text:
Exif Jpeg header manipulation toolVersion 3.00 Updated Feb 2 2015
Because I am interested in photography, I am always curious just exactly what settings my fully automatic digital camera actually did end up using. Back in 1999, when I originally wrote jhead, I couldn't find a program that would consistently display the settings, nor one that could be compiled into a simple executable. I have since added many more features to jhead, many of them the result of suggestions or code contributions.
Though there are many programs out there now that can manipulate Exif headers today, for many tasks, jhead remains the simplest and most effective tool for the job, especially if used for automated or scripted tasks.
Sample jhead output:
The program also has a lot of other command line options for manipulating Exif files, such as options to manipulate the date in the header, renaming image files, or coordinating running Jpegtran and Mogrify to manipulate whole directory trees of images.
Here's the program files. Just right click and save as.
There's also a change log
The software is public domain. A program this small is not worth bothering restricting anybody with, and I'm too lazy to look into the ramifications of GPL or BSD licenses. Besides, I hope more people integrate this sort of functionality into their programs, free or not free.
More on Exif on Wikipedia
I started this tool in 1999 because I couldn't find a tool to do what I needed to do.
Over the years, more sophisticated tools have been created, such as:
At this point, jhead's niche is not what it is, but what is is not. The jhead source code is about 10% the size of other tools, jhead is fast, small, and has no external dependencies. If jhead meets your needs, good. If it does not, read the manual more carefully, or try one of the more complex tools listed above. If you are trying to recover pictures from a corrupted flash card, try Photorec. (PhotoRec and jhead do very different things, but I have been asked about recovering files numerous times)
Got questions? Read the manual. If that doesn't answer your questions, you can contact me at:
(If you want to include contact information, refer to this page's URL, but please don't post my email address in machine readable forms on the web)
Other handy free utilities by Matthias Wandel:
Finddupe Identify and eliminate duplicate files. Useful when organizing other people's photos.
Also check out my Home page, or my Woodworking website


text:
Yoga on the Quad Campus Calendar
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Location: ESF Quad, Rain Location: Bray Rotunda
Event Description: Beginners to advanced in yoga can participate in Earth Week's Yoga on the quad. Join instructor, Jane Zhu, to get refreshed and feel good for the entire day! Bring your own yoga mat if you have it!
Drew Gamils
Sponsor: Earth Week Committee
Download: Download Event (iCal format) to your personal calendar
Today is:
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Add Your Event to the Calendar
(login required)
Any ESF student, faculty or staff member with a valid username and password for the following systems is welcome to submit an event, announcement or news item for sharing on the web and social media.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Two upstate New York firefighters remain hospitalized in guarded condition Tuesday, a day after being shot in a hail of bullets that killed two other firefighters responding to a house fire that investigators say appears to have been set as a trap.
Firefighters Joseph Hofstetter and Theodore Scardino are recovering at a hospital in Rochester, New York.
They were among four firefighters who responded to the blaze in the suburban Rochester town of Webster Monday morning. Authorities say William Spengler set a house and car ablaze and then opened fire when the firefighters showed up. He later exchanged bullets with a police officer before killing himself.
Spengler's sister is missing. The 62-year-old was released from prison in 1998 after serving 17 years for killing his grandmother.


text:
Working Forests Working for YouCampus Calendar
Saturday, June 18, 2011
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Adirondack Interpretive Center in Newcomb, NY
Event Description: Join Roger Dziengeleski of Finch Paper, and President of the NYS Chapter of the Society of American Foresters, for a presentation and discussion about working forests in the Adks and NYS. Presentation begins at 10, field trip follows ~11AM.
Working Forests Working for You Series: This series brings professionals from silviculture, private forest management, state forest management, lumber and paper mills, and forest products industry trade and advocacy groups to discuss the process of growing, managing and using forests in the 21st century. Each lecture will be approximately one hour, with time for questions and discussion. Most lectures will include an optional field trip. Over the course of this lecture series field trips will include visits to diverse types and ages of forest stands, silvicultural and forestry research and demonstration sites, and active forest harvesting sites.
Bring your lunch and enjoy our picnic area, or visit the Northwoods diner in Newcomb before the program.
Paul B. Hai
Sponsor: International Paper and SUNY-ESF's NFI
Download: Download Event (iCal format) to your personal calendar
Today is:
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Add Your Event to the Calendar
(login required)
Any ESF student, faculty or staff member with a valid username and password for the following systems is welcome to submit an event, announcement or news item for sharing on the web and social media.


text:
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
DROWNED info
Goto page
Nuclear War Now! Productions Forum Index
View previous topic
View next topic
Joined: 04 Jan 2008
Posts: 2844
Location: Germoney
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:26 am
Post subject:
illomen wrote:
Kapalika wrote:
No offense at all but have you seen any style of metal that is not plagued by faceless band wagon hoppers?
true enough...still its unfortunate.
Yes, I agree it is unfortunate.
In the end it will boil down to our mad bullshit detector skills to sieve out the weak shit... and the ability to ignore annoying hypes until they die down.
Anyway, Drowned are great indeed and I await what they will have to offer in the future.
A nobody in a world of somebodies.
A little debil ain´t enough.
Black market list
Back to top
Invictus Productions
Joined: 13 Dec 2007
Posts: 673
Location: Dublin, IRELAND
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:49 am
Post subject:
illomen wrote:
on a more general note, is the whole occult death metal thing going to just become a sterile trend after awhile? at the moment, i, like many others, are really pleased by the recent increase in dark death metal with occult imagery etc. but at a certain point, is it going to become pointless? it seems that every band is trading in their goats and pentagrams for triangles and more "serious" imagery. im fine with this move, but concerned it may get abused quickly. any thoughts?
It's irrelevant to me personally so long as the tunes are good. Whether it's satanic or occult, it's all out of a Paul Daniel's magic hocus pocus set.
Back to top
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:01 am
Post subject:
it seems maybe the point of my remark was a little vague. i wasnt so much commenting on the pros and cons of such a trend developing though i can see how what i said may have been interpreted that way. really, i was just speculating as to whether or not this is the next big trend on the horizon.
trends happen whether we like them or not...on this i agree. music is fundamentally whats important...i agree on this too.
i am just predicting that over the next two or three years, we may get flooded with this style of metal. thsi doesnt really bother me too much as this is primarily what i enjoy. its far better than the resurgence of fun thrash we have been seeing over past few years or the endless supply of raw bm releases that come out every week.
long post...sorry.
Back to top
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Posts: 8236
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:31 am
Post subject:
Oh, I see what you're saying. In that case, I totally agree. I think that bands like Drowned and Necros Christos are the start of a serious trend that will probably take awhile to start up...let's say that the vinyls of "Triune Impurity Rites" sit on shelves for a few months before some huge buying rush comes through and suddenly they are 150 bucks on ebay, same thing with "Viscera Terrae..." Not only that, but you can expect a flood of half assed bullshit bands ripping them off, never realizing that there are earlier bands that THEY are influenced by...
Recycled bullshit come on down! haha...
But yes, the occult death metal hordes are coming...mediocrity and all.
After all, the whole seriousness of the Satanism there is perfect for all those kids that are burned out on NoEvDia stuff...hell, I have to admit I got sucked into that shit too, now that I realize only a couple of those bands are worth a shit I am on to darker and more ferocious things...
Last edited by GoldenBull on Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:49 am; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
Devoured Death
Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 2257
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:33 am
Post subject:
We won't ever trade in our goats and pentagrams for triangles if that helps? Personally I love the old style of ham-fisted blasphemy and evil, and prefer it over this intellegant approach to it. I have no personal problem with it, but I don't have a huge interest in occultism, I just like morbid atmospheres and good songs!
I can only think of a few bands who have really taken this aproach, and it's a pretty obscure subject which I imagine one would need plenty of inside knowledge on, so I can't see it taking off as a trend.
Back to top
Joined: 20 May 2008
Posts: 3641
Location: Fickt-Euch-Allee
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:17 pm
Post subject:
Devoured Death wrote:
I can only think of a few bands who have really taken this aproach, and it's a pretty obscure subject which I imagine one would need plenty of inside knowledge on, so I can't see it taking off as a trend.
Yes, seconded from the bottom of my heart.
GoldenBull wrote:
After all, the whole seriousness of the Satanism there is perfect for all those kids that are burned out on NoEvDia stuff...hell, I have to admit I got sucked into that shit too, now that I realize only a couple of those bands are worth a shit I am on to darker and more ferocious things...
First of all I don't see why you draw a line between one and the other. There's only ONE principle to praise and no matter if it's manifested in plain devil worship, orthodoxy or "more serious imagery" -as illomen named it - it serves the same purpose imho.
Secondly, what is that chosen quote of yours suppose to mean? Seriously, can't get your point about the NoEvDia mocking at all, but it seems to be common to talk shit about that very label these days. As I'm kinda pissed off from work and lacking for kind formalities right now I'd say that one laughs at things that one doesn't understand, huh? And so I'm not that a surprised about the fact that after a short while of all praise for the orthodox stuff this is all of the sudden "too blatant" to the folk.
And by the way, who cares about possibly flushing crap bands. You all said it in one or the other way, they all will be neither fish nor fowl and everybody with the slightest feeling for genuine performed art in its entity of visual, musical and lyrical content will realise what's for real or not for god's sake.
@illomen -> Don't excuse a "long post"! Always great to read more than a meaningless one-liner.
Back to top
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Posts: 8236
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:33 pm
Post subject:
Yeah, I can see that reading somewhat confusingly...
What I mean is this: All the bands who started ripping off the Orthodox BM style after NoEvDia got big are perfectly suited to take their shit in the direction of this more occult DM. I personally have absolutely no problem with NoEvDia at all, and love most of their output, though I think they are a little on the overserious side when emailing, haha! But honestly, I just think that the current hype around that type of BM is going to contribute to this "new" trend in Death Metal spreading.
Does that make sense? Not saying anything bad about either style, just seeing a connection.
Back to top
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Posts: 8236
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:34 am
Post subject:
Finally got to listen to the demo material...all I can say is that it is VERY different from Viscera Terrae, but still has some killer riffage and songwriting...the seeds of the newer stuff can be heard.
I imagine asking if anyone knows what Drowned are up to right now is probably a dumb question, eh?
Back to top
Display posts from previous:
All Posts
1 Day
7 Days
2 Weeks
1 Month
3 Months
6 Months
1 Year
Oldest First
Newest First
Nuclear War Now! Productions Forum Index
All times are GMT - 8 Hours
Goto page
Jump to:
Select a forum
post new topics in this forum
reply to topics in this forum
edit your posts in this forum
delete your posts in this forum
vote in polls in this forum
Powered by
© 2001, 2005 phpBB Group


text:
1. The incident occurred within the City of Portland, Oregon and the Police Bureau service area. Here is a link to a map of Portland to assist you. [PDF MAP]
2. There are no known or named suspects.
3. Do not report any crimes that are domestic related.
4. Do not report crimes involving loss of Firearms or Narcotic Prescription Medications.
5. Do not report stolen vehicles or vehicle accidents online.
6. The incident must fall into one of the following crime types:
See the words: Your Citizen Online Report has been submitted showing that your police report is complete.
Be given a TEMPORARY police report number. Please note: this is not the official PPB case number. The official case number and report will be sent to you after the officer has reviewed and approved the report.
Be able to print a copy of the police report for your records.
All cases filed using the Citizen Online Reporting System will be reviewed by an officer.
Upon review, if further investigation of your case is needed, you may be contacted. When the report is approved you will receive an official case number.
Filing a false police report is a crime.


text:
Ocala Star-Banner readers share their opinion's on political cartoons, gun bans and the Republican part among other issues.
Poor taste
Kudos for the front page quotation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "content of character": "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Brickbats for the utterly tasteless and insulting cartoon on your editorial page on Jan. 21. You have slandered the office of the president of the United States. You have dishonored the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a leader for peace and brotherhood in our country. You have called into question the character of all African-Americans. With your "AA" in the background, you have trivialized an organization that has brought hope and recovery to millions of Americans.
On a day of celebration and the inauguration of our president, you have indulged yourself with tasteless humor that may not even be accepted in a backwoods redneck bar.
Your paper owes an apology to the community for the incredible lapse of judgment in running this cartoon.
Father Les Singleton
Church of the Mediator
Evil in our midst
In this national discourse of banning semi-automatic militarized weapons and magazines, what has been muted is the moral issue. Do we believe that the deaths of these innocents in Newtown are a worthy sacrifice, regardless of the temporary incarnation of evil, so we may have the pleasure of owning these weapons? Is it moral to minimize these deaths? And if not, why are we doing so?
We are made in the image of our Creator with the prowess of reason and creativity. We can distinguish good from evil. It is said that guns don't kill people, evil kills people. It is the availability of these kinds of weapons that permit this evil-doing. Any argument for possession of these weapons accepts this slaughter.
They deny "a little creature, who can't even understand what's done to her, should beat her little aching heart with her tiny fist and weep to dear, kind God to protect her." As we refuse to hear her cry and do nothing.
The proponents and merchants of these weapons care less of life and liberty and more of their political power and profit. There lies their rage. The rage of Herod and the slaughter of the innocent of Bethlehem as the families of Newtown prepare the bodies for the graves in the dead of winter. The Christmas story to them will forever not be the same.
It is time for all good moral men and women to abolish this evil from our land.
Joseph A. Vidal
Where's the sanity?
After reading so many letters to the editor from angry people who think it's their constitutional right to own any weapon of their choice and not understanding their thinking at all, it suddenly hit me today.
First, let me say that I'm sick and tired of people using the Constitution to justify just about anything their little hearts desire. That document was written over 200 years ago by well-meaning politicians of that time. But I don't think any of us believe an AK-15 would have entered their minds, no matter how brilliant they were at the time.
The truth is, we have many laws that ban us from certain activities. Think about fireworks. In our state, the laws are very stringent. God forbid a child lose a finger or be burned due to a cherry bomb. But yet, those same people think it's the right of any kook in their neighborhood to own a semi-automatic weapon capable of killing many people in one swoop.
What has happened to our sanity?
Patti Clark
The left and the truth
David Sirota's column is about as laughable as any I have read. Military-style assault weapons? Really? A .22-caliber rifle is an assault weapon? It's hard to pick out one point in his article that has a word of truth in it.
Opinions based on pure fabricated nonsense are of no value to anyone who reads your newspaper.
This is the big problem with the left. In order to get their way, they will say anything, true or not, as long as they believe it will convince the poorly informed.
Sirota is the poster boy for just that sort of tactic. Being dismissive of anyone who disagrees with him is a tactic employed by the left to demean, intimidate and distort opposing opinions.
Charles J. Piazza
Memory of an elephant
Alas, the poor Republicans! Their memories only revert to what happened 10 minutes ago.
Lest we forget, the debt crisis was created back in 2001 by a Republican president. Historians rate him in the bottom 10 percent of every president who ever served our great country.
Old Georgie II (I'm sure that Republicans won't remember) was the genius who squandered all of Bill Clinton's surplus by trying to be everyone's friend, especially the rich, instead of saving for a rainy day.
He's also the guy who started two wars that cost us trillions of dollars, not to mention our precious men and women who lost their lives over wars that were predicated on lies and deceit. One of these wars is still raging, and the money is still disappearing.
And, yes, Dubya also, if you could remember, had the debt limit raised by Congress 17 times, with no opposition.
If he had of taken care of our money instead of trying to impress his daddy and his other rich friends, we wouldn't be in the dire situation that we are today.
But I forgot: Republicans only can remember what happened 10 minutes ago.
Thomas L. Hapner
Fort McCoy


text:
HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has launched a review of its welfare caseload following a court ruling that found the province was wrong to cut off social assistance benefits to a family of four because the father didn't try hard enough to find a job.
The province's Appeal Court, in a decision released Wednesday, said the mother and her three children should not have been disqualified for six weeks because the father skipped an appointment with an employment counsellor.
The court said the province's move amounted to punishing people who live in poverty. As well, it concluded the province acted unjustly by cutting off the entire family, saying the father alone should have lost his payments.
"Simply put, denying innocent people, living in poverty, the funds they need for financial survival cannot be sustained by any reasonable interpretation of the governing legislation," said the appeal ruling, which overturned a Supreme Court of Nova Scotia decision.
The mother in the case, Rosemary Sparks, came forward to say her family was forced to move because they had no money to pay for food or home heating.
"The department's decision to cut off our social assistance in December (2014) had a terrible effect on our children," Sparks said in a statement. "I could not afford to buy the food and other simple things children should have, and this hurt my health and my children's well-being."
On Thursday, the department released a statement saying that of 25,800 cases it handled between April and September 2017, the province imposed similar suspensions in 53 cases.
Brandon Grant, executive director of employment support and income assistance, said he couldn't comment on the case in question. However, he said the department has rules that encourage those receiving social assistance to find a job if they are able.
He said qualifying clients have an obligation to take part in employment training, education or seeking employment.
"When clients are unable to meet those obligations, there's a consequence in place," he said. "These decisions aren't taken lightly by the department. Our case workers always look at the individual circumstances that may be affecting clients."
Grant said the province is not considering an appeal, and is undertaking a review of welfare cases.
"We are continuing to review the ruling and will be working with staff and legal counsel to determine how it may affect similar cases going forward," said Heather Fairbairn, spokesperson for the Community Services Department.
NDP Leader Gary Burrill said the Liberal government must make sure nobody in the province is getting "caught in the same net."
"We know there are a large number of people on the caseload who are affected, from time to time, by these ineligibility periods," Burrill said. "The court has said this is unfair, it's unjust and it may not continue."
The Dalhousie Legal Aid Service in Halifax issued a statement saying the decision marked a victory for women's rights.
"It is highly significant that the Court of Appeal adopted an interpretation that respects the equality rights of women under the Charter, especially in light of their economic disadvantage based on what is known as the 'feminization of poverty' in Canada," said Kim Stanton, legal director for the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund.


text:
Shelved Dolls: Yolande Polignac & The Princesse de Lamballe – Lesbianism! Mean Girls! Beheadings!
Have you noticed how many dramas about female friendships feature four characters? Think about it. Sex and the City. Girls. Golden Girls. It's pretty much always four, never three, because female friendships with three people are like a chair with three legs. One leg becomes more important than the other two which have to compete for the strongest leg's friendship, and then they come to hate and resent one another and the whole chair topples, because one of the legs calls another one a leggy slut.
That happens a lot.
This is why we have five writers on staff at TheGloss. We're like a scuttling tarantula chair of female friendship and empowerment.
Marie Antoinette wasn't so clever, was she?
I mean, she was obviously unclever in a lot of ways that accompanied being a flighty Austrian princess married to a man who very probably had Asperger's. One example often cited to prove that she wasn't bright was that, as a child, Marie Antoinette refused to do her lessons and made her tutors finish all of them for her (which they did, out of fear of being fired). Historians often say that this lack of schooling and intellectual aptitude was a factor in her downfall. I'm inclined to think the opposite. I mean, making your tutors do all your lessons isn't very nice, but it seems to indicate a kind of natural cunning that I'm surprised didn't present itself later in life.
But regardless. Marie Antoinette was very nice. No, really, she was. I'm not saying that in a "I think that comment about 'let them eat cake' was very body-positive and woman-friendly and widely misinterpreted" way. I'm saying that because once when a postilion was injured, she waited with him for a surgeon for an hour. When a peasant was gored during a royal hunt, she sent him to the doctor in her private carriage. She was a nice lady, basically.
A nice wholly uneducated lady who could barely write and just loved cake too much.
And it was no wonder that a woman with her gentle disposition craved female friendships. She wasn't going to be one of those ladies who is like "oh, no, all my friends are guys. Guys that I've slept with. And then dumped. Because I'm Batman." She was the opposite of one of those ladies (they prefer to be called 'gentlewomen'). That was especially true given that Marie Antoinette had such a close relationship with her sister Maria Carolina (historians say Marie Antoinette was never lonely as she was never alone).
And so, when she came to Versailles, she quickly began looking for someone to help her adjust to her new surroundings, especially important because her transition to Versailles meant that Marie Antoinette was stripped of all traces of her Austrian upbringing. In addition to giving up her language (and she was never very good at French!), she gave up her possessions as she wasn't allowed to carry anything to the new court (though her lapdog was ultimately returned to her).
The Princesse de Lamballe – heiress to the greatest fortune in France – was seen as the perfect person to become her BFF.
The Princesse de Lamballe was born in Turin in 1749, and married to the Prince de Lamballe at the age of 16. He had a massive fortune. He was also a spendthrift who gambled wildly. Honestly, I think this is pretty much all people did during this period. They just hung out at gambling tables. Marie Antoinette reportedly gambled for 72 hours straight leading up to her 21st birthday.
So, in addition to gambling wildly, the Prince de Lamballe kept an opera dancer as a mistress and, at one point, tried to sell off the Princesse's diamonds to pay his debt.
Then he died. At age 20. After the Princesse had been married to him for three years. His obituary read:
Louis Alexander Joseph Stanislas de Bourbon, Prince de Lamballe, first huntsman of France, died at the Château de Louveciennes, near Versailles, the 6th of this month, at half-past eight o'clock in the morning, aged twenty years and eight months. He was born the 6th of September, 1747. He was married the 17th of January, 1767, to Marie Thérèse Louise de Carignan. We cannot too highly commend the sentiments of piety and resignation and the courage which this prince showed during his long illness, up to the last moments of his life. On account of his death the court will wear mourning for ten days.
Right. He died of venereal disease. But it was still very sad. It also meant that, at the age of 19, the Princesse de Lamballe was left the wealthiest widow in France. And she went to Versailles.
I know this might be surprising because in the official portrait of the Princesse de Lamballe she is having a nip slip, but Polignac was supposed to be the slutty one. In spite of that, let's talk about Lamballe's nip slip and how weird female relationships and sex in general during this period were:
Relationships were all tinged by an element of sexuality, basically. Affairs at the French court were numerous. Really, really numerous. Big numbers. Size of the current US debt type numbers.This was in part due to the fact that marriages among aristocratic children were often arranged before the children were 7, so they weren't destined to find love in their marriages. Marie Antoinette had her marriage arranged by the time she was 13 – and her husband, Louis XVI, had enormous difficulties performing sexually.
Marie Antoinette wasn't alone in this situation – in fact, the popularity of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's epistolary novel La Nouvelle Heloise seemed to stress the importance of powerful female friendships. When I say "powerful," I mean "extremely dramatic and full of feeling," not friendships where women learned to be all they could be and protested Planned Parenting funding cuts.
Suffice to say, friendships between women at the time often contained elements of romance that might be lacking in other areas of their lives.
I know, I know, you're rolling your eyes saying "yeah, I did actually realize that arranged marriages did not lead to necessarily happy homes; I am now reluctant to be a leg in your friendship chair" but I do think it's worth pointing out the extent to which sexual relations flourished at the French court. It's worth pointing out because it is shocking by our modern standards.
The French court was notorious for adultery, lesbianism and sodomy. A surprisingly permissive attitude towards all these had been established at the French court as far back as Marguerite of Angouleme, sister of King Francis I, in the 16th century. She said that "unhappy is the lady who does not preserve the treasure which does her so much honor when well kept, and so much dishonor when she continues to keep it."
The treasure was her chaste virtue, incidentally, not – like – a pile of kryptonite. A pile of kryptonite you should always keep. Rabelais was so charmed that, despite being a shameless misogynist, he dedicated his ribald epic Gargantua to Marguerite.
During the court of Francis I in the 16th century women began opening their bodices down below their nipples (unless they were small busted, in which case padding was inserted beneath their stays, just as if they were at Victoria's Secret) to catch male attention at court. And they complain about female chauvinist pigs buying into male expectations now.
There was nothing surprising, then, about the fact that the Princesse de Lamballe was showing off nipples in her picture. It was actually pretty tasteful that she was only showing one.
Satirists and members of the revolution said that Marie Antoinette was sleeping with her best friends. This rumor was certainly fanned after the revolution when the Countess Lamont – a key player in the affair of the necklace scandal, who later fled abroad – claimed that she had been Marie Antoinette's lesbian lover. It's unlikely, but, of course, possible. Lesbian affairs between the ladies of the court weren't uncommon. This is a notion that persists today with Farewell, My Queen which speculates upon the erotic nature of the relationship between Marie Antoinette and Yolande Polignac.
However, Antonia Fraser asserts,
What Marie Antoinette wanted at this point was an intimacy based on sentiment rather than sex, nothing in her life so far had made her look on sex as anything but duty and a rather disagreeable duty at that.
So while she could have been having lesbian affairs with her ladies in waiting – and it wouldn't have been that weird! Breasts were being bared to everyone's left and right! – she probably wasn't. I mean, she most likely wasn't with the Princesse de Lamballe who was known for being prudish, likely in part because of her late husband's debauched nature literally killing him.
But Marie Antoinette certainly did adore her.
In their letters, they addressed one another as "my deart heart" and signed "with a heart entirely yours."
Indeed, Marie Antoinette adored the Princesse de Lamballe so much that she re-instituted the post of Superintendent over her household. The post was an ancient one, but had been abolished for many years, as it was thought to give the Queen's closest friend too much power. Duties entailed serving the Queen breakfast in bed each morning. The Superintendent was also given a stipend that was supposed to be used for suppers for other court favorites.
The Princesse de Lamballe hosted no suppers, as she thought the other women were beneath her. Instead, she used the stipend to finance her own amusements.
Look, this bothered everyone because she was the richest woman in France. They were also outraged by the fact that she'd simply married the Prince de Lamballe and was not, herself, a princess of the blood.
She also had a melancholy strain in her nature. While she was referred to around court as a "good angel" she was also said to be given to fits of sulking and it's possible she was clinically depressed. She was also prone to fits of fainting – she once fainted at the sight of a bundle of violets saying that they were so beautiful.
Do you think she was faking it? People at the time thought she was faking it.
Marie Antoinette defended her by saying that the Princesse de Lamballe was simply "pure." The Abbe de Vermond wondered how long that purity would survive in light of the Princesse de Lamballe's stupidity.
He was right. The Princesse de Lamballe was not a bright woman. Though Marie Antoinette was, supposedly, fairly threatened by very bright women. That might have been because her mother wrote her saying "your beauty is frankly not very great, nor your talents, nor your brilliance (you know perfectly well you have neither)." Seriously, Marie Antoinette's mother was a horrible bully. No wonder as a teenager she didn't really like to surround herself with people brighter than herself.
Still. As she grew out her teens, Marie Antoinette quickly grew somewhat tired of the Princesse de Lamballe. If this sounds insensitive, remember that Marie Antoinette was only 16 when she met the Princesse and really, how many of your friends from sophomore year of high school are you still friends with?
This disenchantment was said to be partly because the Princesse had alienated the rest of Marie Antoinette's ladies. (She should have had them to supper!). However, it was also said that Marie Antoinette had simply found another friend. In 1775 the Princesse de Lamballe was eclipsed by a new, more dynamic presence at court in the form of Yolande Polignac.
Polignac was a stone fox. I mean, she had violet eyes. She was said to be a dead ringer for one of Raphael's Madonnas though the Duc de Levis said she was a "rather insipid Madonna."
She wasn't much brighter than the Princesse de Lamballe, but she was somewhat more sophisticated, and was known to have a lover (the domineering – if somewhat boorish – Comte de Vaudreuil). She certainly wasn't as prudish as Lamballe, and that attitude, combined with Marie Antoinette's seeming fascination with her, may have contributed to ongoing rumors that they were lesbian lovers.
And quite unlike the Princesse de Lamballe, the Comtesse de Polignac was broke. She came from a very good family, as did her husband, but they were deeply in debt. When Marie Antoinette encouraged Polignac to move to Versailles, the Comtesse quite straightforwardly (surprising for the time, more surprising than nipples!) said that she couldn't afford to. Marie Antoinette responded by paying off all of the Polignac family's debts. Marie Antoinette also moved her into a stunning 13 room apartment – a rare amount of space at Versailles's notoriously crowded quarters. Later, the Comtesse de Polignac was made a duchess.
Maria Antoinette's mother claimed that , "It is almost unexampled that in so short a time, the royal favour should have brought such overwhelming advantages to a family."
It's odd to think that this straightforwardness might have been part of Polignac's appeal but remember that, while Marie Antoinette wasn't great at managing the populous at large, she did really like doing nice things for people. I think she liked people feeling grateful towards her. Maybe it was because her mother wasn't very nice to her. Maybe it was just who she was.
Yolande Polignac seemed only mildly enthusiastic about any of this kindness. She was said to have a very calm nature – though she was known to laugh a great deal – which Louis XVI approved of, especially in contrast to the Princesse de Lamballe. She wasn't a fainter, basically. But that laughing may have also masked the fact that Marie Antoinette liked her much more than she liked Marie Antoinette.
However, she did give up her lover with extreme speed when Marie Antoinette said she didn't like him.
The Princesse de Lamballe, on the other hand, was devastated. Just kept fainting dead away when Marie Antoinette kept paying so much attention to Polignac. What's really tragic about this was that, because of her post as Superintendent of the Queen's Household, the Princesse de Lamballe could never really break away from Marie Antoinette, and thus was forced to spend the rest of her life trying to regain her favor. Marie Antoinette's affection – in letters and person – transferred to the Duchesse de Polignac, while the Princesse de Lamballe desperately spent a fortune at the Queen's favorite dressmaker (Rose Bertin) so she and Marie Antoinette could dress alike.
Oh, yeah, that Superintendent position couldn't be transferred. When you were given that position you were truly supposed to be the Queen's best friend forever.
It is items like this that make me amazed that people who love role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons don't become absolutely obsessed with the French Court. They took all the things that might be normal like having friends and made up rules and rituals to accompany them. And furthmore, rules and rituals that could never be broken. I Seen one way that's an incredibly orderly approach to life. Seen another way, that's terrifying.
And either way, the Princesse de Lamballe spent the rest of her life pretty dolefully feeding Marie Antoinette breakfast in bed and staring at her with sad, moon-y eyes.
Marie Antoinette's affection for both her female friends waned once she had children (though it took her husband years to consummate their marriage). Another friend claimed that later in life Marie Antoinette also said that "when a sovereign raises up favourites in her court she raises up despots against herself." It's true that Polignac in particular occasionally had political opinions the Queen did not agree with, but beyond that, both she and Lamballe seemed astonishingly devoted – especially when public opinion turned against the queen.
Towards the end of her life, the Duchesse de Polignac went abroad to visit her friend Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. She enjoyed a very happy life there and came to be known as "Little Po."
However, she was returned to the French court during the months leading up to the storming of the Bastille and the beginning of the reign of terror. She was part of the monarchist movement, and supposedly was involved in intrigues (spying, not sexing) with King Louis' younger brother. Maybe sexing, too, I don't know.
Meanwhile, Marie Antoinette, at the time, complained "no one comes to my card parties."
That is perhaps because it was obvious to everyone at court that Marie Antoinette was so unpopular with the public they they wanted her dead. This goes back to what I said about Marie Antoinette not being terribly bright.
Polignac, unlike Marie Antoinette, who was executed during the reign of terror, managed to flee the court with her family immediately after the Bastille was stormed. She spent the rest of her life in Switzerland, and died there in 1793, shortly after hearing about the death of Marie Antoinette. At the time, it was said that she died of heartbreak, though today, it's commonly thought to have been cancer.
It was a happier end than the one Lamballe experienced.
Lamballe had continued her duties of Superintendent of the Queen's Household until the reign of terror began. She was then imprisoned in the La Force prison before being brought before a tribunal and told to take an oathe pledging to "love liberty and equality and to swear hatred to the King and the Queen and to the monarchy."
Of course she wouldn't. She was thrown into the streets where she was literally disembowled by the mob.
In a depiction of her death, she is seen fainting, so maybe that wasn't all just fakery.
This tidy little picture really does not capture the carnage. Lamballe was supposedly raped before she was torn apart – which certainly wouldn't have been uncommon at the time, but seems so especially awful given her aversion to the flesh.
Afterwards, the mob ripped out Lamballe's guts and put them on one pike, and chopped off her head and put it on another. They then carried Lamballe's head through the streets so that Marie Antoinette could see it below the window where she was imprisoned. It's said that they stopped at a barber along the way so Lamballe's hair could be fashioned as prettily as it had been in life – thus making her instantly recognizable. Certainly, Marie Antoinette recognized her when she saw her outside her prison window. Marie Antoinette's daughter wrote that it was the only time she had ever seen her mother's finesse abandon her. As they stood there, holding Lamballe's head, the mob screamed for Marie Antoinette to now kiss Lamblle's lips.
This is why class war scares some people.
You know, I'm inclined to think of all of this as very high school up until this point. Namely, there was a popular girl, and she had one friend and then found a cooler friend (a cooler friend who probably wasn't really all that into the popularity crowd thing at all, and had to give up her oddball boyfriend when the popular girl told her too), and the other friend was left trying to stay in the group. If you did not experience a part in that dynamic, you're surely at least familiar with its existence.
But then 2/3rds of the group had their heads chopped off, so I'm disinclined to think that a modern version of this will actually translate well as a modern teen drama.
Oh. Wait. Maybe it could.
Want to play "Are you are Polignac, a Lamballe or a Marie Antoinette?" I'm probably a Lamballe. I love violets!
Additional Reading:
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester
Courtesans by Susan Griffin


text:
January 15. 2018 10:42PM
College Basketball: Leissner, UNH make it three straight
By MICHAEL ABELSON
Special to the Union Leader
LOWELL, Mass
. — After winning four games the first two months of the season, the University of New Hampshire men's basketball team has won three in 11 days.
The Wildcats led from wire to wire as a team performance powered the Wildcats to a 74-62 win over UMass Lowell on Monday afternoon at the Tsongas Center. The win was New Hampshire's third straight America East Conference win; the 'Cats are 3-1 in the league, 7-11 overall, and they welcome rival and defending AE champ Vermont to Lundholm Gym on Thursday night.
"Proud of our guys," UNH coach Bill Herrion said. "We really came ready to play. That's our first road win of the year. I told the kids in the locker room we came in here 2-1 in the league. I said, 'Now if we want to be a player in this league, you have to be able to go on the road and win.'"
The Wildcats led by as many as 23 points and the lead was never in single digits in the second half. Lowell closed the gap to 10 three minutes into the second half, but UNH responded with eight straight points to open the lead back to 18.
Like many times in his college career, as went Tanner Leissner, so went the Wildcats. The senior led all scorers with 26 points. He finished the double-double with 12 rebounds and also added three assists. It was the 33rd time in his career that Leissner scored 20 or more points.
Beyond Leissner's strong game on the inside, the Wildcats got strong games all over the floor. Senior center Iba Camara matched his season high with 17 rebounds while grad student Jacoby Armstrong put in 10 points and Darryl Stewart added 11.
Sophomore guard John Ogwuche scored a career-high 15 points in his 10th start of the year. "Coach has been telling me in practice to let it come to you and let the offense flow," Ogwuche said. "I think that's what I did tonight."
The Wildcats shot 51.9 percent in the first half and opened up a 41-26 halftime lead that they maintained until the final horn. UNH held Lowell to 38.8 percent shooting from the field and had a strong game defending the perimeter, holding Lowell to 2-for-15 from beyond the arc.
The defense was coupled by another terrific rebounding effort. The Wildcats outrebounded Lowell 44-27, including a massive 17-7 advantage on the offensive glass. Those offensive boards turned into 21 second-chance points for New Hampshire.
Lowell was led by 22 points from senior Jahad Thomas, but the River Hawks did not have another scorer in double digits.
The three-game win streak is the longest for the Wildcats since winning six straight across February and March of last season.
"You feel better when you win, but even when we were losing those games we knew we were right there," Leissner said. "Now we're finding ourselves more each game. We know we're capable of doing good things."


text:
For many years, in fact since 1998, the House of Gord has been a staple for those in the BDSM community. If one wished to look at women bound in strange but very exciting ways throughout a mansion, this was definitely the place to go. Just about any BDSM site that has purloined collections of BDSM pictures will have at least one House of Gord picture. They're real easy to spot, for they are always involving truly beautiful women and too what's portrayed is in accordance to the main areas of Gord's interest. These are heavy bondage mixed with penetration, pet play, confinement, caging, human furniture, and suspension. PVC, latex and rubber are often used too. This serves to r-ce the girls' helplessness by adding another layer of restraint.
Format: mp4
Resolution: 640×480, 1280×720
Total size: 5.2 GB in 37 files.


text:
Perhaps the same holds true here for politicians.
After the YouTube videos surfaced showing Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, making racist statements, the senator's entertainment industry supporters were beyond worried: Some thought Obama was, quite simply, finished.
"I was getting calls from celebs who were pretty upset and pretty scared," said music industry executive Steven McKeever, who serves on Obama's finance committee. "Major figures in this town were nervous and losing sleep over it."
And then, on Tuesday, their candidate made the speech of a lifetime: He talked about race relations in America in terms never before used by a U.S. presidential candidate. (By Thursday, the speech was viewed more than 1.6 million times on YouTube.)
If Hollywood had a prize for political reinvention, Obama would have won it.
"He spoke from the heart, and it was one of those most remarkable moments you'll remember all your life," McKeever said.
It had all the makings of a Hollywood thriller: disaster, triumph and the promise of a great finale. With everything on the line, Obama went into himself, wrote his own script and penned a comeback. Sort of like Bruce Willis making a great escape from a burning building.
And since Tuesday, McKeever said his phone hasn't stopped ringing. Stevie Wonder, an avid Obama supporter, called, as did a number of other entertainers. "Everyone knew this was a historically significant moment," McKeever said. "I even talked to people who weren't even supporters. They came away with a sense of awe."
Wonder went on his KJLH radio show Thursday morning to make a few statements about his favorite candidate.
He said: "Every communicator -- whether artist, actor, reporter or media -- should use their gift to unite us and not divide us. The reality is, conscious Americans know that Barack Obama is the color of truth."
Entertainment executive Alex Avant, son of Motown great Clarence Avant, said he was also impressed by the senator's words.
"Barack's speech was a beacon of hope that went beyond surface dialogue regarding racial issues," said Avant, a partner in creating the website iamhiphop.com. "What you believe defines the time you're living in. Belief systems have time periods, and he just shattered them."
So in less than a week, the mood among pro-Obama forces in Hollywood went from despair to delight, and that means a reenergized campaign out here.
Expect lots of pro-Obama efforts from the glitterati in the coming weeks. Moveon.org already has a major initiative underway. The group announced last week that it is teaming with Academy Award winners Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Oliver Stone, multiple Grammy winner John Legend, author Naomi Wolf and others to hold a new ad contest called "Obama in 30 Seconds."
The effort provides a platform for Obama supporters to show in 30-second spots what inspires them about the senator's candidacy. MoveOn will buy time to run the winning ad on national television before Pennsylvania's crucial April 22 primary. Affleck explained the effort this way: "MoveOn's 'Obama in 30 Seconds' ad contest is a chance for everyone, from aspiring filmmakers to armchair pundits, to raise their voices to put Obama over the top and help make history."
Legend called the contest a "powerful way for ordinary citizens to be involved in an extraordinary moment in our history."
The list of other people involved in the MoveOn campaign is dazzling. It includes musician-activist Michael Franti; actor-musician-director Adrian Grenier; Academy Award-nominated producer Ted Hope; author and civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson; award-winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy; Stanford Law professor and founder of the Center for Internet and Society, Lawrence Lessig; recording artist Moby; Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas; Lionsgate Entertainment President Tom Ortenberg; Native American activist and documentary filmmaker Heather Rae; Focus Features President James Schamus; producer and entrepreneur Russell Simmons; hip-hop musician DJ Spooky; Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg; and Grammy Award-winning songwriter and musician Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.
Of course, if the going gets really tough, Obama still has George Clooney as his ace in the hole, though Clooney has kept a low-key profile in this campaign.
Hollywood friends understand, perhaps better than anyone, what it means to make a comeback. And what it takes.


text:
NetWellness is a global, community service providing quality, unbiased health information from our partners. NetWellness is commercial-free and does not accept advertising.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Skin Cancer
Skin Cancer and Tanning Beds
I am a thirty year old woman. I use tanning beds about once a week (sometimes twice), especially during the winter months. During the summer, I tan outdoors. I recently heard that tanning beds were just as bad as cigarettes because they, too, can cause cancer. Is this really true? I find it hard to believe that tanning is just as cancerous as smoking. I go tanning because it makes me look and feel better. If it really is just as bad as smoking, are there any safer ways to getting tan?
As dermatologists, this is a question that we hear very often from our patients. Many patients tell us they enjoy being tan for several reasons, including that it makes them feel good and look good. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a "healthy tan," and any amount of tan from ultraviolet radiation is a sign of skin damage and can increase the risk for most types of skin cancer, including melanoma.
The incidence of melanoma is rising rapidly in young women, and the popularity of tanning from the sun and from tanning booths may explain the increase in this population. Recent studies demonstrated that tanning bed use is associated with an increased risk of melanoma as well as other types of skin cancer. Based on these studies, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) added ultraviolet radiation emitted from tanning beds to their list of the most dangerous forms of carcinogens, agents that cause cancer. This list of carcinogens already included ultraviolet radiation from the sun and cigarettes. In the dermatology clinic, we encourage patients who use tanning beds and who intentionally tan in the sun to stop doing so. This may be difficult for some individuals as recent studies suggest that there may be an addictive component to tanning. Laws are being passed in many states to limit the use of tanning beds by minors, with the hope of preventing young people from this dangerous exposure.
The only safe way to get a tan is by using "self-tanner," which can be applied as a lotion or sprayed on, either at home or at a salon. Individuals who use self-tanners should be aware that they do not work as sunscreens, and therefore, they should wear sunscreen or use sun-protective clothing when outdoors.
Meg R Gerstenblith, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University


text:
Style # 200682
With textured floral lace, heart-shaped neckline and sheer detail at shoulders, this bebe top is sure to look great with workweek and weekend pieces alike. Try it with a houndstooth printed pant for a chic mix and match.
- 60% polyethylene, 37% nylon, 3% spandex.
- Center back to hem: 23" (58 cm).
- Hand wash.
- Imported.
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S


text:
It looks like Anonymous is targeting Sony again! This time the reasons behind their potential upcoming attack on Sony is over Sony's support of SOPA, or the Stop Online Pirating Act.
In the video, which was released yesterday, Anonymous vows to "destroy" Sony's network and "dismantle your phantom from the internet."
Obviously, Anonymous are anti-SOPA so Sony's decision to support the bill strikes a nerve with them. For those who haven't kept up, SOPA is an act that would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. However, due to loose terminology in the original bill, it has been the subject of hot debate lately.
Here's a transcript from the video:
Hello, SONY.
We are Anonymous.
It has come to the attention of the Anonymous activist community that you have chosen to stand by the Stop Online Piracy Act. This act will halt online businesses and restrict access to many sites for many users. Supporting SOPA is like trying to throw an entire company from off a bridge. Your support to the act is a signed death warrant to SONY Company and Associates. Therefore, yet again, we have decided to destroy your network. We will dismantle your phantom from the internet. Prepare to be extinguished. Justice will be swift, and it will be for the people, whether some like it or not. Sony, you have been warned.
To those doubting our powers. We've infiltrated the servers of Bank of America, The United States Department of Defense, The United Nations, and Lockheed Martin. In one day.
For their approval to SOPA, we have also declared that our fury be brought upon the following persons. Justin Bieber. Lady Gaga. Kim Kardashian. and Taylor Swift.
Operation Blackout, engaged.
Operation Mayhem, engaged.
Operation LulzXmas, engaged.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Supporters of SOPA, you should've expected us.
You've got to imagine Sony's defenses are better this time around, after facing a series of hacks earlier this year. Anonymous didn't give an estimated time or warning date for when the attack would commence. Also, if you are Justine Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Kim Kardashian...I'd be careful. As for Taylor Swift, I personally feel she's too innocent to actually be a threat to Anonymous.


text:
This bouquet is a true source of comfort and inspiration on yet another cold, snowy day. The lilac smells sweet and the anemones are so cheerful with their black faces in the middle. It reminds me of polka dots.
Outside the birds are crowding around the bird food; the blackbirds, the hawfinch, and ofcourse the little bluetits. No sign of the group of goldfinch that used to come here, so I thought they may have migrated elsewhere. But today on our walk I saw five of them up in a tree top. Wonder what they're eating instead of my sunflower seeds?


text:
Can You Guess the Celebrity Booty?
Athletic booty, ahoy! Here we have a fine example of a gluteus maximus to die for. Can you guess which hellcat these hefty humps belong to?
This young actress has a lot of parts under her belt (as we can see), at the tender age of 24. She's been in roles starring alongside time travelers, a seemingly promiscuous high school school student and a gaggle of cheerleaders.
She's also one half of a musical duo called 78violet, in which she shares the stage with her sister. While she's still pretty young, she's acted since she was only 5 years old, giving her 19 years of experience in the business.


text:
NEW YORK (AP) — Two stories born in Britain are vying for America's biggest theater prize.
"Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" are each a virtual lock to get a Tony Award nomination Tuesday for best musical and each show will be eager to capture as many nods as possible in the other 25 categories.
The nominations will be announced from The New York Public Library for Performing Arts in a televised event co-hosted by Tony winner Sutton Foster and "Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
"Kinky Boots" is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear. Songs by pop icon Cyndi Lauper and a story by Harvey Fierstein have made it a crowd-pleaser, albeit in open-minded New York. Touring potential is key for Tony voters.
"Matilda," the import from London, is a witty musical adaptation of the beloved novel by Roald Dahl and is true to his bleak vision of childhood as a savage battleground. It has proven it can find audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
The other contenders for the best musical prize — the biggest reward on Tony night— include the peppy "Bring It On: The Musical" the hit-stuffed "Motown: The Musical," the quick-to-close "Hands on a Hardbody" and the sweet "A Christmas Story, The Musical."
"Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" also have a good chance of nabbing nominations in the best musical actor category, with some interesting drag involved for both shows' leading men, who both wear skirts onstage. British actor Bertie Carvel plays a brutal headmistress in "Matilda" and Billy Porter plays a drag queen in "Kinky Boots."
Others who may get a nod include Rob McClure as the lead in "Chaplin," Matthew James Thomas in "Pippin," Brandon Victor Dixon in "Motown: The Musical" and Jim Norton in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Porter's co-star Stark Sands might also get a nomination.
The best play category is stuffed, but only four can make it. The leading lights include Richard Greenberg's "The Assembled Parties," Sharr White's "The Other Place" and Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."
Others with a real possibility include Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary," Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy," Douglas Carter Beane's "The Nance," Craig Wright's "Grace," Holland Taylor's "Ann" and John Logan's "I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers."
Leading the best musical revival group is "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" and "Pippin." Others hoping to fill out the four slots will be a solid "Annie," the brash "Jekyll & Hyde" and the rollicking "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."
The best play revival is as competitive as the new play category, with Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful," Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and a one-man "Macbeth" in hot contention. Others include David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross" and William Inge's "Picnic."
Leading actress in a play nominees may likely include Bette Midler from "I'll Eat You Last," Jessica Hecht in "The Assembled Parties," Cicely Tyson in "The Trip to Bountiful," Kristine Nielsen from "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Laurie Metcalf in "The Other Place" and Fiona Shaw from "The Testament of Mary." Other possibilities are Sigourney Weaver, Scarlett Johansson, Holland Taylor and Amy Morton.
On the male side, best actor in a play contenders include Nathan Lane for "The Nance," Tracy Letts of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Tom Hanks in "Lucky Guy," Alan Cumming in "Macbeth" and David Hyde Pierce from "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike." Others with a shot include Douglas Hodge, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Shannon, and Alec Baldwin.
Top actresses in a musical likely will include Patina Miller from "Pippin," Laura Osnes of "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" and Valisia LeKae in "Motown: The Musical," Lilla Crawford from "Annie" and Stephanie J. Block of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."
All four girls who rotate as the lead in "Matilda" — Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro — were deemed ineligible, although in London the four actresses there each took home the Oliver Award.
Some 870 Tony voters will decide the final awards after the nominees are revealed. The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the show, will host the glittery ceremony from Radio City Music Hall on June 9. It will be broadcast live by CBS. Only Broadway shows that opened since April 26, 2012, are eligible.
Online: http://www.TonyAwards.com
Follow Mark Kennedy on Twitter at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits


text:
- Premier League
Wilkins: Chelsea running out of options
Ray Wilkins believes Chelsea may struggle to find a replacement for Rafael Benitez because owner Roman Abramovich's ruthless approach is putting potential managers off.
Benitez joined the Blues as interim manager in November following the sacking of Roberto Di Matteo, who was axed just six months after steering Chelsea to a maiden Champions League title.
Wilkins, who was axed as Carlo Ancelotti's assistant two years ago, believes the lack of job security that comes with the manager's role at Stamford Bridge was the reason Pep Guardiola decided to join Bayern Munich.
"Any manager who accepts the Chelsea job knows exactly what they are walking into," Wilkins said in the Sun. "There is a big salary that comes with the job but also the understanding that you could be relieved of the post at any time.
"Guardiola may well have decided that he didn't want to be in a situation like that. He will have studied the squads at Chelsea and at Bayern and might feel his best opportunity of capturing big trophies at the moment lies in Munich.
"I was surprised when Mr Abramovich dispensed with the services of Carlo a year after we won the double and when he sacked Robbie Di Matteo a few months after winning the Champions League. But the owner doesn't hesitate when he thinks it's time for a change and you don't get much warning that it's coming. In my case, it was literally 'crash, bang wallop and off you go'. That's the way he works.
"And when you think of the money he has spent on Chelsea, he's entitled to do what he wants. If I'd spent £1billion on something, I wouldn't have too many people telling me what to do, either.
"When you employ the biggest coaches in the world, these are people who are going to have an opinion. And because they all now have the luxury of wealth, they're no longer afraid to speak out for fear of getting the sack because they already have all the money they can spend."
Wilkins believes there is no chance for Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho, who has made no secret of his desire to return to the Premier League, to come back to Chelsea.
"I'd love to see Jose back and so would the fans," he added. "The Premier League needs characters like him and he's a big man for a big job. But there's too much past history between him and the owner at Chelsea. And because Jose also likes to spend money on the players he wants, there would be a conflict there straight away."


text:
Subscribers of mplscutiepieBack to mplscutiepie's channel.
Today's Devotional
A Prayer to Pray before Studying God's Word - Your Daily Prayer - October 23, 2018
Christian News
The latest news and hot topics trending among Christian music, entertainment and faith life.
25 Powerful Quotes About God's Goodness
From the beginning of time, it has been said that God is good. He is good to us in so many ways. God loves us unconditionally and is always listening to our thoughts and prayers. He keeps us from harm. God's goodness to us is visible on a daily basis, in both the big and little things in our lives. Discover 25 Powerful Quotes About God's Goodness!


text:
|Tron chute
|Aerial drop pack
|Black Guard, Beck
|Behind the scenes
|TRON: Uprising
TRON: Legacy
TRON: Evolution
TRON RUN/r
Tron chutes are accoutrements of the Black Guard that are equipped on their backs to facilitate aerial drops. When deployed, they appear as eight wiry appendages supporting four energy webs with a hexagon pattern. The Black Guards can use their Tron chutes to control their descent in a manner very similar to using a parachute. A landing is often quite heavy and can take some skill to avoid injury. Even under the controlled descent of a Tron chute a Black Guard can still derez a program unlucky enough to be caught directly in the path of the fall.
Tron chutes are housed in a compartment on the soldier's upper back, or in a parachute-like backpack that can be strapped onto a non-military program or user, with the appendages tucked under each side of the identity disc. When activated, the back panel pops out from the rest of the armor allowing the wires to snap out and down. They then unfold out and up into an X-pattern, before unfolding a final time into their flight positions. Once they are stable they rez their four energy wings.
Tron chutes are shown in the build up to the Black Guard attack on the End of Line Club, where a squad of guards drop from a Recognizer to launch a surprise assault through the top of the club. The chute features a second time when Sam Flynn steals one to effect an escape from Clu's Command Ship. This escape demonstrates the Tron chute's ability to support body weight owing to the presence of Quorra hanging on as a passenger.
- In TRON: Evolution, Black Guards are seen using their Tron chutes to evade attacks and quickly maneuver across the battlefield.
- In TRON: Uprising, Zed called this device a wing chute, and Beck, advising him how to use one, told him to glide with his arms and legs out and land with his feet moving.
- In TRON: Uprising, Black Guards have been shown to leap out of damaged Light Jets or recognizers, using Tron chutes to get them to safety.


text:
Diagnostic tests for Otosclerosis (program ID: 233449)
University Hospital Ulm
Thomas HoffmannSpecialized in: otolaryngology, head and neck surgery
The Clinic of Otorhinolaryngology at Ulm University Clinic offers a full range of diagnostic services and both comprehensive conservative and surgical treatment. The main departments of the clinic are the certified centers for head and neck cancer, a part of the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Ulm (CCCU), treatment of tumors, plastic-reconstructive surgery (e.g., nose and ears), surgery of paranasal sinuses and skull base surgery, as well as microscopic surgery of ear, incl. ear implants for congenital or acquired hearing loss.
The clinic offers all kinds of interventions for ear, nose, throat, head and neck surgery. These surgeries are carried out by experienced doctors according to profile standards. The basic medical areas of the clinic are:
- ear
- ear plastic surgery
- paracentesis (eardrum), tympanostomic tube insertion
- middle ear surgery
- cochlear implants, middle ear implants (Vibrant Soundbridge®), hearing aids placed in the bone (BAHA, Bonebridge)
- nose, paranasal sinuses and facial plastic surgery
- surgeries on the outer and inner nose and face, incl. plastic and reconstructive surgery
- surgery on the paranasal sinuses, orbit and skull base
- mouth and throat
- adenotomy - removal of the pharyngeal tonsil ("removal of polyps" in children)
- tonsillectomy - removal of pharyngeal tonsils
- larynx
- surgery on the larynx and vocal cords
- tumor
- surgical treatment of head and neck tumors, incl. extensive reconstruction using patchwork plastic surgery
- interdisciplinary surgeries, e.g. with neurosurgeons for tumors of the skull base
- neck and salivary glands
- diagnostic surgery on the neck (lymph nodes)
- surgery for lateral and medial cyst/neck fistula
- thyroid surgery
- endoscopy of the salivary glands (sialendoscopy)
- surgeries on the submandibular and parotid gland (Gl. submandibularis and Gl. parotis)
Program includes:
- Initial presentation in the clinic
- clinical history taking
- physical examination
- review of medical records
- laboratory tests (if indicated)
- otorhinolaryngological examination:
- Dix-Hallpike testing
- nystagmus testing
- speech audiometry
- tympanometry
- eustachian tube testing
- testing of blood pressure and buzzing
for tinnitus examination
- otoacoustic emission test
- brainstem audiometry
- VEMP (Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential) testing
- video head impulse testing
- eye movement testing
- CT of petrous pyramid (if indicated 650 €)
- contrast-enhanced MR imaging on labyrinth in 3D (if indicated 1200 €)
- nursing services
- consultation of related specialists
- consultation of the chief physician and all leading experts
- development of individual treatment plan
- written statement
You may also book
About hospital
Accommodation in hospital
- Program [Description]
Diagnostic tests for Otosclerosis
- Hospital: University Hospital Ulm
- Type:
- access_time Duration:
- date_range


text:
So you've been in El Paso for a while now and you're looking for something new… maybe even a little wild? How about getting into a staring contest with a pride of lions? Or catching an infectious smile as a family of meerkats shoot a curious glance your way?
It's not the typical El Paso experience, but, then again, visiting the El Paso Zoo is anything but typical. The park looks as though it was carved right out of the city, an expansive green space that is home to exotic animal species from around the world.


text:
|Episode Description
|Friday, Mar 22, 2013 - 10:30 PM
This show looks at the current American political process, addressing the decline in civil discourse and the news media's role in it, partisan gridlock, gerrymandering, vanishing commitment to reasonable compromise, the vilification of moderates and declining civic engagements. Interviews with political experts and observers examine the topics. G
|More on ALL (MT)
|No upcoming shows in database
|Previous on ALL (MT)
|No Past shows in database


text:
Fort Worth is a fine city, with plenty of laid-back charm and style. It's home to world-class museums, honky tonks and an array of notable dining options.
This past weekend, the tables were set at quintessential venues, and the distinct flavors of Cowtown were spotlighted in the inaugural Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival. The four-day festival brought in the city's best chefs with their best bites, as well as wall-to-wall showcases (and samplings) of Texas wines, beers, whiskeys, bourbons and vodkas.
There was much to sample, from beef done many ways to Fort Worth's finest adding their signature flavors and innovative twists to morsel mainstays. Perini Ranch always impresses with flavorful cuts of first-rate beef, and Chef John Tesar added his twist with a demonstration for a tender and inexpensive seared braised beef tongue. His blend of spices turned this oft-overlooked meat into a delicate, but decadent meal.
One bite after the other, it was easy to appreciate the unique blends of clean, simple flavors done right.
Recipe: Seared Braised Beef Tongue
I had to double back for another mini-barbacoa (braised beef cheek) taco from Salsa Limon. A perfect bite into the fresh corn tortillas gave way to the moist (not fatty) barbacoa inside that melted in my mouth. The surprise kick was the restaurant's signature pickled cabbage, a crisp Oaxacan-style slaw that added a tangy freshness. It was like an exclamation point at the end of the taco bite. It truly made a difference. I couldn't get them to part with the recipe, but rest assured, I'm working to recreate it.
On the sweet side, the Swiss Pastry Shop offered its Black Forest Meringue Cake, a light and airy sugar cloud of meringue layers, thick cream and chocolate shavings. Delightful!
Stir Crazy Baked Goods' display of delectables was hard to pass up, too. Goodness! They tasted as exquisite as they looked. One bite into the salted caramel cupcake and my taste buds were in love. The simple, but salty sweet creation, is a regular on the bakery's menu, along with the rich, flourless chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and more.
What a treat to cram so much of Fort Worth's food and wine scene into four days. But it was just a sampling. There is much dining to do in this town, and I look forward to the quest. God as my witness, I shall never go hungry in Fort Worth! :)


text:
Chicago boutique, Cerato, is celebrating their one year anniversary Friday, May 6th from 6-9pm. Cocktails, appetizers, desserts, and wine will be served compliments of Riazul Premium Tequila, Sensational Bites, The Noble Grape, and Mystic Celt.
Guests will receive 20% off all merchandise AND with every purchase be entered in a raffle to win a $100 Cerato gift card! Even better? Those who come dressed in a Chicago designer will be also be entered in the raffle for a $100 Cerato gift card.
Cerato Boutique prides themselves on supporting Chicago fashion by carrying local designers. So come support the Chicago fashion scene by attending their one year anniversary celebration.
However, if you can't make it Friday night, Cerato Boutique will offer 15% off all merchandise Saturday, May 7th -Sunday, May 8th.
Cerato Boutique
3451 N. Southport Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60657


text:
Miami Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin allegedly sent guard Richie Incognito a text message four days after he left the team saying he doesn't blame Incognito for his situation.
Incognito, who blames NFL locker-room culture for his behavior, said a week before Martin left the team he sent him a text saying he was going to kill his entire family.
Incognito discussed his situation with Fox Sports on its NFL Pre-Game Show. Incognito spoke to NFL Insider Jay Glazer on Saturday in Los Angeles.
Incognito says he knows language he used in texts and voicemails to Martin "are not right." Incognito said that "what I want people to know is, the way Jonathan and the rest of the offensive line and how our teammates, how we communicate, it's vulgar."
The Dolphins are the focus of an NFL investigation into bullying and harassment charges stemming from Martin leaving the club Oct. 28, reportedly to seek treament for emotional distress. Widely circulated was a voicemail from Incognito to Martin laced with the profanity, including use of the N-word, and a threat of murder.
Incognito continued to deflect the blame for his actions throughout the interview by saying that what went on in the locker room and his personal relationship with Martin were private matters taken out of context, while also admitting his use of his language was inappropriate, particularly outside of football.
"It's thrown around a lot," Incognito said of the derogatory word for a black person. "It's a word that I've heard Jon use a lot ... and I'm not saying that it's right for when I did it on a voicemail. There's a lot of colorful words thrown around the locker room that we don't use every day in life.
"The fact of the matter remains though, that that voicemail was left on a private voicemail for my friend and it was a joke."
Incognito repeatedly said Martin was a friend and that he didn't realize the young player was hurt by his actions.
"Jon never showed signs that football was getting to him, the locker room was getting him," Incognito said.
During the interview Incognito volunteered to give Glazer his cell phone. Glazer said he counted 1,142 text messages between Incognito and Martin in the last year, including one sent the day after the Dolphins' 22-20 overtime victory against Cincinnati, which was also two days before Incognito was suspended:
"Wassup man the world's gone crazy. Lol. I'm good tho. Congrats on the win. I'm good man. It's insane bro but just know I don't blame u guys at all. It's just the culture around football and the lockerroom got to me a little."
That text message could change the narrative, for now, in the high-profile case between these two teammates.
Glazer characterized the 1,142 texts between the two as "offensive," but said it goes back and forth.
Incognito said the issue of this whole situation is his relationship with Martin.
"This isn't an issue about bullying," Incognito said. "This is an issue of mine and Jon's relationship where I may, I've taken stuff too far. I did not intend to hurt him.
"What I was going for, I was going for I haven't seen my buddy. I wanted to shock him. I wanted him to call me back. When the words are put in the context I understand why a lot of eyebrows get raised but people don't know how Jon and I communicate to one another.
"For instance, a week before this went down Jonathan Martin texted me on my phone, 'I will murder your whole F'ing family.'
"Now, did I think Jonathan Martin was going to murder my family? Not one bit."
Incognito said he understood the context of Martin's text.
"I didn't think he was going to kill my family," Incognito said. "I knew it was coming from a brother, I knew it was coming a friend, I knew it was coming from a teammate. That just puts in context how we communicate with one another."
In a move that hints this issue could end up in a courtroom, Incognito refused to answer whether he was ordered by a Dolphins coach to "toughen up" Martin.
"He said, 'I can't talk about that. There are still legal issues here,' " Glazer said.
Incognito, who was suspended by the Dolphins for conduct detrimental to the team, is in Los Angeles. So is Martin, who is away from the team on a "non-football illness."
Incognito is a friend of Glazer's from their days a few years ago when Glazer gave Incognito off-season mixed martial arts (MMA) training.
Incognito confirmed he left that vulgar voicemail on Martin's phone, the one in which he used the "n-word" and said other nasty things.
Incognito said he's "embarrassed" when he sees the text of that message. He said it's "vulgar. It's not right."
But Incognito also said, "I'm not a racist."
And he added, "In no way, shape, or form is it acceptable for me to use that word."
Incognito said if he knew he was being hurtful toward Martin or his family he'd apologize. He also said if Martin was there in the room he'd give him a "big hug."
Incognito, voted by teammates to the Dolphins' six-player Leadership Council, said he was disappointed he didn't see signs of a problem with Martin.
"As the leader, as his best friend on the team, that's what has me miffed, how I missed this," Incognito said. "I never saw it. I never saw it coming."


text:
Lady Knights off to strong start
The CCRI Lady Knights basketball team traveled to Groton, Conn. last Tuesday to play the Pointers of the University of Connecticut at Avery Point in a Region XXI non-league game. The Lady Knights defeated the Pointers 92-56. With the victory, the Lady Knights improved to 5-0 on the season and 1-0 in Region XXI play.
The Lady Knights dominated for the beginning of the game to the end. They led 46-26 at halftime and came out of the halftime break with a 14-2 run to extend their lead to 32 points and never looked back.
Leading the way for the Lady Knights was freshman Alison Littles (Holyoke, Mass.), scoring 18 points with 16 rebounds, eight blocked shots and three assists.
Littles was followed by another freshman, Lexi Barros (New Bedford, Mass.), who came off the bench to score a game-high 20 points, including three 3-pointers with three assists and three steals. The CCRI sophomore corps also played very well, led by captain Jahira Smith (Norwich, Conn.), who scored 17 points including a game-high four 3-pointers with six steals and six rebounds. Nyjah Porcher (New Britain, Conn.) charted another double-double with 15 points and 13 rebounds while adding four steals and three assists, and Treedy Ward (Boynton Beach, Fla.) added seven points, four rebounds and a game-high nine assists.
"We had a very good second half," CCRI head coach Kate Lynch said. "We came out strong and kept our intensity the rest of the way. We got contributions from everybody whether it was offensively or defensively""
The Lady Knights next game will be this Saturday at 2 p.m. when they will travel to Newport to play the Rams of the Naval Academy Preparatory School.
Lady Knights cruise past Allegheny
The CCRI Lady Knights basketball team continued play in the Frederick Community College Invitational on Sunday, taking on the Cougars of the Community College of Allegheny County. The Lady Knights easily handled the Cougars 108-60. With the victory the Lady Knights improved to 4-0 on the season.
The Lady Knights and Cougars played tough defense in the first half as the combined to generate 24 turnovers: 11 created by CCRI and 13 for Allegheny.
However, the Lady Knights were able to share the ball well and combined for 10 first half assists to build a 50-35 halftime lead. In the second half, CCRI began to break the game open as they outscored the Cougars 58-25 to cruise to the victory. The Lady Knights more than made up for their turnovers shooting at an astounding 53-percent from the field, 50-percent from beyond the 3-point arc and 78-percent from the free throw line.
Leading the way for the Lady Knights was Nyjah Porcher (New Britain, Conn.) who registered a monster double-double, scoring 35 points while ripping down 17 rebounds. Porcher was not the only CCRI player playing well, as captain Jahira Smith (Norwich, Conn.) added 17 points, seven assists, three steals and three blocked shots and Ahnyyah Jackson (Hackensack, N.J.) scored 25 points, including a game-high four 3-pointers.
Also playing well was Alison Littles (Holyoke, Mass.), who also had a double-double with 10 points and 15 rebounds while adding three assists, three steals and a whopping eight blocked shots. Captain Jess Randall (Warwick) added 11 points, with two 3-pointers while sophomore guards Treedy Ward (Boynton Beach, Fla.) and Moe Plummer (Fairfield, Conn.) combined for 13 assists.
"Overall I think we had a very successful weekend," CCRI head coach Kate Lynch said. "Of course there are still things we need to work on and get better at, but I am very pleased with the effort, intensity, and focus."
Seven Lady Knights earn All-Region soccer honors
The CCRI Lady Knights' soccer team had another excellent year, posting an impressive 10-5-2 record to capture their 12th consecutive Region XXI Title. In addition, the Lady Knights made it to the District E Championship game where they fell to District rival Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y. Though they fell in that game, the Lady Knights did recently receive some great news with seven Lady Knights being named to the All-Region XXI team. They were: sophomore captain Cait McGarry (Warwick), sophomore captain Britt LeClair (Westerly), sophomore Jess Sandin (Warwick), freshman Paige Oram (Burrillville), freshman Erin Rodriguez (Tiverton), Freshman Betti Worth (Manchester, England) and freshman Alex Place (East Greenwich).
McGarry earned her second All-Region XXI honor. McGarry led the Lady Knights in scoring both years she played. In her sophomore campaign she was tied for team-high with 11 goals and a team-leading 18 assists for 40 total points. The 18 assists, is tied for third on the CCRI all-time assist list. In her freshman year, she had 10 goals and a team-leading 14 assists for 34 total points. For her career she had 21 goals and is ranked second all-time with 32 assists and ranked No .8 on the CCRI All-time scoring list with 74 total points.
Sandin also earned her second All-Region XXI honor. In her sophomore campaign, she was tied with McGarry for team lead with 11 goals and added two assists for 24 total points. As a freshman, Sandin led the Lady Knights with 11 goals and added six assists for 28 total points, which ranked her second on the team. For her career, Sandin had 22 goals and eight assist for 52 total points.
LeClair was another very important part of the Lady Knights success over the past two years. LeClair scored eight goals with eight assists as a sophomore for 24 total points.
Oram was a key addition to the 2012 Lady Knights' soccer squad and was ranked third on the team with eight goals while adding three assists and fourth on the team with 21 total points.
Worth was undoubtedly the most physical, vocal and intense player on the 2012 Lady Knights' team. Worth, a prized recruit from Manchester, England was always there to pick her teammates up and she regularly set the tone with physical play in the center of the soccer pitch. Worth also contributed on the box score scoring seven goals with three assists for 17 total points.
Rodrigues was the sweeper on the 2012 Lady Knights squad and continued the long line of successful sweepers at CCRI. The Lady Knights are always prideful of their defense and this year was no exception. Rodrigues was the last line of defense before the keeper and she helped the Lady Knights keep seven clean sheets throughout the 2012 season. In addition, she also added an assist and one total point to the Lady Knights' offense.
Place was a monster in net for the Lady Knights. She a great freshman campaign with seven shutouts and made over 100 saves during the 2012 season.
Four Knights earn All-Region soccer honors
The CCRI Knights had a good season with a 5-8-2 overall record and 5-2-1 record in Region XXI play. The Knights narrowly missed the Region XXI tournament after a hard-fought 2-1 loss to the region rival Bulldogs of Dean College on October 20th. Though the Knights did not make it to the post season they did have four players earn post season awards: captain midfielder Manny Alves (Pawtucket), sophomore midfielder Servi Barrientos (Providence) and freshman defender Preston Kar (Providence) earned First Team All-Region honors while freshman defender Ian Duncan (Barrington) earned Honorable Mention All-Region honors.
Alves, a sophomore midfielder, served as a two-year captain for the Knights' soccer team and earned his second All-Region XXI honor in as many years. Alves was responsible for taking many free kicks and provided tremendous leadership for the Knights squad during his two years of service. In his freshman year, Alves participated in 12 games scoring three goals with two assists for eight total points. In his sophomore campaign he added an assist to give him nine career points in 14 games played.
Barrientos is earned his first All-Region XXI honor, during his sophomore campaign he led the Knights in scoring with four goals and one assist for nine total points.
As a freshman, Barrientos was tied for the lead in scoring with four goals with four assist for 12 total points.
Kar and Duncan burst upon the scene to bolster the Knights defense, which was definitely their strong suit. The Knights will look to lean on their experience build upon the success of their two talented defenders in 2013.


text:
Sure why notI'd like to throw in some logic from the Diamond Sutra (hope that's OK!) to this "General Philosophy" discussion.
X doesn't have any nature of X... in this way we call it X.
I.e., "down" is never really down, so that is why we make sure to call it "down."
Dukkha is never fixed as a dukkha. That is why it is called "dukkha."
In "self," there is no self which can be seen; it is in that way that the Tathagata calls it "self."
Could you expand, im having trouble unpacking this
for example what do you mean by ""down" is never really down, so that is why we make sure to call it "down.""?
Down and up are a matter of perspectives. So we call the same thing by different names depending on the perception


text:
3M Canada Co., London. Manufacturing; 1,860 full-time employees. Provides a quiet room for meditation and reflection.
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Inc. (APTN), Winnipeg. Television broadcasting; 135 employees. Offers subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation.
Accenture Plc, Toronto. Computer programming and consulting; 3,793 employees. Offers employee referral bonuses up to $6,000.
Aecon Group Inc., Toronto. Construction and infrastructure development company; 9,684 employees. Share purchase plan available to all employees.
Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC), Lacombe, Alta. Credit intermediation; 550 employees. Supports flexible work arrangements.
Agrium Inc., Calgary. Fertilizer manufacturing; 2,251 employees. Manages a popular engineer-in-training program.
Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc., Boyle, Alta. Pulp mills; 450 employees. Offers new employees up to four weeks of paid vacation.
AMEC Americas Ltd., Oakville, Ont. Engineering services; 7,200 employees. Offers referral bonuses for some positions of up to $5,000.
Bank of Canada, Ottawa. Banking; 1,176 employees. Offers a defined benefit pension plan.
Bayer Inc., Toronto. Pharmaceutical manufacturing; 702 employees. Provides a subsidy up to $15,000 for in-vitro fertilization when needed.
BC Public Service, Victoria. Government support; 26,201 employees. Manages an academic scholarship program for children of employees.
Bennett Jones LLP, Calgary. Lawyers; 821 employees. Offers compassionate leave top-up payments of 100 per cent of salary for one week.
Bank of Montreal, Toronto. Banking; 28,686 employees. Offers retirement planning assistance and phased-in retirement work options.
Bombardier Inc., Montreal. Aircraft manufacturing; 24,147 employees. Offers paid internship opportunities for new graduates and younger employees.
Business Development Bank of Canada, Montreal. Banking; 1,958 employees. Flexible health plan offers employees the option of purchasing additional vacation days.
Cameco Corp., Saskatoon. Uranium mining; 3,033 employees. Offers an onsite fully equipped fitness facility at head office.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto. Commercial banking; 33,965 employees. Offers referral and year-end bonuses.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Ottawa. National security; 3,311 employees. Provides maternity and parental leave top-up payments for new mothers up to 93 per cent of salary for 52 weeks.
Carswell, a division of Thomson Reuters Canada Ltd., Toronto. Book publishing; 984 employees. Manages a two-year leadership program to help promote from within.
Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto. Child and youth services; 581 employees. Offers the option to take unpaid full- and part-time educational leaves of absence.
Cementation Canada Inc., North Bay, Ont. Mine contracting and engineering; 1,034 employees. Added more than 50 new positions in Canada last year.
Ceridian Canada Ltd., Winnipeg. Payroll services; 1,297 employees. Offers formal mentoring, in-house and online training and career planning services.
Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, Burnaby, B.C. Professional organizations; 144 employees. Transit subsidy available for ride-share programs.
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Toronto. Professional organizations; 285 employees. Provides flexible work arrangements for new mothers returning to work.
Dalhousie University, Halifax. Colleges and universities; 3,328 employees. Offers a health benefits plan that extends into employees' retirement years.
Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada, Richmond, B.C. Motorcycle dealer; 139 employees. Matches donations to employees' favourite charities.
Desjardins Group, Lévis, Que. Credit unions; 37,790 employees. Provides showers and change rooms for bicycle commuters.
DIALOG, Vancouver. Architectural and engineering Services; 540 employees. Provides year-end bonuses for some employees.
Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., Yellowknife. Mining; 1,171 employees. Recognized for its aboriginal development program in partnership with SAIT Polytechnic.
Digital Extremes Ltd., London, Ont. Computer programming; 182 employees. Two full-time chefs prepare free healthy meals daily for staff.
EllisDon Corp., Mississauga, Ont. Building construction; 1,164 employees. Starts new employees with three weeks of paid vacation.
Enbridge Inc., Calgary. Natural gas distribution; 4,681 employees. Partners with the University of Calgary to provide mentoring to undergraduates.
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Toronto. Hotels; 8,705 employees. Committed to environmental stewardship through its energy and water conservation policies.
General Motors of Canada Ltd., Oshawa, Ont. Motor vehicle manufacturing; 10,317 employees. Provides generous subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation.
Georgian College, Barrie, Ont. Colleges and universities; 791 employees. Recently opened a new Health and Wellness building.
Goldcorp Inc., Vancouver. Gold mining; 2,290 employees. Offers paid time off during the holiday season.
Golder Associates Ltd., Calgary. Engineering services; 2,995 employees. Manages an international employee exchange program.
Great Little Box Co. Ltd., Richmond, B.C. Box manufacturing; 213 employees. Encourages employees to save for retirement through matching RRSP contributions.Report Typo/Error
Follow us on Twitter: @Globe_Careers


text:
Intel Co-Founder Joined by Carver Mead, Who Coined the Term
MOUNTAIN VIEW and SAN JOSE, Calif., September 8, 2005 – Gordon Moore, who made the pivotal observation that has guided technical progress in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years, will speak at the Computer History Museum on September 29. Appearing with Moore will be Carver Mead, the CalTech professor who coined the term Moore's Law. The evening is presented by the Computer History Museum and SEMI.
Forty years ago Moore, who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, made an observation that became an accurate forecast of the rapid pace of semiconductor innovation. Popularly known as Moore's Law, it stated that transistor density on integrated circuits would double every year. In 1975, Moore revisited the issue and adjusted the prediction to a doubling every two years.
The evening presentation is part of the Museum's Computer History Museum Presents Speaker Series, an exclusive platform for open, passionate discussions for presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. These landmark presentations and panel discussions present inside stories and personal insights of top information age leaders from industry, government and academia, and assist the Museum in bringing computing history to life. Pre-registration is required. Entry is free for members of the Computer History Museum; non-members are asked for a $10 donation to the museum. A member reception begins at 6:00 p.m., with the discussion starting at 7:00 p.m. To register, visit the CHM website at www.computerhistory.org.
About the Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, a public benefit organization, preserves and presents for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. The Museum is dedicated to exploring the social impact of computing and is home to the world's largest collection of computing-related items - from hardware (mainframes, PCs, handhelds, key integrated circuits), to software, to computer graphics systems, to Internet and networking - and contains many one-of-a-kind and rare objects such as the Cray-1 supercomputer, the Apple I, the WWII ENIGMA, the PalmPilot prototype, the 1969 Neiman Marcus (Honeywell) "Kitchen Computer" and the Minuteman I Guidance Computer. The collection also includes photos, films, videos, documents, and culturally-defining advertising and marketing materials. Currently in its first phase, the Museum brings computing history to life through its Speaker Series, seminars, oral histories and workshops. The Museum also offers tours of Visible Storage, where nearly 600 objects from the Collection are on display. Debuting September 2005 is a new exhibit, Mastering The Game: A History of Computer Chess. Future phases will feature full museum exhibits including a timeline of computing history, theme galleries, and much more. For more information, please visit http://www.computerhistory.org.
About SEMI
SEMI is a global industry association serving companies that develop and provide manufacturing technology and materials to the global semiconductor, flat panel display, MEMS and related microelectronics industries. SEMI maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose (Calif.), Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
Steven Brewster/Computer History Museum
Ph: 1.650. 810.1036
Email: email@example.com
Jonathan Davis/SEMI
Ph: 1.408.943.6937
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com