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An '80s-tinged tuner adaptation of "American Psycho" has begun the development process and is aiming for Broadway.
Legit version of the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, about a 1980s Wall Street banker who is also a serial killer, will come from the Johnson-Roessler Co., management-production company the Collective and XYZ Films. The three shingles have partnered to acquire the rights to develop and produce the stage incarnation.
"Psycho" was previously adapted into a 2000 Lionsgate pic that starred Christian Bale.
Development team has just begun the selection process for creatives to pen the score and the book. No timeline has been set for what is envisioned as a large-scale musical.
Graphically bloody novel, which juxtaposes Reagan-era decadence and gruesome killings, includes prominent references to bands of the era, a fact that contributed to the idea of musicalizing the story. Sounds of the time will influence the new show's score.
Current economic woes have prodded producers to put the tuner on the fast track.
"Now in particular it seems relevant, especially given what's happening on Wall Street," said David Johnson of Johnson-Roessler.
A former senior exec at MGM, Johnson paired with former MGM TV exec Craig Roessler to hang the Johnson-Roessler shingle in 2006. "Psycho" is the org's first legit project.


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I love Thanksgiving. It's one of the few holidays without baggage. It's a low-commitment gathering that says, let's just break bread together and enjoy each other's company.
One of the things I would change about the meal though, if I were hosting it, would be the way it's served. Instead of having every dish available at once and piling food on your plate until it is grotesquely full, I would serve the meal in courses. Small plates brought out one at a time. It would be a meal to linger over and enjoy.
Herbaltinis or champagne
Toasted marcona almonds
First course
Mixed greens with carrots, apples, & pickled beets
Second course
Roasted Brussels sprouts with pistachios and capers
Third course
Sweet Potato Gnocchi with sautéed leeks and mushrooms drizzled with sage brown butter
Kale with cranberries, fennel, and walnuts
Fourth course
Raw apple crumble
Sweet potato apple pie ice cream
Espresso and mulled wine
Four courses sounds like a lot of work for a hostess, but I think it can be done pretty easily:
It would be simple enough to make the gnocchi days or weeks in advance. They can be frozen, uncooked, until you are ready to drop into boiling water. The desserts and sage brown butter can also be made several days in advance. The morning of, I'd make the two salads, prep the sprouts for baking, and sauté some leeks and mushrooms.
Cocktails and toasted almonds would be available for everyone as they arrived. When we were ready for dinner, I'd pop the sprouts in the oven and serve the pre-plated salads. After a 30 minutes, we'd be done with salads and ready for the sprouts. Mmmm… The gnocchi cooks in about 2 minutes, while you heat the pre-cooked leeks and mushrooms and sage butter in the microwave. Serve that with the alongside the kale salad. Finally, dessert comes out of the fridge and freezer for a nice finish to the meal. Mulled wine or espresso would be nice with this dessert, to contrast the cold crumble and ice cream.
What do you think? Could you pull this off? What else would you serve?
And in case you missed last year's menu, it's a bit more traditional.


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In 2009 rapper Freddie Gibbs set out to be the Midwest's unofficial street poet, releasing a series of mixtapes that were as complex as they were thuggish. Influenced by the likes of 2Pac, Biggie, UGK, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Gibbs filled his lyrics with honest and compelling stories of his hometown's demise, a steady decline to which he helped contribute while a drug dealer. He dealt out of a Gary, Indiana recording studio, absorbing a steady stream of uninspired rhymes while pushing product. Figuring he could do better, Gibbs began writing his own lyrics and cut some demos that would eventually land in the hands of Interscope.
When the label signed Gibbs in 2006, he moved to Los Angeles and recorded a debut album, but a year later the management of Interscope changed hands and the rapper was dropped. He returned to Gary, and then moved to Atlanta until producer Josh the Goon convinced Gibbs to return to L.A. for one more try. In early 2009 he released the Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs mixtape to critical and message board acclaim. The Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik mixtape soon followed, as did a feature in The New Yorker that found writer Sasha Frere-Jones declaring Gibbs "the one rapper I would put money on right now."
Late in the year he released the 81-song mixtape The Labels Tryin' to Kill Me. As the mixtape's title inferred, Gibbs had, like Jay Electronica, become a 21st century Internet-age hip-hop star, able to draw press and earn a loyal following via downloads and mixtapes instead of the usual industry channels. He finished 2009 proudly unsigned but in 2010 he made a rare aboveground appearance with the Str8 Killa EP, released on the Decon label.
Two years later he released two collaborative efforts: Piñata with Madlib, an album on the underground producer's Madlib Invazion label; and The Tonite Show with DJ Fresh, an entry in the West Coast producer's collaborative series. Gucci Mane, E-40, and Tory Lanez landed on 2015's Shadow of a Doubt, his first album for the ESGN label.


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I believe that if I knew how to remove a module by hand and then to load a module by hand again ,that I could get the puppies that I try to use up and going.
Sure would like to see that answer posted somewhere.
To load a module such as one needed for the battery monitor:
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Just looked at the modprobe list in a previous post.
I note mine has the following modules loaded in puppeee on my eeepc.
also wlan_wep and wlan_scan_sta but I suspect these load after wep etc is set up.
I had a problem with a corrupt module (ath_sample_rate) due to a faulty sda card and it prevented function until replaced the file and modprobed it.
May be worth checking if all required modules are present and loaded.
rxvt and dmesg are your friends.
Hope this may help,
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Still working with the Puppy 3.01NOPr5 and the EeePC - as it currently stands I'm booting from a 2GB USB key and the screen resolution mod works fine. Getting a working internet connection though is another matter - when the .pet packages for the wired and wireless interfaces are loaded the package manager shows a successful loading message but the pkgs DO NOT show up in the list when you bring up the package manager - the ath_pci pkg shows up in the wizard and says it is loaded but no connection is found. The atl2 package has had the needed line put in the /etc/networkmodules file and shows up in the network wizard also with no connection found - just for grins I tried an rmmod command for each and then modprobe to load them again - still with no working connection - interestingly enough the atl2 module returns a message of module not found when this is done. Have also checked the BIOS settings - no problem there and everything works when booting Pupeee and/or Windows XP - I'm beginning to think that in remastering 3.01 to make the NOP variant that something got changed that is the cause of the problem. Unfortunately I haven't got the knowledge of Puppy's inner workings to track this down so for now I'll concentrate on trying to tweak Pupeee to meet my needs. If anyone has ideas about why NOP doesn't work with the EeePC's network modules I'm still willing to try working with it - but for now I'm out of ideas.
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Same problems here! Pupeee works great, but I'm unable to get wNOP to recognize the wireless card on my Eee...too bad, cause compiz works great! It'd be a great way to convert people to LInux!!
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Ok... this has been one of the most helpful conversation threads at the forum, when it comes to the explicit instructions which dvw offers for getting the eeepc hardware running with puppy 3. I've been putting together a copy of WNOP 0.2 which works with the eeepc, and I can't thank you enough, dvw.
I had the same difficulties that stlchuck had with the built-in eeepc wifi card. The way forward that I discovered here, was to disable the wifi card in the bios (or in xandros), and then uninstall and reinstall the wifi patch which dvw provided. I was getting the same message in my logs about "hardware revision not supported" that stlchuck was - so somehow, I guess that when the wifi is enabled, the patch doesn't stick properly.
After walking through these steps, the network manager recognized ath0 just fine. One more note that might be a hurdle for others: in order to find my wireless network I needed to uncheck the "managed" mode before scanning to see which ones were available.
I still haven't found a way to get the Function+f2 key combination to work to disable and enable the wifi card. If anyone figures out a way to get that working, please write about it. It'd be nice to save my battery life without having to go down to the bios or back into xandros to disable the wifi card.
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... uninstall and reinstall the wifi patch which dvw provided.
Just a point of clarification: madwifi-ng-r2756-eeepatch-k220.127.116.11.pet is not a patch. It's a complete driver package.
This driver package was compiled from the r2756 MadWifi source code, with 2 patches applied.
The drivers (modules) installed by this dotpet package are in binary form. The end user does not install a patch.
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Thanks for the clarification, but honestly I wasn't confused. I was using the term "patch" generically, not specifically.
Thank you for your work on the getting the eeepc compatible as well, tempestuous. I have seen your contributions all over this forum.
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Thanks so much!!!! Just got an eeepc today, and following your advice on the previous page have been able to configure it near perfectly... I'm just about ready to wipe Xandros and use puppy...
I'm using TigerPup, with Compiz-Fusion enabled, and it works beautifully. A few bugs to work out, but other than that it's fantastic. Thanks for all the work you've put in!!! I'll post some screenshots soon.
2 Questions:
1. Is it possible to get suspend happening when the lid is shut, like in Xandros? All that happens now is it stays on happily... albeit dimming the screen. How can I change this?
2. With resolution set to 800 x 480, sometimes windows open with parts of them of the screen. Important parts. With Compiz-Fusion set to desktop wall I can get around this, but are there any other options I can configure to stop this from happening?
Great work, keep it up. TigerPup is a remastered version of wNOP, which is based on NOP. Cheers!
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Just got the Puppy to recognise the internal SD drive as a flash drive, with limited writes. Thought a few people might be interested. See topic here:
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Thank you Glassparrot! Having the wireless disabled in BIOS when the wireless package is installed is the key I was looking for. I had a feeling there was a simple answer and that method worked like a charm. I'm currently working with Wolfpup 1.00 - booting from a USB key - but any 3.01 based Puppy should work the same. With a bit more tweaking I'll have a lean, mean puppy that does exactly what I need it to do - without all the unneeded/unused extras that the full versions have.
Thanks to dvw86, Tempestuous, and Glassparrot - keep up the good work guys!
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Polar Puzzle: Will Ice Melting at the North or South Poles Cause Sea Levels to Rise?
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AbstractIf you leave an ice cube out on the kitchen counter and come back to check on it in awhile, what do you find? A puddle! The same thing happens to ice in nature—if the temperature gets warm enough, it melts. In this ocean science project, you will find out what happens to sea levels if the ice at the North Pole melts, or if the ice at the South Pole melts. It is an important question for the millions of people who enjoy living along the coasts of the world.
Determine if melting of the northern polar ice cap or the ice sheet on Antarctica would contribute to a rise in sea levels.
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Have you ever been to a beach? Did you look for beautiful seashells? Build a sand castle? Or run away from waves as they came rolling onto shore, as the children in Figure 1, below, are doing? You might have noticed that the ocean waves come farther up the beach at certain times of the day than at others—that is due to daily tides, caused mainly by the gravitational pull of the Moon on the ocean and Earth. Tides are a normal daily rise and fall of the ocean surface. Scientists are concerned, though, that there may be a different kind of rise in the ocean surface—one not due to the Moon's pull, but due to global warming.
Figure 1. This photo shows children running away from waves at a beach. (State of California, 2003.)
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's air and oceans. Global warming since the 1950's is thought to have been caused mainly by things that people do, like burn gas to drive cars, burn coal to make electricity, burn oil or natural gas to heat homes, or burn forests to make room for growing crops. The burning of all these things creates gases that trap heat from the Sun, just like the glass windows on the roof of a greenhouse—as shown in Figure 2, below—trap heat so that plants can grow, even in a cold climate. As more gases are created, more heat is trapped in Earth's atmosphere, and the average temperature of Earth's air and oceans increases. Global warming is thought to be just one aspect of climate change, which is the overall, long-term change in Earth's climate (or a region on Earth).
Figure 2. This photo shows the glass roof of a greenhouse, which lets light in and traps heat inside so that plants can grow, even in a cold climate. (Wikimedia Commons, 2006.)
One concern with global warming is that as the average temperature increases, this will cause ice to melt, which could make the sea level rise. Many people around the world enjoy living near coasts, but even a small rise in sea levels will cause flooding of areas that are at a low elevation and close to the sea. In 2007, a study found that about 634 million people (about 1 in 10 people in the world) live in locations that are less than 9 meters (30 feet) above sea level and are, consequently, at risk from rising seas, as shown in Figure 3, below.
A map of the world is covered in red dots which represent cities that have a population of over 1 million people. The largest cluster of dots are over eastern Asia and south Asia. The majority of the red dots are located near a continent's or country's coasts or large bodies of water.
Figure 3. Each red dot on this map of Earth is a city with over 1 million people. You can see that many of these big cities are close to coasts and at risk of flooding from rising seas. (Wikimedia Commons, 2007.)
In this ocean science project, you will see if ice melting near the North or South Poles will make sea levels rise. The ice in the north is in the form of a floating polar ice cap, while the ice in the south is mainly in the form of an ice sheet on top of the continent of Antarctica. If the floating ice near the North Pole were to melt, would that make the sea levels rise? What about the ice sheet on top of Antarctica at the South Pole? In this science project, you will make a model of the ice at each pole to find out!
Terms and Concepts
- Beach
- Tide
- Gravitational pull
- Global warming
- Average
- Gas
- Climate change
- Elevation
- Polar ice cap
- Ice sheet
- Continent
- Antarctica
- Model
- Trial
- Graph
- What causes tides?
- What are some of the causes of global warming?
- Why is global warming a concern for some?
- How is the ice near the North Pole and South Pole different?
This source describes the people who will be affected by rising sea levels:
- Greenfieldboyce, N. (2007, March 28). Study: 634 Million People at Risk from Rising Seas. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
This source describes greenhouse gases:
- The National Center for Atmospheric Research. (n.d.). Living in the Greenhouse. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
This source provides an introduction to global warming and climate change:
- Gardiner, L. (2004, May 11). Climate and Global Change. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
For help creating graphs, try this website:
- National Center for Education Statistics. (n.d.). Create a Graph. Retrieved April 12, 2010.
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Materials and Equipment
Play-Doh®, modeling clay, or homemade clay, which requires these ingredients:
- All-purpose flour (3 ½ cups)
- Salt (½ cup)
- Oil (3 tablespoons)
- Water (2 cups, boiling)
- Measuring tablespoon
- Large mixing bowl
- Fork
- Large spoon
Clear plastic containers, approximately 540-mL, or 2 ¼ cups (6)
- Smaller or larger containers can be used, but you will need to scale up or down the amount of dough you add to the containers.
- Note: The containers will be marked with permanent marker.
- Cold tap water
- Ice cubes (12 are needed, but you should have extra on-hand in case some get dropped and break.)
- Permanent marker
- Dry measuring cups
- Butter knife
- Liquid measuring cup, 1-cup
- Ruler, metric
- Optional: Camera
- Lab notebook
- Optional: Graph paper
Experimental Procedure
Instructions for Making Homemade DoughNote: If using store-bought Play-Doh or modeling clay, then move ahead to the next section, Preparing Your North Pole Ice Models.
- Mix 3 ½ cups of flour, ½ cup of salt, and 3 tablespoons (Tbsp.) of cooking oil in a large bowl with a fork.
- With an adult's help, carefully add 2 cups of boiling water and stir the mixture with a fork or large spoon until the mixture forms a dough. Use caution so that you do not get burned!
- Allow the dough to cool for about 10 minutes, or until it can be comfortably handled.
Preparing Your North Pole Ice Models
Fill three containers about one-third to half full of cold tap water.
- The water represents the ocean.
- Three containers are being used because you are going to make three trials of your experiment. Running trials helps to make sure your results are accurate and repeatable.
Add two ice cubes to each container.
- The ice cubes represent the floating northern polar ice cap.
- Immediately mark the water level on the side of the container with a permanent marker. Try not to get the tip of the marker wet.
- Label each of these three containers "North Pole Ice Model" with the permanent marker and set the containers aside.
Preparing Your South Pole Ice Models
- Pack one cup of dough into a measuring cup, as shown in Figure 4, below.
Figure 4. This photo shows the dough, packed into a 1-cup measuring cup. It will be used to make a model of the continent of Antarctica.
Remove the dough from the measuring cup, using a butter knife to scrape around the sides if necessary, and set the mound of dough inside one of the empty plastic containers.
- This mound of dough will represent the continent of Antarctica (the South Pole).
- Leave some space between the sides of the dough and the wall of the container all around, so that you can add water.
- Make the dough fairly flat and level on top.
Add approximately ¼ cup of water around the sides of the dough, so that the water level comes up about one-third to half of the way up the dough.
- The water represents the ocean.
Place two ice cubes on top of the dough.
- Press the ice cubes down lightly into the dough.
- The ice cubes represent the southern polar ice sheet.
- Immediately mark the water level on the side of the container with a permanent marker. Again, try not to get the tip in the water.
- Label the container "South Pole Ice Model" with the permanent marker and set the container aside.
Repeat steps 1–6 for two more empty plastic containers. Use the water level mark on the first cup to help you fill up the other two cups in step 3, so that they all contain approximately the same amount of water.
- You are making three models of the South Pole so that you have three trials of your experiment. Doing more than one trial helps to ensure your results are accurate and repeatable.
- You should now have six containers containing ice models—three for the North Pole and three for the South Pole, as shown in the examples in Figure 5, below:
Figure 5. These photos show examples of the completed ice models. The starting level is marked on each container. You can take photos of your models with a camera for your display board if you wish.
Testing Your Ice Model
- Allow the ice in your models to melt in a place where they will not be disturbed.
- Keep an eye on the ice cubes in the South Pole model to make sure they stay balanced on the clay, and that the water from these melted ice cubes is able to run off of the clay.
- Once the ice has completely melted, get down at eye level with the water and see if the water level has risen in any of the containers. If the water level has risen, measure and record the amount of rise with a ruler, in millimeters (mm), and record it in a data table, like Tables 1 and 2 below, in your lab notebook.
|Amount of Water Rise in the North Pole Ice Models (mm)
|Trial 1
|Trial 2
|Trial 3
|Amount of Water Rise in the South Pole Ice Models (mm)
|Trial 1
|Trial 2
|Trial 3
- You could take photos of your models after the ice has melted for your display board, if you wish.
Analyzing Your Data Tables
Did you know scientists often show their data in a picture form called a graph? With a graph, you can often discover patterns in the data more easily than by looking at the numbers in the data table. Try graphing the data in your data tables. You can make the graph by hand, or use a tool like Create-A-Graph. Steps to get started with Create-A-Graph are below.
- Go to Create-A-Graph and click on Bar since you will be making a bar chart.
- Click on the Data tab to enter your data.
- Do not worry about the graph title and labels just yet. Instead, focus on the data set. Change the data set "items" to 3 and the "groups" to 2, since you have run three trials and have two groups of data, one from the North Pole and one for the South Pole.
- Under Item Label, enter the words Trial 1, Trial 2, and Trial 3.
- For the Group 1 values, enter your data from the Amount of Water Rise in the North Pole Ice Models Data Table.
- For the Group 2 values, enter your data from the Amount of Water Rise in the South Pole Ice Models Data Table.
- Click on the Preview tab to see your graph.
- You can go back and add an x-axis label (Trials), and a y-axis label (Amount of Water Rise, in mm) under the Data tab and click on Preview again to see the graph with labels.
- Once your graph looks the way you like, you can print it out.
- Looking at your graph, or your data table, did you see the water level rise when the ice melted in the North Pole model? What about when the ice melted in the South Pole model? Based on your results, which pole melting do you think is more of a concern for people who live near coasts?
If you like this project, you might enjoy exploring these related careers:
Climate Change AnalystHow is climate change affecting Earth? What will the changes mean for society? If these are questions that peak your curiosity, then you might be interested in a job as a climate change analyst. Climate change analysts evaluate climate data and research to determine how shifts in the climate will affect natural resources, animals, and civilizations. They use this information to make suggestions about what individuals and governments can do to ensure a higher-quality life for everyone in the face of a changing environment. Read more
HydrologistWater is critical to the survival of virtually all the living things that you see around you. It is essential to the production of most of the things that people make, too. Hydrologists are the people who study and manage this remarkable resource. Through data gathered from satellite instruments, hydrologists examine and create computer models that show how water moves above, on, and under the earth. With these models, hydrologists work to conserve water, to predict droughts or floods, to find new water sources, and to reduce and reuse waste water. Read more
GeoscientistJust as a doctor uses tools and techniques, like X-rays and stethoscopes, to look inside the human body, geoscientists explore deep inside a much bigger patient—planet Earth. Geoscientists seek to better understand our planet, and to discover natural resources, like water, minerals, and petroleum oil, which are used in everything from shoes, fabrics, roads, roofs, and lotions to fertilizers, food packaging, ink, and CD's. The work of geoscientists affects everyone and everything. Read more
- Create a different South Pole ice model in which two ice cubes are placed on the dough continent to represent the ice sheet and one ice cube is placed in the water to represent floating ice shelves surrounding and attached to the continent of Antarctica. What does this model tell you?
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Community colleges from across the nation are recognizing the need to spark students' interest in STEM subjects early in their education as a way of enticing them into science-, technology-, engineering-, and math-related professions.
Science fairs, STEM-focused summer camps, and specialized teacher training are among the opportunities made available by community colleges to students and teachers interested in pursuing STEM subjects. Central Community College in Nebraska, for example, has a program called Project SHINE (Shaping High-quality Integrated Nebraska Education) that has both a teacher-training component and a STEM summer camp for 9th and 10th graders. Project SHINE director Dan Davidchik says that he has noticed "tremendous changes in the way teachers connect STEM with what goes on in business and industry."
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Antoine Micheau - MD , Denis Hoa - MD , Susanne AEB Boroffka - PhD - dipl. ECVDI
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This module of vet-Anatomy presents an atlas of the anatomy of the head of the dog on a CT. Images are available in 3 different planes (transverse, sagittal and dorsal), with two kind of contrast (bone and soft tissues). Additional 3D images at the end of the module are available with 3d bones reconstructions of the skull and skin rendering to present the general anatomy of the dog.
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Computed tomography has been performed on a healthy 5 years old Labrador Retriever by Dr. Susanne AEB Boroffka, dipl. ECVDI, PhD (Utrecht, Netherland). Images displaying, 3D reformat and anatomical labeling have been done by Dr. Antoine Micheau, Radiologist (Montpellier, France) and Dr. Denis Hoa, Radiologist (Montpellier, France).
Terms are labeled using the Latin terms defined in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria (fifth edition - 2012 by ICVGAN). They have been translated into english and french by Antoine Micheau - MD, Imaios.
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Immerse yourself in a new chapter from the epic Game of Thrones saga and stand alongside House Forrester in this episodic adventure from Telltale Games.
Fight to defend Ironwrath, your family's seat in the frozen north of Westeros, as the Forresters are caught up in the events of the war of the five kings.
Loyal to the noble House Stark, you'll uncover six instalments of this incredible adventure through the eyes of various Forrester family members as they journey through the world of Westeros and encounter various characters from the hit TV show and book series.


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Tucson victim Rep. Barber weighs in
Arizona Rep. Ron Barber, who survived the Tucson shooting that severely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on Tuesday called for limits on assault weapons and for "better services" for those experiencing mental illness.
"I believe it's time for us to move in a different direction with regard to assault weapons, extended clips, magazines with incredible fire power," said Barber (D-Ariz.), who served as district director for Giffords and then replaced her in office before winning reelection in his own right.
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Barber, who said that he is a supporter of the Second Amendment, was one of about 20 Democrats to vote in favor of holding Attorney General Eric Holder in civil contempt of Congress over the Fast and Furious gun-walking operation — a vote in line with the National Rifle Association's position on the issue, which was one the organization had said it would score.
But he added, speaking on CNN's "Starting Point," " The young man that shot those of us in Tucson last year was carrying clips that had 30 rounds in them and in a matter of … seconds he was able to unload all of those bullets and shot 19 people, six of them died."
The congressman, who won a closely contested reelection battle to represent his district, which borders Mexico and where guns are a hot-button issue, also called for better treatment of people with mental illness.
"When we look at the mass shootings over the last two years since Jan. 8th," the day of the Tucson shooting in 2011, "There's two aspects of those shootings that they all have in common:one is the fire power, assault weapon, military-style weapons and extended clips of magazines that carry a lot of rounds … The other is untreated, and in some cases, undiagnosed, serious mental health issues. We need to go after both of these issues and we need to do them in tandem. Ultimately I imagine they'll get separated, but for me they go hand in hand and we have to do both."


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When backers of the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act turned in 12,000-plus signatures Friday to cure a 2,407 signature shortfall toward qualifying for the November ballot, a special guest was on hand: Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico.
Johnson thinks the Regulate measure could be the beginning of the end of pot prohibition in the U.S. and across the planet.
Johnson was elected governor as a Republican, but "I've quit the party," he says. He's now a presidential candidate for the Libertarian ticket. But he made time in his schedule to support the Regulate act, which he sees as being of potentially historic significance.
"Colorado has the opportunity to change drug policy worldwide," he says. "I really think this is the domino that brings an end to marijuana prohibition."
How so? "U.S. drug policy rules the world -- and I think there's a corollary between alcohol prohibition and marijuana prohibition. It's my understanding that one of the things that helped bring alcohol prohibition to an end was New York saying, 'We're not going to enforce federal prohibition laws anymore. Federal government, if you want to do that, go ahead. But we're not going to.' And the federal government didn't have the resources to begin to do that, and that really helped end alcohol prohibition."
Granted, the effect was far from immediate. New York governor Alfred E. Smith signed this measure in 1923, but the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which formally nixed prohibition, wasn't approved until late 1933 -- a full decade later. Still, New York's action was a major marker on the road to repeal, and Johnson thinks the Regulate act could play the same role. In his words, "This could be a real game-changer worldwide."
Johnson stops short of guaranteeing victory for the initiative, which still must be officially approved for the ballot by the Colorado Secretary of State's office. But he sees momentum moving in its direction.
"It's inevitable," he maintains. "When I came out in support of legalizing marijuana in 1999, 35 percent of Americans supported legalizing it -- maybe even less. Then, three months ago, Gallup did a poll that showed 50 percent of Americans now support legalizing marijuana. And this is the first time it's been a fifty-fifty debate."
Click to continue reading our interview with former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson. In Johnson's opinion, "Colorado has taken the lead on this issue," not just with Amendment 20, which legalized medical marijuana in the state circa 2000, but also "when Denver voted to decriminalize marijuana on a campaign of marijuana being safer than alcohol. So people are moving forward. It's just the politicians that are holding it back.
"Somebody asked me the other day, 'Why isn't marijuana legal when you've got 50 percent of Americans supporting it?' And the answer is, 0 percent of politicians support it. Clearly, some politicians do support legalization, but so few of them that statistically it doesn't even make up 1 percent. Can you think of any other area of public policy where 50 percent of people want a change and no politicians support it? And that goes for Democrats and Republicans, too. Libertarians have spoken up for this throughout the existence of the party, but they haven't gotten enough people elected to office...."
Not that passing the act will be easy. He admits to being "disheartened" by the Obama administration's toughening stance toward medical marijuana in Colorado, exemplified by U.S. Attorney John Walsh's seizure-threat letter to 23 dispensaries near schools, "especially given his promise during the campaign that he wouldn't spend federal dollars on medical marijuana facilities that had been voted in by citizens of a state," Johnson says. "This is a 180 degree turn on that promise."
Moreover, he expects that as the election grows nearer, opponents will "start snarling about marijuana and the idea that it's a gateway drug and more kids are going to use it, and it's all about the children. They're going to come at this issue with both barrels, rehashing all of the fears we've heard our entire lives -- none of which have come to pass."
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What's the best way to counter such attacks? "This is an issue that does really, really well when people talk about it," he allows. "So we've got to get people talking about it who've never talked about it before. And we've got to get people opposed to it to talk about it, too, because when they do, the issue advances. I just think 2.3 million people behind bars in this country, with the majority category being drug-related, is an incredible waste of money. And worse yet, our drug laws are making felons out of what would otherwise be tax-paying, law-abiding citizens.
"If it doesn't pass this go-round, it's going to pass somewhere, whether it's in California or Oregon or wherever. But I just think Coloradans are enlightened on this topic. Somebody has to start this, and Colorado is lined up to cast that first vote -- to be that first dissenter."
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In the hands of certain songwriters, a story of resurrection and redemption might ring a little hollow. Worse, it might sound like pseudo-messianic psychobabble. But when the songwriter is Peter Perrett, the usual rules have never applied. Perrett, whose incisive songcraft and sardonic drawl made him one of the most distinctive voices of the Seventies (and briefly, the Nineties), has indeed got a tale of resurrection and redemption to tell. And even if he's telling it with copious doses of his trademark deadpan wit, the miracle is that he's telling it at all.
Perrett made his reputation in The Only Ones (1976–1981) by writing about – and living – a life of the utmost decadence without worrying too much about the consequences. "I always flirt with death," began his most famous song ('Another Girl, Another Planet'), "I look ill but I don't care about it." It was an exotic universe full of strange creatures, but an incredibly dangerous one to inhabit. Not once but twice, Perrett retreated into a hermetic haze and transmitted nothing but radio silence for ten years. The two decades of his life that were surrendered to drug addiction were his own business, of course, but they were music's loss as well.
What a fantastic surprise it is, then, to hear an older, wiser Perrett singing of having music back in his bloodstream again. Take a listen to 'Something In My Brain', a song towards the end of his debut solo album HOW THE WEST WAS WON: it's about making good choices, bad choices and ultimately the only choices that will guarantee survival. All too conscious of his mortality in 2017, Perrett no longer views illness as an occupational hazard or death as a source of amusement, like that swaggering young existentialist of 1978. When he gets to the line about being "just about capable of one last defiant breath," he's not exaggerating. But if his lung power is depleted, his other powers – his intuitive feel for words; his flair for idiosyncratic metaphors; his mordant wit – are still as sharp as razors. The image of the laboratory rat being forced to choose between food and crack is as darkly comical as anything Perrett ever wrote for The Only Ones. By the time he steps aside to allow his son Jamie to play an emotional guitar solo, 'Something In My Brain' ("an allegorical tale") has become a double-sided epiphany. Peter Perrett has rediscovered the importance of rock'n'roll, and rock'n'roll has rediscovered the importance of Peter Perrett. It will surely be hailed as one of the standout tracks on HOW THE WEST WAS WON, his new album on Domino, the comeback that nobody saw coming.
The songs on HOW THE WEST WAS WON examine complex emotional terrain and extreme human behaviour, shot through as always with wry self-analysis. In a sense the album is a Perrett family affair: there are love songs ("An Epic Story", "C Voyeurger") from Peter to his wife Zena, and their two sons, Jamie and Peter Jr., play lead guitar and bass respectively. But there are also songs where Perrett opens his curtains and stares out into a much-changed world. The title track finds him railing against American imperialism and celebrity culture. "Man Of Extremes" despairs of the "sick society" that sends some people into a life of crime. The mean streets of "Sweet Endeavour" are a frightening place to find yourself alone with your demons.
Perrett makes each song on HOW THE WEST WAS WON sound natural and effortless, as though he were continuing a briefly interrupted conversation rather than picking up the threads of a solo career that faltered more than 20 years ago. He claims to have barely touched a guitar in the decade between his 1996 album Woke Up Sticky and the 2007 reunion of The Only Ones; with Perrett, a hiatus could so easily turn into a hibernation. Think of the number of prime ministers and presidents that have come and gone since the songs on Woke Up Sticky were written in the early Nineties. Yet Perrett's familiar voice sounds like it simply stepped out of the room for a few minutes and popped back in again.
"There's this myth about the Muse," he says. "I don't think there's a Muse that appears and disappears – it's just a question of wanting to do it. If I play a guitar, I can't help writing songs. Sooner or later I'll play a chord sequence that will put a tune in my head. It's just a case of finding the reason to pick up the guitar in the first place."
As recently as two years ago, Perrett wasn't planning to record again. Zena Perrett, learning via her Facebook page that music venues were interested in booking Peter for solo gigs, lined him up a small tour in the summer of 2015 – Amsterdam, London, Manchester and Bristol – where he appeared onstage with Jamie, Peter Jr., violinist Jenny Maxwell, drummer Jake Woodward and keyboard player Lauren Moon. The gigs attracted passionate audiences and glowing reviews. Perrett may sometimes be gone, but he is never forgotten. It was noticed that he was playing one or two new songs, and that they were seriously good.
By the end of 2015 Perrett had management, a record deal lined up with Domino, a respected producer on board (Chris Kimsey) and a sense of renewed purpose that made him feel 25 again. So fired-up was he that, as he waited for contracts to be drawn up and signed, he lost patience and drove to Konk recording studio to begin work on the album without Kimsey. One of the songs he recorded that week was the title track. Another was the beautiful closing song, "Take Me Home". And the third was 'Living In My Head', which he and his band had debuted live in the summer. A long and powerful piece, it features a scorching guitar solo from Jamie, who co-wrote the song with his father.
"Normally, when people think of musicians getting their kids into the band, they think of nepotism. But friends have told me that they can't believe how much feeling my children have for my music", says Perrett. "It must be something in their genes. I mean, I never played my guitar around the house – for decades I never touched it."
If Jamie and Peter had an unconventional childhood, imagine their emotions as they back their father on a handful of songs that celebrate their parents' equally unconventional marriage. "An Epic Story" is an unqualified love song to the girl Peter first met in 1969 and still lives with 48 years later. They have had an extraordinary life together, the runaway teenagers.
Whatever their provenance, the songs for HOW THE WEST WAS WON came thick and fast, whittled down from 40 to 23 and then to ten. Perrett remembers Chris Kimsey urging him at one point not to write any more because there wouldn't be room for them on the album. But Perrett, with energy in his blood and something in his brain, found it difficult to stop. Has he recaptured the momentum of his halcyon youth? One has to be careful about using words like 'plans' and 'strategies' where Perrett is concerned, but at this stage in his life – he turns 65 in April – the outlook appears brighter than for many, many years. He has a fire burning inside him again, and a determination not to blow what could be his last chance.
Peter's story is a cautionary tale. But that doesn't mean it's a cry of woe. And nor does its redemptive arc need to be sentimentalised. "It's too late for repentance of sins," he tells us on 'An Epic Story', suggesting that if he could do it all again, he really would do it all again. And perhaps he would once again arrive at this moment: drug-free, nicotine-free, addiction-free and able to occupy his days with the freedom of music. "Drugs are so boring," he says, as if the realisation has just hit him. "Musicians use their drug use as a badge of honour these days, but to me, music and drugs don't go together at all. It's either one or the other. And from now on, it's this."
Because he has been uncontactable and AWOL for much of his adult life, even seasoned Perrett-watchers will have been caught unawares by HOW THE WEST WAS WON. It's been a stop-start career derailed by hiatuses that turned into hibernations, and then into full-scale vanishings. It all conspired to deny Perrett the momentum to put together the significant body of work that his talent deserved. Maybe, just maybe, it could happen now. It's great to have him back.


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On the SitePoint PHP Blog Troels Knak-Nielsen has worked up a way to "expose PHP's private parts" when it comes to finding out more about the object/variable he's working with (without a usual print_r or var_dump).
I've been tinkering with dumping PHP objects, and have found myself constantly running into a brick wall. The output from print_r and friends is fine in some contexts, but for larger structures, it would be nice to tidy the output up a bit and wrap it in some HTML.
His solution is to serialize the object into a string (keeping all related meta information) that can be passed around and parsed back into its original form for debugging. He's included the script that works bye taking in the string and manually parsing it back out into its parts into a useful array.


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If the balancing act is precarious when one entrepreneur sets up shop in the same spot where he or she hangs the proverbial hat each evening, consider the effect when two entrepreneurs with two separate businesses both have their offices under that very same roof.
The arrangement is messy, chaotic, aggravating . . . and, frequently, a source of joy. "It's cozy and comforting to have my husband next to me," says Madeleine Homan, president of StraightLine Coaching in Dobbs Ferry, New York, "even if we do nothing more than say `Hey, how are you?' to each other during the day."
But the pluses go beyond companionship. For one thing, each entrepreneur has another nearby with whom to share the joys and frustrations inherent in owning a business. "I finally understand how time-consuming being an entrepreneur is," says Amy Levy, president of Levy & Associates, a marketing and communications firm in Washington, DC. Levy started her business two years ago and moved into the office her husband, Terry Sellheim, president of T.R. Sellheim Construction Inc., had set up in their home six years earlier.
In addition, these homebased entrepreneurs can act as each other's advisory board--offering the kind of objectivity you usually don't have when you're in the middle of a tense situation. Nor do you have to be in the middle of a crisis to learn from each other. John Hickok, a professor, director and actor, considers himself privileged to sit just 10 feet away from his wife, Homan, a career and personal coach for creative people. "It's not that I sit and listen to the coaching advice she gives people over the phone," Hickok says. "But bits and pieces of it seem to splash across to my side of the desk, and, like a motivational tape that you listen to in your sleep, I absorb the information and benefit from it."
The "under the same roof" entrepreneurs can help each other in other ways as well. Take Tom and Georgia Patrick, presidents, respectively, of WindStar Wildlife Institute, a national, nonprofit conservation organization, and The Communicators, a marketing and communications consulting firm. Both operate out of a barn on their property in Jefferson, Maryland. The Patricks clip interesting articles for each other and share assistants if necessary. "We might even pitch in with each other's mailings," says Tom, "but we don't expect that kind of help from each other."
Best of all, says Hickok, "I've gotten to know my wife in ways I never would have if we didn't work under the same roof. Her work is interesting, and she's good at it. Having a window into her business life is kind of exciting."
Patricia Schiff Estess is author of Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage and Kids, Money & Values (both published by Betterway) and president of Working Families Inc., a Manhattan firm specializing in family memoirs.
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Working side by side raises issues, though, which all the good will in the world can't resolve without negotiation. These issues include:
*Space. This is probably your number-one consideration. Levy says the 10-by-10-foot room she and her husband share would never work if Sellheim wasn't out of the office at a construction site most of the time. And though Homan and Hickok's office is larger (they share a long desk and sit only feet apart because they both want the spectacular view of the Hudson River provided by that side of the attic), it gets a bit cramped when Homan has an assistant in once a week. "I have to let John know when the assistant is coming, and we have to remove the stacks of paper we have on the floor," she says. "Otherwise, it wouldn't work."
Separate offices seem to work best--like using two converted bedrooms at opposite ends of the house or one office in the basement and the other in a converted dining room. Of course, if you have the magnificent office setup the Patricks have, you're way ahead of the space dilemma. When Georgia designed their dream offices in the barn, she wanted a central area where they could lunch together or meet with clients. She wanted that space ringed with five offices with walls of glass--one for each of them, one for each of their assistants and one for extra projects. The glass screens out sounds but allows them to see each other.
*Phone systems. Technology has made a myriad of configurations possible for phone usage. Two entrepreneurs under one roof have to devise a system that works best for each of them. All subscribe to the "two entrepreneurs, two lines" theory, though some use the home phone as the second line. In addition, Levy has an extra long phone cord so she can take her phone outside the office she shares with her husband when she needs quiet. Homan, who also often needs privacy, has a cordless headset. And the Patricks have different rings on their phones, so if they're in their conference room, for example, they can determine whose phone is ringing.
*Employees vs. assistance. Jim and Jaine Carter, co-authors of He Works She Works: Successful Strategies for Working Couples (Carter & Carter Enterprises), have been running their human resources development firm out of their Naples, Florida, home for the past four of their 25 years in business together. They use only contracted services, their secretary works out of her own home, and they have an arrangement with a nearby CPA firm to use its conference room when they need it. "We used to have people working here, but it became uncomfortable," says Jim. "Although we were working out of our home, we had to work around their schedules."
Homan has found her assistance needn't be nearby. Though her office is in Dobbs Ferry, New York, her business's chief organizer and administrator, who sets up appointments and sends out her newsletters, works in Dallas. "My virtual assistant is wonderful," says Homan. "We communicate by e-mail and phone, and she's a real pro at what she does."
*Limiting interruptions. It's tempting to drop in on your spouse at times. It's also destructive to each other's business. So one of the things couples have to get straight when they run separate businesses out of the same home is how to differentiate between an emergency situation and one that can wait until the other person has some free time. "When we both need uninterrupted blocks of time," says Jim Carter, "we tell each other that in the morning." The Carters also note it on their master wall calendar.
To avoid disturbing each other, the Patricks send each other messages through an interoffice e-mail network. "We don't forget what we want to tell each other," says Tom, "and we don't interrupt each other either."
House Rules
There are plenty of ways to avoid headaches when sharing office space in your home. Here are a few:
1. Use any available technology--virtual assistants, e-mail, cordless headsets, voice mail and the like--to help solve problems of privacy and professionalism.
2. When setting up your offices, delineate your own separate spaces, build partitions or soundproof your offices.
3. Take advantage of economies of scale. Share conference rooms, fax machines, printers--everything except phones.
4. Don't expect your fellow entrepreneur to set aside business commitments to fix your computer, lend a hand with a mailing, type your invoices or discuss a business problem.
5. Communicate with each other regularly about business and personal schedules--and do it both verbally and in writing. A calendar should reflect what you've already discussed: who's picking up the kids from school, when you're having a meeting in the home or office, or when you can schedule a round of golf together.
A Separate Peace
The airwaves reverberate when Madeleine Homan and John Hickok get on their phones. Madeleine, a career and personal coach for creative people, was once an actor, so she can project her voice. John, an actor, director and professor, has the same ability. Considering they sit 10 feet from one another in their Dobbs Ferry, New York, home offices, they could get on each other's nerves. But they don't even hear each other.
At one time, Homan says, when she was on the phone with clients and Hickok was negotiating a screenplay deal, her clients could hear him. "It was hard to convince them I wasn't listening to him or that he wasn't in some way monitoring our phone conversation."
One solution to the problem was to get a cordless headset. When Hickok's voice is booming, Homan dons the headset and moves into the hallway. Another is communication. "If I'm going to be on a conference call or being interviewed for television, for example, I tell John and he makes himself scarce." Resonant voices aside, Homan and Hickok have an extraordinary ability to tune each other out, so much so that it's not unusual for them to ask each other at dinner "So how was your day?"
Contact Sources
Carter & Carter Enterprises, 720 Turkey Oak Ln., Naples, FL 34108, (800) 566-6155
The Communicators, (800) 324-9044, http://www.communicators.com
John Hickok, (914) 693-5474
Levy & Associates, (202) 364-6456, email@example.com
WindStar Wildlife Institute, (301) 834-9238, http://www.windstar.org


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Curian Capital is out with its annual survey of advisors' attitudes about the future and, little surprise, most mentioned alternative investment and tactical allocation strategies as keys to client success in a still-turbulent global economy.
The Jackson National Life-owned managed account provider surveyed 1,009 independent financial advisors representing 150 broker-dealers with an average $36 million in assets under management.
Similar to findings in 2010, the survey found that advisors' outlook on the global economy is split nearly evenly—34% of respondents believe the economic crisis will get better in the near future, 32% believe the economic crisis will be long term and 34% were unsure. This "striking disparity" among advisors is likely to cause a significantly fractured approach to portfolio management strategies in the year ahead, according to the survey.
"Government spending topped the list of advisors' perceived threats to their clients' retirement accounts, at 35%, followed closely by market volatility at 31%," Curian said in a statement. "In 2010, advisors said that not generating enough income to last through retirement was the biggest threat to their clients' retirement plans; however, this year, 82% of respondents reported that they have the adequate income-generating investment products to meet their clients' retirement needs."
Other key findings include:
• Nearly two-thirds of the advisors say that they have begun using more tactical asset allocation strategies to mitigate economic volatility, and more than half of respondents report they are using more alternative investing strategies.
• As a result of market volatility, nearly 4 out of 5 advisors report an increase in their clients' demands for more conservative investments; in addition, 72% say their clients have an increased demand for guaranteed income features, 55% report an increase in demand for more tactical asset allocation, and 47% report an increase in demand for alternative investments.
• Nearly 80% of advisors using alternative asset classes report that their primary goal for including them is to diversify and further stabilize portfolio returns.
• 61% of advisors report that they plan to increase their use of alternative asset classes this year. Currently, 63% of advisors say their existing allocation to alternative asset classes (as a percentage of AUM) is 10% or less, while only 3% of advisors have 25% or more allocated to alternatives.
• The majority of respondents (38%) said that their main concern about using alternatives is that they are illiquid or less liquid in nature.
"Advisors are expected to wear two hats in managing their practices – both as financial advisors and as business owners – and they are becoming more sophisticated in what they expect from product providers," Mark Schoenbeck, senior vice president of marketing for Curian, told AdvisorOne. "The survey makes it clear that advisors aren't going to use a product unless it's available to them in a user-friendly way, with functional online components and high-quality materials. And they also expect a high level of expertise and guidance to help them along the way. It's up to product providers to continue to develop platforms that allow advisors do their jobs efficiently."
The importance of streamlined wealth management systems is reflected in advisors' goals for the coming year, the report adds. More than half of advisors cite improved efficiency and overall time management as their primary goal for 2012, while acquiring new clients remains a top objective.


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Find out why you should always ask permission before wandering onto private land – and the right and wrong ways to go about it.
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Published Jun 21, 2018, 12:02 PM
Find out why you should always ask permission before wandering onto private land – and the right and wrong ways to go about it.
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Fires are easy to start, but hard and costly to put out. So it is critical that people take simple precautions to avoid endangering life and property.
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People are often unsure about the legal status of unformed legal roads, colloquially known as paper roads.
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A downloadable calendar showing common farming, fishing and hunting seasons. The calendar has been jointly created by the Commission, Fish & Game and Federated Farmers.
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Māori land is privately-owned land and does not have public access rights. Permission must be sought from the owners or those authorised by them.
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Generally, unalienated Māori land does not have public access provisions. It is governed under the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993.
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Māori have expressed concern that they sometimes find it difficult to obtain access to wāhi tapu (sacred places) on private land.
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The Outdoor Access Code is a Commission publication, which sets out the rights and responsibilities of recreational users and landholders.
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Respect for property rights is important. So are the public rights of access over various forms of public land.
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There is no general right of public access across private land. If there is any doubt about access you should seek permission first.


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For Immediate Release
Patricia Kiernan Johnson;
New York, NY—
OPERA America
, the national service organization for opera, is pleased to announce the 2012
Leadership Intensive
as part of its firm commitment to develop leaders who will advance the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera for years to come. The Leadership Intensive will identify the most promising emerging leaders in a range of opera administration fields and provide them with the skills and contacts needed to advance to an executive level position.
Participants will be chosen for one of 10 places through a competitive application and interview process. As part of the Leadership Intensive, they will then attend seminars and workshops during
Opera Conference 2012
in Philadelphia in June, where leaders from across the opera industry will come together to hone their craft and learn from one another. This experience will put the emerging leaders into direct contact with industry experts and current practitioners, who can provide guidance and help open doors in the future. Topics to be addressed during these Leadership Intensive sessions include marketing, development, communications and strategic planning.
Building upon the work of
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Through these diverse training activities, the Leadership Intensive will prepare participants to become successful executive-level leaders, contributing to the strengthening of opera companies across the country.
"There is a steep learning curve when new staff take their first positions guiding entire departments or opera companies because there is no formal training process for these high-stakes positions," stated Marc. A. Scorca, president and CEO of OPERA America. "The Leadership Intensive is designed to bridge that gap by providing emerging leaders with valuable knowledge about the inner workings of the opera industry and with the skills and contacts necessary to develop their careers within the field."
Thanks to a generous gift from
American Express
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For additional information and to apply, visit
. The application deadline is Friday, January 6, 2012. Successful applicants will have demonstrated their dedication to a career in opera or arts administration (a minimum of three years of professional experience), with an undergraduate degree in music, theater or a related field. Master's degree in arts administration or related preferred. Applications are open to both members and non-members.
For more information about OPERA America and its services,
OPERA America leads and serves the entire opera community, supporting the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera.
Artistic services help opera companies and creative and performing artists to improve the quality of productions and increase the creation and presentation of North American works.
Information, technical, and administrative services to opera companies reflect the need for strengthened leadership among staff, trustees and volunteers.
Education, audience development and community services are designed to enhance all forms of opera appreciation.
Founded in 1970, OPERA America's worldwide membership network includes nearly 200 Company Members, 300 Associate and Business Members, 2,000 Individual Members and more than 16,000 subscribers to the association's electronic news service. In 2005, OPERA America relocated from Washington, D.C. to New York as the first step in creating the first-ever National Opera Center. With a wide range of artistic and administrative services in a purpose-built facility, the Opera Center is dedicated to increasing the level of excellence, creativity and effectiveness across the field.
OPERA America's long tradition of supporting and nurturing the creation and development of new works led to the formation of
The Opera Fund
, a growing endowment which allows OPERA America to make a direct impact on the ongoing creation and presentation of new opera and music-theater works. Since its inception, OPERA America has made grants of nearly $11 million to assist companies with the expenses associated with the creation and development of new works.


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I'm trying to write an Annotated Predicate Calculus (APC) manager. Fundamental units in this manager are called selectors and have the structure:
[<var> <op> <val>]
For example, [color = red], [size >= 35], [age IN 20..40]
With Set-Macro-Character I can get the Lisp reader to correctly parse a selector using:
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(set-macro-character #[
(lambda (stream char)
(let* ((lst (read-delimited-list #] stream t)))
(read-selector lst)))) ;; function read-selector handles the selector parsing, for example, suppose it just inverts the list...
(set-macro-character #]
(get-macro-character #)))
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CL-USER> '[a b c d]
(D C B A) <-- it displays with parenthesis instead of brackets
So I have two questions:
1) Is there a way, maybe using deftype and some output-configuration trick to make Lisp recognize selectors and display them correctly?
2) In any case, is it worthwhile doing the above instead of defining a CLOS model for the same task?
Thank you in advance for your comments...


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(Pocket-lint) - Designed for either TV or PC use, Logitech's Z623 2.1 speaker system has been certified as passing THX's stringent guidelines for multimedia use, and therefore happily displays the respective branding.
It is also suitable for console use, as there are both stereo audio phono inputs and a mini-jack port, allowing you to plug into a couple of separate sources. And a headphone socket means that you won't have to fiddle around at the back of your TV or computer if you need some privacy.
The right satellite speaker also has volume and bass controls, should you need to refine the sound experience at the Z623, rather than the source.
Power output for the whole set-up is rated at 200 Watts (RMS), which should give you a bit more oomph than the in-built speakers in a flatpanel TV. And all cables are included, so there shouldn't be a need to scrabble around trying to find the right bits.
At £149, and available from the Logitech website (www.logitech.co.uk) as well as other major retailers, it represents decent value for money considering the THX-certification. Do remember though, that it is certified for multimedia use, rather than full home cinema (such as THX Select2, for example).
What do you use for your main speaker set-up? Let us know in the comments below...


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Iowa Workforce Development, in partnership with the Iowa Department of Corrections, has implemented the Ex-Offender Initiative in three Iowa correctional facilities located in Mitchellville, Newton and Rockwell City. A fourth staff person is located within the Des Moines Women's Work Release Center. The workforce advisors assigned to this initiative network with employers to address the barriers they may have in hiring ex-offenders. Each of the participants in the program completes the National Career Readiness Certification (NCRC).
Thousands of inmates are released from Iowa prisons each year. Many of them are eager to get a job and lead a productive life. Without a job it is nearly impossible for these individuals to establish a new life and become productive citizens. Hiring an ex-offender can help them integrate into society so they can become a taxpayer instead of a tax burden.
Many employers experiencing labor shortages consider their number one challenge is to identify, attract and retain employees. To address these needs, employers are increasing their applicant pool by looking at individuals with criminal histories. Employed ex-offenders are some of the most dedicated and productive employees. They are overwhelmingly dependable and punctual and the turnover rate is atypically low.
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Before editing, be sure to read the wiki's policies. Please sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes (~~~~) to automatically produce your name and the current date. Be sure to verify your e-mail address in your preferences. Before attempting any major article rewrites please read the layout guide. If you have any questions, check out the policy and help pages (see here for editing help), add a question to the Community portal, view the forum or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!
-- Seth Cooper (Talk) 23:13, February 24, 2011
Image uploads
Thank you for contributing image uploads to the Harry Potter Wiki. However, your recent upload was in breach of our image policy, and has since been corrected. In future, please be sure to fill out the information template that is provided on the upload page, in particular citing the source from which the image comes from, and adding categories. This is to help keep images organised and catalogued, and to provide clear sourcing for all uploads. Please be aware that images missing this information may be subject to deletion, and, in certain cases, uploading images after being asked to provide the correct information may lead to a block for the uploader. If you have any doubts or questions regarding this, please contact one of the administrators. Thank you for your cooperation.--Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 10:04, March 21, 2011 (UTC)
- Please read and comply with the above message. Failure to comply with the image policy may result in administrative action. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 09:52, June 6, 2011 (UTC)
- This is your final warning. Comply with the image policy, or face a cooldown block. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 17:09, June 18, 2011 (UTC)
Editing your Page
Incredibly Sorry, Thinking that the page was the actual Alastor Moody page, I fixed a simple spacing mistake on your page. My mistake, hope you do not mind :) -- Ratneer Owl Me! 20:55, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
You have been blocked for 1 week for failing to comply with the image policy. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 07:52, June 28, 2011 (UTC)
RE: Image policy violations
Like many other users, I have email linked to my account. Despite being blocked, it should have been possible for you to send email through the "E-mail this user" link that appears in the toolbox in the sidebar. Standard Wikia settings call for blocked users to be unable to edit any page on the wiki, except their own personal talk pages. Contacting administrators through the email function is generally enabled, although it can be blocked as well. This is only done to persistent vandals, and would not have applied in your case. Hope this helps. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 13:39, July 19, 2011 (UTC)
Ah, thank you so very much. That certainly does clear things up. I hadn't known about the ability to e-mail administrators. AlastorMoody 04:33, July 20, 2011 (UTC)
RE:My Apologies For My Mistake on the Travers Page
No harm done, I was a bit peeved at the time about the fact that everyone was all of a sudden posting that Jon Campling played Travers. Thanks. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 22:51, July 29, 2011 (UTC)
Dumbledore image vote
That vote hasn't started yet. It will begin after the vote on using the Epilogue images finishes, so check back again in a couple more days. - Nick O'Demus 01:05, August 16, 2011 (UTC)
Re:Image Uploads
I assume you're using "Visual Mode" for editing? I recommend using "Source Mode" after adding an image to page sure it is in the right place and not breaking a paragraph, sentence, etc. I personally have Visual Mode disabled as I much rather see exactly what I'm adding to the page so I'm sure what I'm adding won't pop up in some weird place. I don't even think about Visual Mode normally but that would explain why some editors routinely put images in the middle of places they don't belong, they don't realize they're doing it. -Shorty1982 02:45, November 10, 2011 (UTC)
Ah, okay, thanks. AlastorMoody 02:48, November 10, 2011 (UTC)
Re:No need to capitalise "Muggle" or "Wizarding"...?
It appears I made a mistake about "Muggle" I apologize. -Shorty1982 00:38, December 4, 2011 (UTC)
There's really no difference but the code is much cleaner looking without "template:". Strange that it is the system doing it to you as when I start typing in the name of a template it doesn't add "template:" to it, it just completes what I'm typing. -Shorty1982 01:03, December 4, 2011 (UTC)
RE:Tom Riddle Photos
It's not personal, I assure you; I'm sorry if I made it look like I was specifically targeting you. It was no reason, really, I just happened to come across those images in the article after adding Riddle's signature to the infobox, and I thought it best to remove them. Again, sorry about that. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 02:34, December 20, 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot! Happy Christmas. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 02:40, December 20, 2011 (UTC)
RE:Unable to Edit Photos
Sorry for taking long to reply. I honestly don't know what the problem is. It's the first I am hearing of it and, personally, it hasn't happened to me before. I'm not sure how to fix it for you, though, sorry. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 23:24, February 24, 2012 (UTC)
Order of Merlin
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|The Order of Merlin is awarded to you by Speedysnitch for having over one-thousand edits on the Harry Potter Wiki.
Congrats, Speedysnitch Talk contribs 02:30, March 24, 2012 (UTC)
Wow, thank you! AlastorMoody 03:22, March 24, 2012 (UTC)
Native americans
Dude, There are no native americans in harry potter. i read them all
Gif images won't animate if they're sized smaller than their actual width. For example, the File:Protego.gif is 300px wide, so it'd have to be done like this: Nick O'Demus 01:06, May 19, 2012 (UTC)
Ah, that makes sense, thank you. I was really confused as to why they weren't working. AlastorMoody 16:07, May 19, 2012 (UTC)
RE:Lily Evans Page
You can ask Seth Cooper to give you Rollback rights. It allows you to revert groups of edits like that so you don't have to undo each one. - Nick O'Demus 23:04, June 20, 2015 (UTC)


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Blake Shelton and 'The Voice' Judges Show Olympics-Worthy Skills in Season 3 Commercial
At first glance, the new commercial for Season 3 of 'The Voice' looks just about the same as the ads for season 2. But this time — and just in time — judges Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine get to show off their Olympics-worthy abilities in a race to meet up with a surprise new guest.
In the promo, Aguilera takes off for a staircase in a hotel lobby when she hears an operatic voice singing upstairs. Armed with a rope and some good old-fashioned country boy skills, Shelton wrangles the pop star away from the stairs with a lasso, hoping to beat her. But before Shelton can figure out whose incredible singing voice he hears, he gets into a fistfight with Levine, who sends him flying. As Levine runs up the stairs, he is karate chopped by Cee Lo Green.
Eventually, all four 'The Voice' judges find their way up to the hotel room to find out who is singing with such incredible talent. They bust through the walls to find none other than… Bruce Jenner. Yes, Bruce Jenner — former Olympic medalist and current reality star on 'Keeping up With the Kardashians' — walks out of the bathroom in a white robe, wearing a gold medal from the 1976 Montreal games around his neck.
While the clip is hilarious, and very much a joke, fans of 'The Voice' would probably turn out in droves to watch the series' third installment regardless of whether or not Jenner will be competing (he's not).
'The Voice' took music and reality TV lovers alike by storm after last year's debut, earning four Emmy nominations in the categories of Outstanding Art Direction for Variety or Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Hairstyling for a Multi-Camera Series or Special, Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media Enhancement to a Television Program or Series and Best Competition Reality Show.
Whether 'The Voice' wins any awards or not, September will be a big month for the primetime reality show, as it prepares to unveil Season 3. Tune into 'The Voice' Season 3 kickoff on September 10 at 8PM ET on NBC.
Watch the 'The Voice' Season 3 Commercial