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Frozen- loved it. Reminded me a lot of Wicked (which I also saw last week in Indy...amazing)
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Frozen- loved it. Reminded me a lot of Wicked (which I also saw last week in Indy...amazing)
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
Thor 2. I went in with low expectations, and thankfully it exceeded them. A well done movie, just not the kind that really gets me very invested emotionally, so it was more of just a fun escape. The after-movie scene with that collector guy was interesting.
I'm somewhat familiar with the infinity gauntlet and Thanos, but I know nothing about the collector or the guardians of the galaxy (just that their movie is coming).
The Act of Killing - So, yeah, every positive thing you've seen or read about this movie is true. It's dark comedy nirvana. The way it ends in a maddening, hilarious, terribly sad catharsis, it's almost like it was made up. Like there's no way it could resolve (and yet be completely unresolved) in such a perfect and perfectly ambiguous way. Certainly darker than Exit Through the Gift Shop, but it totally knocked me off my feet intellectually and emotionally. Best movie film since ETtGS. It has the championship belt. Recommended in a way that I don't think I can fully express.
A Band Called Death - No documentary (or any movie) is going to come off as amazing after TAoK, but ABCD (isn't that fun?) is so engaging, emotional, and difficult not to smile at. One of the best recent movies that is about religiousness that wears it on its sleeve and still does so effectively. Very deft storytelling (obviously quite similar to Sugarman) with the twists, turns, and new characters introduced in the latter parts of the movie. A lot more honest about music and the music business than we are usually comfortable with being. Highly recommended.
My favorite movie of 2013. Might be my favorite sci-fi of all time. I was so invested and enthralled it seemed like the movie lasted 30 minutes.
Golden Globe nominations.
Best Motion Picture - Drama
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
American Hustle
Inside Llewyn Davis
Wolf of Wall Street
Of the drama list I've only seen Gravity and Captain Phillips. Neither of those were better than Dallas Buyer's Club.
I'm late to this party but I remembered reading a post on here about this movie and just watched it tonight. I could not agree more with this post. I loved that movie, and echo what UB said: It's probably my favorite movie of the year so far (full disclosure: I haven't seen a whole lot of non-popcorn flicks this year). Just really well done all the way around.
Love that musical. I've seen it twice, and was lucky enough to see it on Broadway one of those times. I have a feeling I'll be spending the rest of my life going "that was a pretty good musical...wasn't Wicked though.."
So I might have to see Frozen now.
Gonna see American Hustle when it comes out. Because..you know..Jennifer Lawrence.
you won't like that show either.
I saw Inside Llewyn Davis
It was a trippy movie I was okay with it till the ending and then I'm like what did I just watch?
Fortunately it was a screening if I paid for it I would've been a lot more upset.
Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug- enjoyed it a lot. The ending is a bit controversial, but otherwise fun action and great acting. Smaug (Cumberbatch) was awesome and terrifying
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
I just saw Hobbit as well. I see what you mean. Stupid to make this three movies. Two would have been plenty.
Finally got to see Fast 6 this evening, They didn't have it on Comcast OnDemand for the longest time. Pretty good movie, its certainly advanced the story that bridges the gap of the Tokyo movie. I liked Fast 5 better as it was more of a Heist movie. But Fast 6 had some great features. Good fight scenes, I thought the Ramp cars were insanely cool. Suffered from some insanely impossible stunts, just like Fast 5. I thought this one had some majorly forced plots holes to advance the movie, and could have been better thought out.
But i will say seeing Jason Statham step out of the car in that last scene got me so pumped up for FAST 7. Then I remember the obvious recent developments. But Statham is a great action star, and he can actually act when he gets a good script. I'm hoping they flesh his character out to be more than just the Hitman.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
Frank & Robot / Robot & Frank
I really liked it. Good little movie.
Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug
Liked the clif hanger. Not sure how the people who saw this said this could have been over in 2? I'm fine with 3. It was much much better than the first Hobbit. I actually hated the 1st one cause of it's slow start and just terrible CGI action once they were captured by the Goblin King.
The 2nd one redeemed itself.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
I'd just cut out the stuff with the necromancer. That'd probably be all you need to make this two movies.
I really like the Necromancer parts. It's not something that was overly talked about in the Hobbit but was incredibly important for that time period while Gandalf was away from the Dwarves. I'm glad they did this
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
I like them too, though I don't care for Radagast the Brown.
I would also throw out the contrived Legolas and "I'm Not Actually A Tolkien Character" Woman storyline as well. The bits with her and one of the dwarves just did nothing for me, either.
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Imaging Outcomes of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Battered Women With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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University of California, San Diego
San Diego Veterans Healthcare System
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Identifying neural mechanisms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment could help elucidate reasons for variable treatment response and identify novel treatment targets. Exposure-based therapies have been associated with decreased amygdala and increased cingulate cortex response during emotional processing. The current study examined whether cognitive therapy for PTSD in women reduces activation in insula and amygdala and enhances activation in prefrontal regions during emotional anticipation and pre-treatment prefrontal activation predicts treatment response.
|Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
|Behavioral: Cognitive Trauma Therapy for Battered Women (CTT-BW)
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|Neurobiology of Severe Psychological Trauma in Women
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) [ Time Frame: After 10 sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) (10-14 weeks) ]The CAPS is a widely used measure of PTSD severity. Intent was to administer 10 sessions of CBT over a period of 10-14 weeks. Primary outcome was CAPS at the end of CBT administration.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- CAPS 3 months post-treatment [ Time Frame: 3 months post-treatment ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Intervention Details:
Behavioral: Cognitive Trauma Therapy for Battered Women (CTT-BW)
10 individual sessions of this form of cognitive therapy, with a trained therapist.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Female.
- Intimate partner violence (IPV) trauma defined as physical and/or sexual abuse committed by a romantic partner, occurring within five years of, but having ended at least one month prior to, enrollment in the study.
- Seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and meeting full or partial Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 4th edition (DSM-IV) criteria for PTSD prior to treatment, verified through the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Substance abuse in the past year
- History of >2 years of alcohol abuse
- Use of psychotropic medications within 4 weeks prior to the study, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, irremovable ferromagnetic bodily material, pregnancy, or claustrophobia.
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domestic violence
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a case that will address whether the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) applies to class actions brought by state attorneys general.
This specific case comes from the Mississippi attorney general, who accused several liquid crystal display (LCD) makers of price-fixing. The 5th Circuit in November 2012 agreed with the LCD makers that, under CAFA, the lawsuit should be removed to federal court.
CAFA gives federal courts jurisdiction over lawsuits with many plaintiffs, but thus far appeals courts have been split on whether that applies to class actions filed by state attorneys general. In fact, when Congress passed the statute in 2005, there was an amendment on the table to explicitly exclude class actions brought by state attorneys general from CAFA's scope, but the Senate rejected it.
According to Thomson Reuters, the case will pit state sovereignty against the Supreme Court's recent campaign against class actions. Cases such as Wal-Mart v. Dukes have shown that the high court is attempting to raise the bar for what makes class actions acceptable.
The Supreme Court will hear this case during the October 2013-June 2014 term.
Read more InsideCounsel coverage of class actions:
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Former Hearst interns can't pursue class action, thanks to Dukes
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THE Royal International Air Tattoo got off to a flying start yesterday as some of the world's top aerobatic teams took to the skies.
Among them were the world famous Red Arrows who were joined by a royal visitor for the afternoon.
Special guest Prince Charles spent much of the afternoon speaking with the pilots and meeting air cadets who are helping out with the spectacular airshow this weekend.
As part of his visit, The Prince of Wales sat in the cockpit of a Red Arrows Hawk T1, and was also presented with a book of paintings by Swindon-based artist David Bent.
For much of the trip the Prince of Wales had a smile on his face and was more than happy to chat with members of the crowd.
Among those he spoke with was cadet Ronnie Taffurlli, 16, who said: "It was really good to speak to the Prince who was really interested about what we did as cadets.
"He also asked us about what we are here to do, which is to help the public."
The royal visitor also spoke with local school children who were visiting the air show for the first time.
Shawn Harper, 14, said he had come to RIAT because he wants to be a pilot when he was older.
He said: "Prince Charles asked us if we were in the cadets but we're not because we don't really have it at our school.
"It's really made me want to join the RAF when I'm older.
"I tried asking him for a selfie as well but he said no."
The royal visit marked the highlight of a busy first day of the air show, with more than 20,000 visitors making the trip to the Gloucester-shire airfield.
Although there were clouds in the sky for much of the day, they were high enough so all the scheduled flights could go ahead as planned.
With the F-35B Lightning II not in attendance, the Red Arrows were the main attraction, and as always did not disappoint.
People of all ages watched in amazement as the nine aircraft flew in all directions, lighting up the sky with their trademark red, blue and white smoke.
A host of other jets, helicopters and display teams from around the world rounded off a thrilling first day.


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I noticed these discs from a fairly little known German disc manufacturer in a local sporting goods store, and for shits and giggles thought I'd give them a shot. The set includes a driver, a mid and a putter, in a premium sort of plastic that's stiff, hard and not really what you'd call grippy, though they can stick like heck if I breathe on my hands before grabbing them. I think I've thrown hard Medium Wizards that feel kinda like these, that sort of "plastic plate" feel.
All of the "Organic" ones were white, there was also a cheaper standard edition that had a softer, chalkier plastic with various colours. I don't think they'll be as tough as these are though. I can't really call these sturdy like your normal premium plastic either, they seem brittle somehow and are more likely to scratch than real premium, but I think they'll hold up better than Pro etc.
Normally these sort of things are nothing to write home about, but these actually aren't bad at all.
The putter has a very flat top, a very curved shoulder and a really concave wing, almost reminds me of a Comet. Due to the sloping shoulder and seemingly low PLH I though it'd be very understable when driving, but to my surprise it only turned a tiny bit on a full rip, flew straight for a long time and had a nice small fade at the end. It's fairly fast due to the lower profile, and while the glide isn't great it's not horrible either, and it's really not bad as a driving putter. For putting though, yeah, that's not that great. The slickness of the plastic wreaks havoc when putting, big time. It's not bad when driving, since you're gripping harder anyway, but with a light putting touch it really doesn't work. A shame, since otherwise it'd actually be pretty nice. Wonder how the other plastic would work...
The mid was the first one I actually tried, and frankly it amazed me. The shape is quite reminiscent of a Buzzz, it has a nice very slight dome that extends a from to the edge flight plate to the edge of the stamp and then levels out (so the center of the disc is indeed flat), a blunt nose and a nice concave wing. Speed is about Buzzz level, maybe a bit slower. The flight was what surprised me the most. The glide is pretty excellent (not Fuse level but still pretty great), and the stability is very nice for a workhorse mid. It really did remind me of a Buzzz, or maybe between the Buzzz and the Core. A slight turn to start with, then hold straight for a long while with a small fade at the end. Held very nice anhyzers, pulling out a bit at the end, and also very nice true hyzers. I have to say I liked it quite a bit. I'm normally a TeeBird man (I like neutral discs) and the straight MD2 is my favorite mid, but I also like Eagles, and with the little turn and fade this sort of compares with the MD2 like the Eagle compares with the TeeBird (I'm not saying this is the Eagle of mids though). It didn't power down quite as well as I'd liked it to, it is a bit like the Buzzz in that it is more of a driver than a classic mid.
The driver didn't wow me as much, but it's not bad at all either. It has a similar dome to the mid range, slight consistent one until the stamp starts, fairly sharp nose and a nice concave wing. The speed is at around Innova 7/8 range, glide isn't that great, maybe 4 or 5, and I'd probably put the HSS and LSS figures to -1.5/-2 and +1 at the moment. It was reminiscent of an S-FD (my S-FDs are orange DGR stamped one BTW) with less glide and a narrower cruising speed range. I didn't exactly test it extensively, but it seemed to start fading a bit earlier than the FD.
Eurodisc surprised me. These aren't the greatest discs in the world, but they're a heck of a lot better than I thought they'd be, and for a more advanced player I think it's actually a better set than Innova's starter set (either the Aviar/Shark/Leopard or Aviar/Shark/Valkyrie one). The cost is about the same as 3 DX discs cost in most stores, and these seem to be much more durable than that. The only Eurodisc disc I've seen prior to these was a Mini-Star copy that I use as a marker, they've actually come up with very decent discs on their first go, these kick the ass of ESP and Ching sets easily (yeah, ESP discs are also available here *shudder*). Especially the mid and the putter are actually solid discs, if the plastic was a bit grippier I bet these'd sell decently as standalone discs.


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A MEDSTEAD vineyard is the latest producer to join the Hampshire Fare.
Sparkling wine maker Hattingley Valley, located at Lower Wield near Alresford, has joined the fare as a corporate partner.
The vineyard, which has been operating since it was first planted in 2008, is already among the top 20 largest UK wine growers.
Simon Robinson, chairman of Hattingley Valley, said: "We are delighted to join Hampshire Fare, which is a very natural partner for us, and we look forward to a long and successful partnership, helping to promote a great county which produces fantastic products.
"As well as creating great wines for everyone to enjoy, our grape growing and winery operations significantly boost rural employment; in addition viticulture is a very attractive diversification for many farmers."
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A great collection of Monk's 10" recordings for Blue Note – seminal not only for the label's commitment to a modernist bop ideal, but also for Monk's integration in the growing collection of top-level jazz players on the New York scene. The work's notable also for the fact that Monk's playing in group settings – not trio ones – and here, his early writing for and interplay with saxes and trumpet would certainly have a strong effect on the development of modern jazz in the 50s. Titles on this first volume include "Round Midnight", "In Walked Bud", "Suburban Eyes", "Humph", "Evonce", "Monk's Mood", "Well You Needn't", and "Off Minor" – and this new version features a total of 21 tracks with great remastering and some rare alternate takes! (Small cutout notch through spine.) © 1996-2017, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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Over 40 licensed action figures planned for 2010...
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BifBangPow! announces a new line of 8-inch retro-style action figures. Reproductions reminiscent of the best-selling action figures of the 1970s and early 1980s, these highly articulated figures will feature body designs by EMCE Toys. Each figure will include real cloth clothing and plastic accessories where appropriate.
Over 40 licensed action figures are planned for 2010. The first are targeted for an early summerarrival and San Diego Comic-Con, with others to follow later in the year. Licensed characters to be featured in the line include those from: The Venture Bros., Dexter, LOST, The Big Lebowski, The Twilight Zone, Flash Gordon, and Scott Ian (Anthrax).


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A Day of ShoppingLogic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
The Springview Mall had its annual Big Sale last Friday. Five girls skipped school to go shopping together. Each of the girls bought one item on sale for less than the regular price. Find out each girl's last name, item bought, the sale price she paid, and what the regular price of her item was.
1. Beth Jones didn't buy the shoes. The girl who bought the skirt spent half of the regular price. Terry spent $25 on her item.
2. Sarah was not the girl who spent $35 on an item that was regularly priced at $45. Miss Turner, whose first name isn't Jennifer, didn't buy the jeans.
3. Molly spent more money than the girl who bought the necklace, but her item's regular price was $10 less than Miss Smith's.
4. The person who bought the jeans had a regular price that was higher than Miss Anderson, but lower than the girl who bought the purse.
5. Sarah's last name wasn't Smith. Miss Welch didn't spend $40, but the regular price of her item was $15 more than the sale price. The person who bought the necklace spent $30, but it wasn't Sarah.
6. The five girls were Molly, the girl who spent $50, the person who bought the jeans, the girl whose item regularly cost $60, and Miss Anderson.
HintCreate a table based on the 6th clue. Work with it and the grid.
AnswerBeth Jones, necklace, $30, $60
Jennifer Smith, jeans, $40, $55
Molly Turner, shoes, $35, $45
Sarah Welch purse $50, $65
Terry Anderson, skirt, $25, $50
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Panik's production giving lift to Giants' offense
SAN FRANCISCO -- Good thing the Giants didn't trade for a second baseman at the Trade Deadline.
The cliche that "hindsight is 20/20" rings true, but, odds are, whomever they would've acquired wouldn't have produced the way Joe Panik has in the month of August. The rookie entered Saturday hitting .391 (the Majors' third-best mark for the month) with a home run and eight RBIs this month, which has helped reinvigorate what had been an ailing offense and afforded manager Bruce Bochy more flexibility with his lineup.
After the second four-hit game of his career Friday, Panik said studying Buster Posey while in the Minors helped him develop his approach at the plate, which Bochy said Saturday afternoon is reminiscent of Posey's.
"Not a lot of movement, it's not a complicated swing," Bochy said. "They're quick to the ball, short to the ball, and they use the whole field.
"Since he got comfortable up here, he's been the player that he was down in Triple-A. Sometimes it takes players longer than others, but with Joe it just took a handful of days before you saw he belonged here."
Ask Bochy about Panik and another name comes to mind, too: Marco Scutaro.
"Marco was a contact guy, line-drive hitter, base-hit guy, and I look at Panik as the same type of hitter," Bochy said. "Both can handle the bat, they're disciplined at the plate, and that allows you to do a couple things that you may not do with a Hunter Pence."
Panik in the two-hole gives the bottom half of the lineup more speed with Pence batting fifth, and it also creates more lefty-righty variation before the pitcher's spot. It makes the Giants more dynamic, too, since Bochy can opt to put on bunts or hit-and-run plays with Panik, which he wouldn't have with Pence. If Panik's production continues, so will his stay in the two-hole.
"It seems like, for the last three or four weeks, every time he comes up to bat he feels he's going to get a hit," Posey said. "He's got a really nice, simple approach and has a knack for getting the barrel on the ball. If you're going to do that, you're going to have lots of success."
Ryan Hood is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @ryanhood19. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Roasted Cauliflower Slices with Red Pepper, Capers, and Lemon (and Olives if you wish)
But the original photos were nothing to get excited about and when we decided to update them Jake and I got a little creative and added chopped red pepper and a few capers to the garlicky vinaigrette, which made it even more flavorful and definitely more colorful. You can also make the garlicky topping without the olives if you prefer, but if you like cauliflower and Kalamata olives, this is a must try!
This delicious roasted cauliflower recipe is Low-Carb, Gluten-Free, Paleo, and also Vegan, so hopefully it will work for a lot of people. And of course this is my Meatless Monday suggestion for this week. You can find lots more Vegetarian Recipes and Vegan Recipes in the recipes-by-photo index pages. And if you're a Meatless Monday fan who likes finding recipes on Pinterest you might want to take a look at my Meatless Monday Pinterest Board, which has thousands of meatless main dish and side dish recipes from great bloggers all around the web.
(Roasted Cauliflower Slices with Red Pepper, Capers, and Lemon was first posted in 2010; updated for Meatless Monday April 2015. My friend Dlyn also posted Roasted Cauliflower with Kalamata Vinaigrette as a farewell post to Gourmet Magazine back in 2010.)
When the cauliflower is crisp and slightly browned, spoon the spicy garlic dressing mixture over the cauliflower pieces and serve hot.
And just for the memories, here's the original photo of this recipe from back in 2010 with just olives. Make that version if you prefer!
Roasted Cauliflower Slices with Red Pepper, Capers, and Lemon (and Olives if you prefer)
(Makes about 4 servings, recipe adapted from a recipe by Melissa Roberts for Gourmet Magazine.)
1 medium head cauliflower
2 T olive oil
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Vinaigrette Ingredients:
1/2 tsp. minced garlic
pinch sea salt
3 T fresh-squeezed lemon juice
3 T extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup finely chopped Kalamata olives or black olives, optional
1 red bell pepper, chopped small
1 T capers
Drizzle both sides of cauliflower with olive oil and season with salt and fresh ground black pepper. (I used a generous amount of pepper, but not too much salt.) Start cauliflower roasting while you make the vinaigrette, and let it roast 15 minutes without turning.
While cauliflower roasts, mash garlic and sea salt in a mortar and pestle (or use a fork and a bowl), then rinse the garlic and salt mixture into a bowl with the lemon juice. Stir in the olive oil, whisking until the dressing is emulsified. Stir in chopped red peppers, and capers (and olives if using) and let the vinaigrette ingredients blend while cauliflower continues cooking.
After about 15 minutes, carefully turn cauliflower pieces with a large turner. Put back in oven and roast 10-15 minutes more, or until cauliflower is slightly crisp and nicely browned, and done to your liking. Serve hot, with the garlicky dressing mixture drizzled over cauliflower.
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Liz Adams in her United States Naval Academy uniform
As is true for each of us, mine is a
story of God´s plan as it has been revealed to
me along the path, each day filled with the gifts
He has desired to give me.I was in my second
year at the United States Naval Academy and each day
I was contemplating the upcoming decision referred to as "two
for seven." After these two years of challenging and
enriching experiences, would I give another seven of my life
to the Naval Service?I had never expressed my interior deliberation
to those close to me. There had to be more
to life than the ideal of becoming a model midshipman,
making the grades, throwing the shot and discus and excelling
as the "all-around athlete." I was not happy, I
was not being authentic, and I was living as I
thought I had to be, not as God wanted me
to be. My motives in attending the Academy were
not the most pure. Yes, I wanted to defend
my country and I wanted to serve my God, but
what I really wanted was to prove myself, to add
another accomplishment to the list. But then, during my
first year I came to understand that the one unchanging
certainty in life was that I needed God. I
became more and more involved with Catholic activities on the
Yard and by my second year I started attending various
bible studies and prayer groups and participating in outreach projects.
I began a routine of daily prayer and Mass
as often as possible. I was slowly realizing that
studies and sports were not going to give me fulfillment.
Still, I assumed I would just sign the papers
as all my peers would.
In April of 2000 I learned of a
fellowship in Europe that would enrich my faith and allow
me to meet other Catholic university students, not to mention
give me the opportunity to tour a little of Europe.
I could see Rome and meet the Pope! What
better opportunity could I ask for? So, I
applied, rearranged my schedule, and in May I flew across
the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. Little did
I know that God was going to give me the
greatest gift I would ever receive, second to my baptism
and the sacraments. Each day we attended lectures given
by various renowned theologians, philosophers, bio-ethicists, and apologists. The
program of formation was intense, but what impressed me most
was the example of strong committed Catholics who were actively
living their faith. I can remember while sitting in
a lecture on education the professor said, "If you are
not learning anything in your classes, if you´re not interested
in the subject, GET OUT!" The leadership training and
education I was receiving at the Naval Academy was of
the highest quality and I can see now that my
time there taught me how to value what I have
now in the Regnum Christi Movement in terms of its
formation. Yet somehow I knew with this professor´s statement that
the Naval Academy was not the right place for me.
It was time for me to take another road.
I called my parents and told them the news:
"Mom, Dad, I´m going to be a Catholic missionary."
They were justifiably shocked in light of the fact
that I had never previously expressed my consideration of leaving.
They wanted to be sure I was serious and
that this was not just a whim but a well
thought out decision, whereupon they gave me their support.
God has given me the grace to step back
and set aside my expectations of myself in order to
see where He wanted me to go. I spoke
with my spiritual guide about all that was transpiring as
a consequence of time spent with Christ. God showed
me that the Navy was not where He wanted me,
and upon ending the fellowship I was certain I would
not sign on for seven more years as a naval
officer. I was still obliged to finish my summer
training with the Navy, so I returned to Annapolis to
fulfill my obligations and formally resign. The next step.
I proceeded to Rhode Island, where co-workers in the
United States complete six weeks of training. The entire
co-worker year is a combination of human, intellectual, and spiritual
formation attained through a process of learning the facts of
the spiritual life and apostolate, assimilating it in workshops in
the co-worker course and practically applying it in experiences during
the year, thus forming the integral woman. God gave me
an unimaginable gift in this opportunity to serve him.
I realized half way through my first year that I
had so much to learn and God desired to give
me much more, so I am now giving a second
year. I see that this is His path for
me. Each day he continues to give me the
grace to say yes to his will in the smallest
details of my life, and I never realized I could
find so much happiness in doing his will. By far,
above all other enriching experiences is this one: that
Christ has revealed Himself to me and He continues each
day to draw me closer to Him. In Christ,


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Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the state premiers have six years to work out how to pay for their share of the Gonski schools funding reforms.
Victoria, though, says it's not sold on the proposed changes, calling them a "one-size-fits-all" approach that may leave some schools worse off.
The prime minister and state leaders will discuss the reforms and funding at the Council of Australian Governments meeting in April.
Ms Gillard told the Australian Education Union national conference in Melbourne on Friday the new schools funding model proposed by consultant David Gonski had been costed "in the order of $6.5 billion a year".
She said the sum represented less than 0.4 per cent of gross domestic product, or about a quarter of the amount spent on alcohol in the country every year.
"We can afford school reform," Ms Gillard said.
"I'm not asking the premiers to put money on the table today.
"The full school improvement plan will come into force gradually between 2014 and full completion in 2019."
The Victorian government says the plan poses "significant risk" to the improvements of its schools.
"Victoria is concerned that the commonwealth's proposed response to the Gonski report may not deliver better outcomes for Victorian students and may result in some schools being worse off," a state government spokesperson said in a statement.
Ms Gillard acknowledged most states were trimming their budgets, but said it was time to "share the leadership" on schools.
"I hope the premiers will rise to the challenge. Australia's children are counting on them," Ms Gillard said, adding that the federal government was committed to its share of funds for the school improvement plan.
"We will get this thing done."
The prime minister also took a shot at the Australian Greens, whose leader Christine Milne was expected later to tell the conference an expanded mining tax could cover the cost of the Gonski plan.
"Senator Milne will tell you today that it is all about the mining tax," Ms Gillard said.
"It isn't. It's all about your commitment to Australia's children.
"If this moment is missed - frittered away in petty politicking by the Greens party - then it will never come again."


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Imagine this is how you sequenced.
"With the composer Matteo Negrin, we decided to make a video for his song 'Lacrime di Giulietta', experimenting a new tecnique that we called 'Music painting', a sort of music animation, painting notes on a score, telling a story. We wanted to tell a story giving a civic and environmental message, in a soft and kind way. The video took only one take (15 hours long), painting on a 12 metres paper sheet (obtained joining togheter on the back 30 A3 sheets). Then, with a long editing work, the 15 hours bacame the 3:30 minutes of the video, synchronizing each painted note with the played one." – hodeiprogetti.com
For more info: hodeiprogetti.com/music/lacrime-di-giulietta/


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Hey guys.
What are your favourite charitable organisations?
I'm fond of:
http://www.thaistudentcharity.org/ - Great charity helping poor Thai students get ahead with their studies, rather than a life in the paddy fields - Run by former Monk and Author Peter Robinson.
http://www.buddhanet.net/ - Always good to help promote the Dhamma.
and http://www.liberationprisonproject.org/ - They're a great cause, helping to teach and reach out to those who deserve a 2nd chance.
I've sort of just stumbled upon all 3 of these, and tbh I don't know of many charities beyond those who advertise on my television and come door knocking.
Perhaps everyone can share their favourite charities and we can expand our Dana-horizons
Hope you have a Dhamma-filled day


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Jessicas Fans Bought Her This Incredible Birthday Gift In Times Square, New York
Jessicas 28th birthday will surely be one that she will never forget, due to her official fan clubs efforts.
On April 18, will be Jessica celebrating her 28th birthday, and fans have come together to make it extra special. Members of her official fan club, Golden Stars, created a special video and paid to have it played on the billboards across New Yorks Times Square.
These clips will be playing on the billboards between April 15-21 and were taken from her BLANC ECLARE Advertorial and the MVs for her solo singles Fly and Wonderland. These clips will be playing every 18 minutes on 11 enormous LED Screens.


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Several bridges in Ada and Canyon Counties are unsafe
BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) - In Mount Vernon, Washington, it only took a truck hitting a support beam to send a bridge tumbling down Thursday. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a bridge collapsed out of nowhere, killing 13 people six years ago.
Structurally unsound bridges can be found across the United States.
But you may be surprised to learn how many are found right here in the Treasure Valley.
Several bridges in our area are classified as structurally deficient, like the one in Minneapolis. That means they aren't up to bridge safety standards.
Eight bridges in Ada County are classified as structurally deficient. Three of them are listed in poor condition, meeting the minimum requirements to be left up. One, the Broadway Avenue bridge, doesn't even meet minimum requirements and is on high priority to be replaced.
In Canyon County, 14 bridges are structurally deficient. All of them are in poor condition, and two need to be replaced immediately.
There are also several bridges in both counties listed as functionally obsolete. That means there's nothing wrong with them other than the fact that they're old and don't meet current bridge standards.


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Get an overview of this hotelRomantic Bristol hotel in Bristol Floating Harbour, walk to Queen Square
Popular property highlights
Located in Bristol Floating Harbour, this romantic hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Queen Square, Bristol Theatre Royal, and Bristol Hippodrome Theatre. At-Bristol and St. Mary Redcliffe Church are also within 10 minutes.
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, 2 bars/lounges, and a fitness center. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include 2 coffee shops/cafés, 24-hour room service, and a business center.
Room Amenities
All 187 rooms offer free WiFi and free wired Internet, plus 24-hour room service and LCD TVs with digital channels. Guests will also find coffee makers, hair dryers, and safes.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
The Bristol Hotel
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Dining is available at the hotel's restaurant and guests can grab coffee at one of the 2 coffee shops/cafés. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of hotel's 2 bars/lounges. Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms.
Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. 10 meeting rooms are available. This eco-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, a terrace, and multilingual staff. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
The Bristol Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- Conference space
- Total number of rooms - 187
- Multilingual staff
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour front desk
- Laundry facilities
- Television in common areas
- Number of floors - 6
- Elevator/lift
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 2
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Express check-in
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms 9
- Terrace
- Restaurant
- Number of meeting rooms - 10
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Wedding services
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
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Room Amenities
- Room service (24 hours)
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Digital TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
Where to Eat
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
The River Grille - This restaurant serves breakfast and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
The River Lounge - This restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, and lunch. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Shore Cafe Bar - This restaurant specializes in British cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting).
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for full breakfast: GBP 14 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: GBP 5.00 per day
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text: Oakhurst IGA, site of 1983 blast, to close By Megan Workman September 27, 2012 Story Share Chip Ellis For South Charleston resident Jody Hensley, the Oakhurst IGA is like family. The store will shut its doors permanently Sunday. Chip Ellis On Oct. 17, 1983, a gas leak caused an explosion at what was then the Oakhurst Foodland. Eighteen people were injured and the store, now an IGA, was demolished but rebuilt three years later. The store will close Sunday. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In 1983, a gas explosion unexpectedly demolished the Oakhurst Foodland and injured 18 people who were inside the store.On Sunday, the current version of that grocery store, an IGA, will close its doors. This time, the shutdown won't come as a surprise to the 12 employees, some who even witnessed the blast nearly 30 years ago.Employees marked down the store's entire inventory by 25 percent a few weeks ago. Everything left in the store sold for 50 percent off the regular price over the past two weeks.By Thursday afternoon, the nine aisles inside the store were completely bare. A couple small shelves still stocked with spices, coffee, cosmetics, baby food and light bulbs welcomed the customers who walked in, shocked to see it stripped clean.A family of three strolled through the automatic door as the woman said that the young boy behind her wanted to visit the store "one last time."Other people hugged workers who have bagged their groceries and welcomed them to the store for years.South Charleston residents Pat and Justin Smith grabbed some discounted items Thursday. They wanted to say their last goodbyes to a store they've shopped at since before the gas explosion."I wanted to say goodbye to the workers. They are just so friendly," Pat Smith said.Oakhurst IGA owner John Koehn said he is shutting his store down on Sunday. He didn't give a specific reason why he is closing the store he's owned since the early 1970s. Koehn has sold the property and sources familiar with the closing expect the building to house an electrical school. The store's equipment will be sold at an online auction.Locals like Jody Hensley, who has visited the grocery store since the 1970s, don't want to remember the empty aisles but prefer to reminisce about the "good ol' days."Hensley's grandparents -- like most of the community, it seemed -- shopped every Saturday at what was then called the Oakhurst Foodland, she said. The store became an IGA in 2005."It didn't matter if you paid 10 cents more for something at the store, it was worth it," Hensley said. "My grandparents raised me and my little sister and [the store employees] watched us grow up just like they watched so many other people in the community grow up. "They watched my little boy grow up and now my little boy is 6 [feet], 2 [inches]."The South Charleston resident remembers when she would sit in the car as her grandparents shopped. Since her grandmother didn't own a microwave, she cooked everything, which gave the young Hensley more time to read her books. "I remember hoping we would sit in the shade in the parking lot. My teachers would come by and I would think, 'Oh good! They saw me reading,' " Hensley recalled. "It was the go-to place."On Oct. 17, 1983, her grandparents were going about their daily routine when they got stuck in a traffic jam. They were only about a quarter-mile from the Foodland when they realized something wasn't right.A Columbia Gas engineer had prepared an incorrect map of gas lines in the area of the Davis Creek Foodland. During excavation for the sewer line, a backhoe operator -- who had been told that the line had been abandoned -- snagged the gas lines with his machine, causing the leak that led to the blast, according to a Gazette report later that year.Koehn, the most seriously injured of the 18 victims, told the Charleston Daily Mail in December 1983 how he noticed a "very light" odor of gas. He described the explosion as "more like an earthquake, a rumbling type thing with building movement." The entire store filled with smoke as walls crumbled.The co-manager at the time, Terry Phillips, said "there was a tremendous blast. ... I was knocked backward down onto the floor. I was dazed but I could see small fires all around me."Columbia Gas paid a $200,000 fine levied by the state Public Service Commission after the blast. The company paid an additional $3,945 for interest. The PSC said the company had improperly handled the gas leak and improperly tied off a gas line that led to the explosion. The store was rebuilt and reopened in 1986.While many will remember the explosion, Hensley will remember how the grocery store was everyone's first job.The young girls worked as cashiers while the boys carried groceries out to customers' cars, she said. Hensley worked at the Oakhurst store, too. She learned how to make donuts after the deli was set up.For Hensley, the store was much more than just a place to shop.In an open letter to the Oakhurst grocery store and its employees, Hensley wrote, "You have made such a difference in the lives of your customers. We have seen you not as our customer service providers, but as extended members of our families. I think I can speak for many of your patrons both present and previous when I say we love you and we will miss you all."Reach Megan Workman at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5113. 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Updated from 4::40 p.m. ET with Dorsey Whitney comments and additional information throughout.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday announced a groundbreaking $13 billion mortgage settlement between JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and multiple government authorities.
"Today's settlement is a significant, but by no means final step, by the Federal Housing Finance Agency's Office of the Inspector General, the Department of Justice and the New York Attorney General's Office and our other law enforcement partners, to hold accountable those who commit acts of fraud and deceit," Schneiderman said in a press release.
Schneiderman, who heads President Obama's Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, said JPMorgan's settlement will include $4 billion in assistance to distressed homeowners and $9 billion in cash payments. He also said that the deal will cover all civil claims by government authorities related to residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) sales by JPMorgan, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual before 2009.
Schneiderman said $2 billion of the overall settlement will not be tax deductible, but that early on regulators had agreed to treat Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual liabilities as deductible.
JPMorgan acquired Bear Stearns when the investment bank was faced with bankruptcy amid a liquidity crisis in March 2008. Washington Mutual was shuttered by regulators in September 2008, after which it was sold to JPMorgan by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
A major sticking point between JPMorgan and the Justice department was the language under which the company would be expected to admit some fault in its mortgage securitization and sales activities.
"JPMorgan acknowledged it made serious, material misrepresentations to the public -- including the investing public -- about numerous RMBS transactions," Schneiderman said on Tuesday.
Other issues that stalled a settement included JPMorgan's acknowledgement of liabilities surrounding the bank's acquisition of Washington Mutual from the FDIC's receivership. As a result, the FHFA announced its part of the $13 billion settlement weeks ago.
In late October, JPMorgan and subsidiaries agreed to pay a total of $5.1 billion to Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC), to settle the government sponsored enterprises' loss claims on mortgage-backed securities sold to them by JPMorgan Chase and its subsidiaries.
In response to questioning by TheStreet, Schneiderman acknowledged that the delay between the FHFA's settlement and Tuesday's deal was, in part, a result of ongoing negotiations surrounding JPMorgan's assumption of Washington Mutual's legal liabilities.
Schneiderman said in response to other questions posed by TheStreet that JPMorgan was making admissions of fraud and misrepresentations.
JPMorgan CFO Marianne Lake appeared to refute Schneiderman's characterization on a conference call with investors. "We didn't say that we acknowledge serious misrepresentation of facts," Lake said. "We do acknowledge the statement of facts but obviously don't admit to any violation of law."
Thomas Gorman, a partner at law firm Dorsey Whitney and former senior counsel of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said that the admissions made by JPMorgan "would be helpful to any private litigant because they should establish the basic facts for what the bank did or didn't do in issuing [residential mortgage] securities" prior to the financial crisis.
"This is a very significant victory for the Justice department," Gorman said in a telephone interview. "For JPMorgan it certainly doesn't get them what they wanted -- which is peace," he added.
Schneiderman and the Department of Justice said criminal probes of JPMorgan's mortgage sales activities are ongoing.
The $4 billion in assistance to distressed homeowners will include $2 billion in principal write-downs, as well as $2 billion in financial relief for borrowers and communities, including refinancing mortgage loans at lower rates, donation of repossessed properties, and new mortgage loans to low-and moderate-income families harmed by the financial crisis.
The portion of the settlement going to New York State will include "$613 million in cash and approximately $400 million in consumer relief for struggling New Yorkers." Some of the $613 cash payment would be "directed to provide additional legal services and housing counseling for those affected by Superstorm Sandy," according to a press release from the New York State Attorney General's Office.
Bill Cheney, CEO of the Credit Union National Association, said in a Tuesday telephone interview he was pleased that credit unions would see some restitution for shaky mortgage securities they bought from JPMorgan.
"One could certainly argue that it could have been more," Cheney said. "Having said that, we are happy with the settlement," he added.
"Today's settlement covers a very significant portion of legacy mortgage-backed securities-related issues for JPMorgan Chase, as well as Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual," Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's CEO said in a statement. He said that JPMorgan is fully reserved for Tuesday's settlement, which covers "civil claims of the Department of Justice and others."
The bank made clear it had not pleaded guilty to any matters and it said it had admitted to a "statement of facts," in the government's case.
The settlement terminates all pending civil enforcement investigations against JPMorgan related to RMBS activities by it, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual. JPMorgan continues to cooperate with the ongoing criminal investigation by the Department of Justice.
New York AG Schneiderman called JPMorgan's settlement a "peace premium" for the bank. He commended JPMorgan's willingness to put its legal liabilities to rest and said he expects other large banks to follow suit.


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Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster, Betty Buckley and More to Appear on Seth Rudetsky's Broadway Concert Series in New Orleans, Beginning Today
Five of the entertainment world's leading ladies will perform in New Orleans in 2013 as Seth Rudetsky's popular Broadway Concert Series makes the leap to NOCCA's Lupin Hall from its summer home at The Art House in Provincetown, MA. Patti LuPone, two-time Tony winner for Gypsy and as the legendary original Evita, will appear for two shows only on January 7th at 6:30 and 8:30. Sutton Foster, two-time Tony-winner for this year's Anything Goes and previously for Thoroughly Modern Millie and star of the ABC Family series Bunheads arrives for one show only on March 2nd at 7:30. Megan Mullally, two-time Emmy-winning star of TV's Will and Grace and star of Broadway's Young Frankenstein performs two shows only on April 6th at 7:30 and 9:30. Audra McDonald, a five-time Tony Award winner and recent star of Porgy and Bess on Broadway and TV's Private Practice will make her New Orleans debut with two shows only on May 18 at 7:30 and 9:30. Betty Buckley, the Tony winning legendary star of Cats and Sunset Boulevard will close the series on June 1 with two shows only at 7:30 and 9:30. The visiting Broadway artists will also be giving master classes for the NOCCA Institute's high school-aged musical theatre students. All five concerts are produced by Mark Cortale, long time producer/manager of Jeffery Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman, and will be hosted by Sirius/XM radio star Seth Rudetsky at the piano. The series is sponsored exclusively by the New Orleans Hotel Collection and Gambit. Tickets can be purchased at www.broadwaynola.com or by calling 800-838-3006.
Patti LuPone won her second Tony Award as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, for her performance as Rose in the Broadway revival of Gypsy, and created the title role in Evita on Broadway, for which she won her first Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her legendary performance. She is currently starring in David Mamet's The Anarchist on Broadway with Debra Winger. Patti LuPone's Broadway career includes her most recent appearance opposite her Evita co-star Mandy Patinkin in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, and created the role of Lucia in the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for which she was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. She has also been seen on Broadway in Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Michael Frayn's Noises Off, David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood, Terrence McNally's Master Class, and her own concert Patti LuPone on Broadway. On London's West End, she won Olivier Awards for her performances as Fantine in the original production of Les Miserables and The Acting Company production of The Cradle Will Rock, and also created the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and recreated her Broadway performance as Maria Callas in Master Class there. In addition to her acclaimed stage career, Patti LuPone's film work includes Union Square, Parker, City By The Sea, Heist, State and Main, Summer of Sam, Driving Miss Daisy, and Witness. Her TV work includes Glee, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Will & Grace, OZ, Frasier, Law & Order, Life Goes On, the Emmy winning PBS broadcasts of Passion and Sweeney Todd, PBS Great Performances' Candide and PBS' An Evening with Patti LuPone.
Megan Mullally is best known for playing the iconic role of Karen Walker on the groundbreaking hit TV series Will & Grace for which she won two Emmy Awards, from a total of seven consecutive nominations between 2000 and 2006. She is also a three-time winner of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, a winner with her cast-mates of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, is one of only two actresses to win a SAG Award three years in a row, and was nominated four years in a row for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She made her Broadway debut as Marty in the 1994 revival of Grease with Rosie O'Donnell and subsequently appeared as Rosemary in the hit 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opposite Matthew Broderick. In 2007, Mullally starred as Elizabeth in Mel Brooks' original Broadway musical, Young Frankenstein. She can be heard on the cast albums of all three productions.
Sutton Foster has starred on Broadway in The Will Rogers Follies, Grease, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Annie, Les Miserables before her big break and Tony Award-winning performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has since then originated roles in the Broadway productions of Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, Shrek the Musical. She most recently starred as Reno Sweeney in The Roundabout's revival of Anything Goes, a role that earned her the 2011 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Astaire, and Broadway.com's Audience Favorite Awards. She was first seen on television on Star Search at age 15, and has more recently appeared in Johnny and the Sprites and Flight of the Conchords.
Audra McDonald became a three-time Tony Award winner by the age of 28 for her performances in Carousel, Master Class, and Ragtime, placing her alongside Shirley Booth, Gwen Verdon and Zero Mostel by accomplishing this feat within five years. She won her fourth in 2004 for her role in A Raisin in the Sun, a role she reprised for a 2008 television adaptation, earning her a second Emmy Award nomination. On June 10, 2012, McDonald scored her fifth Tony Award win for her portrayal of Bess in Broadway's The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, thus tying a record held by Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris for most Tony Awards won by an actor. She also maintains her ties to classical repertoire with an active concert and recording career, performing song cycles and operas as well as concerts throughout the U.S. Audra's many television appearances include four seasons as Naomi Bennett in Private Practice, as well as Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: SVU, Having Our Say, Mister Sterling, The Bedford Diaries, Kidnapped, the television remake of the musical Annie, and HBO's Wit with Emma Thompson. Her film roles include Cradle Will Rock, Object of My Affection, It Runs in the Family, Best Thief in the World, and Seven Servants.
Betty Buckley won two Tony Awards, as Grizabella in Cats and for Triumph of Love on Broadway, and received an Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed performance as Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard – a role she repeated to rave reviews in the Broadway production. Other Broadway roles include 1776, Bob Fosse's Pippin, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Carrie. Off-Broadway, she's been seen in White's Lies, Lincoln Center's Elegies, the original New York Shakespeare Festival production of Edwin Drood, The Eros Trilogy at The Vineyard Theatre, and Second Stage Theatre's production of Juno's Swans directed by Marsha Mason. Her many starring film roles include M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, Brian de Palma's classic film of Stephen King's Carrie, Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski's Frantic, Woody Allen's Another Woman, and Lawrence Kasdan's Wyatt Earp. On television, Betty appeared as Abby Bradford in the hit series Eight is Enough, and starred for three seasons on HBO's series OZ. Other guest starring television roles include Evergreen, Roses for the Rich, Without a Trace, Law & Order: SVU, and Pretty Little Liars. Her concert appearances include, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Café Carlyle, The Bottom Line, The Blue Note, Feinstein's, Town Hall, among many others.
Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon Broadway host on Sirius XM satellite radio and was recently featured in the film Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads. As a musician, he has played piano for over a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera. He was also the Artistic Producer and Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts, which included Dreamgirls with Audra McDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and Hair with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy nomination). As a comic he was awarded "Funniest Gay Male in NY" at Stand-Up NY and is a three-time Emmy nominee as a writer for The Rosie O'Donnell Show. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in The Ritz directed by Joe Mantello, and has appeared on television on Law and Order C.I. and All My Children. As an author, he wrote the books The Q Guide to Broadway, Broadway Nights, and My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan on Random House, has an audio book on audible.com featuring Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, SNL's Ana Gasteyer, Smash's Megan Hilty, and also writes a weekly column on Playbill.com. This summer he is added "television mogul" to that long list as Seth TV, his new, web-based entertainment network, launched. Go behind-the-scenes of the Broadway ringmaster's a-MAH-zing life with original shows like Seth's Reality, celebrity concerts and more.
About NOCCA: New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is a regional, pre-professional arts training center that offers students intensive instruction in culinary arts, dance, media arts: filmmaking & audio production, music (classical, jazz, vocal), theatre arts (drama, musical theatre, theatre design), visual arts, and creative writing, while demanding simultaneous academic excellence. The Freda Lupin Memorial Hall on the NOCCA campus is used for student, local theatre and dance performances. Producer Mark Cortale is thrilled to be launching the New Orleans premiere of the Broadway at NOCCA series in association with this outstanding organization.


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Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed mortgages fell this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace at 4.05 percent, down from 4.10 percent at this same time last week.
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate declined early last week to 4.03 percent, where rates hovered for the majority of the week before rising slightly to the current rate on Monday.
"Rates dropped last week, and briefly dipped below 4 percent for the first time since October, as expectations rose that the European Central Bank will ease monetary policy to stimulate growth," said Erin Lantz, vice president of mortgages at Zillow. "With little domestic news scheduled for release this week, market observers will look abroad for news that could push rates back into the 3 percent range."
Additionally, the 15-year fixed mortgage rate this morning was 3.06 percent, and for 5/1 ARMs, the rate was 2.77 percent.


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I have several large ascii files that I need to read in. These files are part of a standard test for an application I wrote. How well my application analyzes the files determines how well the program accomplishes it's primary task. For an actual test, the application captures the live data as a 2D array of doubles and analyzes the data in that form. This array is 3 million elements long (1MS/s @ 3s). I typically never deal with any form of ascii file as all the data is stored as TDMS using this method (although I need to update this link with some critical changes). (Thanks again Ben)
The ascii files I need to read all have two rows of header data, followed by ~8million rows of data representing the data I typically capture. Each row contains one data point and one accumulated time value. I need to separately load each file, analyze the data within, and report the results. The part I need help with is loading the large file. I have thus far been unable to load a file without memory issues. One reprieve is that similar to a real test, I actually only need 3 million of the rows for the analysis. But I need to be able to select which 3 million rows based upon the time values within the file. Technically, I only need the single column of data and the sampling rate represented by the time values.
How can I select a specific section of an ascii file and read them into LabVIEW as a 2D array of doubles? Can that be done for 3 million data points without crippling the system by using all of the memory just to accomplish that task? An alternate "last resort" version would be to run a separate program to create a TDMS file that I could then read and go from there. But I would prefer to read the file in directly to my application.
I am running on an HP EliteBook 8540w with Win 7 Enterprise (64bit), i7 dual-core CPU (2.67GHz) with 8GB RAM and LV2011 32-bit.
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I assume that your file is a txt or csv file (i.e. could theoretically be opened by Notepad or something similar?) If so, you can use "Read From Spreadsheet File" to read the data in chunks. It has both a "number of rows" input and a "start of read offset" input.
Alternatively you can use the regular file I/O VIs. "Read From Text File" has a "count" input, so you can tell it how much of the file to read. Then use "Set File Position" to set the file mark to the end of the chunk you just read, so you can read the next chunk. Use "Spreadsheet String to Array" to convert the text file string to an array of numbers.
The LabVIEW help is a wonderful thing...I've learned a lot from it. Start poking around the file function help files and you should be able to put something together.
Hope that gets you started!
Hi Diane,
Yes, it is a .txt file. Sorry for that omission.
I have read a number of the help files and searched for anything I could find regarding "LabVIEW large ascii" and a bunch of other related searches.
I also have attempted to use the Read From Text File as well as the Read From Spreadsheet File VI - these are the vi's I used in the attempts that resulted in memory issues. Another omission in the original post.
Using the Read From Spreadsheet File VI came the closest to what I need to do. I have been doing some further attempts at only bringing in a part of the file using this since your response. The issue I have with this is now is trying to get the correct chunk of data from the file: The offset is based on a number of characters and the criteria for size to be read is a number of rows. I'm having difficulty correlating the known number of rows read with the unknown number of characters on each row, to use for the number of characters to offset.
In an attempt to make that unknown a known, I read in various sections of each file as a string array and determined that every row (that I sampled) has two columns, each with 18 and 11 characters for each of the two elements of a row of the string array. But when I try to use the 29 character per row as a multplier with the number of rows that I want to offset (also adding in the offset that I determined by trial and error for the header rows) I end up starting to read a part of a column, not starting at a new column. What characters does the String Length not count when looking at an array of strings? I tried adding in an additional 1, 2, and 3 to the multiplier in case it wasn't counting any column delimiters or an end-of-line character on each row. I still am not getting the full part of the first element of the array.
Am I missing something else?
Thanks for the help.
It seems like this should work:
Doesn't it? "Read From Spreadsheet File" gives you the file mark after it's done reading. Use that as your offset to select your next chunk of data.
My wife often complains that I can be looking right at something and still not see it. I cannot deny it as it's happened several times. It appears it happens even when I'm looking at the help files. The "mark after read" used for the offset gets the chunk part of it working properly. Thank you Diane.
Unfortunately I still don't know how to get to the exact position in the file that I need. Below is the vi as I currently have it. I have verified that the value entering the expression node (label "A") is very close (within 5 rows) to the row number that the array should start reading from. However, the array that gets read (label "B") in after I attempt to convert the rows to characters (label "C") is significantly off of the desired starting point. I've tried to adjust the multiplier, but no value gets it correct. Is the multiplier concept a typical solution to get to the number of characters? Could you describe a better way to do this? Notice that the character offset (label "C") I'm adding for the header is different than it is for the first read (label "D"), which aligns properly with the columns. I can't explain that, but that is the way it works. If I change the multiplier, I need to change the header offset. I don't understand that either. I believe there is something fundamental about how the characters are counted that I don't understand.
Even with all of that, I decided that being earlier in the file than I desired wouldn't really matter because the while loop will find the exact element I need. And I've verified that it does find the correct element using the subarray and a probe. So all that should be left to do is to convert the for loop iteration value (which represents the row number of the array) into a number of characters, add that onto the starting point of the array location and do the final read from that point. The end result is that the array I'm reading has started reading at a point past where I should be starting. I don't understand that as I'm not even converting to the number of characters, just adding the number of rows directly - which is 1/29th what the number of characters would be.
Hopefully I'm missing something simple again. But I'm not, ahem, seeing it.
04-26-2012 05:05 PM - edited 04-26-2012 05:05 PM
I was able to determine that the number of characters does differ for some of the rows. That was what I initially expected.
04-26-2012 05:22 PM - edited 04-26-2012 05:30 PM
It might be easier to use the output file mark from your first call to "Read From Spreadsheet File" as your initial starting point...that way you know for certain that you're at the start of the data in your file. I'll noodle at it a little bit, right now I'm kind of distracted with something else. I agree that it would be nice to be able to track which row you're on instead of tracking a character offset. Let me think on it.
The input to Read from spreadsheet file is Rows, not characters. The offset is characters. If you read e.g. 1000000 lines you'll get the file pointer position as output, feed it to a shift register and use that offset the next loop.
Yamaeda wrote:
The input to Read from spreadsheet file is Rows, not characters. The offset is characters.
Exactly. I can determine where I need to be in the file by the row value. I don't know how to determine where I need to be by the number of characters. I need the number of characters for the offset to get to the correct row, one way or another. I need help with converting the row value to the numaber of characters. I have an idea that I'm working through but I'll be away for a couple hours. Kids, wife, that kind of stuff.
Here's a snippet of the path I'm heading down. I haven't worked through it yet and had to leave at this point. I'm closer with this idea I think, but I have to look further.
" I need the number of characters for the offset to get to the correct row, one way or another. "
Check the outputs of the Read from spreadsheet file.


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The California Coastal Commission will hear an application by Jackson-Grube Family, Inc., to modify an existing permit for work at the Inn at Newport Ranch at 31502 N. Highway 1, Fort Bragg. The property is four miles south of Westport. The hearing is scheduled for Friday, May 16 at 8:30 a.m., at the Inverness Yacht Club, Inverness, Calif.
Modifications to the approved ranch and inn design include converting portions of the garage into an innkeeper's unit and associated guest unit to be used occasionally as visitor accommodations; making exterior revisions to the garage, equipment barn, cottage and main building; adding three water tanks and two retaining walls; making minor adjustments to the parking and exterior lighting; eliminating a previously approved driveway realignment; and after-the-fact approval for expanding the septic system.
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Le Vü – Le Vü is one of the older clubs in Dallas and is coincidentally one of its most popular. Compared to Vegas or NYC, drink prices and cover are incredibly cheap. Several local and regional DJs play on a nightly basis and occasionally a more well known DJ will play, although it is not a weekly occurrence. Regardless, many locals claim Le Vü has the best local DJs that smoothly flow through tracks all night.
The overall vibe of Le Vü is incredibly upbeat and high energy. Chances are you'll find Le Vü packed within a few hours of being open and a few hundred partygoers dancing to some of the best music Dallas has to offer. The crowd is very diverse and you'll find young and older men and women along with a diverse mix of ethnicities as well.
Bottle service is available and is fairly affordable compared to other cities. However, there are not nearly as many tables as other clubs so you'll want to reserve a table well ahead of time. However, if you do manage to get a table you'll find yourself near the DJ and dance floor for optimal enjoyment throughout the night.
Mantus Ultralounge – Mantus Ultralounge is another popular club in downtown Dallas that is truly designed for VIPs. Mantus has several ultra private tables for bottle services throughout the entire club. Smaller VIP tables are available for guests looking to enjoy an intimiate private night at one of Dallas' fine clubs.
The décor inside Mantus is very modern and bright blue and purple neon lighting delivers a warm, comfortable feeling. The bar is stocked with ultra premium brands of liquor and the club is almost always packed Thursday through Sunday. However, drink prices are fairly expensive at Mantus, so buying bottle service is recommended for larger groups to save money and for a more enjoyable evening.
Compared to other clubs, Mantus is perfect for the younger crowd and for a couple or group of friends looking to dance. The DJs playing at Mantus are among the best in Dallas and you can find some of the top EDM, techno, or house music on any given night. Mantus Nightclub is definitely one of the better clubs in Dallas and is worth considering when planning a night out in Dallas.
Teddy's Room – Teddy's Room is one of the most unique clubs in all of Dallas. Located in Midtown, Teddy's Room displays a unique appearance based upon the 26th president of the United States — Teddy Roosevelt.
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The Church – The Church isn't your normal nightclub by any stretch of the imagination. The Church is Dallas' exclusive industrial/goth club. The crowd is as you would expect it to be — wearing dark clothing and eyeliner, although an influx of regulars are starting to change the perception of The Church.
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Studies in Porphyria I: Characterization of Enzyme Defects
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OBJECTIVES: I. Characterize enzyme defects in patients with known or suspected porphyria and their family members.
II. Determine whether selected patients are eligible for other porphyria research protocols.
III. Provide blood, urine, and fecal samples from well characterized patients and their family members to investigators studying the nature of specific mutations in genes for heme biosynthetic pathway enzymes.
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|Primary Purpose: Screening
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|November 1992
PROTOCOL OUTLINE: All patients are evaluated for porphyria type and factors contributing to the clinical expression of their particular form of the disease. Testing includes erythrocyte porphobilinogen deaminase, erythrocyte protoporphyrin, plasma porphyrins, and urinary and fecal porphyrins and precursors.
Selected patients are entered into other porphyrin research protocols in this and other institutions, including analysis of DNA to identify specific mutations in genes for heme biosynthetic pathway enzymes.
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- Suspected or confirmed porphyria
- Adults, children, and family members eligible
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00004331
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|Galveston, Texas, United States, 77555-1109
|Contact: Karl Elmo Anderson 409-772-4661
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Keywords provided by National Center for Research Resources (NCRR):
inborn errors of metabolism
rare disease
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Porphyria, Erythropoietic
Metabolic Diseases
Skin Diseases, Genetic
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Skin Diseases
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Nnamdi Asomugha is on the free agent market after the Eagles' decision to release him Tuesday, according to ESPN.
The move was not surprising with the Eagles, who were unwilling to pay the $15 million Asomugha was due next season. Asomugha still will get $4 million guaranteed from the Eagles, but he will leave Philadelphia as a huge disappointment after signing a five-year, $60 million free agent deal in 2011.
Asomugha's reputation as a top cornerback faded in Philadelphia, where he repeatedly was beaten in coverage and never played to the All-Pro level he established with the Raiders. At age 31, Asomugha will look to find a better fit for his talents in free agency. Meanwhile, the Eagles will look to replace Asomugha, either in free agency, or in the draft, where Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner could be a target with the Eagles' No. 4 pick.


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted fast-track designation for its experimental lupus treatment, Lupuzor. This status means that the review will be given priority to go faster than usual. FDA often grants this accelerated process to drugs that show promise in treating serious, life-threatening medical conditions for which no other drug either exists or works as well.
The FDA also gave its approval to the company that developed the drug, ImmuPharma to begin a Phase III clinical trial. A Phase III trial is often the last step before the company testing the drug submits an application to the FDA for it to be approved as a new treatment.
Lupuzor™ (previously known as IPP-201101) has a novel mechanism of action aimed at adjusting the body's immune system so it does not attack healthy cells without causing adverse side effects. It has the potential to stop the progression of the disease in a substantial proportion of patients.
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