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News Release — 17 March 2010
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ARLINGTON - A medical anthropologist from the University of California at Berkeley who co-founded an organization that documents allegations of sale and theft of human body parts, Dr. Lawrence Cohen, will deliver The University of Texas at Arlington Ben and Trudy Termini Distinguished Anthropologist Lecture for 2010.
Cohen will discuss "The Kidney Comes to India: What Transplant Scandals Teach Us about India and the United States" at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 1, in the School of Architecture Auditorium, 601 W. Nedderman Drive.
Organ trafficking has been denounced by all international medical and human rights groups. Still, with the United Network for Organ Sharing reporting in early March a waiting list of 106,414 in the United States alone, there is an increasing unregulated market. In India, a kidney can bring $1,000 to its donor.
The lecture is free and open to the public. The annual event was established by Drs. Ben and Trudy Termini, who established medical practices in Arlington in 1975 and retired in 2003. The doctors had helped bring top lecturers to campus for several years and, to ensure the series would continue, they endowed the lectureship with a gift of $80,000 in 2005.
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Analyst sees flat April for global chip sales
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BRUSSELS, Belgium – The three-month average of global chip sales for April are likely to be $25.3 billion April, similar to the $25.26 billion reported in March by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization, according to Bruce Diesen, an analyst at Carnegie Group (Oslo, Norway).
However, the actual global sales for April will only be up 3 percent year-on-year, according to Diesen, as the market faces tough comparisons with last year.
"PC chip sales look stronger in April, but handset chip shipments should also improve," said Diesen in a note.
Japanese statistics released today show a smaller than expected effect from the earthquake of March 11 on semiconductors and chemicals in April. With a pipeline of inventory, Diesen does not expect the earthquake to impact PC or handset production until June.
Diesen is predicting world semiconductor sales in 2011 to rise 5 percent in U.S. dollar terms, putting Diesen at the top of the bear camp with TSMC (2 percent) and Nomura (4.4 percent) and away from more bearish forecasters such as Future Horizons.
Mike Cowan is predicting that the April three-month average of global chip sales will be reported at $24.69 billion. WSTS and SIA are expected to report the figure on about June 1.
Related links and articles:
Nomura sees 2011 IC market growth of 4.4%
TSMC sees 2 percent chip market growth in 2011
Analysts: Chip ASPs to fuel two good years

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Claw Money Spring Pop Up Shop and After Party
Claw Money launches her spring collection today with a pop-up shop at Community 54 on Clinton Street in the Lower East Side and after party at IMOK. Check out the looks after the jump.
Claudia Gold Aka Claw Money, the graffiti artist and fashion designer, drops her spring collection today with a one day pop-up shop at Clinton Street's Community 54. Going down from 5-9pm, the event will be followed by an after party at IMOK with Marc Montoya, Roxy Cottontail and Christine Marie on the deck.
Presented against a backdrop of Claw's iconic fill-ins, the collection features a host of legit t-shirts with tag lines like "Designer Drugs" "F#ck Art Letz F*ck" and "Hate Me" offering a facetious F*ck You to any haters. The graphic centric t-shirts are indicative of the artists graffiti style with her signature claw motif on display on one of the shirts.
The pop-up will also offer Claw Money apparel, – with a number of pieces in spring's mainstay fabrics, camo and denim – an exclusive CLAW x C54 snap back, as well as never before seen CLAW x GoodWoodNYC black Iphone cases. Head down to Clinton street to check it out.


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Chicken and Buttermilk-Cornmeal Dumplings
Chicken and Buttermilk-Cornmeal Dumplings
For The Chicken Soup:
1. In a cast iron Dutch pot on medium-high heat, melt the butter.
2. Add onions, carrots and celery to pot and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Add bay leaf, thyme, turmeric, pinch of salt, and black pepper and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Add flour and stir for an additional 2 minutes.
3. Stir in the chicken broth and simmer for 15 minutes. Adjust taste by adjusting your spices.
For Buttermilk-Cornmeal Dumplings:
1. In a large glass bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cornmeal, sugar, salt, pepper and thyme.
2. Stream in the buttermilk and mix until combined. Let dough rest for about 15 minutes. Transfer to a floured work surface and roll dough ¼ inch thick with wooden rolling pin. Cut small squares of dough with a knife or pizza wheel.
3. Drop dumplings into simmering soup one at a time. Cover and cook for 15 to 20 minutes or until dumplings are firm and tender. Stir occasionally to permit dumplings from sticking. Garnish with fresh parsley and serve.
Chef Tips:
1. Don't over mix dough because it will become tough.
2. For quick dumplings, use store bought biscuits and season them with a touch of salt and pepper. Pinch off pieces of the biscuit dough and drop into soup.
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 medium yellow onion, peeled and diced
2 carrots, peeled and diced
2 stalks celery, diced
1 bay leaf
2 sprigs thyme
1 pinch turmeric
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
¼ cup all purpose flour
4 cups low-sodium chicken stock
1 whole organic chicken, skin removed and fork pulled
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ cup fine cornmeal
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves, minced
1¾ cups buttermilk
3 sprigs fresh parsley


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They're better.
They're better today, with Sergei Samsonov, than they were the day before.
They were better the day before, with Dwayne Roloson, than they were the day before that.
They were better the day they made the deals for Jaroslav Spacek and Dick Tarnstrom than they were before that.
And they were better, with Chris Pronger and Mike Peca, than they were before the new NHL.
That's the bottom line.
Kevin Lowe may not have hit the home run with Roloson in goal. And the fate of his hockey team is still going to come down to whether or not Roloson stops the puck. But Lowe has made his team better with every move he's made this year.
If you look at the big picture - and that's Lowe's job - he's done the job.
This one, done in the final hour prior to the trade deadline, to acquire Samsonov from the Boston Bruins for Marty Reasoner, Yan Stastny and a second round draft choice, definitely makes them better.
There's no real negative here other than, on a bad draft year, the Oilers scouts can pretty much take the rest of the season off. The Oilers are left with a second-hand, second-round draft choice, a fifth, a sixth and two sevenths.
Samsonov, 27, is an eight-year member of the Bruins. He's a rental - here for 19 games prior to becoming an unrestricted free agent. But like Roloson, there's a reasonable chance he could be re-upped. Reasoner is also headed to free agency.
Samsonov has been injured a lot. But so has Reasoner. The difference is Samsonov ends up with a whole heck of a lot more points than Reasoner when they're healthy.
Samsonov has twice scored 29 goals. He joins the Oilers with 18 and a total of 37 points so far this season in 58 games. Reasoner had nine goals and 26 points, also in 58 games.
A member of the Russian team which knocked off Lowe's Team Canada at the Turin Olympics, the five-foot-eight right-hand shot, has 164 goals and 376 points for his career.
He adds goal-scoring ability to the second line with Jarret Stoll and Raffi Torres, bumping Radek Dvorak to a lesser line.
"Sergei is a player we've had our eye on for a number of years," said Lowe of the player oft-rumoured to be headed here.
"We've added offence, which is what we were trying to do today. We added another weapon. We've added skating ability. And he plays like a North American.
"We were looking for him or somebody similar. When I talked to him on the phone I told him he's going to be playing with good players in a good place to play ... and with good ice," added Lowe.
Lowe was shutout at the window trying to do a follow up deal to add depth with Dean McAmmond from St. Louis.
In retrospect, having made the move to acquire Rem Murray, turned out to save him a bit on the buzzer beater that didn't work out on the annual game of beat the clock.
You could make a case the Vancouver Canucks did an even better job on the trade deadline by adding defence and goaltender help they needed due to injuries. You could also say that the Calgary Flames made themselves better with the addition of yet another Edmonton native in Jamie Lundmark. But the Oilers came away from the day A-OK as well.
"None of our deals were tied to the deals others made in the division or the conference," said Lowe.
"We were trying to do what we had to do to make our team stronger. Our focus was only on our hockey team.
"It all really heated up an hour before the deadline with Boston. We did what we had to do, what we aimed to do. Financially we had room to do a couple of things.
"Our depth allowed us to look at a lot of things. We were able to make moves without jeopardizing our future."
Another example of how the new NHL works for a small market franchise which sells out every game and is now getting a break with the Canadian dollar.
"I'm excited. I'm really excited. I hope the fans are excited, too. I hope they think the moves we've made have made us a more exciting team," said Lowe.
"The first thing is to get into the playoffs. If we do, it could be fun."
That kind of fun we haven't had around here in a while. But first, Roli The Goalie has to stop some pucks.


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MONTREAL – The Montreal Impact couldn't have dreamed of a more appealing opportunity to bounce back.
Wednesday's opponents for Marco Schällibaum's men are archrivals Toronto FC (7 pm ET, TSN2/RDS in Canada/watch on MLS Live in US), and the timing couldn't be better for the Impact, four days after suffering a last-ditch 4-3 defeat against the Colorado Rapids.
While avoiding a second straight defeat for the first time this season is reason enough for Montreal wanting to respond, TFC provide them with an added incentive: Montreal have never won at BMO Field. They've lifted a trophy on the banks of Lake Ontario, winning the Voyageurs Cup there in 2008), but they've racked up a 0-4-2 record in all competitions at Toronto's home ground since it opened.
READ: CCL - Impact learn their 2013-14 group stage schedule
"We're lucky that it is a rivalry game," defender Jeb Brovsky said when asked about this fixture after Saturday's game. "If we're not [champing] at the bit now, it's never going to happen. It's a sign of a good team to bounce back from a loss like this, and I hope we can come back and be even stronger."
It could be argued that Montreal have never been in a better position to notch a first-ever win at their rivals' home. Despite the loss this weekend, Montreal are still in first place in the East, one point ahead of New York Red Bulls with three games in hand and a points per game average just short of two.
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Moreover, Gold Cup call-ups will deprive TFC of four players and a coach, while the Impact suffer no such fate. Nonetheless, for midfielder Patrice Bernier, whom the Canadian Soccer Association last called upon in October 2012, the Reds remain a challenge every single time.
"They're a team from our conference against whom we must take the points away from home," Bernier said on Saturday. "They're always intense games, and we have to expect more of the same. The points will be essential to maintain our position."


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wikiHow to Write A Short Story on a Love Theme
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So you're suffering from writers block just as you set out to write a short story on a love theme. Maybe you have to write a love story for school, an extra curricular project, for work, or just for fun. Use this guide to help you on your writer's way to greatness! Get started at step one below.
Sample Love Story
Writing Your Own Short Love Story
1Decide what aspect of love you want to write about. You have writer's block, but that shouldn't stop you thinking of ideas of what aspect of love you want to write about.
- Romantic love - frequently love between two individuals with little or no previous knowledge of each other-the most common. Individuals who have known each other for a long time can be romantic too.
- Unrequited love (love that isn't returned)
- Forbidden love (love that can't be. For reasons of the universe, acceptance, etc.)
- Family love (love between family members)
- Love between friends (romance between two individuals that had a previous, unromantic relationship).
2Think of some characters. Decide whether your main character is male or female. More importantly, start to consider their personality. If it helps, draw out a list of their likes, dislikes, habits, and personality traits. Describe how they feel toward the person they love, and what they would do to keep that person safe, make them happy, etc.
3Work out your plot, and go over it. Add in details, make sure your story line makes good sense, and that it progresses clearly throughout the beginning, middle and end.
4Read it through and make sure you're satisfied with it. Remember that the plot can always change while you're writing.
5Make the plot realistic. But remember that it's still a work of fiction, and if its too realistic, readers may become bored.
6Get some inspiration. Hang out with your crush, significant other, friend, and/or family member before writing, and include some of the ways you two interact with each other. Watch romantic movies/shows, or read romantic books to get some ideas. Do not copy and paste, as this is plagiarism and it is illegal in some circumstances, cheating in many situations and immoral in general for anyone to pass someone else's work off as their own.
7Use romantic language, if appropriate. When writing with a romantic love theme, use really romantic lines. Reading books and watching movies with the same type of romance you are writing about will help you with creating lines that fit the romantic settings.
8If on unrequited love, use really sad words that are full of emotion. This is to let the readers feel the pain of the character who is not being loved back. Writing in vivid detail about how a broken heart feels can suck a reader in immediately. If you want, make a way for that love to be rewarded in the end.
9Consider including conflict. A good story often involves conflict. This doesn't always mean that there has to be a villainous character, but your characters shouldn't breeze through the story without some sort of hardship or situation they must overcome.
10Remember: a happy-ever-after ending doesn't always guarantee a good love story. Many people often think that it's supposed to be that way. Maybe mix it up where one of the lovers leaves for a while. Even set it up for a sequel!
11If it's easier, don't take any notes before writing. Some people just do better letting their creative juices flow. Just think about a good story that'd pull at someone's heartstrings!
Community Q&A
How do I end an unrequited love story with a happy ending?wikiHow ContributorMaybe have the protagonist find someone else to love. Or maybe have the protagonist be happy for his or her crush. Another way to end it would be for the protagonist to realize their crush wasn't what they thought it to be, thus they move on. These are more bittersweet than happy.
I'm writing a romantic short story. How do I introduce the characters without making it sound like a fairy tale?wikiHow ContributorIt'd be a good idea to add plenty of details about the setting and characters when introducing them. This will vary depending on the time period your book is set in. Also, sarcasm and humor ease the reader into the story without making it seem to much like a cliché dream state. Try to be as evocative as possible. There are plenty of good examples of this in classic books, if you want to do some research.
What is the best way to bring in emotion with a love story?wikiHow ContributorWrite from the point of view of a relatable character first. If you want a strong emotion to be conveyed, try showing instead of telling. This means showing the reader how the character feels and bringing out the protagonist's emotions through his or her actions and thoughts.
I'm trying to find a way to start my story, I want to tell it from the 6th grade forward and it is an unrequited love story. What should I do?wikiHow ContributorIt depends all on what you want to happen. The first sentence should hook the reader. You could use, "The moment he laid eyes on her he knew she was the one. It was a cliche moment, but all that seemed to matter was the loud pounding sound of his heart and his stomach whirling with butterflies. He had never been in love, but the sudden rush of emotion he felt just looking at her convinced him." Or you could write out your story arc, beginning, middle, and end, and figure out where is the best place to start.
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- Don't worry or over-think the story.
- In an exercise like this, you can't be wrong. Even if you don't get a good grade, remember that it's only one person's opinion, and doesn't mean your work is bad.
- Write as comes naturally - don't try to imitate anyone else's style.
- Save exotic names like Colette, Sanjula or Maria for steamy scenes. Use the character's main personality trait as a name meaning.
- If you can't think of anything, walk away for a while. Just forget about the whole thing. Make a smoothie, ride a bike, watch TV, or anything. Eventually, an idea will come to you. If you are blocked, here are some tips:
- Don't copy someone else's work. It could get you in some serious trouble.
- Don't use loads of long words purely to make you sound clever. You'll sound pretentious.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report criticizing the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) implementation of the new congressional security measures aimed at the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). DHS counters this report by emphasizing that in a very short period of time, it has made considerable progress toward meeting the looming January deadline.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security, has scheduled a hearing to discuss the report's conclusions. While the GAO Report does take a critical look at VWP, Congress should not use this hearing to be overly critical of the significant progress DHS has made.
A Positive Step for Security and Diplomacy
The VWP allows citizens from pre-approved countries to travel to the U.S. for up to 90 days without a visa. Currently 13 million citizens from 27 countries have used this process. Congress has attempted to streamline the VWP, including implementation of the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). ESTA, upon implementation, will require those individuals who wish to travel to America from member countries to undergo electronic approval prior to entering the U.S.
When VWP began in 1986, it applied only to countries whose low nonimmigrant visa refusal rates were under 3 percent. But DHS recognized the need to expand this percentage to include more of our allies. Subsequently, Congress, in the 9/11 Implementation Bill, agreed to admit otherwise qualifying countries whose rates were 3–10 percent so long as certain requirements were met: (1) The Department must certify that there is a system to verify the departure of not less than 97 percent of foreign nationals who depart through U.S. airports; and (2) ESTA had to be fully operational.
Trigger-Happy GAO
The September GAO report, however, criticized DHS for its failure to "assess and mitigate program risks." In essence, GAO was unhappy with what it perceived to be likely methodologies for meeting the act's requirements as well as its belief that DHS was not doing enough to meet the implementation deadline. For example, GAO berated several of the potential methodologies that might be used by DHS to meet the 97 percent certification requirement, including the use of departure records to verify that an individual has left the country. Undoubtedly GAO's job is to analyze the implementation of this program, but considering that DHS has not chosen any methodology as its final product, this report seems to settle more on speculation than substance. Furthermore, the rapid pace of implementation means that a considerable amount of work has occurred since the time GAO interviewed DHS and the report's release.
VWP is a fabulous way to accomplish several important goals: building a community of free nationals; fueling economic, cultural, and social ties; and increasing American public diplomacy. Coupled with ESTA, VWP is a boon for enhancing U.S. security, since we know more about those entering the United States, and it is a positive for travelers because there is less hassle upon arrival. Even GAO admits that DHS has achieved what Congress requested: more security aimed at those individuals entering America.
Do Not Jump the Gun
Several members of Congress are eager to pounce on any inadequacies in the VWP, and this new GAO report may seem like just the ticket. But DHS is the entity charged with implementation of this program, not GAO. Congress should hold off judgment until DHS has an opportunity to provide up-to-date information. Members of Congress at today's hearing should:
- Recognize that DHS has delivered the security measures requested by Congress. This can be accomplished by doing absolutely nothing. Although the GAO report attempts to paint a haunting picture of VWP implementation, the reality is that DHS has made considerable progress toward increased security. GAO applauds DHS progress on lost and stolen passport reporting, and it cannot be overlooked that ESTA has already been implemented on a voluntary basis.
- Be aware of the diplomacy boons associated with VWP. Congress should not forget the diplomacy boons associated with VWP. Those who seek to become member countries recognize that admission is a clear sign of trust from the United States. Congress should seek to provide oversight that recognizes that extinguishing this trust would be a public diplomacy disaster.
- Ensure that ESTA presses forward. January 2009 will be the first time that ESTA will go mandatory. ESTA is vital to both diplomacy and security, helping to prevent those who wish to do us harm from entering the country. While Congress should push to make ESTA more user-friendly, it should not use the hearing as a means to stagnate its implementation.
- Remember that killing VWP could mean the death of other security measures. US-VISIT exit efforts would be compromised because the program would incur difficulties tracking the exit of visitors without the data set provided by VWP. Furthermore, it would be hard to amass any data regarding visa compliance rates.
Wait and Listen
DHS emphasizes that there is good news to share and that the GAO report was simply premature. Hopefully Congress will use today's hearing as an opportunity to ask thought-provoking questions while also listening to the to the Department's answers.
Jena Baker McNeill is Policy Analyst for Homeland Security in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation.


text: Hey all, I have had this old P-bass for 38 years. My dad bought it for me when I was a little kid. He bought it from some kid that bastardized it after he bought it (well, I think it was stolen since the original case was not with it and the kid built his own homemade wooden case for it). But he stripped the Walnut color and turned the bass to a natural finish with a gold pick guard. The body is missing the two holes for the thumb rest. There appears to be one extra hole above the E string for the thumb rest (I think he filled the other hole, so I am suspecting the body is 1974 since that is when they started putting the thumb rest above the E string. And I got the bass in 1975. So the body I believe is somewhere between 1974 and 1975. Sound correct so far? The neck has DEC 70 stamped on it so I assume the neck was made in 1970. The pickups I took out of it have "1276" stamped on one of them. The pots both have "T015A25K 8935" stamped on them. The neck plate has "634604" stamped on it. I had the bass refinished in 1994 from the natural to the sunburst. I had new frets put on it as well. I added the Bartolini pickups and I put new control knobs and pick guard on it. The guy that painted it back in 1994 could not get a tortoise shell so he put a mint green one on it for me. I just changed it to the tortoise shell a few days ago. That's the whole story on this bass as I know it. Based on everything I shared here and after looking at my pictures (see link below), what year do you think the body is and the pickups/pots? The neck appears to be a legitimate 1970 Precision Bass neck. I just don't know about all the other parts. Since the apartment my dad bought the bass from in was the worst area of Flint Michigan, smelled like pot, and he paid $150 for it with no case, I think the kid either stole it or someone before him stole it. Why wouldn't it have a case and why did he switch out the neck or body and repaint the thing? Just seems weird to me! Please tell me who could best help me identify this or give me some website links of someone that specializes in this. I have had no luck finding a good website that is all inclusive. Please go here for pictures: http://184.108.40.206:8083/FenderPrecision.html Thanks!! -Brian


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Paul Ryan is being portrayed by the left as an extremist, "severely conservative" and "architect of the Republican plan to kill Medicare." They will not rest until those mendacious descriptions are all people associate with him. RNC Chair Reince Priebus is having none of it, however, and fired back in an interview on Meet the Press Sunday.
David Gregory: What did he [Ryan] propose in his budget? Which is to change Medicare as we know it. That's an objective fact because he would change it from how it now operates as a pay for service into a premium support… other people call it a voucher…you give seniors a certain amount of money then they have to get exposed to the private market that's a fact about what he believes in addition to the fact that on the general budget he certainly wants to cut federal spending way back that would hurt the social safety net. All of those are facts are they not?
Reince Priebus: David, if we do nothing and if we go down the road that this president wants to go down…Medicare will be changed forever as we know it. It'll be bankrupt by 2024. Medicare is going broke. Every person in America watching this now knows that that's true. This president stole– he didn't cut Medicare– he stole $700 billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare. If any person in this entire debate has blood on their hands in regard to Medicare, it's Barack Obama. He's the one that's destroying Medicare.
We are the ones that are offering solutions as to how to, number one, preserveMedicare for seniors that are at or near retirement, and, number two, figure out a way the make sure that for future generations– we're talking about if you're 54 or younger, how to save Medicare and Social Security.


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National League Home Run Derby Participants AnnouncedJuly 6, 2009
Former champion Ryan Howard, Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder and Adrian Gonzalez will represent the National League in the All-Star Home Run Derby next week.
The four sluggers are the National League's first basemen for the game on July 14 in St. Louis. The game airs at 8 PM ET on FOX. The home run derby will be held Monday night at Busch Stadium.
Pujols leads the Majors with 31 home runs for the Cardinals. Howard won the 2006 All-Star Home Run Derby in Pittsburgh.
Howard has hit more than 40 home runs in four consecutive seasons, including 58 in 2006. He's on his way to another strong campaign this season with 20 long balls in just over 300 at-bats.
Fielder, who got off to a cold start last season, has resumed his role as being one the NL's most feared sluggers. He's got 22 home runs in just under 300 at-bats, and combined with fellow All-Star Ryan Braun, gives Milwaukee the league's best power duo.
When you consider that Adrian Gonzalez plays in one of the worst power parks in San Diego, his 24 home runs this season look that much more impressive. Gonzalez is making his second All-Star appearance.
The American League participants will be announced later.


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If I want to edit and color grade mpeg2 clips in Premiere Pro CS3, it is best to transcode them to other formats ?
Importing mpeg2 clips in premiere pro, without transcoding, will cause problems when editing or color grading ?
Also, if transcoding the mpeg2 clips is recommended, or is a better workflow, what intermediate/editing-oriented formats are used for transcoding mpeg2 sd footage ?
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Regaring grading only , the reason why some people transcode to intermediate formats like cineform, DNxHD, is that chroma upsampling is better from 4:2:2 (even when upsampled from a 4:2:0 source) in premiere. The end result is less blocky color edges compared to native grading 4:2:0 footage. The other reason is there maybe some better precision when using 10bit or more intermediate , and some filters work better on 10bit footage (even when transcoded from 8bit source). It may reduce the banding and artifacts you introduce if you really push the footage during grading
It's not a night & day huge difference - sometimes you can barely see the difference until you zoom in. But do some tests for yourself - you have to decide yourself if you are willing to take the extra steps, time, HDD space to see if it's worth it for you
The other reasons for trancoding are for smoother editing experience and perhaps better compatibility with I-frame format, but editing SD MPEG2 usually isn't an issue on modern hardware. CS3 might have problems, but CS4-6 are ok with native MPEG2 import
Also, you're asking a lot of questions about frameserving into PP
You should be aware that AVS Import Plugin for PP frameserves RGB32 - so this means if you don't correct for your undershoots / overshoots before frameserving in (e.g fix levels in the script, or convert using full range), they will be clipped in premiere
Premiere treats some formats as YUV and others as RGB. Most native camera formats are treated as YUV (e.g. DV, XDCAM, HDV, AVC Intra, etc..). The distinction is important for retaining superbrights/darks. They are recoverable by YUV filters in the former, and clipped in the latter. e.g. something like lagarith, huffyuv for a YUV intermediate which are normally considered "lossless" - they are clipped because they are treated as RGB, not YUV. So they actually aren't truly lossless in Premiere (because of colorspace conversion) . Cineform and DNxHD are "visually" lossless (high bitrates, but not as high as lossless codecs) , but are treated as YUV - so they are not clipped
poisondeathray, you are saying that just by importing the mpeg2 clips in premiere, all illegal levels (<0.3V and >1.0V for PAL) will be clipped ? I didn't noticed that, and in the waveform monitor, blacks go below 0.3 V and whites go over 1.0 V, and only when I apply the RGB Color Correction (the filter with sliders like pedestal, gain and gamma) everything below 0.3V and above 1.0V is clipped, but if I apply RGB Curves, then there is no clipping involved.
Or this is not the kind of clipping that you were talking about ?
I didn't know that it is possible to frameserve the mpeg2 clips to premiere, via avisynth and AVS Import Plugin. What does it mean to correct levels in avisynth ? Do you know if there is any documentation that explains the adjustments that have to be applied to the clips before importing them into premiere pro ?
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lagarith, huffyuv
In CS3, some filters are RGB some are YUV. For example "fast color corrector" works on YUV, so you can recover values beyond 0-100IRE or Y<16, Y>235 on digital scale . In CS5 they are labelled "YUV" filters
I didn't know that it is possible to edit the mpeg2 clips via avisynth and AVS Import Plugin. What does it mean to correct levels in avisynth ? Do you know if there is any documentation that explains the adjustments that have to be applied to the clips before importing them into premiere pro ?
Or, If you specifed full range matrix for conversion to RGB, this "maps" Y' 0 => RGB 0,0,0 , Y'255=> RGB 255,255,255
In normal range "Rec" matrices Y' 16=> RGB 0,0,0 , Y'235=> RGB 255,255,255 . (Similarly for CbCr 16-240) . You see, values below 16 and greater than 235 (240 for CbCr) are lost
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|Publication number
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|Application number
|Publication date
|29 Dec 2009
|Filing date
|15 Jul 2008
|Priority date
|5 Nov 2004
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|Publication number
|Steven E. Mallookis, Chao-Shun Ko
|Original Assignee
|Go Papa, Lllp
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (37), Referenced by (10), Classifications (13), Legal Events (2)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/983,005, filed Nov. 5, 2004, the specification of which is incorporated herein by reference.
This invention relates to shelters; and more particularly relates to a collapsible shelter which has novel and improved mounting supports providing added stability as well as a novel push pin assembly on side support legs which provides for ease of use.
Shelter assemblies having a canopy, collapsible frame with corner legs and a center support are in widespread use. The trend now has been to construct collapsible shelters that are lightweight and can be assembled quickly by a single person. A problem confronting users of collapsible shelters is that the lightweight design is not always as stable as its heavier counterparts. The truss sections are subject to buckling as well as overextension or misalignment of the arm members mounted on the corner legs and center support. Further, collapsible shelters have incorporated pull pin technology such as in U.S. Pat. No. 6,508,262 to Takiyama or the pull pin assembly in U.S. Pat. No. 6,575,646 to Suh. The pull pin assemblies are typically used for adjustment of the side support legs as well as for increasing the angle of extension of canopy support arms and locking them in place. Another type of adjustable locking mechanism is a simple pushbutton which is well known in the prior art. The pull pin assemblies and the pushbutton mechanism require two hands for operation of the devices. Further, the pushbutton system requires significant thumb pad pressure to allow release of the button which in turn can result in a pinched finger or minor injury. There is an unmet need for a lightweight yet stable collapsible shelter incorporating an adjustment assembly for adjusting the height of the canopy which only requires one hand for operation of the device and is easy to use; and further to provide for a novel and improved shelter with added stability and alignment of the shelter frame members.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide for a novel and improved shelter which is lightweight and highly efficient in use.
It is another object of the present invention to provide for novel and improved mounting members which provide added stability to the shelter framework and avoid overextension of the arm members.
It is an additional object of the present invention to provide in a collapsible shelter an adjustable locking mechanism which is easy to use and enables height adjustment of the shelter without injury.
It is a final object of the present invention to provide in a collapsible shelter an adjustable locking mechanism which slides easily into place with reduced tension.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided in a shelter of the type having a canopy and a frame with support members including vertical support legs at spaced peripheral intervals beneath the canopy, a center telescoping support extending upwardly from the frame into engagement with an undersurface portion of the canopy at its center, truss sections extending from the vertical support legs and the center support, truss mounts and pairs of scissor-like arm members with upper and lower terminal ends mounted on the center support and the vertical legs, the improvement comprising mounting members for securing the terminal ends of the arm members to the support members, each mounting member having at least one boss, and means for pivotally connecting the arm members to the bosses, the means including a bolt member threadedly engaging a hollow shaft member extending through the boss. In one form, the boss includes a stabilizer member for wedging or locking the arm members in predetermined angular relation to the mounting members. Additionally, there is an adjustable locking member for positioning the telescoping members or frame members into a locked position at the desired height which include a right angle lever control including a release pin and a spring member mounted under compression between the right angle lever control and the base mounting member, the spring member resiliently urging the right angle lever control in a direction causing the release pin to engage mutually aligned bores on telescoping members.
The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become more readily appreciated and understood from a consideration of the following detailed description of preferred and modified forms of the present invention when taken together with the accompanying drawings in which:
Referring in more detail to the drawings, there is shown in
As show in
Another form of pivotal attachment is shown in
The following is a general description of the mounting assemblies which include the truss mounts 22, the upper and lower center mount members 31, 35, the corner leg mounting member 29 and the slider mount 33. These mounting assemblies are shown in
In accordance with standard practice, the scissors-like arm members 19 are collapsible by releasing the slider mounts 33 so as to permit the lower terminal end 25′ of each arm member 19 to pivot downwardly away from the upper terminal end 25 and enable the arm members 19 to move into a collapsed position extending substantially parallel to the vertical support legs 13. Conversely, the slider mounts 33 can be raised along the support legs 13 toward the upper corner mounts 29 until the slider mounts 33 reach their upper locked positions. As the slider mounts 33 move into their upper locked positions, the arm members will pivot into firm wedging engagement with the stop members 39 so as to effectively lock the arm members 19 at an angle just short of perpendicular to the legs 13. Similarly, the ends 25 and 25′ of the arm members 19 which are pivotally connected to the truss mounts 22 will move into wedging engagement with the stop members 39 and 44 so as to prevent twisting or misalignment of the truss mounts with respect to the arm members, thereby adding stability and the same is true of the inner ends of the arm members 19 at the center mounts 31 and 35 so as to substantially rigidify the entire structure both in the lateral and vertical directions.
The stop member 44 is located along a lower portion 24 of the boss 30 as shown on the upper center mounting member 31 of
The corner leg mounting member 29, as shown in
The truss mounts 22 include upper and lower mounts which are identical, as shown in
As described previously, the adjustable locking member 17 is shown in
The adjustable locking member 17 performs a dual function. When mounted in conjunction with the slider mounts 33, 33′ and 33″ as shown in
The second function of the locking member is a vertical height adjustment device 17′ as shown in
Another form of the adjustable locking member 17″ as shown in
In practice, the canopy 12 is erected by increasing the angle of extension between the corner leg mounting member 29, the slider mounts 33 and the arm members 19. An adjustable tension assembly as described in applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 5,490,532 and incorporated by reference herein may be used in conjunction with an upper center mount and lower center mount 31′ and 35′, respectively. Alternatively, another form of center post assembly 71, which is well known in the prior art, is illustrated in
Although all foes of invention have been described specifically in relation to use with a collapsible shelter, it is to be understood that the mounting assembly and adjustable locking member are readily adaptable for use with other types of frames.
It is therefore to be understood that while preferred forms of invention are herein set forth and described, the above and other modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims and reasonable equivalents thereof.
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|Atico International Usa, Inc.
|Folding chair safety lock
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|Bravo Sports
|Height-adjustable canopy leg
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|Bravo Sports
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|U.S. Classification
|135/144, 135/140, 135/161, 403/171, 403/109.3, 135/131, 403/217
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|27 Feb 2013
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
|6 Jun 2017
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 8


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The unrivalled view of the cityscape of Mumbai from Mekong, located at level 37 of the Palladium Hotel, has diners whipping out smartphones for photographs of the scenic panorama.
Generally it is pictures of food that flood Facebook and Twitter, but at Mekong the view is so impressive that almost no one can resist a click. The restaurant takes you away from the hustle-bustle evident just outside the gate of the hotel to a zen-esque space where the green oasis of the Mahalaxmi Racecourse and the tranquil waters of the Arabian Sea sparkling in the distance placate the diner.
The highest restaurant in the city currently, it is not only the vista that charms. The décor, evocative of a waterway, exudes royal splendour with its towering doors and high ceiling and the food is a delectable melange of cuisines from Vietnam, Thailand and Yunnan and Sichuan in China.
The extensive menu at Mekong baffles and we take the easy way out with most of our selections from the chef's recommendation section. Our lunch highlights: the marinated shredded chicken with coriander, bird eye's chilli and lemon juice, the steamed edamame and truffle dumplings and the diced tenderloin with golden garlic in black pepper sauce that perfectly complements the Vietnamese vegetable fried rice.
A tranquil dining destination, Mekong is a must-visit for a leisurely lunch or dinner with family and friends.
Address: Palladium Hotel, 462, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400 013. Tel: +91-22-6162 8000
Text: Desiree de Andrade, Sharmi Ghosh Dastidar
This article first appeared in December 2013 issue of Hi! BLITZ magazine


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Closing arguments were made Monday in the trial of a man accused of killing his adopted mother.
Gerard Lopes is charged with premeditated murder in Natalie Belmonte's death. Belmonte, his cousin, adopted him from Guyana when he was 10 years old after his father died.
"She fought for her life until she couldn't fight anymore, until her last breath was snuffed out by that man," said assistant state attorney Adriana Alcalde-Padron. "That man sitting over there, Gerry Lopes, beat, killed, violated his mother -- leaving semen inside of her."
Alcalde-Padron said Lopes raped Belmonte, then killed her to cover it up.
Alcalde-Padron pointed to the plaid shorts Lopes was wearing when he walked into a convenience store with Belmonte the night before she disappeared. A pair of those shorts were later found soaked in blood inside of a dumpster.
Lopes' attorneys argued the two had consensual sex.
"Last time I checked, we weren't at a sexual battery trial. We're in a murder trial," said attorney Jose Reyes. "There's an old saying that my dad used to tell me. He used to tell me, 'O what I hear, I don't believe anything. Of what I see, I believe half.'"
Prosecutors began their rebuttal arguments after 6 p.m.
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It is good value for money as well. The control panels and so on are clear and easy to use
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Charles Beasley, 77, died on October 12, possibly due to an aneurysm, while trying to reclaim his old seat on the Bibb County Commission in central Alabama. Beasley's name also remained on the ballot and he won about 52 percent of the vote. His Democratic opponent, incumbent Commissioner Walter Sansing, took the loss especially hard.
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Uncomfortable with sacrilege?
If you answered yes to any of these questions than you'll should stay as far as possible from the Hollywood Theatre in Portland for the next two weeks. If, on the other hand, you saw Hadi knock his teeeth out in the Group Effect teaser and liked it a bit, than don't miss this. In fact start camping out now. Gonna be fun.
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Getting rid of the traditional party-based system, deep character customizations, and slower strategic format of its past two games, Dungeon Siege III is a refreshing take on the series that provides you with a fast-paced action role-playing experience that is great to share with friends.
Ive noticed that most action RPG games suffer from an identity crisis and either give you too much fighting and little customization or they bombard you with too many potions and not enough battles. Luckily for us, Obsidian Entertainment and Square Enix have teamed up to give us just the right balance of action and role-playing in a nice looking package.
With the exception of a handful of tough fights spread throughout the game, it's possible to go tumbling through Dungeon Siege III with half of your brain playing and the other half chatting idly to your co-op partner. You simply tap away at the attack button, dodge on those occasions when you see an attack being aimed in your direction, and fall back and use your healing ability when you're hurt.
But don't think this means that Dungeon Siege III is a brain-dead game. It's just an adaptive one. Because your character has up to 11 abilities, as well as charged versions of each of those, and each is best used in a slightly different scenario, trying to play Dungeon Siege III perfectly is a totally absorbing dance of glossy particle effects, small victories and even smaller failures.
If you play on Normal, you're never in too much danger of dying, but you'll have plenty of occasions where you spot at the last second that your health bar is a shred of its full self - and you'll duck out of the fight sucking air through your teeth the whole way.
And Dungeon Siege knows its way around a boss fight. That way just happens to be "run for your life!" Big monsters owe more to action games than RPGs; these brutes don't politely wait for a turn to come around, they come at you fast and furious. Identifying attack patterns and timing dodges is as important as keeping an eye on the stats.
Even with all its frustrations and flawed combat, Dungeon Siege 3 is a well-polished game and can be a good action RPG experience; that's assuming you get used to the gameplay mechanics. Somehow, it still feels satisfying. After you get used to it, it grows on you, so fighting for survival and trying to restore Focus proves to be a rewarding and challenging experience when all's said and done. The single-player campaign could've been a bit longer. Also, we would've appreciated a wider area to explore, more choices and more side-quests. While the lack of potions might be a problem for some gamers, it's not impossible to get used to the gameplay as it is. Just takes a bit of practice, that's all. Notwithstanding the drawbacks, we did enjoy this game and we appreciate the fact that Obsidian Entertainment finally managed to launch a technically sound game. Issues we noticed may easily be addressed in a potential sequel (or reboot or whatever the hell they plan to do). Dungeon Siege has clearly been brought to life and we're double-glad things turned out the way they have. The developers now have firm ground on which to build upon and if they take the time to rethink and address some of the issues, in addition to providing extra content and possibly more open-ended gameplay (or slightly less linear, if you will) then we have no doubt this will continue to be a well-liked franchise in the world of action RPGs.


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Princess Diana's Death: World Continues to Mourn on 14th Anniversary of Paris Crash
Mourners across the U.K. have gathered today to celebrate the life, and grieve the untimely death, of arguably one of the most famous royals of all time, Princess Diana.
London holds an annual pilgrimage to the gates of Kensington Palace, and many people will use the significance of the day to make a trip to the Diana Memorial Fountain at London's Hyde Park.
Just 14-years ago, Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car accident in the Pont de l'Alma underpass in Paris.
Photographers were chasing the car that the 36-year-old princess, and her companion Dodi Fayed, where driving in prior to the 1997 crash.
Although most people initially blamed the paparazzi for the fatal car wreck, a British Inquest into the crash that lasted several years determined in 2008 that the primary causes of the crash were the speed at which the car was driven and the intoxication of the driver, Henri Paul. All three individuals died in the fatal accident.
Nevertheless, people continue to question the legitimacy of the story behind Diana's death, and 14-years later, questions continue to surround the incident.
Dodi Fayed's father, Mohammed Fayed, carried out a 10-year campaign accusing Prince Philip of masterminding the wreck that killed his son and the princess. He also suggested that Prince Charles had involvement in the killing.
However, others are more keen on accepting the official story of Diana's death.
Diana's former butler said in a new special on Diana's life entitled "Diana at 50" of the conspiracy theories surrounding her death, "I think people can't let go because they don't want to believe that she could have just had an accident."
He added, "And to be honest, how could anyone manufacture such a tragic accident with such a horrific outcome? And why?"
Diana was a humanitarian that worked on projects around the world that supported numerous charities, AIDS awareness, and the banning of land mines.
Fourteen years after the world lost "the people's Princess," she remains one of the most beloved people in British history.
She was once quoted as saying, "I'd like to be the queen of people's hearts."
Diana's wish has come true, as a recent poll carried out by Skype revealed that Princess Diana is still Britain's favorite royal.
Christopher Wilson of the Huffington Post said of Diana, "The princess remains for ever young in memory, her image a rallying-post for those who subscribe to Keats' dictum on truth and beauty. You can question the poet but you cannot deny him; and so it is with Diana."


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Few screenwriters share Stephen Gaghan's pedigree. He won the Oscar for penning Steven Soderbergh's Traffic in 2000, then earned a well-deserved nomination for writing the 2005 political drama Syriana, which he also directed. So if a studio felt the need to hire anybody to rewrite a script for M. Night Shyamalan to helm, Gaghan's an excellent choice.
According to Variety, he'll polish a draft of Gary Whitta's One Thousand A.E. before Shyamalan begins shooting. The Sixth Sense director reportedly tinkered with Whitta's draft, but Sony Pictures and Overbrook have brought Gaghan on board to give the draft another pass. I guess they saw The Last Airbender.
And that's the thing about Shyamalan. He's a competent filmmaker who is decent with special effects and can muster tension in suspenseful situations, but his scripts leave a lot to be desired. As Variety notes, he has been the lone screenwriter credited on his nine feature films, and they've predominantly gone down in quality since he broke on the scene with Sense in 1999.
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Financial Management Essay
Essay (20 % of course grade) The essay should demonstrate a student's ability to integrate and synthesize course concepts with selected readings to communicate his/her understanding of financial management concepts their application in organizations. The essay should also demonstrate a student's ability to communicate as a manager. This includes proper writing style, organization, grammar, and spelling, as well as integration of course-related material. The writing style must follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5 th edition. Citations for online sources should include the online address (URL) and access date as well as the citation for the specific reference.
Research for the paper may be conducted online using the UMUC online library as the primary source. Do not use abstracts, use full-text articles. Publications that may be relevant for the topics listed below include: Strategic Finance, The Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, CFO Magazine, Nonprofit World, Harvard Business Review, or other accounting and financial journals.
The paper should: • Be based on your reading and research relevant to the topic. • Be 7 - 10 double-spaced pages, plus appendices, exhibits, and references. • Include a one-page Executive Summary immediately following the title page that includes a statement of the major issue(s) and your conclusions and specific recommendations. The content of an Executive Summary is similar to an abstract. • Properly cite reference sources: these may include course material, information from magazines, journals, and online sources. All reference sources must have a publication date within the last three years. Students who wish to use an older source publication should contact the instructor with the request and reason.
Topic: Financial Management in Nonprofit Organizations - Discuss financial management in nonprofit organizations and write an essay that compares and contrasts the application of financial management techniques in nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Sources of funds, use of debt, performance evaluation (efficiency in use of contributions and meeting the organization's objectives), governance mechanisms in non-profits, etc. would be good topics/issues for discussion in the essay.
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|First Peoples' Means of Travel
|The Indian Trails
Many of the means of travel that were used to explore and develop Canada were inherited from Canada's First Peoples. Many of these methods of travel are still used today, for work and recreation.
For thousands of years First Peoples walked most places especially in winter.
They developed two outstanding devices for making travel over deep Canadian snows more manageable: the snow shoe and the toboggan.
Toboggans could be pulled by hand or by dog teams.
They used well-defined routes of travel, for going on hunting trips and on the war-path.
They made use of the waterways wherever possible and used portage paths to avoid rapids.
Cornelius Krieghoff painted many Canadian scenes of Indians travelling in winter and summer during the 1840s to 1860s.
The toboggan and the dog team permitted fast travel, with large loads, in winter.
Arthur Heming pays tribute to the superior skill of native canoeists who made possible the development of Canada.
Canoe portages were called carrying places because here the baggage was offloaded, and along with the canoes themselves, carried on the backs of the men to the next place where canoes could safely be used again.
Some portages, like around a waterfall, were extremely short; others were several miles long.
The carrying place at Niagara Falls was nine miles long on the eastern bank. The paths were worn six inches to a foot deep through the woods.
To save time, First Peoples often avoided doing short portages in favour of one long one. If it was extra long, they would often abandon their canoes and build new ones out of elm at the far end.
A print from the early 1700s showing Indians portaging
down the steep right hand side of Niagara Falls
Canadian Canoe at a Portage - Currier & Ives 1860
Without the Indian canoe, Canada's founding industry, the fur trade, could not have been developed
The First Peoples avoided canoe travel on the open water of the Great Lakes because of the danger of capsizing from waves or sudden wind storms.
They hugged the shore or snaked between islands for safety.
To reach Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay they headed mainly up rivers that flowed into Lake Ontario.
These Indian trails were the main routes that were later used by early Europeans to get to the Upper Lakes.
Indian trails could be found all over Southern Ontario especially the Niagara region.
By far the most important route to travel north from Lake Ontario was the Humber Trail. It followed the Humber River north across a portage to Lake Simcoe.
Showing exactly how not to paddle Canada's national boat, is former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who used to go out in this canoe without a life jacket, and so set a bad example that has cost hundreds of Canadians their lives.
|The Canoe
When the Europeans first arrived in North America they found the First Peoples using the canoe as their only means of water transport.
The name canoe actually came from the West Indies, where the people told Columbus that this is what their boats were called.
The birch tree was indispensable to the Indian and the voyageur. Its bark made the best canoes, was the covering for the wigwam or hunter's camp, served a s a surface on which to knead flour, or was folded to make pots to boil food or make baskets.
Indians used birch bark to leave hieroglyphic notes at portages for his fellow tribesmen. It was used as writing paper, for maps, or to make sketches.
In the 1790s, Mrs. John Graves Simcoe made many drawings on birch bark.
The bark was rolled into resin soaked torches to light the portage path at night, the camp for making repairs, or the spear fishing site. It was good for firewood.
The birch canoe was by far the most important boat used by the Indians of Canada. In fact even after the Europeans arrived, it was for many years, the only means of long-distance travel by water.
Champlain in Georgian Bay 1615 - JD Kelly
Champlain was the first European to use the birch canoe in his travels to Ontario in 1615.
For the next two hundred years it was used universally by explorers, missionaries, traders, and soldiers.
The two main fur trading companies, the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company used huge birch canoes to carry huge cargoes of trade goods to western Canadian trading posts and return to civilization with huge bales of fur.
Birch canoes were usually built in early summer when the sap made the wood easy to work with. Only a knife was needed to make a birch canoe. Large birch trees are found from which large rolls of bark are removed. Sometimes a tree was found big enough to supply a single piece of bark to make a twenty-foot canoe, without seams.
To make a birch canoe a frame of cedar giving the outline of the boat was hung from four strong posts. Gunwales of cedar are run along the sides from stem to stern. Cedar ribs are then bent to the shape of the bottom and attached to the gunwales. The ribs are then sheathed with thin, flat, and flexible pieces of cedar placed lengthwise. The birch bark rolls are then placed like a skin over top and sewn together with cedar roots. The seams are coated with gum, boiled and prepared from the pitch pine. The bow and the stern are curved, sewn shut, and decorated with paint or porcupine quills. An extra gunwale is added to hold the birch skin tight to the ribs. Bottom boards could be added at the bow and stern to protect the bark skin from damage when pulling it ashore or going over rocks.Birch canoes could be twelve feet long holding two persons to the thirty-six foot long war canoe carrying fourteen paddlers.
|The Dugout Canoe
Dug out canoes made by the Carrier First Peoples of the BC interior
In Indian country the trees offered a much wider variety of boat-making possibilities.
The earliest boats used by the Indians were dugout canoes. They were made of a half-log and hollowed out.
The chief woods used were pine, black walnut, butternut, and basswood. The last two were the lightest and not easily split by the sun. A well made dugout could be portaged by one man.
Dugouts were used for short trips and by women.
Dugouts were an advantage when one wanted to make as little noise as possible like when hunting in a marsh.
The wild rice and rushes would make a great rustling against the side of a birch canoe. But the solid wooden walls of dugout deadened the sound.
The biggest dugouts, and the most artistic, were built by the Northwest coastal Indians. They built huge sea going dugouts to hunt whales and go to war. These huge cedar canoes were elaborately carved and decorated.
A Haida war canoe
All that remains of a massive Haida war canoe abandoned, a century ago or more, during construction,
deep in the Queen Charlotte Islands forests
|The Elm Canoe
Elm bark covered Iroquois wigwam
Elm bark
Elm bark canoes were often roughly made, disposable boats.
Elm bark was highly useful for native families. Trees were huge and so provided bark that could be peeled off in huge slabs.
You could make a big house or tipi shelter quickly with these large pieces of bark.
The elm bark canoe was used by many tribes of Indians living in the eastern woodlands. They were in used by the Chippewas of Ontario into the 1830s.
Unlike dugouts or birch canoes, elm bark canoes were designed to be only short-term boats.
Because Indians had to travel so often in rapids, which could destroy a valuable birch canoe, or had to carry goods over long portages they designed a throw-away canoe.
The elm bark canoe was built when you needed to make a boat in a hurry. It was easy to make so it was commonly abandoned at the start of a long portage, and new ones built at the other end.
Since huge elm trees were common, the Indians developed an ingenious way to make a canoe quickly.
The elm canoe was made out of a single piece of elm bark, some eighteen feet long cut lengthwise from an elm tree that was felled.
By folding it in, this single piece of bark became at once, the bottom and sides of the canoe.
The bark of both ends was sewn shut with cedar or tamarack roots that had been scraped, split, and soaked in water to make them pliable.
A preparation of cedar and pine gum mixed with pitch or resin, was used to seal the seams.
Two three-foot pieces of cedar were fastened across the middle of the boat to keep the sides some three feet apart.
In 1764 Alexander Henry's Indian guides built two elm bark canoes at the foot of the Humber River and used them to travel across Lake Ontario to Niagara.
The two eighteen foot canoes carried seventeen people and their gear.
Of course stripping a tree of its bark killed it. But in those days no one worried because the forests were huge and dense.
Today elm bark poaching is killing lots of trees as slippery elm bark is stripped for sale to a very well paying herbal remedy market.
|The Kayak
Probably the first photo of an Inuk and his kayak 1854
Kayaks came in a variety of shapes and sizes
The skin canoe was used almost entirely by the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. The most common canoe they used was the kayak, which was fifteen foot long and designed for one person. It was pointed at both ends and completely watertight.
Wood of any kind was scarce in the arctic, so the Inuit had to find other construction materials to build a kayak. Since they hunted whales, they used the whalebones that littered their camps to construct the frame. Not having bark from trees they used skin from the grey seal to cover the frame.
The skins were sewn together and stretched as tightly as a drumhead over the entire frame of the kayak. Only a small hole was left in the top, just big enough for a hunter to slide in. He sat on the bottom and tied the extra folds of skin from the boat around his middle so that no water could possibly enter the kayak anywhere.
The hunter used a double bladed paddle, which made a kayak fast and highly maneuverable. It could be spun completely around in a flash. Since the hunter sat right on the floor of the boat it had a low center of gravity and was hard to tip over.
Should it flip over a hunter could use the paddle underwater to right himself instantly. Since the kayak was completely watertight the hunter who flipped only got his hair wet.
The kayak was extremely maneuverable and was used as a hunting canoe. The hunter would lay his harpoon on the foredeck, sneak up to his prey, and spear the animal. Long lines of sinew, which were attached to the harpoon head buried in the seal or whale would pay out. A bladder of air attached to the end of the line allowed the hunter to find the line and retrieve an animal that dove and died.
On larger kayaks a whole family could be fitted down inside if they had to move camp
|The Umiak
The other skin boat used by the Inuit was the umiak, or family cargo boat.
It was flat-bottomed and huge. It was made of the same materials as the kayak but was not decked in.
It was big enough to take 20 people with all their gear to a new hunting camp or fishing ground.
It was propelled by oar power or by a sail on some occasions. An oarsman at the back kept it on track.
As unwieldy as the kayak was nimble, the umiak was really a cargo scow
|Travel on Land
Buffalo hunt by Art Hider, one of Canada's top artists of all time
Land travel, by Aboriginal peoples, for thousands of years, was on foot, with dogs doing service as pack animals.
It wasn't until the 1700s that horses began to be used by Indians in the US, captured from wild herds that formed from escaped animals from the Spaniards in Mexico.
Later plains people, notably the Sioux, in western Canada, also got the horse.
In short order they became among the finest horsemen in the world.
The travois, made by crossing poles across a horse's back, provided an angled platform at the rear on which you could tie heavy loads, especially the many skins needed to make a tipi.
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GWA Studies of Alzheimer's Disease'
Genome-Wide Association Studies of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of loss of memory and cognitive abilities in late life, and is currently estimated to affect more than five million Americans. That number is projected to more than double by 2050 unless a way to delay or prevent its onset can be identified. About 50% of individuals with Alzheimer's disease also experience psychotic symptoms, delusions and hallucinations, which cause additional distress for patients and their family caregivers. Unfortunately, psychotic symptoms are not treated very effectively by available medications, all of which were initially developed for use in individuals with other illnesses.
One approach to find new ways to delay Alzheimer's disease, or find more effective treatments for the psychotic symptoms, is to identify variations in genes that may affect the age of onset of the illness or that may increase the risk that psychotic symptoms occur. Until recently, only the apolipoproteinE gene had been identified as lowering age of onset in Alzheimer's disease, and no genes had been clearly linked to the psychotic symptoms. Efforts to identify genes for a number of conditions, however, have benefitted greatly from a new method, Genome-Wide Association (GWA), which can simultaneously evaluate several million genetic variations.
In these two related papers, Dr. Sweet and collaborators used GWA in an effort to discover additional genes influencing the age of onset of Alzheimer's disease and the risk for psychotic symptoms. In the paper by Kamboh et al., 11 genetic variations potentially impacting the age of onset of Alzheimer's disease were newly identified. In the paper by Hollingworth et al., 18 genetic variations were newly identified as potentially associated with the risk of psychosis in Alzheimer's disease. Of interest, two of these genes, VSNL1 and STK11, have been previously tied to psychosis in schizophrenia and to Alzheimer's disease itself, indicating they are plausible biologic targets for future studies.
Contributors for article entitled Genome-wide association analysis of age-at-onset in Alzheimer's disease:
MI Kamboh, MM Barmada, FY Demirci, RL Minster, E Feingold (Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)MM Carrasquillo, VS Pankratz, SG Younkin (Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL)
AJ Saykin (3Departments of Radiology and Imaging Sciences and Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN)
RA Sweet
ST DeKosky (Office of the Dean and Department of Neurology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA)
OL Lopez (Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
The results of this investigation were published in the December 2012 issue of Molecular Psychiatry. Click here for a link to the abstract.
Contributors for the article entitled Genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease with psychotic symptoms:
P Hollingworth, R Sims, D Harold, G Russo, R Abraham, A Stretton, N Jones, A Gerrish, J Chapman, D Ivanov, V Moskvina, P Holmans, L Jones, MJ Owen, MC O'Donovan, J Williams (Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Neurosciences and Mental Health Research Institute, Department of Psychological Medicine and Neurology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)
R Sweet, B Devlin, L Klei (Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
S Lovestone, P Priotsi, M Lupton (Kings College London, Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK)
C Brayne (Kings College London, Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK)
M Gill, B Lawlor, A Lynch (Mercer's Institute for Research on Aging, St James Hospital and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
D Craig, B McGuinness, J Johnston, P Passmore (Ageing Group, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK)
C Holmes (Division of Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
G Livingston, NJ Bass, H Gurling, A McQuillin (Department of Mental Health Sciences, University College London, London, UK)
MM Barmada, FY Demirci (Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
ST DeKosky, OL Lopez (3Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA)
R Mayeux (Taub Institute and the Department of Neurology, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY)
MI Kamboh (Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA)
The results of this investigation were published in the December 2012 issue of Molecular Psychiatry. Click here for a link to the abstract.


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I sometimes feel like I live in a magic house completely uncontaminated by food pathogens and in which food can be left out without spoilage or infection. Guests may come dirty, but walk through the front door and are magically sterilized. Although I keep a very clean kitchen and store things properly, I just don't worry about food poisoning in my magic house.
What about you? How do you rate yourself, from food slob in a magic house to a follower of all the food handling "rules" in a dark, contaminated universe?
Please keep this lighthearted and fun. Just provide your approach. No citing of USDA or other rules and recommendations, please.


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Glory Days Presents!
Manchester Orchestra
Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 9:00 PM EDT
(8:00 PM Doors)
Manchester Orchestra
with special guests
Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 9:00 PM EDT
(8:00 PM Doors)
High Dive , Gainesville, FL
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Online tickets are sold out, but there may be tickets available at local outlets or at the door. Check with the venue for more information.
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ATLANTA alt-rockers on Favorite Gentleman Records ! Hit songs "Ive Got Friends" and 'Simple Math"! First ever show in Gainesville ! This one should SELL OUT !
Openers RIVER CITY EXTENSION !
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Type: Bug
Status: Closed
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-6
Fix Version/s: 1.0-JSR-6
Component/s: None
GroovyEclipse tries to run:
class MyClass {
static void main()
And then fails with:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: main
Exception in thread "main"
Both the commandline and GroovyJ have a more meaningful message:
Caught: groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: This script or class could not be run.
It should either:
- have a main method,
- be a class extending GroovyTestCase,
- or implement the Runnable interface.
GroovyJ also lets you select this class as a runnable class when
setting up a run configuration. This class should be weeded out of
the list of available classes.
The main reason behind this is that EclipsePlugin is doing a partial
check look for main and then static (and currently also incorrectly void - See Groovy-1394)
but doesn't check for Object[] args.
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Previous comment copied back to 1394 since it is mostly related to that issue. (Due to my lazy combined patch)
applied patch and added the code back in to check for return type of void. As best I can tell, it appears that the Eclipse VM launcher expects void as the return type or it sends back the error. It's not apparent to me how we can work around this within the Eclipse framework, unless we launch a groovy shell which invokes main of the class specified, instead of launching the class directly. I'm neutral on whether this is good idea or not.
It's good to be constistent with the command line behavior, but I'm not sure that I like how it wouldn't be obvious whether I'm directly invoking main() on the generated class or ask a wrapper class to instantiate and invoke it for me.
Combined patch for Groovy-1391 through Groovy-1395.
Will require someone to check as this is my first eclipse plugin patch.


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Opinion The Syrian Ceasefire Exposes How Trump and Europe Have Abandoned Israel
Neither the feckless Europeans nor the incoherent Trump will help Israel thwart Iran and Hezbollah, and their drums of war
Amiel Ungar is a political scientist.
Neither the feckless Europeans nor the incoherent Trump will help Israel thwart Iran and Hezbollah, and their drums of war
Marine Le Pen's instinct is right: fighting an Islamic takeover requires France to shed its guilt and shame over its past. But her desire for a foolish 'consistency' means Vichy and Jewish identity are also included
Netanyahu enjoys a rare kind of political immunity: The 'time for a change' sentiment constantly reasserted in Western democracies isn't working in Israel.
Even before he has entered the White House, Trump's diplomatic contacts and his nominees signal the end of the Obama era of appeasing Iran - and that the Palestinian conflict is nearer resolution | Opinion
The labored comparison between Trump and Netanyahu is not only politically stupid, it is wrong. And the liberal charge of racism against both Trump and Netanyahu is entirely hypocritical.
Just as the elites delegitimize other voting groups as 'deplorables,' so too have American Orthodox Jews been derided as 'tribalist' for supporting Trump's unambiguous stance on Iran, and preferring not to see intermarriage glorified in a Clinton White House.
It can't just be my own political fantasy. A contest between the VPs could install a president without such a deficit of good will and political capital – and cause less damage to America's standing.
Israel's LGBT community should be content with equality before the law and basic human respect. They can't demand blanket moral sanction for their proclivity too.
The doomsayers are wrong: It's not the EU's self-perpetuating elites that are Europe's last defense against totalitarianism; their disdain for public opinion is more likely to feed fascism.
The entire process, in Don Corleone's pithy description, was strictly business.


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Expert Opinion: Hit Makers Nico & Vinz on Pop Music and the Movies
After the Norweigan duo Nico Sereba and Vincent Dery won the world finals at Emergenza Festival in 2011, they went on to rack up hits on the international charts. Their single "Am I Wrong?" has more than 59 million views on YouTube alone. They've clearly conquered a global audience, but with their debut U.S. release due to hit this October and a new single in Reese Witherspoon's latest movie, The Good Lie, expect to hear a lot more from the pair. Luckily for us, they took a break from their busy schedules to talk about pop music in the movies and how they write songs.
Q. Your song "Am I Wrong" has gone platinum in a number of countries. Is there an American movie you feel really captures that experience or feeling of a pop star making it big?
A. 50 Cents' Get Rich or Die Trying and Hustle and Flow.
Q. The pop star documentary now packs multiplexes with movies about the concert tours of Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, even One Direction. Do you have a favorite?
A. The Up In Smoke Tour.
Q. Sometimes when pop music resurfaces in a movie, it becomes doubly iconic. Think of "In Your Eyes" on the boom box from Say Anything or Ewan McGregor singing "Your Song" in Moulin Rouge. Do you have a favorite pop music moment in a movie?
A. "Circle of Life" from The Lion King.
Q. If you guys could write a song for any movie director, who might that be?
A. Kavar Singh for one of his upcoming movies.
Q. If you were going to recommend a Scandinavian director who would it be and why?
A. Kavar Singh because of his extreme work ethic, and imagination!
Q. Has anyone approached you guys yet about using your music in a movie?
A. Yes, we actually have a song called "Find A Way" out now on the soundtrack [for] The Good Lie that's out now.
Q. How did you come to write a song for the movie The Good Lie?
A. The producers really liked our song "Am I Wrong" and probably felt like our profile would fit this movie. They contacted us, invited us to see the movie and we actually wrote the song the very next day. We were so inspired!
Q. Is it different writing music for a movie than for your own album?
A. Not really. For The Good Lie, we wrote about what we had seen and that's pretty much what we do for our album too. Write about what we see in life.
Want more Nico & Vinz? Download the "Find A Way" single featuring Emmanuel Jal (and featured in the movie The Good Lie) or pre-order the entire soundtrack.
Play our 50 Cent Two Truths and a Lie quiz before his SundanceTV series DREAM SCHOOL returns this Fall.


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The Gophers experienced their first feeling of defeat on Friday night at Notre Dame. The 4-1 loss unveiled several holes in the Gophers' power-play defense and offense, leaving plenty of room to improve on Saturday.
Expect to see more changes in special teams as coach Don Lucia attempts to fix the problem. With so many freshmen still learning to skate with their new teammates, time is likely the only thing that will fix the issues.
A clean, low-penalty game, much like Friday's first period, would be most beneficial to the Gophers. They struggled to match up with Notre Dame's size in penalty situations, but held the advantage 5-on-5 in the first period.
If the Gophers can win Saturday night and split the road series, they should be able to hold onto their No. 1 ranking. No. 2 Michigan is idle this weekend and currently sits at 6-1-1.
The final two unbeaten teams lost on Friday night. First the Gophers, then St. Cloud State fell to No. 7-ranked Miami (Ohio), 2-0.
• Unfortunately, I did not make the trip to Notre Dame this weekend. Local reporter Steve Lowe will cover the game for us. Follow him on Twitter for updates. I'll do pre-game blogs with lines prior to each game.
Tonight's 6:05 p.m. game will not be broadcast on TV, but live-streamed online by NBC Sports Network and Notre Dame. It can be heard on 1500-AM.
No. 1 Gophers and No. 4 Notre Dame full series preview.
Feature on the father-son relationship of Gophers coach Don Lucia and his son, Mario, a Notre Dame hockey standout.
Friday's game story from Steve Lowe in South Bend.
Gophers lines
Forwards (left wing, center, right wing)
Sam Warning, Kyle Rau, Hudson Fasching
Nate Condon, Justin Kloos, Taylor Cammarata
Gabe Guertler, Travis Boyd, Connor Reilly
Tom Serratore, A.J. Michaelson, Seth Ambroz
Defensemen (left, right)
Brady Skjei, Justin Holl
Mike Reilly, Jake Parenteau
Jake Bischoff, Ben Marshall
Adam Wilcox
Michael Shibrowski
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Nejat Church is a Christian church fully dedicated to reaching people with the message of hope, help, healing, and salvation of Jesus Christ. Although our church's ministries are to reach all people, we are focusing to reach Farsi-speaking people with the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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A medical marijuana company that intends to open in Lakeshore won't be affected if individual users can still grow the drug at home, a company executive says.
Last week, a federal court judge granted an injunction, allowing those who grow pot at home to continue doing so, for now.
Medical marijuana users can grow at home, for now
Medical marijuana users worry about lack of commercial supply
Without the injunction, Health Canada's new laws, which go into effect April 1, would end the home production of medical marijuana.
EC Green executive Mike Martin says he's not concerned about individual growers taking business away from his company.
"With so much fear, uncertainly and doubts surrounding it, like the judge said, he found there could be hardships, this is about their quality of life," Martin said. "We are talking about only the people that originally had their licenses before September. So that number won't continue to grow, but numbers show that demand won't continue to stop growing."
Roughly 40,000 Canadians are authorized to possess medical marijuana. Currently there are about 12 companies licensed to sell those users marijuana.
Martin says that with new laws and perhaps new mindsets that number could very well grow.
"It's incredibly exciting. It's rare you get to do something brand new," he said. "To see the cultural revolution going on around it as well, it's a very exciting time and I'm happy to be a part of it."
EC Green is still waiting for the federal government to approve the next step in the licensing process which would allow the company to start renovating its new facility, an industrial property in Oldcastle.
Once EC Green gets all approvals and meets all the regulations, it should be operating by fall.
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Cool slim and stylish in design the Beko TL546APS Tall Larder Fridge in Silver fits perfectly with todays modern kitchen. This model has an A+ energy efficiency rating and uses an annual energy consumption of 132kwh. With low energy usage this model can really help you to cut down on your running costs.This appliance gives you plenty of room to store your weekly shop containing an impressive 256 litres of storage space.Features include an auto-defrost function which has been designed to prevent the formation of frost and ice. The noise level of the Beko TL546APS Larder Fridge has been measured at 39(db) meaning that you do not have to worry about the machine disturbing you or your family. A normal conversation between people stretches from 60(db) to 70(db) meaning the sound of this particular machine is already discreet.


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Of the plays that tower over American drama -- Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night -- Our Town is at once the most universally familiar and the most widely misunderstood. Audiences tend to recall Wilder's glimpse of small-town, turn-of-the-century New Hampshire as sweet, sentimental, nostalgic and funny. It was all those things. But it was also -- and remains, 50 years after its first public performances in January 1938 -- groundbreakingly unconventional in form and chafingly unsettling in its view of human nature. More...
Theater: Scraping Away the Sentiment OUR TOWN
by Thornton Wilder
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