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Once Upon a Time: Season One (US - BD)
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Immerse yourself in the magic and mystery of Storybrooke – a sleepy little town where every fairytale character you've ever known is frozen in time and trapped between two worlds, victims of an evil curse. On her 28th birthday, Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) meets Henry (Jared Gilmore), the son she gave up for adoption 10 years ago. Henry believes Emma is the daughter of Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), prophesied to break a powerful curse. Unconvinced, Emma returns Henry to Storybrooke, where she encounters the enigmatic Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) and clashes with mayor Regina Mills (Lana Parrilla) - the boy's adoptive mother - who Henry insists is none other than the Evil Queen! (From ABC's official synopsis)
ABC's Once Upon a Time is about as high concept as high concept shows come. It requires leaps and bounds in fairytale logic, features about five dozen major characters (I exaggerate), and moves between two separate timelines without doing much to prep the audience within the first few episodes. Less than a decade ago this approach would've been met with cries of confusion from audiences and critics, but the accelerating popularity of other modern fairytales like the Harry Potter series, the rise of ridiculously convoluted J.J. Abrams-brand television (I still can't believe my mom watches Fringe), and, of course, the ever-increasing complexity of movie superhero mythologies, have opened a rift in the pop-culture mainstream for something like Once Upon a Time to exist, and even thrive. It comes as little surprise that series creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis conceived the show while working on Lost.
For whatever reason, fairytale revisionism is especially popular right now. Following the modest success of made for television miniseries' re-imaginations of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, Disney Studios had massive success with a Tim Burton directed, action-slanted Alice in Wonderland, which led rival studios to release two competing Snow White projects – Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror and Rupert Sanders' Snow White and the Huntsman. Other recent live-action theatrical revamps of fairytales and fables include Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, Daniel Barnz' Beastly, Bryan Singer's as yet unreleased Jack the Giant Killer, and Guillermo del Toro's dark catch-all Pan's Labyrinth. Once Upon a Time isn't even the only weekly network series featuring revisionist fairytales – it runs into direct competition with NBC's Grimm. Once Upon a Time and Grimm have more in common than mere subject matter, however. Back in 2002, Vertigo comics (an imprint of DC) released Fables, a monthly series about fairytale creatures and characters dealing with their forced exile into our world. Writer Bill Willingham used these familiar characters to tell addictive, adult-laced stories of sex, violence, espionage, horror, and romance for about two years until NBC began to develop his comics into a television series, originally planned to be released during the 2006-07 season. NBC's Fables didn't make it beyond the script stage and was then picked up by ABC, who began development in 2008. Not surprisingly, Disney also dropped Fables just in time to start production on Once Upon a Time. Eyebrows were raised all over the nerd-o-sphere, including my own, as I'm a bit of a Fables fanatic (perhaps minus Willingham's not so subtle Zionistic subtext).
This mindset, the one that suspects Horowitz and Kitsis ripped Willingham off and that Disney left him in the lurch to work with creators they'd already developed a profitable relationship with, led me to unfairly misjudge Once Upon a Time without seeing a frame of the series. The truth is that the two series obviously share a sandbox, but are largely more different than alike. The major element Once Upon a Time 'borrows' from Fables is the forceful removal of fairytales from their 'homelands' into ours, though in the Once Upon a Time mythology the majority of the fables are unaware of their true origins. There are plenty of relatively incidental similarities as well, such as the rare power of magic beans and gateways between the worlds. Funnily enough, the Evil Queen's big plan to break into our world, where evil can actually win, is not taken from Willingham's books, but Kevin Lima's Enchanted, or possibly, more amusingly, John McTiernan's Last Action Hero. I even have to respect Once Upon a Time's creators for seeing the same thing Willingham did in these characters – ready-made back story. Well, that and a lack of copyright on the characters, which ABC-owned Disney has expertly taken advantage of for decades. The fact that we are familiar with these characters and the tropes that have followed them for centuries prior to Disney (in most cases) saves the writers a lot of time and lets them dive head-first into their intricate double-pronged plot. Occasionally, there's a bit of an eye roll when another fairytale character is introduced in all too obvious a manner, but I'm not sure anyone has ever pulled off this kind of 'hint, hint' reveal without being a little goofy about it, not even Bill Willingham.
Once we've been given the chance to gather our opinions on the show's basic concept, which takes some time, we're free to pay more attention to the plot and characters. This is the problem with many of the recent wave of high concept, blockbuster television shows, like Lost, Heroes, and Fringe – it takes quite a bit of time to acclimate one's self to the concept and that time can be better spent actually thinking about what is being done with the concept. In the case of Heroes, the quirk of the concept wore off about halfway through the first season, leaving many of us to realize how terrible, derivative, and generally uninteresting that show was. The problem that arrives early here is a sense that this series won't be able to maintain itself beyond 22 episodes without some kind of major overhaul. After all, there has to be some kind of endgame, right? And there are only so many fairytale characters that can be added to the cast via standalone origin story, right? This is where the creators' Lost credentials start to make me nervous, because that show had major problems arriving at an endgame and was never lacking for new, unnecessary characters.
It takes a good six episodes for the story rhythms to set in and, at this point, it is pretty fun to connect the puzzle pieces as they are presented. There's a strange tempo issue, however, as the writers appear to want both a forward-moving serialized show in the Lost tradition and a more episodic series that depends on characters over plots. However, the deeper we delve into the characters (who are continuously introduced and reintroduced), the more the writers begin to play with our expectations and memories of these stories, eventually blending alternate archetypes into each other. For example, Robert Carlyle's dual characters are Rumplestiltskin, the traditional trickster, and Mr. Gold, a pawn shop owner with obvious ties to the traditional Rumplestiltskin. But, as the season persists, we also learn he has quite a bit in common with the Christian Devil, Goethe's Faust, and even The Beast of Beauty and the Beast fame (complete with a little chipped teacup Easter egg for Disney fans). These elaborations should probably confuse the already busy situation, but actually pull the audience further into the story and even solidifies Horowitz and Kitsis' concept. The problem with the storytelling pattern is, as more standalone episodes begin to unravel, the heavy-handed, moral mumbo-jumbo starts to reel out as well and it doesn't really work in the real-world part of the story. The writers spend so much energy tying together the Enchanted Forest and Storybrooke world aspects of each episode that they often lose any sense of differentiation in tone. The high melodrama and high-energy histrionics work very well in the fairytale world, but, back in the real world, too much of the conflict feels forced. The real world dialogue is also painfully cliché-ridden as a result.
Even without enjoying every second of the series, I do have to admire its massive scope and beautiful production design. Some of the effects work is a bit flimsy and some of the basic wardrobe and prop colours are, well, tacky, but there are at least signs of the creators attempting something visually unique. The thing that makes this design stand out is its mix and match blend of familiar elements, including Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films (mostly in the creature/monster designs), Matthew Vaughn's Stardust (mostly in the fairytale sets), and any number of Disney versions of these various fairytales, specifically their brilliant, aforementioned, live-action pseudo-satire Enchanted (which tends to define the eclectic colour palette). I enjoy is the way the series isn't afraid to change up their tone between episodes, at least once it finds its footing. The creators always maintain a generally family-friendly tone, but aren't afraid to get a little scary or even a little silly. I could do with a little more variety overall, though something more like a straight comedy or straight horror episode (which Red Riding Hood's origin episode almost counts as). Perhaps season two will fill that void.
Once Upon a Time is shot using Arri Alexa digital HD cameras and comes to Blu-ray in 1080p, 1.78:1 video. The episodes are spread effectively over five discs to keep compression at a minimum. This is, for the most part, a very handsome series and one that changes things up several times within a single episode. There are obvious differences between the real world and the fairytale world, but those worlds are also divided up stylistically from setting to setting. This eclectic look makes for a particularly impressive mix of colours, contrasts, and sharpness levels. The base level look is pretty soft without blowing anything out. There's enough overall contrast to revel in some close-up skin, clothing, and set textures, but the separation of elements largely depends more on general hue contrasts than sharp lines. Backgrounds are usually left out of focus, but there are a few instances of cameras exploring far off patterns without much bleeding (this does not bode too well for the digital set extensions). The diverse colour palette is the most impressive element. The predominant look is pretty warm, even gold-tinted, which gives the daylight sequences a nice glow without washing out the rich greens. Blue is usually saved for nighttime sequences, where it's used to soften the blacks, which are otherwise used sparingly. Even during particularly dark sequences, shadows are often created through darker versions of the primary hues (there are exceptions, obviously). Most of the time, black, especially when set against white, represents some kind of evil. This is specifically utilized for the Evil Queen, whose fairy tale realm is sloshed in purples and smoke, while her real world homestead features almost exclusively black and white décor, highlighted with the pop of her omnipresent red apples. White levels are especially clean causing very little in the way of edge enhancement. Snow-caked landscapes are among the transfer's most beautiful sequences. There is some basic noise in the more natural warm hues, but no blooming or blocking effects I notice.
ABC Studios doesn't put every one of their shows on Blu-ray (sorry Castle, Revenge, and Scandal), but, when they do, they roll out the red carpet with big, brassy, lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtracks. Ever since Lost, I've assumed the best from the studio's Blu-ray TV output and this release is no disappointment. It's not quite a 'blow out the speakers' reference-level mix, but there's plenty to love and very little to complain about. The fairytale world is usually accompanied by all manner of bustling forest-related ambience, while the streets of Storybrooke feature a decent medley of chirping birds, roving cars, and chatting people. Audio standouts include a big witch showdown pitting flying metal against flying metal, endless collections of thundering horse hooves, the grinding gears of dwarfen mechanisms, an armada of buzzing fairy wings, and a whole lot of swooshy, wooshy magic. The series score, credited to composer Mark Isham ( Blade, Crash, The Mist), is very theatrical, but tends to underline sequences in an intrusive fashion. When it's not entirely forgettable, the music is usually maudlin, but, every once and a while, something truly majestic fires forth from the front speakers, and the music gives the LFE channel something to do, other than supporting horse hooves and the abstract bass of magical spells.
Extras begin with audio commentaries spread over the five discs in the collection. Disc one features commentary on 'Pilot' with co-creators/executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Disc two features commentary on '7:15 A.M.' with actors Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas. Disc three features commentary on 'Skin Deep' with actor Robert Carlyle and writer Jane Espenson. Disc four features commentary on 'The Stable Boy' with Kitsis and Horowitz and actress Lana Parrilla. Disc five features commentary on 'A Land without Magic' with Kitsis and Horowitz, and actress Jennifer Morrison.
Disc one also features Once Upon a Time Orchestral Suite (4:10), a selection of Isham's music set against the main title still, but the bulk of extras appear on disc five. These begin with the Blu-ray exclusive Once Upon a Time: Origins, an interactive look at the origins of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Little Red Riding Hood, The Little Mermaid, and Rumpelstiltskin, all in HD and narrated by actor Josh Dallas. These include stylish period illustrations and, despite brief runtimes, actually cover plenty of historical information most viewers will not have known.
Fairy Tales in the Modern World (20:30, HD) is about the show's inspirations, adaptation practices, and general production, all with a very Disney slant. It includes interviews with Kitsis and Horowitz, co-producer David H. Goodman, consulting producer/writer Jane Espenson, and actors Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Eion Baily, Beverly Elliot, Robert Carlyle, Meghan Ory, Jared Gilmore, Lana Parrilla, Lee Arenberg, Raphael Sbarge, and Jennifer Morrison, along with behind the scenes footage, and footage from Disney animation classics. Building Character (7:20, HD) continues the themes of the previous featurette with greater focus on the development of the show's version of Belle from Beauty and the Beast, complete with footage of the creators meeting with actress Emilie de Ravin, costume designer Eduardo Castro describing the character's outfit, and general behind the scenes during the episode in question. Welcome to Storybrooke (6:50, HD) takes a look at the village of Steveson, British Colombia, which doubles as Storybrooke for the series, complete with interviews with the locals. The extras end with The Story I Remember…Snow White (4:30, HD), which briefly features members of the cast recalling the story to the best of their memory, bloopers (2:20, HD), nine deleted/extended/alternate scenes (12:50, HD), and trailers for other ABC shows.
Once Upon a Time takes some time to get going, but, once it finds its footing, it's a very entertaining new series and I look forward to the upcoming second season, which will hopefully clean up some of the plot and dialogue issues. I say all of these generally positive things as a big fan of the Fables Vertigo comic series and as someone who assumed ABC and Disney were just ripping off writer Bill Willingham's concept. Hopefully this means something to the other suspicious Fables fans out there. This Blu-ray release looks and sounds spectacular enough to make me bemoan the fact that ABC isn't putting more of their shows (however mediocre they may be) out on the HD format. The extras aren't extensive, but cover most of the bases.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 28th August 2012
Discs: 5
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Audio Commentaries, Once Upon a Time: Origins, Fairy Tales in the Modern World, Building Character, Welcome to Storybrooke, The Story I Remember...Snow White, Bloopers, Deleted Scenes, Once Upon a Time Orchestral Suite, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Jennifer Morrison, Robert Carlyle, Ginnifer Goodwin, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas, Jared Gilmore
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery and Romance
Length: 946 minutes
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Skywell was one of 668 entries in Season One (2013-14) of the competition. It clearly impressed the judges, who selected it as the winner at the finals in the Netherlands in May.
For Sami, Charles and Al-Hurr it was the perfect ending to a long and rewarding journey of learning and discovery.
"It's been a very positive experience" says Sami. "It's given us the opportunity to do a lot of things for the first time. We've had to take the idea all the way from initial proposal to presenting it to, and fielding questions from, a panel of expert judges at the finals."
How and why is your idea innovative?
Harvesting dew (humidity) to use as drinking water is not a new thing. In fact, it has been used as a survival technique by desert-going Bedouins for millennia to replenish water reserves. However, up until recently, humidity harvesting has mostly been performed on the small-scale, primarily by nomadic travelers, with only few examples of the technique being applied on a large-scale in just the last five to ten years. Where our idea truly distinguishes itself then is in its simple design and proposed application to collect dew on a large-scale in a permanent location.
To do this cheaply, we want to use sails as large condensing surfaces to provide communities without easy access to clean water a stable supply of this precious resource. We are interested in improving the efficiency of the surface by exploring the benefits of using hydrophobic (water-repelling) coats, and perhaps endothermic (heat-absorbing) salts. The target goal is to design a kit that is easy and quick to assemble, to deliver a positive impact to a lot of people within a short space of time.
How and why is your idea feasible?
Our validation and proof-of-concept came from the pioneers and ongoing initiatives in this space, who have reported encouraging numbers for the water volumes they were able to obtain on the small-scale. Moreover, they have also started to understand what conditions perform better when varying variables such as relative humidity and day-night temperature differentials. These early efforts have given us confidence that the underlying technique of humidity condensation works.
From a design and economic stand-point, the decision to use sails was our solution to keep unit costs low, while still being able to place the surface areas needed to collect significant amounts of water. Preliminary price estimates look promising. Therefore, the idea should be feasible in both its fundamental physics, and economics.
What impact does your idea have on the Stress Nexus (Energy/Food/Water)?
Skywell is primarily intended to be used as a source of drinking water for people either living in dry regions, or who do not have easy access to clean water. Because humidity is ever-present in the air, the device can be placed in close vicinity to the local community, cutting down on commutes to current wells. Skywell is expected to function in many regions of the world that already possess appropriate conditions for dew formation, such as in Australia, South Asia and the Far East, the Middle East, Africa, Central America (California, Texas, Mexico) and South America.
A second application sees the device used by farmers as a water reserve that fills over time. Should a drought season hit, the farmer could then use the reserve as a buffer to weather the hard times and save their food produce. Therefore, depending on the application, our idea can alleviate both drinking water shortages and food stressors.
What benefits will your idea deliver (financial, socio-economic, environmental, political etc)?
By acting as a stable source of drinking water, Skywell will attempt to improve the standards of living and quality of life of populations still struggling to secure such basic needs. We hope the device will give the people more free time, otherwise spent travelling to a river or well, allowing them to pursue their education or take up a trade that opens opportunities to improve their socio-economic status.
In the case of farmers, the goal is to provide them with assurance that they will be able to save their food produce if irregular rainfall patterns were to materialize. As a result, they will incur less risk when growing their crops, and will become more financially stable. Down the chain, markets and consumers should benefit too from less variability in food supplies.
Finally, Skywell is a passive and sustainable system, and can only have a positive environmental impact. The long-term vision sees the device and other humidity collection techniques as a means to growing plants in places where it would otherwise be difficult, which could serve as a pathway to gradual land reclamation.
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2010-11: Finished second on the team in wins, posting a 15-9 overall record at 141 pounds ... also notched a 3-0 record in Centennial Conference matches ... led the team with 53 takedowns and also compiled 15 escapes, 10 near falls and two reversals ... received Capital One Third Team Academic All-America honors ... also awarded the Gary R. Franke Award as the team's leader in takedowns.
2009-10: Led the team in wins, finishing the season with a 16-7 overall record while competing primarily at 141 pounds ... finished 5-0 in Centennial Conference matches during the regular season ... led the team with 44 takedowns ... also notched 21 escapes, five near falls and three reversals ...finished as the runner-up in the 141-pound weight class at the W&L Invitational ... was awarded the team's J.C. Peebles Memorial Award for showing spirit and thrill of competition ... received Division III Scholar All-America honors by the National Wrestling Coaches Association.
2008-09: Finished among the team leaders in wins with a 17-10 overall record and a 4-3 mark in Centennial Conference matches as a 133-pounder … had two wins by pin … notched a team-best 52 takedowns, 22 escapes and three reversals … placed fourth in the 133-pound weight class at the W&L Invitational … completed his rookie campaign by winning six of his final eight matches, including a fourth-place finish in the 133-pound weight class at the Centennial Conference Championships … received the D.C. Montgomery Memorial Award as the team's top first-year wrestler.
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From Marcus Bloch's 12-volume encyclopedia of fishes (1782-1795)
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A marsupial thylacine featured in Gould's The Mammals of Australia (1863)
Mt. Vesuvius in 1776, from a book by Sir William Hamilton
Featuring scientific illustrations spanning five centuries, the new exhibition Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum's Library explores the integral role illustration has played in scientific discovery through 50 striking, large-format reproductions from seminal holdings in the Museum Library's Rare Book collection.
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Natural Histories showcases images by artists including Albrecht Dürer, Joseph Wolf, Moses Harris, John Woodhouse Audubon, and Maria Sibylla Merian.
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Majors: Visual Communication and Business Administration
Tabitha Gonzalez is a confident and determined artist. Coming to Graceland in 2011 on several scholarships, including the Rio Grande Valley Texas Endowed Scholarship, she will graduate in December 2014 with degrees in Visual Communication and Business Administration. Tabitha is excited about her future in the creative art world. She always knew she wanted to be an artist and attacks her education and career development with gusto.
At Graceland she has diversified her artistic development from drawing to painting then to photography, while preparing herself for the business world as well. "Art has always been a love of mine, but never in my wildest dreams did I think it would get me this far! Ever since I was little, you could find my doodles on walls, homework, even napkins. Just ask my mom." Her confidence in her artistic skill along with her leadership development sets her apart on her way to becoming a successful artist in the business world.
Talent and determination have opened doors for Tabitha, and she has been given several opportunities to shine. "If not for Graceland, I wouldn't have the opportunities of becoming a freelance artist, art teacher, graphic designer, president of the art club, comic illustrator, fashion/beauty photographer or marketing intern, all of which motivate me to continue on this creative path. Graceland has given me the confidence to follow my dreams and continues to make a difference in my life." Tabitha painted a mural for the stairwell in the Helene Center for the Visual Arts, and another for the 2013 Community of Christ Peace Colloquy. Both are visually impacting, large format paintings that demand attention. She prefers large format art and often focuses on portraiture.
Graduating in Visual Communications, Tabitha will present her senior art show during Graceland University Homecoming in October. The show will be a culmination, a cohesive large body of work, which will showcase her talent and give her experience in preparing an exhibition. She credits Graceland for the successful launch of her artist career in a competitive market.


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Arrested conservative author's scheduled debate with antiwar activist at Dartmouth up in the airBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Sunday News Correspondent and REUTERS
January 25. 2014 7:44PM
HANOVER - Before his arrest, conservative political commentator and author Dinesh D'Souza was scheduled to debate 60s-era antiwar activist Bill Ayers at Dartmouth College on Thursday.
The event headlined "What's So Great About America?" is being promoted as "the ultimate fight between left and right."
D'Souza, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1983, was indicted on Thursday on charges that he violated campaign finance laws and used straw donors to funnel as much as $20,000 to losing U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long, a Republican, and D'Souza's friend who also graduated from Dartmouth.
On Friday afternoon sponsors of the debate - The Dartmouth Review and Dartmouth College Republicans - were uncertain if it would move forward in light of D'Souza's arrest.
"We're actually unsure about that at this moment," said Stuart A. Allan, president of The Dartmouth Review.
Allan said his office has reached out to D'Souza to find out if his schedule has changed because of his arrest, but has not yet heard back from him.
The Dartmouth Review made no announcement regarding any changes as of Saturday afternoon.
Dartmouth College spokesman Justin Anderson said Friday that the college is merely providing a venue to the two Dartmouth student organizations and has been told as of Friday the debate is still going to take place.
Ayers' reaction
On Wednesday, Ayers, one of the founders of the radical Weather Underground, announced on his Facebook page that he was looking forward to the debate and added news that D'Souza was to be arrested. "And today this news: Dinesh will be arrested tomorrow for corruption and fraud."
Headlined as "What's So Great About America?," the debate shares its title with D'Souza's 2002 bestseller, which argues for a renewed patriotism in the face of radical internal and external threats to America.
The debate is scheduled to take place in the Spaulding Auditorium at Dartmouth College in Hanover on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
D'Souza, who made the film "2016: Obama's America," pleaded not guilty to the charges.
A prosecutor told U.S. District Judge Richard Berman at a hearing Friday in Manhattan that Wendy Long, a Republican, who lost that race to Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, was the recipient of the funds and told U.S. investigators in an interview that D'Souza had lied to her about the source of the money.
D'Souza persuaded two straw donors and their spouses to each give a $5,000 contribution for a total of $20,000 to Long's general election campaign, Assistant U.S. Attorney Carrie Cohen said Friday. She said that D'Souza lived with one of the straw donors.
"He said he would reimburse them," Cohen told the judge. "He did reimburse both individuals with $10,000 in cash after the contributions were made." D'Souza, 52, of San Diego, was accused in an indictment filed Thursday of violating federal law by using the straw donors to contribute four times the maximum of $5,000 that an individual is allowed to give during the campaign cycle. D'Souza himself made two $2,500 contributions to Long in March 2012, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The best-selling writer is also charged with causing false statements to be made to federal campaign regulators about the amounts and sources of the donations. Benjamin Brafman, D'Souza's lawyer, told Berman he tried and failed to dissuade the government from indicting his client. "I don't think there is much dispute as to what happened but why it happened and whether it violated federal law," Brafman said.
"At worst this was an act of misguided friendship by D'Souza," the defense lawyer said. "There was never a corrupt agreement of any kind," he said. "There was no quid pro quo in this case."
Berman, who ruled that D'Souza could be freed on a $500,000 bond, set the next hearing in the case for March 4.
Bail restrictions
The judge said D'Souza must tell the court if he intends to go outside of California and New York and must surrender his travel documents. D'Souza served as a policy analyst for late President Ronald Reagan and as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He was president of The King's College in New York City from 2010 to 2012, according to his website.


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Road Test: The Best Makeup on Pinterest
We tried the fall makeup trends everyone's pinning to help you figure out which looks are worth trying to mimic. Here are the ones to try
But mine weren't your average Wet n Wild experiments. No, I was known to spend entire weekends applying full-face looks -- from color-blocking eyeshadow to gothic smoky eyes -- just to wipe them off and start over again.
Skip ahead to see how I recreated these trendy Pinterest makeup looks.
So imagine my giddiness when my editor asked me to write this story. The assignment: Recreate a few gorgeous makeup looks on Pinterest to find out what's doable -- and what's too much hassle to even bother trying. Considering my formative years as a devotee to all things makeup, it took everything in me not to squeal a "hell yes." I pulled up Pinterest immediately and dove in to the smorgasbord of rainbow eyelids and fuchsia ombré pouts.
Let me be clear: I'm no professional makeup artist. But isn't that the point? If I can recreate some of these fabulous fall makeup trends, so can you.
SEE NEXT PAGE: Smoky eye and red lip
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The pins are superior to the woman featured. :( Disappointing.
by robyne00 Friday, February 22, 2013 at 04:52PM Report as inappropriate
The red lipstick looks amazing on you! I've been inspired to wear red.
by Sari Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 12:24PM Report as inappropriate
You have beautiful lips.
by beautyapocalypse Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 09:15PM Report as inappropriate
This deef inspired me!
by aishak55 Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 02:52PM Report as inappropriate
great job
by LittleBunny Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 08:38AM Report as inappropriate
Wish I could pull off red lips. Great pictures.
by BlackFleur145 Thursday, November 22, 2012 at 10:41AM Report as inappropriate
I really appreciate seeing a woman of color recreate the look to fit her skin tone. It gives women of color inspiration to recreate "high-end" looks. I do wish her products were a little more budget friendly. I didn't care for every single look but it was nice to see her attempt the looks anyways.
by Nikkisuchaqt Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 06:03PM Report as inappropriate
Pretty makeup looks but definitely not going to go out and buy these products just to recreate these faces. I'll stick to the less expensive makeup brands!
by Lamexicana1 Monday, November 19, 2012 at 08:17PM Report as inappropriate
didnt like it at all
by talecon Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 12:14PM Report as inappropriate
nice!!!! especially the dewy finish
by jenni84 Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 04:58PM Report as inappropriate


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Early one morning in 1999, I woke to the clock radio. The announcer was describing a study that proclaimed the nation's best profession was financial planner. And the reason? Pay was high and stress was low. I bolted upright and shouted, "Seriously? Low Stress?!"
I was feeling, in fact, very stressed. At the turn of the last century, the S&P 500 stood at 1230 percent of its value in 1982 when I started my first financial planning business.
People were caught up in the idea of a new paradigm — and the latest dot.com. Many clients expected to retire at age 50 (55 at the latest), own multiple residences (worthy of "Architectural Digest") and earn 20 percent a year on investments. Forever.
For me, knowing that no trend is permanent, the task of getting clients to make decisions based on more realistic assumptions was daunting.
Today fear has broadly replaced euphoria with the S&P 500 unchanged from late 1999. The last twelve years saw two 50-percent declines in the index, waves of financial blows and the Great Recession.
This period has been difficult for folks financially and especially difficult emotionally. In the last decade, we advisers have all experienced talking to a client, paralyzed with anxiety, on the edge of the "go to cash" cliff (some folks seem to have taken up permanent residence there). And getting them to envision any future short of disaster was challenging.
In each of these opposing scenarios, clients zeroed in on investment performance — and recent performance at that — as the primary predictor of their financial well-being. While investment performance is clearly important, it is not the only, or even the main, determinant of success in meeting financial goals.
And yet somehow many advisers feel compelled to predict market values in a week, month or year. And they think that they're helping clients by providing this vision. In reality, no one can control market behavior, the economyor world politics. Nor can anyone accurately and consistently predict what future will unfold.
The world and life provide us with events. We can and do make projections based on events and trends. However, no projection is guaranteed and each is always made with incomplete data.
Dalbar studies definitively show that a mutual fund's average investment return over time significantly out performs the return experienced by its investors — because people move in and out of investments at the wrong time based on emotion.
So what can we advisers do to get clients to concentrate on the factors that will produce the greatest benefits? We can help them with the following:
- Maintain adequate emergency funds.
- Define clear needs, goals, priorities and timelines.
- Align investment structure and portfolios with these needs and goals.
- Determine safe spending levels.
- Establish effective saving/investing practices.
- Take appropriate risks.
- Use tax laws to advantage.
- Target an optimal and realistic retirement age.
- Seek higher earned income if needed
These actions are critical whether markets are rising, falling or treading water.
We must clearly communicate that investments are always a means to an end and not an end in themselves. Our job is to inoculate clients against actions based on emotion, whether it is euphoria or fear.Helping them hold reasonable expectations, understand that all investments have potential risks, rewards and inter-relationships and to appreciate the value of diversification enhances clients' potential to make sound choices.
If financial planning and investing were easy, most everyone would be wealthy and financially secure. They are not.
We, as financial advisers, have the privilege and responsibility to help our clients act on smart decisions — many times requiring them to accept that no one can know market values, say, next summer. That reality increases the importance of other financial choices. The biggest determinant of ultimate success in meeting financial objectives will not be returns, but behavior.
Taking the focus off the factors we cannot control and moving it to the things we can is actually empowering. It requires robust communication and periodic reassessment.
By providing regular and consistent messages emphasizing the importance of behavior in building a secure financial future, we promote lasting and appreciative client relationships—and lower our own stress as well.
Marilyn Capelli Dimitroff is president of Capelli Financial Services, Inc., in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and has been a CFP® since 1982.
She currently serves on the Retirement Security Advisory Board of the Financial Services Roundtable. She was 2009 Chair of CFP Board's Board of Directors and served as Chair of the Ethics Task Force that developed CFP Board's updated Standards of Professional Conduct.
She has a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics from Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University, respectively.


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Imran Qazi
Hometown: Danbury, Conn.
Major: History - International Relations
WCSU Degree: Master of Arts in History
Honors and Awards: Recipient of the Vice President of Student Affairs Student Leadership Award, 2006; received a two year, full-tuition scholarship for 2006-08 from the Student Government Association (SGA); recipient of the WCSU Student Organization of the year Award, 2005; Who's Who Among Students In American Universities and Colleges, 2008
SGA president 2006-08, chief justice 2004-06; Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity sergeant at arms 2007-08; student representative on the Student Advisory Board (SAB) to the CSU system, Faculty Senate, University Planning and Budgeting Committee (UPBC), WCSU Foundation Board, Graduate Council, graduate and undergraduate Commencement Committee, NEASC 2007-08; Justice and Law Club president 2005-06, vice president 2004-05; secretary 2003-04; Volunteer work at Broadview Middle School's after school program to help the children with their extra curricular activities; work full time as a loss prevention supervisor at Kohl's Inc.
Danbury resident Imran Qazi came to WestConn "because the justice and law administration (JLA) program was highly recommended and so was the university environment." As an undergraduate, he majored in JLA with a minor in business, and received a Bachelor of Science in justice and law administration in 2006. "I decided to major in that because I have always wanted to work in the government sector and I felt that the JLA department would best prepare me for that and it has," Qazi says. "I was also impressed by the faculty in the JLA department."
Graduating after five years as an undergraduate, Qazi decided to attend graduate school at WestConn, too. "My graduate major is in history with a concentration in international relations," he explains. "I decided to major in this field because I wanted to expand my knowledge globally and since I plan on working in the field it best suited my needs."
Asked what he will remember most about his WestConn experience, Qazi says, "I have had many memorable experiences at WCSU but my most memorable was as SGA president getting the New York Times delivered for free on campus with assistance from the Provost, Dr. Linda Rinker. I have always felt that reading is the best way to enhance one's knowledge and that it should be available to all students for free on campus!"
After graduation, Qazi 's long-term goal includes working for the FBI and/or the United Nations. "I would like to one day become the Chief Ambassador for the United States to Pakistan, where my family is originally from," Qazi says. "I would love nothing more than to help bring peace across the world."
Qazi's advice to new students entering WCSU is: "Put your academics first as they will shape your future. The opportunities given to you at WCSU are endless, but it is your responsibility to grab them and use them to your advantage. Get involved in your spare time on campus. I would also recommend that you go to the Career Development Center, so they can give you all the guidance you need to make your future brighter than ever."


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n. - A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together. 2
n. - A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc. 2
n. - A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive. 2
n. - A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water. 2
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I can definitely do that. I did last night and she was a little fussy because they weren't exploding like they used to, but I will drop the formula feed before bed.
I definitely here where you are coming from and she started out with 3.5-4oz bm bottles but she just kept increasing every couple of weeks by half an ounce or so. She usually takes 5-6ozs, but she has been known to only eat 4 oz here and there as well as having a long nap and waking up ravished and eating 7 ozs.
I am away from her for 11 hours - she is eating like 15-16 ounces a day, BUT this is her first week back with Grandma and with baby food, so we shall see. I don't try to everfeed her, but if she fusses for more we give it to her.
My boobs just don't feel full anymore like they always have. They used to leak and get achy if I went to long, now they don't do that. :-(
I appreciate all the responses.