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American ReunionBlu-ray Disc - 2012
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this mvie is awesome the last piece of Pie gives us a hint to the fifth movie of the series and I hope not the very Last. I give American Reunion Five stars because that's How awesome the movie was Just Like the first movie.
Hi my name is Lucy and I'm using my dad's account to say this: I don't know why a lot of people here are hating this 4th movie of the series. I watched it and to me it was the best one in the series along with American Wedding. It is so hilarious that I laughed my tears out every time I watch it. And some say that Stifler is probably the only reason why the film gets watched well I have to disagree with that! In my opinion Stifler's character was good but it made me slightly uncomfortable because of the too much player sexuality he acted out. For me Jason Biggs' character was actually my favourite character along with Alyson Hannagian's character. P.S. Keep up the great work Jason Biggs' and Alyson Hannagian! In other words all of the movies to me were great especially the 3rd and 4th and I recommend other people do not listen to the haters first and actually watch the video and see for yourself how awesome it is!. Watch it and see yourself because haters are haters and what they say is not your opinion so watch it! Thank you!
Of the films in this series that I have seen, none of them have been good quality films and so the comments by stars and co-stars about enjoying the process of making this film do little to impress me about each of the actors including Eugene Levy.
The film largely is unwatchable.
Easily the weakest of the quadrilogy.
I do not recall ever actually laughing.
I really have to stop watching these movies - at the end I just think about the 1.5hrs that I wasted of my life.
I saw the start of the movie
and I didnot like it I had stopped this is not for children to watch
Not as good as the original but still entertaining.
Worst of the four "real" American Pie movies (no straight to DVD releases included). Had a few laughs and it was sweet to see all of the original cast back together. That being said, it lacked any of the shock value of the other three films. I don't consider it a complete failure, but I feel they could have done much better. If you watched the other three and liked/loved them, watch this one. If you barely enjoyed the others, skip it.
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Cory Arrambide Wins Inaugural Pismo Beach Open QS1,000
Arrambide's long-awaited QS win came on home soil with huge performances over event standouts throughout finals day.
North American Titles Up for Grabs at Pismo Beach
The final day of competition will decide regional QS champions.
Pismo Beach Open Begins With Big Scores in Tough Conditions
Opening day at the first-ever WSL event held on Pismo Beach's shores soared through Round One action and witnessed top seeds debut in Round
Inaugural Pismo Beach Open Ready for Friday's Start
One last event will determine who boasts the North America Regional men's QS Title by Sunday.
Pismo Beach Open: May the Best Man Win
The inaugural Pismo Beach Open QS1,000 will be the final deciding factor for who takes the North America Regional Title.

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Winners - Romania
10 - 12 years old - Iapetus
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When, in 1671, the director of the Paris Observatory, using an improved telescope, saw Iapetus for the first time, Saturn was no longer the Galileo's "planet with ears". The astronomer Christiaan Huygens had already solved the mystery in 1659 when he realized that the "ears" of Saturn were really a system of rings. Iapetus was mysterious from the beginning. The astronomer was able to see it only on the western side of the Saturn. It wasn't until 1705 that Giovanni Cassini finally sawed Iapetus on the eastern side of the great planet using a better telescope because the moon appeared much dimmer on that side. He correctly assumed that Iapetus has a much darker side than the other.
310 years later, the Voyager 2 spacecraft was able to show Iapetus from a closer perspective. It showed that the two contrasting sides make it appear like a Yin/Yang symbol. The leading hemisphere and sides are darker and the trailing hemisphere and poles are almost as bright as the icy world of Europe. With a density of 1.083 grams per cm3 it was clear that the bright regions are made of water ice. But Voyager's missions let the mystery of the dark material still unsolved. Scientists suggested that it is made of debris from the Saturn's largest ring, which orbits in the opposite direction of Iapetus. This would explain why the darker Cassini Region is located on the "front" leading side of the moon.
In 2007, the Cassini spacecraft flew even closer to Iapetus (1700 km). The better images showed that Iapetus is indeed receiving reddish dust during its orbit around Saturn. The slow orbital speed around Saturn (79 days) is exposing the dark regions to the sun for long periods of time. The dark material absorbs much more sunlight than the light areas, which reflect sunlight. This causes the ice under and near the dark material to evaporate and redeposit on the bright side making the dark areas even darker and bright areas even brighter.
Cassini mission also added more mystery to the already mysterious world of Iapetus. Its shape is not spherical, but walnut like, which suggests that long time ago Iapetus was spinning very fast. In the middle of the Cassini Region, along the equator, there is a mountain ridge about 1300km long. Peaks are rising more than 20km above the plains, making them some of the tallest mountains in the entire Solar System.
After almost 340 years form its discovery, Iapetus continues to refuse to reveal all its secrets. There are still many things to be explained. Why it has this strange shape? Why its orbit is inclined to Saturn's ring plane? How were the mountains formed? Why are they located in the middle of the Cassini Region?
The beautiful story of discovering and explaining Iapetus and the mysteries that are still waiting to be solved make this target the right choice for further exploration and might help us uncover truths generally applicable to the entire Universe.
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I've posted the flyer and registration form (.pdf) for my only public Network Security Operations class in 2006. It will takes place 13-16 June 2006 in Fairfax, Virginia.
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For more details, please see the flyer and this blog post. There's only 20 seats. 2 are filled by the agency hosting the class, and the rest are filling. Please contact me soon, especially if you want to save money on registration! Thank you.
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Well, Happy Memorial Day to you all and a special thank you to all of you who have served in the military. My Uncle Donald Campbell served under General Patton in World War 2 and I have always been very proud of that. Uncle Don unfortunately passed away a year and a half ago, but I have fond memories of hearing his stories.
Back here in Northeast Ohio we seem to be in the middle of a pretty bad drought. It hasn't rained here for about 3 weeks. To add insult to injury the temperatures are in the 90's this weekend which is very unusual for Northeast Ohio. We are usually in the 60's or 70's. The ground has dried out and is cracked. I've been doing my best to water the small yard I have. As if that wasn't bad enough, I had a deer visit my garden and lucky for me it only hit a back area where I keep most of my older daylilies. I have deer deterrents set up, but even those don't seem to stop the deer if they are determined to feed. I use baggies from a company called Green Screen, and these plastic containers you mount on wire stakes which are suppose to work for the whole season. I decided to add a third weapon to my arsenal. I spread some Deer Scram granules around the daylilies that have thrown up scapes. (see picture of the deer damage at the top of the page.)
The other thing I am beginning to see is crown rot. Crown rot isn't usually that common and a fellow hybridizer said it is a weakness in certain daylilies. There was one daylily, whose name I will not post, that got crown rot and died constantly. I had two plants sent to me directly from the hybridizer and both died from crown rot. This spring I have one daylily that is definitely showing signs of crown rot and just so happens to be a $200 daylily that I have coveted for some years now. I bought it directly from the hybridizer, so I will email him if it dies completely. If any of you have suggestions of what to do when a daylily is dieing from crown rot, I would love to hear your suggestions. Most of my new spring daylilies are doing pretty well, but this early heat isn't helping. I have featured a photo of the dieing daylily at the top of the page.
Also, I have had an early daylily bloom and I really love this daylily. The name of the daylily is Dr. Marc C. Laroche from Jeff Corbett of California. I posted a picture of it I took at Dan Trimmer's garden. It has a nice eye, some sculpting, and from what I read in it's comments, it's a good parent for teeth. I look forward to using it this year. Well, hope you enjoyed my post. Stay cool folks.


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A 20-year-old man has been charged with stabbing his father to death in Sydney's southwest.
The 56-year-old victim died on the way to hospital after he was stabbed on Sunday night at a home in Moorebank, police said.
The alleged attacker was arrested at the home on Josephine Crescent and was subsequently charged with murder.
A man has been arrested following a fatal stabbing during an alleged domestic dispute at Moorebank overnight. #7Newshttps://t.co/owYJeBUaWm— 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) October 2, 2016
He has been refused bail and is due to face Parramatta Bail Court on Monday.
Police said the incident is being treated as domestic-related and Fairfax Media reports that the attacker is the victim's son.
Man has been stabbed to death in Sydney's south west, allegedly by his own son. #9Newshttps://t.co/IPsI38svFl— Nine News Australia (@9NewsAUS) October 2, 2016
It reports that the argument escalated after a dispute about a computer at the home.
After the son allegedly knifed his father in the upper body, he went to a neighbour's home where an ambulance was called, according to Fairfax.


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Adele wasn't about to let history repeat itself.
At the 2016 Grammys, she suffered technical difficulties while singing "All I Ask." At the time, Adele's microphone fell onto the piano keys. Producers switched to a backup sound system, which caused a momentary audio drop. "We had the most complicated show on television," Academy President Neil Portnow said last year. "Period. End of story." Portnow praised the singer for being a "professional" and said Adele did a "great job" in spite of the mishap. "We certainly don't like when those things happen," he said, "but those things happen sometimes."
Try explaining that to Adele, who said she "cried pretty much all day" after the televised disaster.


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But before we transition into StokerCon mode, I want to finish the wrap up for the best books of 2017. Here are some lists that you should be using both as you serve readers and as you work on your collection development:
- My list of the best horror books that I read which were published in 2017. I have 10 official selections with comments and links to reviews as well as 3 more titles that just missed the list and three more that I really loved but they were not quite 100% horror. These final three genre blended choices may be the best place for you to start with readers.
- Brian Keene's list of the Top 15 books he read this year. Not only is this a great list [note we have more than a few overlaps] but he includes a paragraph about each book and the author. These are very appeal based and can be used as your script to book talk the titles to patrons. Pull up the page and say, "According to horror writer Brian Keene....."
- Side note reminder, as I always say in my training programs, a book talk doesn't have to be your words. You can read from the lists of others, NoveList, Library Reads, etc.... Patrons don't care if you wrote it, they just want information about whether or not the book is for them. Of course credit the source as you are speaking. In my live appearances I explain this concept this way-- When someone comes in and asks for information about North Korea you don't simply spout out what you know off the top of your head. Of course not! In fact, I am guessing that statement shocked many of you. You would never do that. Then why do you all think every book suggestion has to be generated from your personal experience? For the reference question, you immediately pull up resources and read from those. Well guess what? Helping a reader can use the same tried and true process we library workers have relied on for centuries. Different type of question, but the process is the same. Now back to the horror lists...
- Barnes and Noble's Editors' Picks for the Best Horror of 2017. Again list is annotated, so see above. Also, don't roll your eyes at it being from B&N. They have a wonderful editorial staff for SF/FSY/Horror and produce some of the best content on speculative fiction, especially the more mainstream titles that libraries would be considering.
- Tor.com's Best Books of 2017- All are speculative, many are horror or horror-esque.
- In January of 2017, in his column for LitReactor, Max Booth III posted his list of the 16 most anticipated horror titles of 2017 here. I read and loved 8 of them [you can find reviews on the blog]. A 9th was reviewed by a guest poster. And just about all of them made year end best lists. So treat this year old preview as a trusted year end best now too.
And since he did such a good job predicting last year's titles, here is Max Booth III's list of the most anticipated horror of 2018 also via LitReactor. [I have already read 3 of them and will have reviews up very soon]. Horror RA and Collection Development don't only happen in October or during the year end wrap ups. Your readers want you adding good titles all year long. So get going.
Also, very soon the long list of StokerCon finalists will be out, followed closely by the official nominees. Remember these lists are excellent for RA and collection development.
And here is your semi regular reminder-- Horror patrons are not monsters. They just like to read about them.
Here's to a scary 2018! [But only in fiction this year, please]


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(FYI- Do not look for last name Clinton, Spears, Hilton, Pelosi or Boxer. They did not make this list.)
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Meanwhile… Pelosi ends up "Loser of the Year."
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DIY Spring/Easter Decorations
Alexis Thompson from myTalk 107.1 stopped by with her CUTE DIY spring decorations - perfect for an Easter celebration or just to spruce up your home!
Bunny Pom Poms
- Yarn
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- Cardboard
Fold a rectangle of cardboard (roughly 5" by 3") lengthwise and lay a piece of yarn along the crease. Begin wrapping a separate piece of yarn for the body and another for the head. Roughly 60 times around for the head and 100 times around for the body. Remove and then trim to shape the spheres. Attach felt ears with a hot glue gun. Optionally, add eyes or whiskers to complete the look.
Bunny Wreath
- Natural garland
- Natural-colored wrapped wire
- Bows or flowers
Take a natural garland and cut enough to wrap two circles, two times around. Freehand the circles and secure with wrapped wire. Use the wrapped wire to shape ears and wrap garland around. Add a wire loop to hang on your door. Add bows or flowers (or your bunny pom pom!) to complete the look!


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11:52am PT by Tim Goodman
Tim Goodman: Why I Just Can't Quit the Olympics
As if the Summer Olympics needed Zika and dirty water to get people dissing it. Sigh.
Even if Rio was flawless in its presentation for the Olympics — and to be clear: it wasn't flawless in the preparation phase, is not flawless as it kicks off with the opening ceremony and, well, likely won't be flawless as it unfolds — people would find things to gripe about. It's an Olympic sport unto itself.
And yet, every two years I get to be the Olympics Pollyanna — because I want to be.
I love the Olympics. I loathe (or at this point just eye-roll) everyone's nitpicking about it, from the super-tired "it's not live!" to the equally cynical, "All the athlete features are manipulating your emotions."
It's every two years, not every week. I'm pretty sure we can live with whatever perceived inconveniences and shortcomings exist.
Just a quick addressing of those nagging Olympic issues: If you want to watch it live, stream it online. The NBC site has more options than you can ever gorge on. As in past Olympics, but probably even more so now because two years' time is two years of better technology, the NBC website will be able to help people who need to watch live or devour endless clips during bouts of insomnia.
NBC puts "the best" of its packaged presentation in primetime for two very good reasons: That's when most people are watching, and NBC is a broadcast network that's paying off its investment in covering the Olympics with commercials. That's what a broadcast network does.
As for those features, yes, they are designed to pull your heartstrings and if you are excessively jaded — which I am clearly not — they might come off as too saccharine. What I tend to see is a story of uncommon commitment by athletes to represent their countries and win a medal. Some of them come from hardship, many have had heartbreaking setbacks along the way, and all of them display a passion for their sport that most of us can barely fathom. And after four years it's over — sometimes in seconds — and often lost. Of course those stories are going to be emotional. It's almost impossible for them not to be. The jubilation of triumph is such a wonderful experience after you've seen their backstories. And so is heartbreak and disappointment when they falter. Because viewers got to know them. They had a rooting interest no matter what country they are from.
That's why NBC does the Olympic profiles. It knows what it has — a book of amazing stories heading into their last, climactic chapters. It always stuns me when people complain about that.
But like I said, complaining about the Olympics is an Olympic sport.
I choose to head into these next two weeks the same I do for all Olympics — eager to devour those stories, whether they take place in the pool or in gymnastics or out on the track. I'm already a pretty dedicated sports fan but enjoy the diversion of the summer and winter Olympics not only because I'm exposed to sports I only really care about at that point (like short track speed skating in the winter), but I think NBC does a mostly good job of getting the right announcers and analysts for the job. I'm less critical of them than I would be for a regular baseball, basketball or football announcing team. I want the background stories and updated information and rules and strategy. Then I want them to be quiet when the medal-winning (or -losing) moment occurs. Going back a ways, I remember very few times that an announcing team has botched this.
I'm also not such a Pollyanna that I don't want news out of Rio. If the water and the mosquitos are in play and affecting events, I want to know. Same holds true for security concerns, failed drug tests, national issues, etc. I know that's part of it. The hope is that the Games come off unblemished and enjoyable, but that's not always the case.
More than anything else about the Olympics, I believe people who are super-invested in their television series (and believe me, I'm drowning in more shows than you are) will opt to take a little time off and devote them to what is automatically the better bet. From the opening to the closing ceremonies, we only get this show every two years. I like that specialness. I feel bound by some code that compels me to drop everything else and pay attention.
I will especially be there for the "smaller" sports, like archery, badminton, table tennis, whatever they are doing in those canoes and judo/tae kwon do. And yes I said table tennis and badminton. Hell yes.
I get it if those don't hook you. Personally I'm not so big on most of the gymnastics, just as I'm not lured into the ice skating stuff so much in the winter. But I watch. I might choose instead to stream the modern pentathlon or volleyball or water polo or indoor track cycling. But the point is I'm engaged. I'm sampling around. Why? Because it's the stuff I know less about that ends up being, often times, the most astonishing. The best television. Sure, the basketball, soccer, tennis and all the pro-athlete infused elements hold their own allure, but I prefer the stories of less famous athletes. In whatever they are doing — even if that whatever is BMX cycling.
I'm hoping for the unexpected across the board — finding the next great eye-popping, jaw-dropping Olympic moment, like the first time Usain Bolt burst on the scene. That insane display of athletic prowess that goes beyond winning into legend.
That's the opportunity that awaits us at every Olympics. Live, taped, streamed — it doesn't matter. I just want to experience that old-school thrill — the victory/agony of defeat thing. For the next two weeks, the Summer Games will be the best drama on television.
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Audrey Hepburn in Rome - A Tribute Exhibition in Support of UNICEF6 Share Tweet
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany's, the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome is hosting an exhibition of unpublished photos, videos and personal fashion items belonging to Audrey Hepburn: one of the most cherished icons of our time.
I think very few people can't close their eyes and recreate the image of Audrey Hepburn smoking a cigarette used in the poster for Breakfast at Tiffany's, or think of her on a scooter with the Colosseum in the background in Roman Holiday. But who knew Audrey was also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador during the last years of her life?
Together with a selection of pictures from UNICEF Archives which document Audrey Hepburn's missions among the children of Bangladesh, Vietnam, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Latin America, the Ara Pacis exhibition mainly features unpublished shots which capture Audrey during her everyday life in Rome. The images come to life as they are displayed alongside the same fashion creations by Givenchy, Valentino and many others featured in the photos.
"Rome; by all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here, in memory, for as long as I live."
~ Audrey in Roman Holiday
Audrey in Rome: A Tribute to Audrey Hepburn in support of UNICEF is being held at the Ara Pacis Museum, Lungotevere in Augusta, Rome until December 4, 2011. Tickets €10. An exhibition catalogue (192 pp., 192 illustrations, €24.90) published by Mondadori is available.
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The overcapacity of workers is hurting PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and Renault but they're bound to job-security promises that they made to the French government, which helped them survive the economic crisis in 2009. As a result, they may fall further behind competitors such as Volkswagen. Union representatives from a PSA factory last month expressed interest to meet with a spokesperson or anyone from President Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign team before the first round of elections begins. But they were stunned when Sarkozy himself made an appearance. Tania Sussest, a representative for SIA (the largest union at the plant), said that this is a "surprise."
For 45 minutes, Sarkozy listened to the union members and then promised to meet PSA CEO Philippe Varin in support of the union's call to secure jobs. Sarkozy fulfilled his promise after just two days when he called the CEO to the Elysee Palace, his official residence. Sarkozy and Hollande agree that jobs should stay in France, especially as the country's nation's jobless rate has hit its highest figure in 12 years.
The French statistics office said that the automobile industry directly employs about 233,500 people. The country's carmakers' association said that around 9% of France's workforce is linked to autos. Carlos da Silva, an analyst at IHS Automotive, said that there's not much difference between the two candidates with regards to this issue. He pointed out that while the automobile sector had already been helped during the financial crisis, the focus now is to "shore up public finances" and this is not helping with car sales. Sarkozy is up against Socialist challenger Francois Hollande at the May 6 election.


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When I first "cyber-met" Bonnie a few years ago, I just knew we would get along. I mean, anyone who has survived a NICU stay, loves a good chocolate chip cookie and has a laugh that lights up a room, is a friend in my book. This Sunday, May 3, Bonnie and two equally amazing women, Rebecca and Heather, are launching a radio show - The Visitation Project. Here's the skinny: Tune in on Sundays at 7:30 p.m. (PST) - that's 9:30 p.m. Texas time if you're an Aggie and bad with numbers like me - on Catholic Broadcasting Northwest (KBVM) You can listen live via the radio app or online. And, if you miss an episode, they're archiving them on the website for later listening. … [Read more...]
Chatting Hot Glue & Hard Liquor with Jen Fulwiler {Podcast!}
Last week I was on Sirius XM Radio's The Catholic Channel with Jen, making this easy and beautiful Easter craft. We chatted all things motherhood, hot glue and the toughest part of our day. We had a blast. I promised to post when the podcast was live, so enjoy! … [Read more...]
Radio Interview and Guest Blogging!
I was recently on the local Catholic radio station - crazy, I know - chatting about my faith, Luke and PreemieBabies101. When Relevant Radio called and asked for an interview, I think my first question was, "What do you want to talk to me about?!" I'm just a momma of five great kids with a pretty sassy twang. I'm honored DeeAnn called and was even more humbled to share Luke's story and our journey through prematurity. God really is good, all the time. You can give a listen to the "It's Up To Us" interview. I'm also guest blogging over at Austin Catholic New Media today about faith, community and when God might be delivering your cross. We all have one, don't we? … [Read more...]


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I had a sudden impulse to draw Rapunzel yesterday. I think she ended up older than in the fairytale, maybe the wicked witch died and the prince wasn't up to her expectations - or couldn't commit, haha. Anyway, she looks happy enough.
Her braid goes off the bottom of the page.
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A boxy, four-storey structure of Scandinavian pine is rising out of the snow on Stockholm's Djurgården Island, sandwiched between the city's largest funfair and a restored 17th-century warship.
From its opening day, on 7 May, Abba The Museum, the city's first monument to the Swedish supergroup, is expected to lure hundreds of thousands of tourists a year to belt out versions of hits such as Super Trouper, Dancing Queen and Waterloo, alongside holographic images of the group in all their spangly 70s glory.
"Obviously, from a Swedish state point of view it should have already been around for many years, because it's one of the most famous Swedish brands ever," said Mattias Hansson, the museum's managing director, as he showed off the site before Christmas. "We know from the tourism office in Stockholm that each and every year they receive thousands of questions from tourists about where to go to see something about Abba, and for years they have been forced to say, 'nowhere'."
"We weren't entirely sure if there was going to be one, whether we wanted one – to become artefacts and relics while we are still alive," said Abba's Björn Ulvaeus, explaining the group's previous reservations when he announced his involvement back in October. But, he said: "I realised someone had to take the full responsibility and it gradually dawned on me that I was the one."
He is now the project's main backer, having taken a majority financial stake in December by buying shares from the three main investors – Universal Music, Live Nation, and Parks & Resorts Scandinavia. "He's taken a much bigger stake in the company, and that means also intellectually, when it comes to putting his creative mind and time into this," Hansson said.
Ulvaeus is by far the most entrepreneurial of the four members. He had completed a degree in law and business before he launched his pop career and he has a portfolio of property ventures. It was Ulvaeus who gave his backing in 1999 to Mamma Mia!, the London stage musical. He then worked as a producer on the 2008 film version, starring Meryl Streep, for which Benny Andersson, Ulvaeus's songwriting partner, wrote some new songs.
Hansson says Ulvaeus's involvement has made all the difference. "For certain, Björn Ulvaeus is the brightest creative mind I've ever been in the same room with." The two are trying to make the museum as interactive as possible, drawing on Hansson's experience as an internet entrepreneur. Every visitor will receive an Abba ID with their ticket, which will generate a page on the museum's website when they enter the building. Everything they do inside will be recorded, from singing on the holographic stage to entering a booth where Abba costumes will be projected on to them. Later, they will be able to share photos and videos of their experiences on Facebook and other social media.
Hansson said this all justifies the price of the tickets which, at 195 Swedish kronor (£18.50), aren't cheap. "Given the experience we will provide, it's a pretty fair price." It's also a sign of how the business model of Universal Music, which holds the rights to Abba, is evolving. Abba The Museum has done a deal to "integrate and extend the museum experience" into Spotify, the Swedish music-streaming service, and has tied up with a list of corporate sponsors.
Mamma Mia! has generated revenues of well over $2bn – it is the longest-running musical ever on both Broadway and in London's West End, and the film is the highest-grossing musical ever, generating well over $600m at the box office on a budget of $52m. That success has limited the hit that Abba and Universal might otherwise have taken during a decade when music piracy flourished.
But according to Hansson, it wasn't the prospect of additional royalties that finally won the band round to the museum project; it was Ulvaeus and Andersson's decision last year to insist that the museum be part of a wider Swedish Music Hall of Fame, with Abba sharing the glory (but less than 30% of the floorspace) with 400 other acts.
The band agreed to a 2006 plan to build an Abba museum in Stockholm, which failed when its main backer, Iceland's Kaupthing Bank, collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis. This time around, though, they're all more involved. Even Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who these days prefers a quiet life in Switzerland with her husband, heir to the WH Smith chain – has helped out. According to Hansson, she has "cleaned out her closet", bequeathing old costumes and memorabilia. Also on show will be the costumes the band wore when they won the Eurovision song contest in 1974. "In some way, all four of them will give each and every visitor an extraordinary take on the history of Abba," Hansson said. "They've all been filmed and interviewed for the exhibition."
The interviews are being used by Catherine Johnson, the British playwright who wrote Mamma Mia!, to make an audio guide which will tell the band's story from the 1960s, when each member was a musical success in their own right, through their marriages and Eurovision victory, to their divorces and the band's breakup in 1983.
"There's a built-in Romeo and Juliet thing here, with four individuals who all had their own careers, then became lovers and then won the Eurovision song contest," said Hansson. "It's a 10-year saga which you can follow from the first love affairs to the bitter end."
Ulvaeus has been keen to downplay the glamour and emphasise the more melancholy side to the band, the darker aspects of the lyrics, the frequent use of plaintive minor keys and the two divorces. However, that hasn't stopped Hansson trying to market the museum with the slogan "Walk In, Dance Out!"
Hansson said he did not know whether any of them would come to the museum opening. "I will be wondering about that until 10 minutes before the opening ceremony, because they don't usually do things together… But I cross my fingers."
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Monday, 31 December 2012
Sunday, 30 December 2012
ABBA Doco By Carl Magnus Palm Part 1
Fabulous documentary titled 'Dancing Queen' showing lots about ABBA in Australia.
Made for the European market but all interviews are in English.
Features our very own Ian Cole and Christopher Patrick !
Check the Thank You's at the end ... you may recognize some other names also :)
Monday, 24 December 2012
ABBA Bang A Boomerang Doco
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
ABBA-Chiquitita Rare Vocal Mix
Published on Dec 9, 2012
1920x1080 (upscaled) Chiquitita. Listen carefully,this version has less leadvocal,emphasis on the backing track/harmonies & you can really hear Bjorn's harmonies in the choruses.
Uber Rare!
Uber Rare!
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Early version of DYMK in full with no disco bet rather the early version that was performed at ABBA In Switzerland. However this is not he actual Playback from the Swiss show, the video is just matched to the song out of interest. This is what we can call the "backing track" I suppose. It was introduced by Bjorn on the show as "Does Your Mother Know That You're Out"
ABBA Under Attack Rare Vocal
Published on Dec 10, 2012
Under Attack with extended intro, & outros with an almost instrumental ending.
Note beginning of second verse "This is getting crazy" is heard as "All this is getting crazy"
Note beginning of second verse "This is getting crazy" is heard as "All this is getting crazy"
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ABBA-GIMME GIMME GIMME(A Man After Midnight)-BONKERS MIX
Another rare version from ABBADiego
ABBA - Rare Original Dancing Queen Audio
Published on Dec 10, 2012
This has a count in intro, a slighly longer intro, the verses in like I said, a very diffferent order, plus the ending is extended where you can really hear Ageths & Frida giving it some welly for the harmonies,is that Frida screeching at the end?
Let me know your thoughts.
As for the video, all I have done is grab a non-UMG video to match it up,kinda, as the video is a different tempo to the sound, but rather than adjust the sound, I just chopped the video where it fell out of synch & put in a crude crossfade. But it's not really the video we are on here for,it's these amazing insights into how these geniuses put their hits together.
Makes me want to get into a time-machine with these tracks, go back, find the producers of Janet Street Porters documentary about "punk" where I saw the punks ripping up a sleeve of ABBA-The Album, go to them,slap their faces & say "so you think they are a hit factory, WRONG punk!" Then walk away, go over to 1976 & 1977 record sales and reel them off, ABBA sold more those years that the over-hyped punk ever did.
Let me know your thoughts.
As for the video, all I have done is grab a non-UMG video to match it up,kinda, as the video is a different tempo to the sound, but rather than adjust the sound, I just chopped the video where it fell out of synch & put in a crude crossfade. But it's not really the video we are on here for,it's these amazing insights into how these geniuses put their hits together.
Makes me want to get into a time-machine with these tracks, go back, find the producers of Janet Street Porters documentary about "punk" where I saw the punks ripping up a sleeve of ABBA-The Album, go to them,slap their faces & say "so you think they are a hit factory, WRONG punk!" Then walk away, go over to 1976 & 1977 record sales and reel them off, ABBA sold more those years that the over-hyped punk ever did.
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
ABBA Museum Opening Date !
It's official as of today – ABBA The Museum will open on the 7th of May 2013. The first opening weeks tickets will be released on Thursday, December 13th. The buzz is in full swing, as is the demand for tickets both in Sweden and internationally. In response, ABBA The Museum will now release opening tickets for the first three weeks, the 7th–31st of May 2013.
In October, Björn Ulvaeus informed the Swedish and international press of the plans for ABBA The Museum. Alongside Mattias Hansson, Managing Director of the museum, he confirmed that the museum is to be a part of Swedish Music Hall of Fame, located at Djurgården, Stockholm.
"We want to be available to everybody, from our very first opening day. Since a lot of music lovers and ABBA fans live outside of Sweden, we want to offer them a chance to get tickets beforehand order to guarantee a unique first time visit", says Mattias Hansson.
For those who prefer to make a spur-of-the-moment visit to the museum in May, there will be a limited number of tickets on sale at the venue. The tickets will cost SEK 195 (approx €23) and SEK 50 for children under 8 (approx €6) and will be time-slotted in a bid to cut queues and give all visitors a music experience of a lifetime. All ticket sales in Sweden and globally will be handled by SJ's outlets; phone number +46 771 757575, SJ Resebutiker, www.sj.se/abbathemuseum and via www.abbathemuseum.com.
The venue and the museum ABBA The Museum will become the home of ABBA's collected works, set to be showcased in a contemporary, musical and interactive exhibition that allows the audience to get close to their favourite band. ABBA The Museum is a part of the new Swedish Music Hall of Fame, and the tickets will be valid throughout the building. In addition to the two permanent exhibitions 'the History of Swedish Popular Music' and 'Hall of Fame', Swedish Music Hall of Fame will also host temporary, mostly contemporary music exhibitions.
The 5,000 sq. meter building, located at Djurgårdsvägen 68, Stockholm, includes 2,000 sq. meters of exhibition space, of which a considerable amount is dedicated to ABBA The Museum. The museum is counting on 200.000-250.000 of Swedish and international visitors during 2013.
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Shannen Dee Williams is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she teaches courses in U.S., African American, women's, civil rights, and religious history. She is currently working on her first book, "Subversive Habits: The Untold Story of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States," charting the epic journey of African American women religious from their fiercely contested beginnings in the nineteenth-century slave South to the present day. In doing so she shatters the silences surrounding the lives and labors of black sisters, including their largely hidden history in the fight against racial segregation and exclusion in the twentieth century. Williams' research has been supported by a host of fellowships and grants, including a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, a Albert J. Beveridge Grant from the American Historical Association, the OAH Huggins-Quarles Award, and a John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award from the American Catholic Historical Association.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An underground cemetery consisting of chambers or tunnels with recesses for graves. Often used in the plural.
- n. An underground, often labyrinthine passageway.
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- n. An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a subterranean tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or ancient Rome.
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- n. A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Originally, the name of a locality near Rome, the "Hollows," in which the church of St. Sebastian, with extensive burial-vaults, was built; but afterward applied to the vaults themselves, and to similar underground burial-places.
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- n. an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome)
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The term catacomb was applied to these subterranean cemeteries at a much later period.
Catacumbas, whence the term catacomb, a word seemingly of uncertain origin (Northcote and Brownlow, I, 262-63).
In the northeast corner of the tomb was a small votive vessel filled with ocher, next to it more ocher, a stone pestle, and three objects made from the metacarpals of animals; in the northwest corner archaeologists found a bronze knife and a long bronze awl broken in half; in the southwest corner were two vessels covered with stone lids; and in the southeast corner, archaeologists were surprised to find a censer of a type commonly found in later so-called catacomb burials that had been placed upside down.
In some cases this accumulation of earth and sand has protected and hidden that portion of the catacomb which is vertically underneath and thus rescued many precious memorials from the ill-considered attentions, or outrages, of earlier explorers.
At another church is a kind of catacomb for the Earls of Kent: there are ten sumptuous monuments.
Collins is also unconvinced by Hawass's explanation of what he calls the "catacomb".
Although Dr Hawass suggests there is no mystery surrounding the "catacomb", Collins suspects that the caves extend beneath the Second Pyramid, where ancient tradition puts the legendary tomb of Tomb of Hermes, Egypt's legendary founder.
Vaster, more ambitious schemes were proposed, including a giant pyramidal catacomb atop Primrose Hill to house five million souls (the upper levels financed by the sale of the lower in an, er, pyramid-selling scheme), to which the seven were the sane and suburban alternative.
It seemed like we were in the cellars or a catacomb of some sort.
Hundreds of refugees packed into each level of the stone catacomb; the further down you descended, the more miserable they were, like rings of hell.


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Sophie Monk Made The Most Awkward Joke About Stu At The ARIA
The thing we love most about Sophie Monk is that she's always the first person to poke fun at herself.
No point you doing it, she'll beat you to the punch.
Last night as she presented the first ARIA award, she did just that.
Making her way to the stage, she let out a quip about being excited to be at the ARIAs, even though she'd never won one.
She also took the moment to comment on the news of the week; Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement.
She then had us all on the edge of our seats, by saying; "So I thought this would be the PERFECT time to tell you…"
"Stu is still married."
Big grin from our favourite blonde.
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Prospective, Multicenter Trial to Investigate the Safety and Efficacy of Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Fecal Incontinence
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The Urgent PC Neuromodulation System (Uroplasty, Inc., Minnetonka, MN, USA), device, is an easily administered neuromodulation system designed to deliver retrograde access to the sacral nerve through percutaneous electrical stimulation of the tibial nerve. This method of treatment is referred to as percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS).
- Effectiveness [ Time Frame: 18 weeks ]To assess the effectiveness of PTNS by measuring the proportion of patients with ≥50% decrease in the number of fecal incontinence episodes per week based on the results of the 14-day bowel diary at 18 weeks compared to baseline
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|Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027
|UCSF Center for Colorectal Surgery
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94158
|United States, Minnesota
|Minnesota Colon and Rectal Surgery Associates, Ltd.
|Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55407
|United States, Ohio
|The Lindner Center for Research and Education at The Christ Hospital
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45219
|United States, Texas
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|United States, Washington
|Providence Health and Services
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Keywords provided by Uroplasty, Inc:
Fecal Incontinence
Bowel Incontinence
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Fecal Incontinence
Rectal Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
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Wests Tigers outclass North Sydney Bears at Moss Vale
Josh Bartlett - Southern Highland News
MOSS Vale hosted a traditional rugby league derby on Saturday.
The Wests Tigers recorded a 36-18 win over North Sydney Bears in an Intrust Super Premiership game at Community Oval.
It was a tight affair in the first half and the Bears led by 12-10 at the break.
But the Tigers mustered five tries to two in the second half to secure a convincing win.
Ored Karwhin and Tyler Cassel scored two tries each for the Tigers.
Michael Oldfield also recorded a double for North Sydney.
Several players with NRL experience took part in the contest.
The Tigers team list included top players Jack Littlejohn, Josh Drinkwater, Jordan Grant and Joel Edwards.
North Sydney's squad was led by regular NRL footballers Oldfield and Cody Walker.
The Bears are the feeder club to the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
Wests Tigers NRL coach Jason Taylor was also spotted in the crowd on Saturday.
Former Wests Magpies players Mick Liubinskas, Mick Pinkerton, Carl Ross, Tim Murphy, Noel Kelly and John Hayes enjoyed the action from the club house.
North Sydney Bears general manager Greg Florimo said it was a disappointing result for his team.
Florimo said the Bears paid for more options late in sets.
"We showed a lack of respect for possession of the ball."
Saturday's game was hosted by the Moss Vale Dragons Rugby League Club.
Florimo praised the Dragons for the game.
"It was a good surface and it was a good day, but it's disappointing there was nothing" he said.
"The host club couldn't have been more accommodating.
"We will remember our time in Moss Vale."
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Rag doll..Take three!!
This is doll #1, to be gifted to one of my neices as a birthday gift. As was mentioned yesterday, I'd created this doll in a way that resulted in a bit of a "pinhead" appearance. After some reconstructive surgery, some piggies were added superficially to give her head a bit more of a presence on the large body. She also received a bit of a cheek liposuction, as they were a bit wonky and too large for her face. All is better now, yet I'm still not claiming her as my favorite.
In showing these gals to my neighbor friends, we all agree that the Kenzalina doll has a charm to her that the others are lacking. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong - aside from my passion for creation always wanes with reproductions. I'm just not a crafter that can do the same thing over..and over...and.... I think it's the color schemes. The first doll was more colorful, then these last two.
Two more to go. And then birthday extravaganza for 2006 will be complete.
**this doll was also created using my own pattern - which idolizes Susan of Joybucket.org's style.
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Report on the use of Department for Transport funding under the Charities Act 2006 in 2015 to 2016.
A report providing information on 6 projects which the Department for Transport provided funding to in 2015 to 2016. Each of the projects was a discrete scheme helping to deliver on a number of departmental objectives in a local, sustainable transport and maritime context.
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Work identifying characteristics of lucky people, the law of attraction, and descriptions citing how so called lucky people place emphasis and focus on the positive aspects of their life as - compared to people who consider themselves unlucky and are more likely to focus on negative thoughts and behaviors has been covered in the work of Marc Myers outlining myths about luck in his book How to Make Luck: 7 Secrets Lucky People Use to Succeed. There, a number of myths about luck is dispelled. For example, is good luck just another word for hard work and determination or can people improve their luck, by actively seeking to meet the "right" people.
I'm particularly interested in the question of whether people can influence good luck. Can people for example take some of the randomness out of being luck by taking a direct or a particular approach over certain life options.


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Streaming Cafe is very happy to announce that William Fitzsimmons will be performing a solo show at the cafe on Saturday, May 14th.
Tickets go on-sale this Wednesday, March 9th for only $20, available at Streaming Cafe (596 Leon ave). William`s website has sold some exclusive pre-sales so with only a few left for purchase at Streaming Cafe they are going to go fast. If you want to be one of only 40 people to watch this show in person, you better get down to the Cafe early!
If you miss out on tickets don`t worry, this show will be streamed live online at 7pm Pacific Standard Time and you can send in questions and comments to William while he performs. Watch William`s performance FREE @ http://www.streamingcafe.net/
Nettwerk Records' recording artist, William Fitzsimmons, will embark on a major US and Canadian spring tour in support of his new album, Gold In The Shadow (release date: March 22). The two-month North American tour will be a special occasion for Fitzsimmons' fans.
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For Tammy McGowan, an additional $2 per credit hour seems a small price to pay for the educational benefit of up-to-date computer labs.
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Hasthamaakshipya yaathosi balath krishna kimathbhutham
Hrudayath yadhi niryaasi paurusham ganayaami they!
Hey Krishna! You pushed my hands away and ran from me. Is this a great deed?, Please try to run away from my heart if you can. Then I will accept you are a true man! Sri Leelasukar makes this challenge to little Lord Krishna! Such is the deep faith and love in him for the Lord. Now we will continue with last issue's story.
Sri Vallabhacharya had eight main followers like the ashta sakhikal of Radhika Rani! Each of them are allotted particular timings for their service of Srinathji. Till today their lineage have the right to do the worship. Vallabhacharya had a son name Vittalanath. He was a wonderful bhaktha who considered himself as the mother of Srinathji. A great mahathma indeed! Vittalanath had a disciple called Govindadas. He worshipped the Lord in Sakhya bhava, as a friend. He considered himself as a small boy and played with Lord Srinathji.
One day the Lord appeared before him and called aloud 'Govinda!'. Govindadas asked the Lord whether He wanted to play something. The Lord replied that He was bored with the usual games and wanted something new and different. Govindadas suggested they play marbles or pebbles. This sounded interesting for the Lord and he immediately agreed to play. But there was a problem since Lord Srinathji didn't know how to play!! The all knowing God pretended that He didn't now how to play marbles! What a divine leela! Govindadas was happy as he planned to win Lord Srinathji!!
So Govindadas agreed to teach the Lord how to play with marbles. He sincerely taught the Lord how to concentrate His eyes at the marble, and how to pick them up with two fingers without disturbing the other marbles. They started to play. Govindadas kept winning as he was an expert in the art and the Lord could not equal him in scores as He was inexperienced! Govindadas leered at Him, 'shame on you Srinath! You cannot do even this! You claim you are an experienced shepherd but cannot even pick a marble with two fingers. Shameful indeed!'. Lord Srinathji felt very much insulted and angry. The Lotus red eyes became redder now in anger and shame. He snatched some pebbles in his hand and began to run away from Govindadas. Govindadas chased Him crying aloud 'hey loser! Don't try to run away. Accept you are defeated! I have won this game'!
Smart as He was Govindadas could not catch the Lord. Furious he began to pelt the Lord with the marbles he had in his hands. The Lord entered the sanctum and hid Himself. Govindadas tried to follow Him. The pujaris inside the sanctum saw that Govindadas was coming inside the sanctum to beat Lord Srinathji, pushed him out and immediately closed the sanctum doors. Govindadas kept crying out 'Open the door! He has my marbles! Ask Him to give them back to me!' etc. The pujaris thought he was mad and laughed at him. He kept repeating that Srinathji has stolen his marbles. They got tired of him and went to complain with Vittaldasa.
On hearing this Sri Vittalnath came angrily and questioned Govindadas why he was trying to beat his little Krishna. 'You are wicked to do like this to my innocent child' cried Vittalnath. He was immersed in valsalya bhava and considered himself as Yasoda matha! Govindadas replied 'It is not me but your son who is wicked. He only snatched away my marbles while playing. He doesn't know even how to play properly. He is not ready to accept His failure too. This is very unfair'. Vittalnath couldnt stand that. 'How dare you call my son wicked? I know you are lying.' For this Govindadas replied 'No your son is a liar, loser of the game and playing foul'. Vittalnath became angrier 'My son can never be the loser. He knows everything. Why do you unnecessarily blame him?' He also told him not to play with his son any more.Govindadas in turn told Vittalnath 'Hey Yasoda matha! Don't jump into conclusions and take decisions. You will repent later. If I go away forever then your son will miss me very much and feel depressed. Don't forget that! You call Him aloof and enquire with Him. You promise Him butter and laddu, He will tell you the truth!' This infuriated Vittalnath more. He drove Govindadas away. Govindadas went out and hid himself behind a tree waiting for Srinathji to come out some time. It is a real wonder that the two grown up men, were so immersed in their bhakthi bhava that they completely forgot themselves. Radhekrishna! Will be back in the next issue with more stories of Srinathji.


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Our goal at DJS Skylark is not only to achieve perfection ourselves but to inspire learners driven with curiosity and determination. We achieve this goal by pouring our knowledge into the minds of keen students and assist them to create their own invention. DJS Skylark annually conducts an Aero Modelling workshop in DJSCE for undergraduate students.
This three day certified course attracts over 200 students annually from the city. It aims at aiding students to create their own RC airplane from scratch. We give you an opportunity to learn:
Manufacturing process involved in fabricating the model
Flight testing the aircrafts to assess its performance.
Exhibition And Events
DJS Skylark believes in inspiring by setting an example. We leave no opportunity to showcase our aircraft and accolades and make our alma mater as well as our supporters proud. We display our aircraft at several events and exhibitions, including:
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BAKU, Azerbaijan (Feb. 6, 2015)—Garant Media Holding has partnered with the National Geographic Society to launch the local-language edition of National Geographic Kids magazine in Azerbaijan. The newest edition of National Geographic Kids magazine debuts with the February 2015 issue. The magazine will be available monthly on newsstands and by subscription. Konul Nasibova is the editor.
Aimed at children ages 6-12, National Geographic Kids magazine is a photo-driven publication that inspires young adventurers to explore the world around them. Each month, the magazine features colorful stories about animals, people and places, interspersed with fun puzzles, facts and figures. It also includes the popular departments "Weird But True," "Wild Vacation" and "Amazing Animals," and highlights its readers by displaying user-submitted photos.
National Geographic Kids Azerbaijan will publish content from the English-language edition and will have a similar look, but will introduce local content of interest to Azerbaijani readers.
National Geographic Kids is the second magazine in Garant Media Holding's portfolio with National Geographic, having launched National Geographic magazine in Azerbaijan in September 2014.
"We've been pleased with the success of National Geographic magazine in Azerbaijan, and we're excited to now expand that partnership to include a local edition of National Geographic Kids magazine," said Terry Adamson, head of international publishing for National Geographic. "Our goal with National Geographic Kids is to create a fun, accessible entry point for kids and inspire them to learn more about the world around them through rich graphics and stories. In doing so, we hope to create the next generation of explorers."
"The success of National Geographic magazine in Azerbaijan clearly illustrates that there is a huge demand in our market for the type of content that only National Geographic can deliver," said Seymur Teymurov, general coordinator for Garant Media Holding. "We are excited that we can now bring the same type of content to a younger generation so that our children can enjoy reading National Geographic alongside their parents."
The price for the magazine on newsstands is 3 AZN. A 12-month annual subscription costs 28 AZN and a six-month subscription is 14 AZN. Initial circulation will be 1,000 copies.
National Geographic Kids launched in the United States in 1975 as National Geographic World magazine. The Azerbaijani edition of National Geographic is the 17th local-language edition of the magazine, preceded by the Latin American digital edition in October 2014. Other local-language editions are available in Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa (Afrikaans and English), Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. National Geographic Kids has a worldwide circulation of approximately 1.7 million.
About the National Geographic Society
With a mission to inspire, illuminate and teach, the National Geographic Society is one of the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations. The member-supported Society, which believes in the power of science, exploration and storytelling to change the world, reaches over 600 million people each month through its media platforms, products and events. National Geographic has funded more than 11,000 research, conservation and exploration projects, and its education programs promote geographic literacy. For more information, visit www.nationalgeographic.com, and find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
About Garant Media Holding
Garant Media Holding was established in February 2014. Its aim is to unite activities in the spheres of media and Internet businesses. Subcompanies of Garant Media Holding are the popular magazine National Geographic Azerbaijan, the news agency Oxu.az, the news agency in the English language News.az, automobile sale-purchase advertisements websites Turbo.az and Car.az, real estate sale advertisements website Bina.az and job advertisements website Boss.az. The establishing of the holding will help these subcompanies in their development and in gaining increased popularity in the media and Internet.


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This post originally appeared on Van Kane's blog and is reposted here with permission.
NASA's Outer Planet Analysis Group is currently meeting to hear the agency's current plans and to provide the feedback of the scientific community on those plans.
Monday's presentations brought two pieces of news. First, in preparation for its Decadal Survey that will prioritize mission from 2023 to 2032, NASA has asked the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to review options for mission to Uranus and Neptune. The expectation is that following the large (Flagship) 2020 Mars rover and mid-2020 Europa missions, exploration of these planetary system will be the next priority for large missions. Any missions would likely arrive at these planets a decade or more after their launch.
The second piece of new was that NASA has selected two new planetary CubeSat missions. One will orbit the Moon, mapping water ice in permanently shadowed craters in preparation for human exploration. The other will stay in Earth orbit to be a micro-gravity laboratory to study the interactions of particles that eventually led to the formation of the planets.
I've placed copies of the slides from the meeting below. As I find out more details, I'll do dedicated posts in the future. All slides are from Jim Green's presentation; he's the head of NASA's Planetary Science Division.
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Jama Sentence Examples
- The Jama Masjid itself, which he built in A.D.
- Outside the fort the places of most importance are the sarai and gardens of Khasru, the son of the Emperor Jehangir, and the Jama Masjid or Great Mosque.
- The buildings of interest in the town are a palace, built by Akbar, called the Lal Kila or the Red Fort, and the Jama Masjid or Great Mosque, built by Ali Khan, one of the Farukhi dynasty, in 1588.
- For ceremonial purposes a coat called jama is worn.
- In country districts he wears a jarna, and over the jama a pechodi or shoulder cloth.
- A short distance south of the Chandni Chauk the Jama Masjid, or Great Mosque, rises boldly from a small rocky eminence.
- The imperial palace, the Jama Masjid or Great Mosque, and the restoration of what is now the western Jumna canal, are the work of Shah Jahan.
- The next king worth mentioning is Ali Adil Shah I., who reigned from 1557 to 1579 and, besides the fort, built the Jama Masjid or great mosque, the aqueducts and other notable works in the city.
- Entering by the west (or Akcha) gate, one passes under three arches, which are probably the remnants of a former Jama Masjid.


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John Lasseter fuels up for 'Cars 2'
John Lasseter fuels up for 'Cars 2'
SAN FRANCISCO -- We're in a car with John Lasseter, and the filmmaker is in a professorial mood. During an hourlong commute from his home to Pixar's campus, we learn at least a little about the first years of the studio, Formula One racing, the Graf Zeppelin dirigible, Brad Bird's genius, the Bay Area's old Key System railway and the history of computer animation.
But every few minutes, an old Lotus, Corvette or another classic race car whizzes by, and he swivels his head. Peering out his window in the backseat, he looks for a few moments like a little kid.
"Cars 2" comes out Friday, and it continues the studio's tradition of technologically advanced filmmaking, coupled with a philosophy that encourages a state of arrested development. Shortly before the first "Cars" came out in 2006, Lasseter became the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He's also the creative adviser to Disney Imagineering, which oversees the company's theme parks.
But he still decided to direct "Cars 2," which remains a passion project. Lasseter was inspired for the first "Cars" after a road trip with his wife, Nancy, and five sons. He did extensive research for the film, which is a love letter to Route 66.
The premise for "Cars 2" -- a tale of international intrigue that riffs off the spy movie genre -- came from the proverbial cutting-room floor of the first film.
Lasseter says race car protagonist Lightning McQueen's first date with his Porsche girlfriend, Sally, was going to be at a drive-in theater, where a James Bond-style film would be on the big screen. (The couple ended up cruising instead.) Lasseter says the story team had a little bit too much fun coming up with ideas, which included the concept of Finn McMissile, a superspy in a sleek gadget-filled car who is voiced by Michael Caine in "Cars 2."
"I believe frankly it was an excuse not to do our work," Lasseter says. "We had more fun developing the movie within the movie than actually fixing the scene, because it was having story problems. It's like not doing your homework and doing something else. Reading the comic book, you know."
Lasseter says the concept was fleshed out even more during the worldwide publicity tour for "Cars," where he kept thinking about bumpkin tow truck Mater as a fish out of water in the glitzy high-tech, high-culture cities in Asia and Europe.
"I would be in Tokyo or London or Paris or Italy, and I kept looking out the window and laughing, 'What would Mater do in these situations?'" Lasseter says. "Like driving on the wrong side of the road, or the giant roundabout (surrounding) the Arc de Triomphe. Mater would end up there for weeks and never get out."
Lasseter is a regular at NASCAR races, which provided inspiration for "Cars," but he hadn't seen an open-wheeled race live. A visit to a Formula One race in Barcelona helped to complete the story. "Cars 2" features Lightning McQueen competing in a rally-style World Grand Prix of the planet's fastest automobiles.
There are spy movie nods around every turn, but the emotional heart of the story focuses on Lightning McQueen and Mater, whose close friendship is tested outside of Radiator Springs.
The daily commute to Pixar's growing campus is a definite comfort zone for Lasseter, who carries multiple iPads in the car, with a special custom-built program that lets him record messages and other feedback to scenes from forthcoming films, ready for his co-workers when he arrives.
It may not be a typical day for the director -- the morning included a tour of the 374 Hawaiian shirts in his closet -- but he still arrives at Pixar before 9:30 a.m.
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"Cars 2"
Director: John Lasseter and Brad Lewis
Stars: Voices of Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine
Opens: Friday across the Capital Region
If his commute seems like it has a lot of emotion, it matches the philosophy behind Pixar's movies. "Story is king" is one of the director's favorite phrases.
During the drive, Lasseter is most serious when he talks about the heart behind Pixar films. Lightning McQueen is a red sports car with eyes and a mouth, and Mater is an animated tow truck voiced by Larry the Cable Guy.
"When you get into the early stages of developing a film at Pixar, genre discussions are always really early -- is it a buddy picture story, fish out of water story, boy and a dog story?" Lasseter says. "You always look for the emotional arc of the main character."
In "Cars 2," the message is to be yourself. Friendship is tested when Mater acts like his non-cosmopolitan self during the world racing tour, which is embarrassing for McQueen. And once again the animated talking cars are a metaphor for something bigger.
"It's like a foundation on a building," Lasseter says, glancing out the window again. "You have to have a strong foundation in order to build the building, and the same thing goes for the story. Where is the heart of the film going to come from? The heart is going to come from the growth of the main character."


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Italian born Ettore Bugatti spent most of the first decade of the 20th century designing cars and engines for French companies like Deutz. In those years he came to the conclusion that weight was a designer's biggest enemy. So he set out to design a small light weight car, which would be the first to bear his name. The small car was based off the Type 10 designed in 1909.
Not afraid to try his luck Ettore dubbed his first car the Type 13. With a tiny engine and ultra low weight Bugatti moved in the opposite direction as many of his competitors did. Two longer wheelbase versions of the 13 were also offered, the Type 15 with 2400 mm wheelbase and the Type 17 with 2550 mm wheelbase compared to the 13's 2000 mm wheelbase.
Its low weight and small dimensions might the Type 13 a very agile racer and from time to time more than a match for the much more powerful competition. In 1911 Ettore drove a 13 in the voiturette class of the French Grand Prix and finished second overall and first in class.
In 1913 the Bugatti range was extensively modified. These cars could be easily identified as they were fitted with an oval shape radiator compared to the squarish ones seen on the first Bugattis. Rear suspension was modified to reversed quarter-ellyptic leaf springs a feature found on many future Bugattis. The modified Type 13 kept its name but the longer wheelbase Type 15 and Type 17 received new names, Type 22 and Type 23 respectively.
Production lasted until 1920, with the First World War interfeering in 1914. Its replacement was the 16 valve Brescia model, that's 4 valves per cylinder. For the Brescia Bugatti retained the Type 13, 22 and 23 indications for the three wheelbases.
The featured example is one of the first of the second batch of Type 13s. It is seen here in the Musee National d'Automobile (the ex-Schlumpf collection) in Mulhouse, France.
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Andy Kaufman's mind games with his audiences played on an element of the unknown. Whether he was treating everyone in Carnegie Hall to milk and cookies or spewing abuse in his corrosive Tony Clifton mode, it was crucial that the viewer never know whether to laugh or squirm. Kaufman's precocious genius for ironic detachment seemed extreme, to the point where his death in 1984 struck even his loved ones as a possible put-on. But time has turned Kaufman into a hugely influential avatar of confrontational comedy. Jim Carrey, to name just one spiritual descendant, would not be possible without him.
Now Mr. Carrey delivers an electrifying homage in ''Man on the Moon,'' Milos Forman's vivid re-creation of Kaufman's too-short and enduringly strange career. (The film takes its title from R.E.M.'s ghostly musical tribute to the Kaufman spirit.) In a film that summons its subject's most memorable creative inventions as a series of greatest hits, Mr. Carrey makes a flawless, uncanny impersonator. It's all here: the timid, wide-eyed Foreign Man, the sneering wrestling matches with women, the reading of ''The Great Gatsby'' in its entirety to a dumbfounded college audience, the priceless pantomime of the ''Mighty Mouse'' theme song.
But what is missing here, though it might have been the first thing expected from an ostensible film biography, is an answer to the simplest question: Who was Andy Kaufman, and how did he get that way? ''Man on the Moon,'' which takes the form of a surprisingly straightforward show business rise-and-fall story, isn't telling. Whether this is a strictly artistic choice or an indication that the generous treatment of Kaufman's agent, girlfriend and immediate family make this a somewhat authorized version, it limits the film's ability to give Kaufman three dimensions. That's a dramatic liability even if you believe, as perhaps the filmmakers do, that Kaufman was no more of a cipher to audiences than he was to himself.
''Man on the Moon'' is another big, vibrant collaboration between Mr. Forman and the screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Together they brilliantly evoked the world of ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' in all its absurdity and unlikely gravitas. But their new film remains more opaque, perhaps because Kaufman was such a self-conscious figure in the first place. Unlike Mr. Flynt or Ed Wood (whom the writers also summoned so wonderfully in Tim Burton's film), Kaufman does not offer the creative leeway of an unexamined life.
Hamstrung as it may be, ''Man on the Moon'' is still a formidable piece of work. As it dutifully revisits the milestones of the Kaufman career, the film benefits enormously from Mr. Carrey's way of channeling his character.Continue reading the main story
Artfully distilled, the Kaufman happenings (that's what they were) are rendered faithfully yet made tighter and funnier. Without losing Kaufman's penchant for letting an audience twist in the wind, Mr. Carrey adds his own stamp to the material by making it brighter.
Fleshing out the story of how Kaufman progressed from a middle-class upbringing in Great Neck, N.Y., to the crowd-baiting outer limits of the comedy frontier, the film needs to give him a succession of sounding boards. These include Danny DeVito (one of the film's producers) as the agent George Shaprio, who is given a ''Eureka!'' moment when he is first made privy to a Kaufman put-on, and who later becomes Kaufman's staunch protector.
Also used here in a similar capacity is Bob Zmuda (played likably by Paul Giamatti), the writing partner and co-conspirator who helped Kaufman create his boorish lounge-act alter ego, Tony Clifton. The unapologetic ugliness and aggression of the Clifton character is, like Kaufman's avid delight in wrestling women (Courtney Love appears as one of them), a kink that the film leaves unexplored.
''Man on the Moon'' is rated R. It includes profanity and sexual situations involving prostitution.
Directed by Milos Forman; written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski; director of photography, Anastas Michos; edited by Christopher Tellefsen and Lynzee Klingman; music by R.E.M.; production designer, Patrizia Von Brandenstein; produced by Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher; released by Universal Pictures. Running time: 118 minutes. This film is rated R.
WITH: Jim Carrey (Andy Kaufman), Danny DeVito (George Shapiro), Courtney Love (Lynne Margulies) and Paul Giamatti (Bob Zmuda).Continue reading the main story