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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Dear Karen,
This unit on HIV has been the most interesting and most disturbing
unit for me thus far. As of 2003, more than 65 million people were
infected with HIV worldwide and of those more than 25 million were in
sub-Saharan Africa alone. This is totally unacceptable. We know how
HIV infects cells. We know how to prevent the spread of HIV. What we
are lacking in is a global effort to stop the spread of this disease.
Since new infections have gone down in the U.S., I think there is a
sense of complacency that the epidemic is under control here and that it
is not a top priority anymore. With the war in Iraq and other issues
like global warming all over the news, we are forgetting that more than
8,000 people die each day from AIDS. I think we need to pressure our
government, particularly on a national level to do more to educate and
provide resources to developing countries, particularly in Africa.
There are simple behavior modifications that could easily be undertaken
and that would turn the tide against this disease. If Africans, the
women in particular, are empowered to protect their health and the
health of their children, then they will be better able to deal with
political issues, build infrastructure, and strengthen the economy
because health care issues will not be such a problem.
Simple steps such as the distribution of condoms and microbicidal
jellies and education about abstinence and not having multiple sex
partners would go al ong way in preventing the spread of HIV. Even just
getting groups like the Peace Corps safely into many of the countries
and allowing the volunteers to teach safe and healthy practices would do
a lot of good. The United States as a global leader should do more to
enhance this initiative. If we are concerned about the freedom and
democracy of all people across the globe, then we must first consider
their health. Freedom will do nothing for them if they are not around
to enjoy it.
In addition, I do not think that it is ethical to do clinical
trials on people in developing countries unless they are highly educated
as to the potential risks and benefits. For example, it does not seem
right that a person with HIV could be in a placebo group and receive no
treatment to prevent the onset of illness unless that person is
completely aware that he/she may receive no real drugs and end up dying
as a result. Even one life is a high price to pay for the advancement
of medical research. What do you think?
What is your opinion on the matter?
Mary Johnston
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Parents Lip Sync "Frozen" Song Perfectly; Daughter Remains Unimpressed
If your life involves kids in any way, then you've probably had the "Frozen" soundtrack on constant repeat in the car, at home, on the computer, and even in your head. (Is "Let It Go" actually playing out loud right now, or does it just exist on permanent loop in your brain? You may never know.) These parents used all those repeated listens of the song "Love Is An Open Door" to memorize every syllable of it, and filmed a video of themselves absolutely nailing a dramatic lip sync while driving around with their kids. The best part, though, is their daughter in the backseat, who is thoroughly unimpressed by her parents' antics. She literally yawns throughout the entire performance, which, as you'll realize when you hit play, is quite a feat. [YouTube]


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The investigation is ongoing into the Wednesday night car wreck that injured six teenagers.
Traffic detectives do not plan to release any information unless charges are filed or the medical condition of any of the teens changes drastically, said Deputy Courtney Rodriguez, spokeswoman for the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
The six were injured in a single-car rollover crash east of Tucson.
Alcohol or drugs are believed to have been a factor in the wreck that occurred about 10:50 p.m. in the 13000 block of East Success Drive, where officials say the driver lost control and the car slid off the road. The road is near Interstate 10 and East Colossal Cave Road.
The teens had had been at a high school graduation ceremony in the Vail school district earlier in the evening, according to a Sheriff's Department news release.
The most critically injured teen was airlifted to University of Arizona Medical Center. The others — who had injuries listed as minor to serious — were taken to the hospital by ambulance.


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The trend toward consolidation of TV station ownership effectively stalled in 2004 due to regulatory confusion and the effect of campaign politics.
The Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the publicly owned airwaves, did little to proceed with its attempt to rewrite ownership rules. In addition to its being a campaign year, the FCC was stopped by court battles, Congressional politics and the possibility that a change in administration would lead to a new approach to media policy.
With the uncertainty, most TV companies proved unwilling to purchase new stations. In all, less money was spent on buying TV stations in 2003 and 2004 than in any other year since 1992.
1996 to 2004
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Source: Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook
The pattern of television station ownership in recent years originated in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a Clinton-era law that removed a number of limits on station ownership, allowing companies to buy more stations in more parts of the country than ever before. For example, it raised the cap on the reach of a company from stations covering 25% of U.S. households to stations covering 35% of the country. It also relaxed rules on common ownership of radio and television stations.1 Between 1995 and 2003, ten of the largest TV-station owners went from owning 104 stations with $5.9 billion in revenue to owning 299 stations with $11.8 billion in revenue.
The Telecommunications Act required the FCC to review the ownership limits every two years and determine whether any rules needed to be modified.2 In June 2003, FCC Chairman Michael Powell released a new set of rules that would have dramatically loosened limits on station ownership and allowed even more consolidation.
The proposed rules focused on three areas. The first was the ownership cap, which Powell proposed raising from 35% of the country's households to 45%. (Two companies– Viacom and Fox– already had waivers allowing them to exceed the cap.) The second area was ownership of multiple TV stations in a single market, known as "duopoly" ownership. While this was permitted in the largest markets, the Powell proposals would have allowed duopolies in all but the smallest markets. The third area of regulation, cross-ownership, would have relaxed rules forbidding companies from owning a TV station and a newspaper in the same market.
Many members of Congress balked at the FCC's proposals, and a vocal minority suggested they would exercise their authority to prevent the FCC from putting the regulations into effect. The Bush administration, however, won passage of a law in early 2004 fixing the TV ownership cap at 39% as a matter of law rather than a regulation, taking that issue out of the FCC's hands. The new cap put Viacom and Fox back under the limit.
Meanwhile, the Prometheus Radio Project, an organization of low-power radio activists, had challenged the proposed rule changes involving duopolies and cross ownership. In November 2003 a federal appeals court blocked the rules while it considered the case, and in June 2004 the court tossed out the new rules on cross-ownership and duopolies entirely, declaring that the FCC had not justified the reasoning behind them.3
During those proceedings there were relatively few station sales. In 2003, the total value of TV stations that changed hands amounted to $500 million, according to data from the trade magazine Broadcasting & Cable. The figure for 2004 was roughly $700 million.
By comparison, in the six years immediately after the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the total value of TV stations sold each year was never less than $2 billion.4
Through 2004, the FCC gave few hints about how it would deal with its rebuke from the federal court, and the climate of uncertainty continued. That may have been partly because it was a campaign year, when control of the FCC hung in the balance. (By law, the FCC's five commissioners include three from the president's party and two from the opposite party.)
The issue of media ownership might have been ignored during the presidential campaign except for a late controversy involving Sinclair Broadcast Group. In October, it became known that Sinclair's corporate management intended to air "Stolen Honor," a documentary about former Vietnam prisoners of war that was sharply critical of the Democratic candidate, John Kerry. The program was to be on all Sinclair stations, including outlets in critical swing-state media markets such as St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and Columbus, Ohio.5 The film was produced by Carlton Sherwood, a former print journalist turned documentarian who once worked for Bush cabinet member Tom Ridge.
One of the largest groups in the country by number of stations owned, and reaching more than a quarter of U.S. homes, the Sinclair group had also been one of the most aggressive companies when it came to exploiting the post-1996 media ownership regulations. Indeed, Sinclair, headquartered outside Baltimore, even used the courts to try to dismantle the remaining rules. In April 2002 it won a ruling from a federal appeals court ordering the FCC to either rationalize its ban on duopolies in certain markets or eliminate its regulations.6 In the face of the controversy surrounding the FCC's proposed ownership rules, Powell would argue that he had no choice but to deregulate in the face of the Sinclair ruling and similar court decisions.7
Many suspected partisanship in Sinclair's plans to run "Stolen Honor." The company had previously blocked the showing on its ABC affiliates of a "Nightline" tribute to soldiers killed in Iraq, and political donations by company executives significantly favored Republicans over Democrats. The company also required its stations to air commentaries by Mark Hyman, a Sinclair executive who was a blunt, talk-radio-style critic of the Democratic party and an advocate of conservative positions and the GOP. Finally, Sinclair was also highly likely to benefit from the ownership rules revision approved by the FCC's three Bush-appointed commissioners.
Kerry supporters responded with fury to the plan to show "Stolen Honor," and perhaps for the first time, a TV station group faced a boycott aimed at its local stations. Reports came from Madison, Wisconsin; Portland, Maine, and other cities that citizens were calling local merchants, restaurants, and auto dealers and threatening to withhold their patronage unless the businesses stopped advertising on Sinclair stations.8 Most ominously, perhaps, Burger King – one of the 50 largest advertisers in the country – announced that it would be pulling its ads from all Sinclair stations on the night scheduled for the "Stolen Honor" broadcast. Sinclair's stock slid downward (having already lost more than half its value over the course of the previous year) and institutional investors expressed displeasure. As the financial group Legg Mason put it, "Is this good for investors in terms of increasing the odds for favorable deregulation? We think not."9
Sinclair retreated, modifying its plans for airing "Stolen Honor" and broadcasting a program about the documentary's allegations instead.
Activists have vowed to challenge Sinclair's station licenses as they come up for renewal before the FCC. That seems more likely to generate publicity than regulatory sanction. Still, the controversy may indicate that any FCC move to further relax ownership rules would encounter passions that could have political fallout. And the reaction of investment companies to Sinclair's plans shows that the financial community also sees risks in a company whose strategy appears overtly partisan.
The company may have overplayed its hand. Chairman Powell's attempt to change the media ownership rules ran into trouble partly because the FCC held only a single public hearing, in Richmond, Virginia, and the plans foundered in 2003 as they became more public. Polls showed that as citizens learned more, they were less supportive.10 The Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident generated roughly half a million complaints to the FCC; the agency's attempts to change media ownership rules generated even more public comments-700,000 all told, almost all of them opposing the FCC's proposals.11 Against this background, Sinclair's attempt to air a partisan documentary may have backfired by calling attention to the company and its anti-regulatory activities.
The issue may also fade from view. And a sympathetic, perhaps even grateful Bush administration, with a stronger party majority in Congress, may find ways to deregulate in a second term that it could not before.
In 2004, though, there was also concern about ownership and deregulation in the advertising community. An October survey by the industry publication MediaPost of media planners – the professionals who are in charge of actually purchasing commercials on local TV stations – showed that some members were keeping an eye on the presidential election for its potential impact on FCC regulation and their business interests. One respondent's support for John Kerry was based in part on the prospect that a Democratic administration might stop further consolidation, and on the belief that "TV broadcasting moguls… end up raising advertising prices and generally stifling the advertising industry." Another wrote: "As media companies are allowed continually to get large, negotiation is becoming more and more difficult."12
In the end, abandoning Powell's regulatory fight the week after he announced his resignation, the Bush administration decided in January 2005 not to go to the Supreme Court to fight for the FCC's proposed rule changes.13
In anticipation of further deregulation, companies including Tribune, Gannett, and Media General had acquired newspapers in markets where they also owned TV stations. Now the long-term fate of those acquisitions is in limbo. The FCC has the power to block the transfer of a TV station license, but has no authority over newspaper ownership. This has led to ambiguity about what it can do when a newspaper purchase leads to a violation of cross-ownership rules.
The FCC does have the power to order these companies to divest themselves or lose their broadcasting licenses when they come up for renewal.14 This could cause the stations to lose a good deal of money – Tribune has made approximately $1.2 billion from its cross-owned stations; Gannett $250 million; and Media General $108 million.
In South Carolina, the license of Media General's cross-owned station, WBTW, expired in December 2004, but the station is allowed to continue operating pending FCC action on an appeal challenging the renewal of the license. FCC watchers predict the FCC may not resolve the situation until fall 2005 at the earliest, and similar delays are likely as other cross-owned stations come up for license renewal in 2005 and later.
If the FCC actually threatened to rescind a station's waiver, it appears the owner would be allowed to decide whether to sell the newspaper or the station. In 2000, the FCC initially offered that choice to Tribune when it acquired the Hartford Courant (while already owning the Hartford station WTIC). But the agency has not followed through on its order that Tribune divest itself.15
As for the final framework of ownership rules, Powell himself predicted in late 2004 that it would take a long time before rules acceptable to all parties could be developed.16 His replacement as FCC chair could be one of the other current Republican commissioners, Kevin Martin or Kathryn Abernathy.17 Both supported his attempts to amend the rules in 2003. Since the FCC must now redo its ownership rules process in order to comply with the Philadelphia court ruling, the next round of proposed changes may be more limited than Powell's first proposals. But under another Republican chair, the general trend toward deregulation is likely to continue.
The largest transaction of 2004, announced a month after the election, seemed to reflect some such expectation, since it involved Viacom's purchasing the Sacramento station KOVR from Sinclair for $285 million, thereby creating yet another duopoly.18
1. "U.S. Policy: Telecommunications Act of 1996," Encyclopedia of Television. On line: http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/U/htmlU/uspolicyt/uspolicyt.htm
2. See Alicia Mundy, "Put the blame on Peggy, boys," Cable World, June 30, 2003. Online: http://www.broadband-pbimedia.com/cgi/cw/show_mag.cgi?pub=cw&mon=063003&file=put_blame_peggy.inc.
3. For example, the court noted that by the FCC's logic a community college station in the New York suburbs would have been considered equal in media impact to the local ABC affiliate, and more significant than The New York Times. See Stephen Labaton, "Court orders F.C.C. to rethink new rules on growth of media," The New York Times, June 25, 2004.
4. Data gathered from Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook and back issues of Broadcasting & Cable.
5. Elizabeth Jensen, "Conservative TV group to air anti-Kerry film," Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2004.
6. Pamela McClintock, "Court: FCC duopoly reg is too strict," Variety, April 2, 2002.
7. Brett Pulley, "Commander of the airwaves," Forbes, April 29, 2002.
8. See "Local Fox advertisers under fire over anti-Kerry program," Wisconsin State Journal, October 20, 2004, and Bill Carter, "Anti-Kerry film reaps storm for broadcaster," The New York Times, October 19, 2004.
9. Bruce V. Bigelow, "Backlash hits Sinclair on disputed 'news event.'" San Diego Union-Tribune, October 20, 2004.
10. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, "Strong opposition to media cross-ownership emerges," July 13, 2003. Online: http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=188
11. Number of Super Bowl-related complaints: see "CBS protests Janet Jackson fine," Associated Press, November 8, 2004. Number of ownership regulation complaints: see Robert Morlino, "Sinclair flap proves exception," Center for Public Integrity, October 28, 2004.
12. Joe Mandese, "Kerry beats Bush… among planners, buyers." MediaPost, October 29, 2004. On line: http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_News.cfm?newsID=276049&Search=kerry%20beats%20bush&FuseAction=Article&Pn=1
13. Stephen Labaton, "U.S. backs off relaxing rules for big media," The New York Times, January 28, 2005.
14. Bill McConnell, "Playing for keeps," Broadcasting & Cable, August 9, 2004.
15. See Jeremy Mellman, "Tribune frets over Bush media move," Chicago Business, January 27, 2005; and Harlan Levy, "Courant parent could face antitrust lawsuit," The Journal-Inquirer (Manchester, Conn.), May 7, 2003.
16. Jeremy Pelofsky, "FCC's Powell sees long road ahead for media rules," Reuters, December 2, 2004.
17. Al Senia, "The Powell play," America's Network, September 1, 2004. On line: http://www.americasnetwork.com/americasnetwork/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=117973
18. J. Freedom du Lac, "Viacom move puts local TV folks on edge," Sacramento Bee, December 7, 2004.


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In New York in 1995 Dr. Richard Jacks is a creator of perfumes. Thus he spends his days inventing new colorful and well smelling potions and certainly caring for his girlfriend Sarah Carver. But when he discovers that his great-grandfather, called Dr. Jekyll, was a scientist with revolutionary discoveries, he tries to follow the footsteps of his ancestor and creates more and more delicate potions until one of them converts him into a spectacular superwoman: Helen Hyde. Knowing that Richard has n
As the opening credits role on this woeful concoction you might just discern a strained creaking noise. Its not the seat, nor even the plank-like acting, but the sound of Robert Louis Stevenson shifting in the grave as his classic horror story gets mauled in the name of comedy.
Bequeathed a bunch of medical journals in his great grandfathers will, Dr. Richard Jacks (Daly) marries Victorian theory with 90s technology a computerised DNA sequencer and employs the overblown chemistry set in his perfume lab to knock up a test tube of dubiously coloured liquid. Naturally, he downs it in one.
Thereafter, and usually at the most inopportune moment, Jack finds himself sprouting nails, hair, and in dire need of a garment by Otto Titzling as he transforms into alter ego Helen Hyde (Young). And as Helen attempts to take complete control of their body, Jack winds up in increasingly compromised positions.
Gender-bending and transvestism have been a comedy faithful in Tinseltown since Curtis and Lemmon first smudged lipstick, but theres surely a limit to how many times a bloke in a dress is funny. Daly suffers in vain for his art, fighting a futile battle against sluggish directing and a lacklustre script, and Young is just charmless. Even the impressive metamorphosis special effects and the best efforts of Harvey Fierstein and Stephen Tobolowsky as the gay perfume company head and Jacks nerdy boss fail to stave off the tedium.
If you must see Stevensons schizophrenic masterpiece run by way a cross dressing giggle then opt for 1972s Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde, when Ralph Bates and Martine Beswick had a lot more fun. As will you.
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Can someone make sure this is really something that qualifies as a "fire release"? Don't have the game myself so cannot verify but I find it hard to believe any fire caused by it would count. Sorry if this inquiry is inappropriate. Darth Frayd (talk) 14:46, April 10, 2013 (UTC)
- The image answers your question. Kakashi copies Guy's Dynamic Entry and channels his lightning chakra through his kick. --126.96.36.199 (talk) 14:57, April 10, 2013 (UTC)
- --Lightning causes fire all the time in nature. In this series, fire release means chakra converted to fire chakra, not having been caused by the lightning chakra. If it is caused by Guy's technique, that would still not count as "fire release". Were there is smoke, there may be fire but were there is fire, there is not always fire release. Sorry again, but this kinda bothers me. Darth Frayd (talk) 04:14, April 11, 2013 (UTC)


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The return of the decadent bar is long overdue, writes Bonnie Malkin.
It wasn't so long ago that Australians didn't care what they sat on in a bar, as long as they had a cold beer in hand and could see the pie warmer. Change being inevitable, however, that easygoing era came to an end in the mid-1990s with a wave of generic pub refits. Enter chrome fittings, pine furniture and painful fluoro lighting.
We've been sipping Slippery Nipples and boutique beers in noisy, lookalike rooms on some of the most uncomfortable chairs in history ever since.
"We call it toilet architecture; it's an acoustic nightmare," says Jill Jones-Evans, one third of the consortium which owns Darlinghurst's colonial throwback-style bar, The Victoria Room.
"You've got sounds bouncing off every surface and you can't even hear the person next to you speak.
"These places might look good, but they're badly thought out, they don't work and it's time to go the other way."
Jones-Evans should know. The Victoria Room's decor bids farewell to minimalism and welcomes back the glorious decadence of the British Empire.
"We call it colonial chic in the British Raj style; it's India meets England," she says.
The Victoria Room is part of a quiet revolution, in which increasing numbers of bar owners are saying no to polished wooden floorboards and purple pool tables, and opting for warmer, more distinctive interiors.
"We wanted to create somewhere we would like to go, somewhere that's conducive to conversation, so the soft furnishings and moody lighting take all that into consideration," Jones-Evans says.
The Victoria Room, opened in November 2003, is owned by Jones-Evans, her husband, Ashley, and his brother, Lindsay. All three partners have a background in film set design and Lindsay is the Jones behind jones the grocer.
This expertise has resulted in the kind of bar you could imagine Evelyn Waugh retiring to for a gin and tonic. It's artfully cluttered with dark wooden benches, soft cushions and clever nods at imperialism.
It might look cobbled together, but it isn't. Every piece of furniture has been hand-picked, the temperature is controlled down to the last degree and even the music volume is strictly monitored.
"It does crank up a little into the night, but we try to keep it in the background so you don't have to shout to be heard," Jones-Evans says.
The attention to detail pays off.
"People stay longer because they are comfortable, and it's very easy to be here; once you're sitting and you're comfortable, there's no reason to move."
It takes a lot of hard work to create a bar that encourages laziness. "We are constantly refining, relocating and collecting things. We work on the room all the time, so it looks different every day.
"It's worth it, you don't want to rest on your laurels, you want to keep changing because it's a fickle crowd out there."
Another bar bucking the chrome and fluoro trend is Bondi's mod-Asian hang-out, Mu Shu.
Chef Dean Keddell and Dreamtime Australia Design's Michael McCann are behind the bar's Kill Bill-esque fit-out, which includes red and black walls, day beds, a roaring fire, a bamboo garden and Peking ducks hanging in the open kitchen.
For Keddell, the most important thing about Mu Shu's decor was that it should ooze individuality.
"It is unique; there is no point reproducing something that has already been done. It might be risky going out and doing something different, but it seems to be working."
The interior also had to complement the changing bar menu, which can include dishes such as steamed oysters with garlic, ginger, spring onions, soy and shao hsing, to carry through the Asian theme.
"My food is very fresh and light and we wanted the decor to reflect that."
The idea is to kick back and enjoy, and to ensure Mu Shu impresses, no part of its interior has been left to chance.
"It's been very well thought out," Keddell says, "it's not just a mishmash, there are so many people that try to do modern Asian and get it wrong."
A far cry from the gin palaces of colonial India and the tearooms of Asia, the age-old drinking dens of Europe provided the inspiration for Moogbar, a recent addition to Bourke Street's booze strip.
"About 15 years ago, my wife and I were in Rotterdam - the bar culture there was hundreds of years old and full of little intimate local bars," says owner Simon Page, who designed Moogbar with his wife, Susanah.
"That's what we wanted to do, something quite highly designed, but at the same time incredibly warm."
The result of that European inspiration is a bar that looks like one of Stanley Kubrick's film sets, with plastic chairs, low-slung, black vinyl lounger and lipstick-red lacquered walls.
Space Furniture tables, with stainless steel tiles on top, and plump, velvet cushions add to the effect.
Moogbar's centrepiece is its bar top, all $27,000 worth of it. "It is covered in tiger's eye, the semiprecious stone that symbolises wealth and prosperity," Page says. For that price, you'd hope so.
However, you don't have to spend thousands of dollars to make a bar unique, as the night manager of the Labor Club's Bar 464 on Bourke Street, Chris Stokes, is well aware.
The bar's interior is a mixture of vinyl chairs and salvaged fabric sofas, sourced mainly from auctions and second-hand shops. The furniture stamps its personality on the place.
"It's unique, because everyone else goes for the brand new stuff, and we wanted to step away from that and get back to basics," he says.
"All of our customers do the op-shop rounds and are quite creative people, so the chrome and all that doesn't blend in with who they are."
The majority of Bar 464's regulars are students and people who work in the creative industries. Art students, in particular, have had an impact on the bar's character.
"We wanted an environment that artists could come and display their art in for free; it's hard for young artists to find places to show their work."
The artworks change every month. "With the rotating display, people like to come in and interact with the art, and it changes the mood of the place and gets rid of the VB crowd.
"It also keeps the place vibrant because when the art changes, we change the music and the lighting, and the place looks completely different."
The inspiration behind Bar 464's tattered but trendy decor came from Melbourne. Looser licensing laws mean it has been known for people to open bars in their living rooms.
"It's got a laid-back atmosphere, so you can pull a table over, sit down and have a chat with your mates," Stokes says.
"It's a place to get away from the mainstream."
And the reaction from customers?
"Most people say, 'Wow, it's so much like Melbourne', and then they sit down and talk about how comfy the chairs are, and then the guys come to the bar and comment on how cheap the beers are."
Worth a look ...
Regis Room
Level 1, 71 Beach Road, Bondi, 9130 1622
Looks and feels like a Swedish chalet circa 1960. The kind of place that would make Austin Powers say, "Yeah baby, yeah."
The Loft Bar
3 Lime Street, King Street Wharf, 9299 4770
Looks like a rich Moroccan's house. The sort of place Liz and Richard would have hung out in during one of their epic binges.
Icebergs Dining Room & Bar
1 Notts Avenue, Bondi Beach, 9365 9000
Looks like an Arabian prince's tent on the edge of the desert's biggest oasis or the ocean.
The Dugout Bar
2 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, 9331 3066
Looks like an old toilet, but doesn't smell like one.
Uber Bar
111 Liverpool Street, city, 9264 9188
Looks like a bar made to look like a large, ageing warehouse.
The Heritage Belgian Beer Cafe
135 Harrington Street,
The Rocks, 9241 1775
Looks like an old Catholic school complete with high ceilings, big windows and lots of young men with sinful things on their minds.
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this is AWESOME!!!
we need to get jazz and funk back to nightclubs by 2020. We also need to redefine jazz as a "dancefloor genre" rather than a smooth genre that isn't pumping for the dancefloor.
I agree with reviving jazz and funk
However, I think they're both fine as it is
There are many different types of jazz and funk, some smooth, others...funky
Any genre with a rhythm can be a "dancefloor genre"
I may have a clue to what you're talking about however, if you mean fusing jazz and funk with dance
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I love it
I think this is a great song goes along very well with the title.
Yup yup, best when half asleep/awake!
Thanks a bunch :]
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I've been cruisin through your tracks lookin for that one that i couldn't stop bobbin my head to and i found it. Great work on all of em by the way.
Dream Snooping seems to be a favorite of the album compared to its sibling
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lol @ the guy below
lol sweet beats though. +1 download. B]
Hey sometimes music has had quite a seductive history amongst humans
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Style of the song
It was so relaxing and at one point it seemed like the beat was playful which made it even more nice to listen to. It actually seems like you could listen to this for every holiday lol but either way nice job.
Yeah I did play with the beat I guess
I had built it off of the bass which is modeled after old WB cartoons
Fused with a bit of hip-hop, that's what I ended up with
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Every year, the members of the Coon Rapids VFW Ladies' Auxiliary have collected hats, mittens and scarfs for the children at the Anoka County Head Start Center in Coon Rapids.
"We would like to do a little more and so have started a collection of gently-used coats, jackets, boots, socks, hats, mittens and scarfs – ages three to six – for the little ones at Head Start," said Mary Kaye Kath, past president.
"Many of these children do not have the proper warm clothes needed for our cold winters."
People able to help out are asked to call Kath to arrange for a drop-off or pick up between now and Oct. 10.
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It's your final chance to have a say on the Council's 2014/15 Draft Annual Plan.
The deadline for public submissions on the draft plan is 5pm on Tuesday 22 April 2014 and 219 submissions have been received so far.
The draft plan is essentially the Council's equivalent of a household budget. It outlines everything the Council will do over the next year, how much it costs and where the money will come from.
The Major Cycleways network, changes to Recreation and Sport Centre hours and a proposal to complete a planned extension to the tramway system have attracted the most submissions to date.
Council Finance Committee Chairman Raf Manji says the Draft Annual Plan touches the lives of everyone in Christchurch, so it's important residents take this opportunity to have a say on the future of the city.
"The Council is being prudent with its spending and wants to make small cuts to a range of non-essential services.
"Balancing the books presents some real
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Carnival Glory - Western Caribbean: Carnival Glory Cruise Review by Patinthehat
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Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Port Canaveral (Orlando)
Once we arrived at the very clean and tidy port, we were blown away by the size of this mother ship!!! It is Absolutely Huge!!! Wow. Then, if you are Canadian (rock on!!!) or just not American, you will need to go through one extra line, but that's okay. The lines were very organised, slightly long, but fairly quick. After you receive your Sail and Sign Cards (these cards are absolutely incredibly useful), you will proceed to a short "Photo shoot", and you will get a friendly "Welcome to the Carnival Glory", and there you go. This is your home for the next week.
Here we go, everyone's favourite part of the cruise: the food!!! From casual dining rooms, to a 24 hour pizzeria. From sushi to a chocolate buffet. From formal, dress up dining to a poolside grille. From a mini dessert bakery to fish and chips. And even a midnight buffet. The food on the Carnival Glory will keep you talkin' for months and years. For 5 nights during the cruise, you More will have the option (take this option!!) to eat in an upscale restaurant, all food included with your ticket (everything is included except for a few speciality eating spots, like the supper club). Did you order something that, after you thought about it, you don't want it any more? No problem. Just order another! At the 24 hour Pizzeria, located on the Lido deck, you can get delicious, Italian style pizza, literally any time you want it. 6:00 am, Noon, 3:30 pm, Dinner, 10:00 pm, 3:30 am!!! Whenever. There is a Sushi bar on the ship, where you can get any kind of sushi you want, with as much Soy Sauce and Wasabi as you want. During one afternoon on the cruise, you will get to enjoy the delicious Chocolate Buffet, for all those chocolate lovers out there. It is sooooooooooooo good!!! Chocolate cake, chocolate cheesecake, chocolate fudge, chocolate ice cream with chocolate toppings, chocolate bark, and sugar covered nuts. Is your mouth watering yet? Get ready. It's better in person.
During two nights on the cruise, there is a formal night, so bring your good dress shirt, pants, and suit. This takes place in the same restaurants (Golden and Platinum) as the casual dinners. The food on the Formal nights is extremely exquisite. On the Lido deck, near the back pool, there is a Poolside grille. They serve great burgers, hot dogs, chili dogs, fries, and curly fries. It is great for a home style lunch. On the 10th deck, there is a great little Fish and Chips restaurant. We ate lunch there 5 out of the 7 days. It is so delicious, I recommend it to everybody. Here's a fun little thing: a midnight buffet! Every night (obviously at midnight), they serve a great variety of foods, and desserts.
There were PLENTY of bars to roam around in, and lots of lounges, too. If I were you, I'd take the first day to scan each floor, and go into EVERY room. It is really fun to do this, since there are so many of them. Check out the library, the WHOLE Lido deck, the spa, the gym, and the bars (P.S. Go to the "Club Crimson", it is very eerie and funky!). By the third or fourth day, you'll be walking around the ship comfortably. The pools are salt water, by the way, and the slide is very fun!
The entertainment on the ship was absolutely incredible! The comedian was hilarious. The Amber Palace is magnificent, and it is huge! The bingo is played in there, and the prizes are great. The shows, after dinner, are very entertaining, and lots of fun, too. Make sure that you go to all the shows you possibly can go to! You won't regret it. Also, remember to go to the fun game shows, because they all have audience participation. By the way, don't miss the match game, or the Newlywed game! Another thing you can't miss is the Hairy Chest contest, it's very funny! Always consult your Carnival Capers letter every night for times, and info!
We had an inside cabin, which was great. It wasn't too small, yet is was very cozy. The bathroom was cool, too, with a shower, a VERY LOUD toilet, sink and hair dryer. There was a TV near the beds, with access to movies, and NBC, ABC, and CBS. Don't hesitate to get an inside cabin, they are still very, very satisfying.
The gymnasium in the spa is excellent. There are daily, and hourly spinning classes, aerobic classes, and pilates classes. The equipment was very good quality, and there was every machine you can imagine. Treadmills, Eliptical trainers, weights, and several other machines.
KEY WEST: We went on the Catamaran/snorkeling adventure, which was very fun. We went out on a catamaran sail boat, and go snorkeling at the reef. I had never snorkeled before, so it was very fun. BELIZE: We went on the Cave Tubing experience, which I highly recommend. The tour guide was very nice, and knowledgeable. The country is great, and it is my favourite destination. Once you arrive, you get a tube, a headband with a caver's light, and a life jacket. You then walk for about 45 minutes in a HOT, HUMID rainforest! It's a great experience. After all that sweating, you finally drop into a cool river with your tube, and proceed into the cave. It is very dark, so the lights are essential. Once you are far enough into the cave, the tour guide tells you to turn out your lights, for the darkest experience ever, I guarantee it. Then, you float out of the cave to a faster current, and finally, you get up and take the very short walk back to the bus. COZUMEL: We went to the beach for this excursion, which was great. There were little shops everywhere, a bar with swinging chairs, and a very fun shallow beach. The taxi ride to and from the beach made me very nervous, since the man drove very fast, about 135 KM/H. It was very scary. PROGRESSO: We went to Dch--- something (I don't remember the name, it was very weird), which was fun and educational. The place was a part of the Mayan Ruins, which was evident, since there were structures, buildings, and gazebos type things everywhere. It was very, very, very hot! Luckily, we got to swim in a natural pond afterwords.
The children's programs were fun, but not very well organized. The events often did not take place. When they did, they were fun, though.
Very simple: go on this SHIP!!!!!! It was absolutely the best vacation ever, and you will talk about it forever...
P.S. I'm a 13 year old kid from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this cruise took place during the week of August 16 to August 23, 2003. Less
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The University System of New Hampshire (USNH) Board of Trustees named Dr. Edward MacKay chancellor-elect during their fall meeting today. MacKay, USNH vice chancellor and treasurer, will succeed Dr Stephen Reno, the current chancellor who announced this past summer that he is stepping down as of June 30, 2009. With his three decades of leadership in higher education and a national reputation in public higher education finance and management, MacKay's appointment was approved unanimously.
"As the Board considered succession plans in light of the impending retirement of Chancellor Reno, it became clear that Ed MacKay's expertise and experience made him an excellent candidate," said Edward Dupont, chair of the USNH Board of Trustees. "His financial management skills are top notch and he is highly respected for his work and sound advice. The skill sets he brings to the position, the economic challenges that face higher education, and the fact that he has worked very effectively and creatively with our Board and our campuses for many years will create a smooth transition in leadership at USNH."
Dr. MacKay has served as treasurer since 2000, vice chancellor since 1987, and in senior capacities in budgeting and financial planning with USNH since 1979. He holds a bachelor's degree from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, masters from Lehigh University, and doctorate from Vanderbilt University. He has served on many prominent state and national boards and currently serves as chair of the commission responsible for creation and oversight of the State of New Hampshire UNIQUE College Investing ("529") Program. Other recent activities include Chair from 2006 to 2008 of the New Hampshire Higher Education Loan Corporation, the state's largest provider of student loans, and as a member in 2007 of the commission appointed to recommend changes to ensure the long term viability of the New Hampshire Retirement System. He is a resident of Durham, New Hampshire.
"I am deeply appreciative of the confidence and trust the Board has placed in me, and pledge to honor it through a continuing commitment to provide New Hampshire families with affordable access to programs of quality," said MacKay. "We have produced accomplished people, places and programs by being innovative and embracing an entrepreneurial spirit. As we move forward in working to achieve our mission, we must maximize the use of resources, be nimble and responsive to changing needs for programs and services, and renew efforts to ensure qualified students are able to attend and become successful graduates. Our decision making will be shaped by and measured against these core values."
Chancellor Reno has served in this capacity since August 2000 and as of June 2009, will be the longest serving chancellor at the University System. He commended the Board for the decision to appoint Dr. MacKay as his successor. "Ed has accomplished much during his tenure with USNH and was a natural choice to lead the University System into the next decade," he said. "The Board has chosen very wisely by making this direct appointment."
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WASHINGTON, March 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Air Force Under Secretary Eric Fanning and Corporation for Public Broadcasting CEO Patricia Harrison will deliver opening keynotes on May 8 and 9 at the annual National Summit on Strategic Communications, which attracts some of the sharpest minds in the communications profession to Washington DC each spring.
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Japan Fashion Week (JFW), now in its seventh season, has never put much emphasis on menswear. This year, it appeared merely as an afterthought.
A paltry selection seems at odds with the fact that the Japanese menswear market and number of top-quality domestic labels is huge. The enormous success of Shinjuku's Isetan Men's and the Hankyu Mens department store in Osaka, which opened earlier this year and contains a great section of homegrown talent in addition to international labels, is testament to the obsessive interest in men's clothing in Japan.
It's never going to happen, but the creation of a separate menswear event (including both JFW men's collections and the numerous off-schedule shows) would be a winner for the domestic fashion market. Modeled on something like the legendary trade fair Pitti Uomo in Florence or the Milan and Paris men's collections, it could be an event run by fashion experts for fashion lovers. It would be great to see Tokyo organizing something like Pitti, which is unfailingly a few undiluted days of the best menswear on offer anywhere in the world.
But let's move on to the handful of quality men's collections in JFW. Anyone who has followed our fashion week coverage over the past few years will know that Eri Utsugi's mercibeaucoup has a taste for all things twee and theatrical. The latest collection, with a typical explosion of colors, patterns and influences, didn't disappoint her die-hard followers.
It's been quite a year for Noda. Fashion bible WWD Japan crowned him, on its front cover as "Prince" of the Fall/Winter collections, and his first store has opened in the youth mecca of Harajuku. Last season's collection was a perfect showcase of his talents, displaying as it did superb tailoring in a somber palette of grays and blacks that were a world away from the derivative feel of his first label, the now defunct Iliad. This season seemed slightly weaker, with no real use of color, variation or energy, but there were some great relaxed two-button jackets. Added to these were crisp white shirts and a cool street-style look that was one of the main features in the European shows. The original line-pattern tops and cardigans were fine, but nothing really stood out. However, Noda needn't fret, as he has all the makings of a really promising designer and, in time, looks set to ascend from prince to king.


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Despite a comfortable win over Sunderland to push them into fifth place in the Premiership ahead of Aston Villa, and already guaranteed spot in the Europa League next season and an FA Cup final against Chelsea looming, Moyes is looking for greater effort from his players.
"We have got to go up again," he said. "We have got to be slicker, we need to be crisper than we were, and we need to be sharper.
"But it's a time of the season when there is a lot of tiredness. We have all been at it probably since the start of July now, and we are into May and we are all flagging.
"It's tough for the players at this time, but the good teams - that's why I admire all the managers and the teams who keep doing it because they have got to be fresh and good for this time of the year.
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Along the streets of Boston this season, I haven't seen so much as a precocious crocus to assure me this winter, too, shall pass. But at the Arnold Arboretum, at least one variety of pussy willow (Salix gracilistyla) has already sprouted fuzzy catkins to shine in the winter sun. Just as encouragingly, the Arboretum's Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall has an exhibition called Summer in Winter: Paintings by Anthony Apesos which runs until March 6.
Apesos, a professor of painting and art history at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, has at least two immediately apparent and laudable talents: the ability to create visual art that evokes a visceral reaction, and the ability to articulate essential aspects of the creative process for the edification of others. Because of the latter, former students who benefited from his tutelage years ago (including Ben Cohan, the artist/woodworker who framed the pieces in this exhibition) are eager to rave about the experience.
Landscapes aren't what Apesos is best known for. He calls the human figure his "primary vehicle of expression" and his book on this subject, Anatomy for Artists: A New Approach to Discovering, Learning and Remembering the Body, is justly well-received. But living on the Arborway, he was eventually (and perhaps inevitably) drawn into the Arnold Arboretum's particular spell and now includes it in his subject matter.
The end result is landscape paintings that don't masquerade as idealized visions of untouched wilderness. His trees often show scars where arboricultural stewardship demanded the cutting away of damaged branches. His bucolic scenes are sometimes transected by the manmade paths where Arboretum visitors stroll. Even when it's not obvious, these are still human-made scenes with woody species that are co-endemic nowhere in nature.
Apesos embraces these elements to make human experience the emotional core of these landscapes, even when no human figure is depicted. Wordlessly, yet with an eloquent candor, we're told that the artist was neither the first nor the last to lovingly appreciate the scenes depicted. They're no ones personal secret discovery; these are the beautiful or interesting Arnold Arboretum scenes we've been emoting about for generations. Each painting is anchored to a specific site and simple titles such as "Towards Center Street Gate" hint at this.
At least as importantly, his painted trees are as exactly rooted in time as they are in space. During the creative process, Apesos paints from photos as well as sketches. Return to one of these spots thirty minutes later, and the movement of light would have changed its character. Return a year later, and the adding and subtracting of specific branches or herbaceous undergrowth will have certainly marked time's passing. Our collective experience of these landscapes informs the palpably specific experience of the artist, but the two aren't confused.
As for that light, Apesos uses it to startle and excite our perceptions. In many of these landscapes, it's the light of the summer sun for sure–a fearless light that cuts like a hot blade through leafy canopies and seems ready to incinerate the unsheltered. By igniting what it illuminates, it plunges other areas into near-darkness by comparison. While effective management of these contrasts can be a photographer's nightmare, Apesos' deft painterly treatment of them is, in this observer's eye, the most interesting and emotion-provoking aspect of his landscape work.
Like many successful artists, Apesos is firstly an observer. He says "I care about the time of day, the kind of weather, the geology, and the plant life that I depict. For me a landscape painting is not merely a record of a visual impression, but is a response to what is really there."
A keen interest in what he calls "botanical specificity" led Apesos to create a herbarium of preserved plant specimens to share and discuss with his daughter. When he expresses it on canvas, this same attention to plant morphology gives savvy viewers the opportunity not only to identify specific varieties depicted, but specific specimens with which they're familiar. "It pleases me when people try to identify the plants in my paintings," he says. These plant specimens might originate from all corners of the world, but now they share a space in Boston. "For me," says Apesos, "the sense of space is essential."
"I appreciate the Arboretum for its sense of variety," he describes, "not only the range that is here, but how it represents the range of nature in general. Many of the artists whom I admire the most seem to have a desire to embody the macrocosm within their work. This ambition has led me to paint the variety that we see in the Arboretum because that variety there, through the work over generations of its landscape designers and arborists, has as various a landscape within the smallest perimeter one can imagine at our latitude."Among those artists Apesos names as influences is John Constable, a painter for whom no natural scene was so beautiful that it wasn't enhanced by the presence of a church or cottage in harmony with its surroundings. Samuel Palmer, another English Romantic painter, is also high on Apesos' list. The influence of William Blake, the mystic visionary often considered at least half-mad, might be most apparent in Apesos' representations of the human figure, but Apesos reminded me that it was Blake who opined "Where man is not, nature is barren."
Blake's interest in the mystical worlds of consciousness seems to resonate in Apesos' reflections on art. According to Apesos, "Paintings exist to create new spaces for the viewer's imagination to enter. The miracle of painting that it is both a flat surface and a three-dimensional illusion at the same time. It is this paradoxical quality, this simultaneity of opposites, that makes painting miraculous and justifies its existence."
Although Anthony Apesos has been painting the Arboretum since he moved to Jamaica Plain in the early 1990s, all the summery paintings currently on display were produced by his quick hands in just the last two years. Another exhibition of his Arboretum work–this time focusing on winter scenes–is in the planning stage but no dates have been set.
Thursday, February 25, from 6:30pm–8:00pm, Apesos will be at the Arboretum to talk about his work. Seize the opportunity if you're in this neck of the woods.


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The average girl goes to 11 stores and tries 13 dresses before making a decision.
Proms were not always the lavish events tha they have become but this picture from the fifties shows the evolution to today's over the top events is at least a half century old.
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With the Sydney Film Festival launching this week, it's an ideal time for music buffs to enjoy some great documentaries screening in Sydney.
First choice has got to be Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster , which apparently gives an incredible insight into the workings of the world's biggest heavy metal band over two years (including an array of personal dramas).
Otherwise there's some great choices on offer, whatever music you're into. A documentary titled End Of The Century: The Story Of The Ramones provides an all-encompassing history of the New York punk rockers. Hip-hop fans might be more inclined to watch Tupac Resurrection , a film made after Shakur's death, which explores his life story using excerpts of his music.
Fans of American composer Cole Porter should enjoy the film De-lovely , a portrait of Porter's musical career that stars Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd (with cameos by musicians including Robbie Williams and Sheryl Crow ).
Another program highlight is The Ennio Morricone Experience , a live performance event that features soundtrack music written by the Italian composer including the score for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. Performances begin at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday, June 24.
For full details about screening times, see http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org .
Venues include Dendy Opera Quays at Circular Quay and the State Theatre in Market Street. Tickets can be bought through the festival office on 9280 0611 or Ticketek.
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The European Central Bank remains seriously out of step with other key central banks in the industrial world despite recently announced coordinated efforts to increase short-term liquidity in the banking system. The United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom all have cut interest rates recently. But the ECB holds firm against cutting; indeed, after the Governing Council's December meeting, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet said that some members were in favor of raising rates.
Who are they kidding? Everyone knows that the ECB cannot raise interest rates now, and for some time to come. In the midst of the most serious financial crisis in recent memory, the ECB has resorted to an unconvincing bluff, because it has an inflationary expectations problem.
Past policy missteps are responsible for the ECB's present predicament.
The first misstep was the ECB's delay in tightening monetary policy, long after it had become obvious that interest rates had been held too low (at 2%) for too long (from June 2003 to December 2005). The ECB's hawks, understanding the dangers of abnormally low interest rates for a central bank whose primary objective is price stability, had been eager to start raising rates earlier. But the leadership was too timid.


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This summer, House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) proposed a six-year, $230 billion bill that would slash funding by more than 30 percent. Mica's stated the emphasis should be on long-term certainty for state transportation departments rather than a series of short-term extensions. However, many supporters say a clean extension would make sense given that neither version of a long-term extension has had a markup in either chamber. ARA supports a congressional effort to pass a long term highway bill, which would help eliminate the uncertainty currently affecting the transportation sector.
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Now that that very issue is coming before the law lords, Steyn finds himself excluded from the nine-judge panel that will hear the case. Reluctantly, I think that is right, and Steyn himself appears to agree.
Especially since Lord Hoffmann's failure to declare an interest in the General Pinochet case, top judges are extremely sensitive to allegations of not being impartial and open-minded. Steyn's remarks in the lecture were unequivocal, and on the very point that now has to be decided; he could not possibly be seen as open-minded. Therefore he has to go.
The result is first, that one of our very best judges will not be involved in ruling on one of the most important constitutional and human rights issues of recent times. Second, his absence could well affect the result of the case. Looking at the make-up and previous records of the law lords, it is possible that the result will be reached by a narrow majority. With Steyn absent, it is quite possible that what would have been a 5-4 majority against the home secretary would become 5-4 in his favour. So our draconian anti-terrorist laws, a crucial element in the government's anti-terror strategy, could be saved because of a few sentences uttered by a judge two-and-a-half years ago.
There is a particular irony here. Steyn himself is a strong supporter of law lords not participating in the legislative activities of the House of Lords and has taken the personal decision not to speak in debates. One of the main reasons for opposing the involvement of law lords is precisely that they may express an opinion which will subsequently be the subject of a case before them. It is ironic that, of all judges, it is Lord Steyn who should be the victim of that principle, albeit for his views in a lecture rather than a parliamentary speech. The effect which the Steyn affair will have on other judges (not only law lords) is another matter. They regard invitations to deliver lectures, usually to legal societies, as one of the few platforms available to them to express their opinions unlinked to cases before them. I hope that what has happened to Lord Steyn does not scare them off.
· Over the past 40 years, successive editions of Anthony Sampson's Anatomy of Britain have traced the changing structures of power and influence that make this country tick. His latest, just out (published by John Murray), is subtitled Who runs this place? There is no easy answer, of course, but lawyers and judges obviously come into the jigsaw.
Forty years ago, Sampson quotes Lord Falconer telling him, their political power was huge. If they were opposed to something, it wouldn't happen. Now, their internal power has diminished. Lawyers are only one group whose views have to be weighed; their role in decision-making is not what it used to be.
I am not convinced. True, lawyers used to dominate the House of Commons; now, they are not just fewer but far more lightweight. You could also argue that the dismissive, almost insulting way in which ministers such as David Blunkett treat lawyers and judges is evidence of their waning influence. Yet Tony Blair's cabinet (like Mrs Thatcher's) is lawyer-heavy; many of the prime minister's closest advisers and trusties are lawyers and the House of Lords has a disproportionately influential legal membership. The judges have, on the whole, been winning their recent battles against government ministers and measures that offend against the rule of law. It is still judges to whom the government turns when controversial events of national importance need to be analysed - Lord Hutton's inquiry is one of many examples. And lawyers still abound chairing and running all sorts of organisations that are a significant part of our national anatomy.
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I am sure I am not the only one who is ruled by my emotions. This is good when they drive me forward through taking positive action.
It is terrible when I feel depressed and always look at life as glass half empty. This then drives me in a spiral of negativity.
Emotional mastery is so important. By this I mean for me to accept the way I feel but to control myself over not getting too negative. This is not easy!
It is worse when day after day I take actions in the hope those actions would lead to somewhere and for whatever reason life for what it is just does not want to give you what you desire most.
I think both for personal growth and also to achieve my business aspirations emotional mastery is vital. How do i achieve this?
I think emotional mastery can be achieving by accepting the way I am feeling. Then to say to myself things are the way they are, what can I do to make it go my way? In other words changing my highly negative world has come to an end mind set. By just not allowing my mind to wonder off allowing it to start the process of self pity and taking actions that makes the situation far worse.
It is so easy to talk about mastering emotions but it s very difficult to achieve this.


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Beth Broderick, Lauren Lane and Jaston Williams Star in VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE at ZACH Theatre, Now thru 6/22
ZACH Theatre presents the Austin premiere of Christopher Durang's Tony Award-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Three phenomenal artists who have individually led hit shows at ZACH Theatre, and elsewhere around the nation, will share the same stage for the first time tonight, May 28th through June 22nd at The Topfer Theatre. ZACH's production stars Beth Broderick - of ZACH Theatre's 33 Variations, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and NBC's Under the Dome; Lauren Lane - of ZACH Theatre's God of Carnage, August: Osage County and the hit TV series The Nanny; and Jaston Williams - of ZACH Theatre's TRU, Our Town and the popular Greater Tuna series.
"I'm delighted that the stars and schedules aligned in order for us to get Jaston, Lauren and Beth together on the same stage. These are three of the most gifted comedic actors I know, and together they will create an unforgettable, hilarious evening in Christopher Durang's smart and snappy comedy. My experience working with each of these extraordinary actors is how endlessly inventive they are in rehearsal. This is definitely the must-see event of the spring." says Dave Steakley, ZACH Theatre's Producing Artistic Director.
Tickets, starting at $25, are available on-line at www.zachtheatre.org, by phone at 512-476-0541 ext. 1, or in person at the ZACH Theatre Box Office, in the Topfer Theatre, 202 South Lamar Blvd. (corner of Riverside Drive and South Lamar Blvd.) Monday through Saturday noon - 8 pm. ZACH Theatre is wheelchair accessible. Discounts are available for groups of 8 or more. Student Rush Tickets are $18 one hour before show time (with valid ID). ZACH's full bar opens 90 minutes prior to show time and remains open for one hour post-show. Performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30 pm, and Sunday at 2:30 pm.
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Jade Empire: Special Edition
Review by Mister_T
"It's no KotOR, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable"
When I first picked up Jade Empire, I was expecting something more along the lines of Knights of the Old Republic. Instead, I was met with something that, while very similar in terms of how your actions effect what forces you can wield and how you are perceived in the world, is overall very different. This time around, instead of the story being set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the plot revolves around the Jade Empire, a place very similar to ancient China, only inhabited by exceptional martial artists (of which your character is the most exceptional, of course), ghosts of the dearly departed that now bother the living, and demons, among other things. Ah, but I ramble, on to more important things, namely, the review.
To start things out, you must choose a character. Unlike in KotOR, you have only a limited amount of choices in terms of how your character looks. There is only one way for your character to look, depending on which discipline and gender you choose. Also, make sure that you like the clothes that your character is wearing, as you won't be able to change them at all during any part of the game.
Once you choose your character, it's time to start the game. You start out in a little town, called Two Rivers, on the outskirts of the Jade Empire with a martial arts school led by one Master Li as its means of protection. Of course, as the leading student of the school, you are tasked with the town's protection should the need arise, and in typical RPG fashion, it does. Indeed, what happens after is all too typical in RPGs, and while you are out on business of some sort or another (without revealing too much), your town happens to get razed to the ground (shocking!). Master Li is taken, and you vow vengeance.
In other RPGs, as you roam around the world, you happen upon different weapons that are stronger than your last weapon or you find different upgrades for it. While you may also find different weapons in Jade Empire, the main things that you will find are different martial arts styles. These are upgradeable when your levels increase, but you will not be able to upgrade them all, as you will gain around eight different types simply by completing the main quest, and you have only a limited number of upgrades available. Besides upgrading your martial arts styles, you also upgrade your health, chi (magic), and focus each time you level up. For each level, you are given three points to level these up, so you must choose wisely.
Of course, what is an RPG without random items, right? Wrong. In Jade Empire, the only items that you will receive besides quest items and the occasional random item are jewels that you use to upgrade your abilities. While these are good to have, it would also be nice to have the occasional health or chi item. However, it is very easy to regain health simply by switching to the style that allows you to regain health by hurting your opponents, and should you need more chi, the same formula applies, as there is a different style that allows you to regain your chi.
Speaking of martial arts styles, switching styles during battle is as easy as pressing the corresponding numerical key on your keyboard. As is the case in many RPGs you get to map the styles to whichever button you want as well, so you can have your favorite style ready at a moment's notice. Combat mostly consists of your character changing to a given demon style (once you gain them) and beating your opponent into submission. Even when in demon form, however, combat feels a little wonky and probably could have used a little more tweaking, but it's good enough that you'll get used to it after about an hour or so. You are hard pressed to get anywhere near death (except when you up the ante by choosing a harder difficulty) and yet the game stays just hard enough and the length seems to be just about right in order to keep your interest for the duration (go ahead and think about it).
Overall the game is good enough to warrant a purchase and a second or third play through, but how does that differ from any other Bioware RPG thus far? I haven't happened upon one that I haven't at least kept me engrossed for one go-around. So what are you waiting for? Don't go out to your favorite retailer and ask for this game, because they probably don't have it anymore. What you'll probably have to go online and to find this game at this point, but that shouldn't stop you from trying.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
Originally Posted: 04/07/08
Game Release: Jade Empire: Special Edition (US, 02/26/07)
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