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Rahvaunia (born 24 April 1971; age 49) is an actress and filmmaker who played an Academy teacher in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. Because of her status as a background actress she received no credit for her role.
Born as Rahvaunia LaNese Johnson in Flint, Michigan, she was raised under the influence of the MGM musicals, Fred Astaire, Shirley Temple, and Gene Kelly and found her love for dance and acting at a young age. Beside her work in the entertainment industry, Rahvaunia is also a fashion designer in Los Angeles. She studied acting at the Meisner/ Carville School of Acting, the Australian Institute of Dramatic Arts, and The Network Studios and has performed in several stage plays. In the 2003 Infamous episode Hally Berry she played the title character and also served as stand-in and body double for Halle Berry in Fred Durst's music video Behind Blue Eyes.
Rahvaunia was also featured in the television series The Parkers and Port Charles (1999). She appeared in Jeff Rector's James Bond spoof Pray Another Day (2002, with Robert Zachar), the short thriller Justice Accomplished (2007),the drama Sunday School (2008), and several independent films such as Fight Girls, A Girl Thing, A Heart's Journey, and God's Gift.
More recently she portrayed Sloan Walker in the romantic movie Incomplete (2008, alongside fellow Star Trek extra Wyatt Gray) and served as assistant producer for the drama Caught in the Game (2008).


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he Minister will be on annual leave from Monday 10th July and returns to duty on Tuesday 1st August. During this period Lorna Fyfe will be available for pastoral needs. Please call 01698 425002 to obtain contact details.
- Summer worship will run until 3rd September.
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- Please note, the Church Office will be closed until Tuesday 1st August.
Sunday 30th July
10.30 a.m. Morning Worship
During morning worship in July, children's activities have been arranged.
For the month of August, services will take the Time to Worship format for all ages.
9.00 p.m. Sundown Service
Children's Events during the School Holidays
Tuesday 1st – Friday 4th August
Hamilton Old Parish Church – Holiday Club
Our Polar Explorers Holiday Club for P1 to P7 is on from 1st to 4th August each morning from 10 a.m. – 12 noon. The children will learn about a new character from the New Testament each day. If you require further details or would like to reserve a place please contact Andrea in the Hamilton Old Parish Church office on 01698 281905 or by email Leaflets available in the Forum. Come along and enjoy the fun!
Saturday 5th August
10.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. Messy Church – Hamilton St John's Parish Church.
The theme of this event is Journeys. It would help with planning if you could let us know if you are coming along. Contact us by email or via our Facebook page – Messy Church at St John's Hamilton.


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Buoyed by an unexpectedly superb outing from Barry Zito, the Giants regained home-field advantage in the NLCS with a 5-0 win on Friday night. But Bruce Bochy's team needs two more victories to clinch its second pennant in three years, while Mike Matheny's team is just one victory away from its second pennant in a row. Will the Cardinals advance tonight, or will this series require a decisive Game Seven on Monday? To answer those questions, here are the PECOTA odds and projected starting lineups for Game Six:
Cardinals (Chris Carpenter) vs. Giants (Ryan Vogelsong) – 7:30 p.m. ET
PECOTA Odds of Winning: Cardinals 51.6 percent, Giants 48.4 percent
Update (6:52 p.m. ET) – Odds after Matt Holliday was scratched with back spasms: Giants 50.9 percent, Cardinals 49.1 percent
Projected Starting Lineups:
Cardinals vs. Vogelsong (R)
Giants vs. Carpenter (R)
Angel Pagan, CF (S)
Matt Carpenter, 1B (L)
Marco Scutaro, 2B (R)
Carlos Beltran, RF (S)
Pablo Sandoval, 3B (S)
Allen Craig, LF (R)
Buster Posey, C (R)
Yadier Molina, C (R)
Hunter Pence, RF (R)
David Freese, 3B (R)
Brandon Belt, 1B (L)
Daniel Descalso, 2B (L)
Gregor Blanco, LF (L)
Pete Kozma, SS (R)
Brandon Crawford, SS (L)
Chris Carpenter (R)
Ryan Vogelsong (R)
PECOTA has viewed many of the contests in this series as toss-ups, and this one is no exception. The Cardinals are favored mainly because the model prefers Carpenter's extensive track record to Vogelsong's renaissance story, but the model is not omniscient. Recent results—chief among them San Francisco's 7-1 victory when the right-handers squared off in Game Two—suggest that the arrow might as well be pointed toward the Giants.
Rewind six days to Monday night at AT&T Park, when Vogelsong held St. Louis to one run on four hits and two walks in seven inning of work, struck out four, and induced plenty of weak contact. It was the 35-year-old's second strong postseason start, and the fifth consecutive outing in which he'd allowed no more than one run. Vogelsong looked much more like the starter who led the National League through early August than the one who suffered a month-long freefall immediately thereafter, largely because he rediscovered his fastball command.
The plot above shows Vogelsong's pitch types and locations from Game Two, and one takeaway from it stands head-and-shoulders above the rest. Notice all of those light-blue squares on the left-hand side (from the catcher's perspective) of the strike zone; they represent the two-seam fastballs that Vogelsong used to jam the Cardinals' powerful right-handed bats, from Holliday to Freese. St. Louis' three-through-six hitters combined to go 1-for-11 before Jeremy Affeldt and Sergio Romo took over in relief, enabling Vogelsong to strand Beltran—who delivered two doubles and drew a walk—each time he reached base. Expect Vogelsong, who limited opposing righties to a .230/.297/.322 triple slash during the regular season, to lean heavily on the two-seamer again tonight.
That brings us to the Matchup of the Game, featuring Beltran, who went 1-for-4 in his return to the lineup in Game Five. Matheny indicated that "everything is good" with his right fielder's strained knee, and that means Beltran should be ready to tack on to his 13-for-34 (.382/.463/.794) effort in the playoffs to date.
The switch-hitting former Giant reached in all three of his plate appearances versus Vogelsong on Monday, bringing his career head-to-head line against him to 6-for-13 with four doubles, a home run, three walks, and two strikeouts. That's good for a 1.563 OPS, Beltran's third-highest mark among active pitchers he has faced at least 15 times, with only Vogelsong's teammate Tim Lincecum (1.579) and fellow Redbird Kyle Lohse (1.673) having incurred more of his wrath.
Both of Beltran's two-baggers in Game Two came on fastballs down the pipe, rare mistake pitches from Vogelsong in an outing where he, generally, was sharp. In the 12 plate appearances tracked by the Matchup Tool, Beltran went 5-for-10 with two free passes, maintaining his success despite Vogelsong's evolving approach, which began with backward sequences last year, but has recently involved to feature more hard stuff toward the outside part of the plate.
Beltran's success in Game Six could be critical for the Cardinals' offense, given that Matheny's middle-of-the-order hitters scuffled in Game Two, and that the visitors' only run scored on a double by Carpenter—and that's Chris, not Matt. Carpenter is a competent hitter, by pitcher standards, but if St. Louis finds itself relying on the number-nine man to pull double duty again tonight, the overall results probably won't be much different from their defeat six days ago.
Carpenter will be more focused on his pitching assignment, coming off an outing where, by his own admission, "it was not there." By "it," he means his stuff, which has still not recovered its usual bite three months after shoulder surgery and probably won't without an offseason of rest. The 37-year-old has sufficient feel and command to thrive with a substandard arsenal, as he demonstrated by holding the Nationals scoreless through 5 2/3 innings on Oct. 10, but his margin for error is considerably smaller, and the Giants eventually made him pay in Game Two.
The table above shows Carpenter's pitch breakdown from his most recent start, when he was charged with six runs (two earned) on six hits and two walks, while managing only one strikeout in four frames. Apart from Pagan's leadoff homer, the Giants didn't exactly shell Carpenter, but his inability to miss bats put him at the mercy of a shaky defense, and that deadly combination led to his demise.
As I noted in the preview for Carpenter's Division Series start, his fastball/sinker velocity is down about two ticks from its 93-mph average last year, when the righty was a postseason force. That's a surmountable weakness if Carpenter is pounding the knees and painting the corners, but …
… he left a plethora of sinkers up around the belt in Game Two, including one that turned into Pagan's big fly and two others that produced run-scoring singles. While in-zone command is always key to a pitcher's success, it will be especially important for Carpenter if he hopes to avenge Monday's defeat.
Finally, Vogelsong, Carpenter, and any relievers who enter the contest should be prepared for a significantly smaller strike zone than the ones called by Ted Barrett in Game Five and Chris Guccione in Game Two. Both of those arbiters were generous on pitches just below the knees and a hair off either corner. Jerry Layne, who is set to work the plate in Game Six, on the other hand, is typically stingier with the borders than his crewmates, a factor that could give disciplined hitters a material advantage tonight.
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Two studies that are to take a deeper look into Anorexia Nervosa: The Loughborough Eating disorders Activity theraPy (LEAP) study which looks at the role of extreme exercise in the maintenance of Anorexia Nervosa combining cognitive techniques and behavioural experiments. And the Strong Without Anorexia Nervosa (SWAN) study which aims at determining which three psychological treatments: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Maudsley Cognitive Motivation Therapy, and Supportive Clinical Management have the best outcome for Anorexia Nervosa.
With such a great need for continued research in the area of Eating Disorders, it's always inspiring to see the dedication and commitment of the individuals and clinicians driving these studies- Kudos!
Is it really May, already?
Life has been good… definitely busy, but equally good!
The frenzy of prepping for gallery openings along with late nights doing my own work at the studio, holding support groups combined with some Yoga&Massage on the side has been quite the balancing act to say the least.
The end of the school year countdown has begun by our daughter, who has been finding recovery balances, challenges, and triumphs, mingled in with the excitement and plans for what she'll be wearing and planning for graduation along with pre-summer preparations– Life is good!
And daily I try to make time to reflect on how grateful and blessed I am for my family, dear friends and acquaintances on this journey of Life- merci!
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
There are few individuals who truly rise to a level of integrity, experience, commitment and compassion when it comes to researching and treating eating disorders that I can honestly say are worthy of note, let alone far too few dedicated and wisely seasoned clinicians available for sufferers and families assisting and caring for loved ones to have equal and affordable access to. Dr Daniel le Grange at the University of Chicago is most certainly one of those individuals.
For parents who have younger children or adolescents suffering with an eating disorder you are probably already aware how vital early diagnosis and intervention are to restoring your child's health. Many families and parents are unfortunately still treated as the "problem" or blamed/shamed into believing that they "caused" their child's eating disorder, and sometimes, worse yet, doctors don't even take seriously the early warning signs of eating disordered behaviors as well as weight loss in younger patients and dismiss the parents concerns despite the "highest concentration of most sufferers of Anorexia Nervosa being in the adolescent female population"– time is not on anyone's side when you delay diagnosis and immediate treatment.
And treatment programs along with many clinicians still leave the family aside and ignored vs being utilized as a vital resource in assisiting and collaborating within helping their child recover, and working with as well as healing the entire family unit. This makes many of us parents quite irate since we know our children best and were the first to have noticed the drastic changes in our child's behavior, took initiative in researching treatment options/providers, and then continue to take action, resources and advocate for our children while waiting for many in the medical community and insurance industry to finally wake up and begin implementing true evidence-based treatment strategies that work instead of constantly reinventing the wheel, over and over…
Parents, Families/Partners and Caregivers of Children and Adolescents suffering with this illness please take heart, find continued reassurance, and be re inspired by reading Dr le Grange and Dr Loeb's Early Intervention in Eating Disorders as well as Dr le Grange's Treatment Model for Eating Disorders in Children & Adolescents :
- Parents are a RESOURCE in helping the adolescent
- Most parents CAN help the adolescent
- Parents have SKILLS to bring to treatment
- Therapist leverages parental skills and relationships to bring about change
- FBT-Family Based Therapy is the only evidence-based treatment shown to be efficacious and cost effective
On the Centre for Excellence in Eating Disorders (CEED) website, where if you are an Australian native they are also providing FBT and eating disorder treatment study for families free for participants, which they did here in the states at the University of Chicago a few years back.
Some day Eating Disorder Treatment will be this good everywhere — until then, keep fighting the good fight and don't give up!
Kar Men Shreshth Kamandalu Chakra Trishoodlharta
Jagkarta Jagkarta Jag Palankarta
Om hara hara Mahaadevaa
Since our daughter was diagnosed with anorexia almost a year ago this month, I wanted to start to put together, however chaotically at the moment, a journal of our experiences and share them in some manner that can add to the collective of additional perspectives, up to date evidence-based research/data within ED's; and their effects upon the family, treatment strategies, and improved follow up care towards the goal of full recovery with the least amount of debilitating relaspe, IP/residential and/or hospitalization..
More importantly, I feel parents can be a locus of change for the medical community, insurance companies, and also a significant support network for eachother. And that fighting this devastating illness does not have to sentence parents, or the sufferers to a path of isolation, shame, or guilt since many treatment standards, clinicians, and society as a whole still have several outdated and erroneous stereotypes and practices that are impeding continued progress forward.
I do also think there are several reasons, as well as clinicians (though still too few practicing in this field and easily accessible) to keep hope alive and remain optimistic (as hard as that can indeed be at times) that recovery is possible, and that parents should feel empowered to take an active and loving role in their child's recovery process.
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Democratic US presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help his own re-election.
Mr Biden made the remarks as part of a blistering 25-minute campaign speech in New Hampshire.
He said Mr Trump is "shooting holes in the Constitution" by asking foreign powers to interfere in the 2020 election and then refusing to co-operate with a resulting House of Representatives impeachment inquiry.
"This is a president who has decided this nation doesn't have the tools, the power, the political will" to punish bad behaviour, Mr Biden said.
"He's not just testing us. He's laughing at us."
Mr Trump quickly shot back in a tweet that it was "so pathetic" to see Mr Biden calling for his impeachment.
The president maintained that he had done nothing wrong.
Mr Trump, in a July phone call to Ukraine's leader, had asked for "a favour" of investigating Mr Biden and his son Hunter.
Democrats in the House of Representatives have begun impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump based on a rough transcript of the July 25 telephone call.
Mr Trump maintains his unfounded assertions that Mr Biden, as vice president, used his office to protect his son from corruption investigations in Ukraine.
Mr Biden on Wednesday again called those theories "lies" and said Mr Trump was peddling them because he fears facing Mr Biden in a general election.
"We're not going to let Donald Trump pick the Democratic nominee for president," Mr Biden said.
"I'm not going to let him get away with it. He's picked a fight with the wrong guy."


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Kalamazoo Michigan
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office
1500 Lamont Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49048
Our Mission is coordination of the Mitigation of, Preparedness for, Response to, and Recovery from Natural and Human-Made Disasters within Kalamazoo County.
The Kalamazoo County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has been established under provisions of the Michigan Emergency Management Act, PA 390 of 1976, as amended, and the county's 1993 emergency management resolution, to ensure a coordinated public response in the event of a natural or man-made disaster.
Emergency management in Kalamazoo County is a comprehensive approach involving a range of public and private agencies including local police, fire and EMS agencies, the Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the 5th District Homeland Security Board and the National Weather Service. Other agencies involved with emergency management include the American Red Cross, local and state health departments, educators and amateur radio operators.
Emergency preparedness is the responsibility of every citizen. Therefore, county residents and businesses should develop a basic plan to help ensure their safety during these situations.
The Kalamazoo County Office of Emergency Management (OEM), a division within the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office, is responsible for planning, coordinating and managing a consolidated emergency management program for Kalamazoo County. The duties include preparing for, responding to, mitigating, and recovering from a wide range of natural and man-made disasters. To fulfill this mandate, OEM works closely with others having responsibilities related to homeland security, emergency response and hazardous materials use or transportation.
OEM provides comprehensive training for public officials and private citizens and maintains operational readiness of the County Emergency Operations Center for disaster management and all Homeland Security and Domestic Preparedness activities. The office maintains and deploys the mobile command post for use by local incident commanders during major events.
As a participant on the 5th District Homeland Security Board, OEM works with other agencies in the nine counties of southwest Michigan to share intelligence, coordinate resources and maximize operating efficiencies.


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lost boys...
Hubby and I watched this documentary on PBS last night. My heart broke over and over again while, at the same time, I was in awe of the courage these young men had in their hearts.
Unrelated brain smatterings:
"...he had dandruff the size of mice...Bill Brasky!!!!"
--from the Best of Will Farrell, vol. 2


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Not good at dressng up for the red carpet, so I did it my way. LOL.
A gorgeous drapey Vivienne Westwood gown with scarily high splits, my vintage MA1 jacket customised with Louis Vuitton patches from Kim Jones...
My 1960s tiara
And a genius 'packet of crisps' evening bag by Anya Hindmarch
My highlights were being on Topman's table with all our lovely boys up for emerging menswear, Simone Rocha scooping best emerging womenswear award, Miuccia, Marc and Donatella (just for coming), and Edie Campbell's mullet, outfit and speech where she thanked her pet, Dolly...
Brilliant Suzy Menkes got the standing ovation she deserved, as did Terry and Tricia from i-D. Christopher Kane sweetly thanked his sis Tammy and baby niece Bonnie when he finally won Designer of the Year (about bloody time).


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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from Miracle for Jen by Linda Barrick (Tyndale House).
Chapter 1
You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
Psalm 139:16
Lord, this life that I now live is not mine but Yours. It is Yours to do with it as You please. . . . Take this year and my life and allow Your glory to shine! Take it and use it to its fullest potential.
—Jen's journal, three months before the crash
My cell phone was ringing.
My brain reacted automatically. I knew I should reach down to-ward my feet and fish the phone out of my purse. But my body wasn't moving. I had no feeling anywhere, only a sensation of being restricted as if I were wrapped in a steel blanket.
I opened my eyes. My face was smashed against a windshield of crushed glass. How did I get here? Is this a dream? Wasn't I just sitting with my husband and son watching our fifteen-year-old, Jen, sing in the choir at her school's fall concert?
I reached down with my right hand to touch my leg, and when I lifted my hand up again it was covered with blood.
This can't be real. Lord, please wake me up!
"Mom? Mom?!"
I heard Josh calling for me from the backseat. I couldn't turn around to see him, but I answered anyway. "Josh! Josh!"
"Is this real?!" I asked. "Is it a dream?" I didn't hear an answer so I said again, "Is this real?"
"Yes, Mom, this is real."
In anguish, I cried out, "Lord Jesus, please help us! Come to our rescue! Save us!"
Josh and I both began to pray out loud. "Father, please don't let Jen and Andy die! Oh, God, help us! Please don't let them die! You are all powerful. You can do anything! We need a miracle!"
Then my husband, Andy, started to stir. "Where are we?" he asked groggily. "What's happening?"
He was in shock and didn't answer any of our questions, but at least he was alive. Jen remained silent and still in the seat behind Andy's.
As a mom, I wanted with every molecule inside me to hug Josh and touch him and make him feel better. I wanted to hold Jen in my arms and tell her that I loved her. But I couldn't move. The crushed metal and broken glass encased my body like a giant, sin-ister glove.
The only thing I could do was pray.
Only an hour earlier, I had been sitting in our church sanctuary as music washed over the audience in waves, filling the room with sounds of praise and the pulsing energy of young hearts on fire for Christ.
For the first few verses, the choir stayed in the background as the soloist sang about the awesome and inexpressible love of Jesus. Then with a swell of strings and a kick of the drums, the choir stepped into the musical spotlight, each singer moving to the rhythm of the orchestra, swaying with the beat, some lifting their hands as they joyfully praised their incredible, all-powerful Savior:
Wonderful, glorious, holy, and righteous,
Victorious conqueror, triumphant and mighty,
Healer, deliverer, shield, and defense,
Strong tower and my best friend,
Omnipotent, omnipresent, soon-coming King,
Alpha, Omega, Lord of everything,
Holy, holy, holy is your name!1
Of all the singers from Liberty Christian Academy onstage that night, one stood out especially to me: a beautiful, auburn-haired sophomore who seemed transformed by the words and music sur-rounding her, completely focused on conveying her passion for Christ to the audience. Maybe it was because the video monitors flanking the stage kept showing her face, beaming with enthusi-asm. Maybe it was because she was on the end of a row and had room to move a little, while most of the students stood shoulder to shoulder on banks of risers.
Or maybe it was because I'm her mother.
Jennifer had been anticipating this fall concert for weeks, looking forward to the privilege of singing in the Sunday night church ser-vice for more than three thousand people. It was her first perfor-mance with the high school choir, and Jen always loved new expe-riences. I was a little surprised she wanted to be in the group since, for all her many gifts and talents, Jen did not have what I'd call a fabulous voice. God had blessed her in so many other ways—she was a straight-A honor student, varsity soccer player, and nationally ranked varsity cheerleader—and she hadn't seemed that interested in choir before. However, in typical Jen fashion, what she lacked in natural ability she made up for in en-thusiasm and hard work.
Sophomore year was shaping up to be her best yet, part of an incredible season of transformation taking place right in front of me. It seemed like just yesterday she was running around in a baseball cap and mud-stained clothes, spitting sunflower seeds. I would often have to beg her to comb her hair. Now she was blos-soming into a beautiful young lady. The braces had come off after two years, revealing a dazzling new smile. Just recently she'd got-ten her first formal dress to wear to the junior-senior banquet. I'd scarcely recognized the glamorous, elegant woman who had come out of Jen's bedroom when her date arrived to pick her up.
Only two nights before the concert I'd been at the football game to watch her cheer. She was so exuberant and full of life, going all out with every jump like she always did, her face glowing with energy and excitement. Now here she was onstage, just as intent on doing her best with the choir as she was with the soccer team or the cheering squad. I could not have been more proud of my precious daughter. Her life seemed almost perfect!
Music was good for Jen because it was a fresh way to express her faith. She was such a friendly, popular girl, yet all her life she had held her thoughts inside. Spiritually and emotionally she was a very private person. She didn't talk much to me or to anybody else about what was on her mind and heart. As deeply committed to Christ as Jen was, and as much as she wanted her friends to know Christ the way she did, it wasn't a natural thing for her to witness one-on-one. When her youth group went door-to-door sharing God's love with strangers, she was always the one standing quietly in back, never saying a word.
In fact, one of my prayers for Jen that year had been for boldness. She'd asked me to pray for her to find a way to express her private relationship with God out loud. Music gave her a tool to shout out her love. That's why I think she sang with a special radiance that night at her musical debut.
The song she was performing heightened her sense of excitement even more. "Lord, You're Holy" was one of her favorites, especially the part in the middle where the choir takes the lead, describing the unbelievable, unfathomable depth and richness of God's love. She'd sung those lyrics around the house all week.
I didn't know it at the time, but that very afternoon Jen had writ-ten about the upcoming concert in her journal. The pages of her daily journals were the one place where the deep, tender spirit of Jennifer Barrick was fully revealed. There, in goofy, unassuming spiral notebooks decorated with polka dots or cartoon characters, she wrote letters to Jesus like He was her best friend. Only hours earlier, anticipating this moment onstage, she had told Him:
Lord, the only way I feel worthy to sing this song is on my face before You! This song can't even describe You to Your true fullness! Mere words cannot express You! Lord, I love this song b/c it helps put things in perspective! It lifts Your name on high! You are worthy of all my praise! And the only one deserving all my worship!
The music rocked to a big finish. Before the last note sounded, the audience of parents, friends, and church members rose as one, their cheers and applause roaring through the spacious sanctuary of Thomas Road Baptist Church, home of Liberty Christian Academy and partners in ministry with Liberty University, where my husband, Andy, was director of alumni relations. He was beside me in the audience that night, along with our son, eleven-year-old Josh. Like his dad, Josh loved sports and would probably not have put a choir concert first on his list of favorites for a family outing. But he obviously enjoyed seeing his sister onstage.
Andy and Josh had slipped into the performance just in time. Jen and I came to church by ourselves that afternoon because the guys were on their way home from a baseball tournament Josh played over the weekend. They were with our friend Dr. Tim Clinton and his son, Zach, who was also in the tournament. Tim's daughter, Megan, sang in the concert that night too, so the ball-players stopped by our house for a quick shower and then came to church in Tim's car. That way Andy, our kids, and I would be able to ride home together. It would be great to spend the time catching up on each other's adventures. Besides, as Andy knew, I hated driving in the dark.
Once the applause tapered off and the crowd sat down, the speak-er for the evening took his place at the lectern. My father, Dr. Ed Hindson, preached that night on prophecy. I've heard Dad, a dis-tinguished professor at Liberty University, speak thousands of times since I was a little girl. His insights, based on years of study and teaching from the book of Revelation, have inspired untold numbers of people. On this particular night, I sensed that his preaching was especially anointed. By the end of his sermon the entire audience seemed stirred. More than a hundred came forward to pray.
After the closing prayer, the audience stood, buzzing with pent-up energy and moving toward the exits. Outside it was crystal clear with an autumn snap in the air, unseasonably cold for early November in Virginia. Josh wore only a T-shirt and jeans, but we'd be home in no time so it didn't really matter. Heading toward the parking lot, Andy and I made a point of reminding several couples that they were invited to our house for an impromptu postconcert supper and to watch football on TV.
I saw Jen talking—let's be honest, flirting—with her boyfriend, Brandon. Curly-haired and blue-eyed, he was a handsome young man. He was a senior and had just turned eighteen, which initially had my motherly antennae on high alert. However, over the months they'd been dating he had proven himself to be a Christian gentleman in every way. I'd even relaxed my "no riding with teenage drivers" rule to let Jen ride with him. Since the rest of his family would be coming to our house in a few minutes anyway, I decided to let him drive her home.
"Did you drive tonight?" I asked him.
"No, ma'am," he answered with his unfailing Southern manners. "I rode with my parents."
For a second I considered letting Jen go with the Knight family. Then I realized that between Josh's baseball and Jen's cheerleading events, it had been three weeks since we'd been in the car at the same time. So I didn't offer. I was looking forward to the four of us being together again, even for the short trip home.
We climbed into our 2003 Toyota van with Andy at the wheel, me beside him, Jen behind Andy, and Josh behind me. Some of our company would probably beat us home, but that was okay; they could talk in the yard for five minutes until we got there. We were expecting my parents, Andy's mom and dad, Andy's brother, John, and his two kids, Brandon and his family, and our friends Robb and Paula Egel. Ever the thoughtful husband, Andy suggested we swing by KFC for fried chicken instead of trying to whip up something so late at the house. The kids added their "yes" votes from the backseat, and I wasn't going to turn down a trouble-free party dinner with no dishes afterward.
We had to go a little out of our way to get the food, so we didn't take the usual route home from church. Andy parked and went in to pick up our order while the rest of us waited in the van. After what seemed like a long time, Josh asked if he could go inside to see what the holdup was. I said he could and he jumped out, ignoring the cold despite his thin T-shirt, and walked purposefully inside as only an eleven-year-old going to check on his father can do.
In another five minutes, my two men came back carrying their bounty: four big buckets of just-fried KFC. Andy put his two on the floor beside me, and Josh put his on the seat between him and Jen. She was busily texting Brandon, despite the fact that she had seen him ten minutes before and expected to see him again in another five. I could feel the heat from the containers at my feet. Our meal would still be piping hot by the time we arrived home.
Andy's cell phone rang. It was his brother, John. "Where are you guys?" he asked, three-fourths teasing, one-fourth annoyed. "We're waiting in your driveway, along with the rest of your company! Are you on your way?"
"Yeah," Andy assured him. "The guy at KFC had to fry some extra chicken to fill our order, but we'll be home in five minutes."
Andy turned onto Waterlick Road, a narrow, two-lane street we both traveled dozens of times a week that ran within a mile of the house. It was an old-fashioned country lane with open drainage ditches on both sides, leaving scarcely a car width of shoulder between pavement and drop-off. I'd noticed those ditches in the past—the neighborhood was outgrowing its old rural roads—but didn't give them a moment's thought now. It was a quiet, clear Sunday night, the moon etched bright against the dark sky. Not much traffic.
I was thinking ahead to a house full of friends and warm fellow-ship only a few turns away. I'd put on some coffee, and Andy would get the fire going in the fireplace and turn on the football game. Josh was eager to tell us about his big plays at the baseball tournament and how they won the championship game. The in-laws looked forward to a visit with each other, and we'd all celebrate a wonderful concert and an inspired sermon.
But that's not what happened. Jen didn't see Brandon, Josh didn't tell us about his ball game, Andy and I didn't visit with our friends, and no one ate any chicken.
Instead, within a matter of seconds, our lives would change forever.
As we were all sitting in church watching Jennifer sing, a man I'll call "Carl Johnson," though that isn't his real name, was sitting in a restaurant across town ordering one drink after another. Carl was twenty-six and had a long history of drinking and driving. In fact, on that night he didn't have a valid driver's license or auto insurance. Since Carl had more than twenty traffic violations, his license had been revoked. He had been convicted twice for DUI and arrested for a third, which upon conviction would mean mandatory jail time. That charge was still pending; otherwise, Carl would have been locked up and off the street that night.
Carl paid for his drinks and staggered outside to his 1979 Chevy truck. He stabbed his key at the ignition switch, started the en-gine, and careened onto Timberlake Road, barely missing other cars that honked and swerved to get out of the way. Within seconds he was barreling down the road and sideswiped a Ford Explorer going in the same direction.
Fortunately, that driver, whom I'll call Don, had seen Carl in his rearview mirror and prepared as much as possible in the split second before impact. He corrected the skid and followed Carl, call-ing 911 as he drove.
"We've been hit by a truck . . . and he's not stopping!" Don re-ported. He continued to follow the weaving truck and feed infor-mation to the 911 dispatcher. "He's heading down Waterlick Road toward [Highway] 811."
"This guy's gotta be drunk," Don reported. "He's over in the other lanes and runs off the road on both sides."
We later learned from state police reports that Carl's blood alcohol level measured 0.33 percent at the crash site, four times the legal threshold for driving after drinking. Don's mother and girlfriend, passengers in the SUV, began to pray that God would protect whomever was down the road as the battered pickup raced away. The next victim might not be so fortunate.
Don followed Carl onto a residential dead-end street. After a mi-nute, Carl made a U-turn and drove back to the intersection of Highway 811 and Waterlick Road. He passed out at the wheel and sat through several green lights. The truck was still running and in gear, with only Carl's foot on the brake to keep it from drifting out into the middle of the intersection. It had been over twenty minutes since Don had first called 911, and he wondered what he should do.
Finally, a police officer arrived on the scene and quickly opened the pickup door. He reported seeing a white male subject with his head on the steering wheel and a strong smell of alcohol coming from the vehicle. The officer depressed the parking brake and woke Carl up. He then ordered him to put the truck in park, turn off the ignition, and hand him some identification.
Don, still on the line with the 911 dispatcher, reported that the man was getting out of his truck.
"So he's talking to the deputy now?" the dispatcher asked.
"Yes," Don replied.
After a couple of minutes, the officer ordered Carl to get back in-side his truck and stay there.
Not a day goes by that my mind doesn't revisit that moment. Why didn't the officer handcuff Carl and lock him in the back of his cruiser? Or at the very least, take his keys? Obviously the suspect was drunk out of his mind. Had the policeman stopped him from driving anymore, the future for the Barrick family would have turned out very differently.
Having told the reckless driver to stay put, the officer walked over to the Explorer to get Don's account of the incident. He stood at the driver's side window while Don began his statement, then stepped back to wave a passing car around.
Suddenly, Carl fired up the engine of his truck and sped away with a squeal of tires and burning rubber. He ran through the light at 811 and headed back up Waterlick Road—going eighty miles an hour, with his headlights off in the dark night.
Straight at us.
If we hadn't been to the concert that night, hadn't decided to stop for chicken, or hadn't had to wait longer than usual for our order, we would not have been driving down Waterlick Road at that moment. But there we were, headed in the opposite direction from Carl about three-fourths of a mile from home. Just minutes earlier on his way to our house, Andy's brother, John, had actually seen Carl's pickup, lights off, sitting through a green light. He fig-ured some poor guy had dropped something on the floor of his car and was reaching down to get it. Now John, with his children Amanda and Andrew, was in our driveway with our other guests waiting for us to get there with the house key and the chicken.
Andy slowed the van to take the familiar curve just before the intersection of Waterlick and 811, where we would turn left to go into our neighborhood.
I had turned around toward the backseat and was talking to Jen, who was a little nervous that Brandon's whole family was coming to our house for the first time. She was calling a neighborhood girlfriend named Kelsey to invite her to the party as well.
"She's not there," Jen said. "Should I leave a message?"
I never had a chance to answer. Suddenly Andy yelled, "Watch out!"
I heard no impact, felt no collision, no pain, nothing. The world simply went black.
Copyright © 2012 by Linda Barrick. All rights reserved.


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Immigration and the Future of Silicon Valley
On January 31st, leading experts gathered at Asia Society Northern California to discuss Asian immigrants and their impact on Silicon Valley's innovative industries amid the heated nationwide debate on immigration reform. Moderated by Carl Bass, President and CEO of Autodesk, the panel featured Vivek Wadha, author of The Immigrant Exodus: Why America is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, UC Berkeley Professor Annalee Saxenian, a pioneering scholar in researching the connection between immigration and innovation in Silicon Valley, and Stanford Law School's Dan Siciliano, an expert on immigration law and entrepreneurship.
The conversation centered around two questions: how have immigrants, especially those from Asia, helped to drive the success of Silicon Valley, and can they continue to do so absent significant changes in immigration policy? Panelists agreed that immigrants have played a critical role in founding tech companies and creating jobs in the Valley, but post-9/11 tightening has had a chilling effect.
Speakers also agreed that the U.S. remains a, if not the, most attractive destination for highly-skilled immigrants. "In the short and medium term, it is unlikely to have other countries replace the U.S.," said Siciliano. The long term, however, could well be different.
Is there anything unique about Silicon Valley's success? Siciliano argued that there is, pointing to the concentration of highly-skilled immigrants working in the Valley and their remarkable success in building new companies. By 2005, over half of Silicon Valley's technology and engineering firms had at least one immigrant founder, with a large majority from China or India. Saxenian and Wadha put more focus on Silicon Valley's organization and business culture, especially its openness, cross-cutting networks, information sharing, and lack of hierarchy compared to the East Coast and many other places in the world. As Saxenian put it, "if those Chinese and Indian did not come to the States, they might not become successful entrepreneurs."
Panelists also agreed that Silicon Valley's success can be exported, if not duplicated. Wadha emphasized the role of immigrant entrepreneurs who subsequently returned to their home countries from the Valley, bringing with them not only knowledge, technology and capital, but also new networks and the spirit of innovation itself.
Although Silicon Valley itself may not be duplicable, added Saxenian, other countries can still benefit. For instance, the IT industry in Taiwan has flourished by connecting itself to the Valley's semi-conductor industry. Japan, by contrast, attempted to develop a software industry on its own and achieved far less success. In an increasingly globalized world, national economies must not only compete, but also leverage, collaborate with, and learn from each other.
Siciliano added that modern communications technology has tremendously changed our way of working, and sharing and connectedness have helped Silicon Valley project its impact worldwide. As Siciliano noted of such entrepreneurs, "No matter where they work, in Chile or in Singapore, they feel they are working in Menlo Park, with their colleagues based in Silicon Valley."
Reported by Christina Yu Zhao.


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LONDON — There's a week to go before the British public takes to the polls on May 6 in what is shaping up to be the most hotly anticipated election since Labour buried the Conservatives in 1997. Tension is hanging in the cool spring air with the threat of a hung parliament — and all the uncertainty that would bring. Meanwhile, a Barack Obama-esque underdog has emerged in the form of Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, the center-left party that's the third largest in the House of Commons.
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But while their parties may differ on policies such as education, the state of the National Health Service and how to treat the big banks, all three candidates seem to have one thing in common: their style. Call it stiff-upper-lipped British gent.
"They're almost interchangeable — apart from their ties," said Eric Musgrave, the author of "Sharp Suits" and director general designate of the U.K. Fashion and Textile Association. "I get the feeling that none of them dresses as he would naturally like to — but rather how he's told to."
Here is a snapshot of three men dressing not for comfort or style — or even to please their wives — but for victory.
Gordon Brown, 59
Incumbent prime minister
Labour Party leader
Typical look: Scotland-born Brown is hardly known for his sartorial flair. In his 10 years as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Brown's look was characterized chiefly by his boxy, ill-fitting suits, unruly hair and dour expression. The rumpled look presumably suggested his attention was focused on tightening Britain's purse strings rather than the frivolity of fashion. However, when he took over from the slick-and-stylish Tony Blair as prime minister in 2007, he was subjected to something of a makeover, spearheaded by his wife, Sarah Brown, a former public relations executive. In came bespoke suits and silk ties, and his previously mottled teeth (this is Britain, after all, where dentistry is a challenge) got a spruce up, too — although he now seems obliged to flash his pearly whites every chance he gets. The result is a series of awkward, stage-managed smiles.
Favorite tie color: Red, the Labor party's signature shade, though he did sport a pink tie for Britain's first televised prime ministerial debate earlier this month.
Shirt style: Brown typically opts for a classic, bright white shirt. While he's not one for off-duty dressing, he gave a tentative nod to his casual side on summer vacation in Suffolk two years ago, wearing a gray jacket and an open-necked lilac shirt. He's also tried the look during the current election campaign, wearing blue chinos, an open-necked shirt and a blue windbreaker for a stroll in St. James's Park with his wife. It didn't work: The British press merely chastised him for aping David Cameron's more effortless smart-casual look.
Where he shops: Savile Row tailors Timothy Everest and Gieves & Hawkes have both made suits for Brown. "Mr. Brown has acquired both personally tailored and ready-to-wear garments [from Gieves & Hawkes]," according to the company.
Musgrave's verdict: "He's built like a rugby player and has a bearlike demeanor, which means that, in minutes, anything you put on him looks untidy. He'd probably be much happier dressing like a geography professor in cords and a tweed jacket."
David Cameron, 43
Conservative party leader
Typical look: Cameron's work uniform consists of a white shirt, a blue tie and a smart made-to-measure suit, often from Savile Row tailor Richard James — although he also wears off-the-peg suits. Dressed down, or in a suit, Cameron is arguably more stylish than his counterparts thanks to his arty wife, Samantha, the creative director of luxury leather goods firm Smythson, whom he claims chooses his clothes. "She just sort of locks me in the dressing room and feeds bits of clothing under the door. I've never actually seen the inside of a shop," he said in an interview on the British radio station Absolute Radio. Whether this is true — or the dark forces of a spin doctor at work — Cameron's "I'm one of the lads" rhetoric seems to appeal both to male and female voters. He has, in the past, made it to British GQ's best-dressed list. Cameron is keen to distance himself from his privileged upbringing and education at Eton and Oxford. At his sister's wedding last weekend, he shunned a morning suit for fear, commentators said, of looking too posh, and is loathe to don black tie for formal parties and events for the same reason.
Favorite tie color: Blue, the Conservative's shade, and sometimes purple.
Shirt style: Unlike the other party leaders, he's often pictured in the British press tieless, with his top shirt button undone and sleeves rolled back to the elbow.
Where he shops: Richard James. The new-generation Savile Row tailor says Cameron has purchased suits, shirts and ties. He also favors Velcro Converse sneakers, waxed hunting jackets and Longchamp totes in his downtime.
Musgrave's verdict: "I think of all the candidates, he's the one who's most repressing an interest in fashion. He does, however, look comfortable in a suit, although he might be happier without a tie."
Nick Clegg, 43
Liberal Democrats leader
Typical look: Given his affluent, privileged and multicultural background — Clegg is the son of a Dutch mother and half-Russian father, and the husband of a smart Spanish beauty — one would think he'd have embraced some sort of fashion savvy. But it was not to be. The candidate, whose party is perpetually associated with the granola-crunching, beard-wearing and Birkenstock-loving crowd, instead favors a decidedly anonymous, neutral palette. By day, his uniform consists of dark two-button, single-breasted suits and, on the weekends, he relies on utterly forgettable shades of brown, stone and denim. Overall, his attire does little for his wishy-washy complexion and his mousy brown hair with its unfortunate middle parting, circa 1985. It's clear that his wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, with her ready smile, film-star jaw line, and dark, glossy hair has all the looks and style in the family.
Favorite tie color: Yellow, preferably from Marks & Spencer. It matches his party's official stripe, but does nothing for this Englishman's pale skin.
Shirt style: White or blue, often with a narrow-spread collar.
Where he shops: For a candidate who bills himself as an environmentally aware man of the people, he's chosen a solid and respectable high street brand. Jaeger confirmed Clegg buys his jackets and trousers off-the-peg from its Regent Street flagship. Jackets cost about 250 pounds, or $380 at current exchange, while the price tag on the trousers is roughly 125 pounds, or $190.
Musgrave's verdict: "I am sure Clegg's trousers are too long. There's a pooling effect at the ankles, which I suspect means they haven't been altered correctly."


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More Dreamers and Wannabes For DWTS 16: Baltimore Raven Jacoby Jones And "Small Wonder's" Jerry Supiran
Last night, Jimmy Kimmell interviewed one of the Baltimore Ravens wide receivers, Jacoby Jones, who has been known to dance after making a touch down. Jimmy asked him if he'd do Dancing With The Stars and he definitely would. The Baltimore Sun reports about it too. Now, this would be cool! What do you think? Thanks to @DWTSgossip for this find…
Also, TMZ is reporting that "Small Wonder" star Jerry Supiran is "dying" to dance on Dancing With The Stars. Here is a take from the link….
But now, at 39 years old … and after various restaurant jobs … Supiran tells TMZ he wants to make a TV comeback and thinks he would be a perfect fit for "Dancing."
"I'm hoping there will still be interest since people are all about nostalgia these days … hopefully producers will give me a chance."
Supiran says he hasn't heard back from the show … yet … but if he does make it, he's GOTTA DO THE ROBOT!!!!!!
I'm not sure on this one being I'm not familiar with him? We look forward to your thoughts as always. 😉


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With just days before the vice-presidential announcements, the political conventions and the final sprint to Election Day, Republican Sen. John McCain has cut Democrat Sen. Barack Obama's national lead in half, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
"Whatever momentum that Obama took into the summer, he really appears to have lost it," says Republican pollster Neil Newhouse, who conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart. "It is not a dead heat, but it is close."
The survey also shows that both presidential candidates face their share of challenges. For Obama, he receives the support of just one in two voters who backed Hillary Clinton in the primaries, and he trails his Republican rival on handling terrorism, the war in Iraq and international crises like the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia.
As for McCain, nearly eight in 10 voters believe that the Arizona senator would closely follow President Bush's policies if elected, and respondents view him as the weaker candidate on the issues of the economy and health care — which rank among the public's top concerns in the poll.
Overall, Obama holds a three-point lead over McCain, 45-42 percent, which is within the survey's margin of error. That's down from Obama's six-point advantage last month, 47-41 percent.
"There has been a tad [of a] change here," Hart says. "The question is: Why is this taking place?"
The tightening race
Hart lists three reasons. First, the conflict in Georgia as well as the Olympics have moved the news focus from the economy to foreign affairs, terrain that McCain finds more comfortable. Indeed, the poll shows McCain holding advantages over Obama in handling terrorism (51 to 23 percent), international crises (52 to 27 percent) and the war in Iraq (46 to 36 percent).
By comparison, Obama leads on health care (48 to 27 percent), the environment and global warming (47 to 21 percent), jobs and unemployment (47 to 25 percent), and improving the economy (42 to 30 percent).
Second, Hart explains that McCain's barrage of negative TV ads against Obama — which began after the Democrat's highly publicized overseas trip — seems to have worked so far. (Yet according to the poll, 29 percent believe McCain has been running a negative campaign, compared with just 5 percent who say that about Obama.)
And third, there are still doubts about Obama's ability to be commander-in-chief. In the poll, 50 percent say they have confidence in McCain in that position. But just 39 percent say the same of the Illinois senator.
The Clinton factor
Yet perhaps the biggest factor keeping the presidential race close has been Obama's inability to close the deal with some of Hillary Clinton's supporters. According to the poll, 52 percent of them say they will vote for Obama, but 21 percent are backing McCain, with an additional 27 percent who are undecided or want to vote for someone else.
What's more, those who backed Clinton in the primaries — but aren't supporting Obama right now — tend to view McCain in a better light than Obama and have more confidence in McCain's ability to be commander-in-chief.
For these reasons, Hart believes that Clinton's speech on the Tuesday night of the Democratic convention will be a significant event. "The Democratic convention is more than a coronation," he says. "It is an event where the words of Hillary Clinton are probably going to be exceptionally important."
Hart adds, "The Hillary Clinton campaign may be over, but the Clinton factor remains an important part of the election."
It's also worth noting that while Obama leads McCain by three points in the poll, Clinton edges the Republican by six points in a hypothetical match up, 49 to 43 percent. But she remains a polarizing figure: 49 percent say they don't want to see her as president someday, and 42 percent view her favorably versus 41 percent who see her in a negative light.
McCain's challenges
Although McCain has cut into Obama's poll lead, the Arizona senator faces some steep challenges that his campaign has yet to fully address. For starters, 77 percent of respondents believe that McCain — if elected — would closely follow the policies of President Bush, whose approval rating remains mired in the low 30s.
Strikingly, the number believing this about McCain is unchanged since March. Newhouse, the GOP pollster, says that if one of the McCain campaign's goals this summer was to create some distance from Bush, "that wasn't achieved."
In addition, November is still shaping up to be a change election. A whopping 60 percent say it's time to have a president who will focus on progress and moving America forward, compared with 35 percent who would rather have a president who focuses on protecting what has made America great.
Also in the poll — which was conducted of 1,005 registered voters from Aug. 15-18, and which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points — just 18 percent think the country is headed in the right direction.
Focusing on the economy also underscored the theme of another poll, where voters said neither candidate had identified what he would do as president, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Voters also stressed that both candidates needed to use their conventions to give Americans a better sense of their plans with the faltering economy, high energy costs, health care and national security.
For next week's Democratic convention to be a success, Hart says that not only does Hillary Clinton have to make the case to her supporters that Obama is the right choice for president, but Obama and the Democrats must expose McCain's record and his ties to Bush.
"If McCain continues to be on the offensive and the Obama people do not put out the McCain record, that will be a huge mistake."
Mark Murray covers politics for NBC News.


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Byrne and Kelly – The Meeting of the Waters
Sep 1st
Recorded live in Toronto, Canada – Neil Byrne, Ryan Kelly, Nicole Hudson and Plunkett McGartland
Byrne and Kelly – The Meeting of the Waters – from the album "Echoes"
Byrne and Kelly Summer Tour 2016
May 12th
In July Byrne and Kelly head to Canada for seven shows – Sydney // Halifax // Ottawa // Toronto // Edmonton // Calgary // Vancouver to perform the latest Echoes album, plus lots more of your favourites. Then heading down the East Coast of America towards Seattle, then Portland, Sacramento and Los Angeles. Tickets for the summer dates can be purchased on the website: http://www.byrneandkelly.com/tour
Byrne and Kelly – Back Home in Derry
Aug 26th
Byrne and Kelly – Back Home in Derry – Canadian Tour Rehearsal
Byrne and Kelly – Debut Canadian Tour
Jul 5th
Neil and Ryan are delighted to tour their "Byrne and Kelly" acoustic show in Canada for the first time in 2014. This is following on from the success of many tours across America, plus their debut Australian tour in June 2014. Ryan and Neil will perform an acoustic mix of Irish classics and original songs from their solo albums, some Celtic Thunder favourites and many songs from their Billboard chart-topping album "Acoustically Irish". Earlier in the year, the Irish Music Association of America awarded Ryan and Neil with "Best Duo in a Concert, Festival, Pub" and "Best New Irish CD" for "Acoustically Irish". This is a show you don't want to miss!!!
Check out the official Byrne and Kelly website for more details and ticketing http://www.byrneandkelly.com
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It's been a busy couple of weeks up in DiS Manchester HQ; on Monday we announced Walls as our headliners for our Sounds From The Other City stage in Salford on May 6th among a host of other acts. Now we can confirm that on March 29th we'll be teaming up with recently refurbished venue Soup Kitchento bring you Brooklyn duo Blondes, whose psychedelic-tinged house grooves have left an indelible mark on us already in these fledgling stages of 2012.
There's little more we can say about Blondes that hasn't already been proffered by DiS founding editor Sean Adams who saw fit to give the pair's self-titled debut long player his first 10/10 since handing Bright Eyes a full score back in 2005; he enthused "spend a few hours walking around with Blondes in your ears and small ideas seem more impotent than normal. Perhaps this is the meditative thing that people always talk about in music or maybe this band are just my eureka moment … This is bliss, it's that simple."
Tickets are on sale now for £7 from wegottickets / seetickets / ticketline or over the counter from Piccadilly Records and the venue itself. Stream Blondes below.
Blondes are the first of what we hope will be a handful of shows and cross-promotions that we're involved with at Soup Kitchen across the rest of the year, the venue's basement renovation turning it into what we reckon will be one of the city's best mid-level venues, with it already boasting one of the finer bars in the area on its ground floor.


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Juan Martin del Potro dispatched Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday to move into his second straight Rotterdam World Tennis final and will face Frenchman Julien Benneteau for the title.
The second-seeded Argentine is now the top-ranked player left after Friday's shock elimination of Roger Federer by Benneteau who will be looking for his first career title after losing all seven of his previous finals.
Benneteau won an all-French semi-final in one hour and 50 minutes, beating compatriot Gilles Simon, the fifth seed, 6-4, 7-6 (7/2). Simon was treated midway through the second set for a left leg injury.
Benneteau had nine break chances, converting two, as he played his second semi-final of the season after Sydney last month.
Del Potro, who lost the Rotterdam final to Federer a year ago, lifted a pair of indoor titles last autumn in Vienna and Basel.
"Anything can happen in the finals, I have to play at my best and not give my opponent any chance to break," said Del Potro.
"I'm a little surprised not to see Federer in the final, but Benneteau plays well on hard courts and Roger can have a bad day like anyone.
"Benneteau deserved to win the match. Playing someone like Roger is always a pleasure but I'm focused on the match in front of me. This is my second final here, so I'll try to win it for the first time."
The Argentine fired six aces in his 75-minute win, breaking once per set in his victory in a first meeting with the 21-year-old Dimitrov.
"I'm glad I was able to beat him, he's a newcomer with a lot of potential," said Del Potro, bidding for his 14th career title.
"I improved my game since the quarter-finals, but if I want to win the title I have to get that little bit better. I need to play at 100 per cent."
Benneteau said he was delighted to have reached the final.
"It feels great, 24 hours after a big win (over Federer), to do it again. I found a way to win today against Gilles," he said.
"It's tough to play a countryman, we know each other's game so well. But I felt like I played well, I kept up my level. I got the victory and I'm happy.
"The drama now is to finally win a final, I really hope I can do it."
Dimitrov had been looking for his second career ATP final after losing in Brisbane last month to Andy Murray.
The Argentine improved to 6-1 this season while Dimitrov dropped to 9-5.
Benneteau and Del Potro have never played each other.Published 17 Feb 2013, 10:38 IST


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Yitzhak Rabin murdered to empower Shimon Peres to divide Jerusalem?
"Israeli Penal Code – 1977, Section 97(b) A person who, with intent that any area be withdrawn from the sovereignty of the State or placed under the sovereignty of a foreign state, commits an act calculated to bring this about, is liable to life imprisonment or the death penalty."
Israel has this law on the books, but will they enforce it before it's too late? The worst offender is Shimon Peres. Yitzhak Rabin exposed Shimon Peres as "an indefatigable subversive." Yet, shamefully, Shimon Peres has survived to this day, protected by the corrupt Israeli oligarchy that are servants to their German-Jesuit masters, as the Jewish homeland continues to be dismembered, the Third Temple dismantled, and Jerusalem undermined!
Isaiah 3:12
As for My people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.
Isaiah 9:16
For the leaders of this people cause them to err, And those who are led by them are destroyed.
Shimon Peres has collaborated with the bloody Roman Catholic Cult (aka the Babylonian Mystery religion) and Germans to transfer Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem to them, fulfilling their dream that will become the world's worst nightmare!
Treacherous Israeli leaders deserve the death penalty! Apparently, too many Israelis (and Jews in self-imposed exile) prefer lies and delusions to the plain truth of the Bible and history. Clearly, the sheep are on their way to the slaughter the German-Jesuit EU prepares!Lying Visions of Peace
Paint Israel Black: Jews to Lose Jerusalem!
Europe to Take Out Iran For Jerusalem
Woe to Ariel! (Jerusalem to Suffer EU Occupation)
Exposing the German-Vatican Plot to Occupy Jerusalem
EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews
Shimon Peres Came to Power Over Rabin's Dead Body
The Secret Nazis Covet the Temple Mount
Mount Zion Under Siege: Who Will Be King of the Mountain?
Vatican Linked to the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin?
UN Resolution 181: Blueprint of the Beast?
Israel's Only Way Out: Follow Kahane!


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The National Design Academy and Staffordshire University are delighted to launch a student competition for International Decorative Surfaces (IDS) to put forward interior and exterior design ideas for a new IDS Head Office in a prominent location in Stoke on Trent.
The competition is aimed at undergraduates with a view to kick-starting their design career. The winner will not only receive £1000 but will also be invited to join IDS at 100% Design and meet and be mentored by some of the UK's leading composite material manufacturers.
IDS are the UK's largest distributor of decorative surfaces and, as a forward thinking business, want to increase links with education in this important area of the UK construction market. An exhibition area within the reception of the building will be utilised to showcase students' work.
The competition launches on 14th May 2012 and all submissions must be received by post by midnight 31st August 2012. Entrants should submit a selection of presentation boards from their chosen categories. Competition entry is entirely free and an application form can be filled out online from a dedicated competition webpage on the NDA website: http://www.nda.ac.uk/competitions/
For over 23 years the National Design Academy has been a Centre of Excellence for Interior Design. It is the largest provider of nationally accredited Interior Design courses in the UK, both in studio and by distance learning. Qualifications include Diplomas, Foundation Degrees and BA (Hons) in a range of design-related disciplines. All Degree level courses are validated and accredited by Staffordshire University.


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Industry News
- Karch International Inc. (McLean, Va.) has joined with Advanced Information Network Systems Inc. (AINS) of Rockville, Md., to form Karch International LLC. By joining with AINS, a well-established company that specializes in developing information technology solutions, the new Karch becomes an end-to-end provider of technology solutions within the health and fitness industry. Donald Gauger, former COO of AINS, became the president and COO of the new Karch.
- Chek.com (www.chek.com), a leading e-communication infrastructure provider with a current customer base of more than 4 million users, signed a deal with Fitness Venture Group to provide free Web-based e-mail on www.goldsgym.com, the Web site of Gold's Gym International Inc. The new e-mail service will allow customers to show their brand loyalty to one of the most famous health club chains every time they send or receive an e-mail free of charge.
- Futrex Inc. (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Zelcore Inc. (Hagerstown, Md.) recently introduced HealthGuard, a new line of self-serve fitness analysis kiosks. HealthGuard is a line of stand-alone systems designed to measure body composition, blood pressure and pulse rate without the need for an attendant. They are well suited for health clubs, corporate wellness centers or any other organization that wants to offer clients fast, easy and accurate fitness assessments, ranging from blood pressure and pulse to a complete body composition analysis that includes body fat percentage and a complete fitness analysis report.
FitLinxx Partners with HealthSouth
STAMFORD, Conn.—FitLinxx has formed a strategic alliance with HealthSouth, one of the nation's largest providers of outpatient and rehabilitative health care services. As part of the alliance, HealthSouth, which provides physical therapy services to more than a million patients per year, is working with FitLinxx to transition patients from therapy to an ongoing exercise program at FitLinxx-equipped facilities.
The companies are piloting the program in five cities. In addition, the FitLinxx System has been installed at HealthSouth's flagship Birmingham, Ala., facility and a Virginia Beach, Va., facility for use by patients during rehab.
The first stage of the relationship between the companies includes an equity investment in FitLinxx by HealthSouth, the creation of several HealthSouth-certified programs to be deployed on the FitLinxx network for patients leaving rehab, installation of the FitLinxx System into HealthSouth facilities and the introduction of pilot programs in additional cities.
"We are excited about working with HealthSouth because it provides us with an ideal opportunity to demonstrate the value of our network to the health care community as a means to seamlessly extend the continuum of care to include wellness and exercise," said Keith Camhi, CEO and co-founder of FitLinxx.
Cybex's Haines Retires
MEDWAY, Mass.—Cybex International has announced that Peter Haines will retire from his position as president and CEO effective Dec. 31 to "pursue personal interests."
John Agliaro, chairman of Cybex, will serve as CEO of the company during the search for a new president. Haines will assist in the search.
Haines has been president and CEO of Cybex since the company merged with Trotter Inc. in May of 1997. He was president of Trotter from 1983 to 1997.


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"The Faculty Council Interim Report of the Committee on Enrollment Policy"
This April 1964 report shows the deep conflicts within the CCNY faculty with regards to expanding access to new students. Complaining about limited facilities and student unreadiness, the faculty committee resisted both loosening admissions [...]
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Judge Tells Private Prison Corporation It's A Government Agency As Far As Public Information Requests Are Concerned
from the another-obvious-conclusion-that-took-a-lawsuit-to-reach dept
Prison Legal News has been battling with the largest private prison corporation in the US, Corrections Corporation of America, over the control of records requested through a Texas Public Information Act request. The organization took CCA to court last May in hopes of kicking loose records pertaining to a now-closed prison.
Fortunately, almost a year later, a Texas judge has ordered the corporation to release the pertinent records.
A state judge ruled Wednesday that the nation's largest private prison company, the Corrections Corporation of America, is a "governmental body" for purposes of the Texas Public Information Act, "and subject to [the] Act's obligations to disclose public information."The corporation had argued that it was exempt from public information requests because it was not a government agency. As Prison Legal News noted in its May 2013 filing for summary judgement, this distinction was meaningless on several levels. It pointed to the Fifth Circuit Court's "Kneeland test," a list of three specifications that, if met, would redefine a private corporation as a public entity due to the extent of its interaction and reliance on government bodies.
An entity that receives public funds is treated as a governmental body under the PIA:As the filing noted, CCA met all three requirements. The corporation receives public funds to run its prisons, receiving a certain amount of money per prisoner housed. It is also instructed to maintain critical systems, etc. at all times, despite a fluctuating inmate count, for which it also receives public funding.
1. unless the private entity's relationship with the government imposes a specific and definite obligation to provide a measurable amount of service in exchange for a certain amount of money as would be expected in a typical arms-length contract for services between a vendor and purchaser;
2. if the private entity's relationship with the government indicates a common purpose or objective or creates an agency-type relationship between the two; or
3. if the private entity's relationship with the government requires the private entity to provide services traditionally provided by governmental bodies.
Quite obviously, Texas and CCA are also reliant on each other ("agency-type relationship") in other ways. The state prosecutes criminals and needs somewhere to house them, which CCA provides. This also satisfies the third stipulation, that being that CCA provides a service normally provided by the government.
In a one-page ruling, the judge granted summary judgement, ordering the company to hand over records to Prison Legal News. This is one small victory against the increasingly privately-owned prison system in the US. By turning over imprisonment to private corporations, the US government has both perverted incentives (by making imprisonment a profitable enterprise) and allowed public records to be hidden away behind FOI exemptions meant to shield private companies' trade secrets from their competitors.
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Provides administrative/clerical support to a function, group or customer base. Supports an SVP or below.
Spends less than 20% of time providing administrative support to relieve managers and staff of administrative and clerical details. Spends more than 80% of time on special projects. Projects may include equipment management, training new hires on policies and procedures, project coordination and logistics, documentation and collateral coordination, liaison to Human Resources, create administration manuals. May participate in operational task forces. May analyze basic spreadsheet models and track projects.
Works on assignments that are complex in nature where considerable judgment and initiative is needed in resolving problems and making recommendations. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Normally does not receive work instructions, may determine methods and procedures on new assignments and may supervise other administrative employees. Ability to work in a dynamic fast paced environment. Knowledge of spreadsheet applications. Demonstrated strong organizational skills. Proactive and resourceful. Self-motivated. Proficient in desktop applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email messaging tools, etc. BA/BS degree or equivalent. 2 - 4 years of related experience.
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