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Upright Cabaret's A Broadway Christmas
Producer Chris Isaacson's seventh annual holiday season concert, "A Broadway Christmas," offers a formidable roster of singers and dancers spreading holiday cheer in an eclectic blend of seasonal tunes and other appealing fare.
This year, Isaacson's presentation for his venerable Upright Cabaret company has expanded to four performances, among three Southern California venues. The show was reviewed during its opening presentation at the popular Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, a well-equipped an appealing spot for dinner, drinks, and live entertainment.
Without a doubt, the stellar attraction is the lavishly talented and charismatic Lillias White ("The Life," "Fela!," "Dreamgirls"), whose career awards have included the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Emmy, and People's Choice. As we have come to expect from her, White graces each number with her incomparable style, which combines humor, heart, and passionate conviction alongside the force and consummate artistry of her amazing voice.
Those who love Cy Coleman's musical "The Life" have a big treat in store; White's recreation of her magnificent "Oldest Profession" number from that Broadway blockbuster. Her first number, early in the show, is an enchanting new song by legendary tunesmiths Marilyn and Alan Bergman, "Through the Eyes of a Child," a perfect number for this time of the year.
White concludes the evening in style with the aforementioned Coleman showstopper, as well as a hilarious and brassy "Big Fat Daddy," singing of her preferences for a Santa. A soulful and spectacular take on "Silent Night" is her encore number.
Before these climactic moments, a huge array of gifted performers have their moments in the spotlight. One definite highlight is a smashing delivery of the religious hymn "O Holy Night," by tenor Nathan Shrake, in a rendition that definitely warranted the seemingly endless ovation that followed on opening night.
Another inspirational tune, "Count Your Blessings," (from "White Christmas") is delivered in a charming and uplifting style by Carla Renata. Isaacson's co-host David Hernandez, an "American Idol' finalist, delightfully croons a number of songs, leading a group in a snappy "Jingle Bells" and going solo in numbers such as "This Christmas."
Lynsey Shaw, a statuesque Brit, belts out the power ballad "Home" from "The Wiz" with passion and style. Broadway vet Kelli Provart likewise rocks the rafters with her galvanizing delivery of "A New Life." A quartet of singers identified as "Oh What a Night" skillfully emulate the Four Seasons in an irresistible medley of Santa songs. Santa himself made a guest appearance on opening night, while a charming little boy, son of one of the musicians, handed out a few gifts to the audience.
Also meriting salutes are the high-kicking L.A. Follies, a group of singer-dancers; the singing trio called Ho Ho Hos; and other vocalists: Brittany Underwood, Sylvia MacCalla, Ricke Vermont, single-monikered Chadwick, Matt Zarley, Karissa Noel, Nita Whitaker, LaToya London, and Nita Whitaker.
Adding to the magic are festive and colorful projections by Tim Hicks, and the terrific five-piece band (Jamieson Trotter-musical director and pianist; Matt Lucich-drums; Alex Balderston-bass, and Wesley Smith-saxophone and flute.
Those who are in a "bah humbug" mood can find a nifty way to chase the blues away by partaking of Isaacson's felicitous yuletide confection.
"A Broadway Christmas" was presented on Dec. 11 at the Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. Additional performances are on Dec. 13, 8 p.m., at the Annenberg Theatre, 101 N. Museum Dr., Palm Springs, and December 16 and 17, 7:30 p.m., at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., La Mirada. For info or tickets, call 818-736-5600 or visit www.uprightcabaret.com.

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Dual Affairs (formerly Twin Affairs)
Book Two – Twin Ties Series
All Evan Savage wanted was a quiet night at the bar, waiting for his boyfriend to finish his shift; what he gets instead is a nightmare. Things were complex enough when his biggest problem was the tangled sex life he and his brother Brennan share with twin lovers Alek and Luka. When a selfless act ending in terrible violence lands Evan in the hospital, Brennan and Evan's homophobic father returns.


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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 is now available featuring a number of enhancements focused largely aligned towards "performance and scalability" functions. The open source founded operating system has achieved the largest multi-core Linux configuration results certified to-date on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark.
Red Hat's Jim Totton has enthused about the new release saying, "The features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 with new impressive SAP benchmark results allow our enterprise customers to have increased confidence that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 can run their enterprise workloads with high performance across physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments."
The company has used these pleasing benchmark results to suggest that enterprises can now "confidently migrate" to the latest multi-core technology with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6. The new release delivers improvements in resource management and high availability, as well as new features aimed at storage and file system performance and identity management. RHEL 6.2 also provides capabilities to manage system resources — for environments that deliver applications or hosted services via multi-tenant environments, maximums can be set for CPU time associated with a given application, business process, or a virtual machine.
- On the latest two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark, RHEL 6 achieved more than 22,000 SAP SD benchmark users on a single system.
- On this same benchmark, the HP DL980 G7 system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 fully utilized all 80 cores and 160 threads in the 8-processor system running MaxDB 7.8 and the SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application.
- This is the largest Linux result submitted to SAP to date. The results demonstrate the capabilities of the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 8-processor system's PREMA architecture and smart CPU caching technology.
According to Red Hat, "When an enterprise deploys its applications to run in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 guest hosted by VMware, the applications can now be utilized for High Availability (HA) Add-Ons. This also includes full support for use of GFS2 shared storage filesystem by the virtual machines. The result is additional deployment flexibility for customers requiring HA within a portion of their virtualized environment, as well as full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the VMware hypervisor."
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 adds enhancements to storage and filesystem features including full support of iSCSI extension for RDMA. Benefits of low latency and high throughput through a standard SAN implementation based on 10GB Ethernet are also available. Other enhancements include delayed meta data logging, asynchronous and parallel filesystem writes, as well as support for multiple active instances of Samba in a cluster, which improves overall throughput and increases availability for large Samba clustered deployments. Identity Management in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 provides the administrative tools to install, server authentication, and authorization in Linux/UNIX enterprise environments, while still providing the option to interoperate with Microsoft Active Directory.


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Dale Winter, 55, died April 25, 2013 at Parkside Homes in Hillsboro, Kansas.
He was born July 4, 1957 to Floyd and Lillian (Ediger) Winter in Hillsboro.
Survivors include: wife, Rachel Winter of Hillsboro; daughter, Erin Winter of Hillsboro; brothers, Rolland (Jewel) of Denver, Col., Kevin (Kathy) of Sugar Land, Texas; sister, Denise Winter of Sugar Land, Texas; and stepmother, Carolyn Winter of Fairview, Okla.
He was predeceased by a son, David Winter and a sister, Judy Winter.
Celebration service was Tuesday at Parkview M.B. Church in Hillsboro. Visitation was Monday at the home of Dale and Rachel Winter.
Memorials suggested to Parkview Church Parking Lot Fund in care of Jost Funeral Home P.O. Box 266 Hillsboro KS 67063.


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If a man speaks in the woods, and there are no women around to hear him, Is he still a JERK??
If a man speaks in the woods, and there are no women around to hear him, Is he still a JERK??
My better half says YES
I said WHAT!!! You just took me the wrong way......
Depends on who he is speaking to. If he's speaking to your Mother, probably not. If he's with a bunch of guys, probably not. If he's with your sister, yeah - I'd say that in that case he probably is.Originally Posted by Dave and Gail
Are you saying that men can be jerks sometimes? Gosh, ya learn something new everyday I never knew that.Originally Posted by Dave and Gail
What if the Hokey Pokey is what its all about?
Have Fun & Be Safe!
This must be Christie talking then huh?........
Just smile it won't crack your face
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is
suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best
friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.
Naw Haffy, this is the man of the house, better known around these parts as "The Jerk" LOLOriginally Posted by Haffy6
What if the Hokey Pokey is what its all about?
Have Fun & Be Safe!
I think all of you guys with that kind of attitude need to get your life under control and take charge of your wifes! personally i'm the man of the house (when she's not around) and what i say goes (as long as she says it's ok) heck, i go out and party and drink any time i want (to get in trouble) and when it comes to telling it like it is, i say what i want, when i want (to sleep on the couch) and when there's a pile of dishes that needs done i flat out tell her to wash and dry them (under my breath as i'm filling the sink with warm water) so quit being a bunch of sissies and step up to the plate!
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.


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A Good Massage Doesn't Have to Hurt!
If it doesn't hurt it isn't doing anything, right? Wrong. A common misconception about massage is it has to be painful to be beneficial. Deep tissue massage, what most people are talking about when they say they like firm pressure (or hard massage), doesn't need to, and shouldn't, hurt. A properly skilled massage therapist knows to "warm up" an area before digging in so the muscles and connective tissue can stay relaxed and benefit from the work. Connective tissue is able to change state, meaning it can go from a gel-like state to a more liquid-like state. Deep tissue is safe and effective when working on liquid-like tissue. If someone jabs you with their elbow after thirty seconds of lotion application, you're almost guaranteed feel excessively sore, experience bruising and possibly even injury as a result. So next time you ask for more pressure, expect there to be a little bit of warm up time. It's for your own good!


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How many images can my camera hold?
The chart below shows the approximate number of images at each available Image Quality mode that the FE-350 Wide can store in its internal memory and on a variety of optional xD-Picture Card™ media. The camera can store images and movies in any combination of quality modes. All figures are approximate.
1Capacity will be slightly less than shown if sound is recorded with still images. All figures are approximate.
How much movie recording time does my camera have?
In movie mode, the FE-350 Wide can, in most cases, record continuously up to the capacity of the storage medium. When the available capacity is greater than 29 minutes (as when using 1GB or 2GB xD-Picture Card media), the maximum recording time per movie is restricted to 29 minutes. Additional movies may then be recorded up to the capacity of the storage medium.
The chart below shows the maximum continuous recording time available to the FE-350 Wide when shooting movies using the camera's internal memory and a variety of optional xD-Picture Card media. The chart assumes that the memory medium has been freshly formatted.
1 Recording times are approximate and are based on storage capacity; they are not a guarantee of battery life.2 Using any size/type xD-Picture Card media, the maximum length per movie is 29 minutes.


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"Smushing" his face on things?
General discussions about Chow Chows.
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"Smushing" his face on things?
So, Nico is my first chow chow. I love him more than anything and am honestly surprised that I survived this long without one in my life. Anyways, I can't tell if there is a reason my dog does this or if he is just an oddball. He "smushes" his face into... everything! He will pick a treat in his mouth, bring it somewhere new, drop it on the floor, and smush it. He will take his toys and smush them. If you are laying on the floor, he will smush your face. Anything! I read that dogs sometimes do this so they will smell like whatever it is they're rolling in, but he will do it with non-smelly things and scented ones alike. A dog trainer at Petco once tried to give him a treat and he smushed it in her hand, and even she asked me "haha why does your dog do that?"
Here is a video of him doing t with a bug:
Is this a common chow thing? I find it adorable, but just want to know why, lol.
Here is a video of him doing t with a bug:
Is this a common chow thing? I find it adorable, but just want to know why, lol.
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Re: "Smushing" his face on things?
To that degree this is a new one. If your vet doesn't think it's an issue your good, just a lot of smushing to come. Ours tend to only do that to dead animals and other predator urine/feces with the intent of eliminating the competition.
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W.H. Tries to Write Al Qaeda Out of Libya Story
The Obama administration appears to be mounting yet another version of its campaign to push back on claims that it misled on the intelligence related to the attacks in Benghazi on 9/11/12. But the new offensive by the administration, which contradicts many of its earlier claims and simply disregards intelligence that complicates its case, is raising fresh questions in the intelligence community and on Capitol Hill about the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes.
The administration's new line takes shape in two articles out Saturday, one in the Los Angeles Times and the other by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. The Times piece reports that there is no evidence of an al Qaeda role in the attack. The Ignatius column makes a directly political argument, claiming that "the Romney campaign may have misfired with its suggestion that statements by President Obama and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice about the Benghazi attacks weren't supported by intelligence, according to documents provided by a senior intelligence official."
If this is the best the Obama administration can offer in its defense, they're in trouble. The Times story is almost certainly wrong and the central part of the Ignatius "scoop" isn't a scoop at all. We'll start there.
David Ignatius, a reporter's columnist with excellent sources in the Obama administration and the intelligence community, reports: "Talking points" prepared by the CIA on Sept. 15, the same day that Rice taped three television appearances, support her description of the Sept 11 attack on the U.S. consulate as a reaction to the Arab anger about an anti-Muslim video prepared in the United States. According to the CIA account, "The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the US Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the US consulate and subsequently into its annex. There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations."
There are two problems with this. The CIA "talking points" don't say that what Ignatius claims and the supposedly exculpatory documents were first reported three weeks ago.
On October 1, Newsweek's Eli Lake reported: "For eight days after the attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, government officials said the attacks were a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam film. Now that officials have acknowledged they were a premeditated act of terrorism, the question some members of Congress are trying to answer is why it took so long for the truth to come out. Unclassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency suggest the answer may have to do with so-called talking points written by the CIA and distributed to members of Congress and other government officials, including Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the United Nations. The documents, distributed three days after the attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, said the events were spontaneous."
Lake continued, quoting directly from the CIA talking points, in language that may sound familiar to anyone who read the third paragraph above: "The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the US Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the US diplomatic post in Benghazi and subsequently its annex. There are indications that extremists participated in the demonstrations." Both the Ignatius and Lake versions of the talking points note that the "assessment may change as additional information is collected" and that the "investigation is on-going."
Note that the "talking points" do not claim that the attackers in Benghazi were directly motivated by the film, something the Obama administration claimed for nearly two weeks after 9/11. The talking points only say that the "demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired" by Cairo.
We now know, of course, that there were no demonstrations in Benghazi. Those inside the compound heard gunfire at 9:40 p.m. local time and within minutes the compound was under siege. Surveillance photos and videos taken in the hours before the attack give no indication of a protest. And one CIA official tells Ignatius that it would have been better to substitute "opportunistic" for "spontaneous" since there was "some pre-coordination but minimal planning."
The "spontaneous" talking point came from an intercepted telephone call between jihadists, in which one of the attackers notes that his group had attacked after seeing the demonstrations in Cairo. U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence on Benghazi tell THE WEEKLY STANDARD there are two schools of thought on what that means. The first view is reflected in the administration's "spontaneous" line. It holds that jihadists in Benghazi saw the demonstration in Egypt and decided, almost on a whim, to assault the compound. But the nature of the attack—the weapons, the sequencing, the coordination—suggests more planning. The attackers flushed Americans from the compound toward an "annex" two kilometers away. As the Americans fled, they encountered (and avoided) an attempted ambush on the route.
The second view is that the demonstrations in Cairo, which followed the release of a video from al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri on September 10, were seen as something of a "go signal." As we first reported on September 12, the film, in this view, was merely the pretext for an al Qaeda "information operation," and the Zawahiri video, which called directly for renewed jihad and for al Qaeda sympathizers to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al Libi, was intended to trigger protests and assaults throughout the region. Many of those with prominent roles in the protests and assaults—in Egypt, Tunisia, and perhaps Libya—had strong ties to al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan.
The second view is that the demonstrations in Cairo, which followed the release of a video from al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri on September 10, were seen as something of a "go signal." As we first reported on September 12, the film, in this view, was merely the pretext for an al Qaeda "information operation," and the Zawahiri video, which called directly for renewed jihad and for al Qaeda sympathizers to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al Libi, was intended to trigger protests and assaults throughout the region. Many of those with prominent roles in the protests and assaults—in Egypt, Tunisia, and perhaps Libya—had strong ties to al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan.
Not surprisingly, this view is not popular with an administration that has built its case for reelection in part on the notion that "bin Laden is dead" and "al Qaeda is on its heels." Which leads us to the claims in the Los Angeles Times article that ran under the heading: "No evidence found of al Qaeda role in Libya attack." That story begins: "The assault on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi last month appears to have been an opportunistic attack rather than a long-planned operation and intelligence agencies have found no evidence that it was ordered by al Qaeda, according to US officials and witnesses interviewed in Libya."
The claim in the headline is not the same as the claim in the article, of course. It's possible for there to have been "an Qaeda role" in the attack without it having been directly ordered by al Qaeda central. And there is, in fact, evidence of some al Qaeda role in the attack.
The same phone call that the administration had used to pin its argument that the attack was "spontaneous" also provides evidence of such al Qaeda involvement. Indeed, as Eli Lake reported three weeks ago: "In the hours following the 9/11 anniversary attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, US intelligence agencies monitored communications from jihadists affiliated with the group that led the attack and members of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the group's north African affiliate."
Several of the local jihadists were affiliated Ansar al Sharia, which has its own ties to al Qaeda. An August report from the Pentagon's "Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office," reported that Ansar al Sharia "has increasingly embodied al Qaeda's presence in Libya, as indicated by its active propaganda, extremist discourse, and hatred of the West, especially the United States." One of the leaders of AAS, a former Guantanamo detainee named Sufyan ben Qumu, has ties to senior al Qaeda leaders. As Tom Joscelyn first reported, Qumu's alias was found on the laptop of Mustafa al Hawsawi, an al Qaeda financier who helped fund the original 9/11 attacks. Qumu is described "as an al Qaeda member receiving family support."
The other group, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, has a more direct relationship with al Qaeda central. As Joscelyn reported last month, AQIM entered into a "formal alliance" with al Qaeda in 2006, according to a United Nations report on the group. The Pentagon's Combating Terrorism study reported: "Al Qaeda affiliates such as AQIM are also benefiting from the situation in Libya. AQIM will likely join hands with the al Qaeda clandestine network in Libya to secure a supply of arms for its areas of operations in northern Mali and Algeria." The report also notes: "Although no information in open sources was found regarding the whereabouts of al Qaeda's leadership in Libya, it is likely that at this point al Qaeda's clandestine network is run directly by al Qaeda senior leadership in Pakistan."
One thing that has troubled both intelligence officials and those on Capitol Hill as they have evaluated the administration's early response to the attacks is what appears to be an effort to write al Qaeda out of the story. For example, the talking points first reported by Lake, include this sentence: "There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations." But according to several officials familiar with the original assessment from which the talking points were derived, the U.S. intelligence community had reported the fact that these were extremists with ties to al Qaeda. That key part was omitted.
Why was that language dropped from the talking points distributed to Congress and Obama administration officials? Did anyone at the White House or on the National Security Council have any role in drafting them?
In addition to the intercepts between Ansar al Sharia jihadists and AQIM, the Associated Press reported Friday that "the CIA station chief in Libya reported to Washington within hours of last month's deadly attack on the US consulate that there was evidence it was carried out by militants, not a spontaneous mob upset about an American-made video ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad."
As further evidence of the ever-shifting Obama administration narrative, the AP article, which ran some 24 hours before this latest public relations push, also reported: "The White House now says the attack was probably carried out by an al Qaeda-linked group, with no public demonstration beforehand."


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LA Children's Chorus to Offer Class to Introduce 6- and 7-Year-Olds to Singing, 1/30-3/20
The renowned Los AngeLes Children's Chorus (LACC) is currently enrolling children ages six and seven in its "First Experiences in Singing" Level I class, which introduces children to the wonders and excitement of singing and music, at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Geared for children with no previous musical training, the eight-week class is intentionally small in size to provide optimum instruction and runs from January 30 to March 20, 2013, at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. Classes are held Wednesdays from 4:15 pm to 5 pm.
"Because every voice is unique," says LACC Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson, "It is tremendously important that every child explore their voice, which is their own instrument."
First Experiences in Singing includes general music and rhythmic concepts and teaches bel canto singing, the vocal style using the head voice for which LACC is acclaimed, with all class activities adhering to LACC's supportive and nurturing tradition of excellence, focusing on the health of the voice. It also incorporates different learning modalities to engage visual, auditory and kinetic learners while presenting the fundamentals of singing at the appropriate developmental stage to prepare children to audition for LACC's upper-level choirs.
Children who complete First Experiences in Singing Level I are eligible to continue in Level II, then Level III classes, which are non-performing groups. Graduates of Level III are eligible to audition for LACC's Preparatory Choir.
First Experiences in Singing is made possible, in part, by the Los Angeles County of Supervisors through the Los Angeles Arts Commission, the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division and Nestlé USA.
Described as "astonishingly polished," "hauntingly beautiful," and "one heck of a talented group of kids," LOS ANGELes ChildREN'S CHORUS is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost children's choirs. Founded in 1986 and currently led by Artistic Director Anne Tomlinson, LACC performs with such leading organizations as LA Opera, LA Phil, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, LA Master Chorale, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony and POPs and Calder Quartet. The chorus' roster includes more than 375 children aged 6-18 from 50 communities across Los Angeles in six choirs and a program of First Experiences in Singing classes and ensemble for young singers. LACC has toured North and South America, Africa, China and Europe, and produced the world-premiere of Keepers of the Night, an opera by Peter Ash and Donald Sturrock. The chorus appeared on LA Master Chorale's Decca recording A Good Understanding, and Plácido Domingo's Deutsche Grammophon recording Amore Infinito ("Infinite Love") and, in 2011, gave the U.S. premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Dona Nobis Pacem. The subject of a trilogy of documentaries by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock, LACC is featured in the Academy Award-nominated Sing!, about a year in the life of the choir; Sing Opera!, documenting the production of LACC's commissioned family opera Keepers of the Night; and Sing China!, chronicling its groundbreaking tour to China just prior to the Beijing Olympics. LACC has performed with John Mayer on NBC's "The Tonight Show" and was featured on Public Radio International's nationally syndicated show "From the Top," among other credits.
The cost of the eight-week First Experiences in Singing class is $260. Pasadena Presbyterian Church is located at 585 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA, 91101. For more information or to enroll, call (626) 793-4231 or visit www.lachildrenschorus.org or view a short video about the program at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TacItRy0Gbs.


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MANILA – Thirteen policemen have been sacked and more than 350 others placed under investigation allegedly for cheating in written exams, the police governing body said yesterday.
The National Police Commission said it had invalidated the results of the exams taken last year by 386 people in the southern city of Zamboanga as so many had put exactly the same wrong answers.
The exams were being taken by would-be officers applying to enter the force as well as serving officers seeking promotion.
The cheating was only uncovered recently, and those taking entrance exams had already been commissioned into the force.
Thirteen officers had since been sacked and the rest were under investigation and could also be dismissed, regional police chief, Supt. Napoleon Estilles, said.
He did not say how the cheating came to light.
"The termination board found them guilty of... dishonesty," Estilles said.
The controversy highlighted the problems of corruption facing the country's police, who are often derided in the local press as incompetent.
In 2010, a frustrated officer who was sacked from his job over allegations of corruption hijacked a bus carrying Hong Kong tourists.
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I was pondering on what to blog on this afternoon. Sometimes just scrolling around and looking at all the family pictures I have scanned sometimes make an inspiration.
It is the end of May, today in the Pacific Northwest and I am in awe of how beautiful our weather has been for a good portion of the month. Normally our weather can be tempermental in May as it transcends into Summer. So when I spotted a photo of my Grandmother, Zelma Fern and her brother, Granville Ellis Ball with friends playing in an unknown creek I had a wonderful feeling of warm Summer weather, children playing in the water and how things sometimes don't really change at all, even after 80 years! This picture was taken somewhere near Salem, Oregon around the early 1920's.
Granville is the young boy on the left and sister, Zelma is second from left.
Zelma was my maternal Grandmother and was born 1912 in Arnett, Ellis County, Oklahoma and passed away in September 2005. Her brother, Granville was born 1916 in Salem and died 1976 in Salem.
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There was a wide spectrum of experts – from hackers to security communities – at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, concluding last week. The conference always provides a great perspective on the state of security today through technical briefings and hacking workshops, led by the premier minds in the field.
While Apple and Android's models are working fairly well for the user communities they are targeting, it's clear that there continue to be significant vulnerabilities in enterprise mobile app development. Developing secure mobile apps that protect companies from external threats and ensure that data privacy, security and regulatory demands are met is not an easy task.
The plane of vulnerability across corporate data extends significantly as soon as you include mobile in your portfolio. One of the most critical threats to enterprises comes from within – the mishandling and misappropriation of sensitive corporate data by employees. While Apple and Android continue to provide valuable tools and processes to help with security, it is ultimately up to the designers and developers of the apps and supporting infrastructure to understand, appreciate and code to the security and compliance standards set forth by the community at large.
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New York — Apparently, analysts liked what they heard from Town Sports International (TSI) during the company's conference call to announce its first-quarter results. TSI boasted a first-quarter profit and increased revenue, causing at least two of the analysts who participated in the call to raise their profit estimates for the company.
TSI earned a net income of $4.8 million, or 18 cents per share, and revenue increased 9.5 percent to $126.3 million in first quarter 2008. Revenue was $115.4 million in first quarter 2007, when TSI lost $3.8 million, or 15 cents a share, as it took charge of $12.5 million to pay off debt. The net income and revenue in first quarter 2008 was greater than analysts had expected.
The increase in revenue is attributed to growth in membership and personal training revenue, which increased 15.9 percent to $16.1 million. Membership is up 7.6 percent from a year ago to a total of 512,000 members. Comparable club revenue increased 4.5 percent, 1.7 percent of which was due to an increase in membership. Revenues from TSI's corporate and group sales program grew nearly 50 percent in first quarter 2008.
"Even in a challenging consumer environment, our overall trends remained consistent and positive," TSI CEO Alex Alimanestianu said during the conference call. "We continue to offer our core metropolitan customers an affordable and convenient way to stay committed to their exercise fitness and lifestyle goals, and [we are] using our clustering strategy to guide our expansion. We continue to build clubs that solidify our strong market position in our core regions."
Total operating expenses increased 9 percent to $112.2 million for first quarter 2008 compared to $103 million for first quarter 2007. Operating margin improved to 11.1 percent for first quarter 2008 from 10.8 percent in first quarter 2007. EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and loss on extinguishment of debt) increased 13.6 percent to $27.2 million.
TSI opened two clubs and closed one club in first quarter 2008, Alimanestianu said. Dan Gallagher, TSI's chief financial officer, said that the company plans to open 11 clubs and close four clubs, bringing the total number of clubs to 168 by the end of 2008.
TSI expects revenue for the year to be in the range of $510 million to $520 million, or about 8 to 10 percent growth over 2007, and projects net income will be between $21.3 million and $22.3 million for 2008 compared to $13.6 million in 2007. The company expects to spend $90 million in 2008 compared to a previous estimate of $95 million.
TSI also announced that it plans to buy back up to $25 million in shares of its stock by the end of 2009. The company approved the plan last month.
Sharon Zackfia, an analyst with William Blair, asked Alimanestianu during the call about how TSI is faring in the New York City market.
Alimanestianu said the company does not break out regional performance but that the company is satisfied with the New York/Manhattan portfolio in the first quarter.
"In a difficult economic environment, we think that we benefit in Manhattan from being, I'd say, the most affordable, value-oriented, quality option in the market," Alimanestianu told Zackfia.


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BetterSpeaking needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 56 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
We've tried a lot of different logos while developing our product and haven't really been fond of any. I've been told that the designers on 99designs are amazing, and from what I've seen I must agree. We've got high hopes for your creative abilities, and the winner will be highly considered for our web page design and potentially our bottle design (I bet you've never designed a bottle for pills/vitamins before). Right now we're just looking for a new logo. Details below.
We make a vitamin supplement that helps people to speak better.
Our current logo can be seen at http://www.Oratix.com/ . The web site is still being built, but I've made sure that the logo is visible for you to reference. The O is supposed to be a speech bubble.
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Baker to bring keynote speech for women in business event
PLAINVIEW – Longtime Plainview resident Carolyn Baker will be keynote speaker for the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team's Women in Business banquet slated for Aug. 30 at Wayland Baptist University.
Following a buffet meal, the banquet will also feature the presentation of the Women in Business awards for the 2007 honorees. The honor class includes Jan Alford, local State Farm agent; Sandra Aven, publisher of the Plainview Daily Herald; and Dr. Ruth Rector-Wright, family physician.
Baker is a native of Latrobe, Pa., and spent her childhood in Texline, Texas. She graduated from Texline High School and attended University of North Texas, then completed her bachelor's degree in accounting at West Texas A&M University.
After receiving her CPA certification, she was hired at Hale County State Bank as an internal auditor in 1987. After several promotions over the years, Baker was named Executive Vice President in 1994 and still holds that position.
She and husband Tommy have a Catahoula dog named Bug.
The banquet is set to begin at 6:30 p.m. in the McClung University Center. For more information, contact the WBU Division of Business at 291-1020.


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A continuing education in allied health is very common to the profession. States require almost all allied health professionals to have some form of continuing education on a yearly basis or before a license to practice may be renewed. This process makes sure that professionals remain current in their practices and that healthcare requirements are being met.
While a continuing education in allied health is usually required for license renewal, it is also a good way to delve into other specialties within the profession. For instance, a Radiology Technician may wish to further their education and pursue nuclear cardiology. Aditionally, continuing your education in allied health can help to make you more valuable to the medical profession.
Medical and allied health professionals have numerous options for continuing education. Many schools offer traditional programs, some of which feature online courses. Aditionally a number of medical organizations offer lectures, workshops, and seminars which count as continuing education. Be sure to check with your local government as continuing medical education requirements vary from state to state.


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If you've been doing OO programming for a while, you've surely run into the seemingly endless essays on testability. This issue they debate is how to write code to make it more amenable to automated testing. It's a vein that is particularly intriguing to exponents of test-driven development (TDD), who argue that if you write tests first, as in the orthodox approach to TDD, your code will be inherently testable.
In real life, however, this is not always how it happens. TDD developers frequently shift to the standard code-before-tests approach when hacking away at a complex problem or one in which testability is not easily attained. They then write tests after the fact to exercise the cod; then modify the code to increase code coverage. There are good reasons why code can be hard to test, even for the most disciplined developers. A simple example is testing private methods; a more complex one is handling singletons. These are issues at the unit testing level. At higher levels, such as UAT, a host of tools help provide testability. Those products, however, tend to focus principally on the GUI aspect (and startlingly few of those handle GUIs on mobile devices). In other areas, such as document creation, there is no software that provides automated UAT-level validation because parsing and recreating the content of a report or output document is often an insuperable task.
I don't want to get off my main point, however. Which is that what makes code untestable is frequently not anything I've touched on so far, but rather excessive complexity. High levels of complexity, generally measured with the suboptimal cyclomatic complexity measure (CCR), is what the agile folks correctly term a "code smell." Intricate code doesn't smell right. According to numerous studies, it generally contains a higher number of defects and it's hard sometimes impossible to maintain. Fortunately, there are many techniques available to the modern programmer to reduce complexity. One could argue that Martin Fowler's masterpiece, Refactoring, is almost entirely dedicated to this topic. (Michael Feathers' Working Effectively With Legacy Code is the equivalent tome for the poor schlemiels who are handed a high-CCR codebase and told to fix it.)
My question, though, is how to avoid creating complexity in the first place? This topic too has been richly mined by agile trainers, who offer the same basic advice: Follow the Open-Closed principle, obey the Hollywood principle, use the full panoply of design patterns, and so on. All of this is good advice; but ultimately, it doesn't cut it. When you're deep into a problem such as parsing text or writing business logic for a process that calls on many feeder processes, you don't think about Liskov Substitution or the Open-Closed principle. Typically, you write the code that works and you change it minimally once it passes the essential tests. In other words, as you're writing the code there is little to tell you, "Whoa! You're doing it wrong."
For that, you need another measure, one which I've found to be extraordinarily effective in reducing initial complexity and greatly expanding testability: class size. Small classes are much easier to understand and to test.
If small size is an objective, then the immediate next question is, "How small?" Jeff Bay, who contributed a brilliant essay entitled "Object Calisthenics" (in the book The Thoughtworks Anthology) that touches on this topic, suggests the number should be in the 50-60 line range. Essentially, what fits on one screen.
Most developers, endowed as we are with the belief that our craft does not and should not be constrained to hard numerical limits, will scoff at this number (or at any number of lines) and will surely conjure up an example that is irreducible to such a small size. Let them enjoy their big classes. But I suspect they are wrong about the irreducibility.
I have lately been doing a complete rewrite of some major packages in a project I contribute to. These are packages that were written in part by a contributor whose style I never got the hang of. Now that he's moved on, I want to understand what he wrote and convert it to a development style that looks familiar to me and is more or less consistent with the rest of the project. Since I was dealing with lots of large classes, I decided this would be a good time to hew closely to Bay's guideline. At first, predictably, it felt like a silly straitjacket. But I persevered, and things began to change under my feet. Here is what was different:
Big classes became collections of small classes. I began to group these classes in a natural way at the package level. My packages became a lot "bushier." I also found that I spent more time in managing the package tree, but this grouping feels more natural. Previously, packages were broken up at a coarse-grained level that dealt with major program components and they were rarely more than two or three levels deep. Now, their structure is deeper and wider and is a useful roadmap to the project.
Testability jumped dramatically. By breaking down complex classes into their organic parts and then reducing those parts to the minimum number of lines, each class did one small thing that I could test. The top level class, which replaced its complex forebear, became a sort of main line that simply coordinated the actions of multiple subordinate classes. This top class generally was best tested at the UAT level, rather than with unit tests.
The single-responsibility principle (SRP), which states that each class should do only one thing, became the natural result of the new code, rather than a maxim that needed to apply consciously.
And finally, I have enjoyed an advantage foretold by Bay in his essay: I can see the entire class in the IDE without having to scroll. Dropping in to look at something is now quick. If I use the IDE to search, the correct hit is easy to locate, because the package structure leads me directly to the right class. In sum, everything is more readable; and on a conceptual level, everything is more manageable.
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As the Scientific Committee (the SC) needs to publish only academically qualified articles and to provide equal opportunities to every author, the SC declared general criteria for the preliminary screening of the full papers six months prior to the inauguration of the conference. The preliminary criteria impartially applied to all the authors are the following: ·
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1. Accommodation for Persons with Disabilities in Japan: Ensuring Substantial Equality for Persons with Disabilities
2. Community-based Approach for Developing Aged-friendly Communities: The Experience of Hua-Ngam Sub-district, Chiang Rai, Thailand
3. Devine Talk Therapy Team: A New Vehicle for Charity and Social Work
4. Reproducing Opportunities: The Need for a Social Work Contribution to the Field of Reproductive Health
5. Social Capital and Volunteer Activity among Active Senior Citizens in Japan
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The SC has sent the above six papers for blind peer reviews. The SC is now trying to conclude the blind-peer-review process before the end of January 2016. Afterwards, the SC will organize a meeting to discuss the review results. At this stage, some papers may be excluded.
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Organizers: The Asian and Pacific Association for Social Work Education (APASWE), Thailand Association of Social Workers, and Thai Association of Social Work and Social Welfare Education (TASWE);
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- Chiang Mai University
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Conference Secretariat: Thai Association of Social Work and Social Welfare Education (TASWE), Room 301 Social Administration Building, Thammasat University, Bangkok, 10200 Thailand
On behalf of IFSW Asia Pacific Region, I would like to invite you all to the 23rd Joint Asia-Pacific Social Work Conference of 2015 Bangkok, Thailand.
We are living in an exciting yet critical time of globalization that requiring us solid social work skills with profound education and experience. The Global Social Work world is also asking us to promote our practice visible how we can contribute to the changes of peoples' lives.
The theme of this conference "Asia-Pacific Growth and Crisis: Social Work and Policy Discourses" should be able to bring us together to deepen the dialogue among social work practitioners and educators in the Asia Pacific Region.
I look forward to meeting you all in Bangkok in October, 2015.
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Welcome to the IFSW-Asia and APASWE 23rd Joint Regional Conference. The theme for this year's Conference, "Growth and Crisis: Social Work and Policy Discourses", is quite timely given the recent political, economic, and social developments in the Asia-Pacific region.
I invite all colleagues and friends of IFSW-APASWE to join us for the Conference to explore topics such urbanism and transition, environmental security, and at-risk groups.
Social Welfare academics and practitioners can continue to have a significant role in this climate of change and this year's Conference offers us an avenue to pursue the betterment of our society in the spirit of
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Thailand hosted the Regional Conference in 1982 and 1997 and is now honored to host the Conference in Bangkok from 21st -24th October, 2015.
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As a recent addition to the permanent collection of the Muskegon Museum of Art, photography by Steve Nelson of the HopeCollege art faculty is featured in an exhibition at the museum that is continuing through mid-March.
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The exhibition includes "Labyrinth of Stone" (black and white gelatin silver print, 2002), one of two of his photographs that were added to the museum's permanent collection during the decade being celebrated. The two works are from his "Dissolution Series," which features black-and-white, panoramic images of abbey ruins in the British Isles that were taken between 2001 and 2003. They were part of a two-person show, "Aspects of Reality: Howard Bond & Steven Nelson," featured at the museum in 2003.
Nelson is an associate professor of art and chairperson of the department at Hope, where he has taught since 1989. His photographs have been exhibited widely, including in solo and group exhibitions in Chicago and New York. This past fall he had a solo exhibition of his photographs at Aquinas College titled "Simultaneity."
On Saturday, Jan. 19, he will present "Photography: Past and Present Tense" at 11 a.m. as part of the college's Winter Happening program. Admission to the Jan. 19 presentation is free. The seminar location will be announced during the event's registration starting at 9 a.m. at morning at the college's Haworth Inn and Conference Center.
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As I've discussed before, I've been rethinking my ideas about the publication of graphic photographs of natural disaster aftermaths. The devastating earthquake in Haiti this month has raised the issue again, as photos of dead bodies have made it to the print and virtual front pages of most major news organizations. In the last month, New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt, Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander, NPR's Ombudsman Alicia Shepard, and newly appointed LA Times Readers' Representative Deidre Edgar have all written columns about graphic images in their publications, addressing some of the complex questions that the use of such photos raises.
Most of the ombuds approve of their publications' use of graphic photos of dead people, though Shepard's column is devoted to one particular image featured on NPR's home page that she thinks lacked the context necessary to make it editorially useful. Overall, the feeling among people who think full time about journalism seems to be that the enormity of the earthquake's devastation could not be communicated without graphic photos.
I think it's almost definitely true that the enormity of the earthquake's devastation could not be communicated in the current media environment without graphic photos (though I do sometimes wonder if we undervalue the power of language to communicate tragedy). But one question that none of the ombuds addressed was whether there are problematic messages communicated by the photos that might outweigh the imperative to communicate this specific story to its fullest. I wonder if it's possible that these images, while helping us wrap our minds around the earthquake and its impact on a poor and historically disadvantaged nation, could imperil our broader understanding of Haiti or its people.
One of the most troubling elements of graphic photographs of distant tragedies is inadvertently emphasized in Alexander's January 24 Post column, which explains almost in passing that some newspapers (no mention of whether the Post was among them) "shy from running explicit photos of deaths in their circulation area because many readers may be connected to the deceased." Alexander goes on, "In the case of Haiti, [director of the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University Terry] Eiler said, 'Distance allows some to feel as if it's happening away from us.' " The idea that such images are more likely to be used when the reader feels distance from the subjects lends credence to critiques that graphic depictions of death create (or exacerbate) a sense of "otherness" about the victims they portray. If audiences are only exposed to photos of dead bodies when the people pictured can be classified as somehow "different" (geographically, racially or socioeconomically) from the majority of the publication's readership, then the photos themselves become a marker of difference. They might actually create emotional distance from victims, even as they accentuate the visceral horror of the event they are representing.*
Hoyt's January 23 New York Times column includes a photo editor's assertion that the paper would publish similarly gruesome photos of a natural disaster in the U.S. if it could obtain the photos. Hoyt, citing Kenneth Irby, the head of the visual journalism center at the Poynter Institute, points out that U.S. officials are quick to cordon off the scenes of disasters, keeping photojournalists out. So even a publication that treated domestic and international disasters with similar sensibilities would likely create the appearance of difference by publishing more, and more graphic, photos of dead people from distant disasters than from nearby ones. From the audience's perspective, the media organizations have still established a division between people who are allowed to be photographed in death and people who are not.
It's impossible for me to consider the question of graphic photos of natural disasters without thinking about the relative absence of dead bodies in war reporting. War photography invites the the same concerns as disaster photography about creating distance from victims portrayed in graphic photos (especially since the U.S. media strictly controls photography of its own dead and dying soldiers, making it much easier for journalists to display dead people from other countries). But I think there are reasons to publicize the horror of death and dying in wars that simply don't exist for natural disasters. It seems obvious that the destruction of human bodies is the most important story when a natural disaster occurs. But it is easier to forget (particularly with the complicity of a squeamish news media) that war is about destroying human bodies, too. The way we talk about war often makes it seem more about ideas—national security, sovereignty, regime change—than about the death and dying that are war's central building blocks.
In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry discusses how torture and war are similar in that, in both, "the incontestable reality of the body—the body in pain, the body maimed, the body dead and hard to dispose of—is separated from its source and conferred on an ideology or issue or instance of political authority impatient of, or deserted by, benign sources of substantiation." Graphically violent war photography is worth publishing, despite the considerable risks of doing so, if it helps remind audiences of the centrality of death and dying in war, independent of ideology.
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