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Student Engagement at Community Colleges Is Up
As high school students consider their options for next fall, they may want to give community college a second look.
A new report released today shows that over the past decade students attending two-year public colleges increasingly feel engaged, challenged, and supported. The positive trend holds for students who attended full-time, part-time and for those in developmental courses, according to the Center for Community College Student Engagement in Austin. Among the report's highlights:
• Seventy-two percent of full-time students and 57 percent of part-time students report collaborating with other students outside of class sometimes, often or very often.
• The amount of financial support their college offered increased among all students surveyed, up 12 percentage points for part-time students.
• About 80 percent of full-time students and 70 percent of part-time students talked about career plans with an advisor or instructor sometimes, often or very often, compared to 74 percent of full-time students and 61 percent of part-time students in 2004.
The CCCSE survey includes about 850 public two-year colleges representing 85 percent of U.S. community college students.
Overall, 62 percent of students. attend part-time and 38 percent full-time. The survey finds about 58 percent are between ages 18 and 24, while 42 percent are nontraditional students age 25 and older.
Still, the latest report from the American Association of Community Colleges shows enrollment is down for the third consecutive year and graduation rates lag behind other sectors. Six-year completion rates are 39 percent at two-year, public institutions.


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No Attention for
Daylight Highway
Stabbing in by J. Christian Adams Alabama
Excerpt: A frightening event happened March 28 on an
highway. The event has received no national attention apart from a lone story in the Macon Beacon in Alabama . Not only was the event frightening, but the response — or lack thereof — by Macon, Mississippi law enforcement authorities was almost as frightening. The local media, including the Birmingham News, failed to cover the shocking attack. With the flurry of national media attention the Trayvon Martin killing has received, why hasn't the daylight stabbing of Nick Stokes received any attention? Your first guess might be right. Alabama
Foreign fighters among those killed in clashes in Yemeni south
Excerpt: Fighting around the city of
Lawdar in Abyan province continued for the third day straight, and Yemeni military officials claimed to have dealt al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula heavy losses. Saba Net, a Yemeni state-run news service claimed, based on a report from 26September.net, a Defense Ministry website, that dozens of al Qaeda fighters, including two commanders and foreigners, were among those killed:
Excerpt: Williams can be heard saying, "Let me tell you something, the things that is about to happen to these honkeys, these crackers, these pigs, these pink people, these (beep) people, it has been long over due." Michelle Williams is the Chief of Staff with the local chapter of the New Black Panther Party. As a community activist, she has also worked very closely with both the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office as well as the Tampa Police Department.
Sabato's Crystal Ball: Romney's Perfect VP?
Tweet from Jon Gabriel @ExJon
Gonna sit out 2012 because Romney's the nominee? This should change your mind: Supreme Court Justice Eric Holder.
Social Security by Choice
The NCPA.org is worth following and supporting financially if you can. ~Bob. Excerpt: The experience of three
counties can offer a realistic demonstration of how Social Security can be successfully reformed. Galveston, Matagorda and Brazoria counties opted out of Social Security in the early 1980s, and have since developed and implemented what they call the Alternate Plan, says Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation. Like Social Security, employees contribute 6.2 percent of their incomes, which the counties match with the option of providing more (as Texas does). Unlike a traditional IRA or 401(k) plan, which account holders can actively manage, the contributions are pooled, like deposits to a bank savings account. Top-rated financial institutions then bid on the right to manage the funds, offering minimum interest rates that yield significant protection from market downturns. The plan avoids the pitfalls of pay-as-you-go systems by giving workers only what they pay in. The experience of the three counties' employees over the past 30 years speaks to the effectiveness and efficiency of the plans. While paying out substantially higher payments to retired workers, the plans do not face burdensome unfunded liabilities that haunt many states' legislatures. A lower-middle income worker making about $26,000 at retirement would get about $1,007 a month under Social Security, but $1,826 under the Alternate Plan. A middle-income worker making $51,200 would get about $1,540 monthly from Social Security, but $3,600 from the Alternate Plan. And a high-income worker who maxed out on his Social Security contribution every year would receive about $2,500 a month from Social Security compared to $5,000 to $6,000 a month from the Alternate Plan. (Yeah, but the government has to invest it, not "borrow" it at crappy interest rates as they have done. Wish I was in this plan instead of SS. ~Bob.) Galveston
Hybrid owners unlikely to buy another one, study shows
Excerpt: Hybrid sales have been surging as fuel prices take their latest run towards record levels. But the news might not be nearly as good as it would seem if a new study by R.L. Polk is any indication. Despite previous sales surges tied to past petroleum price hikes the
hybrid vehicle market hasn't been able to maintain its momentum and the Polk study apparently explains why. After living with the high-mileage technology, nearly two of three hybrid owners wind up returning to a more conventional vehicle when it's time to trade in. U.S.
Victor Davis Hanson ---Enemies of the People
Excerpt: In 2008, a mostly unknown Barack Obama ran for president on an inclusive agenda of "hope and change." That upbeat message was supposed to translate into millions of green jobs, fiscal sobriety, universal health care, a resetting of Bush foreign policy, and racial unity. Four years later, none of those promises will be themes of his 2012 re-election campaign.
Rosen gives Romney a chance to close the presidential gender gap
Excerpt: Hillary Rosen's comments that Ann Romney had "never" worked outside the home triggered a new round in the culture wars and provided an opening for Republicans to close a gender gap between Mitt Romney and President Obama. Both parties seemed to sense that the veteran Democratic strategist's criticism of the stay-at-home mom could be a game changer in the fight for women voters. (If raising 5 sons through breast cancer and MS isn't a real job, I'm not sure what is. –Erick Erickson,
.) Red States
Obama campaign moves to distance itself from Rosen remarks
Excerpt: The Obama campaign on Thursday moved to quickly distance themselves from comments made by a Democratic strategist who said Ann Romney, the wife of GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney, "never worked a day in her life." An Obama campaign aide told The Hill that the strategist, Hilary Rosen, is not an adviser of any kind to the campaign and likewise doesn't serve as an adviser to the Democratic National Committee.
The Left's war on conservative women: We're damned if we do stay home, and damned if we don't By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: I am also reminded of the liberal elite female journalists who scolded Sarah Palin for being a working mom in 2008:
Flashback: Obama Warns GOP "Lay Off My Wife"
What Got George Zimmerman Charged With Second-Degree Murder
Excerpt: In social media forums we've seen debates rage between evidence-proof minds, caulked against the entry of new information or contrary ideas. Between neo-Nazi patrols and black nationalist bounties, between Geraldo Rivera's ridiculous fashion speculation and the hacking of Martin's Twitter account we saw
, become a racial ground zero, the place where our post-racial myths go to die. (This interesting and well written view from the left never quite answers its own headline question. So, I'll answer it for the author in one word: politics. The only reason Zimmerman has been charged is the modern-day lynch mobs roaming the streets of Sanford, Fla. . If there was sufficient reason—and evidence—to charge him with anything more than "discharging a firearm within the city," the police would've already done so on their own. The police have no particular liking for Zimmerman. Not long ago, he filed grievances against several Sanford officers, alleging racism; some of those same officers were involved in investigating the Martin shooting. One can only imagine the glee with which they'd have greeted any evidence that would remove Zimmerman from their lives in a legal way. Yesterday, while driving, I heard a discussion of this case on NPR, not known for its support of conservative ideas. The interviewee—whose name I never heard, but was a lawyer—said he'd love to take the case because a, there is NO evidence that a crime has been committed, and b, that there IS evidence Zimmerman was assaulted, and c, that what "evidence" has been given to the public by the media has—in almost every case—been edited or altered to change its meaning, and finally d, that the refusal by the police to charge Zimmerman was, in itself, prima fasciae proof of "reasonable doubt." The interviewer, Robin Young, was flabbergasted, but thanked the lawyer and moved on to another subject. What we're seeing is NOT the "rule of law" in action, but the rule of the mob. Even the decision not to take this to a grand jury was political; grand juries are large, cumbersome things that can be hard to control by stacking with "the right jurors." And, if there is little—or no—evidence to present showing a crime was committed, they could return "no bill." And Sanford would burn. When the facts are known—which may never happen, real life isn't neat like it is on TV—we still won't know what thoughts were in Zimmerman's mind when he pulled that trigger. But, the sight of that would-be lynch mob should give us all pause. Ron P.) Sanford
49% Trust Romney Over Obama on Economy; 39% Trust President More
Excerpt: Voters now have more confidence in presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney than in President Obama when it comes to the economy, but on other major issues facing the nation, the two men continue to run nearly even.
Bernard Goldberg: Kissing up to the Rev. Al
Excerpt: Pandering is part of the job description, we correctly figure. But when the panderer is also the attorney general of the
, we should pay attention. Especially when he's kissing up to Al Sharpton. United States
The Dismantling Of Obama By: Howard Galganov
Excerpt: When the Republican nominating process began, Mitt Romney was just about last on my list of candidates I would have preferred to be running against Obama. But, a funny thing is happening on the way to the Convention. The candidates that I favored at the outset fizzled out one after another; some of them because they simply didn't have the gravitas necessary, some of them because they didn't measure up to the challenge, and some of them because under fire, they just didn't have what it took.
Obama Administration Leaks ANOTHER Israeli Defense Secret by Ben Shapiro
Excerpt: The leaks continue from the Obama administration with regard to Israeli defense secrets. On Sunday, the New Yorker printed a report stating that US had worked with the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK). The US was apparently receiving intelligence from the group, including intercepted cell phone calls and text messages.
Obama's Campaign Will Take the Low Road: The 2008 pledge not 'to pit Red
America against Blue ' is no longer operative. America
Excerpt: Rick Santorum's decision Tuesday to suspend his campaign effectively ends the GOP nomination fight. But it doesn't mark the start of the general election between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. That contest has long been under way. Mr. Obama's speech to the Associated Press last week and two appearances in
on Tuesday provide a glimpse of the low road the president and his campaign likely will take. Florida
Obama Gives $5 Million To Arab-Based Green Energy Firm
Excerpt: Judicial Watch's Corruption Chronicles says if wasting exorbitant amounts of money to support the corrupt United Nations wasn't bad enough, Obama has joined a new Arab-based "international organization" dedicated to promoting renewable energy worldwide. That means
taxpayers will supply a big chunk of the group's funding in addition to the billions of dollars that already go to the U.N. each year for programs that, incidentally, already address renewable energy. U.S.
Excerpt: Gary Stein is an active duty Marine who has taken to Facebook to complain about President Obama. … I'm a bit appalled by the conservatives who have decided to rally around this guy. Were he doing this to George W. Bush, a great many people on the right now supporting him would be calling for a court-martial. The irony, of course, is that many on the left now calling for him to be disciplined would have been perfectly okay with him going after Bush. They would have treated him as a celebrity.
The real "War on Women" is in Muslim majority countries under Shari'a Law. ~Bob. Excerpt: For the first time, an empirical study proved that female genital mutilation is also prevalent in parts of
beyond the borders of the Kurdish Region. WADI and the local women's rights organization PANA have conducted an in-depth research about the existence and background of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Iraq . They interviewed 1212 women above the age of 14 and asked each of them 61 questions. Kirkuk
Why It's Criminal to Lie About Military Honors
Excerpt: As the Supreme Court decides whether to uphold the Stolen Valor Act, the public should note the damage that fraudulent veterans have already done.
Pro-marriage group thinks IRS employee leaked Mitt Romney's donor info to Human Rights Campaign by Matt k. Lewis.
Excerpt: It is likely that someone at the Internal Revenue Service illegally leaked confidential donor information showing a contribution from Mitt Romney's political action committee to the National Organization for Marriage, says the group. In a letter exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller, the organization has asked the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to "investigate and learn the source of the breach and prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law." It also provided evidence suggesting the leak might have been the result of "IRS employee misconduct."
Obama slammed over gas prices
Excerpt: As polls show President Barack Obama to be vulnerable on gas prices, someone is finally getting the message and hitting him on the issues. American Crossroads released an ad this week hitting Obama for blaming others and doing nothing to easy the pain Americans are feeling at the pump: (Obama's energy policy: Pound the Poor at the Pumps. ~Bob.)
: Obama's inequality argument just utterly collapsed By James Pethokoukis Reading
Excerpt: For the past 30 years, the living standards of middle-class Americans have gone nowhere even as the overall
economy has grown markedly. The Obama explanation: Wealthier Americans grabbed all the money. Time to raise their taxes for the sake of "fairness." … According to the Cornell study, median household income – properly measured – rose 36.7%, not 3.2% like Piketty and Saez argue. (Unfortunately, the media will ignore this and economically-ignorant voters will continue to buy into the politics of envy. ~Bob.) U.S.
Mike Tyson on George Zimmerman: 'It's a disgrace he hasn't been shot yet'
Can't wait for the "fair trial." ~Bob. Excerpt: Mike Tyson thinks that George Zimmerman deserves violent retribution for the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
GSA employees spent 5 days in
Hawaii for 1-hour groundbreaking event By Pergram Chad
Excerpt: The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said Wednesday that five employees associated with the recently scandal-plagued Government Services Administration went to
for up to a week in 2011 to attend an hour-long groundbreaking on space leased by the federal government for the FBI. Details of the incident surfaced in a transcript of an interview between the GSA Inspector General's Office and a GSA employee. The employee indicated to the IG investigator that trip was not isolated and that there was another, longer junket scheduled for Hawaii this fall. (I think we can safely add GSA to a branch of regime to dismantle and terminate. Think of the savings. They might actually fulfill their proposed purpose by being dismantled. –Barb.) Hawaii

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Paper Christmas Ornament: Pride and Prejudice
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Parents, you're going to love us.
Alcohol-free housing. Zero hazing policy. Let's face it, putting those two descriptors out there right off the bat tends to alleviate the majority of concerns parents have about allowing their son to join a fraternity. But the absence of negative influences is only a small part of the reason why parents love Phi Delta Theta. Phi Delts create a positive and encouraging "living laboratory" that empowers each brother to tap into his inner greatness and reach a higher potential than he could on his own.
On the top of a parent's expectation for their son is academic performance. Excellence in academics is our top priority too. In fact, our commitment to academics begins at the recruitment stage by talking to young men with GPAs high above the campus average. And once these intelligent men are in the chapter, we make sure they have an environment conducive to studying and learning. This is where the alcohol-free housing comes in big time. By providing clean, quiet areas, Phi Delts develop consistent and efficient study habits. And to keep everyone on track, each chapter has a scholarship chairman and an academic adviser who oversee and maintain scholastic integrity.
Parents like that we instill in every brother the concept of accountability for every action. We are a values-based organization – chances are, the same type of values taught to their son at home – that emphasizes academic achievement, community service and an enriched and highly rewarding overall college experience filled with friendships that will last a lifetime.


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This is a hard term for me to included in my ongoing list of problematic terms simply because I have been such a supporter of the concept it represents. Nonetheless, I fear that "personalized learning" is a flawed term. It is flawed not because the idea of crafting a plan with the educational and motivational needs of an individual in mind is a bad idea, it is the idea that what is being personalized is learning. Let me explain.
Aside from the popular theory that learning is social (which I a little more than partially buy into), isn't for the individual and their acquisition of new understandings really always a personal endeavor? Can one person really personalize the learning of someone else? Or can this only be done by the individual? And, how can such an act be done consciously without foreknowledge of the content of said learning? Don't I personalize my learning when I choose what books to read, which videos to watch, what classes to take, or what places to go for myself? If these things are done for me is what the person putting together my agenda doing really personalizing my learning or are they personalizing my agenda? Isn't it up to me as a learner to decide whether or not to accept that agenda?
Don't get me wrong, I know there are times when a person really needs, and sometimes will willingly submit to, a plan laid out for them. But, as far as education goes, that custom-made plan is not personalized learning, it is really a customized agenda. For there to really be personalized learning the learner has to have the agency to decide what it is that they are doing, what it is they are paying attention to, what it is that they are busying their mental faculties with. In fact, no matter what kind of path we lay down for the learner, be it customized, individualized, standardized, or scripted they will always personalize their own learning because no teacher, curriculum developer, lecturer, or programmer can dictate the course of the integral organ involved in the process of learning. No one can grab the attention of a learner without their choice to pay attention, no one can make a learner think without the learner choosing to do so, no one can make someone reflect on something without the learner choosing to reflect on their own, and unless you employ the kind of inhumane contraption used in the film A Clockwork Orange no one can force another to open their eyes and see something they do not choose to.
Regardless of posters hung in some schools stating that "failure is not an option," failure is always an option. It is always a choice. So is learning. We choose what we pay attention to and in so doing we personalize our own learning. We also personalize our own learning through differing experiences. Every student comes to a classroom with different experiences, memories, and backgrounds. These things are what makeup a person's prior knowledge and that prior knowledge will further act to personalize the learning of students in any classroom. We often learn different things from the same stimuli because we all approach it with different background knowledge and therefore our learning is always personalized.
We really need a new term to describe what we mean when we say "personalized learning."
This post is eight in my "war on words" series. Other terms in this series are: "best practices," "child-centered," "value added," accountability, "data-driven decisions," "learning objectives," and "21st Century."


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As you may have gathered, I'm very hard to please in a YA contemporary, especially in terms of romance. I love reading them, but I always have very strict criteria. If you were to compare the themes of Optimists Die First and What Light by Jay Asher, you would find a lot of similarities. Ultimately, both books are about forgiveness, both self-forgiveness, and forgiving others. You may recall I gave What Light a 2/5 stars, so you'll be happy to hear that this time round I doubled that score!
Optimists Die First tells the story of Petula, who I imagine to be around 15/16 years old, but I'm not sure that her age is ever stated. When she was 10, Petula lost her younger sister after she choked on a button and passed away. This book tells the story of Petula and her YART (art therapy) class after the arrival of a new boy named Jacob, who forces them to look at their situation differently, making Petula face the reality of her tragic past. Note: possible trigger warnings for suicide, infant morbidity, depression, alcoholism – basically, there's a lot of things that could be seen as triggers, but they are dealt with very tastefully in my opinions and so I'm hoping won't deter too many prospective readers.
As you'll know from my previous reviews, I have high standards when it comes to my female protagonists, I really need a strong female lead. Petula was a strange mix. Obviously, she has deep scars from her past, but ultimately I think she's still an admirable character. Although I don't fully appreciate some of the more damsel-in-distress-like imagery of the book, I felt that it was subtle and sparse enough to prevent annoyance, leaving enough of Petula's recovery in her own hands rather than the hands of her significant male other.
(Mild spoilers from here on out folks, up to you if you continue!)
Speaking of that significant male other, Jacob was an interesting character. I was on to him from the start, I thought he was a bit too cagey about his accident, and when he was all of a sudden willing to sing like a bird, it seemed a bit fishy. However, as a character, he was well developed and I largely appreciated his relationship with Petula.
However, one aspect of their relationship didn't agree with me. I don't think they needed to make a mention of the fact that Petula and Jacob were sleeping together. Although I appreciate the fact that they emphasised the use of protection and talked about her going to the doctors, I don't think it added anything important to the story. Nevertheless, it was handled well.
Family dynamic is very important to me. Especially in a genre where it tends to be so frequently messed up. Obviously, I'm a fan of the nuclear family, and this novel doesn't really meet those criteria. However, I liked Petula's family nonetheless, they had clearly tried to stick together and their separation was ultimately peaceful – the author didn't try to screw up the family in an attempt to make their story even more sad (One of the worst offenders of this is The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson).
I suppose if I'm talking about the family, this is the best time to mention the De Wilde cat colony. At first, I thought this was a very strange addition to the story, but soon I came to love them. They were actually a really integral part of the story. For Petula, the cats were a distraction, a way of helping out her parents. For her mother, they were an attempt to replace the baby she lost. Ultimately, the number of cats throughout the novel is a clear indication of how the family is dealing with Maxine's death as it rises and falls throughout the novel.
As far as book deaths go, I liked the subtlety of Maxine's. It wasn't grand, it wasn't gory, it was something that could have happened to anyone. The realistic nature of the accident really helped the story to feel more organic and explained why the remaining characters felt so guilty (when her father explained why he felt guilty, my heart broke a little).
In fact, all of the tragic situations of the book were well thought through, even if the characters weren't particularly likable. The YART group were very messed up and obviously quite difficult people in places, yet somehow this made me love them more… if that makes sense. They were all very realistic and found ways to get past their own horrors together. I think my favourite character in the book has got to be Ivan – he was so vulnerable and felt like a small child, so many feels!
As I mentioned in my introduction, this story is a tale of forgiveness, and so there are multiple examples of this throughout the novel. The first is with Rachel. I was very impressed that Rachel didn't forgive Petula straight away, she took her time and was cautious. She wanted it to feel right – again, just very realistic.
The same can be said for Petula and Jacob. Even at the end of the novel, you can tell that Petula is still working through her feelings. I enjoyed seeing the consequences of their actions, unlike in What Light when he chased his sister with a knife and everyone ended up being like 'okay'. In short, this was a story of forgiveness, both of oneself, of one's past and of others.
I won't focus too much on the writing as I don't really have a lot to say about it. It was a very easy read, I didn't feel like I had to struggle through the pages. I felt like the words could just wash over me and I understood them perfectly. I don't know if this next part was intentional, but I found a lot of Petula's presentation of life and risk very humorous, without it being disrespectful and making a mockery – a very important trait when dealing with mental illness, it was normalised without being tasteless.
Overall, I can't explain why I liked it so much, and I guess that's why I'm deducting a star and only giving it 4/5 stars. I won't be jumping up and down raving about it like I do with Illuminae or Everything Everything, but it was a well-constructed story, dealing with a difficult topic in a tasteful (and relatable) way.
Optimists Die First is due to be released on the 2nd March 2017 (in two days time!). I would recommend you give it a shot if you liked the general premise of What Light, the feel of a John Green novel (but maybe a little less pretentious) and the length of a longer novella!


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Next stop, Buffalo.
Oday Aboushi is no longer a New York Jet, the third-year guard cut by the team one-day after he came off the league's suspended list. The fifth round pick, taken in the 2013 NFL Draft, was suspended by the NFL for one week following a motor vehicle arrest where marijuana was found on his possession.
The decision to cut ties with Aboushi, who had 10 starts last year when Brian Winters went down with a season-ending injury, comes as little surprise since he had fallen down the team's depth chart during training camp. The Brooklyn native made strides last year, especially in re-shaping his body after a rookie season where he didn't see the field. He was known for being strong in the ground game as well as being a notoriously good trash talker in practice.
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The Jets did not make a corresponding roster move as Aboushi was on the suspended list and did not count against the 53-man roster.
It would not be surprising to see Aboushi end up with the Buffalo Bills, who have become a halfway house for a number of Jets players. The Bills are coached by Rex Ryan, who was fired from the Jets after a 4-12 season in 2014.
Ryan drafted Aboushi out of Virginia in 2013.


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The song is originally by a guy named Jacques Brel, who I believe was French, so Bowie was the first to do an English version of this song. I believe the song is about someone who is contemplating their own death as they see it nearing, but they don't want to accept it.
I think the most beautiful lines are...
My death waits there in a double bed
Sails of oblivion at my head
So pull up the sheets against the passing time
He sees himself dying of old age in a bed. He sees death as oblivion, because he doesn't know what will happen to him once he dies. Chances are he doesn't believe in heaven or hell. And he sees oblivion in the form of ships coming for him. Then he says he'll pull up the sheets to protect himself against the passing time, and the passing time equals inevitable death. This is much like a child pulling up the sheets to protect themself from monsters.
When Bowie played this song live, during the last chorus he would sing...
But whatever lies behind the door
There is nothing much to do
Angel or Devil, I don't care
For in front of that door, there is...
And then he would stop singing and people in the crowd would shout "ME".
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"Let's shag!" "Let's not even go there."
With that Benedict and Beatrice-like badinage, a love story so predictable it was actually endearing began in the Australian jungle between Peter Andre, a pop star whose fame had long faded but his tan remained proudly burnished, and Katie "Jordan" Price on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here in 2004. And yesterday, that story, which has been watched by millions thanks to their fondness for sharing their marriage with OK! magazine and ITV2 cameramen, officially ended.
"[Andre and Price] have requested that the media respect their families' privacy at this difficult time," a spokesman said yesterday, a man clearly fond of belatedly shutting stable doors.
Some might think this an end fitting for the start of a relationship that began on a reality TV show. Yet one can't help but muse sadly how never again will we see a music video with Andre and Price playing Disney characters and singing A Whole New World to each other.
Like Benedict and Beatrice, theirs was a romance played out in public, with Kerry Katona acting as their unlikely Hero, cheering from the sidelines on I'm a Celebrity. There were also obvious similarities between the two: a shared love of fake tan, a bald manner of speaking about one another's anatomy.
But unlike their Shakespearean antecedents, neither had ever engendered much public affection on their own – until viewers watched them fall in love on I'm a Celebrity, with a tentativeness few might have expected from either of these mutual fans of toplessness. The modesty of their gestures – a peck on the cheek, a nervously held hand – smacked of two virginal teenagers flirting as opposed to ones who, in the case of Price, had not that long before spoke of deflowering Gareth Gates.
It is often said a celebrity couple is a greater whole than the sum of its parts. But this celebrity couple not only increased one another's fame, they seemed to make one another genuinely happy, which is not something you can often say about celebrity couples. Next to them, the Beckhams looked like emotionless PR constructs.
They took all the cliches about celebrity and blew them up to G-cup proportions. As well as getting married in a castle, Price wore a gown that looked like she had nicked it from Disneyland, with added cleavage. Their children were given names that would make Bob Geldof blush: Junior Savva Andreas and Princess Tiaamii.
Yet between all the self-publicity and plastic, there was something almost real to them. Andre has frequently been pictured carrying Harvey, Price's child from her relationship with Dwight Yorke, whose illness makes him very large and heavy, and he railed against Heat magazine for its cruel sticker of Harvey.
The more a couple talks about their relationship, the less happy that relationship is. Yet when Price and Andre talked about their marriage, they talked about the difficulties within it. Such honesty gave their marriage a reality that no reality TV show managed. Andre once said: "I never expected to find love in the jungle."
Just goes to show you never know what might happen." Fans might say the jungle love was the predictable part; that the public ended up caring about them was the surprise.


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Professor Claudia Miller from America in her book "Low Levels High Stakes" (Amazon.com Link to "Low Levels High Stakes") describes the important phenomenon of chemical sensitivity. Many suffers have their chemical sensitivity triggered by overwhelming exposure to some sort of toxic chemical such as organophosphates or other pesticides, silicone, carbon monoxide or prescription drug. This phenomenon is called "toxicant induced loss of tolerance" (TILT). Once sensitised to one chemical, patients often go on to sensitise to other unrelated chemicals and this is called the spreading phenomenon. Those patients who recognise their problem with chemicals avoid them strictly in order to avoid symptoms. However, intriguingly, just as with food allergy, often in the very short term patients' symptoms are relieved by a small dose of their offending chemical and they get addicted to it. Those people with addictions often have other addictions, i.e. to caffeine, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, or they have a history of such an addiction. This helps us to recognise these people clinically.
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'Survivor': Jeff Probst Explains Everything to Know About Season 35
Welcome to the Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers preseason! THR's Josh Wigler reports from his exclusive visit to the show's shooting location in Fiji, where he interviewed host Jeff Probst, as well as the 18 new castaways battling it out for the million-dollar prize.
Click here to make sure you're all caught up on our stories from the island, including our weekly podcast series "First One Out," an in-depth look at all of the new players, culminating in an interview with the first person voted out of the season.
Stop me if you've heard this one: a football player, a doctor, a nurse practitioner, a bellhop and a fisher walk onto a beach ...
OK, I'll stop, because you haven't heard this one, at least not yet, and it requires some added context. Those five avatars were the inspiration behind the newest iteration of Survivor, the CBS reality series set to launch its 35th season Sept. 27. The upcoming Survivor: Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers — which I've been calling Survivor: Triple H for short (tee up your best WWE gags accordingly) — centers on 18 strangers, divided into three tribes of six based on positive qualities about how the world views them. It's once again set in Fiji, the fourth time Survivor has shot in the faraway network of tropical islands, the third time in a row. Like every season of the landmark reality competition, the latest round of Survivor comes out of the gate with a few twists: a one-round-only super idol tossed into the game during the opening marooning, a new system for hidden immunity idol clues using tree carvings and paintings, a return to the classic revote system after a brief detour in last season's Survivor: Game Changers, and more.
Of course, if you haven't been watching Survivor in recent seasons, or if you have somehow missed the show entirely, all of that information is absolute nonsense. Don't worry! We have you covered in that regard. As part of my exclusive visit to the season's shooting location, I sat down with Jeff Probst, who has hosted every season of Survivor since the very beginning, for an overview of what you're getting into when you dig deep into this visceral voyage. Our conversation took place hours after the 18 castaways were marooned in the middle of the Fijian sea, tasked with securing supplies from a ship in a limited amount of time, then challenged with racing out to a nearby beach, where the first tribe to arrive wins a massive bonfire and fire kit to start the game. The gist of the first portion of my interview with Probst: This show is as new user friendly as it gets, with virtually every season hitting the reset button thanks to a familiar system of rules (albeit with twists thrown in for good measure) and a brand new set of castaways almost every single time. For anyone tempted to dip their toes into the Survivor waters, consider the following interview with Probst your gateway into that world.
What's more, here's another Survivor treat for longtime fans and potential newcomers alike: First One Out, our new podcast that explores the highs and lows of what it's like to embark on the Survivor adventure. Every season of the series, which is approaching its 20th anniversary, tells the story of the Sole Survivor, the million-dollar champion who beats out the rest of the castaways for that top prize. Everyone else who plays eventually falls by the wayside; it's part of the deal, they know the bargain. But one of the season's 18 competitors will have gone through years of dreaming about this moment, months of enduring a rigorous casting process, weeks and weeks of training for the adventure, days and days on lockdown as part of the pre-game Ponderosa period, all for only three days of actual play time. Somebody is going to win, yes — but somebody is going to be the first one out. Our podcast tells the story of that person, through a detailed exploration of the 18 new players over the course of six episodes, recorded on location in Fiji.
Listen to the first episode of First One Out below, and read on for my interview with Probst.
We're in Fiji. This is the third season in three seasons that you have shot here, and the fourth season overall, technically. What do you love about being out here, aside from the fact that we're sitting outside as the birds are chirping, the sun's going down, and it's pretty beautiful out here?
It's pretty spectacular. What I like about it, and I think I speak for our entire crew, is that we've traveled so many places over so many years. The landscape has changed a lot. There are more people. It's harder to find deserted islands. The economy has changed in a lot of places, including the U.S., and we can't afford some of the places we used to. Politics have come into play. Safety has come into play. But Fiji is this little beautiful and still undiscovered place, which is crazy. Everybody knows Fiji, but they don't, really. It's stunning. I'm torn, because I want people to know it's beautiful, but I don't want to lose it! You've seen the water here. It's spectacular! The islands! They're utopia!
The starry nights ...
The starry nights! Really! And every so often, you get a killer storm that comes through and says, "By the way? I'm still here!"
Speaking of which, we're [speaking] on the day of the opening. Day one about a year ago [on Survivor: Millennials vs Gen X] could not be more different than what we experienced today. Today was a crystal-blue sky beautiful day. A year ago, you were preparing to have the first evacuation of the cast in Survivor history. Night and day. How did that change the energy for the opening today?
Yeah, if you think back to a year ago, we were very concerned. Rightly so. A cyclone came through and did a lot of damage. We were prepared, and it went off without a hitch. But today, we all woke up and were talking about it, moments before we kicked [the players] off of the boat. We looked around and went, "This is really, conditions-wise, as good as it gets." There were clouds in the air. It was super calm. Just a little bit of a breeze. The water was great. The boat was sitting there. We knew what our big opening shot was going to be, which is our chopper shooting the boat with all of the people on it. We could kind of see what was going to happen. And here are these 18 people, wide-eyed, so energetic and so nervous, and it's hard to describe what it feels like, because even though this is the 18th year of us doing this, and you know from being here, it doesn't feel like it. It's not a bunch of curmudgeons going, "Ugh, I guess we have to do a few more." Everybody goes, "Dude! We get to do this again! If we do it well, we may get to do it again next year!" That's still how we feel. Even as I sit here with you now, I have this sort of exhaustion, which isn't an exhaustion from working hard. It's an exhaustion from so much excitement and energy finally coming out on day one. Now, like all of our crew, we're going, "OK, we're up and running again. Here we go."
Every other crew member I pass by here on location says, "I think we have a good season. What did you think of today?" People here are invested in it. They love getting dirty out here.
They do. It's a testament to our crew that when a weather pattern comes through or it's very hot, people rarely complain. They actually find the story in it. "OK, the Survivors are going to be impacted in this way. Let me change the audio gear. This is what we need if it's going to start raining." There's a feeling that you're in this battle together, but it's a positive battle. "We can do this." Since we've been doing this for so long, we have the foolish belief that we can get out of any jam. Anything could happen, including a cyclone that forces us to evacuate both tribes. "How are you going to do that? I don't know, does anybody have an idea?" And before you know it, we have an idea, and we're doing it. I still can't believe, and I've been saying this for thousands of days, that I can't believe this is my job. It's pretty good.
Where are we in Survivor right now? Clearly we're in Fiji, physically. Where are we at this point in the series? We're in the belly of the beast of filming Season 35 right now. As this [article] is coming out, Season 34 is in the past: Game Changers has aired. I know you have said in the past that you've stopped predicting what people are going to think about a season, but I'm curious about where your head is at, coming into a new season of Survivor, given where you were a few months ago when you last wrapped production.
I'm really excited. I have a lot of positive feelings about the series and this season. Really, it's a maturation on some level with me that I've accepted that with Survivor, we have a good show. It's not a fluke. We've been on for a long time. We deliver really fun stories to watch. Equal to that is, and it sounds corny, but I feel invested with the people who watch. I feel like we're all part of this big play, and we're all playing different parts. Somebody who is a fan right now may decide to play the part of a player in a year. And it happens! You hear them say to me, "I can't believe I'm here. I've been watching since I was 8, and I've decided, hey, I'm 18, let's give it a shot!" It's this really crazy world that at any given time, anything can happen, but the glue that holds us all together is we're all in the same thing. We know it's a really fun format. We're the ones lucky enough to make it. You've been kind enough to continue watching. So what we do is dedicate our professional lives to coming up with the moments that will twist the show a little bit, and then we spend months trying to find 18 or 20 people who will come out here and play.
Click the gallery below to meet the Heroes, Healers and Hustlers of Season 35.
This year, it's 18. Eighteen players have been divided into three tribes: the Heroes, the Healers and the Hustlers. How did you get here? What's the origin story of this season's theme?
Whenever possible, we go into casting with an open slate. I can't emphasize [enough] how risky that is and how scary that is. The calendar is clicking every day. Every day, you're getting closer to shooting. You need to know your theme, because you want to know, "What stories are we going to tell?" But we don't like to go looking for people. We just like to find the best group. About halfway through, we had a football hero, a doctor, a nurse practitioner, a bellhop and a fisher. I just kept looking at the cards and trying to figure out what it was, and "healer" was the word that really broke it. You could see "heroes," and you could see "hustlers." Finding the "h" word, that came later. "Healers" was the one that broke it. We pitched it to CBS, but they wanted the name to ring. You go, "Oh, god. OK. I get it." Once we finally went, "Heroes and Healers and Hustlers," then we had it.
The only hiccup that I think anyone had is there's another connotation to "Hustlers," which is that you're a con man. My pitch to CBS was, "People might think that until we explain that that's not the case. This guy is an entrepreneur, this guy is a bellhop, she's a third-generation fisher person, she's a personal assistant. These are people who hustle. They get it done." In a sense, as I said today, they're actually the closest to the personification of what a Survivor player has to do. You have to hustle. If you don't get it done, you don't eat. I'm really curious to see heroes, who are used to being put on a pedestal because you served our country or because you're an athlete or because you broke the glass ceiling as a woman in business, and healers who put everybody first, and hustlers who say they don't know how to get it done but they show up at 8 and they get it done ... I'm really curious to watch those three groups play.
You said something on the boat during the marooning today that I really liked. One, you talked about positive attributes. Survivor is a cutthroat game that requires you're willing to blindside, manipulate, lie and keep secrets from people you may really like but have to best in order to advance in the game. But that doesn't mean it has to be a mean-spirited game. You can kill them with kindness. I love that you're focusing on positive attributes, and I also love the idea that the theme represents how the world views you. It might not be how you view yourself. Can you talk about those two components of the theme?
I love what you just said, because that's how I feel. I believe in people, always. Even people who have made terrible decisions. If you trace their story back far enough, there's a point where you understand it. Here's how they got here. Maybe it was a bad break. Maybe it's mental illness. Any number of things. But for the most part, I do think most people are good on some level. So I was really attracted to the idea that these are positive qualities. You can't not want this quality. If someone told me, "Jeff, you hustle a lot, and I appreciate that." I would say, "Thank you!" If someone said, "Jeff, you really put people first, you help them heal their wounds." I would say, "Wow! Thank you! I don't know what you're talking about, but thank you!" And if somebody said, "Man, you are my hero," I would say, "You, too, are crazy, but thank you!" The other half of it is, you don't have to agree with it. But if you're going to serve our country and fight in our armed forces, you're going to be a hero to me. That's how I see you. You are literally risking your life. I expect you to say, "It's not heroic. It's just my job." That's why you're a hero.
I think positive qualities in Survivor, 15 years ago? I don't know how that would have played. But you really saw it in the Millennials vs Gen X season, this idea that we can play a cutthroat game — high-stakes human poker — but we're still bros. In fact, if you beat me? I'll vote for you in the end. But you better not beat me, because I'm trying to beat you. That was a major turning point for me. I was so impressed with that young group of people. It changed my whole outlook on life, in a way. I found myself re-evaluating, "Who am I hanging out with? Are they like those guys? Because I want that energy." Yes, you can come up with a million things millennials do that you don't like, but one thing they do that I really like is that they say, "Yes, I'll give that a shot." I think you picked up on something that not a lot of people have, which is, the game is evolving, and people are realizing it's not personal. It's personal in the game, but it's not personal. I still think you're awesome, but I got you, and you have to give me credit, dude. I beat you this time. You might beat me next time. That, to me, is the perfect game. Why do we have to crush each other — really crush each other's spirit? It's just poker.
Let's talk a little bit about twists. There was something hidden in the marooning today. What can you say about that?
We've started doing this ship thing on a regular basis, and the reason is, we like it. It forces chaos. It's very hard to concentrate when you have 18 people scrambling and you don't even know anyone's names, let alone what their instincts are and where they're going to go. Then we started adding in, sometimes, an advantage. We might not always do it, but we've done it for the last few seasons. What's fascinating is that every season, including this one, many people walked past the advantage and did not see it. There's one school of thought: "What are these people, dumb?" Then there's the different school of thought, which I have: There's so much adrenaline pumping in the body, and for some people, this is the manifestation of something they've dreamed about. It sounds crazy, but people tell us that. I dream about playing this. I dream about how I would untie knots and if I could make fire. On top of it, they get on the boat, and here are all of these cameras, and here's me saying the following: "There are supplies on this boat. Sugarcane. Timber. This. That. Gather as much as you can." No matter how hard you're trying to remember that there's probably an advantage, energy gets overwhelmed, and now all you see are the supplies. You walk right past it. We saw it today: People walked right by it! It was within inches! They didn't see it! When people see the shot at home, they're going to go, "Oh my god. It couldn't be more clear unless we had a light shining on it!"
Which there may well be on the show, but it's hard to see green when you're seeing red.
I don't think anybody made a mistake. Sooner or later, enough supplies are gone that somebody who is hanging out up there will go, "Oh my god. Does that say Secret Advantage?" And then they take it. The beauty of this game evolving and me talking to you right now is even as I just said that to you, I realize that we probably won't do it again next time. I've already changed the thought process, because a future player now will go, "Oh, I have to remember that. When Probst starts talking, I need to remember that there are 17 other people here and they'll go get the supplies." I'll say to future players, then: Look all you want. It's unlikely it will be there.
Unless it's a bluff!
Unless it's a bluff, but I am being very candid. That power of suggestion is so powerful that now we've just told everyone to look for the advantage rather than look for the best supplies.
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Looking past who found the advantage, can you tell me a bit about what it is and the intention of how it will play out in episode one?
The advantage is very fun. It's an immunity idol. It's a super idol, which means it can be played after the vote. But here's the twist: It's only good at the first Tribal Council. If the person who finds it ends up winning immunity and doesn't end up going to Tribal, they have to send it secretly to somebody on the losing tribe, so they can use it. What would happen in that case is somebody on the losing tribe would go back to camp, look in their bag, and they'll find this anonymous note with an idol that says, "This is only good tonight, and guess what? It's a super idol, which means, you're in charge. You're in charge of tonight's Tribal and you're the only person who knows it. You can play it for somebody, or you can watch somebody go home. You can play it for yourself. Or you can not play it, keep it, and only you and the sender will know that it has no power, and it looks so cool, that maybe you can get some power by bluffing people. I'm really excited by who found it and I love that it's in their hands. I think we're going to have a great story. We'll see what happens at the immunity challenge.
How will idols play after this first round? What's the plan for idols this season starting with episode two through the merge?
The theme on idols is pretty much the same. We have an idol at each camp. We like that the players expect that. It's an element of the game. We may change it next year. For right now, we like that. The way you're going to find it is a little bit different. In essence, it will be etched into the side of a tree. You could miss it. Again, you're not looking at a tree to have something etched into it. You're looking in a hole to find it, because that's what we've always done. Somebody will stop and go, "What does that say?" They'll read it. It will give them instructions. "Now what do I do? It's etched in the tree!" The smart player will find a rock or something and try to scratch it off the bark or cover it in some way so nobody else sees it. Finding the idols is another part of it. [The tree] is the clue that tell you where it might be, then you have to go find it.
The no revote rule from Survivor: Game Changers ... is that changing? Is it reverting back to the original rule?
Yes. This season we're going back to ties are good. I loved trying it in Game Changers. I feel like in Game Changers, we went as far as we could go.
It's called Game Changers, feels like fair game to change the game.
That was our mantra from the beginning: Give them opportunities all of the time to play. As that season played out more and more, you saw that it worked. They played a huge, risky, crazy game. Now we're going back to a regular season. We're going to bring ties back. We may do it again. What I like is, when we sat down to meet with everybody, Roark [Luskin of the Healers tribe] said: "By the way, with the no revote? I have it all figured out." I loved sitting there going, "I love that you do — but it's not in play."
She told me the same thing, and I loved it, even if I couldn't fully follow it.
But it's the idea that there's a game between us and the players. You should all be well-versed in the many, many twists that are available, knowing that we may use some or we may use all, or we may use none. We may have something new. We may go old school. The more well-versed you are, the better your chances, but it doesn't mean it's going to play out.
Do you have a winner prediction for this season? I know it does not always go well for you.
I know. I picked Ciera last season, and she was the first out. (Pauses.) Man, it's not like I'm trying to avoid it, and I think you feel my energy here: There are so many people here who could win, and so many people I would be happy to see winning. Our casting team, led by Lynne Spillman, has really gone to another level in the last few years. I remember seasons where I would say, with a cocky attitude to the players, "There are five or six of you here who have no chance, and you don't even know who you are. You're that out of it." And then we started shifting: "Why would we do that? Why would we bring somebody on that can't win? Let's bring somebody on who can win." And man, our casting has just gotten better. I look at this [cast] and I think Patrick [Bolton of the Hustlers tribe] is going to have a hard time winning, I think Simone [Nguyen of the Hustlers tribe] could win if she goes deep enough ... yeah, I would say Patrick is the one guy whose attitude might rub people the wrong way. Otherwise, you have 17 people who have a shot at winning this game, and I think that's legit. I would be happy with any of them. When I do my little casting sheets, I write "LW" if it's likable winner. That to me says if they get on the show, then I'm good with it, because they're a likable winner. No matter who wins, we have 75 percent of them as likable winners, so we're good to go. The audience is investing this time. Our job is to give you somebody to invest in.
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Channel One
Does your local middle or high school show Channel One? Don't know? Until recently, we were only vaguely aware that our middle school had it. It came up during our recent discussions about homeschooling our children so we checked into it. We were pretty disgusted by what we found. Here are some links if you're interested:
- Channel One – The Most Controversial Show On Television
- Education Reporter: Channel One Still Plays to Captive Audiences
- Channel One's website
And here is my Letter to the Editor of our local paper:
The Hampshire Review, Hampshire County, WV – Sept. 5, 2001
Wants School Board to Cancel Channel One
Did you know that Hampshire County children from sixth grade through twelfth are forced to watch a TV program called Channel One in school every day? Channel One is a daily 12-minute "newscast for teenagers" that includes 2 to 3 minutes of ads. In exchange for showing this daily program our schools get free TVs and VCRs. Sound like a good deal? Well I've looked into the details and I think that it's a truly rotten deal!
Channel One is not interested in educating our children. A university study found that only 20 percent of Channel One's program is spent on "recent political, economic, social and cultural stories". From what I've seen of it only a little could be considered educational. For the most part it's an MTV-style jumble of images with a driving rhythm soundtrack — entertainment designed to keep the attention of the kids between the ads. The same program is shown to our 11-year-old sixth graders and to our 18-year -old high school seniors. There is no way that a single program can be appropriate for such a wide range of ages, and I for one do not consider an 11-year-old to be a "teenager."
Channel One IS interested in making money off of our children. Advertisers pay up to $200,000 for a 30-second ad on Channel One. That's a lot of money to pay, and here's why they pay it according to Channel One's advertiser sales literature: "Channel One doesn't just deliver teen viewers, it delivers the hardest to reach teen viewers. Channel One even penetrates the lightest viewers among teens…'Traditional' television vehicles reach the same viewers over and over again … Channel One's unique delivery reaches heavy and light viewers equally. No waste. No wearout. Just impact." Channel One can "penetrate" our children because it's contract requires that our schools show the program in its entirely, with the sound on, in at least 80% of the classrooms on at least 90% of school days — it has a captive audience.
The worst part of all this is that this program and it's advertisers get a stamp of approval from our schools — we say, 'Here kids, watch this, it's educational and good for you.' This makes the ads more important in our children's minds than ads seen at home. I find Channel One to be neither educational nor good. I urge our School Board to cancel it's Channel One contract. There is no penalty, just the loss of the "free" TV sets and VCRs. But using the math I learned back when I was in school, Channel One costs our children over 5 days of classroom instruction time each school year — 5 lost days of class time in a school system that every year moans about the difficulty of meeting the state-required 180 days of school. That is not "free", in fact that is way too high a price. We should not let greedy corporate advertisers co-opt our children's education.
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Yelp Houston: A Community Driven Photo Exhibit
Yelp organized a local city discovery. Invitation to Houston locals were sent out via email. Yelp coordinated the event with a reoccurring event in Houston called 2nd Saturday, which is a weekend event every second Saturday of each month. Local Houston artists in the 4th ward open Winter Studios and Galleries to the public for sales of their work, etc. In lieu of the event they took photos from local business (restaurants, bars, clubs, parks and gardens) and hung them throughout 3 local galleries. All photos were taken from Yelp users.
Pizaro's Margherita Pizza was among the selected photos for the event and was placed at the Winter Street Studios. One of our customers (Erin) took a photo of the Margherita pizza on her first visit at the Montrose location shortly after opening. Erin also attended the event and we were able to talk with her about the photo.
Erin stated she wanted to capture the essence of our classic Margherita, she had both her children in tow on this visit. As she explained to us she had to work around the kids to get the right picture, but used and overhead shot to get it. Lighting was important to her, so her choice of seating made the difference. She elaborated that the large windows near the front door was a prime spot, as well the afternoon light provided a perfect glisten on the cheese.
Some other hot spots around town photographed in the event included: Lei Low (tiki bar), Breakfast Klub (restaurant), Rothko chapel (art exhibit), and the "We heart Houston" sign. Yelp also had a few local food trucks and eateries provide snacks and drinks at each location.


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Seth Rogen has lined up his next comedy project and it sounds like something only he could possibly pull off. Rogen and his longtime producing partner Evan Goldberg are in negotiations with Sony to produce the Seth Rogen Pickle Movie, that will see Rogen play a man who is preserved in a pickle barrel for 100 years, only to emerge after a century in the middle of modern day, hipster Brooklyn, New York. Yes, really.
The untitled is based on the novella Sell Out, published by The New Yorker in 2013. The story sees a young man by the name of Herschel Greenbaum, who works at a pickle factory in the early 1900s. One day he falls into a factory pickle barrel and, as stated previously, he reemerges 100 years later in Brooklyn. It's a very bizarre play on the whole man out of time/fish out of water story. The real twist here is that Greenbaum learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer programmer named Ben, who will also reportedly be played by Seth Rogen. Are they going to bother explaining how a man was actually pickled and preserved yet remained alive for so long? Who knows at this point, but it's the kind of thing that one can picture Seth Rogen handling quite well.
Should the project move forward, it looks like Brandon Trost will be making his directorial debut. Trost served as director of photography on other projects that Seth Rogen was involved in such as This Is the End, Neighbors and last year's Oscar-nominated The Disaster Artist. Trost also directed an episode of Hulu's Future Man, which Rogen and Goldberg executive produce.
This is far from the first time that Seth Rogen has paired with Sony. The filmmaker and the studio have a prosperous relationship dating back to 2007's Superbad. They've also collaborated on movies such as Pineapple Express, The Night Before and the not-so-prosperous comic book adaptation, The Green Hornet. Their last collaboration came in 2016 with the R-rated, animated comedy Sausage Party, which went on to become a commercial success, grossing $140 million worldwide. In the couple of years since Sausage Party, Rogen has remained busy, with roles in the upcoming comedy Flarsky alongside Charlize Theron, as well as a voice role as Pumba in Disney's live-action remake of The Lion King, amongst the many other projects he produces, such as this year's hit comedy Blockers.
Simon Rich, who wrote Sell Out, will pen the screenplay for the movie adaptation. Should everything go according to plan, production will begin in October, making for a pretty quick turnaround, considering we're only just now learning of the project. The untitled comedy does not currently have a release date, but if the production timetable sticks, expect to see it bow in late 2019 or early 2020. This news was first reported by Variety.


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This is my first post on this forum - apologies in advance if this has been addressed many times in the past.
I have a Esprimo P5730, which currently has 2x2Gb sticks of Samsung memory. I recently bought some extra memory, a further 2x2Gb (to the right type/spec). When this was fitted to the PC - instant rejection - beeps and would not boot - This was Kingston, same happened with Dell branded memory.
Is the Esprimo sensitive to this degree on what memory is fitted?
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About this book
Developmental Neurobiology provides an up-to-date survey of the cellular events and the molecular contributors that contribute to the assembly of the vertebrate nervous system. The text will serve as a readily tractable source for advanced undergraduate neuroscience majors and beginning graduate students who will benefit from a single source to begin their study of a more detailed understanding of neural development. Each chapter is peppered with a sound mixture of historical context and descriptions from both the vertebrate and invertebrate literature that best illustrate specific aspects of development. The liberal use of simple diagrams and tables, which readily illustrate complex issues, is a welcome addition for instructor and student alike.
While classic topics of neural development, including axial patterning, cell proliferation, migration, cell death and synapse formation are covered, of particular interest are subjects that oftentimes received superficial coverage in texts, including separate, detailed chapters on oligodendrocyte and astrocyte development, and developmental mechanisms that relate to the process of aging. Multi-authored texts are often tricky to assemble for consistency, but Developmental Neurobiology succeeds in providing a sound introduction to the most exciting questions that neuroscientists will address experimentally for years to come.
Pat Levitt, Ph.D., Director, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
When the inaugural edition of Developmental Neurobiology appeared in 1970, it was the first attempt to comprehensively assess our understanding of neuronal development since the publication of S.R. Detwiler's book Neuroembryology in 1936. Although progress had been made in the intervening 34 years, the author, Marcus Jacobson, was correct in noting that in 1970 "most aspects of neural ontogeny could be surveyed at a glance". In contrast, by the time the 3rd edition appeared in 1991, the size of the book had increased by 40% and the number of references cited went from around 2,000 to over 8,000. Since 1991, however, the field has grown at an even more rapid rate and has now reached a point that makes it virtually impossible for a single individual to comprehensively and authoritatively assess the entire gamut of neural ontogeny.
Before his death in 2001, Jacobson together with the co-editor of the present edition, M. Rao, conceived the plan for a 4th edition that would be multiauthored with each chapter being written by experts in a sub-field. Although one of the joys of reading the previous three editions was the consistency of Jacobson's inimitable prose style, in the present book there remains a smoothness and consistency of style that is unusual and refreshing in a multiauthored text. In 14 chapters that begins with neural induction and ends with developmental mechanisms of aging, virtually all of the major topics of neural development are discussed in a clear and coherent fashion and with the aid of ample illustrations. The inclusion of historical antecedents , past and present controversies, technical and conceptual advances together with a comprehensive discussion of each topic all add up to an excellent assessment of the field as it enters the 21st century. Although one misses the Jacobsonian idiosyncrasies of previous editions, the 4th edition is a fitting legacy of Marcus Jacobson's four decades of empirical and pedagogical contributions to developmental neurobiology.
Ronald W. Oppenheim, Ph.D., Neuroscience Program, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
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- In the film, why does Eva lock Perón out of her room after "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"? Are we meant to assume she has no genuine feelings for him at this point (although her reaction to his arrest in "A New Argentina" suggests otherwise) and she's just playing his adoring wife for the public)?
- It's quite possible she doesn't know or believe that he might actually love her. She probably assumes she's only being used just as she's using him, as per their intentions in "I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You." It's not until she's dying that she realizes that yes, the main reason why he's stuck by her all this time is because he really must love her, hence the song.
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AkaiCon brings over a thousand Cosplayers, Gamers and fandom enthusiast to Farm Bureau Expo Center Friday, July 26-28, 2019.
For 7 years, AkaiCon has been a place for people from all types of fandoms regardless of who you are to hang out and build relationships. AkaiCon is a place for all people and we hope to provide something for everyone this year. We have events planned Friday, Saturday and Sunday and single or multi-day passes are available online at AkaiCon.com or at the door.
When we started AkaiCon back in 2013, Devin Adkins, Cody Thomas, and Cody Bottoms all had a vision to offer a fun and safe place for people of all ages to dress up in a costume and be a super-hero for the weekend. We wanted to have a family feel with every person in attendance, and we welcome people of all ages to attend.
Throughout the years we have had attendance range from 500 people at our start to 2,000 people at our peaks. Our numbers just keep growing and this is mainly because the attendees are great people. We also provide great entertainment thanks to our other star CoChair and programming director Dee Powers.
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Baby Puff Clouds, because that's what it reminds me of–puffs of little baby clouds!!
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I've been working on a new baby afghan pattern, and it's finally finished! Yay! Here's where I need help……..
I can't think of a good name for it. Any suggestions?
Sorry for the terrible pic. It's been raining for days. I promise to have better ones once I release the pattern.
Here's a picture without the border, but you can get a better picture of the stitching.
Would love to hear your suggestions or ideas! And, if you have the winning name, you will receive a free copy of the pattern.
Baby Puff Clouds, because that's what it reminds me of–puffs of little baby clouds!!
It's beautiful ,by the way!!
Humble Heart…..Baby blanket ….You have a humble heart..
I'm terrible at naming, but it's lovely.
OOPS! It looked like a blue blanket when I saw the little picture. Guess " Little Boy Blue doesn't fit now. I'll think on it.
How about" Snuggle Bug"?
I think "Hugs and Kisses" would be an awesome name… the mail part of the blanket reminds me of the X part of X's and O's, and the border looks like arms reaching out to hug you….
This is lovely! How about the name Heaven Sent? Have a great week!
The name that pops into my head for that very lovely blanket would be'CROSS MY HEART', it just looks so precious….
The pattern rather looks like flower buds, so perhaps Flower Bud.
My first thought was "Cherished Heirloom Baby Aghan" or just "Cherished" if you want something shorter.
"LOVE ME" for all love you put into the aghan.
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In 1903, Rainer Maria Rilke replied in a series of letters to a student who had written to the well-known Austrian poet for an assessment. Written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic development, these letters contain many of the themes that later appeared in his best works. Letters to a Young Poet is essential reading for I'd say for everyone! Here are three of my favourite excerpts……
'Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.'
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves… do not seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."


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Jim Jones Says Supreme Owes Him a Percentage of Their Company
"They owe us piece of the company, rappers and my black people."
After professing his love for "Chicken Fried Rice" last week, Jim Jones is now wondering why he isn't receiving any residuals from Supreme. Back in 2006, the iconic skate brand reportedly offered Jim Jones and Juelz Santana $14K USD for a photoshoot that eventually produced one of the brand's most infamous, now highly-sought after shirts ever. When talking to Complex about the collaboration in 2016, Jones felt he helped Supreme reach the pinnacle of their success with that T-shirt and although no long-time deal was ever worked out, he felt they should've paid more homage.
"We might've had the hottest T-Shirt they ever did, but they ain't paying homage. The way I take is that it was a business deal. It was great for the moment but I ain't get no residuals off of it. You know what I mean? They ain't paying me no money off of each shirt that they sold, so it is what it is."
Now 12 years later, Supreme has grown to become a billion-dollar company and now the "Once Upon a Time" rapper wants a piece of it. This weekend, Jones shared an image of Juelz Santana and himself taken from the 2006 Supreme photoshoot with a message underneath captioning, "They owe us piece of th[e] company rappers n my black people had no idea wht supreme was we didn't even know wht they was they had tht bag and they new who dipset was lol #CultureCreators #TheSet #TBt."
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