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2016-17 UCSB Women's Tennis News
Trio of Gauchos Earn ITA Scholar Athlete HonorsJuly 25, 2017Baker, Gilbertson and DaSilveira each earn academic award.
Dubavets, Baker Drop NCAA Doubles Championship Match to LSU TeamMay 25, 2017UCSB season comes to an end in Athens, Ga.
Dubavets, Baker Set to Play 16th-Ranked LSU Tandem in NCAAs ThursdayMay 24, 2017UCSB sends a doubles team to the NCAA Championships for the second straight season.
No. 47 Gauchos Battle Hard But Fall to No. 23 UCLA, 4-0May 12, 2017UCSB wins the first set in four of six singles matches but can't hold on and fall in NCAA Tournament.
Gauchos Travel to Malibu for NCAA Regional Showdown With UCLA FridayMay 10, 2017Winners of 10 straight matches, UCSB will play in its second straight NCAA Tournament.
Dubavets Leads UCSB's Big West HonoreesMay 04, 2017Junior is named first team in singles and doubles for the second straight year.
Gauchos Head to Malibu to Take on UCLA in the First Round of NCAA TournamentMay 02, 2017UCSB will play at Ralphs-Straus Tennis Center on May 12
UCSB Claims Second Straight Big West Tournament Championship, Top Hawaii 4-1April 30, 2017Gauchos will advance to the NCAA Tournament
UC Santa Barbara Defeats Long Beach State 4-1 in SemifinalApril 29, 2017Gauchos will play against No.1 Hawaii for the Big West Conference title on Sunday.
No.2 UCSB blanks No.7 Cal Poly in Big West Quarterfinal 4-0April 28, 2017Gauchos will play against No.3 Long Beach State in the Semifinals
Gauchos win 7th straight, defeating Cal Poly 4-1April 22, 2017UCSB Women's Tennis team finished its last match of the season with a win against Cal Poly.
Dubavets Named Big West Tennis Athlete of the WeekApril 19, 2017Junior earns her second award of the season.
UCSB defeats Long Beach State 4-2.April 15, 2017Gauchos carry their energy and win against another Big West Conference opponent.
UCSB blanks UC Riverside 4-0April 14, 2017Gauchos continue their momentum and defeats UC Riverside.
UCSB blanks UC Irvine 4-0April 09, 2017Gauchos continue their momentum in Big West Conference matches
UCSB defeats CSU Fullerton 4-1.April 08, 2017The Gauchos win another Big West Conference match by a score of 4-1.
Atanasson Earns Big West Athlete of the Week After Posting Five WinsApril 05, 2017She is the third Gaucho to win the honor this season.
Gauchos Post Wins Over CSUN, Loyola MarymountApril 02, 2017UC Santa Barbara Women's Tennis team is now 9-9 overall.
UCSB falls to Hawaii by a score of 4-1March 30, 2017Amanda Atanasson shows a consistent performance and wins both doubles and singles match.
Gauchos fall to Harvard 5-2March 18, 2017UC Santa Barbara Women's tennis team will play against Hawaii for the Big West Conference on March 30.
UCSB falls to No. 11 Pepperdine 5-2March 12, 2017Gauchos are now 7-7 overall.
UCSB continues its momentum and defeats Denver by a score of 5-2March 10, 2017Gauchos have 3 consecutive wins and will travel to Pepperdine this Sunday.
UCSB defeats San Diego 5-2March 09, 2017The Gauchos get another win on their home court and 6-6 for overall record.
Gauchos blank New Mexico 4-0March 05, 2017Amit Lev-Ari gets her first win as a Gaucho
UCSB Falls to 34th-ranked Washington, 0-7February 25, 2017Gauchos are now 4-6 overall
UCSB Women's Tennis Team falls to Oregon by a score of 2-5February 24, 2017Nationally ranked Palina Dubavets and Big West Player of the week Jaimee Gilbertson each won their singles matches.
Gilbertson Earns Big West Player of the Week HonorFebruary 23, 2017Gauchos earn another Big West award of the season.
A thrilling match between UCSB and Fresno State suspended due to the rainFebruary 19, 2017Rain stopped a close dual match at 3-3 and Gauchos remain 4-4 for overall record.
Gauchos have a successful day with a win against UC Davis 4-0 and St. Mary's 4-3February 18, 2017The Gauchos improve to 4-4 overall and 1-0 in Big West play


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County Home => Washoe County => Frequently Asked Questions => FAQ Details
I don't know if my property has an access easement. Can someone at the Assessor's Office help me find out?
No, we do not research or determine whether particular parcels have access. Easements must be researched by the interested party at the Washoe County Recorder's Office. A title company can help with this also.

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A new little Daniels babe is on the way!
Estimated due date :: June 3, 2017. Here are a few pics of the girls sharing the news and just being cute.
Here's a fun video on how we told the girls that they're going to be Big Sisters.
We are all so excited for Baby to arrive and June seems so far away!! But, it's the second trimester already and I know Baby will be here eventually and the new little one will be completely smothered in love from our entire family, especially it's two older sisters!


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Thief steals rare pufferfish, returns it ten days later
Lost and Found
Tetradon Schoutendeni
AMAZING NEWS!!Our puffer made it's way BACK!! We received a quick call about a puffer in the Grocery Outlet (very near our store for those of you not local) and we walked there and indeed found him in a brown paper bag in a jar! He is in fine shape and is pretty active in his tank. Thank you all so VERY VERY much for spreading the word and all your warm wishes. He might even have found a permanent home here at the shop :-)Posted by The Wet Spot Tropical Fish on Thursday, October 29, 2015


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Lil'Stylers Opens Up a New World For Kid's Fashions With Social Sharing
Several months ago, I was asked to test-run a new (unreleased) app with some of my favorite children's fashion bloggers and now I'm thrilled to announce that it is now available to the public! Lil'Stylers is the first of it's kind in the children's fashion sector. As a cross between Pinterest and Instagram, this super cool app allows you to post photos of your children in their cool duds and then tag the apparel brands. Participating brands and retailers then create website links to the tags so that if you click on one, you'll be taken directly to the shopping page.
Although I had fun posting photos of my own children in their fashionable outfits, I really enjoyed checking out everyone's photos and discovering new fashion brands. The tags and links make this app a little different from Instagram and as it's dedicated to children, the app provides a safe privacy-controlled way to share fashionable looks for little ones without the noise of additional posts/photos. Another fun perk is that bloggers can link their photos to a blog post, thus engaging a wider audience.
If you love kids fashions, photography and enjoy shopping, you mut check out Lil'Stylers! It's available for free download on iTunes and the iPhone App store. You can find out more by visiting Lil'Stylers. And don't forget to follow me! I'm @ChildMode on Lil'Stylers.


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Hey everyone!
We've been wicked busy doing research, cleanup, and education in the Gulf of Maine and Boston. We're admittedly a little bit behind with our updates, so here's a snapshot of our adventures during the past few weeks on the quest for a clean ocean!
After a big crew change in Rockland, Maine, we sailed to Hurricane Island. This was the beginning of two weeks of research with five brilliant scientists from the University of Exeter, England doing PONAR sediment grabs (keep your eyes out for a link to a great video) and Neuston tows! These "science under sail" methods make it possible to capture zooplankton and sediment dwelling animals to then find whether or not they ingest microplastics. This research is exciting because it may show us if microplastics are entering the bottom levels of the food web.
We were greeted at the Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership by fantastic hosts who taught us about the island's sustainable infrastructure, including composting toilet systems and solar panels. Another important learning experience happened, too - the Brits had their first s'mores during a 4th of July celebration!
In Boothbay, Maine, we had the opportunity to meet up with our friends at the Boothbay Sea and Science Center who, like us, are working to get kids out on the water and involved in ocean research. We toured the Bigelow Labs, home to some awesome marine research from the smallest of ocean creatures on up.
Our next stop was Portland, Maine, where we participated in Portland Green Drinks. Though the Maine Yacht Center, where the event was hosted, is a bit of a journey out of town, more than 400 people came out to the event. We were blown away by their enthusiasm and it had the strongest attendance of any of our events yet!
We continued on to the Isles of Shoals to research and had the chance to explore Star Island and learn about the local ecology. One evening, we hosted some of the Pelicans (Star Island staff) on American Promise, enjoying the best bioluminescent show we had ever seen!
Excited to proceed to our big week of education, we sailed down to Boston via Kittery and Gloucester, enjoying great weather and singing sea chanteys during a couple long days under sail. In Boston, we set up shop at the Courageous Sailing Center at the Charlestown Navy Yard. The beautiful view of Boston as we arrived put us all in agreement that Boston by boat is the way to go!
Our first day of education was spent at Community Boating, arriving via the Charles River, which inspired one of our Mission Atlantic reports about the locks and seasonal fish ladder systems. During our education program at CBI, Hector (our ROV) recovered his first key ever and we even found its owner. One of our students was inspired to make his own ROV at home. We always love to see what methods the kids are inspired to create to clean the oceans on their own!
Throughout the week, we worked with several hundred kids and their phenomenal instructors with the Courageous Sailing Center programs in Charlestown, Community Boating on the Charles, and at Jamaica Pond. Between boat tours and American Promise history lessons, Hector flying time, surface dipnetting and dock tows, we were able to immerse the students in everything that Rozalia Project is about, "immerse" being the operative word. As Hector raised bilge tubes and plastic cups to the surface covered in sediment sludge, the kids were shown an accurate representation of ocean cleanup, which can sometimes get a bit messy! This theme continued on one of our favorite afternoons of surface cleanup with the program's Instructors in Training. A torrential downpour in Boston presented the opportunity for a lesson in interconnectedness as all of the litter from the city's streets washed down storm drains and bubbled up into the harbor. We only spent 30 minutes wrangling this trash but ended up grabbing 507 pieces in total!! An enormous proportion of our haul was made up by food wrappers, but each one had at least a couple of micro debris pieces hanging on for the ride.
We're now back at our home base in Kittery, doing some final research and
development on our Baleen Basker and fondly reminiscing about the past 4 weeks aboard American Promise.
A huge thank you to our partners - we couldn't do it without you:
Rockland Public Dock
The team from the University of Exeter: Dr. Tamara Galloway, Dr. Ceri Lewis, Dr. Andrew Watts, Stephanie Wright & Matthew Cole
The team from the University of Exeter: Dr. Tamara Galloway, Dr. Ceri Lewis, Dr. Andrew Watts, Stephanie Wright & Matthew Cole
Sam and crew at the Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership
Nicole at Bigelow Labs
Tom and Debrah Yale
Maine Yacht Center
Portland Green Drinks
Portland Green Drinks
Star Island staff
Kittery Point Yacht Yard
Dave, Kate, Rebecca and crew at Courageous Sailing Center
Ginger, Colin and crew at Community Boating, Inc.
New England Aquarium Harbor Explorations summer camp
The Boston Harbor Association interns
Berwind Family Foundation interns
Bonnell Cove Foundation of the Cruising Club of America
In-Kind sponsors: Interlux, Cloth n'Canvas, OCENS, Select Design, Scully Interactive
Bonnell Cove Foundation of the Cruising Club of America
In-Kind sponsors: Interlux, Cloth n'Canvas, OCENS, Select Design, Scully Interactive
O'Connor family
and this summer's funding partners: 11th Hour Racing, American Chemistry Council, Berwind Family Foundation, Kilroy Realty Corporation, Boat US Foundation, State of Maine Clean Marine Diesel Program/Maine Marine Trades, Lake Champlain Basin Program, WND&WVS and our generous contributors to the Annual Fund
and this summer's funding partners: 11th Hour Racing, American Chemistry Council, Berwind Family Foundation, Kilroy Realty Corporation, Boat US Foundation, State of Maine Clean Marine Diesel Program/Maine Marine Trades, Lake Champlain Basin Program, WND&WVS and our generous contributors to the Annual Fund
Thanks for reading!
For a clean ocean,
Rozalia Project interns AF, SC, and TM


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Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH - Snow White
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A top-notch performer that's tweaked with the features modern players need, this axe sports hot-rodded high-output Seymour Duncan® JB™ and Seymour Duncan® '59 humbucking pickups directly mounted to the body that crank out high octane rock 'n' roll tone with plenty of sweet overtones. The volume control conceals a push/pull coil split to have even more tonal variations on tap while the No-Load tone control operates like a standard tone control from positions one through nine, removing itself from the circuit at position ten for transparent sound, letting the full natural voice of the guitar shine through. Dive to rumbling depths or add a well-placed rising harmonic without sacrificing your tuning with the Floyd Rose® FRT-O1000 double-locking recessed tremolo and FRT-O1000 locking nut—simultaneously grooving on the laser-accurate intonation. The two-piece maple neck hosts 22 jumbo frets along with a pair of graphite reinforcement rods to resist bending and warping under environmental stresses. The speed neck profile is designed for lightning fast playing and completely unhindered position shifts while the comfortably rolled fingerboard edges provide the broken-in feel of an instrument with plenty of playing miles on it, and plenty more to go.
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March 4, 2013 – Kwara State Commissioner Killed: Mr Chinwike Asadu Shot Dead By Unknown Assassins In Enugu
Chinwike Asadu, the Commissioner of Police for Kwara State Nigeria is dead.
According to his younger brother who confirmed this incident, he said it happened at Amorji Nike, a place very close to Enugu East LGA around 10pm at night on Saturday March 2nd, 2013.
The Police orderly who witnessed his assassination and his driver both suffered serious bullet wounds.
They are currently in critical condition at the National Orthopedic Hospital in Enugu.
So sad may his soul rest in perfect peace.
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ST. LOUIS (February 26, 2014) – ONCE, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will play the Fabulous Fox Theatre for a limited engagement from April 8 – 20, 2014.
Tickets for ONCE are available now and can be purchased online at MetroTix.com, by calling 314-534-1111 or in person at the Fox Theatre Box Office. Ticket prices start at $25. Prices are subject to change; please refer to FabulousFox.com for current pricing. ONCE is part of the Fox Theatre's 2013-2014 U.S. Bank Broadway Series.
Performances of ONCE at the Fabulous Fox Theatre run April 8 – 20. Show times are Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8pm, Saturday afternoons at 2pm and Sunday afternoons at 1pm. There will be a Sunday evening performance on Sunday, April 13 at 6:30pm and a matinee performance on Thursday, April 17 at 1pm.
ONCE, which was also named Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards, is currently running on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre where it started performances on February 28, 2012 and opened March 18, 2012.
ONCE features the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a book by award-winning Irish playwright & screenwriter, Enda Walsh (Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric Ballroom), direction by the acclaimed Scottish director of Black Watch, John Tiffany, movement by Steven Hoggett (Black Watch, American Idiot) and music supervision and orchestrations by Martin Lowe (Mamma Mia!). The set and costume design are by five-time Tony Award winner Bob Crowley (The Coast of Utopia, Mary Poppins), lighting design is by Tony winner Natasha Katz (Aida, The Coast of Utopia), and sound design is by Clive Goodwin.
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I thought I'd take the chance a share a few of the things I learned over the two day event. The first session I attended was probably my favorite and was put on by Anita Archer, Ph.D.
If you have not heard of her, you really need to checkout her books, clips from YouTube and free handouts from past workshops through MiBLSi. A former teacher of 47 years, she brought a lot of pizazz to the presentation. Although, the presentation was geared for K-2 many of the ideas presented were great for my small MTSS intervention groups.
The critical foundation skills are: phonological awareness, phonics/word recognition, and fluency.
Phonological awareness is understanding oral language can be broken down into smaller components.
- Sentences to words
- Words to syllables
- Words into on-set rimes
- Words into phonemes
How to Incorporate:
- Kindergarten 10-15 minutes a day, could be done throughout the day.
- Working on syllables could be done by playing the "name game." It's a good way to work on syllables and learn about one another.
- Blending and segmenting can be done throughout the day. Have students listen while they are lined up for lunch, give them a word to blend together... maybe where your headed or an object around the room.
- First grade 10 minutes a day incorporated into phonics instruction.
- All elementary grades should incorporate phonemic awareness into spelling.
- Few in number. 2-3 activities done often.
- Explicitly modeled. Don't commit "assume-aside"
- Supported by concrete materials or gestures.
- Designed to include all students.
Blending Sounds into Words
- We're going ot play a say-the-word game. I'll say the sounds. You say the word.
- Listen. aaaaammmm
- What word? am
- (Repeat with other words.)
- (If time permits, check individual students)
There are two types of segmenting: smooth and separate.
Segmenting Words into Sounds--- Smooth Segmenting
- Put your fists together.
- Get ready to stretch the word.
- The word is fin. What word? fin
- Stretch it. fffiiiiinnnn (pull fists apart)
- Shrink it. fin (bring fists together)
- If time permits, check individual students.)
- We're going to say the sounds in a word.
- Fist in the air. Put up one finger for each sound.
- The word is sat. What word? sat
- First sound? /sss/ Next sound? /aaa/ Last sound? /t/
- If time permits, check individual students.
A lot of information for a Sunday, it may not be the most applicable for all of my upper elementary friends; however, I teach an intervention group that I think I could use some of these activities and skill work in throughout our intervention times.
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I'm thinking of adding another free pattern to my blog… for tea cosies! They were pretty simple to make. The pot cover is knitted and the flower and leaf are crocheted. Anyone interested?
(I made these to sell at my parents' tea room and didn't think of taking decent pictures before they were sold. These pictures are from my phone.)


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WASHINGTON—The 2012 presidential campaign was indisputably the most expensive in American history. Some also maintain it was the nastiest. It was also one of the weirdest.
From U.S. President Barack Obama's 90-minute sleep-walk through his first prime-time debate against Mitt Romney to actor Clint Eastwood's rant to an empty chair at the Republican National Convention, there was no shortage of surreal moments this election season.
The nail-biting drama that was the race for the White House featured some unexpected supporting characters. These were some of them:
• Superstorm Sandy as cupid: Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, was among Obama's harshest critics for months, serving as one of Romney's top attack dogs and delivering the keynote address at the Republican convention in Tampa. That was all before Sandy decimated his beloved Jersey shore.
Christie has had nothing but effusive praise for Obama since the ferocious mega-storm lurched through the mid-Atlantic region, saying the president's handling of the federal response has been "outstanding." When the president came to tour the devastation, the men heartily commended one another as they visited a makeshift shelter and comforted those left homeless by the storm.
When was Romney going to be invited to tour the state, Christie was asked? "I have no idea, nor am I the least bit concerned or interested," came his terse reply.
The sudden bromance rankled the Romney campaign, left conservative shock jock Rush Limbaugh apoplectic — the corpulent radio star, with no hint of irony, called the governor a fat fool — and prompted disgraced media baron Rupert Murdoch to tweet ominously that Christie "must re-declare for Romney, or take blame for next four dire years."
• Chris Christie as president of his own fan club: The Obama-Christie love-in wasn't the first time the governor had annoyed team Romney, even though he was once on the short list of potential running mates. His keynote address to the convention in August was meant to make the case for a Romney presidency. Instead, it made the case for a Christie presidency — perhaps predictably, given the governor is seriously eyeing a run in 2016.
Romney, who mastered a beatific listening face during his second run for the White House, appeared visibly miffed as it took Christie more than 15 minutes to even mention his name. It was later revealed that Romney's handlers suggested, after reading a draft of the speech, that the governor might perhaps refer more frequently to the party's current nominee. They were rebuffed.
• Clint Eastwood as angry old uncle at Thanksgiving dinner: Mysteriously, Romney's saintly expression returned as the iconic Hollywood actor took to the stage at the convention. Backstage, he reportedly laughed throughout Eastwood's rambling, disjointed rant to an empty chair that was supposed to be Obama, even as the actor threw the prime-time convention off-schedule and became, within seconds, the subject of gleeful social media ridicule.
For many observers, Eastwood's bizarre shtick was the most memorable moment of the convention, completely overshadowing Romney's speech and the truly heart-warming testimonials from down-to-Earth family friends earlier in the night about the nominee's character and generosity. Ann Romney later griped that those family friends should have been in the primetime spotlight, not Eastwood.
• Obama as empty chair: OK, it was a podium, not a chair, but Obama's listless, lacklustre showing during his first presidential debate against Romney in Denver stunned his supporters and dramatically altered the dynamics of the race to the White House.
Heading into the showdown, the president was comfortably ahead of Romney in the polls. In the weeks to follow, Romney — sharp, focused and a sudden moderate — closed the gap and transformed the race into a dead heat. Even though a far more engaged Obama was considered to have won the next two faceoffs, Romney's surge in the polls on the strength of Debate No. 1 was genuine and enduring.
• Joe Biden as avenger: Seemingly mindful of the drubbing his boss was taking in the aftermath of that first debate, Biden showed up for his own showdown against Paul Ryan, Romney's running mate, with guns blazing. He sneered, he snickered, he sighed. He interrupted, he mocked, he ridiculed. He threw up his hands. He rolled his eyes. He dismissed one of Ryan's assertions as "a bunch of malarkey" as the Wisconsin congressman sucked back glasses of water in quick succession.
Democrats cheered, Republicans jeered, and while Biden may have lacked manners, no one accused the vice-president of lacking cojones the way they did Obama a week earlier. So impressed was the president, in fact, that he studied tape of his No. 2 in action as he prepared for his next debate against Romney.
• Donald Trump as constant source of embarrassment: Biden's over-the-top debate performance had nothing, however, on Trump's bids for media attention throughout much of the campaign.
After the mega-mouthed multi-millionaire announced in the spring that he would not, in fact, seek the Republican nomination — after hinting for months that he would — many assumed his tiresome sideshow to the campaign would be finished.
Wrong. Right up until the bitter end, Trump was still trying to insert himself into the race, vowing with great fanfare two weeks ago that he was soon to make an earth-shattering announcement that would sink Obama's bid for a second term.
That "announcement" was a challenge to Obama to release his academic records and passport applications in exchange for Trump donating $5 million to the charity of the president's choice. For his troubles, Trump was utterly ignored by the White House and its press corps, skewered by late-night comics and publicly chastised for making a fool out of himself by his longtime friend, Barbara Walters.
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, also told Trump he'd donate $1 million to charity if the real estate mogul — infamous for his feathery, tangerine-tinted comb-over — would shave his head. The Donald didn't reply.
• Big Bird as sudden hero: They may share a similar hair hue, but that's where the similarities end between Trump and the famous Muppet. The beloved Big Bird became an unwitting figure in the campaign after Romney asserted, during his first debate against Obama, that even though he "loves Big Bird," he still intended to defund PBS if elected president.
A Big Bird Internet meme was soon born, as was a tongue-in-cheek Obama attack ad. Big Bird appeared on "Saturday Night Live" to defend himself, while some Obama supporters showed up at campaign events dressed as the fine feathered Muppet. And on the weekend before the election, a "Million Puppet March" was held on the National Mall in D.C., with several Big Birds in attendance.
• Women in binders: Romney's insistence that he tried to hire more women when governor of Massachusetts, and in fact was handed a "binder full of women" for his efforts, may have been intended to portray himself as an equal-opportunity employer. But his awkward phrasing resulted in yet another anti-Romney social media eruption, with blogs and Twitter accounts springing into existence to feature various women in binders.
"Binders full of women" was even a popular Halloween costume this year, with the three adult daughters of a former Republican presidential hopeful, Jon Huntsman, joining in.
"We're going to be smushed in one binder," Abby Huntsman said. "You have to have more than one woman in a binder."
Romney as bumbling tourist on overseas trip: Big Bird and binders, however, had nothing on the ridicule Romney faced, including from those in his own party, when an overseas trip in July went badly awry.
Ostensibly a journey meant to highlight his foreign policy gravitas, Romney questioned London's preparedness for the Summer Olympics on the eve of the Games' opening ceremonies, earning a sharp rebuke from British Prime Minister David Cameron. He angered Palestinians for remarks he made to Israelis suggesting their culture was superior. The trip went so badly that one of his aides was soon shouting obscenities at the media covering Romney, and Republicans back home were openly wondering why he'd made the voyage.
It also gave the Obama campaign ammunition for months to come, with senior adviser David Axelrod recently referring to it as Romney's "Dukes of Hazzard tour of international destinations."
• Bill Clinton as Obama saviour: Mitt Romney had Clint Eastwood overshadowing him at the Republican convention. Obama was luckier: he had Bill Clinton. The men have long had a strained relationship, with animosity existing between them since Obama's bitter 2008 primary fight against Hillary Clinton. But the avuncular, folksy Clinton was a key Obama surrogate this election. His rousing, funny and incisive speech at the Democratic convention in Charlotte got far more glowing reviews than the president's, and prompted Obama to quip he was going to appoint the 42nd president the "explainer-in-chief."
Why the newfound bromance? Some suggest Clinton was securing Obama's unwavering support for his wife's run in 2016, while others insist there has been a real thaw in their relationship brought on in part by Clinton's genuine alarm over Romney's vision for the country.
• Romney as a heartless elitist: When secretly recorded remarks of Romney disparaging 47 per cent of the population emerged soon after the Republican convention, it seemed to sound a death knell for his campaign.
The video captured Romney telling a private fundraiser in May that it was a waste of time for him to try to appeal to people who were "dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them." Romney later apologized for the remarks, and it's a testament to the strength of his performance in the first debate a month later that he managed to pull his campaign out of its tailspin despite taking some damaging hits in the polls due to the controversy.


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21 Jun The Value of Me
If someone could figure out how to buy me at the price I am truly worth and sell me at what I think I am worth, they would be able to pocket a very large sum of money.
Epistemic arrogance is the measure of the difference between what someone actually knows and how much he thinks he knows. We all fall victim to this humility deficit. A lot of it stems from what is known as the fallacy of silent evidence. We draw highborn conclusions which we broadly call "wisdom" in evaluating "cause and effect" from our fleeting encounter with life's interactions. These conclusions are imbedded with little consideration to the universe of permissible outcomes from all of the social, economic, political and environmental activity external to our own experience. This inherent imperfection in our DNA creates a knowledge gap that permits failure in calculating the spectrum of unforeseen outcomes when operating at a personal or professional level. Hence, the magnitude of downside risk is amplified.
We continue to instinctively draw upon these restrictive assumptions to ascertain future outcomes without any acknowledgement that our lack of authentic exposure, judgement and jurisdiction over perfect information actually imbeds formidable risk within our system of activity, whatever that may be.
In addition, we also have the instinctive ability in retrospect to provide a simplistic narrative around what was an impossible unforeseeable event that was actually due to a complex equation of forces at play.
Example: Many borrowers over recent years have been locking in interest rates lured by benchmarking their historical experience of been exposed to higher interest rates mixed with a mild dose of narratives around singular and isolated events. These narratives may have been the threat of the US potentially raising interest rates at the end of 2015, or we are at historical lows so how can they go lower. Yet with a matrix of global economic complexity, European countries continue to slip into negative interest rate territory and Australian yields still continue to fall.
Conclusion: What can be garnered from this realisation of our cognitive bias? Hold your perceived knowledge with the greatest suspicion and discount your value of judgement!
Then seek professionals that can rationally remove or disarm these expressive biases within the critical areas of your business decision making processes.
(Source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb – "The Black Swan" 2007)


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Peter Thiel and Keith Richards Were Right! Human Blood is the Fountain of Youth
A quick Google search around drinking human blood will reveal that there is a lot of weird shit out there in InternetLand. Qualify the search with virgin blood, and the results get even stranger. It seems that there are many people out there who enjoy drinking menstruation blood and eating placenta in the belief that it will keep them younger.
Well, it turns out that these freaks were right…several experiments conducted over the last few years, combined with radical advancements in the biological and genetic sciences, have confirmed what the Aztec Priest eating the heart of his young virgin sacrifice has known all along: imbibing virgin human blood and consuming youthful flesh keeps you in a teenage state of being.
Now I am not advocating that you start leaving trails of candy that lead to the front door of your gingerbread house. Nor am I advocating that a few less nieces and nephews leave your home after the holiday party than had originally arrived. Modern society tends to frown upon sucking the blood out of the younger members of society, even with their consent.
I thought the headline originally read 'old men'…
So then, in the absence of killing off a few younger relatives, or the neighbors' kids down the street, what is an older person suffering a midlife crisis as the grey and wrinkles develop faster than eye crust going to do?
Fear not my geriatric friends! As with all good things science, and thanks to the concept of capitalism, there is a solution. That solution is that there will soon be new products popping up in anti-aging clinics everywhere as well as on 200 of your 300 late night DirecTV channels. From Super Bleets to Esmerelda's Advanced Swiss Formula Youth Elixir, you will be able to purchase these products online and through your local nutritional supplement store, As Seen on TV, of course. For those of you with more cash to drop on maintaining the appearance of your sixteen year old self, there will be a plethora of facials, skin treatments, elixirs, injections, and transfusions to go along with your Botox and Testosterone shots. From plasma to embryonic stem cells, the smorgasbord of Youth will be your oyster.
Are there any downsides to these treatments? Well that part has not been fully explored yet, so the answer is that there might be. Chances are good that there is likely to be an increase in emotional outbursts when there is nothing for you to do on a Friday night, or that there is a certain belief that the world is coming to an end after an argument with your boyfriend, but it is believed that these side effects are only passing in nature. A slight increase in acne might also be a possibility, as well as an increase in the tendency to masturbate.
Just as interesting, if not more so, although on a tangential but related topic, is as science uncovers more about the 'mystery' DNA in the human genome, what will that portend for humanity in terms of nutritional supplements? Will we revert to looking like a now extinct humanoid ancestor, such as a giant or a hobbit? Or if the mystery DNA is viral in nature, could we end up walking around in an episode of the Walking Dead? Or perhaps it is artificially injected DNA, added by an ancient alien super race to boost our evolutionary development along so that us slaves could do all the work while the alien big bosses relaxed on their thrones and in their beach houses. But wait, it gets better. For the first time in human history, scientists have altered a living organism with synthetic (man made) genetic codes.
Who knows, but I do know this: New discoveries and breakthroughs in biological and genetic science are amazing, even incredible. In our rush to productize and take advantage of these capabilities, unless we fully understand the effects that modifying the natural structure of the human body has upon future generations of the species, it might have unexpected and undesired consequences.
One scenario, for instance is like so: Ten thousand years from now, scientists for the very first time could unlock the DNA of themselves. As they unlock it, they discover mystery DNA belonging to a human ancestor that just vanished over a period of a couple of centuries without explanation. That ancestor was us, and by fucking around with human nature carelessly, we wiped ourselves out and gave rise to the future generations of Reptilian bastards (it is always good for an article to have a Reptilian reference)…
So on this festive New Year occasion, if you are young, watch your back around the older people in the room. And beware of strangers with candy.


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'I Am…' Fashion from the University of Kent Graduates
June 25, 2013
The Turner Contemporary Art gallery is famous for housing such names as Tracey Emin and Leonardo Da Vinci inside its walls, and now we will know it as the venue for the very successful 'I Am…' fashion show, showcasing the works of The University of Kent's 2013 BA Fashion and Textiles graduates.
After fund-raising through sponsored walks and craft fairs the passionate and driven students secured the iconic venue and it certainly paid off. With a floor level catwalk and stark white walls, the building gave power to show, with the large sea facing windows giving it an empowering backdrop. With a t-shaped catwalk each model presented themselves to the entire audience directly producing an extremely intimate experience. Each collection was accompanied by a personally selected track by the individual designers, all chiming on time with the entrance of the models and tying well with the theme of the collections.
'Hidden Presences' was among the collections and particularly stood out with its striking images in a simple figure hugging form. Designer Charlotte Kings describes her collection as "very mood orientated", explaining that her collection has "an element of nyctophilia, which means love of darkness or the night. My collection is about the beautifully haunting power and fierceness of dreams and the imagination". This concept is very noticeable in the viewing of her collection, with the slick shaping of the garments crossed with the harsh but colourful prints viewers are forced into some kind of 'bright nightmare'; something beautiful but completely terrifying. The collection echoes elements of the night, the unconscious, shadows and apparitions. Kings explains that her intention is to convey "beauty in dark contexts" and that it sure does.
Another outstanding collection came from menswear designer Mary Weir, whose collection 'Beauty and the Beast'- as hinted at by the title – is based on fairy tales and initially took great inspiration from the stories of The Brothers Grimm and Disney classics. Weir reveals that she became interested in Beauty and the Beast, with "the reason being was the contrast… finding beauty in a beast and vice versa". Her designs are therefore contrast focused; beastly mixed with beautiful, harsh mixed with soft, classical with edgy. Weir pulls together classic forms, shapes and patterns with edgy futuristic designs, as can be seen within her men's t-shirt range, where traditional garments shapes and beautiful relaxing colours collide, with a sharp and energetic image upon them. Brush strokes upon the designs even force a serene feel but somehow the overall clash incorporates the contrast and therefore creates the successful 'Beauty and the Beast' feeling.
A particularly grabbing and provocative collection came in the form of 'Screw You' by Emma Kathlyn [Everest]. The cleverly named collection immediately strikes at the feeling of rebellion upon viewing, or even just hearing the name, with its obscene and quite daring prints becoming the focus of attention. 'Screw You' blends simple and 'smart' items such as a pencil skirt, traditionally worn in the workplace, with these (usually) shocking and insulting images/designs to create an all round socially thwarting collection. Images include the 'middle finger' gesture and graffiti, clashing with not only the garment shapes but also elements such as the pretty and bright colours and the words 'quiet please' covering some of the items' obscene elements. Key garments included an oversized t shirt dress and pencil skirt covered with graffiti and/or the 'middle finger' gesture and a real leather bomber with badge detail and title covered back – simple upon initial glance, followed by the 'rebellion' in the words. All round a thought-provoking, edgy and cleverly put together collection.
Another designer, Jessica Bosacki, focused on architecture and hyper real photography as a means of inspiration for her collection. Bosacki's 'Perbeck Revival' uses influences from the marble stone of gothic cathedrals to not only determine the name of her work, but also the colour palette of the entire collection. Bosacki explained that she is "particularly interested in the unique textures of fabrics", she even "fused fabrics together to create more depth and interesting textures", much like that of the architecture she has been influenced by. "I have revived the archaic content of my inspiration with modern pattern cutting" she reveals, "the mood of my concept is subtle, with an edge of something more sinister".
All of the collections incorporated an array of materials, forms and figures, all working perfectly for each garment and displaying the fact that these designers know their stuff. They all stood out for their own reasons, with the entire show becoming a whirlwind of talent knocking each viewer off their seats. The fashion show ended with a deafening applause and rightly so. A very explosive and entertaining show, of professional standard.
The full collections can be viewed here.
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There is just something so deliciously satisfying about hitting pan on a product. There you are, merrily slapping the product all over your face when you catch a little glimpse of silver. It is, essentially, a big sign saying 'I love this product'!
I have since realised that I have already documented that my Kevyn Aucoin sculpting powder has hit pan, so sorry about that… but I am working my way through it, slowly. Ditto for MAC all that glitters.
Other exciting things that I have hit pan on include… the Soap & Glory One heck of a blot powder, which I like to throw into the depths of my bag. It has a mirror, which I enjoy, and the powder itself is nice and silky. It doesn't last all day, but I do find it doesn't cake so it's great for touching up throughout the day.
The Seventeen Phwoarr paint is a must-have for blemished skin. I am currently living through what seems like an endless hormonal breakout on my chin, and this concealer covers everything so, so well. I would not use it under the eyes, like it claims. Too heavy!
Lastly, the NARS Kalahari duo. The left shade is the one I use the most, and it is just the nicest bronze shade ever. It is really flattering on, and pretty fool-proof. I like to wash it on using a MAC 217 on top of Maybelline's on and on bronze colour tattoo. Bronze perfection.
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I'm starting to think that taking two classes over five weeks was perhaps not the most plausible idea I've had to date.... I can't seem to ever quite catch up with reading or math hw, and I've never had a problem with readings before... but the sheer volume of the CH reading compressed into a five week course means three chapters a week with all their attendant quizzes and essays is wearing me down. Added to that is the stress of trying to cram a trig course in more or less the same amount of time, the daily hw and quizzes and weekly exams... trying to cram job-searching and interviews in there with orchestra and cello choir chores is starting to become an exercise in postponement. I don't want to cut down on the music stuff because it's such a morale-booster, but I don't know how much longer I can keep everything going as it is; I'm turning into a ditz. I'm behind on the flyers and programs for orchestra, I haven't really sat down and practiced in weeks, my normally minimal housekeeping has sunk to a new low partly because what little time I have is going to keeping my pitiful garden alive. I'm running out of money, too, and I cannot even begin to describe how having to constantly fret over not having enough money makes every other obstacle exponentially more exhausting. I realize that I am where I am because I made some imprudent choices ten years ago, but I don't know if I have the sheer energy anymore to put into correcting those choices. I'm trying so hard to be optimistic, but there are times when I just want to walk away from everything here.
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- Current Mood: tired
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Take to the tunnels beneath Zverograd with the new Operation "Hades" campaign expansion for Dust Tactics , now on sale at our webstore and your local retailer! The tense, close-combat fighting of the RattenKrieg, or "Rats' War" as it was dubbed in Stalingrad, has come to the sewers of Zverograd.
The Operation "Hades" campaign brings new rules representing the relentless tension of subterranean combat as troops fight in cramped quarters without the aid of their compatriots in walkers. Infantry face off in the dark, at times firing blindly at the blackness before clashing in intense close combat. In the addition to the new rules, Operation "Hades" also brings you thirty-one tiles, a Zverograd city poster, a map of the Zverograd metro, six new scenarios, and over two dozen objectives to serve as the basis of your own scenarios.
Superhumans and Custom Scenarios
Entering into the fray in this hellish underground is the "Winter Child," the SSU's first superhuman! Superhumans function like heroes, except for the fact that they refuse to endanger the lives of the mere mortals with whom they serve. This being the case, superhumans cannot join squads, but are such a brutal force on the battlefield that they make a great addition on their own. Bring the "Winter Child" with your SSU infantry into the darkness below Zverograd, and see the power of this titanic figure first-hand!
Six new scenarios come with Operation "Hades" that will get you into the thick of the claustrophobic battles immediately, but there's even more in this campaign for especially inventive players. The wealth of information that comes with the campaign will assist in creating your own battlegrounds and scenarios. Use the maps and tiles in combination with surface maps for a multi-tiered experience, or create an elaborate warren of tunnels for your infantry to storm and conquer.
Dust Tactics Premium Painted Superhuman
The Dust Tactics Premium Edition of Operation "Hades" features a professionally painted "Winter Child." This highly detailed figure comes with two different heads, one with a helmet and one without, allowing the player to choose how the "Winter Child" faces the battlefield.
Specialized rules for the underground battlefield, the "Winter Child" superhuman, and a host of ways to create your own scenarios make Operation "Hades" a great addition to your Dust Tactics game. Head to your local retailer and take the battle to the sewers beneath Zverograd today!
Dust Tactics
is a tactical miniatures game of brutal combat for 2-4 players. Based on the popular universe created by artist Paolo Parente, Dust Tactics presents
an alternate 1940s reality in which alien technology fuels gigantic machines of war, and the world's superpowers clash over rare mineral deposits that could ultimately decide the outcome of WWII.


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Hostrail (Hostel + Trail)
This is the Major Final Year Project in BA Level 3, which related to the thesis that i did about Memory and Nostalgia, where a design could bring out the value of a place. So I did this hostel in Little India where it's located in a negative spaces of a district. The main goal is to create new type of a hostel, and also reveal the value of Little India to the travellers.


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Mountaineers defeat Northwestern State, roll into Sweet 16
Auburn Hills, MI (Sports Network) – Kevin Pittsnogle scored 14 points as West
Virginia overcame a poor second-half shooting performance to hold off
Northwestern State, 67-54, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at the
Palace of Auburn Hills.
Mike Gansey added 11 points and 12 rebounds for the sixth-seeded
Mountaineers (22-10), who made the Sweet 16 for the second consecutive
season and will now move on to face the Texas – North Carolina State
winner on Thursday in the Atlanta bracket. Frank Young and J.D. Collins
each chipped in with 10 points apiece in the win.
Clifton Lee and Keenan Jones led the 14th-seeded Demons (26-8), who were
coming off a thrilling comeback victory over heavily favored Iowa in the first
round, with 11 points each. Jermaine Wallace added nine points in the loss.
Northwestern State was just the 15th 14-seed to win a first round game in the
tourney and finished its season with a school-record 26 victories.
West Virginia dominated the overmatched Demons from the start with a torturous
defense that forced 13 turnovers in the opening half.
A 13-1 flurry turned a 6-5 Mountaineers' deficit into an 18-7 lead
midway through the opening frame. Gansey highlighted the run with a pair of
layups and West Virginia never trailed again.
Pittsnogle's lay-in with under five minutes left in the half extended the
Mountaineers advantage to 15 points, 30-15.
West Virginia finished the half with a commanding 41-19 edge after Darris
Nichols buried a running three from beyond midcourt at the buzzer.
West Virginia was not nearly as dominant in the final frame but the hole
Northwestern State dug was too large to recover from.
A 7-0 Demons burst, fueled by Kerwin Forges, early in the second half brought
Northwestern State to within 17 points.
Forges scored on back-to-back layups and finished the mini-spurt with a triple
to make the score 50-33 with just under 13 minutes remaining.
The plucky Demons continued to hang around and used a 9-0 burst to cut the
lead to nine, 53-44, with 6:58 left. Jones scored all nine points in the
flurry as Northwestern State desperately tried to climb back in the game.
Pittsnogle finally stopped the bleeding with a pair of free throws and Collins
followed with another two from the stripe to give West Virginia its double-
digit cushion back, 57-44, with 5 1/2 minutes remaining.
The Demons had one last burst in them and scored the next five points of the
game. Wallace and Lee sandwiched a Jermaine Spencer free throw with a bucket
apiece to make it an eight-point game, 57-49, with 4:16 left.
West Virginia finally sealed the deal over the next three minutes. Collins
scored on a layup. Then, Patrick Beilein and Young each netter a pair from the
line to give the Mountaineers an insurmountable 64-49 edge.
Game Notes
This was the first-ever meeting between the two clubs…West Virginia shot 54
percent in the first half but just 20 percent in the final frame…The
Mountaineers dominated from the charity stripe, netting 24-of-33. The Demons
were just 6-of-11…Northwestern State is now 2-2 all-time in the
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I am back on this here blog, no major fanfare. Lived with the idea of "quitting" photography and all that crap, and finally decided, eh, no. Inspired by the person who I introduced myself as this weekend, I think I'll start posting again.
Here's our first family collabo on DISimages – Gaffer Baby – "Soft hands, nylon pile and a sturdy adhesive tape."
no sleep book signing, tuesday dec. 6
If you're in NYC, please drop by and say hello! Come support me, a local bookstore, and Brooklyn all at once!
No Sleep book signing with Hee Jin Kang
Tuesday, December 6th
7 pm
Book Court
163 Court Street
(between Pacific & Dean)
Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
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DIS is a dissection of fashion, art and commerce which seeks to dissolve conventions, distort realities, disturb ideologies and disrupt the dismal dissemination of fashion discourse. All is open to discussion. There is no final word.
DIS is a collaborative project amongst artists, designers, stylists, writers and friends. We are Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, S. Adrian Massey III, Marco Roso, Patrik Sandberg, Nicholas Scholl, and David Toro.
san fran
Just got back from a lovely wedding weekend in Sausalito and San Francisco. Some iPhone photos to commemorate:
© Hee Jin Kang
exposure project 4
Ben Alper of The Exposure Project sent along an email with some exciting news:
The Exposure Project is pleased to announce that Issue 4 of The Exposure Project Book will be available for purchase in the middle of July.
The Exposure Project Book – Issue 4
July 2009
Includes photographs by Chris Bentley, Rona Chang, Daniel Farnum, Elizabeth Fleming, Lee Gainer, Matthew Genitempo, Inka Lindergård & Niclas Holmström, Natascha Libbert, Bradley Peters, Carlo Van de Roer, Daniel Shea, Manuel Vazquez, Jens Windolf, Susan Worsham and Bahar Yurukoglu
With an essay by Brian Ulrich
The book is being released in both regular and special editions. You can find more specific edition information here.
These folks are doing good work. Go get buying!
bartos book
Folks! Photog-extraordinaire Adam Bartos has a new book coming out – Yard Sale Photographs – so pre-order yours now before you miss out.
I know the work in this monograph very well and I must tell you, this book is a beauty!
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happy hour
If you have any Asian friends (and who doesn't? ha!), you've probably heard of Asian Flush, Asian Glow, or some variation. Basically, if your body can't break down the alcohol you're chugging, you turn bright red. It's got something to do with an enzyme – acetaldehyde dehydrogenase – not doing its job. Here's the wikipedia link if you're curious. Specifically, "half of people of Asian descent are considered to be sensitive to alcohol due to this condition."
You can find online discussions and forums all over the internet about the tribulations of drunken red-faced Asians.
Well count me in that special 50%. And let me tell you, it sucks to turn violently red from drinking alcohol, especially at brightly-lit socially-fraught gallery openings. Usually I try to avoid the cheap white wine because it's just not worth it. But if you know me, you know I am a consistently reliable imbiber of alcohol. And if you know me really well, you know I am always packing Tagamet.
Tagamet is an over-the-counter drug for treating heartburn and it seems to lessen the effects of Asian Flush. I don't ask why, I just accept it as a minor miracle. But it's pretty hit or miss. Sometimes Tagamet fails me and my face turns tomato-red and blotchy. But when it works, it works really well and I look like I've just caught some sun. When I share my Tagamet secret to other Asians, they all tell me the same thing: "this stuff has changed my life." Yes I know.
I worked on a photo project a few years back about Asian Flush:
© Hee Jin Kang, "Happy Hour (Hee Jin)"
© Hee Jin Kang, "Happy Hour (Indri)"
Photos were taken in between many shots of vodka sans Tagamet. The self-portrait was especially amusing to shoot, or at least I thought so. I think I might revisit the project in a different form.
Know any Asians who get red drinking alcohol?


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ESPN Cancels on Ron Burgundy
Ron Burgundy can't do everything. The Florida State Attorney's Office will be holding a news conference at 2 p.m. Thursday to address the sexual-assault allegations against star college quarterback Jameis Winston. Actor Will Ferrell had been scheduled to host SportsCenter at 6 p.m., but that's been canceled in anticipation of the news that will come from that conference. Ferrell's Burgundy has been on a PR blitz of late—appearing on Conan O'Brien's late-night show, calling a curling match, and recently hosting a local North Dakota television newscast.


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www.sfgate.com -- Lawmakers backing November's $11 billion water bond proposition are seeking to strike a provision that would allow private corporations to own, operate and profit from dams and other water storage projects built with taxpayer dollars, a little-noticed clause that was the subject of a Chronicle report.The change, introduced in the Legislature on Thursday, would remove the controversial portion of the bond measure that could open the door for private companies to control newly built dams and profit by selling the water back to Californians. The state historically has retained control of publicly financed dams.Lawmakers who voted for a historic package of water bills last fall, which included the bond measure, told The Chronicle in December that they had not noticed the provision in the 26-page bill. Since then, some legislators have been reassessing their support of the proposition, and the provision has been used by opponents in campaign materials to try to defeat the spending measure.
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- Bittersweet
- Bonchida-Bécs-Budapest
- Dance Canon - Hommage à Kodály Zoltán
- Dancing Hungarians
- Dawn Moon
- Dream Time
- Eternal Kalotaszeg
- Highland Treasures
- Hungarian Concerto
- Hungarian Rhapsody - the show of the North-American Tour
- From Father to Son
- From Pista Dankó to Kusturica
- I dance it my way
- Labyrinth
- I left my sweet Homeland
- Liszt-mosaics
- Mezőség - Microcosmos
- Pannonian Fresco
- The Sky from my Father's Window
- Song of the Stag
- Sunlegend
- Transcarpathia Invoked
- Verbunk - The birth of a national dance
- Wedding Dance
- History
- The HSFE in the World – Tours
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
In memoriam Ferenc Varga "Csipás"
Picture Gallery
This show has taken up the tunes of the virtuoso musician family, the Family Varga (nick-named "Csipások"), having lived in Bánffyhunyad (Huedin, RO), Transylvania. Their extraordinary musical skills were passed on from father to son. Without them, life and dance events of the rural communities in the Kalotaszeg region and the neighboring areas would have been almost unimaginable. Music was the element that brought people together and warmed the hearts of Romanians, Hungarians and Gypsies alike.
The dance vision of Zoltán Farkas is accompanied by the music of László Kelemen; this music is a selection of tunes from the repertoire of the Varga family, a virtuoso musical family from Bánffyhunyad who are nicknamed the "Csipás" ("The Gummy Eyes").
First performance: 9 December 2005, Hungarian Heritage House
Music: László Kelemen
Costume: Ildikó Tóth
Set Design: Ágnes Ménes
Lighting: Péter Gerzson Kovács ("Harangozó Gyula" Award, "Lábán Rudolf" Award)
Ethnographical consultant: Jolán Borbély
Conductor/Lead fiddler: István Pál
Dance Instructor: Richárd Kökény ("Harangozó Gyula" Award)
Assistants: Beatrix Borbély, Katalin Jávor, Péter Varga
Director/Choreographer: Zoltán Farkas
Artistic Director: Gábor Mihályi ("Harangozó Gyula" Award, "EuróPAS" Award)
Special thanks to Mr. András Tötszegi and Mrs. Tekla Tötszegi for their help making this production.
Take it home!
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble: Eternal Kalotaszeg
- About the Hungarian Heritage House
- Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
- Applied Folk Arts Departement
- Folklore Documentation Center (Archives)
- International Relations
- Virtual Hungarian Heritage House


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Autonomic Nervous System Activity, Aging and Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea "SYNAPSE"
Active, not recruitingPhase N/A Results N/A
- Barthélémy JC, Pichot V, Dauphinot V, Celle S, Laurent B, Garcin A, Maudoux D, Kerleroux J, Lacour JR, Kossovsky M, Gaspoz JM, Roche F. Autonomic nervous system activity and decline as prognostic indicators of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events: the 'PROOF' Study. Study design and population sample. Associations with sleep-related breathing disorders: the 'SYNAPSE' Study. Neuroepidemiology. 2007;29(1-2):18-28. Pubmed ID:17898520
- Celle S, Peyron R, Faillenot I, Pichot V, Alabdullah M, Gaspoz JM, Laurent B, Barthélémy JC, Roche F. Undiagnosed sleep-related breathing disorders are associated with focal brainstem atrophy in the elderly. Hum Brain Mapp. 2008 Sep 9; [Epub ahead of print] Pubmed ID:18781591
- Tsuji H, Venditti FJ Jr, Manders ES, Evans JC, Larson MG, Feldman CL, Levy D. Reduced heart rate variability and mortality risk in an elderly cohort. The Framingham Heart Study. Circulation. 1994 Aug;90(2):878-83. Pubmed ID:8044959
- Pitson DJ, Stradling JR. Autonomic markers of arousal during sleep in patients undergoing investigation for obstructive sleep apnoea, their relationship to EEG arousals, respiratory events and subjective sleepiness. J Sleep Res. 1998 Mar;7(1):53-9. Pubmed ID:9613428
- Marin JM, Carrizo SJ, Vicente E, Agusti AG. Long-term cardiovascular outcomes in men with obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea with or without treatment with continuous positive airway pressure: an observational study. Lancet. 2005 Mar 19-25;365(9464):1046-53. Pubmed ID:15781100
- Lavie P, Lavie L, Herer P. All-cause mortality in males with sleep apnoea syndrome: declining mortality rates with age. Eur Respir J. 2005 Mar;25(3):514-20. Pubmed ID:15738297
Sources for Trial Information
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
- ClinicalTrials.gov


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And then there's the matter of the "fiscal cliff."
Contrary to the way it's often portrayed, the looming prospect of spending cuts and tax increases isn't a fiscal crisis. It is, instead, a political crisis brought on by the G.O.P.'s attempt to take the economy hostage. And just to be clear, the danger for next year is not that the deficit will be too large but that it will be too small, and hence plunge America back into recession.
Deficit scolds are having a hard time with this issue. How can they warn us not to go over the fiscal cliff without seeming to contradict their own rhetoric about the evils of deficits?
- Paul Krugman, who probably has better things to do than repeat himself. But some people just will not listen to reason.
Should be an interesting couple of months.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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Last week in Sofia members of EACD and Bulgarian Association for People Management gathered together in a discussion on the cross points between internal communications and human resource management.
As an official opening of the 10th Festival in Bulgaria I had the pleasure to conduct an agency assessment and communication audit workshop. Since the management of cooperation with PR, advertising, digital, integrated marketing communications and all other sort of agencies is one of the core responsibilities ...
Marketing360 conducted a pleasant summer evening for marketers and communicators to network and share inspiration
The PR Days Forum, organized by Jobs.bg and Economy.bg, gathered together communication professionals of the highest level on April 25th, 2012 in Sofia.
A presentation focused on the cooperation of product and corporate brands with practical examples of Balkan Star, Mercedes-Benz, Jeep, Mitsubishi and other automotive brands


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The power to settle financial complaints.
September/October 2004
It is not unusual for a customer to have a current account, a savings account and a credit card account - all with the same bank or building society. The same customer might also have a loan, an ISA and a mortgage with that firm. And some of those accounts might be held jointly with someone else, usually a spouse or business partner.
In this article we look at what the firm can (or should) do where a customer does not have enough money in a particular account to make payments due from that account, but does have sufficient funds in one of their other accounts with the firm.
For example, when an overdraft facility on a current account runs out and the customer fails to pay the amount owed, can the firm take money from the customer's savings account to reduce or clear the debt- Or, if a customer fails to make credit card or mortgage payments, should the firm use available funds from that customer's current or savings account to make the missing payments, thereby helping the customer to avoid extra interest or charges-
The basic position is that a firm has a right - but not a duty - to look at a customer's overall position and to "combine" the accounts held by that customer. This is sometimes called a right of "set off" or a right to "combine" accounts. A firm has this as a general right, whether or not it mentions the right in the account terms. So, in the examples above, the firm can transfer money from an account that is in credit in order to make payments due on another account. But it does not have to do this.
Certain conditions must be met before the firm can exercise its right of "set off".
We would not usually expect a firm to warn customers before it exercises its right of "set off". A warning might prompt customers to move their money to an account with a different firm. But we think that it is usually good practice for a firm to tell a customer as soon as possible after it has made a transfer.
We would not generally expect a firm to use "set off" before giving the customer a reasonable opportunity to pay the debt. However, what is "reasonable" might depend on the customer and the history of the account.
The general position can be modified by agreement between the firm and its customer. This might include:
The following case studies illustrate how this works in practice.
Mr G, an elderly widower, needed help with his financial affairs. He decided to make his daughter, Mrs B, a joint account holder on his current account. In that way, she could pay bills for him. It would also be easier for her to tie up his affairs after he died.
Some time later, Mrs B took out a personal loan with the same firm. Her father was quite unaware that she had difficulties paying the monthly instalments, and that the firm eventually called in the loan. Because Mrs B was unable to repay the money, the firm transferred funds into her loan account from the joint account she held with her father.
When she discovered what had happened, Mrs B was extremely upset because it meant that she had to tell her father about her financial problems. This was not only an embarrassment for her - it became a serious worry for her father.
When she complained, the firm defended its actions, telling her that the terms and conditions of the joint account allowed it to transfer the funds from the joint account. Unhappy with this, Mrs B then brought her complaint to us.
complaint upheld
The edition of the terms and conditions that the firm referred to was the most recent version. It had been issued some years after Mr G had opened his current account - after Mrs B had become a joint account holder and after Mrs B had taken out the loan.
Mrs B did not recall seeing the leaflet containing the updated terms and conditions. However, she accepted that she might well have received a copy as part of a regular mailing from the firm - probably with her monthly statement.
We noted from the latest version of the terms and conditions that there was a term allowing the firm to take money from the joint account to pay debts owed solely by Mr G or by Mrs B, as well as to pay debts owed by them jointly. However, we thought that this was such a radical departure from the normal position that it was an "'unusual" term. It was also an " onerous" term, because its effect was to make Mr G liable for Mrs B's debts.
A firm can only rely on terms that are "unusual" and "onerous" if they have been brought fairly to the customer's attention. The Banking Code says that customers must be given personal notice of any terms that are to their disadvantage. We did not think it enough for a firm simply to include the revised edition of the account terms when it sent out routine statements to its customers, which is what had happened here.
We also thought that the term was "unfair" within the meaning of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999. This was because it created a significant imbalance in the parties' rights and obligations, to the detriment of customers. Specifically, it had the effect of making Mr G a guarantor of Mrs B's debts - but without giving him the information that a guarantor should usually be given.
We told the firm to transfer the money back to the joint account - leaving it to find other ways of recovering the money that Mrs B still owed.
Mrs J had a current account and a savings account with the firm, as well as a credit card account. She was also an "additional cardholder" on the credit card that her daughter had with the same firm.
Mrs J decided to set up a standing order to pay £100 a month from her current account into her credit card account. Unfortunately, a mistake by the firm resulted in the money going instead to her daughter's credit card account.
Then because no payments were being made into Mrs J's credit card account, the firm decided to transfer money into that card account from her savings account. When the firm refused to uphold her complaint about this, Mrs J came to us.
complaint upheld in part
Mrs J had not paid the bill for her credit card. The card was issued by the firm and held by Mrs J in a personal capacity. She held a savings account with the firm, also in a personal capacity. So the firm could use money from Mrs J's savings account to pay her card bills.
However, it was clear that if the firm had set up the standing order correctly in the first place, there would have been no arrears. And Mrs J was not liable for her daughter's card bills, even though she was an additional cardholder. So we told the firm to reverse the entries and to make any necessary adjustments to the interest and charges that Mrs J had been asked to pay.
Mrs J's daughter remained liable to pay her own credit card bill.
Mr D and Miss T had a joint mortgage with the firm. Mr D also had a savings account with the same firm. He was often a few weeks late in making his mortgage payments and, on a number of occasions, he had to pay fees for being in arrears.
A couple of weeks before the couple were due to go on holiday, Mr D visited his local branch of the firm. He intended to withdraw some money from his savings account in order to pay a few bills and get some spending money for his holiday.
However, he was very shocked to find that the balance on his savings account had been reduced almost to nothing. The firm had transferred most of his savings to pay the arrears on his and Miss T's mortgage.
complaint rejected
The mortgage was held on a "joint and several" basis. That meant that Mr D and Miss T were both liable to make payments on it - both individually and together. So, Mr D did owe the mortgage arrears to the firm.
Mr D held the savings account in a personal capacity. So the firm could transfer money from Mr D's savings account to pay the arrears he owed on the mortgage. It did not matter that Miss T also owed those arrears, because that did not make any difference to Mr D's liability for them. We therefore rejected the complaint.
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Total time:
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Note: Use the best-tasting tomatoes you can find, whether they're heirlooms, cherry tomatoes or any other type.
1/3 pound stale ciabatta, or other artisan-style bread
1 pound tomatoes
1 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground black
3 tablespoons red wine
1/2 cup olive oil
3/4 cup diced red onion
3 tablespoons toasted pine nuts
3 ounces arugula (about 5 or 6 good handfuls)
1. Tear the ciabatta
into rough pieces and put it in a bowl with water to cover. Soak for at least 15 minutes.
2. Cut cherry tomatoes
in halves or quarters, depending on their size. Cut heirloom or other large tomatoes into three-quarter-inch slices, then cut the slices into quarters. Place them in a bowl and season with the salt, pepper, red wine vinegar and olive oil. Set aside for at least 15 minutes to allow the salt to pull some of the juice from the tomatoes.
3. Pull the bread
from the bowl a handful at a time and squeeze out as much water as you can. Crumble the bread into a serving bowl. Stir the tomato mixture into the bread, working the mixture to moisten as much of the bread as possible with the liquid from the tomatoes. Stir in the red onion. (The recipe can be prepared to this point up to 8 hours ahead and refrigerated, tightly covered.)
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Each serving:
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I remember visiting my grandmother for the whole summer and every day there was a pick up baseball game and you didn't come in at night till dark after playing kick the can and just have fun. We would walk the streams in our barefeet and ride bikes in the cemetary and scare each other. Now kids have hand held games and kids aren't playing in the neighborhood as they are all at their different camps and trainings and games or computers.
How many forts did we build and how many apple fights were there? Not now, my heavens, someone could get sued.
My mantra as I get older is: BACK TO BASICS. All the tv'shows,camps, computer programs, texting, and IM hasn't made this world better. Fast Food, Fast times, and Fast life has not improved our quality of life. Let us all slow down, kids will be here soon and I plan on showing them how we figure out clould figures in the sky and watch the corn grow and building an ant farm and go catch some crayfish and look at the stars at night and catch fireflies. I don't need expensive toys and gifts or the best name brand clothes for them. We will color together, read books, make S'mears (with peanut butter) and spot deer and float down the river. I remember those times that my grandma and myself sat on the front porch and had root beer floats and that might even have been breakfast once in awhile. So from parent to grandparent, this is my one week to embrace my family and slow it down and as crazy as it might get, I know the silence when they all go back is worse. So today and each day I will make it great, my grandkids and


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Family Fun
There is plenty of family activities to participate in, on and off board with a P&O cruise. They offer a range of fun, family activities and adventures so you can share your holiday experience with your little ones. With a variety of shows on offer; you can enjoy the family art and crafts classes, production shows or even laser tag and rope climbing races. There is also various island tours to take part in offshore, some of these more unique P&O experiences are firewalking ceremonies in Denarau Island in Fiji and 4WD Safari adventures along the Wellington rugged coast lines.
P&O's award winning Kids Club programDeveloped by professional childhood academics, the award winning Kids Club programme have 4 programs arranged by age groups so they can cater for age appropriate activities and games. For the younger kids some of the highlighted activities are sleepyhead story time sessions, arts and crafts and a DUPLO play centre. For the older kids, get set for scavenger hunts and pirate challenges, time to shine talent show and theme night parties. All mealtimes will be enjoyed together with an exclusive kids menu.
Parents Pamper
Also a note for parents, at an additional cost there are opportunities for child minding from 10.30pm to 1am. During this time why not treat yourself with a relaxing day at the AQUA spa and fitness centre. Then as it heads into the evening enjoy dinner at one of the many on board restaurants, followed by a trip to the casino to engage in some fun rounds of blackjack whilst the kids are fast asleep.
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The long hot Houston summer is well under way, and with its arrival, sweaters, long pants and jackets have all been sent to the back of our closets. While you're switching up your wardrobe for the season, why not give your feet a break too, suggests Houston podiatrist Dr. Andrew Schneider. If you alter your high-heel wearing routine over the next few months, you may save yourself from years of foot pain.
Most women joke about the pain they feel after a long day or night wearing their heels, but few realize just how much damage their shoe habit may be causing. Earlier this year, Sarah Jessica Parker, the virtual spokesperson for high heels, revealed that her Manolo-habit had caused her to develop bone spurs and bunions.
Besides these two nasty problems, high heels can also cause: neuromas, characterized by pain in the ball of your foot; plantar fasciitis, which manifests as sharp heel pain; hammertoes, or an unnatural curling of the toes; pump bumps, or a swelling of the bone on the back of the foot; and bunions, which, although genetic, can be made worse by continuous high heel wearing.
If you're wondering why those heels are so bad for you, just think about the physics of it—when you walk in high heels, up to 80 percent of your body weight has to be supported by the front of the foot. That puts a lot of added pressure on the bones of your feet, causing all the problems discussed above.
Additionally, constantly wearing high heels can make it incredibly uncomfortable to wear any other kind of shoe, because the heels can shorten your calf muscles, causing the Achilles tendon to thicken and stiffen. If you wear heels frequently enough, the calf muscle fibers may permanently shrink, making it too painful for them to stretch out in order to walk on flat feet.
So what's a high heel lover to do? Give your feet a bit of a break this summer and follow these simple suggestions to avoid permanent foot damage:
- Keep your high heel wearing down to two times a week. If you do have to wear heels daily for work, choose supportive shoes for your commute then change into heels at your desk.
- Choose shoes that have heels lower than two inches.
- Steer clear of stilettos; a wider heel will offer you more support.
- Look for shoes with extra cushioning in the ball of the foot and/or with rubber soles. If you can't find a shoe that comes with these pads, a simple shoe insert can give you the padding you need.
Hopefully, following these suggestions will keep you walking comfortably in all the shoes in your closet. If, however, you find your high-heel pain does not resolve even after you take off your shoes, schedule an appointment at Tanglewood Foot Specialists today to improve your quality of life.