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Find a quiet time and place to pray...
take a few deep breaths... be still...
and know that God is near...
A word to reflect on:Unless the Lord build the house,
they labor in vain who build it...
Psalm 127
I'm not building an actual house, Lord,
but I've got a pretty big construction project underway -
and it's not finished yet...
I've been building this life of mine for as long as I remember
but when I step back and take a look at how it's going
it seems I may have misplaced my blueprints and my plans:
it's just not turning out the way I thought and hoped it would...
When I look at what I've built so far I see:
the front steps aren't quiet even,
not all the floors are level,
the foundation worries me
and the roof's not really strong enough to shield me
from what weather comes tomorrow...
And my building materials?
Well, I haven't always gone for the best:
I've settled for second rate, cutting corners here and there,
trying to patch over and catch up
when things weren't quite on schedule...
My carpenter friend reminds me: "measure twice and cut once."
But often I don't measure even once:
I estimate, approximate, guess and sometimes - flip a coin!
I don't always take a true measure of my situation, my responsibilities,
and the consequences of my haphazard choices.
So the stairs are uneven, the floors slope,
the foundation's cracked and the roof leaks...
The good news, Lord, is this:
the house of my life, with all its mistakes and problems
still stands,
even if it leans a little to one side or the other...
And today, sitting here with you, I'm taking the measure
(twice) of what I've done and failed to do
in building this life called mine...
I need a contractor, Lord, to help me make some home repairs.
I need an architect, a good one, to draw new plans,
to help design or redesign the life I hope to have.
I need a carpenter to smooth the rough edges
and right the odd angles of what I've built or tried to build alone.
I need you, Lord, to oversee, to plan, to help construct
the life you'd have me live, a life that brings me peace,
a life to offer others...
So I need a Master builder, Lord, because I see that on my own
I'll never be at home in what I build without your help.
Unless you build my house, O God,
my labor's all in vain...
Work with me, Lord, day by day:
I know that's what you want to do.
Work with me and help me see what's weak in my foundation,
uneven in my steps, what slants me off my balance,
fails to shield me in a storm...
Give me good, strong material to build my life anew:
remind me, Lord to measure once and measure twice
for every choice I make...
With your help, Lord, with your strong arm,
my life can be replanned, rebuilt, repaired,
restored, refurbished and refinished
for with you, my Master builder,
all things are possible and all can be made new...
And when this seems too much, O Lord,
grant the peace I need
to pray, to be still...
to know that you are near, to trust that you are here,
to know that with your help my work is not in vain...
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When you think of things related to science, music may not make the top of your list.
But the folks involved with a small collective called ArcAttack would like you to change your associations.
ArcAttack is all about one thing: building and crafting entire musical performances around them. For some time, at events like Dorkbot and other geekfests, the team--Joe DiPrima, Oliver Greaves, and Tony Smith--had been pulling off straightforward demonstrations of their creations. But they were synchronizing the machines to other people's music and not adding much in the way of their own innovations besides the singing Tesla coils themselves.
Now, however, ArcAttack has a whole ensemble mixing science and music and plastic--the Tesla coils, a pipe organ made from PVC, a robotic drumset--and putting it all together in short concerts with original music.
"We've got a solid 45 minutes or so of original content," DiPrima, an engineer at the University of Texas, told me recently, "and sometimes we'll incorporate themes from popular songs or do mixups with video game music.
When you see the singing Tesla coils, it takes a minute to really understand what you're watching. At first, you don't hear the tunes in the crackling of the electricity. But after a few moments, you realize what you're hearing and it's startling--especially if you have any experience with Tesla coils--to see these scientific wonders spitting out little bits of lightning with a beat.
"I've always loved music--playing it, and electronics too," DiPrima said. "I've been in a lot of bands, along with the other guys in the group, and this is probably the most fun we've had out of any other project we've been in. The way people respond to the coils playing real music with other instruments involved is amazing. People love it."
In particular, DiPrima suggested, ArcAttack's performances give their audiences--both in person and on the Web--a sense that music and science can indeed blend in a way that teaches something.
"It's...a great way to get people interested in the science behind it," he said, "to present a Tesla coil, not just (as) an 'air core resonant transformer,' but (as) an effective tool for high intensity music."


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Being backstage at a pageant is not glamorous. That's why I love it. The women and girls vying for Miss Nevada and Miss Nevada's Outstanding Teen last Tuesday didn't have spacious dressing rooms and fruit platters awaiting them backstage at the Casablanca Resort in Mesquite. The Miss contestants crowded into two hot dressing rooms, leaving all the Teen contestants vying for mirror space in what looked like a supply closet for the tech crew. Despite the dressing room conditions, the contestants still managed to look beautiful and put-together onstage. There was no backstage sabotage, only the sharing of hairspray, helpful assistance with fake eyelash applications, hugs, support and general camaraderie. I must admit, I felt a tiny swelling of Nevada pride just watching.


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We've already heard the news that the upcoming 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat with the supercharged, 6.2L Hemi makes a whopping 707 horsepower and 650 lb-ft, bone stock—the highest ever factory rating for a passenger car. But now Dodge is claiming that it's also the world's quickest factory muscle car after releasing claims that the car runs the quarter mile in 11.20 seconds at 125 mph on the stock street tires and 10.80 at 126 mph on drag radials. Cue rhetotric from the Ford Shelby GT500 crowd. We also expect to hear from the homebase fans claiming that the stock 1968 Hemi Darts are probably quicker than 10.80 if they had drag slicks. But we're not so interested in the fight as we are in the fact that later this year we'll be able to buy a 10-second car with a warranty, and one we can drive every day with air conditioning. The heyday is now.
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In the NFL, a delay of game penalty is a 5 yard penalty, and the down is repeated. This essentially delays the game EVEN FURTHER (40 second play clock; clock stopped to announce 5 yard penalty and repeat of down; 40 second play clock). Why isn't delay of game a loss of down instead of 5 yards?
I think it's because the NFL views the loss of a down as truly punitive measure; one that should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Downs are as valuable in football as outs are in baseball. It's one of the reasons that intentional grounding is such an excellent penalty. It's the rare penalty on a quarterback, and it basically kills any drive because you lose the yards AND the down. No other penalty crushes an offense as mercilessly, not even holding. Here now is an arbitrary ranking of some basic NFL penalties, from most entertaining to least:
- 1. Intentional grounding (The QB always looks stunned someone would dare penalize him)
- 2. Pass interference (defense)
- 3. Too many men on the field
- 4. Facemask
- 5. Late hit
- 6. Roughing the kicker/Running into the kicker
- 7. Taunting
- 8. Holding (defense)
- 9. Ineligible player downfield
- 10. Clipping
- 11. Tripping
- 12. Chop block
- 13.Delay of game
- 14. Illegal touching
- 15. Encroachment
- 16. Fair catch interference
- 17. Offside
- 18. Illegal formation/shift
- 19. Roughing the passer (nowhere near as much fun as it used to be)
- 20. Holding (offense)
- 21. False start
If you could somehow make a football game free of false start and holding penalties, the sport would be 500% better.
I work in the outdoor industry in Colorado. One of my colleagues – male, late twenties – has an Excel file which contains a variety of different foods he has yet to try. This list is fucking ridiculous. Included on this poor sap's list is: strawberries, watermelon, mushrooms, grapes, lobster, crab and root beer floats. How the fuck is this possible? He explains that he grew up in a small town outside Columbus, OH and ate a lot of soup growing up. I am obligated to bring this man some of the deliciousness he has been missing out on, yes?
"He grew up in a small town outside Columbus, OH and ate a lot of soup growing up" might be the saddest passage in the history of the English language. You people living in Ohio know you can leave, right? There's not a fucking wall around the state. It's not Dark City. Do Ohioans even know of the outside world, or do they just think the state border is a giant cliff edge, with the blackness of outer space lying just beyond?
Anyway, if you've ever been around a terrible food person, you know how enraging they can be. I worked in an office once where they ordered lunch for everyone every day (it was really nice of them), but we had some mouth-breathing idiot who always complained whenever we chose some "exotic" shit like Indian food. He wouldn't eat the chicken tikka because it had green sauce on it, and it took everything in my power to not shove his face down in the plate and scream WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHAT ARE YOU, FIVE?! I know foodies are extremely annoying people, but a fully grown adult should have at least a mildly educated palate. It's 2013. If you're an adult and you still find sushi gross because "OMG raw fish!" you're a fucking bumpkin. I want nothing to do with you.
Anyway, these people tend to be intractable, so there's no point in forcing this poor bastard to try grapes because he'll just say "Ewwww gross!" and then you'll want to pull his tongue out. Don't bother trying to be his food DJ. It won't work.
My dad called me into his room the other night and told me that he needed a minor arm surgery and that he would be in a sling for a little while and wouldn't be able to drive for a week. While obviously concerned about his health, I happily realized that meant I would be able to drive his car for the week. Am I a terrible person?
Nah. It's arm surgery. It's not life threatening. If it's not life-threatening, you don't have to be THAT concerned. It's like when a friend tells me they have to go to the doctor and I'm like OMG ARE YOU OKAY I'LL BE YOUR KID'S GUARDIAN IF YOU DIE. And then they're like, "I just have to get a hangnail removed" and then I don't care at all anymore. Screw you for getting me worried over nuthin'.
Even when serious things happen, you WILL have selfish thoughts and you'll hate that they're there. But it's okay to have those feelings when you know you don't want them. If you just brazenly didn't give a shit about bad things happening to your loved ones, that would make you a shitty person. But the average person can be both concerned and privately selfish all at the same time. The feelings aren't mutually exclusive to one another. Grief and worry are fluid emotions. So take that old man's car and wrap it around a tree. You've earned it!
A gay guy who I used to work with (I am straight and 24 years old) left his job last week to work as a manager for one of the big department stores at a nearby mall. I didn't know him too well apart from the occasional small talk, but he did seem like a pretty cool guy. Within minutes after walking out the door, he sends me a text telling me that he thought I was attractive and that he'd like to hang out with me. Of course I had to tell him that I was into chicks but would still have a beer with him sometime. He agreed and also told me he would invite me to one of his parties. Now I would imagine that this guy has some pretty attractive girl friends. If this is the case, would it be out of line to ask him to introduce me to one of them at one of his parties, especially knowing that he is attracted to me?
It's not out of line, but consider how men operate. Even when a girl you like tells you that you have no shot, you'll still TRY. You'll still hang around on the off chance that she decides one day—out of the blue—to get naked with you. That's how men work. Any time a girl turned me down in high school or college, I would still pull a Lloyd Christmas and be like but what if she gets hit in the head and has amnesia and suddenly decides she wants to bone HIGH FIVE it could happen bro. Every rejection is seen as only temporary, and NOTHING—not even the bounds of sexual orientation—will deter a man.
So it's entirely possible that your new gay friend is hoping beyond hope that maybe you change your mind. He might invite you to the party and even hook you up with a couple of cat ladies, but at some point, he'll probably be like, "So, are you sure we can't fuck? Because I'm still open to it!" It's just our nature. SHAME ON YOU FOR LEADING HIM ON, GOOD SIR.
If the average person were to take over play calling for an NFL offense with the sole goal of getting stats for their fantasy football team, would their fantasy team be better off? Essentially quality vs. quantity. Sure Calvin Johnson could get targeted 40 times (only a slight increase from reality, I know), but would it matter because of the play caller's inexperience and lack of knowledge, as well as the fact that the defense might start catching on the same player getting the ball every play?
It would almost certainly have an adverse effect on your fantasy team because you know next to nothing about how to call a decent football game. Even the absolute worst offensive coordinator usually tries to get the ball to his best players anyway. Occasionally, you'll have an asshole like Mike Shanahan pop up—a coach who is seemingly determined not to ride the hot hand—but even those guys will probably help your fantasy player out more than you will. Because you'll be unable to resist temptation and give your running back fifty carries a game, resulting in 0.7 yards per carry and a terrible back injury. You need coordinators interested in actual football outcomes to help keep things balanced.
Is there a fantasy team somewhere out there that is exactly the same as yours? This includes your bench. I mean there are millions of fantasy football teams, there's just gotta be one out there right?
It's more unlikely than you think. For example, my fantasy team (which lost the fucking title game because they SUCK) had fifteen spots on the roster: a starting QB, 2 RBs, 2 WRs, 1 TE, 1 D/ST, 1 WR/RB, and six bench spots to do with as I saw fit. So take the pool of starting fantasy QBs (15 or so?), multiply that by the pool of RB1s (dozens), RB2s (ditto), WR1 and WR2s (ditto ditto), TE's (plenty of those), kickers (32), defenses (32), and every possible permutation of the six bench players. Even without the bench players, your starting lineup is something like one out of 386 billion potential combinations. The bench players jack that up exponentially. So no else likely has my lineup of Drew Brees and C.J. Spiller and Alf Morris and Tim Wright and Jordy Nelso OH GOD WHY DID AARON RODGERS HAVE TO GET HURT FOR SEVEN GAMES AND RUIN JORDY WHY GOD WHY I HATE YOU ALL. Your fantasy team is yours and yours to hate alone.
If you could suck your own dick, and assuming you gave yourself a mean blowy, how often would you do it? Would you consider it a talent? Do you keep it a secret? Tell your closest bros after a few beers? I was going to apply for an internship here but now that seems like that's out of the question.
We'd still hire you. Anyway, any man that could blow himself would. I have dreams about this. And whenever I dream about it, I'm always doing it IN PUBLIC, which kind of makes the whole thing a nightmare. I have my pants off and I'm just going to town at the bus station, and then I wake up and have to reassure myself that no one saw me sucking my own dick.
I dunno why I can't dream about doing it alone in a motel room because if I could do it in real life I would tell exactly NO ONE. I don't know if that's due to latent homophobia or just a general sense of shame, but you best believe I would keep it to myself. And I would tell myself, every day, "All right, Drew. This is the LAST time we do this." And then I would do it again and again and again. If there's a convenient and pleasurable way of handling your business, you'll use it. What man dares resist himself? But I wouldn't swallow. I'm not that kind of girl.
I currently am a student on a dry campus. It sucks. I'm 22 and still have to maintain the bullshit rules even in my apartment. Getting the booze in isn't a problem with backpacks but getting it out is getting cumbersome. You can't just walk out to the dumpster or the trash room with a few 18 packs or a few bourbon bottles in a suitcase and get to emptying. Any suggestion on how to get rid of the dead soldiers in the least conspicuous way possible?
I would say FIND A NEW COLLEGE but that's dickish and impractical, and more and more colleges are trying to ban alcohol from campus to prevent alcohol-related deaths. Right after I graduated from college, a girl got shitfaced and fell out of a dorm window and the booze rules at my alma mater got more restrictive. And I'm sure plenty of guys there were like This is bullshit, bro!
The problem is that so many kids go to college specifically TO drink (I know that's why I went), so much so that making a campus dry usually causes kids to break the rules (fun!) or take all their drinking off campus, which can lead to even more drunk driving and general harm. I drank a lot in school and now I'm just another parent who is scared SHITLESS that I will end up spending $50K a year for my kid to go die of fucking alcohol poisoning.
There's no great solution to this because nothing gets college kids more riled up than when their ability to drink and/or smoke weed is somehow hindered. FUCKING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SHIT. I talked to someone who worked at a college once about trying to prevent alcohol-related deaths and they just looked utterly helpless. Ban every possible avenue to booze and your school is suddenly Oral Roberts. No one wants that.
Anyway, if you can sneak booze in a backpack, why couldn't you sneak it out the same way? And then go dump it in a lake. That's giving back to the earth!
Which part of a bagel is more satisfying to eat, the top or the bottom? I know some people put the cream cheese the middle then put it back together like a sandwich. I don't believe in this philosophy.
The top. The top has more shit on it. It's crunchier. And it's usually less doughy, so you can eat the top of a bagel only and feel like you somehow made a healthy choice even though half a bagel has roughly 7,000 calories. Ever get a bagel that's been split unevenly, so that you get a really thick bottom (hee hee hee) and a really thin top? It's awful. I want to start all over again. The precious balance has been destroyed.
(By the way, I recently was part of a "Is a bagel with lox and cream cheese a sandwich?" argument, and I couldn't pick a side because, to me, a bagel is a sandwich only if you eat it when it's put back together, and not with two open faced halves, which is how I prefer to eat it. A bagel is sandwidexterous.)
Sometimes when I'm at work or a store or something, I'll see another person, and I suddenly get this urge to body-check them into a wall or shove them. Just random attacks with no motivation. Or I'll see some woman and my brain will go "You should grab her ass". It's like my mind is trying to play some kind of practical joke on me. Is this a thing that happens to other guys, or am I crazy? For what it's worth, I've NEVER once actually acted on these urges.
Well that's just it. If you don't act on them, they don't mean anything. It's hard to even call it an urge, because an urge feels more like something that compels you to act. Sometimes, you'll just walk around and have a fucking completely stupid thought. I used to walk around Central Park and think about hitting people in the head with a hammer and then running away. THE HAMMER BANDIT. I didn't WANT this thought. I didn't like it. I didn't will it to be. It's just your mind brainstorming. What if we killed everyone here! Hey, what if we drove off that embankment together? Oh hey, a knife! You could plunge that into someone's chest! I get all those terrible little germs in my brain, but I never act on them. I assume it's normal to see those ideas flash across your brain. At least, it's normal for you and I. Maybe we're just complete lunatics. If so, I would like to congratulate us for not murdering anyone else. Took real restraint!
I saw a ladybug on my lamp this evening and instinctively knew to kill it because I vaguely remember one "pissing" on me when I was a kid, and it hurt. I decided to look it up, and yup: ladybugs "typically release a small amount of blood from their legs. (This is called reflex bleeding)."
Seriously? That's true? Come on, man. Don't ruin the one insect with whom I have a relatively good relationship. Ladybugs are supposed to be gentle and friendly, and so COLORFUL! Every time I see one crawling around on the wall, I run to my kids and I'm like LADYYYYBUGGGG! LET'S ALL GO SEE! And then I pluck the ladybug off the wall (half the time I kill it by accident and everyone is sad) and then hand it to my kid and she puts it in a jar with two blades of grass and then it dies 10 minutes later. It's a really nice thing. Don't ruin it by telling me that ladybugs want to piss hot cobra blood all over me.
I have a decent working relationship with only a handful of bugs, and I hope to build on them. Here is my list of okay bugs:
- Ladybugs
- Common house flies (I'll still kill them but am not afraid of them)
- Fruit flies
- Very small ants outside
- Daddy long legs (they eat the other bugs, yes?)
- Butterflies
- Stink bugs (not really all that evil, plus they're easy to kill)
- Very tiny spiders (maximum diameter of 1/4")
- Bumblebees
I think that's about it. The rest can all be firebombed.
My girlfriend and I live in an apartment building and love our superintendent. Sweet older man, super helpful. One day I was playing around on one of those Family Watchdog sites (Don't ask me why. It's not like we have kids or currently have the desire to) and I click on the image, it's the super. He was convicted in the early 90s in New York for Third Degree Sodomy. Do I tell her about this? Do I try to scrub it from my mind? This guy has access to our apartment and has helped us out of a jam dozens of times.
There's no scrubbing it from your mind. It's gonna pop into your head every time you see him—you'll get a VIVID mental image of him perpetrating the crime—and you're gonna have to decide if you like him and trust him enough to live with that and NOT tell your girlfriend. Because once the girlfriend knows, you're moving. Women don't fuck around like that. They don't sit around and pick their butts like men. They ACT. So if you want to stay where you are and keep your brilliant pederast super, you'll just have to keep it to yourself. The good news is that you don't have children, and you aren't children yourselves. Which means if he decides that he must again act on his demented, horrible impulses, he won't sodomize YOU. And that's a win-win for everyone!
Assume you are unmarried like myself. Suppose the next load you shoot off is guaranteed to produce the next Calvin Johnson/Marie Curie/Beethoven. Which happens first: you finding (and convincing) a lady to accept the genetic lottery that is your seed, or you pulling your plug and watching Megatron 2.0 swirl down the shower drain? You definitely don't jerk it, right?
Well, that's the PLAN. But then a stiff breeze comes along and it's BYE BYE MEGATRON within a matter of seconds. Who am I to resist in the heat of the moment?
/blows self
When my daughter wants to out to the garage and ride her tricycle around in circles for about 2 hours, I often shoot hoops on her Little Tykes 3-foot hoop. I'm out there so much that I now shoot about 99 percent from the field now. I can't fucking miss.
It got me thinking: If the NBA decided to keep all court dimensions the same but lowered the hoop to 3 feet off the ground, how would the game change? Would LeBron still be the best player in the NBA, or would Nate Robinson suddenly have this enormous advantage?
It would essentially destroy the height advantage that NBA players have over one another. If you don't have to go vertical to get to the basket and you couldn't shoot over people (you couldn't shoot at all, really, since every shot would be blocked), the game would essentially boil down to muscling your way to the hoop (something LeBron James is still quite good at, of course) and stuffing it in from point-blank range. Trash can football, basically. The game would evolve into a contact sport with pads and more compact personnel and you would probably hate it.
I'm like Ryan in that my kids have a toy basketball hoop, and sometimes I'll nail a bunch of jumpers in a row and think to myself... You know what? I can do this. I was a late bloomer but I have the touch now. I could really make it in the league! Then my kid will bitch that I'm hogging the ball and I'll have to explain to him that Daddy needs the ball because he has the better technique.
I feel like it's inevitable that, eventually, even if it's another 10,000 years, another animal species will reach consciousness of itself the way the human race has. Of the current animal kingdom, who do you think will be next? Crocodiles? Giraffes? Cockroaches? Lions? Ants? Dolphins? You could be boring and say other kinds of monkeys, I guess.
I might say bears, myself.
I think it would take a great deal longer than 10,000 years. It would probably take millions of years, well after humanity has cleared out of the joint and a whole new species is ready for its own epoch. Frankly, I don't think it will be the evolution of any current animal, but a repulsive mutated lizard race borne out of an altered climate and human chemical pollution. Godzilla, basically. Two hundred million years from now, it'll be a bunch of Godzillas hanging out in farmhouses and sending angry lizard texts to one another.
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My mother used to lock up all the snacks/treats in a basement cabinet when I was a child.
Many years ago, my mom forgot the combo to the lock; and the cabinet in the basement storage room simply sat there, unattended, for years. Mom then sadly passed away after a bout with cancer two years ago. This Christmas, when we were all in the house to spend the holiday with my father, we decided that we had to know what was in there. Fully preserved and edible Fruit Roll Ups? Cockroaches? Kudos bars? Dead rats? WE HAD TO KNOW.
We had a neighbor bring over his bolt cutters, and we snapped that lock right in half. Aunts and uncles, cousins, and friends were gathered around in the basement....waiting in anticipation. We found (picture attached) some pop tart minis, a bag of Ruffles, and a pair of candlesticks (????). The food had no expiration dates listed, but there was a copyright date of 1994 on the Pop Tart box. On a dare, my cousin Kevin ate one. By what incremental factor did he damage his body (over eating a "fresh" pop tart)? I think the 2-decade old Pop Tart did 6X incremental damage to him.
Sounds about right. Mmmm... vintage Pop Tarts...
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Direct from acclaimed, sold-out engagements at the National Theatre of Scotland and the Lincoln Center Festival, Tony and Olivier Award winner ("Cabaret") and two-time Emmy nominee ("The Good Wife") Alan Cumming will return to Broadway this spring in a one-man interpretation of Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedy, Macbeth.
Produced by Ken Davenport, the National Theatre of Scotland's Macbeth will play a strictly limited 73-performance engagement at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street).
A tour-de-force performance directed by Tony Award winner John Tiffany ("Once") and Andrew Goldberg ("Black Watch"), this Macbeth is set in a clinical room deep within a dark psychiatric unit. Cumming is the lone patient, reliving the infamous story and inhabiting each role himself.
Closed circuit television cameras watch the patient's every move as the walls of the psychiatric ward come to life in a visually stunning multi-media theatrical experience of Shakespeare's notorious tale of desire, ambition and the supernatural.
A Tony Award winner for his celebrated performance as the Emcee in the long-running revival of "Cabaret," Alan Cumming's other Broadway credits include Mack the Knife in "The Threepenny Opera" and Otto in "Design for Living."
MACBETH features scenic and costume design by Merle Hensel, lighting design by Natasha Chivers, sound design by Fergus O'Hare and video projection design by Ian William Galloway, voice by Ros Steen, movement by Christine Devaney and music by Max Richter.
For more about the production, visit www.macbethonbroadway.com.


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Summery and light, this vivid salad and its tangy dressing help balance the tuna and its rich glaze. Salting the zucchini slices takes the edge off their rawness while preserving their pleasant snap.
- Yield
- Makes 4 (side dish) servings
- Active Time
- 30 min
- Total Time
- 45 min
- 1 pound zucchini (about 2 medium)
- 1/2 pound snow peas, trimmed
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar (not seasoned)
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Equipment:
- an adjustable-blade slicer
- Very thinly slice zucchini with slicer and place in a large sieve set over a bowl. Toss zucchini with 3/4 tsp salt and drain 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, blanch snow peas in a pot of boiling salted water (2 Tbsp salt for 4 qt water) 1 1/2 minutes. Drain and immediately plunge snow peas into an ice bath to stop cooking. Drain again and pat dry.
- Rinse zucchini under cold running water, then press gently to remove any excess liquid. Pat dry.
- Toast sesame seeds in a dry small skillet over medium heat, shaking skillet occasionally, until golden, about 2 minutes, then cool.
- Stir together remaining ingredients in a large bowl until sugar has dissolved, then toss with vegetables and sesame seeds.
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PHOENIX (Wednesday, May 2, 2012) -- Three elderly victims have been paid more than $360,000 in restitution by a Phoenix woman who has owed the money since 2007, and whose husband recently won millions at a local casino, Attorney General Tom Horne announced today.
46 year-old Kimberly Lemke was ordered to pay restitution to her victims following her 2007 conviction on felony theft charges related to the bilking of nearly $370,000. Until the collection of $361,184.76 was made on April 23, Lemke had only made partial restitution.
The large sum was made available to Lemke after her husband won $5.7 million at Casino Arizona near Scottsdale in mid-April. Upon learning of that windfall, Assistant Attorney General Charles Johnson recorded a Racketeering-Restitution Lien against the casino winnings with the Maricopa County Recorder and the Secretary of State's Office, and served it upon Lemke on Friday April 27th. The following day Lemke left Johnson a voicemail message confirming that she had received the lien and that she would pay it off in full.
"This case has a happy ending because of an unexpected windfall," Horne said. "I want to recognize the hard work of our attorneys and our victims' rights advocates to ensure that the victims in this matter finally received the full restitution they deserved."
Lemke had been sentenced to 3.75 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections followed by 7 years of probation in 2007. She was in arrears on restitution payments through most of her probation.
The Attorney General's Office learned of the gambling winnings when the daughter of one of the defendant's victims phoned the Office of Victim Services, informing the restitution advocate that the defendant had been identified as the winner's wife on television. Victims' Rights Advocate Jana Gunn of OVS immediately began working with the Criminal Division, its Chief Andrew Pacheco; Financial Remedies Section Chief Aaron Ludwig; and Fraud and Special Prosecutions Chief Counsel Michael Benchoff, who assigned the task of collection to 30-year-AGO veteran Charles Johnson.


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B. Dubos & R. Fard
Richard Fard studied interior architecture and design along with Blandine Dubos at the école Camondo, from which he graduated with 'mention du jury' in 2003. He began his career as a designer by assisting in the creation of new commercial concepts such as the Sexodrome, Paris and Sun City, a new-concept Indian spa.
He also often works with other designers on projects such as the Unesco stand at the ITB, Berlin, the latest Mod's Hair Beauty salon, St-Quentin, and the 'Joséphine 5D' light. Along with a hand-picked creative team he has recently been working on a totally new and innovative concept for a sports club in Paris, which comprises a lounge bar, restaurant, fitness room and spa: the 'Foot-in Club' opened its doors in June 2006.
He has also worked on the design of the new Mirella boutique in Paris, and on numerous other projects, in which he attempts to express all his creative desires.
Blandine Dubos, having obtained a 'diplôme d'études fondamentales en architecture (DEFA)' from the école d'architecture, Bordeaux, graduated from the école Camondo with 'félicitations' in June 2003 (certificat d'études supérieures en architecture intérieure et produits d'environnement).
This young Basque girl has helped design costumes for short films, clips and theatrical plays, and also worked on the interior arrangement of the clothing boutique 'Jeanine et Marcelle' in Bayonne.
In June 2002, she was awarded a 'mention spéciale Insolite' in the 'Penser/classer...' competition organised by the Agence pour la Promotion de la Création Industrielle (APCI) on behalf of Avery Dennison.
Since the release of her 'Louis 5D' light, her final year project at the Camondo which was the result of a piece of work on the collective memory, she continues to conceive and design pieces which evoke memories, and which speak to everybody.
She created 'Shadowall', a shadow wall, in the TAD store in Milan - a shadow wall being a kind of virtual wallpaper with a vegetal and floral motif which is brought to life with light and enriched by shadow.
From her collaboration with Richard Fard arose 'Joséphine 5D', which, by dint of a shadow projected on the ceiling, hints at the mouldings of yesteryear: through Joséphine 5D, the past reappears' the moulding is no longer plaster, but shadow'originally designed to complement bourgeois chandeliers, here the moulding becomes light and optical illusion.


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'The Voice' Semi-Finals Recap: The Final 8 Perform for Coach's Grades + Audience Votes
Tonight (April 30) marked the semi-finals of Season 2 of 'The Voice.' Each coach has two team members, who were graded. The coach's grade combined with audience voting scores will decide which member represents each coach in next week's finals. Can you believe we are at the penultimate episode already?
Here's the PopCrush recap of who sang what and how, so you can utilize it as a guide when you go to vote.
Tony Lucca: He sang 'How You Like Me Now' all suited up and surrounded by gyrating dancers. It was a total change from last week's fan favorite cover of Britney Spears and it was soulful and sexy. He has emerged as a dark horse.
Katrina Parker: Another dark horse (and former cubicle dweller), Parker blossomed later in the season and keeps getting better after every performance. She tackled The Fugees' cover of 'Killing Me Softly' in pretty fashion and it would have made the reclusive Lauryn Hill crack a smile.
Erin Willett: The 22-year-old selected the David Guetta/Usher smash 'Without You.' She tinkered with the arrangement, slowing it down and turning it into a lovelorn ballad, as opposed to the clubby dance anthem it is in original form. It was lovely.
Jermaine Paul: The soulful Paul is no longer a backup singer. He belted out Journey's 'Open Arms' and pulled us in from the get go. It was balanced, dramatic and dynamic. He's a frontrunner.
Chris Mann: He went mainstream last week and came back to his roots, singing 'Ave Maria' in his beautiful, resounding, operatic voice. The heavens opened when he sang.
Lindsey Pavao: She went "indie" with her cover of Bon Iver's 'Skinny Love.' She's mastered that pretty, breathy style. She has quiet power but also turns in a similarly styled performance every week. BTW, Drew from 'X Factor' covered this song last year, too, and she and Lindsey are cut from the same cloth.
Jamar Rogers: The HIV-positive singer re-arranged and modernized the '80s ballad 'If You Don't Know Me By Now,' adding R&B flourishes. His coach said it was peculiar at first, but was quickly made a believer. It was a soulful, powerful and moving rendition.
Juliet Simms: The rocker sang 'It's Man's Man's Man's World' and she pulled the coaches into her moment. She is such an edgy singer with so much raw passion. She's another unique performer since she is anti-pop.


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