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UMKC's weekly arts and culture roundup
*Please note: The University is closed Friday, February 22, 2013, due to inclement weather. Campus events scheduled for Friday are either cancelled or postponed.
Every week, the University of Missouri-Kansas City offers an array of on-campus activities. It's nothing new. UMKC has a long legacy of hosting countless culturally enriching events. These activities are part of what has made UMKC an arts and culture powerhouse. The influence of UMKC-based and UMKC-trained artists extends well beyond the campus' edge, so their activities are listed here as well.
Featured: Conservatory Orchestra: Great 20th-Century American Classics
The story of Filip Lazovski's profound love of the violin involves abandoned piano lessons, an aunt and uncle, and a family of musicians. As concertmaster of the Conservatory Orchestra, Lazovski has big dreams, and he has been studying and practicing for many years to achieve them.
Originally from Skopje, Macedonia, Lazovski is working on his Artist's Certificate at the Conservatory under associate professor of violin Benny Kim. On Friday, February 22, Lazovski performs Samuel Barber's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14, with the Conservatory Orchestra on the White Recital Hall stage, as the winner of the inaugural Chancellor's Concerto competition.
The Chancellor's Concerto competition gives Conservatory students the opportunity to perform a complete concerto in concert — something they would do as professional musicians.
To win that competition, Lazovski prevailed over six finalists who performed on piano, bassoon, clarinet, horn, and violin. The competition, which was open to all students in the Conservatory, was narrowed from about 15 students to the finalists, all of who performed a full concerto.
The Kansas City Symphony's associate conductor, Aram Demirjian; Frank Weinstock, chair of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's piano department; and Janell Weinstock, general manager of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra were the competition's judges.
Lazovski has a BM from Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, and a double masters degree from Ohio's Kent State University in chamber music and violin performance. Despite being just a few credits shy of a masters degree at the University of Colorado, Lazovski jumped at the chance to attend Kent State to work with the storied Miami String Quartet, which features violin professor Benny Kim, with whom Lazovski wanted to study.
The Miami String Quartet, in residence at Kent State University's Hugh A. Glauser School of Music since 2004, also includes Conservatory viola faculty Scott Lee.
"My primary goal is to be in a professional string quartet and to perform chamber music. I want to perform," Lazovski said.
Coming from a musical family—his mother plays the piano and his aunts and uncles are all musicians—Lazovski seemed naturally drawn to music. His aunt's violin, which he thought was the most beautiful thing in the world when he was a young boy, launched his deep connection to the instrument.
Lazovski's devotion to violin performance motivated him to leave home at age 17 to attend his last two years of high school at Michigan's prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy High School, on a full scholarship. From there he went to Eastman School of Music to earn his Bachelor of Music degree.
Lazovski chose Barber's three-movement violin concerto for the competition because of its difficulty, lusciously beautiful melodies, and its structural quality. In particular, he loves the nostalgic second movement because of "the incredible, intimate, and heart-wrenching moments between the solo violin and the orchestra."
What: Conservatory Orchestra: Great 20th-Century American Classics. Directed by Robert Olson, featuring the first Chancellor's Competition winner, violinist Filip Lazovski performing Barber's complete Violin Concerto, Op. 14 with the orchestra.
Where: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Mo.
When: Friday, February 22, 7:30 p.m.
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Friday, February 22 – Thursday, February 28
What: "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945"
Where: Dean's Gallery, Miller Nichols Library, 800 East 51st St., Kansas City, Mo.
When: Through April 10.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Kids Club: "Children's Story Corner." "Pondery" by Nihan Yesil is a one-act chamber opera based on an original short story about a girl who loves to dream.
Where: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Mo.
When: Saturday, February 23, 10 a.m.
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What: Conservatory Connections: Chinese Journeys, Traditional and New (featuring the students of composer Chen Yi). The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art partners with the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance's Academy to offer gallery performances for audiences of all ages. Sight, movement and sound mingle in the spaces of the Museum to offer exciting art interactions.
Where: Kirkwood Hall, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
When: Saturday, February 23, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Faculty recital presented by Jane Carl, clarinet; with Patricia Higdon, piano; and Jan Gippo, piccolo.
Where: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry Street
Kansas City, Mo.
When: Saturday, February 23, 2:30 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Master's Recital with Jonathan Young on piano.
Where: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry Street
Kansas City, Mo.
When: Saturday, February 23, 5 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Juan Francisco La Manna, piano Alumni Recital with pianist Juan Francisco La Manna, associate professor at SUNY Oswego and UMKC Conservatory alumnus (2000), featuring Todd Graber, tenor.
Where: Diastole, 2501 Holmes Street, Kansas City, Mo.
When: Saturday, February 23, 7:30 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Conservatory Singers: A Celebration of the Poetry of Langston Hughes. Directed by Robert Bode, featuring composer William Averitt's settings of Langston Hughes poetry. Dr. Averitt will be in attendance at this performance. Also featuring faculty member Vinson Cole, tenor; and pianists Lee D. Thompson and Melissa Loehnig.
Where: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Mo.
When: Sunday, February 24, 7:30 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Sophomore recital with Michael O'Brien on flute, Dan Velicer on piano and Katie Howard on flute.
Where: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry Street
Kansas City, Mo.
When: Tuesday, February 26, 5 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble and UMKC Graduate Fellowship Brass Quintet. Directed by Tom Stein, with the UMKC Graduate Fellowship Brass Quintet and faculty artists Keith Benjamin, trumpet; Martin Hackleman, horn; and Joseph Parisi, flugelhorn.
Where: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry Street
Kansas City, Mo.
When: Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: "Musica Nova" directed by Zhou Long, featuring the finalists of this year's UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competition and guest composer Eric Moe.
Where: White Recital Hall, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Mo.
When: Wednesday, February 27, 7:30 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Master Class with Poet Dean Young. Young is the author of 10 books of poetry, most recently Bender: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). His Elegy on Toy Piano (2005) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Young received an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. He has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Texas-Austin, where he holds the William Livingston Chair of Poetry.
Where: 104 Cockefair Hall, Kansas City, Mo.
When: Sunday, February 24, 2 – 5 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Opening of Santa Muerte. "Santa Muerte" is a new exhibition concentrating on the dramatic increase in violence that has taken place over the past two decades in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. An insatiable drug war, volatile political status, and widespread poverty have morphed the city into a hellish breeding ground for murder and femicide, consequently reshaping urban cultural identity. Artists from both Mexico and Texas offer their perspectives on the current situation.
Where: Fine Arts building room 203, 5015 Holmes Street, Kansas City, Mo.
When: Monday, February 25 – Friday, April 5.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Do I Look Fat? Film Screening and Discussion This documentary explores the issues surrounding body image for gay men. Filmmaker Travis Mathews profiles eight men and their stories of how addiction, self-hatred, and illness contributed to problems with body image. Lunch will be provided.
Where: Miller Nichols Library, Room 303, 800 East 51st St.
When: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 12 – 2pm
It's free. Get more details.
What: Leon Litwack, "Fight the Power, America's Enduring Struggle for Civil Rights," 18th Annual Richard D. McKinzie Symposium. Co-sponsors: UMKC Bernardin Haskell Lectures Fund, the Kansas City Public Library, the UMKC College High School Credit Partnership, the UMKC Division of Diversity, Access & Equity, and the Black Studies Program
Where: Truman Forum, Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch
When: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 6 – 8pm
It's free. Get more details.
What: "On Golden Pond" is a poignant comedy about the seasons of life and the bond that can develop between the very young and the very old.
Where: The New Theatre Restaurant, 9299 Foster, Overland Park, Kan.
When: Through March 31.
UMKC Connection: Co-owners Dennis Hennessy and Richard Carrothers are both UMKC graduates and both were presented this year with honorary doctorates by the UMKC College of Arts and Sciences.
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What: The Coterie Theatre presents Tell-Tale Electric Poe 2013. One act and one musician perform Edgar Allen Poe stories and poems with musical lines.
Where: 2450 Grand Blvd., Suite 144, Kansas City, Mo.
When: February 23 – March 10.
UMKC Connection: Two UMKC graduate theatre students founded the Coterie.
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What: Design Speaks: Julie Cortés is a successful freelance copywriter and proofreader, having worked with ad agencies, corporations, design studios, small businesses and mom 'n' pop shops, in all media types, including print, collateral, radio, TV, outdoor, direct mail, Web, and more. This is part of the Art Department's 2012-2013 Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series.
Where: UMKC's Department of Art & Art History, 204 Fine Arts Building, 5015 Holmes Street, Kansas City, Mo.
When: Monday, February 25, 4 p.m.
It's free. Get more details.
What: Christine Brewer is one of the world's most acclaimed and respected sopranos. She will perform a work for which she has a special affinity –Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs.
When: Friday, February 22, 8 p.m.
Where: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo.
UMKC Connection: The Kansas City Symphony was founded by faculty member Karl Krueger in 1933.
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I had IPL done on my back last week. The lady turned on the device too high and I got burnt. Now my back has scab marks and I'm worried they will leave scars behind.
The lady assured me that the burns will not leave scars because the burns are only on the skin's surface. She said she'd do a microdermabrasion on my back again after the scabs have fallen off.Should I still continue with the microdermabrasion and IPL on my back given the scabbing? And is there anything I can do now to avoid any potential scarring?

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Keith Urban Deems Musical Definitions 'Meaningless'
Keith Urban is a bit of a musical anomaly. While the country community firmly embraces the singer and guitarist, there are critics that consider him both a pop and a rock artist. He's a lot of things to a lot of music fans, but terms, categories and definitions don't carry much weight for Urban and he isn't sitting around thinking about how he should be labeling himself. For him, it's a state of mind.


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Spring Integration provides Channel Adapters for receiving and publishing JMX Notifications. There is also an inbound Channel Adapter for polling JMX MBean attribute values, and an outbound Channel Adapter for invoking JMX MBean operations.
The Notification-listening Channel Adapter requires a JMX ObjectName for the MBean that publishes Notifications to which this listener should be registered. A very simple configuration might look like this:
<jmx:notification-listening-channel-adapter id="adapter" channel="channel" object-name="example.domain:name=publisher"/>
|The notification-listening-channel-adapter registers with an MBeanServer at startup, and the default bean name is "mbeanServer" which happens to be the same bean name generated when using Spring's <context:mbean-server/> element. If you need to use a different name be sure to include the "mbean-server" attribute.
The adapter can also accept a reference to a NotificationFilter and a "handback" Object to provide some context that is passed back with each Notification. Both of those attributes are optional. Extending the above example to include those attributes as well as an explicit MBeanServer bean name would produce the following:
<jmx:notification-listening-channel-adapter id="adapter" channel="channel" mbean-server="someServer" object-name="example.domain:name=somePublisher" notification-fliter="notificationFilter" handback="myHandback"/>
Since the notification-listening adapter is registered with the MBeanServer directly, it is event-driven and does not require any poller configuration.
The Notification-publishing Channel Adapter is relatively simple. It only requires a JMX ObjectName in its configuration as shown below.
<context:mbean:export/> <jmx:notification-publishing-channel-adapter id="adapter" channel="channel" object-name="example.domain:name=publisher"/>
It does also require that an MBeanExporter be present in the context. That is why the <context:mbean-export/> element is shown above as well.
When Messages are sent to the channel for this adapter, the Notification is created from the Message content. If the payload is a String it will be passed as the "message" text for the Notification. Any other payload type will be passed as the "userData" of the Notification.
JMX Notifications also have a "type", and it should be a dot-delimited String. There are two ways to provide the type. Precedence will always be given to a Message header value associated with the JmxHeaders.NOTIFICATION_TYPE key. On the other hand, you can rely on a fallback "default-notification-type" attribute provided in the configuration.
<context:mbean:export/> <jmx:notification-publishing-channel-adapter id="adapter" channel="channel" object-name="example.domain:name=publisher" default-notification-type="some.default.type"/>
The attribute polling adapter is useful when you have a requirement to periodically check on some value that is available through an MBean as a managed attribute. The poller can be configured in the same way as any other polling adapter in Spring Integration (or it's possible to rely on the default poller). The "object-name" and "attribute-name" are required. An MBeanServer reference is also required, but it will automatically check for a bean named "mbeanServer" by default just like the notification-listening-channel-adapter described above.
<jmx:attribute-polling-channel-adapter id="adapter" channel="channel" object-name="example.domain:name=someService" attribute-name="InvocationCount"> <si:poller max-messages-per-poll="1" fixed-rate="5000"/> </jmx:attribute-polling-channel-adapter>
The operation-invoking-channel-adapter enables Message-driven invocation of any managed operation exposed by an MBean. Each invocation requires the operation name to be invoked and the ObjectName of the target MBean. Both of these must be explicitly provided via adapter configuration:
<jmx:operation-invoking-channel-adapter id="adapter" object-name="example.domain:name=TestBean" operation-name="ping"/>
Then the adapter only needs to be able to discover the "mbeanServer" bean. If a different bean name is required, then provide the "mbean-server" attribute with a reference.
The payload of the Message will be mapped to the parameters of the operation, if any. A Map-typed payload with String keys is treated as name/value pairs whereas a List or array would be passed as a simple argument list (with no explicit parameter names). If the operation requires a single parameter value, then the payload can represent that single value, and if the operation requires no parameters, then the payload would be ignored.
If you want to expose a channel for a single common operation to be invoked by Messages that need not contain headers, then that option works well.
Similar to operation-invoking-channel-adapter Spring Integration also provides operation-invoking-outbound-gateway which could be used when dealing with non-void operations and return value is required. Such return value will be sent as message payload to the 'reply-channel' specified by this Gateway.
<jmx:operation-invoking-outbound-gateway request-channel="requestChannel" reply-channel="replyChannel" object-name="org.springframework.integration.jmx.config:type=TestBean,name=testBeanGateway" operation-name="testWithReturn"/>
Another way of
provideing the 'reply-channel' is by setting
MessageHeaders.REPLY_CHANNEL Message
Spring Integration components themselves may be exposed as MBeans
when the
IntegrationMBeanExporter is configured. To
create an instance of the
define a bean and provide a reference to an MBeanServer and a domain name
(if desired). The domain can be left out in which case the default domain
is "spring.application".
<jmx:mbean-exporter domain="my.company.domain" mbean-server="mbeanServer"/> <bean id="mbeanServer" class="org.springframework.jmx.support.MBeanServerFactoryBean"> <property name="locateExistingServerIfPossible" value="true"/> </bean>
The MBean exporter is orthogonal to the one provided in Spring core
- it registers message channels and message handlers, but not itself (you
can expose the exporter itself using the standard
<context:mbean-export/> tag).
As described in (EIP), the idea behind the Control Bus is that the same messaging system can be used for monitoring and managing the components within the framework as is used for "application-level" messaging. In Spring Integration we build upon the adapters described above so that it's possible to send Messages as a means of invoking exposed operations. Internally, the Control Bus uses a Spring MBeanExporter instance to expose the various endpoints and channels. To create an instance of the Control Bus, define a bean and provide a reference to an MBeanServer and a domain name.
<jmx:control-bus mbean-exporter="mbeanExporter" operation-channel="operationChannel"/> <jmx:mbean-exporter id="mbeanExporter" mbean-server="mbeanServer"/>
The Control Bus has an "operationChannel" that can be accessed for invoking operations on the MBeans that it has exported. This will also be covered by namespace support soon to make it easier to configure references to that channel for other producers. We will likely add some other channels for notifications and attribute polling as well.
The Control Bus functionality is a work in progress. At this time, one can perform some basic monitoring of Message Channels and/or invoke Lifecycle operations (start/stop) on Message Endpoints. Now that the foundation is available, however, we will be able to extend the attributes and operations that are being exposed.


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Tue, 3 June 2008
The Ravaged Angel.
That's what was painted in red nail polish on the nose of the three-person cryshuttle. It had docked on autopilot with good codes but wasn"t answering hails. The dock's computer was talking to the shuttle"s compnav to ascertain where they'd come from and what their sitrep was when the hatches blew on the three ovals on the top of the Ravaged Angel's hull.Ravaged Angel written by Duncan Shields
Read by Nobilis.
Nobilis's Podcast, Nobilis Erotica, can be downloaded here: Nobilis Erotica
The Story can be read here: Ravaged Angel
All stories for the Voices of Tomorrow Podcast can be read here: 365 Tomorrows
Direct download: Ravaged_Angel.mp3
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If David Kindt is so concerned about the graffiti on the railroad overpass on state Route 303, why doesn't he take his civic pride and paint it?
It sounds like he has more contempt for the city than the pride he speaks of. The graffiti contains no obscenities or anything derogatory. The high school kids are carrying on a tradition that our family has seen in the over 40 years we have been in Hudson. It actually makes me smile and marvel at the passage of time every year when I see the new class has left a harmless mark on the bridge.
You also might show a little respect to the city workers. Just because their wages are "tax-paid" doesn't make them your slaves to "order." They are professionals paid to a job. Hopefully, when spring finally arrives you'll cheer up a little. Sheesh!
Marty Boise, Hudson
City waiting on railroad's response to latest track of graffiti
Letter: Resident wants graffiti erased off bridge on West Streetsboro Road
Letter: Reader defends parents in response to graffiti letter


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every good geek has a touch of ocd in at least one area. me, i like themes: for websites, dinner parties, my mac replacement interface, a collection of essays, a music collection. oh, and gift-giving. this year, i've decided on usb nonsense. emphasis on nonsense: no drives, mice, keyboards, or anything remotely useful.
here are my top ten picks for usb-gift-giving (and receiving); not because top ten is alliterative, trite, and traditional, but because it's the average of the twelve days of christmas and the eight nights of hanukkah. these aren't hands-on reviews; i didn't wave my magic reviewer wand and get my hands on these things for free. many are available through several sources, and the prices vary–i've rounded the prices to whole dollars because, let's face it, us$14.99 is really $15 out of your pocket until you've bought 1,499 items at that price and then get the 1500th free.
1. i, snowbot
even young geek offspring immediately understand that this is a snowman robot. it continually scans its visual field–you can tell by the light traveling back and forth in the scanner strip. you can set the scan color (red or blue) and rate; turn its robotic, quickly annoying, vocalizations on and off; and pose its little articulated metallic arms. the traditional three-segment white body is accessorized with the traditional top hat and red scarf, and a generous 12-inch coiled usb cord.
exclusive to thinkgeek.com, $13 [buy]
2. colorful connections
usb cables with leds embedded in the connectors are variously advertised as helpful in "letting you know that the port is working," "more easily tracking which device is plugged into which port," and, i kid you not, "locating the cable in dark areas." the truth is, they're just cool-looking (okay, especially in the dark). usbgeek.com offers a pack of three cables in different colors (red, green, blue–and the cables themselves are colored) along with an am to bm connector and an am to mini 5-pin connector for $13. also check out the much-more-in-the-holiday-spirit option: blinking led cables. both types support usb 2.0.
3. hot java, cold jolt
gaming or working through a cold winter's night? keep your drink warm and add ports with a combined drink warmer/four-port hub. thinkgeek has one ("mug warmer" [buy]) for $13; usbgeek has what seems to be the identical item ("caf� pad" [buy]) for $17, as well as a port-less model for $15 [buy].
if all your hardware is heating up the room and you'd rather have a cold drink no matter the season, thinkgeek's beverage chiller is $30 [buy]; at xoxide.com, the same item is "regularly" $35 and "currently" marked down to $25 [buy].
4. more fluids near your keyboard
when you can't spare the time to stare at an aquarium screensaver, set up a real one and grab restful glances when you can. that's "real" as in "not virtual," not as in "live fish." led-backlit usb aquariums (roughly 3.5 x 4 x 2.5 inches) come with two tropical fish that swim courtesy of a water-jiggling motor; available at cyberguys.com ($10 [buy]) and thinkgeek ($20 [buy]–although it seems identical to the cyberguys offering). when you get tired of watching the same old fish, flush them down the toilet and replace them with either 6 mini-fish and a dolphin ([buy]), or four translucent fish and a jellyfish ([buy]); both replacement sets available through cyberguys for $5 apiece.
5. groovy
aquariums are restful, but they can't beat the hypnotic allure of lava lamps. the usb version won't provide organic-looking clumps of wax rising, cleaving, and falling; in fact, the glitter-based filling is possibly less related to the age of aquarius than to the age of disco ball, but what can you expect from a 6-inch tall usb add-on, anyway? and it can double as a night light! in clear, blue, or pink from firebox.com ($13 [buy]); usbgeek's version ($11 [buy]) doesn't have the genuine lava lamp ™ shape, but does offer cycling colors.
6. keeping your cool
forget standard usb fans if you're giving a gift–the staid models aren't silly enough. instead, check the variety at usbgeek.com. one flex-neck model comes with a choice of a baseball, soccer, or basketball base ($10 [buy]); another–gooseneck only, no base–has colors spilled onto its spinning blade by a red, green, or blue led at the blade hub ($10 [buy]); and, the perhaps easy-to-resist miss piggy fan ($12 [buy]). i suspect the last is infringing on some muppet trademark, although it's not the real miss piggy at all, but a generic female, cartoonish, pig next to a palm tree, which is the actual fan. (you don't want to give this as a hannukah gift, since the pig is, as they say, trayf.)
7. right to the point
do you still use pencils? if you don't write with them anymore, you can at least use one to trigger the usb pencil sharpener's led "i'm spinning the sharpener now" light. as a bonus, you get tiny splinters and flecks of graphite in a handy container right next to your keyboard. (this might be better to give than to receive.) usbgeek ($17 [buy]) or, the isharpener&mdashyes, that's its iname&mdashat x-tremegeek.com ($10 [buy]).
8. not a shred of dignity
when you want to get rid of incriminating post-its or perhaps a few misprinted labels, what better way than with the capacious mini paper shredder? it even has a side slot that acts as a letter opener when you swipe the edge of an envelope through it. usbgeek ($32 [buy]). (the specs mention on, off, and reverse switches; this could really be a bargain if that reverse switch sucks the shreds out of the container and makes them whole again.)
9. missile (toe?) launchers
yup, usb missile launchers–why hasn't any government considered this budget-friendly alternative? three foam missiles, a launcher that rotates and moves up and down, ranges of up to 20 feet … annoy a nearby coworker if not a neighboring country. there are three basic styles: mainly military (usbgeek's $35 missile launcher [buy], identical to thinkgeek's $40 version [buy]); somewhat star warsian (thinkgeek's missile launcher, $40 [buy]); and the circus canon ($35 at firebox.com [buy]), which is both more pacifist and more sexist with its *sigh* bikini-clad-girl missiles. (okay, how many of you just realized it's not a guy writing this article??)
this is the only category with items that require more than a usb connection to work; they all use windows xp-compatible software. (i guess those apple commercials indicate that the nebbishy pc guy is more warlike than the creative mac guy.)
10. back to peace on earth
deck your computer if not your halls. as an all-purpose gift, try the holiday-neutral frosty snowperson whose interior led cycles through four colors (usbgeek $12 [buy]). there are lots of four- to 6-inches-tall christmas trees: a clear one with a blue led light from thinkgeek ($8 [buy]) that includes a star of david topper to swap with the default star to transform the whole thing into a hanukkah bush; a more subtle–just in case your giftee's taste runs in that direction–fiber-optic tree with soft-ish green needles and sprays of fiber-optic lights (usbgeek, $12 [buy]); and all-out decoration kits with a strand of lights to drape over your monitor, a christmas mouse pad, and a party hat (usbgeek, $17 [buy]; firebox, $15 [buy]).
user comments 3 comment(s)
|not really (12:02am est sun dec 10 2006)
these are all neat trinkets, but some of them i wouldn't really consider gift worthy. who would really enjoy getting a little snowperson for a gift? – by wjciv
|no, really! (10:59am est thu dec 14 2006)
well, at the risk of sounding defensive (since i wrote the article)…
it's odd that you picked the snowman, since i'm giving one to my 15-yr-old niece, my in-his-twenties son, and a retired friend. another friend ordered some for his office mates as the perfect non-denominational holiday-present-exchange solution.
frankly, i think everyone would prefer the missile launchers …
– by sharonz
|missle launcher (5:49pm est mon jan 15 2007)
i got one for my dad.
we are training it at the tax forms.
take that. – by salaryman


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Our Super Mario obsession grows
Last week we showed the orchestral J-Pop version of the Super Mario Bros. theme music. Now we bring you this video, pointed out by reader jtierno42, of the game re-created in stop-motion by some nitwit with an acoustic guitar and a recorder.
Mario Bros. Lego
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Still life, after all
On Jan. 19, just 10 days after the Baseball Writers Association of America denied 37 men a place in the pantheon of immortal major leaguers by refusing to elect them to the Hall of Fame, a pair of websites did something like the opposite, crediting two former players with their rightful positions in the larger house, the darker house, of good old-fashioned mortality.
On that day in January—a month named, incidentally, for two-faced Janus, the Roman god who gazed toward the future and the past at once—National Pastime reported that exactly 113 years earlier, in Brookfield, Mass., Boston Beaneaters catcher Marty Bergen murdered his family with an ax and then committed suicide. Meanwhile, over at FanGraphs, writer Carson Cistulli dusted off the sad tale of Al Thake, a 22-year-old Brooklyn Atlantics outfielder who in 1872 drowned while fishing in New York Harbor.
In postmortems of the postmortems, both sites made mention of the treatment accorded each decedent. National Pastime divulged that only one Beaneater teammate, future Hall of Famer Billy Hamilton, attended Bergen's funeral, while FanGraphs offered proof that no fewer than four obituaries were published in the aftermath of Thake's unlucky, untimely passing.
Tones and details differed across the obits, with one noting that Thake "stood high in professional fraternity for integrity of character and genial disposition," and another stating that the body of Thake, "of 293 Smith Street, was found on the beach"—a passage about as flowery as a line from The Plumbers Handbook. A third noted that the "melancholy occurrence" took place when Thake "fell out of the boat and the tide carried him instantly beyond the reach of his comrades," while a fourth claimed that he "was a good swimmer, but it is thought he got entangled in the fish lines."
What the obits had in common, of course, was the one fact central to a death notice and thus to life itself: the man had up and died. Like Bergen, though under wholly different circumstances, Thake had succumbed to the equalizing law of nature, the universal rule that inspired 16th-century artists to render unto posterity a vast collection of vanitas still life paintings—the tableaux often included bubbles to symbolize the brevity of life, and human skulls to represent the certain and indiscriminate nature of death—and ancient Romans to conceive of a timeless caution to peasants and patricians alike: memento mori. Remember your mortality. Remember you must die.
Jamie Moyer notwithstanding, baseball is a game best endeavored by relatively young men, players whose ability to hit inner-half heat or throw outer-half cheese has conferred upon them an apparent resistance, if not a seeming immunity, to Father Time and his odious sidekick, the ageless Angel of Death. The age-20 season of Mike Trout, for example, would seem a sturdy wedge against the well–chronicled and otherwise inevitable age–33 decline, a downturn that as far as Trout is concerned has been dispatched to unthinkable distance by a catch that will never get old, that made time hold still, that will preserve the boyish upstart in a moment spent waaaaaaaay above the center field fence, where, as a different ageless Angel, he will always rebel against the graybeard while resisting the demands of gravity.
And what about those headlong baseline sprints of the young Bryce Harper? You can just picture them, can't you?—the helmet flying off, the legs churning, the 19-year-old body trying to outrace, desperately, an opponent just dyyyying to kill the spirit he so immodestly embodies, a freshness envied by the elders and celebrated with every step its agent takes in defiance of their retaliatory pursuit.
You can say it's just a bubble, a vapor, smoke that will drift and vanish like all the impermanencies of every still life on Earth, but the paintings are still here, aren't they?—in permanent collections, before passing audiences, reminding every mortal of the fate that awaits him but also memorializing if not quite eulogizing the artisanal strokes that put a series of passing moments into the permanence of the framed vanitas. Cooperstown waits for this one, you imagine: Harper, heading there fast.
At the same time, those Brycian sprints look like deft warranties against the "anti-aging" strategies of an over-the-hill A-Rod, the secret nostrums and esoteric rituals designed to rescue a 37-year-old body from a hostage-taker—hello, human condition—that is consistently opposed to ransom offers.
It is strange to remember, then, that A-Rod, too, played in the majors at age 19, as did Tony Conigliaro, each so brilliant in the colors of springtime that he never could have foreseen the way his paint would dry, never could have predicted the way the world would eventually view him. And what of Ray Chapman and Cy Bentley? After debuting in the bigs at 21, each would see a final pitch in a way he might never have imagined, and each would add to an unfinished canvas—one that includes Thake's sad bubbles and Conigliaro's tragic skull—the specter of death and something like the opposite of aging.
Seasons are long but seem short in hindsight, collapsed into a handy series of summary capsules and clickable lists of synoptic numbers, but the players themselves move swiftly into our memories of them, our mental and sometimes material images of stunning displays of skill and power and mind-blowing speed, each delivered by arms and legs not yet ceded to the greedy clutches of old-age complaint, the gimpy knees and creaky elbows.
Stilled in the frames we hang in our halls, then, are the instant achievements of not-yet-retirement-age cells: Reggie thumping the third of three Game Six homers, his 31-year-old muscles forever poised in a quick uncoiling; Willie closing in on the World Series drive, his 23-year-old body always in a moment that prohibits eternal rest; Jackie Robinson sliding into a precious home plate, his 36-year-old toes always winning (or not!) what could have been lost, and always awarding to the host body an apparent amnesty from the brutal mandates of time; and finally, Robin flailing in an older man's armpit, his 26-year-old face pummeled into hilarious perpetuity by a 46-year-old fist.
Okay, maybe that last one's a bad example, but still, there it is, a permanent piece in baseball's collection of lasting impressions, and an image that steals from time's trajectory an instant when everyone is young enough to fight, when the pride of vitality is reason enough to bleed, and when, like Gilgamesh, grown men pull against the power of mortality to take the plunge toward the everlasting, because what else is there but to vanish, to be forever retired, to be cast toward the grave and away from the field of play?
Swept into permanence by the swiftest of passing actions, each masterwork—Jackson's completion of the hat trick, Mays' over-the-shoulder catch, Robinson's theft of home—seems indeed to have been a kind of magnum opus, the term ancient alchemists used to describe the process for creating the famed Philosopher's Stone. And what did people want with this Philosopher's Stone? Why, when their chances of obtaining it seemed pretty unrealistic, did they work so diligently to produce the magical substance?
The answer still echoes in the silly infomercials of today, with their facile pledges of never-ending youth, and in every religion that still promises what Gilgamesh briefly embraced and then permanently lost: eternal life. Mindful of the bill that everyone must pay, the alchemists claimed that by ingesting just a bit of the stuff, a person could cheat the Reaper and live forever, youthfully, with the speed and vigor of Mercury, Adonis and Zeus, gods whose power derived at least in part from their refusal to surrender to age.
Here in the real world, of course, no such elixir exists. Knees stiffen and postures stoop, regardless of the alchemy that some mortals seek, and sooner or later—though too often sooner—life pulls the plug on the thumping heart, even if that heart belongs to a big-league ballplayer and even if that player yielded exploits so prone to preservation that they will outlast the body that gave them life. And here today is the late Roger Maris, slamming No. 61 into the adhesive permanence of a U.S. postage stamp. Maris, who died in 1983 at a relatively young 51, wouldn't live long enough to see the stop-action snapshot of his record-setting swing take on the immortality that his body could never match, but he would live long enough to see it enshrined in the venerated canon of baseball imagery, alongside the deathless images of Mays, Robinson and Bobby Thomson, whose Shot Heard Round The World would eventually take shape as The Shot Seen Through Time.
And here for all time, just as he was there for a short time, is the young Flying Scot, his swing needing just 200 microseconds of a single minute—3:58 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, to be precise—of a single day—Oct. 3, actually—in the Year of Our Lord 1951 to send a Ralph Branca fastball into an image so timeless that it seems a keepsake in a precious public gallery, and yet into records so bloodless that they can't possibly speak to the bliss and heartache that they actually represent—real emotions, permanently divided and distributed by the tiniest slivers of time and space, that in many cases have gone to the grave with the people who carried (or dragged) them around for the rest of their natural lives.
Also left unstated—box scores are good at objective summary but not so good with predictive wisdom—are the future prospects of the 20-year-old center fielder who waited on-deck while Thomson sent that ball into the life of the world to come. Though dispatched in the instant to a portrait at home plate, he would eventually go on to hit some homers, steal some bases and make an immortal catch, but at the time he was just the Say Hey Kid.
Time and gravity. Einstein made note of their teamwork, and he was right: Together they've snatched the once and future Willie Mays and brought him back down to Earth, in the form of a figure aged 81 years and change, and yet the man is still the breathing embodiment of what he once was and what he will always be: that almost godlike figure in a picture we don't even need to see, a picture we can simply conjure from its place in the everlasting.
With it in perpetuity are other snapshots, both in color and black-and-white, of young men elevated into semidivine status not only by the outcomes of those moments but, just as often, of the body of work those moments represent. And here today is Gehrig, long before his everlasting speech, fixed in a follow-through so powerful that it hints at invincibility, an attribute that couldn't possibly be real. And here tomorrow will be Clemente, in the time before his flight, lifting the left knee high and cocking those powerful hands, the whole of his body coiled for that one pitch, that one fastball or slider or otherwise trivial curve, whose outcome might add its testimony to an inerasable number: 3,000, as it turned out, forever 3,000.
Gehrig and Clemente, like Bergen and Thake, were among the dozens of major leaguers cut down during their careers, each man's legacy arrested in mid-stride, it seems, and evermore illustrated by pictures that would never let the man go gray and by numbers that would never get past a premature finale.
Some were casualties of illness: Bill Blair died of influenza in 1890, Addie Joss of meningitis in 1911, King Cole of tuberculosis in 1916, Urban Shocker of pneumonia in 1928, Walt Bond of leukemia in 1967 and Danny Thompson of the same disease in 1976. (The list literally goes on.) Some players succumbed to other maladies – Austin McHenry to a brain tumor in 1922, Tiny Bonham to appendicitis in 1949, Harry Agganis to a pulmonary embolism in 1955, Darryl Kile to a heart defect in 2002. Still others, like Tony Boeckel, in 1924, and Nick Adenhart, in 2009, were victims of car accidents, and five players—Charlie Peete, Ken Hubbs, Thurman Munson, Cory Lidle and of course Clemente—sadly went down with the planes.
A boat accident claimed Tim Crews and Steven Olin. A dune buggy accident felled Danny Frisella. Homicide took Gus Polidor, Miguel Fuentes, Lyman Bostock and Greg Halman, and suicide claimed Dan McGann and Willard Hershberger, McGann following two of his siblings and Hershberger ending a slump in the most drastic of fashions. Killed in World Wars I and II, respectively, were Eddie Grant and Elmer Gedeon, and even if Grant's extraordinary story had already registered his retirement from the game, Gedeon's had not.
Other players suffered fates considerably less noble: In 1903, drunk and disorderly on a night near Buffalo, future Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty went to his mysterious death in a plunge over Niagara Falls, and in 1935, Len Koenecke, also drunk and disorderly on a night near Buffalo, had his time ended in an almost unfathomably bizarre skirmish.
Denied retirement, each player (except for the suiciders) left the game at a time not of his choosing, but it was Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman who on Aug. 17, 1920, earned immortality the hard way by suffering a fatal injury on the field, succumbing some 12 hours after taking a Carl Mays fastball to the head. Chapman left behind a lifetime WAR of 27.0, proof that while all men are irreplaceable, some are more irreplaceable than others. Each creates a void that other physiques will never precisely fill, thus consigning to nothingness the customized shape of hustle doubles and off-balance throws, but some bequeath to poor replacements—hey, Babe Dahlgren was good, but he wasn't Lou Gehrig good—truly unfillable shoes.
Replacement for Chapman arrived first in the form of Harry Lunte, who, after stepping in as a pinch runner, went on to amass a lifetime WAR of -0.7, and then in the person of Joe Sewell, who unlike Lunte and Chapman would earn a place in the Hall of Fame. Still, you could argue that Chapman left a mark more enduring than lifetime stats or even Hall enshrinement. His legacy, in defiance of mere mourning and in a departure from simple synopsis, would become more forward-looking than backward-looking when the ghosts of his fatal beaning inspired the chiefs of Major League Baseball to ban the dangerous spitball and to mandate the use of batting helmets.
You can be sure that Chapman would have preferred not to martyr himself to a future of life-saving practices, preferred not to have given his life, Christ-like, so that others might live. Messiahs are cut from different cloths, not from shirts that say "Cleveland," and mortal life in its earliest phases is a space in which to ignore the prospect of death, to defer to some remind-me-later time the truth of memento mori and the fact of vanitas still life. But Chapman might rest in a sweeter peace were he to know of his posthumous contribution—that men like Ron Cey, Mike Piazza, David Wright and Ian Kinsler are still around to enjoy the game, reaping the spoils of retirement or striving to create lasting proofs of their time on the field of play. History suggests that if not for the helmet, their stories might have ended in the dirt.
But chaos still favors the margins of baseball, patrolling the narrow dividers between victory and ultimate defeat: One player whom Chapman's ghost could not save, and whom youth could not resurrect, was Tony Conigliaro. On Aug. 18, 1967, at a time when the 22-year-old Red Sox outfielder had already amassed 104 big-league homers, Conigliaro suffered major damage to his left retina when hit by a fastball just below the helmet. Severely impaired, he missed the rest of that season and all of the next before returning in 1969 and posting career-best numbers in 1970, only to fall victim to compromised eyesight in 1971 and leave the sport. He would return, briefly, in 1975, but by then he was a sad ghost of his former self.
At 30—an age when Jamie Moyer had posted just 36 of his eventual 269 big-league wins—Conigliaro would retire, leaving unfinished what might have been a Hall of Fame career. (For his part, Hamilton would quickly develop a fear of pitching inside and, after posting an 0-5 record and 6.49 ERA in 1969, leave the game for good.) Seven years later, at 37, the onetime teenage rookie would suffer a heart attack and a stroke and then spend the rest of his life in a vegetative state before passing away, in 1990, at 45—an age when Moyer would post a 3.71 ERA and a 16-7 record.
Longevity is a contract that no one can claim; epitaphs and stat lines wait with equal urgency in the same class of margins that divide home runs from fly balls, safe calls from outs. In the end, what lasts is what you could never quite foresee. And so the viewer is left to ask himself: What is my lasting impression of Tony Conigliaro? Is it his Topps All-Star Rookie card, a portrait that shows a teenager's eyes focused one some unformed future beyond the edges of the frame, or is it a later picture, of a 22-year-old man in a hospital bed, his black eye shut to what his right eye must see?
On Jan. 19, 1937, exactly 37 years after Marty Bergen committed a horrifying murder-suicide, Cy Young, Nap Lajoie and Tris Speaker each earned a place among the immortals by gaining election to the Hall of Fame.
On Jan. 19, 1961, exactly 29 years after Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis denied Shoeless Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement, and exactly 11 years before former Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax, at age 36, became the youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Rookie of the Year Don Newcombe announced his retirement, thus ending a once-flourishing career that had already stalled in a whiskey bottle.
Promising starts and premature endings, like first pitches and final outs, are inseparable from the sport of baseball, each anointing this date or that date as a happy or sad anniversary. No doubt, the two-faced god of transitions—of debuts and finales, of springtime hope and lifelong despair—presides as much over baseball as over other earthly endeavors. The facts of life are one with the game and guarantee its persistence through time.
New players will always replace old players before turning old themselves, and old players will always try to prolong their youth, through whatever means possible, before yielding to age and mortality. Koufax, like his successors Conigliaro, A-Rod, Trout and Harper, made his big-league debut at 19, signaling to the realm of possibility that a 300-win career had just begun, but after an age-30 season in which he posted a 27-9 record and a 1.73 ERA while earning his third Cy Young Award, the lefty succumbed to that most old-mannish of maladies, arthritis, and announced his retirement.
But Koufax, like Gilgamesh, has graced the Earth as both a historical figure and an epic figure, a man of the people who nonetheless played a central role in a legendary, cautionary tale while leaving for future generations a legacy of masterpieces to which to aspire. Today he is aging gracefully, and when his time is up he'll have his hereafter in Cooperstown. Ars longa, vita brevis.
Meantime, though preternaturally gifted and precociously introduced, the man we might call Ozymandiarod has tried to redefine biogenesis and stay "forever young," prolonging his mojo with pharmaceutical alchemy while boosting his Hall of Fame bona fides, which in a remarkably ironic twist appear to have taken a hit.
A-Rod can knock, but he might not get in. Sic transit 600-plus home runs.
In any case, long after A-Rod is gone from the game, talk of "legacy" will remain a part of his legacy. Math will still merge with biography to weigh on the keepers of fame, and myth will have its junction with fact. And so the viewers will continue to ask: How will we remember these players? Will we remember Marty Bergen as a catcher-turned-killer, or as an example that gifted athletes are not immune to the problems of the world? Will we remember Billy Hamilton as a player who stole 100-plus bases in each of his first three full seasons en route to the Hall of Fame, or as a man so reverent of humanity that he attended the funeral of a fatally troubled teammate?
And what of Charlie Peete? Will we remember him as a player we never had a chance to remember, or as a man we shouldn't forget? Is he a lost prospect in a grainy photo, or a testament to what might happen and to what will?
And how about Miguel Fuentes? Will we remember the right-hander as the answer to a trivia question? Who threw the final pitch for the Seattle Pilots? Or might we recall him with a question much less trivial? Why must promise sometimes be snuffed?
We know for the most part how we'll remember, say, the Say Hey Kid and The Luckiest Man On The Face Of The Earth, but no one knows for certain how we'll look back on the likes of Mike Trout and Bryce Harper. Their images have taken shape, no doubt, but have yet to finish forming.
Once the season begins, we can wonder if the moments they produce, rather than the proofs of that production, are enough to sustain their passion for the game, or if the prospects of immortal images and everlasting plaques are the engines that drive them upward and onward, the motors that make their young cells go. Meanwhile, the players might realize that the most rabid of fans are kind of right: Baseball is just a game, sure, but it's still life and death. Every instant, after all, is the beginning of the end, and every end begins always.
Take Al Thake. On Aug. 9, 1872, at Hartford Trotting Park, the 22-year-old left fielder went 2 for 5 at the plate, with one RBI and one run scored, against eventual loser Cy Bentley. Twenty-six days later, Thake was dead.
As for the 21-year-old Bentley, he would end the season—and his career—with a record of 2-15 and an ERA of 6.06. Some seven months after delivering a final pitch to Thake, the pitcher would die of tuberculosis.
To his credit, he did complete 14 of the 17 games he started.
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Living in Texas as you do,I'm surprised that you made no mention of Jay Dahl,the only one time big leaguer to die while still a teenager.I can still recall listening to the game in which he pitched against the Mets for the Colts,who that night played the only rookie lineup ever.
Of course Roger Maris couldn't see his likeness on a stamp. At the time his stamp was issued, the Post Office had a rule that no one could be pictured on a stamp until he or she had been deceased for 10 years (except for Presidents of the United States, who traditionally have been commemorated the year after they die).


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Mustangs Edge Titans, 18-17
Nov. 28, 2007
Fullerton, Calif. - Cal Poly's Chad Mendes (141) scored a 10-2 major decision over Cal State Fullerton's Teddy Astorga in the second to the last wrestling match of the night to lift the Mustangs to an 18-17 Pac-10 win at Titan Gym Wednesday night.
The Mustangs won each of the first three matches on the night jumping out to an early 10-0 lead, started by Chase Pami's (157) 12-4 major decision in the night's first match. Ryan Williams (165) and Evan Barbre (174) each followed with decisions over Fullerton's Bryan Tice and Ryan Budd, respectively.
The Titans battled back to tie with Wins by Ian Murphy (184), John Drake (197) and heavyweight Wade Sauer. Murphy scored one of the Titans two major decisions on the night, beating Yuri Kalika 8-0. Ranked No. 3 in the country, Sauer outlasted Cal Poly's Jim Powers by a score of 8-2, tying the match at 10-10.
Late addition, Boris Navachkov, followed at the 125 weight class with an 11-1 major decision over Fullerton's Sean Roman-Marin to give Cal Poly the late advantage.
In the most exciting match of the evening, the Titans' T. J. Dillashaw (133) took down Filip Navachkov with 15 seconds remaining in the third period to tie, and earned another point for riding time to capture the 7-6 victory.
Mendes's Major decision then left Fullerton's Morgan Atkinson (149) in a tough spot with Fullerton Trialing by five points at 18-13. Atkinson did earn a major decision with a 12-4 score over Eric Maldanado, but it wasn't enough as the Pac-10's No. 2 team upset the leading Titans by one point.
The Titans' next action will be Friday and Saturday, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, at the Cliff Keen Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev.
Cal Poly def. Cal State Fullerton, 18-17
157 - Chase Pami (CP) def. Paul Tice (CSF), major dec., 12-4
165 - Ryan Williams (CP) def. Bryan Tice (CSF), dec., 5-3
174 - Evan Barbre (CP) def. Ryan Budd (CSF), dec., 9-4
184 - Ian Murphy (CSF) def. Yuri Kalika (CP), major dec., 8-0
197 - John Drake (CSF) def. Arturo Basulto (CP), decision, 7-4
HVY - Wade Sauer (CSF) def. Jim Powers (CP), decision, 8-2
125 - Boris Navachkov (CP) def. Sean Roman-Marin (CSF), major dec., 11-1
133 - T. J. Dillashaw (CSF) def. Filip Navachkov (CP), decision, 7-6
141 - Chad Mendes (CP) def. Teddy Astorga (CSF), major dec., 10-2
149 - Morgan Atkinson (CSF) def. Eric Maldanado (CP), major dec., 12-4


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Romney could attack Perry over Social Security in Florida
Mitt Romney has seen his lead erased by Rick Perry and can no longer afford to be complacent about it, so he's carefully wading into attack mode. "I am a conservative businessman. I have spent most of my life outside of politics, dealing with real problems in the real economy. Career politicians got us into this mess and they simply don't know how to get us out," he said during a speech today in San Antonio.
But the Romney campaign is preparing a more aggressive attack in Florida based on Perry's condemnations of Social Security. A campaign official previewed the plan for Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen.
If Perry fails to implode and continues to surge in the polls, Romney eventually will have to go on the attack — an assault his advisers say will commence "at a time of our choosing." Romney strategists are quick to note that in his book, "Fed Up!," Perry writes that "By any measure, Social Security is a failure" and calls the program "something we have been forced to accept for more than 70 years now" that was created "at the expense of respect for the Constitution and limited government."
Look at what happened to Paul Ryan when he proposed a plan to save Medicare, they say. Romney's campaign will argue that Perry is against the very idea of Social Security and Medicare, and that he will use Perry's book to scare seniors in early-primary states with large retiree populations, such as Florida and South Carolina.


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ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced the expansion of its TL 9000 Certification across facilities and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) product categories. The TL 9000 Quality Management System (QMS) standardization has now been achieved for four design and operations locations in Germany, as well as the hiX 5600 product portfolio and the Access Integrator Ethernet (ACI-E) service management platform. ADTRAN has also been recognized with recertification for sixteen current product categories from its Enterprise and Carrier Networks divisions. With accelerated growth in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) market, ADTRAN took steps to ensure that its processes and products serving regions around the globe meet the same high quality requirements for design, development, production, delivery and service across ADTRAN's entire solution portfolios. The addition of the German facilities in Berlin, Munich, Bruchsal and Greifswald brings the total to nine global operations centers that have successfully been certified as part of ADTRAN's multi-site registration. "The TL 9000 certification recognizes the best of industry vendors in terms of overall hardware, software and services quality. The systematic and repeatable framework at the foundation of the certification is instrumental for companies as they look to increase global productivity, optimize resources, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction," said Fraser Pajak, CEO of QuEST. "For vendors such as ADTRAN, expanding the certification showcases its innovation and dedication to ensuring a high standard of quality for its products and services. With the certification, ADTRAN customers can rest assured knowing the company is taking the necessary steps to meet their demands for satisfaction and performance." "As one of the world's leading broadband solutions suppliers, we view our commitment to quality to all of our customers as our first priority," said Dr. Eduard Scheiterer, managing director of ADTRAN GmbH. "The expansion of the TL9000 certification to include our EMEA focused products and processes, as well as the recertification of our existing TL9000 Management system, gives our partners and suppliers the assurance of top-quality hardware, software and services."
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Dunkin' Donuts has signed a multi-unit store development agreement with new franchisees Wendover Donuts LLC to develop five restaurants in North and South Greensboro, North Carolina.
Greensboro, N.C. - The Fresh Market said Wednesday it has entered into agreements to lease four new store locations that are currently operated as Rice Epicurean Markets, a family-owned specialty food retailer based in Houston.
Rice Epicurean Markets will continue to operate the stores through the end of the year, and will close these four stores during the first quarter of 2013.
The Fresh Market said it has promoted Sean Crane to executive VP and COO, reporting directly to Craig Carlock, president and CEO.
Greensboro, N.C.-based Tanger Factory Outlet Centers and Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group announced Thursday that they have entered into a 50/50 joint venture agreement to develop a Tanger Outlet Center south of Houston, in Texas City.
New York City-based Centro Properties Group said that Christmas Tree Shops has opened a 33,500-sq.-ft. store at Wendover Place Shopping Center, in Greensboro, N.C.
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Tevez returns but no Mancini apology
Carlos Tevez arrived at the Manchester City's Carrington training ground on Valentine's evening just as his manager Roberto Mancini had left for the day, leaving the pair's dispute unresolved.
Tevez arrives back at Man City
• Tevez: Mancini treated me like a dog
• Tevez back in England for talks
ESPNsoccernet has been told Tevez arrived at City's training complex around 15.55pm, shortly after Mancini had left for the day, and spent an hour with the club doctor.
The doctor assessed Tevez's fitness, but there is no indication, as yet, that this is a prelude to the striker playing again. Nor has there been any suggestion that Mancini deliberately snubbed Tevez's long awaited return.
"The manager would not have been expected to be at the training ground that late," a source told ESPNsoccernet.
There was no face-to-face meeting, although it is unclear if the pair have spoken on the phone, or through third parties, since Tevez landed back in the UK.
During their initial dispute back in October, Mancini unexpectedly invited Tevez to his home when it seemed the pair would never speak again. There, the manager is believed to have demanded an apology only for Tevez to refuse point blank.
An apology seems to be the deal-breaker and as yet there is no official sign of it - yet the pair are getting closer to sorting out their differences.
The plan is that Tevez and Mancini will meet up on Wednesday morning, before the manager leaves with the team for City's Europa League match with FC Porto.
There is an appeal lodged with the Premier League against Tevez's initial punishment, despite suggestions that the player's camp will drop it, and ESPNsoccernet can reveal that City are not softening on their side on that front. Tevez has lost over £9 million in wages and bonuses through his self-imposed exile.
City have been requesting Tevez's return in writing since he went AWOL and there has been no sudden about turn by the football club. Indeed, the club are not pushing to have him back to help their league campaign.
He is back in Manchester because after he and his advisors had agreed a deal with AC Milan, they assumed City would drop their price or loan him out at the death of January's transfer window. The collapse of that deal left Tevez without football, and without wages either.
"We were not prepared to do that," said a highly-placed City source. "Tevez has nowhere to go and that is why he is back."
The club's Abu Dhabi owners have made it clear that if City didn't get fair market value for him, then he would be required to honour his contract. That runs out in the summer of 2014, so Tevez's waiting game could conceivably last until then.
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Check out this week's episode of "Creep Show.' It's almost as scary as that scene in the titular 1982 horror film where Hal Holbrook feeds his wife to a monster that lives in a crate under the stairs.
The title of this week's show, 'Evile Has No Boundaries' is fashioned after a 1983 song by Slayer. That's because our guest artists are guitarist 'Ol' Drake and bassist Mike Alexander of Evile, whose 2007 debut, 'Enter the Grave,' was the best Slayer-inspired offering we've heard since Demiricous' 2006 record 'One.' Evile have since expanded their thrash boundaries and are ready to attack us with their second album, 'Infected Nations,' which comes out Sept. 22. During our conversation with Evile, the guys talked about why they don't want to sound exactly like early Slayer, why ex-Metallica producer Flemming Rasmussen didn't join them in the studio this time, how Drake broke his jaw last year and why Drake and his brother, vocalist Matt, don't fight like the guys in Chevelle.
During the show, we also addressed this week's top news headlines, including Cradle of Filth getting pelted onstage with gobstoppers, the continuation of As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis' Arnold Schwarzenegger spoof band Austrian Death Machine, rumors about a North American Faith No More tour and the untrue — but totally plausible — Black-Dahlia-ass-kicking exploits of Marilyn Manson.
In addition, we discussed the latest CD releases, including the jawdropping swansong from Burnt by the Sun, the top-selling new record by Otep, and albums by Emmure and Gwar.
Panelists for this week's "Creep Show' were Noisecreep editor Seth Werkheiser, Revolver senior writer and Noisecreep regular Jon Wiederhorn, Noisecreep lead writer Amy Sciarretto, Noisecreep news reporter Chris Harris and MetalSucks.com co-founder Vince Neilstein. And when our panelists weren't totally kissing ass, they were as vicious as hungry pit bulls.


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HappyGirl - I love those Recyclebank Qs too! I was able to use a $5 off $25 order Q from Food Lion that I got in the mail yesterday. Yay!
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Special Art Show Featuring Children's Aid Artists
This spring, The Children's Aid Society was honored to be one of five UBS NYC community partners to participate in a special art show, featuring artwork inspired by the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative's "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia" exhibit. Students from the East Harlem Center and Community School P.S. 50 in the Bronx began their creative process by first participating in an inspiring tour of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Discussing the various pieces of art and diverse themes helped the students to begin thinking about their own art pieces. In the art workshops following the museum tours, the group used a narrative approach to creating their art work which was reflective of the Guggenheim "No Country" exhibit. The students' art from all five partners was on grand display as the My Map. My story exhibition at the UBS Corporate Gallery.
This is The Children's Aid Society's second year collaborating with UBS, a global firm that provides financial services to private, corporate and institutional clients. In 2011, East Harlem Center youth explored the theme "New York: Through Our Eyes" and had the opportunity to meet UK artist Stephen Wiltshire.
In addition to providing memorable opportunities for children to express themselves through art, UBS supports Children's Aid youth in their transition from middle school to high school and beyond through other engaging initiatives.


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I tried this at David's Tea today. It's not bad, but not something I felt the need to buy either (even at a 40% discount, though I am a little tea shopped out after Black Friday).
It starts out nice and ginger-y, not very strong but definitely present. It reminds me more of gingerbread cookies than gingerbread proper. After a while, the flavor becomes creamier, almost like dunking a gingerbread cookie in milk. A creamy, slightly ginger-y flavor lingered for about 10 minutes after I finished the cup. I think the big issue with this one is that it tastes too artificial for me. Oh well. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.


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Now that summer is in full swing, finding a fun, inexpensive place for the whole family can be tough, especially during dismal economic times.
Luckily, the folks down at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium got you covered.
For under $15, the aquarium features a dolphin show, otter presentations, educational movies, and an interactive stingray exhibit, to name a few of the delightfully entertaining and intellectually stimulating presentations.
The modest-sized aquarium near Clearwater Beach, offers a unique spin on the conventional aquatic experience because CMA doubles as a working animal hospital that rescues and rehabs sea creatures deemed unfit to survive on their own in the wild.
There are several rehabilitation centers within the aquarium where staffers and volunteers work to help various sea life animals regain their health. Most of the rescued aquatic life is released back into the wild, but a few stay at CMA as permanent residents.
"Each creature has a unique story as to why they are here," said Jeni Hatter, director of media relations. "A lot of the stories are really touching."
Visitors may need to bring tissue because you can expect to see turtles without fins, or orphaned otters, and a unique dolphin named Winter.
This tailless dolphin barely escaped death after her tail was entangled in a crab trap. Typically, dolphins cannot survive without their tails, but Winter has beat the odds and now uses a prosthetic tail to swim.
"Her story has touched so may people," Hatter said. "People come from all over the world to see Winter."
Now, the jovial dolphin swims along with the others during the daily presentations.
For an additional fee, visitors can take photos with Winter and have one-on-one sessions.
During my visit, Winter and I played an adorable round of peak-a-boo.
The dolphin performance is the major highlights at the Aquarium, but there are smaller events going on throughout that day as well.
If you'd like to walk on the wild side, there is stingray beach, where you can dip your hand in shallow water and play with stingrays.
Don't worry, the stingers have all been removed.
"You're able to pet all the stingrays here," Hatter said. "Most of the kids just love that."
If you're crunched on time, I would skip the movie presentation on Winter. Although it's a touching and educational story, you may have more fun seeing Winter for yourself during the dolphin show.
Also, if you are lucky, you may witness a surgical procedure at CMA because the public is always allowed to watch, through a glass window, as the staff attempts to treat wounded animals.
"We treat a lot of sea turtles and help them rehabilitate everyday," said Danielle O'Neill, of CMA.
Clearwater may be known for its beaches, but for a well-priced, thought-provoking good time, the Clearwater Marine Aquarium cannot be beat.
Whether you are 7 years-old or 77, there is something at this aquarium for everyone.


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TAMPA — During David Lee Onstott's murder trial this month, defense attorneys cast suspicion on the brother of the teenage victim.
Here's what the defense team couldn't say: Andrew Lunde failed a voluntary polygraph test the same day his 13-year-old sister Sarah was reported missing.
Polygraph results are not admissible as evidence at trial. Investigative records released this week show that the sheriff's detective who conducted Andrew Lunde's polygraph test felt he provided "deceptive" answers when asked if he had anything to do with his sister's disappearance.
Onstott, convicted and sentenced to life for second-degree murder, also failed a voluntary polygraph test on April 11, 2005.
During Onstott's interview, according to reports, he said, "I do not know where Sarah is now."
Prosecutors were quick to explain each man's test results.
They said Andrew Lunde later acknowledged he had been dishonest regarding his whereabouts because he felt guilty for leaving his sister home alone. Onstott, however, was in fact responsible for harming Sarah, they said.
"No one believes (Andrew) had anything to do with her death," Assistant State Attorney Pam Bondi said Thursday.
Prosecutors said Andrew Lunde had been consistent in his statements regarding Onstott.
Assistant Public Defender John Skye could not be reached. He argued during trial that Andrew Lunde, then 17, never told the same story twice, and that his lies led authorities to charge his mother's ex-boyfriend with murder.
Andrew Lunde told investigators he had left his Ruskin home about midnight April 10, 2005, to get Taco Bell food for his sister, but ended up hanging out with friends for several hours. Sarah was gone when he got home, he said. Onstott showed up around 5 a.m. with muddy shoes, asking for the siblings' mother. Told she wasn't home, Onstott picked up a beer bottle from inside the house and left, Andrew Lunde testified.
Sarah Lunde's body was found a week later weighted down by concrete blocks in an abandoned fish farm pond near her home.
The sheriff's detective who conducted Andrew Lunde's polygraph testified at trial that Lunde sobbed afterward, saying he felt guilty because he hadn't come home as promised that night.
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Dishonored: New Gameplay Video Is All About Stealth, Screens Are Disturbing
Dishonored's latest gameplay video shows how players of the upcoming first-person action title will be able to sneak around and stealth their way through the game.
There's new info on how players can stay quiet, hide in the shadows and potentially not get seen by a soul. Of course, you could also wade in all guns blazing, too.
Check out the video above, or check out the grotesque new screens, below right.


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Data describing the intricate details of how the Earth's system functions are the cornerstone of climate research and weather. When looking for foundational (or auxiliary) data, many in the global research community studying climate, weather, and Earth, ocean, and atmosphere interactions turn to NCAR's Research Data Archive (RDA). Maintained in the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, RDA offers a breadth of easy-to-access global and regional data sets, as well as first-class data archive capabilities. Moreover, staffed by those trained in atmospheric and oceanographic sciences, the team's combination of knowledge and skills benefit both the user and data-provider community.
"The RDA has long been known for high quality data curation, going back more than 40 years, and now has significantly improved data acquisition methods," says Doug Schuster, RDA Software Engineer. "Better – and broader – web-interface capabilities make searching for and handling data easier. In the coming year, not only do we expect to apply more computing to improve turn-around time on individual user-specific requests, but we'll have more than 130 Terabytes (TB) of data available online for immediate download."
Because of the in-house expertise of the RDA staff, users have direct access to knowledgeable consultants who are able to answer data questions and recommend data sets that best match research objectives. This in-depth knowledge is made clear through the thoughtful, researcher-oriented design of dataset and metadata staging, and organization of the RDA. The team also designs and writes software that is efficient for importing new data, exporting data to users, and is supplemented with codes and libraries that aid the researcher in their data analysis. This expertise proves invaluable during the quality control/quality assessment process; RDA's data professionals know how data should "look," which makes data content errors stand out more readily and helps eliminate incorrect data before it goes public or becomes widely available.
RDA personnel's experience also feeds into cultivating and improving the type and variety of data available to researchers. The RDA archive is largely composed of data acquired from other organizations so, among other efforts, the staff is tasked with identifying and pulling together data sets that would benefit the science community, and broaden the reach of a researcher's data set to others working in the same as well as in other, complementary fields. RDA staff is well equipped to identify new datasets that either tie strongly into the existing archive or fill in gaps of knowledge that would benefit the larger research picture as well as individual scientists.
In addition to serving up, archiving, and providing data quality control, RDA is tasked with identifying useful data sets generated by those within the science community. RDA supports the scientists and organizations that deliver data to the RDA archive, ensuring data integrity as information is transferred between provider and archive. Upon receiving permission for data distribution, RDA then facilitates convenient, straightforward data access for users.
RDA relieves data providers from the bulk of the necessary data support tasks, and also acts as the first point of contact for users, offering answers to many of the scientific questions that arise, providing insights on the most effective data manipulation software tools, and creating documentation and metadata that are both meaningful to users and accurate from the provider's perspective.
Time Period
Highest Resolution
NCEP/NCAR Global Atmospheric Reanalysis
1948-2010 (ongoing)
6 hours
T62 (209km)
17 Plvl
NCEP/DOE Global Atmospheric Reanalysis
1979-2008 (ongoing)
6 hours
17 Plvl
ECMWF Re-Analysis 40-year (ERA-40)
6 hours
23 Plvl
NCEP North America Regional Reanalysis
1979-2009 (ongoing)
3 hours
32 (km)
29 Plvl
Japanese Reanalysis (JR-25/JCDAS)
1979-2009 (ongoing)
6 hours
23 Plvl
ECMWF Interim Reanalysis (ERA-I/ECDAS)
1989-2009 (ongoing)
6 hours
37 Plvl
NOAA-CIRES 20th Century Reanalysis
6 hours
2° x 2°
28 Plvl
NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis, Atmos.
NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis, Ocean
1979-2009 (ongoing)
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T362 (38km)
0.25°– 0.50°
64 Plvl
40 Zlvl
Table 1: Global atmospheric and oceanographic re-analyses are one of many valuable data resources provided by external organizations that employ the expertise of RDA consultants and are the most recent major reanalyses available in the Research Data Archive. Most time periods are ongoing, that is, providers continue to produce the products gong forward in time. In general, all reanalyses also have lower temporal and horizontal resolutions than those shown above. Most reanalyses also have variables on vertical model coordinate levels, as well as large numbers of surface specific fields, and vertically integrate values.
Among the most recent data access efforts, RDA has developed and continues to enhance machine-to-machine interoperability. Most data sets in the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Gridded in Binary (GRIB) format are accessible using the Client URL Request Library (cURL) and common Internet protocols. This format and capabilities allow users to extract specific grids from across multi-terabyte archives in the RDA. For first-time users of a particular dataset, web interfaces are available to help choose the temporal range and parameters they require. From these specifications data download scripts are automatically generated, which can then run on the user's host computer and are easy to modify as research goals expand and to accommodate arrival of new data to RDA's continually growing archive.
"While ease of access is important to our users, we find that it's critical to balance efforts to facilitate data access with adding data content," says Steve Worley, Manager, Data Support Section. "Because one without the other will certainly disappoint our users."
Always striving to get better, RDA data access has made substantial gains in the past five years, says Worley, and this growth and change will continue in the years to come, just as user expectations and the data service challenges continue to evolve. Plans for the RDA in 2010 include expanding the existing online data archive to 130 TB – four times the archive's current size. As resources continue to be added, the online archive will grow to more than 250 TB during 2011. RDA's online data service is supplemented by an easy-to-use request interface that stages data to disk for Internet download from archive storage. This capability gives users access to the complete RDA, which currently includes more than 400 TB of data.


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Mayor-Elect Perske To Be Sworn In As Sartell Mayor
SARTELL — Sartell mayor-elect Joe Perske will have the "mayor-elect" removed from his title tonight as he is sworn in a Sartell's new leader.
Perske, a six-year veteran of the city council says don't expect a big shake-up from his office in 2011. He says the city has positioned itself well for future growth, but must continue the planning by improving the transportation infrastructure.
Perske takes over as mayor after Tim O'Driscoll stepped aside to run for the Minnesota House of Representatives…a seat which he captured in the 2010 fall election.


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The man displaying politeness and courteuosy with a foreigner shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is not an island separated from the lands of others, but a continent that joins them.
Hi! Mi name is Juan Pablo, I'm not attractive at all, not photogenic either. My best friend is a clawn who gives me some advices. He's got eyes of a frog and he lives inside my ear. He talks too much and sometimes he bothers himself and when I ask him anything, he almost never answers me back but he can give his life for me and I give my life for him. We know that there exists a disparity around our circle/neighborhood.
People think that I am weird. Just because I go running round the city with my notebook beside talking to dogs, wearing short pants and some cowboy's boots with an umbrella in my hand and a bullfighter's hat in my head.
But I'm not completely weird, I (can) talk to people too. I tell them lots of lies just to game/trick with their minds. I like to tell them bad directions for the path/place they're looking for in order that they get always late to the place they need to go.
I walk beside two fairy godmothers flying high with them and then we pass by people, making funny faces to them and they get confused.
I love to walk all alone because, that way, I'm allowed to talk to the wind. All is alright even if I know I can explode suddenly as a mine from the Second World War.
I am psychomaniac and antisocial.
Right after I greet you I wash my hands with antibacterial soap.
I also fear the shadows and because of them, I dare not to go to the bathroom. But this is normal, because I'm just 22 year old.
However, I ride my bicycle, and don't talk to strangers
I'm in good humor, feeling quite happy and I'm feeling breathful/willing.
I know my face is looking a bit serious but I am happy. I'm going to play with my friends in the cemetery. By the way, I'm in love with one of those friends. One year ago she died suddenly without leaving traces and witness. She is a beautiful girl with a violet/pale coloured face and every night she goes with me riding bicycle. She can't talk because she is deaf and dumb.
And so, people think that I'm talking by myself and they think I'm needing help. =)
Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing
1) Enrique Peña y Lillo -27- Feb. 2011. (La Serena, Chile)
2) Nolwenn Bodin -21- Feb. 2011. (Bovage, France)
3) Christiny Miller -19- Feb. 2011. (St. Luis, USA)
& Meagen Lanier -20- Feb. 2011. (New Orleans, USA)
4) Chealsea Mangold -20- Feb. 2011. (San Diego, USA)
& Kaila Mclerney -20- Feb. 2011. (Hawai, USA)
& Reannan Last -20- Feb. 2011. (San Diego, USA)
5) Joaó Vasconcelos -28- Marzo. 2011. (Fortaleza, Brasil)
& Tiago Vasoncelos -25- Marzo. 2011. (Fortaleza, Brasil)
6) Annika Roos -25- Marzo. 2011. (Duisburg, DEU)
& Neele Seemaun -26- Marzo. 2011. (Cologne, DEU)
7) Julia Liesbisch Peschl -20- Marzo. 2011. (Berlin, DEU)
8) Alice Devenney -22- Marzo. 2011. (Dublin, Ireland)
9) Sarah Skarlicki -26- Marzo. 2011 (Edmund, Canada)
10) Amelie Seib -25- Abril. 2011. (Milano, ITaly)
11) Gabriela Ghillanyova -35- Abril. 2011. (Dubai, EUA)
12) Gwennale Joret -26- Abril. 2011 (Angonlene, France)
& Otille Simon -27- Abril. 2011. (Villerenve, France)
13) Aurika Valantonyte -20- Mayo. 2011. (Vilna, Lituania)
14) Alexandria Procter -18- Junio. 2011. (Porth Elizabeth, South Africa)
15) Marique Paquin -22- Junio. 2011. (Montreal, Canada)
16) Riccarda Koerner -22- Agosto. 2011. (Munchen, DEU)
& Lisa Monitz -21- Agosto. 2011. (Luemburgo, DEU)
& Uta Knierim -28- Agosto. 2011. (Hamburg, DEU)
17) Lena Alarcan Zeller -20- Agosto. 2011. (Laudan, DEU)
& Luisa Giere -20- Agosto. 2011. (Laudan, DEU)
& Rosanna Schynausla -20- Agosto. 2011. (Otterslein, DEU)
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Algo increíble que he hecho
Yao Ming Meme.
Países que he visitado
Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
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