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Kenya Airways has announced the launch of flights to two new destinations – Kilimanjaro in Northern Tanzania and Eldoret in Kenya's Rift Valley – beginning July.
The airline will, from July 2, fly to Kilimanjaro International Airport and twice daily to Eldoret starting July 4. The launch of the new destinations is expected to strengthen the airline's presence in the region.
Kenya Airways will operate narrow body Embraer E170 aircraft on the Eldoret route with KQ 660 and KQ661 departing from Nairobi and Eldoret at 0740hrs and 0910hrs respectively. In the evening, KQ664 will depart Nairobi at 1715hrs whilst KQ665 departs from Eldoret at 1900hrs.
The airline will also operate E170 to Kilimanjaro starting with 6 flights a week until 30th September and growing to daily flights from 1st October. KQ420 to Kilimanjaro will depart Nairobi at 1000hrs and KQ 421 will depart Kilimanjaro International Airport at 1140hrs.
Kilimanjaro International Airport is strategically located in northern Tanzania's rich northern tourism market. Eldoret is one the major towns in Kenya's agriculturally rich Central Rift region.
Kenya Airways Group Managing Director, Titus Naikuni said that the northern Tanzania region has great tourism attractions including the world-renowned Serengeti National Park.
"In line with our plans to exploit the untapped economic potential of the African continent, we have identified Kilimanjaro as a strategic destination in the region owing to the vibrant tourism circuit in the hinterland including the world famous Serengeti," stated Dr Naikuni.
Kilimanjaro International Airport is strategically located between Kilimanjaro and Arusha in Northern Tanzania, in a region that is world famous for its tourist attractions like the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Olduvai Gorge. The airport was inaugurated in 1971 and was mooted as the "Gateway to Africa's Rich Wildlife Heritage."
Arusha houses several major international bodies including the United Nations. This provides a good opportunity to tap into conference and business tourism. Arusha is also home to the East African Community and hosts the regional legislative assembly besides boasting a large expatriate community.
On Eldoret, Dr Naikuni indicated that the decision to fly to there is based on growing passenger volumes as devolution takes root and more businesses take advantage of the unfolding economic opportunities.
"Eldoret is a busy town considering its proximal location to the country food basket. Also, as more people seek opportunities in the counties, we expect passenger volumes to grow," noted Dr Naikuni.
The launch of the Kilimanjaro and Eldoret routes comes after the national carrier launched flights to New Delhi India on May 15.
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With Thanksgiving here and the December holidays around the corner, family travel is on a lot of people's lists, whether you're enjoying an overnight stay at a hotel or cramming into a room at Grandma's house.
Either way, sex can be a bit of challenge, especially if you've got kids around.
So here are my five simple tips to help you get it on while you're away.
Sleep in. Take advantage of early-rising family members and send the kids down to them for breakfast. That leaves you with a solid 20 to 30 minutes, depending on how quickly your kids eat. Plus, it ensures that you'll greet everyone with a big smile.
Take a bath (or shower). What are grandparents for anyway? Hand the kids over to the relatives for a few minutes so you can get cleaned up, then save some water and do it together. Just remember that time is of the essence, at least if you don't want people to start getting suspicious. If you've got little ones in a hotel room, use that crib or playpen to your advantage.
Try the floor. Grab all the extra blankets in the closet and create a makeshift "bed" or love nest. You can use the bed to block the view if you've got sleeping kids or babies in the room. And don't forget to pack your white noise machine, or download the free app on your smart phone.
Go for a ride. So when's the last time you had sex in a car? This is a fun way to change things up even if you're stuck at home, but you could try this when you're away on vacation too. Grab a towel for the windshield, and to cover the seat.
Go outside. No family member will fault you for taking a walk after Thanksgiving dinner, so leave your kids in good hands (or plan your exercise session during naptime), and find a secluded spot for a little hanky panky. Make sure you've got a blanket of some kind, especially if it's a little nippy outside.
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Free State
with all it's glory offers all there is to offer. From Farming to Mining,
to pure natural beauty, the Free State offers it all.
This is a land of water. The area South of the mighty Vaal river, embroidered
by natural and man-made bilharzia-free water, features surrounding hilly grasslands
replete with maize farms and grazing livestock.
Within an hour's drive of the hustle and bustle of the central Free State
metropole are the holiday playgrounds along the southern banks of the Vaal
River. Here you can challenge the white waters of this major river in a raft
or a canoe, or sail at a leisurely pace through the fertile, willow tree-lined
Situated in the heart of South Africa, the Free State offer peace and
tranquility to any visitor.
The Free State is divided into five district municipalities (districts).
These are again subdivided into three to five local municipalities each, for
a total of 20 local municipalities.
The five districts are:
The province is well connected to the rest of the country by road and railways.
The Bloemfontein Airport also provides frequent and regular flights to
the major centra in South Africa. The major industrial areas like Bloemfontein,
and Harrismith
offer modern commercial facilities including advanced telecommunication systems,
a number of tertiary educational institutions and medical facilities.
Free State border on the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, North-West, Mpumalanga,
KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng Province and also shares a border with Lesotho.
With Bloemfontein it's capital a modern city with a dynamic central
business district. A city recently re-named to Mangaung which means "Place
of the Cheetahs". Bloemfontein is home to the University of the
Free State and is renowned for it's educational excellence.
In the heart of the city of Bloemfontein is the Naval Hill Game Reserve
which treats visitors with springbok, blesbok, giraffe and various species of
wild life. Despite Bloemfontein being the 6th largest city in South
Africa it's people are warm open hearted with the appreciation of family
Bloemfontein is regarded as the ideal conference centre in South Africa
due to it being centralized in the country and excellent venues.
The Free State also boasts with over 80 provincial, municipal and privately
owned nature reserves and parks. The Gariep Dam with the huge Orange River it's
water source, is situated in the southernmost corner of the region and offers
excellent recreational facilities and opportunities for anyone wishing to escape
city life.
The Free State Province also has a lot of attractions in the line of
bird watching, wildlife, hiking trails and sport to name but a few. Golf is
certainly one of the major attractions with golf clubs like the Bloemfontein
Golf Club, Schoeman Park Golf Club also in Bloemfontein and the Koffiefontein
Golf Club to name a few. The Jan Smuts Nature Trail in Rouxville offers day
walks, horse trails and canoe trails.
It is clear to see that the Free State offers a great variety of pleasure
and interests. Real estate in the Free State, has shown a steady growth
the last couple of years and from mansions in Bloemfontein to game
farms the Free State Province has much to offer a prospective buyer.
Mining is the province's major employer. A gold reef over 400 kilometres long,
known as the goldfields region, stretches across Gauteng and the Free State.
South Africa is the world's largest gold producer, and the country's
largest gold-mining complex is Free State Consolidated Goldfields, with
an area of 330 square kilometres.
The province has 12 gold mines, producing 30% of South Africa's output and
making it the fifth-largest producer of gold in the world. The Harmony Gold
Refinery and Rand Refinery are the only two gold refineries in South Africa.
Gold mines in the Free State also supply a substantial portion of the
total silver produced in the country, while considerable concentrations of uranium
occurring in the gold-bearing conglomerates of the goldfields are extracted
as a byproduct.
Bituminous coal is also mined, and converted to petrochemicals at Sasolburg.
The Free State also produces high-quality diamonds from its kimberlite
pipes and fissures, and the country's largest deposit of bentonite is found
in the Koppies district.
Since 1989, the Free State economy has moved from dependence on primary
sectors such as mining and agriculture to an economy increasingly oriented towards
manufacturing and export.
Some 14% of the province's manufacturing is classified as being in high-technology
industries - the highest of all provincial economies. The northern Free State's
chemicals sector is one of the most important in the southern hemisphere. Petrochemicals
company Sasol, based in the town of Sasolburg, is a world leader
in the production of fuels, waxes, chemicals and low-cost feedstock from coal.
Agriculture dominates the Free State landscape, with cultivated land
covering 32 000 square kilometres, and natural veld and grazing a further 87
000 square kilometres of the province.
It is also South Africa's leader in the production of biofuels, or fuel
from agricultural crops, with a number of ethanol plants under construction
in the grain-producing western region.
Some of the cities in the Free State include: Bloemfontein,
Gariep Dam, Jacobsdal,
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Fujiya Look Wafers & Crepes
One of the charming candies that I've sampled over the years from Japan is from Fujiya. Fujiya makes confections as well as running a series of cafes. Their mascot is Peko-Chan, little chubby cheeked girl in pig tails, which is now a well recognized icon around the world and appears on the Milky brand of chocolate candies.
Fujiya also makes a line of inexpensive chocolate candies more for adults under the Look line. These are usually little trays of individual pieces, often with multiple flavors in one package. I was attracted to this new introduction of single flavors. The Fujiya Look Crepe in Chocolate comes in a nicely sealed flat package and retails for less than $2.00 usually.
The tray inside holds 12 pristine and lovely little chocolate squares. They're a little over 3/4 of an inch square and a half an inch tall. They're shiny and fresh. So far, so good.
The English translation sticker on the back lists the ingredients and the nutritional panel. Instead of giving the calories for a serving, it says that one piece has 24 calories. So they're kind of high in fat since they clock in at a calculated 158 calories per ounce. The other thing that the ingredients revealed is that this isn't quite real chocolate. It's made with cocoa butter, but there's added vegetable fat. After eating them, I wouldn't have needed to be told.
Again, they look great. They smell great. The bit is soft, the "crepe" inside is like an ice cream cone or feuilletine. It's crispy and has a slight toffee flavor to it. It's airy, you know, because there's that big void in the middle ... a great mix of textures. But the problem becomes the chocolate coating. It looks great and even has a rich chocolate flavor, but the texture is just weird. It's gummy, thick but without that smooth melt that real cocoa butter delivers. I'd call it waxy, but because it does actually melt, it's hard to pin that on it.
The chocolate flavor, however, for a milk chocolate product, is especially rich, like a really decadent cocoa drink. It's also not overly sweet. But still, since so much of the candy is made up of the chocolate, it's just too disappointing to keep eating.
Like the blue packaged Crepe in Chocolate, the pink packaged Fujiya Look Wafers in Chocolate have it all going on in the looks department. The packaging is sharp and accurate. It's bold and even has enough English on the wrapper to keep me from being confused.
This version is a little lighter, each piece has 22 calories. The construction is like a KitKat bar, a series of light wafers with cream between them. There are 12 little pieces in a segmented tray in the package.
The wafers are great, airy and crispy with a slight vanilla and malt note. The cream between them ... hardly noticeable. It's all overshadowed by that same, weird, not-quite-chocolate stuff. It's too bad, because I really wanted to love these, especially the Crepe since it's such an uncommon combination in the United States. At least I know that I wasn't imagining it or it was some anomaly with one package. Both had the same qualities, both were within the expiry and obviously were stored properly.
I might give Look another try, as they try new flavor combinations very often, but I'll be careful to read the package first so I don't get my hopes up for good chocolate.
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The Penn Charter community collected 1,700 items, including new sports equipment, games, toys, learning supplies and books, for the new Police Athletic League (PAL) recreation center in North Philadelphia this month, and spent Monday organizing the delivery of the mountain of items.
The youngest Penn Charter students and their parents worked to sort, tally and transport the items to the center on W. Somerset St. Students in second and third grade painted canvas murals for the interior of the new PAL center, and a crew of fourth and fifth graders and their parents spent the day at the center, building and painting a new library.
Before the service work began, David Kern, director of Penn Charter's Lower School, engaged students in a discussion about Martin Luther King Jr., his life and his message. Kern shaped the students' insight into an inspirational message for the day. "Today we are equality. Today we are justice. Today we are peace," he said. "Learn from this experience today, and keep learning."
Students in the Penn Charter Middle and Upper Schools were busy, too. They worked in smaller groups to landscape the grounds of St. James School in Allegheny West; clear trails and spread compost at Ivy Ridge; prepare food for St. Vincent's shelter; staff the four-day Matt Miller Memorial Basketball Tournament at PC; and create a calendar for social justice.


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78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 4, Chapter 779
Description: Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the establishment and operation of the Texas B-On-time student loan program and the creation of a pilot program regarding the retention of certain students at institutions of higher education; authorizing the issuance of bonds.
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HANOVER, N.H. – The Yale baseball team got a stellar pitching performance from sophomore Pat Ludwig in game one and then two RBI off the bat of junior Andrew Kolmar in the nightcap on Sunday at Dartmouth, but the Bulldogs came up short on both ends of the Ivy League twinbill. Ludwig struck out 10 batters as Big Green shutout the Elis, 3-0, and Kolmar homered and tripled in a 7-4 loss.
Yale drops to 3-7 in Ivy League play with a 16-15-1 overall mark in the 2010 season. Dartmouth improves to 15-12 overall with a 6-4 Ancient Eight record.
In addition to Kolmar's two RBI, senior first baseman Trygg Larsson-Danforth and junior second baseman Gant Elmore each knocked in a run for the Bulldogs. Sophomore shortstop Matt Schmidt went 3-for-5 in the twinbill.
On the mound, Ludwig pitched a complete game in the seven-inning game one loss, allowing just two earned runs in addition to his 10 K's. Junior southpaw Vinny Lally took the hill in the nine-inning second game.
In the first game, Dartmouth got on the board in the second inning via a two-out rally. Jason Brooks hit a double off Ludwig, and Brett Gardner followed with a seeing-eye single to plate the game's first run. Big Green would run the score to 2-0 in the fifth inning, as Brooks doubled once again to set the table. This time, it was lead-off hitter Jake Carlson cashing in with an RBI single.
Dartmouth tacked on a third run- this one unearned- in the sixth inning while Young allowed just two Yale baserunners passed first base in the 3-0 victory.
Ludwig (3-4) went the distance for the Bulldogs, scattering six hits and two earned runs in the losing effort. The sophomore struck out a career-best 10 batters and walked four. Young (2-3) allowed six hits as well and did not issue a walk in the complete game victory. The senior ace registered two strikeouts.
Big Green wasted no time grabbing a lead in the nightcap, plating five runs in the first inning off of Lally. Jim Wren hit a three-run homer and Zack Bellenger had a two-run roundtripper in the frame.
The Bulldogs would take a pair back in the top of the third inning, as Kolmar led off with second home run of the season. Two batters later, Schmidt tripled down the right field line and Elmore followed with an RBI groundout to cut the deficit to 5-2.
After an RBI triple from Jim O'Dowd ran the score back to 6-2 in favor of the home team, the Elis put together their best chance to draw even in the top of the sixth inning. Schmidt led off the frame with a walk and moved to second on an Elmore groundout. After Megee popped up to shortstop for the second out of the frame, Larsson-Danforth laced a double down the left field line that scored Schmidt to make it a 6-3 ballgame. Sophomore Ryan Brenner followed with a walk, and classmate Charlie Neil was hit by a pitch to load the bases and chase Big Green starter Ben Murray from the contest. With the go-ahead run at the plate in designated hitter Josh Scharff, ace reliever Cole Sulser pitched out of the jam with a strikeout of the freshman batter.
Wren's fourth RBI of the game proved to be a key insurance run, as his single in the bottom of the seven inning pushed the score to 7-3. Neil singled to start the Bulldogs' ninth-inning rally, and Kolmar followed with a run-scoring triple to the gap in right-centerfield. Sulser would retire the next two batters, however, to close out the 7-4 win.
Lally (5-2) went the first 6.1 innings for Yale, allowing seven runs on seven hits with seven walks and seven strikeouts. Senior right-hander Robert Gruber allowed just one hit and one walk in a scoreless 1.2 innings out of the bullpen. Murray (3-3) surrendered three hits and three runs in 5.2 frames to record the win for Dartmouth, and Susler (3) notched the save with hit 3.1 innings of relief.
The Bulldogs and Big Green will close out their season series tomorrow with another doubleheader. The first pitch of game one from Red Rolfe Field is scheduled for noon.
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Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!
This week's set is 1906 Magic Castle Box.
The Magic Castle Box had a limited release in the United States and Canada in 1994. Also known as Majisto's Tower, this rocky magician's fortress has a guard tower, a wizard's tower, and two doors. A Dragon Master's knight, a soldier, and various accessories are included along with Majisto and his personal chariot.


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Section 7(a)(2) directs all Federal agencies to insure that any action they authorize, fund, or carry-out does not jeopardize the continued existence of an endangered or threatened species or designated or proposed critical habitat (collectively, referred to as protected resources). The implementing regulations, 50 CFR 402, specify how Federal agencies are to fulfill their section 7 consultation requirements.
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Under the implementing regulations (50 CFR 402), Federal agencies must review their actions and determine whether the action may affect federally listed and proposed species or proposed or designated critical habitat. To accomplish this, Federal agencies must request from the Service a list of species and critical habitat that may be in the project area or they can request our concurrence with their species list. The Service must respond to either request within 30 days.
Once a species list is obtained or verified as accurate, Federal agencies need to determine whether their actions may affect any of those species or their critical habitat. If no species or their critical habitat are affected, no further consultation is required. If they may be affected, consultation with the Service is required. This consultation will conclude either informally with written concurrence from the Service or through formal consultation with a biological opinion provided to the Federal agency.
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Watch a movie in the great outdoors! Join us for our citywide Summer Movie Series featuring family-friendly films through August. Admission is free! Please feel free to bring your own snacks and comfy chairs or blankets, as a limited number of chairs will be available.
In ParaNorman, a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he'll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst, of all, grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.
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There's no denying that music has an influence on our moods and motivation. Whether it's turning up the beat for a second wind at the gym, a sad love song to release a few tears while you're alone in the car (or is that just a girl thing?), or some old-school favorites to get a dance floor started.
Countless studies have been conducted to prove or deny claims that music helps with concentration. Some go as far as claiming music makes us smarter — like "The Mozart Effect," where some people say listening to classical music will increase brainpower. It's now considered a myth by most.
Although music may not make us smarter, it has been proven that classical music, particularly from the Baroque period such as Antonio Lucio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach, feature musical timing that mimics a human heart beat and creates a relaxing atmosphere in which to learn. This timing activates both the left and the right brain, allowing more information to be absorbed. In fact, learning potential increases a minimum of five times when using music with 60 beats per minute, according to The Center for New Discoveries in Learning. (Source: Laurence O'Donnell for Brain & Mind Magazine.)
Whatever studies may say, I simply know that music helps me with all sorts of moods or states of mind: happy, sad, energetic, or motivated, so why not focused? I've found that listening to music with no lyrics, and with a gentle and continuous composition is most effective for me, and for most others, hence the strong beliefs that classical music is ideal for focus. Music that has a lot of lyrics and/or heavy changes in tempo can actually be distracting, creating an adverse affect.
If you take a look at the comments on the following Mozart video, it seems that almost all of its 23.5 million viewers are those studying for finals. Admittedly, this was my first time at trying out this particular song and I have to say it really did help me pull my thoughts together and focus on my task of writing this article. Quite fitting, hey?
The results that you see will depend heavily on your own personal tastes, so trial and error is key to forming your ultimate soundtrack. The sweet wonder of YouTube is that endless assortments of options are at hand, for free, for you to play in the background as you try to focus. Another gem I came across is by Norman Durkee, a Seattle composer, who created the following clip, which "takes you on wondrous musical journeys."
Do you have any tracks that help you stay focused? We would love to hear about them, so please feel free to share in the comments box below.
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Gilt Groupe Inc. is branching out from its core business of daily sales of heavily discounted designer items, as it seeks new ways to take advantage of its highly engaged, young and affluent customer base, CEO Michelle Peluso tells Internet Retailer.
A case in point is a sale the retailer ran last October for the 20th anniversary of high-end shoemaker Stuart Weitzman's launch of its popular 5050 boot. The women's boot, leather in the front and stretch material in the back, pulls up over the knee and runs around $600-$700.
To mark the occasion, Gilt Groupe worked with the Stuart Weitzman brand to sell colors and styles of the boot that were exclusive to Gilt.com. In a departure from the norm for Gilt, the retailer didn't discount the items at all, and even offered $10,000 custom bejeweled versions of the boot. Gilt, No. 54 in Internet Retailer's Top 500 Guide, built its business on selling items at 60% off retail.
Gilt got the word out about the Stuart Weitzman event through social networks and e-mail, and invited its most loyal customers to the site early to shop the sale the evening before it went live to all eight million Gilt members.
The flash-sale retailer sold more than $1 million worth of Stuart Weitzman 5050 boots during the 20-day sale, though most of that revenue came on the first day, Peluso says. "We even sold two of the $10,000 pairs, and one of those came from an iPad shopper," she says. "We know we have this very affluent audience and sometimes price is no object. We are working to take advantage of our audience and work with our brand partners in new ways."
Around half of Gilt members are in the 25 to 34 age range, she says, and 36% are male. 30% of its customers have an annual income between $60,000 and $100,000, and 27% make more than $100,000 per year, according to web traffic measurement firm Compete Inc.
Gilt is exploring full-price sales of exclusive items with other suppliers it has worked with. It is also considering offering more operational and creative services to other retailers, she adds, such as fulfillment arrangements or product photo shoots.
This past fall, for example, Gilt began providing fulfillment services for outdoor gear flash-sale retailer TheClymb.com from its 303,000-sq. ft. facility in Shepherdsville, KY, near Louisville. Neither Gilt nor TheClymb have disclosed the financial terms of the arrangement, but both say it's mutually beneficial, as TheClymb is able reduce shipping times and Gilt can make use of its excess fulfillment capacity. Gilt says it may consider similar arrangements with other retailers in the future.
In 2014, personalization of what customers see on Gilt.com, especially international customers, is another big priority for Gilt, Peluso says. Consumers from abroad are currently shopping on the U.S. site, whose selection can be out of sync with styles and conditions in other parts of the world.
When it's winter in the U.S., for example, shoppers will see sales on leather boots or outerwear. But that doesn't resonate well with consumers in Australia, where it's summer. Those shoppers might want to see sales on bathing suits or summer dresses.
"International customers are still coming to the site, and shopping with us," Peluso says. "But we need to do a better job of personalizing their experience."
Gilt, which has around 1,100 employees, is expanding its staff to facilitate some of these goals, she adds. A check of the retailer's career's page shows 87 open positions.
Gilt does not disclose its online sales publicly. But Internet Retailer estimates it brought in $600 million in 2013, up 9.1% from $550 million in 2012, and booked an average annual growth rate of 37.1% since 2009, when Gilt says it did $170 million in sales.
Peluso would not comment on published reports that the retailer may be considering going public.


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Anyone have any suggestions for a book in January?
Book for January?
How about Nicholas Sparks' Choice, I read an it was pretty good
The Chosen by Chaim Potok or Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
What about the last Dan Brown´s? If I´m not mistaken, it´s name is Inferno.
I don't know if anyone is up for short story anthology, but I thought we could read something of Alice Munro's since she won the last Nobel prize.
The short stories is an interesting idea. Seems like it would be easy for people to pop in for a story or all of them.
I'm not a fan of short stories. I like something I can get my teeth into.
This sounds fun. I am currently looking or a good book. I would suggest Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock. The book is definitely not what it seems.
Another book would be a Thousand Splendid Suns. I loved/hated this book so much. It gave me a view of middle eastern culture and definitely made me examine my perspective of the world.
What is the medium for books for most people? I pretty much am 100% Kindle content and am so excited about the self-published authors. However my taste is, shall we say, electic, so I am concerned about recommending anything to a large group!
I'm a paper lover - love to hold them and see them on the shelves. I only get rid of them if I really did not like them. The house is bursting at the seams!!
Something really light for January would be great! Nicholas Sparks has a lot of really good books, I would love to do something of his.
I do love Nicholas Sparks too. I'm up for a good cry-fest.
Tiffany if you want a cry-fest Nicholas Sparks' The Choice would be perfect. A real tear-jerker!
I am a new member here and would love to join your reading group. I love Nicholas Sparks also.
When will be book be chosen, and how long will we have to read it?
I have heard a lot about The Choice and have been meaning to read it for a while. That would be a great one to do!
Hi All! Has a book been decided on? I'd love to join in!
Yes, anything Nicholas Sparks!!
Was a book decided? I really like the idea of exploring my other interests as well!
Anita I don't think anything has been decided for January.
I have to finish "war and Peace" (almost done), then I am up for short stories of Alice Munro
I am open to doing this. Sounds like a ton of fun. Not a fan of shot stories. I think you should post a survey of some choices.
Maybe we should decide something for march survey sounds good!
I would be also up for something classic, like Werther by Goethe or Tell by Schiller. Or what do you think about The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov? I also would like to read The Hand of Fatima by Ildefonso Falcones… What are your suggestions?


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Heidi Klum showed the younger modeling generation how it's done at a photo call for Germany's Next Top Model over the weekend!
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Heidi wore a black, one-sleeved Atelier Versace dress to the event held in Berlin, Germany, but I'm seriously dying over those black and gold fringe sandals! Not mad at this color coordination at all and the cut of this dress flatters her amazing figure so well!
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greg49 wrote:Kind of sad, really.
Hope his possesions go to good homes to be cared for as he did, especially the Cubs
I agree...it is sad...I definately got a little misty eyed looking at the stuff to be auctioned. I wish his friends from the forum got first dibs. And I hope his family is doing ok.


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August 2, 2012
Starting on TV commercials when she was eight, Victoria Justice is most known for her own hit Nickelodeon series, "Victorious." The show won Favorite TV Show at the Kids Choice Awards in 2012. Justice was also nominated for favorite TV Actress two years in a row along with many more nominations throughout her young career.
The actress/singer/songwriter performed August 2 at the OC Fair's Pac Amp to thousands of screaming fans who definitely got their money's worth of Justice's hits and several upbeat covers. A concert highlight was opening act Max Schneider, coming out to duet with Justice on their Bruno Mars medley. The two also have a YouTube video performing a Maroon 5 medley that is receiving a lot of attention.
Another crowd favorite was Justice dedicating a song to her mother, who was sitting in the audience. Justice put on a high-energy show, played all of her hits and proved to be a great role model for her young fans. She just wrapped up filming a new movie and is currently working on a new studio album and filming season three of "Victorious."


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Girl Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts is hosting a Medieval Maidens Try-It Workshop for Brownies. This is an exclusive Try-It for this Council.
The event will be held at the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester on Saturday, Nov. 21 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for Brownies and Juliette Scouts in grades 2 & 3.
Princesses, fair ladies, nobles and peasants!
Connect with the staff at Higgins Armory Museum to learn about girls and women in medieval times.
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The cost is $15 per Scout, $8 per adult chaperone or leader.
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"'Men are all: (a) bastards, (b) rapists, or (c) bastard rapists.'
Hmmmm. Oooh, I know this, I know this!"
The only reason a modern teenager is likely burn her bra is to emulate underwear-dodging celebrities like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Our daughters are in dire need of lessons in women's rights, says a feminist author.
We need feminism more than ever, not just to address all the myths that have grown up - we're still a long way from living in an equal society, despite girls' much-vaunted success over boys in exams - but to counter the pervasive influence of the commercial sex industry on young women.
How dim-witted are feminists?
They don't even know their own movement, or it's aims and 'achievements.'
Feminism is the primary reason young women are pretty much viewed as sex-objects. Beforehand, in the Evil Old Patriarchy, young women were taught modesty and discouraged from sleeping around and indeed urged to only sleep with their husband and only after the wedding.
Then came the fembots who encouraged young women to whore about until their twats split, and woe betide any man who tutted in disgust at the 'loose women', who would be condemned by feminist as a prudish misogynist who wanted to restrict women's 'sexual freedom' and who probably had a small dick too.
Girls used to be pretty much groomed for marriage, in order that a man would view her as a potential companion for life, a devoted housekeeper and a good mother to their children. Feminism urged women to get all bitchy and angry, to sneer at the idea of doing anything that constituted 'domestic slavery', and to have abortions and shove the kids they didn't have killed in daycare centres, and to hell with any such thing as 'fathers rights' - children now belong to women.
Having largely become too bitter and angry to make good companions, unwilling and unable to run a home (but still wanting a man to bring home the bacon - and the SUV, plasma-screen telly, expensive dresses, etc) and not the sort of women you'd figure would make good mothers to their children, men see sex as the only real thing many young women have to offer. And they'll happily offer it before marriage too. After all, they're liberated grrrls.
So men increasingly just see women as sex-objects, because more and more, thanks to feminism, sex is all they have left to offer.
Yet feminists can't seem to see the results of their own fucked up ideology and it's insane application to the Western World. Girls are acting like sluts, so it must be because feminism hasn't gone far enough, they think, when in fact it's because of feminism. Duh!
Feminism can't let go of women's monopoly on victimhood, and still screech on about wimmin's issues and problems, even though many are actually thanks to feminism. Take the bemoaning about how single mothers and their kids are more likely to live in poverty, especially in harsh economic times. Well of course they're going to be in poverty, if they don't have a man as the breadwinner! But it was feminists who encouraged the removal of men from families. Don't blame us for the effects of your social experiment you daft lezzers.
In the article, the author complains about young girls being forced into prostitution. Sure, I'll agree that that's really shitty for the girls, but does she think for one moment about these girl's family background? I very much doubt if girls raised in a two-parent family with a big strong father there to protect her are the ones being lured into the sex-industry. More likely it's the girls from dysfuctional (read: no father) 'familes.' Once again, fatherless families was the aim - and the result - of feminism, and now the problems caused by fatherless families are rampant, those who encouraged this not only refuse to accept blame but still insist they know what to do about it.
Whether it's single mothers in poverty, girls being viewed as sex-objects and the rise of slut-culture, or the increasing numbers of women unable to find a man stupid enough to marry them, feminism is the primary cause of the problem, yet once again the answer to this problem - according to feminists - is more fucking feminism.
The author also comments:
"I'm amazed at how much we achieved - many feminist ideas, such as the right to maternity leave, have become mainstream - but I'm also horrified by the casual misogyny of 21st-century life. Since my book, Misogynies, was first published in 1989, it has got much worse. "
There's no evidence supplied by her to imply misogyny is getting 'worse' - after all, what do facts and evidence matter to a feminist? - but she may have a point. I do notice that, whilst men my age tend to be somewhat apathetic towards women (which to many women is the same as hatred), a lot of young men tend to be outrightly hostile towards women.
Yet if this is the case, feminism is to blame in a big way. What the fuck did feminists think would happen to generations of boys raised by man-hating bitches in schools, raised by single-mothers who often don't hide their whorishness from their kids, seeing stories of ridiculous divorce rulings in favour of women and surrounded by media-images and politician's drivel that implies men are worthless and women are virtual goddesses, beyond criticism? Why, you'll have a generation of men who don't really care much for women, and may even think 'Hey, if I'm supposedly a woman-hating brute and total shit, I guess I might as well act that way!'
Some woman in the comments sneers:
these last few comments illustrate that men still do and will always hate women.
Actually, men used to love women. And many still do. Love is what drove men to work to provide for a woman, to die on battlefields to save not just an individual woman but the mass of women in his invaded country. Not any more. Fuck that. Provide for yourselves, pay your own fucking mortgages, and fuck off if you think we're getting shot to save you and 'your' children.
Feminists indulge heavily in projection. They hated men and presumed we all hated women back. Given that contempt has an alarming ability to boomarang back, feminism and it's incessant hatred of us men - and it's political lackeys eagerness to make men socially redundant (except as tax-mines in peacetime and cannon-fodder in wartime) and remove any investment men have in society - has made many men either contemptous of - or at least apathetic towards - women. Oops! How ironic.
Yet feminists just think that the best thing to do is to continue to force their twisted ideology on kids even more, even though this is the same ideology that helped turned girls into sex-objects and helps foster resentement and contempt amongst boys towards the girls. Yeah, well done grrls, great logic there.
Furthermore, like any feminist, she makes a living through 'highlighting' and drivelling on about misogyny. Of course she's going to claim it's getting worse! The same way domestic-violence charities will never say that domestic-violence is decreasing; their livelihood would be over otherwise.
A feminist in a world without misogyny - real or imagined - is a nothing but a woman who has to get a proper fucking job.
Here's one last sentence that caught my attention:
Young women need to know that there's nothing wrong with liking clothes, shoes and boys (or other girls), but they're also in urgent need of a language and ethics that allow them to be themselves.
Well, yes, there's nothing wrong with liking clothes and shoes, so long as you accept that there's nothing wrong with being a fucking airhead with no life outside shopping.
More significant is the latter half of her sentence, whereby the brainwashing nature of feminism is made clear; she talks of giving girls 'language and ethics' that allows them to 'be themselves.' In other words, the 'language and ethics' of feminism.
Feminists will only allow girls (and boys for that matter) to 'be themselves' if it corresponds to what feminists want them to be.
And never mind that feminism is, at it's heart, nothing but a hate movement which has caused (probably irreversible) damage to those societies that didn't violently stomp it out as soon as possible.
The comments at the article (and this surprisingly similar one today) show feminist's hatred of dissenting opinions perfectly; howls of anger that any man dare criticise feminism. Indeed, feminism's emptiness and stupidity is personified in the fact that those who follow it never listen to - and logically break down - criticism. Knowing there is no logical merit to their ideology (and logic is an evil Patriarchal tool of oppression anyway) they have no weapons to fling other than insults and abuse. Even calling someone 'anti-feminist' seems be classified as some sort of shameful label to be flung around, even though being anti-feminist is a label any sane man should any embrace.
Some women even try to backpedal, insisting feminism was about equality. The author of the article even claims feminism was about human rights. Yeah right! Maybe it was concerned with the rights (ideally without responsibility) of a certain 50% of humans, but not the other 50%.
Most pathetic of all are the many accusations that any man who criticises feminism is a misogynist, even though feminism is just an ideology, and therefore - like any ideology - has no immunity from being questioned and rejected, or even loathed. Claiming that anyone who criticises feminism hates all women is as absurd as saying that anyone who criticises Maoism hates all Chinese people.
By its very nature of being a hate-filled ideology closely linked to Marxism, feminism allows no questioning or individuality. If it's taught in primary/elementary schools you can imagine any boy who maybe questions the teacher ('Miss...I mean, Muzzz?I don't think it's true that I want to rape women just because I'm a boy, and I'm pretty sure my dad doesn't regularly beat up my mum.') being marked down or even reported for counselling for 'inappropriate behaviour.'
The only thing dumber than the first, second and third wave feminists who fucked-up our society in the first place is a fourth wave one who thinks that more feminism will magically unfuck-up everything.


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Let me step outside of the Twin Cities for just a moment.
Dixon is abuzz: The biggest event the Sauk Valley has seen in years is right around the corner.
Mumford & Sons, an internationally known English band, and seven other bands will invade Page Park on Aug. 18.
The 15,000 tickets are all gone, sold to eager fans in about 8 hours. But there still are many ways to have fun that weekend, including street festivals Saturday and Sunday, a comedy show, other live music, and maybe fireworks.
Tuesday night, Dixon business leaders gathered at Books on First to talk about the details,
Dixon Main Street and other organizers are planning a weekend full of festivities. There will be music, entertainment, food, drinks and fun Friday night, all day Saturday and in to the wee hours Sunday.
Listening to Josh Albrecht, Main Street's executive director, at Tuesday's meeting, I began to get more excited about the weekend.
I'll admit it, I only recently started getting into Mumford & Sons. When I heard about the daylong entertainment on Aug. 18, I knew I wanted to be a part of the fun. It sounds like it's going to be a great day.
I'm glad Dixon is getting the opportunity to host a major musical event and happy to see the whole city is getting in the mood for the concert. Dixon looks great, with new Gentlemen of the Road banners up all around downtown.
I'm also getting in the mood for the concert: I'm listening to Mumford & Sons on Pandora as I write this.
Albrecht answered a variety of questions about the event Tuesday, down to the number of port-a-potties that will be in Page Park (150).
Organizers have put in countless hours of preparation, and seem to have though of everything. For instance, in case of severe weather, there is an evacuation plan in place.
Like Albrecht, I hope the entire area gets behind this event. Positive activities like this concert could bring future attractions to the area.
Beyond that, it's just good old-fashioned fun.
Hope to see you in Dixon soon.
Sauk Valley Media reporter Kiran Sood covers government and happenings in Sterling and Rock Falls. She can be reached at email@example.com or at 800-798-4085, ext. 529.


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VIA OpenBook Mini-Note Platform Preview
Specifications and Features
What Could Have Been
You wouldn't know it by looking at the market today, but VIA Technologies was really the original mainstream company to be the proponent of the "mini-notebook" market that has become epitomized by the ASUS Eee PC. Last June VIA demonstrated and showed off a device called the VIA NanoBook at Computex in Taipei; essentially a very small form factor laptop with Windows XP on it. Looking at it next to the current generations of the Eee PC and you'd be hard pressed to find significant differences. The single area that VIA failed to address was actually PUSHING their devices into the market - we never really found them in the US and they never took off.
In my view VIA lost out on a big opportunity to push their brand into the new area they desperately needed. And with the advantages of having their own complete compute platform consisting of CPU, GPU and chipset they still have the chance to make a big splash. That is just what they are planning to do with a completely new design this June: the VIA OpenBook.
The New VIA OpenBook Platform
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The original VIA NanoBook was a nice design but definitely wouldn't be confused with a "sexy" technology device like the iPhone or newer Blackberry phones. The design team behind this reference platform decided to fix that:
Features and Highlights
The display on the VIA OpenBook is 8.9" and features a 1024x600 resolution; since we are simply looking at announcements and photos from VIA at this point I can't say anything else on the quality of the display but I can assure you I'll have my hands on one next week at Computex.
Connectivity is one of VIA's big selling points on the new OpenBook as it offers up the ability to OEMs to integrate just about anything into the system. Besides the critical 802.11 wireless and 10/100 NIC it supports Bluetooth, WiMAX, HSDPA and W-CDMA networks. This makes the OpenBook the most flexible mini-note design by a long shot and should appeal to professionals on the go for just that reason.
The secondary reason behind the OpenBook branding is the support for all types of operating systems: VIA lists Vista Home Basic, XP, Ubuntu, Suse and G/OS all as ready-to-go options.
The 1.6 GHz C7-M processor might seem surprising since VIA has been pushing their Isaiah processor design in recent months but it just isn't quite ready for a full scale product going to into product just yet. The chances are good we'll see CPUs based around VIA's new technology in a refresh to the OpenBook platform but probably not before the end of year. It shouldn't matter though as the C7-M and VX800 chipset with integrated video should be more than powerful enough for the form factor this notebook rests in.


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King: 'Thank God' for NSA program
Americans should be thankful for the National Security Agency surveillance program because it has saved "so many lives," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Thursday.
"We should thank God every day this is in effect because it's saved so many lives, especially in New York," King said on Fox News.
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Calling the program "absolutely essential," King said "hundreds, maybe thousands of New Yorkers would've been incinerated in the subway system" if the NSA program did not help catch Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan-American who was arrested in 2009 for being part of a plot to bomb the New York City subway.
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When pressed by host Martha MacCallum as to why the program did not monitor the Boston Marathon bombers after Russian authorities flagged Tamerlan Tsarnaev, King said the brothers had no foreign terrorist connection so the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court would have rejected the case.
"Maybe you're saying there should be more surveillance, maybe there should be," King said.
MacCallum said it's "disturbing" that a court would've rejected monitoring the brothers "because that would've been helpful."
"I think it proves the system is not efficient, that we're gathering so much information, we're not focusing on the right things," she added.
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King shot back, saying MacCallum was "grasping at straws."
"What you're saying really proves how much the American citizens are being protected, sometimes at the risk of their own safety," King said. "You're saying because we didn't catch this one because the protections in place mainly what you're saying is we should have less protections and that's a different story."


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Ms. Toni Crawford, Mr. T. O'Neal Douglas, Ms. Donna Harper Gibbs, Mr. Wilfredo J. Gonzalez, Ms. Virginia Hall, Mr. Steven T. Halverson, Ms. Ann Hicks, Ms. Lindsay Hodges, Mr. James Stallings, Mr. Kevin Twomey, Ms. Carol Thompson, Dr. Floyd Willis.
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Chair Carol Thompson called the University of North Florida's Board of Trustees' September 26 meeting to order at 2:40 p.m. Chair Thompson requested a moment of silence in honor of those who lost their lives and who suffered the loss of loved ones in the September 11 tragedy.
After observing the moment of silence, Chair Thompson suggested that, without objection, the agenda be reordered to begin with remarks from President Hopkins.
In her remarks President Hopkins described to the Trustees how the University had observed the events of September 11. She discussed closing the University at 12:00 on the day of the terrorist attack and described how that evening staff from the University's counseling services and campus ministry met with students in the residence halls. President Hopkins provided details about the events that have occurred since the University was reopened, including a campus wide reflection on the tragedy and a student sponsored forum held on Thursday, September 13, and the events and student support services that will be offered in the upcoming days and weeks.
President Hopkins reported that university enrollments and occupancy rates in student housing were ahead of projections for Fall 2001. She discussed the fact that the University had received only 99% of its expected first quarter allocation from the State and that the significant drop in State revenues might well lead to further cut backs. President Hopkins also discussed the capital construction (PECO) list that was presented to the Florida Board of Education at their most recent meeting.
Following the President's report, Chair Thompson asked if there was a motion to approve the minutes from the September 5 meeting. Trustee Gibbs moved the acceptance of the minutes. Trustee Hodges seconded the motion. Trustee Hicks offered a correction to the minutes: the spelling of her first name appeared incorrectly in the minutes. With the correction noted, the Board unanimously approved the minutes.
Chair Thompson began her report to the trustees by thanking President Hopkins and the UNF staff for their support of students during our national tragedy. Chair Thompson then presented a set of behaviors she felt the Board members would want to consider following in performing their duties as trustees. These behaviors included supporting the mission of the University, engaging in open and honest dialogue in making decisions and then supporting the decisions that are approved by the majority of the Board, adhering to the State's sunshine and conflict of interest laws, and serving as advocates for the entire University and all of its programs. In closing her remarks, Chair Thompson discussed the fact that she would most typically be the spokesperson for the Board and that President Hopkins must serve as the spokesperson for the University.
The next item of business was a report from the ad hoc committee on Board of Trustee bylaws. Trustee Halverson reported on behalf of the committee members: Trustees Hall, Halverson, Thompson, and Willis. Trustee Halverson with the aid of a PowerPoint presentation discussed the principles, process, and resources the ad hoc committee used in writing the draft of the bylaws. He also spoke about the key issues the committee discussed, key provisions included in the bylaws, and issues the members of the Board might wish to discuss. Trustee Halverson ended his presentation with a motion to adopt the bylaws as prepared by the committee. Trustee Hicks seconded the motion.
During their discussion of the bylaws, members of the Board asked several questions and made comments concerning the structure of the bylaws as presented. There was a question about requirements to submit changes in the bylaws to the Governor's office. There was also a question regarding the format that would be followed during the open comment period: Would preference be given to people who wrote in ahead of time over those who requested to speak at the time of the meeting? It was agreed that both of these issues could be handled in the procedures manual that the Board could develop. The final discussion was on how an item was to be added to the agenda. Items for the agenda should be forwarded to the President in advance of the meeting.
After the discussion on the bylaws, Vice Chair Douglas called for the question. Chair Thompson then asked the members of the Board to vote. The Board approved the bylaws by a unanimous vote.
In keeping with the provision of the newly passed bylaws that established two standing committees, the Finance and Audit Committee and the Educational Policy Committee, Chair Thompson asked each Board member to consider on which of these committees she or he would want to serve. Chair Thompson requested that each Trustee communicate her or his preference to President Hopkins.
As part of the ongoing Board orientation, Janet Owen, Director of Governmental Relations and Associate General Counsel, provided a presentation entitled University Governance: Where We Have Been, Where We Are, Where We Need to Be. In her presentation Ms. Owen discussed the history of governance for Florida's public universities. She then presented information on current laws and the permanent and transitional structures that are in place for governing public universities. Ms. Owen also talked about what future decisions will need to be made as governance devolves down to local boards. In discussing the future, Ms. Owen compared public universities to community colleges and local school boards and detailed where the major differences were roles and responsibilities. She also stressed how important the next legislative session would be in determining future responsibilities that would be given to local boards of trustees.
Trustees offered a number of questions about and comments on Ms. Owen's presentation. Trustees expressed interest in understanding the roles of the FBOE, the Secretary of Education, and the State legislature in the devolution of power to local control. Trustees also expressed interest in working with and through the University to influence the process.
Trustees asked that Ms. Owen return with ideas about what the key issues might be in seeking meaningful local control for universities and how trustees might help to advocate on behalf of their institutions. Trustees suggested that this advocacy might include going to Tallahassee to discuss the issues with legislators, members of the FBOE, and Secretary Horne.
Because of the time taken in discussing Ms. Owen's presentation, Chair Thompson asked Provost Kline if he could make his report on the faculty profile at the next meeting of the Board. The time and date for the next meeting will be Tuesday, October 23 at 2:30.
Chair Thompson offered closing remarks and adjourned the meeting.
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The Greater Nottingham Transport Partnership (GNTP) was formed to address transport issues that matter to businesses and transport users in the conurbation. It represents the City and County Councils (local transport authorities), the largest employers in the area, as well as the Regional government, the Chamber of Commerce, the retailers association, etc. It offers a forum for partners to understand, debate and influence transport policies across the conurbation.
OBJECTIVES: The Big Wheel marketing and branding is managed by the GNTP, funded by the local transport authorities and provides an umbrella for promotional and awareness campaigns, transport information, and presentation of the long term vision for the conurbations transport planning, policies and projects KEY STEPS Stage 1 2002 - public awareness campaigns targeting all citizens we are building the big wheel Health campaign Stage 2 2003 - Apply the brand to a range of products practical information celebrate success business events behaviour messages infrastructure projects Stage 3 (current) - Changing behaviour Encourage car commuters to use more sustainable forms of transport Promote sustainable travel modes: walking & cycling, bus services, etc Extracts from Department for Transport report Final report of the research project: 'The influence of soft factor interventions on travel demand' - July 2004, Published by the Department for Transport, London, 20.7.2004 on the Sustainable Travel section of www.dft.gov.uk A campaign called The Big Wheel, managed by the Nottingham Development Enterprise, was set up for three years to articulate a transport vision for the city and to raise awareness of the measures contained in the Local Transport Plan (LTP). It has been aimed at both the general public and the business community, partly to encourage confidence within the business community that some of the radical transport policy developments occurring in the city are part of a coherent, long term vision. There are approximately 650,000 residents in the LTP area covered by the campaign. The first phase of the project involved awareness raising via general promotional products. Later phases have included the production of factual information, and establishment of a Big Wheel brand. This brand is used on timetables, area travel guides, school travel plan packs, workplace travel plan information, brochures, posters, postcards, etc.. The brand uses a bright, technicolour style with straightforward imagery of the various elements in the citys transport network. Specific versions of the public campaign have used themes such as: A radical change in transport that people can join Join The Revolution The vital impact of your mode of transport on personal health - Better for Everybody Air quality, pollution and the environment Can you do without it for a day? Bus travel is a better option to car travel during the congested festive season - the Christmas Carol campaign Associated promotions have included sponsored discounted bus travel, and cut price admission to local attractions at times that should help to ease rush hour congestion, (twilight leisure offers). Nottingham City Transport, the local bus company, have worked closely with the Big Wheel.
Is it working? Marketing strategy well established Good rapport among members of partnership Cited as National and European Best Practice (NICHES, SMILE) Public Surveys in TTWA : - knowledge of Local Transport Plan increased by 27% in year 1 - 67% of local public aware of Big Wheel Key lessons Partnerships and communication are key drivers Marketing requires a strategy: a campaign MUST deliver what it promises (complements other soft factors and hard measures) Branding helps presenting the business case to all target groups, and that includes investors FAVOURABILITY SURVEYS 2001, 03, 04 Measuring the Success of Marketing the Greater Nottingham Local Transport Plan, Transport & Travel Research Ltd (TTR), 2004. - The results show a trend towards increased bus use over time for all activities, except travel to work. This is combined with an increased perception of bus use as an easy mode of travel. - Awareness of the LTP was of 71% in the latest survey, lower than the 2003 peak of 78.5%. - A greater number of respondents considered most transport measures to be very effective than in the three previous surveys. - It appears that there is a strong, increasing trend towards acceptance of the transport measures being implemented in Nottingham, with a steady upwards trend in terms of the measures being considered as very effective. However, it is interesting to note that the percentage of people who consider the measures to be not at all effective remains relatively unchanged, which suggests that although the majority of the population shows some empathy with the LTP and its actions, there is a minority which remains unaffected by the LTP measures and the Big Wheel campaign. DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT best practice report Transport Smarter Choices Changing the Way We Travel - 'The influence of soft factor interventions on travel demand' - Department for Transport, 20.7.2004 on the Sustainable Travel section of www.dft.gov.uk Travel awareness campaigns Early in 2003, the Big Wheel carried out a familiarity study with 1200 residents and a random sample of 300 businesses. The results were compared with a similar survey in 2001 to assess the success of the campaign, (TTR, 2003). Changes noted were as follows: - In 2003, businesses were implementing more environmental measures (such as staff travel plans and using public transport for business travel). - Since 2001, members of the public have become much more aware of the LTP a 27% increase. - Members of the public were much more aware of the Big Wheel campaign than businesses. 67% of City of Nottingham residents and 52% of residents in a wide travel-to-work area were aware of the Big Wheel. This was only 6 months after its launch. - Most members of the public interpreted the Big Wheel pictures as encouraging them to walk or use public transport more. Public transport information and marketing In recent years in Nottingham, bus service improvements -Re-branding, marketing and better information- have reversed a previous long-term decline in bus use. Previously, bus patronage was declining about 1% a year. Now passenger journeys are increasing at about 1.8% a year, or 1.3 million journeys per year. If re-branding and other initiatives had not taken place, we infer that public transport use would have continued to decline by about 1%, or 0.7 million trips per year. Thus, one year after the intervention, the local authority and bus company actions were responsible for about an extra 2 million trips. PERCEPTION SURVEY 2005 at the BIG DAY OUT (In town without my car) - 90% of people felt transport has improved in the last 5 years. People saw the choice and alternatives available to them in Greater Nottingham as a positive thing and were happy to use and appreciated the services available to them. The general feeling is that the bus service has improved especially in areas such as punctuality, reliability, routes and cleanliness. The tram was extremely popular with many people. The park and ride that accompanies the tram is also very popular. - About 92% of people felt public transport in the conurbation (tram + buses) was excellent or good PROGRESS REPORT 2005 monitoring the Local Transport Plan Detailed transport monitoring report available at http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/cdt_ltp_annual_progress_report_2005.pdf Key outcomes since the introduction of the LTP in 2000 are: - - Traffic growth, at just 1.2% over the last four years, has been far lower than previously, and lower than comparable cities in the UK. - Public transport use has increased by 5.9% over the last four years from an already very high base, whilst in the rest of England outside London bus use has declined. - The number of people killed or seriously injured has reduced by 22.8% over the last four years, and is now 31.7% below the 1994-98 baseline, which is also significantly better than the national rate of reduction. - These simultaneous improvements in all the main transport outcomes has occurred whilst Nottinghams economy has thrived, with registered unemployment reducing by 22.6% over the last four years, nearly twice as much as the national reduction of 13.4%. 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The Davis Feminist Film Festival, sponsored by the Women's Research and Resources Center (WRRC), is a grassroots event that uses alternative media as a springboard for linking art to social issues. The goal of the film festival is to showcase independent film spanning documentary, narrative, and experimental genres in order to explore perspectives often missing from mainstream media and culture. Now in its 10th year and increasingly international in scope, the festival provides an inclusive public space for under-represented artists—particularly women and people of color—to raise consciousness about gender, race, class, sexuality, and other dimensions of social inequality. It is a fun, inspiring, community-building event for artists and audiences alike!
Both nights will have a silent auction featuring local businesses and artists. The Solar Community Housing Association will be selling beer donated by Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. & Lagunitas Brewing Co.
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Thursday night, April 11
PLEASE BE ADVISED: The films are not rated. Some contain material that may not be appropriate for viewers of all ages.
Sólo sé que no sé nada / All I know is that I know nothing (14 min) Olatz Arroyo, Spain Sofia is in a rut, but her life changes radically when she discovers her son's philosophy textbook. She finds Socrates and Sartre inspiring, but Rousseau is another matter. Luckily, she has ideas of her own. A well-crafted, humorous narrative about marriage, friendship, and revenge.
Mamuu / To weave, to work (22 min) Denise Nicole Green, Canada This collection of personal vignettes brings to light the subtle yet powerful contributions that weaving makes to individuals, families, and the broader political-economy of First Nations communities. An ongoing history of colonialism and inequality in the Pacific Northwest is the backdrop to a story of women's creative perseverance and their everyday emphasis on intergenerational knowledge exchange.
Perfect Girl (4 min) Pia Tjäder, Sweden What does femininity look like? A baby girl explores the world around her, naïve to the media images that will shape her self-esteem as she grows up: smooth skin, flawless features, slender bodies. The baby doesn't care, but the mother is more affected, examining her own body with apparent dissatisfaction. Images outside the commercial media reveal little girls who are strong, happy, shy, angry—all perfect just the way they are.
More Than a Face in the Crowd (25 min) Samantha Chan, USA More Than a Face in the Crowd tells the story of the filmmaker's great aunt, Jane Chung, who began acting in Hollywood during the first wave of Asian-American actors. Enduring considerable racism and opposition, early pioneers like Chung established themselves in the entertainment business yet were rarely recognized for their work. Personal archives, interviews with family, and clips from Chung's many film and television appearances paint an intimate portrait of the woman behind the career.
(A)typical Couple (6 min) Maša Zia Lenárdič and Anja Wutej, Slovenia Tired of negative stereotypes of lesbians as boring and humorless or psychotic and predatory? This charming, quirky film is just the antidote, offering us a slice of life we can all relate to. To quote one reviewer, "Yay! Lesbian couple! Super cute!"
The Rest of Us (2 min, 30 sec) Maddi Davis, Alyssa Piraino, and Danny Tayara, USA Labels. Categories. Boxes. Bathrooms. What if you don't belong? Why should we have to choose? This clever film troubles the gender binary, offering a creative solution to the "bathroom problem."
Welcome and introductions
Plaza de Cocos (3 min) Julio López Fernández, Mexico/El Salvador Next to a Salvadoran road, two young girls hawk coconuts to drive-by customers indifferent to their sense of urgency. The girls can ill-afford to be turned down, as we learn. An oblique commentary on gender, poverty, and survival.
America's Most Unwanted (23 min) Shani Heckman, USA One-half of all fosters are homeless, one-third are on welfare, and one-third enter prison within two years of leaving foster care. America's Most Unwanted is a candid documentary about three queer youth and their experiences of homophobia, homelessness, and educational marginalization in the foster-care system. A former foster herself, filmmaker Shani Heckman paints a poignant yet unsentimental portrait of a largely invisible population.
Silent Voices (4 min, 30 sec) Jeeyoon Na, USA This animated short was inspired by the sexist commentary that followed a Korean news report in which two teenage girls were reported gang-raped. Instead of expressing sympathy, readers blamed the girls for provoking the attack. Silent Voices translates the feelings of shame and despair that victim-blaming generates, as the young girl in the film gradually loses her voice and her confidence amidst the judgments of others.
There's No Hole in My Head (14 min) Alison Segar, UK/USA At age 54, Abby Hale was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. A mother, loving partner, and former medical practitioner, Abby shares with eloquence and grace what she has gained and lost as a result of this cruel disease. There's No Hole in My Head affords us insight into a condition that, although increasingly common, is rarely discussed in such an honest and open way.
Anamnesis (4 min) Cat Xia, Canada/USA Memory is fragile and can make us question reality. Its loss generates fear and insecurity. Being seen as "crazy" is especially fraught for women of color, whose capacity may be suspect even under "normal" circumstances. Anamnesis is a stop-motion short about the filmmaker's personal experience with memory loss and its potential effect on her life. Serious and playful at the same time, it asks us to reconsider what it's like to forget.
Perfect Plastic (13 min) Meredith Sward, USA The female body is a canvas for comparison and modification, with the media playing a key role in shaping notions of beauty and attractiveness. Narrow images of female beauty increase dissatisfaction with "real" bodies and lead women to seek transformation through plastic surgery. Drawing on media footage, personal introspection, and interviews with surgeons, psychologists, and academics, Perfect Plastic casts a critical eye on current beauty ideals and the industries that profit from them. WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF PLASTIC SURGERIES, INCLUDING BREAST AUGMENTATION AND LABIAPLASTY
Present Gender (8 min Christine Yeakley and Lane Lewis, USA Present Gender explores gender identity and gender expression through interviews and visual representation. Womyn and queer/trans* youth discuss their experiences and challenges with being "read" by others and asserting their own identities and desires in the face of negativity or incomprehension. Made by and about local Davisites!
Q & A with participating filmmakers immediately following.
Friday night, April 12
PLEASE BE ADVISED: The films are not rated. Some contain material that may not be appropriate for viewers of all ages.
And You Are …? (19 min) Jeanette Rourke and Margaret Dane / Wayward Women Films, UK When the mind is ravaged by disease, a repository of memories and snapshots becomes the touchstone for who we think we are. In this experimental short, "The Face" (played by Rourke) leads us on an emotional journey that traces the arc of one woman's life. Sincere and beautifully acted, And You Are …? takes a personal approach to the universal themes of loss and degeneration.
Like a Dream (9 min) Pia Tjäder, Sweden Johnny and his sister Leia are playing in a seemingly nice, middle-class bedroom in a seemingly nice, middle-class home. But when Leia gets hungry and starts for the kitchen, Johnny distracts her by telling her a story about an enchanted forest. Gradually we understand that the two children use fairytales and fantasy to keep a tragic reality at bay. A lyrical, sensitive film with stellar performances from the children.
Out of Step (6 min) Lynn Estomin, USA Out of Step features the perspectives of four women veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Voice-over by the women themselves accompanies dance and musical interpretations of their emotional journey from idealistic recruits to veterans coping with PTSD. The film deals with global issues of war and peace, the effects of war and military service on women, and the connections felt by the veterans to the people deemed their "enemy."
Hope (5 min) Stelana Kliris, Cyprus To this day, approximately 2000 people are still missing from the 1963 and 1974 conflicts in Cyprus. Hope is the story of the surviving relatives, who, decades later, remain frozen in time, awaiting their loved ones' return. A true work of art that pays homage to the ravages of war on domestic life.
We Never Returned (27 min) Astrid Asberger, Sweden We Never Returned charts the efforts of a theatre project to stage the stories of four Kurdish refugees. Stories that the Migration Board hears everyday. For the Board, it takes "like five minutes" to make decisions about a person's future. Can theatre make a difference? Can a play raise compassion and empathy? Can art be a healing force for those whose stories are told, or does it simply assuage the guilt of those who are safe and privileged, having never needed to flee their homes? This touching and honest film asks, but does not answer, these questions.
Libre Directo (13 min) Bernabé Rico, Spain Having turned 60, Adela is living a life she never wanted. She has a lazy, selfish husband, no children, and nothing to look forward to. Then one day she gets the chance to break free and leave her old life behind. Her challenge: a direct kick from mid-field into the open goal at halftime during a professional soccer match attended by thousands of cheering spectators. Undeterred, Adela starts training for the big day. A charming, inspiring film that will have you cheering, too. Superb acting and over-the-top production values.
Welcome and introductions
I Am (2 min, 30 sec) Koe Sozuteki, Cody Young, Schuyler Markey, USA No one thing defines who we are. Like all people, queer-identified youth are complex and multi-faceted. I Am asks us to hold this in mind and honor the diversity of human experience. A short, sweet film with a big message.
FEATURE FILM: Invisible (90 min) Michal Aviad, Israel/Germany More than 20 years after Lily and Nira are victimized by the same serial rapist, a chance encounter brings them together. Nira, a single-mother, works as a television editor; Lily is a progressive activist defending Palestinian rights. So affected is Nira by the encounter that she begins digging into the past, stirring up memories, trying to bridge the gap between the person she once was and the person she has become. She grows increasingly preoccupied with uncovering all she can about the rapist. Lily's marriage is in crisis; she tries to prevent the trauma from resurfacing, but it penetrates every aspect of her life. She realizes she has no choice but to confront the past. What begins as a difficult journey turns into a subtle friendship that moves the two women toward healing and renewal. Leaving humiliation and guilt behind, they stop being invisible. An emotionally powerful and ultimately uplifting film, Invisible mixes fact and fiction, incorporating televised footage and recorded testimonies of real women who, like Lily and Nira, are survivors.
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2011-04-07 08:13:23 To respond to Josh's comment: In the past twenty years or so, feminism is increasingly paying attention to the fact that men "have" gender as much as women do, just like white folks "have" race. This means that a gender analysis informed by feminism can focus on the ways in which masculinity gets constructed and reproduced in the world, not just femininity. To be feminist today means much more than being pro-woman, it signals a sensitivity to how both masculinity and femininity work. I think that if you were to attend the Davis Feminist Film Festival you will notice that the films represent this broader notion of what feminism means. —Artemis


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