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Visitor Context enables marketers to deliver personalized content to site visitors through context-based rules that automatically place visitors into groups based on browsing behavior.
Use Visitor Context options to create rules that add anonymous or authenticated users to named groups based on referring URL, search terms used, IP address, or browser attributes. You can then conditionally render what visitors see based on group membership, as you can with other CommonSpot groups.
Note that these groups are completely separate from other CommonSpot groups and cannot be handled the same way. For example, you cannot directly assign ownership or site, subsite, page or element security to any individual Visitor Context group. You can only add Visitor Context Groups to existing Groups.
Use this feature to display selected events to only those users who browse similar events, or serve targeted offers to visitors whose referrer address or search terms indicate interest. Visitor Context does not generally apply to contributors.
To serve context-based content :
Like all groups, Visitor Context groups are stored in the Users database and are shared across all sites associated with a given Customer. (See Databases and Manage Companies for more information.)
Note that while Visitor Context rules are defined within an individual site, the groups they target span all associated Customer sites and can affect content in any of them. For example, a rule triggered by accessing a pay-per-click landing page could add visitors to a group that schedules the display of a related banner across multiple sites. Be aware that although this powerful feature can be used to your advantage, it can also produce unintended results.
Also note that all group names must be unique. You cannot create a Visitor Context group with the same name as an existing standard CommonSpot group, or vice-versa.
You cannot view, add, or remove visitors from context groups manually. Membership is assigned automatically based on the rules you create for:
You can make rules temporary (apply per-session or for a specified number of days) or permanent (non-expiring). Each rule remembers whether it is temporary or permanent. For rules with memory beyond the current session, CommonSpot sets a cookie to track that the rule was triggered, and when the visitor returns to the site at a later date, puts them back in the specified group, whether their behavior matches that rule again or not. For example, visitors referred from a jobs site and assigned to the Job Seekers group remain in that group on subsequent visits, regardless of whether they return via a jobs site.
(Remember that, because cookie tracking is browser-based, rules triggered in one browser affect activity for that browser only. Also note that since Visitor Context rules are designed for anonymous site visitors, with no user records in CommonSpot, triggering a rule has no effect on any CommonSpot databases.)
CommonSpot includes an option to create custom rules to evaluate conditions not addressed by standard rule options. To create custom rules, you must first create a CFML file in a location that can be referenced as a cfmodule template path, then create a visitor context rule with the condition "Is recognized by this custom module" pointing to your custom module.
Modules test whether the conditions you've defined are met, and return a true or false boolean value indicating whether to trigger the rule.
This feature also allows you to reuse the same module in multiple rules, while causing it to behave differently in each one.
See Add Visitor Context Rule for details.
Once you create a rule you can activate it, deactivate it, or delete it:
When rules are active, CommonSpot checks for the triggering event at the appropriate times. When it occurs, CommonSpot adds the visitor to the specified group, and optionally sets a cookie to remember the event on future visits.
When rules are inactive, the triggering event is no longer checked, so no new visitors are added to the associated group, and no new cookies are set; however, visitors with existing cookies are returned to the specified group when they come back to the site. Setting rules to this state is useful for preparing for a later campaign or when temporarily suspending campaigns.
When rules are deleted, associated events are no longer checked, and any existing cookies are ignored.
Out of the box, Visitor Context Rules recognize external search terms from Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
If the shipped set of search engines doesn't meet your needs, you can define your own through the CommonSpot API. This might be valuable if you work in an industry where another specific search site is very important, or if you use a hardware search appliance on your site, rather than the built-in CommonSpot search elements.
See the documentation for the SearchEngine API component for more information.
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Beyond Chevron: More Colorful Curtain Options For Kids
When I was hunting through stores last month for the Style Cure I kept asking myself: why is it so hard to find great curtains for kids rooms? It seems like your options, as a parent, are plain or chevron. What else is there that won't look too grown up, yet not too babyish? Here are five styles of curtains that come in great colors and will look great in a kids space.
1. Add pom-poms. These lush Swing Stripes curtains from Anthropologie come in an amazing range of colors, but will set you back $118-$178 apiece. If you want a little pom-pom in your life for less, try Target's light blocking Xhilaration curtains for $29.99.
2. Can't go past navy stripe? Well, what about a lemon yellow stripe? These handmade curtains are from Etsian Habit Handcrafted, $93 for the pair. You can get a similar look with West Elm's yellow striped shower curtain.
3. Polka dots are perfect. I loved these Urban Outfitters curtains so much, I bought them myself ($24-$29). For polka dotes plus cute ties, check out Pottery Barn's Dottie Sheer curtains ($17.99-$59 on sale).
4. For patterns, try some fun Scandi-style. I love these crazy tree curtains (Kajsamia) from IKEA that are only $24.99 for the pair. For an up-market option, you could have drapes made from your favorite Marimekko fabric.
5. For texture, check out velvet. It's lovely and warm looking for winter, and will block the light much better than simple cotton. These purple beauties are a bargain from IKEA at just $69.99 for the pair, or you can look at the color options from PB teen ($59.99-$109 on sale).
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For more information, please visit our Facebook page facebook.com/katycommunitygivingcircle. Clothed By Faith We are looking for volunteers to join our amazing team! Please see our website www. clothedbyfaith.com for more information or email email@example.com. Located at 802 Dominion Drive, Suite 100 in Katy. CBF demonstrates God's love through the provision of gently used clothing to those in need. Houston Children's Charity Join a group of people dedicated to improving the lives of children. If you are searching for a good cause to lend a hand to, you need look no further. Houston Children's Charity is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for underprivileged, abused and disabled children who have been otherwise left behind. The scope of our support is limited only by the availability of resources. Our goal, the rainbow that we chase, is to leave no legitimate request for assistance unanswered. 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Why Growth in West Isn't Boosting Asia
Manufacturing data out Thursday showed regional economies failing to benefit from the pickup in the U.S., Europe and Japan. The WSJ's Michael Arnold speaks with HSBC's Frederic Neumann about Asia's dependence on China and what bright spots to look out for.
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... the ... during data from across Asia this week painted a picture of a regional group is quickly decelerate ... for Asia Today o Michael Arnold ... joining me is Frederic Neumann co head of Asian economic research at HSBC ... for for a long time we saw a data out of Asia that was positive data out of the West that was ... that was disappointing though that ... this that this conflict is in the West is growing but that's not filtering through to the show ... was ... what it's really interesting Asia's compete toppling if you will strongly date is not filtering through into the region ... and one of these the challenges is that China has ... domestic ... problems so it's not ... lifting growth across emerging market will remember China was the engine with emerging markets index now waiting on will love and supporting ... I see no you as a regular reader of it assists in research to know ... you all been a ... proponent of the psyche of the ... debt loads of been growing ... quite quickly for Rhodesia ... at the same time Productivity has been falling ... wondering how how that plays into this that I mean you know as as leverage Bros how does that affect the slowing growth ... what makes economies much mobile mobile to financial volatility and last to three months to see a lot of addictions top ... concerns of a tapering had a ... money market got a crunch in China it's now be a little bit but ... that sensitivity to financial conditions because of high debt means that ... growth is now snowing across emerging markets ... I soon and you know one other things you ... would expect that as growth slows the governments of central banks might step in was more policy easing either ... to cut rates or perhaps an actor stimulus package is a little to boost growth but ... with debt levels rising is there space for governments to step into the breach ... what it's it sounds like doing more with the same and therefore an art that people suggests we should shy away from more stimulus but in some markets ... and China in particular ... more stimulus money needed for the time being just make sure that ... the common isn't going to our mending ... but the same time you also have to put my structural reforms to make sure you're ... putting yourself on a more sustainable path next to twenty ... five years ... no one can wonder you know as you look across Asia are you seeing any kind of bright spots though there were no are you seeing any kind of light at the end of the tunnel here ... well I mean the Bank of Japan still aggressively pushing into ... that the gas pedal if you will that's gonna backstop in August Asia for the time being so ... BRCM economies like the Philippines Thailand and Indonesia ... gonna be a few of support from that even if it will switch on stilts ... in the aisle Weber is a bit of that that type spotlight now see its currency plunged tighter financial conditions of the two giants ... in emerging Asia having trouble the smaller countries Atsi and still moving at all ... Sue is very interesting certainly this is a story that were to stay on top of it the beest dot com ... growth in Asia something that so many people around the world are interested in ... up for thank so much for joining us today ... for Asia Today o Michael Arnold ...


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Educational Philosophy of Race for Heaven Products
Race For Heaven products are modeled after the teaching philosophy of British educator Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) who developed an educational method that revolved around a literature-based curriculum. The Charlotte Mason educational pedagogy relies upon engaging, living books (as opposed to "twaddle" or dry textbooks) that are read aloud to children who then share what they have learned through narration, and real-life application. Through the application of what become her twenty principles toward education, Charlotte Mason sought to develop within children a lifelong love of learning. Through the student motto"I am, I can, I ought, I will"she sought to develop the full moral and spiritual potential of the child.
A brief summary of the methods and techniques used by Charlotte Mason would include the use of "living" books, oral narration, memorization, copywork through dictation, plenty of time outdoors with nature, and the discipline of habits. More in-depth information about the educational philosophy of Charlotte Mason is available online including her complete six-book series on education in the original English or modern English translation. Two other excellent Charlotte Mason sites include the Charlotte Mason Research and Supply Company and the ABC's of CM. To apply her principles in a Catholic environment (Charlotte Mason was not a Catholic.), refer to Love2Learn's Favorite Resources for Catholic Homeschooler's websiteCatholic Charlotte Mason and the Ambleside Online website.
Race For Heaven products employ Charlotte Mason's method of education by encouraging family read-aloud of Catholic living booksespecially saint biographiesto teach the truths of the Catholic faith and to encourage the imitation of the holy habits of the saints. Narration, daily read-aloud of living books, integration of holy habits, and scripture memorization are all integral components of the Race For Heaven curriculum. Regular family spiritual read-aloud is strongly emphasized in all of our materials. This read-aloud approach is applied in our literature-based method of preparing your family for the all-important sacrament of Holy Communionwith our Communion with the Saints program. This family preparation program utilizes four Catholic living books to renew your family's fervor for this Blessed Sacrament while preparing a younger family member to receive Jesus for the first time.
Living books that impart knowledge of the doctrine and the lived experience of the Catholic faith are the backbone of the Race for Heaven curriculum. Janet McKenzie has prepared chapter-by-chapter enrichment activities to Mary Fabyan Windeatt's saint biographies provide an enjoyable, flexible Catholic unit study in which multi-aged family members can discover the depth and breadth of the Catholic faith and share that knowledge with other family members.
Regular spiritual reading is an essential element of every Christians life. For Catholic families, the practice of reading spiritual books aloudespecially Scripture and the lives of the saintsproduces many spiritual and familial benefits. In her book, Saint Dominic, Preacher of the Rosary and Founder of the Dominican Order, Mary Fabyan Windeatt quotes St. Dominic, A little good reading, much prayer and meditation . . . and God will do the rest.
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STMicroelectronics and University of Amsterdam Faculty of Science Cooperate to Soar With Birds
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Technology Tracks Bird Migration and Behavior
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the world's top manufacturer of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems)[1], and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Faculty of Science have announced that a sophisticated bird-tracking system developed by the university is using advanced MEMS sensing technology from ST.
Weighing as little as a 20 euro cent coin or a US quarter and smaller than a car key so as not to impede the birds' flight, the tracking systems are sophisticated data loggers that can be attached to the back of the birds. The trackers enable valuable scientific research on bird behavior by measuring GPS position every 3 seconds.
In addition to the bird's location, determined via the Global Positioning System, the tracker collects acceleration and direction data from STMicroelectronics' LSM303DLM digital compass that integrates low-power, high-performance motion and magnetic sensing in a miniature form factor. The MEMS chip monitors the direction and vertical/horizontal orientation of the animal and can determine the body angle of birds flying in a crosswind.
The tracker also contains sensors that measure both the air temperature and the internal temperature of the device. A lithium battery, charged by a high-efficient triple-junction solar cell, provides power to the system, and a ZigBee transceiver manages wireless data communication to and from the device.
Data from the trackers is currently being shared among bird-research institutes and biologists to verify computer models that predict bird behavior and migration patterns (www.UvA-BiTS.nl).
"MEMS technologies are finding their way into a broad range of applications and only ST has the breadth of technologies available to serve as a one-stop supplier," said Benedetto Vigna, Executive Vice President and General Manager of ST's Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group. "The light weight, low power, and high accuracy of the MEMS make it ideal for innovative projects like UvA's bird tracking system to study avian migration and behavior."
"Animals have a lot to teach us and, especially as the Earth's climate changes, there are many projects that we can undertake to study animal behavior and migration patterns," said Prof. Dr. Ir. Willem Bouten of UvA. "STMicroelectronics is a strong partner for us in developing technologies that are suitable and adaptable to researching challenging problems that could help us address the effects of global warming and land use change."
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the spectrum of sense and power and automotive products and embedded processing solutions. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2012, the Company's net revenues were $8.49 billion. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
About University of Amsterdam
The bird tracking system is developed in a close collaboration of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) and the Technology Centre (TC) both of the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. TC supports scientific groups of the faculty in the areas of mechanical construction, electronics and software, thus stimulating innovative research. The Faculty of Science is a leading centre of academic research and education with a broad range of strong research groups.
About MEMS
MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology exploits the mechanical as well as the electrical properties of silicon. In conventional silicon chips, electrons move within the static silicon. However, silicon also has several important mechanical properties e.g. it is stronger than steel yet has high elasticity. The techniques that are used to build silicon transistors can also be adapted to build microscopic silicon structures such as cantilevers, springs and even gears that are capable of physical movement, allowing the manufacture of highly miniaturized sensors and activators.
[1] IHS iSuppli: MEMS Competitive Analysis 2012
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President Obama's speech Wednesday laying out a plan for deficit reduction answers a long-burning question: When will the president join the debate on how to avoid a national fiscal train wreck?
But don't necessarily expect to hear specifics on deficit reduction. Indeed, White House officials have said that he will lay out a "vision" but won't go into a lot of detail. Still, Mr. Obama will at least create the appearance that he has joined the debate, following the release last December of his bipartisan fiscal commission's plan and then more recently, the GOP budget proposal for fiscal 2012 by Rep. Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Obama's own 2012 budget, released in February, skirted the issue of unsustainable entitlement spending – foremost, on Medicare and Medicaid – and led to a drumbeat of questions over when the president would take up the issue. But even if Obama's numbers on the two big medical entitlements are "to be determined," he now has plenty to talk about: Chairman Ryan's plan, which quietly passed his committee last week.
"It was smart for him to wait, because now he can use the Ryan plan as a benchmark," says John Kenneth White, a political scientist at Catholic University in Washington. "He can say, 'We're not turning Medicare into a voucher system.' "
Ryan has said his plan is not a voucher system, though critics disagree. The Ryan budget called for nearly $6 trillion in deficit reduction over the next 10 years, in part by ending Medicare as an entitlement and providing "premium support" for seniors in the private insurance market. But critics say it acts more as a voucher plan because the government's level of "premium support" does not keep up with rising health-care costs.
Medicaid, the federal health-care system for low-income people, would become a block-grant program to the states, limiting the federal government's outlay.
Bill Clinton's playbook
"What's striking to me is how reminiscent this is of the 1990s," says a veteran congressional Democratic aide. "The political landscape changed for President Clinton, and he then played on Republican turf. What he's trying to do is accommodate the tide that swept over Washington in last year's election."
Just as that worked for Clinton politically, so too can it work for Obama. "He has extraordinary leeway with the Democratic base, because he's not getting primaried," says the aide.
That opens up a big opportunity for Obama with independent voters, who give high support to compromise – not grand partisan gestures. Obama and the Democrats' last-minute dealmaking with the Republicans last Friday to avoid a government shutdown allowed the president to come across as a split-the-difference moderate, even if the Democrats ended up giving away a lot more than they intended.
But there are bright lines Obama probably won't cross – and one of them is changing Social Security, which has many years of solvency left in its trust fund, according to liberal groups. Medicare and Medicaid are a different story. They are significant drivers of the nation's looming fiscal crisis. Now that Ryan has put out a plan for radical change to both, Obama can jump in with something less dramatic but still claim he's addressing the problem.
Signals of compromise
Until now, Obama has been saying that his health-care reform would end up saving money in the long run, and cites Congressional Budget Office numbers to bolster his assertion. Ryan crunches the numbers differently, and says his plan would save $1.4 trillion over 10 years by repealing Obama's health-care reform.
Now, it appears, the Obama administration wants to move beyond the argument that his health-care reforms will save money, and is willing to contemplate further savings in federal health-care spending as a compromise.
"We've had a lot of savings in health care, [but] we have to do more," senior White House adviser David Plouffe said on "Meet the Press" Sunday. "So you're going to have to look at Medicare and Medicaid and see what kind of savings you get."
Another major departure point for Obama vis a vis the Ryan plan is taxes. Ryan lowered the top marginal tax rate for both individuals and corporations to 25 percent. On Wednesday, Obama is expected to repeat his call for a tax increase on the wealthiest Americans, which he included in his budget. Though he dealt away that proposal in the tax compromise with Republicans last December, he is still keeping that idea on the table, almost as a symbolic marker, since the current Republican-controlled House would never pass it.
On a larger scale, Obama also faces public opinion. Polls show widespread concern over the nation's skyrocketing debt – but not much willingness to make budget cuts, except in foreign aid (a minuscule fraction of the federal budget). Obama could scare the public by painting a picture of a nation in default over unmanageable debt, à la Greece. But that's not his style. He likes to talk about investing in education, research and development, and infrastructure.
"Fear is the easy way to go, but if you want to connect with middle-class Americans, you have to talk about hope," says Ryan McConaghy, director of the economic program at Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank.


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Best of SEMA: Richard Petty's Challenger
Richard Petty is the King, and there's no getting around that his '72 Challenger looks totally bad-ass.
A couple of years back I actually spotted Petty walking through the show, and he was super-cool to all the people who approached him. And if he was upset at not being able to travel more than a couple of feet at a time, his trademark shades and ten-gallon hat hid it with ease.
The STP race livery has always been one of my favorites?along with the classic Gulf Oil colors?and standing next to this wicked machine made me wish NASCAR still raced cars that resembled something you could actually buy. Big time props to Optima Batteries for bringing this treasure to the show.


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Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo believes the way people perceive his personality has meant he has become disliked by supporters.
The forward is often portrayed as arrogant by onlookers and the Portugal captain thinks his reputation often precedes him.
"I don`t want to cry about it, but sometimes I think yes," he told CNN when asked whether his image had cost him in the past.
"It`s a question to which I never give the 100% right answer, because sometimes I really don`t know. I don`t think it`s allowed for people to change my personality.
"Maybe sometimes, I agree that I have a bad image on the pitch because I`m too serious."
His competitive streak helped lead Los Blancos to the Liga title last season and he admits his thirst for success even creeps into his personal life.
"If you really know me, if you are my friend and I leave you inside my house and you share the day with me, you will know I hate to lose," he added.
"If I am in the swimming pool with my girlfriend sometimes we like to have a race. Sometimes you have to give her an opportunity to be happy, but I win because I don`t like to lose.
"I`m a competitive man and sometimes people interpret that in a different way, which is a pain on me because I don`t like it, but I have to live."
The former Manchester United attacker also hit back at critics who have labelled him over-confident.
"People who call me arrogant, I`m interested, not with all of them, but most of them," Ronaldo stated.
"One day I would like to sit with them and have a chat to see in which way they think I`m arrogant, because I think they need to sit with me to know who the real Cristiano is."


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Fall calendar jammed with musical performances
Variety of professional concerts planned on campus throughout fall semester
Argentinian tango, Brahms sonatas and Americana – it will all be performed on campus this fall, with schedules online in State of the Arts.
The season begins Sept. 23 with a concert by the Lydian String Quartet's Grammy-nominated violinist Daniel Stepner, who will be joined by world-renowned pianist Robert Levin. Together they'll celebrate the work of Brahms, performing the German composer's "Three Sonatas for Piano and Violin." Catch the performance in the Slosberg Music Center at 7 p.m.
On Oct. 14 at 3 p.m., members of the Lydians and their colleagues will honor Irving Fine, the founder of the School of Creative Arts, with "Serious Song: A Lament for String Orchestra" (1955) and "Notturno for Strings and Harp" (1950-51). Neal Hampton of the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra will conduct the free show, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Richard Wernick '55 and Yehudi Wyner, as well as professor emeritus Martin Boykan, will share their memories of the late modernist composer.
The Lydians are on again Nov. 17, at 8 p.m., when they'll perform Mozart's Quartet in D minor, K. 421, "Aqua" by Harold Meltzer and Beethovens Quartet in A minor, Op. 132. They'll also deliver a pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m.
Music Unites US, a program that seeks to engender appreciation for other cultures through music, will bring the Pablo Zeigler Tango Quartet to campus for the program's semi-annual residency October 18 to 20. On the final day at 8 p.m., they'll perform the culminating world music concert preceded at 7 p.m. by a talk delivered by Robert Farris Thompson, the author of "Tango: The Art History of Love."
Ziegler, a Latin Grammy-winning pianist and the preeminent living member of Astor Piazzolla's groundbreaking tango ensemble, leads the group in haunting, rhythmic new compositions as well as dynamic works by tango legends. The quartet also includes Hector Del Curto on bandoneon (similar to an accordion) Jisoo Ok on cello and Pedro Giraudo on double bass. The concert will feature dancers Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo.
The New York Times has referred to the innovative quartet, which combines classical Argentinian music with jazz as "the essence of the new tango."
Artist-scholars Amelia LeClair and Cappella Clausura, Dana Maiben, Vivian Montgomery, Laury Gutierrez and La Donna Musicale from the Women's Studies Research Center will perform works by early women composers including Raffaella, Aleotti and Sulpitia Cesis, among others, in a free show on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at noon, in the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Barbara Cassidy M.A. '98, her husband Eric Chasalow, the Irving Fine Professor of Music, and jazz professor Bob Nieske, will dig into the roots of the folk tradition with guests Pesky J. Nixon – whose guitarist and vocalist Ethan Baird '02 is one of Chasalow's former students – drummer Dave Mattacks, singer-songwriter and producer Goody Goodrich and critically acclaimed folksinger Peter Mulvey.
They'll perform Americana, with some jazz and pop mixed in on Nov. 4, at 3 p.m. Proceeds benefit the hunger-relief work of Waltham Fields Community Farm.
On Dec. 9, at 7 p.m., the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra, conducted by Neal Hampton, will perform Humperdinck's opera, "Hansel and Gretel," featuring guest singers Marion Dry, Gail Fuller and Andrea Matthews; Ravel's "Daphnis and Chlose, suite No. 2;" and Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture."
The season ends with the annual Messiah Sing in the Shapiro Student Center atrium at 4 p.m. on Dec. 13.
All performances take place at the Slosberg Music Center unless otherwise noted; for ticket information, visit Brandeis Tickets.
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Of course, this is all just politics. It was pretty clear for anyone with even a modicum of political sense that SOPA had simply accumulated too much of a negative connotation to be pushed through without repercussions. With several major websites - including Reddit, the Cheezburger Network, and now Wikipedia - threatening to go dark, the bill's sponsors had no choice but to back off.
For now. It's a rather smart move, since this takes all the wind out of the anti-SOPA camp's sails. In the meantime, the content industry and its politicians can let the SOPA hubbub die out, rename it to something like the "Protecting American Jobs and Loving Puppies and God Act" or whatever and get it rushed through while nobody's looking.
In addition, SOPA's counterpart in the US Senate, PIPA (no, not Pippa, sadly) is still being pushed, so we have to remain vigilant. The content industry and its politicians did not suddenly develop sense - they're just regrouping for a better PR campaign the next time 'round.
As such, Wikipedia has decided to join the blackout protests on Wednesday anyway. The English language variant of Wikipedia will go dark for 24 hours, much like other large sites and companies such as Reddit, Mozilla, the Cheezburger Network, Wordpress, and many others.
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Name: Owen, 6
Location: Tri-Cities, WA
Like most little boys, my son Owen loves cowboys. He loves hats and guns, horses and badges so a cowboy party only seemed fitting.
The invitations were my favorite part of Owen's party. During the planning process Owen said he wanted all of his friends to have a horse to race during the festivities, so I made hobby horses for each of his guests. Owen dressed up in all of his cowboy gear and we hand delivered the hobby horses (along with a paper invitation with the party details) to his friends. Guests were instructed to practice riding their horse and bring it to the party for the big race.
Since the party was in our backyard, I kept the decor simple by tying red bandanas together and hung it up in the trees. Each guest received a cowboy hat, bandana and sheriff badge upon arriving.
For party activities, the children raced their horses and took turns at the pinata. Once the pinata was broken open, the children put their candy in a cotton bag I embellished with a boot silhouette made from a red bandana.
The party favors were bags of trail mix + bottles of sarsaparilla (root beer). My sister in law made the cute boot cake.
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• Cotton bags from Michaels
Thanks, Danyelle! Readers, visit Danyelle at Dandee Designs.
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I do the math on my hand. This is my 5th end of the year dance recital and you think by now I'd know to remember to pack hair spray and snacks. Someone hands my daughter a bag of chips and I want to hug her. I want to tell her that I am not a total failure, that we did not lose the wristbands, we wore the right color tights and that I do at least have a few bobby pins in my pocket. I can not handle the crazy that is backstage. It is a whirlwind of squealing girls in sequins, lycra and tulle. Moms wielding curling hours and more eye makeup than the entire MAC counter, I start to sweat in my ponytail. I quickly look away as an entire row of dancers peel off EVERYTHING for a quick costume change. I was not made for this. I unashamedly let an eight-year-old I have never met teach me how to get my daughter's hair in place and I make the fastest exit I can.
We sit in the balcony. Where we have been for hours. Dance recital day is all consuming. Rehersal, hair and finding the right tights. My kids are number 41 and 46 in a very long program. I joke with my husband and ask if anyone would mind if we had a pizza delivered. He watches soccer silently on his phone. I watch the stage, despite my discomfort backstage, I like the music and the art that someone has gone into to show me what it looks like. Song after song. I hear it differently because now I can see it.
My son is up first. Yep, you read that right - my nerf gun shooting, goal scoring, video game addicted son takes the stage in what is usually only his sister's dance recital. His hat is to the side, his Jordans laced up, his pants I swear — I wore in the early 90s. Well, I just wanted to wear them — but I wore boring Jordache instead. Kriss Kross starts to tell them to jump. And he does. How high - he almost hits the sky. And my heart has that familiar swell. The one where I think it is trying to bust out of my chest and down my cheeks in pride. I watched him at dress rehearsal just two days ago. Catching errors and uncertainty, eager to get home and take care of all the things I needed to do, but on stage, all I see is my kid out there kicking ass in front of an absolutely packed auditorium. They strut off the stage and the crowd claps louder than usual because these have been the first boys they have seen all day.
A few acts later, my girl in her sequins prances out. Like my son, I saw her dance in costume so recently, but it is a different thing entirely on this huge stage. Under the lights. A few counts in she practically does the splits. The splits. How in the….When did she learn that? I must have been watching it through the lens of my phone rather than with my big teary eyes the other day. We miss a lot like that. All this. The hours in my seat of a program that seems to never end and the million bobby pins. I'd do it again, for that feeling of watching my kids out there.
Tess has told me week after week that she is done with dance. That she wants to quit. WHY DID I EVEN SIGN HER UP, she whines. I remind her, sometimes at the same volume, that it is because she asked me to. I remind her that she told me assuredly at the recital last year that she wanted to do it again. I tell her each week as we struggle with tights and finding the other damn jazz shoe that this is what she signed up for and we are not quitting until after the show. Secretly I wish she would. It is not cheap and I'd love one less thing to chauffeur her to and from.
At dress rehearsal, I see that my daughter, usually short and focused, is put on the front and that now she is in the back. I see her with new skills but less confidence and timing than the other girls. I want her to do well of course, but I tell her as we put on these tights for maybe the last time what I want her to do today. I don't tell her the usual before recital things. Smile, watch your line, have fun, break a leg. Instead, I talk too much. I tell her how proud it makes me watch her do brave things. How nervous I'd be in front of all those people, but that she has done it so many times before. I tell her to go out there and be brave. I tell her to stop looking around at the people around her. To just do her thing as best she can. I ask her what would happen if she wasn't there? She looks at me funny. She might want to skip practice, but she never ever wants to skip recital day. I ask her again, what would it look like if you weren't in your spot. She gets the question and tells me that there would be an empty hole. Yes, Tess. When we don't show up, when we aren't brave….that sometimes it leaves an empty space. A Tess shaped space. That they need her out there. That it won't be nearly as good if she isn't there. That that isn't true just for dance recitals. I tell her it is true at school. I tell her it is true on the soccer field. I tell her it is the absolute most true right in our family.
I tell her that she is needed.
I tell her that she is important.
I tell her that she is brave.
And since I can't tell her what I am really thinking - to go out there and kick some ass, I tell her what everyone else does.
I tell her to break a leg.


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Daniel Michael "Danny" DeVito, Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, comedian, director, and producer. He first gained prominence for his portrayal of Louie De Palma on the ABC and NBC TV series Taxi (1978–1983), for which he won a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
DeVito and his wife, Rhea Perlman, founded Jersey Films, a production company known for films such as Pulp Fiction, Garden State, and Freedom Writers. DeVito also owns Jersey Television, which produced the Comedy Central series Reno 911!. DeVito and Perlman also starred together in his 1996 film Matilda, based on Roald Dahl's children's novel. He currently stars as Frank Reynolds on the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
DeVito was born in Neptune, New Jersey, the son of Julia, a homemaker, and Daniel Michael DeVito, Sr., who owned several small businesses, including a dry cleaning store, a dairy outlet, a luncheonette, and a pool hall.[1][2] DeVito is of Italian descent and was raised a Roman Catholic,[3] growing up in Asbury Park.[4] He boarded at Oratory Preparatory School, in Summit, New Jersey, graduating in 1962, and subsequently trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, from which he graduated in 1966.
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Establishment Republicans have been eager to get past the part of the election cycle where Ron Paul has played an outsized role. Rand Paul's recent endorsement of Mitt Romney divided libertarians, but the Paul heir's apparent capitulation to business as usual actually underscores how the GOP faces a more complex challenge to the ideological status quo.
Rand's willingness to play ball with the powers that be takes on a much different cast than it would if Ron wasn't still a powerful force on his own. Instead of hanging up his spurs, Paul the Elder is raking in the cash: $1.78 million in May, leaving him with over $3 million in the bank. That's not much relative to Mitt Romney's almost $77 million take that month with the RNC. But, combined with Ron's persistent impact in the wake of the primaries -- Iowa is sending a largely Paulite slate of delegates to this year's nominating convention -- it's enough to keep independent libertarians active in Republican party politics.
That makes for a two-prong Paul family strategy: play an outsider's game and an insider's game. While Ron keeps the grassroots purists happy, Rand admits freely that he'd be "honored" to serve as Romney's vice president. From one angle, this seems a dangerous approach: it could give the Pauls the worst of both worlds, discrediting themselves among libertarians and Republicans alike.
There are two potent reasons why it's not such a high-risk move, however. First, there's not much of an alternative. Second, libertarians and Republicans alike have a deep-seated need to have it both ways in just the manner the Pauls are achieving.
Consider the alternatives to the two-prong strategy -- giving up on politics altogether, assimilating completely into the Republican party, and doubling down on the Libertarian party itself. It's clear that libertarians are enjoying their moment of increased national relevance; given the libertarian cast of some frustrations on the left with Obama and the continued disenchantment of many conservatives with establishmentarianism on the right, there's much less to savor about turning a cold shoulder to the national political scene. Yet, the time is not yet ripe for a full push to burrow into the heart of the GOP. Ron and Rand may actually both be setting libertarianism on a course for a much closer encounter with the centers of Republican power, but libertarians are far from ready to check their identity at the door. Finally, no matter how well-regarded and competent Gary Johnson may be, the Libertarian party itself is an ineffective organization that still struggles with credibility and unity from the ground up. For the foreseeable future, the future of libertarian Republicanism belongs to the Pauls.
Despite the protracted bickering and fretting this may cause, it leaves everyone on the right better off. Booting the Paul people from the GOP might gratify some neoconservatives, it's not possible to expel them without performing a full libertarianectomy -- and any Republican who's willing even to risk that outcome just isn't serious about winning elections (to say nothing of any fealty to Reagan Republicanism). Likewise, awkwardly navigating the borderline between libertarian and Republican purists is the only way to reassemble an effective voting and governing coalition that can replace the current administration and hold the line against congressional Democrats and movement liberals.
More than grief, Ron and Rand deserve applause from the factions they're working to bring together.
James Poulos writes about political news, focusing on our choices for liberty and our options for reform. He's a columnist at The Daily Beast, the host of the Free Radicals podcast, and the frontman of a band called Black Hi-Lighter.


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ST. LOUIS - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today filed suit in federal court against Audrain Medical Center in Mexico, Mo., charging that the center violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a nurse with neuralgia and then firing her because of the disability.
The nurse, Cynthia Hodges, who had worked for Audrain for 17 years, had neuralgia and returned from leave authorized under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) with a 10-pound lifting restriction for a six-week period. When Audrain refused to accommodate her restrictions, Hodges requested additional unpaid leave for six weeks as an accommodation for her disability. The accommodation would have allowed her to return to work without restrictions on June 2, 2009. Audrain refused to grant her the additional leave or to explore any other accommodations, without explanation, and ultimately terminated her.
"Actions speak louder than words," said EEOC Regional Attorney Barbara Seely. "The company refused to explain why it could not grant a 17-year employee an additional six weeks of unpaid leave. It obviously would not have created a staff shortage, because Ms. Hodges was not replaced until well after her contemplated return-to-work date."
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects employees from discrimination based upon their disability. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (Case No. 2:12-CV-00073) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
Audrain Medical Center employs approximately 500 people and serves primarily Mexico, Mo. and surrounding communities.
The EEOC enforces the ADA and other federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.