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Britney Spears' Former Bodyguard to Release Book About Her Tour Escapades
Sounds like Britney Spears wasn't kidding when she sang that she's not that innocent. In a bombshell new book, one of Spears' former bodyguards is dishing the dirt on her wild tour parties.
Contact Music (via the Sun) reports that the bodyguard, Fernando Flores, told a pal "stories of threesomes, orgies, girls making out — things that would make your hair stand on end." The friend got more specific: "She had a lot of young, attractive dancers around her on tour, and things would get crazy," the source said. "There was drinking, drugs, steamy sessions in hot tubs, all sorts of things."
However, from the sounds of it, Flores never even witnessed any of this directly. He claims he spoke to her directly about the events, and that Spears said she got "crazy" with some girls in a hot tub. "I was in her bathroom and saw this picture of her in a tub with some girls," Flores said. "It was very sexual. She told me, 'That was on tour and s— got crazy.' I asked what she meant and she said they all got it on. Her and the girls."
We're taking all of this with a huge grain of salt, because the report reminds us that Flores is the same bodyguard who once tried suing Spears for sexual harassment. Flores claims to have a $1 million publishing deal for his tawdry tales.
It sounds to us like Flores is looking for a quick buck from the newly engaged Spears, whose image has cleaned up significantly recently. When he couldn't get it by dragging her to court, it seems like he'd try by dragging her name through the mud.


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The Pencil Pal
In the 1980s, the electric company I worked for up north had a program called Pencil Pals. The premise was to write to inner city kids and encourage their writing skills. I chose a school that my father had attended in his youth. At the end of the Pencil Pal year we would take a charter bus to the school, meet our Pencil Pal, have lunch and spend some time either playing games in the classroom or on the playground. The kids also got to meet Mr. Pencil.
The day came to meet Connie. Her teacher told me she was quite nervous for days before about the entire process. We had lunch, and Connie asked if we could return to her homeroom to play a game, because she was not feeling well. We were playing a board game when Connie announced, "I do not feel so good," and she proceeded to vomit all over me and into my purse. The teacher ran over and escorted me to the teachers lounge and Connie to the nurse. We returned to the classroom and — you guessed it — again she vomited all over me. This time she stayed in the nurse's room!
Needless to say she felt so very bad, but I reassured her that as a mom I had seen vomit before. No one seemed to want to sit near me on the bus on the way back to our vehicles, and my "sympathetic" friends decided to rename the program Pukey Pals.

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New plot details for Simon Pegg's alien comedy Paul! Doctor Who's Christmas episode adds some stars! Christopher Nolan discusses Inception's philosophical and cinematic undertones. Set-pics reveal more about Transformers 3. X-Men prequel casting becomes official! Will Edward Norton join Avengers?
Christopher Nolan says the film is very much his attempt to do a James Bond film, and the film's heist and action elements take inspiration from his favorite Bond films. Speaking of which, if MGM can ever sort out what the hell they're doing with that franchise, he'd love to direct a Bond movie himself. [/Film]
When asked about the movie's central ideas, Ellen Page got a little philosophical (although in a charming, non-pretentious sort of way):
Q: It seems to me the film's core is the notion that thoughts can transform and even destroy you.
A: And they can perpetuate our personal suffering. And the elusiveness of all love. Sure, shooting this movie made me think more about my dreams. But what "Inception" made me think of more, especially because of books I was reading at the time, is my awake world and the elusiveness of all life. My own, individual perspective and the thoughts I'm creating for myself. Definitely a bit of an existential-crisis-esque time, but I'm in my early 20s, so ... (laughs)
Transformers 3:
Here are a bunch of set photos from the first day of filming in Chicago, including two of Tyrese Gibson in his new NEST uniform: [TFLAMB]
And here's a set video: [Screen Rant]
Finally, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura says that he expects this to be the last movie in the franchise. Even if Paramount and Hasbro decide they want to do a Transformers 4, it almost certainly won't involve him or Michael Bay. But how could they possibly make a Transformers movie without the franchise's tender artistic soul!? [IGN]
Avatar 2:
Although Sam Worthington knows what's going on with Clash of the Titans 2 - it shoots next year in 3D and he's set to return as Perseus - he can't say much about his other blockbuster sequel. He's definitely returning, but he says nothing is happening right now because James Cameron is busy with other things and hasn't started writing it yet. [CinemaBlend]
The sci-fi comedy starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Seth Rogen as an alien has an official synopsis:
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.
For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space-travelling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town-a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost).
Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
Paul is directed by Superbad's Greg Mottola, from a story by Pegg & Frost. Joining the comedy's cast are Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, Joe Lo Truglio, John Carroll Lynch, David Koechner and Sigourney Weaver.
X-Men - First Class:
This took a while to become official, but now Nicholas Hoult is definitely taking over as Beast and Caleb Landry Jones is definitely playing Banshee. It sounds as though Lucas Till is this close to officially playing Havok (or whichever character Havok is a smokescreen for), but that's not a done deal yet. [Variety]
The Avengers:
It was already pretty much official that Edward Norton wouldn't be reprising his role as Bruce Banner for The Avengers, but now consider it doubly super ultra official. Writing the sort of angry letter most people only associate with owners of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Norton's agent had some choice words for Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige:
This offensive statement from Kevin Feige at Marvel is a purposefully misleading, inappropriate attempt to paint our client in a negative light. Here are the facts: two months ago, Kevin called me and said he wanted Edward to reprise the role of Bruce Banner in The Avengers. He told me it would be his fantasy to bring Edward on stage with the rest of the cast at ComiCon and make it the event of the convention. When I said that Edward was definitely open to this idea, Kevin was very excited and we agreed that Edward should meet with Joss Whedon to discuss the project. Edward and Joss had a very good meeting (confirmed by Feige to me) at which Edward said he was enthusiastic at the prospect of being a part of the ensemble cast. Marvel subsequently made him a financial offer to be in the film and both sides started negotiating in good faith. This past Wednesday, after several weeks of civil, uncontentious discussions, but before we had come to terms on a deal, a representative from Marvel called to say they had decided to go in another direction with the part. This seemed to us to be a financial decision but, whatever the case, it is completely their prerogative, and we accepted their decision with no hard feelings.
We know a lot of fans have voiced their public disappointment with this result, but this is no excuse for Feige's mean spirited, accusatory comments. Counter to what Kevin implies here, Edward was looking forward to the opportunity to work with Joss and the other actors in the Avengers cast, many of whom are personal friends of his. Feige's statement is unprofessional, disingenuous and clearly defamatory. Mr. Norton talent, tireless work ethic and professional integrity deserve more respect, and so do Marvel's fans.
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Batman 3:
Once again, Michael Caine proves very helpful in telling us something — anything — about the next movie. At the Inception premiere, he said he expects the movie to start filming next April, although he still doesn't know whether Alfred will actually return for the third film. [Digital Spy]
Green Lantern:
A local New Orleans news crew got to visit the set. They didn't see anything too fascinating, but feel free to glean whatever details and clues you can: [ABC 26 New Orleans via CinemaBlend]
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Superman Reboot:
That rumor we told you on Friday about Chris Columbus directing the movie is still making the rounds, but now another trusted source has stepped forward to say it's completely false. It's basically the word of one anonymous source vs. another's at this point, but I'd say Chris Columbus not directing the movie is a hell of a lot more plausible. [Collider]
Twilight - Breaking Dawn:
Locations have been chosen for the absolutely batshit insane, two-part finale to the Twilight saga. Director Bill Condon will be shooting the film's two installments in Baton Rouge and Vancouver starting this fall. [IGN]
Steven Soderbergh's 3D movie about a viral outbreak has added Laurence Fishburne to the cast. He's definitely playing a doctor, and according to the ever-reliable IMDB, his name is Dr. Ellis Cheever. The cast already includes Matt Damon, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, and Gwyneth Paltrow, so it's not exactly starved for starpower. [Variety]
Luke Cage:
This is all strictly wishful thinking at this point, but Isaiah Mustafa, the ultra-cool star of those Old Spice commercials where he is, among other things, on a horse, said on Attack of the Show that his dream role would be to play Luke Cage. A few days later, he actually visited Marvel headquarters for what he initially described on his Twitter as a "meet and greet" and later explained was just an opportunity to geek out. Still, there just might be a little smoke to this rumor, though definitely no fire...yet. [CinemaBlend]
Doctor Who:
A bit of exciting casting news for the show's big Christmas episode, filming soon. Michael Gambon, better known as Dumbledore in the most recent Harry Potter films, will have a major guest-starring role. Also joining the "most Christmassy" Christmas special ever is super-popular Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins, who's sold millions of pop-tinged classical albums in the U.K. A lot is riding on this episode, since Steven Moffat wants to duplicate the stratospheric ratings successes of "Voyage Of The Damned" and last year's "The End Of Time, part 1." [Guardian]
The Wire's Andre Royo has reportedly been cast as a taxi driver who gets into a tense situation with Olivia in the season premiere. It's not clear whether his scenes will be with our Olivia or the alternate Olivia. [Ausiello Files]
True Blood:
Joe Manganiello talked about his role as Alcide. He says Sookie and Alcide are both in incredibly vulnerable places, and when you've got "this big, strong, protective bodyguard with a girl, both heartbroken," it's hardly surprising if something happens. He and Debbie have a very volatile relationship, but his time with Sookie changes him and he reassesses what he wants from women. His favorite episode is the seventh, because "there's a lot of blood and a lot of people die." We will learn a lot more about his people and where Sookie comes from, and the third-season cliffhanger is even more insane than that of previous seasons. They will answer a bunch of questions and in doing so, open up a whole new universe for the characters. [NY Post]
Meanwhile, Brit Morgan discussed her turn as Debbie Van Pelt. She describes her character as "a really kick-ass, passionate, ballsy woman. I'm a werewolf with a bit of an addiction to V, so I'm going on a rampage against Sookie. I'm not too happy with her. My character just takes this winding road, a bit of a downward spiral. I'm definitely in attack mode towards Sookie." Her main interactions this season are with Sookie, although she does spend some time with Eric, Bill, and Lorena, plus quite a bit of screentime with Russell, the vampire king of Mississippi. [TV Guide]
A couple bits of cool casting news. First season baddie Azazel will return to the show, according to the man who has played him most often, Fred Lehne. He says he starts work July 14, when they go to work on the season premiere. Meanwhile, Corin Nemec may have been cast in a recurring role as Christian Campbell, the cousin of the Winchesters, according to a tweet by Jennifer dela Luna. It's not immediately clear how Ms. dela Luna would know this information, but it also seems a really weird thing to make up. Probably best to consider it unconfirmed for now. [Zap2It & @immaterialdepth]
And here are some set photos. Apparently you can see Mark Sheppard in one of the shots: [Supernatural Locations]
Here's a sneak peek from the next episode, "The Duh Vinci Code." Fry's question about the busts might set a new benchmark for cartoon stupidity:
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Warehouse 13:
Here's a promo for the second episode of the season, "Mild Mannered." They had me at "Firefly's Jewel Staite and Sean Maher guest star":
Here's a promo for this Friday's episode, "A New World":
And lest anyone is still hoping that those time-alterations will quickly get put back to normal, an interview with Erica Cerra (Deputy Lupo) seems to put that hope to rest: season four will be "flipped upside down, although the characters are still all the same. Relationships are slightly changing, and situations are changing." She couldn't elaborate, but it's now quite clear what she was talking about. Sounds like this will the status quo for some time. [Fancast]
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October 2010
Jerry Allwine to Receive Prestigious Helmut E. Landsberg Award
Jerry Allwine
Congratulations to Dr. Jerry Allwine, who was selected as the recipient of this year's Helmut E. Landsberg Award from the American Meteorological Society. Allwine, who retired from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2008, will accept the award in January at an AMS gathering in Seattle. Allwine served more than 25 years as a PNNL senior scientist in the fields of atmospheric sciences, fluid dynamics, and mathematics.
The Helmut E. Landsberg Award is given to an individual or team for outstanding contributions in the fields of urban meteorology, climatology, or hydrology. This includes measurements or modeling that provides an improved understanding of atmospheric processes in urban environments, and/or enhanced urban meteorological or air quality forecasting capabilities.
Allwine's contribution to the field of meteorology was cited: "For his work as chief scientist and manager of the four urban field experiments carried out under the Urban Dispersion Program, and for sustained research contributions to applied dispersion model development and testing."Allwine led four multi-scale, atmospheric dispersion studies in diverse urban areas from 2000 to 2005. The studies involved national and international scientists who sampled, studied, and modeled the complex patterns of atmospheric and meteorological contaminant dispersion around buildings, through urban areas, and into surrounding regions. The results of this work made a significant contribution to understanding the complex processes of atmospheric dispersion of contaminants in urban areas, which helped create emergency response models, evacuation, and cleanup plans for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of Defense.


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NASA has awarded $30 million to help three private companies ensure that their astronaut taxis are safe and reliable, agency officials announced today (Dec. 10).
Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corp. will each receive about $10 million to begin certifying that their respective private spaceflight systems meet NASA requirements for ferrying crews to and from the International Space Station. A second and final contract in this process — which is known as the certification products contracts, or CPC — will be awarded in the future, agency officials said.
"I congratulate the three companies for their selection," Ed Mango, Commercial Crew Program manager at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, said in a statement. "This is the program's first major, fixed-price contract. The effort will bring space system designs within NASA's safety and performance expectations for future flights to the International Space Station."
Colorado-based Sierra Nevada got an even $10 million to continue work on its Dream Chaser space plane. Texas-based Boeing got $9.99 million for its CST-100 capsule, while SpaceX (headquartered in Hawthorne, Calif.) received $9.59 million to keep upgrading its unmanned Dragon capsule to carry crew. [Now Boarding: The Top 10 Private Spaceships]
NASA hopes at least one of these vehicles will be ready to carry astronauts to low-Earth orbit by 2017. The United States has lacked a homegrown manned capability since NASA's space shuttle fleet retired in July 2011; it currently relies on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to do the job.
"These contracts represent important progress in restoring human spaceflight capabilities to the United States," Phil McAlister, director of NASA's Commercial Spaceflight Development Division, said in a statement. "NASA and its industry partners are committed to the goal of safely and cost-effectively launching astronauts from home within the next five years."
The CPC Phase 1 contracts run from Jan. 22, 2013 through May 30, 2014, NASA officials said. During this period, the three companies will work with the Commercial Crew Program to draw up certification plans. These plans will implement NASA's safety and performance requirements across all aspects of the transportation system, from the spacecraft to the launch vehicle and ground operations.
CPC Phase 2, which is expected to begin in mid-2014, will include the final development and verifications necessary to allow manned test flights to the space station. This second contract phase will involve a full and open competition, officials said.
The newly announced $30 million is just the latest in a series of commercial crew awards granted by NASA over the last few years. In 2010, the agency granted a total of $50 million to five companies, including Boeing and Sierra Nevada. Boeing, Sierra Nevada and SpaceX split $315 million in 2011 and $1.1 billion in another round of awards announced this past August.
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This page will become a bibliography of black history & genealogy for Nashville, TN. It will be growing over time and is by no means ever going to be exhaustive.
Civil Rights
- Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Random House International, 1999. [Find in a Library]
General History Sources:
- Lovett, Bobby L. The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930 Elites and Dilemmas. Black community studies. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1999. [Searchable online via Google Books | Find in a library]
- Lovett, Bobby L., and Linda T. Wynn. Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee. Nashville, Tenn: Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture and History, 1996. [Full-text available online | Find in a library]
- Morton-Young, Tommie. Nashville, Tennessee. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2000. [Limited information via Google Books | Find in a library]
- Nashville Directories – 1856, 1859, 1860, 1880, 1881, 1924. (these are all free)
- Nashville Directories —1879-1889 are available with subscription at Ancestry.com.
School Specific Resources
- Fisk University. Catalogue of the students and officers of Fisk University. Nashville, TN: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1898. Full book available via Google Books.
- Fisk University. Catalogue of the students and officers of Fisk University. Nashville, TN: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1912. Full book available via Google Books.
- Cohen, Rodney T. Fisk University. College history series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2001. [Find in a Library]
- Collins, Leslie Morgan. One Hundred Years of Fisk University Presidents: 1875-1975; Cravath, Merrill, Gates, McKenzie, Jones, Johnson, Wright, Lawson. Nashville, Tennessee: Hemphill's Creative Printing, Inc, 1989. [Find in a Library]
- Meharry Catalogs, Announcements, News 1881-1912 (with some gaps in years) – available online.
- Roman, C. V. Meharry Medical College A History. Nashville: National Baptist Convention, 1934. [Find in a Library]
- Ward, Andrew. Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. [Find in a Library]
Newspaper Articles
- "When McKissack & McKissack Received Award". Chicago Defender. 7 Nov 1942. p.6, col. 2
- "From a Mite to A Million: Story of the McKissicks". Chicago Defender. 7 Nov 1942. p. 6, col. 2.
Other Articles
- Lamon C. The Black Community in Nashville and the Fisk University Student Strike of 1924-1925. The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 40, No. 2 (May, 1974), pp. 225-244. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2206893>
State-wide Tennessee Resources
- Lamon, Lester C. Blacks in Tennessee, 1791-1970. Tennessee three star books. Knoxville: Published in cooperation with the Tennessee Historical Commission [by] the University of Tennessee Press, 1981. [Find in a Library]
- Cimprich, John. Slavery's End in Tennessee, 1861 to 1865. New York: University of Alabama P, 1985. [Find in a Library]


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If only I'd known about SallyRideScience.com while I was still homeschooling! What a fabulous educational website!
According to her July 23rd New York Times obituary, Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, started Sally Ride Science in 2001 in order to "make science and engineering cool again," particularly for young women. I've been wandering around the wonderful SallyRideScience website since I first heard of her death, and each link is resulting in a rabbit warren of discoveries, including:
- A comprehensive suggested-reading list and intriguing "Who Am I Like?" quiz from Girls Explore.
- A charming interview with Emma Stone in AGirlsWorld.com in which she discusses how her recent Gwen Stacy role in Amazing Spider-Man made her wish that she'd continued with college.
- A link to the free, monthly, STEMtastic newsletter Science for Kids.
- Links to NASA's EarthKam and Grail MoonKam classroom programs, showing how middle school students were able to request images from satellite-mounted cameras in space in order to populate team-created classroom presentations.
- And much more.
I initially created the STEMmy Award last winter to highlight Toy Fair toys that taught Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math skills and shaped positive STEM attitudes in children, particularly girls. However, I have to pull out the virtual STEMmy statuettes and present one today to the Sally Ride Science website. SallyRideScience.com is a rich storehouse of educational content and a tremendously worthy legacy from America's first woman in space.
Rest in Peace, Sally Ride, and thank you: You continue to be an inspiration and role model.


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I arrived at work completely unprepared. I know right! Shocker! Anyhow, as I ran through my morning list of to-dos starting with coffee, my brain went into overdrive. "Put the desks in rows. Find out where you are proctoring for state testing. Print out bell ringers for Algebra 1. Finish game for Algebra 2. Figure out where my students go for class during testing. Call in absent since the Regional track meet has been moved. Follow-up with the speech therapist. Follow-up with the adjuster. Call a plumber…"
When I reached my classroom and walked in, I let out a sigh of relief as I saw my desks in neat rows. I relaxed more when one of my favorite new teachers walked in and let me know it would be the two of us working together during testing. As I sat at my computer frantically scanning my e-mail hoping that something would pop up to remind me of what I was looking for, I turned my head slightly and noticed a note one of my student's gave me the previous Friday during our fire drill.
Just breathe.
It had not meant much then, but right now it was everything I needed to hear. You see, the Interact Club at school created an inspiration wall. The goal was for people to add when they felt inspired, take when they needed inspiration, and give when they felt someone else needed a pick me up. Here I was less that 10 minutes into my work day, staring at my much needed reminder.
Just breathe.
People constantly question, "How do you get it all done? How do you find the time?"
They see pictures I take with my children outside or at the park. They see the final product of whatever Pinterest project went right. They see me engaging with other bloggers on Instagram and Facebook…and on their blogs…and on my blog. They see me enjoying mom's night out. They see my athletes putting on a show for the home track meets. They see me laughing with my students as we prepare for advanced and mastery.
They see me knee-deep in daily devotion.
"How do you do it?"
First of all, I don't.
Second of all, if I have done nothing else in this journey, I have learned a lesson in obedience.
When God speaks, I get to getting. I ask the details along the way. Sometimes, I am kicking and screaming, but I know He has a plan. And His plan is better than whatever I have in mind.
He told me to stop talking about work at home. He said to declutter my time…and my past…and my finances. He reiterated that I must leave some things undone.
Now, He's moved on.
He's constantly and insistently reminding me to play with my children.
"Play with your children."
…as soon as I get home from work during the week…as soon as I finish morning coffee and devotion on Saturdays…right after church on Sundays.
"Put the phone down," He says, "and play with your children."
He follows up with a book I need to read, a printable I need to create, and a Pinterest project waiting on me. He points me to certain bloggers. Then, as icing on the cake, He sneaks in, "This house could really use some routines."
Routines…the bane of my very existence…the monotony…the painstaking care required.
As emphasis to His already duly noted point, He made sure I received the top score in my evaluation in "managing classroom routines and procedures."
So I began to implement at home the modified procedures I mastered at work…and overtime, I have watched my schedule transform from busy to un-busy.
I am not telling you what to do. I am telling you how to do it. Learn this lesson early. Learn this lesson in obedience.
Be still. Let God prioritize.
There's not enough hours or days or time to do it all – to get it all done. Busy is the new black. We all want to be busy because busy makes us feel important.
The reality is just the opposite. Busy leaves our lives to chance. We are controlled by all the things we have to do. Busy consumes us. Busy will eat us alive.
As a working mom, I am OVER busy.
I am learning to listen carefully as God gives instruction…every time. I am working through my chapter on obedience – learning one day at a time, one foot in front of the other.
How do I get it all done?
I am not busy.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." (Proverbs 3: 5-6)
What are some ways that you keep yourself from being overwhelmed by busy?
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Over the last few weekends, Nike has been previewing their latest attempt to "improve" athletic apparel on several premiere NCAA Division I (yeah, that's what I still call it) football programs. Now, perhaps these uniforms, designed to be ultra light and form fitting, are functionally a worthy advance, but from a sartorial viewpoint, well, my inner Tim Gunn was making this face. A lot.
A brief survey of some of Nike's designs after the jump.
Ohio State's aren't bad up close (though I'm not feeling the white helmet, "retro" or not), but did no one from Nike's design team notice that from far away — you know, like in a 50,000 seat stadium — the pant stripes look pink? And what's with the weird sock striping?
As we'll see, Nike really wants teams to wear white helmets, but the "noteworthy" design element here is the weird scribble things on the shoulder pads. I can't decide if they represent wings or chalk marks coaches might make for blocking drills.
Here's a helmet that's not white! It's black …on black (matte black/dark gray, same difference). Again, might have been a good idea to check the look of these from the top of the stadium, Nike. Even on my parents' giant HDTV the helmets looked blank whenever the camera zoomed out to show a play in progress.
Attention Nike: The Sooners are crimson and cream. In that order. Not CREAM and (crimson). I want my red helmets (and the interlocking OU) back, dammit! We are not the red state version of Penn State. I will admit to kind of liking the pants. Kind of.
These I don't really mind. Probably because I'm not a fan of Virginia Tech's color scheme anyway, and the white is more soothing to my eyeballs.
I know there were other teams with new unis (LSU and Texas among them), but this is enough, don't you think?


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East London has long attracted people from all over the world: silk-weaving Huguenots, persecuted Jews, Bangladeshi chefs… who have all made their fortunes on its cobbled streets – alongside the native Cockneys born and bred here. So where better to hold a heritage food tour?
The Eating London food tour lasts about 3.5 hours and is packed full of fascinating facts about Brick Lane and Spitalfields, hidden gems and visits to everywhere from a traditional English boozer to a Brick Lane curryhouse. Visit London went along to sample it for ourselves – and left with brain and belly delightfully full. Here are just five things we learned on the way…
1. St John does an amazing bacon sandwich
St John Bread & Wine knows a thing or two about meat – its founder is the pioneer of the 'nose to tail' food revolution after all. So it should be no surprise that its bacon sandwich is a real treat, and a great way to kick off the tour. Made using Gloucester Old Spot rashers, for once the delicious smoky bacon is the main event, not something to be smothered in ketchup!
2. How to spot a real bagel
While tucking into hot salt beef bagels at the Brick Lane Bagel Bar – juicy meat falling away, pickles sliding, mouths drooling – we learned how bagels are made the proper way. Unlike supermarket bagels which are steamed, real bagels are boiled before being baked. You can tell it's not the real deal if it has the telltale grate marks on the underside.
3. You can get a cheese wedding cake at Androuet
French cheese shop and restaurant Androuet served up some delicious English cheeses for us to try, expertly paired with dried fruits and nuts. Our attention was also caught by the photos of giant cheese wedding cakes they supply for more savoury-toothed couples. Brie-lliant!
4. It pays to look up
Our Eating London guides constantly surprised us by pointing out street art, strange buildings or quirky signs we'd missed – despite having walked around the area countless times in the past. Many times a whole new world opened up just by looking above eye level.
5. You can still buy fish & chips served in newspaper
In the 1980s, the powers that be decided serving fish & chips in newspaper was unsafe as the ink could seep into the food. Poppies in Spitalfields has ingeniously got around this law by printing their newspaper with edible ink! It's also just been voted Best Independent Fish and Chips Restaurant in the UK at the National Fish and Chip Awards – an award well earned, after tasting their wonderfully light cod, chunky chips and piping hot mushy peas. Well worth a look.
6. There's always room for dessert
Filled with tasty drinks and snacks from some of East London's finest restaurants, the tour ended at Pizza East with a slice of salted caramel chocolate tart. Sprinkled with almonds and sea salt, no-one could resist scoffing down the entire slice (despite all that had come before) accompanied by a cuppa and chatter. Well, we had been walking after all – it was well earned.


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In space no one can hear you squeal with delight
Remember The Last Starfighter? Of course you do; you probably dream about the premise happening to you. The hope of being recruited by aliens to fight in an intergalactic war because of one's mad gaming skills is pretty much why I spent an inordinate amount of pocket money on arcade games as a wayward youth. If I hadn't been so utterly incapable of even getting close to a high score, I'm certain I would already be saving you all from an alien invasion.
Don't feel sorry for me, though. I might not be a hotshot pilot for real, but I've spent the last few days pretending to be one in the recently Kickstarted Strike Suit Zero — it's been a hell of a ride. And all of those times my ship exploded into a thousand tiny bits of shrapnel, I was content in the knowledge that I hadn't actually doomed Earth and everybody living here.
Strike Suit Zero (PC)
Developer: Born Ready Games
Publisher: Born Ready Games
Release: January 23, 2013
Science fiction would have us believe that if mankind doesn't immediately get embroiled in a war with a hostile alien race the moment it sets foot amongst the stars, it will inevitably start a war with its space colonies instead. That latter premise is the impetus for the action-packed Strike Suit Zero — a game that channels so many things I love, from Colony Wars to Homeworld, that I cannot help but adore it, even when it's infuriating me.
So here's what's happening in the future: Humanity has spread out across the stars after discovering an alien transmission. The relationship between the United Nations of Earth (UNE) and her off-world colonies has become strained, and after Earth scientists discover strange technology on a colony world and try to keep it for themselves, they are expelled from the planet and a civil war begins.
To call it a civil war is probably giving too much credit to the UNE, though. Earth's forces get shafted pretty thoroughly by an alien relic the colonists possess, and the rest of the game has Earth's surviving fleet desperately racing to their homeworld to stop its complete destruction.
I'm not going to mince words here, the plot is pretty awful. It's silly and forgettable, and the characters are nothing more than boring talking heads telling you things you probably don't care about. Against the odds, I somehow found myself actually enjoying a little bit, however. There's something oddly compelling about rushing to Earth to stop a bunch of vaguely bad people from murdering billions for no apparent reason. Almost single-handedly trying to win a war with a flash spaceship is simply fun, no matter how you swing it.
The title's protagonist, some mute fellow named Adams, is just your typical ridiculously awesome pilot — he's probably a good looking fella to boot. He fights for the UNE, and early on in the game gets given the titular Strike Suit, the main draw of the title. Some missions put you in other vessels, and all unlocked missions can be replayed with different ships, but it's the Strike Suit that you'll really want to play with. It's the most balanced of the bunch, but more importantly it can transform into a floating mecha that sprays "swarm missiles" at dozens of targets all at once.
By destroying foes, the suit charges up, and expels said charge by blowing everything that you can see to kingdom come. It's immensely satisfying, and covers the screen in winding, twisting shooting stars, which looks even more striking given the absolutely stunning backdrop of space.
Born Ready Games have done a stellar job making the cold expanse of space look rich and interesting. Huge, detailed worlds punctuate the colorful environment of nebulae, stars, asteroids and solar glare. The stark, cold blackness one might expect has been replaced by something almost viscous and more tangible. The bright color palette makes each level leap out at you, whether it's the sharp blue neon that permeates the UNE training area, or the ominous, hellish red of a blasted world struck by the alien relic. In the middle of it all are countless tiny ships, weaving between imposing cruisers and frigates, and all of those engine trails will make you shout "Homeworld!", as you point at the screen and look like an idiot.
It was surprising that the visual design of said ships did not impress me nearly as much as their playground, the wonderful Strike Suit not included. Junji Okubo (Infinite Space, Appleseed Ex Machina, Steel Battalion) was the brain behind the vessels, but the majority of both fleets look tame and rather generic. The Strike Suit looks wonderful, however, both in its ship form, where it looks like a super slick craft you'd be proud to fly, and its mecha form, which has a distinctly Eastern aesthetic.
It should be noted that in mecha form, the Strike Suit does not control as one might expect. You won't be swooping down on enemy cruisers and carving them up with a laser sword; such maneuverability is left to the ship form. Instead, it acts more like a stationary missile dispenser, a giant gun, essentially. It can quickly strafe to reposition itself or avoid enemy fire, however.
All player ships are a delight to control, and while there are differences in how many weapons they can wield, or how responsive they are, you'll still have no problem getting into dogfights like the hotshot you've always dreamed of being. Zipping in and out of scraps, speeding towards gigantic laser toting behemoths to deploy a missile salvo, before pulling back to cover allies or blow up huge rockets is an explosive thrill ride. Four ships are available, the fighter, interceptor, bomber, and the Strike Suit; however the first time you play a mission you will be restricted to just one of them.
Oh yeah, the missions. Those are things. Unfortunately, they are rather tiresome, laden with objectives so uninspired that you can sometimes forget you're doing something as amazing as flying a giant mecha in space. Blow up this ship. Shoot at these dudes for a while. Fire at a couple of flak cannons. Inevitably I'd lose myself in the ballet of hectic space combat, but the impetuses for these battles are really quite dreary.
While SSZ nails the combat between smaller ships, it leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to tackling the larger enemies. Targeting can become extremely spotty when you are attempting to take out specific ship guns on cruisers and frigates, and it's easy to become disorientated when each gun (the big ships have dozens) is represented by its own red arrow or diamond on your HUD.
It does not help that allied AI is truly abysmal. Most missions involve titanic clashes between dozens, if not hundreds of ships, but I constantly felt like I was the only pilot doing anything. Your fellow fighters tend to ignore the big enemies, leaving it up to you and the occasional allied capital ship to take down a vast number of massive foes. The allied capital ships also present a problem when protecting them is often a primary or secondary objective, as they do absolutely nothing to avoid getting blown to smithereens.
The only time allies even offer a pretence of aid is with the constant radio chatter, and damn is it annoying. When they are not spreading misinformation, they are telling you something you already know. The worst times are when they decide to chat to you while you are attempting to listen to the dreaded sound of a missile locking onto your ship. They do more to help the enemy than help you, honestly.
A few noticeable bugs also hampered my experience. Scripted events would sometimes fail to begin, more than a few crashes occurred, and occasionally non-existent targets would pop up on my HUD. Crashes were the worst, as they erased my mission progress, requiring me to start from the beginning of the rather drawn out missions. These long missions aren't improved by the rather brutally spaced out checkpoints either.
I confess that these annoyances, while frustrating, didn't stop me loving my time with SSZ. Replaying a mission because of a crash is a pain, but when I have so much fun fighting across the stars, I can't get too angry about doing it all over again. It's a testament to how entertaining this space combat sim really is.
My forgiveness does come from a lot of the nostalgia the game simply oozes from all of its pores. SSZ is a product of love for the genre, and its inspiration is clear. This was a title crafted by people who adore the titans of '90s and early '00s space games: Freespace, Freelancer, Starlancer, TIE Fighter, and of course the aforementioned Colony Wars and Homeworld are all clearly muses for Born Ready Games. In fact, the soundtrack was composed by none other than Paul Rusky, the genius behind the haunting music of Homeworld, and it shows, as it's a fantastic accompaniment to the space romp.
When the final, sadly unsatisfying mission came to a close I was ready to put down SSZ. Replayability is offered in the form of scores, medals, and some unlockable ship bonuses you may not have been able to grab when first attempting the missions, but I'd had my fill. I would be happy to get in a thousand more dogfights, but I'm done with protecting and escorting my UNE chums. It's rare that a game knows when to call it quits, but that's the situation here. It's not so long that it outstays its welcome, but not so short that it fails to show off all its promise.
The ending, or at least the one that I got (there are two different ones), implies the possibility of a sequel, and I couldn't be happier with that prospect. With better targeting, and less mentally sub-normal allies, I could very well find myself in Heaven. Until then, Strike Suit Zero will undoubtedly help you scratch that space combat sim itch you must have by now.


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As many of you that follow science news are probably already aware, one of the hot topics this week is our brains. New evidence suggests that modern humans may have picked up a key genetic change that influences our brains from a species that has an undeserved reputation as being a bit on the dim side: the Neanderthals. But to understand the evidence, some knowledge of evolutionary biology is going to be needed. So read on to learn more than you ever wanted to know about selective sweeps.
The underlying principle of evolution is that a useful genetic change in a gene will, thanks to selective pressures, become the dominant form of that gene in a species. The more useful it is, the faster this will happen. But genes don't exist as free-floating items: they are arranged along chromosomes, immense molecules of DNA that are key units of inheritance. Genes on the same chromosome are likely to be inherited together, so a chromosome carrying a useful change could be pulled into prevalence by that change. That means that a bunch of other useless changes (and possibly a few harmful ones) will also be taken along for the ride. In short, one helpful change can not only make its way to being the most common form, but it will carry along anything else in the DNA that's near it. This process is called a selective sweep.
The one thing that gets in the way of selective sweeps working with an entire chromosome is recombination, the shuffling of the genes that occurs with sexual reproduction. This process allows two of the same type of chromosomes to exchange pieces at random points along their length. Because of recombination, the chromosomes you got from your mother are a patchwork of pieces of the chromosomes of both of your maternal grandparents. Over time, recombination will shuffle the areas near useful changes, and gradually return them to looking pretty average. The longer the time, the more likely that recombination will occur in the region, and the more average looking the area will be. So, over time, the evidence of older selective sweeps will gradually fade into obscurity.
What does this look like at the DNA level? For a gene that's undergone a recent selective sweep, everyone in the population will have an identical (or nearly identical) DNA sequence. But it doesn't stop with the gene; even the areas around it will be identical, because they haven't had time to recombine. The more recent the sweep, the further away from the gene the identical sequences will extend. Thus, by looking for regions of the genome where there is a high degree of identity within a population, researchers can find genes that are being selected for. By looking at how far the identical regions extend, they can get a sense of how long ago the change that's being selected for appeared in the genome.
In essence, the Neanderthal story is based on researchers finding an area of the human genome that appears to have undergone a selective sweep, and figuring out the when, where, and why of its origin. Stay tuned to find out the details.


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62-Day Countdown to 13GE – Fulfill Bapa Malaysia's dream in 1990 general elections to promote a two-coalition system and lay the basis for Malaysia to close the gap with South Korea
Today is the 110th birthday anniversary of Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman – two days before the 2013 Chinese New Year of the Snake and two or three weeks before the dissolution of Parliament for the holding of the 13th General Elections.
On the second day of the Chinese New Year on Feb. 11, South Korea's global pop sensation Psy whose "Gangnam Style" is the first video to be watched over 1 billion times (latest record: 1.27 billion times) on YouTube, has been invited to Penang to make Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's CNY Open House a historic and unprecedented event.
I am on public record as saying that Malaysians should enjoy Psy's show, but before and after the fun and entertainment, Malaysians must conduct a soul-searching as to why there had been a reversal of national fortunes in the past half-a-century, with South Korea now two to three times richer than Malaysia and ahead in all fields of human endeavour when this nation was twice as rich and developed as South Korea when we achieved Independence in 1957.
I have no doubt that if Tunku is still with us today, this will be topmost in his pre-occupations, as he would feel even sadder than anyone at Malaysia's regression instead of progress when comparing Malaysia with South Korea.
Not only in the field of democracy and good governance, economic progress, technological advance, human resource development, art and culture, but also in the field of sports, South Korea has shot well ahead of Malaysia in the past half century.
As Prime Minister, Tunku launched the Merdeka Cup tournament for football in honour of the National Day and in the 60s and 70s, with football stars like Soh Chin Aun, R.Arumugam, Isa Bakar, Santokh Singh, James Wong and Mokhtar Dahari, our national teams have no difficulty in routinely defeating South Korea.
Malaysia won the bronze medal at the Asian Games in 1974 and qualified for the Moscow Olympics in 1980. Today, our FIFA ranking is 158 out of 207 countries, in great contrast to South Korea's international prowess as a soccer nation - 34th FIFA ranking and as a bronze medallist for football in the 2012 London Olympics.
But Tunku's greatest disappointment about Malaysia's lagging behind South Korea would be the nation's failures in the past decades to make the most critical advance in the twin areas of economic development and democratisation to end UMNO's political hegemony and usher in a two-coalition system where there is peaceful and regular alternation of political power through the ballot box.
South Korea's charted a remarkable ascent from poverty in the 50s and 60s to prosperity in the eighties and supergrowth in the ensuing decades.
From International Monetary Fund data bases, 1980 was the last year when Malaysia had a higher GDP per capita than Malaysia, i.e. US$1,769 for Malaysia and US$1,689 for South Korea.
Since then, South Korea had left Malaysia far behind but it was after the South Korean democratisation process in 1987 that the South Korean economy reached an entirely new level of innovation with that last, difficult push into the realm of the truly advanced economies, it catapulted from the "middle-income trap" which Malaysia is still struggling to escape from.
The magnitude of the reversal of fortunes between Malaysia and South Korea could be plotted from the GDP per capita data for the two countries for the past half a century from World Bank and International Monetary Fund data bases, viz:
GDP Per Capita (in US dollars)
|South Korea
In the half century from 1960 to 2012, Malaysia's GDP per capita increased by 35-fold, which is chickenfeed compared to the 148.5-fold increase of South Korea's GDP per capita during the period.
The lesson Malaysia must learn from South Korea is that the country could not escape from the "middle-income trap" and become more innovative and competitive without a meaningful process of democratisation.
Since 1987, South Korea has undergone two peaceful and successful alternation of power through the ballot box between two political coalitions when the Opposition candidate won the presidential election against the candidate of the governing coalition – first time in 1998 under Kim Dae-jung and the second time under Lee Myung-bak in 2007.
Can Malaysia undertake the first step of such a democratisation process in the 13th general elections to effect a peaceful alternation of power transferring the Federal Government in Putrajaya from Umno/Barisan Nasional to Pakatan Rakyat?
Twenty-three years ago, Tunku had campaigned for DAP and Gagasan Rakyat in the 1990 general elections, hoping to bring about a peaceful alternation of power from Umno/BN to Pakatan Rakyat and promote a two-coalition system in Malaysia.
I can still remember the 87-year-old Bapa Malaysia insisting on campaigning for DAP and Gagasan Rakyat and speaking at the Batu Lanchang community hall in Penang in the 1990 general elections despite his frail health.
The best way to remember Tunku on the occasion of his 110th birthday anniversary is to fulfil his dream and aspiration in the 1990 general elections in the 13GE to promote a two-coalition system and lay a solid democratic basis for Malaysia to reach a new level of economic progress and development by effecting the first political and democratic change in the nation's 56-year history.
Only then can Malaysia begin to close the gap with South Korea in all fields of human endeavour.
There can be no better way to mark the 2013 Chinese New Year of the Snake.
Wish all Malaysians a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year.


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Notes: This column was printed in the Barrow Journal on March 21, 2012. To read the details of this give-away, please scroll to the bottom of the page. (UPDATE: GIVE-AWAY IS NOW CLOSED.)
I was flattered recently when my favorite blogger, Renee Tougas, asked me to contribute a few words to her first mini e-book titled, "Nurturing Creativity: A Guide for Busy Moms." The book is "part philosophy and part practical – with ideas for how busy moms can make time for creativity in their lives."
Whether mothers work, stay-at-home, homeschool or not, many of us find little time to nurture ourselves. For those of us who are creative (who isn't creative?), it's very hard to find time for artistic pursuits or other hobbies. This can be draining, and it doesn't always make us happy mothers.
She asked me what my favorite creative activity was and how do I make time for it during this busy season of my life?
If you read my column every week (thank you!), you can probably guess that I love to write. I have been writing in one form or another since I was ten years old. That's right, in the fourth grade, I said I wanted to be writer, and unfortunately, I never changed my mind.
I say unfortunately only because I never had the right guidance, discipline or foresight to know what to do with my passion. I believe everyone should go after what they want to do, but you can't be too picky about your options within that field, and you have to work your butt off to get anywhere. I never worked my butt off until now, which means I don't make much money with my chosen vocation.
But that doesn't mean I'm not happy. If you told me 20 years ago that I would find the creative life I was yearning for in being a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom, I would have been horrified. But here I am – loving every minute of it.
And I learned a few years ago that neither failure nor having children could keep me from putting pen to paper. Just when I gave up on writing, the Barrow Journal landed in my mailbox. I let the idea of a column float around in my head for a few months, and now you know the rest. I don't know if many people read my corner of the paper, but I appreciate the few people who have stopped me in some local store or sent an e-mail to tell me they like my column.
So no matter what, I'm going to write because it's just something I do, and I have no idea why I feel the need to tell strangers my story, but I do. It's as essential to me as breathing. I credit this column for keeping my sanity during these last few years. Even when I want to throw in the towel, I know I can't because if I didn't have some kind of creative outlet, I might start to resent motherhood. I dare not let that happen.
So when I do I get a chance to write? Sometimes I write in the afternoon when my boys are watching T.V., but mostly I write at night after they go to bed. I make sure I start early in the week because I never know what kind of interruptions I might get or how tired I might be on any given night.
But it can't go without saying that in order to do this there's also a lot I don't do. My house is not very clean, and (here my husband will stand up and nod vigorously) I rarely cook. I do clean once a week to keep the house livable, and I make sure everyone eats, but my abilities in homemaking are lackluster.
I appreciate my husband's support in my attempts to keep up with this column and my blog and all my other creative attempts. Though he may grumble from time to time, I think he knows (because he is similar) that without being able to do something for myself and without being able to be creative, I wouldn't be happy. And you know what they say, "If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!"
AND HERE'S THE BEST PART: Renee is offering one free e-book to one of my readers. I had the pleasure of reading "Nurturing Creativity: A Guide for Busy Mothers," and I assure you it's worth the time to do so. I found much inspiration and encouragement in her words. In addition, Renee wrote with busy moms in mind – it's short, under 50 pages. So, you have no excuse not to read it.
To enter this give-away, all you need to do is leave a comment before midnight on Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 and tell me why you'd like a copy of this inspirational e-book. That's it. Nothing else. I will let my five-year-old draw one of your names from a hat on Wednesday, and I'll contact the winner by e-mail that day. I'll also post your name on my blog unless you tell me not to. You have nothing to lose and much creative inspiration to gain.
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New community possibilities emerge "when we and other neighbors know of each other's gifts," John McKnight and Peter Block suggest in their book The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods. And that's exactly what we continue to see in the Hidden Garden Steps project here in San Francisco's Inner Sunset District.
As has been abundantly chronicled in this continuing series of articles about the Steps and the overlapping shorter series about fostering abundant communities, an awareness of gifts, resources, and an enthusiastic commitment to collaboration has steadily moved us toward a very exciting phase of our efforts to create a second set of ceramic-tiled steps along with murals and gardens featuring California native and other drought-tolerant plants. Project artists Aileen Barr and Colette Crutcher have, since September 2012, been working in their studios to build the 148-step mosaic that will eventually be installed on the 16th Avenue concrete steps connecting Kirkham and Lawton streets. Community involvement in fundraising, marketing, and hundreds of hours of onsite work cleaning up a terribly ignored pedestrian corridor has drawn together an ever-growing group of volunteers and other supporters inspired by the beauty of the first step of steps (on Moraga Street, between 15th and 16th avenues) completed by the same two artists working with a different group of neighbors and other supporters.
Our next big step forward, at this point, is less than two weeks away: our two artists (on Saturday, December 1, 2012, from 1-5 pm), will lead the first of three community workshops for anyone interested in making hands-on contributions to the construction of the mosaic.
This will be a celebration of community and collaboration in action within a local church meeting hall (Christ Church Lutheran, 1090 Quintara, San Francisco). It's a chance to learn how projects of this magnitude are literally pieced together. An opportunity to work side-by-side with neighbors on a process that not only will produce a new community gem but also contribute to the already strong sense of community that exists within the Inner Sunset District. And a pre-holiday chance to reflect on what our work together over a three-year period has created and continues to create.
It also is a visceral incarnation of the spirit of "making gifts visible," as outlined by McKnight and Block in The Abundant Community (pp. 120-122): having members of a community teach and learn from each other; bringing together residents and local business representatives (a couple of our sponsors are donating refreshments for workshop participants); and attracting community members of all ages and backgrounds.
There is plenty to acknowledge and celebrate in projects like the Hidden Garden Steps. These community efforts help build connections between those of us who previously knew little more about our neighbors than what we garnered from hurried waves and cursory greetings as we raced from one personal obligation to another. They attract people from other nearby neighborhoods so that we develop an extended sense of community, support, and simple, pleasurable human interactions that often seem to reach no further than a few feet away from our own homes or apartments. They further connect us to those wonderful third places within our communities—the coffee shops, the libraries, the neighborhood farmers markets, and streets transformed into meeting places by community-operated street fairs. And they remind us—through the collaborations we establish with existing groups like San Francisco's Inner Sunset Park Neighbors (ISPN), the San Francisco Parks Alliance (our fiscal agent), and the San Francisco Department of Public Works Street Parks Program (supporting our onsite work on City/County property)—that transforming a dream into reality doesn't necessarily mean that we have to start from scratch in our efforts to organize for success.
"The expression of our gifs and their manifestation through association with our neighbors" is at the heart of abundant communities, McKnight and Block remind us in The Abundant Community (p. 109). "The challenge is to make these gifts visible among all in the neighborhood. These are the means for creating our social fabric. The task is to make more widely available these gifts in service of our core concerns for the child, the land, enterprise, food, health, the vulnerable, and our safety With the consciousness and ability to connect our gifts and make them practical and usable, we experience what we are calling community abundance (p. 120)."
And as Hidden Garden Steps current and prospective supporters move toward the day of our first mosaic-building workshop and continue with our fundraising efforts to bring this $300,000 volunteer-driven community-based effort to a successful conclusion, we all have plenty to celebrate—and to offer others in need of the inspiration we continually find from the families, friends, and other neighbors who are contributing to our own abundant successes.
N.B.: This is the fourteenth in an ongoing series of articles to document the Hidden Garden Steps project in San Francisco and the fourth in a four-part series of articles exploring abundant communities.


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A visit to Indiana University Cinema 3/11/16
The following images and text are sparingly meager memories of an extraordinary day spent at Bloomington's Indiana University Cinema. The personnel, film collection and facilities there are renown as world-class with absolute justification. I was thrilled to have joined the ranks of Jorgensen Guest Filmmakers like Werner Herzog, Bill Morrison, Kenneth Anger, Albert Maysles, Walter Salles, even Jonathan Banks, Paul Schrader and John Sayles to name a few. IU Cinema, under it's founding director, Jon Vickers, has a tag line; "... A PLACE FOR FILM", and it most certainly is!
The following remarks were delivered by James R. Hook, Ph.D candidate, associate instructor and member of the Media School's Underground Film Series. His introduction provided historic and aesthetic background which, after the screening of NIGHT MIX, led into our on-stage conversation under the banner of the Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Lecture Series. I'm honored by his scholarly insight, generous observations and stimulating questions. Our discussion eventually segued into a wonderfully rewarding exchange with the audience. This was just a perfect priming for that evening's following, full program of twelve films.
Since the 1970s, multimedia artist Joseph Bernard has created over 100 silent Super 8 films that work to radically expand our understanding of cinema as an expressive form. His work offers a rich contribution to traditions of formalist and experimental filmmaking and has often been discussed in terms of—but remains steadfastly irreducible to—qualities of rhythm and color as well as the influences of abstract expressionism, photography, documentary, self-portraiture, and collage.
Mr. Bernard earned his BFA in Painting from Hartford Art School in 1970, graduating Summa Cum Laude, followed by his MFA in 1972 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied with the legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. As a teacher himself, Mr. Bernard has taught art courses for over thirty-five years at Detroit's College for Creative Studies, where he received the title of Professor Emeritus in 2007.
While preparing for today's conversation, Mr. Bernard shared with me that he believes he has learned as much from musicians and poets about filmmaking as he has from other filmmakers. This is readily apparent when watching Mr. Bernard's films themselves. These aesthetically ravishing and densely layered works are a far cry from a cinema constituted through narrative, character, setting, and traditional representational symbolism; rather, his is a cinema of rhythmic structures and metrical patterns, visual dynamics and textures. In short, Mr. Bernard's work embodies a nearly unyielding awareness of the total expressive range and vocabulary of what we call the cinematic. His films reactivate formal and affective possibilities that were widely forsaken mere decades after the birth of cinema in the late-1800s. This was a moment when, as film historian and theorist Tom Gunning has famously explained, early modernists (such as the original Dadaists and Surrealists) saw their at-first unbridled enthusiasm for the potential of cinema as a new communicative technology quickly turn to disappointment at its all but instantaneous "enslavement to traditional art forms, particularly theater and literature."
Mr. Bernard's films are routinely classified as silent—and, indeed they are, in the sense that they contain no literal sound track and are to be presented without live musical accompaniment. Still, as composer and music theorist John Cage—who Bernard has cited as one of many artists to whom he has paid homage—has written, "There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot." In terms of their affective impact, Mr. Bernard's films are anything but silent. This is art in which there will always be new things to see and "hear" with every repeated viewing. One could make the argument that Mr. Bernard's films are dialectical insofar as they frequently bring together opposing elements and resolve their tension in such a way that something new and novel is created. Thus, his films can feel frenetic and meditative; abstract and concrete; tactile and ephemeral; quasi-scientific and quasi-spiritual; faintly remote and warmly intimate…often all at the same time.
And finally, like the most provocative and rewarding works of that vexed category we call experimental art, Mr. Bernard's films consciously and consistently show us how what an eye conditioned only by Hollywood-style bombast might deem as "less," is in fact a vital precondition for allowing us to truly feel and see something more. Before inviting Mr. Bernard to join us on stage, we will now screen his film Night Mix from 1982, which runs just under 11 minutes.
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Humphries, a 6-foot-5, 285-pound sophomore, started the season's first six games, but was replaced in the starting lineup to open Florida Oct. 19 visit to Missouri following a poor performance a week earlier at LSU.
Nebraska transfer Tyler Moore, who has struggled this season, as well, will move from right tackle to left tackle to replace Humphries. Junior-college transfer Trenton Brown, who stands 6-foot-8 and weighs 361 pounds, will make his first college start at right tackle during Saturday's matchup with Georgia.
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By the way, those of you concerned with a rash of trick plays and new schemes from the Gator offense should pay attention to the rest of the article. Namely this: "Quarterback Tyler Murphy has been sacked 10 times and hurried 13 times during losses at LSU and Missouri." Boom's a lot more worried about keeping his quarterback upright than he is about installing that really neat halfback pass play. Especially with two new/quasi-new faces on the offensive line, one of whom's "struggled this season".
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RCA dog "Nipper" salt and pepper shakers. It faintly says "RCA HIS MASTER'S VOICE" around the base of each figure. The bottom says "Lenox," the maker. I believe the company is still producing salt and pepper shakers today. The closest to a date I've been able to find is anywhere between 1950 and 1960. His Master's Voice was a painted acquired by a gramophone company of the same name in 1899 for a logo and promotional use. In the painting, the dog is actually looking into a phonograph cylinder, rather than a gramophone. I have seen variations of this set where there is one dog and a gramophone/phonograph instead of two dogs. The image is still used by the related RCA company. Nipper is the name the dog adopted.


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Apple has begun to ask iOS device owners for the answers to security questions as part of an effort to beef up Apple ID security. iPhone users began widely reporting the change on Thursday, though the changes actually began happening sometime in the last 24 hours. Not all iOS users have seen the request pop up yet, however, leaving some confused about whether the prompt is legitimately from Apple.
The prompt that shows up on an iOS device says "Security Info Required." It proceeds to ask the user to select from a handful of security questions and provide answers. If the user has not yet provided a backup e-mail address to Apple for his or her Apple ID, Apple requests that as well, and then prompts the user to verify it using a link to Apple's website. In addition to the prompt on the iOS device, some have reported (via Apple's discussion boards) that they are being asked the same questions via iTunes on the computer.
This is undoubtedly meant to help combat the growing number of phishing attempts on people's Apple ID and iTunes accounts. Reports from iTunes users about unauthorized charges have been trickling in for years at this point, and Apple's support team is likely getting inundated with requests for help. In fact it's almost ironic that some users are suspicious of the prompt and believe it to be a phishing attempt. We were able to confirm that the prompt is indeed legit. (Still, it's always better to be safe than sorry!)


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Authors and RePEc archive maintainers receive monthly emails with various statistics, and among the most anticipated statistics are our abstract views and download counts. It is important to understand how those statistics are collected and what they measure (and do not measure). Full statistics are available on the LogEc website managed by Sune Karlsson from Örebro University (Sweden).
Participating RePEc services (EconPapers, IDEAS, NEP and Socionet) keep a log of all activity on their sites. This allows us to count page views for the abstract pages of each items in the database (excluding NEP, as abstracts are listed in emails). Logs also record outclicks as users leave the RePEc services to the sites containing the full texts they seeks to download. This allows us to count "downloads". Quotation marks are required as it is impossible to record whether the download was successful, for example in the case of gated publisher sites. Note also that this means that downloads that have not transited through a RePEc cannot be counted, as we do not have access to local logs.
LogEc gathers the logs from the participating services and aggregates the statistics. This involves much more than bean counting, though. Indeed, one first needs to exclude robot activity, as only human activity is of interest. Some robots declare themselves as such, but other hide their identity. One has thus to infer from various patterns what IP addresses are likely robots. This is an important step, as robots represent typically 75% of raw abstract views. Robots include spiders from many search engines as well as other initiatives on the Internet.
One needs also to weed out multiple views or downloads by the same user. This brings us to detecting attempts at increasing counts by authors. Obviously, we cannot reveal here how this is done, but let it be known that we have detected fraud even by authors using multiple Internet service providers. The methods used lead to some undercounting, though. Multiple users behind the same cache server may be counted only once, as it may for example happen to employees of the US Federal Reserve Banks that use RePEc.
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'Wow, just wow!' was my reaction on finishing this brilliant thriller. If you are regular blog reader, you will know that I am a big fan of the DI Tom Reynolds books by the same author and that they have appeared on my Top Reads list for the past two years. It's only the second week of January and already I had two books on my top reads for 2018. The Confession is a more than worthy addition so, Joanne Spain, looks like you will have a hat trick!
This book is billed as 'the most addictive psychological thriller of 2018'. Addictive? I'd say so – I was reading it walking along the prom to my exercise class as I didn't want to wait till I got home again! From the vivid and rather violent opening scene, I was totally enthralled by this story. Unusually for a crime novel, you know almost from the very beginning who has committed the crime but what this book is about is the 'why?'.
Julie and Harry McNamara are watching a thriller tv programme in their luxurious house in an affluent suburb of Dublin when JP Carney walks in and calmly sets about beating Harry violently with a golf club. Horrified, Julie can do nothing but watch. When he is finished, JP just as calmly walks into the local police station and confesses to the attack. He claims not to have known what he was doing or who Harry was, that it was a completely random attack. But Harry is a very well known banker who has recently been cleared of financial misconduct related to his investment bank's activities at the height of the Celtic Tiger boom in Ireland. Investigating officer Alice Moodie is convinced that this was no random attack and is determined to prove it. Julie also believes it can't be random but how is Carney linked to Harry?
From that dramatic prologue, narrated by Julie, the story moves back in time as we hear variously from Julie, JP and Alice. Jo Spain adeptly relates the story of Julie and Harry's relationship which is not as perfect as it may have appeared from the outside, despite or perhaps because of their wealth. In fact, this book is as much a dissection of their marriage as it is it a crime novel. As more and more about their relationship was gradually revealed, I couldn't decide whether to be sympathetic towards Julie or annoyed at her for sticking with Harry for so long. However, with more details emerging, it became clear that the two were dependent on each other to keep each others' secrets. As we read about JP's childhood and more recent life, it becomes obvious that this was definitely not a random attack but exactly why is not apparent for a long time. And then we have Alice, still working away at trying to find a connection between Harry and Carney, despite the opinions of the medics and prosecutors. She also provides a little light relief throughout the book with her interactions with her fellow detectives. Through the viewpoints of these three characters, Jo Spain tells the story in a way that will have you reading just-one-more-chapter-oh-is-it-midnight-already?
Well-drawn, believable characters all with their good points and their flaws will have you feeling sympathetic towards them at times while also feeling angry or despairing at their actions. Julie and Harry's marriage in particular is fascinating to read about proving that old adage that nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. Jo Spain takes you right into her characters' heads and captures perfectly what makes them tick.
The Confession is such a brilliant written, expertly plotted book with lots of revelations carefully revealed at just the right moment to catch you unawares and keep you reading. It's a book that's crying out to be made into a tv series and it would keep you on the edge of your seat as you watched. But don't wait – read it now and be on the edge of your seat as you read! It definitely could be, as mentioned above, 'the most addictive psychological thriller of 2018' so don't miss out.
My thanks to the publishers Quercus for my review copy via Netgalley. The Confession is published today in e-book format and will be available in paperback on 25th January. It will be available in good bookshops or you can order a copy online here.
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Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara and his wife Julie. The man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry as a horror-struck Julie watches, frozen by fear. It looks like Harry's many sins – corruption, greed, betrayal – have finally caught up with him.
An hour later the intruder, JP Carney, hands himself in, confessing to the assault. The police have a victim, a suspect in custody and an eye-witness account, but Julie remains troubled.
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Twenty4 Sports, organizers of the 24 Hrs of Adrenalin, will partner with IMBA Canada in 2008 to raise funds and recruit new members. This partnership will be focussed on the 10th Anniversary World Solo 24 Hours of Adrenalin Championships, to be held in Canmore, Alberta, on July 26-27. Twenty4 Sports held back five spots which will be auctioned in the next weeks with all funds to be directed to IMBA Canada, specifically earmarked for projects and activities in Alberta. Full details on the auction will be released soon. More Information
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Sprockids Mountain Bike Park Reborn
Since the conception of the "Sprockids Mountain Biking Park" back in 1993, the park and the surrounding trails have continued to evolve to meet the needs of the current generation of young riders. On Sunday April 13, 2008 more than 85 individuals came out to lend a hand in the development in the park's next evolution. The event was organized by the students of Capilano College's Mountain Bike Operations Program, and was supported by numerous members of the mountain bike community on BC's Sunshine Coast. Full article, courtesy of Doug Detwiller,
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Dirt Series by Rocky Mountain Bicycles Going Big in 2008
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