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SOUTH (Arkansas, Louisiana) / PANTS ON FIRE, SIZZLING NAPRAVNIK EARN KENTUCKY DERBY TRIP WITH LOUISIANA DOWNS UPSET – Pants On Fire, the more lightly regarded of two starters owned by George and Lori Hall, surged to the lead at the head of the stretch under sizzling jockey Rosie Napravnik, turned back favored Mucho Macho Man in mid-stretch and held off longshot Nehro to win Saturday's $1 million Louisiana Derby (Grade II) by a neck.
The victory in New Orleans earned the Kelly Breen-trained son of Jump Start a trip to Churchill Downs for the 137th running of the $2 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) on Saturday, May 7. The win by Napravnik, who rode Pants On Fire for the first time, could make her the first female jockey to compete in the Run for the Roses since Rosemary Homeister Jr. piloted Supah Blitz to a 13th place finish in 2003.
"He ran with as much heart as a horse can run with down the lane," said Napravnik, who rode four other winners Saturday. "Mucho Macho Man came up next to us and he just dug in and he really finished with all heart."
The victory improved the career record for Pants On Fire to 2-3-1 in eight races with earnings of $678,100. Pants On Fire covered 1 1/8 miles over a fast track in 1:49.92.
"This horse is really blossoming," Breen said. "You know it was like going to Disneyland, that sort of thing. We stamped our ticket. Hopefully the horse comes out of the race in good order and we'll be on to Churchill."
The other half of the Breen-trained entry, Nacho Business, finished eighth.
The race was a disappointment for Mucho Macho Man, who was favored off his strong debut victory at Fair Grounds in the Risen Star (GII), but he could have an excuse for his sub-par run. Mucho Macho Man lost a shoe just after the start of the race, but trainer Kathy Ritvo said her colt was fine Sunday and still Kentucky Derby-bound.
"We can't win all the time," Ritvo said. "We'd like to, but we can't. We'll just put what happened (Saturday) down as a learning experience, but you would think that when a horse loses a shoe right out of the gate it probably costs him two lengths, or at least one length."
Trainer Steve Asmussen said surprise runner-up Nehro could run next in the $1 million Arkansas Derby (GI).
Elite Alex closed from last to finish fourth, and was followed by Machen, Wilkinson, Left, Nacho Business, Majestic Harbor, Le Mans, Mavericking and Liondrive.
Earlier, Courtlandt Farm's Prime Cut and jockey Edgar Prado rallied to upset highly-regarded Bind in an allowance race at a mile and 70 yards. The latter dazzled local fans with a 9 ½-length win in a Feb. 19 maiden race.
MIDWEST (Illinois, Kentucky) / ANIMAL KINGDOM RALLIES IN VINERY RACING SPIRAL, EARNS DERBY SHOT – Team Valor International's Animal Kingdom, making just the fourth start of his career, rallied from last in a field of 11 to win the $500,000 Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes (GII) at Turfway Park and appeared to earn a spot in the starting gate for Kentucky Derby 137.
Jockey Alan Garcia positioned the Graham Motion-trained Animal Kingdom well behind a strong three-way pace duel that softened up early leader and favorite Positive Response. When the favorite faltered at the top of the stretch, Decisive Moment assumed the lead and spurted clear, but the eventual runner-up could not hold off Animal Kingdom, who surged in the middle of the track to win by 2 3/4 lengths.
"I'm very excited," Garcia said. "Wherever they want to go with this horse, I want to be there."
Twinspired ran late to finish third, while John Battaglia Memorial winner Positive Response finished eighth.
The winner covered 1 1/8 miles on the synthetic Polytrack course in 1:52.32.
Both Animal Kingdom and Decisive Moment will apparently train up to their next starts in the May 7 Kentucky Derby. Team Valor International President Barry Irwin told Daily Racing Form's Marty McGee that Animal Kingdom, who has yet to run on the traditional dirt he'll see in the Derby, would train over the synthetic Polytrack surface at Keeneland and travel to Churchill Downs to work over its dirt surface prior to the Derby.
Trainer Juan Arias said Decisive Moment would ship from Turfway Park to Churchill Downs early Monday. He will be the first Kentucky Derby contender to arrive on the grounds of the historic Louisville track.
Earlier at Turfway, Swift Warrior led throughout under jockey Javier Castellano to defeat Crimson China by two lengths in the $100,000 Rushaway Stakes. The winner was not an early Kentucky Derby nominee.
WEST (Arizona, California, New Mexico) / LONGSHOT TWICE THE APPEAL UPSETS ASTROLOGY IN SUNLAND PARK DERBY – Longshot Twice the Appeal, dismissed at odds of 25-1, rallied past favored Astrology in the stretch and inched away to a 1 ½-length upset in Sunday's $800,000 Sunland Park Derby.
The victory under jockey Christian Santiago Reyes probably put the son of Successful Appeal in the starting gate for the Kentucky Derby, which uses earnings in graded stakes races to determine the maximum field of 20 horses for America's greatest race. The $400,000 earned by the previously obscure Twice the Appeal in Sunday's race vaulted trainer Jeff Bonde's colt into the Top 10 in graded earnings by Kentucky Derby nominees.
Astrology, who was making his first start since late November for trainer Steve Asmussen, held on to edge Ruler on Ice for the runner-up spot..
Twice the Appeal, who is owned by Edward Brown Jr., Victor Flores and Henry Hernandez, covered 1 1/8 miles over a fast track in 1:50.91 for Bonde, who has never started a horse in the Kentucky Derby. Bonde also trains San Vicente (GII) runner-up Sway Away.
DUBAI / KHAWLAH BECOMES FIRST FILLY TO WIN UAE DERBY – Godolphin's Dubai-based Khawlah became the first filly to win the $2 million UAE Derby (GII) when the 3-year-old filly rallied late to edge the Irish-based Master of Hounds by a nose on Saturday at Meydan Racecourse.
French teenager Mickael Barzalona was in the saddle as the daughter of Cape Cross caught the Aidan O'Brien-trained Master of Hounds and jockey Ryan Moore in the final jump to become the first filly to sweep the UAE Oaks and Derby. The race was run over Meydan's synthetic Tapeta surface.
Trainer Saeed bin Suroor, who won the UAE Derby for a seventh time, said Khawlah would be sent to England and pointed toward the Group 1 Epsom Oaks.
Immediate plans for Master of Hounds, who made his first start of 2011, have not been finalized.
FLORIDA / UNCLE MO, STAY THIRSTY WORK FOR PLETCHER – Repole Stable's Gotham (GIII) winner Stay Thirsty worked five furlongs in 1:01.60 in the company of a stablemate on Sunday at Florida's Palm Meadows training center. Trainer Todd Pletcher worked Stay Thirsty in blinkers and indicated the colt would likely be wearing that piece of equipment when he runs in Saturday's $1 million Florida Derby (GI).
Pletcher also worked Repole's Kentucky Derby favorite Uncle Mo a half-mile in an easy :49.40 in the company of two workmates. Uncle Mo will run next in the $1 million Wood Memorial (GI) on April 9 at Aqueduct.


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Too Much Debt Means the Economy Can't Grow: Reinhart and RogoffBy and
Too Much Debt Means the Economy Can't Grow: Reinhart and RogoffBy and
As public debt in advanced countries reaches levels not seen since the end of World War II, there is considerable debate about the urgency of taming deficits with the aim of stabilizing and ultimately reducing debt as a percentage of gross domestic product.
Our empirical research on the history of financial crises and the relationship between growth and public liabilities supports the view that current debt trajectories are a risk to long-term growth and stability, with many advanced economies already reaching or exceeding the important marker of 90 percent of GDP. Nevertheless, many prominent public intellectuals continue to argue that debt phobia is wildly overblown. Countries such as the U.S., Japan and the U.K. aren't like Greece, nor does the market treat them as such.
Indeed, there is a growing perception that today's low interest rates for the debt of advanced economies offer a compelling reason to begin another round of massive fiscal stimulus. If Asian nations are spinning off huge excess savings partly as a byproduct of measures that effectively force low-income savers to put their money in bank accounts with low government-imposed interest-rate ceilings -- why not take advantage of the cheap money?
Although we agree that governments must exercise caution in gradually reducing , we think it would be folly to take comfort in today's low borrowing costs, much less to interpret them as an "all clear" signal for a further explosion of debt.
Changing Interest Rates
Several studies of financial crises show that interest rates seldom indicate problems long in advance. In fact, we should probably be particularly concerned today because a growing share of advanced country debt is held by official creditors whose current willingness to forego short-term returns doesn't guarantee there will be a captive audience for debt in perpetuity.
Those who would point to low servicing costs should remember that market interest rates can change like the weather. Debt levels, by contrast, can't be brought down quickly. Even though politicians everywhere like to argue that their country will expand its way out of debt, our historical research suggests that growth alone is rarely enough to achieve that with the debt levels we are experiencing today.
While we expect to see more than one member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development default or restructure their debt before the European crisis is resolved, that isn't the greatest threat to most advanced economies. The biggest risk is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.
Historical Precedents
At what point does indebtedness become a problem? In our study "Growth in a Time of Debt," we found relatively little association between public liabilities and growth for debt levels of less than 90 percent of GDP. But burdens above 90 percent are associated with 1 percent lower median growth. Our results are based on a data set of public debt covering 44 countries for up to 200 years. The annual data set incorporates more than 3,700 observations spanning a wide range of political and historical circumstances, legal structures and monetary regimes.
We aren't suggesting there is a bright red line at 90 percent; our results don't imply that 89 percent is a safe debt level, or that 91 percent is necessarily catastrophic. Anyone familiar with doing empirical research understands that vulnerability to crises and anemic growth seldom depends on a single factor such as public debt. However, our study of crises shows that public obligations are often hidden and significantly larger than official figures suggest.
Creative Accounting Devices
In addition, off-balance sheet guarantees and other creative accounting devices make it even harder to assess the true nature of a country's debt until a crisis forces everything out into the open. (Just think of the giant U.S. mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose debt was never officially guaranteed before the 2008 meltdown.)
There also is the question of how broad a measure of public debt to use. Our empirical work concentrates on central-government obligations because state and local data are so limited across time and countries, and government guarantees, as noted, are difficult to quantify over time. (Until we developed our data set, no long-dated cross-country information on central government debt existed.) But state and local debt are important because they so frequently trigger federal government bailouts in a crisis. Official figures for state debts don't include chronic late payments (arrears), which are substantial in Illinois and California, for example.
Public and Private Debt
Indeed, it isn't unusual for governments to absorb large chunks of troubled private debt in a crisis. Taking this into account, chart 1, attached, shows the extraordinarily high level of overall U.S. debts, public and private.
In addition to ex-ante or ex-post government guarantees and other forms of "hidden debts," any discussion of should take into account the demographic challenges across the industrialized world. Our 90 percent threshold is largely based on earlier periods when old-age pensions and health-care costs hadn't grown to anything near the size they are today. Surely this makes the burden of debt greater.
There is a growing sense that inflation is the endgame to debt buildups. For emerging markets that has often been the case, but for advanced economies, the historical correlation is weaker. Part of the reason for this apparent paradox may be that, especially after World War II, many governments enacted policies that amounted to heavy financial repression, including interest-rate ceilings and non-market debt placement. Low statutory interest rates allowed governments to reduce real debt burdens through moderate inflation over a sustained period. Of course, this time could be different, and we shouldn't entirely dismiss the possibility of elevated inflation as the antidote to debt.
Extremely Rare
Those who remain unconvinced that rising debt levels pose a risk to growth should ask themselves why, historically, levels of debt of more than 90 percent of GDP are relatively rare and those exceeding 120 percent are extremely rare (see attached chart 2 for U.S. public debt since 1790). Is it because generations of politicians failed to realize that they could have kept spending without risk? Or, more likely, is it because at some point, even advanced economies hit a ceiling where the pressure of rising borrowing costs forces policy makers to increase tax rates and cut government spending, sometimes precipitously, and sometimes in conjunction with inflation and financial repression (which is also a tax)?
Even absent high interest rates, as Japan highlights, debt overhangs are a hindrance to growth.
The relationship between growth, inflation and debt, no doubt, merits further study; it is a question that cannot be settled with mere rhetoric, no matter how superficially convincing.
In the meantime, historical experience and early examination of new data suggest the need to be cautious about surrendering to "this-time-is-different" syndrome and decreeing that surging government debt isn't as significant a problem in the present as it was in the past.
(Carmen M. Reinhart is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. Kenneth S. Rogoff is a professor of economics at Harvard University. They are co-authors of "This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly." The opinions expressed are their own.)
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Dear OncoLink:
I am curious to know of any genetic studies of Barrett's esophagus. I now have two families in my practice that have three family members with Barrett's. They are of Irish ancestry and have names of similar origin. Any information would be appreciated.
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Thank you for your question.
To the best of our knowledge there is no definitive proof demonstrating a genetic disposition to Barrett's esophagus. Barrett's esophagus refers to a pathologic change of the epithelium (lining) of the lower esophagus. The relationship between Barrett's esophagus and esophageal cancer is not clear but adenocarcinoma of the esophagus often occurs in areas along the esophagus where Barrett's is present. However, there are cases of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus without Barrett's esophagus present, but some feel this is because the cancer has overgrown the Barrett's.


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Group Standings | ICC World Twenty20 2009
Group Standings | ICC World Twenty20 2009
All-Time Test XI:
Gavaskar, Boycott, Tendulkar, G.Pollock, V.Richards, Sobers, Gilchrist (wk), Warne (c), Waqar/Wasim, Lillee, Ambrose.
Cheers, had totally forgotten last time's format, so much better than a round robin in the second round, I've heard that somewhere in Nevis (or maybe the Leeward Isles) the last WC is still going on...
TBH I reckon West Indies are a better Twenty20 side then us. Reckon it going to be pretty tough getting out of this group if our batsmen don't learn how to bat in this format. A lot of pressure will be on Dilshan and Jayasuriya. Bowling wise we will be tough to score off. Malinga, Murali, Thurshara, Mendis and Maharoof is pretty good attack for mine.
The man, the mountain, the Mathews. The greatest all rounder since Keith Miller. (Y)
Jaffna Jets CC (Battrick & FTP)
RIP WCC and CW Cricket
Member of the MSC, JMAS and CVAAS
Dwayne Smith should seriously reconsider his Kolpak status, the way he's hitting it he'd be a shoe in for the WI T20 squad. Still don't really get how some players are so quick to give up on their dreams, you'd think choosing a career as a professional sportsmen they wouldn't be risk averse people.
Dwayne Smith did pretty well at the four-day game for Barbados too, and could easily be in for a recall to the WI side for the longer form of the game. Hey, if Ryan Hinds and Devon Smith could be recalled, so could Dwayne!
He's only 25, after all....
But the feeling is that a county contract is more lucrative than a WI contract now. This Kolpak situation is really hurting teams like the WI. I really hope it's sorted out soon....
I fancy you to beat the W.Indies convincingly and maybe even upset Australia if everything clicks. The Aussie bowling ain't great and I wouldn't fancy coming up against a top 5 as:
and a main quartet of bowling like so:
If even half of those are on form.
It swings over here and if Malinga is hitting 140-145kph I can see him being the top wicket taker IAH.
Jesus brings life eternal
Oz will go out in round 1
They've picked a test side (supplemented by a few ringers) who'll have their eyes firmly set upon the Ashes and will will be gone before they knows what hit them
David Warner
Shane Watson
Brad Haddin
Ricky Ponting
Andrew Symonds
Michael Hussey
David Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Nathan Hauritz
Brett Lee
Nathan Bracken
Peter Siddle
Ben Hilfenhaus
James Hopes
Michael Clarke
I don't know what makes you think that is a test side.If that was the squad they announced for the Ashes I would have cried. Besides Micheal Clarke, and Ben Hilfenhaus.I can't think of too many in their who you would call a "Test" player.One day squad Yeah possibly but Test I can't agree with.
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I might go:
David Warner
Shane Watson
Ricky Ponting
Andrew Symonds
David Hussey
Michael Hussey
Micheal Clarke
Brad Haddin
Mitchell Johnson
Brett Lee
Nathan Bracken
A bit batting heavy perhaps, but with enough options.
A variation would be to replace Clarke or Mussey with Siddle or Hauritz.
Hopes and Hifenhaus I see as being players unable to offer anything decent to the team and would therefore not play them at all.
SL's opening is little bit of a problem. Dilshan is in form, but I am not sure how he'll handle Lee and Johnson coming 90mph at him. Jayasuriya will be hit or miss, and SL should not get him in to the equation. Sangakkara opening against AUS and SAF who has genuinely qick bowlers would be better IMO, as Sanga likes quick bowling. Dilshan had all his succes in IPL batting at #3/4.
My side would be,
de Saram
Kulasekara / Thushara - former against AUS because can bowl the yorker very well.
Supporting players: Dinesh Chandimal, Roshen Silva, Kusal Janith, Nuwan Pradeep, Kasun Rajitha, Lahiru Kumara, Akila Dhananjaya, Dhananjaya de Silva
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Sports Movies For Kids
12 Sports Movies to Keep the Olympic Spirit Alive
12 Sports Movies to Keep the Olympic Spirit Alive
The riveting Olympics action has ended, but we have plenty of sports movies to keep the fun going. Help your kids foster that competitive spirit by watching classic sports films for the whole family. Whether they like timeless underdog tales or silly animated movies, these heartwarming picks are sure to bring smiles and inspire lessons. We've rounded up some of the most memorable, kid-friendly sports movies of all time, so grab some popcorn and get ready to channel the Olympic spirit with your little ones.


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So the past few days have been pretty cool, the three best things that have happened in my life are as follows.
1. I got into Florida State University, they are the first college to send out admission descisions, so no matter what i am going to college Yay!.
2. Lexie is in town, and even though I feel kinda sick, we have had some fun, she has come to GHS for a day and things have been good since =).
3. I have driven to school the past few days and i have taken Rachel with me. Today we saw the "Hot and Fresh" sign on at Krispy Kreme so i pulled over and bought a dozen hot fresh doughnuts and Rachel and I ate them. We shared the majority i had left over of course. But it was a pretty fun adventure with Rachel, and i enjoy our time together =).
Speaking of enjoying time with the punkface, I wrote a big long blog on the bus the other day about how i am lonely without anybody to ride with me and i have posted it as follows.
So, I know this is going to sound pretty lame, but I have been thinking about it and when Rachel is not on the bus I can never talk to or sit with other people. I am not entirely sure why but I feel like the big reason is that Rachel is somebody I enjoy sitting next to, she is smart and pretty and can hold a good conversation. The "stock" of the kids who ride my bus are not of the most fantastic quality… In fact most of them are pretty obnoxious. There are a select few that I have formed mild acquaintances with. Beyond that there is very little interaction between me and the others. As it is I feel like I am a polar opposite of just about everyone I know… And maybe I am going to far when I say that. Maybe my state of mind is just that of a different age.
Is it possible, nay probable that I somehow skipped a huge block of my personal development? Maybe I have made myself think and moved beyond the maturity levels that I was suppose to incur later in life… Or maybe even it is just arrested development- who the hell knows? I am no psychologist by any means, perhaps Piaget can help me
understand why I am the way I am.Personally I was never a fan of psychoanalysis. In my opinion Freud had good methodology just bad theories. He spent his whole life trying to be profound and famous; I think he was just trying so hard that he began to force his ideas until they became pathological. On the subject, I was never really a fan of psychometric test either. Who is to say that my state of mind is quantitative? IQ is a bunch of bull honky in my opinion. While it does carry some weight it is very culturally based. For instance if I were to take an IQ test in German I would probably score high enough to be considered mentally retarded… Whoo…
That huge digression aside the big moral of my story is that I wish Rachel road the bus home more often. I am lonely when I have nobody riding with me. Even if we don't talk, I like knowing she is there next to me. *sigh*…. And such is life


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Alfa-Laval promises lightning bag-in-box changeovers
At the show in Dusseldorf (May 8-14), the company will show off its compact Astepo High Speed, Low Acid bag-in-box filler, which is suitable for both low and high-acid products including juices, juice drinks, concentrated juices, purees and dairy products including flavored UHT milk.
The machine can fill aseptic bags from 3-25 liters via a continuous process, and Jacopo Montali, Alfa-Laval product manager, bag-in-box fillers, explained the machine's key technological features.
"Thanks to the implementation of a brushless electric servo motor technology in the new filler, we are able to control and adjust all the movement of the aseptic filling and the bag feeder with extreme accuracy and smoothness of motion," he said.
'Beer in a box, beer in a bag-in-box…'
"This is what gives the machine the capability to fill up to 500 bags/minute, based on 10-liter bags. It also enables changeover of caps and volume to be achieved in minimum time compared to any other machine on the market," Montali added.
First presented at Drinktec last September, a beer-in-box aseptic filler developed by Alfa-Laval and Carbotek is also being marketed at Interpack, as a clean, user-friendly alternative to stainless steel kegs.
It can fill 25-liter bag-in-box up to 240 bags/hour; three different sizes are available for ultraclean or aseptic filling for capacities of 1,000, 4,000 or 6,000 liters/hour.
Communications manager, Annette Risberg, told BeverageDaily.com that accuracy and flexibility was the focus for the company's recent machine innovations in the beverage sphere.
'Scalability is our strength' – Alfa-Laval
She said that Alfa-Laval stood out from the competition due to its expertise in aseptic and non-aseptic filling, and a broad product portfolio.
"We have more than 25 years experience in aseptic processing and flexible bag filling. Our range of compact, pre-assembled and pre-tested fillers range from pilot size to full-scale production with customization possibilities," Risberg said.
Since Alfa-Laval deals with all the major bag-in-box suppliers, Risberg said the company was able to supply a wide variety of caps and closures, automation and alarm systems and autodiagnostics for product traceability.
"Fillers can easily be extended from one to two filling heads, and from semi- to fully automatic. They can be delivered as stand-alone or as part of a complete, integrated system including cartoning and Alfa Laval tanks and modules for pasteurization and de-carbonation," she added.


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text: Amsterdam Tattoo Museum "The Book of Lucky" by Lucky Bastard In the beginning there was the Red Light... In 1998, I took my first trip to Amsterdam to try and sit-in at the infamous Hanky Panky Tattoo. I was told by others that had worked for Hanky (Henk Schiffmacher) that it was not possible to get someone to vouch for you, or to call ahead to test the waters. You just had to meet Henk face-to-face, and hope he liked what you were doing. Not just artistically, but most importantly personality-wise... I'd heard more crazy stories about Hanky Panky than I had seen tattoos he'd done. After three days of hanging out in the waiting area of his basement tattoo shop and hoping that Henk wouldn't throw me out the door, up the stairs and into the canal over some small infraction of his tattoo etiquette, he finally arrived. Henk came down the stairs through the waiting room, and rolled right past me into the work area before I could even fire off one word. He barked some orders at the apprentice in Dutch, and then he took over his station from whoever was unfortunate enough to be working there at that moment. I watched in silence, holding my portfolio in my hand, suddenly feeling out of place and totally un-cool as the work area was broken down and reset in a matter of minutes. I kept looking for a moment to work my way into the conversation. There was no moment. A young blond guy that had been sitting next to me in the waiting area was called back into the work area. After much heated deliberation in another dialect, an agreement was made. As Henk took a stencil for a Leo Zulueta tribal armband and laid it across the customer's abdomen, he looked up at me for the first time that afternoon. The look he gave me was one of a man who understood entirely the craft he was plying, but also knew that sometimes you have to give the customer what he wants. I chose this moment to introduce myself, and throw down my well rehearsed "why you should let me work here" pitch. I believe it went something like this: Me: "W-w-w-what's up Henk? My name is..." Henk: "I know who the fuck you are! You should have told me you were coming! There is no place in the shop right now. You can work at the museum until next week, then you can sit-in here while we go to the Madrid convention." After I witnessed the fastest tribal armband ever to be put on someone's belly, Henk stood up and announced that we were going to the museum. I hadn't had a chance to see the museum, even though it was right around the corner from the shop. I'd been so focused on waiting for Henk to arrive that I neglected to check it out. Keeping up with this man turned out to be quite a task. He is deceivingly quick on his feet for a man of such large stature. I found myself almost out of breath on the short walk from one canal to the next. Upon entering the museum accompanied by its creator, I was instantly overcome with a feeling of "home" that I'd never felt before. Everywhere I looked, in all directions, were museum quality display cases filled with tattoo stuff. Unlike other museums that had a small, usually temporary, display of tattoo related items; this one was all tattoo artifacts from around the world. Equipped with a research library and a small tattoo station behind the front desk, it was perfect. Although it was only a modest 800 square foot space on the first floor of a building in the Red Light District (where tattooing was done at the time), it was ours –a place to call our own! A center for tattoo culture. A physical point on the map that you could put your finger on, literally. The six weeks I worked in Amsterdam for Henk were pivotal in changing my approach to tattooing as an art form, a craft, a business and a lifetime commitment. It was at the museum that the concept of tattooing as its own "world culture" was explained to me in depth. When I left Holland, I was already planning my return. I figured the museum would be there forever. It wasn't. Perplexed, but not in despair, I decided to take to the road on a permanent basis in 1999. The first Tokyo convention would be my starting point, followed by a month in Thailand with Chris Garver, then off to Australia to wait out the winter. I would be in Amsterdam by the start of summer. Everything was ready to go. I had sent Henk a detailed fax explaining my travel plans, indicating I would be staying in Amsterdam and working for him as long has he would have me. I received a faxed reply a few days later, "I'll talk to you in Tokyo" was all it said. Apparently, due to problems with the landlords, the shop had to close its doors. With no support from the local government or the tattoo community, the museum would soon follow suit. I continued on the road, and would visit whenever I could. Henk took to painting with the same veracity that had gotten him so far in tattooing. So much so, that he was able to jump from the "niche tattoo art market" to the "fine art market." This was an accomplishment that few of us as tattooists have ever attained. However, the concept of another tattoo museum always lingered in the background. His presence in the tattoo world was sorely missed for far too many years. The Second Coming Joe Vegas once told me that to be a great tattooist, one must have a priest-like devotion. Filip Leu once asked me if I was a religious man, to which I replied, "Yes, I'm a tattooer. That is my religion." References to the "Tattoo Gods" have permeated my belief system since the beginning of my career. It always struck me as odd that we tattooers of the world all seemed to share this same vague idea of tattoo culture as religion. It seems now more than ever that our culture is in need of roots, or proof to the new generation of artists that we are still members of the same church... tangible evidence of our connection to the history of this, the earliest art form. Once again, it was Hanky "Fucking" Panky that took the reins to establish a bigger and better world center for all of us to enjoy. "This time it's fucking for real!" was the greeting I got from Henk as I arrived on the Tuesday before the opening. I wanted to show up early to help out as much as I could. I was in shock at the sheer size of the project at hand. Two buildings, both standing three stories tall; auxiliary single level buildings that were being used as workshops dotting the huge back courtyard. Once used as storage for the zoo located across the street, the buildings had been lost to time, filled with taxidermy specimens that were unfit for display, damaged or otherwise discarded. Henk, in partnership with an amazing social welfare program, found the location and began the arduous process of giving birth to the new dream. Armed with over 150 workers, countless volunteers and one of the largest personal collections of tattoo information in the world, the ball was rolling. Finally supported by the city government, the opening of the museum would coincide with Amsterdam's Museum Nights (www.n8.nl). Amsterdam's Museum Nights is an amazing event in and of itself. Selected museums around the city open their doors to the public from 7:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. the following morning. By the time I hit the scene, the excitement was palpable, and it was only the Friday before I got in that the core construction was finished. Filling that enormous space with a museum was next on the list. After trying to process all of the activities going on around me, and failing miserably, I made my way up the stairs to the new shop. "Home Again" was all I could think of when I got behind the dummy rail. Although only a little over halfway done, I felt completely comfortable in the new work area. Long time friend and infamous character Tattoo Molly was the first to welcome me to the new spot. Chris Danley, Danny Boy Sawyer, and Danny Dringenberg, (the permanent crew) all arrived shortly after, along with Yushi Tekai, who is sitting in on a semi-permanent basis. It quickly became apparent that if I was going to hang out, I was going to help out. Danny Boy asked if I wanted to hang flash or paint flash. Within a couple of hours, the place was a beehive of activity. Dan Sinnes from Luxembourg and Tommy the Truth from Dublin, as well as Martin Robson were helping out by painting designs for the walls, while Danny Boy and I were hanging the seemingly endless supply of hand painted originals donated from around the globe. I would occasionally take a walk around the museum to watch the progress. Of course, this was not a spectator sport, and I would often get drafted into something unexpected by The Boss. Henk would round-up a few tattooers to help the "intellectual museum types" identify artifacts or place items in the cases. I was a kid in a candy store. Over the next three days, tattooers started to trickle in. There were representatives from all four corners of the world. With each day, a new wave of artists would arrive, and a new adventure would begin. Nearly every day would end with an amazing dinner hosted by Henk and Louise. The Promised Land I arrived at the museum around 11:00 a.m. on the Saturday morning of the Grand Opening. I knew it was going to happen, but I have to admit that I was not ready to share my playground with the public. A feeling of panic washed over me. The urge to protect the place from the hordes of press and foreign speaking squares. I took to checking all of the locks on the displays. Just the day before, everything was open, and we were all free to make adjustments as needed. Today there were no more adjustments. It was all frozen in time, ready to be seen by generations of museum-goers. At noon, the doors to the main exhibit wings were still locked and the courtyard was filling up. A temporary tent had been set up for the opening ceremony. Prompted by the moving of the elbow-to-elbow crowd, I was squeezed inside to hear the opening words and congratulatory speeches. The term "Tattican" or the Dutch spelling "Tatticaan" had been used by the local papers for some time, but it was really put into perspective when people who had no tattoos used the term. References to the Tattican archives, Tattican library, and Hanky as presiding pope were sprinkled throughout the opening statements. The final speaker was Henk, who chose to keep his remarks short, and instead donned a headset microphone for the first official tour of the new grounds. Henk led the mob of onlookers through his collection, shouting his way from the primitive hand tools of the Borneo headhunters to the most modern of the machines in the upstairs display. As the day progressed, rock bands took the stage, shamans blessed people in what will be the Memorial Garden, and plenty of drinking and smoking went on all around. Taking it to the next level has always been Hanky Panky's strong suit, and he did not disappoint. In order to raise money for the museum's library, Henk created a Coptic Catholic- inspire design to be done only on those who attended the opening –the first pilgrims. New designs will be created for future pilgrims, and for future events at the museum. When it was time to christen the studio, Henk received the first tattoo in the new shop. Returning the favor, he placed the second one on Danny Boy. They in turn gave them to all of us who were working at the shop. That's when shit got really fun! Everybody who got one was then allowed to give one. Somewhere between 150 and 200 tattoos were done that night. All in all, it was a complete success, with over 4,000 people through the door that day. Upon entering the work area of the studio the next morning, Henk remarked, "It only took one night of tattooing to give this place a soul." He was right. The place felt different, more alive than the day before the first mark was made. I spent the next 10 days working in the museum by day, and entertaining the slowly dwindling amount of guests at night before they took to their respective trains or planes. The Clarion Call The world of tattooing has changed a lot since the 1990s, when the first incarnation of the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum was around. The landscape of our little subculture has been mainlined into the mainstream. Acceptance of tattooing is being enjoyed all across the planet. The timing of this project could not be better. With so many tattooers out there at this point in our history, we have been in dire need of a place like this. We have been a split culture of nomadic tribes with no real homeland. The center of the tattoo universe is now firmly established in one of Amsterdam's oldest museum areas, surrounded by other centers for history. It is across from one of Europe's oldest zoos, and down the street from one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world. Of course this place will only survive with everybody's help. Thousands of people have to go through the door of the museum every year, so tell your clients, your friends and your mom to check it out if they go to Amsterdam. Another way that we can all make a contribution is by donating artifacts that would usually only be seen by a few people, but can now be enjoyed by thousands. Tattooers all over the globe are sitting on amazing little pieces of history. Now, take that old machine out of the drawer. That old piece of flash that is sitting under your old power supply and a few of the old business cards you keep laying around the shop. Put all of that shit in a box and send it to the museum. Then go visit. I was a witness to the birth and death of the first temple of tattooing. My heart can't stand to watch this one die. Without continual support from the tattoo community, this place will close down. It is the largest undertaking in the history of tattooing, and should be treated as such. The institution will need to be kept up to the highest standards, and new acquisitions will need to be made. All of this costs ungodly amounts of money. So "break bread" and make the pilgrimage. Lucky Bastard Papal Nuncio to the Tatticaan Under Pope Hanky Panky the First Amsterdam Tattoo Museum Plantage Middenlaan 62, 1018 DH Amsterdam www.amsterdamtattoomuseum.com For more info on the New Amsterdam Tattoo Museum please visit their Facebook and Twitter pages: New Amsterdam Tattoo Museum Facebook New Amsterdam Tattoo Museum Twitter (This article is featured in Tattoo Artist Magazine #29)


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Mother Nature has a knack for getting around even the best pest control measures, and the Bt technology is no exception to the rule. Fortunately, scientists are developing new tools to help farmers stop corn rootworm in its tracks.
Agrisure Duracade is the next-generation corn rootworm trait under development by Syngenta. The trait expresses a new protein, eCry3.1Ab (Event 5307), that differs from existing products in the company's lineup. Company officials say the trait will be used in conjunction with other existing Bt traits in stacked hybrids.
"Stacking dual modes of action for the control of destructive insects like corn rootworm will allow us to create reduced refuge offerings that will help growers maximize yields while also helping to prevent the development of resistant insects in their fields," says David Morgan, president of Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
Pending receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals, corn hybrids with Agrisure Duracade are expected to be available as early as 2014.
In addition, the company will have a full launch of its Agrisure 3122 E-Zp Refuge trait stack in 2013. It offers farmers two corn rootworm traits, mCry3A and Cry34/35Ab1, for a dual mode of action against pests, notes Miloud Araba, Syngenta technical product lead, commercial traits. The product is intended for use where farmers face insect pressure from both corn rootworm and corn borer. This refuge-in-a-bag style product will feature a 5% refuge.
Monsanto is working on a new mode of action for insect management, which will include rootworm
control, called RNA interference (RNAi). The technology is a plant-based process that cells use to reduce or silence the activity of specific genes that carry information within cells, explains Dusty Post, Monsanto global insects management systems lead.
Post says this new technology will be integrated into Monsanto's insect control platform. Farmers located in the western corn rootworm hot spots who have already experienced Cry protein performance issues should welcome this news.
Post adds that, pending regulatory approval, hybrids containing the RNAi technology will be available before the end of the decade.
Mother Nature has a knack for getting around even the best pest control measures, and the Bt technology is no exception to the rule. Fortunately, scientists are developing new tools to help farmers stop corn rootworm in its tracks.


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Levandoski includes students in work
Grinnell College Associate Professor Mark Levandoski plans to add to basic scientific knowledge with the three-year $373,000 grant his research was awarded last week by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. His past research, furthered by work under the new grant, Levandoski says, may possibly point to new approaches for addressing some of humankind's most intractable diseases, including Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Parkinson's and schizophrenia.
Levandoski integrates students into his research, noting that recently-published research on which the new grant builds listed four student co-authors beside his name. Grinnell College ranks eighth among all U.S. colleges in the number of graduates per capita who later earn doctoral degrees in the sciences. One reason for that may be the access Grinnell undergraduates have to high-level lab equipment and to professors engaged in research like Levandoski. All four of the students who worked on the previous grant are now in doctoral programs.
When Levandoski arrived at Grinnell in 1999, he already had several years of work behind him on the receptors in the human brain activated by nicotine, among other substances. "My students and I study the family of proteins in the nervous system that respond to nicotine. These proteins act as molecular portals - opening, closing, and reacting to 'keys' as a means of communication between cells," Levandoski says.
Several substances that unlock the receptors are already known to scientists, Levandoski continues. He and his students "stumbled" across a new key during that previous research. Levandoski likens the known substances including nicotine to metal keys and the effect of the new substances to finding an electronic key card and card reader no one knew was there.
Levandoski is clear that his work is fundamental research which may have practical applications to be found by others. He points out that several diseases have strong but indirect connections to faulty or low-functioning receptors. With better research on the new "key," he adds, other researchers or drug company laboratories may find the direct connections which could enable new approaches to treatment for diseases.
For Levandoski, the grant allows pursuit of two goals: basic knowledge of a part of the human brain that fascinates him and inclusion of students in his work.
"My goal is always that students grow in independence as the project progresses," he explains. "In the ideal case, by the end of a summer or after a couple years working before they graduate, they have contributed their own intellectual 'property' to the project - not to mention their blood, sweat and tears. I have certainly seen some great eureka moments and contributions from several of the students with whom I've worked, and honestly, that's one of the main reasons I do what I do where I do it."
Levandoski and his students will study what he calls a "system," made up of the nicotine receptor, the cell housing it, and the molecules that trigger the receptor. They will start with lab-synthesized RNA, the part of a cell that carries the recipe for making new cells, and grow receptor cells in a particular kind of frog eggs known to host proteins well.
"When they're being gates, when they open, ions move across the membrane of the cell. That constitutes an electrical signal, and we can measure that," he explains.
"They [the receptors] have a native function doing something in our brains that we don't really know that much about, but we know that they also respond to nicotine," Levandoski notes. "There's the possibility that these receptors being on or off contributes to disease states. We want to know how does that extent of communication vary with a different kind of molecule. By serendipity we stumbled on this set of molecules. What we want to know is how they work. They have a big effect. What we're after is how are they exerting this effect?"
The grant, part of federal stimulus funding, will provide summer research stipends for Levandoski and his students as they continue their studies in biochemistry and electrophysiology labs in Grinnell's Robert N. Noyce '49 Science Center. The grant also funds the addition of a lab technician for ongoing research support.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke specifies that the content of any grant is solely the responsibility of its authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke or its parent organization, the National Institutes of Health.


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While refraining from promises of specific policy responses, Mr Obama used a speech in Connecticut to urge the US to make the killing of 27 people in Newtown on Friday the last in a string of mass shootings during his presidency.
"These tragedies must end," he told an interfaith vigil. "And to end them we must change". As the president delivered his remarks to a secondary school hall filled with relatives and friends of the 20 young children and seven women who died, sobbing could be heard from the audience.
Conceding that "no single law - no set of laws - can eliminate evil from the world", Mr Obama insisted that this none the less must "not be an excuse for inaction", asking: "Surely we can do better than this?".
Emboldened by his re-election last month, he pledged to use "whatever power this office holds" to prevent further slaughter, hinting that he would weigh into a policy debate frozen over the past decade by reluctance in Washington to alienate the pro-gun lobby.
Yet the president's remarks seemed likely to disappoint those from his Democratic party urging swift and decisive action on new gun control measures, promising only to "engage" with voters and communities "in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this".
People mourn as they listen to U.S. President Barack Obama's speech (EPA)
While a Democratic Senator pledged on Sunday to introduce a Bill to Congress reinstating a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used by Adam Lanza, a local 20-year-old, at the school, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives remains opposed to new laws.
Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York City, demanded that action on gun control - which Mr Obama promised but failed to deliver during his first term in the White House - must now be the "number one" item on his agenda.
In one of the most effective moments of his speech, Mr Obama admonished the country for failing at what he called its "first task" of caring for its children, saying: "It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right".
U.S. President Barack Obama waits to speak at the interfaith vigil for the shooting victims from Sandy Hook Elementary School (Getty Images/Reuters)
"Can we say that we're truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?"
he asked. "I've been reflecting on this the last few days and, if we're honest with ourselves, the answer is 'no'," he said. "We're not doing enough, and we will have to change".
Solemnly reading through the names of each of the 20 six- and seven-year-old children killed by Lanza, Mr Obama faced his audience and said: "For those of us who remain, let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory".
"Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage?" he asked. "That the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children, year after year after year, is somehow the price of our freedom?"
Mr Obama told those watching that the country had an "obligation to try" in order to honour the dozens of victims during his time in office in mass shootings in Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin and now Connecticut.
Before delivering his speech, Mr Obama met grieving families and emergency service officials, spending so much time with them as to delay the start of the service by about an hour.
While the White House declined to release information about his meetings, some details seeped out via Twitter. One picture posted online showed Mr Obama cradling a granddaughter of Dawn Hochsprung, the school's late principal, who died trying to stop the gunman's rampage.
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"My mom would be SO proud to see President Obama holding her granddaughter," Cristina Hassinger, Mrs Hochsprung's daughter, wrote. " But not as proud as I am of her." The president repeatedly praised Newtown, a prosperous community of some 27,000 people an hour's drive away from New York City, for its quiet dignity "in the face of indescribable violence".
"In the face of unconscionable evil, you've looked out for each other, and you've cared for one another, and you've loved one another," he said. "This is how Newtown will be remembered. And with time, and with God's grace, that love will see you through".


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This photo is from my Mom's old red photo album, ca 1958. How do I know the date? That scrawny little baby in the middle is me!
I'm not 100% sure of who everyone is here, but I'll try (Hey Kerry, if you see this, is that you and your Mom & Dad?)…
Far left standing: my Uncle Troy and my brother Ricky
Standing right: my Aunt Kathy, my great-uncle Bill and my grandmother
Sitting: my grandfather Miles Francis Stanley II, my Aunt Jan, my brother Terry (child), my Mom, me (scrawny baby), my great-grandmother Marie Carrico Kennedy Stanley, my cousin Kerry, my great-aunt Hattie


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In the midst of planning, many mothers can caught up with looking at every program out there, and then extend into looking at almost every homeschool philosophy out there. Have you ever felt like that?
It can be the same way with parenting: such division and derision: the "mommy wars", the strife over feeding methods, discipline methods, so many decisions to make, so many times of wondering. "Am I doing the right thing? Am I going down the right path?"
Being a mother, being a parent, can be so hard.
There is a lot of talk in homeschooling circles about the formative years of birth through seven being about training the will or creating good habits. Yet, this passage speaks of the balance to me:
In the spiritual education of children, our first concern is not to train their wills, but to attract grace – by our life and prayer – to their environment, and to let each child's heart become attached to grace. Theological discussion with children is a very small proportion of Christian education. Prayer that God will touch them with grace is a permanent dimension of all our dealings with children, even when they are not with us.
Protopresbyter George Metallinos, recalling the holy Elder Porphyrios: 'He told me that I must deal with one of my children by praying a lot more. He specifically said to me about that child, "Whatever you would say to that child […], say it to God. Kneel before God and through the grace of God, your words will be conveyed to your child." About my other child, he said to me: "[…] He listens, but he easily forgets. Therefore, again you will kneel and you will ask for God's grace, so that your fatherly words will fall upon good soil and will be able to bear fruit."**
*Fr. Theokletos Dionysiatis, "Between Heaven and Earth [in Greek], (Athens, 1955), p. 130.
So, if the Early Years has another dimension outside of training wills, forming habits for the body and within the home, I believe it resides in gathering grace for our children.
We can do this through having a strong prayer life. There are so many things where we will not know we are "doing the right thing" until our child is an adult. Prayer is a lifeline.
We can get lost amidst the myriad of decisions, and we can pray that we do not lose sight of the big picture of things we want to impart to our children before they are out on their own. We can pray for that, and we can pray to have grace when we and our children make mistakes.
The base of all of this is to have peace in our hearts, and to show this to our children in an outward way that they can see through our actions. May they see us praying, reading and studying the Bible, participating in the life of the Church Year.
May we also gather grace by having meekness and quietness in how we speak to others; we must show them love and kindness. This is the outward manifestation of peace in our hearts.
May we gather grace by living joyfully in simplicity and in a strong rhythm.
Let us never forget that humility, meekness, serving others, joy and peacefulness are what lies underneath all the parenting and homeschooling decisions.
Many blessings as you decide things today,


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Prof. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. in California to Present Three Lectures
April 11, 2013
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., professor of English at DePauw University, will discuss "Does Science Fiction Music Have a Story of its Own?" in a lecture on Monday, April 15, at the University of California, Riverside. Describing the professor as "a noted scholar of science fiction," the college's announcement states, "Csicsery-Ronay will present an overview of the emerging research area of science fiction music and what scholars can do to advance the discussion."
The event is sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and is funded through a grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Workshops in the Humanities.
Read more here.
Dr. Csicsery-Ronay is making two presentations at this weekend's Eaton Science Fiction Conference at UCR. Learn more in this previous summary or at the event's website.
Dr. Csicsery-Ronay authored the 2008 book The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, hailed as "a major critical work from one of the preeminent voices of science fiction scholarship." The professor is co-editor of The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction and the academic journal Science Fiction Studies, which is published at DePauw. He also co-edited Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime.Back


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Theater costumes can transport an actor to another time, place, emotion or social status. And if done well, they can help audience members suspend reality and journey deep into the story being told on stage.
This year, 13 talented costume designers have been nominated by LA Stage Alliance for their work accomplishing just that. The winners for both large and small theater costume design will be announced at the LA Ovation Awards tonight, at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse. This award is among 35 to be announced and celebrated.
The Los Angeles News Group recently chatted with four of the nominees about how their designs are often a critical the thread to a production:
Shon LeBlanc
Award-winning costume designer Shon LeBlanc is nominated for his work on "Parade," the show with the most Ovation nominations (12) produced by the Long Beach-based 3-D Theatricals.
"It's such an honor being nominated," said LeBlanc, who owns The Costume House in North Hollywood. "Even if you don't win, it's still an honor. It's saying that your work is being recognized, and that feels amazing."
LeBlanc loves theater and was excited to be part of "Parade," but it was also a challenging production.
"All productions are different, but I approach them all pretty much the same way," said LeBlanc, who has designed for more than 600 productions. "I read the script first and find out the needs of the production; basic things like when it is, where it is. 'Parade' must look real. It's not a lighthearted show where people are out walking and humming. A little girl gets murdered in the first act and a Jew gets lynched in the second."
Because LeBlanc has almost 30 years of experience in costume design and is versed in period and script, he is able to create costumes through research, working closely with the set designer and listening to the actors.
"History is my drug of choice," he said, laughing. "You have to know history. You have to know why people do what they do and why they wear what they wear. You have to know this is what a cop would look like, this is what a trolley car conductor would look like. Everything is important down to the smallest detail. The devil is in the detail. You want it to look like the character went into their own closet and got dressed."
LeBlanc, who won last year's Costume Design Ovation Award for "I Love Lucy," said ultimately it is all about trust.
"It's not about my clothes, it's about (the actor) going out there and doing their work," he said. "It's about when the costume ceases to be a costume and becomes part of them."
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg is nominated for two productions at North Hollywood's The Antaeus Company: "Mrs. Warren's Profession" and "You Can't Take it with You."
Making things more challenging for Schoenberg is every role in the company's productions is double cast.
"They are all working actors there and they never know when they will be called away to work," Schoenberg said, who owns AJS Costumes in Burbank. "Often times the two actors cannot wear the same costume, so double casting, in many cases, means double costumes."
For instance, "You Can't Take it with You," a comedy pairing two families of very different personalities and economic status together, had actors with very different characteristics playing the same role.
"I had to make sure the costumes chosen worked for either cast," he said. "Choices must serve various combinations of actors playing a number of roles and you know theater, we're always trying to get 30 cents out of every quarter."
Schoenberg, as with many costume designers, saves money by renting costumes, refurbishing, searching thrift shops when they have time or making them.
Such was the case in "Mrs. Warren's Profession," that took place in 1890s England.
"The director wanted a very specific look and I was concerned we wouldn't be able to find those clothes elsewhere," he said. "We did end up building them ourselves and since one design wouldn't work for both actors, many times, we built the same design twice."
Schoenberg explained to make building costumes cost effective, many designers who own their own shops retain the costumes and rent them out as needed.
He also spoke on the intricacies of costume design in general.
"You have to know what the function of the costumes are going to be," said Schoenberg, who won the 2011 Costume Design Ovation Award for "The Malcontent." "In some shows, if your costumes get noticed you've done it wrong. They are there to help tell a story, you do that by informing the audience either directly or subliminally."
Schoenberg, who's been a costume designer for 30 years, reads the script to get a sense of the story and speaks in depth with the director to learn the approach and tone for the production.
"Sometimes it's subtle and you just want to give just a flavor of who this character is, and sometimes you want to be out there," said Schoenberg, who attended the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts and has a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Boston University. "You want to be able to take the audience on this trip; sometimes it's into reality, sometimes it's surreal, sometimes it's dynamic."
Each show has its own unique personality, he said, even if the show's a classic.
"I have directed 'King Lear' six times and each time there's been a different concept," Schoenberg continued. "It's so exciting to re-envision and re-imagine a show and then to view something in a new and different way."
Sharon McGunigle
Nominated for "Rudolf the Red-nosed ReinDOORS" for The Troubadour "Troubies" Theater Company, Sharon McGunigle faces unique challenges when designing for the high-energy group.
The Troubies are unlike most theater groups. It's described on its website as being a "free-wheeling, no holds barred, Commedia Del Arte flavored, slapstick driven Los Angeles-based ensemble of actors, musicians and comedians."
Their productions are fast-paced, laugh-filled, loose adaptations of classic plays, literature and film that are typically mixed with pop music and improv.
"Rudolf the Red-nosed ReinDOORS," for instance, combines the holiday tale with the music of The Doors.
"Usually I start thinking about how the different characters do their changes," said McGunigle, who has a MFA in costume design from Cal State Long Beach. "Every actor plays multiple characters and costume changes sometimes need to be done in 30 seconds. I have to think about how can I facilitate the changes between characters."
Costumes for The Troubies, McGunigle said, need to be multi-use.
"They need to be able to dance in them, do gymnastics; the shows are very physical," said McGunigle, who also works full time for the Los Angeles Opera as its head tailor. "They used to just get a real good pair of wrestling shoes and throw something on. In the last 10 years they've really worked on character development."
McGunigle is passionate about the artistic side of costume design and is glad that her passion is equaled by others who help her visions materialize.
"There are way more people who make costumes happen than just the designer; there are cutters, sewers, shoppers, people digging through costume houses. The effort and manpower hours to make the show happen are endles," she said. "There may be one designer, but then there are about 30 other people making that vision happen."
While this is McGunigle's third Ovation nomination, she won in 2010 for "Alice in One-hit Wonderland 2."
Anthony Tran
This is the first Ovation nomination for Anthony Tran, who is nominated for his work on "Triassic Parq — The Musical," which received 11 nominations.
The story is a reverse "Jurassic Park" told from the dinosaurs perspective and Tran was thrilled when the production's writer/director Marshall Pailet didn't want him to be literal and design dinosaur suits.
"He didn't want them to look like mascots," said Tran, a 24-year-old UCLA graduate. "He wanted to keep them more 'human' because though the story is about dinosaurs, it's really not. It's about humans."
Tran and Pailet agreed on a paired-down, '90s club type of vibe using various patterns and textures to achieve surreal humanism.
"We found ways to mix fabrics; to make pants and jackets other-worldly," he said. "Then when the actors were cast there was another dimension added. It turned into something even I wasn't expecting."
Tran's thought process for this show was atypical from his usual shows, but his approach was the same.
"I always start with the director and find out what they are looking for," said Tran, who started designing when he was 13. "Then I gather reference images and share them with the director to see if we're on the same page. Then I move onto the actors to see what works for them."
Another way this show differs from others Tran has designed for is he had to build almost 90 percent of the costumes. Despite all the work, however, he said loves the fast-paced atmosphere and camaraderie.
"The first time I see it under the lighting and with the band playing, is magic. There's nothing like theater collaboration," he said. "It's always better than you thought it would be."


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This section describes how to set up a FreeBSD system as a disk imaging system.
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The Winnipeg Art Gallery is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and you can learn all about the past century at wag100.ca. See images, newspaper clippings, watch video, and listen to audio interviews—you can even share your WAG story on this
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From 1902, when an art gallery was first proposed for Winnipeg, to 1912 when the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Arts opened so that the city would no longer be "languishing in comparative darkness so far as the brightening influence of art is concerned," to the present where the WAG is one of Canada's leading arts institutions, the timeline is full of informative tidbits that will bring back memories to many people in the community. who have visited the WAG over the years.
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When you boil down the 'point' of a tablet, the lines are still very blurred between a large smartphone and a standalone device – and the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, with the 5.5-inch screen, are confusing things even more.
The new iPad can do nearly everything its little iPhone 5 brother can do, and brings Siri nicely into the fold too, with some impressive command updates. However, it's the layout that impresses us, as Apple has taken some time to go through and really make use of the extra screen size.
Contacts are laid out in a proper address book format: we're talking tabs at the side you can scroll down, and your own contact info all stored on the opening page. If you lose your new iPad then you'll either get a saint that knows how to contact you to return your device or a scary man who now knows where you live.
The contacts are all sadly faceless at the start – you have to manually go through and give each person a picture unless you've synchronised from Google or Exchange and have already assigned one unless Facebook has been selected as a contact group.
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As we've mentioned earlier, getting contacts on your new iPad can be achieved in many ways: you can download them easily from a previous list on an iPhone or older iPad, and the sync process is jolly quick.
You can also pull them in from the likes of Exchange or Google, although the latter is harder than it should be – if you want to know how to get contacts on the new iPad from Google, you'll have to follow the linked instructions.
The good news here is all those phone numbers you've brought across aren't useless, as giving the string of digits a tap will result in a FaceTime call.
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It makes picture quality look much, much smoother in practice... while it won't matter to you, the person you're speaking too will appreciate the efforts you make to give them something nicer to look at. Our screengrab proves it.
We're still not sold on the idea of FaceTime or video calling in general – but in order to achieve 'enchantment' with the new iPad Apple mandates you have to call your partner from another country to look at a baby... so video calling is a must.
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As Donnie Walsh departs at the end of the business day Thursday, he deserves praise and thanks from anybody who calls themselves a Knick fan. Despite his clash with Dolan, Walsh successfully turned the biggest laughing stock in the league to a team on the rise anchored by two superstars. He transformed Madison Square Garden from a place riddled with losing, debt and sexual harassment charges to a positive environment that is filled with hope for the first time since the Ewing era. Today is a day that we should look at the great things Walsh has done for our favorite team. Lets put into perspective what Walsh's accomplishments were.
2008-2009 Season
Walsh takes over a team, fresh off the Anucha Browne Sanders sexual harassment suit, with a 130+ million dollar payroll. Walsh fires Isiah Thomas and signs Mike D'Antoni to a 4 year 24 million dollar deal. With the 6th pick in the draft, Walsh selects Danilo Gallinari from Italy who blossoms into a quality player and a fan favorite. On November 21, 2008, Walsh orchestrates the two trades that serve as a launching pad for the entire rebuilding process. In one trade, Walsh trades Jamal Crawford to Golden State for Al Harrington. In the other trade, Walsh flips Zach Randolph and Mardy Collins to the Clippers for Tim Thomas and Cuttino Mobley. Both moves are created to clear the salary cap for the 2010 off season in which LeBron James, Amare Stoudemire, Joe Johnson, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh and Carlos Boozer are free agents. On Feb 24, 2009 the Knicks and cancerous point guard Stephon Marbury agree on a buyout thus removing him from the organization. The Knicks win 9 more games than in 2007 and finish 32-50.
2009-2010 Season
On June 25, 2009, Walsh trades Quentin Richardson to Memphis for cash considerations and center Darko Milicic. In the 2009 draft, Walsh selects Arizona forward Jordan Hill with the 8th selection and trades a second rounder and cash to the Lakers for the rights to Florida State shooting guard Toney Douglas. On Feb 18, Walsh makes 2 more great trades. He flips Jordan Hill, Jared Jeffries (and his horrific contract), a 2012 first round pick and the right to flip picks in 2011 to Houston for Tracy McGrady and his expiring contract. Then he trades Nate Robinson and Marcus Landry to Boston for expiring contracts Eddie House and JR Giddens as well as Bill Walker and a second round pick. These trades create a plethora of expiring contracts on the roster with Eddy Curry being the only Thomas holdover that was impossible to deal. The Knicks finish the season with a 29-53 record but go into the off season with millions to spend and increased optimism.
2010-2011 Season
In the 2010 draft, the Knicks select Syracuse guard Andy Rautins and Stanford guard Landry Fields in the 2nd round. They also trade cash considerations to Milwaukee for their second round selection, Tulsa center Jerome Jordan. July 8, 2010 provides the first building block in Walsh's vision as he is able to sign Amare Stoudemire to a 5 year, 102 million dollar contract. The next day, David Lee is signed and traded to Golden State for Ronny Turiaf, Anthony Randolph, Kelena Azubuike and a 2010 second round pick. Free agents Timofey Mozgov, Shawne Williams, Raymond Felton and Roger Mason Jr are signed before the end of the off season. In a surprise, Shawne Williams makes the squad over Patrick Ewing Jr. On Feb 5, 2011 Mark Warkentien is brought on by Walsh as director of pro player personnel. February 22 provides Walsh's club a second superstar. The Knicks trade Raymond Felton, Wilson Chandler, Danilo Gallinari, Timofey Mozgov, a future first round pick, 2 second round picks, cash and the right to swap 2016 first round picks to the Denver Nuggets for superstar Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups, Renaldo Balkman, Anthony Carter and Shelden Williams. Minnesota is also involved in the deal as the Knicks send Eddy Curry, Anthony Randolph and cash to Minnesota for Corey Brewer. Walsh had been hesitant to give up the kitchen sink for Melo and co. but it's widely believed that the Dolan/Thomas marriage sabotaged Walsh's plan and jumped in to complete the contract. Nevertheless, the Knicks acquire their second superstar. On March 1st, the Knicks wave Corey Brewer, sign Jared Jeffries and claim Derrick Brown off waivers. The Knicks finish 42-40 and make the eastern conference playoffs as the 6 seed.
2011 Offseason
Walsh is widely reported to be returning but on June 3rd, the Knicks announce that they will be parting ways with Walsh. Donnie, being the class act he is, says all the right things in the media and that it was a "mutual" agreement. While it may have been "mutual", it was because of Dolan's ignorance and tyrannical ways. He did not want to give Walsh the full autonomy that he deserved and wanted to run the team as he saw fit. Walsh runs the 2011 draft as the Knicks select Georgia Tech point guard Iman Shumpert in the first round and purchase the rights to Kentucky center Josh Harrellson in the second round. On June 31, Walsh's contract expires and he steps down from his general manager position. He will remain as a consultant.
Donnie Walsh did wonders for this team. He took Isiah's crazy house of an organization and transformed it into a winning team with tons of hope for the future. He cleared the payroll and filled it with superstars. Who knows what kind of deal we could have gotten for Carmelo if Dolan hadn't stepped in. We may have been able to keep one or two more players. Walsh's firing, although said to be "mutual" but it was a firing, shows just how incompetent James Dolan is as an owner. The man has no clue what he is doing and did Walsh an egregious injustice by not allowing him to finish what he started. As appalling as this whole ending has been, Walsh continues to handle the set of circumstances he has been given with class. He was the savior that this team needed. Even with an egotistic owner interfering with his job, Walsh was able to make the Knicks winners again. For that alone, we must be thankful. Donnie Walsh deserves much better then how James Dolan has treated him but as fans we must give him our thanks. He's made our team exciting, he's given us hope and he's made us winners. Thank you Donnie Walsh. Knick fans everywhere know what you did for our club and we appreciate it.
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Calling all sports fans! This summer Anthropology News has Olympic fever. In Anthropology News' very first electronic summer issue, readers get an anthropological vista of the Olympic Games.
Over the course of the Games, we'll highlight this AN Olympic series which includes articles about the professional athletes, paralympians, gender verification, spectators and security preparations to pull of such a spectacular international event.
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