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Franklin Templeton Shootout
Site: Miami.
Schedule: Friday-Sunday.
Course: Doral Resort and Spa, Great White course (7,171 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1,750,000.
Winner's share: $200,000 (each).
Television: The Golf Channel and Fox Sports Net (Friday, 1:30-4 p.m.) and CBS (Saturday, 1-3:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1-3 p.m.)
Last year: Fred Couples and David Duval beat the team of Scott McCarron and Scott Hoch by six strokes.
Last week: Mike Weir beat Lee Westwood by one stroke to win the American Express Championship in Spain.
Notes: The first round is alternate shot, the second best ball and the third a scramble. ... The event, previously called the Shark Shootout, is still has Greg Norman as host. ... The tournament was played its first 11 years in California before moving to Miami this year. ... The field consists of 12 two-man teams. ... Next is the Skins Game in Indian Wells, Calif.
Arch Championship
Site: Daytona Beach, Fla.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: LPGA International (6,497 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1 million.
Winner's share: $150,000.
Television: ESPN (Thursday-Friday, 3-5 p.m.; Saturday, 4-6 p.m.) and ABC (Sunday, 4-6 p.m.)
Last year: Se Ri Pak beat Karrie Webb and Laura Davies in a one-hole playoff to win in Las Vegas.
Last event: Lorie Kane beat Sophie Gustafson on the first hole of a playoff to win the Mizuno Classic in Otsu-Shiga, Japan.
Notes: Pak, who won four events in both 1998 and 1999, has yet to win this season despite 11 top-10 finishes. ... The event, which started in 1996, had been played in Las Vegas. ... The field consists of the top 30 on the money list. ... Next is the Women's World Cup of Golf, Dec. 1-3, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Johnnie Walker Classic
Site: Thailand.
Schedule: Thursday-Sunday.
Course: Alpine Golf & Sports Club (7,007 yards, par 72).
Purse: $1.35 million.
Winner's Share: $220,000.
Television: The Golf Channel (Thursday-Sunday, 9 a.m.-Noon, tape).
Last year: Michael Campbell beat Geoff Ogilvy by one stroke to win. Tiger Woods finished sixth, snapping a four-tournament winning streak.
Notes: In 1998, Woods beat Ernie Els on the second hole of a playoff after overcoming an eight-stroke deficit in the final round. ... Fred Couples won the 1995 event in the Philippines. ... Els won the 1997 tournament at Gold Coast, Australia. ... Seven of the previous nine champions have won major championships. ... Next is the World Cup of Golf in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Last week: Vicente Fernandez beat Leonard Thompson in 19 holes to win the Senior Match Play Challenge in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
Next: Office Depot Father-Son Challenge, Dec. 9-10.
Last event: Spike McRoy won the final event of the season, the Tour Championship in Dothan, Al. The top 15 players on the final money list earned their PGA Tour cards for next year. McRoy finished first on the list. Others receiving their cards were: Mark Hensby, Tim Clark, Briny Baird, Ian Leggatt, Chris Smith, Kent Jones, Tripp Isenhour, Paul Gow, John Riegger, David Berganio Jr., Jeff Gallagher, J.J. Henry, Kelly Grunewald and Jeff Hart.
Final PGA Tour Statistics
PONTE VEDRA BEACH -- Final PGA Tour statistical leaders through the American Express Championship, which ended Nov. 12:
Scoring Average
1, Tiger Woods, 67.79. 2, Phil Mickelson, 69.25. 3, Ernie Els, 69.31. 4, David Duval, 69.41. 5, Paul Azinger, 69.68. 6, Nick Price, 69.75. 7, Stewart Cink, 69.79. 8, Steve Flesch, 69.80. 9, Tom Lehman, 69.84. 10, Loren Roberts, 69.89.
Driving Distance
1, John Daly, 301.4. 2, Tiger Woods, 298.0. 3 (tie), Davis Love III and Phil Mickelson, 288.7. 5, Scott McCarron, 288.5. 6, Casey Martin, 288.3. 7, Harrison Frazar, 287.3. 8, Stuart Appleby, 286.4. 9, Mathew Goggin, 286.3. 10, Robert Allenby, 285.8.
Driving Accuracy Per
1, Fred Funk, 79.7%. 2, Joe Durant, 79.6%. 3, Scott Verplank, 78.8%. 4, Loren Roberts, 78.7%. 5, Larry Mize, 78.0%. 6, Olin Browne, 77.3%. 7, Scott Gump, 77.2%. 8, Glen Hnatiuk, 76.7%. 9 (tie), Nick Faldo and Pete Jordan, 76.4%.
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Tokyo 5-8 July...help me plan
I am reaching Tokyo 5th morning with my partner. I have shortlisted places to visit, and grouped them based on their proximity with each other. Can you help me plan how and when to visit these places. Also Disneyland both parks are a must(wont spend whole day in these parks). Which of these is a must watch and which of these can be left ?
Forgot to mention 8th I have to leave for Osaka. (so can spend until 11 am in Tokyo or max half day)
Hi again,
Sorry I am a little confused by your question.
What you could do is a day trip on the 5th in Tokyo visit
On the 6th you can start the morning at Tokyo tower and visit the Rainbow bridge, perhaps include a visit Odaiba? After you can drop by Sensoji, see some culture in Harajuku (Takeshita street is located here) - Walk to Yoyogi park and enjoy a peaceful evening, or make a stop at Shibuya.
The next morning on the 7th you can visit Disney land and sea, do note that you can easily spend a full day in either park so I would limit you visit to one and enjoy the most of it.
Than on the 8th you have all the time in the world to take the Bullet train to Osaka. I would leave Mt. Fuji for a future visit as it can be somewhat time consuming to travel there and your time in Japan is somewhat limited.
I hope this helps,
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POTSDAM --North Country Children's Clinic WIC Program is hosting its 3rd Annual World Breastfeeding Week Walk Aug. 2 at 9:30 a.m.
Walkers will meet at New Hope Church at the corner of Grant Street and Chestnut Street. Families and community advocates will walk approximately 1.75 miles through downtown to raise awareness and show support for breastfeeding in our community.
Call Emily at 854-2803 or Britny 804-1724 for additional information.


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NBA 2K14 confirmed for October release date
Take-Two Interactive had a lot to celebrate over when it released its 2013 fiscal year sales earnings to its company's investors. Not only did Take-Two bring in $1.214 billion throughout the timeframe that ended March 31, titles like BioShock Infinite and Borderlands 2 posed stunning numbers that continue to climb. However, amidst all the celebrations, Take-Two took time to announce a release date for their popular basketball series, NBA 2K.
NBA 2K14 will be hitting store shelves on October 1, 2013 according to the investors call. Last year's installment – NBA 2K13 – fared remarkably well on Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii, WiiU, iOS, Playstation Portable and Andriod, and looks to do the same this year, though it may feature competition from the NBA LIVE franchise (if indeed that finally lifts off the ground like EA assumes it will).
Neither Take-Two nor 2K Sports confirmed what consoles NBA 2K14 will be arriving on, but Amazon currently lists Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, so take that for what it's worth until 2K Sports fills us in with new details.
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Pretty Things is the most brilliant show youre likely to see on public-access TV anytime soon. Part Kids in the Hall, part Ab Fab, the sketch-comedy program is the creation of best friends Amanda Barrett (née Quinn) and Michael Lucid, who play most of the characters themselves. With an overall budget of $500 for their second "season," they have to make the most of their combined talents. There are brief cameos, including those by Aaron Ruell of Napoleon Dynamite, yet most overflow characters are supplied by Lucids beautifully lo-fi animation.
The shows intimate world has the insider/outsider quality of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson scripts and, at times, French and Saunders. The characters are usually cerebral and neurotic, prone to psychoanalytical monologues and analytical articulations. They reference Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and at the same time might naughtily read teen fiction or other peoples diaries.
"We both grew-up watching Tracey Ullman and Kids in the Hall," says the 26-year-old Lucid, seated cross-legged in front of a plate of Thai food in Hollywood. "A lot of gender-bending entered my life at a really early age. Tootsie was one of my first movie experiences. Eighties cinema was a strange period in film I remember being taken to see Staying Alive when I was really young, all those weird-dancer movies."
Pretty Things is often tagged as "camp" and "drag," but that isnt exactly how Lucid, who generally appears in female roles, sees it.
"Gender-bending started out as an automatic mode of self-expression," says Lucid, who began dressing up in his mothers clothes at the age of 8.
With a head full of film, post-structural, postmodern and queer theory from his time at NYU, and an appreciation for gore and sci-fi from his dad, a former horror-film professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lucid admits that the show serves as a catharsis for him and Barrett.
Their shared reality goes back to the first grade, when Barrett (who is also half of the eclectic pop duo the Ditty Bops) would make fun of Lucids Scooby-Doo underwear, which peeked through his overalls. But it wasnt until 10th grade at L.A.s heady private school Crossroads, when their hormones were pumping and their paradigms were shifting, that the two outsiders really connected.
"I was always late, and she would save a seat for me," Lucid explains.
Unlike their classmates, he and Barrett were not über-rich. Barretts father was, and is, a professional clown who taught his daughter to eat fire when she was 16, and her mother, who lived in Topanga, is a Wiccan high priestess. Lucid "came out" in 11th grade, and Barrett, who had been discovered in a mall, left high school to model professionally.
The two traveled to Europe together while Barrett was modeling and Lucid was an exchange student in Prague. Later, when they were living in New York, they created Pretty Things, named after the early glam David Bowie song. For Lucid, Pretty Things specifically a series of sketches about a boarding school called "Mulberry Commons" became a parallel universe to his isolated experience at NYU. At Mulberry Commons, Barrett and some of his friends who were part of the first episodes including Barretts Ditty Bops partner and longtime girlfriend Abby DeWald and fellow Crossroads alum Adam Greenberg (who gives a mind-blowing appearance as the Reality 101 teacher in the "Mulberry Commons" sketches) were able to come to school with him.
"It was usually just Amanda and me," Lucid says of the early episodes, which they shot on grainy VHS. "We would shoot each other and hand the camera back and forth. Thats why we use single close-ups. If we were playing three or four people in a scene, we were always changing wigs and makeup."
In the beginning, they shot the scenes straight through, no editing. Lucid aired them on a campus music-video show he hosted, sort of how The Simpsons first appeared interstitially on The Tracey Ullman Show. Eventually there was no room left for the music videos.
Back in L.A., theyre working on their next season and juggling other projects. Barretts band is experiencing its first glow of fame, recently touring with the Dresden Dolls as well as Nancy Sinatra. Even so, Lucid, who recently animated a Ditty Bops video, says Barrett is as dedicated to Pretty Things as ever.
"Amanda makes sure that all her scenes are shot before she leaves," he says.
In fact, the new season which, beginning in March, should air in the L.A. area Tuesdays at 11 p.m on Comcast, Adelphia, Charter and Time Warner Cable promises to be more elaborate than the last. For "Popcorn," which takes place in an art-house multiplex, they made six new films, which are layered into the scenes like SCTV.
"We made a Peking Opera, an Italian Antonio film, a Jewish-family ensemble à la My Big Fat Greek Wedding and a socially conscious Michael Mooreesque film about corn workers," he explains with a smile.
Lucid, who at one point thought he might direct documentaries, edits the shows on his iMac. He supports himself tutoring learning-impaired students and working Sundays at the Hollywood Farmers Market, selling fresh pasta. He lives in relative obscurity, literally in a cold-water flat. But, for the inspired and optimistic Lucid, his current situation is a step up from the two post-college years he spent sleeping on his parents couch.
Thanks to fans in Manhattan, Berkeley and Santa Cruz, the show has appeared in heavy cable rotation. And last year the two built a Web site (www.prettythingsss.com) as another outlet. Lucid estimates, "Ten thousand people have watched it."
The episode of "Mulberry Commons" in which Lucid plays a homosexual who hosts an assembly to tell other students about the joys of being queer ("Its like riding a bicycle," his character says, "or rather its like someone riding a bicycle into your ass") has been accepted into this years Slamdance Festival. Pretty Things has also screened at Outfest, the New York Underground Film Festival and Mix: The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival.
Theyve had a couple of big Hollywood meetings, like the one at Doug (Swingers, The Bourne Identity) Limans company Hypnotic, and can also boast a small but impressive and growing list of fans, including one of the guys who wrote Joan Jetts "I Love Rock n Roll," Tim Curry and Sid Krofft, of Sid and Marty Krofft.
"I gave him a tape at the Farmers Market," Lucid explains of the 70s TV legend and H.R. Pufnstuf producer. "He said it was very cool. "
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"You dont have to sleep over after a hand job. You dont even have to really take off your clothes."
"Carl," 30-year-old Web designer from the Bay Area, "Prick Up Your Ears. The Hand Job is Back!"
"I believe everything is a reflection of my own existence. We are all one, and these rocks help me understand myself more. Help me have visions."
Steve, a Venice Beach drum-circle participant, "Return of the Free Spirits"
"Hello??? Somebody hasnt had her coffee this morning. Yes, Im a bear. Im a small bear and Im pink and I have a big plastic nose with a game inside . . . its broken, see?"
Imaginary Bear,
"A Bear of Very Little Shame"
"I want to be rich, like Bill Gates."
Heidi, a pretty Korean-American eighth grader, "Material Girls"
"A lot of women are insecure about their vaginas. They just havent seen that many. They havent watched porn as much as men so they dont know every vagina looks different."
Jason Hall, "You Cant Tell a Hero To Stop Being a Hero"
"If people knew what our party stood for, and didnt have this kinda inherent bias, they would realize that they are Republicans."
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Harper Simon, on standing out at the Bush victory party in Washington, D.C., "Thanks for the Weirdness"
"Its just that life sucks so much right now, I might as well."
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ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Jerome Williams scored a career-high 30 points and Alvin Williams had 15 of his career-high 32 in the fourth quarter Tuesday night as the Toronto Raptors rallied for a 115-109 victory over the Orlando Magic.
Toronto got 20 points from Jerome Williams in the first half, but Orlando built a 57-50 halftime lead. The Magic made it 104-90 on a three-point play by former Raptor Tracy McGrady with 6:52 remaining.
Alvin Williams produced seven points in a 13-0 run that cut the deficit to one. He sank two foul shots with 2:42 left for a 107-106 lead.
The game stayed close until Alvin Williams fed Jerome Williams for an inside hoop with 55 seconds left for a 111-109 advantage. Orlando had a chance to tie, Grant Hill missed an open jumper with 48 seconds left.
Toronto misfired on its next possession, giving Orlando and McGrady another chance. But McGrady was double-teamed and passed to an open Pat Garrity, who misfired on a three-pointer with 14 seconds remaining. Jerome Williams sank two free throws to help seal it.
McGrady led Orlando with 38 points but had just six in the fourth quarter.


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We are seeking a senior software developer to join the Portfolio Analytics Implementation team. As a member of Implementation, you will be part of a small team of domain experts who are responsible for the ongoing design, development, and support of Acadian's state-of-the-art portfolio optimization, trading, and simulation systems. This role is ideal for a software engineer who is interested in understanding the intricacies of applying an investment model with substantial AUM. This is a unique opportunity to utilize and hone a variety of technical skills while gaining and applying financial services knowledge.
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Men's Health, Marie Claire
Men's Health, Marie Claire
Some engaged couples register for his and hers bath towels.
Miley Cyrus, who'd rather be naked anyway, has taken that concept to the next level. She and fiancé Liam Hemsworth have opted for his and hers magazine covers.
Guess they're just not into housewares.
Of course, the two had plenty to say about each other—Hemsworth gushed to Men's Health that his wife-to-be is "strong, intelligent and supportive." (Maybe "supportive" is just "hot" in Australian.)
The former Disney princess, meanwhile, countered with the classic marriage-is-just-a-piece-of-paper sanctimony reserved for the very, very young.
"I don't really care about the wedding or the piece of paper as much as I do the promise we've made to each other," she intoned to Marie Claire.
As for clothes, the big news is that Miley wore some—a sophisticated sleeveless Dior encrusted in crystals on the cover, and a Paco Rabanne with feather epaulets on the inside. Hemsworth largely opted for more cazh cover fare in a black tee and dark jeans.
It's too soon to say, but we suspect those two covers will end up framed and hanging side-by-side in their guest bedroom.
You don't think anyone has bought them the blender yet, do you?


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Advanced (A) level Cambridge Marine Science Course
I have to start by saying it was with some trepidation that I decided to take part in the 2014 Marine science course at TRACC. Simply because it had been almost a decade since I had been at school... flicitty F
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I have to start by saying it was with some trepidation that I decided to take part in the 2014 Marine science course at TRACC. Simply because it had been almost a decade since I had been at school studying.
Within the first couple of weeks of classes, field trips and studying, my concerns had been replaced with excitement and curiosity. It is after all hard to be stressed on a beautiful remote tropical Island. I can't think of a more suitable and amazing place to learn about marine science and the wonders of the marine world than the spectacular Pom Pom Island, surrounded by crystal clear water and white sandy beaches. Not to mention an array of sea creatures that are mind blowing.
Not only was the content of the course incredibly interesting and well structured, the field trips we were lucky enough to be a part of were amazing adventures. These field trips included a hike up an extinct volcano to learn about atoll formation, a trek through a muddy mangrove to collect sediment samples and a trip to the local fish markets and docs to better understand fisheries management. Although, best of all was the awesome diving!!! Being able to observe for ourselves, symbiotic behaviour, biodiversity, food webs and much more at Pom Pom's amazing dive sights, was just incredible.
The subject which affected me the most was human impacts on the marine environment. It really takes someone studying the topic to some degree to properly realise the enormity of the impacts we as people have on the marine environment. As shocking and frankly overwhelming as the module is, (covering topics such as; global warming, pollution and ocean acidification), being able to learn about them at a marine conservation centre from people who are actively making a difference, makes you understand how important education is in the fight for a sustainable future on earth.
By exam time in Kota Kinabalu I was feeling as confident as a person can be before exam time! I may have even left a couple of the exams smiling
All in all, I can honestly say not only was it an amazing experience but it ignited a passion in me and helped me gain confidence in my ability to return to studying even in my late 20's after a long gap.


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Preparing Boys for Battle has recently been released as in e-book, and is accessible in three different places:
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This is a handbook for dads to help them train their sons for battle.In this book you will find lessons for manhood that arise from the WWII battle for Iwo Jima with its fighter planes, amphibious assaults, foxholes, cave warfare, and flamethrowers.It contains seventeen critical exhortations that I believe fathers must deliver to their sons. Why? To discipline them to be the mighty warriors God intends them to be. These were the things I told my own son David as he was growing up.This is a book about leading boys to be truly great boys—and someday, men. It uses a personal, modern example (the example of my father and some other men I've met) to illustrate what God has already said in Scripture.It is appropriate to remember the WWII generation. That generation of warriors spent their youth laboring to eke out a living after the Depression. They forged their character on hard work and frugality. They were farm boys and clerks and ditch diggers. Most were not raised with silver spoons and almost none of them had much leisure time. Then they went to war and saved western civilization from the godless tyranny of Hirohito and Adolph Hitler.A generation of heroes does not just pop up out of nowhere. It is prepared by its fathers.


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Deion Sanders, among others, says that Donovan McNabb wants out of Philadelphia. McNabb says otherwise, but he didn't seem happy at the end of last season.
McNabb seems likely to ask for more money from the team regardless. If the Eagles truly want to keep him, like they should, they will acquiesce. Otherwise, this could get ugly. There are many teams who would give up a fortune to acquire McNabb, but the Eagles won't be motivated sellers.
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Was at a friend's house and noticed that he has a Stevens "Visible Loading" pump .22, in excellent condition. Assuming the serial number is the only number visible, on the metal rear of the trigger guard, it is under 10 (ten) and has the suffix "A". So unless there was production without a suffix, I'm wondering if this was one of the first ten of these rifles ever built and if it is, how much that might add to the value. Blue book, without reference to age, shows $550 for 100% and $400 for 95%, but there is no mention of serial numbers. The few that are for sale on Gunbroker today are in not nearly as good condition and the only one for which I saw a serial number had a much higher one.


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Question: In 1999 I opened a credit card with my nanny to help her establish credit. I have never used the card so all of the charges on it are hers. Last year in July I was informed by the bank that she was late on a payment. I canceled the card. Since then she had been paying regularly until this past May. She is over 90 days late and it is now in collection. I had her fill out a form to assume financial responsibility for the card. The bank will not allow that because she has been late. Technically it is my responsibility. The total due on the card is around $10,000. What can I do so this doesn't ruin my credit? Vivian, San Mateo, CA
Answer: I know you don't need me to say this at the moment, but for other listeners and readers your experience is why it doesn't pay to co-sign or open a joint account with non-family members--no matter how trustworthy. Life intervenes, and many of us fall behind on our payments for a number of reasons. (Even with family members I urge caution; there are other ways to help them out financially without taking on a legal obligation.)
Fact is, the bank and collection agency has every incentive to enforce your legal responsibility for the payments. You can't get off the financial hook. Still, the good news is that you've closed the account. The potential damage is limited to the $10,000 remaining on it. Now that it's in collection the simplest way to minimize any damage to your credit is to pay it off and then work out a payment plan with your nanny. Of course, this course of action depends on your relationship with your nanny.
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She was bored. The television droned on about some distant star system in the background. She had been watching the science channel, but the chime of her phone interrupted her and left her distracted. By the time the conversation was over, she had missed all of the important information that built up to the current thesis and was completely lost. So instead of attempting to put together the pieces of the information, Brittany pulled her laptop into her lap.
"Tumblr, Tumblr.....I wonder what everyone has to say about this week's episode of Game of Thrones..."
The familiar blue of her dash showed on the screen, and suddenly she was staring into the eyes of Tom Hiddleston. She caught herself pulling in a sharp breath. Whoever had taken that picture deserved an award.
His thin lips were pulled wide in a smile that made his bright eyes crinkle playfully, his long black hair indicating that this picture had been taken during one of the times he had been playing Loki. His casual shirt was low collared, showing off his collarbone.
She pushed the computer from her lap, laying back on her bed and closing her eyes. When she opened them, black and white zebra print sheets greeted her. The wind howled outside and she thought she heard a familiar "ehehehe" laugh on the wind.
She frowned. 'Alright, Tom, this isn't funny. You're making my ovaries implode on purpose. Stop it....wait. Nevermind. Don't stop, but give me a warning first, jeez.'
What was happening to her? She knew damn well what was happening. Ever since she had seen The Avengers movie she had been obsessed. At first it was just with the character Loki, but soon, as she did her research, she stumbled head first into the magnificent wonder that was Tom Hiddleston. She had even pursued an acting career, something she had always wanted to do, after being inspired by his talent and passion.
Tugging the computer towards her, she quickly scrolled away from the picture. Words typed on a screen blurred her vision as she read various posts, occasionally cracking a grin. She found a post that mentioned Alabama, her home state, and felt a familiar burning sensation in her nose. She wouldn't cry. Not tonight. She glimpsed the time on the screen. 4:30pm.
With a huff, she sat up and reached over to her bedside table, one of the few things the theatre company she was interning with had furnished in their living quarters. She grabbed her wallet and favorite necklace. She had 30 minutes to finish getting ready.
She, miraculously, had a date. It had made her mother jump for joy that she was finally settling into her new surroundings after a week or so. It was the first actual date she had ever been on, and it was with one of the guys on the props crew. He was cute, with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He had asked her to some little café around the corner to, as he put it, try some traditional British cuisine. London was a strange place, and he had volunteered to show her around. She prayed he didn't have ulterior motives....he seemed sweet enough.
A few moments later a knock sounded on her door and she opened it to see that her date, Dane, was soaked to the bone and had a disappointed look. He gazed at her sheepishly, taking in that she was obviously ready to go out, and was starting to look a bit downtrodden.
She was. She knew by how he looked that the date was off. It honestly didn't surprise her. It wasn't the first time she had been let down. He opened his mouth to explain, and she held up a hand to stop him. "It's ok, Dane. I understand."
He relaxed a bit and smiled. "Oh good, I'm sorry this didn't work out....Maybe if it wasn't raining we could've still -"
"It's not raining," she cut him off, "I have a window, right behind me. It's not raining! You're lying to me, Dane. Why?"
He looked like a deer caught in headlights, and stammered out a response about how he had had an important engagement that he had forgotten about. She didn't want to hear it, because anyone stupid enough to lie about something so simple wasn't worth her time, and who knew if those simple things weren't lies, too?
Instead of standing there arguing, she reached over, grabbed her things and walked past him, closing her door behind her. She ignored his indignant voice buzzing behind her and sauntered down the hall to the stairs, deciding that she wasn't going to let some silly prop-boy spoil her afternoon. She would go out and sight see on her own.
Arriving on the street, she started walking towards the little café Dane had talked about, only to discover that it was a French café. 'Oh yeah, Dane, This is totally British cuisine.'
She walked in and took a seat, and a waiter brought over a menu. She looked it over and immediately knew what she wanted. Within a matter of minutes she was happily sipping a vanilla coffee with French vanilla creamer and nibbling on a fresh beignet. A book lay open in her hand. It was a transcript of Much Ado About Nothing, and it sent waves of nostalgia about her high school days shooting through her mind. She was in the middle of cracking a third- or was it a fourth?- grin while reading the antics of Beatrice, her favorite character, when she felt a sensation she was all too familiar with.
Someone, probably to her right, was staring at her. She glanced up, seeing a curly blond head duck beneath a book. Her brows knit together and she smirked, realizing that not only was it a man, but he was ironically reading Much Ado About Nothing, too. A smile graced her lips when he went to peek back up at her only to find she was still looking his way, and he hurriedly ducked back down. From the bit of his forehead she could see, he was turning red.
'Oh, he's blushing....that's so cute!' She decided that this was a golden opportunity and closed her book, gathered her things and moved to sit at his table across from him, her grin widening as she saw him turn even redder. She picked her book back up and continued where she left off, taking a bite of her beignet and another sip of her coffee. They stayed that way, her eventually making out that he was smiling, too, in a companionable silence.
All too soon, she finished consuming her wares and sighed. If she wanted to go and see Big Ben before it closed from tours she would have to depart and end this adorable situation she found herself in. Regretfully she stood, gathering her bag and arranging her used dishes into a neat pile for the waiter to collect, leaving a tip. She had paid beforehand. Sliding her chair in, she smiled at the man, still hidden behind his book, and noticed his shoulders were a little more slumped then they had been.
In her best British accent, she said "Thank you for the companionship. I really needed that after the week I've had. I hope you enjoyed it. Goodbye, sir."
She turned on her heel and sauntered out of the café gate and hailed a taxi, aware of a gaze glued to her back the whole time.
She sat inside the taxi, face lit up with a grin and told the driver the street she wanted in her best British. 'I'll have to go back there again soon, I guess.'
As an afterthought, to dissuade herself from the fact that she wanted to try and see this stranger again, she added: 'They have beignets.'
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P harmaceutical companies are sowing the seeds for an alternative type of agriculture where crops are used as biofactories, instead of food. They stand to reap significant financial rewards by manufacturing a wide spectrum of plant-derived products for the healthcare industry.
The crop of choice is one renowned for causing medical problems. The tide is turning for tobacco, from health-threat to potential life-saver. It has become the tool of the biotechnologist's trade and researchers are capitalising on the hidden potential of this cash crop, developing applications that could redeem it in the eyes of the medical profession. Tobacco plantations soon could be providing a multitude of medically desirable drugs.
These sustainable and renewable solar-driven production plants are an attractive choice for pharmaceutical companies. Tobacco is easy to genetically modify and large quantities of protein can be produced relatively inexpensively. Plants are a safer raw material than blood plasma or mammalian cell cultures as they are free from disease-causing contaminants, thereby reducing the cost of screening drugs for viruses and toxins.
"Molecular farming" has seen vaccines, mammalian blood constituents, enzymes, antibodies and low calorie sweeteners produced in tobacco leaves. Australian scientists have engineered a measles gene into tobacco. They are now modifying rice with the gene as an alternative vehicle for vaccines in the developing world where refrigeration of traditional vaccines is difficult.
The tiny, toxic yellow scorpion, Tityus serrulatus, is responsible for numerous deaths worldwide, but tobacco is taking the sting out of this tale. Conventional treatment uses a serum derived from horses injected with the venom, but a team at Durham University is producing a version in tobacco.
Human secretory immunoglobulins, SIgAs, are proteins made by our bodies to protect oral and other mucosal surfaces against pathogen attack and toxins. Plants have been engineered to make these antibodies to combat infectious diseases of mucosal surfaces.
The first clinical proof confirming the therapeutic use of these potent proteins in humans was demonstrated by a team at Guy's Hospital in London led by Prof Tom Lehner and Dr Julian Ma.
The bacterium Streptococ cus mutans, is notorious for causing infections that lead to tooth decay. "Plantibodies" against this microbe were made in tobacco by Planet Biotechnology, a company developing SIgA-based therapeutics to treat infectious diseases and toxins affecting oral, respiratory, gastrointestinal, genital and urinary mucosal surfaces and skin. When these plantibodies were applied to the teeth of test subjects, bacteria were not able to recolonise the dental surfaces.
Dr Mich Hein, president of the San Diego-based EPIcyte Pharmaceutical company, believes that there is tremen dous scope for plant-made antibodies against a variety of pathogens and for treating cancer or systemic infections.
Ultimately the products will be safer and cost significantly less than if produced in cell-culture systems: around $20 a gram compared with $200 to $2,000 a gram.
EPIcyte is particularly interested in the production of antibodies which would prevent sperm reaching the egg. They could also fight sexually-transmitted diseases: antibodies against the herpes simplex-2 virus have been made in genetically engineered soybean. When topically applied to the vagina, these plantibodies prevented mice from contracting genital herpes.
The plantibodies were compared with those made by conventional cell culture methods. There were no significant differences in their physical properties, their performance in assays or in protecting mice against HSV-2 infection.
The technology is being transferred to corn to make anti-herpes and anti-sperm plantibodies on a larger scale which ultimately could be incorporated into gels or suppositories. This could revolutionise the sexual healthcare market by supplying a product that gives both contraception and prevents disease.
Researchers at CropTech in Blacksberg, Virginia, are using tobacco to produce a treatment for Gaucher's disease, a rare, life-threatening genetic condition affecting about one in 40,000 in the US and one in 500 of those of eastern European descent. Sufferers have a defective version of the enzyme human glucocerebrosidase, hGC, which prevents them processing certain fatty substances called complex lipids. These accumulate to toxic levels causing bone deformities, liver and spleen problems and early death.
The two drugs currently available for this condition are extremely expensive - around $300,000 a year per patient. A single dose of ceredase is made from about 2,000 human placentas and cerezyme is made from hamster ovaries. A single leaf of tobacco, however, can be genetically engineered to produce an equivalent amount of hGC which can be more easily and cheaply extracted.
Tobacco is well-suited for producing proteins on a large scale as it generates biomass rapidly and it is a prolific producer of seeds, facilitating rapid scale-up. But harvesting these precious proteins can be tricky. Researchers have come up with a solution to get to the root of the problem - a process called "rhizosecretion".
Tobacco plants are grown hydroponically and release large quantities of protein from their roots into the surrounding solution by virtue of special sequences added to the protein which send them to the plant's secretory system.
T his allows continuous, large-scale production of pure, active therapeutic proteins. Domestic animals such as sheep, cows and rabbits are widely used to produce pharmaceuticals. They can be induced to secrete large amounts of useful proteins such as insulin in their milk, blood or urine by inserting the appropriate gene into their genetic makeup.
Transgenic mice that secrete human growth hormone into their seminal fluid recently hit the headlines. Plants on the other hand are a more favourable, cost-effective and aesthetic alternative to producing pharmaceuticals in transgenic animals.
The golden grains of pharmaceutical-containing corn and vaccine-rich tobacco foliage could change the face of conventional farming as we know it and provide a new niche market for tobacco farmers.
Looking into the future, crops will be "pharmed" for a wide range of non-food uses, particularly to produce proteins to treat and prevent human disease. Plants are poised to become the biofactories of a new agricultural age.


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A retired police officer from Northern California was one of the victims, Davis said.
Tamburrino posted bail but was rearrested during a court proceeding with additional burglary charges, he said.
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Tamburrino was booked into Vista jail on suspicion of multiple burglaries, receiving stolen property, attempted burglary, multiple counts of theft, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a controlled substance, a jail clerk said. He is being held on $250,000 bail.


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A while back, after handing in my manuscript and before SteelyKid, I asked readers to suggest blog topics. I got to a few of them already, but there's one more that I've been meaning to comment on, from tcmJOE:
I'm a physics undergrad about to begin my final year, and while I'm still thinking of physics grad school, I'm starting to feel less and less inclined to go into academia. Would you talk some more about career options for physics students outside of academia/pure research?
In many ways, I'm a lousy person to ask about this– I went directly from college into physics grad school, with about a week between my leaving Williamstown and my showing up at NIST to work for the summer before classes started. I've never had a "Real Job," namely one outside of academia.
This is a little awkward, especially as I'm now in a position to give career advice to students, both in person and on the Internet. My knowledge of the non-academic job market for physics majors is second-hand at best, so take whatever follows with an appropriate amount of salt.
(I'm going to assume, by the way, that you're looking for careers that actually use the technical aspects of the physics degree, and not just any job that pays a living wage. If you're just in it for the money, Wall Street has traditionally loved anybody who's good at math, and a lot of former physicists end up there.)
There's a very big split between jobs you can get with an undergrad physics degree and jobs you can only get if you have a Ph.D.. There's not much difference between the jobs you can get with a bachelor's degree and those you can get with a master's degree– physics, for whatever reason, seems to be a "Ph.D. or bust!" field.
At the undergrad level, any technical job you can get is essentially an engineering position. You'd be hired for having some basic technical competence, numerical ability, and problem-solving skills, and not so much for the specific knowledge of physics that you may have (though specific knowledge doesn't hurt).
The good news here is that a physics degree will give you the ability to work in a lot of different fields. The bad news is, a physics degree will give you the ability to work in a lot of different fields.
This is really where I part company with "Thoreau", who wrote about this in the context of diversity issues a few weeks ago:
The reality is that the real value of a physics degree is similar to the value of a liberal arts degree: In all likelihood you won't spend the rest of your career making direct use of the concepts and calculations mastered in physics courses. However, a physics education gives a person (1) a very fundamental view of science and technology (2) an introduction to an experimental culture that is very DIY and clever with indirect measurement, and (3) an introduction to a mathematical culture that is able to blend high-powered computing, back of the envelope estimates, very fancy pure mathematics, and the workhorses of standard applied mathematics. This sort of training generally leads to a lower starting salary than engineering graduates (fewer entry-level jobs that precisely match the major) but long-term prospects that are comparable to engineering grads (and often more flexible).
If we stop thinking about "How can we get more students to consider my career path in basic research and college teaching?" and start thinking about how to get more students to consider an educational path that leads to a wide variety of opportunities, we might get more students of all types. … [I]t would be healthier for the profession if we recognized that physics departments can and should do more than just teach a whole bunch of service courses while trying to prepare a handful of students for a basic research path that most of them won't even embark on.
While I'm sympathetic to the idea of emphasizing flexibility (I am, after all, a confirmed Liberal Arts College Guy), this is more effective as a strategy for making employed physicists feel good about themselves than attracting and keeping majors, for the reasons alluded to in the last sentence of the first paragraph, and spelled out in more detail here, here, and to some degree here. The problem is that while it's true that a physics major gives students the skills they need to learn to succeed at any of a wide range of jobs, it doesn't provide the immediate credential that qualifies them for any particular job.
If we over-emphasize flexibility, we risk becoming the English of the natural sciences– a good college major that doesn't give you a path to a job.
But that's a strategic academic matter, not anything relevant to the job question. From a practical standpoint, if you're a physics undergrad looking for a technical job that does not require graduate school, there are jobs out there for you, but you'll have to work a little harder for them. Companies looking to hire someone to engineer optical systems may be faced with a choice between one candidate with a physics degree, and another with a degree in optical engineering, and you need to convince them that you're the right choice.
My advice to somebody in this situation would be to emphasize two things: research experience, and communication skills. If you want to stand out in a pool of candidates with more specialized degrees, it's imperative to have some sort of relevant research experience– get involved in something as an undergrad, and demonstrate that you can produce results. If you're lucky, you may even be able to find a project that's directly relevant– the students I've worked with at Union who have gone directly into the working world have done so in positions that rely heavily on skills they learned in doing research, and that's what got them the job.
Communication skills are also important. There are very few jobs that you would want to hold that don't involve some element of interpersonal communication. You need to be able to convey information about your work to other people in an effective and efficient way, starting with whoever is going to interview you for your potential job, so these skills are essential. If you're offered an opportunity to present your research results in an oral or poster presentation, take it. If you're not offered one, make one.
As a practical matter, the process of getting one of these jobs is the same as the process for getting a non-science job after graduation: You write up a resume, and send it to everyone you might consider working for. If you're at a good college or university, they'll have a career office of some sort who can help with this– they'll have directories of employers, lists of alumni contacts, and that sort of thing. The resources they offer won't be as extensive for science positions as for investment banking, but at an absolute minimum, they can help you polish your resume and interview skills.
That's the undergrad side of things. If you go on to graduate school, get a Ph.D., and don't want to continue in academia, the options are somewhat different. There are more positions out there specifically looking for a Ph.D. in Physics than there are looking for an undergraduate physics degree, which makes the credential question a little less critical.
Again, discarding the Wall Street option, these generally are industrial positions, focussed on making some specific product or another. Since the demise of Bell Labs and other great industrial labs, there aren't so many open-ended positions where you can just putter around and try to invent the laser, but they tend to be interested in specific problems relevant to particular situations.
I don't personally have the temperment for this– I'm easily bored, and lose interest in problems after a while, so I've never looked all that closely at what these entail. My impression is that they require a good deal of attention to detail, as you would expect– the people I know who have gone on to positions in industry have been organized and detail-oriented to an almost compulsive degree.
Again, having a relevant research area helps– if you're a pencil-and-paper theorist working on non-commutative geometrical subspaces for blah blah blah, you're probably screwed. If you do experimental work in any field, you can probably apply what you know to some problem of industrial interest. And communication skills are at least as important here as for people with undergrad degrees.
The other non-academic option would be a position at a national research lab– NIST, one of the DoE labs, one of the DoD facilities, etc. Those positions can be quasi-academic, and are really the dream job for a lot of physicists– you have the job stability of being in the government service, but you get to work on more or less whatever you want, and you don't have to teach classes. Staff positions at major national labs are fantastic jobs, but they're also even rarer than tenure-track faculty jobs, so I wouldn't make that a specific career goal.
As far as getting these positions, it's similar to getting undergrad jobs, but without the college career center. On the other hand, though, if you've been doing research toward a Ph.D., you almost certainly know a lot of people in the field, and can draw on those connections to learn about job openings in the same way that an undergrad would use the career center. You also know who the major companies working in relevant fields are, because you've been buying and using their products, so you can contact them directly. After that, it's the same resume-and-interview process as any other job.
Somewhere in between these two is the option of going to a different sort of professional school– getting the education credentials needed to become a physics teacher, for example, or going to law school with the intention of becoming a patent lawyer. Those are both excellent career options, and offer some opportunity to use the technical knowledge of a physics degree, albeit less directly. They also require a particular personality type to succeed (in particular, if you're thinking about going to law school, you better like writing).
So, that's what I have to offer on the subject of non-academic careers in physics. I wish I had more solid knowledge to work from, but maybe some of my readers can provide helpful comments.


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: This isn't about me, it's about a friend of mine. She's my old roommate. We're freshmen in college, and this girl that was anorexic and bullemic died last Friday of a heart attack. Kelsey is taking this really hard. They weren't really tight--they only really talked about three times, but each time it was for like three hours at a time...the thing is that Kelsey was also anorexic and bullemic--she used to be a gymnest--and it has basically been under control for a while and she's really open about it, but she's suddenly going through a ton of stuff lately that I think has set her off, and no one knows what to do about it. She eats next to nothing and works out all the time, She's also barely been to class this semester. She was in a car wreck and hurt her neck, so she bed rested for a while, but now she has recovered and still doesn't go to class. : I don't know how to approach this situation. I have issues of depression myself, and I'm actually not doing great right now, but I've been much worse, so if I put it into perspective, I'm pretty OK. I just don't know if I'll have the strength to get through this whole Kelsey thing if I try to help, but I can't just ignore it. : I think that she would be pretty responsive if I confronted her with it. When I ask how much she's eaten or whatever, she's totally honest with me. I think she wants the help, and she'll accept it if it's given to her, I just don't know how helpful I would be. So if anyone has any advice, I would really appreciate it.
: thanks, : Emily
I wish that I could give you a bunch of words of wisdom but unfortunatley I too suffer from anorexia and depresion and am really unsure of how to stop. I would like you to know though that you and Kelsey are both in my prayers. You are a wonderful friend and she couldn't ask for anymore. Don't send yourself over the edge with worry I understand how depresion can do that to you. Just let her know that you are there if she needs to talk. Maybe you should consider offering to take her to a Pshyc. If that boat dosent float I suggest passing on the torch to someone else. Don't neglect yourself, if it becomes to much and you need to vent you can e-mail me anytime and I promise i'll be here in whatver way possible to help.God Bless and Good Luck, Sarah
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When Lubbock High was going through a quarterback competition during preseason practices, the last thing head coach Jason Strunk probably expected was to have to look beyond his first two choices.
But with starter Cory Schovanec still nursing a sprained shoulder and James Garcia suffering a right knee injury against Perryton Friday, that's exactly what Strunk is doing.
Jordan High, who has been the junior varsity quarterback for two years, took over after Garcia's injury and thew a touchdown pass on his first drive. But with little experience or time to prepare during the week, Perryton loaded the box and put him under constant pressure the rest of the night, leading to a 49-19 loss to the Rangers.
Strunk said High will be the starter as the Westerners (1-4) open District 4-4A play this week at Plainview as Schovanec's shoulder has not responded and Garcia was set for an MRI on his knee on Wednesday. Strunk said it appears, for Garcia, it could be a sprain of the lateral collateral and medial collateral ligaments, but will know more after the MRI.
Strunk is more than confident in High, however, especially given he will have a full week of practice to prepare.
"He knows the system well," Strunk said. "He's been getting all the reps and it's been going well. It's not like we're throwing somebody new (to the offense) into their first varsity experience."
Strunk characterized High as a pocket passer with the strongest arm of the three quarterbacks. While Garcia used his feet to create plays and Schovanec's asset was the quick, screen game, High possesses the ability to get the ball down field. The LHS offense is adaptable to where game plans can be devised around any kind of quarterback running it.
"I thin he's the polar opposite of both," Strunk said of High. "He'll stand in the pocket and throw. Now that we'll have a full week with Jordan we're not going to scale anything back. We know Jordan will know all the wrinkles heading into Plainview that he didn't know going into Perryton. He's done a good job on JV, but he just had two kids ahead of him that were better at the start of camp. Now it's his turn."
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Coaches like to split the season into third — the non-district schedule, the district schedule, and for those lucky enough, the playoffs.
While some teams are already into the second season, most of the South Plains opens district play this week, some in a rut, some still searching for answers, and some surging. No team is surging more right now than New Deal.
The Lions are one of only three unbeaten 11-man teams in the area — Frenship and Shallowater being the others — and the Lions will be the only one of those three entering district off a game last week. The Lions used a second-half surge to break open a close game and beat Slaton 35-12.
New Deal went into District 2-1A, Division I action off a win in the same game last season, but that was at the end of an up-and-down non-district slate that saw the Lions start the year 1-3. But at 6-0 in 2013, the Lions have been dominant on a nightly basis, and now go into district with a load of momentum.
"I guess it's just a message to other teams in district, but for us it's more of, we got through the first part of the season and now we've got to handle the next part of the season," senior running back/defensive back VJ Gamez said. "It feels more of a momentum burst. We have that momentum going into district at 6-0 and that we can carry that momentum on into district and hopefully go on to the playoffs and win district."
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Fleetwood Mac, Mountain and The Doobie Brothers are not the kind of acts for which you would expect a legendary jazz keyboardist and his virtuoso band to appear as an opening act. But that's exactly what Chick Corea and his pioneering fusion-jazz group, Return To Forever, did back in the halcyon days of the 1970s.
"It was an exciting new experience for us and it was always a challenge to try and grab a pure rock audience," said Corea, a 12-time Grammy Award-winner.
He performs here Monday at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay with Return To Forever IV, an old-meets-new version of his pioneering band. On Wednesday, he shared a Best Instrumental Album Latin Grammy nomination for "Forever," his new album with reunited Return To Forever band mates Stanley Clarke and Lenny White.
A genre-leaping maverick, Corea has long been one of contemporary music's most eclectic and adventuresome artists. In addition to countless jazz greats, his past collaborators include Cat Stevens, the London Philharmonic and the rock band Foo Fighters.
Corea's ongoing tour with his reunited and revamped new edition of Return To Forever is drawing eager young new listeners. But the core audience is baby-boomer-age fans, many of whom discovered jazz through the high-voltage work of Return To Forever and such like-minded bands as the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
"We'd get a lot of wonderful conversions with the rockers," Corea said, speaking from a recent mid-west tour stop. "They'd come back a year later, and say: 'I was a pure heavy-metal fan. Then I heard you guys and went out and discovered Miles (Davis) and (John) Coltrane.' We loved to see that happen."
Not coincidentally, Return to Forever's roots can be traced to Corea's tenure with jazz trumpet giant Davis.
As a member of Davis' band from 1968 to 1970, he helped forge the fresh, electrifying mix of jazz, funk and rock that became known as fusion. Corea played on such landmark Davis albums as "In a Silent Way" and "Bitches Brew," which also featured future Return To Forever drummer Lenny White.
Like fellow Davis alums John McLaughlin (who founded the Mahavishnu Orchestra) and Joe Zawinul (a co-founder of Weather Report), the Boston-born Corea was one of the most gifted Davis accompanists of that era who went on to launch a highly successful fusion band.But it was not a quick, or direct, transition.
First, in 1970, Corea helped start Circle, one of jazz's most avant garde groups at the time.
"(Bassist) Dave Holland and I left Miles expressly to put a group together," the keyboardist recalled. "The first (iteration) wasa duo, actually. We rehearsed with intent of finding a drummer who fit our conception, which turned out -- pretty quickly -- to be Barry Altschul. We made several recordings and did quite a few performances as a trio. And then (saxophonist) Anthony (Braxton) joined."
In 1972, he and bassist Stanley Clarke formed the first Return To Forever and focused on combining jazz and various Latin music styles. The result was the classic album, "Light As a Feather," featuring top Brazilian singer Flora Purim and her husband, percussion master Airto Moriera.
"With Circle, it was a case of experimenting and the complete freedom of creating music that had no form to it," Corea recalled. "Then I started missing music that was more melodic and had a groove to it. I actually wrote some of the first songs we recorded with Return To Forever while I was still in Circle.
"It was a core enough idea (for Return To Forever) to very quickly result on selecting musicians. Stanley was the first person I found. We enjoyed playing together and he played the new music I wrote in great, grooving way. (Brazilian music dynamo) Airto (Moriera) was the perfect drummer for these Latin-style rhythms.
"Actually, I engaged Flora (Purim, Moriera's wife) to sing in the band first. We had a different drummer, until we found Airto's percussion really fit the group well. The concept was well though-out, and Stanley, Flora, Airto and (saxophonist/flutist) Joe (Farrell) brought it into a reality. It was a pleasure putting it together."
Did Corea have any idea "Light As A Feather" would be regarded as a landmark album, then and now?
"The only indication I've ever had of the sort of 'special-ness' I have is in the audience's eyes," he replied. "I'm a legend in my own mind, like everyone is. And I can make things be as special or un-special as I like.
"But interacting with life around me, the audience is the real monitor of what tends to be special. And the first audiences Return To Forever played for were so enthusiastic, immediately I had a sense something was happening. We were a young group playing the Village Vanguard (in New York), with a young audience whooping it up for us."
That lineup of the band only lasted for one album, after which another musical shift took place, this time toward the high-voltage fusion style for which Return To Forever would soon be known internationally. The group also shrunk in size, down to a quartet, with several guitarists passing through its ranks.
"My great partner in creative crime with Return To Forever has always been Stanley," Corea noted.
"After we made 'Light As a Feather,' we wanted to create a more electric sound and Stanley had roots in funk and blues, as well as jazz. He recommended Lenny (White); then we started auditioning guitarists. John McLaughlin was already making a sound with electric guitar that was totally a first; no one had every played the guitar like that in jazz. I loved it, and Stanley did, too."
Return To Forever IV teams Corea, Clarke and White with Australian guitarist Frank Gambale, a veteran of the Chick Corea Elektric Band. New to the group is French violinist Jean Luc Ponty, who in the mid-1970s achieved success as a fusion star in his own right.
By coincidence, Ponty worked in the 1960s and '70s with art-rock great Frank Zappa, whose son Dweezil's's band, Zappa Plays Zappa, is the opening act on Return To Forever's current tour. Both Ponty and Corea have taken turns sitting in for a number with Zappa Plays Zappa.
"Jean Luc was the perfect choice for this new Return To Forever," Corea said.
"We're longtime friends and mutual admirers. He and Stanley had played together and Stanley and I both love that sound Jean Luc gets. I think he was probably the first modern jazz violinist and certainly the first guy who made an electric violin work and made a musical sound with it. So he fits into the band real easily. Once he got his hands around the repertoire, he's been killing it."
And Gambale?
"My rapport with Frank built up from all the years we worked together in the Elektric Band," said Corea, who turned 70 in June and has several new albums pending, including his second classical piano concerto, a Bill Evans tribute album and a duo outing with vibraphonist Gary Burton.
"Frank and I worked through a lot of technical and conceptual problems, with me being a keyboardist and he being a guitarist. And it was a lot to work out, because at first we saw there were conflicting roles, in terms of providing the harmonic basis for the band. But Frank, being such a great musician and being able to play guitar in so many ways -- he plays it like a piano -- worked out a way with me to orchestrate our sounds. Frank brings an incredible youthful spirit and his sound integrates perfectly with Jean Luc's. The only other guitarist I've got that (rapport) with was John McLaughlin.
"This band has a new face and some new instrumentation, but the enthusiasm and spirit from the '70s is still there. But when we play the music, there is no reverence. In fact, we try to break down the old patterns, as much as possible, to make new things come out. The reverence I feel we share as musicians is the reverence for the contributions by our musical heroes... We're constantly talking on the tour bus about Miles, Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, and also James Brown, Stevie Wonder and the rock bands from the '70s. That's our reverence."


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I've been involved with At The Crossroads for almost 13 years now: first as a foundation program officer, coaching the executive director in submitting applications for funding, then as a sounding board for the E.D. as the organization grew, then an advisory board member, and now as head of the board of directors of a 501c3 organization! I am really proud of ATC: this organization has strong values of non judgmental support and yet everyone is encouraged to hold themselves to high standards. It sounds like a contradiction, but staff and board and volunteers work hard to make it possible for our outreach workers to help youth on the streets of San Francisco. ATC has a great record of helping homeless youth to envision an outstanding future for themselves, and then helping them to make that happen!
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Very recently, Sony partnered with Taco Bell to bring customers the Unlock The Box contest, stating that a new winner of a PS Vita would be named every 15 minutes. The add tells people to "Enter the code and see if you're an instant winner." Apparently many contestants who saw the "Congratulations, you won. … No really, we're not kidding" screen didn't get what they were promised.
According to Taco Bell, someone possibly hacked their system, producing far too many winners for Taco Bell to cope with. Apparently, legitimate participants (around 300) received the winning message, but due to the possible hacks and/or tampering with the contest, this participants will not be receiving any compensations. When asked if this "winners" are guaranteed prizes, a representative for Taco Bell said, "They are not." However, apparently these people will be given a second chance with another drawing, which will give away at least 2 PS Vitas, out of around 300 once hopeful winners.
The full statement from Taco Bell can be read below.
We have learned that during a short period of time on January 30th, some people entering our Unlock the Box promotion erroneously received a message suggesting they had won a PlayStation® Vita, pending verification. After a thorough investigation, and an additional review by the independent company administering the promotion, it was confirmed that these entrants viewed these messages as a result of others who attempted to gain illegal entry and defraud the system. Unfortunately, during this time period some saw a confirmation screen but were not valid winners. Taco Bell designed this sweepstakes to be fun for our consumers and we know that there are some disappointed fans. We are therefore giving those consumers who viewed erroneous messages a second chance to win by automatically entering them into a separate drawing to win a PS Vita. All winners will be notified and their names posted the week after the end of the promotion. The issue that occurred on January 30th has been resolved and the Unlock the Box promotion will continue to run through March 11, 2012.
Kind of sucks, right? You would think it would be fair to give all the cheated participants something, instead of another long shot chance to get a Vita they were already promised. How about a gift card to Taco Bell, or at least a discount? How do you feel about how Taco Bell is handling the situation?
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I have a Civil Judgement, from a Condo HOA, that was filed in early 2011 in Superior Court in Southern California. It was a result of a non-judicial foreclosure that was not able to satisfy payoff of past HOA dues and assessments. Outstanding HOA dues were the result of extreme financial hardship.
Today, I am in a better position to negotiate a settlement arrangement but still with limited resources. Now, the creditor (the HOA and their attorney) is asking the court for a Judgment Debtor Examination hearing. At this point, I believe it is better to settle outside of court with the creditor rather than go through the court hearing.
So my questions are as follows:
* Can the Civil Judgement be "dropped" or "removed"?
* Is it advisable to negotiate a settlement by myself or with cost effective counsel?
* Are there reasonable resources/options available to negotiate a settlement?
* Is is advisable to negotiate an agreed settlement amount with monthly
* Can a contract be drawn-up that is mutually agreeable by both parties
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* What would that contract look like to be acceptable?
* What would be the process/strategy to get the Judgement Debtor Examination
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Thank you for professional assistance in this matter.
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Judgments can ge settled and many times payments can be made if both sides agree to them and to the amount of each payment, etc. A settlement agreement will be prepared if the case is settled. When payment is made in full pursuant to the Judgment amount plus all post-judgment costs, attorneys' fees and interest or a settlement, the plaintiff will file a Notice of Satisfaction of Judgment. Call an attorney to help settle and maybe your attorney can convince them not to go forward with the debtor's exam. If not, you will need to appear and answer questions about your income, assets, job, etc. and if you were ordered to bring documents (bank accounts, etc.), you will need to bring them.
I would suggest entering into a settlement to resolve this. It might be possible to get the plaintiff to agree to vacate the judgment as part of the settlement. You should try to hire someone experienced to do this before the judgment debtor examination.
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Congratulations to the full production team and investors behind Joe Cinque's Consolation, the official trailer release today looks great.
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A Single Body (Un Seul Corps) is tightly constructed portrait of male friendship set against the intense backdrop of a slaughterhouse, where best friends and skilled workers, David and Wani, diligently ply their trade, saving for their own butchery.
Link is pleased to announce our support of the upcoming feature film Joe Cinque's Consolation. This highly anticipated debut feature film of award winning director Sotiris Dounoukos wrapped principal photography on 13 June 2015. Link's involvement with this production has included online consultative work with upcoming web design and development.
The 2014-15 financial year, particularly this latter half, is shaping up to be the year government in Australia finally starts journeying in earnest into the cloud. In the past two months alone we've seen stock photos of fluffy clouds blowing into articles about both Federal and State ventures. The New South Wales government for instance
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he following graph from Google Trends compares interest in four of the leading open data solutions alongside interest in open data, as indicated by the use of search terms worldwide.
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