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American Quarter Horse
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Though known as the first true all-American horse breed, the American Quarter Horse has gained worldwide respect.
They were first developed, in part, as a race horse and are named for their ability to sprint a 1/4 mile race faster than any other breed. Today, however, American Quarter Horses are prized for their athleticism and their versatility, loyalty, and classic, well-muscled beauty. Equally at home under saddle or in harness, American Quarter Horses and their unmistakable silhouette have become a staple on the ranch, in the show ring, or on the trail.
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The American Quarter Horse is, in part, uniquely tied to the history of the United States. The breed was first developed in early 17th Century Colonial America. Early colonists bred select horses of Arabian, Turk, and Barb descent that had been previously brought to the New World with those breeds then arriving from England and Ireland. The eventual result was a strong, heavily muscled, and compact horse suited to both farm work and colonist-favored short-distance races. As pioneers pushed westward in the 1800s, however, the American Quarter Horse gained new respect. With keen cow sense (or ability to outmaneuver cattle) and a calm disposition, the breed quickly became the preferred companion on the vast cattle ranches that developed across the plains. Today, the American Quarter Horse is known as the world's most popular breed and is favored for nearly every facet of farm life, competition, show, and recreation.
Stands 14.3 to 16.1 hands (57.2" to 64.4") high.
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The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), which was formed in 1940, recognizes 13 colors. The most prominent color is sorrel (reddish brown). Other colors include bay, black, brown, buckskin, chestnut, dun, red dun, gray (what most people call "white"), grullo, palomino, red roan and blue roan. American Quarter Horses are also only allowed limited white markings on the face and below the knees. These markings may be of a variety of shapes, including stockings, stars, strips, and blazes. However, no American Quarter Horse may have white spots or patches anywhere other than the face or cannon.
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Though compact with a short body and head, American Quarter Horses are defined by their heavily muscled body, powerful shoulders and hindquarters, and strong, sturdy legs. Their heads are finely chiseled and of a flat profile with a wide forehead.
American Quarter Horses are generally calm and docile. They are also highly intelligent; however, most are easily trained, handled, and kept. Because of their gentle and steady demeanor, the breed is an ideal family horse and well suited for the beginning rider.
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The American Quarter Horse is a unique combination of speed and strength. However, when combined with their gentle nature and versatility as both a work and pleasure horse, it is easy to see why the breed has gained such worldwide popularity. From the ranch to the show ring to the trail, American Quarter Horses continually please both spectator and rider with their sure-footed gait, agility, comfortable mount, and willingness to please.

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The Los Angeles district attorney, who lost the race for California attorney general, said Wednesday he isn't ruling out running for an unprecedented fourth term as head of the nation's largest prosecutorial office if a suitable candidate is not found to replace him.
Steve Cooley said in a post-election news conference Wednesday that he will evaluate candidates who file to run for district attorney and decide whether anyone is capable enough to warrant his support and persuade him not to run.
Cooley has more than two years left in his term.
After a drawn-out vote count in a tight race, Cooley conceded to San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris last week.
Cooley said "the 'R' factor" - his being a Republican - may have cost him in an election where Democrats swept California's statewide offices
He said both he and Harris campaigned hard and he wished her well in her new post.
With Cooley having positioned himself to go to Sacramento, other candidates were eyeing his office, he said. But now that he's not going anywhere, he said he likes his current job so well that he might stay.
"I'm not totally eliminating the possibility of a fourth term," he said, qualifying the statement by adding, "If there are good candidates who can do this job and do it well," he would consider stepping aside.
He acknowledged that he does not get to choose his successor; the electorate does. But his implication was that if he decided to run again he would win.
"If we are confronted with unqualified, disreputable people who just happen to be attorneys, I would stay to protect the office," he said.
"I love this job," he told reporters. "I will be happy to have someone sit in this chair as long as it's a quality person."
Cooley said he knows the names of people who plan to run for his job but wouldn't comment on them because they have not yet declared. He said some would be worthy of his support.
Meanwhile, Cooley said he was getting back to the business of his office including dealing with a federal court ruling that overturned the 30-year-old case of a man suspected of being the notorious Skid Row Stabber.
Cooley said he and his staff were already evaluating their options in light of the decision's scathing denunciation of prosecutors' use of a lying jailhouse snitch in the case of Bobby Jo Maxwell.
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If your pet's non-stop itching is waking you up at night, you're not alone. Veterinarians are saying this is the worst season for pet allergies in recent memory. KOTV's Dave Davis has some things you can do to help both of you get a better night's sleep.
If you have dogs or cats, you've probably already noticed it. Pet allergies are especially bad this year.
"Your Bermuda grass looks wonderful, it's growing like crazy. All your flowers are doing great. That's hard on your pets," said Dr. Kim Huckaby, of Bent Arrow Animal Hospital.
At Dr. Huckaby's Clinic, Bent Arrow Animal Hospital, she has seen a 20 percent increase in pet allergy cases from last year. Allergy concerns make up about a third of her case load. Dogs like Corbin are suffering. A while ago, he even lost an eye due to non-stop allergy itching.
"You can see the red skin and how the skin is really thick. It gets thickened over time because of chronic inflammation. The undersides of his paws are a really good example," said Dr. Huckaby.
And it's not just the animals who are having a rough time,it's literally keeping their owners up at night. Dr. Huckaby should know. She says her pug Howie had every allergy in the book for the better part of 14 years.
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And finally, pet allergies aren't curable, she says they're manageable. One of the best solutions is to wipe the animal's belly and paws off with a wet cloth after they come in from the outdoors. If it's severe enough, or if they develop a staph infection, they'll probably need medication.


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: Ed Cone and Glenn Reynolds point to a post from former Dean web siren and campaign shaman Zephyr Teachout about "financially interested blogging."
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: Ed Cone and Glenn Reynolds point to a post from former Dean web siren and campaign shaman Zephyr Teachout about "financially interested blogging."
On Dean
You're absolutely right. Starting today the FULL NAME goes on my site.
I thought this was known, hence my comment in your post yesterday. The guy currently getting bashed said his payments from the government was for advertisments, other bloggers were paid outright to do nothing more than shill during the election.
"If you are paid by an organization — for more than just taking ads, but for interacting with that organization — then you should not expect to be taken at face value when blogging (reporting/commenting/punditing) about that organization or its competitors."
And just how do you think the reader gets to even be in the position to judge whether or not to take said blogger at face value?
The very transparency and disclosure whose usefulness you appear to mock.
This is exactly why I stopped blogging when I joined the Clark campaign. They hired me to be the architect of their online community stuff, which is a job I gladly did. They did NOT hire me to be a mouthpiece for the campaign.
I saw my blog as being a conflict of interest while I was at the campaign, so it just made the most sense to keep my mouth/blog shut and do the job I was hired to do.
I also think that many of the bloggers who worked for campaigns, either as staff or as consultants were actually looking for a doorway to fame. Some of these people forgot to keep their ego in check and it ended up hurting them. By not disclosing that you were being paid by a campaign you are only hurting your credibility and possibly destroying your career.
I was working it for Dean long before Zephyr came on board the internet campaign, regardless of when I came on board financially. And while working on the campaign, I didn't blog (I did the campaigns online internet advertising), so where's the story here other than Zephyr making shit up?
thanks jeff for teasing it out. its hard to explain. and my name is now on my site, under the profile.
The whole point of blogging is to tell the world what you really think. So if you're taking money to withhold anything negative about some person or corporation, why should anyone trust you.
Armstrong Williams took money to support something he already believed in. I'm not so sure that it works the same way, but I am sure that I don't like the government paying for PR like this, since it muddies the message when it's discovered. What was the point of all those "I'm George Bush and I approved this message" tags, if not to prevent this kind of stealth PR?
What if the Sec of Ed had just solicited support openly from prominent media figures? I'm sure they wanted some way to get their point across to African Americans who wouldn't hear it from Jesse Jackson. Wouldn't that have gotten Williams to help without making it look like he was bought?
Regarding DailyDross and the others, you have to wonder how naive someone could be. If someone offered me money as a political consultant the first thing I'd do is try to figure out what the real reason is.
Well, this is definitely a big story. It's a free item on Friday in the WSJ. Bill Bulkeley and James Bandler chime in with an article that looks like it's almost completely derived from blog posting research.
Ah, that must be the article about which Bulkeley contacted me but then we never managed to hook up via phone, heh.
Sorry, I have to disagree on the name thing. There's nothing wrong with my name, but I'd rather stay with an alias, especially since quite a few people have been "dooced", meaning fired from their jobs because a snitch complained about a comment they've made on their blog.
"The campaign used these guys. The campaign knew that. But the bloggers didn't. The bloggers thought their wisdom was being sought out; they were paid to consult. No, they were paid to market, to flack."
Jeff, you ought to retract that statement immeddiately with regards to MyDD's Jerome, as he WAS NOT BLOGGING DURING THE PERIOD THAT HE WAS WORKING FOR DEAN!!!!!!!!! This puts Zephyr's whole premise in question. She says they were paying these guys more to blog, but one of them was on hiatus during the whole period which he was working for Dean. Although the same is not true for Kos, I think we have reason not to trust Zephyr's impression given this obvious error.
Keep shilling for the right by the way. All this about the media's mistakes re Rather, and zilch about the media's (more important perhaps) mistakes re WMD. Sorry dude, but you are turning into more and more of an instapundit wannabe.
And Zephyr, why don't you respond to Jerome?
hack: see later post above.
This is a hatchet job on powerful people by the right-wing. There are legitimate issues that Zephyr is bringing up, but she is being manipulated by the right and refusing to see it.
I make no apologies for what I do. I care about conversation and making the Democratic party part of the national conversation again. To make that happen I have to work for Democrats and get them to see the value of engaging aggressively with citizens. I have many right-wing friends, and we agree on some fundamental issues. Partisanship is not a barrier to citizenship.
The pathetic nonpartisan holier than thou approach of some is the problem here. Many want to see politics in a vaccuum, as if they are not dirty because they don't belong to a party, because they are nonpartisan. What a load of horseshit. Dante didn't dignify those who refused to follow a banner with a place in any region of the afterlife.
That's a very serious charge, Matt.
Let's see your evidence; be transparent, be journalistic: Exactly who is manipulating her and how do you know?
The problem is you have NO credibility talking about the primaries or the different candidates if you are paid by one of them.
Throughout the pre-primary and early primary season, all Kos talked about was Dean. Dean this, Dean that, Dean, Dean, Dean, with some Wesley Clark thrown in for good measure. He was shilling for Dean because his blog was so widely read, and it doesn't surprise me the Dean campaign hired him hoping he would do that, unwittingly, of course, given the size of the Daily Kos's readership.
I couldn't take him seriously and often ridiculed the site because of the obvious slant and lack of any perspective. After all, both Dean and Clark were both promoted by the fringe sector of the Democratic Party, and I was stunned with amazement ANYBODY could possibly promote them as presidential material.
Unfortunately, a lot of people did and DO take that site seriously.
Of course, this isn't even remotely on the same level as Armstrong Williams, not even close, and there are some who are trying to muddy the waters.
And that's the bottom line.
re: Matt Stoller's accusation.
Aw, c'mon, JJ! You know that Karl Rove is pulling the strings, he always is!
Seriously, thanks for mentioning your "hidden name" pet peeve. Bloggers should heed your advise, and I'm glad to see some doing so already.
Somebody help we out. Aren't we dealing with two nom de plumes here? Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox, Zephyr Teachout? Sort of undercuts her claims for propriety doesn't it, she has a nom de plume for her nom de plume! Plausible deniability anyone?


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Trace Adkins Announces Christmas Album and Tour
It's going to a holly jolly Christmas for Trace Adkins fans. The singer has announced he's releasing a Christmas album later this year, followed by a tour.
Adkins will release his first-ever Christmas album, 'The King's Gift,' on Oct. 29. The album is a musical departure for the singer, featuring Celtic carols that marry American folk music with such unusual instrumentation as weissenborn, mandolin, uilleann pipe, penny whistle, violin, viola, cello, harp and organ.
"This is the first Christmas record I've ever made, and I am so proud of this Christmas record, probably more proud of this than anything that I've possibly ever done with the exception of some of those really deep, profound military songs that pay tribute to heroes," Adkins stated in June. "But other than that, I think, for my money, this record has more depth than anything — and it's a Christmas record. I love this record."
Adkins will support the album with his newly-announced 2013 Christmas Show Tour, which kicks off Nov. 15 in Illinois and runs for 18 shows before wrapping up in Florida on Dec. 18.
The tour is another big departure for the singer. The theatrical production will feature Adkins sharing fireside anecdotes of both personal and historical significance, alternating with musical performances in which he will be supported by a 12-piece ensemble that consists of a quartet string section, female vocalists and traditional instruments.
Pre-sale and VIP tickets are currently available at Adkins' website. All tickets will go on sale Sept. 13.
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11/16 – Van Wert, Ohio – Niswonger Performing Arts Center
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11/19 – Red Bank, N.J. – Count Basie Theatre
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A new database at the University of California, Los Angeles, featuring hundreds of brain scans and other key clinical information will help researchers tease out similarities and differences between migraine, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, and many other chronic-pain conditions, UCLA Health officials say.
The Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress at UCLA will serve as the main hub for this new Pain and Interoception Imaging Network (PAIN); UCLA Health says it is the first-ever standardized database for brain imaging associated with chronic pain. So far, 14 institutions in North America and Europe are participating.
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on a fresh install of slack 13.0, i couldn't get samba to run. went through /etc/samba/smb.conf and made sure everything looked ok. i ran SWAT and checked the config, and everything LOOKED ok. but when i went to start smbd and nmbd, they would not load. looking at the log files showed errors like this:
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it was solved before i wrote it, so i just wrote the title that way... i just thought it might prevent others from headaches caused by the same problem.... i don't know if the installer wrote the file that way, or possibly the KDE config app wrote it that way. KDE config (i.e. "System Settings") seems to gum up the works a lot when it comes to networking configuration in general.
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Syracuse University's strategy to promote STEM programs doesn't mean other programs will be shorted
Kiran Ramsey | Senior Design Editor
The administration's proposed shift to promote Syracuse University as a leading STEM institution may outwardly seem like the university is giving other academic disciplines the short end of the stick. But the promotion of SU's STEM programs should be encouraged due to the quality of research and work coming out of these disciplines, and SU is right to capitalize on those ventures.
Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly's announced at March's University Senate meeting that she and SU's academic deans had discussed a proposal to establish a STEM branding strategy across the university.
Some faculty members expressed surprise about the strategy and skepticism about what it could mean for the university's other academic disciplines, especially those that fall under the "arts" category in the College of Arts and Sciences. Some said the proposal demonstrated a lack of transparency and failure to involve faculty members in significant academic discussions.
Transparency is not an issue at hand in this discussion, though. Wheatly, whose job entails promoting the university's academic disciplines, met with academic deans to discuss a proposal that she then delivered to the senate.
Faculty must understand this strategy does not mean SU is exclusively STEM-focused. An emphasis on the university's STEM programs would bring attention to a blossoming section of SU that is often overshadowed by the prestige of programs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Branding STEM fields and promoting the College of Arts and Sciences' liberal arts disciplines are not mutually exclusive. It makes sense to promote the STEM fields, which are highly competitive and profitable in the modern workforce, in efforts to recruit talented students and boost the esteem of these burgeoning programs.
It makes sense for the university to better brand its successful disciplines. Maxwell and Newhouse are a few of the colleges that have highly regarded reputations, and if SU's STEM programs have that potential, administrators should capitalize on it. There is no reason the university should hold back on promoting its assets, especially when it doesn't come at the expense of its other programs.
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Paul Dano To Star As Brian Wilson In New Biopic, 'Love And Mercy'
Brian Wilson is to be the subject of a new biopic that is in the works. Named after a Wilson song, 'Love And Mercy' will attempt to cover Wilson's entire life, from the earliest days of the Beach Boys through his artistic and personal struggles and recoveries. There will be two actors playing the music legend. Although the elder Wilson role has not been filled, Paul Dano will play a young Wilson.
The movie, first announced last year by producer/director Bill Pohlad, comes as the dust has finally settled on last year's highly successful Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Tour. The film script has been written by Oren Moverman, the man behind the unconventional Bob Dylan biopic 'I'm Not There. ' No word on whether the Wilson film will take a similarly offbeat path or not.
"I am thrilled that Paul Dano has signed on to play me during one of my most creative explosions and most fulfilling musical times in my career," Wilson told Rolling Stone. "I still can't believe how cool it is that my life will be portrayed on the big screen, and to have Bill Pohlad as the captain of the Sloop John B is amazing! It just makes me feel so humble. I can't wait to see it with a full tub of buttered popcorn."


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A Camden County man has been arrested for soliciting an undercover deputy to provide an animal for him to have sex.
According to the Boone County Sheriff's Department Cyber Crimes Task Force, 56-year-old Jerald Lee Hill of Roach, Mo., placed an ad on Craigslist indicating that he wanted to perform a lewd act with a dog.
The investigator exchanged several emails with Hill, who solicited the decoy to provide a dog so that Hill could travel to Columbia to perform sexual acts with it.
Lee arrived in Columbia and met with the decoy at Cosmo Park, where he was arrested shortly after 11:30 Tuesday morning.
Lee was arrested on suspicion of attempted unlawful sex with an animal and attempted animal abuse. Bond was set at $1,000.


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Meanwhile, Jason is released from jail thanks to a brilliant move by Spinelli. Don't you just adore Spinelli? Sorry, we digress. Back to Jason who races to the cabin just as Elizabeth makes a horrifying discovery.
On the other side of Port Charles, Carly implores Sonny not to marry Claudia but he's intent on following though with his plan. Sonny gives Carly a gun for her own protection and mentions that Jax is at Kate's. Carly is a loose cannon when she finds Jax and Kate about to make love.
Back at the Zacchara's, Johnny warns Anthony and Claudia that he'll walk away from the family for good if Claudia marries Sonny. Johnny later asks Lulu to go away with him. The Justice of the Peace arrives at Anthony's to marry Sonny and Claudia.
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Dave Wiffen received a BMus degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Music degree in performance (Jazz and Contemporary Media) from the Eastman School of Music. He has toured the United States and Japan with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and has performed with many different groups including the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London, Manteca, and The Spitfire Band. He has also backed up such diverse artists as Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Michael Brecker, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles, and The Temptations. He has been a member of a number of pit orchestras including the Stratford Festival and the Toronto productions of The Full Monty and The Producers. He appears on recordings with two-time Juno nominee Freeflight, The Big Band (Sony), and W.C. Handy award winner Mel Brown and The Homewreckers (Electro-Fi), among others.


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Mannatech®, Incorporated (NASDAQ: MTEX), the pioneer of nutritional glycobiology , and leading innovator of naturally-sourced supplements based on Real Food Technology® solutions, proudly announced its collaboration with renowned ultra-endurance athlete, Jason P. Lester, as the title sponsor of the M5M℠ China Run. Starting in August 2014, Jason Lester will run 2,500 miles along the Great Wall of China, one of the most monumental structures ever built, in order to raise awareness of the monumental mission to fight childhood malnutrition. Lester's goal is to finish the run within 100 days, requiring an average daily trek over rugged terrain equivalent to almost a full marathon per day. If his mission is realized, Lester will be the first athlete to complete the Great Wall as a solo runner. In 2013, Lester ran 3,550 miles across the United States, becoming the fourth fastest runner in 80 years to run from San Francisco to New York City. He is an author, business owner and winner of ESPN's 2009 ESPY Award for "Best Male Athlete." In 2011, Lester ran and biked 5,000 miles across the United States for Nike's "Journey for a Better World" campaign. Jason Lester has incorporated Mannatech products into his training regimen for several years, and attributes the company's patented glyconutrient technology with providing him with a competitive edge. " Mannatech's Ambrotose® product has been a secret weapon for me in competitions and training," explains Lester. "It has played a huge role in my training, recovery, endurance and overall quality of life." Jason Lester is an endorser of Mannatech as part of the Team Mannatech program. Mannatech's Mission 5 Million movement, or M5M, is focused on connecting five million children in need with five million consumers of Mannatech products. As a social entrepreneurial company, Mannatech donates servings of its proprietary PhytoBlend™ powder to at-risk children all over the world every time a consumer purchases product for themselves on automatic order. According to recent reports by the World Health Organization, approximately five million children under the age of 5 die every year due to causes linked to malnutrition. As the title sponsor of the M5M China Run, Mannatech is hoping to bring this catastrophic reality to the forefront, while also inviting the public to participate by sponsoring the M5M Run. "We're extremely excited about the impact this collaboration with Jason Lester will have to help in the fight against global malnutrition," explains Dr. Robert Sinnott, CEO and Chief Science Officer. "Our theme at Mannatech this year is 'Break Through.' As we pursue our vision of linking five million consumers with five million children in need, we're proud to be associated with the breakthroughs taking place to make this happen. What Jason Lester is about to accomplish speaks to a breakthrough in sports performance by combining talent, persistence, sheer will and commitment. The attention that the epidemic of childhood malnutrition will receive as a result of this joint effort will also be a true breakthrough in winning this fight for children all over the world." "Just recently, I joined Mannatech personnel on a trip to Guatemala to one of the orphanages that receives their PhytoBlend powder, and I witnessed firsthand both the ravishing effects of childhood malnutrition, and the difference the M5M movement can have on it, " adds Jason Lester. "I'll be running with the utmost conviction and commitment later this year, and boosting the awareness of how we can all help with just the simplest actions."
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I meant to blog about this ages and ages ago, but got squeezed for time. However, since the school year has started this seems apropo now, too!
Last year I did a Skype visit (I don't usually do Skype visit but I make exceptions for special cases) with the Al-Hamra Academy and as a thank you, they sent me this completely WONDERFUL book cataloguing their projects with Where the Mountain Meets the Moon!
Our Skype visit is even included:
And these pages just bring tears of joy into my eyes!
Thanks so much, Al-Hamra Academy!!!
Monday, October 17, 2011
on my desk monday
3 comments:
- anne said...
this is so AWESOME!!!!
- October 18, 2011 at 2:20 PM
- janet wong said...
Looks like you have a gift for Skype visits--you should do more of them!
- October 18, 2011 at 11:00 PM
- Grace Lin said...
thanks, ladies!
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This game was classified by the community with the following category scores - Violence=1/3, Sex=0/3, Mature Content=1/3. Devilsong is a third-person space dogfighter set in a dark future where mankind finds itself under constant threat both from within and without. "Deviljacks," the spacefighters of this era, speak of the siren song of space: the lure of freedom, fortune, and glory that calls the unwitting to venture out into its depths – only to find it cold, hollow and full of danger. They call this the Devilsong.
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Several former Pine Bluff police officers who left the department want their jobs back, according to Lt. JoAnn Bates.
Several former Pine Bluff police officers who left the department want their jobs back, according to Lt. JoAnn Bates.
Bates, the Pine Bluff Police Department�s public information officer, also directs the department�s Office of Professional Standards, which handles testing, background investigations and other functions for people seeking employment.
Last week, Mayor Debe Hollingsworth said officers who had left the department during the time former Chief Brenda Davis-Jones was in charge had applied for jobs since Davis-Jones was fired by Hollingsworth on Jan. 1.
Bates declined to say how many former officers had applied, or who they were, but said they would have to follow the same hiring procedures required of people with no experience.
Interim Police Chief Jeff Hubanks said he has received phone calls from several former officers who indicated they would like to return to work.
�I told them I don�t know what the future holds,� Hubanks said. �I�m here one day at a time, more or less. So I�m telling them don�t come back for me because I don�t know if I will be here but for the sake of the Pine Bluff PD.�
Currently, the department is authorized for 155 officers, with four of those being military veterans whose salaries are paid by a federal grant, and there are three vacancies.
Bates said six people were scheduled to be interviewed Wednesday afternoon by a review board in an attempt to fill those three vacancies.
The six had already completed written testing, a background investigation that included fingerprint checks with the FBI and agility testing required by the department.
Those passing the interviews will be sent for psychological and medical testing, the final phase before the names of those who successfully pass the tests are referred to the interim chief for possible hiring.
Those not selected can be placed on an eligibility list that will be good for one year, Bates said.
Newly hired officers with no prior experience would be sent to the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy at East Camden for the next Basic Police Training Class.


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Attorney says precedent set in Mica England case gives Vic Gardner standing, even though Texas law does not protect LGBT people
AUSTIN — A Tyler man is suing the Texas Attorney General's Office, alleging that he was forced out of his job for being gay.
Vic A. Gardner, 37, who'd worked for the AG's child support division for about three years, resigned in February after repeatedly being unfairly disciplined as a result of his sexual orientation, according to Gardner's attorney, Jason C.N. Smith of Fort Worth.
"I think it's so un-Texan to discriminate based on someone's sexual orientation, because Texas is a place where we celebrate the individual and not throw rocks at people just because they have the courage to take another path," Smith said. "I think it violates our constitution to discriminate against people because of the way they were born."
Smith noted that Texas is not one of the roughly 20 states with laws prohibiting anti-LGBT employment discrimination. But he said gay and lesbian government employees in Texas are protected by constitutional principles such as privacy and equal protection. He said this was established by a 1993 state appeals court ruling in City of Dallas v. Mica England, in which England successfully sued to overturn the Dallas Police Department's ban on gay and lesbian officers.
"The Texas Constitution protects government employees from being discriminated against based on their sexual orientation," Smith said. "I think it's important for people to know this. The constitution only prohibits this action by the government against its citizens, so for private employers, unfortunately, there's no protection in most places."
The Attorney General's Office didn't respond to a request for comment on Gardner's lawsuit this week. Gardner was unavailable for comment.
The lawsuit names as defendants both Gardner's former supervisor, Glenn Elliot, and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, and Smith said he plans to address the question of whether anti-gay discrimination is widespread in the AG's Office. Smith, who once worked for Democratic former Attorney General Dan Morales, said he believes Morales added sexual orientation to a nondiscrimination policy in the agency's employee handbook during the 1990s. But he said Abbott, a Republican who took office in 2002, removed sexual orientation from the handbook. Abbott has been an outspoken opponent of gay rights.
The lawsuit, filed Nov. 5 in Travis County District Court, states that in Gardner's last performance evaluation, dated April 21, 2008, he received an overall rating of "very good," one step below the highest rating of "outstanding." Despite Gardner's above-average job performance, his manager, Elliott, directed him to "not to be so out," the lawsuit states.
Smith said Elliot denied to other employees that he knew Gardner was gay but began to unfairly discipline him. Gardner, who answered the phone in the child support office and earned about $30,000 a year, is seeking reinstatement to a comparable position and back pay.
"If he [Elliott] denies knowing the person's sexual orientation, then he can deny discriminating based on sexual orientation," Smith said. "He [Gardner] was basically written up for things that he wasn't doing or things that other employees did on a routine basis, because they weren't wrong.
"One time they punished him for a call time, where I think they said his line was dead for 18 minutes. He was on a break. … That's an example of the types of repeated discipline he received," Smith said.
Johnson said he received the case from the attorney referral network of Lambda Legal, the national LGBT civil rights group.
Ken Upton, a senior staff attorney in Lambda Legal's Dallas office, said it's an interesting case that could have an impact on LGBT equality, especially if it makes it to the Texas Supreme Court.
Upton said there have been few high-profile LGBT employment discrimination cases in Texas since City of Dallas v. England.
"It would be very helpful if a conservative court concluded that this was a valid complaint," Upton said.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition November 13, 2009.


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(This is related to a previous post that I got resolved, but this is still an issue, so I am reposting)
On this page http://castlecommunications.com/category/publishing-terms-2/
The "Returns" entry is showing a thumbnail image in the excerpt, but the image is not on the page, so where is that image coming from? I need to get rid of it.
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Watch Decapitated's New Video For "Homo Sum"
Apparently it's a decapitating kind of day here at the Buzz Den. Since we've checked out Cattle Decapitation's new video for "Kingdom of Tyrants" we might as well indulge in Decapitated's official video for "Homo Sum".
In what is the polar opposite of the aforementioned Cattle Decap video, Decapitated have decided to go with a straight-up performance video with the lyrics cutting in from time to time. And not to be a total Grammar Nazi because I realize that English ain't exactly these dudes' first language, but I couldn't help but notice "learn" was misspelled "LERN" right there in big bold letters and I can't help but wonder why someone at the label didn't notice it.
But enough of that because you know I dig me some Decapitated and "Homo Sum" is one of my favorite tunes from Carnival Is Forever so I was pretty stoked when I heard they were making a video for the tune.
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China To Tighten Adoption Rules
Foreign Parents Must Be Younger, Healthy, Married
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BEIJING, Dec. 20 -- China has decided to tighten rules for foreigners adopting Chinese children, seeking to rule out adoptions by unmarried, elderly or unhealthy people, a senior adoption official said Wednesday.
The shift, which was outlined to U.S. adoption agencies early this month, appeared likely to have a broad impact on the growing number of Americans who travel to China to adopt babies, particularly unmarried couples.
Nearly 8,000 Chinese babies were adopted by U.S. citizens in 2005, and the number of applications for adoption has risen sharply, according to the Joint Council on International Children's Services, an Alexandria-based children's rights group.
New parents from the United States and Europe doting over Chinese infants have become a fixture in large hotels in this country, particularly in the southern city of Guangzhou, as they await the paperwork for adoption and U.S. passports. One Guangzhou hotel has installed a playroom to cater to the newly adopted children and their parents.
Tom DiFilipo, the Joint Council's president and chief executive, said the restriction against prospective single parents is among the measures with the largest possible effect. "We wish they would revisit that one, but it's certainly within their prerogative," he said.
The new rules, which are expected to go into effect May 1, appeared designed to ensure that Chinese infants end up in healthy, traditional families when they are adopted by people from the United States, Europe and elsewhere, said Xing Kaimin, who leads the department that approves adoptions at the China Center of Adoption Affairs.
In addition, Xing said, the pool of children for adoption has not kept pace with the demand from overseas. "We also have to take into consideration as a first priority the Chinese families that want to adopt," he said.
Xing said the new rules could be modified later if conditions change. As they stand, he added, the regulations will give last priority to adoptions by U.S. and other foreign citizens who are older than 50 and bar adoptions by those who are obese, disfigured or on antidepressant medication.
Applicants who are divorced or had their marriage annulled must wait five years after remarriage, and first-time couples must have been married for two years before becoming eligible, the rules stipulate. Homosexuals are excluded from adoption. Both prospective parents must have body mass indexes under 40 -- in other words, they cannot be morbidly obese.
Timothy Sutfin, executive director of New Beginnings Family and Children's Services in Mineola, N.Y., said the Chinese are entitled to "impose what they feel are reasonable rules on the process." He said the U.S. agencies posted the new rules because they wanted to keep prospective clients informed.
"You don't want to invite families . . . that are going to be excluded at the end of the day," he added.
The Chinese government has been criticized in the past for lax regulation of adoption by foreigners. In some cases, orphanages have been discovered selling babies for adoption. More recently, the official Chinese adoption center has worked closely with foreign agencies to keep the process centered on children's best interests.
Most of the children adopted by U.S. couples are girls. Chinese couples, limited by the government's one-child policy, sometimes give up girls in the hope of having a boy with another pregnancy.
Other children are abandoned by unmarried mothers and taken in by orphanages, which in turn funnel the children toward adoption by U.S. and European couples who, usually through agencies, seek to take in a child.
Ukman reported from Washington.


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I resisted watching Taxi to the Dark Side, the documentary on America's treatment of terror suspects that won this year's Academy Award as best documentary feature. The review DVD I was sent was sitting on top of my television set for a week reminding me — no, exhorting me — to look at it, but I kept avoiding it. I literally had to steel myself to finally sit down and watch, knowing how sickened I'd be by the subject matter.
The featured story was of Dilawar, an Afghan taxi driver, who was dead five days after he was taken into American custody at the Bagram Air Base in 2002. He was an innocent man, as it turned out, and not someone who had participated in a rocket attack on American forces as was claimed by the Afghan militiamen who turned Dilawar over. Still, the dark-haired husband and father spent his last days in an American military prison with his arms shackled to the ceiling, forced to remain standing, hooded and not allowed to sleep.
He was beaten so badly about the lower body that the coroner said his legs had been pulpified. His death was ruled a homicide.
We killed him — slowly.
The documentary, which will be shown Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, offers a stark description of this monstrous crime, including pictures of the prisoner isolation cages with the chains hanging from the ceiling and chilling admissions by those who joined in Dilawar's suffering.
They all said that this was what was done to suspected al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners. Dilawar might have gotten more beatings than others, but the techniques used to soften up detainees for interrogations were fairly uniform.
Alex Gibney, the film's writer and director, produced the film for his late father, a World War II Navy interrogator who is seen at the end of the documentary decrying the abandonment of the rule of law. At its most gripping, the film traces the way the abuses at Bagram migrate to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and the way officialdom tacitly and explicitly approves.
Gibney lays this nightmare of American brutality at the feet of Vice President Dick Cheney, who demanded a take-the-gloves-off policy toward detainees. And, "if Dick Cheney was the chief architect of a new policy, John Yoo was the chief draftsman," states the narration.
Yoo, now a law professor at Berkeley, gave the administration legal cover for its illegal acts. He will be a historic footnote to the story of America losing its way, as its most willing enabler. Yoo's work for the Office of Legal Counsel, where he wrote a series of legal memorandums justifying the abuse of prisoners, not only disgraced his position and his law degree but his citizenship.
The latest revelation is a newly unearthed memo from 2003 authored by Yoo that reiterates his contention that the president is not constrained by law in the treatment of prisoners, since that would trench upon the Constitution's grant of commander in chief powers.
It is an outrageous claim and one that gives monarchical powers to the president. But to give you an idea of just how extreme Yoo's views are, the documentary offers a snippet of a debate in which Yoo participated in 2005. When asked: "If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?" Yoo responds: "I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that."
Yoo's 81-page memo is a primer on how to twist the law to obtain a desired result. In cold, mind-numbing legalese, Yoo concocts a theory as to why federal laws against assault, maiming and torture, and international treaties against cruel treatment and for the protection of wartime prisoners, don't apply to captured combatants held overseas when the president has other ideas.
Yoo seems to think that as long as a torturer doesn't intend to cause intense pain or a feeling of imminent death, then even if he does, he can't be successfully prosecuted.
This kind of twisted logic metastasizes into policy authorizing enhanced interrogation methods and then into sadistic action.
America's chambers of horrors at Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, graphically illuminated by the must-see Taxi to the Dark Side, weren't the result of a rogue group of soldiers. It was all by design, emanating from the very top, and signed off on by the lawyers.


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You can say this about the 2011 Toyota Yaris: It's certainly been a consistent performer this year. Sales of Toyota's subcompact are down a full 50 percent on the year, reflecting a series of monthly declines that started with a 50 percent decrease in January and continued with sales drops of 53 percent, 42.1 percent, 50.5 percent and 56.4 percent from February through May.
The Yaris has been the weakling of the Toyota small-car lineup for a while now, but this looks like yet further ratcheting down of the vehicle's sales volumes after attracting 36.7 percent fewer customers in 2010 than it did in 2009, and selling a mere 40,076 units last year. That left the Yaris trailing the Chevrolet Aveo by more than 8,500 sales and the old-school Hyundai Accent by more than 10,000 units.
I know I've mentioned this before, but it's still shocking to me how a company that built its reputation on high-quality, fuel-efficient small cars like the Toyota Corolla and Toyota Camry can continue to have so much trouble in the subcompact segment. And remember, this is no short-term trend, either. The Yaris' predecessor, the Toyota Echo, was a complete flop, and that's really where the trouble started—for both the automaker's efforts in the segment and, perhaps, for Toyota in general.
Trying to Outsell the Tercel
It really starts with the Toyota Tercel, which ran from about 1978-2000, slowly changing in character from being a stereotypical "tin can"—that also happened to be Toyota's first front-wheel-drive car—into something like a smaller version of the Corolla. Which is exactly what it should have been. But the new millennium also brought a change of thinking to Toyota HQ. In a move that would see parallels a few years later when the automaker tried to establish itself in the full-size pickup truck segment with the Toyota Tundra, the company made a concerted effort to change customer perceptions of its products with a strategy (and a vehicle) aimed directly at reaching younger buyers.
Neither Toyota's "Project Genesis" nor the Echo exactly worked out as planned, but the company's push to bring down the average age of its customers laid the groundwork for the Scion, while the Echo morphed into the first-generation Yaris. (At least, this is the way things went in the U.S.; the Echo and the Yaris, and their original Japanese market predecessors, have a somewhat tangled genealogy because Toyota was marketing its vehicles differently outside of this country.)
The problem for Toyota was that, during the Echo's five-plus years on the U.S. market, the Honda Fit was establishing itself as a very strong competitor on the global scene. The Fit then went on sale here in April 2006, a number of months before the Yaris, and the rest, as the saying goes, was history.
The Fit created a new benchmark for subcompacts and truly set the pace for the current wave of new-generation vehicles like the Ford Fiesta, the all-new Accent and the coming Chevrolet Sonic. More importantly, an all-new model debuted in 2008 and raised ye olde bar even higher. The 2011 Yaris, in contrast, is still part of a vehicle generation that was introduced in 2005. And it shows.
At this stage in the game, the Yaris doesn't offer the premium experience of the Fiesta, nor the value proposition of the Accent/Kia Rio, nor the affordability positioning of the Nissan Versa, and it can't even fall back on a decades-long track record for quality and durability like the Corolla and Camry. That could lead to some nice deals for the right kind of canny shopper, but it's no recipe for long-term success—or success of any kind.
Previewing the 2012 Yaris
Things will start to get more interesting later this year or early next, when the all-new 2012 Yaris goes on sale in this country. The vehicle is already on the road in Japan and was recently revealed for the European market, too. There aren't a lot of details yet, but the Yaris' new exterior shows a distinctly Versa-esque design, its available powerplants will include hybrid motivation (for some markets) and among its inventory of tech goodies will be Toyota's "Touch & Go" in-car connectivity and infotainment system. Featuring a 6.1-inch touch screen, navigation, a rear backup camera and the proverbial much much more, the system could be an important customer attracter for the new Yaris—and boy, does it need one.


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City council votes to tweak Ottumwa's nuisance ordinance
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At Monday night's city council meeting, the Ottumwa City Council approved a nuisance ordinance, but an amendment made in the regulations did not get approved without dispute.
The original ordinance said residents could not park in their front yard without replacing grass with suitable material to park on, but city council member Brian Morgan made the motion for an amendment to allow residents to still park in their yards because not all the alternatives to grass make the city look good. Options that classified as acceptable replacements were concrete, brick pavers, asphalt or rock. Morgan says concrete, brick pavers and asphalt can be expensive, especially the prep work on the area, so that leaves rock for people who can't afford the other options. Morgan pointed out there's already an ordinance in place where the health department can tell you that you need to get your yard re-established or grass planted, and that he agreed with the rest of the ordinance.
â??It passed on a 3-2 vote,â?? Morgan said. â??I know Councilman [Mitch] Niner was really for not allowing parking in the front yards and J.R. Richards also voted no on it, so the amendment passed on a 3-2 vote, but the overall ordinance ended up passing on a 5-0 vote, so we were all on board with the majority of the ordinance. They didn't agree they thought there should be no parking in the yards, and that's fine.â??
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It's like an "Antiques Roadshow" dream come true.
The Rev. Steven Olson of Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Dassel, Minn., approached the Minneapolis Institute of Arts back in 2007, looking for advice on how to preserve a painting which had been languishing in storage.
It turns out the painting was by Ary Scheffer, one of the pre-eminent Romantic painters in Paris during the first half of the 19th century.
Scheffer's image - the figure of Christ surrounded by the afflicted and the oppressed - was iconic in its day, and it enjoyed wide circulation in Europe and America through reproductions.
However, for 70 years it remained completely unrecognized, residing in a town of just 1,300 people.
After a year of careful research and deliberation, the church is donating the painting to the MIA. In turn, the MIA has undertaken the conservation and reframing of this significant painting. It will now occupy a prominent place in the MIA's 19th-century paintings galleries.


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'Battlefield' songstress Jordin Sparks has spoken for the first time since Whitney Houston's death about what it was like working with the star in the hugely-anticipated movie Sparkle.
The American Idol winner answered a series of question from fans about working with her idol everyday in the remake of the 1976 movie.
"She was an amazing, amazing superstar and she became my friend. It was incredible to even be around her – she was such a sweet woman," Jordin said according to Eurweb.com.
The 22-year-old singer went on to reveal how she and Whitney connected emotionally and went on to share detailed memories of how the pair bonded.
"Something that I found out was that when she did The Bodyguard she was 22, the same age that I am now and Kevin Costner was so sweet to her and was so kind and just really wanted to mentor her and give her an amazing experience on her first film – and I found out that she wanted to do the same for me cause it was my first and it was something that I was nervous about and she really did that."
Sparks went on to share exclusive scene details of how Whitney would "have a little fun with her by making faces at her to try and make her crack."
Sparkle is set for release on August 2012.
Whitney was found dead on February 11 at the age of 48. The cause of her death is yet to be determined.
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The battle continues over the emergency contraceptive known as the morning-after pill, as the Justice Department announced it would appeal a federal ruling. A judge had ordered the age restriction be lifted so females of all ages could get the pill without a prescription. Jeffrey Brown talks with NPR's Julie Rovner.
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Nick's Six Picks: The Great Salt Lick
Counting down the top plays and acheivements from the week that was in your local world of sports, Nick's Six Picks for the first week of February.
6. The Boys from Blue River: The McKenzie Eagles continue to pluck apart the rest of the 1A classification as McKenzie is the last unbeaten team in the state, 22-0.
5. Boulder Over: Olu Ashaolu may have missed the potential game winning free throw at Colorado, but he delivered jam after jam in the home where the Buffaloes roam.
4. Throwback Behind the Back: On throwback night at Crow Friday night, the Cougars Brayden Anderson channeled Pistol Pete Maravich with the behind-the-back pass to Toby Tripp.
3. Buzzer Beating Beacons: The viewer submitted clip of the week, Lindsey Shearer of Northwest Christian University hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer to force overtime as the Beacons eventually won their first ever game against a Top 10 team in the NAIA, 73-63 over Eastern Oregon.
2. Watch Your Head!: The trials and tribulations of being a 6-foot-6 junior in High School. Creswell's Trent Pruitt about bonked his noggin on the bottom of the backboard after a vicious two-handed slam.
1. The Great Salt Lick: Oregon's Carlos Emory made his case to be the dunk of the year on this sky-walking alley-oop dunk on the Utah Utes.
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History Of Nora's Candy Shop Turkey Joints
This holiday season you'll have your typical holiday treats: candy canes, cookies and milk, 7 layer bars, and of course eggnog. Will you be chowing down on Nora's Candy Shop Turkey Joints? If you're a true Central New Yorker I'm betting you are. Christmas in the valley isn't Christmas without Turkey Joints.


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One of the most popular features of my blog Dog Show Poop is my list of Dogs2Watch, dogs that I think will be among the top-ranked dogs in the near future. There are no hard and fast criteria for the list. I like to recognize a dog that has had won at least one BIS, but not always. I deemed the Smooth Fox Terrier, GCH CH J'Cobe Kemosabe Vigilante Justice, a Dog2Watch after he bested the Sealyham Terrier, CH Efbe's Hidalgo At Goodspice, in three out of four meetings in Brooksville FL in January of 2009. I also consider the people behind the dog. If the breeders, owners and/or handler have produced multiple top dogs, I will always be looking for the next dog they put in the ring. However, many of the dogs on the list are bred, owned and/or handled by people whose names are only now familiar because the dog has been winning. I do edit the list from time to time, removing dogs that have retired. I do not remove a dog because it doesn't meet my expectations. Happily, more than 90 percent of my predictions have come true. Here are the dogs I have added to the list in the last few months.
The Smooth Fox Terrier, CH Absolutely Talk of the Town, first came to our attention in March this year, when the then 16-month-old bitch grabbed an RBIS and a BIS against formidable competition in Hanford CA. Taylor, the daughter of GCH CH Slyfox Sneaks A Peek, the 2011 and 2013 winner of the Westminster Kennel Club Terrier Groups, was bred and is owned by James W Smith, AKC's 2012 Breeder of the Year, and handled by Eddie Boyes, who also piloted Taylor's father, Adam. Taylor spent Memorial Day weekend collecting three consecutive BIS to bring her 2013 resume to six BIS and 13 Terrier Groups.
The first time the Afghan Hound, GCH CH Exlysta Aries Ciel Noir, appeared in the final ring he exited with the Reserve award in hand. That was back in December. Ryder and owner/handler Phil Schafmayer would visit the final ring six more times before picking up back2back BIS out on Long Island (NY) in May. Ryder would follow with a BIS in Wrightstown PA on the first weekend of this month and another the following weekend in Yorktown Heights NY, bringing his 2013 record to four BIS and 12 Hound Groups. Ryder was bred by Perry Rooks & Christine Anderson-Smith, who co-own with Phil Sharon Ferraro.
Our most recent Dog2Watch is the Skye Terrier, GCH CH Cragsmoor Goodtime Charlie. He is backed by the same team that brought us the winningest Skye Terrier in AKC history, GCH CH Cragsmoor Buddy Goodman. They are breeders/owners Eugene Zaphiris & Matthew Stander, owner Victor Malzoni Jr. and handler Larry Cornelius. Charlie just began his specials career in late April, but has already had four BIS and one RBIS in just six final appearances. It could be a really interesting second half of the year.
I hope you get out to see these and the rest of my Dogs2Watch. Maybe you will find a Dog2Watch of your own. And that's today's Back Story.


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Hillary turns Texas blue
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The Lone Star State is headed blue — the only question is WHEN Texas becomes a Democratic state. If Hillary Clinton runs for president, she will have a fighting chance of carrying Texas, which shares revolutionary demographic trends rewriting the rules of politics, and of creating opportunities for Democrats to regain control of the House and achieve a national realignment of Rooseveltian magnitude.
No less an authority than Karl Rove is known to have been worrying about the political future of Texas for years, with good reason. If Clinton were to run in 2016, she would attract a giant surge of the demographically powerful Hispanic vote, an equally giant surge of the equally powerful women's vote, a strong surge of support from younger voters who are developing lifetime habits of voting Democratic, and strong support from seniors and boomers.
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Lindsay Kemp
Lindsay Kemp (born Cheshire, England, 3 May 1938[1]) is an English dancer, actor,[2] teacher, mime artist and choreographer.[3]
Life and work[edit]
Kemp's father, a seaman, was lost at sea in 1940.[4] According to Kemp, he danced from early childhood: "I'd dance on the kitchen table to entertain the neighbours. I mean, it was a novelty in South Shields to see a little boy in full make-up dancing on pointe. Finally it got a bit too much for my mother, and she decided to send me to boarding school at the age of eight, hoping that it would knock some sense into me."[4]
Kemp's mother moved away from South Shields, and Kemp attended Bearwood College, near Wokingham, a school for the sons of merchant seaman.[4] He and his mother later moved to Bradford, Yorkshire where Kemp attended Bradford Art College before studying dance with Hilde Holger and mime with Marcel Marceau.[5] He played the Player Queen in the BBC's Shakespeare Quatercentenary production of Hamlet filmed at Elsinore castle in 1963, which starred Christopher Plummer.[1]
Kemp formed his own dance company in the early sixties and first attracted attention with an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1968.
His stage performances include Pierrot In Turquoise, Flowers, Salome,[4] Mr Punch's Pantomime,[3] A Midsummer Night's Dream,[3] Duende,[3] Nijinsky,[3] Alice,[3] Cenerentola (Cinderella),[3] ''Nijinsky il matto (1983) (translation: Nijinsky the fool)[6] Façade, The Big Parade,[6] Alice,[6] Onnagata, Cinderella, Variété, Dream Dances, and, for Ballet Rambert, Parades Gone By (1975)[6] and Cruel Garden (1977),[6] most of these works in collaboration with composer Carlos Miranda.
He staged and performed in David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust concerts at London's Rainbow Theatre in August 1972, and, with Jack Birkett, appears in the promotional video for Bowie's single "John, I'm Only Dancing", directed by Mick Rock.
Kemp's film roles include a supporting role in the Kate Bush short film The Line, the Cross & the Curve (1994),[2] a dancer and cabaret performer in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane[7] (1976) and Jubilee (1977)[7] respectively, a pantomime dame in Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine (1998)[2] and the pub landlord Alder MacGregor in Anthony Shaffer's The Wicker Man (1973).[2][7]
During the early 1970s, Kemp was a popular and inspirational teacher of dance and mime.[4] David Bowie,[8][9] Kate Bush[8] were students of Kemp. Kate Bush later wrote the song Moving, which appeared on her debut album The Kick Inside, as a tribute to Kemp.
In 1979 Kemp left England for Spain and then Italy and by 2002 had homes in Rome and Todi.[4]
In the field of opera he has occasionally produced works in Italy; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Macerata in July 1995, Iris in Livorno in November 1998, and Die Zauberflöte in Jesi in November 1999. He returned to Livorno in November 2016 with a new production Die Zauberflöte in which he also designed the sets and costumes, as well as co-lighting the production.[10]
Kemp is openly gay.[11][12]
- The Vampire Lovers (1970), as Jester.[1]
- Savage Messiah (1972),[2] as Angus Corky.
- The Wicker Man (1973),[2] as Alder MacGregor.
- The Stud (1974), as Topstar.[1]
- Sebastiane (1976),[2] as Dancer.
- Jubilee (1977), as Cabaret performer.
- Valentino (1977), as Mortician.[2]
- A Midsummer Night's Dream for TV (1985),[2] as Puck.
- Cartoline italiane (Italian Postcards) (1987).[2]
- The Line, the Cross & the Curve (1993),[2] as 'Guide'.
- Velvet Goldmine (1998),[2] as Pantomime Dame.
- Guest appearances in Spanish TV show La Mandrágora in 2005 and 2006.
- ^ a b c d British Film Institute entry for Lindsay Kemp. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Lindsay Kemp - About This Person". The New York Times. 29 April 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g "L'uccello di fuoco" (in Italian). nonsolocinema.com. 2 March 2009. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f Smith, Rupert (30 January 2002). "Lindsay Kemp talks to Rupert Smith about his outrageous career". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
'I first danced Salome in school, naked but for some toilet paper' ... influenced David Bowie, and thus influenced every pop musician with the possible exception of ... respect for this 63-year-old dancer-mime-actor-choreographer-director has reached critical mass
- ^ David Whetstone (17 September 2016). "He worked with Bowie and taught Kate Bush - and now Lindsay Kemp is coming home". Chronicle Live. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Lindsay Kemp Company The Big Parade" (PDF). attraversolospettacolo (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ^ a b c Gallagher, Paul (10 February 2011). "Lindsay Kemp's Last Dance". Retrieved 29 April 2012.
Sebastiane and Jubilee; and in Ken Russell's The Devils and Savage Messiah, ... original version of The Wicker Man
- ^ a b Dillard, Brian J. (25 March 2011). "Kate Bush: Live at Hammersmith Odeon (1979)". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
studied with David Bowie mentor Lindsay Kemp
- ^ Brown, Mick (September 1974). "Lindsay Kemp: The Man Who Taught Bowie His Moves". Crawdaddy!. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
- ^ Del Nista, Roberto. Report from Livorno. Opera March 2017, Vol 68 No.3, 338-339.
- ^ Thian, Helene M. (11 June 2013). "For David Bowie, Japanese style was more than just fashion". The Japan Times. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ Spitz, Marc (2009). Bowie: A Biography. New York City: Three Rivers Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-307-71699-6. Retrieved 8 June 2016 – via Google Books.
External links[edit]
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- Lindsay Kemp on IMDb
- Lindsay Kemp at the Internet Broadway Database
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GHC, as far as I can tell, can only compile files for one architecture (let's call it the "host architecture").
This brings some problems... The biggest of which is that we lose the option of building for 32/64 bits in one of the "hybrid" architectures (For example, in x86_64-linux or i386-darwin)
If I build a ghc in a x86_64 linux I will only get the x86_64 code generator and not the i386 generator. This will stop me from building a program which links with a library that only has a 32-bit version. If I want a GHC which will only compile for the i386, I will have to cross-compile, which is not very pretty.
The same will happen on the Mac OS X side (even though the x86_64-darwin port is still on its way...).
But GHC "should" (IMHO) be able to do like GCC and be able to generate code for both architecturess (i386 and x86_64), through the usage of compiler flags (which would also be passed to any gcc sub-process, if need be). At least if it is installed in a x86_64 (and PPC, if PPC64 is supported) system.
Even better would be to do like LLVM's llc which enables a user to generate an assembly file for a target architecture from any other architecture.
Example of an LLVM target list:
filcab@fry:/stuff/src> llc --version Low Level Virtual Machine (http://llvm.org/): llvm version 2.7svn DEBUG build with assertions. Built Jan 10 2010 (00:25:59). Host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Host CPU: core2 Registered Targets: arm - ARM c - C backend cellspu - STI CBEA Cell SPU [experimental] cpp - C++ backend mips - Mips msil - MSIL backend ppc64 - PowerPC 64 sparc - Sparc x86 - 32-bit X86: Pentium-Pro and above x86-64 - 64-bit X86: EM64T and AMD64
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This is something we're slowly working towards. See also #964.
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The description touches on two issues: (1) being able to cross-compile at all and (2) being able to generate code for several different targets with the same compiler by using command-line switches. We have (1) currently (though it's a bit DIY), but not (2). But I'll let someone else file a feature request for (2) if they want it, since I'm not convinced it's sufficiently more valuable than just having one ghc installed for each target.


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T.J. Maxx/Marshalls invited me to Boston to checkout their back to school fashion pieces, school us on how well we know off-pricing, and get to know what they're all about. I've been to a lot of events but I have to say, this is one of the best. Not because of the shopping spree they gave us (which was super nice) but I loved how they combined the learning aspect with fun games to make the whole day a more enjoyable learning experience. And bringing in the models to show off their clothing?? AWESOME!
Unfortunately I think that too many people think that the products that are in these two stores are rejects of some sort BUT THE FACT IS, they are not. Over 95% of what comes to these stores are FIRST quality like you would buy in finer department stores.
WHERE and WHEN
Do you ever notice how most stores get things in seasonally?? Well not TJ Maxx and Marshalls. Nope, they get stuff in WEEKLY, insuring that you are getting the latest, hottest trends regularly. These guys send buyers all over the world (60 countries and thousands of vendors) to bring you the latest fashions. Huge buying power and it totally sets them apart from others.
You won't find them at these stores and in all honestly, there's no need for it. They already bring you rock bottom prices that are many times, un-freakin'-believable!
Which leads me to one of the games…….
After hearing about the company and how they purchase–etc, we were asked to play a game. They showed you an item that can be bought in their stores. You were told how much it would cost in a regular department store and then asked to write down what the TJ Maxx/Marshall's price was. Fun huh?? I loved it! The folks that came closes got their name put into a hat where the winner drawn would win that prize we were determining the price of! Soo much fun to play and I learned quickly how low the prices were. Seriously. I was wrong every time because I was pricing too high. The final prize??? A Gucci handbag. ((drool)) I'm sure many of you know what a handbag junkie I am so I wanted to win badly. The price paid in the high end store?? Over $2,000. The price paid if bought at TJ Maxx/Marshalls?? $599. OMG, I died because everything else had been much lower than I thought with the other prices, I went too low. Sadly, I did not win it but was excited for the gal that did. She hugged it and wouldn't let it out of her site. Good thing too 'cause I was ready to sneakingly shove it my swag bag.
The point is, we played a super fun game but at the same time, learned all about the off-pricing and just what kind of deals you can get by shopping at these two fine stores. THAT was my favorite part–Learning mixed with Fun.
Tell me that you didn't have an outfit like that in your closet!! You know you did and heck, if you still have it, you're SOOO gonna be stylin'! How adorable are those looks?? They brought out some of the cutest fashions ever from Kenneth Cole to Nike and I have to say, they were all WAY under budget compared to what you would pay for them in a regular specialty/dept store. And you see all those books and toys? Well they're gonna have even more in their stores. I had no idea that the books were such a hot deal but Alli kept going on and on about it so now I have to check that out. I normally run to the handbag section. heehee
You absolutely MUST get your back to school fashions here, especially if you wanna save some MEGA BUCKS! I'm envious of those who get to shop their regularly. Mine is 2hrs away but lemme tell ya, I'd be in there every week to see what's new. I wouldn't say that if I didn't mean it and I hope you know that. I freakin' love these stores!
The event was one of the best. I had fun, I learned, and I had some memorable 1am girl time with a few lovely ladies. I met so many other great folks while I was there and since Susan linked their twitter handles, I'll copy and paste hers. Hopefully she won't mind!
@gograhamgo, @fashionablegal, @acowboyswife, @petit_elefant, @onechicmama, @alliworthington, @ADramaticMommy,@audreymcclellan, @bostonmamas, @5minutesformom, @susancarraretto, @mommieswithcent, @stacieinatlanta, @akblessings, @jentifa, @3PsinaPod, @mommygoggles, @busymomblog, @jodigrundig, @mindicherry
And two of the very kind & lovely PR folks holding the event – @sdefino and @happysquid.
One last note…. SAVE THE CHILDREN
Something awesome that T.J. Maxx is doing is helping save the children and you can help too!
Beginning on August 3, all T.J. Maxx stores will carry limited edition reusable shopping bags for $0.99. The bags are designed with Save the Children original children's artwork, and for each bag purchased, T.J. Maxx will donate one basic item such as; socks, underwear and backpacks to Save the Children's U.S. programs, up to 25,000 items. This initiative marks 25 years of partnership for T.J. Maxx and Save the Children.
Even Jennie Garth took part by buying one of the reuseable shopping bags!
Save the Children is the leading independent organization creating lasting change for children in need in the United States and around the world. For over 75 years, Save the Children has been helping children survive and thrive by improving their health, education and economic opportunities and, in times of acute crisis, mobilizing rapid life-saving assistance to help children recover from the effects of war, conflict and natural disasters. It is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance, comprising 27 national, independent Save the Children organizations working in more than 120 countries to ensure the well-being of children.
Thanks so much for an awesome time guys!
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P.S. A HUGE thank you to JO-LYNNE for loaning me the extra cash to buy my beautiful leather Bob Makowsky handbag. I had left my wallet at the room but she saved the day for me!! MWAH!