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This week over at the Paper Cupcake's Challenge Blog; There's Magic In The Air. For the month of December I am going to be hosting the challenges. This week I wanted to see everyone do some "winter fun". Using a image reflecting some winter fun such as sledding, skating, a snowman etc. With a twist of adding some bling as well to your project.
I used the image "Winter Fun" by Paper Cupcakes. I colored it with my colored pencils. I used chalk for the color in the snow and sky. I added some stickles for a little sparkle in the snow and used a white glaze pen to add some snow falling all over the image. I used scrap paper from my scraps and pre-made snowflakes from K&Company that I bought on clearance some time ago. My sentiment is computer generated. Kept it pretty simple and I love how the touch of black & red just makes it pop.
Had another busy week and a packed full weekend. My daughter does speech and she had a meet this weekend and she did a scripted duo with a friend and they walked away with first place this meet for that category. I was so excited for her since she is a freshman and this is her first year in speech. Her teacher has great plans for her if she continues in the years. Let's hope she sticks with it, because she is quilt the talented. It was a proud moment for her and for us. School has one more week before Christmas break. Which means I need to get in gear and get things completed before their release so I can enjoy the week prior to Christmas with them home and not feel stressed and rushed, so wish me luck for an organized task accomplished week!
That's it for me. Have a great week and remember to enjoy your time and days during this busy season!
December 12, 2011
Magical Monday - Winter Fun with Bling
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Reiki - Bevois Valley
Bevois is an Electoral Ward in the Unitary Authority of Southampton, England comprising the suburbs Bevois Valley, Nicholstown and Northam, with a population of 16,844. Wikipedia
al Covo Massage Waxing Wellbeing
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al Covo is a private, independent wellbeing business offering treatments, training and products in a beautiful suite. Do come and book an appointment for a [...]Distance: 0.22 miles.
Reiki By Adam
Southampton, Hampshire
Shoden-1st Degree Reiki (2002) Okuden-2nd Degree Reiki (2003) Shinpiden-3rd Degree Reiki Master/Practitioner (2013) Shihan-4th Degree- Master/Teacher (2013)Distance: 0.55 miles.
Reiki and spiritual intuitive
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I'm a certified reiki practitioner , spiritual counsellor and healer. I work from my heart with each individual to there needs and offering guidance [...]Distance: 1.2 miles.
That's the Spirit
Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 3FD
I am an experienced Reiki Practitioner,Master and Teacher with my own practice in Central Southampton. I have been have been offering Reiki Healing and [...]Distance: 1.34 miles.
Kathy Lockyear Healing Sanctuary
Southampton, Hampshire, SO18 5QW
I have been a Reiki Master Healer and Teacher since 1997. I specialise in emotional healing with counselling and vibrational Reiki Healing. I teach [...]Distance: 2.48 miles.
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Hello and a very warm welcome to Sole n Soul. My name is Melanie and I have been trained in Usui Holy Fire 2 [...]Distance: 2.65 miles.
Gracing Lives
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I am passionate about Reiki, I have been blessed on this journey.. Which I can pass unto others as a teacher. I teach between Australia [...]Distance: 2.66 miles.
Claire Godding Reiki
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Claire Godding Reiki based in Southampton, Hampshire offers Individual Reiki Treatments and Packages suitable for everyone. Specialising in Seated Reiki Therapy for the Elderly [...]Distance: 2.93 miles.
Carol Russell Holistic Therapist & Reiki Master Teacher
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I am an experienced practitioner who practices many therapies including; Reflexology, pregnancy reflexology. Indian Head Massage, Reiki, Aromatherapy, Remedial Massage, Nutritional advice, Bach Flower remedies, [...]Distance: 3.69 miles.
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An Israeli demolition and eviction order issued for Susya May 5, 2015 has brought the small Palestinian village near the West Bank city of Hebron to the centre of international attention.
The Bedouin community residing in Susya, which is adjacent to an Israeli settlement in contravention to international law, has been fighting for its survival for several decades. But with Israeli authorities renewed efforts to remove the village, the international community is aligned in its support for the Palestinian community, with the US and EU leading the way.
"Demolition of this Palestinian village or of parts of it, and evictions of Palestinians from their homes, would be harmful and provocative," said the US State Department spokesperson John Kirby during a weekly government briefing on July 16.
"We are concerned that the demolition of this village would set a damaging standard for displacement and land confiscation particularly given settlement-related activity in the area," Kirby added.
According to Israel National News, the US position on Susya is "particularly hypocritical," given that the State Department has decided to condemn the "legal Jewish presence in the region" and rather defend "an illegal Arab settlement" in Israeli-controlled Area C of the West Bank.
The Bedouin village of Susya is an embodiment of the problems incurred by Palestinian towns situated within Area C, which as of the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords remains under Israeli Civil Administration in terms of planning and zoning.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Territories (OCHA) suggests that the demolition order affecting the entire village might be misleadingly interpreted.
According to the OCHA June 2015 report, only half of the residential buildings are located in Area C and the remaining half belongs to Area B, wherein Israel and the Palestinian Authority should have equal rights.
In response to the court ruling, the Coordinator of the Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Yoav Mordechai, said that representatives of both sides have met and "discussed alternative solutions in accordance with the planning considerations."
The COGAT statement also newly acknowledged that out of all houses in the area only 15 directly violate Israeli planning laws and are subject to potential demolition.
The eviction order sanctioned in May is not the first that the Bedouin community has encountered since 1986, when Israel proclaimed the area an ancient archaeological site. The same orders were enacted in 2001 and 2011.
On Friday, July 24, over 500 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists rallied in Susya to demonstrate against the village's demolition and expulsion of its approximately 340 residents into Area A of the West Bank.
According to Rabbi Arik Ascharom, president of Rabbis for Human Rights, an Israel-based NGO providing legal support to Susya, the demonstration showed that there Israelis who distance themselves from official government policies and support the Palestinian cause, Mondoweiss reported.
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of Al-Mubadara, who was one of the few politicians participating in the protest, told journalists that this combination of, "popular resistance on the ground, international solidarity and boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli policies is very productive and effective at this stage."
"Israel will not stop its aggressive policy and Netanyahu will never make peace. He has to be brought down," added Barghouti.
On Monday this week, a delegation of 28 EU member states representatives visited Susya in display of solidarity with the local Bedouin community and to express strong opposition to illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank area.
John Gatt-Rutter, the EU's representative in Jerusalem, told The Telegraph that Susiya "had become a by-word for a policy that has deprived Palestinians of their land and resources. But [that it] is not an isolated case."
Speaking at Susya, Gatt-Rutter said, "It is hard not to draw parallels with what is happening elsewhere in the West Bank and with Bedouin communities.
"Our presence at the village indicates how seriously we in the EU view the intention to demolish this village and its structure and evict its residents."
Aside from government-led initiatives, there has also been signs of popular solidarity among Israeli, Palestinian as well as international citizen community.
On Monday, representatives of the Israeli cultural sphere, including artists, writers and performers, signed a petition titled "No To Deportation" calling "the destruction and uprooting [of houses in Susya] cruel, immoral and illegal," The Times of Israel reported.
Simultaneously, the case of Susya went viral through Twitter. Village supporters launched a hashtag campaign #SaveSusiya in an attempt to foster international solidarity and expose Israeli violations of international law.
Despite the heightened international pressure, the fear of demolition and eviction remains present among Susya residents.
"If they demolish this village it will be a disaster. It is clear that the main goal is to evict the Palestinians and take the land for the expansion of the settlements," head of the village council Jihad Nawajah told The Telegraph.
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Meet The People of Zaire
Living in Kinshasa didn't provide me many opportunities to explore the beauty of the country. Beside the unstable political situations, many places couldn't be accessed by public transport requiring visitors to rent a car to travel.
Therefore, I won't miss any opportunity given by anyone to see the other sites that I haven't seen in the country. One of them was cruising trip in Congo River provided by organization where I worked for, as one of welfare program purposed for its staf.
So, in Sunday morning, my best friend from work, Oliva, picked me up at the house to go to to the harbor together.
We arrived at the harbor in 10 minutes. The harbour itself was closed to our headquarter office, and apparently it was the particular harbour. A big boat was there, belongs to organization which had no schedule to patrol in that moment, waited for us, to give us another experience to see the real life of river people of Congo.
Congo River, which also known as Zaire River, is the second longest river in Africa, after Nile. It starts to run from its sources in the mountain and highlands of the East African Rift and end in Atlantic Ocean. In addition, the river is also known as the deepest river in the world, where the deepest part is reaching 230 m from the water surface. Even though it was called as Zaire river, but at the end, its name was changed into Congo river, refers to two countries it passes: Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the other hand, the river is powerful that could create hydropower plants along the river to provide energy within the continent.
Furthermore, the river is also the main transportation source within Central Africa region , providing more than nine thousand miles of navigable shipping routes in Central Africa. Big amounts of goods are also transported though the river. Many people still use this river to travel from one place to another. It become main media to transport people to some regions since many places still couldn't be accessed by road.
First 3o minutes were not so impressive since we just passed some areas that we were used to pass. But afterwards, the real life was began when we starts passing the villages along the river.
People lived in super ordinary condition, in a small wooden house occupied by many families in the same time. They don't have any access to electricity and clean water is something luxury. Most of people did fishing to get their income. Normally, fishermen sail with their wooden boats, consist 2 or 3 passenger in one canoe, depends on the measurement of the canoe too, and used the wide net to catch the fish. Thanks to Congo River providing them variety of fishes for the food. Knowing this, I could take my deep breath. At least, those people will not be starving to death.
While we were on half way, one big ship passed our boat. That boat was full with passengers going to Kinsangani (that's what Papa Pascal said, one of my Congolesse colleague who was also on board with me).
That boat was terribly full, I am not joking, and it always released the black smoke from its machine. I could imagine when they arrived in Kinsangani, the ashes adhered on the face of passengers. It didn't just take the people but also looked like take the whole their houses and belongings with them. Some men enjoyed the sunny day with their drink (perhaps beer, but I was not so sure), in the mean time some women did some cooking on the boat, using brazier and charcoal to burn the fire. The children astonishingly stared at us. One of the kids started to lift his hand, gave us some waves and followed by the other kids. At the end of the day, all passengers gave us the biggest smile they had for that day. One lesson learnt I got from this trip, "always try to be happy even in the worst situation. Smile and the World will smile for you".


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Nokia Music+ Offers $3.99 Premium Streaming Service
In an effort to better compete with Spotify and other music services, Nokia announced on Sunday it is expanding its free music streaming service with an enhanced paid version of its existing Nokia Music platform.
Nokia Music — the ad-free service launched in September, exclusively to Lumia smartphone users — will now offer a monthly subscription option called Nokia Music+ for about $3.99, depending on location. Spotify's subscriptions range from $4.99 to $9.99.
Although the service already allows you to download up to four one-hour mixes of music, which are playable offline, Nokia Music+ will remove the limit. It also allows you to access the service via a web app, so you can play it on your computer or smart TV, and features unlimited skips. The app is also available for download from the Windows Phone Marketplace.
"It's the only smartphone music service out there offering access to millions of songs out of the box without the need to sign up, sign in, or suffer adverts in between enjoying the music," said Jyrki Rosenberg, VP Entertainment at Nokia, in a statement on the company's blog. "People love Nokia Mix Radio — in fact, many people are amazed that we can offer it for free. When you add in the ability to skip songs and save playlists for offline uses like the tube, you have something unique."
The company said Nokia Music+ will roll out in the next few weeks, but it's unknown at this point when it will come to the U.S.
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Eleven bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms, entryway, formal entry, large foyer/sitting room with beautiful staircase, formal living room, parlor, formal dining room, plans for large kitchen with butler's pantry, office, family room/media room, lower floor office area, remodeled guest/staff eat-in kitchen, craft/mechanical room, two laundry rooms with washers/dryers, third laundry facility on top floor, secondary staircase, seven fireplaces with exceptional mantles, five car parking on long wide driveway, excellent storage, large attic, modern security system, air conditioning, four furnaces, three water heaters, mini wet bar, window treatments, beautiful hand painted murals in some rooms, sound proofing on many windows. Partial Downtown City views.
Landscaped front gardens with mature magnolia tree, mature tree, irrigation system, hydrangeas, ferns, lush greenery, box hedges and blooming plants.
Park-like backyard/garden with irrigation, palm trees, mature trees, lush lawn, green foliage, roses, hydrangeas and blooming plants. A gardener's dream! The perfect place to add a playground structure and perfect for family gatherings and entertaining.
There are plans to add a garage with interior access as well as a deck. Approved plans to add an elevator are available for the new owner. The property lot has also been sub-divided into two legal lots.
In world renowned Pacific Heights, 1701 Franklin Street is one of the most recognizable estate-like homes in San Francisco and is a historic registered landmark. This incredible detached Queen Anne estate sits on nearly a 1/4 acre of land subdivided into 2 legal lots and offers approximately 7,125 square feet of dramatic living space. The lower floor square footage is 1,740 square feet of additional living space. The home was designed by W.H. Lille for Edward Coleman in 1895, who owned the Idaho Gold Mine in Grass Valley, California.
Offered for the 1st time in 18 years, the home has been lovingly maintained by its current owners. The home is believed to have only changed ownership by a handful and it is suspected that the current owners are the second family to have lived in this one of a kind property.
The amazing architectural detail throughout includes incredible large timeless stained glass windows with breathtaking detail, smaller stained glass windows, high ceilings (eleven and a half foot ceilings on the main floor, close to eleven foot ceilings on the second floor and close to ten foot ceilings on the third floor), coffered wood ceilings, beamed wood ceilings, circular wood beamed ceiling, rotunda style ceiling, coved ceilings, plaster and dentil moldings, pocket doors, exquisite crystal and antique chandeliers, superb wall sconces, softwood and hardwood floors with inlay, rounded bay windows, bay windows, arched window, archways, lush wood doors, beveled glass mirrors, skylight, paneled wood walls and wainscoting.
Steps from Whole Foods Market, close to Tech shuttle stops, transportation, restaurants, Cable Car, close proximity to Financial District, walk to Fillmore Street, Polk Street, Lafayette Park and easy access to the Golden Gate Bridge. Just minutes from Louise M. Davis Symphony Hall, War Memorial Opera House, SF JAZZ Center and currently under construction CPMC/Sutter Health Cathedral Hill Hospital. Walk Score of 98!
Main Floor: As one goes up the marble front entry stairs, one notices the Corinthian columns, gorgeous arched entry and beautiful balustrades. The ENTRYWAY features paneled wood walls and ceiling, wood columned entry, high ceilings and a beautiful solid wood entry door with window flanked by two windows.
The inviting FORMAL ENTRY boasts high ceilings, beamed wood ceilings, arched entry, lush wood columns, paneled wood walls, dentil wood moldings, softwood and hardwood floors with lovely inlay and a beautiful chandelier.
To the right of the formal entry, the OFFICE has bay windows, high ceilings, dentil moldings and a beautiful light fixture. Off the office, the POWDER ROOM has a sink with marble counter, medicine cabinet with mirror, toilet, high ceilings, wall sconce, fan, marble floor, wainscoting and a lovely light fixture.
The GRAND FOYER/SITTING ROOM is enhanced with beamed ceilings, circular wood beamed ceiling, wall sconce, paneled wood walls, softwood and hardwood floors with beautiful intricate inlay, gorgeous chandelier, stunning lush wood staircase with lovely lighting on banister, fireplace with exquisite mantle, marble surround, marble base and mirror and a closet with window (perfect for a coat closet).
The grand FORMAL LIVING ROOM is highlighted with softwood floors, pocket door, high ceilings, plaster moldings, dentil moldings, two wall sconces, rounded bay windows, stunning chandelier and a handsome fireplace with columned mantle, marble surround, marble base, intricate detail and oval mirror.
The fabulous PARLOR features bay windows, high ceilings, plaster moldings, dentil moldings, beautiful light fixture, wall sconce, softwood floors, pocket doors and a fireplace with marble surround, marble base and a columned wood mantle with beveled glass mirror.
The banquet size FORMAL DINING ROOM is enhanced with coffered wood ceilings, high ceilings, beautiful light fixture, pocket door, softwood floors, bay windows, front garden outlook, wood paneled walls, fireplace with marble base, marble surround, columned wood mantle and mirror, built-in credenza flanking the fireplace with drawers, glass cabinets with shelves and beveled glass mirrors and a built-in cabinet with a beveled glass door and glass shelves.
The formal dining room opens into the KITCHEN. There are plans to add a new large kitchen with a butler's pantry. The kitchen has been brought to the studs and is a shell. It is ready for a new owner to put their personal signature on it and design the kitchen of their dreams. It is a large space that will open to the garden.
Off the hallway there are two storage cabinets for linens and a back door where one can access the driveway and access to the park-like backyard/garden.
Second Floor: As one goes upstairs one notices three incredible large stained-glass windows with spectacular detail that filter in natural lighting and a beautiful chandelier.
FOUR BEDROOMS, THREE FULL BATHROOMS, A SITTING AREA AND MINI WET BAR completes this floor.
The incredible MASTER EN-SUITE is enhanced with partial Downtown City views, high ceilings, moldings, wood burning fireplace with tile base and surround and lovely columned mantle with beveled glass mirror, crystal chandelier, two crystal wall sconces, stained glass window and rounded bay windows.
The sumptuous REMODELED MASTER BATHROOM boasts a stall marble steam shower with additional handheld showerhead, glass door and glass enclosure, deep soaking tub with jets and marble surround, Kohler pedestal sink, marble walls, water closet with Toto toilet and frosted glass door, two crystal wall sconces, mounted flat screen television, coved ceiling, moldings, Panasonic fan and crystal chandelier.
Off the bathroom one can access a HUGE MASTER WALK-IN CLOSET with bay windows, built-in seating area by the bay windows, high ceilings, crystal chandelier, moldings, built-in furniture quality closets with drawers, storage and beveled glass mirrors, marble island with cabinetry, vanity with marble counter, beveled glass mirror, storage cabinet and drawer, stained glass window and a skink with marble counter, marble backsplash and mirror.
The SECOND BEDROOM features partial Downtown City views, softwood floors, moldings, high ceilings, beautiful chandelier, wall sconce, closet, two stained glass windows, sink with marble counter, medicine cabinet with mirror, wall sconce and a fireplace with tile surround, tile base and a columned mantle with beveled glass mirror.
The THIRD BEDROOM has high ceilings, moldings, a walk-in closet with built-ins, chandelier, bay windows and a fireplace with tile surround, tile base and columned mantle with beveled glass mirror.
A full BATHROOM can be accessed from the third bedroom and the hallway. This bathroom features high ceilings, a fan, recessed lighting, pedestal sink, medicine cabinet with mirror, tiled walls, claw foot tub, toilet, window, beautiful chandelier and tile floor.
The LAUNDRY ROOM has a Kenmore Elite washer/dryer side by side, wainscoting, window, high ceilings, fan, shelves and recessed lighting.
Off the hallway, a MINI WET BAR CLOSET is complete with a stainless steel sink and cabinets.
The FOURTH BEDROOM offers high ceilings, coved ceiling, softwood floors, garden outlook, beautiful chandelier, stained glass windows, closet and moldings. A full BATHROOM off the hallway boasts tile floor, wainscoting, Toto toilet, pedestal sink, high ceilings, fan and a shower over tub with tile surround. A SITTING AREA on the second-floor hall landing and storage cabinets for linens and coat closet off the hallway completes this floor.
Third Floor: FIVE BEDROOMS, A FULL BATHROOM AND ACCESS TO THE ATTIC completes this floor.
The FIRST BEDROOM offers softwood floors, two closets (one with shelves), high ceilings, sink with marble counter and backsplash and garden outlook.
The SECOND BEDROOM has partial Downtown City views, high ceilings, an arched window and three closets.
The sunny THIRD BEDROOM boasts partial Downtown views, high ceilings, recessed lighting, two closets, rotunda style ceiling, beautiful chandelier, rounded bay windows and beautifully painted murals depicting the deck of cards.
The FOURTH BEDROOM has high ceilings, lovely light fixture, three closets, sink with marble counter and backsplash, wall sconce and gorgeous painted murals.
The FIFTH BEDROOM features a sink with marble counter and backsplash, three closets, ladder to redwood loft, recessed lighting, bay windows and exceptional painted murals.
The SIXTH BEDROOM offers two closets, chandelier, molding and softwood floors. One of the closets houses a stackable Bosch washer/dryer and Whirlpool refrigerator.
A FULL BATHROOM off the hallway is complete with tile floor, sink with granite counter and backsplash, wainscoting, window, high ceilings, wall sconce, shower over tub with tile surround, Toto toilet and fan.
A closet off the hallway with ladder and access to the large ATTIC (perfect for storage), skylight and a linen cabinet completes this floor.
Lower Floor: A BEDROOM EN-SUITE, BATHROOM, REMODELED GUEST/STAFF EAT-IN KITCHEN, FAMILY ROOM/MEDIA ROOM, OFFICE AREA, CRAFT/MECHANICAL ROOM AND LAUNDRY ROOM completes this floor.
The LAUNDRY ROOM features a Maytag washer and dryer, shelves, fan, storage area with window and a pocket door.
The REMODELED GUEST/STAFF EAT-IN KITCHEN offers granite counters and backsplash, granite bar counter to add stools for dining, built-in seating area, an abundance of cabinetry, under cabinet lighting, Bosch stainless steel dishwasher, Blanco stainless steel deep sink, InSinkErator garbage disposal, Frigidaire Electrolux four-burner stainless steel gas range with oven, Kitchen Aid stainless steel microwave with fan and light over range, Kitchen Aid stainless steel refrigerator/freezer with water and ice dispenser, hardwood floors with inlay, dentil moldings, wainscoting, flat screen television, recessed lighting and pantry.
The CRAFT/MECHANICAL ROOM features two GE refrigerators, granite countertops and backsplash, cabinetry, shelves, drawers and double stainless steel sinks.
The spacious FAMILY ROOM/MEDIA ROOM boasts recessed lighting, ceiling speakers, rounded bay windows and erase board. The OFFICE AREA has built-in cabinetry, drawers and built-in desks with granite counters.
The BEDROOM EN-SUITE features two closets and bay windows. The BATHROOM has a Kohler pedestal sink, tile floor, Panasonic fan, recessed lighting, Aquatic deep Jacuzzi tub with jets and tile surround, flat screen television, Toto toilet, window, stall tiled steam shower with additional handheld showerhead and glass door. One can also access this bathroom off the hallway.
A storage cabinet and linen closet off the hallway completes this floor.
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The song begins almost imperceptibly, two notes of languid bass wafting in, back and forth on each other. Then, from somewhere off in the distance, comes a high tenor voice bearing a soft chant in some mysterious, romantic tongue. It's joined--just barely--by a native chorus and a steel guitar line that sound like a wave looks as it builds up before it breaks.
The voice gets louder, drawing each phrase out, then skips up about an octave and a half and just hangs there, vibrating in a serene space reserved for warm breezes and goose bumps. Then it sings in English: This is my night of love/this is the hour of the luau/My arms are open now/My heart has spoken now, aahh-ooooooo
The voice belongs to Hawaii's Suntanned Arizona Irishman, the voice belongs to Ernie Menehune, and it is ingrained in vinyl on a song called "Kalua," the fourth track on a record called Back to Aloha Land. On the Heath Productions label out of Safford.
On the back of the record is a group photograph of Menehune's "Polynesian Friends," against a tropical setting. Here are the people you could have seen performing this song in person when Kennedy was president: Four stunning women in grass skirts and bikini tops, two men holding island instruments, and a guitarist and a bassist, apparently Anglo friends, sporting Hawaiian shirts. Everybody is smiling, leis hang from necks, orchids peek out from cascading mounds of lava-black, hula-girl hair.
And at the center of this shot is the Golden Voice, the boss of the show, the Hawaiian Suntanned Irishman himself, offering a show-biz version of a Mona Lisa smile, a necklace of curved white fangs and two machetes crossed in front of his bare chest.
There were other records after that initial '64 release--'Round the Town, Showtime, My Way, Waikiki Jackpot, to name a few. All long unavailable, all sold at the live shows (if you can find one of these gems somewhere it's sure to be personally autographed) that were the bread and butter of the Suntanned man and his exotic revue for some three decades.
Starting in the early Fifties, Ernie played all the Southwestern hot spots, all the bars, supper clubs, resorts, nightclubs and lounges. The Tropic Wishbone, the Tahiti, the Gilded Cage, Guys and Dolls. The Camelback Inn, Mountain Shadows, the Spanish Trail in Tucson, the Latitude 20 in Torrance, California, Harrah's in Reno and Tahoe, the Tiki Kai in Albuquerque and its sister Tiki in Denver. And he hit Vegas, too--the Dunes, and five seasons in the Main Room at Caesars Palace.
Menehune knew and performed with the names that went with these swinging dens of hip: Tom Jones, Esquivel, Buddy Hackett, Shecky Green, Harry Belafonte, and, yes, ladies and gentlemen, let us not forget Mr. Sinatra.
Most of these gigs happened in the heyday of clubbing. People dressed up, looked like a million bucks, they drank highballs, and smoking was practically good for you. You got dinner, dancing and a floor show, and it didn't cost anywhere an arm and a leg. The current generation of lounge-music fanatics would trade its stacks of CD-reissue bachelor-pad music for just one night of this kind of entertainment.
But that was a long time ago. The clubs are a thing of the past, and many of the acts that worked them had hung it up by the time "(Lord, I Was Born a) Ramblin' Man" hit the charts.
So where is all of this going?
Back to the Hawaiian Boy with the Golden Voice! Back to the world of Enchanting Songs of the Islands! Back to Mr. Ernie Menehune, who did not burn out or fade away, but simply stopped being a professional Suntanned Hawaiian Irishman and settled down in a self-styled paradise hideaway outside Tucson, talent, warmth and an easy smile still intact.
Back to Aloha Land!
Here's where we begin: I went from wondering if Menehune was even still alive to getting his wife on the telephone in as long as it takes to dial information. I found myself speaking with Beverly, not only the woman wed to Ernie, but one-half of the Waikiki Twins, two identically lovely dancers sandwiching the man in a photo on the back of the late-Sixties My Way album.
I was ecstatic.
Even more so when Ernie took the line and invited me down to Menehune Ranch nestled at the foot of the Tucson mountains.
"You won't even think you're in Arizona," he told me, "people come here, and they think they're on the islands." I got in the car, and then I was there. Sitting beneath the setting sun in this huge backyard full of palm trees, beside a putting green, next to a waterfall that fed into a little pond full of flesh-and-blood ducks and a fiberglass shark. Other than the shark, Ernie built all of this, and he can turn the waterfall on and off whenever he wants. There was a corral containing a couple horses, a tiki-style band shell for intimate home performances, and great big, lazy dogs sleeping all over the place.
And there were Beverly and Ernie sitting there as well, sipping Diet Cokes as the sound of wind chimes filled in the holes between the rustling of the palms overhead.
Ernie (who actually does have some Irish blood) was born on the island of Kauai, where, among certain more modern skills, he learned to hunt wild goats and pigs for food near the cliffs. He learned to sing there, too.
"We always tried to sing falsetto, that goes way back. In the days of the kings and queens, only the men were allowed to entertain, that's why they did the high vocaling and that's how the falsetto developed. So the guys sang high."
So he sang high for fun like the ancients, hunted, did other things, but curiosity of the mainland won out. In 1952, at age 25, seven years before Hawaii became a state, Ernie decamped to L.A.
"When I first came here, I worked in a gas station on Sunset Boulevard and, being a new employee, they had me on at the wee hours. California was the coldest place I had ever been--it was just cold and I'm pumping gas. But I wanted to be in Hollywood because they say you see a lot of Hollywood stars." Like who? "Oh, I saw 'em," he says. "Burt Lancaster, oh, I can't remember . . . but I couldn't stand the weather, I wanted to go where it's warm. I got into Phoenix February 11th, 1953, and I loved it. I said this is for me!"
And it was. Ernie landed a job as a pipe fitter with a big Phoenix firm. "I remember doing pipe fitting at the JC Penney store right in downtown Tucson many, many years ago. Del Webb would sit down, open his lunch pail and have lunch with us."
But at home in Phoenix after work, he grew to miss the islands and would head down to a club called Tropic Wishbone. "It was at 16th and Camelback," he remembers. "I just used to go at nights and sing with the Hawaiian band, that's the way it was back home, everybody'd just sit around and sing. But I couldn't be at the nightclub and work during the day, so I missed showing up. People would say, 'Where's this guy that sang?' That's how it started. Finally, the management called and said, 'We'll pay you.' That's when I said, 'Hey, maybe I'm doing the wrong job,' you know?"
Our man moved on to the Gilded Cage, then a new joint called Guys and Dolls opened up around '54 and stole Ernie away. "They'd heard of me, so they hired me for a week and I stayed four and a half years."
In those days, Ernie encountered other fledgling Phoenix sons.
"Wayne Newton used to hang on my shirt, he was a little boy, waiting to go on a [local TV] program called Lew King's Rangers. That was from a place called the Cloud Club on top of the Guarantee Bank.
"Marty Robbins and I, back in '54, '55, there was a little radio station on top of a garage, and after we got through working a nightclub, we'd go to this radio station and the guy would put us on the air and we'd take turns singing."
Just singing was not enough for the Suntanned Pipe Fitter; Ernie was a man of ambition and figured the only way to learn more is to do more. When one Prince Makanuea and his Hawaiian troop arrived, so did opportunity.
"In '58, he came through Phoenix and he was looking for a singer to join the show, so I decided to go on the road entertaining," Ernie says. "I joined the group for a year, and when I came back with that knowledge, I put my own show together. It was strictly Polynesian then. I did Hawaiian, Samoan, Tahitian, we put Filipino dancing in it, Japanese, Siamese, I made it a real Polynesia, I put the whole world in it."
So let's say it's some Phoenix evening in the late Fifties. We enter a club with the Menehune name on the sign outside, score a nice table, the candle is winking through its bamboo holder, the drinks have been delivered. What happens?
Ernie smiles and squints from 1996 all the way back. "The lights would be off, and I would come out with a conch shell. I'd blow the conch shell, there'd be a drum roll, and then--'Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present Hawaii's Suntanned Irishman, Ernie Menehune and his Polynesian revue!'--Ta da da. The girls would come out with the gourds and the skirts and the whole thing, very flashy. Then it would calm down to a happy medium, music, singing, jokes, then POW again and we'd go out. I used to do the flaming-knife dance as a finale. That was fun, fun, fun."
From the late Fifties well into the Sixties and Seventies, fun for the Menehune nightclub tribe reigned supreme. Bookings were constant, and Ernie added Anglo aspects to his act when necessary.
"I saw that after the floor show was over, they always had a house band for dancing. So I decided to capture both ends--all that Tony Bennett, Eddie Fisher type of music was in--so I started rehearsing my band with that type of music so that people wouldn't get tired of Hawaiian music all night long. We'd have country, rock, everything. We did all that Aquarius stuff."
Later albums reveal a liberal mix of lounge-staple pleasers such as "Sweet Caroline," "I've Gotta Be Me," "That's Life," "Danny Boy," "The Impossible Dream," "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In," and plenty of jokes. On record, at least, this stuff sounds like nothing to write home about. It's always the island numbers that get me, and apparently got those live audiences back then.
"I was booked into a club at the river bed [in Phoenix] when Waylon Jennings was there. On his day off, I'd go in there, we'd have Hawaiian night and we'd pack the house."
One of the clubs on Ernie's late-Sixties road itinerary was the Latitude 20 in Torrance, California, and that is where the future Waikiki Twins--one of whom would become Ernie's future wife--stepped into the picture. Beverly and sis were 18 when they joined in '68, just out of high school. They were seasoned performers, schooled in Hawaiian dance, as fate would have it. Bev's also done a bunch of TV shows--"a saloon girl, those were my parts"--and was in a Tucson-shot McCartney video a couple years ago.
Though they didn't get married until 1977, Bev and Ernie have pretty much the same stories, lots of them, to tell from the past 28 years. And when telling them, they talk in and out and all over each other in a comfortable way.
"Frank Sinatra used to come to see us at Caesars," says Beverly. "We always would know because here comes 17 guards first, they'd clear the area. . . ."
Now Ernie:
"Security would block off the area and set up a bar just for him. I used to do a medley of Charlie Rich's two hits. Sinatra sent up a security guard with a note and said he never did like those songs, but he said the way I phrased those songs, he was going to start using them. You know, he's the greatest phraser in the world, so that made my ego grow, I'll tell you. And we used to talk to him in the coffee shop. Very nice guy."
Bev: "We knew people like Buddy Hackett--I'll take Shecky Green over Don Rickles, and I'll take Buddy over both of them--and James Darren. He was Moon Doggy in those Gidget movies. He invited us to Tom Jones' birthday party."
Ernie: "Sonny was there, but he wasn't with Cher." Bev: "My outfit that I wore to that party still has his birthday cake all over it. It's hanging in back . . . My sister and I were Elvis fans like you wouldn't believe. When Elvis did his comeback show in '69, the manager at Caesars got us into Elvis even though it was sold out. He said, 'Just go to the gate and give the guy my card.' We walked right in. They started taking us to the booths, and I said no, I don't want to sit here. I want my elbow on the stage."
Ernie: "Oh, yeah! It was a good life!"
And sitting there at the Menehune Ranch, the sun obscured against a huge volcanicky mountain that I say looks like Hawaii, where I've never been, which Beverly scoffs at (she still misses the party life in Vegas, she'll tell you quietly with a smile while Ernie is grabbing more Cokes), life still seems pretty good.
The couple officially broke up the act in '85 to be at home when their son started kindergarten, but the gig potential lingers on, in one form or another.
Weeks later, I returned to a ranch luau to witness Ernie and his band onstage, telling ancient jokes that probably worked at Tropic Wishbone and singing beautifully. He does shows for the Shriners (he's a member) and at trailer parks; he sang the national anthem at a Tucson Toros game not too long ago and the crowd demanded an unheard-of encore of the same tune--"Can you believe that?"
He gets excited when I tell him that kids are embracing lounge and tiki music again; he wonders out loud why we shouldn't set up a show in Phoenix, have a good time, make some money for both of us.
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At some point, the term "has-been" springs up; Ernie laughs, tells me how much his wife hates that term. He's not kidding.
"That's the part I don't like," clarifies Bev, who can turn on the force as easily as the charm. "To me, I grew up in show business. First time I was onstage was at age 3 and I'll tell you what a has-been is to me. A singer who has lost his voice and is still singing, or somebody who's an alcoholic and can't function onstage, that's a has-been. Somebody that can still do their job as good or better than ever, just because they're no longer doing it, to me that's not a has-been."
Says Ernie: "To me a has-been is a guy that's given up." Which does not seem to describe Arizona's Suntanned Irishman. The pipes are there, the spirit is there, and I'm sure those flaming machetes are packed away someplace.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Rare is the moment that Jeff Francoeur is not smiling in camp these days with the Indians. On the field and in the clubhouse, the veteran outfielder acts like an overjoyed kid, rediscovering the kind of fun that disappeared on him last year.
"I'm very comfortable and confident with where I'm at now," Francoeur said.
That would hardly be news for most players within the optimistic atmosphere that Spring Training brings. For Francoeur, who is in camp with Cleveland as a non-roster invitee, it is an important statement. A content mental state seemed extremely far away when he packed his bags and headed home last August.
There were other job offers, but Francoeur needed a break from baseball.
"To put it mildly, I think I was depressed," Francoeur said.
Francoeur found his respite on the beaches of Destin, Fla., where he spent parts of September and October with his wife, Catie, and their daughter, Emma. Their baby girl arrived over the All-Star break, bringing some happiness to what was an otherwise dismal season with the Royals, who released Francoeur in early July.
Shortly before Emma arrived, Francoeur signed a contract with San Francisco on July 9, but he had no idea at the time how difficult the transition would be for him. Mentally, Francoeur said he was "checked out," especially with his family on the other side of the country. When they visited him during an Aug. 13-15 series in Washington, D.C., they noticed how much weight Francoeur had lost.
Normally around 215-220 pounds, Francoeur had dropped to around 201, and he admits now that he was not eating right or taking care of his body.
On Aug. 21, Francoeur was released by the Giants.
"I lost confidence in myself," Francoeur said. "I was done, man. Me and my wife had tried to have a kid for three years, and we had a kid on Monday of the All-Star break last year. We had a little baby girl -- our first one. We had two miscarriages and gone through some issues. ... We had four or five other teams call wanting me to just join them for September to see how it goes. I told my agent, 'No.' I was done."
Francoeur's agent warned the outfielder that taking that stance would mean only a Minor League deal would be realistic for the upcoming season. Under the circumstances, the 30-year-old Francoeur accepted that possibility and decided to focus on his family.
After the Indians traded outfielder Drew Stubbs to the Rockies in December, Francoeur heard from both Cleveland general manager Chris Antonetti and manager Terry Francona. They wanted to give the outfielder a chance at earning a spot on the Tribe's bench, serving as an option against lefty pitching and providing strong defense.
Francoeur, who was selected by the Braves in the first round of the 2002 First-Year Player Draft, compared having the chance to play for Francona to playing for Hall of Fame Atlanta manager Bobby Cox. He did not want to pass up the opportunity.
"A chance to play for a manager like him, I hadn't heard a bad thing about him," Francoeur said. "And I knew a lot of guys on this team and knew there was possibly an opportunity here. Tito plays everybody. I think that's the fun part here. Everybody stays involved. You saw it last year. ... And last year you saw how close they were and how much fun they had on the other side. For me, I wanted that.
"The last year and a half, two years, I haven't had that much fun and kind of missed the joy of coming to the yard."
That last comment sounded nearly identical to the kind of quotes offered last spring by utility man Ryan Raburn, who joined the Indians as a non-roster invitee after a rough season with the Tigers. While working as a part-timer in Francona's versatile lineup, Raburn thrived and launched 16 home runs in only 243 at-bats.
"I've talked to Ryan about that," Francoeur said. "I've known Ryan for a while now. That's what he said. He said, 'Tito really gave me a confidence boost last year to just go out and play and have fun.'"
In 81 games overall last year, Francoeur hit just .204 with a .536 OPS in his stints with Kansas City and San Francisco. The previous season, the outfielder managed only a .235 average (.665 OPS) in 148 games for the Royals. In 2011, though, Francoeur turned in what he calls his career year, posting a .285/.329/.476 slash line with 20 homers, 47 doubles, 87 RBIs, 77 runs and 22 stolen bases.
Francoeur has a pair of 100-RBI seasons on his resume (in 2006 and '07 with Atlanta), won a Gold Glove Award in '07, and currently ranks second among active players in outfield assists (121). While Francoeur labored against left-handers last year (.223), that has been a specialty of his over the course of his nine-year career (.285).
"I feel comfortable with what I've done and the numbers I can put up," Francoeur said. "If I hadn't done it before, had success at the big league level, I think it'd be different. Having done that, I know what I need to get back. I'm just kind of turning the page on last year."
Francona is looking forward to seeing if Francoeur can fit into Cleveland's picture.
"He's got one of the better reputations in baseball, as far as being a teammate," Francona said. "That helps. Last year, he kind of struggled against lefties, but that's been what he's really done [well] in his career. Certainly, with the amount of left-handed hitters we have in our outfield, we'd like to see what he can do."
That chance has Francoeur smiling.
"It's almost a breather, a relaxer, to come to camp," he said. "I put myself in this situation. Do I feel like I should be where I'm at now? No. I know I'm a better player than that. At the same time, I put myself in that situation. But there's also something you can do about it."


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I've got nothing against my sleepy little home town of Palatine, Illinois but I've never thought of it as a hotbed of cultural activity either. Occasionally, something cool happens, like when the Durty Nellies night club hosted an Underground Garage showcase that included The Zombies, Gore Gore Girls, and The Mooney Suzuki, or when The Smithereens will play the Palatine Street Fest on August 28th. But mostly it's sedate around here.
That's why I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival being held in town this week. It kicks off with an outdoor concert by Chris Petlak at the Fred P. Hall Amphitheater on Wednesday, July 21st, and ends with an Awards Brunch at Hotel Indigo on Sunday, July 25th. In between, there will be several screenings each night at the Cutting Hall Performing Arts Center. Emmett's restaurant will be the scene of a Festival Dinner Buffet late Saturday afternoon.
The independent films are from around the world and range from Brooke Dahmen's two-minute comedy 8 Hour Work Day to Gregory Fitzsimmons's 85-minute drama Miss Ohio. Several of the entries look interesting. For example, there's the Alex Karpovsky directed Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, a documentary about Second City improv masters TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi. Bryan Litt's Educating Cooper is an offbeat comedy about a schoolboy coping with his mother's death, an evil principal, and an exotic female classmate. On Saturday, Blue Whiskey will present the Illinois Premiere of The Exploding Girl, a drama about a college student whose epilepsy is affected by her emotional troubles. And there are plenty more choices.
Hopefully, there will be a good turn out for this event, but I'm not sure if many people in Palatine even know about it. I wouldn't have known about it if I hadn't seen Blue Whiskey's eight-page program at the Palatine Library, although the Blue Whiskey website has links to articles by Dann Gire in The Daily Herald and Dan Pearson in the Barrington Courier-Review. As for you people coming from abroad for the film festival, try spending some cash at Durty Nellies, Emmett's, Mint Julep Cafe, Lamplighters, and some of the other bars and restaurants in town. That just might encourage Palatine to try this sort of thing more often.


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Salman Khan has become 47 years old and there is hardly any possibility that he would get married in near future. That does not mean that he had any shortage of girlfriends. So, he does not need to get married. Most of his fans would find it almost impossible to remember the names of all his GFs.
Recently, he appeared in a TV program called Koffee With Karan.
However, it's not bad manners that's behind Salman's "ignoring" of "some" girlfriends. He clarified: "Now you're somewhere else, you have your own life. I don't want in someone else's mind that thought to come into that, you know, ex-boyfriend. I don't want anything of her past coming into their lives. So I stay miles away." What a gent.
Not all ex-girlfriends are to be ignored, of course. "Sangeeta (Bijlani) is a friend. She's part of the family, she's always been," Salman said.
He's also OK with the current boyfriends of ex-girlfriends. In fact, he "thanks" them - not for taking the girls out of his life, as Karan cruelly suggested, but for taking good care of them.
So, it seems that Salman Khan has no intention of getting married soon. He is not a bad person in real life. He helped many in Bollywood film industry. Even he has helped a lot of ordinary people. However, when it comes to marriage or having a romantic affair, he is always terrible.


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CONCORD — Senate Democrats met Friday to formalize their leadership positions, with Martha Fuller Clark as Assistant Democratic Leader and David Watters as a Democratic Liaison to the House.
Clark represents District 21, a newly aligned district consisting of Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, Portsmouth, Durham, Lee and Madbury. She will represent communities in both Strafford and Rockingham counties.
Watters represents Strafford County's District 4, comprised of Barrington, Dover, Rollinsford and Somersworth. As state Senate, Watters said he will bring experience to the work of creating jobs and will help New Hampshire families and improve educational opportunities.
"Each caucus has its leadership team, which has certain roles to play," Watters said. "I've been assigned, along with Senator (David) Pierce, to be the Liaison to the House. This is something that is often done with people who have experience with the House and relationships there."
Senator Sylvia Larsen of Concord, who was unanimously re-elected as Senate Democratic Leader, announced the positions.
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Ordinarily, escapism and the movies are like the ocean and sea-faring vessels: Bob along, stay afloat, avoid any massive icebergs of implausibility. Reality? It just makes waves.
And yet this year's nominees for the Darryl F. Zanuck Producers Guild Award — the PGA's top prize, and the most reliable harbinger of Oscar's best pic — are all about subjects that are usually more suited to jaw-clenching documentaries: Slavery, mental illness, terrorism, despotism, various other isms and economic oppression. All together, this year's top films add up to a tsunami of social awareness.
"I think it's partly coincidence," says Grant Heslov, who with George Clooney and Ben Affleck produced the thriller "Argo," about a chapter in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and its ensuing hostage crisis. "But I also think that we do go in some sort of cycle — of what audiences are interested in seeing, and what filmmakers are interested in making."
What's critical this year, he adds, is that the films with substance are making money. "They're all doing well commercially and I honestly think that, especially at this time of year — not to disparage summer films, I go to them just like everybody else — but I think after a while you crave what you haven't seen."
In the case of the PGA awards, which will be handed out Saturday, these include films about race and bondage ("Django Unchained," "Lincoln"); amoral monarchies and atonal music ("Les Miserables"); terrorism and torture ("Zero Dark Thirty," "Skyfall"); poverty and eco-disasters ("Beasts of the Southern Wild") and, of course, obsessives and compulsives ("Silver Linings Playbook").
Even among the more fantastical nominees, such as "Moonrise Kingdom," or "Life of Pi," there are themes of metaphysical discontent, existential dread and romantic angst.
"Here's what excites me about this year," says Gil Netter, one of "Pi's" producers. "There are a lot of good movies and a lot of good movies that aren't fitting what seems to be the formula that Hollywood wants to follow these days. And they're succeeding. I'm hoping it forces studios to diversify their portfolios."
Netter agrees that "it's probably just cyclical," but both "Life of Pi" and "Moonrise Kingdom" are among the few top-ranked films this year that aren't based on real-life stories or, like "Django Unchained," deal with historical issues, however deliriously.
But fact-based stories have their problems: As "Argo's" producer-director Ben Affleck told Variety late last year, there were some terrific yarns that were part of the movie's backstory but which got cut out of the film because they didn't propel the narrative. "You would have had to make a 10-hour miniseries to get it all in," he said at the time.
"The tricky part is when you make a film that about people who are alive," says Heslov. "It's about getting it right and at the same time making a movie that people want to go see. There is definitely a balancing act. There are always too many characters, and you have to figure out who will tell the story."
Sometimes you have to massage reality and sometimes reality gives you a gift, as it did with the revelation that a woman CIA agent was at the heart of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and provided "Zero Dark Thirty" producer Mark Boal with an ideal kind of dramatic centerpiece.
"It was an opportunity to write a female character who's a little different from the cinematic tropes we're used to," says Boal, who wrote the script. "Here you have a woman who, in the hands of Kathryn Bigelow and Jessica Chastain, is not defined so much by gender politics or her relationship with men; she's defined by her work. She's a hard-charging protagonist who carries the kind of stuff you usually delegate to men."
Similar to avoiding gender stereotypes, the PGA nominees have almost uniformly resisted the pigeonhole. There are moments of horrific violence and humor in "Django," pathos, wit and intellectual rigor in "Lincoln," whimsy and melancholy in "Moonrise Kingdom," and an almost uncanny coexistence of serious drama and romantic comedy in "Silver Linings Playbook."
"What I realized at the script stage and even moreso when we started shooting was that there weren't just dramatic sections or romantic, funny sections to the movie, but that both were happening simultaneously," says Bruce Cohen, who produced the David O. Russell-helmed "Silver Linings Playbook" with Jonathan and Donna Gigliotti. "The complicated dual tone of our film was our focus ."
It's like life, Cohen adds, which tends not to pigeonhole itself. But movies do — and auds expect they will. So didn't the carefully calibrated approach to "Playbook" seem like risky business?
"To me, all good stuff is risky business," says Cohen, who produced the Oscar winners "Milk" and "American Beauty." "We look for something to break new ground. The question was whether we'd be able to pull it off."
It's never hard to get someone during awards season to say it's been a great year for movies. This year, however, the quality arguments are also backed up by numbers.
"At end of day if they make money and are made for a reasonable price at the beginning, everybody wins," Heslov says.
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Loic Remy has revealed his dream of playing for one of Europe's biggest clubs before the end of his career.
The 27-year-old France striker is currently on loan at Newcastle from QPR, and the Magpies are desperate to complete a permanent deal at the end of the season.
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Aquad is an example of computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) that supports content analysis of open data in qualitative research in psychology, education, sociology, philosophy, medicine, ethnography, politics,etc. Open data are usually collected through observation, introspection, narratives, discussion groups, interviews, etc.
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Aquad was developed in Germany in 1987 by Günter L. Huber, professor at the Department of Educational Psychology at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Tübingen, to make up for limited manpower at content analysis in a research project.
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Aquad provides tools as:
- Text searching
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- Writing memos (annotation)
- Word analysis
- Retrieving by file name, code, keyword, or parts of memo texts
- Table analysis
- Construction of linkage hypotheses
- Comparison of cases/files
Presentation of data[edit | edit source]
Data could be analysed as written text, audio recording, images, or video. Initially, computer assisted qualitative data analysis software analysed only verbal texts. The observation, introspection, narratives, discussion groups, interviews, etc. were transcribed and CAQDAS only analysed the transcription (linguistics).
Situation of data[edit | edit source]
Data could be directly analysed on the screen (one-step) or outside (two-steps). One-step allows to code on the screen with digitalised data. Two-steps allows to enter codes on the screen keeping the documents as realia on the desk or in other means as cameras, TV, etc. For instance, two-steps allows to analyse recordings, diaries, incunabula, or objects without transcribing, taking photos, or scanning them.
Comparison of cases/files by Boolean analysis[edit | edit source]
Aquad allows comparison of cases/files by "logical minimization". It applies Boolean method of qualitative comparison by Ragin (1989) and detects critical features to identify types of cases.
Versions[edit | edit source]
Real available version is AQUAD Six that includes examples of analyses of written text, audio, photo, and video. A demo version and a manual (Huber & Gürtler, 2004) are also available on the website. Aquad is available in German, English, and Spanish.
See also[edit | edit source]
- Qualitative research
- Qualitative marketing research
- Qualitative psychological research
- Sampling (case studies)
References[edit | edit source]
- Huber, G. L. & Gürtler, L. (2004) AQUAD Six. Manual for the Analysis of Qualitative data. Tübingen: Ingeborg Huber Verlag. Download
- Ragin, C. C. (1989) The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Google Books


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Can Social Networking Cure Social Ills?
By Jeffery D. Sachs
Published: May 20, 2011
Tina Rosenberg: "Join the Club"
Guest Host: Susan Page
The Diane Rehm Show
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Peer pressure as social cure; Rosenberg's "Join The Club"
Social Capital Blog
The Saguaro Seminar at Harvard University: Civic Engagement in America
May 16, 2012
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