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Here are some numbers, factoids and surprises from the first three weeks of the IHSA football season:
Point Taken: Top 10 IHSA Scoring Offenses
Shelbyville: 174 points
Dixon: 174
Peoria: 173
Princeville: 167
Fithian (Oakwood): 162
Herscher: 160
Highland: 155
Homewood-Flossmoor: 154
Ottawa Marquette: 153
Naperville North: 152
Making Stops: Top 10 IHSA Scoring Defenses
St. Ignatius & North Chicago: 0 points allowed
West Aurora: 3
T.F. South: 6
Raby: 6
Monticello: 7
Coal City: 7
Lanark (Eastland): 7
North Lawndale: 8
Batavia: 10
Lake Zurich: 10
[MORE: Edgy Tim's Week Four Power Rankings]
Familiar Names, Unfamiliar Records
Peoria (1-2): Defending 5A state champs are scoring points in bunches but the defense has been a work in progress.
Highland Park (0-3): The Giants have played a strong non-conference slate and still have a chance to right the ship in the Central Suburban North.
New Trier (1-2): Not many saw this coming. I didn't. The strong schedule, along with early season injuries, have slowed the Trevians.
Vernon Hills (1-2): Last year's 5A runner-ups in have struggled on defense the past two weeks.
Brother Rice (1-2): The Crusaders' schedule won't get any easier with Montini, Providence Catholic and Mount Carmel lurking the next three weeks.
Providence Catholic (1-2): A huge last-second, come-from-behind win last Friday over St. Rita 28-21 gives the Celtics hope.
Joliet Catholic (1-2): The Hilltoppers look better this fall compared to last year's 1-8 team, but they're still a work in progress.
Simeon (0-3): A rough schedule and turnovers have done in the Wolverines in so far this season.
Glenbard North (1-2): The Panthers offense struggled the first two weeks. Hopefully they're back on track after last week's crucial 28-21 win over Wheaton South.
Waubonsie Valley (1-2): The Warriors play Naperville Central (3-0) this week. They still have to deal with Naperville North and Lincoln-Way Central (both 3-0) on the remaining schedule.
Carmel (0-3): The Corsairs' schedule has been brutal so far (Richards, DeKalb and Marist). And now, Carmel hosts Nazareth Academy (3-0) on Friday.
Glenbard South (1-2): The Raiders picked up a key win last Friday over Aurora Central Catholic. GBS is capable of getting on a roll.
Metamora (0-3): One of the state's top 4A/5A-sized powers is now in very unfamiliar territory. Up next: a date with rival Washington (2-1) on Friday.
Fremd (0-3): The Vikings' schedule has been rough so far.
Libertyville (1-2): The Wildcats have dropped two straight games. The always-tough North Suburban slate looms ahead.
Joliet West (1-2): Many felt the Tigers could be a preseason Top 25 team but so far turnovers have plagued West. The Tigers still have time to right the ship but the clock is ticking.
Bradley (1-2): The Boilermakers graduated a ton of key players from the 2016 state playoff team, plus the remaining schedule is stacked.
Edwardsville (0-3): Very strange to see the Tigers at 0-3 in any sport.
O'Fallon (0-3): Graduation losses along with having several lost transfers is not helping the Panthers in 2017.
Geneva (1-2): The Vikings two losses have been tight and the Vikings still have a good shot at challenging for a state playoff spot yet challenges still remain on the schedule.
From 0-3 To…Playoffs?!?
Simeon: The Wolverines have lost to Oak Park-River Forest (2-1), Detroit's Cass Tech (2-1) and Phillips (3-0). They played all three teams tough. Turnovers have been Simeon's biggest issue in 2017, but once they get that corrected this team is very capable of winning six straight regular season games and a possible IHSA playoff berth


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Todays picture of the day is of a sign post randomly placed on a tiny little island in the South Atlantic, The Falkland Islands. To give you an idea of how far away that is try and find a place name that you recognise and you will get a fair idea!
It was a glorious day in the falklands, blue skies but very windy so I chartered a pick up truck and set off for a day of exploration. This was quite a find and of course I had to stop and check it out further!
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backfill — (n.) 1901 (as backfilling), from BACK (Cf. back) (adj.) + FILL (Cf. fill) (n.). The verb was in use by 1930 … Etymology dictionary
backfill — [bak′fil΄] vt., vi. to refill (an excavation) as with earth, etc. previously removed n. material used in refilling an excavation … English World dictionary
backfill — verb Date: 1908 transitive verb to refill (as an excavation) usually with excavated material intransitive verb to backfill an excavation • backfill noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
backfill — /ˈbækfɪl/ (say bakfil) noun 1. the material used to refill an excavation or support the roof of a worked mine. 2. sand or earth placed behind timber, steel, or concrete linings in mine shafts or tunnels. 3. Building Trades material used to refill … Australian English dictionary
backfill — Reserve Component units and individuals recalled to replace deploying active units and/or individuals in the continental United States and outside the continental United States. See also Reserve Components … Military dictionary
backfill — /bak fil /, n. 1. material used for refilling an excavation. v.t. 2. to refill (an excavation). [1950 55; BACK2 + FILL] * * * … Universalium
backfill — 1. verb a) To refill a hole with the material dug out of it. The company backfilled Joes position after he was terminated. b) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable… … Wiktionary
backfill — verb refill (an excavated hole) with the material dug out of it. noun material used for backfilling … English new terms dictionary
backfill — back•fill [[t]ˈbækˌfɪl[/t]] n. 1) civ material used for refilling an excavation 2) civ to refill (an excavation) • Etymology: 1950–55 … From formal English to slang
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I'm originally from the rural southern Oregon coast and enjoy hunting, fishing, rafting and camping. My husband and I were drawn to Cheyenne for all the outdoor activities, strong sense of community and down-home hospitality of the people that live here. We are so proud to call Cheyenne home!
After several personal real estate transactions, I decided to get my real estate license and am dual licensed in Wyoming and Oregon. My greatest accomplishment, in real estate, is being able to say that 90% of my clients have been referred to me by other satisfied clients! I am passionate about helping people find their dream home, whatever it may be! I feel that buying and selling real estate is an adventure and I am excited to help you navigate your way through the journey.
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APU understand that the proposed works is to convert the uses of the classrooms and common area to improve the teaching and learning environment for the Post-Secondary Students at the Community College. We realised that there are some design elements will be remained unchanged in the coming renovation. We suggested that the new design for the future use will develop from those elements so that the school is united as a whole. The identity for each area is important for a vibrant school life. Lighting and the treatment of floor finishes, colours of the wall will enhance the atmosphere of the areas. We think that even materials of cheaper cost can also achieve great effect if special colour or treatment is applied. As a school project, APU will suggest the best material and innovative use of materials for the College.


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Why not 100%? Our janitorial service and carpet cleaning services are almost 100% 'green', but our stripping and waxing services are still in transition. We have been testing some environmentally friendly options but have not been able to find an effective solution yet. While respecting the planet is important, we understand that our clients require a certain quality of results. It is our goal to have a eco-friendly alternative soon.
Why are eco-friendly products important? True it seems to be the trend. But that is not a good reason, since trends come and go. Here is why we consider it important: Life is precious. Regardless the industry you work in, you have life. Let's contaminate less and ensure future generations can have a healthy life in this earth.


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Birthday Number 4
He was born on Friday January 31st 1941, in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
Dick Gephardt is a hard worker and a conscientious person. He is precise and takes great care in what he does. Richard is highly-principled, disciplined, and responsible. He takes his obligations very seriously. Gephardt is highly ethical.
He can be proud and upright, but, conversely, he is not particularly arrogant. Dick Gephardt has compassion for people. He tends to persevere in the face of an obstacle or personality problem.
Richard loves his family and makes a wonderful mate. Yet, he is not overly emotional, nor very demonstrative of his love. Gephardt tends to understate his affections.
Dick Gephardt is constantly focused on the foundations of his life - whether it is in business, career, or family matters, he takes care of the basics. Richard is highly rational. He is not one for pie-in-the-sky solutions to problems. Nor is he given to get-rich-quick schemes. Gephardt's is the slow, patient approach, sound and secure.
He is a natural organizer and manager. People - especially relatives and co-workers - tend to rely on him. Richard is perceived as the rock of any endeavor.
Dick Gephardt can be stubborn and rigid. His nature is to dig in and wait. This can close him off from solutions or creative ideas. Gephardt must work at being more flexible.
He often experiences frustrations and repression. Dick Gephardt is not an emotional person, and perhaps he does not fully understand the emotional realm. This is the reason Richard can be rather tactless at times.
Dick Gephardt must be careful to avoid excess work and missing out at smelling the roses of life.
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Richard's day of birth is one of his four core numbers - the Life Path, Expression, and Heart's Desire being the other three. It is the least significant of the four core numbers, but perhaps the most finite, in that it reveals a specific ability Dick Gephardt possesses in a marked degree.


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Combat Awareness (D20 Modern Feat)
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Combat Awareness
Your battle sense helps minimize the threat of flanking attacks.
Prerequisite: Wis 13+, BAB +1 or higher.
Benefit: Attackers do not gain the usual +2 bonus on their attack rolls when flanking you. This feat grants no effect when you are denied your Dexterity modifier to Defense, such as when you are flat-footed. You may still be sneak attacked when flanked.
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Closet Design – Top 5 Tips For Space PlanningBy A Jones For Organizing In Closet organizing, Elfa adjustable shelving, General organizing, Usability Problem
The Ins and Outs (and Tight Squeezes) of Closet Design: 5 Space Planning Tips
Are you remodeling or building a closet or storage room? Want to make sure that space will be easy to access and use? There are right ways and wrong ways to plan and design the layout for any closet, whether it's a walk-in or reach-in.
In my adventures as a professional organizer and closet designer, I've come to realize that there are 5 fundamental rules for good closet space planning. Space planning is my favorite thing to do with my brain. Want an example of an exasperating closet that I demolished and transformed into a dream closet? Check it out here.
The 5 tips are:
- push one clothing rod into the corner
- plan for standing space
- place the door on the long wall
- put the top clothing rod at 7′ or lower, and
- pull drawers open into standing space
(And then I ran out of applicable "p" verbs.) These five tips will keep you from making big mistakes in your remodel. Mistakes, I might add, that sometimes even professional closet companies make.
How to read a floor plan: First, if you are unfamiliar with floor plans, imagine you are a bird in a tree. You are above the room, looking down through the ceiling onto the floor. In the floor plan illustration below:
- the blue part is a shelf along the back wall
- the dotted line is the edge of the clothes, sticking out beyond the shelf
That dotted line is a very important aspect of space design in a closet, as you will see, especially with corners.
Space Planning Tip #1: Push One Clothing Rod Into The Corner
There's a right way (and some wrong ways) to design corners in closet. Corners are especially important in a clothes closet. This is because clothes on hangers need to have room to hang freely. If there are shelves or clothing rods on the adjacent wall that intrude on that corner, clothes can't hang there.
If you measure the space taken up by hanging clothes, as I've done below, you will find that clothes on hangers will take up to 21″ to 24″ of space, from the back of the wall.
Closet Corners – The Right Way
See below for a close-up illustration of the right way to design corners. On one wall, the dotted line (the edge of the hanging clothes) goes all the way across to the end of its wall. On the adjacent wall, the dotted line stops 24″ before it reaches the end of its wall.
A correctly designed closet corner in the wild: Here's what a correctly designed closet corner looks like, below, in a photo of TCS Custom Closets at the Container Store. See how the clothes on the right wall hang freely, with no interference from the clothes hanging on the back wall? That is because the clothing rods and shelves on the back wall stop, before they reach the right wall.
Closet Corners – The Wrong Way
What happens when closet corners are not designed this way? Well, there are several ways to do it wrong, which will make the corner unusable.
Not enough space: Here is one way to do it wrong. See below, how the built-ins on the back wall are positioned too close to the clothing rod on the left wall? How are you supposed to hang clothes in the back corner of that left wall? Answer: you cannot.
Seems obvious that this won't work, right? You would be surprised at how often closet designers miss this aspect of space planning.
Crossed clothing rods: The most common wrong way to design a closet corner is to cross the hanging rods. I see this mistake a lot. See below, how the bottom clothing rod will be fully usable, but the top two clothing rods will not? The clothes on those top rods are going to collide. So that corner space will stay empty and unusable. Empty closet corners = wasted space.
Now that you understand how corners work, let's talk about standing space in closets.
Space Planning Tip #2: Plan For Standing Space
Plan for enough standing space in front of the items you are storing. This may sound obvious, but it's easy to overlook.
In other words, don't fill the closet with so much clothing storage that there is no room for you to access it. In the example below, you would have to swim through the clothes, and it would be hard to pick out your perfect outfit for the day.
People need 24″ of open space: Remember how hanging clothes need up to 24″ from the back wall to hang freely, before being interrupted by structures on the adjacent wall? It turns out, in a bit of lovely symmetry, that people also need 24″ of standing space, between rows of hanging clothes.
6 feet wide walk-in closet: So, that means that in a walk-in closet, if you want hanging clothes on opposite walls, the width of the closet must be at least 6′. See below for an illustration.
If the closet width is a lot less than 6′, you cannot put hanging clothes on both sides. I mean, you CAN certainly try it, if you want. But you won't be happy with it. You will not have enough open space to comfortably walk in, turn around, bend down, or reach up.
5 feet wide walk-in closet: If your closet is 5′ wide, you can put hanging clothes along one long wall, and shallow shelves on the opposite long wall, like this.
4 feet wide walk-in closet: What if your closet is 4′ wide? Well, you can put hanging clothes on one long wall, and still have 24″ left over to walk through. On the other long wall, think about wall-mounted hook racks for shallow things like belts, scarves, ties, jewelry, etc.
3 feet wide walk-in closet: Sometimes, under stairs, you might have a 3′ wide storage space. What then? For obvious reasons, you will have to preserve 24″ of walking space. That leaves you with 12″ for shallow shelves, which can be excellent storage for pantry items or household items like light bulbs, etc.
Speaking of narrow closets, let's talk about where to put the door.
Space Planning Tip #3: Place The Door On The Long Wall
For narrow rectangular walk-in closets, place the door on the long wall, instead of on the short wall. Why? Because that will give you better accessibility, and better usage of valuable wall space.
Door Placement – the Right Way
Door on long wall: See below how the entire 5 1/2′ long wall in this narrow closet is filled with useful clothing storage? This is possible because of the door placement (at the bottom of this illustration). When the closet is small, standing space is essentially limited to the door access space.
Door Placement – The Wrong Way
Door on short wall: See below, how the door placement on the short wall interferes with the usability of the long wall? Note that it wouldn't matter if the door swung out, instead of in. The door placement determines the standing (and walking) space. And here, the standing space cuts right through the potential storage on the long wall. In this example, because of the unfortunate door placement, the usable space for clothing storage was reduced from 5 1/2′ (the long wall) to 3 1/2′ (the short wall).
Space Planning Tip #4: Put The Top Clothing Rod No Higher Than 84″
If you've ever had to stretch to reach the top clothing rod in a closet, you'll know why this is important. See below for examples of closet design mistakes that make the top rod inaccessible without a stepstool.
Clothing Rod Height – The Right Way
The top clothing rod should be no higher than 7′, adjusted for your particular height. You don't have to be able to touch the actual clothing rod itself. But the rod must be low enough for you to be able to reach the clothes hanger and lift it off of the rod.
The illustration below shows some long-hang space with a single rod, and double-hang space with two rods. For double-hang, as a general rule, the bottom clothing rod should be somewhere between 38″ to 44″ high. The top rod should be somewhere between 78″ to 84″.
Clothing Rod Height – The Wrong Way
The problem comes when closet designers design double-hang spaces, but also try to insert extra shelves or storage cubbies in there. I see this mistake a lot. Perhaps they believe that it makes the closet look nicer, or more interesting. But the reality is that the homeowner will have to get on a step-stool to fetch a shirt from the top clothing rod. The top rod shown below is likely about 8′ tall.
Even more cubbies! Here is a second example, with extra cubbies! You'd need a taller stepstool to reach that top rod, which is likely at least 9′ tall.
So now that you can walk into the closet, and use the corners properly, and reach everything, the last thing to think about is where to put drawers.
Space Planning Tip #5: Pull Drawers Open Into Standing Space
Drawers must open into the space you are standing in. Again, it sounds obvious, right? You would be surprised at how often I see drawers set in corners or other problem spots, where they can't be opened or accessed.
Drawer Placement – The Right Way
Wherever you can stand in front of something, a drawer could be pulled out there.
Reach-in closets with drawers: In a reach-in closet, place the drawers in front of the door opening. In the illustration below, the arrow indicates the direction the drawer will open.
Walk-in closets with drawers: A typical walk-in closet could have drawers on different walls, as long as they aren't hitting anything when opened.
Drawer Placement – The Wrong Way
Don't put it in the corner: No matter how well the drawer unit fits into the corner, don't put it sideways in there. You won't be able to have anything on the back wall, if you want to be able to open the drawer.
Again, don't put it in the corner: You don't want to open the drawer and have it hit clothes on the adjacent wall.
Basic Closet Design Mistake
Want to see what that looks like in real life? I took a picture in my client's closet. A famous closet design company had installed drawers that hit his suits when the drawer was opened. Basic Closet 101: don't make the drawers bump up against the clothes.
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Pilot in East River chopper crash says emergency fuel lever inadvertently shut off
ABC News(NEW YORK) — The pilot of the helicopter that crashed into the East River in New York last Sunday has told federal safety investigators that moments before the craft hit the water, he noticed a passenger tether under the emergency fuel shutoff lever, which had been inadvertently shifted up into the off position – but by then, he said, it was too late to restart the engine.
In a 2010 letter to the FAA reviewed by ABC News, the NTSB had warned the agency of incidents in which straps had "become entwined" with fuel levers on choppers like the one that crashed in the East River. The manufacturer, Eurocopter, added additional lever locking devices to new models starting in 2012. The chopper that crashed was manufactured in 2013.
The pilot, the sole survivor of the crash that killed five passengers, says he twice briefed them on how to use the cutting tools placed on the harnesses if they needed to cut themselves out, according to the NTSB.
At one point, the pilot said he noticed the front passenger's restraint was hanging from the seat and asked him to put it back on. This was not unusual, he said, as passengers were moving around to take pictures, the report said.
Shortly thereafter, the same passenger turned sideways and extended his feet outside the helicopter, according to the preliminary report, which does not discuss the probable cause of the accident.
The doors of the chopper were open – something the FAA banned for flights that don't use quick-release restraint systems in the wake of the crash.
It was at that moment that the chopper began to suffer what appeared at the time to be an engine failure, the pilot told investigators.
After telling the passengers to get back in their seats as the aircraft began to descend, the pilot attempted to restart the engine, but his first two tries were unsuccessful, he said in an NTSB interview.
He began to prepare for a water landing and activated floats on the helicopter's skids at about 800 feet.
He reached down and noticed the emergency fuel shutoff lever was in the "off" position and a portion of the front seat passenger's tether was underneath the lever, according to his account.
He turned the fuel lever back on, tried to restart the engine and it began to work, but he didn't have enough altitude to fully restart, he told investigators. He positioned the lever back to off, hit the water, climbed up onto the belly and called for help, he said.
The manufacturer – rebranded in 2014 as Airbus Helicopters – did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.
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1989 Chrysler TC Maserati
Price: - Item location: Apple Valley, California, United States
- Condition: Used
- Make: Chrysler
- Model: TC Maserati
- Type: Convertible
- Trim: 2.2 Dual overhead cam
- Year: 1989
- Mileage: 68,908
- VIN: zc2fr1107kb204221
- Color: Burgundy
- Engine size: Dual overhead cam 4cyl Turbocharged
- Number of cylinders: 4
- Power options: Air Conditioning, Cruise Control, Power Locks, Power Windows, Power Seats
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Manual
- Drive type: FWD
- Interior color: Burgundy
- Options: Convertible, Leather Seats
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1989 Chrysler TC MaseratiThe reason I am selling the car is that I was in two work related accidents and am no longer able to drive a stick shift vehicle. My bad luck is your gain.A/C ice cold, All scheduled maintenance, All records, 1 of 501 made, 1 of 53 made with this color combination, Always garaged, Excellent condition, Fully loaded with all the goodies, Looks & drives great, Mostly highway miles, Must see, Never seen snow, No accidents, Non-smoker, Perfect first car, Title in hand, Very clean interior, Well maintained
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by Alisha Ketry
What do South Park and the American dream have in common? Not much, but it seems safe to say that the American dream has veered from its previous 'white picket fence' route to something else. Many Americans look at South Park with disdain for being amoral, inappropriate, and just not what America stands for. However, upon deeper investigation into the encoding of the South Park's messages, one finds the same commentary, 'this is not what America stands for'. South Park takes what the American culture has become, a television obsessed, fame-seeking, materialistic society and emphasizes it only to show its flaws. It is a mirror to the American culture, granted, a vulgar mirror, but a mirror nonetheless. The way South Park does this is by encoding messages that challenge the American culture through the use of children, animation, and lowbrow humor.
The theory of cultural studies stems directly from who people are as a society and from who people are as individuals. When it comes to media, cultural studies is one of the most important theories to discuss because it is the basis for why, or why not, people watch certain things on television based on the meanings these shows inspire.
Culture is defined as, "the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization"("Culture"). Culture is what makes a television show. The content might be strongly agreeing with the culture or questioning it. Cultural studies theory is the analysis of this. The message a television show is trying to convey comes from the viewer's interpretation. Consequently, the possibility of multiple meanings, polysemy, exists because various viewers incorporate their own experiences, lifestyles, values, and other cultural practices into their interpretations" (O'Donnell 150).
An argument may be made that a television show can only have one message based on the writer's intention. However, this cannot be true for everyone for it is impossible for everyone to know what a writer's message is without asking him or her, and people will have an initial reaction, thought, and opinion of a show's meaning based on what they know, not what someone else knows.
A culture is littered with symbols that they recognize to mean something. The meaning of a symbol is decided upon by a culture, which is why one symbol in one country can mean something entirely different in another. For example, in America, when someone sees a cow it may represent food or small-town country life, but in India, which has a dominance of Hinduism, the cow is sacred.
A popular and influential theorist of cultural studies is Stuart Hall who is most famous for his encoding/decoding theory. These symbols lie in class, ethnicity, gender, etc. which are interpreted differently by each person, but understood by a culture. A culture might recognize a black man on the side of the street as an irritating bum, but an individual may recognize him as a man who has lost everything because of his race.
Hall's theory of encoding/decoding is based on the power people exert when analyzing a television show. He discusses three main social positions when interpreting media: dominant, which is when a viewer decodes and accepts a television show 's intended meaning; oppositional, which is when a viewer opposes what he or she sees and interprets the opposite meaning; and negotiated, which is when a viewer mostly agrees, but disagrees with certain elements (O'Donnell 155).
Jeff Lewis, another theorist, agreed with Hall on this, giving people power which he defines as, "something which enables one person or group to exert their will and interest over others" (Lewis 25). People retain pleasure from this power by feeling accomplished at understanding the meaning or brave for questioning it.
Another theorist is John Fiske who is heavily influenced by the works of Hall. Fiske's theory is based on codes which he defines as a rule-governed system of signs, whose rules and conventions are shared amongst members of a culture, and which is used to generate and circulate meanings in and for that culture (Fiske 4). Fiske breaks these codes into three levels which are; reality, representation, and ideology. Reality relates to appearance, behavior, speech, sound, and setting; Representation relates to technical codes with the camera , lighting, sound , music , and editing ; Ideological codes are when codes come together to be interpreted for a preferred meaning which supports ones ideology.
Cultural studies has been presented as a way to demystify what attitudes, beliefs, values, preferred forms of conduct, and ideologies are embedded and reinforced in images and supporting discourse (O'Donnell 161). Cultural studies is a way to understand why television is interpreted, how it is interpreted, and who is doing the interpreting.
Since culture is based on the agreed upon meaning of signs, television based on our culture will ultimately use these signs. Creators deliberately choose what is shown based on the meaning of the signs a culture agrees upon. For example, if a creator chooses to show a single rose, it is an underlying meaning of love, but if the creator shows that rose wilting, it may be to portray love lost. South Park takes the idea of cultural studies and runs with it. It uses the signs based around American beliefs and ideologies to break them down and present them in a perspective that can be decoded as challenging the very basis and validity of these beliefs.
Stuart Hall confronts a fundamental aspect of culture – which is power. Who has control determines what issues are important. Whether it is in politics, economics, or race, someone, or some group, holds the power. Between adults and children, adults are generally the ones holding the power.
South Park uses this specific power structure to challenge the American culture. It has been an underlying assumption that children have less understanding and less capability to make decisions. Children are a symbol, or a sign. They represent naiveté. South Park has reversed the roles and given the children the power role without the adults in the world of South Park ever knowing it. In fact, the adults are usually the ones to make things even worse and act childish.
The ideology that South Park encodes is that the adults are wise while the reality is that the children are. In the episode "Margaritaville" the citizens of South Park blindly follow Randy Marsh, Stan's dad, treating him as a prophet of the almighty economy. The citizens treat the economy as a vengeful God. They stop spending money and walk the streets barefoot and dressed in togas. Rather than making a conscious effort to fix the economy, the adults believe they must treat it with respect and it will forgive them. It also makes the treasury department in Washington, D.C. three men who make decisions by cutting off the head of a chicken and letting it run around a chart with different solutions (such as bailout, telethon, or go to war) written on it until it dies. Wherever it lands is the decision the department makes no matter what the situation is. This is a childish way of thinking. The roles of adult and child are reversed when it is the children who finally convince the citizens that just sitting back and doing nothing will not make the economy better.
South Park is an animated series which allows for a lot of freedom. The creators are able to encode messages that a series using real actors and props wouldn't be able to execute. According to Fiske, ideology encoding involves ideological codes "such as individualism, patriarchy, class, materialism, capitalism, and so on. All the codes come together to encode a preferred meaning that supports a certain ideology" (O'Donnell 158).
South Park uses animation to confront each of these ideologies and question the validity of them. The ideology of religion is often approached. South Park animates all of the popular prophets of the world, including Jesus, and gives them the role of a superhero troupe entitled "Super Best Friends". By doing this, South Park takes a literal view of how some people view God as some sort of magical being that can solve all problems. It also does this with the villains of the world by making Satan a bumbling, whiny, brute who only wants popularity. An example of this is when Satan throws a sweet sixteen party for himself and sends Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy to pick up his cake. South Park animates the three mass murderers as if they are the three stooges.
The American culture is obsessed with celebrity life and South Park has no hesitation when confronting the ideology behind it. It often mocks this ideology by animating celebrities that depict what they represent rather than who they are. An example of this is in an episode with Paris Hilton, the heiress to the Hilton fortune. The animators draw her character in a way that makes her look incredibly thin, scantily clad, and obsessed with herself (she wears a necklace with her name on it).
By doing this, the creators mock the entitlement that celebrities seem to have. In the episode with Paris Hilton, she decides that she wants one of the children, Butters, to be her pet and his parents allow this to happen. The idea is that because Paris is a celebrity she can have whatever she wants including people. South Park also blends levels of encoding to portray a meaning.
An example of using animation to blend the levels of encoding is in an episode of South Park where a water park overflows and Cartman is stuck on an abandoned life raft with other people who were at the water park.
However, the people he is abandoned with are all of Hispanic descent which is the use of the reality code. Cartman is upset because he is surrounded by minorities, which is the ideology code of class, and then Cartman sings a woeful song about being surrounded by minorities which is the use of sound and music in the representation code. This episode is a good example of how South Park uses encoding to challenge the American culture because the reality is that Cartman is the minority, but the ideology of class is still what motivates him. Then South Park uses sound and music in an unconventional way to show the absurdity of it. "Sound and music create mood, attitude and other various emotions" (O'Donnell 157). At a moment of controversy over minorities, Cartman begins a musical paralleling the absurdity of breaking out into song with the absurdity of the ideology of class.
South Park has been known for the past 14 years for being, what some say, disgusting, offensive, and absurd, but it is the way that it has thread this lowbrow humor with the content that makes it's encoding so important. There are people who believe that lowbrow humor does not have to be used in order to get a point across. They believe that these words and topics can be avoided and that it would even make a stronger argument without them. While I agree that using four letter words and degrading language can often discredit an otherwise solid argument, South Park uses these words with an intention to challenge them. It does this by using the ideology and reality levels of encoding.
South Park is not offensive just to be offensive. Instead, it makes certain characters offensive while others are intelligent and tolerant. The character of Cartman is the personification of close-minded ignorance. He is an intolerant, gluttonous, racist, and narcissistic sociopath. There is no admirable quality in this character and South Park makes this apparent.
The psychoanalyst, Albert Ellis, believed that the reason for depression and neuroticism in people was because of, what he called, dysfunctional beliefs. These beliefs included things such as "When people act obnoxiously or unfairly, they should be blamed for being bad, wicked, or rotten individuals" (Ellis and Lynn 130). While most people would agree with this statement, Ellis described this as irrational thinking. In South Park, the ideology encoding of justice is involved when the other characters believe that Cartman should be punished, but the reality encoding is that Cartman gets away with everything he does. This may lead people to believe South Park agrees with or condones his actions, but in actuality it is a statement on the reality of the American culture.
South Park also takes words that hold negative weight and challenges the meaning behind them. It challenges how these words become harmful. Proof of this encoding is in the episode entitled "The F Word". The episode is about the word fag and its meaning. The boys of South Park want to refer to Harley motorcycle riders as fags which sends the mayor into an uproar. The boys defend themselves saying they aren't referring to homosexuals and that one can be gay and not be a fag. They go as far as to change the definition of fag altogether. The mayor is upset that the rest of the country thinks the city of South Park looks like "gay bashing, red-neck, homophones," which is where the ideology of equality and tolerance comes into play.
The reality encoding is that the word, fag, has had many different meanings over the last few centuries and that it only holds weight if one allows it to. Stan says, "All we have to do is convince the dictionary people to take out that fag means homosexual". The boys do this and even have the homosexuals of South Park referring to Harley riders as fags. To remove the effects of a word that has brought about so much real emotional and physical harm simply by changing the definition in the dictionary proves that it is the meaning one puts behind the word rather than the word itself. It is in this way that South Park challenges the objectivity of pejorative language.
It is important to understand what a culture is, because so many decisions are made based on the beliefs of a culture. When one realizes that a culture is only made up of beliefs and attitudes that are agreed upon by a number of people, it gives some perspective. It makes one open to other cultures rather than demeaning them and claiming them to be wrong only because they are different.
When looking at the encoding of South Park, it seems that this is the message the creators are attempting to portray. It takes a look at the culture of America, and turns it into a caricature to point out that some things taken so seriously may just be because we, as a culture, decided it was serious.
Works Cited
"Culture." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2010. Merriam-Webster Online. 1 March 2010. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture
Ellis, Albert, and Steven J. Lynn. Rational and Irrational Beliefs. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Print.
Fiske, John. (1987). Television Culture. London, UK: Methuen.
Lewis, Jeff. (2002). Cultural Studies: the Basics. London, UK: Sage Publications.
O'Donnell, Victoria. Television Criticism. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications Inc., 2007. Print.


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Despite Law, Many Art Supplies Lack Labels on Toxicity, Study Finds
WASHINGTON--Many art-supply manufacturers have failed to warn consumers of the toxicity of their products, flouting federal law and possibly endangering schoolchildren, according to a new study.
A sampling of 52 toxic art materials found that 44 percent of them were unlabeled, despite a federal law that went into effect last year requiring detailed descriptions of a product's contents and dangers, according to the study, "Art and the Craft of Avoidance," by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
Only 10 of the products included a manufacturer's telephone number on the label, also required by federal law.
"Children are particularly at risk from exposure ... because their body size is small, their bodies are still developing, and because they may be too young to understand the dangers associated with these products," Lucinda Sikes, the study's author, said in a statement.
The Arts and Crafts Materials Institute in Boston endorsed more stringent labeling but warned that some of the findings may be overstated.
While some of the products, like Pentel correction pens, Glitter Magic, and Tru Bond Rubber Adhesive, might be found in classrooms, many others without labels are more hardware products than art supplies, said Deborah Fanning, the group's executive vice president.
Such supplies should be labeled, she stressed, but because the federal law specifically targets art products, industrial manufacturers may not know about the new regulation. Also, she said, because the products are not perishable, many may have been placed on art-supply and hardware shelves long before labeling was required.
But officials of the consumer group say the new law makes it imperative that these older products be removed from the shelves. Because consumers now expect to see warning labels, an unlabeled product may wrongly be assumed safe, they asserted. The group has forwarded its findings to the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission and has called for federal and state laws banning toxic art supplies in elementary schools and for regulations on their use in secondary schools.
The group is the national lobbying office of state-level public-interest research groups. The groups are nonprofit consumer and environmental research and advocacy organizations.
Copies of the report are available for $6 each from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, 215 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003. --J.W.
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Are you ready for Summer? BBQ season is upon us and following the new government guidelines we can now plan our outdoor entertaining.
What would you say is the most important part of the job application process? It's likely that you're thinking about the resume or the CV – perhaps thinking it's the interview you must nail to get the job. While these are all important aspects of the application process, you might be overlooking an important part of the process: the references.
This can be a big mistake –The Society for Human Resource Management found in a study that references are in the top three of selection strategies used by hiring managers when selecting suitable candidates for different roles. If you don't get your references together in a properly fashion, you might be hindering your chances of landing that dream job.
In this guide, we'll examine how to create a reference list, select the right references, nurture those reference relationships and ask the question the right way. In the end, we'll give a few tips on what to do after you've had people agree to act as a reference.
In an ideal world, you should have organised your references together well before you started job searching. You never know when you might be looking for a new role and it can help to have this thing sorted out – it'll take off a tiny bit of the stress away that comes from hunting for a new role. It's a good idea to have a list of references ready for when you need them. If you are just starting your job search, then sort out the references before you move on. It'll help you deal with everything else later down the line.
The idea is to have a list of references – perhaps as an Excel spreadsheet or a Word-file, or you can use these LiveCareer.com templates – that you can keep updating as you move from one role to another and gain more experience. You can check the list every six months to ensure you always have relevant names listed and perhaps move around those who might not make a good reference any longer (more on a good reference in the next section). This overall reference list can have six to ten names at any time.
You can then use the list to compile the reference list to give to a potential employer during the job hunt. This should be a basic document, separate from your resume and CV – with similar formatting – which you will hand out to the hiring manager when they ask for it.
In this file, you will need to present the names of three to four references. The information you want to include is:
Information about the reference
The connection
This document shouldn't stay stagnant either. As we'll discuss in the next section, different connections make good references at different times. It's important to pick the references in your list based on the role you are applying for.
So don't treat a reference list like the ultimate truth – keep updating it and tweaking it each time you are applying for a role and in between applications.
Who you choose as your reference can make a big difference. It's important to avoid just listing anyone you know and using random people as the reference. The hiring manager will read between the lines when it comes to evaluating you've chosen as a reference – your best friend from high school might talk nice things about you but it just isn't as good of a recommendation as your ex-boss'.
So, who are the best people to ask to be your references? These are:
These people are good because they know your skills and professional talent the best. You are looking for a job and all the above can have something to say about your work ethic and talent.
If you are struggling to find references in the above categories, it is possible to get a character or personal references. This type of reference won't focus on your professional skills and achievements quite as extensively but it will talk more about your other characteristics and the kind of person you are.
These can come from a friend but you ideally want to pick someone with a reputable position and strong connection to you. If you've volunteered or been part of another non-work organisation, you could use someone you know from these groups. It could also be a spiritual leader or a sports coach, for example.
Are there people that don't make a good reference? Well, you shouldn't ever ask a family member to be your reference – even if it's a character reference. You should also remember that your reference doesn't have to be your current employer or a colleague. Indeed, you probably don't want to do this if they are unaware of your job hunting. But in any case, the reference doesn't have to be the most current professional connection.
So, you have an idea on who to ask now. But it's also important to not just pick a reference from one of the above groups. You also want to pick a good reference – but what is a good reference? You definitely want to use the below tips in mind when choosing your references during your job search.
The bottom line is to get your reference list sorted as soon as possible, whether you are looking for a job now. A good reference relationship is something that's forged well before they are contacted for an opinion about you – you need to nurture your professional relationships to ensure you won't find it difficult to receive a positive reference.
Therefore, you want to stay professional with people around you and keep a list of possible references whether you are job hunting now or in the future. Ask the person politely and provide enough information for them to make a good case of why you should be hired.
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Dead Rising 2: Welcome To Fortune City
It's always good to see some more Dead Rising 2 trailers appear, since each appears to be more peculiar than the last. Two more have appeared for Comic Con, advertising the rather lovely looking resort of Fortune City, Nevada. The first is, well, literally an advert for the city. The second – it goes into more specific details about what more lively events could take place there.
So check out sunny Fortune City.
Right, here's the meat. The game here is to spot the coolest method of zombie killing shown in the short bursts. But I'm not sure any of them can beat the card flinging in the casino. Cor, I want to play this.
The game is due out on the 1st October on consoles, but a PC date is still TBA.


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Final Look at Disneyland's Club 33 Before Major Expansion Adding Jazz Club
[guestpost]Rachel Marie, our new Disneyland photographer is here with photos from Club 33 and this last Christmas season before it goes into a huge renovation to add a new Jazz Club Lounge. [/guestpost]
The exclusive Disneyland Club 33 lies behind this non-descript door in New Orleans Square. Everyday at Disneyland, many people pass by this door either not knowing what it is or wishing they could go in.
After the 1964 World's Fair, Walt Disney wanted to bring some of the attractions that the Disney Imagineers had built back to take up permanent residence in Disneyland. According to In Service to the Mouse, by Jack Lindquist, the first president of Disneyland, Club 33 was built because of a demand from General Electric.
"General Electric insisted that a VIP lounge, like the one they had at the New York World's Fair–with a bar–be part of their pavilion at Disneyland. GE was told that alcohol was not allowed in Disneyland, but they insisted. Then a compromise was proposed. Disney would construct a private club in New Orleans Square, a new area that within the park just under construction at the time."
Walt Disney passed away before he could see the finished club inside of New Orleans Square. Walt passed on December 15, 1966, exactly 6 months before the Club opened.
Join us as we go behind the green door in the photos below or in the video that we posted previously.
(The below three pictures are by fellow member Dan Castaneda.)
This table was a prop in Mary Poppins. It can be seen in the Bank's house on Cherry Tree Lane.
(See our video tour of Club 33 for more views from the club.)
Club 33 To be Expanded
Club 33 has gone mostly unchanged in its 47 year existence. This year is the first time that Disney has closed it down for a large expansion and refurbishment. The club closed on January 5th, 2014, for a 6 month expansion. With this remodel, the Club entrance will be moved to the Court of Angels, which closed in late 2013.
There will be the addition of a new lounge as well, which is to be named "Salon Noveau", and will be themed after Princess and The Frog (2008). The addition of this lounge is the reason for which the entrance is being relocated. When entering the club, you will ascend the stairs in the Court of Angels, and either go to the right for the main dining room (renamed to "Gran Salon") or go to the left for the new lounge. More details here>>
Saying Goodbye to the Trophy Room
The kitchen is being expanded as well, which unfortunately leads to the loss of the Trophy Room. The Trophy Room is a room in the club full of taxidermy animals and interesting artifacts. Unfortunately, the Trophy Room has changed quite a bit in its 47 year existence, losing many artifacts. Among the losses, was the famous turkey vulture. Walt thought it would be entertaining to have this vulture, which sat over the door to the trophy room, converse with dining guests. Above the table nearest the door, was a chandelier equipped with microphones. A castmember would listen in on the guests conversation and would add in their conversation through the vulture.
However the structure of the room itself has remained the same. With the Club expansion of the kitchen though, the Trophy Room is being demolished. I was lucky enough to be able to dine in the Trophy Room on the very last night it was open for service, which was January 4th, 2014. Here are pictures of the Trophy Room and pictures from that event:
Below is the menu from the Club 33 Trophy Room celebration.
First course, Rabbit Dumpling.
Second course: Wild Boar Rib and Goose Rillette Gougere
Third course: Hunter-style Branzino, Chicken Consomme, Pig Ear Cracklngs, and Black Truffle
Fourth course: Bison Tenderloin over Chimichurri, with Truffled Mac and Cheese.
Final course: Chocolate Terrine featuring the Club 33 Trophy Room vulture.
Club 33 is also losing the brilliant Chef, Marcel. January 4th was the last night Marcel was at the Club. We presented him with a parting gift, a 3 Liter bottle of Champagne.
All of us at the event signed the champagne bottle box.
Here I am posing with the amazing Marcel on his last night working at Club 33.
We closed out the Club that night, leaving at 2:30 am. It was sad, knowing we were walking out of the Trophy Room for the last time, and knowing Marcel was leaving. But, it was exciting as well, knowing what changes will be coming to the Club!
There will be other changes to the club, including the classic bathrooms and the logo.
See our other articles on Club 33 here and enjoy our full video tour here.
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Titans' Griffin vows to keep hitting hard
Safeties Brandon Meriweather and Michael Griffin entered the NFL in 2007, just five spots apart in the draft.
Like Meriweather, Griffin has long dreadlocks that hang from the back of his helmet.
Griffin probably would like to see the connections end there. Like Meriweather, however, the Titans veteran is in the NFL's crosshairs because of illegal hits to defenseless players. He didn't need a reminder he's on watch.
Then on Monday, the NFL suspended the Redskins safety for the first two games of the regular season because of an illegal hit to the head.
"Whelp 2 game suspension," Griffin posted on Twitter after the Meriweather news. "Got to be more careful this year."
The truth is it's been on Griffin's mind since last season, when he was suspended for one game — and forfeited a $205,882 paycheck — for his helmet-dislodging hit against Raiders tight end Mychal Rivera. The league said it was his second such violation and his fourth since 2011.
Griffin, who talked to Meriweather on Monday, is fully aware he's a big hit away from a longer suspension and bigger deduction from his bank account. But he is adamant that he won't change the way he plays.
"You can't do that. Playing tentative in this league is the first thing that will get you out of here," Griffin said. "I am going to do everything I can to play within the rules and do whatever I can to help my team win games. But if it happens, it happens. … My job is to keep people from catching the ball in the middle of the field, and I have to do my job."
Video of the Rivera hit showed Griffin lowered his helmet to dislodge the ball, but it also appears the safety tried to turn his shoulder to avoid helmet-to-helmet contact.
It didn't help that he'd been fined earlier in the season and was labeled "a repeat offender," Griffin said. The league told him it's up to defensive players to make the hit legal "no matter what the offensive player does."
'You are going to get hit'
Meriweather's suspension resulted from a helmet-to-helmet hit with Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith on Saturday.
He also was suspended for two games last season, but on appeal the penalty was reduced to one game. He has been fined five times for illegal hits to defenseless players, including $42,000 for one against Packers running back Eddie Lacy last season.
It's a bad time to play defense, Titans safety Bernard Pollard said. His message to Griffin: Play your game, and "let the chips fall where they may."
Pollard thinks the league has gone overboard trying to protect offensive players. In his first season as a Titan last year, the veteran was flagged multiple times and fined $67,500.
"Are we going to crunch up or ball up when a guy comes across the middle because of these rules? No," Pollard said. "If you come across the middle, you are going to get hit, and if our helmet happens to hit you, then so be it. We are going to be the type of defense where if you come across the middle, you are going to get hit, and hit hard.
"We are not here to appease (NFL Commissioner) Roger Goodell or that (rules committee) panel because that panel doesn't understand football. We have to play ball."
'I don't coach dirty football'
When NFL referees visited Saint Thomas Sports Park earlier this month, Titans defensive coordinator Ray Horton used it as an opportunity to discuss rules with his players.
"I don't coach dirty football. I don't coach hitting them in the head; I don't coach hitting a quarterback in the knee. We coach proper football so we don't get hurt, nor do they get hurt," Horton said. "Are we trying to be as aggressive as we can within the rules? Absolutely.
"I don't want to see (Griffin) lose a penny. I don't want to see him out of the game where we lose one of our better players. … We coach safe football, and as long as he does what we teach him to do, he'll be fine."
Griffin, heading into his eighth NFL season, stands to lose a lot of money if he's found guilty of hitting a defenseless player again.
With a $6.2 million base salary, a one-game suspension would cost $364,706. A two-game suspension: $729,412.
Griffin said it's most important to be in the lineup every week, but he admitted it's been difficult to deal with the change in mind-set since he first entered the league, when defenders were trained to deliver hard hits.
"You lived to look for big shots," he said. "Now they are teaching guys to play a different way. … You have no choice. I'm going to do my best to play within the rules. I'll do the best I can and if it happens, it happens."
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And so the Partridge Shooting Season begins! It soon comes around!
No better time to get the Shooting Season Catalogue ready and off to the printers and get a few new Seasonal products in to stock.
Take a look at the PDF of the new Shooting Season Catalogue here:
We have some fantastic new products in to stock for the Shooting Season. We are especially pleased to be offering a few items from the Harkila range which make for perfect use during the season or as great gifts for Christmas!
Harkila 500ml Thermos
Vacuum flask in stainless steel with genuine leather cover. Keeps liquids hot or cold for up to 24 hours.
Harkila Round Hip Flask
Hip flask in stainless steel with round window and genuine leather cover – Holds 150ml.
Harkila Hip Flask
Rectangular hip flask in stainless steel with hinged lid – Holds 175ml.
Ragley Shooting Suit
We are also eagerly anticipating the arrival of the new Seeland Tweed range. The Ragley Shooting Suit is due in to stock by mid – September.
This range of classic shooting garments in tweed. The tweed is Scotchgard™ DWR-treated, so it is dirt-repellent and doesn't absorb water and become heavy when the rain arrives. The waterproof and windproof SEETEX membrane keeps you dry.
Take a look at the range by clicking here!
The Ragley Tweed Breeks have already arrived in to stock, and we are taking back orders for the rest of the range which is due in to stock mid-September.
We also have some fantastic Special Offers for you to take advantage of over the Shooting Season.
These offers are valid now through until the 31st January 2018!
Remember to use the Coupon Codes at checkout or when you call to order. Make sure you have some items form the Seeland Range in your basket for these special offers to work!
That's about all for now, we hope you all have a fantastic season!


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A bit premature in my review, but there is a good reason for that. In a few days I am leaving to spend the holiday and remainder of the year with my brother in Sitka, Alaska, where I plan on doing next to nothing.
That's already a lie – I'll do some reading and a tiny bit of knitting, I'm sure, hopefully some cooking and baking, and a lot of basking in gorgeous scenery. I look forward to some days of self-indulgence. One of my (many) bad habits is that I like to take on more than I realistically believe that I can handle, then force myself to see all commitments through at the cost of sleep or a regular social life. I don't plan on changing that in the new year, though. If anything, I'm just going to work on harnessing that inclination for over-extending myself in order to eventually become some kind of superhuman. But a girl must rest sometimes.
This year was hard on me, mentally and physically. It took a few cracked ribs, a split chin, a possibly-sprained wrist, and a lost thumbnail for me to realize that this was (literaly) a year about toughening up and gaining thicker skin. Once I gave into it, things felt a little bit easier. Having dinner with a dear friend in Pittsburgh over Thanksgiving, I realized that I feel better than I did when we had dinner together a year before. I hope all of my friends can say the same.
My favorite thing that I knit this year? Probably my Stasis pullover, though I've yet to take a decent photo of it. I'm also getting a shocking amount of wear out of my Bridgewater shawl, though it is quite a departure from my usual color palette.
Favorite things I read this year? Alice Munro's Dear Life, Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle (a reread from years ago, I can't recommend it enough), and A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver. A special mention goes to Cheryl Strayed's Wild, which I read during a time when the emotional resonance was practically deafening, and which I found immensely comforting and helpful. (Surely I'm forgetting something, but you can't go wrong with these.)
I was really lucky to travel as much as I did this year. In my day-to-day life as professional tourist, I got to explore Rhode Island on a deeper level than I had in any of the prior years I spent living here. I appreciate it much more than I did before, even going so far as to finally admit that I actually live here, and am not just passing through. My rip to Block Island was a definite highlight. But I also got to spend time at home in western Pennsylvania, with friends at the Jersey shore, and with one of my nearest and dearest in Los Angeles. I didn't make it back to Salzburg, but a friend and former coworker there did make it here to visit me. I've always wanted to spend time in Alaska, and now I'm going to end the year there. Lucky doesn't even begin to cover it.
My 2013 imperative was "rest less." I started the year with a pun tattoo to seal the deal:
It served me well enough. Perhaps I'll stick with it in 2014. (Maybe I could take it to a bit less of an extreme.) As usual, I have no real resolutions. Just more of the same, but bigger and better. I recently bought a friend a strange energy drink at Ocean State Job Lot, and in tiny, tiny text on the can it said, "Because I have been given much, I too must give." That, with a solid dose of taurine, could really be the secret to everything, couldn't it?
Then again, perhaps I'm just tired.
See you next year.


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An interesting article was floating around Twitter a few days ago. It appeared in Editor & Publisher and was written by Seth Porges, who is currently an editor at Popular Mechanics magazine.
The subject he addressed was whether j-schools are adequately preparing students for the real world – and in it suggesting they've misstepped.
His thesis statement is that j-schools are too quick to adopt new media standards, such as basic Web coding, and are in the process throwing out pre-existing elements of core curriculum that should remain.
In this blog post I take chunks of what Mr Porges said, and give my thoughts and opinions.
The first stone thrown at the current j-school establishment is that it is over-emphasizing Web development in its curriculum. And that as a result of this, j-school courses are becoming less journalism-based and more Web-development based.
Journalism schools seem to be under the impression that Web savviness is synonymous with a technical mastery, and are top-loading course loads with classes on coding and production. Don't get me wrong: Technical skills are useful, and knowing how to sling code will never make somebody a less desirable job candidate. But there are real problems with this emphasis.
When I first read the above paragraph, I had to pause and re-read it a few more times. I had a knee-jerk reaction of "What? Is he serious?" but I've since regained my composure. Mostly.
It's a shame that more journalism students can't do even basic coding. In a professional setting, being a reporter/blogger/employee of a media organization, you're likely to have frequent interaction with the Web. You'll probably even have a blog. Part of having a blog is knowing how to fix things if the break, add features if you want them, and be able to express yourself in the way you want to. Often this requires knowing basic code. Text editors on most CMS today take that out of the equation. Despite that, you should know how to embed something. What a paragraph tag is. And on and on.
The Web won't just… stop. We should assume that the integration of journalism and the Web is in its infancy. Massive change is still on the horizon. As a journalist you need to be able to react to that. Being Web-savvy is a massive asset to have as a journalist. I'm of the opinion that every journalism program should require at least one module in Web development.
The media – print especially – is in the midst of an extremely uncertain time. The only thing people can seem to make heads or tails of is that the future of print media is, for the most part, not printed. It's on the Web. Therefore I believe the emphasis toward all aspects of Web journalism – from writing, editing and shooting for it, to coding and developing it – should be extremely high. At this point j-schools are making up for lost ground.
Mr Porges disagrees:
It scares less technically inclined students away from the field (the same way a calculus prerequisite might scare away potential pre-med students). It also replaces much of a valuable editorial education with technical skills that can just as easily be learned online or at your local DeVry campus. Fact is, Web platforms come and go, and no coding language stays in vogue more than a few of years. Basic reporting, writing, and editing skills will never be obsolete.
This entire statement causes a knee-jerk reaction. Again. Breathe.
Less technically inclined students? I'm not really sure what that means. No one is expecting j-school students to be coding C++ or PHP. They can if they want to learn it. But the basics that j-school students should know how to do is the basics of HTML. If you don't want to mess with CSS, at least know how to attach a stylesheet.
This is 2009. Look forward five years – do you think the expectations of journalists will be the same as they are today? I don't. I expect they will all need to have a base level of knowledge in HTML. Maybe even basic CSS.
The other bit that caused me to pause was the last sentence – that basic writing, editing and reporting skills will never be obsolete. It may not seem like it, but that evolves, too. Are the 'basic writing, editing and reporting' techniques used today the same as they were, say, 20 years ago? They may be similar, but I don't think they're the same. The rise of New Journalism with its first-person style and more anecdotal nature changed the game. I expect the blog-style of writing will, over time, have a significant impact on news writing. Perhaps it'll be New New New Journalism.
There are aspects of the article that I can agree with. Porges notes what it means to be Web 2.0 journalist today:
A good Web journalist is able to predict what stories will work on the Web, how to package these stories, and how to make sure these stories reach a whole lot of eyeballs. If I were hiring a Web editor, my first interview questions would not be what programming languages they know, but what their strategies are for reaching out to blogs, improving SEO, and getting stories on Digg.
I agree. That's what a good Web 2.0 journalist is. Today. In April 2009. This is what it takes. In April 2012? Nobody knows!
This is a new phase of grieving that people married to the print side have been going through, and its what blindsided the entire industry when the Web officially made itself known. The constant focus on the now. This moment. This second. This is what we need now. But aren't you interested in what you WILL need? If you aren't, you really should be.
And just as we're getting on an even keel, he comes rushing in with another knee-jerk reaction-inducing note toward the end:
If I was a J-school dean, I'd offer classes on social media and blog outreach (something that is severely lacking from most J-schools), and teach students how to expand and adapt existing print stories for the Web.
What he's saying is, if he were a J-school dean, he'd teach students how to sell the print product on the Web. Basically repackaged what appears in print, and put some bells and whistles on it so it is Web-ready.
What about teaching students how to conceive stories just for the Web? THAT is what's sorely lacking – the ability of a journalism student to envisage a story for the Web in its entirety – plot out the multimedia, the story line, the word count, the number of pages, what links you want in the story, additional blogs, related content, guest blogs, graphic features, etc. Everything that goes into developing a story for the Web. That's the bread and butter of Web 2.0 journalism both now and in the future. Not how to re-package print copy for the Web.
Filed under: design, newspaper websites, social media, student journalism, blogging, j-school, new media, newsapers, students


text: US / dead bodies Inside the Incredible Job of Wrapping Up a Dead Man's Life Inside the death, and life, of George Bell By Kate Seamons, Newser Staff Posted Oct 19, 2015 12:40 PM CDT Copied The Empire State Building stands in the background as pedestrians cross Queens Boulevard in the Queens borough of New York. Bell's body was found in his Queens apartment. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (Newser) – It wouldn't take a huge leap to assume that the man who had been dead for days in a trash-filled Queens apartment was George Bell. The apartment was his, and the 72-year-old lived with no one. Except his body was "decomposed and unrecognizable," writes N.R. Kleinfeld for the New York Times. In an 8,000-word piece, Kleinfeld charts the "elaborate, lurching process" that kicked into gear after the body was found on July 12, 2014, one stymied by the fact that Bell had no next of kin. The corpse's fingerprints registered no match when run against local and national databases, leading the medical examiner's office to start dialing local hospitals on the hunt for X-rays that a doctor might have possibly taken of Bell—which could be compared to X-rays of the corpse. In terms of managing the estate, the Queens County public administrator quickly stepped in, sending two investigators who combed through the stench-filled apartment in hazmat suits. story continues below A caseworker formally known as a "decedent property agent" then set to trying to piece together a picture of a man from what the investigators found: old holiday cards and "a golden find," tax returns. Confirmation that the corpse was Bell's finally came in November (via X-rays from 2004 that were somewhat miraculously found in a warehouse), and cremation followed. But much more was to come: auctioning Bell's car, selling his apartment, and distributing his half-a-million in assets to the people he had chosen—but the city had to find them first. Kleinfeld paints a picture of the people who were touched by his money, and then of Bell himself. As Kleinfeld puts it, "Every life deserves to come to a final resting place, but they're not all pretty." Take the time to read his full piece here, or some of the response to it here. (Read more dead bodies stories.)


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Valentine's Day Scavenger Hunt
What is more fun for a kid then going on a hunt to find "treasures"? This is a super fun scavenger hunt tailored for Valentine's day. It is great because it serves as a fun activity but you can also use the items you hide as your child's Valentine's Day[Read more]


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The indefatigable Martinez family–Fernando, Christina and Yaniel–have announced plans to open two more restaurants. Artesano Tapas y Vino will be in the Westport Village location briefly occupied by A.P. Crafters, which closed in 2013. The second will be a downtown iteration of Mussel & Burger Bar.
The downtown M&BB, which might take some of the pressure off the always full restaurant on Taylorsville Rd., will be along Whiskey Row on W. Main St. Neither location has a definite opening date, but Martinez is firm in his commitment to both ideas in both locations.


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