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Polish special economic zones as an instrument of regional and industrial policy
The paper undertakes a detailed examination of the special economic zone programme in Poland in the field of regional and industrial policy. The programme was implemented in 1995-1997 and nowadays in Poland operate 14 special economic zones established in the purpose of acceleration economic development in chosen regions. The main method for attracting capital and technology is the preferential tax policy (long term income tax exemptions) for specific domains of economic activity. The research allowed to evaluate results of zones activity especially related to the regional development and industrial restructurisation process. There are clear evidence of both positive (development of modern industry branches) and negative effects (economic activity substitution) of special economic zone programme in Poland. Attention then turns to the Polish integration with the European Union in the field of competitiveness policy, where several problems related to special economic zones had occurred.
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Boulder-based bandwidth provider Zayo Group said today that it has expanded out its network, with a new, 100G wavelength network stretching between New York and Ashburn, Virginia. According to Zayo Group, the new route connects to an existing route which follows the East Coast's I-95 corridor. Zayo said its new route connects locations in New York; Newark, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; and Ashburn, VA. Zayo did not say how much it spent to complete the link between the cities. Ashburn, Virginia is a major location for data centers in the Washington, DC area, and is considered a suburb of DC.

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MURFREESBORO — Mrs. Howard of Murfreesboro passed away on June 30, 2009 at NHC of Murfreesboro. She was a native of Cannon County, but lived most of her life in Rutherford County. She was a member of the Garden Lovers Club and Murfreesboro Woman's Club. She was a member of Third Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, where she served many years as Sunday School Secretary. She was a former employee of MTSU and the Rutherford County Election Commission.
Mrs. Howard is preceded in death by her husband, R.L. Howard; her parents, C.H. and Lena Moore Hancock; one brother, Clarence Hancock; and three sisters, Willie Mae Griffin, Laura Griffin and Viola Rogers. She is survived by son and daughter-in-law, Bobby and Lounita Howard of Lascassas; special nephew and niece, Danny Hancock of Smithville and Johnnie Mai Hancock Watson of Donelson, and other nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends.
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In this class, we will explore social inequality and the strategies that individuals, communities, and organizations working both within and outside institutional channels have used in order to address various forms of social inequality. Throughout the quarter, we'll use our own writing and the analysis of others' writings on social issues to see how composition can be a form of social action. To begin such an inquiry, we'll look at and interrogate the possibilities and limits of some models for social change in the 20th and 21st centuries, including but not limited to small-scale community organizing, broad based social movements, single-issue social action campaigns, NGOs/nonprofits and the rhetorics for change each espouses.
As we investigate the ways that writing can be used as a catalyst for social change, you will complete a series of assignments that asks you to write about, for, and with the community you are serving. The first part of the quarter will focus on rhetorical awareness and analysis as we explore how various individuals, groups, and organizations have constructed critiques of social and economic inequality and worked from "outside" institutional channels to create social change. The second part of our quarter will focus on research and argument, and you will investigate causes for and solutions to a specific social issue related to your service-learning experience, taking into account both institutional and non-institutional approaches to creating social change. Your coursework will culminate in a multimodal project in which you write with the community to raise awareness about the social issue you have been investigating and call your peers at UW to action to address some aspect of this social issue.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A lawyer for death row inmates claims the Timely Justice Act is unfair.
The Law of 2013 was designed to speed up the death penalty process by giving stricter time frames for appeals and post-conviction motions.
The lawyer claimed it doesn't give condemned prisoners a fair opportunity to bring in the evidence in a timely manner.
Attorney Martin McClain said there have been cases where evidence proved a prisoner with a life sentence was innocent decades after the crime.
No ruling has been made and it's unsure when it will be made.
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Seizure Surgery Surprise
Date: January 1, 2013
Working together with the pediatric neurology team, Adam Hartman and George Jallo helped a little girl overcome a debiltating seizure disorder.
After Kelley Philhower began suffering seizures at age 5, her family took her to a medical center near her home in Ohio. Following tests there, a neurologist gave her the grim news—she had Rasmussen's encephalitis, a rare inflammatory condition resulting in intractable seizures and a progressive deterioration of one side of the brain. The diagnosis was bad enough, says Kelley's mom, Nancy Philhower, but how the neurosurgeon gave her the news made it even more jarring: "His words were, 'She's going to have the left half of her brain removed, and she's going to walk, act and look like a stroke victim,' which hit us like a brick wall. Needless to say, we didn't like that approach at all."
Philhower immediately began searching the Internet for a treatment center well-experienced in treating Rasmussen's, and "Johns Hopkins" kept popping up. She called. Yes, we can take care of Kelley, pediatric neurologist Adam Hartman and pediatric neurosurgeon George Jallo said, but her diagnosis and treatment options would be determined by a multidisciplinary group of pediatric neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuro-immunologists, among other specialists.
"It's a pretty comprehensive look at what's going on," says Hartman. "Because of our experience and the full spectrum of services we offer here, we're not necessarily committed to a single treatment."
Kelley's evaluation included imaging studies to precisely localize the affected part of her brain to determine how its removal would affect her functions. The group recommended intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) or surgery. Even though studies have reported some good effects of IVIG on seizures and neurological functions, the immunotherapy does not eliminate seizures in most cases. With the surgery, called a hemispherectomy, Hartman explained, Kelley would be seizure-free, but she would temporarily lose the use of her right arm and leg and, likely, her ability to talk because the affected left hemisphere is dominant for language. Those functions would be restored, though probably not completely, through rehabilitation and the plasticity of the young brain—the ability of its remaining half to take over what was lost in the surgery.
"We've seen Mother Nature flip the language function over to the other side," Hartman explains. "But rehabilitation, like the presurgery evaluation and surgery itself, is critical. To help parents through this process, we connect them with other families who have gone through the surgery, rehabilitation and postsurgery life back in the community."
In the meantime, Kelley's seizures had increased in severity and frequency—to every 15 minutes or so—and the family chose surgery, which Kelley underwent with surprising results. Undergoing rehab services at Johns Hopkins' famed sister institution The Kennedy Krieger Institute, Kelley was walking with a therapist within a week and on her own by three weeks. "Her language has increased a ton," says her mom, "and she's not had a single seizure since the surgery." Now a 7-year-old in first grade, she adds, Kelley is extremely active, playing basketball and swimming.
"She's definitely been handed a second chance by Drs. Jallo and Hartman, who are two of the most attentive doctors I have come across, and believe me, I have come across a lot of doctors over the last two years," says Philhower. "They are very caring individuals with immense knowledge—and big hearts, too."
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The World Health Organization has estimated that the number of blind people in the world could double by 2040. To combat the leading causes of blindness and assist in preserving vision, the Coon Rapids Lions Club is participating in a Lions World Sight Day activity Oct. 12 to heighten awareness and education about sight preservation and preventable blindness.
The club's work will also directly benefit the Coon Rapids community and the surrounding area with its fundraising efforts going to support the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank.
Lions World Sight Day is a global vision initiative sponsored by Lions Clubs International and takes place annually on the second Thursday of October in an effort to raise awareness about sight-related issues.
The Coon Rapids club will be joining in this global event by holding its annual White Cane Days event at various locations in Coon Rapids Saturday, Oct. 12.
The Lions will be setting up informational booths at Cub Foods (Riverdale), Rainbow Foods, Jensen's Foods and Cub Foods (Northdale), providing information on how to help prevent blindness as well as collecting donations for the Minnesota Lions Eye Bank at the University of Minnesota to help pay for the ongoing research and the treatments performed each day at the facility.
The booths will be manned from 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 12.
In addition to collecting donations from the public, the club will be collecting used eyeglasses, used sunglasses, used reading glasses and hearing aids for its ongoing project to bring proper vision and hearing to those in need in other countries.
"It is estimated that 40 million people around the world are blind," said John Merriam, White Cane Days chairperson.
"To honor Lions World Sight Day and the Coon Rapids Lions' 60th anniversary, the club is working in unison with other Lions clubs around the world to educate millions of people on the importance of proper eye health care.
"In the United States today, approximately 750,000 people are blind and an additional 50,000 more will lose their sight each year, according to the National Federation of the Blind.
"Like most developed countries, glaucoma and diabetes are the leading causes of blindness in the United States."
On a worldwide scale, an estimated 75 percent of all the people suffering from blindness are found in Africa and Asia, according to the World Health Organization.
In Africa, there are an estimated 500,000 new cases of cataracts each year, of which only one in 10 is operated on, while in India, 80 percent of the blind suffer from cataracts, with more than 3.8 million new cases reported each year, Merriam said.
"The Coon Rapids Lions Club is a part of this global effort to provide aid at the local level, as well as around the world," he said.
Since the club's chartering in 1954, the Lions have worked on a variety of projects, such as the Books for Bango book-giveaway program in the nine public elementary schools in the area each year and the annual Hooked on Fishing, Not Drugs fishing clinic held each May at the Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park.
For more information, contact Dan Janish at 612-558-2851, visit the club's website at www.coonrapidslions.org or check out the Coon Rapids Lions Club Facebook page.


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UPDATE: U.S. Senate Proposal Provides Direction for Future of Arts Education
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Last month, I wrote a post that described the work of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee on a bill reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, last authorized as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002.
Since that time, we have gathered new information through further examination of the bill text and through meetings with congressional staff.
It is unclear if there will be time for the bill to receive Senate floor consideration and additional amendments before Congress adjourns for the year, but this new information will still have an effect on the reauthorization movement:
Well Rounded Education Amendment
Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), along with co-sponsors Senators Murray (D-WA), Mikulski (D-MD), and Merkley (D-OR), introduced the Well Rounded Education Amendment which was approved by voice vote. While the amendment shares similar objectives to the Obama Administration "Blueprint" proposal -- it is significantly different than that proposal in structure and effect.
The Senate language creates a single grant program through which states (with partners) can compete for funding to provide support to: arts, civics and government, economics, environmental education, financial literacy, foreign languages, geography, health education, history, physical education, and social studies.
There is no authorized funding level set for this grant program, although if funding reaches $500 million, it triggers a change in the funding distribution -- from one based on state grant requests to one based on the school age populations in each state.
The funding structure would be a significant departure from the current manner in how the Department of Education makes competitive grants in many of these covered subjects (directly to school districts and community based organizations).
Perhaps the most interesting element of this amendment is the approach it uses to address the narrowing of the curriculum. Because the authors intend for the 11 "covered subjects" to be given systemic support by the state applicant, in order to compete for these funds a state must undertake a needs assessment of how each subject is provided for currently, and how the state would address those deficiencies.
Programs of National Significance
As reported last month, the ten "Programs of National Significance" in the bill includes an arts provision. Through the committee process, the exact language of this provision has been revised to support "model projects and programs" for both individuals with disabilities and "children, youth, and educators." The original focus on disabilities was expanded to include the additional program element.
Legislative Mentions of "Arts"
Mentions of the arts in the legislative text varies throughout the bill.
In the current No Child Left Behind Act, the 'arts' is not defined any further into specific disciplines -- which is the preference held by a broad group of arts education stakeholders. No other core academic subject of learning is defined in federal law, and an attempt to define the arts could leave out the many and emerging facets of arts learning.
While the definition of core academic subjects in the Senate committee legislation includes the "arts," there is, sprinkled throughout the bill, additional references to "music and the arts," "art, or music, or…" and "in the performing and visual arts."
Americans for the Arts is working with congressional staff to maintain a consistent reference to "arts" so that no art discipline becomes marginalized through inadvertent phrasing.
Stay tuned to ARTSblog for more information as this committee process continues throughout the rest of the year.


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Trinity boys look to Sickler for leadership
DICKINSON - Dickinson Trinity senior Marcus Sickler has battled through injuries in the 2007-08 school year.
After missing time during the football and basketball seasons, Sickler hopes to end his high school sports career on a good note.
Sickler is arguably the Dickinson Trinity boys track and field team's top returner.
"Marcus is going to be key to the team," Trinity coach Craig Kovash said. "We're looking for him to have a good year."
Sickler finished third in the 400-meter dash and fifth in the 800. He hopes to help lead a squad that lost a large amount of talent to graduation.
"A lot of us are untested," Sickler said. "We're hoping some kids can come through for us."
Kovash said he feels comfortable with the kids coming back, citing eight
returning state qualifiers as a reason.
"We've got a fairly good nucleus returning," Kovash said. "We've got a good group to build on."
Junior distance runner Jake Braunberger will also help with leadership responsibilities. Braunberger took eighth in the 3200 at state last May.
"He looks a lot stronger and faster this year," Kovash said of Braunberger. "He looks good in practice."
Though relays could be a strong event for the Titans again this year, Kovash said his squad needs points from the pole vault.
Senior Shane Rothschiller returns as one of the top pole vaulters in the state.
"That field event (should) be big for us," Kovash said.
He also noted how he expects the team to improve after going up against the strong track and field competition in this area.
"Our region is one of the most competitive," Kovash said. "You're going to see good competition at every meet."


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"Too many children are dying, we must do something," said the woman who was grievously injured in a mass shooting while meeting with constituents at a Tucson shopping center in 2010. Giffords admitted that a solution will be "hard" to achieve, but added "the time is now" to get it done.
Giffords spoke first -- even before Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy gave his opening statement. She was escorted from the chamber, apparently at her own request, immediately after speaking.
In his opening statement, Sen. Leahy said people have a right to self-defense, and Americans' Second Amendment rights are not at risk. "What is at risk are lives," he said. "Lives are at risk when responsible people fail to stand up for laws that will keep guns out of the hands of those who use them to commit murder and especially mass murders."
Leahy requested that Wednesday's discussion focus on "additional statutory measures to better protect our children and all Americans."
In his opening statement, ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley urged that any forthcoming legislation "actually be effective in reducing gun violence."
Others slated to speak Wednesday include Gifford's husband, Mark Kelly; and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre.
Kelly told the committee that both he and his wife are gun owners: "We believe wholly and completely in the Second Amendment, and that it confers upon all Americans the right to own a firearm for protection, collection and recreation," he said in his prepared testimony.
But, Kelly added, "Rights demand responsibility. And this right does not extend to terrorists, it does not extend to criminals, and it does not extend to the mentally ill."
"When dangerous people get guns, we are all vulnerable, he said.


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Colts' young team hopes magical run continues in playoffs
INDIANAPOLIS — The playoffs can't start soon enough for Donnie Avery.
Five years after being the first receiver taken in the 2008 NFL Draft, he will finally make his postseason debut at Baltimore.
It's about time.
"It's great. It's like starting the season all over again," the Colts receiver said Friday. "It's got my juices flowing again."
The veterans who have been there say the playoffs are exciting and nerve-racking all at the same time.
And this week, Avery isn't the only one in the Colts' locker room going through this for the first time. Of the 53 players on this year's roster, 28 have never played in an NFL playoff game.
Perhaps that should be expected from a team that has relied on rookie quarterback Andrew Luck, piled up more combined rushing and receiving yards by rookies than any team since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger and endured a thorough housecleaning project after last year's 2-14 debacle. More than a half-dozen key players from the Colts' 2009 Super Bowl team, including Peyton Manning, were let go.
But the truth is only nine rookies are on that first-timer list as the surprising Colts (11-5) visit AFC North champion Baltimore (10-6) in Sunday's wild-card game.
"It's a special moment. I've never been to the playoffs being in Miami. My brother, Vernon Davis of San Francisco, he went to this first playoffs last year. He said it's a great feeling, a great experience," Vontae Davis said. "I asked him for any tips, and he just said 'play harder.' "
What the Colts have done best is find ways to win.
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It is free admission and open to the public.
There will be many guest speakers to talk about different jobs in the ag industry.
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Pretty much any electrical store sells LCD screen cleaner, it's not expensive. I tend to just regularly wipe down my 24" LCD with a slightly damp, lint-free cloth (ie. used for cleaning glasses).
Hi there all.
What do you use to clean the glass screen on your iMac ? Mine has developed a few smears etc as the result of eating near the screen and then wiping it with a cloth that wasn't too clean itself. Is there a dedicated screen cleaner, types of cleaners to avoid etc ?
Pretty much any electrical store sells LCD screen cleaner, it's not expensive. I tend to just regularly wipe down my 24" LCD with a slightly damp, lint-free cloth (ie. used for cleaning glasses).
I thought the manual with all Mac Models said use a slightly damp lint-free cloth. Moisten with clean water, no alcohol-based cleaning fluids.
Your iMac comes with what looks like a suede cloth for the screen. but if you can't find it, use Microfiber.
if you have to use a cleaner go for something with Isopropyl Alcohol aka Isoprpanol
when i swaped out out my HDD on my iMac, i got finger prints over the screen. i used Microfiber on the inside and outside of the glass, and it came up spotless.
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I use the one that came with my iMac, you can buy them from glasses places such as sunglasses hut, make it slightly damp and wipe away. When I had apple come and replace the screen in my iMac they used a micro fibre cloth, which in actual fact did a hopeless job as there are bits of dust under the screen.
I use the one that came with my iMac also.
Stubbon marks I use a clean cloth with warm water, and then buff the screen with the micro-fibre cloth that came with the iMac
The best thing I have found to clean my iMac screen is a very soft hand towel. I dampen one corner of it with water and clean the screen. Then I use the dry part of the towel to wipe away the water. I find that doing this when the iMac is cold leaves no streaks on the screen. It looks like its brand new just out of the box. While cleaning a warm screen always leaves streaks on the screen.
I just wiped down my screen using the iKlear spray and microfibre cloth, and it has left smear smudges all over it
I think my problem was I didnt power it down and let it "cool" before I started wiping it.
I think ill unplug it, let it sit for a few hours then take a damp microfibre cloth and just wipe it down which will hopefully eliminate those ugly smear marks !
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Hideaway at Parkway International Resort. Their Kissimmee resort condominiums are designed for your relaxation and comfort with large, open living areas not available in hotel rooms. Step outside to take an excursion on their Boardwalk Nature Trail, relax around the swimming pool, soak in the whirlpool spa, grab a bite at the Kenya Kafe, and much more!
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Learn how Northwestern Mutual helped one student reach his full potential.
No one has higher expectations for Leonardo Fabian Serrato than Leo himself. The sophomore computer engineering major at UW-Milwaukee carries on his shoulders the dreams of his Mexican-born parents. He's intent on being a role model for teens not to give up on their futures; and he doesn't want to let down the mentors who showed him a path he couldn't see for himself.
Serrato, 19, is one of 12 first-generation college students to benefit from the Northwestern Mutual Foundation's Milwaukee Neighborhood Scholarship Program. In 2014, more than $85,000 in scholarships was awarded to students from three neighborhoods (Amani, Muskego Way and Metcalfe Park) that Northwestern Mutual has identified as being underserved.
"When I was in middle school I didn't think of going to college," Serrato said. "As a low-income student, the cost of education was too much for me."
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When Serrato moved to the U.S. from Mexico at 9 years old, he didn't speak English. Now, he says proudly, he is more proficient in English than Spanish.
He credits the YMCA's Sponsor-A-Scholar program for connecting him with two mentors who taught him how to be a successful student at Riverside High School and how to navigate the college application process, from studying for the ACT to filling out financial aid and scholarship applications. They helped him apply to college through President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, which grants limited immigration benefits to undocumented residents of the U.S.
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ASK A QUESTION What is a slang word for "pig?"
what is a slang word for pig...my daughter pronounced a word wrongly and was told it was the word for a pig...something like "porque"
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maybe she said puerco, which means pig (the animal), but also a brutish person.
- Good guess! - lazarus1907 Aug 19, 2010 flag
If fyyzyy is right about his guess -and he probably is-, "puerco" sounds somewhat similar to "porque", but it is not a slang: it means pig, and the Latin term for pig from where the English word pork comes from. Used with people, it is a colloquial way of calling someone mean, filthy, nasty, swine, rotten,...
In other words, instead of "because" (porque), she was saying "pork" (puerco.)
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Hi Dads, why don't you try typing 'pig' into the translation tab and see what you get. I think you will be able to find the word you are looking for. Welcome to SpanishDict!
- also our dictionary is quite amazing - margaretbl Aug 19, 2010 flag
To add to the others, "porky", is a rude term for fat or overweight. Portly, is another slightly less rude one.
Sudar como un cerdo. To sweat like a pig.(swine) I am guessing here because the phrasebook says pollo which would mean chicken, lol
(the funny thing is pigs do not sweat. They have no sweat glands!)
Another slang word for pig - although I know it doesn't sound like "porque" is cochino.
my wife is always telling me "¡No seas cochino!" which I think is something along the lines of the english "chauvinist pig".
- Neither puerco nor cochino are slangs for pig. They are NORMAL synonyms for pig. - lazarus1907 Aug 19, 2010 flag
Although Cochino can mean the animal at his time of slaughter, it is mostly used to mean Marrano, which also means Cerdo. Petersenkids wife is saying, "¡No seas grosero / sucio!"
But for yum, yum, it's Carne de puerco.
And of course Lazarus is correct as usual. None of these words are slang.


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CLYBOURNE PARK Cast, Santino Fontana and More to Perform at Playwrights Horizons Spring Gala
Off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons has announced participating artists for its annual Spring Gala on Monday evening, June 11 at the event space 583 Park Avenue.
Titled "The Highest Standard", the evening will celebrate its five Pulitzer Prize-winning productions and honor the creators of these memorable works for the theater. The honorees are James Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George), Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park), Stephen Sondheim (Sunday in the Park with George), Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy), Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles) and Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife).
The evening will consist of songs from Sunday in the Park with George and excerpts from the four Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, as well as tributes by those connected to the projects. Participating artists will be as follows:
· CLYBOURNE PARK (2011 Pulitzer Prize)
The entire original 2010 Playwrights Horizons World Premiere cast (which is also the current Broadway premiere cast), featuring Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton, Christina Kirk, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos (a Tony Award nominee for this performance) and Tony Award winner Frank Wood, will perform an excerpt from the play. There will be a testimonial from Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro (who directed Mr. Norris' The Pain and the Itch at PH)
· I AM MY OWN WIFE (2004 Pulitzer Prize)
A special three-minute version adapted by Jordan Harrison (Maple and Vine at PH) will be performed by Mark Nelson (Flaubert's Latest at PH and I Am My Own Wife regionally).
There will be a testimonial by Sundance Theater Program Artistic Director Philip Himberg.
· THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (1989 Pulitzer Prize)
A three-minute, one-woman version adapted by Leslye Headland (Assistance at PH) will be performed by Tony Award nominee Maria Dizzia (The Drunken City at PH, nomination for In the Next Room, or the vibrator play). There will be a testimonial by original Heidi producer, former Playwrights Horizons Artistic Director and Lincoln Center Theater Artistic Director André Bishop.
· DRIVING MISS DAISY (1988 Pulitzer Prize)
A special three-minute version adapted by EVan Smith (The Uneasy Chair and The Savannah Disputation at PH) will be performed by Tony Award nominee Suzanne Bertish (Kin at PH), Michael Potts (Grey Gardens and Mud, River, Stone at PH, currently on Broadway in The Book of Mormon) and Brian Avers (Completeness at PH). There will be a testimonial by the original 'Daisy,' five-time Tony Award nominee Dana Ivey (Driving Miss Daisy, Sunday in the Park with George, The Uneasy Chair and The Savannah Disputation, all at PH).
· SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (1985 Pulitzer Prize)
Musical excerpts will be performed by Santino Fontana (Sons of the Prophet, the Roundabout revival of Sunday…) alongside alumni and students from the Playwrights Horizons Theater School. There will be a testimonial by original Sunday… Musical Director, Tony Award winner Paul Gemignani.
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"I'm sick of it, man. It's depressing around here. Guys are out there busting their [butt]. And yet you still hear negativity. I ain't saying no names. There's just too much negativity."
"Everybody has to be held accountable. I do. The coaches do."
"Sometimes you've got to look in the mirror. We certainly don't pitch, me and the coaches."
"It's a 3-0 ball game, and I give up one run and leave guys on base and it's like they expect us to mess up. And then when we do, they chew your ass out. There's no positive nothing around here for anybody. I give up a home run, and it's a funeral."
"It's just a waste. A positive pat on the back is better than anything. And I haven't seen a positive pat on the back since April. I've got one more start here. That's all that matters."
"He said some things, and now he's paying for it. We all sail on the same ship, and A.J. chose to jump off."
"In the best interests of the team and A.J., he was advised to leave the team. He has done so. This issue is closed. It's done."
"Although the 2005 season has been a disappointment to myself and our entire organization, it's my belief that every player on this club was totally and completely committed to bringing a world championship back to South Florida."
"I have always been a very passionate player and person. I often wear my emotions on my sleeve, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. I hope that my teammates always respect that of me, as I trust they know my commitment to winning."
"Best feeling I've ever had. Awesome. Incredible."
"No way you could predict what happened with this team. I don't think people realize what an unbelievable accomplishment this is. This truly is a dream team."
"It's like which of your children do you love most. They're all satisfying. This one is special. It's joyful, it's energetic, it's smiles - it's a lot more enthusiasm and jumping around than we've had some years."
"No one will ever do it again - ever. And this year - so many people doubted it. ... I didn't think we could get it done in May."
"This is unbelievable. This is twice as much [a celebration] as last year. I just can't explain what this means, with all the team members, all the rookies, guys who came out of Double-A and contributed. All the credit goes to [manager] Bobby Cox. He's the best in the business. If this doesn't prove it, nothing will."
"I honestly feel like my career might have been shortened the last four years if we had been playing for nothing."
"Most of these guys have never been in this situation, but I have. And I have to lead them. You might want to go to your room, call your mom and cry. But when you come to the ballpark and put on the uniform, you have to be a man. I have 30 men to lead."
"To be here right now doing this [celebrating] with these guys, it's amazing. We stuck together and talked about team chemistry when we were winning early on in the year, and everybody said, 'Yeah, well, it's easy when you're winning.' But when you're losing and everybody in the papers is doubting you and all that, everybody still stuck together. And that showed the character of this team."
"I was nervous when the lead was 15, that would be an affirmative, yeah. What are you going to do? Are you going to crawl into a hole and are you going to die, or are you going to come out fighting? One of the reasons we picked each one of these guys on this team is we wanted a bunch of fighters. We wanted guys who could be resilient and had been resilient to criticism or doubts throughout the course of their whole career."
"The team as a whole throughout the course of the year, up until today -- and you know what, tomorrow, too -- it will continue that we will be doubted for various reasons. But it should be a team that people enjoy more. They go about it the right way, and they really care."
"What it celebrates is old-fashioned baseball. We didn't try to reinvent the game when we set out to put this team together. What we wanted to do was basically go back to what has worked in baseball history and stand firm on those fundamentals: Catch the ball, pitch the ball and give yourself a chance to be in and win every ballgame."
"Even if we're in Game 7 of the World Series with a 10-0 lead there are still going to be people who say, 'They will never win it.'"
"I think people will look at us and say, 'They're lucky to be there.' I don't think people will look at the 96 wins. I couldn't care less what people on the outside think. I care about what my players think."
"We should have that respect. But until you win the World Series, you'll just be another team in baseball."
"I would get a late jump on a ball and be able to overcome that by running. Now I can't get to it."
"I compare it to a new car. When you get a new car, the power windows go up quick--it's quicker and you get more response. And then when it gets older, little things start to break. Things fall off. Our bodies are machines. You have to be pragmatic. You have to be realistic."
"There are some things that you notice, and some things that you really need to be presented with to really notice them. Like maybe hitting a ground ball to third base, a chopper or something like that, something that you might beat out when you were younger. Maybe it takes you a little bit longer to get to first base. That half-step might not be there. I think there is a period of time when you get frustrated because your body doesn't react the way you want it to for a while."
"I used to get angry at my body when I was younger, when it was supposed to respond to every command, but now I don't."
"I just realize that it doesn't do me any good. You risk injury, you risk all kinds of situations that might take you away from playing the game even more time. Right now, if something doesn't happen the way I want to, I just say: 'Well, there's not too many tomorrows left. I'm just going to make the best out of it right now.'"
"Everyone is asking: 'How are your knees? How are your knees?' And I'm thinking, 'My back! I can't even tie my shoes sometimes in the morning!' "
"When you're 25, you can eat hamburgers and pizza and drink beer and stay out all night and come out the next day and drink a couple cups of coffee and just play. If I did that today, my heart would stop and I'd need a stretcher and an IV. I started kind of noticing that in my early 30's, and now that I'm in my mid-to-late 30's, it's even that much more."
"I'm not O.K. with not producing, but you do have to go: 'Wait a minute, let's be real here. You are who you are. Embrace it. Maybe what I lack in pure motor response of what I had 10 years ago, I feel like I bring a lot of other different things.' It is what it is. It's not a bad thing. Everyone knows it, everyone times you, scouts know. It's not a big mystery."
"I'm very much at peace with who I am and where I am. I've caught a lot of games. Physically, it has taken a toll on me, but I still feel I can be somewhat productive. I'm actually looking forward to being a role player."
"I am looking for a little bit more. I still feel like I can squeeze the lemon a little bit more."
"They're there to boo. They're not there to support. All they do is boo us. They can't wait for us to do something so they can boo."
"I'd love to get there and see them be supportive. It would be huge for our team. It's hard for [the opponent] to play when the fans are on your side."
"But it hasn't been like that in the two years I've been here. We've got a team in a playoff race. We've got a guy with a 30-game hitting streak. We've played our tails off. I hope they come out."
"The Eagles played today. Hopefully the fans will get that out of their system and come on out."
"You always want to deliver meaningful home runs. It looked like we were going to deliver the knockout punch, but in true White Sox fashion, we kind of made it a close game."
"They ask, 'How come you don't hit-and-run much?' You've got to manage to the personnel. We have some swing-and-miss guys. You don't hit-and-run with swing-and-miss guys, and you don't steal with guys that can't run."
"Just don't ask me what I'm going to improve on. Because I ain't going to tell you."
"I had a lot of easy opportunities with runners in scoring position and I kind of wet the bed."
"Our organization isn't broken. I don't think we need to get too much into the philosophy about what goes on at [rookie-level] Elizabethton, just because we're having trouble scoring runs in Minnesota."
"I just hope the competitiveness will be in favor of us next year. I'm not fond of finishing in fifth place."
"What else do you want? He wins 10 games and then gives you the final score, too."
"Last week, everybody was talking about how Cleveland was going to kick our butts, and they did. I'm not going to say it's a great feeling because I respect the manager and I respect the players there. But I played here in the '90s and it was [tough], and I [manage] here right now and they made my summer not too happy."
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Analysis: The Secret Anti-Spammer Death Squads
Blue Security's business was to complain, on behalf of their customers, to spammers. They would repeatedly bombard spammers with requests to unsubscribe their 522,000 customers. As Ferris Research's Richi Jennings tells me, this was having an effect.
Spammers, like everyone else, come in all flavors. Some are the sort of vile criminals you'd imagine they'd be, unconcerned with sending porn requests to children and using botnets to do their work. Others sort of backed in to spamming; they may be morally challenged, but they're basically trying to do direct marketing.
Spammers usually ignore unsubscribe requests. But faced with a bombardment like the one from Blue Security, one of these latter-type "gray spammers" could be persuaded to scrub their lists of Blue Security customers, since those customers clearly don't want to get the messages and sales are less likely. Even as I type this, it sounds like wishful thinking, but Blue Security CEO Eran Reshef claimed otherwise: "Six out of the top 10 spammers worldwide have stopped sending spam to the Blue community recently."
Some other spammers chose a different way to respond. One, named by Reshef as "PharmaMaster," initiated a distributed denial-of-service attack against Blue Security and threatened, if the company did not cease their business, to attack their customers with malware. Blue Security decided to throw in the towel, but the spammer/blackmailer didn't stop there. They started another DDOS attack indirectly on Blue Security that brought their "farewell" message down along with numerous bystander sites. I won't go into the gory details, but the Washington Post's Brian Krebs has them in his blog.
I should say I'm a little leery of some of the claims I've read recently attributed to Reshef, as they seem a little self-congratulatory. Excerpts of ICQ sessions with PharmaMaster purportedly have him saying that Blue Security had found the secret to stopping spam and that he (PharmaMaster) had to put a stop to it. Sounds a little too much like Batman to me.
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More than £150 worth of meat was stolen from Waitrose in Chippenham at the weekend and not for the first time.
Police are appealing for information after a man and woman were seen running from the store shortly before 12:30pm on Sunday. They were seen runnng towards Gladstone Road in the direction of Wood Lane with the meat in a shoulder bag.
Two other similar incidents have been reported in recent months including one on November 24 when around £100 worth of meat was taken from the same store, again by a man and a woman.
Officers have released two CCTV images of people they are keen to speak to in connection with these incidents.
Anyone with any information or who recognise those shown in the CCTV is asked to contact Alaina Coles in the Crime Management Unit at Melksham on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.


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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Gov. Terry Branstad says 26 Iowa counties will receive federal disaster support to deal with damage from severe weather in June.
The presidential disaster declaration includes counties in the northern part of the state that experienced damage from winds, tornadoes, rain and flooding. Buchanan and Fayette counties are among the counties included.
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Prior to her new appointment, Horner served as Associate Director for Economics and Government in the Office of Management and Budget. She was responsible for review of the budget, program, operations, and legislative proposals of a number of Federal agencies, including among others the Departments of Treasury, Justice, Transportation, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, and the Office of Personnel Management, the General Services Administration, the Small Business Administration, and many regulatory agencies.
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Use a heating pad or a warm bath, drink plenty of water! Avoid coffee, alcohol, and spicy foods! Also, goto WalMart or any pharmacy and get dandelion root pills! They cleanse the urinary tract! That's what I do! Any Suggestions here?
There are several ways to tackle a UTI, with the use of antibiotics being the most common How to Treat Yeast Infections Without Going to the Doctor. A yeast Source:http://www.ehow.com/how_5587970_treat-uti-prescription.html
You can drink cranberry juice but you should see a doctor for antibiotics to make sure it's fully cured.
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If you do have a UTI, Yes! UTIs are one of the few indications in medicine where antibiotics are 100% indicated, every time! An untreated UTI can ascend the ureters and lead to pyelonephritis (kidney infection)! If thats left untreated it can cause scarring to the kidneys and even become systemic and in rare cases, result in septicaemia!Cranberry juice will have no effect on an infection that has already established! I am aware that a recent small scale study has shown that cranberry juice may play a part in preventing a UTI from occurring, but let me make clear, it will have NO effect on an active infection!
Answer. Nope. Once you have one, only antibiotics will make it go away. As a side note frequent UTI suffers are often counseled by their family doctors to
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12h x 72w x 72d inches
400 lbs
For outdoor residential installations. Holds approx. 250 gallons of water. Made to run year-round.
Kit includes: pond liner, wood frame, galvanized grating cut for waterline and easy pump access, concrete pedestal.
11 bags of Pebbles recommended to cover this kit. Please check the list of Recommended Accessories under the Fountain/Basin of your choice to make sure this kit is large enough for your installation.
Please flip through the photos to see this kit going into the ground, step-by-step. Our snapshots show the 4x4' size kit, but the same process applies to the 6x6' size. The 2 pieces of galvanized grating for the 6x6' size will overlap in the center, as shown in the last 2 photos. We take (2) sheets of 4x8' grating and cut them down to (2) 4x6' sheets. We then overlap them by 2' in the center to create the 6x6' grate. If you purchase the complete kit from Stone Forest, we will make cuts for the pump access and hose access underneath the fountain. We use the extra piece from the hose area cutout to cover the pump access area.
If pinning is required for your installation and you wish to use this kit, the pond liner will need to run underneath the concrete pedestal. Designing a custom reservoir so pins can be set while pouring is ideal (see our Suggested Commercial Installation Diagram as an example for your design).
Helpful hints for installation:
1. Place some kind of padding between the concrete pedestal and pond liner to prevent tearing/leaking. You could use excess pond liner, felt, or even newspaper to create a nice barrier. The weight of the water will want to pull the pond liner down on those corners, so this should help prevent future issues.
2. After connecting your flexible hosing from your pump up through the center of the Stone Forest fountain, cut a small strip from the edge of your extra pond liner. Take the strip and wrap/wind it tightly around the top of the hose. You can secure it with electrical tape if necessary. This creates a plug that allows you to push it snugly into the top of the 1 1/4" hole. This will prevent the hose from slipping down into the stone, and from moving around.


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New Music: Harry Fraud Feat. Earl Sweatshirt And Riff Raff 'Yacht Lash'
Brooklyn-bred producer Harry Fraud — who has worked with the likes of Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and Wiz Khalifa — is releasing his own 5-track EP on Scion A/V, entitled 'High Tide.' The first track released from the effort, "Yacht Lash," features Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt and Houston rapper RiFF Raff, who both exhibit their unique styles over the trippy beat. Other features on the EP include French Montana, Action Bronson and Tech N9ne. High Tide will be available for free download on May 7th. Listen to "Yacht Crash" here.
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The music world owes much to the ancient Greeks. In fact the word "music" is derived from the nine muses of ancient Greece, who were goddesses ruling over the arts and sciences. Modern day musicians refer to their muse, which is someone who has an influence on another person's creative work. Different musical terms such as melody, tune, rhythm and others have their roots in the Greek language. Pythagoras, who was the father of music theory, was Greek. However, with the fall of ancient Greece and the collapse of the Roman and Byzantine empires, Greek music hibernated for several centuries until it was reborn in the 19th century.
Greek Music and Mythology
The ancient Greeks had musical instruments such as drums, cymbals and pipes. The earliest known Greek music was intertwined with Greek poetry. Dancing with the lyre (phorminx) was used to accompany poets composing melodies from short repeated phrases. Ancient Greeks used music to honor their gods. One particular Greek legend relates how the god Hermes made the first lyre from a turtle. Hermes then gave the lyre to Apollo, the god of reason, as Greek music is typified by orderly patterns. Besides Hermes and Apollo, other Greek gods connected with music were Pan, Orpheus, Dionysus and the Graces (daughters of Zeus).
Music in Ancient Greek Education
Music played an important role in education and was considered a main subject, as essential as reading, writing and arithmetic. Greek boys started learning music as early as 6 years old. The Greek musical modes were taught in Greek music theory. Eventually, the Greek musical modes were the foundation for classical, as well as Western religious music. Students used singing to help memorize odes such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. Intrigued with the harmony of music, one exceptional student, known as Pythagoras, designed a mathematical theory behind musical tones in the 500s B.C. that's still used in modern times.
Byzantine Empire and After Constantinople's Fall
During the Byzantine Empire (330 A.D. to 1453 A.D.), Greek music was influenced by Eastern liturgical chanting. This tradition of chanting continued until the Byzantine capital of Constantinople fell in 1453. Music was monophonic, meaning it consisted of only a single musical line without harmony. Besides being monophonic, the vocal music lacked instrumental accompaniment. This type of music developed in the Christian Greek cities of Antioch, Alexandria and Ephesus. The 400 years of slavery following the collapse of the Byzantine Empire was a harsh period in which any influence on Greek music was stifled.
History of Greek Folk Songs
Greek folk songs, which date back to ancient Greek poetry and music, refer to the songs given to the people. The two different periods of Greek folk songs include the akritic and the klephtic movements. Dating from the 9th century A.D., the akritic styles expressed the struggles of the Greek warriors defending the borders of the Byzantine Empire. The klephtic movement covered the end of the Byzantine period and the beginning of the Greek Revolution, leading to Greece's independence in 1821. Musical styles from the klephtic movement include love songs, weddings songs and songs of both freedom and exile.
19th-Century Music Revival
Greek music was reborn in the 1800s. Composers such as Spyridon Xyndas, Spyriod Samaras, (composer of the Olympic anthem), and Nikolaos Mantzaros influenced Greek music in the 19th century. Dimitris Lialios and Dionysios Rodotheatos were symphonists known for revitalizing Greek music. Composer Kleon Triantafylou, known as "Attic," created one of the first repertory Greek troupes in his famous "Mantra tou Attic." Many other gifted artists and composers came out of this period with their music expressing common experiences in everyday Greek life.
20th-Century Greek Music
As the 20th century dawned, female vocalists typically led bands, including a violin and a sandouri. Some of the more noted musicians included Marika Papagika, Ross Eskenazi, Agapios Tomboulis and Rita Abatzi. The Rebetiko movement began during this time with Byzantine, Symaic and Ottoman influences. Rembetika music, which is Greek underground music, began around the early 1900s. This music was influenced by 2 million Greek refuges coming from Asia Minor.
Mid-20th Century and Contemporary Greek Music
Folk music styles known as amanethes and rebetika, which combined Greek and Byzantine traditions, were revived during the 1970s. During the 1950s and '60s, several Greek composers gained worldwide fame such as Yanis Xenakis. Greek youth turned to pop and rock music in the 1960s as groups such as the Idols and the Charms rose in popularity. Pop music was influenced by both British and American rock music, along with Greek folk songs. Modern Greek music includes folk music with these traditions combining both Eastern and Western influences.
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Reviews: Yet Again
Great, but Heavily Flawed
Yet Again's beginning, while not fantastic, is bland at worst. It's somewhat slow, but it's not much of a problem to people who aren't deterred by the 1.2+ million words. It takes a while to introduce everyone and establish what roles everyone is going to take. Once it gets rolling though, Yet Again quickly becomes awesome. As noted on the main page, the story is built around the whole idea of everyone being taught by a bunch of OP OCs. Those OCs do a good job at not being mary sues, while still affecting the plot. The plot is fairly slow, but the action, character development, and general interaction within the story keep you interested. People aren't lying when they say it's crazy awesome. Unfortunately, Crazy Awesome can't carry a story. The story's zaniness keeps you enthralled for a while, but there are some very large problems that begin to leap out. One of the most obvious ones is that every single girl is the exact same. The phrase, "sadistic yandere," encapsulates all of them perfectly. There is no difference between any of them otehr than the color and style of their hair. It's compounded by the sheer amount of interaction between characters. You find yourself switching Yuno in for names randomly and realizing that it still makes perfect sense. The zaniness itself becomes can be a problem. The OC's insanity can get wearing, and that's what the fun is built around. The result is that the fun slowly dies off, when it's the thing making you want to read. The biggest problem though, is one of the story's defining characteristics: the word count. Yet Again is a very slow fic where ten thousand (plus) word chapters are used to convey what other, well written, stories could do in under five thousand. It makes the problems above worse, but the real damage is more basic: there is no real conflict. It begins with Naruto being trained to fight Akatsuki, but there is no urgency there. There is constant hinting at possible problems with Hinata, but nothing happens there. Sasuke leaving, for all it's problems, gave urgency to the original which Yet Again completely lacks. The bottom line is that Yet Again is weighed down by it's word count. It would be better if it were a third as long. It's worth a read, but stop the moment you begin to lose interest.
Awesome: The Story
Yet Again, With A Little Extra Help, is the only Naruto Fanfiction I have seen, that has managed to reach a massive wordcount and still be amazingly epic. The sequel isn't any less epic. It's well written, humorous, serious, completely brilliant and amazingly awesome. It is definitely worth the time it takes to read it. If you haven't read it yet, then you're wasting your time here. Go read it. Right now. I promise, you won't regret it


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The fifteenth meeting of the ISPC was held from 04-05 April 2017 in Rome, Italy.
This ISPC commented study examines two distinct partnership domains: Multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) in Agricultural Research for Development and Global MSPs approaches. It develops a framework of Partnership and Innovation Modes to assist the CGIAR in embedding its work within the wider architecture of partnership, platforms, and networks that will be required to tackle global scale challenges.


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The Northwest Iron Ore Alliance has called on Western Australia's state government to take urgent action to ensure
NWIOA chairman Ian Campbell said the move was needed amid speculation a planned $US116 billion iron ore joint venture between the major miners was about to be abandoned and replaced with a "plan B" of accessing each other's infrastructure on commercial terms through recently revised WA state agreements.
"Plan B actually looks worse than the joint venture and would be a disaster for the development of the next generation of iron ore companies in the Pilbara," he said. "It would simply embed a de-facto monopoly which is seeking to assume sovereignty over the entire Pilbara. They simply don't want to allow any room for WA's home-grown companies to have a chance."
Mr Campbell said independent modelling had shown significant extra capacity already exists on BHP's Mount Newman line without taking into account their published expansion plans.
"If capacity is not quarantined on the existing lines the WA companies will have to build their own rail networks, which is not only commercially inefficient but will turn the region into a patchwork quilt of criss-crossing rail tracks," he said.
The Australian Competition Tribunal in June decided to "declare" BHP's smaller Goldsworthy line open for third-party access. BHP has not appealed that decision, which could benefit Atlas Iron, one of the NWIOA members.
It also allowed miners access to Rio's Robe railway for a period of 10 years, but blocked access to BHP's Mt Newman line and Rio's Hamersley line. Those decisions are being appealed by Rio and Fortescue Metals, respectively.
The Federal Court is also set to decide whether to allow BHP to intervene to support Rio's appeal against the Robe declaration.
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What's in my pencil case?
To go with a similar post by my girlfriend I decided to do a post on what is in my pencil case. I am a 95% digital designer in my day job but a lot of my work starts with a sketch and I like to get ideas down on paper whenever they occur.
So what's in my pencil case and the pencil case itself are important for me. That's why I thought I'd show off the tools of my trade:
Clockwise, from top left. Field Notes notebooks, mechanical pencils, various pens, outlining pens of various width, rubbers, pencil case.
It wasn't until I took this photo that I realised that I have no colours in my pencil case. It is very rare that I colour my sketches however. My usual workflow is pencil sketch, pen outline, scan to digital, trace and colour in Illustrator.
Pens from left to right. Pentel Sign Pen, an excellent brush nib pen for doing varying line width. Pilot Drawing Pen, the workhorse of pens reliable for everything from sketches to note taking. Staedtler Pigment Liner, another workhorse for general usage. Derwent Graphik Line Markers from 0.05 to 0.8, these are the nicest most consistent fine liners I've found, the nibs feel strong and they produce a perfect line.
Pencils from left to right. Staedtler Mars Micro, a good general purpose mechanical pencil. Rotring 500, a beautiful pencil with a really comfortable grip and a nice even weight. Koh-I-Noor Clutch Pencil, great for rough sketches and shading.
My favourite thing however is the pencil case itself. It's a Lihit Lab Book-Type Pen Case that has loads of pockets and sleeves that will take everything I need including my Field Notes. It is great to just be able to throw one thing into a bag and know that you have everything you need to be able to work.
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Richie Sambora is arrested for DUI charge
We almost went two whole weeks without mention Bon Jovi, but thankfully Richie Sambora snapped the dry spell by getting arrested for a DUI charge in Laguna Beach.
TMZ reports the 47-year-old guitarist was pulled over about 11 p.m. Tuesday night after weaving all over in his Hummer. With his 10-year-old daughter, Ava, in the car with him, no less!
He failed several field sobriety tests, which is a shame, given his 2007 time in rehab. Was there anything harder in his system? "At this point there's no indication of drugs," Laguna Beach Police Sgt. Jason Kravetz said. After divorcing Heather Locklear and then getting dumped by Denise Richards, we can't help but feel for the guy.
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That wasn't pretty just now.... I can't blame Saras for being angry.
Keep the ball moving... keep the defense moving...
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That wasn't pretty just now.... I can't blame Saras for being angry.
Keep the ball moving... keep the defense moving...
Surely I'm not the only one that saw that? Sjax went into dribble mode with nothing available and Saras wanted the ball back and Sjax didn't pass. Saras finally spun around and slapped his hands together... and appeared to say something 'in anger'.
And he was correct IMHO. That is where I don't get Carlisle sometimes because he should tightening the leash on any player that stalls the flow of the offense in that way. Immediately. It's one thing to just miss seeing a pass or open player... it's another when you have nothing available to you and you don't get the ball back out (with a clear option).
Jax having the ball = Al having the ball = Black hole having the ball
Tins doesn;t get it back from him either and only with 4 seconds left and NO option for a shot will he give it to JO to solve his problem
the man is a pestilence
I saw it too. Runi was obviously (and rightfully) pissed.
Yeah, I hope he's (Jackson) is gone w/ Ron... and I agree w/ the Al statement able, that's why I sure hope we don't bring him back...
right this is the Jax I cannot stand ,
he gives you one good game of team basketball ,
and it's right back to jackin up shots no matter who is open , and forcing the shot... no wonder his FG% is in the gutter....
Either pass the ball or hit the road Jax.....
Well he is awful more or less the whole season.
Thats why I think he made a mistake coming to Pacers. He should be a Jazzman, we share the ball, and play team basketball. Carlisle is not using Saras skills at all on offense. To much one on one basketball.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hicks
Saras chose the Pacers for the fact that he feels he can win a championship with them. Jazz are nowhere near a championship team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calgary Jazz
True, but you must agree that Rick is completely underutilizing Saras.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoopburners
It's mostly because of Rick's comfort blanket, I think.
Agree with that, but he would be playing more enjoyble baskteball for himself in Utah. Now he is suffering. And without Artest I do not think that these chances are that good anymore.
also AJ won't pass.
i wish we trade em both
and i wish both saras and granger get more minutes.
Quote of the week! :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by able
:laugh: AJ = Carlisle's blanky :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by indytoad
<< insert picture of Linus clutching his blanket ans sucking his thumb >>
Who wants to bet that this is going to become an issue?
Yeah, I saw that and was rather upset with Jax. I hope he goes in the Ron deal as well.
And Ron is a victim, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by able
So what he missed one pass to Runi? The next time down the court he hit Runi running across the lane for a jumpshot
Did I say that anywhere ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Harmonica
Is it pertinent to the post?
Is it of interest in this post ?
Has it got anything to do with basketball?
Have you gone of your rocker?
You spent an inordinate amount of time and energy defending a guy who singlehandedly wrecked this franchise, but you call Jackson a pestilence?Quote:
Originally Posted by able
No, this wasn't just a missed pass opportunity. This is a case of ball movement (or lack thereof), Sjax having nothing, and Saras calling for the ball to keep the offense going (not just thinking he had a shot).Quote:
Originally Posted by Jermaniac
Meanwhile, Sjax holds and dribbles the ball with absolutely nothing available to him and the shot clock ticking away.
It was clear Sjax had nothing so get the ball moving and keep the defense moving. Don't let them hone in on anything.
You want to see players stop cutting? What Sjax did is the recipe. You want to see players thinking twice before making a pass to Sjax? There's your recipe. You want to see chemistry issues develop and coaching questioned? There's your recipe.
Does Carlisle have control of this team or not? I realize I am focusing on one possession of a game but it was SO blatant that it needs to be focused on.
Again, this isn't a case of just missing a pass. This is a case of -refusing- to make a (necessary) pass. I'm not ready to declare he did it because he has something against Saras (tho I'm open-minded to the possibility). It could be simple me-ism (trying to put an I in "team"). But whether it's pettiness or is a sign of his basketball IQ, it is the kind of thing that can't be allowed to exist on a team. If the coach can't stop it, then management needs to fix it... whatever that takes...
Did Jay say he wanted to trade all 15 players? That's harsh.... 10 or 11 might do it :cry:
Jackson just isn't a smart bb player its that simple. He is talented though
and when he gets his touch it doesn't matter if its forced or not.
The first half of his season with the Hawks sucked and then
he got comfortable and was amazing. I'll still give him a year, i mean look
at what people put up with RON.
Thats what shooters/slashers do and i am not defending him i justQuote:
Originally Posted by Bball
think you say to yourself when he makes the shot, "wow" and when he
doesn't "you idiot." Its not smart but guys with talent and confidence
do it alot in the NBA.