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With an average of 300 sunny days per year, Faak am See is a wonderful holiday destination. In the summer Lake Faaker See is warm and pleasant for swimming. The region's beautiful nature lends itself to lazy afternoons as well as a wide range of outdoor activities for all ages.
Recreational Opportunities Galore
Spend wonderful summer days on Lake Faaker See and indulge in a variety of aquatic activities including swimming, sailing, windsurfing and boating. The region also offers gorgeous varied hikes around the lake and into the surroundings mountains. Other popular activities include cycling and mountain biking. The castle ruins of Burgarena Finkenstein with their amazing birds of prey show make a great day trip destination for families.
The region is also popular in the winter. The Gerlitzen ski area and the Dreiländereck offer great skiing for families, including great deals for kids and varied terrain for more advanced skiers. Gerlitzen Mountain boasts superb views of the snow-covered Klagenfurt basin.
Accommodations For All Tastes
Located right on Lake Faaker See, Faak am See offers a great accommodation choice. Whether you are looking for a hotel, an apartment or a B&B - Tiscover has got you covered.
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Hotels | from EUR 62.00 |
Apartments / Holiday Homes | from EUR 37.00 |
Bed and Breakfast | from EUR 37.00 |
Farms | from EUR 48.00 |
Private accommodation | from EUR 55.00 |
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THE LOYOLA MAROON VOLUME 69, NO. 10 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 November 2,1990 SGA adviser, president clash over proposal By Ted Sheppard Staff writer A confrontation between the SG A president and adviser highlighted an otherwise humdrum SGA Congressional meeting Tuesday. Tensions boiled over when Judy Dcshotcls, assistant DannaCcntcrdirectorandStudentGovernment Association adviser, asked Congress to consider proposed legislation which would set up previously nonexistent criteria for funding from the SGA "refrigerator account." Under the proposed legislation, funding for the SGA Retreat, unlike any other expense, would be exempt from prior Congressional approval. Deshotels made the recommendation, saying that it would prevent the possibility of misappropriations that had occurred in the past. David Vandcrsand, SGA president, was obviously angered by the statement. He raised his voice and demanded that Deshotels substantiate the claim of "misappropriations in the past." Deshotels did not respond. Congress passed the legislation with a near-unanimous vote. The controversy raised over the legislation was directed at the inclusion of the SGA Retreat into the proposed bill, which requires prior Congressional approval of expenditures for certain SGA events, like the Annual SGA Banquet and the Annual SGA Christmas Reception. Certain members of Congress questioned the reasoning behind leaving the retreat exclusively in the hands of the executive branch. Vandcrsand spearheaded the movement to keep the retreat in the hands of the executive branch, claiming it would be legally inappropriate to approve funds in January for an event that occurred in August. "We would be appropriating funds that did not exist," he said. Patrick Smith, third-year law student and SGA vice Court dismisses Rizzo charges, waits for Murphy's next move By Charles Lussier News Editor Former Alumni Affairs director Beverly Murphy has lost one battle and has one more left to fight in her attempt to win a civil lawsuit against Loyola. The Civil District Court gave Murphy, in an Aug. 17 motion, an order to present evidence at a hearing Oct. 19, according to court documents, to show cause why Loyola's motion for a Partial Summary Judgment of existing charges and dismissal of a wrongful termination claim should not be granted. Donald Rizzo, vice president for Institutional Advancement, fired Murphy April 19, 1989. Murphy originally filed a petition Sept. 21, 1989 requesting payment of damages and citing three allegations against Loyola and Rizzo, including wrongful termination of employment, intentional infliction of emotional distress and defamation. Michael Mestayer, attorney for Murphy, asked for and was granted a continuance. The hearing has since been rescheduled to Nov. 30, according to court documents. Rutledge Clement, attorney for Loyola and Rizzo, refused to comment. Murphy refused to comment. Mestayer could not be reached for comment. In a judgement rendered at an April 27, 1990 hearing, Civil District Court Justice Thomas Early dismissed "all claims" set forth against Rizzo who was named as a defendant with Loyola University in the original case. Loyola University is now the sole defendant. Rizzo could not be reached for comment. In a Jan. 26, 1990 decision, Judge Early dismissed the Photo by Charles Baker Whee — October means many things — multicolored leaves, football games, school fairs. These youngsters are enjoying the roller coaster at Holy Name of Jesus' fair last weekend. UNO frat party turns into fracas in Wolf Pub By Charlie Brown Life and Times Editor A fight broke out at a party sponsored by a University of New Orleans fraternity in the Wolf Pub early Saturday morning. Bryan Harriss, director of Loyola Dining Services, said the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity rented the Loyola Wolf Pub for a party late Friday night. The fight started at approximately 1:30 a.m. Saturday, he said. Officers of the department of Public Safety broke up the party immediately afterward. This is the second such incident of fights involving UNO fraternity members and uptown campuses this semester. A story in the Sept. 14, 1990 issue of the Tulanc Hullabaloo reported that a Tulane Alpha Phi Alpha party was disrupted by a fight between Tulane and UNO students at the Rathskeller, located in the basement of the Tulane University Senate. Virgil Henson, communications freshman, was the disc jockey for the party. He said one UNO student was drunk from hard liquor illegally brought into the Pub and became upset due to advances towards his "girlfriend." The fight then broke out, Henson said. When two people threw punches, he said, Public Safety officers moved to slop the fight. One student attempted to jump on the back of one of the officers, but missed and landed on the pile of those fighting. The officers quickly moved the fight out of the Pub, he said. Sean Wentworth, philosophy sophomore, said the party was cancelled about an hour before the scheduled ending. Public Safety wrestled everyone present out of the Puband told them to leave campus, he said. When Public Safety look the fracas outside, someone was apparently injured. Mandy Clay, music therapy sophomore, was working at the Buddig Hall front desk at the time of the fight and said she believes the injured party was a Public Safely officcr. "An officcr came in and asked for peroxide and bandages," she said. "They took the release form with them and 1 had finished work when or if ihcy got back." Fred Hicks, political science senior, said he received a report while tending theßicvcr Hall front desk about another fight around 2 a.m. behind Bicvcr Hall. He could not confirm that the fights were related, but said he "had a strong inclination" that they were. Hicks also said that there were no other repercussions from the fight. During the outside fray, someone supposedly bit a Public Safety officer. Crime Prevention Officer David Nolting could not confirm this. Alan Abadic, director of Public Safety, could not be reached for comment. No members of Phi Beta Sigmacould be reached for comment. See SGA/page 4 See Lawsuit/page 4 t4rwtrewtgrew
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Councilmembers Fimbres, Kozachik, & Uhlich to speak at Democrats of Greater Tucson
Saturday, February 16th, 2013Three Tucson City Councilmembers are up for re-election this year, in Ward 3, 5, and 6. Two are scheduled to speak at Democrats of Greater Tucson (DGT) this month, with the third in March.
February 18: Steve Kozachik, Councilmember, Ward 6 – Tucson City Council -Tucson's newest Democratic Councilmember will discuss, "Tucson's Gun Buy-Back — The Plan, The Event, What's Next?"
February 25: Richard Fimbres, Councilmember, Ward 5 – Tucson City Council – "Oh the Changes I've Seen In the Tucson City Council"
March 25: Karin Uhlich, Councilmember, Ward 3 – Tucson City Council – "Tucson's Future"
Democrats of Greater Tucson hosts weekly speakers at their Monday luncheon meetings at Dragon's View restaurant, 400 N. Bonita Avenue, west of I-10, south of St. Mary's Road, at high noon. Website: http://tucsondemocrats.org/
Both Kozachik and Fimbres were elected in 2009, winning over their challengers. Then-Republican Kozachik defeated Democratic incumbent Ward 6 Councilmember Nina Trasoff, who had served one term. Democrat Fimbres faced off with Republican political newcomer Shaun McClusky, who later tried to run for Mayor of Tucson in 2011. Fimbres' wife Mary is a Council aide for Ward 2 Councilmember Paul Cunningham and she also worked for former five term Ward 5 Councilmember Steve Leal, who retired in 2009.
Kozachik changed his registration to a Democrat on January 14, 2013, and prior to that was the sole Republican on the Tucson City Council. This is his first appearance at DGT. I reported the breaking news when he announced his change in political parties (click here).
Uhlich is a two term Councilmember, as she first defeated Republican incumbent Ward 3 Councilmember Kathleen Dunbar for that seat in 2005, then in 2009 defeated two political newcomer challengers Republican Ben Buehler-Garcia, and Green Mary DeCamp. (DeCamp ran for Mayor two years later and defeated fellow Green activist Dave Croteau in their Mayoral primary, but lost in the General to Democrat Jonathan Rothschild.)
I heard on the John C. Scott radio talk show that Buehler-Garcia may be considering a rematch with Uhlich. No other contenders have been mentioned to date, but stay tuned.
2/25/13 UPDATES: Republican Ben Buehler-Garcia has filed papers to run in the Ward 3 Council race. Click here for post about Buehler-Garcia's candidacy.
Councilman Fimbres' campaign kick off is on March 9, 11 a.m. at El Pueblo Senior Center, 101 W. Irvington Rd.


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#36 – Ojarumaru
The clip I found on Youtube had embedding disabled so click on the festive Ojarumaru above to link there.
And another highly popular, ignored by the English speaking world, directed by Akitaro Daichi, kids show. In fact it took the recent tragic suicide of it's creator Rin Inumaru for it appear on western fandom's radar. And then promptly drop off again.
So what's it all about?
Ojarumaru is a selfish boy from the Heian era who finds himself transported into the future to the modern day via the use of the king of the demon's stick. He moves in with that old adage – the typical Japanese family – and hilarity ensues.
Here's a sweet English summary of the shows appeal from a Japanese fan.
Daichi won a Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence in Animation award in 1999 for the show.
It, of course, remains untranslated into English.


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Lawrence Pyne heads into the spring woods to hunt for wild morel mushrooms and fish for brook trout. A visit to Bird Mountain Wildlife Management Area in southwestern Vermont, a peregrine falcon nesting habitat. Vermont fisheries biologists check on the health of the bass population in Lake St. Catherine.
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Set in stunning parkland on the outskirts of Dundee, it is a golfing experience everyone should try.
In 1999 Downfield Golf Club hosted the Open Final Qualifying for the first time in its history and proved a great venue for the worlds top players. Indeed the eventual winner of the 1999 Carnoustie Open Championship, Paul Lawrie came through the final qualifying at Downfield.
In 1972 the first ever Scottish Open was held here and Peter Alliss filmed one of his many TV specials from Downfield in the late 70's.
Address: Turnberry Avenue, Dundee DD2 3QP
Type of course: Woodland.
Holes: 18
Length: 6,822 yards
Par/SSS: 73/73
New developments: After completed refurbishment of clubhouse last year we have no major developments for 2005
Catering: Full Bar & Restaurant
Club Pro avail: Yes
Club shop avail: yes
Date established: 1932
On-line booking available: Yes
Pricing Information: Midweek Round £59;
Midweek Day £69;
Weekend Round £45
Opening Exceptions: Available times are: 9.30 - 3.45 pm Mon - Fri, Sunday after 1.30pm onwards
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Excellent dishes, good service and calm relaxing atomosphere. We went back X3. Loved the panang, always order shrimp in Fernandina and this restaurant is no exception-get the ginger sauce shrimp. Also nice wine selection.
Excellent dishes, good service and calm relaxing atomosphere. We went back X3. Loved the panang, always order shrimp in Fernandina and this restaurant is no exception-get the ginger sauce shrimp. Also nice wine selection.
Quiet, upscale and laid back....eat here often and am never disappointed....pleasant staff and plenty of food!!!
After years of visiting Amelia, we finally gave Lanna Thai a try. Wish I hadn't waited to long. The food was fresh and tasty. While certain concessions have been made for the American palette, the food remain true to the best of Thai culture...with a heavy emphasis on fresh ingredients. The pad Thai was tasty, but a bit bland. But... More
First of all, I've never written a review, but I've been so irritated by this one I felt compelled to write. My family and I (2 adults 3 kids) went to Lana Thai on a Friday night. The restaurant was 1/2 full of customers so it was not overly busy. Theres no kids menu, crayons, or other typical resturant distractions... More
This a regular stop for us when on Amelia. It has been very spectacular, but not tonight. They seemed to be stressed and understaffed. This is a small restaurant seating maybe 60 folks, and it was very busy. Just three wait staff, not sure about kitchen cooks, but they had trouble with the crowd. When we got our food it... More
Small quiet little Restaurant with a diverse Menu of Thai Offerings. Well appointed accessories and lighting make your Thai eating experience a genuine one. Food is beautifully served and is very tasty !
Whenever we visit Amelia island one of our must stops for a meal is Lanna Thai. It is never a disappointment. We usually try to go for lunch because for under 10 dollars per person we can get a soup, salad, and an entree. Today our family of four had chicken with mixed vegetables(2) pad see we, pad bam me.... More
My wife and I love this place. beautiful decor, easy parking, great service, and delicious, consistent Thai food at a reasonable price. We try to go at least once a week!
This is a fairly good Thai restaurant my wife and I and another couple experienced recently when we were in Amelia Island for the car show. The decor is a little tired in places, but the presentation of the food was pretty good....using little candle heated copper pots to keep the food piping hot. My Panang chicken was very good... More
The decor, service and food are stellar. I have gone to this restaurant for a number of years and never been disappointed. I travel to Thailand regularly and the food at Lanna is equal or better to the best Thai food in Thailand. This is all from a small restaurant in a strip mall which is easily missed. If this... More
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A group of feisty forest critters awaken following the winter freeze to discover that not only has a new neighborhood cropped up during the cold months, but living in close proximity to humans may have its benefits in this computer-animated comedy-adventure for all ages featuring the voices of Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, Avril Lavigne, Eugene Levy, and William Shatner. Despite Verne the Turtle's (Garry Shandling) initial hesitance to breach the formidable foliage that has appeared on his doorstep since last fall, the arrival of fearless raccoon RJ (Willis) and revelation that their new human neighbors throw out enough food in one day to feed a whole forest lead the gang to consider taking the plunge and exploring the snack-filled suburbs. As Verne and RJ learn to work together in taking on their strange new surroundings, Stella the Skunk (Sykes), Hammy the Squirrel (Carrel), Heather the Opossum (Lavigne), and Heather's father, Ozzie (Shatner), join in on the fun by scavenging for Girl Scout cookies and attempting to scuttle past the pesky new suburbanites undetected. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers Triple Pack
Includes - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), MPAA Rating: R Halloween: H20 (1998), MPAA Rating: R Halloween: Resurrection (2002), MPAA Rating: R Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers Picking up six years after the events of Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, this competently produced but ultimately disappointing sequel attempts to tie up the uneven horror series' loose ends with a less-than-convincing resolution. This installment opens with Jamie Lloyd (J.C. Brandy), young niece of supernatural psycho-killer Michael Myers, giving birth on an altar amid a mysterious Druid ceremony. Before she is killed by her monstrous uncle, Jamie manages to leave her baby in the care of young Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd), who has pursued a lifelong obsession with the horrific Myers family legacy in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. Living with members of the Strode family, Tommy comes to suspect that one of them, little Danny Strode (Devin Gardner), is cursed with the same malevolent power that drove Michael to murder several members of his family. When Michael arrives in Haddonfield to find and destroy Jamie's baby, Tommy joins forces with Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), Michael's ex-psychiatrist and a life-long crusader against his sinister former patient, to find the connection between Michael and the Man in Black and end the curse once and for all. Released shortly after Pleasence's death, this confusing, horribly-edited blend of tired slasher clichés and X-Files-inspired subplots is a poor testament to the long career of the distinguished and compelling character actor. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide Halloween: H20 This is the seventh movie in this horror series and a 20th anniversary follow-up to John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), arguably the most influential horror film of the '70s, a film that set the standard of horror for the next two decades and catapulted the career of Jamie Lee Curtis. Newspaper clippings review the murders 20 years earlier by Michael Myers, including one stating Laurie Strode (Curtis) died in a car accident. Actually, she faked her death to hide from Michael, changed her name, and became headmistress at a Southern California boarding school attended by her son, teen John (Josh Hartnett). On Halloween, with most of the school staff and students away on a Yosemite camping trip, John plans a "romantic" evening with several of his classmates -- his girlfriend Molly (Michelle Williams), Charlie (Adam Hann-Byrd), and Sarah (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). Laurie, meanwhile, has her own date with school-counselor Will (Adam Arkin); on their date, she reveals some of the secrets of her past life to Will. Meanwhile, masked Michael (Chris Durand) evades security guard Ronny (LL Cool J) -- and the nightmares begin anew. Curtis' mother, Janet Leigh, appears in a cameo role as the school secretary. The music score by John Ottman features orchestral variations on the 1978 score composed by Carpenter. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide Halloween: Resurrection Masked serial killer Michael Myers makes his seventh appearance in the eighth installment of this long-running slasher series. Although the climax of the previous installment, Halloween: H20, depicted heroine Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) finally finishing off her brother/tormentor, the opening sequence of Halloween: Resurrection reveals that Laurie actually beheaded the wrong guy. Now confined to a mental institution, she quickly falls victim to her brother and longtime foe (played this time out by Brad Loree). Cut to Haddonfield, IL, where a sextet of college students is assembling for the production of an online reality show in which they'll spend the night locked up in the killer's childhood home being filmed by dozens of cameras and broadcast over the Internet. Presided over by fast-talking producer Freddie Harris (Busta Rhymes) and his girlfriend/business partner, Nora Winston (Tyra Banks), the players range from fame-hungry Jen (Katee Sackhoff) and
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Includes:House on Haunted Hill (1999), MPAA Rating: R Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007), MPAA Rating: R House on Haunted Hill In this remake of William Castle's campy 1958 classic, an eccentric millionaire named Steven Price invites a diverse group of people to a reputedly haunted mansion that was formerly the site of an insane asylum. Steven offers his guests $1,000,000 each if they can spend the entire night at the old house without fleeing in terror. It sounds simple enough, but when those stories about ghosts haunting the mansion turn out to be true, the guests may no longer opt to stick around. In this version, Steven is played by Geoffrey Rush, and his guests include Jeffrey Combs, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan, and Bridgette Wilson; Famke Janssen plays Evelyn Price. Sadly, this remake does not feature the original's memorable special-effects gimmick, "Emergo," an inflatable plastic skeleton that rolled on wires through the theater during showings. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Return to House on Haunted Hill When the lone survivor of the original excursion to The House on Haunted Hill dies under suspicious circumstances, her sister returns to the foreboding mansion to solve the mystery of her sibling's death in the feature directorial debut of former make-up special effects artist Victor Garcia (Hellboy). Back in 1931, malevolent doctor Richard Vannacut and his entire staff at the hilltop asylum were killed when the patients revolted and set the institution ablaze. Ever since then, rumors have persisted that the spirits of those consumed in the inferno still haunt the hospital. Those rumors seemed to be confirmed when, in 1999, billionaire Steven H. Price and his guests were viciously slaughtered in the refurbished mansion. Though the authorities officially blamed Price himself for the gruesome massacre, survivor Sarah Wolfe insists that there was indeed a supernatural element at play. Now, eight years have passed since that fateful night, and Sarah's sister Ariel - a successful editor at a popular men's fashion magazine - has just received word that Sarah has committed suicide. Immediately sensing foul play, Ariel's suspicions are confirmed when a strange book arrives in the mail shortly thereafter. Sent by Sarah just before she died, the book proves to be Vannacut's personal diary. According to the diary, which Ariel manages to translate with a little help from archeologist Richard Hammer, an ancient Baphomet idol is hidden somewhere deep within the sprawling estate. In her last days, Sarah had become convinced that the idol was the source of the house's evil. Richard, too, shares this belief, and with the help of graduate students Michelle and Kyle he is determined to find the idol. But Ariel isn't about to go on a ghost hunt in the same mansion where so may atrocities have occurred, at least not until she is kidnapped by Desmond Niles and his vicious band of mercenaries. They too seek the Baphomet idol, and they too will soon discover why few people who venture into the former asylum ever come out alive. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Across the Universe - DVD
Set against the anti-war protests, rock & roll revolution, and mind-expanding psychedelia of the 1960s, Julie Taymor's hallucinogenic musical follows the arduous journey of star-crossed lovers Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) as they and a small group of musicians are swept up in the raging waters of the volatile counterculture movement. Guided through their journey by a pair known only as Dr. Robert (Bono) and Mr. Kite (Eddie Izzard), Jude and Lucy are eventually forced to find their way back to one another after being split apart by powerful forces beyond their control. The music in the film consists exclusively of songs made popular by the Beatles during the time period depicted in the movie. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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In the eighteenth century the Novel was a "new" genre, its conventions far from stabilized. These fictions experimented with modes of portraying consciousness and the external world, and tested out various narrative techniques; they thus beg the question of what a "novel" is. How does it go about its task of representation similarly to, or differently from, other genres? What is the experience it should create for the reader? (Do we read novels to learn about our world or to escape from it? Can novels "improve" us? Can they be dangerous?) Reading novels by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen – as well as some of the contemporary reactions to them – we will consider who, and what, made, and makes, the novel the novel.
The eighteenth century witnessed what historians have called a "Consumer Revolution," during which city spaces were flooded by all sorts of commodities, from parasols to gold-topped canes to tea to cosmetics to painted fans to "collector's-edition" books (published by a new category of writer, the "professional" author). This course will examine the way that literature responded to, and participated in, the new commodity culture: How was this culture determined by, or constitutive of, gender identities? What was its relation to the mechanisms of Empire that supplied it? Looking at a variety of texts from verse-satires to engraved caricatures to periodical literature to stories told from the point of view of the objects themselves (stage-coaches, coins, and even furniture), we will explore how commodities – and literature as commodity – mediated, or redefined, human experiences.
The 19th century novel has often been associated with what we popularly refer to as "Victorian" values: happy marriages; wholesome domesticity; religious rectitude; sexual prudery; moral propriety; moderated emotions; properly channeled ambitions. These novels, moreover, have been celebrated for being a "good read": leisurely page-turners that remain comfortable and cozy. Many of the most popular 19th century novels, however, paint a very different picture: with madwomen locked in attics and asylums; monsters, real and imagined, lurking behind the scenes, and showing their head behind the façade of propriety; genteel homes harboring opium addicts; "fallen women" walking the streets; and sexual transgression and degeneracy more common than it would seem. Indeed, for novels so centrally structured around marriage and society, madness and monstrosity appear with alarming regularity – in the margins of the texts, if not at their very core. This is especially the case in novels written by women, and in novels (whether written by women or men) written for women - written to appeal to the significant and rapidly growing female portion of the novel-reading public. Among other things, then, these novels stage the pleasures and dangers of novel reading: the insistent intertwining of the tropes of madness, marriage, and monstrosity in these works suggests some of the cultural anxieties unleashed by the unprecedented growth in women's novel reading. this new body of women readers. The course will begin with Frankenstein and end with Dracula - two novels from opposite ends of the century that stand as fascinating and preeminent meditations on the course's central themes they are also both works that turn out to be very different from what popular films and adaptations have taught us to think). In between, we will consider such classic marriage plot novels as Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre; we will also look at some examples of the popular "sensation fiction" of the 1860s (Collins' The Woman in White and/or Lady Audley's Secret), and possibly an example of the "new woman" fiction from the century's end - featuring the sexually liberated and professionally ambitious woman.
The course covers the period roughly between World War I and World War II, dealing with the rich creativity we associate with Modernism. We will read and discuss such writers as Eliot, Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Steinbeck, etc., studying not only the works but some of the major trends in art, culture, and knowledge that make the modern period so important and exciting. The method will be a combination of close reading, lecture, and discussion with (probably) one short paper and one longish paper.
This course surveys the entire tradition of African-American drama, paying particular attention to the genre's formal characteristics. Plays will also be read and discussed with attention to specific historical and thematic contexts, such as the era of slavery, social protest, interracial relations, intra-racial differences of class, gender, and sexuality, and contemporary attitudes toward black history. Featured playwrights include James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Alice Childress, Charles Fuller, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ntozake Shange, Anna Deavere Smith, August Wilson, George C. Wolfe, and others. Required texts include "Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans 1847 to Today." Students will be evaluated on class participation, weekly reading responses, and two formal papers. Students will also be required to attend Wednesday evening screenings of video/film performances of (approximately) eight of the course's plays or to view these performances independently.
In this class we will read widely in the writings by these three crucial figures in American nineteenth-century literature. We will relate their work to their cultural and historical moment, and also consider how they become founding figures both in an American literary and poetic tradition and also in the transatlantic development of modernism.
This course will survey the major schools of modern and postmodern literary criticism and theory, including formalism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, gender and race theory, queer theory, new historicism and cultural studies, post-colonial criticism, and deconstruction. Our purpose will be not only to understand the ideas of these different schools of thought but also to discern the ends which these ideas serve in their critical and institutional contexts. Course requirements: daily reaction paragraphs, a 5-page mid-term paper, and a 15-page final paper (graduate students must write a 25-to 30-page final paper.
The course will explore lyric poetry in English in all of its variety, from many different periods. The principal aim is to get students to feel at home reading individual poems very closely, getting the feel for the way metaphor works, understanding the resources of form - meter and rhyme - and the serious play with language and the often extravagant shapes of voice and fantasy that mark lyric poetry. We'll try to understand the power of poetic gesture, poetry's way of telling a story and its way of being silent. We will consider why lyric poetry, though often oblique and riddling on its surface, is as John Milton said the most "simple, sensuous, and passionate" form of literary speech. Topics to be studied will include particular traditions of lyric poetry, such as prayer, ballad, and elegy; we will also be looking closely at groups of poems by a few particular authors, including Shakespeare's "Sonnets" and the lyric poems of Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop, to see how poets stamp their work, however steeped in tradition, with an individual voice.
This course explores ways in which myth functions to create psychological and social identities within cultural frameworks. The syllabus moves in two directions: inward through a configuration of related stories toward the heart of cultural aspirations, and outward through the cultural anxieties and tensions that manipulation of those stories attempts to redress. We will explore a host of genres – tales, graphics, musicals, opera, poetry, and cinema. The texts concentrate primarily on a constellation of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast adaptations, with occasional glances at Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Frog Prince, and some of the Jack stories. Our concern will be with the didactic implication of action/adventure plots, paradigms of exile and return, the ideologies underlying the dynamics of oppression, pain fetishes, aspiration, and recovery; we will explore religious and psychological quests for security through the balancing of sociological independence with the reinscription of cultural values. We will examine issues of childhood, adolescence, midolescence, and the aged as myth addresses the requirements of each. We will be particularly interested in historical perspectives as societies perpetually revise and revitalize their visions of themselves through the rewriting and replaying of their mythologies. We will examine briefly cultural crises in France in the late 17th and 18th centuries, which established fairy tales as an aristocratic literary genre directed toward an emerging middle class; the social and gender issues of an industrialized England in the 19th and 20th centuries (Robert Samber, Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, James Barrie, Angela Carter); the American Frontier and new world aspirations of the 19th and 20th centuries (from transcendentalism, dime novels, Horatio Alger, local colorists, to feminist revisionists and African American adaptations), with some attention also directed toward Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Asian American Literature is primarily a literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, with dramatic growth in the past half century or so. We will focus on the literary genres of APA works from the past century--drama, fiction, poetry, memoir--and we will also pay attention to cinematic texts. Our literature includes works by Chinese American, Filipina American, Indian American, Korean American, Japanese American, and Vietnamese American authors. Some prior knowledge of 20th century U.S. literature or Asian Pacific Islander American history will be helpful, but not necessary. (For those who have not taken history courses or who wish for a refresher see the books by Such Chan or Ronald Takaki, listed under recommended texts.) In addition to the study of genres, we will analyze Asian/Pacific Islander/American texts by interrogating myths, "foundational fictions", fantasies and the fantastical. Edward Said usefully argues in Orientalism that Europe imagined the "Orient" since it "helped to define Europe (or the West) as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience" (1978). We will read works of Asian American literature that revise and incorporate Asian myths, and contrast these with the West's popular imagination of the "Orient".
This course - part of the Kauffman Entrepreneurial Program - will address the nature of popular culture through stories of Robin Hood. Though we will study the early broadsheets and ballads, we will mainly concentrate on prose retellings. These will include Howard Pyle's standard version (1883); students will be asked to contrast this with a 20th-century prose version of their choice. These will be read in conjunction with recent "outlaw" fiction by pre-eminent literary novelists, including Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang (Booker Prize, 2001) and Michael Ondaatje's Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1996; Booker Prize for The English Patient), and a recent "novelization" from a female perspective (perhaps Robin McKinley or Catherine Todd). We will also look at earlier tabloid biographies of Robin Hood, associating him with tricksters, criminals, highwaymen, as well as noble bandits. As part of the entrepreneurial work for the course, class members will find, edit, and prepare their own texts of these early materials for e-publication; they will also create digital images of books and artifacts they work with, all of which will be uploaded to the Robin Hood website that is currently under construction. In this way, students will also be involved in website design, market research (ie, who will come if we build this website? With what constituencies in mind should we design it?), and issues of property rights in private and public domains. Students will have access to our local archive of some 2000 books, posters, printed materials, and artifacts, and will consider issues such as the nature of children's literature, the audiences for ballads and chapbooks, the transition of popular written materials to visual media (woodcuts, engravings, color lithographs, comic books, silent cinema. Hollywood, video coteries [porn and gay RH, etc]), commercial appropriation of RH and "branding," etc. The research, editing, and technological work of the course will proceed in a hands-on and cooperative way, and each member of the class is expected to produce several projects over the course of the semester, some conventional and some linked to the RH website. Ultimately, the course, like the site, will attempt to enable mixed audiences to have digital access to those material objects and practices that provide the basis for reconstructing our understanding of popular culture over the last 500 years, insofar as Robin Hood and outlawry provide a focus.
English 252: Theater in England will be conducted in London & Stratford-upon-Avon from Friday, December 29, 2006, through Saturday, January 13, 2007 (16 nights). We will see about 20 plays. Classes are held in the Harlingford Hotel in London, where we reside. The schedule of plays is not yet available, but it will include a full range of genres, from tragedy, history, and comedy to pantomimes and musicals, We will see the best of what is on when we are there. If you wish to see what students have seen on previous years go the Website for the course where you can investigate various aspects of the seminar syllabuses from 1992 to the present, student journals, information about the Harlingford Hotel at 61-63 Cartwright Gardens, the London Theatre scene in general, our trip to Stratford-upon-Avon, the visit to Warwick Castle, a host of pictures of students doing things, and so on. The course is restricted to 23 students and carries four credits. The fee is $2000.00, which includes tickets to all plays and housing, but not transportation to and from London. A down payment of $700.00 is due at the English Office in Morey Hall on or before Monday, October 9. The remaining $1300.00 will be charged to your November term bill. Students must obtain passports and make their own travel arrangements to and from London. You will need to leave the United States on the evening of December 27 or morning of December 28, at the latest. Return flights may be scheduled for Sunday, January 14, or later. The UR second semester begins on Wednesday, January 17, 2007. The grade for the course is based primarily on the student journal. You may obtain the application form from the English Department or Professor Peck. You need permission of the instructor to register. See Professor Russell A. Peck, Rush Rhees 416 (Robbins Library), MW 11:00-2:30 or by appointment (phone 275-0110 or 473-7354).
An introduction to the history, technology, and cultural significance of motion pictures of the pre-sound era, with screenings of 35mm prints accompanied by live music in the Dryden Theatre. Special attention will be paid to the major pioneers, Dickson, Porter, Lumière, Melies, and Griffith, but the course will include a variety of internationally produced films selected from the world famous archival film collection of the George Eastman House. Discussion sessions will cover the origins and development of the motion picture industry and its leading genres up to the general introduction of movies with pre-recorded music, sound and dialog, beginning in 1927. Broad issues relating to the transformation of American and world popular entertainment forms and traditions, in relation to the established performing arts of the period, will also be covered. Relevant connections to preserving the worlds film heritage will be highlighted and the film restoration facilities of the Motion Picture Department will be visited in the course of the semester. Meets at George Eastman House. Enrollment is limited to 20 students.
This course will attempt to cover the history, literature, and above all, the cinema of vampirism from the silent era through the present day. We will study a number of important examples of the form, read a couple of significant literary works about the vampire, especially Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula", and also employ one or two texts that deal with the vampire in cinema.
The course examines diasporic Chinese cinemas from the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC), Hong Kong (HK), the U.S. and Canada. We will pay special attention to the migrations of individuals (actors, actresses, directors, cinematographers, and others) and to texts (the films and in some cases television programs). We will cover a wide variety of genres, including epic, martial arts, action, thriller, comedy, and drama. Some experience with film studies, especially world cinema, and Chinese history will be helpful but not required. Outside screenings of films are required. Not open to students who took Eng 467, Topics in Media Studies: Chinese Cinemas, in fall 2004.
Examines a specific topic in film studies, topic to be determined.
Recently the large-scale dissemination of erotic and pornographic literature and film has begun to affect the majority of the population in the West. There are two main issues in the course:1) the history of the changing genres of erotica and the social changes taking place because of its wide dissemination; and 2) the proposition that if societies were different little harm and much good would come from the inclusion of erotica in people's reading and viewing habits: erotic materials, by removing sex from the realm of the forbidden and viewing it as a species of everyday life, can contribute to the education of both sexes and people of all sexual tastes and preferences. The history of erotica is similar to the history of literacy in the following sense: both are entities to which only the privileged members of society have had extended access and which have recently become available to majorities. Readings in the course will concentrate on classical, early modern, enlightenment, and contemporary erotica, with attention to the contemporary debates about pornography begun by the activism of MacKinnon and Dworkin. Of particular interest in this critique is the claim that erotic materials encourage the practice of violence against women and children, and help to promote a culture dependent on the use of force and violence. The course reviews the current debate on pornography and sexually explicit language as a context for viewing the history of the more familiar erotic materials from classical times, through the Renaissance and 18th century, to D.H. Lawrence, Erica Jong, Margaret Atwood, Eve Ensler, "8 mm," adult videos, and the internet. The seminar moves back and forth between the study of its critical and historical treatments. At the end of the seminar we return to some of the contemporary genres (including those made by and for women) for examination in the context of the history of its use in the past.
This workshop is for advanced fiction writers who have completed ENG 121. The course emphasizes the development of each student's individual style and imagination, as well as the practical and technical concerns of a fiction writer's craft. Students will not only be asked to locate a context for their fictions by situating their poetics among a community of other fiction writers, but also to envision how their stories might intersect with other fictional works. Each writer will be expected to conceive each story within the scope of a larger fiction project as well as to revise extensively in order to explore the full range of the story's narrative themes. Permission of instructor required.
This course considers the issues raised in Walter Ong's 1982 study, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. His account relates the growth of writing and print to the development of science and modern rational thought, exploring possible changes in collective consciousness as a result of the shift of media emphasis. The course pays attention to orality as it appears in some classical sources, with interest in Plato's suspicion of the power of oral poetry, and in European medieval traditions. consider the levels of literacy achieved in ancient society; we will also look. Central to these discussions will be the roles language and literature in the lives of non-literate people as contrasted with the literate. Some reference is made to the levels of literacy achieved in ancient societies. Study of the modern and contemporary periods focuses on such practices as conversation, becoming literate, collection of oral accounts and their uses, the uses of ethnographic writing, and the different approaches to speech, writing, and language in African American and white communities. A key aim of the course is to show the politics, mutual dependency, and reciprocity of oral and literate uses of language in literary and nonliterary contexts. Our aim will be to stress the complementarity of oral and literate uses of language in literature, daily speech, electronic media, and non-literary contexts. This topic offers students a broad range of research areas, as the issue appears in many parts of literary and social history. At the same time, as suggested in Ong's study, the issues are relatively clear and available to comprehension in a variety of modes.
This course will focus on the position of Malory's Morte d'Arthur in the development of the Arthurian legends and will consider the Morte both as one of the great books of all literature and as the most important Arthurian text for the English-speaking world. Malory draws on two traditions, a chronicle and a romance tradition, which have their roots in the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Chrétian de Troyes. These Arthurian antecedents as well as the courses of Malory's great book – including parts of the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate cycles of French romances, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure and Stanzaic Morte Arthur – will be read, and the ways in which Malory combines the two traditions and adapts and add to his sources will be discussed. Malory played an important role in shaping later Arthurian literature. Some of the major works influenced by the Morte, including Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, will also be read. And the adaptation or reinterpretation of the Morte in film, art, and popular culture will be considered. But the central concern of the course will be a reading of the Morte itself.
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Aesthetics, in the philosophical tradition, has included not only formal analyses of beauty and sublimity, of pleasure and pain, and of the nature and function of art but also essentially ethical interrogations of freedom, judgment, and otherness. In this seminar we will read central texts in the Western tradition and more recent works that take aesthetics as their standpoint in considering ethical questions. We will consider work by most of the following: Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, Kristeva, Levinas, Agamben, Badiou, and others.
Toni Morrison's essay "Unspeakable things Unspoken" and her volume Playing in the Dark revolutionized the study of American literature. In revealing the "Africanist" presence in the work of white writers, Morrison deconstructed oppositional stances taken in debates about canonicity and created new ways of reading old texts. Using Morrison's claims as a starting point, this course will analyze the fiction of white writers with a sensitivity for the representations of racial difference in their work. The course will seek to answer the following questions: Is the tradition of American literature a tradition of racial representation? His is blackness figuratively represented? What roles to such "Africanisms" play in the construction of a "white" identity in general and of white masculinity and feministyin particular? Primary readings include Willa Cather's Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Charles Dixon's The Clansman, William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The readings will be supplemented by criticism and theory by Morrison, Anthony Appiah, Richard Dyer, Ralph Ellison, Frantz Fanon, Shelly Fisher Fishkin, Judith Jackson Fossett, George M. Frederickson, Noel Ignatiev, George Lipsitz, Eric Lott, Dana Nelson, Lucius Outlaw, David Roediger, and others. Requirements include class participation, a 10-15 minute in-class presentation, and a 12-15-page seminar paper.
Since Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault proclaimed "the death of the author" in the late 1960s, the subject of authorship has been hotly debated in literary and cultural studies. Rather than being quietly buried, however, "the author" has been given new life and a precise historical dimension in a range of scholarly work in both literature and other disciplines. Looking at such issues as the gendering of authorship, the history of publishing and the literary marketplace, readership and reception history, the institutionalization of authorship in author societies and university curricula, and the effects of the new electronic technologies on the way we think about the processes of artistic creation, this course will explore the rich body of critical work that has recently emerged on the subject of authorship. We will consider both the impact of this work on the reinterpretation of canonical writers and the tools it provides for reading and revaluing forms of authorship that have not readily fit traditionally accepted categories. Course readings will combine critical and theoretical discussions of authorship with attention to particular literary texts (from a wide range of historical periods) that highlight and focus particular issues and problems in conceiving and reconceiving what we once called "the author." Students will be encouraged to design research projects around authors and works of their own choosing.


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Move-in Day Preparation
While studying and living in New York City is a unique and exciting experience, it does present several significant challenges, especially on move-in day. You should be sure to:
- Move-In Day for August is usually the last Sunday in August. Move-In Day for January is usually the second or third Sunday of January. Be sure to consult NYU's academic calendar for dates.
- If you are a first year student, your move-in time is assigned based on your assigned hall and floor. Plan to arrive only during your specified check-in time.
- If you are an upperclass student, you may begin arriving on freshmen move-in day or any following day before school starts.
- If you are a first year student, your move-in time is assigned based on your assigned hall and floor. Plan to arrive only during your specified check-in time.
- Check the weather and traffic forecasts for lower Manhattan, and plan accordingly. New York City parking rules are complicated and are not suspended during check-in.
- Dress comfortably. You will be on your feet for much of the day, doing a lot of walking and waiting in long lines.
- Prepare for a long day. It may be hot and humid, or cool and raining. Either way, it is likely that hundreds of residents and family members will be waiting in long lines to check-in and use the elevators. Patience and a sense of humor will be invaluable assets to carry with you throughout the day.
- Predetermine what is really necessary to bring on check-in day. Seasonal items that are not needed for the first few weeks of the school year can be brought in sometime after check-in day when there is not a long line for the elevator, or you could ship them to the building so they arrive after you check-in. Please note, packages delivered before you arrive cannot be accepted and will be returned to sender.


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By Air Force Capt. Cathleen Snow920th Rescue Wing
PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., Oct. 26, 2012 As Hurricane Sandy crept up the Atlantic coastline today blowing a mix of sand, rain and salt mist, 920th Rescue Wing airmen here moved the wing's six HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters inside an aircraft hangar to protect them from the storm.
The storm will be closest to Patrick later this evening at around 185 miles east of the base, Washington said.
Although no flying was scheduled involving the 920th today, maintenance airmen took precautions by policing loose items in and around the flight line, in addition to securing the 920th's five HC-130P/N King fixed-wing aircraft by fastening chains to their tails, noses and wings to steel rings embedded into the ramp.
"We [also] worked with the 920th Logistics Readiness Flight to put away deployment gear for the upcoming readiness exercise," said Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Armand Barrett, logistic superintendent with the 920th Maintenance Operation Flight.
Long before the storm's eye neared, airmen moved one Pave Hawk onto the open aircraft ramp to perform avionic systems operations checks. In between rain bands they huddled inside the aircraft during some of the more gusty conditions to, "Get some work done today," Barrett said.
The 920th is a combat search-and-rescue wing dedicated to saving lives. It is a component of Air Force Reserve Command, based at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia.
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A group dedicated to playing board games, and enjoying a good beer too.
We are a fun group of people who enjoy playing all kinds of games. What started out mostly as a Scrabble group has diversified into all sorts of board games, card games and more. You can learn a new game every week—we're enthusiastic and patient teachers—or just play your faves. We also enjoy learning new games, so feel welcome to bring one to teach us. Having fun is the name of the game! If you want to know more about the kinds of games we've played please click the following link: http://w …
Games, Games, Games! We play all kinds of Games! Board Games, Euro, Miniature, Roleplaying, Card, wargames, warhammer, warmachine, 40k, white wolf, historical, family games, and much much more! We welcome all and love to have both new players and experienced players! The North Coast Gamers has free and open events at coffe shops, game stores and the homes of members. No costs, no experience necessary, and plenty of fun! Bring what you want, play what you want, play what is in our library or wh …
A group in the Akron area for games---board games and card games (see the message board for current available games). Suggest your favorite game or bring one to teach everyone! It doesn't matter what we play as long as we are doing something and having fun! If you're in the Akron area and want some relaxed, friendly social time, don't drive to the far reaches anymore, join us right here in your own back yard!
Games, games, and more games! Board games. Card Games. War games. Party games. Word games. Auction games. Old games. New games. We play Twilight Struggle, LeHavre, Through the Ages, Eclipse, Brass, Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Power Grid, Agricola, Puerto Rico, Carcassone, Dominion, Race for the Galaxy, Caylus, 7 Wonders, El Grande, Steam, Advanced Squad Leader, Combat Commander, and hundreds more. We have well attended monthy meet-ups in Cleveland, Lakewood, Euclid, Northfield, Medina, B …
"No other card game combines the elements of skill, psychology and chance as successfully as Skat." --Joe Wergin, author Welcome to Northeast Ohio's online home for Skat! Skat is the King of Card Games, unique in its ability to rival both the thrill and calculated risk taking of poker and the skill level and concentration demands of contract bridge! The Cleveland Skat Club is a group of regular Skat players devoted to the enjoyment of the game in a league-style competitive setting. We are sim …
We are a new group of gamers based in Mentor, Ohio. We are pretty active on G+, but we are going to be opening up here on Meetup in hopes to grow our group and interest in gaming with us. Right now we play play heavily at the Great Lakes Game Emporium in Mentor, Ohio. We play board and card games heavily and also encourage RPG's and Tabletop gaming. If you are interested in playing games and having fun with both old and new friends we would love to see you at one of our events.
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This site is free to use. We welcome players of all ages with any level of experience gaming. While we focus mainly on tabletop RPGs with the occasional boardgames, we support gamers of every type. Our goal is to get like minded players together to have fun with the games they love to play. You can join a group of players, or start your OWN group!
Scrabble for fun ONLY. Bring your dictionaries, word lists and appetite for a relaxing, fun evening. Alll other rules of Scrabble are followed. Open to other games as well if you bring them and enough people attend who are interested. Always have two to four scrabble boards going.
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Looking for a "reason based" community? Sick of the sad state of science education and the gullibility of the average person? Since 2008 our members have been making friends, learning, challenging and being challenged with people who like to examine commonly held ideas and beliefs with a scientific eye. Take a break from those who forward dubious alarmist emails or buy into the latest panacea, religious idea, scam or utopian vision based on "truthiness" alone. Hang out for a laugh, write an act …
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Hello ladies! Thanks for checking us out! Girls Rollin' On CLEast Side group gathers together single or married, professional women (active professionals or career on-hold SAHM) in their mid-20s to mid-40s for fun trying new things and experiencing everything our side of town has to offer. For the single gals needing a breather from career and the marrieds needing a breather from mommyhood/hubby, let's get together and exhale over a drink! Let's explore and do stuff all over the east side: Chagr …
Ultimate Frisbee (AKA Ultimate) is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player of your own team in the opposing end zone. Players may not run with the disc, and may only move one foot (pivot) while holding the disc. The possession of the disc will change teams as soon as one of the following happens: offence drops/misses the disc, offence catches it out-of-bounds, or the pass is intercepted/blocked by the defense. We play …
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"Cleveland Old School Roleplaying" is my attempt to bring together and connect with enthusiasts of earlier editions of Dungeons and Dragons (i.e. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and AD&D 2nd Edition). I'm not sure how feasible this is, but I imagine a major goal of the group to be the establishment of a regular OSR campaign in a traditional Dungeons and Dragons setting, like Greyhawk or the Forgotten Realms. Aside from playing Dungeons and Dragons, a more basic goal of the group might be to simply …
The Premiere Magic: The Gathering Meetup Group of NorthEast Ohio! The better the network of MtG players we make with this group, the more fun we'll all have. Invite everyone you know who plays to join the site and send me their contact information to make available to our members. I will be working even harder now at seeking out new members and making this group a gold mine of active players. There will be a fee now for the group, but the proceeds will be used to buy packs and/or cards to b …
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Meet fellow Real Estate Buyers, Wholesalers and Investors. Gain access to off the market deeply discounted properties, share best practices and network with your peers. Discuss properties on the market, contracts, mortgages, creative financing, property management, and anything else about local real estate. All are welcome! "We Will Never Pitch You Products, Mentor-ships Or Hype " We aim to nurture long term organic partnerships based on the expertise, experience, and passion of our members. A …
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Do you like playing trivia? Have you ever enjoyed buzztime trivia (the one always playing at BWW restaurants)? This may be the group for you! We're a group of fun-minded folks who get together to play trivia, eat, drink, and just have fun. This is a great chance to meet new people and to exercise your brain (questions are at all levels--you don't have to exercise it if you don't want to). Competitive and collaborative players welcome! (Lately we tend to be collaborative--our goal is to get our l …
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We are a group of Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and Humanists. We advocate science, reason, and fun. Our group is full of intellectual freethinkers that are open to an array of different topics. We have discussions, movie nights, board game nights, museum tours, dinner nights, and more. Some events that we have had in the past include: a debate on the existence of God with Dan Barker, we've hosted a spaghetti dinner party with JT Eberhard, a trip to Reason Rally, A Trip to Skepticon V, NASA …
Cayomaw stands for Catholic Young Men and Women. Requirements: are Catholic, single, and over age 21. We do events such as mass, meals, amusement parks, athletic events, game night, movie night, dances, picnics, trips,etc. We have active members who are friendly and fun.! For more information and details about our Club, go to our website at www.cayomaw.org
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"This is a group for Ladies interested in dining out, movies, coffee, game nights, wine tasting, etc. I started this group to meet other women who are tired of the bar scene...and I'm looking forward to meeting new people" This is not intended as a dating site so please be courteous of other members also this is a primarily lesbian meet-up however all are welcome.
Let's get together and have some fun! This group is a chance to build relationships with other families as we take "field trips", have "game days/nights" and more. All are welcome here!
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Looking for a Tournament style Hold'em game?? Maybe a ring game?? Come on out and put your best poker face to the test with other local players!! We welcome any and all-- sharks, fishies, tilts and champs... from 5 to 100..ummm..chips;)
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Love the lord but don't like what men has done to religion? join us for a fun night out, card playing, pool shooting fun and games listening to gospel music poetry etc,be our guess lets talk about it . what has gone wrong In the gospel. Has praise really taken the place of prayer in the church. Is the offering and tithes to make the pastors life better and not the poor as well Why do I see churches that are fast becoming corporations, instead of a house of healing what is the true purpose of the …
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We are a low-limit poker league playing No-Limit Texas Hold'em. Buy-ins range from $30 to $60. Our regular tournaments are every 2 weeks on Saturday nights. We play three different types of NL Hold'em Tournaments on a rotating basis: STT - Single Table Tournaments (like a sit-and-go, single elimination down to one winner PER TABLE) MTT - Multi-Table Tournaments (single elimination down to one winner) DS - Deep Stack Tournament (multi-table tourney with more starting chips & longer blind levels) …
On Saturday night, November 23 from 6-9pm, our 18U baseball team will be hosting a Texas Hold'Em Fundraiser at Mad Mike's Bar in Garfield Heights, the first of hopefully many. Buy-in is $60, there are no-rebuys, and there will be $100 worth of extra chips available at the door for $5 (max 2). Food and beer are included in the cost. We will pay out top 4. $25-$30 from each entry will go to the payout. If you're going to attend, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com ASAP so I can give the bar …
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Ohio Friends OhioFriends is an activity group for people who are looking to meet new people for friendship and activities. So if you are new to Ohio or just looking for something new & different with new people, OhioFriends is a great place to start! We're a fun loving group of Hispanic, Italian, White, German, African American, Asian, Indian, German, French, Russian, Multiculutural and Bi-racial etc. Our attachment status include those that are Attached, Single, Single with children, Married or …
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Local Co-ed biking group ages 21 and up to ride bikes in a group setting. This is a non competitive group that is created to build social networks of bike riders. The idea is to get people out and form a "Trail Riding Community" statewide. This is a social group, which means we put social and fun first. Anyone looking to race or brag about their bike might not fit in too well here. The rides are casual and it is a judgement free zone. If you have a ten thousand dollar bike cool.If you find your …
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Turkey remains a hot destination for foreign investors, making it an uphill struggle for a central bank seeking to curb an appreciating currency.
It isn't hard to understand the country's appeal. While much of southern Europe creaks under a mountain of debt, Turkey is on the way up. The economy is growing faster than other parts of Europe, and its high inflation rate is coming down rapidly.
It also is starting to lose the "junk" credit rating it has borne for two decades. Fitch Ratings this month became the first of the three major credit-rating firms to move Turkey to investment grade. Some speculate Moody's Investors Service could follow suit next year; it passed on the opportunity to do so when it published its annual credit report on Turkey this week.
The improving credit standing, combined with interest rates that remain relatively high, has investors buying up its stocks and bonds. Even a civil war in neighboring Syria, and Turkey's request to NATO to deploy Patriot missiles on that border, isn't dimming its appeal.
But the flood of so-called hot money is drawing complaints from the Turkish authorities, and the central bank chief last week described the lira as being on the verge of overappreciation. Policy makers are having to cut interest rates to weaken the currency even as they focus on bringing down inflation.
"Their concern is still excessive money inflows, which will put upward pressure on the lira, which they will want to avoid," said Viktor Szabo, an emerging-markets debt portfolio manager at Aberdeen Asset Management ADN.LN -3.56% Aberdeen Asset Management PLC U.K.: London GBp448.45 -16.55 -3.56% Dec. 12, 2013 2:49 pm Volume : 2.66M P/E Ratio 0.17 Market Cap GBp5.58 Billion Dividend Yield 4.46% Rev. per Employee GBp556,138 11/18/13 Aberdeen's SWIP Deal Seems a S... 11/17/13 Aberdeen to buy Lloyds Unit Sc... 11/07/13 Macquarie Group to Make Cash O... More quote details and news » in London.
The Turkish currency has appreciated by about 5% against the U.S. dollar since the start of the year, a steep move for currency markets and one that makes Turkish exports more expensive. By 2014, J.P. Morgan Chase JPM -0.16% JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.: NYSE $55.98 -0.09 -0.16% Dec. 12, 2013 10:05 am Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.22M P/E Ratio 12.61 Market Cap $210.78 Billion Dividend Yield 2.71% Rev. per Employee $431,637 12/12/13 J.P. Morgan to Pay Over $1 Bil... 12/11/13 Pension Funds Make the Most of... 12/11/13 J.P. Morgan's Dimon Applauds C... More quote details and news » & Co. reckons a dollar will buy 1.70 lira, less than the 1.80 lira it now buys.
In response, the country's central bank this week cut its overnight lending rate—the rate at which it lends funds to banks—by 0.5 percentage point for a third straight month, to 9%, and said it would also cut its key policy rate of 5.75% as well as its overnight borrowing rate of 5% if needed.
But in a world where the world's biggest central banks have dropped their interest rates to near zero and yields on the safest government bonds are well below 2%, investors are looking to countries like Turkey for higher-yielding assets.
The lira remains a magnet for so-called carry trades, in which low-yielding currencies such as the dollar, euro and yen are sold to fund investments in higher-yielding markets. Yields on 10-year Turkish government bonds, for example, stand at about 7.26% compared with between 1.4% and 1.7% on similarly dated German and U.S. government debt, giving many investors what they see as a comfortable profit.
Fitch's decision to upgrade Turkey appears have attracted even more money. In the week ended Nov. 9, non-resident holdings of Turkish government domestic debt rose by a net $632 million, the largest amount in five weeks, according to central-bank data.
More money could follow, particularly if a second ratings firm raises Turkey's standing to investment grade. That would widen the pool of potential buyers, because some institutional investors can only buy bonds that are rated investment-grade by at least two of the three big ratings firms.
This puts the central bank in a dilemma. Hot money can leave as quickly as it arrives, weakening the currency and creating uncertainty for exporters. Policy makers have been seeking to keep the lira from moving too quickly in any direction, but a more stable currency has the paradoxical effect of attracting more money. That's because it makes sudden exchange-rate losses that could wipe out traders' profits less likely.
Also supporting the interest in Turkey is the economic picture.
Moody's forecasts the economy will expand by 3% this year and by 3.8% in 2013; the euro zone, meanwhile, is stagnating, and some of its members are in recession. The monthly current-account deficit more than halved in September to $2.7 billion, from $6.36 billion a year earlier.
Inflation is coming down rapidly. It stood at 7.8% in October over a year earlier, a sharp slowdown from September's 9.19%. The central bank expects inflation to fall to 7.4% at the end of the year and to 5.3% at the end of 2013.
"We are overweight the lira [in an emerging-market debt portfolio], which should continue to benefit from an improving trade balance and faster [economic] growth relative to [its] peers," Investec Asset Management wrote in a monthly update to clients last week.
The biggest risk for investors is that the central bank succeeds in weakening the currency in the short term. Any global flight from risky assets could pull money out of Turkey, also hurting the currency.
To be sure, it is much easier for a central bank to weaken a strong currency than to force a weak one to appreciate.
"If a central bank wants a weaker currency, they will have it," said Nima Tayebi, emerging markets portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management in London. The firm has about $109 billion in currency investments.
Even so, the sustained appeal of Turkish assets means the central bank could have its work cut for it.
—Yeliz Candemir
contributed to this article.


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Switched two rigs to ver. 6.34 (drop in update) and received a Core A5 WU (P6901). It's similar to it's sibling (P6900) but runs cooler
Anybody have a link to the new a5 client? I've been so busy lately and haven't really even touched the PC besides for music. Got a job now so paying for electricity is no problem now. Just thought i might as well fold on the PC sence it doesn't do anything else besides sit idle.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/FAH6.34-win32-SMP.exe It says 32-bit or 64-bit but it seems that all you get is a file with 32 in it. I'm running it now....
Cool thanks, gonna congifure it now to run some -bigadv's. Leaving town in a few hours and won't be back till sunday night. Got some indoor races in wisconsion so hopefully the rig is still stable and completes a WU Never had any BSOD's or lockups after i got it 50 runs IBT stable.
Alright cool, i've got team viewer installed so if anyone would wanna take the responisibility of watchin after my pc if it restarts you can take over and start the client back up. PM me if your interested. Also, just picked up a 6901 running all 8 threads at 4.0. No gpu's right now just the i7 but better than nothing right?
Finally got my new rig running, upgrading some older rigs, still need a new water block for it as the temps are a bit high with just the air cooler.... But with 64K+ PPD I am very ...... i7 firstname.lastname@example.com, will try for 4.5GHz when I go water...
Nice.....and you should be happy. What timmings are you using? My 4125 MHz @ 8-8-8-20 (1650 MHz) does the 6901 in 21:21 with a 2 TB Black Caviar.
Running at 4.2GHz I think the RAM is @8-8-8-16 (1690 MHz) ...with a TPF of 20:48 on the P6901 Haven't really nailed down the overclock as I will wait till I get my water block.
Hey guys, just got home and look's like the rig just turned in a 6901! Rig proved to be folding stable still which is great!
This weekend I was moving apartments, so I had both my rigs offline. Main rig is back online now, and folding rig should be online in about a day.
Two items: run Linux on -bigadv if it is dedicated http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=17730 and have anyone seen a 2689 yet ? Someone has - http://www.linuxforge.net/bonuscalc2.php Edit: 6900 now needs the A5 core !
Well room get's too hot with the window closed and with it cracked it get's to cold. Decided to fire up the good ole 8800gts's! Switched over to smp 7 and got the 8800's going strong again. Got 18 hours in monday and today so that's enough for a 470. Im hoping to grab a 470 or somethin soon and just move the 8800's down in my mobo and use all 3 cards for moar ppd. We'll see though but im doing fine on cash now Do you all think my PC Power and Cooling 750w would handle a 470 two 8800gts's and my 920?
I don't see why not the 470 isn't that big a power hog and 2 8800gts's would draw about the same or only a little more than the 470 so you should be good to go
I wouldn't do that in a folding rig. You're asking alot from your psu to run 24/7. And then you have the different generation gpu core issue. It might work with Tracker V2.
So then i should grab a bigger PSU just to be safe? Or i could just get the 470 sell of the 8800's and grab another 470? That wouldn't be too bad and it'd be some sweet gpu power! Then maybe a single slot 450 or 460 in the bottom and call it good? Have the 9xx point work units returned yet on gpu3 or are we still getting the newer ones with less ppd?
Not sure about WU but my 470 still nets about 15.5-17k PPD which is as high as I've ever seen it go ever since I got it.
My plan was to install Linux this morning on one box but I found it had crashed during the night. Next opportune time will be Friday. Reports are that people find a +10 % reduction in TPF for -bigadv with Linux and that would mean + 10 k PPD on just that rig. I will report back but the frame times for the new 6901 and the Linux/Windows talks can be found here - http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.ph...17730&start=30
:shadedshu THIS IS SPARTA...., oops.... This is Techpowerup, home of THE W1zzard and his fancy PCI-e power meter. (repeating myself again) Get yourself a power meter and figure out your present power draw. IMHO, a PSU should not be loaded 24/7 at greater than 80%, which is 750 watts at the wall in your case. There aren't any power numbers for the 8800GTS's, but you can get a good idea by looking at the 9800GTX+ or GTS250. (with you having 2 of these cards, you can quickly determine their idle and load power draws using only a power meter) Folding does not draw as much power as W1zzards Max power numbers, but using them will leave a margin of safety. BTW, from my experience, a GTX460 draws the same wattage as the 8800GTS while Folding. Also, the GTX460 (768MB) is still the PPD/$ champ, although with some of the prices I've seen on GTX470's..... Just understand that the 470's pull a lot more watts and put a bigger load on the system (CPU cycles) than do the 460's.
Cool, i'll have to put some numbers together and see what they would pull for watts. Where can i find w1zzards power draw numbers?
really so thats why my SilverStone ST75F-P comes with an 100% 24/7 draw @ 50c guarantee oh sorry didn't see that bit about IMHO so it's just your opinion....


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The Rams had to be jumping for joy every time a quarterback's name was called -- four times in the first 12 picks -- in the opening hour of the 2011 draft. Because every time we heard names like Locker and Ponder and Gabbert, it meant that a top-tier defensive talent was going to fall. And with both Robert Quinn and Nick Fairley available and only one team ahead of the Rams, it made their decision all too easy.
Rams received calls to move up an down, but chose to stay pat as Quinn and others on their board still available.
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TVA Browns Ferry Team Wins Top Industry Award
May 13, 2011
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Valley Authority employees at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant have been honored by the Nuclear Energy Institute for co-developing a monitoring system to improve nuclear fuel rod performance.
The TVA team won the institute's B. Ralph Sylvia "Best of the Best" Top Industry Practice award, the industry group's top honor.
Five years ago, the industry set a goal to eliminate defects in fuel rods that hold the uranium pellets that power a reactor, with the aim of improving plant efficiency, lowering costs and reducing plant repairs.
Working with Areva, the France-based nuclear power firm with U.S. headquarters in Bethesda, Md., the TVA team tested a new software system that allows real-time, online stress calculations for every 6-inch fuel rod segment in the reactor.
There are 91 rods in each Browns Ferry fuel assembly, and about 750 assemblies inside each of Browns Ferry's three reactors. Inside the rods, the uranium fuel pellets are in sealed metal tubes known as cladding.
"For the first time, this new technology allows the reactor engineers to plan and execute reactor power maneuvers with an explicit understanding of the stresses imposed on the fuel rod cladding," said Jim Lemons, TVA senior manager, Reactor Engineering and Fuels. "This knowledge enhances our ability to improve fuel performance while simultaneously maximizing power generation."
NEI said this is the first method that can calculate how close fuel rods are to cladding damage, thus ensuring fuel integrity performance.
The TVA team members are: Lemons; Rod De La Garza, Browns Ferry reactor engineer; Mike Keck, Browns Ferry manager of Reactor Engineering; David Marsh, Browns Ferry reactor engineer; and Greg Storey, manager of Boiling Water Reactor Fuel Engineering.
The Top Industry Practice award, presented Tuesday at NEI's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., honors the late B. Ralph Sylvia, an industry leader who was instrumental in starting the awards in 1993. More information is available at www.nei.org.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, a corporation owned by the U.S. government, provides electricity for utility and business customers in most of Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia – an area of 80,000 square miles with a population of 9 million. TVA operates 29 hydroelectric dams, 11 coal-fired power plants, three nuclear plants and 11 natural gas-fired power facilities that can produce about 34,000 megawatts of electricity, delivered over 16,000 miles of high-voltage power lines. TVA also provides flood control, navigation, land management and recreation for the Tennessee River system and works with local utilities and state and local governments to promote economic development across the region. TVA, which makes no profits and receives no taxpayer money, is funded by sales of electricity to its customers. Electricity prices in TVA's service territory are below the national average.
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