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"Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life." Simon Van Booy (the greatest exponent of contemporary romanticism in the World) probably did not write this with tourists and archaeological sites on his mind – but to me, it suits the situation just perfectly!
Quite often, tourists approach archaeology as something alien or indecipherable and they find it really hard to actually enjoy it. But if a site or a series of artifacts are presented in a way that live up to their expectations, visitors might change their attitude towards cultural sites forever.
What I do as a job is to find out what makes this potential long-lasting love actually bloom bright and wild as soon as the visitors walk into the archaeological site of Herculaneum.
A view of the archaeological site of Herculaneum
I have no bow and heart-shaped arrows as weapons but just a pen, a bunch of questionnaires and a lot of patience: today I am going to interview at least 40 tourists who might not be as enthusiastic about answering my questions as I am asking them.
I am an Audience Development Consultant for the Herculaneum Conservation Project (HCP) a collaborative project between the Packard Humanities Institute and the Soprintendenza (Italian local authority managing the site), supported by the British School at Rome that in the past 10 years has sought to address some of the most pressing threats to the survival of the site.
More and more museums and archaeological sites in Europe are doing what it takes to make visitors want to come and feel welcome and make sure they're eager to return. Herculaneum is determined to make visitors 'fall in love' with its archaeology; and HCP is there to facilitate this process.
But, first things first: who the hell are these people coming and going from the site every day?! In order to answer this compelling question, an Audience Development Program was set up in early 2013.
The initiative I am personally contributing to is a 12-month campaign of questionnaires for independent visitors. The research, which is the first of its kind in Italy, aims to cluster tourists to Herculaneum under different profiles, in order to eventually produce targeted outreach and interpretation campaigns. Together with other shorter studies (targeting non-visitors, organized tours, schools and the local community) the program itself aspires to develop and nurture a relationship between the archaeological site, the local authority managing it and the public over the long term.
What my team does in practice are face-to-face interviews with tourists to the site at the end of their visit. We designed a questionnaire in order to gain information about their type of holiday and the reasons why they decided to come to Herculaneum. We also collect personal impressions, criticism and suggestions. Anything is welcome, as far as it helps us improving the visitor experience onsite.
Me and one of the visitor-interviewee in Herculaneum
I enjoy the work on the field and the whole experience of collecting data as it gives me an everyday different perspective on the site. When you work with archaeology, you are quite likely to forget that an archaeological site or a museum are also places where people come just to have a good time and maybe learn something new.
Visitor studies are then an essential tool not just to center the interpretation and outreach strategy, but also to keep the archaeology and the institution relevant to current societies and future-oriented.
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Sheep strangled and killed at school
SOMETIME over the last weekend Casino High School was broken into.
Between 4pm on Friday, October 14 and 8am, Monday, October 17 a number of items were moved around but not stolen, however, most worryingly a sheep that belongs to the school was strangled.
Police are investigating this matter and are seeking community assistance in locating the people responsible for breaking into the school and killing the sheep.
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Can the restructuring of China's economy create a more sustainable growth path? After three decades of very rapid growth, China experienced a slowdown in its economic performance during the past two years. Underlying this slowdown is the exhaustion of China's investment-led, hyper-growth model which has relied on high public and private investment and strong export performance. If China can successfully transition to a more mature growth model that relies more heavily on consumption and the rise of advanced service industries, then a slower growth rate could lead to a much healthier, sustainable economy. However, making such a transition will require a fundamental realignment of the economic incentives that are currently in place to drive investment and productivity growth. The coming three to four years will therefore dramatically determine the growth opportunities for global business operating in China.
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We told the girls on Friday night of Mother's Day weekend that baby #3 was on the way. They were shocked and excited! We had a canvas picture made of the girls holding the sign announcing #3 made for everybody. Then it was time to tell our families! Our first stop was my mom's house. It had to threaten the girls with every trick in my book to not tell her before she opened it. First we gave her, her original Mother's day gift of a monogrammed hat for our upcoming beach trip. It maybe took her 45 seconds for to open it and try it on.....but the looks on the girl's face you would have thought it was been 45 minutes. They were about to explode and I was VERY worried. But they did it, they kept 100% quite until she opened it.
We totally surprised her and Stan, they had NO IDEA we were expecting and I love it!!!!!!!!! Her response is so emotional that its hard for this hormonal mom to watch!
Then it was time to tell Ms.Debbie and Papaw Barry! Ms. Debbie was working so we had to do it at her store! My dad was late.......of course..........so he missed the opening of the canvas and I didn't get to film his reaction. He just lit up and gave me a hug and kiss and whispered in my ear........You're still my baby! YEP I lost it, big ole tears came a rollin!
The girls did great each time; they kept quite till each mom got to read the canvas. I was so very proud of them. We are ecstatic to finally share our news with the girls and our families. And it just made my Mother's day weekend even better! We all love you baby C and can't wait to meet ya!!!!


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Top deputy running for clerk-recorder
Longtime chief deputy Sue Merriwether is running for the office of Carson City clerk-recorder, seeking to replace the retiring Alan Glover.
Merriwether has worked for the clerk-recorder's office since 1997. Before that, she worked 17 years in the Secretary of State's Office handling elections issues, including development of the state's Motor-Voter program and overseeing candidate filings. She also worked with state archives officials to develop a system of classifying and retaining historical elections documents.
"Sue knows this place better than anyone," Glover said. "I know I couldn't be leaving the office in better hands."
In the clerk-recorder's elections office, Merriwether worked with Glover to implement electronic voting, converting election processes to comply with state and federal laws, according to a news release. She is now working to launch the electronic poll books system to expedite voting and enable driver's license check-in.
"I know I'll have some big shoes to fill with Alan leaving," she said. "But I've worked at this job for almost two decades, and I know what I'm getting into. My experience will make the job easier."


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Running time: 95 minutes
Directed by: Joachim Lafosse
Written by: Joachim Lafosse and François Pirot
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jérémie Renier, Yannick Renier, Kris Kuppens
Joachim Lafosse's Private Property, from a screenplay by Mr. Lafosse and François Pirot (in French with English subtitles) fades out with an end-scrawled mocking dedication to "boundaries," of which there are precious few in the peculiar family circle of Pascale, a divorced Belgian-French mother (Isabelle Huppert), and her two overgrown fraternal-twin sons, Thierry and François (played by Jérémie and Yannick Renier, who are brothers in real life). The sheer ridiculousness of the situation would be ideal for a naggingly domestic farce about one's children and their refusal to grow up and assume their adult responsibilities. But Ms. Huppert and the two Reniers play their parts with deadpan and, in the end, almost deadly seriousness. Pascale cooks, washes and irons for the two boys while they literally sprawl around the oversize farmhouse purchased for them and Pascale by their indulgent father Luc (Patrick Descamps), who lives nearby with a new wife and child. Luc occasionally drops by to give them (and Pascale) little bundles of ready cash, much to his ex-wife's noisy displeasure. Pascale seems actually jealous of Luc's perceived attempts to curry favor with his good-for-nothing sons.
Eventually, Private Property becomes the kind of film that creeps up on you as you are experiencing it, ever-watchful for explosions of sheer exasperation on Pascale's part—explosions that never come. This makes Pascale yet another choice role for Ms. Huppert, a hypnotically controlled actress who has become more implacably mysterious as she has gotten older. Her characters never plead for our sympathy or understanding: Pascale seems monstrously impervious to the most brazen assaults on her dignity and self-respect, though the actress somehow convinces us that she retains an inner reserve of indomitable self-awareness. Ms. Huppert has steadily attracted attention in the almost 60 screen appearances since she began her career in 1971. I raved about her in Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), right after she had survived Michael Cimino's disastrous Heaven's Gate the same year. Over the years, she has been one of Claude Chabrol's favorite actresses, and she remains one of the most sensual and erotic presences in the cinema, despite a persistent inscrutability of expression.
The scene that everyone is talking about in Private Property involves Pascale and Thierry standing in a small bathroom with no shower curtain while the mother takes a shower and Thierry brushes his teeth before a mirror reflecting his mother's naked image. The matter-of-fact manner in which Mr. Lafosse photographs the spectacle and the detached characters within it increases the fearful tension for the audience.
The plot thickens when Pascale begins primping herself up for a date. Thierry teases her outrageously by suggesting that all her prettying-up has made her look like a slut, and that her new dress would look better on François. For the most part, François laughs along with Thierry, until he feels that his more aggressive brother is going too far. Throughout all the teasing by both boys, Pascale remains miraculously unperturbed. She seems aware, however, that Thierry is the bigger problem. Indeed, Thierry relishes his special stature by taunting François for being a mama's boy, and he keeps blaming Pascale for the divorce.
Hence, when Pascale begins hinting that she would like to quit her job (which is never shown, described or even identified), sell the house and open a bed-and-breakfast somewhere nearby, it is Thierry who explodes with rage by claiming that the father bought the house for his two sons, and that his mother has no right to sell it.
Meanwhile, Pascale's new boyfriend Jan (Kris Cuppens) pressures her to leave her sons and start the bed-and-breakfast with him. But after Pascale consents to a meeting among everyone concerned at the farmhouse, a stormy confrontation ensues between Jan and Thierry—while Pascale sits quietly with her maddening passivity. Jan quickly realizes that Pascale cannot bring herself to have it out with Thierry, and tells her flatly that only she can break the impasse. This she seems disinclined to do, and so Jan departs from her life.
Art-film connoisseurs may remember having seen Jérémie Rainier growing up in more sympathetic roles for the Dardenne Brothers in La Promesse (1996) and L'Enfant (2005). Here, he brings new dimension to the near-fatal consequences of family life without boundaries for its incorrigibly immature members. Only in the last receding, traveling shot do we come to realize how big the farmhouse that has claustrophobically enclosed Pascale, Thierry and François for most of the film really is, and how far it is, literally and figuratively, from reality and civilization. Mr. Lafosse has made a mordant movie beyond genres—and one that is too mesmerizing to miss.


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Red Parka Pub Challenge Cup held at Attitash Mountain
Many spectators attend cup despite cold weather
The 40th Red Parka Pub Challenge Cup, the longest-running, pro-style dual giant slalom ski race in the United States, was held on Friday.
The pro-style dual slalom course brought out a large group of great racers willing to rip down the Spillway at Attitash.
The course involved a bump and landing, which was the tough thing for most of the competitors.
The weather this weekend was decidedly cold but many folks made it out to Attitash Mountain Resort to enjoy 65 trails which are still open with a solid base.
Its sister mountain up the road, Wildcat Mountain, also had colder-than-normal March weather and 42 trails open.
St. Patrick's Day brought out many to enjoy $17 deal day and promo parties with the WXGR Ski Day Party on Saturday and Ride and the Ski Card Party on Sunday, featuring live music with Pat Foley.
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- Wanglin, M. and Abdulai, A. (2016). Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from apple farmers in China. Food Policy Vol. 58, pp. 94-102.
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Shares of Internet radio purveyors Pandora (P) are down $3.23, or 9%, at $32.60, in late trading, after the company this afternoon reported Q4 revenue and earnings per share
Revenue in the three months ended in December rose to $200.8 million, yielding EPS of 12 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $175.7 million and 14 cents EPS.
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue in a range of $170 million to $176 million, below the average $176 million estimate. EPS is seen in a range of negative 14 cents to negative 16 cents per share, worse than the Street's average estimate for a 12-cent loss per share.
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I'm just sitting here with my boyfriend, Earl Grey, perusing my article in the current issue of Artful Blogging magazine.
I discovered Artful Blogging in my first year of blogging and it scratched all my twitchiest itches. It seemed like a pipe dream back then to imagine I've ever be among it's thick, decadent pages. It was one of those thoughts I only whispered to myself because I didn't want myself to feel embarrassed by or disappointed in myself or by myself when it never happened. To myself. (It was complicated.)
Back on the farm, I'd spend my pocket cash on an issue, now and then. I'd devour every article and the photography was so compelling, Cory usually flipped it when I was done. My stack of back-issues moved with me from house to house because they're bonafide works of art (along with Anthro and J Crew catalogs.) I'll never part with them.
When the editor contacted me a few months ago about writing a piece for the magazine, I was thrilled. It was one of those private victories, a surprise remnant from my past life that showed up unannounced and made me grin my cheeks off.
If you're interested, you can find a copy at places like B&N, Hobby Lobby, or Michaels. You can also subscribe.
Just for the hay of it, I'm buying two extra copies with the discount Stampington & Co. armed me with, and I'm giving one away right here and one on my FPFG Facebook page. Because you guys are my homies, that's why. You tell me what face wash to use and where to find yoga pants to fit my wiry bod and what to read/watch/listen to. You cheer me on and up and jeez-Louise, I honestly don't know what I'd do without you.
To enter, just tell me something good in the comments. Anything, as long as it's happy or wonderful or "fantastich" as Ruby wrote in a letter last night.
I'll pick winners on Saturday (promise! swear!) so check back.
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ESSAY- 'Pepper' plus 40: When the Beatles were gods
"I declare that the Beatles are mutants, prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species."
–Dr. Timothy Leary
The Sixties were much more than a time of hippies, music, drugs, and free love. In fact, there were three distinct cultural streams that flavored the 1960s– the Kennedy years, the Beatles, and the Vietnam era– each of which insisted on the primacy of youth.
The Kennedys moved into the White House in 1961, full of youthful energy. Suddenly, the idea that older people had to listen to younger ones was in the air. "The Kennedys represented youth in a transitional way," writes author Mary Gordon. "They were young, but they didn't threaten their elders."
In those years, the phrase "children should be seen and not heard" was near-universally believed. But the educational system was already in the process of changing that notion. By the early '60s, children's happiness and their comfortable social adjustment had become an educational goal as important as learning the three Rs. It was a world waiting for the Beatles to happen.
The dramatically different responses to the television appearance of Elvis Presley in 1956 and the Beatles in 1964 demonstrate how much things changed in only eight years. Elvis' blatant sexuality provoked a rash of outraged sermons, as most adults found him ridiculous or dangerous– as their children were screaming and swooning at his swiveling hips. There was virtually no crossover.
But in 1964, respectable grownups and intellectuals were also listening to the Beatles. The "boys from Liverpool"– John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr– did indeed seem like boys instead of men. They were exuberant, full of fun, and were not seen as a threat.
The playfulness of those years led to the hippie movement and, ultimately, to an abdication of adulthood. There was a sense that there was no need to grow up anymore. But, as Gordon notes, "The flower child's sense of well being gradually disintegrated as Vietnam became more central to consciousness."
University students and academics began believing that the Vietnam War was a direct result of the greed and lies of old men in suits and uniforms. The government– called the "Establishment"– had withheld the real story in order to do its dirty work. Later, John Lennon would refer to the establishment as "the monster."
All these cultural streams converged in the Beatles' 1967 masterpiece album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. When the album was released 40 years ago on June 1, it was a major cultural event. "It was the soundtrack to summer, and winter for that matter," notes author Barry Miles. "You could not get away from it." Indeed, young and old alike were entranced.
A religious awe surrounded Sgt. Pepper. The LSD evangelist Timothy Leary, after listening to the album, reportedly said in a mystical voice, "My work is finished. Now, it's out." Leary actually believed he could hear the voice of God in the music of the Beatles.
David Crosby of the Byrds, a popular rock band, brought a tape of the album to their hotel room and "played it all night in the lobby with a hundred young fans listening quietly on the stairs, as if rapt by a spiritual experience." Paul Kantner of the acid rock band Jefferson Airplane said, "Something enveloped the whole world at that time, and it just exploded into a renaissance." And as one musicologist observed: "The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young."
Sgt. Pepper had such an amazing impact because it simultaneously mirrored its times and offered a solution to the social and political upheavals of the time. The solution offered by the Beatles was a return to spirituality and love for our fellow human beings.
Although the album begins as a light farce, it moves to a sobering awakening. The songs are somewhat bizarre and sometimes ghoulish, but, at heart, Sgt. Pepper was a spiritual experience for an increasingly secular world. George Harrison's "Within You, Without You" quotes from the Bible and is a warning not to get lost in materialism or we will lose our souls. And if we cannot regain our sense of spirituality and love for one another, then we face a foreboding future. In fact, the album's final song, John Lennon's "A Day in the Life," points to the horrors of existence if humanity does not abstain from its destructive tendencies.
From Sgt. Pepper on, rock music was considered an art form. The summer of love followed. Optimism was in the air. There was hope that peace would eventually prevail and the destructiveness of humanity would end. Armed with "flower power," young people took to the streets and demonstrated en masse against the Vietnam War.
But soon the color of the times faded to stark black and white. By 1968, student rebels around the world had adopted more militant tactics. Flower power was replaced by raised fists, as cultural heroes such as Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were brutally assassinated.
The Beatles too were disbanding. They were not gods, after all, and the love that once united them grew cold. Thus, by the end of 1968, it was obvious that neither the Beatles nor love would save the world.
But the music of the Beatles is still with us– full of hope that we can live in a peaceful world. The lesson is that evil does not have to triumph but that good can prevail. However, we have to work for it.
John W. Whitehead is founder of The Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties organization that provides free legal services to people whose constitutional and human rights have been threatened or violated. Watch him talk about this stuff via this YouTube link.
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A religious experience was not what was associated with the Beatles' music. Satanism, drugs and over-indulgence, yes. I know I was there.
Another thought, I never considered their music as rock n roll, more "pop" or "pap" than "rock".
Daisy has said the same nonsense some other non Beatles fans have inaccurately said,that The Beatles were more "pop" than rock. They were mostly a great *rock* group not a "pop" group and their music was *never* about Satanism either! Even some of their great early songs were pretty strong rock songs for the times. John Lennon's great rocker You Can't Do That from early 1964,Paul's great blues rocker She's A Woman from late 1964,his hard rocker I'm Down from 1965, Day Tripper,Paperback Writer,She Said She Said,And You're Bird Can Sing,etc and most of the White album and a lot on Abbey Road were all great *rock* songs!
As many people have also pointed out,Paul's song Helter Skelter on their great 1968 White Album was the first true heavy metal song,and as other people have also pointed out John's I Want You She's So Heavy on Abbey Road was also one of the first heavy metal songs. Even Ozzy Osbourne said in an online 2002 Bender Magazine interview,that The Beatles Are The Greatest Band To Ever Walk The Earth! He's been a huge fan since he was a teenager,and he also says not loving The Beatles is like not loving oxogen.
By the way, I was born in 1965 but I have been a huge highly impresed Beatles fan,especially a John and Paul fan since I was 9,I got my first Beatles book for my 11th birthday and I had every album by the age of 13!
I also forgot to mention that John Lennon always said he just really loves rock and roll,and all of their idols were the early rock pioneers,Buddy Holly,Elvis,Little Richard,and Chuck Berry who John especially loved. And most rock critics and journalists,and classic rock stations recognize THe Beatles as a rock band!


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All your friends, flames, and enemies are on Facebook. And now, you can buy all of these people presents—gift cards for coffee, cake pops, champagne, and pencils. It'll all ship straight to their door. Why would I want to buy things like this?
Because it's a visible public display of generosity, and it'll make you look awesome.
Facebook invited members of the press to a bubbly and hors d'oeuvres packed gathering at FAO Schwarz to kick off the official launch of Gifts. Maybe it's because it's almost gift-giving time, and our minds naturally drift toward images of grotesquely large teddy bears and nutcrackers. Or maybe it's because FAO Schwarz is a perfect icon of conspicuous consumption, immaculately matching Facebook's new strategy of conspicuous donation. It's brilliant.
The whole process is easy. Go to someone's wall. Now, where before you could only share words and pictures, you can share things. All kinds of things. Things to eat, things to drink, things to hold, things to stare at. Hell man, give your friend a Hulu Plus subscription, the champagne of video streaming. It doesn't matter.
What's in this deal for you—and that's why we're here, after all—is that your gift will be an entirely public affair. That's right: as soon as your credit card transaction goes through, your generosity is plastered across hundreds (thousands?) of news feeds, declaring you—YOU—to be a person who gives gifts. A giver. Irrefutable proof that you think of someone other than yourself. It's a strange doubling-back of Facebook's normal purpose—giving us all a humongous mirror.
And the best part? You can be a cheapskate and still look terrific.
An anecdote: While stomping around Facebook the other night, I found myself on the Timeline of a dear old college friend. I don't see her often. I noticed the new, rosy red Gifts icon. Click. Total impulse.
Facebook suggested I get her a $5 Starbucks gift card. Why the hell not. I picked from a litany of pre-programmed sentiments, deciding on "Just Because." There's also, of course, "Happy Birthday" (you'll stand out in the crowd!), and the ever-useful "Sorry" (perfect for damage control!). But will anything make you look more magnanimous on the Internet than buying a gift—even a cheap-o one—for zero reason? No, nothing will. Just Because. Pick that.
If you're particularly shameless, you can even donate your gift to charity on someone's behalf.
Your gratification will be immediate. It'll pop up on the recipient's wall, for all their friends to see. It'll show up in the feeds even if nobody's looking at their wall. Your gesture will be witnessed. People will Like it. Nobody will know that the entire thing took you maybe two or three minutes—even less time if you have your credit card number memorized.
Nobody will ask if you put a lot of thought into the gift (you didn't) or whether you even customized the card (you needn't). All they'll see is a gift from you, to someone, for no obvious reason. Your esteem will rise, and you won't have to break a sweat, because Facebook has streamlined the entire process of generosity into something rote and clickable.
Flirting used to take effort. Reminiscing used to take effort. Giving people stuff used to take effort. Looking like an all-around decent person used to, too. [Facebook Gifts]
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Flames soar to Northeastern Collegiate championship trophy
October 13, 2013 | Birdsboro, Pa.
Persistence paid off for Liberty University's disc golf team in this past weekend's Northeastern Collegiate Disc Golf Championships, where they overcame some top-flight competition and fought off pesky swarms of gnats to return with the first-place trophy.
"Both days were beautiful, but the gnats were the worst I've ever seen," Liberty head coach Steve Bowman said. "You literally had a cloud around you. You'd try not to wave them off when other guys are putting, but they affected everybody. They were annoying."
Undaunted, the Flames' foursome of seniors Devin Swartz and Jared Lebo as well as junior Lance Brown and first-year assistant coach and player Joses Merat approached the course at French Creek State Park in Birdsboro, Pa., with patience and resolve, calculating their shots and picking off opponents one by one.
The Flames worked their way up from third place out of eight teams following Saturday's first round of doubles to move ahead of Clemson by one shot and draw within one shot of Worcester (Mass.) State going into Sunday's final nine-hole round of singles play.
|The final team scores after Sunday's last of six rounds of competition at the Northeastern Collegiate Disc Golf Championships in Birdsboro, Pa.
That's when they made their move, pulling ahead of Clemson by seven shots and Worcester State by 13 to capture the championship with an overall score of 498.
"Our guys had a couple good first holes, but Clemson and Worcester jumped out to an early lead," Bowman said of the final round. "Then, midway through the course, we started pushing forward. The guys had an amazing turnaround and made an incredible run. It was awesome. They starting hitting some good lines and making some good shots while other teams took some bad lines and had some unfortunate shots."
Clemson finished runner-up at 505 and Worcester State rounded out the top three at 511. Defending champion UMass of Amherst, came in fourth at 523, followed by Ohio State (558), California of Pennsylvania (574), Penn State (574), and UMass's B team (590).
"We just played solid," Bowman said. "We put the pressure on them and Worcester fell apart. Our guys just stepped up and made some really good throws and handled the pressure well."
The Flames were led by Brown, the weekend's individual medalist who shot a tournament low score of 86. Merat tied for second overall at 87 and Swartz carded a 90 for fifth place.
|Joses Merat, who finished tied for second overall behind Liberty teammate Lance Brown in the individual singles competition, follows through on his shot off the tee pad at the French Creek State Park course.
For the last nine holes, the course was extended, with the baskets moved to the farthest positions, nearly doubling the length of the links. It was already a wooded course, like the front nine at Liberty.
"Lance (Brown) thrives on that wooded course, so for him to hit those nice wooded lines and shoot that score in the last round was huge," Bowman said.
He emphasizes course management and not trying to make up too much ground on the opposition too quickly by taking unnecessary risks.
"The key is playing the shot that's in front of you and making the best of each shot," Bowman said.
The Flames' consistency allowed them to close the deficit and extend their lead when their competition made mistakes.
"A couple of the key holes just separated us," Bowman said. "We just kind of chipped away at them and there was one signature hole that put a gap on them."
On the same hole Merat fired a birdie by shooting a 3, two other players carded scores of three-over-par 7.
Swartz trailed his competitors going into the last three holes of singles play.
"He ended up tying or picking up one shot on Clemson on every hole," Bowman said. "Walking through the woods, he just kept saying, 'I have to keep up with this guy.'"
|This is a chart of color-coded individual score sheets following Sunday's final round of singles play at the Northeastern Collegiate Championships, with Liberty's scorers in dark pink, led by Lance Brown's 86 (top).
By finishing in the top two in the team standings, Liberty will receive a first-round bye at the National Collegiate Disc Golf Championships, set for April 16-19, should it qualify for a third consecutive trip to North Augusta, S.C. Last year, the Flames advanced to nationals by winning the Flamethrower Invitational at Liberty.
"The first day at nationals, there's going to be a cut to the first flight tournament and now the pressure's kind of off," Bowman said. "This allows us to have that safety net."
Winning the Northeastern Championships should elevate the Flames into the top 25 in rankings done by National Collegiate Disc Golf.
"It's great exposure for Liberty," Bowman said. "Going up to a bigger atmosphere like Northeastern was big for us. It gets us into the rating system to where we can gauge how we're rated against some of the top schools in the nation."
The tournaments the Flames plan to compete in over the next six months, including the Central Virginia Brawl Series starting in December, will further prepare them for nationals.
"The guys are confident about the (Hippodrome Disc Golf Complex) courses because they've been there for two years," Bowman said of the nationals site. "The courses we're going to play on this season are going to reflect that style of play, and we'll be focusing on doubles play, making some distance on some teams, and being more aggressive. We still have six months to go to train and prep for nationals. We're going to be making sure that mentally, we're ready; physically, we're ready."


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Susanne Barklund will be recognisable to many, for example, from the Lasse Åberg film SOS - En Segelsällskapsresa and Oles Tjej Krisse and from the Swedish TV series Goda Grannar in the role of Mia. After studying drama at Sweden's National Academy of Dramatic Art in Gothenburg, Susanne was employed at Malmö City Theatre where she performed in numerous productions, followed by engagements at theatres such as the Royal Dramatic Theatre. In 2009-10, she played the title role in the play Ruths Bok at the Alias Theatre in Stockholm. Over the years, she has been in a host of Swedish TV productions such as the series Sjätte Dagen in the role of bar-owner Sonja, Tusenbröder, Skeppsholmen and the lead role of Maud in the series Sthlm plus numerous programmes for children and teenagers. In addition, she has performed in Beck - Den japanska shungamålningen and the Stieg Trenter series Idag röd and Lysande Landning; in 2012 she appeared on German TV in the production Der Kommissar und das Meer (Eng: The Inspector and the Sea) in the role of Elin Winarve and most recently in the films Bitchkram and Studentfesten. Susanne's voice has been heard playing many parts on Radio Theatre, including Force Majeure and Utvecklingssamtalet, and she has often been engaged as a voice dubbing artist in films such as Harry Potter, The Iron Giant and Nanny McPhee. Most recently, Susanne comes straight from the Oscars Theatre production of La Cage aux Folles.


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I am certain this has been asked and answered somewhere, I just can not find it. Is the Haiku available with a Red LED?
I am certain this has been asked and answered somewhere, I just can not find it. Is the Haiku available with a Red LED?
Build Prices .... some mods and builds (not 4 sale) "Nature can be cruel- but we don't have to be."~ Temple Grandin
Haiku owner checking in, I LOVE my Haiku! My only regret was not getting one sooner, but better late than never.
I've owned quite a few very impressive custom flashlights, but none have earned the attachment I feel towards my Haiku!
My first baby was an XML, then soon after came an XPG. Why? Because I could, so I did!
Third one on the way.....
Don, you are #1!
UPDATE: I now have the trifecta with an XRE model too! Now, which one to sell....if any....? They seem so happy together!
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My new Haiku with a little SF bling!
Haiku, I want you.
Haiku, I need to have you.
I want you, Haiku.
Enjoy the light show - LedTed
Proud to say I know have 4 Haiku lights. XRE, XPG, XPG2 and XML, I may have a problem.....
I've got two, one with a 119V and the other with a home made XPG2/GDuP combination.
My suggestion would be to modify your XPG to a 119(V) or 219 Nichia. If you're handy with a soldering iron you could remove the MCPCB and remove the XPG and flow a 219 on the same board for a cheap and worthy upgrade then you'd have pretty well every flavour of Haiku made to date.
Ted, good one, love it.
Once in a big hotel, nice one, The Waldorf, what ever, where people are educated, I yelled getting on the elevator to my wife, "Where is my haiku!?" A nice lady who looked like she just came from Bergdorf's said 'Oh my boy, there is a slip of paper, could that be it, and when I explained it was a flashlight, well I was a person to be ignored. Very funny.
Turns out it was in a different pocket and I tried to explain the exclusivity of the piece, I could have said HRH Prince Charles gave it to me, and it would have made no difference. Once I was not of literary standing I was out of the club.
Of course I yell where's my Haiku a few times a week, but no one knows what the hell a real haiku is, so it goes un-noticed.
The XRE will throw the furthest but is the least bright of them all.
The XPG2 is the best lumen:throw ratio that Don offers currently IMHO.
Not sure as I am no expert but, an answer from one of the real McGiz experts, I would say your XRE. But again I can't say for certain, as I'm not the expert here on these wonderful lights I learn every time I come here because this is a great hobby.
If you feel you have a problem, I have a Red LED Haiku, and a Red LED SunDrop, I call the "Setting Sun Drop" others call it the "Mars!"
You don't have a problem, these are nice things and rare, how many people have something like these. What others do you have, I wager it does not stop at Haikus. So give us your rundown.
I have a Red Sun Drop I call the "Setting Sun Drop!" Some here like to call it the "Mars", I have a mule 119, Sapphire, a VME titanium head with a Malkoff M31, and a MC Cree Mc Lux III Ti XR19 PDS, and a Makai XPG2 with a 2 AA clicky Pack, and an XPG 1 Haiku. That is my collection to date, modest compared to some around here!
With plans at the moment for a Sun Drop XR-U head with a XPG2 or 119v HIVE, and I think,it will, be the HIVE, I have XPG2 LEs and a UV LE buy itself just for when needed and install it in the Sun Drop XR-U head
I not sure but, that seems to be a good all round head for the UV, however input is very much welcome here.
Thanks and you are fine, in the scheme of thing this is an inexpensive hobby compared to golf, or custom knives which is a total let done for me. I have like a couple of dozen or more beautifully made knives, mostly from the 90s, and they are something. I like them and carry knives daily, but flashlights are more fun. Pre 911, I think the best knives were produced.
I also have have motorcycles but, they are worth the cost, and I have sport bikes...speed man! Where Don makes these lights there are more than 700 turns to, the road to Hana, and it seems like that to the top of Haleakala. Every one needs to go up there once in their life.
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What? That's how I carry all my Gizmos.
Any other meaning you may have inferred just tells you something about the state of your own mind. Think of it as a poetic Rorschach blot.
When I get some time I'll find a proper 660nm red LED, probably an XPE, and I'll pry the MCPCB with an XPL that I'm not big on out of another LE I built and do the swap.
A deep red Haiku and Sundrop, the Mule too, will be awesome.
I was just at a client site and one of the employees saw my Haiku (in it's Thor's Hammer Leather Holster) and asked me if it was a flashlight or a mini light sabre.
"Open the pod bay doors, please, Hal"
No need for a special holster to make it look like a lightsabre, imho. The light alone has that covered. All due respect to THCL...
The TK20. Yes, it still rocks- WoodsWalker
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An undisclosed injury has forced Fabio Maldonado (18-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) out of next month's UFC on Versus 6 event and a light-heavyweight bout with Aaron Rosa (16-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC).
UFC officials today announced the news.
A replacement is being sought for the Oct. 1 bout.
UFC on Versus 6 takes place at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. The evening's main card airs on Versus, though Maldonado vs. Rosa was slated for the preliminary card, which is expected to stream on Facebook.
Maldonado had looked to rebound from a "Fight of the Night" loss to Kyle Kingsbury at The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale. Maldonado peppered his opponent's rib cage with powerful body shots but fell short in the judges' eyes. The defeat snapped an 11-fight win streak for the Brazilian boxer. That run included a TKO win over James McSweeney in Maldonado's octagon debut.
A Strikeforce, Bellator and EliteXC veteran, Rosa made his octagon debut this past June. The 28-year-old Texan went toe-to-toe with an always-tough Joey Beltran and ultimately succumbed to a third-round TKO. The loss snapped a four-fight win streak.
The latest UFC on Versus 6 card now includes:
MAIN CARD (Versus)
- Champ Dominick Cruz vs. Demetrious Johnson (for bantamweight title)
- Pat Barry vs. Stefan Struve
- Charlie Brenneman vs. Anthony Johnson
- Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman
- Yves Edwards vs. Rafaello Oliveira
- Michael Johnson vs. Paul Sass
- Mike Easton vs. Jeff Hougland
- Aaron Rosa vs. TBA
- T.J. Grant vs. Shane Roller
- Josh Neer vs. Keith Wisniewski
- Joseph Sandoval vs. Walel Watson
For more on UFC on Versus 6, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Bayern only halfway home, warns Ribéry
Wednesday 18 April 2012
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Franck Ribéry said he was "very happy" after scoring in FC Bayern München's 2-1 first-leg victory against Real Madrid CF but warned the semi-final tie was far from over.
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Franck Ribéry said he was "very happy" after scoring the opening goal in FC Bayern München's last-gasp 2-1 first-leg victory against Real Madrid CF but warned that the semi-final tie was far from being decided.
"I think it was very important for our confidence to win the home game against Madrid," the winger told UEFA.com after another inspired showing on the left. "It was a lot of fun tonight, especially with the crowd behind us, but we're only halfway there. The game in Madrid is going to be very, very tough."
The in-form Frenchman fired past the unsighted Iker Casillas to set Bayern on course after 17 minutes and though Mesut Özil replied for Madrid shortly after the restart, the hosts were eventually rewarded for a courageous second-half showing as Mario Gomez secured the win at the death.
Toni Kroos, who delivered the corner that led to Ribéry's opener, felt Bayern's overall performance merited the aggregate advantage. "I think we were the better team," said the 22-year-old. "The fact that they only had two or three opportunities shows just how well we defended. We were very highly motivated and attacked from the start. We made use of our home advantage and in the end the victory was highly deserved."
While Jupp Heynckes' charges maintained their 100% home record in this season's competition to move another step closer to a dream home final on 19 May, Özil's away goal means Madrid only require a 1-0 victory in next Wednesday's return leg to progress to the Munich showpiece.
"It would be wrong to say we've got one foot in the final," said a cautious Manuel Neuer. The Bayern goalkeeper revealed his surprise at how the Liga outfit's feted attacking threat tailed off after the interval, saying: "They scored early in the second half, but then they flattened out". However, the Germany No1 knows better than to expect an easy ride when the sides reconvene in a week's time: "We're going to have to work very hard over there. Only then will we stand a chance of reaching the final."
Meanwhile, Ribéry insisted the slenderness of Bayern's advantage would not affect their approach at the Santiago Bernabéu: "I don't think their goal will change much with regard to our tactics in the second leg. We'll stay compact, just like we did tonight. Madrid will need to attack us and that should give us the opportunity to counter."
Philipp Lahm, who quietly but effectively kept Cristiano Ronaldo under wraps throughout, agreed that "Madrid are going to have to come at us" and predicted "another 90 minutes of hard work" in the Spanish capital. "It's going to be a tough battle in the second leg," added the Bayern captain. "These are two top teams up against one another and at this level it's the smallest things which can make the difference."


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Virginia Clean Energy Under Threat from Cuccinelli, Coal Companies, ALEC and Koch Front Groups
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli is working with coal companies and State Policy Network groups backed by Koch Industries to rollback VA's voluntary clean energy program.
In states across the country, the American Legislative Exchange Council--or ALEC--and other State Policy Network groups are lining up to roll back clean energy laws, an effort complimented by captured politicians like Mr. Cuccinelli.
Ken Cuccinelli is a former ALEC member, and he's working with ALEC member company Dominion Resources to end Virginia's clean energy program. The same Dominion that just gave him $10,000 for his run for governor, on top of almost $46,000 in previous years for other political positions.
While Virginia's voluntary renewable portfolio standard is far from perfect, it's neither helpful nor inspiring for Mr. Cuccinelli to scrap the program altogether on behalf of a few vested dirty energy interests.
Rather, as Chesapeake Climate Action Network suggests, Virginia's law needs to be strengthened in ways that increase clean energy production and the good jobs that come with it. Both Cuccinelli and CCAN agree the law has flaws and loopholes that don't properly incentivize new clean energy development within the state of Virginia. Some of the law's weaknesses:
- Dominion Virginia and Appalachian Power have each qualified for ratepayer subsidies without actually building any new clean energy facilities in Virginia.
- The law's loose definition of "renewable energy" ensures that filthy energy qualifies for government support, including burning gas collected from landfills and producing energy from trash incineration, which is dirtier than burning coal and are usually located in areas with disproportionately high populations of people living in poverty, often people of color.
- Unambitious targets for the proportion of renewable energy production by 2025.
- The program is voluntary in the first place.
So far, Mr. Cuccinelli has not seemed to notice legislation alternatives proposed by CCAN that would "tie any RPS bonuses to investment in Virginia-made wind and solar energy. This solution will ensure that Virginians are getting the benefits of a cleaner environment. It also creates a market that fosters growth in the renewable energy sector which will create thousands of jobs within our borders."
Ken Cuccinelli and Climate Science Intimidation:
The point of making clean energy competitive with dirty fossil fuels is to keep our air and water clean and avoid runaway climate change, an issue where Ken Cuccinelli has been aggressively counterproductive.
Mr. Cuccinelli is well known for his harassment of Michael Mann, a climate scientist vilified by industry apologists for creating the "Hockey Stick" graph illustrating the increase of average global temperature measurements over the last millennium.
Mirroring the scientifically unfounded attacks of State Policy Network outfits like the Competitive Enterprise Institute and American Tradition Institute, Cuccinelli was heavily criticized by a Virginia judge for not having an "objective basis" for accusations of fraudulent research at the University of Virginia. Cuccinelli's persecution of science has even put off other climate science deniers, according to a Greenpeace Freedom of Information Act request.
Demonstrating direct cooperation with Koch-funded State Policy Network groups, Ken Cuccinelli will attend an Americans for Prosperity event in Richmond, VA on February 7. Tea Party activists will be bussed in on the dime of Koch and other AFP donors to hear Cuccinelli speak along with David Koch's top PR captain--AFP president Tim Phillips--and other Virginia politicians like Lt. Governor Bill Bolling.
We'll see if the renewable energy rollback is a point of discussion at AFP's event. Americans for Prosperity has promoted a fossil fuel agenda since David Koch helped re-birth AFP from its predecessor, Citizens for a Sound Economy, which was also run by the Kochs and Koch Industries executive Richard Fink.
Ken Cuccinelli's Dirty Money:
Mr. Cuccinelli's financial conflicts of interest have drawn extra attention to this discussion on Virginia's commitment to renewable energy. Huffington Post reported that Intrust Wealth Management, a company whose board of directors has included Charles Koch since 1982, gave Cuccinelli $50,000 for his failed gubernatorial election bid, on top of a previous $10,000 from Koch Industries. Also on the Cuccinelli payroll were coal interests like Dominion Energy, CONSOL Energy and Alpha Natural Resources (which purchased the mountain top removal menace, Massey Energy).
Mr. Cuccinelli is used to being bankrolled by dirty interests. According to the National Institute for Money in State Politics, from 2003-2011 the following interests were top supporters of his VA Senate and Attorney General election campaigns:
- $46,500 from Dominion Resources -- ALEC member
- $42,000 from Alpha Natural Resources
- $10,000 from Massey Energy -- merged with Alpha after a fatal mining disaster
- $33,000 from Consol Energy
- $16,750 American Electric Power -- ALEC member
- $6,996 from the Virginia Coal Association
- $6,550 from Norfolk Southern, a railroad company that transports and markets coal
- ALEC member, ALEC Private Enterprise Board member
- $24,500 from Altria (owns Phillip Morris) -- ALEC member, ALEC Private Enterprise Board member
- $10,000 from U.S. Smokeless Tobacco (owned by Altria)
- $12,500 from Bailey's Cigarettes
- $11,000 from S&M Brands (owned by Bailey's)
- $17,000 from the National Rifle Association (many of the illegal guns in this country are from Virginia gun shows) -- ALEC member
- $11,250 from Hunton & Williams, a corporate lobbying firm that runs the coal front group Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG) to interfere with EPA pollution controls. Hunton was also caught up in a scandal to monitor and smear political opponents of Bank of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
- $8,312 from Troutman Sanders, a corporate lobbying firm that has recently represented coal and tobacco interests like Duke Energy, the National Mining Association, Southern Company, Peabody Energy, and Altria.
Dirty energy interests like Dominion, AEP, Duke Energy, Peabody and others are using their political allies and groups like ALEC alike to attack renewable energy across the board, in coordination with a familiar public relations play that victimizes dirty coal operations and mocks all forms of clean energy.
Coal pollution from companies like these prematurely kill thousands of Americans each year. The Clean Air Task Force notes that government action to reduce coal pollution has a direct effect on reducing these needless deaths. A peer-reviewed report by the late Paul Epstein in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences estimated up to $500 billion--half a trillion dollars--in annual costs to society from the life cycle of coal.
Clean energy generation doesn't pose the same terrible threats to our economy, air, water, health, and the global climate that life on this planet is adapted to, but good luck telling that to Ken Cuccinelli, another politician captured by the pollution lobby.


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Was it rude of me to assume that all TSA agents were baby eating, power tripping assholes who were put on earth to make your life miserable? Whoops! Turns out they're not all like that. In fact, some of them can even be extremely helpful and go beyond the call of duty to make your life easier. WHAT!?
Here's the story: A woman named Alanna was dropping off her rental car at Syracuse Hancock International Airport after hours so she had to place the car keys inside the return box (it was 4:30 AM). Right as she did that, she realized she left her cell phone in the now returned (and locked) car. What was she going to do?! She decided to take her chances and waved down the soon to be extremely helpful TSA agent and explained her situation. The TSA agent heard her story and handled the rest. Alanna explains:
[The TSA agent] gave me her name and phone number and told me she would find the Avis representative when they got in (business hours started at 6:30, my flight took off at 7) to see if she could get my phone. She wanted to make sure I caught my flight so she told me to go through security and informed the manager at JetBlue's counter and the officers on duty at security about the situation. She also told me that if she was not able to get my phone to me before my flight, she would personally call my husband and tell him how I could contact Avis to get the phone back.
At 5:45, the super excellent TSA officer walked up to Alanna's gate and returned the cell phone to her. Cell phone in hand, Alanna was able to make her flight without a hitch.
Can we please get more TSA officers like that? [Consumerist, Image Credit: TSA]


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Budget Guy Stan Collender writes that budget deficits under the Trump administration are projected to hit $1 trillion in 2020 — and keep rising to $1.5 trillion in fiscal 2028.
"But what's most important," Collender adds, "is that, no matter what Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney or any elected official may tell you, there's not much that Congress and the White House will be willing to do about this."
Tax increases, spending cuts or faster economic growth could all change the deficit outlook, but political realities mean those changes aren't happening, Collender writes:
- There's no tax increase on the horizon. Period.
- The trillion dollar deficits are already based on high economic growth.
- In the current hyper-partisan environment, military spending is uncuttable.
- That same hyper-partisan environment makes Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid almost as uncuttable.
- The incontrovertible coming demographic changes mean that spending for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will increase under current law.
The bottom line, according to Collender: "Trump's trillion dollar budget deficits are permanent changes in the United States's fiscal future."


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Fifty frocking years
When Flemington began parading fillies in finery five decades ago, women's lib was only a whispered notion of modern womanhood. The roar came later as Age fashion editor Janice Breen Burns took to judging ladies racewear. Today, this spring gathering of glamour goddesses remains the joyful highlight of her year.
THIRTY-ODD years ago, on a hot little patch of lawn between Flemington racetrack's Members' enclosure and winning post, I judged my first "Fashions on the Field". There were four of us on that windy, unsettling day, all clipboards, plastic chairs and lofty ideals. (Or was that just me?) Being the women's editor of a small regional newspaper, The Geelong Advert-iser, qualified me as "expert" enough to judge — or maybe they were just light on visiting internationals that year.
I can't remember my first three fellow judges but, three decades on, the roll call of fashion arbiters is impressive: Lillian Frank, Captain Peter Janson, Perri Cutten, Geoff Bade, Lisa Barron, Peter Jago, Richard Nylon, Freddie Fox, Stephen Jones, Eva Longoria, Zandra Rhodes, Heath Ledger, Patricia Field . . . and dozens more.
But I digress.
I remember feeling excited, important and a bit embarrassed. (I was very young.) I had never seen a spectacle like this — like a beauty contest, but ABSOLUTELY NOT a beauty contest, I was told. There was something faintly undignified about it. On the back of Women's Lib and some fairly muscular waves of feminism, the idea of judging women by their appearance, even by their taste in clothes, was sticky, tricky personal politics. It felt, kind of, sort of, a little bit ... wrong.
But what the hell. (I was a flexible feminist.) There was champagne! Free tickets to the races! And platters of crustless white-bread sandwiches filled with a marvellously claggy, salty substance called "chicken". I listened attentively as Fashion on the Field's strict criteria were explained — "appropriate for the day", "appropriate for the weather". The words "hat", "gloves", "handbag" and "hosiery", particularly, stuck.
Then the ladies were mustered for inspection. An exotic little cluster — big, small, young, old, wide, thin, hats, handbags, suits, spring coats, dyed-to-match shoes. They had come from the 'burbs, earnestly, carefully, joyfully frocked to the nines. My reserve dissolved; the "wrongness" dissipated. Ladies, indeed. Wonderful, fashionable, well-groomed, manicured, pedicured, coiffed, fabulous, proper, ordinary, everyday ladies. I thought my first Fashions on the Field was the simplest, most gloriously gorgeous expression of civilisation I had ever seen.
Thrilled to the gills, I watched these ordinary women expressing their extraordinary selves with all the trappings and tools of fashion: frocks, accessories, hairdos, make-up, swinging hips and graceful poses.
I can't remember what the prize was that first year, but it must have been a cracker to persuade some of them to make the terrifying walk across Flemington's flattened grass and on to the low, chipboard catwalk. (These days, the prize pool is $400,000 and Flemington's FOF stage is enclosed, two-storey, with corporate facilities, television hosts and televisual capabilities.) Every careful step they took across the grass was scrutinised by us, the judges, by fellow entrants and by a ring of motley racegoers, including a fringe of beer-waving yobs yelling, "Kwwwwooorr! She's 'awright! Nooooo! Not that one! Phhwwoor! This one!" and other helpful advice.
Some women shook visibly but smiled on, as regally as queens, or as coy and nervously as girls. There were some who stood out — professional models snuck in by opportunistic designers. (That was, theoretically at least, outlawed by a professionals competition in later years.) These veterans of the catwalk stalked, smiled like cover girls and turned as deftly as music-box ballerinas.
But their ordinary fellow contestants didn't appear to mind the expert cuckoos in their midst. In the queues, and later in what we affectionately dubbed the "holding pens" built to accommodate hundreds of waiting entrants, there was a perfumed, perfectly feminine camaraderie that transcended any myths and media beat-ups about bitching and catfights in the FOF ranks. "You look gorgeous!" and "I love your hat!" were more typical of the exchanges between strangers waiting for their turn. "Hold up your number! Smile! Watch the step! You're next!"
Three decades since that spring, including two spent writing about fashion for The Age, Fashions on the Field is still the highlight of my year. I have written about it near-on 30 times and my admiration for these women who play and indulge their passion for fashion as ardently as their menfolk play and follow sport has never faltered.
This is my final Fashions on the Field story for The Age. But I will be there at Flemington and at Caulfield and even in a smattering of the country towns where FOF's joyful, spirit-lifting effect spreads every spring.
Hold up your number! Smile! Watch the step! You're next!
Five decades of trackside fashion
FASHIONS on the Field was a bold concept thrashed out in the Victoria Racing Club boardroom in 1962 to lure women back to Flemington.
Why it was suddenly needed isn't exactly clear. Perhaps a sea of cheap check suits and pork-pie hats in a confetti hail of ripped betting slips and a pall of tobacco smoke prompted the drastic solution.
At first, some men — particularly in the media and those serious about secret chaps' business — baulked. But the idea of dispensing prizes, including new cars and jewellery, to women willing to frock up nicely and parade for a brace of "expert" strangers proved a catalyst that glamourised tracksides around the world. In the next five decades, racewear evolved into its own fashion genre, loosely hitched to trends but more beholden to fancy notions about what a civilised lay-dee should really look like.
Fashion's decade of Dior-esque attention to breasts, waistlines and hips backlashed in the 1960s. Flemington's young women joined the revolution in the blocky, architecturally tailored, zipped shifts and suits popularised by designers such as Courreges, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin and Mary Quant.
The silhouettes mostly ignored the body beneath with a slick overlay of chic that made everybody, all shapes and ages, look quite marvellous. By the decade's fag-end, the miniskirt's natural, breathtaking zenith was also being challenged by a smattering of penultimate groovers.
Racewear trends oscillated with the decade's top news stories: Women's Liberation (pant suits), Haight-Ashbury and the Love Revolution (looser frocks, the midi, the maxi), the rise of millionaire jet-setters and rock stars as an aspirational class (smart Parisien ready-to-wear). Hemlines rose and fell. But, notably, when they rose, they shot right up to a girl's knicker elastic. Only the ubiquitous knee-high, block-heeled boots below could distract bewildered beholders faced, for the first time, with a mesmerising handspan of Cottontails. A decade after the ''Jean Shrimpton incident'' of 1965, when the English minx turned up for Derby Day without hat, hosiery or gloves, those accessories had also been firmly ensconced in the racewear rulebook.
Racewear came into its own. The formality and structure - the sheer armoury - of '80s linebacker shoulders, tight pencil skirts, mega-foofed hairdos and industrial-grade bling fed into the ''dressed-up daywear'' racewear genre with a glorious logic.
The hats, gloves, dyed-to-match handbags and shoes, knuckle-duster pearls and chandelier earrings fit like a jigsaw with the ''Dynasty-esque'' racegoer's spring carnival wardrobe - no problem, dah-ling!
Silhouettes were slack, silky minimalist and artfully accessorised with flat shoes and the exotic sinamay picture hats being produced by Melbourne's burgeoning millinery industry.
The 1990s were by no means dominated by this oxymoronic revolution of ''elegance and comfort'' (a certain style of tailored kink-waisted suit was equally popular and manifest in various hem lengths across the decade), but the style is fondly remembered by those who swanned across Flemington's lawns in flat-footed ease and ensembles that were as comfy as jimjams and chic as Parisien couture.
Flemington's first poppets in string-strapped, knicker-flasher frocklets were spotted. A new generation of racegoer had flooded out of the sparkly nightclubs and year-12 formals and on to trackside lawns. (''Coowoool!'') Fashion editors, including this one, pecked them mercilessly for not understanding racewear's revered ''dressy daywear'' rules - ''Too short! Too stringy! Too rude! Where's your handbag? Where's your mother?''
But like any significant counter-cultural swell, good and bad, they left their mark and the host population simply had to yield to ''progress''. By 2006, a pretty RMIT graduate named Sarah Schofield had won Fashions on the Field in a self-made outfit with NO HANDBAG. By the end of the decade, all was (sort of) forgiven and a new age had dawned.
The Joyous Young Ones met racewear's strict sartorial brief halfway and the fashion editors conceded straplessness, knicker-flasher hemlines and carefully applied faux tan were not always a hideous thing.
Fashions on the Field is a slick, staged production with online entry, proper audience seating, professional hosts, televisual infrastructure and, this year, a prize pool worth $400,000 with a Toyota Lexus convertible cherry on top. You might assume the joy had been drained out of the event. But you would be wrong. In fact, a strange thing has happened as racewear's rules of civility, femininity, glamour and grooming - not to mention its lady-like triumvirate of hat, gloves and handbag - relaxed in the wake of those joyous young invaders mentioned earlier and the arrival of plane-loads of Sydney celebrities in string straps, tight frocks and tropical tans. Legions of young women have become passionate about the old-fashioned rules of racewear, returning fastidiously to the fully frocked sartorial values treasured in the 1950s and '60s.
A new pro-chic revolution is well under way. Praise the Fashion Goddess.


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By Sherri Ellington
Soon several local clubs will no longer enjoy the same fried chicken and other homestyle delicacies they have become accustomed to. After 42 years, Claudine White – the 2006 Career Woman of the Year – is retiring from her career of cooking for them. She will prepare her last fried chicken dinner on the last Tuesday in July.
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KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Theorem Clinical Research Inc. a full-service contract research organization (CRO) that provides core clinical research and development services, also helps clients identify and strategically address early and ongoing device-related regulatory and clinical issues.
Theorem develops clinical study protocol and design for pre-Investigational Device Exemption (pre-IDE) activities, IDE submissions, and Institutional Review Board (IRB) review and approval.
Theorem's Vice President of Medical and Scientific Affairs, Medical Devices and Diagnostics, Evan L. Rosenfeld, M.D., J.D., F.C.L.M., said that the goals of these services are both to optimize medical clients' pathway to marketability and to ensure their high-quality adherence to all post-marketing requirements.
"The traditional CRO doesn't offer a full spectrum of regulatory services," Rosenfeld said. "At Theorem, we go above and beyond to help our clients focus on the regulatory processes in addition to tactical protocol development and then running their clinical trials."
Theorem offers a strategic clinical and regulatory approach to pave the best pathway for such efforts, from original trial design, to study start, through FDA and IRB review and approval, and ultimately to market entry.
With the FDA's greater emphasis on post-marketing surveillance and trials, Theorem also provides additional trial setup for its clients and saves time in those respects, as well.
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We would like to inform you that we have to extend our room renovation project which initially will finish on Mei 30, 2012 into July 05, 2012.
The project will take place nearby the existing Suite and Deluxe Room.
The project will start from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
During that time, the convenience for the entire Hotel will be slightly disturbed. We will put our best efforts to keep the disturbance to the minimum level since the comfort of our guests continues to be our highest priority.
A complimentary afternoon tea will be provided to in house guest.
Our cottages will remain open throughout the renovation period.
Nestled on the outskirts of Ubud, Sri Ratih Cottages, Bali is one of the well-known Balinese hostels. Situated in the Banjar of Campuhan, this Bali hostel is a paradise of peace and tranquility. The swimming pool of the hostel is surrounded by a tranquil garden. You can also sample mouth-watering cuisines in the restaurant or enjoy soothing massage treatment for optimum relaxation. There are 26 rooms furnished rooms in Sri Ratih Cottages, Indonesia. Denpasar Ngurah Rai international airport is 45 minutes drive from Sri Ratih Cottages. Center of Ubud art culture is also 10 minutes walk from here.
Location of Sri Ratih Cottages, Bali
Sri Ratih Cottages in Bali is located on a serene location. The hostel is placed on the outskirts of Ubud. From the location of the hostel you can easily reach the restaurants, galleries, shops and city attractions comfortably. Ubud art culture is 10 minutes walk and the village of Penestanan is just few minutes walking distance from here. Other attractions that you can tour from this Bali hostel are Ubud Palace, Garuda Wisnu Kencana, Bali Hindu temples, and Lovina Beach. You will have to cover a distance of 45 minutes by car to reach Denpasar Ngurah Rai international airport from the hostel.
Room Facilities at Sri Ratih Cottages, Bali
Sri Ratih Cottages, Bali has 26 rooms which are categorized into standard fan cooled room, standard AC room, superior room and deluxe room. All the rooms of this hostel have individually controlled air-conditioning system except the fan rooms. The use of Balinese style furniture reflects Balinese influences. You can watch entertaining programs on the satellite television set of the hostel. Other room facilities available in Sri Ratih Cottages are in house movie channel, telephone, mini bar, hair dryer (on request), and extra bed for baby, also private bathroom with hot and cold water facility.
Hostel Amenities and Services at Sri Ratih Cottages, Bali
The restaurant of Sri Ratih Cottages specializes in International cuisine and a la carte menu. For your relaxation there is a swimming pool inside this hostel. You can also avail massage facility in this hostel. Refer to the tour desk to gather information about the city. Some other hostel amenities and services that you will get in Sri Ratih Cottages are safe deposit box, tour desk, facsimile, meditation hall and car rental facility.
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Serious Eats Neighborhood Guides: Justin Large's West Loop
Restaurant picks for Chicago's many neighborhoods.
Editor's Note: Every few weeks, we love to check in with chefs or food personalities in Chicago to see where they are eating in the neighborhoods they actually live in. Last time, Heather Terhune showed us around Lincoln Square. Now it's time for Justin Large to select his favorite spots around the West Loop.
If waits are any indication, Big Star is seemingly everyone's favorite summer restaurant. And the man behind those tacos is chef de cuisine Justin Large, who was formerly the sous chef at Avec. Large has been helming the Wicker Park joint since it opened, but he's kept his home in the West Loop, where he has lived for the past three years. We chatted with him recently, and he highlighted some new favorites along with a few old standbys.
Bar: It depends on what I'm in the mood for. If I want a quiet, off the beaten path bar, I go to Aberdeen Tap, where I can enjoy anything from my favorite bourbons to a tallboy of Schlitz. For a serious, well-curated beer list, I go to Au Cheval. I went to school in England for a while way back when, and I go for the Greene King's Abbot Ale.
Sandwich: Bari or J.P. Graziano. At Bari, I get the 9-inch spicy Italian. I like that they use fresh mozzarella instead of provolone.
Dinner Spot: Vera. Mark Mendez is doing really good stuff with both wine and food. There's a great cheese program. He switches the menu up quite a bit, but in the past I've loved a really great grilled octopus dish with potatoes and pimenton.
Essential Neighborhood Spot: Avec. I'll pimp my own restaurant group, since I don't think the West Loop would be what it is now had Avec never been born. I worked there so long so I ate everything, but everyone's favorites are the bacon-wrapped dates. The whole fish is awesome, the flatbreads change up a lot, and I look for changes in the pasta offering.
Pizza: I'm not a huge fan of Chicago-style pizza, since I grew up on the East Coast. I like Coalfire.
Burger: My favorite burger would have to be Au Cheval's burger. But if you go to Publican Quality Meats every Tuesday, they have a burger night that's pretty stinking good too.
Falafel: Baba Pita. It's not just for falafel, though they do a really nice job there. The beef kabobs are really good, the dolma is awesome, and the falafel is solid.
Date Night: My wife and I often veer off and go old school to Viaggio. It's super solid and very straightforward. They're most famous for their meatball salad, which is exactly how it sounds. It's an awesome dish of romaine hearts, tomato, cucumber, grated Parmesan, onion, and then giant veal meatballs that are the tenderest things in the world. They do a tableside service. It's something that's pretty special—we love that dish a lot.
Pastry/Dessert: I'm not a huge pastry guy, but D'Amato's Bakery has some good pastries and breads.
Bread: D'Amato's. I like that they do a lot of foccacia, which are already topped and ready to buy. Also Publican Quality Meats has a really great retail bread program. They're baking some of the best bread in the city.
Coffee: La Colombe, every time. I usually get an Americano when I'm there. I never do iced coffee. I feel like coffee should be hot, even when it's 98 degrees out.
Breakfast: The Palace Grill. It's a super solid, great diner breakfast. There are lots of characters there, and it's a great group of people who run that place. It's been around since the '30s. For breakfast, I mix it up a lot. Sometimes I'll eat omelets, sometimes French toast, or sometimes I'll have a patty melt for breakfast. The patty melt is the best in the city by far.
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Utah State University students in Beta Alpha Psi international honorary accounting organization worked with USU Extension county agents to make volunteer income tax assistance more available to rural Utahns this year. Through a new process called Virtual VITA, rural taxpayers were connected with certified volunteer student tax preparers at USU through the Internet.
According to Dean Miner, USU Extension professor, Utah County, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance is an IRS program that helps low-to-moderate income taxpayers prepare their returns, particularly those who may be eligible for the Earned Income Credit.
"The IRS requires direct contact between certified preparers and the taxpayers as part of the process," Miner said. "Rural communities frequently lack the certified volunteers needed, so the Virtual VITA concept was adopted by USU Extension over the past few tax seasons to overcome that obstacle."
Miner said the IRS is very supportive and is looking for the collaboration between USU Extension and the accounting students to possibly serve as a model that can be duplicated in Beta Alpha Psi chapters across the nation.
"Beta Alpha Psi's ability to reach non-traditional VITA customers makes them a natural fit to help expand the Virtual VITA model," said IRS Stakeholder, Partnerships, Education and Communication Director Verlinda Paul. "We look forward to a continued partnership with Beta Alpha Psi so that we can reach even more taxpayers in rural communities."
Bonnie Villarreal, USU faculty advisor for Beta Alpha Psi, said the program provides a great opportunity for the students as well as the taxpayers who are served.
"There are always challenges when you involve additional steps using technology like Skype and secure file transfer, but we enjoyed working out the bugs with Dean Miner and the other Extension personnel, and it was great meeting some of the rural taxpayers via our virtual connection," she said. "We support Dean and the IRS in this effort and will be ready to serve again when needed."
Miner said the collaboration between USU Extension and Beta Alpha Psi is a great way to fulfill the land-grant mission of the university by providing information to help families improve their lives.
"Combining the on-campus expertise of the Beta Alpha Psi students with the in-county presence of Extension agents helped participating taxpayers save more than $10,000 in tax preparation fees and receive nearly $130,000 in state and federal refunds this year," he said.
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No, it didn't. She has 3 dads now.G-Faerie08 wrote:I've never seen the musical..and I only found out what Mama Mia was about after reading the preview/summary of what the movie was about..Having said that, it was okay..but I don't like movies or anything that leaves me hanging..and in this case, that would be finding out who EXACTLY was that girl's father (unless I totally missed it somewhere) Yeah I know her mom was madly in love with that guy and ended up marrying him in the end BUT, did they come out straight and say that the man was the girl's dad?
But my mom thinks that since both Sam and Sophie can draw that Sam's her dad.