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Brooklyn's alternative comedy scene can hardly be deemed "alternative" anymore, considering the fast ascension of some of this festival's past luminaries. Trevor Noah hosts The Daily Show, Michael Che hosts Weekend Update, and Ilana Glazer and Hannibal Buress show the world New York City's weirdness on Broad City. They all have this local fest in common, along with a grasp of the borough's unmistakable sense of humor. Now in its fifth year, the Brooklyn Comedy Festival presents a week's worth of stand-up, film, music, and performances designed to showcase established and new performers alike. Around a dozen venues host events as varied as a screening of the hypnotic dance-comedy Snowy Bing Bongs and a performance of Dave Hill's bizarre-but-true Witch Taint: The Black Metal Dialogues, based on an email conversation between Hill and a label owner in Oslo. Also pop in for special editions of longtime favorites like "The Fancy Show" and Wyatt Cenac's "Night Train," and don't miss the Queen and David Bowie sing-along at Union Hall on the 26th.
—Heather Baysa
If there's one superhero you expect to see on a wall, it's Spider-Man — and now, he's all over the walls of the Society of Illustrators. Is the show good? Listen, bud: "The Art of Spider-Man" is the largest collection of original Spidey pages ever displayed, primarily focused on the sleek, elegant style of John Romita, but spanning the wall-crawler's earlier, wiry days under the pen of co-creator Steve Ditko on through the intricate webwork of Todd McFarlane (who came on the Spidey scene in the late Eighties). Artists like Gil Kane, John Romita Jr., and Keith Pollard also provide scenes of the webhead facing off against his deadliest foes. Face it, tiger: If you're a fan of the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, you've just hit the jackpot.
—Rob Staeger
Where most singers attempt to unify and enthrall audiences, vocal daredevil Shelley Hirsch exults in the fragmentary schizoid potential of human utterance. She speaks in tongues appropriate to recapturing distant memories, as with the autobiographical narrative O Little Town of East New York, and is one of the few masters of vocal free improvisation. Over the course of five afternoons, Hirsch will conclude her ongoing multidisciplinary undertaking book-bark-tree-skin-line with a series of performances situated around Josiah McElheny's "Prismatic Park" sculptures in Madison Square Park. Her 35-minute creation pairs Hirsch with a multilingual choir of acolytes from her "Explore Your 1000 Voices" workshop. She will also elaborate the work with a live twelve-member ensemble and record interviews with parkgoers that will be integrated into the piece's final iteration.
—Richard Gehr
The most quintessentially English films produced shortly after the Second World War came from Ealing Studios, and three of the most quintessentially Ealing films were directed by Alexander Mackendrick, a Bostonian by birth. Today, Mackendrick is most often cited for Sweet Smell of Success, but this 1951 comedy, in which a misfit scientist (Alec Guinness) clandestinely invents an indestructible fabric, is nothing if not Sweet Smell's equal in its incisive critique of a rigged economy. By giving us a protagonist who's likable and scrupulous but slightly nuts and blind to practical reality, the script (co-written by Mackendrick, John Dighton, and Roger MacDougall) is free to transmit withering commentary concerning labor and management without once coming across as anything other than pristinely good-humored. Ultimately, the film satirizes the vanity of a society that borrows ceaselessly on the promise of perfection but treats actual fulfillment as an abomination.
—Jaime N. Christley
Photo: Alvin W. Hall Jr. / Bushwick Community Darkroom
"Chromes," an exhibition of photographs by Alvin W. Hall Jr. currently on view at the Bushwick Community Darkroom, reads like a delicate ode to mid-twentieth-century American suburbia. The colored vistas immortalize tiny, charming moments of domestic bliss: a pooch seated on a front porch, the pup's torso somewhat obscured by a potted plant ("The Halls," states the welcome mat); a woman carefully applying lipstick at her desk; a herd of three loved ones posing at the train station. Hall, who served aboard the U.S.S. Quincy during the Second World War, was also trained by the Navy as a photographer, bouncing after the war between stations across the globe. Hall later held a couple of civilian jobs, including as an insurance salesman; through it all, he maintained a steady habit of applying his professional photographic training to his more everyday role as a family man, a part that he must have taken great joy in, given the warm, vibrant energy of his snapshots. This show has been curated by Hall's grandson, Cameron Blaylock, who discovered his relative's visual archive following Hall's death in the spring of this year.
—Danny King
Following the disappointing performance of Saint Joan (1957), Otto Preminger fired a second barrel in his endeavor to build newcomer Jean Seberg into the movie star he saw in his own eyes. The 1958 project was an adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse, the sensational debut novel by Françoise Sagan, a fanciful, turbulent, and melancholy memoir about a kid who grows up too fast. Though bookended by sequences of shimmering black-and-white, Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse is largely filmed (by the legendary Georges Périnal) in tactile, nearly overwhelming color, its ultimately bittersweet tale rooted to the most spectacular points along the French Riviera. Seberg does not struggle to justify herself on camera (as she had done, suffering rank unfairness gallantly, in the Joan of Arc role), and the film is done no harm by the casual mastery delivered by Deborah Kerr and David Niven.
—Jaime N. Christley
There's a healthy debate, but most Trekkies answer only to Picard. Patrick Stewart's performance as the brainy captain, Data's android humor, Worf 's reaction shots, and Wesley Crusher's scene-stealing sweaters all made Star Trek: The Next Generation one of the most memorable, if not the downright best, series in the franchise. Striking a sweet spot between camp and surprisingly heavy drama, the show was early-Nineties sci-fi at its contradictory best. Two fans, Benjamin Ahr Harrison and Adam Pranica, loved it so much they started a podcast: The Greatest Generation recaps the entire series — from an absurd pilot episode to holodeck adventures and the Borg. Their Prime Directive is this: Watch every episode to unpack the good, the bad, the hilarious, and the epic. Hear the duo nerd out about Next Gen in person at this live version of the podcast.
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Whether she's rocking flamenco's traditional batucada or jockeying with a set of antlers, wrapping herself in fringe or shedding a jeweled vest, the remarkable dancer and choreographer Olga Pericet is always thinking outside the traditional boxes of Spanish dance. Petite and powerful, and a highlight of last spring's Flamenco Festival at City Center, she interrupts months of international touring to spend three weeks in the intimate precincts of Manhattan's tiny Spanish theater in a Gramercy Park townhouse, performing to live music and with her innate intensity. Spark your staycation and encounter this powerful avant-garde performer and her gifted ensemble up close.
—Elizabeth Zimmer
An ever-changing, multiethnic meditation disguised as a band, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber manifests a genre-destroying fantasy of ecstatic collective grooves and lucid individual poetics that blend into a jazz-rock multiverse of smart, sexy, and soulful sounds. This early-evening show will "caramelize" powerfully pertinent Sixties liberationist music from Max Roach, Oscar Brown, and Abbey Lincoln's We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, along with Roach's Percussion Bitter Sweet and It's Time. At ten, the jazzing, funking, progging, and collectively improvising big band will time-trip during a set that laptop-guitarist-conductionist (and onetime Voice staffer) Greg Tate — who founded the group in 1999 with bassist Jared Michael Nickerson — describes as "BSA's Groiddest Schizznits," with bonus selections from the Ark's excellent new collection of sci-fi funk, All You Zombies Dig the Luminosity.
—Richard Gehr
Few artists in the modern pop era have existed in the slipstream between jazz and r&b as seamlessly as bassist extraordinaire Derrick Hodge. His work with Gerald LeVert, Jill Scott, and Common is as renowned as his time in the ensembles of Clark Terry, Terence Blanchard, and longtime pal Robert Glasper. With The Second, his acclaimed sophomore LP as bandleader, the Philly-born four-string phenom created an album that owes as much to Madlib's Yesterdays New Quintet as it does to the Bruce Lundvall era of his label, Blue Note Records. This week, Hodge performs at the Blue Note, playing material from The Second across two sets with his touring trio, rounded out by Mike Aaberg (keyboards) and Mike Mitchell (drums). This music was made to be played live, especially given the elasticity of such essential jams as the electro-smooth "Going" and the fluid "Clock Strike Zero." To see Hodge meld these movements into the trio format is an opportunity not to be missed.
—Ron Hart
Photo: Lester Cohen
After walking away from his very successful and groundbreaking Comedy Central sketch show, which ran from 2003–2006, Dave Chappelle remained out of the spotlight. Yet the release this March of two well-received stand-up specials on Netflix, Deep in the Heart of Texas and The Age of Spin, marked his long-awaited return to television. Now the comedian known for his brash and thought-provoking humor is taking to the Radio City Music Hall stage for a fourteen-show August residency. Chappelle has enlisted several fellow comedic luminaries — among them Chris Rock, Ali Wong, and Trevor Noah — to join him onstage as special guests. The nearly month-long stand will also include musical performances from the likes of Chance the Rapper, Lauryn Hill, Childish Gambino, Lil Wayne, Yasiin Bey, Erykah Badu, and the Roots.
—Amara Thomas
It always celebrates Bird, but the 2017 iteration of the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival should also tip the hat to itself a bit. Sustaining a quarter-century of free annual music programing is certainly a praiseworthy achievement, and this year's program is actually fatter than usual. (Maybe the teeming lineup is trying to parallel the impact of the iconic saxophonist's bop lingo.) From students and vets doing the With Strings material to an interview (and gig) with Parker pal Lee Konitz to a jam session, film screening, and tap dance show, choices abound both uptown and down-. The weekend concerts are especially key: Bill Saxton's brusque beauty, Art Baron's wily scholarship, the deep swing of drummers Louis Hayes and Terri Lyne Carrington. But don't miss the virtuosity of Anat Cohen, and cross those fingers that the sass of Tia Fuller somehow shares onstage airspace with the blues of Lou Donaldson. As far as Josh Redman goes, well, he clocked the maestro's "Moose the Mooche" and "Salt Peanuts" on his earliest joints years ago, so he's always been up for a little ornithology.
—Jim Macnie
Using the bittersweet and lighthearted "Comedies and Proverbs" series as his cover, Eric Rohmer dropped one of his bleakest works with 1984's Full Moon in Paris. Living with her boyfriend Remi (Tchéky Karyo) in suburban Marne-la-Vallée, Louise (Pascale Ogier) confides to her married friend Octave (Fabrice Luchini) her plan to obtain a Parisian pied-à-terre to satisfy her craving for urban life. Uncharacteristically, the self-justifications of the Rohmer protagonist are signposted, and the unintended outcome of her plan is foreseen by all. Even more startlingly, Rohmer removes our access to the organizing consciousness of his central character — heretofore the linchpin of his narratives — just as the plot thickens mid-film. Does Rohmer's conservative moralism rear its head here at last? Pascale Ogier enjoyed the film's great success only briefly, dying of heart failure a day before her 26th birthday, two months after Full Moon's Paris premiere.
—Dan Sallitt
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The term disco wasn't yet in vogue when sixteen-year-old Nicky Siano started DJ'ing in New York City clubs in 1971. A year later, with the help of his friend Robin Lord and his brother, Joe, Siano would open what many consider to be the first disco club: the Gallery. Siano went on to revolutionize the art of DJ'ing and club life in the city and the world over through his uniquely immersive experiences at the Gallery, his early DJ residency at Studio 54, and his collaborations with pop and experimental-music great Arthur Russell. Now, nearly fifty years after the birth of it all, Siano teams up with the Good Room and Miss Rebecca (of the Bowery Electric's "Mobile Mondays") for the latest edition of "Nicky Siano's Native New Yorker," a glorious throwback to the opulent, irresistible nights of Siano's Seventies heyday. This is "always the party we put our hearts and souls into," Siano tells the Voice.
—Amelia Rina
While many have noted the special harmonic convergence enjoyed by sibling singers, the genetic affinity between blood-bonded instrumentalists is somewhat harder to pin down. Southern California instrumental duo the Mattson 2, however, have exhibited an uncommon musical mind-meld since the release of their 2009 debut. Identical twins Jared (guitar) and Jonathan (drums) Mattson mostly improvise a cooler West Coast version of the post-rocking, improv-friendly Chicago Underground collective, blurring the lines between lite jazz, psychedelia, and the sort of instrumental rock that wouldn't be out of place on the Twin Peaks soundtrack (with a sartorial style that brings to mind D.C.'s Thievery Corporation). Jared's looping guitar lines also recall the cosmic minimalism of German groove-master Manuel Göttsching as the Mattsons extend the West Coast monozygotic precedent set by Nels and Alex Cline.
—Richard Gehr
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The premier Brooklyn-based festival for Black music, fashion, film, and art has grown into a New York summer staple. Since its 2005 debut, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the annual event has never stopped expanding; it now takes place at Commodore Barry Park in Fort Greene, and has also spawned satellite fests of the same name in Atlanta, Paris, London, and Johannesburg. Headlining this year's festivities is megastar Solange, a magnifying force fit to embody all that AFROPUNK stands for. (Her recent A Seat at the Table dominated charts and hearts.) Alternative r&b singer SZA, Sampha, Thundercat, Princess Nokia, Kaytranada, Raphael Saadiq, Anderson .Paak, and more are also set to grace the stages. Reflecting and propelling all manner of Black art, AFROPUNK continues to cultivate a space for Black cultures, subcultures, countercultures, and everything in between.
—Ivie Ani
Somewhere during the two-decade run of MoMA P.S.1's summer music series, the spread of global DJ culture turned what started as an artsy experimental showcase into the best place in New York to spot Bushwick artists and Murray Hill finance bros mingling happily in beat-driven bliss. By giving programmers from New York's music scene free rein to each create a one-day dream lineup, Warm Up has managed to stay right on the bleeding edge of every subgenre of electronic sound. Selections are a mixture of high, low, heady, and fun; artists hail from around the world and across the music spectrum.
—Zoë Beery
We're approaching the heart of summer, and if you need an added incentive to get to the beach before Labor Day, here's a good deal that's going on all season long. You get two beers or glasses of wine; a cheeseburger and fries or a veggie dog and fries from Ed & Bev's; and, for an extra $7, a beach chair for a little extra-comfy lounging. Plus, the deal provides a 10 percent discount on a ticket for the Rockaway Beach Bus — an option that may be appealing given the recent hiccups surrounding the city's new ferry service from Wall Street to Rockaway. However you get there, after a couple of drinks and a bite, you'll certainly be ready for a dip in the refreshing ocean, which is, of course, complimentary. Check the website for information on live music and other special events.
—Mary Bakija
Now in its twelfth year, the Jazz Age Lawn Party has been going on for about as long as the Jazz Age itself did. If you've never set sail for the Roaring Twenties via Governors Island, it's time to get your act together. Don your best Gatsby-inspired getup for a weekend of Prohibition-era music, flappers, fancy cocktails, and rampant picnicking. This year's performances include the swinging Dreamland Follies, Philadelphia's Drew Nugent and the Midnight Society, and of course the man himself — Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra. Pick up a picnic tote with a pre-packed spread and bottle of rosé, or grab a bite at one of the gourmet food trucks. Stay all day for dance lessons, croquet, the Bathing Beauties and Beaus Promenade, and a Twenties-themed motorcar exhibition. On Sunday only, savor the High Court of Pie Contest, offering prizes for most creative and most booze-infused pie.
—Heather Baysa
Under the direction of Nigel Campbell and Chanel DaSilva, young professional dancers are teaching and mentoring even younger dancers — a group of thirty-four talented New York City teenagers between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, recruited from every borough — in an effort to level the playing field for dancers of color. This culminating program of a free three-week intensive, at which Dance Theatre of Harlem ballerina Ingrid Silva, Abraham.in.Motion dancer Tamisha Guy, and Limón company member Jesse Obremski, among other top performers, have been teaching a variety of essential dance skills and techniques, features new choreography by Juilliard-trained Antonio Brown, Purchase grad Damani Pompey, and former Batsheva dancer Shamel Pitts. These budding artists are likely to totally burn the floor.
—Elizabeth Zimmer
Choreographer Madeline Hollander has a thing for trucks and loves the beach; her new Arena fuses these passions in a minimalist work she calls a "study of dissipative structures and autopoiesis." She brings to Rockaway a series of duets for beach-raking trucks and six dancers. First the rakes clear pathways, making a stage for the dancers, who come along and leave footprints in the freshly combed sand. Then it reverses: The trucks follow the dancers, erasing their footprints and all traces of their presence. The trucks and the dancers repeat this process until the sun goes down. This location, a new one for this series, is just three blocks from the new New York City Ferry, near the Rockaway Beach Roller Rink. Rain date is Sunday.
—Elizabeth Zimmer
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Despite experiencing a renaissance after 9-11, dystopian science fiction has in recent movies turned out to be something of a busted flush: an epidemic of sham sobriety, ever cognizant of franchise utilization yet starved of actual design imagination. One conspicuous exception was Alfonso Cuarón's 2006 Children of Men, an adaptation of P.D. James's 1992 novel, which appeared like a gift near the end of a weak year for the movies. In a near-future blighted by a generation of worldwide infertility, the fate of mankind falls into the reluctant hands of a former activist (Clive Owen) who's been conscripted to protect a miraculously pregnant woman and ferry her to safety. While there's no shortage of meticulously composed waste and decay onscreen, it's through the film's relentless momentum — aided by a series of elaborate and justly celebrated long-take sequences — that Cuarón produces an atmosphere of sadness and loss: a world that's never not moving on.
—Jaime N. Christley
We're approaching the heart of summer, and if you need an added incentive to get to the beach before Labor Day, here's a good deal that's going on all season long. You get two beers or glasses of wine; a cheeseburger and fries or a veggie dog and fries from Ed & Bev's; and, for an extra $7, a beach chair for a little extra-comfy lounging. Plus, the deal provides a 10 percent discount on a ticket for the Rockaway Beach Bus — an option that may be appealing given the recent hiccups surrounding the city's new ferry service from Wall Street to Rockaway. However you get there, after a couple of drinks and a bite, you'll certainly be ready for a dip in the refreshing ocean, which is, of course, complimentary. Check the website for information on live music and other special events.
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Fermentation fiends, your time has come. This Sunday, join Brooklyn's own Mama O's Kimchi for the seventh annual Kimchipalooza, a celebration of Korea's spicy pickled cabbage and other vegetables. Hosted from two to eight at Carolina barbecue specialist Arrogant Swine's Bushwick warehouse, the event will let lovers of all things pungent sample different kinds of kimchi, try their hand at making their own batch, and watch a "super spicy kimchi eating contest." Live music, including beats from DJ Ibe, will set the scene, and there's a good chance you'll want to dance after digging into special kimchi-paste-slathered 'cue from Arrogant Swine's passionate pitmaster, Tyson Ho.
—Zachary Feldman
Photo: On the Bowery / Courtesy Film Forum
With temperatures sweltering, Film Forum offers solace to city denizens with over two dozen choice double features. While a number of the pairings fall under the theater's specialty of pre-Code pleasures and auteurist complements (including Hitchcock, Ford, and Bresson), the programmers have also conjured a few clever curiosities that highlight the shifting of several specific New York City neighborhoods over time. Soho goes from drunkard's row in the semi-documentary On the Bowery (1957) to a Kafkaesque nightmare of hipsters and punks in Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985). Coney Island likewise undergoes a signification transformation, beginning as a playground for the pratfalls of Harold Lloyd in Speedy (1928) and later becoming the inspiration for a child's imagination in Little Fugitive (1953).
—Peter Labuza
Anish Kapoor, to his enormous credit, is the rare contemporary artist who begins not with concepts, but with style. Whatever ideas emerge from his art come later, from the look of the thing, the way it feels and how it hits the senses. Although Kapoor tends toward a clean, spare, graceful style, there is often something overwhelming to his work. That's certainly the case with "Descension," an endless whirlpool that disappears into the earth, now installed at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Much of its power comes from the tremendous and ominous hum it generates, which most people will notice before they even lay eyes on it. If there is a drawback, it's the location: Brooklyn Bridge Park is anodyne and clean, which blunts some of Kapoor's force. Still, the installation introduces a dose of aesthetic anxiety into any visitor's day, which alone is commendable.
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Boman Irani's son Kayoze after making his debut in Karan Johar's smash hit flick 'Student Of The Year', will be seen in a full fledged role in Manish Jha's next directorial venture 'The Legend of Michael Mishra'.
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I had a breast augmentation with Dr. Robinson in June of 2012. Since then it's been a horror story. My right breast is bigger than the other, so much that I have a C cup boob and a D cup boob, and one sags and one doesn't. They said they would help but they have been so rude, and said I was a liar.
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VIDEO: Sneak Peek - 'You Win Again' Episode of ABC's NASHVILLE
On the next episode of the ABC drama series NASHVILLE entitled "You Win Again" - Edgehill Records celebrates the success of "Wrong Song" with a lavish party attended by Rayna, Juliette and real-life country stars including Brantley Gilbert and Chris Young (who cameo as themselves). But the party gets awkward for Juliette, who brings her mom along, and for Rayna when she's aggressively pursued by Calista (Ming-Na Wen), an exec from a competing record label.
Meanwhile Teddy confronts Rayna about his suspicions over her relationship with Liam, Gunnar deals with family issues and Avery gets too comfortable with his newfound success. The episode airs WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network. Get a sneak peek below!
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Husky beanie
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I love dogs. Did some charts but haven't knit any up to now.
Now I proudly present the Husky beanie.
It has a paw peerie and dog prints in the main pattern.
It's a present for a doglover work collegue.
I will give it to her next week.
I hope she likes it.
Note: for bigger sizes use bigger needle size.
24.09.2015: Die Anleitung ist auf Deutsch erhältlich.


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From left, Rikki Schmidt, Drew Costigan-Wittman, 9, Rhiley Costigan-Wittman, 11 and David Wittman and baby Ayla at Tara Costigan's funeral. Photo: Melissa Adams
It was a heart-wrenching farewell that no 11-year-old child should ever be forced to make.
Rhiley Costigan-Wittman bravely stood before a packed Albert Hall on Wednesday to say goodbye to his mum, "the best mum in the world", less than two weeks after she was taken away from him in a shocking act of domestic violence.
Hundreds turned out for the funeral of Tara Costigan, 28, who was allegedly murdered by her former partner in Calwell on February 28.
She left behind three children, Rhiley, 11, Drew, 9, and Ayla, a baby girl born just one week before the killing.
- A Symonston man, 45, has been arrested in relation to the suspicious death of another man, 61, in Wanniassa on Tuesday night. Police said he was a suspect in the homicide investigation after the man was found dead at the McWhae Circuit house with significant blunt force trauma injuries to his head.
- The opposition has pledged a bi-partisan approach to tackling domestic violence in the ACT, calling for an urgent roundtable to help position the territory as a nation-leader.
- A former public servant who was twice sacked unfairly by the Australian Taxation Office not will not get his job back nor any compensation for his treatment.
- Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart has attacked federal and state governments for inflicting high costs on local miners, which are battling plunging iron ore prices as global supply swells.
- Fairfax Media journalist Sean Nicholls has told a defamation trial his editor's wish to have a story on Joe Hockey "nailed to the cross in more ways than one" was not a desire to "crucify" the Treasurer but a reference to "nailing the facts".
David Pocock will be withheld from the Brumbies lineup for another week. Photo: Graham Tidy
The ACT Brumbies have put David Pocock's comeback on ice as they prepare to beat the heat and humidity of Brisbane by adopting new training tactics to ensure they can handle the draining conditions.
Pocock has been ruled out of the Brumbies' clash against the Queensland Reds on Saturday night as the club takes a long-term view to his recovery from an ankle injury.
Coach Stephen Larkham isn't willing to risk rushing the former Wallabies skipper back onto the field after two knee reconstructions and an ankle syndesmosis problem, which has limited him to six games since the start of 2013.
- Abby Bishop has won the Canberra Capitals' MVP award for the second year in a row. Coach Carrie Graf called the decision a "no brainer" after the 26-year-old played the best season of her career.
- The Wollongong Hawks were prepared to sell home games to Canberra before going into voluntary administration with a view to rebuilding an NBL presence in the capital more than a decade after the Cannons went bust.
- Canberra fans have taken a Secret Squirrel approach and continue to cry foul over alleged niggling tactics by the Cronulla Sharks, but Raiders players assure there's nothing to worry about after images of Sharks players allegedly grabbing at the groins of Canberra players in Sunday night's season opener circulate online.
- Australia's Davis Cup captain Wally Masur says as the team's No.1 player Nick Kyrgios does not need to fight to reclaim his spot and has backed Kyrgios to "do some damage" at the Indian Wells Masters tournament, which starts Friday.
9.55am: Another crash - there has been a nasty crash outside Duntoon in Campbell. One car is on right side in lane heading towards airport.
9.04am: The crash on Scollay Street in Greenway has now been cleared. Traffic is heavy on the roads around the Monaro Highway and Morshead Drive.
8.49am: A 54-year-old male taken to Canberra Hospital in a stable condition with minor injuries after that crash on the Monaro Highway near Fyshwick.
8.46am: Police said those eastbound lanes closed on Hindmarsh drive have now reopened, after a two car crash on the road earlier this morning.
8.36am: A car has collided with a cyclist on the Monaro Highway near Fyshwick. Emergency services have been called and traffic is gridlocked in that area heading towards the city from Fyshwick.
8.21am: There has been reports of a crash on the Monaro Highway in Fyshwick near the bridge over the Molonglo river. We will bring you more details on that as they come out.
8.14am: One eastbound lane is closed on Hindmarsh Drive near the Tamar Street intersection, police said.
8.08am: One person has been taken to Canberra hospital with minor injuries after that crash in Greenway, according to emergency services. Police say the road is still closed.
7.55am: There has been a crash on near the bus stop on Scollay Street, Greenway. The street is closed outside the Boating Camping Fishing shop. Police are advising motorist to avoid the area if possible.
Part Hospital Road at the Canberra Hospital is closed for the next six weeks as a new demountable building is installed. The road is closed between the Bateson Road roundabout and the hospital's main entrance. Access to the main entrance pick-up and drop-off areas is still accessible but bus stops on Hospital Road have been closed and rerouted.
If you are stuck in traffic or have any info, let us know: firstname.lastname@example.com or tweet us @canberratimes
The Village People will bring disco mega-hits like Macho Man and YMCA to the Playhouse at the Canberra Theatre Centre from 8pm tonight.
Young-at-heart adults have the National Capital Exhibition's Brick By Brick lego activity all to themselves today from 5 to 7pm.
Rope Access Engineering employees dressed up to entertain children at Canberra Hospital. Photo: Matt Bedford
Children at the Canberra Hospital's women and children's ward were surprised to see a number of superheroes with sponges hanging outside their windows on Wednesday.
Abseilers from a local window cleaning business shed their overalls for Spiderman, Batman, Buzz Lightyear and Ninja Turtle costumes to bring laughter and smiles to those fighting illness and injury.
It was the first time the staff had dressed in costume while cleaning the windows of some of the city's tallest buildings.
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Health Minister Simon Corbell is launching an audit by the Heart Foundation on unhealthy advertisting to kids in Canberra. Samuel 5, and Grace de Carvalho, 3 of Fisher get active. Photo: Jamila Toderas
Today: A partly cloudy day in Canberra with a forecast minimum 13 degrees and a top of 30 degrees.
The rest of the week: Friday, cloudy - min 10, max 22; Saturday, partly cloudy - min 7, max 26; Sunday, mostly sunny - min 11, max 25.


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RIVERDALE, Ga. - A charter school's officials, in Riverdale, say they are heading to court in hopes of getting the school open. They want the city to conduct inspections into the case.
Utopian Academy for the Arts wants to be able to open its doors to begin classes for the 200 students.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the school didn't open at its scheduled August 4 date. The school says the city has kept the school from being able to be open. School officials say a confusing round of requests and paperwork from the city has kept the school closed.
One of the documents standing in the way is for a tax-exempt business license. The school says the city is demanding the school applies. Though, the school states in the state of Georgia, public schools don't need a business license to operate.
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, L'Erin Barnes, Riverdale City attorney, has declined to comment.
Copyright 2014 by News4Jax.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Belinda Gibson, the deputy chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, decided to leave the regulator for certain when she was accosted by a shopper at a supermarket about continuous disclosure rules for listed companies.
Ms Gibson, who admits the public scrutiny of her role has proved difficult, plans to step down when her appointment expires in May.
"It's a pretty public role; it is much more public than I ever anticipated," Gibson tells The Australian Financial Review.
"I was just doing my shopping the other day, getting my groceries and this woman bowls up to me and has a discussion about how she had seen my picture in the paper and had seen me at a seminar. I was thinking, I will have to dress up more."
A former partner at law firm King & Wood Mallesons, Gibson joined ASIC as a commissioner in November 2007. She was appointed deputy chairman in May 2010 and oversaw the transition of market regulation from the Australian Securities Exchange to ASIC.
She was a hot favourite to replace former ASIC head
ASIC chairman
ASIC's only female commissioner said she would like to move back into the corporate world, with consulting work or possible board appointments.
"I think my days of practice as a lawyer are probably behind me but I think I would like to go back to the corporate sector. But I haven't lined anything up," she says.
Gibson says there is "more to do" before she leaves. A key focus is developing a co-operation policy for suspects, particularly insider traders.
She points to former BG Group vice-president Stuart Fysh, who yesterday was sentenced to at least a year in jail for insider trading – and has indicated he will appeal – as an example of tougher sentences for those who fight their charges. On Tuesday John Kay Jin Khoo, a former investment banking associate at the Royal Bank of Canada, and Jia Yao Mathew Tan pleaded guilty to insider trading.
"That is something we hope we will get done in the next few months, a co-operation policy, recognising that co-operation with us is something we will bear in mind in seeking penalties."
"If you knock on our door and say, 'You don't know about this yet but I want to tell you what I have done,' you can get credit for that. Or if we knock on your door and you say pretty quickly, 'Yeah, I know I have done wrong,' we will recognise that," Gibson says.
Gibson says the outcomes of ASIC's task forces into high-frequency trading and dark pools would be another key focus before she leaves. High-frequency traders are facing higher charges for each message or trade, she says.
"Since we have been looking some of the trading strategies have already changed ... we will be mulling up over the Christmas break whether any more regulation is needed".
The departure of long-time lawyer Gibson marks an end of the era under Tony D'Aloisio of a commission dominated by lawyers, and perhaps less high-profile litigation such as James Hardie, One.Tel and Centro.
The days when practising lawyers dominated the ASIC commission have probably ended, Gibson says.
"I suspect the legal world will regret that, but I am not sure the rest of the world does."
A merit-based selection process for this position will commence shortly, Parliamentary Secretary for the Treasurer Bernie Ripoll said yesterday.
The Australian Financial Review


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I've lived in Florida my entire life.
I am constantly in pursuit of knowledge and new experiences.
I turned an interest of mine into a successful career.
I have a strange sense of humor.
I am always looking for ways to better myself.
-Cooking and baking
-Playing darts
-Being reliable
I like far too many movies to list here individually, so here are the highlights: Crank, Indiana Jones, anything by Mel Brooks, Fight Club, Shaun of the Dead, and Kung Fu Hustle
As for tv shows, I follow Dexter, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Adventure Time, Archer, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and plenty more.
I'm almost always listening to some music which changes depending on the mood I'm in. Lots of ska, punk, rock, nerdcore, dubstep, and even some select rap.
I like to use Pandora to discover new bands
Food: I'm not a picky eater, but there are two things I hate with a passion: grapefruit and quiche. I challenge anyone to change my mind about that. Otherwise, I can appreciate the qualities of almost any cuisine. I am offered the opportunity to try many exotic things at work, which is delightful(fresh lychee) and sometimes not so much (headcheese)
-My toolbox
-My friends and family
-Coffee, (or just brewed beverages because I like tea and beer too)
-My vices (you'll have to find out for yourself what they are)
-At my favorite little dive with my best friends playing darts
-Relaxing at home with a book/movie/video game
-Plotting world domination
-Designing my future business
-It would tickle your fancy
-You like to be awesome


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What Donald Trump Has to Show for Himself
The United States is a great and increasingly diverse country, one that draws its strength from tolerance and its political leadership, more and more, from the ranks of citizens who a few generations ago wouldn't even have been able to go to the polls and vote. We have, for the first time, an African-American president, and odds are that sometime before the end of this century we will have a female one. And this is as it should be; this is what makes our nation the envy of the world. But just as there is tolerance, there is also mere license, and one of our duty as citizens is to be ever vigilant of the line between them. A tolerant America is a strong America. But a licentious America is an America that has lost its way, for it is an America that has lost the ability to enforce its own standards, and so is an America that has lost its most essential freedom, that of self-determination.
Now, most Americans have an instinctive grasp of the difference between tolerance and license, and so spend their daily lives trying to be discriminating without being discriminatory. Americans are, above all, a fair people, with a streak of stubborn common sense that comes into play when extremists of all stripes try to take advantage of their natural inclination toward consensus and divide them into opposing ideological camps. They have always been better at knowing who their friends are than they are at identifying their enemies, for their fallback position, when they are asked to decide who is and who is not an American, has traditionally been this: "We are all Americans here."
Default generosity is our trademark as a people and as a nation, which is what makes it so vexing that we actually now have what you could call a controversy over the documentation that political candidates should show before being allowed to run for office. In poll after poll, Americans have indicated that they believe political candidates should be able to prove that they meet the fundamental qualifications of the office they are seeking; and yet those same polls indicate that Americans are equally uncomfortable asking candidates for the same simple documentation they would be asked for, say, if they were applying for a marriage license or a passport. Once again, we see the American inclination toward "fair play" at work — and yet this time we see how easily that inclination can be twisted, for partisan and even subversive ends.
We are all Americans here, goes the American refrain, but we can't let that mean "We are all acceptable presidential candidates here," because we know that political candidates should be held to a higher standard, especially ones seeking the highest office in the land. And this is what brings us to the present controversy raised by the all-but-declared presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.
Let us start by saying that whatever Americans might think of a President Donald Trump, we should all be grateful to him for raising these issues and putting them in the spotlight. We should be particularly grateful to him for showing that when American fairness gets twisted to mean that "anything goes," it will run smack into good old American common sense.
For while most Americans surely agree that it is right and good that the presidency is no longer the exclusive province of white males, those very same Americans would surely agree that there needs to be some standards about who can become president — and that, more importantly, we are morally obligated to enforce the standards we have in place. At the very least, Americans should be able to confirm that our presidential candidates are who they say they are, and that a candidate who says that he is a man should be able to prove that he has a dick.
Mr. Trump has offered no such proof. All he has proven thus far is that he is either unwilling or unable to do so, and has thereby taken a question that has long been relegated to the realm of the theoretical and put it squarely in the arena of actuality: What happens if a man becomes president and he turns out not to have a dick?
Of course, I am not accusing Mr. Trump of anything; and I'd like to remind you that there are no laws on the books — yet — requiring political candidates to prove that they are possessed of penises before running for our highest office. But there is natural law, and there also the law of tradition, and the inescapable fact remains that from George Washington to Barack Obama, all U.S. presidents have been men, and all have had dicks. It seems the height of irresponsibility, not to mention arrogance, for Mr. Trump to show his disdain for this tradition while at the same time campaigning for leadership of the free world.
And rumors of dicklessness have dogged Mr. Trump for years; one would think that he would want to take the opportunity to lay them to rest once and for all. They were rife the last time he threatened to run for the presidency, back in 1999, but his explanation at the time — that so many people accused him of being a dick it was inevitable that some thought he had no dick — sufficed. "It's like that game, telephone," he was overheard saying. But that was a more innocent age, and the national-security concerns that rose in the wake of 9/11 have made it all the more essential that nothing is left to the imagination when Americans are asked to decide who among them has true presidential timber.
Moreover, recent revelations from Mr. Trump's ex-wife Ivana and his ex-paramour Marla Maples have indicated that Mr. Trump may have never actually referred to his dick at all, but rather to his "Donald."
"I vuz asked to address it by name and its name vuz always Donald," the first Ms. Trump recently told Huffington Post.
Well, a Donald is not a dick, as even Mr. Trump must know. A Donald can be prosthesis, or a dick so surgically altered and enhanced that it cannot be called a dick any more than Mr. Trump's famous orange coif can be called his hair. And so add this to the rising chorus: The time has come for Mr. Trump to produce proof not of his Donald, but of his original dick.
This request comes reluctantly, and with a heavy heart. After all, we at Esquire are in the business of celebrating manhood, not requiring men to prove it. For instance, in certain circles it has been well known for years that Sean Hannity lacks a dick, and has been making do with the "Mr. Met" souvenir bat he bought at Shea Stadium before it closed down in 2008 and the Mets moved to Citi Field. But Mr. Hannity, for all the prominence of his public profile, is a private citizen, and I could never dream of asking him to produce documentation of his dick. But with Mr. Trump it is a different story, and he must be held to a different — and altogether higher — standard. Indeed, his reluctance or inability to prove that he has a dick threatens to put the reliability of the entire political process in question, at a time when Americans have become more and more skeptical about their leadership. Mr. Trump must prove once and for all that he has a dick before the conspiracy theories take root, and the fairness for which Americans are known becomes fatally compromised.
Of course, Mr. Trump protests that he has answered all the questions and that after he posted an affidavit by his urologist on his website it would be humiliating for him to do any more.
But nobody's trying to embarrass him. I simply ask that Trump show us his dick. He can make the issue go away tomorrow by holding a press conference and whipping it out, or, if he's visited by a sudden and uncharacteristic shyness, by producing a photograph of his dick after it's been verified by a bipartisan panel of experts. Until then, I will be among the Americans asking: If Donald Trump has a dick, why doesn't he show it?
Oh, yeah, and also this: Why doesn't he shut the hell up?
EARLIER: Why I'm Voting for Trump 2012 >>


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Us Coptic Christians worried about Egyptian riots
Coptic Christians in US alarmed at deadly riots in Egypt
Islamic authorities provide counseling to Muslims after attending Methodist Church dinner
Malaysia Muslims get counseling after church meet
Christian movie "Courageous" in top 10 at box office
Christian police drama in top 10 for second weekend
Pope urges southern Italian residents to care for eachother
Pope denounces "inhuman" mafia in southern Italy
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City faces a surge of seawater of anywhere from 6 to 11 feet from Hurricane Sandy. Schools, mass transit and financial trading are closed and hundreds of thousands have evacuated. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls the projected storm surge "the worst-case scenario" for New York City, Long Island and northern New Jersey.


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Le fruit de mes songes
Live @ Cafe OTO, 24 July 2014
Conversation Among The Ruins
Folk Songs Cycle
Eloïse Decazes & Delphine Dora
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You're not mad, you're just lonely
Half Asleep & Delphine Dora
A Stream Of Consciousness
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Born in 1980, Delphine Dora is a pianist, improviser, singer, and songwriter from France. She did many solo or collaboration recordings in the past and now, released on micro independent labels or available by free download. Drawing inspirations from various influences, her music is intimate, wild, weird and unclassifiable. ... more
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Newsmaker: Kathy Coder
Noteworthy: Coder was appointed chair of the Congress of Neighboring Communities, CONNECT, on Thursday during the organization's annual legislative session. CONNECT brings together leaders from Pittsburgh and surrounding communities to address common issues such as transportation.
Age: 54
Residence: Bellevue
Family: Husband Ron Coder, a former Steeler and Penn State football player.
Occupation: Owns Inta-Great, a training and development company for leadership and sales.
Background: Joined CONNECT when it started in 2009. Serves on the Bellevue Borough Council and in 2012 lost a bid for the 16th District seat in the state House.
Education: Obtained a degree in communications from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a master's in organizational leadership from Geneva College.
Quote: "We're so segregated in our region, and we really need to pull together on the things that are common to us. ...To me, it's how government should work — everyone working together for the common good of the region and the urban core. It doesn't matter how big you are, how small you are, what political party you are. It really doesn't matter because you are focused on something bigger than yourself."


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strings = ["Foo", "Bar", "Blah"];
# Below is 6 functionally similar first-class Procs defined in different ways.
procs = []
procs.push(lambda {|x| print x})
procs.push(lambda do |x| print x end)
procs.push(Proc.new {|x| print x})
procs.push(Proc.new do |x| print x end)
procs.push(proc{|x| print x})
procs.push(proc do |x| print x end)
procs.each {|i| puts i}
# Prints:
#<Proc:0x0000010086a8c0@blocks_and_procs.rb:5 (lambda)>
#<Proc:0x0000010086a898@blocks_and_procs.rb:6 (lambda)>
for i in 0..5
print "strings.map of proc #{i}: "
strings.map &procs[i]
print "\n"
# Prints
#strings.map of proc 0: FooBarBlah
#strings.map of proc 1: FooBarBlah
#strings.map of proc 2: FooBarBlah
#strings.map of proc 3: FooBarBlah
#strings.map of proc 4: FooBarBlah
#strings.map of proc 5: FooBarBlah
# And here's the inline methods of passing a block.
print "strings.map of do block:"
strings.map do |x| print x end
print "\n"
print "strings.map of {} block:"
strings.map {|x| print x}
print "\n"
# Prints
#strings.map of do block:FooBarBlah
#strings.map of {} block:FooBarBlah
You may notice that a dump of my procs yields two instances which note they're lambdas. Lambda and Proc.new have subtle differences in their argument checking and the way returns are handled from the Proc. See this link for more detail.
Admittedly, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed that there's so many ways to accomplish the same simple thing with Ruby. Particularly when one of its prized attributes is a syntax that is simple and consistent.


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After Effects tutorial: Create generative textures for print
Emilio Cassanese harnesses After Effects to make organic artwork
Emilio Cassanese harnesses After Effects to make organic artwork
Creation and rendering of raytraced objects in After Effects CS6 positively screams with NVIDIA technology
Chris Moran shows how to apply magical 3D effects to titles
From motion type to character animation, we take you through our reader's favourite After Effects tutorials from 2011
The key to producing simple but effective animation is to grasp the basic principles, as Lesley Barnes and Bruce Cameron explain
Use the new Warp Stabilizer to steady your footage
Illustrator and animator Ben Mounsey describes here how to create a character in Illustrator that's specifically designed for animation in After Effects, and then give it a classic cel-animation walk
Following up his tutorial in last month's issue on creating a character in the style of a 16-bit arcade game such as Street Fighter II, here James May takes you through the steps involved in animating this character to create a 'load screen'.
Learn how to create an animated 3D logo using After Effects and Illustrator
Sam Hampton-Smith animates lyrics for a music video
Remove a coloured background easily in Adobe After Effects CS5 by mastering the Roto Brush tool.
Music video styles drawn from the early days of MTV are all the rage, but it's pretty time-consuming, so we show you how to bring a stylised, painterly look to your footage.
Use Google Earth with Adobe After Effects to make thrilling 'falling-from-space' sequences.
Sam Hampton-Smith shows you how to give your still images the appearance of motion using After Effects' lighting tools
Give your footage a fresh perspective with mini-planet techniques
After Effects ships with a couple of basic audio effects that create motion graphics based on the audio levels of an imported file. These work fairly well for the standard application of hi-fi levels, but don't offer much in the way of customisable options, beyond the range of frequencies and colours displayed within the effect.
Shatter and Card Dance are two of After Effects CS4's most underrated particle effects. Both were created by Brain Maffitt's Atomic Power Corporation, before being bought by Adobe to include in After Effects.
Design a stylised, 3D-looking pop-up book using 2D elements and Adobe After Effects
Create a cool repeating echo effect with After Effects wizardry by Sam Hampton-Smith.
Use After Effects' useful built-in effects to generate a title sequence.


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A total of 70 students from 15 southern colleges and universities participated in the fifth annual Southern Regional Dairy Challenge, November 18 through 20 in Tupelo, Miss. The Southern Regional Dairy Challenge is an innovative two-day event designed by professionals from allied industry and university educators to bring classroom training to life in the real world for students preparing for dairy careers.
The Mississippi State University hosted the 2010 contest, drawing participants from Alabama A&M University, Berry College, Clemson University, Eastern Kentucky University, Florida State College at Jacksonville, University of Florida, University of Kentucky, Louisiana State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Mississippi State University, North Carolina State University, Santa Fe College, Southern Illinois University, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia University.
"The regional Dairy Challenge, while offering a competitive format, educates undergraduate students about the dairy industry itself and allows them to apply the concepts they have learned in the classroom to a real farm situation and then defend their practical recommendations," says contest planning committee co-chair Donna Amaral-Phillips of the University of Kentucky. "Students learn a great deal in the process."
Platinum Sponsor Johnny Bonnette from Genex Cooperative, Inc. added, "After attending and participating in all five of the Southern Regional Dairy Challenges, I become more enthusiastic each year about the quality, professionalism and enthusiasm of both the student ambassadors and the academic advisors of the participating colleges and universities. With continued success throughout the country with Dairy Challenge, I believe our United States dairy industry will be in good hands for many years to come."
A key objective is to present students with a real-life situation that stresses the importance of teamwork and professionalism. Teams of students from the different universities were formed to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of a working dairy farm. Afterwards, teams presented their analysis and prioritized opportunities for improvement to a panel of expert judges and the dairy owners. Hosts for this year's Southern Regional Dairy Challenge were Jeremy and Beth Graham, Graham Dairy, Thaxton, MS; and Grandy Ladner & Darren McGee, co-owners, Heritage Dairy Farm, Holly Springs, MS.
What They Did During the Challenge
Students arrived at the Summit Center and Clarion Inn, in Tupelo, MS on the evening of November 18. After check-in and registration, participants were split into mixed-university teams. Teams got to know each other over dinner and then participated in team-building exercises led by Dave Winston from Virginia Tech. Winston worked with students to discover their teams' strengths and capabilities, examine ingredients of effective teams, and evaluate team members' personality styles. "I was impressed with the camaraderie that developed among students from different institutions after only being together for such a short period of time," comments Winston.
Later that evening, teams received detailed production, financial, nutrition and reproduction records. The students had about an hour and a half to review the material and start forming their team strategies.
On Friday morning, the teams left for their farm visit to evaluate cows, facilities and management practices. After a three-hour farm visit, teams returned to the hotel to analyze their data and develop recommendations for improvement. Each team prepared a 20-minute presentation that detailed their observations and suggestions.
The evening concluded with a Rock Band contest at the Lee Country Agri-Center to provide the students a chance to relax and show off their other skills.
On the program's final day, each team presented its evaluation and recommendations to a panel of industry judges. Teams were ranked as platinum, gold, or silver, based on how well they worked as a team and how effectively their presentations of strengths and opportunities for the dairy operation matched the judges' evaluations. When teams were not presenting, they toured the Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo where they learned about many different types of exotic animals from buffalo to giraffe.
The Dairy Challenge ended with dinner, entertainment and an awards ceremony at the Summit Center and Clarion Inn.
University of Florida will host the 2011 Southern Regional Dairy Challenge. To become a
Southern Regional sponsor, contact Gary Hay at email@example.com. All contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Contributing sponsors are recognized on the Dairy Challenge web site, as well as programs and news stories issued throughout the year.
The Southern Regional is one of four regional contests under the guidance and support of the North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge. The NAIDC mission is to facilitate education, communication and an exchange of ideas among students, agribusiness, dairy producers and universities that enhances the development of the dairy industry and its leaders.
The 2011 National Dairy Challenge contest will be held March 30-April 2 in Hickory, North Carolina. For more information, visit www.dairychallenge.org or contact Dairy Challenge at email@example.com.
Source: North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge
A total of 70 students from 15 southern colleges and universities participated in the fifth annual Southern Regional Dairy Challenge, November 18 through 20 in Tupelo, Miss. The Southern Regional Dairy Challenge is an innovative two-day event designed by professionals from allied industry and university educators to bring classroom training to life in the real world for students preparing for dairy careers.


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Here is the source code for the disassembler from Chapter 17 of Mastering Machine Code on your ZX Spectrum by Toni Baker as a zasm .asm file which will assemble to a .tap file.
It is available as a .zip file here which contains the disassembler .asm source file for zasm assembler, the assembled .tap file and an Xcode project file.
A PDF of Chapter 17 is available here. It is 11.6MB and based on images of a hard copy of the book kindly supplied by Adrian S. (cmonkey at World of Spectrum forums)
The OCRed PDF of Mastering Machine Code on your ZX Spectrum by Toni Baker is available here.
zasm assembler is available here
Known issues (from the included README file)
Z80 NEG opcode currently disassembles as "C HL,BC". This will be debugged and fixed in a future update.
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Play up the colors of the season for your fall wedding. Bright, berry hues combined with bold vermillion and soft blush are an updated take on traditional earth tones. L to R: Wedding Paper Divas Just Lovely invite, Ceremony Arch, Bouquet, Cake, Bridesmaids, Shoes» Read More
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Horizon's Life Lights Candlelit Stroll Offers a Time and Place to Share, Grieve, and Celebrate
Loss and grief are a fundamental part of life that touches almost all of us, and in many different ways. From major traumatic events - such the recent shootings at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek and the movie theater in Aurora, Colorado - to all those mothers, fathers, grandparents, sisters, brothers, and friends who don't make news headlines, everyone is touched by loss.
Celebrate the lives of loved ones lost at Horizon Home Care & Hospice's 6th annual Life Lights event, which includes a one-mile sunset stroll lit with 1,500 luminaries, a candle lighting ceremony and memorial slide show. This uplifting memorial event, which brings people together to support one another and continue the healing process, will be held at the Milwaukee County Zoo, 10001 West Bluemound Rd., Friday evening September 7. To address the collective grief of our community in the wake of the August 5 Sikh Temple shootings in Oak Creek, there will be a special moment of silence to acknowledge the lives lost and the families left behind.
"Our culture perpetuates a myth that we 'get over' our grief after a certain amount of time, but that's not true," said Mary Haynor, President and CEO of Horizon. "Life Lights helps continue the healing process after a loss – whether that loss happened a few weeks ago or many years ago – by offering a special time and place to remember and honor and connect with loved ones no longer with us."
Community members, whether or not able to attend, are invited to submit photos of loved ones and pets for the Celebration of Life slide show. Email photos to email@example.com or by mail to Horizon Home Care & Hospice, Attention: Life Lights, 8949 N. Deerbrook Trail, Brown Deer, WI, 53223. Photos will be returned, and the deadline for photo submissions is August 31. Life Lights also includes a letter writing station where attendees can write notes to loved ones and deposit the notes in a box that will be kept at Horizon's Grief Resource Center throughout the year.
Advance tickets for Life Lights are $20 adults and $10 children age 10 and younger until August 31 and increase by $5 beginning September 1. Purchase tickets at www.horizonhch.org/lifelights or call (414) 586-8360. Tickets will be sold on-site for $25 for adults and $15 for children. Ticket prices include parking and admission, live music by Kyle Feerick and Friday Fish Fry or children's meal. Funds raised support Horizon's charity care program.
The evening begins with dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., followed by the candlelit sunset stroll, Celebration of Life candle lighting ceremony and slide show.
Horizon Home Care & Hospice, a non-profit organization, is one of the state's largest licensed, full service home care agency and hospice providers. Visit www.horizonhch.com.
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Date: Mon Jun 11 00:43:41 EDT 2007
Jakub Piotr C??apa wrote: >Does anybody know something about the Python in PLT Scheme project? [...] >I was interested in the source code because Python was my top language >before I got to learning Scheme and I would love to learn something from >it (or even use some pieces in my own work). :) The source code is available from CVS: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=106375 http://plt-spy.cvs.sourceforge.net/plt-spy/ (web interface to the Spy CVS repository). Nobody has touched that code in quite a while so I don't know how easy it would be to run it with a current version of DrScheme. Feel free to work on it if you feel like :-) Philippe
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Website Creation & Support
It is easy to get a faculty or department website. Just follow the steps below:
STEP 1 Obtain a Kean Web Account!
Obtain a Kean Web Account from Computer Services (OCIS). The Kean Web Account is different from the Kean E-mail Account.
Fill out the Kean Web Account Request Form [] and hand it in to OCIS located at Campus School South, Room 113.
OCIS will assign you a Turbo User ID and Password. Please allow 5 business days for processing.
STEP 2 Make an appointment!
Make an appointment with the Center for Professional Development Web Designer.
Call x74657 to schedule a convenient meeting time at the Center for Professional Development offices located in the Library, Room 145.
Meeting time lengths will vary. On average, be prepared to spend at least 1 hour.
STEP 3 Ideas, Ideas, Ideas!
Think about what you would like to put on your Website. Organize and outline your material hierarchically. Put all of the files on a CD or other digital storage device. Note that all materials need to be in digital format. Paper handouts will need to be scanned. This can be done in the Center for Professional Development lab. Make sure you do so before your appointment.
Look at what other faculty have accomplished with their websites...
Examples of material for faculty websites:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Course specific material such as syllabi, handouts, diagrams, PowerPoint presentations, etc.
Examples of material for department websites:
- Information about the department
- Service/Program information
- Faculty/Staff contact information
- Department forms
- List of related resources
STEP 4 Arrive prepared!On the day of your appointment, please remember to bring the following:
- Kean Web Account login and password
- Website material in digital format


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Google Solves Gmail Access Problems
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Monday it has resolved an issue with its contacts system that caused many users of its Gmail service to have trouble accessing their online e-mail.
The problems began at about 5 p.m. EDT and an announcement on the company's Gmail "Help Center" site said the issue is now resolved.
Google said an outage in the contacts system used by Gmail prevented the e-mail system from loading properly. The company also said that there may be minor delays in deliveries even though all mail is safe.
Users across the United States, Canada and India reported problems with Gmail and a Google employee also reported that the company's own corporate e-mail account was down.
(Reporting by Daisuke Wakabayashi; editing by Carol Bishopric)
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"Although there were two military engagements in the Natchez area in 1863 and 1864, the town surrendered early to Union troops and was spared extensive damage. Natchez National Cemetery was established during this period, north of town near the river bluff. The original 11-acre site was purchased in 1866 from local residents. Original interments were brought from locations in Louisiana and Mississippi within a 50-mile radius of Natchez in Adams County. One of the old Natchez homes, "The Gardens," served as a military hospital for federal troops, and some of the earliest interments are the men who died there. In a report dated June 30, 1866, Quartermaster Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs informed the secretary of war that many bodies had been buried in the levees near the west shore of the Mississippi. Subsequently, the removal of these remains and their reinterment at Natchez National Cemetery began the following fall. Natchez National Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999."
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Flextronics unit working on structured array
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Flextronics Semiconductor is contemplating a move into structured ASICs to give its customers another avenue to reduce system development costs. The fabless ASIC company has partnered with start-up eASIC Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer of a one-mask metal programmable array that can either be embedded in a cell-based design or used as the base fabric for fast-turnaround ASICs.
Flextronics Semiconductor is evaluating the eASIC fabric as the basis for a planned 0.13-micron structured-array offering, said general manager Elli Yaniv, Sunnyvale, Calif.
The first test chip is being run at one of Flextronics' strategic manufacturing partners--which include STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, and a third undisclosed chipmaker.
Odds favor ST, which divulged in a presentation at the Design Automation Conference last June that it is working with eASIC. What the three-way alliance will bring to bear is not yet clear. Yaniv declined to discuss details, but said Flextronics Semiconductor expects to reach the first "milestone" with the e-ASIC co-development by next spring.
Today, Flextronics Semiconductor provides FPGA-to-ASIC conversion services for a large segment of Tier 1 customers of its parent company, EMS provider Flextronics International Pte. Ltd., Singapore. The company is trying to engage those same customers in SoC designs at 0.18 and 0.13 micron, and sees a structured-ASIC offering as filling in the spectrum of custom-chip solutions it can offer.
"One way that Flextronics can give customers cost reduction at the system level is through the semiconductor business, and we do that with integration, conversions, and low-cost designs," Yaniv said.
Flextronics International entered the ASIC arena in 1995 with the purchase of analog gate array supplier KMOS. The company's 2000 purchase of DII brought the Orbit Conversions business into the fold. That year, Flextronics also kicked off its SoC efforts by acquiring ASIC International.
More recently, Flextronics quietly bought Israeli Bluetooth chip developer BrightCom, giving the company an outlet for standard products. Flextronics' EMS unit is developing Bluetooth modules based on the BrightCom chipset. That offering complements an exclusive deal to manufacture Bluetooth modules based on chipsets from ST, which Flextronics will sell through ST's distribution channel.
To date, however, FPGA-to-ASIC and end-of-life ASIC conversions still comprise the bulk of Flextronics' revenue. As such, it's where the company is focusing much of its resources, according to director of sales Jim Kaya.
"In the coming year, we will be putting a lot of resources into the conversion area, because of our overall focus on cost reduction," Kaya said.


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Seeing as at least 98 percent of the chanting, sweating crowd for this show was male – only half of which will read this, and half of that half just stopped – pardon me while I regress and translate some thoughts into comprehensible guyspeak:
Dude. Iron Maiden at the Forum! Place was SO packed. Total crush on the floor. So sick.
More than two hours of nothing but fierce Maiden, man. Apart from "Fear of the Dark" they didn't play anything that wasn't at least 20 years old – three from "The Number of the Beast," including "Hallowed Be Thy Name" to close, four from "Powerslave," including an epic "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Dude, they haven't played that since the tour for that album in '85!
And did you hear about gigantic Robo-Eddie from the "Somewhere in Time" cover coming out and having a Lakers jersey put on him? Yeah, that was pretty lame. You should've heard what Bruce Dickinson had to say about it when they came back for the encore: "We're an English rock 'n' roll band. We don't give a (bleep) about basketball!"
And dude: I was sitting next to two of the 14 girls they allowed inside … and they were so hot for Dickinson! Just before the lights go out the dweeb in front of me, trying to act all cool, like he's been to Maiden before, he yells out "BRUCE DICKINSON," right? And the girl to my left, who never stopped taking pictures, she goes, "Yeah. Fifty years later."
Not sure what that means. Doesn't she know he's 49?
Anyway, then she goes: "And he's still hot!" And the chick in front of her turns around and goes, "Yeahhh, he is!"
Dude, we totally could've hooked up with them.
Dickinson says they're coming back in May, too. We are so getting your mom to drop us off.
Wait … what's happening to me … I feel myself evolving even as I type …
Ah, much better, thanks. Now, if you'll permit a more personal perspective to this Maiden bash in Inglewood, I have a past-becomes-present story to share.
Maidenheads, most of whom raced out to buy the first-ever DVD edition of the concert video "Live After Death" last week, might gather from my momentary lapse in sanity just then that the band nearly re-created it Tuesday night. "Aces High," then "Two Minutes to Midnight," followed by "Revelations" and "The Trooper" (in reverse order on the original album) … and so forth. The only two they left off were "Flight of Icarus" (much to my dismay) and "Running Free."
Dickinson, that fleet-footed animal prone to leaping off monitors as if he's about to stage-dive, told the crowd that this new Somewhere Back in Time World Tour '08 "has everything to do with 'Live After Death,' which was recorded not far from here." Long Beach Arena, to be exact, across four nights in March 1985.
Then Dickinson spotted one of the thousands of teenagers on hand. "And you definitely weren't even (bleepin') born when we did it, were you?"
I was, though – I was a sophomore in high school and due to go with a friend of a friend. But the day before the show I got a bad feeling something would go wrong – and chickened out. Years later, when I had the same bad feeling before a Cocteau Twins gig, I learned I wasn't cowardly so much as succumbing to a family trait. My dad, for instance, long had an irrational fear that terrible things would happen if he were to fly to Hawaii.
But the fact remains that this "Piece of Mind" fan missed out on seeing one of the most historic shows in Maiden lore. After which time metal meant less and less to me, and Maiden grew more and more excessive and fractured. Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith split in the '90s. Then they came back – and have since helped the group reclaim its collective seat at the round-table of metal giants. But by the time they were getting pelted with eggs at Ozzfest a few years back, I had completely lost interest.
Which leads to this revelation: This Forum show is the first time I've ever seen Maiden. So I am, in a sense, that same kid who kicked off this review. And how awesome is it that I got to hear all the same songs I missed back then, played every bit as powerfully?
That's the most impressive point: a whole new generation of teenagers, many of whom appear to be following Maiden around the globe on this trek, is now discovering that the band hasn't lost the slightest bit of edge or chopsmanship. (Unlike, oh, Ozzy Osbourne.)
Never mind how Dave Murray and Janick Gers take flight during solos – note how bluegrass-fast their six-string picking is on riffs alone. Notice how unerringly sharp the whole unit is, motored by the furiously galloping rhythms of bassist Steve Harris and the drummer with the best name in metal, Nicko McBrain. (Harris' daughter Lauren opened the show, by the way.) Notice, too, how prescient so many of their metaphorical songs have proved to be; "The Trooper," for starters, a great anti-war track that warns against nationalistic arrogance, couldn't be more timely.
As for Dickinson … OK, I found it hard not to chuckle at his Axl Rose-in-"Mad Max" outfits. His "Powerslave" mask was straight out of "The Wicker Man." His costume for "Ancient Mariner" only added to the Spinal Tap-estry of that piece – which might explain why it had been retired.
Yet, despite a faulty microphone that at times couldn't seem to handle his roars, Dickinson's sky-high voice is still an uncommon wonder. Next time you're jamming on "Rock Band," try singing "Run to the Hills." In his original range.
Seriously sick, dude.
Oh, and my earlier alter-ego didn't misreport: Iron Maiden, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, May 30-31, after they get back from a tour of South America. Dickinson says for those dates they're bringing out much more than the pyrotechnics they could stuff onto Ed Force One, their touring jet. All 18 trucks of Maiden madness next time – including the sarcophagus! It will be insane. Tickets go on sale March 1.
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Davos braces for anti-capitalist protests
In 1999, at the Battle of Seattle, the violence of "fair trade" protests shocked the West, still basking in its victory against the threat of communism.
The World Economic Forum in Davos suffered its own problems in 2000, when 500 demonstrators dressed as skiers to evade a demonstration ban.
A year later, dissenters took the battle to Zurich, where three police officers were injured, and more than 100 people arrested.
Rogue dissenters
But this year protesters are not only going to be allowed into Davos. (On Saturday, at least).
They are, it appears, to be helped to the venue by authorities.
Documents seen by BBC News Online show that the Oltner Alliance, a protest group, has, since June, been in talks with officials over ensuring peace at demonstrations.
Agreed has been the frisking of demonstrators for items more aggressive than anti-WEF banners.
While the Oltner Alliance may be committed to protest without "any physical harm to anybody", police believe that about 5% of demonstrators will come prepared to use violence, the documents say.
Another protest group's website reads, ominously: "We are going to confront the rulers with resistance that cannot be ignored."
Delegates may be relieved to hear that the relevant internet page has received less than 10 hits a day.
Davos no more
Indeed, if anti-globalisation campaigners BBC News Online contacted were representative, Davos is unlikely - bar the outbreak of a US-led war against Iraq - to prove a significant flashpoint.
This is not just because the Swiss policing plans are reminiscent of the "divide and rule" tactics effective in marginalising militants at London's Mayday march two years ago.
There is also the emergence of an alternative forum where anti-globalisers, given a voice, are proving increasingly keen to be heard.
Ask the average "fair trade" campaign group how many people it is sending to Davos, and the number will almost certainly be less than that sent to the World Social Forum (WSF) in Brazil.
Lula lovers
Typical is the response of the London-based World Trade Movement.
"We are not sure if we are sending anyone to Davos," a spokesman said.
"Everyone is going to the World Social Forum."
Last year, the second WSF attracted some 60,000 people from around the world, including half the French cabinet.
Anti-globalisation protesting is, um, going global.
Block the bloc
And the attraction of the WSF?
"There has been nothing like it in history," says Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a figurehead for protesters.
"There has never before existed such a collection of individuals and movements."
What is more, the forum is rooted in the developing world, rather than the consciences of the West.
Indeed, participants will gather in Proto Alegre, Brazil as neighbouring Argentina assesses the role global institutions, such as the World Bank, have played in its economic downfall.
Fluffy Davos
Ironically, the rise of the World Social Forum comes as Davos is championing social issues.
The WEF trailed its 2003 summit, themed "Building Trust", with a poll revealing declining trust in world leaders.
Seven years ago, before the Battle of Seattle, Davos delegates met to debate "Sustaining Globalisation".
And even in 2000, at the peak of the dot.com boom, the summit was distinctly pro-corporate.
"People hoped that some of that dot.com gold-dust would rub off," one senior UK businessman, and Davos regular, said.
"There was this feeling that the internet could solve all the world's problems. That we were standing at the end of history.
"Now there has been a little sober reflection, following the bursting of the dot.com bubble."
If you fancy attending forums entitled "Giving a voice to the disenfranchised", or "Can't we all just get along", fly not to Porto Alegre, but Davos.
Room for both?
Indeed, the ground covered may prove so common that some, such as Salil Shetty, chief executive of development agency ActionAid, would see increasing contact between the two summits.
"We should be seeking to encourage dialogue," says Mr Shetty who, while a Davos delegate, receives daily updates from Porto Alegre.
Ed Mayo, director at anti-globalisation think-tank the New Economics Foundation, also sees both forums playing important roles.
"In a world which is increasingly globally focused, you need global institutions."
The WSF may even emerge as the dominant summit.
"The WSF has so much creativity, consensus. It is wholly chaotic, but much clearer in its aims," Mr Mayo says.
"In the long run it is going to be more relevant than the WEF."
The challenge for the WSF will, as a movement comprising so many factions, to maintain coherence.
Still, for now it has attracted the media spotlight, and an increasing anti-globalisation throng.
In the future, who knows, its success may even trigger the eruption of pro-capitalist protests.
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