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In the 2013-2014 academic year, SVSU celebrates its 50th anniversary. It is fitting this milestone is paired with our re-accreditation visit from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). This process offers the chance for both reflecting on our past and present and planning for our future.
Accreditation for institutions of higher learning like SVSU is a voluntary, peer-review process that provides public certification of institutional quality, ensures the transferability of academic credits earned at accredited institutions, and permits accredited schools to award federally-based financial aid.
SVSU was first awarded accreditation by the NCA in 1970. Its last comprehensive site visit was in 2004. HLC will visit SVSU again on April 7-9, 2014.
HLC accreditation matters to all university stakeholders—students, faculty, staff, and community members.
*It is a public measure of quality. It offers a direct statement (supported by clear evidence) of SVSU's institutional effectiveness and continual improvement. Accreditation helps guide students who are considering applying or transferring to SVSU, and it allows SVSU credits to transfer elsewhere. It aids in faculty and staff recruitment, and it signals the strength of our graduates.
*It provides transparency to our stakeholders and our broader community. Accreditation is a public, external demonstration of institutional accountability, integrity, and responsibility.
*It addresses federal and state demands. It allows SVSU to award federally-backed financial aid. (Approximately 80% of our students receive financial aid.) It permits the institution and individual faculty, staff, and students to apply for a range of federal and state grants and programs.
*It can be of immense internal value. As a practice centered on ongoing assessment, it can help all members of SVSU's community better understand our rich, multi-faceted institution and can help shape institutional change and improvement.
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Jenn311 wrote:Hey Kerri...
Crud! I knew I shouldn't have posted that...but it seemed essential in representing how much influence our psyches have on our body. there is a way to rule out ALS, and it's an EMG, of which I have never had one. You, my friend, have had four. That pretty much rules out ALS. So you are fine, just repeat that and make it your mantra!
reneeintx wrote:Kerri~
I'm like you. I'm okay most of the time and then one article about some odd ball case of ALS and the freaky me starts emerging.
I go to another health board frequently and there is an ALS forum. I know people here are thinking.. why are you going there?!? It's like the forbidden fruit.. you are so tempted you have to taste.
There's a post about this guy's dad having symptoms of ALS and it took 2 years for him to be diagnosed In the post he says his dad has twitches in his legs and feet and cramps also. That's exactly what I've been having.
I had to pm Jenn and Arron, after reading that post and getting cramps that night.
I was crying and my husband was trying to console me saying there could be numerous factors that played into the story. Such as neuro's that don't see ALS very often, or the man didn't pass the initial neuro exam(strength, walking) and maybe his emg had something suspicious going on. I don't think we ever get the WHOLE story when we read these posts.
You know the more we worry the more we'll twitch. We can't zero in on these odd ball cases and throw everything else out the window.
Listen to Jen, she's dealt with this stuff for quite some time.
dave YY wrote:Kerri, Kerri, Kerri!
None of those are really "odd cases." Sometimes people twitch first before weakness, and usually it starts in one spot from what I've read. A two year dx process doesn't mean they had no idea for two years... It could have been related to so many different factors, such as the requirement that at least three limbs show denervation, or they might have taken more time ruling out all other possibilities, or the patient might not have come in frequently enough for a speedy official dx.
I've spent more time on the Braintalk neuromuscular board, but it looks to me like the same is true here: nobody who's come here with twitches, with a clean EMG and clinical exam, has gone on to get ALS. It's consistant with the Mayo study.
Why do people here who are scared of ALS wish for it to be rapidly progressing? The father of a friend of mine has had it for 21 years and he still gets around and talks fine and is enjoying life...
alive wrote:I must say I don't find this type of discussion helpful at all . I come to this site to get reassurance that even though I twitch and my jaws/hands/throat or something else may feel strange, I'm still not dying a horrible death in the near future..
Arron wrote:Move-on! And, if I see more posts like what's in this thread, with the "whoa's me. It must be a bad disease" It isn't normal to twitch"... blah, blah, blah garbage, I'm going to start deleting them! It doesn NO ONE any good to hear unfounded and unsupported statements like those!
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A $51 Billion Sandy relief package is coming on January 15th, according to Rep. Peter King of New York and Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey.
Their comments just aired on CNN.
King had vociferously blasted Boehner last night and earlier today after a bill to provide aide for Sandy victims was unexpectedly pulled.
A $9 billion package will come on Friday to extend the flood insurance benefits to make sure that people will survive until the full package comes through.
The group was resigned to the fact that the full $61 billion Senate bill will not see a vote today. Still Rep. King backed up Speaker Boehner and Leader Eric Cantor and insisted he'd vote for them in leadership positions, as did Rep. Michael Grimm. Grimm had earlier implied that he would not vote for Speaker Boehner.
Earlier today Rep. King gave Boehner a major tongue lashing for canceling the vote.
After the meeting with Boehner and Cantor, the team of GOP New Yorkers seems to have drastically changed their tune.
"As far as I'm concerned," the Long Island Republican said, "that was a lifetime ago."
King mentioned that "As long as there are 218 votes on January 15" all of this is water under the bridge.
Since the House will be drawing this bill from scratch, the group also removed many of the controversial earmarks that could have possibly held the passage back. King assured reporters that there was "No earmarks, no pork, anything that was at all questionable is out."
Rep. Michael Grimm, a sophomore GOP representative from battered Staten Island, emphasized that he did plan to vote to re-elect the current House leadership team, and that his top concern was getting aid for his constituents.
"We have an economic calamity waiting in the wings if we don't rebuild New York and New Jersey," Grimm said after joining the press conference.
The first vote is Friday in order to extend the flood insurance program, which New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today said is nearly broke. This will buy the time to get the full package through.
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Brussels, 27 March 2013
EU Budget 2013: More funding needed to cover unpaid claims from 2012
An extra EURO 11.2 billion is required for the EU budget to reimburse beneficiaries of EU funded programmes completed across Europe in 2012 as well as to honour the Cohesion Policy claims that will fall due in 2013.
The bulk of the draft amending budget presented by the European Commission today, if agreed in full by the Parliament and Council, will allow all the legal obligations left pending at the end of 2012, as well as those arising before the end of 2013, to be covered in this year's budget. It covers claims from beneficiaries of EU funds (Member States, regions and towns, universities and scientists, NGOs…) for projects completed across Europe; it also includes Member States' estimates for payments they will expect from the EU this year.
"This cannot come as a surprise, says Commissioner for Financial Planning and Budget Janusz Lewandowski: in recent years, voted EU budget have been increasingly below the real needs based on estimates from Member States; this is creating a snowballing effect of unpaid claims transferred onto the following year. The ostrich policy can only work for so long: postponing payment of a bill will not make it go away. Not one cent of the extra amount we request today is for the EU institutions, it will merely allow the EU to pay its share of infrastructure or science projects that Member States agreed to start in the past. I am confident that the Council and the Parliament will deliver on their commitments to avoid any shortfall in payments and take a swift decision on this proposal."
The authorised budget for 2013 set the level of payment appropriations at EUR 132.8 billion, EUR 5 billion below the Commission's draft budget and EUR 2.9 billion below the final level of payments in the 2012 budget, creating a very tight situation for payments as from early 2013 and a shortfall in payment earlier than last year. This is largely due to the backlog of payments created at the end of the year 2012 and moved to the 2013 budget.
When adopting the 2013 EU budget last November, the Council and the Parliament issued a joint statement1 acknowledging that the level of payments proposed by the Commission in its 2013 draft budget was based on the assumption that payment needs in 2012 would have been addressed with appropriations available in the 2012 budget. As this was not the case, the statement went on stressing that therefore, the Commission undertakes to present at an early stage in the year 2013 a draft amending budget devoted to the sole purpose of covering the 2012 suspended claims as soon as the suspensions are lifted, and the other pending legal obligations without prejudice to the proper implementation of the 2013 budget. To ensure sound and accurate EU budgeting, the Council and the European Parliament will take position on this draft amending budget as quickly as possible in order to cover any outstanding gap.
While proposing EUR 9 billion of additional payments towards cohesion, the draft amending budget also proposes a further EUR 2.2 billion to cover needs in practically all other areas of the budget, with the exception of administration where no additional requests have been made. This reflects the confirmed higher than expected needs and updated estimates as well as the requirements to deliver on contractual commitments in order to avoid legal or financial consequences for the EU.
The research programmes, for instance, which were heavily cut in the 2013 EU Budget, need a reinforcement of EUR 643.7 million. An additional EUR 126 million is requested for the Lifelong learning and Erasmus programmes which support education and training. If the shortfall of payments persists, universities and colleges are likely either to reduce the number of places they make available or reduce the level of grants - which may mean that students from more disadvantaged backgrounds will not able to take part in the scheme. Another EUR 460 million is needed to cover the expenditure to improve the competitiveness of the agricultural sector and to protect our environment through the rural development programmes.
This draft amending budget also covers an increase in revenue of EUR 290 million from fines and penalties.
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BERLIN – The latest batch of reassessment notices hit mailboxes in a vast swath of Worcester County this week, and most in the assessed area saw their property values decline since the last reassessment, but the slope of decrease is far less pronounced than the exaggerated spike upward seen three years ago.
Over the last 12 months, assessors with the State Department of Assessment and Taxation (SDAT) have been re-evaluating residential and commercial properties in the southern portion of Worcester County, along with a vast section of West Ocean City, in order to determine property values for the purpose of taxation. West Ocean City was added to the southern section of Worcester for reassessment purposes a few years back in order to create geographic areas similar in size.
Property owners in the areas reassessed this year received their notices this week and most saw their property values decline by an average of around 14 to 15 percent, based on a variety of factors. By comparison, property values in areas across Maryland reassessed this year declined by an average of 22 percent.
SDAT Director for Worcester County Robert Smith said this week the county's values did not drop as significantly as other areas of the state because of the general stability in the south end. The north end of Worcester County, with its high-end real estate concentrated around the resort area, is far more prone to fluctuations in assessed values.
"The south end of the county has always been a little less susceptible to big spikes and big decreases in values," he said. "That doesn't mean they don't see the same effects. It just doesn't see the same peaks and valleys. Property values are a lot more stable in the south end."
Smith said the average decreases in the south end would likely have been less pronounced than they were if West Ocean City hadn't been lumped into the assessment area a few years back.
"The assessments in the south end decreased at a rate much slower than we've seen in the north end for the most part," he said. "This latest group saw an average decrease of around 14-15 percent, which is much lower than the state average of 22 percent, but West Ocean City probably pulled that average up some."
For those reassessed this year, lower property values will likely mean lower property taxes paid to the county, assuming the property tax rate in Worcester remains the same. County officials are already wrestling with declining revenues and the increased cost of doing business in the current recession, but County Commission President Bud Church said during an Ocean City Economic Development Committee meeting on Wednesday there did not appear to be a political will to make up the difference with a tax hike.
"The property assessment values went down," he said. "They went down 21 percent at my house. I pay less in taxes, but the county gets less money. The good news is, Worcester County has not raised taxes and will not raise taxes this year. I believe we have the votes to do that."
Smith said jurisdictions all over the state are likely considering property tax increases in the face of declining values. Some will likely keep tax rates the same and absorb the revenue loss, while others will not be able to resist increasing property tax rates in order to sustain government services and avoid layoffs or pay cuts for employees.
"It's really a double-edged sword," he said. "For property owners, if the county keeps the tax rate the same, they will pay less in property taxes. If they raise it a little, they could pay the same or if they increase it significantly, some property owners could pay more in taxes even though their values have decreased. The county has some tough decisions to make."
Smith said about 88 percent of the properties in the recently reassessed areas of Worcester went down, following a statewide trend. Those that stayed the same likely saw their values stay the same or increase slightly for a variety of reasons.
"Those that increased likely did so because of improvements," he said. "In this economy, people are just holding on to what they have, but they might be putting on a new roof or replacing siding, or doing that bump out or apartment over the garage."
While property values in Worcester have declined steadily since the economy went south taking the real estate market with it, the slope is far less pronounced then the sheer cliff seen on the front end. Before the economic slowdown, property values in some areas of the county spiked up as high as 70 percent
"After spiking up so dramatically for several years there, we really started seeing the decline start around the end of 2007," he said. "Those increases of around 70 percent in 2003, 2004, 2005 were the largest of any county in Maryland in my long history of doing assessments."
Of course, what goes up most often comes down, but the roller coaster ride is far less steep on the back end of that spike, according to Smith.
"As steep as the increase was, the decline has been much less severe," he said. "The property values are steadily declining, but they are coming from such a high number that the decline is less pronounced. They might get back to levels where they were before the big increases three, four, five years ago, but we're not there yet."


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Oscar Omdal (1895-1927)
Oscar Omdal was born in Kristiansand. His parents were master cobbler John O. Omdal (b. 1866) and his wife Marta (b. 1866). Oscar died young, but was one of Norway's air pioneers.
Omdal was accepted at the navy's newly-established aircraft engineer school in summer 1916 after having studied for a year at Porsgrunn technical school and having relatively long practical experience. He continued his training in the Naval Air Force in 1919. After a short while at Christian Hellesen's Norsk Aeroplanfabrik in Tønsberg, he became in spring 1920 the first employee of Tancred Ibsen's flying company A/S Aero. On 19 June 1920 Tancred Ibsen's company opened the first Norwegian charter route between Kristiania (Oslo) and Kristiansand as a job for the newspaper Nationen during a large meeting they were covering. That same summer Omdal was loaned out to the air company Norsk Luftfartsrederi and on 16 August 1920 he flew the first passenger route from Stavanger via Haugesund to Bergen by seaplane. The route was closed in October the same year, when the economic crisis started. In 1922 Omdal became an enlisted second lieutenant.
In 1921 Omdal was engaged as one of the two pilots in connection with the planned North Pole flights on Roald Amundsen's Maud expedition in Alaska. When Amundsen in spring 1922 bought a Junkers F13 plane in New York, Omdal was to fly it to Seattle to be loaded on to the Maud. Motor stop forced him to land the plane in Nebraska, and it was badly damaged. A new plane was taken by train to Seattle, and in June the expedition went north. After a test flight on a beach by the Bering Strait, Omdal wintered alone in the cabin Maudheim he and Amundsen had built by Wainwright in Alaska. In spring 1923 the new plane was put together under primitive conditions, and when Omdal took a new test flight on 11 May he crashed. Amundsen had to give up the plan of flying over the Arctic Ocean to Svalbard. He reported to his brother Leon that "Omdal is in many ways a clumsy thing – and very unreliable"! (Source: SNL)
Omdal celebrated Christmas 1923 with Amundsen and new plans were laid for a flying expedition to the North Pole. With American Lincoln Ellsworth as sponsor, Amundsen's new planes were built in Italy, where Omdal followed the building closely. In spring 1925 two Dornier Wal flying boats were ready: N24 and N25. These were taken by train to Narvik and then by boat to Svalbard. Omdal was the mechanic on the N24, with Leif Dietrichson as pilot and Ellsworth as navigator. The planes landed at 87°44' N and N24 could not be flown again. After 25 days hard work at making a runway in the ice, they managed to get all six men into N25 and fly back to Svalbard. Omdal made important films during the strenuous expedition where N24 was damaged and had to be left. He almost died when he fell through the ice on the way from N24 to N25. Amundsen wrote later about Omdal that "if he is not present, he is always missed". On 4 July 1925 the expedition members were given an overwhelming hero's welcome in Kristiania. For Omdal the fame gave him a permanent lieutenant's job in the Naval Air Force.
Omdal participated as general assistant and one of the three machinists on the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile Transpolar Flight with the Italian-built airship Norge. The airship flew from Svalbard over the North Pole to Alaska in spring 1926. In summer 1927 Omdal was recruited by Bernt Balchen, as the reserve pilot on Byrd's South Pole expedition in spring 1928. While waiting for this expedition Omdal, amongst other jobs, was engaged as pilot for the property investor Frances Wilson Grayson, who wanted to fly over the Atlantic in a Sikorsky flying boat. Despite a bad weather forecast, Omdal, with Grayson and Brice Goldsborough took off 23 December 1927 from Curtis Field by New York, heading for Copenhagen. They reported heavy icing off Boston and, after having set a course out over the Atlantic, the plane disappeared without trace.
Oscar Omdals gate (street) in Stavanger and Oscar Omdals terrasse in Hamresanden, Kristiansand, are named after him.


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TEAM COCO: The St. Paddy's Day Leprekong Photoshop Contest
HAHA, I love contests like this… http://teamcoco.com/content/st-paddys-day-leprekong-photoshop-contest
Here are my contributions to Leprekong.
(Below is from the Team Coco site)
St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner, which means the tiny, mighty Leprekong will be on the loose, celebrating. That little Guiness-drinking beast might best known as a crappy Spider-Man villain, but on St. Paddy's Day, he's a party animal. We want you to use your Photoshop skills to show us what this drunken monkey has been up to. Interested? Great. Here's how you can take part.
- Download this image of Leprekong.
- Work your Photoshop magic to show us what the little scamp has been up to.
- Once you've finished your masterpiece, "Like" Team Coco on Facebook and post it on our wall
Pretty simple, right? So do your thing, and we'll feature our favorite entries right here on the site. Until then, happy St. Paddy's Day and long live Leprekong!


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Charting Excellence Together: Implementing Armstrong's Strategic Plan
Welcome from the Strategic Planning and Resource Council. On this site you will find an adopted strategic plan, along with its history and reports on progress toward implementation. We invite you to visit often to watch our progress as we work together to achieve our goals with an unwavering focus on student success.


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For the month of May, we'd like to highlight this photo in our "Faces of CFCA" Facebook photo album!
From left are Juanita, Dave Asher and Antonia on a mission awareness trip to Guatemala in August 2010.
Dave lives in Texas and has sponsored both Juanita and Antonia since 2008.
To submit your photos to be included in our Facebook album, simply email a .jpg photo file (the higher the resolution, the better) to [email protected].
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Shipping and logistics giant Møller-Maersk says it has now got its IT asset management (ITAM) in order and has saved "millions of dollars" in the process.
The Danish-based multinational has operations in 130 countries and employs over 100,000, with revenues of $56 billion (£35.2 billion).
Previously ITAM had been outsourced to a managed service provider, but Maersk decided to bring its ITAM programme back in-house, to gain improved visibility and control over its hardware and software assets at the corporate level, and across all of its lines of business.
The company believed it was overpaying for some software and also at risk of vendor license audits. Maersk therefore wanted to mitigate the financial and reputational risk associated with software license non-compliance.
Maersk signed an agreement with Flexera Software for a multi-year project to implement an internal IT asset management programme, using the FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises system.
The company formed a group-wide asset management team and put in place a project plan to focus on five key software vendors and deliver consistent quarterly results.
Less than a year after partnering with Flexera, Maersk said it had realised multi-million dollar savings for two key software vendors, and that 95 percent of its IT assets were now managed.
Also there is now corporate-wide, as well as business unit transparency, for those assets, said the company, with the ITAM programme becoming a "trustworthy source of critical information" across the group.
Luis Peluffo Johansen, Maersk global head of IT purchases and assets, said: "Our annual true-up with one of our key software vendors was the proof point for our revamped ITAM programme.
"The zero dollar true-up cost (extra money paid for software used), in sharp contrast to the millions of dollars paid each year previously, showed how powerful it is to have accurate asset information at your fingertips."


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Awesome bro. Looking even better than when you sent those pictures to me on Facebook haha. Mean
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Cheers guys, It's been really fun learning about the car. I have a very long way to go still, but what an experience! The seats are not that hard to do, as i used the brackets from the old seats, the hard part was finding the right position. But they feel so good when driving the car, and do look the part. The front fender was hard to fit! I had to weld parts of the bumper to lift it into the right position, i will get some more pictures of it soon, the light where easy as i just drilled into the botom of the fairing! Just need to sort out the exhaust as its not sitting right on the engine block, and the noise is just to much after a while!!
Hope to meet you guys at some events in the near future!!!!
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Ultra-thin solar blind EUV imager reported by Imec
Yesterday at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco imec presents an ultra-thin hybrid AlGaN-on-Si-based extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imager with only 10µm pixel-to-pixel pitch. The wide-bandgap material (AlGaN) provides insensitivity to visible wavelengths and enhanced UV radiation hardness compared to silicon. Backside illumination in a hybrid design was used to achieve a very small pitch-to-pitch (10µm only). The novel imager shows an excellent detection down to a wavelength of 1nm.
Ultraviolet detection is of particular interest for solar science, EUV microscopy and advanced EUV lithography tools. Sensors using wide-bandgap materials overcome the drawbacks of Si-based sensors such as their sensitivity to UV radiation damage and the need for filters to block the unnecessary visible and infrared radiation.
Imecs backside illuminated EUV imager is based on a state-of-the-art hybrid design integrating an AlGaN sensor on a silicon readout chip. A submicron thick AlGaN layer was grown on a Si(111) wafer using molecular beam epitaxy and a focal plane array of 256x256 pixels with a pixel-to-pixel pitch of 10 micron was processed. Each pixel contains a Schottky diode optimized for backside illumination.
A custom read-out chip, based on capacitance transimpedance amplifiers, was fabricated in 0.35µm CMOS technology. The AlGaN wafer and read-out chip were post-processed with indium solder bumps with 10µm pixel-to-pixel pitch achieving excellent uniformity. The focal plane array and read-out chip were assembled using flip-chip bonding and subsequently the silicon substrate was locally removed to enable backside illumination of the active AlGaN layer. Finally, the imager was packaged and wire-bonded. Measurements demonstrated an excellent response down to a wavelength of 1nm.
These results were obtained in collaboration with CRHEA/CNRS (France) and the Royal Observatory of Belgium in the framework of the BOLD project of the European Space Agency (ESA).
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text: S&Man (pronounced Sandman) is a psuedo-documentary following the exploits of writer-director J.T. Petty as he delves into the underground horror scene. Petty starts off the film narrating the story of a local urban legend of a video voyuer in his hometown who was unable to be prosecuted due the victims not wanting to press charges because the videos of them would have to be screened in court. Petty describes his admiration for the voyuer being able to get away with this and wanted to make a documentary about him. This admission, while most likely untrue, sets the tone for the film. Not only that, it indicates the viewer as an accessory for watching this. However, Petty put the cart before the horse and got the funding before his intended subject. The peeper turned down Petty's attempts to film him, so Petty decides to switch gears and focus on another dark territory: fake snuff movies. (more…)


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Casino Rama, Ontario's only First Nation's commercial casino, recently replaced more than 5,000 incandescent light bulbs with Aurora, Ohio-based TCP, Inc.'s compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), cold cathode lamps, and LED products, resulting in an estimated savings of more than $200,000 annually and a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 8%. The project included relamping three massive canopies that cover the casino entrances with TCP's cold cathode lamps, which last 25,000 hours and can withstand the region's extreme cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions. Casino Rama also chose LED products for the glass elevator shafts.
Prior to the LEDs, the casino hired an elevator company every three months to replace light bulbs, which now is only required every four or five years.


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i sent a friend request. accept it and i think we can PM.
looks like i can get there in about 20 min.. what time r u thinking?
hey santiago! i'm free today, as in now, if you can hit that would be great!
Hey Santiago, that's awesome. I'm usually available on weekends only. I injured my shoulder yesterday and need to slow down for a few days...maybe next weekend if you're available?
How about 5:30 today (Mon) or same time Wed or Thu ? Let me know where in BMK you live and I can pick u up 5:15 ?
Hey Santiago,
Thanks for shooting me a message. I'm definitely a bit out of practice, and while I've never been rated I'd say I'm about a 3.5 to 4. I played competitively back in high school, but not much in college, and so I've definitely lost a bit of my edge. I may try to get back out and practice some serves and whatnot, but it would be great to find someone to hit with. I'm still pretty new to the area, so I don't know a lot of the courts around, but I'd be down to cruise to San Rafael too...maybe we could work something out.
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Vince Tornado of news radio 610 WTVN in Columbus, Ohio recently conducted an interview with legendary rocker Ted Nugent. You can now listen to the chat below.
According to The Pulse Of Radio, Nugent cut loose with his opinions on racial profiling, George Zimmerman verdict backlash and several other topics during an interview on Nick Cannon's podcast,. Nugent explained, "I think when you use the word profile, if a Dalmatian has been biting the children in the neighborhood, I think we're going to look for a black and white dog . . . We played the Milwaukee state fair a couple years ago and these black mobs were just attacking white folks coming out of the fair. And over and over again I watch the news and here's a rape and here's a burglary and here's a murder in Chicago. Twenty-nine shot. Twenty-nine blacks shot by 29 blacks. At some point you got to be afraid of black and white dogs if the Dalmatian's doing the biting."
The rocker also shared that he doesn't believe that African Americans are oppressed. He explained, "I'm not buying any claim of black oppression. We have a black president, a black attorney general, black Supreme Court justices, we have Nick Cannon, we have the most respected and revered black leaders and entrepreneurs and CEOs and entertainers. There is no limitation to anybody of any color, any race, any ethnicity, any sexual orientation if you put your heart and soul into being the best that you can be, to speak clearly and show up early and produce more than the competition. I don't care where you're from, you will be the American dream. Case closed."
Later during an interview with WXBR in Massachusetts, Nugent shared his thoughts on Stevie Wonder's boycott of Florida following the George Zimmerman verdict. He said, "So 700 black people, mostly young children and young people were slaughtered in Chicago last year by black people, and not a peep out of Stevie Wonder? . . . Are you kidding me? What is this, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest? How brain-dead do you have to be? How strangled by denial, how dishonest, how cheap do you have to be to focus on a clear-cut case where all the evidence, from the DOJ, from the FBI, from the army of investigative specialists in Florida determined that George Zimmerman acted in self-defense against a life-threatening attack by hoodlum, dope-smoking Trayvon Martin?"


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Breast reconstruction after lumpectomy and radiation treatment
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
It has been a year since I received 25 radiation treatments for Stage II Breast Cancer. Though I had a lumpectomy, I would like to reconstruct the breast to make it look more symmetrical. The plastic surgeon feels that a standard breast lift should fix the problem, but I would like to use a submuscular saline implant as well. Are my chances really that much worse to get capsular contracture (because of the previous radiation) than a patient with a non-radiated breast? What other complications may arise because of my radiation therapy if I choose to reconstruct?
Lawrence J. Solin, MD, FACR, Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
After lumpectomy and radiation treatment, reconstruction of the treated breast is generally not recommended for a number of reasons. Detection of a local recurrence becomes more difficult. Screening for local recurrence is done with mammography, breast self-examination, and physical examination by a physician, and all of these are more difficult after reconstruction. Screening for local recurrence is important after breast conservation treatment because local recurrence is a potentially treatable and curable event. Finally, the risk of complications from plastic surgical reconstruction rises after radiation treatment.
One potential alternative is to reconstruct the opposite breast to attempt to better match the radiated breast. You might contact your plastic surgeon to see if this is feasible.


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Gardening, Containers, Planning, Garden Coaching, Perennials, Annuals, Shrubs, Evergreens, Bulbs
Friday, August 19, 2011
How Does Your Garden Grow (Part 2)
21 comments:
- CanadianGardenJoy said...
Hello Eileen girl !
I love a lot of what you have shown here .. especially the hydrangea and butterfly bush .. and begonias for sun ? WOW!
I just bought two new echinaceas of the dwarf cultivars "Little Annie" and "Hot Pink Sombraro".
I hadn't heard of them before so I had to gather them in for my collection ? LOL
These tours were fantastic Eileen and yes .. I would feel like you when seeing the massive dead heading needed ? LOL
- Fri Aug 19, 07:32:00 AM 2011
- Beth said...
Eileen, I really enjoyed your two posts on Ball Nurseries. This afternoon I plan to go to the Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden, where they test new plants and do garden photography for various Meredith publications and websites. It's always fun to visit places like these. Thanks for sharing. I'm keeping an eye out for sunpatiens next year; I settled for vinca this year (and they worked out fine).
Hugs, Beth
- Fri Aug 19, 09:22:00 AM 2011
- Lona said...
Eileen I love seeing these new plants being tested. The Coral Sunpatiens is so pretty. Good grief my Angelonia never grow like that. Mine lay on the ground. LOL! Oh, boy more new phlox! LOL! That is a pretty little hydrangea and if it stays smaller will be good for some gardeners with limited space. The leaves on that coleus is really different. I think I like the tight leaves. Have a wonderful weekend!
- Fri Aug 19, 10:36:00 AM 2011
- allanbecker-gardenguru said...
Thanks, again, for the visit . Some of the new perennials look mighty attractive.
- Fri Aug 19, 01:35:00 PM 2011
- Darla said...
My oh my! I just looked at your last post too. What a wonderful venture this was, thanks for sharing. I really wouldn't know where to begin if I had to choose a favorite here. The Dicondra is a great groundcover or spillage plant.
- Fri Aug 19, 02:33:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Joy,
I was interested in some of the smaller shrubs that they had in the test garden, especially the small hibiscus.
- Fri Aug 19, 02:36:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
I will be looking forward to see the Better Homes and Gardens post. Where are they located?
- Fri Aug 19, 02:37:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
My angelonia also, flopping all over. I will certainly look for this variety next spring.
- Fri Aug 19, 02:38:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Allan,
They had several types of smaller coneflowers and many varieties of phlox in the test gardens but most of them look fried.
- Fri Aug 19, 02:39:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Darla,
I am going to look for the Dicondra next year and give it a try.
- Fri Aug 19, 02:40:00 PM 2011
- Lavender Cottage said...
Hi Eileen
Aren't trial beds just amazing, like a patchwork of colour!
I trial shrubs for Proven Winners in my home gardens and am also aware of Ball HC, believe I've had a sample from them in the past.
Thanks for sharing all these wonderful plants.
- Fri Aug 19, 08:31:00 PM 2011
- Tatyana@MySecretGarden said...
Begonia for sun - at last!!!
- Fri Aug 19, 08:31:00 PM 2011
- Dave@TheHomeGarden said...
What a neat visit! I like that hydrangea Fire and Ice. I need more places for shade plants in my garden. The zinnias would do well here though!
- Fri Aug 19, 08:44:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Lavender Cottage,
So nice for you to drop by and I do agree that the test beds are great. I am trialing Home Runs roses this year for Proven Choice a division of Proven Winners.
- Fri Aug 19, 08:59:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Tatyana,
Yes, finally a begonia that is huge and will take full sun.
- Fri Aug 19, 09:00:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Dave, I liked that FIre and Ice because it was small but there were not many blooms to observe at this time.
- Fri Aug 19, 09:01:00 PM 2011
- garden girl said...
Nice posts Eileen! Mr.Brown Thumb, Monica Milla, and I visited Ball this week. They are so friendly and welcoming. The display gardens are wonderful. I felt like I was in a botanic garden.
- Sat Aug 20, 12:51:00 PM 2011
- Zoey said...
Is that butterfly bush a dwarf? If so, I love it!
I am also loving the coleus 'redhead' container –great color.
I think that gold coleus would be a stunner in so many huge container combos. Although I think their combo is a bit blah.
- Sat Aug 20, 04:15:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi GG,
I know MBT said he was going back. We didn't get indoors so that must have been very interesting also, the scientific part.
- Sat Aug 20, 07:36:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Zoey,
I believe that Butterfly Bush was a dwarf and upright, couldn't find a name on it.
- Sat Aug 20, 07:38:00 PM 2011
- Grace said...
Wow, Eileen. Total eye candy. Thank you for taking us along. I love it all.
- Sun Aug 21, 09:01:00 PM 2011


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(Director of Education Henry Hughes takes a moment to pose for a photograph with children from South Hampton Elementary School)
The Gardens Teaches Pratt City Children to Plant
On Thursday, May 3, Director of Eductaion Henry Hughes and Volunteer Coordinator Taylor Steele traveled to Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Pratt City to teach children how to plant, providing pots and plants to the group. The effort was part of a day in which Junior League of Birmingham and KABOOM built a new playground for children at the church. Rebuilding efforts continue in Pratt City, a Birmingham community devastated by the storms of April 27, 2011.
Tags: Andrew Krebbs, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Blake Ells, Henry Hughes, Pratt City, South Hampton Elementary, Taylor Steele


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(( I keep finding snippets of old stories here and there. Since the big arc's in which they often appeared are long gone since Sherman destroyed the Old Sanctum, I can only re-post them as the snippets they are, with OOC annotations as needed to help clarify what was happening.
This first one is one of the earliest things I wrote on the main, Ravenholdt forums back when RP stories regularly appeared there. It was written in response to an open RP in which a Blood Elf was cheerfully picking flowers in the fields near South Shore, before the Forsaken made it one of their godsawful trailer-parks. I also had to modify Fagerboozle's name to its phonetic equivalent, due to the forum's wonky habit of not letting you talk about drapes or therapists, etc.))
The Elf and the Dwarf
Meanwhile, far across the mountains of Dun Morogh....
Two men sat at a moderately clean table in the Lion's Pride Inn. One was tall and lean, with thick, blue-black hair hanging to his waist. His beard was trimmed, neatly framing his handsome, chiseled face. The tips of his long, tapered ears stuck out far above his head. Several small hoops of gold pierced through the thick cartilage of one ear, tinkling softly whenever the elf turned his head. Beside him, his companion was almost comically different. Thick-bodied, and heavily muscled, the dwarf was noisily chewed his way through a thick slab of ham, pausing only to alternate with a bite of buttered bread, or a gulp of frothy dark ale. His coppery-gold hair was pulled into an unruly ponytail at the back of his head, while his equally bright beard and moustache collected an impressive inventory of crumbs. He had just taken another swig of ale, when his elven companion groaned, clutching the edge of the table, suddenly pale.
"Wot's wrong with yeh, then, Xey?" muttered the Dwarf. "Told y'ta stay away from them salads, I did. They just gives ya gas, an' there's nothin' worse in this world than elf farts...."
The elf gasped and sat back looking worried. "No, Fayger. This is no salad." Xelas glanced at the Dwarf with a haunted expression. "It's as if dozens of daisies cried out in terror... and were suddenly silenced."
The Dwarf chewed wordlessly for several seconds before leaning forward and squinting at his companion.
"Did yer mum have any children that lived?"
"Huh?" The elf stared at him, blankly.
"Nevermind, y'daft mailbox mauler. Don't look now, but ye've got a pimple comin up next to yer nose."
Xelas almost shrieked in horror. "What side?!"
"Starboard," lied Faygerboozle.
"Oh no! That's... my starboard, or your starboard?" The elf stood up, trying to glance at his behind. "Wait... how can you even see my starboard..."
"That's yer stern, ye ridiculous cupcake-pirate. Oy." Fayger stuffed another chunk of bread in his mouth and blew crumbs as he huffed in exasperation. "Besides, since when is yer nose in yer trousers."
The elf paused, perplexed. "Is that a trick question?...."


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They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but I would also argue that abundance is another mother of invention.
Last weekend, I came home from the PDX Food Swap with 5+ pounds of fresh blueberries. I made jam (recipe to come!), enjoyed fresh blueberries with my yogurt and granola for breakfast every morning, and even froze a few berries. After all of that, I still had blueberries leftover.
With the remaining blueberries, I wanted to do something savory and unexpected. I took stock of what I had in the fridge and in the garden, and decided to roast blueberries with fresh corn and thus created this bruschetta. (Let's be honest: roasting fruits or veggies and placing them atop goat cheese and bread is usually a good idea.)
I love the balance of sweet and savory flavors in this dish, and the pop of the fragrant basil and tangy goat cheese. Everything just works.
It's a perfect little summer appetizer.
- 1 cup fresh corn kernels
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 4-6 oz goat cheese, room temperature
- Baguette
- Handful of fresh basil leaves
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Toss blueberries and corn with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Place in a baking pan and roast for 8-10 minutes, until corn is starting to brown. Remove from oven and set aside and allow to cool.
- For the crostini, you can serve them one of two ways. If you're strapped for time (or don't feel like turning on the oven), you could simply serve the bruschetta on fresh, soft slices of baguette. Otherwise, you can crisp the baguette slices in a 350 degree oven. Simply brush baguette pieces with olive oil and lay in a single row on a lined baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes, or until golden brown along the edges.
- To assemble the crostini, spread a layer of goat cheese on each baguette slice. Place a generous spoonful of corn and blueberry mixture atop the cheese. Drizzle honey atop each, and sprinkle a bit of flake sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Top each with a fresh basil leaf.


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- News
Schumacher out of coma and leaves Grenoble hospital
Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma and has left the hospital in Grenoble where he was being treated following a skiing accident last December.
Schumacher suffered severe head injuries while on a skiing holiday in the French Alps and has been in hospital for several months. At the end of January doctors started to bring him out of a medically-induced coma, but further information has been limited to protect his privacy.
On Monday a statement from his manager Sabine Kehm confirmed he is now out of a coma and continuing his rehabilitation at a different location.
"Michael has left the CHU Grenoble to continue his long phase of rehabilitation," Kehm's statement read. "He is not in a coma anymore. His family would like to explicitly thank all his treating doctors, nurses and therapists in Grenoble as well as the first aiders at the place of the accident, who did an excellent job in those first months.
"The family also wishes to thank all the people who have sent Michael all the many good wishes to Michael. We are sure it helped him. For the future we ask for understanding that his further rehabilitation will take place away from the public eye."


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- Photography by Mr Blair Getz Mezibov
- Styling by Mr Dan May, Style Director, MR PORTER
- Words by Mr Alex Bilmes, editor, British Esquire
For six months in 1983, as a stop-gap between finishing an art foundation course and beginning his studies at RADA, Britain's most prestigious drama school, the unknown Mr Ralph Fiennes, then 20 years old, worked as a house porter at the venerable Brown's Hotel in Mayfair in London, changing shower curtains and light bulbs and performing other menial but essential tasks.
Mr Fiennes, who three decades later plays perhaps the most soulful, most effervescent hotel concierge in movie history in Mr Wes Anderson's new madcap fancy, The Grand Budapest Hotel, tells me about his brief sojourn in the hospitality trade. It is a preamble to a story that illustrates something about the self-importance of certain senior hotel staff, as well as about the colourful characters he met during his time vacuuming the corridors at Brown's.
Here's the story, as Mr Fiennes tells it:
"I was polishing a glass chandelier outside the men's loo and Jeremy Irons appeared. He was just becoming a big star with Brideshead [Revisited] at the time, and I loved Brideshead. He spoke first:
'I need to clean some glass at home. What are you using?'
I showed him some generic glass-cleaning product.
'Thank you very much,' he said.
I said, 'Excuse me, are you Jeremy Irons?'
He said, 'Yes.'
I said, 'Could I have your autograph?'
He said, 'Well, listen, I'll leave it for you at the front desk.'
I said, 'Oh, thank you very much.'
"And then I finished polishing my chandelier and I went up to the front desk where the concierge - a very pompous man in a brown and gold braid uniform - looked down his nose at me, because I was the lowest of the low in my white house coat, and said (very curtly), 'What do you want?'
I said, 'Did Jeremy Irons leave an autograph for me?'
'Yes (even more curtly). Here it is.'
And he passed me a piece of Brown's notepaper. I opened it. It said, 'Dear Ralph, Keep polishing. Jeremy Irons.'"
From left: Mr Fiennes, Ms Saoirse Ronan and Mr Tony Revolori
in comedy drama The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014
Monsieur Gustave, the maverick concierge at The Grand Budapest Hotel, would not have approved, Mr Fiennes confirms, of a houseboy asking a celebrity for his autograph. Fastidious, moustachioed, liberally perfumed and clad in a purple frock coat, his parted hair streaked with blond, Gustave is a ladies man with a difference - he likes them blonde, needy, rich and very, very elderly - as well as a stickler for process.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a nostalgic portrait of an elegant, prelapsarian Mitteleuropa, and, in Gustave, a camp and courageous man trying desperately to preserve its values. Numerous familiar faces pop up to jolly the story along - Ms Tilda Swinton, Messrs Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel and many more. But this is undoubtedly Mr Fiennes' film.
It's been suggested that Gustave is an unusual role for him. But Mr Fiennes is an actor full of surprises - on stage and screen and in person, too, where he can be dreamily withdrawn one moment and then suddenly animated and engaged.
We meet at the London photo studio where the MR PORTER team has been taking his picture. Mr Fiennes has a firm handshake and a sympathetic smile. Lean and youthful at 51, his is not, initially, an imposing presence. He is dressed in standard off-duty menswear - jeans, sweater, navy peacoat - and he's wearing a dark beard, liberally flecked with grey. His distinguishing features are his pale blue-green eyes, full of understanding, and that familiar, softly mellifluous voice.
As an actor you can access a bit of you that you never carry around in normal life but you sort of know is there
We talk over tea, no milk, in an anteroom on a battered leather sofa, into which he first sinks and then shrinks, staring into the middle distance and appearing to almost evaporate from the room. I tell him that the previous evening I'd watched The Invisible Woman, his most recent film and only his second as director, completed just before he began work on Budapest. I wonder how he managed to achieve an atmosphere of such intimacy, and to bring such high emotion to what is, on the surface, such a measured, even reserved movie.
Quickly he comes to life, leaning toward me, eyes locked on mine, hands dancing, showing me how the camera is positioned, where the characters are placed in a scene. It's the word "intimacy" and the phrase "on the surface" that set him alight; in some sense, Mr Fiennes' career to date has been an attempt to see beneath the surface, or perhaps to use the surface to express depth. In this way he is the most English of actors: the manner in which people stand or smile or speak, and what that tells us about them, is what intrigues him most, more than what they are actually saying. "It's about subtext," he says.
The Invisible Woman is the story of the mature Mr Charles Dickens' affair with a young aspiring actress, Ms Nelly Ternan - an affair that poisoned Mr Dickens' marriage and threatened to ruin Ms Ternan's life. Played by Ms Felicity Jones, she is the film's principal character, but Mr Fiennes' Dickens is a monumental figure - a superstar, a magician, full of ferocious energy. The film plunges him into in crisis, throws him off balance, and Mr Fiennes is terrific at dramatising his struggle.
Director Mr Fiennes also stars as the writer Mr Charles Dickens opposite Ms Felicity Jones in the romantic drama
Mr Fiennes received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Goeth
The romantic comedy stars Mr Fiennes as a senatorial candidate who falls for a hotel maid, played by Ms Jennifer Lopez
Mr Fiennes stars in the drama based on Ms Amanda Foreman's biography of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Mr Fiennes plays serial killer Francis Dolarhyde opposite Ms Emily Watson in the prequel to The Silence of the Lambs
The Invisible Woman is another of Mr Fiennes' surprises. His debut as director, Coriolanus (2011), was twitchy, kinetic, shot in Belgrade in documentary style. This is much more delicate. The camera inches towards the characters just as they inch towards each other - falling in love "incrementally", to use Mr Fiennes' word for it.
Mr Fiennes is a new director discovering his own aesthetic: "There are tiny compositional moments in Coriolanus where I felt, 'Oh, yes! This is what I like!' It's not just her face/ his face, it's what the frame is showing and what that can do as emotion, storytelling, character. I think I brought some of that excitement to The Invisible Woman."
A leading Shakespearean since his twenties, on stage Mr Fiennes has worked with the finest directors of our time. He was Troilus for Mr Sam Mendes and Edmund in Mr Nicholas Hytner's King Lear. With the director Mr Jonathan Kent he has been Hamlet, Richard II and Coriolanus. Mr Fiennes has been Romeo, Prospero and Julius Caesar's Mark Anthony. He has acted in Chekhov, Ibsen, Beckett. It is a spectacular career.
On film, his international break was in Mr Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, as the Nazi death camp commandant Amon Goeth - a terrifying study in what Ms Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil. His first film as romantic lead was the late Mr Anthony Minghella's epic weepie The English Patient. Mr Fiennes is no snob: he was also Ms Jennifer Lopez's love interest in Maid in Manhattan; a psycho killer in Red Dragon; Hades in Clash of the Titans. He is an expert in the high-impact cameo: a cockney gangster in In Bruges; a British mercenary in The Hurt Locker; Mallory in Skyfall. Perhaps most famously he's Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films. In the British tradition, Mr Fiennes does a fine black hat.
I'm not a tough guy but everyone's got a bit of rage inside. If I'm offered a part like that it's exciting, it's a challenge - it's not normally what I get asked to do
But grown-up cinemagoers will associate him chiefly, I think, with his intense, intelligent, fine-grained portraits of reticent, diffident men in extreme circumstances: the academic cheat in Quiz Show; the jealous lover in The End of the Affair; the bereaved diplomat in The Constant Gardener.
I wonder if the reason he plays such men so well is that he is one himself. "That's a hard question to answer," he says. "When you say 'diffident' I think of Justin Quayle in A Constant Gardener. And that was a part I did feel quite close to. But as an actor you can access a bit of you that you never carry around in normal life but you sort of know is there." Everyone, Mr Fiennes suggests, has a quiet man inside. And everyone has a dormant Voldemort, too. Or a cockney gangster: "There's a bit in me that liked exploring Harry in In Bruges. I'm not a tough guy but everyone's got a bit of rage inside. If I'm offered a part like that it's exciting, it's a challenge - it's not what I normally get asked to do."
And neither is The Grand Budapest Hotel's Gustave, another character he feels close to. "In a way he's sort of an actor," Mr Fiennes says. "He presents himself in his role of concierge. He inhabits it fully but I think underneath he's a rather lonely soul. Like a lot of performers who are defined by the moment when they are performing, and when they're not they're slightly adrift."
I tell Mr Fiennes that as I was watching the film, I scribbled down the word "luvvie" to describe Gustave. He takes very polite offence on his character's behalf. "That's a word that most actors refuse to utter. I detest it. I detest that expression. It's a Daily Mail expression."
There's a kind of director you work with because they are auteurs. If you work with Wes Anderson you go knowing and wanting to be part of the thing they do. I loved trying to be part of his world
And in any case, he says, it doesn't apply to Gustave, for all his vanity and his affectations. "Gustave's sense of principle is very profoundly rooted and in his own way, he's a man of honour and principle. Wes has written an unusual hero, a man who has a moral code, an unforced nobility."
I wondered if it wasn't difficult, as an actor, to fit into Mr Anderson's scheme, so precisely ordered are the worlds he creates.
"Wes is incredibly precise," says Mr Fiennes. "But as an actor you learn to accept that there's a kind of director you work with because they are auteurs. If you work with Wes Anderson you go knowing and wanting to be part of the thing they do. I loved trying to be part of his world."
It sounds as if he had fun doing it, too. "Wes likes everyone to stay close," he says, "ideally in the same hotel, which most of us were. There were no individual trailers, and in the evening everyone gathered for a very good meal. It's very civilised. I think Wes engenders a great warmth and a good spirit."
Stupidly, I neglected to ask if any of the house porters asked for his autograph while he was filming The Grand Budapest Hotel. I imagine if they did, he left it for them at the front desk.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is out on 7 March in the US and UK.


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Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) said on Fox yesterday that he would consider running for vice president this year if the Republican nominee asked him to be his running mate.
Asking Ryan about the vice presidency this year was the wrong question. What Ryan should have been asked was whether everything he's doing now…especially the politically very difficult budget resolution he put together that the House will vote on this week…is part of a master plan to run for president in 2016.
Here's my thinking:
- There are lots of questions about why Ryan is pushing other Republicans to vote for a budget that could be very damaging for the GOP beyond its base. Jonathan Bernstein and others are talking about it as if he's asking his GOP colleagues to take "the Ryan plunge."
- There's no chance the Ryan budget will be adopted this year. The Senate has already indicated it won't take up a budget resolution and the Ryan budget will not be acceptable to a majority of senators even if it did. That makes this week's House vote on the Ryan budget what Capital Hill insiders used call "walking the plank," that is, forcing a member of your own party to vote for something he or she knows will be politically harmful even though it has no chance of moving forward.
- One of the main questions is why Ryan is doing this if his budget has little appeal beyond the GOP base. From my perspective, that's the only constituency — the Republican base — Ryan actually cares about. Putting a budget together than doesn't compromise when other party leaders have been criticized for doing the opposite is something the base will remember long after the specific policies are forgotten.
- This last point is important. The 2016 election is four and a half years from now and the budget and economic situation will be very different by the time that election's nominating process begins. That means that the budget policies that this year are giving so many in the GOP heartburn — especially the Ryan-proposed changes in Medicare — will be a historical artifact. What will be remembered, however, is that Ryan was willing to lead the fight that few others were willing to lead.
- That will likely be one of the cornerstone's of a Ryan campaign: A leader who is unafraid to take on the tough issues.
- Several things are needed for this strategy to work. One of them is that Barack Obama has to be re-elected in 2012 so that there's no GOP incumbent in the White House in 2016. One of the others is that Ryan this year has to put together the type of take-no-prisoners budget he put together this year. Third, Ryan has to play to the GOP base now even if it means alienating independents. Fourth, Ryan has to take a paint-myself-in-the-corner-and-refuse-to-compromise position on budget issues and use rhetoric to match.
In this context, Ryan indicating yesterday he would consider running for vice president on this year's GOP ticket makes a good deal of sense. He would be the attack dog member of the ticket that appeals to the base. Given his age he would become the next-in-line candidate, a position of extreme importance in the Republican Party. And if the GOP candidate loses in 2012, Ryan would have just spent months making national contacts and enhancing his position with the GOP base, the group that will be critical to the 2016 nomination.
As this story from Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post shows, until his interview yesterday, the Republican spin was that Ryan really was a just policy wonk who cared less about running for higher office than other politicians. I didn't believe it when Chris' story was published last week and I definitely don't believe it after Ryan's Fox appearance.