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On your rafting trip with EarthTrek Expeditions there will be a photography company shooting pictures of you running the rapids. At the conclusion of your trip you can view the pictures and purchase a CD of your pictures. This company is not associated with EarthTrek Expeditions, Inc but we are pleased to recommend their services to you. If you are rafting the South Fork American you will need to view the pictures while you are in Coloma as they are not available for viewing on the internet but photos of the Middle Fork and North Fork American can be viewed online at the link below. If, after placing an order, you have questions about your order, please contact the photo company at the number listed below.
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I tripped and and had slight fall end of July. My right side felt tight and had massage next day. Therapist told me trap muscle, neck and back like cement. Also had sciatica in left cheek and lower leg. Had additional forceful massage following day. Since that time neck still sore and have burning constant pain in right breast and nipple. Went to ob/gyn for breast exam showed nothing. Had mammo and ultrasound and nothing showed on mammo but 2 spots legions hypoechoic I think name showed on right side at 12 adn 1 o'clock (6.5 mm and 1.1 cm)Due to have radiology consult next week. Also since massages rib cage sore but no visible bruising. Have implants and right breast had to be redone 3 times. Can these spots be scar tissue? Is pain related to breast problem? Does menstral cycle cause more pain (had period 8/2 and 8/26) sister had mastectomy 2 years ago. I had thryoid cancer full removal June 2005 clean bill of health in that area. Please provide any information you can. Thanks
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Another remarkable observation made by Herschel was when he noticed that the temperature of the region just beyond the red part of the spectrum was even higher than the red itself! He dubbed this radiation "calorific rays." Herschel carried out further experiments in which he demonstrated that what is now known as infrared radiation can be absorbed, transmitted, reflected, and refracted.[Back to Marshall Fellowship]


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Graphic designer Tom Muller's reputation means that he is often asked to speak in public or collaborate on one-off design experiments with fellow creatives, where he indulges his creative talents by producing posters for them.
Muller likes to keep the designs simple, but not simplistic. He's very much a fan of Josef Muller-Brockmann's posters. "They're timeless and they don't use any gimmicks," he says. "I like posters to be very pure, where you have a central focal point that draws you in and then around that focal point you have everything else, like text, imagery, whatever."
When Tom was asked by LongLunch to address attendees at a recent Glasgow gathering, he was also invited to create a promotional poster. He decided to test drive a font of his design, Nagasaki, and his budget allowed only a two colour-print, though one was fluorescent.
"The primary issue is that it doesn't really display correctly on the screen, so you kind of have to design with an approximation of some very pale orange and bear in mind it's going to look different when it's printed," Tom explains. "It's the same as working with fluorescent or metallic inks, or varnishes. You have to always approximate it on the screen."
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The marquee game on the schedule this week is definitely in Denver where the Broncos will host the New England Patriots on Sunday. Although Tim Tebow and Co. have won six consecutive games they find themselves as 6-point home underdogs at the Las Vegas Hilton this week. Apparently oddsmakers aren't quite buying into the Tebow magic quite yet, even though the Broncos are now in control of their own playoff destiny.
With their wild 34-31 win over the Cowboys last Sunday night, the Giants own sole possession of first place in the NFC East by virtue of their head-to-head tiebreaker over Dallas. That means that New York is now in control of its own destiny if it wins out. But first things first, the G-Men must beat a Washington Redskins team that defeated them in Week 1 and has played more competitive of late. The Giants are currently listed as 7-point home favorites over the Skins in Vegas.
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The Monday Night Football game this week should be a doozy as the San Francisco 49ers will host the Pittsburgh Steelers. While the Niners have already clinched the NFC West title and a trip to the playoffs, the Steelers are in a battle with the Ravens for first place in the AFC North. With Ben Roethlisberger hobbled by a high ankle injury, the Steelers find themselves as 1-point road dogs for their game against the Niners on Monday.
NFL fans can enjoy two pre-Sunday games this week, as the Falcons will host the Jaguars on Thursday night on the NFL Network and the Cowboys will travel to Tampa to take on the Bucs on Saturday night. Atlanta is currently an 11.5-point favorite over Jacksonville while Tampa Bay is a 6.5-point home dog against the Cowboys.
For a complete list of Las Vegas point spreads for Week 15 in the NFL, see below.
2011 NFL Week 15 Las Vegas Odds & Totals:
Thursday, December 15, 2011
301 Jacksonville Jaguars +11.5 (42)
302 Atlanta Falcons –11.5
Saturday, December 17, 2011
303 Dallas Cowboys –6.5 (46.5)
304 Tampa Bay Buccaneers +6.5
Sunday, December 18, 2011
305 Washington Redskins +7 (45.5)
306 New York Giants –7
307 Green Bay Packers –13.5 (45.5)
308 Kansas City Chiefs +13.5
309 New Orleans Saints –7.5 (50.5)
310 Minnesota Vikings +7.5
311 Seattle Seahawks +4.5 (35.5)
312 Chicago Bears –4.5
313 Miami Dolphins +1
314 Buffalo Bills -1
315 Carolina Panthers +6.5 (45.5)
316 Houston Texans –6.5
317 Tennessee Titans –6.5 (41)
318 Indianapolis Colts +6.5
319 Cincinnati Bengals –6
320 St. Louis Rams +6
321 Detroit Lions –1 (47.5)
322 Oakland Raiders +1
323 New England Patriots –6 (46)
324 Denver Broncos +6
325 New York Jets +2. (44.5)
326 Philadelphia Eagles –2.5
327 Cleveland Browns +6.5 (37.5)
328 Arizona Cardinals –6.5
329 Baltimore Ravens –2.5 (44.5)
330 San Diego Chargers +2.5
Monday, December 19
331 Pittsburgh Steelers +1
332 San Francisco 49ers –1
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Same boat. After the Annuals I really liked her as a character now she just took a huge turn
I think the Avengers and X-men work perfectly well in a shared universe. Even if it's just a scene like from the Tabula Rasa arc where Cyclops calls Cap and is like "Hey bro we got this"
This is what rubbed me the wrong way with AvX because I felt the X-men were 100% justified in not giving Hope over to the Avengers.
We only think Xavier is a Saint because he only lets us remember the good parts.
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Personally I think in the cover she looks more angry/sexy at him than mad, like angry make up sex is about to happen.
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In the grand scheme of things it probably doesn't matter a fig, but to our ear, a new Z sound in Amagansett is just plain wrong. Sad to say, we hear it increasingly everywhere — a grating "Ama-ganz-it."
People don't want to be told they are mispronouncing a word, so most of us avoid offering corrections. A woman of our acquaintance did just that recently, however, and was met with an indignant response along the lines of, "I've been coming here for 10 years, and I've always said it that way!"
Where did this come from? When did it start? And what's wrong with the letter S?
OMG, couldn't agree more. Scrapes my eardrums to hear "Amaganzit." I personally think it happened after WEHM came to town with Djs from away, who didn't know how it was pronounced; they all were calling it Amaganzit for years (tho I think they got the memo finally a coupla years ago, cause I've heard it correctly pronounced a bit on air lately). Similarly: It's annoying that people say (or write) "Route 27." What's wrong with Montauk Highway? Or just "the Highway"?


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Plot: In 1992, the socialist mayor of a little French town with the help of his contacts in Paris get the money to build a multimedia house. But the socialist party lose his majority in the election. But... But... Well everything would have been all right without those seven coincidences
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TOKYO o151; Believing it has grabbed the lead in graphics technology, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) plans to develop a Creative Workstation line that makes full use of the company's Playstation2 technology and environment, according to SCE president Ken Kutaragi. Planned as an environment to develop digital entertainment content, Sony said it was forced to pursue the Creative Workstation because PCs and workstations are no longer powerful enough to serve as development platforms for digital content.
The Creative Workstation line will not compete directly with current workstations, but will be targeted to penetrate various specialized markets where digital content is created.
In announcing the follow-up to its popular Playstation game console last month, SCE said Playstation2 will break the limitations of the conventional game world by expanding into a world that involves music and movies, which Kutaragi described as computer entertainment. SCE also announced plans to make Playstation2 a terminal of wideband bit distribution through cable modems.
SCE will build Creative Workstations under a three-phase plan using technology developed for the Playstation2.
"In the past, workstations and PCs had more power than home game consoles, so we could use them as development tools. But when the power of Playstation 2 matches or surpasses their power, it becomes difficult to use them for development," said Kutaragi.
"Workstations and PCs always continue to evolve . . . but such a story is collapsing," he said. Using the X86 and Pentium processors as an example, Kutaragi claimed that the growth in the number of CPU transistors has become dull. "The number of transistors does not necessarily mean performance, but at least large number of transistors are needed to include large scale architecture," he said.
If PCs with a 400-MHz Celeron processor and several gigabytes of hard-disk storage satisfy most PC users, product differentiation loses meaning and only price talks, he said. Some PCs have broke $1,000 and dropped to $500 or less, and some are offered for free.
"The PC is losing its position as the technology driver; so are workstations," said Kutaragi.
"Can we continue to rely on workstations and PCs in the future for software development? If not, what will be the tool to incubate our digital entertainment?" As the solution, Kutaragi announced at the Microprocessor Forum on Wednesday (Oct. 6) that Sony will research high-performance processors and will develop workstations based on those processors.
Playstation2 uses four chips for the system's main processing. A chip Sony calls the Emotion Engine serves as the core CPU, a Graphic Synthesizer and sound synthesizer handle graphics and sound processing, and an I/O processor provides the first-generation Playstation environment and various interface functionality.
The Emotion Engine, developed jointly by SCE and Toshiba Corp., has 13 million transistors. The part's transistor count increased by 2.5 million since the the CPU was first announced at the ISSCC in February. "Not because some functions are added," Kutaragi said, "but it finally had that number of transistors after bug fixes, specification enhancement, etc."
SCE has begun selling a Playstation2 development tool, dubbed DTL-T10000, for about $19,000. While the development tool for the original Playstation was provided as an extension board for a PC or workstation, the DTL-T10000 is a separate unit, with programming and debugging modes, which can create graphics for Playstation2. Sony expects to sell a good number of the tool to software developers. The Creative Workstations will be a separate line of systems using some of the development tool technology, and Kutaragi said Sony is not concerned even to make a profit on the Creative Workstation systems. Instead, Sony is looking at the effort as SCE's R&D activity.
Workstation effort
The Creative Workstation effort at present has three phases. For Phase 1, SCE intends to develop a workstation with about 10 times the performance of the development tool workstation, and to complete that work in 2000. The workstation will have the capability to handle graphics of 1,920 x 1,080/60p (progressive). SCE will not have time to develop new chips by 2000, so it will achieve the performance by using in parallel faster versions of the Emotion Engine and Graphic Synthesizer found in the Playstation2.
The Phase 2 workstation, scheduled to be introduced in 2002, will have 100 times the performance of the development tool workstation and will feature the Emotion Engine 2 and Graphic Synthesizer 2, each with an enhanced architecture over the current chips. The CPU will have 40 million transistors and will be fabricated on a 0.13-micron process. The workstation will handle the same 1,920 x 1,080 pixel graphics, and will have a flexible frame rate ranging from 24 to about 75 frames/second.
The Phase 3 workstation, scheduled to appear around 2005-2006, will have the Emotion Engine 3 and Graphic Synthesizer 3, which will have drastically changed architectures. As a result, the workstation will have 1,000 times performance of the development tool workstation, and will handle 4,000 x 2,000-pixel pictures at 24-to-120p. At this stage, Playstation3 will be taking a shape, Sony said.
The Phase 2 workstation will have real-time graphics production capability to handle movies, which could greatly change the movie production process, Sony said.
"We are going to raise the performance of Creative Workstations at a high pace," Kutaragi said. "So at a certain stage, it will have enough capability as a server for a mini-theater and at another stage it will have capability as a digital bit-stream transmitter at broadcast station."
Kutaragi said SCE is pursuing the workstations to support the creation of content. As such, SCE would be pleased to sell just 1,000 or 2,000 units a year, he said.
SCE and Sony together invested a total of about $1.1 billion on two fabs to establish a 0.18-micron process for the Emotion Engine and the Graphic Synthesizer. About $472 million was spent on the Emotion Engine's facility, which is a joint venture with Toshiba. About $660 million was spent on the fab in Nagasaki for the Graphic Synthesizer. "This investment will be recouped by selling Playstation2 on the consumer market," Kutaragi said. "We will continue to develop finer processes such as 0.15 micron and 0.13 micron to make chips shrink and to increase productivity."
Kutaragi said SCE's engineers have a very clear target when they develop process technology. "Process development without specific applications will make no sense," he said. "In Intel's case, it is very clear. They develop a process for a specific CPU. But even the process is fine, it makes no sense if it is developed for general purpose.
"Once such a finer process is established, we can make silicon as large as the limit of a stepper, say 20 x 20-mm or 22 x 22-mm chips. To develop such architecture is pure R&D. Pursuing desirable architecture for SCE's entertainment CPU and Graphic Synthesizer, we have a large freedom to challenge any architecture."
Kutaragi said SCE has no intention of entering the current workstation market with the Creative Workstation, but will aim to introduce the systems into the new sectors. "For example, movie theaters currently use film projectors, but in several years, they should be entering digital projectors," he said. "At that stage, servers for theaters will be a good target for our Creative Workstation." Once movie theaters are connected to backbone networks, it will be possible to distribute movies digitally to all connected theaters in one night.
"If we are pursuing future architecture, skilled, capable engineers will come to join us," said Kutaragi.


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My skin since becoming pregnant has started to get a bit greasy and spotty so not blooming in pregnancy at all at the moment. With this in mind I decided I needed to treat myself to some face masks to help dry out my skin. Having used some high end sea mud masks in the past I thought I would try this cheaper version of sea mud to see if it worked.
The Mudd sea mask I nought from Boots came in a resealable plastic pouch complete with a plastic flip top lid for easy use. The flip top lid keeps the mud inside lovely and moist and I have had no problems with mine clogging up at all in between applications. The 50 ml pack claims it contains up to 5 applications. Here the key word is up to as I found that it only really gives me at best 4 applications and no more really.
The claims
That it is a "Deep pore cleanser with hydrating sea extracts. Natural marine protein, minerals and vitamins are combined with 100% pure clay to absorb excess oil and deeply embedded dirt and make-up. Extracts of sea kelp, seaweed and Irish moss help to hydrate the skin. After use, skin feels deep-cleansed and refreshed." From Mudd
Using it and my experience
The Mud is lovely and smooth there is no grainy texture at all. The colour of the mud is a grey colour with hints of blue that become more apparent as it dries outs.
The smell of this is lovely and fragrant and smells to me more of roses than seaweed which seems a bit odd if I am honest.
They recommend your face a cleaned with a warm moist cloth no doubt to open the pores to blot dry the skin and then apply the mask to the skin. I do this generally before going for a soak in the bath and apply the mud to my skin. When it goes on the skin it feels slightly cool but not a sharp cold sensation. As the mud dries out on my skin I can feel it drying out my skin and unclogging my pores. I leave it on for about 15 minutes during which time the mud becomes totally dry and if I have done it a little thick in places then you do get that lovely cracking I love from mud face masks. There was is no stinging or tingling sensations as I wear the mask only tightness to my skin. It is easy to remove with a damp cloth. On removing it I can immediately notice that my skin feels a lot drier and some of the greasiness my skin has at the moment has gone. My moisturiser sinks in nicely to the newly cleaned skin. The mud I feel definitely lives up to its claims of deep cleanings but the hydrating elements I think for me at lest are not present as my skin feels so dried out which at the moment is what I need. The spots that I had been starting to get all visibly reduced and my doing this every 5 days or so this past month I have noticed that the spots I was plagued with have all gradually gone which I think is probably attributable to the masks.
This is a great sea mask for the price it dries out greasy skin excellently and leaves it feeling clean and with no clogged pores. At around £3 from Boots for 4 applications I also think it represents great value and as long as my skin is greasy at present I will use it. I think though if you have dry skin this is best avoided due to its drying properties.


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Niagara Falls Zoning Board of Appeals rejects request for liquor store
NIAGARA FALLS – The city's Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday rejected a second request to allow a liquor store to open on 24th Street in a residential neighborhood.
The proposal from Faisel Haruna to open the business at 424 24th St., north of Niagara Street and across from a convenience store he owns, requires a variance from the city because zoning codes do not allow such a business on the property.
In a vote last month on Haruna's request for a variance, board members split 3-3, which Corporation Counsel Craig H. Johnson on Tuesday called a "default denial."
The board reconsidered the request after Haruna's attorney, Robert M. Restaino, proposed several conditions, though none of the six board members at Tuesday's meeting made a motion to institute any of the conditions.
Instead, board member Richard J. Kindzia made a motion to deny the variance request, and all six members voted to reject the variance. Board member Robert Ventry was absent from the meeting.
"The vote is as it is, and now I have to sit with my client for purposes of determining what the next step will be, if there is a next step," Restaino said.
Options include taking the matter to State Supreme Court, he said.
There was no public comment during the meeting. About 50 people attended last month's meeting, with both supporters and opponents speaking before the board.
The opponents included Police Superintendent Bryan DalPorto, some neighbors and representatives of the city's Block Club Council.
Restaino said the conditions, offered in a Dec. 6 letter, were offered after listening to comments from the public last month.
The proposed conditions included closing the business on Sundays, putting up additional lighting, installing security cameras and, if necessary, applying to the city to limit parking time in front of the store.
Board member Samuel Archie was one of three who changed his vote from last month, along with Christopher R. Stoianoff and Vincent Spadorcia.
Archie said the outcry from the community made him change his mind. He described the area as a poorly lit street and said he considered crime issues when deciding how to vote.
In other matters, the board:
• Approved four variance requests for the proposed Community Health Center of Niagara at 2715 Highland Ave. The three-story building will accommodate eight or nine different service providers, project representatives said.
• Approved a parking variance request for the Niagara City Lofts project at the former South Junior High School, 561 Portage Road. The board's decision allows 128 parking spaces on the property, more than the 60 spaces allowed under city codes.
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Gulf of Mexico
What if low-lying Gulf Coast communities could gauge the impact of future storms? Well, now there's an app for that.
Under the direction of Dr. Jorge Brenner, associate director of marine science, The Nature Conservancy in Texas has developed a web portal and series of tools that will help coastal managers, scientists, the conservation community and people within the Gulf of Mexico Governor's Alliance predict how hurricanes, storm surges and sea level will affect their cities and coastal habitats in the future. Nearly 90 years into the future, to be exact; this online tool utilizes maps and models along with different inundation levels, ranging from a few inches to several feet, to assess coastal conditions in the years 2025, 2050, 2075 and 2100.
Brenner and his team ran analysis in five different locations in three different Gulf Coast states:
- Galveston Bay area and southern Jefferson County, Texas: As the largest bay system in Texas, Galveston Bay encompasses 1.4 million acres and spans six different counties. The area is situated in the northern portion of the Texas east coast and includes drainage of the Trinity and San Jacinto rivers.
- Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi: The GBNERR spans 18,400 acres in far southeast Mississippi, adjacent to the Alabama border in the Mississippi Sound. It was established in 1999 to promote estuarine research and education within Mississippi's Coastal Zone.
- Corpus Christi Bay, Texas: The bay is located in the coastal bend region of Texas and encompasses the City of Corpus Christi, Padre island and Port Aransas, among other localities. This study area was chosen because it will help us understand the impacts of the flooding of the Nueces River Delta area and the Padre and Mustang Barrier Islands.
- Choctawhatchee Bay and St. Andrews Bay, Florida: Located in the Emerald Coast region of the Florida Panhandle, these bays are loosely bordered by Pensacola Bay to the northwest and Apalachicola Bay to the southeast. Panama City is a major city located within St. Andrews Bay, while the popular vacation spots of Destin and Fort Walton Beach sit along Choctawhatchee Bay.
Such a tool couldn't come at a better time; the Gulf of Mexico is a workhorse, pumping more than $230 billion a year into our national economy and supporting upwards of 20 million jobs. If the five Gulf Coast states (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida) were considered a country, they would comprise the seventh largest economy in the world. But despite the region's economic power, we've seen the devastation Mother Nature can bring.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts sea rise of three millimeters per year in the Gulf of Mexico, an important factor in future storm preparedness. The results of Brenner's model, along with scenario maps and online tools, link to the Conservancy's Gulf of Mexico Resilience Decision Support Tool, and this suite of tools can, in turn, be can be combined with geographic information systems data to understand the impacts of those rising sea levels.
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Create a look for a model on stilts.
For us, we will interpret the challenge with our dolls on stilts. It will depend on your doll, popsickle sticks, chop sticks, dowels or even sticks from the yard will work.
It looks as if the stilts extend the models about as far as from the knee to the foot. So if you are engineering stilts for your model think about making them about 1/4 taller.
Create a look that is eye-catching, imaginative and truly larger-than-life, but remember, the judges frowned upon costume looks, and responded favorably to the looks that would translate to the runway.
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Good council hard to find
Watch out. Buzz is getting literary again. This time it's Flannery O'Connor, who wrote: "She would of been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."
A psychotic killer in the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" says that about a self-centered woman who finds Jesus just before he shoots her dead.
Why, besides pedantry, is Buzz afflicting you with a Southern novelist? Because of the Dallas Code Compliance Department, that's why.
Pamela Mickens, west division manager for the department, sent a letter earlier this month informing residents near Walnut Hill and Webb Chapel that the city was going to perform a sweep through the neighborhood to make certain the alleys were up to snuff--the grass mown, the trash cleared, etc.
"For the last few months, City Councilwoman Barbara Mallory Caraway, the city of Dallas staff...and others have been working together to address the concerns of the residents," began the letter, written on city stationery to residents of the Calliet Crime Watch area.
One neighborhood resident says the letter, mailed out a month before municipal elections, smells of city-sponsored electioneering on behalf of Caraway, who is up for re-election in District 6 on May 1.
"I think it's out of the ordinary for the city to mention [Caraway's] name a month before the election," says the woman, who asked not to be identified.
The neighborhood tends to have a high voter turnout, notes the woman, who called code compliance to complain about the city giving Caraway "credit for something she doesn't deserve credit for."
Jerome Davis, a public information officer for Dallas, says code compliance regularly sends out letters to residents when it is preparing to do an enforcement sweep. It's not unusual for city council members' names to be on the letters, he says, though he didn't know how often that happens. (Lots, we bet, around election time.) Code compliance was preparing the action anyway, and Caraway asked to be involved.
How fortuitous.
We're not exactly sure what the anonymous resident is complaining about. If a city election is what it takes to get the alleys cleaned and the weeds cut, then let's have more elections. Every month, say.
The Dallas City Council: They would of been a good council if it had been somebody there to elect them every minute of their lives.
Buying in
It must be sheer coincidence. D magazine's current cover story, beating up on city council member Laura Miller for beating up on Olympics promoter Tom Luce, hit the streets at the same time D's salespeople hit the streets offering advertising space in the magazine's upcoming special publication on the Olympics.
A recorded message on D's phone system helpfully provides callers the phone number for Luce's Olympics promotions outfit, Dallas 2012, in case callers want to volunteer.
Is it conceivable that publisher Wick Allison ordered up the hit on Miller, who has publicly called Luce a liar, to win his support for Allison's latest venture in political "advertorial" publishing?
Ha. And where does the rhetorical bear poop?
A more interesting question: How do you fill a whole magazine with stuff about an Olympic event 13 years off that may never happen, and how on earth do you sell ads for it? Seems you would need major help with a thing like that.
And what washes the rhetorical one hand?
This isn't the first time that D has thrown its weight--such as it is--behind the Big Project.
Last year, the magazine published another special report, "Building the New Dallas," before the vote on a $543.5 million bond package that included money for the Trinity River project. That one, Buzz recalls, offered up the image of boats sailing on a downtown lake. Apparently, "special" in this case is used in the same way it's used to describe learning-disabled children. Still, we can't wait to see what D has to say about the Olympics. We see images of Olympic teams sculling across the lake, past the discarded tires and condoms and through a thick layer of soap scum.
Wouldn't that be special?
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D, at least, is forthcoming about its boosterism, much the way Buzz is open about our cynicism. We can respect that. Sort of. More problematic is Belo, owner of the The Dallas Morning News and WFAA. Would the keeper of journalism's highest standards allow potential advertising revenue to affect its reporting on whether Dallas should pursue the Olympics?
One wouldn't think so, unless one understood that journalism's highest standards are to pursue the truth wherever it lies and to keep profit margins above 20 percent--but not necessarily in that order.
We mention this after someone pointed out something we missed in Belo's 1998 annual report, which Buzz detailed in last week's issue.
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"Belo [television] stations brought in more than $40 million in political, Olympics and Super Bowl advertising which contributed to an overall Broadcast Division revenue increase of nearly 5 percent. While there are no Olympics in 1999 and it is an 'off year' for political spending, we are working hard to overcome these non-repeating revenues."
We bet. Just elbow Wick Allison out of your way as you head to the trough.
--Compiled from staff reports by Patrick Williams
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Updated at 6:32 p.m. PT with Lyft's response.
Alternative-cab service Lyft just hit a big regulatory red light on its way into New York City.
The city's Taxi & Limousine Commission issued a statement today saying Lyft is not authorized to have its drivers picking up passengers through the mobile app-enabled service. The announcement comes just a day after Lyft announced plans to do as much.
"Lyft has not complied with TLC's safety requirements and other licensing criteria to verify the integrity and qualifications of the drivers or vehicles used in their service, and Lyft does not hold a license to dispatch cars to pick up passengers," the commission said in the statement, according to the New York Times. Lyft drivers could be fined as much as $2,000 "for unlicensed activity," according to the statement.
In response, Lyft issued a "New York Safety Commitment" (see below), vowing to impose vehicle standards, rules on alcohol use, and other practices. The company will "continue to work with all stakeholders to create a path forward," a Lyft spokeswoman wrote in an email to VentureBeat.
Lyft has been growing quickly as of late, following its $250 million funding round in April.
But it's still in the shadow of Uber, which is popular in New York City and has previously received regulatory clearance from the T&LC. ("All of Uber's current transportation options meet TLC requirements for licensing, insurance and driver screening," an Uber spokeswoman wrote in an email to VentureBeat. "Due to TLC regulations Uber does not currently have a ridesharing platform in New York. If regulators embrace ridesharing with a relaxed approach to licensing and enforcement with other companies, Uber will be excited to launch our ridesharing platform soon in the state of New York.")
A representative of the T&LC did not immediately respond to VentureBeat's request for comment.
Read Lyft's "New York Safety Commitment" below:
Lyft is the latest evolution of mobile-based ridesharing — a friendly, safe, and affordable transportation option that matches people who need rides with people who have cars.
As industry pioneers setting the gold-standard for safety and designing every part of Lyft with safety front of mind, we commit to:
- Prior to permitting a person to act as a driver on its digital network, Lyft will obtain and review a criminal history report for such person. The criminal history check will be a national criminal history check including the national sex offender database. A person with disqualifying convictions will not be permitted driver access to the Lyft network.
- Prior to permitting a person to act as a driver on its network, and quarterly thereafter, Lyft will obtain and review a driving history report for such person. A person with disqualifying traffic violations will not be permitted driver access to the Lyft network.
- Drivers on the Lyft network will adhere to state insurance requirements and Lyft will maintain a business automobile excess liability insurance policy, which covers all vehicles operated by drivers on the Lyft network, with a minimum combined single limit of one million dollars for each occurrence of bodily injury and property damage for accidents involving a vehicle and Lyft operator in transit to or during a trip.
- Lyft will implement a zero tolerance policy on the use of drugs or alcohol applicable to any driver on the Lyft network, provide notice of the zero tolerance policy on its website, as well as the procedures to report a complaint about a driver with whom the passenger was matched and for whom the passenger reasonably suspects was under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the course of the ride, and immediately suspend said driver upon receipt of a passenger complaint alleging a violation of the zero tolerance policy. The suspension will last the duration of the investigation.
- All vehicles on the Lyft network will be of model year 2000 or newer and pass a 19-point safety inspection conducted annually by Lyft or a third party before being used to provide a service.
- Drivers on the Lyft network will accept only rides prearranged through the Lyft mobile application and will not solicit or accept street-hails.
- Lyft will maintain a 24/7 support team available via telephone and email and trained to assist both drivers and passengers.
- Lyft will maintain a driver-training program designed to ensure that each driver safely operates his or her vehicle prior to the driver being able to offer service.
- To keep community standards high, the Lyft mobile application will allow passengers and drivers to each provide feedback on a 5-star scale after every ride. If either party rates their match 3-stars or lower, they will never be matched again. If a driver's average feedback falls below 4.6 out of 5 stars, that driver will no longer be permitted driver access to the Lyft network.


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Actually, I saw on one local forums that Atari are prepping up an Ultimate DnD bundle or something and was available for pre-order (of a sort), including NWN with both expansions, both BGs with expansions, both IWDs with the first one's expansion, ToEE, Dragonshard and Demon Stone for about the price of 60 euros. With the obvious exclusion of PS-T in favor of the more recent and mediocre Dragonshard and Demon Stone, the only problem is it has still to see the light of day and there is absolutely no info on it by now since then. Still, it would be fine if this sees this in retail.


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Note,…. this timeline would benefit from some updates.
2001 October 12. Intellectual Property, innovation and international trade agreements. Wizards of OS. Discussion of R&D Treaty.
2001 December 20. Can we create a global trade framework for health care R&D that puts patients first? Presented at the Fifth International Conference on Home and Community Care for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. Chaing Mai, Thailand.
2002 February 11. Can we create a global trade framework for health care R&D that puts patients first?
2002 March 10. Can we create a global trade framework for health care R&D that puts patients first? Madison Wisconsin.
2002 September 18. Ottrott-le-Haut, France, Hubbard and Love present Radical IP scenarios to Aventis meeting on pharamceutical scenarios.
2002 November 1. How to frame a global trade agreement that promotes R&D and does not undermine lower prices in countries with less ability to pay. The Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Committee on Intellectual Property meeting on the Impact of Intellectual Property Rules on Consumers of Health Care Services.
2002 December 3. James Love. PPT presentation given at The Drugs for Neglected Diseases (DND) Working Group, in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. The Benifits of a Treaty on R&D.
2003 February 28. How can we address access, and fund R&D? Next steps in the campaign for access to essential medicines. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
2003 March 20. New Intellectual Property Regimes and New Business Models for Funding R&D, The Human Genome and Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2003 April 29. Basis for a treaty on R&D. CPTech, MSF, Oxfam Meeting on global framework for supporting health research and development (R&D) in areas of market and public policy failure. Geneva.
2003 May 27. From TRIPS to RIPS: A better Trade Framework to support Innovation in Medical Technologies, Agence nationale de recherches sur le sida/Institute d' économie publique. Workshop on Economic issues related to access to HIV/AIDS care in developing countries Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
2003 June 14. Tim Hubbard and James Love in the New Scientist. Medicines without barriers.
2003 June 24. Tim Hubbard and James Love. Paper presented at the Meeting on The Role of Generics and Local Industry in Attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines held at the World Bank. An Agenda for Research and Development.
2003 September 24-29. Global Dialogues on IP: Public Health & IP/Collective Management of IP, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center.
2003 November 12. Two Steps for Equitable Access to Intellectual Property.
2003 November 17. A better trade framework to support innovation in health care technologies, The Aventis/Marseille Proposal, James Love, APHA.
2003 December 4. Paper presentend by James Love at Columbia University's Workshop on Access to Medicines and the Financing of Innovations in Heath Care. A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare R&D.
2004 February 2. Essay by James Love and Tim Hubbard published in the PLoS Biology. A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare R&D.
2004 March 4. Op-ed by James Love and Tim Hubbard published in the Guardian. We're Patently Going Mad: Lifesaving drugs must be developed differently – for all our sakes. Here is James V. Delong's rather rambling attack on the Guardian article, which links quite a few different issues, proposals and movements into one.
2005 January 26. Rep. Sanders introduced H.R. 417 – The Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act, in the 109th Congress.
2005 June 8. Understanding the Medical R&D Treaty Proposal. MSF meeting on ensuring innovation for neglected diseases,
2005 September 9. Australia presentation. New Paradigms in International Trade for Knowledge Goods
2005 September 24. Determining the value of a pharmaceutical invention under HR 417, the Medical Innovation Prize Fund, International Seminar: Contributions to the Development Agenda on Intellectual Property Rights. UNU-INTECH, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2005 October 1. Determining the value of a pharmaceutical invention under HR 417, the Medical Innovation Prize Fund. Montreal.
2006 May. James Love. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 84 (5). Drug development incentives to improve access to essential medicines.
2006 September 25. Stimulating medical R&D when inventions enter the public domain, CIPP Workshop on Intellectual Property, Biotechnology Capacity and Development. Buenos Aires.


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MANITOWOC - Manitowoc Foodservice is moving production of a line of ice machines from Manitowoc to Monterrey, Mexico.
About 150 employees who work on the Indigo line of ice machines at Manitowoc Ice will be affected, said Manitowoc Sr. Vice President of Human Resources and Administration Tom Musial.
Musial returned FOX 11's calls for comment, but declined an on-camera or recorded phone interview.
Layoffs will start in September and go through the end of 2015. Musial says about 100 employees will remain at the Manitowoc plant doing machine assembly and other areas of production. The company recently invested $3.2 million in the Wisconsin facility.
Several Manitowoc Ice employees didn't want to talk with FOX 11 on camera, but said they're shocked with the decision.
Musial says the move is intended to help the company better serve customers in Latin America as well as U.S. customers.
"Our largest customer base in the U.S. is the south," Musial said over the phone to FOX 11's Bill Miston. "One of the advantages of Monterrey is that it's closer to some of our largest U.S. customers and as we get in to South America, Mexico has free trade agreements with South American countries, which better allows us to penetrate South America."
"Our employees aren't to blame for global competition factors. We're in a competitive market and it doesn't change the competitive factors that we have to address."
The union representing plant employees declined to do an interview with FOX 11, but released a statement:
"We're probably going to have about 80 jobs left and we're going to work with the company to retain the jobs at Manitowoc Ice," said International Association of Machinists' District 10 directing business representative Russell Krings. "We're never going to be able to compete for $3-an-hour jobs and we shouldn't have to. It's a shame we have to compete with jobs being run out of the country when we need the jobs here."
Krings says the pending layoffs have nothing to do with the union's current negotiations for a new labor agreement with the ice machine manufacturer.


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Estate agents have dismissed claims that people in West Norfolk should be earning nearly £47,000 to keep up with soaring house prices.
The charity Shelter says average salaries in this area are £21,268 and this should rise to £46,826 to allow people to get on the housing ladder.
The charity is calling for more affordable homes to be built after examining wage and house price inflation in the East of England since 1997.
But estate agents and mortgage lenders in West Norfolk say the market is doing well thanks to initiatives such as Help to Buy Scheme with its five per cent deposit.
Two-bedroom terraced homes in Lynn are on the market for between £90,000 and £109,000.
Robert Stevens, valuer at Britton's Estate Agents in Lynn's Tuesday Market Place, says buying a home is not out of reach for someone on a £21,000 salary.
He said: "Prices in Lynn are quite good, you can get an awful lot for your money. It is the best time for first time buyers.
"Our mortgage adviser is extremely busy at the moment with first time buyers. The Help to Buy scheme is a really good thing as it had been very difficult for young people to get a deposit together."
Gary Davison, manager of Millsopps in King Street, says house prices are edging up.
He said: "We are experiencing a really good market place. I don't think it is so bad as most people can get a property."
Mortgage adviser Nigel Barrett, of Barrett Batchelor Mortgage Services in Lynn, says lenders are placing more emphasis on whether buyers can afford the repayments.
He said: "I don't think I've had to turn people away on the grounds of affordability. If people do get turned down it is usually due to credit issues."
Shelter's chief executive Campbell Robb says the housing shortage in this country has reached "crisis point".
He said: "Despite the fanfare surrounding Help to Buy, pumping money into mortgage guarantee schemes is not the solution – that is to build more affordable homes"


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Socal is this offer still valid ?
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Discussion in 'The Snubbie Club' started by badge4436, Jan 26, 2008.
3 rounds, 3 feet, 3 seconds.
That's what FBI studies in the past have said after studying a few years worth of police gunfights.
However since the event of the wonder-nine in police work shots fired must have gone up on the part of the police. I know of several recent events where the young coppers are busting ten or more caps in an event where we had to settle it in six back in "the day." (I think G27Chief might back me up on this.) I made the transition to the semi-auto (Beretta 92F) in my career and never felt that comfortable with it compared to the revolver.
We were trained in a different way. Marksmanship, with an emphasis on speed. The wonder nine, "hollywoodized" gun fight thinking with the spray and pray technique. Some, well hell probally more then we wish to know pick up the weapon once a year on the range. I knew of some before the passage og a POST rule that had not received firearms training since the academy. I go with the shot placement and stopping the threat technique. Get on target quickly, and stay there until the threat is gone.
Giving up my model 686 for the 5903, I would still fire the same practice strings as before 2 then 1. Now a G27, 23 or 22 and I feel fine in the ability to perform my duty.
I will reply REM SP10, One BG 2 rounds of 38+p+ at 23.5' hits in the upper left quadrant of the chest just right of center. BG stopped, still doing time in his wheelchair, paralyzed from the nipples down. That was 21 years ago, dark of night, no weapon mounted flashlight, night sites, 15 round magazines, and a AR 15 was somthing they had down at the National Guard Armory. We made it through, but now the idea of no patrol carbine, or surefires, is almost unimaginable.
This is exactly the "average" gunfight I was talking about, that is frequently quoted. It is no longer enough for my comfort level.
Read the news once in a while.
This statistic means that a significant percentage of gunfights require MORE than 3 rounds.
Never been in a gunfight, but I imagine there are several things to worry about. Would be nice not to have to worry about running out of ammo.
In my snubs I use the Federal #357B - the 125gr full-power .357 mag. In the 340PD (1-7/8" barrel) I get 1170 fps. I was told that this would be about an 82% stopper. From the 640-3 stainless (2-1/8" barrel) I get about 1245 fps, and I'm told this would be about a 91% stopper. Both of these estimates for this round in these snubs came from people familiar with the Marshall and Sanow methods. But I've never seen test bullets for the Fed 125gr round from these snubs. Note that the estimated 91% figure for the 640-3 is equal to the 115gr +P+ from a 4-inch auto in the Marshall book.
One of the most valuable skills a person can have
is the ability to shoot a J-frame well.
Some thoughts: I recently took a robbery report in which five assailants closed in from two directions to rob a guy; when he fled the first two, a shotgun blast was fired at him, and he then ran into the other three, at leeast one of whom opened up on him with autoloader pistol fire. This was a "good" part of town, well-lit, and the intended victim a teenage grocery store stock boy walking home, listening to his Ipod. He dodged and ran, going over fences into the next block. There were numerous witnesses, who viewed part of this scenario while at a convenience store, where I frequently stop.
In the next block, not long afterward, I took a robbery report from a couple, who were approached by two pistol-wielding bad guys, who robbed them at gunpoint. Remember, I said well-lit, "good" part of town. I used to live in this neighborhood, and I still eat at restaurants in the immediate area. I still shop at the grocery store where the stock boy works. I walked the dog past the location of these roberies many times. Does this mean I need a wonder nine? No, I don't even own one.
Even before these incidents, my normal minimum, and my 24/7 always/everywhere weapon was a Ruger SP101, almost always accompanied by another firearm, from a second SP101 on up, plus reloads. I have practiced reloads, and I mean REALLY practiced. Yes, I am comfortable with snubbies, though it's nice if one is a bit bigger, perhaps my 4" Ruger Speed Six, that can share ammo with the snubby. The mind is the weapon, and alertness/awareness allows the mind to win battles. There will always be scenarios where any level of armament will fall short. The biggest limitation of snubbies, as I see it, is the short sight radius, and the smaller profile of the sights, limiting one's effective range. So, there is nothing wrong with a snubby as a close-range tool, if its ammo capacity and shootability are kept in mind.
No, not in the least. Marksmanship trumps round count any day of the week.
Never cause most of the time my 642 is a backup to this..
when im limited in waredrobe(sp?) i will drop two J frames in the front pockets and carry on....
I agree, there will always be scenarios that underscore firepower.
Being alert is far the more important and a prepared mindset trumps any difference between choice of handguns, IMO.
I don't see the snubby as being the best handgun for everything by any stretch, but its unique qualities of reliability, power and pocketability allow a level of threat response that balance well for the typical situations folks like me benefit from.
Hand in pocket= hand on gun.
so true....well rehersed tactics will trump the coolest gun.
in the incident mentioned above....if a single bad guy from any of the groups took a .38spl in the gut, it would probably have stopped the attack, as no one, i mean no one wants to be shot, and a targeted victim fighting back is a criminal's worst nightmare because they can deliver far more justice than any of our inept court systems.
Take out the most aggressive one first ,the others will most likely see that and say "I'am out of here".
Saw that on tv once and makes pretty good since to me>
I actualy feel overgunned carrying my 340 SC. 5 rounds are better than none that one day your in a rush and leave your "Big" gun home, or in the glove box. I doubt any of the thugs will be wearing hearing protection, The muzzle blast will take out the first half dozen or so, and after 5 shots, I'll beat the snot out of those standing with my 12oz scandium face smasher!
I carried a S&W M-36 3inch with 158 gr lswhp +P's (issue round) when I was a Detective before we went to Glocks. I always carried 2 speed loaders and never felt under armed. That extra inch of barrel added so much to the accuracy of that gun. Still in the vault.
I'm comfortable with my J frame 38 Special and a speedloader with five extras for off-duty carry. I believe that the realistic potential of winning the power ball lottery is probably better than having to use your piece to defend yourself against an attacker(s), let alone running dry and having to reload. I choose to live my life by planning for probabilities, not possibilities. There is a lot more to being prepared than just carrying a gun.
Each persons circumstances, abilities and comfort levels are different and each person has to decide what is right for them.
I'm just getting back into owning a snubbie and this is my thought. The snub will be a great throw into the pocket gun for me when hitting the local stores or going someplace "rather safe". I feel in these places I will be properly equipped. I know noone can predict when or where a violent offense will occur but if I were to go into a "not so safe place of known origin" (East Side of Cleveland for example) I would have a snub for a BUG and probably carry my G21 with pleanty of extra mags.
Time, place and situation will dictate when I carry the snub or something with more punch and capacity.
Amen brother. Well said.
"Here lies McGruff
Thought five was enough
If he'd had eleven
He wouldn't be in heaven."
At least as good an epitaph as " I probably won't need more firepower, statistically".
Glock 26 or snub against a group of three or more, assuming that you miss with a round or two under stress (as is extremely likely, especially in light of the tiny sights, heavy trigger and short barrel of a snub)?


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Oh the perils of working on camera - a melt down over an ear-piece malfunction has gone viral over the last week showing workplace violence is no mean subject to ignore.
The host of MSNBC's 'Last Word' Lawrence O'Donnell has apologised after a footage leaked from the show's August 28 taping showed the anchor having a profanity-filled meltdown behind the scenes. Talk about having a bad day!
It starts with an issue with his earpiece while introducing a news package. The moment the report starts playing, the anchor goes on a tirade about his earpiece not functioning properly.
"Why don't I have sound? Alright it's back, someone is pressing buttons and turning the sound off. Who's asking for a Labour Day rundown in my ear?" he complains to his crew.
And then he loses it!
"Someone in that control room is out of control," he says frustratingly.
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Ain't nothin' but a G-string for Stacy Keibler! George Clooney's actress/model girlfriend made a solo appearance in Monaco on Sunday, May 27 for its annual, super-duper glitzy Grand Prix. Happily posing for a photographer at Amber Lounge, a nightclub in the posh French Riviera city-state, Keibler, 33, looked sexy and carefree as ever in a short red, belted romper that showcased her slim toned arms and legs — and an embarrassing glimpse of pink G-string underwear underneath!
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More than the bunions, calf muscles and hip joints of Dallas dancers are hurting this year. The tough economy is particularly rough on "the arts," which are increasingly dependent on corporate sponsors when individual supporters get a look at what happened last quarter to their 401(k)s. We almost lost the Fort Worth Dallas Ballet this year. Save for a last-minute bail-out by some mega-check writers, the prestigious bi-city dance company would have vanished--going the way of Ballet Dallas and Dancers Unlimited.
Still, it's hard to keep the hard-core denizens of dance down in Dallas. The Dallas Dance Council is rolling out its 18th annual Dallas Morning News Dance Festival this weekend, an "umbrella" event that features handpicked North Texas (plus, oddly, Houston) dance groups strutting their most creative and innovative stuff in Annette Strauss Artist Square. The growth of dance festivals reflects a trend in American dance, bringing dance groups together in community events that maximize each company's limited resources but offer broad exposure to a dramatically diverse audience. Festivals hook the dance community up with the "first-timers"--people who wouldn't pay a nickel to get all dressed up and see Swan Lake but who will take the family to a city park for a picnic-style outing with cultural overtones.
The Dallas Dance Council isn't looking for a handout. They want to pique your interest, not pick your pockets. The idea is to give everyone an experience of dance, make it approachable, essential and barrier-free. This year's lineup presents two different dance programs, repeated twice over the four-day event. Thursday and Saturday night's presentations include 11 performances featuring what you'd expect--Ballet Folklorico, Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, Houston Metropolitan Dance Company--and what you wouldn't. Among the innovators are Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts' Repertory Dance Company 1 performing "Rush Hour," an edgy, contemporary work by New York-based choreographer and dancer Robert Battles. Intriguing also is a performance of "Yeah, Yeah, Get It Over" by Drawbacks, Brookhaven Dance Theatre's "Mindscape" and TCU's "Carmen's Tantalizing Tea Party."
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Starts at 7 p.m. with movement workshops and arts/crafts activities for children, Thursday through Sunday. Dance performances start at 8:15 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults; $3 for students/seniors; children under 12 are free. Bring blankets and picnic paraphernalia. Call 214-219-2290.
For the Friday and Sunday shows, don't miss Ewert & Company's "I Am Jack's Inflamed Sense of Rejection," whose concept could turn into the next big hit for No Doubt. Sure to come on strong also is Dallas Black Dance Theatre's "Variations I" by Milton Myers. Dallas Black, as the insiders call it, is one of this city's few dance success stories. The company is performing an excerpt from "Variations I," the whole of which will be part of its 2002-2003 dance season. The "Quartet" piece from another Battles work, "Battlefield," will be presented by SMU's Meadows Dance Ensemble on Friday and Sunday. Also noteworthy is Linda James' presentation of "Les Saut des Amants." James is one of the smartest, hardest-working die-hards in Dallas dance, and a chance to see her perform is always special.
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Countries I've Visited
Belgium, Germany, Israel, Malta, Mexico, United States
Countries I've Lived In
France, Germany, United Kingdom