in a glaze recipe and meaning '35%' or '0.35'
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TAMPA, Fla - A judge denied bond for a former professional wrestler accused of fatally stabbing his longtime girlfriend.
The Tampa Bay Times reports 29-year-old Brian McGhee stood silently in a red jail uniform and shackles during a first appearance hearing on Friday in Tampa.
Judge Walter Heinrich detailed the case against McGhee, known by his wrestling moniker "DT Porter." The judge denied a request for bail.
McGhee is accused of stabbing 25-year-old Bianca McGaughey multiple times outside her apartment on Wednesday.
The judge told McGhee there appears to be "a very strong case" against him. He noted that three witnesses identified McGhee as having attacked the woman and that the former wrestler admitted killing a woman to another witness.
McGhee was arrested after fleeing from police.
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After many years of pointedly avoiding doing a website, I've finally got my thumb out and made it happen.
What will this site be about? Good question – it'll likely accumulate articles on photography, science, politics, hobbies, humour, rationality, general geekery and anything else that takes my fancy. I have more interests than I could pursue in 10 lifetimes, so I roam from pasture to pasture, musing as I go.
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When 60,000 fans pack Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium, the double-deck structure rocks, from the time the nationally famous Mountaineer marching band "The Pride of West Virginia" starts its pregame performance until the team takes the field to sing "Country Roads" after each home victory.
Every fan has an unobstructed view of the playing field and there's not a bad seat in the house. Plenty of restrooms, concession and souvenir stands add to the fan comfort of this facility. Lights for exciting night games, handicapped seating and plenty of room for tailgating add to the stadium's list of first-class accessories.
Additional amenities are on the way with the approval of $106 million in total athletic facility improvements in the spring of 2014 that will include a substantial portion of that amount to be used to upgrade the stadium's East, West, North and South concourses, restrooms, entrance gates and concessions. Funding will be made available through a $75 million facilities bond, $25 million in private donations through the Mountaineer Athletic Club and $6 million from West Virginia's multimedia rights contract with IMG.
Below the press box, 12 luxurious stadium suites right under the camera deck offer reception, dining, kitchen, restroom and seating areas to WVU fans, providing a great view of the playing field and the entire facility. An additional set of 18 stadium suites in a two-story structure were completed in the North end zone in time for the 2004 season, giving more fans and businesses an opportunity to socialize and enjoy games in first-class comfort - a great way to generate revenue, increase ADA accessible seating and restrooms, and update the look of the stadium.
Just above the skyboxes on the west wall is the West Virginia press box, one of the nation's best. Complete with a dining area, private booths and a camera deck, the spacious three-story structure gives media a great place to cover Mountaineer football.
Four new light-emitting diode (LED) boards at Milan Puskar Stadium are also in the future plans for Milan Puskar Stadium through West Virginia's IMG agreement, as well as new graphic coverage on the stadium's field walls, giving Milan Puskar Stadium a much-needed updated look.
In 2008, state-of-the-art score/video boards, complete with high resolution video and expanded messaging capabilities, became part of the fan experience. A partnership between the WVU Foundation and Panasonic helped the global electronics maker install a new video board system. The system, valued at approximately $5 million, was made available to WVU in part through a generous commitment from alumnus Ben Statler and his wife Jo, and a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Panasonic, together with WVU, uses the new video board systems as a showcase to feature the latest state-of-the-art video and audio technology. The video board system enhances the experience for fans, and more importantly, provides opportunities for increased revenue for the athletic department from advertising.
The recent Puskar Stadium makeover included a new video system that is three times wider than the old south end zone system and with higher resolution LED quality. Two LED fascia boards running down each sideline provide in-game statistics, scoring, messaging and sponsor advertising. A south bowl auxiliary board was also installed.
On the playing field, West Virginia has one of the safest and most comfortable surfaces anywhere with the installation of FieldTurf Duraspine prior to the 2007 season. Receiving rave reviews for its softness, durability, safety factors and lack of abrasiveness, FieldTurf looks, feels and plays like a natural grass surface without the expense of upkeep, giving WVU one of the safest and best playing surfaces in college football.
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Faith, Tim, Blake, Nicole, Keith
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It's really too bad Faith Hill and Tim McGraw didn't pose at the photo wall last night at the BMI Country Awards in Nashville. This pink printed dress is probably the best thing she's worn in a long time. You know who did pose at the photo wall? Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. She's one of the few who can wear a mullet dress and make it high class. Full Story
Blake Shelton hates Chris Brown?
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Blake Shelton and the other judges from The Voice were on Extra yesterday. Then he went out for dinner with Christina Aguilera and her boyfriend. (Ahem, JLO, please take note. You don't have to give the guy a JOB, see?) Anyway, I'm still high on a country music buzz, especially here at Duana's house since she keeps replaying or singing that Kelly Clarkson song with Vince Gill. Full Story
Wanting to be Blake
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I don't mean Jessica Biel... Wonk, wonk... I know. I'm sorry. I couldn't resist! It's Friday! Ok so here's Keith Urban on the carpet and on stage at the CMAs last night. He is such a smarmy cheese on the carpet. Up on stage though, without the shirt buttoned down to his man-trail, and not worrying about his hair, I can see the sex appeal, sure. Full Story
Country Brange: Miranda & Blake?
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Can I call them that? I am not a country expert, so I defer to you. Like, not exactly, since they're not carting around 10 kids or anything but in spirit... Can we call them that in spirit? Also, am I not supposed to like her? What is the right opinion to have? Give me my opinion! Because left unattended, my opinion right now is that I love them, especially her. Full Story
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With her sceptre.It takes a certain dedication to be comfortable being uncomfortable. And for over three hours. I often think this of Victoria Beckham and her heels. How she suffers for her image. Same goes for Lady Gaga last night, crammed into that seat. With no reason, not one, to get up. That's my way of saying she lost in every category. Full Story


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Santa Monica AYSO is excited announce that as of Fall 2011, we will have a U7 division. This means that instead of combining 6- and 7-year-old players into one U8 division, we are now making it possible for them to play with children closer to their own age.
Who will be u7?
- U7 is intended for 6 year old players with birth dates between August 1 and July 31.
- Most U7 players will be in 1st grade; some will be in 2nd grade.
How does u7 compare to u8?
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- U7 will play on a field that is either identical (or near identical) to u8.
- U7 will use goals the height of u8, but reduced in width.
- U7 will play 5v5, whereas u8 plays 7v7 (which equates to more time with the ball).
- U7 will have no goalkeepers; whereas u8 plays with goalkeepers for the time being.
- U7 play will be "open substitution" (so that our 6-year-olds are not required to sit out an entire quarter at a time); whereas u8 plays with substitutions at "quarter breaks".
- Division guidelines can be read here.
Why the change?
AYSO National Guidelines for u8 (which includes our u7) specify that play should be 5v5 with no goalkeepers. These guidelines are based on what is best and most appropriate (socially, emotionally, and developmentally) for the vast majority of our players. We have not been adhering to the guidelines in the past due to field constraints and lack of coaches (as 5v5 play requires more of both). The change to our new u7 division is one step toward bringing half of our u8 program in line with National guidelines.
Why no goalkeepers in u7?
We encourage parents to review the rationale for not using goalkeepers in our u7. Please see the March 1, 2011 issue of "Ask the Coach" (from AYSO National):
Have changes occurred in other divisions?
- Several years ago we changed our u10 to play 7v7 (instead of 11v11).
- In Fall 2008 we changed our u12 to play 9v9 (instead of 11v11).
- In Fall 2010 we changed our u6 to play 3v3 or 4v4 (instead of 5v5).
These changes were made because the single most valuable element for the development of young players is touches on the ball. And with less players on a team and teammates of the same age, u7 players will get more time and touches than they have in the past. That is why AYSO recommends these reduced team sizes and why these smaller teams have become standard in regions all over the country (and world).
Despite some early misgivings among parents used to the old formats, the changes made in the U6, U10, and U12 divisions have been a great success, and we are confident that our shift to a u7 division will also be a positive change and we appreciate your support as we transition.
Is there information on the benefit of "short sided games" (less than 11v11)?
We encourage parents to review the rationale for short-sided games at the following links:
- http://ayso.org/resources/short_sided_games.aspx
- http://ayso.org/parents/playsoccer/fall_2008/games_revealed_as_best_teacher.aspx
Thanks for being a part of Santa Monica AYSO.
We look forward to seeing you and your child on the fields in the fall!


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Today I attended an internet presentation sponsored by the Research Advocacy Network. The speaker was Jeff Sloan, Ph.D., of Mayo Clinic who has done a great deal of research on "quality of life" issues affecting patients with cancer. Dr. Sloan recommends that doctors routinely ask patients to rate their quality of life over the past week on a ten-point scale. If the patient reports a score below five, the doctor should try to find out the reason for the low score (pain, loneliness, etc.) and see if it can be addressed. Dr. Sloan reported on a number of studies that show that patients with higher quality of life scores have a significant survival advantage over patients with low scores. Dr. Sloan also reported on recent research exploring why some people are better able to deal with cancer treatment than others. He said that the differences among patients in tolerating chemotherapy and other treatments (degree of fatigue, pain, nausea etc.) are likely related to genetic biomarkers.


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"YOU have to work yourself into a lather… a screaming demented rage… you have got to look brutal… you must seethe with hatred… stomp your feet… shake your fists… grind your teeth… groan with passionate, frustrated loathing… you must become A REAL NAZI FACIST…"
Several hundred men and women from Swindon are sitting in a former World War Two hangar on a sunny afternoon in June receiving instruction in the fine art of appearing and behaving very, very angry indeed.
They must think of everything and everyone who has ever annoyed, inflamed and enraged them – those people who have made their blood boil – and then, in two minutes of screeching, unbridled fury, let it all out.
On no account should they simply look peeved or irked. They must pour their hearts and souls into it. There is no room for pussy cats. So off they go… snarling, raving, bellowing. It is quite a scene… But why is this unbecoming, ungentleman-like behaviour taking place in the heart of the languid Wiltshire countryside?
Because a definitive version of George Orwell's 1984 – the ultimate dystopian novel – is being filmed and hundreds of extras, mostly from Swindon, have been recruited to recreate as noisily and fervently as possible the infamous Two Minutes Hate sequence.
This, in Orwell's book, is a daily ritual whereby the people of Oceania are impelled to unleash "uncontrollable exclamations of rage" upon the appearance on a screen of the 'Enemy of the People' Emmanuel Goldstein (Penguin Modern Classics, page 13).
It is powerful stuff and on the set everyone is keen to impress, not to let the side down and to earn their 20 quid 'extras' money – not to be scoffed at back then.
They have, in all likelihood, been further inspired to give nothing less than their all at the sudden appearance of the charismatic, craggily handsome devil sitting near the front… Richard Burton.
It is 30 years ago this month since Hollywood – or the British version of it – memorably decamped in Wiltshire. That's right, 1984.
A few weeks earlier a brief message in this newspaper called for anyone interested in a spot of film work on a major production to present themselves at the Territorial Army Centre in Church Place at 8am on Friday, May 25. They would be appearing alongside no less a luminary than Richard Burton, one of the greatest actors of his generation, and John Hurt, commanding almost as much esteem.
Unsurprisingly, there was no lack of takers. Around 50 starry-eyed Swindonians had even camped outside the TA Centre all night. Hundreds of 18 to 30 year-olds answered the call, said assistant director Crispin Reece. But some older Oceanians were required.
"Everyone should bring along their grandparents," he urged, as the drive for extras continued over the next couple of days. There was a catch, though. All the chaps would need a haircut.
A week later the TA Centre was transformed into an old-fashioned barber's shop with a platoon of grim faced hairdressers – clippers at the ready – assembled from local salons. The style required for the film would be, ahem, somewhat severe.
Ever see those shots of Elvis having his quiff irreverently cropped upon his conscription into the US Army? It was just like that. Images of Big Brother had been pinned to the walls to add to the air of trepidation, austerity and anxiety.
Methodically going about his brutal business, Old Town-based Talk of the Town stylist Tony Holmes admitted: "This is a blow to my artistic side.
"People come in, sit down and we give them a quick short back and sides. We have to get through about 600 people and must be cutting one head of hair every ten minutes." Appalled at such sheep-shearing savagery, Kevin Crook took one look and decided he didn't want to appear in a big movie after all. Shaking a bountiful head of golden brown locks, he exclaimed: "Just look at what they're doing. They're butchers."
Bill McLaren, 61, of Park South had no such qualms with his spartan new barnet. "I was due a haircut, anyway," he shrugged. Hairdresser George Garrard from Tingles of Calne had little sympathy for victims of his lightning handiwork. "They knew what they were letting themselves in for.
"Each hairdresser is working flat out to cut 40 heads of hair and we just haven't got time to fuss over the cuts."
Sadly Big Brother wasn't smiling upon 200 Swindon women who, having been hired as extras, were told on the day of filming: "Sorry, we got the proportions of men to women wrong. You're out."
Those still in were ushered into 19 double decker buses and ferried to "a secret location" which turned out to be RAF Hullavington.
Disappointingly nursing a can of diet coke, one-time infamous hard drinker-cum-hell raiser Burton, 58, told us: "In the old days I used to get rolling drunk but I can't take that anymore."
He had come out of semi-retirement to appear in the film.
"I was turning scripts down but when I heard John was in this, I read it. It was brilliant, so four weeks ago I decided to take part."
Inside the grass-covered hangar Swindon's assortment of clerks, secretaries, electricians, postmen, railway workers and check out girls were screaming merry hell.
"That's perfect" said director Michael Radford, before asking them to do it all over again, and then again...
It took around ten takes to get it right – once because Burton missed his cue.
Later Radford admiringly added: "It's the best crowd some of us have ever seen."
Producer Simon Perry hailed the raw-throated horde. "You did amazingly well. The scene we have done here is tremendously important. One thing everyone remembers from the book is the Two Minutes Hate."
That and Room 101, the Thought Police, the Anti Sex League and the "Big Brother is Watching You" slogan. After a sound going over in the make-up tent, Adver employee-turned-downtrodden Oceania resident Edna Holman couldn't have given a hoot about Big Brother.
Describing her less than glamorous appearance, she exclaimed: "My hair was a glutinous mess and the make-up was ghastly. I looked hideous."
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Richard Burton relaxes on the set of 1984 at RAF Hullavington
- JUST seven weeks after filming in Wiltshire Richard Burton was dead, his long term, alcohol related health problems having finally caught up with him.
The film 1984 – his last - was dedicated to his memory. Simon and Sheran Hornby, of Pusey near Faringdon, were "great friends" of the star and his ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor.
Upon Burton's passing Mr Hornby told us: "He used to come down here regularly. He liked Pusey and regarded it (our house) as one of his English homes."
The chairman of Swindon- based WH Smith at the time, Mr Hornby last saw Burton in June during the filming of 1984.
"He looked very well and was in very good form."
- PUBLISHED in 1949 – a year before his death – Orwell's novel is acknowledged as one of the great works of the 20th Century.
It is set in a dictatorial world of perpetual war, public manipulation and constant surveillance.
Winston Smith – played in the film by John Hurt – secretly rebels against the government of Oceania and its symbolic head, Big Brother.
But he is betrayed by the treacherous O'Brien (Burton) who is responsible for his imprisonment, torture and re-education.
Director Michael Radford said the film aimed to "make a romantic melodrama of Orwell's idea of the future."
The Adver's political reporter Justin Davenport pictured in his blue 1984 overalls signifying that he was a member of Oceania's outer party as opposed to the inner party elite who wore black
- HAVING attended countless Swindon council meetings the Adver's civic reporter Justin Davenport was no stranger to political rants and outbursts.
But he was taken aback by the sheer ferocity of the yelling and shrieking he and hundreds of other Swindon extras were obliged to emit during the Two Minutes Hate.
He described it as thus: "Previously decent members of society were transformed into inmates from some tyrannical concentration camp."
Of his appearance after being given a short back and sides, slapped with dollops of hair gel and smeared with white make-up he commented "a more ugly beast I never did see."
Justin, who now works for the London Evening Standard, gets a couple of quality close-up seconds in the film, heartily screaming abuse.
His demented effusions – along with those of many other Swindonians – can be enjoyed on YouTube.
Two Minutes Hate clip from the film 1984 (be warned, this video contains material some may find offensive)...


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It's in a brick building just west of the intersection of South Street and Sagamore Parkway/US-52.
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TEN members of staff at Dorset Police have been investigated for misusing social media in the past five years – leading to the resignation of one employee.
Data obtained from a Freedom of Information request has provided a breakdown of each investigation.
The 10 investigations, which were carried out between January 1, 2009, and February 17, 2014, have related to:
- Inappropriate deletion and adjustment of social media profile
- Inappropriate comments made via Twitter
- Inappropriate disclosure of information on Twitter
- Inappropriate or offensive remarks made via Twitter and Facebook
- Inappropriate comments/use of Facebook
- Inappropriate disclosure of police information
- The investigations involved four members of police staff and six police constables.
One of the investigations was discontinued as a staff member resigned prior to their hearing.
Four investigations resulted in misconduct meetings and management advice.
Meanwhile, two cases resulted with management action and one with a local resolution. In two investigations there was no case to answer.
The request was submitted by the Parliament Street think tank, which was sent to 28 police forces across England and Wales.
A total of 519 incidents were reported across the country between 2009 and 2014. Nearly 90 officers faced disciplinary hearings over the issue last year.
Clare George-Hilley, director of Parliament Street, said: "Social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook play a vital role in tackling crime and building community relations. However, these findings demonstrate a haphazard approach to social media."
In comparison to Dorset Police, the Metropolitan Police, the UK's largest police force, has had 71 officers facing allegations of inappropriate behaviour since 2010.
Dorset Police said they were unable to comment on internal investigations.
A statement from the force said: "Dorset Police promote and actively encourage the use of social media by officers and staff who are expected to follow our social media guidelines.
"Any reported misuse is thoroughly investigated and offenders found to have committed criminal offences are prosecuted.
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Gregg, Christopher (2009) The role of Acyl-CoA oxidase in peroxisome division and longevity in yeast. PhD thesis, Concordia University.
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