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Dietrich's clutch homer can't save Marlins
Hits ninth-inning blast before Chicago walks off; Nolasco goes 7 2/3
CHICAGO -- Even when the Marlins finally produced the big hit they were looking for, the results still didn't fall in their favor.
Derek Dietrich's game-tying, ninth-inning solo shot gave Miami a pulse, but the home run only prolonged the inevitable in a 2-1 White Sox win at U.S. Cellular Field.
The game lasted just four pitches into the bottom of the ninth, as White Sox outfielder Dewayne Wise hit a leadoff double off Marlins reliever Ryan Webb and Conor Gillaspie followed with a walk-off RBI single to end Miami's hopes at a come-from-behind victory.
"At the end of the day, we can't score any runs," Marlins manager Mike Redmond said. "It's tough to win ballgames when you're scoring one run."
After struggling to drive in runners in scoring position on Friday night, Miami could hardly even advance runners into position against White Sox starter Jake Peavy. The Marlins had just three opportunities with runners in scoring position, and they squandered them much like they have in similar situations all year.
The Marlins are now last in the Major Leagues in hitting with runners in scoring position. Marcell Ozuna, Greg Dobbs and Chris Coghlan were the only Marlins to reach second base on Saturday, and Dietrich's home run was the only clutch hit Miami could muster against Peavy, who went 8 1/3 innings before allowing a run.
Dietrich is the prime example of how Redmond wants his club to approach this season. The Marlins are dealing with a number of injuries and as a result, a lot of young prospects have been thrust into an early opportunity at the Major League level.
"This is how careers are started and how they're made is by taking an opportunity and going with it," Redmond said. "If you can't get motivated and be able to make adjustments and figure it out with this opportunity we've created for guys, then you know what? Some guys are just going to miss the boat."
In the early going of his young career, Dietrich has seized every opportunity he's been given. While he isn't a natural second baseman, the rookie worked at the position and has developed into one of the Marlins' most dangerous hitters over the last two weeks. He's driven in three of Miami's four runs in the first two games of the series against the White Sox, and he's reached base in 14 straight games since starting his Major League career on May 8.
"Every time I step in the box, it's an exciting moment for me," Dietrich said. "I have an opportunity to help this team and I feel blessed to be able to do it. I just go out there and compete pitch to pitch every inning."
Dietrich actually broke down his at-bats against Peavy pitch by pitch on Saturday night and it led to the ninth-inning home run. The White Sox right-hander pressed Dietrich with his fastball to start the game but threw more offspeed pitches in his second and third at-bats. Peavy struck out Dietrich on a slider in the seventh inning, so the second baseman assumed he'd see a breaking ball behind in the count in the ninth. The pitch ended in his second home run in as many games.
"He's been given an opportunity and he's making the most of it," Redmond said. "He's got energy. He's got fire. He's got all the things that we want. These are the guys we want to build an organization around -- the guys that want it."
Marlins starter Ricky Nolasco has shown he wants to win, but once again he didn't receive much help from his offense, despite holding his opponent to one run for his second straight outing. The right-hander went 7 2/3 innings and struck out six to follow his eight-inning, 11-strikeout performance on Sunday. He also ended White Sox outfielder Alex Rios' 18-game hitting streak.
Nolasco admitted the lack of run support has made for a frustrating season for everyone in the clubhouse but said it only pays to worry about getting hitters out every fifth day.
"Ricky is a pro," Redmond said. "I've been so impressed with the way he's gone about his business, the way he's acted, his leadership. He has every reason to be frustrated, so do a lot of our pitchers. None of those guys have complained. They understand we're going through a tough spell."
The only run Nolasco surrendered was on hanging slider that Alexei Ramirez deposited into the outfield for an RBI double in the third inning to score Alejandro De Aza from first base.
Peavy didn't run into much trouble. Ozuna advanced to third in the top of the second inning on Coghlan's single with no outs, but Justin Ruggiano promptly grounded into a double play and Dobbs struck out to end the inning.
Dobbs did smack a double down the left-field line in the top of the eighth inning with one out, but his teammates couldn't drive him home. Rob Brantly popped out in foul territory for the second out and former South Sider Juan Pierre flied out to right field.
Following Dietrich's homer, Peavy said he lost his composure a bit and walked Coghlan, who advanced to second on a balk before Ruggiano flied out to end the inning.
Peavy tipped his cap to Dietrich after the game and credited him for making matters tough on Chicago.
"The kid is special," Peavy said. "He hit a big homer for his team. For us to come back and win there in the ninth, it was special. That's the White Sox way. Nothing is easy around here, is it?"
Webb surrendered the winning run for the second straight night after he'd limited opposing hitters to just four hits in eight road appearances entering the weekend series. The right-hander said he can't recall the last time he was saddled with the loss in two straight outings, and he's not sure if it's ever happened to him.
But the Marlins haven't given Webb much to work with over the last two games. A night after Redmond called out his team for not driving in runs when it counted, Miami hardly mustered a chance against Peavy. That is, except for Dietrich, who is quickly turning into the Marlins' model for how their youth should approach the Major Leagues.
"I'm not big on making excuses," Redmond said. "Guys have got an opportunity to play and get at-bats in the big leagues."


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The Greenergy Design exhibition, at Cortili dell'Universita degli Studi di Milano, is just the kind of thing us Inhabitants live for. As the title suggests, all of the designs on display had sustainability at their heart and Greenergy featured awesome designs such as a billowing, constantly changing cloud light, a personal seating garden, and included work from world-renowned designers including Philippe Starck and Marti Guixe. Take a look at our highlights here!
Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant was the first thing that struck us on entering the exhibition: a structure that uses photovoltaic cells to charge rechargeable batteries. Sanyo helped the designer realize his vision.
Ross Lovegrove designed this amazing Solar Tree seat and light. It's dubbed Bodh Gaya and was produced in collaboration with Artemide. Its LED bubbles light up at night through the sunlight accumulated during the day by the solar panels.
Philippe Starck showed off 'Democratic Ecology', his 'personal invisible windmill' that he hopes to make available to all. In his rationale, Starck states "the more materiality there is, the less humanity".
Mario Bellini's 'Meditation Pavilion' was Inhabitat's personal favorite from the exhibition, combining eco-design techniques with a slow living philosophy. Users go in to the pavilion simply to sit, and are soothed by watching a bubbling pool and breathing in the fragrant vapors of green tea that are emitted from a seating area shaped as a half moon. The visual appearance may not be that of other luxury design, but we can vouch that it is a treat, and we'd love to see more popping up around the world.
This intriguing design by Guiseppe Amato is actually an observation station called 'Nautoscopio'. The oak used in the structure is from reclaimed dead wood, and the inside roofing is black hemp.
The central focus of the exhibition was this intriguing form by Jacopo Foggini, entitled 'Ofigea'. It's an art piece made of methacrylate M-Cryl, a 'regenerated' product that saves 70% of the energy needed to process virgin material, as well as consuming less water in production. It's lit using hundreds of energy-saving LED discs of various colours.
We entered a stairwell to discover Denis Santachiara's Grande Nuvola installation billowing above us: two huge, glowing cloud-like structures that expanded and shrunk as we looked on. Unfortunately the design is driven by an 'eco-emotional' approach, rather than actually being made of sustainable materials, but we hope Santachiara will look at materials more in future.
Marti Guixe was responsible for one of the exhibition's numerous 'rest spaces', filling it with his untreated natural padding cushions.
We got our Gaudi hit for the day from Mecanoo Architects' 'A Piece of Banyan', a beautifully curved space that uses a cladding with 'biocompatible certification'. The ceramic is produced using clean methods with minimal energy consumption, and its reuse or end-of-life has been considered too.
Tokujin Yoshioka had these cute 'Bouquet' seats on display, made from pieces of fabric sewn one by one onto an egg-shaped body.
Pirelli were the most famous brand with work in the exhibition, using this strange sculpture to draw attention to its new Ecobuilding program, which brings environmental benefits to three structures in Milan.
Holly All's 'Seating Vase' made us smile, enabling individuals to keep in touch with nature, no matter how tight their living space.
And, last but not least, Kerakoll Design's beautiful 'Lace' installation stood quietly but confidently at the back of the exhibition's courtyard. The paint on the installation's 160 hexagonal tiles are covered with a special eco-friendly resin, being free from solvents and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This is definitely a company will be looking up further after the Fair.
So all in all, a fascinating, highly inspiring exhibition, featuring the majority of eco-design approaches. Beautiful, sustainable and fun – we can't wait to see these designs springing up around the world in years to come!

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The Kansas City Art Institute's fall lineup of artists, designers and scholars that spoke as part of the college's "Current Perspectives" lecture series during the fall 2010 semester are listed below.
In honor of the college's 125th anniversary, most of the speakers selected for the spring 2010 series are alumni of KCAI.
Born and raised in Fresno, Calif., Matthew Hopson-Walker received his B.F.A. degree in printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1998. After several years of playing in a heavy metal band and working at various liquor stores, he then received his M.A. degree in 2002 followed by his M.F.A. degree in 2003, both from the University of Iowa. In 2006 he was the recipient of the James Phelan Award in Printmaking for California-born artists given through the KALA Institute. Hopson-Walker is currently teaching printmaking and drawing at the College of the Sequoias and California State University-Fresno. He has been included in 83 exhibitions since 2006. His work is in the collections of the Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the University of North Dakota Art Collections in Grand Forks; the Amity Art Foundation in Woodbridge Conn.; the Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts in Miramonte, Calif.; the Drawing and Print Collection at The University of Iowa Museum Of Art; and the Tama Art University Museum in Tokyo, Japan.
Michael Byron ('77 sculpture) is a professor of painting at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. He has exhibited throughout the United States, as well as in the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Spain and Mexico. He was selected for the 1989 Whitney Biennial and the 1984 International Survey of Painting & Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. His work is included in many public collections including those of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen (Rotterdam) and the Tamayo Museum (Mexico City).
Samina Quraeshi ('66 design) is an educator, award-winning author, artist and designer. She has devoted her life to cultivating the vital relationship between art and culture through national and international initiatives as a way to foster greater understanding among people. Quraeshi operates S/Q Design Associates with her husband and partner Richard Shepard, an architect.
In addition, she recently served as the first Gardner Fellow and Visiting Artist at the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. From this yearlong fellowship came her new book on Sufism, "Sacred Spaces: A Journey with the Sufis of the Indus" (Peabody Museum). Awarded a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and the School of Medicine at the University of Miami as the Henry R. Luce Professor, Samina's efforts focused on the complex, interconnected problems that challenge urban communities. Working in impoverished areas of inner city Miami, she guided an interdisciplinary team of faculty, students and community leaders to integrate research, teaching and service to help strengthen the neighborhood and promote ethnic and economic diversity. This initiative was awarded the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Outreach Grant in 2001; the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Planning Grant in 2002; the NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy in 2004, and since 2002 she has participated with Al Gore on the steering committee of The Education for Family-Centered Community Development Initiative. Prior to her appointment at the University of Miami, she was the New York Times Resident in Design Arts at the American Academy in Rome. She served as director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1994 to 1997. She also serves on the board of directors for the Fulbright Scholars Program, LINC and Leveraging Investments in Creativity, is a member of the board of overseers at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and is on the board of advisors to the Blue Moon Fund. She also serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee for the Illuminating Islam Initiative at the Center for Dialogue, New York University.
Both a sculptor and a printmaker, John Buck ('68 sculpture) works with two interrelated bodies of work: carved wood, assemblage and bronze sculptures and large, multicolored woodblock prints. Since beginning his collaboration with Bud Shark in 1983, Buck has explored the expressive possibilities of woodblock in more than 40 different prints. Buck lives in Montana and Hawaii and has shown his woodcuts and sculptures widely. He created a major bronze sculpture commission for Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore\. His work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Seattle Art Museum, The Library of Congress and many others. A retrospective of Buck's graphic work titled "John Buck: Iconography" is on an extended national tour. It is showing at the Yellowstone Art Museum through Jan. 9.
Maren Kloppmann ('93 ceramics) and Jesse Small ('97 ceramics) will give a lecture in connection with "(Re)Form," an exhibition of recent works by KCAI ceramics alumni from the 1960s to the present, on display at the H&R Block Artspace from Oct. 9 to Dec. 18.
Born in Veerssen, Germany, Kloppmann came to the United States in 1984 and has been a full-time studio artist in Minneapolis since 2002. In addition to her B.F.A. degree from KCAI, she holds a Journeyman Diploma from the Keramik Handwerkskammer, Germany (1984) and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1996). Her work has been exhibited at Circa Gallery (Minneapolis), Cervini Haas (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Gallery Gen (New York), Harvey Meadows Gallery (Aspen, Colo.), Lacoste (Concord, Ma.), Trax (Berkeley, Calif.), Lill Street Art Center (Chicago), Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts (Washington, D.C.), Galerie b15 (Munich, Germany) and Galerie Handwerk (Munich, Germany).
In addition to his B.F.A. degree from KCAI, Small earned an M.F.A. degree from Alfred University, New York. He lived and worked in China for a year and now maintains studios in both the United States and China. Known for both steel and ceramic sculpture, Small has presented solo exhibitions at venues including BOKA-Powell Architects, Kansas City; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York; and I Art Bank, Shenzen, China; and has completed public art commissions in Staten Island, N.Y.; McAllen, Texas; Sedalia, Mo.; and Kansas City. Small received a Charlotte Street Award for Visual Artists in 2000 and a Lighton International Art Exchange Program grant in 2005.
Akio Takamori ('76 ceramics), who was born in Nobeoka, Japan and now lives in Seattle, studied at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo before apprenticing with a traditional folk potter in Koishiwara, Japan. He came to the United States in 1974 and studied at KCAI, receiving his B.F.A. degree in 1976. He earned his M.F.A. degree from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1978. His work is represented in many public collections, including the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the American Craft Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum (London), George Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art (Toronto, Canada) and the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Shiga, Japan) and the Ariana Museum (Geneva, Switzerland). He was awarded National Endowments for the Arts grants in 1986, 1988 and 1992. In 2001 he was awarded the Virginia A. Groot Foundation grant, and in 2006 he received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Takamori is a professor of art in the ceramics department at the University of Washington.
Kristen Dettoni ('91 fiber) is the senior director of design for True Textiles Inc. She has worked for True Textiles for more than nine years. She has nine years of experience in the contract market and seven years of experience in the automotive market in both design and advanced product development, working with customers such as Ford, Honda, Herman Miller and Maharam. Dettoni attended KCAI, earning a B.F.A. degree in 1991, and then continued on to receive her master's degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1993. She holds a patent in "Lightweight Suspension Panel for Vehicle Seating and Door Panels" and continues her creative activities outside of work from claymation to graphic design.
Thrive, a nonprofit design firm located in Helena, Ark., that offers creative and strategic support to assist economically-impoverished rural communities in the United States, is co-directed by graphic design graduates Terrance Clark ('05) and Will Staley ('04).
Hailing from Bloomington, Ill., Clark worked in the private sector for three years in the exhibit/signage design industry before he obtained his master's degree in design management at Pratt Institute in 2009. In 2007, he also served a term as the director of programming for the AIGA Kansas City Chapter. As the director of strategic services for Thrive, Clark is in charge of strategic/business planning with clients and internal project management/administration for the organization.
Born and raised in Little Rock, Ark., Staley received his master's degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute in 2007. He then worked at the William J. Clinton Foundation in Harlem as a fellow researching how the "green market" could help low-income families and businesses. As the director of creative services for Thrive, Staley leads the firm's internal marketing and client-related branding/marketing design projects for the organization.
Archie Scott Gobber received his B.F.A. degree in painting from KCAI in 1988. Since then he has been in countless local and national group and solo exhibitions. He currently is a Review Studios artist resident and just completed a large-scale public artwork for Missouri Bank and Trust entitled "Dream." His work can be found in private, corporate and institutional collections including those of Hallmark Cards Inc., Sprint Nextel, Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Gobber received a Charlotte Street Award in 1998 and was an artist in residence at the Missouri State Fair in 2003. In 2004, his work "It's a Free Country" was raised on the H&R Block Artspace Project Wall, and his Lawrence Lithography Workshop print, "Doers," was included in the show "Artists' Interrogate: Politics and War" at the Milwaukee Art Museum. His work has been reviewed both locally and nationally in publications that include New Art Examiner, Art Papers, Art in America and Artforum. He is represented in Kansas City by Dolphin and in Dallas by Marty Walker Gallery.


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Childcare bus flips over after being broadsided in Canton Township
No children on bus at time of crash
CANTON TWP., Mich. – A bus flipped over onto its side Monday morning after being broadsided by a car near the intersection of Sheldon and Warren Roads in Canton Township just before 11 a.m.
Early reports are the car may have run a red light at the intersection and slammed into the side of the Children's Hour bus.
The bus only had a 50-year-old driver on board. Fire department paramedics treated both the driver of the car and the bus and transported them to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor. There is no word on the extent of their injuries.
The police department's accident investigation is looking into the situation. Alcohol and/or drugs do not appear to be a factor in the accident.


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text: Crowbar's Kirk Windstein Talks About Tattoos, Rock Music and New Album, Sever The Wicked Hand By Rose Riot I chat almost daily with my friend and rock aficionado Don creator of, The Great Southern Brainfart blog. He and I met while shooting at a concert in the summer and in a recent conversation he asked if I was going to cover Crowbar. I had heard of them, but didn't know their music. Don proceeds to rattle of an impressive list of adjectives to describe them. While he was still listing Crowbar's attributes, I managed to find and listen to them (thank you technology). Within minutes, I knew that Don was a genius and I wanted to cover them. I met up with Don at the Drunken Unicorn, a small club located [in Atlanta] sort of under a parking lot with no signage to indicate its existence. The huge tour bus in front was a dead give away that I was in the right place. My comrade and I went inside, bellied up to the stage and got ready to feast on Crowbar. Kirk Windstein and his boys came out and lit into the song "Burn Your World." They shoveled sludgy-metal goodness into our faces. To describe sludge metal I say this, imagine you are a soldier fighting in the jungle –there is gunfire and explosions going on all around you. You find yourself stuck in a quicksand swamp. The chaos is going on all around you and you use all of your strength to pull each foot to the next step with an unrelenting desire to make it out alive. Crowbar has been leading the sludge troops for 20-plus years and they are not even close to waving the white flag. Their next album Sever The Wicked Hand is scheduled to come out in February. Crowbar proved to me that they are still ready for war. The Crowbar minions that filled the Drunken Unicorn were mostly big beefy guys that looked like they could kick your ass or change your transmission –either way. The crowd chanted every word to every song and battled their way through a serious pit. The show delivered me from my daily stresses. I forgot about the people who I owe money and explanations. I got lost in the music, I got lost in the sludge. When the show ended I waited over by the merch area, and as I had hoped, I was able to meet Kirk. He graciously accepted my offer for a phone interview. It went a little something like this: Rose Riot: Sever the Wicked Hand is about to come out, it sounds like you have been very thoughtful with its production, tell me about this. Kirk Windstein: This album is extremely important to me. It's extremely important to Crowbar. We put 100 percent into it. I do that with anything I'm involved with. You've called this album a "journey." What is the journey and what do you hope people take from it? When I say "journey" I mean it should make you escape. It's very therapeutic to play and perform it. I want people to be able to escape the hassles of life. A lot of people listen to uplifting feel-good music when they are down. I prefer heavy stuff, it makes me smile. What do you listen to when you are down? I love the heavy stuff. I'm old-school. I'm 45 years old, haven't advanced too much into the modern stuff –Judas Priest, the bands that I grew up on, anything that will bring me back to a time when life was simple. Ha-ha, no Karen Carpenter? Ha-ha, uh no. So you talk about music from when you were a kid, who was the turning-point band for you? You know, the band that made you go from being a normal kid, playing with toys to Kirk, future front man? I always loved music. My first album was Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume I. I started playing piano; I wanted to learn Elton John. I was too young to realize I needed to keep playing… I got disinterested and started playing guitar. About '75 I heard KISS –that was it! That is when I decided I want to play music. You play in three bands all together, Crowbar, Down and Kingdom of Sorrow. When you are done with the Crowbar tour, how long 'til you jump into something with one of your other bands? I go to the UK with Crowbar for some shows in January then it looks like I might do a tour with Down starting in March. From there the possibilities are endless for summer. I'm gonna keep working hard and promoting my bands. It sounds like you aren't really taking time off between bands. Not much, Time off costs you money. Time off is a nice luxury, working is a necessity. Why three bands? The love of music, because I love different styles of music. Each band expresses a different part of my personality, they all satisfy me in a different way. I'd love to be in an electric blues band as well. I just don't have the time. What are your thoughts on social networking as it applies to the music industry i.e. more outlets to reach people but more bands to compete with? The problem is, it is so easy to social network, you gotta be creative and on top of your game. It ain't like it used to be. You gotta use every outlet possible –talking to the fans, meeting with the fans, chatting with them online. Let's put it this way, when I was younger you had a demo, you got it out. Now days every single local band has a website a Facebook, a Twitter, a Myspace, a home recording thing, they have their own CDs and their own labels. Unfortunately, most of these bands aren't that good or original. It is important for Crowbar to keep shoveling it in your face! If you could work with anyone, who would it be? An incredible vocalist. Obviously, it would be impossible to work with Ronnie James Dio. So like a Dio or a [Rob] Halford or a David Coverdale even. It would be a dream to work with one of those once-in-a-generation voices. I do have the pleasure of working with Phil Anselmo in Down. If you could go back in time and see any performance in history, what would you go see? The Thin Lizzy Jailbreak Tour! What do you think you would be doing in you weren't involved in music? Something sports related. I mean, I'm never gonna be a pro athlete but maybe own a sports bar and grill. Anything I can do to work with people. Maybe even be a high school football coach. I shoot a lot of indie wrestling; I could totally get you on the circuit! Ha-ha, I can barely get out of bed in the morning! It goes without saying that you have an amazing collection of rock tattoos. How many different bands are you representing? Motorhead, Thin Lizzy, Down, Kiss, Iron Maiden. I like a lot of bands' artwork. I don't regret any of them. Each one of the represents a time in my life. When did you get your first one? 1987 Who did it? Fernie, a guy in New Orleans. What was it? A Motorhead thing. It has the saying, "Born To Lose." I've got kind of a weird one. I have the VH1 "That Metal Show" Logo on my chest. I had it done on the show by Paul Booth. You know, he won't do a logo or stencil work. He just did it right there on the show, it took 7 hours. Hurt like hell! I woke up the next day and was like, "Jesus Christ!" What was your last piece? Eddie from Iron Maiden, The Killers album cover, on my leg. Who did it? Ty Bouvier Do you have plans for more? Absolutely! I've got some shitty ones on my upper shoulders. I'll probably get those covered up. My friend Ty does most of my stuff. My friend AJ (Haigh Keenan), who's a girl from the UK, she's done a couple of things on me. She's really good. She's got that special ladies touch for certain things but she can also nail the hard stuff. I'm not sure what I want to get. When I figure that out, I'll work something out with either AJ or Ty. Kirk and I could have talked about tattoos much longer. We made an agreement that he would send me some pictures of his chest and I would do a follow up with him when Sever The Wicked Hand comes out. I used his imagery of being transported from reality when reviewing the show. No doubt in my mind that this upcoming album will do the same thing, just as he's intended. (Rose Riot is a photographer in Atlanta and contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine)


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100 Years of Grand: The Grand Canyon Centennial Project
A digital archive celebrating the Centennial of the Grand Canyon National Park. A collaborative project of the Arizona State University Library, Cline Library, Northern Arizona University and the Grand Canyon National Park. Additional materials are available via the project website.
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- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
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- 1 Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928
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- Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District with Atlas
- History of the Grand Canyon National Park
- Stage Coach Trip to the Grand Canyon, 1895, by Josephine Frankenberg of Tempe
- Letter from A. E. Demaray, National Park Service to Carl Hayden
- Letter from Carl Hayden to J. R. Eakin, Grand Canyon National Park
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I remember a time when I read all the time. At night before I went to bed every day and sometimes throughout the day too. I have fond memories of breaking night in High School and reading books like the Witching Hour by Anne Rice in one night or sitting on a rooftop in Hunter College, or the Central Park Conservatory Garden and reading feminist or political nonfiction.
In light of that it's heartbreaking to think how it seems very hard now to dedicate time to reading at leisurely pace or even finishing a book. I read so many aggregated feeds a day, digest so much data from so many places that sometimes it feels like my head was spinning.
Anyhow, I did enjoy Me Before You, which will be made into a movie. I found it to be both unique and and resonated with me because I once was lost and forlorn very much in the same way. It was entertaining and offered a sense of comfort in both the traditional boy-girl save each other but also heartbreaking in a tragic sense. There was something very poetic about the liberation they both receive at the end of the story.
I was very curious the meaning behind the prominent feature of the biology book, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley, in the story. You see, this is a book I read in college.
Honestly, it was such a good book that I wish Matt Ridley would go back and write an updated version every couple of years. In Me Before You, the main character "Lou" or "Louisa" is encouraged to read it by her adult charge, who has become a quadriplegic.
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Lend a hand: Lighten up at Live Arts
My grandmother used to say, "Many hands make light work." She was the youngest of 10 children and spent her entire life on a farm, where every day was filled with chores that proved easier when everyone pitched in to assist. The folks at Live Arts would understand my grandmother's adage. Putting up a show requires the commitment of lots of hands.
That's part of the motivation for a new series of classes Live Arts is offering over the next two months. "Hands On" includes four separate sessions designed to familiarize volunteers with the technical skills necessary to ensure the smooth run of a production. Small group tutorials that meet for three hours on selected Saturday mornings focus on lighting, sound, stage management, and running the LAB Space, the intimate black box theater where smaller and more experimental shows are staged.
So, you want to be part of the show, but not so sure you're ready to appear on stage? Here's your chance to learn a little more about the technical side of the theater world. All you need is a free Saturday morning.
The first session takes place this Saturday, October 12, and focuses on managing the LAB Space. Get first hand experience with sound equipment, learn to run the two-scene pre-set light board, and discover the possibilities of this "experimental" performance venue.
A workshop on lighting comes next. On October 26, you can pick up a basic understanding of light design and instruments. You'll participate in a "light hang" and get your hands on the Live Arts light board so you can figure out what all the knobs and buttons do.
On November 9, you can get an overview of stage management. From running auditions to planning for the final cast party, you'll get an up-close and personal introduction to the details of working with directors, actors, other "techies" and crew members from folks who have been doing this job for years.
Rounding out the series on November 23 is a session on sound design. Review a variety of sound systems, learn to run levels, and experiment with the use of live and canned music and special effects. Part of this session will even involve work on the current show in production, the musical The Wild Party.
Lend a hand, learn a new skill, become a volunteer. Live Arts wants to help you build the confidence you need to join the fun of making a show come to life. The "Hands On" series of workshops have class limits, so call now to enroll. All sessions take place at the theater, 609 E. Market St. Saturday mornings, 9am-noon. $15. 977-4177, x100.


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eyewearexpo brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 98 Designs von 25 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
The logo must have the words: Eyewear Expo
Classy, clean, trendy, a logo that looks well on an e-commerce page.
Eyewear Expo
Desired Color Scheme:
Unisex, clean, colors that work well with white background, we suggest no more than 2 colors
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Company: EyewearExpo.com will be a wholesale online store selling high quality, fashionable eyewear products on the internet. It is a very complete line of eyewear: mainly sunglasses, but also includes goggles, readers, clip ons, and eyewear accessories such as eyewear cords, cases, etc.. We have eyewear products for everyone: sports for men, fashionable styles for women, readers for elders, and even kid sunglasses.
Direction: We hope the logo will give customers the impression that our eyewear products are good quality, reliable, and stylish at the same time. We have the word "expo" in our company name as it suggests that we have a huge selection of eyewear to choose from. Well known company/brand to think of is Sunglass Hut and Rayban.
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Expanded Curriculum Includes Fractions, Decimals, and Integers Lessons; New Adaptive Virtual Manipulatives Develop Understanding and Fluency with Rational Numbers
BELLEVUE, Wash., January 28, 2013 – DreamBox Learning® (www.dreambox.com), the leading intelligent adaptive learning™ company, today announced that DreamBox Learning Math now includes 1,000 adaptive lessons aligned with the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSSM). The award-winning online program, heralded for providing complete support for building number sense in the elementary grades, has released an expanded curriculum to prepare students for success in middle school math with new lessons covering fractions, decimals and integers.
As part of the latest curriculum expansion, the company also released groundbreaking interactive and acutely adaptive virtual manipulatives that will set new industry benchmarks in the development of students' conceptual understanding and fluency with rational numbers and integers. As students work through lessons using virtual manipulatives, the proprietary DreamBox Learning Intelligent Adaptive Learning engine dynamically adapts based on each individual student's work to continuously personalize learning.
"The lack of student fluency with integers and rational numbers is one of the biggest pain points shared by middle and high schools that are teaching formal Algebra," said Dr. Tim Hudson, Director of Curriculum Design at DreamBox Learning. "DreamBox Learning Math develops conceptual understanding of fractions, decimals and integers by engaging students with virtual manipulatives that adapt to each learner based on demonstrated comprehension. For schools and districts that are leveraging technology as a complement to classroom instruction, DreamBox Learning is a strong partner that supports students as they learn and grow as mathematicians at their own pace."
The new DreamBox Learning Math expanded lessons are aligned with the CCSS Domains of Number and Operations in Base Ten; Number and Operations with Fractions; Operations and Algebraic Reasoning; Ratios and Proportional Relationships; The Number System; and Expressions and Equations.
"As the Math and Technology Department Chair of a New York middle school with a high poverty student population, I brought in DreamBox Learning as a best-in-class adaptive instructional technology to support students who had a fragile understanding of mathematics in closing the achievement gap," said Michael Galland of New Rochelle School District. "This year, as the Assistant Principal of an elementary school in New Rochelle, DreamBox Learning is putting each of our 870 K-5 students on an optimal learning path toward success in higher level mathematics. DreamBox Learning is the cornerstone of our blended learning strategy."
DreamBox Learning is currently used in classrooms throughout the U.S. and Canada as part of forward-thinking blended learning strategies aimed at closing the achievement gap for all students.
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Currently there are several large gaps in the recycling policy as distributed by the county.
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Currently there are several large gaps in the recycling policy as distributed by the county.
The first is in recycling large sheets of plate glass: There is no program available, according to the county officials to whom I have spoken. This means that all windows, doors, etc., made of glass are considered waste to be buried in the landfill. I currently have several hundred pounds of such type glass from replacing a single large sliding-door assembly.
The second is oil containers from oil changes in vehicles and lawn equipment. These plastic quart or five-quart containers are currently not accepted by the recycling facilities. This contributes to a lot of plastic waste in the landfill as well as residual oil inside the bottles. The volume of this is more than most people believe because it affects all garages and repair facilities (if oil is not bought in bulk or has special properties) as well as home mechanics.
Consider if approximately 40 percent of the population of Onslow County does home oil changes at a rate of five quarts every 4,000 miles; then that will amount to 15 quarts of oil per vehicle per year (at national average of 12,000 miles per year in automotive usage).
On top of this, add in differential oils, transmission oils, lawn-mower oil changes, etc., and the total adds up fast.
Oil filters properly drained probably contribute less residual oil to the landfill than the plastic bottles used.
The real question is: Why are we not taking these to be recycled since the residual oil inside is essentially what the bottles themselves are made of?
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Thank you to everyone that helped make my book Happy Birthday! You Have Cancer a Best Seller!!
If you missed the FREE Kindle download, watch here for an announcement for when it will be offered again. If you've read it, please leave a review!
BITCH is Denise's acronym for "Being In Total Connection with Herself"
Follow one woman's journey as she transitions from NPS, the Need to Please Syndrome, to embracing the BITCH within, Being In Total Connection with Herself-through her life experiences before the diagnosis of cancer, and how she found the tools she needed to heal from the inside out.
Denise has been an ordained minister since 1987. She has been a certified sign language interpreter since 1996. Working with the deaf and hard of hearing community has been a wonderful blessing, though her devotion to her career caused some imbalance in her life and health.
In 2001 she was diagnosed with a fast-spreading, deadly form of cancer. She realized, through this crisis, that you must heal all of the self, not just the body. After becoming licensed as a massage therapist in 2008 and completing her Doctor of Divinity degree in 2009, she credits getting cancer as a blessing—teaching her to take responsibility for her own choices.
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I'm so excited to be interviewed on the Denise Taylor Show Wednesday, October 17th. The show is on starting at 10:05 EST and I'll be on around 10:40 EST. Hope you can listen in!
Here is the link to listen in: http://www.newstalk1570.com/denise-taylor-show/
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I have searched everywhere just to run into brick walls and incredibly expensive genealogy sights for background information on my grandfather Leonard Evans. What I know so far is that he was born in West Virginia on Feb. 14 1914. He married my grandmother Paula Mae Robinson. They had 9 children and he died in July of 1973. His father may have immigrated from Wales but this information is only specutlation at this point. I need to find anyone who might know anything about him.
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David O'Hara necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Shaun O'Hara Foundation (http://www.shaunoharafoundation.org/)
Shaun O'Hara has always fought hard; whether it was as a rookie trying to make a team, taking the field at the Super Bowl with his fellow New York Giants, or in his community helping those in need, he can be counted on to be there and to care. He's now putting that determination to work by starting this foundation to help fight life threatening diseases like cystic fibrosis. This foundation is about raising awareness of these underfunded diseases and helping to provide those afflicted with the medications, treatments, and research that they so desperately need.
We hope to leverage Shaun's status to achieve maximum visibility but would like the efforts of the foundation to be as showcased as possible.
* Potential supporters
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The major intent of the site is to be informative. We need to include (but not be limited to) information about the foundation itself and the folks running it, calendaring of past and future events, the media surrounding those events (videos, photos, etc.), and the ability to collect donations. Our current site is capable of handling all of these from a functionality perspective but does not have the compelling look and feel we believe to be appropriate. Obviously, Shaun will be a major theme in the site but we would like the works of foundation itself to have prominence in the design. Design should transmit a feeling of professional and reliable company while remaining clean but warm. Feel free to re-think any and all aspects of the existing site (especially that logo) - I did the initial design so I won't be offended. :)
Submission should include home page and at least 3 alternate views for sub pages in a layered PSD (html/css would help but isn't a requirement). We don't want to have to license any photos so please be cautious of copyrighting. If you have any questions about an image, ask and we *may* be able to get rights to it.


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MWC 15 Special
Yesterday evening, Google announced the launch of Google Play, a digital entertainment destination where users can find, enjoy and share their favorite music, movies, books and apps on the web and on Android phones or tablets. Google Play is entirely cloud-based so all music, movies, books and apps are stored online, always available - as long as you have an Internet connection - and, as Google says, "you never have to worry about losing them or moving them again" - as long as Google is reachable. With Google Play users can store up to 20,000 songs for free and buy millions of new tracks, download more than 450,000 Android apps and games, browse the world's largest selection of eBooks, rent thousands of your favorite movies, including new releases and HD titles.
Sounds familiar? It's familiar because Google Play unites previous Google services under the new "Play" brand. Starting yesterday, Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore will become part of Google Play. On Android phones or tablets, Google will upgrade the Android Market app to the Google Play Store app over the coming days. Videos, books and music apps (in countries where they are available) will also be upgraded to Google Play Movies, Google Play Books and Google Play Music apps. The music, movies, books and apps users purchased before will continue to be available through Google Play.
To celebrate Play, Google will be offering a different album, book, video rental and Android app at a special price each day for the next week in their "7 Days to Play" sale.
In the U.S., music, movies, books and Android apps are available in Google Play; in Canada and the U.K., Google will offer movies, books and Android apps; in Australia, books and apps and in Japan, movies and apps. Everywhere else, Google Play will be the new home for Android apps.
According to a statement, Google's long-term goal is "to roll out as many different types of content as possible to people around the world, and they will keep adding new content to keep it fresh".
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LITTLE ROCK — A bill to toughen Arkansas' human trafficking laws and offer new protections to victims passed in the House on Friday in a 91-0 vote.
Also, a House committee advanced a bill that would offer cash rewards to state employees who blow the whistle on government waste and fraud.
The Senate did not meet Friday.
House Bill 1203 by Rep. David Meeks, R-Conway, would expand the definition of human trafficking and make it a Class Y felony, punishable by 10 to 40 years or life in prison. Human trafficking is currently a Class A felony, punishable by six to 30 years in prison and up to a $15,000 fine.
The bill also would allow victims to collect restitution; make it a felony for a person to knowingly patronize a prostitute who is a human trafficking victim; allow a person accused of prostitution to claim as a defense that the prostitution was the result of being a victim of human trafficking; and allow the attorney general to create a task force on human trafficking.
Speaking for the bill on the House floor, Meeks said recent cases in Hot Springs and Little Rock have shown that human trafficking is a problem in Arkansas.
"It's a terrible crime," Meeks said.
Meeks said he worked on the bill with several other legislators, the attorney general's office, the Arkansas Prosecuting Attorneys Association, the anti-human trafficking group Polaris Project and various state agencies.
The bill goes to the Senate, where a mirror bill by Sen. Missy Irvin, R-Mountain View, passed on Thursday.
Also Friday, the House voted 90-0 to pass HB 1021 by Rep. Marshall Wright, D-Forrest City. Under the bill, if a prison inmate is required to appear in court for a civil proceeding not arising from a criminal charge or conviction, the court can order the state Department of Correction or the state Department of Community Correction to reimburse the local sheriff's office for the cost of transporting the inmate.
"If any of you want to go back today and call your county sheriff and your county judge and tell them that you voted for this bill, they will be very, very happy with you," Wright said.
The bill goes to the Senate.
Elsewhere, the House State and Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee endorsed HB 1043 by Rep. Nate Bell, R-Mena. Under the bill, a state employee who reports government waste or fraud under the Arkansas Whistle-Blower Act would be entitled to a reward in the amount of 10 percent of the amount of money saved through action resulting from the report.
"We want to make sure that we incentivize those folks to do what needs to be done and make sure that it doesn't come at great personal cost to them as well," Bell told the committee.
Rep. Betty Overbey, D-Lamar, said she was concerned that department heads would be flooded with reports from reward-seekers and that many of the reports would be groundless, yet every report would have to investigated with an audit.
"I can see this costing the state some money," she said.
Bell said he did not expect a flood of reports.
"Once people realize that you know have 50-odd-thousand state employees that have a financial incentive to report if something fraudulent happens, it's going to have a very chilling effect on anything like that happening," he said.
The bill passed on a voice vote with some "no" votes heard. It goes to the House.


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- After Democrats increased their U.S. Senate majority Tuesday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell challenged the president to "move to the political center."
While McConnell congratulated President Barack Obama on his re-election, the Kentucky Republican showed no inclination to concede any political ground, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal reported.
"The American people did two things: They gave President Obama a second chance to fix the problems that even he admits he failed to solve during his first four years in office, and they preserved Republican control of the House of Representatives," McConnell said in a statement.
"The voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president's first term, they have simply given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do together with a Congress that restored balance to Washington after two years of one-party control.
"Now it's time for the president to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and a closely divided Senate, step up to the plate on the challenges of the moment, and deliver in a way that he did not in his first four years in office.
"To the extent he wants to move to the political center, which is where the work gets done in a divided government, we'll be there to meet him half way."
McConnell said a starting point would be to find a way to avoid taking the federal government over the "'fiscal cliff' without harming a weak and fragile economy." The next step, he said, would be to reform the tax code "and our broken entitlement system."
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, offered a similar assessment in Washington Wednesday.
Republicans picked up one Senate seat in Nebraska but lost seats in Maine, Massachusetts and Indiana -- dashing their hopes of wresting control away from the Democrats.
The Democrats retained an open seat in Virginia, where Tim Kaine held off a strong challenge by Republican George Allen, CNN projected. Kaine held a 51-49 edge with 86 percent of the vote counted.
GOP state lawmaker Deb Fischer defeated Democrat Bob Kerrey, a former U.S. senator and Nebraska governor, for the seat given up by Democrat Ben Nelson. CNN said Fischer had 55 percent of the vote to 45 percent for Kerrey with 44 percent of precincts tallied. Fischer had led in the polls throughout the campaign, though Kerrey had closed the gap heading into Election Day.
Maine independent Angus King defeated GOP nominee Charlie Summers and Democrat Cynthia Dill, MSNBC projected. King had 51 percent of the vote to 28 percent for Summers and 6 percent for Dill with 14 percent of precincts counted, CNN reported.
In winning the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Olympia Snowe, King was generally expected to caucus with the Democrats if elected, though that remained to be seen.
MSNBC also projected Democrat Elizabeth Warren as the winner over Republican incumbent Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Warren had 53 percent of the vote to 47 percent for Brown with 44 percent of precincts in, CNN said.
In Indiana, the seat held by Republican Sen. Richard Lugar went to the Democratic column, with MSNBC projecting Joe Donnelly the winner over Republican Richard Mourdock. Donnelly led Mourdock 49-45 with 75 percent of the vote in, CNN reported.
Mourdock knocked off Lugar in the GOP primary but got into hot water with comments during a debate that he is opposed to abortion in the case of pregnancies resulting from rape because they are "something that God intended to happen."
In Nevada, MSNBC said Sen. Dean Heller, a Republican appointed to complete John Ensign's term after he resigned under the cloud of scandal, had defeated Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley.
In Arizona, Jeff Flake kept the seat being given up by Sen. Jon Kyl in the Republican column by defeating Democrat Richard Carmona 51-45 with 57 percent of the precincts counted, CNN said.
In New Mexico, Democratic Rep. Martin Heinrich was projected by MSNBC to be the winner over Republican former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson for the seat held by the retiring Democrat Jeff Bingaman.
The GOP also was unable to unseat first-term Democratic incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown, who defeated Republican challenger Josh Mandel, the state treasurer and Iraq war veteran who was saddled with Ohio Politifact's "Pants on Fire" rating for his campaign rhetoric -- including unsubstantiated claims that votes cast by Brown were responsible for Ohio jobs being moved to China.
Brown held a 51-43 lead with 44 percent of the precincts counted, CNN said.
In Missouri, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill fended off her Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, who had problems with his comments on abortion and rape. MSNBC called her the winner.
CNN said McCaskill was ahead of Akin 55-39 with 20 percent of precincts counted.
Akin worked his way back into contention after his campaign took a heavy blow when he suggested women who have been raped have a biological defense against pregnancy.
Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Tom Carper of Delaware and Bill Nelson of Florida also were projected winners by various networks and newspapers.
By late Wednesday, incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana and Democrat Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota were declared winners of their Senate races.
The balance of power in the Senate shifted slightly in favor of Democrats, even though they were defending twice as many seats as Republicans, The Hill reported.
Heading into the elections, Democrats held 51 seats and were joined by two independents in their caucus. Republicans control 47 seats.
NBC said after the day's elections Democrats held 51 seats with independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont generally siding with them.
In Wisconsin, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin defeated former Gov. Tommy Thompson, NBC projected, becoming the state's first U.S. senator and the upper house's first openly gay member.
NBC said Democrat Rep. Mazie Hirono won the seat being vacated by Daniel Akaka in Hawaii and projected Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Ben Cardin, D-Md., Bob Casey, D-Pa., Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., all won re-election.


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Erotica, fashion, and art. 25 Magazine has it all. In this 25 Magazine Issue 2 preview, Toni Garrn tantalises in an abstract fashion that has become the magazine's signature.
Allow me to leave you with a surprisingly safe-for-work preview along with some quotes from model-turned-editor of 25 Magazine, Anja Rubik, as she shares her thoughts on a women's sexuality –a subject predominant in every issue. It just never gets old doesn't it?
"I want to start by saying that working on 25 every day has changed my life. Of course taking on the role of Editor and meeting the rotating cast of contributors to the journal were new for me, and I was ready for that challenge and will be forever. What I was not ready for was the reaction to the last issue's use of erotica. The unexpected backlash made me realize that our generation is more conservative than that of our parents. Basically, celebrating a woman's body as having a sexuality instead of merely being sexual is viewed as wrong. The media operates on a paradox—it's no secret—where selling the notion of unobtainable beauty is allowed, while portraits of women just being women are simultaneously shunned. However, I still want to continue pushing the boundaries of what a female fashion magazine can be."
"A woman is present" is the title of our second issue and it's dedicated to women who have made a remarkable impact on our world today, breaking the glass ceiling in the fields of design, fashion, and art. Some have created their own successful brands from the ground up, and others are the head designers of major fashion houses. One such example is Marina Abramović. Throughout her career, she has walked The Great Wall, sat in museums for seven hundred and fifty hours, and scored manifestos. MoMA's 2010 retrospective of her career has solidified her as one of the most remarkable artists of our time. Inside this issue, through letting us into her archives, she shares with us how erotica and how sexual energy lives within her work."
"Also in this issue is the iconic Michèle Lamy, best known as the muse to Rick Owens. Lamy agreed to give us a rare glimpse into the brand, including the elusive "Owen's family," the people who work with her in the fashion house. The crew are so much more than cogs in a wheel—they eat together, travel together, and are so close that it seems as if they even live together. It was an experience we won't forget."
"For me, starting this magazine has helped me channel the kind of sexual energy I find every woman to possess, and I'm thankful, because it's opened my eyes to more experiences and the difference we can all make. The women celebrated in these pages have started an important conversation about variations of erotica, and have proven that sexual energy is the source of creation. Without it, where would we be? It's not an easy question to answer, because the answer continues to be written. I hope we can be a part of it. Enjoy this issue."
Image Credits: nowness.com
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Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown don't often talk specifics, but they do talk about one particular policy very often. The state's capital gains tax. Whitman wants to eliminate state taxes on capital gains; she says such a change will boost jobs. Brown says that would blow a hole in the budget and opposes that change.
How does this tax fit with the rest of the tax system? In fact, there is no separate "capital gains tax" per se. In California, capital gains are treated like income and taxed under the rules of the state's personal income tax. The irony: while Whitman is a Republican, California's existing policy sounds exactly like the model many fiscal conservatives nationally say they want: treating capital gains and income the same. (Federal law taxes capital gains at a different -- and mostly lower rate). Whitman wants to treat them differently in the name of producing more jobs.
Research suggests that a lower tax might produce a few more jobs--but at a high cost. Eliminating the tax would cost the state several billion dollars annually. In fact, the percentage of personal income taxes attributable to capital gains and stock options has been growing. This is a problem for the state budget, since such revenues tend to be more volatile than ordinary income. In good years, a surge in captal gains-related tax income can prompt legislators and governors to enact unsustainable spending increases. (This is what happened in California during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s).
So the best case for reducing capital gains taxes might not be Whitman's unsupported claims about the tax' effect on jobs. The best case would be that California's dependence on capital gains is one reason why the budget is a mess. So restructuring the tax or creating a separate tax bracket for capital gains income might make sense -- if the changes were made with corresponding tax increases in other areas.


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Dozens of people turn in guns at buyback event in Miami Saturday
Event organizers hope to keep guns off the streets
MIAMI – Mayor Tomas Regalado, city commissioners, and the Miami Police Department hosted the first official 2013 Gun Buy Back Operation of the year, in an effort to reduce gun violence and unnecessary injuries to citizens. The Miami Herald reports that 129 guns were collected and about 50 to 60 people showed up to the event.
"As a community we must take a stand against gun violence, and this campaign will help remove guns from our streets," said Mayor Tomas Regalado.
Firearms were dropped off at Model City NET (Jordan Grove Baptist Church) Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
No questions were asked, which means individuals could anonymously hand over the firearms.
In return, Heat tickets and gift certificates were provided by partner and sponsor, Dade Medical College.
"Thirty-three people across our country lose their lives every single day because they get shot," said Chief of Police Manuel Orosa.
"This shows how the community, the City of Miami and the Miami Police Department unite to promote safety," said Assistant Chief of Police Ricardo Roque.
This was the first of three Gun Buy Back events to be held in Miami.
On January 26th, another event will take place at Overtown NET (St. John Baptist Church) at 1328 NW Third Ave. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will also be another gun buy back event on February 2nd, at Little Havana NET (San Juan Bosco Church) at 1301 W. Flagler St. from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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2007 Cycling PEI Citizen Mountain Bike Series #3
Courtesy Cycling PEI
Over the past decade Red Mud Mountain Mayhem has become a mountain biking tradition throughout the Maritimes. The event has grown into one of the largest mountain bike events in Eastern Canada, a magnet for both elite racers and cycling families from across the region. This year Red Mud enters its second decade once again hosting the Atlantic Cross Country Mountain Bike Championships, as well as Stage #3 of the Cycling PEI Mountain Bike Series.
The weekend will consist of three stages: a Short Track race and Uphill Time Trial (the Alpe de Brookvale) on Saturday, August 25th. Then on Sunday, August 26th, Red Mud hosts the Riders of Tomorrow event for young kids and the premiere events of the weekend, the morning CPEI citizens XC event and afternoon Atlantic Championships Cross Country Races.
The Short Track Course is a 1.5km loop, with a climb, double track and technical single-track descent. The Alpe de Brookvale Uphill TT is a short individual timed event, ending with a punishing climb. Times for these two events are close and spectators get a great view of the action. Sunday, the Cross Country races are run on a classic 7km course, consisting of technical and fast flowing single track as well as some grueling double track climbs.
All events are to be held at the Brookvale Nordic Centre, Brookvale PEI. Pre-registration ensures a free event t-shirt for the first 50 racers. Registration onsite runs from 8:30am to 10am Saturday and 8:30am until 10am for morning races and until 11am for afternoon races. Please consult www.cpei.ca for categories and start times. Cost for the Short Track event will be $15, the Alpe de Brookvale $5, Riders of Tomorrow, free of charge, and the Cross Country events on Sunday are $30. Registrants
Come see why East coast mountain bikers consider this race a Classic!
For more information, road directions, pre-registration and race details please visit www.cpei.ca or call Cycling PEI at (902) 368-4208
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Image of the globular cluster M3, taken at Kitt Peak National Observatory by the spring 2010 AstroBITS teachers
AstroBITS Course Materials
Using the fascination of astronomy as a hook, the following eight modules have been developed at NOAO for teachers (and students) as an on-line course, funded by Science Foundation Arizona. Teachers who were accepted into the regular program were provided support as they worked through these modules, which use astronomical images and data to introduce concepts of image processing, plotting and spectral analysis. However, the activities are available to anyone, and have been designed to be completed without needing additional help.
The exercises make use of free downloadable software, and data taken at Kitt Peak National Observatory, also downloadable from this site.
To insure that teachers have access to a computer that will handle the projects, everyone is asked to complete the technical assignment:
AstroBITS Pre-class Technical Assignment
- Install on your computer the image processing package ImageJ (currently V1.42) from the main ImageJ web site (it is a free download):
Click on "Downloads," and choose the version of ImageJ appropriate for your computer's operating system (ex. Windows , Mac ).
- Download the file M16_Halpha.fits.zip here. Unzip it. Start up ImageJ by clicking or double clicking on the icon in the unzipped ImageJ folder. Once ImageJ is running, select the File option on the toolbar at the top of the screen. Then select the Open… command from the drop-down menu. Navigate to the folder that you downloaded and open the images (M16_Halpha.fits). You will probably see a pretty blank image!
- Select IMAGE option on the toolbar. Then select ADJUST, then (arrow right) BRIGHTNESS/ contrast. A little box titled B&C will appear. It contains a histogram of possible values: you can use the minimum and maximum to adjust these limits. Play with these to see what appears in the image (SPOILER ALERT: if you get frustrated, just try a minimum around -20 and a maximum around 400)
Materials that are needed for some modules and availability:
- Module 1. diffraction grating. A nice one is available from Educational Innovations
- Module 4: Night Spectraquest card and spectrometer — Educational Innovations.
- Module 5: graphical analysis software (may already be available to you as part of a Vernier package)
Each module below is described in the linked pdf file. Additional files and material are in the following description.
Module 1: The Solar Spectrum and Introduction to CCD Images with ImageJ
- Assignment 1: a) You will need the diffraction grating. b) You will need to download Stellar-Spectroscopy-Abits.pdf. If working with the grating is where your interest lies, jump to Module 4.
- Assignment 2: For background on CCDs please read ccd_intro_Abits.pdf. Here is the image of the sun that you need: solar_image.fits. If working with images is where your interest lies, jump to Module 7
Module 2: The Black Body Spectrum and Stellar temperatures
- Assignment 3: You will be using the applet at: http://astro.unl.edu/naap/blackbody/blackbody.html
- Assignment 4: You will need these zipped files:
Module 3: Spectroscopy and Stellar Temperatures
- Assignment 5: You will need Module3_spectra.pdf.
Module 4: Exploring Local light sources with spectroscopy
- Assignment 6: You will need the Night SpectraQuest card and spectrometer
Module 5: Plotting and Analyzing Stellar Spectra
- Assignment 7: For this assignment, you will need a copy of the software Graphical analysis, although it is. You will also need the tutorial on stellar spectroscopy that we used in Module 1, and the spectrum 41-Cygnus.ga3.zip.
- Spectroscopy-GA3-Abits.pdf
- Assignment 8: You will need the spectra in graphical analysis form, located in the zipped folder GA_spectra.zip
- JacobyAtlas.pdf
Module 6: The Hertzsprung Russel Diagram: stellar properties
- You may want to use this excel sheet: Nearby_stars_data.xls.zip.
Module 7: Image Combining with ImageJ to create color pictures
- You will use astronomical images available at www.noao.edu/education/arbse/arpd/ia.
Module 8: Deriving the distance to an Open Cluster (Advanced)
- You may want to first try this type of project without going through all the measurement steps. See the following site for such an example: http://www.astro.washington.edu/labs/clearinghouse/labs/Clusterhr/cluster.html.


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Well now that we've had time to raid, everyone can assess how their DPS is affected. Ferocious Inspiration posted about his guild's Patchwerk numbers. And it is definitely worth noting that their Hunters are no slouches. We are talking about 3-drake, 5-minute Malygos kills here. Now I am able to post my own Patchwerk numbers. Here is what the final numbers looked like on my Recount:
Update: Here is the WWS report too actually.
This showedModeezy technically doing 200 more DPS than me, but I still ended up on top. And while I don't think 5k DPS is anything to scoff at, it is without a doubt a DPS decrease compared to 50/21.
My DPS is slightly less than Tyrae over at FI but the numbers are very comparable. Pacmann was very similar to my spec (which happens to be the 2/18/51) except he dropped 1 point out of Improved Aspect of the Hawk. I still haven't completely re-gemmed yet, as I need to pick-up a few more Agility gems but the market for them is a little nuts right now. But compare those numbers to Tyrae's guildies in the post I linked above. At the time of his post, they tried to continue running as BM with not awesome results.
Beast Mastery took a huge hit in DPS. Regardless of most personal anecdotes, the math is clear that Beast Mastery got hit hard. Let's take a look at how my damage broke down for that fight:
Explosive Shot definitely pulled its weight. The number of shots here is important to note because despite the changes, our Naxx run went very well and we managed to get the Heroic: Make Quick Werk of Him achievement. Regardless, we have a few notable things to point out. With the weaving of Explosive Shot, it allowed Auto Shot to provide more damage than Steady Shot due to it's replacement during the rotation.
The second thing is that Explosive Shot has a huge critical strike chance when specced. As you can see it had a 57% crit rate during the course of the fight.
The third thing is, due to the cooldown reduction, 3 Kill Shots made up more DPS than all of my Serpent Stings. That might have changed if they fight went longer, allowing for more Serpent Sting time, but seeing that my Kill Shots hit for 13k each is kind of fun.
With the respec, I opted to keep my Steady Shot glyph (of course) and my Improved aspect of the Hawk glyph. I replaced the Bestial Wrath glyph the Serpent Sting glyph however. If Serpent Sting only lasted 5 seconds I thought I would have to reapply Serpent Sting too often, possibly holding off on Explosive Shot until it was re-applied.
One thing I made a point to do, which I am sure many people were already doing is refraining from chain-firing Explosive Shot during a Lock and Load proc. One thing I was concerned about in beta was the overlapping Explosive Shots. If your shot is reapplied before all the explosion ticks finish, you will lose the last tick or so when the new shot hits.
To be fair, this might not even be a concern given the travel time of the shot but my rotation during LnL would be ES>Steady>ES>Steady>ES(Non-LnL Shot). I need to revisit a target dummy to see if I can fire them consecutively while at max range without losing any explosion ticks.
So in conclusion, Surival DPS is decent. As good as 50/21 was? Of course not. Blizzard didn't want it to be. But it's doing alright. I was honestly expecting to be much lower in the DPS list last night but it all turned out alright. That is to say there are still bugs Blizzard needs to fix. I know Aspect of the Cheetah is triggering the GCD. Kill Shot still has an 8 yard minimum range rather than 5 yards. Things like that.
So how did your DPS tests, raids, etc all turn out? Post your thoughts, comments, Recounts, WWS, etc.