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Culinary Delights
Get set for a taste adventure, our new summer festival menu with its limited edition dishes has been designed to impress.
Summer Lunches from £4.99
Served until 4pm, Monday - Saturday
Scottish Smoked Salmon And Egg Open Sandwich †
Served on toasted malted bloomer bread and topped with smoked salmon and a soft boiled egg. Served with a lemon wedge.
Avocado And Egg Open Sandwich (v)
Served on toasted malted bloomer bread and topped with sliced fresh avocado and a soft boiled egg
Our open sandwiches are served with dressed watercress or triple-cooked chips.
Hog Roast Sub
Succulent pulled pork mixed with stuffing, crumbled crackling & apple sauce, in a sun-dried tomato sub roll. Served with triple-cooked chips and apple sauce
Farmhouse sausage roll, Somerset Brie, mature Cheddar, sun-dried tomato bread, pickled onion, beetroot pickle and a Red Delicious apple
Our Main Summer Menu
Summer Starters
Light and refreshing, our selection of summer starters are the perfect way to start your meal.
Hand-Raised Cornish Picnic Pork Pie And Salad (N)
With caramelised red onion chutney, lamb's lettuce, sweet pear, candied walnuts and crumbled Shropshire blue cheese
Garlic & Coriander King Prawns †
Garlic ciabatta topped with mango salsa and king prawns sautéed in garlic & coriander glaze, fresh tomato and avocado, sliced red chilli, fresh coriander with a wedge of lime
Shropshire Blue Waldorf Salad (V)(N)
Mixed Summer salad of crispy chicory leaves, fresh watercress, radish, sweet pear, candied walnuts and creamy Shropshire blue cheese tossed in a honey & mustard mayo
Chefs choice
Summer Mains
Our Summer specials menu has been carefully selected by our team of talented chefs to bring you a selection of dishes that are the perfect accompaniment to a beautiful summers day. Don't forget: They are all limited edition so won't be around forever, make sure you enjoy them all before they are gone!
Scottish Mussels And Fries †
Scottish mussels in a creamy white wine sauce topped with samphire and served with fries, garlic & rosemary mayo and a lemon wedge
Hog Roast Burger
Beef burger topped with pulled pork, stuffing, melted smoked cheese, crumbled crackling, apple sauce with mayo and watercress. Served with apple sauce. Burgers are served in a brioche bun with skin-on fries and house slaw.
Avocado And Chorizo Chicken Burger
With tomato, chorizo & roasted peppers, fresh avocado and red onion. Served with garlic & rosemary mayo and prosciutto wrapped asparagus
Shropshire Blue Waldorf Salad (V) (N)
A large Summer salad of crispy chicory leaves, fresh watercress, radish, sweet pear, candied walnuts and creamy Shropshire blue cheese tossed in a honey & mustard mayo
Sirloin Steak In A Garden Herb & Chilli Sauce With Whole Roasted Garlic
8oz sirloin steak with lamb's lettuce, grilled corn on the cob, house slaw, sweet potato fries and a garden herb & chilli dip
Chef's Coronation Chicken (N)
Our version of a classic. Half a fresh roasted chicken marinated in curry sauce and topped with toasted flaked almonds and fresh coriander. Served with fries, dressed mixed salad, mango salsa, garlic & coriander glazed corn on the cob and a lemon wedge
Summer Puddings
For the sweetest of tooths, our summer puddings are sure to impress even the fussiest pudding connoisseurs. With a range of classic British puddings, these are desserts we know you'll love.
Tipsy Summer Trifle
A British favourite of Summer Cup liqueur jelly with strawberries & raspberries and topped with custard, whipped double cream and crumbled Cadbury Flake®
Eton Mess
An indulgent pudding of whipped double cream tossed with crushed meringue, raspberry coulis, fresh strawberries and raspberries
Lemon Drizzle Cake Infused With Earl Grey (n)
A delightful twist on a traditional favourite, with white chocolate mousse, strawberries, raspberries and toasted flaked almonds
(v) All puddings are vegetarian


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Steps from Sooner Mall and convenient to Oklahoma City
Book a room at our Norman Travelodge hotel and get started on your next excursion to the City of Festivals. Located off I-35, our location near Thunderbird Casino places you within easy reach of fun, great restaurants and area attractions. Oklahoma City is just 20 minutes to the north.

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HARTFORD — The former finance director for Chris Donovan's ill-fated congressional campaign, convicted of participating in a scheme to hide the sources of contributions to the campaign, is asking a judge to give him probation rather than a jail sentence.
Robert Braddock Jr. faces up to 51 months in a federal prison when he is sentenced Aug. 27 by U.S. District Court Judge Janet Arterton.
Braddock's attorney Frank Riccio Jr. argues in a pre-sentencing memorandum that Braddock wasn't part of a conspiracy — hatched by Raymond Soucy, a former Department of Correction officer — to give money to Donovan's campaign in exchange for assurances that the then-Speaker of the House would kill proposed legislation to tax roll-your-own tobacco shops.
Donovan's campaign manager Joshua Nassi and seven others, including Soucy, have pleaded guilty to their roles in the scheme to mask the real contributors to Donovan's campaign. The roll-your-own smoke shop owners from Waterbury were hoping that, by contributing $27,000 to Donovan's campaign through conduit contributors, they could keep any legislation harmful to the business from a vote.
Some of the money that was donated to the Donovan campaign came from an undercover FBI agent posing as a smoke shop owner. Braddock was the only one of the defendants to go to trial.
"There is, simply, a lack of evidence that suggests that Mr. Braddock was a co-conspirator with Soucy and others in this scheme," Riccio wrote. "The trial in many respects was a prosecution of Christopher Donovan — without him being present."
Riccio argued that Braddock should not "be punished for the sins or misgivings of former Speaker Donovan."
In an attempt to show that Braddock was not involved in the scheme, Riccio points to a recorded phone call between Braddock and Nassi. Nassi made the call May 25, and federal authorities were listening in.
On the tape, Nassi refers to Soucy having more checks for the campaign. Then he expressed concerns that the roll-your-own legislation would surface during an upcoming special session.
Nassi said Soucy had made it clear there would be no more checks "unless the thing is dead."
Braddock replies, "Oh. But there is no quid pro quo. As long as everybody understands that there is no quid pro quo, you know."
Soucy became a government witness. He was convicted in May by a federal jury in New Haven after only a few hours of deliberations.
Prosecutors, in their pre-sentence memorandum, argue that Braddock should be sentenced to somewhere between the federal guideline recommendation of 41-51 months.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Mattei downplayed the conversation between Nassi and Braddock, writing that Riccio didn't try to bring the tape in as evidence at trial because he knew it would then allow the government to use a statement Braddock gave to the FBI after his arrest.
During that interview, Mattei said, "Mr. Braddock confirmed what the trial evidence established, namely, that he knew that Mr. Soucy and the RYO smoke shop owners were seeking to bribe Mr. Donovan and that he nonetheless accepted the contributions."
Mattei said Braddock's "no quid pro quo" comment was a self-serving statement "designed to make it appear that no such agreement existed when, in fact, all the participants understood that it did. Mr. Braddock apparently realized that the jury would come to the same conclusion, and elected not to offer this evidence."
Mattei said that the jury clearly believed the government's case that "Braddock was on the receiving end of a series of bribe payments. He sought out those payments, coordinated those payments and assured the RYO smoke shop owners that the payments would accomplish their illegal objectives. He coached his co-conspirators and used his position to serve as the gateway between the RYO smoke shop owners and Mr. Donovan."
Mattei said the sheer brazenness of the scheme suggests that the court needs to send a message to others that campaigns in Connecticut are not for sale.
"The Government submits that there is an urgent need for the Court's sentence to announce clearly to those in positions of trust within campaigns and government that this type of behavior is not only illegal, but intolerable," Mattei wrote.
"It appears that some individuals in this state continue to believe that the political or material benefits of corruption outweigh the risks of detection and incarceration. For those individuals, notions of personal integrity and responsible citizenship may not be sufficiently compelling to dissuade them from acting corruptly. The Government respectfully submits that the Court's sentence should aim to do so."


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|System: Wii, PS2, PSP
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Terminal Reality / SNK
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: SNK Playmore
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: March 24, 2009
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1-2
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Teen
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
With the Neo-Geo now long extinct, its unique catalog of games bears a special kind of nostalgia in the hearts of many gamers. The appeal of its titles has become multi-generational, with SNK re-releases popping up regularly including Fatal Fury: Battle Archives and the recent SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1 compilation. Gamers old enough to remember the original releases as well as younger game fans seem to appreciate the reminiscent qualities of these re-releases when they work out, though they can sometimes feel flawed when transitioned onto newer consoles.
Those who have long been searching through bins and store shelves to complete their Samurai Shodown collection need to look no further. As a refresher, the long-running Samurai Shodown franchise got its humble beginnings on the Neo-Geo arcade and home console in 1993. With its success, many sequels and spin-offs spawned including the Samurai Spirits collection as new gaming platforms have come and gone, and 2005 saw the final sixth installment of the Shodown series on the Playstation 2 and Nintendo Wii. Compiling all six games into one package, Samurai Shodown Anthology marks the 15 year anniversary since the series' debut, which is most recognized for its characteristic, two-dimensional artwork and for becoming one of the first weapons-based fighting games in the early 1990's.
Ensuring the appeal hasn't been lost, SNK has done its best to keep each of the six installments in Anthology true to the originals with a couple of small extras to boot. The Anthology also includes an Arcade mode and Practice mode as well as photo galleries featuring all characters throughout the six-game series to browse through. Showcasing the beautiful art that makes this and other SNK titles so appealing, fans of the series will enjoy looking at the designs and variations of its characters.
Players begin by playing the original Samurai Shodown and progress their way through each installment of the series, progressively becoming more difficult. Fans of the old series will have no trouble adapting to the controls, especially if you have played any Samurai Shodown title on the Wii or PS2 before, with the basic strong slash, quick slash, and kick attack setup, grapple moves and the devastating, life-draining use of the power bar. Those who have played the game will find playing it on the Wii or PS2 an easy transition. Those new to the series may have more trouble adapting. The timing of the controls can be hard to grasp, and those unfamiliar with the characters and storylines of the original series may not understand the appeal or enjoy a game well over a decade old.
The first installment of Samurai Showdown is as you would expect, with all the original characters from the classic debut including the now-iconic protagonist Haohmaru, the green demon Ge-An, and the beloved flatulent Earthquake. The second game of the series stays true to the original with all characters including Nicotine Caffeine from the original SSII, and the use of the power meter now used to finish off opponents to end the match.
The third Samurai Shodown is a completely redesigned, with darker-looking environments and characters, removing Haohmaru from the cast and adding several new ones including Shizumaru Hisame as the story's protagonist. Gameplay also changes in SSIII, and it's not a simple game by any means. Players must choose either a Slash or Burst version of each character, the former being closest to their original fighting style, and attack buttons are changed to three slashes (Weak, Medium, and Strong), and one kick attack. With the difficulty presented in SSIII, players are also given the option to adjust the setting to Beginner, Medium, and Upper before starting the game.


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MSYSA & Premier College Combines Continues to Offer College Recruiting Combines
The Michigan State Youth Soccer Association is pleased to announce a partnership with Premier College Combine, a premier company that will blend education and athletics together to help players plan and prepare for the right collegiate program. Premier College Combines offers talented high school aged athletes opportunities to play in front of college coaches for recruitment purposes. Premier College Combines has a large following around the Midwest, East Coast and Canada and will host over 25 combines in the winter, spring and summer. These events will be located in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Ontario, Canada.
How does it work?
Premier College Combine uses a smaller venue and only 2-4 fields at one time so that College Coaches can watch every player and will not miss anyone during the Combine whereas at a large tournament showcase there is always a possibility that a coach may miss a game because he/she is at another location watching another player. With Premier College Combines, the coaches never have to leave to watch another game.
What do I do after I register for a Premier College Combine?
Once a player is entered into the Premier College Combine, the player should then contact coaches of potential schools they are interested in and prearrange with the coaches to be seen at Premier College Combine events. For more information, please visit www.collegecombine.com.
Premier College Combine strives to provide the best service to all participants. By participating with the Premier College Combine, participants will have an opportunity to be seen by college coaches during the winter with limited travel. This will allow you to save on travel, hotels, meals and more all while placing you in front of a great selection of college coaches. If you are interested in registering for any Combine events, please visit www.collegecombine.com for a list of upcoming dates and locations.
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The Premier College Combines were started in 2004 to help high school aged players get recruited to college programs throughout the winter months without having to travel great distances. Premier College Combines also understood that many college programs had limited travel budgets for recruiting. Because of this, Premier College Combines allows players to play in front of college coaches who are within a short distance from home. To date, Premier College Combines has events in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, and Michigan so players can travel to areas in the winter months and be seen by coaches who wouldn't otherwise see them play.


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Teen attacked Orange County school bus driver with kids on board, deputies say
Demario Randolph, 16, faces 3 felony charges
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County deputies say a school bus driver was attacked Tuesday morning while behind the wheel as kids looked on in horror.
Investigators said one suspect, Demario Randolph, 16, is in custody, but two other teenage suspects remain on the run.
The attack happened just before 9 a.m. Tuesday. The driver, Alvin Lanning, had just picked up students at a bus stop on the corner of Pinto Way and Paladin Way in Pine Hills.
According to an Orange County Sheriff's Office report, Lanning told deputies his school bus stop sign was out and red flashing lights were on when a white BMW ignored the warning and whipped by.
After loading up the students, Lanning told investigators he began driving down the street toward Lockhart Middle School when he spotted the white car parked outside a nearby home. The driver then stopped to take down the license plate. That's when a teenager, later identified as Randolph, approached the driver's sliding window, reached in, punched Lanning in the face and stole his glasses.
Lanning told investigators the teenager then jumped back into the BMW and took off. However, it didn't take long for deputies to spot the BMW, and according to the sheriff's office report, the teenage occupants admitted Randolph was the attacker.
Investigators said Lanning also picked him out of a photo line-up.
The 16-year-old is now charged with three felonies including battery on a school employee.
Deputies initially let the two other teenage occupants in the car go. They said it wasn't until later they realized those teens tossed around the victim's glasses and broke them into several pieces. They are now wanted by deputies for charges of grand theft since the glasses were worth an estimated $800.
The entire incident was captured on a school bus surveillance camera. The recording has been turned over to the sheriff's office, but investigators are not releasing the video to the media.
Local 6 has learned the driver was involved in another incident last year where a student chest-bumped him in a threatening manner.
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Author: David Pendell
If you were born before 1975, you may have a collection of records that you want to convert to digital format. Some open source software and a cable are all you need to convert your prized vinyl to something portable.
If all you want to do is create MP3 files from you LP tracks, the only software you'll need is Audacity. If you want to convert vinyl to CD, you'll need cdrdao and cdrecord as well. All are readily available in most distributions' package repositories or from the projects' sites.
Next, you need to connect your computer to your turntable. There are many ways to do this. In my case, I connected a cable that has a headphone jack on one end and RCA type audio jacks on the other end to my mic jack on my laptop and the preamp on the stereo, respectively. An iPod cable would work if your stereo has a headphone jack. If you have the option of connecting a digital cable to the amplifier on your stereo and computer, then you are truly lucky. This option will give you the most accurate reproduction of your records. However, since vinyl was not necessarily known for its acoustic perfection, a headphone jack will suffice for most people.
Before you begin the conversion process, check a few settings. Run Audacity and select Edit -> Preferences -> Audio I/O. Under playback and recording, make sure that Audacity is using the correct hardware. If it's not, click on the drop-down menus and fix the selection. If you want to be able to listen to the music as you are recording, select the Software Playthrough option. Next, click on Quality on the left side, and for the Default sample format, select 24-bit. While the standard for audio CDs is 16-bit, the 24-bit option allows Audacity to catch subtle nuances that the lower 16-bit setting might miss. With audio and video is it usually best to record at a higher level of quality and then scale back rather than try to go the other way.
Once these options have been set, you are ready to begin. The easiest way to do so is to start Audacity recording and then begin playing the record. Don't worry if there is a long pause between these two events; removing pauses is easy. Unless all you want is one track from the record, record the whole thing; Audacity is quite capable of removing any tracks that you don't want. Let the whole record play, and give yourself some editing room at the end of the record as well.
If Audacity doesn't seem to be recording, stop and try playing what you have recorded. It may be that the recording level is too low. While Audacity does have the ability to increase volume, it is again better to start with a higher level and then scale back. Try the recording again with a higher output on the stereo. If this doesn't seem to be working, try checking the connections between the stereo and the computer. You may have the cable plugged into the wrong jack. Double-check the settings in the preferences. You might try a different hardware device; if Audacity is not recording, the problem is most likely a hardware problem. Another place to look is hardware access rights; you may not have the correct permissions to record sound.
If you are going to record both sides of the record, you have two choices: you can simply pause the recording, flip the record, begin recording again, and play side two, or you can record two different files and then cut and paste. The latter is resource-intensive, and depending on the speed of your machine and the availble memory, can take some time, so I recommend using the first method.
Once the sound is recorded, transferring the record to a music CD is easy. First, understand that CD audio is not measured in hours, minutes, seconds, and miliseconds, but rather in minutes, seconds, and Compact Disk Digital Audio, or CDDA, frames — MM:SS:FF. There are no hours because the maximum amount of music on a CD is 80 minutes. Frames are 1/75th of a second long and correspond to a sector length on the CD. So, the first thing that you want to do is change the way that Audacity measures time. At the bottom of the Audacity window there are three time displays marked Selection Start, End Length, and Audio Position. To the right of those time displays are drop-down arrows. Click Selection Start and select "hh:mm:ss + CDDA frames (75fps)." This one selection will change all of the time displays to match. Now look at the middle time display. The End and Length options are mutually exclusive; if you select End, Length is deselected and vice versa. These two option for the second field will be useful when you make a table of contents file for recording to CD.
Click anywhere in the audio track window (the blue pulsating area that represents the music you are working with) and then click on the hours portion of the Selection Start time display. Zero out all of the numbers in the display by typing "0" until all of them are set to zero. The line that was left by your click in the audio track section should move all the way to the left. You are now ready to play the first track of your audio file. Push the play button (the green triangle pointing to the right) and the music should begin playing. If the sound meters in the middle of the top line of the display have pulsing green bars in them but you do not have any sound, check to make sure that you have sound available in some other program, such as a DVD player. If you do, make sure that under the Audio Output section of the Preferences that you set earlier has the correct device listed. If you don't have sound in another application, make sure that your speakers are turned on (if they are powered) and plugged in correctly. Also, check permissions on the sound card again.
Once the playback has reached the point that you have heard the complete first track, and the second track hasn't begun, pause the playback and make a note of Audio Position time display. Stop playback and transfer that information into the End Length time display. First, select End and note the time. Next, select Length and note the time. End is the position in the audio file that the track ends, while Length is the HH:MM:SS+CDDA time that the track plays. End is useful for positioning the Selection Start time for working with the next track, and Length is useful in the table of contents file that you will create.
When you transferred the information from Audio Position to End Length you should have noticed that the portion of the audio that you just listened to became highlighted in dark grey. If you don't want to keep the track, you can press the delete key and make the track audio data disappear. You may have to reset the Selection Start time display, as you have modified the length and start position of the file. If you delete a track by accident, don't worry — Audacity has a multilevel undo feature. Press Ctrl-Z or select Edit -> Undo. Should you want to save the track as an MP3 file, select File -> Export Selection and choose MP3 as the file type. You should be prompted for track information for ID3 tagging. Input the information and save the file.
To continue making track time notations, transfer the time information that you gained from the previous track to the appropriate time display to begin again. For example, if the previous track ended at 00:02:48+09, then transfer that information to Selection Start and begin playing. When the second track is through, press pause and make note of the End and Length times and repeat the process for all the tracks.
If you want a utility to do all of the track splitting, look into GramoFile. It has the ability to calculate the separations between track and output the information to a file. However, it saves its information in HH:MM:SS.MSECs, so you will have to convert between msecs and frames. This isn't too hard, since frames are 1/75 of a second or 13.3msecs — e.g. 400msecs is 30frames — but it is a time-consuming step. Also, GramoFile uses a root mean square calculation to find the silences that indicate track splits, and it is not perfect. On the test file that I used to write this article, GramoFile found only three tracks, not the four that I actually recorded. It can be tuned, but that too may take some time.
If all you want is MP3 files, you can quit now — you're done. If you want to create a CD, however, you should export your audio to a .wav file by using the same method as the MP3 export, except this time select WAV. If you are prompted to enter information about the audio data, ignore it; in a .wav file, it doesn't matter.
Once you have all of the information about the audio data collected and have exported the file to WAV format, you can write it to a CD. First, create a table of contents. In the following example, you will see that there are four tracks that make reference to a .wav file with time notations that specify where each track begins and how long the track is. CD_DA specifies that this is a Compact Disk Digital Audio disk, and TRACK AUDIO specifies that this is an audio track and not a data track as is possible on multi-session disks. (If you wanted a multi-session disk, you would replace CD_DA with CD_ROM_XA. There are many other track types available and they depend on the type of data that you are writing in addition to the audio files.)
CD_DA //Track 1 TRACK AUDIO FILE "footloose.wav" 00:00:00 03:45:37 //Track 2 TRACK AUDIO FILE "footloose.wav" 03:45:38 04:22:38 TRACK AUDIO FILE "footloose.wav" 08:08:02 03:46:53 TRACK AUDIO FILE "footloose.wav" 11:54:54 05:41:36
This is the simplest type of file that you can create for making a music CD. Cdrdao is a powerful program that allows you to include a great deal of information about the disk in text form, but for now, just use this example as a template. Replace the name of the .wav file with your own, and replace the start and length times with those that you gained from working with the audio data. To make things easier on yourself, you might also make use comments by placing
// in front of any such documentation. These can be placed anywhere and will comment out anything behind them to the end of the line.
When you are finished creating your file, burning is all that remains. Since modern kernels use SCSI emulation for CD burning, you can run the command
cdrecord --scanbus in a terminal to find your CD burner. You should see a list that shows all SCSI or SCSI-emulated devices attached to your system. If there is more than one CD drive attached, the simplest option is to simply try to burn a CD in both drives. If a drive cannot burn a disk, cdrdao will just error out; if not, you will have a new music CD when you are done. The list will indicate the SCSI ID for the CD drive(s) in question. Make a note of the three-digit numbers delimited with commas, as you will need these for burning with cdrdao. When you have that information, run
sudo cdrdao write --device 0,0,0 your_toc_file, replacing 0,0,0 with the three digits that you gained from cdrecord, and your_toc_file with the name of the file that you entered your TOC information in. If the command errors out, you may have tried to burn to a non-burnable drive, or you may have a typo in your TOC file. Make sure that the case in the file names in the TOC file matches the file names on disk. If there are no errors, in a few minutes you should have a new audio CD.
Audacity has many options for filtering, effects, and analysis, yet it is easy to use and, thanks to its its multilevel undo, very forgiving of mistakes. Cdrdao is also powerful and forgiving of mistakes, though it is not as easy to use. Both programs are good to know if you have a pile of vinyl you want to bring into the digital age.
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The traveler on your list may be off to Italy or Nepal next year, but you won't have to go far to find a practical gift that will be appreciated, not just for what it is, but from where it came.
This week's Travel Wise column for The Seattle Times includes a few suggestions for ways to put your holiday shopping dollars to work supporting local businesses, charitable organizations and online retailers with a global mission:
•Shop for art and handicrafts online or at stores that support fair wages and decent working conditions in developing countries.
One of the best is Seattle's Ten Thousand Villages (6417 Roosevelt Way N.E.). Part of a national chain run by volunteers from the Mennonite Church, the store helps people in 70 countries find a market for handcrafted products.
Spending an hour or so here is like traveling around the world in one afternoon. From the Philippines are "Good News" Christmas-star ornaments made from recycled newspaper ($6). Cinnamon bark boxes ($12) come from a program that helps Vietnamese women and children from neglected families. Crafted by artisans in Burkina Faso, West Africa, are "thumb pianos" ($14) made from scraps of tin cans.
The website, tenthousandvillages.com, includes videos showing how many of the products are made. It lists hundreds of inexpensive items for sale online, from $10 felt flower pins made by women in Nepal to $6 brass and bone bangles from India.
•Support an independent travel bookstore.
We're lucky to have three in the Puget Sound area: Wide World Books & Maps in Wallingford, The Savvy Traveler in Edmonds and The Traveler on Bainbridge Island.
Wide World's $2 plastic sink stoppers and $3.50 "sporks," all-in-one plastic knives, make excellent stocking stuffers.
•Make a donation in a traveler's name.
Passports with a Purpose, a fundraiser started in 2008 by four Seattle-based travel bloggers, aims to raise $100,000 this year to build wells in rural Haiti.
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A Thousand Miles for Reconciliation with Rome
Editor's Note: Andrew and Sarah Wilson will be presenting about their pilgramage at Augsburg's Founders' Day celebrations, Nov. 10-11.
On the morning of August 22, 2010, Andrew and Sarah Wilson will depart from the Augustinian priory in Erfurt, Germany, taking the first steps of their thousand-mile pilgrimage to Rome. The Wilsons will follow roughly the same path Augustinian friar Martin Luther trod 500 years ago in 1510.
Augsburg religion professor, Hans Wiersma, will be among those sending the Wilsons off from Erfurt. Wiersma will walk with the couple as far as Coburg, Germany. After the close of their journey on October 31, the Wilsons will travel to Augsburg College to speak at the school's annual Founders Day celebration in November.
The hike will take 70 days and will pass through southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Italy, before arriving in Rome in the last days of October.
Luther came to Rome with high expectations but was ultimately disappointed. Only seven years after his trip to Rome, he posted the Ninety-Five Theses, commonly regarded as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Only three years after that, in 1520, he was excommunicated by Pope Leo X.
But reliving old quarrels is not the Wilsons' intent.
"We noticed this significant anniversary coming up," said Andrew Wilson, who holds a doctorate in Church History from Princeton Theological Seminary and is a Fellow at the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue, "and thought it would be great to commemorate it by retracing Luther's own steps. But what's the right way to do that in an ecumenical age?"
The answer came to Sarah Wilson, who holds a doctorate from Princeton Seminary in Systematic Theology and is an ordained Lutheran pastor, after she joined the staff of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France. Dedicated to understanding the issues that divide Lutherans from other churches around the globe, the Institute for Ecumenical Research also seeks to work through such divisions and create broader cooperation in global Christianity.
"Incredible progress has been made on the scholarly level between divided churches," she explained. "But this progress has hardly made its way to the people in the pews at all. It's as if fifty years of dialogue never happened. How could we let people know about these amazing developments? How could we get them even to care?"
It was Andrew Wilson who realized the possibility of leveraging social media to spread the word on a grassroots level. "People are busy and won't take time to read stiff academic studies or listen to impenetrable church statements. But they'll read a hiking blog. They'll 'like' things on Facebook. They'll follow Tweets. So we're using these media to share the news about our trip, educate about the Reformation, and highlight the amazing rapprochement that has already occurred between two churches that fought physical as well as theological wars for centuries."
"The Reformation was a communication revolution where mass-produced polemical pamphlets spread fresh insights into Christianity across Europe," he mused, "but also hardened a divided and dividing church. Perhaps our current communication revolution will reunite it in unforeseen ways."
The Wilsons' blog is called www.hereiwalk.org, a pun on the famous words "Here I stand" that Luther uttered during his trial in Worms, Germany.
Interest in pilgrimages has exploded among Protestants in recent years. Many European churches are setting up offices for pilgrimage and establishing routes for pilgrims to follow.
"Even non-believers can get into 'pilgrimages,'" added Andrew Wilson, an experienced hiker and mountaineer. "It's like hiking, but with the added layer of connecting to the past. I'm excited about crossing the Alps, but walking along Roman roads, slowly nearing towering steeples, wandering through silent abbeys, and imagining travel in an era before cars and planes — that's what sets this trip apart."
"Actually walking the huge distance from Erfurt to Rome is essential to our goal," commented Sarah Wilson. "The Reformation ended up severing the connection between Lutherans and Roman Catholics. We are trying to heal that broken link, reconnecting divided places with our own footsteps. We hope others will join us in spirit and in prayer, even if they can't walk with us in person, on our quest."
What lies at the end of the journey?
"Our final destination will be the tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul," responded Sarah Wilson. "Symbolically St. Peter stands for the Catholic church and St. Paul for the Lutheran church. Peter and Paul had their quarrels, but they had the same faith in Christ and both were martyred in Rome. The apostles' witness invites Lutherans and Catholics today to reconcile on the basis of their shared faith."


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Platt: In 'sex-crazed culture,' Bible makes 'no exceptions'
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Be careful about shaking your head at same-sex marriage, warned David Platt, senior pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala., and author of the best-selling book "Radical."
Everyone, each individual, is bent toward sexual sin, Platt said.
"This is something that every sinful heart is prone to struggle with in some way or another," said Platt, who preached in late June on the subject of the cross and sexuality. His two-part sermon series on 1 Corinthians 6 book-ended the week of the Supreme Court's two rulings June 26 supporting gay marriage.
Sins shouldn't be acceptable just because they are the sins of the majority, he said. The church needs to declare war on every sexual sin that plagues Christians in order to show the world sexual purity and godly marriage.
"All throughout the Bible from cover to cover, sex is only celebrated ... in the context of exclusive covenant relationship between a husband and wife. Period. There are no exceptions to that," Platt said.
There's no exception for homosexuality but there's also no exception for adultery, promiscuity, pornography or masturbation, he said.
What's happening in "our sex-crazed culture" today is essentially sex worship -- the idea that "I would be happy if I had the freedom to express myself sexually," Platt said.
"According to [secular culture], we're not human if we can't please our bodies however we desire, so any attempts to limit sexual expression are seen as oppressive and inhumane," he said. "We set our minds on the things of the flesh, which is hostile to God, and we exchange God's Word for our experience."
So often the Bible is twisted to fit preference -- as with the argument for homosexuality -- or its supposed silence is interpreted as liberty, Platt said. For instance, he said, when he was a teenager he and others would ask the question, "How far is too far?"
"I never once heard a well-reasoned, objective answer based on Scripture," he said, explaining that instead leaders would tell youth to pray, set boundaries and decide what they thought was right, because the Bible didn't spell it out. So when he and other guys would talk about it, they would "do what teenage boys do" -- set the standards as low as they could.
"I found myself in this dangerous gray area that led to guilt and failure," Platt said, noting that even though he and his wife Heather didn't have sex with each other or anyone else before their marriage, "that doesn't mean we glorified God with our bodies."
Platt urged unmarried men and women to consider that the reason God has no explicit instructions for sexual behavior between unmarried people in relationships is because God didn't intend for them to engage in any at all.
"God in His Word has no category for two people who aren't married but kinda sorta act like they are. It's not mentioned one place," he said. "That's because they are your brother or sister in Christ and likely to be someone else's spouse some day. If you say, 'Well, I think I'm going to marry her,' then marry her.
"Looking for a guideline? Don't do anything with a brother or sister in Christ that you wouldn't do with your brother or sister, or with someone else's wife or husband."
That also goes for how married people relate to people other than their spouse, he said, as well as in the case of pornography. Pornography isn't at all relational as God intended for sexual activity to be, and in no way emulates the character of Christ.
"Men, these women are someone's daughter -- they aren't objects, they are souls," Platt said. "They need you to point them to Christ, not fuel their exploitation."
Platt said he's convinced the reason the mission field is dominated by so many single women is because pornography has such a grip on men that they are too weak to follow Christ's call. Men need to fight the battle for the sake of unreached people worldwide and for the sake of God's glory, he said.
"So much of the power of sin is found in its secrecy," Platt said, urging Christians to be intentional about having accountability in place. "Guard yourself with godly friendships and Gospel accountability."
And don't give in to the desires of the flesh outside of marriage, even in masturbation, he said.
"God designed sex to be relational; masturbation is lustful," Platt said. "It teaches people to satisfy themselves" and is isolating, noncommittal and self-centered. Masturbation "goes against the design of God" just as homosexuality does, he said.
"Let us give ourselves to His design and reclaim godly marriages" for the sake of Christ, families, the church and the world, he said.
Platt said he's convinced that "living as a Christ follower is going to be harder, not easier, in the coming days" and that the Supreme Court decision will "have ramifications on religious liberty."
But "marriage is a union that represents our union with Christ in heaven, and it will not go away," Platt said. "It is wise to be confident in the resiliency of marriage, in the opportunity for the Gospel and in the sovereignty of our God."
Grace Thornton is assistant editor of The Alabama Baptist (www.thealabamabaptist.org), newsjournal of the Alabama Baptist Convention. To watch or listen to the sermons, visit www.brookhills.org.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Dreamboys: Stompin' up a storm
For those people, mostly non-black, unfamiliar with step dancing, it doesn't matter, because the Atlanta-filmed Stomp the Yard moves it into the next generation. The lame-ish plot concerns a clash between traditional and new-school (i.e., street) styles and how they eventually blend to create if not a new art form, at least some spectacular production numbers.
Columbus Short stars as DJ Williams, a natural dancer who has more to learn in college than academics. He's sent to Atlanta's fictitious Truth University from Los Angeles after his little brother, Duron (Chris Brown), is killed in a fight by sore losers after their team wins a dance competition. College had been Duron's goal, but someone's got to represent.
DJ's Aunt Jackie (Valarie Pettiford), a Truth alumna, and Uncle Nate (Harry J. Lennix), whose company tends the campus grounds, give DJ emotional support and a job, respectively.
There are two top fraternities. Mu Gamma Xi has won the national step dancing championship for the last seven years. Theta Nu Theta is the perennial runner-up. When they see DJ's moves they both invite him to pledge. "I don't step, I battle," DJ warns them. He picks the less snooty Theta, as does his roommate, Rich (Ne-Yo, failing to provide much comic relief in a role that's obviously intended to).
The by-the-numbers script gives DJ a love interest from day one, but it takes April Palmer (Meagan Good) until about day three to return his affection. Would you believe she's going with Grant (Darrin Henson), one of Mu Gamma's top dancers? And would you believe he disrespects her? And would you believe he's actually her father's choice for her, not April's? And would you believe her father (Allan Louis) is the university provost, who will eventually determine DJ's academic future and, more importantly, whether he can dance in the national finals?
I won't mention the connection between Mr. Palmer and DJ's aunt and uncle. You really wouldn't believe that!
When the dancing starts you can overlook the plot, the acting, and any other weak points. Short gets plenty of opportunity to show off before DJ learns to be a team player, and Sylvester (Brian White), who "doesn't like anything street in his routines," gets to lead the Thetas in demonstrations of the old school before he realizes he needs to update if they're to stop being perpetual underdawgs. Their training regimen includes a shirtless run up Stone Mountain that's the non-musical eye candy highlight. Rocky can have his art museum.
Stomp the Yard is a less dramatically effective Drumline with a different type of competition, but the dances are, for the most part, excitingly filmed and edited. You Got Served has gotten served.


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Hands-Free Camera Dock Swivl Adds DSLR, iPad Support
If you don't remember Swivl — which we reviewed in full here at AllThingsD — you surely can't be blamed.
With an original price point of $179, it was a pretty expensive accessory for shooting video on your iPhone. Only around 10,000 units have sold since it came to market this past spring. And Satarii, the Bay Area-based company behind the product, says they were surprised to find that Swivl appealed more to business users or educators, rather than to average consumers making home videos.
With this in mind, Satarii has been gearing up for the next crop of Swivls. This time around they're taking the Kickstarter route: Starting today, the company will begin crowdfunding two new Swivls, a feature-packed version and a basic model.
The core function of Swivl is to support your smartphone for you so you can move around while video conferencing or recording. It works with a little remote that you hold in your hand while you're moving around, which sends a signal to the Swivl dock so it knows to follow you — sort of like your own personal camera person.
The new Swivl now supports tablets and heavy-duty DSLR cameras. And the company has ditched the built-in 30-pin connector, which limited the original gadget by supporting only iPhones, in favor of a USB port that will work with any cable.
The system is Bluetooth-enabled and works with a smartphone app — which will be available for both iOS and Android devices — that acts as a remote control for the camera.
But Swivl still isn't cheap. The company plans to charge $149 for the basic model and $220 for the higher-end Swivl. The cheaper one doesn't come with the little remote. The premium Swivl works with a remote that doubles as a microphone, and also has speakers built into the dock.
So while Swivl is a pretty cool product for video and photo geeks, and the company is attempting to address the consumer market with the basic model, its high price point still puts it more in the category of professional photog tools. And Swivl faces more competition now, too, with products like the Galileo and the Kubi coming out.
Satarii co-founder Brian Lamb says the company intends to ship the product around June or July of next year, assuming it hits its crowdfunding goal.


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Random Observations on Yesterday's Supreme Court Hearing on a Challenge to the Voting Rights Act:
Or, more precisely, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which affects certain jurisdictions with historical issues of voter suppression based on race. Those places need to have changes to their voting laws reviewed and approved by the U.S. Justice Department. The Act was renewed in 2006 by enormous majorities (98-0 in the Senate) and signed by George W. Bush. The case is Shelby County v. Holder, and a county in Alabama is saying, "Aw, c'mon. All that shit's in the past. Besides, everyone else is racist, too," which are two very different arguments against the section. So of course it's probably gonna be overturned. A few thoughts:
1. You know how when anyone talks about Section 5, they say, like the Washington Post did, "nine states and assorted jurisdictions in seven others" are covered? Yeah, a couple of those "assorted jurisdictions" are the counties in New York that contain Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. That would be roughly 5.5 million people. So that's more people covered than in 5 of the included states. So while the attitude on the Voting Rights Act by four of the white male justices is that it's picking on the poor, poor South, that's just plain fucking wrong.
2. Justice Antonin "Sorry, Clarence Thomas Can't Talk Right Now Because He's Sucking My Meaty Sausage" Scalia has been much quoted for saying that vast majorities of both Houses of Congress approved the law because they're such pussies about racism: "Now, I don't think that's attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement." What he said next is at least as interesting: "It's been written about. Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes."
It's been written about, huh? Yeah, you know who's written about it? A bunch of fuckers on the right, like, for instance, George Will, at least a half-dozen times in the 1980s, and that avatar of racial harmony, Pat Buchanan. You know who else wrote about it? Antonin "Sorry, Clarence Thomas Can't Talk Right Now Because He's Tongue-Bathing My Dense Meatballs" Scalia.
Yeah, in the 1995 case of Adaranad Constructors v. Pena, which severely limited the use of racial preferences in awarding federal government contracts, Scalia wrote in concurrence, "To pursue the concept of racial entitlement—even for the most admirable and benign of purposes—is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred." You got that? Affirmative action actually leads to slavery. That's the kind of fine, logical thinking that makes Scalia such a model justice.
So "written about" actually means "filtered through a conservative echo chamber and fuck you."
3. Winner of the "Meaningless Metaphor That Stupid People Will Think Is Smart" is Justice Samuel "Let Me Frisk Your Child" Alito, who wondered, "Suppose Congress passed a law that said, everyone whose last name begins with A shall pay a special tax of $1,000 a year. And let's say that tax is challenged by somebody whose last name begins with A. Would it be a defense to that challenge that for some reason this particular person really should pay a $1,000 penalty that people with a different last name do not pay?" Yes, but what if the government has classified reasons for passing that tax that it can't tell you in the name of national security, huh?
4. Another quote of Antonin "Sorry, Clarence Thomas Can't Talk Right Now Because He's Chugging My Salty Alfredo Sauce" Scalia that's made pundits perk their heads up and say, "Whuh?" is his seeming lack of understanding of the 15th Amendment: "You have to show, when you are treating different States differently, that there's a good reason for it. That's the -- that's the concern that those of us who -- who have some questions about this statute have. It's -- it's a concern that this is not the kind of a question you can leave to Congress," which, unfortunately, the Constitution says it totally is.
But after that, Scalia said, "There are certain districts in the House that are black districts by law just about now. And even the Virginia Senators, they have no interest in voting against this. The State government is not their government, and they are going to lose -- they are going to lose votes if they do not reenact the Voting Rights Act." Just to get this right: Scalia now has a problem with politicians having to do things that voters might want them to do. And, seemingly, he's got a problem with gerrymandering if it creates "black districts," but, as previous cases show us, not when it involves Republican legislatures doing it.
5. Clarence Thomas sat the entire time without uttering a word. Every other justice spoke. Obviously, because Thomas nearly never speaks or asks questions. This time, his stony silence was deafening. And shameful. Maybe he was too busy sucking Scalia's gray pubes out of his teeth.


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MACHESNEY PARK — The third win of the season against Hononegah was by far the hardest fought for the Boylan girls volleyball team.
The Indians pushed the Titans to the brink, but in the end Boylan prevailed with a 29-27, 25-22 win to claim the Class 4A Harlem Regional title Thursday.
"We played our hearts out," Boylan hitter Alexis Varga said. "We knew it was going to be a tough game. Hononegah is one of our rivals, so we knew they were going to play hard, too."
Varga and fellow senior Bryanna Weiskircher led the offensive attack for the Titans. Varga had nine kills and nine digs, while Weiskircher had 12 kills, 10 digs and 10 assists. Caroline Salamone added 11 assists for the Titans, who advance to play Crystal Lake South in the semifinal of the Belvidere North Sectional at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
In Thursday's match, the first game had 22 ties and 20 lead changes. Weiskircher's kill broke a 27-all tie and Sage Norwood's soft tip over the net gave the Titans a 28-27 lead. Varga closed the game with a shot to the corner.
"Winning the first game was the key," said Varga, whose team had defeated Hononegah 25-19, 25-10 (Sept. 5) and 25-21, 25-12 (Oct. 3) in NIC-10 action.
Hononegah gained the early lead in the second game taking a 6-2 advantage and later led 15-11. The Titans caught a second wind after falling behind to tie the game at 16-16. It was a back-and-forth affair until the end.
The Indians graduate four seniors in setter Katie Kniep and hitters Olivia Warren and Tricia Graham and manager Bethany Rothmaler.
"We played by far our best game of the season," said Kniep, a Northwestern recruit. "It was a great game against Boylan. They just didn't blow us out of the water. If there was one game to play our best, this was the one and I can't be more proud of how we did."
Kniep finished with 16 digs, Macy Geyer had seven kills and two blocks and Graham had four kills. Ashley Smith added 12 digs and Chelsea Peterson had nine for Hononegah.
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By Edward Zelinsky
Many important decisions are embedded in the federal budget proposed by President Obama. Among these are the President's embrace of the defined contribution paradigm. That paradigm promotes retirement savings through individual accounts such as IRAs and 401(k) accounts.
The Internal Revenue Code currently provides a savers' income tax credit for lower income individuals who contribute to IRAs and 401(k) accounts. The Obama budget proposes to expand this credit and make it refundable. In addition, the Obama budget proposes to establish administrative infrastructure in the Department of Labor as the first step toward requiring employers without pension or profit sharing plans to enroll their employees in workplace IRAs.
Together, these two proposals commit the Obama Administration to the existing system of individual accounts as the prime means of encouraging private retirement savings.
Some observers had predicted a retreat from individual accounts in light of the Crash of 2008 and the consequent decline of most participants' 401(k) and IRA balances. However, the Obama budget indicates that such a retreat is, so far at least, not occurring. Indeed, the Obama budget, if adopted as proposed, commits the federal government even more deeply to the individual accounts of the defined contribution paradigm.
Something similar happened after the fall of Enron. Enron's demise devastated the 401(k) accounts of many Enron employees who held large quantities of Enron stock in such accounts. Some observers predicted that this debacle would force reconsideration of the individual accounts of the defined contribution paradigm. But, like Holmes's dog that did not bark in the night, no such reconsideration occurred.
Similarly, the Obama budget signals that, in the wake of the Crash of 2008, the federal government remains committed to individual accounts for retirement savings. President Obama proposes to double our bet on IRAs and 401(k) accounts, both by enriching the tax-subsidy for low income persons who contribute to such accounts and by making such accounts universal in the workplace.
This decision puts President Obama in potential conflict with his allies in the union movement. Today, the last bastions of the traditional defined benefit plan are the unionized work forces of state and local governments. Taxpayers thus find themselves paying taxes for lucrative defined benefit plans for unionized state and local employees. And now the Obama budget makes clear to these taxpayers that their retirement savings future is financing their own 401(k) accounts — even as these taxpayers fund often rich defined benefit pensions for government employees.
President Obama has not embraced President Bush's rhetoric about an "ownership society." However, there is in substance great continuity in the retirement savings policies embodied in President Obama's budget and the prescriptions of the Bush Administration. The Obama budget, by expanding the savers' income tax credit and moving toward universal IRAs in the workplace, embraces the defined contribution paradigm.
Edward A. Zelinsky is the Morris and Annie Trachman Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University. He is the author of The Origins of the Ownership Society: How The Defined Contribution Paradigm Changed America.


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Robert Myers and Freddy Cachazo Win Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Medals
Perimeter Faculty Robert Myers has won the CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for his contributions to subatomic physics. To recognize exceptional achievement by a physicist early in their career, Freddy Cachazo has been awarded the CAP Herzberg Medal.
Robert Myers is one of Canada's most distinguished string theorists, whose insights have made him one of the most widely cited theoretical physicists in the world. He's made numerous key contributions in subfields – from foundational string theory to gravitational physics to string cosmology. Several of his discoveries have opened entirely new lines of inquiry, and are regarded as modern classics. He is perhaps best known for "the Myers effect", a string theoretic analog of the dielectric effect in which certain objects, known as D-branes, respond to external fields, even if they don't carry the charge the field would normally act upon.
Freddy Cachazo is a mathematical physicist whose work has attracted attention for its immediate usefulness in particle physics and beyond. Drawing upon a variety of elegant mathematical ideas, Cachazo and his collaborators have developed entirely new methods of calculating scattering processes in gravity and gauge theories. Calculating scattering amplitudes is an essential step in making predictions or analyzing data in several fields of physics. For instance, high energy physicists at the Large Hadron Collider tackle scattering amplitudes routinely. Before Cachazo, many of these scattering amplitude problems were nearly too complex to calculate. Cachazo's techniques make them not just solvable, but surprisingly simple. The techniques have been adopted in both analysis and simulation, and have already been incorporated into textbooks.
Pedro Vieira Receives Early Researcher Award
Perimeter Institute Faculty member Pedro Vieira has received an Early Researcher Award (ERA) from Ontario's Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation. ERAs are prestigious grants given to recently-appointed faculty members across Ontario to assist them in building their research teams. The goal of the program is to help the province attract and retain the best and brightest young talent from around the world. Each researcher receives $140,000 through the program.
Vieira received the ERA on May 4, 2012 at an award ceremony alongside other recipients from Waterloo Region. The event included remarks by Ontario Minister John Milloy on the importance of the program, as well as thanks to the province from Michael Duschenes, Perimeter's Chief Operating Officer, on behalf of the Institute.
Pedro Vieira was awarded the ERA for his proposal, "Quantum Field Theory at Finite Coupling." His research in this area largely concerns strongly coupled gauge theory, including quantum chromodynamics – a gauge theory which describes the properties of subatomic particles called quarks and the forces that act on them.
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Razvan Gurau, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Perimeter Institute, has been awarded the Hermann Weyl Prize for 2012 for his contributions in mapping new paths in quantum gravity. This prize, which is named after renowned German mathematical physicist Hermann Weyl, is only awarded once every two years.
In 2010, Gurau published a series of papers, which showed how the two-dimensional models of quantum gravity could be generalized to produce models with three dimensions or more. In other words, they showed the path from a two-dimensional model of the universe to the real one. This work quickly attracted the attention of other researchers in quantum gravity, both at Perimeter and at other leading centres around the world. The last year and a half has seen remarkable and rapid developments in quantum gravity.
This is the second time a Perimeter researcher has won the award, after Senior Postdoctoral Fellow Giulio Chiribella received the honour in 2010. Gurau will receive his prize in a ceremony at the International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, which will be held in China later this summer.


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Friday, January 15, 2010
Help with some story items...
1) An arts and crafts fair. One is for charity; another is for profit to the family doing it, perhaps on weekends, especially in the fall, but also seasonally year around.
What items would have been "hot" at the time, what would have been "standard" - especially, perhaps, hand-crafted, that might have been donated in the first case, or consigned, in the second.
2) A recipe exchange, or possible a community book. What are some recipes, simple better than complex, that might have been exchanged at that time, in that place?
3) My people in the story are about 100 miles from Branson, more toward St. Louis, and are talking about offering horse rides, trail rides, a mill tour, etc. Were these kinds of things likely to have worked, or even be profitable, in the timeframe, in that location?
I'm doing my research, in the literature, but this little survey is a part of that research. I'd love to hear comments; if you'd rather email me, that is fine, as well: billsmith2003 at gmail.com will work just fine.
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Hello BillReplyDelete
I am not an expert on the area or the time frame but here is an idea:
Go to ebay and search for church and community cookbooks from the year 1987. They will give you and idea of recipes if the seller has taken photos of some of the pages.
As for craft sales, rummages sales - try Google Archive News - here is a link for classifieds from Missouri in that time period:
Thanks, Thomas. You always come through! Bill ;-)ReplyDelete
What I remember from 1987 was Ghost Busters was played regularly at our house on the DVD -fairly new toy. Sam played with toy wrestlers of the day, Gretchen with Peaches and Cream Barbie dolls.ReplyDelete
Cabbage Patch dolls were still big - could have imitation dolls at the craft fair. The Chicago Bears were also doing well.
25% of homes had microwave ovens, so this kind of cooking would have been "cutting edge" then.
This is what I can remember for now.
THANKS, Becki! Those are really useful items! I really appreciate these specifics!ReplyDelete
Love the photos of your family! ;-)
Yes Bill I was going to say Cabbage Patch Dolls also. Cabbage Doll clothing, bedding, beds, highchairs would have been big. And yes I have copied cabbage dolls that my great aunts were doing.ReplyDelete
Also crock pot dishes were popular--- everyone was adding too much liquid and stacking of the vegetables and meats were still a big mystery for many.
Thank you, Ruth! Those should work well. I appreciate the input! ;-)ReplyDelete


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The United States is still picking up the pieces after the attack on the World Trade Centre ten years ago.
Citizens of Seattle still remember the tragic events of 9/11, even ten years after. Many people walking around the city would run into visual reminders of the historic day. Flags were at half-mast and small memorials littered city parks spent the Sunday immersed in various activities.
In the shadow of the Space Needle, a group of 9/11 Truthers handing out pamphlets and encouraging passersby to question the government.
Across the park, there was another group of people assembled to promote peace and harmony at Memorial Field. The ONE Festival had guest speakers recalling the fateful day ten years ago. Local artists also preformed for the small crowd gathered at the Seattle stadium.
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Born in Rotterdam, Jean-Marc van Tol studied Dutch language. During his studies he teamed up Bastiaan Geleijnse and John Reid, with whom he created the cartoon duck and canary 'Fokke en Sukke' for the student's paper Propria Cures in 1993. Van Tol's professional career in comics is closely lined to comics shop Lambiek in Amsterdam. It was on a night in November 1998, after a party at the Galerie in honor of the 80th anniversary of Don Lawrence, that Van Tol ended up in the pub across the street, together with comic artists Peter Pontiac, Gerrit de Jager and Windig & De Jong.
Ronnie en Sjonnie (Striparazzi, 1999)
It was here that they, perhaps encouraged by the alcohol, persuaded Van Tol to try his luck as a professional in the harsh world of Dutch comics. This 'Historic Event' has been described, as a cartoon of course, in the booklet with the same title that appeared as part 10 of the 'Pincetreeks', published by De Plaatjesmakers. In the late 1990s, van Tol was present in Striparazzi with 'Ronnie en Sjonnie'.
Historic Event
Van Tol eventually gave up his job as a Dutch Literature Specialist and devoted all his time to the successful strip 'Fokke & Sukke', which he continued to write together with Geleijnse and Reid. These cartoons, starring a naked canary and duck commenting on current affairs and social phenomenons, are published throughout Holland in many newspapers and magazines, and have been collected in several albums, calendars and anthologies and gained such popularity that van Tol won the Stripschapprijs in 2003.
Kort en Triest
In addition to 'Fokke en Sukke', Van Tol makes the comic series 'Kort en Triest' in Kidsweek with scripts by Herman Roozen. This series of parodies of famous fairytales has also been collected in books.
Kort en Triest
Van Tol is one of the driving forces behind the Dutch comics scene. He introduced the annual 24 Hour Comics Day in the Netherlands, which was first held in Lambiek in April 2005 with several other artists. In 2006 he launched the collective project 'Strips in Stereo' with Gerrit de Jager, a book in which Dutch artists portray a Dutch song in comics format. He began his own publishing firm, Catullus, in 2007, through which he publishes his own books, but also work by Hendrik J. Vos, Floor de Goede, Michiel van de Pol and Alex Turk, as well as the photo comics by Ype Driessen. Together with Hanco Kolk, he set up an official comics education in Zwolle and other initiatives, such as government grants for comic artists and a Dutch comics prize of 25,000 euros.
In 2020 Van Tol, Geleijnse and Reid joined 75 Dutch & Flemish comics artists to make a graphic contribution to the free collective comic book 'Striphelden versus Corona' (Oogachtend, Uitgeverij L, 2020). The book is intended to support comics stores who had to close their doors for two months during the lockdown at the height of the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
Fokke & Sukke elevate Kees Kousemaker on 30 April 2010.
("Your place is at the other Dutch comics gods..."). The people in the background are Marten Toonder's Tom Poes & Olivier B. Bommel, Hans G. Kresse's Eric de Noorman and Alfred Mazure's Dick Bos.


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Review: The Aura
Esteban Espinosa (Ricardo Darin) is an unassuming taxidermist who dreams about trying a more daring line of work.
Specifically, he's obsessed with the idea of planning the perfect crime. Then, while on a hunting trip far away from home, the repressed introvert gets his chance after he accidentally shoots a man about to participate in the robbery of an armored car.
Assuming the crook's identity, Esteban tricks the dead guys' gang into allowing him to join the conspiracy. But what he doesn't reveal is that he suffers from epilepsy, and suffers from seizures, especially when under stress.
This set of developments introduces the audience to The Aura, a psychological thriller set primarily in the Patagonian forest. The film was written and directed by the late Fabian Bielinsky (Nine Queens), who passed away prematurely of a heart attack just this past June.
Here, Bielinsky posthumously proves himself a master at maintaining tension after establishing an intriguing premise by presenting his paradoxical protagonist as a bundle of contradictions whose bravado begins to crumble the closer he comes to D-Day. For when Esteban realizes he's in over his head, it's too late to back out since murder and betrayal has already come into play.
The Aura appears to have been inspired by a multi-layered French mystery, Man on a Train (2002), a quirky character study from Patrice Leconte about a nerdy, retired teacher who finds befriends a bank robber about to pull off a heist. Still, this flick easily stands on its own, between Esteban's unique idiosyncrasies and the distinctly Argentine locations. The film's only flaw lies with its editing, as it includes about 30 minutes of inconsequential footage which could have hit the cutting room floor without compromising the quality of the cinematic experience.
A wannabe gangster with overwhelming regret enveloped in a whirlwind of terror.
Very good (2.5 Black Stars). Unrated. In Spanish with subtitles. Running time: 133 minutes. Studio: IFC First Take
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