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The new year will bring one big change, in address, for I.B. Nuts & Fruit Too in Downtown Washington. After Christmas, the business will move from its Front and Lafayette street location to 200 Elm St.
Co-owners Kristy Stoyer and mom, Barb Hillermann, said they hope to be up and running the first week of January.
"We are going to try to move in small phases each day so if anyone needs a basket between Christmas and the new year we can still accommodate them," said Stoyer, adding that she hopes to only be closed for a day or two.
The new location will provide more room for the growing business, Stoyer said.
Since purchasing the business from Margaret Horn in 2011, Stoyer and Hillermann have added new product lines and gift items.
"We are just out of space and wanted a place were we could continue to add new products and better serve our customers," Stoyer said. "We have also increased the amount of corporate gifts we make and need a larger work area to accommodate our orders."
New Items
At the request of customers, Stoyer and Hillermann have expanded its line of sugar and gluten-free products. The shop sells sugar-free candies, jams and dessert mixes and will continue to add new items. Also new is gluten-free soups.
"People looking for gluten-free products typically have to go to St. Louis for a good selection," Stoyer said. "We decided to try to bring additional options closer to home."
Stoyer said the shop has been taking specific requests for items and if customers want something specific they are happy to try and help. People may email email@example.com or call the store at 636-390-4438.
In addition to the new food lines, the shop is expanding its gift selection with new prints and gifts from Slava Bowman Photography and additional soaps from Wash Your Worries Away.
Stoyer said she's excited to be able to implement new ideas and have the space to carry the ideas out.
"We have had so many ideas, but did not have the space available to act on any of them," she said.
Prior to the move, the new location is being spruced up with new flooring and painting.
"We are excited for our customers to walk into the store and see what we have been working on," Stoyer said.
The mother-daughter team said they're most excited about the expansion of food and gift items and to be able to enjoy larger events throughout the year.
Hours at I.B. Nuts & Fruit Too will remain the same — Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. Hours may be adjusted after the move.
A grand opening celebration is planned for the end of January. More details will be announced at a later date.
Building for Lease
Once I.B. Nuts & Fruit Too relocates, its current space on Front Street along the riverfront will be for lease. The 1,200-square-foot space can be used as either retail or commercial space, said Tami Morton, owner.
For more information, people may call Morton, 636-583-3113.


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WEST KELOWNA - Council has decided to try a different approach to healthcare that includes a committee of West Kelowna residents to tackle issues in a more open kind of way.
The idea is to invite members of the community to sit on the Advisory Committee on Health Care, promoting active partnerships between the district, Interior Health and residents through open communication. The concept was one of the recommendations in a report prepared last year.
West Kelowna Council is seeking five regular voting members from the West Kelowna community at large, with representation sought for women, youth, seniors and the medical community.
Two non-voting members of the committee will be a representative of Interior Health and a District staff member.??
Interested parties can find a committee application form, Committee Terms of Reference, and the Assessment of Medical Services in West Kelowna: Final Report on the District's website, www.districtofwestkelowna.ca, under Mayor and Council/Council Committees. Application forms are also available at West Kelowna Municipal Hall, 2760 Cameron Road, West Kelowna.??
The deadline to submit applications to the Committee is 4:30 p.m., Monday, January 20, 2014. Completed applications can be emailed to email@example.com or delivered to West Kelowna Municipal Hall.

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I don't know about you, but over the past few months we've been hearing more and more stories of Rhino poaching making their way into the news, along with "legal" hunts like the controversial Ezemvelo hunt, which is good (the stories, not the poaching) because it does make us more aware of the issue. However the down side of that means that its happening more and more often. Taking a look at the stats, this raises more than just alarm bells.
These are the stats since 2007 for the number of Rhino killed through poaching..
2007 - 13
2008 - 83
2009 - 122
2010 - 333
2011 - At least 443
Obviously as you can see, since 2007 which is only 5 years ago, Rhino poaching has increased around forty times over... bit of a reality shock isn't it? As you can see a very serious problem has emerged.
The reason for this is the age old myth in Asia that ground up Rhino horn has medicinal properties, where scientific research shows this to be exactly what it is... a myth. Apparently people may just as well save their money and chew their own toenails. These days, the value of Rhino horn has increased to around $65 000 per kg, making it more valuable than gold... so as you can see, as the value increases so does the demand, which means more and more poaching. It is said that South Africa holds 90% of the worlds Rhino population which is estimated to be around 22 000, yes, 22 000 Rhino in existence... now to put that into perspective, that only fills a third of your average 60 000 seater Football/Rugby stadium. Doesn't seem like much now does it? Hence the reason why Rhino are endangered animals, so you would think that every effort would be made to preserve their existence with no further loss.
Well, while you'd think that Wildlife conservation organisations in South Africa such as Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, would do everything possible to preserve the existence of Rhino, since you could say that Rhino are a signature animal for South Africa, you'd think that they would hold them so close to their hearts making them completely untouchable, at any whisper of hurting them, you'd expect the reaction a mother would give of hearing you wanted to hurt her child. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to be so, as recently it has come to light that there is a dark side to their efforts, something that would be quite unexpected given how much the say they are pro Rhino... more like professional Rhino Wholesalers... Don't get me wrong, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife do do a tremendous amount for wildlife conservation and I imagine that almost all involved are a part of it because they have a love for what they do, but what you'll read below is that there are some practices that leave more to be desired and just plain wrong.
Recently Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (formerly Natal Parks Board) held an online auction which had a minimum bid of R750 000. The winning bidder of the auction bid a whopping R960 000 (around $120 000). Now you'll be interested to know, this wasn't an auction to bid on a Rhino to keep as a pet in your backyard, or private game reserve should you be so lucky to have one, the prize for this auction... a permit to hunt a Rhino and kill it... yes you read that correctly, to kill an endangered animal. This obviously caused outrage since, aren't these the guys who are supposed to be protecting these endangered animals? During the controversy the CEO of Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, Dr. Bandile Mkhize even blurted out that animal activists had been quiet when 23 permits were issued to private game reserves in the past year for the same thing... well Dr. Mkhize, that is the first time I and probably most of the general public are hearing about it, and to be quite honest, I think you just made matters a whole worse for yourself... something like digging yourself a bit deeper into the Rhino poo.
Now obviously they are going to have their reasons. I have read a number of arguments on the matter where firstly they said the money was going to go towards conservation, then they said it was going to go to the poor community near the Mkuze game reserve where the hunt was to take place, as apparently the community were jumping up and down because they had not benefitted from the reserve being there. Sounds a bit dodgy since you'd think they would have had a very clear plan of where the money go long before they even decided to hold the auction. They said the money would go to providing market stalls, education etc for the community. Now to be fair, them wanting to help the community is not a bad idea, but haven't these guys ever heard of things like sponsorship, I'm sure any major brand wouldn't mind setting up a few market stalls with a nice big board with an ad, "proudly sponsored by...", there must be a number of different ideas they could come up with to help the community without even beginning to think of sacrificing an endangered animal. If any killing of Rhino was illegal, I'm sure they would make a plan. It just seems that arranging a hunt like this is taking the easy option, which clearly it is, if they really wanted to raise money and prevent going down the road of Rhino hunts, where is the appeal to the public saying something along the lines of, "please help, we need funding, we really don't want to have to kill a Rhino but if we don't get the funding we may be forced to go down that road." I guarantee if an urgent appeal went out like that, animal rights groups would no doubt do their part with urging people to help. I can appreciate that funding is an issue with wildlife reserves after conversations with people that have worked in the industry, but even they absolutely agree that killing an endangered animal should be an absolute last resort, if not, not really an option at all. Dr. Mkhize has also argued that if the Rhino was relocated to other reserves there are no guarantees that it wouldn't get poached. To be quite honest, I'd expect more from a guy of his calibre, because what guarantees can he make that the Rhino wouldn't be poached where it is? It's not like Ezemvelo has a clean poaching record, poaching still does happen in reserves under their control, he even said it himself, last year 34 Rhino were killed in KZN, 27 of which were in protected areas. In any case, they want to kill it, which means it will be dead, so whether it gets poached or not in another reserve, its still got a better chance at living if it is relocated. A bit of a lame excuse, the clutching at straws springs to mind. Of the articles I've read it seems one of the biggest concerns that Dr. Mkhize has is, who benefits from the killing of the Rhino. Obviously if it is poached the syndicates will benefit and if it is hunted then Ezemvelo will benefit, but aren't we more concerned with preserving life here? this isn't a question about who will get what, this is a question of the life of an endangered animal. It comes across that he is so tied up with who benefits from all this, that you'd think if he had it his way he'd have them all shot at a price so poachers would never benefit and Ezemvelo would get all the money. It seems Ezemvelo should start thinking about better, more positive solutions, stop thinking of making a quick buck, get the right "ideas" people in and bring Ezemvelo into the 21st century and others who do the same will follow, get with the times and start working closer with the outside world, get into social media etc, form a closer relationship with people, and they'll probably find it would certainly help a huge amount.... I say this because they don't even have a Facebook page that they control let alone a Twitter account. Personally I would have been more than happy to help out which I'm sure many people would, had they cared to put it out there, but there's no chance I'm going to do that if they continue to permit Rhino to be killed. All in all, in my opinion, I think all these justifications that they've given can be solved without the need to kill a Rhino, if they really needed to, they'd make a plan, end of story.
There have been comments by people supporting a reason, saying that these male Rhino are identified as older Rhino that no longer gel with the other males in the area and can possibly be killed by these Rhino. However I'd like to challenge that argument be asking if Ezemvelo can provide a full report as to how they came to the conclusion that this Rhino is, "the one"? Also if that were the case and absolutely necessary (although I'm a strong believer in letting nature take its course, you'll never stop a lion taking a buck even though its sometimes devastating to watch, but its nature), wouldn't it be more humane to put the Rhino to sleep than blast it with a high powered rifle dying in absolute agony in possibly the most inhumane way possible? If you had a choice to die by lethal injection or be a moving target, you'll definately take the first option since you know the latter is going to hurt like hell. To use a further example, if you have a few dogs in your yard and one dog really didn't get on with the others, continuously getting in fights, are you going to simply put the dog down or are you going rather find it another home?... naturally you'd find it another home so it can live out the rest of its days, why is it any different with Rhino? I guess its the price tag... perhaps also supported by what you'll read in my closing paragraph.
I did read on IOL something quite interesting this evening which does raise a few alarm bells since rumor has it that Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife is full of corrupt activities... take a look at this...
But sources from within Ezem-velo, a government parastatal, felt that some questions remained, such as why the tender was only advertised for two days, when other tenders for that amount of money are advertised for two weeks; why it was done during this period when most of the board members, known to be activists, are on leave; why the tender amount of R960 000 was kept just under R1 million because it would not require board approval; and finally, why the identity of the hunter was being kept a secret as the tender was a public government one.
Sounds a bit suspect doesn't it? To give you an idea, it seems that Ezemvelo has a bit of a history went it comes to corruption within its organisation, if this is anything to go by... and I'm sure there's probably a lot more info lying around if you Googled it. You'd think that with not much of a clean history, they wouldn't want to attract more attention to themselves with, like, issuing tender auctions and permits for Rhino hunts...
As for those who hunt Rhino, they'll argue that the money they spend on hunts goes to the locals and straight back into conservation which they feel proud of, but I'd like to challenge any one of these people to say that if they cared so much about providing for the locals and conservation, eagerly blowing almost R1 million ($120 000) then why not just give the money to the community and conservation, I'm sure my reply from them would be a swift "Not a bloody chance"... so yes, I doubt they really care at all, they just want to boast about killing a beast with a high powered rifle that doesn't stand a chance. Really takes balls don't you think... I'd like to see them do it without that rifle, cause that would take a pair. Personally I don't see any glory in it whatsoever, just seems more of a case of compensating for the lack in size of something with the size of their rifle. If these people want to show that they have a pair, then game reserves should introduce "Poacher Hunting Holidays" where you get to go out with rangers who hunt poachers on a daily basis risking their own lives by getting shot at,, sometimes getting killed, now that takes a pair of balls, plus then you'll be a real hero, not some ridiculous wannabe. Personally I would find it far more gratifying getting rid of poachers than getting rid of endangered Rhino. (see there's another free of charge money making idea for Ezemvelo and other game reserves... nothing an indemnity form can't sort out )
Ezemvelo choose to still keep the name of the winning bidder a secret, which is basically admitting that they know what they are doing isn't exactly kosher. The reason being is that obviously they don't want him and his business to get any flack. I'm sure his name will pop up sooner or later. These okes will always want to boast to their mates about things like this, and as more and more people know, the more chance it will eventually surface. Also you never know, maybe someone at Ezemvelo may be a good samaritan and pass the info on... just saying 🙂
The thing is that this guy may possibly make a lot more than he put in to this hunt... as mentioned before, Rhino horn is fetching around $65 000 per kg, now when you take into account the mean weight of White Rhino horn is 3.68kg (Black Rhino - 2.88kg) so 3.68kg x $65 000 = $239 200... now remember this guy only paid R960 000, which works out to $117 789.... so he potentially stands to make almost twice that amount by selling the horn in Asia... remember the guy is a "businessman" he's not going to have all that money hanging on his wall, he'll have the real head with a fake horn. Now I may just be speculating here, but given Ezemvelo's previous track record; the questions raised in the quoted piece from IOL; Ezemvelo refusing to say exactly who this mystery businessman is... can you see where I'm going with this? possibly some dodgy dealings going on here and certain people at Ezemvelo may be co-ordinating the whole thing trying to mask it as a "legal" hunt... again, just saying... but food for thought, it's more than possible don't you think?...
Incase you haven't seen my taster video for this campaign, check it out below, since I posted the video on my own Facebook profile hoping to get a bit of feedback from mates before officially releasing it it literally blasted its way across the net going viral in a way that can only be described as lighting a match too close to a petrol tanker.
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Ogg Theora is Xiph.Org's first publicly released video codec, intended for use within the Ogg's project's Ogg multimedia streaming system. Theora is derived directly from On2's VP3 codec and is a superset of VP3.
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Release Notes: Better-looking videos or smaller files at the same quality. A much faster decoder. Two-pass mode for making files just the size you want them. Rigid bitrate controls trade off quality for the needs of live streaming applications.
Release Notes: There are now new separate encoder and decoder libraries supporting the new-style API based on theora-exp. Assembly optimizations were made. Documentation was improved. General robustness was increased, and many bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: This release contains build fixes from the alpha6 release. There are no new features. The new MMX asm is enabled by default, and a problem with that same code on SELinux machines has been fixed.
Release Notes: This release is an incremental update over alpha 5, consisting primarily of bugfixes and a merge of the encoder optimizations from the theora-mmx branch.
Release Notes: Bitrate management bugs that caused popping and encode errors were fixed along with a crash problem with the theora_state internals not being intialized properly. A new theora_granule_shift() utility function was added. The dump_video example now makes YUV4MPEG files by default so that results can be fed back to encoder_example and similar tools (the old behavior is restored with the '-r' switch). ./configure now prints a summary. A simple unit test of the comment API is now performed with a 'make check'. Miscellaneous code cleanups were made along with warning and leak fixes.
A Fluent OpenStack client API for Java.
A TWiki appliance that is easy to use and lightweight.


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The Parking and Transportation Office operates MIT's safety shuttle service, known as Saferide. Saferide provides a safe means of transportation at night within and around the MIT campus. This is a free service and is available to all members of the MIT community.
The Saferide vehicles are driven by service assistant employees of Standard Parking, who maintain direct communication to the Saferide Office and the MIT Police.
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Hold me accountable...call me a dumb f***
So, we tried to fix this problem last year and failed. But, it is totally ridiculous and I am sick of it.
We WASTE so much money eating out and on food in general. We just get whatever we want, when want, any time we want it. Dumb. We could be saving over $1000 per month in addition to our other savings if we weren't just blowing it on food.
This is how ridiculous it is. Go ahead and bash and make me feel bad because we need to change this problem.
We spent $3,120.32 in December on food, eating out, coffee, etc...
Oh my goodness. That is what we do when totally unchecked and not monitoring how much we are spending.
For the new year, I said enough is enough.
I started using mint.com again so that I can easily watch where money is going and maintain a budget.
I have decided to try and keep our food spending under $1500/month this year. I am monitoring this month and being pretty strict. I am hoping to be able to budget even less than that as we grow accustomed to it.
$1500! That is less than half of what we were spending.
Tell me how fucking stupid we are.
Put that money towards a damn vacation and enjoy a week somewhere. Instead os 2/ 3 months of eating out !
I know you can cook, I've seen your dishes. you've posted them before. cook woman! lol
Wow...um...that is what we make a month. I couldn't imagine. We have $400 a month for food and maybe $50 a month for coffee and dinner out.
I spend around 950.00 per month on food for the house and eating out .. 6 times a month
Think of all of the other things you could be spending your money on, how much healthier you would be, and I have no idea how much you weigh but I'm sure you would also be losing weight because you're not eating out.
Jesus! TrouserMouse, bad bad mousy. Get that under control.
Go out maybe twice a month and put that extra money for vacations, savings etc.
Try it for 6 months and i swear you'll be amazed on the amount you saved. Good luck, quit being dumb :p
i can not fathom that being my food bill... for five of us we spend a third or less of that! ouch
-Edit- i wanted to add that i was reffering to the 1500 food budget. we spend less than a 3rd of that.


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Against this backdrop, Melrose has performed above any observer's expectations. The company has consistently raised its dividend throughout the recession, it managed to widen margins to 13pc in the second half of the year and it has slashed its debt by 41pc to a level where it does not cause concern. Its early-cycle businesses are starting to recover and its late cycle operations are seeing an uptick in orders. This all bodes well for the future.
Melrose PLC
Melrose is an investment vehicle that focuses on buying underperforming industrial assets and turning them around. Its model is to buy troubled business, improve the efficiency of their operations and then sell them at a profit for shareholders.
Most of the group's management cut their business teeth together at Wassall in the 1990s. The business transformed itself from a shoe retailer into holding company for industrial companies and this model has been transferred to Melrose. Over 12 years, the management at Wassall generated a compound total shareholder return of more than 18pc a year.
Melrose owns businesses that make the widget at the bottom of beer cans, turbines, electrical switchgear and transformers, amongst others. You can see them all on its website. Melrose even makes the handles for Gillette razors though the purchase of its most high profile business FKI.
This engineering group used to be a member of the FTSE 250, but it was bought in July 2008 for just under £1bn. Melrose believed it could improve the efficiency of the group - financially and operationally. It described FKI as being "unfocused, with a weak balance sheet."
The figures for 2009 constitute the first full year that FKI has been included in the numbers, so year-on-year comparisons are difficult. In the 12 months to December 31, pre-tax profits rose to £82m from £23.5m on revenues that rose to £1.3bn from £895m.
After this performance, it is now expected that analysts will increase their current-year earnings per share forecast by as much as 10pc from the current 17p.
The company will pay a second interim dividend in lieu of a final dividend. The reason for this is clear – the payment will be made on April 1, before the end of the current tax year and ahead of the UK government's tax hike for higher-rate taxpayers. The second interim dividend will be 4.8p, giving a total payout for the year of 7.7p, 10pc a head of 2008.
The shares are up 34pc since they were recommended at 154p on September 4th compared with a market up 17pc. Based on an improvement in the economic environment over the next two years, the valuation does not seen overstretched – particularly as earnings estimates are likely to rise. The shares are trading on a December 2010 earnings multiple of 11.9 times, falling to 10.5 next year. The prospective dividend yield is 3.8pc. Buy.


text: Just one comment (in a few parts). On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 17:47 +0300, Michael Snoyman wrote: > I would say that Yesod and Snap are very orthogonal projects. Without > offense to the Snap authors, I don't really think Snap is a framework; > it's much more low-level than that. That seems to be overstating the case a bit. Snap is designed to write applications directly on top of it, and in that sense acts as a framework. Some of the difference you're seeing likely comes down to preference about how heavy the "framework" ought to be. > * Yesod has type-safe URLs, I don't believe Snap has any similar > feature. However, as I mentioned already, Snap is lower level than > Yesod, so you could easily implement type-safe URLs on top of Snap. Snap does provide a form of routing requests, and even of parsing data from the contents of the URL. It looks to be based on combinators similar to what Happstack does, with the exception that capturing variables from URLs is done in a relatively braindead way by adding special syntax with colons inside strings. The point here is, Snap does something different; not necessarily something worse. We all have our preferences. Treating Snap as a new underlying server implementation on top of which to layer WAI and Yesod is possible, but rather missing the point. Much of what I get from Snap is that we can dispense with some of the unnecessary complexity and just solve problems. Then again, I've also built three or four significant internally used web applications with Happstack, and have yet to use happstack-state for anything but working through tutorials. Could be I'm just afraid of change... -- Chris Smith


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The Eggshell Parade brings you a reading and interview from writer Catherine Lacey. Catherine reads her short fiction piece "(Grew)," which appears in issue 12.3 of DIAGRAM.
The Eggshell Parade brings you a reading and interview from writer Catherine Lacey. Catherine reads her short fiction piece "(Grew)," which appears in issue 12.3 of DIAGRAM.
The Eggshell Parade brings you a reading and interview from writer Woody Brown. Woody reads his short fiction piece "Sillyhead," which appears in issue 12.3 of DIAGRAM.
I dropped down against the mosque wall
curled my shoulders in
let my feet fall apart
tilting toward the rubble-dusted floor
tried to still my lashes
as rifles came clanging in
their muzzles smelling out scent
heated off a pulse
I was playing dead
between the dead
a beast caught sight of my breath
blew off my face
he said:
"Now he's fucking dead"
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WATER sign of life: can hold a world of fleets at once: requiring a new OCEANOGRAPHY: useful to mimic waves in an assault and hit shore at same time: see also HELICOPTER WAVE: SCHEDULED WAVE: descends from garden hoses to rinse asphalt of brain matter: to rinse body on steel slab prior to shroud: streams on land: in gutters: excellent solvent: ask child you want a toy: then ask you want a grenade: watch him jump and startle: date fronds shaking with rain
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The streets bend toward the Tombs,
a Chinatown of basement doctors,
and funeral parlors, of hell money and paper telephones
for the fire, and LOOK, how the BRANCHes
FLARE with cherry blossoms, how the knees
stay polite in their poetry reading seats.
LOOK, PULSEJET and RAINJET
but no blood jet.
LOOK, my father's old Econoline, toolbox
for a back seat, his amber ashtray
and undershirts in front of the TV.
LOOK, our worried parents, the drink,
the bathroom with toilet paper chained to a pipe.
LOOK, the girl pushed to the ground
is still lying there, alkali in her mouth.
LOOK, the blindfolded HOSTAGE thinks
of oatmeal and house slippers and
no newspaper in the morning.
I teach myself to say yes
as restaurants collapse
their cold weather doorways and throw open
their windows. Women ride by in shorts,
miles of legs, flanked by bridges
and tunnels, an island
against itself. So often the TELLING
is good enough, is all I have,
the mouth willing to open
to its own surprise. I talk
to strangers on the subway,
even ask about a Dan Brown novel
to keep the face turned toward me.
On the SURVEILLENCE tape
the woman rides down the elevator
with her killer, watching the floors light up
until ground level over and over.
LOOK, the murderer is beautiful,
cheekbones and a white tee
and shoulders he hasn't grown into yet,
slouched over the interrogation table.
I am the bully in the swivel chair
getting him to confess. I want
to MOUNT him without removing the gun
from his inside his head.
LOOK, my father HOLDs my floppy neck, worried
he'll break me in those road-laying hands.
My mother brings me home to an Istanbul motel.
I see now how young she is,
how certain, already done
with writing and architecture. It will have to be me
who lives.
Solmaz's first publication found in here:
A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans
DOD Dictionary of Military Terms Highly encourage you look up all the all caps words Solmaz uses in her poems
One of Solmaz's sources of inspiration Our Lady of the Flowers
Three of Solmaz's poems at The Association of Iranian American Writers
Solmaz in DIAGRAM
Rugama's Epitaph
All poems printed or reprinted with permission from the author.
Photo by Bianca Stone.
Posted in tandem with www.scatteredrhymes.com
Part 1
Part 2
Monkey Heart
Pick it up.
Consider it a machine.
Put it down.
Remember you need it.
Go back to where you left it.
Airport terminal, donut shop
seventh grade. Are you scared?
It's ok. So am I.
Take a wet rag. Put it on your head.
Let's retrace your steps.
Do you love your wife?
Is she made of dolphins?
I love my fucking life.
Even my secrets
and the terrible things I've done.
They're like small smooth stones
in a green plastic bottle
with no label. What were we doing?
Driving down a long dark street?
Does it feel exactly right?
Little fist that pumps the blood.
The flicker in your empty.
We go out for drinks and attack a dumpster. D takes off his pants and tries to have sex with J. My lighter is busted. I run to catch the 22. "The next step is to think like Brian." D escapes through the kitchen. I forget to lock up the knives. Her drawer is full of strawberry condoms. I look for the green bunny poem. She drops me down the building's side. It's sober day. Thanks for coming to the show. There is no origin. Your emails wince. I wish they were something else, not alone. J calls me shitface with tears in his eyes. We meet at 8 and grab a bite to eat. Someone says my name is Booth. She gives me my third drink for free. Z laughs whenever a kid starts a fight. There isn't enough sex to go around. "I can't believe they killed-off Bodie." I manage to see three shows a week. I've decided to stop sleeping you. It's a bag of baseball bats I hand the kids. Most of the day is spent on the floor. I never open the envelope marked C. I walk down Valencia over a grate.
When Time and Space Collapse Return This Poem to its Source
Do you ever think about love?
I believe love is Michael Burkard.
There are many disturbing facts
about the nature of reality. Burkard
takes the L to Lorimer St. and transfers
to the G. He is meeting friends for dinner.
All matter is just empty space revolving
around a pinhead of energy growing
more and more tired each moment.
Sadness is a kind of purity that Michael
Burkard uses to drain the darkness
from his fingertips. When droplets of rain
fall from the branches into the water
below it creates concentric ripples moving
outward into everything and cannot be stopped.
Michael Burkard is thinking about this poem
he won't write until seventeen hours
in the future, while he sits alone in his apartment
feeling like a ghost. Purple light passes
through curtain after curtain until it reaches
the retina and escapes. Michael Burkard
is eating spaghetti with friends. He is rewriting
a line of poetry again and again in his head.
He is writing the Selected Poems of Michael Burkard.
Links to things mentioned in the interview; they will all open in a new tab so you can indiscriminately click without interrupting the show:
I is to Vorticism by Ben Mirov
Collected Philip Larkin
Kasmir by John Leon
Envelope of Night: Michael Burkard Selected and Uncollected
Ooga Booga by Frederick Seidel
Archers of Loaf
Bill Evans
All this stuff is thanks to Mirov, but here's one tune I've been obsessed with recently:
Bill Callahan


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January 1, 2011 BY Aaron Hope
New teammate Gilbert Arenas is getting a ton of attention for his wide-ranging free agent sneaker game, but don't forget about the Orlando Magic's franchise player. Dwight Howard has been with adidas since being drafted as the last #1 pick straight from high school, and soon D-12 will transition out of Three Stripes TS-series and into the new adidas Superbeast. These joints offer about as high-tech a look as you're going to find on a basketball shoe thanks to its Sprint Skin breathable upper and opposing gradients on the base layer and Stripes. The base fade makes these ever so slightly different than the other home colorway we showed you this week (those also had grey eyelets), so have a closer look at this new model and expect them to hit select retailers including Eastbay next February.
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This eBook original features advice from Become Your Own Matchmaker by "Millionaire Matchmaker" Patti Stanger on how to make your relationship last.
In Seal the Deal, Patti offers tips on ensuring that you live happily ever after with three steps from her book Become Your Own Matchmaker. In Step One: First Days of Infatuation, Patti teaches you how to maintain perspective during the high of the first ninety days. In Step Two: Relationship Reality Check, she explains… (more)
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Sandy Nearly One Year Later: Emotions Still High [AUDIO]
It's been nearly a year since Hurricane Sandy devastated the New Jersey coastline and left countless families with deep emotional scars, including many children who are just now starting to scratch the surface of their feelings in the aftermath of the disaster.
Seven to eight percent of calls that come in to PerformCare New Jersey are from families impacted by Sandy. PerformCare New Jersey partners with the state to connect families to a full array of services for New Jersey children, usually at no cost.
"Some children have difficulty immediately after a natural disaster, but most often if there is going to be difficulty, it doesn't always emerge right away," said Samantha Broderick, provider and member communications manager at PerformCare New Jersey.
"In younger kids, stress and anxiety after a disaster often appears as physical symptoms like headaches, stomach aches or sleep disturbances. In teens, it can be anything that is out of the norm from what you'd expect to see. It could be anger that's out of proportion for your child, it could be tearfulness or withdrawing from family friends or you may even see a drop in grades."
So, what is a family to do to prepare their child, already suffering with anxiety and stress as a result of Sandy, for the possibility of another devastating storm?
"All of the information put out by agencies about storm readiness is a really good idea. Have a disaster readiness kit and figure out what local resources are available in your community before a storm hits," said Broderick. "It is really helpful to talk over your plan with your children. That can actually help and comfort them. Part of that includes practicing the plan or verbally talking it through."
If a storm does hit New Jersey, it's very important to minimize the amount of time children see news coverage of the event.
"It's very hard for children to interpret storm coverage in a way that makes them feel safe," said Broderick. "They'll see images of storm damage elsewhere and make them feel like it can happen to them even if they aren't in a heavily impacted area."
For those in need of assistance, PerformCare New Jersey has a hotline that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That number is 877-652-7624. You can also visit their website.


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I have never quite understood the widespread accusations of dullness levelled at McLaren's MP4-12C supercar. I think it springs from timid cultural conventions.
The thinking seems to go that the phenomenon of The Supercar - by which we really mean the Italian supercar - comes at a price; a price that those of us admitted to the inner sanctum accept as a rite of entry. We even boast about it. Supercars come with awkward boots, shocking blind spots, low-speed cussedness, stupid options lists, quirky transmissions, terrifying repair bills following minor mishaps, baffling control logic, and all the rest of it. The McLaren doesn't really offer any of this, and therefore must be 'a bit boring'.
Photos: Lee Brimble
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Trent will be on the national radio call for the Steelers-Titans matchup on the Dial Global Sports Network, and he breaks down what he'll be looking for.
Trent thinks the Steelers had better approach this as a trap game, and he explains why James Harrison is the key to the Steeler defense tonight.
In the Ben vs. Bradshaw debate, Trent explains why he gives a slight nod to Terry Bradshaw.
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Flying in the Winter
According to the calendar, winter is approaching. The temperature today went above 60F (15C), so I am not so sure. But if it is winter where you are, you may want to make some preparations so that you can continue flying. See the November 97 and December 96 From the Lab columns for some suggestions on flying in the winter.
Some Thoughts on Charging Nicad Batteries
How and when you charge your flight batteries is probably determined by when and where you fly. If you fly at a club field where there are rules about the number of planes in the air at any time, you probably have to wait your turn to fly, so you have plenty of time between flights to charge your batteries, and probably only need one battery pack. This article is not for you.
If, like me, you go to the field to get a number of flights in a short time, you need a number of battery packs and and it makes sense to charge them in advance. I have three batteries for most of my planes, and I try to gang charge them the night before. This works OK, but the batteries do not perform as well as when they are charged just before flight. The real problems come in when for some reason (such as the weather...) I cannot do my planned flying, and the batteries sit in a charged state for days or even weeks. I have found that even if I 'top off' the packs by putting them on the charger and re-peaking them, they just do not compare to freshly charged packs. For high current applications (such as the Jerry) the decrease in battery pack performance is even more obvious. Re-peaking, while a nice idea, does not appear to do much for the performance of the battery. Even if your charger tells you it is putting something into the battery, most of it is probably wasted as heat.
The decrease in performance appears to be a combination of decreased voltage and increased internal impedance (resistance), which causes even lower voltage as current is drawn from the battery.
The solution to this problem is to charge the packs as close to flight time as possible. If they are going to be left for several days before use, you might as well discharge the packs, and recharge them when you need them. I use my Robbe/Aveox Power Peak Infinity charger to discharge packs to 0.75V per cell at 5 Amps.
The following table of experimental measurements of loss of capacity versus time between charge and discharge came from the Australian magazine Radio Control Model News, August 96. The pack used for testing was a 7 cell pack of Sanyo 1000SCR cells.
Effects of Delay between Charge and Discharge
Delay Before Discharge
Discharge Current
Discharge Duration
Average Voltage
Watt Minutes
The discharge current was the same for all of these tests. The 'Discharge Duration Seconds' is the time to discharge the pack (at 15A) to a fixed cutoff voltage, with longer meaning more capacity. The average voltage is the average of the battery voltage over the discharge time, with higher meaning more power available. The capacity in Amp Minutes and Watt minutes are measures of battery capacity, with higher meaning more capacity - more power available. If you are unsure of these measurements, see the January 97 From the Lab for more details.
The above table is clear: any delay can cause a significant loss of capacity, and at 40 minutes, the capacity loss is about 13%. This will obviously be different for different types of packs, but this is worth considering for any nicad pack.
Oh Yeah? Well I Am Dumber Than You Are!
I, like pretty much everyone else, am getting older. At least I think that is what is happening. There are three things that happen to you as you get older. The first is called CRS, which stands for "Can't um er ah, oh whatever". I don't think I can remember the others. But the problem with not remembering things means that it is really easy to do dumb things.
Dumb thing number 1:
Several weeks ago, I drove to my usual before-work flying field (which is right next to where my daughter goes to day care), got out of the car, and started putting together my plane. I reached into my field bag for my transmitter.. and it was not there! My transmitter tray, which usually stays in the back of the car, wasn't there, either. Now, what happened to it? At first, I tried to convince myself that it was at home, but I could not remember having taken the transmitter out of the field bag the night before when it was in my workshop, and the bag did seem kind of light that morning. As I thought about it more, I realized that I must have never put it back into the car after flying the previous morning. I must have left it at the field, which is actually a city athletic field. I assumed it was gone for good, and I would have to replace the transmitter, tray, and stopwatch.
As I was about to get in the car, I noticed a sign on a nearby fence, made from what appeared to be the top of a pizza box. It said:
A nice person from the park department had noticed the transmitter, which I left on top of a large rock, taken it to their office, and left me a sign to let me know. Talk about nice people! Actually, the Park Department people are so nice that they often leave the sprinklers off in the morning in the area where I usually launch and land. I went over to the Park Department offices and retrieved my transmitter and tray, and thanked them for their good deed.
I did find myself wondering how or why they noticed the transmitter, and I found out pretty quickly when I turned it back on for about 5 minutes. When I left it at the field, I must have left it turned ON, and the battery discharged until the low battery beeper started. The Hitec Prism 7XF low battery alarm is continuous - once it starts, it beeps until you turn the transmitter off, which is a pretty good idea. Someone must have heard the beeper! If the transmitter had been my JR XF783, they never would have heard it, because it beeps just once as the voltage goes below 9.0V.
Dumb thing number 2:
After a few flights on my Multiplex Twin Star, I got rather brave and decided to try extended inverted flight. Check out the 'Flying' section of the review in this month's E-Zone for the details on this dumb idea.
Dumb thing number 3:
I have recently started flying a Hobby Lobby/Graupner Cumulus 2000, which is a Cumulus 97 with ailerons. There are servos out in the wing at each aileron and 24" (60cm) cable extensions. On a recent flight, the motor started to sputter - literally turn on and off, as if it were an erratic glow engine. I had never seen this sort of behaviour before, and I was rather baffled by it. Could it be interference from the servos out in the wings? With the motor off, the plane flew fine, and with the motor on at partial throttle it seemed to stop sputtering. I finally landed the plane, and checked out the motor on the ground. It ran fine, so I relaunched, and the problem started again.
When I landed again, I discovered the problem. The nose cone catch pin was not completely in the mating hole, so the nose cone was held on only by friction. The Cumulus uses a slip-on nose cone with internal motor power connectors. When the nose cone is removed, the connector to the motor is separated. With the nose cone only held on by friction, it could move forward a little when the motor was on, and would settle back when the motor was off. Each time I turned the motor on, the propeller would pull the nose cone forward a little, and aerodynamic drag would pull the rest of the plane back a little, and the connectors would separate. As soon as they separated, the motor would stop, and the nose cone would settle back onto the fuselage, causing the motor to restart.
The solution, of course, is to back out the (threaded) catch pin a little so that it more solidly catches on the nose cone. But this could have been a disaster! If the nose cone came off in flight, the plane would be completely out of balance - and completely powerless.
So, those are some of the dumb things I have done recently. Can you top them? Why would you want to?
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If you find this month's review of the Twin Star interesting, you may also want to read about other planes in the Multiplex Pico line. Electric Flight International December 98 [ http://www.traplet.co.uk ] has a review of the Multiplex Teddy
This document is copyrighted (c) 1998 by Steven Kranish, and may not be copied or used in other forms of publication (electronic or paper) without written permission from the author. I will probably grant permission, but I would like to know about it, so go ahead and ask.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at skranish(at)ezonemag.com
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Should Baker's jacket be no match for State's flak, the next man in will be Joey Bozich, a redshirt freshman whose only college snap in a game came after Baker wobbled off the field last weekend. If Bozich gets his bell rung, Carter-Finley Stadium could be the setting for a "Rudy" sequel. The No. 3 quarterback is Ben Johnson, a walk-on sophomore from Fairview whose position is listed in the media guide as "athlete."
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There have been a number of concerns recently regarding reports of a man in a car approaching teenagers in South Northamptonshire.
Police have said several of these have been innocent but confirm they are investigatng three reports; two in Helmdon and one by Greens Norton.
The two Helmdon incidents took place two weeks apart.
On each occasion a man has engaged in conversation with a teenage girl walking alone. Part of the discussion has related to offering a lift and on the second occasion the man touched the girl's arm.
The description of the man and car differs between the two incidents.
Inspector Andy Hall said: "There has been understandable, significant interest in these situations via social networking since the first report this month. A number of other incidents have since been reported to us regarding men offering lifts to young people. Some of these have been third hand and unfortunately didn't identify the actual person affected. Some have also had an innocent explanation.
"A similar report from teenagers in Towcester was confirmed to be a case of mistaken identity with no malicious intent.
"There was another report of a man in a white van - the only description given - offering a lift to a child on his way to Green's Norton Primary School yesterday (Wednesday) morning and have had no similar reports since.
"Our investigations are ongoing and we rely on people reporting any suspicious activity. We've increased patrols across the area and officers are visiting schools to offer reassurance and safety advice."
Police advise young people not to talk to strangers and if approached in a similar manner to tell an adult known to them straight away or ring 999.


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SgtPepper STAFF (3.4)3/4 of the classic '70s line-up reunite for a relatively successful comeback....JazzHands333 (3)A fine note to end on for Black Sabbath....Rastapunk (4.5)"I don't want to live forever, but I don't want to die"...Necrotica (4.5)One of the best comeback albums in a long, long time....
PsychicChris (4)Black Sabbath's reunion is a great album with the ingredients to make something even bette...battleinthenorth (4)A fantastic release containing some very good riffs, magnificent soloing and a general sol...StKiyo (3.5)The latest Children of the Sabbath kick ass just like it should....DragonHeartstring (4)The best possible cure for the headache Megadeth provided this month, Sabbath are back wit...
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Album Rating: 3.5This review was finished almost 2 week ago but the first version was almost 6 word pages. I had to re-write it and cut a lot of stuff so it took me some time to upload. With so many things to write, the organization of my thoughts was a living hell. In the end, I hope I made a good job with this album.
Album Rating: 3.5Kudos to those who will manage to read this lengthy review.
Album Rating: 3.5damn lagging
Nice review, dude :] I still stand by the 4.5 I gave in my review though... I fucking love this thing
Album Rating: 4.0Sweet review man. I totally agree with you on Geezer. pos.
Digging: Travelin Jack - Commencing Countdown
Album Rating: 4.0wasnt this supposed to be done like a month ago? ;]
awesome album, but this is too long for me
Let's just forget Forbidden was ever released...
Album Rating: 3.5@SharkLasers
Fair enough man to each his own. Btw, why are you using an alt ?
Thank you my friend. You are a hero for reading this.
Yeah, I was little late.
Agreed, terrible album.
I got demoted and banned, that's why :/
Still rules m/
Album Rating: 4.0Of course it does m/
Album Rating: 4.0'God of the almighty never answers their call.
Satan is just waiting for the righteous to fall to him.'
This part in 'Damaged Soul' is amazing.
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Satiety hormones such as glucagon-like peptide-1 (Glp1) are secreted in response to feeding and activate neural processes that subsequently suppress food intake. While the satiety effects of Glp1 have been known for over 15 years, the mechanism mediating this effect is not clearly defined. This is significant since some Glp1-based therapies for type 2 diabetes display modest weight loss effects. Understanding how Glp1 regulates food intake may, therefore, lead to the design of therapeutic interventions with improved efficacy for weight loss. Based on our preliminary data, we hypothesize that the anorectic effect mediated via the central Glp1 receptor (Glp1r) is integrated with hypothalamic signaling proteins that respond to changes in circulating glucose. Activation of the hypothalamic Glp1 receptor (Glp1r) inhibits the cellular energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). Considering that the anorectic effects of leptin, insulin and glucose are mediated in part by inhibition of hypothalamic AMPK, we hypothesize that this is also a mechanism by which Glp1 suppresses food intake. We also show that inhibition of AMPK by the Glp1r agonist Exendin-4 (Ex4) in hypothalamic cell lines occurs only with increasing glucose concentration. Ex4 also stimulates glucose uptake and metabolism in a glucose concentration-dependent manner. Since increased glucose metabolism inhibits AMPK, we hypothesize that central Glp1r activation inhibits AMPK and subsequently reduces food intake by stimulating central glucose metabolism. Supporting this hypothesis, we show that inhibition of glycolysis in the brain blocks the anorectic effect of Ex4. Contrasting the effects of glucose, central administration of fructose attenuates the anorectic effect of Ex4. Fructose activates hypothalamic AMPK. This suggests that by activating hypothalamic AMPK fructose can """"""""short-circuit"""""""" the Glp1r signaling pathway and promote central Glp1 resistance. This could partially explain our observation that mice fed a sucrose diet, which provides fructose and glucose, eat more compared to mice fed an isocaloric starch diet that only provides glucose. This also has clinical implications based on the association between increased fructose consumption and the obesity epidemic, particularly in children. Since the Glp1r is expressed in multiple hypothalamic nuclei, the first aim is to identiy hypothalamic regions mediating the anorectic effect of Glp1r agonists.
The second aim will combine hypothalamic nuclei- specific modulation of the Glp1r with pharmacological agents that target processes we hypothesize are downstream of the Glp1r - glucose metabolism and AMPK activity.
The final aim will assess whether dietary fructose is an inhibitor of the satiety effects mediated by central Glp1r activation. The long-term goal of this application is to elucidate the mechanisms that regulate multiple aspects of feeding behavior. Defining the mechanisms by which the central Glp1r regulates food intake will identify key control points that could be sites for disruption by obesogenic factors and targets for therapeutic intervention.
Obesity is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and even cancer. A significant contributor to the obesity epidemic is the failure of hormones that control food intake. The aim of this proposal is to identify the mechanisms by which one of these hormones, glucagon-like peptide-1, prevents excess food intake and how certain diets rich in sugar can interfere with these mechanisms.


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Via The Hill:
Tiger Woods said Tuesday that his weekend golf outing with President Obama was "pretty cool" and that he and the president teamed up for a win against a pairing of U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Houston Astros owner Jim Crane.
"He's just a wonderful person to be around. And we won," Woods said at a press conference ahead of the Match Play Championship, according to Sports Illustrated.
Woods also joked that Obama was "an avid golfer, and so am I."


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The MS drug, fingolimod, normally acts by binding to specific receptors on the cell membrane. This binding causes the cell to internalize the receptor, eliminating its functionality. Such a mechanism has been beneficial in the treatment of MS as the internalized receptor is necessary for the trafficking of lymphocytes, immune cells that are active in MS processes. The action of fingolimod prevents lymphocytes from leaving their home tissue, ultimately preventing them from being able to damage the nervous system.
In this study, Hait et al identifies a new role for fingolimod, one in which it acts within the nucleus of the cell as a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, a mechanism that alters gene expression. Such a mechanism has been described as "epigenetic", meaning that it can alter the expression of genes without affecting the actual DNA code. Epigenetic phenomena have been an important focus of many studies as it provides a means in which the environment can change your genes. Interestingly, epigenetics is believed to be involved in the development of many psychiatric disorders, disorders in which the surrounding environment plays an important role.
Other HDAC inhibitors have already been shown to alter gene expression and subsequently, memory. This might happen through varied expression of genes and proteins that are important for the formation and maintenance of memories, as it has been well established that long-term memory requires the creation of new proteins. These proteins are believed to act at specific synapses between neurons, strengthening the connections between specific cells. This study shows that fingolimod can bind to HDACs and inhibit their activity. Specifically, the authors show that this happens in neurons located in the hippocampus of the brain, a neural structure important for the formation of new memories. Perhaps the most interesting part of this study shows that mice treated with the MS drug have an enhanced ability for memory extinction as measured by the decreased amount of freezing behavior of the mice during a behavioral test.
The ability to enhance or alter memory is on its way. Drugs that can accomplish such a feat would be beneficial for the treatment of devastating neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This new study identifies a novel pathway for changing the expression of genes involved in memory and subsequently, the enhancement of memory extinction in mice as seen in behavioral testing. Perhaps most importantly, the authors have show that this is caused by an FDA-approved drug that is already being used to treat MS, bypassing the complicated barriers presented by bringing novel drugs to market. It will be interesting to follow how HDAC inhibitors like fingolimod and other epigenetic drugs will be used in the future to better understand memory formation and maintenance, processes that have been difficult to pin down so far.


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Tip #1: Make Sure the Company's Services Meet Your Needs
Depending on where you live, the number of movie companies varies. Some towns may have one or two local businesses that provide umbrella services, while large cities often have numerous film companies that specialize in the production or post-production of movies. If you need help during the filming of your movie, then hire a production service company to provide crew and equipment. Post-production companies help after the initial filming is done by adding special effects and graphics.
Tip #2: Use a Company with Good References
As with any business, you shouldn't use the first one you come across. Ask your business associates in the film industry for the names of any companies they enjoyed working with before. Read their reviews from other customers, if available, to see the experience others had while working with the company. Quality professional companies are more expensive than others, but the film product they produce in the end is exceptional. This is especially true if your film is going to rely heavily on special effects or animation.
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Many first time film-makers, as well as seasoned professionals, quickly get in over their heads when it comes to budgeting. Of course, it is exceedingly difficult to plan for everything that is going to happen ahead of filming the movie, but it is not impossible. For example, if you know are going to need a production services company to provide cameras and equipment, budget for it. If you know your movie is going to use a lot animation, then you need to use a large part of the budget for post-production.


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The Yankees may have a lost a "model" fan.
Supermodel Kate Upton revealed on "Live with Kelly and Michael" last week that the Bombers forced her not to show any support for the Detroit Tigers when she attended last Wednesday's game at the stadium, despite the fact she's dating Detroit pitcher Justin Verlander. Upton, 22, said she was crushed because she used to be a huge Yankee fan.
"The Yankees told me, 'You're not allowed to wear a Tigers hat. You're not allowed to wear any Tigers gear.'
"It's like a bad breakup," she said.
The Yankees didn't return messages for comment.
The model and actress said she and Verlander, 31, poke fun at each other at the expense of his intense athletic regimen. Her Tigers gear plays a fun role, she said. "He always says anytime we're fighting I wear a Yankees hat. And when we're getting along I'm wearing a Detroit hat," she joked.


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You've got Aya in my Dissidia!
Although the 3DS may be known as the newest and greatest handheld system ever, which is saying a lot considering that the system isn't coming out until next year, it doesn't seem like momentum for the Sony handheld will stop any time soon. With Square's heavily-anticipated Parasite Eve: 3rd Birthday, Kingdom Hearts Final Mix and Dissidia 012 on their way, it seems that Nintendo's product may just have a bit of the competition that it needs.
Being leaked out of Jump Magazine, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix is currently planned for a January 2011 release in Japan. Featuring elements from the North American version of the game, including English cut-scenes and new features that were added to the U.S. Version, Square Enix will also be including a new Secret Episode that can only be reached by fulfilling specific conditions.
Before the launch of Final Mix however, the 3rd Birthday will be released on December in Japan at a pricepoint of ¥6,090. Also featured at TGS was more news about Square's sequel to the first Dissidia, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy which featured both a trailer and a playable build. Square will be attempting to push all three upcoming handheld games through tying them together through costume options. Aya will have a Lightning outfit in the 3rd Birthday, Lightning will have an Aya outfit in Dissidia while Cloud will have a Kingdom Hearts outfit in Dissidia. It remains to be seen on just how Kingdom Hearts Final Mix will be affected if anything.
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SUPPORTERS of ambitious plans to redevelop a defunct arts centre will soon learn whether it has attracted a major funding package.
The Arts Council is due to announce on January 22 whether it will award £2m to help kick-start the scheme to revive Darlington Arts Centre - which closed last July due to council budget cuts.
A proposal by businessmen Graham Thrower and Andy Bottomley could see the Vane Terrace venue re-open as a hotel and cultural hub if initial funding is secured.
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Darlington MP Jenny Chapman raised the issue with Culture Secretary Maria Miller in the House of Commons earlier today (Thursday, January 10).
She said: "I said that it is an exciting, innovative project that won't rely on public money for its revenue; it is going to be sustainable in a way that such venues rarely are.
"It does need capital investment to get it off the ground and I wanted the ministers to consider it and have a good look at it."
Ms Chapman admitted that it was "cheeky" to publicly raise the issue with ministers of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport but said she would do whatever she could to help the funding bid.
"I am going to follow it up with a letter because in the situation that I raised it in, you don't get sensible answers very often.
"I will write and ask if she (Maria Miller) would like to know more and that she would be very welcome to meet with me and discuss the project further."
The redevelopment plan, titled 'Project Vane', would see new commercial parts of the site such as a boutique hotel, restaurant and business units, subsidise a revamped public arts facility.
Darlington Borough Council postponed selling the building in the hope that the scheme will go ahead and Ms Chapman said it would be "tremendous" if it does.
"It would be a real asset to the town; it would be fantastic if we could get this funding.
"This really is a lifeline, it is a very exciting opportunity and it could bring something better than the cultural offering we had before.
"They would be fantastic facilities that would put Darlington on the national map for arts – which is where it should be."


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The Good Times Could Be Killing You
We all say that we want to live a "healthier" life, but when it comes down to it, most of us just get drunk and pass out in a stripper (oh…just me?). But according to a new story from Men's Health, the good times could be killing us. And not so slowly.
Dr. David Spiegelhalter told Men's Health that it may be difficult to realize how something you do today can effect you 30 or 40 years down the road. Luckily for us, he broke down how some things can directly influence our life spans.
He thinks about the effect of specific activities on your longevity in terms of "microlives" — or 30-minute windows. Break the numbers down and you'll see just how binge drinking cuts years from your life: After the first one, which increases your lifespan by 30 minutes, every alcoholic drink that you down today brings you 15 minutes closer to death.
Pretty crazy stuff. Below is a chart of how some stuff either positively or negatively your life. Some of this is pretty eye opening. For more go over to Men's Health's website.
If all these numbers are correct (let me do a little quick math…) it looks like I should have died in 1779. Go me, beating the law of science and what not. WOOOHOOO!


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Music Track Title: Dance for Joy (Sweep)
Catalog ID: 438790 ISRC: US5UL1057136
Description: Confident, vibrant, positive, youthful music blends Trance and World influences. Delicate yet rhythmic. Corporate branding, websites, B2B, infomercials, modern transformations, medical breakthroughs, dance. Dreamy, enchanted, gentle, happy.
Social Media Link: https://www.audiosparx.com/sa/archive/Dramatic/Energizing-Music/Dance-for-Joy-Sweep/438790
Artist or Group: Wilton Vought
Keywords: Film TV Voiceover Soundtrack Cinematic Flash Advertising Games PBS Promotions Announcements Commercials Teamwork Industry Websites Airlines Financial Markets
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Energizing, inspiring, positive music
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Duration: 0:15 Tempo: Med Slow BPM: 100
Arrangement: Band / Ensemble
Instruments: Bells, Drums, Dulcimer, Bass, Harmonium, Indigenous Drums, Indigenous Percussion, Mandolin, Organ, Synthesizer, Tabla
Vocal Mix: Instrumental
Use Restrictions: Use in pornographic, x-rated, sexually stimulating or similar productions prohibited
Use in products or productions advocating racial, sexual or similar discrimination or bias prohibited
Moods: Beautiful, Bouncy, Bright, Buoyant, Carefree, Celebratory, Confident, Driving, Energetic, Free, Happy, Inspiring, Motivational, Optimistic, Pulsating, Purposeful, Shimmering, Successful, Trance, Vibrant
Styles: 2010s (MMX), Corporate, High Tech, New Age, Phone On-Hold, Romantic Comedy, Soundscape, Sports / Yoga, Travel Channel, Worldbeat
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We got an email back from the Salahi Camp, Michaele appeared on FOX5…
Still holding our breath over here for Michaele Salahi to perform her new song 'Bump It' LIVE on the Tommy Show! [The Invitation Is Out] She did do a non-singing-interview with Shawn Yancy of FOX 5. Shawn asked appropriate questions and got … interesting answers. [VIDEO HERE] And who's the random dude on the couch in the shot?
We received a note back from the Salahi's press person. He said that Missy will be doing her first performance in LA [understandable?] and then will be doing performances and CD signings here in DC. Stay Tuned.
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Innovation in style, engineering and security. The new SIP tubeless rim, successful and reliable. This rim allows you to use tires without a tube. In case of a puncture a sudden air leak will be prevented, the air pressure will decrease slowly. Blown tires will be a thing of the past. So will valve tear offs or punctures due to tubes beeing trapped between the rims during assembly.
The SIP tubeless rim combines the advantages of a classic cast rim with a high production accuracy and quality. The design is a tubeless double hump rim. This hump prevents the tire from slipping into the rim well in case of a puncture. The rim rotation is very precise. The rim is aluminium cast and CNC machined. The surface finish is perfect. The valve is included and already mounted. The rim is currently available in polished aluminium, black, black with polished edge and silver.
2.25-10'': At last the sporting giants among the Vespa models produced during the sixties can enjoy the benefits provided by the SIP tubeless alloy wheels! Due to the fact that members of the SIP team also own road-going Vespa models of this type, it was only a matter of time... All currently produced 3.00x10'' and 3.50x10'' tyres are fully compatible with these rims. Wheels of this size are the typical sparepart for the famous Vespa GS 160 and SS 180 models. If your scooter is fitted with a PX motor you will require the 2.10-10'' (PX) sized version of our tubeless wheel to complete the conversion successfully. Our SIP tubeless alloy wheels are top quality state of the art products and also possess a security feature in the form of a special recess along the inner diameter to allow the fitting of an ABUS wheel locking system when the scooter is parked. We do not intend to produce a huge number of wheels in this size, so they will not receive individual homologation. If type approval regulations prevail in your part of the world the documentation available for the almost identical 2.50-10'' wheels is usually accepted by your local vehicle inspector for approval.
Conclusion: innovative rim, high-quality workmanship, additional security. This product has successfully passed our long distance and fatigue test!
Aluminium rim, painted, 2.25-10 inch, tubeless
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I have won two prizes so far including a trip to Africa with World Vision and Smooth FM and also a family ticket to the launch of Liberty of the Seas with a chance to win a weeks holiday.
I constantly check out the site for new competitions.


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A day in life of a music mind
For the past few years, we have been repeatedly told that the future of music business relies on giving music recordings away and then do extensive touring. The fans, apparently don't want to pay for the music, but they are willing to pay for a live experience. "It's very hard in the beginning, but later on, as you become more popular, economics start making sense". That was, in essence, what I have heard in every music business gathering. One thing that everyone seemed to forget is that there is increasingly high wall between artists and fans: concert venue & ticket sales monopolies.
The latest example, related to Imogen Heap is very illustrative. This Grammy Award-winning British singer explained to her fans that her current tour might be the last one for a while. And it's not due to lack of popularity. As this article in Guardian explains, the truth is brutal. My non-scientific study on Twitter shows dozens, if not hundreds of fans listening to her tracks and telling everyone about it. And yet, she can't make enough to stay afloat, as the vast majority of ticket price goes to the venue and ticket sellers.
In her own words:"Sad truth is touring US especially such a monopoly. Audience end up paying double ticket price to the venue @Seattle_D. Huge mark up."
So, if you can't make money by selling your music, and you can't make money by playing live, not even as a Grammy winner, what else is left?


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This is the first in what I hope will be a nice long series of cross stitch. I collect children's books and I display my favorites, but that's just the covers! There are so many amazing illustrations and designs inside that no one ever gets to see. So I set out to turn some of my favorite pages into cross stitches. I scanned some of my favorite pages and used MacStitch to turn them into cross stitch patterns. Here's the first, part of a page from Books! by Murry McCain and John Alcorn. I wanted to start with something nice and small and simple. I finished it in a few leisurely evenings in front of the t.v.
This is the page I used:
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Anderson-Fernholz April wedding
Shannon Anderson and Dominic Fernholz were married April 14, 2012 at Faith Lutheran Church in Madison. Parents of the couple are Jeff and Sandy Anderson of Cyrus, and Barb Fernholz of Louisburg, and Leo Fernholz of Henning.
Matron of honor was Staci Holzheimer and bridesmaids included Heather Fernholz, Teresa Schwegel, Mindee Kuechenmeister and Lauren Sizer. Flower girl was Greta Fernholz.
Best man was Kerry Hemmingson and groomsmen included Kevin Hemmingson, Preston Schwegel, Kyle Kuechenmeister and Justin Borstad. Ring bearer was Carver Schwegel. Ushers were Jeff Kleven, Chad Boehnke, Daniel Holzheimer and Dan Willis.
Shannon and Dominic reside in rural Madison where Shannon manages Thrifty White Pharmacy and Dominic is the owner and operator of Fernholz Concrete.


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Long time, no draw here. Fastest drawing so far. 1 hour. By mouse. Out of boredom. Unfinished. Rushed.
Flash Draw Created May 12, 2014 338 x 470px Unless noted Copyright 2014 Momomichii.
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cool artwork!
Very nice, I like the simple style. The colouring is really nice and I love the mono tones used.
I like this... a lot! Great Job :) The eyes are really great also the shading is really well too! Keep up the great work ^^
Looks great, Welcome back!