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I'm going crazy over the art of Chiara Bautista! Her work is kind of bizarre, and there is just much to look at within each piece – I'm totally mesmerized! Apparently she also goes by the name Milk, which is the name on her Myspace page. Check it out if any of the work above interests you – there's a ton of it on there, and in better quality and sizes. Awesome!
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I'm pretty sure the second piece was inspired by Saint Sebastian, who was martyred by being tied to a tree and shot to death with arrows.
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wow, those are really amazing! the second one is my favorite
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Wow! Talk about drama. We're finally getting a sneak peak of Real Housewives of Miami's third season and it looks like it will be one for the record books. Weddings are supposed to be a happy time for women, but it looks like that will be a nightmare-like experience this season. In the promo, Adriana De Moura and Joanna Krupa are both planning their beautiful dream weddings at the same time, which, as you can probably guess, looks like it will be causing some major problems this season. Take a look at the dramatic promo and prepare yourselves for the race down the aisle.
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Award highlights the success of this popular mentoring program for women in Harvard's science and engineering programs.
HGWISE mentoring chairs Allyson Morton, Julia Rogers, and Jing Shi with Yang Chen (second from right), who nominated Rehana Patel for Mentor of the Year.
The increasingly popular mentoring program organized by the Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (HGWISE) announced the recipient of its Mentor of the Year Award on May 7. Twelve mentors were nominated by their mentees: Dr. Kirsten Bomblies, Dr. Kathryn Commons, Dr. Connie Chow, Dr. Meredith Fisher, Dr. Rachelle Gaudet, Dr. Neena Haider, Dr. Joanne Kamens, Dr. Beate Lanske, Dr. Zarin Machanda, Dr. Rehana Patel, Dr. Vicki Rosen, and Dr. Anne Wang. All of these mentors fostered exceptional relationships with their mentees, serving as role models and working with them to develop professional skills.
The Mentor of the Year Award went to Rehana Patel, who received her BA in physics from the University of Cambridge and her PhD in mathematics from Wesleyan University. Currently a visiting assistant professor of mathematics at Olin College, where she researches mathematical logic, Patel has held faculty positions at Harvard, St. John's University, and Wesleyan University. She first heard about the HGWISE mentoring program as a preceptor in Harvard's math department and was excited by the opportunity to participate.
Since becoming a mentor, Patel has been very impressed with the program and has nothing but admiration for the HGWISE organization. As a mentor, she channels her own PhD advisor, Dr. Carol Wood, a professor emerita at Wesleyan University, whose professional but human relationship with her students made a strong impression on her. Patel's two mentees, who nominated her for the award, feel the same way about her and rave about her mentorship.
Yang Chen, who is a third year student in Harvard's statistics PhD program, credits Patel for helping her learn how to come out of her shell. "I have become more and more confident in the workplace," she says. "I raise questions in seminars when necessary. I never hesitate to speak up when I feel like doing so. Moreover, I stepped out of school to participate in activities and work with people from various backgrounds. One day Rehana asked, 'Are you still the girl from two years ago who worried about almost everything?' Ha, yeah, it is me, it is a better me."
Both mentees mentioned the incredible amount of support they received from Patel, especially while preparing for their qualifying exams. "Being able to talk with someone who was not my advisor but still knew the ins-and-outs of academia was invaluable," says the second mentee, who prefers to remain anonymous. "I appreciate that Rehana can share her own experiences by giving me perspective on my situation and by being a very patient listener (even at 10 o'clock at night!)." Patel also gave her students the opportunity to present their research as guest lecturers at Olin College, allowing them to practice their presentation skills and interact with students, an experience they both enjoyed.
The popularity of the HGWISE mentoring program illustrates the growing interest among students to connect with professionals and scholars outside of Harvard. This year, 120 students from science and engineering programs at Harvard are participating. The HGWISE mentoring chairs (Julia Rogers, Allyson Morton, Jing Shi, and previous co-chair Allison Provost) match these participants with 80 different mentors—professors, post docs, teachers, administrators, and industry scientists in the Boston area—based on skill sets and shared interests. In addition to making these pairings, the HGWISE mentoring chairs work tirelessly to host events and brainstorm how the mentoring program can best serve the needs of the Harvard community. This year, students were matched with male mentors for the first time, and in the future, HGWISE hopes to expand the program to include more mentors from the social sciences.


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The director of the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System will hold a series of meetings with stakeholders to explain "efforts to improve health care access for the veterans we serve," she announced Tuesday in a message to stakeholders.
"These meetings will be conducted in addition to our regularly scheduled Veteran Service Officer/Congressional Caseworker meetings that occur on a quarterly basis at each of our facility locations," Suzanne Klinker told stakeholders in her message.
She said that unlike the quarterly, face-to-face gatherings already held, "these meetings will be conducted via video teleconference. You will have the option to attend in person at the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in Bay Pines or connect virtually from the Lee County VA Healthcare Center in Cape Coral."
The meetings, all scheduled to start at 10 a.m. and last an hour, will be held Aug. 22, Oct. 31 and Nov. 21, Klinker told stakeholders.
Those wishing to attend are being asked to contact the Office of Public Affairs, she said.
"We recognize that timely access to care is essential to positive outcomes and remain committed to improving health care access across southwest Florida as the veteran population continues to change and grow," Klinker wrote in her message. "Across our health care system we continue to make positive strides to improve access for the veterans we serve, and are truly fortunate to have so many stakeholders committed to doing what is right for the veterans. I always welcome your feedback as we continue to improve in order to best meet the needs and expectations of the veterans we have the privilege to serve, and I am appreciative of the calls and emails received in addition to engagement at our regular stakeholder sessions."
The Rev. Bob Swick, who represents veterans across the region, lauded Klinker's efforts.
"Keeping us informed is a most important responsibility of Bay Pines," said Swick in an email to veterans. "We applaud Director Klinker's initiative and encourage her to continue with announcements and updates going forward."
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South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard today signed into law a controversial bill that will allow his state's schools to arm teachers and other staff with guns. As the New York Times explains, a few other states have provisions on the books that make it technically possible for a teacher to be armed in the classroom, but the Mount Rushmore State is "believed to be the first state to pass a law that specifically allows teachers to carry firearms."


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Thailand and Qatar: Human Trafficking
The annual human trafficking report has just been published by the US State Department in the Trafficking in Persons (TiP) report.
Thailand is now in the lowest echelons of the ranking that has been set out by the US State Department and that comes down to saying that it's on a par with North Korea and Iran or Saudi Arabia. Qatar is hardly any better and is just on a rung above those countries meaning that it enters into a watchlist of countries that need to be monitored in the future.
Although, honestly, why these reports gets published is one thing. Yes, we need to know which countries treat their people the best and the worst and why. But, that's hardly sufficient to just draw up a list of those countries that are failing to combat human slavery taking place within their borders. Drawing up a list is just nice to look at. Doing nothing is worthless.
Both Thailand and Qatar have been downgraded in the rankings.
Recently a Guardian newspaper enquiry into the shrimp industry in Thailand showed the failings of a system that only perpetuated the slave labor of people, especially immigrant workers. All of that to fill our plates with low-cost shrimp so that we can eat whatever we want for next-to-nothing in the West.
A State Department official, Luis CdeBaca stated "I think the recent investigations [focusing on slavery and trafficking issues] in Thailand were fortuitous in their timing because, as we were doing our diplomatic job, these pieces of work have created a conversation around serious issues of trafficking in global fisheries". But, dialogue isn't enough. We spend far too much time just talking and not doing, these days for fear of losing out on what we can get from these countries.
In Qatar, the spotlight was thrown on the tenured positions of foreign workers that were forced to surrender their passports and unable to live the country, bound into contracts for life by their sponsors. The State Department said: "in Qatar we see a dramatic reliance on foreign labor – yet, even though there are legal structures in place to protect [migrant workers], these seem to exist largely on paper". So, laws and structural changes to the way people are employed have little effect when a government is dead set on doing exactly what it wants to exploit people. Laws are there to be broken, anyhow.
Thailand was on the watchlist (tier 2) for four years and now has fallen into tier 3. So, will the same just end up happening to Qatar? The state department says that it may cause diplomatic tensions between the US and the two countries in a bid to make them change. So the US will have diplomatic tensions with Qatar? Or the US has had for the past four years diplomatic tensions with Thailand? Have they been putting the pressure on in Thailand? Obviously not, otherwise they wouldn't have dropped to tier 3, would they?
But, has that changed the plight of the people working in those countries? Have we stopped buying the shrimp? Have the supermarkets stopped stocking the slave-produced stuff? Did the World Cup 2022 get questioned over the slavery their? No, as we all know already, is the only answer to all of those questions. So, why waste money from the State Department if we are going to do nothing about the slave trade? Modern-day slavery is there and is there to stay. Nobody's going to stand up and fight for any of it to change, are they really?
The report ranks 188 countries according to their willingness to combat trafficking and human slavery. But, is it just another report that ends up getting thrown into a drawer, especially since it is largely colored by the US's political, economic and diplomatic interests around the world? In the bad books of the US, you'll never go up in the rankings, whatever you do. Friends and economic allies, you can be sure to stay where you are.
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Quoting from a report by a government disinformation agency without the slightest modifier to it. /facepalm
So much silliness.
No human trafficking along the southern US border now is there?
Perhaps USSA should be added to the list. What the Thais do (and I'm not excusing it either) has very little difference to the current open borders in our SW that is spun to Central Americans to send their children to the USSA unaccompanied through extraordinarily hash Mexican barrios and known high crime areas. Presumably along with nickel and dime welfare stripends they will exploited in low cost agri, sweat shops and other low skills low renumeration 'jobs'.
Granted this is an ObOzO demographic coup-de-etat that is pre planned, but still highly exploitive of these poor kids being cut loose by their parents to make the highly dangerous journey to the border.
Why are they not considered political refugees?
Like for the 168 cases from yesterday in the US?
Or for the 259% increase in reports of slavery in the US under Obozo? --- (but unlike golfing or diplomacy- Barry does actually excel at being a house nigger... just the skill 'Mericans really wanted from their first half white head of state)


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At a birthday party everyone honors the birthday person with gifts, well, show your guests how much you appreciate them as well by giving them these personalized notebooks! Sure to be a classic!
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I have a long list of questions that arrived via comments and email over the last several months. I intend to answer them all, eventually. Someday. I'll start today and see how far I get.
Long ago, Heather M. asked the following questions. I wonder if she believes a person is capable of procrastinating for as long as I have.
Who cooks? Do you have regular menus?
Menus? uh- er, I…
I am working toward having regular menus. Right now, I'm doing very well if I know in the morning what we'll be eating that evening.
The girls do much of the cooking, and I've recently made that rather more official. I typed up a list of "kid dinners" since Hubby and I are low-carbing, and I let each of the 4 older girls (down to 9yo Megan) choose one dinner to prepare for the week. This covers Monday through Thursday and works out well because Hubby often gets home late at night. The children can eat earlier and all the lovely toasty carbs are gone by the time he gets home.
Due to longstanding family tradition, Friday is Pizza Night.
Saturdays are a family day, so I cook something that the whole family can eat together. On Saturday evening, we prepare food for our church's fellowship meal after the service every Sunday.
What type of outings is your family able to take? You recently mentioned visiting your out-of-town in-laws, and your day at the zoo. How else are you able to get out of the house?!?! Options are limited with so many children- people don't generally invite us over, and we have a small home like you, so can't have many over (especially during the Cleveland winters, when I can't kick them all outside LOL)! There's the zoo on occasion (the indoor rainforest during the winter), the mall (to go up and down the escalators or throw pennies in the fountain or visit the pet store!) Occasionally the library, but even that is a challenge. . . .
Even though our house is small, we love to have people over! We're lazy about issuing formal invitations but we love it when friends drop by spontaneously or when we actually do talk somebody into a premeditated visit!
We really don't go out often since we live so far from town. A trip to town costs a pretty penny in gas, so I try to make every trip count. I also want our children to be content at home and to think of being at home as the "norm," rather than what you do on a boring day when there's nothing better to do.
Psa 128:3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
As for other outings, we love to run errands, especially if we don't have a long list of important items that simply must be done. Shopping trips can be fun and provides plenty of opportunities for training, witnessing and learning. We usually pack a simple lunch of peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and make day of it.
As you mentioned, we also love dropping in on pet shops to browse. I even call it "the free zoo." You'd think our recent trips to the zoo would tarnish the effect of the pet shop, but that has not been the case. Seeing lions and alligators from afar has not at all diminished the thrill of seeing an angelfish or baby hamster up close.
And one other outing that we try to do regularly during warm weather: swimming! There are several local swim holes nearby, relatively unknown to the masses. I hate public pools and crowded beaches, but thanks to country living we can nearly always find a place for a quiet swim without being forced to see things that really shouldn't see the light of day.
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I guess my question would be…what is it like to have 7 children? What advice would you give for a first time mom-to-be?
It is not, not, not 7 times as much work as having one child. Really, don't scare yourself by imaging that! It's fun, it's busy, and sometime it seems like I never have a quiet moment with my own thoughts. But that's only because I forget that I'm the mom and I can say, "Children, I need for nobody to talk to me until the timer beeps. If you need something, just wait quietly."
Spend time training your children right from the start. Little issues that seem unimportant when you have one or two children can become a big deal when you have a houseful, and by then you will have thoroughly ingrained habits to train out of your large and ever-growing family.
The world would have us believe that a large family is an overwhelming burden and a sacrifice that only the supremely patient should attempt. This is not true. Children take work and they are a great responsibility, but any parent will tell you that they are worth it – including the parents of more than 1.2 children.
Pro 14:4 Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
Is there any hope for getting your body back in shape after pregnancy? 🙂
Hmmm…I've not had much trouble, but I hesitate to take credit. I'm not a highly active person and I despise exercise (oops – did I say that out loud?).
I will say that my kids have helped me stay in shape. It's hard to be too lazy when little people need you, and it's hard to eat too much or mindlessly munch when everything gets divided between 8 little birdies with open mouths.
Of course, you could hide while you eat your goodies, or Just Say No, but that still takes work. No matter how you look at it, a mom of many has to spend calories before she gets to take them in. Trust me, it helps.


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Despite the dizzying array of new fee rules that 401(k) plan administrators and companies providing services to those plans must implement this year, Debbie Hoover says her small manufacturing company is ready for them.
Hoover, director of human resources for Los Angeles-based industrial paint maker Ellis Paint, says that although she initially was overwhelmed by the new wave of regulations, her retirement plan administrator, Fidelity Investments, coached her on the changes and new responsibilities. Ellis, with 150 employees, decided that Fidelity would do the detail work and would later explain it to its plan participants.
"I was concerned about how we were going to do this when the regulations first went through," Hoover says about the double dose of rules governing fees charged to retirement plans like 401(k)s. The regulations, which were issued by the Labor Department in several phases, all must be implemented this year. "As a small company, having Fidelity handle it seemed to be the most efficient way to do this."
The rules are the Labor Department's two-step way of making sure that plan sponsors such as Ellis Paint know how much providers like record keepers, money managers and plan administrators are charging to service 401(k) plans. Another regulation, which was finalized in October 2010 but goes into effect this summer, requires plan sponsors to tell participants about these fees and how they affect their account balances.
Even though the first regulation has providers like Fidelity doing a lot of work, companies shoulder a lot of responsibilities too. Experts say larger plans are ready for the change, but many midsize and small companies are trying to establish deadlines for information and the actions they should to take once it's assembled.
"The challenge for many plans is following the process," says David Wray, president of the Plan Sponsor Council of America, formerly the Profit Sharing/401k Council of America. "That means going through and making sure [plan sponsors] can assemble all the information so it can be benchmarked."
The requirements can be confusing, says Sam Henson, senior ERISA counsel for Lockton Retirement Services in Kansas City, Missouri. To help plan sponsors through the process, Lockton created a checklist to make sure plan sponsors are reaching the right service providers before deadlines for information hit.
"Lots of plan sponsors are scrambling to make sure they are doing this," Henson says. "The intent of the rule is great. The [Department of Labor] wants to make sure plan sponsors are getting what they are paying for, but in order to get there, the DOL has put a tremendous burden on them."
Plan sponsors should be contacting all service providers that charge the plan at least $1,000 or more annually. By May 1, plan sponsors need to figure out whether fees are reasonable, Henson says. If providers haven't given the information by July 1, plan sponsors should issue a written request. If providers haven't complied by Nov. 1, plan sponsors should notify the Labor Department.
Plan sponsors need the provider fee information so they can give participants data on fees. This regulation comes in two waves: the first requiring plan sponsors to give participants plan and investment information due Aug. 30, and the second delivering quarterly information on fees and services to participants' individual accounts, due Nov. 14.
The key to the process is documentation, experts agree. It's important the plan sponsor have a paper trail to show the Labor Department, Henson says.
"You've got to have a really detailed file to show you tried to comply with the rules to the best of your ability," Henson says. "That's the way the DOL does everything."
The penalty for not complying is draconian, says Marcia Wagner, owner of Boston-based Wagner Law Group. If a provider doesn't give the plan sponsor the necessary information, or if fees are found unreasonable, the plan sponsor must fire the provider.
Plan sponsors ignoring these outcomes could be sued by participants and the Labor Department as well as face a 15 percent excise tax and other penalties, she says.
"You don't want to mess with this law," Wagner says. "The Labor Department isn't playing around with this."
Patty Kujawa is a freelance writer based in Milwaukee. To comment email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I've got tomorrow off for my birthday and I am looking for somewhere that has good crab cakes. I've had a craving for them and I just don't know where to go. I'm looking at either Cedar Rapids or Dubuque. I'm willing to go a little further if someone has a good suggestion. Thanks.
In Worthington, IA there is a pace called Simon's. At one time they had fresh seafood from Maryland. Good luck.
The jokes almost write themselves on this board.
I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
If you find some let me know. I lived in MD for 2 years and dearly miss crab cakes and steamed crabs.
Daniel Arthur's in Cedar Rapids.
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If you find some let me know. I lived in MD for 2 years and dearly miss crab cakes and steamed crabs.
Spent some time living in DC and nothing has ever come close to Bathesda, MD crabcakes and crabs :(
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Daniel Arthur's in Cedar Rapids.
The winner. Also have great scallops.
Smugglers Wharf in Cedar Rapids Czech village. The crab cakes are one of their signature entrees.
I've never lived on the east coast or have ever been there so I don't even really know what good seafood is, so I won't be too hard to please. I think I might check out Smugglers Wharf. My wife has said that place is pretty good and I've never been there so it sounds like the perfect place to go.
I usually just drive a couple hundred miles south to eat at a Captain D's franchise. But thats just me.
Grew up in Maryland and my folks still live there.
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Buy the fresh ones online. They will overnight them to you on dry ice and they are effing fantastic when broiled. My parents sent me some last year as a birthday gift.
I have had these fresh from G&M, too. Very little difference in taste between "fresh" and "shipped" ones.
Best part is, they're loaded with jumbo lump crab meat and very little filler!
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Jan. 26, 2013
SEATTLE, Wash. - Chioma Amaechi smashed the Cal record in the women's weight throw by nearly four feet and later claimed first in the shot put competition, while Taylor Kientzel swept the men's long jump and triple jump as the Golden Bears wrapped of their second indoor meet of the season at the UW Invitational.
All told, Cal captured six separate events on Saturday. In addition to Amaechi and Kientzel. Derek While won the men's weight throw and Jordan Locklear prevailed in the mile.
Amaechi, who set a PR of 60-3.00 in the weight throw just last weekend at the Cherry & Silver Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M., topped that mark on her fourth attempt with a throw of 63-4.00, which edged the previous school record of 63-3.25 set by Linda Oseso last year. Then on her fifth try, Amaechi uncorked a throw of 67-2.00 to easily win the event over Irene Kujore of UC Santa Barbara, who was the runner-up at 63-10.25.
Amaechi established another personal best with a winning effort of 52-6.50 in the shot put, improving by more than two feet from a mark of 49-10.00 she set last weekend. The result shot her up to fourth on Cal's all-time performer list. Runner-up Victoria Owers also reached the Bears' top 10. With her distance of 51-7.00, the freshman now stands fifth in school history in the event.
Kientzel came from behind to win the long jump. Down by three-quarters of an inch entering his sixth and final attempt, he leapt 24-5.75 to not only secure first place, but beat his previous lifetime best by nearly a full foot. Teammate Jonte Grant took third at 23-4.50 with Chase Wheeler fourth at 23-0.75.
In the triple jump. Kientzel used his fifth attempt to take the lead, soaring to 50-10.75 to set his second PR of the day. His mark nipped UC Riverside's Ryan Swafford by a mere 1.25 inches. As in the long jump, Bears also finished third and fourth with Grant going 48-6.00 and Chad Jones 48-3.50.
White won the men's weight throw with an effort of 62-4.00, which came on his final try. The effort pushed him ahead of fellow Bear Chijoke Nwuzi, who settled for second at 61-3.50 despite a more than two-foot improvement on personal best.
In the mile run, Jordan Locklear and Chris Walden placed 1-2, with Locklear crossing in 4:08.11 and Walden right behind in 4:08.13. Matt Carpowich competed in the invitational mile and took 11th in 4:07.90.
Dash Oliver twice lowered his PR. After being timed in 6.86 during the preliminary heats, he came through the finish in 6.85 seconds in the final, which was good for fifth place.
Ray Stewart placed second in the men's 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.89 seconds, trailing only Oregon's Johnathan Cabral, who set a meet record of 7.75. Alima Kamara also took runner-up in honors in the women's invitational 400 meters in 55.65.
Cal takes a week off from competition before getting back in action at the Don Kirby Invitational Feb. 8 in Albuquerque and the Flotrack Husky Classic Feb. 8-9 in Seattle.
UW Invitational
Dempsey Indoor Facility / Seattle, Wash.
California Results
60 meters (prelims) - 5. Dash Oliver 6.86; 10. Chase Wheeler 7.01; 15. Charles Saseun 7.06
60 meters (final) - 5. Dash Oliver 6.85; 10. Chase Wheeler 6.97
400 meters - 14. Randy Bermea 49.56; 16. Daniel Davis 49.62
Invitational Mile - 11. Matt Carpowich 4:07.90
Mile - 1. Jordan Locklear 4:08.11; 2. Chris Walden 4:08.13
Invitational 3000 meters - 5. Jordan Locklear 8:21.04
60-meter hurdles (prelims) - 1. Ray Stewart 7.89; 8. Chad Jones 8.38; 9. Randy Bermea 8.41; 10. Maurice Valentine 8.45
60-meter hurdles (final) - 2. Ray Stewart 7.89; 5. Chad Jones 8.36; 7. Randy Bermea 8.46
High Jump - 3. Nick Ridge 6-11.50 (2.12m); T4. Brian Carmichael 6-9.50 (2.07m); T7. Mike Tracy 6-7.50 (2.02m)
Long Jump - 1. Taylor Kientzel 24-5.75 (7.46m); 3. Jonte Grant 23-4.50 (7.12m); 4. Chase Wheeler 23-0.75 (7.03m)
Triple Jump - 1. Taylor Kientzel 50-10.75 (15.51m); 3. Jonte Grant 48-6.00 (14.78m); 4. Chad Jones 48-3.50 (14.72m)
Shot Put - 6. Sullivan Parker 51-11.75 (15.84m); 11. Ethan Cochran 49-4.25 (15.04m)
Weight Throw - 1. Derek White 62-4.00 (19.00m); 2. Chijoke Nwuzi 61-3.50 (18.68m); 7. Scott Esparza 56-8.00 (17.27m)
60 meters (prelims) - 16. Malaina Payton 7.76; 20. Carisma Lyday 7.79; 21. Tamunosaki Higgwe 7.80
Invitational 400 meters - 2. Alima Kamara 55.65
400 meters - 18. Taylor Lawson 58.02
Invitational Mile - 18. Sydney Gray 4:54.31
Invitational 3000 meters - 25. Taylor Dutch 9:51.36
High Jump - T7. Kristin Rimbach 5-5.75 (1.67m); T7. Gianna Fernandez 5-5.75 (1.67m)
Long Jump - 3. Malaina Payton 19-3.50 (5.88m)
Triple Jump - 5. Amanda Hunter 39-2.50 (11.95m)
Shot Put - 1. Victoria Owers 52-6.50 (16.01m); Chioma Amaechi 51-7.00 (15.72m)
Weight Throw - 1. Victoria Owers 59-1.25 (18.01m)


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Liberal standards
Josh Chavetz of Oxblog (oxblog.blogspot .com) commented on a poll that measured likely Democratic primary voter response to the names of presidential candidates when titles-such as Retired General for Wesley Clark-accompanied names. Support for legislators (Gephardt, Lieberman, Kerry, Edwards) went up, while Mr. Clark's numbers went down. Mr. Chavetz wrote, "To a number of likely Democratic primary voters, Clark's military service is a negative. In other words, the impression that a significant part of the party base is looking for a savior with ready-made credibility on military issues is called into question."
Also called into question: The University of California-Berkeley's apparent acceptance of hundreds of "marginally academically qualified students" and its rejection of other students with much higher test scores. Some of the marginal students had SAT scores between 600 and 1000 while rejected students had scores between 1400 and 1600 (the maximum). Joanne Jacobs (joannejacobs.com) commented: "It's hard to believe students with below-average math and verbal skills can succeed at a university designed to educate the ablest students in the state. Berkeley is a sink-or-swim environment. Except for star athletes, who will get tutoring and support, underqualified students are likely to sink."
Cultural relevance alone
Chris Johnson (mcj.blogspot.com) is one of the conservative bloggers examining the crisis within the Episcopal Church after the appointment of an openly homosexual bishop. His take: "The Episcopal Church will keep going, with perhaps even more approval from the secular culture than it had before. No doubt it will have a certain cachet with the gay community. Lots of ECUSA dioceses will take lots of ECUSA parishes to court causing lots of new Anglican parishes to spring up in homes, school gyms, public parks, and other places. Some of us may even start churches of our own. And we'll leave the ECUSA to enjoy its newfound cultural relevance because that is all the Laodiceans will have left."
Other bloggers, assessing new revelations of Muslim clerics and interpreters sabotaging investigations at Guantanamo Bay, are reconsidering the role of Muslims in the military. Solly Ezekiel (gedankenpundit.blogspot.com/) wrote, "Now, in no way, shape, or form am I suggesting that we question the patriotism of Muslims in the U.S. military simply because they are Muslims; yet in our rush towards political correctness we have already blinded ourselves to the danger that, should a Muslim find his faith in conflict with his patriotism, and should he decide to obey his faith and act against his country, we might refuse to see the danger and respond to it appropriately.... So, which would you rather have? Political correctness and promotions for FBI agents who've violated their oath to protect and defend the Constitution? Or equal treatment for all under the law, even if they happen to be members of a certain Religion of Peace?"
Crazy premises
The mainline press promoted the released Kay Report as a blow to President Bush's WMD credibility (New York Times headline: "No Illicit Arms Found in Iraq"). Many bloggers begged to differ. Andrew Sullivan (andrewsullivan.com) cited Kay evidence of numerous violations of UN resolutions and noted, "Saddam was lying to the UN as late as 2002. He was required by the UN to fully cooperate. He didn't." Mr. Sullivan noted that "One of the crazy premises of the 'Where Are They?' crowd is that we would walk into that huge country and find large piles of Acme bombs with anthrax in them. That's not what a WMD program is about; and never was. Saddam was careful. He had to hide from the UN and he had to find ways, over more than a decade, to maintain a WMD program as best he could, ready to reactivate whenever the climate altered in his favor."
Some blogs provide letters from folks in interesting or, sometimes, boring places. Frontline Voices (frontlinevoices.org) posts letters from servicemen in Iraq without commentary or any evident ax to grind. One contributor, an army nurse called "Major Pain," explained why "I have sooo much time to write-It's 'cause I'm bored!!! Which is a good thing," because the alternative is death and injury. Major Pain wrote that "Breakfast is always the same. Scrambled eggs-powdered of course-sometimes they are even yellow-usually a green-gray color though. Fried potatoes. French toast. Occasionally even KETCHUP to cover it all. Usually not though. Boxes of shelf stable milk. Juice from Oman. Or Jordan. Occasionally beef bacon. Yes, BEEF bacon. Sigh."


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Based on a text I had written long ago I created this world using Cinema 4d. Everything contains a lot of references of books and films that made an impression on me as a child and I tried to bring them all together in this little piece.
Music: Mum, Green Grass Of TunnelAnimation, Character Design, Computer Animation2013
This is an animated film I did during my internship in Belleville Film. It is the intro of a new program called "På tal om sex" that will give teachers the tools they need to teach and talk about sex with different optics and approaches.
The project contains several episodes that deal with different aspects of sex, love and relationships and will see the light in 2014. For more info visit the following link: http://grrltech.nu/pa-tal-om-6/Animation, Graphic Design, Illustration2013
Adidas "FUTURE OF FOOTBALL" Hyper Island project
Video showcasing of the "future of football" at adidas lab - an exclusive innovation event that took place in central London from the 23rd - 27th May to coincide with the 2013 Champions League final. The event gave the attendees a glimpse of how football will be experienced in the future, included in this event is an interactive installation made up of five parts, a discussion panel debating the topic "The Future of Football" and finally a Champions League Final screening.
In collaboration with Hyper Island Manchester I was in charge of doing the motion graphics enhancing the video.
Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Visual Effects2013
During my internship at the Swedish film studio "Bellevillefilm" I helped out in this short film for "Statens Fastighetsverk" about a historical moment that took place at Västerås Slott. I was in charge of the color correction and postproduction of the scenes recorded and also helped out in the recording of some of those.
The video is shown in "Västerås Slott" (Sweden).
Cinematography, Film, Retouching2013
I was involved in the edition of this music video for the Swedish band Jack Moy & Glöden. The video was produced by Omanovic Productions, a film prodction company based in Stockholm. We worked together for around 5 days to deliver the final edition and this is the result.
RJD", the robot is part of a series of characters I am modelling for a personal project.Character Design, Digital Art2013
This is a projet me and my team (Alejandro Estrada, Ryo Takahashi, Cornelia Ryås and Joakim Areschoug) have been working at for the last weeks, for the Illuminated Immersion Expo that took place in Tvålpalaset in Stockholm the past Thurdsday 18th of October.
For this project we got a brief from Simon Jones, and the brief consisted basically in 3 simple rules:
1 - You have to explore animation as much as you can and end up with a 30 second video.
2 - You have to start with a circle and end with a circle
3- You get a music track from me (Simon) and you can choose the 30 sec of that song that suits you best, but never edit it.
And so after 3 weeks of intense ideation and exploration of animation techniques, we came up with our character, "Momoko", and a 30 sec piece that tell us the history of this character being trapped in this circle/world where she is born. Momoko affects by her movements and choices the world she lives in, but she gets also affected by what happens in the world.
I hope you enjoy the video!Character Design, Computer Animation, Film2012
This is a project me and my group (Josefine Bärjed, Angela Blumen and Sebastian Hesselsjö), at Hyper Island, did for UR.
The whole project was thought through and executed in 3 weeks. My main role in it was the modeling, texture and animation of the characters.Animation, Character Design, Computer Animation2013
Flikkt has developed and with the new feature of the app comes also a new video showing all the new things this app has to offer. I have been working closely with Avison Communication and Flikkt to deliver a new video tutorial and promotional video that would help them explain the features of Flikkt. A new ipad and iphone app now available as a web nline service, that helps you improve your language skills in a clever and fast way, that can be checked out for free.
Our idea was to create something modern, minimalist and attractive that could work as a short film showing how Flikkt allows users to improve their language skills with context-sensitive translations.
This video you can see below is the result. I hope you enjoy it!
Animation, Film, Motion Graphics2012
Business cards I have designedBranding, Graphic Design2014
During the spring and sumer of 2012 I was involved in editing and designing some motion graphics for Sandgraind. A crowfounded documentary produced by Matchboxmedia collective.
The documentary follows José Fortes, that after a long absence, returns home to Cape Verde to find his community transformed. The fish that have provided income and food for generations are disappearing from the sea, and people are being forced to sell the sand from their beaches just to survive. The reasons for this are all around the archipelago: European vessels returning home with fish from Cape Verdean waters.
This documentary is not only a trying to help rise awareness over the situation in Cape Verde, but also trying to save our seas from an inminet death, if we just keep on fishing disregardful of the consequences. The Sand Grains team is currently in discussion with international NGO's and members of the European Parliament, working towards confronting and challenging this issue and since the start aimed at enabling a global grassroots effort. This documentary aims to see a change in how Europe fishes abroad, and to reach out to a wider audience that can work together towards making this happen. In 2012 the Common Fisheries Policy will be reformed for the first time in a decade and a positive outcome will also benefit Cape Verde.
For more info or to order a copy of Sandgraings visit http://sandgrains.org/Film, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics2013
Video teaser for the Hyper Island creative task 2012.
The project was done in a week. From concept developing to pre production, script, film recording and the final editing and post-production.
The team involved: Leandro Santini, Anna Franzén, Vincent Ortega and myself.
I was mainly involved in the development of the concept, the filming editing and post-productionCinematography, Film, Motion Graphics2012
5 sec weekly project for the Hyper Island mgd13sto class.
Words of the week: Ready, set, goAnimation, Computer Animation, Motion Graphics2012
I recreated Eskilstuna´s skyline using pictures I took of the city. The sky was created through playing with different typographies to emphasize the fact that the client was a newspaper. The main logo of Eskilstuna-Kuriren, the horse, was animated it so it would simbolize the spreading of the news in the town along it´s history.
If you'd like to see more animation visit the newspaper website www.ekuriren.se. There you can find banners and different animations related to this project.Motion Graphics, Video Arts, Computer Animation2011
I was in charge of designing the webpage of "Territorios y Fronteras" a project born in 2009 inside the University of the Basque Country, that focuses on researching the borders of documentary and fiction. This group of professors and researchers are interested in investigating the contemporary documentary that sometimes escapes the commercial circuits and explores more experimental and artistic fields.
My though when designing the web was to create something functional and minimal, but yet with a touch of color and weirdness that would reflect the theme/subject the web is exploring.Branding, Graphic Design, Web Design2013


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Google real-time search projects, Android in China
Google's been revealing some insight to its ongoing research, the latest being real-time speech translation for Android. You speak to your phone in your native tongue, and the phone will speak back in the language to which you're translating.
Despite the project being in full research mode, Google took time to demonstrate the technology at the IFA conference this week. The demo reportedly consisted of live, voice-based translations between English and German.
A number of translation apps have appeared in the Android Market since it launched, but only recently are they taking on new dimensions with speech-recognition. The voice-enabled technology is a particular point of interest for Google, as it recently launched Google Voice Actions, and is working on a number of other speech-related projects.
It's an important goal for Google. The ability to interact with your Android device and its apps will introduce more opportunity for consumer productivity, giving Android's OS and devices a leg up for business and personal users.
Ensuring Android's OS attractiveness to other developers is equally important for the open source platform, and China holds a great deal of promise for global expansion. Former Google China President Kai-Fu Lee is jump-starting two projects based on the Android OS, both centered around media.
The first, called Tapas, is an Android-based OS that has an inclusive caller ID feature, syncs contacts with popular Chinese social networks, and also has a music player that displays song lyrics, karaoke style. Tapas' media hub doesn't stop there—the OS will also have an eReader with custom settings.
Additionally, Lee will be expanding on Wonderpond, or Wandoujia in Chinese. This is an app and media distribution platform delivering tailored content from streaming video sites, and acts as a message storage and delivery system as well. Both projects are funded by Lee's incubation firm, Innovation Works, launched shortly after Lee resigned from Google about a year ago.
Chinese mobile markets tend to develop ahead of the US, so Lee's projects offer a glimpse at trends to expect here in the states. One thing to watch out for is custom operating systems and profiles, which could be toggled for different mobile experiences based on individual needs (one for work, another for home, a third for travel). As virtual operating systems provide device-agnostic software across PCs and mobile devices, we're sure to see these trends develop alongside virtualization.


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As most of you know I was raised in an exclusive metaphysical community, by a psychic, tarot-card-reading mother, and surrounded by people exhibiting any number of metaphysical 'talents;' I mastered each and every one of them. From reading tarot cards, to rune stones, to graphology (handwriting analysis) to psychometry (a type of alleged psychic energy-reading done on one's personal belongings); I was known early to be the child prodigy of this community. Having mastered the methods of the psychics of this community at an early age, it wasn't long before I saw through their superstitious belief systems and methods. I soon began using them for my own, more savory purposes.
In summary, I've been detecting deception for as long as I can remember. As a Mentalist I've added a literal plethora of tools and techniques to my arsenal. Here are a few of the fastest and most reliable methods that prove themselves invaluable to my work daily:
The Fastest and most Reliable Things to Spot Quickly.
Microexpressions are facial expressions that flash on a person's face for a fraction of a second and reveal the person's true emotion underneath their facade. Some people may be naturally sensitive to them, but almost anybody can easily train to be able to detect microexpressions. Typically, in a person who is lying, their microexpression will exhibit the emotion of distress, characterized by the eyebrows being drawn upwards towards the middle of the forehead. This sometimes causing short lines to appear across the forehead skin.
Body Language.
Watch their hands, arms and legs, which tend to be limited, stiff, and self-directed when the person is lying. Their hands may touch their face ear, or the back of the neck. Keep in mind that these signals may be a sign of nervousness and not a sign of deceit. They might not necessarily be nervous because they're lying.
Over Explaining.
See if they are telling you too much. An example might be, "My mom is living in France, isn't it nice there? Don't you like the Eiffel tower? It's so clean there." Too many details may tip you off to their desperation to get you to believe them.
Ask Direct Questions.
Gauge Their Emotional Reaction. A liar will often feel uncomfortable and turn their head or body away, or even subconsciously put an object between the two of you. Also, while an innocent person would go on the offensive (usually responding with anger, which will usually be revealed in a microexpression directly after you say you don't believe them), a guilty person will often go immediately on the defensive. (usually by saying something to reassure their facts, such as deflections).
Linguistics and Wording.
Verbal expression can give many clues as to whether a person is lying, such as:
- Lack of contractions and/or pronouns in subjects language.
- Repeating words when answering a question
- Changes in pitch.
- Deflecting direct questions.
- Creating extensive silence.
- Pausing mid-sentence, breaking thought pattern.
- Over proving.
The Eyes are the Window to the Whole
The ability to read a person's intentions based on eye movement develops at about the age of four. Sadly most never develop this further. The general rule is that the more interested and engaged a person is, the larger the pupils become. The same is true in reverse. Conversationally this can tell you everything.
The direction a person looks almost always indicates a great many things. Conjugate lateral eye movements, or CLEMS, are involuntary eye movements to the left or right and can indicate whether a person is engaged in symbolic or visual thinking. A 1999 study showed that people are predominantly left or right lookers and that 75% of their eye movements will be in one direction or the other. This is a good indication of whether you are dealing with a more analytical left brain person who will mostly look to the right or a creative right brain person who is probably looking to the left.
Dr. Bella DePaulo, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, reported in 1986 that people think that they are much better than they actually are at reading body language. Most people inaccurately believed that "shifty eyes" meant a person was lying. A person's body language response when defending themselves against the accusation that they have lied is identical to the body language used during lying. In Neuro linguistic programming we caution that the rule of thumb is to use a minimum of four body language cues to make deductions about a person's thoughts.
When asking someone a direct question, a left or right eye movement can mean the difference between the truth and a lie. Looking to the left indicates a made up answer as their eyes are showing a constructed image or sound whereas looking to the right would indicate a "remembered" voice or image, and thus would be the truth. Every person is different, as I said before never base a conclusion on just one observation.
Practice: Something I've loved to do for years now is this, ask a friend to think of think of the name of five family members that you do not know. Ask them to make one of the names up, to make this one a lie. When they are thinking of four real names and one that is a lie you can then ask them the same question five times, each time having them say a different name. Try to detect the lie. When you're ready, have them only think the names, you can tell the lie anyway! This takes much practice, but you will amaze yourself fairly quickly. Most of us have seen Derren do similar demonstrations.


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TUSCALOOSA – June 8 will be "Antoine Pettway Day" in the town of Camden, Alabama. The former Crimson Tide basketball player is being honored by that city and the school he led to the 2000 5A state championship, Wilcox Central High School.
Among the featured guests who will fete Pettway is Crimson Tide head coach Mark Gottfried. The event is scheduled for 6 p.m. CT and will be held at Wilcox Central High School in Camden.


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Pru Gallo donates $1,500 to Epworth Skate Project
Epworth UMC Skate Project recently received a $1,500 donation from Prudential Gallo Realtors toward its $50,000 goal. The group is raising funds to build a concrete skate park on the grounds of Epworth United Methodist Church on Holland Glade Road in Rehoboth.
"We at Prudential Gallo Realtors are happy to help fund the Epworth UMC Skate Park. There is a huge need in our community for healthy, outdoor activities that are free of charge and easily accessible," said Bette Gallo.
"This skate park will be a huge hit with skaters of all ages," said Andrew Ratner. Organizers of the Skate Project hope to be fully funded by Oct. 15.
For information on how to donate, call Susan Selph at 302-245-6193 or go to www.eumcrb.org/sk8.
Shown (l-r) are Skate Project members Susan Selph, Tricia Ratner, and Kathy Scott; Andrew Ratner, vice president, Prudential Gallo Realtors; and Bette and Sal Gallo, owners, Prudential Gallo Realtors.


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1 Park near Kootenay National Park, British Columbia
Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia 1.28 miles NE
Windermere, British Columbia 11.45 miles SE
Fairmont Hot Springs, British Columbia 21.88 miles SE
Canal Flats, British Columbia 34.56 miles SE
Redstreak Rd Kootenay National Park, British Columbia V0A 1M0 (map) | (250) 347-9505
Sites: 242 | Latest Rate: $32.00 | 4 Reviews
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Aug 2013 - $32.00
Camping among the trees and shade gives a wilderness feel to this park despite its convenient location near a small town and the hot springs. Roads are paved; sites are dirt and not too level, but our pull-through was spacious. Electricity hookup was convenient, but we didn't have water or sewer. No WiFi or laundry. Bathrooms were nice and clean, even if a bit dated. This was a nice spot for a few days of hiking! - DaveInOhio
Jun 2013 - $38.00
The fee structure for this campground is typical for all of the national parks that have at least electrical service. Dry (unserviced) cost $27.40. Electric only cost $32.30. FHU cost $38.20 and reservations costing $11. All campgrounds had a dump station(s) with fresh water available. The national park pass cost $67.70 per person and is good for all of the National Parks and some of the National museums. Otherwise, it would cost $8 per person per day to camp within the National Parks. Camp fires cost $8.50 per day with unlimited wood. Bring an axe – wood needs to be split more. There is no Wi-Fi within any of the parks. The utilities in this park have recently been upgraded and are located in middle side of the site. Very few of the sites are level. Many of the interior roads are narrow and are one way, but there are no signs indicating the direction. Seems like an accident waiting to happen. The interior roads are pot holed. There is a short steep uphill climb to get to the entrance to this park. Loop E has electric only. This loop would accommodate a 5th wheel 25 feet or shorter. We opted to stay at the FHU loop which was bigger and easier to get into. There were water spigots near the bathrooms within the loops that only had electricity. The bathrooms were clean and contained 3 showers. During our stay there appeared to be very little maintenance being done. There were no park hosts, perhaps this changes when the park officially opens. Reservations for this park started on Friday, June 14 and we understand that the campground was full. We would probably stay at this campground if we were in the area. However, we would go off season. - adsaxs
Sep 2012 - $39.00
We where here just for closing season but they had still some beautiful pull through sites open. Big sites but some spots are a little difficult to get in and out because of the trees. But we managed well, and are not that experienced. Park is well maintained and just around the corner from Radium Hot Springs (3 miles). We sure will come back. Free WiFi at the Visitor Center downtown. Just be aware: the road to this campground appears all of a sudden, and is very poorly marked! It is just left passing (or before) the visitor center, outside the Park boundaries. - Traveller Excel


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Everything about Marvel typically runs like a well-oiled machine. For the past decade or so, the company has churned out hit after hit and enjoyable film after enjoyable film, mirroring the early run of fellow Disney subsidiary Pixar. Yesterday, however, the studio may have made a horrific blunder.
I'll be recapping the highs and lows of the movie business experienced over the past 12 months. 2013 has been a pretty fascinating time for film, full of reversals of fortune, dizzying successes and even some truly polarizing pictures. So let's look back and GIF out!
Thor thundered back into theaters this weekend riding high on the big buzz that Marvel has generated for its Avengers franchises over the last year and a half. Banking a $86.1 million first place opening, Thor 2 handily exceeded the $65 million debut of the first Thor film back in 2011. When added to the substantial sum the movie has made world-wide, its total international sales exceed $320 million.
Looking to About Time, Ender's Game and Thor: The Dark World for inspiration, we've pulled together a selection of sci-fi romances, out of this world children movies, and Marvel superhero stories.
Ender's Game was the easy champion of the weekend box office, netting $28 million and a first-place finish. And while $28 million is a hefty amount for many films, it's not that gigantic for a film with a reported budget of $110 million. And as THR reports from several analysts, it's not the kind of money that immediately leads to a sequel
It was pretty well expected that the highly anticipated (or, at least, highly marketed) Ender's Game would be number one this weekend, but just how close it would come to missing that mark wasn't on most box office radars.
Heading To Battle School With Ender's Game Stars Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield And Hailee Steinfeld
At a recent press event for Enders Game held in Beverly Hills, California I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with the films three main stars, and with the movie in theaters this weekend now is the perfect time to share the experience.
Still, because the perspective in the novel needed to be changed to suit the needs of the film and because Cards original novel is highly detailed and accurate in its intentions, Enders Game is a different but similar adventure on the big screen when compared to its novel counterpart.
Were kids across America packing up their trick-or-treating hauls and bringing it to the movie theater last night? At least enough of them were to make midnight showings of Ender's Game a solid success. Early numbers at The Hollywood Reporter say the PG-13 sci-fi film made $1.4 million from early screenings on Thursday, putting in a good position for a weekend box office contest it's expected to win.
Comparing a film to the book on which its based is always a tricky task, as we all have our own mental visualization of how a story looks. My hopes for the feature adaptation of Enders Game were high, but I left the screening thinking that Gavin Hoods adaptation did about as good a job as it could have with the source material, turning Orson Scott Cards story into a movie without compromising the core message or the lead character.
There are a lot of great reasons not to see Enders Game this weekend. Advertisements for the film have been confusing. The footage looks a little video game-ish. Its only getting blah plus reviews from critics. Director Gavin Hoods take on Wolverine was not very good. All of these and a whole lot more are perfectly valid reasons to stay away, but let me tell you one that isnt: Orson Scott Cards hatred for gay people.
Though its release date isnt technically until tomorrow, Enders Game arrives in theaters across the country tonight, and at long last for those who have been waiting decades to see Orson Scott Cards novel adapted since it was published back in 1985. But how much does the books author actually stand to gain from the success of the film at the box office?
Getting to wander through the Ender's Game set was one big geeky dream come true, as I loved the book and I'm truly hopeful that the movie will be fantastic. The Ford encounter came later in the expedition through the set, but since I've gotten us onto that topic, and there isn't a whole lot more to report, I'll give you the rest of that before we go back to where we left off in Part 1.
Getting a late start this week, but believe me its worth the wait. Well at least one of the movies is worth it. The other two? Not so much. This week Ender plays his game, old dudes go to Vegas and birds go free
As we've pointed out in the past, much of what we've seen from the upcoming feature adaptation of Ender's Game has focused on alien invasion, war and what may very well prove to be some impressive visual effects. But those who have read the books know that there are key elements in this story that have yet to be revealed. The above photo gives us a look at one of them...
In just two weeks time, the feature adaptation of Ender's Game will arrive in theaters. We've seen quite a bit of promotional content for the film in the recent weeks, including half a dozen new clips, and a preview of the excellent Mondo poster that's set to go on sale next week. And today brings this new featurette, which shows us "Building Ender's World."
If you've been keeping track of Mondo these days, you know they've been showcasing Universal monsters with some pretty outstanding limited edition prints, but the latest poster to unveil for the site is for a more current film. With Ender's Game set to arrive in theaters in a matter of weeks, the timing seems right for a Mondo poster to celebrate the anticipated sci-fi film, and artist Martin Ansin has delivered.
After a series of trailers and TV spots, most of which have emphasized the alien invasion and war aspect of Summit's sci-fi thriller Ender's Game, we now have six new clips to add to the pile, the above video included, most of which focus on Ender. Is he the one who will save mankind from the next "eminent" invasion? Harrison Ford's Colonel Graff seems to think so, but others aren't so sure.
As the release of Ender's Game approaches, that steady trickle of promotional content that's been coming in for the last couple of months appears to be turning into a virtual flood, with new TV spots, photos and other tidbits giving us new glimpses of the sci-fi film. That includes the above TV spot, titled "Morality," as well as a very spoilery peek at the giant featured in the Mind Game, and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film.
No matter what happens, at least in the short term, movies set in or around outer space are going to be compared to Gravity. Sure, it looks OK, but its not Gravity. Unfair? Maybe. But its reality. So what are the five upcoming sci-fi projects that should be a little bit concerned by the success of Cuarons Gravity?
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Shoebox gifts collected in the United States in 2015 will be delivered to 755,386 children in Mexico. Praise God that over 8,914,400 children have received a shoebox since 1995, when Operation Christmas Child began distributing gifts here.
- Mexico has 121.7 million people and is located in North America
- 28% of the population is 14 years old or younger
Stories from Mexico
Finding Hope
At an Operation Christmas Child distribution in Mexico, a 13-year-old girl carrying a newborn arrived. It was soon learned that the teenage girl was the child's mother. As the shoebox gifts were distributed, the staff watched with special interest as this young teenage mother opened and explored her shoebox. Not long after opening her box, the teenage girl broke down in uncontrollable tears – weeping. Not understanding the emotion, people approached the girl to discern what was causing such an outburst of emotion. Through an interpreter, the girl shared a story that stunned everyone. Five years earlier, this young girl's aunt and uncle and their children had mysteriously disappeared. Apparently, in the region she lived in, known for kidnapping and murder, the sudden disappearance of a person usually meant death. So, for five lonely years, this young girl assumed her aunt and uncle had been murdered at the hands of criminals. However, as this young teenage mother explored her shoebox, she uncovered a picture of the family who had packed it. On the back of the picture, there was a mailing address where the family lived and could be contacted. Between gasps, and with tears streaming down her face, the teenage girl explained to the OCC staff that the couple in the picture was in fact her aunt and uncle. They were safe.
Bringing Healing
A local volunteer reported: "Dalila, an 8-year-old girl, was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor on her left eye. The doctors told her parents about the need for surgery to stop the tumor and reduce the effects of this illness. The girl was invited to a shoebox distribution by a boy from the church. She attended with her parents and listened to God's Word. All of them responded to the calling to receive Christ in their hearts. We prayed for the girl, asking God to heal her. When the parents took the girl to the specialist to perform the studies necessaries before the surgery, the tumor had disappeared and nobody knew what had happened. The parents said it was a miracle from God. We give all the Glory to Jesus!"
How Great is God's Love
A local volunteer reported: "Esmeralda is 6-years-old. She accepted the invitation to the shoebox distribution and, for the first time, she heard the story of Jesus as the "Greatest Gift" that we can receive and learned about the love of God. Then, we prayed for her and for other children who were also invited. Since that day, she's been attending the church. The little we know about Esmeralda is that she was born to a drug addict mother, who left her with her grandmother. She lives in extreme poverty. The worst part is that six months ago she was abused by her uncle. We thank God for using this amazing ministry to show this little one a different kind of life, and how great God's love is."
Restoring Families
A local volunteer reported: "Eduardo, an 11-year-old boy, was invited to a shoebox distribution by his friend. He shared that he was very sad because his parents had a fight and they didn't live together anymore. He asked for prayer for his father to come back because he missed him. Eduardo attended the event and received Jesus in his heart. Several weeks later, he happily told us that his father had come back and that everything was going better. He is very thankful for what God has done in his family, and he now attends The Greatest Journey lessons.
From the Streets to the Steeples
An Operation Christmas Child partner uses his past experiences to reach out to the children of Guadalajara, Mexico. Read more
The Gift of Faith
Shoebox gifts from Operation Christmas Child become Gospel opportunities that can transform lives for eternity. Read more
Prayer Requests from Ministry Partners in Mexico
- Praise God for allowing OCC to operate throughout Mexico.
- Pray for the upcoming TGJ classes. Pray for the teachers and children who will be involved with the program this year.
The Greatest Journey
Your shoebox is just the first step to transforming a young life for eternity. Every shoebox gift delivered by Operation Christmas Child is a tangible expression of God's love. It also presents an opportunity in more than 100 countries for our church partners to invite children into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ through our follow-up discipleship program. The Greatest Journey is a dynamic approach to discipleship—including 12 engaging Bible lessons—that local trained teachers are using to instruct the next generation of believers on how to become devoted followers of Christ and boldly share their faith with others. Worldwide, 4.7 million children have enrolled in the program since 2009.
This year in Mexico, these Bible lessons will be offered to children who receive a shoebox gift. These 12 lessons guide children through a study of who Jesus Christ is, what it means to follow Him, and how to share this exciting message with others. Over 539,250 children in Mexico have enrolled in this program since it started, and nearly 392,000 have graduated.
Will you help us "go and make disciples of all nations" as Christ commanded? Sign up for a monthly gift of $6, and each year you will give 12 children study materials, a New Testament, and the opportunity to learn what it means to devote their lives to sharing the Good News of eternal grace through Jesus Christ.
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