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Coastal flooding forces road closuresBy Jason Schreiber
Union Leader Correspondent
January 03. 2014 1:55PM
Large waves kicked up by a nor'easter that dropped more than a foot of snow on some parts of New Hampshire have flooded several streets along the coast.
Astronomical high tides combined with the powerful ocean storm to create a mess on Route 1A in Hampton, North Hampton and Rye around the time of high tide.
"We've got a lot of flooding," said Hampton Police Chief Jamie Sullivan.
The astronomical tide around noon today in Hampton was forecast to be near its 11-foot flood stage with a one-foot storm surge.
In Rye, a car became stuck in the flooding on Route 1A near Rye Harbor State Park, but the driver was rescued and the car was towed away.
Flooded areas that prompted some temporary closures or restricted traffic in Hampton included Route 1A (Ocean Boulevard) northbound between Church Street and Winnacunnet Road; High Street near Ocean Boulevard; Ashworth Avenue from G Street to J Street; Brown Avenue; and a section of Route 1 was reduced to one lane just north of the Hampton Falls town line.
Sullivan said the area experienced moderate splashover. Snow banks blocked the floodwater from receding and caused some of it to drain differently, he said.
"It'll take several hours for it to recede," Sullivan said.


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RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Moroccan security forces dismantled a cell recruiting young men to fight with al-Qaida-linked groups in northern Mali, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
The statement said that a group operating across the country were inculcating young men with "al-Qaida" ideology and then smuggling them across the closed border with Algeria from where they headed to Mali for military training.
The men would then join either al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb or its offshoot, The Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, which have taken control over much of northern Mali.
Northern Mali fell to Islamist extremists in April, after coup leaders toppled the government in Bamako, Mali's capital. France has been pushing for a military intervention by Mali's army, bolstered by other African troops, to drive the Islamists from power.
Both al-Qaida-linked groups are reported to consist largely of foreign fighters from North Africa and elsewhere across the Islamic world and have kidnapped and ransomed dozens of Westerners.
The statement added that one of the Moroccans fighters had been sent back to Morocco to carry out sabotage and was arrested.
A Malian living in Morocco that had been in contact with one of the groups was also arrested. The statement did not elaborate how many people had been detained in total.
Morocco frequently announces dismantling small cells planning terrorist attacks inspired by al-Qaida, but the terror network is not believed to have a real presence in this North African kingdom of 32 million people.
Early in the month, the government announced dismantling two other cells, one planning to set up a training camp in the northern mountains, another hoping to get in touch with al-Qaida and attack tourist sites.
Morocco's last major terrorist attack was in April 2011, when a bomb exploded in a cafe popular with tourists in Marrakech, killing 17.

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The suspect, identified by authorities only as Ziya T., had been on the run since the body of Sarai Sierra, a 33-year-old mother of two boys, was discovered last month. Authorities said Sierra died of a fatal blow to the head.
She had traveled to Turkey to explore her photography hobby. She did so alone after a friend who was supposed to join her canceled for financial reasons. Sierra's body was found hidden near Istanbul's ancient city walls on Feb. 2, 12 days after her family reported her missing.
Interior Minister Muammer Guler said the suspect was detained in the province of Hatay, near the border with Syria, as he entered Turkey. "We had information that the suspect had escaped abroad. He was believed to be in Syria," Guler told reporters. "He was detained today in Hatay, as he was entering Turkey and was handed over to court officials."
Guler did not provide any other details about the arrest.
Turkish news reports have described the man as a homeless scrap paper collector who used to hang around the city walls. The man was expected to be taken to Istanbul for questioning and to face possible formal arrest and charges.
Television footage showed the man, wearing military camouflage pants and a navy zipped jacket, being escorted down some stairs into a police armored personnel carrier.
Turkish news reports have said police identified Ziya T. as the main suspect in the case after DNA samples taken from his two brothers and a sister matched those found beneath Sierra's nails. Police would not confirm these reports, saying the investigation is ongoing.
Guler said police identified the suspect after inspecting thousands of security camera videos and conducting a "series of tests."
In the United States, Sierra's family was following the latest developments in the case, said her sister, Christina Jimenez, but she declined to comment at this crucial stage in the investigation. "We don't want to say the wrong thing," Jimenez said.
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Value Line is regarded as the best independent research available. More than just recommendations, Value Line provides the rationale behind its picks for greater understanding.
One of the best examples of a leader's departure having a big impact on a company is likely Apple (AAPL). One of the founding forces of the company, Steve Jobs is virtually synonymous with the company he leads. That wasn't the case in 1985, however, when he was forced out of the company because of disagreements with the CEO about the direction of the computer maker (Jobs was Chairman of the Board at the time). Apple floundered badly after Jobs' departure. Eventually the company bought Jobs' new company, called NeXT, to get him back in the corner office at Apple. The performance of the company (and it's stock) since has been nothing short of dramatic, including the launch of the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and the iTunes media store.
Clearly Jobs' vision plays a vital role in Apple's success. Having him back at the helm is important to both the performance of the company and its shares, as investors are well aware of how vital his vision is to the company's future. This why there was such concern in early 2009 when Jobs took a medical leave of absence to deal with pancreatic cancer.
Such medical concerns have surfaced several times in recent years and, while not appearing to have impacted the company's performance over the longer term, each time the medical condition has surfaced in the media it has temporarily impacted Apple's stock price in a negative way. Jobs' announcement on January 17, 2011 that he is taking another leave of absence sent Apple shares materially lower overseas (U.S. markets were closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday on the day of the announcement).
Although all wish Steve Jobs the best in whatever medical issue he is dealing with, his health is a material issue about which shareholders should be aware. What are the plans if and when he does not return? Is there anyone who can provide the vision he has provided the company? Is Apple the same company without Steve Jobs? If these questions aren't on the minds of Apple investors, they should be.
There are other companies that have strong leaders who have left only to return when the company they once drove began to flounder. The list includes such well-known brands as Dell (DELL) and Starbucks (SBUX). However, there are a number of other companies where charismatic (or not so charismatic, depending on one's view) leaders are a driving force.
Berkshire Hathaway's (BRKB) Warren Buffett, for example, is also viewed as synonymous with the company he leads with Charlie Munger. Both men are beyond the age where retirement is the norm and illness leading to death is not considered rare or surprising. The company has a succession plan, though little is disclosed about it. Investors who own shares of Berkshire need to be cognizant of and comfortable with the succession issue at this company or they risk a nasty surprise when Buffet and/or Munger are no longer with the corporation.
Larry Ellison of Oracle (ORCL) is another example. While many criticize Ellison's management style, he is clearly the driving force of the company he co-founded. The loss of Ellison, who is also at retirement age, could materially alter the technology company. Shareholders need to be aware of just how important this one man is to the future of the company and the price of the stock they hold.
Sumner Redstone of Viacom (VIA) is yet another leader who's loss could materially alter both the company he leads and its shares. Often noted as one of the most powerful media magnates, his vision is a major driving force at Viacom. He is now well into his eighties. The company is clearly large enough to survive his departure, but the loss of his vision and leadership (which, like Ellison's, is often criticized) could change Viacom's appeal as an investment.
There are clearly many more companies with charismatic and influential leaders, such as John Chambers of Cisco (CSCO - Free Value Line Analyst Report). While most companies do indeed have "lives" of their own, their driving forces are still the people working within them. To ignore this fact is a mistake. These few examples highlight how vital it is for investors to keep this issue in mind when buying shares in a company and act as a warning for shareholders who own the companies at which Jobs, Buffett, Ellison, and Redstone work.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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text: Perry Ellis was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA on 3rd March 1940. He gained a B.A. in Business studies at the College of William and Mary and then took an M.A. course in retailing at New York University. From 1963 to 1967, he worked as a buyer for the Miller Rhodes department store in Richmond, Virginia. In 1968, he joined John Meyer of Norwich, New York as design director. In 1974, he became Sportswear designer for the Vera companies. In 1975 he started designing under his own label Portfolio, and in 1978, Perry Ellis Sportswear Inc was launched.In 1980 he formed his own company. His contemporary, classic menswear designs were already widely acclaimed in the USA, and he swiftly gained a reputation for crisply stylish women's coats, trouser and knitwear. Ellis's designs for women were spirited and graceful and he is considered the ideal American sportswear designer. Many of his clothes were cut on mannish lines but skillfully adapted for the female figure. He frequently used textured wools and tweeds. He used the textures of natural fibres, linen for a T-shirt and skirt, line trousers often matched with cotton sweaters or loose blouses. His slouchy looks of the 80's created the look of a picturesque hobo. In 1985, Perry Ellis revived the lesser-priced Portfolio Line, and in addition, began to design an America line for Levi Strauss. Isaac Mizrahi was a designer in training with the house of Perry Ellis from 1982 to 1984. Perry Ellis himself died on 30th May 1986 at the young age of 46. The Council of Fashion Designers of America, the CFDA, have instituted an award for New Talent in the Fashion Field and they have called it the Perry Ellis Award in memory of this great American designer. In the year 2000/2002, the city of New York decided to honour American fashion designers by placing bronze plaques along the pavement of 7th Avenue, the great street of fashion in New York. This has been called the ""FASHION WALK OF FAME."" Perry Ellis was one of those honoured with a plaque. From 1988 to 1993, the young designer Marc Jacobs designed for the house of Perry Ellis. The company has changed hands several times, first with Manhattan Industries, then Salant and now since 1999, the Miami-based concern Supreme International owns the Perry Ellis house. It still continues to be a design house at the forefront of fashion. The Fall 2002 show marked a return to the New York runway. In April 2003, the Public Clothing Company, licensee of Perry Ellis Womenswear, announced that Patrick Robinson has been appointed Creative Director for Perry Ellis Womens Sportswear. Robinson, shown here on the right, was born in 1967 and studied at Parsons Fashion School in New York. He was earlier with Giorgio Armani Le Collezioni and Anne Klein. He also worked with Patrick Kelly in Paris in the 1980's. Robinson is well-known for his own signature sportswear collection launched in 1997. Now he will bring all his experience to bear, on making a success of Perry Ellis Sportswear.


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Prosecution finishes its case in child assault trialBy LARISSA MULKERN
Special to the Union Leader
January 31. 2013 8:50PM
OSSIPEE - The prosecution wrapped up its case Thursday against an Albany man accused of seriously beating the young son of his ex-girlfriend in December 2011.
The trial will begin its seventh day of testimony today, when the defense team of Wade Harwood and Howard Clayman of the New Hampshire Public Defender's office in Laconia call witnesses for Roy's defense. Deputy County Attorney Susan Boone rested the state's case Thursday after the judge held a motion hearing without the jury present on motions from the defense to dismiss charges.
Attorneys indicated in court Thursday that Roy, 34, would take the stand, but didn't say when.
Associate Justice Steven Houran denied a defense motion Thursday to dismiss all charges against Roy; Harwood also presented separate motions to dismiss each of the 13 charges.
In his arguments to dismiss motions, Harwood said Heather Downs, the mother of the child, was not credible and that her testimony was "all over the place." He said Downs' testimony "flied in the face of logic," and said no rational jury would find the state has proved each and every element of the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.
As for the felony assault charges, Harwood said the state had not brought any evidence that directly links Roy to the assaults.
"We're dealing with a purely circumstantial case," he said.
Judge Houran denied all but two of the motions - a simple assault charge that alleged Roy pushed the boy's mother, Heather Downs, when she went to check on him in Roy's shed in the middle of the night, and a second charge of criminal restraint for placing the boy, Strider, who was 2½ years old at the time, outdoors on a dog crate on Dec. 18, 2011. Roy is now charged with the following crimes alleging Strider as the victim: one count of first-degree assault, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of second-degree assault, and one count of simple assault. He is also charged with two counts of second-degree assault against Strider's older brother, Zander, age 7, and one count of simple assault against their 11-month-old brother, Gallagher.
If convicted on all charges, including those with enhanced sentencing, Roy faces up to 100 years in jail.
The trial resumes at Carroll County Superior Court in Ossipee at 9:30 a.m. Friday.


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Biggest Coverage Ever of Fall Market in High Point, NC
We've been down here at Market in High Point, NC this weekend for our longest visit and the most coverage we've ever done. We're seeing everything from brand new sofas, rugs, mattresses and lighting that will be arriving in stores next spring (some things are already available). Why? Because we go behind the scenes to track the trends before they hit the stores. Coverage this fast in the furnishings industry has never happened before, so check it out at our Live Fall Market Coverage Page. Enjoy!
Sealy ABB robot in NC on Vimeo.
Freaky. Like a heavy man, this ABB Robot is getting in and out of bed 5,000 times to simulate the ten-year life span of this prototype mattress at Sealy's design facility outside of High Point.
Thom Filicia had a big market with a new launch and a party!
Bold Hairy Man style at Bernhardt.
And a final shot of Bklyn's own, Lotta Jansdotter, who launched a big new line of rugs with Surya. :)
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Details: loved this decorative wall treatment for a future DIY. This was at Bernhardt and is a film with three still shots.


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CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of angry Egyptian Christians have gathered at the main Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Cairo for the funeral of four fellow Christians killed in weekend clashes with Muslims.
A fifth person, a Muslim, died in the Saturday clashes in the town of Khosoos north of the capital Cairo.
Denouncing Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, the mourners on Sunday chanted "Leave!" and "This is our country, we will not leave."
Women in mourning black joined the chants, while clergymen sat silently before the service began.
Egypt's Coptic Christians make up about 10 percent of the country's estimated 90 million people. They have long complained of discrimination by the state.
The presidency and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which Morsi hails, condemned the violence.


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A Boker Street resident reported the tailgate from his 1998 green GMC pick-up truck was stolen on Sept. 28. The owner of the truck told Officer Michelle Caron that his son had driven the vehicle to a friend's home on Cactus Street in Warwick the night before; he was unsure if the tailgate was taken in the area of Cactus or Boker Street. He described the tailgate as dark green with a plastic bed liner and in-chrome strip top.
Officer Eric Lima responded to a call regarding a larceny from a vehicle at Doherty's Ale House at 30 Jefferson Boulevard on Sept. 28 at around 9:28 p.m. The victim left her 2009 Subaru Forester station wagon secured in the parking lot when she went into Doherty's at 7:45 p.m. and discovered a rock had been thrown through the vehicle's window when she returned to the car at 9:20 p.m. She reported a $200 gray London bag, $100 worth of make-up and $5 worth of calendars/bills/books, etc. as missing. She had hidden the bag under a jacket in the car but said the jacket had been moved. There were no surveillance cameras in the area. The victim said she wishes to press charges should a suspect be found.


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Way back in November hearing about this team coming back brought a big grin to my face. I loved these two. Watching Luke trying to complete the final roadblock still gets me as he I can tell he really wanted to do this for his bionic woman. I hope they make final 3 (too many favorites so i cant say for sure who i'd like to see win)
On season 14 Margie was Luke's interpreter for the show, and had to talk over most of their signing. On the upcoming season, Luke will sign on his own and there will be closed captioning for viewers. The hope is that this way Luke will have more of a voice.
They won the first leg in Season 14 and that was a wake-up call to everyone else."
Quote from: georgiapeach on February 19, 2011, 04:29:28 PMThey won the first leg in Season 14 and that was a wake-up call to everyone else." One of the best heart-warming moments on the show EVER!
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As two of YouTube's most successful rappers--their "Epic Rap Battles of History" channel has more than 1.2 billion total video views and almost 5.4 million subscribers--Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD (Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist to the historical record) met while freestyle rapping. Except it wasn't at some park bench or open mic event; it was during a party at Ahlquist's house in Chicago, where both had moved to pursue improv comedy.
Shukoff, who also performed musical comedy around the city, eventually joined the group Ahlquist had been in since college, Mission Improvable, and both spent several years touring and performing at local theaters such as iO. Eventually they each moved to Los Angeles, where Ahlquist helped run a comedy theater and Shukoff started making YouTube comedy videos with production company Maker Studios.
"Epic Rap Battles of History" (youtube.com/ERB) emerged out of an improv game the two--who cite rappers like Pharoahe Monch, Wu-Tang Clan and Jurassic 5's Chali 2na as influences--were planning to perform at a live show. The pair's second video, an imagined showdown between Darth Vader and Hitler, went viral and grabbed attention from around the world.
Since then, the "ERB" duo has created two seasons of videos featuring more than 30 duels between pairings that range from topical ("Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney," "Justin Bieber vs. Beethoven") to fictional ("Gandalf vs. Dumbledore," "Batman vs. Sherlock Holmes") to slightly absurd ("Genghis Khan vs. Easter Bunny").
"ERB" recently was featured in the May 19 "Big Live Comedy Show," which kicked off YouTube's Comedy Week, performing "Mozart vs. Skrillex." The performance included a special guest appearance by Skrillex, reviving his cameo from the original video.
And they still have thousands of years of history left to cover. We hear Socrates could be in the mix soon, so stay tuned for Season 3. RedEye caught up with the duo over the phone from L.A. to talk about their early years in Chicago, professional wrestling and trans-dimensional partying.
A lot of your matchups are not necessarily traditional historical pairings. How do you guys come up with the pairings?
Peter Shukoff: There's like this A-list party of historical characters, both fictional and non-fictional. You've got to be pretty cool to get into this party. There's a guy at the door checking.
Lloyd Ahlquist: The characters don't have to be from history, but the characters just have to have an impact on history, whether that's pop culture or not. So, 50 years from now, are people still going to remember "Harry Potter"? Are they going to still remember "The Hobbit"? Our thought is yes, and that makes them sort of qualified. Even people will be like, "Well, Justin Bieber's super poppy, Lady Gaga's super poppy"--yeah they're poppy, but in 50 years you're still going to remember Justin Bieber, you're still going to remember Lady Gaga.
PS: They're cool enough to get into the trans-dimensional party.
Do you pick favorites?
LA: Sure. We try our best to make it so there's no clear winner, but there [are] certain matchups where there's kind of a good guy and a heel. It's almost like a professional wrestling match. There's a hero, and there's kind of a villain. The villain's going to get some good knocks in, but the hero's going to come away looking good.
One thing a lot of rappers have is a neck chain that kind of says something about them. If you guys had chains, what would they be?
LA: We have had a series of chains for some of our characters. When we did Sarah Palin she was wearing a diamond-crusted elephant. When we did Santa Claus, he was wearing a jewel-and-gold-studded chocolate chip cookie. Snoop Dogg as Moses was wearing a platinum-encrusted Star of David.
PS: If I had one personally, it would probably be a pair of green and yellow sunglasses because that kind of accidentally became my trademark in YouTube videos. ... I still have the same $5 pair that I got at the beach.
Hip-hop fans can be pretty judgmental. Do you ever get any criticism from the hip-hop community about what you're doing as comedians?
LA: We've been lucky enough to have the hip-hop blogs and the forum boards, they like it. I think when we first came into the rap battles a big goal of ours was [that] we want to make funny rap songs, but we don't want to parody rap. We don't want to make parodies of rap battles--we want to make actual rap battles.
We don't approach the music from a funny standpoint of "let's see how weird and kooky we can make rap sound." We just try to make good punch lines. If you watch a regular rap battle, they're funny. The rap lines are funny. We just applied that to characters from history. I haven't experienced too much of that hate, which is awesome.
PS: I haven't either, and I think it's [because] we really committed ourselves to taking the musical element really seriously.
Do you guys have any favorite Chicago stuff that you miss or always check out when you're back?
PS: I miss the train, man. I had a song back in the day about the Red Line train that I used to play all over town. I just miss that romantic--I just miss the trains. I love riding on the "L." I love Roscoe Village.
LA: I miss the improv scene there. We do improv out here. The Mission Improvable guys, we have a theater out here, and it all sort of stems from that Improv Olympic community out there. I make sure I always go there ... when I'm ever in Chicago, I always go there and grab a PBR and just watch a show.
3 steps to getting 1.2 billion views
Every "Epic Rap Battles of History" video averages 30 million views on YouTube, and many surpass 50 million. How do Lloyd Ahlquist and Peter Shukoff do it? Ahlquist broke down three elements that have helped "ERB" achieve consistent success.
It's a simple, repeatable idea
Much of "ERB's" long-term success comes from the fact that it's a Web series, not just a viral video. The most successful series generally start with one or two massive hits and then stick to a pattern that works. And in "ERB's" case, the pattern works because the concept is funny, open to almost endless variation and easy to understand. "It's not that hard for me to explain this idea to my dad," Ahlquist noted.
The audience is involved
YouTube has an active community, and "ERB" makes sure to interact with it by asking fans to vote on the winner of each matchup and to suggest new pairings. Many one-off videos that get big don't do as much to interact with their viewers.
High production values
When "ERB" launched, the series stood out for its attention to detail and its well-crafted videos. Although the bar for YouTube production has been raised as the format has grown in popularity in recent years--simply using a nice camera is no longer enough to draw viewers in--"ERB" continues to keep people's attention by taking the time to get each video just right, throwing out entire battles if necessary.
Kyle Kramer is a RedEye special contributor.
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Steiner College in Fair Oaks hosted another summer of the Art of Teaching for Waldorf grades teachers. It was a one week intensive on learning about the curriculum of the grade the teacher would be entering in the fall. As I prepare for my eighth grade year at Davis Waldorf, I found the week valuable. I received practical advice on the themes, biographies, and concepts to bring to my eighth grade students.
Teachers from near and far and wide, some as far as Anchorage, Alaska, got a taste of simple sugars in organic chemistry, witnessed shaving cream placed in a vacuumed bell jar billow like a mushroom cloud in physics, and shared in the excitement of Howard's cloud nomenclature in meteorology. Can you say cumulostratus, or was it stratocumulus?
Biographies for the eighth grader was made clear in American history: it was not as important to present a linear account of a person's life, as it was to illustrate how that person gave a voice to the movement, the cause, that that person represented. I can almost neatly see the themes of biographies from sixth grade to eighth. In sixth grade, where Rome showed the student that people follow or perish, a person's biography is about making a CHOICE between pre-existing conditions. In the seventh grade, the Renaissance is about individual CONTRIBUTIONS to the explosion of learning, science, and the arts. In the eighth grade, set against the nineteenth century backdrop of global conflicts among cultures and economies, it is about the courage to rally a COMMUNAL effort to effect positive change.
The benefit of these summer classes is the guidance of preparing the curriculum and block rotations. The true benefit, for me, is in being in the room with the teachers who are teaching these summer classes. Eva, Antje, Ted, and Mikko. Each are a wellspring of energy, a musician with grace and poise, a dedicated practitioner of the craft of teaching, an artist gifted with creativity and imagination, a scientist in search of the truth. I could muse that the four of them represent the ego, astral, etheric, and physical bodies! Eva sings with an angel's voice, her instrument perfectly tuned, each note that emanates from her lips carries a sense of rightness and purpose: the ego force. Antje teaches with precision, she holds herself with an unwavering devotion, intellectually and emotionally charged: the astral force. Ted grasps his brush firmly and loosely, the vibrant colors of his paints dance about the wet watercolor paper, heartfelt, imaginative strokes come to life: the etheric force. Mikko makes chemistry look like child's play, he dives into lab equipment like toys, with excited hands, his whole being coaxes an experiment into something fantastically wonderful: the physical force.
Mostly, I consider them friends. In having spent even just a short week with them, in feeling their radiant warmth, I feel I can go forth in my upcoming school year with courage and vitality.
I painted the picture above in Ted's class. We had just studied clouds with Mikko in meteorology. We had touched on the American economic movement in Antje's history class. It's all there in the painting: my joy and gratitude for their gifts of the heart of teaching.


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Pix Potluck - Cinco de Mayo Ceviche
By: Mark Levine
Seeking a lighter, fresher chaser for your margaritas on Cinco de Mayo? Food person, Alex Lopez shared a great pic for inspiration on Facebook...
The secret to her marinade is a tangy citrus mix of grapefruit and lime juices. The bay scallops co-mingle with heat from a serrano, a creamy avocado dice, a hit of white balsamic and a jicama crunch ( to name a few).
Alex's signature ceviche was inspired by a sunny trip to Puerto Vallarta.
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School library survey closes this month
Last month, the South Dakota State Library opened the annual school library survey to collect data for the 2012-13 school year. Each district is asked to submit one survey per district. The survey will be available online through May 15. District superintendents should have been notified of survey access details via email.
The State Library is charged with collecting annual data from the states school libraries (SDCL 14-1-44 (7) Execution of State Library Policy). In this time of educational and economic change, it is important that the most current and usable information is collected.
The State Library will compile survey data and report back to superintendents in the late fall of 2013 so that the data can inform the districts decision-making processes and school improvement planning. Previous data digests are available online.
Research results from across the nation show that effective school libraries result in higher student achievement achievement that can be measured in improved reading scores. Effective school libraries have a program, a place, and a professional who collaborates with and supports all content areas in delivering curriculum and meeting Common Core State Standards.
For more information, please contact Mary G. Johnson or Joan Upell, School Library Coordinators at 1-800-423-6665.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Franklin Roosevelt once said: "As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right. When the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time during this Depression, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles."
As America's top box-office draw from 1935 to 1938, the tiny Temple gave the country some much needed escapism. Retired from movies by her early 20s, she was an early epitome of the child star, one who never fell into the kind of trouble that has haunted many young sensations since.
But whereas many child stars have appealed primarily to young audiences, Temple beguiled a largely adult movie-going nation with what film critic David Thomson called her "elfin perfection": "a phenomenon who had only to be observed for an audience to be held."
In "The Little Girl Who Fought the Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America" (which W.W. Norton will release May 5), John F. Kasson writes: "At a time when movie attendance knit Americans into a truly national popular culture, they did not want a mirror of deep deprivation held up to them, but a ray of sunshine cast on their faces."
Here are five films that Temple shined in:
— "Bright Eyes" (1934): It's in this film that Temple gave perhaps her most beloved performance, singing "On the Good Ship Lollipop" down the aisle of an airplane. The rows of adoring men (and everyone else, for that matter) swoon at the cuteness. The movies don't always have to be complicated things.
— "The Little Colonel" (1935): Along with "The Little Rebel," this was one of two films Temple made in 1935 with the tap-dancing great Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. (They also made two other movies together.) They were a striking pair. Separated by race, decades in age and several feet in height, they were nevertheless a perfect match, particularly in their famous staircase dance sequence. The racial politics of "The Little Colonel" are by no means spotless (Robinson plays a broadly smiling servant), but Temple and Robinson's magical harmony in dance may have left a more powerful impression.
— "Curly Top" (1935): This film contained one of Temple's biggest hits, "Animal Crackers in My Soup," in which she serenades her orphanage at mealtime, "I walk around like Noah's Ark/ I stuff my tummy like a goop." The New York Times said of "Curly Top": "So shameless is (the film) in its optimism, so grimly determined to be cheerful, that it ought to cause an epidemic of axe murders and grandmother beatings." But Temple, the review noted, was irresistible, playing dramatic scenes "with the precision of a veteran actress." Though a child, Temple was often the best actor in her films.
— "Wee Willie Winkie" (1937): Long before John Ford teamed up with John Wayne, he (fresh off winning the best picture Academy Award with "The Informer") directed the slightly more diminutive Temple in this film. Loosely based on a Rudyard Kipling short story, it's about a British regiment fighting rebels in India. Reviewing the film, novelist Graham Greene — so convinced by Temple's adult-like gestures — claimed she was just masquerading as a child. He suggested that Temple's adult admirers were responding to "her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality." A subsequent lawsuit over the review bankrupted the magazine, Night and Day.
— "Heidi" (1937): Temple often played orphans, including in Allan Dwan's drama about a Swiss girl kidnapped by her grandmother and taken to live richly in Germany. The portrait of Old World splendor in "Heidi" played as fantasy during the Depression. Along with "Wee Willie Winkie," it captured Temple transitioning toward slightly more mature performance.


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ALERTFOX & iMACROS STATS
Heidelberg, Germany
The AlertFox and iMacros teams are based in Heidelberg, Germany, home to the oldest university in Germany, established in 1386 .
Today, tourism, printing, publishing and information technology are leading industries in and around Heidelberg. The beautiful S- Printing Horse sculpture located outside of the Heidelberg central train station symbolizes Heidelberg's long-time commitment to printing and publishing. At thirteen meters in height and weighing over 90 tons, the S-Printing Horse is a formidable presence in downtown Heidelberg.
The AlertFox offices are adjacent to the SAP World headquarters in Walldorf/Heidelberg.
Released in 2009, AlertFox was originally developed by a company called iOpus - now part of the Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold family of products.
With a dynamic team of software developers, iOpus opened its doors in 2001. Their goal was to develop easy-to-use software products that would simplify Website and Web application management.
iMacros, their first product, was introduced in 2001. In a nutshell, iMacros enabled users to capture and replay any Web management activity, such as form testing, uploading or downloading text and images, and even importing and exporting data to and from web applications using CSV & XML files, databases, or any other source.
iMacros immediately attracted a dedicated user community. Easy-to-use and affordably priced, iMacros provided real business value by eliminating time-consuming Web management tasks and replacing them with a reliable automated solution.
The decision to develop AlertFox as a web transaction monitoring tool grew organically from customer needs and the business evolution of the web. iMacros users had found a great tool to help them test and automate Web management tasks from within their organization. Next they needed a way to perform the same tasks outside their organization, to better monitor and track their web application uptime, performance, and overall experience. AlertFox would do just that; you could use AlertFox to remotely monitor the performance/uptime of simple or complex web transactions, modeled on typical customer interactions, such as an e-commerce checkout or completing a form.
Development of the AlertFox website monitoring tool began in 2008 and initial feedback was strong. AlertFox was a semi-finalist in the TechCrunch 50 start-up competition in September 2008 and a finalist in the European Plugg Startup competition in February 2009. The AlertFox software-as-a-service offering was officially launched on April 24th, 2009.
The team of twelve dedicated professionals behind iMacros and AlertFox are still driven by the same core values that launched iOpus, the desire to design and develop quality products that simplify Web management tasks, provide real-business value, and give their customers more time each day to do what they really enjoy.
The Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Family
Acquired by Ipswitch in 2012, iOpus software was a natural fit with the Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold family of products and their ideology of developing innovative IT software that is easy to learn and use.
Today, the Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold team strives to produce practical solutions that meet the real business needs of network administrators, network managers and users of IT technology in organizations of all sizes.


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Uğur Durak is a Turkish cartoonist and painter, born in Karabuk in 1959. He began to work as a cartoonist for the children's magazine Dogan Kardes at the age of 16. He studied Fine Arts in Germany at the Fachhochschule Köln. Durak has worked as a professional illustrator for the press and for ad agencies in Germany and Istanbul for many years. During this period, he already published in Girgir, Mikrop and Milliyet.
Durak has worked for many satirical magazines and he designed and edited three different ones himself, including the Turkish-German publication Biber (1984). He created many features for magazines and newspapers, such as 'Ugur Durak RakaRakaRak' on the backpage of Hıbır, and the daily strips 'Mırmırlar' (for the centre-left daily newspaper Cumhuriyet) and 'Bizim Şirket' (in Gazete Habertürk since 2002).
Among his other comic creations are 'Mimo', 'Kuul Takilan Kiil Kenan' and 'Intikamcı Süheyla', and he has also published in Çivi, Joker, Lemanyak and the paper Akşam. He is the author of about twenty books; most of them are for children. He continues to work on cartoons and oil paintings in his atelier in Istanbul.


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The Top 10 Best Guitar FX Pedals in the World Today
Gone are the days when all guitarists had was just their amp, or perhaps a fuzz pedal and a wah wah. More than ever before, the modern guitarist uses a wide range of FX pedals to shape his or her tone...have a look at the best ones available today!
Some "tone purists" may argue that a guitarists shouldn't rely on effects, but truth is, ever since the birth of rock'n'roll, guitarists were quick to jump into new technologies, new toys - if it helps you creating new sounds, then great! In fact, legendary guitarists such as Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend, George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix were amongst the first to use every and any new effect they could put their hands on: Maestro Fuzztone, Tonebenders, WEM Copicat tape echo, wah wah pedals, octavio, leslie cabinets, etc.
So...why shouldn't you?
But with so many FX pedals available today - more than ever before, and more affordable too! - it might be hard to decide where to spend your hard earned money. To help you, we've put together a list of the Top 10 best FX pedals widely available today. No need to include expensive, hard to find boutique pedals. Today, quality is not inversely proportional to price, and even mega stars like The Edge and Jack White may use pedals that even a kid could afford with his pocket money!
Of course, every one will have their own ideas of what should be in the Top 10...but here's our list. Enjoy!
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff The most popular fuzz in the world. The distortion countless musicians such as Hendrix, Santana, The Edge and Jack White relied on for its rich, creamy, violin-like sustain. A timeless piece, the Big Muff has been defining the sound of rock guitar for the past 30 years. And it's still very affordable! Thank you, EHX!
Boss DD-3 A powerful delay pedal with three distinct modes. A variable Delay Time control creates delays from 12.5ms to 800ms, while a Hold function is capable of producing repeats from here to infinity. Still popular after so many years and DD4, DD5, DD6...the DD-3 remains!
Boss RE20 Miraculous digital pedal that thanks to the COSM technology faithfully recreates the sound of the classic Roland Space Echo RE-201 tape delay, the 70's effect used by many acts even today, such as Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Primal Scream. the RE-20 sounds as dirty and organic as the real thing.
Digitech Whammy Smooth pitch bends, rich detuning, accurate dive bombs, and fast tracking harmony shifts make this one of the coolest and most versatile pedals there is, and it's used by artists such as Jonny Greenwood, Jack White, Matt Bellamy and countless others.
Dunlop Cry Baby Wah This is the original wah-wah pedal used to create many classic rock sounds. Relied on by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Buddy Guy, Slash, Kirk Hammett, Zakk Wylde and many other greats. A fast-reacting effect for unmistakable tone bending.
TC Electronic MojoMojo Overdrive MojoMojo Overdrive will give you that flash of perfection every time you engage it, providing a crisp and clear overdrive with a rock-solid bottom end.
Ibanez TS-9 Tubescreamer. From Stevie Ray Vaughan to Buddy Guy, from Metallica to Oasis, everyone loves the Tubescreamer, the world's ultimate overdrive pedal. Guitar Player called it the best. Plug it in. Crank it up. You'll hear what all the fuss is about.
Electro-Harmonix POG2 If you thought the original POG was great, the new POG2 takes you even higher! An amazing new pedal that betters the POG, the legendary Polyphonic Octave Generator made popular by artists such as White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and others. Every guitarist should explore its sounds.
TC Electronic Flashback X4 Delay & Looper Pedal TC Electronic have taken the Flashback pedal to the next level! Introducing the NEW Flashback X4 Delay & Looper Pedal. They have added in the features needed to bring the Flashback into the battle of 'best delay pedal ever'.
Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler This is the delay pedal that does everything: a stomp box capable of modelling every different style of delay effect from tape loop to 24-bit digital echo, reverse and much more. Every major band seems to use one, including Oasis, U2 and many, many others. A modern classic.
Honourable mentions:
There are so many great FX pedals out there that we had to mention a few more that also deserve your attention!
TC Electronic Nova Dynamics : The most advanced compressor pedal. Packed with never before seen functionalities Nova Dynamics sets new standards to floor-based dynamics control.
Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Nano : The digital reverb that many spring reverb lovers also admire. Essential for amps with no reverb or studio recordings, sounds great with vocals, too.
Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man : Another classic pedal that almost made our Top 10. This analog delay is still a favourite amongst bands such as U2, Arctic Monkeys and others.
Electro-Harmonix Stereo Polychorus : One of Kurt Cobain's favourite pedals, also used by Radiohead. Lush chorus and vintage, analog flanger. Great fun! The Electro-Harmonix Small Clone also deserves a mention.
Fender Phaser Pedal : One of the coolest pedals we have in stock, this Classic Series pedal sounds great, it's pure vintage charm. Quite possibly better than the Electro-Harmonix Small Stone or MXR Phase 90. If you like phasers, you'll love it!
VOX V847 Reissue Wah-Wah Pedal : It's hard to choose between the Cry Baby and this one. Built to the exact specifications of the original pedal, this Wah-Wah is totally authentic right from its classy chrome top to its legendary growl. An original-style, vinyl carrying case is also included. really cool!
Behringer Super Flanger SF400 : Capable of classic analogue flanger tones and wild, out there tones courtesy of cutting edge DSP.


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Signs of Life :: Amazon Tribes Win Against Big Oil
Amazon Tribes Win Against Big Oil
In the Amazon rainforests of Peru and Ecuador, indigenous groups are on the front lines of the climate change battle.
Communities in both countries bear the brunt of demand for oil and gas resources buried in the rainforests. The Amazon is one of the world's most significant "carbon sinks," and when resource-extraction industries destroy forests to make way for roads, drilling, and pipelines, they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming. In Ecuador, toxic dumping by oil giant Texaco has also created deadly pollution that locals say has caused cancer rates to soar.
Native groups in both countries have scored recent victories, but at great cost.
In Bagua in northern Peru, demonstrators blocked a road in protest of new laws that would have eased the process for foreign companies to acquire land title and road-building rights-of-way in the Amazon. The protest erupted into a confrontation with police on June 5 that left dozens of demonstrators dead. International outcry over the deaths forced Peruvian President Alan Garcia to rescind two of the nine laws in question.
On July 21, James Anaya, U.N. Special Rapporteur on indigenous rights, called for an independent investigation of the events in Peru. Activists have accused the Peruvian government of attempting to destroy the powerful indigenous organization AIDESEP, whose leader, Alberto Pizango, has been accused of sedition and is currently in exile in Nicaragua.
Meanwhile, Ecuadorian communities have won a ruling against Chevron Corp., which owns Texaco. Their 16-year-old, $27.3-billion liability suit concerns Texaco's nearly three decades of activity in the Lago Agria area of the Amazon, during which, plaintiffs say, the company dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest. Chevron merged with Texaco in 2001 and has been fighting the case in both Ecuador and the U.S. On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out an appeal by Chevron to shift the liability to Ecuador's state-owned oil company.
Demonstrators in both Ecuador and Peru have received an outpouring of international support. Images of the Peruvian massacre circulated online, galvanizing supporters, who held demonstrations in South America, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe in solidarity with the Amazon activists.
Activists have lobbied for alternatives to free trade agreements that require governments in developing nations to loosen restrictions on natural resource exploitation. The decrees that led to the Peruvian protests were a response to the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement.
Chevron has also tried to use trade agreements to retaliate against Ecuador. Four U.S. senators—Ron Wyden, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Dick Durbin, and Patrick Leahy—recently urged the U.S. Trade Representative to reject Chevron's plea to deny trade benefits to Ecuador.
—Lisa Garrigues is a YES! contributing editor.
India's "National Solar Mission"
India will soon embark on a "National Solar Mission," part of the country's eight-part climate plan. The plan calls for boosting India's solar energy output from nearly zero to 20 gigawatts by 2020. Greenpeace India campaigner Siddarth Pathak says the move could bolster the country's leverage in U.N. climate talks in December, though India's refusal to commit to carbon emission limits has vexed richer countries demanding tougher action.
Amanda McKenzie, organizer with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. McKenzie and 1,500 youths met in Sydney, Australia, in July to learn how to stage direct action to pressure government leaders to address climate change.


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Thursday, June 13
Early Bird Karaoke, 3-7 p.m.; also 8 p.m.-close, 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East Eighth Ave., 259-8801.
Ska-B-Q with Truckstop Honeymoon, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792, www.skabrewing.com.
Tim Guidotti, 5 p.m., Balcony Bar & Grill, 600 Main Ave., 422-8008, www.balconybarandgrill.com.
Lisa Blue Trio, 5 p.m., Mountain Madness Brewing Co., 1644 County Road 203, 247-5236.
Trivia Night, 5:30 p.m., Durango Discovery Museum, 1333 Camino del Rio, 259-9234, www.durangodiscovery.org.
Flume Canyon, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 375-7150.
David Castro Band, 6 p.m., Derailed Pour House, 725 Main Ave., 247-5440, www.derailedpourhouse.com.
Open mic with Patrick and Anton, 6-9 p.m., Desperados Bar & Grill, 351 S. Camino del Rio, 385-5533.
Otis Taylor Band, 6 p.m., free, Fellin Park/Ouray Hot Springs, www.ouraycolorado.com.
Rob Webster, 7 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave., 375-7260.
Salsa Night, 9 p.m., Moe's, 937 Main Ave., 259-9018.
Yearning for Yeti, 9 p.m., The Summit, 600 Main Ave., 247-2324, www.durangosummit.com.
"Capturing Steam," photography of Darel Crawford and Yvonne Lashmett, through July 5, Pine River Valley Bank, 1701 Mainn Ave., 385-9583.
"Of The Trade": The Artists of Studio &, through June 17, Rochester Hotel, 726 East Second Ave., 385-1920.
"Deluge," abstract photography by Nancy Richmond, through June 29, Olio, 114 West Grand Ave., Mancos, 533-1381.
"America E Pluribus Unum" by Craig Semetko; also "Passages" by Charlene Geiss in the Red Room, through June 20, Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave., 382-8355, www.openshuttergallery.com.
Photography of Howard Rachlin, through June, Durango Coffee Co., 730 Main Ave., 375-7877, email@example.com.
"Celebrating Ute Culture," through June 15, Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606, www.durangoarts.org.
"Fancy This," mixed-media paintings by Juanita Ainsley, through June 29, Art Library at Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606, www.durangoarts.org.
Far Out
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, June 14, $20-$35, Sky Ute Casino Resort, 14324 Highway 172, Ignacio, 563-7777, www.skyutecasino.com.
Michael Martin Murphey and the Rio Grande Band with Pat Flynn, fundraiser for Mountain Middle School, June 23, $30, Rotary Park, 335-8055.
Los Lonely Boys with Thom Chacon, Aug. 2, $31.50-$45, Community Concert Hall at FLC, 247-7657, www.durangoconcerts.com.
The calendar runs through Thursday. Submit events at www.durangoherald.com/section/eventsubmit, or fax, mail or deliver a listing for your event to the Herald no later than noon Wednesday for the coming week. Ted Holteen compiles the calendar. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Check www.durangoherald.com for updates to the calendar throughout the week.


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(FOX19) - Let me set the scene. A group of news photographers and reporters were on a sidewalk outside of a Chicago, IL hospital. Nothing unusual there. A uniform police officer decides he doesn't like where those crews are set up and tells them to move much further back. That too is not that unusual.
"Get across the street." says the officer.
"This is a news affair." replies the reporter.
"I don't care about news affair, what news affair? I don't give a f--- about news affairs. Okay?" The officer yells back.
Again, this back and forth between police and media is nothing new. It happens all the time.
The crews were at the hospital covering the shooting of a little girl which had happened in a completely separate part of Chicago.
A couple of important things to notice here. There is no police tape out, so its not like the news crews have crossed a police line. They are not on public property. These crews are performing the most basic job in local media and are completely within their rights under the first amendment's protection of freedom of the press.
Now, here is where the cop goes off the rails.
"Your first amendment rights can be terminated if are creating a scene, if you are creating a scene or whatever." The officer explains.
"How are we creating a scene? We haven't created a scene." The reporter and photographer respond.
The officer continues, "Your presence is creating a scene."
"Our presence is creating a scene?" asks the news crew.
It doesn't take a constitutional scholar to tell you that under the Constitution, your first amendment right can not be terminated if you are "creating a scene or whatever".
Of course that doesn't stop these officers from arresting two journalists
"Get the cuffs out. Is it worth it going to...and you the first." says the officer.
So as we let the video play here as a reporter and news photographer were arrested, a couple of legal points here.
There is no law in Illinois that says anyone has to follow any order given by the police unless the person defying such order does so at the immediate detriment of public safety.
Clearly, that was not the case here.
Also, the first amendment cannot be "terminated" unless by court order or immediate and grave threat to public safety and even then, the first amendment still stands when a person or persons are relocated to a safer area.
So what you need to know is that after being arrested these two journalists were not charged with anything. They hadn't committed a crime. But this is happening on a regular basis.
Get this, according to the National Press Photographers Association, there have been 70 of these incidents since last September. What should be concerning to many Americans is that while police and government officials are taking unprecedented steps in surveillance, and the monitoring of American's activities, which may not be constitutional, they are at the same time cracking down on the media's and the public's right to record or report on what is happening right out in the open.
And that is Reality Check.
Copyright 2012 WXIX. All rights reserved.


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2012 Fall Fashionista Events Lookbook + $500 Mountain Khakis Gift Certificate Giveaway (US 10/17) [CLOSED]
Take a Sneak Peak at the Largest Fashion Event on the Internet, with a chance to win a killer $500 Pre-Event Prize!
The 2012 Fall Fashionista LookBook is now available and just skimming the pages will make you wish the October 11-17 event were already here! At the very least, it will have you re-arranging your calendar so you can free up those days in order to enter as many of the 100+ giveaways as possible.
What is the Fall Fashionista Giveaway?
It is the internet's largest and only ALL FASHION, ONLY FASHION related blog giveaway EVENT. Taking place October 11-17, every giveaway will be valued at $125 – or more! Most of the bloggers have put together prize packs worth several hundred dollars (There is even one that has $4000)! Since there are more than 115 bloggers participating that means there will be more than $25,000 worth of prizes to win–many giveaways are over $300! My winning prize is a pack of jewelry (see the teaser post from last week). Well, throw in a $1200 Louis Viutton Grand Prize Bag from Bella Bags (http://shopbellabag.com/) and you won't even SLEEP for 6 days!
What is the LookBook? To get you even more excited, we've put together a LookBook to offer a sneak peak at some of the giveaways that will be offered during the event. Flip through the pages and find the numerous gift cards that will give you a well-deserved shopping spree. Or maybe jewelry is more your style. No problem. There are hundreds of dollars worth of baubles to adorn your ears, wrists and throat. Plus, you could win a new pair of jeans or a gorgeous fall dress. And what fashion giveaway would be complete without a number of trendy purses? Feast your eyes on the possibilities.
And if all of this wasn't enough… Mountain Khakis, The Fashionista EVENTS LookBook Sponsor, is offering you the chance to win a $500 shopping spreei! Stock up on items for the winter, get some Christmas shopping out of the way. http://www.mountainkhakis.com Enter in the Rafflecopter Giveaway tool below.
The Fall Fashionista Giveaway Event is the amazing brainchild of The Chief Blonde at Still Blonde After All These Years http://stillblondeafteralltheseyears.com/ Her co-hosts for the event are Katy Rose of ModlyChic http://www.modlychic.com/ and Kristyn of the K Squared Glamour http://www.ksquaredglamour.org Mark your calendars for October 11-17. It's going to be Epic!
I'm so happy to be sponsored by these wonderful sponsors:
From Ali Grace Fashions: Flower ring, your choice of color and metal (ARV $8)
From Charmed by Cindi: Hand stamped bracelet, your choice of metal (ARV $15)
From Knit Nicole Knit: $25 GC to her Etsy shop
From RotaAevum: One of four stempunk rings (ARV $37)
From Lilla Rose: A Flexi hair clip (ARV $15)
From Delsol: A pair of earrings (ARV $12)
And another surprise from my private collection …
So what are you waiting for? Enter the Rafflecopter form below for your change to win a Mountain Khakis GC, and stay tuned for the Fall Fashionista event starting next week on October 11 !!
20 Responses to 2012 Fall Fashionista Events Lookbook + $500 Mountain Khakis Gift Certificate Giveaway (US 10/17) [CLOSED]
Nicole says:
i would pick the W's oxbow tunic
Kathleen says:
I would choose the W's Leaves Organic T-shirt.
Sunnymay says:
From Mountain Khaki, my wrist likes the Double-Loop Braided Leather Bracelet which is a rugged man's bracelet with antique silver clasp.
gail says:
amanda sweater in blue bc it looks comfortable and warm
Rita A says:
I love the Oxbow Tunic in Blue Work! It looks comfy and stylish!
Justine McD. says:
I would get some M's Original Cargo Pant. My husband is in desperate need of pants. He wore all his pants to work and ruined them (he's a factory worker, no uniforms) so he needs some nice pants to wear outside of work.
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Raye W says:
Wow, this would be a hard decision, but I think my first choice would be the signature tote. Or maybe the cabin duffle? What a great site. I see so many things I'd love to gift to others as well.
Melissa Avey says:
I would definitely get W's Leaves Organic T-Shirt!
Brooke Miller says:
I would get the Americana Jacket in granite 🙂
Celeste says:
I love the women's Oxbow Long Sleeve Shirts – because I have a love of gingham shirts!
The Cottonwood Cord pants are awesome – love that look!
Arinna Black says:
I'd get the W's Oxbow Skirt. It's super adorable and it looks like it could work well with a variety of different tops.
Vicki S says:
I'd love the W's Amanda Sweater b.c it's made of cashmere and has a modern cut
Shannon says:
M's Alpine Utility Pant – my husband would look GREAT in them!
Wednesday Adams says:
The utilities pants and tunic 🙂
amber porter says:
I like W's Granite Creek Pant in ash.
Terri P says:
I love the Women's Anytime Henley in Burnt Senna
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kim lazor says:
Probably would choose the Blundstone® 500 Boot for men, to give to my son for a Christmas present. He is an avid hiker, camper, mountain biker, and motorcycler. The boots would get used! Thanks!
Diane Estrella says:
The acorn t-shirt is adorable! :O)
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I know nothing about robotic toys. Nevertheless I was invited to a presentation two days ago at Carnegie Mellon's Robotic Institute where Bossa Nova Robotics, a CMU spin-off, presented their new Prime-8 and Penbo toys. The toys took many years and product iterations to complete because Bossa Nova's surveys indicated a $99 or lower price point and transforming the intricate technology (hardware and software) to match that price was the primary reason for the delay. Both toys are mobile, interactive, vocal, and have a repertoire of games and remote control options. Penbo, a fuzzy penguin-like robot, sings, dances, cuddles and communicates with her baby, which she carries in a front compartment. Prime-8 is more vigorous with loud sounds age-appropriate to his 8-12 year old comrades (he even farts!).
What attracted me to the Bossa Nova launch was the science and the process -- but what sells toys is entirely different. The science in this case was CMU and DARPA's RHex, a six legged robot capable of multi-terrain exploration and patterned after the locomotion of the cockroach where the legs adapt to various terrains faster than the neural system.
Bossa Nova Concepts has taken CMU's multi-million dollar HRex research and developed it into a bi-pedal product (instead of the original six legs) and reduced costs to a toy's pricing ($99 retail). They raised funds from Innovation Works, Wellspring Worldwide, Eckhart Seamons and The Technology Collaborative and took four years of intensive research to come to market with their first products. Describing the technology and process were Bossa Nova's CEO Martin Hitch and co-founder Sarjoun Skaff. Bossa Nova provided the engineering and design and Jetta Manufacturing, a Chinese rep based in Hong Kong, is providing the product and packaging.
But that's where science and value engineering leave the scene and kid psychology, focus groups, and marketing enter. The toy industry is changing dramatically with video games leading the way and expanding expectations. Although robotic toys are holding their own, they too have to continuously find "cool" from the research labs and entrepreneurs that take technology and transition it to the streets and into households, literally letting people experience robotic technology at an affordable price.
Bossa Nova attempted to build a single toy utilizing their new bi-pedal locomotion technology only to find that boys and girls had different expectations and needs. Younger girls (4-6) wanted a touchy-feely interactive device that was cuddly and appealing; slightly older boys (8-12) wanted their toys to be interactive, action-oriented and physical. Girls didn't care about remote control or autonomous operation; boys did. Thus Bossa Nova had to come up with two different products and two unique marketing schemes with the sole common denominator of the bi-pedal locomotion system.
I researched the net for similar or competing robotic toys and found the Robini-i to be somewhat similar in audience and capabilities to the $99 Prime-8. The Robini-i is already selling in the international market for $249 and the South African company Robonica will have products in US stores this September; Prime-8 will be available July 25th from QVC and shortly thereafter online from Amazon. Femisapien, a WowWee product, $59-$99, has worldwide market penetration and appears comparable but not as fuzzy and cute as Penbo which will sell for $69 and be available from QVC mid-August and online from Amazon about the same time.
We were encouraged to have a hands-on experience with Prime-8 and Penbo during the presentation. A man and his son (who appeared to be about 7 years old) walked through and stopped to watch us play. The boy watched and smiled. Somebody offered him the remote controller for one of the Prime-8s and he began to explore and play. He smiled and experimented and periodically looked back at his father with a happy look and then continued playing. At some point, without apparent signals from his father, after about 15 minutes of play, he handed the controller back to an adult, grabbed his father's hand and they walked away. From my minimal experience with toys and kids, he passed the 2-minute test with flying colors!
Preceding the product demo was an intro to CMU's Robotics Institute by Director Matt Mason and a tour of one of CMU's three research labs which house over 500 researchers. In the one we were at on the main campus (the lab was recovering from recent flood damage), were CMU and Astrobiotic's entry into Google's $20 million Lunar X Challenge, a robotic apple and orange picker, and various other works in progress. CMU's Robotics Institute is a spin-off from CMU's Computer Sciences Department which, coincidentally and adjacent to the Robotics Institute, was completing construction of a sparkling new complex to be named the Bill Gates Computer Science Center.
From a business point of view, entering the toy industry is a tough proposition; not for the weak at heart. I've read that the robotic toy segment of the toy industry is anticipated to grow to over $11 billion by 2015 with the majority of sales driven by children's robots. Further, robot toys are what most kids wish for (especially boys). Nevertheless, it's a tough task to get shelf space particularly in a down and price-driven market. Johan Poolman, President of competing robotic toy start-up Robonica says: "Technology has played one of the biggest roles in altering the play patterns of children – technology products that don't address the modern infatuation with anything PC and online will be unlikely to have the staying power to break through the short term fad barrier." Harder still is the process of transforming expensive robotic technology into colorful, interactive and low-cost devices that children want to play with. Bossa Nova Robotics seems poised to meet those challenges with their two new products and their ambitious plans for the future.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Mayor Ed Koch (kahch) has been hospitalized for the second time in three months, this time with a respiratory infection.
Spokesman George Arzt says the 87-year-old Koch was admitted Tuesday afternoon to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He says Koch is being treated with antibiotics.
Arzt says the two were having lunch Tuesday when Koch said he didn't feel well and planned to call a doctor.
The former mayor was hospitalized in September after feeling weak while staying with friends in North Carolina. He kept tabs on the Democratic National Convention there while undergoing tests. He was treated for anemia, was released after three days and said he planned to head straight to his office at a law firm.
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Anger over gay friendly nurseries
Parents in Scotland are outraged that they were asked to complete a survey in order to make their children's nursery classes' gay-friendly.
The survey, provided by the Platform centre, asked parents to answer questions regarding their relationship and sexuality in order to provide a class environment that is gay-friendly.
"What has this got to do with teaching nursery school children … I don't see what difference it makes whether my husband and I are gay or straight. It's not really any of their business," one mother told the Daily Express.
The Platform centre is a charity run in part by the Glasgow City Council, with funding provided by both taxpayers and lottery grants, which aims to provide for "gay-friendly events" where they feel there should be.
The centre's Playtime Project is funded by the National Health Service and includes a 15-week programme of workshops and performances tailored for youngsters at nurseries in Glasgow's East End.
The five-page questionnaire given to parents asks them to describe their sexual orientation, religious affiliation and any disabilities they may have to go along with their name and address.
"We are trying to take a measure very objectively of the equalities make-up of the area … A lot of our funders want to know how what we do touches different people," Jackie Shearer, Platform manager said in a statement.
"We want to provide gay-friendly events where needed but it's not related to this current activity … there is always the option for people to tick a 'prefer not to answer' box," she added.
But some see this parental survey as an invasion of privacy that has no legitimate purpose for the community and is only intended for a narrow group of people and a certain agenda.
"It's totally wrong for the public to be maneuvered into handing over sensitive personal information for some spurious box-ticking exercise," Nick Pickles of privacy group Big Brother Watch told the Daily Express.
"It is unacceptable for private companies to be working on public contracts which require them to track in detail the people who are using their services," he added.


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The Life Expectancy of Linux
Apr 15, 2010 5:00 AM PT
Human beings are a naturally curious species, most would surely agree, and for as long as we've had cards to punch or keyboards to type on, we've wondered what computing technologies the future might bring.
Linux bloggers are no exception -- indeed, they might even be created a little more equal in this respect, shall we say, particularly when it comes to their favorite platform.
So it should come as no great surprise that, amid all the legal wrangling and controversies in recent weeks, some FOSS geeks appeared to need a bit of a break. Accordingly, rather than get all worked up over the various pads or patents du jour, many stepped back and turned their thoughts toward the future.
'What Will Come After Linux?'
"What Will Come After Linux?" was the title of the post that kicked off the conversation on the Toolbox for IT blog, where Locutus declared that "the time of proprietary operating systems [is] coming to a close.
"As much as I like Linux and wish that it live long and prosper, I am also one who likes to think about the future," Locutus wrote. "So I started wondering. What is there that can follow in Linux's footsteps?"
Haiku, ReactOS, Syllable and AROS are all among the contenders Locutus mentions, setting off a veritable mad scramble in the comments section to debate the relative merits of those and other operating systems.
'Linux Will Evolve'
"It's called the Web," opined USER_1968967, for example. "Right now, few people care about the BIOS that starts up your computer. That just happens and then the real OS (Windows, Linux, etc) takes over. I think the same fate will befall operating systems; they will just be a way to get the computer started, but then the real system starts -- the Web."
Then again: "I'm not so sure anything will replace Linux," wrote USER_1969672. "I'm more inclined to think Linux will evolve."
It wasn't long before the LXer crowd got involved too, weighing in with myriad thoughts of their own.
So, what *will* come after Linux -- if anything? Linux Girl's enquiring mind soon wanted to know.
'More and More Locked Down'
Haiku doesn't have "the resources or marketing to become the next Apple, but current operating systems could still learn a thing or two from them," blogger Jeremy Visser told LinuxInsider.
Namely, "the user interface is *always* responsive, even under heavy load," Visser noted. The system is also based on a microkernel architecture, which means that even if a driver crashes, "the rest of the system keeps running fine."
Still, "if you asked me to predict what operating systems would look like in the future, I would probably give you quite a pessimistic answer," Visser added. "I think that future OSes will be more and more locked down, and you will be doing less with them while thinking you are doing more.
"The iPhone OS -- which also runs on the iPad -- is a perfect example of that," he pointed out.
"I dread the day that I will have to jailbreak my own desktop PC," Visser concluded. "Might sound silly today, but the iPhone's model would have sounded silly before it came out, too."
'A Flawed Comparison'
Locutus "makes a fundamentally flawed comparison," Slashdot blogger Eldavojohn pointed out. Specifically, "he compares the decline of Linux with DOS, OS/2, AmigaOS, GEOS and Windows -- none of which are open source or even freely licensed.
"This is where Linux broke the mold that most operating systems before it had depended on: a closed source proprietary licensing system," Eldavojohn noted.
Of all the potential replacements listed in Locutus's post, "none are as refined and generally useful as Linux," Eldavojohn opined.
Linux is also "embraced on such a large scale in the commercial and military sectors that a replacement would need to encompass that support to even begin to make a dent in Linux's market share," he added.
'Uncountable Moons Before Linux Is Replaced'
Particularly in the server world, "where you're powering Google's massive search server farms or secured systems at the DoD, it'll be uncountable moons before Linux is replaced," he predicted.
"Someone needs to come up with a new paradigm that is fundamentally better than Linux in several ways, and then they need to invest a decade in bringing it up to sufficient support standards," Eldavojohn concluded. "In my humble opinion, the future after Linux is Linux or a fork of Linux that can retroactively utilize old Linux code."
Indeed, "I think GNU/Linux and FLOSS is a classic model of IT," blogger Robert Pogson agreed. "It will be around a long time. The question should be, What comes after that other OS? It is the one in decline."
'Java Running Directly on the CPU'
In the future, "expect to see Microsoft, Apple, Google and everyone else doing the same ol', same ol' ...," predicted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
But "how about Java running directly on the cpu instead of being interpreted at runtime in a virtual machine -- like this -- running Java on a field-programmable gate array," she suggested.
"What if someone -- say Oracle, now that they own Sun -- decides to devote the resources to it?" she added. "It would get rid of most of the performance hit of Java, and even make writing an OS in Java from the ground up possible for plenty of people who couldn't do it in C.
"You could even end up with high school seniors showing off home-brew operating systems as science fair projects, gluing together the various classes that handle things like raw storage, video, keyboards, with their own ideas of what THEIR operating system should look like ..." Hudson added.
"Forget Microsoft's 'This is my Windows 7'; forget Apple's App Store," she concluded. "How does 'There's an operating system for that' sound?"
'Everything Just Works'
What will come after Linux? "That is simple -- nothing," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet opined. "Why? Because between Apple, MSFT and Linux, you have just about every arch you can think of covered, that's why.
"Do you have ANY idea how much money it would take to build an OS from scratch these days?" hairyfeet added. "There is a reason why Apple and MSFT have both used BSD code -- it is because it is better than having to reinvent the wheel."
With "Windows on the desktop, Apple on the consumer devices and Linux on the servers and embedded devices -- and most importantly, thanks to the web -- everything 'just works,'" hairyfeet explained.
A Flash Explosion
The next "big thing," then, "won't be an OS -- it will honestly be something most folks don't even think about: storage," hairyfeet asserted.
"I predict that, just as we went from the humble 386 to quad and hexa core CPUs, and from GPUs barely able to render a desktop to onboards that are frankly more powerful than my first four desktops put together, so too will we see what seems like an explosion as flash chips become so plentiful and cheap that all mobile devices become flash-based while HDDs become so huge that having every movie you've ever watched or song you've ever liked on instant access will be the norm and not the exception," he opined.
Of course, one could also argue that such speculation is premature.
As Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack pointed out, "We should get to the current destination before speculating on the next one."


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The Vehicle Identification System (V.I.S.) is the only Patrolman's vehicle guide that's made by police officers for use by fellow officers. It's perfect for law enforcement officials to use on the streets, for pinning down vehicle information when interviewing victims and witnesses, or to help determine or rule out suspect vehicles in an investigation. This app works great for security officers on patrol, too.
Inside this application, there is an extensive image database of almost every make and model of vehicle released in the past decade. It's fast, easy to use, and can cut out a lot of time and legwork from the investigation process, which may mean the difference between solving the case or having it go cold.
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Chicken, cheese, milk and vegetables have all been shown to contain nutrients that are beneficial for dental health. The calcium in this recipe can protect tooth enamel and help remineralize teeth. A crunchy vegetable, such as broccoli, has high water content and will increase the flow of saliva in the mouth, helping to wash away the food particles that can cause tooth decay. Moreover, this recipe is a healthy play on a classic comfort dish with whole wheat pasta, low-fat cheese and fat-free milk, making it a go-to dish for lunch or dinner!
Heat a medium pan over medium to medium-high heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil and chicken and season with salt and pepper. Sauté a couple of minutes then add onion and cook another 5 to 7 minutes until onions are tender and chicken is cooked through. Turn off heat and reserve.
To boiling water, add pasta and salt to season the cooking water. Cook 5 minutes, then add broccoli and cook 3 minutes more or until pasta is cooked to al dente and florets are just tender.
While pasta cooks, heat a medium sauce pot over medium heat. Add butter and melt, then add flour, cayenne and paprika and whisk together over heat until roux bubbles then cook a minute more. Whisk in milk and stock and raise heat to bring the sauce to a quick boil. Simmer until the sauce thickens about 5 minutes.
Drain macaroni or pasta and broccoli florets. Add back to the pot and add chicken to the pasta and broccoli.
Add cheese to milk sauce and stir to melt it in, a minute or so. Stir in mustard and season sauce with salt and pepper. Pour sauce over chicken and broccoli and cooked pasta and stir to combine. Adjust seasonings and transfer to a large serving platter and serve.
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5 California Art Movements to Collect
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Setting himself and his work in critical opposition to mainstream American society, versatile and restlessly inventive artist Bruce Conner was a key part of the San Francisco Beat scene in the late 1950s. He first became known for his assemblages (made between 1957-1964) crafted from an assortment of cast-off materials. He gained international admiration for his surrealistic sculptures and innovative avant-garde films, which he made under the influence of his friend and fellow experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. Like his assemblages, his films were collages, which he produced by splicing together found and new footage. Referring to his wide-ranging and experimental output, he claimed: "A lot of things I've been involved in I've done because nobody else was doing them."
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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Only one boat on Big Bear Lake has a liquor license, and it's underwater. The pirate ship tour boat sank under the weekend's barrage of rain, snow and high wind in Southern California.
The 27-ton boat has been docked at Holloway Marina, where it was found in the drink Saturday. Owner and boat operator Loren Hafen says booty didn't take it down; weather did.
The 43-foot boat is used for summer tours and can be rented for birthdays, weddings and other parties.
Hafen says the ship was winterized but he's going down Monday to see what damage was done. He hopes to refurbish it for the marina's 100th anniversary.
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Do you enjoy helping others? Is the medical environment interesting to you? Do you enjoy being on your toes constantly, with a new challenge every day?
The Associate of Science (A.S.) in Pre-Nursing program at Reinhardt provides you with the knowledge and skill set needed to be successful in a Bachelor's Degree program at a variety of nursing institutions.
Steps to Your Success
The Reinhardt College Pre-Nursing program is designed as the first step in working towards earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.) degree. It is not a two year technical degree.
Interactive Classes
As a nurse, your knowledgeable support is invaluable to the physician you work with. Courses in the Reinhardt Pre-Nursing program will engage, challenge and prepare you for such great responsibility.
Reinhardt's pre-nursing courses are small, so you can develop personal relationships with your classmates and professors. The learning community at Reinhardt University allows you to get the individual attention you may need to succeed.
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The Pre-Nursing program also encourages students to get involved in the community. Planned activities for Pre-Nursing majors include: volunteering with a local community for at-risk youth and working with girl's clubs as interest group leaders, activity guests, and in helping the girls earn their first aid badges.
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