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The V40 Cross Country will join the company's range of passenger-based SUVs in Australia but is unlikely to carry on the sharp pricing policy of its front-drive cousin.
Volvo Cars Australia boss Matt Braid says extra hardware for the SUV range -- including all-wheel drive components -- would warrant a price premium. "The Cross Country version of this, we're looking at the third quarter of this year, but we haven't set a date yet.''
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The Cross Country model is expected to get a Haldex on-demand all-wheel drive system (similar to its XC60 sibling), hill descent control and rides 40mm higher than the recently-released V40, wearing body add-ons to distinguish its more adventurous tendencies.
Engines slated for the Cross Country include the 2-litre and 2.5-litre T5 petrol automatics and the 1.6 and 2-litre turbodiesels seen here in the new V40. The SUV variants in the Volvo line-up reflect the growing domination of that vehicle type in the Australian market - the XC60 topped the sales tally for the Chinese-owned Swedish brand with 2179 sales, while the XC90 placed second with 1342 sales.
Mr Braid said the new XC90 was much anticipated, even though the current model was still performing well in the sales race. "We've looking forward to the new version of that - the current one is selling very well, we only sold 6 less last year than we did in 2011.'' "The new XC90 has not been confirmed exactly, but we expect it at some stage in early 2015.''
The company bean-counters are relying on the new V40 racking up between 800 and 1000 in its first full year on sale to offset the shortfall left when the C30, S40 and V50 models dwindle during 2013. "We could be conservative there but we have C30, S40 and V50 disappearing shortly, we sold just under 500 of those last year, if we sell 800 of these then we're happy,'' he says.
Mr Braid says the brand has set a target in the vicinity of 6000 units - up slightly from last year's tally of 5375, which was the marque's highest Australian sales figure since it became a stand-alone brand. "We're targeting about 6000 which is the same pretty much as last year, there's opportunity in S60 and V40, so we'll ride with the opportunities as they present themselves but 6000 is what we'd like to achieve, whatever else comes on top of that,'' he says.


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Arsenal have agreed a fee to buy Southampton defender Calum Chambers.
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Mom was real nervous out in the field; I couldn't figure out why. She walked towards us and was just about to the fence under our (living room) window when the fawn stood up and we saw it.
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I think that's the only reasonable response. We've been conditioned to think that animals are all furry and big-eyed and most importantly, cute, and every animal that isn't must be reclassified as vermin. We're going to need a radical readjustment of the public; every time you send someone a LOLcat, a thousand annelids and a million arthropods die in despair.
At least, that's how I feel on the news that the Smithsonian is closing their Invertebrate Zoo. There are some fucked-up priorities here.
The Smithsonian says the Invertebrate Exhibit costs $1 million a year to operate, and that necessary upgrades to the facility will cost another $5 million. "We have several other fundraising priorities which preclude us from launching a… campaign for the invertebrates to stay in their existing space," reads a statement on the Zoo's Facebook page.
The National Zoo's annual budget runs about $20 million, with its friends group kicking in another $4 to $8 million a year. Which basically means the Zoo has decided it can't afford to allocate five percent of its annual budget to educate the public about 97 percent of the animal species in the world.
"Priorities". What defines their priorities? An accurate presentation of the science, or pandering to brains high on fluff? I suggest we start feeding the Red Pandas to the octopuses until those priorities get readjusted.


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Punctuation guru to give insight into her award-winning bookNov. 2, 2005
by MARILYN LIM, reporter
"Sticklers unite!" is the rallying cry of Lynne Truss fans and punctuation perfectionists alike.
Truss, British author of the international best seller Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, will speak at the fourth annual Ferguson-Clark Lecture series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Waco Hall.
Her book won book of the year at the 2004 British Book Awards and rose to No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list.
Baylor Libraries is hosting Truss, whose book has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Library Advancement Coordinator Mary Goolsby said one reason for the book's popularity is its style.
"British humor is different. It's odd and quirky," Goolsby said. "I found myself chuckling and actually laughing out loud quite a few times while reading the book. It has a lot of cute analogies."
Goolsby encouraged students to attend the event.
"It's not every day you get to hear an award-winning author," Goolsby said. "This lecture will be thought-provoking, but fun. It's an academic subject that's fun to listen to."
Truss will discuss the role punctuation plays in helping people communicate, as well as how communication and punctuation has evolved now because of things like e-mail and text messaging, Goolsby said.
Paris, Texas, senior Mya Patel attended a review of Truss's best seller in October.
"The review definitely sparked my interest in the book. I had heard of the book before but never thought of buying it," she said. "It's a funny book even if you don't care about punctuation."
Anchorage, Alaska, junior Tiffany Ma said she appreciates the book's humor.
"I was going to attend the lecture for extra credit in a class," she said. "I bought the book last week and have to admit that it's pretty good."
The best seller's title is a reference to a punctuation joke about a panda in a café.
According to the book's back cover, the panda eats a sandwich, fires a gun in the air and walks toward the door. When the waiter asks in confusion what the panda thinks he's doing, the panda throws him a badly punctuated book on wildlife which reads, "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves," instead of "eats shoots and leaves."
"The comma messes up the whole thing," Goolsby said. "It was the extra comma that made the panda violent."
Truss, a writer and journalist, began her career as a literary editor and has worked as a columnist, television critic and radio host.
Before writing Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Truss wrote three novels and numerous radio comedies. The best seller is on sale at the Baylor Bookstore and Truss' new book, Talk to the Hand, goes on sale Tuesday.
Tickets are available at the library and also will be sold at the door. Prices range from $50 for patron tickets, $15 for general admission, $10 for Baylor faculty and staff and $5 for students.
Also, in preparation for the event, the Baylor Chapter of the British Apostrophe Protection Society has been established, Goolsby said. Society T-shirts are on sale at the library for $8.
Proceeds from the lecture will be used to renovate the media center of the fine arts library, Goolsby said.
Baylor alumna Collen Clark established the Ferguson-Clark lecture series endowment in honor of his mother, Carla Sue Ferguson Garrett, Baylor alumna and member of the library's board of advisers.
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Husband and I celebrate five years of wedded bliss this December. With the big day comes big plans. We are hoping for a romantic getaway to celebrate.
We were ambitious a few years ago. We talked about returning to the South Pacific to commemorate the five year mark. Or maybe something new, like a two week long tour of New Zealand, Iceland or South Africa. A lot has happened between then and now; some good, some bad. The economy, my health, our dogs, our house, etc. We have adjusted our expectations and instead will be driving to our destination of choice. It won't be as hokey as it sounds. Being smack dab in the middle of Northern California we are within driving distance of many amazing, unforgettable places. Places people the world over take on great expense and effort to visit.
I want to be sassy and confident, and drop fifteen pounds for this special getaway. I want Husband to look at me, to desire me over those four or five days, is if I'm the hottest thing to ever hit the earth. I will see it in his eyes and actions, no matter what. But I want to feel it.
I have a problem. I don't think it will happen.
I feel like a biological disaster.
I want to somehow channel that hard, healthy body I enjoyed when I was twenty-five. Before lupus. Before chronic pain. Before all this crap that has taken over my life.
I sometimes pull out my old clothes, hold them up and say to myself "God, I used to fit into that?!?!?" It's exasperating. I wish I can look on the bright side. My super skinny days weren't all that. I had no ass and no energy. Okay, I still don't have any energy, but you get my point. People used to look at me with sympathy. I didn't know what it meant until much later.
I was happy when I abandoned extremes and found some measure of self love, put on a few needed pounds and found my happy weight. I estimate I'm probably ten pounds above that number right now. But I want to lose even more, to see if I can do it. Because I know how intoxicating it will be if I do.
I know it's wrong to believe ten or fifteen pounds will make the difference. That it will make or break the experience of our time together, and all the love and celebration that comes with it. It angers me that the state of my ass, boobs, and waistline matter, how each one holds a certain power. Why is it so hard to accept what I have? That it is all beautiful and worthy of love?
The way I see it, I have two choices. I can set ridiculous, lofty goals to barely eat and exercise way more than I should, to somehow morph my nearly forty something body into the one I had at 25, and do it all without the resources of a Hollywood starlet. Or I can work on accepting what is, because what is really is fabulous, plus or minus fifteen. He likes it. He tells me every day, every chance he gets. I need to keep working on the self-acceptance thing and get on board.
I don't want to be controlled by the numbers on a scale, and lose sight of all that is good in my life, how when it all comes down to it I really have so many of the things I dreamed about as a young girl, like passion, love and possibility.
Despite all the wisdom, the knowing what is right and what is wrong and how I should feel about myself, I still don't know what I will choose. But I start today, with healthy, clean eating and exercise.
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Valeant Raises Cash-Stock Offer for Allergan
Valeant Pharmaceuticals has added more cash to its offer to buy Botox maker Allergan in a bid that could now be worth more than $50 billion.
The Canadian drugmaker said Wednesday it will now offer $58.30 and a portion of its stock for each Allergan share. It also promises a contingent value right shareholder payment based on future sales of a potential eye treatment.
Valeant raised the cash portion of its offer by $10 from a previous bid of $48.30 per share. That was part of an offer worth nearly $46 billion that Valeant announced last month. Allergan rejected that bid.
The new bid is worth about $50.4 billion, based on Tuesday's closing price of $129.95 for Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. shares and not counting the potential contingent value right payment. Valeant said that payment could add about $25 per share in additional value to the deal for Allergan shareholders.
Allergan representatives did not immediately return calls from The Associated Press seeking comment on the new bid.
Valeant made its initial bid along with activist investor Bill Ackman. The investor's Pershing Square Capital Management LP holds a 9.7 percent stake in Allergan.
Pershing had agreed to take only stock if the deal went through and would remain as a long-term shareholder of the combined company.
Shortly after the prospective buyers made their offer public, Allergan announced a so-called poison pill plan, a defensive tactic that makes a buyout prohibitively expensive. Allergan also told Valeant that it didn't want to discuss a tie-up.
Earlier this month, Allergan said that Valeant's uncertain long-term growth prospects and business model create a risk for Allergan shareholders, given the stock component of the offer. It also questioned Valeant's cost-cutting plans and whether that would harm the long term viability of its business.
Valeant had said it would make another bid for Allergan. Valeant Chairman and CEO J. Michael Pearson said Wednesday in a letter to his Allergan counterpart, David Pyott, that the two sides should meet.
"It appears based on Allergan's recent public statements that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of our business model and its performance," Pearson wrote.
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Hollywood Now: Chris Pine, Rachel Weisz & Ari Graynor, Plus So Many Babies!By Gerri Miller
New flicks with celebs in interfaith relationships and from interfaith backgrounds, plus their baby news!Go To Pop Culture
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|Lena Dunham at the Golden Globes.
The recent Golden Globes® awards ceremony (January 13) included the expected and the unexpected. As expected, interfaith actor Daniel Day-Lewis, 55, won the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama award for Lincoln. Unexpected was the award for Argo as Best Motion Picture — Drama and Ben Affleck's Golden Globe® for Best Director — Motion Picture.
Anne Hathaway, as expected, won the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role — Musical or Comedy Golden Globe® for Les Misérables and we got a brief glimpse of her Jewish husband, Adam Shulman, as she thanked him from the Globe stage.
I was surprised that Girls, the HBO comedy created by and starring interfaith actress Lena Dunham, 26, won the Golden Globe® for Best Television Series — Comedy or Musical. TV shows rarely win a Golden Globe® or an Emmy® as "best show" their first year on the air. It seems like voters seem to want to see if the show has legs and can keep up its quality. Likewise, I was surprised that Dunham won the Globe® for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Comedy or Musical the first time she was nominated. Dunham looked pretty surprised, too, on the Globe® stage, although she quickly recovered and did just fine in her acceptance speech.
Girls has just begun its second season and if you follow the show, you know that at the close of the first season, Jewish character Shoshanna Shapiro (one of the four female friends who constitute the "girls") finally lost her virginity to coffee shop owner Ray Ploshansky. Ploshanksy, who was a recurring character last season, has been upgraded to a series regular this season.
Playing Ploshansky is Jewish actor Alex Karpovsky, a 30-something guy who is also a respected indie filmmaker. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, he grew up in Newton, MA. His father is a computer science professor at Boston University.
In a January 13, 2013 New York Times article entitled "The Boys of Girls," Karpovsky has a complaint common to the children of many immigrants. They just don't "get" what he is doing:
|Winning Girls: Zosia Mamet, Lena Dunham, and Allison Williams.
My parents are immigrants. My mom doesn't speak a word of English. I just don't think they understand anything that I do. So, when they watch the show, it's just sort of like a fuzzy bright object swimming across the plasma screen. "When are you going to meet a nice Jewish girl?" That's what they talk about.
Well, if Karpovsky's parents are looking for him to meet a "nice Jewish girl," he landed in the right spot. As I have written before, three out of the four lead female cast members are of Jewish background.
Dunham (who plays Hannah Horvath) is the daughter of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father.
Karpovsky's love interest in the show, Shoshanna Shapiro, is played by actress Zosia Mamet, 24, the daughter of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. Shapiro's cousin, Jessa Johansson, is played by Jemina Kirke, 27, the daughter of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. The only of the four "Girls" who doesn't have a Jewish parent is actress Allison Williams, 24, who plays Marnie Michaels.
Zosia Mamet, as I have noted before, is the daughter of famous Jewish playwright David Mamet, 65, and his ex-wife, actress Lindsay Crouse, 64. Crouse, who wasn't born Jewish, is reported to be a devout Buddhist. Zosia has one full sibling, an older sister named Willa Mamet.
David Mamet became an observant Jew later in life. His interest in Judaism came not long before he met and married English actress and musician Rebecca Pidgeon, now 47. Pidgeon, who came from a non-practicing Christian home, converted to Judaism before marrying Mamet in 1991. Together they have two children, a son, Noah Mamet, and a daughter, Clara Mamet, now 17.
I really didn't know that much about Zosia Mamet until she was profiled in the New York Times Magazine on January 2, 2013. Most of the article, as you would expect, is about her professional career, how she got the Girls role, and its effect on her life. But she does open up about her family/personal life and religious identification. Here are some excerpts:
Mamet, whose first name is pronounced ZAH-shah ("Like Sasha with a Z"), lived in New England until she was 5. Her parents divorced when she was "like, 1." Later, her mother moved her and her older sister, Willa, to the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles, where she went to an Episcopal school — just because it was a good school, not for religious reasons; neither of her parents is Episcopalian, and she identifies as Jewish, like her father. "The only WASPy part of me is that I like gin," she says. "Oh, and I ride horses."
I am virtually certain that the Episcopal school she went to is the same school from which interfaith actor Jason Segel, 33, graduated.
She says she always had a tumultuous relationship with her mother, and when she was 17, she left home to live with her father and stepmother, the actress Rebecca Pidgeon, and her half siblings, Noah and Clara. About her current relationship with her mother, she'll say only that as far as she is concerned, they haven't reconciled. Other than that, she says, "we're a very close family."
Until recently, Mamet lived in L.A., but then she realized that Girls, which is filmed in New York, might be on for a while, so she decided last year to relocate. She says she gets along well with her stepmother and her siblings; in fact, Clara, whom Mamet called one of her best friends, also recently forayed into the family business. She's an actress, too, and now stars on the ABC sitcom The Neighbors.
She certainly gets why Girls has hit a nerve. "Your 20s are weird, but nobody tells you that," she says. "I think that's what Lena's trying to say. Everyone tells you that your adolescence, that's going to be hard. High school is going to suck. But nobody tells you that your 20s are going to be rough, that basically you're cast into the real world and told to figure it out."
She is proud to be helping her audience figure it out, or at least helping them understand there are other people like them out there who haven't. And she's very happy the show is so popular. But she's not Shoshanna. She's someone else — someone who's still getting used to the idea that you might want to tell her all about your sex life. "Like, the closeness that I guess people feel to me, things that people have shared voluntarily with me immediately, are so insane," she says. "And I'm not an easily shocked human."
The 113-day lockout of National Hockey League (NHL) players by the owners is over. On January 7, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, 60, and Donald Fehr, 64, the executive director of the players' union (NHLPA) announced a tentative agreement. (Both Fehr and Bettman are Jewish and both are attorneys.) The agreement was quickly ratified by respective votes of the owners and the players and the lock-out was officially over on January 12. The shortened season began on January 19.
|Mike Brown of the Maple Leafs.
There are four Jewish/interfaith players in the NHL as the season begins. All are veterans.
"If you look at my family history," said Cammalleri, "we're very strong and tight-knit. My dad's family are immigrants from Sicily. My mom's side is Jewish. My grandparents from Poland and Czechoslovakia were Holocaust survivors. It's a family of deep-rooted closeness and unity coming from very desperate times. It is who I am as a person.Like Mike Brown, Cammalleri played for the University of Michigan, where he was a star player for three years before turning pro just before the 2002-2003 NHL season. He signed with the Los Angeles Kings, but bounced between playing for the Kings and playing in the AHL until 2005. He emerged as a top-flight player in the 2005-2006 season, leading the team in goals scored. In 2008, he was traded to the Calgary Flames, where he led the team in goals scored during the 2008-2009 season. Calgary couldn't afford to keep him and traded him to the Montreal Canadians (who agreed to pay him $30 million dollars over five years). His effectiveness during his first season (2009-2010) with Montreal was limited due to a knee injury, but his play in the NHL playoffs was outstanding. He played well during the next two seasons, but landed on management's "bad list" by expressing his frustration with the team's overall performance. In what many called a stunning move, Montreal suddenly traded him to Calgary during the mid-season (January 2012). Many fans were quite upset by the trade. Not only was Cammalleri one of the team's best players, he was a community favorite for his truly outstanding charitable work on behalf of military families and seriously ill children.
"My mom and dad and sister Melanie are passionate people. My parents have been most concerned about our happiness as children and in our careers. I think of them with a lot of smiles and a lot of hard work."
|Jeff Halpern of the Rangers.
Jewish Sport Review reports that there are ten Jewish/interfaith players now playing in the AHL. Several have had brief stints in the NHL and may be called up again this season or next.
While researching this item, I came across a sad, slightly related story that has not appeared, so far as I know, in most media outlets, Jewish community or not. I long knew that Donald Fehr, mentioned above, was the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) before he took the same post with the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA). The MLBPA was a powerless entity in 1968 when the late Marvin Miller, another Jewish attorney, and a former Steelworkers Union staff member, became its executive head. He turned it into a strong union, and secured incredible gains for players. In 1977, he hired Fehr and groomed him as his successor. Fehr replaced the retiring Miller in 1983 and stayed until 2009. In late 2010, he became head of the NHLPA.
I was curious who replaced Fehr as head of the MLBPA. His replacement, I learned, is Michael Weiner, 51. Yes, he is Jewish, too, and an attorney.
It didn't take me long to find out that Weiner has been battling an almost certainly terminal brain tumor since last July. Nonetheless, he continues to teach Sunday school at his New Jersey synagogue and attend fundraisers for brain tumor victims.
He told ESPN that both Jewish and Christian friends are praying for him:
When Jewish friends ask for his Hebrew name so they can say a prayer, he tells them Shlomo Moshe ben-Yitzhak and thanks them for their concern. Several weeks ago, Weiner received a call from Willy Taveras, a former big league outfielder from the Dominican Republic who has started a church with his wife in Houston. Could they say a prayer for Michael on his behalf? Weiner, touched by the gesture, gave them his blessing.
Point of reference: it's my understanding that there is a tradition that God will be better able to "identify" and aid a Jewish person who is sick if prayers are directed to God reference the sick person's Hebrew name. Here's an explanation of the Jewish healing prayer ("Mi Sheberakh") and a transliterated version of the prayer for those who don't read Hebrew.
Weiner seems like a real mensch (a good human being). So, if you pray, include him in your prayers.


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Just who is leading California's ABC Unified School District? "An eye opening look at California's ABC Unified School District officials in the wake of a brewing scandal involving a mass cover-up…"
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Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 647982, 8 pages
Effect of Modified Formula Radix Hedysari on the Amplification Effect during Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Department of Trauma and Orthopeadics, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China
Received 13 December 2012; Accepted 23 January 2013
Academic Editor: Youn Chul Kim
Copyright © 2013 Zhi Yong Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Many studies have demonstrated a compensatory amplification phenomenon during nerve regeneration. When a relatively fine nerve is used as a donor to connect to a distal nerve after transection, the donor nerve regenerates more collaterals than its own fibers, which extend to the distal stump, grow into distal endoneurial tubes, and finally reach and dominate the target organs. This is known as the amplification phenomenon. In this study, we investigated the amplification phenomenon in rats treated with Modified Formula Radix Hedysari (MFRH) as adjuvant therapy for 12 weeks. The rats were divided into three groups at random (six animals in each group). In the model group and the treatment group, the proximal common peroneal nerve was used as a donor nerve to connect to the distal tibial nerve. Rats in the normal group did not undergo surgery. After surgery, the treatment group was administered MFRH as systemic therapy, while the model group and the normal group were not given treatment. The results demonstrated that the nerve conduction velocity, the fiber diameter, the axon diameter, the number of regenerating nerve fibers, and the amplification ratio were better in the treatment group than in the model group, suggesting that MFRH promoted the nerve amplification effect.


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Controlled burn first step in reintroducing clearing method
After almost two years of community organizing on the remote, up-Klamath River reaches of the Yurok Reservation, a controlled cultural burn was held last week near Weitchpec - the first step in reintroducing traditional fire treatment that was practiced on the land by American Indians for centuries.
The first community-organized, officially sanctioned cultural burn on Yurok Tribal land took place April 30 - the last day before a statewide ban on burns.
A celebration to commemorate the event will be held Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. at the Libby Nix Community Center in Weitchpec.
In three years, the 5-acre hazel stick patch that was burned along Route 169 will provide the crucial materials necessary for basket weaving, a practice that has been endangered by a lack of weaving materials.
"You can't tell someone how to weave a basket - you have to show them," said Skip Lowry, a community organizer for the burn. Yurok elders have expressed the desire to pass on their basket-weaving expertise, Lowry said, but modern management of the forests have made it difficult. "If the materials are not present, that knowledge is going to be lost."
The community desire to revive controlled burns was identified through the Weitchpec to Wotek Local Organizing Committee as a way to strengthen cultural practices while keeping the community safe from fires.
"If the elders that have passed on could see what we are doing for our people, for the preservation and continuance of our culture, I know they'd be proud and happy," said Yurok elder Bertha Peters, an accomplished weaver and member of the WWLOC, in a press release. "I am really happy that this happened and we are going to have enough hazel materials for our community classes."
Lowry, a Susanville Indian tribal member who lives in Weitchpec and is considered a Yurok descendant, said that weavers were an "instrumental" part of the committee's success in achieving the burn.
"They were the soul behind this movement," Lowry said.
The site chosen is one of the densest stands of hazel on the Yurok Reservation - perfect for a burn.
"Without fire, hazel stands turn into a dry, dense mess, prone to insect problems, and is impenetrable by large game and birds of prey," said a Yurok press release. "Hazel is used in everything from baby baskets to eel baskets, which need to be made with strong material. Hazel nuts and milk are both important traditional foods, which contain an extraordinary amount of protein and plenty of essential vitamins and minerals. The fires rejuvenate grasses consumed by large mammals like deer and elk."
National fire suppression policies implemented in the 1920s turned Indian controlled burns into something considered crime or arson, Lowry said.
"They really didn't hardly understand fire and created this negative stigma that fire is bad or evil," Lowry said.
Fuel reduction work conducted by Calfire relieves fire danger, but the burn piles used in that technique do not evenly distribute soil-regenerating ash or create the materials for basket weaving like Indian burning did, Lowry said.
Controlled burns for the health and growth of natural resources are even written into the preamble of the Yurok Tribe's constitution.
Many fires in the Weitchpec and Wotek area are labeled as suspicious fires or arson fires when often they might be started by Indians attempting to heal what's been lost, Lowry said.
Calfire responded to 10 small fires on Route 169, 10andndash;14 miles downstream from Weitchpec, last Friday.
Lowry said that Calfire was very open to the idea of controlled burns, as it would rather have preventive burns than respond to wildfires.On the day of the burn, Calfire inmate crews stood by with hoses to hold the fire lines.
The actual burn was conducted by Yurok wildland firefighter Capt. Clyde Trimble Sr. and firefighters Mike Obie, Andrew Lamebear, Lawrence Tracy and Brodie Richardson.
Other groups involved in the partnership for this project were the Yurok Tribe, the Building Healthy Communities Initiative of The California Endowment, the California Conservation Corps (which cut hazel down before burning), and several community members.
"The community should be commended for the hard work, dedication and effort they put into making the cultural burn and long-term burn plan a reality," said Yurok Chairman Thomas P. O'Rourke Sr. in a press release. "This is the first of many planned, prescribed fires to come. Controlled, cultural burns benefit the entire ecosystem."
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Appearing on CNBC on Friday, President Barack Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said "millions of jobs" were saved when Congress extended unemployment benefits in the "fiscal cliff" deal.
"What I think about is those two million people that would have lost their unemployment insurance. Because think about it, all that money that goes out in terms of what is being spent by that unemployment check, helps to generate $2 back into the community. So small businesses, everyone continues to keep their jobs," Solis said.
"Just by the movement that the president made, we saved millions and millions of jobs."
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JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. - The controversy over a planned pub crawl at Jacksonville Beach on the Fourth of July is over. After outcry from city leaders in Jacksonville Beach about the pub crawl, organizers have pushed the crawl back to Saturday, July 6, instead of having the crawl on the fourth.
The city was concerned about crowd control on what is expected to be a bus Fourth of July celebration at the beach. Organizers said they still expect to have a successful event that will draw business to the beach bars, but critics told Channel 4 that the crawl date shouldn't change.
Charles Wagoner runs local website, 904happyhour.com. When Wagoner planned an Independence Day pub crawl at Jacksonville Beach, he never expected the controversy or the publicity it brought with it.
"Just a lot of pressure on us," said Wagoner. "Want to make sure everything goes smooth down here on Fourth of July."
The mayor of Jacksonville Beach, Charlie Latham, sent a letter to beach businesses asking them not to participate in the pub crawl. The city said they wanted to change the pub crawl so that Independence Day activities would be more family friendly.
"Well, we just wanted to make sure everyone has a good time," said Wagoner. "We're all about families having a good time. We don't want there to be any problems. Everybody seems really happy about it being moved and it's going to help businesses on both days now."
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Instead of missing another week of blogging, I decided to share a portion of an article by Leslie Nichole that I posted on my Photo Artistry Workshop membership site.
I came across Leslie and her work about a year ago when I found her site French Kiss Textures. I had become very interested in using textures in my work and loved the images she was sharing. We started talking via email and she shared that she had a background in hand coloring and that the way she approached her work with textures was very similar to the steps she took while hand coloring.
She very generously volunteered to share her experience and inspiration and wrote the following guest blog post. Go to her website if you would like more information about her work.
Be sure to check out the photo of her hand coloring table......brought back a lot of memories for me.
Meet Leslie Nicole:
Leslie Nicole was a professional hand-colorist in San Francisco. She has given demonstrations and workshops for Kodak and has been a guest instructor at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. In addition to her fine art photography, she has hand-colored for other photographers and clients. Her work has appeared in posters, greeting cards, retail stores, magazines, catalogs, and advertising. Today, she is the founder and creative director of French Kiss Textures, a resource for photographers and artists.
Thank you Leslie!
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Back in the days before Photoshop, I was a hand-colorist. Today, I photograph with a DSLR and then manipulate my images with Photoshop filters and textures. This was a natural progression and I often reflect on how the techniques are quite similar.
In the late '80's – early '90's and there was a bit of a "nouvelle vague" for hand-coloring. It was quite popular in art, editorial, post cards, etc. I photographed mostly B&W with a 120 Rolleicord camera, printed (usually) on matte paper and hand-colored with oils, pencils and dyes. I worked at a professional B&W photo lab, so I had easy access to the best darkroom equipment.
|hand coloring table in 1990 with an image in progress
|The finished image was used for the Fortunes Catalog
© Leslie Nicole
Digital Imaging
Around 1992, when desktop publishing—as it was called then—hit in full force, I was asked to start the digital department in our lab. I knew nothing about computers! This started what would become a long side trip first into digital imaging and then graphic design. I went freelance and then I worked in the design departments for many companies. In 2000, I opened my own design studio. I had all but stopped creating art. It was too hard to find the time to go use a darkroom. I had a decent digital compact camera, but I just used it for snapshots of my dogs and flowers in my garden.
Bringing it together
I always knew I would eventually close the circle from my journey into design and, enriched by the experience, come back to photography. In 2007, I bought a Canon 40D. In 2008, I moved definitively to France. I suddenly had the time and equipment I needed to work again. I started experimenting with how to continue my artistic photography digitally. While I had done some digital hand-coloring for jobs in the past using Photoshop, I thought that it made sense to try out Corel's Painter. I played with that a bit, but when I discovered textures, it clicked.
I had been away from photography for a few years and was totally unaware of the texture movement. After a year of intensely photographing, I wanted to share my images. I joined RedBubble, and soon after, I stumbled onto the work of Jessica Jenney. I was stunned! I had no idea what this artist was doing, but I knew that it was the missing key that linked my style to the digital age. I then started seeing other artist's work that used textures and launched myself into learning all I could about textures. As I already had a strong base in photography, Photoshop, and hand-coloring, I caught on pretty quickly.
|©Leslie Nicole
Texture As Paint
My approach to using textures has been pretty much the same as hand-coloring. I use the textures as paint. I don't think I was fully conscious of this until writing this post, but I can see now that taking the next step to creating my own textures was natural. I used to paint my own backgrounds. Sometimes I would literally paint a background, photograph and then hand color it or I regularly photographed against white to paint after. The digital process gives me more freedom to create actual texture. The things I did to create texture in hand-coloring! Once, I let the paint partially dry and then took steel wool to the surface, I sometimes used pumice powder to rub away dried paint. I've even used glitter sticks and Conté crayons. I've glued on old stamps and torn pieces of paper.
In my textures, I'll photograph actual paintings or create new textures from photographing patinaed walls and metal gates, or scanning old documents and books gleaned from flea markets. I'm like a visual magpie, constantly collecting things to either photograph or scan. I rarely use these as is, but instead break them down into brushes in Photoshop to combine. I use the same sensibilities I used in hand coloring to create a balance of color. It would perhaps be more accurate to say I create backgrounds.
|©Laura Aldridge Photography
Hand Colored by Leslie Nicole
Hand-coloring and textures are both disciplines that take time. Time working on your image. Time playing with technique. You have to have the temperament for this. For me, the time is relaxing and meditative. The discoveries exciting. The most important ingredient of all in being successful in these methods is to love the process. I guarantee you that if you enjoy the work and put in the time, you will master the process and find your own vision.
Laura Aldridge Photography http://www.lauraaldridgephotographer.com/
Jessica Jenny: http://www.redbubble.com/people/jjenney
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To enable the single market to function fully and effectively by setting out in detail the priority measures to be taken to improve the functioning of the single market by 1 January 1999.
Commission Communication of 4 June 1997 to the European Council - Action plan for the single market [Commission communication to the European Council CSE (97)1 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
The aim of the Commission's action plan for the single market, which was presented on 4 June 1997, is to improve the functioning of the single market by 1 January 1999. This action plan was announced in the conclusions of the Dublin European Council and follows on from the Commission's report on the impact and effectiveness of the single market.
The action plan sets four strategic objectives which are of equal importance and must be pursued in parallel:
- making the rules of the single market more effective (proper enforcement and simplification of rules at Community and national levels);
- dealing with key market distortions (tax barriers and anti-competitive behaviour);
- removing sectoral obstacles to market integration (new legislative measures and changing national administrations' attitudes);
- delivering a single market for the benefit of all citizens (the social dimension of the single market).
Within each of these strategic targets, the Commission has identified a number of specific actions to be carried out by 1 January 1999. All of these are crucial to allow the single market to function fully and effectively and to boost employment and growth. However, the Commission believes these actions should be differentiated in terms of the level of advancement they can reasonably achieve by 1 January 1999.
The Commission has therefore drawn up a three-phase timetable with adoption in the very short term of urgent measures, speedy adoption of a number of existing proposals and as broad an agreement as possible by 1 January on the remaining measures.
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Endorsement and urgent implementation of certain measures
Elimination of all delays in transposing single market legislation
Creation of a framework for enforcement and problem-solving
Creation of an Internet shop for information on all single market rules affecting business
Extension of SLIM and other simplification initiatives to new sectors
Simplification of national rules
Consultation by the Commission of a European Business Test Panel for certain legislative proposals
Follow-up to Commission initiatives concerning public procurement, mutual recognition, European standards, EC conformity marking, the European patent system, construction materials, the Customs 2000 programme and reform of the transit system
Effective application of the Directive on the internal market for electricity
Implementation of telecommunications liberalisation by the given deadline
Taking note of the Commission's consultation of the two sides of industry on the information and consultation of workers at the national level
Work on publication of a White Paper on sectors excluded from the Directive on the organisation of working time
Improvement and wider use of the EURES employment database
Work on publication of a communication on the single market and the environment
Setting up machinery for dialogue with citizens
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Adoption of existing proposals
Agreement on the liberalisation of gas supply
Transparency Directive for information society services
Directive on the protection of biotechnology inventions
Phase 3:
Agreement on other measures
Tax package (taxation of investment income, cross-border payment of interest and royalties, elimination of distortions in the area of indirect taxation)
Proposals for modernising VAT and applying it in a more coherent manner
Restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products
Agreeing streamlined requirements for notification of horizontal state aid schemes by Member States
Agreeing to codification and clarification of procedures for the granting of state aid
New Directive on collective investment schemes
Reduction of restrictions on investment by pension funds
New rules on allocation of airport slots and airport charges
Agreements on establishing the European Air Safety Agency and new EUROCONTROL Convention
Strengthening of rules on market surveillance in certain sectors
Tenth Company Law Directive on cross-border mergers (retired by the Commission)
Regulations on European Statutes for cooperatives, associations and mutual societies
Directive on late payments
Electronic commerce: copyright and related rights
Electronic commerce: distance selling of financial services
Electronic commerce: digital signatures
Electronic commerce: conditional-access services
Accompanying measures and three Directives on abolition of border controls, restrictions on the free movement of persons and the right to travel
Adapting the right to reside and remain in another Member State
Directive on supplementary pensions
Directive on the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees
Annex 2 to the action plan lists the four strategic objectives and identifies a number of important specific actions to improve the full and effective functioning of the single market. A selective approach is taken which does not preclude measures in other areas to complete the single market.
The action plan refers in particular to measures in the sectors below.
In the field of taxation, the action plan proposes submitting to the Member States a series of measures to:
- eliminate tax-related distortions by:- reducing the effects of tax competition, especially in the area of corporate taxation;- eliminating disparities in the taxation of capital income and indirect taxation;- abolishing withholding taxes on interest and royalty payments between companies;
- speed up the establishment of an origin-based common VAT system which is simpler and applied in a more uniform manner;
- restructure the Community framework for the taxation of energy products by widening the Community minimum rate system, currently applied only to mineral oils, to include all energy products;
- reduce those types of state aid which cause the greatest distortion of competition, such as certain regional aid measures and rescue and restructuring aid.
With regard to consumers, the action plan proposes submitting to the Member States a series of measures to:
- guarantee the general safety of products by:- strengthening the common rules on market surveillance, for example by establishing joint inspection schemes or more detailed inspection procedures for industrial products and consumer goods, foodstuffs, pharmaceutical products and medical devices;
- regulate the distance selling of financial services with a view to removing obstacles to the cross-border provision of services, while at the same time strengthening protection for consumers;
- approximate national laws on the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees, so that consumers who have purchased a defective product enjoy basic rights throughout the European Union;
- ensure that consumer health is taken into account in the framing of new legislation.
As far as the free movement of goods is concerned, priority will be given to implementation of the Customs 2000 programme and reform of the transit system. The measures to be proposed will focus on:
- management and supervision of transit operations;
- computerisation of procedures;
- introduction of a single transit system for Europe;
- coordination of fraud prevention and law enforcement.
The increased importance of new technology brings several challenges. In view of this, the action plan proposes submitting to the Member States a series of measures to:
- introduce a transparency mechanism for information society services;
- harmonise certain rules of copyright and related rights in order to guarantee uniform protection in the new technological environment.
- regulate the distance selling of financial services;
- ensure the legal recognition of digital signatures in the single market and set minimum criteria for certification authorities;
- protect conditional-access services across the single market.
The action plan also stresses the importance of meeting the deadline of 1 January 1998 for the liberalisation of telecommunications. To that end, the Commission will keep up its efforts to ensure full implementation of the regulatory package by means of a twin-track strategy of bilateral contacts with national regulatory authorities and formal infringement proceedings in the event of non-compliance. This will involve:
- ensuring timely and effective application of Community rules;
- enhancing transparency;
- assessing national licensing schemes;
- contacts within established technical forums (ONP, ACTE, newly created Licensing Committee).
In the field of intellectual property, the action plan proposes submitting to the Member States a series of measures to:
- modernise the European patent system and make it more user-friendly with a view to promoting innovation in Europe;
- harmonise certain rules of copyright and related rights to ensure uniform protection in the new technological environment; initiatives will focus on online communications and the reproduction and distribution of protected material;
- protect providers of conditional-access services against the pirating of their services by illicit decoders, smart cards or other devices;
- afford full and adequate protection for biotechnology inventions while creating the legal certainty which both producers and the public require;
- combat counterfeiting.
In the transport sector, the action plan proposes submitting to the Member States a series of measures to enable the air transport market to become properly integrated. These are:
- new rules on airport charges which will ensure transparency and allow some flexibility in applying the principles of cost-related pricing, in order to achieve the highest possible capacity utilisation rates (for example, through peak-hour pricing and noise-related charges);
- rules on slot allocation at Community airports aimed at ensuring that existing airport capacity is used as efficiently as possible while respecting certain environmental constraints, ensuring mobility in the market and giving preference to possibilities for increasing competition;
- creation of a European Air Safety Agency whose objective will be to enable European airspace to be used more efficiently and to enhance safety levels by drawing up common rules for the design, manufacture, maintenance and operation of aircraft and for the staff and organisations involved in these tasks;
- strengthening the regulatory powers of Eurocontrol with regard to the provision of air traffic control services, in order to improve the quality of service and make common standards more consistent;
- Community membership of Eurocontrol in order to achieve convergence between action taken within that organisation and policies pursued in areas of Community responsibility.
Finally, with regard to the objective of creating a single market for the benefit of all citizens, the action plan provides for various measures such as:
- eliminating border controls by adopting accompanying measures and three proposals for Directives;
- protecting social rights by consulting the social partners on the information and consultation of workers at national level and by adopting a White Paper on the organisation of working time, in particular in transport services;
- promoting labour mobility in the EU by adopting a Directive on supplementary pensions and improving and extending the use of the EURES employment database;
- protecting consumer rights, health and the environment by adopting the Directive on the sale of consumer goods and the communication on the single market and the environment;
- setting up machinery for dialogue with citizens which informs them of the rights and opportunities offered by the single market and allows them to report the difficulties they experience in exercising their rights.
4) implementing measures
5) follow-up work
Last updated: 05.09.2003


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National HIV Testing Week takes place this month (November 21), encouraging people across the country to take an HIV test.
Organised by the UK's leading HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust, it's backed by a social media campaign with guys of different ages, all with the same message – stop putting it off and take the test.
Finding out that you're HIV positive enables you to get the treatment you need as soon as you need it. This will prevent HIV from damaging your body, and it will make it much less likely that you'll pass HIV on to anyone else.
Testing is free and completely confidential – no one else will know that you have taken an HIV test, and only you will be told the result.
This year TV's Dr Christian Jessen is the National HIV Testing Week Ambassador. Like him, you can show your support for National HIV Testing Week by putting #I'mTesting on your social media posts.
Testing for HIV, and encouraging your friends to test too, really will help save lives. You can use the National HIV Testing Week website www.tht.org.uk/itstartswithme to find a clinic near you or to order a postal testing kit.


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LiteTouch Releases LiteWare4.1 Programming Software
New Update to Software Available for Immediate Download; Many Features Include Programming LiteTouch's New iPhone App
Salt Lake City, UT (December 28, 2010) - Today LiteTouch, a leading manufacturer of lighting control systems, announced that a new release of their proprietary programming software, LiteWare4.1, is available for immediate download by LiteTouch Channel Partners worldwide.
This release coincides with the availability of LiteTouch's new Remote Access iPhone app on the iTunes store. The app is available for free download, with a demo feature to show how the app works. LiteTouch dealers must use the new LiteWare 4.1 software in order to activate the iPhone app to control lights and other systems in homes with LiteTouch 5000LC or FIVEk lighting control systems.
Key new features of the release are as follows:
- - New Remote Access for System Control: In addition to the ability to program iPhone control, LiteWare4.1 allows LiteTouch Dealers to use Real -Time System Control for on -the -spot maintenance and support of installed systems with remote access activation without visiting the job site.
- - Supports New LiteTouch Keypads: LiteWare4.1 allows for design, ordering and programming of systems using LiteTouch's 2011 Low Voltage Keypad Lineup including the new Circa and Echo keypads, plus the new Metropolitan and Coastal models with enhanced functionality.
- - New Macro Library: Access to 30 Pre -Defined Native System Macros and more than 90 LiteTouch Certified Custom Macros is available to LiteTouch Channel Partners for use in system programming via LiteWare4.1. Macros are custom programs that instruct the LiteTouch system to complete simple to complex custom actions. Macro categories include Dimming, Shade Control, Daylight Harvesting, Advanced Fan Control and more. All Macros are stored on secure LiteTouch cloud servers. Via LiteWare 4.1 LiteTouch dealers are able to download, use, rate and modify shared Macros. Dealers are invited to upload their own Macros for LiteTouch Certification and sharing with other LiteTouch programmers; or to upload as private files for their exclusive access.
- - New System Diagram Tool: New LiteWare4.1 includes an executable program that generates one -line riser diagrams for added project planning support.
LiteWare4.1 is available for download at the company website LiteTouch.com.
About LiteTouch, Inc
LiteTouch, a leading lighting control system manufacturer for more than three decades, is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. LiteTouch's products are recommended by architects, lighting designers, custom installers, builders and electricians worldwide and are available through an extensive network of Representatives, Authorized Dealers and Distributors.
In addition to being an essential element of any green building or remodeling project, LiteTouch lighting control systems offer numerous real -world benefits, including convenience, security, time -savings, safety, energy conservation and design aesthetics. "Experience Lighting Control", an online tour detailing many of these benefits, is available at LiteTouch.com.
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The University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development is recruiting volunteers to test the safety of a new anthrax vaccine, which could substantially decrease the number of doses required for immunity. Unlike the current vaccine, the new vaccine is genetically engineered.
The new vaccine, called recombinant Protective Antigen anthrax vaccine (rPA), requires only two doses. The currently licensed anthrax vaccine, administered almost exclusively to military personnel, requires six doses over 18 months and an annual booster shot.
"If this new anthrax vaccine is found to be safe and effective, it would be a more practical option for mass vaccination in the event of a bioterrorist attack," says James D. Campbell, assistant professor of pediatrics and the primary investigator for the Phase I trial. Eighty volunteers will be enrolled in the study, which will also evaluate dosage levels and measure immune response for the first time in humans.
Like the current vaccine, the new vaccine relies on a protein made by the anthrax bacterium called Protective Antigen (PA) to produce an immune response. To make the new vaccine, the Protective Antigen gene is placed into a highly weakened form of the anthrax bacterium. The gene turns the bacterium into a biological factory that produces only the Protective Antigen. The current vaccine is made by extracting the Protective Antigen from fluid that surrounds the bacterium.
"The genetic process used to make rPA anthrax vaccine eliminates impurities found in the current vaccine," says Dr. Campbell. "While side effects from the current vaccine are uncommon and usually minor, we believe the genetic approach may produce a better tolerated vaccine."
Anthrax is a bacterial infection caused by the spore producing bacterium called Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax primarily affects livestock, but people can contract anthrax through an opening in the skin, by eating the meat of infected animals, or by inhaling the spores.
Inhalation anthraxthe form that infected many of the victims of the 2001 anthrax attacksis highly lethal. While anthrax can be cured by prompt treatment with antibiotics, the diagnosis can be difficult to make because the symptoms mimic the flu.
Vaccination is the only preventive measure. Because of the threat of biological warfare, U.S. military personnel are given the currently licensed vaccine, called Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed (AVA or BioThrax). But the military vaccination program has been controversial due to concerns about side effects. Vaccination is also recommended for those who may come in contact with infected animals, or scientists who work with the anthrax bacterium. Due to the low risk of contracting anthrax, AVA is not available to the general public.
Additional trials must be conducted to establish the safety and effectiveness of rPA, but Dr. Campbell says "in the two best animal studies, safety, immune response and protection were excellent." The vaccine study is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter[2][3] (born September 4, 1981), known mononymously as Beyoncé ( /biˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say), is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.
During the hiatus of Destiny's Child, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in 2003, which spawned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy"—and became one of the most successful albums of that year, earning her a then record-tying five Grammy Awards. Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005, Knowles released her second solo album, B'Day, in 2006, which spawned the top ten singles "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable" and "Beautiful Liar". Her third solo album I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), spawned the hit singles "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Halo" and "Sweet Dreams". The album helped Knowles earn six Grammys in 2010, breaking the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. Knowles' fourth solo album, 4 (2011), became her fourth consecutive number one album on the Billboard 200 as a solo artist. This made her the third artist in the chart's history to have her first four studio albums debut atop the chart.
Apart from her work in music, Knowles has also ventured into acting and designing clothes and various perfumes. She made her acting debut in the musical TV film Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001), prior to appearing in major films, Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), The Fighting Temptations (2003), Dreamgirls (2006), which earned her two Golden Globe nominations, Cadillac Records (2008) and Obsessed (2009). Knowles introduced her family's fashion line House of Deréon in 2005, and has endorsed such brands as L'Oréal, Pepsi, Tommy Hilfiger, Nintendo and Vizio. In 2010, Knowles was ranked first on Forbes list of the "100 Most Powerful and Influential Musicians in the World",[4] and second on its list of the "100 Most Powerful and Influential Celebrities in the World".[5]
Knowles' work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including 16 Grammy Awards, 12 MTV Video Music Awards, a Billboard Millennium Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with Destiny's Child. In 2009, Billboard named her the Top Female Artist and Top Radio Songs Artist of the 2000s decade,[6][7] and ranked her as the fourth Artist of the Decade.
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Things To Do In Dallas This Memorial Day Weekend: May 25-28
Woof. This is going to be a long one. Shall we?
I saw the show Flesh World last weekend, and while I didn't love it (nor did I appreciate the Dead White Zombie's taking half my event listing and half of Christopher Mosley's description in last week's Weekender and Frankensteining the two together to have a really positive-sounding write up on their website), the site-specific, peripatetic aspect of it is worth a look. The installations, spread out over an old welding warehouse in West Dallas, are pretty great, and highly detailed. Much ado has been made about Sleep No More in New York, a bloody chase tangentially inspired by Macbeth, and I for one am glad of a similar-ish attempt here, even though it didn't quite work for me. Only 30 people are allowed per performance, so snag a ticket online before you go.
Also this evening, the Dallas Symphony and famed composer Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line, Ordinary People) join forces for the Armed Forces Salute Memorial Day weekend program. It starts tonight and goes through Sunday, so you have plenty of chances to catch Hamlisch conduct the DSO and chorus through uplifting film and show tunes, including a George M. Cohen medley and the wordless "Hymn for the Fallen" from Saving Private Ryan, as well as other patriotic classics.
Head to Main Street Garden for the Homegrown Festival, where North Texas-bred musicians (such as the Octopus Project, Centro-Matic, and Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears) will play, and local artists will show off their work. It's safe to assume that there will be plenty of options for food and drink all day long, and it's pet friendly. Fido loves music, too. And if you haven't, check out Peter Simek's thoughtful article on the festival that ran in the May issue of D.
Saturday night options also include the premiere of Kaguya-Hime, Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet's first original full-length piece, at the Bishop Arts Theater. It's based on a 10th-century Japanese folktale, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, in which the moon princess Kaguya-Hime is sent to Earth as a baby, and the Wood Cutter adopts her as his own. She grows into a very beautiful woman, and the neighboring princes and even the emperor take notice. But none of these suitors can win her heart, since it belongs to the moon. The performance will also feature a guest appearance by DGDG (Danielle Georgiou Dance Group). Georgiou is just about everywhere these days.
This should be a seriously Sunday Funday, what with the holiday on Monday. The thing that will make it the most fun is the gallon's worth of margaritas you'll consume at the annual Margarita Meltdown in Bishop Arts. (Take a cab, obviously.) Top cocktail shakers from The Chesterfield, Standard Pour, The Windmill, Iron Cactus, Nova, Tillman's, Veracruz Cafe, Sfuzzi, and Hacienda On Henderson will mix up guaranteed-to-make-you-woozy margaritas. You will sample, liberally. And then you will vote on who makes the best tasting marg in town. There's an afterparty at Nova immediately following the end of the contest. If you're tired of margaritas, order Nova's Moscow Mule.
In other drinking news, the Double Wide is throwing one of its signature parking lot pool parties. You know that scene in The Sandlot where Michael "Squints" Palledorous pretended to drown so hot lifeguard Wendy would give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation? I don't recommend that, but maybe the clip will help get you in the mood to lotion up and hit the kiddie pool. The $3 You-Call-Its make turning your Enticed shaved ice (the truck will be parked nearby) into adult Enticed shaved ice a whole lot cheaper. Graceland Ninjaz will play inside, while DJ Biehler spins outside.
It's Memorial Day, so do take moment to remember the true meaning of the holiday–honoring the men and women in uniform who died serving our country. And okay, yes, celebrate that you don't have to go to work. With a few 97 degree days, I'd say we're officially in summer, but Del Frisco's Grille in Uptown is hosting a welcome back party for Beelzebub's favorite season. You don't really need an excuse to hang out on an awesome patio, but a little extra incentive never hurt anyone. The Grille is offering half-priced specialty cocktails and appetizers, plus live music from band The Brew.
For a more sedate celebration of Memorial Day (at least, until the fireworks start going off), check out the DSO's outdoor community concert at Flagpole Hill. Associate conductor Rei Hotoda will lead the orchestra in a program of stirring patriotic music capped off by a colorful fireworks display. If for some reason it rains, head to the Meyerson.
Thanks for sticking with me. As always, you can find more to do with your four-day weekend right here.