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The Fox television show American Idol is reaching a critical stage. Original judge Paula Abdul left before the current season. Original judge Simon Cowell will be leaving after the current season – and who knows about the last original judge, Randy Jackson? The show, which has catapulted dozens of artist careers and generated crazy money through ad sales, music sales, and texting/call charges is getting stale and is in danger of dying sooner rather than later.
There is much speculation of who could be a new judge on the show.
I think the show should bring in "Weird Al" Yankovic as a permanent judge. I'm not kidding. I know – funny music doesn't get the respect it once did; as a result, some people dismiss Yankovic or mistakenly think he's not all that talented. But they are wrong. Very, very wrong.
What is the job of an American Idol judge? From what I can tell, the judges must:
1. Be able to distinguish those who have singing talent and pop star potential from those who don't – from a pool of 16-28 year-olds.
2. Be entertaining on both heavily edited and live television, mostly through comments, facial expressions, and body language.
3. Be able to offer constructive criticism and mentoring to aspiring contestants and actual contestants.
I think it is safe to say that Yankovic can do all three well.
Here are specific reasons why Yankovic would be good on AI.
1. He's multitalented. He has lasted for almost three decades so far as a popular recording artist, songwriter, concert performer, and musician, also working as a film and television actor and writer, and a director of music videos. He does more than his well-known direct parodies of current hit songs (which he does very well). He also does original songs, many of which are done in the style of well-known artists. He also has experience in taking hit songs and translating them into another style (see his polkas), as some AI contestants attempt during their weekly performances.
2. He has closely studied pop music artists for decades. To be good at his main bread and butter, he's had to scrutinize music artists, and carefully evaluate what they do and how they do it.
3. He recognizes talent in others. Ever see/hear his band at work? In his movie "UHF", Michael Richards was cast pre-Seinfeld and Fran Drescher was cast pre-The Nanny. Enough said.
4. He has proven staying power. He has outlasted many of the acts he's parodied.
5. He knows the music industry, and what is like to struggle through recording and touring and struggling for respect. He has not only had to deal with his own record company, but the record companies of acts he has parodied.
6. He is respectful of other artists. For example, he will not sell a direct parody without an artist's blessing, even though he legally could. His parodies are more like a tribute instead of a mean-spirited dig.
7. He appreciates different musical styles and genres. Just look at the music he records and performs!
8. He is used to dealing with crazy people (record execs, artists, fans), so he can handle the crazies that show up during auditions.
9. He's funny.
10. He's intelligent.
11. He's fun to watch. His facial expressions, body language, and quick wit would work well on AI. (He would also be good in interviews promoting the show.)
12. He's family-friendly, both in his material and personal life. You won't read about Yankovic driving drunk with a car full of strippers.
13. He has a daughter who is growing into the target audience of AI.
14. He has a highly professional, perfectionist work ethic.
15. He goes out of his way to be fan-friendly.
If not AI, then The X Factor or some other show should get Yankovic as a judge. I am NOT kidding.
Full disclosure: I do not make any secret of being a huge WAY fan.
UPDATE: I meant to do a search before I posted this. Sure enough, someone else has proposed this idea... they suggested it last year when Abdul announced she was leaving the show. Also see here.
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Remnants(Duke University Press, 2015) is a joint memoir by Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Rachel Elizabeth Harding of Rosemarie's spiritual life and social justice activism. A blend of many cultural and religious traditions integral to Rosemarie's community-building is evident in the stories, journal entries and essays interlaced throughout this memoir. The following excerpt is from chapter 12, "Death, Dreams, and Secrecy."
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Death and dying were surrounded by signs in my family. Omens and forewarnings: a whirlwind rising from the floor to carry my grandmother skyward. My brother's gift of red roses falling over new in a vase. Aunt Mary fighting with Death as if he was a man, and her sister, Ella, my mother, helping her to hold off Death's hunger for a little while. The three days of snow when Aunt Mary finally passed on. And the rainbow sign of my father's time coming.
When Aunt Mary was dying she asked her sister, Ella Lee, to spend the night with her. They slept in the same bed and as the night went on, Aunt Mary began to lash out. She was fighting Death with her fists because she wasn't ready to go. "Ella do you see him?" Aunt Mary cried. "Do you see him, Ella?" Mom said she did see Death trying to wrap his arms around her sister. Mom's presence, and maybe other things, too, helped Aunt Mary push Death back for at least that night. When Aunt Mary finally died, there was a three-day snowstorm in Chicago. The heaviest snowfall in decades.
My mother could "see" the impending deaths of family members in dreams and signs. When my grandmother, Mama Liza, passed, Mom saw her stand in the center of the floor and rise toward the ceiling in a whirlwind. Mom also saw a rainbow in her sleep, days before my father died, and knew it was a message that her husband's days on this earth were not long.
I don't know if my mother was conscious that the rainbow is a symbol of the continuity of life and death among the Yoruba and Ewe-Fon peoples of West Africa. Did she know, too, that prodigious precipitation is a sign of the passing of a great soul? Perhaps. But even if she was not aware of these West African signs of transition from material form into spirit, they were somewhere in the collective cultural memory that she carried up from Georgia in her stories, in her wisdom, and in her living.
Visiting the Dying
Mom used to take me with her to visit people who were dying. I grew up with a respect for death, but I wasn't afraid. I watched how my mother and other adults accompanied people in death, through death. How they talked to them about joyful things and shared good stories of earlier days to make the dying person laugh or smile. How they sometimes spoke of the relatives and friends who had already passed over and who would surely welcome the newly arriving loved one on the other side.
In our community, dying people were not left alone and children were included among those who comforted them. It was a very sacred time. And even though I didn't always understand what was going on, I was aware of the special nature of the moment, its mystic quality. There was a reverence for the dead, and we were taught never to speak ill of them.
Most of the people we visited died at home—some were family members, some friends. At that time, in the 1930s and '40s, the practice of dying in the hospital was not common among African Americans. Often we carried food, but sometimes we would just go and visit and sit. The people we visited had come up to Chicago from the South in the same era as my parents, and they would reminisce with my mother about old times, good times in their younger days. Visiting also meant that the families of the afflicted knew they were not alone in their distress.
I enjoyed listening to the adults talk. Their remembrances were always positive, pleasurable ones—they laughed and joked. But I also saw the sadness in my mother's face as she acknowledged to herself that a good friend, a cousin, or a sister, was leaving. It gave me a sense of how to balance one's own grief with the need to help the dying person leave amid as much happiness as possible. The need for joy in the midst of mourning seems to me now a central element in my family's cultural traditions. And mourning is something we all help each other through.
Lessons in Social Justice
My mother was a consummate teacher. She could use any opportunity to pass on a lesson—and half the time she did it so well you didn't even know you were learning anything until you thought about it later. When I was ten, my Uncle Clarence died of a cancerous tumor in his face. My mother visited him in the weeks before he passed and took me along. Although Mom prepared me, it was a difficult thing to see—Uncle Clarence's entire right jaw was a gaping hole and he was in almost unbearable pain. He turned his head toward us when we walked in, but he couldn't speak.
On the way home from the visit my mother said to me, "Do you know where he got that cancer from? From working with all that bad meat." We could smell the stockyards from where we lived. Sometimes it reeked so overpoweringly we ourselves felt sick. "How many men who work at that stockyard are sick like your uncle?" I didn't know the answer, but the question got me to thinking. "Rose," my mother said, "all races of men work there. And it's dangerous for all of them." Soon my mother and I were having a conversation about the hazardous conditions of the Chicago stockyards where many men labored in a disease- producing environment with little concern from their bosses for protecting their health.
From experiences like this, I learned very early about injustice. My mother was using an African American cultural tradition—that is, not shielding children from the reality of pain and death—as a bridge to help me understand some broader truths about exploitation and social inequity. In the midst of it all were her caring and concern for Uncle Clarence and for others like him. And so, even with her anger, her pain, her sense of the wrong done to so many, Mom talked to Uncle Clarence, tried to make him laugh a little bit and remembered stories that eased the difficult moments.
Building Community
I think my mother carried me with her to visit our friends and family who were dying because she noticed that, even at an early age, I wasn't anxious in the presence of death. Sickness didn't much bother me either—in fact, after my sister Mildred married and moved away, I was usually the person in the family who looked after those who weren't well. I didn't mind cleaning up accidents and I had patience with people who were weak and disoriented from illness. Also, I always had a kind of affinity for the dead. In Woodlawn, we lived around the corner from a funeral parlor—Banks Funeral Home. I got to know the mortician, Mr. Banks, and he would let me observe the bodies he prepared for viewing and burial. Sometimes I had known the people "laid out" with care and distinction at Mr. Banks's mortuary. At other times, I didn't recognize the faces. Either way I glimpsed a bit of the transition at the end of physical life and that fascinated me. Mr. Banks directed my brother Bud's funeral as well as that of my cousin Isaac, and I went by to see both bodies before the public viewings.
We gather at death. The wake and the dinner after the funeral are unique moments of fellowship and abundance with a plenteousness of everything: food, people, laughter, liquor, music, and memory. I remember the dinner at my sister Mildred's house, when our brother Thomas died. We call it the "re-past." Every seat in the house had somebody in it and the only space for chairs was in the middle of the living room floor, and that's where a group of older men congregated to reminisce together. They were cousins and old friends of my brother who had all grown up together. They were telling baseball stories, talking about things they had done when they were younger. Leaning back in the chairs, balancing the chicken, macaroni and cheese, ham and greens on their knees, they gestured with their hands for emphasis. They were relaxed and remembering and it was so good to see them that way.
Gatherings around death give us that opportunity to sit and be companions to each other in remembrance. At funerals, family who have not seen each other for years will come back to celebrate and recall the life of the loved one they have lost. Old ties are renewed and new relatives are introduced to each other—the children and grandchildren of cousins, the new spouses, the new babies. It is as if in compensation for the loss, we use the time of death as an occasion to assert the continuity of life, the line going on.
Cultural Traditions of Secrecy and Boundaries
There were certain things in my experience as a child, certain events, that were never discussed. Some stories, some customs, were shared only as knowledge was necessary and then with an attitude of hesitation, reticence. I believe the reasons for concealment centered around two issues. Sometimes, the information revealed was too painful—so tremendously and profoundly painful that the act of recognition risked the release of a haphazard power, an energy whose discharge required a careful, almost ritual attention. This, I believe, was the case in the almost complete lack of conversation about the horrors that sent my family fleeing to the North in the late twenties. It was not until 1960, when I was preparing to go south to work fulltime in the freedom movement, and when white vigilante terrorism— and the economic and political system that supported it—was being confronted with a mass movement, that my father and mother began to open up about some of the barbarities they had experienced. Events like the hanging and gutting of a pregnant woman or the lynching of a man and his four sons from the limbs of a single tree were a large part of the reason my family left their farms and fled north. But I didn't hear those stories until decades later. It was as if there had to have been a way out of (or the urgent concern for a daughter who was going into) the madness before it was safe to talk about it.
In other cases, secrecy is a sign of intimate connection to the life force. There are some family practices, taboos around certain kinds of contact at birth and death, that my relatives refuse to talk about on tape. Certain spirit stories that are told only in hushes when told at all. In these instances, the required discretion has to do with a recognition of boundaries. Some things are kept protected—either so their strength will not do harm to the unwary or so their energy and efficacy will not be diluted by misuse and misinterpretation. As with the ghost stories, there is here in the matter of secrecy, a strong element of propriety at work, "a meaning of restraint" as Charles H. Long would call it. A sense of what is appropriate in which time and space; a recognition that a creative and meaningful life is not possible without some constraint.
Dreams and Sight
Closely related to the experience of ghosts and spirits in the African American mystic tradition are dreams, visions, and sight. Anyone familiar with southern folk traditions—Black and white—has probably heard of the "caul." Some people are believed to have the gift of divination or foresight because they were "born with a caul" or a "veil," which means that the amniotic sac was on their head and face when they came through the birth canal. My mother and great-grandmother had this kind of sight. But Mom used to say that she could "see," not because of being born with a caul, but because she came from a "clean womb." In spite of the fact that my grandmother's water broke days before her child emerged into the world, my mother, Ella Lee Harris, was born healthy and lived to be 103 with a number of remarkable abilities, the greatest omen of which she attributed to coming from "a clean womb." Many years later, I discovered that there is a tradition among Tibetans that diviners and seers are born from "clean wombs."
"Sight" or "seeing" is not simply a matter of the ability to foretell future events. It is part of a larger orientation that recognizes the existence of a variety of means of access to information, help, wisdom, and warning. Here, too, as with the ghost and spirit stories, is a vigorous connection between the seen and unseen worlds. Dreams, visions, and signs are other axial elements of this orientation. There is a vast tradition among African Americans of dreaming and paying close attention to dreams. Dreams can be auguries of coming good or ill. Dreams of deceased relatives and friends are often interpreted as forms of communication with them, and the sharing of dreams within a household or among friends is a way to connect with a collective wisdom regarding the meaning of a particular feeling or event.
Seeking Communion with God
In the little Black Baptist churches of southwest Georgia (like the one where my grandfather, Papa Jim, was a deacon), there is an old tradition of "seeking"— going out into the woods for days at a time, alone, with only the most simple provisions, to look and listen for the leading of God. Like the forty days Jesus spent wandering in the desert and like the vision quests of our Native American brothers and sisters, these times of solitary communion with the presence of God were an important step in the spiritual journey of many Black folks in towns like the one where Mom and Dad were born. I don't know if my mother ever took that kind of faith journey, out alone in the pine woods, but surely she carried some of its quality, some of its history, in her own approach to spirit, and that mystic seeking has remained with me too.
Some of the oldest Black churches in Lee County, Georgia, started out as "brush harbors," far out in the country where white folks would not easily reach, where first enslaved people and then the descendants went to worship. The earliest of these simply constructed shelters were often open on all sides with just a covering of branches and leaves for a roof. The people who gathered here were folks well attuned to the cycles of agriculture and nature, of planting and harvesting, moon phases and the rising of the creeks and rivers that coursed through the land. Some of this knowledge they had brought with them from ancestral places and some of it they gained from the new land itself. And all of this seeped into their understanding of the new religion, Christianity, and gave it an ancient diasporic scent.
Reprinted with permission from Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Motheringby Rosemarie Freeney Harding, published by and copyright Duke University Press, 2015.


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Translucent Maple Tuiles
This week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was selected by Hindy of Bubie's Little Baker. She chose Translucent Maple Tuiles which are a thin, lacy cookie. (Pronounced "twill" according to her blog.) You can get the entire recipe on Hindy's blog. The dough for these is very simple and you can make it ahead and just bake as needed.
If you have ever made these or Almond Lace cookies, you know you have to be as quick as a bunny when rolling them.
I use a pie pin to shape them , but you could use a cream horn or roll them into cigarette shapes. Then dip the end in chocolate. Be careful because they are very fragile. And too much flour will turn them into fortune cookies instead.
These "cookies" are something I tend not to make that often. Maybe once in a Blue Moon, just because they can be tricky if you do not keep a eye on them. And they are so thin, their like chips.....You can't stop eating them!
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You haven't missed the CR Fashion book's tumblr right? I love the CR site and pretty much visit it every day since Roitfeld and her team cover everything from editorial fashion to the latest Daft Punk album and the Cannes Film Festival. In her editorial cover Carine puts a twist on wardrobe essentials. With model Xiao Wen, Roitfeld shows one of the most classical pieces of all time, a Chanel bag, in seven different ways. I love the fact that no matter what style you have, you can wear this timeless piece to it – from punk to hippie. The editorial is photographed by Max von Gumppenberg and Patrick Bienert, and styled by Carine herself.
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In the latest issue of Numéro Tokyo April 2013 model Valerija Kelava is photographed by Laurie Bartley. I absolutely love the location, in the dodgy 80s suburban, with the sexy styling by Felipe Mendes. Why wouldn't a housewife stroll around in a pair of yellow fur pumps from Céline paired with a silk dress from the very same collection?


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I love Sundays because no matter what, you know somewhere in the world there's a heavy trails session going down! Elevated Perspective's Andrew Knight brings us a look at what was poppin' off this past Sunday at the Morrison Trails in Colorado.
Re-Up: Colorado Trails
And while we're on the subject of Colorado, I may as well take the opportunity to bump this gem from the Centennial State back up to the top!
Colorado Trails
This may as well be a Colorado trails scene report with all of the dudes ripping in this seven minute masterpiece cooked up by Josh Wendt, Chris Kulhanek and Ted Van Orman! Enough reading, hit play already!
2012 Trails & Concrete
A lot of Colorado's heavy hitters getting it done in the woods and on the concrete in this one. Troy McMurray even has some clips! Spotted on Deluxe.


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Blood Ties is finally out and available for purchase! Yay! I've been so excited to share this one with everyone, and not only this but the whole series as well as this is just the first book.
I have really enjoyed writing about Ciran and his friends and I hope you will all enjoy reading about them too!
To celebrate the release I have set up a Goodreads Giveaway for one signed copy of the book (It will also include some swag but apparently you're not allowed to say that on Goodreads so shh!) I apologize that the giveaway has not started yet, but Goodreads changed their policy again and apparently they have to start seven days after you make one -_-
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But if you don't win the giveaway, or don't want to wait to read it, you can buy copies from the links below:
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Also, just so you know (and because as a Page-Flipper I have to promote paper books over ebooks) People who buy the paperback will get two exclusive recipes in the back of the book along with the first chapter of the second book in the series An Earthly King, so buy the paperback!
And for some more fun for the release, I thought I'd share a couple of my sketch pages with you that I did while I was coming up with the characters.
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Keep and eye out for more, because I'm going to be running a Virtual Book Tour at the end of the month to promote Blood Ties where you can learn more about it. In the meantime, if you have any questions, let me know in the comments!
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Anyone who isn't a MAC makeup artist is going to be slightly overwhelmed when first faced with the Studio Fix Powder Plus shade range. The naming system involves a combination of letters and numbers that denote undertone and depth respectively. While most popular brands stick with relatively simple descriptive shade names, MAC, being a pro brand, uses a system that allows them to be precise in their description of a wide selection of shades. The numbers increase with depth and that's about the easiest part to explain. When you get to the letter designations for undertones, it gets slightly more confusing:
C- "Cool " – best for yellow/golden/olive skin
NC- "Neutral Cool" – best for golden beige skin
N- "Neutral" – beige skin
NW- "Neutral Warm" – pinky beige skin
W- "Warm" – best for pinkish skin
Looks pretty straightforward, but you may have noticed that although "NC" stands for "Neutral Cool" the NC shades are geared toward women with warm, golden skin tones. The same goes for the "NW" shades applying to cool skin instead of warm. The reason behind that has something to do with the colour wheel and colour theory. I don't fully understand it so I won't attempt an explanation, but I read on someone else's blog that it helps to think of NC as "not cool" and NW as "not warm." A former MAC makeup artist, Sharon Farrel, explains it all much more clearly in this useful post.
This little chart is also from Sharon's blog. I take no credit for it and it's missing some shades, but wanted to include it here to give you a visual of the Studio Fix Powder Plus range. It is one of MACs most well-known and loved products, so most people who take an interest in makeup will probably check it out at least once in their lives. Many also use their MAC shade match from the Studio Fix range to describe their foundation colour in casual conversation.
Note that the shades don't translate exactly across formulas–even the Studio Fix Fluid foundation (which is meant to simply be the liquid version of this) behaves differently. Other foundations from MAC (Matchmaster, Face and Body, Studio Sculpt, etc.) make use of different naming systems altogether, which can make finding a good match a dizzying affair. This post will solely be about the Studio Fix Powder Plus foundation and my experience finding a shade match.


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"Class size has been a sacred cow and I think we need to take it on," Duncan told his pals at the American Enterprise Institute over croissants back in 2009.
Now fast forward. Here's what's become of the "sacred cow."
In Dennis Danziger's English class at Venice High, they play musical chairs every day; if you come in late, you don't get a desk and have to sit in a chair on the sidelines. Unfortunately, they're not playing for fun. They're playing because his class of 50 students is so overcrowded the students can barely fit into the room. Cynthia Castillo, at Augustus Hawkins High School in South Los Angeles, is luckier; she has enough desk space for the 44 students enrolled in her first-period English class. -- L.A. School Report


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Saving the Commons: It Can't Just Be Policy
August 18, 2017 | By Lara Fishbane
I was a vegan for eleven months. During those eleven months, I was not miserable, but not entirely happy either. I abstained from eating some of my favorite foods. I found it hard to navigate eating out with friends. My energy levels dipped, and running, something I had done consistently for years, became increasingly difficult. But I was saving the planet, I told myself. Whenever I resented my choice to be vegan, I would think about a graphic put out by The Economist showing how quickly global fish stocks were collapsing from over-fishing. I would remind myself of the extent to which animal agriculture contributes to greenhouse gasses or clean water scarcity or land exploitation. And yet, I still stopped being vegan.
The reason I stopped was simple: It didn't seem to matter. I would make the vegan choice at a restaurant, but watch friends leave behind half a burger or pick around chicken. I saw waiters carry back plates of uneaten animal products to a kitchen where the salmon I didn't order would end up in the trash. I would watch the yogurt and milk I abstained from buying expire and be cleared from supermarket shelves. Why should I sacrifice if no good comes from it?
This — in short — is the tragedy of the commons. There are so many people acting in their own self-interest that it makes individual efforts for the common good futile (and if not futile, then at least seem it). And, consequently, the tragedy of the commons underlies almost all social problems.
Well-intending people become the gentrifiers in gentrifying neighborhoods when they choose to live in low-income communities because that's where affordable housing is. They contribute to school segregation when they pull their kids out of the local school system to send them to better private schools. They contribute to climate change each time they turn on their car or use plastic straws or run their clothes through the dryer. They support human trafficking when they buy shrimp or cheap clothing or palm oil without checking first where it's sourced.
But, writing "they" is disingenuous. Because it isn't they. It's me. It's us. We contribute to gentrification and school segregation and climate change. We contribute to systems that we theoretically don't support, and it's important to acknowledge our role in them instead of trying to shift the blame.
On an environmental justice trip to Kentucky last March, I became increasingly aware of the hypocrisy in my own belief system. In fighting for coal mines to be shut down, I was asking for people in Harlan to give up the only decent paying jobs in the area, a cornerstone of their culture. I, meanwhile, only make sacrifices for the environment within reasonable convenience. I recycle because I have easy access to recycling bins, eat vegetarian because I can afford it, and bike to work when I have the energy for it. Though none of this means that we shouldn't be shutting down coal mines, it does mean that we all have a lot of work and internal reckoning to do.
I have also been told, though, that you can only ever worry as much as your influence is big. Otherwise, you waste a lot of time and energy agonizing over change you can't actually effect. And that's what addressing tragedy-of-the-commons-type problems as an individual feels like: too big a problem and too small an influence. But recognizing a problem as a tragedy of the commons also doesn't mean we should just give up. So what should do we do?
I have always thought that I would be happy to go vegan if everyone in the world signed a contract where we all agreed to be vegans. Though I understand that everyone in the world isn't going to sign onto this contract, the point is that it creates a system wherein individual efforts matter and are therefore incentivized. Policy and law have always served as this contract. They prevent us from speeding through red lights on our way to work or stealing from our neighbors.
But, policy isn't a panacea; all it does is set the floor. It keeps us from being our worst selves, and doesn't push us to be better. It's on us to hold ourselves to a higher standard. And that's hard to hear because it isn't easy to follow through on; because it won't always feel like we're solving something. It means opting for the vegan option even when meat goes to waste. It means turning down the higher paying job for the right one even when someone else will inevitably fill the gap. It means being honest with ourselves: both in where our moral lines lie and where we fall short of them. It means buying into the truism that change starts with the self. Because once we know the line we're pushing towards, we can push others to arrive there with us. And maybe policy will change, or maybe it won't, but at least we'll be reaching for something better in our own microcosm.


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With 'Simpsons' Flick, 'Shrek 3' On The Way, Animation May Rule In '07
Take a look at the box-office reports for the weekend and you'll likely see an animated film at or near the top. Never mind which film. Never mind which weekend.
It's been that kind of year for fans of animation, with "Cars," "Ice Age: The Meltdown," "Over the Hedge" and "Happy Feet" all cracking $100 million domestically, and "Open Season," "Monster House" and "Barnyard" right behind them. Sure, most of those films are about animals, but animation doesn't have to be -- it's the most flexible of all the filmmaking methods.
Walt Disney once said, "If you can dream it, you can do it." Here are the 10 dreams we're looking forward to in 2007:
10. "Surf's Up"
Before you groan at the prospect of another penguin movie (and we feel your pain), consider that this one is told as a mockumentary. It's "Spinal Tap" meets "Happy Feet," with a story that suggests that penguins invented surfing. The trailer for "Surf's Up" was one of the best of 2006.
9. "Meet the Robinsons"
Remarkably, this is the 46th feature from Walt Disney Studios -- what a weird, wild trip it's been since "Snow White." "Meet the Robinsons" follows Lewis, an introverted inventor, as he's whisked to the future to hunt the Bowler Hat Guy and save the world. Social outcast? Check. Missing parents? Check. Rollicking adventure wherein our hero discovers the importance of family? Check. Yup, this one's a Disney film.
8. "Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Movie"
Concerned about the escalating costs of Hollywood films? Try making one for under $1 million. Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad team up for a low-budget, big-screen adaptation of their popular Adult Swim cartoon. Here's hoping the filmmakers don't water down their aggressive, mean-spirited humor to capture a larger audience.
They may eat pizza covered in marshmallows and shout "Cowabunga," but while Michaelangelo, Raphael, Donatello and Leonardo are stuck in perpetual adolescence, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' story is about to get all grown-up. The first film in the popular franchise in 14 years, "TMNT" promises a darker, grittier re-imagining of the titular turtles. All shell breaks loose March 23 (see [article id="1538210"]"New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Flick: Slightly Less Pizza, A Lot Less Cheese"[/article]).
6. "Enchanted"
Has Disney gotten self-aware? A live-action/animation hybrid, "Enchanted" follows a fairy-tale princess (Amy Adams) banished to the real world, where she'll learn whether or not all stories end "happily ever after." It may poke fun at Disney's past, but the talent behind the music is no laughing matter: Eight-time Academy Award-winner Alan Menken ("Aladdin," "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast") teams with Broadway legend Stephen Schwartz ("Pippin," "Godspell"). It doesn't take a magic mirror to predict that we'll be humming their songs all the way to next year's Oscars.
5. "Beowulf"
First Gollum and Davy Jones, and now Grendel? "Violent and very, very weird" is how co-writer Neil Gaiman describes his adaptation of the Old English classic, starring Angelina Jolie and directed by Robert Zemeckis with the same motion-capture technology pioneered on "The Polar Express." How do you get moviegoers interested in a 1,000-year-old epic poem? How about by making it NC-17? Filmmakers are currently debating simultaneously releasing two versions of the film (NC-17 and PG-13) when it hits theaters in November.
4. "Bee Movie"
Jerry Seinfeld starred in the most popular sitcom of the '90s and ended the show at its height. Now he's a bee in an animated film? Get out! Co-written by Seinfeld, the movie centers on a war between bees and humans -- a big departure for a man whose show was famous for being about nothing. "Bee Movie" opens November 2.
3. "The Simpsons Movie"
How many times do you think Bart scribbled "We will not cash in on 'The Simpsons' until we have a great film idea" on the blackboard after school? A movie based on the longest-running sitcom in television history is the biggest no-brainer in animation. With legal eagle Erin Brockovich confirmed as a voice, early plot speculation has it that C. Montgomery Burns and his nuclear power plant will play a large role. Excellent!
2. "Shrek the Third"
Good things for this movie come in threes: There's Shrek, Donkey and Puss in Boots, who together must convince young Prince Artie (Justin Timberlake) to take the crown in Far Far Away. Then there are appearances from Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel (the "SNL" triumvirate of Amy Poehler, Cheri Oteri and Maya Rudolph, respectively), who join Fiona to fight off a coup from Prince Charming. This one's a guaranteed hit -- the only thing greener than Shrek is the money the franchise continues to rake in.
1. "Ratatouille"
Remember the last time Pixar made a bad movie? Yeah, neither do we. "Ratatouille" reteams the wizards behind "Cars" and "Toy Story" with "The Incredibles" director Brad Bird for the story of a Parisian rat who dreams of becoming a chef. Will it make Patton Oswalt (the voice of Remy) a household name? Inspire a love of French cuisine? One thing's for sure: It'll be competing for best animated film at the Oscars come 2008.
Check out everything we've got on "TMNT," "The Simpsons Movie" and "Shrek the Third."
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Travel Deal for October 24, 2012
If the time has come for a family getaway, look no further than Rodd Moncton (Formerly Rodd Park House Inn).
The Crystal Palace Amusement Park package is sure to appeal to all kids. Feel your heart pump with excitement, test your dexterity, or try your hand at miniature golf.
This package is available from $150 per family and is valid until June 28, 2013. Rodd Moncton is a three-and-a-half star hotel located in the heart of downtown. The New Brunswick hotel is within walking distance of downtown Moncton, Champlain Place Mall, and Crystal Palace.
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L.K. (Lisa) Thayer is an actor/photographer and poet. She became a member of The Actor's Studio, one of it's youngest members ever, at the age of 22, with Lee Strasberg accepting her on her first audition. Lisa went on to do many plays in LA and NYC winning her first DramaLogue Award for the Russian farce, "The Suicide" directed by Florinel Fatulescu. She won her 2nd DramaLogue Award for "Balm in Gilead" in the role of "Ann" a prostitute, directed by Sal Romeo. L. K. is currently studying 'Method Writing' with Jack Grapes in Los Angeles, her poem "Ticker Tape Charade" will appear in the poetry edition of ONTHEBUS, published by Bomb Shelter Press. She has read her poetry at with Eve Brandstein's "Poetry In Motion" at Beyond Baroque in Santa Monica and The Hotel Cafe in Hollywood with Tongue & Groove and at The Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood. She is also part of the "Waiting For Jack" (Kerouac) ensemble that tours Los Angeles. L.K. has 5 'Chapbooks' of poetry, Cat's Cradle, Melancholy Stew, Rapture & Rust, On The Edge Of Anywhere and Praises From A Tenor Sax. She wrote and sang on the CD Mouth2Mouth with Brian BecVar and has performed at Ghengis Cohen and the famous Canter's Kibbitz Room. "Poetry has become one of my closest friends." Also, "photography, my newest passion, take a look at my site" L. K. Thayer's Foto Fetish! L.K. has also co-produced the event "The Jazz Poets Social Club" at Elderberries Cafe in Hollywood. She is part of the poet trio "Girls Just Wanna Write Poems" with Susan Hayden & Eve Brandstein. L.K. read in the series "Sparring with the Beatnik Ghosts" at Beyond Baroque & The Stella Adler Theatre.
Lisa Thayer most recently played the role of Eugene O'Neill's wife, actress Carlotta Monterey in "O'Neill's Ghosts" at The Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles and New York City.
L. K. is currently studying Method Writing with Jack Grapes & released her book of collected poems titled "whores don't kiss" available on Amazon.com
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Involved in Model rocket activity since 1970, High Power since 1989, Tripoli HP certified September 1989.
Primary Focus
1972-1982 CAR MR Competition
1983-1989 Hiatus
1989 Resurrected the Calgary Rocketry Association, with the membership of the CRA proposed the development of HP in Canada
RSO /Meet Director Sullivan Lake 1 thru 7 1993-2000.
CAR Chairman 1994-1997(8?)
CRA Chairman 1989- 1995(6?)
Contest Director CARNAT 1981, 2002
Contest Director SAM 1-3, SAM 77-81, SAM 2004-2008
Currently CAR MR Director
Primary Focus for Alberta CAR representative
- Encourage interclub communication
- Foster the development of more model rocket activity in the province
- Encourage the growth of Model Rocket Competition in Alberta and by extension Canada.
- Currently working with Calgary Telus Science center on a repeat of the successful MR Workshop from August 2008, hope to expand program into support for the CRA, mainly in accessing launch sites with in the Calgary City limits.
- Provide Support for ongoing High Power Activity in Alberta, i.e. the administration of level competence testing.
- Encourage more active HP activity in Alberta
Ron's first foray into rocketing happened while accompanying his wife to the wedding cake hobby shop... they had rockets! Since building wedding cakes was not Ron's best skill, he chose to go home with a low power rocket kit. And it went from there. Ron tests software for a telecommunications company, that also has things to do with rockets, missiles to be more correct. He is currently the Vice President of the Calgary Rocketry Association, and delves into keeping the high power events portion the website up to date. Ron is an enthusiastic supporter of various rocket events throughout Alberta, including Fire and Ice, SAM, Hanna, Rock Lake, Sullivan lake, Fall Fire, and througout the year model activities in the Calgary area.
As a level four RI three rocketeer he brings a wealth of experience to CAR, including the usual number of crashes required to get there.


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Executive Leadership in Action (approved by the Institute of Leadership & Management) /Book now
Includes Coaching for Performance module.
This course is our most senior leadership programme and is designed for the executive who wants to develop their personal insight and effectiveness and to grow as a leader.
Challenging and highly interactive, it gives busy executives invaluable 'time out' and space to explore their strengths in a trusting, peer-to-peer environment. Focused on real-life challenges, the one-to-one coaching and group surgery sessions will result in tangible 'lightbulb' moments.
Delegates will identify the qualities and values of a successful leader, focusing on their own personal development journey. Prior to the course they will identify a real-life challenge to work through over the two weeks in a supportive environment. They will also focus on influence, conflict resolution, taking responsibility and making difficult decisions.
Delegates will take a journey of self-discovery, examining their own leadership behaviour in the context of their own unique environment. They will focus on influencing strategies and skills and the use of power to identify their own preferred way of making an impact and engaging with people. They will also assess the benefits of coaching practices, how to create a coaching culture in their organisation and how to coach others for improved performance
SPECIAL BENEFITS of this course include:
• Senior-level cadre of guest speakers
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On completion, you will be able to:
- Understand your own leadership style by examining your personal values and preferences
- Develop your emotional intelligence to grow as a leader and an individual
- Improve your influencing skills
- Use power appropriately to deal with difficult situations and individuals
- Improve your communication skills, using personal influencing techniques for resolving conflicts and getting the best out of people
- Benefit from one-to-one personal coaching during and after the course
- Learn how to coach others for performance improvement
- Return to work with a practical Personal Development Plan
All courses will be conducted entirely in English. A proficient level of both spoken and written English is required by all delegates so that they are able to fully benefit from the course and participate in our interactive style of training.


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Market survey for Ivisgroup comparing tool with business rules market.
2005 | Open UniversiteitSilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:40:49+02:00
EVC project at Open University: creating the guidelines to accept students in an EVC process.
2004 – 2016 | Product manager RuleXpressSilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:41:38+02:00
Development and design of business rules and terminology management tool. Many natural language features, quality checks, concept models, controlled natural languages and much more.
2003 | PRRSilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:42:12+02:00
Contributed to the RFI document on the Production Rule Representation standard for the OMG.
2003 – 2005 | SBVRSilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:43:08+02:00
Member of the SBVR submission team for a standard for business vocabulary and rules submitted and accepted by OMG.
2003 | Freddie Mac (USA)Silvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:42:28+02:00
Assessment of business rules IT architecture, development methodology, organization and quality.
2002 | Dutch Transport and Water Management InspectorateSilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:44:30+02:00
Review of e-Government architecture and strategy. Market survey for business rules engine in combination with a generic business process and content management system for managing legislation. Business rules should be easily related to processes and legislation. Consultancy in development of a Business Case and creating a proof of concept.
2002 | Dutch PoliceSilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:45:38+02:00
Review of the rules in their knowledge web on quality and report on how to improve the quality and management of the rules.
2002 | LEISilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:44:36+02:00
Review of internally developed rule engine and rule specification software on useability and efficiency.
2001 | RBMLSilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T12:41:39+02:00
XML schema for rulebases including an OO object model and production rules.
2001-2002 | Port of RotterdamSilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:45:56+02:00
Review on the positioning of rules in the new architecture for the Port of Rotterdam. Implementation of a general framework in Aion that allows re-use of rules across multiple tasks. Analysis of rules related to security, dangerous goods, piloting and environment regulations and policies.
2001 | Dynamic Rule Manager – internal projectSilvie Spreeuwenberg2017-10-05T10:46:51+02:00
Development of extensible rule manager for designing, validating and running rule sets. Import functionality to transform Aion production rules to dynamic decision tables.


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Shaping Climate Resilient Communities — Low Impact Development (LID)
Solutions to conserve land, restore resources, protect water, and save money through Low Impact Development (LID) and green infrastructure.
Fact Sheets
This series of five fact sheets reviews how LID can help communities save land, water, and money.
When it rains, most of us reach for an umbrella or run to close our windows—but we may not think about where all that water is heading. For communities facing flooding and the high costs of water quality regulations, it is increasingly important.
Polluted water from roads and parking lots gets washed into streams and ponds, and municipalities on tight budgets are facing millions of dollars in stormwater improvements. As forests and farmlands—which act as natural water filtration systems—are paved over, the problem grows.
There are cost-effective stormwater solutions, with a focus on Low Impact Development (LID), which works with nature rather than against it.
What are Green Infrastructure & LID?
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Learn More About LID
Download this presentation to learn more about cost-effective Low Impact Development (LID).
Learn what to look for in your local bylaws to allow for LID with our analysis framework.
Green infrastructure incorporates natural features such as floodplains, forests, wetlands, and buffer areas. Green infrastructure also refers to a designed landscape that puts natural systems to work like soil and vegetation and mimics those natural processes.
LID is a category of green infrastructure that works with nature to manage stormwater and decrease the impact of development on surface and groundwater. The EPA defines LID as "an approach to land development (or re-development) that works with nature to manage stormwater as close to its source as possible. LID employs principles such as preserving and recreating natural landscape features, minimizing effective imperviousness to create functional and appealing site drainage that treat stormwater as a resource rather than a waste product."
Green infrastructure and LID techniques include:
- Land use planning and regulation
- Development and redevelopment projects
- Infrastructure improvements
- Tree planting, rain gardens, green roofs, bioswales, rain barrels
How These Solutions Help Communities
Green Infrastructure and LID provide practical methods to:
- Minimize costs of development and local infrastructure maintenance (e.g. roads and stormwater)
- Reduce flooding
- Improve water quality
- Protect and restore natural features that improve quality of life and property values
The benefits extend both locally and to downstream communities. While the current focus of our workshops and technical assistance program is in the Blackstone River Watershed, the information found here about LID cost effectiveness is applicable throughout Massachusetts and beyond.
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Our guide to St Louis will help you find the best breweries in St Louis Missouri. St. Louis is known as the Gateway to the West. This was certainly the case for Lewis and Clark, who stopped here for provisions during their famous expedition. In the years that followed, the city became a manufacturing center for wagons, guns, blankets, saddles, and everything pioneers would need on their journeys west. But St. Louis is indisputably a baseball town, and a fanatic love of the sport -- and specifically the Cardinals -- is a way of life for many here. Fans also support the NFL's Rams and the NHL's Blues, but rooting for the redbirds trumps everything. There are tons of great breweries in the city of St Louis, our city guide will help you find the best breweries. You may have a hard time deciding what to do in St Louis, but we make your decision easy.
It almost seems that St. Louis was pre-destined to become a major beer brewing locale. In the 1800s, a lot of things just seemed to fall into place that would help make St. Louis the epicenter of American beers. As large numbers of immigrants from Germany and Bohemia found their way to St. Louis beginning around 1830, a substantial portion of these newly-minted Americans settled in Soulard, the city's oldest neighborhood. This area was home to a number of breweries over the years, and it eventually became the home of the world's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch. In addition to Eberhard Anheuser's Bavarian Brewery and Adam Lemp's Western Brewery, others like the Arsenal Brewery, Anthony and Kuhn's, Excelsior, Green Tree and English breweries established themselves in St. Louis.
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Granite City Food & Brewery - St Louis, MO
11411 Olive Blvd, (314) 432-3535
- Granite City Food & Brewery, a casual dining restaurant with an on-site brewery. At Granite City Food & Brewery®, we serve signature beers, includi
Square One Brewery - St Louis, MO
1727 Park Ave, (314) 231-2537
- Only natural ingredients go into the beers at Square One Brewing Company.
The Stable - St Louis, MO
1821 Cherokee St, (314) 771-8500
- The Stable is a Brewpub and Micro-Distillery Located in the Benton Park neighborhood of St. Louis, MO. Our location was once the home of the Draft
Schlafly Taproom St. Louis Brewery - St Louis, MO
2100 Locust St, (314) 241-2337
- Launched in 1991, The Tap Room proudly holds the distinction of being the first brewpub in Missouri. Housed in a beautifully-restored historic buil
Mattingly Brewing Company - St Louis, MO
3000 S Jefferson Ave, (314) 881-1500
- Mattingly Brewing Company is a brewpub located in St Louis MO.
Buffalo Brewing Co. - St Louis, MO
3100 Olive St, (314) 534-2337
- Located in the heart of Midtown St. Louis, our restaurant offers contemporary American cuisine with a twist in a charming brew pub atmosphere.
Morgan Street Brewery - St Louis, MO
721 N 2nd St, (314) 231-9970
- Nestled on cobblestone streets polished by more than 200 years of commerce along the Mississippi River, Morgan Street Brewery radiates the charm th
Breweries in St Louis
Anheuser-Busch Brewery - St Louis, MO
1127 Pestalozzi St, (314) 577-2626
- The Anheuser-Busch Brewery, in St. Louis, Missouri is a National Historic Landmark District. Anheuser-Busch world headquarters is located in St. Lo
Lemp Brewery - St Louis, MO
3500 Lemp Ave, (314) 577-0405
- Lemp Brewery was the original name of the brewing company that became the Falstaff Brewing Corporation. The Lemp Brewery Complex refers to the name
Schlafly Bottleworks St. Louis Brewery - St Louis, MO
7260 SW Ave, (314) 241-2337
- Brewing and bottling delicious beer and serving great food in a unique, non-smoking environment, Bottleworks is St. Louis's first new production br
Anheuser Busch Brewery - St Louis, MO
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Auto Ink Cartridge Priming Too - works with all the HP 932/933, 950/951, 970/971 systems.
You just push the barb end into the port (it pops in much easier than the dispensing needle goes in such that there is virtually no way a port will be pushed in or pulled out) and retains in the grommet. So long at the cartridges are below the bladders and the port end at highest position the air will be pushed out and as soon as ink flows into the tube the priming is done (the end can be placed on paper towels are into a small bottle like an empty drink bottle to be discarded).
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Margo Rivera-Weiss
Art Classes and Gratitude from our Cover Artist
Many of our readers are already huge fans of this issue's cover artist Margo Rivera-Weiss. Margo's whimsical, captivating images frequently appear in the magazine, and Margo also shares their* artistry through teaching. Serious heath issues in recent months have prevented Margo from teaching, but they're now feeling well enough to start up again. In response to the support given around their illness, Margo is offering free Gratitude Art Classes at the Women's Cancer Resource Center and Laurel Bookstore. Visit their website for class details and read Margo's story about Luz Calvo and Catrióna Rueda Esquibel, authors of Decolonize Your Diet, who are depicted on our Spring issue cover. You can also help Margo with ongoing medical expenses through this YouCaring site: here
Upcoming classes:
Watercolor Techniques Workshop
Saturday March 18, 11am–1pm
Laurel Bookstore
1423 Broadway, Oakland
Combining Watercolor with Collage
Saturday April 8, 11am–1pm
Laurel Bookstore
1423 Broadway, Oakland
Sketchbook Circle
Third Wednesdays, starting March 15, 6:30–8pm
Women's Cancer Resource Center
5741 Telegraph Ave (at 58th St), Oakland
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We have an advantage over dressed people who are addicted to their coverings. Perhaps some would even call it a blessing. We know what it is to feel free. And that means really free. Many naturists talk about freedom, liberation, being unhindered, and that is what we are. We savour the freedom from restraints like clothes and such as much as possible.
The longer I'm a naturist, the more I understand how free we are. When I get home I take my clothes off. Clothes that have been on me all day while I did things I would rather not do. After all, work is a hobby that pays the bill but it does eat up an awful amount of time.
The joy of being naked is the feeling that so many have never experienced. It's mind-boggling when you think of it. How did this happen? Why is being naked so bad in the eyes of the majority of people? As I said before, people are shocked more by the sight of a naked person than by the sight of a gun. Or violence. Or injustice. Naked people aren't dangerous. Sorry if I bring in something horrible but look at suicide bombers who wear those belts with explosives. Beneath their clothes. A suicide bombing nudist wouldn't go unnoticed in a crowded market place. And then I mean a market place crowded with other nudists. (Can you imagine how I would love to wander around in such a market place?)
Naked people are the most relaxed people that I know, and often also the kindest. Because they don't need to hide and don't want to hide. Because, indeed, they are free.
The awareness that nothing like clothes is holding me back when I walk through my apartment often hits me like a brick wrapped in velvet. Hard but also very pleasant. I can do this. I am not afraid of my own nudity. Every real nudist or naturist feels secure in her or his nakedness. Because of that freedom. I am strongly convinced that such freedom isn't only physical. It has its effect on one's mind as well. Mental freedom. Now there's something to be proud of. So many people long for that…


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Detached house Patchi Matchi - Ref : ANG2345
Holiday rentals | Recently renovated detached house with all mod cons at the heart of the Chiberta residential area. Quiet location at the end of a dead-end street. Garden.
A stone's throw from the beaches, the forest, the thalassotherapy centre, tennis courts and the golf course.
Bungalow with three bedrooms (all with double beds). Bathroom with walk-in shower. Two separate toilets. Fully equipped kitchen with oven, microwave oven, dishwasher, washing machine. Living/dining room with TV+TNT set-top box. WIFI. Patio and enclosed garden with garden furniture. Barbecue. Garden shelter. Parking. Household linen provided on request (40€ per bedroom). Cycle path and bus stop at the top of the street.
Capacity : 5 persons
Area : 90 m²
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Ph. (818) 886-3755
Fax. (818) 772-7690
Thermometrics Corporation is an American Company formed in 1965. Today Thermometrics Corporation employs approximately 30 personnel and operates from a modern, well equipped manufacturing plant based in Los Angeles. Thermometrics Corporation specializes in the manufacture and supply of equipment for the measuring of temperature. The application of products manufactured are vast – from paper mills to power stations, refineries to breweries, ships to space craft. The principal business activities of Thermometrics Corporation include the supply of equipment and services for all types of industries; boiler house equipment, heat recovery and condensate return, planes, trains and automobiles. A Quality System to ISO 9001:2008 has been developed and implemented to ensure that all customer requirements are satisfied. The Quality System is applicable to all departments and to all activities undertaken by Thermometrics Corporation.
MISSION STATEMENT At Thermometrics, our guiding objectives are Customer Satisfaction and Continuous Improvement. We accomplish this through monitoring our systems, measuring our performance and employee development. Our goal is to continually work at being the most successful company in the world, in delivering the highest quality of products, technology, competitive pricing, continuous customer service and assuring our customers of nothing less!
Thermometrics Corporation is Certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA) as a minority owned, small business.
Thermometrics celebrates 45 years of Temperature Sensor Manufacturing!
Frank Hernandez founded Thermometrics Corp. in 1965. We have enjoyed over four decades of continued expansion and growth, leading to today's Thermometrics of over thirty employees, two Sales and Engineering offices, and a new 10,000 sq/ft manufacturing facility. Our capabilities now include not only the manufacturer of RTD and Thermocouple temperature sensors, but also of custom fittings and special hardware to complement these sensors. Our facilities include temperature sensor manufacturing, a comprehensive machine shop, and our own sheet metal shop.
If you have a special or unusual requirement for temperature sensors, please contact Thermometrics. We can most likely accommodate your needs.
12 years without our Founder and still growing...
Late in calendar year 1998, our founder Frank Hernandez, after over 40 years in the temperature measurement industry, retired.
Thermometrics Corp. however, remains in the Hernandez family, as sons Jorge and Robert after 15 years working within the company, are now co-owners and managers. Jorge has moved from manufacturing manager to fill the seat of general manager, while Robert has moved from the machine shop to become manufacturing manager. They have both met the challenge as Thermometrics continues to supply reliable sensors to our customers on time and at reasonable prices.


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Cash, coins, and cards all have their place on this vegan leather bi fold wallet by Billabong. The faux leather bi fold wallet features a cut and sew panel detail, metal badge, zippered coin pocket, 6 card slots and removable ID holder. RFID protection keeps everything safe and secure.
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Discussion Guide
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
1. The epigraph reveals the origins of the novel's title. Why do you think Tom Franklin chose to use "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter"? What significance does it hold for the story?
2. Describe the boys Larry and Silas were, and then men they became. What drew Larry and Silas together as children? What separated them? How did you feel about both characters?
3. When Larry is shot at the beginning of the novel, he is sympathetic to his attacker: "Larry felt forgiveness for him because all monsters were misunderstood." Does Larry consider himself to be a monster? Why? Why isn't he bitter? Could you be as charitable if you were in his place? Why does he say all monsters are misunderstood? Do you think he feels the same way at the end of the novel?
4. During the attack, the shooter is wearing an old monster mask that Larry recognizes. What does that mask symbolize for both the victim and his attacker?
5. Tom Franklin goes back and forth between past and present to tell his story. How are Larry and Silas prisoners of their childhoods? How can we break the past's hold on us?
6. Talk about the boys' relationships to their mothers. How did their mothers shape them? Were they good sons? What kind of people were their mothers? Why does Silas go to see Larry's mother in the nursing home? When he was a little boy, Larry's mother used to pray for God to send him a special friend, "one just for him." Were her prayers answered?
7. After Silas, Larry considered Wallace Stringfellow to be his friend. What was the bond between Larry and Wallace? What attracted one to the other? Were they really friends? What is a friend?
8. As an adult, Larry also prayed to God: "Please forgive my sins, and send me some business. Give Momma a good day tomorrow or take her if it's time. And help Wallace, God. Please." What were Larry's sins? What did Larry see in Wallace?
9. Larry felt he was to blame for Wallace's tragic choices. Do you think he was responsible at all? What about Silas? How much responsibility do we carry for others? For family? Friends? Strangers? How much responsibility does the community bear for Wallace's actions?
10. How does Larry react when Silas tells him the truth about their childhood? Can true friends overcome betrayal? How? Do you think they will be part of each other's lives going forward?
11. Silas left southern Mississippi, then returned. Larry never left. Why did they make the decisions they did? What was it about their small town that drew and kept them there? How does place shape the novel? Could this have happened in any small town?
12. How is racism a part of the story? Use Larry and Silas's experiences to support your response.
13. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is also a coming-of-age story. How did the characters come into themselves as the story progressed? What possibilities might the future hold for Larry and Silas?
14. At the novel's end, Tom Franklin writes, "The land had a way of covering the wrongs of people." What does he mean by this?


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Be sure to check out the provisional charter in the general discussions area to weigh in your opinion.
Age: 23[this may change, pending experience. Or do you want this number, no matter what the random rolls for experience result in?]
Handedness: Ambidextrous[just to be clear - this imparts no bonuses other than the ability to fire a gun, use a knife, etc. in either hand.]
Life Events: Born, training bra, first period, married, left Carthage, divorced & joined N.U.N.S[ We'll leave this for later - after age has been clarified. PS didn't feel like using #14 here: http://www.macrossroleplay.org/Sketchley/Statistics/character/randombackground.htm ?]
Background: "She decided to use her looks to get off world. Her plan involved finding two perfect lovers. One of criminal elements who could teach her how to use a gun and how to commit crimes. Two a mature, ugly executive type to marry and have a honey moon off world. A couple dead body guards and her new husband quickly signed the divorce papers and a nice settlement. A settlement that the criminal lover swindled from her. Moved to Caesar by the time she was twenty she work as a waitress in cocktail bar. Did the bar talent show circuit with her trick shooting and gun play act."[Excellent stuff. You don't mind if any of this comes back to haunt the PC?]
CITIESTunisMain city. Population: 2 millionPhoenicia2nd largest city. Population: less than 50,000.Byrsa3rd largest city. Population: less than 30,000.Rural SettlementsThe majority of the have-nots live in these settlements, all of which cater to some kind of manufacturing industry or farming.Small Cities: approx. 70,000 residentsTowns: approx. 100,000 residentsVillages: approx. 250,000 residents
Accommodation and TransportationGenerally, there are two types of characters: those who mostly stay in one place, and those who move about from place to place; either due to a wanderlust nature (M7's Basara) or work (M+'s Isamu). Those who stay in one place tend to have larger and better furnished apartments, larger wardrobes, and a permanent vehicle in their possession (M+'s Guld). Those who move about tend to have smaller and not as well furnished apartments, smaller wardrobes, and a rented vehicle (M+'s Isamu).Accommodation: pending background, skill programs and GM approval, this could be anything from a small, damp, cold basement suite to a luxury mansion.Transportation: choose one of: automobile, bicycle, motorcycle, truck or anything else the GM permits.Pending background, skill programs and GM approval, this could be used, rusted and on it's last legs, to the latest luxury model.
Determine SavingsSavings: ¥1D10x10,000.
Player's Name: JJCharacter Name: Saffron "Wilde" Jacques-Burton - in ProgressAttributes:INT: 5 (11)COOL: 7 (14)EMP: 6 (12)BOD: 5 (11)REF: 7 (15)ATT: 8 (15)MA: 6 (12)TECH: 6 (12)Derived AttributesLUCK 7Base Loyalty 90%Affected By Disease/Resistance to Disease 75%Hit Points:Hit Points: 18SDC: 44Derived Attribute-like SkillsCharm/Impress/Seduction 70%Get Noticed 120%Perception 72%Sense of Balance 7%Trust/Intimidate/Leadership 40%SkillsRadio 60%Dance 80%Social 100% Streetwise 60%First Aid 60%Hand to Hand Combat Basic 60%Swimming 60%Navigation 60%Read Sensory Equipment 60%Weapon System 80%Aircraft 80%Parachuting 60%Mecha - Variable Vehicles 100%Mecha Combat - Variable Vehicles 100%Wheeled Vehicles 60%Computer 60%High School 100%Language: English 100%Personal Firearms 180%Combat:3 attacksKick attack 1D6Variable Vehicles Combat:+4 actionsSpinning leap kick, automatic critical hit. transform or leap up, turn around and shoot at incoming missiles, transform back or land, and resume original heading costs 1 action. EX-Gear Combat:+3 actionsDescription: Pretty 'Southern' girl. Favors twin revolvers, daisy dukes & plastic costume cow girl hats. Occupation: PilotRank: 2nd LieutenantAge: 23Gender: Female Handedness: AmbidextrousHair colour: BlondeEye colour: GreenHeight: 152 cm Weight: 48 kg Birthplace World: Reds Wood Satellite City (Saturn's orbit)Birthplace Settlement: Rydatspiseshiken Village, CarthageBirthplace Class: Non-EliteFamily Origin: Human Clones Franco-AmericanBirth Order: Second Family: Mother, Father at least 4 more siblings.Who do you value most: Saffron "Wilde"What do you value most: Her twin Revolvers with glitter handles.Basic Personality: Act out of impulsive & Selfish.World view: I want it all.Current outlook: Out of my way.Belief System: You only live once.Likes: Boys & Guns.Dislikes: Carthage Colony, short guys & flip flops.Closest Ally or Friend: Does a mirror count?Worst Enemy or Rival: Who's ever standing blocking her view of a mirror. Biggest Secret: How she left Carthage.Short Term Goal: Find a cute boy friend.Long Term Goal: Find a rich & cute boy friend.Reason For Joining: Become famous.Childhood: Mundane (flip flops and seaweed).Life Events: Born, training bra, first period, married, left Carthage, divorced & joined N.U.N.S..Background:Saffron migrated with her family to the Macross 15 at a very young age, rather rowdy grew up with brothers. Placed in Sector M15-3 and then to Carthage where her father found employment in the harvesting of Carthage's Seed-weed. Her brothers started to find work same industry and it looked like her fate was to marry a Seed-weed harvester herself. A life she had no intention of having. Being a pretty girl she was use to getting attention. She decided to use her looks to get off world. Her plan involved finding two perfect lovers. One of criminal elements who could teach her how to use a gun and how to commit crimes. Two a mature, ugly executive type to marry and have a honey moon off world. A couple dead body guards and her new husband quickly signed the divorce papers and a nice settlement. A settlement that the criminal lover swindled from her. Moved to Caesar by the time she was twenty she work as a waitress in cocktail bar. Did the bar talent show circuit with her trick shooting and gun play act. Liked getting attention. Being a famous sound like a good career goal. Talent agents said trick shooting isn't that good of an act. Only the Army is interested in that. So, she enlisted to be a fighter pilot. Figures she'll become a war hero and then they will be lined up to see her perform. Has adopted the Stage Name Saffron Wilde and insists the Wildcards are named after her.Savings: ¥70,000Wage: ¥200,000/monthAccommodation: Military HousingTransportation: Public transportation. Equipment:Personal items - Clothes (Normal & Stage), Suit Cases, mobile phone, data-pad, Plastic Cow Girl Hat, Twin Revolvers, holsters and personal feminine hygiene products. ID/Security Badge, 2 to 4 Work/Camouflage Uniforms (DPM Uniforms with 1 x Kevlar Vest & 1 x Kevlar Helmet), 2 Dress Uniforms, 1 Mess Uniform, First Aid Kit: 5 uses, and CSW (Combat Survival Waistcoat): Rescue Radio/Emergency Locator Beacon (Encrypted), Compass/Handheld GPS (Global Positioning System) or universal direction finder, Small packet of water (1 pint), 2 Signal Flares, Pocket Flashlight, Combat/Survival Knife.Access to:Variable Craft, Armoured Flightsuit, Semi-Automatic Pistol, EX-Gear


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Online Undergraduate-Level Course
Sound Design for the Electronic Musician
Authored by Michael Bierylo, David Mash
Course Code: OMPRD-202
Level 2
3-Credit Tuition$1,515
Non-Credit Tuition$1,265
In the course Sound Design for the Electronic Musician, you'll learn to create your own electronic sounds for musical productions using Propellerhead's Reason and Native Instruments' Absynth. By working through a series of practical, hands-on activities, you'll gain an understanding of the skills necessary to produce and replicate the electronic sounds common in today's modern music. This course begins by introducing you to the basics of how synthesizers work, sound design concepts, and how to program a wide variety of synthesizers. From there you'll explore more detailed aspects of sound creation and manipulation including imitating acoustic instruments, FM, oscillator sync, ring modulation, and advanced modulation; techniques that you can transfer to any hardware or software synthesizer.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Use control signals and understand control signals in Reason's Subtractor
- Understand digital samplers
- Understand modulation and MIDI control
- Build complex sounds and create sonic gestures (macrosynthesis)
- Understand the basic sound design elements of visual media
Berklee Online and Propellerhead have come together to offer an educational discount on Reason. Once you enroll in the Sound Design for the Electronic Musician course, you will be able to purchase this package at the discounted price through the Required Course Materials link on your My Home page. Early enrollment is encouraged to ensure software delivery prior to the start of the course. Read Less
Lesson 1: Overview of Electronic Music Synthesizers
- What's a Synthesizer?
- Synthesizer Specsmanship
- Synthesizer Architecture: Generators and Processors
- Properties of Sound
- Pitch
- Timbre
- Loudness
Lesson 2: Using Control Signals in Sound Design
- Types of Control
- Envelope Generators
- Controlling Pitch—the LFO
- Understanding the Korg Polysix
Lesson 3: Control Signals in Reason's Subtractor
- Subtractor Architecture
- Fixed and Flexible Modulation Routings in Subtractor
- Real-Time Control
Lesson 4: Sound Design—Characteristics and Editing
- Sound Categories
- Musical Functions
- Instrument Types
- Sound Characteristics
- Sound Editing
- The Art of Tweaking--Sound Editing and Redesign
Lesson 5: More Sound Design—Designing Sounds
- Sound Redesign, Function Swapping
- Creating Sounds from Scratch
- The Default Patch
- Imitating Acoustic Instruments
- Solo Brass Instruments
- Ensembles
- Classic Electronic Sounds
- Filter Sweeps
- Electronic Percussion
- LFO Patterns
Lesson 6: Understanding Digital Samplers
- Understanding Digital Samplers
- Virtual Samplers
- Sampling Concepts
- Saving Memory—Looping
- Sampling Applications
Lesson 7: More on Digital Sampling
- Drum Machines
- Velocity Cross-Switching
- Using Effects with a Sampled Instrument
- Sampling Project
Lesson 8: Extended Subtractive Techniques
- Timbre and Waveshape
- Basic Geometric Waveform Review
- Wave Mixing
- Chorusing
- Waveshaping
- Frequency Modulation (FM)
- Linear and Exponential Control
- Linear FM
- Amplitude Modulation (AM) and Ring Modulation
- Oscillator Sync
Lesson 9: Advanced Modulation and MIDI Control
- Modulation Routings
- Matrix Modulation
- Vector Synthesis
- Wave Sequencing
- Step-Sequenced Control
- Control with Gate Signals
- Additional Modulation Routings within Reason
- LFO Trigger
- Modulation Routings between Devices
- Tempo Control—LFO Sync
Lesson 10: MacroSynthesis
- The Sound Spectrum Viewed as a Three-Dimensional Space
- Creating Complex Sounds by Combining over Time
- Sonic Gestures
Lesson 11: Sound Design for Visual Media
- The Role of Sound Design for Visuals
- Sound Design vs. Film Scoring
- Elements of Music
- Case Studies
Lesson 12: Final Project Posting and Discussions
- Final Project
- Where Do I Go from Here?
- How to Grow Your Current Setup
- Suggested Additional Reading
Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements
Completion of Music Production 101 , or equivalent knowledge and/or experience.
Required Textbook(s)
- None required
Software Requirements
- VCV Rack
- Reason 10 or higher
- Native Instruments' Absynth 5
- One of the projects in this course will have you apply what you've learned to create sound design elements for a video clip. To do this, you'll need to use any Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that supports video playback (Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Cubase, Digital Performer, etc). Although Reason does not support video playback, there are utilities available that will allow a video clip to play in sync with Reason. These include ReSync 1.1 for Mac or PC or ReasonSync for Mac.
Hardware Requirements
- Audio interface
- MIDI keyboard
After enrolling, please check the Getting Started section of your course for potential deals on required materials. Our Student Deals page also features several discounts you can take advantage of as a current student. Please contact email@example.com for any questions.
General Course Requirements
Below are the minimum requirements to access the course environment and participate in Live Chats. Please make sure to also check the Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements section above, and ensure your computer meets or exceeds the minimum system requirements for all software needed for your course.
Mac Users
PC Users
All Users
- Latest version of Google Chrome
- Zoom meeting software
- Webcam
- Speakers or headphones
- External or internal microphone
- Broadband Internet connection
Author & Instructor
For Michael Bierylo, teaching Music Synthesis at Berklee is just one component of an eclectic and highly creative career. From his Virtual Planet studio, he's completed film, video, and multimedia scores for clients like Hasbro Interactive, Nintendo, MSNBC, Nickelodeon, VH1, Martha Stewart Living, and Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure. He's also a guitarist, composer, programmer and sound designer for the uncategorizable new music avatars Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. His solo album Life Line earned four and a half stars from the All Music Guide, and he's a voting member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Author of nine books and a recognized expert on music technology, David Mash is Vice President for Information Technology at Berklee College of Music. One of Berklee's true innovators, he founded the nation's first music synthesis department, developed the Center for Technology in Music Instruction, and assisted in the design of the country's largest networked music learning facility, the Berklee Learning Center. He has also scored award-winning digital films, and appeared on such programs as Newton's Apple, CBS Evening News, 3-2-1 Contact, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
What's Next?
When taken for credit, Sound Design for the Electronic Musician can be applied towards these associated programs:
Associated Certificate Programs
Associated Degree Majors
Contact our Academic Advisors by phone at 1-866-BERKLEE (U.S.), 1-617-747-2146 (INT'L), or by email at email@example.com.


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Charles Durning plays Otis P. Hazelrigg, a postman in a small town who has an unhealthy interest in a ten year-old girl named Marylee (Tanya Crowe). When Marylee is mauled and nearly killed by a dog, Otis decides that she was attacked by Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake), a mentally challenged man who has the mind of a child. With Otis and his redneck friends looking to lynch him, Bubba's mother disguises him as a scarecrow and tells him to stand out in a field and not move. When Otis and his friends discover Bubba hiding, they all shoot him until he's dead. Otis puts a pitchfork in Bubba's hands and tells the police that Bubba was attacking them and they didn't have any choice but to shoot him.
Otis thinks that he's gotten away with murder but he's wrong. After Marylee sings a song in the same field where Bubba was killed, Otis's friends start dying. One is suffocated in a grain silo. Another falls into a thresher. Before each one dies, they report seeing a scarecrow on their property. Otis thinks that Bubba's mother is behind the murders but what if Bubba has actually come back to life?
Dark Night of the Scarecrow will mess up your mind, give you bad dreams, and leave you with a lifelong phobia o scarecrows. It's that scary. I remember that they used to frequently show this movie on TV when I was growing up and even the commercials were scary. (The part of the movie that always messed with me were the shots of Bubba's frightened eyes darting around underneath the scarecrow mask.) Scarecrows are naturally creepy and the movie's atmosphere is unsettling but the most frightening thing about Dark Night of the Scarecrow is Otis and the redneck lynch mob that he puts together. Otis is a thoroughly loathsome character and Charles Durning goes all out playing him. Otis is a civil servant, which gives him some prestige in the town but he uses that prestige to bully Bubba and harass Marylee. His concern with Marylee especially feels wrong and the movie does not shy away from the subtext of his interest. The scarecrow might frighten you but you will absolutely loathe Otis and everyone who follows him.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow was made for television but it's just as good as any theatrical release. It is also might be the first movie to feature a killer scarecrow. Several have been made in the years since but Dark Night of the Scarecrow was the first and it's still the best.