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The book is set in 1983, and Viet Nam vet Jack Lorentz is asked to join a group of 7th Cavalry reenactors. His job is to protect the man playing General Custer, whose life has been threatened. No one knows for sure if it's the Custer character who's been targeted or if it's the guy playing the part. Indian activists are involved, including the beautiful Abigail She Stands in Light, whom Jack finds quite attractive.
The battle of Little Big Horn gets reenacted, all right, but not in the expected way, and General Custer bites the dust. Jack, who didn't protect the General so well, feels obligated to find the killer, although it seems obvious that one of the activists did the deed. Too obvious, naturally, and Jack discovers that there are plenty of others who had reason to want Custer out of the way.
Napier does a masterful job of capturing the spirit of the reenactors and the atmosphere surrounding their encampment. He's studied Custer for years, and his knowledge of Custer and all the others involved in the original battle adds a lot to the story. If you're looking for humor, a good mystery, and lots of snappy patter, grab this book. Great stuff.
Now for a little disclaimer or two. I'm sure that a minor character named "Allen Krider" has nothing to do with anyone we know. Nor does a mention of Alvin, Texas. The big question is, should we forgive the Cap'n a minor baseball error? I say, why not?

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Fun, peppy and unusually frank (but ultimately sweet-natured), British author Burgess's (Smack ; My Life as a Bitch ) novel starts out with an attention-grabbing scene in which the central characters enjoy a hypothetical discussion about having sex with an array of women that includes a bag lady, classmates, teachers and even the Queen. Once the author establishes the central theme without a shade of a doubt, he briskly outlines each boy's circumstances. Gorgeous charmer Dino is about to plunge into an on-and-off-again romance with top girl Jackie; diffident Jonathon must sort out his feelings about plump (but secretly luscious) Deborah, who clearly fancies him; and Ben gradually realizes he must extricate himself from a relationship with his unstable 20-something teacher. Even the most attention-deficient reader will likely be captivated by the adrenaline-pumped narration told from the points of view of the three boys and assorted other characters (including various girls and even a parent) and skitters between the first and third person. The abundant use of British slang—especially for matters sexual—gives the story an exotic, slightly Austin Powers–like charm and, for an American audience at least, somewhat defuses the explicit nature of the material: it's hard to get worked up about a word like "minge" if you haven't grown up with it. Fans of Louise Rennison's Angus, Thongs books will appreciate the male perspective offered here, while readers of both sexes whose hormones have just begun to simmer will welcome (and even be reassured by) a book that so accurately mirrors their new world view. Ages 16-up. (May)
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A/N- So this chapter jumps on in time from the last one. Chapter 28 was set in November but I couldn't think of a way to deal with Christmas without making it too samey or too boring. So I have skipped to January and the court case. I may flashback to Christmas though during the trial. Enjoy.
'Wake up Jeffrey we need to get ready.'
'Just five more minutes.'
'No bloody way Collier I know what you are like. Now shift that gorgeous butt of yours.' Dixie instructed lightly slapping Jeff on the backside as she moved off the bed and out the door.
'You are such a cruel woman Mrs Collier.' Jeff replied rubbing his bottom before getting up.
(Like Dixie, I didn't want the day to start either. We had had an emotional night talking about what could happen and the questions we could be asked. I cradled her in my arms as she cried telling me she didn't think he would get found guilty and the fact that she would have to relive the whole attack. She still thought she wasn't strong enough for that. I promised her I would hold her tight and be there for her every step of the way. We both cried for the twins though - they were innocent in all this. We sat there thinking about them, it was their due date and the court case. How were we going to cope? She woke me up as usual that morning making it clear that she did not want to talk about things and I couldn't blame her. The next few days were going to be tough enough and would test our relationship to the limits.)
Jeff walked into the kitchen taking his place at the table where Dixie had put his breakfast. He watched her move aroumd the kitchen purposefully.
'You look gorgeous Dix.'
'Thank you. You are looking handsome as well.'
'This bloody tie is going to annoy me though.' Jeff replied fidgetting once more with his collar.
'Come here.' Dixie instructed her husband as she re did his tie and straightened his collar for him.
They left the house a little while later driving to the county court. They both stood outside looking up at the building feeling even more nervous than before. They met with their solicitor to go over the formalities before they were left to sit and wait.
Dixie kept her hand locked firmly in Jeff's as she watched various people come and go. Jeff sensed that she was nervous and so placed a light kiss on her forehead.
'It will be OK baby.'
'Will it Jeff? Will it really be OK?' Dixie asked nervously.
'Trust me baby, have I ever lied to you before?'
'I am just scared Jeff really scared.'
Jeff was about to reassure her some more but didn't get the chance as they were called into the courtroom. ( It was really intimidating walking into court having people stare at you as you took your seat. We saw Karl sat with his legal team, I tried to get inbetween him and Dixie but I was not quick enough, she had seen him. I felt her shake but I was determined to protect her. I held onto her as we sat down giving her hand a squeeze before it all started. I knew by the end of the day why I should have told her I was having trouble moving on. If I had I would not have fallen apart and screwed up on the stand. Court wasn't the best place to be unsure of yourself or your feelings.)
'All rise. Court is now in session as we hear the case of Collier versus Fontayne. Please now be seated.'
'Mr Fontayne you have been charged with organising a gang rape of Mrs Kathleen Collier along with two counts of rape again of Mrs Kathleen Collier. You have also been charged with breaking and entering the home of Mr and Mrs Jeffrey Collier and causing actual bodily harm to Mrs Kathleen Collier. How do you plead to these charges?'
'Not guilty.'
'He cannot be serious?' Jeff whispered in Dixies ear as she looked down to the floor biting her lip.
'Counsel you may begin.'
'Thank you Your Honour. I would like to start by calling Mr Jeffrey Collier to the stand.'
Jeff stood up giving Dixie a pat on the leg as he moved to the stand placing his hand on the bible as he was sworn in. He did not take his eyes off Karl the whole time. (I wanted to launch across the court and punch his lights out for pleading not guilty but I would only get into trouble with the courts but more importantly with Dixie. Being held in contempt of court would have been childs play compared to any bollocking from her.)
'Mr Collier could you tell us how you came to know Mr Fontayne?'
'Um yeah. It was a couple of years ago. My wife and I got a shout to the estate, a lad had been beaten up. When we got there Karl was loitering with his mates. Turns out he had been tormenting the lad and his father Joe. He had made their lives hell, even fed the dad dog foeses. Didn't see him after that until after one of our colleagues was killed. He came looking for her, I told him about her and then took him under my wing to help him out. After that I did not see him again until this all kicked off.'
'Thank you Mr Collier. Now can you tell us what happened on March 27th?'
'Its our anniversary. We went off to work together when we got a shout to Miers Lane Woods. I thought it was a hoax but Dixie thought she saw something. We went to have a look and that was when she screamed. I turned to see her being dragged away from me. I couldn't go after her. I was hit a few times by something and knocked out.
'Can I ask the jury to look at exhibit JC 1. This is a copy of Mr Colliers x ray and Doctors report on the injuries he sustained. Mr Collier what happened when you found your wife?'
'I found her sat half naked in the woods. I know I shouldnt have treated her, you are not meant to treat next of kin but I was on my own so had no choice.' (I shuddered as I recounted how I found my precious Dixie. I told them how I found her, the injuries I saw along with how I tried to calm her down in the ED. I had to fight back my own tears again as I recounted the attack in our home and the decison I had to make. I was in the dock for 45 minutes being quizzed by our solicitor but it was nothing compared to what Karls legal team had planned for me.)
'Thank you Mr Collier.' Their solictor turned to the judge 'No further questions.'
'Very well. Mr Collier you will now be questioned by Mr Fontayne's solicitor. May I remind you that you are still under oath and must reply to all questions put to you.'
Jeff nodded as he watched the solicitor stand. Jeff took a deep breath he knew this was going to be tough.
'Mr Collier I would like you to think back to your first encounter with my client. Are you certain about what happened between you?'
'You see Mr Collier you appear to have left out an incident between you and my client involving a can of petrol along with a cigarette lighter.'
'Mr Collier you attacked my client and threatened to set him on fire did you not?'
'No. He was trying to torch Joe's flat.'
'But you did intervene?'
'Yeah I tried to stop him.'
'Did you tell your wife what you did Mr Collier?'
Jeff looked over at Dixie who was sat staring at him. He could see disappointment and anger written clearly over her face. Looking down at the floor, Jeff shook his head.
'Mr Collier is it fair to say that your actions towards my client on that day were the catalyst for the situation we currently find ourselves in?'
'Are you saying this is all my fault?' Jeff asked.
'Yes I am Mr Collier and I think it is time you explained yoyrself.'
(Shit. This really was my fault. I had to now explain everything to the court. All throughout I felt like I saw another piece of my Dixie fade away. However, this was only the beginning - worst was still to come.)


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On this week's episode of Week In VIBE, comedian J Snow brings light to all the whack things that happened in hip-hop this week. There were wedding bells for Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose who finally made it official at the courthouse. 50 Cent got caught up in some head-shaking drama with his son via text, and Kanye took to Twitter to curse the fool who leaked his "Black Skinhead" video.
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LORAIN -- Valor Home Lorain County will move to a building across the street from the St. Joseph Community Center, the location it previously planned as its site.
The veterans home's 21,000-square-foot facility at the corner of 21st Street and Reid Avenue is owned by Mercy Regional Medical Center. Valor Home has extended preliminary offers to tenants to remain in the building.
Those tenants, which include Mercy's infectious disease center and a Lorain County Women, Children and Infants clinic, would provide an additional revenue stream for the organization.
The two-floor facility at 221 W. 21st St. will have a 30-room dormitory on the second floor and office space on the first. The building also has a basement, currently occupied by the Lorain County AIDS Task Force.
The home's executive committee was working to establish a location at St. Joseph Community Center, but ultimately decided to relocate amidst concerns about the financial stability of the center.
The second floor of the new location is connected to St. Joseph Community Center by a walkway, but the entrances will be blocked off for security reasons, according to Dan Gillotti, vice chairman of the Valor Home committee.
Valor Home is a 12-week transitional housing program and resource center aimed at helping homeless veterans. The housing program is run by Family & Community Services Inc.
Despite misconceptions, it will not be an overnight homeless shelter for veterans, Gillotti said.
"It's a complete change of life for many young men that are out there," he said.
The plan is to eventually offer a separate location for female veterans, he said.
At the announcement of the new location, veteran Ray Lee spoke of the importance of such programs. Lee lost his job in 2010 when the Wonder Bread factory he worked at closed.
"From there, things got out of hand," Lee said. "All I wanted to do was drink myself to death because I had no outlook."
In August, Lee went to the Freedom House in Kent to turn his life around and has been sober since.
"I'm a totally different person," he said. "I can't praise it enough."
Mercy has worked hard to make the building available, said Matt Slater, the director of Veteran Services for Family and Community Services.
The asking price for the building was $800,000.
Slater could not say how much exactly will be paid for the building, but he said the total cost is $700,000 for renovations and acquisition, with roughly $400,000 of that planned for renovations.
Sixty-five percent of the total budget is paid for through a federal grant from Department of Veterans Affairs. The remaining share must be raised locally.
"We're very fortunate to have such a forward thinking hospital organization who is dedicated to making sure our veterans are taken care of," he said.
Individuals and organizations can adopt rooms in the facility through donations. A single occupancy bedroom, for example, is $3,000. Many of the larger rooms, such as the kitchen, can be partially adopted, allowing multiple groups to pay for one room.
Valor Home Lorain County is slated to open in late 2013.
The organization is also looking for volunteers to help with minor renovations, painting and clean-up.
Valor Home will have a spaghetti dinner fundraiser from 1 to 4 p.m. April 21 at St. Teresa's Parish Life Center, 1864 Abbe Road, Sheffield Village. Tickets must be purchased in advance for $15.
To purchase a ticket, contact fund raising chairman Don Attie at 440-552-4791.


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Picture: Jeremy Britt from 'The Biggest Loser' arriving at NBC for Today' New York City, USA - 02.05.12
NBC's Olympic coverage is getting some phenomenal viewing figures in the US, but a good proportion of those watching the event unfold are also making their voices known about what they believe to be the sub-par quality of how the channel is showing the games, with a hashtag even appearing on Twitter titled #nbcfail.
The main cause of the ire has centred around American swimmer Ryan Lochte's gold medal winning race which Nbc opted to air on tape delay in prime time. This was one of just many issues though, with the decision not to show the opening ceremony of the games on Friday night live online also rankling. On Sunday, meanwhile, complaints came forth after viewers switched onto the main network to find that the women's cycling road race was being shown instead of the US men's basketball team's opening match. Criticism over coverage is nothing new of course, and it's hard for countries to get it right when showing games in different time zones, but the weight of it coming from various social networks has been hard to ignore this time round for the company.
The issues seem to have arisen from the fact that Nbc are putting everything online and somewhat neglecting to pay due attention to their TV coverage. This exchange explains it all: James Poniewozik, Time magazine TV critic, tweeted that " Nbc time-delay coverage is like the airlines: its interest is in giving you the least satisfactory service you will still come back for. " Nbc's Jim Bell replied saying " You do know that all sports events are being streamed live right?" to which he got the reply " I do, indeed! Have enjoyed it. Apparently lots of folks still prefer watching on the TV."


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If this were any other person in any other town, we might wonder why some dude is removing his gold hi-tops, leaving on his aviators, jumping into a pool filled with drunk/stoned/dumb girls and guys and letting total strangers — including paparazzi — take pictures while a King Kong-sized blowup penis floats behind him and entire bottles of champagne are sprayed into the aquatic orgy.
But this is Ryan Lochte on a 108-degree afternoon in Las Vegas. And much as what happens in Vegas is supposed to stay in Vegas, I must say that accidentally running into a Ryan Lochte pool party is exactly the sort of thing I thought might happen in Vegas. I didn't plan on being part of his 29th birthday bash; I just happened to be staying at The Palazzo, and we just happened to be sipping mojitos at the Azure pool when interrupted by the sound of costumed bongo players at 1 p.m. Right behind them, with entourage, was a tank-topped Lochte, who took his place inside a $4,000-a-day cabana with a dozen bikinied girls.
I know Lochte as the 11-time Olympic swimming medalist. Celebrity watchers know him as the party dude/wanderer who is trying to enter the Hollywood scene and sometimes being mocked for it. You remember Jon Hamm cracking on him at the ESPY Awards, recalling how Lochte playfully bit into one of his medals at the London Games: "It was an amazing Olympics. Usain Bolt proved that he is the fastest man on land, Michael Phelps proved that he is the fastest man in the water, and Ryan Lochte proved that he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Lochte won five medals, and only two of them were damaged when he tried to find out if there is chocolate inside." Phelps, who couldn't control himself when shown in the audience that night, is still laughing.
But the Lochte I'm seeing in Vegas pool mode is friendly, polite and engaging. His complete lack of attitude might have a little to do with The Palazzo sponsoring his pool party, for which he receives a free cabana, free luxury suite, free run of the place, an ample paycheck and other let-the-imagination-wander perks. OK, so his TV reality series on E! — "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?" — didn't rock the ratings and faded away. And Seth MacFarlane was hilarious when he parodied Lochte last fall on "Saturday Night Live." As for his slogan — "Jeah" — yeah, he really did trademark it with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. But Lochte has made millions in endorsements, and assuming he hasn't blown his fortune, don't cry for him. And I don't care if he was lame on E!; he can't be worse than Bruce Jenner, who has been emasculated by the evil Kardashians and should return his 1976 Olympic decathlon gold medal out of shame. I went over to Lochte's cabana, shook his hand, wished him well, and we took a picture. Another guy in the cabana was wearing a "Cocaine and Caviar" t-shirt, for what it's worth.
If anything, Lochte almost seemed a tad dazed and lonely, locked in that cruel middle ground between sports idolatry and celebrity backlash. If I was advising him, I'd tell him to spend one more year enjoying the post-Olympic lifestyle, then find a coaching job at a major college program, perhaps in his native Florida. Who wouldn't want to swim for Lochte?
What I'll also remember about my Vegas weekend: The Azure pool was the only thing that didn't require waiting in line, which means what stays in Vegas includes lots and lots of money. I've been here often, mostly for prizefights (moment of silence for the demise of boxing), and I don't recall so many resorts jammed with so many people who have so much disposable income. The recession clearly is past tense in this town. From the second you leave the air-conditioned comfort of the McCarron International Airport terminal and enter the blast furnace that is the August desert, you wait. Landing at 10 on a Friday night, I was able to wedge in a workout via a cab line that stretched 150 yards east to west and required a dozen back-and-forths through the labyrinth while hundreds of impatient folks snaked toward the taxis. Then you crawl through traffic on Paradise Road and Harmon Avenue, which is the less expensive trip ($18) when the cabbie will insist on a "quicker" way on I-15 that will cost close to $30. On the way home, do yourself a favor: Take a direct, comfort-controlled van from any hotel for $7.
Then you wait in the lobby of The Palazzo, where every girl's head is grazing the roof in her 10-inch heels, and every guy is trying to look like Bradley Cooper in "The Hangover" trilogy when, in truth, he's built like Zach Galifianakis. The demographic was young, 20s and 30s. Oh, the casinos still had blackjack players of all ages, but every image of Old Vegas is gone, replaced by pool parties in the afternoon and clubbing at night and upscale restaurants represented by every celebrity chef imaginable but Paula Deen. If they're still doing all-you-can-eat buffets here, they're hiding them well in hotels with beautiful, large, split-level suites that overlook a Strip skyline now larger than that of most American cities.
The Cosmopolitan is the "it" place, but I backed out of an 11 p.m. Robin Thicke show at the pool — in part because I was exhausted after two weeks on the road, in part because I'm boycotting Thicke. Everyone knows his monster summer hit, "Blurred Lines," is at least a slight ripoff of Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" and George Clinton's "Sexy Ways" — everyone, that is, except Thicke, who somehow is the son of Alan Thicke, father figure in the '80s family sitcom "Growing Pains." When owners of the Gaye and Clinton songs filed suit alleging copyright breaches, Thicke countered with his own lawsuit and wants a federal judge to decide if he borrowed from the other songs. In music, it's called "borrowing." In journalism, it's called "plagiarism."
Wrote Thicke's lawyers: "The basis of the Gaye defendants' claims is that `Blurred Lines' and `Got to Give It Up' `feel' or `sound' the same. Being reminiscent of a `sound' is not copyright infringement. The intent in producing `Blurred Lines' was to evoke an era."
The evoke-the-era argument would have been more cred had Thicke honored Gaye and Clinton from the start, BEFORE "Blurred Lines" sold almost five million tracks, spent the summer atop the charts and commanded 140 million views for You Tube videos with almost-nude or all-nude models. Anyway, I'm told Thicke opened his show with "Blurred Lines" — couldn't he have waited a while for his signature tune? — while wearing a long-sleeve jacket in 90-degree heat. I'd recommend staying cooler — and cool — at Bond Bar in the Cosmopolitan.
After getting up Sunday morning, writing this journal post and eating at Bouchon — a reasonably priced subspecies of Thomas Keller's Napa Valley gem — I saw an ad for another afternoon party. At the same pool (Azure) in the same hotel (Palazzo), I could spend the day with another famous former athlete who makes his living in celebritydom. Further, Lochte was challenging this man to a race in the pool.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and blow-up penises alike, here's Shaquille O'Neal.
Tweeted Lochte to Shaq: "Hey @Shaq R u ready for my bday @AzureVegas @PalazzoVegas @SilvestriLV I'll race you in the pool arms behind my back! Winner gets the GOLD!"
Should I stay and see if The Big Shamu would accept the challenge?
I caught the first flight I could to L.A.


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You're worth a million dollars
A couple of friends came visiting from the old Blighty (England), a few weekends ago. They were on a larger tour of the US but had kept a couple of days for New York and were staying at mine. They'd ordered that I keep the weekend free to sight-see with them, so I ordered the sunshine to be glorious. Safe to say, both the sunshine and I delivered.
We'd just finished taking pictures of the bull on Wall Street and en route to Central Park we had a pit stop at Madison Square Garden. (Clearly they'd come to soak in the atmosphere.)
I was waiting for them to have a look around the building and as one does when there's nothing to do for two seconds, I checked my Gmail, and my Twitter and Facebook feeds. And that's when I saw it. Both my friends had 'checked in' to Madison Square Garden (MSG)! All we'd done was crossed it fleetingly, had a hot dog from the stand outside and were on our way. Not even taken a picture.
I pointed out how they'd totally faked it. We had a few jokes about faking stuff and continued on to Central Park. It was only later on after they'd left, while I was chuckling about certain moments over the weekend, I thought about it. It was really a lie. A lie to the rest of the world that they'd actually been inside MSG. That they'd probably seen a game that the New York Knicks had won, probably an incredible game that went down to the last two seconds, an off-balance three-pointer.
The point is Facebook thought it was real. But it wasn't. I started to wonder about all the data Facebook had about people and how much of it was of real value. Or true. Not much on both counts. How many instances must there be such as my friends' untruth? But that's just the nature of social media. The like button on Facebook is what everything's about. What people would want them to see rather than what they actually saw.
Forbes recently said that consumer data on Facebook is worth $141 billion. But how do they prove any of it? Joe Random could be in transit from Charlestown to Dallas with a stopover at Vegas and check in so that his friends know that he's there. And years later if suppose his relationship status turns to 'single', an advertisement banner will appear on the side bar that says 'Fancy a trip back to Vegas? You know you loved it the first time'. No. Joe didn't. He ate an airport sandwich and sat next to a crying baby.
Which got me to wonder what sort of company would have the most accurate, truthful, unbiased data about you and me that told them everything about us? No, it's not Google, nor Facebook, not even Amazon. You don't buy all your purchases from Amazon (the milk is fresher in your local Whole Foods). Not even Whole Foods has all your data; you don't get that cute bedside lamp you've always wanted from there.
Yes, I think you got it. It's Amex. And Mastercard. And Visa. Together worth more than $200bn. With our data. The most comprehensive data network ever accumulated.
Think about it: They know and remember even more than we do. They not only know I signed up for that expensive gym with a trainer, but that, two weeks ago, after my workout, I ordered in a steak burger. With fries.
They know where I've used my air miles and bonus points. They know that in the summer of '09 I spent a ridiculous amount of money on a trip to Argentina. They know I have Netflix, Spotify, and New York Times accounts. And that I'm part of the Dollar Shave Club. (Don't judge, you should check it out. Even if you don't shave.) They know about all the romantic meals I've had paying for two and then back to getting take-outs for one and then back again to meals for two. Not only that, they know all the addresses I've lived at and my current one. (It's the first thing I change when moving house.)
That data doesn't lie. What also doesn't lie are the other things like the type of card you have, whether it's a corporate or a personal one and which shops you usually visit, whether offline or online. And with their recent partnerships with Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare, companies like Amex know more about you than your best friend and your mother put together. Well, not really, but you get the point. And that's incredible. Dangerous but incredible.
As for my friends, they had a great weekend. And Amex knows that too, because of the bicycle helmet I bought from the Amex gift card my friends gave me as a thank you.


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Fort Collins, CO, United States, 2010/02/24 - Weston Distance Learning received the prestigious "Character in Action" Award from the City of Fort Collins, CO. This award recognizes companies that go the extra mile to promote good character in the community.
At the Fort Collins City Council meeting on Tuesday, February 2, Mayor Doug Hutchinson presented Ann Rohr, president of Weston Distance Learning, Inc., with the citys Character In Action Award. The mayor thanked Weston for the generosity, decisiveness and enthusiasm that makes the company a positive, friendly place to work and a strong community booster.
The monthly Character In Action Award is sponsored by Character Fort Collins, an organization whose mandate is to support and promote the demonstration of good character in the community. Each month, the organization chooses a Character In Action winner from nominees submitted by local residents. A nominee can be an individual, a group or a business.
In his Character In Action proclamation, Mayor Hutchinson stated that Weston goes the extra mile to ensure that employees are happy and engaged in the community. He acknowledged Weston employees for working 700 community-volunteer hours in 2009, and he noted that the company itself donates to several local charities.
Weston grants each employee four hours of paid leave per calendar year for volunteer work. The company also matches, up to $5,000 annually, employee contributions to charity drives. Through volunteer participation and/or financial assistance, Weston supports the American Cancer Societys Relay For Life event, Larimer Countys Partners Mentoring Youth program, the Support our Troops drive, the Salvation Army, Secret Santas for the Elderly (at Clare Bridge Assisted Living Facility), Crossroads Safehouse, Habitat for Humanity, the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts.
Weston is also a strong advocate of staff wellness and camaraderie. It hosts a 12-week summer Lifestyle Challenge that encourages employees to increase physical activity and improve eating habits. This month, the company is launching a year-long lunchtime-learning series; each monthly session will feature a discussion of a specific character trait. The company also sponsors events such as a summer picnic, a holiday party, a chili cook-off, a jack-o-lantern carving contest and Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day.
We appreciate the citys acknowledgement of our efforts to support our staff and the Fort Collins community, says Westons president Rohr. From our perspective, its just good business to build a healthier, safer and stronger workplace and city. Its the way to help all of us thrive.
Weston Distance Learning, Inc. (westondistancelearning.com) is the parent company of three distance education schools: At-Home Professions, U.S. Career Institute and McKinley College. The schools enroll students nationwide. Westons certificate courses and degree programs prepare students to work in more than 25 fields offering solid job prospects and earning potential. State approval is through the Colorado Department of Educations Division of Private Occupational Schools. Each certificate course and degree program is accredited through the nationally recognized Distance Education and Training Council.
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Quite Shivery
I'm not a climber at all and I had zero interest in climbing before I did this film. And I have even less interest in ever doing it myself now, having done it. It is miserable, cold, you feel terrible, you're panting, your nails are coming out, your lips are bleeding. It's not pleasant.
—Kevin Macdonald, "The Making of Touching the Void"
We climb 'cause it's fun.
—Joe Simpson, Touching the Void
Touching the Void
Kevin Macdonald
Nicholas Aaron, Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson, Simon Yates
(Darlow Smithson production for FilmFour (UK)
US DVD: 15 Jun 2004
As Kevin Macdonald describes it, making Touching the Void was an ordeal. "I wouldn't be going too far to say that I was really miserable through the vast bulk of the shoot," he smiles, during his hotel room interview for "The Making of Touching the Void." Now available on DVD, Touching the Void, intercuts interviews with actual climbers/survivors Joe Simpson and Simon Yates and shots of two climbers/actors reenacting their traumatic experiences on Peru's 21,000-foot Siula Grande. The reenacted scenes take place on the same mountain, some 18 years later. Macdonald notes the hardships of recreation: "When [our actors] are struggling up a rope and they've got ice all over their face, they're really struggling, and they have got ice on their face and not makeup. Those are things you can't fake."
The real story started in 1985. British climbers Simpson and Yates climbed the then unscaled Siula Grande. They made it to the top, and on their way down, disaster struck. Joe shattered his leg. They came up with a plan whereby Simon would lower his partner 300 feet at a time, but as this process took them into the pitch-black night, neither could see when Joe was lowered over a crevasse. Hours later, unable to hang onto the weight any longer and not knowing whether Joe was alive or dead, presuming he must have died, Simon cut the rope.
Joe survived. Moreover and incredibly, he made his way back to base camp days later and wrote a book about the ordeal, Touching the Void, published in 1988. In large part, he says that he wrote the book to vindicate Simon, who had since become known in the "climbing community" as the "man who cut the rope." (As Yates says in "The Making of Touching the Void," this "notoriety" has been taxing. "I do find it annoying sometimes," he admits, but he's also used it to "make my own life easier and to make money.") Macdonald (who won an Academy Ward for 2000's One Day in September, a remarkable account of the terrorist hostage-taking at the 1972 Munich Olympics) made his Touching the Void, a sort of docudrama based on Simpson's book.
It appears that everyone associated with the film project (and the history that grounds it) feels the tension inherent in its concept. In "The Making of Touching the Void," Simpson watches the crew and cast (Brendan Mackey and Nicholas Aaron, who perform for the most part without speaking) head off to a location. Squinting into the sun, he observes what might be termed the "insanity" of the project: "It's incredibly dangerous. We're making a film about two people surviving a horrendous epic, and getting away by the skin of their teeth. It would be an ultimate irony if anybody got killed making that, basically."
The film is all about this danger, the preposterous risk. The threat is visible in every frame, even when the spectacular imagery—bright blue sky, swirling snow, tremendous peaks—takes your breath away. It's fair to say that the film's essential drama has as much to do with Mike Eley's stunning cinematography as with the narrative proper: it's difficult to put into words just how white, cold, and endless the mountain can seem, the climbers so small against its terrifying expanse, the blue or black or stormy sky looming over them. Alongside such brilliant demonstrations of scale and scope, the climbers (who are actually climbing the mountain, not on any sort of set, so the concept of "recreation" is somewhat complicated) appear in close-up to emphasize their blackened faces and fingers (the frostbite is recreated), their breath in -80º wind-chill conditions, and the chinky sounds of their picks and hammers vivid in the icy stillness.
The effect of such recreated immediacy is twofold, at least. Certainly, it's harrowing even to imagine the nightmare that both men endured. The film's reconstruction of specific events comes with appropriately disquieting music by Alex Heffes and equally disturbing personal recollections narrated by each of the principals. Before Joe is dangling over the crevasse, these memories seem in some accord: admitted adrenalin junkies, they like to climb "because it's fun," they're well aware that "80% of accidents happen on descents," and both appreciate what Simon called the "great unknown" they face. Once they lose sight of one another, their experiences diverge radically.
This divergence is at the center of Touching the Void, the film (Simpson's book, of course, does not tangle with this dilemma). While Simpson and Yates returned to the site for the making of the film, it is clear in interviews published and aired since production that even at that time, some 18 years after the trauma, their experiences remain dissimilar. (Simpson has said repeatedly that he wholly understands, forgives, and exonerates his partner; they have not climbed together since.) For the film, they are shot separately, not in conversation, but edited together as each tells his own part.
And so, while Simon admits that he thought, for a brief second, that he would be better able to make his descent if Joe was not a factor, he never meant to leave behind a man who was alive; thinking Joe was dead, he cut the rope. Back at base camp, he couldn't bring himself to leave, for days, and it is only that lingering that allowed for Joe's ultimate rescue, once he had limped and crawled his way back down the mountain and over a terrain of rocks and ice. By the time he reached the flat land, he was so dehydrated and his leg was causing him such pain that he began hallucinating, eventually unable to get a song by Boney M., "Brown Girl in the Ring," out of his head (his terror at that moment, he recalls, was that he was going to die to that song).
The film's split structure is in itself compelling and thematic. The multiple fragmentations here are increasingly profound, as the movie intelligently compromises usual distinctions between fact and fiction, memory and fantasy, subject and object, even, to an extent, space and time. Even as Touching the Void uses generic conventions (the talking head interview, the spectacular mountain climbing shot), it also draws attention to the limits of such conventions. Neither man can know what the other is going through, both try to imagine or, during darker moments, work hard not to consider, what the other might be going through. The reenactors appear in close-up or from afar, but without dialogue, they remain mostly unreadable specters, without specific emotion; bearded, hooded shadows in indistinguishable parkas and boots, they're anyone and no one, struggling to survive under the most primal of circumstances.
And this speaks to the limits of documentary, as a storytelling and fact-finding form. As Simpson and Yates speak about their experiences, you realize that each can only tell so much, that his understanding of his partner's or even his own experience at that time can't be comprehensive or settled. Each man can come to terms with "what happened," but neither can know the entire truth of it.
As if to poke at such instability and fragmentation one more time, the DVD also includes "What Happened Next," a 10-minute documentary following up on the film's production, and "Return to Siula Grande," a video diary of the climbers' return for the sake of the film. Simpson contributes readings from his own diary, beginning with the confession, "I'm going back to Peru tomorrow, and I really don't want to." At the new base camp, Simpson speaks into the camera. "Up until now, four days walking in, to be honest I've been completely surprised at how uninterested I've been in coming back here." Though he thinks initially this is a function of his self-preserving "repression" of events, Simpson comes to another conclusion, that his disinterest is informed by the very apparatus of filmmaking—the generators, the lights, the satellite phones and "loads of people around"—which makes "the whole thing completely artificial and just unreal really."
And yet, when he accompanies Yates to the spot where Yates found him so many years before, Simpson is startled. "I felt I was just going to have a panic attack. I could feel Simon grabbing hold of me in the dark while I stood there. I could remember it. I felt quite shivery." He adds, "I'd forgotten, I'd forgotten how difficult it was. I've told the story so many times, it's just become a fiction."
While Yates insists that he remains an "adventurer," without "unresolved feelings about this place," Simpson is at once openly "emotional" about the return, but also resists explaining. It is beyond explanation. As the crew makes its way up the mountain, the interviewer asks Simpson how he "feels." With sounds of the crew shuffling and chatting in the background, he demurs. "It's a bit too sort of Jerry Springerish, isn't it, to say how you really feel?" By the end, he's feeling "dried up now… because we've spent so long making this fucking movie."
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Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015/12/02 - 28/33D STC package for state-of-the-art, high-speed ferry propulsion - MANDieselTurbo.com.
Incat, the Australian shipyard, has awarded MAN Diesel & Turbo the contract to supply the engines for the KatExpress 3, a high-speed ferry newbuilding. In total, 4 × 20V28/33D STC engines, each delivering 9,100kW, will drive the four waterjets that will power the 109-m, wave-piercing catamaran for Mols-Linien, the Danish ferry operator.
Lex Nijsen Head of Four-Stroke Marine MAN Diesel & Turbo, said: This is an important order for us and a welcome addition to our existing references in the high-speed ferry segment. It is a technically-enhanced, repeat order with our newest, state-of-the-art engine; a success that builds on our ability to deliver engines with unrivalled fuel consumption in their class within a tight, customer-defined schedule. Importantly, it also builds on our existing good relationships with both Incat and Mols-Linien.
Engine delivery is due over two shipments in September and October, 2016. KatExpress 3, which is scheduled for completion by March 2017, will have 1,000 tonnes deadweight, with seating capacity for 1,000 persons and up to 411 car spaces, or a combination of cars, trucks and other vehicles. The newbuildings near-sisterships KatExpress 1 and KatExpress 2 are both currently in service for Mols-Linien and were also built by Incat.
The MAN 28/33D STC engine
The MAN 28/33D STC is a compact, powerful engine with a high power-to-weight ratio. It is fully compliant with current environmental standards and employs an advanced SaCoSone engine-control system. The engine has been installed in several ferry applications and is also regularly employed by naval segments.
Particular characteristics of the engine include:
most powerful engine in its class and proven in service
high power-to-weight ratio
best-in-class SFOC
low maintenance costs due to long service intervals and on-board maintenance
robust design for high availability
capable of continuous, low-load operation
high torque for fast acceleration
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IMO Tier II and EPA Tier 2-compliant.
About Incat
Incat is an Australian manufacturer of large HSC (high-speed craft) catamarans and is based in Hobart, Tasmania. The company builds large and medium-sized commercial and military vessels that use aluminium construction, wave-piercing and water-jet technology.
Incat develops lightweight, environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient ships designed to carry heavy loads at the lowest operational costs.
Incats Hobart facility incorporates more than 70,000 m2 of undercover production halls, with two dry-dock areas capable of concurrently accommodating up to six vessels under construction.
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Toni Kroos drops Premier League hint
Bayern Munich midfielder Toni Kroos has revealed that a move to the Premier League could be a possibility in the summer.
• Schaaf: Bayern break another record
Kroos, 24, is currently contracted to Bayern until 2015, but despite having been offered a new deal worth eight million euros a year, he has yet to commit himself to the club.
Manchester United have been linked with a move for the Germany international, and have reportedly already made him a contract offer.
Kroos has put all talks regarding his future on hold until the summer, but did recently say that he wanted it to be sorted before the World Cup.
And speaking at a news conference ahead of Tuesday's Champions League last-16 second leg against Arsenal, he reiterated that he will not make a decision before the end of the season, but did hint that a move to England could well be possible.
"A lot of things have been written. But not a lot has changed," he said. "No decision has been made, and no agreements have been reached.
"It'll stay like this until the summer, then a decision will be made. It is no secret that the Premier League is an interesting league."
Kroos went on to drop another hint that Old Trafford could be his next destination.
Asked whether he could join a club that will not play in the Champions League next season, which seems the likely outcome for United, he replied: "A lot is possible."
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Although DNR has been downsized from its own fully formed website and magazine to a tab on WWD.com, it does still exist. It's from the WWDMens.com that we gather the news that Jil Sander's creative director Raf Simons is to produce a premium denim line for men. The pieces will be of the tailored variety (as shown in the above picture), will be available in off-white, blue and grey and will come in an exclusive navy box. They'll be appearing at stores from Jil Sander stores come spring. [via WWD.com]
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Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 2012/09/28 - PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) announced that Bryan Iams has been named vice president, corporate communications and marketing, effective Oct. 1. Iams will report to J. Rich Alexander, executive vice president - PPG.com. NYSE: PPG
In this role, Iams will be responsible for directing PPGs global external and internal communications including strategic messaging, media relations, crisis and issues management, brand management, public affairs and communications process management, and he will provide direct communications support to PPG Chairman and CEO Charles E. Bunch.
Bryans experience as a trusted communications leader and adviser to large global corporations will serve PPG well as we continue to expand our operations and communicate our corporate brand around the world, Alexander said.
Iams joins PPG from FedEx, where he served since May as principal advisor, communications, for FedEx Ground headquartered in Pittsburgh. Previously, he directed external communications activities for Bayer Corp. and Bayer MaterialScience in North America as head of strategic and external communications. During his 10 years with Bayer, Iams was responsible for external media, public relations, corporate advertising, social media, crisis management, marketing communications, public affairs and internal communications. Iams also worked for more than seven years at global public relations agency Burson-Marsteller directing key accounts that included work with PPG. He earned a bachelors degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh and a masters degree in public management from Carnegie Mellon University.
PPG Industries' vision is to continue to be the worlds leading coatings and specialty products company. Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company. Founded in 1883, PPG (ppg.com) has global headquarters in Pittsburgh and operates in more than 60 countries around the world. Sales in 2011 were $14.9 billion. PPG shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: PPG).
Bringing innovation to the surface is a trademark of PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
Vince Morales, PPG Investor Relations
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Make It Happen
In September we are meeting up in East Iceland to discuss the methods and benefits of establishing creative communities, in which creative processes, innovation and local resources meet.
The Wood Workshop
We are expecting designers, crafts people, developers, doers and thinkers, students and other interested and passionate individuals to keep utilizing the workshop in Egilsstaðir for exciting development projects.
Bureau Odyssey / RCA
Risk assessment for future leisure activities with Platform 10 at Royal College of Art (RCA), Thorunn Arnadottir, Nelly Ben Hayoun and Glamour Et cetera.
The Fish Factory
The Fish Factory project is a community project in a village of two hundred people which was scarred badly when the Fish Factory which employed most of the habitants was closed some years back.
Þórhallur Árnason
From reindeer antler, bone and hoofs Mr. Þórhallur Árnason creates a variety of objects. His collection includes scratchers, shoe horns, key rings, wall hooks and jewelry.
Hús Handanna
Art & Design
Hús Handanna is a platform for MAKE by Þorpið to bring a developed product to the market, be it product design, quality craft, jewelry, clothing, ceramics, graphics, textiles.
The Lost Mitten
A long time ago in a valley by Lake Lagarfljót an unfortunate Icelander must have lost a mitten.
MAKE by Þorpið is participating in a European Union education collaboration program along with Bornholm in Denmark and Nässjö in Sveden. Operating under then name Creative Communities in East Iceland.
He's predicting NORÐAUSTAN10 and you no it ain't good. The wind that blows from NorthEast is dry and ice cold and in conjunction with a wind force of 10 it will make your eyeballs ache. You better prepare.
Mrs. Dóra Hansen
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Young Entrepreneurs as Drivers of Sustainable Growth
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This event is also available in: Français | Español | العربية | Português
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2015
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. (Peru) / 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. / 19:00 - 20:30 (GMT) or convert time
Location: Auditorio Los Incas, National Museum, Lima, Peru & Online
Empowering people to become masters of their own destinies – as workers, entrepreneurs or business leaders – Is one of the most powerful development tools in the world. This global debate will be the culmination of a series of virtual dialogues that is gathering the insights and practical experience from hundreds of young entrepreneurs from across six regions. The panel will bring together global leaders, CEOs and young entrepreneurs to discuss the role of entrepreneurship and youth in spurring development around the world.


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Victorian era oyster server, heavy white porcelain edged with gold, 12 1/2" across the shell shaped bowl. This is German china, marked only SPM, 1860-70s vintage at our best guess from the marking.
It's in amazingly good condition, a little bit of wear to the gold but otherwise nice, no staining or discoloration, no chips or cracks.


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The Montana Credit Union Network has dedicated staff of nine people, who are passionate about credit unions and committed to helping them -- and their members -- thrive in Big Sky Country. Learn more about each person and their role at MCUN and find out how to contact them below.
|Tracie Kenyon
|Kara Connors
|Nolan Glueckert
|Renee Lyman
|Carin McClain
|Donya Parrish
|Mara Rayner
|Beth Satre
|Karen Smith
|Ranel Smith
Tracie Kenyon | President/CEO
|Tracie G. Kenyon, CAE, CUDE, is the
A left-coast girl, Tracie has spent her entire career working in the credit union movement in Washington State, Oregon, Utah, and Montana. When not advocating for the preservation of cooperative credit, Tracie enjoys spending time with her family…she is married to a credit union CEO (not at typo, they keep it "all in the family") and has a teen-aged daughter, which really means that her most important jobs are chauffeur, guidance counselor, and fashion consultant (not necessarily in that order, it depends on the day, err, minute).
|email Tracie | 800-745-5546, ext. 135 | 406-324-7203 | cell: 406-459-3490
|Kara Connors | Director of Administrative Services
|Kara Connors manages the accounting and HR at the Network and generally serves as the organization's "air traffic controller."
Kara's most important job is raising her three very active kiddos, and she loves every minute of it. Kara enjoys training for triathlons, waterskiing, kayaking, cross country skiing, and -- most importantly -- spending quality time with her family and friends.
|email Kara | 800-745-5546, ext.120 | 406-324-7377 | cell: 406-459-9929
|Nolan Glueckert | MCUCD Community Development Manager
Nolan Glueckert is a Montana native with a great haircut. He will manage the Matched Education Savings Accounts (MESA) and Individual Development Accounts (IDA) in his role as Community Development Manager. Peppered with his duties with the MESA and IDA programs he will also assist in training for MCUCD.
Nolan calls Bozeman home. The summer and winter in Montana has lots to offer, and he takes full advantage of Montana's seasons.
|email Nolan | 800-745-5546, ext.145 | 406-324-7460 | cell: 406-431-0224
|Renee Lyman | Education Services Manager
|Renee Lyman provides support of the Network's education and training department and League Services Group. She helps promote education events, distance learning, and business partnerships and sponsorships.
When she's not reviewing contracts, planning the Annual Convention Expo, or on a conference call, Renee enjoys spending time with her family. That means everything from cheering at her kids' sporting events, going camping and fishing in the summer, to taking adventurous trips to Disneyland in the winter.
|email Renee | 800-745-5546, ext. 121| 406-324-7458 | cell: 406-439-6022
|Carin McClain | Political Advocacy Director
|Hailing from the credit union capital of the world (Madison, WI), Carin McClain, CUDE, is thrilled to be working for Montana's credit unions. In her role as political advocacy director, she acts as a lobbyist and liaison to state and federal policy making authorities and coordinates grassroots efforts to inform and influence policy makers around issues relevant to credit unions.
Besides her passion for credit unions, Carin loves sending mail with beautiful stamps, traveling, running, and spending time with friends and family.
|email Carin| 800-745-5546, ext. 142 | 406-324-7459 | cell: 406-459-3493
|Donya Parrish | VP–Risk Management
Donya Parrish has been at MCUN since 2002. She spent several of those years training and supporting credit union staff and boards on compliance issues. She oversees the compliance area, as well as assist credit unions with training and implementation of their compliance programs. Her goal is to ensure the dues support of MCUN is beneficial and affordable to credit unions and that they are always portrayed and recognized in the most positive light possible.
In her spare time, Donya helps her husband with his small business, spends time enjoying Helena, and loves to read. She believes that success is making the best choices we can… and accepting them.
|email Donya | 800-745-5546, ext. 122 | 406-324-7374 | cell: 406-459-3497
|Mara Rayner | Director of Human Resource Benefits
Mara K. Rayner manages the day-to-day operations of the Montana Credit Union League Group Benefit Trust and will be working to provide additional HR services for the credit unions in the future.
|email Mara | 800-745-5546, ext 139 | 406-324-7455 | cell: 406-750-5838
|Beth Satre | Membership Data Manager
|Beth Satre functions as the communications hub at the Montana Credit Union Network. She oversees the print and online publications and coordinates the website. If you want to subscribe to one of our publications, would like access to MCUN's website, or have a question about grammar (or Adobe software), give her a call.
In her free time, Beth hangs out with her family and friends, volunteers for various non-profits, and works on her photography and design skills. She loves the outdoors, often has her nose in a book, and is always ready to engage in a good conversation about credit unions or, well, just about anything.
|email Beth | 800-745-5546, ext.134| 406-324-7457 | cell: 406-461-8708
|Karen Smith | VP–Advocacy
|As the VP of Advocacy, Karen Smith focuses her time to support the advocacy work of Montana's credit unions in political, philosophical, and philanthropic areas. Karen has been with Montana's Credit Unions since 2003, is a designated Credit Union Development Educator (CUDE) as well as a certified credit union financial counselor and financial coach.
Karen loves life on her family ranch with her husband and two kids. For Karen, the best days are those spent camping in the mountains or relaxing on the river with family and friends.
|email Karen | 800-745-5546, ext.124 | 406-324-7376 | cell: 406-459-3495
|Ranel Smith | VP–Relationship Management
|Ranel Smith, CMP, CUDE, supports Montana's credit unions with education-related assistance, putting on up to 10 conferences and educational events throughout Montana every year. In addition, she assists the Credit Union Association of the Dakotas and the Minnesota Credit Union League with their education event planning. In her role, she is charged with coming up with unique, fun conference themes, making sure meeting rooms are warm enough, and getting the correct title on everyone's name badge -- no matter how long that takes. In 2013 Ranel became only the fifth Montana meeting planner to achieve the Certified Meeting Professional designation through the Convention and Industry Council. This makes her now authorized to order enough bacon for a breakfast buffet and her CEO.
Ranel lives in Great Falls, MT with her husband and three children. She enjoys biking and running (sometimes from the neighbor's dog) and attending her children's activities in her spare time.
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Funkyzeit present: Circus Company - Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts Live and Seuil photo gallery
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Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts (live), Seuil, Oli Low, Mikail
Line Up:
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts (live) "Twice Around The Sun" Album Tour (Circus Company, Oslo)
Seuil (Circus Company / Eklo / Hold Youth)
Oli Low
We are delighted to announce that our headline guest for the last party of 2012, joining us as part of his Twice Around The Sun Album tour, will be Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts.
Guillaume's album Face À L'Est, which appeared on Musique Risquee in 2007, brought him to the immediate attention of the global house & techno scene. After forging friendship with FunkyZeit friends Oslo Records, as well as the Raum Musik crew, Guillaume made a logical pilgrimage to Berlin, from his native Canada, in 2007.
Guillaume has a strong tie to the melting pot of the French underground house scene, having released music for Karat and eventually striking up a close working relationship with Circus Company, with whom he currently releases. His way is that of the carnival, wild and unrestrained but full of a positive, soulful exuberance, and it has brought him to many of the world's top festivals & clubs AND seen him named by Resident Advisor as one of the Top 20 Live Acts of 2011.
Our second guest is a producer and DJ who we've been fans of for a long time, Frenchman Alexis Bernard AKA Seuil.
Seuil moved to paris in 2000, it was there he began DJing in clubs such as Rex, Social Club, Nouveau Casino and La Scène Bastille. It wasn't long before his sound was in-demand internationally and slots at Panorama Bar, Fabric, Watergate, Womb, DC-10, and many others, duly followed.
Seuil also began producing prolifically from around 2005, releasing a string of highly-regarded tracks on Minibar, Freak n'Chic, Circus Company, Moon Harbour, Raum..Musik, Esperanza, and, of course, via his own label Eklo.
It was on Eklo that Seuil started the Eklo Music collective, assembling the likes of dOP, Boris Horel, Le Loup, Yakine & Aquarius Heaven. His latest project Hold Youth, created with friend and fellow Parisian Le Loup, has again seen him again reinvent his sound, as always to universal acclaim.
This will be another sell-out so please get tickets early to avoid disappointment.
Fri, 22 Sep 2017
520 attending
Sat, 23 Sep 2017
527 attending
Sat, 23 Sep 2017
448 attending
Sun, 24 Sep 2017
5030 attending
Sat, 30 Sep 2017
686 attending
Sat, 30 Sep 2017
525 attending
Sat, 7 Oct 2017
1718 attending
Fri, 13 Oct 2017
746 attending


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ONE OF Keighley's leading church ministers went on a 'chat show' to mark his retirement.
The Rev Peter Mott sat down with colleagues to publicly talk about his work as priest-in-charge of Keighley Shared Church.
Sitting in the town centre church he spoke about his achievements during 13 years in the post.
The service last Friday celebrated Mr Mott's inter-faith and civic work, which has included raising more than £500,000 to improve the church building, ecumenical work with other local churches, and youth work.
On Sunday the church bells were rung in Mr Mott's honour before the morning service, and again in the afternoon as a 'quarter peal', ringing six bells in a different order 1,260 times over more than 40 minutes.
Two visitors were Mr Mott's former curate Rev Elizabeth Caissie, now retired, and the Ven. Paul Slater, Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven, who was a Keighley curate in the 1980s.
For the Holy Communion service Mr Mott served wine in the Burlington Chalice, from York Minster Treasury.
The congregation presented Mr Mott with cheques to buy a new lounge suite for the house he will be moving to in York.
The service was followed by a faith lunch in the church hall.


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Stomphia coccinea (O. F. Muller, 1776)
Common name(s): Spotted swimming anemone
|Phylum Cnidarea
Class Anthozoa
Subclass Zoantharia
Order Actiniaria
Family Actinostolidae
|Stomphia coccinea, about 5 cm diameter, from 100 m trawl in San Juan Channel
|(Photo by: Dave Cowles August 2005)
How to Distinguish from Similar Species: Stomphia didemon grows larger and has a cream to orange column.
Note: This species looks different from photos of Stomphia coccinea from the North Atlantic. I think it is likely a different species.
Geographical Range: Widespread in temperate and arctic regions of northern hemisphere; including Pacific and Atlantic
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Habitat: We found it on a bottom of sand with shelly hash
Biology/Natural History: This anemone is usually attached to shells of the horse mussel, Modiolus modiolus. The anemone above was originally attached to a mussel shell but has moved to a scallop shell. This species will detach and swim away from predators such as the leather star Dermasterias imbricata.
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In response to "Replacement buses faster, cheaper than Sprinter line: (March 17): For the Sprinter to be shut down for four months displays lack of foresight and incompetent maintenance management. However, worse is the inept response to the maintenance problem including the demand by the Public Utilities Commission that the service be shut down. You would think that good old American ingenuity could be called upon to solve the problem. Consider:
1) Seeking parts from other users of Sprinter cars.
2) Cannibalizing rotors from the cars to make some workable at a reduced service level.
3) Checking with other machine shops for fabricating replacement rotor cylinders
4) Sintering metal to the outer edges of the rotor cylinders with subsequent grinding.
5) Paying Bombardier a premium to fabricate replacement rotors.
It is hard to believe that the Sprinter management would tamely allow the public to be inconvenience for such an extended period. – John Neill, Tierrasanta
Kudos on Logan Jenkins' excellent evaluation and revelation of the Sprinter fiasco ("Sprinter snafu just a reminder of mass transit boondoggle," Local, March 15). Were it not for him the general public (taxpayers) would be oblivious to this multimillion-dollar public boondoggle that could have been avoided were it not for the misguided political perpetrators. The damage is done now and money down the drain, while Gov. Brown and cohorts continue to support an even greater boondoggle, the California multibillion-dollar High Speed Rail Project. Once again a misguided, apathetic public was lured to approve a bond issue. With this kind of irresponsible stewardship of public funds, no wonder the country is trillions of dollars in debt and the White House is now closed to public visitors for lack of funds. Someone better give America a break soon. – Henry M. Sanford, San Marcos
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Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04, now monitor doesn't display?
Hi all, I have upgraded Ubuntu from 10 to 12.04, 10 worked fine. When I fire the pc up I get the bios screen no problems however when Ubuntu boots up the display goes to an encrypted sort of interferance and the monitor says 'unsupported format' or something like that.
Does 12 ask more of the monitor than 10, hence the error? I'm going to see if I can borrow another monitor, just wondered if it's likely that it is the monitor or if the install has failed?
It's not the monitor, it's a misconfigured grub and possibly some more misconfiguration. So another monitor might help for now, but you can not forever borrow it or buy a new one each time Ubuntu decides to screw up :)
Please post make and model of your videocard and monitor.
PS: Does your first screen look like this one? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1943960
PPS: Is this a dual boot?
Thanks for your reply. It's sorted, sort of, seems that the part of the system boot which used to allow me to use a backup version for recovery is what is causing it. After leaving it for 30 seconds I pressed enter a few times, and hey presto I'm at the login screen.
The unsupported format message was from the monitor and not the pc. Its not actually encrypted I was trying to describe its appearance, not static but a garbled mess.
I guess you're talking about the grub menu. You can edit /etc/default/grub to try to get it sorted; you need root permissions for this (so use of sudo or gksudo). Find the following line in that file and remove the '#' at the beginning.
sudo update-grub
If you're not dual booting (and I think you're not), you can force Grub to show the menu. The same file contains a line like
Thanks for your help, I'll give that a go.
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Role of Fungi in Asthma and Allergies
Principal Investigator: Sanjiv Sur, MD
Allergic asthma is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, but the mechanism by which some humans become sensitized to allergens is unknown. We have shown that intrinsic pollen NADPH oxidases vigorously promote allergic inflammation in sensitized mice by inducing oxidative stress in the airway epithelium. However, ongoing work indicates that these oxidases are relatively weak inducers of allergic sensitization. The airway epithelium is the first line of defense against inhaled allergens, and it acts as a powerful barrier against allergic sensitization.
The factors that alter this epithelial barrier so that it promotes sensitization are an intense area of research. Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated an association between mold exposure and allergic sensitization and asthma, suggesting that exposure to molds could be the missing factor that initiates allergic sensitization to pollens. We propose to test the hypothesis that mold-exposure injures the airway epithelium and activates ROS pathways that mediate the release of "danger cytokines" IL-18 and High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1). The latter is chromatin protein that acts as a pro-inflammatory cytokine "alarmin" when released extracellularly. These cytokines drive Th2 differentiation and promote allergic sensitization to concomitantly inhaled bystander allergens.
We will perform bronchscopy, BAL and bronchial brushing on normal subjects and patients with mild allergic asthma. We will examine differences in levels of danger cytokine released from primary airway epithelial cells derived from subjects with mild allergic asthma and those from healthy control subjects when cultured with Alternaria extract, and test the ability of these epithelial supernatants to induce Th2 responses to bystander antigens. Achieving this aim will provide preliminary data for a later fully- developed proposal. Eventually, the information from this aim is likely to be useful for developing unique strategies and inhibitors that may prevent development of allergies throughout the world, thereby reducing morbidity from allergic rhinitis and asthma.


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