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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Maryland -- Into the great amphitheatre of democracy wander 46 voters. There's a table set up on the stage below us and a rostrum for a moderator, and some handbills and bumper stickers have been laid out in the lobby. This is where the candidates' debate is going to take place on a weekday night in the deep suburbia of Washington-Baltimore.
This forum is not one of those Obama-Romney or Ryan-Biden bouts of belligerent air-bending and smirking condescension. It's three guys running for a chair in the much-despised, do-nothing United States Congress, two of whom have absolutely no chance of winning a week from Tuesday. Still, we 46, plus the millions beyond, are given a choice, which at least puts us ahead of North Korea.
Outside, under half a balmy moon, one of the certain losers is pacing the commons of Anne Arundel Community College and trying to conjure what, if anything, he is going to say in the auditorium when his turn comes. He is a vowel-deficient, long, long, long shot named Paul Drgos, nominee of the Libertarian Party for a seat in the House of Representatives from the Third District of the State of Maryland, part of which lies in the county named for the late Lady Arundel, an English Catholic noblewoman who was only 13 when she married the "Absolute Lord of Maryland and Avalon" in the year 1618.
"I'm not a very good public speaker," the candidate confesses.
"Why are you doing this?" I ask Drgos, who is a divorced father of four, a computer programmer by trade, and a man with enough good sense not to quit his day job before the election returns bury him alive.
"I don't like the way the government is going," he replies. "I don't like the two-party system."
Drgos tells me his own third party is ready to embrace "anyone from anarchists to more sensible people who believe in less government, not no government." He estimates he has spent $750 on his campaign so far, including the $100 filing fee, and that a total of two supporters have gone to his website and donated 10 bucks each.
While we are chatting, the Libertarian and I are joined by a younger fellow in a dark suit and an electric turquoise shirt who turns out to be Eric D. Knowles, the Republican rival of Drgos and of our once-and-future incumbent Democratic congressman, John Peter Spyros Sarbanes, the fortunate son of a five-term U.S. senator and himself a Harvard Law School grad who has been in the House since 2007, garnering at least 60 per cent of the popular vote each time he has stood for election. (Like nearly every other congressional riding in the country, the Maryland Third has been so cynically gerrymandered by the state legislature that no Democrat ever will lose it.)
"What does the 'D' stand for?" I ask Eric D. Knowles, the son of a Vietnam-era U.S. Army Green Beret and himself the divorced father of a 10-year-old girl and a former air force heating and refrigeration technician who ran (unsuccessfully) for the governorship of Maryland two years ago while he still was a student right here at Anne Arundel Community College.
"It's 'Delano,' " he admits. "My mother gave it to me and I hate it."
Unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eric Delano Knowles does not believe the federal government should be the source and redistributor of the people's hard-earned wealth. In fact, at an earlier all-candidates forum, he listed FDR as one of the three worst presidents in American history, along with Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln.
"We need congressmen in there that are not part of the establishment," Knowles tells me. "They should come from the people and return to the people." The candidate's own plebian credentials are impeccable. A former camp counsellor and self-described "countertop measurer," he currently works as the bartender at the upscale Chop House in historic Annapolis.
"I have to put food on the table," the aspirant explains.
"He has a very strong viewpoint, not so much a Republican as a constitutionalist," Drgos says when Knowles walks away. "But I'm not sure he has a full grasp of what the constitution really says. He's a very personable guy. To be a bartender, you've got to be."
Now we all go inside and the candidates take their seats and, in a nice theatrical flourish, the Republican publican Knowles hands congressman Sarbanes a paper bag with an American flag design on the outside and a copy of the United States Constitution inside.
"The best thing the government can do is get out of the way," Drgos says as the debate begins.
"There's never been a time when raising taxes has brought more revenue to the government," says Knowles. And so it goes.
Next week, more than 100 million American citizens -- nearly two million of whom, according to the well-respected Pew Center on the States, are already dead but remain on the electoral rolls -- will pull a plunger or punch a chad or finger a touch-screen to choose a president, a senate, governors and dogcatchers, judges and county clerks.
In my own house, my wife and I are going to have to pass judgment not only on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, but on same-sex marriage, an expansion of casino gambling, university tuition rates for the children of illegal immigrants, collective-bargaining rights for our county police, hiring preference for the severely disabled in county employment, and the composition of our local board of education.
Then we will have to select either Drgos, Knowles or Sarbanes to speak for us in nearby Washington.
Back at Anne Arundel, I ask Drgos what has been the highlight of his doomed and quixotic campaign, the sort of enterprise that, if abandoned, would leave us with no democracy at all.
"It's something small and simple," he replies, "but it meant the world to me. My daughter went with me to a festival downtown to hand out flyers. I got to hear her say to people, 'Please vote for my Daddy.' "
Allen Abel is a Brooklyn-born Canadian journalist based in Washington, D.C.


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Eastern Kentucky University's men's basketball team out-rebounded Morehead State University by eight, held the Eagles to 33 percent shooting and committed six fewer turnovers in a 68-47 road win on Saturday.
MSU (11-14, 5-6 OVC) entered the game having out-rebounded conference opponents by 11.5 boards per game but had only seven boards in the second half. The Eagles also ranked 12th in the nation with 9.6 steals per game, but had only five tonight.
The Colonels (19-6, 8-3 OVC) protected the ball well, turning it over only 11 times. EKU out-scored the home team 24-4 off turnovers.
Glenn Cosey scored a game-best 17 for the visitors. He also had six rebounds and four assists. Eric Stutz added 12 points. Mike DiNunno finished with eight points, five assists and only one turnover.
A 7-0 run early in the second half put Eastern Kentucky in front by double digits for good. DiNunno hit a three, and Cosey and Tarius Johnson both had lay-ups to turn an 8-point advantage into a 15-point lead, 39-24, with 16:45 to go.
A dunk by Corey Walden stretched the lead to 17 with 7:34 remaining. The Eagles had just 36 points at that time. A trey by Cosey made it a 20-point game for the first time with just a little more than four minutes left. The Colonels led by 20 or more the rest of the way.
Angelo Warner led Morehead State with 16 points.
The Colonels will play their next two games at McBrayer Arena, beginning Thursday with the first meeting of the season against Tennessee Tech. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Eastern has swept the season series from Morehead State for the first time since 2007.
Eastern Kentucky entered the game first in the OVC and fourth in the nation in turnover margin (-5.8).
EKU entered the game 10th in the country with an average of 8.8 three-pointers per game, but made only four tonight (4-for-20).
EKU leads the all-time series 106-74 and is now 38-44 in games played in Morehead.
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This article was published 14/7/2011 (2230 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
I'm off on vacation, returning to work Aug. 2. Lots of kayaking ahead, some hiking in the woods, a lot of swimming, and a whole pile of books.
We've splurged on the latest Henning Mankell Wallander translation, I've just become hooked on Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec series, came across an Inspector Rebus I hadn't read, and have also discovered the books of Arnaldur Indridason, the Icelandic mysteries that are even gloomier than the Swedish.
There's a shortage of good political thrillers around right now, no new Stephen King until the fall, no sign of a Scott Turow, always hoping for some good standalone science fiction — though not fantasy, or those annoying 89th in a series of 147 sci-fi books. No new Robert J. Sawyer yet.
Anyhow, having started to read the types of books we watch on Masterpiece Mystery, I'm thinking there's a template out there for male police detective novels, and that includes Michael Connelly: they drink too much, they're overweight, they smoke, they're grumpy, they've messed up every relationship they've ever had, they're estranged from their kids, live on fast food and bad coffee and cheap whiskey, can't get along with their bosses, but are amazingly brilliant and always solve the crime.
Sorry, long digression there, back to education...
The ongoing crisis over parking at the new stadium on the U of M campus — here's my story today — raises questions about what constitutes a parking spot, and where people will be allowed to park.
There seems to be some bewilderment that U of M wouldn't have a precise figure on every spot available on campus.
OK, there are specific parking lots for staff and students, and there's the parkade, and there are some lots with meters. Regardless of the count, I think it'll be a nightmare getting off campus after games, just as it is now at the stadium, which is a half-hour walk from my house.
I'm not telling anyone where I park for the Manitoba Marathon, but there are hundreds of places that people park that morning that aren't official parking spots, and most aren't on campus. They're on empty lots, and shoulders of the roads, and on residential streets, and if people can walk back to their cars after running for hours, they can walk back to their cars after sitting for three hours. I don't see anyone's getting ticketed on Father's Day.
I've never set foot on the Southwoods golf course, which U of M now owns, and have no idea what roadways and parking lots and shoulders of roads exist in there, and that would probably be another nightmare to exit from after the games.
Alas, too far for me to walk, but I'll take a bus if it doesn't take me seven transfers and waiting for ages after those November playoff games.
You're probably ready for some trivia...
As part of the back-to-school deluge of news releases I get from the U.S., I received a pitch to do a story on "Crayola ColorStudio HD for iPad, an accessory and app combo that blends coloring with cutting-edge mobile technology".
I know I'm ancient, and it's been quite a while since I had little kids, but apps for Crayola? Isn't a Crayola device meant to interact with the digits of a three-year-old, and interface with a wood-based paper product or the bottom three feet of a living room wall?
Quite the diatribe I received from email@example.com, who sent a rant against both Roseau River First Nation Chief Terry Nelson and the stories I've written about the school situation there, one of which you can read about here.
My correspondent told me: "I do not believe you have the guts or ambition to write a true story."
Sorry I've failed to meet your expectations, disappointed reader, though I would point out that, unlike you, I do have the guts and ambition to put my name on what I write.
Harumph, he said self-righteously.
Moving on...
You know how hard it is for something to irritate me as a grumpy old man, but here's one that bugged me, as amazing as that may seem: I had to leave a sensitive message for a university professor, something I want to pass on to only that person for possible comment, and the prof has used the MTS robot automatic voice mail response, "The person at this phone...." which doesn't even give the name, so you can't be sure it's the prof's phone.
Speaking of my adoring fans, those of you who send me emails expressing your bewilderment at my inability to understand why you have the right to use the public school system to indoctrinate someone else's children into your religious beliefs, I won't be reading your messages until I get back from holidays, so try to hold that thought.
Another change in topics, to give you some breaking news: still no date for the Winnipeg School Division Ward 1 school trustee by-election to replace Tory MP Joyce Bateman. Word is that it could come sometime in the fall, after the Oct. 4 provincial election. I'll keep updating you with these nothing-new breathless announcements.
BTW, the Manitoba School Boards Association is aware of only one trustee running -- Jim Murray for the NDP in Brandon. The MSBA says Murray will take a leave of absence when the writ is dropped, but says that, unlike trustees running for council, Murray doesn't have to resign his school board seat unless he wins.
And here's a pitch from an American company touting an online high school curriculum which promises that "Each student will be an educated citizen who is well-prepared to maintain our God-given freedom." Students will receive a traditional education which The Founders received — so would that be the type of education reserved back in the day for white males of money, some of whom owned slaves?
Just asking, for purposes of clarification.
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If Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono "is one of the best friends we've ever had", as Tony Abbott has frequently stated, then Australia's Prime Minister has not been afraid to test that friendship.
Mr Abbott's uncompromising turn-back-the-boats policy has been an affront to the country those boats were being turned back to, even before the Royal Australian Navy breached Indonesian territorial waters on five occasions.
"Their unilateral policy coerces asylum seekers, threatens them and violates their human rights – and the policy doesn't bear fruit,'' said Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, only last month.
These simmering tensions were exacerbated by Mr Abbott's clumsy handling of revelations that his predecessors had tapped the phones of Mr Yudhoyono and his wife. US President Barack Obama and Germany's Angela Merkel had provided a template for how to defuse an identical situation without conceding interests but Mr Abbott chose not to take it.
Now, the two nations are close to signing a code of conduct on intelligence sharing and Mr Abbott's hardline policies appear to have born fruit, to use Mr Natalegawa's phrase.
And, crucially, Mr Abbott was correct in his estimation of the Indonesian President.
On Wednesday, the two leaders stood together on Batam island, off the north coast of Sumatra, to restart the project of building a productive, respectful and enduring bilateral relationship.
"We both discussed efforts to safeguard and to further enhance our co-operation and also our partnership – the partnership between our two nations, our two countries – so that we may come closer to a future that is much better based upon the principles of mutual benefit and mutual respect," Mr Yudhoyono said, after he had invited Mr Abbott to stop over on his way to Europe and North America.
By now, the necessity of building robust relations with our northern neighbour should be self-evident. Indonesia has the world's fourth largest population and it is home to the world's largest Muslim population. It is a major source of students and a destination for tourists.
The Indonesian economy has grown rapidly to become the 10th largest in the world, on the World Bank's measure of purchasing power parity. And it is rediscovering its position as the natural leader of the ASEAN nations of south-east Asia, following its transition from Suharto's dictatorship.
Increasingly, Indonesia and Australia are finding they have common ground in the South China Sea, on the northern edge of Indonesia's maritime boundary, where China has been testing its territorial frontiers. This, no doubt, is what Mr Yudhoyono was referring to when he told reporters he and Mr Abbott had discussed "dynamics and the latest developments in our region".
Still, despite the growing alignment of interests on both sides, Mr Yudhoyono did not have to make this generous overture in the midst of a domestically-focused election cycle. Indeed, he had been under considerable pressure to "get tough" with his southern counterpart.
"He's known as Australia's best friend, and no wonder," the University of Indonesia's Evi Fitriani told Associated Press last week.
The onus is on Mr Abbott to make the most of the olive branch Mr Yudhoyono has extended.
To his credit, Mr Abbott has signalled that this is exactly what he intends to do.
On Wednesday, he drew attention to the "marvellous legacy" of "Bapak" Yudhoyono, using the respectful term for father.
"This is a very important relationship to me, it's a very important relationship to my country – in some respects, our most important relationship given Indonesia's size, proximity and potential as one of the emerging democratic superpowers of Asia," Mr Abbott said.
In August, Indonesia will achieve a milestone in its democratic transition by directly electing a new president, for the second time in its history. To date, neither of the leading candidates, Prabowo Subianto and Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, has shown much interest in foreign policy. They will have to be convinced of enduring common interests before spending political capital on building relations with their southern neighbour, when so much of the action in the region will take place to their north.
After the departure of "one of the best friends we've ever had", Mr Abbott will have to work much harder to show he is a reliable friend of the emerging democratic superpower of south-east Asia.


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Although Chris Brown didn't have the reputation that Bobby had, he was headed in that direction. Rumored to have dated everyone from Teyana Taylor to Kelly Rowland, Chris was the pretty bad boy all the ladies loved, like Bobby. Both were ladies men who we couldn't see being tamed by just any woman.
In fact, we could hardly picture them being controlled by any woman at all, let alone a nice sophisticated young lady. That is until two good girls went bad.


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Senator Foley Stands Up to Bullies
Senator Brian X. Foley (D – Blue Point) hosted a forum for school administrators in the 3rd Senate District to provide them with information about addressing the issue of bullying within their schools.
Bullying in schools is not a new issue, however, in recent years it has taken on new forms and has often continued outside of classrooms. Cyberbullying, sending threatening or nasty text messages, emails or instant messages, or posting nasty pictures or comments on blogs or websites, has been on the rise and is often seen to occur in conjunction with physical, verbal and nonverbal or emotional bullying in schools. Fifteen to twenty-five percent of students reported they had been bullied in at least one way with some frequency. About the same amount, fifteen to twenty percent, admitted to bullying classmates with some frequency. It has also been found that bullying is not always student-on-student. An alarming forty percent of teachers admitted to having bullied a student.
"Bullying is something that cannot be tolerated among our students, whether it occurs within the four walls of the school or within the limitless walls of the internet after school hours," said Senator Foley. "The goal of today's event is to give school administrators the most up-to-date information about the known dangers and effects of bullying, the legal aspects of it and how administrators can best work with parents to address concerns. I am encouraged by the number of school districts who sent representatives – this shows their commitment to seriously addressing this issue and doing everything they can to protect their students."
"We certainly would like to thank Senator Foley for providing yet another venue to educate us and provide us with further resources," said James Nolan, Superintendent of the Sachem School District.
The idea for the forum grew out of two calls received by Senator Foley's from the families of two students who were victims of bullies. The students, one a sixth grader and one an eighth grader, were victims of both cyberbullying and physical bullying.
A student who is a victim of bullying can suffer from depression, loneliness, anxiousness and low self-esteem, and may also frequently feel unwell or have thoughts of suicide as a result of the bullying. There are a number of signs that can signal a parent that their child may be being bullied, including torn, damaged or missing pieces of clothing, books or other belongings, unexplained bruises, cuts or scratches, the child being afraid of going to school, walking to or from school, riding the school bus or taking part in organized activities, or the child appearing sad, moody, teary or depressed.
It has been found that there are some characteristics that students who bully other students share. These include being impulsive, hot-headed, dominant, easily frustrated, lacking empathy, having difficulty following rules and viewing violence in a positive way. Bullying can also have a negative impact on those who are victimizing others. Children who bully others are more likely to get into frequent fights, be injured in a fight, vandalize or steal property, drink alcohol, smoke, be truant from school, drop out of school and carry a weapon.
As a follow-up to today's event, Senator Foley is putting together a task force made up of representatives from each school district within the 3rd Senate District.


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Annie and Nathan will work together in a school project while others deal with the law.
Annie and Ethan will work together in a class project where they are assigned to take care of a baby in the new episode of "90210". The promo to the episode which will be aired on October 7 and titled "Hollywood Forever" is available for view below, taking the tag "the richer they are, the harder they fall."
The experience makes Annie and Ethan see each other differently. Silver and Dixon continue to get closer and during her half-birthday party at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary, she opens him up to an entirely new experience in public. Harry and Debbie are forced to deal with his past when Tracy informs Harry that she hired a private investigator to search for their son, who was given up for adoption many years ago.
Naomi is desperate to intervene with Adrianna's downward drug spiral but regrets making one last-minute decision. Ryan is dealing with Kelly's departure and decides to try online dating in an effort to hide his true feelings about her absence.


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I know, it's been a year since the first and last time I published this post on my blog, which was supposed to be the first of many about my raw denim journey. Unfortunately, I totally failed at documenting my jeans month by month. Anyway, this is how my A.P.C. petit standard jeans look like after 13 months and 2 soaks. I used to wear them at least five times a week for an entire year before I decided to start wearing the three pants I own in rotation so as to break out from the style rut. Judging from the fades, I obviously don't do extreme sports or bike every day because those fades are the result of a very inactive lifestyle and sporadic travels, yet they are the fingerprint of my life lately. And nope, my jeans don't smell funky or anything, but truth be told they don't smell like roses either.
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Road Trip! Destination: Chicago
Wintry winds blowing across Lake Michigan might put a chill on Chicago's tourist scene. But they also increase the chances of a warm welcome from the city's hotels that hope to encourage visitors with lower rates and special packages.
With hotel rates as low as $79 a night, and fewer crowds at tourist sites during the day, Chicago is more affordable and more accessible at this time of year, writes Christina Pundavela in a press release for explorechicago.org , the city's official tourism website.
With a wealth of diverse and interesting restaurants, a vibrant cultural scene and outstanding examples of architecture, it's no wonder that Frommer's, the travel-guide producers, named Chicago its top city-break destination for 2012.
Meander the Magnificent Mile
Superb shopping is only one reason to visit Michigan's famed "Magnificent Mile." The stretch of Michigan Avenue between the Chicago River and Oak Street does offer department-store giants such as Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's and specialty shops and boutiques. But it's also home to some of the city's most iconic and historic buildings:
You can catch the sunset over Chicago and four surrounding states from cafe on the 96th floor of the John Hancock Center, delight in the Art Deco touches on the Palmolive Building (919 N. Michigan Ave.), examine the gargoyles and flying buttresses on the Tribune Tower (435 N. Michigan Avenue)or admire the gleaming white terra-cotta grandeur of The Wrigley Building (400 N. Michigan Ave.).
Details: www.johnhancockcenterchicago.com or www.thewrigleybuilding.com
Take in a show
Chicago is home to more than 200 regional theaters. There's a bustling improv-theater scene performed by companies that include the world-famous improv troupe The Second City. Theatergoers will find a richly diverse selection of locally produced dramas, comedies and musicals at area theaters, including the five that have won the Tony Award for regional theater -- Steppenwolf Theatre, Goodman Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre and Victory Gardens Theatre. The budget-conscious should check out Hot Tix, which offers half-price theater tickets online, as well as at two downtown ticket-booths locations: across from the Chicago Cultural Center and in the Water Works Visitor Center.
Details: www.chicagoplays.com or www.hottix.org
Go Deep Dish Diving
Chicago-style pizza is not a finger food. Use a knife and fork when digging in to this deep-dish version that comes with generous portions of mozzarella, sausage and sauce held in place by a thick, 2-inch-tall crust. The original recipe still can be enjoyed in Pizzeria Uno, where it was born in 1943.
Although the restaurant gave birth to a multi-location international chain -- Uno Chicago Grill -- the original Pizzeria Uno retains its mid-20th century ambience and still serves founder Ike Sewell's recipe.
Details: www.unos.com .
Call on Frank Lloyd Wright
In 1908, long before Frank Lloyd Wright built Fallingwater, the visionary architect began creating The Robie House for forward-looking Chicago businessman Frederick C. Robie. Many consider the Robie House one of the most important buildings in the history of American architecture and a sterling example of the Prairie style and modernism. Now on the campus of the University of Chicago, the house can be visited inside and out.
Details: 312-294-4000 or www.gowright.org .
Contemplate Kitsch
Offbeat and a bit off the beaten path, the Busy Beaver Button Museum can be found inside the company headquarters of the Busy Beaver Button Co. in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood.
The company, which manufactures the sort of custom pin-back buttons handed out by advertisers and political campaigners, opened the museum last year with its display of hundreds of historical buttons. Some are silly or whimsical.
Others contain serious messages or show support for political and social campaigns. All are intriguing works of art created on a small, generally circular surface.
While you're in the neighborhood, go the extra mile to Sam's Red Hots for an authentic Chicago hot dog: a Vienna-brand all-beef frank adorned with yellow mustard, pickle relish, chopped onions and a pair of piquant peppers. Top off your hot lunch with dessert at Margie's Candies, (1960 N. Western Ave.), across the street from Sam's, where they've been serving sundaes since 1927.
Welcome Back Chagall
With more than 260,000 artworks and artifacts, The Art Institute of Chicago's encyclopedic collection appeals to a broad spectrum of interests and tastes.
Its collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintingS particularly is strong, with world-class works by Degas, Seurat and Monet.
Be sure to stop by Marc Chagall's "America Windows," six stained-glass panels that celebrate America's cultural and religious freedoms.
Recently reinstalled after a five-year absence for conservation, the panels glow even more vibrantly in their new setting.
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, March 7th, 2013 08:40
Listen to new remix and compilation albums in full below; set at Le Beat Bespoké festival later this month announced
Excellent news today as long-term Quietus favourites Cornershop have announced the release of a couple of compilation albums, as well as a rare London gig.
They'll be playing a set on March 28 at the four-day Le Beat Bespoké festival, taking place at The Venue on Great Portland Street from March 28-31, with support from Alfa 9; for more details and tickets, head here.
The first compilation is Snap Yr Cookies, out now for download via Tjinder Singh's label Ample Play here, which features new mixes of tracks from last year's Urban Turban album by a host of U.S. and Italian remixers, alongside a couple of brand new cuts, the title track and 'Primitive Boogie' - have a listen below:
The second is a C60 collection of favourite tracks by the band, selected by Mikey IQ of New York record shop Other Music, and released by Californian label Burger Records on March 25 - we've got the full streams of both sides below:
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Sterling Holloway, Cheshire Cat — Disney Animals Then and Now
Then: By the release of 'Alice in Wonderland' in 1951, Holloway had been voicing Disney characters for 10 years, including 'Dumbo's Mr. Stork and 'Bambi's full-grown Flower. Though he didn't get into voice work until 1941, Holloway had been appearing in films as early as 1926.
NOW: Holloway went on to balance performances in television and film with plenty of Disney voice work. By the time of his death in 1992, he had created the voices behind Kaa the Snake of 'The Jungle Book,' Roquefort of 'The Aristocats,' and Winnie the Pooh, a role he reprised for more than 10 years.


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Two weeks after calling Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a horrible woman, CNN's Jack Cafferty said the House Speaker's arrogance was breathtaking.
During Tuesday's "Situation Room," Cafferty addressed the report the CBS "Evening News" did the previous day on the out of control spending by members of Congress at last month's United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen.
"Her arrogance on this subject: breathtaking," said Cafferty of the Speaker's failure to "explain why it was necessary for her and her colleagues to make the trip to Copenhagen in the first place."
He marvelously continued, "I'd be curious to know where Nancy Pelosi gets her sense of entitlement to simply blow hundreds of thousands of dollars of our money at Christmas time so she and her pals can take a little trip to Copenhagen" (video embedded below the fold with transcript, h/t Story Balloon):
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Wolf, hundreds of thousands of dollars, that's how much it cost for a delegation of 59 people led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi along with members of Congress, staff, and in some cases, spouses and kids to go to Copenhagen, site of the climate summit just before Christmas.
CBS News reports that for 21 congressmen, food and rooms for two nights cost $4,400, and the total hotel bill including meeting rooms came to more than $400,000. Pelosi used to military jets for herself and her party at a cost of more than $100,000 in flight time alone. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money -- has nothing to do with the Obama administration officials, who went to Denmark to actually attend and work at the summit.
Pelosi filed the required expense reports, but so far she has failed to explain why it was necessary for her and her colleagues to make the trip to Copenhagen in the first place. Her arrogance on this subject: breathtaking. As for the high hotel charges Pelosi's office says those who stayed two nights were charged a six-night minimum at the five-star Marriott, information that likely was available before Pelosi and her freeloaders made their vacation plans.
Note to the House Speaker: we have skyrocketing deficits, a trillion plus dollars a year, a national debt north of $12 trillion in this country. The president is talking about reining in discretionary spending. I wonder if that would have included this junket by Pelosi and her colleagues. I'd be curious to know where Nancy Pelosi gets her sense of entitlement to simply blow hundreds of thousands of dollars of our money at Christmas time so she and her pals can take a little trip to Copenhagen.
Here's the question. Should House Speaker Nancy Pelosi be required to explain her trip to Copenhagen? Go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile and post a comment on my blog. Here's a hint -- yes.
All those in favor say "Aye."


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Check out who's clinched the award for our favourite fashion moment of the day!
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Wives and hubbies who demand the Earth of their partner aren't a new phenomenon, but with Social Media playing an ever increasing role in all our lives, people are going public with their frustrations...and some of their bugbears are HILARIOUS!
With platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Reddit more popular then ever before, there are now greater opportunities for unhappy spouses to air their views than ever before...and the results are shocking!
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From putting the milk back in the fridge the wrong way, to when and where you're allowed to fall asleep - some of these might make you think twice!
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I don't understand how God can have Ten Commandments for the whole world, and my wife can have 152 just for our house.— Kent Graham (@KentWGraham) September 21, 2014
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@iwearaonesie @OfficeofSteve I like the one that says 'before I got married I didn't realize I could fit all my clothes into one drawer.'— Aaron Billard (@AaronBillard) June 15, 2015
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James Cameron becomes a dad
Actress Suzy Amis, wife of Academy Award-winning director James Cameron gave birth four weeks ago, according to the television show Access Hollywood. No other details were provided, but Kristy Freedman, publicist for the Cameron-produced Fox television show Dark Angel, said a detailed announcement is in the works. Cameron, 46, married Amis, his fifth wife, nearly a year ago after meeting the actress on the set of his Oscar-winning movie Titanic.


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As its title indicates, CyberLink Media Suite 8 Ultra brings together a number of tools designed to work with your digital content. Entering the same territory covered by products such as Nero Reloaded and Roxio Creator 10, this CyberLink software opens with an interface that categorises its functionality into the areas of Music, Movie Player, Data Photo, Video, Copy & Backup plus a number of utilities represented by icons running across the bottom of the screen. This interface acts as a front end which is then overlaid by a separate window for whichever tool is selected. Powering these various categories are products that include Media Show 5, PowerDirector 8, PowerDVD 9, WaveEditor, PowerProducer 5 and Power2Go 6.
By selecting one of the categories, a list of available tasks will be shown in the space above the icons. When selecting Music you will be offered the opportunity to make an audio CD, MP3 disk or WMA disk. You can also rip an audio CD with artist, album and track titles being supplied. Audio files can be converted between WMA, MP3 and WAV formats. When editing is required you can use WaveEditor to crop, trim and customise the audio by changing the pitch and speed or applying special effects.
The Photo category allows you to import, manage, fix and enhance your images. Face detection technology is provided to help organise your images. Tools are available to create, play and burn a slideshow to DVD media. This section also provides the means to print photos as well as upload them to Flickr and Facebook.
As you would expect from a company behind the popular PowerDVD movie watching software, this product's video section offers a range of features. Options are available to capture, import and manage your videos. There are tools to edit, fix and enhance clips plus convert between formats that include those suitable for the iPod, iPhone, PSP and Zune. Your content can be burned to optical media with support for Blu-ray and AVCHD. Included in this package is the opportunity to download over 20,000 free video effects and disk menus. Using the supplied PowerDVD 9 player you can watch movies that can be stored on optical media or a hard disk with the ability to upscale towards HD standard using the company's TrueTheater technology.
The Copy & Backup category offers four options. You can copy a data disk and any unprotected movie DVDs. The bundled PowerBackup 2.6 software can be used to backup specific files and folders or the whole of your hard disk and then restore files when necessary.
Other features in this product include making a data disk, erasing a disk and creating disk labels. There is also an option whereby you can tag specific tools, by clicking on the heart icon that sits alongside it, so that chosen tools appear in the Favourites sections. For easier access
The CyberLink Media Suite 8 is an interesting collection of tools that can certainly prove worthwhile as you organise, create and display your media content. The software does lack any outstanding reason to tempt those already committed to the Nero and Roxio software to make the switch. However for those without any such allegiance, this is a reasonable option. Along with the Ultra version of this software there are also Centra and Pro editions. Pricing for the three versions is set at £49.99 for Centra, £69.99 for Pro and £99.99 for Media Suite 8 Ultra. Designed to run on Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, the software requires a Pentium 2.2GHz processor with 1GB of RAM (2GB for editing HD content) with 5GB of hard disk space plus up to 100GB for working with the different content.
CyberLink currently have a discount offer for this product reducing the price to £79.99 on this link (until 23rd June 2010)
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Hot off Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey has signed on to play the role of Mark Hanna in The Wolf Of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese. Red Granite is financing the adaptation of Jordan Belfort's best-selling memoir The Wolf Of Wall Street, on which the film is based and is financing the film. McConaughey's character, Mark Hanna, is the early boss and mentor of Belfort, who's played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, Rob Reiner, Kyle Chandler, Margot Robbie, Jon Bernthal also star. Terry Winter wrote the script. McConaughey just opened in the William Friedkin-directed Killer Joe.
Matthew McConaughey Joins 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'
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Wow. Scorcese has lost his s**t. He used to be so good at casting.
I guess Soderbergh, Friedkin, Lee Daniels AND Jeff Nichols have also lost their s**t too for casting him recently, right?
Who would you pick? Have you seen anything about Killer Joe. The guy can act.
Marty getting back to what made him great – procedural drama… CASINO, GOODFELLAS… if he takes the same approach with the halcyon days of wall street greed, this could be good… really good.
I guess by 'back' you mean the type of films he did at the mid-point of a very varied career, right?
Jonah Hill. I just don't get it.
Inspired casting yet again by Scorsese. McConaughey has been on a roll since Lincoln Lawyer. All that unfulfilled potential lost in his romcom/action-adventure era is being more than made up for now.
I think Matthew McConaughey is a pretty decent actor when given the right material. I think this sounds like a good casting choice.
Agreed. Jonah Hill is not a good actor and is probably miscast for this role. Stick to 21 Jump Street and The Watch.
Jonah was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Money Ball. Give the dude a little credit
When over-the-top is just right this is the man to cast. Lots of people like that in real life. Hilarious in "Magic Mike;" wouldn't have worked at all without him. He's good. I'm as surprised as anybody. Never saw it coming.
Excited to see Kyle Chandler in a hard-hitting drama. This is looking pretty amazing to me right now.
You may not get Jonah Hill in it now but once you see him in it you will get it..
He's come a long way from his Super Bad days..
I will be cheering him on all the way..
I think Matthew is great for this movie.
He is a Star in every sense of the word..
Martin picked a great list of Stars and Him, the Stars & the Movie will all be a Hit..
You'll see..
Matthew McConaughey is really rolling out the movies. He is a such a believable actor, a couple of his fun movies were Failure to Launch & How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, my favorite is still a Time to Kill. You go Matthew!:) He is the hardest working man in Hollywood! I can't wait to see the Paperboy.
Are you serious. Scorsese lost his shit and can't cast anymore. If u actually sat down and maybe read the book, which is phenomenal by the way, you would understand that casting matthew mcconaughey as mark Hanna is ingenious from scorsese. And have you seen mcconaughy recently in Lincoln lawyer killer joe and magic mike where he gives Oscar worthy performances. So stopping judging mcconaughey from his old days of sahara the weddin planner etc and watch his new shit. Oh yea and this terrible cast I guess Terrance winters isn't that good of a writer or jonah didn't just get nominated for an Oscar or Leo hasn't been nominated 3 time or dujardin didn't just win an Oscar last year. But ur rite it's a shit cast and Scorsese doesn't know what he's doing.
MR Scorsese has made carers for many actors…..shit! He's made careers for non actors in films even. McConaughey is solid, Hill will play his part well. Terence Winters is a proven writer,(can't wait for Boardwalk Empire's new season) I'm sure Marty brainstormed with him in the lab as well. This will be an actual film, which we need more of! Bare in mind though to all Scorsese fanatics, he will be snubbed at least twice before he takes home an Oscar again, my I remind you Raging Bull and Goddfellas
Matthew McConaughey is so far from the real mark Hanna. The real mark is a loud, booming, funny Lebanese man. Frankly, everyone involved would rather mark not make any appearance in the movie….he and his family has suffered enough.
Whatever anybody says, they will never be the real Wall Street types, but who cares. If you want to see the real Wall Street penny stockbroker guys, they were already cast in Boiler Room. They were real but not that interesting.
So welcome to Wall Street, Marty.
Bring it on!


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American Odyssey
A saga about a young couple's efforts to escape their troubled homeland and seek their fortune abroad that bears comparison to the classical canon of the social novel.
Ifemelu has to go into Trenton from Princeton to get her hair braided, and in the opening pages of Americanah (Knopf), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's third novel, as she slips into a salon-chair reverie, we tumble back in time to her girlhood in Lagos, Nigeria. Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun)—who has already won a MacArthur fellowship and the Orange, PEN/O. Henry, and-Commonwealth Writers prizes, to name but a few—thereafter unflaggingly holds us in her thrall with the tale of how Ifemelu got from there to here—and beyond.
Ifemelu seems destined to come to the United States with her secondary-school and college sweetheart, the sterlingly loyal and gently mischievous Obinze, who has shared with her his love of American literature and pop culture. But then Ifemelu wins a scholarship to a college in Philadelphia, while the American embassy slams the door on Obinze's hopes to join her, and Americanah splits painfully into parallel narratives. Obinze ends up going to London instead to try to make a go of working under a false identity while arranging to marry an EU citizen to obtain papers. (Staying in Nigeria, a land plagued by military coups, arbitrary authoritarianism, corruption, and endless academic strikes and disruptions, is all but unthinkable.)
So we mainly follow Ifemelu as she tries and repeatedly fails to find under-the-table work to support herself while in school; makes some desperate moral compromises in doing so; drifts through several relationships with sweet, worthy Americans that are doomed by her inescapable sense of "bleakness and borderlessness"—and, eventually, starts a blog called Raceteenth or Curious Observations by a Non-American Black on the Subject of Blackness in America that becomes an Internet sensation, landing her a humanities fellowship at Princeton.
Thus does Americanah provide Adichie with a fictional vehicle for all kinds of pithy, sharply sensible commentary on race and culture—and us with a symphonic, polyphonic, full-immersion opportunity to think outside the American box and commune with the wholly global sensibility of Adichie, an author who truly contains multitudes. As for what happens to Obinze? Well, you have 477 glorious pages standing between you and the answer to that question.
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A double water line break along Interstate 70 near New Stanton affected several hundred Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County customers, closed two school buildings and caused traffic delays Thursday into Friday morning.
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MUHAMMAD (s.a.w) His Character and Features
PROPHET MUHAMMAD (s.a.w) Contribution to Personality Development
ISLAM AND THE PROPHET (s.a.w)
4 Ws and 1H of Prophethood
PROPHET MUHAMMAD Saviour of Womankind
MUHAMMAD (s.a.w) The Protector of Life
MUHAMMAD (s.a.w) He Who Enlightened Humanity
TOWARDS RESOLUTION OF TODAY'S PROBLEMS In the Context of Prophetic Message
Greatest Benefactor of Mankind
The Mercy to Mankind
HUMANITY NEEDS TRUSWORTHY CHARACTER ON THE PATTERN RASULULLAH (s.a.w) MADE
The Prophet's Austere Lifestyle
MUHAMMAD (s.a.w) The Perfect Model for Humankind
A man, whoever he is and whatever he does, may regard his own occupation as more important, more necessary, more beneficial to social life and more difficult than others. However, although every occupation has some difficulty of its own and is of some degree of use for social life, educating people must be much more difficult than others and more necessary for a healthy social life.
To bring up distinguished people requires distinguished educators. Only an educator who has established his aim in educating people and practices what he plans to teach and advise to his students, only one who knows the character, potentialities, desires, and ambitions of his students, with the shortcomings and strong and weak spots and the level of learning and understanding of each, can be successful in educating people. Of course, this is not all that a good, successful educator must have. Furthermore, he must know how to treat his students in all circumstances, how to approach their problems and how to purify them of bad qualities and morals and, in place of them, inculcate laudable and good ones.
If an educator can change his students completely and, purify them of all bad habits and qualities which have long been ingrained in them and, in their place, establish good ones, he can form a community which will be a good example for future generations in all fields of life. What Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, achieved in educating people within so short a time, i.e. 23 years, is much more than what that educator does.
It is an important dimension of a good education not to resort to force. Therefore, convincing people of the truth of what we teach them and making it approved by them wholeheartedly is of vital importance in a good education. No one in human history has so far been able to know man with all the dimensions of his character as well as our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, and there has never appeared a second one next to him who has made pitiless, crude, war-mongering, ignorant and unyielding individuals into a community which sets a perfect example for all the future generations in all aspects of life and good moral qualities. No one can guide people in every field of life. It is very difficult for one, however able and clever, to be both an able statesman and commander and a brilliant scientist and successful educator at the same time. However, Prophet Muhammad was the most perfect spiritual and intellectual master, the most able statesman and commander, the most efficient educator, and the greatest scholar history has ever seen.
In his preaching of the message and in his calling people to the truth, he displayed such steadfastness, firmness and courage that, in spite of the antagonism of big powers and great religions, and of his own people and tribe, even of his uncle, he never showed even the slightest trace of hesitation, anxiety or fear, and he successfully challenged the world, and, as a result, made Islam superior to all other religions and systems. This proves that there is not and cannot be anyone like him, in his preaching of and calling to the message of Truth.
Consider how, eradicating their evil and savage customs and immoral qualities to which they were so fanatically attached, he equipped and adorned the desperate, wild and unyielding people of the seventh-century Arabian peninsula with all the praiseworthy virtues, and made them teachers of all the world and masters, especially, to the civilized nations. His was not an outward domination; rather, he conquered their minds, spirits, hearts, and souls. He became the beloved of hearts, the teacher of minds, the trainer of souls, and the ruler of spirits.
Great leaders have appeared on the horizon of humanity. They have changed the course of history through either the states or empires they have established or the revolutions they have made. Nevertheless, almost none of them has been able to bring about among the members of their followers so strong a unity of belief, thought and ideal as that which the Prophet Muhammad, peace be to him, realised among the desert men of the seventh-century Arabia. Although he had never given any indication of political interest or activity for forty years until Prophet-hood, he appeared all of a sudden on the stage of the world as such a great political reformer and statesman that, without the aid of press or of any modern telecommunication means, he brought together the scattered inhabitants of a desert of twelve hundred thousand square miles – a people who were ignorant, unruly, uncultured, and plunged in tribal warfare – under one banner, one law, one religion, one culture, one civilization and one form of government.
A leader must know men very well in order to urge them to the realisation of a cause. In order to gain a following, most leaders make alluring promises to people, like power, wealth, position or a bright future. However, Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, made no such promises to his followers. Nor did he resort to any force to realise his aim. He conquered minds and hearts and promised his followers only Allah's good pleasure and Paradise. His followers sacrificed themselves in his way willingly and preferred to live a poor life in return for gaining God's good pleasure and Paradise. His own family lived as the poorest of his community. He always sought to prepare them, as well as his Companions, for the eternal peace and permanent bliss while himself setting for them a good example of that peace and bliss.
Suppose you are a teacher at a school or a director in an institution. In order to bring up your students or the people under your command according to the ideal you pursue, you are determined to bear all hardships that may appear before you. Now, if they spit in your face when they are passing by you, if they put an animal abdomen over your head while you are in prostration before God, if they sometimes slap you in the face, if they throw stones at you and scatter thorny plants along the roads you pass, if they ambush you in corners with daggers in their hands, if they mock you in front of others, if they slander your wife, if they kill your relatives and cut their bodies into pieces, if they attack you many times and injure you, and if they expel you from your native land, can you still bear all such cruelties and continue your way without the least hesitation? More than that, can you forgive them, pity them and pray to God for them, saying: O God! Forgive them and guide them to truth, for they do not know. If you are taken to a Paradise-like place and left free to choose between living there and going back to serve your cause amid hardships, do you choose to go back among the people to continue your mission?
Our Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, was a great man. He was the greatest teacher ever and the least his students can do is to try to follow his teachings and to try to inculcate his way of life into their own lives. He was not sent on this earth to teach a group of Arabs, he was the teacher of all mankind.
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text: Brian Beck is the Director / Team Leader – Engineering, Maintenance, and Utilities at Zoetis in Lincoln, NE. Brian has been a people leader and project manager in the pharmaceutical industry for 25 years at Lincoln and other sites in the US and Canada, and has experience in Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Qualified Utilities, R&D laboratory, and other projects. He has managed engineering, maintenance, and validation groups in his career, and is a past President of the ISPE Midwest Chapter. He is also the Chair of the Project Management Community of Practice for 2016.


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County keeping tabs on predatory offenders
BY Sarah smith
A compliance check of a secretive sort is taking place in Hubbard County these days, one that doesn't involve sending a kid into a store for alcohol or cigarettes.
The information gathered is unknown, and not generally shared with the public.
Deputies are checking predatory offenders, to make sure they are properly registered under state law.
But by law, only Level 3 predators, considered most likely to re-offend, are part of the public notification process.
Level 1 and 2 offenders generally skate under the radar. Their names, numbers and whereabouts are unknown, unless they fall out of compliance.
"We are checking all of the sex offenders in our county," emailed Hubbard County Sheriff Cory Aukes this week. "I have decided Hubbard County is going to be making sure every predatory offender is in compliance with where they are living, current photo, etc."
Aukes said the county has 67 offenders, Class 1, 2 and 3, living in the county.
Only two Level 3 offenders, Troy Lee Bruce and Mark Rehn, live in the county, according to Department of Corrections data.
"There are three levels of sex offenders and the statute that allows for this website to be created directs us to list the Level 3 sex offenders, those that are considered most likely to offend so you won't find Level 1 and Level 2 sex offenders on there," said John Schadl of the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
"They are required to register with local law enforcement," he added.
"Level 3 sex offenders are reported widely and their information is widely available," he added. "Local law enforcement has some type of direction to notify the community, whether it be a press release or something else," Schadl said. "With Level 2s and 1s, there are community notifications, but they may not be broad community notifications. They may notify schools or residents at their discretion."
"Actually registration information is not public," said Mark Bliven of the DOC.
"It's maintained by the BCA," he said. "The only people who end up getting listed on public websites are the Level 3s and there are almost 300 of them," Bliven said.
"Anybody that's not compliant, a determination is made by the BCA working with local law enforcement such as the Hubbard County Sheriff, if they determine somebody's out of compliance they can publicize that if they want to," Bliven said.
"It's an administrative process, registration, and as long as people are in compliance, then their information is not made public. They're not breaking any laws. They're fulfilling their requirements," he said.
"There are about 17,000 registered offenders in the state," Blivens said. "Registration means anybody who fulfills the registration requirements, meaning that they have to register their information with law enforcement, that's what registration is," Bliven said.
Only Level 3 and non-compliant offenders are on that (public) list.
"That's a pretty small minority," he said.
"Statistically they could probably tell you there are a certain number that are registered in the county," he said. "That's not disclosing private information. The ones keeping in touch. The ones Hubbard County wants to check on now are to make sure they're in compliance, either charge them or bring them back into compliance, Blivens said. "A lot of communities do that.
"They have all the information," he said of law enforcement.
"Most of them are sex offenders but there are some people who have never been convicted of a sex offense that are on the registry because they were charged with a sex offense or convicted of something like kidnapping," Blivens said.
One who didn't get away is Shaun Maurice Dibble, 42, address unknown, who is charged with Failure to Register on Jan.15.
Dibble "failed to provide written notice to the Hubbard County Sheriff's Office of a new primary address and that he no longer resided at the primary address listed on his registration," the complaint states.
Dibble is required to register until June 20, 2017.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest.


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Creation Platform is a dedicated platform for building graphics applications.
Fabric Engine has announced Creation Platform, a framework for building custom, high-performance graphics applications. By providing the major building blocks for tool creation, Creation Platform allows developers to spend less time building back-end architectures, and more time building critical workflows and high-performance functionality into their tools.
The Fabric Engine team will be showcasing Creation Platform at SIGGRAPH 2012 in the AMD booth (#709) and presenting twice daily in the OptiTrack booth (Booth #610).
"High-end graphics is one of the most performance hungry domains in computing, but most applications are unable to keep pace with the requirements of exciting areas like simulation and virtual production," said Fabric Engine's CEO, Paul Doyle. "Studios want a development environment with tools that guarantee them the performance needed to fulfil their creative requirements. Unfortunately, current solutions don't provide that performance, and are leaving studios with little choice but to build from scratch, forcing them to invest their time and resources in something that is not their core business. Creation Platform offers an alternative - a framework that gives them the performance they need, and a set of tools that allow them to take full advantage of it."
Creation Platform is designed to give studios an easy way to build tools that not only match, but in many cases, surpass the performance of traditional DCC tools. Key benefits include:
• Performance: Creation is built on top of the Fabric Core Execution Engine, a multi-threading engine designed to get exceptional performance out of both CPUs and GPUs.
• Modularity: Creation provides a set of building blocks that can be connected together to build a wide range of different applications.
• Extensibility: Creation's extension system enables developers to incorporate existing code libraries into their applications. This enables Creation to incorporate things like Bullet Physics and streaming of motion capture data, as well as allowing for support of custom file types like Alembic and LIDAR.
• Accessibility: The majority of Creation applications are built using Python and Qt. For the critical performance parts of an application, Creation uses a custom Kernel Language (KL), which a simple, high-level language. If a TD or developer is comfortable with Python, they will find KL easy to pick up.
Here's What Beta Testers are Saying:
Mike Romey, Head of Pipeline, Zoic Studios: "I believe that Fabric's Creation Platform will change the way our facility and industry approaches custom tools development. The Creation Platform allows our developers to rapidly prototype and deploy complex tools quickly and efficiently. It simplifies the development process by wrapping leading edge technologies into easily accessible scripting libraries for python and pySide. This in turn allows us to reduce our development cycles and iterate tools quicker with more features and functionality. This improves our agility to respond to any and all production requests. The result generally is a highly sophisticated, well-groomed standalone or hosted application that is multi-threaded for speed. The Creation Platform and its developers are building a development tool that is truly a speed demon."
Michel Murdock, Executive VP at Hybride: "We are very excited about the potential of Creation Platform and look forward to collaborating with their amazing team."
Daniel Gregoire, Owner of Halon Entertainment: "Creation Platform represents new life for Previs as it builds a powerful foundation that doesn't have a decade of legacy code encumbering us from doing the important work of tomorrow."
Grant Miller, Creative Director, Ingenuity Engine : "Proprietary solutions for visual effects used to be reserved for large studios with a dedicated programming team, but with Creation Platform that level of customization and innovation has been opened up to TDs and artists. The Creation toolset lays a great foundation to build on, handling things like Alembic I/O and Bullet Physics so you can focus on the creative aspects of tool creation instead of implementing libraries."
Albert Cheng, Previs Supervisor, The Third Floor LA/London: "Creation Platform is the graphics app development framework I've been waiting for. With it's highly optimized core and native multithreading capabilities, it does most of the heavy lifting for me to ensure the fastest processing speeds, while allowing me to focus on building custom applications and tools for manipulating 3D. What makes it really great is that it interfaces through the popular Python language and QT gui framework to allow rapid development with minimal code, thus making it easily accessible to those like me working in film, animation and games."
Creation Platform will be showcased at SIGGRAPH 2012.
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Amaris Kathryn Conley was born on April 15, 2004. Each year her birthday is at Easter time, so her Mama invites Amaris' friends to an Easter egg hunt. Dozens of children run to and fro in the meadow at Nana's Windmill Pond. This book is about her party the year she turned three. The book contains 28 different pairs of opposites and challenges readers to find them all!
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Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
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- Publish Date Apr 19, 2007
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Author: Double Luck: Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan (Holiday House) Parents' Choice Gold Award-Winner for nonfiction 2001 Author: Learning With the Brainy Bunch (Key Education) 2009 Book of the Year Award, "Creative Child Magazine" Author: Elementary Economics (McGraw Hill) 2002 Teacher's Choice Gold Award, "Learning Magazine" 1993-2002—Executive Editor "A New Day" magazine for activity coordinators 1980-1993—Executive Editor "Shining Star" for Christian educators 1980-1994—Editor of 250+ Christian activitybooks (Good Apple/Shining Star Publications) 1977-2005—Author of 300+ published teacher activity books for preschool, primary, and junior high 1974-76—Teacher, kindergarten through fourth grade, Carrisa Plains Elementary School, Carrisa Plains, California 1971-74—Teacher, second, third and fifth grades, Golden View Elementary School, Huntington Beach
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Exquisite handmade 14 karat gold cross pendant inlaid with Australian opal. The outer sections of Australian opal inlay are a deep blue with lighter blue and green flashes. The center sections of opal inlay are a bright blue green and form a smaller cross within the cross. Some incredible red pieces of opal with orange, yellow, green and purple fire are mixed in for a dramatic display of all the colors of the rainbow. The unique high quality opal in this cross is becoming more and more difficult to obtain every year and continues to increase in price. This cross measures 28mm tall and is approximately 20mm wide. The pendant is hand signed "MMH" on the back by Mark McBride Hileman and stamped 14k gold. This pendant style is available in other color combinations as well as white gold by special order. Special orders generally take from 2 to 3 weeks. A chain is not included in the price.
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Just a quick question- Is "AAAAAAAAAA" meant to be screaming "AAAAAAAAH!", or is it just a bunch of letter A's? --Sir Tripod2282 cun vfp talk Active ~23:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- It's both. -- 23:13, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- Screaming. At least according to the original author. ---Rev. Isra (talk) 23:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- If it were individual "A"s then there would be no exclamation points, or exclamations between the "A"s. Mr. Briggs Inc. 23:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC) AA?
- It's all explained perfectly clearly here. -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·Bu. · (Harangue) 23:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- It doesn't matter how you pronunce it's not the point of the article.--Scott 00:52, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, I've always pronounced it Zzzzzzzzzz.----OEJ 02:15, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
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And so the fall in emerging market currencies continues. Over the past month, the third episode of taper tantrum has pushed exchange rates down almost across the board against the dollar, bringing with it the now familiar round of hand-wringing about the vulnerability of emerging economies.
Once again, however, at least as far as currencies are concerned, the latest bout of weakness falls somewhat short of full taper tantrum catastrophe. The depreciation of emerging market exchange rates looks a lot like a subset of the sharp appreciation of the dollar, which has also shot higher against the yen and the euro, than it does a weakness of the entire asset class. Read more


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* I co-sponsored the Alzheimer's Treatment and Caregiver Support Act which would allow for federal grants to certain health care providers to expand services for Alzheimer's patients and services for families and caregivers of those patients.
* I supported the Annie Fox Act, which would increase research, prevention and treatment efforts concerning cancer in young women.
* I supported the Breast Cancer Patient Protect Action, this act would ensure that group health plans such as HMOs provide inpatient coverage and radiation therapy to those undergoing breast cancer treatment.
* I supported the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act, which would allow federal funds to be allocated to institutions that study the effects of environmental factors in causing breast cancer.
* I supported the Community Cancer Care Preservation Act, this act would ensure that appropriate payments for cancer drug administration are delivered and improve coverage of cancer patients under Medicare.
* I supported the Colorectal Cancer Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment Act. This legislation would allow the Centers for Disease Control to institute a program to target colorectal cancer.
* I co-sponsored HR 1741, this legislation forces a 2-year freeze on the execution of a planned rule that may hinder Federal-State partnerships under Medicaid and SCHIP .
* I co-sponsored the Child Health Care Crisis Relief Act which would allow for the institution of programs related to mental health for children and adolescents.
* I co-sponsored the Health Centers Renewal Act, calling for the reauthorization of the Health Centers program for the next five years.
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* I co-sponsored the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act, which does not allow unfair out-of-pocket costs for mental health and addiction care ensures that health plans have an out-of-network option for mental health and addiction care.
* I co-chair the Congressional Vision Caucus, this caucus works in Congress to ensure more attention is given to our vision.
* I supported the Vision Care for Kids Act, this act will award federal funds to states so they can provide eye examinations for those children with vision problems.
* I secured $1.6 million for Miami Children's Hospital to help fund their cutting-edge research to combat disease and keep our children healthy.
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ROTARIANS across Swindon and beyond have pledged their financial support to an ambitious campaign to raise £3m towards a dedicated radiotherapy unit at the Great Western Hospital.
A total of nine rotary clubs in Swindon, Royal Wootton Bassett, Cricklade and Marlborough are the first in the area to have answered a Swindon and Wiltshire wide call for donations to allow cancer patients to receive radiation treatment close to home.
People with the condition have to travel up to an hour-and-a-half each way to the Churchill Hospital in Oxford to use one of five machines available.
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust board last month backed the creation of the new unit, which would help ease demand and allow Swindon residents to receive treatment much closer to home.
The OUHT would pay up to £14.7m for the unit but £3m would be needed from fundraising across Swindon and Wiltshire.
Rotary district protection officer Andrew Griffith, who is coordinating the fundraising effort, said groups in and around Swindon were determined to ensure the burden of an unnecessarily exhausting journey was lifted from patients' shoulders.
He said: "Locally there are five Rotary clubs in Swindon, two clubs in Royal Wootton Bassett and one each in Cricklade and Marlborough all ready to assist in any way we can because we are all fully aware of the physical pain, discomfort and inconvenience patients have to endure whilst making the regular arduous journey to and from Oxford mostly for relatively short treatment sessions.
"A local facility would alleviate the pain and suffering they experience.
"It is unacceptable in this modern age that people have to travel that far for treatment."
The local groups are also hoping to secure the backing of their fellow Rotarians further afield in the proposed radiotherapy centre's extended catchment area.
"We are looking at £3m and that's a lot of money," said Andrew.
"We want to raise as much as possible in as short a time as possible and make sure this long-overdue facility becomes available to patients in this area sooner rather than later."
As a first step, Swindon Old Town Rotary Club will give away 25 per cent of all funds collected at its upcoming Celebrity Sportsman's Dinner at The Blunsdon House Hotel on Monday, April 7.
Guests of honour will include football pundit Matt Le Tissier, former Swindon Town player Phil King and comedian Bob Webb. The popular event raises on average £5,000 each year.
Tickets cost £45 and are available from Burdens Electronics, 160 County Road or on 01793 529050.
The Rotary Club is still looking for people to donate auction or raffle prizes.


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The fierce Jody Watley first came to prominence as a member of Shalamar, where she was spotlighted on the songs "Full of Fire" and "Take That To The Bank." She left the band in the mid 1980s and signed to MCA. Working with boyfriend and former Prince cohort Andre Cymone, Watley came up with her own brand of minimalist funk that was announced with the release of "Looking For A New Love" in 1987, a number one hit. She won the Grammy award for Best New Artist, raising eyebrows among those who already knew her from Shalamar. 1989's "Friends" ushered in the rise of incorporating rap with r&b by featuring Rakim's rhymes alongside Watley's vocals. It was the rare collaboration that showed two disparate artists fusing their unique personalities to create something palatable to their core audiences while gaining new fans in the process.
After her deal with MCA was up, she began her own label for the promotion of Affection. She was most recently spotted with Roy Ayers on the Masters at Work single in 2000, maintaining contact with her legion of dance fans.
Keep up with Jody at her website, www.jodywatley.net.
Update: Jody keeps pushing on. Since this article was originally published, she has released several singles for indepdent labels such as Giant Step and Chilli Funk. Her latest album is scheduled for a March 2003 release.
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Reverberation (abbrev. reverb) is the persistence of sound in a particular space after the original sound is removed. When sound occurs in an acoustic space, a large number of echoes build up and then slowly decay.
Reverberation is made up of two distinct phases: early reflections and the reverberant tail. Early reflections describe the first sound reflections that arrive at the listener's ears after the occurrence of the initial sound. The reverberant tail, or decay, refers to the later reflections that take more convoluted paths from multiple surfaces. As more reflections occur, the reverberant tail becomes more dense and decays more smoothly.
Reverberation time is measured by a standard called RT60. This refers to the amount of time (in seconds) that a reverb takes to die away by 60dB (a factor of one million). Reverberation time is affected by a large number of factors; the floor, wall and ceiling materials, the number of surfaces and their angular relationships to one another, the number and type of furnishings, the size of the physical space and so on.
RT60 calculation formulae
Two basic formulae are widely used to calculate RT60 times. Wallace Clement Sabine, a Harvard student, derived the following formula in the late 1890s:
where <math>V</math> = volume in m³, <math>S</math> total surface area of room in m², <math>a</math> is the average absorption coefficient of room surfaces, and the product <math>Sa</math> is the total absorption in Sabines.
However, Sabine's equation is generally only accurate in particularly lively rooms, where the average absorption <math>a</math> is <0.3. In more absorbent rooms another, more complex equation called Norris-Eyring is more accurate:
<math>RT60=\frac{0.161V}{-S\ ln(1-a)}</math>
This equation achieves an RT60 of 0.0 in a completely acoustically-dead space, which is correct, but it also assumes that all surfaces have the same absorption coefficient (<math>a</math>). A third equation, the Millington-Sette formula, works well for rooms containing different absorption coefficients:
<math>RT60=\frac{0.161V}{\Sigma-s_i\ ln(1-a_i)}</math>
where <math>s_i</math> equals the surface area of the <math>i</math> material.


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