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If you have ever casually perused a home decorating site or catalog, or visited the facebook page of a complacent, floral-wearing, LOL-typing, Minions-quote-posting, middle-aged woman, then inevitably you have come across this particular quote in some fashion:
Typically, this overused and trite trio of empty platitudes is in the form of some oversized wall decal, sign, or other hanging in huge, swirly script, apparently to ensure you can't possibly miss it, no matter how much you would like to. (And, oh, how I would like to.)
I didn't realize I was not alone in my hatred of this hackneyed, vapid quote until my stepson, Bear, made a fiery and scathing comment about it. I don't even remember what set him off. Maybe it was a picture in a catalog. Let's just say it is readily apparent that he despises the phrase with the same ferocity as I do. (Wise young man.) No one in the room disagreed with him, either.
It's a cliche, a pathetic attempt to be deep and inspirational, a waving flag of banal pseudo-intellectualism, failing dismally by regurgitating the same three hollow words as every other mindless nitwit who beams with pride at their imagined originality and fanciful cerebral depths.
I can't say it any better than AWildSketchIsBurned, who wrote this about people who like "live, love, laugh":
It's the same people that "went to the school of hard knocks", work at "CEO at full time mommy" and "if you can't handle them at their worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve them at their best". They also SING like no one is listening, LOVE like they've never been hurt, and DANCE like no one is watching. They're walking cliche machines.
If you hate "live, love, laugh" as much I do, then I graciously leave you with these as my parting gift:


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Eight students headed to states for history-based tournament
Students from Bald Eagle Area High School won at the National History Day Region 5 competition held in February at Lock Haven University. This makes them eligible to compete at the state tournament on May 10-11 in Carlisle.
Sophomore Meghan Ishler took first place with her individual documentary on the on the U.S. Supreme Court case Engel vs. Vitale. Classmates Amayah Fogelman and Julia Patcyk also placed first in the documentary category with their film on Mississippi University for Women vs. Hogan.
Freshman Kamryn Martin placed second with her individual website on "Small Pox in the New World."
Cora Bulles, Dylan Hartley, Emily Ream and Rosalie Sowers additionally placed first in the Group Exhibit category with their display on "The Atomic Bomb, My God What Have We Done?"


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Pasta Filata cheeses are perfectly suited for pizza and other hot dishes. Thanks to the increasing demand for consumer convenience, and the Westernisation of South East Asian dietary habits, there is a global growing demand for the Pasta Filata segment.
Pasta Filata cheeses gain an elastic texture when heated, and form long strings when the melted cheese is pulled. Low-moisture Mozzarella and pizza cheese are varieties of Pasta Filata cheeses, designed to meet the requirements of pizza manufacturers. This is a rapidly growing cheese segment.
Pasta Filata cheeses were originally from southern Italy, including Provolone, Mozzarella and Caciocavallo (a stretched-curd cheese made from sheep or cow milk). Today, several other countries produce these cheeses with a staggering half of the world's consumption produced in the USA. The related Kashkaval chesse (a yellow cheese made from cow milk, sheep milk or both) is produced in several Eastern European countries. These cheeses are manufactured by cooking and stretching cheddared curd.
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We do both commercial and residential design, and occasionally we get the opportunity to work on projects that allow us to do some creative (if not a little outrageous) design work.
One such project that we have been working on since summer of last year has been the transformation of a former auto repair garage to a restaurant. The restaurant, known as Boehmer, belongs to renowned chef Paul Boehmer. Paul has been a good friend for years and he has always had plans to open his own restaurant and last year I got a call from Paul asking to take a look at his new project. I jumped on the opportunity and met with Paul sharing some initial ideas and images that defined a design direction for the space. Paul had some great ideas to build on and was up to the challenge of transforming the former garage space into a restaurant that is stylish, yet warm and inviting.
Paul was quick to grab the garage space when it became available and we managed to put the designs together and apply for building permits just before a moratorium on new restaurants and bar construction along the bustling Ossington Avenue strip was put into effect. The end result is a clean white space with organic materials incorporated into the fixtures and finishes. We designed a large wall with waves of felt strips to help with acoustics and the backlit curved metal wall sculptures add interest to the brick walls. The lights over the bar were designed to resemble car headlamps taking a design cue from the former life of the space.
We encountered the usual pitfalls and surprises associated with renovating an older building which presented inevitable delays, but finally the restaurant is due to open this week, so call them up, book a table and check it out.
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It's something you hope never happens to you. But 117,630 families in Cook County have faced it in the last five years: bankruptcy.
But in Cook County, many black families aren't getting that help. They're filing for bankruptcy, but instead of getting a fresh start, they may be digging their own grave. That's because they're disproportionately choosing a kind of bankruptcy that's supposed to be rare and offers less relief from burdensome debt. Why? Local lawyers and financial counselors say they may be being steered into Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
That's the premise of this month's feature--Unlucky 13.
Chapter 13 bankruptcy is probably one of those things you've heard about or seen on a TV commercial but didn't really know what it meant. At least, that's what I was like before I started writing this story. To me, bankruptcy meant you didn't have any money. That's a real bummer, so it made sense that most people didn't want to file bankruptcy unless they had to.
But what I learned is that bankruptcy is supposed to be a financial absolution--a way of admitting that you have more debt than you can pay and wiping your slate clean. Most filers do this under Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Chapter 7 uses any assets you have to try to pay off your debtors, which means people sometimes lose their house or their car. But after it's over, in a matter of months, any debt they had is forgiven, and they get to start over.
That's most people. But what a Woodstock Institute report found is that a huge number of people in Chicago's African-American communities are choosing another form of bankruptcy--Chapter 13. While nationally, about 25 percent of bankruptcy cases are Chapter 13, in Chicago's African-American communities, that number is 47.9 percent.
Chapter 13 is more like a payment plan than debt forgiveness. You get to keep your assets--which is why many people trying to save a home often choose Chapter 13. But you have to pay your debt out of your future income. The bankruptcy court sets up a payment plan for you--a lump sum you have to pay every month. At the end of three to five years, as long as you paid every month on time, whatever debt you have left is wiped clean.
In theory, it seems pretty fair, right? But think of it this way: If a person can't pay their debts to begin with--credit card payments, mortgage payments, utility bills--how are they going to make a hefty monthly payment to the bankruptcy trustee?
That may be why only about 10 percent of Chapter 13 cases succeed. And many people who don't fail end up farther behind than they started off.
Why is this happening? Well, some attorneys in Chicago think some law firms are steering their clients into Chapter 13 because they can make more money off them.
"I think these firms, these attorneys would be trying to convince
anybody--white, black--that [Chapter] 13 is the way to go," said lawyer David Siegel.
"They're not singling out or targeting blacks. It just so happens that
blacks make up a bigger portion of their clientele."
This is one of those stories where understanding the details of what's going on can often get in the way of outrage over what's happening. It's complicated, but it's also worth understanding. Because as a society, we've set up bankruptcy to be a way for people to get out from under debt--not further buried beneath it. So when lawyers are targeting our most vulnerable communities and using what we've set up to be help as a way of making a quick buck and leaving their clients worse off, that's a problem.
Read our investigation--Unlucky 13--in the latest issue of The Chicago Reporter.
Filed under: Government and Politics, Race and Racism
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Pedal Power
Many people who have ever spent much time on a bike have considered the idea that the same system could be used to generate electricity. As far back as 1914, Popular Mechanics was writing articles about bikes adapted to generate power. Today, several companies offer kits that adapt or just connect to a bicycle that allow it to be used as a small scale generator. It would seem like the perfect convergence of efficiency, self-reliance, and simple solutions. Unfortunately, not so fast…Generating power by bike may not be such a great idea after all. The first issue is that humans really aren't terribly strong. A healthy adult can put out about 100 watts of energy for a reasonable amount of time. That might drive a few light bulbs, but you're not going to run an air conditioner or charge your new Nission Leaf with that. But if you're going to ride to exercise anyway, why not capture that energy even if it's just a small part of your daily usage? Well, because you may not be generating what you think you are.
As we've looked at before, one of the real bugbears of generating any type of energy or work is loss in conversion. Every step you take to transform or convert energy from one type to another typically has a pretty big loss. Bike powered generators are no different. First of all, the human body is not a terribly efficient converter itself. We use food to power movement. Transforming the stored chemical energy in our diet to power movement already has huge losses. Once we do start pumping our legs though, we still have to power the bike, converting muscle based movement to mechanical rotation, that rotation then has drive a generator, and then finally, we typically have to store the electricity somehow to allow for future use.
A recent article in Low Tech Magazine does some back of the envelope calculations and arrives at the conclusion that just looking at the losses that occur in the bike itself and the generator, roughly 2/3 of the energy you produce by pedalling is wasted. In looking at the energy and materials needed just to build the kit that converts your bike into a home generating station, the authors finds that you would be unlikely to ever even generate enough power to replace what was used to build the kit in the first place. Not so good. But this is not to say that there is no place for human powered work and specifically pedal power.
The article's author goes on to explore ways to solve the massive loss built into a bike converted to generation. His first point is that your typical bike is well designed to drive you around, not to spin a generator. Custom built pedal machines designed specifically to drive a generator can remove most of the major mechanical inefficiencies in a standard bicycle. But as we've seen, anytime you convert energy, you have losses, so he points to one of the best improvements, take the electricity completely out of the equation.
Pedal Powered Machines work by using the pedalling force to directly drive work instead of generating electricity that is then used to perform work. Think of the foot powered sewing machine or potter's wheel as two of the few versions of this technique that really survive today. Human powered machines go as far back as anitquity. But pedal powered machines really didn't come into being until the 1870's when the invention of the bicycle spurred other uses for the highly efficient foot powered design. (Ironically, it was only the arrival of the fossil fuel powered industrial age that allowed for more advanced steel manufacturing that made pedal powered machines possible.) The combination of using the most powerful muscles in the legs, with a compact design, with the ability to properly gear the movement made pedal power vastly superior to other human powered devices for most applications. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw an explosion in pedal powered devices for home and industrial use that only died out as fossil fuels and electricity slowly became cheap and ubiquitous.
Other than a few niche and novelty attempts to bring back pedal powered machines like the Fender Blender, not much has been made of the advantages of pedal powered machines in the industrialized world in recent times. But there are those for whom the unique combination of efficiency, low-cost/simple design, and freedom from industrial energy has real advantages. Groups like Maya Pedal and others have developed pedal powered machines that are cheap, effective, and perform critical work in a developing world environment. Most of these machines are designed for basic farming tasks, water pumping, light weight industrial or manufacturing work and the like. The combination of greatly amplifying the body's strength without being dependent on unavailable, unreliable, or unsustainable power sources make these machines ideal solutions for the tasks at hand.
So while mini devices to charge your iPod while you ride may be handy ways to harness your legs, think before you build that home generator system and instead look at making a pedal powered washing machine instead.


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Beanfeast Bolognese Style
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- Weight: 120g
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About Beanfeast
Batchelors vegetarian spin-off Beanfeast is here to bring delicious, quick sauces to those avoiding meat.
Made from soya, all you need to do is mix with boiling water to have a mince-like sauce in minutes!
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How to set up a freezer sample management system in your lab in less than 10 minutes
Posted by Rory on April 14th, 2011 @ 5:35 pm
"A common sound in the lab is the yelling alarm coming from the deep freeze, followed by the miserable face of a hand-frozen graduate who was searching for a plasmid construct."
Every lab has stories about its freezers and what lurks inside them. Those samples dated 1990 that someone came across just the other day. Or the aliquots you put on the shelf on Monday that mysteriously vanished by Thursday. It's things like this that drive some lab heads, in desperation, to try out expensive LIMS solutions that usually turn out to be so complicated they gather dust in a corner of the lab.
With this background in mind, we designed CAT 4.0, an electronic lab notebook which now includes sample management, for labs which don't have huge budgets or sophisticated technical resources, but do need to keep their samples better organized. To do that we knew we had to keep it simple!
To prove the point, in the rest of this post I'm going to take you through setting eCAT 4.0 up to manage freezer samples. As you'll see this can be done by anyone with ordinary computer skills — such as a lab manager, a research technician or a postdoc — in three simple steps.
Step one: Designate inventory roles
The eCAT administrator first needs to designate one or more members of the lab as Inventory Managers, and all members of the lab who will be using the system as Inventory Users. Inventory Managers, as described below, have the ability to configure the system, and Inventory Users are able to use it to manage their samples. To give an eCAT user an Inventory Manager or Inventory User role, just edit the user's profile as shown below and select the Inventory Manager button. A popup appears, explaining that Inventory Managers can do everything in the system, i.e. create containers and sample templates and create, move and edit their own and other user's samples and containers.
To give a user Inventory User rights, simply select the Inventory User button rather than the Inventory Manager button.
Step 2: Create a freezer
The Inventory Manager is now ready to create your first freezer. To do that go to the Inventory tab, and select Create New Container from the menu on the left, and then Freezer from the drop down list that appears. You are shown the following screen.
Click next at the bottom right (not shown on the above image) and you are taken to the second and final screen in the series – just give the freezer a name and a brief description, click finish and your first freezer is ready!
Step 3: Add a shelf, a rack, and a freezer box
Next add a shelf to the freezer, and a rack to the shelf, using the same two step process you used to create the freezer. Finally, add a box to the rack, again using the same two step process. There are a variety of freezer box configurations to choose from. We'll select a 10×10 freezer box, as shown in the following screenshot.
And after we give it a name and a description, the freezer box is ready, and Inventory Users can start adding samples to the box! In the tutorial video we've made showing how to set up containers those three steps take less than five minutes. I bet it won't take you much more than that, even on the first try.
Up and running in less than ten minutes!
So it just takes 5 – 10 minutes to set eCAT up for your lab to begin managing their samples. And that's 5 – 10 minutes for someone with normal computer skills, not an IT person. Of course there are lots of other ways of managing your samples in eCAT 4.0, like creating containers with your own configuration. As I've described in another post, that's just as simple as creating containers from eCAT's pre-existing templates.


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Chloe lost two front teeth at same time last week while I was working hard on promoting this book!
The Fiction & Folk Art of Marie K Johnston
It's a picture montage of how "Mental (2018)" is faring on Kindle, Sept 2018!
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Associate Director of Development
TITLE: Associate Director of Development
ORG. TYPE: Museum and Research Library
LOCATION: New York, NY
Position Summary
The Associate Director of Development, for this prestigious Museum, will report to the Deputy Director for External Affairs.
- She/he will be charged with designing and implementing the program for unrestricted giving from individuals at all levels
- Oversee all aspects of the unrestricted giving program, including (but not restricted to) membership, the annual fund, the Director's Circle, donor patron groups, and individual grants: prospect identification, cultivation, solicitation, database management, and stewardship.
- Prepare all related reporting material.
- Supervise acknowledgement process for all unrestricted gifts. Write and tracks all solicitation and stewardship materials related to individual giving.
- Prepare annual Development Department budget, setting income goals and expense projections.
- Design and implement Director's domestic and international travel programs
- Plan and organizes cultivation and other events for members, major donors and prospects.
- Attend all relevant events, including some evening events.
- Supervise Membership Coordinator and Development Assistant.
- Minimum eight years development experience, preferably in an art museum and familiarity with the New York City philanthropic community.
- Broad knowledge of development, with a strong background in membership, annual giving, donor research, and donor cultivation.
- Capability to build, develop, and retain strong, positive relationships with members, donors, and colleagues; adept at dealing with sophisticated constituents.
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills; a confident style that is coupled with sensitivity and flexibility.
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to motivate, teach, and mentor junior staff. Excellent organizational, administrative and project management skills. Independence, initiative and imagination.
- Ability to prioritize and organize multiple projects
- Minimum eight years development experience, preferably in an art museum and familiarity with the New York City philanthropic community.
- Knowledge of Raiser's Edge a plus. Bachelor's degree in related field.
If you are interested in pursuing this career opportunity, please send a cover letter and resume to email@example.com or register at www.nonprofitstaffing.com and apply to job number 8290. Thank you.
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Keeping up with Coachella has become a tradition since we started this blog, and with two years in it's only right we continue – this time, with a special note to #woc.
Amongst some of my favourite styles, this year, I've exclusively picked out some of the diverse women-of-colour that showed up at the weekend-long music festival in California.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner will present Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a bust of Winston Churchill when he arrives to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, according to the Speaker's office.
President Barack Obama famously returned a bust of the British wartime leader when he arrived at the Oval Office in 2009. The White House denied having done so, but later had to apologize to columnist Charles Krauthammer over the issue.
Obama's gesture was seen as a slap against a staunch U.S. ally, much as his posture towards Israel is seen as a departure and a symbol of his administration's foreign policy generally, which stresses empathy for enemies rather than strength.
The Churchill bust is being presented in acknowledgement of Netanyahu equalling Churchill's three speeches before joint sessions of Congress. In context, however, it can also be interpreted as a statement in opposition to Obama's foreign policy.


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Book Chat: The Wolfman
Book Chat: The Wolfman
Once a week I'll be discussing a Book or Movie/TV Series I love. Or posting a submission from a reader/author about a movie or book in the horror or zombie genre. Sharing the love of a book or movie as if you were talking with a friend.
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Natasha Subhash, an Indian American teen is taking the tennis world by storm. Natasha Subhash, a resident of Fairfax, Virginia, has got a wild card in the 2015 US Open Tennis Championships, becoming the youngest ever Indian-origin player to play for the Junior girls title in a Grand Slam event. Subhash will have her first taste of elite tennis when she heads to the U.S. Open in New York for the qualifying tournament this month. She is not nervous, though, but rather the opposite. "I am very excited for it."
At just 14 years old, Subhash, of Fairfax, Va., has earned a spot in the U.S. Open, a grand slam tennis tournament in New York. The tennis sensation has been playing the sport for a long time. Her parents enrolled her in classes at the nearby Four Star Tennis Academy when she was just 4 years old, and she has been honing her craft there ever since.
"As soon as I started to compete in tournaments, I knew that this was what I wanted to do," Subhash told the media. "I think that once I started to compete in tournaments on a regular basis and started doing well in them, I knew that I could be really good at this," she said.
It didn't take long for her natural talent to come through, and she felt confident that she would be a great player. In her U-16 age group, Subhash is ranked No. 1 in the Virginia and Mid-Atlantic regions, as well as in the United States Tennis Association standings. Nationally, she is ranked No. 5. of all young girls in the world; the International Tennis Federation ranks Subhash 1,118.
In total, Subhash said she has won around 150 trophies, including 10 gold, silver and bronze tennis balls, for her successes at national tournaments. She is a humble winner, too, earning the Sportsmanship Award at the National Hard Court Championships.
"I usually don't think about that, because I have to focus on what I have to do in the match," Subhash said. "But, it's always nice to know that you have support when you're playing." Like a true competitor, Subhash appreciates past success but is driven to get better each and every day.
"My goals now are to just get better every day and to love what I do," said the young tennis star, who will be attending Falls Church High School in Falls Church, Va., this fall. "My long-term goal is to see if I can be a professional tennis player."
Subhash was born in Washington, D.C., to parents who immigrated to the United States from India. When she's not dominating on the tennis court, she loves to read, listen to music and spend time with her friends. She credits her parents and their roots for making her the person she is today. "That has shaped me a lot as a person," Subhash said of her parents being raised in India. "They've taught me all of their values and beliefs, and I couldn't be more thankful."


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Tim Gulliver the School's headmaster retires at the end of this summer term.
Posted on Fri 18 July 2014
At the Meeting of the Old Carolians Committee, held at Kidderminster Cricket Club on Wednesday July 16th 2014, a Presentation was made to Tim Gulliver to thank him for his long association with the Old Carolians and for his invaluable contribution to the Association over many years.
In the presence of Stephen Brownlow, the recently appointed new Headmaster of the school and of a large Committee, President Charlie Combes presented Tim with a splendid inscribed cut glass decanter, made in Stourbridge, the centre of the British Glass making industry.
Charlie said that Tim had done a wonderful job at the school, recognised throughout the County and the West Midlands. He had regularly attended Committee meetings and functions; he had always made the School's facilities available for social occasions, had helped in the distribution of the yearly magazine and had forged a relationship with the Association and its members which will be long remembered.
In response, Tim said that he was speechless at the generosity of the Association and its Committee. He had always felt a great bond to us and had greatly enjoyed being a member of this select group of friends. He said that he would be for ever grateful for the wonderful honour which the Association had awarded him when he had received the Old Carolian Life Membership. Looking at the splendid cut glass decanter, he commented that he would not be filling it with the usual whisky, but would be enjoying instead his favourite Port. We imagined Tim's future evenings at home, watching the football (notably the Wolves), enjoying his favourite tipple and relaxing after a rewarding career placing hundreds of students on the path to success in life.
Tim Gulliver has been one of the very best Head teachers of King Charles 1 School and we have certainly been very lucky that he has always helped the Association in a most generous and friendly spirit during his period of office.
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A Discovery of Hope
By T.I. Lowe
Do you believe in angels? Willow Carter certainly did not, until Hope showed up and refused to leave. This insistent angel opens Willow's eyes to a world filled with incredible people in many forms—a purple-headed artist with a heart lined in pure gold, an autistic young man who sees the world through different eyes, a homeless woman trying to survive. As if they weren't enough, JP Thorton enters Willow's life and turns it upside down and around and round. The surfboard-riding photographer needs to understand how to claim hope, too. Willow and JP go on a journey for something we all need and it leads them to a discovery of hope. Such a powerful thing hope can be, and an endless journey of wonder when truly discovered. Hope can change everything. You only need a spark of it to lead to a blazing wonder.


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It's the world's most fragile state. "Every year for the past 10 years, The Fund for Peace, in partnership with the Foreign Policy Magazine, has released an index of the world's most fragile states, based on the analysis of mountains of data. And if there is a headline to this year's index, it is that South Sudan is now the world's most fragile nation, displacing Somalia, which has held the top spot for the last six years. (VOA)
WHO is Convening Big Meeting on Ebola Crisis. You may recall that earlier this week, MSF said the outbreak was "out of control." "The World Health Organization on Thursday called for "drastic action" to fight the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record, as it announced an 11-nation meeting to address the growing crisis. As of Sunday, 635 cases of haemorrhagic fever (most confirmed to be Ebola), including 399 deaths, have been reported across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, making the outbreak the largest ever "in terms of the number of cases and deaths as well as geographical spread," WHO said. (AFP)
An estimated 58 million children worldwide are not going to school, meaning that there is "no chance whatsoever" that the millennium development goal of achieving universal primary education by 2015 will be met, the UN has admitted. (Guardian)
The World Meteorological Organization says an El Nino is likely in the third quarter of 2014. El Nino is a weather phenomenon characterized by unusually warm ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. (VOA)
The number of civilians seeking shelter in United Nations bases in war-torn South Sudan has reached over 100,000 for the first time in more than six-months of conflict, the UN said. (AP)
A months-long battle to bring West Africa's Ebola outbreak under control has stretched medical teams to the limit, while mistrust in some communities has impaired prevention work and raised questions about the delivery of health warnings. (IRIN)
Most Nigerians who suffer mental health problems never seek or are offered help. As doctors work to convince the public mental health problems can and should be treated, patients at one facility in northern Nigeria say they are among the lucky ones. (VOA)
The South African Human Right Commission says many children who are Black, ethnic-Indian and Colored are trapped in the injustices of poverty – including lack of access to adequate nutrition, clean running water and proper sanitation. (VOA)
Two journalists in Somaliland have been sentenced to three years in jail for false reports and defaming the government, reports said. (AP)
Zimbabwe: More than 18,000 people live in the Chingwizi transit camp in Mwenezi district, about 150 kms from their former homes in Chivi basin wait to be allocated one-hectare plots of land by the government. (IPS)
Syria is more concerned with obstructing the United Nations than getting urgent aid to millions of its most needy, UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told the Security Council. (AP)
Egypt defended its judicial system at the United Nations amid a global outcry over the jailing of al Jazeera journalists, telling diplomats and reporters that it respects the role of the media and does not consider journalism a crime. (Reuters)
The United Nations' envoy in Iraq said it will take decisive action by the country's political leadership to address a "grave" situation that has left at least 900 civilians dead and more than 1 million displaced. (VOA)
Libya's official news agency says one of the country's most prominent female activists was assassinated on election day in the restive eastern city of Benghazi. (AP)
Thailand's military authorities are setting up a network of panels to closely monitor domestic and international media and crack down on criticism of what the junta sees as its efforts to right the country. (Reuters)
Asian stocks rose Thursday, tracing gains on Wall Street, where shares shrugged off a poor quarterly economic report as a blip and instead factored in rebounding growth even as policymakers maintain ultra low interest rates. (AP)
The Americas
The Caribbean region's bid to become food secure is in peril as farmers struggle to produce staple crops under harsh drought conditions brought about by climate change. (IPS)
The Costa Rican leader says he wants to end the "worship of the presidential image" and bans his portrait from being hung in public offices. (BBC)
Could The Ebola Outbreak Spread To Europe Or The U.S.? (NPR)
Ebola's Surge Requires 'Drastic Action' To Stop (NPR)
West Africa needs to wake up to threat from drugs trade (Guardian)
Private sector action in adaptation (CDKN)
Four Reasons Skilled Workers Leave Africa – and How to Keep Them (allAfrica)
Uganda: US sanctions will hurt NGOs already operating in difficult environment(African Arguments)
Five Big and Controversial Ideas that Can Transform Africa (Africa Can End Poverty)
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Occupations | Airplane & Auto Mechanic
Daniel Edison Moran, Jr.
Birthdate: 21 April 1905
Birthplace: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Occupation: Airplane & Auto Mechanic
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Daniel Edison Moran, Jr. was not an early pioneer of Monrovia, a long time resident of Monrovia, nor was he active in civic affairs. However, he does play a significant role in Monrovia history as on May 19, 1938, he flew the first airmail flight out of Monrovia Airport. The airport, which shut down in 1953, was bordered on the north by Falling Leaf (now Huntington Drive) and on the south by Duarte Road. Originally, Shamrock Avenue on the west of the airport and Mountain Avenue on the east ran all they way down to Duarte Road. Now the 210 Freeway bisects the area where the airport used to be.
The airport had begun in 1928, and Moran and his partner Wyman Ellis took over around 1935. Moran was an auto mechanic and had his own gas station/auto repair facility at 324 S. Myrtle Avenue (Lots 13 & and the north 46.7 feet of Lot 14, Block B of the Town of Monrovia Subdivision). He sold the gas station to lease the airport with Wyman Ellis who also had a gas station in Alhambra which he sold.
In Jack Irwin's book Monrovia Airport Alias Monrovia Flying Field 1928-1953 (54) he describes Daniel Moran this way: "Dan was the more serious of the two and worked at the airport every day. He took care of the books and the bushiness end as well as helping out as a mechanic. Although he wasn't one to joke around with, he was a nice fellow and very well liked. Dan was a very good auto mechanic and actually opened a auto repair shop in one of the hangers. Since more people had cars that airplanes, the auto repair business kept them busy."
Moran and Ellis only ran the field for a few years. How they lost the business seems to be in question, but Jack Irwin tells the story that a customer, Al Blackburn, was given a repair bill of $2,000 for repairs on his plane. Though a wealthy man from Ohio, he felt he was being overcharged, so he went to Citizen Bank who controlled the property and bought it from the back for $12,000, which meant that Moran and Ellis were now out of business since their lease had expired and they didn't have the money to buy the property.
Moran and his wife Beaulah who had married in 1926, lived at 421 Wild Rose Avenue from no later than 1926 until they moved then moved up to Spokane, Washington, sometime after 1940. I found a 1949 directory entry for them at N5017 Lincoln, Spokane, Washington, indicating that Daniel had become manager of Western Sky Ways, Inc. John Irwin states that Daniel Moran later worked as a maintenance inspector for the Civil Aeronautics Administration (57).
Daniel Edison Moran, Jr. was born on April 21, 1905, in Pennsylvania to Daniel Edison Moran and Emma Mathilda Prager, who had also both been born in Pennsylvania. Both had contracted diseases in their youth which left them unable to hear. Because they were so young when they lost their hearing, their speech skills were also affected. They married in 1901 and started out farming in Spring, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. All five of their children were born there, but census records showed they moved to Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, where Daniel Senior worked as a machinist.
The entire family moved to Monrovia in the early 1920s, and, except for Daniel Junior and his wife, Emma and Daniel Senior, Carolyn, Raymond P. , and Victor L., lived down the street at 301 Wild Rose Avenue on the north east corner of Canyon and Wild Rose. The house no longer exists, but Sanborn Fire Insurance maps show the house on a large lot.John Irwin's book says that Daniel and Beulah had a son, but I haven't found evidence of one yet.
They moved down to Alameda, California, and he died there on January 7, 1980. His wife died in Stockton, California, on March 29, 1999.
Daniel Senior was born in New York July 15, 1876. He and his wife Emma had both had childhood illnesses which left them deaf. Because of the early onset of the deafness, they didn't speak either. They received a good education for the deaf at Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind (now Gallaudet University) in Pennsylvania where they probably met. Daniel Senior was a painter for most of the time he lived in Monrovia, though he also helped out at the Monrovia Airport. The 1930 census and some of the city directories indicate that at times he was living apart from his wife. One address was 319 E. Olive Ave., a boarding house where his daughter Florence later lived. Another address where he lived was at 327 S. California Avenue where his son Raymond and Raymond's wife were living. Daniel Edison Moran, Senior died on July 25th, 1947, in Monrovia, and his wife Emma died December 28, 1944.
Their second child Carolyn Moran was born November 25th, 1907, and worked as a servant for a private family (Census Records 1930). She married Howard Smith in 1939 and on January 22, 2003, in Sunland, California.
Raymond P. was born May 30, 1909 in Spring, Crawford, Pennsylvania . He seems to have stayed in Monrovia the longest, appearing in the 1942 Monrovia telephone directory as living with his wife Vivian at 327 S. California Ave. He died March 30, 1976, in Pleasant Hill, Contra Costa, County, California.
Victor Leroy was born September 28th, 1911 in Pennsylvania, married a woman named Beth and seemed to follow his oldest brother to Spokane where he also worked as a mechanic. Before moving to Spokane, they lived at 503 Wild Rose Avenue. He died on June 19, 2001, in Mesa, Arizona.
Florence W. was born in 1915 and moved out of the family home after 1930. Resident directories for Monrovia gives her address at 319 E. Olive Ave. in 1935 and 1939 but no occupation. I was unable to get any more information on Florence.
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"Glee" star Kevin McHale talks about the show's heady success
During awards season a year ago, "Glee" co-star Matt McHale was driving around LA in a beat-up old Acura that he describes as "falling apart" and he remembers watching the Golden Globe Awards at home in his apartment.
"I haven't missed the [Globes] for as long as I can remember,' said the actor. "I was a little kid who would make my parents be quiet so I could watch the Golden Globes. … I never thought I'd be there a year later."
On Sunday, McHale, who plays paraplegic high school student Artie Abrams on the show, was on the stage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel with fellow "Glee" cast members basking in the show's Globe win for outstanding television comedy. "Glee" had already won the People's Choice Award a few weeks earlier and on Saturday, competes for the Screen Actors Guild award for best television comedy ensemble.
"It [is] a bit surreal," he said of the award recognition. "It's incredible. We're new, we're only 13 episodes in and this is all happening."
Those first 13 episodes of the Fox series were enough to create a phenomenon that includes best-selling CDs and an early renewal for a second season. But first there is the current season to complete which will have some pretty heavy-hitting guest stars including Olivia Newton-John and very likely Neil Patrick Harris and Jennifer Lopez. The cast returned to work just two weeks ago to begin filming the final nine episodes of the season which begin airing in early April.
"It's nice to be able to go back to work and know people are excited to see the episodes we're working on," said McHale.
That was not the case while they filmed the first 13 last year.
"It could have been the most expensive home videos ever if it didn't work out," he said. "So it was a real risk but I think that it shows how Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennen – those geniuses – know that they're doing."
Since the first batch of shows were completed in the summer, what was the cast doing during their nearly six-month hiatus?
"We did a lot of promotion, non-stop," McHale said. "We did a tour of the U.S., went to Australia then we came back and did another tour with the soundtrack. It wasn't really a break."
Now, the cast is fully back into production mode getting the next set of highly-anticipated episodes in the can.
"It's long days, 16-hour days, but I wouldn't change it," McHale said. "It's my favorite thing in the world."


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May 9, 2014
Doors open at 7 PM
Donations Accepted to benefit The Studio
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Foundation
The Studio@620 will host an evening of music on Friday May 9 at 7:30 PM. (Doors open at 7:00)
There are many reasons communities form, but this one is about the music. Every Monday a group of friends gathers in St. Petersburg to play and sing and enjoy one another's company. Now this group is expanding with a performance at The Studio and you're invited!
This federation of friends dates back more than 14 years, and centers on a collection of original and (occasionally obscure) cover tunes from diverse origins in the folk and rock vein. Players come and go, but the community is constant.
Come join us as we make some music for you, and then go home, and start your own. I hear Thursday's open…
Musicians: Jeff Wolf, Tom Tipton, Frank Baptie, Gabriel Tinnaro, Dave Ellis, Lara Cerri
Friday, May 9, 2014, show starts at 7:30pm, doors at 7pm
Donations accepted at the door to benefit The Studio.
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Fitness Training & Athletics
Every year the 6th classes participate in fitness classes after school. We focus on various aspects of the athletics curriculum. The aim is to have fun while also improving our fitness levels in preparation for all the different sports we will enjoy in secondary school. Some of the pupils go on to run the Great Limerick Run on the May bank holiday.
In addition we hold an annual sport's day, after which 40-50 pupils are selected to compete in the UL Primary Schools' Sports.


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1958 University of Denver Ski Team, 1958
Identifier: U300.01.0013.00054
Overview 1958 University of Denver (DU) Pioneers men's ski team pose for a team portrait. Coach Willy Schaeffler can be seen on the far right. Printed above and below image: ''Seasons Greetings. The 1958 DU Ski Team.''
Dates: 1958
1958 University of Denver Ski Team Postcard, 1958
Identifier: U300.01.0011.00044
Overview University of Denver (DU) Pioneers ski team photographic postcard addressed to Dr. & Mrs. Louis A. Breternitz. Postmarked Denver, Colo. Dec 22, 1958. U.S. postage 3 cents. Signed by 1958 DU ski team members Mauritz Sonberg, Ted Farwell, Al Vincelette, Tom Carter, Clarence Servold, Bob Gray, Oddvar Ronnestad, John Thorpe, Peder Pytte, Martti Korhonen, and Coach Willy Schaeffler.
Dates: 1958
1958 Wrestling (General), 1958
Identifier: U300.04.0397.0040
Overview Athletics information about the wrestlers and meet results about the University of Denver's Wrestling team in 1958.
Dates: 1958
1959-1960 Releases, 1959-1960
Identifier: U300.06.0018.0014
Overview Press releases from 1959-1960.
Dates: 1959-1960
1959-1960 University of Denver Men's Ice Hockey Team, between 1959-1960
Identifier: U300.01.0390.00001
Overview Photographic image and name plate containing the members of the 1959-1960 University of Denver (DU) Pioneers men's ice hockey team and 1960 NCAA-WCHA Champions. Back row (left to right): Coach Murray Armstrong, Norb Kemp, Max Geisthardt, Terry Lomnes, Bill Masterton, Ken Williamson, Dick Jacob, Jerry Walker, Trent Beatty, George Konik, Paul Josephson, Paul DiNapoli. Front row: Grant Munro, Con Collie, Murray MacDonald, Bruce Walker, George Kirkwood, John MacMillan (captain), Ray Hamlin, Al...
Dates: between 1959-1960
1959-60 University of Denver Winter Sports, 1959-1960
Identifier: U300.05.0028.00007
Overview 1959-1960 University of Denver (DU) Pioneers winter sports information guide for press, radio, and television. Sports include ice hockey, men's basketball, men's skiing, and men's swimming. Contents of the guide include individual sport schedules, rosters, coaching staffs, records, and statistics.
Dates: 1959-1960
1959 Gymnastics (General), 1959
Identifier: U300.04.0393.0018
Overview Men's gymnastics general team information including a team roster and schedule, and individual athlete questionaire sheets from 1959.
Dates: 1959
1959 National Intercollegiate Ski Championships, 1959 March 26-28
Identifier: U300.05.0410.00004
Overview 1959 National Intercollegiate Ski Championships program featuring rosters of participating schools and a fill-in results log.
Dates: 1959 March 26-28
1959 Nevada Winter Carnival Winning Team Jumping, 1959
Identifier: U300.08.0435.00001
Overview University of Denver (DU) Pioneers men's skiing trophy from the 1959 Nevada Winter Carnival for jumping.
Dates: 1959
1959 Tennis (Information Sheets), 1959
Identifier: U300.04.0396.0014
Overview University of Denver (DU) Pioneers men's tennis press releases, meet schedules and results from the 1959 season.
Dates: 1959


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Jim Clay, a seasoned estate
planning attorney, will discuss what bankruptcy practitioners need to
know about estate planning.
James M. Clay is a principal at Morrison Sund PLLC in Minnetonka, Minnesota,
and focuses his practice on estate planning, probate and trust administration,
family business succession and tax planning. He works closely with couples
and individuals to help structure estate plans to achieve the clients'
objectives in the most tax efficient manner possible. Prior to joining Morrison
Sund, Jim spent over 10 years with larger firms in Minneapolis focusing his
practice on estate planning, estate and trust administration, and tax planning.
Jim has a master's degree in taxation (LL.M) and has been enrolled to practice
before the Internal Revenue Service since 1985. His extensive tax
background enables him to assist families, individuals and small business owners
to develop and accomplish their estate planning goals, and to pass on family
values in a manner that will minimize their exposure to federal and state
taxes. Jim earned his juris doctorate cum laude and his LL.M (Taxation)
from the William Mitchell College of Law, and his bachelor of arts from St. Olaf
College. Jim is a frequent lecturer on advanced estate planning, tax and
business succession planning topics. He has taught numerous continuing
legal education courses on estate planning, tax and related topics and often
speaks to members of various civic organizations. He is a member of the
Minnesota State Bar Association's Probate and Trust Law Section, and is actively
working on legislative issues for the Association.Jim designs and
prepares estate planning documents such as wills, revocable trusts (living
trusts), financial powers of attorney, health care directives (living wills),
and beneficiary designations for life insurance and retirement plans. He
also works with people to plan and implement trusts for children or
grandchildren, irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs), grantor retained
annuity trusts (GRATs), qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs),
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trusts (CRTs), charitable lead trusts (CLTs), family limited partnerships,
limited liability companies, and buy-sell agreements. Jim works with families
and individuals to help them through the probate and estate settlement process,
administer and resolve trust and estate disputes. In addition, he has extensive
experience working with individuals and fiduciaries to resolve estate, gift and
income tax disputes.
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Grant Number: 20020629
To work with selected leaders from Quinnipiac River Watershed communities to improve the land use decision-making process and control non-point source pollution. The proposed program is for a 4-day workshop, emphasizing the regulatory power to make wise land use decisions, and presenting collaborative decision making techniques.
Year Issued: 2002 | Amount: $3,369
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Contact Information
Grant Number: 20020637
To continue the work the Fair Haven community has done towards cleaning, maintaining and planning for an eco-sensitive Quinnipiac River Park.
Year Issued: 2002 | Amount: $10,000
Elm City Parks Conservancy
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Enlightenment - A Shock To The System
Category: Awakened Lifestyles Written by Maria Chambers Views: 1972
If you're far enough along in your awakening you have discovered that wanting love, acceptance and acknowledgement from others has more to do with insecurity than anything else. You realize more and more that this awakening is about self-love and self-acceptance. And it is more and more a solitary road.
You may be surrounded by kindred souls, whether it's in your community or virtually, but you are acutely aware that you are doing your ascension, embodied enlightenment solo.
You take it deadly seriously, this integration of mind, body and spirit, and you allow nothing to distract you, not even your own mind.
You eventually release all of the distractions, whether it's other people, groups, jobs, goals, trying to be a 'better' person….and, most importantly, the mind's internal drama.
Some people I know are proud to share with me how they have accumulated more friends and activities in their life. They seem to enjoy cramming as much doing as they can in a 24 hour period.
On the surface they seem happy, but they are also terrified of spending quality time with themselves, just 'being.'
Doing things is an important part of this physical experience, of course. But as we awaken we discover that it's the sensual nature of the things we are doing, not a checklist of accomplishments.
It's the savoring. Even if it's sitting in the sun. Or sipping coffee. It's not about traveling the world, unless that idea feels delicious. And if it does, then traveling the world takes on a whole new sensual quality.
So being busy isn't a bad thing, and can be very satisfying, provided that whatever we engage in is enjoyed for its sensual qualities. Meaning, the less we are in the head, and the more in the heart, body and soul, the more satisfying the experiences.
Some of the same people who enjoy lots of activities and goals have shared with me that the more friends they have in their life the more loved they feel. The more accepted and acknowledged.
Many of us in our former life have also been there, until it burned us out. Until we literally got sick and had to give it up. Until we began to awaken.
After a certain point we realized that it became a liability to continue to seek outside validation.
There's a new series on Netflix called Living With Yourself, about a man who seems unhappy in his life and his marriage. So he decides to buy ($50,000) a process in which he can become "a better version of himself"
Which turns out to be a clone.
His alternate self, the cloned version, appears to be nicer, more considerate, enjoys life more on a sensual level. Is far more inspired and creative. Which translates into more success at work.
All the boxes appear to be checked off. But there is a dark side to version 2.0. He wants the life the original version is living, there is no sense that this improved version has become enlightened in any way.
No sense of sovereignty is evident.
Like many of these series, they don't really get to the underlying reasons for the unhappiness. And if they do, they attribute it to others making them unhappy, or their outer circumstances are at fault.
Or they believe it's because they themselves haven't taken the initiative to improve their lot in life.
I also took a stab at another series on Hulu called The Good Place. After a couple of seasons, I lost interest. Again, it was about how people are rewarded or punished after their death for being good or bad people while alive on the planet.
The valuation system was ludicrous to me but seems to go along with the collective consciousness….good equals how many good deeds you did, how self-sacrificing you were.
Bad equals, well, just reverse the good deed thing, doing 'bad deeds' or not doing much at all with their life. Which it seems in some circles is the worst sin of all.
And, apparently, heaven had not been accepting new recruits in over 500 years.
But the idea of becoming a 'good' person isn't a far-fetched movie and tv show theme. Look at every Christmas movie out there. The idea may be more interesting to younger, less experienced souls. Or to those with religious affiliations.
A good person would be kind to others, love others, help those in need, and never be self-serving. Always put the needs of others first. But what they don't explore or explain is that one must come to accept and love themselves first, otherwise the giving is just a way to avoid their own self and their own self-judgement.
And it serves as a brownie point system. Accumulate enough points and you get rewarded. If not here, then in 'heaven.' Delayed gratification,
Another tv series, which I actually enjoyed because of the actors, was My Name Is Earl. It was an attempt to be spiritual using karma as its theme. Do good things and good things come to you.
Which, for Earl, never seemed to work. In fact it backfired on him every time. Which of course led to comedy hi-jinks.
He wanted to turn his life of crime around after winning the lottery and then immediately getting hit by a car. Car karma. So he decided to use the lottery money to devote himself to 'righting the wrongs' he felt he did to others in his life.
Which sounds noble on its face, and there is a lot to be experienced and wisdom to be gleaned on that path.
But it's missing the point of karma being a man-made concept of self-inflicted suffering. And that interfering with others, and trying to save them from their own choices isn't exactly enlightened.
Awakening is such a radical departure from the concepts of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment. And from the desire to be loved and acknowledged.
Awakening is a shock to the system.
Everything you were taught goes out the window. It's not at all about striving to become a better version of yourself. It's not about looking for love in all the old places.
You go through the process and you start to realize that being balanced in your dark and your light, your masculine and your feminine, your human and your divine requires a total acceptance of your human self and all of its so-called less than admirable qualities.
And you discover that you need your soul to be in the driver's seat in order for that to happen.
Some believe that they first have to demonstrate the 'best version' of themselves to qualify for awakening and ascension. What they don't yet realize is that upon awakening and claiming their sovereignty, and their freedom, they often become less popular, and sometimes less friendly and considerate. Especially when it comes to not tolerating energy feeding from others.
They walk away from groups, friends, or even family at times, and are seen by others as cold, uncaring, and selfish. The antithesis of what they were taught was spiritually correct.
So it can be confusing and distressing to the human mind going through the transformation, because awakening isn't understood by most of humanity at this time.
But meanwhile, we are discovering something fascinating. That we don't need the favor of others. We don't need to earn respect, or prove our value. We just simply allow the energies to serve us.
We don't try to manipulate the energies, or others. Everything we need flows to us as we need it. We don't need to stockpile energies. Everything is in the now, and that's probably the hardest idea to get used to.
Humans are used to working hard and earning energies from life.
So, meanwhile, people want better behavior from others, From their friends and family, and from their political and spiritual leaders. Why aren't more people nice? More caring and loving toward their fellow humans?
Why don't more people get me? Why aren't I more loved? I need more friends who get me.
All a game played by the human because they aren't ready or willing to get off the treadmill of group think and onto the path of self-love. And from that path of self acceptance they serve the rest of their human family in a way that truly brings the greatest potentials for change.
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Directed by Anthony Pound with musical direction by Garrett Taylor, the cast includes Sara Jean Ford (Phantom of the Opera, A Little Night Music, Finian's Rainbow), Lauren Holmes (The Talls at Second Stage Theatre), Michael Thomas Holmes (Oklahoma!, The Producers), Susanne Layton, Paul Schaefer (Phantom of the Opera, Giant at Signature Theatre) and Jason Watson (national tours of Next to Normal, Mamma Mia!, Jekyll & Hyde). With music and lyrics by Elyssa Samsel and Jade Halley Bartlett and book by Jade Halley Bartlett, Ligeia, according to press notes, is a "combination of classically influenced music and a Victorian ghost story, conjuring a new genre in musical theater – the horror musical. Based upon a short story by the master of macabre himself, Edgar Allan Poe, Bartlett and Samsel took great care to maintain the integrity of his work, keeping the most important aspect of the story alive; its horror."
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My list is brief, but the innovations that stood out for me in the past decade were first-in-class drugs that can treat or prevent major unmet medical needs.
1. Genentech's ranibizumab (Lucentis)—The first treatment of its kind for the "wet" form of macular degeneration. It has high efficacy rates and low side effects, has saved vision for people with this common disease.
2. Novartis' imatinib (Gleevec)—An effective and safe treatment for various leukemia syndromes, saving countless lives. It set off massive searches in the industry for kinase inhibitors like it.
3. Merck's sitagliptin (Januvia)—The first-in-class DPP4 inhibitor for diabetes. It may be the last new mechanism for diabetes for a while.
4. Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals' (erlotinib) Tarceva—An effective non-chemo approach to solid tumors.
5. Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine (Gardasil)—The first vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer caused by HPV.
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To capture the noted and elite of our culture-he has famously photographed artists, critics, actors, and writers-relies on photography's ability to isolate, objectify, and glamorize. But his latest project presented particular artistic challenges. Two years ago he began photographing a different type of cultural figure-porn actors, in states of dress and undress. It meant shooting nudes, something he'd never done. It also meant photographing subjects already famous for baring all for public consumption. What power would a portraitist have to reveal more? "They f--- on film," says the photographer, "so there are not a lot of secrets left." Nonetheless, Greenfield-Sanders has produced a collection of images that intriguingly unites high and low culture-he describes the project as "class meets ass." The result is the most-talked-about photo book of the year, XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits (Bulfinch Press, $35). Its release this fall coincided with a major exhibition at New York City's Mary Boone Gallery, a behind-the-scenes film airing on HBO, and even a soundtrack CD from the film, attesting to the modern cultural allure of porn. Here, Greenfield-Sanders talks with AP about the creative decisions behind the project.
Actor/Director Sean Michaels.
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For Greenfield-sanders, getting the money shot meant making his nude subjects comfortable on set. Here he tells AP how he did it.
You've shot many notable people in America. How did the idea of shooting porn stars occur to you?
It really goes back to 1997 when I saw the film Boogie Nights. That inspired me to think about porn stars as a group. My first idea was to photograph them clothed, not naked, because I thought, from watching the film, that they might be interesting as people. I'd never thought of them as people before that-you objectify them, because that's what porn does. I didn't do much with the idea, though, until 1999, when I actually met a male porn star. He came here and posed for me, clothed, and then he said, "Let's do a nude now." I was taken aback and immediately thought of doing it in the same pose as he'd done with clothes.
In your HBO film about the project, you say you'd never shot nudes before, and that shooting porn stars made it relatively easy for you, because they were used to taking their clothes off.
Right. That's important to all this. I was so uncomfortable, and they were so comfortable, that I quickly learned to be comfortable with nudity. My goal as a photographer is always to make my subject feel comfortable. I do that in a million different ways, with little tricks. From the moment someone walks into my studio I'm watching everything, every gesture.
The juxtaposition of the nudes and the clothed shots seems to reveal a lot about the individuals.
I think it's interesting that these people almost all look more relaxed without clothes than with. It's who they are, what they do.
How does this project fit into your entire body of work?
In a number of ways. For one thing, it's a series. A lot of my work-at least my exhibition work-has been series. I did a series on artists from the 1950s, a series on art critics, a series on the East Village art scene. I always think that way, inclusively.
It's interesting to think about when you did this-the Bush administration had come in, the religious right was in ascendency, yet porn was never bigger. Is porn mainstream now?
I don't think porn will ever be mainstream, but porn stars as celebrities are. I have a theory about how that happened: It's because of Howard Stern. His whole thing is talking to people outside the mainstream and making them celebrities. And once you're a celebrity, you're part of the pop culture. At the same time, artists were beginning to use porn and pornographic imagery in their own work. Boogie Nights came out with mainstream actors like Mark Wahlberg and Julianne Moore playing porn stars. And of course publishers began to see the potential of porn stars. Now Jenna's autobiography is on the bestseller list.
You interview the actors for your film and for the book. And many of them are very articulate and interesting.
I don't know how to say this without being condescending, but my preconceptions about porn stars were very clichéd when I started. But I found them to be exceptionally smart, some intellectually, but all of them smart in the sense that they're driven and know what they want. And they're very open-there's no spin with them, which I loved.
Let's talk about the actual photo sessions. Did that openness affect how you worked with them as a portraitist?
Very much. A lot of factors caused these pictures to end up looking the way they do. For instance, you want to vary the poses, to be interesting. So a session would start out with a conversation with the star about what they considered their best feature-butt, breasts. That would help dictate a pose-let's come in closer, or let's be full length because your legs are great. For the men, of course, it was about their penises. And most of them insisted on not being shot totally flacid-they didn't want to let down their audience.
Something occurs to me. Do you know the TV show Nip/Tuck? It's about plastic surgeons, and each episode begins with them asking a client, "What don't you like about yourself?" But you were asking these people, "What do you like about yourself?" It's about esteem.
I love that show. You know, I always try to make people look the way they wished they looked, the way they want to see themselves. It's not that I'm trying to glamorize them; these are not glamour portraits. They're very real, very dignified, and powerful. It's almost like these porn stars were looking into a mirror and seeing themselves and saying, "Hey, I look pretty good today." That's the point I'm trying to get to.
You shot everyone all in color...
In the beginning I also did some black and white, but it looked arty to me.The color is more real, a little more porny. And going with the light gray background in each shot was a great decision. I've usually gone with dark backgrounds, because the subject pops out. This background is almost like a skin tone. It's very cool.
You shot them in your New York City studio with your antique Deardorff, and also in L.A.?
Yes. I have an 8x10 portable Deardorff for traveling. In my New York studio I used my 70-year-old Deardorff 11x14 camera with an 8x10 reducing back. I shot on EPP Kodak color transparency film. It's my usual lighting-no backlight, just a single giant Elinchrom softbox with two heads powered with two Profoto 2,400-watt-second packs. Normally we shoot at f/32, but depending on the bellows factor we might open it up a stop. The portraits are beautiful, but they're not just pretty. With this big camera you use, you also exposed all the the little flaws. The photographs, really, are a combination of reality and gloss. The key is to get just the right mix, and I think we did it.
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1Beautiful Ghost Bride
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2Scary Ghost
3Fashion Ghost
4Dramatic Ghost
5Pure White
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6Zombie Ghost
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7Winter Ghost
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8Eyes in Focus
9Extreme Ghost
10Complete Look
11Gothic Ghost
12Warrior Ghost
13DIY Ghost Makeup
14Victorian Ghost Makeup
15Ghost with Blood
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16Beauty Queen Ghost Makeup
17Half and Half Ghost Makeup
18Black & Red Ghost Makeup
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19Black Lips
20Skull Inspired
21Victorian Makeup with Purple Lips
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22Pretty Ghost Makeup
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23Pretty Half Ghost Makeup
24Pretty Natural Ghost
25All White
26Halloween Ghost Makeup
27Pretty Halloween Ghost
28Gray Eyes Halloween Ghost
29Ghost with Sparkle
30Silver All Around
31Celebrity Style
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt new LOTR boxed set out today
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This four-volume, deluxe pocket boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King). Each book features a leatherette cover with stamped title and all four books are held in a leatherette bound box with gold foil stamping.
You can buy this new edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's website.
About the Author: Shaun Gunner
Shaun is the Chair of The Tolkien Society. Elected in 2013, Shaun regularly speaks about adaptations of Tolkien's works whilst passionately believing the Society needs to reach out to new audiences. In his spare time can be found in the cinema, playing video games and Lego, or on Twitter.


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