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i'm so so sorry...my heart is breaking for them
Pam, I cannot even imagine what you are all feeling, I am devastated. Our brave little warrior will now share herself with Heaven and Earth.
It's hard to know just what to say,
When one so young is taken away.
Far too soon she had to part,
Her memory forever engraved in our heart.
We only knew her for a short while,
But the life she led made us smile.
She was so beautiful and oh so rare,
Life as they say just isn't fair.
Those gone before her will watch her with care,
Till the day comes when we'll all join her there.
Know Lauren is watching from heaven above,
And with each ray of sunshine, she's sending her love.
I also didn't know if I should post.
Pam, Gio, and family...please know my thoughts and prayers are with you. I have no words. Lauren was a sweet soul who touched us all, as did you Pam with your unwavering support of others even when going through all of this with your dear Lauren.
I'm so very very sorry Pam. I'm sitting here numb right now and words fail me. You know that we are here for you Pam and my thoughts are with you and your family right now.
Hi, Pam
Nothing can express my sorrow to the loss of your daughter .
I am truly sorry, sometimes God's will is difficult to understand and accept but always has His purpose.
May His grace be with you and give you comfort and relief.
God bless,
I was shocked to read on FB what transpired. My most sincere condolences and prayers at this most unfortunate time. God bless you and your family Pam...
Pam, my heart breaks for you and your family. May you find strength in this time of grief.
Rest In Peace, Lauren.
Pam, my heart aches for you and your family. May God be with you and your family to help guide yous through this difficult time.
You are a wonderful mother and was always there for Lauren 24/7. Lauren couldn't of asked for a better mother.
You and your family are in my deepest thoughts and prayers. Sending tons of hugs your way.
My heart is also breaking for you and your family. My thoughts and prayers are with you at this difficult time.
I am so sorry for the devastating loss of dear, courageous Lauren. May God comfort you and your family as he holds Lauren in the palm of his hand.
Love Willow
Dear Pam,
I can't express how sorry I am for your family.
You are an incredibile person helping so many people in addition to your wonderful daugther.
I know that you will find the strength to pass this incredibily difficult time from your beautiful family.
All my thoughts,
Pam, I am so very, very sorry for you and family for your tremendous loss. May Lauren rest in peace.
Oh my, what a sad thing to read on coming on here today. I have been following Pam's posts and am so sorry to hear that Lauren has passed. She was a beautiful, loving person and my heart goes out to all of her family and friends.
Dearest Pam,
There is nothing I can say that will make this right or better. I am so saddened to hear the news that Your beautiful Lauren has died. You and your family are all very much in my thoughts.
With much love,
Dear Pam,
I am so sorry for the loss of Lauren. The entire time I have been following the posts on here she as been a shining light. Through your posts I feel as if I am a part of your family. Her courage and determination as well as your tremendous support and fight for her are encouraging for us involved in the fight. Praying for you and your family to find comfort in the days ahead.
Dearest Pam: Lauren's legacy will live forever, on this site and in the hearts of many. She made a difference and taught us about courage in the face of adversity. Our hearts are broken and I wish with all my heart that Lauren's example of strengths and determination ultimately will help guide us find the solution to acceptance.
May love and hope of healing embrace your family in this most difficult time of sorrow and grieve.
Hugs and love,
I'm so sorry to hear of the death of your dear daughter Lauren.
Dearest Pam,
Heaven is a place where one day you will meet again all those who have made your world. There are so many people who have admired and prayed for your darling Lauren and one day she will meet them because she was so special.
God will look after her for you.
My love and thoughts are with you.
Love Sandie
Dear Pam,
I don't even know what to say to you at this time. Lauren did fight and you and the family were fighting right along side her. Please accept my most sincere condolences and know that I will continue to keep you all in my prayers.
Love, Hugs & Peace,
I haven't been here for so long and today, I felt compelled to check the board. There are no words.
I too feel so numb...no words to express how i felt when i saw this news...my deepest and sincerest condolences.
I 'm so sorry to hear of Lauren's passing. She fought this illness with such patience and bravery, I was in awe of her. Your family and her fiancé (whom I know is part of your family as well) were truly amazing throughout this ordeal. You all have my deepest sympathy.
Our hearts are breaking for your family!! Lauren gave this terrible disease everything she had and had a great support system behind her who gave their all as well! Keep your wonderful memories of her close!!! Hugs and prayers
--kami and Julie
I don't know what a person could say that would help one bit with the pain you must be feeling. I have watched Lauren's fight since the beginning as my husband was diagnosed around the same time. To your family and Gio may you one day find peace and accept that you did everything possible to give her the best chance.
Take care
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We are so deeply saddened to hear about Lauren's passing. There are no words. Please accept our deepest sympathy. Please know that our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
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edit From Pee #1
|OK, this is my first ever Pee Review, so I'll try to be good, but you might want somebody else to do it properly for you afterwards. I thought this article was generally pretty funny. It isn't hilarious quality yet, however. Most of the jokes are based on things going off in a different direction to where you think it will go, which works here - I like the Designer Baby Depot joke and the beautician suggesting botox. I also think the Bashful rape joke, especially when you repeat it, is funny. Perhaps more jokes about the dwarfs would be good. Some sections are a bit dry, though. I didn't really laugh at the whole Huntsman scene, until the whole "killing him instantly", which was so abrupt I actually found it quite funny - just like the best bits of Uncyclopedia. I also didn't laugh at the "Smack" dwarf joke. That may just be personal preference, but maybe he could have been called something else, like Womaniser? Or Serial Rapist?
So, in general, fairly funny, but there is room for more jokes, especially at the very end, where it feels a little rushed, and the Handsome Prince idea, though it is funny, could be funnier. Perhaps he buys her and mounts her on his wall? Or instead he kisses her, she wakes up, and then he is arrested for sexual harassment and necrophilia? I don't really know.
|I'm guessing the idea here was simply to write Snow White in an old-fashioned style, but then add modern quirks and an alternate ending. I think thats a pretty decent concept, but if there had been one stronger theme running throughout it might be funnier. Such as, slightly more emphasis on the pale skin thing, because that was left out toward the end. Maybe incorporating that into her ending up very tanned after death because of her stupid glass coffin left out in the sun. Just an idea to make the article seem more connected. Then again, it might be boring.
|Prose and formatting:
|The prose and formatting is generally absolutely fine, I went through just before changing a few capital letters, just typos basically, another proof read and they'll be perfect. I think that the big first letters at the start of each section is a really good idea, to add to the storybook feel. The only thing really wrong is the grey is a bit pale in my opinion (I'm trying to be in depth here! :P)
|You have six or so images here, and they are all decent ones, so that's fine. I especially like the Facebook status caption that goes with the second to last picture. The first image could do with a caption (perhaps something like Her original name, Snow White Blood Red Night Black, was too long to fit on the Depot receipt, so they had to cut some bits out. Luckily, they decided calling a child "Blood Black" was just a bit cruel.) I don't know who the beautician picture is I'm afraid, so either I'm stupid and keep it, or you could change it, but the caption wasn't particularly humourous anyway. Neither was the one that went with the huntsman, unfortunately.
|I just averaged everything else out. Is that right?
|Final Score:
|I think this article could be really funny, and I hope it gets to that stage. I'm not an experienced person here, so you may want someone else's opinion before you go on and make any changes. Good luck, I can see it being nominated at some point in the future!
|Nameable ((talk?)) 17:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
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|I like the direction you're trying to take it in, and I laughed a few times, but right now it still needs work. I think you blend your storytelling too much between the actual fairy tale and stuff you make up as you go. I'd recommend either making a completely made up verison of Snow White, or following a line-by-line parody, making jokes as you go. Should you choose the latter, the article might be better off as an UnBook or even an UnScript, because that might give you more to work with (i'll get into this more in other sections).
|I'm all for making fun of old fairy tales and such, but I was confused as to what your writing style was and how it relates to the fairy tale. For example, Snow White is set in a fictional fantasy land, yet facebook and cars are modern day things. In my opinion, you blur the line between a fantasy and fictional too much, so I think, because you're making a parody, you should make sure to avoid references to more 21st century things (with the possible exception of a link or two, such as your link to Democrat). Another thing you might want to avoid is the repeating of several phrases, such as when you said "but that was stupid" in both of the first two images.
|Prose and formatting:
|Overall, I thought that your Prose and Formatting were good. You've got your images in the right places, and your sections are spaced out nicely. There, are, however, a few problems: first, I think you should spellcheck this; there are a couple of minor spelling errors here and there. Second, you miss the quoations when someone is speaking a few times, so make sure you take care of that. Finally, I think that, as stated in the humor section, some of your text repeats itself. You should probably take out that line "Can we rape her?" - that wasn't really funny, and felt kind of out of place.
|Decent. They don't have any laugh-out-loud moments to the article, but I think they go with the text well. Really, the images are fine; I wouldn't worry about them.
|My overall grade of the article.
|Final Score:
|Basically, you've got a decent article with a lot of potential. To recap, the best the things you can do for your article right now are to make sure you've got it in the right namespace, check over it for spelling errors, and fix any plot holes you might have in your writing. I think could potentially be VFH, so i'm curious as to what you plan to do with it.
Bottom Line: Fix any plotholes, spell check, and watch the kind of language you use in writing it. Good luck! =)
|Saberwolf116 20:57, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
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|Fagarella! How are you? Avg of each section, 7 is an average score:
I'm going to bother to explain why: First of all, you get an 8 automatically for writing an article on freaking "snow white," which every wiki needs an article of. You get a 10 because it's over the average in cleverness. Not much more than that.
|Prose and formatting:
|Here's what I think: "We need to give her a proper burial." So over the next few days... I think anytime you use "so" there should be a break if there's no way to make the two phrases into one sentence. "We need to give her a proper burial!" So, over the next few days,...
As time passed, the dwarfs began to suffer the wrath of the economic downturn, and so they turned Snow White into a piece of art. And they charged ten shillings per viewing. you need commas in there, to give the reader a break. And you used "so" twice, just like that window sill thing. We can't tell if you're being jokingly repetetive or not. The phrase "And they charged ten shillings per viewing" isn't a sentence, it's a dependent clause. You need to merge it with the sentence before. You don't even need the "they" in there, because we know the object of the sentence. I, uh, have a job as a proofreader at my community college.
As the soon to be king of a land further away than this one should be completely hyphened. As the soon-to-be-king-of-a-land-further-away-than-this-one
There were a lot of other quirky parts in there, too. Clean that up and you'd get a 9 or so.
|I liked the repetition of the images at first, but then you lost your guts. It might be funnier to do ALL the images in the style of the first one, or it might lose its funny after a few of them. It's your call, but I say go for it.
Other than that, the images are actually okay as is.
|{{Pee}}, duh
|Final Score:
|One more revision and this could be VFH'd. Actually, technically, it could probably go to VFH right now, but you wouldn't do that, would you? That would make my prose and formatting section sad! And probably some of the more touchy voters, as well!
|• <19:56 Jun 11, 2009>
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The Evil Queen won. Much better ending. --Sockpuppet of Narcissus Black 18:28, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
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Ghesquière, Nicholas
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French fashion designer, was creative director for the house of Balenciaga owned by the Gucci Group (Pinault-Printemps-Redoute).
Raised in the small town of Loudun in western France, Ghesquière announced at the age of 12 that he wanted to be a designer, though he now admits this was partly from an adolescent desire to do something different from his parents and to alleviate country boredom. So that's by the age of 12 that Nicolas was dreamily sketching dress designs in his school books, making dresses out of his mother's curtains and making earrings out of his grandmother's chandelier crystals.
He diligently did internships during his school holidays. At 14, he got an internship with French designer agnès b for which he was paid in clothes. His next apprenticeship was with Corinne Cobson, afterwards he decided that fashion was too hard work and came home to finish his schooling.
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The Gucci Group (PPR) bought Balenciaga in 2001. Ghesquière who wanted to stay and expand Balenciaga could only be bought through the house. "It is a happy relationship," Ghesquière says. "It has worked because they wanted me to explain what I wanted to do with Balenciaga, not the other way around." Ghesquière's collections have had a considerable commercial impact, particularly through his influence on other designers. In November 2012, the PPR group has announced that he was leaving Balanciaga after 15 years of collaboration.
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Dr Napthine had hoped the new portfolio for Mr Ryan would put an end to tensions between Liberals and Nationals.
But Liberal sources have told Fairfax Media there was a belief in Liberal ranks that Mr Ryan should have stepped down as Deputy Premier to create a ''circuit breaker'', with Water Minister Peter Walsh made deputy premier.
Dr Napthine dodged specific questions about why Mr Wells and Mr Ryan were dumped from their posts, other than to say Mr Wells had done a ''good job''.
Mr Wells remains in the cabinet and takes on the high-profile Police and Emergency Services. His demotion from the crucial Treasury portfolio, just eight weeks from the state budget, follows criticism that the government was failing to sell its economic message.
Dr Napthine's 22-person cabinet features five women and five Nationals.
Mr Hodgett, who was Cabinet Secretary, has been elevated to the ministry and takes on the crucial portfolio of Ports and Major Projects. The Baillieu government has been heavily criticised by industry and unions for failing to detail future infrastructure plans.
Ms Victoria steps up from her role as parliamentary secretary for the arts to the role as minister. She also picks up Consumer Affairs and Women's Affairs.
Her appointment to the Women's Affairs role is likely to anger some, after she voted against decriminalising abortion in 2008.
Mary Wooldridge sheds the portfolio but a newly created position of Disability Services and Reform - including work on the NDIS - has been added to her duties.
Mr O'Brien, 41, is the third-youngest member of the cabinet which has an average age of 53, and has strong credentials to manage the government's coffers.
Despite being Premier, Dr Napthine remains Racing Minister and Minister for Regional Cities.
Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews labelled the reshuffle a ''massive slap in the face'' for Mr Ryan, who should have been dumped entirely from the front bench.
With Henrietta Cook
Napthine's cabinet reshuffle
22-person cabinet
5 women in the new cabinet, one more than under Baillieu.
8 ministers from outside Melbourne.
5 Nationals MPs in cabinet
Average age 53
17 ministers are from the lower house and five from the upper house, which means one lower house minister will not actually sit on the frontbench.
Ins: Heidi Victoria
Outs: Ted Baillieu (retired), Richard Dall-Riva


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11:15 a.m. PST
Fifteen minutes to kick off and I have inaugural remorse. My best friend just sent me a photo from her iPhone of the Lincoln Memorial and my accountant emailed me that he just met Garth Brooks. At least I'm warm. It's another 80 degree day in California, but I so wish I were with my friends freezing in D.C.
11:29 a.m.
Finally figured out which HBO would be unscrambled (I don't subscribe). Okay, the rating just came up at PG for the concert. Are they expecting someone to cuss or something?
Beautiful opening spanning the mall from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial with the a color guard playing a piece– I'm pretty sure it's Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man." I'm trying to be true to the spirit of blogging and not look online for any help while I'm doing this. Nice opening to give the concert the gravitas it deserves as opposed to just "Hey Barack! Welcome to D.C. Want a beer?"
11:32 a.m.
They just introduced "The President-Elect of the United States and his wife: Barack and Michelle Obama." The place goes crazy and I'm tearing up. It's a new day. Thank God. Two more days and Bush is history. My heart is pounding
11:34 a.m.
Master Sgt. Caleb Green is singing the National Anthem. His microphone completely doesn't work for the first line. Then he bobbles the word "brave." Still, gotta hand it to him. It looks like there are hundreds of thousands of people there.
11:36 a.m
Denzel Washington is giving an opening address. He seems very, very presidential, but couldn't he have shaved for this? Sheesh… if you're not going to shave and look nice for this, when will you?
11:39 a.m.
BRUCE!!!!! He's solo, alone with his acoustic guitar, but is now backed by a choir in gorgeous red robes (and ear muffs) singing "The Rising." Written after the terrible events of 9/11, in recent years it has taken the tone of a benediction and call to action in his concerts. He sounds good, but he looks really, really cold and is very restrained for anyone who's used to him running around stage.
11:46 a.m.
Just showed Obama nodding along and the little kid, maybe 5 years old, sitting behind him is asleep, her head on her daddy's shoulder. If she's not going to use that seat, I want it! (Note- my sister tells me that the little girl is Obama's niece)
11:47 a.m.
Laura Linney and now some man whom I don't know are playing tribute to Roosevelt and now Kennedy with wonderful archival footage and Kennedy's historic "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask What You Can Do For Your Country." Ah… this gentleman just said "Tomorrow my father's legacy will be celebrated" Going out on a limb here and guessing he's MLK Jr.'s son.
11:49 a.m.
Mary J. Blige singing "Lean On Me." She's dressed all in white and snakeskin boots, looks gorgeous and sounds fantastic. I can't see a band anywhere. I read a few days ago that it's so cold, there was the possibility that they might have to tape the musicians because their fingers would freeze and they wouldn't be able to play. Oh, just saw the teleprompter. Expected it for the actors reading past presidential and other notable speeches, but not necessarily the performers.
11:52 a.m
Oops– Jamie Foxx just had to bust the teleprompter operator to scroll back…. Nice– reading from past speeches and now brought in an Obama part from his Grant Park speech and is doing a pretty good imitation of Obama. First bit of humor injected in the proceedings. This could play either way– disrespectful or fun– It seems like fun to me.
11:55 a.m.
They just chyroned Bettye Lavette. Maybe they knew most people wouldn't recognize her or maybe it wasn't working earlier or I just missed it, but they didn't ID previous performers. But now Jon Bon Jovi has come out and they're duetting on Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come." I knew someone HAD to sing this one. And she's tearing it up and JBJ is definitely holding his own. There are a lot of JBJ haters out there, probably some reading this, but not me. And don't be surprised if we're calling him Sen. Bon Jovi one day. Nice great tight shot of them singing together. Really lovely. Okay, I'm being such a fan girl. I know it.
12 p.m.
Just got a shot of the orchestra (looks like Marine Corps) playing, but still haven't seen the band. Tom Hanks is quoting Lincoln. Has there ever been a president before Obama that so closely aligned himself with a past president before even taking office? I'm not a presidential scholar. If someone knows, I'd love to know but Obama is clearly setting extraordinarily high standards for himself.
Hanks is reading a Lincoln speech about the end of slavery. What a time we live in. What would Lincoln say if he were here to witness this day that wouldn't have happened if he hadn't abolished slavery. Sometimes–especially in light of the passing of Prop 8 here in California–it seems like we're not making any progress at all here when it comes to respecting each other and treating each other with decent civil liberties. But it doesn't feel that way today. God, if I'm this much of a mess today, what am I going to be like on Tuesday for the actual Inauguration?
12:06 p.m.
Marisa Tomei just quoted Reagan. I guess Obama is really trying to unite folks.
12:07 p.m.
James Taylor is singing one of my favorite songs, "Shower the People." He looks cold and not very awake and doesn't sound great, but he's just been joined by John Legend and Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles and they're bringing the energy level up. The ending of this song when Taylor's back up singer Arnold McCullers takes it into the stratosphere has always given me chills– there he goes. Loving it. Taylor is, sadly, a little extraneous on his own song here.
12:12 p.m
VP-Elect Joe Biden is speaking. Probably the last time he'll get the attention of a big audience like this for the next four (possibly eight) years. He better enjoy it. Not much there.
12:14 p.m.
John Mellencamp on acoustic guitar singing "Little Pink Houses" with another guitarist on stage. Obvious choice, but at the same time the song is about how the American dream didn't work out so great for everyone. But I guess the "Ain't That America/Home of the Free " chorus tops any disillusionment that song actually conveys. Another choir and slides of every day folks, factory workers and such. Nice… I wonder if anyone is really going to get to rock out? Go Mellencamp. He's using the front of the Lincoln Memorial like a big old stage. The first artist to cut loose. I'd like to put in a plug for JM here- if you've never seen him in concert, do yourself a favor and go. Gets the biggest cheer of any performer so far and is the first to really seem awake.
12:21 p.m.
Queen Latifah is taking about when Marian Anderson sang from the Lincoln Memorial, at the invitation of Eleanor Roosevelt, after the Daughters of the American Revolution banned her from singing at Constitution Hall since she was black.
12:22 p.m.
Straight from footage of Marion Anderson singing "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" to Josh Groban singing same song, backed by a male chorus and now Heather Headley has joined him. Nice and stately, but a little boring.
12:27 p.m.
Herbie Hancock, Sheryl Crow and will.i.am are performing Bob Marley's "One Love." It's a trainwreck. Don't know what's happening here, but Hancock's keyboards don't seem remotely related to anything else going on. It's getting a little better. Will.i.am is now rapping about how we're fighting terrorists overseas, but we still have terrorists living here in the U.S. . I dare anyone there to light up a joint. The Secret Service would be on them so fast.
12:33 p.m.
U.S. Navel Academy Glee Club with opera singer Renee Fleming performing "You'll Never Walk Alone." this is probably much more what good old Abe is used to looking down at from his lofty perch rather than the likes of Springsteen. She sounds amazing, of course, but I'm blinded by the rock she has on her hand. Nice stills of military families. Man, they are striking every chord here.
12:39 p.m.
Garth Brooks, alone with a guitar, singing "American Pie." Not alone for long. Look! It's another choir! Looks like he's doing a medley based on how Jack Black set up the segment. He looks like he's having a blast and Obama is singing along. Into "Shout"… Paging Otis Day & the Nights (I know it's really by the Isley Bros.) Really cute play between Brooks and one of the girls in the choir on "Just a little bit softer now." Into his "We Shall Be Free." Man, he's got to be cold– only in a jeans jacket–but he looks like he's giving it everything he's got…roaming the stage like Mellencamp did. Great! Perfect tone. My friend just called me from there, but I hear nothing but crowd noise, no singing, no nothing.
12:49 p.m.
Usher singing "Higher Ground" Finally seeing some of the band. Out comes Shakira. Really, I just want to hear Steve Wonder sing it. He's playing keyboards and will clearly come in soon but this is a case where you just need the original. Accept no substitutes.
12:57 p.m.
U2, "Pride in the Name of Love"–had to segue into this after Samuel L. Jackson's immediately previous speech about MLK and the march on Washington. First full band of the day on the steps of the Memorial. Go Edge Go. Good version, not great, but does it even matter? The message comes through loud and clear… loud and clear. Not the greatest performance, but the emotional high point so far for me. Bono's preaching about how it's not just an American Dream, but an Irish Dream, but an Isreali Dream.. and also a Palestinean dream." Don't know how that's going to play today. Maybe he should have left out that part just because it took the eyes off the day.
1:02 p.m.
U2 goes into "City of Blinding Lights," which Obama used on the stump. Bono is completely playing to the cameras right now. That is one really cool guitar the Edge is playing and I know nothing about guitars. Digging Adam Clayton's glittery gold bass too. U2 fans may know this song, but it's the first song that the bulk of the audience is going "What?"
1:06 p.m
Okay, they just brought out a bald eagle. This is a bit much. If the eagle sings "Fly Like an Eagle," I'll be really impressed. No such luck, just spread its wings. Not really sure what the point of that one was. Maybe they needed the time to change over something. Another bald eagle, this one named "Mr. Lincoln." Oh, here comes Obama. Not too tough an act to follow, these two eagles.
1:09 p.m.
"Hello, America." He's basically giving a pep talk about how tough it's going to be, but we will prevail. It's hard not to believe him. I want to believe him. "You proved once more that people who love this country can change it…" Yes….
Okay, who's the poor SOB who has to follow that….
1:17 p.m.
Well, it would be Springsteen, Pete Seeger (and Seeger's grandson) singing Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land." Same choir that Brooks used. My hunch is this is the closer. Seeger's gotta be in his 80s, but God bless him, he doesn't even have on a coat. His grandson is definitely doing more singing than either Seeger or Bruce.
I think they just showed George Lucas in the audience-or someone who looks like him. Nice to start and end it with the Boss, if it is the end.
1:22 p.m.
Clearly that wasn't the end as Beyonce is now out singing "America the Beautiful." Okay, this is the finale, since she's been joined by all the other artists, choirs and color guards. She sounds good, but I would have loved to have heard Mary J. Blige sing it.
Somewhat anticlimatic end as the artists just stand there and there's an announcement for people to stay seated while the President elect and his party exit.
Overall, a really great effort with such a mix and match of patriotism, history (good and bad) and trying to set a glowing tone without being overly jingoistic.
Best performers: Hands-downs Mellencamp and Brooks. And where was Bishop Gene Robinson, the gay Episcopal priest who was supposed to give the invocation? Did that not make the broadcast?
I like how the next eight years look if this is any indication.


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Not since one Saturday afternoon in 2008, when
Fresh from pre-dawn laps of the Imperial Palace in the freezing rain, accompanied by members of Japan's national cycling squad,
Being Sunday morning, it was pretty quiet. Hearts sank when the touring party was handed fluoro vests. The scene was one of the election campaign back home.
The PM, with his own fluoro strip over his suit, posed with the small group of Japanese workers dragged in from home for the event and then started heaving boxes of wine into the back of an empty lorry. After he moved on, the workers took the boxes back out again. Never mind, the pictures were good.
Abbott was at the depot to make a serious point. The depot was owned by Australian firm Toll. It was a success story in terms of it being an example of what Australian businesses could do abroad, even more so if trade barriers were lowered or removed.
The stunt was quickly forgotten in the days ahead when Abbott and
"These have been two very good days for Australia, two very good days for our economy,'' Abbott said in Seoul. He was right. But they were also two very good days for Abbott. The new Prime Minister grew a foot or two while he was away.
When Rudd was tooling up for one last shot at
Disarming ability
Imagine, Rudd posited, Abbott hosting the G20 leaders summit in Brisbane in November 2014, as if Abbott were some dunderplunken incapable of rising to such a occasion.
Abbott will do a fine job at the G20. Like Gillard before him, he is showing that pragmatism and basic personable skills, including his ability to disarm people, go a long way in foreign policy, longer than self-proclaimed foreign policy expertise.
In late 2010, after scraping to form a minority government, Gillard, who had professed to having no real interest in foreign policy, attended five international summits in six weeks. At the final event, the November APEC summit in Japan, she had officials cooing over her prowess with one senior member of the delegation, a foreign policy veteran, going out of his way to laud how quickly she had adapted.
The official observed that the two prime ministers in recent history with the greatest penchant for foreign affairs,
But in general dealings with foreign leaders, Gillard was likened more to
Abbott confided that his approach was motivated by US Vice-President
As opposition leader in 2012, Abbott attended the Australia-US Dialogue in Washington DC. He, along with then foreign minister Rudd, ambassador
All politics is personal
Abbott mentioned the often-quoted aphorism of former US Speaker Tip O'Neill that "all politics is local".
Biden responded by saying: "I'll go one better than that: All politics is personal."
It struck a chord with Abbott and it has shaped the way he approaches political relationships, domestic and foreign. Consequently, there was a real affinity, if not informality, between Abbott and Japanese Prime Minister
When Abbott set an ambition in October 2013 to seal trade deals with China, Japan and South Korea, there was great scepticism, given the glacial pace of negotiations in recent years.
Senior officials on this week's trip observed that while Abbott may have been taking a political risk by setting a deadline, all three sets of discussion badly needed a kick-start. They had languished under Labor, which focused more on multilateral trade deals and its own leadership travails.
Abbott sent two strong messages. He set the 12-month goals and appointed a Liberal, Andrew Robb, not a National, as Trade Minister. "If we had a Nat, nothing would have been signed unless there was a perfect outcome," said one official on the delegation.
Robb, like Abbott, is a pragmatist and knows when to fold his cards. Abbott has the officials cooing as much as they did about Gillard.
Antithesis of Rudd
"Look, Australia will stand up for the rule of law, we will stand up for our people, our values and our interests to the limit of our ability," he said.
"While we shouldn't underestimate our ability, we shouldn't overestimate it either and obviously, we are a substantial power in our region but we are not necessarily a power many, many thousands of miles away."
Abbott also showed this week he had learned another valuable foreign policy lesson. When abroad, keep the domestic stuff at home.
This was a far cry from his first visit overseas, as Prime Minister, to Indonesia last year, when he used official occasions to bucket his predecessors incessantly by apologising for their various sins in a bid to restore the live cattle trade and build some capital for the assault on people smuggling that has so annoyed Jakarta but actually, so far, worked.
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Opposition deputy Julie Bishop continued probing the PM over her involvement with the slush fund, having taken all but one of the Opposition's questions so far in the final sitting week of the year.
Ms Bishop asked the PM if she had written to the WA commissioner for corporate affairs to vouch for the bona fides of the AWU Workplace Reform Association.
Ms Gillard responded saying she had "consistently answered questions about this matter and how I provided advice as a lawyer on the association and no amount of smear changes that simple fact."
Later the PM told the Ms Bishop "Please stop embarassing yourself. It is just getting too painful to watch."
The government stepped up its pressure on the deputy opposition leader over her contact with former union official Ralph Blewitt and allegations she made against the PM on Tuesday.
"I think the issue of the today for the Deputy leader of the Opposition is at what point will she apologise for making an absurd allegation against me yesterday, then denying the making of it and then being forced into an humiliating retreat," the PM said.
Trade minister Craig Emerson said Opposition leader Tony Abbott should ask for Ms Bishop's resignation because she had misled journalists after saying she had only spoken with Mr Blewitt once in a ten minute meeting in Melbourne last week and have never spoken to him on the phone.
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Ms Bishop said Sydney radio host Michael Smith had called her and handed the phone to her.
"That person did not identify themselves and said he was pleased that the AWU fraud was being raised in parliament," Ms Bishop said in her statement.
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Mr Emerson said Ms Bishop had lied "in her eagerness to smear the prime minister of Australia."
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Social Workers Warn That Strike Will Escalate as Standoff With Finance Ministry Persists
Chairman of the Social Workers Union calls on Netanyahu to intervene in the strike, warns social workers will direct their campaign at him.
Thousands of people rallied Sunday outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on the 23nd day of the social workers' strike, protesting the refusal of senior treasury officials to meet with representatives of the Social Workers Union over new demands.
A rally in support of the social workers was also held Sunday night at Tel Aviv University.
Meanwhile, on Sunday night the Finance Ministry appealed to the National Labor Court against the Tel Aviv District Labor Court's rejection of the state's request to issue an injunction against the strike by social workers in government ministries.
The chairman of the Social Workers Union, Itzhak Perry, called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intervene in the strike. He attacked the treasury's decision to negotiate only with the Histadrut labor federation and not with the union. "Those same treasury officials negotiated with us for six months, and now they are trying to delegitimize the Social Workers Union," Perry said.
He warned that the social workers would escalate their campaign and direct it at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from now on. "It cannot be that the prime minister sees we are striking, sees the public's anger, and does not intervene," Perry said.
The Finance Ministry said in its appeal to the National Labor Court that it would not negotiate with the union because it had already reached agreements with the Histadrut labor federation, which represents workers. "Histadrut chairman Ofer Eini had said all along that only he was authorized to reach agreements with the treasury," the ministry's appeal stated.
The Social Workers Union will meet on Monday to formulate its demands from the treasury, which include reducing to two the number of salary increments until the entire 25 percent increase that was agreed on is reached, reducing the additional number of weekly hours the social workers would have to work, and establishing a committee to change the social workers' salary structure.
"We are here and we will continue to come here every week until the Finance Ministry talks to us," Ofra Stein, a social worker from the north, said.
MK Dov Khenin (Hadash ) who took part in the protest at Tel Aviv University, said: "Social workers are fighting today not only for their rights, but for the future of Israeli society. Standing alongside them is a moral obligation for all of us."
The Union of Local Authorities in Israel refused to join the appeal to the National Labor Court, saying that the social workers' strike is justified. Last week, the union rejected the compromise wage agreement worked out between the Histadrut and the Finance Ministry by a vote of 14 to 13.
The offer included a monthly pay raise of NIS 1,100, introduced in four stages over a period of three years, representing a salary increase of 25 percent on average, as well as a one-time NIS 2,000 bonus that is part of the comprehensive wage agreement for all state employees signed in November. In addition, local authorities were supposed to hire a total of 50 additional social workers, and the work week of full-time social workers was to increase from 39 to 40.5 hours.
Social workers employed by nonprofit organizations were to be guaranteed a monthly salary of no less than NIS 6,000. To ensure that state funds allocated to these NGOs for the purposes of raising salaries are not diverted for other purposes, it was agreed that the state would monitor the organizations.
MK Nachman Shai (Kadima ), who came out to speak with protesters at Sunday's rally outside the Finance Ministry, told them his wife and two daughters were social workers and that there was no struggle more just than that of the social workers. "You've been silent for too many years, and you allowed the government to push you onto the edges of public sector pay," he said, adding that the government "doesn't care that there are poor classes and that those who take care of them are poor." His call on the social workers to continue their fight until their demands are met was greeted with cheers.
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The home side threatened early on when Paul Benson's shot clipped the post, with Glen Southam also going close.
But Paul Ince's side took the lead when Dean Lewington's cross was headed home by central defender Drissa Diallo.
Jon Nurse headed onto the bar for the hosts before Dons' Lloyd Dyer blasted a penalty against the post after Jonathan Boardman brought down Colin Cameron.
Dag & Red: Roberts, Okuonghae, Boardman, Uddin, Griffiths, Southam, Huke, Sloma (Green 69), Strevens, Nurse, Benson (Moore 54).Subs Not Used: Thompson, Cook, Tejan-Sie.
Booked: Uddin, Boardman.
Milton Keynes Dons: Gueret, Stirling, Diallo, O'Hanlon, Lewington, Wright (Hadfield 89), Cameron, Navarro, Dyer, Wilbraham (Broughton 46), Johnson (Knight 66).Subs Not Used: Abbey, Gallen.
Booked: Gueret, Lewington, Cameron.
Goals: Diallo 24.
Att: 1,880
Ref: Darren Deadman (Cambridgeshire).
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Report NEP-KNM-2008-04-15This is the archive for NEP-KNM, a report on new working papers in the area of Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy. Emanuele Canegrati issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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The following items were announced in this report:
- Kaiserfeld, Thomas, 2008. "From Royal Academy of Science to Reserach Institute of Society - long term policy convergence of Swedish Knowledge intermediaries," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 121, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.
- Elena Revilla, 2008. "Antecedents and consequences of knowledge integration in product development. An empirical evidence," Working Papers Economia wp08-13, Instituto de Empresa, Area of Economic Environment.
- Elena Revilla, 2008. "Building dynamic capabilities in product development: the role of knowledge management," Working Papers Economia wp08-14, Instituto de Empresa, Area of Economic Environment.
- Elena Revilla, 2008. "Dynamism and complexity as antecedents of the knowledge strategy in product development," Working Papers Economia wp08-15, Instituto de Empresa, Area of Economic Environment.
- Mario Cimoli & Annalisa Primi, 2008. "Technology and intellectual property: a taxonomy of contemporary markets for knowledge and their implications for development," LEM Papers Series 2008/06, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
- Dowrick, Steve & Tani, Massimiliano, 2008. "International Business Visits and the Technology Frontier," IZA Discussion Papers 3417, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
- Rui Leite & Óscar Afonso, 2008. "Effects of Learning-by-doing, technology-adoption costs and wage inequality," FEP Working Papers 272, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.
- Robin P. Cubitt & Robert Sugden, 2008. "Common reasoning in games," Discussion Papers 2008-01, The Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham.
- Alka obadić & Sanja Porić, 2008. "The coordination between education and employment policies," EFZG Working Papers Series 0802, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb.
- Michael Peneder, 2008. "The Problem of Private Under-investment in Innovation: A Policy Mind Map," WIFO Working Papers 313, WIFO.
- Joze P. Damijan & Crt Kostevc & Matija Rojec, 2008. "Innovation and Firms' Productivity Growth in Slovenia: Sensitivity of Results to Sectoral Heterogeneity and to Estimation Method," LICOS Discussion Papers 20308, LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven.
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- Broström, Anders, 2008. "How can we Study Innovation Systems? - introducing an actor-centralised perspective," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 124, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.
- Tiffany Hutcheson, 2008. "Improving Student Skills in Essay Writing and Oral Presentations," Working Paper Series 152, Finance Discipline Group, UTS Business School, University of Technology, Sydney.
- Frank Neffke & Martin Svensson Henning & Ron Boschma & Karl-Johan Lundquist & Lars-Olof Olander, 2008. "Who Needs Agglomeration? Varying Agglomeration Externalities and the Industry Life Cycle," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 0808, Utrecht University, Section of Economic Geography, revised Apr 2008.
- Bart van Ark & Charles R. Hulten, 2007. "Innovation, Intangibles and Economic Growth: Towards A Comprehensive Accounting of the Knowledge Economy," Economics Program Working Papers 07-02, The Conference Board, Economics Program.
- Afeikhena Jerome, 2008. "Privatization and Enterprise Performance in Nigeria: Case Study of Some Privatized Enterprises," Research Papers RP_175, African Economic Research Consortium.


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On these many links you will you can find information that can assist you learn more about our college. Northern helps students reach their educational goals by offering many choices of two -year associate degrees designed to prepare you for transfer to a four-year university or our applied science programs will train you to enter the career of your choice immediately after earning your associate's degree.
Students can select to attend our campuses in Tonkawa, Enid, Stillwater, or take courses online or at the University Center in Ponca City. Our faculty members are highly prepared and excited to engage students in a positive learning environment. Northern seeks to provide access to an affordable quality higher education experience for students desiring to improve their lives through learning. We encourage you to visit our campuses and choose the site that is best suited to your goals and desires.
This year marks NOC's 110th year of providing higher education in Oklahoma. Our institution has a long tradition of excellence and we have thousands of successful graduates who have earned associate's degrees. These individuals started with a firm foundation built at Northern and went on to become community, state, and national leaders, business men and women, professionals, health care providers, media communicators, entertainers, entrepreneurs, scientists, educators, agriculture and energy industry leaders just to name a few. At NOC we believe student and alumni success is our success.
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5 Minutes With A Sleep Guru
Anandi, the Neom Sleep Expert is on the biggest mission with us to help everyone achieve a better night's sleep. This month we caught up with her to find out just what it means to be a sleep therapist.
Amanda : What inspired you to become a sleep guru?
Anandi : The absolute conviction that sleep issues are 90% due to our lifestyle. I was teaching and practicing yoga for many years with a particular interest in the breath and Ayurveda, but when I really got in touch with the healing power of these tools for insomniacs, I wanted to dedicate my life to it.
Amanda : What is Ayurveda?
Anandi : Vitality, energy and the ability to be active in the world. It's an ancient medical practice that goes far beyond the healing perimeters of modern medicine, treating the root cause of a problem (without prescription drugs). Sleep issues are 90% due to our lifestyle
Amanda : What's the most amazing thing about your job?
Anandi : I'm so passionate about helping people with sleep issues because I absolutely know it's possible to do it without prescriptions. I did it myself! I want the world to know we don't need medical drugs, we need time for ourselves, more balance and we need to BREATHE! I want to shout it from the roof tops!
Amanda : And the most challenging thing?
Anandi : Getting people to 'make the decision' to change something in their life and stick to a new routine. Change is hard for everybody, but if you do it, it will change your life forever, not just for one night.
Amanda : What's the common sleep problem you help people with?
Anandi : Many people that I see simply can't breathe. Their breathing is shallow, they run here and there and never take time to reflect or be quiet. The short breath is the result of stress. If I can get a client to work on their breath and make small lifestyle changes, their sleep improves.
Amanda : How can hypnotherapy help with sleep?
Anandi : I use a practice called 'yoga nidra' which takes people into the hypnagogic state - a state where new intentions can be created to change lifestyle. You are beyond relaxed, almost asleep but awake. It's deeply restorative for the mind and body. Practicing Yoga Nidra daily before bed will help unravel the stresses and strains of the day and prepare you for sleep.
Amanda : And yoga?
Anandi : Yoga releases stress from the body, which makes the body tight and affects posture. If you open the body, in particular the thoracic cavity (chamber in the chest), the breath improves enormously. The mind, heart and breath are intimately connected, it is enough to put your attention in your heart and your breath starts to lengthen. Yoga posture helps open physical energy channels, detoxify and re-energise. I could go on for hours about the benefits of yoga in connection with sleep!
Amanda : If you were to choose just one mantra to repeat each day, what would it be?
Anandi : "I am expansive and in the flow of life" (Depression and exhaustion makes you think small, you even become small. By creating a feeling of expansion, it has an amazing way of dissolving stress, releasing energy and relaxing the mind).
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WVU fields consistently stellar defense
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia's defense didn't need extra motivation Saturday against Cincinnati. Two consecutive losses to Big East foes were enough.
Yet, Bearcats leading receiver D.J. Woods gave the Mountaineers that little extra push during WVU's 37-10 win over Cincinnati.
"'When he came out on the field, he said, 'This is my field, this is my house,' " cornerback Keith Tandy said. "That gave a little fire to our defense."
Woods probably regrets that now.
In the game, West Virginia's defense held Cincinnati's powerful offense -- led by quarterback Zach Collaros -- to 281 total yards and five turnovers. It was the first time in Collaros' 12 starts that he has not thrown a touchdown pass. Cincinnati had at least one touchdown pass in 30 straight games before facing WVU.
Heading into the game, Cincinnati's offense was ranked No. 2 in the Big East in scoring offense. Now, it's ranked No. 6.
But, that's nothing new for the Mountaineers. They've had one of the best statistical defenses in the country all season.
"We played against one of the best defenses in the country, and deservedly so," Cincinnati coach Butch Jones said. "They really bring it at you."
WVU is the only team in the nation that hasn't given up more than 21 points in any game this season. WVU has the fourth-best total defense in the country following the win at Cincinnati. It also has the third-best scoring defense. Only TCU, Ohio State and Boise State can claim to have better defenses in those categories.
"I credit not only our players, but our coaches," Stewart said. "To hold people down like we're doing is a real tribute to the players, to the coaches and to the manner in which we play football here."
While the defense has been consistently stingy this season, the Mountaineers' offense has not held its weight at times. In WVU's three losses, the offense averaged fewer than 14 points per game.
When the Mountaineers score more than 20 points, though, West Virginia is 6-0.
That's exactly what the WVU offense did against Cincinnati. It scored four first-half touchdowns and allowed the defense to attack more and force turnovers.
"A big part of our success (Saturday) was causing a few turnovers," defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel said. "There's going to be situations that when those things happen, your success is really going to go through the roof, and that's what happened today."
WVU will look for overall consistency for the first time on the road this season against Louisville this Saturday.
Instead of facing a potent passing offense like it did with Cincinnati, the WVU defense will be up against a strong rushing attack from the Cardinals.
"This is going to be a challenge for us," first-year Louisville coach Charlie Strong said.
Notes: West Virginia sophomore quarterback Geno Smith was named the Big East's Offensive Player of the Week after completing 15 of 25 passes for 174 yards and four TDs against Cincinnati. ... Strong said he is unsure whether starting quarterback Adam Froman would play. If he doesn't play, Justin Burke will start for Louisville.


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DENVER – "Men and nations," the Israeli diplomat Abba Eban once observed, "do behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." Will this be the case for the United States with respect to Syria – the most intractable and dangerous issue in today's Middle East?
Until now, US policy has boiled down to pinprick bombings against Sunni extremists and an effort to train some 5,000 Syrian "moderate oppositionists," who presumably would defeat the other Sunnis, vanquish President Bashar al-Assad's forces, and finally march victoriously into Damascus – perhaps with a flyover by US aircrafts. Thus, the US has continued to do the wrong – or at best inadequate – thing: listening to and, worse, believing those who have been part of the problem.
President Barack Obama is right that the destruction of the Islamic State is a long-term proposition. But, though Obama correctly identified the Islamic State as what the US does not want in the region, he failed to identity what the US does want for Syria – for which America should be galvanizing support in the region and in the broader international community. Just as Iraq cannot be governed by Shia alone, Syria cannot be effectively governed solely by and on behalf of the Sunni majority.
Syria is the proverbial problem from hell, a country whose borders have little to do with the tribal or sectarian identities found in the Levant. Syria's borders, as many have noted, were hurriedly and secretly drawn a century ago by the foreign ministers of France and Britain. Syria will never have a day when someone does not mention this fact, or propose a new set of facts. Even the Islamic State, for which history seems to have ended in the seventh century, has pointed out the colonial legacy of the region's borders.


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Still Movies
de Zoltan Vancso
Acerca del libro
Watch the video: http://vimeo.com/12921769
More photos: http://www.photovancso.com
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The pictures of Zoltán Vancsó should not be written about, thought about, or associated with anything. These photographs are meditative objects. Let us stop and look at them. And let us allow the pictures to look at us. Incessantly, silently, peacefully. Let us not step into the pictures; we would only disturb their silence. Rather, let us allow their photographed quiet and calmness to affect us.
After a while our tormented minds will become tranquil; we will realize that we needn't rush, we needn't act in flourish, think in panic, plan things out, achieve, pursue, fear, or feel anxiety. They create peace within our hearts.
Lao-tse claims that Tao cannot be said with words. But it seems as though it was possible to photograph it. Let us meditate on Zoltán's photos, and we will soon realize that we have found our way home.
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Vancsó Zoltán képeiről nem szabad sem írni, sem gondolni, sem asszociálni semmit.
Ezek a képek meditációs objektumok. Álljunk meg előttük s nézzük őket. S hagyjuk, hogy a képek nézzenek bennünket. Hosszan, némán, nyugodtan. Ne lépjünk a képekbe, mert csak összezavarjuk csendjüket. Inkább hagyjuk, hogy hasson ránk a lefényképezett csendjük és nyugalmuk.
Egy idő után zaklatott elménk megnyugszik; rájövünk, hogy nem kell sietni, nem kell kapkodni, pánikszerűen gondolkodni, fogalmazni, teljesíteni, törekedni, félni, szorongani. Békét teremtenek a szívünkben.
A Tao-t - így szól Lao-ce - nem lehet szavakkal kimondani. Úgy látszik azonban, hogy le lehet fotózni. Meditáljunk Zoltán képein s egy idő után azt tapasztaljuk majd, hogy hazatalálunk.
(Müller Péter)
Características y detalles
- Categoría Fotografía artística
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
120 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación jul. 15, 2009
- Etiquetas street photography, black and white, photography, photo
Acerca del creador
Regarding his professional career, two personalities of a photographer have come to life in him. One tries to reflect reality as clearly and comprehensibly as possible. The other one, in contrast, acts in the opposite way; it takes pleasure in discovering the improbability of reality, and funny enough, it conveys this experience with an objective tool – with photography. His works of art are related to the classic trends of photography. His photos encourage reflection, and they raise innocent and meaningless situations of reality to the heights of extraordinary and mystic dimensions. He has held nearly 40 exhibitions in Budapest, he regularly publishes albums, and his professional and lay audience is constantly expanding. His photo movie Oceans of Sigh – Cuba was shown in Budapest cinemas with great success as a short movie to accompany Wim Wenders' film. He has received several professional rewards. In 2004, he had an exhibition with William Klein in Budapest.
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Paul Treacy I will afford myself the pleasure of adding this book to my collection very soon. A fine achievement.
PestiFeri Zoltán was my teacher in one of phoo scool. He's great photos and his books are most beautifull on the world! I offer it verybody!
Gow Hunter Wow! A selection of wonderful photographs. My favourit three are : table on the balcny : boxer in the shop window : and the gem for me is your front cover image which I would purchase in a nanno second! You certainly get my VOTE!
Joe Geoghegan Photography I see more of Vancso the photographer than Vansco's photographs in this book. This very individual evolving spirit will be a pleasure to witness over the coming years. Well done. All the best for a wonderful future of imagination and imagery. Joe Geoghegan.
Randy Kuhn Following in the tradition of Koudelka, Salgado snd Trent Parke, Vancso's old-school style of B&W photos bridge the gap between fine art and documentary. Some people think that this style of photography has had it's day, but traditions are born of quality, style and a vision, things that Vancso seems to have a firm grip on. Lots of good photography here, some are exceptional. Randy Kuhn www.poptophorror.com


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OAH 2012 Award WinnersHistorians in the News
Below is a list of award winners at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians/National Council on Public History. Full OAH coverage can be found here.
Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award: Ira Berlin
Frederick Jackson Turner Award: David Sehat, Georgia State University. The Myth of American Religious Freedom
Merle Curti Award: Susan J. Pearson, Northwestern University. The Rights of the Defenseless: Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America
James A. Rawley Prize: Cindy Hamovitch, College of William & Mary. No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
Richard W. Leopold Prize: William A. Dobak, U.S. Army Center of Military History (retired). Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1877
Avery O. Craven Award: Nicole Etcheson, Ball State University. A Generation at War: The Civil War Era in a Northern Community
Ellis W. Hawley: Darren Dochuk, Purdue University. From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism
Liberty Legacy Foundation Award: Tomiko Brown-Nagin, University of Virginia. Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
Lawrence W. Levine Award: Michael Willrich, Brandeis University. Pox: An American History
Darlene Clark Hine Award: Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School. Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution
Lerner-Scott Prize: Katherine Turk, University of Chicago. "Equality on Trial: Women and Work in the Age of Title VII"
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award: Hidetaka Hirota, Boston College. "The Moment of Transition: State Officials, the Federal Government, and the Formation of American Immigration Policy." (Scheduled to appear in the March 2013 Journal of American History)
Binkley-Stephenson Award: Kevin J. Mumford, University of Iowa. "The Trouble with Gay Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, 1969-1982
David Thelen Award: Nathalie Caron, Universite Paris-Est Creteil (sic) and Naomi Woulf, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 (sic) "The American Enlightenment: Continuity and Renewal"
Huggins-Quarles Award: Mekala S. Audain, Rutgers University--New Brunswick. "Southern Canaan: U.S. Fugitive Slaves in Mexico and the Expanding American Frontier, 1804-1865"
Tachau Teacher of the Year Award: Robert Good, Ladue Horton Watkins High School (MO).
Erik Barnouw Award:
Chad Freidrichs, Director and Assistant Professor, Digital Filmmaking Department, Stephens College. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History
Linda Hoaglund, Director and Producer, ANPO: Art x War
OAH-JAAS Short-Term Residencies
Scott Laderman, University of Minnesota, Duluth: Ehime University
Danielle L. McGuire, Wayne State University: Yamaguchi University
Germany Residency Program: Bryant Simon, Temple University
OAH/Immigration and Ethnic History Society John Higham Travel Grants
Aaron Bryant, University of Maryland, College Park
Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell, Duke University
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JAMES Beattie admits Accrington Stanley's fortunes at home and away could be in all in the mind.
Stanley's last-gasp 1-0 win at Bristol Rovers on Tuesday means they have now taken nine points from the last possible 12 on their travels.
Their form on their own turf, however, is not so impressive.
The Reds have drawn three and lost one of their previous four matches at the Store First Stadium.
Beattie knows there would be no better time to end their winless run in front of the Stanley faithful than in tomorrow's big Lancashire derby with Morecambe.
But to do that the former England international striker may have to get inside his players' heads.
Reds boss Beattie said: "I keep saying to the players, physically and ability wise there's not much between the teams in this league.
"It's all about how they mentally prepare for the games and that's something I will look at and if we can improve the mental approach to matches at home then I've no doubt what the outcome would be.
"It's something I'll be looking quite closely and intently at.
"Without getting too deep I think the conscious mind is about seven per cent of your brain while your subconscious mind accounts for a hell of a lot more than that.
"It's just little things that need to be tweaked or little things that you can put into a player's mind before they go out or during the week leading up to the game.
"It's a huge part of the game now, no matter what level you're playing at, and I think the lads are responding well to what we're trying to do in that respect."
The victory over Bristol Rovers – secured by Peter Murphy's injury-time strike – was Stanley's second in succession away from home and hauled them up to 17th in the tight League Two standings.
Last-gasp hero Murphy was also the Reds' 90th-minute match-winner in October's reverse clash at Morecambe's Globe Arena.
"I think playing for the club last season stood me in good stead as to which games the fans hold in high regard – and the Morecambe one is right up there with the best of them," said Beattie, whose improving side could move into the top half of the table if they do the double over the Shrimps and results also go their way.
"Our winner at Morecambe earlier in the season sparked chaotic scenes among the away travelling fans.
"We definitely want to get them the win so they can enjoy their weekend."
The Reds have never lost a League Two match to Morecambe – a run of 13 games – and their hopes of maintaining that hoodoo received a boost yesterday when goalkeeper Marcus Bettinelli, 21, extended his loan from Premier League outfit Fulham until the end of the season.
Delighted Beattie said: "We're contributing to Marcus' development and he's contributing a hell of a lot to us by being a fantastic keeper and our last line of defence."
Beattie has not ruled out adding to his ranks before the transfer window closes at 11pm tonight.
But the ex-Everton striker – who revealed he is having to 'stave off' interest in members of his squad from higher up the Football League – is likely to wait until the window for loan signings reopens next month.
Bettinelli said: "There's no other real way to earn experience than by playing week in and week out.
"When you play reserves games and games here and there it's not as tough as playing regularly in the Football League.
"It's a tough league to play in with a lot of good teams – including us, we're one of them.
"I'm really enjoying it and really thriving on it so I was delighted to sign until the end of the season."


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Robert L. FordCorrespondentMassachusetts author Della Grace (George) Kindness attended the Guernsey County Historical Society Museums open house May 31. She wrote a book The Way It Was about her childhood memories growing up in the community of Antrim. She autographed copies of her book for those who attended the open house.That weekend, there was a full schedule of events for the hometown author: On May 29, her old alma mater, Madison High School, hosted its alumni banquet. On Sunday, May 30, she attended services at her childhood church, Antrim United Methodist. She visited her parents final resting place, the community cemetery. That afternoon, she was present at the George family reunion, at her nephew Del Georges residence in Center.Accompanying Della Grace from Massachusetts were her daughter, Sally, and two grandchildren.This correspondent had a nice conversation with Della Grace. We both agreed the way it was will never return and thats why we have historical museums and libraries.