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The Last Werewolf
What would happen if an intelligent, sensitive, literate man suddenly found himself filled with savage instincts? —Roger Ebert, on Wolf (1994)
Just as vampire stories are always about seduction—the long tease; the will I? won't I?—and just as zombie stories are always finally about a loss of self, be it through infection or actions, so are werewolf stories always about sex. Granted, there's two kinds of werewolf/sex stories. There's the I'm-going-through-changes-all-this-new-body-hair kind and there's The Howling 'indulging our animal natures'-kind, but either way, it come down to sex. Glen Duncan knows this. His The Last Werewolf is very aware of what it's doing. There's sex to go around, and it's properly graphic, and done just really well. For a model of how to render sex on the page, you could do worse than some mid-point between The Last Werewolf and, say, Amelia Beamer's The Loving Dead. Or just either by itself.
Anyway, all the cons I hit, the question that's always circulating is What's the next big thing? We all saw the vampire fall to the zombie, I mean, and, as we get closer and closer to living through Roland Emmerich's 2012, I think we all have a sense that, in spite of how much they're going to continue to be marketed at us, the zombie's going to be on the wane. So: what next? Mermaids, centaurs, Norse mythology, aliens? Werewolves? Will The Last Werewolf—along with Mtv's Teen Wolf reboot—kick off a werewolf renaissance?
I don't think so.
And this isn't at all because of the way Glen Duncan wrote it, or the story he told. Reading him, you feel like you're reading Nicholson Baker or Martin Amis—that is, you trust him, as he's got both absolute command of the language and a very light touch with it [1] (unlike, say, Cormac McCarthy, who's got the control, but's not shy about beating you over the head with it)—but a Baker or Amis with a Neal Stephenson sensibility and sense of geopolitical intrigue, or a Baker or Amis who have caught The Passage fever, or a Baker and Amis who studied on how World War Z did what it did. Or maybe simply a Baker or Amis who have got those dollar signs in their eyes. Which, that ka-ching sound coming each time a writer blinks: I'd much rather read somebody like that than somebody trying to do 'Art,' somebody trying to Write for the Ages, to inscribe themselves on the headstone of culture. To lob arrows at somebody for trying to make money with their writing, it says more about yourself—and your sales—than you'd probably like. And, me anyway, I'd much rather be in blinking letters on the blimp floating above this raucous human game than have somber letters on a headstone for some exo-archeologist to find.
No, reading Glen Duncan, seriously, you learn a lot about how to write. Just his turns of phrase, his prose incisions into the human condition, into this daily life. Some examples, in case you think I'm just stroking him:
Madeline's narcissism reconfigures awkward moments as opportunities for into-camera astonishment.
Daybreak was the slow development of a daguerreotype.
Local teenagers stymied into near autism or restless violence come here and drink and smoke and make fires and work with numb yearning through the calculus of fornication.
Even the lion knows his debasement, mounting his mate while the bored zoo crowd looks on.
There's a period of being bothered with big questions. It doesn't last forever.
Lip-reading her with the helpful Nords I'd made her American, and something about her relationship with the luggage and the raincoat and the purse reinforced this, the casual entitlement to useful things.
And I'll stop there, still very early in the book. This is one of those that I've marked so many sentences 'indelible,' I mean, and, instead of getting into all the humor as well—and there's plenty (and is the trailer trying to sell it that way?)—let me just say that, so far, in all my reading, only two sentences have ever imprinted themselves on me in a way I knew I'd never be able to shake. The first was Pynchon in V, talking about how we always have a certain homesickness for the decade we were born in, and the other's David Foster Wallace, talking in Infinite Jest about how the rich put their shoes on one way, the not-rich another. But now I have a third imprint, thanks to a throwaway (well, it's touched on later) parenthetical in The Last Werewolf: "[there was] too much sunlight in the room for whisky." [2] This makes complete sense, but I can't begin to understand it, and that's what good writing does: it creates feelings in you that you can't articulate, so you just have to give yourself over to it.
But, sure, with all this control, Duncan does slip every now and again, showing off what he can do, and he does maybe flash his education a bit too often—"Ballardian," "Ganymede's ankles," referencing The Waste Land maybe too casually, using "Matt Arnold" as a fake name, punning on Beckett, having fun with Nabokov—and once or twice he falls into lines like "Heavy on me was the weight of the world's ability to keep going," "No pain felt he," but what we've got to remember is that he's in the voice of his narrator, who's spent nearly two centuries in libraries across the world, and uses his education not as a shield or key, but as a disguise. As long as he's smart, he's still a man, yes? Not the animal he knows he is, once a month.
Which, that curse, his 'monthly.' Talking werewolves, there's two basic categories they can fall into, two questions they have to answer: Is the transformation voluntary? and Is the werewolf a man-wolf or not? In regards to the second, that question is, Does the man or woman transform into just a wolf, as we've seen in True Blood, in Twilight, in a hundred other places (the effects are so much easier this way), or does she or he stand up with a wolf head? [3] And there's of course variations within those variations, from muttonchopped werewolves like Jack Nicholson to what we've seen in Underworld and Dog Soldiers, from Professor Lupin to Ginger Snaps to Robert McCammon's Michael Gallatin. And then, once you've answered those questions, there's a third question: When wolfed out, will the man or woman retain thought or just be pure animal, tearing through the countryside for a meal? This is vital stuff, and Glen Duncan's in the werewolf game enough to answer them all succinctly and indirectly, as if disallowing any other option. However, the whole time, I think we can tell that he's very consciously ducking the pratfalls involved with the werewolf options he's not taking: all-wolf werewolves are hardly interesting, as there's so much pack-junk to try to port over from The Dog Whisperer; 'voluntary' transformations are too much like a superpower, which finally detracts from the 'werewolf' part of the story; 'dumb' or 'monster' werewolves aren't that interesting because they're just something to shoot, something to run from, something to get killed by.
No, when the werewolf is your narrator, that werewolf nearly has to be smart. It allows the complications of guilt, and it allow more of a sense of victory when that werewolf finally gets to one of the bad guys, as you can see the 'man' inside, just getting to use these claws, these teeth, these muscles and instincts, which is what we all dream of, of course.
Also, key to every werewolf story, be it on-screen or the page, are the transformation sequences. And, without cheating Duncan by posting any of them here—got to buy the book—let me just say he does it about as well as can be done. Okay, one short lift: "Wolf remnants wriggled under my human skin like rats in a sack."
That says it all.
However—remember how Justin Cronin in The Passage was introducing each new movement/part of his novel with very lofty pulls from canonical literature? The charitable way to read that, of course, is that 'canonical lit' is Cronin's background and training and main interest, but the way you tend to read it, I think, is that what he's trying to do here is elevate horror, make it a respectable thing. Give it some foundations. Which is to say he seems to think it has none, that it's not respectable. And, this isn't at all to take away from The Passage—as a novel, as a story, it really works, and is written very well—it's just that sometimes you turn a page in it and have to suspect that Cronin feels like he's slumming, and wants us to know that that's what he feels like he's doing. A bit ago, Jason Zinoman was talking about how Glen Duncan has his werewolf mentally reciting Tennyson while rending a victim limb from limb, and, having read that before I got there in the book, I have to agree that it's suspicious. But, in Duncan's defense—in his werewolf's defense—yes, we can write this off as in keeping with his character predilections, not any kind of statement on the audience this book's very much trying to tap. But, what about when we come across lines like this:
If it were a novel I'd reject it along with all other genre output that by definition short-changes reality.
Yep. Even if keeping with the voice of the narrator, this isn't going to endear you to the horror crowd, or the genre-crowd either, who (I'm including myself here), are very consciously not self-hating, or at all embarrassed by their tastes in reading. Or, to say it bigger: consciously drawing lines between the commercial and the so-called literary, you're halving your potential audience right there, aren't you? Maybe better just to somehow appeal to 'corporate' lit or something along those lines, as it can suggest a broken industry behind quality work, even if its antonym, 'indie,' tends to occupy the moral high ground. But of course the corporate longs for those halcyon days of dedication and gambles pretty much reserved for the indie, and the indie watches those best-seller lists every morning, and how to pack all this into one easily-skippable aside from a character, I know. I'm just saying it rubbed me wrong, I guess, and, even if it was just local to the character, still: I'm supposed to empathize with him, aren't I? And is this not a direct appeal to a high-brow 'literary' audience?
But The Last Werewolf's possible biases and hierarchies aren't why I think it isn't going to rebirth the werewolf for us. The reason it probably won't—and why the werewolf likely isn't going to be the next creature to dominate the market—it's the same reason Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth, as wonderful and necessary as it was, didn't kickstart a revolution in our limited set of Universal Monsters: werewolf stories are always small stories. They're always in-house, are never, as with vampires (think Daybreakers, I Am Legend), the predator who's going to make humans go instinct, are never, as with zombies (think every zombie movie), an infection spreading across the land. One-on-one, I'd argue that they're more of a threat, are less what you want to meet in that dark alley, but . . . it's like The Wolfman remake. As bad as it was to have a couple of werewolves loose on the moors, one person with the right pistol was finally able to end this gothic'd-up menace. Same with King's Silver Bullet: kill that one werewolf, and the town's back on-track. And, granted, Teen Wolf is making werewolves pretty cool again—lycanthropy and adolescence are the chocolate and peanut-butter of the horror world—and we've got a deep-enough well of werewolf movies to be remaking, and novels to be reacting to, and adapting, thus engendering and allowing more werewolf novels, but, while a werewolf can cause some legitimate panic in a theater (Cursed), or run through the streets of the big city (Justine Larbalestier's Liar), still, the uppercase Society never really takes notice, does it? Not as it would with a vampire threat, with a zombie plague, with motherships in the sky, with Namor calling up leviathans from the deep. [4] The werewolf story's scourge index is just too low, its victim pool too small, its range too limited.
I'm not all trying to badtalk the werewolf here, though. Of all my action figures, the werewolf is far and away my favorite, and the only one I'd really want to be—that matters (and: I've tried)—I'm just saying that The Last Werewolf, anyway, it's finally telling the usual, small-scale, -endanger-the-world werewolf story, albeit a very good one, very tightly told. And, granted, it's situating its werewolf in a Constantine/Hellboy/Buffy kind of world, setting it up alongside vampires and demons and all that, but my thinking is that that actually keeps the werewolf from casting a longer shadow, in that it's not threatening our world. However—and this I think is likely in keeping with Duncan's intent—if you just read it as a story about a guy trying to make sense of the world, trying to figure out how to live, how to accept what you are, swallow your regrets and keep going, then it truly exceeds expectations. And maybe that's where the werewolf can live, finally: in the same territory the zombie's been intent (in its mindless way) on occupying—a lens by which to see ourselves better, in starker contrast, higher resolution, everything else stripped away. After the kill, I mean, what you always find in the hayloft, it's just a naked man trying to blink away the sun, isn't it? And maybe that's what The Last Werewolf is all about.
[1] If you've got an e-reader, search "kohled," say. Very innovative, very fresh, yet natural, too, as it should be. Or, maybe it's in use in Britain? New to me, anyway . . .
[2] An off spelling, yeah, but I assume it has to do with the brand, or the source, or the quality? Thought it was a British spelling at first, and I guess it could be. Anyway, as for Britishisms, there's a lot of that here, and 'prams' and 'bridleway' and 'loo' and on and on, none of it any kind of problem, and all probably better than changing The Philosopher's Stone to something else. And, the British stuff is part of the character's voice, anyway, and this is an 'artifact' we're reading, so it's no big deal. Well, at least it's not until the Britishisms continue into the voice of someone speaking/writing who's supposed to be American. But, like I could pull off a British voice any more authentically?
[3] A third option is The Wolfen, but that option's never as interesting, as then the werewolves could be zombies or a flood or anything. No, what's interesting in a werewolf story is dealing with being a werewolf.
[4] Only place I've seen a lot of werewolves in one place? Michael Chabon's Summerland. They were no threat at all there, but they were exceptionally cool.


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May 10, 2006
LOS ANGELES - Sandra Y.K. Loder ('93) is the new chief information officer for Clear Choice Health Plans. Clear Choice is an Oregon insurance company offering health insurance, including Medicare Advantage plans, commercial plans and third party administration, to individuals and businesses throughout Central Oregon, Eastern Oregon, and the Columbia Gorge. The company is located in Bend, where Loder makes her home. She has been with Clear Choice for nearly two years.
As CIO, Loder is a member of the company's executive team, helping shape Clear Choice's strategic direction and infrastructure. More specifically, her area of responsibility is the IT department. "Our major application is the software that processes the claims. Currently the system is outsourced and hosted in Birmingham, Alabama. Now, we're bringing it in house," Loder said. "We also do disease and case management and we're bringing those applications in house as well. Our department also programs our web site, develops applications for reporting, and manages all the personal computers at the company."
Bend, east of the Cascade Mountains, has become in recent years an enclave for big city ex-pats. The region's desert climate attracts skiers and snow sport-types in the winter, with the mountain bikers and hikers coming in the summer. "It's a small community that's laid back. But it's becoming increasingly more sophisticated," Loder said. "The town would like to become another Aspen."
Originally, it was the promise of a start-up that drew Loder to Bend. At the time, she was in her sixth year at Herbalife, where she began as a financial analyst then moved over to the IT side of the company. The start-up was a pop music record label. A close friend already in Bend felt the local talent was significant enough to start a label and Loder headed north. "I guess L.A. traffic got to me and starting fresh sounded good," she said.
When her friend decided to close down the label, she decided to stay, taking a position at Clear Choice, hired on as a project manager to evaluate the company's claims software. She was promoted to vice-president, IT, before becoming CIO. Prior to joining Herbalife, she worked in London for the Bank of England and was an attorney in Washington, D.C. before coming to UCLA Anderson.
She credits her UCLA Anderson experience with helping to hone her strategic vision. "The business school experience is about shaping that strategic viewpoint. I learned a lot working with students on their field studies and professor Janis Forman really gave me wonderful insight in this regard. It helped shape where I wanted to go. An MBA really prepares you for work as an executive. And even though it took a while to get there, it was invaluable in helping me get to where I am.
"I have a lot of fun at work every day. I see myself staying here a while."
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment.
The mission of UCLA Anderson School of Management is to be a global leader in management education, research and service. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. UCLA Anderson alumni number more than 34,000 graduates around the world dedicated to continued networking, professional development and educational activities.

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DWTS Season 10 – More Professional Mystery
So, Jonathan is out – sad but not entirely unexpectedly – and Louis still hasn't been told. What the heck is going on here? This makes me think that they aren't entirely sure of their cast yet – one week away from the announcement. Why would Jonathan be a definite no and Louis still not know? Louis is the shortest male, Mark next, then Derek – I think. I think there is 3 inches or so between Derek and Louis, so I would imagine they have a short girl and are trying to figure between Mark and Louis. But I could be totally full of crap. 🙂 In any case, this is a blow (kinda) to the "attitude" and "ballroom skill" theories for which pros are making it and which ones aren't.
The show starts four weeks from Monday – at this rate they are NOT going to have four weeks rehearsal before the show starts.
ETA: Add Dmitry to the "I still don't know" list.
ETAA: And lovely Louis supplies a perfectly logical reason for the way the pros are finding out (or not finding out) – wish I would have thought of it. 🙂
You know, since he hasn't been told NO, that means he likely does have a partner they're waiting to sign. I would imagine the same goes for Dmitry. Since Anna T commented she doesn't want to say until it's set in stone, I bet she has a partner too. Now – what about Derek's tweet from last Tuesday?
To recap:
The Men –
Jonathan – the only solid no
Dmitry – doesn't know
Louis – doesn't know
Derek – is confusing
The women –
Cheryl – definite yes
Lacey – definite no
Anna T. – doesn't know
Karina – doesn't know.
Those that haven't said a word: Maks, Mark, Tony, Alec, Anna D, Chelsie, Edyta, Kym


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Astros move on after dustup between Harrell, Lyles
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A challenging eight-game, 10-day road trip heading into the All-Star break continued to depress the Astros' record.
It also saw the struggling club's chemistry tested more than at any point this season.
With some veterans anxiously eyeing the July 31 trade deadline and everything from the state of the starting rotation to in-game decisions and roster moves questioned by players, a heated clubhouse confrontation between promising 22-year-old righthander Jordan Lyles and former No. 2 starter Lucas Harrell highlighted the challenges the rebuilding Astros face during the second half of the season.
The dispute occurred Tuesday in St. Louis. The Astros fell 9-5 to the Cardinals that night. Harrell was demoted to the bullpen two days prior, in a move partly made last Sunday to deliver a wake-up message to the frustrated 28-year-old righthander. The Astros didn't play the next day.
"It just was a heated argument. That's about all it was. We were just passionate about what we both thought about. ... It was just one of those things where we both thought we were right," Harrell said Sunday, prior to the Astros' 5-0 loss to the Tampa Bays at Tropicana Field.
Lyles' response was brief.
"It was teammates being teammates," he said.
First-year Astros manager Bo Porter acknowledged the clash but said Lyles and Harrell still must "go to battle together."
"At some point in a household there's going to be disputes. It happens. It's part of the game," Porter said. "It actually should never leave the clubhouse. You discuss it. You figure out your differences and you move on."
While in-season flare-ups between players aren't rare, the confrontation between Harrell and Lyles represents a divide between the Astros' recent past – filled with constant roster moves and 213 combined losses the last two seasons – and a 2013 season mostly devoted to player development. It also highlighted many players' awareness they likely won't be around when the club is expected to be competitive again and the tight spot Harrell – a spring training contender with Bud Norris for the No. 1 starter role – finds himself in as the non-waiver deadline approaches.
"You're around these people all the time, so it's like a family. You're going to have ups and downs," said Harrell, a fourth-year pitcher who had several previous team-related issues this season.
Legitimate clubhouse leadership and on-the-field execution continue to be problem areas for the Astros, whose mix-and-match roster – worth an MLB-low $21 million – regularly failed to cohere during the first half of the season.
Harrell's mindset also remains a concern. Following his move to the bullpen, the righty initially questioned the club's decision.
"It's one of those things where you've got a new regime in here," said Harrell, who's 5-10 with a 5.07 ERA and has allowed six hits, three runs and four walks in 4 2/3 relief innings. "They want their guys and it's coming later in the season; it's getting closer to September. So they're going to try their guys and see what happens."
As Porter did postgame Saturday following Harrell's 10th loss of the season, the manager continued to stand behind his former starter Sunday. Harrell remains a candidate for the Astros' open fifth starter spot and Porter hasn't given up on a pitcher who led the 2012 team in wins and ERA.
"A lot of times when you have a wake-up call, sometimes it actually sends the person in a direction in which they need to go," Porter said. "I feel like he is definitely making strides and he is headed in the direction in which we all believe he needs to go."


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Get a taste of La Calia, 115 N. Sixth St., and its fish Veracruz and stuffed pork chop.
Editor's note: The State Journal-Register is reviewing menu items at locally owned restaurants in central Illinois. Read our previous review.
Name of restaurant: La Calia
Address: 115 N. Sixth St.
Phone number: 753-1652
Web address: facebook.com/LaCalia
Hours: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Dinner 5-9 p.m. Thursday-Saturday.
Credit and/or debit cards accepted? Yes
Price range: $11-23, varies.
Is there a children's menu? No.
My order: We ordered fish Veracruz and a stuffed pork chop.
The cod filet was moist and perfectly cooked, covered with hefty chunks of banana peppers, onions, yellow and red tomatoes, zucchini and green olives. It was served over a bed of quinoa, which provided a welcomed nutty texture. It was served with a chopped kale side salad.
The pork loin was a thick and well-seasoned cut, stuffed with creamy herbed goat cheese and pine nuts, served with purple Peruvian potatoes with onions and a side garden salad.
Likes: The small restaurant's limited dinner menu makes you feel special, like you've discovered a secret. Fresh, locally sourced ingredients and unexpected options such as braised beet greens are a nice surprise. Save room for homemade lemon ginger or raspberry root beer ice cream.
What didn't you like? The dinner, tapas, wine, drink and ice cream menus are all written on chalkboards, a detail that adds to the charming ambiance, but is inconvenient and difficult to read for those sitting in the front of the room.
Would you go back? Definitely.


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6 Free Things To Do in Christchurch
If you are looking for things to do in Christchurch on a budget, here are 6 of the best free things to do in and near the city during your visit.
If you are looking for things to do in Christchurch on a budget, you'll be delighted to discover that there are many free things to do in and near the city during your visit.
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and is located on the expansive Canterbury Plains. Following two earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 the city is being rejuvenated and regenerated with stunning world-class architecture and a rapidly growing economy and hospitality sector. There are countless Christchurch attractions that will appeal to families and independent travellers alike, but here are our pick of six of the best fun and free things to do in Christchurch.
The Margaret Mahy Playground
If you are travelling with children, or you are a child at heart, then the Margaret Mahy Playground is a must experience free attraction in Christchurch.
Named after the much loved Christchurch born author, the playground opened in December 2015 to the delight of residents and visitors to the central city. Located near the Avon River near Madras and Armargh Streets this is surely one of the coolest central city playgrounds.
The design reflects the Canterbury Plains and the Port Hills environment and has been thoughtfully constructed as an all-age, all-ability playground with awesome play equipment with separate activity areas for different ages. A guaranteed fun day out.
Hagley Park and The Botanical Gardens
The Christchurch Botanic Gardens are set within Hagley Park which can be found next to the City Centre. The Gardens were started in 1850, the same time the city was founded by European settlers.
There is plenty of old world charm to be discovered as you walk around the gardens and park.
The River Avon runs next to Hagley Park and you can spend a lovely few hours enjoying the serenity of these beautiful spaces.
In Spring and Autumn the park bursts into life with the flowers, plants and trees that show off nature at its finest.
Hagley Park lso plays host to many free festivals and events during summertime. The World Buskers Festival, Classical Sparks and the regular Sunday Bandstand are very popular with locals and visitors. Up to 50 000 people attend some of the larger events on a summer evening.
Christchurch Arts Centre
Close to the Botanical Gardens is the Christchurch Arts Centre, with the building being one of the best examples of Gothic Revival architecture in the country. Once the University of Canterbury, it's now a complex of boutique shops, studios and art galleries. Public art installations, buskers and regular arts and crafts workshops make the Arts Centre a wonderful destination to visit. Each weekend you'll find a vibrant and eclectic mix of fashion, giftware and music at the Arts Centre outdoor market.
The Best Beaches of Christchurch
If you love beaches then Christchurch has many to enjoy within an easy drive from the city.
Sumner Beach boasts a beautiful stretch of golden sand and this is where you will find The River Avon meeting the Pacific Ocean. It's well regarded as a family friendly beach with gentle swells making it safe for all to swim in the ocean.
If you love to surf then Scarborough Beach and Taylor's Mistake are the coastal spots for you. Not far from Sumner the bigger waves at these beaches offer an exhilarating and fun activity near Christchurch.
Another beach to head to is New Brighton Beach. New Brighton is home to the iconic New Brighton Pier, which is the longest pier in the Australasia, spanning 300 metres in length. The suburb of New Brighton hosts many free public events, mostly in the summer season including the Speights Coast to Coast finishing line and the New Zealand Sand Castle Competition.
Re:START Mall
A truly unique shopping experience awaits you as you discover the Re:START Mall in Cashell Street. Following the devastating earthquake in 2011, the mall was conceived to breathe new life and hope into the central city. The mall was constructed by using and refashioning shipping containers and is now home to over 50 retailers. You don't need to spend a cent to enjoy the vibrant atmosphere and street performers who entertain the crowds.
The Re:START Mall has been the cornerstone for the Christchurch tourist industry in recent years and was named by Lonely Planet as one of the 'must visit' places in the world.
Just an hour and a half drive from Christchurch is the oldest colonial town in the South Island. Akaroa, which is Maori for 'Long Harbour', was the region's first substantial European settlement and a safe haven for early whalers and sealers working in the Southern Ocean beyond the harbour's headlands. It is also the only French colonial settlement in the country. Set on a stunning waterfront and surrounded by craggy volcanic landforms, Akaroa is truly beautiful.
The town and nearby sandy beaches are easy to explore on foot. You will be surrounded by French and European heritage buildings as get a real feeling of the history of the area. Akaroa is the perfect day trip to take when wanting experience a free sightseeing attraction away from Christchurch city.
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I thought I'd already heard it all, so I was surprised at how suddenly raw I felt, reading what one vocational-technical high school student had written on a yellow sticky note: "Your [sic] never going to make it." I guessed that she was quoting the words of her shop teacher.
I'd entered union construction in 1978, when affirmative action first opened the gates to women, and pioneers were often greeted with "the full welcome wagon." I went through a rigorous union electrical apprenticeship and worked on Boston-area jobsites for fifteen years, both in situations that were incredibly supportive and those that were hostile. With decades as an organizer, researcher, policy analyst and poet of this terrain, I've had the privilege of gathering stories –– formally and informally –– from many hundreds of tradeswomen across the country that celebrate achievements and camaraderie and that document intimidation and discrimination. Still, I had no idea what to expect from the one hundred high school students who came to view and discuss my mixed media installation, On Equal Terms: Women in Construction 30 Years & Still Organizing.
With support from a Mass Humanities "Liberty and Justice for All" grant and from the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC), I developed On Equal Terms. The 600-square-foot installation combines audio, poetry, found objects, photo- graphs, historical documents and sculpture –– including Stella, a life-sized figure on a ladder in a diamond hardhat, and a 6-foot-square plywood bathroom shack complete with a piped toilet and graffiti –– to bring viewers into the experiences of women who work on construction sites. During the five months that the installation exhibited at the WSRC gallery, and then, at Suffolk University's Adams gallery, five Massachusetts Vocational Technical High Schools –– Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical School, Franklin County Technical School, Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School, Leominster Center for Technical Education, and Madison Park Technical-Vocational High School –– brought groups of young women pursuing careers that, prior to affirmative action, would have been closed to them because of their gender. The wonderful faculty and administrators who accompanied them, used the bus rides back and forth for preparation and follow-up discussions.
In the gallery, the building trades students immediately recognized the tools of their particular trade floating up from the gang box, and the giant pinata-like flying tools in the air: the electrician's wiggies, the carpenter's T-square, the painter's trowel. The bathroom shack and Stella, the figure on the ladder, drew the most attention. I was glad that the shack was big enough to hold a small group. Some of the high school students found the graffiti on the walls familiar, while others were shocked. They listened intently to the audio –– in the bathroom shack and coffee break area –– to excerpts from the interviews I'd conducted with tradeswomen pioneers for my book, We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction (Cornell, 1998). As a counterpoint to her diamond hardhat, and her outstretched arms that skillfully pull in cable, Stella's Carhartt coveralls are covered with tags on which tradeswomen have handwritten prejudices they've had to work against:
"a woman's place is in the home. go home"
"watch out for the Dykes"
"too sociable"
Reading them led to one student talking about the undermining comments and actions of her shop teacher, and how, after she'd reported him to her counselor, the abuse had become worse, and how, now, she wasn't sure what to do. Another student recounted the opposite experience, a teacher who took her under his wing, and gave ther lots of encouragement.
After viewing On Equal Terms, students gathered for a discussion about the art exhibition and their careers with panelists from the industry, including the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) manager, and women who work as pipefitters, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, and small contractors. In evaluating the Building Our Futures programs (one part of which was the field trips to visit the exhibit), Maura Russell of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education wrote, "The students were able to learn about the history of the women in the trades and to have the rare opportunity to get together with young women from other schools pursuing similar careers. It was also the first time that many of the students had attended an art show. Both Brandeis and Suffolk Universities graciously provided tours of their schools, which was also much appreciated by the young women."
At the end, I passed out two sets of sticky notes and invited students to write how they'd been encouraged in their trades on the green notes, and on the yellow, how they'd been discouraged. I found their remarks so moving, that I added them to a casement window that now tours as an element the installation.
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The U.S. State Department said on Thursday the time was not right for Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former diplomat Bill Richardson to travel to North Korea.
State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said Schmidt and Richardson would be traveling as private citizens, not representatives of the U.S. government. "Frankly, we don't think the timing of this is particularly helpful," Nuland told reporters, citing Pyongyang's December launch of a long-range rocket. "They are well aware of our views."
A source familiar with the matter on Thursday confirmed an Associated Press report that Schmidt planned to visit North Korea with Richardson, a former governor of New Mexico, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and diplomatic troubleshooter.
The AP said Schmidt, a top figure in the U.S. technology industry and a key executive at the world's leading search engine company, could visit as early as this month, but it said it was unclear who he would meet or what his agenda is.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. North Korea is one of the world's most repressive states, with Internet access limited largely to the most influential officials and media content rigidly controlled.
Nuland stressed that Schmidt and Richardson were not acting on behalf of the United States. "They are private citizens... traveling in an unofficial capacity," she said. "They are not going to be accompanied by any U.S. officials; they are not carrying any messages from us. They are private citizens and they are making their own decisions."
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Belize is a wonderful little country located east of Guatemala and nestled beneath the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Like many countries in Central America, Belize is a hotspot of biodiversity. Belize is home to 37 amphibian species. In January 2012, SAVE THE FROGS! Ecologist Michael Starkey traveled to Belize for 12 days to help spread the message of amphibian conservation and to promote appreciation of wildlife and nature through education. Michael met with Belizean biologists, gave presentations about amphibian ecology and conservation, distributed educational materials and surveyed and photographed frog populations. SAVE THE FROGS! has since returned to Belize several times to educate locals and foreigners about frog conservation. If you like this page, please make a tax-deductible donation to help us SAVE BELIZE'S FROGS! Then just email us to ask us to direct your donation towards our Belize efforts. Thanks!
Thanks to SAVE THE FROGS! Ecologist Michael Starkey for making this video all about Belize's amazing amphibians.
Belize is a country with a small, but growing population. With a population of roughly 350,000, people are beginning to spread out into the countryside. Little is known about the amphibians of Belize and more studies are needed to understand their ecology. Loss of habitat through deforestation is one of the major threats to the flora and fauna of Belize and is definitely affecting amphibian populations. There is also pesticide usage within the country, with little to no regulation implemented in some areas. The threat of the nefarious chytrid fungus is an issue to amphibians, as it has already driven many Central American species to complete extinction.
Lastly, while there is environmental awareness within the country, there is a general lack of understanding or appreciation of the importance of amphibians. There is a greater need for more education to persuade and convince people that amphibians are crucial for maintaining the health of ecosystems and are a benefit to the people of Belize.
Cane toads are huge, charming toads with tons of personality. When you gently pick them up for a photo, they immediately sound a release call. They are known as an invasive species in Australia, but these beautiful toads are native to Central America and incredibly important to bringing balance to the ecosystem.
This is a very common toad in Belize.
This is a common and beautiful species!
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This common species has a wonderful splash of neon green coloration beneath their eyes.
By SAVE THE FROGS! Advisory Committee Chairman Michael Starkey
As SAVE THE FROGS' Advisory Committee Chairman, I work to rally together scientists, volunteers, and others in order to help broaden SAVE THE FROGS' mission of protecting amphibian populations and promoting a society that respects and appreciates nature wildlife. Wherever I travel, I try to spread this message of amphibian conservation. Belize was uncharted territory for SAVE THE FROGS!, so when I took a vacation there in January 2012 I wanted to also be sure to spread the word about amphibian conservation.
I had been to Belize before in 2008 and 2010, and each time I return I fall deeper in love with this beautiful country. When you visit a place multiple times, each experience is different. You see the same sites in a new light, under a new perspective, and it makes the experience that much more wonderful. While traveling around the country, if we stopped somewhere, I was immediately out looking for frogs. Whether it was in the forest, or in a drainage ditch, frogs we found!
A typical scene when a frog was found: Cameras and Field Guides.
After spending the first few days in the forest, I was getting eager to give a presentation. I was very happy and excited to give my first presentation, which was at the school in Blue Creek, a small Maya village in Southern Belize.
In this photo, the students are bringing their own chairs from the school house to come watch my talk in another building. They were all very excited to hear me speak.
Now, after the children had settled I was able to begin my presentation. This was an incredibly interesting experience as I have never given a talk outside of the United States. As of writing this, I have given presentations to at least 1,000 children. When I began my talk, I asked the kids, "How many of you like Frogs?". Silence. Oh boy, I thought they would be a tough crowd!
These children live incredibly different lives than children in the states. These children are poor and live in a small village in Belize. Their concerns are related to their parents concerns: When will the harvest come? What can I make to sell to tourists to provide an income for my family? Basically, they are thinking of surviving. Amphibians are just there, part of the forest, and that is about the extent of thought that goes towards amphibians. There is no appreciation, because there is no understanding or reason for why they should be appreciated.
So, how do you make kids appreciate something that they have no natural fondness for? Through passion and education.
"Do you guys like MOSQUITOES?" and in reply they shout, "Noooooooooooo!". Then I explained how frogs eat mosquitoes and other bad bugs that cause disease. I explained to them how amphibians have amazing skin that can be used to make medicines, just like plants from the rainforest! They understood how saving amphibians is important, just as saving the forest is important.
It was truly a rewarding experience for me to speak to this group of students. Many of them enjoyed looking at the printed slides of different amphibian species from around the world.
There was a point where I thought I was losing their attention, so when in doubt...make frog calls. Frog calls are the key to bringing the focus back to any presentation (plus, they love to call back!).
Goofing off with my camera after the presentation. The child with the backpack had already gone home from school, but came back to see my presentation later in the day. He told me that he actually liked frogs and wanted to save them! Awesome!
That night we were able to spend some time in the village. One family was showing our group traditional Marimba music and an interesting type of dance that goes along with it. I am not much for dancing, but when I discovered some of the kids playing outside, I left the party and started hanging out with the kids. One of them actually found a Foam Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis), and I was able to tell them all about this little frog. I explained to them how it likes to live in burrows and how it makes a foamy nest within its home. They definitely had a new appreciation for frogs!
One of the members in our group, Rosalinda Vizina, shows this little Foam Frog, (Leptodactylus fragilis), to some very interested girls!
A few days later, I was also able to give a presentation to people on a small island called South Water Caye about the Amphibian Extinction Crisis. The talk was given to my group of fellow travelers, island staff, and some locals that happened to drop in for my talk. South Water Caye is a 17 acre island known for its beautiful, sandy beaches and biologically rich coral reefs that surround the island.
I was getting comfortable during my time there and this was definitely one of the most relaxed presentations I have ever given!
Two women approached me after my talk to ask my help with a "frog problem". They told me that they had an issue with their dogs eating these huge toads in their yards (Cane Toads, Bufo marinus). After their dogs would eat them, they would froth at the mouth, and then die! They were incredibly upset about this, but I explained to them that there was an easy solution to their problem. I explained how the toads defend themselves by having large poison glands (parotoid glands) behind their head. Besides this poison, I explained how they toads are essentially harmless to humans and can be moved very easily to another location. With vigilance, their dogs would be ok. I convinced them that toads were actually good to keep around, by eating cockroaches, mice, and even snakes. This fact completely sold them that toads were good to have nearby! They told me they would never kill another one of those toads.
Saving Toads in Belize!
When we returned back to the mainland, most of our group had to rush to the airport to head back home. So I and another individual were dropped off at the Belize Zoo, where I was able to give my last presentation in Belize. The Belize Zoo is an amazing institution. Their exhibits are carved around already existing forest, so the animals appear if they are actually in the jungle. The Belize Zoo is also involved in captive breeding efforts with endangered species and are responsible for considerable conservation efforts with preserving habitat for the Harpy Eagle and the Jaguar. It was a pleasure speaking to staff and some of their interns about the threats facing amphibians around the globe.
SAVE THE FROGS! with the staff of the Belize Zoo
"A big thank you to Michael Starkey of the Save The Frogs initiative, for a fantastic presentation to the TBZ staff! With 200 amphibians gone extinct since 1979, and over 2000 more threatened to disappear this century, there is a great need to help save those long legged leapers. From being excellent pest control, to vital food sources for many carnivores (including humans!), frogs are definitely worth saving." – The Belize Zoo
Our group was able to travel through much of Central and Southern Belize. In between destinations we visited two Mayan archaeological sites, Xunantunich and Lubaantún. Mayan culture has always interested me and it was a pleasure to see these amazing spectacles of human ingenuity.
Spreading the word atop Xunantunich
My friend and fellow frog-saver, Wyatt Erwin, brought the style of amphibian conservation to Belize:
SAVE THE FROGS! representing at Lubaantún. We look pretty good in our SAVE THE FROGS! organic cotton T-shirts!
I returned to Belize in July 2012 to continue spreading SAVE THE FROGS' amphibian conservation message. I gave more presentations and worked to grow Belize's network of students, academics and biologists interested in amphibian conservation efforts. I was especially excited to go to villages in areas of high amphibian biodiversity to encourage children and adults to understand the importance of amphibians within their local ecosystems.
Prior to our Ecotour, we gave presentations to these tour guides and vet students:
Our inaugural Belize Ecotour was a huge success! We taught our group of 14 American participants all about tropical ecology, visited some amazing places and found lots of incredible wildlife. Please look at the SAVE THE FROGS! 2013 Ecotour page to see lots of photos.
SAVE THE FROGS! led an amazing 10-day eco-tour of Belize June 19th to June 28th, 2014! The trip was led by SAVE THE FROGS! Advisory Committee Chairman Michael Starkey and SAVE THE FROGS! Ecologist Kathlyn Franco. We were accompanied by Mayan naturalists and field guides. You can see amazing photos of our 2014 eco-tour here.
Much of my travels are paid out of my own pocket, so I need your help to raise the funds necessary to continue my amphibian conservation efforts in Belize! Please visit my Belize Fundraising page to make a tax-deductible donation and help me bring my passion for amphibian conservation back to Belize. I will be certain to list you on this webpage in acknowledgement of your generous contribution. Thank you so much for your support!
What an experience it was to spread the message of amphibian conservation to Belize! Big thanks to the many supportive individuals that helped fund make this trip to Belize possible. Thank you to International Zoological Expeditions, The Belize Zoo, Tropical Education Center, and to the many scientists, conservationists, and academic professors that provided advice and support to help make this trip a reality. Special thanks to these financial supporters:
Audine Stier
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Does anyone know why the Earthen Savage Novaraptor is "Not Tradable"? It's not really anything special, so I don't understand why it isn't. At least, it's listed as not tradable in my steam inventory.
Then again, it also lists it as an "Ice blue raptor," as if it were the frostbitten savage novaraptor or something. https://imgur.com/a/XyCv9
Is it a bug?


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iluvk9 wrote:Didn't we have a member here who had a few dogs that were blood donors?
Pricey, but rather cool stuff.
Sawyer donates blood...Xander retired from donating this past year, as he aged out. Score was too wiggly...and Inara too fearful...so it's Sawyer's job now.
but donating marrow? Wow...interesting.
I wonder if they're using "voluntary" donors...


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EAST VINCENT - Several veterans groups are holding an automobile and motorcycle show to benefit the Southeastern Veterans Center this weekend.
Between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, the center will be the site of the inaugural 'Car and Bike Show' hosted by the Vietnam Veterans of America, chapters 565 (Pottstown) and 436 (Chester County), and the Second Brigade Motorcycle Club.
'Both organizations help the center raise funds all year long for the Southeastern Veterans Center Fund, a fund restricted for entertainment for the residents, like field trips and educational programming,' a press release on the event said. 'These are items that are not in the budget for the center and, realizing that there is a need for entertainment and activities to help keep the mind active, the Southeastern Veterans Center Fund was formed.'
The categories for prizes are split between motorcycles and automobiles.
Among the categories for motorcycles are sport, touring and crusier, classic and vintage, custom and trikes.
Automobile categories include best street rod, best custom, best antique from before 1950, best antique from the '50s, and best antique from 1960 to 1984.
Additionally, the public will decide a best in show automobile and motorcycle.
Musician Charlie Zahm, described as a 'Celtic, maritime and traditional music performer and songwriter,' will perform from noon to 1 p.m. along with his fiddler, Tad Marks, according to the event's press release.
The pair recently returned from Qatar, where they performed for troops. They plan on playing 'great American music, to include some patriotic pieces,' Zahm wrote in a press release.
For more information or to volunteer to help at the event, email Ken Schweitzer, president of the Chester County chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America, at firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com or email the Vietnam Veterans of America's Pottstown chapter at email@example.com.


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Drugs taken from Vidor home
Orange County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Officers, along with the Orange County Area Law Enforcement SWAT Team, executed a narcotics search and arrest warrant in the 1800 block of Concord Road in Vidor shortly before 2 p.m. Thursday, April 20, arresting two people and confiscating drugs and drug paraphernalia.
According to a report from the OCSO, an investigation into the illegal possession and distribution of methamphetamine and other controlled substances led them to the Vidor home. Once inside, investigators located approximately 4 grams of methamphetamine and "numerous items of drug paraphernalia and contraband."
Lucretia Ann East, 37, and Devin Alan Dodge, 38, were arrested from the home and transported to the Orange County Correctional Facility. Devin Dodge was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance and bond was set at $20,000. Lucretia East was charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Her bond was set at $500.


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Notice to Members 01-23
Suitability Rule and Online Communications
In light of the dramatic increase in the use of the Internet for communication between broker/dealers and their customers, NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD Regulation) is issuing a Policy Statement to provide members with guidance concerning their obligations under the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®) general suitability rule, Rule 2310, in this electronic environment. NASD Regulation filed this Policy Statement on March 19, 2001, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and SEC Rule 19b-4(f)(1), the Policy Statement became immediately effective upon filing.
The Policy Statement briefly discusses some of the issues created by the intersection of online activity and the suitability rule. The Policy Statement then provides examples of electronic communications that NASD Regulation considers to be either within or outside the definition of "recommendation" for purposes of the suitability rule. In addition, the Policy Statement sets forth guidelines to assist members in evaluating whether a particular communication could be viewed as a "recommendation," thereby triggering application of the suitability rule.
NASD Regulation emphasizes, however, that this current Policy Statement does not (1) alter member obligations under the suitability rule or (2) establish a "bright line" test for determining whether a communication does or does not constitute a "recommendation" for purposes of the suitability rule. No single factor discussed below, standing alone, necessarily dictates the outcome of the analysis.
NASD Regulation recognizes that brokerage firms are using technology to offer many new beneficial services to customers, and it supports the continued development and use of technology to enhance investor education and access to information. These technological advances may have regulatory implications in the context of rules other than the suitability rule, and, therefore, we expect to issue future statements or guidance on the subject of online activities in the securities industry. NASD Regulation is aware, however, that technology is developing rapidly, and we want to avoid impeding the growth of new technological services for investors.
Questions or comments concerning the information contained in this Policy Statement may be directed to either Nancy C. Libin, Assistant General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, NASD Regulation, Inc., at (202) 728-8835 or by email, or James S. Wrona, Assistant General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, NASD Regulation, Inc., at (202) 728-8270 or by email.


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Tyrese is a cool dude…however Apple may not know that.
First of all, the deal with Apple and Beats is not complete. Dr. Dre has not gotten his money and he is not the first rap billionaire yet. Even with the deal, he may not be the first billionaire but that's another story. There is a prevailing rumor that the videos Tyrese did with Dr. Dre in it upset the "apple" cart over at the computer giant. It was Apple that forced Tyrese to remove the videos of him and Dre bragging over the deal before the chicken was hatched! But, how crazy would it be if Tyrese's social media video screwed up a $3 billion dollar deal? At any rate, I wonder if Apple is looking at all the contrary reports on this deal. The deal may be deaded just because it makes them look a bit crazy.
Stop Snitchin Tyrese !!! #RileyVoice
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Speaking from the pulpit of historic Second African Baptist Church, Savannah Mayor Otis Johnson defended his record Sunday evening and said he was committed to writing a book about his tenure.
The mayor, whose term ends in January, was the keynote speaker at the general membership meeting of the Savannah Branch of the NAACP.
His address, which lasted almost 40 minutes, reflected "my view" of the past eight years, said Johnson, who added that it was probably the last public speech he would make while still in office.
Johnson listed highlights from his two terms — including the renovation of Ellis Square, the establishment of quarterly town hall meetings and the organization of the Healthy Savannah initiative — and lamented that they had largely been forgotten during this year's campaigns for city offices.
Some of those who've won election, said Johnson, now face the challenge of moving from campaigning to governing.
"I will enjoy watching the new council on Channel 8," said Johnson.
The mayor detailed how hard he had worked to build consensus with the City Council during his two terms, and also acknowledged that condition eventually dissolved in acrimony over the hiring of City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney.
From some of the campaign materials that were distributed, "you'd think we were having a racial war in Savannah," said Johnson.
People in the city are more concerned about having their garbage picked up and their streets safe than what color the city manager is, said Johnson. Still, the mayor spent several minutes discussing that situation.
Recognizing his audience, and its long struggle to win equal opportunity for African-Americans, Johnson said that was the key to his decision.
"We were able to crack a glass ceiling" with the Small-Toney hiring, said the mayor. "She deserved a chance."
In remarks before the speech, Johnson said he was going on vacation after the run-off elections next week. The trip will include Key West, Palm Beach, Orlando and a week-long jazz cruise.
Once back in Savannah, said the mayor, he'll start work on the book about his mayoral experiences, and it is scheduled to be released in the spring of 2013.


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After a fast and furious Museum Madness: Round 2, the results are here! Did your favorites make it to Round 3? Were you surprised by any of the new information you learned?
The Giant Squid and the Fenykovi Elephant exited the tournament in Round 2 with losses to Titanoboa and Phoenix. It was neck and neck with the Handaxe Made by Early Humans and the Wood Collection, until the Wood Collection pulled ahead by a single vote!
So who's still in the running after Round 2?
In the Backbones Division we have ...
- Phoenix, the North Atlantic Right Whale
- Coelacanth
In the Classics Division we have ...
- Basilosaurus
- Tasmanian Tiger
In the Exhibit All-Stars Division we have ...
- Bull Mummy
- Titanoboa
In the Wild Cards Division we have ...
- Deep-Sea Vent Worms
- Wood Collection
Who are you pulling for in Round 3? Voting will open soon, and we'll need your help to narrow the field from 8 to 4!
Sarah Banks, Audience Engagement Specialist, Office of Education and Outreach


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seattlepi.com promotion at Dick's Drive-In
On Tuesday seattlepi.com thanked readers with a promotion at the Queen Anne Dick's Drive-In by giving away $2 coupons to customers as a way to say thank you. The event was part of the P-I's "always free, never boring" promotion.
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Aims and Scope
Acta Acustica united with Acustica (Acta Acust united Ac), published together with the European Acoustics Association (EAA), is an international, peer-reviewed journal on acoustics. It publishes original articles on all subjects in the field of acoustics, such as
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• Musical Acoustics, • Virtual Acoustics, • Auditory Quality of Systems, • Animal Bioacoustics, • History of Acoustics.
The journal reports on original scientific research in acoustics and on engineering applications. The journal considers scientific papers, technical and applied papers, book reviews, short communications, doctoral thesis abstracts, etc. In irregular intervals also special issues and review articles are published.


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Story highlights
- Edward Norton: Technology creating global community with new potential for activism
- Norton learned grass-roots fundraising on a dedicated website was easy
- You can make a website for your cause, he says, and friends tell other friends
- Norton: Fundraising on Internet taps into widespread use of social networks
Technology is obviously expanding, both in its actual reach into our daily lives and in terms of its creative potential. In many ways, this expansion is redefining how we see ourselves as individuals and citizens within our community. But perhaps even more fundamentally, technology is challenging us to equally expand our definition of what constitutes our 'community.'
Within the emerging new reality of truly global connectivity, technology is providing incredible opportunities for people to bridge the barriers of distance, culture and the limits of financial resources and affect the world through their own activism in ways we never could have imagined.
Consider this example: on my crowdsourced fundraising site, CrowdRise, Anthony, who lives in Australia, is backing the efforts of Jen, who lives in America and is fundraising for children's education in Africa. As I typed that last sentence, Ty in England donated $15 to Jen's fundraiser. Ten years ago this kind of interaction would have been extraordinary, now it's commonplace.
Over the last few years, I've been inspired by the way philanthropy is advancing -- re-wiring itself for a revolution in giving. My friends and I started CrowdRise because we had eaten too many high-priced rubber chicken dinners to support charities. There had to be an easier way to engage people in raising money for causes they cared about.
The light bulb went on for me when I teamed up with thirty runners to race in the NY Marathon to benefit the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. We started off with traditional ideas, looking for large donors and sponsors. But we wanted to take it further, to break through the formality of such strategies and find a way to engage more people. So we built out a website for the team and engaged in a grassroots, social-network driven campaign to rally a crowd to our effort. We were blown away by what happened. In less than eight weeks, we raised an astonishing 1.2 million dollars.
Until this experience, I was skeptical about social networking. It wasn't something I had found a compelling personal use for. But that marathon campaign changed my mind. Then people started calling us for tips on how to recreate our success. We quickly realized that technically what we had engineered was out of the reach of most individuals and many nonprofits and that most didn't understand the basic game-theory of crowd-sourced fund raising. We saw a need for a platform that empowered people to become activists and philanthropists in 21st Century ways and helped organizations leverage their existing supporters.
So we launched CrowdRise. The platform lets people define what causes they care about, create projects, reach out to their networks, raise money and track their impact over their lifetimes. It works because it's fun, social, creative and easy and it's massively more efficient, both in cost and labor, than traditional fund raising techniques.
An activist-networking platform has the immediate advantage of easily engaging a young generation deeply rooted in the social-networking experience, in a new mode of 'philanthropy,' 'giving back' or 'activism.' It's a space they immediately relate to and feel expert within. But it also strips away a lot of the friction in grassroots efforts familiar to my father's generation too. My dad may not be as likely to Tweet about his giving but he certainly appreciates the efficiency of CrowdRise when he goes to solicit his friends in his charitable efforts.
And there's nothing to indicate that the new internet generation is going to abandon the web as their primary means of interaction with the world as they age. According to a Pew study conducted last year, ("Future of the Internet") 67% of internet experts agreed that by 2020, millennials will continue to share their enthusiasm for widespread information sharing in order to stay connected and take advantage of social, economic, and political opportunities.
So the volume of online giving, bolstered by a host of ways for donors to share information about their giving, is going nowhere but up. The savviest nonprofits won't cross their fingers and hope the next generation finds them, they'll use new tools and new game-theory to reach supporters, quickly leaving behind the gross inefficiencies of expensive dinner-plate events.
Activists in the 21st century, I'm betting, will drive higher levels of individual giving than ever before, and the reach and power of the individual with passion for a cause will be greater than at any time in human history. Like the Japanese-American brothers in Silicon Valley who told CrowdRise they'd match grassroots donations to help stricken victims of the tsunami and had $500,000 pour in within weeks, crowds are going to rise around causes and bind people together in common purpose like never before.
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Announcing Adobe Presenter 8 with new support for 64-bit MS PowerPoint.
You are no longer forced to use the 32-bit version of MS Office, just because you want to create PowerPoint based eLearning. The new 64-bit Presenter 8 now works with your 64-bit MS PowerPoint.
How do you find out if you have 32-bit or 64-bit of MS-Office? It's very simple, open MS PowerPoint and go to File> 'About Microsoft PowerPoint'> … it would show you if it is 32-bit or 64-bit.
Do remember, there are separate installers for 32-bit and 64-bit version of Adobe Presenter. So, when you are downloading the installer, make sure you select the correct one.
Download the Adobe Presenter 8 64-bit version here.
Adobe Presenter 8.0.1 Update with Bug Fixes… Have you updated it?
The new Adobe Presenter 8.0.1 update contains key enhancements to Adobe Presenter Video Creator, and several bug fixes. If you have Adobe Presenter 8 installed, and don't see an update option in the Help Menu, just click on any menu button (ex. 'Create Package') in the Presenter ribbon. This initializes Adobe Presenter. You should now be able to see the Updates option in the Presenter Help menu. Dr. Pooja Jaisingh has detailed the Presenter video creator enhancements in this blog post. The key bug fixes provided in this update are below:
Bug fix 1: If an AICC compliant course is uploaded in a cross-domain scenario, reporting was not functioning correctly. For example, if there is an AICC course in a public server, modify the .au file to point to the IndexAPI.html in the public server, and upload these files to SABA, in this scenario reporting was not working in some cases. This issue is fixed.
Bug fix 2: In some cases, moving Presenter 7.0.7 created projects with MP4 videos to a different machine throws an error stating that the MP4 file is missing. This happens while doing a 'Save as' to a different location or with a different name. This issue is fixed. BTW, this happens with MP4 only, if you have FLVs… don't worry 🙂
Bug fix 3: In very specific scenarios, the text font color changed from white to black in the published output. This issue is fixed.
Bug fix 4: In some scenarios, it was observed that text inside a shape, and in some cases the shapes also didn't render properly in published output. This issue is fixed.
Bug fix 5: If there were group of images, and they were animated, the animations were not detected during sync. The animation count wasdisplayed as 0 instead of 1. This issue is fixed.
Bug fix 6: In some cases, there were exceptions shown while resuming a course on LMS. This happened in specific scenarios in combination with Question Slides.
Do try out the update, and share your feedback in our comments section.


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Malignant granulosa cell tumor
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My 8-year-old daughter had a malignant granulosa cell tumor removed. I cannot find a doctor who has experience dealing with this type of ovarian cancer in children. I want to have a treatment plan in place in case we have a reoccurrence. I have read that treatment has not been successful for reoccurrences. She scored a 7 on the mit`otic index. I was told she had a 50/50 chance of a reoccurrence with that score. Please help me with any information or guidance you may have. I have searched everywhere with little results. Thank you.
Christina S. Chu, MD, Assistant Professor of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
You did not mention the stage of your daughter's tumor. Stage of the disease is the most important factor in predicting recurrence--much more important than mitotic index. Patients with stage I tumors limited to the ovary may usually be treated with only surgical removal of that ovary. For patients with juvenile granulosa cell tumors, recurrences have not been reported to occur once three years from the initial diagnosis have passed.
For children with this condition I recommend that consultation with a pediatric oncologist. A specialist at a large children's hospital may have more experience with this tumor than an oncologist who predominantly sees adults.


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International Women's DayMar 8, 2012
This year, International Women's Day focuses on the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.
"Invest in rural women. Eliminate discrimination against them in law and in practice. Ensure that policies respond to their needs. Give them equal access to resources. Provide rural women with a role in decision-making." UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon


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Hillsboro coach finds silver lining in sparse golf team
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Although numbers for the Hillsboro golf team are down this year golf coach Scott O'Hare is looking forward to coaching the three golfers that will make up the team.
"It will be a little different for the players this year because there won't be so much regard given to the team score," O'Hare said. O'Hare said that senior Evan Ollenburger will likely be his top golfer because he has the most experience.
"Evan is a returning letterman that has consistently improved and played on varsity since he was a freshman," he said. Last year, Ollenburger missed playing in the state tournament by one stroke.
"If we fix a few things Ollenburger could shoot in the mid-70s," O'Hare said.
O'Hare plans to play junior Philip Ediger at different levels depending on the tournament.
"Philip started as a freshman and struggled his first year," O'Hare said. "He was small as a freshman. As he has matured, he has gained greater control of his golf swing."
Freshman Alex Dalke is the third golfer O'Hare will work with this year.
"He was part of our junior golf program, so he has had some exposure to golf prior to high school," O'Hare said.
O'Hare is trying to recruit more players but has yet to get anyone to commit. "We had pretty solid golf teams from about 1998 to 2009, but numbers and experienced golfers have dropped off dramatically," he said. O'Hare said an unseen benefit is the amount of time he will be able to spend with players. Hillsboro's first action will be April 8 in Herington.