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smartparts necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Please see contest brief for detailed description.
Smart Parts
Hi to everybody. We are upgrading our website http://smart-parts.net. The layout that we have at the moment is only suitable for a limited amount of product categories, it is too narrow and is generally outdated. The new layout must be wider, and fit for as many product lines as possible.
We need two pages to be designed, the home page and the product page. All the other pages we should be able to do ourselves, based on these two.
Below are the detailed instructions.
Colour colour combination should be #e82f78 and shades of grey. Example of what we have in mind in terms of colour balance- http://shop.orange.co.uk.
Background should be white or very light.
Website should be fixed width, 950px.
Website should be centered.
Website should have three columns, with center column being the biggest. Left and right columns should be between 150 and 170 pixels wide.
Website should look modern, fresh and light.
Header elements:
1. Logo (here). You can resize the text and the picture relative to one another, and move them around, their position in the file is not final. Under the logo, there should be text "laptop accessories retailer")
2. Menu (home | my account | order tracking | returns | contact us | FAQ | product search). There should be a search box to the right of "product search" menu item. You can also remove "product search" from the menu and position it alongside the searchbox separately elsewhere on the header.
3. Contact us graphics (should include the following text: buy online or call 020 3080 0971 mon-fri 11am-7pm).
4. Optionally, an image, like in http://www.mobiles.co.uk. We have an idea to make 30-40 images and rotate them randomly, so that the website never looks quite the same. However, if image looks out of place do not bother with it.
Footer elements:
1. Menu (home | about us | shipping & delivery | security | terms and conditions | privacy policy | laptop resources | jobs | buying guides | site map | blog)
2. Accepted payment types (image here)
3. GoDaddy seal (image here - resize it if needed)
4. ISIS delivery seal, ISIS shopping seal, Google checkout image, Paypal image (all four images here)
Left column elements:
1. Laptop search module (wireframe here)
2. Product menu. Should have the words "or search by product..." on top of the menu. Menu list is as follows:
AC adapters
Car adapters
Laptop bags
LCD screens
Power jacks
> External keyboards
> External mice
> Headphones
> Security
> Skype
>> Corded phones
>> Cordless phones
> Speakers
> Stands
> USB hubs
> Webcams
3. Supported laptop brands. Module should have the text "supported laptop brands" and the following image.
Right column elements:
1. Shopping cart. Inside, there should be:
- Text "Your cart" and some sort of image (for example, as in here)
- Text "is so far empty"
2. Promotional block with text "free UK delivery on all orders above £100" and relevant image (for example, as in here)
3. Promotional block with text "Buying guides", and then underneath:
"for batteries"
"for ac adapters"
"for LCD screens"
4. Bestsellers block. There should be text "Bestsellers" and the list of bestsellers with little images, like at the bottom of http://smart-parts.net.
5. Promotional block with text "Laptop news daily", possibly relevant image, and text "Smart Parts blog"
Central column elements:
1. Big promotional banner (you can use the one from here).2. "What's new" section. Must include image, price, possibly some description, and "Go" button of two or tree items. Here are the items:
Third (if needed)
3. Product categories. Nine or eight of them in total (depends if you prefer 2 or 3 in a row). Idea may be similar to the one here, but not neccessarily. Images to be used for product categories are:
AC adapters
Car adapters
Laptop Bags
LCD screens
Header elements same as in the homepage.
Footer elements same as in the homepage.
Left column same as in the homepage.
Right column elements:
1. Shopping cart. Inside, there should be:
- Text "Your cart" and some sort of image
- Text "Add £28.75 more to qualify for free shipping"
- This product mage
- To the right of the image, text "Replacement battery for Acer laptops (BA06)"
- Text "Quantity: 1"
- Text "Price: £24.95"
- Text "Total (ex VAT): £40.00"
- Text "Shipping: £10.00"
- Text "VAT: £8.75"
- Text "Total: £58.75"
- "Edit your cart" button or text
- "Check out now" button
2. Promotional block with text "free UK delivery on all orders above £100" and relevant image (for example, as in here)
3. Promotional block with text "Shopping is secure" and 2 ISIS seals, shopping is safe and delivery is safe (images here)
4. Promotional block with text "Educational purchase orders welcome. Fax 02030042314" and some sort of a school-related image.
Center column elements:
1. Product image and description. Should be based on this product and should include:
- Title
- This image 500px wide
- Pricetag
- Text "Availability: 23 in stock"
- Text "Time to order for delivery on Monday, Nov 15th - 1hr 23m 55s"
- Overview section
- Specifications section
2. Related products section. Should have small image, possibly short description, pricetag an "Go" button for two or three following products:
Below is the list of websites that we like to look at:
Sony shop
Vodafone shop
Apple store
Orange store
That is all. Please feel free to post questions or email directly to email@example.com with any questions you might have.
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text: Paving the Way for Piper AthleticsJason Verdugo, Hamline's new athletic director and former head baseball coach, took the baseball team to the NCAA tournament in 2011. So the man knows a thing or two about athletic success. For starters: "We need to enhance our recruiting efforts," he says. "We need to create better ways to attract stronger student athletes. Recruitment is essential." Athletics is a major part of life at Hamline—roughly a third of undergraduate students participate in sports. Players compete in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC), recognized as one of the toughest Division III conferences in the country. The MIAC's top teams earn national rankings every year. With approximately 2,000 undergraduate students, Hamline has one of the smallest enrollments of the 13 participating schools, but the teams remain competitive. Recent standouts include baseball, cross-country, softball, track and field, and hockey. "The stronger our athletic teams, the more visible Hamline is in the Twin Cities," Verdugo says. "We've changed the reputation of our baseball program, and it's my goal to enhance all of our sports programs to change the face of Hamline athletics." What's the Buzz? To step up recruitment, Verdugo plans to generate buzz. He'll start webcasting all home football and basketball games and hopes to launch a new website design and double the site's number of hits. He will also create a stronger social media presence, using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. And he's calling in the experts: A consultant visited Hamline last summer to conduct a recruiting workshop and survey student athletes about why they chose to play for the university. "Recruiting is a lot like sales," says Nelson Whitmore, Hamline's head men's basketball coach. "It's ultra-competitive." Whitmore calls prospective students every night of the week, often late in the evening to catch a convenient time for West Coast residents. Twenty Division III schools might compete for the same athlete, he says. "There are certain students we've recruited to Hamline that we've met with 20-plus times to entice them to come," he says. "The recruiting process is 365 days a year." The Athletic Department sees the Piper Athletic Association (PAA) and alumni as a huge asset to recruiting efforts. Many alumni now work as coaches throughout Minnesota, says Ron Woodbury '73, a PAA board member. Simple word-of-mouth can go a long way to bring new students to campus, he says. The PAA raises money to support athletics, and it maintains connections with alumni. Following an analysis of its strengths and opportunities, the PAA is seeking more involvement from young alumni and women, says Doron Clark '00, past president of the PAA. In order to do that, the PAA will become more visible on social media sites. The university Athletic Department has been more active on social media sites, which has paid off. "We've increased our Facebook presence the last couple of years," says Clark. "It has definitely helped me feel more connected." Verdugo encourages alumni to visit campus. He plans to double participation in the PAA's annual golf outing and hopes the game webcasts will also attract more alumni. And he wants them to know he is accessible—there has been a fair amount of turnover in Hamline athletic directors in recent years, and Verdugo expects to be a stabilizing force. "Alumni will have a face to the program for an extended period of time," he says. Motivated to Lead Head women's track and field coach Shawn Johnson-Hipp has worked for several athletic directors since she started in 1983—all of them talented, all of them with different management styles. "Some ADs expect you to wear polo shirts and be in the office by 8 a.m.; some let you bring dogs to work," she says. "But we've been lucky to always have good people who respect the coaches. It has been a gift to work with all that talent." Johnson-Hipp says she's impressed with Verdugo's early accomplishments on the job. He has already tackled a difficult budget, helped with alumni relations at the annual PAA golf outing, and organized new training clinics for staff. "He really hit the ground running," she says. Doron Clark '00 is confident in Verdugo's plan for the athletics department. "He has an established record of success," says Clark. "Folks have confidence that he understands what it takes for students to do well athletically." The baseball team thrived in Verdugo's 11 years as head coach, earning the MIAC tournament title in 2011. Throughout his tenure, men's baseball tied or broke 20 single-season school records. And while he's a young athletic director, he's had a long journey and a plethora of experiences. He played football and baseball at Arizona State. (He served as backup to former NFL quarterback Jake Plummer and played alongside the late Pat Tillman.) During his junior year, the Anaheim Angels drafted him as a pitcher, though he turned down the offer to finish a degree in history. He was drafted again during his senior year, and played for San Francisco from 1997 to 2000, when he left professional baseball to coach at McClintock High School in Arizona. He spent just one season with the school, but in that season he was voted 5A Coach of the Year and selected to coach the region's All-Star team. At the age of 25, he was the youngest coach ever voted to the honor. In 2004, Verdugo came out of retirement to play with the Saint Paul Saints and later spent five seasons as the Saints' pitching coach. He currently co-owns a year-round baseball training program for high school athletes, called Next Level Baseball Training. The process-oriented program focuses on the mechanics behind each athletic skill. "I am fortunate to have this job, and I can't imagine doing anything else," he says. "There are very few people in the working world that can say they truly love what they do." Hamline Athletics Through the Years Paul Schmaedeke '77, director of track and field operations, came to Hamline as a student athlete in 1973 and has spent 30 years as either an athlete or a coach at the university. When he looks back at the athletic department's recent history, he notes several sports that have taken turns winning conference titles—swimming and football in the 1980s, for example, and gymnastics in 2000, when the team won the NGCA national championship. All of the winning teams have shared a similar work ethic. "There was very much a blue-collar approach to what they were doing," Schmaedeke says. "They were dedicated to what they did, they prepared well, and they did whatever it took to be successful." When Johnson-Hipp considers her own 30-year history with the athletic program, she recalls Title IX growing pains while the department figured out how to share resources and fund new opportunities for women's athletics. She misses the intense camaraderie among female coaches and athletes in those early years when they had to band together and be vocal about their needs, but she appreciates the current expectation of fairness. "I am happy to work in an environment where equal treatment is expected," she says. As Woodbury looks back at Hamline's athletic history, he notes increased competition within the conference. "Athletics weren't as high-profile," he says. "It wasn't as tough to recruit." The MIAC has added schools, and competing universities have changed their admissions policies. Schools have also hired more full-time football recruiters and many have built new athletics facilities. "It's a different atmosphere," says Woodbury. "It used to be that everybody on the football team wasn't necessarily recruited. Now, recruiting is the most important thing for coaches." Today, Hamline enjoys more full-time coaches, and they are given more time and resources for recruiting, which is particularly important for widely watched small teams like basketball. "Just one or two recruits can make a huge difference," says Woodbury. A Winning Strategy Whitmore sees two strong assets that tend to lure his players to Hamline. One is the campus. Of 100 students Whitmore has shuttled around campus, only a couple didn't find it appealing, he says. "Our campus has a small, private college feel in the Cities," Whitmore says. "That's been really attractive to out-of-state students." The other asset, he says, is the coaching staff. "Most student athletes pick their college based on the relationship they've developed with their future coach," he says. Players like to be confident in their ability to play under a particular coach and fulfill their athletic aspirations. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the federal law that made discrimination between men's and women's educational programs illegal. Title IX expanded girls' and women's sports in high school and college, creating greater professional opportunities for female athletes. Hamline is proud of the achievements of its women athletes, throughout its history. Verdugo agrees. "The strength of our department is our coaching staff," he says. "For them it's not a job. It's a passion."

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It's been three years since the green roof was planted on Vancouver's new convention centre.
Is it a success? Is it as good as they promised it would be?
The answer is that some parts are terrific - attractive, quality planting; a beautiful habitat for songbirds and insect life.
But other areas are untidy, scrubby, a bit of a mess; you might even say, an eyesore, and a fair ways from what they could or should be.
Overall, the roof is more a success than a flop, but there's definitely room for improvement, so the designers should not spend too much time pat-ting themselves on the back. There's still some refining work to do.
Covering 2.4 hectares (just over six acres), it is still the largest living roof in Canada and the largest non-industrial green roof in North America.
But being 10 storeys above ground, you can't see much of it from street level, say from outside the Fairmont Pacific Rim at Canada Place.
The roof is mostly visible to people working in adjacent highrise office blocks or living in luxury condos opposite.
This lack of public access was always one of my main criticisms of the roof design - its failure to incorporate sufficient access for the public to get up there and actually enjoy the views.
Would it have been so hard to create a garden-like viewing area where people could see the meadow on the roof as well as panoramic ocean views?
There is access via an elevator and sloping walkway to a small raised viewing platform over the plaza with the Olympic cauldron below. From here, you can see a larger portion of the roof. On your way to this platform, you pass a series of raised concrete planter boxes filled with a mixture of ornamental grasses, boxwood, perennials and anchored by maple trees.
The planters set an appropriate for-mal, elegant tone for the plaza and create a more natural transition to Harbour Green on the waterfront at Coal Harbour below.
The route to the viewing platform also takes you past beautiful borders, lushly planted with feather reed grasses (Cal-amagrostis), fountain grasses (Pennis-etum) and miscanthus grasses.
All these elements are excellent. However, the highly-visible areas immediately next to the walkway up to the viewing platform are a bit of a dog's breakfast. They look scrappy, weedy and neglected. Not really good enough for a world-class facility.
Bruce Hemstock, landscape architect with PWL Partnership in Vancouver, the firm responsible for the green roof, says these areas were specifically designed to give "everyone the opportunity to see the plants that form the urban habitat" - the plants used on the roof.
"There tends to be a lot of foot traffic over the low wall. This has resulted in compaction of the growing medium and a bit of a tougher environment for the plants to grow."
Nevertheless, it is still such a prominent area that it ought to be more of a showcase with a much more creative composition of rugged all-season plants; ones that should provide a tapestry of colour and interest throughout the year - sedums, thymes, heathers, short ornamental grasses, compact perennials, sempervivum and easy-maintenance ground covers.
The green roof proper has grown into a shaggy, rough-looking meadow, intersected by a few narrow gravel footpaths, primarily as access for maintenance crews.
More than 400,000 native B.C. plants representing 25 species were used to cover the six acres of roof space. In addition, 40,000 bulbs were planted and 128 kilograms of flower and grass seed sprinkled to create the equivalent of the "coastal grassland," the kind of look you are most likely to see on the exposed northern tip of Vancouver Island.
The best part of the roof, to my mind, is an area where 80,000 sedums have been densely planted to form a massive carpet of colour and texture on the sunny west side of the building.
Unfortunately, this is not visible to the public, except on a special tour.
The roof's wild-meadow look has been achieved by planting mainly three types of common grass - Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis), red fescue (Fes-tuca rubra) and Quatro sheep fescue (Festuca vugaris).
In spring, these quickly rebound to produce a lush habitat for songbirds and insects and resting ground for seagulls and Canada geese.
Dozens of wildflowers, including Douglas asters (Aster subspicatus), nodding onion (Allium cernum) and common camas (Camassia quamash), have enabled bees from four hives to produce 120 pounds of honey.
Hemstock says when he makes presentations around the world about the roof (as he did last week in Australia), the questions he gets asked the most have to do with maintenance.
The grass on the roof is mowed once a year. Maintenance crews also make weekly visits to check drainage lines and to pull out invasive weeds.
Would the roof have been easier to maintain with a different planting scheme; perhaps by not using grasses that need to be mowed at all but by using more sedums, compact bulbous plants, a careful selection of low-growing ornamental grasses, plus more easy-care ground covers and perennials?
It would certainly have made a more visually interesting roof. Maybe part of the roof should be used to conduct some experimental planting schemes? As for the roof's current esthetic, Hemstock says it has exceeded all his expectations.
"The natural qualities of the grasses and native herbs blend well together. There are enough hints of colour throughout the year to provide interest but not so much that it looks contrived".
Would he do anything differently? "I am happy to say no. I would not change anything. This is one of the few projects that I feel comfortable making this statement".
In North America, the roof has set a high standard, he says.
"From what I have seen and have been told, it is right up there with some of the best ecological roofs built in England, Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
"The project continues to get a lot of attention because it strikes at the heart of an issue that we all hear about and are interested in - global warming and the loss of habitat through urbanization".
Plants used on Vancouver Convention Centre roof:
Agrostis pallens (bent grass).
Anaphalis margaritacea (pearly everlasting).
Allium acuminatum (Hooker's onion).
Allium cernuum (nodding onion).
Armeria maritima (thrift).
Aster subspicatus (Douglas aster).
Brodiaea coronaria (harvest brodiaea).
Brodiaea hyacinthina (fools onion).
Calamagrostis stricta (reed grass).
Camassia quamash (common camas).
Carex densa (dense sedge).
Carex pansa (meadow sedge
Carex tumulicola (sedge).
Carex pachystachya (sedge).
Eschscholzia californica (California poppy).
Festuca idahoensis (Idaho fescue).
Festuca ovina glauca (blue fescue).
Festuca ovina vulgaris (sheeps fescue).
Festuca rubra (red fescue).
Fragaria chiloensis (beach strawberry).
Koeleria macrantha (June grass).
Potentilla anserina ssp 'pacifica' (silverweed).
Sedum spathulifolium (stonecrop).
Sisyrinchium bellum (blue-eyed grass)


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MelanieT necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 137 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Financial Retirement Advisors, LLC AND Financial Resource Advisors, LLC (cobranding)
A financial advisor who has been in the business for more than 25 years. He is revamping his business structure, and in doing so would like to revamp his logo with a fresh, classic and timless look. That will be around for generations to come.
Retirement community – 55+ - Household income $250,000 and above. People who want to invest money for retirement.
Two companies are combining into one cohesive look/brand. They both will have the same initials (FRA), so we would like to see an element that just says FRA that can be used by itself. The 2 company names are Financial Retirement Advisors, LLC AND Financial Resource Advisors, LLC. Both logos need to have the same look, so one idea can be created, but we would like to see both names as options.
Colors: like blue's and gold's
One element we really like is the idea of a chock (a block or wedge of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object). This idea is used in many current presentations, etc. If possible, we would like to see this idea creatively incorporated into the logo, maybe with a shape?
A new website is being created, but this is one of the existing ones: http://www.financialresourceadv.com/
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Stewart Family Munchie StuffPosted in Food, Holiday, Parties on 12/08/2011 01:10 pm by Chrissy
Every Christmas as a child I would be so excited to go to Aunt Stephanie's house and eat her Munchie Stuff. I have no idea how it got that name, but it is fitting. We only make this stuff during Christmas, but it would be a crowd pleaser at any party. This caramel chex mix is so easy to make although it can get a little messy. I hope you and your family make lots of memories making this sugary treat and eating it as I did with my family. Enjoy.
Munchie stuff
Preheat oven to 250.
12 cups popped corn (be careful to remove all kernels)
1 lg box rice chex
1 lg box orig. cherrios
1 lg bag chow mein noodles
2 bags M&Ms
Divide above ingredients into to large aluminum pans for easy mixing.
Caramel Syrup
2 cups light brown sugar
2 cubes butter
¾ cup karo syrup
½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
(I usually double syrup recipe for extra sugary goodness)
-Melt together in a medium sauce pan and bring to boil. Stirring constantly. Boil for five minutes until thick. Remove from heat.
-Pour syrup in each pan one at a time and mix until every piece is as covered as can get.
-Spread evenly but loosely onto cookie sheets or deep metal baking pans that have been buttered/sprayed.
-Dry in oven for 1 hour. Cool then break apart. Add m&ms after it has cooled.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things tonight that may possibly be worth forgetting to pick up your son from T-ball practice for. LET'S GO!
The 2-hour season premiere. This is the final season of "Lost," and the show is expected to answer many of the nagging questions you have about the show. Did the bomb prevent the plane from crashing? Will we finally know what the Monster is or who's behind it? Will Jack and Kate end up together? Is Locke really dead? Who killed the Lindbergh baby? How can Cheetos be so light in weight yet make me so heavy? Is there a God? As you can see, many questions left to answer. I hope they address them all.
I'll confess right here and now that I've only watched "Lost" sparingly. This isn't because I don't like what I've seen. It's more that I haven't had the time to sit down and take it all in, and each season just makes the task more daunting. But one day, when I'm 85 and alone with nothing, I will totally get into this show. ANTICIPATION: SKY HIGH
I prefer the British version of this show, where Gordon Ramsay swears at people because he's legitimately angry, and not because a FOX exec told him to start saying BOLLOCKS because it sounds quirky over here. Anyway, tonight Gordon visits Flamango's, a New Jersey restaurant apparently owned by people who can't spell. Will the chef in charge be a pigheaded moron who thinks his way is the right way despite his restaurant being $250,000 in debt? Oh, I think so. ANTICIPATION: LIGHT SIZZLE
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Droidfooding refers to "dogfooding," in which engineers have to use their own creations or apps to figure out how to make it better. In essence, Facebook is asking its employees to use Android because that's the platform that's rising in use.
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The Commentaries
One of the most daring and brilliant generals of all time, Julius Caesar combined the elements of tactical genius with the shrewdness of a master politician. He was an astute judge of men's character - their strengths and weaknesses. Whenever possible, he exercised restraint and mercy even when his worst enemies were in his power. But he also knew when and how to mete out stern punishment and his swift retaliations became a hallmark of his career. With his charismatic leadership, his powerful intellect and his magnetic personal charm, Julius Caesar became the idol of men and women everywhere. The fanatic loyalty of his troops and the adulation of the Roman public propelled him to the pinnacle of power. Historian Will Durant called him "the most complete man that antiquity produced."
Follow along in this recording as Julius Caesar in 50 B.C. undertakes the awesome enterprise of subduing savage Gaul, an area roughly the size of Texas. That task was barely completed before his enemies in Rome struck, igniting the bloody Civil War that engulfed most of the Roman Empire and afterward left Caesar in supreme power.
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- David Cormier
- 17/08/2011
My favourite audiobook
I've had this book for over a year and have probably listened to it end to end 3 times. Caesar was an incredibly lucid writer... and a crafty one. If you're paying attention you can see all the places where he's pulling a fast one. Griffin is perfect.
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- Dale
- 11/11/2010
Great reading of an engrossing classic
I'm building an interest in ancient history (purely as an amateur) and downloaded this with some dread as many of the early works can have dense translations. This is a great version of the Commentaries. I found it very entertaining and, months later, still recall passages and events all the time. Mr. Griffin's voice works very well with this material and he can make the occasional dense passage understandable.
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- Robert
- 23/05/2014
Talk about an eye wittness
What did you love best about The Commentaries?
There is no history to match that of the man who was not only there but planned and lived this critical part of Roman history. It helps you understand the logistics of these wars if you have a map of Gaul and France but it is entertaining, even without, to follow this outstanding general, politician and writer as he shapes the world we now live in.
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- John Smaha
- 19/12/2013
One of the bets books out there.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I have always wanted to read this work and never had the time. I downloaded and was not disappointed. The narration is superb and Caesar comes to life 2,000 years after his death. This is a must read.
What does Charlton Griffin bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
His narration is superb! Makes the book come to life.
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- Mitchell Tweedie
- 07/10/2010
Caesars Commentaries are one of the best reads, well listens, I have ever experienced.
As usual Charlton Griffin was an amazingly interesting narrator.
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- Darwin8u
- 24/01/2014
Well-behaved Romans seldom Make History
Commentarii de Bello Gallico:
While listening to the Commentaries, I kept jumping back and forth between my Loeb Classics version of The Gallic War and my Penguin Classics version of The Conquest of Gaul (wishing that Landmark would publish their version). Reading/listening to Caesar makes me want to go back and learn Latin (the Loeb Classics keep seductively singing to me of the benefits of a Latin education). Anyway, I only meant to start the The Conquest of Gaul today, but the compelling narrative of Caesar's Gallic War (the record of his battles against Vercingetorix and the other chieftains) was just too damn compelling.
It is hard to underestimate the importance of JC (no not THAT JC) in terms of military strategy, political acumen, propagandistic spin, and his shrewd combination of prudent warfare and bold action. There are certain men who get caught up in history and certain men who make history and Caesar, even without his spin, sits pretty near the top of the heap with those other Übermensch who make history.
Commentarii de Bello Civili:
War is hell obviously, but a civil war is a unique form of Hades (a Haidēs of many shaidēs?). The sides are more amorphous, permeable, ambiguous. There is a reluctance to kill a soldier that last year you considered a friend or a brother. While war often requires thinking beyond strategy and tactics, a civil war pushes those skills to the extreme. How do you limit the blood lust of your soldiers when they are confronting a group that might easily be conveyed into a future asset? How do you break an opponent's spirit without destroying the enemy or turning them into an enemy? How do you maintain a paid army's loyalty without pay? How do you keep your friends from deserting you after a devastating loss? Now, do all of this while still not alienating those fickle friends in Rome.
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- Tony
- 14/01/2013
My First Audio Book and still my favorite!
I've listened to this book twice. Actually there are some chapters I've listened to over and over again. Julius Caesar is my favorite historical person. I enjoy reading anything about Caesar so long as it's historically accurate. So reading The Commentaries just doesn't get any better for me. Caesar is a fantastic author and a brilliant general. I think he was the ultimate polymath. My favorite chapter is when Caesar and 10 hand pick troopers as he refers to them meet with Ariovistus and 10 of his body guards. Fascinating encounter and incredible collision of power. This book is my all time favorite and to think it was written over 2000 years ago and is still so relevant in this day and age. Just incredible!!
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- Patrick D. Flynn
- 29/05/2015
Griffin is the voice of caesar.
Excellent reading. Commanding, confident and clear voice that captures the steady and clear intelligence of a master politician and military commander. Well worth a listen.
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- Jean
- 03/10/2014
This is a mainstay in the teaching of Latin in School Children as it is simple, direct prose. In discussing this book with my some members of my family, my husband said he read it in Latin when he was in elementary school in Greece. He said when he was young he could read and write Latin as well as he could Greek. My sister remembers reading it and having to translate it in her Latin class in high school. But I do not remember reading it. I only took Latin for one year then we moved and the next school did not teach Latin. (The problems of frequent moving as a military brat)
The Commentaries is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars. It is written as a third person narrative. Caesar describes the battle and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting local armies in Gaul. What amazes me is that I am reading something written over two thousand years ago by one of histories greatest military commanders. Needless to say I am reading a translated edition but to have a book survived this long is amazing and it is still being read today. I can just picture Caesar sitting in his tent after a day of battle writing his book.
Gaul is what today we know as France, Belgium and part of Switzerland. The Helvetii from Switzerland were feeling constricted in their valley so they started migrating over into what was a northern Roman province. Caesar pushed them back into their traditional land. Then King Ariovistus along with some Germanic mercenaries try to move into Italy and again Caesar ventured out to meet them and so it goes for nine years.
The book is interesting in its descriptions of Gaulish customs, religion and the comparison between the Gaul and Germanic peoples. The geography descriptions I found interesting also. Overall I enjoyed the book but even after reading it I still cannot remember if I read it in elementary or high school. Charlton Griffin did a good job narrating the book.
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- Guilherme
- 15/07/2012
A great epic.
Listening to this book is better than watching the Gladiator because it really happened. On top of that allows us to know some of what happened in the life of one of the persons who shaped our modern world.
Maybe Ceasar changed some facts to make himself appear more heroic to his peers but who wouldn't?
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New Bern will undergo an extensive utility network mapping project starting Monday, which is expected to take at least six months to complete.
New Bern will undergo an extensive utility network mapping project starting Monday, which is expected to take at least six months to complete.
The $130,000 project will be conducted by Davey Resource Group, which is bringing a team of field inventory specialists to New Bern.
Citizens may notice several men and women in fluorescent vests using handheld computers looking at the utility poles and equipment in their neighborhood during the project.
The large-scale mapping project will provide the city with specific GPS locations of all of its electrical equipment, and those locations will be used to create a GIS database, according to a city press release.
Previously, the city�s 14 main feeder lines have been mapped, but not the exponential number of tap lines that branch off of those mains, the release says.
Jon Rynne, director of New Bern utilities, said the city was overdue for a mapping project like this.
�With all of the development New Bern has seen over the years, it becomes difficult to specifically pinpoint, using paper mapping, where new installations have been made,� Rynne said in a statement. �This will provide us with an electronic snapshot of our equipment. It will map all of our power lines and all of our circuit connections from the substations out, and allow our staff to use a GIS database to make updates more efficiently.�
Verifying and inventorying the city�s electric distribution system will provide better data for effectively serving the customer, Rynne said.
For example, during a severe weather event, like a hurricane, the city will be able to geographically map outages, plan its response more strategically, and respond more efficiently. And that will help the city provide customers with a better time frame as to when their power will be restored, he said.
�If a line goes down, the GIS database will allow city crews to see what type of equipment is on the power pole, such as any transformers it may carry, so they can have the right equipment with them to fix the problem,� Rynne said �So, this project provides a great deal of efficiency to the utility.�


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Veteran survived 'the forgotten war'
November 11, 2008
Bonner Springs Pete Gomez was 19 when he fought in what he describes with no apparent bitterness as "the forgotten war." That was the Korean conflict, so-called because the United States Congress made no formal declaration of war.
Gomez took part in the bloodiest of the war's battles, in Taejon in the north of what was then Korea. The three-day fight in the first days of the war, July 1950, saw Gomez's unit, the 34th Regiment of the 24th Division, lose all but 184 solders of a regiment that had numbered nearly 2,000.
One of the reasons for the defeat, Gomez said, was that "we didn't have the proper equipment … we didn't have enough to knock out the T-34s," Russian tanks.
Gomez, a Bonner Springs resident and 1949 graduate of Bonner Springs High School, had joined the Army months before the war started.
"We were almost shoved out into the ocean," Gomez said of the battle, before the rest of the 24th Division, led by Gen. George MacArthur, pushed into North Korea and cut off Korean supply lines.
Gomez said he was fortunate and didn't get wounded in the battle.
"The guy beside me got hit," he said.
Gomez said he had heeded advice about not getting too close to any of his fellow soldiers, but still "I did have one good friend," who died at Taejon.
"Billy Graham (no relation to the famous evangelist) was in a building firing at a tank with a bazooka," Gomez said.
The shot missed, but another enemy tank's crew saw where the bazooka had fired from and attacked the building. Three of the four soldiers there died, Gomez said.
The 24th pushed north to Pyongyang and the Manchurian border before the Chinese army pushed it back to the 38th Parallel, the line that marks the border of the demilitarized zone, a no-man's land that to this day separates North and South Korea.
Gomez went home in April 1951, on a ship that took two weeks to reach San Francisco. He remembers sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge, but "there was no such thing as big parades and celebrations," he said. "It was the forgotten war."
From San Francisco, Gomez flew home on TWA, and still has his plane ticket, dated May 22. He keeps it in a scrapbook, along with other documents, photos and badges from his time in the service.
Eventually he was assigned for a year to a construction battalion in Colorado Springs, where he learned to maintain and repair diesel engines. That led to his post-Army career: working on locomotives at the Sunflower Munitions Plant near De Soto. He worked there for 40 years, the last 12 as a maintenance supervisor. He's retired now.
"It was a good career," he said.
Five years ago Gomez visited South Korea with his wife, Trina. Gomez said he wouldn't have recognized Seoul from his previous visit because of all the growth and modernization of the city, which he said was "destroyed" when he'd last seen it some 50 years ago.
Gomez is an active member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6401 in Bonner Springs, as well as the Korean War Veterans Association, which recently completed a memorial to the war in Overland Park.
These days he enjoys pheasant hunting and taking part in veterans' organization activities. He keeps and maintains an old two-and-a-half ton Army truck the groups use in parades, which he drove in the Veterans Day parade in Leavenworth.
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Photo: Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in 'jOBS'
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival will have plenty of comedies in competition, but it'll be the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic "jOBS" that will close out the event.
The indie feature, directed by Joshua Michael Stern, covers 30 years of Jobs' life, from his days as a college dropout to becoming a defining figure in technology.
Not to be confused with Aaron Sorkin's biopic of the late visionary, who died in October 2011, "'jOBS' is a candid, inspiring and personal portrait of the one who saw things differently."
Ashton Kutcher, a.k.a. TV's highest-paid actor, stars as the Apple entrepreneur, a casting choice that left some bewildered and others enraged. With the announcement of the film's premiere on Monday, Sundance also released an image of 34-year-old Kutcher dressed as a young Jobs, clad casually in jeans and holding a pair of glasses in his hand.
While the photo alone may not convince the skeptical that Kutcher was the right man for the job, the director of programming at Sundance, Trevor Groth, assures that the actor owns the role.
"We're really excited to have it as the closing night. It's really an inspirational and entertaining film about a man who has had such a significant impact on the world," Groth told USA Today. "My hunch is he got the job because he bears a striking resemblance to Jobs physically. But [Kutcher] really owns the performance."
Joining "jOBS" in the non-competitive portion of the fest will be another highly publicized biopic, "Lovelace." The film stars Amanda Seyfried as "Deep Throat" adult star Linda Lovelace, Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck Traynor and James Franco as Playboy head Hugh Hefner.
To see the full list of films premiering at Sundance, which runs January 17-27, visit Sundance.org.
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Dear Honorable Chief Judge Kozinski and Honorable Judges Berzon, Smith, Tashima, and Fletcher:
This is written to advise you of circumstances relating to the California State Bar's handling of the matter of In re Girardi pursuant to an order issued by this Court.
By way of background, at the conclusion of the appeal in a civil case prosecuted by the firms of Girardi & Keese and Engstrom Lipscomb & Lack against Dole Food Company, Judge Kozinski issued an order to show cause why Thomas Girardi and Walter Lack should not be disbarred, suspended, or sanctioned for the attempt to defraud this Court for the purpose of unjustly collecting a $500 million judgment.
Representing Thomas Girardi in those disciplinary proceedings before this Court were the law firm of Skadden Arps and ethics expert Diane Karpman. Ms. Karpman asked this Court to appoint a special prosecutor, and the Court appointed Hastings Law School professor Rory Little.
Oral arguments ensued, during which one of the judges on the panel stated that the "elephant" in the room is the manner in which the matter would be developed by the State Bar of California.
Subsequently, this Court found both Girardi and Lack culpable, and imposed monetary sanctions, reprimanded Girardi, and suspended Lack. This Court also ordered Girardi and Lack to report its findings to the State Bar of California.
Judge William Fletcher, a member of the Ninth Circuit panel that adjudicated the matter of In re Girardi, 08-80090, rejected the lenient recommendations of Rory Little. He stated: "with any competent lawyer if you're omitting part of a document, that is not accidental. That is intentional." The court adjudicated that the grave misconduct by Walter Lack and Thomas Girardi included "the persistent use of known falsehoods," and that the "false representations" were made "knowingly, intentionally, and recklessly" during years of litigation.
The day after this Court issued its ruling, respondents' counsel moved to redact their names from the published decision, a motion this Court denied. (This issue will surface again, below.)
The State Bar of California assigned the matter to an outside special prosecutor (Jerome Falk of Howard Rice) since Howard Miller of Girardi & Keese served as President of the State Bar, and had hired the Chief Trial counsel of the State Bar at the time, Mr. James Towery.
After conducting an interview with Walter Lack, Jerome Falk chose to not file any charges against Lack or Girardi based on his position that any false statements submitted were not "intentional." This determination was contrary to findings made by this Court.
Within days of the issuance of Mr. Falk's decision, I advanced an ethics complaint against James Towery, Jerome Falk, Howard Miller, and Douglas Winthrop, contending that it had been improper for Mr. Towery to select Jerome Falk (of Howard Rice) to serve as special prosecutor because, among other reasons, Howard Miller (of Girardi & Keese) had appointed Howard Rice's managing partner (Douglas Winthrop) as president of the California Bar Foundation, a foundation owned, controlled, and maintained by the State Bar of California.
(Incidentally, while examining materials in connection with California Bar Foundation board members, including Howard Miller of Girardi & Keese, Douglas Winthrop of Howard Rice, Holly Fujie of Buchalter Nemer, Annette Carnegie of Morrison & Foerster, and ex-CPUC Commissioner Geoffrey Brown (cousin of governor Jerry Brown, I also unearthed disturbing events relating to a Section 501 entity known as CaliforniaALL involving many of the same individuals and related entities.)
The peculiar nature of the motion to redact the names of respondents' counsel from the published decision of this Court prompted me to look into the matter further. I then discovered that, beginning in 2003, Girardi & Keese and Engstrom Lipscomb & Lack were prosecuting a class action case against Farmers Insurance Company, which was represented by Skadden Arps. This was a nationwide class action with estimated damages of close to $15 billion that had originally been filed by Texas Governor Rick Perry.
I thereafter informed the Los Angeles County Superior Court (Judge William Highberger) of this information, and filed a State Bar ethics complaint against attorneys Thomas Girardi of Girardi & Keese and Thomas Nolan and Raoul Kennedy of Skadden Arps because neither the class of plaintiffs (consisting of 14 million Americans), nor the courts (the Ninth Circuit in the matter of In Re Girardi and the Los Angeles County Superior Court in the matter of Fogel vs. Farmers) had been informed of the concurrent representation by which Skadden Arps represented Girardi & Keese (in the Ninth Circuit matter), while at the same time defending Farmers against Girardi and Keese's clients (in the Fogel v. Farmers matter). (This background may help explain why Skadden Arps rushed to defend Thomas Girardi before the Ninth Circuit.)
Shortly after I filed this ethics complaint, Skadden Arps moved ex parte (which, not surprisingly, was unopposed) to amend the settlement agreement in the Fogel matter and the notice to the class of 14 million Americans throughout the country to include a proviso by which members of the class would be prohibited from suing anyone due to the concurrent representation described above. Nevertheless, the State Bar of California decided not to take any action on this ethics complaint.
In the meantime, I also discovered that during the period that Howard Miller, Douglas Winthrop, Holly Fujie of Buchalter Nemer, Annette Carnegie of Morrison & Foerster, and ex-CPUC Commissioner Geoffrey Brown were serving as board members for the California Bar Foundation, a highly unusual financial transaction took place in which approximately $780,000 was quietly transferred, causing the California Bar Foundation to end the year in the red.
Upon further examination, I discovered that the money had been transferred to a newly-created Section 501(c)(3) non-profit entity (headed by a friend of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakayue — Ruthe Catolico Ashley) known as CaliforniaALL. In turn, CaliforniaALL funneled a large portion of the money to the UCI Foundation, where State Bar of California Executive Director Joe Dunn served as trustee.
CaliforniaALL never acknowledged receipt of the $780,000 from the Cal Bar Foundation in any of its publications, although it did acknowledge the transfer on its IRS tax returns. Likewise, the California Bar Foundation never acknowledged the largest grant it ever bestowed in its newsroom, the California Bar Journal, or similar publications; it did, however, recognize the transfer on its IRS returns, and in a 2 by 2 inch blurb in its annual report.
Various factors and evidence caused me to suspect that a significant portion of the funds transferred from the California Bar Foundation ended up financing a newly-created online publication which Joe Dunn had launched with the help of Thomas Girardi and James Brosnahan of Morrison & Foerster; this online publication is known as "Voice of OC."
Those factors include, but are not limited to, the fact that some individuals and entities involved in the creation of CaliforniaALL and the subsequent transfer of $780,000 from the Cal Bar Foundation to CaliforniaALL were also involved in assisting Joe Dunn with the creation of "Voice of OC" to wit – Morrison & Foerster's Susan MacCormac as legal counsel for CaliforniaALL; Girardi & Keese's Howard Miller in his capacity as BOD member of Cal Bar Foundation; and BOG members who voted to endorse CaliforniaALL and consider it to have been a partner of the State Bar of California. Morrison & Foerster's James Brosnahan and Girardi & Keese's Thomas Girardi also assisted Joe Dunn in establishing Voice of OC.
While James Brosnahan and Thomas Girardi served as members of the Voice of OC board of directors, for unknown reasons they subsequently chose to quit.
Based on my concerns, I requested that Voice of OC provide me with copies of its IRS 990 forms. Voice of OC did not comply with applicable IRS regulation in that it failed to reply to my request for copies of its 990 forms submitted to the IRS, whereupon I filed a complaint against Voice of OC and Joe Dunn with the IRS.
Also in connection with CaliforniaALL, I have advanced a judicial misconduct complaint against Judge Morrison England since State Bar of California Executive Director Judy Johnson, Judge England, his wife (Torie Flournoy-England), and State Bar of California employee Patricia Lee were all members of CaliforniaALL's board of directors and/or advisory council. The basis for that complaint was these individuals' failure to inform plaintiff Sara Granda — who had filed an action in federal court naming the State Bar of California as a sole defendant that was heard by Judge Morrison England — of these facts.
On January 27, 2009 DLA Piper's Gilles Attia and the Office of Assembly-member Mike Davis co-hosted a reception honoring California ALL at the Tsakopoulos Galleria in Sacramento. Bottom (left to right): Ruthe Ashley; Judge Morrison England and Mrs. Torie Flournoy-England; Ruthe Ashley, Gilles Attia, News 10 Presenter Sharon Ito, and Assembly-member Mike Davis. Top right is Karina Hamilton. Mike Davis, an ally of former assembly-member Gwen Moore and Karen Bass, is the vice-chair of the Legislative Black Caucus.
Specifically, without informing plaintiff Granda of his relationship with Judy Johnson (the State Bar's Executive Director) vis-a-vis CaliforniaALL and either obtaining a waiver from this plaintiff or independently recusing himself, Judge England summarily dismissed Ms. Granda's complaint against the California State Bar. Fortunately for Ms. Granda, several days later then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger championed her cause and pressured the California Bar to accommodate her needs.
Unfortunately, the Clerk of the Ninth Circuit rejected my complaint against Judge England claiming, incorrectly, that I did not comply with a requirement to insert wording to the effect that I understand that irrespective of the complaint, the outcome of the underlying case will not be affected. At that point, I chose not to resubmit the complaint against Judge England.
My discovery concerning Jerome Falk (specifically, that Thomas Girardi and Walter Lack were clients of his firm) occurred only a few months ago, and my plan was to approach the Ninth Circuit to request either that the Court reopen the matter of In Re Girardi or that it appoint a special prosecutor to determine what, if any, ethical violations transpired.
However, in a shocking turn of events, I was recently served with a search warrant while at home. Six investigators from the Yolo County District Attorney's office (some of them armed) arrived at my home on February 23, 2012, searched the premises, and confiscated two computers and documents relating to, among others, Joe Dunn, Thomas Girardi, Judy Johnson, Holly Fujie, Alec Chang of Skadden Arps, James Towery, and State Bar attorneys Mark Torres Gil, Lawrence Yee, and Rachel Grunberg, as well as material belonging to online publication The Leslie Brodie Report, and communications from the Internal Revenue Service relating to the complaint I had filed against Joe Dunn and Voice of OC.
My understanding is that members of the State Bar of California Board of Governors (presumably, State Bar of California Executive Director Joe Dunn of Voice of OC, Alec Chang of Skadden Arps, and others with their own financial and liberty interest at stake due to my whistleblowing activities) have presented claims to the Yolo County District Attorney's Jeff Reisig and Michael Cabral to file criminal charges against me, for among other things, alleged violations of Business and Professions Code section 6043.5, on the purported basis that the ethics complaints I filed were unfounded and constituted criminal conduct. (See ethics complaint concerning Rachel Grunberg, Mark Torres-Gil, Lawrence Yee in matter of Sara Granda HERE, ethics complaint against Thomas Girardi in the Fogel v. Farmers Group HERE., ethics complaint against James Towery HERE)
Incidentally, I was informed by friendly sources many months ago that if choose to expose corruption concerning Joe Dunn and Thomas Girardi via these complaints, they will try to frame me by various means similar to the ones used against Erin Baldwin. At that time, my reaction was complete skepticism of Erin Baldwin and her story because I could not imagine that such conduct could occur in our country. It appears that I may have been naive.
Consequently, please note the motion to re-open the In Re Girardi matter will be delayed.
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Sarah Brown, Dr. Ida Betty Odinga and Shelly Esque are three women dedicated to educating girls. They took the stage at the Women in the World summit Saturday afternoon to explain how they are working to help achieve one of the United Nations' Millennium Development goals: universal primary education.
ABC's Juju Chang kicked off the panel discussion with what she called a "revolutionary" thought: "educate girls and change the world," she posited. "In just one generation we can break the cycle of poverty. Girls are the key."
Brown, wife of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the president of PiggyBankKids, told the audience that 67 million children are currently not in school, more than half of which are girls. "We share a moral obligation to reach those girls now," she declared.
Brown works with Dr. Odinga, wife of the Kenya's current prime minister, to keep girls from Kenya and other developing countries in school and away from childhood marriages—a cultural obligation that plagues many young girls. "The truth of the matter is, if that girl is in school, she's not out there married or facing any of these things that might come her way," such as genital mutilation or a pregnancy for which her young body is ill-equipped. Odinga explained it often helps to offer certain incentives to get Kenyan girls into the classroom, as many of them live far from the closets schools and don't have access to food that they can bring for lunch. She said offering students meals draws them in, as does free sanitary napkins, since many girls in impoverished areas tend to miss school when they have their periods.
The two have also collaborated to create Educators Without Borders, building pop-up schools for children living in refugee camps. "Besides the fact that they are refugees, they are still children and they need their education," said Odinga.
All of the women on stage agreed that a cooperation between non-profits, governments and business is necessary for facilitating real change in terms of educating young girls. Shelly Esque, who is the vice president of corporate affairs for Intel, noted her corporation's effort to connect with local governments to provide the best quality teachers and educational opportunities for girls around the globe. "Education equals hope," Esque said.


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12 May, 2011
Coming from Germany!I am coming to the states from Germany to see my oldest daughter before she deploys with the US Army National Guard. I planned this trip back in October to come to Denver to see our first U2 show! I splurged for VIP....I cannot wait for this show!
12 May, 2011
U2SDBOMI have been a huge U2 fan for 30 years. I have seen U2 many times, including the Dalton Brothers in CA. But the greatest was in 2005 at the Pepsi Center when Bono put on my lipstick. They are an amazing band and amazing people.I agree, play Bad. I CAN"T WAIT!
06 May, 2011
See you on the 21st.See you on the 21st I will be coming from Winnipeg Canada looking forward to my 4th U2 show 2nd on this tour Iam looking forward to meeting my fellow U2 fans in Denver and where ever else they are coming from.Iam also seeing U2 a week later in Winnipeg Canada.
22 April, 2011
Song RequestSo here in Colorado, there is this prophetic person buying bus benches and driving around an RV proclaiming that May 21st is The End of the World. Hmmm... I think she's just a U2 fan and knew in advance that May 21 would be the re-scheduled night for the concert in Denver. But Until the End of the World might be a fun request for the boys to play.
22 April, 2011
No Line in DenverPlease bring back "No line on the Horizon" Thanks -Vinnie from Colorado Springs
19 April, 2011
been listening for 12 years never seen ti've been listening to u2 for the last 12 years since i was 13, 25 now. never seen them. finally get tickets to see them in june last year and what happens. bono gets back surgery. i hope nothing happens this year knock on wood because i can't wait to see them on the 21st
13 April, 2011
it's gonna be awesomejust got done listening to the sao paulo live feed-denver we are in for an amazing show-u2 is amazing! hurry up may 21st!!!!!
12 April, 2011
tomwyoSee you in Denver and please play BAD.
11 April, 2011
Nebraska U2 FanAbsolutely CAN'T wait for the show in Denver!!! It'll be our fifth show, and this time it's RED ZONE time! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE play BAD....that would be the highlight of the concert for us. See you up front on May 21.
05 April, 2011
U2 DenverI couldnt be more excited to see U2 return to Denver after 6 years away! I know the show will be amazing, I would lose my mind if Bad is played though! If I could, you know I would! ;)
25 February, 2011
redrocksI cant's wait havent missed a show in Colorado sense they were at Red Rocks in the early 80"s !!!!
07 February, 2011
U2 DenverMy first U2 concert-- can't wait. PLEASE PLAY NEW YEAR'S DAY! See you in May!
22 December, 2010
Counting the DaysI am a storm chaser who happened to be meeting the chase group on June 13 in Denver last year when I noted the concert date. You bet I got a ticket, and I told my fellow adventure freaks they'd have to wait for me if need be. So I still have my Denver ticket---and also one for Philly and Pittsburgh---and I've made the tough decision to forego chasing tornadoes so I can "chase" U2. Besides, I love Denver and this gives me yet another excuse to fly out there. I normally sit in the stands, but my Denver ticket is GA. I will no longer be a "GA virgin"!!!! It will be both unnerving and cool to get in that line at first. I can't wait to meet some of the "regulars" who do so all the time!
04 November, 2010
Can't WaitSaw the boys last year in PHX, Meadowlands and Vegas. Can't wait to see them in D-town. Got one of the VIP packages and can't wait to see them again. PLEASE PLAY BAD! If at all possible make a stop in Albuquerque! Would love to see you in our hometown! Keep rockin boys looking forward to May!!!!!!
14 October, 2010
Can't WaitThe misses and I are taking our nephew who's High School graduation is the same day as the show. We figure we will take him from High School to GA front and center to further his education. It will be a grand time.


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NEWS- No arrests: Has Seccuro case hit a wall?
In December, a prosecutor in what's become known as the "12-step rape" case made a stunning revelation after William N. Beebe pled guilty to reduced charges over what happened in the 1984 UVA fraternity house incident: other assaults occurred that night in the same fraternity. In exchange for a lighter sentence, Beebe, said Deputy Charlottesville Commonwealth's Attorney Claude Worrell, had agreed to cooperate in the investigation of the other alleged assaults.
Eight months later, however, Beebe– who could have received 20 years or more in prison had he been convicted of felony rape– remains in Charlottesville-Albemarle jail having served nearly four months of his two-year sentence for the reduced charge of felony assault and battery. There have been no other arrests– indeed, no other suspect has been named publicly.
Worrell declines comment on the case or on Beebe's contributions, if any, except to say the investigation is ongoing. However, Beebe's victim, Liz Seccuro, suspects there's a reason things are not moving as quickly as she would wish.
"Mr. Beebe was given a deal in exchange for his cooperation in bringing to justice his cohorts," says Seccuro. "From what I understand," she says, "that [cooperation] has not occurred."
Seccuro was 17 when Beebe assaulted her in UVA's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in October 1984 (as was detailed in the Hook's January 12, 2005 cover story). Beebe, now 42, declines to be interviewed. His attorney, Rhonda Quagliana, says Beebe has told investigators everything he knows; he just didn't know as much as they wanted.
Part of the problem may be the expense for a small locality like Charlottesville of staging a national or international investigation. According to UVA alumni records, Phi Kappa Psi brothers who attended UVA in 1984 are scattered across the country, and several live overseas. The budget for both the police and the Commonwealth's Attorney are set by the City Council annually.
Chief Tim Longo declined to comment on the departments expenditures, and Mayor David Brown says there have been no requests from either department for additional funding, and the City's chief prosecutor, Dave Chapman, says that money would never be the cause of seemingly slow case.
If it appears the investigation is stagnating, Seccuro is gaining steam and taking her story to podiums nationwide. In April, Seccuro– who is shopping a yet-to-be-titled memoir– signed with both the ICM literary agency and with the American Program Bureau, the largest speaking agency in the world.
The Bureau's Ken Eisenstein says he expects her presentation, titled "My Story: The Journey from Victim to Survivor to Activist," to be in demand on college campuses beginning this fall. The Bureau represents hundreds of celebrity speakers including Michael Douglas, Larry King, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bette Midler, and Jon Stewart. And while such household names may demand six figures for their speaking engagements, he says pay for lesser known speakers at colleges starts at a more modest $5,000.
"She has a very, very interesting story," says Eisenstein. "I think the story of the justice delayed and the fact that after so long they were able to get a confession and bring some kind of closure to it is amazing."
Eisenstein hopes Seccuro will be an inspiration to other victims of campus sexual assault, which she points out remains a critical problem. She cites the De Anza Community College baseball team rape scandal, in which three female soccer players claim to have witnessed a sexual assault at the California school, yet no charges have been filed, and the recent death of a female student at Eastern Michigan State university in fall 2006, which– the university only later revealed to students and the girl's own family– resulted from a sexual assault and murder.
Perhaps the best known campus sexual assault case, however, has set back the cause of rape victims, Seccuro says, referring to the Duke University lacrosse team brouhaha last spring.
"Now that these three exonerated men have been all but canonized by the media," she says, "all juries will believe that all prosecutors are Mike Nifong and that all complaining witnesses are liars."
In May, Seccuro gave her first lecture to an audience of 600 at a YWCA in St. Louis, Missouri, an experience she calls "profound." She says the turnout, which included the Mayor of St. Louis, the Chief of Police, and various members of law enforcement, encouraged her.
It "made me realize there are indeed people who want to do better, learn more, figure this thing out," she says. "I may have lost my private life a bit, but when people want to change and do nothing to engender it, it merely contributes to the problem."


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Annie's ghosts: a journey into a family secret by Steve Luxenberg Combining the power of reportage with the intrigue of mystery, "Annie's Ghosts" explores the nature of self-deception and self-preservation. The result is equal parts memoir and riveting detective story as one son seeks to uncover family secrets. Set in Detroit, this makes for a great discussion with local interest.
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Choreography by: George Balanchine
Music by: Hershy Kay
A dazzling display of kilts and clans meets music-hall humor and a fleet of flirtatious sailors in Union Jack, a spectacle of 74 dancers and one beloved donkey.
Union Jack was created to honor the British heritage of the United States on the occasion of its Bicentennial. Part I is based on Scottish military tattoos and folk-dance forms performed in an open castle square. Part II is a music-hall pas de deux for the costermonger Pearly King and Queen of London, with two little girls and a donkey, danced before a drop suggesting Pollock's toy theaters. Part III is a series of variations employing hornpipes, sea songs, work chants, jigs, and drill orders of the Royal Navy, in a dockside setting. For the finale, hand flags signal 'God Save the Queen' in semaphore code as the Union Jack unfurls.


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Hoots and hollers: New groups get big howdy
Los Cranios and Karma Bums
Rapunzel's Coffee & Books
Saturday, July 5
I've said it before, but I'll say it again: Rapunzel's Coffee & Books in Lovingston is one of my favorite venues in the area. A renovated packing shed, the place bleeds simplicity, and thanks to a great sound setup, every show I've seen there (generally roots and acoustic music) has been more than simply enjoyable.
The July 5 show at the club featured two acts I've never seen before: Los Cranios and Lovingston favorites and frequent Rapunzel's performers, the Karma Bums. The band setups at Rapunzel's are almost always lickety split- usually the performers just take their acoustic instruments on-stage, gather around the one mic set up the club spots, and the fun begins.
The three gentlemen who make up Los Cranios did just that and soon enough showed the audience their wares. Their hour-long set began with all three performers playing guitar- two instruments playing chords and one picking lead.
"Down in a one-horse town," the gentleman on center guitar crooned, his voice fixed somewhere between a normal country presentation and yodeling. The next tune by the group reminded me a fair amount of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night (In the Pines)," with its 3/4 timing and rather somber chord progressions. Los Cranios played well for their entire set, and the audience showed their appreciation via hoots and hollers at the end of most songs.
The Karma Bums were up next, and from the energy I felt from the audience, I suspected I was in for something good. The Karma Bums– Joe Madison, Alda Curtis, Jim McAvoy, and Kevin Crowe– play acoustic music, full of exquisite space and wittier-than-thou lyrics.
To start things off, the group did a sort of chanting, percussion-filled slow walk to the stage from different points behind the audience. The chant, "Coming down on my feet" morphed into the group's first song once they had picked up their instruments (two guitars, bass, and drums). Then "Coming down on my feet" became the chorus of the song.
The group's bass player (although he did switch to guitar for some tunes) took the lead for this one, and the group's other two guitarists backed him up with a mixture of singing and shouting vocals. The song reminded me a little of mid-'70s solo Paul Simon, with the singer's rich voice only sealing the comparison in my mind.
The lead guitarist took vocal duties on the next tune, another "World Consciousness"-type tune which featured the phrase "One World" prominently in the chorus– most of the songs this gentleman sang were probably the loosest ones of the evening. In comparison, the tunes on which the second guitarist sang (all three gentlemen in the group sing) were generally more introspective, tight, and seemed to rotate tightly around the same notes. Pure '60s they seemed, at least to my young ears.
However, not every fan will warm to the sound. Music aficionado Emmett Boaz notes, "The 'later Paul Simon' description suggests 'sensitive' writing, and Lovingston is a bit far afield for me."
So far, Rapunzel's has not done me wrong, and Los Cranios and the Karma Bums only continued the streak.


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Jet engine maker Pratt & Whitney says heat was the cause of a cracked blade on an engine outfitting the U.S. military's F-35 fighter jet.
Bennett Croswell, president of the company's military engines division, said on a conference call Wednesday that finding the cause was "very good news." He said heat is preferable to the effects of fatigue on the engine part because fatigue spreads, making the problem worse.
What Croswell called "thermal creep" was due to the engine operating longer than usual at a high temperature. He says it was the only affected engine of about 75.
The Pentagon briefly grounded its fleet of F-35 fighter jets on Feb. 22 after discovering the cracked engine blade at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Pratt & Whitney, based in East Hartford, Conn., is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.


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"You're crazy circa 2010," Mercedes deadpans.
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