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|University of Minnesota
|2008 Inductee
In the fall of 1981, John Anderson took over the job of leading the tradition-rich University of Minnesota baseball program, thereby retracing the footsteps of his mentor, legendary Hall of Fame coach Dick Siebert. Thirty-four years later, Anderson continues to uphold the lofty standards of the Golden Gopher baseball program.
On May 14, 2009, a 7-6 win at Penn State gave Anderson his 1,000th career victory. He became the 29th coach to reach 1,000 wins, and the 20th to do so with the same school. He was also the 10th-youngest coach to win 1,000 games. Entering the 2016 season, Anderson's career record is 1,172-802-3 (.594). He ranks 29th all-time among Division I coaches in collegiate victories, and 10th among active head coaches.
Anderson holds the record for overall wins and conference wins while coaching at a Big Ten university. He earned his 500th Big Ten victory on April 14, 2013, and has a 528-323 (.620) conference record through 2015. While Anderson has been the head coach at Minnesota since the 1982 season, there have been 27 coaching changes in the conference.
The Gophers' 8-5 victory against Iowa on May 12, 2002, made Anderson the winningest coach in school history. His 755th win moved him past Siebert, his mentor, in the record books. The Gophers have had winning seasons in 32 of Anderson's 34 years as head coach. Anderson has put together 28 seasons with at least 30 wins, and nine seasons with at least 40 wins.
Anderson has guided the Gophers to nine regular season Big Ten titles and a conference-best nine Big Ten Tournament titles. Overall, the Gophers have played in the tournament in 28 of Anderson's 34 seasons. They also set a conference record with 45 Big Ten wins in two seasons from 2003-04.
Under Anderson, Minnesota has appeared 17 times in the NCAA postseason.
Anderson has been inducted into multiple Halls of Fame: the University of Minnesota "M" Club (2002), the Minnesota High School Baseball Coaches Association (2013) and Hibbing Community College.
Six times Anderson has been recognized as Big Ten Coach of the Year. He earned the honor as a rookie head coach in 1982, and again in 2000. Anderson became the first coach to win the award three times in a row (2002, '03, '04) a few years later. He was named Big Ten Coach of the Year for the sixth time in 2010, a year in which Minnesota won both the regular season and tournament conference titles. Anderson was also named ABCA Mideast Region Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2010.
In the summer of 1993, Anderson served as head coach for USA Baseball. He guided Team USA to a 30-16 record, including a silver medal finish at the Intercontinental Cup in Parna, Italy. The squad also went 8-1 in the World Championships. Anderson had served as an assistant for USA Baseball in 1989-90.
Anderson co-authored a book, Why Good Coaches Quit--And How You Can Stay in the Game, with sports psychologist Rick Aberman. In the book, Anderson offers practical solutions to the problems that coaches at all levels routinely encounter on and off the field.


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题目:Momentum, Reversal, and the Firm Fundamental Cycle
报告人:Yufeng Han,University of North Carolina at Charlotte,Professor
时间:2019年7月5日(周五) 10:00~11:30
We link momentum and long-run return reversal to the cyclic behavior of firm fundamentals, which are represented by a fundamental index that summarizes succinctly and efficiently a broad range of business activities at firm level. In responding to repeated unanticipated positive (negative) shocks in fundamentals, investors continue to raise (lower) prices for winner (loser) firms, yielding momentum. However, due to the cyclicality of firm fundamentals, the unanticipated positive (negative) shocks decrease in magnitude overtime and eventually reverse, generating the reversal pattern. In addition, we find that firm fundamentals can explain stronger momentum in microcap stocks, and a long/short decile portfolio based on the firm fundament index outperforms the popular momentum portfolio substantially by doubling the Sharpe ratio and does not suffer crashes either.
Yufeng Han, Professor of Belk College of Business University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He obtained Finance Ph. D. in John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis. His papers have been published on Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Real Estate Economics.

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Melbourne is an exciting city in which to stay. You always have plenty to do whether you are visiting the city on business or are getting away on holiday. One of the preferred places to reside is located in the city's Southbank area, specifically the Queensbridge Square of the Yarra River. By choosing an accommodation at this location, you are close to both the Crown Casino Tower and the famous Eureka Tower.
Brimming with excitement, the Southbank neighbourhood is a place that is filled with plenty of interesting sites and attractions. Southbank is an upscale cultural location as well where you will find the Arts Centre Melbourne, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. You will also find an array of restaurants noted worldwide for their cuisine.
An Exciting Place
Indeed, you can build up an appetite especially if you visit the Crown Melbourne, which is the biggest casino complex down under. The complex, which frequently plays host to celebrities, features a casino, spa, Kingpin bowling alley, and cinema. In addition, the entertainment hub features Playtime arcade games, nightclubs, live theatre, restaurants, and bars.
The Eureka Tower
The Eureka Tower, which is Australia's second-largest building, measures a little over 297 metres. You can take a view of the city from the Tower's observation deck located on the 88th floor. To help you remember the deck's location, it has been aptly named the Eureka Skydeck 88. It boasts the highest vantage point in any structure in this part of the world.
Getting Acquainted with the Melbourne Skyline
If you want to get acquainted with the Melbourne skyline, the Skydeck is the place to do so. The Eureka Skydeck offers 360-degree views as well as 30 viewfinders for visitors. If you are adventurous, you can enter the glass cube, aptly called The Edge, that allows you to step out over the city. A green screen is also featured on the 88th floor and is known as Vertigo. The Vertigo attraction provides guests with the illusion that they have fallen and are grasping to life.
One Go-to Source for Fun
Fortunately, you can relax from such escapades when you book a Crown Casino accommodation. Because the Crown Melbourne is one go-to source for fun, you will find that staying nearby is the ultimate way to spend a holiday.
Luxury Shopping and Short-Term Residences
If you like to shop, you also have access to luxury clothes boutiques that display brand favourites such as Louis Vuitton, Burberry, or Hugo Boss. All in all, you can sum up Melbourne as a luxury home away from home. That is why you want to plan your stay in the Southbank area. Take time now to view some of the attractions online.


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Today we're going to take a look at the best WordPress tourism and travel agency themes out there for 2020. These themes were built specifically for travel agencies and tour operators. If you're looking for travel blog themes, you should check out our previous round-up, the 15+ Best WordPress Travel Blog Themes.
When choosing a WordPress theme for your travel agency or tourism website, there's a couple things you should keep in mind. First, you'll need to be able to create detailed listings for your travel/tour packages. You'll want visitors to the site to be able to search and filter these listings via an intuitive, useful search function. All but the last theme on our list meet this requirement.
You may also want your visitors to be able to book tours and make travel reservations directly on the website. An integrated booking form is recommended and, once again, all these on our list but the last feature a booking or contact form of some kind.
Finally, you may want to take payments online. If that's the case, consider choosing a theme with built-in support for payment gateways like PayPal. Not all of the collected themes include this feature, but we note it when they do.
All of the tourism and travel agency themes on this list were hand selected, based on design quality and features. The order is intentional, though ought to be taken with a grain of salt. All are competent, well designed themes, and taste is subjective.
Before we begin, check out our comparison of WordPress, Wix, Weebly, and Duda, as you may find one of those options quicker and easier.
Our top spot goes to Entrada. Entrada is currently the fastest selling adventure & travel agency theme on the ThemeForest marketplace, and with good reason. This expertly conceived and executed product offers a ton of travel-oriented features, incredible flexibility, intuitive UX, speedy performance, and a brilliant overall design.
Entrada can handle a wide variety of tourism niches: hiking, cruises, vacations, day tours, camping – you name it. Popular plug-ins Slider Revolution, WooCommerce, Visual Composer, Contact Form 7, and MailChimp are fully supported.
Setup is simple with the included demo import, and Entrada is fully responsive. It looks crisp and clear on the latest high-resolution, retina devices.
A powerful admin panel powered by the WordPress Live Customizer gives webmasters tons of control of the various elements, colors, fonts and more.
And beyond that, Entrada includes a lot more features we can't even begin to sufficiently cover here. For a full rundown of all the bells & whistles, check out the demo and product page. Again, an impressive product.More Info/Download
When it comes to both features and design, Exploore easily measures up to our first pick, Entrada. It really comes down to a matter of taste. Exploore's design is brighter and perhaps more traditional – webmasters going for a more familiar look are likely to prefer this one. Six different distinct homepage presets are also provided.
The functionality is similar, and again, will lend itself to a variety of booking and tour agency uses: car rental agencies, hotels, boat cruises, etc.
Slider Revolution in Visual Composer are included, and Contact Form 7 is supported. Built on Bootstrap, easy to install and setup, and well-documented.More Info/Download
The next spot on our list goes to travelAdvisor, a gorgeous travel agency theme boasting a clean, contemporary design and a fantastic UX. The name may evoke the popular site Trip Advisor, but Trip Advisor doesn't look nearly so fine. Damn.
Agency oriented features include tours management, destination management, a built-in booking form, and advanced search. A drag-and-drop builder is included in the theme is 100% responsive. It'll look just as sharp and work just as well on a smart phone is a does on a laptop. The UX design is just as well thought out as the visual design.More Info/Download
Love Travel
Another one of our favorite WordPress travel agency themes is Love Travel by nicdark. This responsive, retina-ready theme boasts a lovely, flat and modern design.
Users can customize their pages using a selection of over 100+ elements and components. Lots of extras are bundled in, including Revolution Slider, Isotope filtering, parallax scrolling and mega menu.
The theme supports WooCommerce for setting up shop, and WPML for translation. This gorgeous theme contains many lovely details and special touches that you need to see to fully appreciate.
Easy to setup and use with the help of the extensive and easy to follow video documentation. Highly recommended.More Info/Download
The fun, vibrant Corallina theme combines clean & trendy design with an intuitive, easy to use booking system. It's perfect for a variety of travel and hospitality oriented businesses, from agencies to bed & breakfasts.
User experience is paramount, and this responsive theme is a joy to use. The performance is fast and responsive, advanced searching is built-in, and Corallina is fully compatible with the popular Events Manager plugin. WooCommerce, WPML, and Mailchimp are all supported out of the box.
Corallina is highly customizable, retina-ready and SEO optimized to help secure your agency a top spot in the SERPs.More Info/Download
Adventure Tours
Simply put: Adventure Tours looks great, and has all the features you'll need in a WordPress travel agency theme. Beyond the clean, expertly crafted aesthetic, it excels when it comes to usability, combining a familiar layout with fresh design choices. The theme is responsive and performance is speedy, even when using cutting-edge visual features like video backgrounds.
The tourism & travel features are strong, with Adventure Tours finding much of its strength via an above-average, careful integration with WooCommerce. The Booking system is intuitive and easy to use for both potential clients and admins, and a handy rating system allows customers to review the available tour packages after the fact.
Slider Revolution, Contact Form 7, WPML (for translation), and MailChimp are all supported. Plenty of options on the back-end give you control over color customization, fonts, and more. Adventure Tours is retina-ready for high-res devices, built on the excellent Bootstrap framework, and search engine optimized to help you grab a good spot in Google. Well documented.More Info/Download
Next up we have the Altair WordPress travel theme, one of the newest themes to make our list. The design is pixel-perfect, making great use of large, full screen photographs, typography and white space.
This responsive theme is perfect for a number of travel related businesses, including travel agencies, tour operators and charter services. A unique, user friendly booking form makes it easy for your clients to arrange their tours and trips.
An advanced AJAX search feature, with several useful filters, allows visitors to quickly search through everything you've got to offer.
Other bells & whistles include support for parallax backgrounds, a choice between full width and fixed width layouts, and an extensive options panel.
Comes with a drag & drop page builder, too!More Info/Download
The gorgeous Solaris theme might not be the most feature-rich theme on our list, streamlining its functionality, but the overall attention that the developers have paid to user experience and performance make it a winner.
A request form lets your clients get in touch, and excellent WooCommerce integration makes it easy to promote and sell your vacation packages. The theme is well optimized for mobile devices, scaling to fit the smallest devices with its crisp retina graphics. Visual Composer is bundled, for code-free layout building and editing, and two mobile-friendly sliders are provided to choose from: Slider Revolution and Swiper Slider.
One-click demo installation guarantees fast & painless setup, and Solaris is translation ready. SEO optimized to help you reach that coveted top spot in Google and…I don't know, Bing, I guess? Recommended.More Info/Download
Fatherland is a tourism/travel agency theme with a warm, inviting look that combines flat, modern design with rich textures and subtle gradients.
The travel agency functionality is simple and straight-forward. A selection of contact, request and reservation forms mean your clients can interact with you easily. A useful, intuitive search is implemented for browsing excursions and guides.
The theme is easy to install and use. It's retina-ready and mobile-ready, so it'll look sharp and clean no matter what device you view it on.More Info/Download
The bright, clean, and user-friendly Travelo theme embraces modern, flat design trends and places user experience ahead of extraneous bells & whistles.
It's extraordinarily versatile, with plenty of options on the back-end to play with, and includes eight header styles, six footer skins, and eight homepage variations.
Travelo features a powerful booking management system with PayPal integration. It's fully responsive, optimized for speed, and translation-ready. Revolution Slider and LayerSlider are bundled free.More Info/Download
Trendy Travel
The brightly colored, fun and modern design of Trendy Travel practically screams tropical vacation. (Which reminds me that I could use one.) This is an extremely capable WordPress travel agency theme, with a ton of features. For many, this theme will be a total solution.
Site admins can create holiday packages, tour packages, gift packages and more thanks to several detailed custom post types. An advanced search form makes the listings easy and enjoyable to browse, and integration with an events calendar simplifies scheduling.
A page builder is packaged in, so you'll have no problem changing the layout of your theme. Trendy Travel supports other popular plugins as well, like bbPress and BuddyPress for building robust forums and communities.
A great option, and probably the theme with the most to offer in terms of features.More Info/Download
Coming in at number 7 is Wildcat, a minimalistic travel and booking theme that finds its strength in the way it uses large, visually striking photographs.
Wildcat is fully responsive and high-resolution. Unlimited travel packages can be created, and useful filtering by destination, activity and price is provided.
This theme is eCommerce ready, and will allow clients to purchase tour and travel packages directly through your site.
If you want to change things around a bit, a front-end color picker will make it easy to change the color scheme of the theme without any coding knowledge.More Info/Download
Magellan by TeslaThemes is an excellent choice for a travel blogs, tour operators, and travel agents looking to get their site off the ground.
This responsive tourism theme provides custom posts for tour pages, working order forms, Google maps integration, an extended homepage search feature, a selection of useful shortcodes, social media support and more.
The ever-popular Slider Revolution plugin is also bundled in.More Info/Download
Cousteau Travel Agency Theme
Next we've got the bright, clean Cousteau theme. It's a total solution for building a robust, scalable travel and tour agency website.
The features of this theme include support for itineraries, pricing, maps, videos and more. The advanced filtering system will make it easy for your visitors and clients to search the available listings.
This a flexible theme in terms of customization, too – multiple color schemes are included, but if you want to build your own, no problem. Fast and easy to use.More Info/Download
Tour Package
Tour Package is an expertly designed WordPress travel agency theme with a clean, professional layout that puts usability and content first.
It features a custom post type for creating packages, and a special package filtering system for searching and sorting.
The theme is SEO optimized, retina-ready and responsive. Tour Package supports the Contact Form 7 plugin, and was recently updated to support PayPal.More Info/Download
Want something more custom? You can get a totally custom travel agency WordPress site with a built in store and auto blogging for $50
If you're looking for something more custom, here's a great option. This top rated developer on Fiverr creates completely custom travel sites — including affiliate links, a store, automated blogging, and more — for $50 or less.
This option is definitely worth a look even if you want to use a prebuilt theme.More Info
So that's it for now! Those were the best WordPress tourism and travel agency themes, as far as we can tell. Hope you liked them! If you've got suggestions, leave 'em in the comments below.


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Posted on Nov 30, 2015 by James Sands
Moorhouse Drilling & Completions have today launched an interactive UK onshore well map that demonstrates their extensive experience within the UK oil and gas sector, providing drilling engineering, drilling management and technical services to UK onshore clients.
The map focuses on the UK onshore market and gives a snapshot of the wells Moorhouse have been involved with since the company began in 1994.
Our workforce are experienced, highly motivated and technically competent. To find out more visit our 'Services: Projects Map' page.
Or 'Get in touch' for more details.


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Vulcan Lofts — a live/work community in East Oakland built in a former smelting plant — is the unofficial center of the "flow arts" movement, a broad term that encompasses staff-spinning, contact juggling, hula-hooping, and fire-spinning. Flow arts owes a debt of gratitude to Burning Man, the festival circuit, and the underground music community. The electronic music scene helped generate an interest in object manipulation as a means of personal expression and dance. Burning Man, naturally enough, drove an interest in using fire. Myriad influences, including martial arts and the Maori art of poi (fire-spinning), all converge in flow arts.
"Flow arts is an umbrella term for a lot of different performance art — loosely defined as a mental state of being completely in the element with your prop, when you're working so smoothly you don't have to think about what's happening next," said Richard Hartnell, a contact juggler and a resident of Vulcan Lofts. "To flow [you can use] anything from devil sticks, juggling, to standing on a ball, even using a bicycle for flatland tricks. It's about mastering an object to achieve mastery of yourself."
Mastery doesn't come easy, though. Hartnell estimates that it requires 10,000 hours to master a single object. To demonstrate, he rolls a clear plastic ball through his hands, up across his arm, and behind his shoulders; the movements fluid and precise. At one point, he manipulates the ball so skillfully that he creates the illusion that it's floating. Later, he switches to tricks involving multiple balls, stacking them into a pyramid and rotating them, blurring the distinction between the balls and his body.
With DNA from Burning Man and Eastern art forms, flow arts is also touted for providing grounding and mindfulness. Said Hartnell: "Over time, I started to develop almost a relationship with this state of mind that kept me coming back. I wanted to bring that feeling of being in tune with myself, and being able to appreciate every moment of the day a little bit more. It turned into a very meditative thing."
Flow artists of every stripe are everywhere at the 63-unit Vulcan Lofts. Five or six fire-spinners might all live together, for example, as evidenced by the shopping cart full of fire extinguishers in unit 43. But not all of the residents are involved in circus — in fact, only roughly fifty of the two hundred residents are. But there is no better place in the Bay Area to get in on the growing flow arts scene. A weekly spin and fire jam draws top talent, and the open-door policies of most units mean shared practice time and idea-swapping is pretty much guaranteed. Open-air practice floors are littered with sticks, poi chains, and objects waiting to be flowed.
"It's really kind of a Zen thing," said fire-spinner Anthony Moran. "Flow is about a state of mind."
Before Héléne Turcotte and Luc Martin, the world of trapeze was a world of back and forth, of somersaults and swinging. That all changed when Turcotte and Martin introduced the world to "Mouvance." Conceived as an aerial tango, the piece won numerous circus awards, including the prestigious gold medal at the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris in 1989. The piece revolutionized the trapeze and made Turcotte and Martin stars.
And if you want to learn trapeze (either professionally or casually) in the East Bay, Turcotte might very well be your teacher. The glut of local circus talent means that even beginners have the opportunity to work with true giants of the industry. Turcotte teaches at both Trapeze Arts and Kinetic Arts Center, and her classes are open to practitioners at all levels.
"What is so interesting about the practice of trapeze is that you can start at any age — kids to late in life," said Turcotte. "Then you can advance at your own level. Some students advance to professional quality very quickly."
Across the bay, the Circus Center San Francisco is stacked with circus talent: Lu Yi, Xiaohong Weng, and Kemin Xia, world-renowned acrobatics instructors from China with decades of individual experience; Russian aerial leader Elena Panova; and longtime clown Joe Dieffenbacher. The presence of these professionals is helping to make the United States more competitive when it comes to talent in the international circus scene.
"To be from the US in the circus world is to work uphill," said Jeff Raz, the Bay Area casting partner for Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil. "Those international schools have a really long tradition. They have 2,000 years in China, and at least a century in Russia. It used to be that to make it, if you come from the US, you really have your work cut out for you. That's changing now."
The opportunities for world-class professional development are legion. "The quality of instruction — it's not just some of the best in the Bay Area, but some of the best in the world," said Ayla Agarwal, executive director of the Circus Center San Francisco. "It doesn't matter your interest or ability level, you'll get the same level of instruction no matter what your goals."


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This week has been brought a massive amount of advice to woodworkers thanks to Tom at tomsworkbench.com. The thought is for woodworking bloggers to put up posts and videos to help those interested in woodworking get an idea of how to get started. It's a great idea and we all have our own twist on the craft. Check out Tom's blog to get links to a wealth of online woodworking knowledge put out by people just like you. Hobbyists, crafty folk, DIYers and honeydoers.
Here's my submission:
I don't exactly know how I got started in woodworking. Can anyone state with certainty why they started a hobby? Sure I watched Norm growing up, but my schools didn't have a shop class and I definitely didn't have any tools when I was younger. I was a tinkerer and am the son of an all around handy guy, so I saw somewhat what could be done with minor repairs and the annual pinewood derby car project when I was in boy scouts. Not exactly a ton of exposure or inspiration to start with.
As life went along, I got married, got a house, and the DIY project list started growing. It's still going strong today. My first little project was some movie and CD storage. I thought about it, took a few measurements, and set out to the big box store. Some MDF, paint, and a trim router to soften the corners with detail later, I returned home to have a go at it. A few hours later I had 2 matching shelves hanging in a closet. They're held together with butt joints and drywall screws.
I'm not exactly proud of them, but they're a good example of where my hobby began, and what can be done when you're just starting out. This catapulted me onto a path of learning. The history of woodworking fascinates me. I dove into books and magazines and the internet to learn as much as I can. I've since progressed in my skill set and knowledge. My tool till has grown and every new project I do involves me learning something new or trying something out.
Hand cut mortises?
Yea, I've tried that.
Crosscutting with a handsaw?
My latest adventure is in hand resawing.
This is gonna take a while . . .
With all there is to learn and try, get out there and try it! You can learn a ton just by trying something new, and fixing any mistakes you make will only enrich your journey. I'm enjoying my trip so far, and can't wait to learn more. But I can't do that here. Please excuse me, I've got tome sawdust to make . . .


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Some tell me the truth. Others always smile.
I like both types. But it's not consistent. Because I haven't given any one person in my life permission to be bluntly honest every day in a specific area I need improvement in.
My readers help me. But not always. Sometimes people give feedback disguised as love. "You didn't use a comma here or there." I don't care.
If I worry about commas, I'll worry about everything. And then I'll have a website with nothing on it.
Just blank.
But that's how everything starts.
Don't forget that.
I did. But was reminded of this just yesterday in church.
Have you ever read a quote or story that at one time had very little relevance to you, but then suddenly clicked in another moment? You might've shouted an automatic "Amen!" during a church service or double tapped an Instagram photo without truly feeling anything inside, but for some reason – in this moment – the words move you in ways they didn't the first time.
That was me!!
It was in Ecclesiastes 3. It said, "There is a time for everything, and everyone has their time".
That time when you shine the brightest, when you ruled the world when you were on top. Then you must step aside and let someone else have their chance.
That is just the way life goes.
Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare.
You never know when your time will come – everyone is different.
It's good to have goals, I completely agree, but it's not the end of the world if you don't have a particular path to follow yet.
Each person discovers their personal passion at different stages in their lives.
Some discover their own path early like in childhood, some others in their teenage years, and some others even in their adulthood, and this is completely acceptable.
Everyone experiences different things and learn at their own rhythm so your discovery of life and the vast amount of things to do is different for everyone.
So don't stress out if you have not found your own path yet, it is OK!
Don't panic because you see your best friend making their own way in life and you are "temporarily static", your time will come, your opportunity will come, you'll discover your "raison d'être" and when that time has come, you'll understand that everything happens for a reason and that all the time you waited to discover your own mission was because perhaps you had to learn several things before, or because you had to experience some things, or live through some situations.
Remember, everyone has their own time, and their own life to live, just be good to others, try to make a difference each day in people's lives, and trust me, the rest will come.
The bottom line is this: stick to doing what makes you happy and the goals that you want to execute because, in the end, happiness drives everything. Never limit yourself to what other people think you should be. Have the self-awareness to know what you should be. You have to do it like you.
Never be half-pregnant on what you want to be because of how someone else tells you how to operate your life.
Be all in on what you want.
Don't feel pigeonholed by what others have defined your interests as.
Execute against you.
God bless.
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Funny but I was referred to the same Ecclesiastes passage in church. The pastor said there is a time for everything. Patience, confidence and trust is key. Most of all in our circumstances faith above all else. To know that God is working in our favour and we just have to ride out the rough times, enjoy the good times and endure the tough times. Thank you for a reflective and thought provoking post!
Exactly man – yes there's a time for everything. Glad you enjoyed the post


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Collected Poems
Donald Davie
|About the Book
Donald Davies poems are here arranged chronologically from the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s. Taken together, the poems display that reverence for the distinctive qualities of the English language which has earned him a name as one of Britains finest living poets.Davies voice—judgemental, ironic, epigrammatic, humorous, self-lacerating—speaks always with reference to an unhuman perpendicular standard that itself goes unquestioned. It is not a standard of Beauty or Truth- Davie is a poet of the third member of the Platonic triad, Justice.—Helen Vendler, The New Yorker[Davies poems] are on the quiet side, often casual and musing in mood and tone- determined to resist large gestures of assent or denial. . .Donald Davie may just be the best English poet-critic of our time.—William Pritchard, The New RepublicDonald Davies Collected Poems does more than mark the culmination of one of the most distinguished careers in post-war British poetry- it is the autobiographical journey of a living poet at the height of his creative powers and the mastery of his craft. Davie is considered the most important and valuable contemporary link between poetry in England and America.—Sarah E. McNeil, Little Rock Free Press


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31-year-old SugarBaby
(Next Birthday in 5 months & 13 days) Aries
San Diego, CA, United States
Seeking SugarDaddy 21 - 80
Personal Details
|About Me:
i am a dancer at les girls.im sweet and very cute.i love to go shopping and have fun.i live in sandiego.i love the beach.i love being pamperd.i hate to wait.my favorite animal is a pug.i own 2 one fawn and one black.i love to dance,and i am very kind twoards others.i am a a little bit of an artist i love to paint,although i wish i had more time to do things in life instead of danceing,but it gives my son the kind of life i never new growing up.
What I'm Looking For
i am seeking a man to take cae of me.i would like you to be in california. ok looking but thats not what intrests me.i have 1 mother and 2 brothers and 2 sisters and 1 6 year old son i really would love just to be able to buy them a home and make sure there happy thats the reason i started danceing.im open to anything and will give you every fantasy you wish as long as you can be very generous to me.
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Hopes radical treatment will heal brain damage
A TOOWOOMBA family will soon know if a revolutionary treatment is going to lift the fog shrouding 26-year-old Joel Shepherd's mind.
His sister Susan Graham-Ryan will fly with Mr Shepherd, their mum Coralie Graham, brother Kris and one of Mr Shepherd's carers to Los Angeles on Sunday.
On Monday, Mr Shepherd is due to undergo reverse stroke treatment, which will hopefully reduce inflammation caused by a brain injury he acquired when he was three-and-a-half years old.
Funding the perispinal etanercept treatment has been a huge undertaking.
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"Mum had to get a big remortgage of the house to cover the cost of it," Mrs Graham-Ryan said.
But the burden has been eased by community members, some complete strangers, who have generously donated money to help fund the treatment.
"It has just been amazing and overwhelming at the same time," Mrs Graham-Ryan said.
A drug used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis will be injected into a large blood vessel at the base of Mr Shepherd's neck.
He will then be suspended upside down to ensure the drug stays in the area it is intended to repair.
His family have been practising tipping him upside down to hopefully make it easier on him during the treatment proper.
Mrs Graham-Ryan said her brother seemed to understand what his treatment would involve.
"He gets it and I think he is pretty excited about it.
"For the last month or so he has been asking 'is today the day'."
She was grateful for the help received from the community.
"I want to say a huge thanks to the community from Toowoomba and surrounding as well for all of the fundraising."
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A court in Greece has sentenced a prominent politician to a life sentence in prison for embezzlement after a nearly six-month trial, suggesting perhaps that authorities in the beleaguered, cash- strapped nation may finally crack down on government corruption.
The Ekathimerini newspaper of Athens reported that Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, the former mayor of Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki, and two of his former aides, were convicted of stealing about 18 million euros ($23.5 million) from the municipal treasury.
The amount filched equaled about half of the city's entire public works budget, Reuters reported.
Papageorgopoulos was implicated in a conspiracy perpetrated by Michalis Lemousias and Panagiotis Saxonis, his general secretary and treasurer, respectively, during Papageorgopoulos' two terms as mayor between January 1999 and December 2010.
Lemousias and Saxonis also received life terms (which also included conviction on charges of forgery and money laundering), with an additional nine years tacked onto Saxonis' sentence for confessing to handling cash deals in his own office.
Specifically, BBC reported, the court was told that Saxonis siphoned contributions of council workers' wages that were meant for the replenishment of social security funds. He allegedly took 10 percent of the cut and split the remainder with Lemoussias and Papageorgopoulos, who kept their illicit cash in a joint bank account.
This was the first big corruption trial in the country since Greece sank into a crippling debt crisis a few years ago.
BBC noted that the sentence was likely the harshest ever levied against a Greek lawmaker for corruption.
Ekathimerini described the extraordinary punishments as a "rare conviction that sent shock waves through the political and media establishments."
Upon hearing the verdict in court, the disgraced former mayor commented: "I declare that I have nothing to do with this case. I am sure that some people will die with remorse." In response, the presiding judge Giorgos Apostolakis quipped: "In any case, that won't be us."
Papageorgopoulos also insisted his conviction was motivated by politics, not the facts of the case.
The three convicts, who are expected to appeal, were immediately taken to Diavata Prison in Thessaloniki.
Two other former city officials received 15- and 10-year prison terms, respectively, while another 13 former municipal employees were acquitted of charges, Ekathimerini stated.
One of the prosecuting witnesses in the lengthy trial, Thessaloniki's present mayor, Yiannis Boutaris, a left-leaning reformist, characterized city hall as running a kind of racketeering operation in which 'omerta' (silence) prevailed.
As a former junior minister and member of the conservative New Democracy (ND) party, which rules Greece through a fragile coalition, Papageorgopoulos' conviction triggered outrage from the opposition SYRIZA leftist party.
SYRIZA officials blasted Prime Minister and ND leader Antonis Samaras for earlier describing Papageorgopoulos as "honorable" (although that compliment was uttered prior to the embezzlement case).
Corruption has long been deeply entrenched among Greece's political elite, who have generally enjoyed immunity from prosecution. Last year, the anti-corruption watchdog campaigner Transparency International called Greece the most corrupt state in the European Union, even worse than such "luminaries" as Bulgaria and Romania.
"The results of the survey should be a warning signal for the EU to require more information and accountability from its member states," TI Director Jana Mittermaier told Reuters, referring specifically to Greece.
Indeed now, deep into an economic paralysis and lengthy recession accompanied by extraordinarily high unemployment and huge cuts in social spending, a fed-up Greek public may be demanding accountability from its mandarins.
In addition, the EU, the European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund – which together have dispatched hundreds of billions of euros to Greece – have pressured Athens to take a hard line against corrupt officials.
However, such prosecution has been slow or nonexistent.
The New York Times reported that last September, Greek authorities started to probe the financial records of more than 30 Greek politicians suspected of embezzlement, tax evasion and other acts of financial malfeasance, but none have yet yielded any criminal charges.
Costas Bakouris, the chair of Transparency International- Greece, wrote in the Guardian late last year that there is still hope for Greece, despite the widespread perception that wealthy citizens are not paying their fair share of taxes while the poor and middle class suffer.
"To a large extent, Greece's economic future depends not only on bailouts, but on how well it fights corruption," he said. "Bribery, tax evasion and a host of other mistakes have contributed to the present crisis Greece faces, and threaten to block any economic route the country takes in the future -- default, bailout, austerity or stimulus."
Yet, Bakouris thinks Greece can root out such misconduct, as Hong Kong once did in the 1970s.
"Corruption can be tackled," he declared. "Greece's ombudsman, for example, is well equipped to combat corruption thanks to a clear mandate enshrined in law and a well-trained staff. … But the reforms must run deep."
He also told the Guardian that Greece's political structure must be overhauled.
"We need to create a political system where politicians care more about the fate of the country than themselves," he said.
"In short, we need to make politicians accountable."


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PRINCIPLES OF REASONING AND ARGUMENTATION (LOGIC) Spring 2011
Dr. Christine A. James
Philosophy 2020 Section A
TR 8:00am-9:15am in West Hall 104 CRN 20611
Office: 110 Ashley Hall
Office Hours: MTWR 3:30pm-4:45pm and after classes and by appointment as needed/requested.
Telephone: 259-7609
Mailbox: Philosophy Department Office
Fax: 259-5011
E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com
Please note that specific dates for readings and graded assignments in the syllabus may be adjusted and updated throughout the semester. The latest version of the syllabus will always be available at http://mypages.valdosta.edu/chjames/2020Spring2011.html
Course Content: What does it take to express an idea well? What does it mean to convince someone? Logic provides a method to systematically analyze expressions and arguments. This course provides an introduction to logic, using examples from a variety of perspectives: law, science, and everyday experience. We will cover sentential logic (involving sentences using "not", "and", "or", and "if..., then..."), we will use truth-table and natural deduction techniques, and we will cover elementary quantifier logic (involving sentences using "all" and "some"). These techniques will help you to recognize arguments, evaluate arguments for validity, think critically, and use arguments well in your own writing. We will also apply these skills to real-world situations, including legal case studies.
Philosophy courses at
The Learning Outcomes for PHIL 2020 are:
1. Use more advanced logical and critical reasoning techniques through the examination of various methods of logic from formal and informal traditions.
2. Discuss such topics as: the nature of critical thinking, classification, meaning, and definition; ambiguity and vagueness;
categorical logic; explanation and argument; techniques of persuasion; propositional logic; deduction and induction; and pseudo-reasoning (fallacies).
3. Apply these critical reasoning principles to a variety of problems and contexts, including writing and analysis in other courses.
4. Use the truth table method to determine the truth-value of compound sentences and to distinguish among tautologies, contingent sentences and contradictions.
5. Distinguish between valid and invalid argument forms, using the truth table method and the proof method.
6. Translate ordinary-language statements and arguments into the language of sentential logic and/or predicate logic, and vice versa.
7 Demonstrate that a given argument in symbolic form is valid or invalid.
These course-specific learning outcomes contribute to the departmental learning outcomes of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Major by enabling students better to
1. To encourage an understanding of central issues, topics and philosophers in the history of philosophy, from the ancient to the modern periods.
2. To develop students' abilities to think, write, and speak critically and logically.
3. To enable students to challenge their own ideas and to develop self-understanding in the context of a diverse range of ideas which inform contemporary controversies and social conflict.
4. To enable students to engage in independent philosophical research, and to be responsible for communicating their understanding of the issues researched and developed, including a working familiarity with current research methods.
5. To incorporate philosophical positions in oral and written communications.
6. To critically outline and analyze a philosophical question.
Members of the faculty in Philosophy and Religious Studies have verified that these outcomes are in line with the outcomes of the course as it is taught at peer institutions in the State System of Georgia.
Requirements: Three unit tests, daily homework graded in class, short presentation on fallacies, class participation, a comprehensive final exam. All assignments must be completed on schedule, and continual practice using the problems in each chapter is necessary for success in the course. You must be willing to work independently, and you must motivate yourself to learn the new vocabulary, to learn the rules of inference, and to practice new problems. Our time together in class will involve lecturing on new material, answering questions about relevant material, going over sample problems, and working in groups. I encourage discussion and participation in class.
Required Texts: Hurley's A Concise Introduction to Logic, 9th or 10 th edition. You may also purchase the study guide if you choose. Feel free to work with friends in other sections; feel free to use the computer labs on campus using the disk included with the Hurley text. The CD-ROM disk in the back of your text contains the homework program, and it should work on any IBM or Macintosh computer. (Please note that you might choose not to use the CD-ROM that comes with the text. It is not required, and opening the CD-ROM envelope in the back of the book will decrease/nullify the book's resale value.)
Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to
(In addition, Philosophy and Religious Studies faculty encourage you to use Andrea A. Lunsford, St. Martin's Handbook, 5th ed. which is required in ENGL 1101 and 1102 courses. These books are available for purchase at the VSU Bookstore. The St. Martin's Handbook is usually given its own display in the bookstore and shelved under ENGL 1101 and 1102.)
How grades will be calculated:
C = 79 - 70% Please note that I am not obligated to accept any late work,
D = 69 - 60% and I do not give late examinations after the date listed on the
F = 59 - 0% syllabus. You must complete work on time.
3 Problems-based in-class quizzes at 10% each, may be unannounced = 30%
2 Unit Tests at 10% each = 20%
1 Fallacy Presentation = 10%
Participation, asking good questions in class = 10%
1 Final Exam at 30% = 30%
Total = 100%
((The Honors version of the PHIL 2020 class involves a variety of challenging activities including quantitatively and qualitatively enriched examinations and final examination writing assignments. This will prepare you to write a research paper on logic due at the end of the course. This is what makes it an Honors course. Please arrange for Honors Option by contacting both Dr. James and the Honors Program.))
Attendance Policy: I do care that you attend class regularly. As you know, VSU policy is that missing 20% of class meetings results in an automatic grade of "F". Faculty can also institute added attendance policies in their syllabi. Our class will have a 10% rule for absences. You can miss up to 10% of the class meetings with no grade penalty. 10% of our 30 class meetings is 3. On absence number 4, your final grade for the course will be reduced by one whole letter grade; on absence number 5, your final grade for the course will be reduced by two whole letter grades; on absence number 6, you will automatically fail the course. Be considerate of your fellow students – don't be late, and don't leave your cell phones and pagers on. No texting. Please note that this policy makes no distinction between excused and unexcused absences.
Special Needs:
Students requiring classroom accommodations or modification because of a documented disability should discuss this need with me at the beginning of the semester. Students requesting classroom accommodations or modifications because of a documented disability must contact the Access Office for Students with Disabilities located in Farber Hall. The phone numbers are 245-2498 (voice) and 219-1348 (tty).
Academic Honesty:
Members of the
VSU policy mandates that all official communication by e-mail take place through VSU e-mail accounts or through the Blazeview Mail tool. Please check your VSU (@valdosta.edu) e-mail account regularly.
You must come to class with the reading assignments already done, and you should have requests for homework problems to go over in class. Notice that homework assignments are associated with each section of the text, you should begin trying the homework problems as you read. These are the homework problems that will prepare you for the quizzes and examinations.
Note: This syllabus is not a legal contract; the content of this course is subject to revision by the professor.
Month/Day Topics Reading Assignment to be read before class meets that day
Tuesday, January 11:
Introduction to class. Begin homework, using the online information:
Remember to start going to Blazeview and looking for Discussions, Assignments, and Assessments!
1/13 R Statements/Arguments 1.1-1.2
1/18 T More Statements and Arguments 1.2-1.3
1/20 R Deduction and Induction 1.3 - 1.4
1/25 T Evaluating Arguments, Language of Symbolic Logic 1.4
1/27 R QUIZ ON CHAPTER 1 (After the Quiz, begin reading in the next sections, come in next class having already read the material.)
2/1 T Begin Aristotle and and Aardvark Go To Washington
Fallacies information:
Here's another link about fallacies which you will find very helpful: http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html
2/3 R Informal Fallacies related to AAAAGTW
2/8 T More informal fallacies related to AAAAGTW
2/10 R Begin Fallacy Presentations: Group members:
2/15 T Fallacy Presentations: Group members:
2/17 R Fallacy Presentations: Group members:
2/22 T A FALLACIES QUIZ for our class will be in Blazeview Vista.
(REMINDER: Advising for Summer and Fall 2011 begins soon. Make an appointment with your advisors.)
2/24 R Begin Propositional Logic, Translation in Symbolic Language 6.1
3/1 T Truth Functions 6.2
3/3 R Truth Tables 6.3
3/8 T Use of Truth Tables and Arguments 6.4
3/10 R Reviewing Truth Tables, Indirect Truth Tables 6.4-6.5
3/15-3/17 No class, Spring Break Week
3/22 T Review Truth Tables, Indirect Truth Tables 6.5
3/29 T Rules of Implication I 7.1
3/31 R Rules of Implication II 7.2
4/5 T Reviewing the first Rules of Implication in 7.1 and 7.2
4/7 R Rules of Replacement I 7.3
4/12 T Rules of Replacement II 7.4
4/19 T Philosophy of Mind: Do various species have mental mapping in the hippocampus?
Is there a physical, neurological, or biochemical explanation for the experience of God?
4/21 R Oliver Sacks; philosophy of mind, Williams Syndrome, Autism, other ways to look at logical behavior
4/26 T Discussion of standardized testing and college admissions: Frontline, Inside the SAT
4/28 R Discussion of standardized testing and college admissions: Frontline, Inside the SAT
FINAL EXAMINATION: For classes that meet Tuesday Thursday at 8am, the Registrar has determined that final exams must be turned in by May 4, Wednesday, at 10:15am.
Our final exam will be in Blazeview and must be completed by that time.
To look up your other classes' Spring final exams, see the online guide at the link to Registration at the university homepage.
Special Pilot Project: Online Course Evaluations
You will be evaluating this course using the online Student Opinion of Instruction (SOI) form in Banner, under the Answer a Survey link. Student evaluations are extremely important in helping faculty members plan and revise their courses. Rather than completing these evaluations during class time, students will need to access evaluation forms via BANNER and complete them in a period during the last few weeks of class. Please take the time to complete this important evaluation (or opt out of providing an evaluation) during the designated period. These evaluations are usually done before the final grades for the course are released for student viewing on the Monday after the final examination days.
The Administration has not yet opened the online SOI forms, and Dr. James will update the class with instructions when they are available.


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In addition to our many service projects and community partnerships, the Woman's Club of Medford makes many monetary donations throughout the year. To fund these donations, we hold events such as our High Tea in the fall and our themed Dinner Dance in the spring. We also participate in various fundraisers organized by other community groups. Our beneficiaries include:
The South Jersey Food Bank
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
The South Jersey Breast Cancer Coalition
The Dr. James Still Historic Office Site and Education Center
The Domestic Violence Advocacy Center
Medford Celebrates
In addition, our own initiatives include:
Maintenance and Upkeep of the Freedom Park Veterans Memorials
Maintenance and Upkeep of our Freedom Park Reflective Bench Area and Maintenance of the Township Building Flower Boxes through our Medford Works program
Fall and Spring Clean Ups of the Freedom Park Playground Areas and Repair of Play Equipment
Social Services including bringing Sunshine to our two adoptive grandmothers
Sunshine to those in the community who need it
The Alice Mietz Scholarship – $1,000.00 to a Shawnee High School senior girl who will continue her education at a four year college or university
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Tourism contributes 4.5% of Australian GDP and represents 11.2% of exports (Allen Consulting Group, 2005), and even more in New Zealand (about 5% of GDP and 16% of exports). The main tourism centres are the Gold Coast and tropical north Queensland in Australia, and Queenstown and Rotorua in New Zealand. Most tourism and recreation in Australia and New Zealand rely on resources of the natural environment. In Australia's Wet Tropics, the value of ecosystem goods and services, including tourism, is about US$132 to 148 million/yr (Curtis, 2004).
Few regional studies have assessed potential impacts on tourism, but elsewhere there is evidence that climate change has direct impacts (Agnew and Palutikof, 2001; Maddison, 2001). Some tourist destinations may benefit from drier and warmer conditions, e.g., for beach activities, viewing wildlife and geothermal activity, trekking, camping, climbing, wine tasting and fishing. However, greater risks to tourism are likely from increases in hazards such as flooding, storm surges, heatwaves, cyclones, fires and droughts (World Tourism Organisation, 2003; Scott et al., 2004; Becken, 2005; Hall and Higham, 2005; Becken and Hay, 2007). These adversely affect transport, personal safety, communication, water availability and natural attractions such as coral reefs, beaches, freshwater wetlands, snow, glaciers and forests. Changes in species distribution and ecosystems in National Parks (see Section 11.4.2) are likely to alter their tourism appeal. Tropical Australian destinations are particularly vulnerable to climate impacts (Allen Consulting Group, 2005). Queensland tourism is likely to be negatively affected by more intense tropical cyclones and by degradation of the Great Barrier Reef (see Section 11.6) and beaches (PIA, 2004).
Skiing attracts many tourists to New Zealand and south-eastern Australia. For the full range of SRES scenarios, by 2020 in south-east Australia, there are likely to be 5 to 40 fewer days of snow cover per year, a rise in the snowline of 30 to 165 m, and a reduction in the total snow-covered area of 10 to 40% (Hennessy et al., 2003). By 2050, the duration of snow cover reduces by 15 to 100 days, the maximum snow depth reduces by 10 to 99%, the snowline rises 60 to 570 m and the total area of snow cover shrinks by 20 to 85%. Similarly, in New Zealand, changes in seasonal snow cover are likely to have a significant impact on the ski industry. The snow line is likely to rise by 120 to 270 m based on scenarios for the 2080s (Fitzharris, 2004). Tourist flows from Australia to New Zealand might grow as a result of the relatively poorer snow conditions in Australia. Numerical modelling of the Franz Josef glacier reveals that temperature is the dominant control on glacier length for New Zealand's maritime glaciers (Anderson and Mackintosh, 2006). Noticeable shrinkage and retreat is very likely for even small temperature increases (Anderson, 2004; Anderson et al., 2006), and is likely to reduce visitor flows through tourism-dependent towns such as Fox and Franz Josef.


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One of the things I've really enjoyed at Sundance is talking with strangers about movies. Whether I'm on the bus, waiting in line, or sitting in a theater before the film starts, I've found friendly people who are willing to just geek out about movies. These Amazing Shadows is the cinematic equivalent of talking movies with your fellow film-lovers. Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton's documentary jumps around excitedly as it points out great films that are in the National Film Registry, but it goes far beyond the popular stuff like Star Wars and Blazing Saddles. They look at experimental films, culturally significant movies regarding sex and race, and even popular bumpers. Mariano and Norton also examine the art of film preservation and the discovery of uncensored versions of movies that were edited under the Production Code. These Amazing Shadows lacks clarity and cohesion on certain points, but it's a must-see for any film nerd.
These Amazing Shadows is part-film appreciation and part-film history. The documentary examines the formation of the National Film Registry as well as the work of film preservationists. This entry point allows Mariano and Norton to expand their focus to movies included in the registry and speak with a wide variety of fascinating subjects. You have professors talking about their participation in the registry and why they championed certain films. You have the preservationists talking about their work and their passion will get you jazzed about stuff like nitrate and climate-controlled vaults. You have filmmakers talking about their love of movies in broader context. The interviews with filmmakers like John Waters and Rob Reiner are particularly rewarding because usually they only comment about their most recent movie. Listening to them talk about film in a general sense helps to illuminate why they went into moviemaking and what drives them as a filmmaker.
The movie also features an amazing segment where Mariano and Norton examine two versions of the 1933 Barbara Stanwyck film Baby Face. A preservationist discovered that he had two copies of the movies, but that one was slightly longer than the other. He realized he had the unedited version of the movie and the censored version. Mariano and Norton put the version side by side and the result is educational, insightful, and hilarious.
I also have to commend the directors for expanding the subject beyond popular films. I was initially worried at the outset of the picture and the talking heads proclaimed how movies inform us of the culture at a particular point in time. If you're only examining Hollywood product, those kinds of movies can be misleading. If you were to put a majority of modern romantic comedies in a time capsule, they would fail to provide an honest representation of most relationships. However, the directors and the subjects interviewed understand the importance of these films in context. Registry board members included Birth of a Nation not because they condone racism, but because the film is technically and historically significant. The registry also includes experimental movies, the work of female directors at the dawn of cinema, and hard-hitting documentaries like Harlan County, U.S.A. and Topaz (1945) that don't show America at its best, but do show it honestly. It's an eclectic mix and whether or not you agree with a movie's inclusion, all of the films included have a solid argument for being on the registry.
While I love the broadness of the documentary's scope, it lacks a structure to hold it all together. When the movie comes to a segment on This Is Spinal Tap, I was left wondering why they included it as opposed to another movie. Was it because Reiner was available? Is it because This Is Spinal Tap is too awesome to ignore? The movie swings wildly from historical notes to celebrating particular films to the social relevancy of the registry but there's almost no organization when it comes to the order of the segments. There's also some important points that are unclear. What's the difference between preservation and restoration? Since Star Wars is included in the archive, is it the original version or George Lucas' "Special Edition". The National Film Registry was created in response to Ted Turner's "colorization" of classic movies so that a filmmaker's original intent could be preserved. If Lucas prefers his crappier, CGI'd version of Star Wars, shouldn't that be the movie that makes it into the Registry? And what about Baby Face? The uncensored version is the one the director wanted to release, but only the censored version made it into theaters.
Despite the lack of clarity and form, These Amazing Shadows will have any film nerd cheering. It's not about whether or not you love a movie that's in the registry. It's about seeing how America cherishes film history and applauding the folks who are working hard to preserve "the artform of the 20th century". The movie has so much to teach and while it's a bit of an infomercial for the National Film Registry, it's an organization worth celebrating and These Amazing Shadows is a fine tribute.
Rating: B
For all of our coverage of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, click here. Also, here are links to all of my Sundance reviews so far:
- Bobby Fischer Against the World
- Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
- Higher Ground
- Homework
- The Interrupters
- Like Crazy
- Magic Trip
- The Music Never Stopped
- My Idiot Brother
- Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
- Project Nim
- Red State
- Submarine
- Tyrannosaur
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The global economy is entering another manufacturing-led cyclical slowdown. These slowdowns are regular events
triggered by shocks to final demand. They lead to temporary slowdowns in production and hiring as companies adjust
their production levels to bring excess inventories back to levels consistent with observed demand. We do not think
this inventory cycle will change the broader global macroeconomic backdrop, which remains one of weak demand in
the HIDCs (Heavily Indebted Developed Countries). So far the effect of the slowdown in manufacturing on HIDC equity
markets has been modest, partly because of expectations of further support from monetary authorities and partly
due to the absence of clear and present tail risks. While fixed income tends to perform strongly during manufacturing
downturns these events also provide good value opportunities to scale into currency and equity positions, in our view.
The global economy is entering another manufacturing-led cyclical slowdown. These slowdowns are regular events triggered by shocks to final demand. They lead to temporary slowdowns in production and hiring as companies adjust their production levels to bring excess inventories back to levels consistent with observed demand. We do not think this inventory cycle will change the broader global macroeconomic backdrop, which remains one of weak demand in the HIDCs (Heavily Indebted Developed Countries). So far the effect of the slowdown in manufacturing on HIDC equity markets has been modest, partly because of expectations of further support from monetary authorities and partly due to the absence of clear and present tail risks. While fixed income tends to perform strongly during manufacturing downturns these events also provide good value opportunities to scale into currency and equity positions, in our view.
The recent rush of weaker US and European data continued in the past week. Notable disappointments relative to expectations in the US included ADP private payrolls, softer Markit PMI mom, big drops in Chicago, Kansas, Milwaukee, and Dallas manufacturing surveys, and softness in the employment and construction components of ISM. The Fed yesterday responded to the recent disappointments by maintaining the current elevated rate of bond purchases (Quantitative Easing). This is likely to continue until the Fed sees material improvements in the labour market and signs of rising inflation. So far, unemployment rates have been trending down mainly due to lower participation rates, while inflation has in the wrong direction, namely down. The core personal consumption expenditure price index, which is favoured by the Fed over CPI, is now just 1.1%, down from 1.9% in early 2012.
In Japan, Industrial Production slowed significantly (0.2% versus 0.4% expected and 0.6% last), while retail sales and construction spending were also soft.
In Europe, Germany's economy in particular has shown recent weakness, though this morning's PMI print was stronger than expected. The EUR has appreciated (as unrealistic hopes of a strong US growth performance, which had been priced into the US dollar are being squeezed out). Both these factors have fed expectations that the ECB may now cut rates by 25bps to 50bps. In Southern Europe, however, the news is now relatively less discouraging. In Italy, Enrico Letta formed a government. Portugal had strong Industrial Production data. Spain recorded stronger housing numbers, while GDP was in line with expectations.
Still, against the broader backdrop of weaker cyclical indicators, commodities dropped 1.4% over the past week, though this aggregate decline masked both strong rises in precious metals and soft commodities and declines in the more cyclically sensitive sectors, such as oil (-1.7%), gasoil (-2%), aluminium (-3.8%), and copper (-2.6%). S&P500 dropped 13bps and Nikkei fell 1.1%, while VIX rose 6.4%. US 10 year treasury bonds rallied to 1.64% yield, while 10 year Italy rallied 19bps to reach 3.87% yield. EURUSD rallied 1.1%, while USDJPY dropped more than 2%.
Emerging Market currencies performed strongly with a 41bps rally across the main crosses.
Emerging Markets stocks rose 1.2%, while dollar denominated sovereign credit rallied 69bps and corporates rallied 48bps.
Latin Ameria
Mexico's central bank left rates unchanged at 4%, but central bank governor Agustin Carstens hinted that the central bank could cut rates again if inflation drops below 4% in H2 2013. Mexico also recorded a much stronger than expected trade surplus. Tensions between government and opposition groups intensified in Venezuela following a recent disputed election. Colombia's central bank left rates unchanged at 3.25% and stepped back from announcing further measures to stem currency appreciation pressures. Argentina's parallel exchange rate widened to 9.43 pesos per dollar, a new low. Brazilian IGP-M inflation came at just +0.15%, the low end of expectations, while President Dilma Rousseff re-stated her commitment to keeping inflation under control.
India's government reduced taxes significantly for foreign investors in the domestic bond market against the backdrop of announcements of major new FDI flows to the country. The official fix for CNY, China's currency, reached a new strong point against the dollar at 6.2082. China's two main manufacturing indices (official and HSBC) both came broadly in line with expectations in April. Both pointed to a slower rate of expansion than last month, consistent with softer manufacturing prints elsewhere. South Korean inflation was softer than expected (-0.1% vs 0.2% expected), while exports were twice as strong as anticipated (0.4% vs 0.2% expected). Despite softer Industrial Production, Q1 GDP was much stronger than expected at 0.9% qoq. The trade balance in Indonesia strengthened following lower than expected imports, but S&P, the ratings agency, revised the outlook to stable from positive. April's PMI rose marginally to 51.7 from 51.3 in March. Philippine government debt was raised to investment grade by S&P, and the central bank cut the Special Deposit Account rate by 50bps to 2%. Singaporean Industrial Production rose 6% mom in April.
Eastern Europe, Africa, and Middle East
In Slovenia, the government abandoned an attempt to issue bonds following a downgrade of the sovereign by a ratings agency. The difference in ratings by S&P and Moody's is now 4 notches. Turkey's trade deficit widened to $7.4bn versus $8.3bn expected, while PMI slowed to 51.3 in April from 52.3 in March. Hungary's PMI declined to 51.7 in April as the central bank disclosed further details about new measures under consideration to support small and medium sized enterprises. South Africa's trade balance was significantly stronger than expected at -$7.7bn versus -$8.5bn expected. Ukraine's government submitted a bill to the parliament to allow privatisation of Naftogaz, the national gas company. Serbia's central bank allegedly bought EURs to stem appreciation of the Serbian Dinar. Russia changed the rules for the reserve fund in the face of falling oil prices, which means that the reserve fund will accumulate less revenue, but also that the government will issue less debt. Czech Republic PMI rose from 49.1 in March to 49.5 in April. Russian PMI softened marginally from 50.8 in March to 50.6 in April.
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Our Story
Every Child
Deserves Food,
Shelter, Education & LOVE
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Children In Need
What is a Hogar Hero?
Hogar means "home" and we all understand what a hero is. We are fond of saying "not all heroes wear capes". Our Hogar Heroes are the backbone of our organization. Rather than create a program that focuses on individual children, we wanted a program that made ALL the children feel loved and supported. Our Hogar Heroes donate monthly to ensure all operations are fully covered, and no one goes without. While we enjoy showcasing the children's talents and their sweet personalities, we never want to create a situation in which they feel left out. These children have been through enough heartbreak, abandonment, or loss. The very last thing we want to do is hurt them by creating a "poster child".
Work, Play, Love
Orphan Childrens' Charity In Guatemala
Work, Play, Love and the Hogar Heroes campaign is an orphan children charity that was established to help the children of Guatemala, with a primary focus on caring for and supporting orphans in the area. As a non-profit 501c3 company, the majority of our funds go to support the Maria Auxiliadora Hogar, a girls' orphanage that we funded to build outside of Guatemala City. Any excess funds are used to provide assistance to the boys' orphanage next door as well as to a new girls' school in the area. The orphanages also serve as a haven for children in the village to learn, play and simply enjoy the opportunity to be kids.
Become a Hogar Hero. Help the orphan children of Guatemala today.
Our Mission
Key Accomplishments
Our orphan children charity in Guatemala has:
Raised more than $500,000 to support the orphan children of Guatemala
Funded and hired local tradesmen to build the only girls' orphanage in the area (in the shape of a pink princess palace)
Bought the orphanages two vans for transportation
Renovated parts of the boys' orphanage
Connected the facilities with other groups to complete large projects, like a $100,000 computer room and helping to remodel a home in the village
Continuing to provide monthly support for the girls' orphanage
What We Do
Girls' Orphanage
The Maria Auxiliadora Hogar is the main focus of Hogar Heroes. The goal of our Guatemala charity is to raise a minimum of $3,000 per month to support the facility staff, programming and of course provide care and housing for the children.
Boys' Orphanage
Prior to building the girls' orphanage, our organization was solely focused on supporting the Hogar Miguel Magone, a boy's orphanage next door. Today, we continue to support the boys with any funds received in excess of our goal for the girls' orphanage.
Village Kids
Like many charities for orphans, we support other local children as well. The orphanages serve as a safe haven for boys and girls in the area, providing shelter, education, food, caretakers, transportation and other activities.
Girls' School
We are one of three charities helping to build a girls' school in the area. We've donated nearly $30,000 to this project and continue to contribute as funds become available. Groundbreaking is scheduled for November 2017!
Funds Raised
Hogar Heroes
Orphans Helped
News & Events
In addition to hosting several fundraising events throughout the year, we organize a number of trips to visit and work with the orphanages in Guatemala. Find more info below, sign up to volunteer, and help us support the children. Currently, we are running our first annual Dollar Drive! We began on Nov 27th (Giving Tuesday) and the Campaign will run through the end of 2018! Our goal is to raise $5,000 and get our message in front of 1,000,000 people! We hope you'll help us by sharing our social posts and emails!
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10 Amazing Ideas to Raise Money for Non-Profit Organizations
By Rosabella Debty: Charity finds itself in every crevice of human nature. We desire to help, though it can be hard to know where to start. Not everyone has the funds for a donation or loads of time that they are able to give for community service. We understand it...
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Music is humanity's oldest form of communication; it has been used for millions of years and is commonly referred to as a "universal language". No matter someone's ethnic background, home country, or first language, most would easily be able to tell if...
Volunteer Spotlight
Over the years, we've had many generous people volunteer with our orphan children charity in Guatemala. Here are some of their stories! Get inspired, and consider joining us during one of our volunteer trips to the orphanages.
Gabrielle Davison
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I don't think there could ever be just enough preparation for a trip like this one and I knew that going into it but was ready with an open heart and a empty camera for whatever we encountered. I have come to believe that I will continue to learn about 'love' and 'how to love' until the day I die.
The love of an orphan is so pure and raw. The ways that they share that love astound me and have made me think how much more I could be loving even daily in my own life. They often times reflect hearts of unconditional love and affection. Conditional being their circumstances that they have overcome with the ability to still pour out love on those that they have known a mere 5 minutes, to those they have known for many years. Over the week I spent working, and playing I did a whole lot of learning about loving. It's a different part of love, one of it's many colors, sizes and forms. I get choked up just thinking about it. It's one thing to know about this kind of love, it's a completely different to experience it and have it impressed upon your heart.
Chris Chien
I've worked with Kim to produce a mural in Guatemala in January 2014. It was a really fun experience to work with the kids at the orphanage. It was a really positive environment and such a privilege to get to interact with the people you are actually helping. The experience has influenced me to be more of a giving and altruistic person.
Take Action
There are many ways you can help our charities for orphans in Guatemala. Explore the opportunities available to take action in support of the children below, and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions you may have!
Even a small donation can go a long way to support the orphan children of Guatemala. Make a change that will last a lifetime.
Join one of our scheduled trips to the orphanages or get in touch to learn how you can set up a trip to Guatemala with your group.
Spread The Word
Help us spread the word about Hogar Heroes by sharing this page with your friends and family!
Use Amazon Smile
When you choose Work, Play, Love as your charity of choice at Smile.Amazon.com a small portion of your purchases will be donated to us!
Become a Volunteer
Spread The Word
Help us spread the word about Hogar Heroes by sharing this page with your friends and family!
Join one of our scheduled trips to the orphanages or get in touch to learn how you can set up a trip to Guatemala with your group.


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ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI)-- A concerned parent takes matters into her own hands. One mother is using her cell phone to clock drivers speeding through a work zone located inside her child's school zone.
In less than one hour, several drivers passed through the work and school zone driving nearly 20MPH over the posted 25MPH school zone speed limit.
One truck drove literally through the work zone barriers, while several others disregarded the correct direction in the work zone.
This was just a small sample of the many reasons why Beth Heinkel, the mother of a kindergarten student at the school across the street, stood outside the school and work zone with a radar app on her cell phone clocking the speeds of wreckless drivers.
Beth fears for the safety of the workers and the students at St. Raphael the Archangel, because of the level of inattentiveness she has seen out of most drivers.
Kim Vangel, the school's principal, was happy to see someone taking initiative over something that has been a longtime threat to the students' safety.
Principal Vangel also said she was pleased to see a parent showing her concern for the safety of the students at St. Raphael the Archangel.
She hopes that drivers on Jamieson will pay more attention to the speed limit outside their school once this story is seen.