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Truckload carriers continue to innovate to remain profitable, particularly through service diversification and driver retention, according to a new study by trucking software giant TMW Systems.
TMW's first annual Transportation & Logistics Study – North America For-Hire Truckload Carrier Benchmarking Survey found that truckload carriers are diversifying their businesses by adding new higher margin services, including brokerage, logistics, LTL to TL consolidation, dedicated services and intermodal services.
Those looking to expand are exploring dedicated services first (27%), followed by brokerage services (21%). The majority of them are working on an accelerated schedule, within a one-year time frame.
Beyond diversification, the survey found that asset utilization is a key to driver turnover and to operating ratios.
Driver Turnover
The survey revealed the most important factor in retaining drivers was driver miles. Turnover rates closely follow driver revenue miles per week. Companies whose drivers log the most hours have the lowest turnover rates, indicating the higher the utilization, the lower the turnover.
Trucks sitting empty not only impact financial performance but also have a devastating effect on driver morale and overall retention.
While home time is important, it is quantitatively clear that drivers need that time away from home to be consistently productive, TMW concludes.
Operating Ratio & Asset Utilization
Government regulations, driver constraints and increasing costs of equipment and labor are among the factors keeping operating ratios high. Seventy-one percent of survey respondents report 94% or higher operating ratios, yet the industry's best performers achieve less than 90%.
Survey results uncovered a strong correlation (about 75%) between utilization and operating ratio, so it's not a surprise that survey respondents also predict the biggest challenge over the next one to two years will be maximizing asset utilization (24%).
The average utilization (revenue miles per seated truck per week) is 2,230. No company with fewer than 2,000 revenue miles per truck per week achieved better than 97% OR.


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right side : the Cristal for best feature : "Sita Sings the Blues" by Nina PALEY (United States), 1h 22mn,It is difficult to keep the house made of blocks out of the water. The grandfather who has lived in it has been constantly adding to it as the water level rises. This is the story about his family memories.
2D animation seems to be still in the place!Musical adaptation of Indian epic "Râmâyana".
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Puccini is not a composer with whom one would readily associate the quintessentially English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) but he had known the composer personally and had discussed La Bohème in great detail with him in London in the 1920s. The conductor had spent a huge amount of time (and money) in the opera house in the years leading up to the First World War and immediately afterwards. He was in overall control of the International Seasons at Covent Garden from 1933 until 1939 and during his years in the United States between 1941 and 1944 had conducted opera at the Metropolitan in New York. His post-war operatic operations were confined to a series of BBC studio broadcasts, Strauss's first version of Ariadne auf Naxos at the 1950 Edinburgh Festival, two operas at Covent Garden (Die Meistersinger and Balfe's The Bohemian Girl in 1951), Delius's Irmelin at Oxford in 1953, and a memorable season at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1958. He also made commercial studio recordings of Gounod's Faust (Naxos 8.110117-18) in 1948 and Bizet's Carmen in 1958-59 in addition to this celebrated and much loved version of La Bohème in 1956.
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Recipe RHUBARB CUSTARD PIE
Anne K Moore
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Since I live in the South, I don't get much rhubarb and have never tried to grow it. It does not like our hot summers. There is a rhubarb now with variegated leaves, which would fit nicely into a flower border.
I do wish it would grow here because I love rhubarb pie like Mama used to make. Back in Ohio where I grew up, our rhubarb patch came with the farm. It died down every winter and came back up every spring. To my knowledge we never did anything to it. It grew at the edge of the lawn beside a hard path.
My dolls and I would often have tea parties under the big cedar trees using rhubarb leaves as tea plates.
I have eaten the stalks raw with a good dosing of sugar, but my favorite is Mama's rhubarb custard pie. I know many folks like rhubarb/strawberry pie, but I never developed a liking for the combination. I do love the sweet and sour play-off of the flavors in the custard pie.
A few days ago, I was thrilled to find fresh rhubarb stalks in the local Piggly Wiggly. I brought home a pound, rifled through Mama's recipe box, and made my Mama's pie. Since I'm dieting I substituted granulated Splenda for the sugar in the recipe. Although Splenda says to use it in the same measurements as sugar, I find it too sweet to use that way, so I didn't use quite so much. I did use sugar on top of the top crust. It brought back many childhood memories.
Oven 400 degrees F.
9 inch pie plate lined with pastry dough (I used store bought.)
2 Tablespoons butter & 1 teaspoon melted for crust
Rhubarb stalks (about 1 pound) washed and cut into 1 inch slices to make 4 cups
3 eggs, slightly beaten
Blend together:
1 1/4 cups granulated Splenda (1 ½ cups sugar if not using Splenda) or to taste
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Beat the blended dry ingredients into the eggs. Then fold in the cut rhubarb. Fill the pie plate pastry and dot the top of the filling with butter. Cover with a top crust, cut slits to vent it, then brush it with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 400 degrees for 50-60 minutes until filling no longer wiggles under the crust. Cool completely before serving and keep leftovers refrigerated.
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Portraits of Albinism: Letting An Inner Light Shine
Photographers look for beauty in unexpected places. And in parts of Tanzania — a society that gravely mistreats albinos — photojournalist set out to show how beautiful she thinks they are.
Tanzanians with albinism endure a particularly cruel fate. Not only do they suffer from sun sensitivity and vision problems, but they are also hunted by witch doctors who believe their body parts can be used for magic.
Since 2006, more than 71 albinos have been killed in Tanzania so their bodies could be made into potions.
"They go through daily prejudice and hardship," Martin says on the phone. "People around them don't think of them as humans."
Tanzania — which is thought to be the birthplace of the genetic mutation — has one of the highest rates of albinism in the world. Albinos account for nearly 1 in every 1,400 people, compared to about 1 in 20,000 worldwide. And because of social discrimination, albinos tend to marry each other, thereby passing their genes to their children.
Martin is a photojournalist for The Associated Press who normally covers politics, but she has a personal interest in issues of race and identity. Every year she takes personal time to tell long-form stories, and this year she traveled to Tanzania for three-and-a-half weeks. She visited the Kabanga Protectorate Center — a sort of boarding school for people with albinism — for her project Tribe of Ghosts.
Martin worked with a translator to interview her subjects and take their portraits. In some cases, it was the first time they had ever had their photo taken.
"In society, they are reviled, so they really responded to being treated with dignity and being photographed in a respectful, humanitarian manner," she says.
"I really think there is something special in this collection of portraits where their inner beauty shines through," she adds. "We would talk about their experiences ... and they would laugh and love that they were in the pictures."
The Kabanga center and others like it protect people with albinism but also isolate them. Martin told me there is not much of a plan for the albinos beyond primary education. Because they can't live safely in Tanzanian society, she says, their prospects for marriage, a career and a normal life are unclear.
Martin plans to give prints to every person she photographed.
"Because they are not treated like humans, because they are not treated with respect, I hope they have a little something that helps them reflect on the beauty in themselves — to help them going forward."
Martin collaborated with the organization, a northern Virginia group dedicated to raising awareness of people with albinism in Tanzania.
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Neil Hayes found a good story, and like he did back in the '80s when he was a running back for the Rochelle Hubs, he ran with it.
Now his book, "When the Game Stands Tall," is about to come out as a movie on the big screen under the same title. It opens in Rockford-area theaters Aug. 22.
After watching the final version in a private screening for the first time last week, Hayes says he's ready to let the rest of the world in on what a couple of coaches and some high school kids from the Bay area in California taught him more than a decade ago.
"It's always hard for the people who wrote the book to see it unfold as a movie; of course, it's never exactly what you want," Hayes said before seeing the final version in Naperville on July 17. He then added, "This came pretty close. I think it conveys the spirit of the program. That's the thing it did real well, and that was the important thing to me."
While Hayes' book and the upcoming movie are based on the true story of the De La Salle High School football program and its 151-game winning streak, it's the people involved, the bond they formed and how they went about forming it that makes it an inspiring story.
And getting that message out has been a long road for Hayes.
"It's very satisfying, especially after all the time and effort I put into this," Hayes said, before adding with a chuckle, "No one can ever say I mailed this one in."
Hayes, a 1986 Rochelle graduate and the leading rusher for two years for the Hubs, has had plenty of ups and downs since taking on the book project. He sat down and spent a year putting it into words after gaining unrestricted access to the team in 2002, the senior year of future NFL star Maurice Jones-Drew.
Over the next couple of years, the head coach had a heart attack, the streak ended, and one of the star players was shot and killed, only adding to the emotional side of the story. During it all, Hayes was right there with them.
It was nearly a decade later that he got word that filmmakers wanted to make his book into a movie. Ever since then, he's changed gears.
"Heck," he said, "I couldn't even have dreamed this big."
Hayes moved out to California after graduating college from Northern Arizona and his career as a sports writer blossomed. The Contra Costa Times knew what they had, and he was quickly placed on the most important sports beats in the area.
One of them was De La Salle High School where the football team was enthralled in what later turned into a record-breaking winning streak. Hayes embedded himself in the team, shadowed the coach, Bob Ladouceur, and found the story within the story. While the winning streak was impressive, Hayes dug deep and found an even better angle.
"It's about the message, the message of: It's not all about winning," said Hayes, who now lives in Naperville. "That came shining through with the book, and now the movie, and that's really gratifying."
Coach Ladouceur is a special man, according to Hayes, and he went about building a powerhouse in a special way. He never talked about winning or beating the other team. Instead, he taught life lessons whenever he got the chance.
In fact, something Ladouceur told Hayes early on in their relationship sparked him to write the book and gave rise to its eventual title.
"The game by itself doesn't stand tall," Ladouceur told him back in 2000. "Without intangibles, in a certain sense, it's barbarism. The violence isn't what attracts me to it. It's getting kids to play together and get along with each other. The game should be a teaching tool. It doesn't stand tall on its own."
More than 35,000 copies of the book have been sold, starting with a paperback and hardcover copy, and a special movie edition was recently released. Hayes was also largely involved in an ESPN documentary, "The Greatest Streak," that aired 10 years ago and will air again in August.
The Mandalay-Sony film stars Jim Caviezel as Ladouceur and Laura Dern as his wife, Bev Ladouceur. It was filmed in New Orleans from April 15 through June 15, 2013. That's when Hayes quit his job as a sports reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times to accept a position on the set as the consultant — and as protector of the theme.
"When you're writing the book, it's your baby, and no one else's," Hayes said. "But then when you're making the movie, it's just like you're part of the team now. It's kind of like you lose control of it a little bit."
Still, he appreciated having a hands-on role in the making of the film and believes he was able to make a difference — and even, at times, help hold onto the overall message.
After seeing the completed film, he couldn't help but acknowledge that all of his hard work was worth it. And he doesn't hesitate to rub it in to the doubters out there a little bit, too.
"I knew this was a great story, and no one believed me — I mean no one," Hayes said. "This IS a great story, I think now everybody is going to really find out. So heck yeah: I told you so."
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Just a small comment about intentPosted in controversy, doin' it wrong, New Zealand on December 2nd, 2010 by steph – 17 Comments
I, like many people, am appalled and annoyed by the "I've got a lovely pair" fundraiser launched by NZGirl (it's pretty easy to find if you want to find it). This is just one more brick in the wall that is the sexification of titty breast cancer. Better bloggers than I have already hit this one out of the park (yes, each of those is a different post!). But what I wanted to say concerned the idea that maybe NZGirl had good, honest intent. That they did this because they genuinely believed this is a good way to raise awareness and somehow help people with breast cancer or help people be more aware of how to get check and be proactive about their health. When I hear the word 'intent' thrown into the mix, I can't help but think of this post over at Genderbitch: "Intent! It's Fucking Magic!". While the post is not about this topic specifically, I can't help but think of this passge on the power of intent whenever someone says "I didn't mean to offend!"
Because you see, Intent is the ultimate alchemy. It doesn't change lead to gold, it changes harmful, negative or damaging actions into happy, fun, "everyone hugs and no one is oppressed", magical unicorn actions. It dips its eerie powers into the pools of time and space and counters each and every ripple of fuckery and pain created by the actions of an unthinking douchebag who was too privileged or self absorbed to see that their actions were a problem.
So, I really don't think that NZGirl having good intentions really makes this excusable. Maybe you don't intend to be offensive but that certainly doesn't mean that the thing you do isn't offensive. And in that case, you shouldn't get a free pass and an "oh, okay then, I see now"; you should get a chance to apologise for the inadvertant offense and a chance to understand the perspective of others and maybe learn something.


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New York, NY – October 24th, 2013 – The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) in cooperation with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) is proud to announce two new categories in the 41st Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards.
For the first time, there will be a category, "Entertainment News," that honors programs which were not previously eligible to enter the Daytime Emmy® Awards. This category is for programs covering the entertainment industry with a focus on human interest, popular culture and celebrity gossip and interviews. Programs such as the syndicated "Entertainment Tonight" and "Extra" are two examples of "Entertainment News" programs.
The second new category, "Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series," will be available for any Daytime Drama series which has less than 35 original episodes in the 2013 calendar year. Examples of this type of program would be Crystal Chappell's series "Venice," and the soon to premiere, "Tainted Dreams – The Series." Daytime Drama programs which have produced at least 35 original episodes in the calendar year of 2013 are eligible to enter "Outstanding Drama Series," the same category as the Network Daytime Dramas. This will result in Prospect Park's "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" competing against "The Young & The Restless," (CBS) "The Bold & The Beautiful," (CBS) "General Hospital" (ABC) and "Days of Our Lives" (NBC). All of the actors and crafts people on these shows will also be eligible to compete in their appropriate program and craft related categories.
"I would like to thank the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, especially Bruce Rosenblum and the ATAS Board of Governors, for their part in this collaborate effort to establish the "Entertainment News" category in the Daytime Emmy® Awards," said Malachy Wienges, Chairman, NATAS.
"I am very pleased to include these new categories in the Daytime Emmy® contest," said David Michaels, Senior Executive Director, Daytime Emmy® Awards. "I strongly believe that every broadcast entity should have a chance to compete for an Emmy® Award in a true peer to peer competition."
Entertainment news programs may choose to enter the new Daytime Emmy® Awards category or enter the Primetime Emmy® Awards in the "Outstanding Informational Series or Special" category, competing with a variety of different kinds of shows.
Programs may enter in only one competition; those choosing to enter in the new "Entertainment News" category in Daytime Emmy® Awards would not be eligible to enter in the Primetime Emmy® Awards.
About The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) is a professional service organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television and related media industry. It recognizes excellence in television and media with the coveted Emmy® Award for News & Documentary, Sports, Daytime Entertainment, Daytime Creative Arts & Entertainment, Public & Community Service, and Technology & Engineering. NATAS membership consists of more than 13, 000 broadcast and media professionals represented in 19 regional chapters across the country. Beyond awards, NATAS has extensive educational programs including Regional Student Television and its Student Award for Excellence for outstanding journalistic work by high school students, as well as scholarships, and major activities for both industry professionals and the viewing public. For more information, please visit the website at www.emmyonline.tv
For More Information:
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Over the years I've written quite a bit about AS/NT relationships. I've written about accepting your aspergers partner for who they are and how to reach them in the relationship.
I guess that it's all been a bit one-sided but today I'm starting a series which might rectify the balance. These posts is directed at people with Asperger's sydrome and are about being the best partner that you can be.
All relationships need work. They're not "fire and forget". You can't simply say, ok we've ticked the boxes; we're married, we have a house and we have kids. That's not where the work ends.
There's a saying from Marriage Encounters which I like to repeat. "Sometimes I love my partner -- and sometimes I have to work harder at it",
Life is all about change. As aspies we often don't like change but we're powerless to stop it. Like it or not, people change and situations change. In order to adapt to these changes, we too need to change.
We may have loved our partner because among other things, she shared our love of Star Wars but that was twenty years ago. As aspies, we often retain our special interests for life but our neurotypical partners do not. We have to accept that these things change and conversations which were once interesting to them are now considered "boring".
An Example
It took me years to learn that my wife no longer loved movies. She didn't care who the director was or what else they were working on. For her, a movie at the cinemas is an "escape" from the rigurs of daily life and kids. No matter how good the movie was, she does not want to talk about it afterwards.
Of course, that's all I want to do after a film and our rides home were probably torture for her. It didn't help when she told me to stop talking about it either because she'd mostly use fake excuses like; "I have a headache". "Oh, Ok", I thought, "I'll save this interesting diatribe for some time when she's feeling better".
It was a long time before she was honest with me about her reasons and even then I'd get it wrong thinking that she didn't want to talk about that specific movie. After all, when her words were; "I don't want to talk about the movie!" what else can I think?
When it finally sunk in, I said "well, you talk then and I'll listen", probably quite snappily. She didn't talk though because she claimed to be busy driving and our conversation dropped into awkward silence which was only broken about ten minutes later with her saying; "so what? are you not talking to me now or what?"
I was confused. On the one hand, she wants me to talk about something but on the other, it needs to be things directly related to her - and outside the realm of my special interest.
Instead of a wall of talk, I need to be more give and take. I need to guess something that she wants to talk about and ask questions.
It's not easy. I'll ask about the kids or family or budget but I'm often met with "oh, so now you want to talk about it .... after I've been doing it for years....". Obviously they're not the right conversations either.
It seemed that there was no easy answer but apparently there is.
You're supposed to talk about "us". When you're out as a couple, the conversation should be about "us". The questions you need to ask are;
- How are you feeling?
- How was your day?
- Is there anything that I can do to help?
- What do you need from me?
- Are you happy in this relationship?
- How do you feel our relationship is going? (don't ask this one while she's driving).
Once she picks herself up off the floor and answers you, you need to think about the answer she's given you and try to find a way to work at delivering it. Also, don't be surprised if you get asked the same question back - be prepared to give an answer.
In my case, the answer was; "I want to be appreciated more" ... and I guess that's the topic of my next post.
In the meantime, if you're an aspie, then your homework is to ask your partner one of those questions. Also... If you're a female aspie, I'm keen to know if your partners have similar needs or if they're just happy to talk about special interests?
BTW: A big shout out to Aspie Wife Aspie Mom who first got me thinking about "the other side".


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Today will go down in infamy - the Trump Crime Family is officially exposed and has collapsed.
Trump will soon be in Handcuffs, along with his kids and co conspirators.
Manafort found guilty on 8 counts in tax fraud trial
Manafort was found guilty on the eight counts of the special counsel's 18-count indictment. Each count carries a hefty prison term – when combined, he is facing a maximum of 80 years in prison, but at sentencing the total will likely be less. The federal judge declared a mistrial in the other ten counts after jurors could not reach consensus.
Having been found guilty, Manafort, 69, faces the possibility of serving the rest of his life in prison. Manafort will be the second figure in Mueller's investigation to serve a prison sentence. Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators in April and served a 30-day prison term.
This past Friday, President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for his former campaign chairman, who he called a "good person," telling reporters gathered at the White House that "it's very sad what they've done to Paul Manafort." Asked whether he will pardon Manafort, Trump declined to answer.
Michael Cohen Pleads Guilty to Bank and Tax Fraud, Campaign Finance Violations
Michael Cohen, President Trump's erstwhile lawyer and "fixer," surrendered to the FBI on Tuesday, and pleaded guilty at a Manhattan District Court to eight counts that included charges of bank fraud, tax fraud, and, most importantly from the president's point of view, campaign-finance violations. The charges stem from the investigation into hush-money payments he made to Stormy Daniels and other women on Trump's behalf, made in the run-up to the 2016 election. The tax-fraud accusations includes possibly fraudulent loans Cohen obtained during his shady years in the New York City taxi business.


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seppukudkurosawa wrote:Superfly! - Curtis Mayfield
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Black Caesar - James Brown
Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack/JJ Johnson
Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye
Shaft in Africa - Johnny Pate
I'm sensing a theme...
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seppukudkurosawa wrote:Chilli wrote:Almost Famous.
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Four men with ties to Colorado marijuana accused of laundering
Four men with ties to last year's raids of Colorado medical marijuana businesses have been indicted on international money laundering charges.
The charges against 48-eight-year-old David Furtado, a Denver lawyer and dispensary owner, and another dispensary owner, 28-year-old Luis Uribe, were revealed during a hearing Monday in federal court. Uribe's older brother, Gerardo, was also indicted but authorities haven't been able to find him.
Prosecutors say the men wired money from Colombia to finance marijuana cultivation and distribution. They say they tried to conceal the source of more than $400,000 that they planned to use to buy a Denver grow facility.
Hector Diaz, a Colombian man arrested on a weapons charge during the raids, was also charged Monday with lying in order to get a visa. Their attorneys declined comment.


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Franklin Power of Communications Awards/Zenger Medal Recipients Announced
NEW YORK, NY—March 4, 2013—Printing Industries Alliance will hold its annual Franklin Event on Tuesday, September 17 (5:30-10:00 pm) at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. Currently in its 61st year, the popular program which attracts more than 400 CEOS and senior executives from the printing, publishing, advertising and graphics sectors, will feature an outstanding roster of award recipients and is widely considered the premier networking opportunity held within the NY/NJ metro area.
"This is a major event that you definitely will not want to miss," noted Event Co-Chairs Brenda Barozzi (Pipeline ps) and Adam Avrick (Design Distributors). "It affords you immediate access to the top leaders and decision makers who can help your business to grow."
The 2013 Power of Communications Award honorees include: John Tempest (for Printing) posthumously; Jeannette Rivera-Ramos, manager, sourcing and procurement, Verizon (for Advertising) and Anthony Cenname, publisher, The Wall Street Journal.Magazine (for Publishing). The award was established in 1971 to provide industry recognition to those who have demonstrated positive influence and creative excellence in graphic communications.
The 2013 John Peter Zenger Medal, presented for the first time in 2007, is given to an individual employed within the New York/northern New Jersey/northwestern Pennsylvania graphic communications industry who has exhibited exemplary character in the form of courage, charity, activism or service. The medal will be bestowed upon Kenneth Heath, group publisher, SourceMedia for Community Service.
Recipient of the Franklin Award for Distinguished Service—given to world and industry leaders in recognition of their outstanding achievements—will be announced shortly.
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The future of journalism may look a little like Mariam Kevlishvili, a 19-year-old foreign exchange student at Our Lady of the Lake University. Mariam speaks three languages, is studying a fourth, writes copy and shoots pictures for the student newspaper, the Lake Front, manages news content for the paper's Web site and edits video for Lake Front TV.
Less than a decade ago, aspiring journalists studied one track in college. Newspapers. Photojournalism. Radio and television. Not all three. The digital age has rendered old school journalism obsolete. Today's reporters often carry cameras — even video recorders — with notebooks. But few acquire skills in the four medium areas of print, photography, online news and broadcasting.
Then there's Mariam, a sophomore who embraces 21st century change and brings a global perspective to The Lake Front. "I'm thinking," says the native of Georgia, the post-Soviet state, "about becoming an international reporter."
Her inspiration comes from her grandfather, the first radio disc jockey in Georgia. Before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Illia Kevlishvili delivered the news, offered commentary and played a little rock 'n roll in the capital city of Tbilisi. There, on the southeastern edge of Europe, Illia introduced listeners to a taste of Western culture and music: Elvis Presley, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Mariam grew up hearing about one song in particular: Back in the USSR. Though censored in the Soviet Union, Illia played the Beatles' hit for Georgians who loved the melody and beat but wondered about the words:
"Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
They leave the west behind
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
That Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my mind"
Illia spoke minimal English. But with the help of a translator, he explained the lyrics to his audience with a bit of poetic license. Mariam explains: "He had to translate the lyrics to sound more communist so they (government censors) would allow the song to be played."
Growing up in Tbilisi, a city of more than one million residents, Mariam considered Illia a role model. She spoke Georgian and Russian, like her grandfather, but started studying English in third grade and began to dream about visiting the United States. In 2008, she got her wish. As a high school junior, Mariam came to San Antonio with the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) and enrolled at John Jay. She took up photography, fell in love with the city, and returned to Tbilisi for her senior year.
To the disappointment of her parents, Mariam returned to San Antonio. Why did she choose OLLU? "I applied to a lot of universities in San Antonio but Our Lady of the Lake was the most welcoming," she says. "I liked the journalism program and found really nice people who were interested in my story and wanted to help me out."
She began studying Spanish, joined The Lake Front and blossomed. "Mariam is quickly learning what it takes to be a journalist in today's world," says Kay O'Donnell, PhD, program head of Mass Communication and faculty adviser to The Lake Front. "She started at the newspaper as a photographer and soon was writing stories and learning the content management system for updating the online news site. She is an invaluable asset to the news operation on campus."
One memorable story was a first-person explanation about her native language. Under the headline, "Thoughts of a Trilingual," Mariam wrote: "Georgian is an ancient language, our alphabet is dated back to the 4th century B.C and it is one of the 14 unique alphabets in the world. … Nobody speaks Georgian but Georgians. And there are only about 5 million Georgians in the world.
"It is impossible to make spelling errors in Georgian, because you write exactly what you hear. We don't have silent letters or capital letters, we don't pronounce combination of certain letters differently. Every sound has an equivalent in letters."
Mariam loves languages. She wants to become fluent in a fourth, Spanish. After she graduates with a degree in Mass Communication, Mariam wants to return to Georgia and travel. See the world. She might become an international reporter. She might become something else.
With her foreign roots, mastery of so many tongues and emerging multimedia skill set, the possibilities are as wide as the distance between San Antonio and Tbilisi.


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- " We have achieved a lot; yet, time is to take next bigger leap, we can't relax or rest": shared Chancellor Mittal
- Staff Members and Management pledged together to take bigger leap to see LPU among top 200 universities of the world by 2025
- Occasion was conclusive day of 13th annual conference of LPU-'Share the Vision-2014'
Sharing unprecedented rate of LPU growth since its inception, Chancellor Miittal made all to remember the mammoth increase in campus & size; placement in 5 companies of Fortune 500 to 300 super global and national brands; students & staff members from limited states & countries to presently from 29 states of India & 30 countries; from 4 study programs to 200+ programs; from 300 students to 30,000 students; and many other such growth indicating achievements. Visits of important international, national figures and celebrities including South Carolina Governor Ms Nikki Haley, President of India, bollywood actors Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone were also shared. Important ranking made by ABCSP for LPU Business School; international conferences; staff-members & students achievements including Dada Saheb Phalke Award, President Award, Participation at Auto Expo 2014 and many more were also shared.
All other senior officials, heads, faculty and staff members also assured unanimously to take the university further to sky soaring heights. Some shared to take LPU to that place where research works, publications, placements, international exposures and more will be in abundance. During the conference more than 360 LPU employees were honoured with 10 & 5 years' "Association Awards" in recognition of their long association with LPU. 28 staff members shared the honour for their 10 years' long association and 332 for 5 years. The mammoth 'Conference' communicated the mission of the university for the forthcoming years. Various cultural & sports events, fashion show, exchange of ideas were also organized to bring out the talent of the staff members.


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Scoto-Hibernian monasteries
A term which includes the monastic institutions founded during the 6th century in Scotland, through the zeal and energy of Saint Columba. They grouped themselves round Iona, which they acknowledged as the mother-house. Traces of Columban foundations are to be found in the northern, eastern and western districts of Scotland, formerly occupied by the northern and southern Picts. Later, Dunkeld took the place of Iona as the head of the Columban churches. Early in the 8th century the remaining Columban monks were expelled by King Nectan, and the primacy of Iona came to an end. The numerous Columban monasteries fell to the Culdees who were gradually superseded by the regular monastic orders. Deer Monastery survived the others for 50 years but was extinguished like the rest.
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American man detained in North Korea appears in 'apology' video
The elderly Palo Alto, Calif., man who has been detained in North Korea for more than a month "committed hostile acts" against that nation while visiting as a tourist, a state-run news agency reported Friday, also issuing what purportedly is the detainee's apology.
Perhaps most significantly, North Korea posted a video of Merrill E. Newman, 85, reading the apparently handwritten apology aloud - the first sight of Newman that anyone outside North Korea has had since he was taken into custody there Oct. 26.
After entering North Korea in October, Newman "perpetrated acts of infringing upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and slandering its socialist system, quite contrary to the purpose of tour," according to the Korean Central News Agency's dispatch.
"He is a criminal as he masterminded espionage and subversive activities against the DPRK and in this course he was involved in killings of service personnel of the Korean People's Army and innocent civilians," the report says. "The investigation clearly proved Newman's hostile acts against the DPRK and they were backed by evidence. He admitted all his crimes and made an apology for them."
The report makes no indication of whether or when Newman, a retired corporate finance executive and grandfather with a heart condition, might be released. North Korean authorities removed him from a plane minutes before he and his traveling companion - a Palo Alto neighbor - were scheduled to leave the country.
Newman's son, Jeffrey Newman of Pasadena, didn't return a call seeking comment Friday night. A State Department spokeswoman said she didn't expect the department would comment before early Saturday.
"I can't think of any previous case that's similar to this, but my gut instinct is that they're going to release him, that this is a forced apology in order to clear the way to making the gesture of releasing him," said Dan Sneider, a North Korea expert at Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
The news report was accompanied by what the agency described as an apology, dated Nov. 9 purportedly from Newman himself. And the news agency posted a video of Newman reading the apology aloud, and then signing it and affixing his thumbprint.
It's unclear whether Newman in fact wrote the apology, and if he did, whether it was coerced.
The apology, available only in roughly translated English, said that he committed crimes against North Korea while serving with United Nations forces during the Korean War, including training South Koreans in military and guerrilla tactics. This apology also said Newman ordered 200 soldiers under his command to attack communications, supply and munitions lines. "As I killed so many civilians and KPA soldiers and destroyed strategic objects in the DPRK during the Korean War, I committed indelible offensive acts against the DPRK government and Korean people."
Upon returning to North Korea in October, 60 years after his military service, Newman "had a plan to meet any surviving soldiers and pray for the souls of the dead soldiers. Following the itinerary I asked my guide to help me look for the surviving soldiers and their families and descendants because it was too hard for me to do myself."
The apology says Newman plotted to connect any surviving partisans with whom he had served 60 years ago with the South Korea-based "Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association," described as "anti Communist strategic plot organization."
"All the members of the Kuwol Partisan Comrades-in-Arms Association escaped from the DPRK to South Korea," the apology says. "So I asked the guide to help me to look for their families and relatives living in DPRK and I gave the document written with their address and e-mail address to the guide in the Yanggakdo Hotel."
The apology also says Newman "also brought the e-book criticizing the Socialist DPRK on this trip and criticizing DPRK."
"Although I committed the indelible offensive acts against the Korean people in the period of the Korean War, I have been guilty of big crimes against the DPRK government and Korean People again," the apology says.
"I realize that I cannot be forgiven for my offensives but I beg for pardon on my knees by apologizing for my offensives sincerely toward the DPRK government and the Korean people and I want not punish me. Please forgive me. If I go back to USA, I will tell the true features of the DPRK and the life the Korean people are leading."
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The six astronauts were awoken early and scrambled into escape capsules. Nasa ground control had spotted a piece of space debris hurtling towards their temporary home aboard the International Space Station 244 miles (390 km) above the Earth. The fast-moving junk was spotted just one day before its potential impact, making it too late to manoeuvre the station to a safer orbit. The only course of action for the three Russians, two Americans and one Dutch astronaut crew was to take shelter and prepare to evacuate if required.
In the event, the debris, a chunk of a defunct military communications satellite, missed by the ISS by approximately 7.5 miles (12 km). The incident, in March, was the latest close shave for the space station. Six other crew members had to take shelter in June last year when another piece of junk whistled just 1,100 feet (335 metres) past the station. Again, it was a precautionary measure, however Nasa estimates that anything larger than a baseball poses a potentially catastrophic threat to the ISS. It's a problem that is getting rapidly worse. US Air Force Space Command is tracking around 22,000 pieces of man-made space debris, mostly debris bigger than 10 cm across, and there are estimated to be hundreds of thousands more smaller bits.
"It would totally wipe out the space station if it were hit by a catalogued object," says Donald Kessler, a former Nasa scientist, who is widely regarded as the leading expert on the issue.
Snowball effect
Kessler first started thinking about space debris in 1970 when there was concern about pieces of asteroids and comets, known as meteoroids, and the risk of them striking an Apollo spacecraft. Kessler was studying asteroid collisions, which are responsible for much of the meteoroid population, when it suddenly occurred to him that sooner or later satellites in Earth's orbit would also collide, producing growing numbers of fragments. "I was just curious as to how long it would be before that would happen," recalls Kessler, who is now retired and living in North Carolina.
Before he could come up with solid estimates, Nasa ended the Apollo program and put him to work in another area. But Kessler continued to think about satellite collisions, and he got another shot at pursuing the problem in the late-1970s when Nasa created an office to look at the environmental impacts of the space shuttle program. Kessler was asked to look at solar power stations in Earth's orbit. "I used that as an excuse to then work on orbital debris and did the calculations," he says.
At the time Nasa scientists generally believed that North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) was cataloguing all man-made objects in space, but Kessler suspected there might be small debris that was slipping past the military's radar network. And if the debris wasn't there yet, it would be eventually, he reasoned. In a landmark paper published in 1978, he calculated that the number of trackable man-made objects orbiting Earth had increased by 13% per year from 1966 to 1976. He predicted that by about the year 2000 fragments from satellite collisions would pose a serious threat to other satellites, creating a "debris belt". "I was shocked at the answer," he says.
That's not all, however. Because each collision in space would result in hundreds of pieces of new debris, the threat of future collisions would grow exponentially, until low Earth orbit, the region between 100-1,240 miles (160-2,000 km) above our planet, would become a no-go zone for spacecraft. "That ended up getting a lot of people's attention," he said.
Following the publication of his report, Kessler became the seer of space junk, and the snowball effect he described was dubbed the "Kessler syndrome." For many years, however, his work remained mainly of interest to scientists and space agencies.
That quickly changed five years ago. In 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite weapon test, which destroyed a decommissioned weather satellite, turning it into 150,000 pieces larger than 1 cm across. And two years later a defunct Russian communications satellite called Cosmos 2251 struck an Iridium communications satellite some 500 miles (800 km) above the Earth. Just as Kessler predicted, the catastrophic collisions spawned tens of thousands of new pieces of debris, some of which were large enough to take out other satellites, and large numbers of smaller pieces big enough to cause significant damage. It was a piece from the Cosmos satellite that struck the ISS in March. The Kessler syndrome has long since ceased to be a merely theoretical doomsday scenario.
Collision course
Today, low Earth orbit is something of a space junkyard: out-of-commission satellites, discarded bits of rocket stages, and fragments of spacecraft circle the planet like zombies roaming a shopping centre. And though large collisions of the sort that destroyed the Iridium satellite are rare, the growing debris cloud poses an increasingly real threat to spacecraft.
Last year a US National Research Council study carried out by a group led by Kessler, reported that when a number of reasonable assumptions are fed into computer models, "the current orbital debris environment has already reached a 'tipping point'." According to this scenario the numbers of objects, as well as their mass, had reached a level at which frequent collisions and spacecraft failures were now increasingly likely.
There is no shortage of good, or at least novel, ideas for removing space junk, ranging from Death Star-style lasers that would vaporize debris, to space-borne sweeping contraptions reminiscent of an illustration by W. Heath Robinson, the English cartoonist best known for his drawings of eccentric, ingenious and unnecessarily complex machines. Other concepts, no less creative, have included space nets, giant lassos, adhesive blankets, and low-power lasers to gently nudge debris away from collision paths.
One recent proposal that attracted some attention, though has no funding as of yet, is for a design that works in a way reminiscent of sticky flypaper. It would involve sending room-sized, adhesive-covered foam balls into space. Proposed by Sean Shepherd, a librarian from New Mexico, the balls would collect around 30 items of rubbish, before being guided by remote control towards the atmosphere to burn up.
In 2009, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the Pentagon's far-out research arm, took a serious look at the various proposals. The agency looked at, among other ideas, spacecraft equipped with magnets that would gather up debris, umbrella-shaped "sweepers" and a space tow truck that would drag junk into Earth's orbit so that it would be incinerated.
Its report, called Catcher's Mitt, concluded that many of the proposals were unrealistic with existing technologies. For example, the lasers required for most of the laser-based schemes are decades away from development. And "tens to hundreds" of ground-based lasers would need to be operated over a year to remove a single object, the report concluded.
It also found the greatest threat to operational spacecraft comes from medium-sized debris because there is so much of it and it often can't be detected from the ground. For these reasons the report recommended governments should concentrate on "pre-emptive removal" of large objects. Three years after its publication, none of the proposals have been funded.
Junk collectors
The first commitment to go beyond evaluating theoretical approaches has come from the Swiss Space Center (SSC), in Lausanne. Last year its scientists came up with the idea for CleanSpace One, a one-off spacecraft they intend to test by guiding it to recover one of the centre's own satellites. The design is inspired by the way sea anemones wrap their tentacles around their prey. It will have up to eight arms that can be unfurled and wrapped around pieces of debris.
"We thought that this debris issue is getting really important, so let's launch the project to clean up in front of our own doorstep," says Volker Gass, director of the SSC. "Once we pull it and hold it to our bosom we're going to give the order to de-orbit the whole system. So actually we're going to burn up on re-entry the catcher satellite and the catchee, the debris."
Funding is a major issue for the project. Switzerland's space budget is only a fraction of that spent by Nasa. If Gass can raise the required $11 million, he hopes to launch the experimental satellite within the next three to five years.
The United States, though not actively funding a debris removal program, is working on the problem. The US Air Force, for example, is developing a $3.5 billion "Space Fence", a powerful new S-band radar system which uses a higher wavelength frequency than the current space surveillance radar to enable it to spot smaller chunks of debris. Defence companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are building prototypes.
"I like to describe the current system as tracking debris that is basketball size and the new system will see things softball size and even potentially smaller than that," says Steve Bruce, vice president for Space Surveillance Systems at Lockheed Martin.
Darpa, in the meantime, is also pursuing a recycling approach. It proposes the launch of a robotic repair spacecraft called Phoenix to salvage and reuse components in order to rebuild decommissioned satellites. Rather than cleaning up the debris, the aim is to reduce the need for new satellites to be placed into orbit. "If this program is successful, space debris becomes space resource," said Regina Dugan, the former Darpa director, when she announced the new project in 2010.
Of course, rebuilding a satellite with a robotic arm in space is easier said than done. The technology does not exist to do this sort of tricky rebuilding work autonomously, so a human would be required to guide the repair work. That means contending with the 10-second communications delay between the ground station and the spacecraft.
Glen Henshaw, a senior engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, which is working on the Darpa project, says: "There's got to be a lot of smarts on board the spacecraft because, can you imagine driving your car down the Beltway, and there's a ten second lag between when you turn the steering wheel and when the car turns? You're probably going to crash."
Taking responsibility
But technology is only part of the issue. Another key obstacle is the lack of an underlying legal groundwork, according to Brian Weeden, of the Secure World Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank for space sustainability. Of the 22,000 pieces of debris being tracked by Norad today, the launch state and owner have been identified for only 16,000. Figuring out who owns space junk is essential for cleanup, because no country can unilaterally remove rubbish that may belong to someone else, and there are liability issues, according to Weeden. "Let's say that you have Bob's Debris Removal service and you go up there and your mission is to grapple with this rocket body, grab a hold of it and deal with it somehow, and in the process of doing so it explodes because it's got leftover fuel inside," he says.
In this scenario, who is liable for the destruction? "Is it the launching state or is it a country that licensed the removal service?" asks Weeden. The Outer Space Treaty, which governs international space law, states that satellites are sovereign objects that belong to the countries that launched them. It includes legal procedures for dealing with damage claims. "The important point is that it's never actually been invoked," says Weeden.
Until the legal issues are sorted out, all proposed solutions will remain notional, or at best, limited to a small number of debris pieces. In the meantime, the threat continues to grow. As to what it might take to get policymakers to finally move forward with a solution, a lesson could perhaps be drawn from Kessler's own experience.
After the seventh space shuttle flight returned in 1983 with a 4mm-deep crater in the front window, a committee was formed to investigate. It found the damage was the result of a collision with a paint chip less than 0.2mm in length travelling at just 5km/s (3 miles per second).
When Kessler, a member of the committee, met with then undersecretary of the Air Force, Edward "Pete" Aldridge, to convey the seriousness of the incident, he could see his message wasn't getting across. That is until Kessler finally pulled the piece of chipped window out of his pocket and showed it to Aldridge, who suddenly seemed to get it.
As Kessler recalled: "He looked at it and said, 'You know, one person's data point is worth a thousand people's speculation'."
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Last year a study reported that space debris had reached a level at which frequent collisions and spacecraft failures are increasingly likely. (Copyright: Science Photo Library)
Last year a study reported that space debris had reached a level at which frequent collisions and spacecraft failures are increasingly likely. (Copyright: Science Photo Library)
The International Space Station has survived close shaves with space debris - Nasa estimates anything larger than a baseball is a potentially catastrophic threat. (Copyright: Nasa)
The International Space Station has survived close shaves with space debris - Nasa estimates anything larger than a baseball is a potentially catastrophic threat. (Copyright: Nasa)
The seventh space shuttle flight returned in 1983 with a 4mm-deep crater in the front window from a collision with a paint chip less than 0.2mm in length. (Copyright: Nasa)
The seventh space shuttle flight returned in 1983 with a 4mm-deep crater in the front window from a collision with a paint chip less than 0.2mm in length. (Copyright: Nasa)
The Swiss Space Center's CleanSpace One concept for catching space debris is inspired by the way sea anemones wrap their tentacles around their prey. (Copyright: EPFL)
The Swiss Space Center's CleanSpace One concept for catching space debris is inspired by the way sea anemones wrap their tentacles around their prey. (Copyright: EPFL)
The Space Fence program aims to develop a radar that uses a higher wavelength frequency than current surveillance systems to spot smaller debris. (Copyright: Lockheed Martin)
The Space Fence program aims to develop a radar that uses a higher wavelength frequency than current surveillance systems to spot smaller debris. (Copyright: Lockheed Martin)
Darpa's proposed Phoenix spacecraft could salvage and reuse components in order to rebuild decommissioned satellites. (Copyright: Darpa)
Darpa's proposed Phoenix spacecraft could salvage and reuse components in order to rebuild decommissioned satellites. (Copyright: Darpa)


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THE STORY of TIMUN MAS (Golden Cucumber)
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Once upon a time, not far from a jungle, lived husband and a wife. The were farmers. The were diligent farmers anf always worked hard on the paddy fields. They had been married for mny years and still not have a child yet. Everyday they prayed and prayed for a child.
One night, while they were praying, a giant passed their house. The giant heard they pray. "Don't worry farmers. I can give you a child. But you have to give me that child when she is 17 years old," said the giant. The farmers were so happy. They did not think about the risk of losing their child letter and agree to take the offer. Letter, the giant gave them a bunch of cucumber seeds. The farmers planted them carefully. Then the seeds changed into plants.
Not longer after that, a big golden cucumber grew from plants. After it had ripe, the farmers picked and cut it. They were very surprised to see beautiful girl inside the cucumber. They named her Timun Mas or Golden Cucumber. Years passed by and Timun Mas has changed into a beautiful girl. On her 17th birhtday, Timun Mas was very happy. However, the parents were very sad. They knew they had to keep their promise to the giant but htey also did not want to lose their beloved daugther.
"My daughter, take this bag. It can save you from the giant," said the mother.
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Give them comfort and warm temperature to bath. You can give them an easy bath in bathtub or splash water over their body. You can also use a hose with sprayer to wash your pets. Use your hand for a smooth rubbing. Pet grooming gloves are also helpful to scrub your dog. You can offer light-handed massage at the time of bath. Your pet will really enjoy this type of bathing practice.
You can choose the best shampoo for your pet. Several pet shampoos are available in the market like medicated shampoo, and scented shampoos etc. Owners should choose the best shampoo that actually suits their pet. Choice of shampoos mostly depends on the season.
Don't use your soap or shampoo for your pet because it can cause skin irritation to them. You should ask a trained pet groomer to choose the best shampoo for your pet. Brush their teeth at the time of washing their body. After bath, rinse their ears and paws with a towel to remove extra moisture.
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The cast of Seinfeld expounds on the latest Internet phenomenon.
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ELAINE and JERRY are standing around JERRY'S kitchen counter. GEORGE is sitting on the couch typing on a laptop.
JERRY: Again with the Twitter?
GEORGE: What? I can't tweet?
ELAINE: No one said you can't tweet.
GEORGE: Jerry did. Jerry's got a problem with my tweeting.
JERRY: Please, tweet away. Tweet all you want. Tweet your heart out.
GEORGE: I will. I enjoy a good tweet.
ELAINE: Fine, but don't you think it's a bit much with the tweets?
GEORGE: Who are you? The queen of tweets? I think I tweet the perfect amount.
JERRY: You know, you've got to have something to tweet about in order to tweet.
GEORGE: I got plenty to tweet about, baby!
JERRY: No, no you don't. You see, you have the Twitter account and the laptop. But you don't have anything worthwhile to tweet about. No job, no girlfriend, no …
KRAMER enters, nearly knocking over JERRY as he stumbles into the living room.
KRAMER: Giddyup. (Notices George.) What's with Poindexter on the laptop?
ELAINE: He's tweeting again.
KRAMER: My God! You're tweeting all over the place!
GEORGE: I tweet just as often as the next guy. No one stops George Costanza from tweeting!
KRAMER: I ever tell you about my friend Bob Sacamano? Tweeted way too much. (Getting animated.) Tweeted like there was no tomorrow!
GEORGE: So?
KRAMER: (high-pitched) He's dead.
ELAINE: Death by Twitter?
KRAMER: You said it, sister.
JERRY: What's the deal with that 140-character limit, anyway? Like if it was 141, the Internet would break?
GEORGE: Ooh, that's good. Can I tweet that?
LAUGHTER. APPLAUSE. END SCENE.SOURCE: Slate