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Two Ships Passing with Andy Campbell, Art History Lecturer, Texas State University
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 6:30pm
Free and Open to the Public
The VAC, in collaboration with the art publication Pastelegram, introduces Two Ships Passing. Often said of two people who meet for a brief but intense moment, this conversation series explores pertinent topics within the creative community. In each edition of Two Ships Passing, one speaker will be invited and prompted to request the company of a committed colleague, mentor, or perhaps even a new acquaintance, creating a unique pairing for a dialogue. This remarkable event aims to establish a reactive space where ideas will be exchanged and unexpected conclusions will be gained.
About the Program
The first talk in Two Ships Passing concerns the methods of dealing with the profusion of pictures in magazines, photographs, the Internet, documents, and other assorted ephemera–instead of a single work of art. This conversation explores the idea that artists and historians today see far more images much more quickly than they did a few decades ago and the ways of sifting through and studying an abundance of images have changed in response. Invited as our special guest by Campbell is Austin based designer and owner of Blackmail Boutique, Gail Chovan.
About the Artist
Andy Campbell teaches Art History at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, and is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on the visual and material culture produced by gay leathermen of the 1970s and contemporary artists who revisit and remake these visual and material documents.
Gail Chovan is designer and owner of Blackmail Boutique & Atelier since 1997. Born and raised in New Jersey, educated in Paris, Gail Chovan gave up a career in academia when she switched from French literature studies at the Sorbonne to clothing design at Esmod. She went on to work with other independent fashion designers in Paris, and eventually launched her own clothing line. Returning to the States, Chovan opened her boutique, Blackmail, in 1997 and quickly became known for her avant garde style and award-winning window displays. Chovan has created a niche for herself that harkens to a different time and world view, with an appreciation for quality workmanship, non-industrialization, and the beauty found in imperfection.
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Pamela Geller, the prototype of anti-Muslim loonieness blames Obama and his "Mooslims" for all of the worlds problems while cheerleading for fascism.
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Pamela Geller Watch: Craziest Quotes of the Week #1
By Mooneye on October 5, 2009 in Loon Blogs, Loon Politics, Loon-at-large
Pamela Geller is like a treasure trove of looniness. This past week, amongst other things, she called for the destruction of the Dome of the Rock. Yet, for Robert Spencer she remains a "freedom fighter."
GOP Elected Officials Getting Intimate With Hate?
By Mooneye on September 30, 2009 in Loon Blogs, Loon Politics, Loon-at-large
Pamela Geller is the center piece of an upcoming GOP event with the quite frightening title, "An Intimate Evening with Pamela Geller." Robert Spencer advertises for her, and as usual goes over board in praising a racist.

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Blair Armstrong calls it a dream come true.
In 2007 he left behind Peachtree Ridge, the defending Class AAAAA co-state champs, to take over at Banks County, a Class AA program that hadn't had a winning season in nearly a decade.
It was move that puzzled some fans, but it wasn't as if the rural-raised Armstrong was desperate to get out of sprawling Gwinnett County. He wasn't just jumping ship for a job that came open. He had scouted programs all over the state. Banks County was where he wanted to be.
"Actually, I was looking for a program that hadn't had much success," Armstrong said. "I've never taken over a winning program in my career. I like to see the look in kids' eyes who haven't won when they do start winning."
Armstrong calls that look his reward, but the Banks County players and fans are the ones reaping the more tangible benefits these days. Friday, for the first time since Nov. 21, 1997, Banks County will play in a postseason football game.
The confirmation came after last week's 35-14 win over Union County. The team huddled in the end zone, awaiting the results of the North Oconee-Fannin County game, which was in overtime. A North Oconee win meant a playoff berth for the Leopards. It meant that they wouldn't have to settle for being happy with a winning season, that the seniors who Armstrong credits with turning the program around would get to extend their careers by at least one more game.
Then the call came. North Oconee 21, Fannin County 14.
"You would have thought we just won the Super Bowl," Armstrong said.
The celebration that ensued is a memory Leopards senior quarter Chris Porter said will stick with him.
"The emotional feel of it," Porter said. "Especially being with all my teammates and the fans and the coaching staff ... just looking around and seeing all the smiles ... it was great."
By all accounts, Friday's playoff date puts the Leopards ahead of schedule.
In 2007, Armstrong's first season, Banks County went 4-6. It was only the third losing season in the coach's 31-year career, but it was as many wins as the Leopards had in the previous two years combined.
Coming to Banks County, Armstrong planned to see progress by the third or fourth season, when all the pieces of the program were in place and the players had become comfortable in the new system. But upon arrival, he said he found "a good core nucleus of juniors that were serious about wanting to win and were willing to pay the price."
To Armstrong, that means long hours lifting weights after school, running away the free time in the summer, committing to learning a new playbook, and placing trust in a new coaching staff.
None of that was a problem, according to Leopards senior running back Justin Beasley. Still, he's a little surprised by the quick turnaround.
"Honestly, I didn't think it would happen this fast," said Beasley, the area's leading rushing with more than 2,000 yards. "But looking back over the last couple of years, we've worked so hard to get here, and I know we're doing good for the future of the program."
Now the Leopards must learn quickly what playoff football is all about: one goal achieved, a greater challenge just days away.
Banks County will travel to take on No. 10 Calhoun, a team on the opposite end of the spectrum when it comes to postseason tradition. The Yellow Jackets clinched their eighth consecutive Region 7-AA championship last week with a 28-27 win over then-No. 2 Pepperell.
"They're a good, solid, well-coached AA team," Armstrong said. "They've been in their program and been successful in it for a while now, so they bring some advantages to the table, especially at home. We're the out-of-town guys, the upstarts."
That's fine by the Leopards. What matters is that they're there.
"We're starting to turn the corner as a program," Armstrong said. "We've been making the long, slow turn for a while and we're finally starting to get it headed in the right direction. That's why this playoff berth is huge; just to prove to young kids that it's an attainable goal. You just have to work hard for it."


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Tom Sizemore: 'Never Listen To Me, I'm On Drugs'
Yesterday, the Internet was regaled by a tale of Bill Clinton banging Elizabeth Hurley as told through the storytelling vessel known as Tom Sizemore. A vessel who's now under the full weight of two very expensive legal teams and would like to make it clear that he's a drug addict you should never, ever listen to even if his stories are hilariously plausible. Via Mediaite:
Sizemore appeared on HuffPost Live Wednesday to categorically refute his previous words, attributing them to "the ravings of a drug-addicted actor."
One of Sizemore's claims in this supposed audio clip was that he had a very personal moment with Clinton who demanded Hurley's number. Sizemore made it clear at the outset: "No, it's not true. I was never at the White House and I'd never met Bill Clinton."
Of course, the story immediately fell apart once you realize the timeline involved Bill Clinton flying Elizabeth Hurley from England to the White House in under an hour which would require the use of some sort of super-sonic pussy jet. Not that I'm saying Bill Clinton doesn't have one of those, you just don't show it to Tom Sizemore unless you want him to call you every five minutes saying he really needs to get to South America fast because he "just started stabbing, man, I'm freaking out."
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Photo Flash: Ryan Scott Oliver and Matthew Murphy's 35mm in Performance!
Producer John Johnson announced yesterday that 35mm A Musical Exhibition, written by Ryan Scott Oliver based on the photography of Matthew Murphy, has added a new, final performance on Wednesday, March 14 at 8:00 p.m. due to popular demand. The upcoming performance on Monday, March 12 is now completely sold out. 35mm is playing at Brooklyn's Galapagos Art Space (16 Main Street, DUMBO).
Directed by Jeremy Bloom, 35mm features a cast of five that includes Alex Brightman (Wicked), Ben Crawford (Shrek), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Hair), and Lindsay Mendez (Godspell), and Betsy Wolfe (Everyday Rapture).
View photos of the show in performance below!
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The cast of 35mm with creators Matthew Murphy and Ryan Scott Oliver
The cast of 35mm
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - After over a week of widespread afternoon storms, expect decreasing coverage in afternoon showers and thunderstorms over the weekend.
After starting out clear & sunny Saturday morning, temperatures climbed quickly from the mid to low 70's, into the upper 80's and low 90's by the afternoon hours. Breezy conditions persist out of the Southeast, peaking in the late afternoon hours between 10 and 20mph.
Expect partly cloudy skies by lunch, with isolated showers popping up after 1:00 just to the West of I-95. Southeast winds push the showers and provide lift for further storm development closer to Hwy 301 and over to I-75. Overall, area-wide coverage of afternoon storms will be 30%.
Inland storms die out after sunset, resulting in a partly cloudy, mild evening.
Sunday starts out mild and clear, with building clouds resulting in partly cloudy skies. Even fewer inland storms fire up Sunday after 1:00pm, resulting in 20% coverage. Afternoon highs hit the low 90's, with breezy conditions expected.
Looking ahead, the work week forecast looks drier through Wednesday, with considerable coverage of afternoon storms building back into the forecast by Thursday.
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For Immediate Release
Chicago, IL – April 15, 2013 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include Netflix Inc. (NFLX), Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Comcast (CMCSK) and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR).
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Here are highlights from Friday's Analyst Blog:
Netflix Reveals Viewership Data on Facebook
Shares of Netflix Inc. (NFLX) surged 4.2% to close at $173.01 on Apr 11, 2013, after the company announced that its subscribers watched 4 billion hours of streaming over the last three months. The announcement was made on the company's chief executive Reed Hastings' personal Facebook (FB) page.
The move was widely anticipated after Netflix announced its intentions to use Facebook and Twitter to reveal material information to investors. The company also filed with Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to that effect.
Last year, Netflix stirred a controversy when its CEO used Facebook to reveal monthly subscriber details. Netflix was charged by SEC for violating disclosure norms. However, the increasing relevance and participation of the social media in corporate communications forced SEC to revise its disclosure rules.
SEC now allows companies to make corporate announcements over social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, by providing relevant web addresses through notifications on their company websites and press releases.
We believe that Netflix will gain (as evident from the share price movement) from the newly amended rules in the near term. The strengthening social integration with Facebook will help it win further investor confidence going forward.
The recent surge in viewership has been primarily driven by Netflix's engaging content, in our view. We believe that more than anything else, Netflix's superior content will be the ultimate deciding factor in the ongoing battle for online supremacy.
Netflix's new and exclusive content offerings are its biggest assets, which set it apart from Hulu, HBO, Amazon (AMZN) as well as the newly-launched services from cable and media companies such as Comcast (CMCSK).
We believe that an improving paid subscriber base, international expansion, diversified content portfolio and a huge video library are the positives in the near term. Moreover, Netflix's own content delivery network, Open Connect, connects its video library directly to Internet service providers, ensuring fast data transfer to enhance customer experience. This will further improve customer engagement going forward.
Currently, Netflix has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
Green Mountain Upped to Strong Buy
On Apr 10, 2013, Zacks Investment Research upgraded Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR) to Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
With a stellar fiscal 2013-first quarter performance, efficient measures, strategic agreements to drive out competition following the expiry of the K-cup patents and continuous innovations, this coffee maker is an attractive investment opportunity. The stock's return was 32.2% in the past one year. Green Mountain's shares hit a new 52-week high of $59.30 on Apr 1.
Why the Upgrade?
Green Mountain has been witnessing rising earnings estimates on the back of strong fiscal 2013 first quarter results and upgraded guidance for fiscal 2013. Moreover, this well-known coffee maker delivered positive earnings surprises in all the last 4 quarters with an average beat of 19.2%. The long-term expected earnings growth rate for this stock is 19.4%.
The coffee maker delivered robust first quarter adjusted earnings (excluding amortization of identifiable intangibles and SEC-inquiry related expenses) of 76 cents per share that surpassed the year-ago quarter earnings of 60 cents by 27%. It also beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 65 cents by 17% on the back of solid top-line growth and lower interest expense.
Green Mountain is expected to deliver robust fiscal 2013-second quarter results, scheduled to report on May 8, considering its upbeat first quarter 2013 results, initiatives to rule out competition, new product roll outs, and better visibility for fiscal 2013.
For the second quarter of fiscal 2013, the company expects adjusted earnings per share in the range of 70–75 cents and sales growth in the range of 14% to 18%. The guidance reflects the company's continuous efforts to increase brand investments and product innovations.
The company is optimistic about fiscal 2013. It raised adjusted earnings outlook to the range of $2.72 to $2.82 per share, up from the prior guidance of $2.64 to $2.74 per share. The company expects net sales growth in the range of 15% to 20% over fiscal 2012.
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CAMP HILL, Pa. The Rite Aid Foundation, a private foundation managed by Rite Aid, on Wednesday announced that in the past year it has awarded approximately $1.7 million in donations to non-profit organizations across the United States for programs focusing on health and wellness in communities that Rite Aid serves.
"Being caring neighbors who are involved in our communities in meaningful ways is one of Rite Aid's core values," stated Gayle Rife, manager of the Rite Aid Foundation. "We are pleased to have the opportunity to join with local charities to improve the lives of people in our neighborhoods through programs that help to build stronger families and stronger communities."
Over the course of 2007 more than 170 charities in more than 140 communities were provided grants by the Rite Aid Foundation. Among them are low-cost and free prescriptions for uninsured low-income people, providing refurbished hearing aids to people who could not otherwise afford them, educational and counseling programs to help prevent child abuse, low-cost medical services in medically underserved areas, programs to help teach children ways to manage and control asthma and diabetes, counseling services for children who are victims of domestic violence, parenting classes, and skills training for abused or neglected youth.
Since 2001, the Rite Aid Foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $6.3 million to more than 370 organizations in 230 communities.


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SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Character Posters
I think Martin McDonagh's (In Burges) upcoming dark comedy Seven Psychopaths looks like it's going to be a great flick. It's got an incredibly cool cast of actors that includes Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko, and Zeljko Ivanek. We've got a full character poster series for you to check out giving you a countdown of the seven psychopaths represented in the story.
Here's the full synopsis:
Marty (Colin Farrell) is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay 'Seven Psychopaths'. All he needs is a little focus and inspiration. Billy (Sam Rockwell) is Marty's best friend, an unemployed actor and part time dog thief, who wants to help Marty by any means necessary. Hans (Christopher Walken) is Billy's partner in crime, a religious man with a violent past. Charlie (Woody Harrelson) is the psychopathetic gangster whose beloved dog, Billy and Hans have just stolen. Charlie's unpredictable, extremely violent and wouldn't think twice about killing anyone or anything associated with the theft. Marty is going to get all the focus and inspiration he needs, just as long as he lives to tell the tale.
The movie hits theaters on October 12th. Checkout the posters, and I've also included the trailer at the very bottom in case you missed it yesterday.


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 27/6/2012 (1877 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Nearly every hockey puck that gets knocked into the net has a commentator or writer broadcasting about it next day. That can be very good for the athlete who has spent years preparing for his big day in the final game.
I know that the ball does not go into the hoop by accident when sent there from a spot halfway across the court. The basketball unswervingly goes in as a result of thousands of practices at home or on the court. It should be heralded with appropriate praise by the news commentators.
The white ball landing in the hole after being swung at so ferociously, doesn't drop by accident, but because of hundreds of practice swings at home, in the putter's grass. And it should be lauded with generous praise.
A large section of every daily newspaper is devoted to the discussion of the previous plays from the day before and each small action, by itself, is proven to be an important miracle.
I just wish the musician could get a quarter of the publicity that is given to an athlete.
In this city, where the Winnipeg Music Festival takes place every spring, there could be a bit more understanding and appreciation for the musician.
During those six weeks, we have to wait for Tuesday to roll around, as that is the day they publish results. Results of hundreds of young amateurs, who have spent the better part of the winter preparing and polishing their music for the one time they get to perform it publicly.
I suggest that is not enough. Even professional musicians get only that one review the next day, and they have spent perhaps just as much time on their craft, as the athlete has, to arrive in the winner's circle.
I maintain that is unfair.
Granted, maybe there is not that much money at stake. Perhaps that is the problem.
If every wrong note, every correct scale, every up and down bow done in good taste, was reported on as seriously as every puck sliding into the net gets commendation or criticism, things might be different and more fair. That is, if they all had a price tag.
Personally, I have played softball all my life, for 60 years. But every spring I was worried — would I sprain a finger or other joint in play? What would that do to my earning power as a music teacher? I loved to golf and even learned to play basketball on an outdoor court, as there was no inner gym in those days.
So, I am not against sports, as I love taking part in many of them. What I do feel a bit critical about is the amount of attention paid to people in sport compared to those in the music field.
It's too bad that a young person, skilled in both music and sports has to make a choice in high school about where to spend his or her energies.
One of my former students told me in Grade 12, "This year I have to decide between sports and music, as I can't do both." Fortunately, now he gets plenty of recognition as a successful composer.
But for many another young musician, the recognition comes too late.
Bertha Klassen is a North Kildonan-based writer.
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In Men With Type 2 Diabetes, Bedroom Blues May Signal a Broken Heart
Last updated: May 30, 2008
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is an often hush-hush complication of type 2 diabetes. Damage to blood vessels caused by this chronic condition can also impact the most intimate of bodily functions. Now, a pair of studies adds to existing evidence that more than romance is at stake.
Turns out that for men with diabetes, suffering from ED may be a potent marker for serious cardiac trouble, including heart attack and death. The same process that impedes blood flow to maintain an erection, scientists speculate, may have even longer lasting and more damaging consequences on the heart.
One investigation found that common cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins could cut the risk of heart problems by about one-third -- and suggested that ED meds such as Viagra may offer similar protection.
Importantly, the research underscores an often overlooked matter: Men should be encouraged to report ED to their healthcare professionals. And, in seeking treatment to overcome impotence, it maybe be a good idea to focus on therapies that can improve heart health as well.
Of course, this is a pretty difficult topic to, um, raise, between a parent and child. Bad puns aside, it might help others to hear about how you've handled talking about this private topic. If you haven't been comfortable broaching the subject of sex with your parent, there's nothing stopping you from checking with your father's physician to make sure he or she asks these personal questions -- of both your parents. Yep, some men have, well, an inflated sense of themselves.
Treatments are available to deal with the indignity of ED, and include:
- quitting smoking
- reducing alcohol consumption
- controlling blood sugar
- medications like sildenafil (better known by its brand name Viagra)
- penile injections
- pumps, implants, and other devices
And if you need any more incentive to help your parent in matters of the heart, here's a fascinating factoid to contemplate, courtesy of endocrinologist Alan Rubin, author of Diabetes for Dummies:
Ninety percent of men with ED are successfully treated for the condition. But only 5 percent ever discuss the problem with their doctors.
Now they have a potentially life-threatening reason to speak up.
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Unlocking Ideas for Re-Purposing America's Prisons
After decades of continuous growth, America's prison population declined in 2009, and has continued to decline since, owing to "a fundamental shift in thinking about prisons by the public, politicians and public safety professionals." In turn, it will be the job of designers, planners, and public officials to think about just what can be done with the dozens of prisons - which "were built to be bedrock-secure" and "to serve a purpose unlike any other building genre" - now being closed across the country.
"There are a handful of examples already in the U.S. of historic urban facilities more easily repurposed, or prisons and jails converted into the low-hanging fruit of the reuse field: mini-storage facilities for stuff instead of people," notes Badger. But many of these facilities were built in rural communities. Finding a new use for them will be a particular challenge.
DNA labs; server farms; offsite homes for museum collections - these are just some of the ideas being explored. Yet, says Badger, "[e]ducational facilities in rural communities might be one of the best ideas."
"Rural towns were often sold on prisons as a kind of economic stimulus. They represented not criminals coming to town, but jobs, and just as manufacturing and agricultural work was disappearing. Today, prison closings offer an opportunity to rethink the economies of these places, and to thoughtfully include local communities in the planning process in a way that did not happen when these mega-facilities were sighted there in the first place."


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Goers and GOTS describe two critical FAA programs planned for later this year and early next year, respectively. Goers stands for GPS outage en route simulation, while GOTS is similar, but with terminal replacing en route.
Each program will assess how well air traffic controllers can cope with GPS outages in IMC, handling a mix of aircraft with different levels of avionics equipage and with current and future reduced levels of conventional navaids. Goers and GOTS were first conceived in 1999, but received major impetus from the September 10 GPS interference report produced by the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center and from September 11.
Each program will simulate three separate scenarios covering today's conditions and two future situations. The current scenario posits that all conventional navaids are operating, but with 10 percent of aircraft depending on supplementary GPS navigation. The second scenario, based on the 2013 to 2015 period, assumes that all conventional navaids are still operating but that 80 percent of aircraft will be GPS equipped. The third scenario, which looks beyond 2015, assumes that the 80-percent GPS equipage continues, but that conventional navaids have been reduced by 50 percent.
The results will be used by the FAA to develop procedures to maintain safe separations during such outages. Additionally, the data produced will provide insights toward the planning of GPS backup facilities as conventional ground-based aids are progressively reduced in the future.
The simulations will be performed at the FAA's Technical Center in Atlantic City, N.J., and will be based on actual flight plans of the current traffic mix in three sectors of the Jacksonville (Fla.) ARTCC. Jacksonville Center personnel will staff the controller positions, while Technical Center pilots will act as "pseudo pilots" responding to controller instructions.
The interference source will jam GPS signals over a radius of 130 nm and will be assumed to be airborne, meaning there will be no low-level "escape" routes, such as would exist below the line-of-sight signals emanating from a ground-based interference source. All aircraft will lose GPS navigation, and IMC will be assumed to exist throughout the test airspace.
Resolution of the GPS outage scenarios is expected to be accomplished by inertial/FMS aircraft reverting to Rnav, VOR-equipped aircraft flying point-to-point between existing VORs and other aircraft depending on radar vectors and ATC instructions to follow dead-reckoning tracks.
To handle the outages effectively, controllers must first determine the approximate boundary of the area affected by interference, which currently can practically be obtained only from pilot reports. Simulation officials already recognize this will be unsatisfactory in a real situation–a large number of "we have just lost GPS" voice reports could clog the channels at the very time they are most urgently needed by controllers for vectoring and other instructions. A dedicated "GPS lost" transponder code would likely soon be created.
One FAA official suggested to AIN that the interference radius of 130 nm chosen for the simulations was too conservative and should be made larger, and that eventually it should include intermittent transmissions, some emanating from a moving source, to simulate more realistic threats. A GPS outage in the Phoenix area last December, caused by an emitter's being accidentally left on over a weekend at a defense contractor's facility, created continuous interference out to 180 nm; more recent DOD jamming tests in Alaska extended over a 320-nm radius. And even when an unauthorized emitter is located, the FAA cannot immediately shut it down, since it turns out that interfering with navaids is a federal offense requiring the coordination of several agencies, including the FBI. As a result, while the culprit at Phoenix was quickly pinpointed, the investigative paperwork took five days to complete. Ninety minutes later, the emitter was off the air. Perhaps predictably, the FAA official was apprehensive about the future length of the bureaucratic process under the new Department of Homeland Security.
In the Atlantic City Goers and GOTS simulations, normal communications and radar systems will remain fully operational during the GPS outage. However, loss of navigation due to GPS interference is not the FAA's only concern. Agency officials have also conducted internal reviews of the potential effect of hostile acts against ATC's communications and surveillance capabilities, which, with navigation, form the essential triad of services required for safe traffic control and separation under IMC.
It was concluded that loss of communications would be the least disruptive, since NORDO procedures are already in place and well understood by pilots. On the other hand, surveillance was believed less likely to be compromised, due to the extensive duplication of civil and military radars over much of the continental U.S., coupled with the increasing use of TCAS. (But ADS-B would be adversely affected by the loss of GPS.)
But examination of scenarios involving simultaneous attacks on combinations of any two "legs" of the triad drew one chilling conclusion. Should there be a loss of both communications and navigation facilities under IMC, leaving just the radar operating, then according to one recent FAA document, "controllers would become spectators" of the ensuing events.


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Oxford may be a small city, however it is still very easy to miss some of the must-see sights that are on offer. Whether you are a tourist to Oxford or a regular visitor, Essential Oxford will help you discover nearly 40 amazing places in the City of Dreaming Spires. The guide is written in conjunction with an Oxford graduate.
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Happy Birthday to us. That's right, my sister and I are twins celebrating our birthday tomorrow. Identical girls, now identical middle-aged women, born like clasped hands - I head first, she breech - at a time long before fertility treatments when twins were an uncommon and riveting novelty.
As the result of some expert jockeying in the womb, I'm the elder twin by 10 minutes. It's a position that was set in stone on Aug. 11 several decades ago, and believe me, there have been many occasions when I wished I had had the prenatal good sense to hang back so that once in a while my sister could have been the one to test the waters.
You see, in the incessant and never quite successful struggle to impart strict equality and fairness, which seemed at the time so critical to twinship, it was decreed in our family that, as the "elder sister," I was entitled and/or required to do things first. In practical terms, what this usually meant was that I was dispatched to have my tonsils out, ushered into the dentist's chair, lined up just ahead of my bug-eyed sibling for polio shots - first.
I also got married first, became a mother first and a grandmother first, if only by months. My sister was the beneficiary of my detailed evaluation of each experience. Clearly, I never grew to regard this priority birthright as the privilege it was meant to be, as evidenced by the way I previewed childbirth for my sister when she was days away from delivering her first child: "Think Joan of Arc after they lit the torch," was how I neatly summed it up.
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We grew up when the prevailing wisdom was to treat identical twins as similarly as possible. To that end, we shared a bedroom, were enrolled in the same class at school, dressed alike and were expected to split everything down the middle, from chocolate bars to closet space. "One divides and the other chooses" was the alternating system our lawyer father instituted to cut down on the squabbling.
Family lore includes times when as infants, our sleep-deprived parents mixed us up, inadvertently bathing us without our identifying bracelets. Those early errors required embarrassing trips to the doctor to sort out who was who by our footprints.
Although close family members soon learned to tell us apart, few others could. And it didn't help matters that our mother, a talented dress designer, kept us outfitted in matching smocked pinafores, embroidered skirts and other ensembles that she would run up in duplicate on her sewing machine while we were at school. When I look at pictures from our childhood, even I can't always be sure whether I'm on the left or the right. We occasionally wore the same clothes, often in different colours, until our late teens.
Needless to say, we pretty much stopped traffic whenever we were out in public. A bit of a sideshow act, really. Sort of like the Dionne quintuplets writ small. And when we weren't fighting, it was a great gig. Wherever we went, people felt free to amuse themselves by attempting to "tell which was which," an often alarming and time-consuming practice that involved solemnly counting the freckles on our noses or otherwise inspecting us in search of some distinguishing characteristic. A few gave up and, despairing of addressing us by the correct name, applied the default moniker Twinny.
Naturally, we relished all the attention, and weren't above upping the ante. When our mischievous next-door neighbour almost severed the tip of my sister's thumb in the infamous "cap gun incident," we began telling other kids that we had been born conjoined and were separated at the site of her scar.
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Nature? Nurture? Our Grade 13 final exams settled that debate. They were written anonymously under a number instead of a name. Our results, however, were practically the same. We both won Ontario Scholarships, and the marks were released on Aug. 11. "Birthday Honours For Twins" said the headline (below the fold) on the front page of the Toronto Telegram the next day, accompanied by our yearbook pictures and an interview with our proud parents. That I barely squeaked onto the scholarship list and that several students at our school earned higher marks than ours weren't newsworthy details.
The fact that we continued to look and sound alike as we grew older ensured the twin thing would persist. Each of us can recall several occasions when, walking down a street or through a shopping centre, we uttered an astounded, "What are you doing here?" to what turned out to be a mirrored wall.
But as we got older, trading on our genetic currency began to lose its allure. Today, we're happy to see a fresh approach, as parents of identical twins celebrate their children's individuality, dress them differently and enroll them in separate classes at school, thus damping down the inevitable competition between two people so closely matched. And it took adult perspective to appreciate how our older brother must have felt as a young boy while we danced through life at the centre of attention.
These days, although we still look remarkably alike, we focus on the real essence of being twins - the sheer depth of the sister voodoo. Our brains, for the most part, operate on the same frequency. It's something mysterious and ethereal that far exceeds sharing the same family history.
My twin knows me in ways that no one else does - not spouse, not children, not friends. She understands the essential me, divested of every other of my life roles and their accompanying expectations. She knows all my secrets and never blows my cover, mostly because I know all hers, too. Of all the blessings twinship bestows, this is the one we treasure most. It's a magical bond that I hope and pray will endure for many years to come. Happy birthday, wombmate.
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Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar
What is the nature of a conceptual scheme? Are there alternative conceptual schemes? If so, are some more justifiable or correct than others? The later Wittgenstein already addresses these fundamental philosophical questions under the general rubric of "grammar" and the question of its "arbitrariness"--and does so with great subtlety. This book explores Wittgenstein's views on these questions.
Part I interprets his conception of grammar as a generalized (and otherwise modified) version of Kant's transcendental idealist solution to a puzzle about necessity. It also seeks to reconcile Wittgenstein's seemingly inconsistent answers to the question of whether or not grammar is arbitrary by showing that he believed grammar to be arbitrary in one sense and non-arbitrary in another.
Part II focuses on an especially central and contested feature of Wittgenstein's account: a thesis of the diversity of grammars. The author discusses this thesis in connection with the nature of formal logic, the limits of language, and the conditions of semantic understanding or access.
Strongly argued and cleary written, this book will appeal not only to philosophers but also to students of the human sciences, for whom Wittgenstein's work holds great relevance.
"Nuanced and convincingly supported, Forster's work reaches conclusions of great intrinsic interest."--Paul Horwich, University College, London and City University of New York
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If you are in the mood for car chases and alien invasions, I have good news: I count no fewer than four alien-battling blockbusters this spring. If, however, you are in the mood for more substantial fare, you may be disappointed. Here's what's coming up!
The Avengers
Welcome to the supersized action flick: Ironman, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk and others all team up to fight an alien invasion. The cast includes several Oscar nominees, but I fear most of them will be phoning in their performances from their new beach houses.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Get ready for a treat. Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Julie Christie, Tom Wilkinson and Peter O'Toole star in this delightful comedy about a group of Brits who move to an Indian retirement hotel.
Dark Shadows
Why Hollywood has to take all the beloved shows from my childhood and turn them into cheesy comedies is beyond me. Johnny Depp stars as Barnabus Collins, a vampire reawakened at the dawn of disco.
The Dictator
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) has perfected his next persona, a Middle Eastern dictator with unlimited power and resources. You may remember Cohen's stunt at the Oscars when he 'accidentally' spilled Osama bin Laden's 'ashes' on Ryan Seacrest. That's probably an accurate meter of the level of comedy here.
A true testament that Hollywood is out of ideas, I give you Battleship, a movie based on a board game. Remember Battleship? B-14, miss, D-9, miss, G-12, hit. That's about the level of suspense and intrigue I am expecting in this juggernaut.
What to Expect when You're Expecting
And now, another example of a movie banking on the familiarity of its title with a plot that has absolutely nothing to do with the source material: This comedy follows four interconnected couples as they prepare to become parents.
Men in Black III
Will Smith travels back to 1969 to find a young K (Josh Brolin) and contain an alien threat that could destroy 2012 Earth. I think the word you're looking for is, "Anyway…"
Snow White and the Huntsman
If Mirror, Mirror didn't do it for you, here is the second take on the Snow White story. In this much darker version, Charlize Theron plays the evil queen and the expressionless Kristen Stewart plays Snow White.
Ridley Scott goes back to the beginning of time to probe the Alien premise (pun intended). Here, a group of space explorers stumble across an alien threat that could destroy Earth.
Rock of Ages
Based on the Off-Broadway smash of the same name, Rock of Ages tells the story of a small-town girl who falls for a boy she meets on the Sunset Strip. Their story is told through the music of '80s rock. Tom Cruise takes the helm as rock star Stacee Jaxx.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The title alone is enough to get me in the door. Sadly, the title is quite literal. Our beloved 16th president discovers vampires in Washington and sets out to kill them before they take over.
Magic Mike
I adore the films of Steven Soderbergh, but he may have missed the mark. Channing Tatum stars as a male stripper who mentors a fledgling coworker and schools him in the art of all things gigolo. Whether it's Boogie Nights or Showgirls remains to be seen.


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22 Allegheny County towns participate in initiative to even out solar-system costs
After living in Aspinwall for four years, Reed McManigle and Susan Orr decided to add a solar-panel system to the 97-year-old home in August.
"(We did it) for the environmental benefits, for one thing; also for the financial benefits. I had some savings and I needed a new roof. I figured while I'm doing a new roof, let's look into solar," said McManigle, 54, whose cost will total $20,000 after state rebates and federal tax credits.
The electrical inspection, permit, and plan review to install the system cost $430, paid to a third-party company.
By contrast, in Economy, the permitting process costs $65 and is done in-house, said Joe Morinville, president of Energy Independent Solutions, the Robinson-based company that installed their system. In some towns, fees exceed $1,000, or some don't require permits, he said.
The wide range of costs and rules among municipalities for installation of solar systems prompted 22 towns in Allegheny County and two in Beaver County to participate in an initiative to streamline the process.
An environmental advocacy nonprofit, Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, known as Penn Future, is using a $317,000 SunShot program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to craft a model municipal ordinance for solar zoning, coding and permitting.
Most of that money went to Downtown-based Environmental Planning and Design, which met with municipal officials, PennFuture and its partners to craft the standardized regulations.
PennFuture recommends the ordinance include a $250 flat fee to municipalities, for permitting and rooftop inspections of solar panels on homes and small businesses, said Sharon Pillar, project manager. It would classify the systems under "accessory use," a category that typically includes satellite dishes and sheds.
The ordinance should be ready within two months, she said.
The SunShot program grant will pay for researching ways to create financing options, such as low-interest loans, for people who want to install solar panels but can't afford them, Pillar said.
"If you can spread out the cost of the system through the loan or something ... then it becomes a lot more feasible," she said.
The cost to install a system on a home can range from $15,000 to $20,000 after tax-credit incentives, Morinville said.
With about 7,000 solar systems, Pennsylvania ranks eighth nationwide in the number of systems. Western Pennsylvania, with 300, ranks far behind other regions in the state, Pillar said.
Morinville favors the SunShot initiative because it would make it easier for his company and others to bid on work, he said.
It would add transparency to bidding because many municipalities don't know how much money is paid for permitting and inspections. Third-party companies come up with the charges, he said.
Officials with several municipalities, including Baldwin, Collier and Dormont, said they haven't received permit applications for solar panels but decided to participate in SunShot to be proactive.
McManigle is satisfied with the panels on his and Orr's home. Their first electric bill since the installation covered about half a month with the panels but was 50 percent lower than usual, he said.
"So I'm expecting a bill any day now and I'm hoping it will be a negative bill, actually," he said.
Tory N. Parrish is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-380-5662 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bing as been my default desktop search engine ever since Google stopped providing my favourite service; Google Reader. In practical terms this means when I use Chrome's omnibox as a search bar I was taken to Bing.
Today things are different. Today my default Chrome tab which usually shows me my most popular webpages as quick press tiles is gone. In its place there's a Bing search box and a clean slate. I imagine these 8 tiles will fill up as Chrome's old default did.
Does setting my default search engine to Bing allow Microsoft to do this to my Chrome experience? Is this a search engine? Food for thought.


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Usually the email or short work conversation starts with something else and then a "what did you do for the weekend/holiday/last night exchange. I say what I did, show enthusiasm as I always do at work, and ask what they did in return. The beauty of these complaints is that they are prefaced with the phrase "I'm not complaining..." or "I know I have a good life but...". People describe their New Year's Eve celebration as not much, boring, barely had a pulse. Maybe they describe their weekend as boring, watched tv, did jack shit. Maybe they describe their life as stuck in a rut, a bit bored, very routine, "biding my time". That last one scared me. Biding your time to do what: run off to Mexico with your daughter in tow, conquer the world, release poison into the water supply like the Joker. This is the admission phase of the conversation. They lay it out there. I am on the receiving end and am clueless on how to respond as I am a man and we do not understand female problems well. I usually just give a nod, do that concerned look and give them the ok to go on even though I do not really want to hear any nasty detail that might pop up.
The second phase of the conversation is where I hear the reason or lack of reason for the boredom. Sometimes it is a spouse that works 3 jobs. Sometimes it is a busy work schedule (2 jobs of their own and a kid) and they don't have time for much but to relax and veg out when they get a moment. There is the unspoken reason, and I think it is the other half of the marriage. Yup, I'm going to blame the men. No one who admits to a boring routine to me is over 50. We're talking about people in their peak years. A secondary reason that ties into the husbands is communication. I have a strong feeling if these two people communicated better, they would not be so bored. This brings me back to my point of "Why the heck do they tell me, what can I do to help them".
In all honesty, I think they want me to brainstorm so awesome ideas like skydiving, solving the JFK mystery, or a one night trip to Vegas for them. If not, I can at least lighten the mood with jokes as most of these people find me hilarious. Not my word, their word. My wife will say I am very funny, but I would stop short at hilarious. If I were, I'd be doing stand up... hmmm, not a bad idea. Sometimes I get the feeling that they are open about this because I am the guy from the east coast. Since I am still developing relationships at work, they can tell me things and be pretty certain I will tell no one else. The other side to it might be that they are secretly hoping for an affair, and that I too will be bored, willing to whisk them away to some exciting adventure filled with romance as we search for the lost ark of the covenant. Uh oh, the wife better watch out.
My favorite reply is "you can always make a change, it's your life". Ultimately, you do control the free time that you do get that you end up doing nothing with so you end up feeling bored. You have the power to get off your ass and do something even if it is walk around the neighborhood. Boredom is supposedly a nice byproduct of the wonderful, modern society we have created. I really do love my life and thank the heavens that I live in America. I really would not live anywhere else. I do not get bored. I do shit. I think that is what is at the core of these women and their boredom. They do not do shit. They go to work, go to night school, go to a 2nd job, eat dinner, sleep, but they never take a chance and do something just a bit different. Maybe this si how we have progressed. We do a lot of things in the home now and rarely venture out. Movie theater revenues are down, but it can't be due to higher ticket prices as people put home theaters in for thousands of dollars and rent/buy DVDs like mad. People get in a huff over not having an NFL Network game on their cable box, but are too lazy to drive a couple miles to a nearby sports bar. I'm probably on the odd end of the spectrum here as I used to go and sit out in the snow in a beach chair as a teen old cold winter nights because the air felt so pure.
Routines can be comfortable. I am a creature of habit. The familiar is safe. I think this explains why a lot of people stay in bad relationships way longer than they should. The misery who are acquainted with is oftentimes less scary than the unknown of loneliness. I love to see how a person acts when they eat, pick a restaurant or try new food. That is probably a better window on someone's adventurous side than anything else. I've never met a person who is adventurous at a Thai restaurant that turned out to be a dullard. Tolstoy once said that bordeom is the desire for desires.
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This article was published 27/6/2013 (1516 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Bomber fans walked, biked, drove and took the bus to get to Investors Group Field for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' season opener against the Montreal Alouettes Thursday, June 27.


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Several Watertown area college students are to perform at President Barack Obama's Inaugural Parade on Jan. 21, as members of the Marching Wolves of Northern State University in Aberdeen.
The Marching Wolves were one of 55 groups chosen out of a total of 2,807 application submitted to the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region, according to the Presidential Inaugural Committee website.
The announcement that the NSU marching band made the cut was made Dec. 18, the college's website said.
The groups chosen "reflect the spirit, values and diversity of our great nation,'' Obama said in a news release announcing the selections, adding that he and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. "are honored to have them join us in the parade."
Marching Wolves band members will first hold an indoor concert to raise funds for the trip. The Indoor Marching Band Fundraiser Gala will be Jan. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the NSU Johnson Fine Arts Center. The public is invited to the concert.
Students calling Watertown their hometown as listed on the press release are Kaitlin Fuerstenau, Joseph Weseloh, Kymberli Williams and Alen Zeledon.
Zeledon, a freshman clarinet player, said it was an exciting opportunity and also a surprise to him, as he was unaware the band even had an application to be in Inaugural Parade.
"It was completely news to me," he said, adding he had never been involved in a performance of this scope before.
In his time with the Marching Wolves, they had also performed in the Minnesota communities of Worthington and Appleton, he said.
Other listed members of the Marching Wolves and their hometowns include Alyssa Becht of Clear Lake, Kallan Christman and Levi Seefeldt of Clark, Haley Hubbard of De Smet, Allison Landmark of Britton, Kelsey Luckhurst of Garden City, Brenna Rausch of Big Stone City, April Rogness of Astoria and Cody Swanson of Langford.
NSU Dean of Fine Arts Alan LaFave said being selected to participate in the Presidential Inaugural Parade is one of the most prestigious invitations any band could hope to receive.
"This further illustrates the outstanding quality of the fine arts program here at Northern State and, once again, places NSU, Aberdeen and South Dakota on the national stage," LaFave said. "I sincerely appreciate and commend the leadership and efforts of the directors and students who have all helped make this possible."
NSU President Jim Smith said pride in the Marching Wolves is at an all-time high.
"There are only a handful of college/university bands who will march in this Inaugural Parade," he said. "The exposure, to be seen by a national audience, for a university our size is publicity that we cannot receive in virtually any other manner."
The Marching Wolves also performed in the 2005 Inaugural Parade for then-President George W. Bush.
With such a small number of bands from any university, "to in turn be invited twice is really very impressive," Smith said.
Smith continued, "For the next few weeks, our students and staff will be working to raise funding for the trip to D.C. We had no way to budget for a trip of this sort – we are optimistic that local benefactors will allow this trip to come about with minimal impact on our budget. Any level of financial support will be most important for this venture."
Tickets for the Jan. 12 concert are available at Ken's SuperFair Foods, Kessler's, Engel Music and the NSU Fine Arts department. Cost is $20 or $5 for children under 12. There is no charge for NSU students.
In another press release, U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) on Wednesday congratulated the Northern State University Marching Wolves for their selection by the Presidential Inaugural Parade Committee.
"I would like to extend my congratulations to the NSU Marching Wolves on their selection to take part in the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Parade — being chosen to participate is a real honor," said Johnson. "They were also part of the 2005 inaugural parade and I look forward to seeing them perform in Washington, D.C. again this year."


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Pardon me, I know where the radiator support is, but what is the "cow" or cowel? By the way, HI Neil! This is Jon in Spokane.
But I thought the AAR VIN started BH23JOB.... and the Challenger T/A VIN started JH23JOB.... or is it JS23JOB....?
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Sorry for the confusion, but make sure you see the other post , because it has all of the giveaway goodies and info on it!All of these Beautiful works from our Button Fairy Bracelet Workshop at Artiscape! I am so upset with my photo skills on this day! I apologize for the blurry photos. Some of them were way to blurry to post :(Also I did not get a big group photo which is also a total bummer. This is just a sampling of all our hard work!
If you were in the workshop, and want to send me a photo of you wearing your bracelet out on the town,I will be happy to post it here on the blog for everyone to see your gorgeous creation :)
I totally enjoyed these 18 ladies!
Kim,Lisa,Karla, Donna G, and Sandy. (And thank you for the muffins Cheryl :)


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Years ago, we befriended a family in Rio Vista. They were and are special people. At the time, they had four daughters and were hoping for a boy. Actually, it wasn't just a hope — after four girls, it became a fervent prayer.
Eventually, the boy did come and there was joy and gladness throughout the household ... actually, there was Joy, for sure; she was the new baby's mother. The little boy, whom we will call Stevie 'cause that's his name, was fun to have around from the very first day.
Having four sisters made him special in every way, plus he was cute and funny. He came by that naturally because mom, dad and the girls all had the blessing of a good sense of humor not to mention good looks and a pleasant demeanor.
After Stevie got old enough to have regular haircuts, one of his sisters and my older daughter came up with a win-win root beer plot. Steve's dad would give him money to go downtown to get a professional haircut, his sister would then talk him into paying her and my daughter Cindy to cut his hair and the three would go down to the A&W for a round of root beers, paying with the haircut money.
After the haircut, the girls brushed then dusted Stevie's neck with baby powder and everything so the cut-off hairs wouldn't itch so badly and he smelled just right too. As time passed, the girls got good enough at giving the kid a passable haircut so everyone was happy. Dumb, but happy. It worked this way for years.
Stevie was 30 by the time he got his first professional haircut, and and by that time had become a hopeless root beer addict.
In those days Stevie's dad and I were friends and frustrated showmen, and we were asked to write and produce a program put on for the Rio Vista Congregational Church Harvest Festival. That event was an important part of the church's annual fundraiser budget, so it had to be funny and popular 'cause we needed lots of people to attend. One time we put on a parody of the TV show "Queen for a Day."
If you remember that particular TV show, a complete wardrobe went to the lady who told the saddest tearjerker about her abysmal life.
But in our production, all of the contestants were men. There aren't many things funnier than a 6-foot, 6-inch red-headed man pretending to cry while dressed in a wedding gown wearing work boots. Unless, of course, you're talking about a 5-foot, 3-inch, 200-pound balding guy who's in a silk gown trying to slink while balancing, or trying to balance his ample avoirdupois while modeling a pointy pair of high heels.
The hard part of the whole skit was to get the guys (as wives) to tell their sad stories as they did on the actual TV show. It took longer to get the guys to quit laughing than trying to tell their sad tales of woe: divorce, drunkenness, desperation and despair elsewhere in the show.
The fact that their "husbands" were basically stumblebum boozehounds who didn't actually show up on stage made it lots of fun.
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Must See Version of "Cups" from Pitch Perfect [VIDEO]
"Cups" is one of my favorite KISS-FM songs right now, and this version is awesome! It's definitely a must see & hear!
"Cups" is based on a song from 1931 known as "You're Gonna Miss Me." It's simplicity is what really makes it so cool to me. Sometimes, less is more, and the 4 people in this video have it at it's simplest – 4 cups, 4 pair of hands, and 4 voices. It is awesome!
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CLEARWATER — One firefighter was injured while battling a fire that destroyed the second-floor unit of a three-story condominium building on Monday evening, according to Clearwater Fire and Rescue.
The fire was reported at the Top of the World condominiums at 2427 Rhodesian Drive at 4:34 p.m.
It took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish the blaze. A Clearwater firefighter suffered minor injuries during the fire and was transported to a local hospital. Officials did not identify the firefighter or offer more details about the cause or extent of the injuries. No one else was injured in the fire, officials said.
One of the condos was "gutted" by the fire, according to Clearwater Fire and Rescue, and several others suffered smoke and water damage. The building did not have an automatic sprinkler system. Firefighters planned to spend several more hours monitoring the scene.
The Red Cross was called in to help the displaced residents. Officials have not yet released what caused the fire.


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This year marks 10 years of education, restoration and conservation.
With the help of a dedicated army of volunteers, the Peninsula Streams' contributions to positive change in the environment in a relatively short period of time, is something stewardship coordinator Francesca Loro is proud to have been involved with and proof positive change begins with one person.
"I think for an organization with such a small staff … The work we have been able to accomplish has been pretty spectacular," Loro said. "We have been really good at working with our different resources and being effective on how we use them."
From on-the-ground restoration projects including revitalization of Hagen Creek, to educational opportunities delivering environmental programs to local schools including North Saanich middle school, Bayside middle school and Royal Oak middle school – the work is never done.
However, the experience of guiding future generations of environmentally conscious citizens has been a positive experience for the four-year veteran of the society.
"We hope to educate, make [students] aware of their environment and get them involved," Loro said. "Kids bring the message home to parents and grandparents."
She believes youth involvement is key to long-term success in their current homes and their future family homes, so initiatives including outdoor restoration projects to remove invasive plant species and releasing salmon fry into local streams are important education opportunities. She is excited by the dedication of students including 11-year-old Chelsea Da Silva, who was snipping non-native blackberries out of Lillian Hoffer park as part of a Peninsula Streams initiative last Friday.
"This is what I like to do because it is fun and helping," the North Saanich middle school student said. "We live on the earth and we need the earth for us to live."
Armed with pink pruning shears, the Grade 6 student was adamant that regardless of what she ends up doing as an adult, the environment will always be a consideration for her.
"I like what I am doing and I like saving the world. I live here and I want it to be a special place for everyone who comes here," she said. "It is also your world, so [you] should keep it the way you got it."


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Missing Bill 18's point
As a teacher since 1990 and as president of the Manitoba Teachers' Society, I agree that bullying is a serious matter requiring serious attention. The 15,000 public school teachers working in Manitoba classrooms recognize and address bullying every day in our schools and welcome legislation that assists schools in addressing this issue. Unfortunately, Hendrik van der Breggen's March 9 column, Why not anti-bully clubs? misses the point of Bill 18.
The Safe and Inclusive Schools legislation introduced by Education Minister Nancy Allan recognizes what parents already know -- a text, an email or a Facebook posting can and does inflict harm. This expansive definition of bullying in Bill 18 follows the best practices of other provinces. Despite what van der Breggen alleges, this is not about an "off-the-cuff" comment; this is about cruel and hateful words that can and do cause emotional damage in our schools every day.
Bill 18 also empowers students to take action to make their schools safe, respectful and accepting of all students. It requires that schools accommodate students who want to create student activities or organizations that promote safe and respectful schools, much like the "anti-bullying clubs" the author suggests.
The activities or groups may be focused on addressing any number of things -- sexism, racism, homophobia, discrimination against people who are disabled. It also specifically permits student activities and organizations that use the name "gay-straight alliance."
If any student asks for a safe space -- for help -- then the school needs to say "yes" and make it happen. By specifically including "gay-straight alliance," schools can no longer deny the right of gay students to form support groups in their schools. We can't teach our students tolerance and respect for diversity, then deny them the right to hold activities or form organizations that promote these values.
Hendrik van der Breggen makes an excellent suggestion. No one is safe from bullies. Children and adults suffer alike. Schools need a safe place for anyone who feels victimized to get help and feel safe.
Kids could be emotionally supported and helped to develop measures to stop bullying at their school while demonstrating respect for all body shapes, colour, ethnicity and religious beliefs.
We would be taking a better path to helping our vulnerable and young people if we make these schools' clubs inclusive and not divisive.
It is fitting, in some dark way, that Hendrik van der Breggen winds down his article with a nod to Mark Yarhouse's book Homosexuality and the Christian. Yarhouse, as it turns out, has tried to prove that sexual orientation can be changed. He is also a man whose "research" (using the term loosely) has been publicly panned by the American Psychological Association.
This is exactly the kind of pseudo-scientific discrimination that our friends and family in the LGBT community deal with daily. It doesn't matter what your religion is; being gay is an essential part of who someone is. Giving them a safe space should not, and will not, cause a crisis in your religious beliefs.
Impossible to clear
Re: West End snow ridge 'absolutely ridiculous' (March 12). Twice this snow-clearing season, I have opened my garage door in Linden Woods in the early afternoon to find my driveway completely blocked by a solid wall of packed snow and ice more than three feet high.
Not only was it impossible for me to clear the snow to enable driving out, but it would have been dangerous to attempt to scale the wall of ice on foot. I called the city help line to report that there was no safe way for me to leave my property, nor for anyone else to enter it.
I was told that city policy allows snow-removal crews to block access or egress to a residence for up to eight hours by creating what the 311 operator euphemistically referred to as a "windrow."
This is absurd. Also, anyone expecting to park their car in front of their own property would risk being towed if they parked on the street. And what about access difficulties for ambulance crews if there was an emergency? I don't recall any similar difficulty relating to snow-clearing in this area over the past 20 years.
Yes, there are ridges here and there and higher-than-normal snowbanks. But where can you put the snow after a certain point?
We boast some of the most beautiful parks and green spaces in Canada. I can't wait to see some of those green spaces and start puddle jumping!
I'm thrilled that the skating rink in the neighbourhood park is being cleared and flooded once a week and the refuse cans surrounding it are regularly being emptied by the city.
Now if only the sidewalks and roads leading to it could be accorded the same consideration, we might actually see people utilizing it. Am I missing something here, or have road conditions become secondary to the plight of the city councillors' expense accounts?
Failures of Chávez
Alf Warkentin needs to get his facts straight before he cites the "great achievements" of Hugo Chávez (Chávez deserves respect, Letters, March 9).
The dearth of the most basic food staples on store shelves just goes to show how poorly managed Venezuela was under Chávez. Inflation sits at more than 20 per cent and is expected to rise. The Venezuelan economy has a fiscal deficit of 8.5 per cent of GDP and it's getting worse.
The state oil monopoly provides 94 per cent of the country's foreign earnings, and yet Venezuela's foreign reserves have been reduced from $42 billion in 2008 to $30 billion, most of which are in hard assets.
Chávez's government forecast a production rate of 5.8 million barrels a day, whereas actual production is somewhere between 2.8 and three million barrels a day.
Chávez was a bully. His elections were far from fair, and he left the country in a ruinous state.
Thanks to Alf Warkentin for having the courage to say what I would have liked to have said -- especially for pointing out that Hugo Chávez was elected "with a much higher percentage of the popular vote than Stephen Harper has ever got."


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In a matter of months, two restaurants, a furniture shop, a jewelry store, a salon and an auto repair shop on West Bay Drive packed up and left.
"I didn't get scared until I was open for two or three weeks and people didn't come in for days," said John Jacobs, 43, who opened J Roc's sandwich shop in September.
For years, shop owners like Jacobs have been struggling to survive and thrive in the city's traditional downtown.
The dismal economy has made things tougher. But some long-term businesses have weathered the rough times. And a handful of new ones have set up shop, hoping for the best.
A few have some of the same beefs that area businesses have had for years. Among them: The strict city sign regulations and the not-so-strict adherence to the 30 mph speed limit make their shops barely visible to passers-by.
"You can't slow the traffic down enough to view the stores," Jacobs said. "That is the one thing that's killing us."
Some days, Jacobs walks out of his shop and leans against the railing out front.
"I can see the empty buildings and see the cars passing by at 45 mph. And people don't even look," Jacobs said. "I'm like a ghost."
To get customers in the door, shop owners are doling out big deals. A couple of weeks ago, Jacobs offered his super-stacked deli-style sandwiches on the cheap.
A sign saying "Any Sandwich and Drink Only $2.99" persuaded former Commissioner Herb James to stop by.
"It was so good," said James, 87, who devoured a hefty club sandwich. "I didn't even know there was a restaurant there."
Jacobs and other merchants are trying to stay positive, because they have to.
"Anybody can open a shop and put money into it and a year later they're gone," said Joseph Stefko, who has lived and worked in the area about 15 years. "I have to make it. This is my livelihood."
About a year ago, Stefko, who runs the Hair Jungle in a 1950s bungalow just a block north of West Bay Drive, created a neighborhood group called Old Northwest.
Since then, dozens of business owners and residents in the area near West Bay Drive and Clearwater-Largo Road have joined Old Northwest. The free grass roots group relies on a combination of old-fashioned networking and newfangled marketing.
Over the years, the area has had a few local merchant groups. Downtown Largo Main Street Association disbanded in 2006 after the city cut funding. There had been no similar effort for a while.
It was time, Stefko said.
A key focus of Old Northwest, which meets once a month, is branding. Shop owners tell their customers they're in Old Northwest and decorate their stores with Old Northwest signs and stickers.
Old Northwest creates a new identity, Stefko told members of the group, who met last month at Tropical Smoothie Cafe on West Bay Drive.
"That's why we have to get branded, so people know who we are," said Stefko, 47.
Several of the members swear by Old Northwest.
"As small-business owners, we all have the same fight, the same pain," said Rebecca Paone, an agent at Keller Williams Realty on West Bay Drive. "We're all here to support one another."
Michael Brandt, who opened Gulf Coast Po' Boys on West Bay Drive in July, said Old Northwest helped him and his partner, Anthony Jack, connect with other local business owners .
"We didn't know a single person here," said Brandt, who previously ran restaurants for a high-end Cajun chef in New York City.
Group members help each other out and recommend each other to their customers, he said.
"You want to see everybody succeed," said Brandt, 46, who has piles of his neighbors' business cards on a shelf near the front door.
The group fills an important niche, said Largo/Mid-Pinellas Chamber of Commerce president Tom Morrissette.
"I think what they're doing is great," Morrissette said. "They've really come together, almost as a resurrection of the old Main Street group."
Not everybody is impressed.
Jacobs, a former corporate trainer from Texas, gave the group a try, and said, so far, it's a lot of talk and little action.
"It's a big pep rally, but there's no focus on an issue," Jacobs said.
The group is just building momentum and membership, Stefko said. About 20 to 70 people show up for monthly meetings, he said.
"This thing is just starting to get going now," Stefko said. "You need numbers to make things happen."
Stephanie Williams is thinking about joining Old Northwest. On Monday, she opened a salon and skin care shop next door to Gulf Coast Po' Boys.
"I just feel like it's the right time," she said.
Jacobs has been thinking about closing.
"We're not even close to breaking even," said Jacobs, whose sons, Joshua, 19, and Hayden, 20, work with him. "I'm not even paying my boys yet."
But for now, he's hanging on. He and others downtown say they get a special thrill from running their own mom-and-pops.
"I've never been happier than working at this sandwich shop," Jacobs said. "I've never got this kind of rush from training sales agents and customer service people."
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Rescue operation Monday for crew of HMS Bounty
A helicopter rescue operation was under way Monday for 17 people who abandoned the HMS Bounty as the ship was sinking off the coast of North Carolina, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The ship issued a distress signal late Sunday after taking on water, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The owner of the 180-foot, three mast ship — which was built for the 1962 Marlon Brando movie, "Mutiny on the Bounty" — lost communication with the crew and alerted the Coast Guard to the situation. The Coast Guard then received a distress signal from the ship showing its position. It sent out an aircraft to speak with the crew, which reported that the vessel was taking on water and had no propulsion. It was located about 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C."The 17 person crew donned cold water survival suits and life jackets before launching in two 25-man lifeboats with canopies," the Coast Guard said earlier in a statement.


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Intel's new six-core Westmere Xeon is as fast as the Nehalem before it, but even better at handling multiple processes at once. After proving itself in InfoWorld's threading benchmark tests and blade server shoot-out, Westmere arrived on my desktop this week in the form of the HP Z600 workstation. Thanks to this sizzling loaner from HP, I've already saved hours of video rendering time. If Adobe Premiere Pro made better use of Westmere's 24 logical CPUs (2 per core with Hyper-Threading enabled), I might not even have time for a cup of coffee.
Here at Interop's HotStage, where we put together the networks in advance of the conference, I pestered the HP guys to borrow a workstation because I was facing a huge backlog of video rendering. With Premeire Pro taking upward of three hours to render each video on my MacBook Pro (2.5GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM), I was staring at impossible deadlines. Then HP whispered that I could borrow an as-yet-unreleased Z600 so long as I kept it under my hat until after the announcement. To sweeten the deal, HP also loaned me a couple of its 24-inch LP2475W widescreen monitors.
[ Fast AES encryption, better scalability, and consistent per-core performance make the new six-core Westmere a worthy successor to Nehalem. See "InfoWorld review: Intel's Westmere struts its stuff." ]
The Z600 is a no-nonsense black monolith aimed at engineers and other creative types who might know how to put 12 CPU cores to use. With Hyper-Threading turned on, the Windows 7 performance monitor shows the appearance of 24 CPUs, but alas Adobe Premiere Pro (like many other applications) is lagging behind the hardware curve. During the rendering process, Task Manager shows that Premiere Pro is using only half of the 24 threads (see screen image below). Aside from splitting such hairs, that same three-hour rendering job on the MacBook Pro plummeted to less than 20 minutes on the Z600 -- and that was with both Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects running alongside the rendering engine.
All in all, the Z600 is a fine workstation with room enough to grow. My borrowed unit sports a pair of Intel Xeon X5670 2.93GHz Westmere CPUs, 12GB of DDR3-1333MHz ECC RAM, an Nvidia Quadro FX3800 GPU, a 500GB SATA 7,200-rpm drive that boots 64-bit Windows 7 Professional, and a 1TB SATA 7,200-rpm drive for data. The Z600 has a slot-loading DVD+/-RW drive, three FireWire 1394a card slots (two rear, one front), and a ridiculous number of USB ports (three front, six rear). For me, the only thing missing is an SDHC memory card slot on the front. It would also be nice to have at least one disk drive available from the front for hot swapping.
[ Intel's latest chips revolutionize the workstation market. See InfoWorld's reviews of Dell, HP, and Lenovo systems in "Nehalem workstations: A new era in performance." ]
Also noteworthy in my loaner is HP's SkyRoom videoconferencing solution. SkyRoom combines the best of Microsoft's now-defunct NetMeeting and the aging Remote Desktop Client into a modern package designed to meet the remote collaboration needs of engineers. At CES I saw a demonstration of SkyRoom in which an ordinary laptop shared a 3-D CAD drawing with a workstation. Now I must point out that the demo systems were back to back on a local network, but the spinning propeller of the radial engine simulation displayed on the two computers were perfectly in sync. SkyRoom is a huge improvement over RDP or NetMeeting in terms of system requirements. All you need is a Windows system with a 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo CPU or better and at least 2GB of RAM, and even fancy 3-D renderings are delivered in real time for what felt like seamless collaboration.
This story, "First look: HP Z600 workstation with twin Westmeres," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in servers, processors, and other hardware at InfoWorld.com.


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New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin confirmed what many expected on Tuesday, revealing that defensive tackle Shaun Rogers will miss the 2012 season with a blood clot in his left calf.
"It's very sad, because you don't know the real story. He lost 50 pounds. He went from the high 380s to 334 to check in at. He was really excited about being a part of this team. He got along really well with our defensive linemen. He actually asked to go play some more snaps the other night, which I thought was really neat. It's just a shame," Coughlin said.
Rogers initially suffered his injury when leg-whipped during practice prior to the preseason opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Thinking it wasn't serious, Rogers boarded the flight to Florida and played in the game, exacerbating it quite significantly. After experiencing some leg swelling, he was sent to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York on Monday where he met with orthopedic surgeon Russell Warren and vascular surgeon John Karwowaki.
Not only will this end Rogers' 2012 season, it may also put an end to his 12-year NFL career.
Coming into the offseason, Rogers was highly motivated by the prospect of possibly winning his first Super Bowl championship before retiring. He displayed incredible commitment by losing more than 50 lbs. prior to training camp, which drew praise from not only coach Coughlin, but from his fellow teammates as well.
When discussing Rogers' situation prior to practice on Tuesday, Chris Canty was visibly emotional calling it "very, very sad."
Coughlin says the team is in the process of bringing in another defensive tackle, but gave no indication on who it was. He also noted there's been no update on the status of Marvin Austin (back), though he "prays" the phone rings and it's good news.
"I thought we were as deep there as we were at any position on the team. It's not that way right now," Coughlin said.
The team announced earlier today that DT Martin Parker will also miss the season due to a herniated disk that requires surgery.
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Russia is waiting for a promised request for asylum from fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden that risks straining relations with Washington.
A day after Mr Snowden said he would immediately request asylum in Russia, Moscow officials said they were not aware of any approach by the former National Security Agency contractor.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov appeared to want to distance himself from the controversy, insisting the government was ''not contacting'' Mr Snowden and that he had found out details of his meeting with activists through the media.
''Russian laws specify a procedure for obtaining political asylum and the first step is approaching the Federal Migration Service,'' he said.
Mr Snowden's latest attempt to stay out of US hands threatens to push US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin towards a stand-off both say they want to avoid.
Mr Snowden's bid to stay in Russia while seeking safe passage to Latin America has cast a shadow on preparations by Mr Obama and Mr Putin for a summit in early September.
The leaders, who discussed the impasse during a previously scheduled call over the weekend, have signalled they don't want Mr Snowden's case to sour relations.
''My sense for this is that both sides have tried not to let this thing blow up into something major that starts to divert the whole future of the relations,'' former US ambassador to Russia James Collins said.
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"We have been waiting to show you all our brand new album, Hail To The King, for far too long," vocalist M. Shadows says. "It took us nine months of writing, recording and preparation so that we could put out an album we are all proud of from start to finish.
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