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Heavenly Hands Food Pantry, Keosauqua, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Call 319-293-3761.
Youth Fitness Class, for fifth-graders and up, Roosevelt Community Recreation Center, 5:15-6:15 p.m. $3 per class; free with membership. No registration needed.
Fairfield Kiwanis Club, McElhinny House, 5:45 p.m.
Alcoholics Anonymous, First Presbyterian Church, 8 p.m.
Dr. Joel Brown on the Steinway, Fairfield Arts & Convention Center's Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m. Information and tickets: 472-2787 or www.fairfieldacc.com.
"Get the BUZZ!!!" beekeeping class, first of four Thursday classes in February, Jefferson County ISU Extension Office, 6-8 p.m. Information: 472-4166.
Fairfield Women's Club Garden Department, McElhinny House, coffee, 9 a.m.; program, 9:30 a.m.; followed by meeting. Information: 472-4248.
Fairfield High School Class of 1956, monthly breakfast, Fairfield Hy-Vee Food and Drug Store, 7:30 a.m.
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Pasta Night, sponsored by Future Business Leaders of America, Fairfield High School Commons during the doubleheader basketball game, 4:30-8 p.m.
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LA-1: Standardizing the Look-Aside Processor Interface
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The offload of tasks for data plane packet-processing elements, such as network processors, to co-processor solutions, such as classification engines, ternary CAMs (TCAMs), IP co-processors, and more can become a key choke point in today's packet-processing architecture. To help curb this bottleneck, the Network Processing Forum (www.npforum.org) has released the first rev of a standard lookaside interface, dubbed LA-1, that accelerates and standardizes the movement of packets between data plane and co-processor solutions.
The LA-1 interface supports the transaction requirements for OC-48 through OC-192 line rates. The performance specification for co-processors is four or more transactions at OC-48 or one or more transactions at OC-192 line rates.
The LA-1 interface as currently defined has a bandwidth of about 6.4 Gbit/s per direction, which is sufficient for lookups at 10-Gbit/s (OC-192) packet rates. It's important to note that packet count assumptions used to develop the LA-1 interface are based on line rate performance using 40-byte packets and 144-bit search keys.
DDR Foundation
The new interface spec is based on separate dual data rate (DDR) buses for data inputs and data outputs. Using DDR interfaces, data is clocked on the rising and falling edges of the clock signals. This effectively doubles the bandwidth of the interface without increasing the clock speed or the bus width. Overall, the LA-1 interface operates at clock speeds between 133 and 200MHz.
In addition to supporting DDR operation, the LA-1 interface provides a host of features. These include:
- Unidirectional read and write interfaces
- A 24-pin address bus
- 18-pin DDR DataOut transfers 32 bits data + 4 bits of even byte parity per read
- 18-pin DDR DataIn transfers 32 bits data + 4 bits of even byte parity per write
- Read and write enable signals (W#, R#)
- Data clocks provided by the host network processing element (C, C#, K, K#)
- Echo clocks generated by the co-processor (CQ, CQ#)
- Port Enable Signals (E[1:0] and EP[1:0])
- 1.5-V HSTL I/O pins as defined by JEDEC (EIA/JESD8-6)
The LA-1 data inputs and outputs operate simultaneously, thus eliminating the need for high-speed bus turnarounds (i.e. no dead cycles are present) [Figure 1]. Access to each port is accomplished using a common address bus. Addresses for reads and writes are latched on rising edges of K and K# input clocks, respectively. Each address location is associated with two 16-bit data words that burst sequentially into or out of the device. Since data can be transferred into and out of the device on every rising edge of K, K# and CQ, CQ# (or C, C#) clocks respectively, memory bandwidth is maximized while simplifying overall design through the elimination of bus turnarounds.
Bus Timing
Figure 2 provides a functional timing diagram for the LA-1 interface. Asserting the write-select (W#) input low at the K rising edge initiates a write cycle. The following K# rising edge provides the address for the write cycle. Each write address provides the base address for two 18-bit transfers. Hence, 32-bit data plus four even-byte parity bits are transferred for each selected address.
Asserting the read-select (R#) input low at the K rising edge initiates a read cycle, and the address bus presents the read address. Data is delivered after the next rising edge of clock K using the clocks C, C# (or CQ, CQ#) as the output timing references as shown in Figure 2.
The LA-1 interface uses a memory-mapped structure. Network processing components can use the address bus to control co-processor functions. Reads and writes to memory-mapped registers are used to initiate co-processor actions, retrieve results, and provide in-band management.
Multi-Drop Cascading
One of the big advantages of using the LA-1 interface is the capability to support devices in a multi-drop configuration (i.e. multiple devices connected to the same interface). Through this capability, system designers can support both a co-processor (TCAM) and an SRAM on the same bus at the same time.
TCAM searches require more write bandwidth whereas SRAMs are generally read intensive, so having two separate data buses allows the network processing element to write to a TCAM and read from a SRAM simultaneously without wasting any processor bandwidth.
Two multi-drop cascading configurations are supported. The first configuration uses a single read/write enable pair, and two bits of the address to select the device. All devices can be either co-processors or a mix of co-processors and SRAMs that support programmable port enables. EP[1:0] pins are used to determine the polarity of the E[1:0] pins. Figure 3 below shows four devices cascaded using this method.
The second configuration of Multi-Drop cascading uses separate and independent read and write enable pairs to select a device. The E[1:0] and EP[1:0] pins are not used, and should be tied low as shown below in Figure 4.
One of the limitations of the existing LA-1 interface is that commercially available SRAMs have interface speeds faster than the LA-1 maximum of 200 MHz. To solve this problem, some designers are looking at ways to extend the speed of the current LA-1 interface in order to support higher-speed co-processor solutions compatible with existing SRAM speeds. Answering this call, the NPF has instituted a project to increase LA-1 bandwidth. A faster LA-1 interface specification should be standardized by summer next year.
Working on LA-2
The development of the LA-2 interface is in progress. The LA-2 is a request-response type of interface and supports the transaction requirements for OC-192 through OC-768 line rates. The current physical layer of LA-2 is based on the emerging SXI-5 specification.
The SXI-5 implementation agreement as defined by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) specifies the electrical characteristics for system packet interface 5 (SPI-5) and serdes framer interface 5 (SFI-5). The NPF is also considering SXI-5 for the next-generation streaming interface for network processing applications. If this happens, chip developers could invest in a single I/O for both the look-aside and streaming interfaces. This, in turn, would simplify the system design process for equipment developers.
Author's Note: For a more information on the LA-1 interface, visit http://www.npforum.org/ApprovedSpecs.htm.
About the Author
Harmeet Bhugra is a systems engineer at Integrated Device Technology Inc in Santa Clara, CA. He is actively involved in the LookAside task group at the Network Processor Forum (NPF). Prior to joining IDT, Harmeet held ASIC Design positions at Nortel Microelectronics in Ottawa, ON and PMC-Sierra Inc. in Burnaby, B.C. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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After experiencing sexual abuse as a child, the Rev. Becca Stevens created a nonprofit to help women who have survived prostitution, trafficking, and addiction find sanctuary and security. This is her - and their - story.
Becca Stevens calls herself a "snake oil salesman" - in a positive sense. The social enterprise she founded, Thistle Farms, provides purpose and employment to abused women, providing them with the economic well-being to begin new lives. The natural body-care products that Thistle Farms manufactures - balms, soaps, and lotions, whose ingredients include essential oils - bring healing comfort to the company's customers, too.
In Snake Oil, Stevens tells how her childhood, marked by sexual abuse and her father's tragic death, equipped her with the insight to understand other broken lives, leading her to establish the Magdalene residential community for prostitutes and, later, Thistle Farms. Wise and reflective, Snake Oil offers an empowering narrative as well as a selection of recipes for healing remedies that readers can make themselves.
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Yes, I've already given it to a friend. It is a terrific story about Becca's growing up, and what led her to start Magdalene Farms. And I loved the essential oils recipes.
It's her own experiences, so it's always best to hear from the author. She has a really kind voice, and you can hear her care for others.
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Revisiting the Corsair AX1500i
Subject: Cases and Cooling | May 14, 2015 - 01:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Digital Power Supply, Corsair Link, AX1500i, 80 Plus Titanium
It has been almost a year since Lee reviewed the Corsair AX1500i, one of the best high wattage PSUs it has been his pleasure to test so it seems appropriate to remind you of it's quality with this review from [H]ard|OCP. While the PSU is not new and still costs more than the competition at $400 the 7 year warranty is better than most. The review is of two Corsair AX1500i PSUs, one provided by Corsair and one purchased from a retail outlet for reasons you can read about in the full review. In the end [H] gave this PSU a pass, they felt that the unchanged price was a strike against Corsair as are the claims of the marketing team but as far as performance this PSU provided solid power in even their torture tests.
"It is not every day that a company has the moxie to come out and say that it makes "the best" of anything, but that is exactly what Corsair is saying about its AX1500i computer power supply; "The best enthusiast power supply you can own." Of course that begs one question, "Is it, or isn't it the best enthusiast PSU you can own?" We answer that."
Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Super Flower Leadex Platinum 2000 W @ techPowerUp
- Corsair HX1200i '80 Plus Platinum' @ Kitguru
- be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W PSU @ Kitguru
- Antec VPF550 Strictly Power 550W Power Supply Unit Review @ NikKTech
- XFX TS Series 550 Watt PSU @ HardwareOverclock
Podcast #298 - Next Generation Intel Motherboards, Crossfire R9 295x2s, Corsair AX1500i Power Supply, and more!
Subject: General Tech | May 1, 2014 - 12:35 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: video, r9 295x2, podcast, nvidia, Next Generation, Intel, corsair, AX1500i, amd, 295x2
PC Perspective Podcast #298 - 05/01/2014
Join us this week as we discuss Next Generation Intel Motherboards, Crossfire R9 295x2s, Corsair AX1500i Power Supply, and more!
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Corsair announced their latest flagship power supply, the 1,500 watt AX1500i Digital ATX PSU earlier this year at CES. We recently received a retail unit to review and have spent the past week putting it through our suite of tests. The new AX1500i Digital proved to be a very interesting power supply and brings not one, but several outstanding features to the high-end enthusiast market. Over time, we all grow numb to marketing terms like "most technologically advanced", "state-of-the-art", "ultra-stable", "super-high efficiency", etc., but in the case of the AX1500i Digital PSU, we have seen these claims come to life before our eyes.
Right out of the box, the AX1500i Digital power supply is capable of delivering up to 1,500 watts of continuous DC power (125 Amps on the +12V rail). If that is not impressive enough, the PSU can do it while operating on 115 VAC mains and with an ambient temperature up to 50°C (internal case temperature). This beast was made for multiple power-hungry graphic adapters and overclocked CPUs.
The Corsair AX1500i is one of the very first power supplies to obtain 80 Plus Titanium certification, which requires a PSU to operate with at least 90% efficiency between 10% and 100% load, and with at least 94% efficiency at 50% load.
The AX1500i is a digital power supply, which offers two distinct advantages. First, the AX1500i incorporates a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) to provide digitally-controlled power. This enables the PSU to deliver extremely tight voltage regulation over a wide range of loads. And second, the AX1500i features Corsair Link, which enables the PSU to be connected to the PC's motherboard (via USB) for real-time monitoring (efficiency and power usage) and control (over-current protection and fan speed profiles).
Silent operation (zero-rpm fan mode up to ~30% load) might not be at the top of your feature list when shopping for a 1,500 watt PSU, but the AX1500i can do it thanks to high efficiency.
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Corsair AX1500i Digital ATX PSU Key Features:
• Digital Signal Processor (DSP) for extremely clean and efficient power
• Corsair Link Interface for monitoring and adjusting performance
• 1,500 watts continuous power output (50°C)
• Dedicated single +12V rail (125A) with user-configurable virtual rails
• 80 Plus Titanium certified, delivering up to 94% efficiency
• Ultra low noise 140mm double ball bearing fan
• Silent, Fanless mode up to ~30% load (~450W)
• Self-test switch to verify power supply functionality
• Premium quality components
• Fully modular cable system
• Conforms to ATX12V v2.4 and EPS 2.92 standards
• Universal AC input (100-240V) with Active PFC
• Over-current, over-voltage, over-temperature, and short circuit protection
• Dimensions: 150mm (W) x 86mm (H) x 225mm (L)
• 7-Year warranty and legendary Corsair customer service
• MSRP: $449.99 USD (available in Q2 2014)
Please continue reading our review of the AX1500i Digital PSU !!!
CES 2014 Podcast Day 3 - Corsair, Coolermaster, NVIDIA, and more!
Subject: General Tech | January 8, 2014 - 12:30 AM | Ken Addison
Tagged: video, podcast, corsair, coolermaster, nvidia, Samsung, exynos, Allwinner, AX1500i
CES 2014 Podcast Day 3 - 01/07/14
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I train thoroughbred racehorses and some of the retired ones can be ridden bridleless.
Another thing I miss! I trained ex race horses to ride like this and I used to teach my advanced riding students to trust their horse (or a school horse) to ride this way too. Only never used a big stick. Just the strap at the base of the neck and legs and seat and voice.
Thanx for posting this!
Several years ago, I was watching a jumping competition on TV. The reins of one of the riders broke as he went over one of the first jumps. He basically completed the jump course briderless....certainly reins-less. It was a beautiful thing to watch....horse and rider working as one.


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Mark, thanks for all your efforts and posting the Buescher film and additional information above. Really enjoyed watching it .
Mark, thanks for all your efforts and posting the Buescher film and additional information above. Really enjoyed watching it .
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SoundClick | SoundClip Index | YouTube | SOTW Blues (Round 8) | Mouthpiece/Sax Pictures
Fascinating, and much more high-tech than I would have expected for 1924. I can just imagine people of the day watching the video and lamenting the long-lost days of hand-made saxophones.
FS: Many Alto Saxophone Mouthpieces
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Q: After all these years, what do you practice?
Sonny Rollins: Everything but in no particular order.
Mark, that's great news. I'm glad there's somebody out there taking the time to do this kind of thing.
This is really cool! I find it very interesting how saxes are made. There are also many on youtube showing the making of Selmers, Yamahas, Keilwerths, and P. Mauriats. It is really kind of cool how the ideas behind the techniques have stayed the same, but the materials used are much different. Fore example, instead of pouring lead into the neck before bending it, today the necks are filled with pitch or a soap-water mixture (and then frozen) before shaping.
Interesting that you mention the soap & water/freezing technique. I met the gentleman in Elkhart who developed that technique. His name is Don Martin. I interviewed him a couple years back. He still lives in Elkhart. He had all kinds of great stories. He was employed by C.G. Conn Ltd from 1950-1972. He worked in the saxophone bell department, at first under the supervision of Cy Klinefelter, who was the saxophone bell department supervisor from 1940s-1950s, followed by Kenny Malitsky until 1967 and then Harry Posthuma until the Conn plant closed in 1970. Don Martin also became the union official and was one of the last to leave CG Conn in when the doors closed as he was left behind to take care of union loose ends.
Anyway, here's the story of how soap water/ice was developed for use in bending instrument branches in Elkhart as it was told to me by Don. The old method was to fill the neck pipes with pitch prior to bending, as seen in the 1924 Buescher film. After the tubes were bent into shape, the factory workers would then take a torch to them to melt out the pitch. This would leave behind a messy neck. To clean them up, the necks were then left to sit in gas overnight and scrubbed in the gas solution the next morning. This was done in a "gas house" that was set off a good distance from the main building. This was not only dangerous but time consuming and expensive. But it was done this way for generations and no one questioned it. However, in 1972 Don went to work for WT Armstrong to set up a saxophone division. They could not afford the tanks and other expenses associated with building a "gas house" nor did they have the space for it. So, Don started experimenting with other alternatives. His first experiment was with plain water. He took 10 neck pipes home, filled them with water and put them in his freezer. He took them into the shop the next morning in a cooler and immediately tried to bend them. Nine of them cracked and one did not. So, he figured if one worked, it was just a matter of consistency and the frozen water concept was viable. He next tried a 50/50 mixture of Fiberdyne (the detergent used in the tumblers to polish keys) and water. This effectively increased the viscosity of the frozen solution. Don described the frozen slurry as having kind of a Popsicle like consistency. Again, he took 10 necks home filled them with the 50/50 slurry and froze them in his freezer. The next day all 10 necks were bent perfectly with no cracks. It was that simple! Word spread quickly in Elkhart and he said by the time he thought about patenting the process everyone was already using it. The old days of melting pitch were gone. Bach was the first factory to really jump on it and everyone else in Elkhart followed in suit virtually overnight.
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New building gives Rutgers Business School a dramatic presence on Livingston Campus
Rutgers Business School opened its new six-story building on the Livingston Campus to coincide with the start of the fall semester.
The $85 million building represents an expansion of Rutgers Business School's presence and reflects its growing importance in the larger university community. It is also a dramatic sign of how a decades-old campus, once perceived as an outlier, continues to morph into one of the university's most desirable places to live and study.
The business school building was designed to create a gateway to the Livingston Campus.
The building's glass exterior, its grand, sweeping stairway and the series of slanted columns beneath a dramatic walkway connecting two towers gives the structure the look and feel of a corporate headquarters. The building is also among the university's most technological and the newest example of its commitment to renewable energy.
"It's very impressive in many different ways," Kevin Dowlin, Rutgers Business School's director of information technology, said of the new building, which is known informally as 100 Rock.
Rutgers Business School hosted a festive afternoon-long event on September 9 with music, food samplings from campus eateries, giveaways and activities to celebrate the completion of the building. Watch video.
A look at one of the fifth-floor classrooms.
Classrooms contain a variety of technology, including Ultra Short Throw projectors, touch screens and glass marker boards. The building is also equipped with 91 WiFi access points, ensuring that students and faculty will be able to connect to the Internet from wireless devices from a variety of locations.
Altogether, the 143,000-square-foot building contains nearly $4 million worth of technology with the majority of it wired into the more than two dozen teaching rooms, a combination of classrooms and lecture halls. Ten meeting rooms are equipped with HD video-conferencing.
Some of the other features:
- Three student technology centers, including two that will operate on a reservation system.
- Courses will be taught using clickers, a technology that allows students in even large lecture halls to interact more effectively with the instructor.
- Inspired by one of the building's spacious flex rooms, RBS is introducing a new course emphasizing teamwork and leadership skills.
- Two solar fields on campus will supply electrical power and a large geothermal system, with more than 300 holes reaching a depth of 500 feet underground, will heat and cool the building.
- The building qualified for the U.S. Green Building Council's Sustainable Design Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification.
More than 230 business classes for the fall semester, mostly undergraduate level courses, were scheduled in the building last year, requiring faculty and staff to move from offices in the nearby Janice Levin Building during much of August. Faculty and staff continued to move into the building this week while workers completed finishing touches.
At the entrance to the Rutgers Business School is a large plaza beneath the "bridge" feature connecting two towers of offices and classrooms.
RBS Dean Glenn Shafer said the new building "shows Rutgers' commitment to providing first-rate business education for students from New Jersey and around the world."
"Our partnerships with scientific and technological disciplines at Rutgers give our students access to new skills businesses need in the information economy," Shafer said.
The building was designed by architect Enrique Norten to create a landmark gateway to the Livingston Campus. As eye-catching as it is from the outside, it has numerous impressive features inside, from a 60-foot atrium, 12-foot doors leading into each classroom, a 440-seat theater-like auditorium and glass-enclosed team rooms. The building is designed to accommodate 3,200 undergraduate students.
In an interview earlier this year, Norten had this to say about the building: "The main idea was to create a state-of-the-art facility."
"It would be a very comfortable building, a very efficient building,'' he explained, "but it would also represent the personality of a cutting-edge, forward-looking institution."
Rutgers Business School, which has a location in Newark, constructed the Livingston Campus building as a result of private, anonymous gift announced by the university in 2008. The majority of the $13 million gift was earmarked for the business school building.
Plans proposed at the time of the historic gift called for Livingston to become a campus dedicated to business and professional studies. It was an updated vision for a campus that was started in 1969 as home to the first co-ed liberal arts college at Rutgers University. With the vestiges of old army barracks standing on its borders, the mission of Livingston College reflected the socio-political changes of the 1960s.
The Plaza@Livingston, a collection of shops not far from the new RBS building.
By the 1980s, the college still clung to its roots as an experimental college with its own history of diversity as well as social and political activism. Livingston College disappeared in 2007 with the creation of the School of Arts and Sciences.
The new Rutgers Business School building stands on the north end of the Livingston Campus, close to the landmark Rutgers Athletic Center and within walking distance of new student apartments and a retail center containing restaurants, a movie theater, nail salon, a Starbucks and an Apple store.
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Northern Football round-up: February 17
Leeds Maccabi 1st warmed up for next Sunday's title showdown in style by hitting Armley Conservatives for six.
Ian Selwyn's men must defeat league leaders and reigning champions New Unicorn to have any chance of landing the Sunday Alliance crown.
The teams currently sit level on points at the top with Maccabi having played two games more.
But after their latest showing, Maccabi will be full of confidence after sweeping Armley aside 6-2.
Nick Vale continued his good form with a nicely taken strike, while further goals from captain Steven Berke, Dan Ross,Dan Seligman, Dan Davidson and Ben Wienberg completed the rout.
Meanwhile, Haroldeans stormed into the Feldman Cup semi-finals after crushing FC Cosmos in ruthless fashion.
Jacob Nevitt's four-goal salvo and a Jamie Harris hat-trick did the damage with Zach Goodman rounding off an impressive 8-1 victory for the Merseysiders.
Manchester Maccabi 3rd stunned their own second team 2-1 to book a last-four clash with Haroldeans.
Daniel Harris scored twice with Max Rose grabbing a consolation for Maccabi 2nd.
Leeds Maccabi 2nd hit Crumpsall for six to set up a semi-final against Republic of Flixton.
Johnny Goldstone and Yossi Saunders both scored twice with Colin Abrahams and Barry Selwyn also on target in the 6-0 win.
In the MJSL, Oakhill claimed a 4-2 win over South Manchester Sports 2nd thanks to goals from Marc Maynard, Joe Davis, David Polden and Saul Hoyland.
Elsewhere, Manchester Maccabi 1st warmed up for next weekend's Peter Morrison clash against Faithfold A by defeating Denton Cricket Club FC 3-1 in the Division Two League Cup.
Jack Lee scored a hat-trick as South Manchester Sports 1st defeated Trinity 7-2 in the Accountants League Premier Division.
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The Sundance Film Festival is an embarrassment of riches. Not everyone sees everything. Critics and buyers often watch five films a day. If they indeed sit through until the credits appear, that would come to about 50 films over the ten day festival. That is not even half of the 121 features that played at this year's festival. There were many dozens of films that were terrific and will likely be mainstays of this year's cinema conversation. Last year's U.S. Narrative feature winner Fruitvale Station became a favorite of audiences around the country as did its predecessor Beast of the Southern Wild. This year's big award winner at Sundance, Whiplash, could very well follow in their footsteps.
Earlier this week, an email circulated among Film Society of Lincoln Center staff who attended the recent Sundance Film Festival. The simple question was posed: "What are [some] films worth watching from this year's festival?" FilmLinc asked those half dozen or so staff who attended to recommend a few films. Film Society staff have different reasons for attending, so their target screenings vary, but hopefully this list is helpful when sifting through a long roster of new films.
Below are 21 recommended films from this year's Sundance Film Festival in alphabetical order courtesy of Film Society staff. The list is only meant to be a starting point. Again, there are many more to see…
Descriptions courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival
Ben Cotner and Ryan White's The Case Against 8.
Appropriate Behavior (U.S.)
Director: Desiree Akhavan
For Shirin, being part of a perfect Persian family isn't easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn't know she's bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine, can't understand why she doesn't tell them. Even the six-year-old boys in her moviemaking class are too ADD to focus on her for more than a second. Following a family announcement of her brother's betrothal to a parentally approved Iranian prize catch, Shirin embarks on a private rebellion involving a series of pansexual escapades, while trying to decipher what went wrong with Maxine.
Boyhood (technically a "Preview Screening") – U.S.
Director: Richard Linklater
Shot over 12 years, the drama explores the life of a family. It centers on Mason, as well as his sister Samantha who go on an emotional and transcendent journey through the years from childhood to adulthood. Boyhood stars Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater [description from Deadline.com http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/boyhood-sundance-richard-linklater-joins-lineup/ ]
The Case Against 8 (U.S. Documentary)
Directors: Ben Cotner, Ryan White
Election Day 2008: Californians passed Proposition 8, a measure that repealed the right of same-sex couples to marry. This documentary takes us behind the scenes of the high-profile trial that overturned the controversial constitutional amendment. The case first made headlines with the shocking alliance of lead attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off on opposing sides in Bush v. Gore. The plaintiffs are two loving gay couples who find their families at the center of the same-sex marriage controversy.
Concerning Violence (Sweden, U.S., Denmark, Finland)
Director: Göran Hugo Olsson
Göran Hugo Olsson returns to the Sundance Film Festival (The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 played in Sundance's World Cinema Documentary Competition in 2011) with this bold, fresh, and compelling visual narrative about the African liberation struggles of the 1960s and 1970s. Concerning Violence combines newly discovered archival material depicting some of the most daring moments in the confrontation with colonial power, accompanied by singer Lauryn Hill's searing narrative and drawn from psychologist/philosopher Frantz Fanon's seminal anti-colonial text, The Wretched of the Earth.
Dear White People (U.S.)
Director: Justin Simien
At prestigious Winchester University, biracial student Samantha White begins her radio show, "Dear White People, the amount of black friends required not to seem racist has just been raised to two. Sorry, your weed man, Tyrone, doesn't count." Sam becomes president of the all-black residential hall Parker/Armstrong, whose existence is facing extinction in the name of diversification. TV reality show Black Face/White Place smells gold in Sam's story and decides to follow it, rejecting the proposal of fellow black student Coco Conners, who pitched her show Doing Time at an Ivy League. The clamor over Sam's rise also becomes a career-defining opportunity for black misfit Lionel Higgins when he is asked to join the school's lily-white newspaper staff to cover the controversy, even though he secretly knows little about black culture.
Dinosaur 13 (U.S. Documentary)
Director: Todd Miller
On August 12, 1990, in the badlands of South Dakota, paleontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute unearthed the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. It was the find of a lifetime—the world's greatest dinosaur discovery. They named their dinosaur Sue. Two years later, when the FBI and the National Guard showed up, battle lines were drawn over ownership of Sue. The U.S. government, world-class museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists became the Goliath to Larson's David as he and his team fought to keep their dinosaur and wrestled with intimidation tactics that threatened their freedom as well.
E-Team (U.S. Documentary)
Directors: Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman
When atrocities are committed in countries held hostage by ruthless dictators, Human Rights Watch sends in the E-Team (Emergencies Team), a collection of fiercely intelligent individuals hired to document war crimes and report them to the rest of the world. Within this volatile climate, filmmakers Ross Kauffman (Born into Brothels) and Katy Chevigny (Election Day, Deadline) take us to the frontline in Syria and Libya, where shrapnel, bullet holes, and unmarked graves provide mounting evidence of coordinated attacks conducted by Bashar al-Assad and the now-deceased Muammar Gaddafi. The crimes are rampant, random, and often undocumented, making E-Team's effort to get information out of the country and into the hands of media outlets and criminal courts all the more necessary.
Ira Sach's Love Is Strange.
Infinitely Polar Bear (U.S.)
Director: Maya Forbes
The year is 1978, and the Stuart family is struggling to hold it together. Cameron, a bipolar father, has had a nervous breakdown that leaves him unemployable, and Maggie, a hardworking mother, can't quite make ends meet. Despite Cameron's aristocratic pedigree and the couple's top-notch education, they're broke. When Maggie decides to accept a scholarship to pursue her MBA in New York, she must leave her daughters, Faith and Amelia, in Boston with their now-somewhat-convalesced father. So begins an untamed, unpredictable, 18-month experiment as eccentric, exuberant Cameron takes over primary parenting of his precocious, sensitive little girls.
The Internet's Own Boy (U.S. Documentary)
As a teenager, Aaron Swartz was a computer-programming prodigy with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After emerging as a pioneer of Internet activism, education, and politics, he was indicted on multiple federal charges in 2011 and 2012, setting off a complex chain of events that left the Internet community reeling. Shortly thereafter, at the age of 26, Swartz was found dead of an apparent suicide in his Brooklyn apartment. His family, friends, and supporters immediately blamed the prosecutors of the case, who aimed to put him in jail for 35 years and brand him a convicted felon for life. Swartz was persecuted for the very rights and freedoms for which he stood, and that ultimately broke him.
Last Days in Vietnam (U.S. Documentary)
Director: Rory Kennedy
During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbles. With the specter of a Communist victory looming and only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country, the United States prepares to withdraw. As they begin to realize the reality of certain imprisonment and possible death of their South Vietnamese allies, American diplomats and soldiers confront a moral quandary: obey White House orders to evacuate only U.S. citizens, or risk being charged with treason and save the lives of as many South Vietnamese citizens as they can. With the clock ticking and the city under fire, heroes emerge as a small handful of Americans take matters into their own hands.
Lilting (U.K.)
Director: Hong Khaou
The sudden death of a young London man named Kai leaves his headstrong Chinese-Cambodian mother, Junn, and his boyfriend, Richard, each in a personal and profound state of grief. Feeling a strong sense of responsibility toward Kai's only family member, Richard reaches out to Junn, who has been biding time in an assisted-living home. Though Junn speaks little English, her dislike of Richard is plain, and she meets him with stony resistance. Since they share no common language, Richard hires a translator to facilitate communication, and the two improbable relatives attempt to reach across a chasm of misunderstanding through their memories of Kai.
Listen Up Philip (U.S.)
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol, Ike Zimmerman, offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject — himself.
Love Is Strange (U.S.)
Director: Ira Sachs
After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when news of their marriage reaches the Catholic school where George works, he is fired from his longtime job, and the couple can no longer afford their New York City apartment. As a temporary solution, George moves in with the two gay cops next door, while Ben moves to Brooklyn to live with his nephew, Eliot; Eliot's wife, Kate; and their teenage son. As Ben and George struggle to secure a new apartment, the pain of living apart and their presence in two foreign households test the resilience and relationships of all involved.
Marmato (U.S. Documentary)
Director: Mark Grieco
Every day in Marmato, a shimmering Colombian mountain town, families pray for safety as their men walk out their doors and down into the mines, scratching out a living with little more than shovels and outdated sulphur lamps. Beneath their village lies one of the largest gold reserves on the planet. In 2006, the Colombian government invited foreign investment to the region to stimulate economic growth, unleashing a corporate gold rush. As plans progress to destroy residents' homes and level the beautiful mountaintop for an open-pit mine, Marmato charts the mounting crisis as the local community struggles to protect its way of life and economic sovereignty.
The Measure of All Things (U.S. "live" Documentary)
Directors: Sam Green, yMusic
Acclaimed documentarian Sam Green began experimenting with "live documentary" storytelling at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival with Utopia in Four Movements. Green returns to Sundance to develop the form with The Measure of All Things, a playful and beautifully poetic meditation on humanity, loosely inspired by the Guinness World Records book series. Green interprets our collective fascination with the book of world records as a profound need to try and make some sense of who we are by calibrating human experience and marveling at its outer contours. Green himself travels to various reaches of the earth to collect original footage of record-holding people, places, and things.
Justin Simien's Dear White People.
My Prairie Home (Canada Documentary)
Director: Chelsea McMullan
With only an acoustic guitar and a laptop, transgender singer/songwriter Rae Spoon, who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun "they," embarks on a modest tour across the vast and blue-skied plains of Canada, facilitated by Greyhound buses and generic motel rooms. Delicately observed through Spoon's contemplative moments, My Prairie Home takes an impressionistic approach to its subject, thwarting the expectations of a traditional music documentary. The film poetically weaves together Spoon's personal history of an evangelical household back in Alberta, a troubled family life, and a forbidden first love—all of which left indelible marks on their lyrics and are brought to life through playful, music-video–like visual sequences.
Overnighters (U.S. Documentary)
Director: Jesse Moss
When hydraulic fracturing unlocks an vast oil field in North Dakota's Bakken shale, tens of thousands of unemployed men descend on the state with dreams of six-figure salaries. In the tiny town of Williston, busloads of newcomers step into the sad reality of slim work prospects and nowhere to sleep. Over at Concordia Lutheran Church, Pastor Jay Reinke is hell-bent on delivering the migrants some dignity. Night after night he converts his church into a makeshift dorm and counseling center. But as broken men arrive in droves, the congregants sling criticism, neighbors get suspicious, and the town threatens an ordinance to shut Reinke down. When the Williston Herald gets wind that sex offenders are among Reinke's "overnighters," even the pastor's supernatural determination can't stop things from spinning out of control.
Rich Hill (U.S. Documentary)
Director: Tracy Droz Tragos, Andrew Droz Palermo
If you ever find yourself traveling down Interstate 49 through Missouri, try not to blink—you may miss Rich Hill, population 1,396. Rich Hill is easy to overlook, but its inhabitants are as woven into the fabric of America as those living in any small town in the country. Filmmaking cousins Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo embark upon an immersive and dazzlingly cinematic journey into the lives of Andrew, Harley, and Appachey, three Rich Hill boys navigating the often-treacherous road between childhood and adolescence. Despite the isolation and deprivation of their individual circumstances, they long for the same things we all want: a nice house, dinner on the table, and a healthy, loving family. Droz Tragos and Droz Palermo's intimate connection to their subjects serves as a window into a too-often bleak environment, where simply getting by is considered a success, but the hope for a normal life and a brighter future persists.
Sound and Vision (U.S.)
Director: Chris Milk
When Beck reimagined David Bowie's 1977 song "Sound and Vision," Chris Milk set out to literally recreate the experience of cinematic sound and vision. Milk captured the performance using newly patented technologies like full spherical image capture and 360-degree binaural/multinaural audio recording. Now reengineered for a virtual reality platform, this special presentation allows the user to inhabit the first live-action virtual reality (VR) film for the Oculus Rift. As audiences are able to stand on the stage with Beck or roam the audience and orchestra, immersed in audiovisual richness and freedom of movement, the viewing experience of a recorded concert is radically transformed.
We Come as Friends (France, Austria Documentary)
Director: Hubert Sauper
As war-ravaged South Sudan claims independence from North Sudan and its brutal President, Omar al-Bashir, a tiny, homemade prop plane wings in from France. It is piloted by eagle-eyed documentarian Hubert Sauper, who is mining for stories in a land trapped in the past but careening toward an apocalyptic future. Like his flying machine, Sauper intuitively zooms in for close-ups and out for perspective, yielding shocking and profound insights about the contours of contemporary colonialism. A Chinese company extracts 300,000 barrels of oil a day as locals outside its gates die from water poisoned by the plant. Texas missionaries set up shop—erecting fences, issuing solar-powered electronic bibles, and insisting on clothing naked villagers. Encounters with opinionated Sudanese citizens, U.N. workers, an elder who has unwittingly signed away 600,000 hectares of community land, or financiers at a Sudanese investment summit bring into focus foreign fantasies—insidious and overt, with or without guns—of possessing Africa. Brimming with visual metaphor and grounded in honest human contact.
Whiplash (U.S.)
Director: Damien Chazelle
Andrew, a promising 19-year-old drummer at a cutthroat Manhattan music conservatory, has little interest in being just a musician. Haunted by his father's failed writing career and plagued with the fear that mediocrity just might be genetic, Andrew dreams of greatness. Determined not to follow in his father's footsteps, he practices daily until his hands literally bleed. The pressure of success ratchets into high gear when he is picked to join the school band led by the infamous Terence Fletcher, a brutally savage music instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential. Under Fletcher's ruthless direction, Andrew begins to pursue perfection at any cost — even his humanity.
Bonus pick: Nymphomaniac (Denmark) – Sundance Secret Screening
Director: Lars von Trier
The latest by Danish bad boy Lars von Trier was not formally a part of the Sundance Film Festival roster, but part 1 of the feature played a "Secret Screening" at the festival's midpoint and was introduced by festival director John Cooper. Nymphomaniac, which already had its release in Denmark (beginning Christmas day no less) will have its festival premiere at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival, which FilmLinc Daily will be reporting from beginning next weekend.


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Right. I've decided to cash in on my vast gold reserves while the price is at a great premium (scrap gold is thirteen quid a gramme!!), and use the money raised to invest in a decent DSLR, cos I want/need to get back into tography again after several years out.
I have a bunch of Nikon kit, including short zoom, wide angle and telephoto lenses, 2 decent flashguns etc. A nice F5 which needs to go to raise funds (sob), as it's sitting there useless tbh. Film is hard to find (decent slide and B+W), and hard to find quality processing labs. So, no point in persisting with film any more really, considering the quality of dijical these days. I'll keep the FM2 for a bit of occasional hairy retro action though....
So, what I'd ideally like is a Nikon D700, as it has the full frame FX sensor. Means all my existing lenses will work as I'm used to, plus I can buy cheap older MF lenses.
At £1800 new, I'd be looking a s/h, but they're still about £1200 for a good un.
Thing is, right, surely Nikon must be bringing out a replacement/cheaper FX sensor cam soon? Sense to wait a bit, take advantage of the glut of D700s which will appear as soon as a replacement is announced? Will there be a 'consumer' FX cam in the price bracket of a D300? Is the D700 worth getting anyway? Anyone here use one?
Anyone want to make me an offer on an F5 in very good nick? (Sob)
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- 3 tablespoons orange juice concentrate
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 garlic, clove minced
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
- 1⁄2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 4 green onions, thinly sliced
- 1⁄2 cup orange marmalade
- 1⁄2 cup orange juice
- 1⁄4 cup lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 -2 tablespoon orange zest
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- 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper
- hot cooked rice
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine orange juice concentrate, 2 T. oil, soy sauce, and garlic. Add chicken; seal bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours. Remove chicken; reserve marinade.
- In a skillet, cook chicken in remaining oil until juices run clear.
- Meanwhile, in a saucepan sauté walnuts in butter until lightly browned; remove and set aside. Set aside 1/4 cup of green onions for garnish. Add remaining onions to saucepan; sauté until tender. Add reserved marinade and the next 8 ingredients. Bring to a rolling boil; boil for 2 minutes. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered for 5-10 minutes or until sauce reaches desired consistency.
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Since she was young, dancing has always been Kayla Pounds' one true passion. She now suffers from a rare neurological disease that causes muscle stiffness and spasms. WLWT-TV's Karin Johnson reports.
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The co-presidents of Naughty Dog have said the company has learned from its mistakes during the leap from PlayStation 2 to PlayStation 3, and as such is better prepared for the transition to Sony's next-generation platform.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Christophe Balestra and Evan Wells admitted the move from PS2 to PS3 wasn't the best experience for the studio.
"We had a pretty bad experience when we moved from PS2 to PS3, because we made some stupid mistakes. And that was totally our fault," said Balestra.
Fortunately, he said that Naughty Dog has had a "little more time to think about" the "always scary" prospect of a transition this time around.
"It's about the quality of the tools, and about whether you can make something smarter. My guess is that they will expand – you'll have more this, and more that – you'll always have something more," he commented.
"In terms of our art, we always create our assets at a higher resolution than what you see in-game. A lot of our pipelines are already ready to move to something superior to the PS3. But it's scary."
Wells explained that the advantage this time around is that the company won't be starting from scratch.
"We did start from scratch going from PS2 to PS3, and that's down to the fact that on PS2 we'd written our own programming language. Everything on Jak and Daxter was written in a language called GOOL – game object oriented list," said Wells.
"Moving on to PS3 we are entering this group of developers that we could share technology with. We wanted to get into the more traditional development environment that other studios are developing with, so we did have to start from scratch. It was a tough road to hoe."
Naughty Dog is working on The Last of Us for PS3, which is scheduled for release in June. The company achieved great success with its Uncharted series during this current generation, with the adventure series selling 17 million units worldwide since its inception in 2007.
Sony is hosting a PlayStation Meeting tomorrow, where it is expected the PlayStation 4 will get its formal reveal. Naughty Dog is likely working on a title for the new system, though whether or not it will be revealed at the event is unknown.
PSU.com will be hosting a live stream of the event, so be sure to stay tuned for more updates.
Naughty Dog is prepared for the jump to PS4
The co-presidents of Naughty Dog have said the company has learned from its mistakes during the leap from PlayStation 2 to PlayStation 3, and as such is better prepared for the transition to Sony's next-generation platform.


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Highway 9 detour east of Benson begins July 8
Motorists on Highway 9 between Benson and Highway 104 will encounter a detour and delays when a road resurfacing and bridge replacement project begins July 8, weather permitting.
Crews will resurface 17 miles of Highway 9 and replace the Mud Creek bridge two miles east of Benson.
During the project Highway 9 will close, and motorists will detour to Highway 12 and Kandiyohi County Road 7.
Residents who live within the road closure will be allowed to use Highway 9 during the project, except at Mud Creek.
The road work is expected to be complete by late September, weather permitting.
When the project is complete, motorists will notice a smoother, safer ride along Highway 9.
For real-time travel information anywhere in Minnesota, visit www.511mn.org or dial 5-1-1.


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The Victorian bushfires, Australia's largest natural disaster to date, have dramatically focused our attention on how we respond to disasters and the key role psychologists have to play. Of course, preceding the fires have been months-long floods in northern Queensland and, as I write this, severe tropical cyclone Hamish is making its way down the coast. That's our country, love it as much as we may.
The special report in this edition of InPsych presents the psychological impact of the Victorian bushfires and what psychologists can do to help trauma survivors to cope and recover from disasters such as this. Psychologists who want to be a useful part of the immediate post-disaster interventions can avail themselves of the training in psychological first aid that you will find described in this InPsych special report. Once survivors are basically safe, we can contribute to the process of psychological skills recovery, also described in this report. As the APS reaches finalisation of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian Red Cross, the opportunity will soon be available for members to learn how to be of real use in the immediate aftermath of a disaster and, most importantly, to do no harm.
You will read in the special report that these relatively brief and economical interventions are sufficient to help most survivors heal themselves because most people are reasonably psychologically robust. However, there will always be around 10-20 per cent of survivors for whom this won't be enough. By the time you read this, some flood, fire and cyclone survivors will already be showing the signs and symptoms of long-term posttraumatic stress, particularly depression, PTSD, anxiety, insomnia and substance abuse, and children will be showing their particular nonverbal signs of stress. Recent reviews of research show that evidence-based interventions, within three months of the traumatic event, can not only be palliative but save survivors from developing serious, chronic problems. This is psychologists' special contribution to helping survivors and we need to be certain of our knowledge and ability to deliver evidence-based treatments. This is our long haul task, to help survivors long after the sirens and the media have moved on.
The special report also provides insights into the social processes that occur within communities affected by disasters, and the crucial role of psychological preparedness for future disasters. Much has been made of the devastating realisation that a number of the fires that ravaged Victoria in February were deliberately lit, so we felt it was important to include in this special report an expert article on the nature of intentional firesetting and the motivations underlying it. The special report concludes with an overview of the work the APS has undertaken in response to the bushfire disaster.
It is helpful to understand the progressive unfolding of people's reactions to trauma, as described in the accompanying box, and how essential it is that each evidence-based intervention is tailored to meet the current needs of an individual, taking account of their present state, rather than the needs of the interventionist to feel helpful or to cling to a pet theory.
Two further points need to be made in relation to this special focus on the Victorian bushfires. Australia may have genuine shortages of medical practitioners and nurses but its most dire health professional shortage is of suitably trained psychologists. Since and partly because of the introduction of Medicare items for psychological services, many practising psychologists have full diaries, especially in regional and rural areas. Where do our major disasters often occur and where are the survivors living? Statements of support from Australian and State governments are welcome but they must translate into support for increasing our appropriately trained psychological workforce. Meanwhile you owe it to yourself to lead a balanced lifestyle, including time for self-care. Then the survivors who will still be seeking your help more than a year from now can count on your availability. Sacrifice yourself to try to save everyone and you'll burn out. Then everyone who really needs you has lost you, maybe permanently. You will hear the APS is setting up an ongoing scheme to support our members in the field. Contribute to it. Use it. You owe it to yourself and everyone important to you.
Second, it's no coincidence that the APS response has been led by our Disaster Preparedness and Response Reference Group, coincidentally meeting just after Black Saturday. We suspended our agenda and got to work and you will read how well the APS has responded to our community in this time of crisis. We can be proud of our Society's response to this disaster. But we must not lose sight of the essential contribution we can make in helping people who live in areas that are regularly at risk of disasters. Research has shown that the majority of these people do little or none of the practical preparation urged on them by emergency response organisations with the result that they are more vulnerable to both the physical impact and the psychological aftermath of disasters. Our second long haul task is an ongoing commitment to help our neighbours prepare psychologically and therefore also practically for possible disasters.
So, roll up your sleeves and let's get to work, the work psychologists can most especially do. Watch this space.
|A model of psychological response to disaster
|When a person is exposed to a traumatic event it triggers a series of responses. It is important to recognise the natural variability intrinsic to psychological phenomena and not to insist that every person fits a standard mould, but the following is a good average description. A key message to give to survivors is that these are the normal reactions experienced by normal people in response to traumatic experiences. They are not a sign of weakness, lack of moral fibre, or mental illness. Central to this model is the fact that people normally progress through a range of reactions to trauma and benefit most from interventions suited to their present state and needs, not to some arbitrary theory nor the wish of some to rush naively in to help.
Crisis response while in the traumatic event
Recovery phase once the traumatic event is over


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Orlando Shakespeare Theater Announces 12/14 PlayShop Holiday Event
Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (OST) will be hosting a special PlayShop holiday event featuring Santa Claus at the Friday, December 14 performance of The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of "A Christmas Carol." This promises to be a magical evening filled with specialty crafts, fun games, and tons of holiday spirit.
Orlando Shakes debuted PlayShop this season in order to give families with children the opportunity to explore the many benefits of a theatrical experience. Parents and grandparents get to enjoy a show while the children participate in an educational and creative class for the duration of the performance. The service is available to all ticket buyers for select Friday performances of Signature Series and Studio Series productions for just $15 per child.
"PlayShop is a great opportunity for families to experience the theater together," says TYA coordinator Lisa Devins Horohoe. "This event is even more special because we were able to have Santa join us. He cleared a spot on his very busy holiday schedule just to bring a little extra Christmas spirit to our theater families."
PlayShop is open to all children ages 5 – 12 at the John and Rita Lowndes Shakespeare Center (812 East Rollins Street, Orlando, FL). Registration for PlayShop is just $15 per child. Please call (407) 447-1700 to reserve your spaceor visit http://orlandoshakes.org for more information.


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While the rest of the hockey world discusses the obscene gesture the Islanders James Wisniewski made toward Rangers pest Sean Avery, Chris Neil has heard worse.
Who knows what Avery said to him to start the whole thing, said Neil. I dont think Wisniewski is a guy thats normally like that, first time offender, but theres other stuff out there thats worse than that, for sure.
Players are shown videos during training camp of gestures they can not make, the throat slash being one of them. Another will now no doubt be added to the list.
I have probably seen it along the way somewhere, but maybe not as long, said Neil. That was a pretty good clip of it.
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This Landmark 365 Madison luxury fifth wheel by Heartland RV offers a spacious retreat including an awesome front living space, FIVE slides to really open things up, and a rear private master bedroom, plus more!
Step inside and head up the steps on your right to a spacious front living area including dual opposing slide out sofas. There is also a theater seat for two with cup holders, and a front wall entertainment center with TV including storage. You can also add an optional fireplace.
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Apparently, now that Iraq is an island of relative sanity within a region seething with murderous hatred for America, Vice President Joe Biden has pronounced it one of the Obama administration's "greatest achievements."
Interesting that he should say that, since President Obama wasn't in office during the darkest and most desperate months of the war. But I'm sure he did what he could. I remember lots of helpful suggestions coming from the general direction of Capitol Hill around that time. You know, the usual: "Saddam Hussein is a harmless puppy-dog." "This is a pointless war." "The surge will never work." "George Bush drinks the blood of babies." Stuff like that.
I also seem to recall loud and frequent demands that President Bush set an exit date and sky-write it over Fallujah and Ramadi, but I can't remember whether that was supposed to be before or after Iraq was divided into three separate countries – Biden's very own bright idea.
We all know that Biden and Obama believe in "spreading the wealth," but this takes it to a whole new level. Apparently they don't intend to steal — I mean spread – only material wealth around, but character attributes as well – like courage, sacrifice, and national honor.
See how it works? Biden is free to spread success in Iraq to Obama and at the same time spread the current high unemployment, looming inflation, and through-the-stratosphere debt over to Bush.
I realize it's a stretch, but as Liz Cheney reminds us, Biden does have that "famously tenuous relationship with reality."
It might actually work. They could throw one of those fabled White House parties, invite Cindy Sheehan, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Michael Moore – and maybe even get the gals from Code Pink to decorate.
Can't you just picture it? All the high fiving, back slapping, and gloating about breaking up Saddam Hussein's little I-hate-America club with Osama Bin Laden and dashing all his yellow-cake-shopping, eye-gouging, hand-drilling, and mustard-gas-oriented dreams and aspirations.
Heck, New York Times reporters, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, might as well come as well. They could knock back a few and congratulate themselves for thwarting al-Qaeda's scheme to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge – a mass murder plot that was foiled thanks to both enhanced interrogation and the National Security Administration's super-secret electronic surveillance program. Yes, the same surveillance program that Risen and Lichtblau decided to rat out to our mortal enemies.
While we're at it, why not honor Teddy Kennedy for winning the Cold War, President James Buchanan for freeing the slaves, and Benedict Arnold for America's independence?
Indeed, Washington D.C. is a wealth-spreading dynamo on so many different levels these days. But "spreading the wealth around," implies that it doesn't all go in one direction.
Take the economy. Dr. Obama's treatment plan is killing the patient, but he won't consider changing the prescription, because he's too busy pointing fingers and dodging responsibility. Obama recently said, "If the price of certainty is essentially for us to adopt the exact same proposals that were in place for eight years leading up to the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression … the result is going to be the same. I don't know why we would expect a different outcome pursuing the exact same policy that got us into this fix in the first place."
Interesting theory, but where do Obama's old buddies and colleagues, the busybodies at ACORN and Congress, fit in? Because the social engineers at ACORN intimidated banks into extending loans to non-creditworthy customers, but hit a roadblock when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac balked. That was when their cohorts in Congress stepped in and imposed quotas that saddled Fannie and Freddie with $1 trillion in undesirable mortgages.
And that's what brings us to the "biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression," that Obama mentioned. That's right, the thing that happened when all those high risk customers stopped making their payments.
Meanwhile, remember the guy Obama practically dislocates his elbow pointing at whenever he screws up? That's right, Bush. He foresaw catastrophe, proposed corrective action 17 times, and was blocked each time by Democrats in congress (including you-know-who and you-know-who).
So, just to recap: Who warned of trouble and called for reform? Bush: Seventeen. Obama and Biden: Zip.
That's why it's a little strange that Obama keeps blaming the recession on the "lost decade" of the Bush administration. But, if my theory is true, in some strange, tenuous reality, it is only fair. Obama was elected president, which means the wealth must spread.
If Obama can take Bush's credit for winning the Iraq war, Bush must take Obama's credit for ruining the economy. See? It balances out so beautifully. You could even call it virtue and competence redistribution.
If this works for Obama, he may even take it a step further. He may brand Bush a touchy, thin-skinned, dissembling, whiney-baby who can't admit when he's wrong.
Because that way Obama could be a class act.


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The Chevrolet Volt is a hybrid electric vehicle produced from 2011 onwards. It has won a multitude of awards, including the 2009 Green Car Vision Award, the 2011 North American Car of the Year and the 2012 European Car of the Year.
The problem of stone chips and road rash
Road rash is damage done by stone chips and grit that spray against the bodywork of cars and leave scattered scratches all over the paint.
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Another December. Another last-ditch effort from the San Diego Chargers.
In their usual place beneath the playoff guillotine blade, the Chargers host the 10-3 Baltimore Ravens on Sunday at 5:20 p.m. at Snapdragon Stadium, needing a win to put themselves in any semblance of position for postseason contention.
What occurs earlier in the day — losses by the New York Jets (8-5) and Denver Broncos (8-5) would be much obliged — will determine the exact stakes, but regardless, a victory will keep the Chargers (6-7) in the running for an eventual 7-5 in-conference record that would come in handy as a wild-card tiebreaker.
But first things first.
Here's the four-down breakdown of Sunday's game, which will be nationally broadcast on NBC.
First Down: Gates to the record book?
Chargers tight end Antonio Gates doesn't like to think about it.
With 582 catches, he is four shy of Chargers wide receivers coach Charlie Joiner's all-time franchise record. The record book figures to soon adjust, as Gates has caught four or more passes in each of the past eight games since returning from a foot injury, totaling 45 grabs for 527 yards and six touchdowns in that span.
Go ahead and add it to the cabinent of All-Pro and Pro Bowl selections and 75 career touchdown receptions, and it's the latest achievement on a Hall of Fame-caliber resume.
"When you say those things to me, it's ironic to me because it's like it's happening so fast," Gates said on Friday. "It really is not sinking in. Like, when somebody says, 'You've been in seven Pro Bowls before; do you think of the Hall of Fame?' I'm like, no, because in my mind, my train is still moving. Once you start looking at your accomplishments and the glamor and glitz, you might take a step back in a sense because you feel no desire to continue to go forward.
"In my mind, it's still going. It's still an ongoing process for me," Gates added. "To lead this organization in receptions, from where I come from and how I got into this league, was the last thing that came to my mind ... I'm not the kind of guy who go reads stats and go reads programs. I just play."
Second Down: Gaither gets some help.
Not that he's shown any need for it, but Chargers left tackle Jared Gaither will see more assistance Sunday in pass protection than usual.
It's a token of respect for Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs, who has seven sacks, four forced fumbles, two quarterback hits and and six pressures in the past three games.
"You've got to plan to help him," coach Norv Turner said. "The one thing about playing left tackle, they've got ways to making sure he's singled up. That's what good defenses do. We'll help him when he can, and he's going to have to hold up on his own, too.
In two starts, Gaither, a former Raven, hasn't allowed a single sack, hit or pressure on quarterback Philip Rivers. His play on the edge has helped key the Chargers' current two-game win streak, albeit against the Jacksonville Jaguars and Buffalo Bills, who bring little speed to the pass rush.
Tight end Randy McMichael and running back Mike Tolbert are the favorites to chip Suggs and Co. in the backfield, but they can't on every down.
"He knows who he's going against," McMichael said of Gaither. "He's played against Terrell Suggs so many times, talking about just practice reps alone. We're going to give some help to him, but for the most part, he's going to be out there by himself a lot, and he's going to do a good job."
Third Down: Gregory as a Plan A.
The regular strong-safety starter gets injured. Steve Gregory fills his spot.
Come April, what do the Chargers need? How about a strong safety?
Gregory, over the past few seasons, has seen the script read again and again, where draft pundits talk about the Chargers' long-term option opposite free safety Eric Weddle, and the answer is anyone but him.
"Yeah, I don't know why people seem to say that," said Gregory, in the final year of a four-year contract. "I feel like we play pretty good out there. Obviously, things aren't always perfect. We're humans. We're out there in the NFL. Those guys are good across the ball from me, too, so you're going to have some good plays, and you're going to have some bad plays.
But I think overall, we play pretty solid back there. I think I do a pretty good job. I see myself as a full-time starter in this league, and that's my plan."
Last week, in his 10th start since replacing Bob Sanders, Gregory intercepted a Ryan Fitzpatrick pass and returned it for the first touchdown in his career.
Gregory celebrated the momentum-swinging third-quarter score in the end zone with his best friend Weddle, who credited their off-field bond for helping their on-field communication.
Turner said he thinks Gregory is playing with "great confidence."
"I think (with) the continued reps and and just playing every down and staying healthy, he's seeing things a lot faster," Turner said. "He's seeing them better than he ever has ... It's good that he's filled in the way he has."
Fourth Down: Run games stack up.
Welcome to the football twilight zone.
The Ravens have Ray Rice, a running back who can do it all. They mix in fresh legs with Ricky Williams. They have a trusted fullback, Vonta Leach, opening running lanes.
Chargers fullback Jacob Hester sees the Balitmore backfield and finds an eerie similiarity with his team's own.
"I think it's a strength for both teams," Hester said. " It kind of mirrors each other a little bit, the way we have two guys playing just like they do and then a fullback, they use him probably as much as we do. Not a lot of teams use a fullback as much as us and Baltimore. We definitely mirror each other I think."
Turner paid Chargers running back Ryan Mathews perhaps the ultimate compliment leading up to this game, first prefacing that Rice, considered among the NFL's elite rushers, and Mathews are two different players who play in two different systems.
"I'm very confident," Turner said, "that Ryan Mathews can be that guy — that he is (that guy). He's caught 45 balls, and he's on the verge of rushing for over 1,000 yards. Obviously, he's a lot younger than Ray and he's not anywhere near as experienced, but in terms of his production, it's pretty impressive."
Prediction: The Chargers are fully capable of winning this game.
Given they're in front of a home crowd, with all their offensive starters working off a full week of practice, the case could be made they should win this game.
Despite the temptation, it's too large a leap to predict they will.
They've yet to defeat a team of this caliber, and as good as Suggs is defensively, watch out for rookie Pernell McPhee as a potential difference maker on the defensive line.
Ravens ride Rice late to squeak it out, 24-20.


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I did a little DIY. I used to be all about making jewelry and I thought why not give that a try again.
Here's what you'll need:
- A ribbon. I wanted mine to be at least 1 cm thick. I found this very cool black ribbon in a haberdashery shop
- A shackle or lock, I used press studs.
- Tape-measure
- Scissors
- Needle & thread
It was actually quit easy. Measure how long you need your choker to be, sow on the press studs on both sides, and done! More on my Instagram!
What do you think about this choker I made? And what about this trend in general? Let me know!
Happy Thursday!