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A tale passed down the generations offers an enlightening lesson. It goes like this:
A tale passed down the generations offers an enlightening lesson. It goes like this:
Once upon a time, a white knight seeking adventure found a village where legend told of an ogre in a pit. Several courageous men had climbed into the pit, but none returned.
The white knight declared he would battle the terrible ogre.
He noticed the pit�s narrow opening and stripped himself of armor and unnecessary clothing. He took only a long dagger, which he tied around his neck with a leather strap, and lowered himself into the hole.
Soon he felt the chamber�s cool, smooth floor. It took several minutes for his eyes to adjust to the darkness, but he focused on a large mound. He noticed his predecessors� bones, along with their assorted weapons.
Suddenly, the pit�s inhabitant surprised him. He didn�t anticipate that the ogre would be as tall as a rabbit. The ogre waved his arms and screeched with its squeaky voice, trying to appear as fierce as possible.
The white knight picked up a sword from the floor and prepared for battle, but quick as a rat, the ogre scurried into a hole.
The white knight followed, and soon happened upon a mound of grapefruit-sized balls of gold and plum-sized diamonds.
The little ogre lost its importance in view of this great treasure.
However, the white knight had a problem. How would he carry it out of the hole? He had no pockets. Who would believe him if he didn�t bring back at least one piece?
Hurriedly, he chose a large diamond that fit comfortably in his mouth, and he began the strenuous climb out of the pit.
His tongue held the diamond tightly against the roof of his mouth. He climbed higher and higher until the heavy exertion rendered him breathless. He would have to breathe through his mouth to get enough air. As he took in a large gulp of air the diamond slipped and stuck in his throat.
The white knight choked on his treasure, lost consciousness and fell to his death on the mound of bones below.
You see, the terrible ogre in the pit was no troll � it was greed.
1 Timothy 6:9 says, �But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.�
Consider what drives you. If you find the glitter of this world is more attractive to you than Jesus Christ�s love and grace, you may be heading for a terrible fall.
That would be tragic.
The Rev. Mark Broadhead is Laurel Hill Presbyterian Church and First Presbyterian Church of Crestview�s pastor.


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A new Civil War book edited by SBU journalism professor Chris Mackowski has been released. "Bushwhacking on a Grand Scale: The Battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 18-20, 1863" by William Lee White focused on the second-bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, which took place 150 years ago. The book was released to coincide with the sesquicentennial.
Bushwhacking is the latest volume in the Emerging Civil War Series, published by Savas Beatie, LLC, the largest commercial publisher of Civil War books. Mackowski, as managing editor for the series, worked closely with White to develop and produce the volume. White is a historian at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Battlefield.
The Emerging Civil War Series tells the war's most important stories in reader-friendly prose for general audiences. Each volume contains more than 150 photos, illustrations, and maps.
Mackowski, a professor of journalism and mass communication at St. Bonaventure, has been with the university since the fall of 2000.
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Spurs had drawn two and lost one of their three previous league matches this term under Villas-Boas.
And doubts were starting to surface at White Hart Lane as to whether the Portuguese, sacked by London rivals Chelsea before they won the Champions League last season, was the right man to replace the popular Harry Redknapp.
Defoe gave Spurs an 18th minute lead at the Madejski Stadium on Sunday when he stroked in a pull-back from Aaron Lennon after a burst down the right flank by the winger.
Spurs, who climbed several places to 10th spot in the table, nearly had a second goal when an error by novice keeper Alex McCarthy, dwelling on the ball in the box, saw him dispossessed by Defoe.
Defoe cut the ball back for Gylfi Sigurdsson but the Iceland international was denied on the line by Alex Pearce.
At half-time, Premier League newcomers Reading, who remained second bottom with just one point from three matches, could consider themselves fortunate to be only 1-0 down.
But, with such a slender deficit, the Royals were still in the game.
And that remained the case until 19 minutes from time when Gareth Bale finally gave Spurs the second goal their dominance deserved.
Kyle Walker's cross found Bale and the Wales star's scuffed shot beat McCarthy, already committed to a dive.
Having made it 2-0 in the 71st minute, Spurs added a third three minutes later when Defoe, on the break, beat McCarthy with a shot into the far corner.
However, Tottenham were denied a clean sheet when Hal Robson-Kanu pulled a goal back for Reading in the closing moments.
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I would! For Pharr I would do the Greek to English, then the English to Greek, then finally the Iliad text once I got that far. The first two sets of work often make the Iliad text much easier.

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Not to defend Douche Bag Supreme Mike Rice, former coach of the Rutgers men's basketball team, who was fired after a video surfaced showing him berating and abusing his players, but I got news for you: this method of coaching young people is pervasive throughout American sports.
Most students who play a high school or college sport usually end up playing for at least one coach whose primary method of motivation is to bully, belittle, berate and generally shit on kids for every error.
Admittedly, Rice of Rutgers is an extreme example. Throwing balls at players' heads from point blank range isn't a norm. But each time I saw him grab a player and shove him aside harshly—and here he was just moving the guy to the right "spot" because a common way to screw up in practice is to go to the wrong spot or hit the spot too early or too late in a play or drill—I just thought to myself, "Oh sure, that was my life six days a week for all of high school basketball season."
We could talk about the language used, I guess, but I guarantee you Mike Rice is not even close to the only high school or college coach calling his players "faggots," "pussies," "fairies," "queers," or any other slur.
As I recounted in "Publish This Book," my high school coach would get just as furious as Rice did in those videos (often more so) and call individuals a "suckin' puss," as if changing the first consonant made all the difference. A fond memory of high school basketball was when he freaked out and kicked a full water bottle across the gym. It hit the bleachers, exploded, sent water and ice everywhere, and we, the players, spent the next ten minutes of practice cleaning it up while he stood there as if it was our fault because one of us had missed a flex cut.
This is not to say Rice's behavior should be excused or that I'm somehow touting the scars of playing for a similar coach (I long ago stopped measuring my masculinity based on things basketball-related because the first twenty years of it didn't work out so well). All I'm saying is that Mike Rices are coaching at every level of non-professional athletics where the power imbalance favors whatever whims of anger they happen to want to exercise. There's this unspoken code among these men and women that somehow value can be extracted from a player's ability to take fury and spittle in the eye—as if there's a measure of character in absorbing unchecked rage.
To be clear, I'm not advocating that a coach never yell at his or her players. That's absurd: many times a player needs a good thrashing, especially in high school where (let's face it) you and your teammates are probably mostly morons. But there's a difference, and most of the time the coaches who use purposeless irate rage blend in effortlessly with the ones who actually teach kids something about the sport, and hopefully, life.
In the camera phone era they may get in trouble more often, but the culture of bullying as coaching will remain omnipresent in American sports.


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"15 Evolutionary Gems" (PDF) is a new resource summarizing fifteen lines of evidence for evolution by natural selection, provided by the journal Nature.
The Geological Society of Australia recently updated its policy statement (PDF) on science education and creationism.
The third draft of Texas's science standards is available — and the creationist catchphrase "strengths and weaknesses" is absent.
When the Michigan legislature ended its last voting session for 2007-2008 on December 19, 2008, two antievolution bills — House Bill 6027 and Senate Bill 1361 — died in committee.
"The Evolution of Evolution: How Darwin's Theory Survives, Thrives and Reshapes the World" is the theme of the latest issue of Scientific American (January 2009), commemorating the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of the Origin of Species — and NCSE is represented, with Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott's discussion of the newest mutations of the antievolutionist movement in "The Latest Face of Creationism."
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As veterans return home, they face numerous obstacles as they transition back into civilian life, including finding a career. In 2013, Sport Clips proudly partnered with the VFW to expand the focus of our national "Help A Hero" fundraising campaign to introduce the VFW's "Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship" program. By providing scholarships for use at post-secondary schools, including trade schools, our goal is to continue our strong support of the military, while making the transition from military life to the civilian workplace a little easier.
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Top Reasons to Stay at Best Western Plus Austin City Hotel
- The hotel is located in Austin's stylish SoCo District, a popular area for shopping and entertainment. You'll be within walking distance of trendy stores, music venues, and food trucks selling everything from tacos to cupcakes. Downtown Austin is a 5-minute drive north, and the walking trails of Lady Bird Lake are located to the south.
- Each morning the hotel provides a hot complimentary breakfast with eggs, meat, pastries, and other offerings.
- Blue Moon Rock N Blues is the onsite bar and lounge. There's a Starbucks directly across the street and numerous restaurants nearby.
- This Best Western was completely renovated in 2012. It now features a clean, modern style, with a spacious lobby dotted with bright leather seating.
- A large outdoor pool dominates the hotel's courtyard. There's also a hot tub and a roomy fitness center onsite.
Austin, Texas: Proudly Offbeat State Capital and Live-Music Capital of the World
Built in 1888, the pink-granite Texas Capitol building in Austin is the largest state capitol in the country and is even taller than the US Capitol in Washington, DC—proof that everything is, indeed, bigger in Texas. Yet Austin stands apart from the rest of the state politically and culturally, a fact that locals seem to revel in. "Keep Austin Weird" is a popular motto here, appearing on bumper stickers and T-shirts. The weirdness manifests itself all over town, where you'll find a death-metal-themed pizza place, a cathedral made of garbage, and the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata, which displays an 1893 World's Fair stereograph and one of Marilyn Monroe's cigarette butts. Even nature plays along: each night at dusk (from mid-March to November), an estimated 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from underneath the Congress Avenue Bridge to go hunting for food.
Austin has been dubbed the Live Music Capital of the World thanks to the city's nearly 200 venues, where bands play everything from blues to punk rock. In fact, Travel + Leisure magazine named Austin one of America's Best Music Cities, calling it the "mother ship for indie rock and alternative-country types." Stubb's Bar-B-Q books some of the bigger acts that come to town, including the White Stripes, Johnny Cash, and Snoop Dogg. In addition to the live entertainment taking place on a nightly basis, two massively popular music festivals—South by Southwest and Austin City Limits—draw in huge crowds each year.
The University of Texas brings its share of cultural attractions to the city as well. For starters, the sprawling campus is home to the Blanton Museum of Art, which boasts one of the country's most impressive private collections of old-master paintings. UT-Austin is also where you'll find the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, dedicated to preserving and exhibiting artifacts related to the 36th president.


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In the fourth inning: 28 Londonderry batters, 23 runsBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 29. 2013 10:18PM
The Nashua North baseball team pounded out seven hits and scored seven runs against Londonderry ace Ryan Moloney on Monday. Nevertheless, the Titans lost by 26.
That's right. Londonderry batted around not once, not twice, but three times in the fourth inning, when the Lancers sent 28 batters to the plate en route to a 33-7 victory.
The game was called after the top of the fifth inning because of the 10-run mercy rule.
"If you told me we were going to score seven on (Moloney), I think we'd have a chance," Nashua North coach Kyle Harvell said. "That's a difficult game for that kid to pitch in."
Londonderry scored two runs in the second, eight in the third and 23 in the fourth. In the fourth, Londonderry collected 12 hits, eight walks and one batter was hit by a pitch.
In total, the Lancers collected 20 hits against four North pitchers, who walked 15 batters.
"In that scenario you can't tell them to stop playing," Londonderry coach Brent Demas said. "You can tone down the aggressiveness, which is what I tried to do. I tried to do the best I could. Keep playing, but tone it down a little bit."
Londonderry raised its Division I record to 6-3.
North dropped to 6-4.
Although he sat through two lengthy delays while his team was at the plate, Moloney pitched all five innings.
He struck out seven and raised his record to 3-1 with one save.
Jake Welch, Brett Evangelista, Jake Cassidy and Rob Del Signore each scored four runs. Del Signore led Londonderry with three hits.
Catcher Matt Fortin had two doubles for Nashua North.
"This was definitely a new experience for me, and I don't expect it to be repeated," Demas said. "It's difficult on both sides in a game like that."


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Mommy to Maxwell 10-9-07 weaned with love (a party and a remote control monster truck) on his 4th birthday
My Boy 3-16-10
And my sweet pea Sam 2-12-11
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Your pumping output is on the low side but still in the normal range especially because you are nursing as well. Weaning off formula supplements will make your body increase production.
Mommy to Maxwell 10-9-07 weaned with love (a party and a remote control monster truck) on his 4th birthday
My Boy 3-16-10
And my sweet pea Sam 2-12-11
Watch Your Language
i called someone from LLL and she told me to feed him every 2 hours (from beginning of one to beginning of the next). i cant see getting more than 30 minutes sleep at a time, which will be miserable and i dont think i can handle. i just feel like whatever option i choose is wrong. formula is against everything i believe in, breastfeeding hurts and i cant supply enough milk, if i go to pumping i'm not supplying enough milk and from everything i have read it will decrease my milk supply.
This has a ton of link for latching including dr jack Newman videos
You CAN do this mama. Don't give up!
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Mommy to Maxwell 10-9-07 weaned with love (a party and a remote control monster truck) on his 4th birthday
My Boy 3-16-10
And my sweet pea Sam 2-12-11
Watch Your Language
Make sure you are pumping at night! Get up 2-3 times and pump. Pump every 2hrs.
09-28-2011 VB (41 Weeks 1 Day) Breastfeeding 12 months & counting.
Thank you all for your responses. I am going to try a few things like the side laying. I appreciate your responses, it helps to feel like someone out there cares
Oh I am so sorry this has been so hard for you. It sounds like you are very understandably frustrated!
When a mother is having great difficulties breastfeeding, whether or not to keep trying to nurse their babies is a difficult decision. What is the "right" choice is entirely individual and will depend on you and your situation. I can tell you that this is still early days and there are many moms who have faced challenges this great who have been able to exclusively nurse. Also, breastfeeding need not be all or nothing. You might want to consider-What if you can never exclusively nurse, or never nurse at all -but can provide your baby with your milk via pumping or nurse and supplement as needed? Many moms who cannot exclusively nurse, do continue to nurse while supplementing, or exclusively pump or pump while also supplementing, long term. But it certainly is hard, and takes a different kind of commitment and a mindset where you define your own 'success' than does breastfeeding that goes 'normally."
But there is no doubt, from a scientific standpoint, that a baby who gets his mommas milk-even if also supplemented with formula- has more normal health outcomes than the baby who does not. Studies show us clearly that the benefits increase the more breastmilk and/or time at breast babies get, but even just a little breast milk and/or time at the breast has proven benefits. This is not a judgment or an opinion. It is simply fact based on hundreds of studies. What you have done already, by nursing as much as you have and providing the breastmilk you have, has been so good for your baby. I know it does not feel like it right nowm but trust me, if you stopped trying to nurse right this second, the enormous effort that got you this far have been worth it.
Assuming you would like to keep trying to nurse, I have a few questions you can answer if you like that may help us help you- If you already answered down thread no need to repeat yourself. did the lactation consultant or anyone else examine your baby for tongue or lip tie? Since that first early appt, have you been to see the LC again or tried on your own to improve the latch? What did you try? Are you still using a shield? How long have you been exclusively bottled feedings and how much is breastmilk and how much bottles?
What kind of a pump are you using? is pumping comfortable? how many times in 24 hours do you pump? For about how long each time?
How has your recovery from surgery been? Anything unusual?
This is a very difficult feeling to have, that we cannot take care of our babies. Do you mean that the pumping is taking you away from holding your baby? because all a one month old baby needs is enough to eat and his mothers loving arms. (And diaper changes.)At this point I feel like I cannot provide the necessary things for him
This DOES sound incredibly exhausting. I know! But here is the thing-even if breasrtfeeing is going fantastic, a breastfed newborn (up to 6-8 weeks or so) usually HAS to nurse about 10-12 times a day-or more, in order to get enough milk and stimulate normla milk production. or Does it have to be in every such and such hour increments, no. It does not. Typically, a baby will cluster feed-feed maybe twice an hour for a couple of hours, and then take a longer sleep. But this needing a great frequency of nursing (or pumping, if baby cannot nurse) is just a biological fact.i called someone from LLL and she told me to feed him every 2 hours (from beginning of one to beginning of the next). i cant see getting more than 30 minutes sleep at a time,
The problem is, working this need for frequent milk removal into a 'scedule' when mom is having difficulties, and maybe has to pump as well, etc. But for many moms, sceduling feedings or even pumping sessions does not really work. That is why we have this idea for moms who are exclusively pumping-temporarily or not...http://www.llli.org/docs/00000000000...umpigchart.pdf
oh whoops posted giant response before seeing your last response and that you have a plan. if that works for you great, then please just ignore me and enjoy dear baby
no one has looked at him for tongue or lip tie. i have tried a few things to improve the latch with a lactation consultant. we have tried aiming the nipple at the top of the mouth, leaning his head back and even pressing open his jaw to get his mouth open wider. He chomps down as soon as the nipple gets in the mouth. no nipple shield for a couple of weeks now. during the day i am pumping about 2 oz and supplementing about 1 oz because the ped said he needs that much at each feeding. i am using a double eletric medela. it is pretty uncomforable but not as much as the baby and certainly not as sore afterwards. i pump every time he needs to feed until the milk is gone and then for a few more minutes. i just feel like i am not able to pump enough food and even with all these supplements i'm taking i am just not producing the right amount of milk for him. i'm afraid to go back to breastfeeding exclusivly because i wont know how much food he is getting.
I'm sorry nursing has been so frustrating so far!
Pumping shouldn't be uncomfortable- unless you have some savage cracks or something, in which case nothing you do is going to spare you discomfort. You may want to check and see if the shields are properly sized. If the nipple is rubbing against the sides of the collection tube, that can cause pain and larger shields may help. You can also try lubing your nipples with some olive oil- if the shields are only marginally too small, a little lube may help them slide without pain.
I totally get the fear of nursing exclusively when that means not knowing how much milk the baby is taking in. If you have some energy to spare (ha ha ) you may want to consider renting a professional baby scale and doing some before and after feeding weights. Subtract the before from the after and you gain a highly accurate picture of how much milk the baby takes in over the course of a feeding. I suggest renting a scale rather than doing a single weigh-feed-weigh test at the LC's office because a single snapshot doesn't tell you much. The amount a baby takes in at a single feeding varies a lot, so the average tells you way more than the snapshot.


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Where the State voluntarily dismisses remaining counts of a complaint in order to appeal the trial court's ruling on one count, the State must comply with K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3201(e) by refiling the voluntarily dismissed counts.
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; JAMES FLEETWOOD, judge. Opinion filed February 18, 2000. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Steven R. Zinn, deputy appellate defender, and Jessica R. Kunen, chief appellate defender, for appellant.
Charles R. Reimer, assistant district attorney, Nola Foulston, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for appellee.
Before ELLIOTT, P.J., LEWIS, J., and PADDOCK, S.J.
ELLIOTT, J.: Marlin D. Williams was convicted of numerous traffic offenses, including three counts of driving after being declared a habitual violator; he appeals, raising numerous issues.
We affirm in part and reverse in part.
Williams first argues the trial court erred in denying his motion in limine, contending the trial court should have excluded any evidence of his prior driving offenses which gave rise to his habitual violator status. The prior offenses tended to show he knew he had been deemed a habitual violator and that Williams had changed his address many times without notifying the State, as required. Those factors were important to the State's case. See State v. Lewis, 263 Kan. 843, 847, 953 P.2d 1016 (1998).
The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion in limine. See State v. Davidson, 264 Kan. 44, 56, 954 P.2d 702 (1998); State v. Bornholdt, 261 Kan. 644, 659, 932 P.2d 964 (1997).
In 1996, Williams was charged with four driving-related offenses including driving while a habitual violator. The trial court ruled the habitual violator statute was unconstitutional. The State dismissed the other three counts and appealed. The Supreme Court reversed and remanded, ruling the statute was constitutional. The three counts dismissed by the State were never refiled.
Nonetheless, those three counts were sent to the jury, which convicted Williams on all three counts. The State did not comply with K.S.A. 1998 Supp. 22-3201(e). Those three convictions--no proof of insurance, driving a vehicle without appropriate tags, and failure to wear a seat belt--must be reversed.
Next, Williams lodges numerous complaints about instruction No. 10, which stated: "Deliberate ignorance of Mr. Williams' status as a habitual violator resulting from his acts or failure to act with a conscious purpose to avoid notification of such status constitutes actual knowledge of such status." First, he argues the instruction created an unconstitutional mandatory presumption. No objection was lodged on this theory; thus, we review the argument on a clearly erroneous standard. See State v. Henry, 263 Kan. 118, 131, 947 P.2d 1020 (1997).
Instruction No. 10 comports with the language of Lewis, 263 Kan. at 858, does not create an impermissible mandatory presumption, and is not clearly erroneous.
Williams also argues the instruction does not properly define "deliberate ignorance." Williams did lodge an objection on this basis, and our review is as stated in State v. Mims, 264 Kan. 506, 514, 956 P.2d 1337 (1998). The essence of the instruction is that a finding of deliberate ignorance satisfies the degree of knowledge required by the statute. Accordingly, it fairly states the law.
Williams also contends the instruction should have included the following italicized language: "Deliberate ignorance exists where a person believes that it is probable that something is a fact but deliberately shuts his or her eyes or avoids making reasonable inquiry with a conscious purpose to avoid learning the truth." (Emphasis added.) Lewis, 263 Kan. 843, Syl. ¶ 8.
If one consciously avoids learning the truth, he or she must necessarily believe it is probable that something of which he or she chooses to remain ignorant is a fact. Even without the italicized words, the instruction fairly states the law.
Finally, Williams claims instruction No. 9 was erroneous because it states as fact that notification was mailed to his last known address. No objection was made at trial; thus, we review by a clearly erroneous standard. See Henry, 263 Kan. at 131.
The jury was instructed its job was to find the facts and apply the law to those facts. The instruction indicated that if it found that notification was mailed to Williams' last known address, that finding would support the knowledge element. The instruction is not clearly erroneous and the language is taken directly from the Lewis opinion. See 263 Kan. at 859.
The three convictions based on the charges which were voluntarily dismissed are reversed; the convictions for driving while a habitual violator are affirmed.


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Ferdinand was hit by the coin as he celebrated the decisive goal, a free kick scored by Robin van Persie following a foul on Rafael on the edge of the box.
The object which hit the defender above the eye is believed to be a two pence coin, and left Ferdinand's eyebrow split open and bleeding.
The statement read: "The FA is investigating the incident in which an object was thrown from the crowd and hit Rio Ferdinand following Manchester United's third goal against Manchester City on Sunday.
"The FA will liaise with Greater Manchester Police and await the reports of both our crowd control advisor who was present at the game and the match referee."
Shortly after the incident, a fan made his way on to the pitch and ran towards the former England international, before slipping and being restrained by Manchester City goalkeeper, Joe Hart.
An FA spokesperson added: "It is disappointing that after a great game and advert for the Premier League that we are discussing this issue.
"We will work with the clubs and authorities to identify those responsible and support the strongest sanctions available, including life bans.
"Football in this country has made great progress over recent decades. However, we must maintain the safety and security inside of our stadia and to do this we need to isolate and identify any individuals guilty of offences with strong penalties to act as a deterrent to others."
Manchester City have also issued an apology for the behaviour of certain fans following the incidents which took place at the Etihad stadium.
A statement on their official club website read: "Manchester City FC security officials are co-operating fully with Greater Manchester Police in relation to events leading up to the throwing of missiles onto the field of play, and between the two sets of supporters, during today's game against Manchester United.
"Manchester City wishes to offer its sincere apologies to Rio Ferdinand. The Club unreservedly condemns the actions which led to his being injured.
"GMP's review of all fan behaviour at today's match will be fully supported by the Club, through the provision of CCTV footage and eyewitness accounts. Following this review, and any associated police action, the Club will also apply its own disciplinary policies for any fans found guilty of offences."


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We have a Guest Post, and this time its reaaallll interesting. One of our joonies reached out to us, a little distraught over her dilemma… read on to see if this was just a 'caught up in the moment' error of judgment, or just plain wrong.
*And the METH she's referring to, ain't the crystal kind. For clarification, check this: SINGLE OR JUST ADDICTED TO METH?
Ok, so we've all had crazy drunken nights where we've laughed, we've cried, we've ATE SHIT and we've hooked-up with our bestie's crush right?!…(GUILTY)
And I know what your thinking…Oh, she's THAT girl who uses the 'I was drunk' excuse to hook-up with guys she wouldn't normally hook-up with, but lemme tell you a little story and I'll let you decide who is the victim here.
This past weekend was one of my closest friend's 23rd birthday and the protocol was: get wasted & have a grand old time. This friend of mine is part of my close group of girlfriends (my meth essentially) but our relationship with each other has been the rockiest of all mainly because my friend thinks I'm "perfect"…which I am no where near.
Coming from a Persian household it was always stressed that our problems, insecurities fears, etc. are private and therefore, I learned from an early age to grow a thick exterior and essentially pretend that everything was okay all the time, even when it wasn't.


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I'm not sure whether it was the shadow of the Cliff Lee story, or whether it was the weariness of West Coast travel, or whether last night's 7-2 Phillies loss was exactly as it seemed: unexciting. A normally sure-handed team committed two key errors, and the Phillies suffered a rare second straight off-night. It was their first back-to-back losses since July 1-2 in Atlanta.
The one piece of action that did occur - other than Pablo Sandoval's personal quest to show Charlie Manuel that he was wrong for leavin ghim out of the All-Star game - was a sixth-inning at-bat between Chase Utley and Giants lefty Jonathan Sanchez. Sanchez's first pitch of the inning sailed screamed directly at the head of Utley, who ducked out of the way. Although it didn't seem like a situation in which Sanchez would be throwing intentionally -- Manuel said he thought Sanchez deserved the benefit of the doubt -- Utley reacted the way many of us would if another grown man unleashed a deadly object at our noggin. He took a step toward the mound and glared menacingly -- although, having been around Utley, that might have been his version of smiling -- before returning to the batters box. Later, he stepped out of the box as Sanchez was getting set to start his wind-up.
"I wasn't ready and he started his wind-up," Utley said, "so I just wanted to make sure I was ready to hit."
Utley might have cracked a mischievous half grin when offering that assessment. But, again, it is Utley, so it is difficult to tell.
"The adrenaline is always flowing," Utley said. "The last thing you want to do is let that affect your at-bat."
Utley got the last laugh, connecting on a solo home run to end the at-bat. Phillies reliever Tyler Walker later hit Ryan Garko with a pitch, prompting a warning to both benches.
Otherwise, it was a fairly ho-hum game, at least from the Phillies perspective.
In a side note: Carlos Carrasco makes his Triple A debut tonight for Columbus at Lehigh Valley. He will be opposed by Pedro Martinez, perhaps making his final rehab start before being ready for a return to the big leagues.


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Larken Associates' The Shoppes at Woods Tavern in Hillsborough is now 100 percent leased after Ultimate Tan signed a five-year lease for 1,543 square feet at the mixed-use retail and office center.
According to the announcement, the 30,000-square-foot property, located at 415 Amwell Road and 438 Route 206, already houses Five Guys Burgers & Fries, Sahara Hair Salon, Pizza Hut, Earths Fruits Yogurt, Kumon Learning center and Koko Fit Club as well as several restaurants and retailers.
"When we bought The Shoppes at Woods Tavern we completely remodeled and repositioned the retail center to bring it up to the standards that we were comfortable marketing under the Larken name," Robert Marek, executive vice president, commercial division for Larken, said in a prepared statement.
"The Shoppes at Woods Tavern provided us a great customer base from the companies that are already there," Ana Ricci and Melissa Kasper, owners of Ultimate Tan, said in a prepared statement. "Larken was great about finding us the best location and helping us customize our space to suit our aesthetic and professional needs."
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Did you really doubt them?
Did you watch the New York Yankees run circles around the Orioles on Sunday night in the first game of the Division Series and just assume that the O's would wilt at the first sign of the legendary Yankee mystique?
If so, you probably need to "Buckle Up," because they're headed for the Bronx all even in this best-of-five playoff and their World Series hopes are still very much alive.
The rest of this round will be played at Yankee Stadium, beginning with Game 3 on Wednesday night, but don't let the address intimidate you because the Orioles probably won't. They've been playing the Yankees tough there all season, winning two out of three games in each of the three regular season series in the Big Apple.
Of course, they played pretty well everywhere, finishing the regular season with the best road record in the American League (46-35) and the third-best in the majors.
"Just because you've been there, I don't think anybody thinks that that's any preclusion – a given on how you're going to play,'' said manager Buck Showalter. "I think our guys are very realistic and they understand the tough task ahead of them regardless of what's happened in the past. I think all of that gets thrown out the window when you get in this situation."
If you want another quick history lesson anyway, the Orioles also weren't overmatched in their only other playoff appearance in the Bronx. They lost the American League Championship Series to the Yankees in 1996, but it wasn't because of any inability to play on the road. They split the two games at Yankee Stadium, and their Game 1 loss was influenced by the infamous Jeffrey Maier controversy.
The big challenge Monday was bouncing back from the ugly bullpen blowup in Game 1, and the Orioles did it by outlasting the ageless Andy Pettitte, who came into the game with an astounding 27-6 lifetime record against them.
Actually, it shouldn't have been that big of a challenge for a team that has confounded the so-called experts and overcome every obstacle on the way to turning last year's 69-93 record upside down. The last time they hit a rough patch with their playoff prospects on the line during the regular season, they responded by winning six in a row to stay right on the heels of the Yankees in the AL East and clinch a wild-card berth.
They weren't playing the Yankees head-to-head, of course, but they did exhibit the same resilience they showed at midseason when they slipped almost back to .500 before recovering and matching the Yankees almost win-for-win in September.
When they were stifled by the Tampa Bay Rays' tough starting rotation during the final three games of the regular season, there was room to wonder just what the Orioles would do against the defending AL champion Texas Rangers on the road, but we all know how that turned out.
Showalter likes to say that this year's team is "playing on house money." No one outside their clubhouse seriously believed they would come anywhere close to this far, but catcher Matt Wieters said before Monday night's game that the key for the Orioles has always been that they never looked that far ahead.
"It was not 'this is what we think we can do this year,'" Wieters said. "It was that we believed that if we go out there and just keep playing, no matter what your record is ... no matter how many games you've won or lost lately, you've got a chance to win that night."
That requires a very short memory, and the Orioles displayed that after suffering a very discouraging late-inning loss to the Yankees in Game 1 on Sunday night. They played solid postseason baseball for eight innings and then collapsed when closer Jim Johnson came into a tie game in the top of the ninth and surrendered five runs.
Now the series is even and their prospects suddenly seem promising again despite the supposed home-field disadvantage.
They'll send right-hander Miguel Gonzalez (9-4) to the mound for Game 3 and have reason to feel pretty good about that.
Gonzalez has been one of their most effective starting pitchers, and he has been particularly effective against the Yankees in the Bronx. He won his first start against them there July 30, giving up four runs over 62/3 innings, before pitching seven shutout innings in New York on Aug. 31 in one of his finest outings of the year. They were also his two performances of the season with the most strikeouts.
That's why Gonzalez was not the starter Monday night, even though he has been much more effective down the stretch than Wei-Yin Chen. Showalter could have started Gonzalez to try to improve the likelihood of a split of the first two games, but rightly figured that since both pitchers can go only once in this best-of-five series, the geographical implications of their performances mattered more than their order.
He's been right a lot this year, so there's no reason to start doubting him now.
Read more from columnist Peter Schmuck on his blog, "The Schmuck Stops Here," at baltimoresun.com/schmuckblog and listen when he co-hosts "The Week in Review" at noon Fridays on WBAL (1090 AM) and at wbal.com.


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Just caught the tail end of this on the radio today. Don't even know where it happened.But apparently a preacher who was driving a school bus for added income (common in the Midwest) was fired for forcing kids to pray while to took them to and home from school. How about that for a captive audience?
Here's some more on it from the Friendly Atheist: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/11/06/school-bus-driving-pastor-who-prayed-with-captive-kids-is-shocked-to-be-out-of-a-job/.
"To fire a bus driver for praying for the safety of the children" is not right, he said...."We got to get Christians to be able to be Christians and not have to be closet Christians," he said. "You have something good, you are going to share it with somebody."
Being a Christian, I've made my decision. That decision offers no compromise; therefore, I'm closed to anything else.
"A full internal review revealed that Mr. McNeil had failed to follow a critical safety protocol that was cause for immediate termination. When advised of his violation, Mr. McNeil chose to resign," a spokesperson said in a statement.
The bus driver is, of course, being horribly persecuted in not being allowed to keep his job and preach his faith as he drives a bus full of kids whose lives depend on his ability to pay attention to what he's doing (/sarcasm).
wtf is up with praying bus drivers? Here's one from today at rutgers:http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/11/13/rutgers-university-bus-driver-claims-he-was-fired-for-praying-for-disabled-student/
I know it isn't the main point, but I think its somewhat presumptuous to suggest he would be praying whilst actualy driving. Also, the fact that he was wanting to pray for safety suggests that safety is a priority for him.
As Jaime suggests better if he'd just prayed quiety without involving the kids.
Quote from: magicmiles on November 13, 2013, 07:23:18 PMI know it isn't the main point, but I think its somewhat presumptuous to suggest he would be praying whilst actualy driving. Also, the fact that he was wanting to pray for safety suggests that safety is a priority for him.Magic, if you read the linked article, he did indeed pray while driving, and led the kids in singing religious songs. If safety was the priority, then why did his religion get mixed in at all?
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Taking personal responsibility to uphold what is pure, right and true.
Justice is any expression of personal responsibility to uphold integrity, whether the integrity of a legal system, a moral code, or a personal promise. Justice is taking every possible opportunity to stand for what is right. Right and wrong are not always easy to distinguish. Real life involves frequent dilemmas in which the right and the wrong are difficult to identify and many give up and conclude that one can never really know what is right and what is wrong. Hold fast to the certainty that there is a right and there is a wrong - and justice endeavors persistently to understand and uphold what is right.
The first hall of justice is not the courtroom, but the conscience. Justice is realized only as men, women, and children make just decisions and live morally and legally upright lives. The ancient Greek Philosopher Plato addressed this principle in his work The Republic. In the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon, Plato compared justice and injustice to health and disease - just as that which is healthy causes health and that which is unhealthy causes disease, just actions cause justice, and unjust actions cause injustice. Virtue is the health and beauty and well-being of the soul, and vice the disease and weakness and deformity of the same.
With this rather simple analogy, Plato pronounces a profound truth: Just as the health of the body depends upon the healthy operation of each of its members, so a just society is just only when the members of that society are acting justly in their various spheres.
Justice is not simply about punishment and correction of wrongdoing. Justice is first and foremost about living with a good conscience: upholding what is pure, right and true - in word and deed. Justice is the fruit of the beliefs and actions of individuals. Much like the health of the body, the justice of a society depends upon the manner of life of the people.
Who is teaching your children how to live? From whom are they picking up their attitudes and sense of right and wrong? As parents, teaching justice to your children is not simply a matter of discipline. It is a matter of building relationships and striving to be a significant influence in their lives.
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The Price of Freedom
DateNovember 2004
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This online exhibition explores every American war through the Smithsonian's comprehensive collection of American military artifacts.
Americans have fought to establish the nation's independence, determine its borders, define freedoms, and defend interests around the globe. This exhibition at the National Museum of American History examines how wars have shaped the nation's history and transformed American society. The interactive timeline provides a jumping off point for each war. Visitors can get an overview for each with a short video that provides context to the conflict, or navigate chronologically from one object to the next against the backdrop of the exhibition story. There is unmediated access to the collection for visitors to search, explore, and discover objects or they can enjoy interpretive tracks that help contextualize the objects and their significance. Visitors can examine intricate details of every artifact, and the learning resources section provides special interactives for the classroom or visitors looking to enhance their experience.
Press & AwardsFlash in the Can, Winner, Story/Narrative, 2005Flash Film Festival, Finalist, Story, 2005American Association of Museums Muse Awards, Honorable Mention, History and Culture, 2005
This site provided an almost immersive experience, and used Flash application where it helps—but not excessively.Omni Intermedia Award, Gold, Educational, 2005Print, Digital Design Annual, Winner, Cultural, 2005
Second Story's treatment of the content places the history of American conflict in a larger framework, most clearly illustrated by the overarching timeline interface.The Scout Report, Research and Education, December 3, 2004
There are numerous online exhibits that attempt to holistically address the experience of Americans at war, but few succeed as thoroughly as this recently released gem presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. With an admirable eye for integrating visual documentary evidence and short historical essays and descriptions, this website offers insights into the various armed conflicts that have engulfed the country from the Revolutionary War to the current conflict in Iraq.
Part of SapientRazorfish /© 2018 Second Story, Inc.
- Producer
- Jeremy Clark
- Designer
- JD Hooge
- Developers
- David Brewer, Thomas Wester, David Knape
- A/V Editing & Production
- David Waingarten
- Writer
- Tom Allen
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- Sam Mowry
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City Budget: Mayor Presents Proposed Balanced 2014-16 Budget
Mayor Edwin M. Lee today presented his proposed two-year balanced budget for Fiscal Year 2014-15 and 2015-16. The Mayor's proposal balances a two year budget that closes budget deficits of $66.7 million in FY 2014-15 and $133.4 million in FY 2015-16. To deliver this two-year consensus budget proposal, Mayor Lee worked with the Board of Supervisors and heard directly from residents and community leaders in their districts, held an online budget town hall, and met with hundreds of residents, nonprofit organizations, City Commissioners, labor organizations, business owners, and advocates to discuss priorities and address concerns.
"We are making strategic investments to grow our economy, create jobs and make sure that our City remains affordable for low and middle income families," said Mayor Lee. "This responsible and balanced budget protects social services for people who need them most, is affordable over the long term, increases City services including public safety; and supports our continued economic recovery. We are making historic investments in housing, transportation, and education. But the hard work is not yet done, and I look forward to working with the Board of Supervisors to deliver a budget that invests in the people of San Francisco." Read more.
The Mayor's Budget for Fiscal Year 2014-15 and 2015-16 is available online: https://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=880


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Berlin marks 50 years of JFK's famous speech
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin on Wednesday celebrated the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's famed "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech — a pledge of support to the divided city on the Cold War's front line that still resonates in a much-changed world.
Kennedy made his speech during a several-hour trip to West Berlin on June 26, 1963, nearly two years after communist East Germany cut the city in half by building the Berlin Wall and amid concern that America might abandon the Cold War outpost.
The "freedom bell" at the former West Berlin city hall, where Kennedy spoke to a crowd of some 300,000, tolled to mark Wednesday's anniversary ahead of a ceremony that featured students from Berlin's John F. Kennedy School reading excerpts from the speech in German and English.
Egon Bahr, 91, then an aide to West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt and later one of West Germany's most prominent politicians, recalled the "explosive applause" that greeted Kennedy's "I am a Berliner" declaration.
"It matched the feelings, the hopes and the expectations of Berliners," Bahr said. "They knew instinctively, 'we can feel safe after this sentence.'"
Kennedy's declaration has become a symbol of strong German-U.S. ties, and President Barack Obama evoked it when he spoke last week at the city's Brandenburg Gate, which in 1963 stood on the communist side of the wall.
Even today, "U.S. presidents ... can feel at home in this city," Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said. Still, he alluded to the tensions that preceded Kennedy's euphoric reception.
Many Berliners wondered why the Americans hadn't prevented the building of the wall and used their power to reverse it, he said. "People in the divided city were desperate and angry. They feared that the Western powers would back down and give up West Berlin."


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Volume 35 Issue 3 April/May 2012
Visual Effects, One Frame at a Time
Issue: Volume 35 Issue 3 April/May 2012
Visual Effects, One Frame at a Time
Based on the book by Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! Band of Misfits is a comedy-adventure film animated using stop-motion techniques and enhanced with CG visual effects at Aardman Studios. Directed by Aardman co-founder Peter Lord,
is the first stop-motion feature by the studio since the 2005
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
, and the first to use Aardman's new in-house visual effects department. The cast of 60 animated characters includes the Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant), Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek), Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven), and a Pirate with Gout (Brendan Gleeson). Led by Andrew Morley, the visual effects department created CG backgrounds, boats, water, and other effects, and applied digital makeup as needed to touch up the tiny stop-motion models.
Andrew Morley has moved around the world of computer graphics and visual effects for films literally, and figuratively. His career has taken him from Industrial Light & Magic where he was a technical director on
Jurassic Park III
, to the Moving Picture Company where he was a technical supervisor on
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
and visual effects supervisor on
Batman Begins
. Then he moved to Singapore to supervise the Lucasfilm's digital artist group, which produced visual effects for console games and such feature films as
. From there, he moved back to London, where he supervised effects on
Hellboy II
for LipSync Post and was a CG supervisor on
at Framestore. Along the way, he also worked on high-end commercials. In 2009, he formed his own boutique studio, FuzzyLogic FX in London's Soho district and began working for Aardman Animations as a visual effects supervisor for Aardman's stop-motion feature
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Contributing editor Barbara Robertson caught up with him shortly before the film's release.
At what point in the process of making
did you come on board at Aardman?
They were shooting test shots. Ben Lock, the visual effects producer, had been there a year earlier and started the process of planning the visual effects in terms of number of people, time, and all the standard production things, and some of the visual effects people had started on a pipeline. When I started, Ben and I, between us, built the [visual effects] department. Apart from some proprietary tools we developed, it was a fairly standard department technically. The challenge was setting up a visual effects department at the same time we were doing a film. Also, finding people and hiring staff to work in Bristol, which is about 160 miles from London where there are lots of people and lots of companies. It was particularly tricky toward the end of the project when we needed to get freelancers for a short period of time.
When did you see your first shots?
We spent a long time planning. I didn't get my first shot off the floor until I had been there nine months. It was exciting.
Did you feel like you were working in slow motion?
Quite the opposite. There was a lot to do for a brand-new visual effects department. Every shot went through visual effects, every shot had a little bit of cleanup. So, we had over 1500 shots to work with. I was running dailies on a [FilmLight] Baselight machine, and I'd do bits of grade between shots. There was no slow-motion feeling at all. It was a very busy film. We had 40 units shooting, so we had lots of shots coming from the floor every day.
Was working on this film like working on a live-action film or an animated film?
I treated it as a live-action film in many ways because there was a large amount of greenscreen work and the lighting was real. To get the high quality we wanted, we needed to think live action. All the lights on the shots were computer-controlled, and the 'tower' had information about lighting levels, so shots with similar lighting used the same levels. The lighting was fabulous. If we had fully digital shots, we could wait for plates to turn up and match to shots around them.
Did you do previs?
We did, to help tell the story and to work out lots of things. We'd start with storyboards and then in [Autodesk] Maya do proper previs, high-quality animatics for the entire film. The previs gave us continuity.
What are the major differences between creating visual effects for stop-motion and for live-action films?
The world, the scale of the world, is a big difference. The characters are smaller and they're puppets. And, normally, on live-action films when you do a visual effects shot, you start work knowing the shots are locked. But, at Aardman, editors could re-animate the shot. We use digital stills; it's stop frame. Animators move a character and take a photograph. The images come off the floor using a proprietary piece of software that sends it to editorial, and editors could add frames and pull frames within a shot. So, if the animator shot frames 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, because the camera was locked off, the editor could change that to 1, 1, 3, 4, 5. That meant the official take wouldn't come immediately off the floor—unless it was a sweeping camera. Getting a shot lock was especially important for us when we had animated water. It might be worth mentioning that they shot the film in stereo, so there were two pictures for every animation frame: one for the left and one for the right eye.
Did you produce photorealistic water simulations?
The brief was to make it look fabulous in an Aardman way. We needed to give the CGI the creative style of an Aardman project. It's not quite photoreal, but it has photoreal qualities. We had close-up water, distance water, and oceans of water. We didn't want to do something that looked like a real ocean, and we had to reduce the scale of the water to match the scale of the Aardman world. Also, we wanted a more plastic feel, a little more squash and stretch to give it a more modeled feel.
What software did you use for the water?
We had a Maya pipeline with [Side Effects] Houdini and [Pixar] RenderMan. We used [Next Limit's] RealFlow for the close-up splashes, and it all came through [The Foundry's] Nuke. But, most of the water was proprietary.
Why did you build proprietary tools?
To make the water look like what the director wanted. Most simulation tools aim at copying nature. We needed to do more than that. We needed to do squash and stretch, we needed new kinds of shaders, and we needed to animate water. There isn't a water solution available to do what we needed to do. We had about 10 different ways to do water because we had such a variety of water types. On a wide shot with a boat crashing through the water, we used particles, fluid simulations, and proprietary tools for our main mesh. On a close-up, when we needed splashes, we'd use RealFlow. For spray, particles. For a wider mesh, we'd animate geometry and use water shaders on top. The water has to change color in various locations, so we'd use photo reference. In the Caribbean, we had blue/turquoise water, in the river Thames, dark, menacing water. We achieved the look with RenderMan shaders.
Are there any matte paintings in the film?
We used matte paintings predominately for skies, for projections on geometry, and for the back of shots. We'd have textured geometry in foregrounds. The island was completely geometry, as were the buildings at the edge of the river. With stereo, geometry just feels better.
Are there any fully digital shots?
Maybe a dozen shots were fully digital. They were digital for things they couldn't shoot. For example, we had some wide shots of the ocean with a big ship, and the greenscreen sets couldn't be big enough to put a camera far enough away. Therefore, we'd go with a digital ship and digital water. The island was predominately digital.
Did you create any digital characters?
Yes. Again, when we have wide shots and when we need to see several hundred characters, it becomes more cost-effective to do digital. Imagine how slow it would be for one animator to move that many real characters on set, and you'd have to be careful not to knock into one of them. Sometimes we had live action in front that we used for lighting reference, and put digital characters next to them.
What did you use for crowd animation?
We have our own tools. Normally, the crowds were all doing the same thing. We might have all the characters sitting down in an amphitheater and then they all stand up. There was no need for AI. They usually followed the lead from some real puppets.
Did you do cleanup on the puppets?
We had thousands and thousands of mouth shapes; every character has hundreds. Another department printed mouth shapes using rapid prototyping. It was a massive undertaking, but it was a fabulous decision to go with that. The downside is that there was a horizontal line beneath the eyes or in the nose area that needed to be painted out by the visual effects department. We wrote tools in Nuke to do this. For example, if a character rotated its head and the lighting changed across the face, we had one set of tools. If the character was static, we had simpler tools. All these tools had to work in stereo. In some shots, artists painted out the lines. At the start of the project, it was fairly painstaking, but it got faster and faster. It's such a long project, we were able to optimize how we did things.
How was it for you personally to work at Aardman?
It's a studio, really, so you're closer to the script and to the director. Unlike doing visual effects in Soho, where the post house works with the production studio, there is no middle layer. Aardman is the studio. It was fun. I've seen the film now. It was fabulous to be in the audience, and see their reactions. I haven't seen one negative review in the UK press. Aardman does not make many films. Being a visual effects supervisor on one of them was fantastic.
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A group of Lenawee County veterans were given an update Wednesday on services available through state and federal agencies.
The information was dispensed in a forum Wednesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Annis-Fint Post 1584 in Adrian and hosted by state Rep. Nancy Jenkins, R-Clayton. Accompanying her were Jason Allen, senior policy advisor for the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency, and Jerry Cool from the United Veterans Council of Lenawee County.
Those attending were told veterans in Michigan have not always received the help and services they need, but the situation is improving. Jenkins said Michigan is at the bottom of the list for getting help to veterans, ranking last among all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Allen said his agency is working to change that.
"When he came to office three years ago, Gov. (Rick) Snyder laid down the challenge to streamline the process," Allen said.
He said Michigan higher education institutions lag behind other states in using the G.I. Bill to help veterans further their education after leaving the service. At the same time, Allen's office and other veterans organizations working with Michigan businesses on hiring veterans, are finding a major obstacle.
"The problem is, there is no central database," Allen said. "You've got several different agencies with information, but it isn't all centralized."
The Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency is working through a pair of pilot programs in Grand Rapids and in Wayne County to get more service officers in place to keep up with the number of veterans leaving the service. Allen said his office has grown from four people to nearly 30 and the staff is developing programs and strategies to get help to the veterans who need and want it.
Another issue discussed dealt with treating veterans who need the care in a group home setting. Currently, Michigan has only two homes for veterans, the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans and the D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans in Marquette. Allen said the system is based on the model developed after World War I and is out of date.
"We have to build additional homes to help the veterans coming back," he said. "We have a much different type of veteran coming back. We are seeing a lot of closed-head injuries and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) cases. We plan to build two or three more veterans homes."
Cool, who is also on the board of managers for veterans homes, said the Veterans Administration said Michigan should have 1,300 beds for veterans. However, only 450 beds are in Grand Rapids and 184 at Marquette.
"We need to find beds," he said. "We are looking for facilities. Putting one in southeast Michigan would be great."
The state is making progress on streamlining the various processes, Allen said. Money and help is available for veterans, he said, they just have to know where to ask.
Cool and Dave Loop from the Veterans Council both urged veterans with questions or who need help to contact the Lenawee County Department of Veterans Affairs in the Human Services Building, 1040 S. Winter St. or by calling 264-5335.
Jenkins said her office is also available to help. Her number is 517-373-1706.
Veterans told state services improving
A group of Lenawee County veterans were given an update Wednesday on services available through state and federal agencies.


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A BRAVE boy whose dreams came true has inspired a charity night in Moulton this year.
Matthew Potter, seven, met Father Christmas in Lapland in December, thanks to the charity Make A Wish.
He was diagnosed with non Hodgkin lymphoma on January 7 last year and has undergone chemotherapy and lumbar punctures, as well as treatment for a life-threatening fungal infection he developed in his lungs.
Inspired by his fight and magical trip to Lapland, an fundraiser has been organised in aid of Make A Wish.
The evening will include a charity auction, raffle, disco and buffet.
It will take place at Moulton Verdin Club, in Church Street, at 7.30pm on Saturday, March 1.
Tickets are £4.50.
For tickets or to donate items for the raffle or auction ring Jacqueline Platt on 07736 243514 or email email@example.com.


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Ramsey County CourthouseSecond Judicial District(651) 266-8266Chambers Phone: (651) 266-5166Second Judicial District Judicial Officers
Appointed on Nov. 25, 1997 by Governor Arne Carlson. Elected in 2000, 2006, and 2012. Current term expires January 2019.
J.D., William Mitchell College of Law, 1974B.S., Sociology and Political Science, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1970
Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
Attorney- Private Practice, 1987-1991
Mayor- City of Maplewood, 1990-1997
Maplewood City Council, 1980-1990
Director, Minnesota School Labor-Management Project, Bureau of Mediation Services, 1985-1987
Caucus Research Staff, Minnesota State Senate, 1974-1985
Research Analyst, Minnesota Taxpayers Association, 1970-1974
Criminal Defense Services Board Director, 1999-present
Hmong Council of 18 Advisory Board, 2005-present
Minnesota State Bar Association Audit Committee Chair, 2006-present
Ramsey County Bar Association Board, 2008-2011
Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative Board Co-Chair, 2006-2009
Violence Coordinating Council, Second Judicial District, 1999-present
Suburban School Collaborative Honorary Board Member, 2008-present
SOBER Foundation Board member, 2011-present
Hmong Circle of Peace Restorative Justice member, 1999-2004
Co-Host, Community Cable Program, 2006-present
Mothers Against Drunk Driving Metro Judge of Year, 2012
Criminal Division, 1997-2002 and 2009-present
DWI Court Judge, 2010-2011
Juvenile Drug Court Judge, 2005-2009
Special Courts Division, 2004-2009 (Presiding Judge, 2006-2009)
Civil Division, 2002-2004
Judge Bastian has lived in suburban Ramsey County since 1974. He paints in watercolor medium and sculpts in bronze and donates annually to various silent auction fundraisers, including the Ramsey County Bar Foundation.


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Today, however, there are lots of different tubes of super glue being manufactured overseas, and in the USA, that simply don't compare to the same stringent standards of excellence that Super Glue Corporation maintains for both its branded and private label super glues. Some of these other manufacturers cut costs by outsourcing their tube, cap, and sometimes even their cyanoacrylate, production allowing substandard quality products to be sold to unknowing consumers. These consumers must not realize that "super glue" is a generic term and that only by buying a branded product, or a private label brand from a retailer who takes the time to ensure their supplier maintains high standards of excellence, can they truly be assured of the quality of super glue they are buying.
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Menomonee Falls police search for bank robber
Menomonee Falls police search for bank robber
MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. —
Menomonee Falls police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who robbed a bank Thursday.
It happened at the Guaranty Bank inside the Super Pick 'n Save on Appleton Avenue around 12:30 p.m.
Police said he gave the clerk a note, demanded money and then ran off behind the store.
The man was wearing a green-and-white baseball cap, a long-sleeve white shirt, blue denim shorts, and black-and-white shoes.
Anyone with information about the man is asked to call Menomonee Falls police at 262-532-8700.