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Johnny Guitar
A lot of directors who worked with Joan Crawford probably thought they had tapped into whatever unique strain of neurosis made her "La Joan" in order to get the best performance out of her in their films. She had always played a version of herself throughout her career, whether as a jazz crazy flapper in her silent films, a shop girl looking to marry up in her 1930s films, and in the double-crossed dame roles she took on in the hardboiled noirs of the 1940s. By the fifties, the Joker-esque lipstick started to appear, looking all the more frightening in Technicolor, and her eyebrows reached new levels of ferocity. I think of this as her middle-aged gender bending period. It seems to me that a lot of middle-aged American women start to look kind of androgynous after awhile out of what I always assumed was a weary resignation to having to keep up the scopophilic charade but Joan's particular version of androgyny seemed more trenchant than that. It was kind of accidentally subversive. Or what the hell do I know? She may have been totally onboard as a proto-transgender performance artist. Maybe she was the first Ziggy Stardust and we weren't hip enough to catch on. Well, whatever was going on no director found the resolute queerness of Joan's 1950s persona quite like Nicholas Ray did with his weird western Johnny Guitar.
Joan had plenty of experience playing ball busters and vamps, but she had never played a character quite like Vienna, the saloon owner whom everyone in town seems to want gone. Vienna wears high-waisted black pants and boots, a bolo tie, and a holstered gun. She employs a staff of men who seem weary of having such a powerful female boss. All day they spin the roulette wheel in her club, even though there are no gamblers, and they serve drinks at her bar even though there are no drinkers. A former flame of Vienna's named Johnny Guitar (played by Sterling Hayden) is ostensibly hired to strum some tunes for her clientele. But there's never anyone there, except for the nefarious bank-robbing gang that hangs out at Vienna's including members with names like The Dancin' Kid and a guy named Turkey. So yes we have Vienna, Johnny Guitar, the Dancin' Kid, and Turkey--just for starters.Continue Reading
Dances with Wolves
It's easy to be cynical about Dances with Wolves. Some might call it a three hour goody-goody vanity project for director and star Kevin Costne. Some may laugh at his blown-dry '80s mullet. For most, its worst crime was beating Goodfellas for the Oscar for Best Picture back in 1990. It's no Goodfellas, but don't blame Costner; blame the stupid Oscar voters and take Dances with Wolves for what it is. For the less cynical it's hard not to be totally engrossed, even mesmerized, and eventually heartbroken by the film. Dances with Wolves was beautifully shot by cinematographer Dean Semler, who earlier shot the amazing The Road Warrior (1981) and would later shoot the stunning Apocalypto (2006). The film uses its South Dakota/Wyoming landscapes beautifully to elicit the loneliness of the frontier and the self-reliance of Native American culture.
I'm not sure if there ever was a "Western" before that so strongly presented such a powerful Native American point of view. After decades of offensive Indian stereotypes and John Wayne, by the late '60s attitudes were changing and the Western was evolving. Even John Ford tried a sympathetic approach to the plight of the Indians with Cheyenne Autumn (1964). There was Paul Newman's half-breed gunslinger, Hombre (1967). Richard Harris was a Brit who took over a tribe in A Man Called Horse (1970). Dustin Hoffman brought a pro-Indian satire to the genre as Little Big Man (1970). Sergio Leone had a lot to say with Duck, You Sucker (1971). Ulzana's Raid (1972) went out of its way to showcase the brutality of the white man, and Clint Eastwood had an interesting fresh take on old stereotypes with The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Since that golden age of "revisionist Westerns," Jim Jarmusch got all post-moderny (or something) with his Dead Man (1995). Now, generally, the Indian is no longer automatically the bad guy or a monster. But what really makes Dances with Wolves notable is, though it stars a white man and the Indians are supporting characters, the film still manages to bridge cultural divides as well, if not better than any of its predecessors.Continue Reading
Duel in the Sun
They don't really make 'em like this any more. Dubbed "Lust in the Dust" by clever people of the time Duel in the Sun is a ferociously overheated western with a bad romance novel plot blown up to the scale of grand opera. The combination of terrible acting, epic scope, its goofy depiction of a lustily violent romance, and Technicolor so rich and strange it makes Texas look like Mars all work to achieve a rare kind of purity that the film exudes. Hollywood still produces expensive flops but rarely something this original and insane. It was truly the Showgirls of its day. We have star producer David O. Selznick to thank for this fantastic folly.
Selznick needed to top his previous success with Gone With the Wind. He was also determined to make his questionably talented mistress Jennifer Jones a big star. Selznick's meddling with Duel in the Sun is legendary. He ran through directors (including Selznick himself and the inimitable Josef von Sternberg who, one would assume, would have been a perfect match for such gilded fakery), fought with his composer, Dimitri Tiomkin, and spent so much money and overstuffed his movie with so much talent – Gregory Peck, Joseph Cotten, Lionel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Herbert Marshall – that the results were going to be interesting no matter what.Continue Reading
The Wild Bunch
As the western genre in America became more and more watered down by television, Sam Peckinpah singlehandedly turned the western on its head; his The Wild Bunch shocked 1969 audiences with its almost apocalyptic, misogynistic, and violent vision of a dying era. By today's standards The Wild Bunch is still a nihilistic masterpiece. The action and graphic carnage on screen are still staggering and utterly exciting. And along with Battleship Potemkin, Psycho, and Bonnie and Clyde, it's still one of the gold standards for incredible cutting-edge editing of violence and death. The film is bookended by two of the best pieces of choreographed mayhem ever put to screen where the Bunch engage in shootouts so violent and intense that the film got an X rating then and even got an NC-17 rating when it was re-released in the '90s (both ratings were negotiated down by the studios). The editing and mix of film speeds, including slow motion, have been ripped off and become a standard in operatic action scenes since—just check out all of John Woo's best (Hong Kong) films; they're direct grandchildren of The Wild Bunch.
The legend of director Sam Peckinpah has taken on mythical proportions; he was a man out of time, a hard drinkin' visionary with a death wish. One fact is definitely true: he was an ex-TV western director trying to find a place in features. His Ride the High Country was considered a little gem while the financial disaster and critical drubbing of Major Dundee almost ended his film career (a half-ce...
Duck, You Sucker (AKA A Fistful of Dynamite)
If Once Upon a Time in the West was Sergio Leone's North by Northwest or Rear Window, then Duck, You Sucker (AKA A Fistful of Dynamite) was his Vertigo. It was a misunderstood film in its day; fans were startled by the director breaking from his formula and actually trying to say something. But like Hitchcock, what he had to say also didn't satisfy what audiences wanted to hear, and the pace didn't give them the thrills they were used to. With Duck, You Sucker, Leone was working on a potentially bigger canvas than Once Upon a Time in the West. Working with his biggest budget yet meant that Leone did have to concede his casting choices to the studio. Rod Steiger and James Coburn were hardly Leone's first choices to play the leads, but United Artists considered both big stars while Jason Robards wasn't bankable enough and Clint Eastwood was no longer available.
Throughout Leone's Eastwood "Man with No Name" trilogy, each film was made back-to-back-to-back (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad & the Ugly) and each got more progressively ambitious in both scope and ambition as their popularity grew. Finally, the director peaked with his follow-up, Once Upon a Time in the West, an accumulation of all the ideas he had been building towards and both the ultimate post-modern western and one of the true film masterpieces of the 1960s. He finally took a break (three years) before returning to the screen with the eccentric Duck, You Sucker (afterwards he would take an even longer break, not being a credited director for 11 years). In some territories the film was titled Once Upon a time in the Revolution or A Fistful of Dynamite but it would not fully fit with his first four flicks (we all tend to ignore his unrecognizable debut The Colossus Of Rhodes in '61). Everything about this new film felt slightly tweaked. Its tones moved from comic to dramatic to sentimental to tragic to cartoony much less gracefully than in his past work. The setting moved south to Mexico and the period moved up a couple decades. Where Once Upon a Time in the West had a deliberate pace, the strands perfectly came together and justified their speed, while at almost 160 minutes Duck, You Sucker sometimes just feels long and, worse, indulgent. But luckily that indulgence and the hint of a director slightly lost in his creation proves to be both fascinating and entertaining. And just as westerns had been reinvented in the '60s, the '70s saw another seismic shift where movies as diverse as Duck, You Sucker, El Topo, The Missouri Breaks, and, finally, Heaven's Gate would help to kill the genre for a generation.
John Ford may have brought the Western out of the B-movie jungle and into the respected leagues (Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, The Searchers, etc.), but George Stevens took the workman's template and made it beautiful. With his masterpiece, Shane—maybe the greatest American Western of all time—he infused the genre with even more mythology than it already relied on. Shane is the film that influenced the Western Revisionists and Postmodernists more than any other; Sergio Leone and his Italian friends in the Spaghetti Western scene were all obsessed with Shane and it shows in their work. If the plot of Shane sounds familiar that's because it's been recycled dozens of times in everything from Westerns (Pale Rider) to post-apocalyptic junk (Steel Dawn). Shane may have more to say about the Hollywood myth and romanticism of violence, and more poetically, than any film before or since.
Based on the novel Shane by Jack Schaefer, the film is seen through the eyes of a young farm boy, Joey Starrett (Brandon De Wilde), in the settled territory of Wyoming. Life's a struggle for his proud but modest parents, Joe (Van Heflin) and Marian (Jean Arthur). Besides the usual struggles against nature in the tough terrain, the area is owned by the ruthless baron, Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer), who is trying to force the Starretts and the other local homesteaders off their land. When a drifter named Shane (Alan Ladd) shows up on horseback, the Starretts take him on as a ranch hand and he gets involved in the conflict between the wholesomely innocent homesteaders and the greedy Ryker and his posse of hired goons.
It becomes apparent that Shane is actu...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The massive hit from 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is often cited as a "Western that people love, who usually don't like Westerns." But it also often makes "all-time most overrated" lists, especially from folks who do like Westerns. That contradiction may be because the film is completely carried by the charisma of its two superstars, Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Also it's closer in spirit to a light comedy or even the "outlaw reexamination" genre started by Bonnie and Clyde than the landmark Westerns of its era that Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone were directing at the same time. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is an incredibly simple tale, and regardless of its place on the Western checklist it's perfect entertainment.
The script seems to have very little dialogue and often the same lines are repeated, "You keep thinking, Butch," which is ironic since the script by William Goldman (Marathon Man, All The President's Men) has been hailed for its perfect three-act structure (pre-film school era Goldman wrote a number of books about screenwriting and the business which also helped elevate his status as a quintessential writer). Act One is an introduction to Butch (Newman) and Sundance (Redford), two charming but frustrated bank robbers who are now hitting trains. Butch is the brains and Sundance the gunman. They also share a woman, schoolteacher Etta Place (the mumbly Katharine Ross of The Graduate), Sundance is her lover, while Butch flirts but is more the big brother. Act Two is one long chase as a hardcore posse follows Butch and Sundance over miles of picturesque Western plains (shot by the legendary cameraman Conrad L. Hall), ending famously with the two jumping off a cliff into a raging river. Act Three has the heroes and Etta traveling to Bolivia where they work as muscle for a paymaster (Strother Martin) and culture clashes impede their bank robbing career, finally ending with a shoot out with the Bolivian army.Continue Reading
Jeremiah Johnson
"The mountain's got its own ways." --Jeremiah Johnson
Among those who are big fans of the Western genre, I find myself having to defend this delightful movie. Aside from the repetition in the soundtrack, I couldn't come up with a single complaint. It is known and kept in high regard for its breathtaking cinematography (Duke Callaghan [Conan the Barbarian]) and for the fact that it was shot entirely on the mountains of Utah. We find Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford), a man fresh from a war, and set on avoiding the coming Mexican War, who also wants to make a clean break from society. He decides to learn how to become a trapper, hunting various types of game in order to survive and trading furs with local tribes. His quest was both to define himself and to break free of social constraints, and yet he discovers that every land has a law. These rules are breakable, but not excusable merely by ignorance. Soon he finds out that the mountain and its tribes intend to put him in his place.Continue Reading
Once Upon A Time In The West
Sergio Leone's giant mega-Spaghetti Western is the ultimate Spaghetti Western. It may be the greatest Western of all time, period (it's at least up there with Shane and The Wild Bunch) and it's one of my favorite films of all time. Like a novel, we are introduced very carefully to four separate characters, their motives and links to each other slowly come together. Like an opera, Ennio Morricone's masterful score gives each character their own theme. Once Upon A Time In The West is such a unique and fascinating film, it's no wonder that its influence can be seen in so many films after it, including the works of directors Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, Clint Eastwood, and Robert Rodriguez.
The Spaghetti Western is a term which refers to a genre of Westerns generally starting in the 1960s which were produced by Italians (but often shot in Spain). They usually had another Euro co-financier (usually Spain) and they would use an international cast (usually Italians and Spaniards and maybe an American) to sell the film in different countries. The '70s would also see the rise of sub-genres such as Spaghetti Gangster and Spaghetti Zombie flicks. A number of Spaghetti Western directors had an impact like Enzo Barboni (They Call Me Trinity), Sergio Sollima (The Big Gundown), Gianfranco Parolini (the Sabata trilogy), and Sergio Corbucci (Django). But the big dog, the Orson Welles of the genre, was Sergio Leone. He hit it big with his "Dollars trilogy" (Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly). Beside Leone himself the trilogy also made international stars out of the score's revolutionary composer, Morricone, and its star, Clint Eastwood, then only known as a hack American TV actor.Continue Reading
High Plains Drifter
Oh, the seventies, the best decade for movies ever! So often I see a film from that period and think, "they would never allow that to happen in a movie today." Case in point: High Plains Drifter. The year, 1973. This was a big movie for Universal, a big budget film. It was directed by and starred Clint Eastwood, who at that time was the biggest megastar in the world. Clint was playing the "hero" of the picture. Now you won't see this from a megastar in a movie today: in the first ten minutes or so he goes and rapes a woman, brutally in the light of day, while the people of the town ignore her plea for help (in Clint's defense, later in the film she comes back for more).
That's not the only naughty shenanigan Clint gets into. Clint's stranger, the new man in an unusually picturesque seaside Western town, is hired by the town's business class to protect their property from some revenge-seeking tough guys who recently got out of jail (those same business owners once employed them and when they got out of control, framed them and sent them to jail). And now Clint is the town's new protector and he seems to be hell-bent on his own kind of revenge against the town, in the form of humiliation. He takes advantage of his open tab to spend, he appoints the town little person as town sheriff and then, in preparation for the returning outlaws, he makes the town paint itself red (even the church is forced into being covered in paint).Continue Reading


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I do apologize I can't find any of the old examples I remember. It's frustrating, but it turns out the New Yorker's search engine is complete bollocks and sorts things randomly by date instead of in some kind of logical order.
I do remember reading a lot of the vignettes in your book, and I did actually read the one you just posted that you describe here, though I didn't leave a comment. But I figured those were, again, vignettes, more for either practice for you or some kind of zen contemplation for the reader (in other words, yes, I guess you could call them tone studies).
The only reason I get annoyed by these stories, then, would be because I'm conflicted about what the author's intent actually was. I know when it comes to modern art, I have often heard the explanation that there was no goal in mind other than the artist using the piece to express whatever emotions might have come while he/she was painting, but I've just never bought that. You use the example of instrumental music, but I see there being the same sort of division here; some instrumental music is almost literally just noise (some Japanese artist... don't recall the name, specializes in this type of thing), while others are clearly written to tell a story ("A Child's Garden of Dreams") despite the rather arcane kinds of sounds the piece contains.
In terms of the kinds of stories I'm talking about, then, I can understand writing such a piece as a study (like doing a sketch in art), but I feel like it's just going to be incomplete if you simply leave it that way. In which case, I fail to see the point of spending much time analyzing or even praising such a piece. And if it really is just about evoking some emotion or other, that implies that analysis would be missing the point anyhow. But I still see people treat pieces like this as though they contained some miraculous hidden meaning and were works of utter genius; maybe you're telling me I should be mostly annoyed by those who come up with such opinions, and not the artists or writers themselves who produce the works since their intent is something else entirely. Am I close?
And then Fay is telling me that the author's intent doesn't matter if someone does manage to find some lasting truth despite that the author never put one in there. So it's all very complicated.
Also, I like the direction this discussion is going. I posted it over on FAF too, but half the time I feel like everyone's too afraid of me there to disagree or try to correct me on something.

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Hi friends,
There are so many movies and so many songs about love...but I think that..it touches everyone in a special way...!
There are so many sorts of love...actually to many.
....what does this word "LOVE" mean to you ?
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Hi friends,
There are so many movies and so many songs about love...but I think that..it touches everyone in a special way...!
There are so many sorts of love...actually to many.
....what does this word "LOVE" mean to you ?
Love is a wonderful emotion that god gave us. Love is ture but finding a person that is right for you must be hard.
What is Love ... ?
Love is a slow kiss goodnight. It's anticipation.
Love is flirting outrageously and still remembering that the person at your side is not obligated to do anything. It's respect.
Love is an imperfection in yourself not bothering you. It's acceptance.
Love is passing up an opportunity because the time isn't right yet. It's patience.
Love is a back massage that starts above the hairline and ends around the insoles. It's exploration.
Love is not having to say "Let's make love," because you know what the other person wants. It's understanding.
Love is being given an honest chance to say no when you thought you were committed. It's consideration.
Love is both of you remembering protection. It's responsibility.
Love is saying the perfect phrase to make a solemn embrace dissolve into giggles. It's humor.
Love is being told "Stop and I'll kill you". It's desire.
Love is reviewing the damage to your living room and realizing personal effects are strewn in a clockwise pattern from the front door to the bedroom. It's abandonment.
Love is seeing what your lover really looks like for the first time. It's truth.
Love is knowing what time it is and not caring. It's joy.
Love is the arms around you tightening their embrace. It's ecstasy.
Love is seeing a new side of a person you thought you knew. It's renewal.
Love is telling a person if you have to leave, you will let them sleep, and being told they would rather be woken. It's tenderness.
Love is waking up to find the subject of the dream you were having asleep on your shoulder. It's where fantasy meets reality.
Love is being there to wake your lover. Slowly. It's sensuousness.
Love is belatedly knowing why you bothered to buy a queen-sized bed three years ago. It's practicality.
Love is two people only taking up a third of a queen-sized bed. It's closeness.
Love is knowing you gave the extra set of keys to your apartment to the right person. It's trust.
Love is saying good-bye and knowing you will be back by mutual consent. It's faith.
Love is stretching your arms and discovering the real meaning of the word "sore". It's a lesson in human frailty.
Love is opening your medicine cabinet and finding your tube of toothpaste turned into a pretzel. It's adaptation.
Love is sitting at the window, looking out and remembering who you were with the night before. It's reflection.
Love is hearing the weather forecast for a winter storm and wishing you could spend it in bed with your lover. It's loneliness.
Male Female Love is 0
What does this meens :x
it means ZERO => nothing => just waste of time and effort
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Originally Posted by Anonymous
love is an indepth which everyone must have experienced at atleast some point in one's life.it is a heart rendering experience.nobody can define the term "love",since it is a wide mixture of emotions,but definitely everyone can feel it,since it is universal.
even though many people believe in love at first sight, i would like to say that one develops love for another after understanding him/her. love should not be look-oriented, it should rather be character-oriented :wink:
love ... two ended knife... can prove lethal to one or at times both the people....so handle it with care ....
If you look at things scientificly, there is no reason why you would only fall in love with one person.
Our role as living things is to reproduce. Over the years we have evolved to reproduce through natural selection.
We without realiseing will want to reproduce with a healthy, inteligent counterpart with great survival skills.
Hence we decide to marry, good looking [which is usually healthy as is really fat people are not healthy and are not very attractive], inteligent, rich [can survive] people.
If you ask me love is the involuntry feeling that, due to hormonal activity that alerts you when there is a perfect breeding partner.
This is because we always want to reproduce healthy offspring with high survival rate, and as our offspring will have half the characteristics of who ever we have sex with, we choose partners with certain characteristics.
One man for one woman theory is a result of human socialogical development. We came up with 141 our selves. Some times our 'animal' innerself can overide our social commitments. As animals we would want to reproduce with as many counterparts as posible, spreading our gene pool as much as possible, and increasing our species survival rate as much as possible. This is why we have so many cheats, affairs etc.. No one sets out to be a cheat or to hae an affair but we have no control over it.
love is feeling of flying in the sky :) and later you will feel the real thing when you fall down from the sky :twisted: :P :rpupg;G:

Love is nothing....
To be Loved is Something....
To Love and
be Loved is
love is blindness
It was interesting to see all u guys view....I see love as an emotional bondage.....Its not just liking one another but building up that understanding or maturity which I define as love...
Love Is not Finding to live with,
Its a feeling whoom we cantlive without
love is a powerful neurological condition like hunger or thirst, only more permanent. We talk about love being blind or unconditional, in the sense that we have no control over it. But then, that is not so surprising since love is basically chemistry. While lust is a temporary passionate sexual desire involving the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and oestrogen, in true love, or attachment and bonding, the brain can release a whole set of chemicals: pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin and vasopressin. However, from an evolutionary perspective, love can be viewed as a survival tool – a mechanism we have evolved to promote long-term relationships, mutual defence and parental support of children and to promote feelings of safety and security.
good one .. thanks for sharing this


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SCRAM promotes student engagement with Rose
Group aims to create opportunities to interact, communicate with museum
One early spring weekend recently, Lenny Schnier '13, chair of the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum (SCRAM), was pacing back and forth between the museum's entrance and its front lawn, where a concert was in progress.
One the one hand, he was enjoying the opener, MORRI$, a hip-hop DJ from Kansas. On the other, he was worrying about – and trying to determine – the whereabouts of Mykki Blanco, the scheduled headliner.
Blanco didn't show until the concert was over, and wound up performing that night at Chum's, but in any case SCRAM's purpose in staging the event – strengthening ties between the museum and the student body – was served, as a sizable crowd turned out.
SCRAM, which currently has 28 members, aims to expose students to the Rose, to provide students with opportunities for in-depth interaction with the collection and to communicate student interests and opinions about the museum.
"I've seen a great number of students who would not normally come to the museum attend our events," said Schnier. "At SCRAM Jam [a dance party held in the museum] this past semester, I watched as students who had never been to the museum before interacted with the artwork, having conversations about evocative pieces of work."
The nature of SCRAM's involvement with the Rose has changed radically over the years since SCRAM members and other students participated in sit-ins and demonstrations against a proposal to close the museum and sell the art.
Eventually, the Rose closed only for renovations, reopening in style in 2011 to celebrate its 50th anniversary with new exhibitions and $1.7 million in physical improvements.
The Rose has become an increasingly popular venue for students and the public. SCRAM's publicity chair, Haley Coopersmith '15, and secretary, Alexandra Hall '16, embody that growing student appreciation for the museum.
"The Rose is significant because it is a resource of learning on campus," said Schnier. "All students can learn something from the art that the museum has to offer. I hope to see the museum become an ever-more accessible place for students, faculty and staff to appreciate and experience modern and contemporary art within a university setting."
The Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum is funded through the contributions of the late Alex Barkas '68 and his wife, Lynda Wijcik.
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Another page from the scrapbook of my mother-in-law, who was a fixture at the Hand County (South Dakota) Courthouse for 50 years, working for the Highway Department.
The National Youth Association's representative recommended Louise for a job after her high school graduation in 1937. Her first assignment was bookwork on easements for Highway 14 through Hand County. Later, she did bookwork for the WPA Road projects in the county for 20 cents an hour. Her bookkeeping methods became perfected over the years, and used as a model for other departments. A copy of a letter from another Highway Department bookkeeper, written in 1963, was used on this page. It reads in part as follows:
"I am the Hwy. Bkpr. for Potter County, and the State Auditing Department has criticized me to a crisp for being to [sic] slow in getting out my yearly report.
"They recommend your books and your system as the peak of perfection, and suggested that I ask you for an appointment and do it as you do it.
"I have worked a great deal and I understand that time is a precious commodity for the gal that works, if you are able to find time to take me on for a bookwork discussion, I will be most glad to reimburse you for your kindness."
In 1977, South Dakota Governor Dick Kneip proclaimed "Louise Ulmer Day" in recognition of her numerous contributions over the years. Hand County was always a very important part of her life.


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Sending emails is one of the most important features of your email client. Whether you use a desktop client such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Mac Mail, or Outlook or Webmail knowing the bascis behind sending emails will be important.
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Knowing the difference between CC and BCC is important but not complicated to understand.
CC: CC is an acronym for Carbon Copy. This basically means you are sending the email to multiple recipients at one time. When you use CC, everyone on the list of recipients can see who you sent the email to.
BCC: BCC stands Blind Carbon Copy. This works the same way as carbon copy but it hides the email addresses from the other recipients. This is handy of you are emails a sizable list of customers , and do not want the customer to see the others email addresses.
One of the most popular free email clients is Thunderbird. In Thunderbird, the CC and BCC fields of the email look like the screen shot below. In this illiustration, Bill And Bob will be able to see each other's email addresses but both Bod and Bill will not see Jill's email address since she is in the BCC field:
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SCSI-TV installs easily in the expansion port accessible at the rear of the CDTV or A570, without opening the case. A 2.5 inch Quantum GO drive may be mounted on the SCSI-TV circuit board and an external connector can connect to hard drives, scanners, and tape backups, to a total of seven devices.
SCSI-TV supports the Amiga AUTOCONFIG(TM) standard, providing autobooting capability with Rigid Disk Block support, as well as the SCSI-direct protocol allowing many backup programs to use SCSI tape drives. True DMA allows for fast data transfer rates and low CPU overhead
Dimensions: Width 3.1 inches, Length 6.25 inches
SCSI-TV for the CDTV protrudes 1.75 inches out the back of the CDTV, and includes a black endcap for the unit. SCSI-TV/570 for the A570 extends approximately 5 inches out the back of the A570, and includes a white end cap for the unit to match the A570.
Power consumption:
SCSI-TV alone draws about 12 milliamps, a GO-drive will draw a maximum of about one Amp on startup and about half that during operation.
Typical for Quantum 2.5" GO-drive:
Idle 1.65 Watts (0.33 Amps)
Running 2.20 Watts (0.44 Amps)
Spinup 5.50 Watts (0.90 Amps)
50-pin internal and 25-pin external connectors.
The internal connector is a 2mm connector after passing through a 0.1 inch IDC header.
The external connector is a standard female DB-25.
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Jeanne Beaver says beachcombing has become bittersweet since last year's Japanese tsunami sent debris washing up on B.C.'s shores.
"We like to beachcomb, walk around and get our exercise," says the resident of Borrowman Bay on northwestern Aristazabal Island on B.C.'s north coast.
"It's exciting to find these things, but the reason they're here is because of a disaster and tragedy. It takes away from the fun, if you know what I mean."
That's why Beaver and her husband, Richard, who salvaged the first tsunami-related vessel to arrive on the B.C. coast, were overjoyed to learn the owner survived the disaster.
"Thank goodness he was not harmed in Japan," she said in an interview this week. "We were so delighted to hear the owner of the boat was alive and well."
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The Beavers, who have a home in Kitwanga in west-central B.C., are retirees who've been living the good life in their 12-metre sailboat and floating home in Borrowman Bay for the past eight years. They make a two-day trip to Kitimat about every six months to get gasoline and groceries.
Beachcombing is a part of their coastal routine, especially now that tsunami debris is arriving ashore.
Earlier in the year, lots of large barrel-shaped Styrofoam arrived, along with fishing floats.
Then came a door that they used in the greenhouse of their floating home.
"We recycle just about everything we get our hands on," she said.
And then the boat, which washed ashore upside down on the south side of Thomson Island, near their floating home.
"We saw something that looked odd on the beach, and lo and behold," Jeanne Beaver said.
That occurred June 26, but word is just getting out now from the remote location.
"We're up here in the tules," she said.
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A federal fisheries officer arrived a few days after the boat was found to inspect it, take pictures, and confirm that the attached shellfish were gooseneck barnacles and not an invasive species.
Transport Canada then contacted the couple to inform them of the formal process to salvage the vessel and took steps to have the boat's owner tracked down through a number on the vessel.
That's how they knew the owner survived the tsunami.
"We have received confirmation from the Japanese embassy that the owner has no interest in the vessel," confirmed Sau Sau Liu, spokeswoman for Transport Canada in Vancouver. "At this time, we are working to process the salvor's claim."
Beaver, who used to work in a medical clinic, described the 6.5-metre boat as a Panga-style craft used for fishing. There was no motor attached to it.
Part of the upper bow is damaged but the boat still floats and is in otherwise good condition.
Once the salvage process is complete, the Beavers plan to have it repaired and use it themselves.
"We feel it's a part of history," she said. "We really want to pay honour to the boat, fix it up to what it was."
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"We have to tell Congress it's time to restore the ban on military-style assault weapons, and a 10-round limit for magazines, to make it harder for a gunman to fire 154 bullets into his victims in less than five minutes. Let's put that to a vote," Obama told 3,100 listeners in a cavernous, noisy gymnasium at the University of Hartford.
Nicole Hockley, whose son Dylan was one of 20 first-graders shot to death on Dec. 14, introduced Obama. Before Dec. 14, she said she would see tragedy on the news and then gradually return to the everyday concerns of family life – but "now there is no going back" because she's committed to helping change national gun control laws.
She asked others to join her in pushing for action: "Do something — before our tragedy becomes your tragedy."
Obama picked up that request from a grieving mother, turning it into a rallying cry and a loud message to the U.S. Senate, which will begin debating gun control legislation this week.
"Newtown, we want you to know that we're here with you. We will not walk away from the promises we've made," Obama said.
"I know many of you in Newtown wondered if the rest of us would live up to the promises we made in those dark days — if we'd change, too; or if, once the television trucks left, once the candles flickered out, once the teddy bears were gathered up — that the country would somehow move on to other things," Obama said.
"If you're an American who wants to do something to prevent more families from knowing the immeasurable anguish that these families know, now is the time to act. Now is the time to get engaged, to get involved, to push back on fear, frustration and misinformation,'' Obama said. "Now is the time to make your voice heard from every statehouse to the corridors of Congress."
In what became the theme of the speech, Obama repeatedly urged his listeners to contact members of Congress to urge a vote on gun control measures. About halfway through, the crowd was on its feet, chanting "We want a vote, we want a vote, we want a vote."
The crowd was dominated by college students who whooped and cheered. At one point, a woman yelled, "I love you, Mr. President!" He responded, "I appreciate that," and went right back to his speech.
"Some back in Washington are already floating the idea that they might use political stunts to prevent votes on any of these reforms. Think about that. They're not just saying they'll vote 'no' on ideas that almost all Americans support. They're saying they won't allow any votes on them at all. They're saying your opinion doesn't matter. And that's not right," he said.
Obama was joined at the university appearance by families from Sandy Hook Elementary School, including Hockley and her husband, Ian Hockley. Twelve family members left with the president in his motorcade shortly after 6:15 p.m. to fly back to Washington with him. They plan to meet with senators in coming days as Congress begins debate of a gun control proposal backed by Democrats.
"I've heard Nicole talk about what her life has been like since Dylan was taken from her in December,'' Obama said. "And one thing she said struck me. She said, 'Every night, I beg for him to come to me in my dreams so that I can see him again. And during the day, I just focus on what I need to do to honor him and make change.'" Obama said near the end of his half-hour remarks. "Now, if Nicole can summon the courage to do that, how can the rest of us do any less?"
At the university athletic facility, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy came out about 30 minutes before Obama to welcome the crowd. He said last week's passage of a sweeping gun control law in Connecticut could change the political momentum in Washington in favor of gun restrictions.
"One question that was on the minds of many of us late on the evening of Dec. 14 [was] how do we make sure something like this never happens again?" Malloy said. He acknowledged that such a goal is "impossible to accomplish," but added that the new state gun law "will be of assistance in preventing future death in the state of Connecticut" and will become "a turning point in the debate on a national basis."
The issue has been stalled for more than a month at the U.S. Senate. On Monday, Democratic and Republican senators were said to be moving toward agreement on a compromise bill that would require background checks for nearly all gun purchases under federal law.
It would not quite be the universal background checks that Obama had proposed in January – and which the Connecticut legislature and governor enacted into state law last week. The compromise under discussion would exempt sales of firearms between closely related family members and some hunters from background checks. Those exemptions were being talked about as ways to meet the conservatives' concerns.
Up to now at the federal level, background checks have not been required for sales between private individuals and sales at gun shows.
Political resistance to gun control in Washington has endured, even though polls have shown that nine out of 10 Americans favor universal background checks.
Obama picked up that in his speech, saying: "Ninety percent of Americans support universal background checks. Think about that. How often do 90 percent of Americans agree on anything?" The crowd laughed. He continued: "Ninety percent agree on this — Republicans, Democrats, folks who own guns, folks who don't own guns; 80 percent of Republicans, more than 80 percent of gun owners, more than 70 percent of NRA households. It is common sense.
"And yet, there is only one thing that can stand in the way of change that just about everybody agrees on, and that's politics in Washington."
Even if Democrats succeed in pushing through universal, or near-universal, background checks, through the U.S. House and Senate, it still would be far less than Obama and Democratic congressional leaders had hoped for in the wake of the Newtown killings.
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But Washington observers say that those two proposals appear doomed even in the Democrat-controlled Senate after vocal opposition from gun owners, the firearms industry and the NRA. The most that gun control supporters now appear able to hope for is an up-or-down vote on those two bans – in what gun control strategists say could become a means of holding opponents accountable for their votes in future campaigns.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 3, 2009) – The current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on Nov. 3 includes briefs on upcoming U.S. players competing abroad, player information, trivia questions and much more.
TRIVIA QUESTIONS: 1. Which two U.S. Women's National Team players were married this past summer? 2. Where will the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round be held? Answers can be found at the bottom of this update.
BOWN ON FIRST-PLACE JESI: Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), a U.S. Women's National Team middle blocker, has helped Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi to a 4-0 start in the Italian Serie A professional league. Jesi has a league-leading 11 points and is the only undefeated team through the first four rounds of competition. To open the season, Bown scored 11 points with eight kills on 25 attempts and three blocks in rallying Jesi to a five-set victory over CGF Recycle Florens Castellana Grotte on Oct. 18. During the following week, Jesi swept Chateau d'Ax Urbino Volley on Oct. 25 as Bown was credited with 10 kills on 13 attempts with just one hitting error. Bown charted 14 points, all on spikes from 28 attempts, in a four-set victory over Yamamay Busto Arsizio on Oct. 28. Bown provided 12 kills on 23 attacks with only two errors to go with two blocks for 14 points in a four-set win over Zoppas Industries Conegliano on Nov. 1 after Jesi dropped the first set.
BERG'S RETURN TO ITALY: Lindsey Berg (Honolulu), a U.S. Women's National Team setter, took the 2008-09 professional season off to rehabilitate. However, she has returned to the Italian Serie A professional league and picked up where she left off. After playing for perennial contender Asystel Volley Novara in 2007-08, Berg has moved on to MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese for the current season and lifted the squad to a second-place standing with a 3-1 record and one point behind league-leader Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi. Berg set Cortese to a four-set victory over Despar Perugia on Oct. 18 as the team converted 40 percent of its attacks. Cortese lost a hard-fought five-set match to Foppapedretti Bergamo on Oct. 25. Although Berg tallied a kill and ace while leading Cortese to a 44 kill percent for the match, Bergamo converted on 55 percent of its attempts and won the offensive battle. Cortese bounced back to sweep Zoppas Industries Conegliano on Oct. 28 as Berg tallied three kills on four errorless attacks and a block for four points. She set Cortese to a 46 kill percent in the victory. Berg set Cortese to a 56 kill percent in a sweep of CGF Recycle Florens Castellana Grotte on Nov. 1. She added two kills on four errorless attacks in the win.
TOM WITH ASYSTEL VOLLEY NOVARA: Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) and her Italian Serie A professional team Asystel Volley Novara have bounced back from a regular season opening loss to record three straight victories and are in a tie for fifth place in the league standings with seven points. Tom scored seven kills and an ace in a three-set loss to Chateau d'Ax Urbino Volley on Oct. 18 as the winner won the final two sets 28-26 and 27-25 in a close battle. Novara recovered to win its next match on Oct. 25 in five sets over Rebecchilupa Piacenza. Tom was credited with 10 kills, one block and one ace for 12 points in the victory. Novara downed CFG Recycle Florens Castellana Grotte in four sets on Oct. 28 as Tom totaled 17 points with 14 kills on 41 attempts with just three errors to go with two blocks and an ace. Tom notched 20 points on 18 kills, one block and one ace as Novara rallied for a five-set victory over Riso Scotti Pavia on Nov. 1.
COLLEGIATE PLAYER UPDATES: Over the past couple summers, the U.S. Women's National Team had several collegiate players training in either Colorado Springs or Anaheim. Some of those players are still competing in the NCAA Division I ranks and doing well. Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) and Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.), who trained in Anaheim this summer, have helped Penn State to a 24-0 record in 2009 and first-place ranking in the AVCA Division I Coaches' Top 25 Poll. Hodge, who earned her third AVCA National Player of the Week honor and second of the year on Nov. 3, averages 4.80 kills per set with a .439 attack efficiency as an outside hitter. She adds 0.64 blocks and 2.54 digs this season. Glass has set Penn State to a .412 team attack efficiency while adding individual averages of 0.80 kills and 0.83 blocks per set. Both Hodge and Glass have been instrumental in leading the Nittany Lions to 88 consecutive victories, which ranks tied for fourth with the UCLA men's basketball team for the longest win streak all-time in any NCAA Division I sport. Destinee Hooker (San Antonio), who attempted to make the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team by taking the 2008 spring semester off, has led the University of Texas to an 18-0 record and a No. 2 ranking in the AVCA Poll. She averages 4.78 kills per set with a .353 hitting efficiency while adding 0.73 blocks and 0.39 aces per set for a 5.70 scoring average. Longhorn teammate Juliann Faucette (San Diego), who also trained in Colorado Springs in spring 2008, has added 3.97 points per set this year. Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii), a senior libero who trained in Anaheim this past summer, has helped University of Washington to a 19-2 overall record and No. 4 ranking in the AVCA Poll. She averages 5.26 digs per set and has only six reception errors through the first 21 Husky matches (70 sets). Ellen Herman (Toledo, Ohio), a senior outside hitter for Ohio University, trained in Anaheim this past summer. She is a two-time member of the U.S. Women's National A2 Team and won the Open Division most valuable player award at the 2008 USA Adult Open Championships. Herman, who now has 2,004.5 points in her career at Ohio, is averaging 5.19 points per set for the 19-5 Bobcats in 2009.
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After Dinner Speaker | Diversity | Entertainment | Humor
Imagine top-notch comedy, two seasoned performers with unique "hooks," and beneath it all, an implicit but not preachy message of healing and understanding. That is what Ahmed Ahmed and Rabbi Bob Alper present, and is why audiences of Jews, Muslims, and Christians find themselves enjoying nonstop laughter.
Alper and Ahmed charm their audiences with clean humor and keep them laughing. "One Muslim. One Jew. One Stage" is bright, fast-paced, and family friendly. They have received warm, positive recognition internationally, including CNN's American Morning, NPR, BBC, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle (front page), The Boston Sunday Globe, USA Today, and The Hollywood Reporter. Comedy's Odd Couple has been written about in The Baltimore Sun, the Catholic Exchange, the Denver Post, London Daily Telegraph, The Advocate, The New York Jewish Week, and the St. Petersburg Florida Times.
Bob Alper is the only rabbi in the country who regularly addresses congregations that require a cover charge and a two-drink minimum. Bob Alper is the world's only practicing clergyman doing stand-up comedy... intentionally. His contemporary and unorthodox style has been delighting audiences from Hollywood's IMPROV to The Montreal Comedy Festival. His unique brand of intelligent, clean humor appeals to everyone - from a synagogue or church crowd to corporate events, colleges, and theatres throughout North America and London.
A graduate of Lehigh University, Bob Alper was ordained at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and is the first Jewish person ever to earn a doctorate from the Princeton Theological Seminary. He has served congregations in Buffalo and Philadelphia, where he continues to conduct High Holiday services.
In 1986 Bob Alper began his comedy career when he entered the "Jewish Comic of the Year Contest." Television, radio, and personal appearances followed; he has been seen on Good Morning America, Showtime, the BBC, CNN, and was featured on Extra. Bob Alper is the author of two books: Life Doesn't Get Any Better Than This, an inspirational collection now in its fifth printing, and the award-winning full-color cartoon book, A Rabbi Confesses He has also produced two best-selling comedy CDs.
Ahmed Ahmed was born in Helwan, Egypt in 1970. His parents immigrated to the U.S. when he was one month old, and he grew up in Riverside, Ca. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and studied with coaches such as Cliff Osmond, Ivana Chubbock, and Sandy Marshall.
Seen in such films and television shows as Executive Decision, Swingers, Tracey Takes On, Roseanne, JAG, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and MTV's PUNK'D. Ahmed Ahmed has also appeared on CNN, The View, NPR, and was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and featured in Newsweek Magazine.
A paid regular performer at the Comedy Store in Hollywood, Ahmed Ahmed tours all across America and Europe. He was the winner of the first annual Richard Pryor Award for ethnic comedy at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in Scotland summer of 2004. Ahmed Ahmed is the author of an original screenplay, The Pilgrimage, based on his Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca.)


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ROS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 2100 diseños de 422 diseñadores freelance.
GreenPall - Sustainable Packaging Solutions
GreenPall - a Scandinavian company - is helping industri cut down on CO2 emissions by recycling industrial packaging.
GreenPall is collecting and reconditioning IBC containers and plastic drums for transport and storage of fluids and bulk ingredients for industrial customers. The reconditioning is done by washing the products in an environmentally friendly way.
For description and pictures of our IBC products please visit http://www.wikipedia.org (English) – search "intermediate bulk container" and http://www.sunwestcontainer.com/totes.php.
GreenPall is solely in the B2B segment; consequently the target audience is professional purchasers employed by industrial companies.
Sex: Mainly male audience
Aged: Primarily middle aged (35-49)
Race: Caucasian
Education: Primarily "blue colour" background
Moreover the target audience is potentiel investors in GreenPall.
The GreenPall logo needs to be instantly recognizable with a "international corporate" aura. The feel should be dynamic/contemporary yet reassuring.
The logo also needs to portray the essence of our service: That GreenPall is an environmentally friendly company helping our industrial customers save money and cut down on the CO2 emissions at the same time.
Logo Perception: Transport of fluids and bulk ingredients for industry, security for the customer, recycling, high-value, industry leader, trustworthy.
We would like to explore the idea of a stylized IBC container being part of the logo.
These are suggested design directions to be expanded upon, but they remain suggestions only. You are free to be creative! Submit other designs that you think are in the spirit of this Logo Design Brief.
Other requirements:
* Please include the tag line "Industrial Packaging Solutions" in your design submissions
* Two colours (one has to be GREEN) are fine, but the logo must also work well in black & white
* The words GREEN and PALL could be designed e.g. in two different colours or one part of the name in bold and the other in fine line
* Vector formats preferred
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Yummy Plants: a vegan lifestyle website and community. We can help you start a vegan diet!
vegan restaurants in Freemont
Vegan pizza in Freemont, CA – they have a pizza called "Berkeley Pizza" that's made with vegan cheese! Multiple locations… make sure they have vegan cheese at the location you'll be visiting. Otherwise you'll still be able to have the super yummy crust, but you'll have to go cheeseless.


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Old Globe revives classic play about a fast talker who precipitates romance
It's been a long time since San Diego officially sought the services of an old-fashioned rainmaker. And history points to some pretty good reasons. (Aside from, that is, the dubious science behind the idea.)
The last time, after all, things didn't go so well.
In 1916, the city's leaders — vexed over a crippling drought — hired the celebrated Charles M. Hatfield to coax the skies to open.
And rain it did — so much so that neighborhoods were flooded, bridges were washed away and lives were lost.
Instead of paying Hatfield, the city wound up threatening to hold him liable for the damage. Their court battles ground on for 22 years, until Hatfield finally was exonerated.
Nearly 100 years later, Hatfield — who lived in San Diego County for a time — is making a homecoming of sorts. This week, the Old Globe Theatre begins performances of N. Richard Nash's "The Rainmaker," the classic 1954 work inspired at least in part by the saga of the real-life rainmaker.
The play, perhaps best remembered for the 1956 movie version starring Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster, involves a charismatic, Hatfield-esque figure who insists he can help save a struggling Texas farm from drought during the Great Depression.
Paying tribute to a playwright
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of N. Richard Nash's birth this year, friends and family of the late "Rainmaker" playwright have set up a Facebook page for those who've been involved in a production of one of his plays to share photos, stories and memories.
But the play focuses less on the efforts of Bill Starbuck (played at the Globe by Gbenga Akinnagbe) to summon rain from the skies than on the way his arrival opens up new horizons for Lizzie (Danielle Skraastad), the headstrong farm gal who begins to fall for him.
Maria Mileaf, the seasoned New York director (and 1990 UC San Diego MFA grad) who is directing the production, says her main focus is on preserving the spirit of the original while making sure its tone and themes connect with 21st-century playgoers.
"The family story, Lizzie's quest to find happiness, is (surprisingly) contemporary," Mileaf says. "So that's the trick for me, is how to create a compelling narrative that's set in the '30s, but also open up the family dynamic, the love triangle, the aspirations and fears and obstacles for the characters in a way that is recognizable to a contemporary audience.
"Also, when (Nash) wrote the play, it was the 1950s, so there are some challenging dynamics that have more to do with the '50s than the '30s. But you know, wanting something and not being able to get it — anybody can understand that quest."
Mileaf and her design team — which includes her husband and fellow UC San Diego grad, set designer Neil Patel — also have been keying in on how to get across visually "the central event of the play, this crippling drought. Both in terms of weather and metaphorically, there's this dryness."
"I'm excited about what we did," she adds. "I think it's going to create the environment to tell the story but not distract from it — to open it up in a way that's fresh and imaginative."
"The Rainmaker" >
When: Previews begin Saturday. Opens July 18. Performances: 7 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays; 8 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays (no matinees this weekend). Through Aug. 11.
Where: Old Globe Theatre's Shiley Stage, Balboa Park
Tickets: About $29-$97
Phone: (619) 234-5623
Online: theoldglobe.org


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The organisation has trained carpenters in Niamey and Zinder in the production of Dierkx model solar box cookers.
It has also developed other cookers and dryers for larger-scale food processing.
Aridité Prospère partners with Tahoua Import, Solar Cooker Workgroup Sliedrecht NL and the CNES (Centre National de l'Énergie Solaire) on its solar cooking initiatives.
To order cookers in Niamey, please contact the carpenter Rabiou Abdoulaye, at the village artisanale Wadata.
To order cookers in Zinder, please contact the carpenters Rabiou and Hamissou Yaou, in Sabon Gari, Zinder.


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Aireloom Kluft Ashton Streamline Firm
Aireloom Kluft Ashton Streamline Firm
Enhanced luxury comfort with a zoned, English Nested imported coil system designed to provide better back support and conformance. A heavier foam rail gives better edge support but is flexible enough to be used on an adjustable base. Settle into luxury with a fiber blend of Silk and Wool, Alpaca, and specialty foam backed with stretchable 100 percent cotton Tricot. Double layers of Talalay Latex over Organic Cotton provide natural breathability and pressure relief - all supported by the highest quality plush Aireluxe foam. Tufted by hand to minimize motion, hold layers together, and help prevent body impressions. This is truly an extraordinary Sleep System designed for the most discriminating individuals that deserve the very best!
- Quilting consists of 100% Rayon Belgian Jacquard Damask
- 1.2 oz Silk & Wool fibers
- 1 oz HiLoft FR fibers
- 1.5 Pillowflex
- 3/4 Plush HD foam
- Wrapped in True-stretch 100 percent cotton Tricot
- Mattress has 1 Extra Firm Natural ventilated Talalay latex
- 1 Extra Firm Natural ventilated Talalay latex
- Premium Wool Layer
- 1 Firm Aireluxe foam
- Edge support and stability provided by ultra heavy duty foam rails
- English nested tempered individually wrapped coils with zoned gauges 16/15/16
- Cotton crown and over 40 hand outer-tufts
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- 139 queen coil count
- True-Flex Modular system
- Fully Upholstered
- Sustainable Forest Lumber
- 70 queen module count
- 9 gauge
- Aireloom metal corner guards
- Self upholstered cotton fill panels
- Self cord finish
- Adjustable Bed Friendly
- 15 Year Warranty
Standard Mattress Size Guide
Sizes vary slightly by vendor and product, Thickness dependents upon firmmess, see product details for info.
39" x 75"
39" x 80"
54" x 75"
60" x 80"
76" x 80"
72" x 84"
Split Mattress Sizes
Split sizes provide adjustable comfort for each side of the bed. A Split-King is the same size as two Twin XL mattresses side-by-side.
38" x 80" (2)
76" x 80" over all
38" x 84" (2)
72" x 84" over all


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Spitting Girl Pendant 80 cm
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The length of a necklace
Refer to the image to see how the most common Kalevala Jewelry necklace lengths set. This will make it easier to predict the size of a necklace when worn. The image is also a good guideline when looking for a correct length for a bit lower hanging necklace.
- Care instructions
Bronze products from Kalevala Jewelry have either a polished finish or are oxidized to add colour to the metal. Bronze is an alloy that consists of copper, tin and zinc, and typically oxidizes faster than precious metals. All our bronze jewelry has a protective lacquer coating, which prevents discoloration of the skin and delicate light-colored fabrics. This lacquer coating is eroded by various chemicals and slowly wears off. We recommend, therefore, taking off bronze jewelry while practicing sports, taking a sauna or swimming in chlorinated or salt water. Areas where the protective lacquer has worn off may be buffed with a Kalevala Jewelry polishing cloth. After cleaning the piece of jewelry with a polishing cloth, rinse the jewellery in mild soapy water so that the residue detergent from the cloth does not stain. If necessary, the protective lacquer coating can be restored by Kalevala Jewelry's own maintenance service for a fee.
Silver products from Kalevala Jewelry are manufactured in sterling silver and have either a polished finish or are oxidized to add colour to the metal. The tarnishing typical of silver may be cleaned off with a Kalevala Jewelry polishing cloth. After cleaning the piece of jewelry with a polishing cloth, rinse the jewellery in mild soapy water so that the residue detergent from the cloth does not stain. The Kalevala Jewelry polishing cloth is not suitable for cleaning stones set in silver, and we do not recommend silver polish liquids for any of our silver jewelry. Oxidized silver jewelry can be cleaned by Kalevala Jewelry's own maintenance service for a fee.
Gold products from Kalevala Jewelry are made in 18 or 14 carat gold. Gold products can be cleaned with special cleaning agents for gold, available in jewelry shops. For gold jewelry, we recommend regular care by Kalevala Jewelry's own maintenance service to clean and polish the jewelry, and to check the setting of the stones.
When wearing pearl jewelry, the jewelry should be put on last and taken off first. Wipe the pearls with a clean, soft cloth each time after wearing. For pearl jewelry we recommend regular care by Kalevala Jewelry's own maintenance service to clean the jewelry and to check the stringing of the pearls.
We recommend washing all pieces of Kalevala Jewelry with water after each wearing. We also recommend that the jewelry be stored in its original packaging.
Kalevala Jewelry products comply with the EU nickel directive.
All Kalevala Jewelry is manufactured in Finland.
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- Delivery & returns
We will process your order within 2 working days and we will send your jewelry directly to the delivery address. An estimated delivery time inside Finland is 1-2 business days and for international deliveries 3-8 business days depending on the destination. Once your order has been shipped, you will receive a delivery notification with a tracking code to follow the progress of your shipment on the Finnish postal services website. We have received lots of very positive feedback about our delivery times!
If you are not completely happy with your purchase, you have a right to return it to us within 14 days after receiving your order. Fill in the return form you received with your order and mark on the form whether you are returning or exchanging products. We will send you a new size or reimburse your purchase after receiving your returned products. The returns are always free of charge.
Spitting Girl – go for it!
Two famous artists, Kim Simonsson and Kirsti Doukas, collaborated on a jewelry collection in honor of Kalevala Jewelry's 80th anniversary. Spitting Girl was modeled on Kim Simonsson's sculpture of the same name. This little girl is typical of those portrayed in Simonsson's work – she questions conventions and traditional norms. Her profile is now featured in silver pendants designed by Kirsti Doukas. There is a striking contrast between the spitting girl and the classic medallion shape of the pieces – like an anarchical cameo. Spitting Girl also carries a strong message, encouraging all women and girls to bravely be themselves!
Kim Simonsson / Kirsti Doukas
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Armour: Now this is the NCAA tourney we know and love
MILWAUKEE — It took less than two hours to show, again, why March Madness is the best thing going in U.S. sports.
Three overtime games in a row, including one won by a 12th seed, and a fourth to end the night. An upset bid that almost took out defending champion Louisville, and three double-digit seeds still alive.
And there's still another day of second-round games to go.
"That's what these games are all about," UConn's Shabazz Napier said.
As much havoc as the early round upsets wreak on everybody's brackets, they're what make March Madness the greatest quasi-holiday this country has. They're the reason we skip work, blow off class and hit refresh on our browsers so often our fingers go numb. (Who were you were kidding? You had no shot at Warren Buffett's $1 billion.)
But with the exception of Dayton and Harvard, most of the early games Thursday went exactly as seeded. Wisconsin routed American. Syracuse walloped Western Michigan. Adreian Payne almost single-handedly dismantled Delaware.
Then came those three games, and the tournament was back to the March Madness we know and love so, so much.
After trailing 10th-seeded St. Joseph's for almost the entire game, Connecticut reeled the Hawks back in at the end of regulation. With St. Joe's gassed, the Huskies won it in overtime.
INSTANT ANALYSIS:How Wisconsin won and what it means
SCHEDULE:Thursday's March Madness action
MARCH MADNESS:NCAA tournament bracket
As that game was ending, N.C. State was gagging up the last of what had been a 16-point lead over Saint Louis with eight minutes to go. The Wolfpack didn't help itself with a historically horrid showing at the free throw line – it missed nine of 21 shots in those last eight minutes – but the Billikens were simply frenetic, drilling shots and pressing on defense as they forced OT.
"All of it. All of it was improvised," coach Jim Crews said of the press.
T.J. Warren gave State one last gasp, but he fouled out and the rest of the Wolfpack was soon trailing after him.
And if that wasn't enough, Oklahoma rallied from a hole against 12th-seeded North Dakota State, sending THAT game into overtime, too. Score one for the little guys there, as the Bison held off the fifth-seeded Sooners.
The night wasn't done, either. Defending champion Louisville, a team some thought had a case to be the final No. 1 seed, was down to 13th-seeded Manhattan with less than three minutes left in regulation before winning. And minutes later, West No. 13 seed New Mexico State took No. 4 seed San Diego State to overtime before falling, 73-69.
"Honestly, I don't know what all the hype is about, like, how exciting the NCAA tournament is," North Dakota State's Taylor Braun cracked. "Kidding. That was – the whole experience was unbelievable. Just the atmosphere was 100 times greater than I expected. Just the intensity, everything about the game was unbelievable."
Imagine if he'd gotten to see what the fans did.
Louisville, UConn and Saint Louis may not count as "upsets" since the better-seeded team still won. But they provided heart-pounding, nail-biting, don't-you-dare-look-away-for-a-second entertainment, and something no one does better than the NCAA tournament.
Not the NFL. Not college football. And certainly not the NBA.
"Having done it last year, we know how the amazing feelings you get from having an upset-type of victory in this great tournament," Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said after his 12th-seeded Crimson upset Cincinnati.
Yes, it would have been a lot more fun if Albany could have become the first 16 seed to knock off a No. 1. Or had American hung on to that lead it had early on second-seeded Wisconsin.
"I wish we could have made it a better game today, represented ourselves and the league a little better," American coach Mike Brennan said. "But Wisconsin has dismantled some really good teams this year. They're a No. 2 seed for a reason."
But we got more than our fill of the upsets and the squeakers we really want to see.
Think about it: Aside from games involving your favorite team or those you saw in person, which are the ones you remember from the early rounds?
Sixteen years later, I can still picture Bryce Drew making that improbable buzzer beater to lead little Valparaiso to an upset of fourth-seeded Ole Miss. Or Princeton shocking defending champ UCLA two years earlier with one of its patented backdoor layups.All of us became honorary Dunk City residents during Florida Gulf Coast's run last year. Tell me you don't hesitate, just a little, whenever you come across Richmond in a bracket.
Anything is supposed to be possible, but life reminds us every day that it really isn't. So when the unexpected happens, you can't help but delight in it.
"We'll gladly be your Cinderella, America," North Dakota State Tweeted after its victory.
"We're just trying to soak in every moment of this," Braun said. "This doesn't come around to anybody every year or anything like that."
But it comes around often enough. And therein lies the beauty of the NCAA tournament.
GALLERY: Best shots from the NCAA tournament second round


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