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Eight Wildcats Earn Academic All-Big 12
Eight Wildcats Earn Academic All-Big 12
Nov. 13, 2012
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Eight Kansas State Wildcats were recognized on Tuesday for their hard work in the classroom as the Big 12 Conference announced its annual Academic All-Big 12 Volleyball Team. Seven of the recipients were named to the first team, and two received the honor for the first time.
The seven Wildcats named to the first team were senior setter Caitlyn Donahue, senior libero Kuulei Kabalis, senior opposite Kathleen Ludwig, sophomore defensive specialist Gina Madonia, senior middle blocker Alex Muff and junior outside hitters Lilla Porubek and Courtney Traxson. Junior outside hitter Dakota Kaufman was named to the second team for the second straight year.
Donahue and Muff each earned their third first team honor as Ludwig, Porubek and Traxson all repeat as first team members as well. It is Ludwig's third overall honor receiving second team in 2010. Kabalis and Madonia both make Academic All-Big 12 in their first years to be eligible for the award.
Three of the Wildcats are majoring in education with Ludwig and Kaufman studying elementary education. Donahue is majoring in secondary education. Muff is majoring in marketing, and Porubek is studying economics. Traxson is studying psychology, and Kabalis is majoring in social sciences. Madonia is an open option and has not declared a major yet.
A total of 46 volleyball student-athletes made the team this year with 42 of them honored as first team members. Four Big 12 student-athletes also were recognized with perfect 4.0 GPAs.
K-State has now had 95 Academic All-Big 12 selections under Head Coach Suzie Fritz in her 12 years leading the program.
To qualify for Academic All-Big 12 student-athletes must maintain a 3.00 GPA or higher either cumulative or the previous two semesters and must have participated in 60 percent of their team's scheduled contests. Freshmen and transfers are not eligible in their first year of academic residence. Senior student-athletes who have participated for a minimum of two years and meet all criteria except percent of participation are also eligible. First team members consist of those who have maintained a 3.20 GPA or better and the second team are those who have a 3.00 to 3.19 GPA.

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One of the biggest book-to-film adaptations of 2016 will surely enthrall both readers and non-readers alike.
Lauren Kate's Fallen, which sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, revolves around a 17 year-old-girl named Lucinda Price aka Luce who transferred to Sword and Cross Academy - a school for teenage kids with mental health problems - after an incident occurred in her hometown. She falls for Daniel, a fallen angel.
Apparently, they've been in love for thousands of years but Luce dies each time that Daniel tries to kiss her and gets reincarnated after 17 years. Will they put an end to the curse or will it continue forever? Plus, a love triangle ensues when a badass fallen angel named Cam comes into picture.
Lead actors Harrison Gilbertson and Addison Timlin were in town with author Lauren Kate to attend the red carpet premiere. They also visited the MYX studio to talk more about the film on the MYX Daily Top 10 International Edition and MYX Movie Date with VJ Sunny.
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1. Cam's gift to Luce was a black dress
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The antagonistic character revealed how much she hated Luce even if it was just their first time to meet. In the book, this incident happened in the cafeteria.
3. Daniel ran from Luce when he first saw her
He ran away the moment he laid his eyes on Luce. In the book, Daniel smiled then flipped her off.
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After Luce remembered everything about her past with Daniel, she met with him in the school terrace and they sealed their first kiss in her reincarnated life. In the book, they kissed on the beach.
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The New York Times and the Market for Local Newspapers
Recent technological advances have dramatically lowered the cost of transmitting information over large distances. In the late 1990s, the New York Times implemented a national distribution strategy, expanding delivery in over 100 cities. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data on local newspaper circulation, Times penetration, and local newspapers characteristics, we find that as Times circulation grows in a market, local newspaper circulation declines among college-educated readers. Local newspapers reposition toward local and away from national coverage, raising circulation among individuals without a degree. Availability of national newspapers in local markets changes the relationship between local preferences and local products.
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text: DAILY MARKET REVIEW — 08/12/2016 Oil rules the markets today Forex CAD/JPY The pair trended upwards Friday thanks to positive oil market dynamics. This Saturday non-OPEC countries agreed to cut oil production by 558 thousand barrels per day, which caused prices to rise. Today's dynamics will ultimately depend on the situation in the oil market. Resistance: 88,770, 89,196, 89,675 Support: 87,587, 87,129, 86,702 AUD/USD The pair grew last Friday thanks to positive data on the Chinese economy as inflation matched forecasts. It should be noted that Chinese economic data tends to heavily influence the Australian dollar. However, in the second half of the day the pair started to fall as the US dollar strengthened. Today traders will wait for data on Chinese Retail Sales and Industrial Production scheduled for December 13 2:00 GMT. Resistance: 0,74681, 0,74892, 0,75071 Support: 0,74326, 0,74137, 0,73946 Stocks Dow Futures US stocks grew last Friday thanks to positive US statistics. Oil additionally grew. Meanwhile, traders will gear up for the Fed's meeting scheduled for December 13-14. Resistance: 19844,82, 19872,69, 49906,86 Support: 19762,55, 19726,72, 19694,87 Commodities Brent Oil Futures Oil rose during Friday's session as traders were waiting for the long awaited meeting. So, on December 10 non-OPEC producers agreed to decline oil output volumes by another 558,000 barrels. However, further growth was stopped as data from Baker Hughes stated that the number of US drilling rigs grew by 21 units. Resistance: 57,70, 58,40, 59,10 Support: 56,20, 55,35, 54,43


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Author Tags: Fiction, Poetry
According to his main publisher Arsenal Pulp Press:
Ashok Mathur was born in Bhopal, India, and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1962 when he was one year old. Journalism school followed high school, and by 1981 Ashok was working as a photojournalist with small Alberta dailies and freelancing for magazines and wire services. "I was interested in how the visual image told a story," he says.
In 1985 Ashok returned to school, completing bachelor and master of arts degrees at the University of Calgary, after which he started teaching at the University and the Alberta College of Art. "It was then that I became involved in community activism," he recalls. Ashok sat on the board of the New Gallery, an artist-run centre, and joined the editorial board of the literary magazine absinthe.
"All the while I was fascinated by the process of literature and publishing," remembers Ashok. So he and co-founder Nicole Markotic started disOrientation chapbooks with the intent "to publish relatively unheard voices in a chapbook format."
Ashok also became active in Minquon Panchayat, an activist artist collective comprised of First Nations artists and artists of colour that addressed racism in the arts on a national level.
In 2009, he was employed as the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia.
He is the author of the poetry book Loveruage: a dance in three parts, published by Wolsak and Wynn, and novels published by Arsenal Pulp Press.
Following his Once Upon an Elephant and The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, A Little Distillery in Nowgong (Arsenal Pulp 2009) is a fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India from the late 1800s to present day. The narrative follows the family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and North America. The novel begins in 1899 with the birth of a boy named Jamshed to a rural Parsi family in central India. As he comes of age, Jamshed feels he is faced with the choice between spirituality and materiality: he has the opportunity to train to become a Parsi priest, or may follow family connections to a business opportunity as a distillery manager. Jamshed, who will become the family patriarch as a result of his choice, quickly becomes obsessed with the question of free will, and he passes on this obsession to his descendants. His preoccupations, however, are complicated by frequent, often disturbing, visitations by his as-yet-unborn grandchildren, who may or may not come into existence based on the choices he makes. After much soul-searching (and fantastical communications), Jamshed decides to take on the management of the distillery where he discovers the almost-magical properties of its main product, a much sought-after rum called Asha. This curious liquor becomes a leit-motif, reappearing in various forms and incarnations throughout the generations of the family.
Loveruage: a dance in three parts (Wolsak and Wynn)
Once Upon an Elephant (Arsenal Pulp)
The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar (Arsenal Pulp)
A Little Distillery in Nowgong (Arsenal Pulp 2009) 9781551522586
A Little Distillery in Nowgong
from John Moore
A Little Distillery in Nowgong by Ashok Mathur (Arsenal Pulp Press $27.95)
No fiction is harder to write than magic realism.
Even its evil twin, modern Gothic, is a Sunday stroll in the cemetery; a skein of realism at the beginning, then pile on the gore and let prurience prevail over probability. But to write a naturalistic novel that incorporates and actually hinges on events most readers would consign to the realm of the supernatural requires the sly skills of a seducer, not the maniacal theatrics of a psychotic.
Using nothing but language and without resorting to shock tactics, the writer has to make us believe the unbelievable. One false phrase, one over-arch aside or clumsy sentence, the magic bubble bursts and the whole novel fails.
Done right, as in Ashok Mathurs A Little Distillery in Nowgong, its pure delight, a hot-oil massage for the imagination.
This novel opens with a detailed account of conscious birth, homage to the great-granddaddy of imaginative fiction in English, Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy, and an apt overture for a work whose subject is the struggle of a soul to get itself born.
The year is 1899, the place is central India and the boy-child Jamshed, born into the Parsi minority of Indians who follow the teachings of Zoroaster, is not the narrator of his own story. That role belongs to Sunny, a future grandchild of indeterminate sex, whose spirit is able to drop in on Jamshed pretty much from the moment of conception as Sunny attempts to stage-manage the circumstances of its own entry into the real world.
Visitations by a spirit no one can see and only he can hear have a disruptive effect on the life of young Jamshed. He becomes famous in his village for going right, a posture of attention he adopts when hes listening to Sunny, which others, especially teachers, interpret as a kind of idiotic trance, a problem behavior.
The image of parents sitting uncomfortably in a schoolroom under a ceiling fan whirling like a karmic wheel to endure a parent-teacher conference about their difficult child becomes a recurring drama that links the generations.
Within Indias close-knit Parsi communities, Jamsheds reputation for being a bit odd always precedes him, yet it works to his advantage as well, giving him a heightened sense of his own divided nature and of the opportunities presented by Indias emergence from colonial serfdom and its accelerated entry into the modern world.
As the son of a dastur, a Parsi priest, by tradition he ought to follow in his fathers footsteps, yet he is also drawn to the world of business. Though he willingly fulfills his filial obligations and becomes a dastur, he also becomes the successful manager of the little distillery of the title, where he literally blends the religious and secular elements of life in the recipe for a marvelous rum called Asha, (Truth), which induces a state of enlightenment in the drinker. (For the record, a friend of mine brought me some whisky from his home town, Chandigargh, which had a remarkably similar effect.)
Over the course of his life, Jamshed develops into the kind of Renaissance ordinary man the world so desperately needs. The presence of Sunny in his life doesnt give him foreknowledge, since Sunnys future existence seems as uncertain at times as his or her presence is scientifically unverifiable. What it does give Jamshed is a heightened sense of the mission of each human being; to be a good person and to engender and nurture future generations of good people.
Jamshed is capable of great passion. He persuades his Parvin, a customer in the shop where he works, to marry him by very politely threatening to kill himself if she refuses. His belief in the future represented by Sunny also teaches him the patience to endure the deaths of two sons in infancy without undue bitterness.
It is Jamshed and Parvins only surviving child, the precociously bright daughter Piroja, on whom responsibility for Sunnys existence ultimately falls. She embodies the spirit of the newly independent India, reaching out for freedom and equality while burdened with the weight of history and tradition. Excluded by the latter from becoming a doctor, reluctantly she settles for becoming a nurse, but breaks tradition by marrying Pradeep, a Hindu doctor, after her affair with a Muslim intern founders on the rocks of his refusal to challenge his familys objection to a mixed marriage.
Together, Piroja and Pradeep tend to the victims of the terrible violence that accompanies the post-Independence partition of India and Pakistan. Together they make the difficult decision to leave India, first for England, then Canada, in search of a better place to raise a family. Together, in spite of working long hours, often on opposite shifts, and having to re-qualify professionally each time they move, they make their mixed marriage work.
The job isnt made any easier by Sunnys ability to make trans-generational social calls and he isnt the only spirit Piroja has to contend with. The truculent ghost of her mother, Parvin, keeps popping in to suggest and abet ways she might rid herself of her inappropriate Hindu husband.
Piroja and Pradeeps daughter, the suggestively named Sunila, grows up to become an international recording star of bhangra, the catchy fusion of traditional Punjabi music with contemporary rock that became Indias major contribution to the explosive popularity of multi-cultural world music during the last three decades. Sunilas successful musical career is another motif of the reconciliation of differences through mixing Mathur weaves into the storylike her parents marriage and her grandfathers combination of religious and secular careers, not to mention the blending of his famous rum.
But is Sunila truly Sunny? Youll have to read the book.
Mathur takes some acrobatic risks in the manner he chooses to tell what is essentially the story of a family making the big move from a traditional parochial village culture to the Global Village.
Using a disembodied spirit, who exists outside time but still has a personal stake in the outcome, to help tell the story is a slick way of getting out of the Omniscient Author/third person narrative bind that can trap a writer into telling too much and breaking the delicate spell of magic realism. Though the early parts of the story are set amid some of the most traumatic events of a century destined to be characterized by its horrors, like his characters Mathur resists the emptation to rationalize the politics of the modern age.
One of the most poignant episodes in the novel is the description of Piroja and Pradeep working round-the-clock shifts at a hospital during the Partition, the largest and most violent migration of people in recorded history. They both notice that none of the victims, Hindu, Muslim or bystander, understand why these terrible things happened to them.
Like Jamshed, who politely resists the overtures of his best friend to involve him in the politics of Independence, they learn first-hand how the Us versus Them psychology of modern mass political movements turns everyone into a potential victim or victimizer.
By telling the story of Indias twentieth century through the lives of one family, Mathur reminds us that politicians merely make noise; it is the millions of little people who make history and who have to make the choice between good or ill for mankind.
Ashok Mathur teaches at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, where he is the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada.
Not surprisingly, Mathur is deeply involved in world-wide reconciliation projects which seek to maximize the effect of the arts to bridge racial and cultural differences so often played on by cynical politicians to create fear and distrust. His previous novel, The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar (Arsenal Pulp Press), was a Commonwealth Writers Prize finalist.
Last words: having recently read Arvind Agodas Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger, I have to say that while its an amusing satire of contemporary Indian life, in my opinion A Little Distillery in Nowgong is both better written and a more perceptive book.
That B.C. publishers continue to publish fiction of this calibre, when the brutal economics of the trade and the hostility of government suggest theyd all be better off just publishing cookbooks and self-help manuals, is something we should all be grateful for.
-- review by John Moore


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Juno and Jupiter, Together Again
NASA's latest high tech spacecraft, launched Friday, August 5th, 2011 aboard an Atlas V rocket at 12:25 p.m. EDT, is named after the Greek and Roman goddess Juno. Juno was able to peer through the veil of clouds that her husband, Jupiter, drew around himself to hide his mischief. Over a cycle of 33 orbits, Juno will pass over Jupiter's north and south poles, glimpsing through the clouds, allowing the first close-up looks at the bright auroras there


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Belmont & Western Australian Small Business Awards Launch for the 23rd Time!
The 23rd annual Belmont & Western Australian Small Business Awards will launch on Wednesday 20th April, 6pm-8pm at the City of Belmont Civic Centre.
This year the WA Minister for Mines and Petroleum; Small Business, Hon Sean L'Estrange MLA will provide an update on WA Small Business and officially launch the Awards with the City of Belmont Mayor Phil Marks welcoming guests to the Launch.
Carol Hanlon, CEO of the Belmont Business Enterprise Centre Inc. and Founder of the Belmont Small Business Awards said, "The Belmont Business Enterprise Centre has been co-ordinating the local and state wide business awards since 1994 and it's a pleasure to be promoting small businesses that are having a go and achieving greatness in their preferred fields.
"I'm always encouraging small businesses to enter awards like this because there are so many beneficial reasons to enter beyond the title – especially for small businesses looking to build their profile and brand awareness.
"Entering awards offers an opportunity for small businesses to promote themselves and evaluate their business from a variety of perspectives.
"Establishing yourself as an award-winning organisation is a great way to motivate your staff, improve relationships with customers and suppliers and strengthen your position in the industry.
"The Awards are open to businesses both within the Belmont area, and statewide. I would like to thank all of our great sponsors, as we couldn't host the event without them," Carol Hanlon said.
The Awards launch will also include the launch of the 12th Designedge Innovation Festival 2016, and highlights will include a WA Designer Parade and the Spirit of the Streets Choir.
The Awards will open for small businesses across Western Australia from the 21st of April until 5pm Tuesday 27th September.
Businesses wishing to enter the awards can access Free Information Sessions on 'How to Prepare Award Submissions, Free Award Entry Kits and Submission Mentors. Contact Belmont BEC on [email protected] or phone 9479 3777 or visit www.belmontbec.com/awards
The final "Night of Stars" event when the winners will be announced will be held 6pm October 26th in the Ballroom of the Perth Exhibition and Convention Centre.
Major sponsors of the 2016 awards include City of Belmont, Belmont Business Enterprise Centre Inc. (Belmont BEC) and Textile, Clothing, Footwear Resource Centre WA Inc. (TCFWA). 2016 Supporting Sponsors include Aaragon Construction Management, Australian Asian Association of WA, BEC Global, Belmont Forum, Belmont Rotary, Business News, Business & Professional Women WA, Hanssen Project Management, Infinite IT, Mustera Property Group, National Australia Bank, Perth Airport, Racebreed Australia, Southern Gazette, TCF Global, Telstra Business Centre Belmont, Watering Concepts, WA Treeworks, Westways Visual Communication and Worldwide Printing Solutions.
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When you consider the thoughts and actions of our founding fathers, you're liable to see brilliance, genius, forethought, and the truest displays of patriotism ever assembled on Earth. They were able to draw from experiences. imagination and education to develop our system of governance that would work, and work well for hundreds of years – even with all the changes in local and global economies, societies and political shifting.
This of course assumes that intelligence would rule as we go through our own societal changes and political fluctuations (or deviant deviations). Something we've seen plenty of lately.
And let's face it. If we're not seeing deviant insanity in our ruling bodies today, we never have or will. It's running rampant and is so out of control, our country's very existence was on the precipice this last November. The "out of the blue" win by Trump, while anticipated by some, was a total shock and awe of political war to the left who were celebrating their BIG WIN even while the last votes were coming in the early morning of Nov 9th.
I truly do not like looking at everything from a partisan view but would choose to consider things logically – reasonably – scrupulously – honestly – realistically. But these days it's not possible, for you have to take into account – and counter – the insanity of 200% selfish, absurdly partisan, uninformed or misinformed and ignorant hacks who speak without any logic or honesty in their rhetoric against American citizens and their opponents.
For 8 years we saw the insanity of a president that, when a candidate, spoke harshly of Bush's running up debt, then pursuing his own doubling of our national money commitment once in office. INSANE. We saw him introducing an acceptance and promotion of Muslim practices and ideals at a time we're at war with radical Muslim forces. Unable even to name our enemy for fear of slandering his roots. INSANE.
We saw a degradation of our racial relationships and a further divide among our citizens because of B Hussein's love of race as a weapon of society. INSANE. And we saw his hatred for our military and police through his actions of inserting himself into situations where presidential presence was not required, requested or warranted. INSANE.
We have elected leaders so stupid that they think islands are going to tip over or we have to pass a bill so we can know what's in it because they didn't even read it. Or a repeatedly elected representative that think's she's a freed slave and our constitution is 400 years old. And a sitting senator displays his stupid gene stating his constitution is different that our country's. For the sake of disruption, liberals push scenarios of Russian intervention and invasion of our electoral system while offering no proof, no evidence of such, no reason or logical reason, when in fact Trump would be a much more powerful enemy than Clinton against them. INSANE INSANE INSANE! These people run our country, our lives.
The president has been in office barely 60 some days and even with a great SCOTUS pick and bringing back business, jobs, consumer confidence and investments into the country, some are already calling for impeachment. Think they have a right after what we put up with for 8 years?
We lived under the lawlessness of "social justice" for 8 years seeing over 80,000 criminals released early from their imposed sentences and a president that was ruled against for his unconstitutional actions regarding immigration – even though he allowed hundreds of thousands to cross our insecure borders unvetted and unfettered from who knows where. INSANE.
Obama pressed his "openness" and "accepting," and yes, even "controlling" mindset by pushing for shared restrooms – while forsaking societal norms and reason. A new presence in the oval office has brought sanity back to our culture.
Trump is no Messiah. No savior of our nation in any religious sense. But for the good of the country, we trust that a business approach to our spending and revenue will produce a more stable, a more secure, and more responsive economic mood and growth. We've seen him reduce costs of government aircraft and is working to reduce drug costs – all things normal business people do while politicians shuffle other people's money while seeking personal benefit. That's INSANE.
Our recent election was, contrary to liberal desires, a change of direction, a return to reason, to law, to truthful governance and sanity. And hopefully a positive, blossoming fruitful season of prosperity vs poverty, true security vs socialism, sanity vs progressiveness.


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The Pre-Lenten season is a period of about three weeks directly preceding Lent, extending from the last Sunday in Epiphany to the beginning of Lent itself. The early Church fathers designed this season as a transition time from the gaiety and celebration of our Lord's nativity to the quieter, more focused time of examen and fasting in Lent. This time, marked by Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima count us back, in round numbers from the seventieth, sixtieth, and fiftieth days, respectively, before Easter and herald an excellent opportunity for us to begin review our spiritual lives in our Lord—what we are, and what He is calling us to be in His Body, the Church. Like our Lord's entrance into Jerusalem just prior to His crucifixion, it's a time when we begin to prepare ourselves for our own Gethsemane in the wilderness of Lenten devotions and growth.
O LORD God, who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do; Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Collect for Sexagesima, 1928 BCP, p.120)
ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who settest the solitary in families; We commend to thy continual care the homes in which thy people dwell. Put far from them, we beseech thee, every root of bitterness, the desire of vain-glory, and the pride of life. Fill them with faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness. Knit together in constant affection those who, in holy wedlock, have been made one flesh; turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers; and so enkindle fervent charity among us all, that we be evermore kindly affectioned with brotherly love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Web domain name registrar Go Daddy caused quite a stir on the Web yesterday when they published a statement on their website stating their support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the company's statement they said the bill is " aimed at protecting the intellectual property of hard-working Americans, U.S. businesses and the American public from the harm that necessarily flows from the purchase of counterfeit products."
Go Daddy continued, "It's a welcome step in the right direction, and we at GoDaddy.com applaud the leadership in the House Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet and the Senate Judiciary Committee, for taking decisive, bicameral and bipartisan action."
The bill was crafted to protect intellectual property on the Web and to combat online piracy, but the overreaching power this bill could extend would allow government censorship of many websites that are doing perfectly legal activity. For instance, if this bill is passed social networks will be responsible for the content on their sites. This means if people are sharing copyrighted material on Facebook, Facebook is responsible for the spread of that content. And while this is an extreme example, it illustrates the potential impact if it is put into action.
In response to SOPA critics claiming that the bill can be compared to online censorship, the company said, "This bill cannot reasonably be equated with censorship … Not only is there no First Amendment concern, but the notion that we should turn a blind eye to criminal conduct because other countries may take oppressive steps in response is an affront to the very fabric of this nation."
But as ReadWriteWeb wrote, "SOPA critics aren't buying" Go Daddy's logic. One such critic, Cheezeburger CEO Ben Huh went to Twitter to air his grievances against the domain registrar. He tweeted, "We will move our 1,000 domains off @godaddy unless you drop support of SOPA. We love you guys, but #SOPA-is-cancer to the Free Web."
The amount of companies that support SOPA is astounding. Gizmodo has a list of SOPA-supporting companies here.
What do you think of SOPA? Is it as overreaching as many say it is or is it appropriate legislation?


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Two months ago, the liberal media erupted in horror after the third presidential debate when Fox's Chris Wallace challenged Donald Trump to accept the election results, and Trump said he would "wait and see." NBC described a "flood of condemnation" and cited President Obama accusing Trump of "undermining our democracy.' Today co-host Savannah Guthrie called it an "earthquake."
Guthrie turned to retired anchorman Tom Brokaw to denounce Trump. "This is not a banana republic," he said. "We've got more than 200 years of presidential elections and graceful and peaceful transitions to the new administration, as you saw, even Richard Nixon, Al Gore, the people who were caught up in very close races, said, 'I accept the new president.'"
Then Trump won the election handily with 306 votes in the Electoral College, and the Democrats flip-flopped, sullenly refusing to accept the results, and neither did the "objective" media. On December 18, there was no "earthquake" at NBC when Clinton aide John Podesta refused to say Trump won a "free and fair election," saying instead it was rigged by the Russians.
And the ballot errors. And Comey. And the "fake news epidemic." And the Constitution (that blasted Electoral College!) Nobody brought in Tom Brokaw to lecture Team Hillary about banana-republic behavior.
Back in October, The New York Times issued this front-page alert: "In a remarkable statement that seemed to cast doubt on American democracy, Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he might not accept the results of next month's election if he felt it was rigged against him -- a stand that Hillary Clinton blasted as 'horrifying' at their final and caustic debate on Wednesday."
Two months later, they were eagerly giving oxygen to any protest, no matter how fanatical, against Trump. "In Florida, protesters swarmed the Capitol rotunda, one hoisting a ''Trump Is Too Rusky'' sign featuring a hammer and sickle. In Wisconsin's statehouse, a heckler shouted, ''We're all going to go to war and die thanks to you.'"
This was somehow democracy in action. There was no "remarkable" or "horrifying" adjective at the top of the story. Instead, the Times turned to Adam Jentleson, a top aide to retiring Sen. Harry Reid, who warned "There's not going to be a grace period this time because everybody on our side thinks he's illegitimate and poses a massive threat."
Even the leftist late-night comedians showed the double standard. CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert mocked Trump in October: "Oh, suspense! Democracy's going to end in a cliffhanger! I guess we're all going to have to wait until November 9 to find out if we still have a country. If Donald Trump is the mood for a peaceful transfer of power or if he's just going to wipe his fat ass with the Constitution."
This was Colbert after the Electoral College voted: "Walking around the streets of New York today, a lot of people, a little rough. You know, you could see it in their eyes...This is what it feels like, when America's made great again." The crowd laughed. "And I was really hoping it would feel better because this sucks! Sucks! And I don't know if you guys had any trouble getting in here tonight because, right now, tonight, thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests in cities all over America."
Colbert told his audience to accept President Trump (how noble, that), but still the protesters drew screams and hearty applause. Somehow they weren't fat dictators using the Constitution as toilet paper.
The Times insisted "the uneasiness with Mr. Trump has hardly receded in the nearly six weeks since his election." That is because the press will not stop agitating, and all the while calling it "news."
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My name is Karana. I'm thirteen, and I was born and raised in the Southern Water Tribe.
This week when I was on my monthly trip around the world. My first stop is the Fire Nation where my Aunt Hamma and cousins live. I usually go to my home in the Southern Water Tribe first but I wanted to visit my cousins first because the oldest brother Kuzon was joining the United Forces. My cousin Kuzon is good friends with General Iroh, grandson of Fire Lord Zuko. Iroh insisted that Kuzon join and after a few months of begging Kuzon to join he finally accepted Iroh's offer and enrolled into the United Forces.
Even though I visit the Fire Nation every month I don't usually get to see them because their usually busy because my uncle Jokov is involved in governmental meetings and such, so I rarely see them.
After my visit with my cousins, my next stop was my home where my mother Karyn and step father Juku live. My mother Karyn is naturally from the Southern Water Tribe, my father is an Air Nomad, and my step father is from the Earth Kingdom.
I was only three years old when my mother and father divorced. After that we immediately began to travel the world. When we arrived in the Earth Kingdom my mother instantly fell in love with my stepfather, Hahn.
When they got married we moved back to the Southern Water Tribe and I instantly began to train with Master Katara. Coincidentally, Avatar Korra was also training with Katara at the time. Even though Korra was a few years older that me we became very close friends and she helped me when I struggled in class and after a few more years I became a water bending master at thirteen.
A few years later, Master Tenzin came to train Korra, but when Tenzin couldn't stay Korra said good bye to me and her parents and she and her polar bear dog Naga ran off to Republic City to train with Tenzin.
Two years had passed since I had seen Korra. One day I had an idea to go to Republic City and live with my grandma, Mimi. It took a few weeks of convincing to get my mom and Hahn to let me go but they finally said yes as long as I promised to call every day.
When I finally go to Republic City, Mimi was already there waiting for me at the port. When we got to her house she welcomed me with great joy and was very exited to have me live with her. The last time I had seen her was right after my mom and dad divorced, so I was really happy to see her too.
I was starving so she made me all these different types of food from the Southern Water Tribe. When I was done eating, I offered to wash the dishes. While I washed Mimi came up to me and told me to read the newspaper when I was done.
After I was done washing I went to the table and picked up the news paper she wanted me to read. As I began to read I noticed a caption that said, "THE FIRE FERRETS FINALLY ARE IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP". Underneath the title it said, "The FIRE FERRETS have never been this amazing since bending brothers added the Avatar to their team". After I read that my jaw dropped I thought I never would be able to see her again but now I finally had a chance to see her once more. I checked again to see when their next match would be and then I went straight to Mimi to ask if I could go and she said, "Why else did you think I wanted you to read it, of course you can go!"
So when the day of the match finally came, I snuck into the practice room and watched from the ledge. Watching Korra, Mako, and Bolin was amazing, it was astonishing. I tried not attract any attention since I really wasn't supposed to be back there. When the match was over the Fire Ferrets won. Though I wasn't surprised by the way they were playing. When they got to were I was at the brothers looked like they were about to call security but Korra instantly recognized me and stopped them before they could say a word. Korra and I stood there hugging silently getting all teary eyed. When we stopped Korra introduced me to Mako and Bolin and they said Korra spoke of me a lot, and I blushed a little.
Then she invited me to visit Air Temple Island whenever I liked and from that day forward we didn't spend a day where we didn't talk to each other.
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Author | Vinod Behl | Thursday, Nov 10,2005 8:12 AM
After achieving excellent growth in passenger and freight earnings, the Railways has embarked on an innovative exercise to boost earnings – leasing out its advertising space through select agencies at the zonal level.
Making a departure from the earlier practice of retail leasing of individual hoardings, the Railway Ministry has directed its zonal offices to maximise ad space revenue through wholesale leasing of stations/group of stations/divisions through a process of competetive bidding to an agency.
Indian Railways is the largest provider of ad space through intrain and outdoor publicity space and the ministry officials believe that advertising and publicity contracts alone can generate revenues, which would be several times more than the total yearly earnings of Rs 50,000 crore.
In the first half of this fiscal year, the Railways earned Rs 25,467.91 crore of revenue, registering an increase of 15.74 per cent over the corresponding period last year and 4.89 per cent more than the budget target of Rs 24,279.91 crore.
The Railway Ministry has asked all GMs to ensure that all tenders concerning ad contracts are finalised within two months. It has also recommended that the licence fee of all the on-going earnings contracts be revised keeping in view their true potential.
Meanwhile, in a related development, Primesite, the Mudra Group arm specialising in out-of-home communications, has won Delhi Metro's 62 km wayfinding signage contract for which global tenders were floated.
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Niti Taylor Biography, Wiki, Age, Bio, Figure, Husband, Marriage Photos, Relationship, Hot Photos
Niti Taylor Biography, Wiki, Career, Family
Niti Taylor is an Indian actress and host. She is a very famous young face on small screen. Niti made her tv serial debut in 2009 Pyaar Ka Bandhan. and audience loves to watch her on small screen. in 2012 Niti made her Telugu movie debut Mem Vayasuku Vacham film. she also appeared in Pelli Pustakam movie in 2013. she does works in so mnay tv shows in India. She host Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya show in 2016. Currently she works in Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan show in lead role ( 2016 )
Niti Taylor was born in Gurgaon, Delhi, India on 8 November 1994. Niti completed her schooling education at Loreto Convent School Delhi. and currently she pursuing Bachelor of Arts degree.She has a sister named Aditi Parbhoo
Relationship – Niti is not dating with anyone and she focusing on her career.
Niti Taylor Filmography/ Upcoming Movies List
Mem Vayasuku Vacham 2012
Pelli Pustakam 2013
Niti Taylor TV Shows/Serials
- 2009–10: Pyaar Ka Bandhan
- 2010–11: Sarvggun Sampanna
- 2010–11: Gulaal as Devika
- 2013: Yeh Hai Aashiqui (episode 22 baby love) as Trisha
- 2013: MTV Webbed as Divya Sharma
- 2013–14: Bade Achhe Lagte Hain as Naina
- 2014: Savdhaan India – India Fights Back – 4 April 2014-Ep 642
- 2014: Halla Bol
- 2014: Heroes:The Fightback Files as Rhea Sharma- 17 June 2014- Ep 24
- 2014–2015: Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan as Nandini Murthy
- 2016: "Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya" as Niti Taylor(Host)
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Niti Taylor Profile
Birthplace – Gurgaon
Date of Birth (DOB) – 8 Nov 1994
Niti Taylor Age – 22
Father Name – N/A
Mother Name – N/A
Sister Name -Aditi Parbhoo
Brother Name -N/A
Husband Name – Not Married
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Religion – Hindu
Residence – Mumbai
Occupation – Host, Actress, Model
Nationality – Indian
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Income-Salary – N/A
Marital Status – Unmarried
Social Accounts/Profile on – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Body Measurement
Figure – 32-25-34
Height – 5.5 Feet
Bra-Boobs-Breast Size – 32B
Body Type- Slim
Weight -57kg Aprox
Hair Colour – Black
Eyes Color – Black
Shoe Size – 7
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Jim Vanides from HP has started posting some short video clips aimed at showing educators what the Tablet PC platform can do to help them in the classroom. These are great videos for everyone, not just educators. The first tip on annotating with PowerPoint is an excellent tutorial for anyone who wants a short, compelling demo for their Tablet PC. In less than 2 minutes you can make most business professionals, educators, and students all say "wow!".
- Tablet PC Tip #1 - Annotating PowerPoint
- Tablet PC Tip #2: MS Journal - Better than PowerPoint?
- Tablet PC Tip #3 - Save Time with Digital Homework Markups
Despite being focused on educators, these videos make an excellent tutorial for how to demo a Tablet PC to various types of audiences. I learned something from each one. Even if you think you know what he's showing, it can be so helpful to see someone else's perspective.
Table PC, Video, Online video, Tips and Tricks
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Fiery hot for lore lovers and goblin hunters! Fantastic fantasy sounds and FX that give you in-game excitement right in the palm of your hand. With magic spell sounds, casts and hits, this sound effects App is the perfect compliment for all your magical and fantasy adventures. Updated with more device wallpaper and 2 new sounds.
Magic Game Sounds and FX includes:
• Fantasy Sounds – Unique and striking, here's a selection of video game and fantasy style magic sounds and ambient FX. Perfect for creating a mood in the magic of the moment. Includes sounds like: Angelic Whistle, Electric Shocker Blast, Element Buffer.
• Magic Spells and Casts – Zaps and morphs to demonstrate your magic powers, a versatile collection of game style spells and casts that will wow even the wildest of wizards. Includes sounds like: Magic Essence, Spell Cast of Gandalf.
• Fight Scene and Orc Noises – Battle fighting sounds and Orc type noises - Ouch! That hurts. You can almost smell the battle right in your own LARPing world. Use these in your next scene!
• Sorcery Sayings – Custom voice-overs with phrases alluding to medieval fantasy themes. Convey your powers and sentiment with your friends and enemies and then… blame it on the App!
• Share the Magic and Device Wallpapers - Send a magical picture to a friend or share on your favorite social media channel and set the tone on your phone with these stylistic fantasy and magical wallpapers.
Best of all, you can bring the sounds of your favorite fantasy, RPG, or epic movie with you wherever you go. In fact, you can take these professionally crafted sonic gems with you on that long drive to Comicon, or your favorite gaming convention. And now, when you arrive you'll stand out and be the life of the party with these spell-binding sounds. Friends will think you're straight from Hollywood, Bollywood or by golly, they won't believe how your mobile device sounds!
Overall this handy little App will strike a chord with gamers, geeks and nerds. And if you're regular folk like us, you'll think it's really cool to have this kind of auditory power with you wherever you go. More than 60 sonic treasures in all to make sure you keep your fantasy sounding fresh all year long.
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Hi all, wonder if anyone can help
We have an issue where all email sent to firstname.lastname@example.com address are getting stuck in the SMTP queue.
1. Exchange 2010
2. GFI Mail Essentials - white listed email@example.com on GFI.
3. reverse DNS confgured
tried to telnet to one of their 6 servers and successfully sent a test message as firstname.lastname@example.com to firstname.lastname@example.com
Search for blacklisting and everything's OK.
Sending the original message from gmail delivered was also successful.
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Sep 20, 2011 at 11:49 UTC
On the Exchange manager down at the bottom on the left is tool, click that and in there is a mail flow troubleshooter you can run and specify that the mail is stuck in the queue. See what that returns.
Sep 20, 2011 at 11:50 UTC
is it getting stuck in the out going on the machine of the user sending: see below
clear out the sent folder, change the sent folders size or delete it and re open ( i assume) Outlook ( or what ever program you use), the program will then build a new one. you can also rename the folder and again the program will make a new one. i have seen this happen in outlook express 6 where the sent folder ran out of room and the email was stuck in teh out going and every time your sent something, all the emails in teh outgoing sent again and again.
or is it getting stuck on the receiving side?
Sep 20, 2011 at 12:15 UTC
On the Exchange manager down at the bottom on the left is tool, click that and in there is a mail flow troubleshooter you can run and specify that the mail is stuck in the queue. See what that returns.
All test messages to email@example.com are getting stuck on the SMTP queue.
"Your message can't be delivered because delivery to this address is restricted."
Sep 20, 2011 at 12:26 UTC
Do you have email@example.com in your Exchange as a distribution list or something?
Sep 20, 2011 at 12:30 UTC
Sounds like something on the receiving end is blocking your e-mail. Depending on what you typed in during your telnet test, you may not be triggering the block.
You have a reverse DNS entry, great! Does it match the domain that is coming in on e-mail headers from your exchange server?
Do you have an SPF record? Is it configured correctly?
More can be found here but sometimes there isn't a lot you can do without knowing what the receiving server expects.
Sep 20, 2011 at 12:30 UTC
nop, simple email address. No distribution lists.
EDIT: SPF records are well configured.
Sep 20, 2011 at 12:45 UTC
Was this working before? Did you recently upgrade to 2010? Any other changes?
Sep 20, 2011 at 12:48 UTC
No changes were made. Exchange 2010 is running almost 1 year now.
It should be working.
I'm waiting on NDR email to check the error message, just to check if the problem is on my end.
Sep 20, 2011 at 12:51 UTC
I'm thinking they have blocked you some how if Gmail is working to send to that address.
Does your email pass through any external filters like Postini?
Sep 20, 2011 at 1:01 UTC
As I said before, my anti spam solution is GFI Mail Essentials.
And that specific email address is white listed as many others that are working for years.
Sep 20, 2011 at 1:08 UTC
Not saying you whitelisted it, I'm saying they blacklisted yours, and if you have a hosted spam solution this can happen. I use Postini and was blocked from several domains, turns out positni's external address was in a block of about 300. This had nothing to do with me as postini is run by Google, so I had to call the companies one by one and ask them to whitelist my IP.
Sep 20, 2011 at 2:09 UTC
It's GFI, I swear. I had so many issues with that software that I ended up uninstalling it after 4 months (including queues backing up). Try restarting the GFI services and see if the queue clears out.
Sep 21, 2011 at 2:00 UTC
I've had few problems with GFI, easily solved. Have it working for more then 3 years now with a good spam blocking rate.
The problem is "solved"!! I think that on theirdomain.com some changes have been done to allow our emails.
The messages sent in the morning at 11h00 were delivered last night at 22h30.
Thanks everyone for your help.
Sep 21, 2011 at 6:06 UTC
Glad you got it, and at least you did everything on your side to rule yourself out before going to them, that's always a good step.
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This WSJ article, "The Wizards of Buzz", examines the influence of Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Reddit, Newsvine, and Netscape.
To find the key influencers, The Wall Street Journal analyzed more than 25,000 submissions across six major sites. With the help of Dapper, a company that designs software to track information published on the Web, this analysis sifted through snapshots of the sites' home pages every 30 minutes over three weeks. The data included which users posted the submissions and the number of votes each received from fellow users. We then contacted scores of individual users to find which ones are tracked by the wider community.
My mother was surprised to hear the other day that we don't subscribe to our local newspaper and that I think that in my lifetime, news will be printed to hard copy only on demand. The next day, I saw this article from Ha'aretz (an Israeli newspaper) in which Arthur Sulzberger, owner, chairman and publisher of the New York Times, is quoted as saying:
"I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don't care either…"
Sulzberger says the New York Times is on a journey that will conclude the day the company decides to stop printing the paper.
"These costs aren't anywhere near what print costs," Sulzberger says. "The last time we made a major investment in print, it cost no less than $1 billion. Site development costs don't grow to that magnitude."
This makes me think of a few MLIS students I have met who seem shocked and disheartened when they realize that many library resources previously stored on dead trees are moving to digital platforms. Other benefits aside, it is a matter of economics not terribly dissimilar from those which caused earlier dead-tree archives at the public library to be abandoned in favor of microfilm and microfiche- but some MLIS students I have met seem repulsed at the idea that they need technology skills in order to pursue a career in librarianship.
Just to re-state: The owner of the New York Times is planning to stop printing on paper. He's not preparing for the possibility– he knows it will eventually happen and that the only question is how fast it'll happen.
Those technology skills you're being encouraged to gain in library school? They're not optional if you want to be employable.


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Representative Dan Maffei (D-NY) announced today that Oberdorfer's application to the U.S. Department of Labor for Trade Adjustment Assistance was accepted. This approval will provide training, assistance, and resources for the 86 workers who will be laid off from their jobs at the Oberdorfer foundry in DeWitt this June. Maffei pushed for approval in a letter earlier this year and urged the Federal Department of Labor to approve the application. The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program is a federal program that assists U.S workers who have lost their jobs by providing workers with the skills, credentials, resources, and support necessary to find new jobs.
"Helping Central New Yorkers find good-paying jobs is my top priority. I applaud the Department of Labor's decision to approve Oberdorfer's application and provide these Central New York workers with the resources, skills, services, and training to get them back on the job," said Rep. Dan Maffei. "This support is critical for the Oberdorfer workers and their families who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and will help them get back to work as quickly as possible."
Benefits under the TAA program include up to 130 weeks of full-time or part-time training, tax credits to cover healthcare costs and reimbursement for job seeking activities that take place outside of the local area. The program also offers relocation allowances, employment and case management services and a wage subsidy for workers reemployed at annual wages of $50,000 or less.
Source: http://maffei.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/maffei-announces-oberdorfer-trade-adjustment-approval


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Dating since 2008, Conrad ended her relationship with the My Boys actor in June. At issue? Conrad's reality TV past. "He saw the relationship as distracting from his goal of being the next Robert De Niro," a source told Us. "He wasn't supportive of her career."


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That made total sense to me. We've never rewarded with stickers. Oh, but Mothering Matters has. And Chick-Fil-A has...I forget to confiscate them on the rare occasion that stickers come into our lives. They inevitably end up on something important...or the truck windows on the third row. What happens on the third row, stays on the third row. I think there are some stickers from like two years ago or something that Hoot put up. One day I was all, "Hey, who did that?!" T-Bird was all, "Um, that's been there forever." -------Third row void-------
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Having the most outspoken politician on Capitol Hill and a 28-year veteran of the Florida Legislature battling it out for the same congressional seat is enough to suck all the oxygen out of any political contest.
Having the most outspoken politician on Capitol Hill and a 28-year veteran of the Florida Legislature battling it out for the same congressional seat is enough to suck all the oxygen out of any political contest.
But the race in the 8th Congressional District, now represented by Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, is not a two-man show — a fact that has spawned a debate about debates.
Grayson, the freshman incumbent, has declined to debate his chief rival, Orlando Republican and former state lawmaker Daniel Webster, unless the debate includes the other three candidates in what could be the most closely watched election in the country.
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For all the momentum the Tea Party activists appear to have in Republican political circles, Peg Dunmire of Orlando is an actual candidate from the Florida TEA Party — which, state records show, has 333 members across Florida, including seven in Marion County.
Dunmire said she was inspired to run by the meltdown of the nation's financial system two years ago and later the passage of the federal health care reform law.
After the financial crisis in 2008, Dunmire realized the risk that had posed to her own retirement plan and personal finances, a threat later underscored after she, as a certified financial planner, began coaching members of her church in handling their money.
Then, when the health care reform debate cranked up after President Barack Obama took office, Dunmire said she was "mortified" that elected leaders in Washington were not being truthful about how the health care system operates.
Dunmire, a 63-year-old New York City native, began working in hospital administration in 1965 at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh after obtaining her master's degree in public health.
She spent three decades in the industry before launching a health care consulting firm, a business she continued after moving to the Orlando area almost 10 years ago.
The long bickering over "Obamacare," as critics, including Dunmire, refer to it, "doubled my desire to offer my candidacy," she said.
"I kept asking 'Who's going to make a difference in these two areas where the country needs really solid solutions?' and I kept coming back to myself. Look at the candidates in the 8th District. Nobody but me has the financial and health care experience to tackle two gigantic problems."
Dunmire described herself as a lifelong, "proud, card-carrying Republican," and naturally considered running for Congress for the GOP.
But she became disappointed when party leaders in Washington declined to support her. Thus, when the TEA Party officials asked, she responded.
Dunmire, who had been active in the Tea Party movement, gravitated to the Florida TEA Party because of its laser-like focus on fiscal issues and keeping the federal government within its prescribed constitutional boundaries.
"This was a big deal for me to switch," she recalled. But, "the TEA Party as a political party is happening. We're going to take this nationally. The time is right for a third party."
Her campaign hinges on two key issues.
First, she advocates the passage of the Fair Tax, the proposed national sales tax that would replace most federal taxes, as the remedy to the country's financial woes.
Secondly, she wants to repeal the health care reform law and replace it and other forms of health insurance, whether government or private, with a variation of health savings accounts.
Those plans are fed by tax-free contributions from participants who draw on them for medical expenses as needed. Dunmire said that would restore decision-making power to people and not the government or insurers.
Dunmire has served in political office before. More than three decades ago, she was a board member for a small school district outside Pittsburgh.
Dunmire said: "My vision of government was shaped in those years. You need to be close to the people. I'm the only person who will respect what the voters say they want and represent their best interests. I'm all about reinforcing the role of government, which, as the Declaration of Independence says, is about securing rights and not providing services."
Like Dunmire, George Metcalfe, a 51-year-old lawyer from Eustis, is a disenchanted former Republican.
Unlike Dunmire, however, Metcalfe has not hitched his political bid to unseat Grayson to a minor party. He is running without any party affiliation.
Still, he does not believe that is an impediment.
As a champion of progressive causes, Grayson is constrained and defined by his liberal backers, Metcalfe maintains. Webster, meanwhile, as a 28-year veteran of the Florida Legislature, is the epitome of the conventional Republican Party establishment.
"Let partisanship run its course. Both parties are so predictable. I'm sure I'm not the only one who recognizes the futility of trying to do something [within the two-party system]. People understand that politicians are looking to save their own careers before they take care of the country," Metcalfe said.
Besides, he said of voters, "They've tried everything else."
Metcalfe joked that he decided to get off the sidelines after his wife grew weary of him yelling at the television news. "She said, 'You know they can't hear you,' " he said.
"I realized I had certain gifts that I use in my life and my law practice that I could use in Congress," said Metcalfe, who specializes in family and civil law.
He earned a bachelor's degree in finance and a master's degree in business administration before obtaining a law degree. He also lives on a small horse farm and breeds Paso Finos.
Metcalfe was born in Fort Lauderdale and lived in South Florida until moving to Eustis from Miami in 2006.
That year he also briefly flirted with a political bid for a state House of Representatives seat in Miami, but said he withdrew after realizing he would face a tough time cracking the Cuban-American-dominated GOP machine.
Metcalfe said his latest effort hinges on three core issues.
First, he believes the country "needs to get back to God" and not be reluctant or fearful about discussing and promoting the nation's Judeo-Christian roots.
Second, getting the economy back in shape requires giving less control of it to the federal government, Metcalfe said.
He opposes stimulus spending, and greater federal control of businesses, while arguing for tax cuts.
Metcalfe, too, would replace the existing tax code with the Fair Tax, reduce federal spending to 2007 levels, push for a 10-percent across-the-board salary cut for all federal employees and advocate a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget, except in times when Congress has declared war.
Metcalfe also calls for repealing the federal health insurance law and utilizing state-regulated health maintenance organizations in its stead.
"The more incentive we give to people to keep what they earn, the more incentive we have to hire more people," he said. "I'm concerned about how government can continue to grow and grow and grow. We're on a sinking ship if we have that as a destination.'
Finally, he wants to end the polarization in Washington.
Metcalfe thinks Republicans and Democrats are too wrapped up in "silly issues" to debate substantive matters. "Congress has lost vision of what's important," he said.
Steve Gerritzen applies what he calls the "two-dog theory" to the major parties.
When two dogs brawl for the title of alpha dog, Gerritzen said, the owner can get rid of one, beat both with a newspaper, or get rid of both and bring in some new puppies to be trained.
It's time the owner — the American people in his analogy — got rid of both dogs and brought in new pups. In this case, that would be Libertarians, Tea Partiers, Constitutionalists, independents, or a Whig, like Gerritzen.
"They have forgotten who they work for. The Constitution is being ignored, and politics is big business, instead of representing the people," said Gerritzen, a member of the Ocala-based Florida Whig Party who is running as a write-in.
"We're getting away from what this country was founded on. We need to get the country back to what it was based on — a republic. Let's get back to our roots."
Gerritzen, a 40-year-old warehouse manager from Ocala, opted to challenge Grayson after joining the Florida Whigs and being convinced by party Chairman Paul Trusedell that a congressional bid, even a long-shot one, was the way to inaugurate his political career.
His campaign offers one overarching theme: that Washington is too involved in too much of everyday American life, and control of government needs to be more local.
Take our wallets, for example.
Gerritzen said, if elected, he would advocate for the implementation of the Fair Tax because the tax code, especially the income tax, is broken beyond repair.
Bureaucrats in Washington have mismanaged the education system and rigged it so only the upper crust can afford a college education, Gerritzen said.
Under his reforms, he added, the federal government would set standards but it would be up to states to decide how to achieve them and how much to spend doing so.
Gerrtizen favors repealing the health care reform law and letting states manage it. He also promotes tort reform as a way to cure the "sue-happy" mindset that drives up malpractice — and hence patient — insurance costs.
"When we rely on the federal government for everything, we're going to become a socialist or communist country. I like the freedoms we have. I like the economic system we have, and I want it to grow," he said.
Gerritzen is realistic about his chances but sees a common cause among any candidate who is not a Republican or a Democrat. He hopes he's helping plant a seed for two years down the road, if not sooner.
"If somebody else runs under the same ideas and wins, I'll still feel like I've succeeded," he said.
Aubrey Jewett, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida, believes Dunmire will influence the outcome more than Metcalfe or Gerritzen — which, in his opinion, does not bode well for Webster.
Jewett said he sees scant evidence that Democrats will abandon Grayson, despite his brash public persona, or that they favor the Tea Party movement.
On the other hand, recent outcomes in Republican contests — such as Rick Scott's win in the Florida gubernatorial primary over Attorney General Bill McCollum and Christine McDonnell's victory over U.S. Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Senate primary — shows where the thinking among GOP voters is about Obama and veteran pols.
"Webster's got a long, long history as an elected official and normally that might not be a bad thing," Jewett said.
"But the threat posed to Webster is real. We've seen the mood the electorate is in. Tea Party-backed candidates are doing better than establishment candidates. And Dunmire helps split the anti-Democratic, anti-Obama vote."
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TransversArte & Clube do Choro UK are delighted to invite you to our next monthly choro workshops with Cléa Thomasset (flute, vocals) and Jonathan Preiss (7-string guitar) !
Open to all instruments, this will be a great opportunity for intermediate amateur players to professional musicians, willing to improve their Choro playing, or simply discover the interpretation of this genuine Brazilian instrumental music genre.
Saturdays 25th March, 22nd April and 20th May from 3.00pm to 6.00pm
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– discovering choro's historical context and great composers
– learning to play together in a regional (traditional choro group) and a roda de choro (traditional choro sessions in circle)
– building a collective repertoire
Pay as you go 1 session – early bird (monthly deadlines: 10/03, 07/04, 05/04) : £25 standard / £20 music student
Pay as you go 1 session – regular : £30 standard / £25 music student
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Cléa Thomasset is a flute player, vocalist and composer-songwriter from West of France (Brittany-Pays de Loire), established in London.
Equally academically trained and self-taught, she studied classical and jazz flute, and then started to perform as a singer too: French music, Jazz and of course Brazilian music, her very long lasting love affair. After having been taught several years in France by the Brazilian master Eduardo Lopes, she went to Rio de Janeiro, to study choro at Escola Portátil, Brazilian popular singing with Felipe Abreu and rythm with Lucas Ciavatta.
Very active in the Choro network in Europe, she works with the finest chorões of the Old Continent, and also produces/performs with some touring musicians from Brazil ; she moved to London in 2015, and became the project manager at Club de Choro UK (founded by Gaio de Lima).
She can be seeing performing on European stages with her quartet Travessias (poetic Brazilian songs) and with the Brazilian 7-string guitar player Vitor Celestino (Choro & Brazilian jazz) ; she also works with many other musicians from various backgrounds (samba, contemporary and classical music, French songs, modern jazz), on stage or as a session musician, and is currently developping her new solo creation, mixing flute, vocals, electro and poetry.
Teaching music to all (from babies to seniors) since more than 10 years in France, and now UK, she developped a participative and inclusive pedagogy; she also translated into French the amazing Brazilian musical method O Passo by Lucas Ciavatta – a strong reference in her own practice and teaching – and the very interesting A estrutura do Choro by Carlos Almada (The structure of Choro).
Jonathan Preiss studied classical and jazz guitar at Leeds College of Music, and classical guitar and composition at Trinity College of Music, London. A tremendously versatile guitarist, he is equally at home performing music from the classical guitar repertoire, playing Brazilian music, jazz, avant-garde chamber music, musical theatre or baroque concertos.
His live credits include London Philharmonic Orchestra [Lord of the Rings Symphony, Royal Albert Hall 2010], Warehouse Ensemble [Boulez in Birmingham 2008] and West End shows "Zorro the Musical" and "In the Heights". Broadcast credits include BBC Radio 2's "Friday Night Is Music Night", BBC Radio 3's "In Tune" and – performing live from the 2012 Olympic Park – BBC Radio 5. Recording credits include Aled Jones' The Christmas Album, a duo album with BBC Young Tradition award winner Luke Daniels and two albums with Brazilian group Caratinga.
Playing the traditional Brazilian 7-stringed acoustic guitar, Jonathan's involvement with Brazilian music has led him to perform with major Brazilian artists both UK- and Brazil-based, including Monica Vasconcelos, Adriano Adewale, Henrique Cazes, Dirceu Leite, Rogerio Souza, Chico Chagas, Paraiso School of Samba and Gilberto Gomes. In 2000 he formed the group Caratinga, a unique Anglo-Brazilian project performing traditional and original choro and samba, and featuring musicians from across Brazil; Felipe Karam from Porto Alegre, Anselmo Netto from Salvador and Adriano Adewale and Leandra Varanda from São Paulo. Caratinga have recorded two albums and played throughout the UK and as far afield as Paris and the Amazon. An experienced teacher, Jonathan has given Brazilian guitar workshops for organisations including Dartington International Summer School, Berkshire Music Maestros and Clube do Choro UK.