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Baritone Thomas Hampson Performs at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Carnegie Hall, Beg. Tonight, 10/15
Baritone Thomas Hampson – fresh from induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences – looks forward to a blockbuster October in the US. He will step into one of his favorite roles, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, for a Lyric Opera of Chicago production led by Sir Andrew Davis (tonight, October 15–November 9). Also this month, on October 18th, Hampson will give one of his acclaimed SONG OF AMERICA recitals in Akron, Ohio, with longtime colleague Kevin Murphy. The singer joins the Collegiate Chorale and the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta at Carnegie Hall on October 25th, for a concert featuring Schoenberg's Kol Nidre and the New York premiere of Noam Sheriff's MECHAYE HAMETIM – a program that was greeted rapturously when Hampson performed it with the same forces at the Salzburg Festival this summer.
Hampson's season brims with Verdi. In March, at the Metropolitan Opera, the baritone will make his second consecutive company role debut in a Verdi opera in as many seasons, portraying the treacherous Iago in Verdi's OTELLO (last season, he sang the title role in Verdi's MACBETH). And he will reprise his title role in Simon Boccanegra at Vienna's KONZERTHAU in April with conductor Nicola Luisotti and at London's Royal Opera House in July under Antonio Pappano. About this month's Boccanegra in Chicago, Hampson says:
"I have sung Boccanegra a lot in Europe. I haven't sung it in a while, so I'm excited to be taking it up again. The cast in the Lyric Opera of Chicago production is perfect. It's the same cast that we had for the last time that I did a run of it in Vienna, with Ferruccio Furlanetto as Fiesco and Krassimira Stoyanova as Amelia, but Frank Lopardo as Adorno will be a new partner for me. This is going to be a great Verdi opera for Sir Andrew Davis to do. If I were standing against a wall before a firing squad being forced to name my favorite opera, Simon Boccanegra would be one of the operas I would think of naming. Boccanegra is even more fundamentally a part of my musical and theatrical soul than Macbeth. I can't tell you how happy I am to be able to do this at such a great theater as Lyric Opera of Chicago."
A high point of last season for Hampson was the debut of the SONG OF AMERICA radio series, co-produced by the Hampsong Foundation and the WFMT Radio Network. Hosted by Hampson, this series of 13 one-hour programs explores the history of American culture through song, and it has aired in more than 200 US markets. He says about the project: "I get tremendous energy from it – and it gives me a sense of overwhelming artistic joy." In Akron, Ohio, on October 18, Hampson and Kevin Murphy will give their SONG OF AMERICA recital at the E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall. The program will range far and wide across the American songbook, from Copland, Barber, and Ives to Hopkinson, Bowles, and Farwell.
On October 25, Hampson headlines the annual gala of the AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC at Carnegie Hall, presenting the New York premiere of Noam Sheriff's MECHAYE HAMETIM (REVIVAL OF THE DEAD) and Schoenberg's KOL NIDRE with the Collegiate Chorale and the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. It was with this same program that Hampson and the team caused a significant stir at this summer's Salzburg Festival.
Hampson launched his 2012-13 season in Europe, performing Mahler's DAS LIED VON DER ERDE with Neeme Järvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande before returning stateside to sing Strauss orchestral songs with the Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck. The singer next looks forward to reprising Strauss's songs in the New Year with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic (Jan 19).<
A list of Thomas Hampson's upcoming engagements follows; additional information about the baritone is available at www.thomashampson.com.
Thomas Hampson: 2012-13 season engagements:
Oct 15, 20, 24, 28, & 31; Nov 3, 6, & 9
Chicago, IL
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (title role)
Oct 18
Akron, OH
Tuesday Musical Association
"Song of America" Recital
Kevin Murphy, piano
Oct 25
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall
Sheriff: Mechaye hametim
Schoenberg: Kol Nidre
Israel Philharmonic / Zubin Mehta / Collegiate Chorale
Dec 3
Munich, Germany
Wolfram Rieger, piano
Dec 8
Mannheim, Germany
Nationaltheater Mannheim
Opera Gala
Dec 14
Dortmund, Germany
Konzerthaus Dortmund
Wolfram Rieger, piano
Dec 18 & 22; Jan 6
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich Opera / Marco Armiliato
Puccini: Tosca (Scarpia)
Dec 31
Baden-Baden, Germany
Stuttgart Radio Symphony / Andrés Orozco-Estrada / Rolando Villazón / Olga Peretyatko
New Year's Gala
Jan 13, 20, & 26; Feb 2
Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich Opera / Marc Albrecht
Wagner: Tannhäuser (Wolfram)
Jan 19
London, UK
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski
Strauss: Four Early Songs, Op. 33
Jan 22
Basel, Switzerland
Wolfram Rieger, piano
Feb 6
Reykjavik, Iceland
Wolfram Rieger, piano
Feb 11
Merano, Italy
Wiener Virtuosen
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Dvorák: Zigeunermelodien
Feb 12
Wiener Virtuosen
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Dvorák: Zigeunermelodien
Feb 13
Zurich, Switzerland
Wiener Virtuosen
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Dvorák: Zigeunermelodien
Feb 15
Innsbruck, Austria
Wiener Virtuosen
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Dvorák: Zigeunermelodien
Feb 17
Vienna, Austria
Wiener Virtuosen
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Dvorák: Zigeunermelodien
Feb 22
Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra / Joana Carneiro
Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Feb 23
Greencastle, IN
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra / Joana Carneiro
Mahler: Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Feb 26
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Performances
Recital, including Schumann's Op. 39; Hersch: Domicilium (world premiere)
March 11, 15, 20, 23, & 30
New York, NY
Metropolitan Opera / Alain Altinoglu
Verdi: Otello (Iago)
April 2-7
Heidelberg, Germany
Lied Academy master classes
April 10
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Mariss Jansons
125th Anniversary Benefit Gala
April 13 & 17
Vienna, Austria
Vienna Symphony / Nicola Luisotti
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra in concert (title role)
April 24
Davis, CA
Adamo commission (world premiere)
Wolf: Songs
Jupiter String Quartet
April 26
Boston, MA
Celebrity Series
Adamo commission
Wolf: Songs
Jupiter String Quartet
April 28
New York, NY
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Adamo commission
Wolf: Songs
Jupiter String Quartet
May 8, 11, 14, & 17
Vienna, Austria
Vienna State Opera / Marco Armiliato
Verdi: La traviata (Giorgio Germont)
May 23
Istanbul, Turkey
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra / Sascha Goetzel
Mahler: Songs
June 27; July 1, 3, 10, 13, & 16
London, UK
Royal Opera House / Antonio Pappano
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (title role)
July 7
Birmingham, UK
Royal Opera House / Antonio Pappano
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra in concert (title role)
July 31
Munich, Germany
Bavarian State Opera / Kent Nagano
Wagner: Parsifal (Amfortas)


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Valentine not buying Fenway struggles
Valentine not buying Fenway struggles
They've lost a series, 2-1, to the Oakland A's, were swept in three games by the Texas Rangers and lost both games of a rain-shortened series against the Yankees, blowing a 9-0 lead to the Bronx Bombers during one of the losses. The only series the Sox won at home was a three-game sweep of the Rays in April.
But manager Bobby Valentine believes his team is actually playing quite well in its home park, despite the won-loss record.
"We have played well, we just haven't won the games," said Valentine. "I thought yesterday was a good game. We had a couple leads, came back, pitched well in the bullpen for lots of innings -- that's a pretty good game. [We] just didn't get the bloop or ground ball that eluded their infielders. And they cleared a ground ball that eluded ours."
In the American League, the Red Sox rank second in home batting average (.279) and on-base percentage (.344), while leading the league in slugging (.487). But their team ERA of 6.11 is worse than every team in the Majors at home, even the Rockies (5.35), who play their home games at the homer-friendly Coors Field.
Starters Felix Doubront (6.00 ERA), Clay Buchholz (7.32) and Jon Lester (11.25) have particularly struggled at Fenway this year, allowing a combined total of 11 home runs in 42 2/3 innings. But Valentine said he isn't concerned.
"You have to look at the little victories when you play well," he said. "What are you going to do, discount the little things that went well and say, 'Oh well, we lost, so all the good things don't count?'
"I think a lot of good things happened, and guys have to not lose sight of that. Just keep doing the good things."

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I was floating around Google Images just now when I noticed this call to action message at the bottom of the screen: "New! Want to improve Google Image Search? Try Google Image Labeler."
With interest I clicked the call to action and found the Google Image Labeler landing page with this description:
"Welcome to Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.
How does it work?
You'll be randomly paired with a partner who's online and using the feature. Over a two-minute period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner's label, you'll earn points depending on how specific your label is. You'll be shown more images until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you've seen and the websites where those images were found. And we'll show you the points you've earned throughout the session."
This got me excited for two reasons:
1. Google can call them "labels" but what they are actually asking their users to do is to help them to "tag" images. Tagging images will prime us for the Semantic Web (some people call this Web 3.0). The more we tag items (images, audio, text, video, etc_) the more we are helping to organize the Web based off of non-computer algorithms. Google understands the power of the Semantic Web (natural language) and their multi-billion dollar company is not going to go away when other companies who offer search platforms that are based more on semantics and human tagging come along (flickr is a great example of a tag generated search engine). It also means that the Web gets easier (and better) to use as more and more people get comfortable tagging and organizing pieces of content (David Weinberger must be so happy).
2. I also loved playing with the Google Image Labeler because this initiative further validates the growing buzz that soon Google will have full-blown Universal search results - meaning, when you conduct a search, you won't just see text results. You'll see everything in one (universal) place: text, images, audio, news, etc_
If you're in the Search Engine Optimization or the Search Engine Marketing business, you need to be paying even closer attention to how quickly Google is rolling out new initiatives like this, and how it will affect your clients who are looking to rank top of page on their text-based search results.


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The new balance of power on Mississauga council came into sharp focus Monday as members opted to spend $125,000 more on Peter McCallion's funding for the city's judicial inquiry — a clear rebuke of the former council's plan to cut him off.
In fact, council passed a motion in September instructing city lawyers to ask that Mr. McCallion return "all funds advanced" for his legal representation, totalling $150,000 at the time.
But that never happened, and on Monday, a new council considered friendlier to Mayor Hazel McCallion approved half of the additional $250,000 Mr. McCallion was requesting to support his legal team. Councillors expressed concern that to do otherwise may derail the inquiry into allegedly suspect business dealings, scheduled to resume Tuesday.
"I am just concerned that here we are in the ninth inning… and having spent $5-million already, I just don't want to topple the cookie cart now. So let's bring this ship home," Councillor Nando Iannicca summarized, in a jumble of mixed metaphor.The 6-5 decision to pay out half of what Mr. McCallion requested came after a lengthy debate in which numerous councillors
broached concerns about shelling out more money, particularly since the inquiry has heard Mr. McCallion's fiances may be in better shape than initial assessments indicated.
Mr. McCallion, who gained third-party legal funding by arguing he could not afford representation himself, may actually stand to inherit part of a $4-million settlement paid out to his company, World Class Developments, when a controversial land deal fell apart. The mayor is facing conflict-of-interest allegations for promoting her son's deal, which would have seen an upscale hotel rise in the city centre.
"People are pretty fed up, and they feel as though the city is a rube in making these constant payments to provide for counsel," Councillor Eve Adams said.
Inquiry commissioner Douglas Cunningham has said he will untangle Mr. McCallion's financial status in his final report, expected next year. But in a ruling this month urging council to consider further funding, Mr. Cunningham cited "some mystery, and indeed some real concern" about Mr. McCallion's stake in World Class.
His ruling — which prompted Monday's special meeting of council — also warned that if council decided not to pay the additional legal costs, Mr. McCallion could argue the process was unfair, and thus no findings should be made against him.
"To think that this inquiry is all for naught would be a real concern to me at this point," Councillor Pat Mullin said.
While a number of councillors suggested including a clause in the funding motion to ensure Mr. McCallion pay the city back if the inquiry ultimately reveals he is financially able, the final motion included no such caveat.
City solicitor Mary Ellen Bench pointed out the timing would be "tight" to get instructions on an arrangement of that nature, with the inquiry just about to resume.
"We're in between a rock and a hard place, and the hard place is [Tuesday]," Councillor Ron Starr noted.
Ms. Bench says there is a "bona fide need" for Mr. McCallion's legal team to continue attending the inquiry. He exceeded his $150,000 legal funding cap by the end of July and spent an additional $85,000 in the ensuing months. With only a few days left in the process, Ms. Bench said, Mr. McCallion will likely rack up another $40,000 in legal bills — meaning the $125,000 approved by council should see him through.
Also Monday, council voted unanimously to increase the cap on funds for the Mayor's legal representation to $600,000 from $400,000.
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See also my tasting notes on 50 bright stars from NZ just published.
New Zealand's generic wine body is understandably keen to present a clean bill of health re the climate effects of growing wine in NZ and shipping it around the world. New Zealand Winegrowers have accordingly just announced the launch of an initiative to give wineries and vineyards the ability to calculate their carbon footprint and to encourage sustainable winegrowing.
NZ Winegrowers are directing their members – or, I suppose, any wine producer – to their downloadable protocol and calculation tool at http://www.nzwine.com/swnz/publications.html. I've had a brief look at the protocol and it certainly couldn't be faulted for lack of detail. Quite how many of New Zealand's relatively small wine producers will be willing and able in the short term to spare the time and personnel to deal with this monster is unclear, but the idea is that they had better get used to it.
The system was apparently developed through a partnership between what NZ Winegrowers call "key international wine industry organisations in Australia, California, South Africa and New Zealand" so presumably this calculation will become increasingly de rigueur throughout the wine producing world. The protocol includes an internationally-agreed standard of inclusions by participating countries and gives wineries and vineyards the ability to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions.
New Zealand Winegrowers' CEO, Philip Gregan, said this is one of several initiatives by the New Zealand wine industry to understand and responsibly manage greenhouse gas emissions. "We're excited to launch this initiative in New Zealand. There are not yet any regulatory requirements around carbon emission levels but there is a strong demand in the market for an internationally credible system such as this.
"New Zealand Winegrowers has more than a decade's in-depth experience with sustainability. The industry aims to have all New Zealand grapes and wine produced under Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand or an alternative independent scheme by 2012. This is another step in arming members with the tools they need to help them meet sustainability standards.
"Managing greenhouse gas emissions will become an integral part within New Zealand Winegrowers' initiative, Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand. Reporting on emissions and minimisation will eventually become a requirement of the Sustainable Winegrowing New Zealand programme," said Philip Gregan.
Wineries and vineyards can use the Excel-based tool in order to identify the carbon footprint of their operations, based on their current data. The protocol document also lists data sources and standards used in developing the tool, and provides sufficient detail to enable the methodology to be independently peer reviewed by groups such as the World Resources Institute, which administers the International Greenhouse Gas Protocol. The protocol and calculator, version 1.1, which has been launched today, is the first step in the ongoing development of this initiative which will apparently continue to evolve "to meet the needs of the New Zealand wine industry."
See my tasting notes on 50 bright stars from NZ just published.


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Fed up with my destiny
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And this place of no re - turn
Gm F/G
Think I'll take an - other day
Emaj9 F
And slowly watch it burn
Gm F/G Ebmaj7 Dm7
It doesn't really matter how the time goes by
Cm7 Bb Cm7 Ebmaj7
'Cause I still remember you and I
F(add9) F Gm Dm7 Gm Dm7
And that beautiful goodbye
Gm F/G
We staggered through those empty streets
Ebmaj9 F
Laughing arm in arm
Gm F/G
The night had made a mess of me
Emaj9 F
Your con - fession kept me warm
Gm F/G Ebmaj7 Dm7
And I don't really miss you, I just need to know
Cm7 Bb/7 Cm7 Ebmaj7 F(add9)
Do you ever think of you and I
F(add9) F Gm
And that beautiful good - bye
F/Eb Eb
When I see you now
Gdim Bb F/A Gm7
I wonder how
F Eb Bb Cm7
I could've watched you walk a - way
Bb/D F/Eb Eb
If I let you down
Gdim Bb Ebmaj7 Eb6 D7sus
Please forgive me now
D7 Gm F/G Ebmaj9 F
For that beautiful good - bye
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In these days of no regrets
Ebmaj9 F
I'll keep mine to my - self
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And all the things we never said
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I can say for someone else
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'Cause nothing lasts for - ever, but we always try
Cm7 Bb/C Cm7 Ebmaj7
And I just can't help but won - der why
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We let it pass us by
F/Eb Eb
When I see you now
Gdim Bb F/A Gm7
I wonder how
F Eb Bb Cm7
I could've watched you walk a - way
Bb/D F/Eb Eb
If I let you down
Gdim Bb Ebmaj7 Eb6 D7sus
Please forgive me now
D7 Gsus2
For that beautiful good - bye
F/G Ebsus2/G Gm F/G Gm Ebmaj7 F/Eb Ebmaj7
Gm F/G Gm
Baby what can I do?
Ebmaj7 F/Eb Ebmaj7
Ought to get through to you
Gm F/G Gm
And sometimes I cry
Ebmaj7 F/G Ebmaj7
It's a fools lulla - by
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Sometimes I cry
Ebmaj7 F/Eb Ebmaj7
It's just a fools lullaby
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Oh, I
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I'm back from my Greek Odyssey. I have a suntan of sorts: we English folk don't really go brown, just a slightly darker shade of pale. Czechman and I like to joke about it: before I was Mozzarella white, now I'm more of a smažený sýr.
Anyway, although I did have a lovely holiday since I've returned to Czechland I've been in a grumpy mood. Yes, yes, I'm well aware that life can't be one long vacation but that doesn't stop me wishing I was back on an Ionian island.
What to do to recapture a little holiday magic? Head to Prague's biggest outdoor swimming pool, Podolí.
I first discovered its existence thanks to a Prague guidebook I picked up in London years before moving here. I remember it was published by coolhunter's bible Wallpaper* magazine.
The fact that it's taken me three years to make it there is perhaps an indication of just how hip I am.
There are three pools: two outdoor, one indoor. Once you've overcome the trauma of nude showering (there are menacing signs in capital letters ordering you to rinse yourself without your swimming costume on before taking a swim) there are other obstacles to overcome. Like avoiding the packs of teenagers who've clearly just come here to pose – sorry, hang out – rather than do any exercise. After all, who can manage to breaststroke while wearing a straw triby at a jaunty angle?
Having said that, the grandmas don't bother to take off their glasses. I suppose that's forgiveable as it's more about practicality than style. Beware though: despite being able to see where they're going, the grannies still move slower than a giant sea turtle who happens to be going very slowly because he left his specs at home.
It's not just the teenagers perched on the edge of the pool who couldn't give a monkey's about swimming. Almost every bit of the scorched grass is covered with sunbathers, some of them topless. I knew there was a reason Czechman liked coming here so much.
There are refreshments on sale. A thought occurs: perhaps if my local swimming baths had provided draught beer poolside my Dad could have been persuaded to take me there more often.
Or indeed ever.
If you feel that fizzy alcohol, physical exertion and sunshine don't mix then you can always buy an ice-cream instead. And the pools are not only an Olympic sized 50 metres (well, two of them are anyway) they're also pretty deep. As any lifeguard on duty is most likely mesmerised by all the boobs it's probably best to minimise your chances of drowning by staying off the beers and only swimming near the edge so you can easily take a rest if you start to flag.
After I get tired of dodging bespectacled grannies and frolicking adolescents, I retreat to the spectator's stand for a bird's eye view of the madness. From this distance it looks as though the swimmers are trying to spell out a message in a kind of synchronized semaphore but can't quite manage it. What a clever observation, I think to myself.
Perhaps I could use it along with a few more of my usual witty observations as the material for my next blog post?
P.S To get to Podoli you need to take a tram to Kublov, which is thankfully a mere five minute walk away from the swimming complex itself. The 3 and 17 both go there. The price you pay depends on the amount of time you plan to spend in the pool: if you exceed the time on your ticket you'll have to cough up extra to get out. There's some kind of all day ticket at this time of year if you go through the summer entrance but I didn't manage to find it. Next time, eh?


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if you are a mindless zombie who follows fads while neglecting quality, you might like this place. if you have even a whisker of taste, you won't waste your time. the food is terrible, the beer is overpriced, there is NOTHING german about it. the only thing they have going is the fact that it is new. it is located next to the projects so don't get jumped while you walk back to your car since there isn't adequate parking. actually, you might be better getting a colt .45 and hanging out on the corner. at least you won't wast too much money. i'd give them some credit for the decor, but it looked the same before the joint was purchased by the current owners. basically it will be one of those places where anyone local will stop going to within a month, and anyone still caught there will be made fun of. look at any of the reviews of this place, google, tripadvisor, etc. they all say the same thing.
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Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams, has just released the title and cover art for Jeff Kinney's much anticipated new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book—Dog Days. The fourth book, which will have a one-day laydown, arrives on Monday, October 12 with a massive three-million-copy first printing.
"I didn't want my fans to have to wait a year for a new book," said Kinney in a statement. "I'm very excited about Dog Days, because it takes Greg out of the school setting for the first time. It's been a lot of fun to write about the Heffley summer vacation."
In keeping with the new book's summertime setting, a custom "Wimpy Kid" ice cream truck will visit 40 U.S. libraries over the course of 30 days beginning August 3, promoting "The Dog Days of Summer Reading." Beginning in Sacramento, Calif., the truck will wind its way through California, Nevada, Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut before ending its tour in Boston, Mass. Additional tour details are available at the Wimpy Kid Web site.
An illustration of the Wimpy Kid ice cream truck.
There are currently more than 20 million Diary of a Wimpy Kid books in print, and the series remains on numerous bestseller lists. A Fox 2000 live-action film based on the series is scheduled for release next April. The Hollywood Reporterrecently reported that 11-year-old Zachary Gordon, who has appeared on TV's How I Met Your Mother, landed the lead role of Greg Heffley.


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LOS ANGELES, March 3 (UPI) -- "12 Years a Slave," the story of a free man sold into slavery and his fight to regain his freedom, took the top prize at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Winning three of its nine nominations, the film is the first best-picture win for a black producer -- Steve McQueen, who also directed -- and brought statuettes to supporting actress Lupita Nyong'o and John Ridley for adapted screenplay during the 86th annual awards ceremony Sunday, Variety reported.
"Gravity," the tale of an untethered astronaut's struggle to return to Earth, picked up seven awards, including two for Alfonso Cuaron for best director and editing with Mark Sanger.
Cate Blanchett, who portrayed a Manhattan socialite falling on hard times in Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine," and Matthew McConaughey, who portrayed homophobe-turned-AIDS-activist Ron Woodroof in "Dallas Buyers Club," took home the best acting trophies, Variety said. Both had won several best-acting awards during the awards season.
Jared Leto, McConaughey's co-star, picked up the supporting actor category for his portrayal of a transgender AIDS patient.
Spike Jonez picked up an Oscar for original screenplay for "Her."
The best animated film went to Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho for Disney's "Frozen," which also won best song, "Let it Go."
Among films that failed to win any awards were "American Hustle," "Nebraska," "Captain Phillips" and "The Wolf of Wall Street."
"The Great Beauty" from Italy won for foreign film.
Comedian and daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, host of the ceremony, posted a selfie with several actors -- including Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence -- that Variety reported broke Twitter records and temporarily took down Twitter as well.


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A new discount shop which has opened in Swaffham has been warmly welcomed by customers, says assistant manager Jo Clayton.
Thing-Me-Bobs opened on a site formerly occupied by Stead & Simpson and already has seen plenty of customers through the doors.
"It's going brilliantly," says Jo. "Customers are telling us they're so glad we've come here. They love the variety of stock we carry and the very low prices.
"Tesco opened the same day as us and have similar products, but at higher prices. A lot of folk in market towns like this don't want to have drive out to shop when they can walk up the high street for pretty much the same things."
Jo, manager Aaron Daniels and their staff of five are run off their feet at the moment. "Customers are asking us to stock specific items and we are working hard to meet their needs," she says.
Swaffham's Thing-Me-Bobs outlet is the first to open since the 11-shop strong chain was acquired by Norwich-based QD Stores Group in January last year. The 1,700 sq ft shop opened for business after a month-long refurbishment.
It sells thousands of lines which include groceries, clothing and pet and garden products at discounted prices and uses a 200,000 sq ft distribution facility at Snetterton.
Operations director David Haycox said: "Shoppers like our value for money, range, and locations. Consumer demand for a wide range of products at low cost in town centre streets remains strong in market towns and we welcome the opportunity to take on more units like Swaffham from landlords with currently unoccupied retail space."
Norwich-based QD operates 48 sites under its QD Stores, Cherry Lane Garden Centres, Thing-Me-Bobs and Lathams store brands as well as its online site www.qdstores.co.uk launched earlier this year.


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I've always harbored a distrust of novelty bands, bands that employ a cheesy gimmick of some kind to get themselves over the top. Stupid costumes, ridiculous "themes," bands who proffer "controversial sexuality" (gasp!)—it always seems like a cheap ploy to jockey for attention so shamelessly, but who knows? Maybe I'm just a cranky, joyless fuck, a boring old hippie. Don't get me wrong: I loved Alice Cooper when I was a kid (until he released Billion Dollar Babies). As a young'un, I kinda dug the Cramps for failing to take themselves seriously and being wholly unnerving at the same time. Southern Culture On the Skids remains one of my favorite groups even with their studied cracker-ism, which sometimes makes me chuckle merrily despite myself. Screamin' Jay Hawkins was a god, pure and simple; he sang about cannibalism and constipation at a time when someone as fundamentally innocuous as Elvis was still considered outrageous.
These are exceptions, though, artists whose undeniable talent and/or idiosyncratic vision ran against the grain of banality, transforming them into revolutionary icons. But many more of my all-time favorite rockers, musicians who made life worth living in unspeakably insipid times, were such as Creedence, the Allman Brothers, Southside Johnny, Randy Newman, Dave Alvin, Van Morrison, Dr. John, Otis Redding, pre-Blake/Froom Los Lobos, early Lyle Lovett and Tom Waits—no-frills talents all, often homely, unassuming and absolutely inspirational in creating music so influential, intelligent and timeless that it shall endure long after the comic-book shenanigans of their contemporaries are looked back upon as curious footnotes (you think Devo will loom as large in the history books as the Clash?).
Here is an exception that proves my rule: LOS STRAITJACKETS, who play the House of Blues on Sunday night. These guys are mean-assed guitar players to be sure, a branch on a family tree that includes Link Wray, Duane Eddy, Dick Dale and the Ventures. They capture and re-create tonal bitchenness unheard of since the days when Rat Fink, Robert Mitchum, slot-car tracks and Russ Meyer were all the rage—a brief but choice blip on the rock & roll time line, before the radio waves got too blow-dried and sugary with bad Beatles imitators.
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So what's with their wrestling masks? I dunno. Maybe it makes 'em happy. Maybe it draws attention from fans. Probably both. That's the American way, I guess. But I don't happen to think it adds a dollop of doody to their oeuvre. The group's latest, Sing Along With Los Straitjackets, is . . . yet another gimmick. They've gathered an all-star cast of vocalists, thereby undermining their essential method, which heretofore had been instrumental surf/garage rock bent with a more modern, fuck-you-Jack punk attitude. It's a hit-and-miss affair. The song selection is at times predictable—pre-British Invasion AM radio hits, some performed close to straight off the original vinyl, others pumped up with re-imagined dementia. When it works, it works just swell (Paul Revere & the Raiders' Mark Lindsay ripping into Roy Head's blue-eyed soul anthem "Treat Her Right," Big Sandy tackling Ernie K-Doe's "Mother In Law" in Spanish). When it falls, it breaks its nose and bleeds profusely (non-singer Exene Cervenka pitchlessly destroying Porter Wagoner's "I'll Go Down Swinging," bullfrog-voiced Dave Alvin ill-advisedly covering the Riviera's adenoidal "California Sun").
Is this a noble experiment or another obvious endeavor to be merely cute? I dunno. Probably both. But I like 'em better without the glittery names undermining what they do best—which is making guitars sound more dangerous then a ghurka knife swinging at your jugular. I'll go see 'em anyway because I doubt they'll have all those distracting singers in tow—and because I like being scared shitless by guitars.
Do I write about KID RAMOS too much? Probably. But here we have a local guy (Anaheim, to be exact) who puts out an a new album seemingly every few months, each one so damn fine it gives me quivering chills all about the epidermis. Nope, can't ignore him. Ramos' latest, Greasy Kid's Stuff, is a departure from his past two West Coast jump blues efforts in two ways: first, he doesn't share the recording with a host of other hotshot guitar players this time around, shining the spotlight instead directly on his own prodigious talent (Los Straitjackets, take note). Second, this is a dirty-assed, low-down record, raw as a road rash drunkenly incurred at midnight on a Memphis highway. There's still a duly impressive host of guest stars onboard—including James Harman, Johnny Dyer and Charlie Musselwhite—but all are vocalist/harpists, adding mightily to the spirit of being haunted by the huge, onion-and-pomade-stinking spirit of Howlin' Wolf. Great stuff, Kid. And, as always, really, really neat hair, too.
Los Straitjackets play at the House of Blues, 1530 S. Disneyland Dr., Anaheim, (714) 778-BLUE. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $15. 21+.


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Dr. Robert Mulgrew
Dr. Robert Mulgrew has practiced in Tucson for over 25 years. He opened the Oracle Road Affinity Eye Care office in 2009 and opened a second location at Camp Lowell and Swan in June 2013. Prior to Affinity Eye Care, Dr. Mulgrew was the independent leasehold doctor at Lenscrafters.
Dr. Mulgrew is originally from the Bronx, New York. He moved to New Jersey where he attended high school. He later moved to Indiana and graduated from Indiana University in 1980 with a degree in Biology. He moved to Tucson after graduation and worked as a research assistant for The University of Arizona and the Pima County Health Department.
Dr. Mulgrew completed his four years of Optometry School at the Southern California School of Optometry and he received his doctorate in 1985. He did his internships at the Los Angeles and Tucson Veterans Association Medical Centers and he was senior class president.
Dr. Mulgrew returned to Tucson in 1985 and became very interested in fitting all types of contact lenses, including bifocal contact lenses, specialty lenses for astigmatism and new innovative Daily lens designs. In 1996 he accepted a one year sabbatical clinical instructor position in the contact lens clinic at the University of Aukland School of Optometry in New Zealand. He has also been a lifetime member of the American Optometric Association and Southern Arizona Optometric Society, having served as both president and vice president.
Dr. Mulgrew has participated in many international Gift of Sight missions. He has helped thousands of people in such countries as Bolivia, Ecuador, China, Panama, and most recently Bulgaria. He is a member of the Flying Samaritans and has done several missions in Mexico. In addition, our office has provided hundreds of free exams for local school children and needy individuals.
Dr. Mulgrew has one son, who is a dentist in Austin, Texas. He enjoys tennis, golf, hiking, scuba and traveling.


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A few weeks ago I raised the question: Should I get my hopes up about Colorado course choice again? Today, it seems more appropriate to ask whether I should get my hopes up at all.
Yeah, you might think that sounds kind of depressing. But dare I say you haven't yet had the chance to drink deep the dose of melancholy that flows through Robert Pondiscio's new Flypaper post "America's Millennials: Overeducated and Underprepared." To his credit, he tries to soften the blow with some lighthearted old sports announcer allusion, but the damage cannot be escaped.
What's the big downer? Pondiscio points readers like you and me to a new Educational Testing Service (ETS) report America's Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future. The bottom line? While American Millennials are on track to reach the highest level of educational attainment EVER, they are less literate and numerate than both prior U.S. generations and to their international peers. There are also apparent implications about growing inequality in skills between the privileged and the less privileged.
Yikes! I feel Pondiscio's pain. Even though trailing behind the Millennials in vaguely defined Generation Z, my fellow kids and I will reap some of the consequences. So yes, I do care. Continue Reading »


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Some problems experienced in repeatedly Twitter these days, ranging from the timeline, the demise and disappearance of new home page Trending Topic, known to appear after Twitter trying to do an update on the home page.
One of the improvements that include adding a new feature that allows tweeps to follow account of common interest or interests.
This feature, said spokesperson Carolyn Penner Twitter will help tweeps find relevant accounts in accordance with a particular search.
"You can look for general topics, such as sports or a more specific, like Manchester United, Nascar or Formula One," he wrote in a blog Twitter.
Other information reported by Reuters and quoted on Wednesday (06/04/2011), some disturbance on Twitter today reportedly caused by a problem in the data center Twitter.
Reliable sources quoted by Reuters said the data center located in Utah, United States (U.S.) was no longer able to handle spikes in site traffic is 140 characters.
Last month, Twitter was never announced plans to move corporate data center to Sacramento, California, USA. However, Twitter itself has not confirmed the direct and palpable cause of the disorder.


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Video footage of KISS' October 31, 2009 performance at the 11th annual Voodoo Experience music festival in New Orleans can be viewed below.More than 150 acts played on eight stages in three separate areas — named Le Ritual, Le Flambeau and Le Carnival — around the city. Other major acts on the Voodoo Experience bill included JANE'S ADDICTION, WOLFMOTHER, EAGLES OF DEATH METAL, MEAT PUPPETS and DOWN. Fuse will provide on-air and online coverage of the Voodoo Experience and will broadcast a one-hour special on November 6. Paul Stanley says that he feels no shame in KISS being lumped in with other vintage, or classic rock acts — in fact, the band is thrilled with the fact that they're now spanning there different generations with their music and bombastic live shows. Stanley, who's out on the road with KISS in support of their first album in a decade, called "Sonic Boom", told Metal Hammer magazine, "I'm proud to be in the category of classic rock bands — what's better than the word 'classic?' Are you kidding? If you want to call LED ZEPPELIN a classic rock band and then you want to call us a classic rock band, I'm not fighting. If I'm going to be lumped in with anybody, let me be lumped in with my heroes. That doesn't preclude you from being current. It means that you have a solid history and a foundation, which most bands will never achieve because they won't survive that long." Stanley is amazed at how quickly the time has flown since the band started. "It really has gone by in the blink of an eye," he said. "It's staggering to have 35 years behind the band. And all the excitement, and the challenges, the victories, the soap operas — everything. And yet it seems, y'know, like the blink of an eye."
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Bush Is From Mars, Sharon Is From Venus
The discussions at the Bush farm highlighted the gap between Israel, where there is still a debate over the withdrawal from Gaza, and the rest of the world, which is already anticipating the next withdrawal.
WASHINGTON - It is difficult to describe a pair more different from one another than George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon. The physical differences are obvious. One is from a tiny village in mandate-era Palestine, the other the son of patrician Americans. One is an eternal opposition figure who barely made it to the top, and the other is a president son of a president. One is a warrior and general and the other a rear guard pilot whose national service is a matter of controversy. At least their farms are about the same size.
The invitation to Sharon to visit Bush's estate was meant to appear to be the peak of their closeness and intimacy, the grand prize won by the prime minister for his readiness to evacuate settlements: a trip beside the president in the pickup truck, the visit to the flower beds so carefully tended by Laura Bush, crossing the creek on the way to lunch; and most important, the world seeing Sharon as a partner in the shaping of Bush's new, democratic and peace-seeking Middle East. But despite the good intentions, the results only emphasized and highlighted the basic difference between the two leaders. Bush is from Mars and Sharon is from Venus.
Their worldviews are different. Bush is interested in building the ruling institutions of the Palestinian Authority, so it can serve as the functioning core of an independent state. He regards the Palestinians as peace-loving people who want to live normally beside Israel. Sharon explains to him that the main problem is Arab refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own in "the cradle of their birth." Bush speaks about the road map and Sharon responds it hasn't even begun, that we are in a pre-map stage.
Bush wants to know what will happen on the day after the disengagement and Sharon answers: nothing. First the Palestinians will dismantle the terror infrastructure, and only then we will go into a political process. Bush insists the settlements are not to be expanded, and Sharon seeks territorial contiguity between Ma'aleh Adumim and Jerusalem. It's good that Condoleezza Rice persuaded the prime minister not to waste the president's time with complaints against the mortar fire in Gaza.
Sharon warned about a real problem. The American efforts for the sake of quick democratization in the Middle East could perpetuate Arab hostility toward Israel even if the regimes are changed from within. The problem is that his arguments sound like excuses to delay the political process. The discussions at the Bush farm highlighted the gap between Israel, where there is still a debate over the withdrawal from Gaza, and the rest of the world, which is already anticipating the next withdrawal. The talk about terrorist infrastructures on the Palestinian side is barely heard, if at all. Bush hopes a coordinated and successful withdrawal will bring about a change in the stubborn Sharon.
That gap is worrisome. Either Sharon does not plan to reach "the day after," or he expects the world to wait on the sidelines "until the Palestinians become Finns," without any demands of Israel to progress. That trick worked in the days of Yasser Arafat. It is difficult to repeat with Mahmoud Abbas, an American favorite. They regard him as the last Palestinian with whom they can work, and therefore it is important he succeed. Sharon found it difficult to say what he could do to help strengthen the Palestinian chairman.
It raises the question of why Sharon even bothered to make the trip all the way to Crawford. What did he expect to achieve there? He did not resolve the dispute with the administration over the construction in the settlement blocs, he only sharpened it. He did strengthen the Bush promise from last year, about the blocs being annexed to Israel in the future. His demand that the road map be postponed until terror is uprooted was not accepted. Nonetheless, maybe it was good he went to Texas, just to hear from the horse's mouth where Bush wants to go, and thus learn how deep the differences run between them. Bush is from Mars, Sharon is from Venus.
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Q. We run a small printing company and have an employee whom we want to move from the day shift to the swing shift. Although this employee has the most seniority, he has the least experience with the presses we run during the day. When we told the employee of our plans, he said that moving him would be illegal. Is he correct? We are worried that if we move him and he quits, it won't be the last time we hear from him.
A. Assuming that he is not subject to a collective bargaining agreement or other contract, there is no prohibition on transferring the employee to another shift. In Pennsylvania, he is employed at-will, and the company has the right to change his terms of employment.
However, you want to be sure you are treating him consistently with how you have treated other employees.
For example, are there other employees who have been inexperienced in their job duties? If so, what steps have you taken for them? Do you generally use seniority as the basis for employment decisions? If so, why is this situation different?


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Motor Skills Disorder: Next Steps
The amount of frustration engendered in trying to achieve competency with motor activities should be balanced against the potential gain in proficiency.
Motor Skills Disorder Follow-up
Local educational authorities may require reevaluations every six months; reevaluations in older children may be less often (yearly or every other year).
Prevention of Motor Skills Disorder
It is essential to recognize motor problems early. Early intervention services for preschoolers should be aggressively implemented to prevent comorbid disorders as well as to achieve possible resolution of symptoms in some individuals.
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Hi i got to the Formatting the HDD part in Gen3sf's guide and when i get to the disk drive manager and my ipod is formated to FAT32 it doesnt give me the option to delete any partions or volumes like it says in the guide. can you help please?:eek:
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Hi i got to the Formatting the HDD part in Gen3sf's guide and when i get to the disk drive manager and my ipod is formated to FAT32 it doesnt give me the option to delete any partions or volumes like it says in the guide. can you help please?:eek:
Lol I tried this after reading your post. I couldn't delete partitions from my ipod (shuffle 2gb : D ) either, but I think that there's no need to. I formatted it to wbfs using WBFS manager and i could even transfer games to it. But none of my usb loaders or neogamma did work, they freeze when they try to mount the usb device.
Well, I formatted my ipod to fat32 and copied a .wbfs game there. Configurable usb loader succeeded to mount my ipod but it froze after mounting saying "OK!". Usb loader GX just froze after few seconds, I guess it made it to the same point but it just doesn't print anything to the screen until it freezes.
You actually don't need to delete any partitions, just format it to wbfs or fat32. (Not sure if the drive MUST be primary and active?) My wbfs manager (pc application) said that the drive was ready to use, and it used my ipod with no problems at all. But I think that you will face the same problem (of course you have different ipod (not sure but did you mention in your older post that it was 60gb? it has a hdd inside it then.. it just might work : D)).. and I can't imagine a way to fix it..
Hope you have better luck than me!
If you guy's want you can try this, maybe it will help... this is windows 7 or vista, I haven't done it on XP.
After formatting in FAT32 Goto a Dos Prompt, type diskpart Enter
list disk [enter] -> note your usb disk number
select disk # [enter]
list partition [enter] -> note your partition number
select partition # [enter]
active [enter]
Thank you so much amps! I have a usb drive (quite special) that no software has been able to use, and no program has succeeded to partition it. Now you leaded me to the answer command prompt did it : D (It's a part of project project of mine, unfortunately not wii-related : D)
didn't try it with my ipod although, since I don't need to use it. That was just a experiment.
But really thank you very much!
ok that worked AMAZINGLY! my ipod partion is now active!! thank you!


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GSTF Tour Returns ... In Milwaukee!
Well, in all the hullabaloo of the last week, we'd almost forgotten: We have a reading in Milwaukee this week! It had slipped past us, what with all the dumbing-down of America.
Well, in all the hullabaloo of the last week, we'd almost forgotten: We have a reading in Milwaukee this week! It had slipped past us, what with all the dumbing-down of America.
Remember how we said that even though the first leg of the book tour was over, we'd be adding occasional dates throughout the summer? Well, we're announcing the first one: We're heading to Milwaukee! Thursday, May 8!
We've had a few people ask about the second leg of the book tour. It's basically going to take place this summer, and it will involve baseball games. So, look out, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Houston, so on: Any time we can get to a game, it will have a reading bundled with it. But tonight, we wrap it…
All right, we're gonna head over to that reading thing now; to remind, it's right here. Because it's only 15 minutes or so from now, we're even gonna let ya know where the after-shindig is.
After the madness of the last month of our life, the first leg of the God Save The Fan tour ends over the next two nights in beautiful New York City, home of the bastard liberal media and hot dogs made of pig snout. It's Manhattan tonight, and Brooklyn tomorrow, and then we're gonna take a freaking vacation.
Over the last month, we've been home for about 36 hours. We've hit Tempe, Los Angeles, Alameda, Seattle, Oak Brook, Champaign, St. Peters, Mattoon, Boston and Philadelphia. Tonight, in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., we make our last stop before returning to New York for two readings next week. As tired as we…
Once again, we remind you of the next reading a mere half hour or so before it starts: We're hitting Daulerio country tonight, good ole Philadelphia. Philadelphia was the first East Coast city this Midwesterner had ever visited, and we've loved it since we were a kid. (We still get goose bumps when we see the Rocky…
We gleefully come to you live from Boston, Massachusetts, where, in about 45 minutes, we'll be making an appearance at that New England staple ... Barnes and Noble!
You know, can you think of a better way to spend your Valentine's Day than at a Barnes and Noble in suburban St. Louis, listening to some guy talk about his sports book? No, right? Well, you're in luck.
You. Yeah, you. You're sitting in class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, drawing doodles of Ron Zook on the water skis, and you're bored. You obviously aren't like us, because, you know, you're actually in class. You can change that, though. In about an hour and a half, we're going to be at your book…
After a weekend of dead cold out sleeping, we are back on the ole book tour business and ready to rock tonight. We are back in the Midwest, where we are most comfortable. And by "comfortable," we mean "freaking freezing."
The God Save The Fan tour hits Seattle tonight, and it's our type of event, because it's at a bar. Both the reading, and the "afterparty." Both involving booze. Sounds good.
By the time you actually read this — this is one of those "future" "posted" items — we will be on the road, screaming up the Golden State Freeway (we can't take the scenic route: No time!) to Alameda, for the next stop of the book tour business.
All right, time for stop two of this whole book tour business: Los Angelenos, get thee to Book Soup. And the night is not over then: After that is when the real fun starts.
With all the rigmarole about the Super Bowl and what-not, we almost forgot that we were supposed to be on a book tour. The whole big shebang kicks off tonight at the Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe. We will not be wearing our Jenna Bush mask. (By the way, the book she's reading there is not "My Pet Goat," so you…


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text: Just wanted to introduce myself! I'm Dustin, long time lurker, first time poster. I live near Orlando and living near in the city I generally stayed in apartments. About a year ago I moved into a house out in the country. The first thing I did was buy a cheap offset smoker (Char-Grill) from Home Depot. I've used it so much this past year that it's finally starting to fall apart! I eventually want to get a Lange 36" Offset Hybrid model but they are pretty pricey and I figured I'll use the cheap offset until it gives out, I just purchased a home a couple of months ago (still in the country) and one of the biggest things I was looking for was a yard big enough to host family and friends so we could have 'smoke sessions' as I call them This forum has helped me sharpen my skills with tips on TBS, temp regulation, chips vs. chunk, etc. so I just wanted to say thank you to everyone on here! Since I started smoking, I have done all kinds of different types of meals. One of my favorite is smoked mangrove snapper. I like to use pecan or alder wood chips as they give off more of a sweet flavor and compliment the fish nicely. I also love smoking steaks, and my go-to wood for steaks and red meat in general is apple wood. Sometimes I'll use cherry because my wife likes the flavor a little more but all-in-all, applewood is my favorite for red meat. I also prefer to use chunked wood instead of chips as they don't flare up and burn down as quick or easy. Another one I'm fond of are ribs. I like to slow smoke them for about 8 hours at 150-200 degrees F. with a special rub my wife makes. I use apple wood for this of course as well and I like to spray the outside of them with apple juice so that it glazes over the ribs and keeps them moist. I must admit though, when I cook ribs, it makes me wish I had a better offset. I rotate the ribs every hour so they ones closest to the firebox don't burn. (Can't wait to get something that has better temp flow!) This weekend I'm looking to try my first prime rib. I'm not really sure how I want to do it. How do you guys generally smoke your prime rib? Anyways thanks in advance for the feedback, look forward to posting some of my 'smoke sessions' soon!


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Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Books for Young Readers
Series: The Grisha #1
Website: http://www.leighbardugo.com/books/
Source: Library
Alina is a simple mapmaker for the King's Army; she's not much to look at and hasn't any real skill, which is a shame for her, since she's in love with her talented, popular best friend. Mal shines, but he's been by her side, ever since they were in the orphanage they called their childhood home. But then she's torn from him and thrust into the world of the Grisha, the magicians who are the elite of the land. They are lorded over by the Darkling, a powerful man who thinks Alina has the ability to change the world.
It's no secret that fantasy is my favorite genre. Knowing that, it's no wonder I was so excited for Shadow and Bone. An epic fantasy with roots in Russian folklore that everyone seemed to love? Yes, please! But alas, Shadow and Bone didn't live up to the hype.
The story starts off slowly, or maybe it was just that I had trouble getting into it. The plot is pretty standard (Regular girl finds out she has miraculous, world-changing power. I don't mind this plot, not at all, but for some reason it bugged me in S and B), but it wasn't even that. Maybe it was that Alina likes to harp on how beautiful everyone is but her. (Although I did appreciate that she isn't the stereotypical hot-but-thinks-she-isn't-YA-heroine.) I'm genuinely uncertain as to what kept me from being fully absorbed by this story for the first 200 pages, and I apologize that I can't give a proper reason. It's important to add that I didn't dislike the book, I just was fully aware that it was missing that *wow* factor.
The idea of the Shadow Fold is incredibly unique and the legend of the Black Heretic is interesting. Despite my disconnect in the beginning of the story, I still enjoyed these parts. Once Alina goes to the castle, I loved learning about the different kinds of Grisha and Grisha theory. Best of all is the Darkling. For that part of the book, his and Alina's relationship reminded me of Fire and Brigan from Fire. Unfortunately, there's a kinda-love-triangle. I'm not sure if it counts if the other guy isn't there for most of the book and the main character stops thinking of him while she's with her current love interest, but it rubbed me the wrong way. While I liked the romance with the Darkling, the fact that she had just had feelings for Mal detracted from it, and made me question whether the relationship was necessary at all.
However, I will say that there were some twists that I did not see coming in any way, shape or form in this book. All of the sudden, Shadow and Bone became a lot more intense and I understood what everyone else saw in it. Alina became stronger, and perhaps a bit darker. She was fine throughout the rest of the book, but she really starts to grow into her own towards the end. There were a few other characters I liked, especially Baghra (I tend to like the crotchety old characters), and the Apparat. He is easily the creepiest character in the book and has so much potential! I want to read Siege and Storm just to see where his character goes!
Will I continue on with this series? In all likelihood, yes. Will Siege and Storm be my number one must-read of 2013? Not at all. Still, I liked Shadow and Bone well enough that I'm interested to see where it will go.
*3 stars*
You'll Like This If You Liked: The Selection by Kiera Cass, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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Ed Mitchell said his wife often has asked him to walk in front of her so she can have an idea of where she needs to go.
Eleven years ago at age 51, Frankie Mitchell was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Although she still volunteers in the Monkey Village at the Phoenix Zoo, she sometimes wanders off while waiting for her husband to pick her up.
Mitchell worries that she'll get lost and he won't be able to find her.
"She lives in a land without memory," the Tempe man said. "Sometimes, she can hardly find a room in our house. It just takes minutes before she looks for where she's going."
Such a concern is common for families in states such as Arizona that are heavily populated by retirees. So on Friday, the Tempe Police Department launched the state's first Silent Partner program with other organizations to help locate missing adults or children with conditions such as autism in a matter of minutes through a cellular-based program.
The program was made possible by a $12,000 grant from the Tempe Community Foundation that will allow for about 40 lightweight bracelets, the EmSeeQ device, about the size of a wristwatch with capabilities similar to a GPS tracking device. The bracelet can only be removed with a key.
Other organizations participating in the program are CARE 7 of Tempe, East Valley Adult Resources and EMFinders, the service provider that helps pinpoint a location for missing or wandering adults.
EmFinders works directly with 911 dispatchers to quickly reduce the search time for a missing adult. If the person is discovered missing, the caregiver calls 911 or EmFinders to relay an encrypted message to the EmSeeQ device which has its own phone number. The device places a call to 911 to notify the police and then contacts EmFinders to activate the device and provide a location within meters to dispatchers who can then direct responders to the location.
EmSeeQ also can work inside buildings and in other areas where satellite signals required for GPS may be obstructed.
The message sent to the device also has updated location capabilities if the missing person is on the move.
"The impact is immediate," said Dan Taylor, executive director of East Valley Adult Resource Center. "It gives peace of mind."
From Sept. 1, 2010 to Sept. 30, 2011, there were 13 adults reported missing in Tempe, all of which were safely found, according to assistant police chief Angel Carbajal.
However, in Mesa, 85-year-old Hugh Turner, who suffers from dementia, went missing from his east Mesa home in the 600 block of East Sugarloaf Street last Dec. 24 - and still has not been found. The neighborhood is off of Power Road, and early on, there were reported sightings of Turner, including one inside a nearby Circle K convenience store and another on a Valley Metro bus. But both were unsubstantiated because the video surveillance in the Circle K was not working at the time, and Valley Metro erased the video on its buses after three days.
Mesa police said they have not received tips of any sightings involving Turner in recent months.
"We haven't any clues at all," Turner's wife of 61 years, Joyce Turner, said. "We're at a loss as to what happened to my husband. It seems like the search has been abandoned. The fact that Hugh had a cell phone, he would've known to call for help. We just don't understand how someone could walk to the end of the street and disappear. Someone must have seen him or picked him up. We just don't know."
Turner's daughter, who came from Canada to Mesa soon after her father disappeared, fears he could have had a stroke and become disoriented.
Joyce Turner said she thinks the EmFinder device and Tempe's Silent Partner program is a good idea, but has her reservations about its reliability.
"What good would it do if someone just suddenly collapses, and they're just laying there? It's only good if it works," she said.
The bracelets are battery-operated and can last for about five days from a charge, according to Jim Nally, president of California-based EmFinders, who was present at Tempe's launch of the program. But Nally recommended that the bracelet be charged every three days.
Carbajal said during Friday's announcement of the program that in one case of a missing adult, there were 20 patrol units participating in a search, and by participating in the program, it is expected to alleviate resources.
"We treat missing adult cases as a high priority," Carbajal said. "There are few calls that are as gut wrenching from the frantic wife of someone who is missing. The elderly are the most vulnerable adults in the community."
The Silent Partner program will not replace police responding to reports of missing adults, but will be another tool in the department's tool box to help locate missing or wandering adults faster.
The bracelets cost $199 with a $25 per month service fee through EmFinders. For those who qualify to receive them through the program, the activation fee is free.
Nally said for those with loved ones who may wander, "The big thing is that this will save their life. When they wander away, they often can't ask for help."
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Patenting Life Material
August 15, 2011
While the headlines focused on the debt crisis, credit ratings, and the stock market, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - the highest patent court in the land - handed down a monumental decision that produced a huge sigh of relief from the biotechnology industry in this country. In fact, this decision likely impacts each one of us individually. Jay Kesan explains in this week's Legal Issues in the News.


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Jack Leonard by Joey Cobbs
Our dude Jack Leonard was down in Cali for a bit to escape the on-again, off-again winter we've been experiencing here in Canada and snapped this dope truckdriver photo with the help of Joey Cobbs behind the lens. Jack's hitting the road with us tomorrow for our 'Genesee-ing is Gene-believing' trip down to Rochester, NY so watch out for a bunch more from him real soon. Check out Jack's Borato V3 chillin' in the Cali sun below.


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It's been three years.
Celestia Eden Rush, 22, bookstore owner
Hale Oliver Castle, 26, pro soccer player
We marry when I turn 21, & a year later, I'm
pregnant with twins. Hale still travels, & is barely
home, but my best friend helps with the twins,
& once their a little older, we'll travel a bit with
Hale's team. We have twin girls:
Cordelia Muse Castle, NB "Cora"
Laguna Fleur Castle, NB "Luna"
When the twins are 6 months, my best friends
come to stay for a week with us, leaving their
kids at home with family. They, unfortunately, pass
away on a plane crash on the way home. They left
us their 3 children, 2 boys & a girl. 2 are my
Auden Max Lincoln, 8
Viktor Oz Lincoln, 4
Kaia Rue Lincoln, 1
And a cat named Minerva, begged for by Auden..
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Don't Scream
Excerpt #1
September, ten years earlier
"…and I do solemnly swear that I will never ever tell another living soul what happened here tonight."
"And I do solemnly swear that I will never ever tell another living soul what happened here tonight," the female voices echo dutifully, none without a quaver.
Brynn's is the most tremulous of all, barely audible even to her own ears. She prays Tildy won't notice and single her out to repeat the pledge solo. If that happens…
What will I do?
What can I do?
She'll just have to go along with it, the way she's gone along with all of this, right from the start. Against her better judgment, against her conscience, and ultimately…
Against the law?
Tildy says no. Adamantly. She insists that they haven't broken any laws.
"It's not like we've murdered someone," she hissed when Brynn balked at the proposed plan. "Anyone in our situation would do the exact same thing."
Brynn highly doubts that, but she can't bring herself to say it.
There was a time when Brynn Costello—apple of her daddy's eye, valedictorian of her high school class, dean's list candidate for her four semesters at Stonebridge College, Zeta Delta Kappa pledge—would have stood up to all of them. Even Matilda Harrington.
So why didn't you?
Why are you standing here in the woods in the middle of the night being sworn to secrecy?
This really can't be happening. If anyone ever found out…
But nobody will find out.
They're not going to tell.
Anyway, Tildy was right when she pointed out that what happened isn't their fault.
I just want to get out of here, go back to the sorority house, and forget this ever happened.
Or, better yet, just go home.
Swept by a wave of nostalgia, Brynn swallows hard over a lump in her throat. She longs for worn oak floors, oval braided rugs, chintz slipcovers. The savory aroma of fresh-brewed coffee, and onions frying in olive oil. The radio in the background, sock-hop standards and sixties' anthems of the local oldies station. Clutter, and laundry, and people coming and going…
But the seaside blue-colllar household on Cape Cod is two hundred miles and a world away from the campus nestled in the Berkshires, the mountains of western Massachusetts.
And there's no going back—not the way Brynn yearns to do.
Before her thoughts can meander down the fateful path that ultimately led to Stonebridge College, she's dragged back to the present.
Tildy, apparently deciding their oath needs something more to make it official, solemnly declares, "So help me God."
"So help me God," the others obediently intone.
Not Brynn. She just moves her lips, refusing to invoke God. Not under these circumstances.
"Now we'll sing the sorority song," Tildy commands, lifting her hand to push her blonde hair back from her face. Her sorority bracelet, a silver rope of clasped rosebuds, glints in the moonlight. They're all wearing them—including Rachel—and each is personalized with dangling silver initial charms.
Brynn manages to join the others in singing. The ingrained lyrics she secretly always considered embarrassingly hokey now seem bittersweet as she forces them past the lump in her throat.
We'll always remember
That fateful September
We'll never forget
The new sisters we met
We'll face tomorrow together
In all kinds of weather
ZDK girls, now side by side
May travel far and wide
But wherever we roam
Sweet ZDK will be our home.
The sisters' voices give way to the hushed nocturnal woodland descant: chirping crickets, a rushing creek, and the September breeze that gently rushes the maple boughs high above the clearing.
Then another sound reaches Brynn's ears…
The faint, yet resonant crack of a branch splintering underfoot.
She clutches her friend Fiona's arm, asking in a high-pitched whisper, "Did anyone hear that?"
"Hear what?" Tildy's tone is sharp.
"Shhh!" Standing absolutely still, afraid to breathe, Brynn listens intently.
They all do.
There is nothing.
Nothing but the crickets, the creek, a gust stirring the leaves overhead. Just like before.
After a long, tense moment, Cassie says, "I don't hear anything, Brynn."
Brynn doesn't either. Not now.
But someone is there.
She can feel it.
Someone is lurking in the shadows among the trees, listening.
Perhaps even watching…
And recognizing.
Excerpt #2
Just minutes ago, Brynn was lamenting the fact that Thursday is Garth's late night on campus; he has a class until nine o'clock and often stays on campus for hours afterward, doing research in the library and his office there.
A sociology professor whose concentration is the study of death and dying, he's been working for a few years on a book. The den at home was littered with macabre research materials until recently. Brynn asked him to move it all to his campus office after she caught Caleb browsing through a gruesome book on the forensics of death.
The downside of having Garth move most of his research away from home is that it takes him away, too.
Too bad, Brynn was thinking just now, that her husband couldn't be here to hear Caleb's happy kindergarten chatter. As he plowed through his favorite meal of macaroni and cheese with ketchup, her older son regaled her with breathless details about snack time, potty time, lunchtime, nap time, construction-paper art time…
Waiting to share a more adult meal with her husband later, Brynn sat with her children at the table in her pretty blue and yellow kitchen. She was multitasking as usual: listening to Caleb's ongoing account of his first day, overseeing Jeremy in his booster seat, and opening the day's mail.
She actually gasped aloud when she read it, dropping the card on the table like a red-hot coal. Then she snatched it up again…as if it mattered. Even if the boys could read cursive, they wouldn't understand the seemingly innocuous message.
Nor would Garth, if he stumbles across the card—which he won't, because she plans to hide it, just as she's hidden the dark truth about Rachel all these years.
"Mommy, what's wrong?" Caleb asks as she reaches for the phone.
She stammers some kind of reply, her thoughts reeling.
Her hands shaking so badly she can barely hit the right buttons on the dial, she can only think thank God, thank God, thank God Garth isn't here.
Her husband doesn't know what happened that night.
Nobody knows.
Nobody but her three sorority sisters who were there.
Or so Brynn always tried to convince herself, despite the nagging memory of that twig snapping in the forest.
Was somebody really spying on them?
Did—does—somebody know?
Excerpt #3
The Zeta Delta Kappa house is brightly lit on this September night. Several windows are cracked open and music spills through the screens to mingle with the spirited chatter from the group of girls hanging out on the front steps.
They're talking about courses they're taking and guys they're dating and the upcoming rush. Every trite word they've said for the past hour and a half has been clearly audible from this shadowy bench in the deserted park across the street.
The Zeta sisters have no idea that someone is eavesdropping tonight.
Really, all that has changed in ten years are the names, the faces and the voices.
Flash back ten years and a day, and Rachel could easily have been among the girls on the steps, gossiping, laughing.
Flash back just ten years, though—ten years ago this night and…
No more Rachel.
Across the street, the screen door creaks open.
"Come on, girls, let's call it a night."
That's the housemother's voice. Sara "Puffy" Trovato, still sounding exactly the same after all this time.
Still bantering, the girls gradually disperse into the house. Finally, the door closes behind the last pair. The porch lamps are turned off.
All is still.
It's easy to picture the girls retreating to their rooms now to finish course assignments, read magazines, watch TV, or check e-mail. Eventually, one by one, they'll change into their pajamas, turn out the lights, climb into bed.
Chances are, they've all heard of Rachel Lorent. They might be aware that this is the tenth anniversary of her disappearance.
Maybe, as they lie in the dark, the current Zeta sisters are even secretly worried that something will happen to one of them.
Maybe they should be.
Excerpted from DON'T SCREAM © Copyright 2012 by Wendy Corsi Staub. Reprinted with permission by Zebra. All rights reserved.
Don't Scream
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Lawrence Block
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Lawrence Block was an award-winning crime novelist who was best known for his series that featured the characters Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr. He was born on June 24, 1938 in Buffalo, New York. In his youth, Block was a prolific writer. He attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, but his restlessness prompted him to leave for New York before earning his degree. His decades-long career as a writer started from the very bottom, writing softcore pornography stories under the pseudonym Andrew Shaw as an intern in the 1950s. During his apprenticeship, he met fellow mystery author Donald E. Westlake, the creator of the Parker and John Dortmunder novels, and the two collaborated in several erotic novels under the aliases Sheldon Lord and Alan Marshall; the pair became lifelong friends. In 1958, he published his first short story under his own name titled "You Can't Lose," which appeared in the pulp crime fiction magazine Manhunt. Three years later, he published Mona (1961), the first novel to appear under his own name. As Block began to hit his stride as an author, he went on to create two of his popular characters, Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr. An alcoholic ex-cop turned private investigator, Matthew Scudder was the central figure of over a dozen of Block's novel, first appearing in the 1976 novel, The Sins of the Fathers. While Scudder was the typical hard-boiled protagonist that was often found in mystery novels, Bernie Rhodenbarr was his lighthearted comic counterpart. An expert thief with a day job as an antiquarian bookseller, Bernie made his debut in Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977), which showed readers Block's versatility as an adept author of both noir and comic mystery.


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Let the battle of the boy bands continue with a new band into the mix, Big Time Rush (BTR).
Just a few weeks after the massive Twitter feud between One Direction and The Wanted, boy band BTR is getting in on some boy band action.
However their "beef" is minimal and really, isn't beef. They're actually complimenting The Wanted.
Recently, BTR released a music video for "Like Nobody's Around," and in the video they pay homage to boy bands of the past like *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys and more.
On the heels of BTR's release, The Wanted released their new music video for their single, "Walks Like Rihanna" and paid homage to the same boy bands as BTR.
BTR said recently that The Wanted did almost the exact same thing in their video, but that they're just paying homage to bands of the past.
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Could somebody find a way to resize the Morrighan Battle Mode and Witch Scathach portrait pictures from the Mabinogi Wiki? They're too big to put into the articles.
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Escaped double murderer is caught but dies in hospital
A KILLER who murdered a British honeymoon couple has been shot and captured by police after escaping from prison.
Avie Howell scaled a 30ft prison wall on the Caribbean island of Antigua on Thursday but officers cornered him.
He was taken to hospital but died last night.
Howell and Kaniel Martin killed newlyweds Dr Catherine Mullany and her husband Ben, both, 31, in their luxury chalet on the island a fortnight after their wedding in 2008.
"They used a sharp implement to cut out a portion of fencing mesh to get out of a compound"Jamal Wright, local policeman
Howell and Martin were sentenced to life in prison for the murders, along with the shooting of local shopkeeper Woneta Anderson, 43.
Last year Howell, 24, had an extra four years added to his sentence for a burglary carried out weeks before he murdered Ben and Catherine from Rhos, near Pontardawe, West Glamorgan.
Local policeman Jamal Wright said of the jail escape: "They used a sharp implement to cut out a portion of fencing mesh to get out of a compound.
"They then jumped over the northern prison wall, which is about 30ft high."


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Evaluating the Role of Firm-Specific Capital in New Keynesian Models
Paper number: 12/04
Year: 2012
Paper Category: Discussion Paper
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In this paper I make use of Bayesian methods to estimate a rm-speci c capital DSGE model with Calvo price and wage setting. This approach allows me to rmly conclude that rm-speci c capital is highly relevant in improving the t of New Key- nesian models to the data as shown by a large increase in the value of the log marginal data density relative to the more conventional rental capital model. The introduction of rm-speci c capital also has important implications for business cycle dynamics lead- ing to increased persistence of aggregate variables and helps reduce the discrepancy between macro estimates of the NKPC and the observed frequent price adjustments in the micro data.
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Think of Cathedral Ledge as the Doubleday Field of rock climbing. In 1931, before anyone had set hand or foot on El Capitan's crags, climbing pioneer Robert Underhill made a daring first ascent of New Hampshire's 500-foot granite wall, helping put his fledgling sport on the map. More than 80 years later, the face remains unchanged, and North Conway still reigns as New England's top climbing town. "The granite's as hard as any in the world, full of big roofs with long cracks and absolutely no loose rock," says guide and pro climber Mark Synnott, who's been climbing the region for more than 20 years.
In addition to Cathedral, the surrounding White Mountains are full of notches with more than 50 climbable faces, so no one in the diehard community gets bored. "This morning I climbed a cliff in Franconia Notch that I'd never tried before," says Synnott. But don't come to town looking to bolt new routes; the area's famous for traditional climbing, and the locals, who range from scruffy college grads to weather-beaten 70-year-olds, like to keep the rock face the way Underhill found it.
Autumn is the best time to go. There are fewer climbers around, the buggy summer is long gone, and the view's not bad either. Just ask the leaf peepers who gather in flocks at the top of Cathedral to take in Mount Washington Valley. "When you pull yourself over the lip of the cliff after the final pitch, you pop up in front of the tourists," says Synnott. "Their typical reaction is, 'Holy shit! Where'd you come from?'"
More information: For beginner lessons go with Eastern Mountain Sports Climbing School [$250; emsclimb.com]. To explore less-populated notches in the valley, tap Synnott [$220; newhampshireclimbing.com].