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Room and Time: FCH530 will meet from 8:25-9:20 AM, MWF in room 148 Baker.
General course outline:
The first half of the course will be examining amino acids, protein structure and enzyme kinetics. The second half of the course will be an introduction to metabolism.
Textbook: We will be using the textbook Biochemistry by Voet & Voet (4th Edition, 2011) as our text for both semesters. This is a new textbook and is required for the class!! I do expect that you will read the assigned chapters. WWBH refers to a supplemental book entitled "Biochemistry, A Problems Approach". It is very useful to work the problems. Some of these may be assigned as homework problems but if they are not, I do not collect or grade the supplemental problems. This book will be on reserve in Moon Library
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Russian Mafia
The Russian Mafia are a crime syndicate that appear in Grand Theft Auto 2, again briefly in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and play a major role in Grand Theft Auto IV.
The Russian Mafia, in GTA 2, are led by Jerkov and are experts in contract killings and gun running. They are located in the Industrial District and are in a rivalry with the Hare Krishna and in an intense rivalry with The Zaibatsu Corporation. Jerkov hires Claude Speed to kill Zaibatsu gang members, save Jerkov from assassins and killing other Russian drug dealers, amongst other things. Their favorite radio station is KGBH, a pun on the Soviet KGB. Other members include Ivan, Uncle Vanka, Bilovski, Ziggy Pole, Lodov, Shagski, Sandra Tito and Chesti-Kov.
GTA San Andreas
The Russian Mafia only appear in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for a short time. They wear black t-shirts or grey sweaters, or matching jackets and trousers. Though they have no permanent stake in the state, they have claimed the Atrium as a temporary turf in the mission Just Business, and also appear in league with the Ballas, Los Santos Vagos and San Fierro Rifa in Big Smoke's "Crack Palace". Their influence is obviously felt considerably more overseas, but after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russian mobsters flooded into America. It's possible to replicate Russian Mafia members if the player uses the territory glitch.
The Russian Mafia runs the south and west part of Broker, Liberty City. Members can be seen all over Hove Beach, Firefly Island and Beachgate in large numbers, the majority of them appear to wear Russian caps. They may wear any of a variety of clothes, including suits, Russian fur hats, leather gloves, camo trousers, black/diamond-knit turtlenecks and green/brown suit jackets. Some have tattoos on their hands -- some have a Soviet Russia hammer and sickle on the back of the hand, some have a cross on the palm, and there are two other as-yet unidentified tattoos. There are four known Russian mafia families in the GTA IV Era; one is led by Mikhail Faustin, one led by Kenny Petrovic, one led by Ray Bulgarin, and one lead by Dimitri Rascalov. The gang's known enemy is Niko Bellic. Unidentified Russians in fur hats and sunglasses will shoot at Niko in the Russian Shop should you open fire at the clerk; considering the store's nature and location, these are likely to be Russian Mafia members fulfilling their part of a protection racket. Russian's weapons range from Pistol's, Micro Uzi's, a Combat Shotgun, or AK-47's. The Russians are very loyal to each other. If Niko fires at one Russian, then other Russians within Niko's area will shoot at him.
Gangs and families
- The Russian Mafia seems to be the most well-armed gang in Liberty City, having used nearly all weapons (except grenades).
- In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, there is a way to gain more gang territory throughout the state of San Andreas. To exploit the glitch, fly a plane into the southwest or southeast corners of the map, and continue onwards in the respective direction; continue this for a long period (30 real-world minutes is suggested), then either fly back (which will take a long time), or drown oneself after the 30-minute mark. After returning or awaking at a hospital, a glitch will have occurred, and there will be gang territories visible all over San Andreas. The Russian Mafia can now be encountered in Las Venturas, usually wielding Pistols and Desert Eagles, and driving Feltzers, Sentinels, or Admirals.

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Karen Acklin
A Xeno Media co-founder, Karen focuses on Operations and Administration and keeps Xeno Media running like a top.
In a former life, Karen was Art Director for Ganymede Corporation – where she worked with clients like Rotary International, ABN-AMRO/Direct Notes and RR Donnelley. After that, she worked with interactive agencies including Aspen Marketing and Pangea Group and for clients such as Xerox, Microsoft and The Weather Channel.


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David Bowie Shoots Blanks, in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Leave it to Nicolas Roeg to give us some of the most artsy human-alien sex scenes of all time, and leave it to David Bowie to be in the strangest. Bowie is the glam-looking alien who falls into obsessions with alcohol and television with his human lover, played by Candy Clark. Honestly, we really have a strange love for the cat-eyed true-form Bowie in an earlier sex scene montage involving what looks like playful mud wrestling. But this is the more insane and notorious sex scene, and though we don't like thinking of shooting blanks and sex at the same time, the guns and lovemaking scene is pretty awesome in a ridiculous, John Waters-esque kind of way. Speaking of which, why hasn't Waters done a human-alien sex scene yet?
Starman Gave Karen Allen a Baby Last Night, in Starman (1984)
It's one thing for an alien to look human, but when it looks like your dead husband, there's even more difficulty of resisting the urge to try out a very close encounter. Not that Karen Allen is quick to jump Jeff Bridges' Starman bones. Aside from the fact that he's an extra-terrestrial and the fact that sex with a clone of your husband is a bit too close to necrophilia, the Starman is really weird. Eventually, though, Allen's character falls for the doppelganger and makes love to it in the very romantic setting of a boxcar filled with hay. The best part comes afterward, though, when the Starman nonchalantly tells her, "I gave you a baby last night."


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Generally speaking, online April Fool's gags are pretty bad. Someone posts a goofy, unbelievable story; we read the goofy, unbelievable story; then we either say, "Oh, right, that is fake because it's that day," or we say, "Well, I guess putting Eddie Murphy in a Twins sequel must just be the only idea anyone on Earth has." So let's give some credits to the folks at Criterion Collection for yesterday coming up with an amazingly-executed, legitimately funny goof.
The Criterion Collection--the self-described "continuing series of important classic and contemporary films ... dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements"--yesterday announced a massive, feature-loaded release of Kindergarten Cop, Ivan Reitman's 1990 action-comedy about Arnold Schwarzenegger being a cop and also a kindergarten teacher who does not have a brain tumor. This is funny, because Kindergarten Cop was not so great of a movie! But also funny because look at all the shockingly authentic suplemental stuff Criterion put together:
Firstly, above: official cover art and an on-set photo of director Akira Kurosawa that suddenly makes Seven Samurai seem lacking in the Terminator department.
And then there's this photo of Stanley Kubrick on set, clearly telling a classic Kubrick joke.
And there's this dramatic Italian poster:
And here's a hand-painted poster from Ghana:
And the official synopsis (this is best):
Historically, the policier and the family comedy were two distinct categories. Then, in 1990, Kindergarten Cop gave us all a lesson in genre revisionism. With muscular sensitivity, Hollywood's last action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger embodies detective John Kimble, who is compelled to go undercover as a teacher of five-year-olds in order to catch a ponytailed drug dealer. Though it's distinguished by pulse-pounding suspense, a Crayola-bright palette by cinematographer Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver), and trenchant observations about education in the Bush I era, the film's emotional center is Schwarzenegger's gruff yet good-tempered interaction with a class full of precocious scamps, including a tumor-forewarning death-obsessive and a genitalia expert. By leavening a children's film with enough violence to please even the most cold-hearted bastard, director Ivan Reitman shows that he refuses to color inside the lines.
And features:
- New high-definition digital restoration of the 1990 director's cut, presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
- New audio commentary featuring Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, author of It - Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Can Teach Us
- Excerpts from the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps: "Ivan Reitman"
- Kindergarten Cops Today, a new hour-long documentary featuring former New York City police detectives Frank Serpico and Robert Leuci, former San Francisco police inspector Dave Toschi, and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
- From "Fingers" to Finger-Painting, an interview with cinematographer Michael Chapman
- Archival video of Schwarzenegger's acceptance speeches for the Favorite Movie Actor award at the 1989 and 1991 Kids' Choice Awards
- The Kids Aren't All Right, an analysis of all the cuts made to ensure a PG-13 rating
- More than six hundred minutes of rare behind-the-scenes and archival footage
- Seven theatrical trailers
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by former police reporter and creator of The Wire David Simon and a reprint of James Agee's original review of the film
And, finally, a video showcasing the three reasons Kindergarten Cop is such an enduring classic:
So good! What a bizarrely celebratory weekend for late-'80s/early-'90s Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy. If only it could last forever, and not include Eddie Murphy.


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Rumors were that Anderson Cooper kicked Ben Maisani to the curb when photos surfaced of Ben kissing another man.
Apparently that isn't the case. Video has surfaced of Anderson with Ben, along with Andy Cohen, Kelly Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos arriving in Dubrovnik, Croatia on August 18. Ironically, Rihanna's "We Found Love" is blaring in the background.
The photos of Ben kissing the mystery man were taken on August 10, and news of the photos broke on August 13. Mmm. Something is amiss.
There are a couple of scenarios here.
1. Anderson and Ben have an open relationship.
2. Ben was rehearsing for a part in an upcoming play.
3. Ben begged forgiveness and Anderson accepted his apology.
What do you think the status of Anderson's and Ben's relationship is? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Putting the brakes on abortion trafficking
Abortion | Leigh Jones
Sens. Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, and Orrin Hatch introduced a bill today that would give states the right to enforce parental notification laws across state lines.
The Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act would make it illegal to transport a minor to another state for an abortion in an attempt to circumvent notification laws in the child's home state. It also would require abortionists to notify the parents of an out-of-state minor before performing an abortion.
"With the rights of parents and the safety of our nation's daughters at risk, Congress must take action to prevent underage abortions by giving states the federal backing necessary to enforce their parental involvement laws," Rubio said in a statement. "These laws allow teenagers to receive the advice and guidance of a loved one before undergoing a procedure for which they may not be medically or emotionally prepared."
The bill is co-sponsored by 16 Republican senators. Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, from Rubio's home state of Florida, sponsored a House version of the bill. During the last legislative session, the bill gathered 172 co-sponsors in the House but didn't have enough support to pass.
Pro-life groups applauded Rubio and the other sponsors, saying the bill would close a loophole exposing girls to exploitation and abuse.
"Today, schools most notify and obtain consent from parents before children receive aspirin," said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "It is ludicrous that parents would be prevented from involvement in decision making about an invasive and life-changing surgery like abortion."
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|Topic: Qantas B737 Cabin Upgrades
Username: dkramer7
Posted 2012-11-29 23:10:25 and read 2524 times.
With the remaining B747 and B767 fleets getting cabin upgrades with new wireless IFE, does the flying roo have any plans to upgrade the cabins on its B737 fleet as well?
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Posted 2012-11-30 00:41:34 and read 2366 times.
A trial will begin soon for the overhead lockers will be extended and be brought in line with those being delivered on the latest ones with the new BSI interior. http://www.ausbt.com.au/qantas-trial...-to-fit-more-bags-in-overhead-bins
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The other day my wife and I were reminiscing about the songs that we both enjoyed listening to during our youth in the car when Ryan (my 10-year-old son) leaned forward and asked:
"What's a cassette?"
"It's the small square thingy with that long string coiled inside", his sister offered an explanation. "I loved to pull it out!", she added as an afterthought. (We still had a few cassettes lying around the house when my daughter was a tiny tot so she knew what they were; by the time Ryan came along, they had been thrown away).
"It wasn't a string!", I said.
Double sigh….
The cassette reminds me of an era gone by. My youth was centred around the cassette, the only source of 'cool' music then (the radio sucked – as it still do today). I remember buying my first cassette when I was twelve. It cost me a fortune – RM 3 for a 'generic' cassette (that's a fortune in those days when my daily pocket-money was only 20 sen). An original cassette would cost between RM 12 – 15. My first cassette contained a compilation of Abba's greatest hits.
I fell in love with Abba then, and Air Supply, and the Bee Gees and John Denver (ya, ya, I know…quite cringe-worthy).
A typical cassette held about 60 – 90 minutes of music, typically around 10-12 songs. Those days I would compile a list of songs that I liked and then pedal out on my old trusty bicycle to 'June Music', a music store near my house where I'd surrender the list to the lady at the counter, pay her some money (typically RM 10 or so) and she would then source for the songs I liked and record them onto a brand new cassette. I would return a few days later to collect the precious new acquisition.
To listen to music, a cassette player was needed. My dad wouldn't buy us one and so, during the school holidays, I made some extra pocket-money working in shopping malls or factories. My first 'boom'box' was a black Toshiba Mini-compo bought with my own hard-earned money when I was 15. It allowed me to not only expand my own collection of music on cassettes, it also allowed me to annoy the blinking daylights out of my family and everyone within a 500 meter radius from my home with loud music blasting from my boom-box.
Listening to music on the cassette was tricky. Since the tape only moved forward, if I wanted to listen to a particular song again, I'd have to rewind the cassette – hence in most cassette players those days, there was a counter built into the console – I had to remember at which number a song began so that I could rewind the cassette to that particular spot if I wanted to hear it again.
Rewinding a cassette using the mini-compo was a long tedious process – especially if the tape is extra long and the desired song was at the beginning of the tape! In order to speed things up, sometimes it was faster to just remove the cassette from the player, stick a pen or pencil into one of the holes in the cassette and do a rapid twirl – rotating the cassette on the pencil rapidly! (People from my generation would understand what I mean).
Over time, iron oxide from the cassette tape would accumulate on the player's 'head' which would muffle the music – so I had to clean the 'head' frequently using a cotton-bud soaked in ethanol. It's not an ideal solution because eventually the 'head' would be caked in so much dirt that it was impossible to remove all of them and so I had to contend with listening to inferior music.
Then came the Sony Walkman which allowed me to take my music anywhere I went. I got myself a Walkman when I went to med school. It was my pride and joy (it cost a bomb – my mum bought it for me). Of course, I didn't realize I was lugging something the size of a brick by today's standard – back then it was cool. It wasn't cool when my senior borrowed my Walkman and broke it – which left me miserable and music-less for a while! Thankfully a junior gave me his mini-compo because he got a better one – to be stuck in India for years without a cassette player would be tragic.
And of course cassettes didn't last very long. After a while, the music recorded on it would fade, or the tape would get 'rusty' with accumulation of iron oxide or fungus would grow on the tape (during the Indian monsoon, fungus grew on practically everything I owned!) or perhaps by mishap, the tape would get stuck in the player and the whole rim of tape would become undone when I yanked the damn thing out!
I think my interest in music waned with the advent of CDs and the eventual demise of the cassette. CDs were priced far beyond my budget (typically priced at RM 35-40 – strangely the price hasn't changed much all these years).
Now, my son has an MP3 player smaller than the size of an Oreo biscuit which can store up to a thousand songs and capable of playing high-definition music over and over and over again till the cows come home (or at least until the battery dies) without any loss of quality. Even this will become obsolete as cloud computing is being embraced by more and more people.
Perhaps someday, my grandson would lean over and ask his dad this question:
"Dad, what's an MP3 player?"


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The day was cloudy and rainy and the bus driver refused to do anything about the weather. However, I really enjoyed the tour and as it turned out, the overcast foggy weather made for some truly beautiful photos. The driver was polite, funny, upbeat, very friendly and informative about the history of the area. Even with the rain it was money well spent. All together a very enjoyable tour.
Our guide was terrific - informative without being pedantic - because of the wildfires he had to modify our tour but the places we saw were terrific. It was a worthwhile three hours and I got a good sense of the the city and the surrounding countryside
A great tour. Our guide Mike was fantastic. He was professional and knowledgable.We saw a female black bear with three cubs!
Tour was excellent and made more so by our driver (Dave) from Brewsters who kept us all amused with his andecotes and local knowledge - we were fortunate to know him from the previous day when he was our driver on the excursion transfer from Banff to Jasper
A great tour, absolutely beautiful scenery and lots of elk, deer and bears seen. If you only have a few hours spare this is a great way of seeing the area.
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Right choice makes Good Times .
Lots of great scenery and views
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My husband and I were lucky enough to be on a tour with a very small group 5 people. With the small size, Mich our guide/driver was very flexible and accommodating. Since we were running ahead of schedule, he even made an extra stop at an overlook. A pleasant half-day tour taking in the must-see sights of Maligne Canyon and Maligne Lake. We got back to Jasper with enough time to go up the Tram for a hike.
So much amazing scenery! Wish there was more time at some of the stops. Guide was very knowledgable!
GOOD TOUR OF THE nATIONAL pARKS
The tour was very good but got dampened by very wet weather. The tour guide was very patient and informative.
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^^^^Reasons why that Rihanna reign just won't let up.
Wow, Rihanna's really testing the limits we will go to in order to shamelessly jock her style. In the "Can't Remember To Forget You" singer's latest NSFW cover spread for French magazine Lui, the noted no-bra enthusiast ups the envelope-pushing ante by creating an Instagram meltdown after posting a rih-ly revealing photo on a diving board wearing nothing more than a mesh bikini bottom and artful tan lines. BRB, Single Bajan Female-ing this entire lewk!
Maybe it's the whole over-the-shoulder posturing, but doesn't Rihanna kinda look like the Coppertone girl, only all grown up? Like, maybe she took a poolside nap, only to awaken in the future like some modern retelling of "Rip Van Winkle"? "Where's that dog who was always biting my swimsuit? Oh, he died four years ago? Meh. Kanye shrug."
+ Check out Rihanna's most Rih-vealing looks!
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As you've all probably figured out by now, I love all kinds of music; including Britney Spears. There's nothing original about her and she's quite possibly the shiniest pop product we have in music, currently. She can't really sing, she doesn't write her own lyrics, she doesn't write her own music, etc..but i don't care.
'Hold It Against Me' is not the best song she's released, nor is it the best video, but it works. It's a confusing visual orgasm and has a pretty sick fight scene in the middle. Special effects successfully distract from the fact that, by Brit's standards, the song is mediocre. But, again, I still enjoyed it.
To the critics who say it's been done before: Fuck you. If you don't like it 1) don't watch it or 2) do something better. So sick of that tired argument. Britney is here to be enjoyed by all for what she is: a shiny pop product.
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Read Joe Sabatini and Olivia Baca's latest article, Voters Support Bond B and other Library Bonds by Large Margins, in the November/December 2014 issue of the NMLA Newsletter.
Voters Support Bond B and other Library Bonds by Large Margins
Bond B Passes!
Results from the nm secretary of state
Bond B passes with 62.94% of the vote. Thank you to everyone who came out to the polls to support New Mexico Libraries!
View the breakdown by county at the NM Secretery of State's website.
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Sir Manasseh Meyer
Manasseh Meyer (Sir) (b. 1846, Baghdad, Iraq - d. 1 July 1930, Singapore) was a pioneer Jewish businessman who was responsible for the building of Maghain Aboth Synagogue at Waterloo Street and Chesed-El Synagogue at Oxley Rise. A key figure in the early Jewish community in Singapore, he was knighted by the British in 1929 for his contributions to society.
Early life
Educated in Calcutta, India, he came to Singapore in 1861 when he was just 15 years old. His uncle, Joshua Raphael Joshua, had established himself in Singapore under the company Joshua Brothers and was instrumental in bringing Meyer and his brothers, Rubin and Elias, to Singapore. Meyer continued his education in St Joseph's Institution before returning to Calcutta in 1864 and continuing his Hebrew studies. He took on an appointment as an apprentice in book-keeping, assisting in his maternal uncle's business.
In 1867, 21-year-old Meyer launched out on his own in Rangoon (now called Yangon, in Myanmar), setting up a business and remaining there for six years. He returned to Singapore in 1873 to start an import-export business and grew the company, which he called Meyer Brothers, into the largest local importer and exporter in Indian trade. Raphael Sassoon, another pioneer in the local Jewish community, was Meyer's partner in the company and later joined him as a trustee of the Maghain Aboth Synagogue.
Meyer's wealth further expanded as he moved into acquiring properties, with the largest number of purchases done between 1890 and 1892. By the 1900s, he had become a major property owner in Singapore. His properties included Adelphi Hotel; Sea View Hotel (located at a road he named Meyer Road); Meyer Chambers at Raffles Place; Meyer Mansions on Coleman Street; Killiney House (which became Meyer's family home after he bought it from Thomas Oxley and renamed it Belle Vue in 1890); a property named "Joshua" at Tanjong Katong (constructed in the 1890s as Meyer's second family home); and Teutonia Club (later renamed Goodwood Hall, now renowned as the Goodwood Park Hotel).
Between 1893 and 1900, he served as municipal commissioner, where his knowledge of property and local matters proved invaluable. He was later appointed member of the Straits Committee on Currency.
Contributions to society
Meyer's generosity benefited those within and outside his community. His most notable contributions to the local Jewish community were in securing land for the Maghain Aboth Synagogue and in building the Chesed-El Synagogue. He set up the Manasseh Meyer Trust, later renamed the Sir Manasseh Meyer Trust, which helped educational and charitable institutions. During World War I (1914 to 1918), he donated $20,000 to the British military effort. He also gave $150,000 to the former Raffles College, where a building was named after him. The Manasseh Meyer Building now forms part of the National University of Singapore's Bukit Timah campus and has been gazetted as a national monument.
Wives: Khatoon, his first wife whom he had married by the time he returned to Singapore in 1873; Rebecca, whom he married after Khatoon's death, died in January 1915.
Sons: Isaac; his twin brother Jacob; Reuben.
Daughters: Hannah; Rama; Rachel; Mozelle.
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Lim, E. W. K., & Kho, E. M. (c2005). The Chesed-El Synagogue: Its history & people (pp. 20-35). Singapore: Trustees of Chesed-El Synagogue.
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Makepeace, W., Brooke, G. E., & Braddell, R. St. J. (Eds.). (1991). One hundred years of Singapore (Vol. 2, pp. 463-464). Singapore: Oxford University Press.
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Nathan, E. (1986). The history of Jews in Singapore, 1830-1945 (pp. 8-11, 28-37, 193). Singapore: HERBILU Editorial & Marketing Services.
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Sir M. Meyer dies at age of 84. (1930, July 1). The Straits Times, p. 13. Retrieved September 16, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
Solomon, E. (1996, March). Chesed El Synagogue. Shalom Singapore, 4, 4-5.
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The perfect ways of honour [Microfilm: NL 576]. (1929, March 1). The Straits Times, p. 10.
Further resources
Jews in Singapore [Sound recording]. (1986). Singapore: Oral History Dept.
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Lim, E. W. K., & Kho, E. M. (c2005). The Chesed-El Synagogue: Its history & people (pp. 20-21). Singapore: Trustees of Chesed-El Synagogue.
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Makepeace, W., Brooke, G. E., & Braddell, R. St. J. (Eds.). (1991). One hundred years of Singapore (Vol. 2, p. 462ii). Singapore: Oxford University Press.
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In 2010, Indian-American filmmaker Virkam Gandhi went to Phoenix and invented a spiritual workshop from scratch. That's the premise of "Kumaré," a documentary that Gandhi assembled out of his experience, in which he created a fake spiritual guru, replete with heavy accent, far-out proclamations, and a tiny legion of followers. Gandhi intended to prove a point, play a prank, or maybe some unseemly combination of both. That's the appeal and the controversy of his provocative feature.
A longtime cynic from New Jersey, Gandhi recounts his mounting disdain for spiritual leadership, a result of being inundated with Indian traditions as a child. As a documentarian, he initially intended to capture the phenomenon of gurus around the world, but felt compelled to raise the stakes once he noticed that "the gurus were trying to out-guru each other," as he explains in voiceover. So he decided to join them, growing out his beard and inventing his own nonsensical meditation techniques. Collecting a few eager disciples, all white Americans with their own soul-searching conundrums to work out, Gandhi begins his teachings with the eventual intention of revealing his true identity.
The story is constructed, somewhat strangely, as a mixture of satire and rhetoric. (The actual feat outdoes the record that it happened.) Early scenes show Gandhi in his Kumaré persona, farcically posing in yoga moves in the Arizona desert, his two prankster female assistants at his side. The rest of the movie mainly shows Kumaré's off-the-cuff meditation sessions, in which he rambles on about discovering a blue light and finding the inner-self, advice that his disciples eagerly embrace. He gives them nonsense to chant and they happily oblige. They speak of Kumaré's mastery without ever questioning his credentials (or, if they do, Gandhi doesn't include the footage). Interviews with Kumaré devotees peppered throughout the movie show the intense convictions they take from his teachings, raising the question of whether the true identity of the guru actually makes a difference.
Although initially comic in tone, "Kumaré" eventually moves away from that angle and aims for a more introspective portrait of spiritual growth. Gandhi claims his intentions are sincere, hoping to prove that everyone has the capacity to discover their "inner guru" rather than taking guidance from a superior.
Nevertheless, logistical questions remain. The director talks about his hesitation to unveil himself to his followers at the risk of ruining the positive vibes he has passed along. But he refrains from showing himself out of character while in the process of duping his devotees, so it's never entirely clear just how immersed in the role he has become. Was he a 24/7 method actor or did he head backstage to celebrate his successful prank at the end of each day?
Structural problems aside, "Kumaré" succeeds at creating a thoughtful depiction of performance art, if not a particularly funny one. Cautious to avoid mean-spirited jabs at his subjects, Gandhi avoids the harsh condescension of similar non-fiction exposés, such as Penn & Teller's abrasive "Bullshit" series or the average Sacha Baron Cohen sketch. That may allow spiritual types an access point to his work, but it keeps the movie from achieving a confident tone.
Ghandi makes it clear that he actually came to appreciate the earnestness behind a mass desire to accept spiritual concepts for the sake of personal satisfaction. However, that doesn't alter the nature of his prank, which he describes as "the biggest lie I've ever told and the greatest truth I've ever experienced." He just makes it hard to tell where the lie ends and the truth begins.
HOW WILL IT PLAY? Due to the moral gray area of Gandhi's project, "Kumaré" could generate a large amount of media interest and perform well in limited release, but the controversy seems more likely to promote Gandhi himself, rather than his movie.
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Is Spain's biggest problem Spain?
The Trader has written timely pieces on the imploding Spanish economy. Here is an authentic piece from one of our readers, living in Spain as an expat. Courtesy Anna Billqvist.
Spain is now suffering severe cut packages, in order to save money, but very few ideas that will get us back on feet. The Spanish people feel that there is very little we can do. Perhaps we need something different, a change of mentality.
Why not try quality rather than quantity at work? Who says we need to work more hours to achieve better results? What if we organize ourselves and use our time more efficiently? Written procedures, so that things can be done even if the key person is not there. More confidence between boss and employee, so they feel that they work together towards the same goal, instead of continously suspecting that they are being used by the other. Nine-to-five working hours, not the split working days that we are used to; loosing time driving to work and back twice a day, coming home at nine in the evening and totally dependent on nannies and family if we have children. That would make us more productive at work and at home.
Police fight black economy – by fining teachers who put up notes for private lessons and arresting africans selling illegal CDs. Meanwhile prostitution sales reach 50 million euros each day. Young people from poorer countries are exploited and abused, brothel owners call themselves hotel owners and claim that they only rent rooms to prostitutes. Nobody cares, because judges, lawyers and politicians are among the customers.
Drugtrade is a another huge market. Nobody cares for that either, for the same reasons. Spain is one of the biggest consumers of cocaine in the world. A a recent political scandal revealed that millions of euros from a fund for unemployed were spent on cocaine. By politicians. Then they apply to tax payers´conscience in order to collect more taxes.
In school – aren´t we a little blind when we accept our new so called "billingüal schools", without questioning them at all? We´re happy that our pupils will be experts in english, but we don´t see that their teachers´knowledge in english is not good enough to teach chemistry or history in that language. The children don´t understand them and don´t dare to ask, because it has to be in english. Nobody asks why children in central and northen Europe have better skills in language, without bilingüal schools.
Is it productive that pupils use two hours to do their homework every day, because they have to copy all the questions? Or is it a waste of time,energy and paper? Why do our pupils have longer school days than the average in Europe, but have among the worst results, accordning to the PISA report?
Spain has hardly any resources to spend on environment right now. But couldn´t we just pick up the trash from our own pick-nicks? Or stop trowing cans from the car window? Meadows and lakes are full of trash – at the same time we spend huge sums of the taxpayers´money promoting rural tourism. Everybody sweep outside their own house, shine their facades and polish their cars. But "nature" is too far to care about.
There are still things that can be done, without spending money. Recessions come and go, but society seems to remain the same, no matter what ecomomical measures are taken by politicians.
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In my latin america travels i noticed trash everywhere. The roads were just a big garbage dump. No one knows how to stand in line. They yell across the restaurant to get the waiters attention or reach out and tap them and they stand way too close
I guess the nut doesnt fall far from the tree
They could really try to mix it up by defaulting on the euro debt, exiting the EZ, and nationalizing their banking system. Why not try some monetary reform instead of accepting the inevitable collapse of the debt based monetary system? I know. I know. Stupid question....
There is no guarantee that any person (unless you have made your deal with Satan), people or country will be wealthy and/or comfortable. However, what I believe to be true is that a person, people or country that has the ability to function independently without resources, slave labor or governing from outside its boundaries will be much stronger and able to weather the storms than someone who has let themselves grow soft through dependency.
And, while ultimately there is most likely nothing wrong with a global community of adults who cooperate with with each other, the elitist who want to force dependency and violence upon us seem to be anything but fit leaders for a global community. They do not have the right qualities to lead and unite people. This being the case, until those conditions develop, whereby leaders mature to the point where they can handle a world full of diverse populations, countries such as Spain (and IMO all countries) are seemingly much better served saying "thank you, no" and go off and make their own way.
Give time for those who feel compelled to lead, the time to mature into adulthood.
Wow teachers are getting arrested for offering private lessons?
Spanish govt = toxic waste
Hunger and desperation are huge motive forces...unfortunately, their outcomes are unpredictable. Into a new world of freedom following debt repudiation? Or into the hands of a strongman wispering sweet promises of security and salvation (if only you'll give him your sovereignty)? Which way will Spain (we) go?
You know... liberals in their enlightened state enjoy shitting on religion, or anything that appears to constrain their "rights"... Many say that religion is mind control, a relic from our primordial past... nothing more than a cabel of pedos enjoying themselves...
Filth, perversion and deviance have always been with us... but when you get the widespread acceptance that filth is enlightenment where politicians, judges, lawyers and the common person accept perversion (aka prostitution) as OK... know that nature (aka God) tends to clean this stuff up... with rather severe medicine. The Noahmadic flood is not just some story, or psychological meme that is part of the human archetype which is nothing more than mythology (as liberals are quick to point to). Scientists have confirmed that 6,000 years ago, a massive sheet of ice fell into the ocean off the north east of Canada, created a massive tsnuami which washed over much of the Middle East (via the Mediteranian). So don't think something is not coming.
Spain, Europe, North America and the western world in general are in the state we are in because of lack of morality and ethics - which are conservative words for lack of God in our lives. You have leaders who view the law as something that you work around and if you're caught, then pay the fine, as if money solves the damage that has been done. In fact, if you are caught, you are a celebrity. Clinton, Spitzer... the list is endless. There is no more shame or conscience left in many people. This artificial construct (the modern world) that we live in is a wonderful fabrication... but yet an illusion, disconnected from legitimate purpose and meaning. How many people have sacrificed their marriages, relationship with their children, siblings and friends in the pursuit of "I'm a somebody", or "look at me".
We're getting what we deserve... and you ain't seen nothing yet.
JMHO: Morals, ethics and spirituality are all internal. Religion is external. The battle is fought within each one of us and cramming someone else's idea of what "religion" should be most likely is not the answer. People need to find it within themselves.
You're right... but the problem is that nothing is being "found" within in. This is the failure of moral relativism. The assumption in what you are saying is that we can do it on our own... which is a falacy. We can't. If you believe in God... then you must believe that we are in a constant communion with him... meaning that we rely on God for internal and external needs. Religion (and its laws) provide guidance towards objective truths that we live by.
Instead of looking at religion as some sort of mind control or social code, realize that it is a legitimate form of living one's life in a way that betters society and ourselves.
God is a social projection. The god in any given society reflects the ideal mores of that group.
If one really followed what ones religion (God concept) envisions, then think about thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steral. The God of Abraham is the God of three major religions, which control mind and social codes differently.
If you ever decided to turn your start-treck vocabulary off ("God Concept") and realize that we have been given free will... which means deciding to kill, or not to kill, you'd realize that God allows us to do as we will. God has his rules... we have ours... and he only interferes when we ask, or when we have degraded to the point that we don't represent what we were made for.
You interpret God (or his lack of existance) through the evils that you see around you and quickly ascribe Darwinism as the sole reason things happen... and then say that if God was real, he would not allow these things to go on. There is a natural boundary between the corporal and spiritual which many of you athiests don't get.
Why not try to think about God and his laws through the responsiblity that each one of us has to do objective good.
This 'god' does not exist, and that which does not exist cannot give 'free will'.
But if it did exist, why does it refuse to cure amputees? Is it not omnipotent?
And have you ever stoned a disobedient child as required per bible/Jesus/'god'?
Web bot: The doctor will see you now, and he has nice pretty pills to give you. Usually the guy who yells the loudest about moral decay has the most to hide, ie: television preachers who do coke and bang hookers or boys on the side...
You know... I think we agree on this...
Mine however is not a yell... its just frustration at watching things come apart. If you have kids or have worked hard your whole life to see this shit happening and the level of corruption, you have to ask "why"... and that's what I'm doing.
What's your assessment of what's going on?
one leg of the NWO is to destroy exiting cultural structures... family, traditional values etc. because, for the people to accept the satanist religion that they follow and plan to roll out worldwide, the people must first be totally broken and desperate. in which case, the people will accept the NWO as their savior. this is not to suggest that most religious institutions have not long been controlled by the same people, but now is time to roll out the next stage. expect chaos...
go live under taliban rule then if you think strict religous societies are the answer.
the taliban ended the opium trade in Afghanistan... NATO kicked back into high gear. The court system is so corrupt in Afghanistan now, that many provinces have reverted to taliban courts so that people can get justice. point being, while the taliban certainly are not perfect, the western societies are no better, and in some cases, are clearly worse. turn off the propaganda.
You #uckin liberals are all the same... reach for the lowest common denominator to denouce what is common sense. Smear with the most extreme tool and pathetic comment you can find (taliban) to justify your smug liberal arrogance. You just proved what you are.
Religion by definition isn't common sense. It is utter fiction. And over the past 1500 years or so, religion is the leading cause of death (after natural causes).
Especially the two major abrahamic monotheist variants. Read the books, and you will discover supremacism, intolerance and endless calls to arms for the 'faithful' to either enslave, kill, subjugate, maim etc... the 'non-faithful'.
Oh, and since ol' Jesus said old testament law is unalterable for all time (not one letter... not one iota of the law... will be altered...) it means that in order to be a true 'christian' you are obliged to stone disobedient children.
web bot, if you are a Christian, 2 Tim 2:24-26 is a great response to liberals: "And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will." (ESV)
I am a devout Catholic and am not very proud of how I talk on here sometimes... but I've learnt that sometime, there is a time for rough talk.
Thank you for your reply and Bible verse. I will ponder it. Perhaps I need to tone down my viceral wording (just a bit). :)
Maybe a different way of stating it. Alot of you commentors on this very site talk about greed, hubris, the lack of honesty and criminals getting away scot free. Although Web bot is a Catholic he is correct in his assumptions that for the lack of any other word we have taken our morals/values out of society. People can now do soemthing stupid like put a hot cup of coffee in their crotch and when it spills sue and win millions, people can go to McDonalds and super size become obese and win a lawsuit because it is not their fault they are a frigging pig and made the choice.
The same thing happens in schools, work and even with friends. You can no longer do work based on your hand shake and your word. At one time we did. We must now be politically correct and not teach values and the need to try to have a productive lifestyle. People are taught in school and on TV to get the freebies and the government is here to support you. Vote for me and I will get you 2 dollar gas. Give me a brake.
Web bases his beliefs on faith in God and that is ok with me. As is almost everyone else who has a solid moral base and is thying to do the roght thing and be honest. Is'nt this stie all about finanaces and corruption as well as investing?
"The Spanish people feel that there is very little we can do. Perhaps we need something different, a change of mentality."
Not True, there is something big they can do . Why not Spanish people stop making 4 hours of Siesta everyday ? they don't even discuss this idea yet. They are Lazy people.
Classy comment. No generalized stereotyping taking place there.
I'd bet you wouldn't classify a 300-pound Amerikkkan who sits at a computer all week and hasn't exercised in 20 years as being "lazy", right"
I loves me some pointless sterotyping!
Government employing more people to improve the environment is certainly a worthy cause in a depressed economy, better than welfare with no strings attached ... but it has to be done at the same time as reduction in wages. Spain needs to reduce wages to the point where they achieve a current account surplus ... it's that simple.
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And finally, is this an indication of Spain's future ? Valencia is offered one-week courses at a cost of 100 euros, to prostitutes or those considering going into the profession, which include information on legislation, economic analysis of the profession and sexual techniques.
More coke and prostitutes please! At least they are going out with a bang.
Spain is in default.
Total Debt: 4.2 billion euros
Gdp: 0.9 billion euros
Yes he is. Spain's GDP is €1.068 trillion.
Spain is in default. Period.
No one will default. They can't risk the CDO's being triggered, Instead they'll have writedowns and back door bailouts.
That depends who issued the CDSs (CDOs don't trigger so much as implode). If they were issued by the German banks then sure, if they were issued by the US and UK banks we might see a split in TPTB. They usually protect eachother, but desperate times and all that.
Unintelligible. Is the premise now that the Spanish need a change of mentality to make up for the huge speculative bubble in RE and shady banking practices that no one has been held accountable for?
It seems this article is a huge diversion from the core of the problem in Spain.
But, but, the head of Banco Santander said that everything is fine....BWAAAHAAAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAAAA HAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Not unintelligle. I think the Author has Spain and California mixed up.


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Scales and speed building
Can someone point me in the direction of some scales? I'm looking to build speed and move around the frets smoother at faster speeds. I also need to build strength in all my fingers. I get cramps and not use to using my pinky alot. Also aside from scales are there other things I can do to help me with this? Also get cleaner at hammer ons and pull offs at faster speeds
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There's lots of other useful theory info there too, but the scale stuff starts in the 2nd post.
Before you jump into scales, I would advise you to learn about musical intervals first.
Wikipedia has a decent page with a table of the intervals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)
I suppose you could learn the major scale first and afterwards learn to interpret it from what you learn about intervals though. Actually, I learned the minor scale before the major scale or intervals and it didn't seem to hold me back; I already knew that I liked the "minor sound" so that's what I was interested in learning first. But yeah, aside from the rest of this convoluted paragraph, the major scale is the most straightforward and it should "click" with what you'll soon learn about intervals the easiest.
Try to stay away from memorizing shapes on the fretboard and focus on the notes themselves and how they sound/go together instead.
As for speed building, the important thing is to not play faster than you can handle and do your best job to analyze what you're doing. The important thing is that what you're playing sounds as perfect and musical as possible- once you can do that, then start focusing on speed. Shredding is pointless if you can't get it to sound good.
Maybe this is a bit vague, but I hope it helps. If anything I said here isn't clear to you I would be glad to try my best to correctly answer any questions you have.
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Sorry for the double post- the first one just got to that size where it crashes my browser instead when I click "submit reply" lol.
Also, posture is essential for the maximum comfort while playing. You need to be able to find the most comfortable position to play in- it's going to give you more endurance, and greatly decrease your risk of injuring yourself. This is especially important with speed techniques and barre chords. As a general rule, it's best to play something with the absolute minimum physical effort possible as long as you can get it to sound good. It's all about economy of motion, and it is developed the best by slow, deliberate practice where you can pay attention to all the fine details of what you're doing.
Pull-offs sound out more if you sort of flick the string as you release it rather than just tap it like a key on a keyboard. Hammer-ons don't really have that problem. This is just a little tip, I suppose.
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Dawson hit the nail on the head there
I just came here to reiterate something about speed. My guitar teacher has said to me on a few occasions "Don't worry, speed will come" and I must say that it's very true. Speed will develop with increased familiarity, therefore it's always best to building things up from a slow speed and, once you're able to do them properly at that speed, speed with naturally increase it from there...and then once you've come to that point you can train yourself to play like a fast maniac. Clarity and accuracy and smoothness is very important, and as Dawson's already said, being able to do stuff fast doesn't mean that it will sound good. Personally, I've come to recently realise that I have a very detached fretting style which sounds terrible - there's not always flow to what I'm playing. And it sucks because I'm learning jazz it's not so prevalent in my rock playing (because there's distortion to cover up my bad technique lol!. Also, being able to play fast doesn't equal better musicalness either. Just a thought for the interim.
I've found playing chromatic scales with all the fingers all over the fret board very helpful using only hammer ons and pull offs. Again, clarity is nb.
If you want a song with lots of hammer ons and pull offs, The Trooper by Iron Maiden springs immediately to mind.
In regards to the cramps, what's your wrist position like? Ideally, you want your wrist to your fretting hand as straight as possible
check out this pic (okay it's a bass, but exactly the same thing), very straight wrist.
the caption of this pic really speaks for itself. this is going to destroy your wrist.
if you're doing this (first pic) then i don't know
In regards to using your pinky, just use it when it makes most sense to. I've seen some people do like three fret stretches with their first and third fingers to reach the note they want when the pinky is a far more economic option. General rule of thumb I use, if the note you want is right under a certain finger, use that one. This goes back to that one finger per fret position stuff. Since I have no idea what kind of style you're playing, find some videos of songs that you're playing and take notice of how the guitarist is fingering the notes and mimic it.
hope this stuff helps
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It is hard to imagine that anyone is at an earlier stage of learning than I am, but for what it is worth I've been very slowly running up and down this (1st and 3rd fingers) to try and get my fingers to stretch between frets and my left and right hands to aim for the same strings etc. If I go too fast I either buzz or get lots of sliding noise (esp on acoustic) so I slow it down again...
You can hear where the blues scale notes fall in too which helps make you feel like you're better than you are!
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WHEELING - The Ohio Valley is experiencing an uptick of interest in the arts.
In the past year, a new art gallery opened in St. Clairsville inside Hays Landscape Architecture on Main Street. Local artists painted colorful images from nursery rhymes on the pillars supporting the Interstate 70 bridge through downtown Wheeling. A cooperative of artists renovated a Martins Ferry home to be used to promote the arts in the community and provide an artist-in-residence program, with the goal of bringing artists from around the country and world to the Ohio River city.
While these individual efforts blossom throughout the region, several larger groups continue to nurture and grow the arts. Oglebay Institute, the Strand Theatre Preservation Society and ArtsLink Inc. are three such organizations. Oglebay Institute is the oldest of the three, while the other two have existed for a little more than 10 years.
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Sue Petit portrays the Fairy Godmother and reads the story of "Cinderella" to pint-sized tea party patrons at a 2011 event to benefit the Strand Theatre in Moundsville.
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"Oglebay Institute has been an important part of the Ohio Valley community for nearly 83 years. I feel that our reputation is solid and the community perceives us as critical to the cultural quality of life," said Kathleen McDermott, Oglebay Institute president.
Oglebay Institute was formed in 1930 to "contribute to the joy of living" for local residents by developing and implementing cultural, educational and recreational programming in Oglebay Park, which had been acquired recently by the city of Wheeling. The institute now also operates outside the scope of the park; three of its five buildings - the Schrader Environmental Education Center, the Mansion Museum and the Glass Museum - are located within its limits, while the Stifel Fine Arts Center and Towngate Theatre are in other parts of the city.
In addition, the institute goes into the schools and offers programming to local public and private school students in everything from local natural habitats to art appreciation to Appalachian dance. The in-school programming ensures children of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds are exposed to the arts.
"While our core programs will always center around visual arts, theater, nature, history and dance, it is our mission to respond to trends, artist needs, student education and community interests as they pertain to these fields," McDermott said.
New programming initiatives include print making, raku pottery, digital media arts, archery, geocaching, smaller venue performance arts, film society and pre-professional dance, she added.
In New Martinsville, ArtsLink was founded in 2001 with the mission of "fostering and sustaining the rich artistic resources that are essential to the communities we serve and making the arts accessible to all." The organization serves Wetzel, Tyler and Monroe counties.
The group presents an annual concert series, providing a stage and audiences for cutting-edge talent in a variety of genres. Guitarist Ernie Hawkins will perform at The Wells Inn in Sisterville on March 10 and Doc Gibbs & New World Review will perform at the Lincoln Theater in New Martinsville on April 19. A special concert is on tap at the theater on June 15 in honor of Norbert Ebert and The Ebert Brothers Show, featuring famed bluegrass group The Seldom Scene as well as the Battle Weary Band and the Tharp Brothers.
"As a longtime member of the board, I have always had a positive response from patrons who attend our events," said Eric Vincent, ArtsLink president. "They have enjoyed the variety and diversity of performances and art we have presented to them."
ArtsLink also sponsors a free Arts in the Park festival in New Martinsville's Bruce Park on Independence Day.
Like Oglebay Institute, ArtsLink is dedicated to educating local youth in the performing arts.
"The students from our area schools have enjoyed the special performances and teaching moments they received from the performers," Vincent said.
Located between Wheeling and New Martinsville, the Strand Theatre Preservation Society in Moundsville is a group formed in 2000 with the purpose of restoring the historic Strand Theatre and also "providing Moundsville and the surrounding areas with a facility to house all expressions of the arts," according to the group's website. Its slogan is: "Restore the Strand & Build the Arts."
The theater opened in 1920 and operated regularly until 1968, then reopened in 1976. It continued to show films until closing in 1996. The preservation group began raising money in 2000 and launched a painstaking renovation project in several phases.
So far, it has raised $1.3 million and needs about $500,000 to complete the process, said Tiffany Turner, society vice president.
The theater was ready to open to the public in August 2011. A grand reopening took place last May with a showing of "Fool's Parade," the 1971 Jimmy Stewart picture based on Moundsville native David Grubb's novel. Filming took place in Moundsville and at the former West Virginia Penitentiary.
The Strand Theatre now hosts such events as film festivals, dance classes, theater productions and concert series. During the community event that welcomed the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall in August, for example, the Strand showed Vietnam-era films such as "Apocalypse Now" and "Good Morning, Vietnam."
Turner added the Strand has recently opened a fully functioning cafe and the group is currently "working very hard to make the 90-plus-year-old theater more handicap accessible."
A major focus of the society is bringing the arts to local children, she said.
"I feel that the Strand Theatre tries to offer a variety of programming to the community. One of our main focuses is the children of our county," Turner said. "We try to provide the schools with quality presentations of art, in various forms, and take these presentations directly to the schools."


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Due to BCCI restrictions on photography accreditation, the Herald will be bringing you all the action from India in the form of MS Paint renderings, courtesy of our work experience kid, Bobby Hundreds. Here we see Shane Watson swapping his dunce's cap for the Baggy Green, completing a rollercoaster fortnight in which he was stood down for the third Test, flew home for the birth of his son, then returned to India to become Australia's 44th Test captain.
Australia's tail has once again shown up the top order to revive the visitors' hopes in the fourth and final Test against India on Friday.
In Mohali, Mitchell Starc top scored with 99 to boost Australia's total and a week later it is Peter Siddle who has come to the rescue with a career-best contribution that leaves them in more respectable shape at 8-231.
After being in deep trouble at 7-136 the stubborn resistance of Siddle (47 not out) and Steve Smith (46) allowed Australia to stay in the contest on a bone-dry, cracking pitch crafted for their destruction.
Ravi Shastri, the former India cricketer turned larger than life commentator, described it best: "Put this pitch in a beauty contest, it would come last".
It is little wonder that the Australian camp entered the final Test against India doubting that it would last a full four days, let alone five. They had hoped, perhaps quixotically, they would not be on the wrong end.
But Australia's pace attack, featuring Siddle, James Pattinson, and Mitchell Johnson, will fancy their chances of enjoying some success of their own on the broken-up black soil at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium.
The menacing Johnson, in particular, will not have been displeased to see the flyer from Ishant Sharma that clattered into Phillip Hughes' helmet in the morning. Australia's spinners Nathan Lyon and Glenn Maxwell will hardly have been distressed at what they witnessed on Friday either.
"That's probably not the day-one wicket that I'm used to playing on," Smith said. "It's broken up a fair bit to start off with so it's obviously going to get tougher and tougher to bat on throughout the match...231 is not a bad day, I don't think.
"Hopefully we can grind out another 50 or so tomorrow and I think that will be quite competitive as a first-innings score on that wicket. It is going to be good for us to bowl on."
While the lower order saved the day Shane Watson did not enjoy an ideal start to his Test captaincy. Like a US President slipping down the stairs at his inauguration, Shane Watson's opening day in charge of Australia came unstuck. Friday's middle order capitulation was anything but what he had in mind for his first outing as Test captain, nor was another modest score of his own.
Watson had been lucky to survive on seven – escaping on two fronts, a stumping attempt and a leg-before chance, on the same ball – but did not last much longer.
Ravindra Jadeja, having dismissed Clarke five times in this series, continued his captain's curse by having Australia's stand-in leader stumped, this time successfully, by MS Dhoni after lunch. Australia, having been travelling along nicely via Phillip Hughes (45) and Ed Cowan (38) in the morning, lost 5-30. The absence of Clarke to prop up the faltering order was felt dearly. They could already begin thinking about booking early flights home as the series' leading bowler Ravi Ashwin (4-40) cleaned up again.
As was the case in Mohali it was left to the tail, accompanied by a patient Smith, to try and clean up the mess and they did so effectively.
Smith was not meant to even play in this series but his temperament against the spin of Jadeja, Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha suggests he should have been in the top six from the start.
Stylistically, the 23-year-old is closer to Clarke in the way he combats India's deadly slower bowlers than another other Australian batsman here.
A 53-run partnership with Siddle kept Australia afloat on Friday afternoon, and the Victorian added more valuable runs late in the day with state colleague Pattinson (11 not out). Siddle passed his
previous best score of 43 against England at the SCG in Sydney in 2011.
"I think that he's shown us how to play against the quality spin over here," Smith said of Siddle. "He's very comfortable so hopefully he can grind out another 40 or 50 tomorrow himself, and the tail can put on another 60 or 70. That'd be great."
Smith defended the failure of Australia's recognised batsmen to hold up the order. The team has had only one player, Clarke with his 130 in Chennai, score a hundred in the series. India, meanwhile, has six between them including two double centurions.
"It's good to be critical of that. It's something we haven't done very well this series," Smith said. "This wicket though, it's more of a second-innings wicket than it is a first-innings wicket.
"There's not much you can do sometimes on these wickets if the ball takes some rough. You've just got to try to stick to your game plan as much as you could. A ball's got your name on it sometimes and it will get you."
Clarke will leave Delhi on Saturday for further assessment on his injured back.
"The plan is for Michael to return to Sydney as soon as possible to have a series of scans and we will monitor his progress over the coming days before deciding on the best course of action," physiotherapist Alex Kountouris said.
"We will be taking the opportunity to investigate and manage his ongoing hamstring injury that has been intermittently troubling him since the Australian summer. A decision on his return to cricket will be made once we have evaluated the scans and considered the possible management options."


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January 27
d-wave Superconductivity in the Cuprates
Nejat Bulut
Dept. of Physics, UCSB
The high temperature superconductors have very interesting electronic properties. For instance, there is strong experimental evidence that the superconducting gap function has the unconventional d-wave symmetry. Experiments also suggest that the antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations and Coulomb correlations play an important role in producing the unusual electronic properties of these materials. Numerical calculations on simple models have been particularly helpful in understanding how d-wave pairing might arise in these materials and how the proximity to the metal-insulator transition modifies the electronic excitations. In this talk we will discuss, in simple terms, the experimental results on the electronic properties of these materials and what we have learned from numerical calculations of simple models. We will also discuss the search for other high temperature superconductors and the newly discovered superconducting cuprate ladder compounds.
February 3
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and Reducing Nuclear Danger
Sid Drell
SLAC, Stanford University
February 10
Mimicking the Sense of Smell: Use of Conducting Polymer Composite Arrays as an Electronic Nose
Nathan S. Lewis
Division of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
February 24
On the Road to the Solution of the Solar Neutrino Problem
Eric Norman
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
The present status of the Homestake, GALLEX, SAGE, and Kamiokande solar neutrino experiments will be reviewed. The discrepancy between all of the experimental results and the theoretical expectations has come to be known as the Solar Neutrino Problem. Possible solutions to this problem will be discussed. The next generation of solar neutrino experiments will be described. Among these is the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), which will consist of a 1000 tonne heavy water (D2O) Cerenkov detector that is designed to measure the flux, energy spectrum, and direction of neutrinos from the Sun and supernovae. It is presently under construction in a very low background environment 2000 meters underground near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The basic measurements that will be made with the SNO detector are:
With these two measurements, it will be possible to:
March 3
The 18 Parameters of the Standard Model in Your Everyday Life
Robert N. Cahn
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
March 17
Helium Lead and Heat Flow Paradoxes for the Earth
Don Anderson
Dept. of Geophysics, California Institute of Technology
March 24
Better Bomb-Detection Through Interaction-Free Measurements
Paul Kwiat
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Several years ago a method was proposed (and verified) by which one could optically detect the presence of an object without a photon interacting with it. The method, which relied on the principle of complementarity, worked at best 50% of the time. More recently, we have discovered (and partially demonstrated) a way in which the fraction of interaction-free measurements can be brought arbitrarily close to one, using an application of the quantum Zeno effect. The new method has possible applications in preparing Schroedinger cats, photographing a Bose-Einstein condensate without destroying it, and making Baked Alaska.
April 7
The Future of Particle Physics
David Gross
ITP, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
April 14
The Science-Trained Professional: A New Breed for the New Century
Sheila Tobias
Author / Educator
April 21
High-Tc SQUIDs: An Emerging Technology
John Clarke
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
April 28
The Geometry of Nonlinear Dynamics: From Turing Patterns to Superconductors
Ray Goldstein
Department of Physics, University of Arizona


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As a few of you maybe noticed, I haven´t been online on this account here much lately.
Thjat is mostly because i lost interest in deviantART and are very active on tumblr instead.
That does not mean I won´t continue my writing series.
Drawing requests that I have taken until now I have to dissapoint sadly, as to that I won´t keep them up and drop them.
However, I won´t visit this account here anymore.
My new account is "CheshirePounce", if you might want to keep in cntact with me and continue reading my series.
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Cocchi Americano Aperitif
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Cocchi Americano is an aperitif wine infused with herbs and spices. It's similar to the very popular Lillet, but I find it a little more balanced than Lillet, sweet but bracing, with notes of bitter orange.
I serve it just like Lillet - over ice with a big swipe of orange peel and a splash of soda. A lovely aperitif for a spring evening.


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What a delight it is to offer this wonderful children's colouring book by Karen Wightman.
Karen has been a yoga teacher for nearly 10 years and has been practicing yoga far longer than that. She is a sincere practitioner of our beloved craft and lives the yoga every day.
Karen has taken the time and divine effort to create for all of us this beloved book. Printed on high quality paper and filled with love, this book contains all of Karen's hand drawn pictures. These are designed to incorporate the poses and understanding of postures as well as give children something to do in the art world.
The cobra and the dog remind the children how accessible yoga can be. But most importantly, just how fun yoga is!! Children are the best reminders we adults have regarding the sweetness and the light created from practicing yoga. They hop onto the mat and the laughs and fun begin!
This colouring book helps children connect with the yoga postures and awakens an interest in art that work beautifully together.
Karen has tried and tested these works on children before they join the book. We are sure your little ones will be thrilled to sit down on a rainy day or take this divine work outside when the sun is shining and find their own colours and joy to work together with the postures and drawings held inside.
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May 28, 2008
FRESNO, Calif. - The Fresno State track and field team has already left its mark in the Bulldog history book. The 2008 team has qualified 21 athletes, the most in school history, for the NCAA West Regional slated for May 30-31. Fourteen women and seven men have earned bids to the regional.
For the women, two more athletes, Kristina Jackson and Hilliard, added their names to the individual qualifiers list at the WAC Championship two weeks ago. Jackson, the lone female veteran of the regional meet, registered a personal-best 13.79 for second-place in the 100-meter hurdles. Hilliard, WAC Freshman of the Year, qualified as an individual in the 200 after winning the conference title. Hilliard qualified at the 4x400 relay at the Mt. SAC Relays, along with teammates Christina Lopez, Erica McCoy and Marina Santana.
The throwing corps will be well-represented at the Regional Meet as five throwers hit qualification marks this season. Leading the throwers is junior Sharon Ayala. Ayala shattered the Fresno State hammer throw record three times this season, topping out at 203-4 (61.98m) at the Mt. SAC Relays. Her mark is more than 25-0 further than the qualifying mark of 177-8 (54.15m) and the 18th best throw in the nation. Ayala also won the WAC title in the event last weekend. Grace Wiesmann will also compete in the regional in the hammer. The junior tossed a personal-best 178-0.5 (54.29m) to win the event at the Cal-Poly Dual. The freshman shot put record for the Bulldog no longer stands, thanks to both Rosario Sanchez and Kayla Xavier. Both Sanchez's 49-5.75 (15.08m) and Xavier's 48-2 (14.68m) surpass the previous record of 46-11.75 (14.32m) set by La'Sha Hill in 2003 and qualify for the regional. Sanchez and Xavier each put up their best mark at the USC Invitational in March. Freshman Brooke Pighin rounds out the throwing contingent. The javelin thrower has a season-best of 154-7 (47.11m), for 27th in the NCAA and a regional-qualifying mark.
Sarah Savage continues Fresno State's tradition of pole vaulting excellence, having cleared the regional-qualifying mark of 12-7.5 (3.85m) at the Cal-Poly Dual to solidify a spot in the post-season.
On the track, Vanessa Sautebin will join Jackson in the 100 hurdles at regionals. Sautebin hit the perfect qualifying time of 13.92 at the Mt. SAC Relays. The distance runners have two representatives at the regionals. Senior Meredith Hawkins ran a 10:42.33 at the Brutus Hamilton Invite, more than eight seconds better than the qualifying mark. Roxanne Sellick also qualified at the Brutus Hamilton, with a 4:48.94 performance in the one mile. Her converted time of 4:27.44 qualifies her for the 1,500 at the regional meet. Sellick solidified her spot by winning the WAC title in the 1,500 last weekend.
The men, like the women, will have a strong showing in the throws at the Regional Meet. Brian Vazquez has the top mark for the Bulldogs in the hammer, tossing a 207-8 (63.29m) at the Mt. SAC Relays, putting him in 30th in the nation. Chris Witscher's 187-4 (57.10m) in the hammer throw from the Cal Poly Dual resulted in his second-straight qualification for the post-season. A veteran of the NCAA Regional Meet in the shot put, Oscar Rodriguez will be competing in two events this year. Rodriguez threw both the shot put and the hammer beyond the qualifying mark. The senior threw the hammer 190-10 (58.17m) and the shot 57-4.25 (17.48m), as the first double-qualifier for the Bulldogs on the season.
Sophomore Val-Pierre Dai'Re also qualified for two events: the 110 hurdles and the 400 hurdles. Dai'Re ran a 14.24 in the 110 hurdles at the USC Invite and the following week timed in at 51.80 to secure a post-season bid in the 400 hurdles. Kendrick Young earned a bid to the NCAA Regionals in the 400 hurdles, clocking in at 52.37 at the WAC Championships.
In the distance events, Frank Sanders will compete in both the 800 and the 1,500. Sanders ran a qualifying time of 1:50.08 in the 800 at the Mt. SAC Relays. Last week, Sanders championed the WAC in the 1,500 to make him a double-qualifier.
Gary Lee, a freshman, will compete in the long jump for the Bulldogs. Lee's leap of 25-6.25 (7.78m) from the Modesto Relays easily qualified him for Regionals. The distance by Lee breaks the freshman record in the event as well as ranking him 20th in the nation.
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Three delightful prang still adorned with white stucco rise above the Wat Sri Sawai's double wall built from brick and laterite. Founded under the Khmers in the 12C, this temple dedicated to Shiva undoubtedly remained unfinished following their departure: the prang were only completed in the 15C during the Ayutthaya period. Built on an east-west axis, they have conserved their delicate reliefs which bear witness to the refinement of the Lopburi style. Vishnu and Shiva are recognisable among the characters depicted.
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